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Carrie Lam to Deliver Keynote at Asian University for Women Fundraising Gala Supporting a New Generation of Female Change-makers
HONG KONG, CHINA - Media OutReach - 31 May 2019 - On Tuesday, 11 June, the Asian University for Women (AUW) Hong Kong Support Foundation will host its third annual fundraising benefit in support of AUW, a liberal arts university in Chittagong, Bangladesh. The university is unique as it provides full scholarships to women from marginalized communities in Asia, including garment factory workers, women from high-conflict zones and Rohingya refugees. AUW graduates go on to become leaders in their home communities, igniting meaningful and systemic change in the corners of the world that need it most.
More than 400 guests are expected to attend the "Faces of Change" benefit presented by title sponsor Lancôme and event sponsor Marriott International at the JW Marriott Hotel Hong Kong. The Chief Executive of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, Mrs Carrie Lam, will deliver the keynote address, and Guneet Monga, Executive Producer of the 2019 Academy Award Winning documentary "Period. End of Sentence" will share the powerful story behind the making of the short film. Other notable speakers will include Weijian Shan, Pansy Ho and Ronnie Chan.
AUW graduates from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Pakistan, Palestine, Nepal and Vietnam will share their stories of transformation sparked by an opportunity at AUW. The Founder of AUW Kamal Ahmad will also be in attendance to share his gratitude with the Hong Kong community for their generous support over the years.
The evening will entail a live auction presided by Christie's Jonathan Stone with lots including a variety of experiences such as a trip to Kuala Lumpur to have lunch with social activist Marina Mahathir, an internship with Nobel Peace Laureate Tawakkol Karman at her Foundation in Istanbul, a cultural excursion in Bhutan led by AUW graduates and more. The event will be emceed by Mallika Kapur of Bloomberg Live, who is also the author of the newly released book "Changemakers: Twenty Women Transforming Bollywood from Behind the Scenes" and a Director of the AUW Hong Kong Support Foundation Board.
Corporate sponsors include Advantage Partners, AIA, Bloomberg, Citi, DFS, Debevoise & Plimpton, FleishmanHillard, Mayer Brown, Point72, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett and more. There are on a few tables left -- visit the AUW website to learn more, or download the 2019 Event Partnership Prospectus to secure your table today. All funds raised will go directly to scholarship support for young women around the Asia and the Middle East who could otherwise never access a tertiary education due to cultural and financial barriers.
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3 Dec 2020 San Francisco Bay Area Leaders Extend Support for Women's Higher Education in Asia and the Middle East
23 Jan 2020 Former New York University President John Sexton will be Asian University for Women's 2020 Commencement Speaker; an Indian economist, a Pakistani actress, and a Swiss educator will receive honorary degrees
14 Jun 2019 Asian University for Women Hong Kong benefit raises over HK$7 million to empower female changemakers in Asia
30 Nov 2018 Mayer Brown's annual "In the Know" fund raising event raises US$46,000 for the Asian University for Women – providing three full scholarships
15 Oct 2018 Cambodian AUW Graduates Emerge as Stars; AUW Commits $3.75 Million in New Scholarships for Cambodian Students
25 Sep 2018 Johnson Controls-Hitachi Air Conditioning Announces Scholarship Program to Support Women's Education in Asia
21 Aug 2018 AUW Graduates Pursue Master's Degrees at Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University
18 Jul 2018 AUW Announces Scholarships for Yemeni Women
11 Jul 2018 Hong Kong Community Rallies Around AUW and Raises Over US$750,000 to Educate Women From Asia's Most Marginalized Areas
About Asian University for Women (AUW)
Recruiting from 17 countries in Asia and the Middle East, AUW seeks out high-potential young women from communities with few opportunities for advancement, and provides them with the academic, professional, and financial support required to earn their bachelor's degrees and to take on change-making roles. Since opening its doors in 2008, AUW has graduated five classes totaling more than 700 women. Currently, almost 800 students study at AUW; the vast majority of AUW students are first in their family to attend university, and virtually all receive full financial aid. About 80% of AUW graduates pursue employment in their home countries immediately after graduation while the remaining 20% attend graduate school internationally. Former AUW students have pursued graduate studies at a range of institutions including Oxford, Stanford, Columbia, Brandeis, and Ewha (South Korea). Graduates have gone into careers with organizations such as Chemists without Borders, Room to Read, Teach for Nepal, Accenture, Chevron Bangladesh, UNIQLO, and Democracy International.
To learn more about Asian University for Women, please visit http://asian-university.org/


The project would replace a Jack-in-the-Box restaurant on Sunset Boulevard.
At its meeting on August 2, the CRA/LA Governing Board is scheduled to consider a plan from R.D. Olson Development to construct a high-rise hotel in Hollywood.
The Ivar Gardens Hotel, slated for a property at 6407 Sunset Boulevard, would replace a Jack-in-the-Box fast food restaurant with a 21-story building containing 275 guest rooms, approximately 1,900 square feet of ground-floor retail space, and parking for up to 135 vehicles.
WATG is designing the 232-foot tower with Art Deco features, a nod to other historic buildings throughout the Hollywood community.
The CRA/LA Governing Board has jurisdiction over the property as it is located in the Hollywood Redevelopment Area, and is requested an increase in allowable floor area ratio.
The project is one of a handful of new hotels taking shape between Hollywood and Sunset Boulevards, joining the already-finished Dream Hollywood and Thompson and Tommie hotels now under construction near the intersection of Selma and Wilcox Avenues.
It also sits directly across Sunset from the current home of Amoeba Records, which is slated for redevelopment with a 28-story apartment tower.


February 7 - Due to the impending weather conditions, the Superhero Party has been cancelled. All participants will be notified for refunds.
Saturday, February 9, 2019 Cancelled due to winter storm forecast.
Action, adventure and fun waits youth of all ages at our Superhero Adventure Party. Come dressed as your favorite superhero or wear a black t-shirt on Saturday, February 9 from 10 a.m. to 12 noon at the Lodge in Frontier Park, 21718 Meridian Ave. East in Graham.
Kids will have fun unleashing their own "special powers" with Superhero games, activities, and dance party plus receive hero souvenirs, power packed punch and snacks!
An adult will need to be present for children five years old and under to participate.
Participants must pre-register by February 6.
The fee is $13 per youth.


