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UP: Ambedkar Hostel Converted into Detention Centre to be Inaugurated in October
Abdul Alim Jafri | 11 Sep 2020
Two separate Ambedkar hostels were built in Nandgram for Dalit students in 2011 under the then Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) government.
Lucknow: With the COVID-19 pandemic continuing to claim more than a thousand lives in India on a daily basis, the first detention centre in Uttar Pradesh, meant to lodge illegal foreign immigrants and migrants overstaying in the state, is ready to function in the Nandgram area of Ghaziabad.
A pink boundary wall encircles the camp, with a 20-feet-high outer wall and an inner wall measuring six feet. The detention centre will also have watchtowers. The ten-foot high main gate is black and white, and the barbed wire on the walls suggests that the compound, around 35 kms from the national capital, is a secure facility.
The facility with several rooms, a kitchen and toilets, has been kept ready on the direction of the government, said an official from the social welfare department. The premises can hold close to a hundred people and the UP government aims to inaugurate the centre in October.
The facility is a detention centre for illegal immigrants and was readied by the UP government on the basis of a Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) manual issued to state governments in January 2019. The state government had issued orders for the UP police to take custody of the building – which was earlier a hostel run by the social welfare department for students from backward classes – to convert it into a "foreigners' movement restriction centre".
Ambedkar Hostel Converted into Open Jail
Two separate Ambedkar hostels were built in Nandgram for Dalit students in 2011 under the then Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) government. The ten-year-old building remained a hostel for members of the community for more than five years, but as the number of students dwindled, it lay vacant for almost four years. After the fall of the Mayawati government, these hostels were neglected and remained shut for many years due to non-maintenance. The current BJP government had sent a proposal to the centre to convert both the hostels into detention centres.
According to a report, a construction agency from Meerut converted the hostel into a detention centre on a budget allocated by the Narendra Modi government. The walls of this detention centre, equipped with basic facilities, have been heavily fenced.
Confirming the development, District Social Welfare Officer Sanjay Kumar Vyas said that the detention centre in Nandgram was ready to function and had also been transferred to the police department.
"It will be like an open jail. Only foreigners will be kept here. We are expecting that the centre will be ready to take people in from October. The kitchen and rooms are ready, power and water supply are in place, and staff have been allocated. All basic facilities will be provided to the detainees in the centre,'' Vyas said.
Anguished over the development, women from the state staged a sit-in protest against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and the proposed National Register of Citizens (NRC) across Uttar Pradesh.
Sadaf Jafar, Congress leader and social activist, who was the lone woman jailed for participating in the protests earlier this year, told NewsClick: "Hum Kagaz Nahi Dikhayenge (We won't show any documents). We will ensure that nobody shall go to the detention centre. If the government thinks it can remove the historic Shaheen Bagh protest site after engineering communal riots in Delhi then it is highly mistaken," alleged Jafar, adding that the will to fight the CAA/NRC is still alive and that they would hit the road if the government forcefully detained anyone in the name of citizenship.
Sandeep Pandey, Magsaysay awardee and a social activist, who was earlier arrested by the Lucknow police when trying to march against the CAA and NRC earlier this year, echoed similar sentiments. "To convert Ambedkar hostel into a detention centre in completely wrong. The government should have built more Ambedkar hostels instead. Also, once you put somebody in the detention centre what happens when s(he) comes out of it? Especially if somebody is not able to prove his/her citizenship of this country as well as of any other country. Not being able to prove one's citizenship is not a crime. Everybody born on earth has a right to live a dignified life," said Pandey.
Twenty-three people were allegedly killed in Uttar Pradesh when the police fired on protesters during anti-CAA-NRC rallies. Most of the dead were Muslim daily-wagers who succumbed to bullets. The highest death toll in the crackdown was reported from Firozabad district with seven people killed, followed by Meerut which saw five casualties. Three died in Kanpur, two each in Bijnor and Sambhal and one each in Lucknow, Muzaffarnagar, Rampur and Varanasi.
What is a Detention Centre?
Detention centres are meant to house illegal immigrants after they are declared 'foreigners' by tribunals or courts. Under Section 3(2)(c) of The Foreigners Act, 1946, the Central Government has the powers to deport foreign nationals staying illegally in India. States can also set up detention centres.
There are currently 11 detention centres across the country. The maximum number of detention centres in the country are in Assam. Delhi, Goa, Rajasthan, Punjab and Bengaluru have one detention centre each. The largest detention centre of the country is being built at Matia in Goalpara in Assam.
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Про епізод
Земна твердь-2 (Terra Firma-2) — тридцять дев'ятий епізод американського телевізійного серіалу «Зоряний шлях: Дискавері» та десятий в третьому сезоні. Епізод написав Хлое Домонт, а режисував Калінда Васкес. Перший показ відбувся 17 грудня 2020 року. Українською мовою озвучено студією «ДніпроФільм».

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Терранці поміщають Майкл під варту — вона вимагає від Джорджі гідної смерті. Джорджі намагається переконати Бернем вірно керувати Імперією Теранців поряд з нею, але отримує плювок в обличчя. Бернем ігнорує її, відмовляючись говорити або їсти в тюремній камері. Джорджі вирішує змінити правила утримання і Бернем поміщають в агонізатор — поки вона не пообіцяє свій союз Імперії. Імператорка доручає Вбиллі проявити сеюе найкраще з найгіршого боку — і зламати Майкл — аби показати її спільникам-змовникам силу Імперії. Детмер переконує Майкл здатися — і що навряд-чи прилетить Лорка. Імператорка заходить в камеру сплячої Майкл й лишає іграшку-світлячків — як спомин про дитячі сновидіння Бернем. Майкл бере і їсть залишений їй кусень хліба.

Майкл вирішує присягнути на вірність імператорці та Імперії. Бернем обіцяє власноруч стратити усіх зрадників і шпигунів Габріеля Лорки. Імператорка в допомогу Майкл надає офіцерку Детмер. Майкл і Детмер влаштовують полювання на колишніх спільників. Після цього Майкл на очах імператорки і її особистої охорони убиває Детмер. Перед Майкл лишається завдання — знайти Лорку. В особистій розмові імператорка повідомляє слузі-келпійцю — вах'харай не є кінцем їхнього життя і радить як уникнути божевілля. І радить розповісти отримане знання іншим келіпйцям.

Знайшовши одного з прибічників Лорки на орбіті планети Райза, імперський корабель підбиває шатл і отримує від змовника дані про спробу Лорки убити імператорку. Змовника телепортують в камеру — Майкл застрелює його а її спільники беруть на приціл імператорку. Майкл зауважує що не варто було довіряти їй; імператорка стверджує — вона й не довіряла. Вривається особиста охорона; імператорку захищають і слуги-келпійці. В бою імператорка вбиває Майкл мечем — і дістає кинджал зі своєї шиї. Смертельно поранену імператорку знаходить перероджений слуга-келпієць та імператорська охорона.

Закривши очі востаннє, Джорджі опиняється перед Карлом і Майкл. Доки вона була непритомна хвилину — її біодані у Дзеркальному Всесвіті записувалися 3 місяці. Майкл повідомляє їм, що він — Охоронець вічності, і що він закрив свої портали для звичайних людей під час Часових воєн. Він також стверджує, що досвід Джорджі був випробуванням, яке вона пройшла, і їй можна дати другий шанс у житті.

