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Authored Books
Jaggar, Philip J. (1992) An Advanced Hausa Reader with Grammatical Notes and Exercises. London: SOAS University of London.
Black, Richard (1992) Angola. Oxford: Clio Press. (World Bibliographic Series; 151)
George, Andrew (1992) Babylonian Topographical Texts. Leuven: Peeters. (Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 40)
Black, Richard (1992) Crisis and Change in Rural Europe: Agricultural Development in the Portuguese Mountains. Aldershot: Avebury.
Wright, Owen (1992) Demetrius Cantemir: The Collection of Notations. Volume 1: Text. London: School of Oriental and African Studies. (SOAS musicology series, v. 1)
Weeks, John (1992) Development Strategy and the Economy of Sierra Leone. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
Driver, Ciaran and Moreton, David (1992) Investment, Expectations and Uncertainty. Oxford: Blackwell.
Dooling, Wayne (1992) Law and community in a slave society: Stellenbosch District, South Africa, c.1760-1820. Cape Town: Centre for African Studies.
Weeks, John and Dore, Elizabeth (1992) The Red and the black: The Sandinistas and the Nicaraguan Revolution. London: Institute of Latin American Studies. (University of London Institute of Latin American Studies research papers, 28)
Radice, William (1992) Sakuntala. London: Folio Society.
Wright, Owen (1992) Words Without Songs. A Musicological Study of an Early Ottoman Anthology and its Precursors. London: SOAS University of London. (SOAS musicology series, v. 3)
Robb, Peter (1992) The evolution of British policy towards Indian politics, 1880-1920: essays on colonial attitudes, imperial strategies and Bihar. New Delhi: Manohar and Riverdale.
Edited Book or Journal Volume
Robb, Peter, ed. (1992) Agrarian structure and economic development: landed property in Bengal and theories of capitalism in Japan. London: School of Oriental and African Studies. (Occasional papers in Third-World economic history, no. 4)
Banaji, Jairus, ed. (1992) Henryk Grossmann, The Law of Accumulation and Breakdown of the Capitalist System, Being also a Theory of Crises, translated and abridged. London: Pluto Press.
Jaggar, Philip J., ed. (1992) Papers in Honour of R.C. Abraham (1980-1963). London: SOAS University of London. (African languages and cultures, Supplement 1)
Robb, Peter (1992) 'Agrarian structure and economic development.' In: Robb, Peter, (ed.), Agrarian structure and economic development: landed property in Bengal and theories of capitalism in Japan. London: School of Oriental and African Studies, pp. 1-23. (Occasional papers in Third-World economic history, no. 4)
Bachmann, Reinhard (1992) 'Alles neu...? Rationalisierung von industriellen Innovationsprozessen. Eine Herausforderung für die industriesoziologische Analyse?' In: Malsch, Thomas and Mill, Ulrich, (eds.), ArBYTE: Modernisierung der Industriesoziologie? Berlin: Edition Sigma, pp. 241-270.
Harrigan, Jane and Mosley, Paul (1992) 'Assessing the Effects of Programme Aid Expenditures.' In: Berlage, L. and Stokke, O., (eds.), Evaluating development assistance: approaches and methods. London: Frank Cass.
Spencer, Paul (1992) 'Automythologies and the Reconstruction of Ageing.' In: Okely, Judith and Callaway, Helen, (eds.), Anthropology and Autobiography. London; New York: Routledge, pp. 50-63. (ASA Monographs, 29)
Spencer, Paul (1992) 'Becoming Maasai, Being in Time.' In: Spear, T. and Waller, R., (eds.), Being Maasai. London: James Currey, pp. 140-156.
Inkster, Ian (1992) 'Commentary on the iron and steel industry.' In: Hayashion, T., (ed.), First International Symposium the Japanese Experience of Technology Transfer. Tokyo: United Nations University Press.
Spencer, Paul (1992) 'Danza.' In: Bedeschi, G., (ed.), Enciclopedia delle Scienze Social. Rome: Institute della Enciclopedia Italiana, pp. 669-674.
Hanappi, Gerhard (1992) 'Die Deformation der Interessen - eine kleine Welterklärung.' In: Hochgerner, Josef and Katsikides, Savvas, (eds.), Die Formierung von Interessen. Wien: Falter Verlag. (Neue Soziologie, Bd. 2)
Menski, Werner F (1992) 'The Indian experience and its lessons for Britain.' In: Hepple, Bob and Szyszczak, Erika M., (eds.), Discrimination: the limits of law. London: Mansell, pp. 300-343. (Studies in labour and social law)
Parfitt, Tudor (1992) 'The Jews.' In: Tapper, Richard, (ed.), Some minorities in the Middle East. London: SOAS Centre of Near and Middle East Studies, pp. 35-56. (Occasional papers (University of London. Centre of Near and Middle Eastern Studies), 9.)
Behrens-Abouseif, Doris (1992) 'Le Acque del Cairo - Scenario e Stile di Vita di una Città Islamica.' In: Jones, Dalu, (ed.), Il Teatro delle Acque. Roma: Edizioni dell'Elefante, pp. 31-41.
Parfitt, Tudor (1992) 'Middle East and North Africa; India; Japan; Malaysia.' In: Antisemitism. London: Insitute of Jewish Affairs, 71-86, 92, 93.
Bryson, Jane and Hakimian, Hassan (1992) 'New Perspectives on International Training: Third World Agriculture and The Wye External Programme.' In: Rumble, Greville and Oliveira, Joao, (eds.), Vocational Education at a Distance - International Perspectives. London: International Labour Office and Kogan Page.
Kloezen, Wim and Mollinga, Peter (1992) 'Opening closed gates: recognising the social nature of irrigation artefacts.' In: Diemer, Geert and Slabbers, Jacques, (eds.), Irrigators and engineers: Essays in honour of Lucas Horst. Amsterdam: Thesis Publishers, pp. 53-63.
Kratz, E. Ulrich (1992) 'Peranakan writing and Indonesian literature after Independence.' In: Salmon, Claudine, (ed.), Le moment "sino-malais' de la litterature Indonesienne. Paris: Association Archipel, pp. 133-147. (Cahier d'Archipel)
Fardon, Richard (1992) 'Post modern anthropology? Or, an anthropology of post-modernity.' In: Doherty, J., Graham, E. and Malek, M., (eds.), Post-modernism and the Social Sciences. London: Macmillan, pp. 33-47.
Denwood, Philip (1992) 'Sources of mandala design in India and Tibet.' In: Whitfield, Roderick, (ed.), The Rise of Esoteric Buddhist Art. London: SOAS. (Percival David Foundation Colloquy No. 13)
Pauwels, Anne (1992) 'Status and Function Changes of Dutch as an Immigrant Language in Australia.' In: Ammon, Ulrich and Hellinger, Marlis, (eds.), The status change of languages. Berlin: Mouton-De Gruyter, pp. 324-331.
Spencer, Paul and Chieni, Telelia (1992) 'The World of Telelia: the life of a Maasai woman in Matapato.' In: Spear, T. and Waller, R., (eds.), Being Maasai: ethnicity and identity in East Africa. London: James Currey, pp. 157-173.
Behrens-Abouseif, Doris (1992) 'The ´Abd al-Rahman Katkhuda Style in 18th Century Cairo.' Annales Islamologiques, 26. pp. 117-126.
Ash, Robert (1992) 'The Agricultural Sector in China: Performance and Policy Dilemmas during the 1990s.' The China Quarterly, 131 (Sep). pp. 545-576.
George, Andrew (1992) 'Another piece of Abi-eshuh.' Nouvelles assyriologiques brèves et utilitaires, 1992 (3 no. 75). pp. 56-57.
Murinde, Victor (1992) 'Application of stochastic simulation and policy sensitivity techniques to a macroeconomic model of Uganda.' Applied Economics, 24 (1). pp. 1-17.
Edge, Ian (1992) 'An Assessment of the Jurisprudence of the Supreme Constitutional Court of Egypt.' Recht Van de Islam, 9. pp. 38-47.
