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U.K. charges man with lawmaker's murder
LONDON (AP) — British authorities said Thursday a man has been charged in the stabbing of a Conservative lawmaker who was killed as he met constituents at a church hall last week.
Authorities say a 25-year-old British man with Somali heritage, Ali Harbi Ali, has been charged in the death of David Amess. The Crown Prosecution Service says it will "submit to the court that this murder has a terrorist connection, namely that it had both religious and ideological motivations."
The death of Amess, who had served in Parliament for almost 40 years and was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 2015, has shocked Britain, especially its politicians, who pride themselves on being accessible to their constituents. It has prompted conversations at the highest levels about how the country protects its leaders and grapples with extremism at home.
The slaying came five years after Labour Party lawmaker Jo Cox was shot and stabbed to death by a far-right extremist. Cox was the first British lawmaker to be killed since a peace accord ended large-scale Northern Ireland violence almost 30 years earlier.

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Maharashtra govt excludes 41 schools from RTE
Prajakta Joshi
However, IESA acquires court order excluding 237 schools from the RTE Act
Pune: While the admissions under Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education (RTE) Act 2009 are suffering due to lethargic attitude of government and arrogance on part of the schools, the State Education Director (Primary) has released a list of 41 schools that would be excluded from the admission process in the second lottery of RTE.
The Mumbai High Court had issued an interim order stating that no coercive action can be taken against these 41 schools even if they deny RTE admissions until the court's next hearing.
However, now Independent English Schools Association (IESA) has acquired a revised order from the Aurangabad bench of the High Court where it mentions that not just 41, but a total of 237 schools should come under the court's order.
The schools, which are fighting over the issue of delayed reimbursement and have filed a writ petition in the court against the government, are a part of this list.
Sunil Chauhan, State Education Director (Primary), issued a directive stating that apart from these 41 schools, if any other school refuses admission to students over the issue of reimbursement, action will be taken against them.
Thus, despite the Education Department's order to take off schools from RTE list to facilitate better admissions, even a higher number of the allotted schools will keep on refusing admissions to the students over the issue of reimbursement.
"There are so many schools that have suffered over the past five to six years due to lack of reimbursement and the government now wants to pretend to follow the court's order by just excluding 41 schools and forcibly including the rest on the list, that have also boycotted RTE admissions right from the beginning of this year. The schools are being harassed every day and pressurised for admissions despite the court's order. While now there are 237 schools on the list, in our next hearing on April 18, we will be submitting a list of even more schools,"
Jagruti Dharmadhikari, State President, IESA, said.
After several extended deadlines given for the admissions for the students who were allotted schools in the first lottery, the second lottery is finally to be announced across the State on April 18 and 19.
Speaking about the decision to exclude schools, a source from Education Department, Pune Zila Parishad, said that the admissions at these 41 schools have been frozen for the next round. "We will not allot these 41 schools to any student in the second lottery, as well as the following ones. However, the fate of the students, who have already been allotted these schools in the first lottery that was announced on March 12 and 13, will only be decided after the court's order," the source said.
Presently, Cambridge International Schools in Pune and Priyadarshani High School, Stepping Stone English School and Matruvidyalaya English School in Pimpri-Chinchwad are a part of the list, along with 15 schools in Jalna district, seven in Solapur district and the rest from different parts of the State.
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The United Nations Must Return to Somalia
By Tony P. Hall Rep. Tony P. Hall (D) of Ohio is chairman of the House Select Committee on Hunger. He visited northern Somalia last summer.
UNITED States officials are calling it the worst humanitarian disaster in the world. The International Committee of the Red Cross says that 500,000 men, women, and children are in imminent danger of starvation. Everyone agrees that Somalia is a tragedy of unprecedented proportion. But the United Nations and our own government are ducking the fundamental challenge that Somalia presents: a country with no government, fierce fighting between brutal and undisciplined warring factions, and a helpless civilian
population at risk of dying in cataclysmic numbers.
Relief groups have been struggling to provide food and medical aid to increasingly desperate civilians since the overthrow of the cruel Siad Barre dictatorship a year ago. By mid-1991, there were sobering reports that civil war had left Mogadishu in ruins, that tens of thousands had been displaced from their homes, and that severe malnutrition among children was high. Yet the UN, which had evacuated its relief teams when Siad Barre fled, has had virtually no presence in Somalia since. The UN's absence fr om the scene has been especially noticeable over the past three months, after the worst spate of fighting erupted in Mogadishu on Nov. 17.
Fortunately, UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali made Somalia a personal priority when he took office in January. If the UN fulfills the promise and establishes an effective presence there, it could play a vital role in facilitating a dialogue with the leaders of the warring parties, aimed at promoting arrangements for large-scale relief.
The private humanitarian groups are attempting to communicate with the military factions so as to end the shelling of hospitals, establish a temporary cease-fire to permit deliveries of food and medicines, and respect the neutrality of relief personnel. However, both parties continue to shell civilian areas, loot relief supplies, and target relief personnel. Establishing a high-level UN envoy within the city could yield better results. Moreover, UN-facilitated dialogue with the warring parties on humanit arian matters would engage the organization in broader discussions aimed at establishing a cease-fire and long-term protection of human rights.
The UN has justified its absence from Somalia on the grounds that the situation has been too dangerous for its officials to carry out relief activities. After his brief visit to Somalia last month failed to produce a cease-fire, UN envoy James Jonah reported to the secretary-general that a massive relief effort would have to wait until hostilities had ceased. He has just recently returned from a second trip to Somalia with a second signed cease-fire, but with no let up in the violence to show for it. Ind eed, a UN shipment of food came under fire last week and had to turn back to Kenya.
The International Committee of the Red Cross and other humanitarian groups have remained in Somalia, despite its dangers, by hiring local bodyguards to protect themselves and their supplies. The UN must also find a way to protect its personnel and relief operations. It should examine the possibility of engaging a limited police presence for the exclusive purpose of protecting UN officials and assisting in the transport and security of food and medical supplies. UN efforts, and its credibility, have suffe red badly from the lack of a permanent presence in Somalia. That has made it difficult for the UN to make informed decisions and to convey its concern to the people of Somalia.
Despite the obvious and desperate need, neither the UN nor the US government seems interested in considering a limited protective shield for relief personnel in Somalia. The State Department worries that a UN presence will be costly and that the US, which is already in serious arrears in its payments to the international body, will be expected to help pay for the force.
What is urgently required for Somalia today, however, are not the conventional (and costly) UN "peacekeeping forces" such as those that have been stationed in Lebanon or Cyprus for years. A small-scale, guardian force will give UN relief officials and negotiators the protection and confidence they need to stay in Mogadishu and carry out their humanitarian duties alongside the private relief organizations.
There is no precedent for the creation and deployment of such a force of UN bodyguards to protect humanitarian operations in conflict situations. Yet the UN has played an increasingly active and creative role in addressing difficult humanitarian issues elsewhere in the world. The urgency of the crisis in Somalia requires new thinking and new mechanisms to provide protection for humanitarian efforts. The international community must take up the challenge without delay.
Famine relief in Somalia: a view from Mogadishu
Doctors Without Borders leaving Somalia after 20-plus years, frustrated
Turkey takes lead in rebuilding Somalia
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Chia and quinoa are the newest addition to today's list of superfoods. Rich in fiber and protein these seeds are also gluten free. Quinoa cooks easily and can replace pasta or rice in most dishes, but also works in desserts. Chia, similar to flax seeds, can be sprinkled onto almost any food, almost as an afterthought. | Daina Saleh~Sun-Times Media.
These seeds might be considered "ancient," but with the Internet, finding ways to prepare them has moved them into the category of super food.
Chia seeds and quinoa, also a seed, are on that list of "new" super foods, much like hemp seed and flaxseed.
While chia is loaded with omega-3 fatty acids, quinoa has more amino acid strains than most other food sources.
Palumbo, who has been featured on Oprah, CNN and Fox News, and also writes for Chicago Parent magazine, says they are suitable for vegan diets, too.
Most of these seeds are readily available in local and national grocery food chains, she adds.
Naperville mom Neva Grey, a yoga instructor for children, half-marathon runner and a long-time vegetarian, has been using chia and quinoa for years.
Grey stumbled on quinoa and chia when searching for alternative sources of protein when nursing her first son.
She often scours fitness magazines and the web for recipe ideas that have helped her keep it interesting, nutritious and fun.
The Internet is filled with fun recipes, from breakfast foods to main courses, salads, baked goods and desserts. A couple of interesting ones are vanilla chia seed pudding or quinoa burger.
Melissa Walther, another Naperville mom and avid runner, frequently uses quinoa for a variety of dishes.
"It has a crunchiness to it, and it's higher in protein. … It gives the kids exposure to something a little different — flavor and texture wise," she says.
Palumbo often sees a heightened interest in grains and seeds when there is a dietary adjustment or a weight loss goal.
She says integrating all kinds of grains and seeds into recipes is surprisingly easy.
These seeds often have beneficial effects on health issues such as chronic diseases, blood sugar levels and "even inflammation," Palumbo adds.
Inflammation is often neglected but fairly common even without symptoms, especially in overweight people.
Each individual has different needs, lifestyles and health issues to address. But looking at the daily food intake is a good way to start leading a healthier lifestyle, Palumbo says.


