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The Radicalism of the American Revolution is a nonfiction book by historian Gordon S. Wood, published by Vintage Books as a paperback in 1993. The first printing of the hardcover edition notes a publication date of December 1991. In the book, Wood explores the radical character of the American Revolution. The book was awarded the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for History.

Gordon S. Wood attempted to reconcile his previous arguments in The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787, with myriad analytical categories, especially emotions, in this book. Wood's contentions remained the same from his revised dissertation sans the extensive foray into 1776-87 state constitutionalism. Wood divided the narrative into three parts: monarchy, republicanism, and democracy.

Background
Gordon S. Wood ended The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787, a 1969 book based on a dissertation supervised by Bernard Bailyn, with the "End of Classical Politics." Wood argued that, in the wake of the last federalist rebuttal during the ratification debates, "the stability of government...now depended upon the prevention of the various social interests from incorporating themselves too firmly in the government. Institutional or governmental politics was thus abstracted in a curious way from its former associations with the society...This revolution marked an end of the classical conception of politics." The first section of the book explored how and why "the colonists" appropriated "Whig" absolute "ideals" of "liberty," which ultimately came to represent the unity of "personal liberty" with "public liberty" as well as representation by a "natural aristocracy." By the last chapter of the book, Wood declared that "public or political liberty, the right of the people to share in the government—lost its significance for a system in which the people participated throughout. The liberty that was now emphasized was personal or private...[they began to] regard public and private liberty as antagonistic rather than complementary...Such a total grounding of government in self-interest and consent had made old-fashioned popular revolutions obsolete."

In 1992, as Gordon S. Wood's The Radicalism of the American Revolution first circulated among scholars, historian Daniel T. Rodgers attempted to define the parameters of the debates launched by The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution and Creation of the American Republic. Rodgers posited periodization as the source of much controversy between what he deemed adherents of "Harvard republicanism" and proponents of "St. Louis republicanism." In the context of The Creation of the American Republic, "when Wood turned to the early national period he found a society dancing feverishly to the tune of 'modern American liberalism.' The mark of St. Louis republicanism, by contrast, was a reluctance to date the 'end of classical politics' as early as Wood had put it." As a result of these fractious disputes, "RepublicanismH collapsed all at once in a clatter of constitutional argument. RepublicanismS staggered on to a slower death." His review essay did not include the extended periodization in Radicalism.

Wood clarified the vaunted and maligned "End of Classical Politics" in a new preface to his 1969 study. First, he reminded readers, "it is important to remember that the boxlike categories of 'republicanism' and 'liberalism' are essentially the inventions of us historians." In Wood's estimation, the bifurcation of "Harvard republicanism" and "St. Louis republicanism" had been premised on "the mistaken notion that one set of ideas simply replaced another en bloc." He sought to mitigate scholarly conflicts by curbing meanings ascribed to this phrase: "after the debates and discoveries of 1787-88 most Americans (John Adams was a conspicuous exception) more or less ceased talking about politics in the way theorists since Aristotle had—as a maneuvering and mixing of three social entities or forms of government [monarchy, lords, commons]—and began talking about politics in recognizably modern ways—as a competition among interests or parties in the society for control of a quasi-autonomous state...Cultural changes of that magnitude do not take place in such a neat and sudden manner. Republicanism was indeed gradually transformed into something we call liberalism, but in subtle and complicated ways that kept many republican sentiments alive."

Synopsis

Gordon S. Wood argued in Radicalism that in the "classical republican tradition our modern distinction between positive and negative liberties was not yet clearly perceived, and the two forms of liberty were still often seen as one." Wood premised this concluding argument with the notion that "public or political liberty---or what we now call positive liberty---meant participation in government. And this political liberty in turn provided the means by which the personal liberty and private rights of the individual---what we today call negative liberty---were protected."

Wood's "classical republican tradition" rooted "virtue" in "liberty and independence." If such "disinterestedness" in government "was based on liberty and independence, then it followed that only autonomous individuals free from any ties of interest and paid by no master were qualified to be citizens. Jefferson and many other republican idealists hoped that all ordinary yeoman farmers who owned their own land...would be independent and free enough of pecuniary temptations and marketplace interests to be virtuous." Still, for many "republican idealists" in "monarchical society," a "disinterested leadership could only be located among the landed gentry whose income [derived] from the rents of tenants." Yet, most "merchants active in their businesses" sought to attain "wealth and leisure sufficient to avoid any day-to-day involvement in their businesses."  The "jealousy and suspicion" of these "republican idealists" were "necessary evils to offset" monarchical "power." In addition, their "world" still seemed "small and intimate enough to hold particular men morally responsible for all that occurred within it. Which is why the colonists especially were quick to explain a concatenation of events as caused by conspiracy."

The Revolution also sparked unresolved "ideological" debates over the socioeconomic consequences of the "commercial nature of real estate." Wood explained that "virtue became identified with decency" and was "soft and feminized." Ideas of "classical virtue had flowed from the citizen's participation in politics...But modern virtue flowed from the citizen's participation in society, not in government, which the liberal-minded increasingly saw as the principal source of the evils of the world." During the American Revolution, "some now argued that even commerce, that traditional enemy of classical virtue, was in fact a source of modern virtue." Wood even described this "domestication of virtue" as "progressive"  and emphasized that it "helped reconcile classical republicanism ["liberty"] with modernity and commerce."

Gordon S. Wood cast early Federalism as a response to Anti-Federalist questions regarding the very notion of an expansive "[the] United States" and the solecism imperium-in-imperio, sovereignty-within-sovereignty. James Madison and his Federalists offered a last rebuttal: the locus of "power," sovereignty, would be vested in "the people," not in organs of government. In his earlier dissertation, Wood described the Federalist rebuttal as "disingenuous." He also previously described this "mutuality of interests" as generating a crucible for "the alliance of power and liberty."

