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Renault DP World F1 Team is pleased to extend its relationship with Sergey Sirotkin. The Russian will continue as Reserve Driver for the 2020 FIA Formula 1 World Championship.
Sergey, from Moscow, Russia, is familiar both with the team and the role having occupied it for Renault DP World F1 Team in 2019 and 2017.
With 21 Formula 1 starts and a handful of test days under his belt, Sergey provides Renault DP World F1 Team with experience and contemporary F1 technical insight.
The 24-year-old will join the team ahead of this weekend's season opening Austrian Grand Prix and will be present at F1 races.
Sergey Sirotkin: "It's great to be back with Renault DP World F1 Team as Reserve Driver. I know the team very well having been with them throughout the 2019 season. I understand the importance for a team to have a driver ready to fill in quickly should the opportunity arise, especially given the current situation the world is in. I've been keeping sharp and focused and I would be well prepared to race a Formula 1 car again. I'm looking forward to seeing my friends at Renault soon."
Cyril Abiteboul: "We're pleased to welcome Sergey back to the team for this year. Given the current circumstances we find ourselves in, we must have plans in place for any situation which might occur. We know Sergey very well and he, likewise, knows the team. We're looking forward to welcoming Sergey this weekend in Austria."
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Home Entertainment Film Review: 'Thomas Sankara. The Upright Man'
Film Review: 'Thomas Sankara. The Upright Man'
Upper Volta was a very poor country in West Africa and hardly merited any mention outside that region until Thomas Sankara overthrew the country's corrupt military leadership in 1984 and renamed the country Burkina Faso, translated which means "Land of Upright People." Sankara then embarked an a political course that amounted to a "third way" which did not necessarily correspond to big power interests (France, the United States and the Soviet Union in that order).
However, like Patrice Lumumba—an earlier principled political leader who was a violent casualty of the Cold War—Sankara's penchant for creativity and unconventional politics, resulted in a complex legacy where those who praise his social and economic reforms during his short tenure have a hard time squaring it with his often undemocratic politics. It may also have led to his downfall and violent dead.
As British filmmaker Robin Shuffield's recently released documentary film, Thomas Sankara: The Upright Man, distributed by California Newsreel in the United States, show, Sankara openly challenged both French hegemony in West Africa as well as his fellow military leaders (Sankara labeled them "criminals in power."
The film shows how Sankara called for the scrapping of Africa's debt to international banks and to their former colonial masters. He also preached economic self-reliance. He shunned World Bank loans and promoted local food and textile production. (There's a classic scene in the documentary where he had the whole Burkina delegation to an OAU meeting decked out in local textiles and designs).
Domestically, women, the poor and the country's peasantry benefited mostly from the reforms. Sankara outlawed tribute payments and obligatory labor to village chiefs, abolished rural poll taxes, and promoted gender equality in a very male-dominated society (including outlawing female circumcision and polygamy. He often made his point through media stunts. Like the time, he told women to stay at home and let the men do the shopping. His administration instituted a massive immunization program, built railways and kick-started public housing construction. His administration aggressively pushed literacy programs, tackled river blindness, and embarked on an anti-corruption drive in the civil service.
He discouraged the luxuries that came with government office and encouraged his colleagues to do the same. Sankara earned a small salary, refused his picture to be displayed in public buildings, and forbade the uses of chauffeur-driven Mercedes and first class airline tickets by his ministers and senior civil servants.
It was today twenty-one years ago on October 15, 1987 that armed men burst into his office and murdered him and twelve of his aides in a violent coup d'état. In events that eerily paralleled those in the Congo 27 years earlier when Lumumba was executed, the attackers cut up Sankara's body and buried his remains in a hastily prepared grave. The next day Sankara's deputy, Blaise Compaoré, declared himself President. Compaoré has ruled that country ever since and has both attempted to co-op and distort Sankara's memory.
Shuffield's film details how Sankara made tactical blunders and underestimated the strength of his opponents. This might be why unlike Lumumba among third world nationals or Nelson Mandela among Western elites, Sankara is not much talked about today, whether in Africa or in the West. One West African historian suggested to me that he was a 1960s figure trapped in the politics of the 1980s.
But Sankara was also undemocratic. He banned trade unions and political parties, put down protests (most significantly one by teachers in 1986). Many people were the victims of summary judgments by Peoples Revolutionary Tribunals, which sentenced "lazy workers," "counter-revolutionaries" and corrupt officials. Sankara himself would later admit on camera that the Tribunals were often used as occasions to settle private scores.
By 1987, he was politically isolated. His enemies—a mix of the French political establishment (he had humiliated President Francois Mitterand in public on a few occasions), regional leaders (like Ivorian President Felix Houphouet-Boigny)—began to tire of him.
Compaoré is widely suspected to have ordered Sankara's murder and do the French and regional dictators a favor. Though Compaoré publicly grieved for Sankara and promised to preserve his legacy, he quickly set about purging the government of Sankara supporters.
In contrast to the cool reception given Sankara earlier, Compaoré was welcomed by Western governments and funding agencies. Within three years Compaoré had accepted a massive IMF loan and instituted a Structural Adjustment Program (largely seen as one of the major causes for the ongoing economic crises in Africa). Compaoré also reversed most of Sankara's reforms. (Not surprisingly this included the insistence that his portrait hang in all public places as well as buying himself a presidential jet.)
For the last twenty years Burkina Faso's government have proved reluctant to investigate Sankara's death fully. It wants to "move on." And Compaoré is in a hurry to do so. Compaoré —whose regime has been implicated by researchers in the civil wars in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Cote d'Ivoire and Liberia—is having a make-over as a "democrat" and is now a staunch ally of the United States. In November 2005 he was re-elected. That means Compaoré will have been in power uninterrupted from 1987 to 2012.
This year, according to the UN Human Development Report, life expectancy in Burkina Faso stood at 51 years, 23% of adults can read, three in every ten children are under weight for their age, and more than two-thirds of its 13,5 million people live on less than US$2 a day. Many of the gains under Sankara has been reversed.
Sankara's short four-year reign—for all its faults—as Shuffield's film show, pointed briefly to the potential of different political futures for Africans.
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Noah Purifoy Outdoor Desert Art Museum, Joshua Tree, CA. Artist Noah Purifoy (1917-2004) used found items to create assemblage sculpture that was dubbed "Junk Dada." The title feels dead-on. In the surreal Noah Purifoy Outdoor Desert Art Museum (63030 Blair Ln., Joshua Tree, sunrise-sunset daily, free but donations appreciated), metal, plywood, porcelain, paper, cotton and glass are twisted and stacked into sculptures spread across 10 acres of an otherworldly artscape.
Born in 1917 in Snow Hill, Alabama, Purifoy was almost 40 when he received his BFA from Chouinard Art Institute (now California Institute of the Arts). He was the school's first full time African American student. He spent much of his life in Los Angeles working in public policy and co-founding the Watts Towers Art Center. Using found objects to create sculpture, Purifoy devoted himself to art and social change to become a pivotal American artist.
Purifoy launched his career as a sculptor with his collection of 66 signs of Neon (1966), assembled from the charred wreckage of debris he collected from the 1965 Watts Riots in Los Angeles, In the late 1980s, he moved to Joshua Tree full-time, creating large-scale art on the Mojave Desert floor.
The sculptures in this outdoor desert museum are whimsical, political and comical with broken pieces and discarded junk mended into recognizable shapes. Made from cheap plywood and gaudy paint, the interior of the brightly colored Carousel is jammed with computer monitors, discarded office machinery and analog artifacts. Other sculptures, such as Shelter and Theater, are reminiscent of abandoned mining camps and Wild West towns, resuscitated once again into a cobbled together reminder of the American Dream scattered across rocky desert.
In 2015 several of Purifoy's sculptures were featured in an exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. It's a testament to the strength of his sculpture that the pieces held their own even when removed from their desert context and featured in a more sterile museum space.
