Jack Levis is the Project Manager for energy and industrial related projects in Greece, a position which he has held since 1987. During his time with MEDACO, significant consultancy and engineering projects have been completed in collaboration with Stone & Webster and Process Systems Inc. Prior to joining MEDACO, Mr. Levis served for 33 years in the Public Power Corporation (PPC) of Greece. Upon leaving he held the post of Director of Distribution Operations, with full responsibility for distribution operations, organizational issues and commercial activities. He started his career in PPC as a member of the team responsible for the technical and economic evaluation of the various Private Utilities which were subsequently acquired by PPC. Mr. Levis obtained his degree in Mechanical and Electrical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens.
John K. Menoudakos directs the operations of MEDACO. He was born and had his schooling in Greece and moved to USA in 1957 for advanced studies. Upon receiving his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Sciences and Engineering from New York University, he worked for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey for 7 years.
For the following 15 years, Mr. Menoudakos worked for Control Data Corporation and for 10 years held the position of Vice President, Control Data Middle East, Inc., the subsidiary responsible for developing and managing the firm's Middle East and Africa operations. During this time he was responsible for the creation of a joint venture manufacturing company in Iran, and for a variety of control and management information systems contracts with major Regional oil and gas companies. Other major achievements during his time at Control Data include the implementation of the National Energy Control Center project for the Egyptian Electricity Authority and the award of a large information system contract for the Saudi Arabian Ministry of Defense and Civil Aviation. This depth of experience and cross-cultural background has given Mr. Menoudakos a unique appreciation of the culture and business practices which are essential to success in the Region.
Paul Smith joined MEDACO in 1992 and is responsible for business development for automation projects and other industry related activities in Greece, Cyprus and Egypt. Prior to joining MEDACO, Mr. Smith worked for the Chemicals division of British Petroleum in the United Kingdom, during which time his responsibilities included commissioning support and engineering studies on bulk chemicals facilities, instrumentation projects, process simulation and work on plant-wide Management Information Systems. Mr. Smith also has experience in the steel industry from time with the engineering department of one of British Steel's major integrated plants. He received his M. Eng. degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Nottingham in the U.K., and is a Member of the Institution of Chemical Engineers and of the Technical Chamber of Greece.
Adel Sami, based in Cairo, is responsible for sales and marketing activities for MEDACO in Egypt. Mr, Sami joined MEDACO in 2002 from a local marketing consultancy firm, and has over 15 years business development related experience with emphasis on the electric utility market. His experience covers a wide range of projects in the power generation, and electricity transmission and distribution sectors. Mr. Sami has a Bachelor of Science degree from Cairo University in Egypt.
Hamdy Shaaban forms part of MEDACO'S field engineering and technical support team in Saudi Arabia. During his time with MEDACO Mr. Shaaban has gained several years experience in SCADA System and RTU projects. Prior to joining MEDACO Mr. Shaaban was employed in Egypt by Kahromika, a leading engineering contractor, initially as lead foreman for the installation, testing and start-up of the National Energy Control Center (NECC) project for the Egyptian Electricity Authority. He subsequently held the position of Assistant Manager for the expansion of the NECC EMS/SCADA System and upon leaving was Manager for installation and maintenance of the NECC. Mr. Shaaban has a degree in Communications and Electronic Engineering from Helwan University in Egypt.
John Georgacopoulos joined MEDACO in 2001 as Senior Systems Engineer, with responsibility for customer technical support, and new business development. John has over 25 years of control systems experience, internationally in Australia and the Far East, and for the past 17 years in Greece. Most recently he was responsible for the instrumentation and control department of Asprofos Engineering, the largest engineering firm in Greece, and part of the Hellenic Petroleum group of companies. His experience spans the full range of the hydrocarbon industries, from upstream oil & gas, pipelines, refining and petrochemicals.
Magdi Mostafa Mohamed joined Medaco in 1998 and is currently assigned to MEDACO's field engineering team for major SCADA system projects in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Prior to working for MEDACO, Mr. Mohamed was employed as a Project Manager by Kahromika of Egypt, a large electrical engineering contractor. In particular, Mr. Mohamed was assigned to manage the installation of the SCADA system, RTUs and ancillary equipment for the Cairo East Distribution Control Center project. His responsibilities in this role include: site survey, project planning, and overall site responsibility for erections, wiring, testing, and commissioning. Earlier activities included project management and site installation of distribution substation projects. Mr. Mohamed holds a Bachelor's of Science degree in Electrical Engineering.
Nikos Monezis joined Medaco in May 2006 and is responsible for field project support of automation and other industry related activities in Greece, Cyprus and Saudi Arabia. Mr. Monezis has over 9 years experience in BMS, PLC and SCADA control projects. He has participated in the proposal preparation, contractual negotiations, detailed engineering and site coordination activities related to Invensys SCADA systems installations in Saudi Arabia. Nikos was trained by Invensys Italy on the I/A DCS system H/W and S/W, participated in DCS FAT, installation, power-up, system checks and assistance in corrective maintenance activities. He is presently active in providing installation, commissioning support for a new Invensys DCS/ESD system for Aluminum De Greece.
Mr. Boglou has over ten years of experience in the automation industry, programming PLC's and motion controllers. He received his Electrical Engineering degree from the University of New York, and his M.S. in Engineering Management from the State University of California. Mr. Boglou joined Medaco and is involved with project support in the field or remotely for automation and other industry related activities in Greece, Cyprus and Saudi Arabia. He has received formal training on Invensys I/A DCS and Triconex ESD systems at Invensys Foxboro and Triconex Houston in the USA respectively. He has already been involved with two Invensys projects, one in the energy sector (AdG) and the other in the chemical sector (PFI), both using the Invensys I/A DCS system.
Maria Balou joined MEDACO in 1990 and is responsible for home office support functions including travel and visit arrangements, production of marketing materials, administration support for field projects, and general secretarial support. Mrs. Balou is fluent in English and Greek.
Sofia Vadiaka joined MEDACO in 1990 and is responsible for support of Medaco's instrumentation products customers, including proposal preparation, order entry, coordination of deliveries, spare parts administration and general customer service. Mrs. Vadiaka is fluent in English and Greek.
Teta Stavropoulou joined MEDACO in 1990. As the company accountant, she is responsible for all billing and financial functions of the company; including invoicing, payments, receivables, etc. Mrs. Stavropoulou is fluent in both English and Greek.
Kostas Georgiadis joined MEDACO in 1990 and is responsible for company transportation and logistics. He provides assistance to clients visiting Athens and supports the accounting department in the administration of customer orders, including customs clearance, storage, packaging/handling, and deliveries. Mr. Georgiadis is fluent in both English and Greek.