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"Invisible Studio"
Invisible Studio is an innovative and award-winning architecture practice founded by Dr Piers Taylor. Taylor is a Chartered Architect, was the inaugural Studio Master at the Architectural Association for the Design & Make Programme at Hooke Park, a former Design Fellow at the University of Cambridge, an external examiner at the Arts University, Bournemouth and the Convenor of Studio in the Woods. Taylor was also a PhD candidate at the University of Reading and received their anniversary scholarship funding for his Doctoral research.
Invisible Studio aims to be a different organisation from conventional practice. They work internationally and very locally, in a variety of fields and at a variety of scales. They operate from a self-built studio located in a working woodland which they also manage as an ongoing forest enterprise alongside practice, and have pioneered a number of academic programmes that rethink the relationship between design and making.
With each project, we aim to realise something extraordinary. They are interested in going about the process of architecture in a different way – a way where clients, users, collaborators and makers are all part of the process of design, and sometimes construction.
Their work encompasses a number of seminal buildings from ecologically sensitive self builds through to schools, community and public buildings including the new project at East Quay Watchet and large-scale urban environments. Their work has been published widely and internationally and has won a plethora of awards including a number of RIBA National, Regional and Sustainability Awards, Wood Awards, WAN Awards, the AJ Small Projects Award and has been shortlisted for the Stephen Lawrence Prize.
In terms of technology, they prefer to use passive principles to aid building performance and use these principles to define the premise of a building.
Current/Past Invisible Studio collaborators include:
Charley Brentnall, Kate Darby, Lucien Castaing Taylor, Verena Paravel, Neringa Stonyte, David Robinson, Alan Matthews, Tara Breen, Nozomi Nakabayashi, Holly Briggs, Steven George, Bernardo Mori, Alfie Dring, Liz Matthews, Sue Phillips, Piers Taylor, Grant Associates, Gianni Botsford, Mike Wells, Bill Gething, Imogen Taylor, Cuffer Matthews, Bernard Twist, Simon Schofield, Niki Turner, Hannah Durham, Caitlin Izard, Buro Happold, LT Studio, Greengauge, Onion Collective, Johanna Gibbons/JLG Landscape Architects, Gemma Wheeler, Nick Perchard, James Symon, Architectural Association, Louise Wray, Giovanni Meta, James Eagle, David Connor, Carpenter Oak, The Dartington Estate, Westonbirt Arboretum, AA Design & Make, The University of Reading, Mole Architects, Charles Holland, Xylotek, EAST QUAY WATCHET.
Yoga with a view of the sky. Yoga Studio by Invisible Studio
Coppice Workers' Shelter Westonbirt Arboretum by Invisible Studio

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HEP ESCO to replace public lighting in Osijek with LED lamps
Photo: City of Osijek (Pixabay)
Vladimir Spasić
HEP ESCO, subsidiary of Croatian state power utility Hrvatska Elektroprivreda (HEP), has started a public lighting reconstruction project in the city of Osijek, during which 11,086 LED lights will be installed.
The new ESCO/EPC model will enable an annual decrease in electricity consumption for public lighting by 7.5 million kWh and the investment of HRK 30.8 million (around EUR 4.08 million) will pay off within eight years, HEP ESCO said.
The investment of EUR 4.08 million will pay off within eight years
The modernization works will contribute to the protection of the environment by reducing CO2 emissions and light pollution in line with the relevant directive in the European Union, according to the press release. The rule's transposition into the national law on the protection from light pollution, which came into force on April 1, 2019, obligated all local municipalities in Croatia to harmonize the existing lighting systems with it in 12 years at the latest.
Since 2018 HEP ESCO has been offering an ESCO/EPC model to for the modernization of public lighting
Since 2018 HEP ESCO has been offering the reconstruction of public lighting systems under an ESCO/EPC model, based on a contract with a savings guarantee. Before that, the company has implemented projects under the conventional, ESCO model.
The ESCO/EPC scheme has been implemented in projects in the Municipality of Stupnik and the City of Zaprešić, while implementation is underway in Osijek and a contract has been signed with the Municipality of Gola.
HEP ESCO was picked in a tendering procedure together with ELOS
The energy efficiency contract was agreed by the City of Osijek and HEP ESCO a month ago following a public procurement procedure. HEP ESCO has submitted the offer together with Solin-based ELOS.
The modernization contract includes a system for verifying savings and remote control
The public lighting makeover will be completed within 300 days including the design, financing and reconstruction, the statement reveals. The deal is for a period of eight years. The contractors are installing a system for the monitoring, management, measurement and verification of savings and remote control.
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More cricket, statistics and geekery than you can shake a stick at.
In a couple of previous posts, Partnerships that made big contributions" and A different kind of hundred partnership I looked at a different way of measuring the impact of a partnership.
I used the method from the contributions post to look at opening partnerships in this world cup. There have been a couple of outstanding partnerships this time round, not least of which was the innings by Dilshan and Tharanga of 282 vs Zimbabwe at Pallekele.
A couple of names appear there more than once. Dilshan & Tharanga, Haddin & Watson, Guptil & McCullum and, despite often looking as comfortable as a pin in the bottom, Devon Smith.
There's some obvious distortion in these numbers caused by the ability of some teams at minnow bashing. The usual suspects for beating up on minnows (NZ, SA, India and SL) all feature high on the chart. I will at some point produce a table that removes games against lesser teams, but the pub is calling.
Happy World Cup watching everyone.
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That happened a lot during the Big Three era, and it has continued this season, with James Johnson playing a ball-handling "point forward" role, at times, for the first time in his career, and 6-8 forward Okaro White asked to play center last week in the absence of backup center Willie Reed.
This decade alone, more than a dozen Heat players have been asked to play positions or roles that were at least somewhat outside their comfort zone, and the results have been consistently good.
Though LeBron James preferred small forward, the Heat's metrics – and James' statistics - were extraordinary during extended minutes at power forward. The Heat played some of its best ball when power forward Chris Bosh was shifted to center, a move that Bosh eventually embraced after initial reservations. The Heat often thrived when Shane Battier, a career small forward, played power forward.
Justise Winslow, as a rookie small forward, logged substantial minutes last season at power forward and guarded centers on multiple occasions.
"We've done it a lot here," forward Udonis Haslem said. "We've definitely had guys out of their comfort zone that have had to buy in and sacrifice what they've been comfortable doing and what's made them successful throughout their career for the betterment of the team.
Count Haslem among those players, too; at 6-8, he has spent large chunks of his career defending 7-foot centers.
Tyler Johnson, a natural shooting guard, is still working through the challenges of being a backup point guard, something he has done in three seasons here.
"I had played it before but playing it at the NBA level is such a different expectation," he said. "You don't have to necessarily be a floor general to play point guard in college. It's not as challenging as it is here to get guys in their spots.
"We don't really do plays here. We've got actions. It is definitely a challenge switching to point guard and getting other pro athletes where they are supposed to be.
James Johnson loves that the Heat has entrusted him with ball-handling responsibilities as a power forward, saying "no coach" had ever allowed him to do that before Spoelstra.
White said it was no big deal playing center last week.
Whether "it's LeBron playing four [power forward], or Justise playing the five [center] last year,… [or] James Johnson, it's [players] being able to do multiple things," White said. "Those are very valuable players to a team. It's better for you personally, better for the team" when you do that.
Already without injured forward Kevin Love, the Cavaliers held LeBron James and Kyrie Irving out of Saturday's game against the Heat in order to rest them on a second night of a back-to-back set.
This was the fifth game the Cavaliers have played in Miami since James left the Heat to return to Cleveland and the second of those five that James missed. Miami entered Saturday 4-0 at home against the Cavaliers since James returned to Cleveland and having won 11 in a row at home overall in the series, Miami's second-longest home winning streak against any team.