More posts like this can be found in the travel guide Moon Palm Springs and Joshua Tree by Jenna Blough where this piece was originally published.


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Trixie's Education
by Ixy
Molly danced around the room in her pajamas and slippers. Twilight lay on her bed reading through her little black book. Her quill scribbled out notes in an unruly pad that was thicker than the book she was taking notes on. Trixie watched the two of them from the other side of the huge bed in Twilight's quarters with a scarf tied over her eyes.
Twilight shined in the darkness as a shining purple star. Molly's dancing light fluttered happily and looked somewhat green. Aloysius looked like a pale transparent moth flitting around the room. His light settled down on the bed and turned toward Trixie. "What do you want?" she asked.
"Lets not start that again," she said. Trixie took her blindfold off and shot him a nasty look. The bird completely ignored her.
Twilight shone the little light from her horn from one book to another. The owl landed next to her and flipped pages for her without being asked. "I'm really excited about the second teleportation class, aren't you girls?" she asked. She sipped green tea from a little cup.
"Hmmryeah," Trixie said. Molly giggled, "Yeah!"
"And I've got artifacts class in the morning," Molly continued. Trixie moved some books to make room for the filly to sit next to her. "It's a lab class so we'll actually be making stuff."
"After going to the moon and back you're excited about making enchanted charms?" Trixie asked sarcastically, "It wouldn't have anything to do with Starshine, would it?"
Molly just giggled next to Trixie.
"Starshine?" Twilight asked, looking up and accidentally shining her light in Trixie's eyes.
"Um," Molly said, "He's a colt who's really into making stuff in the artifactory. He's a genius!"
Twilight smiled. "I guess you're pretty sweet on him," she said.
Molly nodded so hard she fell over onto Trixie. Trixie felt the softness of her very fashionable silk pajamas against her cheek. Molly smelled like sweet hay and dried flowers. It made the blue unicorn blush.
Twilight said, "I think you two should get some sleep. You'll both have classes tomorrow. I'll be staying up late studying with Aloysius. I'll try not to make any noise."
Molly pulled up the covers and snuggled next to Trixie. "If I can get to sleep," she said.
"I think I'll get the folding bed from the closet," Trixie said.
"You don't mind if I stay here, do you?" Molly asked, making big brown eyes at Trixie.
"I don't mind, kiddo," Trixie said, nuzzling her neck.
"I feel so safe with you, Trixie," she said, "You're my best friend ever."
Trixie wrapped her forelegs around the little filly. Within a few minutes Molly was asleep in her embrace and snoring quietly.
Twilight looked over at the two of them. Trixie stuck out her tongue. Twilight just smiled, looking at them sideways.
Miss Aurora showed up for the second teleportation class. It was only one night since their lunar field trip. The class met in the usual underground chamber. Moon Pie trotted around happily, skipping like a little colt. Despite his skinnyness and gangly legs he was no colt. He was probably older than most of the students and came from a less educated background than most unicorns.
Miss Selene gathered the class together. "My intention," she said, "was to begin working on shadow dowsing tonight, but due to circumstances we'll be working on sliding instead. If you have read the brief chapter in your textbooks you may be confused. Normal teleportation is subject to so many limitations that you may wonder why a form with no such limits isn't better known. I will try to explain that as much as I can and will try to develop the ability in any of you who can manage it."
Miss Aurora stepped in and took the lead. "You surely know that conventional teleportation takes a lot of energy and it's difficult. Sliding takes very little and allows a creature to move from place to place with no such limits. It's not just unicorns who can do it either. Many other beings, including earth ponies, can learn to slide." She took an odd step sideways and disappeared.
The teacher spoke again from the back of the room. "I just moved across the room without using teleportation focus or using significant magical energy. It would have been just as easy to move to Fillydelphia as it was to move just thirty hooves to the other side of the room. The problem is it's not something you can learn just by applying your magical energies in the correct way. For any of you lucky enough to be able to learn it opens the world to you in whole new ways."
Selene spoke from the other side of the room, Aurora suddenly back at her side. "Miss Sparkle," she said to Twilight, "Would you please come up here?"
Twilight trotted to the front of the room, Aloysius perched on her back.
"Would you please do as we discussed?" Selene asked.
Twilight turned to Aurora and said quietly, "Miss Aurora, there's something you should know about… one of the students." Then she smiled, looking in the middle of the group. Selene looked at the same place.
The gathered unicorns were startled. They moved aside, realizing there was a bright pink pegasus standing in the middle of the group shaking her head. The pony raised a hoof and made a zipping motion on her muzzle. Then she looked around at the group of unicorns around her. "Oh hi," she said.
"Hello cousin," Moon Pie said, "Nice wings."
"Hi, Moonie, thanks," Pinkie said in response, "Whatcha doin' here?"
"Ah'm learnin'," the white unicorn responded in a slow drawl.
Pinkie nodded, then trotted up to Twilight and stared in her eyes, her brows knitted. "You weren't going to, were you?" she said.
"Oh Pinkie," Twilight said, "I was just pretending to get you here."
Pinkie looked around, confused.
"I'm sorry, Miss Pie," Miss Selene said, "But we used a ruse to bring you to our class. Would you mind telling me where you were before you were here?"
Pinkie looked thoughtful, her blue eyes staring at the ceiling. "Hmm, in the bakery, I think, mixing buttercream icing for cakes for tomorrow," she said, obviously unclear as to what really happened.
"Do you know how you got here?" Miss Aurora asked.
Pinkie looked around the room. "Nope," she said shaking her head.
"Class," Miss Selene said, "I think you can see it doesn't take good magical focus to slide." About half the class snickered. "Pinkamena," she asked, "Do you know why you're here?"
"Oh yeah!" Pinkie said, "Because Twilight was… she was going to tell a secret… or something." She looked confused again.
"Thank you very much," Miss Aurora said in her sweetest voice, "Twilight won't be telling any secrets tonight. You can go back to your icing."
"Okey dokey lokey," Pinkie said and promptly vanished without explanation.
"Mister Pie's cousin," Selene said, "might seem a bit peculiar. The truth is she's remarkably connected to her friends and the world on an unconscious level. Twilight happens to know her personally and has experienced this and other manifestations of her connection. We wouldn't usually call this magical, since the term is normally reserved for unicorn magic, but she is an advanced practitioner of a sort of very ancient magic."
"The truth is lost to the ages but it is believed that unicorns developed the art of teleportation in imitation of sliding, and scrying in imitation of this unconscious interconnection," Miss Aurora said, "By substituting magical focus and energy to cross space they could move without moving in a similar way. It's easier to teleport intentionally, but it requires energy and has limits. Those ponies who can naturally slide do it without thinking. They are very in tune with the underlying nature of reality and this allows them to move anywhere in Equestria or even beyond in a moment when it feels right for them to do so."
"You won't study this at all in your regular classes," Miss Selene said, "Philosophy of Magic 402 might touch on it. Your regular history of magic classes won't tell you about anything but unicorns and magical creatures like dragons. Natural magic doesn't get much coverage."
Miss Aurora stepped toward the class. "I want each and every one of you to experience this at least once. It is less disorienting than the teleportation you're familiar with. You will also be traveling to some place familiar to you."
Miss Selene motioned for Moon Pie to step forward. He trotted up to her with a beatific look on his face. A dot of light appeared on the end of Selene's horn and the two of them vanished immediately.
Then Miss Aurora motioned for Trixie to come forward. Trixie could feel her heart thumping. She approached the golden maned unicorn almost in a trance. She gazed into her teacher's violet eyes. She heard that heavenly voice through a fog. "Think of some place familiar to you, Trixie," she said, "As if you were there right now."