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John Tughan QC of 4 Paper Buildings reviews recent important public law cases concerning children.
John Tughan QC of 4 Paper Buildings
Remote hearings
The risk in writing a public law update in the current circumstances is that the entire update will be about remote hearings and whether to hold them or not. I am aware of two judgments (from Mrs Justice Lieven and Sir Mark Hedley) about to be published which each follow a remote hearing involving expert and lay evidence over several weeks. Both judgments are positive about the experience of conducting a remote hearing. It seems to this practitioner that the issue is not whether remote hearings are perfect, they are not. But then neither is a courtroom perfect. The issue is whether we want a functioning system of justice for families or not. My personal view is that we have nothing to fear from remote hearings and if it is the only way to achieve resolution for families desperate for answers and can be done fairly in the particular circumstances of the case I have no difficulty with using the technology to achieve those ends.
The central decision on the issue is Re A (Children) (Remote Hearing: Care and Placement Orders) [2020] EWCA Civ 583 in which the Court of Appeal emphasised that the decision whether to conduct a remote hearing was one for the tribunal hearing the case, was a case management decision and it entailed a broad discretion. Temporary guidance from senior judiciary was only guidance or illustration.
The factors likely to influence the decision as to whether to proceed remotely or not include:
i) The importance and nature of the issue to be determined; is the outcome that is sought an interim or final order?
ii) Whether there is a special need for urgency, or whether the decision could await a later hearing without causing significant disadvantage to the child or the other parties;
iii) Whether the parties are legally represented;
iv) The ability, or otherwise, of any lay party (particularly a parent or person with parental responsibility) to engage with and follow remote proceedings meaningfully.
v) Whether evidence is to be heard or whether the case will proceed on the basis of submissions only;
vi) The source of any evidence that is to be adduced and assimilated by the court. For example, whether the evidence is written or oral, given by a professional or lay witness, contested or uncontested, or factual or expert evidence;
vii) The scope and scale of the proposed hearing. How long is the hearing expected to last?
viii) The available technology; telephone or video, and if video, which platform is to be used. A telephone hearing is likely to be a less effective medium than using video;
ix) The experience and confidence of the court and those appearing before the court in the conduct of remote hearings using the proposed technology;
x) Any safe (in terms of potential COVID 19 infection) alternatives that may be available for some or all of the participants to take part in the court hearing by physical attendance in a courtroom before the judge or magistrates.
The following decisions on remote issues have also been published:
A Local Authority v (1) Mother (2) Father (3) SX (By his Children's Guardian) [2020] EWHC 1086, Lieven J (the judge decided to proceed to hear the lay evidence in a complex fact-finding using remote means)
Re Q (A Child) [2020] EWHC 1109, Sir Andrew McFarlane PFD (the judge was wrong to vacate a remote hearing)
Re B (Children) (Remote Hearing: Interim Care Order) [2020] EWCA 584 (where there was a telephone hearing involving the interim removal of children, the court was wrong to go ahead in highly pressurised circumstances)
Re P (A Child : Remote Hearing) [2020] EWFC 32, Sir Andrew McFarlane PFD (the fact finding issues relating to FII would not be heard remotely in the context of the mother's objection).
Enough of issues concerning remote hearings. What of the substantive law?
There have been important decisions in the following areas:
(i) the powers of the local authority pursuant to s33 Children Act 1989 insofar as that section relates to the vaccination of children in care;
(ii) the issue of DNA testing putative or possible siblings for the purposes of paternity testing;
(iii) disclosure of information to police from care proceedings
(iv) costs.
Section 33 of the Children Act 1989 and vaccination of children in care
In Re H (A Child) (Parental Responsibility: Vaccination) [2020] EWCA Civ 664 the Court of Appeal was considering whether a local authority had the power to arrange for the vaccination of a child in care pursuant to s33(3) Children Act 1989 or whether the issue should be referred to the High Court for determination in cases where the parents objected to the vaccination.
This was an appeal from Hayden J who determined the local authority's application for a declaration. The judge decided that vaccinations were not "treatment" but part of public healthcare in the preventative sense. The intrusion of a vaccination was at the lesser end of the scale of intervention and the risks of not vaccinating a healthy infant significantly outweighed the benefits of vaccinating.
The Court of Appeal agreed. There may be factors in any given case that militated against vaccination but not here. The critical issue was whether the issue was "grave" or "serious" so as to require court sanction before the local authority could exercise their parental responsibility. The court decided that routine vaccination was not grave or serious. The alleged and controversial link between MMR and autism had been definitively disproved.
A sharp distinction was drawn by the Court between the vaccination issue in the public law sphere as compared with private law applications. In private law neither parent had primacy over the other whereas in the public law arena Parliament had given the local authority the power to decide.
The court emphasised the need for local authorities to continue to involve parents in the decision making process and emphasised that s33 Children Act 1989 did not absolve a local authority of their responsibilities in that regard.
For an article specifically concerning this judgment, see Vaccination: Course Correction Local Authority powers following Re H (A Child) (Parental Responsibility: Vaccination) [2020] EWCA Civ 664 by Chris Barnes, and Harry Langford.
DNA testing putative or possible siblings for the purposes of paternity testing
Re A, B and C (Adoption: Notification of Fathers And Relatives) [2020] EWCA Civ 41 was a case that considered the approach to be taken where a mother wants a baby to be placed for adoption without notice being given to the child's putative father. In Re L (Adoption: Identification of possible Father) (2020) [2020] EWCA Civ 577 the Court of Appeal was considering further issues relating to the notification of fathers. The issues were:
(1) to what extent does the same approach apply where there is uncertainty about the child's paternity?
(2) what should the response of the court be to a proposal that paternity should be investigated by carrying out DNA testing on other children of the mother without reference to the possible father?
The Court held that if there was a substantial possibility that a person might be the child's father, that would be a factor to be taken into account alongside other factors bearing on the decision concerning notification. The weaker the possibility, the less likely the court would be to direct an investigation of paternity that compromised the mother's wish for privacy.
The issue of sibling testing arose in Re A, B and C because of the paternity issue. Peter Jackson LJ noted the concern that existed about the appropriateness of paternity testing on demand, particularly where it is based on the consent of one parent alone. He cited the British Medical Association guidance to doctors, Consent in paternity testing, updated December 2019, which says this under the heading 'Ethical obligations':
"Although, legally, paternity testing may be undertaken without further investigation where the necessary consents have been obtained, from an ethical perspective, the BMA considers that health professionals should agree to provide assistance with testing only where this is considered to be in the best interests of the child or young person."
In relation to 'motherless testing' the guidance advises doctors to advise against it and not to participate in it.
"Legally, where the putative father has parental responsibility for the child, motherless testing (tests which do not involve testing the mother's DNA) could be undertaken without the knowledge of the mother.
The BMA believes that this could be very harmful to the child, as well as to the family unit as a whole, and would prefer to see a situation in which the consent of all parties is required for paternity testing."
In the decision of Peter Jackson LJ:
"....concerns about the harm that 'motherless' testing may cause are also potentially relevant to 'fatherless' testing: testing without notice to a father. Such covert testing of another child may amount to an unlawful breach of the Article 8 rights of that child's father and of the child. Social workers will need to take account of these legal and ethical issues when making a judgement about the appropriateness of such testing. For its part, a court should in my view be extremely cautious before approving the testing of possible siblings as a means of clarifying the parentage of a child whose mother seeks adoption. It should reflect on the fact that in the presence of one secret (the birth of the child) it is, as a public body, being asked to endorse another secret (covert testing). It should think beyond the testing to the possible consequences. The inherent ethical objections to sibling testing are therefore only likely to be overcome in compelling circumstances where the clarification of parentage is necessary and where standard paternity testing is for some reason not an acceptable option. In any case, such a course should only be contemplated after a thorough analysis that takes full account of the interests of the possible siblings.
Disclosure of information to police from care proceedings
In Re A (Children) [2020] EWCA Civ 448 the Court of Appeal were considering the issue of disclosure of information to the police. In Re M (Children) [2019] EWCA Civ 1364 the Court of Appeal had decided that Re C (A Minor) (Care Proceedings: Disclosure) [1997] 2 WLR 322, sub nom Re EC (Disclosure of Material) remained "good law". King LJ held:
"J has sustained devastating brain injuries at the hand of one of his parents. The police are rightly investigating the case. As the judge identified, there is little confidentiality to lose in circumstances where the police have already received the detailed finding of fact judgment together with all the medical and other evidence. What is left is the parent's inconsistent accounts, whether through their own statements or made orally to the Guardian. It is accepted that they are relevant to the police investigation even though they cannot be used as evidence. In my judgment, on any proper application of the Re EC checklist, an order for disclosure was inevitable."
Re W (A Child) [2020] EWCA Civ 77 involved a costs order against a local authority. The Court of Appeal had allowed an appeal from care and placement orders and had decided that the local authority had not been "even handed" in its approach. Having reviewed the authorities on costs – Re T (children) [2012] UKSC 36 and subsequently in relation to appeals Re S [2015] UKSC 20 – the Court ordered the local authority to pay the costs of the aunt.

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Asaph started by recording his suffering (either a past or present event): every time he thinks of God he is in despair, his soul is exhausted and his arms are outstretched without rest, he is speechless and does not obtain any rest (Psa 77:15).
The psalms ends with the recollection of God's past deeds, namely the deliverance of Israel. It was through God's good deeds of the past, he proved who he was. Specifically, God's control of the weather and the parting of the Red Sea (the same event) are taken as a testimony of God's character (Psa 77:16-20).