In an "American science of politics," electoral campaigns sought to cultivate reflective constituent "interests" for refractive disinterested officeholding that, in turn, partially attempted to "umpire" and encompass these "interests." For Federalists, the latter included, and also checked, the former. Government harnessed "interests," which transformed "positive liberty" into, for instance, the United States public interest, sustained by "patrician" disinterestedness.  Wood held that the idea of government officials as "umpires" for "republican liberty" was soon discarded. "By the late 1780s," Wood mused, "many of the younger revolutionary leaders like James Madison were willing to confront the reality of interests in America," exemplified by Madison's Federalist No. 10. The federal government became a " 'disinterested and dispassionate umpire in disputes between different passions and interests in the State.' " Even with plans to expand public education, potential officeholders, more than voters, needed to become "liberally educated and cosmopolitan enough to have the breadth of perspective to comprehend all the different interests in society." In the writings of framers and Federalists alike, there was a much higher probability that a university legal education or apprenticeship for reading law, out of all the "learned professions," would win the electoral day. Anti-Federalists pointed out that the profits derived from litigation, even if supplemented by pro bono work, turned "lawyers into tradesmen or artisans" in an interests-based political economy. Not so, rejoined Wood's Alexander Hamilton: "being a lawyer was not an occupation and different from other profit-making activities." The "learned professions" formed " 'no distinct interest in society' and thus were best suited to be elected by their constituents. They...will be most likely be an 'impartial arbiter' among the diverse interests and occupations of the society."

In Gordon S. Wood's appraisal, both Federalists and Anti-Federalists defined U.S. actual representation against British virtual representation. Both Federalists and Anti-Federalists concurred that elections, premised on courting and cultivating voter reflective "interests," propelled candidates into public office. Both Federalists and Anti-Federalists ultimately countenanced a surplus of such candidates in extended electoral spheres, which James Madison conjectured increased campaign competition and the likelihood that anxious elected delegates, despite serving in faraway eighteenth-century federal seats, would constantly clamor to demonstrate representation of the reflective "interests" of constituents. In Federalist No. 10, Madison argued that refractive representation defined republics, yet attempted to address in-person reflective potentials of pure democracy. Madison's conclusions, in Wood's interpretation, partially signified interests-based liberal representative democracy without a signifier for representative democracy.

Wood argued that Federalist promotion of disinterested patrician "umpires" refracted representation in order to check, rather than eclipse, interests-based reflective representation in an "American science of politics." James Madison reiterated, in an oft-quoted passage from Federalist No. 56, that "it is a sound and important principle that the representative ought to be acquainted with the interests and circumstances of his constituents. But this principle can extend no further than to those circumstances and interests to which the authority and care of the representative relate." The crux of the matter, according to Wood in both Radicalism and his previous "Interests and Disinterestedness in the Making of the Constitution" (1987), was the fulfillment of both "patrician" refractive disinterestedness and representative extension of categorical "authority" over myriad "interests," such as electoral district boundaries, income, vocation, commerce, urban labor, etc., that is, how representatives can reflectively relate to their constituents. Also, Madison expressed concerns about government by the "few" as well as, in contradistinction, government by the "many." In writing Federalist No. 62, for instance, Madison grew skeptical of any fiscal "regulation" because, in a counterintuitive fashion, "every new regulation concerning commerce or revenue; or in any manner affecting the value of the different species of property, presents a new harvest to those who watch the change and can trace its consequences; a harvest reared not by themselves but by the toils and cares of the great body of their fellow citizens. This is a state of things in which it may be said with some truth that laws are made for the few not for the many." Absent from Wood's narrative was James Madison's own possible 1787-88 reflective "interests" and any immediate consequences of Madison's three-fifths ratio.

At any rate, Federalists and Anti-Federalists diverged over their predictions for which candidates would, and even should, most frequently win in federal elections. They also disagreed over how these delegates enacted federalism and exactly what these delegates did in the federal Capitol. For proponents of Constitutional ratification, the crucial tenet in understanding how Federalist officeholders could persist as disinterested refractive "umpires" and reflective representatives of electoral districts, particularly within an interests-based political economy, was "a notion that has carried into our own time---that lawyers and other professionals are somehow free of the marketplace, are less selfish and interested and therefore better equipped for political leadership and disinterested decision-making than merchants and businessmen." Again, Federalists believed that "lawyers," despite having "to live off 'the hard earned profits of the law,' " were "somehow free of the marketplace" and "less selfish and interested." These "lawyers," and similar practitioners of "learned professions" with "proprietary wealth" for education, proved "natural" vessels to maintain the pre-Socratic unity of opposites in Wood's "the ideas, the rhetoric" of "republican liberty" (within a variety of visual, emotional, etc., significations), especially during the shift to liberal representative democracy, in part only introduced by James Madison due to persistent state property requirements for voting. In the "liberal" keys that sounded Gordon S. Wood's rhapsody of "republican liberty," Federalist representatives were indeed "liberally educated and cosmopolitan enough to have the breadth of perspective to comprehend all the different interests in society."

The future surprisingly lay not with the triumphant Federalists in Gordon S. Wood's story. In Anti-Federalist disquisitions, Wood explained, "society" reflected "a heterogenous mixture of 'many different classes or orders of people, Merchants, Farmers, Planters, Mechanics, and Gentry or wealthy Men'...'Lawyers and planters,' whatever their genteel pretensions, could never be 'adequate judges of tradesmen's concerns.' The occupations and interests of the society were so diverse and discrete that only individuals sharing a particular occupation or interest could speak for that occupation or interest. It was foolish to tell people that they ought to overlook their local interests when local interests were all there really were." The Anti-Federalists who "lost the battle over the Constitution" believed that "only an explicit form of representation that allowed Germans, Baptists, artisans, farmers, and so on each to send delegates of its own kind into the political arena could embody the democratic particularism of the emerging society of the early Republic. Momentous consequences eventually flowed from these Anti-Federalist arguments. In these populist Anti-Federalist calls for the most explicit form of representation possible, and not in Madison's Federalist No. 10, lay the real origins of American pluralism and American interest-group politics. The grass-roots Anti-Federalists concluded that, given the variety of competing interests and the fact that all people had interests, the only way for a person to be fairly and accurately represented in government was to have someone like himself with his same interests speak for him; no one else could be trusted to do so. Ultimately, the logic of this conception of actual representation determined that no one could be represented in government unless he had the right to vote. The interests of a person were so particular, so personal, that only by exercising the ballot could he protect and promote his interests. Election in America became the sole criterion for representation. Insofar as American politics became localist and dominated by interest groups and calls for extended suffrage, the Anti-Federalists prepared the way."