Trixie's mind was in a cloud. She was so close to Aurora, to the deity she knew the teacher really was, that she could feel the warmth of her solar aura against her skin. Then she felt another warmth. There was a crackling fire behind her. She looked around in alarm. They weren't in the meeting chamber any longer. It was a dark room filled with cushions with a blazing fire in a marble fireplace.
Aurora smiled at her. "That's very interesting, Trixie," she said gently, "I know you've never been here before." Trixie turned to her teacher and found herself looking up. She was gazing into the same violet eyes, now framed by a gorgeous billowing mane with all the colors of dawn. The firelight glinted off her crown and long slim horn.
Trixie's whole body shuddered. She found herself unable to speak.
"I never imagined a student would end up sliding into my personal chambers when you've never been here before. Please sit down, we need to talk for a little while," the princess said. She indicated cushions on the floor and curled up demurely.
"P-princess," Trixie began but didn't finish.
"Trixie," she said almost in a whisper, "I can tell what's happening. Your feelings are so strong I can easily sense them."
Trixie sat on a dark cushion. The scent of the princess surrounded her.
"It's okay, Trixie," the princess said quietly, "I know how you feel about me and I won't play with your heart. I hope you can be satisfied with just being near me." She reached out and gently kissed Trixie on the forehead, just in front of her horn. "I love all my subjects," the princess said, "and I appreciate my admirers. I understand how you feel."
Trixie sat quietly, looking ashamed.
"I just want to be your teacher and will be teaching you teleportation. You showed great potential in yesterday's class and you've shown a very unusual talent in sliding, it seems. We do need to go back to the class, but if you'd like to talk for a while longer that's okay."
Trixie shook her head. There were tears in her eyes.
"We'll go back in a little while." The princess stayed close, her warm breath on Trixie's cheek.
Molly ran up to Trixie as soon as she reappeared. "Isn't it great?" she asked excitedly, "Where did you go?" Trixie wasn't in a mood to respond. She was very quiet for the rest of the class. Molly was concerned but said nothing. She just stood by and comforted her friend.
Trixie lay next to Molly on the bed. Her tears had soaked into Molly's mane. She held the larger unicorn with her forelegs. "It's okay," she said and nuzzled Trixie's cheek.
"I can't believe it," Trixie sobbed, "I've wanted to get close to the Princess for so long. I'm so stupid. It's never going to happen. I've been so envious of Twilight and her being a personal student. Now that I have the chance, I can only think of…" She looked into Molly's big brown eyes.
"I guess the Princess was my first crush and I never got over her," Trixie said, "Not that I haven't been involved with other mares, but she's the princess and so beautiful and powerful, and, and, I know she wouldn't be interested in some common unicorn like me."
Molly shook her head. "You're anything but common," she said, "You're lovely and talented and if I were interested, I'd be, uh, interested." Molly giggled a little uncomfortably.
Trixie smiled a little and nuzzled her wet cheek. "You're the best friend I've ever had, maybe the only true friend I've ever head, do you know that?" she asked.
"Trixie…" she said.
"Molly," Trixie said, smiling, "It's true. I've never had any mare I could really confide in." She leaned against her friend. "I guess you've been in a similar situation but you're so strong, with all you've been through in your life."
Molly blushed. "I-I did have to hide things, I guess, and it was stressful and it wasn't until just recently I felt I could get really close to others, other than my mother," she said.
"Molly," Trixie said, "You had to hide everything about who you were. I don't think they'd have let you in the door except to sweep the floors as you were. You convinced a team of admissions unicorns and I guess everyone except for one mare. If you don't think you're one strong young filly you're wrong."
Molly whickered a little. "There is a story to that," she said, "and I guess it's okay to tell it now. You see, a few months ago I was walking to class and noticed Princess Luna up on the old wall by the administration hall watching me. I got a note that I was to meet with someone in admissions. I was terrified. I was always afraid I'd slip or someone would find out about my father…" Her long ears flattened at the thought.
Trixie quietly nibbled her cheek.
"Princess Luna was in the office. She asked if I wanted to enroll in a special program that would help me develop my abilities. She wanted to speak privately. She was very gentle in mentioning my background and said that it wasn't a problem and that I'd have no more worries about it. She said that the truth had to be known, at least to a select few, and it would hurt but I was some great undeveloped talent. She said I'd be wasting my time learning to be a magical scholar, which is what I'd been trying for."
"Molly," Trixie said, "When I met you I thought you'd have been destined to be a librarian or something. But what I've seen in the last few months is amazing. I thought I was good at fooling ponies but you're the master. I think you're better at it than our teachers and they've been doing it a long, long time."
"You can't mean that. What I do just feels natural. I don't even try. I worked so hard at learning and doing regular magical work…"
"That's it, my little filly," Trixie said, "You are a natural. Like Miss Sel…Luna said, "You have a fantastic natural talent. I think in the classes she's trying to help you unlearn things more than learn them. She's wants you to trust your feelings, not follow what you've learned from books and the other teachers. It's not like casting a ward where there's a standard formula and you have to be a studied expert to figure it out or modify it."
"I want to believe that, but it's so hard. I never saw myself like that. All I really wanted was to be in contact with magic. I could always feel it in myself but didn't think I'd ever be really good with it."
"You are great at it," Trixie said, "and you're getting better. Luna didn't put us both in her classes to learn to do what's in the regular books. She knew we were both special in our own ways. I think some of the other students are special in the short bus and helmet way."
Molly giggled. "Moonie," she said. The two sat quietly for a while. Trixie's tears slowly dried.
"You must've been very lonely," Molly said.
"Yeah, for a long time I guess." Trixie thought back to all the years she spent on the road alone after the split with her family. She'd had brief passing relationships and occasionally something more serious but she had never gotten close to anyone really. Not until now.
The griffon pursued a pine marten into a corner. She licked her beak with a long pointed tongue and let out a "Skree!" She spread her wings, blocking any escape. The marten pressed its back into the corner, its paws spread, looking terrified. The huge hooked beak scooped it up and snapped shut. The griffon trotted around the room like a happy puppy, her tail held high. An owl watched her, happily hooting in her direction.
"You see," said the flour sack on the podium, "you may sense something that doesn't make much sense to you but it may be correct." "Miss Mudd," she continued, "I don't believe Mister Bubbles can hear."
The griffon opened her beak, revealing the marten lounging on her tongue with a rather blissful expression. Molly put him down with a wet plop. He looked disappointed. "You taste like uck," she said. The marten stuck out his tongue at her.
The transfiguration class had dwindled to half a dozen students. Molly, Trixie, and Twilight had remained as had a pair of sisters and a goofy colt, who seemed useless in other subjects but had a definite talent for transfiguration into small animals. The sisters were better at inanimate objects.
"Molly has an ability to sense the desires of others," said the teacher, pointing with one of her corners, "which allowed her to sense Tiny's, uh, desire to be, uh, pursued and, ehh, caught." Miss Selene became herself again and flipped through the notes she had been sitting on. A small cloud of flour rose from them.
"Miss Selene," an owl asked, "Isn't it dangerous to play with the feelings of others this way?"
"Oh it is, Miss Sparkle," she said, "Remember in our first transfiguration class when Molly transformed into that purple-maned unicorn. Your assistant, that little dragon, was quite indignant. Molly had sensed a latent desire in him and transformed into the unicorn he has a crush on and which she idolized."
Twilight looked a bit embarrassed, hiding her beak under her wing.
"If Spike hadn't been aware it was really Molly taking on the appearance of this Rarity she could have easily manipulated him. In the case of your present situation I think the situation is similar but a bit different."
Despite Twilight's appearance as a female owl Aloysius was more interested in Molly. The griffin sat on her haunches and he nuzzled up next to her. She wrapped her wing around him, the owl looking lost in her embrace. He cooed happily. The soggy marten snuggled under her other wing.