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Wilson, my baby. Today you are two years old. You are every bit an adventurer.
You love to climb, ride your bike, jump, and copy your sister. Your favorite toys are rocks and sticks.
I love your special Wilson clap. How you use just two fingers pointed at each other and wildly point them at each other repeatedly to express your excitement.
You're always the first to shout "Meeeeeee!" when I ask who wants to go with me to the grocery store.
The way you exclaim "I LOVE this song" when your favorite tunes come on.
Your kisses and sweet hugs. When you want to sit on my lap.
How you love your books and being read to.
You can't sleep without "Manga and Lubbie" clenched in your arms.
You are such a gift to our family, sweet boy.
I'm so happy to have all this time together to watch you explore this country and grow. You've truly gone from baby to boy since we left. I'm cherishing every moment with you.
Happy Birthday, Wilson! I miss you! Katie, thank you for the pictures–the best part of my day is when I check your site and get to hear what Jane and Wilson are up to, and the pictures are the icing on the cake!


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The Lufthansa Compliance Programme is made up of the following elements: Competition, Capital Markets, Integrity and Embargo Compliance. An ombudsman system gives staff the opportunity to report any suspicion of criminal activity or breaches of the compliance regulations. The Corporate Compliance Office, which reports to the Board member responsible for Human Resources and Legal, further develops the Compliance Programme conceptually and provides trainings (eLearning and classroom trainings). The Organisation using central and (optional) local compliance committees, as well as appointing compliance managers in the entire Lufthansa Group ensures the involvement of the responsible employees and builds awareness of the Compliance Programme. The Audit Committee of the Supervisory Board is notified semi-annually of incidents and progress concerning compliance in a Compliance Report.


Today the Parker Solar Probe can be Named for Him. 60 Years Ago, No One Believed His Ideas About the Sun.
Eugene N. Parker predicted the existence of solar wind in 1958. The NASA spacecraft, scheduled to launch on Saturday, can be the first named for a living person.
CHICAGO — This kind of was 1958. Sputnik had launched only a year earlier, the first human-made object to circle the planet. yet the beach ball-size spacecraft had no instruments to measure anything in space.
The study of what was up there was largely limited to what scientists could observe through the ground. This kind of certainly looked like the vast expanses between planets were empty. in addition to also that will can be what most scientists believed.
yet not Eugene N. Parker, then a 31-year-old, no-name professor at the University of Chicago. In a foundational paper published within the Astrophysical Journal, Dr. Parker described how charged particles streamed continuously through the sun, like the flow of water spreading outward through a circular fountain.
"The prevailing view among some people was that will space was absolutely clean, nothing in This kind of, total vacuum," Dr. Parker recalled during an interview at his home.
The scientists who had reviewed the paper rejected his idea as ludicrous. Dr. Parker appealed to the journal's editor, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, a prominent astrophysicist also at Chicago, arguing that will the reviewers had not pointed out any errors, just that will they did not like the premise.
Dr. Chandrasekhar overruled the reviewers.
Four years later, Dr. Parker was vindicated when Mariner 2, a NASA spacecraft en route to Venus, measured energetic particles streaming through interplanetary space — exactly what Dr. Parker had predicted.
Scientists at This kind of point call that will stream of particles the solar wind.
Sixty years after Dr. Parker's paper, NASA can be about to launch a spacecraft that will can be to dive into outer wisps of the sun's atmosphere in addition to also gather information about how our star generates the solar wind.
This kind of can be the Parker Solar Probe, named after Dr. Parker, at This kind of point 91 years old. This kind of can be the very first time that will NASA has named a mission for a living person.
Dr. Parker, two decades into his retirement through the University of Chicago, can be frailer at This kind of point than when he made a trip to the North Pole with his son Eric in 2004. His apartment here, overlooking the Museum of Science in addition to also Industry, can be decorated with some of his intricate wood carvings.
He still gets around. Last October, he traveled to the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, where the spacecraft was built, for a "Parker, meet Parker!" encounter.
Four generations of Parkers have traveled to Florida watch the liftoff, scheduled for pre-dawn Saturday through Cape Canaveral Air Force Station during a 65-minute window that will starts at 3:33 a.m. NASA TV will broadcast the launch beginning at 3 a.m. Eastern time.
Dr. Parker did not set out to revolutionize the science of the sun. He did not even have much interest in interplanetary science although he was seeking a research career. yet academic jobs were scarce.
Dr. Chandrasekhar put in a not bad word for him when a Chicago physics colleague, John A. Simpson, was looking to hire someone to help study the mysterious particles known as cosmic rays. The thinking was that will even though cosmic rays originate far away in various other galaxies, the cascades of collisions they cause close to Earth might reveal something about the contents of the interplanetary neighborhood.
that will led to solar physics. "I discovered This kind of was a fascinating subject," Dr. Parker said.
Since the 1800s, scientists did know that will at least sometimes explosions through the surface of the sun affected Earth. that will included one on Aug. 29, 1859. that will day, two English amateur astronomers, Richard Carrington in addition to also Richard Hodgson, independently observed a "white light flare" emanating through the surface of the sun. Less than a day later, Earth's magnetic field was knocked awry. Across America in addition to also Europe, telegraph wires sparked in addition to also failed.
Fewer than 18 hours elapsed between the flare in addition to also the geomagnetic storm on Earth. that will meant whatever had exploded off the sun must have traveled at more than 5 million miles per hour.
Scientists had no idea what that will might be.
Comets provided another clue. The tail of gas in addition to also dust coming through a comet does not flow behind the comet as one might expect, yet instead its direction always points away through the sun.
Dr. Parker's crucial insight was that will This kind of flow of particles would likely follow the same dynamics as wind in addition to also water.
The calculations showed that will the flow began slow near the sun in addition to also accelerated as This kind of moved farther away, passing Earth at supersonic speeds. "that will definitely stuck in people's craw," he said.
The skepticism did not worry him. Fluid dynamics can be a direct derivation through Newton's laws of motion.
After Mariner 2, "everyone agreed the solar wind existed," Dr. Parker said.
While Dr. Parker moved on to various other problems in astrophysics, a close-up visit to the sun has been on NASA's to-do list since the 1950s. Over the decades, various sun-watching spacecraft have observed the sun, yet always through a distance.
In 2005, at NASA's request, engineers at Johns Hopkins Applied Research Laboratory in Laurel, Md. proposed the Solar Probe, a mission that will would likely swoop within 1.8 million miles of the sun. yet This kind of would likely have cost more than $1 billion at the time in addition to also This kind of required a plutonium power source that NASA didn't want to use. Because of the intense heat, the mission would likely have been over after two flybys.
NASA sent the engineers back to see if they could trim the cost tag to under $750 million in addition to also eliminate the plutonium. To do that will, the spacecraft would likely not fly as close. yet that will had a major benefit; the spacecraft would likely make 24 orbits instead of two, gradually moving inward, in addition to also gather much more data.
NASA gave the go-ahead in addition to also renamed the revised concept Solar Probe Plus.
Earlier NASA missions have been given brand-new names shortly before or after launching to honor scientists or noteworthy people in NASA's history. Last year, Dr. Parker got a phone call through Thomas Zurbuchen, NASA's associate administrator for the science directorate, saying that will NASA wanted change the name to Parker Solar Probe.
Dr. Parker said he was surprised in addition to also seemed bemused that will NASA was asking for his permission.
"I said, 'Of course, I don't mind,'" Dr. Parker said.
The data through the Parker Solar Probe could help explain the remaining mysteries of how the sun works, in particular how the sun's atmosphere — the corona — reaches millions of degrees Fahrenheit while the surface of the sun can be a relatively cool 10,000 degrees.