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Voices in AI – Episode 82: A Conversation with Max Welling
jeudi 14 mars 2019, 13:00 , par The Apple Blog
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Episode 82 of Voices in AI features host Byron Reese and Max Welling discussing the nature of intelligence and its relationship with intuition, evolution, and need.
Listen to this one-hour episode or read the full transcript at www.VoicesinAI.com
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Byron Reese: This is Voices in AI brought to you by GigaOm, and I'm Byron Reese. Today my guest is Max Welling. He is the Vice President, Technologies at Qualcomm. He holds a Ph.D. in theoretical physics from Utrecht University and he's done postdoc work at Caltech, University of Toronto and other places as well. Welcome to the show Max!
Max Welling: Thank you very much.
I always like to start with the question [on] first principles, which is: What is intelligence and why is artificial intelligence artificial? Is it not really intelligent? Or is it? I'll start with that. What is intelligence and why is AI artificial?
Okay. So if intelligence is not something that's easily defined in a single sentence. I think there is a whole broad spectrum of possible intelligence, and in fact in artificial systems we are starting to see very different kinds of intelligence. For instance you can think of a search engine as being intelligent in some way, but it's a very different kind of intelligence obviously as a human being, right?
So there's human intelligence and I guess that's the ability to plan ahead and to analyze the world, to organize information—these kinds of things. But artificial intelligence is artificial because it's sort of in machines not in human brains. That's the only reason why we call it 'artificial.' I don't think there is any reason why artificial intelligence couldn't be the same or very similar to human intelligence. I just think that that's a very restricted set of intelligence. And we could imagine having a whole broad spectrum of intelligence in machines.
I'm with you [on] all of that, but maybe because human intelligence is organizing information, it's planning ahead, machines are doing something different like search engines and all that. Maybe I should ask the question: What isn't intelligence? I mean at some point, doesn't it lose all its meaning if it's like it's kind of… a lot of stuff? I mean like what are we really talking about when we when we come to intelligence? Are we talking about problem solving? Are we talking about adaptation or what? Or is that so meaningless that it has no definition?
Well yeah, it depends on how broad you want to define it. I think it's not a very well defined term per se. I mean you could ask yourself whether a fish is intelligent. And I think a fish to some degree is intelligent because you know it has a brain, it processes information, it adapts perhaps a little bit to the environment. So even a fish is intelligent, but clearly it's a lot less intelligent than a human.
So anything I would say that has the purpose of sensing—sort of acquiring information from its environment, computing from that information to its own benefit. In other words, to survive better is the ultimate goal or to reproduce maybe is the penultimate goal. And so basically, once you've taken any information and you compute then you can act—use that information. You can then act on the world in order to bring the world in a state that's more beneficial for you, right? So that you can survive better, reproduce better. So anything that processes information, I would say in order to reach a goal, in order to achieve a particular goal which in evolution is reproducing or surviving.
But… in artificial systems it could be something very different. In an artificial system, you could still sense information, you could still compute and process information in order to satisfy your customers—which is like providing them with better search results or something like that. So that's a different goal, but the same phenomenon is underlying it, which is processing information to reach that goal.
Now, and you mentioned adaptation and learning, so I think those are things that are super important parts of being intelligent. So a system that can adapt and learn from its environment and from experiences is a system that can keep improving itself and therefore become more intelligent or better at its task, or adapt when the environment is changing.
So these are really important parts of being intelligent, but not necessary because you could imagine a self-driving car as being completely pre-programmed. It doesn't adapt, but it still behaves intelligently in the sense that it knows when things are happening, it knows when to overtake other cars, it knows how to avoid collisions, etcetera.
So in short, I think intelligence is actually a very broad spectrum of things. It's not super well-defined, and of course you can define more narrow things like a human intelligence for instance, or fish intelligence and/or search engine intelligence or something like that, and then it would mean something slightly different.
How far down in simplicity would you extend that? So if you have a pet cat and you have a food bowl that refills itself when it gets empty…it's got a weight sensor, and when the weight sensor shows nothing in there, it opens something up and then fills it. It has a goal which is: keep the cat happy. Is that a primitive kind of artificial intelligence?
It would be a very, very primitive kind of artificial intelligence. Yes.
Fair enough. And then going back centuries before that, I read the first vending machines, the first coin operated machines were to dispense holy water and you would drop a coin in a slot and the weight of the coin would weigh down a thing that would open a valve, then dispense some water and then, as the water was dispensed, the coin would fall out and it would close off again. Is that a really, really primitive artificial intelligence?
Yeah. I don't know. I mean you can drive these things to an extreme with many of these definitions. Clearly this is some kind of mechanism. I guess when there is sensing and this can sense, there is a bit of sensing because it's sensing the weight of a coin and then it has a response to that—which is opening something. It's like a response and sort of completely automatic response, and humans actually have many of these reflexes. If you hit your knee with a hammer, with a paddle of a hammer like the doctor does, your knee jerks up, so that's actually being done through a nervous system that goes to… doesn't even reach your brain. I think it's down here somewhere in your brain in the back of your spine. So it's very, very, very primitive, but still you could argue it senses something and it acts. It does something, it computes something and it acts. So it's like the very, very most fundamental simple form of intelligence. Yeah.
So the technique we're using to make a lot of advances in artificial intelligence, now that computers is machine learning, I guess it's really a simple idea. Let's study data about the past. Let's look for patterns and make projections into the future. How powerful is that technique… what did you think are the inherent limits of that particular way of gaining knowledge and building intelligence?
Well, I think it's kind of interesting if you look at the history of AI. So in the old days, there was a lot of AI which was hard coding rules. So you would think about what are the all the eventualities which you could encounter. And for each one of those, you would sort of program a response as an automatic response to those. And those systems did not necessarily look at data in large amounts from which they would learn patterns and learn to respond.
In other words, it was all up to humans to figure out what are the relevant things to look at, to sense, and how to respond to them and if you make enough of those, actually a system like that looks like it's behaving quite intelligently and actually still I think nowadays, self-driving cars… a large component of these cars is made of lots and lots of these rules which are hardcoded in the system. And so if you have many, many of these really primitive pieces of intelligence together, they might look like they act quite intelligently.
Now there is a new paradigm which is: it's always been there, but it's been basically becoming the dominant mainstream in AI. The new paradigm I would say, which is: 'Well, why are we actually trying to hand code all of these things which we should sense in there by hand because basically you can only do this to the level of what the human imagination actually is able to come up with, right?"
So if you think about detecting some… let's say if somebody is suffering from Alzheimer's from a brain MRI, well you can look at like the size of your hippocampus and it's known that that thing shrinks—that organ shrinks if you are starting to suffer from memory issues which are correlated with Alzheimer's. So that a human can think about that and put this in as a rule, but it turns out that there's many, many more far more subtle patterns in that MRI scan. And if you sum all of those up, then actually you can get a much better prediction.
But humans, they wouldn't be able to even see those subtle patterns because it's like if this brain region and this brain region and this brain region, but not that brain region, would sort of have this particular pattern. Then you know this is a little bit of evidence in favor of like Alzheimer's and then hundreds and hundreds of those things. So that humans lack the imagination or the sort of the capacity to come up with all of these rules. And we basically discovered that just provide a large data set and let the machine itself figure out what these rules are instead of trying to hand code them in. And this is the big change for instance with deep learning as well, [as] in computer vision and speech recognition.
Let's first do computer vision. People have many hand coded features that they would try to identify on the image. Right. And then from there they would make predictions or for there's some whether there was a person in the image or something like that. But then we basically said, "Well let's just throw all the pixels, all the raw pixels at a neural nets. This is a convolution of neural net and let the neural nets figure out what are the right features. Let this neural net learn what the right features are to attend to when it needs to do a certain task." And so it works a lot better, again because there's many very subtle patterns that it now learns to look at which humans simply didn't think of to look at—they seem to look at these things.
Now another example is the Alpha Go, maybe. In Alpha Go something similar happened. Humans have analyzed this game and come up with all sorts of rules of thumb for how to play the game. But then Alpha Go figured out things that humans can't comprehend, it's too complex. But still it made the algorithm win the game.
So I would say it's a new paradigm that goes well beyond trying to hand code human invented features into a system and therefore it's a lot more powerful. And in fact this is also the way of course humans work. And I don't see a real limit to this, right? So if you pump more data through it, in principle you can learn a lot of things—or well basically everything you need to learn in order to become intelligent.
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Santiago de Compostela on the feast of Saint James the Apostle is a life goal for many. This city is the place where (tradition holds) the remains of Saint James the Great are buried. The city population is just around one hundred thousand, but swells considerably at times due to the over two hundred thousand pilgrims who come to Santiago each year as they complete one of the varied routes of the Camino.
If you have come to Santiago de Compostela on a Camino, your first stop is likely to be the Praza do Obradoiro with the ancient Cathedral of Santiago. The cathedral is Santiago's most famous building with a Romanesque structure and later Gothic and Baroque elements. At the Cathedral, is the famous Botafumeiro (its historic, giant thurible). The name "Botafumeiro" means "smoke expeller" in Galician. The present thurible was installed in 1851, and was in use today at the special Mass for the Feast of Saint James.
July 25 is the "Festas do Apóstolo," the amazing feast day of the Saint who brought Christ to this land. The evening of July 24 outdoor concerts and fireworks filled the air, booming and rattling the city and flashing lights on its walls. This morning on July 25, Archbishop Julián Barrio Barrio said the special feast day Mass of the Apostle. The church was packed with pilgrims from around the world, including our small group. It was a real highlight for Father Nathan Cromly who has guided this group from day one. After walking and teaching on Saint James for the past week it put an ending stamp on the trip for him.
A fascinating thing to observe was the many Galicians who also travel to Santiago to celebrate Galician language and culture. St. James is the patron saint of Santiago de Compostela but also Galicia; which means St. James Day is also Galicia Day and a holiday in the region. The two celebrations are so intertwined that the Saint and the culture are celebrated as one.
That very strength of character and passion for God brought Saint James all the way to the ends of the known world (at the time) and his memory and example is here even today, bringing the light of the gospel to those who celebrate his memory and journey on the Camino.