Gordon S. Wood concluded Radicalism with the rise of a fledgling Jacksonian democracy, contending that voters appropriated the "Federalist Persuasion" of an "interests"-based popular sovereignty ("Chapter 14: Interests") and "celebration of commerce" ("Chapter 18: The Celebration of Commerce"), much to the chagrin of many, but by no means all, of the former persuaders in their twilight years. The late eighteenth-century idea of the "equality" of sensations and benevolent "feeling," bestowed on a "moral" humanity by the deistic "Creator," gave rise to the idea of "equality" ("Chapter 13: Equality") of opportunity in political economy. These notions of "equality" potentially included diverse segments of "society," but interpretations by the historical actors featured in the book neither necessarily expanded bodies politic, nor civil government, much past self-described "white males." In an oft-quoted passage, Wood observed that "government officials were no longer to play the role of umpire; they were no longer to stand above the competing interests of the marketplace and make disinterested, impartial judgements about what was good for the whole society. Elected officials were to bring the partial, local interests of the society, and sometimes even their own interests, right into the workings of government. Partisanship and parties became legitimate activities in politics. And all adult white males, regardless of their property holdings of their independence, were to have the right to vote. By 1825 every state but Rhode Island, Virginia, and Louisiana had achieved universal white manhood suffrage." This appropriation nevertheless proved a cornerstone for Wood's ultimate argument that "the Revolution was the most radical and most far-reaching event in American history."

Reception

References

1993 non-fiction books
20th-century history books
History books about the American Revolution
Pulitzer Prize for History-winning works
Vintage Books books


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Nasreen Qadri (en hebreo: נסרין קדרי, nacida el 2 de septiembre de 1987) es una cantante árabe-israelí de pop y Música de Oriente Medio. La mayoría de sus canciones son en hebreo y árabe.

Carrera
Nació y creció en Haifa, su padre fue un taxista y su madre enfermera, proviene de una familia árabe-israelí. Comenzó con pequeñas interpretaciones en eventos sociales de pequeños clubes y restaurantes. Se hizo popular cuando ganó el programa de televisión Eyal Golan Is Calling You. Hizo su debut profesional con su primer disco en 2014 y en una serie de conciertos en homenaje a la Orquesta Andaluza Ashdod.

En marzo de 2017 cantó junto a Dudu Tasa and the Kuwaitis previo a un concierto de la banda Radiohead. Tuvo una relación de más de una década con el músico Aviezer Ben Moha, se comprometieron en julio de 2017 pero terminaron separándose en septiembre de 2017.

Discografía
 Nasreen Qadri (2014)
 בנאדיק (2016)
Sencillos:
 2012: "נסרין אל תלך קליף"
 2017: "באתי להחזיר לך"

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Artículo sobre la cantante en The Times of Israel

Cantantes femeninas de Israel
Cantantes de pop de Israel
Árabes israelíes
Conversos al judaísmo desde el islam
Nacidos en Haifa

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The NFLPI and Panini America explain the benefits of a new exclusive deal, and why it could grow the collectibles category.
When fans go to purchase their favorite NFL rookie's trading card in 2016, there will only be one brand available to them. NFL Players Inc. (NFLPI) and Panini America officially announced an exclusive partnership starting in 2016, meaning Panini America will be the only company providing NFL trading cards. Contract details remain undisclosed, but it is described as a long-term deal and is a huge win for Panini America.
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This seems like a mutually beneficial deal that could pay dividends for all parties involved. Exclusivity and the length of the deal provide Panini with enough runway to develop strategies that would pay off three to four years down the road. While the NFLPI partners with a strong company with a history of international success, it also helps its members. Normally, rookies drive the trading card market, and in a deal with multiple partners, that would continue to be the case.
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Q: Understanding the entropy of a set I have a limited statistics background, so I will try to be as specific as possible.
I'm reading a paper on a method to fingerprint mobile devices using their accelerometer. To demonstrate that the method is robust, the author measures parameters from 16.000 devices; I don't know if it's relevant, but the parameters are the Offset (O) and the Sensibility (S) of the sensor.
He then filter them by keeping only the values of devices which has been measured exactly twice. For every device, he calculates the "distance" between every O, and then between every S. He finds out that

The 95th percentile for O distance is 0.045. For S this distance is 0.0037.

First question: what does that mean? Moreover, what is the 95th percentile, and why does he use it?
He then uses these 95th percentile distances to create a scatter plot of O-S, dividing it into blocks of equal size and counting the data points in each block (Cxy). From this he is able to calculate overall entropy of the distribution (which he does not define) as follows:

Second question: what does the entropy tells me? I know it's a measure of disorder in a system, so I assume that it says something like "there are no clusters of similar informations, all the informations are disordered in the graph". But, how much? Shouldn't I compare this value with something?
The paragraph is then concluded saying that

Small variations of the grid origin had minimal effects on the entropy
  estimate (specifically, we saw less than 0.01 bit of entropy
  difference between the smallest and largest estimated value, 7.493 vs.
  7.502). We consider this to be a confirmation that the result is robust.