"Molly is quickly becoming a master of manipulation," Miss Selene said, "I think you have a more intellectual approach, Twilight, Molly's ability is entirely intuitive. That doesn't make the way you do it wrong, it means you're utilizing your abilities differently"
"Trixie," Miss Selene asked, "are you doing okay?"
Trixie was moping in a corner with the two sisters. They were all doing inanimate objects but Trixie wasn't really into it. She was a sad little stone.
Spike lay curled in his basket softly snoring. Little puffs of smoke rose from his nostrils and drifted out through an open window. Twilight sat quietly reading. For once she was reading a fantasy novel about owls, not her usual fare of texts on magic or natural history. She had already read the first dozen books in the series and wasn't able to put them down.
There was a quiet rush of air as an actual owl fluttered in through the open window. He dropped a scroll in front of Twilight and settled silently on a perch by her desk. Twilight stuffed a marker into the book she was reading and lifted the scroll into the air. It unfurled and a sack of coins fell out. It landed on her desk with a loud clink. The scroll revealed itself to be a crudely written grocery list. From the sound of the enclosed coins they could buy wagonloads of butter, flour, and turnips.
Twilight concentrated for a moment and the parchment glowed. The scrawled list vanished and another message in a very neat hand filled with flourishes was revealed. "Dearest TS…" it began.
Twilight read, sometimes with a snicker and then a satisfied smile. She read the whole thing over again and made sure she had memorized the details. Then she touched it with her horn and it went up in flames. The dark smoke joined the puffs of thinner smoke coming from the sleeping baby dragon.
Twilight gazed at the ceiling and thought. She tapped a quill on her inkwell. Then she noticed throat clearing noises coming from her pet.
"Oh, I'm sorry Aloysius," she said. She levitated a white mouse out of a little cage on a bookshelf. The owl immediately leapt from his perch and pursued it. The floating mouse led him on a chase around and around the whole library. He flew in near silence and didn't disturb anything. The mouse, on the other hoof, squeaked in terror the whole time. When she was tired of the game Twilight let the owl catch it. He pinned it with his claws and swallowed the squealing thing head-first.
Twilight had gotten over any squeamishness about feeding Aloysius live animals. One week of feeding him worm pills was enough for a lifetime. Giving him nice clean mice was so much easier in the long term than letting him hunt parasite-filled vermin in the fields.
She rubbed his head gently with a hoof. "Who's my good boy?" she asked.
"You are!"
"Aloysius," she said. She scruffled his back. Under his feathers he was a skinny little bird. He wriggled happily and fluffed his wings.
Twilight turned to thinking about the message again. Part of her wanted to shout "Yes!" and another part to gloat. What she did was go through the drawers of her desk and pull out a letter.
"Dear Princess Celestia, I've learned so much about dealing with your friends' peculiarities" it began, "…never insult a turnip because they can go bad…" She concentrated for a moment and the words faded out. She sat the parchment on her desk and began to write.
Dear C,
I'm so glad the information I sent about T's obsession with you proved useful. I don't think she knows the lock had been opened. If you hadn't known and had rejected her more harshly it could've been disastrous.
I've spoken with M again and she has been very receptive. She followed my suggestion that she get closer to T, to the point of outright teasing her. I believe M will be a very useful source of information. She's quite an actress too. I don't think the gifts are really needed but she's a very nice mare and deserves a better lot in life than she's had. I'll use the money to get her something nice. I believe she will be faithful to us and do the right thing if it comes to it.
P informed me that L has a 'ghostie' bound to a ruby necklace. She said L told her a sad story of love but her version was confusing. Still, this sounds too similar to the story D told me about a wraith that I related earlier. It may be the same creature.
Love always, TS
Twilight raised it in the air again. Her writing was replaced by the scribbles of a baby dragon's unpracticed claws that had been there before. She rolled it up and put a seal on it.
"Are you ready for a second trip tonight, my good boy?" she asked the owl.
"Who!" he hooted happily. He snatched the scroll out of the air and swooped out the window. Twilight wasted no time getting back to her book. "Tumblebones?" she asked herself, "I'll have to ask Dash about those."
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How does Pinkie suddenly materialize in a bin full of sponges? Now you know.
Tiny Bubbles? I just can't help myself.
Twilight reading Guardians books? A purple magic unicorn reading fantasy books about heroic owls and dark magic is just right somehow.
Twilight is referring to events in my story Thunderstuck in her letter.
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Part Three, which took a little longer than the rest. I've been sleeping much better and so not writing pony fic in the middle of the night.
Poor Trixie…
This is a sequel to
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LOL! I just knew that you where going have pinkie show up again. Now we all know how she just shows up out of nowhere. I think it is sad that Princess Celestia tunes down Trixie, But it is nice to see a deeper relationship forming between Her and Molly.
LOL! I just knew that you where going have pinkie show up again. Now we all know how she just shows
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Med School and JWU will collaborate, share resources
The Center for Physician Assistant Studies at JWU offers interprofessional focus to the Med School
By Katherine Lamb
Greg Jordan-Detamore / Herald
Also located in the Jewelry District, JWU's new Center for Physician Assistant Studies will share resources with the Alpert Medical School.
The Alpert Medical School and Johnson and Wales University's new Center for Physician Assistant Studies will share resources, including some faculty and facilities, according to a March 27 University press release.
JWU's physician assistant program, which is in its final stages of development before it receives an accreditation decision in September, will be housed in an 18,000-square-foot building only a block away from the Med School, according to the JWU website.
JWU invested in the center based on high demand for physician assistants in the area and because no other physician assistant programs currently exist in Rhode Island, said Jeffrey Senese, vice president of academic affairs at JWU. The program will be ready to accept its first students in September and will offer a two-year masters program to certify students as physician assistants through one year of classroom instruction and one year of nine clinical rotations, he said.
Philip Gruppuso, associate dean for medical education at the Med School, said he first met with Senese a year ago when he learned of the new physician assistant program. The Med School's ongoing focus on interprofessional work sparked discussion about collaboration, he said.
"The agreement really just makes official the kind of planning for interprofessional education that we had already started doing," Gruppuso said. There were no concerns raised by the agreement, but the documentation could be significant to JWU in the accreditation process, he said.
The agreement will encourage future collaboration in sharing facilities, bringing in guest lecturers, hosting interprofessional workshops and working together on grant initiatives, said George Bottomley, director of the Center for Physician Assistant Studies at JWU.
"It opens up those channels in an official way that (allows) for the flow of information between us and might create really interesting learning opportunities for our students," Bottomley said.
The collaboration made sense because both the physician assistant program and the Med School have missions that are "geared towards training students who want to practice humanistic medicine," Bottomley said.
"The nature of medicine is changing from being driven pretty much entirely by physicians to being a system that involves physicians, nurses, nurse practitioners and other health care professionals working as a team," said Provost Mark Schlissel P'15.
"There is a real synergy that occurs in the two disciplines," said Edward Wing, dean of medicine and biological sciences. "I think our students will benefit a lot from working with people who will come together professionally in the future," he said.
Students from both the Med School and the Center for Physician Assistant Studies could jointly attend clinical classes to "begin the process of learning how to work as a team while they're still students," Schlissel said.
Med School students will benefit from access to the patient simulators — artificial patients with some robotic functions — which JWU will likely invest in, he said. The JWU facilities will also have global teleconferencing capabilities and lecture halls that could be available to the Med School, Wing said.
The Med School also hopes to benefit from some of JWU's nutrition expertise, Gruppuso said.
JWU will in turn have access to the Med School's clinical suite, which has 16 doctors' offices with video cameras where students can practice routine clinical skills such as taking medical histories and doing physical exams on volunteer patients, Wing said.
The Med School building has "excellent facilities to teach clinical skills to not just physicians but other members of the health care team," Schlissel said.
JWU also plans to pay some members of the Med School faculty to teach physician assistants in the program and to share with the Med School the costs of hosting special lecturers.