The WriteRunner: It's NaNoWriMo 2009 Time!
Starting November 1, 2009, at precisely 12:00AM, NaNoWriMo begins. If you don't want to hear endless posts about NaNoWriMo, unsubscribe now. (No, don't! I promise I'll try to be reasonable. But not really).
NaNoWriMo is National Novel Writing Month. The goal of NaNoWriMo is to complete a 50,000+ word novel before the clock strikes midnight on December 1st. How you accomplish this is up to you. This requires an average of 1667 words a day for 30 days straight. Sound impossible?
The last two years, I've written a live "blogvel" which is a novel written as live blog posts, as if the characters were posting the story as it happens. In 2007, I wrote a story about a man caught up in corporate conspiracy and espionage. He must save his own office from demolition by a madwomen who used to be his boss who used to be a schoolmate that he accidently ran off the road back in high school. It's extremely nutty. I never really intended this to be a story I'd eventually rewrite and publish, but it's crazy (albeit poorly written) tale of adventure.
In 2008, I took the characters to the next level. This time they had to stop this madwoman from destroying London. Stuck on some kind of nuclear-powered boat, they travel around the world causing mayhem and destruction. I can't really describe it except to say that however nutty 2007 was, 2008 definitely topped it.
This is the beauty of NaNoWriMo, the ultimate seat-of-the-pants journey into creating worlds of imagination. Whatever idea you have, you go with it. No time for reflection or character development. No editing the previous day's work to make today's plot functional. I wanted pirates and zombies and Chinese labor camps, and got them all. Doesn't make sense. Doesn't have to. It's an imagination explosion.
This brings us to 2009. What should I do for NaNoWriMo? I really want to finish the "30 Days" Trilogy. They never accounted for the backers of the prison or the bizarre warship, the makers of the Singularity Matrix. The world is still in peril. Julia has some demons in her past. Alex is still farting his life away. Carrie is madder than ever. Elena is disgraced and on the lam. There's been no real resolution.
Here's the thing. I don't know if I can afford to spend a month (or two if I do all the planning in October) working on something I don't ever plan to market. As good as the "30 Days" concept is, I don't think it's professional quality fiction. It's more of the quality of fan fiction for a show that doesn't exist. I've been re-reading 2007 and it's really poor. But if I don't finish "30 Days" this year, I never will. It will never be done.
Use NaNoWriMo to write the final edition of "30 Days".
Use NaNoWriMo to write another story. I have one concept well-plotted at this point. I have 2 others that are in lesser stages of development, but could be plotted by Nov 1.
Write two stories at once. While this may be crazy talk, there's a certain attraction to performing 2 NaNoWriMo's simultaneously. I don't think it would take me all day to write the blog posts for "30 Days". It can just be whip-it-out fiction.
Decisions, decisions. I'll let you know what I decide before the 1st.
Do it all and rule the world.
All your NaNoWriMo are belong to us!
Wow you are insane! I can't wait to see what you decide. As much as I love NaNo, I won't be doing it this year. I plan on doing it for 2010, though. Good luck!
You gave me some good advice on my blog about starting something new for NaNo rather than continuing with a novel I'm already 10,000 words into. I'm considering it, because I think it would be more spontaneous. At least I've got October to figure it out.
I really, really want to do NaNo this year! But I am deep into writing my first novel and I don't want to take a break from it. So bummed. I wish there were a FiYoFreNoAl (Finish Your Freaking Novel Already) month where you had to add 50,000 words to something you'd already started.
Things like nano seem to give me writers block. Or, at least my writers block started when I tried to participate in Purple Clover's JuJu Writeathon. I wish you luck, and I just want to say that working on two projects at once drives me crazy, but not doing it drives me just as crazy. I make no sense at all.
Whichever one you decide on, I'm sure it will be great! Wow- 2 at one time- that's crazy talk :) You can do it!!
Hey first of all I want to wish good luck and I am glad to know about NaNoWriMo.I also write but I will also try for this.Thank you very much for sharing this with us.