Menski, Werner F and Bhavsar, Rajesh (1992) 'Author and subject index to Immigration and Nationality Law and Practice Vol. 6 (1992).' Immigration and Nationality Law and Practice, 6 (4). pp. 144-148.
Dolce, Lucia (1992) 'Awareness of Mappô. Soteriological Interpretations of Time in Nichiren.' Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan (fourth series), 7. pp. 81-106.
Sprigg, R. K. (1992) 'Bantawa Rai s-, t- and z-final verb roots: transitives, intransitives, causatives and directives.' Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area, 15 (1). pp. 39-52.
Fardon, Richard and Boyd, Raymond (1992) 'Bisiweeri: the songs and times of a Muslim Chamba woman.' African Languages and Cultures, 5 (1). pp. 11-41.
Menski, Werner F (1992) 'Bottlenecks of justice? A further note on the limits of public interest litigation.' Kerala Law Times: Journal section, 1992 (2). pp. 57-60.
Bramall, Chris (1992) 'Chinese Economic Growth between the Wars.' The China Quarterly (131). pp. 784-791.
Tythacott, Louise (1992) 'Chinese Robes in the Ethnography Gallery.' The Royal Pavilion Review (2). pp. 10-12.
Menski, Werner F (1992) 'Crime and punishment in Hindu law and under modern Indian law.' Recueils de la Société Jean Bodin pour l'histoire comparative des institutions, 58 (4). pp. 295-334.
Selwyn, Tom and Shore, Cris (1992) 'Education, Markets, and Managers: A clash of cultures?' Reflections on Higher Education: A Journal of the Higher Education Foundation, 4. pp. 88-96.
Murinde, Victor (1992) 'European banking: a review.' The Journal of Finance, 47 (4). pp. 1646-1648.
Hanappi, Gerhard (1992) 'Evolutionism in Natural Sciences and Social Sciences. On Basic Concepts of Evolutionary Economics.' Methodus: International Network for Economic Method, 4 (1).
Scaramozzino, Pasquale and Marini, Giancarlo (1992) 'Expected Inflation and Output Variability in Flexible Price and Contracting Models.' Oxford Economic Papers, 44 (2). pp. 232-241.
Behrens-Abouseif, Doris (1992) 'The Façade of the Aqmar-Mosque in the Context of Fatimid Ceremonial.' Muqarnas, 9. pp. 29-38.
Behrens-Abouseif, Doris (1992) 'Gardens in Islamic Egypt.' Der Islam, 69 (2). pp. 302-312.
Abdel-Haleem, Muhammad (1992) 'Grammatical Shift for Rhetorical Purposes: Iltifāt and Related Features in the Qur'ān.' Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 55 (3). pp. 407-432.
McKinley, Terry and Wang, Li Na (1992) 'Housing and Wealth in Rural China.' China Economic Review, 3 (2). pp. 195-211.
Kotagama, H. B., Carruthers, I. and Smith, Laurence (1992) 'Identification and Estimation of Priority Weights of Irrigation System Management Objectives for Irrigation System Performance Assessment.' Tropical Agricultural Research, 4. pp. 297-307.
Harrigan, Jane (1992) 'Investment, Growth and Poverty: Lessons from Malawi and Madagascar on Re-taking the Middle Ground.' Journal of African Economies, 1 (1). pp. 151-162.
Inkster, Ian (1992) 'Japan: taking over and staying ahead.' Futures.
Scaramozzino, Pasquale and Marini, Giancarlo (1992) 'Monopolistic Competition, Expected Inflation and Contract Length.' Labour: Review of Labour Economics and Industrial Relations, 6 (2). pp. 85-103.
Menski, Werner F (1992) 'Multi-ethnic tokenism and children's rights in English family law.' Kerala Law Times: Journal section, 1992 (1). pp. 83-84.
Parfitt, Tudor (1992) 'Obituary: Avot Yeshurun.' The Independent, Feb. p. 27.
Nikolaeva, Irina (1992) 'Old Yukaghir sources and dialects.' Ural-Altaische Jahrbücher, 11. pp. 200-210.
Furniss, Graham (1992) 'Oral culture and the making of meaning.' African Affairs, 91 (363). pp. 271-6.
Driver, Ciaran (1992) 'The Origin of Predictable Behavior: Comment.' American Economic Review, 82 (1). p. 368.
Menski, Werner F (1992) 'Outsiders or participants? (Conference report).' Immigration and Nationality Law and Practice, 6 (3). p. 101.
Spencer, Paul (1992) 'The Pacification of the Maasai and the Transformation of the Prophet's Tribute.' Anthropozoologica, 16. pp. 65-72.
Robb, Peter (1992) 'Peasants' Choices? Indian Agriculture and the Limits of Commercialization in Nineteenth-Century Bihar.' The Economic History Review, 45 (1). pp. 97-119.
Singh, Gurharpal (1992) 'The Punjab Elections 1992: Breakthrough or Breakdown?' Asian Survey, 32 (11). pp. 988-999.
Jaggar, Philip J. (1992) 'R.C. Abraham's early insights into Hausa pre-datival forms.' African Languages and Cultures (Suppl 1). pp. 51-66.
Menski, Werner F (1992) 'Recent changes in the citizenship law of India.' Gujarat Law Reporter: Journal section, 33 (1). x-xviii.
Menski, Werner F (1992) 'Recent changes in the citizenship law of India.' Kerala Law Times: Journal section, 1992 (1). pp. 35-42.
Inkster, Ian (1992) 'Relative backwardness and revolution. A note on Marx, history and the transition to socialism.' Journal of Contemporary Asia, 22 (1). pp. 146-151.
Smith, I.O. (1992) 'The Scope and Application of the concept of statutory tenancy in Nigeria: A critical appraisal.' The LASU Law Journal, 3 (1). pp. 65-80.
Orwin, Martin (1992) 'Shax.' Journal of the Anglo-Somali Society = Warsidaha Ururka Ingiriiska iyo Soomaalida.. pp. 10-11.
Menski, Werner F and Ross, Matthew (1992) 'Subject index to Immigration and Nationality Law and Practice Vols. 1-5 (1986-1991).' Immigration and Nationality Law and Practice, 6 (1). i-xvi.
Gray, Nick (1992) 'Sulendra: an example of petegak in the Balinese gender wayang repertory.' British Journal of Ethnomusicology, 1 (1). pp. 1-16.
Hunter, Erica C D (1992) 'Syriac Christianity in Central Asia.' Zeitschrift für Religions- und Geistesgeschichte, 44. pp. 362-368.
Behrens-Abouseif, Doris (1992) 'The Takiyyat Ibrahim al-Kulshani in Cairo.' Muqarnas, 5. pp. 43-60.
George, Andrew (1992) 'Tintir V 50.' Nouvelles assyriologiques brèves et utilitaires, 1992/4 (125). p. 91.
Furniss, Graham (1992) 'A note on Hausa literature and R C Abraham.' African Languages and Cultures, supp 1. pp. 43-50.
Menski, Werner F (1992) 'The role of custom in Hindu law.' Recueils de la Société Jean Bodin pour l'histoire comparative des institutions, 53 (3). pp. 311-347.
Conference or Workshop Items
Neal, Mark (1992) Culture free? A Wittgensteinian analysis of action in culture. In: British Sociological Association Annual Conference, 6-9 April 1992, University of Kent at Canterbury. (Unpublished)
Hanappi, Gerhard (1992) The Future of the USSR. A simulation of macroeconomic transition scenarios. In: The 33rd annual meeting of the Atlantic Economic Association, 5-9 April, Nice (France).
Hanappi, Gerhard (1992) Long Waves in Economic Theory Building? An evaluation of the second upswing of Schumpeters socio-economic perspective. In: The annual meeting of the Eastern Economic Association, 26-28 March, New York.
Monographs and Working Papers
Hobart, Mark (1992) Beyond reason: a human comedy. Nijmegen: Instituut voor Culturele en Sociale Antropologie.
Scaramozzino, Pasquale and Brunello, Giorgio (1992) Mark-ups in the Product and in the Labour Markets: The Baumol Model Revisited. Università degli Studi di Venezia, Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche Discussion Paper No. 92.13.
Mollinga, Peter (1992) Protective irrigation in South India: Deadlock or development? Milton Keynes: Development Policy and Practice Research Group, Open University.