"For Johnson and Wales to be able to partner with a medical teaching institution that is so open to collaboration and interprofessional education is an incredible opportunity for us as we build," Bottomley said.
Though there are benefits for both schools, "the entity that will benefit most from this sharing of knowledge is the patient," he said. Patient safety has been shown to increase significantly when more than one health care provider serves the patient, he said.
The Jewelry District could also benefit from the collaboration, Bottomley said.
The increased pedestrian traffic and updated facilities in the area will be "terrific for the area around the Med School," Gruppuso said. "We'll start seeing more places to eat, and it will just gradually become a better environment for the students," he said.
Going forward, Bottomley will help serve on the committee for the Med School's new primary care and population health curriculum to fit physician assistants into the teamwork-based aspects of the curriculum, Bottomley said.
Since the physician assistant program will not officially begin until June 2014, "We have some great time to start intentionally planning opportunities for our students to work together," Bottomley said.
Once the Center for Physician Assistant Studies has been accredited, the schools will begin planning some joint educational sessions, Gruppuso said.
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Universities make plans for Jewelry District


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Nela Eržišnik (ur. 18 czerwca 1922 w Banja Luce, zm. 14 sierpnia 2007 w Volosco) – aktorka i komik.

Biografia
Urodziła się w Banja Luce jako Nevenka Maras. Po kilku latach jej rodzina przeniosła się do Zagrzebia. Po II wojnie światowej ukończyła studia w Szkole Aktorskiej w Zagrzebiu. Już jako studentka występowała w Chorwackim Teatrze Narodowym. Od 1953 roku występuje w Teatrze Dramatycznym w Zagrzebiu, założonego przez Branko Gavella. W latach 50. i 60. XX wieku grała w wielu filmach.

Pod koniec lat 50. XX wieku w Telewizji w Zagrzebiu zagrała rolę służącej Marice Hrdalo w komediowej produkcji Porodica Veselić (Rodzina Veselic). W postać tą wcielała się w innych programach radiowych i występach publicznych, gdy jako zwykła, prosta kobieta komentuje bieżące wydarzenia w kraju i na świecie, zyskując ogromną popularność. Zmarła 13 sierpnia 2007 w Volosco.

W 2003 roku ukazała się jej autobiografia Moja tri života: uspomene,a w 2007 roku ukazało się drugie wydanie książki.

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Much has been written and remembered about events in Glasgow's George Square in 1919 when civilians battled police. Troops and tanks appeared on the streets of the city and remained there for a week. It has become the defining event of a period known as 'Red Clydeside', an era that continues to inspire Scotland's labour movement, and this new book is a welcome addition to our knowledge of the political radicalism that lay behind it.
The author, Kenny MacAskill, former SNP member of the Scottish Parliament and former Cabinet Secretary for Justice, looks for the roots of Red Clydeside and finds some of them in the way the French Revolution influenced political reformers like Thomas Muir in the late eighteenth century.
A century later, Keir Hardie was standing for election as an independent Labour candidate and the Scottish Labour Party was formed. Trade unionism and strikes exploded in the first decade of the twentieth century but resisting war fever after the outbreak of World War 1 in 1914 was a challenge for the Left.
Industrial struggles for better wages for engineering workers started on the Clyde in 1915. Any increase in militancy was feared by the ruling class and legislation was introduced by minister for armaments, Lloyd George, cracked down on dissent.
In 1916, the Clyde Workers Committee (CWC) was formed, its chairman was Willie Gallacher, and the lull in militancy was lifted a little with news of the February and then October revolutions in Russia. The all-too-familiar divide between reformists and radicals began to take shape.
Well-paced chapters in Glasgow 1919 cover the fast-moving events of these years and there is a good analysis of the 1919 general election.
Events gathered steam in 1919 with plans for a Clydeside-wide strike demanding a forty-hour working week. Coordination for an alliance with miners, rail and transport workers was not successful but this not deter those who gathered in George Square on 29 January and hoisted a red flag on the municipal flagpole.
Trade union leaders tried to rein in the growing militancy of workers and the CWC. The Cabinet met for the same reason and military intervention was discussed.
The author estimates that between 20,000 and 40,000 people were in George Square on Friday 31 January when a fracas developed after an argument between a striker and a soldier on a tram. The police later claimed that they came under attack but MacAskill's considered opinion is that this was a fabrication. What is not disputed is the fact that the police baton-charged the crowd and set off a running battle on what became known as 'Bloody Friday'.
The book provides a graphic account of what took place that day: the reading of the Riot Act, the battle extending into streets outside the square, troops from outside the area and tanks entering Glasgow that night.
Gallacher, in his autobiography, claims that a revolutionary situation had developed in Glasgow and that an opportunity to seriously challenge the state had been lost. MacAskill considers this claim and concludes that it is 'highly debatable' which, given his tendency to use diplomatic language around contentious issues, probably means a downright negative. Gallacher, though, has a point when saying the failure of strikers to make their way to the Glasgow barracks – where soldiers recruited from the city were strictly confined to quarters – was something to regret. The authorities must have perceived a potential danger if strikers entered into dialogue with soldiers from the Glasgow area.
After 'Bloody Friday', the wider social base that had helped paint Clydeside red was to be contained within a narrow field of electoral politics and the Labour Party gradually gained ascendancy.
This book deserves praise for bringing together details of events in 1919 and placing them in a wider context of working class militancy. The lack of an index and reference notes are its only drawbacks.


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DUGA Elects New Executive
The Democratic Union of Gambian Activists (DUGA) wishes to inform the general public that it has, in accordance with its bylaws, elected a new executive to steer the affairs of the organization for the next two years. Also according to the bylaws, no member can hold a position for more than two consecutive terms, therefore, the entire outgoing executive were term limited from the positions they held.
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Ms. Sohna A. Sallah- Chairwoman
Mr. Pasamba S. Jow- Vice- Chairman
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Mr. Yankuba Senghore- Secretary
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Mr. Ousainou Mbenga- Auditor
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London Police Reveal Identity of Westminster Attacker, Call Him Khalid Masood
London Metropolitan Police said that the name of the Westminster attacker is Khalid Masood. 23.03.2017, Sputnik International
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London Metropolitan Police said that the name of the Westminster attacker is Khalid Masood.
"The man police believe to be responsible for the terrorist attack in Westminster yesterday, Wednesday, 22 March, has now been formally identified as Khalid Masood," the police said in a statement.
Khalid Masood has been formally identifed by police as the man responsible for the #WestminsterAttack in #London
— Metropolitan Police (@metpoliceuk) 23 марта 2017 г.
Daesh Claims Responsibility for Deadly Westminster Attack in London
23 March 2017, 12:16 GMT
Khalid Masood, 52, was born in Kent. Investigators believe he was recently living in the West Midlands.
According to London police, the perpetrator of the Westminster attack outside the UK parliament was not a subject of current investigations, however, he was known to police.
"Masood was not the subject of any current investigations and there was no prior intelligence about his intent to mount a terrorist attack. However, he was known to police and has a range of previous convictions for assaults, including GBH [grievous bodily harm], possession of offensive weapons and public order offences," the statement read.
BREAKING: London Terrorist Identified as Khalid Masood https://t.co/zRpliIeXhO pic.twitter.com/2NeANX3oU4
— Mediaite (@Mediaite) 23 марта 2017 г.
Moreover, no prior intelligence related to him indicated he may commit a terror attack.
Prior to #WestminsterAttack Masood,52, was not subject of any current investigations & no intel about his intent to mount a terrorist attack
On Wednesday, 4 people were killed and many were injured after a vehicle drove into a crowd on London's Westminster Bridge near the UK Parliament building. One man was later shot by police after he stabbed an officer inside the Parliament compound.
Earlier in the day, UK Prime Minister Theresa May said that a British-born man inspired by Islamist ideology, who had been previously investigated by MI-5 is responsible for the attack.