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Where is all that talk, talk, talking in therapy really getting you? In an era of constant noise, the latest solution is, in fact, the oldest: the silent retreat. OLIVIA STREN checks in and shuts up.
I dressed for my first time on The Couch like it was a first date. It was a sunny June day, I was 26, and I wore a geranium-colored dress—I wanted to look nice for Dr. J, an impulse that surely pointed to a multipack of psychological deficits. I went into therapy to discuss the usual grab bag: fear of commitment, fear of not committing, boredom, fear of boredom, guilt about the bourgeois nature of my neuroses, etc. But most pressing was my insomnia. And as Dr. J learned about my sleep disorder, I learned about hers. "I can't sleep," I told Dr. J. "I think I've forgotten how."
She responded: "Uh-huh."
I upped the ante: "I'm cursed. It's torture."
Even this didn't rouse Dr. J. And after some back-and-forth about the usual offenders—caffeine, stress—her eyes assumed a glassy, remote expression, her lids fluttered in slo-mo, and her head dropped, heavy as a porcelain doll's, her hair sweeping across her face like a curtain closing. Dr. J wasn't just resting her eyes; she was happily en route to REM. I sat there stunned, embarrassed for us both—not to mention jealous: How dare she make sleep look so easy? Eventually, I offered loudly, and in retrospect, absurdly, "You appear to be very tired."
"Yes," she said—groggy, but provocatively cavalier about her rendezvous with the sandman, "I am tired."
That was 10 years ago, and I've been on and off the couch (okay, mostly on) ever since. While the majority of my sessions have been far more productive than that one—I'm just about over the insomnia of my twenties—now I've diversified to a new conga line of fears: aging, money problems, having children, not having children. I've always had a talent for questions (asking, not answering), which is perhaps why therapy has felt natural to me. But questions can be much like cocktails: One tends to lead to another, and too many can leave you disoriented.
Ideally, voicing your problems is a way of not only acknowledging them, but also resolving or making peace with them—and pushing on. For me, though, all this talk has provided problems of all sizes with a podium, exaggerating even those not worthy of a mic. Now I find myself questioning the value of talk therapy altogether. Could I find more peace through quiet?
There's been a lot of noise lately about silence. There are books on the subject, including Susan Cain's 2012 best-seller Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking. (Cain's theatrical TED talk about the power of quiet—a New Yorker cartoon waiting to happen—is nearing 3 million views online.) Or George Michelsen Foy's Zero Decibels: The Quest for Absolute Silence, which follows an American writer's pursuit, through Parisian catacombs and a Canadian nickel mine, of absolute quiet. There have also been events, including a 2011 gala curated by Marina Abramovic´—who has staked her career on soundlessness—at the Museum of Contemporary Art in L.A. that featured mute performers whose heads poked noiselessly, and creepily, through tabletops, amid the entrées and flatware; an Oscar-winning film (The Artist); and, of course, an app (iTunes best-seller Mindfulness Meditation, for one, narrated by the author of Meditation for Dummies).
And, judging by the proliferation of silent retreats—where urbanites are voluntarily enlisting for weekends of lips-zipped ashram-toilet scrubbing—shutting up is seriously in vogue. It's good enough for Gwyneth. In her cookbook My Father's Daughter, Paltrow shares her favorite takeaway from the silent retreat she attended at a Japanese monastery: the recipe for a bowl of noriand-kimchi-spiked short-grain rice.
The impulse to retreat from the demands of a noisy world in order to contemplate the meaning (or meaninglessness) of life is hardly breaking news. Silence has long been seen as a direct line to the divine. In the fourth century, the Desert Fathers, led by Anthony the Great, fled the Roman Empire for the solitude of the Saharan dunes. Saint Benedict, who founded Western Christian monasticism in the sixth century, instructed his disciples "to be silent and listen." And in Buddhist and yogic teachings, mute meditation is believed to provide a kind of all-access pass to the truth of the present moment.
Silent retreats as we now know them can be traced to the '60s countercultural love-in with Eastern traditions. When Allen Ginsberg and Timothy Leary thumbed their way across Central Asia's so-called Hippie Trail, they stopped at Indian ashrams—hermitages where swamis and their followers sought spiritual enlightenment. And in 1968, the Beatles decamped to an ashram in Rishikesh, India, on the banks of the Ganges, steeping themselves in yoga and meditation, and lending instant sex appeal to things like sarongs and, yes, silence.
But there seems to be something new—or at least a little more pressing—about our need for quiet these days, if only because it's shockingly hard to find. The phenomenon that British philosopher Bertrand Russell dubbed our "cult of efficiency" in his 1932 essay "In Praise of Idleness"—about a modern culture held in thrall to ideals of enterprise and productivity—the American author George Prochnik now terms our "age of incessancy." In 2010's In Pursuit of Silence: Listening for Meaning in a World of Noise, Prochnik writes that silence can bring about "a kind of listening that only occurs after a break in the circuit of busyness." The silent retreat—where the mute button, by the way, applies to your lips and your iPhone—offers an escape route from the timegulping quicksand of multitasking. When I call Prochnik for an interview, he tells me in a hushed voice, "The hunger for silence has to be seen through our current issues with overstimulation. It's tied to our changing relationship to technology." An aural fast, Prochnik explains, can sharpen attentiveness and receptiveness, and even increase our capacity for empathy. It's less about shutting out the world and more about letting it in—and enjoying it more fully. "Silence provides more mental room," he says, "but also more room in the heart for the world around you."
It can make not just minds healthier, but our bodies, too, according to Herbert Benson, MD, director emeritus of the Benson-Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital and a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School. Silence evokes "a bodily response that's the opposite of the stress response," lowering your heart rate and blood pressure and reducing symptoms of PMS, Benson says. And if you're not sold on it yet: It can even be anti-aging, "triggering the body to shut down the inflammation genes," like an antioxidant.