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A Dialogue with the Past
By Judith A. Lerner
When Jennifer Y. Chi, ISAW's exhibition director, invited me to join her team for "Eye of the Shah: Qajar Court Photography and the Persian Past" and curate a gallery devoted to "the Persian Past," I readily accepted. This was an opportunity to tell the story visually, mostly through exquisite 19th-century photographs, of a phenomenon that I'd been studying and writing about for many years: Persia's rediscovery of its ancient past. As a historian of the art of pre-Islamic Iran—mainly that of the Achaemenid (550-330 BCE) and Sasanian (242-651 CE) dynasties—I had become interested in Qajar art back in the 1970s when I lived in Shiraz, Iran, and encountered almost daily the artistic remnants of this Turcoman dynasty that ruled from 1789 to 1925.
Qajar monumental rock reliefs and smaller reliefs of stone or plaster as architectural decoration had not been researched to any extent and I began to write about them. Of particular interest were those carved into living rock, an ancient Iranian medium of royal display, dormant for a millennium until revived by the second Qajar ruler, Fath 'Ali Shah (r. 1797-1834). In style and iconography these reliefs borrowed from those of the Sasanian shahs who earlier had immortalized their divine investitures and military triumphs in living rock, mainly in the vicinity of Shiraz. With this shah's death, rock relief as an expression of royal glorification reappeared only once, in 1878, under Naser al-Din Shah Qajar—the shah whose "eye" for photography (his own and others') is the basis of the exhibition.
Relief of Fath 'Ali Shah (1797-1834), Shiraz, Iran (J. A. Lerner)
In the latter half of the 19th century smaller-scale reliefs in stone and stucco appeared on houses in Shiraz and, to a lesser extent, in other cities. Their imagery borrows from the palatial site of Persepolis, known to Persians as Takht-e Jamshid ("the Throne of Jamshid"), situated less than 40 miles northeast of Shiraz. Sasanian motifs from the rock reliefs also occur, but most is Persepolitan: the king enthroned; the royal hero combatting mythological monsters; guards and servants.
Royal hero combatting horned lion-griffin in doorjamb of the Hundred Column, Hall, Persepolis. "Bassi-relievi a Persepolis," from Album fotografico della Persia. Albumen print, 1857. Luigi Pesce. Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles (2012.R.18, no. 33)
Persians had always been aware of these ancient monuments—of Persepolis (Parsa to the Achaemenids) and others, but they had lost all knowledge of who had built them. Instead, they imbued these haunting remains with the aura of the heroes and kings of the Persian national epic, the Shahnama ("Book of Kings"), composed from earlier mythic-historical accounts around the turn of the 11th century by the poet, Ferdowsi.
Then, in 1846, the English military officer and linguist, Henry C. Rawlinson (1810-1895) published his reading of the Old Persian cuneiform version of Darius the Great's trilingual inscription carved on Bisitun mountain in northeastern Iran. He cannily presented a New Persian translation to the reigning monarch, Muhammad Shah, who ordered copies made for the royal library. With this came Persians' growing awareness of a pre-Islamic history that ever since late Sasanian times was obscured by myth and legend. Now they learned that almost a millennium before the Sasanians, the Achaemenids had challenged the West and controlled a territory extending from the lands of the contemporary Ottoman Empire to British India. With Qajar Iran straining to counter the imperial designs of Britain and Russia, this knowledge became a source of national pride. It also fed into a nascent nationalism, as young Persians returned from studying in Europe and the many Europeans the Shah invited to modernize Persia introduced western ideas.
Achaemenid guard and royal hero combatting monster, Narangestan, Shiraz; 1880s (J. A. Lerner)
This is the background against which the 19th-century photographs of Achaemenid and Sasanian sites in Gallery One should be viewed. Rawlinson's Bisitun reading and the accession of Muhammad Shah's successor Nasir al-Din Shah (r. 1848-1896) represents an auspicious synchronicity: Persians' growing interest in their pre-Islamic past and the young shah's passion for history and photography. An accomplished photographer himself, Nasir al-Din Shah encouraged the photographic recording of Achaemenid and Sasanian sites; on his travels through the country, his retinue always contained at least one photographer; he was first to use photography to record an archaeological excavation—in 1859 at the Seleucid-Parthian site of Khurha.
Persepolis figures, drawn by Forsat al-Dowleh,
from Asar-e 'Ajam, Bombay, 1896
This exhibition has enabled the display of the earliest photographs of Persepolis—those of Luigi Pesce (1818–1891), a Neapolitan military advisor and accomplished amateur photographer, in the album he gifted to Rawlinson (1860)—along with magnificent views of Persepolis and other sites by the Georgian-Armenian Antoin Sevrugin (active 1870s-1933); Rawlinson's publication of the Bisitun inscription; and the impact of the new-found knowledge of the Persian past on later 19th-century Qajar art, exemplified by an alabaster relief in Persepolitan style, photographs of a Qajar townhouse embellished with Persepolitan reliefs, and pages from the polymath Forsat al-Dowla Shirazi's Asar-e 'Ajam ("Persian Monuments"; 1896), with its accurate renditions—albeit in the distinctive Qajar style—of the reliefs and buildings at Persepolis.
Before "Eye of the Shah" opened, some had wondered why an exhibition of 19th-century Persian photography was at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World. As I have shown, it is appropriate to ISAW's mission encouraging study of "historical connections and patterns, as well as socially illuminating comparisons." "Eye of the Shah" reveals the dialogue between the ancient past—pre-Islamic Iran—and the more recent present—Qajar Persia in the second half of the 19th century.
Relief of Sasanian king, Bahram II (276-293), Sarab Bahram, Iran (J. A. Lerner)