«Дискавері» намагається зв'язатися із пошкодженим келпійським кораблем в туманності. Стамецу і Рено допомагає Букер — він з допомогою технологій Смарагдового ланцюга приходить до висновку — статика «Дискавері» розташована в координатах простір-субпростір. Бук пропонує підсилити сигнал методою кур'єрів, які подорожують галактичними рукавами — і це вдається. Сенсори «Дискавері» досягають корабля і збирають дані.

Охоронець вічності відкриває ще один портал, через який Джорджі може пройти. Вони з Бернем прощаються і навіть говорять милі слова. Джорджі відправляється в той час, коли основний Всесвіт і Дзеркальний не віддалилися ще так сильно, аби вона могла вижити.

Сару звітує про встановлення зв'язку із келпійським кораблем адміралу Венсу. Адмірал шпетить Сару за дещо невідкориговані дії — в цей час Бернем сама повертається на «Дискавері». Адмірал висловлює співчуття щодо відбуття Джорджі.

Майкл не каже що імператорка перейшла в Дзеркальний всесвіт — екіпаж вважає її померлою. Члени екіпажу проводять невелику службу спогаду про Джорджі.

Чому лише біль вчить їх найкраще?

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Станом на серпень 2021 року на сайті «IMDb» серія отримала 6.3 бала підтримки з можливих 10 при 2485 голосах користувачів.

Оглядач Скотт Колура для «IGN» писав так: «Прощання Джорджі і Майкл щире й тому спрацьовує, а актриси приголомшливі. Але залишається бажання, щоб до цього моменту подорож Джорджі до добра досягла більшого. Можливо, ця історія продовжиться у виокремленні лінії Відділу-31»

В огляді для «Den of Geek» Кейті Барт надала епізоду оцінку 3 з 5 і відзначила: «Можливо, цей епізод також має на меті натякнути на те, що Майкл, з незаважаючим внутрішнім конфліктом щодо її місця в цьому новому світі, у якому опинилася команда "Discovery", стане більше тією морально-нейтральною фігурою, яка розсуває межі, робить важкий вибір та є запит на її авторитет. Але брутальна відвертість Джорджі — це те, що нелегко замінити, і що зрештою надалі серіал дійсно пропустить.»

Оглядач Зак Гендлен для «The A.V. Club» зазначав так: «Повернувшись на корабель, ми бачимо людей, які не є злими версіями себе. Майкл повертається, і ми бачимо сцену, коли акторський склад розмовляє про те, наскільки велика Джорджі. Я не думаю, що вона розмовляла з половиною цих людей, не образивши їх. Це дивна, непотрібна данина (особливо з огляду на те, що вона попрощалася із тими, хто мав підстави згадати її в останньому епізоді), який мав би більше сенсу у тривалішій серії. Але, мабуть, серіал ніколи не пройде повз можливості вшанування перемоги, виправдання чи чогось подібного. Єо — чудова акторка, Джорджі надала їй можливість помандрувати деякий час і за це заплатити; успіху, удачі, і сподіваюся, що їй сподобалося. Тепер давайте трохи втішимося, усвідомлюючи, що, нарешті, ми могли б побачити»

Скотт Сноуден в огляді для «Space.com» відзначив епізод 7 балами з 10 і зазначив так: «Хоча подорожі до Дзеркального Всесвіту майже завжди цікаві, ця була не найкраща. По суті, основною метою двочастинного епізоду було створити майбутній спін-оф, який може називатися або не називатися "Відділом-31", і це все. І таке відчуття, що сюжет скоротився. Однак, оскільки це була "ракета-носій" для наступної глави про Джорджі, Єо, природно, була центральною постаттю. І в цьому сенсі вона добре відіграла обидва епізоди».

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My name is Eduardo Cenzano and I'm founder and director of Trinity. I'm an engineer by trade and a surfer and skier by obsession.
The love of skiing motivated me since I was 8 years old and has brought me to a level where, after all these years, I still ski at an advanced level.
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Skyports collaborates on space-enabled drone deliveries for NHS in Scotland
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Drone delivery service provider Skyports has collaborated with technology communications company Vodafone and digital consultants Deloitte to transport medical supplies and samples for the NHS in Scotland using drones. The live flights will take place later this year and will use mobile connectivity and space-based technology. The Skyports-led project was selected following a drive to find space-enabled technology and services that can support the NHS response to coronavirus and stop the spread of the disease in a joint funding initiative between the UK Space Agency (UKSA) and the European Space Agency (ESA). In the coming months, Skyports will start delivering pathology samples, medicine, essential personal protective equipment (PPE) and COVID-19 testing kits between hospitals and to and from medical practices in Argyll and Bute on the west coast of Scotland.
Through Skyports' technology, pick-ups that currently take up to 48 hours to be transported between healthcare sites will take only 30 minutes and with a much higher frequency. NHS staff will be able to make on-demand and scheduled requests to use Skyports drones, via a web customer interface developed by Deloitte. The drones will be remotely piloted from the Skyports Operations Centre in Argyll and Bute and will fly automatically along predefined routes. Communication between the drone and the ground control station (GCS) will be provided using Vodafone's 4G network and satellite communications, as well as Earth observation data, to ensure connectivity coverage is provided at all times for safety reasons.
By the end of the project, Skyports aims to integrate its operations into the local NHS supply chain, build its route network and create a foundation drone delivery service that can be scaled for permanent operations.
In May, Skyports completed a trial drone delivery operation to fly essential medical cargo between two hospitals in the Scottish Highlands to assist the NHS and the government in the battle against COVID-19. Skyports is also working with the Argyll and Bute HSCP as part of its involvement in the CAA Regulatory Sandbox.
Duncan Walker, Chief Executive Officer at Skyports, said: "Using drone deliveries within supply chains can create significant time and cost savings. This project is a natural progression from our recent trials with the NHS in Scotland as we scale and develop our operations, supporting a wider network of hospitals and medical practices as they continue to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. We want more healthcare facilities to benefit from our service over the long-term and the experience of this important initiative will put us another step closer to permanent operations that the whole of the NHS could soon benefit from."
Anne Sheehan, Director, Vodafone Business UK, said: "There will be huge benefits from the use of drones connected to the mobile network that can be flown safely and securely beyond line of sight. This is a brilliant example of how using connected drones can radically change the way things are done, and really change people's lives."
Scott Campbell, partner and leader in Deloitte Ventures, said: "Drones have the potential to revolutionise the delivery of urgent goods and services for remote locations. Hard-to-reach communities in Argyll and Bute will benefit from drones as an alternative to land or sea transportation. This project is a powerful example of the value that drones could bring to communities and wider society in the coming years, as businesses collaborate to further develop the technology."
Drone Delivery Demand
Around the world drones are already being used to deliver products more quickly, cheaply and efficiently than ground transport alternatives, especially in heavily congested cities and hard-to-reach rural areas. Drone deliveries can reduce costs, improve the frequency and speed of transport, optimise supply chains and improve connectivity to underserved areas.
The drone package delivery market is projected to be worth £21 billion (US$27.4 billion) by 2030[1] Increasing amend for faster deliver deliveries, changes to the regulations to enable drone deliveries and the proliferation of low-cost and light-payload drones are fuelling the growth of the drone logistics market.
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Window tinting lessens the sun's impact on a vehicle's interior and occupants. Harmful ultraviolet rays have an easier time going through clear windows than tinted ones, and strong light can hinder the vision of drivers and passengers. As a result, many motorists look into darkening the windows on their vehicles. Tinted windows can help prevent the damage and inconvenience inadvertently caused by the sun. Depending on where a driver lives, laws and regulations will vary on the acceptable percentage of window tint or visible light transmittance (VLT). Low tint percentages, like 5%, are darker than high percentages, like 50%. Based upon where a person lives, the places a driver can apply a tint will also differ. Areas allowed or disallowed include the front side windows, rear side windows, and windshields. Give us a call or contact us online to learn about the shades we have available and where we can legally apply the tint.
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Paul Smith is one of Britain's most revered fashion collections. Renowned for his seamless blend of tradition and modernity, each design is a demonstration of the designer's aesthetic aim of 'classic with a twist'.
With signature design elements of confident colour, vibrant prints and sharp tailoring, our eclectic collection perfectly reflects the wide range of inspirations that feed into the designer's creations - from modern art to everyday life.
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Q: How does Vagrant accomplish such small box file sizes? I've created a Vagrant base image file for Ubuntu Linux Precise Pangolin 32-bit
with the following command:
vagrant box add precise32 http://files.vagrantup.com/precise32.box