Anderson, Michael R. (1992) Public Nuisance and Private Purpose: Policed Environments in British India, 1860-1947. London: SOAS School of Law Research Paper No. 05/2011.
De Blois, Francois (1992) 'Review of 'Iranica Varia. Papers in Honor of Professor Ehsan Yarshater' by D. Amin; M. Kasheff; A. Sh. Shahbazi.' Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 2 (3). pp. 454-456.
Scaramozzino, Pasquale (1992) 'Review of F. Mayer and F. Spinelli (eds.), "Macroeconomics and Macroeconomic Policy Issues".' The Economic Journal, 102 (414). p. 1319.
Tan, Carol G.S. (1992) 'Review of Holland and Webb, 'Learning Legal Rules' (London: Blackstone Press, 1991).' Modern Law Review, 55 (5). pp. 758-759.
Tan, Carol G.S. (1992) 'Review of Lee and Fox, 'Learning Legal Skills' (London: Blackstone Press, 1991).' Modern Law Review, 55 (5). pp. 758-759.
De Blois, Francois (1992) 'Review of W. Hinz and H. Koch, 'Elamisches Wörterbuch'.' Bibliotheca Orientalis, XLIX . pp. 195-197.
Weeks, John (1992) 'Review of: Carmen Diana Deere, In the Shadows of the Sun: Caribbean Development Alternatives and US Policy (Boulder, Co: Westview Press, 1990), pp. xx+246.' Journal of Latin American Studies, 24 (1). pp. 219-220.
Weeks, John (1992) 'Review of: Labor and Politics in Panama: The Torrijos Years, by Sharon Phillips Collazos.' Hispanic American Historical Review, 72 (4). pp. 629-630.
Weeks, John (1992) 'Review of: Michael J. Twomey and Ann Helwege (eds.), Modernization and Stagnation: Latin American Agriculture into the 1990s (New York, London: Greenwood Press, 1991), pp. ix + 270.' Journal of Latin American Studies, 24 (3). pp. 708-709.
Weeks, John (1992) 'Review of: Rachel Garst and Tom Barry, Feeding the Crisis: U.S. Food Aid and Farm Policy in Central America (Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1990), pp. xii+275.' Journal of Latin American Studies, 24 (1). pp. 218-219.
Weeks, John (1992) 'Review of: Victor Bulmer-Thomas, A Long-Run Model of Development for Central America (London: Institute of Latin American Studies, Research Paper no. 27, 1991), pp. 60, £4.50.' Journal of Latin American Studies, 24 (3). pp. 713-714.
Weeks, John (1992) 'Review of: Wim Pelupessy (ed.), Perspectives on the Agro-Export Economy in Central America (Basingstoke, Hants: Macmillan, 1992), pp. xvii + 175, £40.00.' Journal of Latin American Studies, 24 (3). pp. 714-715.
Weeks, John (1992) 'Second Time Tragedy: US Policy in Panama. Review of: Our Man in Panama by John Dinges; Divorcing the Dictator by Frederick Kempe.' Third World Quarterly, 13 (1). pp. 184-187.
Narkong, Anant (1992) Aspects of improvisation in Thai classical drumming : with special reference to the Taphon. MPhil thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00026207
Kanjanavanit, Saranarat (1992) Aspects of the temporal pattern of dry season fires in the dry dipterocarp forests of Thailand. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00029497
Pugliese, Cristiana (1992) Author, publisher and Gikuyu nationalist: The life and writings of Gakaara wa Wanjau. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00028460
Pagel, Ulrich (1992) The "Bodhisattvapitaka": Its doctrines, practices and their position in Mahayana literature. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00029691
Tarlo, Emma (1992) Competing Identities: The Problem of What to Wear in Late Colonial and Contemporary India. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00033581
Appleton, Leonard Alban (1992) Educational Development in Western Libya, 1942-1952: A Critical Assessment of the Aims, Methods and Policies of the British Military Administration. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00033556
Anyalezu, Nkem Guthlac (1992) Financial liberalisation and capital development : A theoretical evaluation of financial repression and structural reforms in Nigeria. MPhil thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00028457
Silva, Thais Cristofaro Alves da (1992) Nuclear phenomena in Brazilian Portuguese. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00028459
Swain, Mamata (1992) Peasant agriculture and tenancy in Orissa (India) : A study of three villages at different levels of development, with special reference to share tenancy. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00028458
Mwansa, Kalombo Thomson (1992) Property Crime and the Criminal Process in Lusaka Magistrates' Courts. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00033860
Garlake, Peter S. (1992) Rock art in Zimbabwe. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00029499
Barrett, Jane (1992) Wheels within wheels: Freight transport in South Africa. MPhil thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00029411
Hejaiej, Mounira (1992) Women's oral narratives in Tunis. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00029022
Casely-Hayford, Augustus Lavinus (1992) A genealogical history of Cape Coast stool families. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00032194
Vainio-Mattila, Arja H. (1992) The impact of development aid on the resources of a recipient community in Bura Fuelwood Plantation Project, Kenya: Participatory research as an approach to development aid. MPhil thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00029496
Fu, Tingmei (1992) The law and policy of state enterprises in post-Mao China. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00028447
Oguibe, Oluchukwu Olu (1992) The paintings and prints of Uzo Egonu: 20th century Nigerian artist. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00029692
War, Badaplin (1992) The personal pronouns and their related clitics in six Khasi dialects: A grammatical and sociolinguistic study. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00029023
Harper, Caroline (1992) The social life of the green Mong textile : Commercialisation and alternative discourses of value in Thailand. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00029407
Gebre-Meskel, Haddis (1992) A survey of representative land charters of the Ethiopian Empire (1314-1868) and related marginal notes in manuscripts in the British Library, the Royal Library and the university libraries of Cambridge and Manchester. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00028456
Bachmann, Reinhard, Malsch, Thomas and Ziegler, Susanne (1992) 'Erfolg und Mißerfolg von Expertensystem-Projekten in der Industrie. Zwischenergebnisse eines empirischen Forschungsprojekts. Information und Kommunikation 15/92.' Dortmund: IUK Institut.
Parfitt, Tudor (1992) 'King Solomon's Tribe. Producer Julian Hale.' BBC.
Bachmann, Reinhard (1992) 'Konfigurationsexpertensysteme in der industriebetrieblichen Anwendung. 1.Teilbericht des Forschungsprojekts 'Expertensysteme und konventionelle Datenverarbeitung zwischen Anwendung und Entwicklung. Ein Beitrag zur Technikgenese und -folgenabschätzung der Softwarekrise'. Information und Kommunikation 14/92.' Dortmund: IUK Institut.
Bachmann, Reinhard (1992) 'Wissensbasierte Konfigurationssysteme im industriellen Einsatz. In: Tilo Messer and Andreas Winkelhofer (eds.), Report: Beiträge zum 6. Workshop 'Planen und Konfigurieren'. Schriftenreihe des Bayerischen Forschungszentrums für Wissensbasierte Systeme.' Erlangen; Munich; Passau: FORWISS. pp. 155-157.