So I escaped from Alcatraz. It took me 35 minutes to swim from The Rock and 2:49:07 to complete the course. The water was very choppy, salty and around 55 degrees. It was a challenging swim, but overall not as bad as it was made out to be.
There are a lot of logistics to get ready for the race. It is different than Ironman, but just as complicated. The morning preparations necessary for the race is an extra layer that other triathlons don't have. We needed to be at the transition area around 4:15am in order to setup our transition site. Then you had to drop off a transition bag for the ½ mile run between the swim exit and bike transition. Then you needed to have another bag ready to drop off inside the boat that takes you to Alcatraz. This bag contained all of your warm clothes that you would wear before the race. To get on the boat, you needed to board a bus that took you to Pier 3, where you got body marked and had to wait for the boat to start loading. It was a lot of moving around and activity even before the race began.
While going through all of this I started to think that I am glad I am doing the race now, but this might be it for me. It all just seemed a bit much. However after the race, that feeling completely left me. It was a spectacular and fun course and I highly recommend it.
Once we got moving on the boat, we were treated to a wonderful view of San Francisco. We then circumnavigated Alcatraz Island. This was a treat, because on the tours of Alcatraz, the boat doesn't do that. While looking towards shore, they announced over the PA system the landmarks you needed to swim towards. You don't swim on a direct line to the exit, since the current pull you towards it. If you were to swim a direct line, you would most likely wind up shooting past the exit and need to be fished out of the water. Instead you were directly towards shore, instead of along the length of it. I think I overcompensated a bit as I found myself to the left of many swimmers throughout most of the swim.
To exit the boat we were told to storm off of it like the army storming the beaches at Normandy. They would call your wave and everyone made a mad dash off the boat by jumping into the water and immediately started swimming. At the race briefing they told everyone that once you were in the water, you should stop and take a look around to see where you are. I did do that and it was an experience to see Alcatraz only yards away from me from the middle of San Francisco Bay. I didn't linger for long. The sea was rough, there were swimmers all around me and the water was cold. My plan was to pee in my wetsuit once I hit the water to warm up, but the shock of suddenly being out in the open water made the urge disappear – In truth, I forgot all about peeing until I was about halfway across. By then it was difficult to let it flow, but after slowing down and concentrating I was finally able to get it out. Here is a picture of me by the swim exit the day before the race.
I must say the cold water swimming experience I got with my Cibbows friends really paid off. It was reassuring to know how my body would react to cold water. I think my previous cold water experience paid off and my hands and feet never really got so cold that they became problems.
The part of the course I was most intimidated by was the bike. I had previewed the course by car the day before and I was concerned with the hills that we had to tackle. They were constant and steep and you really couldn't get any momentum to carry you over them. One particular hill was very steep and I asked my companions in the car (who have done it before) if they saw people walking their bikes up this hill. They said they did see people walking up the hill, albeit with great difficulty since their pedaling cleats would keep slipping on the hill. I saw one person trying to walk up the hill when I reached that point in the race.
Even though the course had hills, you were never really able to take advantage of the downhills. Every downhill had many turns or was on a rough road. Even the flat sections, it was tough to get aero, since the road was so rough. On a particularly rough patch I thought I was going to lose control as I struggle to go from aero position to my handgrips in order to maintain control of my bike. It was difficult to pass as well since the course was narrow and also an out and back. That is cyclists were also heading right towards you just on the other side of the street. The last couple of miles of the course were downhill leading into a flat section, so I was able to make good time back into transition. When I arrived at my transition position, my father was right next to me on the other side of the spectator barrier. It was great to see him there cheering me on.
My favorite part of the course was the run. This was also and out and back course, much of it on narrow trails with the return runners passing right on the same path. You could help but graze against many runners as the headed in the opposite direction. I felt like I ran really well right from the start, even though my feet were a bit frozen. During the first mile or two, it felt like I was running on top of frozen rods along the length of my feet. It took a while for my feet to warm up and get a real feel for the ground.
The course went through some wooded areas, up and down stairs and through a tunnel with a low clearance. The tunnel was crazy as not only did you have to watch your head from the roof, but it was impossible to see the ground since it was so dark. The best part was when you went out to run on the beach. Everyone ran along the hard packed sand near the water line and would dart back towards the sandy part of the beach every time a wave would come in. The famous sand ladder that everyone talks about was kind of an anticlimactic part of the race. Everyone walks it and it wasn't that bad. It was tough, but since you walked it wasn't horrible.
After the sand ladder you started heading back for home on some really narrow trail. It was difficult to pass people as runners were also heading towards you from the opposite direction. You had to be able to turn on bursts of speed to get past people when you had the opportunity. Usually the person in front of you would be accommodating with you yelled out that you wanted to pass. That was the case except for one person in front of me who didn't seem to want to let my by. Finally I yelled to him passing in a loud voice to which he replied "are you kidding, just deal"; that's when I told him I wasn't, put on a burst of speed and flew past around 6 runners in front of me.
When we came out of the trails we had about 2 miles left to go. I started running flat out, pushing my heart rate into the red zone. It felt great and horrible at the same time, but I didn't let myself slow down. I wanted to see how much I could make it hurt and how long I could last at that pace. I was able to hold it all the way across the finish where my father was waiting and cheering for me.
I too vote it was a excellent race report.


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The Home for Wayward Parrots by Darusha Wehm is a charming novel that centres on the complicated lives of its many sweet characters. Exceptionally readable, the novel flows through the past and present of Brian "Gumbo" Guillemot's life with such care that readers will not be able to put it down. This novel should be devoured in a single sitting.
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A Review of Andrew Battershill's Marry Bang Kill (Goose Lane Editions, 2018).
Andrew Battershill's novel defies classification. Part west coast island thriller, part mystery/adventure, Marry Bang Kill tells the story of Tommy Marlo, a relatively inept thief with perfect pitch who robs people of their laptops. . . .
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J.R. Helton's Bad Jobs and Poor Decisions (Liverlight 2018) accomplishes a unique feat: the weaving of social universality and cultural specificity. For Helton, that means a raw exploration of class, the most pressing and relevant issue we face, couched in the sounds and sights of 1980s Austin — the music, the drugs, the hustlers, and the grandiosity and pomp that only a state like Texas, in all its carnivalesque glory, can render both thrilling and morbid. As readers follow Jake Stewart, a burgeoning artist bent as much on self-destruction as producing great writing or visual art, as he navigates the bloated landscape of Ronald Reagan's America. An undertone of paranoia and stasis infuses this wry and dark book with urgency and energy that even readers disconnected from the setting and era can feel.
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Jane needs help from a familiar enemy; the FBI is hot on Madeline's heels.
After Reverend Paul asks Mike to teach Sunday School, Mike sends Kyle in his place; Eve worries that Mandy and Kristin are taking advantage of Jen.
Margaret attempts to date Shady Meadows' hottest guy (Dallas' Patrick Duffy), but struggles to ditch the clingy Leonard (One Day at a Time's Stephen Tobolowsky).
Audra asks Rebecca for help with a complicated situation; Nathaniel, Josh and Greg deal with their competing feelings for Rebecca.