Despite this symphony of biological benefits, going silent is anything but easy, no matter how deeply you retreat. Noise is addictive; it causes spikes in levels of dopamine, the brain's pleasure chemical. "Psychologically, we feel frazzled, but physiologically, we crave that fix, that beat," says Prochnik. "Noise is like a hyperfood, full of salt and sugar and fat. It's about instant gratification," whereas the relaxing effects of silence—that brown rice for the brain—take longer to sink in and make us feel great.
In hopes of quieting my inner soundtrack—the anxieties, the infernal questions—by stifling the outer one, I call the Loyola House, a Jesuit center a couple of hours outside Toronto, where I live. "In the next few weeks?" the woman on the line asks, laughing the way a reservationist at, say, the French Laundry, might if I were calling to score a table at a moment's notice. As in: Good luck with that, babe. "I can put you on a waiting list?" I call a local Augustinian monastery. Booked for months. But L'Ermitage Retreat Center in Quebec has just had a cancellation. Bingo.
I share my plan with a colleague. "Is that supposed to be relaxing?" he asks, taking a nervous sip of his cappuccino, anxious at the very idea. "I can't think of anything more stressful." The prospect of enforced silence does seem lonely, terrifying even. Last summer, when I cut back on carbs to try to lose weight and gain energy, I spent all my newfound zest fantasizing about linguine: Denial is generally the surest path to desire. In the week before my verbal fast, I find myself talking and texting constantly—gorging on words, stuffing myself with syntax—like a smoker hacking through that last carton before quitting.
In Quebec's Laurentian Mountains, even the whispering breeze seems complicit in my speechlessness, sending shushing sounds through the pines. At L'Ermitage, I'm greeted (verbally!) by coowner Paul Perreault, who hands me a plastic bag stuffed with a couple of thin, coarse towels and some bedsheets. The message is loud and clear: Luxury here will not come in the form of Egyptian cotton. Perreault gently shares retreat rules. The main one, of course, is that conversation is outlawed. Bathrooms are shared and there are no assigned activities (meditation classes are optional), but mealtimes are set (and somewhat Floridian: dinner is at 5:30). My room is private, mini, and monastic, with a sliver of window and a reading lamp.
First up, lunch. The dining-room walls are washed in shades of cantaloupe and hummus-beige, with a bulletin board featuring brochures for Tibetan yoga and "intuitive painting." The only sound is that of knives spreading veggie pâté on flaxseed flat bread. (L'Ermitage, like most retreats, is vegetarian. It occurs to me that, technically, one could eat a T-bone as quietly as one could tempeh, but on this profound point—as on all others—I stay mum.) After lunch, I obediently stand in line to wash my dishes, per house rules, and watch a woman in a Navajo-patterned fleece (a regular? I'll never know) toss in the trash the paper plates she has cleverly packed in her canvas tote, presumably to avoid cleaning.
L'Ermitage is set, to postcard effect, amid evergreen-clad slopes reclining toward a sun-glossed lake, where a pair of swans glide. This couple, it seems, has not been briefed on the rules of conduct. Over two days, I watch as they engage in various feather-flying domestic quarrels, which conclude when one swan cruises to the other end of the lake, as if punishing her mate with, well, the silent treatment. (You know it's quiet when the sound of flapping wings starts to sound raucous.)
Apart from swan gazing, I spend my days reading, wandering slowly around the 125-acre property, and watching the 15 or so other guests wander about even more slowly. Occasionally I see an individual stop midstride, standing still with eyes closed as though struck by an urgent need to contemplate. My fellow retreaters range in age from early twenties to seventies; some wear earth-tone ponchos, others Lululemon yoga gear. I observe them the way my cat would—that is, like a creature who can stare at a leaf for an hour, riveted, as if he were watching an episode of Dynasty. Have I found myself in a world more civilized and gentle—or one less sane?
En route to a meditation class, I get lost somewhere between the Pavillon Vérité and the Pavillon Sérénité and don't feel comfortable asking for directions, for obvious reasons. So I sit on a bench and watch a squirrel eat a nut, holding it with both paws like a club sandwich.
Later, Perreault tells me that some of his guests check in when they're at a professional or personal crossroads, perhaps postdivorce, or when they need a trial separation from their BlackBerry. "People have told me that after a day of silence here, they go to the cliff, sit on a bench, and cry. Others say they sleep better than they have in years. A couple of people have left after a few hours—confronting their inner worlds was too destabilizing."
With the space and time to ponder the mysteries of the infinite, I find myself focusing on other unsolved mysteries: Couscous tonight? Or quinoa again? I go to the so-called weeping cliff. Not a tear. Nothing dramatic happens. But I do feel relaxed—even at peace. Not talking, not being hunted by e-mail and texts and a ringing phone, is profoundly restful. And without time-thieving conversations, days seem weirdly spacious and delightfully open. While my mind generally feels cramped and tight, my worries engaged in some kind of chronic high-speed chase, here, my mind—in sync with its surroundings—seems to loosen and slow. My internal soundtrack hardly goes mute, but after only a couple of days, it loses some vigor and volume, as if without external stimuli it's lost its power source.
I've always longed to be one of those type-A's who bemoan their inability to do nothing. I've always been fabulous at nothing! If I'm good at talking, I'm great at nothing. As a child, my teachers often accused me of having tête dans la lune— head in the clouds. (I went to a French school.) Here, not only is daydreaming allowed, it's considered productive, spiritually evolved. Although, the fact that I take to staring at clouds and ducks and lunching rodents with such ease should, perhaps, be more alarming to me than something to be proud of. "Maybe you're meant for a contemplative life?" a friend suggests upon my return. Maybe. I'll talk about it with my therapist.