This precise32.box file is then placed under C:\Users\MyUserNameHere\.vagrant.d\boxes\precise32
whose contents include a subdirectory called virtualbox containing among other things a file
called box.ovf measuring 14KB and a file called box-disk1.vmdk measuring only 288.318KB.
On the other hand I've also installed an Ubuntu Linux Precise Pangolin 32-bit system within
Oracle VirtualBox using 12GB of dynamically allocated storage and exported the disk image
to an .ova file. This .ova file measures 1.63GB.
I am having a hard time figuring out why one file is in the order of a few KB whereas the .ova is over six times as large. Anyone have any ideas? Why am I seeing such a big difference between the file sizes of the exported .ova file and the .vmdk file managed by Vagrant?

A: Here is the reason, I finally figured it out.
The files under C:\Users\MyUserNameHere.vagrant.d\boxes\precise32
are just base files upon which actual systems are built. The real
instance of the precise32 box is then placed under a directory
such as:
C:\Users\MyUserName\VirtualBox VMs\name_of_the_directory_containing_the_Vagrantfile_default_1384903788

Which is created once the vagrant up command is issued from such directory
containing the Vagrantfile. In my case the .vmdk file placed here is 1.03GB
which makes more sense.

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The Two-Chambered Companion Slide Heart cremation jewelry pendant is a gold vermeil charm and includes a 20" gold-filled snake chain. Cremation jewelry ash pendant necklaces are designed to hold a small portion of ashes, or cremated remains, a small lock of hair, dried flowers, or earth from a special location. The Double Chamber Slide Heart keepsake pendant makes it possible for family members or friends to keep precious and cherished memories close to the heart.
The pendant may be worn or displayed in a glass dome. The glass dome and a metal necklace chain are both sold separately.


One way to think about cupping is that it is the inverse of massage. Rather than applying pressure to muscles, the suction uses pressure to pull skin, tissue and muscles upward. Cupping involves placing plastic cups on the skin and creating a vacuum by suctioning out the air. The underlying tissue is raised, or sucked, partway into the cup.
Cups may be moved around or left in place. They may remain on your body briefly or for longer amounts of time. Each treatment is unique to you on that particular day. One very common area to be cupped is the back, shoulders, hips and legs, although cups work well on other areas, too — particularly on fleshy sections of the body.


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Wendy Davis Spent $36 Million and All She Got Was This Lousy Landslide. Now What?
The group that wants to turn the Lone Star State blue heads back to the drawing board.
Oops. Last year, fresh from a presidential reelection campaign in which it was hailed for its 21st-century tactics and organizing prowess, a group of Obama for America veterans descended on Texas with the goal of turning the state purple. They launched a new group, Battleground Texas, raised millions from wealthy donors, and teamed up with a rising Democratic star running for statewide office. What happened next will…probably not shock you.
In the first test-drive for Battleground Texas, Democrats got trounced, losing every statewide race for the 16th consecutive year. In the much-hyped governor's race, state Sen. Wendy Davis lost to Attorney General Greg Abbott by 21 points. She fared only two points better than the sacrificial lamb running for agriculture commissioner, who didn't campaign at all. But Republicans didn't just fend off Davis, or rile up their base against a Democrat whom activists mocked as "abortion Barbie"—they ran up the score, and did so in all the places where Democrats were supposed to take baby steps.
When Battleground Texas first launched, 2014 was considered too much, too soon. But when Davis entered the race, fresh off of an 11-hour filibuster of an anti-abortion bill, the calculus changed. The group merged its offices with Davis' gubernatorial campaign, set about building an army of 34,000 canvassers, lawyers, and voter-registration volunteers, and looked to pick off low-hanging fruit wherever it could.
The idea was that an Obama-style organizing operation could make a real impact in down-ballot races, which are traditionally less sophisticated. It didn't.
"Tonight's decisive victory proves they picked the wrong battleground," boasted GOP state Sen. Dan Patrick.
Battleground invested in a dozen state-legislature races, targeting House and Senate districts that will have to turn purple for anyone at the top of the ticket to have a chance—East Dallas, the Houston suburbs, and a South Texas seat held by a party-switching state represenative. Democrats didn't win a single one, and most of the races weren't even close. In Harris County (Houston), where Democrats talked of tapping into the roughly 800,000 nonregistered potential voters, Davis lost by four points. (The Dem's 2010 nominee, Bill White, won it by two.) In the final indignity, Democrats even lost Davis' state Senate seat to a pro-life tea party Republican.
Soon-to-be-governor Abbott had a low bar to clear, and he did so easily. Davis hammered him for comparing law enforcement corruption in heavily Hispanic South Texas to that of a "Third-world country," and for refusing to say whether, as attorney general, he would hypothetically defend a hypothetical Texas law banning interracial marriage. (Abbott's wife, Cecilia, is Mexican-American.) His simple response was to show up in South Texas and campaign seriously. It paid off: Abbott won 44 percent of Latino voters, according to exit polling—including a plurality of Latino men.
And, in a sprawling, heavily Hispanic district that stretches from San Antonio to El Paso, Republicans unseated Democratic Rep. Pete Gallego. His replacement: Will Hurd, a former CIA agent who will be Texas' first black Republican congressman since Reconstruction.
One silver lining for Battleground Texas is that no one was even running in some of these races two years ago.
One silver lining for Battleground Texas is that no one was even running in some of these races two years ago. On Wednesday, the organization released a detailed memo from Senior Adviser Jeremy Bird and Executive Director Jenn Brown outlining their accomplishments and vowing to fight on: "We said from the beginning that turning Texas into a battleground will take time and commitment—and we're just getting started." Among their wins: a more potent fundraising operation, a growing voter database, and a nugget from the exit polls: higher percentages of young voters, women voters, and minority voters than in 2010.
But the voters just weren't going for Davis. Even though Battleground boasted of having trained 8,700 new voter-registration volunteers, the overall voter turnout dropped by 300,000 from 2010. Absent any sort of marquee victory to call its own, the fate of Battleground is now outside its control. Texas Democrats won't have another big election for four years—plenty of time to lose interest—and, well, something else might come up in the interim.
When I dropped by the group's Fort Worth headquarters in September, I asked director Brown if she'd consider leaving her post to work for Hillary Clinton's almost certain presidential campaign. She laughed and looked down at the mostly blank paper in front of her.
So, Battleground took a shellacking in its first test run. Now comes the hard part.