London Metropolitan police said they were treating the events as terrorist incidents. The attack is currently being investigated.
Earlier on Thursday, eight were arrested in connection with the attack.
Westminster Attack


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At the last Satcom 2012, Eutelsat announced that its new 'IP Easy' broadband platform extends high-speed internet access to residential and home office users as so then as small and medium-sized enterprises across sub-Saharan Africa. Delivering downlink speeds of up to 4Mbps, the service can be configured to support VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) and satellite reception of TV channels in dual and triple play modes. Since at the time, the company has started rolling out the solution within its distribution network.
A. Eutelsat has been providing broadband services in Africa since 2003, principally targeting users with high bandwidth requirements, nevertheless with IP Easy, we are now reaching a new level. Launched at Satcom Africa in May 2012, IP Easy was built to extend high-speed Internet access to residential and home office users as then as small and medium-sized enterprises across sub-Saharan Africa. The service can as well be configured to support VOIP. Should the contingency arise, users can as well bundle their Internet access with TV channels reception via a single antenna, allowing them to benefit from a triple play mode. Combining the strengths of Ku-band capacity on the recently-launched Eutelsat 16A satellite with Newtec's successful Sat3Play research, IP Easy is available across Africa, from the Gulf of Guinea to Madagascar.
The IP Easy hub is located at Eutelsat's Skylogic Mediteraneo teleport, which provides broadband services for users in Africa thanks to its location in the south of Europe and its direct access to the internet backbone via key Points of Presence in Europe.
A. We wanted to provide a service that would enable its users to self-install the equipment. This is why Newtec's proven Sat3Play platform and its system's Point&Play facility were selected. It works with a 1 meter dish and a PC-connected modem. A hearing aid helps align the dish more easily and there is no need to configure the modem. The main advantage is that end users can autonomously install the complete system with no specific qualification needed or expensive tooling. For maximum bandwidth efficiency, the terminal incorporates numerous advanced features just as DVB-S2 modulation and coding, rain fade countermeasures, end-to-end Quality of Service mechanisms and state-of-the-art acceleration and compression technologies. The kit is available via a strong network of local service providers.
A. IP Easy responds to pent-up demand for broadband from the many users beyond terrestrial networks in Africa. Without using great amounts of energy, the service can reliance on local energy sources just as solar energy via solar panels. It delivers downlink speeds of up to 4Mbps, irrespective of your location within EUTELSAT 16A's coverage, from the Gulf of Guinea to Madagascar. It can be configured to support VOIP and satellite reception of TV channels in triple play mode. The installation of the 1 meter dish and modem connected to a PC is so simple that it can be performed without the need for costly specialised installers, and the terminal requires no configuration at all, furthermore reducing the initial investment for each new site.
A. The solution has a trans-continental coverage from Senegal to Madagascar. We are initiating the service in countries around the Gulf of Guinea, places with high density of population and significant earnings per capita, and in Madagascar where the lack of telecoms infrastructures creates a real possibility for the part of the population with adequate earnings.
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I have 3 tables. Table A contains Customer details and key is Cust_id and status as ACT or INACT. Table B contains Org details and key is Org_id and status as ACT or INACT or SUSP, and company code. Table C is join table between Table A and Table B.
One Cust_id can be associated with more than one Org_id and one Org_id can have more than one company code.
Report Output: List of customers that are ACT and not having a single ACT org_id.
Lets say Cust_id XYZ is active and attached to 3 Org_id's - O1(ACT), O2(INACT), O3(INACT) - should not be on report.
Cust_id ABC is active and attached to 3 org_id's - O1(INACT), O2(INACT), O3(INACT) - should be on the report.
When I ran the query I got rows with status ACT also from table Y. Please advise.
It seems that an Org_id can have multiple status ACT and INACT (both at the same time) with end_dt as null. It doesn't look logical if you are not using company code in query.
And your subquery is of No help either.
and also just clarify if you have org_id as key (which can't be the case as I see multiple) OR is it a composite key of multiple columns.
How are you using id?
Yes, I can use company code to say Company_cd = 'AG'.
And yes 'Id" cannot be used as there is no association between Id in table B and table C.
How much data do you have on the tables? I have to ask this as it's easier to do a NOT IN for Cus_id but if you have millions of Cus_id then it probably won't work/take a long time.
Isn't hardcoding for the given case?
I thought , TS represented the test data as it wouldn't work for others.
cust 123 is connected to active company AL, so why should it be in the expected result ?
Why not join A and B and get the desired result ?
Please try the below query. I believe that it will give you the desired output.
For every Org_id filtered by the main query, it is going to check the sub-query (Correlated).
Because there is no relationship.
2. wrong Alias names referenced all over.
3. end_dt , the null condition is missing.
4. How do you ensure to block the cus_id if there is a even single stat 'ACT' per org_id?
beacaue the cust id is per org id, 27 is only contains one INACT.
Thank you Rohit. I have modified the query as below and tried to answer your questions. Please see if this will help.
1. code tags missing - Do you mean the code snippet from mainframe.
2. wrong Alias names referenced all over - Thank you. I have corrected it now.
as i expected it to run. please correct if i am wrong.
Main query is expected to pull 7 rows in the result set by joining the 3 tables.
But for each row pulled from main query, sub query will be executed and "NOT EXISTS" clause check will be performed.
Ex: First 3 rows in the result has Y.Org_id as 22.
When the correlated sub query is run for this Org_id (22), it Exists since there is a row with status "ACT" in table B.
So, the "NOT EXISTS" clause fails and the row is not pulled to the final result set. Whereas "NOT EXISTS" clause passes for the 4th row and it will be reported to final output.
You don't have to, since you missed to notice the tags while you post , there is something named 'Code' in that little sq box, you need to make a use of that, BBCode.
Surely it does if you notice the query posted by TS.
4. How does your query substantiate my first solution given above?
I don't agree, Because according to TS Table C is join between Table A and Table B.
How do you find org_id without tablec?
I guess checking for ORG_ID in subquery will not work here..


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"What does it take to get the voice of the poor in this country heard?" A member of the audience at the BBC Question Time broadcast on Thursday the 16th of June 2017.
In recent years, a £8.7 million refit was done to the apartment block, completed in 2016, the activity included a suspected accelerant cladding that is banned in Germany and the United States of America, which might give a lie to the idea that our building safety regulations are worth the paper they are written on.
The refit which could have included fitting in a sprinkler system at the cost of £138,000 was not done, invariably putting aesthetics above the safety of human life.
It goes without saying that a whole institutional framework in the British establishment involving council apparatchiks, councillors, mayors and ministers are responsible for not learning lessons of the past, ignoring pertinent concerns, sitting on reports and recommendations that should have been expedited and implementing stringent cuts in the relentless pursuit of cutting the deficit at the expense of the human lives of the poor considered insignificant, irritant and irrelevant to their absurdly greater purpose and goals.
When the Prime Minister visited the scene of the tragedy yesterday, it failed to occur to her that leadership includes taking the brickbats whilst being there to offer succour, sympathy, comfort, empathy and assurances to the victims. She failed to use her humanity and the opprobrium that resulted after other leading politicians and senior royalty visited and interacted with the people has forced her to find the smidgen of compassion eked out with duress.
It goes without saying that Theresa May has lost the moral right to be the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Despite her remedially late actions, if at the first opportunity the Prime Minister of this great country could not for whatever reason meet with victims of an entirely avoidable tragedy exacerbated by some member of her cabinet, she by all terms cannot then aver that she has the authority to negotiate Brexit on our behalf.
The matter is about humanity, it is political, it is social, it is economic, it is about government, it is about caring, it is about a more equal society and for the unfortunate souls lost in the Grenfell Tower fire, it is the realisation that no one thought they mattered until the clamour for justice has forced the cossetted and comfortable political class to feign a sense of empathy with the poor who normally wield very little power and rarely have their voices heard.