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Q: Symbolic solutions to $\log(x)=\frac{1}{2}(x-1)$ Wolfram Alpha gives a numerical solution to this equality, but is it not possible to find a symbolic answer? Why not? What types of functions with log in it can and can't you solve and why?
Thanks!

A: It is surprising (I repeated the calculation with Wolfram Alpha), that you did not receive the sybolic answer since
$$\log(x)=a x+b \implies x=-\frac 1a W\left(-a e^b\right)$$ where $W(t)$ is Lambert function.
Applied to your case, this gives, beside the trivial $x=1$
$$x=-2 W_{-1}\left(-\frac{1}{2 \sqrt{e}}\right)\sim 3.51286$$

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Grossmont survives Pack's best foot forward
By Ramon Scott
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SANTEE – Two storylines emerged from Grossmont's 39-38 squeaker of a win over host West Hills in a key Grossmont Hills League matchup on Friday night.
Storyline No. 1 is that the Grossmont Foothillers will be hosting the GHL's Game of the Season next Friday night at 5:30 p.m. against perennial champion Mount Miguel.
The Foothillers have survived injuries, illnesses and their opponents' best shot to arrive at the lofty goal.
They did so again against the Wolf Pack, who emerged as storyline No. 2 with an awesome effort to almost derail the Hillers' hopes.
The Wolf Pack nearly came back from a 27-16 halftime deficit. West Hills has just three wins this season, but this may have been the team's performance of the season.
Junior SARAH HENRY had three three-pointers to lead Grossmont with nine points.
Junior AMELIA ELLIOTT had a pair of three-pointers in the first half for the Foothillers.
Grossmont's problem was at the free throw line. The Hillers went 0-for-11.
"We can't discredit West Hills," Grossmont head coach GRACE CAMPBELL said. "They hit some key three-point shots."
West Hills was coming back strong in the fourth quarter behind three-pointers from junior PAIGE EVANS and senior HALEY DOUCETTE.
Evans finished with four threes on the night.
"We all played very well," Evans said. "It was our best game that we've played all season.
"We played well as a team and it was a bummer that we lost by one point."
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Halloween: Little Known Facts
1. Halloween is still the Wiccan New Year.
Halloween originates from a Celtic tradition called Samhain, a festival that marked the end of the Celtic calendar year in Ireland, Scotland, and the Isle of Man. They believed it was a time that spirits or fairies could enter our world, and the Celts would put out treats and food to placate the spirits – sometimes, a place at the table was even set for the souls of the dead.
Wiccans still celebrate Samhain as a New Year celebration today.
2. The moniker "Halloween" comes from the Catholics.
Hallowmas is a three-day Catholic holiday where saints are honored and people pray for the recently deceased. At the start of the 11th century, it was decreed by the pope that it would last from October 31 (All Hallow's Eve) until November 2, most likely because that was when Samhain was celebrated and the church was trying to convert the pagans.
3. Dressing up on Halloween comes from the Celts.
Celts believed Samhain was a time when the wall between our world and the paranormal world was porous and spirits could get through. Because of this belief, it was common for the Celts to wear costumes and masks during the festival to ward off or befuddle any evil spirits.
"All Hallow's Eve" then evolved into "All Hallow's Even," and by the 18th century it was commonly referred to as "Hallowe'en."
4. Halloween symbols aren't random.
Black cats, spiders, and bats are all Halloween symbols because of their spooky history and ties to Wiccans. All three were thought to be the familiars of witches in the middle ages, and are often associated with bad luck.
Bats are even further connected to Halloween by the ancient Samhain ritual of building a bonfire, which drove away insects and attracted bats.
5. We should carve turnips, not pumpkins.
The origin of Jack-O-Lanterns comes from a Celtic folk tale of a stingy farmer named Jack who would constantly play tricks on the devil. The devil responded by forcing him to wander purgatory with only a burning lump of coal from hell. Jack took the coal and made a lantern from a turnip, using it to guide his lost soul.
The myth was brought over by Irish families fleeing the potato famine in the 1800s, and since turnips were hard to come by in the US, America's pumpkins were used as a substitute to guide lost souls and keep evil spirits like "Jack of the Lantern" away.
Dressing up on Halloween comes from the Celts
6. Halloween and the candy industry supposedly influenced Daylight Savings Time.
Candy makers supposedly lobbied to extend daylight savings time into the beginning of November to get an extra hour of daylight so children could collect even more candy (thus forcing people to purchase more sweets to meet the demand).
They wanted it so badly that during the 1985 hearings on daylight saving time, they put candy pumpkins on the seat of committee members, according to NPR. (The candy industry disputes this account, according to The New York Times.)
7. Candy Corn was originally known as "chicken feed."
Invented by George Renninger, a candy maker at the Wunderle Candy Company of Philadelphia in the 1880s, Candy Corn was originally called "butter cream candies" and "chicken feed" since back then, corn was commonly used as food for livestock (they even had a rooster on the candy boxes).
It had no association with Halloween or fall, and was sold seasonally from March to November. After World War II, advertisers began marketing it as a special Halloween treat due to its colors and ties to the fall harvest.
8. Fears of poisoned Halloween candy are unfounded.
One of parents' biggest fears is that their child's Halloween candy is poisoned or contains razor blades.
In reality, this fear is almost entirely unfounded. There are only two known cases of poisoning, and both involved relatives, according to LiveScience. In 1970, a boy died of a heroin overdose. The investigators found it on his candy, but in a twist they later discovered the boy had accidentally consumed some of his uncle's heroin stash, and the family had sprinkled some on the candy to cover up the incident.
Even more horrifically, in 1974 Timothy O'Bryan died after eating a Pixy Stix his father had laced with cyanide to collect on the insurance money, according to Smithsonian Magazine.
And now, parents in Colorado are worried about their children eating candy infused with marijuana.
9. Trick-or-treating has been around for a long time.
Versions of trick-or-treating have existed since medieval times. In the past, it was known as "guising" where children and poor adults went around in costumes during Hallowmas begging for food and money in exchange for songs or prayers. It was also called "souling."
10. Trick-or-treating as we know it was re-popularized by cartoons.
Trick-or-treating was brought to America by the Irish and became popular during the early 20th century, but died out during WWII when sugar was rationed. After the rationing ended in 1947, children's magazine Jack and Jill, radio program The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, and the Peanuts comic strip all helped to re-popularize the tradition of dressing up in costumes and asking for candy from door-to-door.
By 1952, trick-or-treating was hugely popular again.
11. Halloween is the second-most commercial American holiday of the year.
The candy industry in America rakes in an average of $2 billion annually thanks to Halloween (that's 90 million pounds of chocolate).
Americans spend an estimated $6 billion on Halloween annually, including candy, costumes, and decorations, according to History.com.
The most commercial holiday in the US is obviously Christmas.
12. A full moon on Halloween is extremely rare.
Though a common trope in horror movies and Halloween decorations with witches flying across the full moon, it's actually extremely uncommon for the monthly event to coincide with October 31, or any other date, for that matter.
The next full moon on Halloween won't occur until 2020. The most recent Halloween full moon was back in 2001, and before that it was in 1955.
13. There's a $1,000 fine for using or selling Silly String in Hollywood on Halloween.
The prank product has been banned in Hollywood since 2004 after thousands of bored people would buy it on the streets of Hollywood from illegal vendors and "vandalize" the streets. The city ordinance calls for a maximum $1,000 fine and/or six months in jail for "use, possession, sale or distribution of Silly String in Hollywood from 12:01 AM on October 31 to 12:00 PM on November 1."
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TABUK CITY, Kalinga (PIA) – Typhoon-affected farmers and fisherfolks in Northern Luzon were assured support by Department of Agriculture Secretary Manny Piñol.
In his visit to the province of Kalinga during the weekend, Piñol said that the immediate action that the DA will do is to ensure that the affected farmers and fisherfolks including their families would be given food assistance.
"We will make sure that the farmers and fisherfolks would have something to eat including their family members and children," said Piñol who met with local officials, farmers and fisherfolks and other stakeholders here.
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Initial estimated typhoon damage of R10 billion was reported to the DA which covers at least five regions, Piñol bared.