The retail price of petrol in South Africa will decrease by 3.7 percent from August 5, while wholesale diesel will decrease 6.5 percent, the energy department said on Friday.
In a statement, the department said petrol would cost 13.26 rand ($1.05) in the commercial hub of Gauteng province, while diesel would be 10.94 rand.
The government adjusts the price of fuel every month, factoring in global oil prices and the rand exchange rate.


Tonight! Slipjam ft/Normanton Street | "Up to date / state of the art / take part, get taken apart as I make my mark"
Happy new year! Time to celebrate at Slipjam. A chance to escape from partying in the company of people you don't like and people you kind of like but don't really have much in common with. A chance to party instead with folk who share your belief that any evening out isn't complete without a healthy dose of beats and bars (in both senses of the word). On a personal level, I'm even more determined than usual to make it down cos boring practical stuff has kept me away for the last couple of months. Sitting out December was especially painful, I really wanted to check out Bobbie Johnson's current set but for some reason my wife insisted we go elsewhere on our wedding anniversary.
Headlining this month are Normanton Street. I hope they play 'Fly Lady' because I like the contrast between the high and low voices and the way their main man says "I know we have different heroes" and elongates the last syllable of "heroes" in such a self-consciously ludicrous drawl. He knows these things are important for sure.
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New Approach to Apprenticeships
President Trump last year issued an executive order calling for an expansion of apprenticeship opportunities while also increasing federal funding for such programs by roughly $100 million. The U.S. Department of Labor subsequently pulled together a 20-member task force of experts, including the secretaries of education, labor and commerce, to develop recommendations to make that expansion a reality. Ivanka Trump, the president's daughter and a senior White House adviser, was on the task force. Representing traditional higher education were Walter Bumphus, president and CEO of the American Association of Community Colleges, and Mark Rosenberg, president of Florida International University.
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The Numbers Don't Tell the Whole Story
The first graduate of the University of Idaho's computer science bachelor's degree partnership with North Idaho College, Adrian Beehner, crossed the stage this week to a bright future in our increasingly tech-focused economy. Without leaving Coeur d'Alene, the newly minted Vandal graduate was able to seamlessly transfer from NIC to earn a four-year degree from U of I. For Adrian, his family, his future employers and the region, his story matters a great deal. Unfortunately, in one key way, Adrian's success doesn't count. Adrian's accomplishments matter very much – he's grown as a thinker and leader, acquired new skills and gained a necessary credential for a solid financial future. But the federal government doesn't count his success. Federal graduation data does not count transfer, part-time or returning students in official graduation rates. Only full-time students, starting and finishing at the same institution, are counted in the data.


Rainer joined KuppingerCole in March 2019 and is globally responsible for Business Development. In his prior role at Devoteam, he was acquiring, planning and implementing Cybersecurity and Identity & Access Management projects for more than 15 years. One of his priorities is the transfer of technological approaches in business-oriented end-to-end services. Prior to joining Devoteam, Rainer worked in senior positions in product management and marketing at well-known IT companies. He has extensive expertise in security, outsourcing and communications solutions.


In July 2018, an iceberg weighing more than 10 million tons parked itself just offshore of Innaarsuit, a small island village in northwestern Greenland. Ground-based photographs and videos showed the massive chunk of ice as it loomed over the small village.
"The photos were absolutely beautiful," said Kelly Brunt, a glaciologist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. "The Z dimension (height) is pretty extreme." Various news media reported that the berg stood 300 feet (90 meters) above the water line—about as tall as the Statue of Liberty.
When viewed from space, the iceberg is like a "Where's Waldo?" puzzle, becoming lost in a sea of similar looking bergs (second image above). On July 5, 2018, the Operational Land Imager (OLI) on Landsat 8 acquired a natural-color image (below) of the ice in the area. On July 9, the Multispectal Imager on the European Space Agency's Sentinel-2A satellite observed several large bergs (below) just offshore from Innaarsuit. Then on July 20, Landsat 8 acquired another view (top of this page) after the icebergs appeared to drift north again, away from the village.
According to video footage and news accounts, a small chunk broke off the berg and sent waves rippling through the harbor on July 12. In subsequent days, some of the town's 170 residents were evacuated from low-lying areas due to fears of a larger breakup and tsunami-like wave.
NASA Earth Observatory image by Joshua Stevens, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey and modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2018) processed by the European Space Agency. Story by Kathryn Hansen and Mike Carlowicz.
European Space Agency (2018, July 17) Looming Iceberg. Accessed July 23, 2018.
The Inertia (2018, July 20) Residents Evacuated as Enormous Iceberg Threatens Tiny Greenland Village. Accessed July 23, 2018.
The New Yorker (2018, July 20) Climate Change and the Giant Iceberg off Greenland's Shore. Accessed July 23, 2018.
The Washington Post (2018, July 14) An 11-million-ton iceberg is threatening a tiny village in Greenland. Accessed July 23, 2018.


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/**
 * Assertion utility methods.
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 * @author Christer Sandberg
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public final class Assert {

    /**
     * Private CTOR.
     */
    private Assert() {
    }

    /**
     * Check if the specified {@code expression} is {@code true}. If not throw an
     * {@link IllegalArgumentException} with the specified {@code message}.
     *
     * @param expression The expression to check.
     * @param message The exception message if the {@code expression} is {@code false}.
     */
    public static void isTrue(boolean expression, String message) {
        if (!expression) {
            throw new IllegalArgumentException(message);
        }
    }