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President hopes for opposition support to reforms of ruling parties
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The constructive opposition should also support the reforms prepared by the ruling coalition, President Dalia Grybauskaitė said after meeting the Seimas board on Wednesday.
"The package of strategic reforms is huge, therefore, it crucial for the Seimas to work in harmony here and with utmost professionalism. The government should not just know or want to draft the reforms but also be capable of doing this and persuade the society on how the results should be achieved," Grybauskaitė told journalists after the meeting.
"Of course, in Seimas, it is not just the ruling coalition but also (…) the opposition are responsible, if the reforms are needed for the state, if they are transparent, I truly wish and would like to hope for the support coming from the opposition," said the president before the parliament opens its spring session on March 10.
She listed four areas subject to the key tasks and challenges: reform of the public sector and more transparency in state governance, efforts to ensure social security of the residents, military and energy security.
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The Spanards gave the Nueces River its name, which means "nuts", because of all the pecan trees found lining its banks and adjacent land, or perhaps because you would have to be nuts to try paddling it most of the time. To say it is not a perennial stream would be an understatement, but after a good rain in its watershed the Nueces is a fantastic and very remote river to paddle in a canoe or kayak. The headwaters of the Nueces River rise from springs in northwestern Real County and northeastern Edwards County and flow some 315 miles or more through Edwards, Uvalde, Zavala, Dimmit, La Salle, McMullen, Live Oak, San Patricio and Nueces Counties into the Gulf of Mexico. Above the first FM 335 crossing and below State Highway 55 in Uvalde County the river is generally too shallow to paddle except during flood stage, when it becomes dangerous. In the Three Rivers area, where the Nueces reaches the confluence of the Atascosa and Frio Rivers, the flow will increase significantly for some recreational uses, but the river takes on the characteristics of a coastal waterway as it makes its way through the coastal plains of far South Texas. Lake Corpus Christi is about 40 miles upriver from Nueces Bay. Because of river conditions below SH 55, this report will cover the upper 98.6 miles starting at FM 18 in Edwards County very near the Real County Line and ending at US Highway 57 just east of La Pryor in Zavalla County.
The spring-fed, crystal clear water flows through the limestone bluffs of the Edwards Plateau, and is one of the most scenic river trips in Texas. The limestone bluffs have worked with Mother Nature to carve small canyons through which the river winds on its way downstream. There are many spring-fed creeks that join the Nueces in this section to maintain a steady flow, albeit somewhat low much of the time. At low water levels the river is not the best place to paddle, but with a slight rise after local rainfall it becomes a great place to go. With a normal flow the river will have intermittent, slow-moving pools followed by long channels of shallow, swift-moving water. High water levels bring numerous Class I-III whitewater rapids that can be dangerous to boats and boaters if not properly negotiated, but typically the river is a low flow stream.
Vegetation along the Nueces River varies from the Hackberry, Oak, Cedar and Pecan trees of the Edwards Plateau to the semi-arid Mesquite, sagebrush and cacti of the coastal plains. The river commences in the Texas Hill Country, which starts to diminish in Uvalde County where the harsh South Texas ranchlands lie. Access is good on the upper 98.6 miles, offering trips of various lengths. There are several privately owned and operated campgrounds along this section suitable for use as a base camp for those who want to run specific segments, or as a waypoint camp for those on downriver excursions. There are also numerous other potential accesses than those lsited below, though some are on private property, that could be used to access the river in an emergency situation. This is a wilderness trip, so plan carefully, but pack no more than you need to minimize dragging in shallow water. The summer will be hotter than hell, and the winter can be brutally cold, so dress accordingly. Be sure to waterproof and securely lash all gear to your boat.
Edwards, Real, Uvalde and Zavalla Counties in southwest Texas, many miles from any significant urban area. San Antonio is about 130 miles away by road.
Very good to excellent as it flows from crystal clear springs at the headwaters and creeks along the river, turning slightly murky after recent local rainfall.
The Nueces River is generally navigable anytime of the year, though sections will be low most of the time and very low during the dog days of summer or during prolonged droughts. Summers are hot and winters are cold, so appropriate clothing and accessories are a must. Be sure to take everything you need, because re-suppling is not possible in the immediate vicinity of the river. Above the FM 335 1st crossing the river is very narrow and usually too low to paddle, and the same conditions can be found in other parts of the river when rainfall is scarce. Some walking and dragging may be required.
At low to normal water levels there are no significant hazards on the Nueces river below Camp Wood. Recent flooding has dropped boulders and concrete with rebar into the river between the FM 335 crossing just below the confluence of the East and West Prongs and the SH 55 bridge near Barksdale, so extreme care to prevent injury to persons or damage to boats should be exercised in that area. Several low water bridges can be a problem in high water if not seen and portaged in time. At high water levels many Class I-III rapids will come into play, any of which can be dangerous unless paddled with care. Be sure to properly pack your gear in waterproof drybags or dry boxes and secure everything to your boat.
FM 18 (N 29° 55' 43.67" / W 100° 00' 31.24") just below the East Prong/Hackberry Creek confluence on either side at 0.0 miles; FM 39 Low Water Bridge (N 29° 54' 30.27" / W 100° 00' 06.96") off Lott Road on either side at about 1.75 miles; FM 335 1st crossing (N 29° 53' 10.71" / W 100° 01' 12.97") about 16 miles north of Camp Wood on river right at about 3.8 miles; Lockheart Road Crossing (N 29° 51' 52.39" / W 100° 01' 10.48") on river left at about 5.6 miles; Low warter crossing (N 29° 50' 53.66" / W 100° 01' 37.98") west from FM 335 on either side at about 6.9 miles; FM 335 2nd crossing (N 29° 48' 39.78" / W 100° 01' 00.44") on either side at about 10.3 miles; Cardells Road (N 29° 47' 49.81" / W 100° 00' 48.40") est from FM 335 on river right at about 11.4 miles; Low water bridge (N 29° 46' 17.18" / W 100° 01' 55.87") on private road (emergency access ONLY) on right at about 14.3 miles; FM 211 / Dry Creek Road (N 29° 43' 49.46" / W 100° 01' 36.25") on either side at about 17.6 miles; SH 55 1st crossing (N 29° 43' 15.57" / W 100° 01' 59.36") 1 mile southeast of Barksdale on river left at about 18.8 miles; Smith Road (N 29° 41' 56.65" / W 100° 01' 51.27") on either side at about 21.0 miles; McDonalds Road (N 29° 41' 38.16" / W 100° 01' 37.95") on river right at about 21.5 miles; River Road Crossing (N 29° 40' 01.42" / W 100° 01' 44.02") on river right at about 24.3 miles; Arnold Crossing Dam at Lake Nueces (N 29° 37' 06.20" / W 100° 00' 39.42") - PORTAGE LEFT - at about 28.5 miles; City Road 416 (N 29° 32' 59.29" / W 099° 59' 42.70") on river right at about 34.7 miles; City Road 412 1st crossing (N 29° 31' 35.42" / W 100° 01' 05.77") on either side at about 37.3 miles; City Road 412 2nd crossing (N 29° 31' 12.14" / W 100° 01' 14.79") on either side at about 38.0 miles; Uvalde CR 410 (N 29° 28' 41.44" / W 100° 01' 33.96") on river right at about 41.9 miles; Uvalde CR 409 (N 29° 27' 45.92" / W 100° 00' 19.70") on river left at about 43.9 miles; Uvalde CR 408 (N 29° 26' 35.99" / W 099° 59' 38.03") on river left at about 45.7 miles; SH 55 2nd crossing (N 29° 23' 55.24" / W 100° 00' 04.40") about 5 miles south of Camp Wood on river right at about 49.6 miles; HCR 33 (N 29° 19' 42.15" / W 099° 56' 52.38") on river left at about 58.6 miles; Railroad Bridge (N 29° 14' 39.67" / W 099° 54' 23.98") - NO ACCESS - at about 68.0 miles; US Highway 90 Bridge (N 29° 12' 23.63" / W 099° 54' 10.88") west of Uvalde on river left at about 71.1 miles; Low water crossing (N 29° 11' 07.57" / W 099° 53' 48.63") south of US Highway 90 and east of Uvalde on river right at about 72.8 miles; Unnamed Uvalde County Road (N 29° 10' 54.55" / W 099° 53' 43.07") west of Uvalde on river right at about 73.1 miles; Uvalde CR 481 (N 29° 07' 16.94" / W 099° 53' 29.22") on river left at about 79.3 miles; US Highway 83 (N 29° 03' 56.95" / W 099° 50' 58.91") on river right at about 84.8 miles; Corrgan Road (N 29° 00' 34.97" / W 099° 48' 15.94") on either side at about 91.2 miles; Dirt road (N 29° 00' 30.83" / W 099° 48' 11.32") just below Corrgan Road on either side at about 91.3 miles; Unnamed Zavalla County Road (N 28° 57' 58.95" / W 099° 47' 49.67") south of US Highway 83 at Uvalde on either side at about 94.6 miles; US Highway 57 (N 28° 55' 59.94" / W 099° 47' 50.94") on river left at about 98.6 miles. Other access points, most on private property, can be found along the river for use in emergency situations.
Private camp just below the juncture of Hackberry Creek and the East Prong of the Nueces River, 22 miles north of Camp Wood about 2 miles above FM 335 offers camping facilities; Private camp 14 miles north of Camp Wood, off FM 335 at 8.0 miles offers camping facilities with a mile of shoreline; Private camp 10 miles north of Camp Wood, off FM 335 at 12.0 miles offers camping facilities; Private camp 5 miles north of Camp Wood, off SH 55 and 1 mile east of Barksdale at 17.0 miles offers camping facilities; Private camp off SH 55, just north of Camp Wood at 22.0 miles offers camping facilities; Park Chalk Bluff (private) Campground, about 5 miles south of the first SH 55 crossing and about 1 mile south of Camp Wood offers shaded campsites and a camp store; Nueces Lake Park 4 miles south of Camp Wood at 26.0 miles offers camping facilities and a concession stand. Primitive camping may also be available along the river, but take care to avoid trespassing on private property.
There are at least two outfitters located along the Nueces River who can provide kayak rentals, shuttles and other services. Some of the private campgrounds many provide shuttles for a reasonable fee. Make your arrangements in advance, or be prepared to setup and run your own shuttles.
What can you say about the Nueces River except that it is one beautiful wilderness trip that is long enough without being too long? The river flows through absolutely spectacular Texas topography with much to see in the way of the escarpment of the Edwards Plateau, an abundance of wildlife including feral hogs, Russian black boar, armadillos, raccoons, turkeys, deer, eagles, hawks, lizards of many species, and possibly snakes, though they are not to be feared unless you mess with them. Vegetation along the way is gorgeous, and changes with the terrain and climate. Usually, the water will be low to moderate, but take care when heavy rains fall, because the river can flash flood quickly creating a very dangerous place to be. Beware of huge boulders and concrete with rebar between the first FM 335 bridge below the confluence of the two forks and the SH 55 bridge near Barksdale - these can pose serious threats to boaters and boats if not negotiated carefully. Several low water bridges span the river and can be dangerous in high flow conditions. When in doubt, SCOUT!
Intermediate whitewater experience is recommended at flows above normal, and swiftwater rescue and first aid training are good to have. There are at least two outfitters located along the Nueces River who can provide kayak rentals, shuttles and other services. The area is quite remote and desolate, giving paddlers ample time for reflection. It would be a good place to take a camera and plenty of film, provided you carry them safely packed in a drybag.
Lat. / Long. N 29° 55' 43.67" / W 100° 00' 31.24"
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Q: Is exchange of metadata required for a working SAML2 connection? we are operating as SAML2 Service Provider. A few weeks ago our Certificate expired, so we provided new Metadata to our customers. We told them they have to upload the newdata to their Idp's, because else the SSO won't work anymore because the connection can not be seen as trusted anymore.
Now one customer told us that they didn't exchange the new metadata (they have the old one stored), but the connection still works and their employees are able to login. So my question: Is exchange of metadata required for a working SAML2 connection? Why does it still works with old metadata?
Thank you very much in advance