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After a courageous battle with brain cancer, Christopher J Killmurray died on April 8, 2018 surrounded by his loving family. Mr. Killmurray was born in Perth Amboy, New Jersey on December 28, 1962. He grew up in Sewaren, Woodbridge, New Jersey, where his parents, Francis and Marilyn Jarvis Killmurray still reside.
Mr. Killmurray received a Bachelor of Arts in History from Rutgers University and graduated from Rutgers Camden School of Law with a Juris Doctor degree in 1987. Mr. Killmurray was admitted to the New Jersey Bar in 1987. He was also admitted to practice in the United States District Court, District of New Jersey, and the United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.
Mr. Killmurray was a partner with the law firm of Hoagland, Longo, Moran, Dunst & Doukas, LLP in New Brunswick, New Jersey. He concentrated his practice in civil litigation, handling files state-wide with an emphasis on the defense of public entities and their employees. In addition, Mr. Killmurray has represented municipalities as well as individual Officers, Directors, and elected Officials before the State and Federal Courts in matters involving the New Jersey Law Against Discrimination, Americans with Disabilities Act, whistle-blower claims, and civil rights violations. Mr. Killmurray litigated claims made against Municipal Police Departments for constitutional violations, including alleged excessive use of force, false arrest, inadequate protection, and failure to properly train and supervise police officers.
He was a member of the New Jersey State Bar Association, the Middlesex County Bar Association, the Trial Lawyers Association of Middlesex County, the New Brunswick Bar Association, the New Jersey Defense Association and the Defense Research Institute. He has also served as a lecturer for the Institute for Continuing Legal Education and Lorman Educational Services. He was the 2016 recipient of the Professional Lawyer of the Year Award from the Middlesex County Bar Association and the New Jersey Commission on Professionalism in the Law. He was a longtime member of the Woodbridge Irish-American Association. In that he was everyone's favorite Irish person, he was also awarded the Irish Lawyer of the Year and 2011 Irish Person of the Year by the Central Jersey Police Emerald Society. In the same year he was named to the Irish Legal 100 list, a national list that afforded him the chance to visit the Irish ambassador in Washington DC.
As mayor, Chris Killmurray always strove to try his best for those around him and help them reach their potential. He was first elected as a Councilman in 2003, serving as councilman and then Deputy Mayor until his appointment as Mayor to finish Mayor Gambatese's term. He was then elected Mayor later that year. He fully embraced his role as public servant to South Brunswick, active in the community by serving on the South Brunswick Township Public Library Board, the Recreation Advisory Board, the South Brunswick Family YMCA Board, and the Flame of Charity Foundation for the Diocese of Metuchen. He served as the co-Chair of the Annual Flame of Charity Foundation Fundraising Dinner. He was a member of the St. Cecilia Knights of Columbus, Council No. 7046 as well as the Ancient Order of Hibernians, Monsignor Crean Division No. 1 in Hamilton, New Jersey. Mr. Killmurray was an active member of St. Cecilia's Parish in Monmouth Junction and a past volunteer CCD teacher.
Mr. Killmurray was also active in local scouting through his sons' participation in Cub Scout Pack 108 and later Boy Scout Troop 888, as an assistant leader in both units. He was a Pro Bono Legal Counsel for the Central Jersey Boy Scouts, Joyce Kilmer District and volunteered as a Merit Badge instructor. He was honored with the Good Scout Award from the Central New Jersey Council of Boy Scouts of America in 2004. While not the most avid outdoorsman, after a decade of camping he earned the noble moniker of "The Great Outdoorsman" and learned how to delegate putting up his own tent.
He was an avid fan of all the heartbreak teams, the Mets, the Giants, and the Knicks (with a brief and unsavory period of time as a Cowboys fan in his youth). Mr. Killmurray loved to support South Brunswick sports, particularly Viking Football from PAL to the High School Varsity team. Mr. Killmurray always regretted never finding the few people responsible for setting off fireworks during the 2012 Group IV semi-final playoff game and denies any rumors that he was responsible for such a fond memory.
He is survived by his wife of twenty-four years, Karen Naughton Killmurray and their four children, Conor (23), Anna Rose (20), Bridget (18) and Patrick (15). He is also survived by his brothers, Kevin Killmurray and his wife Kathleen Cavanaugh, Thomas Killmurray and his wife Amy Boyer as well as his niece and nephews, Erin and Alex Yaney, Declan, Jomar and J.D. Killmurray and his grandnephew, Cameron Yaney. He is also survived by his large and loving extended family. He will always be in our hearts as his legacy lives on in the many lives he has touched during his time with us.
Mass of Christian Burial will be Celebrated, 10:00 am on Thursday, April 12, 2018, St. Cecilia's Church 10 Kingston Lane, Monmouth Junction. Burial will follow in the Holy Cross Burial Park.
Calling hours will be on Wednesday, April 11, 2018 from 3-7 pm at St. Cecilia's Church.


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Office of the National Capital Region Coordination
To conduct preparedness, planning, and operational activities and provide leadership and coordination within the National Capital Region (NCR) to synchronize and integrate the whole community in executing homeland security and emergency management activities.
Working closely with our NCR partners and FEMA Region III, we coordinate homeland security and emergency management planning, operations, training, and exercises at the federal, state, regional and local levels. Through our NCR Watch Desk, we provide 24/7 situational awareness for the NCR and FEMA leadership.
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Provides a 24/7/365 situational awareness for NCR stakeholders, FEMA Region III, and FEMA leadership.
Serves as a liaison among federal agencies in the NCR and the jurisdictions that comprise the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments.
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Chairs and provides operation and management of the Joint Federal Committee, a critical forum for enhancing federal interagency coordination for homeland security matters among all three branches.
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Drift is a 2023 drama film directed by Anthony Chen from a screenplay by Susanne Farrell and Alexander Maksik. It is based on the novel A Marker To Measure Drift by Maksik.  A French, British and Greek co-production, it is Chen's first English-language feature. The film stars Cynthia Erivo, Alia Shawkat, Ibrahima Ba, Honor Swinton Byrne, Zainab Jah and Suzy Bemba.

Drift had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on 22 January 2023.

Plot summary
The film follows Jacqueline, a Liberian refugee, who flees to a Greek island and develops a friendship with an American tour guide while coping with her past.

Cast

Production
The film is a co-production between France's Paradise City Films, Greece's Heretic and the United Kingdom's Fortyninesixty, in association with Cor Cordium, Edith's Daughter and Giraffe Pictures, and is financed by Sunac Culture and Aim Media, Lauran Bromley's Ages LLC, the UK Global Screen Fund, and the Greek Film Center, with additional support from the Creative Europe Media European Program. United Talent Agency handles North American rights on the film.

Production concluded in May 2022.

Release
The film had its world premiere at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival in the Premieres section on 22 January 2023.

Reception
On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 56% based on 18 reviews, with an average rating of 5/10.