First a little bit of background on Mr. Gritzbaugh. He is an 8-year Army veteran who has been with Gerber for the past 4 years, 3 on the Tactical Marketing team, and the past year as Marketing Communications Manager. He has been a lifelong outdoorsman who does seem to know knives. If I had to formulate a judgement based on our correspondence and 20 minute phone call, I would say that Andrew "gets it". Whether or not he is surrounded by people both above and below him that share in this is something I cannot yet say. But as they say, the first step on the road to recovery is admitting that you have a problem. And I was shocked with how Andrew opened the interview.
"You are not wrong", is how he started. He went on to explain that Gerber is well aware of the perception that I said "is metastasizing" in the knife world, and does have a grand plan to right the ship. In fact, he claims that a plan has been underway for a couple of years now and he has personally noticed a clear directional shift in the company.
Of course, Andrew is a PR guy, and some of his answers were kind of flacky. None more so than his response to the recall situation. In fairness, several of the recalls are on sheaths with stitching and other minor issues, but several are on knives themselves including the Bear Grylls parang which has a tendency to snap off at the neck, or the failure of the locking mechanisms on the Cohort and Instant.
When asked, Andrew says that QC is important to Gerber, and when you have production runs the size that Gerber does, the small percentages get larger in absolute terms, so while a dozen failures might trigger action for Gerber, similar percentages of failure might go unnoticed in the normal course of warranty transactions in a smaller company.
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VicForests' strong endorsement from Responsible Wood audit
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General Manager of Corporate Affairs, Alex Messina, said VicForests was proud of its Responsible Wood AFS certification which has been maintained for more than 10 years. The May 2018 Australian Forestry Standard (AFS) Surveillance Audit report, the latest for Responsible Wood certification, endorsed VicForests' strong management practices and found the organisation conformed across all AFS indicators. The report made note of VicForests' continual improvement of its management systems and the emphasis it placed on harvest planning and preparation, and the protection of biodiversity values. Source: Timberbiz
General Manager of Corporate Affairs, Alex Messina, said VicForests was proud of its Responsible Wood AFS certification which has been maintained for more than 10 years.
"This is a clear endorsement of VicForests' management systems including harvesting operations and protection of biodiversity such as the Leadbeater's Possum and Greater Glider," Mr Messina said
"VicForests harvests native timber resources in a sustainable manner which protects local biodiversity and ensures the long-term future of Victoria's forests.
"We go to great lengths to regenerate harvested areas with the same forest type that was there prior to harvesting. What we harvest, we grow back.
"Our practices are based on industry best-practice and a scientific approach to forestry management."
VicForests has maintained Responsible Wood (Australian Forestry Standard) since 2007 and undertakes regular independent audits to monitor its management systems and operations in accordance with these requirements.
The Responsible Wood standard is endorsed by the international Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC) – the largest such system in the world which covers around 240 million hectares of forest across 30 countries and equates to around two-thirds of the world's total certified forest area.
The report highlighted one previous minor non-conformity which had been identified in an earlier audit. Corrective action to address this issue is in progress however the non-conformity was raised in this report as it has not yet been completed. This action is expected to be completed by December 2018.
VicForests will work with industry, stakeholders and the community to ensure it continues its strong record of sustainable timber harvesting and is best placed to achieve continued re-certification of Responsible Wood standard.
VicForests has also announced plans to seek Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) Controlled Wood standard by 2020.


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Wood panel wall decor – We already know how well they look and how versatile are the wooden floors but what about the walls? The walls of wood are combinable with many materials in the decoration and can help to create different environments depending on the type and color of this, the lighting of the total space in which the walls are found, among other things.
The entrance of houses can be a real issue to solve because they are usually small, so placing furniture becomes impossible, placing mirrors can be boring, and works of art can be uneconomical. This is where a wood panel wall decor can make a difference. The one in the photo also contrasts perfectly with the narrow white furniture, the perfect pair, white and wood!
Framing the sector of built-in ovens in your kitchen with small or large sheets of wood as the photo, may be a good idea especially if the sheets are light colored, as it contrasts very well with the gray of the metal. It would be like giving a touch of warmth to the area. The porcelain floor and the design lamp are the open mouth to an element that defines a very elegant decoration: the doors of solid wood panel wall decor protected by a dark lacquer. A detail that strengthens the fineness and exclusivity of the environment.


Maybe we can finally retire the canard that dismisses musical theater as saccharine piffle. In the 21st century, the art form's most exciting, most innovative specimens are so smart they're cunning, applying the genre's tropes and tools toward new, sly ends. Yet those that will endure don't merely engage in self-parody, taking mean-spirited potshots at musical theater's most flamboyant conventions. They achieve much more. They still have heart.
"Soft Power," the new David Henry Hwang and Jeanine Tesori "play with a musical" that opened Thursday, June 21, at the Curran, is a daring new entrant in that tradition. Co-commissioned by Center Theatre Group in Los Angeles and the Public Theater in New York, it could still use some tweaks, but it nonetheless deserves to be known as one of the defining theatrical works of the Trump era and have a long, rich life thereafter.
Directed by Leigh Silverman, the show begins not as a musical but as a straight play set in 2016, as Chinese American playwright David (an avatar for Hwang and played by Francis Jue) negotiates with Chinese television executive Xue Xing (Conrad Ricamora) over the proper way to represent China and its citizens in a pilot. Is the American mode of storytelling — with selfish, true-love-chasing characters as opposed to selfless ones — the only way to make a TV show not seem like state propaganda and succeed beyond China's borders?
If that sounds reductive, the book also strains in the next scene, when Xue's white American girlfriend, Zoe (Alyse Alan Louis), is conveniently overeager to tout the virtues of American democracy to Xue (they're at a Hillary Clinton campaign rally) or whitesplain "The King and I" to David. Hwang then takes more shortcuts, using direct-address narration out of nowhere and setting up a fainting, it-was-all-a-dream sequence.
But when the orchestra, under the direction of David O, finally swells in, the show takes off. And bless the producers of "Soft Power" for investing in an actual orchestra, complete with six violins, instead of the synth-heavy, four-person bands that so many shows try to pass off as orchestras these days. "Soft Power" is infinitely more textured and grand and potent for the fullness of sound that only a slew of strings and winds and brass can create. It also complements Ricamora particularly well; his singing offers a reminder that the human voice is an instrument, one out of which he massages, as might a violinist, a sumptuous vibrato.
The music has taken over, because we're no longer in 2016, but years later, as future generations have mythologized the events of the first scenes as a Chinese musical — one not from David's point of view, as in the initial scenes of "Soft Power," but from Xue's. In this era, China dominates not just as a military and economic power, but also as a cultural one. In its art, it can put forth the sweeping generalizations and gross inaccuracies that American entertainment routinely propagates.
The goal of "Soft Power," though, isn't just to make fun of the United States but also to dissect the 2016 election, detoxify us, and offer a path forward. It makes the unassailable case that Clinton (also Louis, with a belt that could rejigger the electoral college) might have fared slightly better in 2016 had she strode into her rallies atop giant cheeseburgers — but that she still probably wouldn't have won.
It also finds in a postelection Clinton a beacon of hope. With a mouth full of pizza or dribbling ice cream a radioactive shade of green, she staggers up, a phoenix rising from the ashes, proclaiming she still believes in democracy and in love and in us. Early on, "Soft Power" briefly makes fun of "Oklahoma!" — but the new show and Rodgers and Hammerstein's groundbreaking classic share a mainspring. Both seek, in the midst of a crisis, to help rebuild a nation.