A: The metadata XML is used for configuring easily both ends of the connection, the identity provider and the service provider. Once they're configured it's no longer required.
For example, WSO2 Identity server doesn't have a way to generate or accept metadata files, yet it's able to manage SAML based sessions. How to download or know the URL of WSO2 Identity Server's SAML metadata?

A: As addressed in the first answer, exchanging metadata is not required, it is an option.
Note that since you're the Service Provider, you're not required (by spec) to sign your messages. The other way around is required of course: the IDP needs to sign its messages.
So are you even sure you sign your messages being the SP? Even then, the IDPs implementation may not even able to deal with that (since it is optional) and ignore the signature. A certificate rollover from an SP may not have any impact in those cases.
That may explain the observed behavior.

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Madiba earned his place in history: Obama
Updated Dec. 10, 2013, midnight | By Staff Writer
US president Barack Obama says the world thanks South Africa for sharing former president Nelson Mandela with the world.
"It is an honour to be with you today, to celebrate a life like no other," he said.
"People of every walk of life, the world thanks you for sharing Mandela with us. His struggle was your struggle. His triumph was your triumph."
Obama said Mandela was the last great liberator of the 20th century.
He was committed to democracy and rule of law, and received the adoration he deserved.
Madiba could admit to imperfection.
"We loved him so....He was a man of flesh and blood, a son and a husband...that's why we learnt so much from him."
He earned his place in history through the struggle.
Madiba channelled his desire to fight through platforms and organisation, so that people could stand up with moral dignity and fight.
That carried a price, he said.
He had an ideal for which he was prepared to die for.
"Mandela taught us the power of action and the power of ideals, the importance of reasons and arguments. He understood the ideals could not be contained within prison walls," said Obama, to loud cheers from the crowd.
"He used decades of prison to sharpen his argument... he learnt the language and customs of his oppressors."
Mandela was not afraid to compromise for the sake of a larger goal. He understood the ties that bind the human spirit.
"Ubuntu, a word that captures Mandela's greatest gift," said Obama.
He sent condolences to the Mandela family and South Africa
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Q: Split products and make a hover effect on them I want to create a brochure with products and every product must be clickable. Also, when user hovers on different products they must have a hover effect (so the user can understand that this is a link to this particular product).
I have tried to create a PDF document with Adobe Acrobat DC Pro and put a link over every single product but there isn't any hover effect (at least I can't create a hover effect with this program).
So I have a feeling that PDF is not an option and it should be done with javascript.
Also, I have managed to find a brochure that is pretty much the same as what I want so you guys can see a live demo on it.
Here is the link -> https://broshura.bg/aiko/aiko-broshura-do-20-10-19-1

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Demo: https://codepen.io/david-somekh/pen/ExxappY

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TSA to allow some CBD oil, hemp products
By Daniel Uria
The Transportation and Security Administration altered its medical marijuana guidelines to allow some CBD oil and hemp products on flights. File Photo by Gary C. Caskey/UPI | License Photo
May 28 (UPI) -- The Transportation Security Administration altered its cannabis policy to allow Food and Drug Administration-approved medical marijuana and some forms of cannabidiol.
Under the new guidelines, implemented Sunday, passengers are permitted to bring medical marijuana products or medications that contain hemp-derived cannabidiol, or CBD, or are approved by the FDA under the Agriculture Improvement Act 2018.
The items can be carried in both carry-on and checked bags.
Possession of other forms of marijuana- and cannabis-infused products is illegal under federal law and the TSA's website notes its officers are required to report any suspected violations of law.
The TSA told NBC News the update was brought about by the FDA's approval of Epidiolex, a CBD-infused drug that is used to treat seizures in children with epilepsy.
"To avoid confusion as to whether families can travel with this drug, TSA immediately updated TSA.gov when we became aware of the issue," the agency said.
No further details were provided about any other CBD oils that are permitted on flights under the new guidelines.
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Jan. 28 (UPI) -- At least three people were killed and four more injured after a shooting in the upscale Beverly Crest neighborhood of Los Angeles, police said Saturday, marking the latest in a string of California mass shootings.
Jan. 28 (UPI) -- Jan. 6 rioter Julian Khater, who sprayed the late Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick and others in the face with mace during the insurrection, has drawn an 80-month jail sentence.