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2023 films
Films based on American novels
Films set in Greece
Films shot in Greece
2020s English-language films
2020s Greek-language films
2020s French films
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2023 drama films
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Law in Doctrine and Life According to Martin Luther
Risto Saarinen and Derek R. Nelson
Christianity, The Reformation
The Unity of the Law
The Law of God as Such
The Law under the Conditions of Sin
The Antinomian Controversies with Agricola
Luther and Paul on the Law
The Law and Christian Life
Review of Literature and Further Questions
Martin Luther's Influence on Legal Reforms and Civil Law
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The law both is and functions in Martin Luther's theology. To the extent that it simply is, the law is wholly good, just, and pure. It reveals God's benevolent providence for creation by instantiating structures of human relationships, natural processes, and social arrangements within which human life and all of creation can flourish. Luther regards the essential character of the law in a way reminiscent of the haggadah tradition of Rabbinic Judaism, where the law is a narrative which reveals features of the lawgiver. Under the conditions of sin, however, the law can be experienced as wrath by humans who cannot fulfill what it requires, and who suffer as a result of their own transgression of the Word of God or as a result of the transgressions of others. It functions thus as a curb against wickedness and as a means of exposing sin to be sin. Its continued presence in the life of the believer is necessary, as Luther clarified in his various debates with Johann Agricola and the so-called "Antinomians." When the law is understood only in its antinomy with the gospel, the life-affirming elements of the law are occluded, even as the gospel's life-redeeming elements are thereby rendered clear.
While numerous fine distinctions can be found in Luther's theology of the law, it maintains a basic unity-in-diversity. God wills singly in dealing with human beings as his creatures. Therefore "civil law," the Decalogue, and other manifestations of the law are facets of the one will of God for the flourishing of creation. Recent Pauline scholarship has criticized Luther for eisegesis on Paul's view of the law; Luther needed to see his contemporary Roman partisans as Paul's legalistic Jewish opponents, they say, and so he read Romans as a critique of 16th-century "works righteousness." This view ignores the fact that Luther (and Augustine) viewed the post-conversion Paul as "continent" in doing the works of the law, neither weak-willed nor perfectly virtuous.
Law is necessary for doctrine, but it is also important for the "Christian life" because it helps the believer to understand the reciprocity that underlies interpersonal relationships, seen especially in the "golden rule" that functions as the epitome of the Christian life. The radical receptivity (i.e., passivity) that characterizes the life of faith in believers enables the experience of God's will, understood as law or command, in a constructive and beneficial way. While Christian life should employ a "faith approach" rather than a "law approach," genuine faith in God does, in fact, reveal the true meaning of the law. This might be called the "second use of the gospel" in that God's command (Gebot), viewed in light of the gospel, becomes a source of guidance for the Christian life, the ten commandments, the double love command, and the Sermon on the Mount chief among them.
Keywords: Martin Luther, Law, civil use of the law, theological use of the law, Torah, Antinomianism, Johann Agricola, merit, New Perspective on Paul, Christian life
Risto Saarinen
Derek R. Nelson
Wabash College
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Nasal inhalation challenge studies with sidestream tobacco smoke
Rebecca Bascom, Stuart R. Willes, Thomas K. Fitzgerald
Environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) exposure is associated with rhinitis symptoms (i.e., runny nose and congestion) in some people. In an effort to better understand these symptoms, we recruited 18 historically ETS-sensitive subjects from the community and exposed them for 15 min to clean air and for 15 min to sidestream tobacco smoke (STS, 45 ppm carbon monoxide). Symptoms were recorded (0 = absent, 5 = severe), and posterior rhinomanometry was performed. There were significant changes in rhinitis symptoms (1.3 ± 0.4 pre- versus 6.1 ± 0.5 post-STS, p <.05); nasal airway resistance (2.86 ± 0.2 pre- versus 4.49 ± 0.6 post-STS, p <.05), and maximum inspiratory flow (2.74 ± 0.3 pre- versus 2.14 ± 0.3 post-STS, p <.05). A spectrum of individual responsiveness to ETS was observed, and nasal resistance increased from 0% to 265%. Increased nasal resistance occurred primarily at the upstream or flow-limiting segment of the nasal airway.
Archives of Environmental Health
Rhinomanometry
Airway Resistance
Bascom, R., Willes, S. R., & Fitzgerald, T. K. (1992). Nasal inhalation challenge studies with sidestream tobacco smoke. Archives of Environmental Health, 47(3), 223-230. https://doi.org/10.1080/00039896.1992.9938353
Bascom, Rebecca ; Willes, Stuart R. ; Fitzgerald, Thomas K. / Nasal inhalation challenge studies with sidestream tobacco smoke. In: Archives of Environmental Health. 1992 ; Vol. 47, No. 3. pp. 223-230.
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Q: MVC - controller-to-controller in java EE In school, say a payroll application, my professor does the following logic flow:

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*The default page would be an index.jsp page.

*When the add button is clicked, the addform.jsp page would be called and there the user can enter the data for the payroll

*When the submit button is clicked, the addform.jsp page will call a servlet that processes the form and add it to the table.

*Say the insert statement works perfectly and there is no problem with the input data, the servlet will call an add.jsp page. This contains that input data the user entered before, informing the user that the data is successfully inserted into the table, and a "list of payroll" link.

*When the "list of payroll" link is clicked, another servlet is called, this one processing all rows in the table for viewing.

*Finally, a resultset containing all data from the table, would be bound to the request object, then the servlet will call the list.jsp to view all data in the table.

He said this is how MVC should be done.
However, I don't like it when after the data is inserted, another jsp page have to be created just to display the input data and to inform the user that the data is successfully inserted. Why not just go directly to list.jsp page and an error.jsp page if the insert is not successful? So I thought of the following to do what I wanted:

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*Say the insert statement works perfectly and there is no problem with the input data, the servlet will call another servlet that processes all data in the table.

*Finally, a resultset containing all data from the table, would be bound to the request object, then the servlet will call the list.jsp to view all data in the table.

But I am not sure if this is still MVC when I would call another controller when I should be redirecting to a view. Is my approach better in terms of being MVC and user friendly or my professor's way is better?

A: First of all, your teacher isn't really using MVC, since half of the pages are displayed without ever going through a controller: the index.jsp view is displayed directly, and so is addform.jsp.
Whether to display a result page or going back to the list directly doesn't have anything to do with MVC. It's just a functional/user experience choice. Sometimes going back to the list is better, and sometimes going to the detail page of the created product is better. For example, the user might want to fix an error he made when creating the product. Or he might want to provide more information about the product, or whatever.
Going to an error page, once again, is a user experience choice. I generally wouldn't do that. Instead, I would redisplay the page allowing to create the product, and display meaningful error messages explaining why the product couldn't be created and how the user should fix the data in the form.
Regarding the way you would implement going back to the list after a successful creation, the way you would do it isn't the best way. After a successful POST, you should redirect. This is known as the Post-Redirect-Get pattern. It has many benefits:

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*simple workflow at server-side, and isolation of the responsibilities

*allows the user to refresh the page without reposting the product

*allows the user to bookmark the list page and actually bookmark the list page, instead of bookmarking the URL of the servlet handling the creation.

Of course, the same is true if you want to go back to the product details page: you should redirect.


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Q: Batch File conditional statement not working correctly So i am attempting to make a simple script to check if an application is running using a external text file (using 1 and 0 for if running or is not). However i cannot seem to get the statement working correctly..
setlocal enabledelayedexpansion

set /p Running=<IsRunning.txt
IF %Running% EQU 0(GOTO ProgramNotRunning)
IF %Running% EQU 1(GOTO ProgramRunning)

:ProgramNotRunning
echo program starting
echo 0 >IsRunning.txt
echo 1 >IsRunning.txt
GOTO:EOF

:ProgramRunning
echo program already running
GOTO:EOF

The issue is no matter what value it is, it always only ever runs the ProgramNotRunning code block and not the other.
Prior to using EQU, i was simply using == to check for equivilance.
Much thanks for any assistance given!

A: 1 - Missing spaces
If %Running% EQU 0 (...
                  ^ This space is needed

2 - In batch files lines of code are executed one after the other unless one command changes this behaviour. You can iterate with for, jump with goto, call subroutines with call, leave the batch, the subroutine or the console with exit, ... but a label will not break the execution. After your if %Running% EQU 1 ... there isn't anything that prevent execution to continue into the code following code it none of the if tests find a coincidence. So, if the set /p does not retrieve 0 or 1 the code after :ProgramNotRunning will be always executed.
3 - Missing/empty file. If IsRunning.txt can not be found or it is empty (or at least the first line is empty) or if it does contain an unexpected value, the if lines will fail. The code executed is
file missing    :   if   EQU 0 (
line/file empty :   if   EQU 0 (
bad data        :   if this is a test EQU 0 (

All this cases will cause the line to be considered an error and the execution will be canceled.
@echo off
    setlocal enableextensions disabledelayedexpansion

    rem Retrieve running state
    set "Running="
    if exist "IsRunning.txt" (
        set /p "Running=" < "IsRunning.txt"
    )

    IF "%Running%" EQU "0" goto ProgramNotRunning
    IF "%Running%" EQU "1" goto ProgramRunning

    rem As there is no valid data, assume the program is not running

:ProgramNotRunning
    echo program starting
    >"IsRunning.txt" (echo 1)
    goto :eof

:ProgramRunning
    echo program already running
    goto :eof

Why >"IsRunning.txt" (echo 1)? Just to be sure there are no aditional spaces after the 1 that will be included in the output (as happens with your code), retrieved when the line is readed from the file and causing the if to fail
if "1 " EQU "1" ( ...    This will be evaluated to false

And this still leaves cases where the data retrieved can make the code fail. For a 0/1 test, it is easier to not read the file, just test for presence of the file. If the file exist, the program is running, else it is not running.