Sorry for the long quote, but I really can't figure out what does that mean: what does it tell me if entropy has a small variation between the smaller and the largest estimated value? That's the third question.
You can find the paper here: Paper

A: First question:  What does that mean? Moreover, what is the 95th percentile, and why does he use it?

The 95th percentile for O distance is 0.045. For Sz this distance is
  0.0037.

The x-th percentile is the value which is higher than x% of all values in a dataset. Per definition, the median is the 50-percentile. The percentile can be used to described a distribution. One reason to use the 95th-percentile could be to disregard outliers - those with the highest 5% distance.
Second question: what does the entropy tell me?
Entropy describes a distribution and can be well visualized and understood as a property of a histogram.
The entropy is zero, if only a single event (here: distance value) occurs - therefore there is no uncertainty. The histogram has only a single bin. If all events occur with equal probability (or if working with empirical data: occurred equally often), the entropy is at its maximum.
As the entropy depends on the number of possible events, it can be normalized such as dividing by the maximum entropy possible. Doing so, the entropy can only be a value in the interval of [0,1].
In this specific paper, the data is plotted as a scatterplot and the scatterplot area is discretized in equally sized sub-areas to form a histogram by counting the occurrences in each area. An area is hereby defined as an event and the amount of occurrences inside are counted.
Third question: what does it tells me if entropy has a small variation between the smaller and the largest estimated value?
Now the center of the grid - which originated from using equally sized areas for all values below the 95th percentile - depends on the data (!). By varying the grid center (maximum and minimum as possible alternative centers) and checking the change of the entropy, the author tries to estimates the robustness of his approach. If a small change of the grid center would result in a large change of the entropy, then his approach would be sensitive to the input data.
I assume there are plenty other options to estimate the robustness. I specifically wonder why the author does not estimate robustness of the identification as opposed to the robustness of entropy depending on the grid center.

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(Crain's) -- The city of Chicago has approved the sale of roughly five acres on the Far South Side to a little-known developer who plans a $21-million retail project that could be anchored by an Aldi supermarket.
Crown Commercial Real Estate & Development Inc. is to pay $1 for the city-owned parcels in the Roseland neighborhood, President Musa P. Tadros says. The land is on the southeast and southwest corners of 115th Street and Michigan Avenue.
The sites Mr. Tadros is to buy from the city are part of a roughly 8-acre parcel where the three-building, 90,000-square-foot project is planned. Mr. Tadros already owns part of the land and is negotiating to buy the rest.
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A spokesman for Batavia-based Aldi had no comment on the terms of the lease but confirmed that the grocer is negotiating with Mr. Tadros. Aldi is part of the massive Aldi Group grocery chain based in Essen, Germany.
"This area is in desperate need of a grocery store," says Ledall Edwards, executive director of the Roseland Business Development Council. "The residents need access to quality food."
Mr. Tadros developed a Target Corp.-anchored shopping center in 2002 near 85th Street and Cottage Grove Avenue in the Chatham neighborhood, about 4 miles north of the proposed Roseland project.
Mr. Tadros has been assembling land for five years near 115th Street and Michigan Avenue, where in the 1980s he owned a small grocery store. The City Council has authorized the sale of the land to Mr. Tadros but the deal isn't scheduled to close until the fall, he says. If he can get financing despite the economy and tight lending markets, he hopes to break ground next spring.


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I Firefly sono un gruppo musicale italiano, fondato nel 1979 a Vicenza, composto inizialmente da Manuela Ometto (voce) e da Maurizio "Sangy" Sangineto (chitarra, basso e composizione).

Storia
Manuela Ometto e da Maurizio Sangineto si conobbero all'interno di Vicenza RadioStar, nel 1976, una delle prime radio libere in Italia. A loro si unì presto il cantante Rolando "Jay Roland" Zaniolo. Questi tre giovani, appassionati di discomusic, decisero di formare un gruppo che proponesse quel tipo di musica, con testi che si rifacessero a valori quali amicizia, fraternità e amore. Per migliorare la qualità del suono decisero di chiamare il tastierista Toto Torquati di Roma.

Nel 1979 pubblicarono il primo singolo Do it Dancin, registrato allo Studio Radius di Milano e di proprietà di Alberto Radius. Nel 1980 esce il loro primo album Firefly, prodotto dallo stesso Maurizio Sangineto e da Maurizio Cavalieri su etichetta Mr Disc. Da questo album fu estratto il singolo Love and Friendship che li portò ai primi posti della classifica italiana della musica funky dance. Lo stesso brano, dopo essere stato remixato a New York e rilanciato con il titolo di Love Is Gonna Be On Your Side, nel 1981 arrivò al terzo posto delle classifiche ufficiali statunitensi, nella categoria Dance di Billboard.

Seguirono poi gli album My desire, nel 1981, Firefly 3, nel 1982, e Double Personality, nel 1984.

Dopo una lunga pausa, nel 1992 fu pubblicata la raccolta The Best of Firefly.

Nel 1994 uscì il singolo Whatcha Gonna Do e nel 1995 il singolo Falling In Love, entrambi sulla nuova etichetta Musix di Maurizio Sangineto.

Dopo un'ulteriore lunga pausa, nel 2019, e per celebrare i 40 anni di attività, il gruppo lanciò una nuova versione del primo successo Love Is Gonna Be On Your Side, fondendolo con un altro grande successo della dance italiana dell'epoca, The Glow of Love dei Change. Per rinfrescare il sound venne chiamato a collaborare il rapper di Miami Rampage Rome.

Nel 2021 il gruppo, formato ora da Maurizio Sangineto e Jay Roland, pubblica il nuovo singolo Fly Like a Firefly. Al brano viene abbinato anche un videoclip.