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Lisenbee: Sneaky suits should enrage outdoors people
Len Lisenbee
Outgoing DEC boss may have been involved with scheme to shake up law enforcement arms of environmental police
While I cannot confirm anything at this time (it's not yet cut in stone) it definitely appears that the Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC), Division of Law Enforcement (DLE) is changing leadership.
Not willingly on the part of this venerable organization, but conducted with subterfuge with a near-perfect political submarine action. Let me explain so all this becomes just a bit clearer.
At first, back in 1880, the Division of Law Enforcement consisted of a handful of dedicated officers that were called Game Protectors. They were scattered across NY State, and did their best to prevent poaching of game fish and animals. In 1885 they were joined by Forest Rangers who were charged with protecting NY's forested lands. And for 138 years they worked together at their various assigned tasks.
For the record today there are approximately 300 "Conservation Police Officers" whose primary missions are: "To conserve, improve and protect New York's natural resources and environment and to prevent, abate and control water, land and air pollution, in order to enhance the health, safety and welfare of the people of the state and their overall economic and social well-being."
There are approximately 120 Division of Forest Protection's Forest Rangers dedicated to protecting NY's forests. These Rangers, as police officers, wildland firefighters and wilderness first responders, are prepared to protect the state's forests and the people who use these natural resources from all kinds of problems. Each day DEC Environmental Conservation Police Officers and Forest Rangers patrol Department-administered public lands and easements by vehicle, boat, ATV, snowmobile, aircraft, bicycle, foot, skis or snowshoes.
And now for the crux of this sneaky, dastardly situation. The New York State Forest Rangers, in conjunction with the DEC commissioner and more than likely the DEC ECO's own union (which is active under the Department of Prisons), have apparently initiated a hostile takeover of the environmental conservation officer's jobs in a letter sent to the NY Civil Service by the DEC Human Resources office. I have read that letter, and it certainly details how Forest Ranger duties, salaries (at all levels), and training could all be altered in such a manner so as to make this agency the premier law enforcement group within the DEC. That means Forest Rangers will be assuming many of the responsibilities that the ECO's have held since 1880.
If this situation is implemented, then as of April 1, 2019 the Forest Rangers will essentially become that premier LE agency within the DEC. They will also continue to do their specialized search and rescue functions, and they will no doubt use their takeover of DEC ECPO job duties to argue for a significant increase in their own pay.
All of this subterfuge was orchestrated and supported without any knowledge by anyone within the Division of Law Enforcement (the ECPO's). To say they have been blind-sided by this decision, if it is implemented, would be a monumental understatement. The Forest Ranger Division has even requested that the Civil Service change the DEC ECPO's probationary period and requirements.
The sportsman groups within New York should be furious. The fact that the DEC's commissioner, Basil Seggos, was obviously behind this situation and supportive of it is beyond unprofessional. Oh, and Seggos is leaving his commissioner's job within just a few weeks. I guess this is his way of saying goodbye to the dedicated men and women who protect our fish and wildlife resources and so much more.
Folks, this is an environmental tragedy in the making. I was fortunate to have spent my entire law enforcement career in upstate NY working with ECO's in almost every county, and I cannot believe that this situation would have ever even be contemplated. I hope it does not become fact.
But right now that desire looks like a pipe dream.
Anyone who reads these columns at least semi-regularly know my "feelings" with respect to deer spay and neuter programs. After all, they never solve the basic population problem, they subject the deer to extreme trauma, and tax payers always take it on the chin (and in the wallet) when the programs are finally declared to be complete failures.
Various places all across the eastern and mid-western states have tried various "soft-hearted" spay and neuter programs, and all have failed miserably. One of my favorites is Princeton, N.J., where city officials loudly proclaimed that this procedure was the real answer to their deer population problems. But when the program was ended seven expensive years later, the city officials admitted total failure and asked archers to come in and hunt the deer.
Which brings us to Staten Island and its "enclosed" deer herd. After all, how hard could it possibly be to stop deer from breeding when you are dealing with a 58.5 square mile island and lots of houses and people (nearly 500,000) living there? And how much has it cost taxpayers?
Brace yourself. The wildlife ecologist (unidentified) running Mayor de Blasio's deer-vasectomy project was paid over $600,000 during the first two years of this project. And, Dr. Anthony DeNicola, the founder of White Buffalo Inc. (a nonprofit), was paid up to $2,500 a day for 250 days of project "management" and "field sterilization" for both the 2016/17 and 2017/18 seasons (under a no-bid "emergency" contract). These salaries and other information were discovered by the NY Post newspaper.
DeNicola's wife, Vickie, was a staff member during the project's first season. Her job was shooting bucks with tranquilizer guns and then securing the drugged animals. She was paid $1,600 every day for 150 days of "work", or $240,000. That type of job normally pays around $30,000 per year. This husband/wife team accounted for around 30 percent of the project's first year budget.
Other veterinarians working on this project earned $1,000 to $1,700 each day, even if they did not perform any vasectomies during any particular work day. But the vets must have earned at least some of their bloated salaries because the project reported inflicting 1,456 vasectomies on buck deer (a figure I have a hard time believing, by the way). Those procedures cost a total of $2,652 per buck.
The budget for this program began at $3.3 million. That figure was increased to $4.1 million because the White Buffalo Inc. people apparently found more deer within the borough than expected. As any knowledgeable deer hunter would know, if there are 1,400 males on the island to be sterilized, there has to be more than 2,000 deer there. My guess would be 2,400 or more total deer present.
So what do Staten Islanders say about the deer population? Almost unanimously they say they are seeing more deer now than they did in 2016. Oops!
More deer now, two full years after this project was started? And those urban-minded politicians are going forward, at taxpayer expense, with funding this project again in 2019. Mayor De Blasio has to be smiling at his success.
Len Lisenbee is the Daily Messenger's Outdoor Columnist. Contact him at lisenbee@frontiernet .net
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A Suicide and a Murder
Death is a way of life. Some are murdered, suffer from accidents, die as nature intended, or take their own life. These two true stories pay tribute to ordinary people who died in the month of March in 1924.
One took his own life, and the other had hers tragically taken from her.
Henry Pollington, aged 73
Launceston, Tasmania
Charles Street, Launceston, Tasmania circa 1920
Henry Pollington was a reserved man, who did not have very many friends. He lived with his son Arthur and his son's family in Charles Street, Launceston. The family had a well-known funeral business, at which both father and son were undertakers and cabinet makers.
On the evening of 20 March, 1924, Henry had supper with his family. At the time his son Arthur went to bed, Henry was still awake, reading a book. His bedroom was located directly below his son's, and Arthur did not recall hearing anything strange during the night.
The following morning, on 21 March, Arthur and his family were up, eating breakfast. They were commenting that Henry had not joined them, and how strange it was as he was normally the first person awake. Arthur's young daughter offered to take Henry a cup of tea, but Arthur stopped her, saying that no doubt he would no doubt be awake shortly.
A short while later, when Henry had still not appeared, Arthur started to wonder if something may have happened to his father. He went to his bedroom and opened the door, and that was when he found him.
Henry was clad only in his underwear, and was suspended by a stout blind cord, together with a silk scarf, which had been wound around his neck, with the other end attached to the bed post. The rest of the room was in perfect order. Everything was in its set place. The bed had not been slept in, but the sheets and blankets had been folded down as if to prepare Henry for sleep. Henry's head was pointing along the side of the bed, facing upwards, with his feet resting on the floor.
There was no indication that Henry was depressed in any way, but the evidence speaks for itself and death was ruled suicide by dislocation of the neck.
Hilda Beryl Jones, aged 16
King William Street, Adelaide, Australia circa 1920
Hilda Beryl Jones got up and went to work as a typist in Currie Chambers, Currie Street, Adelaide. Little did she know that morning that it would be her last day alive. At only 16 years of age, Hilda was killed by her boyfriend, 19 year old Herbert Stanton Neal, in a fit of jealous rage. The couple had been dating for over a year, and newspaper articles tell of how Herbert (otherwise known as Bert) entered Hilda's work place and shot her in the head with a rifle.
All appearances suggested that Hilda and Bert were very happy. He was accepted by Hilda's family, with her father saying that he did not think he could like a boy as he liked Bert. Through their courtship, their parents had become close friends. The night before Hilda's murder both Bert and Hilda seemed exceptionally happy in each other's company.
At around 1:50pm Thomas Stanton Young, a work colleague of Hilda's, was in his office enjoying his lunch, when he heard a loud gunshot.
In his words: "I went to my door and walked into the passage. I went toward the office from where the sound came. I saw Neal at our general office door as I approached. I knew Neal by sight… Neal had a rifle in his hand, but was not holding it shoulder high. I was about 10 feet away. I said to Neal 'What has happened? What is the matter?' Neal was apparently motionless and did not move the rifle. I went towards Neal, but he motioned me back. He did not speak to me. I then went and rang up for the police.
The muzzle of the rifle was pointing down the passage, which was in my direction. I saw Neal leaning against the counter talking to Miss Jones a few minutes before the tragedy. The rifle was leaning against the counter of Neal's left side. I did not see Miss Jones at all I did not hear any conversation."
When the police arrived, Bert collapsed and passed out. The police recovered the rifle together with a cartridge shell lying in Hilda's lap. Her body was lying on its back. There was a considerable amount of clotted blood on the floor and under her body. Brain substance was splashed on the wall and skull fragments were found in an adjoining room.
Bert was charged with Hilda's murder. He allegedly stated that he was infatuated with Hilda and became insanely jealous at the thought of anyone else having her. He killed her so nobody else could ever 'get her'.
Bert was found Not Guilty by way of insanity, and was confined to the criminal ward of a mental hospital until "the pleasure of the Governor be known".
By Peet Banks 2014
Put together by Ashley Hall 2014


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What's behind Barzani's new leadership council?
A week after the independence referendum, Iraq's Kurdish region leaders founded "Political Leadership of Kurdistan-Iraq", a leadership body replacing the High Referendum Council that undertook the preparation and organization of the controversial September 25 vote on breakaway from Iraq.
Announced on October 1, the body, according to the reports coming out of the autonomous Kurdish region, is comprised of leaders of the Kurdistan's regional political parties. The president of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Masoud Barzani, whose twice extended term in office expired in August, was named head of the new council.
Short after foundation of the PLK, various voices rose in opposition to the aims and motivations behind the Barzani move. Challenges to the body were opened by the Kurdish opposition party Gorran (Change) whose leaders in a statement asserted their strong objection to the arrangement, calling the measure a step towards dictatorship and debasement of the region's democratic institutions.
Other parties also came on board to make a front against the council foundation. The Kurdistan Islamic Group (KIG) and a large portion of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) seriously came against the step taken by the KRG president.
Now there are some questions: What is the real end behind the post-referendum council? Can it succeed?
In 2013, Barzani's presidency over the Kurdish regional government expired after two 5-year terms. At that time, the political parties of Kurdistan decided that the time was not proper to hold presidential election, allowing the region's local parliament to extend his presidency for two years. The extended term also ended on August 20, 2015, triggering return of the presidential debate to the surface of the autonomous region's politics after two years of equilibrium.
The Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), dominated by Barzani family and led by him, opposed holding presidential election in 2015 in the Kurdish region, citing the crisis mainly caused by the ISIS terrorist group and the need to confront it. Therefore, Barzani was illegally granted additional two years in office. His tenure was consolidated by a nominal extension ruling by the Kurdish Supreme Court.
The second extension is also expired now, with Barzani family and the KDP left empty-handed in terms of legal excuses for any debate to re-impose Masoud Barzani as the first man of the region. There is a notion that replacement of the Political Leadership of Kurdistan-Iraq with the High Referendum Council under the excuse of management of the post-vote Iraqi Kurdistan region developments is an effort meant to help Barzani maintain the power as a top man, though under a new title.
Another drive for the fresh council establishment is a goal to push to the sidelines the rivals and also the critics of the breakaway vote. According to the PLK mechanism, the leaders of the pro-referendum parties will be independently in charge of the regional management as well as future negotiations. This means that the rival parties like Gorran and PUK will be cut from the council's power core in the future, and also it will operate independent of the prospective government and parliament. In fact, the leadership body is expected to rule the Kurdish region to uncertain time. This arrangement will allow Barzani remain power-holder and strong man of the region. Therefore, exclusion of the opponents is one of the key ends of the new body, revealing the mindset of Barzani orbit: Whoever is not with us will be excluded from the power and management.
The PLK is expected to circumvent the Kurdish region's democratic mechanisms. In other words, if things go as they do now, in the future the government and parliament will not be able to supervise the Barzani-headed leadership body. In this case, the democratic system will be weakened and the region will be reduced to an advisory sultanate administered by a leader with an array of advisors who could be political parties' heads. The parliament, a body whose supervision could curb illegal actions of the PLK, appears to be the main victim of the democratic apparatuses impairment campaign.
With these aims in mind, can the council be successful and live on? Apparently, Barzani does not have easy work of proceeding with his plans due to the domestic opposition he should deal with. The antipathetic stance of Hero Ibrahim Ahmed, the widow of the late Iraqi president Jalal Talibani, especially caught attention. She in a statement last Monday rejected to support the leadership body, describing it a "big mistake" and comparing it to the Kurdish leadership council between 1987 and 1992, the years during which Kurdistan had neither government nor parliament. Her argument is that the new body will destroy all of the democratic achievements the region obtained during the past 26 years, and so it is a step back and that under the current circumstances its powers should not be approved.
The opposition appears to have left its impacts as some figures inside the PLK began seeking solution for the political stalemate. According to the speculations, the leadership council will be either dissolved or go under supervision of a stronger local parliament perhaps with rebranding. Parliamentary supervision will mean all actions of the PLK will be watched by the legislature and unapproved steps will be deemed illegal. This arrangement will certainly deal a blow to Barzani's struggle for solidification of his power in a new position.