Beyond achieving ZNE at zero-net cost, the project was able to take advantage of nearly $750,000 in grants and incentives. This, in combination with the first energy and maintenance cost savings, results in a net present savings of nearly $2.25 million over the first 20 years of the building's life.
As Director of Sustainable Design at BR+A Consulting Engineers, Jacob Knowles heads the NET+ sustainability consulting team. Over the past decade, he has championed the sustainability agenda for over 20 million sf of healthcare, research, commercial and institutional projects.
mum air change rates, central air quality monitoring, fan-coil units with EC motors, 50% lighting power density reduction, a high-performance envelope with thermally broken assemblies and a combination of manual and fully automated natural ventilation systems.
currently pay, with no annual rate escalation.
Overall, the ZNE approach not only eliminated fossil fuel consumption, but reduced overall energy consumption by a predicted 70% compared to the original high-performance design, saving nearly $100,000 in energy cost per year. The true test of our design, however, came when the detailed line-item cost estimate was completed by the cost estimator, providing a comparison of the two designs. The result: The ZNE design came in $200,000 lower than the original high-performance design.
Univ. of Washington's Dept. of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences (UW DEOHS) has 20 labs used for research, education and analytical services.
Activities not only focus on environmental and workplace factors that affect health, but practices within.
DEOHS labs haven't been assessed for their impacts on health and sustainability. DEOHS has the capability and responsibility to provide leadership and serve as an exemplary model. The objectives of this project are to assess current practices in DEOHS labs, identify barriers to and best practices for achieving environmental sustainability and minimizing occupational safety hazards and provide recommendations on how to improve sustainability metrics.
During baseline interviews, managers of some molecular biology labs mentioned they were concerned about the health effects of ethidium bromide, which has a reputation as a potent mutagen. Although ethidium bromide has been reported as a strong mutagen, evidence supporting this claim is conflicting. We also assessed two ethidium bromide alternatives that claim to be less hazardous. However, we couldn't find any information on these chemicals other than what was provided by the supplier/manufacturer. Therefore, we didn't feel comfortable recommending any one chemical product over another because of major data gaps.
turning instruments off when not in use.
We quantified common consumables in academic lab waste streams to investigate opportunities for green purchasing and waste stream diversion. To do this, we first sorted through two days of trash, totaling 42 lbs. About a third of the trash by weight was paper towels from handwashing, 25% was recyclable and about half was landfill (22% of which were gloves). We found many of the hard plastics weren't in the regular trash, but were disposed in lab glass waste boxes. A recycling guide is being developed using a combination of the trash sort data and observations of hard plastic waste thrown in lab glass waste receptacles. We used purchasing records to identify high-volume consumables that may not have been captured in the trash sort. This gives us a starting point for targeting our searches for green purchasing options and methods for reducing the use of consumables.
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Next Glass To Open HQ Downtown
By Vicky Janowski and Cece Nunn, posted Aug 27, 2014
Next Glass founder and CEO Kurt Taylor (File photo)
Wilmington-based startup Next Glass will move into a building downtown to consolidate its work in one spot, officials announced Wednesday.
The new 11,000-square-foot headquarters will be at 21 S. Front St., in a building owned by James Goodnight. Goodnight, son of billionaire SAS founder Jim Goodnight, has experience buying and renovating historic properties in downtown Raleigh, according to a Triangle Business Journal article.
Founded in 2012, Next Glass is developing an app to create personalized beer and wine recommendations for users.
To provide the basis for those recommendations, the company has been analyzing thousands of wines and beers in lab space at University of North Carolina Wilmington's MARBIONC facility. Others with the company worked out of flex office space at Coworx at Barclay Commons.
"The move to 21 S. Front Street is a big step for us. It's the perfect location to support our growing business," Next Glass founder and CEO Kurt Taylor said in the release. "We couldn't be happier about teaming up with James and moving our headquarters to downtown Wilmington."
Company officials said they are moving the lab downtown along with the rest of the company.
In a recent guest column about fostering entrepreneurship in Wilmington, Next Glass chairman George Taylor said the headquarters move represented an investment of more than $2 million. He also said the company has 16 employees, with wages at two to three times the average for the county.
Not only does the move signify consolidation and growth for Next Glass, including the potential addition of more than 30 employees, it also ferments what some see as a downtown trend.
"What we find is entrepreneurial startups and people in the computer science and information fields like to be around each other and like to be in close proximity," said John Hinnant, a commercial broker at Maus, Warwick, Matthews & Co., who represented Next Glass in the transaction. "We found that after PPD moved downtown."
Jim Roberts, executive director of the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, who has helped Next Glass evolve in a variety of ways through the CIE, also sees a bigger picture when it comes to the company's growth and move to Front Street.
"I think it shows what is possible in our community when our community gets behind a startup like this," Roberts said. "This is what we read about in bigger cities. This is just one example of what we hope happens from the outcome of our work here at the CIE."
The company expects to move to Front Street in spring of next year and "is working on extensive renovations that will provide state-of-the-art facilities to accommodate its ongoing growth," according to the release.
Next Glass will occupy the top two floors of the 21 S. Front St. building. According to real estate listing information from LoopNet, Charlie Brownz Lounge leases the building's bottom floor.
The building, built in 1939 and registered on the National Trust for Historic Preservation, is owned by Cary-based Meetinghouse Properties, according to the news release. Raleigh-based York Properties manages the building.
"We have a bit of experience restoring historic buildings throughout Raleigh, and we're looking forward to continuing our success in Wilmington," Goodnight of Meetinghouse said in the release. "It's great to have a company like Next Glass as our anchor tenant, and we're excited about the creative vision for their new workspace."
Check back later for more information about the move. And to find out more about the current state of revitalization downtown, pick up the new print edition of the Business Journal on Friday or go to www.wilmingtonbiz.com.
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More than 450 delicious items are stocked; find Welsh cheeses, biscuits, liqueurs, whiskeys, beers, cider, jams, pickles and much more. Food and Drink Gift Hampers are a speciality, come and choose your favourite Welsh food and drink and we'll put it all together. Our hampers can now also include hand crafted items from the adjoining Corris Craft Centre studios.
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