    /**
     * Check if the specified {@code object} is {@code null}, and throw an
     * {@link IllegalArgumentException} if it is.
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Curcumin-containing Silver Nanoparticles prevent carbon tetrachlorideinduced hepatotoxicity in mice
Hossam Ebaid*, Mohamed Habila, Iftekhar Hassan, Jameel Al-Tamimi, Mohamed S. Omar , Ahmed Rady and Ibrahim M Alhazza
Background: Hepatotoxicity remains an important clinical challenge. Hepatotoxicity observed in response to toxins and hazardous chemicals may be alleviated by delivery of the curcumin in silver nanoparticles (AgNPs-curcumin). In this study, we examined the impact of AgNPs-curcumin in a mouse model of carbon tetrachloride (CCl4)-induced hepatic injury.
Methods: Male C57BL/6 mice were divided into three groups (n=8 per group). Mice in group 1 were treated with vehicle control alone, while mice in Group 2 received a single intraperitoneal injection of 1 ml/kg CCl4 in liquid paraffin (1:1 v/v). Mice in group 3 were treated with 2.5 mg/kg AgNPs-curcumin twice per week for three weeks after the CCl4 challenge.
Results: Administration of CCL4 resulted in oxidative dysregulation, including significant reductions in reduced glutathione and concomitant elevations in the level of malondialdehyde (MDA). CCL4 challenge also resulted in elevated levels of serum aspartate transaminase (AST) and alanine transaminase (ALT); these findings were associated with the destruction of hepatic tissues. Treatment with AgNPs-curcumin prevented oxidative imbalance, hepatic dysfunction, and tissue destruction. A comet assay revealed that CCl4 challenge resulted in significant DNA damage as documented by a 70% increase in nuclear DNA tail-length; treatment with AgNPs-curcumin inhibited the CCL4-mediated increase in nuclear DNA tail-length by 34%.
Conclusion: Administration of AgNPs-curcumin resulted in significant antioxidant activity in vivo. This agent has the potential to prevent the hepatic tissue destruction and DNA damage that results from direct exposure to CCL4.
Carbon tetrachloride, Oxidative stress, Hepatotoxicity, liver function, Silver nanoparticles, Curcumin
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Arthur Mayfield was born in 1880 in Nottingham the son of Edwin and Sarah Mayfield.
His parents worked in the knitwear industry. Edwin was a framework knitter and Sarah a hosiery hand.
In 1881 Arthur was living with his grandmother, his parents and his aunt lived in Clarence Street, Sneinton, Nottingham. Arthur's grandmother Sarah Daykin was a dressmaker. Working from home she would have been available to look after Arthur and his two brothers and sister while their parents were at work.
By 1891 Sarah and the children were living in Manvers Street with her mother Sarah Daykin who by then had become a tobacconist. Sarah Mayfield was still working as a hosiery hand. Arthur was at school as were his brothers George (9) and Ernest (4) and his sister Elizabeth (7). Edwin Mayfield was visiting his parents on the night of the 1891 census.
The 1901 Census records Arthur as living with his mother and Elizabeth and Ernest. Sarah continued to work as a hosiery hand. Arthur by then was employed as a hairdresser, his sister Elizabeth was a machinist and Ernest was an errand boy. Edwin was no longer living with his family in Bentinck Street, Nottingham. In 1911 he was registered as an inmate at the Union Workhouse, Bulwell.
Also by 1911 Arthur Mayfield had moved to Bottesford, probably in about 1903. Aged 31 he was now married to Ada Mayfield (nee Stevens) and living on Grantham Road, quite close to The Cross. The family rented a house and shop that belonged to Thomas Kennington where Arthur worked as a hairdresser. He also sold cigars and cigarettes as had his Grandmother. Ada and Arthur had 2 sons (Arthur aged 8 and Cecil aged 3) and a daughter (Edna aged 11 months). In 1915 they had another son, Leslie.
Arthur Mayfield enlisted and was a private in the 17th Battalion Notts. and Derby (Sherwood Foresters) Regiment (service number 28897). No detailed records of his war service survive. However, the Medal Roll for the Sherwood Foresters also lists a William Carrington whose service number was 28899. William Carrington was killed in action on the 3rd September 1916. Arthur Mayfield's number therefore indicates that he enlisted around the same date as William Carrington given the closeness of their service numbers and at least before September 1916.
The medal roll also shows that he initially served with the 17th Battalion the Sherwood Foresters and subsequently with the 16th Battalion. These two battalions were amalgamated in the spring of 1918 into a composite battalion as part of an army wide re-organisation of brigades from four to three battalions. Both battalions had suffered heavy losses during the German Spring Offensive of 1918. This new composite battalion became a training cadre soon after. Sadly Arthur does not appear to have remained with them as he is finally listed as serving with the 1st Battalion Sherwood Foresters. As a front line unit this battalion was in continual need of reinforcements as it advanced during the last '100 days' of the war. Arthur, at some point after the spring of 1918, must have been transferred into the 1st Battalion.
Arthur Mayfield was one of those six men killed in that action.
Father of four young children, he lies next to the children's playground on the left hand side boundary of the Roclincourt Military Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France.


Time for a story about some monsters… but oh no, the book is too scared to tell the story. Can you help it feel better? It wants you to scratch its tingly spine, rub away the goosebumps, blow away the butterflies in its tummy, and much much more!
The Scared Book is an interactive picture book packed with fun and humour. What makes this book unique is that the book is actually a character itself, hence the title The Scared Book. While children are having fun interacting with the book, they're also learning about the physical signs of feeling scared, as well as strategies to cope with these feelings (such as taking deep breaths, doing relaxation exercises, and facing your fears).
The Scared Book has a lovely message of self-empowerment and children will feel a great sense of achievement after chasing away the scary monsters. The monsters in the story are a metaphor for the child's fears. However, the brightly coloured monsters are more quirky looking than genuinely scary.
The fact that children get physically involved with the story on every page makes this the perfect picture book for targeting action verbs. There are so many actions to do together, like 'scratch', 'blow', 'flick', 'trace' and 'fan'.
For further speech and language targets in 'The Scared Book', see the list below.


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Children's printed word database: continuities and changes over time in children's early reading vocabulary
Masterson, J; Stuart, M; Dixon, M; Lovejoy, S; (2010) Children's printed word database: continuities and changes over time in children's early reading vocabulary. British Journal of Psychology , 101 (2) pp. 221-242. 10.1348/000712608X371744.
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In this paper we introduce a comprehensive database of the vocabulary in reading materials used by 5 - 9 year old children in the UK. The database is available on-line http://www.essex.ac.uk/psychology/cpwd and allows researchers into early reading development the possibility of rigorous control over critical characteristics of experimental stimuli such as word frequency, regularity and length, frequency of grapheme-phoneme correspondences, orthographic and phonological neighbourhoods etc. The on-line database is also a resource that can be used by practitioners with interests in literacy development and literacy instruction. It can be used to obtain characteristics for a user-generated list of words, or else to generate a list of words according to constraints specified by the user. Here we present an overview of the construction of the database, the materials entered into it, the survey of schools by which we obtained information about the books that were most likely to be used by children in each age group, and the search features available on the database website. We also discuss certain characteristics of the Vocabulary itself and compare these with those reported in an earlier non-representative database reported in Stuart, Dixon, Masterson and Gray (2003). We then present a detailed analysis of the characteristics of Vocabulary in books used in the Reception year, against the background of recent recommendations for change in the early teaching of reading. Finally, we present data showing that the database is indeed already proving a useful resource for both practitioners and researchers.
10.1348/000712608X371744
http://dx.doi.org/10.1348/000712608X371744
Age Factors, Child, Child, Preschool, Databases as Topic, Great Britain, Humans, Internet, Language Development, Phonetics, Reading, Semantics, Teaching, Textbooks as Topic, Verbal Learning, Vocabulary
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Every year in April the Military Science Department at Olivet Nazarene University has an awards banquet to celebrate the years' accomplishments. So as I do every year I set out in the fall to find a suitable venue for our event. This year I wanted to do something different. I was looking for a facility with a sense of history and class that would leave a positive impression on those in attendance. I also wanted to go someplace that our students could enjoy but wouldn't be so expensive that it would be hard for them to afford.