In the last 7 years, the changes in society security entitlements, the outsourcing of eligibility criteria to death panels with a profit motive, the cuts to public services, the starving of the National Health Service to ready the institution for a fire sale to the moneyed classes, the dearth of buildings and accommodation for the working classes and the favouring of the rich over the poor in terms of access and policy initiatives has been a race to the bottom that has widened the chasm between the rich and the poor to an unbridgeable existence.
We have a democracy in name only that in its reality is the government of the people, by the few for the fewer still.
The blood of the innocently shed out of indifference, disinterest, the lack of consideration and concern revelling in institutional inhumanity shall be visited on the heads of all those responsible. Nothing but a criminal prosecution of the whole chain of responsibility that allowed the Grenfell Tower tragedy would be adequate justice.
Meanwhile, the need to expedite action to rehouse the victims and find means of ameliorating compensation for them must be the most urgent consideration. It is shocking that in the 5th largest economy in the world we suffered such a display of the dereliction of duty to our poor as if we were in some lawless and chaotic Bantustan.
No, I do not think the government have nearly begun to feel the aggrieved sense of injustice and anger from the people, that they presided over this atrocity must be a blot on their records, recorded for posterity without the mercy of sophistry. These leaders who engage with soundbite are completely out of touch with our reality. Send them packing forthwith.


You want to autosign any new client certificates that are sent to the puppet master. Be sure to understand the lack of security this presents.
By adding a single * to the autosign.conf file you tell the puppet master to accept the first certificate it sees for each client host. This allows machines to come up on build and immediately connect to puppet and begin their configuration. If you rebuild a machine, or do anything that triggers a change in the clients certificate, the puppet master will not allow the new certificate to connect until the old one has been removed.
This must be run as the same user puppet runs under to show the correct location.
To reiterate - having this option enabled may seem like a time saver but the risk is that any machine can connect without authorisation and request your manifests and templates, which may contain privileged information such as passwords, certificates, shared keys etc.


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What happens when Android, Arduino, and RC meet?
Well as it turns out I think this should be self-guided week! So here is what is on my desk right now. Remember those New Bright cars? Lets skip the duct-tape this time. So here is what found its way to my desk. One Android phone purchased from Radio-Shack. Why do you ask?
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Technical diving courses, like all diving courses, cover both the theoretical and practical aspects of learning how to dive correctly and safely. During a technical diving course, students will learn how to use specialist technical diving equipment and how to keep themselves safe while they are in the water.
Different technical diving courses are available for students of different ability levels, and there are also more specialized courses that cover particular types of technical diving, such Trimix diving. These allow students to follow their personal interests and explore the aspects of technical diving that will be most useful or enjoyable for them.
At the most basic level, a technical diving course should be a chance for the student to get a taste of what technical diving is all about. Taking a short introductory course is the best way to tell whether technical diving is something that you want to commit more time, money and effort to in the future. Before you can try technical diving, you will need to be a qualified diver. You will need to have the equivalent of the PADI Open Water Diver certification in order to take the PADI Discover Tech Diving course, for example. If you are going to go on to take a more in-depth technical diving course, there will be other prerequisites, such as holding the equivalent of the PADI Enriched Air Diver certification.
Once you are ready to begin training seriously, you will need to learn about the equipment that is used by technical divers. You will use cylinders of decompression gas and you will be taught how to plan a dive using special decompression software. As you advance through your training, you will gradually be able to lengthen the time you spend underwater and to make dives that go deeper below the surface.
Students on technical diving courses are taught everything they need to know in order to plan a dive, to dive with the special equipment, to reduce risks and to respond to any problems that may arise while they are in the water. There is usually a mix of independent and classroom learning during the theoretical part of the course. A large part of the training will relate to the additional safety procedures that are required during technical diving, although becoming familiar with the new equipment that technical divers use is also important.
During technical diving courses, you will also gain practical experience in the water under the supervision of qualified instructors. This will ensure that you are able to handle the equipment properly and that you are able to experience technical diving in the safest possible conditions. It is common for students to begin their practical training with a confined water dive, in a pool, in order to test their ability and understanding of technical diving equipment and prepare them for a dive in open water.


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Focus RS hatchback
New Focus RS vs rivals
Does stunning new hot hatch live up to the legend?
1st MINI JCW
2nd Ford Focus RS - currently reading
3rd Subaru Impreza STi
Big spoiler, an aggressive grille and a beefy bodykit – this is an RS of the old school! The designers at Ford set out to give their latest performance giant an aggressive appearance, and they have clearly hit the nail on the head. What we need to find out now is whether the driving experience can live up to the hype.
The newcomer comes with a keyless start system as standard, so all you do is press the 'Power' button next to the gearstick and listen to the turbocharged five-cylinder engine rumble into life. The unit is based on the same powerplant that you'll find in a Focus ST, and it started its life in a Volvo. However, as nearly all the major internal parts have been replaced, don't expect the driving characteristics of a Swedish estate...
Slot the six-speed gearbox into first and prepare for lift-off! With 301bhp being fed through the front wheels, you would anticipate leaving a haze of tyre smoke behind you. Yet if you're on a dry road and take care with the throttle, this isn't the case.
Even though the engine's full torque isn't delivered in first to help preserve the transmission, acceleration is brutal. Once into second, the Focus launches forward like a supercar. Every lift of the throttle is accompanied by a twitter from the turbocharger and a pop from the enormous twin exhaust pipes. The aural treats have been engineered to be louder than they need to be, and they certainly add to the drama.
So far, so good, then. But here's the acid test: how does the RS tackle a series of fast hairpin bends? The answer is with amazing agility. Tipping the scales at 1,467kg, the newcomer weighs 75kg more than the ST – that's similar to carrying an extra adult passenger.
Yet the RS is much more capable than the lesser model through corners. There's no shortage of grip, with the nose tracking around bends rather than pushing wide.
Even more impressive is the way the RS's advanced front differential works with the clever new RevoKnuckle suspension set-up. Ford was determined to prevent the car tugging wildly off-line when cornering (a movement commonly known as torque steer), so it came up with this system, which effectively counterbalances the cornering and acceleration forces.
We should point out here that our test route was over smooth, predominantly dry tarmac. In these conditions, we didn't think the lack of four-wheel drive held the Focus back. Although you can feel the steering weight up to one side if you get on the power mid-corner, direction changes are kept to a minimum. What's more, the driver is always aware of exactly what the front tyres are doing – this kind of feel through the steering wheel is sadly lacking in the Subaru.
As you charge between tight corners, driving the RS is a wide-eyed experience – but is it as much fun as the MINI? That depends on your expectations. The British-built hatchback is lighter, and changes direction more readily. Plus, it tightens its line more obediently if you lift off the accelerator mid-corner. On a track, the devastating performance and grip will make the Ford comfortably quicker, although the MINI retains the feel of a more fun-loving hot hatch.
The key to the RS's pace is the immediate response of the engine. The powerplant's pulling power is consistent across the rev range, so rather than rising to a frantic crescendo as the Subaru does, this latest Focus's acceleration is incredibly efficient.
So, has Ford created the perfect performance machine? No. As with all the great RS models of the past, this Focus is not without its flaws.
The first is its economy and emissions. Ford claims combined returns of 30mpg and a CO2 output of 225g/km, which are little worse than the ST. However, getting close to these figures in the real world would be virtually impossible.
We didn't have as long with the Focus as the other cars here, so were unable to carry out a comprehensive economy test. But when it was being driven hard along mountain roads, the trip computer dropped to 11mpg. As we cruised through towns at the end of the day, this figure rose to only 14mpg... Topping 20mpg as an annual average could be a challenge. At least Ford has got the price spot-on. From any angle, the Focus RS looks the business, and the full bodykit is part of the £24,995 package. Standard kit inside includes the racy Recaro seats, air-con and keyless go, although you will have to pay £395 extra for our test car's blue paint.