Formazione

Formazione originale (1979-2019)
 Manuela Ometto - voce
 Maurizio "Sangy" Sangineto - chitarra, basso
 Rolando "Jay Roland" Zaniolo - voce
 Toto Torquati - tastiere

Formazione attuale (2021)
 Maurizio "Sangy" Sangineto - chitarra, basso
 Rolando "Jay Roland" Zaniolo - voce

Discografia parziale

Album in studio
 1980 - Firefly
 1981 - My Desire
 1982 - Firefly 3
 1984 - Double Personality

Raccolte
 1992 - Best of Firefly

Singoli
 1979 - Do It Dancin
 1980 - You Make Me Happy
 1981 - Love Is Gonna Be on Your Side
 1981 - Love and Friendship
 1981 - Our Trade Is Life
 1982 - Show Me Tonight
 1982 - You Can Lead Me
 1982 - Don't Stop
 1982 - My Desire
 1983 - Your Door?
 1983 - Love Is Coming
 1984 - Stay (No Time)
 1994 - Watcha Gonna Do
 1995 - Falling In Love

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Collegamenti esterni

Gruppi e musicisti del Veneto


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To book a PC in advance you'll need your library card and PIN. Contact your local library, email library@plymouth.gov.uk or phone 01752 305900.
If you're not a member, you'll need to join a library to get a card and PIN. If you're just visiting the city and need to use a computer you can log on using a visitor's ticket.
Printers and scanners are available in all libraries.
We also run weekly drop in sessions, aimed at beginners and we can help with the basics including browsing the web and email.
Log on with your library card number and PIN. If you're a visitor, library staff can log on for you.


Drying each box individually to the desired moisture content of the Medicinal & Aromatic Plants (MAP).
Boxes placed in scaffolding in front of drying installation. Box can be placed or taken one's ready.
Extracted air heated and or dehydrated passes through each box individually.
Drying of an individually box starts when placed in scaffolding and stops automatically when the MAP are dry.
Measuring air out of MAP per box to control.
LED-lamps for indication status of drying.
Example individual box drying with dehumidified air.
G. Valve for inlet inside air (recycling).
The box is being placed, the fan will start automatically. The fan will speed up till the desired airflow as set for this box has been reached. The drying starts by extracting outside air. When MAP starts to dry and outside air is not dry enough, dehumidified air will automatically mix with the outside air till the desired AH as programmed. When air out of the Medicinal & Aromatic Plants becomes dryer than outside air, automatically dry inside air will be returned.
The drying will continue till the air out of the MAP has reached the AH as goes with the equilibrium moist content of the Medicinal & Aromatic Plants. At that moment, the slide will slowly close. When closed the Medicinal & Aromatic Plants in this box are dry.


Cellfina was studied for the treatment of cellulite on the buttocks and thighs of adult females. A Cellfina provider will be able to advise you on the best treatment for you.
Cellfina can significantly reduce the appearance of cellulite in just one 45-minute treatment.


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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg presses for…
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg presses for immigration reform in D.C.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA – SEPTEMBER 11: Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks during the 2013 TechCrunch Disrupt conference on September 11, 2013 in San Francisco, California. The TechCruch Disrupt Conference runs through September 11. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
PUBLISHED: September 18, 2013 at 7:07 am | UPDATED: August 12, 2016 at 3:28 pm
WASHINGTON — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is visiting Capitol Hill to lobby members of Congress in support of comprehensive immigration overhaul legislation.
Zuckerberg was pressing his case in private meetings Wednesday and Thursday at the Capitol, including with Republican and Democratic members of House and Senate leadership.
His visit comes as the issue is stalled in the GOP-led House months after the Democratic-controlled Senate passed a sweeping bill that included more border security and eventual citizenship for millions here illegally.
Zuckerberg refused comment after meeting Wednesday with New York Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer. Schumer welcomed Zuckerberg's involvement and said he'd asked the Facebook leader to meet with as many Republicans as possible.
Zuckerberg already helped launch an advocacy organization, FWD.us, that's been among the most active groups on the issue.
California Governor
Bay Area man sues Sirius XM claiming he was fired for social media posts about Steve Bannon
Supervisor told Daniel Acosta he was being fired for failing to apologize for posts about Bannon, suit claims.
NHTSA looking into 500,000 Tesla cars due to acceleration complaints
Tesla is coming under the gaze of the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration as the federal agency said Friday it will review a petition to look at 500,000 Tesla cars due to several complaints about the vehicles speeding up at unintended times.