Sergio Rodriguez found his groove and led CSKA Moscow to a convincing road win against VEF Riga in VTB League.
Sergio Rodriguez nailed five shots from deep on his way to game-high 21 points and led CSKA Moscow in a convincing 107-80 road win over VEF Riga in VTB League.
Rodriguez shot 7/9 from the field while adding six assists, three rebounds and a steal for a 27 index rating. Mihail Kulagin followed with 19 in addition to Joel Bolomboy's 15 points. For Riga, Klavs Cavars scored 15 and Baden Jaxen 13 points.
CSKA created a big 32-15 lead in the first ten minutes and kept the distance until halftime (57-39). They kept going after the break leading by as much as 31 points (91-60) and bringing the game to a close.
The 'Army Men' won all ten of their games so far and hold the top of the standings alone while Riga stayed at the bottom with a 2-10 record.


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Deepen your understanding of Ayn Rand's Objectivism by seeing how it integrates and contrasts with the ideas of four other world-changing thinkers.
Ayn Rand created a rational, observation-based "philosophy for living on earth." Studying how her ideas integrate with those of other great thinkers can help you leverage the value of each toward clearer thinking and better living. In this course, you will examine how Rand's ideas integrate with those of Epictetus, Adam Smith, Alexander Hamilton, and Gene Roddenberry.
Epictetus was a highly influential Stoic thinker who focused on ideas for living a good life. Dr. Andrew Bernstein will discuss Epictetus's ideas on rationality, integrity, free will, happiness, emotions, values, and how these integrate or contrast with Rand's.
Adam Smith, the "Father of Economics," pioneered an observation-based approach to the subject. In his seminal work, The Wealth of Nations, he explained how markets incentivize production and trade, harnessing men's self-interest in ways that ultimately benefit others, as if by "an invisible hand." His economic ideas derive in part from his lesser known moral views. Jon Hersey will compare Smith's and Rand's ideas, showing that despite much common ground, the "Father of Capitalism" and the "Goddess of the Market" had deep differences—and that these differences matter to freedom fighters today.
Alexander Hamilton personified Rand's claim that the Founding Fathers were "a phenomenon unprecedented in history: they were thinkers who were also men of action." Hamilton was the primary author of The Federalist Papers and the founder of the Bank of New York, the U.S. Coast Guard, and the New York Post. Robert Begley will compare Hamilton's and Rand's views on slavery, business, economics, and industrialization. He'll highlight how both were immigrants who brought their best efforts to their adopted homeland—and faced staunch opposition, even from their supposed allies.
Gene Roddenberry's crowning achievement was creating the TV show Star Trek (1967–69), which communicated his vision of man and the future, and his views on social issues. Star Trek celebrated reason, science, and human progress, and it presented an optimistic future in which human beings have advanced beyond such things as racism, mysticism, war, and poverty. Thomas Walker-Werth will discuss the ideas Roddenberry communicated through the original Star Trek, the evolution in his ideas between it and the 1980s sequel series The Next Generation, and contrast both with Rand's philosophy and fiction.
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In addition to being director of development at OSI, Robert works as a speaking coach, helping TedX speakers and businessmen deliver more memorable messages. He constantly seeks to integrate the principles of Objectivism with those of effective self-development systems to create a personalized "supersystem" for success in work and life. And he teaches courses on these integrations for OSI, called "Your Supersystem for Flourishing." He is also host of The Hero Show. When he is not working, he enjoys swimming, playing basketball, practicing Bikram yoga, and dancing ballet.
Jon Hersey (@revivingreason) is managing editor of The Objective Standard and holds fellowships at Foundation for Economic Education, where he writes in defense of freedom, and at Objective Standard Institute, where he teaches "How to Write Powerfully in Defense of Liberty." He hosts the podcast "Philosophy for Flourishing." He's on a mission to identify and apply the principles of human flourishing. Get his ebook on writing in defense of liberty here, and join his mailing list at JonHersey.com.
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Q: How to have LaTeX-notebook in Jupyter? I want to use Jupyter (= IPython-notebook) as my file-manager for controlling my LaTeX projects.
Pylatex is not what I want.
You can for instance have a Matlab bridge so it is possible to have LaTeX bridge in IPython-notebook.
Pseudocode
sudo -H pip install [pylatexbridge]
sudo -H pip install [latex_kernel]
python -m [latex_kernel.install]

Pseudocode in $HOME/.bash_profile
export LATEX_EXECUTABLE=/usr/local/bin/latex % TODO which one here?

Goals

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*to get .tex syntax with colors in .tex files started from Jupyter.

*start the compilation of .tex document from Jupyter

*start preview of the output as pdf from Jupyter

Open

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*Which package does provide the .tex syntax with colors?

System: Ubuntu 16.04
Texlive-full: 2015

A: This worked for me in ubuntu 14.04.  I downloaded pandoc package from here
Download .deb file for ubuntu
sudo su
dpkg -i pandoc-1.19.2.1-1-amd64.deb
# These packages are too big. That's why install only things that are needed.
# So, included --no-install-recommends. Installs only dependencies
apt-get install --no-install-recommends texlive
apt-get install xzdec
apt-get install --no-install-recommends texlive-latex-extra
apt-get install --no-install-recommends texlive-xetex
apt-get install latex-xcolor
apt-get install --no-install-recommends texlive-generic-recommended

# For full texlive
# apt-get install --no-install-recommends texlive-full

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*After doing this run
jupyter notebook