So far, we've only had the chance to spend a day with a German-spec left-hand-drive Focus RS, but we're already smitten. The next challenge for the new performance model will be to pull off a similar trick on bumpy, damp and slippery British B-roads. Will we then be crying out for four-wheel-drive traction? Possibly.
However, the firebreathing RS easily lives up to the legend – and it's set to be a surefire hit among fast Ford fans.
* Price: £24,995 * Engine: 2.5-litre 5cyl, 301bhp * Torque: 440Nm * 0-60mph: 5.9 secs (claimed) * Top speed: 163mph * Kerbweight: 1,467kg
Chart position: 2WHY: The latest in a long line of legendary RS models is here to put fast Fords back on top.
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IntroductionFord's 301bhp Focus RS aims to set new standards in the hot hatch class. We see if it can beat challengers from MINI and Subaru.
1st MINI JCWSmaller, lighter... is our class champ outmuscled by its big rivals?
2nd Ford Focus RS - currently readingDoes stunning new hot hatch live up to the legend?
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Team Newport is definitely taking the city in new directions as they change and study issues that the community was either upset with (dock taxes, city hall expenditures, and fire rings), or not yet decided upon like the Jet Packs in the Harbor.
They began their council terms at the first meeting laying out agenda items to be discussed and are moving forward with significant changes.
I have never seen a council or school board move that fast as newly elected officials, and that is both a good thing and something I hope they will slow down on.
The new council members are moving on campaign issues they ran on unlike so many others in past elections who quickly forget what the community has voiced as things they would like them to consider.
What many community members would like them to remember, however, is that while people wanted some leadership changes, not everyone agrees on what should be changed nor feel all issues are as pressing as council members may believe.
The two issues that most Newport residents are clear about are transparency and the process by which council goes about making decisions. And of course they want the council to spend Newport tax dollars wisely.
People want to be treated with respect and to have their research and ideas valued so that better decisions are made before the recommendation goes to vote. One study session and three minutes to present a position for or against something at council meeting is not enough time for some decisions.
This community is full of people who love their city, are well informed, bright, and have good ideas that need to be considered. They may not have time to sit on a commission or even be selected because they are not in the political loop that promotes them. They are people though that gives much of their time participating in grass roots groups in the city that does a great deal of research on the environment and quality of life issues.
We need to listen when these groups present their ideas and ask us to rethink or continue to study issues until we find solutions, which benefit most of our community if not all.
Two things that are paramount now that need continued study and thought are the fire rings and jet pack issues.
In my last column, I explained my case for why the fire ring decision needs much more discussion. Citizens are still expressing their ideas about it in various newspapers, neighborhood associations and town hall meetings. This needs much more consideration on the part of the council before a final decision.
The jet pack business being expanded in the Harbor is another safety and quality of life issue that is definitely going to affect homes on the bay, increase noise, affect boating, paddle boarders, swimmers, the rowing teams, marine life, and other recreational sports such as rafting, kayaking, sailing, and others.
I am surprised that this is being considered as a business that should be expanded in Newport Beach. When this was discussed over a year ago, I thought surely the council will see that this activity is too dangerous to consider having in the bay. The Harbor Commission has even stated that the waterways are too narrow for water jetpack use. While I do not swim, kayak, paddle board or use a raft in the water, some of my friends and doctors use the bay for these purposes as well as former Mayor Nancy Gardner and many of our children.
I love being on the water in a Duffy boat quietly floating around with friends at sunset. Jetpacks are going to jeopardize the safety and enjoyment of the bay for a few thrill seekers.
Jetpacks are something I think of as being used in the Caribbean out in the ocean not in a busy harbor. As a jetpack participant do I want to land on a boat, dock, or people using sports equipment in a harbor?
Please council, let's give this decision more thought than a couple of regulations you directed staff to come up with such as not allowing people to use their own jetpacks. How about thinking about at least limiting a part of the bay where this takes place so the rest of the people can use the bay without thinking a jet packer is going to land on them or land so hard it knocks them off their water equipment.
Or, go back to the idea that jetpack operators are welcome to use the ocean.


Is ANDERS LARRSON the first Swedish rider to compete at the Sunflower Trophy races? Im pretty sure he is, the 44 year old from a small village in South of Sweden called Teckomatorp, will make his Irish debut this weekend at the Bishopscourt circuit in the Moto 3 race at the Sunflower Trophy Race meeting.
Sunflower Trophy Cliffords first home appearance this year.


Somatic Experiencing is professional development training with a certification process approved by the American Psychological Association (APA) and the National Certificate Board for Massage Therapy and Bodywork (NCBTMB), as well as 4 other national board accreditations, for the treatment of trauma. Requiring 216 contact hours of training, 12 hours personal sessions and 18 hours of supervision. Completion of which is titled SEP, Somatic Experiencing Practitioner.
SEP certification requires personal sessions by an approved session provider as well as supervision by an approved supervision provider at the training level of the student. An approved session and supervision provider requires experience and supervision beyond SEP certification.
Pre and perinatal training (PPN) is not recognized by any therapeutic organization. The designation "PPNE" is for a certificate program as an educator in prenatal and perinatal psychology and health. This designation is assigned by the Association for Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology and Health to students who complete an 11 module program. Currently (2016), there are several trainings in pre and perinatal therapies that are continuing education only, not an official certification program. There is no governing body, ethical code of conduct, required supervision or established safety guidelines. For the general public, consumers need to be careful how they select practitioners who say they work with early trauma. For safest selections, consumers are encouraged to ask practitioners about their credentials. The combination of SEP and PPN reflects considerable focus, dedication, and ethical practice.
Additional designations in the pre and perinatal realm for working with mothers and babies include touch therapies such as craniosacral therapy and massage. Practitioners should have a license to touch. Lactation training also has a continuum of training from peer educator to professional international board certification (IBCLC). Peer education and support has been shown to be effective (La Leche League), and many of these educators and peer support will refer to IBCLC. Perinatal practitioners who work repairing difficult births work in tandem with lactation professionals. Consumers have the right to choose to see both perinatal trauma specialists and these lactation specialist, and often choose peer educators only.
Somatic therapy is a hot topic in the therapy world, there is widespread awareness of this type of therapy. The public can't typically differentiate for themselves someone who is trained in/certified in a type of therapy and someone who is not. Licensed professionals under their professional ethical guidelines require full disclosure of competency. Responsibility of disclosure of competency, when the public likely can't differentiate, lies with the professional.
Having a session with someone who says they do SE and has not taken an SE training nor had sessions or supervision with an approved provider (not just an SEP, or SE student) is really just having a session with the provider's interpretation of a theory. What the public doesn't know when someone flagrantly states, "I do SE" and is not certified, is they are not being treated by someone who has competency and recognition in the field as having taken all the steps to learn a type of trauma treatment, integrated it by engaging in personal process of the treatment, and through feedback and refinement of the skills during required supervision in the implementation of the treatment. "I do SE" is not providing full disclosure to the public that all steps for competency have been taken and that the provider has been approved of as demonstrating competency. Informed consent is not being given if stating, "I do Somatic Experiencing" without full disclosure of their competency in it; "I've read Peter Levine's books," "I've had SE sessions," "I've completed a 1-day SE fundamentals class," etc. SEP demonstrates certification and requirements met that demonstrates competency.
Stating you use a skill that does not have an international certification and recognition by national accrediting boards is customary. No certification demonstrates that there is no need for certification for competency, safety to the public. Using the theory in ones own interpretation and presentation is frequently utilized, integrating ideas in to ones practice. But presenting oneself as doing SE, is false advertisement and manipulation of the public's perception.
Somatic Experiencing Practitioner specializing in bodywork and early trauma, orienting to the present time and health in the now.