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In Mom 2.015
March Forth into Mom 2.0 Summit Season
March means spring and green and one giant step away from what has been a cold and snowy winter for just about everyone, so we're on board with that. It also means we are getting so close to Mom 2.015 in Scottsdale, and we hope you're getting excited, because we are. The schedule is coming together, lots of new sponsors are on board, and we're ready to March Forth and start sending great stuff your way all month. But first, let's make sure you get your very important Iris Awards nominations in.
Tomorrow is the deadline for Iris Awards Nominations.
Hollywood has wrapped up its awards season, which means–good news!–ours is just beginning. The nomination window for the Iris Awards closes tomorrow, Thursday, March 5 at 11:59 p.m. CST. So if you haven't made your picks for what inspired, impressed and motivated you in the online parent publishing community this year, now is the time to make sure your voice is heard. Nominate, by the end of the day tomorrow.
While voting is open to only former attendees of the Mom 2.0 Summit and Dad 2.0 Summit–who together comprise the New Media Council–anyone can nominate, and we hope you'll do that today.
Meet More of Our Mom 2.015 Sponsors
Mom 2.0 Summit is a lively conversation between moms, marketers and media, and our sponsors make it possible. We're thrilled to tell you about four more brands today who will be joining us in Scottsdale–what you can learn and how you can connect before you go, and what they'll be up to at Mom 2.015. We're grateful to all of them for their support.
Lansinoh has been helping moms balance life and breastfeeding for over 30 years. They're encouraging moms to share their wisdom with them using #ThisMomKnows. They're proud to return to Mom 2.0 Summit as sponsors of the Lansinoh Lounge, that nursing and pumping moms are welcome to use during the conference. All are welcome to take a break, check e-mail, pump and store. Connect on Twitter at @LansinohUSA.
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SmartyPants is the only all-in-one gummy vitamin (Multivitamin + Omega 3 + Vitamin D) on the market. They're known for their delicious taste and are made from organic and eco-friendly ingredients, without artificial colors, flavors or preservatives. Please come sample their newly-released prenatal gummy vitamin, with best of class L-Methylfolate, Omega 3s, and K2, and always the delicious SmartyPants taste. Also try their premium gummy vitamins for adults and kids. Find them on Facebook, at @SmartyHealth on Twitter and Instagram, and at #SmartyMom #SmartySwap and #GummyPowered.
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SmartStrand Forever Clean by Mohawk Flooring is made with the most advanced spill and stain technology available. It has permanent, built-in stain protection that never washes or wears off plus a Nanoloc™ spill shield that locks out stains and makes it 3x easier to clean. From sodas, sports drinks, oil, wine and coffee, this incredible carpet stands up to life's messes time and time again. Experience SmartStrand Forever Clean yourself. Visit the Mohawk Flooring booth to participate in a live demonstration and enter to win one of three SmartStrand Forever Clean bound carpets. Visit their website, and find them on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Pinterest with the hashtag #overcomethechallenge.
Additional Sponsors
Shady Brook Farms and Honeysuckle White turkey are committed to bringing families better food at a better price. That's why all of their turkeys are raised on independent family farms without growth-promoting antibiotics by farmers who are trained in animal handling practices. Best of all, these turkeys are available to you without the premium price. Find Shady Brook Farms and Honeysuckle White turkey on Facebook.
And while you're getting ready to make connections with brands who really want to connect with you, it makes sense to spruce up your digital space.
We're Talking 60 Days to a Better Blog
This weekend signaled 60 days until Mom 2.015, and we thought this was the perfect time to get our digital spaces ready to hit the road, too. We'll be sharing easy (we promise), accessible, potentially-doable hints a few times each week in our 60 Days to a Better Blog series on the Mom 2.0 Summit blog. From bios to sidebars to everything social and sharing, we'll share ideas until we wrap up the very last workshop in Scottsdale. First step–warm up those browsers, and begin.
Finally, we hope you're getting ready to go. But if you're planning on transferring your ticket for Mom 2.015, your last day to do that is March 23.
We'll see you soon.
March forth.
Team Mom 2.0
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LAURIE WHITE is a writer, editor, and online community builder. She has written and edited a restaurant industry trade magazine, several major websites, and many, many blog posts and online features. Her work has earned BlogHer and BlogHer Food Voice of the Year awards, honorable mention in the Erma Bombeck Writing Competition, and lots of Instagram hearts. Previously a community college counselor and professor, she has a master's degree in counseling from the University of Dayton and another in multimedia journalism from the University of Maryland. She lives in the Maryland suburbs of Washington, D.C. with Hoover the puggle, who is kind of a big deal on Instagram. Find her @lauriewrites on Twitter, and on Insta @lauriemedia & @hooverthepuggle.


It's important to dream big when you're running your own business but you also need to be realistic. As the end of the financial year comes to a close, now's the perfect time to get ready for the new year by setting new business goals. The question is, where do you start? Here are five tips to help set your business up for success in the new financial year.
The best way to determine what you can achieve in the new year, is to see what you achieved the previous year. Did you meet your expectations? Did you exceed them? Take a look at the growth of your business, the revenue, the cash flow, the number of customers. Consider where you could improve and what areas you need to focus on. Understanding your current strengths and weaknesses will help you prioritise moving forward.
Small business owners can often be pulled in many different directions as they manage multiple areas of the business. While it can be tempting to have a variety of goals, you may be better off channeling all your energy into one or two areas. Write down all your ideas and projects and then prioritise them according to importance. Align your goal setting with your top priorities to ensure you're making the most of your time and resource.
It can be easy to set big goals for your business but still be unsure how to reach them. Creating goals can be exciting but to make them more achievable and realistic, break them down into actionable steps. Even a big goal can be tackled if its broken up into four or five steps that can be accomplished over time. Once you delve deeper into what each goal entails, you'll also be able to see what you need to complete each one. Perhaps you will need to hire an expert, buy extra equipment or learn a new skill.
Once you decide what you would like to achieve and the steps it will take to get you there, you need to figure out how you are going to measure your goals. Whether your goal is expanding your client base, increasing your sales or revenue, or growing your website traffic, you need to write down what the actual results of your goals will be. Turn your goals from words into numbers and be specific, so you can determine exactly when you've reached your goal.
The final step in creating achievable goals for your business is setting realistic time frames. While you may want to reach your overall goal in one year, it's wise to attach timing to each step so you can remain accountable throughout the year. You are far more likely to achieve your goals if you can continually track the progress of each one. And if you're falling behind at any time, you can adjust your time frames accordingly.