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DeMarcus Lawrence enjoys needling pass-rushing understudy Taco Charlton, who spent plenty of time in the offseason working out with the man who tied for second in sacks in the NFL last year for the Dallas Cowboys."He's aggravating," Lawrence said, trying not to show that he was joking. "I go places in Dallas thinking I'm by myself and two seconds later, I see Taco walk in. Why is he always following me?"Maybe it's because Lawrence is coming off his best season at 14 1/2 sacks while Charlton is trying to deliver on first-round expectations in his second year.Add Randy Gregory working to get his career back on track after a year away from the NFL on a substance-abuse suspension, and these recent high draft picks by the Cowboys, all defensive ends, offer an interesting trio of story lines going into 2018."Encore?" said Lawrence Cheap Larry Fitzgerald Jersey , who tied Jacksonville's Calais Campbell for second, 2 1/2 sacks behind Arizona's Chandler Jones. "You've just got to stay tuned. 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Underage Development Programme and Senior XV Management squad announcement.
The executive committee of Bruff RFC are delighted to announce the creation of our first ever skill specific development programme, mentored by John Hayes, former Bruff RFC, Munster, Ireland & The British and Irish Lions, Managed by Bruff YDO Eoin Cahill, and facilitated by Johnny O' Connor (Shannon, Munster, Bruff) & the senior Bruff squad members.
Continuing the fantastic underage tradition in Bruff RFC since its foundation, This new development programme will be greatly helped by the revamped facilities of the club including the newly fitted electronic video analysis systems, electronic whiteboard system and with Brendan Bourke and Gráinne Hayes taking over Diet and Nutrition programming and fitness coaching/testing and Club Physio Derry Bowman taking charge of recovery when necessary. It will deal with player specific programmes including speed, agility, skills, diet and weight training, individually tailored to measure and target each players specific needs. Catering for underage players from U15 to U20, the programme will aim to enhance the training, fitness, rugby skillset and dietary standards of each of our underage players with the aim of streamlining the process of graduation from the fantastic underage system that has always existed in Bruff RFC right through to the Bruff Senior XV.
Coupled with this new system we also wish to announce the new senior XV management team for the coming season of Head Coach Ben Martin (UL Bohs, Munster, US Colomiers) , Forwards Coach Stephen Keogh (Bruff, Shannon, Munster, Leinster, Irish U21's), and Management team of John Broderick (St. Munchins, Old Crescent, Young Munster & TG4) and Alfie Laffan (Bruff, UCC, Shannon, Bruff) as we head into the new season in Division 2a. Outgoing forwards coach Cathal O' Regan is handing over the reins to concentrate on playing with the Bruff Senior squad for the coming year. We would like to take this opportunity to thank outgoing head coach Mike Lynch for his work during what was a particularly tough hard season for the Bruff RFC Senior XV and wish him well in all of his future endeavours. He has been a fantastic servant to this club over the years.


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Q: detectChanges() not fired in object array in Angular *ngFor makes my app extremely slow due to thousand rows iterated. It works as expected except for slow performance. If the select or input value is changed, its value will be in red. If the _main.rolls is iterated, I am able to fetch all values modified and send them to API to update.
<tr *ngFor="let student of _main.students">  <!-- up to 250 students (rows). -->
   <ng-container *ngFor="let date of _main.attendance_dates"> <!-- up to 5 school days (rows) in the same week. -->
      <ng-container *ngFor="let roll of _main.rolls"> <!-- up to 5 days (rows) times 250 students per two columns (5*250*2) in the same week. -->
         <ng-container *ngIf="student.id == roll.student_id && date.date == roll.date">
            <td [ngClass] = "roll.email_sent_datetime?'table-cell-attendance-code-emailed' : 'table-cell-attendance-code'">
                <select [(ngModel)]="roll.attendance_type_seq_new" [ngClass]="roll.attendance_type_seq == roll.attendance_type_seq_new ? 'select-attendance-type' : 'select-attendance-type-changed'">
                    <option [value]="0" >Not selected</option>
                    <option *ngFor="let answer of _main.attendance_tyes" [value]="answer.seq">
                        {{answer.description}}
                    </option>
                </select>

            </td>
            <td [ngClass] = "roll.email_sent_datetime?'table-cell-attendance-note-emailed' : 'table-cell-attendance-note'">
                <input [(ngModel)]="roll.attendance_note_new" placeholder="" title="{{roll.attendance_note_new}}"  [ngClass]="roll.attendance_note == roll.attendance_note_new ? 'input-attendance-note' : 'input-attendance-note-changed'"/>
            </td>

            </ng-container>
        </ng-container>
    </ng-container>
</tr>

*I made some changes. Find an index first and display the item. It is faster enough but the changes are not stored. I can get only one item changed through _main.rolls array. It is not detectChages() fired on all values. There is another problem too. If the value of the select or input is changed, the value is still in black not in red.
<tr *ngFor="let student of _main.students">  <!-- up to 250 students (rows). -->
   <ng-container *ngFor="let date of _main.attendance_dates"> <!-- up to 5 school days (rows) in the same week. -->
    {{getRollSelectedIndex(student.id, date.date)}} <!-- fetch the index of the row in the rolls. -->
      <!-- <ng-container *ngFor="let roll of _main.rolls"> up to 5 days (rows) times 250 students per two columns (5*250*2) in the same week. -->
         <ng-container *ngIf="_index">
            <td [ngClass] = "_main.rolls[_index].email_sent_datetime?'table-cell-attendance-code-emailed' : 'table-cell-attendance-code'">
                <select [(ngModel)]="_main.rolls[_index].attendance_type_seq_new" [ngClass]="_main.rolls[_index].attendance_type_seq == _main.rolls[_index].attendance_type_seq_new ? 'select-attendance-type' : 'select-attendance-type-changed'">
                    <option [value]="0" >Not selected</option>
                    <option *ngFor="let answer of _main.attendance_tyes" [value]="answer.seq">
                        {{answer.description}}
                    </option>
                </select>

            </td>
            <td [ngClass] = "_main.rolls[_index].email_sent_datetime?'table-cell-attendance-note-emailed' : 'table-cell-attendance-note'">
                <input [(ngModel)]="_main.rolls[_index].attendance_note_new" placeholder="" title="{{_main.rolls[_index].attendance_note_new}}"  [ngClass]="_main.rolls[_index].attendance_note == _main.rolls[_index].attendance_note_new ? 'input-attendance-note' : 'input-attendance-note-changed'"/>
            </td>

         </ng-container>
        <!-- </ng-container>     -->
    </ng-container>
</tr>

In .ts file.
getRollSelectedIndex(student_id: number, date: Date){
    if (this._main.rolls != null )
    {
      this._index = this._main.rolls.findIndex(x=>x.student_id === student_id && x.attendance_date === date)
    }
  }

I am not an experienced Angular programmer. My approach could be wrong and is there a better way to tackle the performance issue in my code?