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Impeach the MFer. American Lives Depend On It.
By Melissa Ryan
According to Vice's Tess Owen "At least six men have been arrested for making terroristic threats, stockpiling weapons, or plotting attacks since the [El Paso] massacre." The day after Owen's piece was published, Buzzfeed's Ryan Broderick reported that "10,000 Rounds Of Ammo And 25 Guns Were Seized From A Teenager Posting Far-Right Memes On iFunny And Discord"
Huffington Post's Any Campbell, writing about the two year anniversary of the Unite the Right white supremacist in Charlottesville and how hate has "flourished" since then reminds readers that "Domestic extremists, most of whom are white supremacists, killed at least 50 people in the U.S. in 2018 alone, and since Charlottesville have been tied to a long list of massacres, including those in Pittsburgh; Santa Fe, Texas; Poway, California; Tallahassee, Florida; Jeffersontown, Kentucky; and Aztec, New Mexico."
Domestic terrorism inspired by White Supremacy a crisis that puts American lives in danger. The Trump Administration seems content to keep ignoring the problem and the President himself continues to incite violence with his rhetoric and actions. This week Trump has taken to retweeting Clinton Body Count conspiracy theories and twitter handles that amplify QAnon.
If you can't tell, I'm frustrated.
I've always tried to steer the newsletter away from being merely an anti-Trump outlet. There are plenty of people and organizations that already do that better than I can. I've also felt it was important to emphasize that President Trump is a symptom of a global far-right movement not the whole of it and that getting rid of Trump wouldn't make said far-right movement disappear. But President Trump is now the leader of the far right, he has the biggest megaphone in the world, and he's using it on a sometimes hourly basis to incite his base to hate and violence.
As former tea party darling Joe Walsh (yes we've reached the point where I'm agreeing with Joe Walsh. That's how messed up things are.) said in the New York Times this week. "At the most basic level, Mr. Trump is unfit for office." Walsh is calling for a Republican to primary President Trump from the right but he clearly grasps the immediate danger, writing "The fact is, Mr. Trump is a racial arsonist who encourages bigotry and xenophobia to rouse his base and advance his electoral prospects. In this, he inspires imitators."
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Az amharák egy népcsoport Északkelet-Afrikában, Etiópia második legnépesebb nemzetisége. Számuk világszerte több mint 20 millió, ebből 98,5% él Etiópiában, elsősorban Amhara szövetségi államban.
Az általánosan elterjedt vélemény szerint Etiópia uralkodó rétege évszázadok óta az amharák közül kerül ki, és bár valóban ők voltak az ország politikailag legfontosabb népcsoportja, a többi nép (oromók, tigray-k) szerepét sem szabad lebecsülni. A félreértés oka sok esetben az, hogy a többi nép elitje is gyakran amhara nyelvet beszélt, illetve amhara neveket használt.

Elnevezés
A szó eredete vitatott: vagy a "kellemes, szép" kifejezésekből ered, vagy a Jemenben a 2-6. század között fennállott Himjarita Királysággal van kapcsolatban.
Másik két lehetőség a ge'ez nyelvű "szabad ember", de az is lehet, hogy a középkori Amhara tartományra vezethető vissza.
A kifejezés a 20. század utolsó évtizedeiig az amhara nyelven beszélő emberekre, vagy a Wollo tartományban élőkre vonatkozott. Napjainkban azonban a regionális összetartozás-tudat (az egykori tartományok alapján) felerősödésével egy nemzetiségek feletti gyüjtőfogalommá kezdett válni.

Történet
Az amharák a sémi eredetű agazyan nép utódai, akik időszámításunk kezdete táján a mai Észak-Etiópia és Eritrea területén megalapították az Akszúmi Királyságot. A birodalom felbomlása után az amharák és közeli rokonaik, a tigray-k megörökölték a kopt keresztény vallást és az államszervezetet. Az általuk lakott területen többé-kevésbé önálló tartományok alakultak ki, ilyen volt Begemder, Gojjam, Qwara és Lasta. A középkor végére az amhara és a tigrinya nyelvek elkülönültek egymástól. A két népcsoport rivalizálni kezdett az uralkodói hatalomért, melyet többnyire az amharák szereztek meg, majd a 17. századtól a gondari ág hatalomra kerülésével meg is tartottak. A hercegek korában (1755-1855) az oromók yejju törzsé lett a tényleges hatalmat jelentő régensi cím, az amharák kezén lévő császári méltóság pedig névlegessé vált. A politikai vezető szerep csak II. Menelik 1889-es trónra lépésével került vissza az amharák kezébe és a császárság 1974-es bukásáig elsősorban ők irányították az országot.

Vallás
A 2007-es népszámlálás előzetes adataiból az amharák vallási megoszlása nem derül ki, de a 91,5%-ban amharák által lakott Amhara szövetségi állam lakosságának 82,5%-a az Etióp ortodox egyház, 17,2%-a az iszlám követője volt.

Nyelv
A sémi nyelvek közé tartozó amhara nyelv Etiópia hivatalos nyelve. A mára már kihalt egyházi ge'ez nyelvből származó saját írásrendszere van. Az amharákon kívül több népcsoport közvetítő nyelvként beszéli Etiópiában. Legközelebbi rokonai az argobba, a guragie, a harari, a tirginya és a tigré.

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Etiópia népei


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El torneo República Dominicana Open 2022, denominado por razones de patrocinio Republica Dominicana Open at Santo Domingo, presented by Milex fue un torneo de tenis perteneció al ATP Challenger Tour 2022 en la categoría Challenger 125. Se trató de la 6º edición, el torneo tuvo lugar en la ciudad de Santo Domingo (República Dominicana), desde el 15 de agosto hasta el 21 de agosto de 2022 sobre pista de tierra batida verde al aire libre.

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  Nick Hardt
  Gonzalo Bueno

Los siguientes jugadores ingresan al cuadro principal tras disputar el cuadro clasificatorio (Q):
  Nicolás Barrientos
  Pedro Boscardin Dias
  Román Andrés Burruchaga
  Facundo Juárez
  Patrick Kypson
  Nicolás Mejía

 Campeones
 Individual Masculino

  Pedro Cachín derrotó en la final a  Marco Trungelliti, 6–4, 2–6, 6–3

 Dobles Masculino

  Ruben Gonzales /  Reese Stalder''' derrotaron en la final a  Nicolás Barrientos /  Miguel Ángel Reyes-Varela, 7–6(5), 6–3