Take a moment to review this video produced by Cuala member Colman Mac Cionnaith. This short presentation offers a meaningful, much-needed and commonsensical approach to caring for our mental health and how we can practically support ourselves and each other through the challenges life will present. The production very effectively manages to destigmatize and normalise this highly sensitive subject which is an increasingly growing concern within our own community and throughout society at large.
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This Teacher's Resource CD-ROM for Stage 8 gives suggestions for how to introduce concepts in the classroom and how to deal with common misconceptions. A large collection of worksheets offers more ideas for practical and other activities. Answers to all questions in the Coursebook and Workbook, as well as guidance and safety notes for all practical activities, are also included.
Supports teaching of the Science framework both theoretically and practically.
Full coverage of the Scientific Enquiry framework integrated throughout the series.
Coursebook gives a thorough introduction to the concepts and offers a wealth of ideas for hands-on activites to make the subject matter come to life.
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COAI forward-looking statement on 5G, for 2023
"This year witnessed the much-awaited landmark launch of 5G services in India and has been a turning point for the entire country. The Hon'ble Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi, inaugurated the 5G services at the India Mobile Congress, paving the way for the multiple opportunities in each sector from manufacturing, healthcare and augmented entertainment to smart city projects coupled with new-age technologies like IoT, M2M, drones, AI, and big data analytics with 5G. We believe that 5G will create both direct and indirect job opportunities to a significant extent, opening avenues for people and businesses that have the potential to completely change the economic landscape of India. It is expected that 5G services will greatly augment both efficiency and output in several areas – whether it be industry, governance or public utility.
A Deloitte-CII report indicates that India is poised to become a leading country in 5G penetration and development over the next 5–7 years due to its high population density, along with its reliable phase-wise rollout plan in long-term scenarios. TSPs are working with the government to deploy use cases to accelerate commercial 5G adoption by enterprises and end users, while state governments are gearing up for adopting and integrating the technology in applications for enhanced governance. As per Futurex, TSPs are also expected to increase investments to the tune of 2-2.5X, especially with regard to strengthening the security aspects of their network operations.
Further, fiberisation being critical for the success of 5G, a lot needs to be done as only ~35% of the BTS sites are presently connected to fiber networks. While the Central Government, creditably, introduced the amended Right of Way (RoW) Guidelines earlier this year, huge challenges still remain in ground-level implementation of the same at different State and local authority levels. Expedited adoption of these guidelines by the States/local authorities will facilitate faster deployments of telecom infrastructure, for establishing an efficient pan-India 5G network and faster rollouts of the services.
State Governments and Local bodies also impose exorbitant charges for deploying telecom Infrastructure on street furniture presently. They need to adopt the latest amendment in RoW rules, which prescribe the fees and compensation for deploying small cells and aerial fibre on street furniture such as Electricity Board (EB) Pole, street light poles, etc. Commendably, some of the States have already constituted Committees to look into these aspects for early roll-out of 5G Infrastructure.
Moreover, State electricity boards need to provide EB connections to the telecom sites – both macro and micro at industrial/utility rates. Given the importance of having digital connectivity always available, especially with the advent of critical real-time applications on 5G, availability of power at reduced rates is crucial, and would aid the sector in providing 5G services to the users in the most efficient manner.
5G network technology is expected to contribute about 2% to India's GDP, amounting to $180 billion by 2030. According to the Ericsson report mobility report, 5G subscribers in India are expected to reach around 690 million by the end of 2028. Urban areas are likely to have 5G services available for public consumption by March 2023.
Irrefutably, India is set to emerge as a leading country in the field of 5G in the coming years, and the technology, in turn, will help us gain a highly competitive position in the global market." Lt. Gen. Dr. S.P. Kochhar, Director General, COAI.
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Business owner Laura of Aqua Stars Academy of Swimming turned to Folk2Folk to help her achieve her business goal of owning her own pool after years of renting a facility, allowing her to set up her own leisure site in Devon.
After 15 years in business running swimming pools that provided classes for children, babies and adults, Laura was forced to find alternative premises due to outgrowing the existing pool.
After acquiring a plot of land in Devon and gaining planning permission the next stage was to find the finance to build the swimming pool facility. With 15 years of business track record Laura thought her local bank would be happy to lend her the funds.
It was in August 2012 that Laura acquired planning permission and it took a further nine months before she could start building because of the banks saying no to her business plans.
Aqua Stars Academy of Swimming initially borrowed £250,000 to begin the build, all of which was done by Laura's father. A further £200,000 was then used to finish off the pool, café, kitchen and other bits of pool machinery such as the bio-mass boiler.
Since opening in September 2015, Aqua Stars is now fully booked, helping 900 children a week plus local schools to learn to swim. Laura was also able to bring her previous staff with her and create new jobs in the area. These new roles include a full-time chef, 3 full-time staff as well as 5 part-time staff for roles such as lifeguards. The business is also used by 12 local schools, adult aqua Zumba classes as well as a community meeting place for young families that use the pool for baby swimming.
Laura is keen to open the pool up to the public in the future as well as expanding the additional facilities to include a farm shop, play areas inside and outside as well as further landscaping the grounds.


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I have been thinking and writing about my grandmother for a talk I am soon to give in Cleveland, Self-Portrait with Ghost: The Art of Lament and Redemption. I have written a series of poems in response to her paintings, telling the story of my family's exodus from Hitler's Europe to the New World. They lived in Cuba for 18 months before they were allowed to enter the United States. This was in 1940, before I was born. In this painting of a Great Mother Tree I can see my grandmother beginning to get her bearings, beginning to grow roots and branches, beginning to find her way.
Will the ghosts ever find me?
As they did in Europe?
Will you make your nest here?
It used to be when I called up my mother for our Sunday talks that we'd tell each other family stories or stories from our busy creative lives. She was a fine violinist and violist. She played chamber and symphonic music, taught violin, and worked therapeutically with young children and their parents. Now, in her nineties, she is mostly confused, says she doesn't know who or where she is. I think she doesn't know why she is. But she always knows about the trees. She watches them. They tell her the seasons, orient her in the life cycle and she reports back to me about their winter nakedness, their eloquent shapes and windy dances, their spring buds and gorgeous flowering, their summer green abundance, their fall explosion into many colors and then shedding all their finery. She finds them beautiful in all their states. They calm her. They watch over her. They are as they are, and so is she. My mother would never say they are angels. But I do.
There is another Great Mother Oak in my life these days. She lives in the lavender fields at Harms Farm, where my friends Patricia Damery and Donald Harms grow lavender, grapes and tend goats. I am privileged to be in a group of women writers, dedicated to the work of raising consciousness about the threats to creatures, trees and to the earth. We will read under that enchanting oak tree. I hope you'll join us.
How do we reconnect with the earth and with each other in these perilous times? How do we create a vessel, individually and collectively, for rebirth in a world we hold sacred?
We, three poets and a novelist, have devoted our work to these questions, adding our voices to the growing chorus. We are passionate advocates for the Deep Feminine and a return to the ancient and timeless values which She embodies.
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Q: RGB to LAB and back again bug I am having some problems converting from RGB to LAB and back again. I am trying my hand at experimenting with the LAB color space, but I want to make sure that I can convert it from RGB to XYZ to LAB and back again.
At first everything appeared well, but only if I was using the Lena test image, as soon as I started using other images I saw that blues and greens were completely cut off and I'm not sure where exactly the error is.
I tested an image with many colors and after conversion of RGB to LAB and back I got distorted colors.
Here's my code:
{
    double fcolorspace = 255.0f;

    double* image1temp=new double[nWidth * nHeight * 4]; // this is our tempory buffer to hold image 1

    // convert to RGB to LAB
    for (int y = 0; y< nHeight; y++)
    {
        for (int x = 0; x< nWidth; x++)
        {
            int nIdx = x*4+y*4*nWidth;

            double red1;
            double green1;
            double blue1;

            double xyzX1;
            double xyzY1;
            double xyzZ1;

            double var_X1;
            double var_Y1;
            double var_Z1;

            double refX;
            double refY;
            double refZ;

            double var_X11;
            double var_Y12;
            double var_Z13;