*open your .ipynb file

*In menu bar, click File -> Download As -> pdf via latex
The other packages you can install is
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fonts-sil-gentium fonts-sil-gentium-basic fonts-stix fonts-texgyre fragmaster lacheck latex-beamer latex-cjk-all latex-cjk-chinese latex-cjk-chinese-arphic-bkai00mp
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Tag Archives: Br. Raymundo Suplido FSC
DLSU holds 12th Lasallian Scholarum Awards to honor PHL's best youth and education stories
September 17, 2015 Events, Uncategorized
In pursuit of its advocacy to promote the country's youth and education sectors, De La Salle University held the 12th Lasallian Scholarum Awards for outstanding media coverage last September 14, 2015 at the Makati Shangri-La Hotel.
The Lasallian Scholarum Awards, with this year's theme "#nofilter," celebrates the truthful and fearless coverage of youth and education stories while challenging the public to seek creative and collaborative solutions to the issues at the heart of the news.
This year's winners are: "Titser" by ANC for Outstanding Televised Feature Story on Youth and Education; "Muslim Kid" by Manila Bulletin's Linus Guardian Escandor III for Outstanding Published Photograph on Youth and Education; "Kukunin Ka ng Bumbay and Other Childhood Lessons on Race and Gender" by Rappler.com's Shakira Sison for Online Feature Story for Youth and Education; "DepEd chief to Bilibid grads: We're not that different" by The Philippine Daily Inquirer's Jovic Yee for Outstanding Published Feature Article on Youth and Education in a Nationally-circulated Publication; and "Our education reforms will work if…" by The Philippine Star's Preciosa Soliven for Outstanding Published Column Article on Youth and Education. The winners from these categories each received P25, 000.00.
"A look into CHED Memo No. 20-2013: The End of Language?" by The Lasallian won the Outstanding Published Feature Article on Youth and Education in a School Organ received P15,000.00. The grand prize winner for Outstanding Feature Story on De La Salle University is "This professor lights up their lives" by Jayson Mangalus of Manila Bulletin. He received P40,000.00.
The winners from professional media outfits also received a sculpture especially designed and crafted by renowned sculptor, Daniel Dela Cruz. Sponsored by the De La Salle University's Office for Strategic Communications, the Lasallian Scholarum Awards contracted an independent media-monitoring agency for the screening of youth and education news and features.
DLSU confers honorary degree in science on Nobel Laureate
March 11, 2015 Events, Science, Health, and Technology
DLSU President-Designate Br. Raymundo Suplido FSC presents a token of appreciation to Prof. Ada Yonath after she is given a honorary degree in science.
De La Salle University conferred upon 2009 Nobel Laureate for Chemistry Professor Ada Yonath by awarding her an honorary degree in science last March 2 at the DLSU Teresa Yuchengco Auditorium, coinciding with Bridges lecture she delivered on campus.
Best known for her pioneering work on the structure and atomic workings of the ribosome, the cell's "protein factory," the esteemed scientist also established the first protein crystallography laboratory in Israel. Prof. Yonath has generated 3D models that show how different antibiotics bind to the ribosome and how bacteria become resistant to antibiotics.
In addition, she introduced a novel technique called cryo bio-crystallography that "revolutionized the field of structural biology and has given it wide-ranging applications, particularly in the development and design of new antibiotics." She is also the first woman from the Middle East to win the Nobel Prize in science and the first woman in 45 years to win the Nobel Prize for Chemistry.
Prof. Yonath received her bachelor's degree in Chemistry and her master's degree in Biochemistry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1962 and 1964, respectively. She earned her PhD in X-Ray Crystallography at the Weizmann Institute of Science in 1968.
She held postdoctoral positions in Carnegie Mellon University in 1969 and MIT in 1970, where she worked with 1976 Chemistry Nobel Laureate William N. Lipscomb, Jr. of Harvard University.
In addition, Prof. Yonath was also visiting professor at the University of Chicago, visiting scientist at the Heinz-Günter Wittmann, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics in Berlin, and head of a Max-Planck Research Unit at Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY) in Hamburg while continuing her research activities at the Weizmann Institute of Science, where she was the holder of the Martin S. and Helen Kimmel Professorial Chair.
The Bridges lecture series is an event organized by both the Vienna-based International Peace Foundation and DLSU and, over the years, has included celebrated individuals such as former New York City Mayor Rudolf Giuliani, former World Bank President James Wolfensohn, Nobel Laureate for Physics David Jonathan Gross, Nobel Laureate for Economics Robert Mundell, former Timor-Leste President and Nobel Laureate for Peace Jose Ramos-Horta, former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair, Nobel Laureate for Medicine Torsten Wiesel, and former President of Poland and Nobel Laureate for Peace Lech Walesa.


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Der Zapadnoye Lake () ist ein 800 m langer See an der Prinzessin-Astrid-Küste des ostantarktischen Königin-Maud-Lands. Er liegt am westlichen Ende der Schirmacher-Oase.

Teilnehmer einer sowjetischen Antarktisexpedition kartierten ihn 1961 und benannten ihn nach seiner relativen geographischen Lage. Das Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names übertrug diese Benennung 1970 in einer Teilübersetzung ins Englische.

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HomeStudy Spanish OnlineLearn Latin Culture in SpanishLatin American CINEMA in SpanishPedro AlmodóvarKika
Country: España.
Duration: 117 Min.
Directed By: Pedro Almodóvar (See Pedro Almodóvar biography)
Kika is an optimistic and positively minded make-up artist. She lives together with a photographer, Ramón, who is very reserved and still suffering because of the death of his mother. They love each other, but they do not understand each other. Kika also has a friend called Amparo. A stubborn enemy, Andrea "Scarface", director/presenter of a reality show. An american lover called Nicolas Pierce who is the stepfather of Ramón. A mustachioed maid called Juana who is secretly in love with her employer and is the sister of Paul Bazzo, a former porno actor who has fled from prison a short time ago. Paul Bazzo visits his sister to ask her for help. In one of the rooms he finds Kika sleeping. Without being able to avoid it he violates her. But this shall not be the worst thing to happen from this moment on.
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Xbox Series X 4K video of Yakuza: Like a Dragon
Monday, November 9, 2020 | 10:23 PM
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We are not done yet with the Xbox Series X line-up, now it is time to show you Yakuza: Like a Dragon. This 4K video was captured in normal mode : 1440p and 60fps.
SEGA confirms Yakuza: Like a Dragon on PS5
Thursday, July 23, 2020 | 2:28 PM
Trailer PS5 Xbox Series X PC PS4 Xbox One
SEGA has launched the pre-orders for Yakuza: Like a Dragon (with various editions) which will be available in November on PC, PS5, PS4, Series X, and Xbox One. The publisher also announced George Takei as part of the English voice cast, the voice actor plays the powerful patriarch Masumi Arakawa. New trailer and screens inside.
Yakuza: Like a Dragon launches Holiday 2020
Thursday, May 7, 2020 | 7:23 PM
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The latest installment in SEGA's Ruy ga Gotoku franchise will launch in the West during Holiday 2020 on PC, PS4, Xbox One and Series X. A PS5 version has not been announced yet for obvious reasons but it should be a given. Released in January of this year in Japan, the game follows low-ranking yakuza Ichiban Kasuga who has been left for dead by the man he trusted most.
TGS: Yakuza: Like a Dragon coming West in 2020
Friday, September 13, 2019 | 2:03 AM
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After its announcement in Japan a couple of weeks ago, the seventh entry in the Ryu Ga Gotoku franchise confirmed its arrival in the West in 2020. New screens and videos of Yakuza: Like a Dragon inside.
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You know what is truly evil? The hectic-ness of the holiday season. I truly enjoy Christmas and pay homage to the idea that "it's the most wonderful time of the year," but sometimes, like today for example – it can all feel too overwhelming. I love my Star Wars Christmas tree – I think it's awesome and I want to share its out-of-this-world awesomeness with everyone…but putting together the posts I had outlined on Day 1 (or 8, depending how you're counting) is the glob of icing on my proverbial stress-cake…and though it shames me to say this – I am not going to manage to write all my posts…at least, not as I had originally planned.
You know you're a bad dude when Darth Vader refers to you as "less forgiving" than he is himself. Sitting on this throne, I suppose the Emperor thinks he's large and in charge, but something about this ornament strikes me as silly…like he's riding in an overgrown amusement park ride…or sitting in one of those motorized baby swings.
So, sorry – just 1 villain is all you're gettin'. I suppose if there were hundreds (ok, fine 1 or 2) comments gushing about the wonder of a Star Wars Christmas then perhaps I would feel more pressured (obligated?) to stick to my initial intentions. If a quiet lurker who has been enjoying the ride somewhere out there in a galaxy far far away is reading this…well, I apologize. Here's my band-aid solution: there are many Christmas seasons to come – so instead of introducing my entire collection this year. I will come back December after December and add a bit more to each day's post. I can handle that much (I think).
And since so much of the holidays are about anticipation – what beats waiting an entire year to see what I will choose to showcase next?
So there, I release myself from the guilt of an obligation left unfulfilled.
Now if I could only stop feeling bad about slacking on this year's Christmas cards.
Come back tomorrow when I will (maybe…) post a bit about the sidekicks of the series.
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Q: Setting environment variables with openshift programmatically I'm interested in saving a python object in an openshift env variable.It appears the first thing to do is serialize the object with pickle. Based on http://pythontips.com/2013/08/02/what-is-pickle-in-python/, I have:
import pickle
a = ['test value','test value 2','test value 3']
file_Name = "testfile"
fileObject = open(file_Name,'wb')
pickle.dump(a,fileObject)
fileObject.close().