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Home Forums > Fares, Ticketing & Routeing > Fares Advice & Policy >
Southern Only tickets and validity on Gatwick Express
Discussion in 'Fares Advice & Policy' started by Tomonthetrain, 22 Dec 2011.
4 Jan 2012 #121
yorkie Administrator Staff Member Administrator
dvboy said: ↑
As long as Gatwick Express is still listed as a seperate company in the national rail timetable ...
So basically you are saying that we can ignore the fact that the DfT has stated that Gatwick Express is not a separate company, because Network Rail still lists it as a separate company?
Can you remind me who the Regulator is?
district Established Member
If I pointed to a railway platform and said for the purposes of our conversation, the vehicle in the platform was a bus, you'd say that was ridiculous. (cue Pacer jokes).
A company is a company is a company, you can't ammend a legal definition just to get your own way.
Urban Gateline Established Member
district said: ↑
Of course you can't ammend the legal definition as a TOC, but there are other ways to prevent Southern Only or any other tickets as a matter of fact from being used on the Gatwick Express.
It is a premium service, faster and more comfortable (as it's never fully loaded) so anyone wanting to use their cheap Southern-only ticket on it is wanting to have their cake and eat it, if you want a premium service then pay the premium!
As for not recognising it being a Gatwick Express service, rubbish, it will say so on the departure boards, the main one and the one by the Platform and it will most likely announce it on the train too before departure so there's plenty of hints!
island Established Member
Here's a route Southern could use if it wanted to carve out the Southern-operated Gatwick Express branded service: "STHN NOT NONSTOP".
How that works on engineering days when the GX stops en route, however, I am not getting into!
island said: ↑
Whilst that is a clever way of doing it, why not just: "STHN NOT GATEXP" that has the same word length and explains it more clearly.
sjj2112 Member
Re. Downlander tickets
I have been trying to buy a downlander for this Saturday since Christmas. In December it only gave the option of buying one for December 2011, despite the blurb saying you can buy up to 3 months in advance.
Once we got into January I got the message about no tickets available for the period specified. I called customer services at 08:50 yesterday and the chap said he would need to check with his supervisor and that he would call me back soon after 09:00. By 10:00 I had had no reply, but I tried again on the website and, lo and behold, somebody had obviously told their computer system about the new year and I was able to purchase a downlander.
I initially wanted a day ticket for the 7th January, but when I tried to buy one between Christmas and New Year I was told I needed to purchase at least 14 days in advance. I queried this with customer services and was told there was no guarantee they could deliver it to me in time - even if I wanted to collect at a station!
cjohnson Member
sjj2112 said: ↑
Isn't the Downlander a print-at-home ticket i.e. it should be available to download immediately?!
cjohnson said: ↑
The downlander ticket is indeed a print at home ticket. The daysave ticket that I wanted to buy is a normal ticket, except you need to buy at least 7 days in advance, 14 days during holiday periods.
button_boxer Established Member
badzena said: ↑
The "train companies" in the Network Rail link you've quoted refer to trading names and not distinct companies in the legal sense. "Gatwick Express" may be a trading name of Southern Railway Limited, but a train company it is not.
By this argument nor is Virgin Trains (the company is West Coast Trains Limited) or First Great Western (the company is First Greater Western Limited).
I can't help thinking that Southern shot themselves in the foot a bit with their choice of company name. If they'd called the company something like "London & South Coast Trains Limited" instead of "Southern Railway Limited" then there would be less argument around whether a "Southern Only" ticket was valid on a train branded Gatwick Express (operated by LSCT) as opposed to a train branded Southern (operated by LSCT).
MikeWh Established Member Senior Fares Advisor
button_boxer said: ↑
But all West Coast Trains Limited services are branded Virgin so there is no confusion. None of this changes the fact that the NRCoC clearly says that a restriction can only be by company or companies and that the definition of a company is one which holds a licence requiring it to adhere to the NRCoC.
Tom Member
I am told that the routing of tickets will be changed during the current fares period as there is no material change to the fares requirement for this.
In the long term, the NRCoC will be reworded to explain the situation better.
ralphchadkirk Established Member
MikeWh said: ↑
However it is a valid argument to use that other restrictions recognise trading names not companies. I think Southern would certainly use those examples in their defence.
Either the NRCoC will be changed to allow Southern to get away with it, or it will change to not allow Souther to get away with it. At the moment the conditions are ambiguous at best.
dvboy Established Member
then why is it listed as one while Stansted Express is not?
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yorkie said: ↑
That's not what I said. But to the passenger it appears a seperate company.
In reality we all know Gatwick Express isn't a seperate company but why does it get its own TOC code GX?
That's a very good question as it shouldn't do. The question needs to be asked of both Network Rail (who produce the NRT - there is now a contact email address, a new addition to the latest edition) and ATOC (though depending on who you speak to at ATOC you will get a different answer), perhaps they should be emailed asking them why they refer to a TOC that the DfT has confirmed is not a TOC. Perhaps some people at ATOC/Network Rail do not realise that Gatwick Express as a separate TOC was abolished in 2008.
You see what I'm getting at now. Presumably this is why the only ticket LM's website will let me buy on a GX service (using London-Gatwick Airport as an example) is Any Permitted, and not any of the "Southern only" ones.
As I suggested earlier, "not FCC" would be a better restriction than "Southern Only" if Gatwick Express trains were permitted.
That's because Atos Origin have been instructed by ATOC to treat these Southern operated services as if they were operated by another Company. You may want to contact Atos Origin about that. It is misleading because when you go to buy the ticket it says "Valid at any time of day for travel by the route and Train Operator shown" yet we know the "operator" is Southern, and even the Gatwick Express website admits that! Yet the "operator" is shown as 'GX'. Clearly this is incorrect.
Why? By that logic Cambridge to London via NXEA would have to be routed "Not East Coast" to allow Stansted Express trains to be permitted. The logic is flawed though because the restriction ties you to trains "by the route and Train Operator shown" and the operator is Southern.
Wrongly or rightly, this is clearly what's allowing Southern (the company) to stop "Southern Only" tickets being used on Gatwick Express.
Why? By that logic Cambridge to London via NXEA would have to be routed "Not East Coast" to allow Stansted Express trains to be permitted.
No because the Stansted Express isn't identified as a separate TOC in the timetable. I'm not aware that there are any "NXEA Only" tickets not valid on Stansted Express services.
The logic is flawed though because the restriction ties you to trains "by the route and Train Operator shown" and the operator is Southern.
To the passenger, the operator is Gatwick Express.
Could it be possible that two operators are part of the same company?
thedbdiboy Member
Stagecoach South Western is one TOC with two Train Company brands and two TOC codes (SWT and Island Line)
I see this has changed:
http://www.facebook.com/NREGatwickExpress
It used to say 'Company'; it now says 'Product/Service'
Thank you to helpful people at ATOC Now please can you also arrange for changes in the NRT and various other places where change needs to take place...
infobleep Established Member
What I don't understand in all of this is how people are allowed to travel on the Gatwick Express trains operating south of Gatwick Airport 12 times a day with non gatwick express tickets? If the argument is that it's a Gatwick Express train and thus only Gatwick Express tickets are valid, how come you can travel on it? Never understood why Gatwick Express tickets are not issued for stations south of Gatwick. It's the Gatwick Express after all. At what point is not described as the Gatwick Express.
On their Web Site they only list the route between Gatwick and London. Why not promote their full route? Their prominent timetable shows Gatwick to London only. Only another page has the timetable for the extended trains!
I travel once a week on a Gatwick Express train. I can do so because I buy a ticket from Haywards Heath to Redhill and an easement exists allowing people to avoid Redhill when their destination is north of the Quarry line. Of course that is an any permitted ticket, which as a ticket type are valid on the Gatwick Express anyway. However from what I've read on here, my opinion is that if it were a Southern only ticket, it would still be valid.
Tom said: ↑
Do you have any more details or know when this will be done? Will it be publicised fairly well so that the public and railway staff know where to access the new routes. I only say that because I have a season ticket with more than one routing allowed and the routes are not listed on the ticket itself, just the wording any permitted. Thus if it changed suddenly, people would need to know this and yes I do vary the route I travel on regularly for reasons other than I like to travel on different railway lines for fun.
Of course I don't mean just the public, who would unknowingly travel illegally but the railway staff who police who is allowed to travel on what train.
infobleep said: ↑
What I don't understand in all of this is how people are allowed to travel on the Gatwick Express trains operating south of Gatwick Airport 12 times a day with non gatwick express tickets?
Do you mean tickets routed "Not Gatwick Exp"? I was under the impression that none existed south of Gatwick. Can you give some examples please as I will be happy to look into this issue.
radamfi Established Member
They don't do any season tickets routed 'Not Gatwick Exp' from stations south of Gatwick any more but there are Super Off Peak tickets from many places south of Gatwick. Also Off Peak and Anytime tickets from stations between Three Bridges and Christs Hospital inclusive and also Balcombe.
But surely there are tickets issued with the wording Gatwick Express or them or is that not the case? I mean if a ticket is not Gatwick Exp, wouldn't there be one marked Route Gatwick Exp? Or are their simply no tickets exclusive to Gatwick Express only?
I was fully expecting Gatwick Express trains south of Gatwick to be more expensive, like the HS1 from Kent is but they are not. They are the same price as any others. Given that they are nicer to travel in and less busy, this fact surprised me.
However I was also surprised to find the Gatwick Express rolling stock stopping at Clapham Junction once upon a time. This led me to board a gatwick express train once, during some major disruption on the network and say to a guard on the train but I thought the evening Brighton bound Gatwick Express services stopped at Clapham Junction. To which he replied no. Little did I know they were using the same coaching stock for other services that were not Gatwick Express. No wonder I got confused. Fortunately I didn't need to get out at Clapham Junction.
But surely there are tickets issued with the wording Gatwick Express or them or is that not the case?
Not that I'm aware of.
I mean if a ticket is not Gatwick Exp, wouldn't there be one marked Route Gatwick Exp?
Or are their simply no tickets exclusive to Gatwick Express only?[/quite]
Back when Gatwick Express was a Company there were, but not any more as far as I know.
I was fully expecting Gatwick Express trains south of Gatwick to be more expensive, like the HS1 from Kent is but they are not.
HS1 trains are not more expensive, and the NRCoC does not allow this as far as I can determine. The HS1 route is more expensive. It's perfectly valid to have a Not HS1 routed ticket and use a High Speed train on the 'classic' part of the route (e.g. between Ashford & Folkestone)
They are the same price as any others. Given that they are nicer to travel in and less busy, this fact surprised me.
Class 442s are now branded 'Express' (the word Gatwick has been removed to avoid confusion) and are diagrammed for both the Brighton Express and Gatwick Express. There is (or was) also a London Bridge - Eastbourne service formed of Class 442 'Express' units.
There are no longer Gatwick Express Only tickets, but there were in the (distant) past.
Staff at Victoria now ADMIT that it's the same company! However they state that the NRCoC allows them to restrict tickets by "brand" not Company. However the NRCoC refers to a Company not brand. I suspect Southern will request ATOC ask the DfT to change this, so I suggest anyone with an interest in this considers writing to their MPs, the DfT, and Passenger Focus, requesting information on correspondence regarding NRCoC changes, this is particularly important considering the fact that EMT have stated that the NRCoC is changing to restrict customers rights with regards to split tickets. Southern have got the NRCoC changed in the past before in a ludicrous attempt to claim that Gatwick Express is a separate Company.
It is common practice for the Gatwick Express to stop at Clapham Junction and East Croydon during disruptions. I have used it on these occasions using Network Railcard discounted tickets, assuming that stopping along the way means it is no longer a Gatwick Express train for ticketing purposes, although I've never had my ticket checked in these instances.
There is (or was) also a London Bridge - Eastbourne service formed of Class 442 'Express' units.
I caught that just before Christmas (1823 from London Bridge).
tsr Established Member
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radamfi said: ↑
It is common practice for the Gatwick Express to stop at Clapham Junction and East Croydon during disruptions.
I have heard that it stops at Redhill as well during some periods of exceptional disruption (I imagine there is a threshold, such as delays being on average greater than 90 minutes, at which they will consider doing this).
Southern have got the NRCoC changed in the past before in a ludicrous attempt to claim that Gatwick Express is a separate Company.
If that is the case then surely they would have got it changed so it stated they were a company?
Split ticketing is interesting. Does anyone know when split ticketing become a useful way of saving money? If we went back to price per mile rail travel then that would make split ticketing pointless.
I remember when Southern use to have posters proclaiming that they were the cheaper way to reach London than the Gatwick Express. Funny how I don't see such posters around now.
Last edited: 7 Jan 2012
John @ home Established Member Fares Advisor
Does anyone know when split ticketing become a useful way of saving money?
The Managing Editor of RAIL magazine goes some way towards it.
Nigel Harris in RAIL 687 said:
The current fares system has its roots way back in BR's market focussed fare approach of the 1960s. This has been over-laid with numerous layers of increasing complication which no one fully understands.
Prior to the market approach, fares were broadly based on mileage, sometimes a notional mileage, and splitting seldom saved money.