            //read in image from array
            red1   = double(pBGRA_in1[nIdx + CHANNEL_R]) / fcolorspace;
            green1 = double(pBGRA_in1[nIdx + CHANNEL_G]) / fcolorspace;
            blue1  = double(pBGRA_in1[nIdx + CHANNEL_B]) / fcolorspace;

            //adjust gamma on image 1
            if (red1 > 0.04045f)
            {
                red1 = powf((red1 + 0.055f) / 1.055f, 2.4f);
            }
            else
            {
                red1 = red1 / 12.92f;
            }
            if (green1 > 0.04045f)
            {
                green1 = powf((green1 + 0.055f) / 1.055f, 2.4f);
            }
            else
            {
                green1 = green1 / 12.92f;
            }
            if (blue1 > 0.04045f)
            {
                blue1 = powf((blue1 + 0.055f) / 1.055f, 2.4f);
            }
            else
            {
                blue1 = blue1 / 12.92f;
            }

            //scale
            red1   = red1   * 100.0f;
            green1 = green1 * 100.0f;
            blue1  = blue1  * 100.0f;

            //first we will convert the RGB image to XYZ
            xyzX1 = (0.4124f * red1) + (0.3576f * green1) + (0.1805f * blue1);
            xyzY1 = (0.2126f * red1) + (0.7152f * green1) + (0.0722f * blue1);
            xyzZ1 = (0.0193f * red1) + (0.1192f * green1) + (0.9505f * blue1);

            //reference white
            refX = 95.047f; // Observer= 2°, Illuminant= D65
            refY = 100.000f;
            refZ = 108.883f;

            //adjust LAB to reference white
            var_X1 = xyzX1 / refX;
            var_Y1 = xyzY1 / refY;
            var_Z1 = xyzZ1 / refZ;

            //LAB Conversion
            if (var_X1 > 0.008856f)
            {
                var_X11 = powf(var_X1 , 1.0f/3.0f);
            }
            else
            {
                var_X11 = (7.787f * var_X1) + (16.0f/116.0f);
            }

            if (var_Y1 > 0.008856f)
            {
                var_Y12 = powf(var_Y1 , 1.0f/3.0f);
            }
            else
            {
                var_Y12 = (7.787f * var_Y1) + (16.0f/116.0f);
            }

            if (var_Z1 > 0.008856f)
            {
                var_Z13 = powf(var_Z1 , 1.0f/3.0f);
            }
            else
            {
                var_Z13 = (7.787f * var_Z1) + (16.0f/116.0f);
            }

            //adjust LAB scale
            double cieL1 = (116.0f * var_Y12) - 16.0f;
            double cieA1 = 500.0f * (var_X11 - var_Y12);
            double cieB1 = 200.0f * (var_Y12 - var_Z13);

            //we are now in the LAB colorspace
            f_outred   = CLAMP255(cieL1);
            f_outgreen = CLAMP255(cieA1);
            f_outblue  = CLAMP255(cieB1);

            //place LAB image in temp array
            image1temp[nIdx + CHANNEL_R] = int(f_outred);
            image1temp[nIdx + CHANNEL_G] = int(f_outgreen);
            image1temp[nIdx + CHANNEL_B] = int(f_outblue);
        }
    }

    //convert from LAB to XYZ
        for (int x = 0; x< nWidth; x++)
        {
            for (int y = 0; y< nHeight; y++)
            {
                int nIdx = x * 4 + y * 4 * nWidth;

                double refX;
                double refY;
                double refZ;

                double var_X;
                double var_Y;
                double var_Z;

                double cieX;
                double cieY;
                double cieZ;

                double red;
                double green;
                double blue;

                //reference white
                refX = 95.047f; // Observer= 2°, Illuminant= D65
                refY = 100.000f;
                refZ = 108.883f;

                double cieL = image1temp [nIdx + CHANNEL_R];
                double cieA = image1temp [nIdx + CHANNEL_G];
                double cieB = image1temp [nIdx + CHANNEL_B];

                var_Y = (cieL + 16.0f) / 116.0f;
                var_X = cieA / 500.0f + var_Y;
                var_Z = var_Y - cieB / 200.0f;

                if (powf(var_Y, 3.0f) > 0.008856)
                {
                    var_Y = powf(var_Y, 3.0f);
                }
                else
                {
                    var_Y = (var_Y - 16.0f / 116.0f) / 7.787f;
                }
                if (powf(var_X , 3.0f) > 0.008856f)
                {
                    var_X = powf(var_X, 3.0f);
                }
                else
                {
                    var_X = (var_X - 16.0f / 116.0f) / 7.787f;
                }
                if (powf(var_Z, 3.0f) > 0.008856)
                {
                    var_Z = powf(var_Z, 3.0f);
                }
                else
                {
                    var_Z = (var_Z - 16.0f / 116.0f) / 7.787f;
                }

                cieX = refX * var_X;
                cieY = refY * var_Y;
                cieZ = refZ * var_Z;

                var_X = cieX / 100.0f;
                var_Y = cieY / 100.0f;
                var_Z = cieZ / 100.0f;

                red   = var_X * 3.2406f  + var_Y * -1.5372f + var_Z * -0.4986f;
                green = var_X * -0.9689f + var_Y * 1.8758f  + var_Z * 0.0415f;
                blue  = var_X * 0.0557f  + var_Y * -0.2040f + var_Z * 1.0570f;

                if (red > 0.0031308f)
                {
                    red = 1.055f * powf(red , (1.0f / 2.4f)) - 0.055f;
                }
                else
                {
                    red = 12.92f * red;
                }
                if (green > 0.0031308f)
                {
                    green = 1.055f * powf(green , (1.0f / 2.4f)) - 0.055f;
                }
                else
                {
                    green = 12.92f * green;
                }
                if (blue > 0.0031308f)
                {
                    blue = 1.055f * powf(blue , (1.0f / 2.4f)) - 0.055f;
                }
                else
                {
                    blue = 12.92f * blue;
                }

                red = CLAMP255(red * fcolorspace);
                green = CLAMP255(green * fcolorspace);
                blue = CLAMP255(blue * fcolorspace);

                pBGRA_out[nIdx + CHANNEL_R] = red;
                pBGRA_out[nIdx + CHANNEL_G] = green;
                pBGRA_out[nIdx + CHANNEL_B] = blue;
            }
        }

    delete [] image1temp;//delete the array
    delete [] image2temp;//delete the array

}

A: You don't show the source for CLAMP255, but I'm guessing it clamps the values to between 0 and 255. For the Lab output this would be totally wrong as they use a different range; I know that a and b go below zero.


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Q: why am i getting negative values for my timeinterval? I have no idea what is happening. I am trying to make a timer that works by comparing dates. When I start the timer, sometimes it works and then randomly stops, and sometimes it just returns the value of the timeInterval. It seems to only work correctly when the time interval is negative. This is my method:
-(IBAction)startTimer:(id)sender{
    if (timer == nil) {
        [startButton setTitle:@"Start" forState:UIControlStateNormal];
        timer = [NSTimer scheduledTimerWithTimeInterval:1.0 target:self selector:@selector(timerAction:) userInfo:nil repeats:YES];
        date = [NSDate dateWithTimeIntervalSinceNow:testTask.timeInterval]; //instance variable
    } else {
        [startButton setTitle:@"Stop" forState:UIControlStateNormal];
        [timer invalidate];
        timer = nil;
    }

}
-(void)timerAction:(NSTimer *)t
{
    NSDate *currentDate = [NSDate date];
    NSTimeInterval updatedTimeInterval = [date timeIntervalSinceDate:currentDate];
    if (updatedTimeInterval > 0){
        if (self.timer)
        {
            [self timerExpired];
            [self.timer invalidate];
            self.timer = nil;
        }
    }
    else
    {
        testTask.timeInterval = updatedTimeInterval;
        NSLog(@"%.2f", testTask.timeInterval);
        NSError *error;
        if (![self.context save:&error]) {
            NSLog(@"couldn't save: %@", [error localizedDescription]);
        }
    }
    NSUInteger seconds = (NSUInteger)round(testTask.timeInterval);
    NSString *string = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%02u:%02u:%02u",
                        seconds / 3600, (seconds / 60) % 60, seconds % 60];
    timerLabel.text = string;
    NSLog(@"%f", testTask.timeInterval);
}

A: You're subtracting the later date, currentDate, from the earlier date. I told you to do it the other way around: [[NSDate date] timeIntervalSinceDate:date]

A: There's a reason timeIntervalSinceNow is not called timeIntervalUntilNow...
Also known as: the time elapsed since now is negative if the date in question is earlier than the current date/time. It would be positive if the date was later in time than the current date. (Just a bit of logic and/or English semantics :))
   Earlier date      Current date
        ^                  ^
        +------------------+
              since now: (earlier date) - (current date)... that's < 0