My next question is how to save the fileObject to a custom openshift env variable. Based on https://developers.openshift.com/en/managing-environment-variables.html#custom-variables, it appears you set it at the command line. I'd like to set it programmatically using python. How can I do this?

A: Seems like you could probably just spawn a subprocess and run the appropriate commandline command (untested), e.g.
import subprocess, shlex

def openshift_env_var(appname, var, value):
    cmd = 'rhc env set %s=%s -a %s' % (var, value, appname)
    subprocess.call(shlex.split(cmd))

>>> openshift_env_var('myapp', 'test', 'value')


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Fort Vancouver (Washington, United States) (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-washington
as the northern boundary of the United States, ratified......Jan. 12, 1825 Dr. John McLoughlin, of the Hudson Bay Company, moves headquarters from Astoria to Vancouver, which thus becomes first settlement in present State of Washington......1825 Fort Colville built by the Hudson Bay Company at Kettle Falls, on the Columbia.....1825 Nathaniel J. Wyeth, with twenty-one men, starts from Boston overland for Oregon, and with a remnant of his party descends the Columbia, arriving at Fort Vancouver......Oct. 29, 1832 Fort Nisqually built by Archibald McDonald 4 or 5 miles from the mouth of the Nisqually River.......1833 Mission station established e and prohibition are rejected......Oct. 1, 1889 President proclaims Washington a State from......Nov. 11, 1889 Cities of Seattle, Spokane, Ellensburg, and Vancouver visited by disastrous fires......1889 New insane asylum at Medical Lake erected......1889-90 Legislature passes the Australian ballot bill......March 19, 1
Hood Canal (Washington, United States) (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-washington
's first steam saw-mill at Seattle......1853 I. I. Stevens, appointed governor of the Territory, arrives at Olympia, Nov. 26, and organizes the government......Nov. 28, 1853 First federal court held in Washington at Cowlitz Landing by Judge Monroe......Jan. 2, 1854 Treaty at Point Elliott, near the mouth of Snohomish River, with 2,500 Indians, agreeing upon a reservation on the Lummi River, Jan. 22, and later with the tribes farther north, selecting a reservation about the head of Hood Canal......January, 1854 Capital fixed at Olympia by act of legislature......1854 Gold discovered near Fort Colville......1855 Treaty with the Nez Perces, Cayuses, Walla Wallas, and Yakimas at Waiilatpu, by commissioners from Governor Stevens......June 11, 1855 Indian war begins; Indians attack eighty-four soldiers under Maj. G. O. Haller, sent from Fort Dalles, Oct. 3, for the Yakima country......Oct. 6, 1855 Three families massacred by Indians in White River Valley......Oct. 28,
Fort Dalles (Oregon, United States) (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-washington
reservation on the Lummi River, Jan. 22, and later with the tribes farther north, selecting a reservation about the head of Hood Canal......January, 1854 Capital fixed at Olympia by act of legislature......1854 Gold discovered near Fort Colville......1855 Treaty with the Nez Perces, Cayuses, Walla Wallas, and Yakimas at Waiilatpu, by commissioners from Governor Stevens......June 11, 1855 Indian war begins; Indians attack eighty-four soldiers under Maj. G. O. Haller, sent from Fort Dalles, Oct. 3, for the Yakima country......Oct. 6, 1855 Three families massacred by Indians in White River Valley......Oct. 28, 1855 Indians under Leschi, Owhi, and Tecumseh, attacking Seattle, dispersed by shells from the sloop-of-war Decatur......Jan. 26, 1856 Indians defeated in an attack on troops at White River......March 8, 1856 Yakimas and Klikitats sweep down upon the Cascades, massacre the family of B. W. Brown, March 26, and besiege the garrison until relieved by troops
Willapa Bay (Washington, United States) (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-washington
e Columbia River......1775 Strait of Juan de Fuca explored and named by Captain Meares after a Greek mariner of that name......1788 Captain Meares sails from Nootka southward, rediscovers and names Mount Olympus, and discovers and names Shoalwater Bay......July 5, 1788 Capt. Robert Gray discovers Gray Harbor, which he names Bulfinch Harbor, and Columbia River, which he enters......May 11, 1792 Lieutenant Broughton, of the British navy, ascends Columbia River about 100 miles......Oct by George Vancouver......April–July, 1792 Lewis and Clarke United States government exploring expedition descends the Columbia River, reaching its mouth......Nov. 5, 1805 Capt. Meriwether Lewis explores the coast from Columbia River to Shoalwater Bay......Nov. 18, 1805 Astoria, first American settlement on Pacific coast, established by John Jacob Astor's Pacific Fur Company......April 12, 1811 Fort Okanagan, built by David Stuart on the Okanagan, a branch of the Columbia......August
ays. Constitution ratified by the people......November, 1878 Citizens generally participate in goldspike celebration of completion of Northern Pacific Railroad......September, 1883 Attempts of Knights of Labor to expel the Chinese from Washington lead to riots. Governor Squire, by proclamation, calls on citizens to preserve peace, Nov. 5, 1885; and a riot occurring in Seattle, Feb. 7, 1886, he declares martial law......Feb. 8, 1886 State school for defective youth established at Vancouver......Jan. 26, 1888 Washington admitted to the Union......1889 Constitution framed by a convention which meets at Olympia, July 3; ratified by the people, 40,152 to 11,879. Articles for woman suffrage and prohibition are rejected......Oct. 1, 1889 President proclaims Washington a State from......Nov. 11, 1889 Cities of Seattle, Spokane, Ellensburg, and Vancouver visited by disastrous fires......1889 New insane asylum at Medical Lake erected......1889-90 Legislature passes
Fort Steilacoom (Washington, United States) (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-washington
ettles at Tumwater, at the head of Budd Inlet, naming it New Market......October, 1845 Congress notifies Great Britain that the conventions of 1818 and 1827, for joint occupation of Oregon Territory (including Washington) will terminate after twelve months......Feb. 9, 1846 Smithfield, afterwards (1850) Olympia, founded by Levi L. Smith and Edmund Sylvester......1846 Indian massacre at the Presbyterian mission at Waiilatpu; Dr. M. Whitman and family killed......Nov. 29, 1847 Fort Steilacoom, on Puget Sound, established......July, 1849 Convention of twenty-six delegates at Cowlitz Landing memorializes Congress for a separate government for Columbia (Oregon north of the Columbia)......Aug. 29, 1851 Seattle founded; named from a noted Indian chief......1852 Coal discovered near Bellingham Bay by William Pattle......1852 First number of the Columbian, a weekly newspaper, issued at Olympia......Sept. 11, 1852 Congress establishes a territorial government for Was
Snohomish (Washington, United States) (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-washington
....1853 Wagon-road opened over the Cascade Mountains, and thirty-five wagons, with 100 or 200 emigrants, reach Puget Sound......1853 Henry L. Yesler builds Puget Sound's first steam saw-mill at Seattle......1853 I. I. Stevens, appointed governor of the Territory, arrives at Olympia, Nov. 26, and organizes the government......Nov. 28, 1853 First federal court held in Washington at Cowlitz Landing by Judge Monroe......Jan. 2, 1854 Treaty at Point Elliott, near the mouth of Snohomish River, with 2,500 Indians, agreeing upon a reservation on the Lummi River, Jan. 22, and later with the tribes farther north, selecting a reservation about the head of Hood Canal......January, 1854 Capital fixed at Olympia by act of legislature......1854 Gold discovered near Fort Colville......1855 Treaty with the Nez Perces, Cayuses, Walla Wallas, and Yakimas at Waiilatpu, by commissioners from Governor Stevens......June 11, 1855 Indian war begins; Indians attack eighty-four soldi