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function [A_peaks, I_peaks] = mrs_findPeak( spectra, peak_range, ispositive)
% MRS_FINDPEAK automatically locates the highest positive peak or
% lowest negative peak within the given range for each spectrum.
% It returns the peak height and peak index.
%
% [A_peak, I_peak] = mrs_findPeak(spectrum, peak_range, ispositive)
%
% ARGS :
% spectra = MR spectra
% peak_range (optional) = peak range for finding the target peak (in points)
% ispositive (optional) = if 1, finds the highest positive peak;
%              if 0, finds the lowest negative peak.
%
% RETURNS:
% A_peak = amplitude of the target peak
% I_peak = index of the target peak
% ispositive = is the target peak positive
%
% EXAMPLE:
% >> [A, I] = mrs_findPeak(spectrum, [2000 2500], 1);
% >> disp(A);
% >> disp(I);
%
% AUTHOR : Chen Chen
% PLACE  : Sir Peter Mansfield Magnetic Resonance Centre (SPMMRC)
%
% Copyright (c) 2013, University of Nottingham. All rights reserved.

    [samples avgs dyns] = size(spectra);

    % creat a window mask
    if nargin == 1
       mask=ones(samples,1);
    else
        mask=zeros(samples,1);
        mask(peak_range(1):peak_range(2))=1;
    end

    for d=1:dyns
        for a = 1:avgs
            if nargin <3 || ispositive
                [A_peaks(:,a,d), I_peaks(:,a,d)]=max(mask.*real(spectra(:,a,d)));
            else
                [A_peaks(:,a,d),I_peaks(:,a,d)]=min(mask.*real(spectra(:,a,d)));
            end
        end
    end
end


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