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@ghalfacree For anyone who doesn't know, that PSU: TTi = Thurlby Thandar instruments. Thandar Electronics used to be Sinclair Electronics, which used to be Sinclair Radionics... Yes, Clive Sinclair is the 'father' of that PSU. Or at least the company name
Testing out the Gyrfalcon Lightspeeur NPU on an Orange Pi 4. It's fair whizzing through these images, and the power draw's only about 0.2A off idle...
Custom PC, Issue 123
October 22, 2013 Gareth 1 Comment
Gareth Halfacree's Hobby Tech continues in the latest Custom PC Magazine, with a tutorial that's sure to generate some interest: creating a companion display for your desktop or laptop using nothing more than an outdated and cheaply-available Android tablet – or smartphone, if you've got good enough eyesight for that to be useful. As usual, there's also a review and some vintage computing goodness to mix things up a bit.
First, the tutorial. As with most of the projects that appear in Hobby Tech, I created this for personal use before deciding it might be of interest to others. Having no room for a true second monitor, but frequently running out of window room on my slightly cramped 1,920×1,200 main monitor, I worked to turn an old Android tablet into a secondary display. It's an easy enough trick to do on Linux, although likely somewhat harder if you're a Windows user, and extremely handy: I can open anything from a terminal session to a browser window on the display, stream it live and wirelessly to the tablet, and interact with it using my desktop's keyboard and mouse.
It's a purely software project – aside from the mounting of the display, which I carried out with Sugru – and one that has certainly seen more use than anything else I've documented in the column. It's particularly useful for keeping an eye on my playlist while I'm working, and while it isn't without its faults – the tablet has a tendency to drop its network connection every now and again, necessitating a reconnect – it's been great value for money.
In addition to the tutorial, Hobby Tech this month includes a review of the Embedded Artists 2.7″ ePaper Display – which, as the name suggests, is a compact electrophoretic display designed for embedded hardware. It's a clever bit of kit compatible with most microcontrollers, although my review concentrates on its use with the popular Raspberry Pi. As an added bonus, while my unit was very kindly supplied direct from Embedded Artists in Sweden, several UK suppliers for the device have appeared since my review including Cool Components – meaning you can save yourself the otherwise cripplingly-expensive postage charges.
Finally, the vintage computing section of the column this month is something very dear to my heart: a look at the IBM Model F keyboard. Built using the company's patented buckling-spring mechanism, the Model F is generally considered to be the best keyboard in the world – and anyone who says the Model M holds that position simply hasn't tried a Model F, as the M is merely a cost-reduced and significantly mushier variation of the design. As a writer, I do an awful lot of typing, and I used to get the worrying early symptoms of carpal tunnel and repetitive strain injury. Since switching to an IBM Model F from a Personal Computer AT, I've had no such problem – 30-year-old technology solving a problem modern-day gear simply couldn't touch.
All this, plus the usual news snippets and a bunch of stuff written by people who aren't me, awaits you at your local newsagent or other magazine retailer, or digitally via Zinio and similar services.
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This month's Custom PC sees my interview slot taken up with a chat to Nick Thibieroz, senior manager of AMD's Independent Software Vendor (ISV) Gaming Engineering division, regarding his company's latest attempt at increasing the immersion of games: TressFX.
If you're not familiar with the technology, and if that's the case shame on you for not following my work on bit-tech, TressFX – or to give it its full name, TressFX Hair – is a GPU-accelerated physics engine designed to simulate the interaction between a character's hair and the surrounding environment. Wind, rain, branches, even the character's body all interact with thousands of simulated hair strands to create a surprisingly realistic effect.
It's something the industry has been working towards for years – hardly a SIGGRAPH event goes by without Nvidia showcasing another hair simulation system – but the computational complexity of the task has made it difficult to implement in a working game engine. That's something AMD has solved, and it waited until it had the system in a shipping game – the new Tomb Raider reboot – before announcing the technology.
The biggest feature of the issue, however, is a special one: an in-depth look at how the development of mobile hardware differs from that of desktop hardware. With input from industry veterans including Nvidia, AMD, Intel and Imagination Technologies, it's a – hopefully – interesting look at how developing for portable platforms has resulted in some significantly different technologies emerging.
Nvidia is a perfect example: it talks up its Tegra mobile processor as having GeForce-like graphics processing elements, but in truth there's a distinct difference in how the two technologies work. Interestingly, it's also the case that development of mobile processing hardware – which has to work in very tight power envelopes – has dramatically changed how the company approaches its power-hungry desktop graphics hardware, too.
It's a big feature, and one I'm proud to have worked on: hopefully, by the end, readers will be able to better understand how smartphone and tablet hardware – which, thanks to projects like the Kickstarter-funded Ouya console, are increasingly finding their way onto people's desks – compares to traditional desktop devices.
If you want to learn more about TressFX Hair and its development, or about the development of mobile-centric hardware and the challenges therein, you could do worse than picking up a copy of Custom PC Issue 117 – available in dead-tree format and digitally via Zinio or most other services.
This also marks the last time my column in Custom PC will take the form of a two-page interview spread: big changes are afoot, and I'm proud to say that the column will be taking on a very different – and hopefully more engaging – format from the next issue onwards.
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McKay Interview: Honey Al - Sayed, refugee and fellow at the GCSP
The McKay Interview // WRS// Politics // Sept. 26, 2017
Michael's guest today is someone who, through radio has built a unique reputation and following in a country we have seen repeatedly on our TV news programmes for the past 6 years or more. A country with a long and proud history. But a country all too sadly wracked, recently, by civil conflict. I am talking about Syria. Honey Al-Sayed is visiting Geneva from Washington, D.C. and we are having this radio conversation at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy where she is an Associate Fellow.
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McKay Interview: Danny Sriskandarajah, CEO Oxfam GB
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Every two years Geneva hosts the International Centre for Earth Simulation conference. It's a gathering of top scientists, business leaders and NGOs all focused on saving the planet and how t...
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On this edition, Michael McKay speaks to Sir Alan Yarrow - former Lord Mayor of London (not to be confused with Mayor of London) about the City of London Corporation, which he headed until last yea...