Pullman (Washington, United States) (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-washington
rty-five men buried under 20,000 cubic feet of rock by the premature explosion of a blast at Spokane Falls......Sept. 7, 1890 New legislative apportionment law, on the census of 1890, enacted by the legislature at special session......Sept. 3-11, 1890 Work begun at excavating for commerce a solid deposit of borax in Douglas county, 8 1/2 feet thick, 1 1/2 miles long, and 1/2 mile wide, discovered in 1875......1891 Washington Agricultural College and School of Science established at Pullman......March 9, 1891 New United States naval station established at Port Orchard......September, 1891 Centennial of the discovery of Puget Sound celebrated at Port Townsend......May 7, 1892 Legislative deadlock over election of United States Senator......1893 State expended about $200,000 for magnificent display at the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago......1893 University of Washington reorganized and relocated on new campus of 355 acres within city limits of Seattle....
Fort Nisqually (Washington, United States) (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-washington
Bay Company at Kettle Falls, on the Columbia......1825 Nathaniel J. Wyeth, with twenty-one men, starts from Boston overland for Oregon, and with a remnant of his party descends the Columbia, arriving at Fort Vancouver......Oct. 29, 1832 Fort Nisqually built by Archibald McDonald 4 or 5 miles from the mouth of the Nisqually River.......1833 Mission station established at Waiilatpu, near Walla Walla, by the Revs. Whitman, Spaulding, and Gray......1836 Lieut. R. E. Johnson, of the United States exploring expedition, with three men from Nisqually, visits Forts Okanagan, Colville, Lapwai, and Walla Walla, and returns by Yakima River......May–July, 1841 Michael T. Simmons, with five families, settles at Tumwater, at the head of Budd Inlet, naming it New Market......October, 1845 Congress notifies Great Britain that the conventions of 1818 and 1827, for joint occupation of Oregon Territory (including Washington) will terminate after twelve months......Feb. 9, 1846 Smithf
Walla Walla (Washington, United States) (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-washington
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The term enhancement is defined as any treatment or process other than cutting and polishing that improves the appearance (color/clarity/phenomena), durability, value or availability of a gemstone. In today's gem marketplace, many gemstones have been enhanced by a variety of methods. Such processes may range from simple heating (such as with tanzanite) to high-tech irradiation (such as blue topaz).
At Pala International, we take enhancement disclosure seriously and guarantee, to the best of our abilities, to provide our customers with complete information on any and all enhancements to which a gem has been subjected. While many enhancements are currently undetectable, we do our best to provide all the information you need for informed buying decisions.
The guidelines we follow are those of the AGTA and are the most stringent in the industry. In addition, we have modified these guidelines slightly in areas where we feel they are not stringent enough (example: flux healing of ruby).
Some gemstone enhancements are less stable than others, meaning that the appearance of a gem may change with time. It is the general policy of Pala International to sell only those gemstones whose enhancements (if any) have good to excellent stability. In the event that we offer a gem with less than good stability, we will ensure you are aware of the special care needed for that stone. A gemstone enhancement is considered stable as long as the gem does not change in appearance (color and/or clarity) under normal wear, cutting, cleaning, repair or display conditions. Gemstones can be divided into three basic enhancement categories.
The "N" symbol is used on our invoices to indicate one of two situations. First, there are certain gemstones that are not currently known to be enhanced (alexandrite, some garnets, etc.). Second, the "N" symbol may also be used for a gem where it can be proved via gemological or other means that a gem has not been subjected to any enhancement. When you see the "N" symbol on our invoice, we guarantee that the gem in question is unenhanced.
The "E" symbol is used for gemstones that are routinely enhanced. Since many enhancements are difficult or impractical to prove definitively, unless otherwise indicated, our approach is to assume that such enhancements have been applied to that particular gemstone. This assumption is made to protect both buyer and seller. If a more specific method of enhancement is known, then the specific enhancement code will be used.
For gemstones not covered by the "N" and "E" symbols, a code covering the specific gemstone enhancement will be listed.
B = Bleaching: The use of heat, light and/or chemicals or other agents to lighten or remove a gemstone's color. This is often accompanied by subsequent dying and/or impregnation.
D = Dyeing (staining): The introduction of coloring matter into a gemstone to give it new color, intensify existing color or improve color uniformity.
F = Filling: The filling of surface-breaking cavities or fissures with colorless glass, plastic, or some similar substance. This process will improve durability, appearance and/or add weight.
Fh = Flux healing: During heat enhancement, fluxes (or heat alone) may be used to heal fractures/fissures which were formerly open. The process dissolves the walls of the fractures and redeposits the molten gem material, healing the fractures closed.
I = Impregnation: The impregnation of a porous gemstone with a colorless agent (usually plastic) to give it durability and improve appearance.
L = Lasering: The use of a laser and chemicals to reach and alter inclusions.
U = Lattice ('bulk' or 'surface') Diffusion: Outside-in diffusion of coloring chemicals via high-temperature heat treatment to produce color and/or asterism.
W = Waxing/Oiling: The impregnation of a colorless wax, paraffin and/or oil in porous gemstones to improve appearance.
I Impregnated with plastic and other hardened resins to improve appearance Usually Very Good Special Avoid chemicals and ultrasonic.
E or H Heated to improve appearance and ''sun spangles,'' or deepen color Usually Very Good to Good Special Avoid chemicals and ultrasonic.
Chrysoberyl, Cat's Eye R Irradiated to change color Occasionally Excellent Normal For safety requirements, if neutron irradiated, refer to the AGTA website provided in the resources section of this article.
R Irradiated to change color Rarely Unknown Normal For safety requirements, if neutron irradiated, refer to the AGTA website provided in the resources section of this article.
Topaz, Blue R Irradiated brown and often heated to produce blue color Usually Excellent Normal For safety requirements, if neutron irradiated, refer to the AGTA website provided in the resources section of this article.
The "N" symbol is used only for gemstones that we guarantee have not been enhanced.
* Indicates a gemstone that generally requires special or extra-special care (although the need for care is not necessarily related to the enhancement).
If you need additional information on gemstone enhancements or care, call us at 800-854-1598.


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"Ghost Of John McCain" Rises From Grave To Ignite "Holy War" As Russian and Hungarian Forces Gather On Ukraine Border
October 13, 2018 Sorcha Faal Sorcha Faal
By: Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Western Subscribers
A grimly worded new Security Council (SC) report circulating in the Kremlin today describing President Putin as erupting in anger at last evening's meeting and declaring "What the hell is going on?" [Какого черта ты делаешь?] "Has that bastard child McCain risen from the grave?" [внебрачный ребенок], states that a "Holy War" declaration is nearing against Ukraine after US Special Representative for Ukraine Negotiations Kurt Volker (who is, also, the Executive Director of The McCain Institute for International Leadership) catastrophically interfered in the biggest Christian Schism since 1054 that now has Russian military forces massed on the eastern border of Ukraine—and who are now joined by NATO member Hungary whose military forces are massing on the western border of Ukraine to protect their ethnic peoples now under dire "death list" threat. [Note: Some words and/or phrases appearing in quotes in this report are English language approximations of Russian words/phrases having no exact counterpart.]
Russia nears Holy War declaration against Ukraine that could lead to World War III
According to this report, even though President Donald Trump has re-set the United States foreign policy to the neutral non-interference state of "Principled Realism" that vows America will no longer interfere in the internal government and/or religious affairs of other nations, the over 30 year Clinton-Bush-Obama Regime legacy of neocon warmonger inspired wars and conflicts he was left to manage has littered Europe, the Middle East, African and Asia with numerous failed state World War III minefields ready to ignite at the slightest provocation.
One of the most dangerous failed state World War III minefield nations President Trump was left to manage by his neocon warmonger predecessors, this report says, is Ukraine—that, in 2014, had its internationally recognized democratically elected government overthrown by the Obama-Clinton Regime in what the global intelligence organization Stratfor (aka "Shadow CIA") called the most blatant coup in history—and that was done by the Americans as retaliation for Russia declaring "Holy War" and entering Syria to protect that nation's Christian peoples against radical Islamic terrorist barbarians.
With the Obama Regime knowing full well that Russia had lost over 20 million of its peoples fighting against demonic German Nazi forces in World War II, as opposed to the United States having only lost 400,000 of theirs, this report continues, the Americans, nevertheless, after overthrowing the Ukraine government sadistically installed in its place a Nazi Regime whose ruling forces now include:
Svoboda—stands for neo-Nazi nationalism, anti-communism, far right and is considered fascistic and/or anti-semitic party. Svoboda neo-Nazis spread their terror at the Euromaidan as they attacked government police.
Right Sector—stands for nationalism, ultra nationalism, neo-Nazi fascism and far right. Right Sector terrorists fought against government police forces at the Euromaidan.
Patriot of Ukraine—stands for racism and neo-Nazi political beliefs. Its neo-Nazis attacked the police at the Euromaidan.
Social-National Assembly—their terrorists brought their terror to the Euromaidan, and these neo-Nazis happen to be anti-Russian as well.
Neo-Nazi forces begin reign of anti-Russia terror in Ukraine to demonic glee of Obama-Clinton regime
Aiding the Obama-Clinton Regime in overthrowing the government of Ukraine, and supporting the Nazis' rise to power there, too, this report notes, was neocon warmonger US Senator John McCain—one of the most loathsome human beings ever recorded in American history whose crimes against humanity include his show-off stunt performed while on the aircraft carrier USS Forrestal as a US Navy pilot during the Vietnam War that caused a giant flame to erupt from his fighter jet engine that nearly destroyed the entire vessel and killed 134 sailors while seriously injuring 161 others whose arms and legs were blown off, and many of them being left blind.
Being the son of one of the US Navy's highest ranking officers, this report continues, McCain was never executed for his war crimes, and the following year was captured by North Vietnam after his fighter jet was shot down—with a fairy tale thereafter being spread that he voluntarily refused to be released when absolutely no such thing occurred—and that after the war, saw McCain refusing to acknowledge the over 1,000 American prisoners of war North Vietnam was holding until they were paid war reparations—with his even insuring that all of these American prisoners would die when, in 1991, he forced through a law making it illegal for anyone to ever tell the truth about what he and his fellow neocon warmongers had done—thus making it no surprise to anyone in the Kremlin when, in 2014, he showed up in Ukraine to celebrate the Nazis rise to power.
Neocon warmonger US Senator John McCain celebrates rise to power of Ukraine Nazi leader Oleh Tyahnybok
With US Senator John McCain, this past August, having joined his other Earthly departed neocon warmongers in the special place in hell reserved for such demons, this report says, many Kremlin experts believed that with his much deserved, and long overdue death, President Trump would be able bring these Nazi forces in Ukraine under control—but all of whom were blindsided when Kurt Volker, the director of McCain's leadership institute, pretending to be the US Special Representative for Ukraine Negotiations, shockingly hailed Patriarch Bartholomew's decision to split the Russian Orthodox Church, and that Foreign Ministery Lavrov declared would never be allowed to stand.
Not being understood by the American people, or even being told to them, this report notes, is that the Russian Orthodox Church is inseparable from the Russian government as both of them are the same entity—and to threaten the existence of either one is threatening both, thus meaning total war is justified in their defence.
Known as Russkiy Mir, this report explains, Russians consider the decision to recognize an independent Ukrainian Church as an attack on their very identity as there is the almost mystical belief, held by many in positions of influence, that the Russian world—sphere of influence and culture that belongs to Russia by God-given right—includes the Crimea where the first Russian sovereign was baptized, with even the idea of a separate Ukrainian Church considered an attack on the very foundations of their identity.
Russkiy Mir is the entirety of Russian existence
Unlike the Roman Catholic Church, which has a single, undisputed leader in the pope, this report details, each of the 14 branches of the Eastern Orthodox branch of Christianity enjoys significant sovereignty—and is why, in 1686, a letter was signed granting supervision over the Ukraine Church to the Moscow patriarchate—but that McCain's Nazi supporting demon Kurt Volker is now trying to tear away and give to the patriarchate of Constantinople as evidenced by Thursday's revocation of the legally mandatory status of the 1686 letter, which empowered the Patriarch of Moscow to ordain the Metropolitan of Kiev—that prompted the Kremlin to quickly declare that Russia will protect Orthodox believers in Ukraine if religious disputes go beyond lawful confrontation, and further warn: "Russia protects the interests of ethnic Russians and Russian-speakers everywhere and in a similar manner Russia protects the interests of Orthodox Christians, Putin has spoken about this more than once."
A solemn President Putin joins with Christian faithful for prayer in Kremlin on 13 October 2018 as Holy War against Ukraine draws near
To the notices that this conflict was nearing, this report further notes, has been stated by many experts, too—most particularly the Soviet-Russian political icon Aleksandr Skobov [English] who just weeks ago warned: "If Moscow isn't compelled to return Crimea to Ukraine, a major pillar of the international system that has been in place since 1945 will have been destroyed and a drift toward a major war is inevitable…If the international community lacks the will to achieve that, the pre-existing international system will collapse into a chaos that will not be resolved without a major conflict."
Not being fully known at this time, however, this report grimly states, is if President Trump is prepared to plunge the United States into this Holy War the Russian people have no choice but to wage—and whose early conflict actions are taking place now as Ukrainian military forces have fired over 700 artillery shells against their Russian peoples this week alone, and whose fighter aircraft are preparing to take to the skies with NATO fighter jets as global conflict looms—which believed to be Russian special forces have responded to by detonating and destroying one of Ukraine's largest ammunition and arms depots.
Preparing to join this war against Ukraine, too, this report continues, is NATO member Hungary—who became alarmed this past Spring when the Nazis in Ukraine began building a military base near their border after their ethic Hungarian peoples began refusing to sing the Ukraine-Nazi national anthem with their preferring to sing Hungary's instead—but all of whom are now living in daily terror after it was revealed these Nazis had compiled a "death list" in preparation for extermination.
President Putin (left) and Hungarian President Viktor Orban (right) meet in Kremlin to discuss Ukraine crisis
The reason behind these American neocon warmongers attempting to push Russia into declaring Holy War on Ukraine, this report concludes, is due to their terror of what's soon to occur in the upcoming Presidential elections expected to be held in Ukraine on 31 March 2019 that will see both them and their Nazi forces destroyed—and whose current poll leader of is Yulia Tymoshenko whom President Putin has supported in the past, and President Trump is supporting now—and upon whose taking power, would see both Russia and the United States working with her to restore her nation that has been left an economic basket case by the Obama-Clinton Regime, thus defusing this failed state World War III minefield before it explodes and takes the rest of the world down with it.
Hoped for future Ukraine President Yulia Tymoshenko (left) and President Putin (right) begin talks to heal Orthodox Church schism before Holy War begins
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In early February (2018), the Federal Security Service (FSB) was contacted by Yulia Skripal—who is the daughter of the former Russian spy Sergei Skripal, has lived in London since 2011 [English], and was preparing to return to Russia to marry the son of a high-ranking Russian security official—but whose father, already despondent over the death of his son last year, and his wife in 2012 [English], wanted to return to Russia with her—and in exchange for his being allowed to do so, would, in turn, provide proof that MI6 had entirely created what is now known as the now discredited "Trump Dossier" in cooperation with the Obama-Clinton regime designed to destroy the legitimacy of President Trump.
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At the same time the highly influential Veteran Intelligent Professionals for Sanity (VIPS) organization is warning President Trump that the "Deep State" intelligence on Iran he is receiving could be catastrophic, a new Ministry of Defense (MoD) report circulating in the Kremlin today suggests that the United States, if not the entire world, may have even bigger things to worry about—and is due to a believed to be shootdown by the US Air Force of a known and accepted "interstellar-interdimensional device" (most commonly referred as a UFO) within the Arctic Circle on 25 July, whose explosive force was registered at 2.1 kilotons—and has now seen this "devices" suspected "pair-mate", on 4 August, enter our Earth's atmosphere in the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Region-Yugra in West Siberia from where it began transversing the globe—until yesterday, 7 August, when it hovered in the skies over the Philippines, then raced towards the Arctic Circle where it plunged into the Greenland Sea with enough force to cause a 5.8 magnitude earthquake—and in response to President Putin, just hours ago, ordered the immediate deployment of the entire Russian Northern Fleet to Arctic waters. […]
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