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Q: jqgrid: editData not being sent to server I'm using guriddo jqGrid 5.2.1
I've followed the answers provided to these questions:

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*jqGrid: sending edit data

*Add additional param to post data using jqGrid when adding new row with modal form

*How to post variable data with editData or onclickSubmit in jqgrid
But the editData I've defined is not getting sent to the endpoint.
Here is the code in my jqgrid pager definition:
$('#jqGrid').navGrid('#jqGridPager',
            // the buttons to appear on the toolbar of the grid
            { edit: true,
                add: true,
                del: true,
                search: false,
                refresh: false,
                view: false,
                position: "left",
                cloneToTop: false,
                mtype: 'POST',
                editData: {
                    mediaPlanId : function() { return mpId; }
                }},
            // options for the Edit Dialog
            {
                editCaption: "Edit Item",
                recreateForm: true,
                checkOnUpdate : true,
                checkOnSubmit : true,
                closeAfterEdit: true,
                errorTextFormat: function (data) {
                    return 'Error: ' + data.responseText;
                }
            },
            // options for the Add Dialog
            {
                closeAfterAdd: true,
                recreateForm: true,
                errorTextFormat: function (data) {
                    return 'Error: ' + data.responseText;
                }
            },
            // options for the Delete Dailog
            {
                errorTextFormat: function (data) {
                    return 'Error: ' + data.responseText;
                }
            }

    );

mpId is defined outside of the jqGrid and jqGridPager functions, at the page level.  I tried sending a value of 1, but that doesn't work either.  I suspect I've missed something simple, but I can't figure out what.

A: You place the editData parameter on the wrong place. The options of navGrid are very bad and one can made easy errors. I described the problem in detailed in the wiki article of free jqGrid fork, which I develop.
Currently you placed editData in the options of navGrid instead of placing it in the options of Edit/Add, which are the options of editGridRow. The problem is solved in free jqGrid, but if you do prefer to use commercial version of Guriddo jqGrid JS then I would recommend you to rewrite your code in the following way:
var myErrorFunc = function (data) {
        return 'Error: ' + data.responseText;
    },
    addEditFormOptions = {
        editCaption: "Edit Item",
        recreateForm: true,
        checkOnUpdate : true,
        checkOnSubmit : true,
        closeAfterEdit: true,
        closeAfterAdd: true,
        editData: {
            mediaPlanId : function() { return mpId; }
        },
        errorTextFormat: myErrorFunc
    },
    delOptions = {
        errorTextFormat: myErrorFunc
    };

$('#jqGrid').navGrid('#jqGridPager', { search: false, refresh: false },
    addEditFormOptions, addEditFormOptions, delOptions);

A: I think that the better approach is to read first the documentation of Guriddo jqGrid, which will guide you where to put the parameter.


Implementation of the SME Policy Strategies adopted by the Government of Bangladesh is one of the main responsibilities of SME Foundation. SME Foundation continuously assist the government in core issues mentioned in the policy strategy like: recommend rational budget structure for SMEs, advice on fiscal and financial issues, assist to ensure quality of SME products, assist in capacity development, techno-entrepreneurship development, information support through web portal, establishment of virtual SME front office, assist in technology transfer activities at international level etc.
Policy advocacy & research is one of the most important mandates of SME Foundation aims to sustainable SME development in the country. The main activities of Policy Advocacy & Research Wing are to facilitate for growing enabling environment to run SME business smoothly in the country. The Foundation is very much keen to extend their policy supports for creating better environment on credit lending in SME sectors. The regulatory barriers appear as challenges for the growth of SME sectors and therefore, SME Foundation works to identify and resolve the challenges on legal and administrative regimes like regulatory barriers on trade license, patent and trademark, product certification, environmental issues etc.
Credit wholesaling is one of the major activities of SME Foundation to ensure easy access to finance for the SME entrepreneurs. SME Foundation has already taken credit wholesaling program as pilot scheme with its own fund. SME Foundation helps the SME entrepreneurs by providing collateral free loan at 9% interest rate to the technology based potential SME manufacturing industries along with agro-based industries.
SME Foundation organize training program in public-private partnership module to enhance the skill of SME entrepreneurs as well as to create new entrepreneur. Training programs like entrepreneurship development, SME cluster wise skill based, technology based, ICT based, ToT, productivity and quality improvement, marketing, management, financial management etc. are conducted by signing a MoU between training institute or SME related association. Besides, SME Foundation also assists trade bodies/ associations as an important part of capacity building to develop their skills.
SME Foundation is committed to improve competiveness of SMEs through technology up-gradation, adaptation of advanced technology, diffusion of appropriate technology, moving towards reverse engineering, and compliances and product certification. SME Foundation is also devoted to enable SMEs to energy efficient and environmentally sound.
SME Foundation provide update information and data through its own web portal (http://www.smef.org.bd) to the government, planner, decision maker, executive, researcher, investor, policy maker and to the SME entrepreneurs to establish new business or run business in a profitable manner. Establishment of a data bank with different information, data, findings and strategy for the development of SMEs at local and international level is an important activity of SME Foundation.
Bring the women entrepreneur to main stream development process and facilitate them for women empowerment is one of the prioritized activity of SME Foundation. Main activities are: institutional capacity building of women chamber/ trade bodies, formulate gender action plan, encourage bankers for finance to women entrepreneurs, conduct study on women entrepreneurs, organize women entrepreneur conference, national SME women entrepreneurship award, SME product fair for women entrepreneur etc.
SME Foundation provides different kinds of business support service for entrepreneurship development. These are: promotion and market expansion of SME product, establish linkage between buyer and seller, provide advice and guideline with information support for new business development, publish SME business manual, organize SME product fair etc.


Some time ago I purchased a very neglected Luzon dagger, 31 cm long, here at first a few pictures after it received at it's destination.
And here now the pictures after Robert has restored this piece and has given it back it's former glory. One time more Robert has shown that he is a real master of restoration. You nearly can't believe that it is the same piece! Enjoy the pictures.
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Congrats, Detlef - neat work, Robert!
what a beautiful piece, the work of restauration has been marvellous !!
Remarkable transformation, stunning piece !
Wow. I'm blown away by the restoration!
Stunning knife, and masterful restoration (yet again).
I've noticed this dagger by ebay but wasn't really interested because of the sad condition but have dicussed it with Robert and we agreed that it is most possible an Insurrection area knife and Robert was sure that he could make it nice again, frankly said I was a little bit dubiously (sorry Robert ).
Never will be dubious again!
Would you agree by our age guess?
Are we talking about a Kris and a similar knife that went for nothing;I had them marked, but forgot about them until the auction was over.