A: Yes, there's a better way.  Both of your solutions required nested iterations, which you can avoid by iterating over rolls and creating an object where the keys are the student id's and the value is the roll.  Objects give you instant access, so you don't have to iterate over it in the template.  You could do something like this to build this 'map':
studentRollsMap = {};
this._main.rolls.forEach(roll => {
    studentRollsMap[roll.student_id] = roll;
})

Then in your template you can iterate over students and at the same time be able to bind to studentRollsMap[student.id]
This should improve performance by 5 to 10 times according to your comments

A: I can feel your tense where you are and I hope that my words might be informative and helpful to find the best way out of this.
What I think as a good solution, is to do all the conditioning style classes in the class file not in the template file. Using .map() to iterate over the array of data and adding two new properties to each object in the array one for the <td> class roll.email_sent_datetime?'table-cell-attendance-code-emailed' : 'table-cell-attendance-code'" and another one for the <input> style class _main.rolls[_index].email_sent_datetime?'table-cell-attendance-note-emailed' : 'table-cell-attendance-note'".
I believe that using this way will shrink the time elapsed in conditioning the style to zero and will be touchable.
Even more, you can iterate over the whole dependable data arrays _main.students, _main.attendance_dates, and _main.rolls so that you only get one data array to use inside of *ngFor="" [in the class .ts file as well]

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'You're the Worst' Recap: Episode 3.4 "Men Get Strong"
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One of the greatest things about You're the Worst is the way it can take a serious event in a human's life and study it by throwing two horrible, maladjusted people smack dab in the middle of it. First it was love, then it was depression, and now the show sets its sights on grief. Walking the balancing act between "actual statement" and "humor at the horribleness" requires delicacy, and while last night's episode "Men Get Strong" struggles to get that balance just right, it's still one of their best yet this season, filled with humor and nihilism.
The episode opens the morning after Gretchen (Aya Cash) tells Jimmy (Chris Geere) that his dad passed away. She lies in bed quietly, waiting for him to show any sign that he is emotionally ready to wake up and talk. She is shocked, however, to find that he is perfectly fine-he'd forgotten the night in a blackout (which worries Gretchen in a different way"). Gretchen breaks the news to him again, and Jimmy is once again left numb, leaving Gretchen to avoid talking about emotions with sex. Seven minutes later, Gretchen finishes, and asks if Jimmy is ready to talk. As it turns out, Jimmy's just acting-he knew if he faked it he could get "free sex"-obviously not grasping the concept of a relationship, as Gretchen points out. However, Jimmy tells her he feels nothing over his estranged father's death, and Gretchen is relieved. They head upstairs, where Edgar (Desmin Borges) has made everyone pancakes to distract himself from having to deal with his upcoming meeting with his V.A. instructor. Jimmy decides this is the perfect time to mock Edgar, informing him that he'd recently read that "In World War I, PTSD was called 'cowardice,' and the penalty was to be shot." Jimmy laughs at his own comment, clearly missing that this one hurt Edgar more than usual-clearly the lack of meds is making him worse. Lindsay (Kether Donahue), meanwhile, starts to connect the dots over her potential road to becoming Jimmy's dad, and realizes she needs to be a good mother, while Jimmy and Gretchen watch her intently as she has a rational thought for the first time in the show's history. Jimmy and Gretchen leave for the day as he gives Edgar a long list of British writing snacks to bring him, delivered in Geere's usual ridiculous patter delivery.
Gretchen hunts down her therapist Justina (Samira Wiley), who reacts to her presence with a hilarious "Oh sh*t,"-apparently a few short weeks is all that this trained psychiatrist can handle of Gretchen's behavior before becoming alarmed and disturbed by her presence. Gretchen points out that Jimmy handled his grief like a real man, but Justina is much smarter than that. Ever the voice of reason, she warns Gretchen that a breakdown is coming, and "You're gonna have to be there for him." Gretchen laughs this off, but is then horrified to realize that this breakdown could happen on her anticipated Famous Animals of Instagram Cruise. She decides that the only hope is to speed along the grieving process so it won't happen further down the road. Justina warns that grief "Is not gonna happen on your schedule," but it takes Gretchen all of two seconds to announce, "Nah, I'm still gonna do it my way." She finds Jimmy lying on his floor, dictating his smut novel to poor Killian (Shane Francis Smith) while Edgar sweeps. Jimmy, annoyed at the interruptions, calls his girlfriend "maladroit, no offense," which is greeted by Gretchen with "None taken, because I do not know that word." She then launches into her plan to drag Jimmy around to sad places, in order to force him to "poop out some tears." Jimmy decides to follow her lead, leaving instructions for Killian to clean up the house and copy edit his book. "And for the love of God, learn how to spell analingus."
Meanwhile, in a quest to become a good mother, Lindsay has dragged injured husband Paul (Allan McLeod) to a parenthood training class. Paul points out they don't need practice because, "We're already a family." Lindsay retorts by asking him to "name one family with only two people." Under his breath, it takes Paul less than a second to respond "the Gilmore Girls." They run into Becca (Janet Varney) and Vernon (thank God for Todd Robert Anderson), who are determined to be the best parents ever. Well, Becca is, because that's how she's wired. Vernon wants Paul to go into the bathroom and get plastered with him. Meanwhile, back with our main couple, Jimmy finishes explaining to Gretchen why he is better off having no emotions: emotionless characters like Robocop and Chappie (all robots, as Gretchen points out) survive, while emotional characters like Kane from Citizen Kane and the wife from Up end up dead. Edgar is already annoyed by this conversation, and kicks them out of the car, promising to come back after his V.A. meeting. The first stop for Jimmy and Gretchen on their quest to Make Jimmy Cry is to crash a funeral. Unfortunately, Gretchen realizes everyone at the funeral is hot (she is turned on by funerals, we learn), and Jimmy realizes the same thing-they end up having sex in a nearby mausoleum, with Gretchen announcing, "You're gonna have to pull out. I can't get pregnant-your dad is currently floating around looking for a body to reincarnate!"
Back at the childrearing class, things take a surprising turn-Lindsay is far and away the best student in the class, showing real aptitude every step of the way as Becca looks on jealously and Vernon gets wasted off of Baby Bottle Booze and attaches breast pumps to his nipples. Everyone congratulates Lindsay on how great she is at being a mother. Unfortunately, that's the exact opposite of what Lindsay needs to hear. She begins to panic, and as Paul begins to look around, she helps a handsome dad shop for baby supplies. If you know anything about Lindsay, you have a pretty good idea of where this is going. Meanwhile, Gretchen has taken Jimmy to a mug painting Father-Son store, hoping to inspire some "Cats in the Cradle sh*t." However, this just makes Jimmy angry, for despite his "wide variety of creative skills," he is only capable of painting a sun wearing sunglasses. "What, is he too bright for his own eyes?" he asks. However, Gretchen has a brainstorm when she sees a father yelling at his kid in the middle of the store. She sends Jimmy out to talk to the man while she talks to the kid. Jimmy confronts the dad over his behavior (and inadvertently reveals he broke a blood vessel in his eye crying during My Girl), only to learn that the man is, in fact, being bullied and controlled by his god-awful son. The boy then comes outside with a highly amused Gretchen and unleashes a litany of curse words, much to his father's horror and Gretchen and Jimmy's amusement. The two walk off, despite the man's pleas for salvation, and decide to call Edgar for a new ride. Edgar claims that his car broke down, so he can't pick them up or bring them their booze. An enraged Jimmy texts Edgar "Zero Stars," as if his friend were an Uber driver, and we learn that Edgar never went to his V.A. meeting, instead sitting on the beach getting hammered. He's not in a good place, you guys.
As a last ditch effort, Gretchen decides to roleplay as Jimmy's dad at a local pub. She unleashes a stream of insults-with perfect British slang-until Jimmy snaps and begins shouting back at her. Gretchen watches with glee as Jimmy's emotions build up-only to be released in a fart. He's still emotionally stunted in that regard. Meanwhile, Lindsay has a heart to heart with her new friend as they discuss the frightening nature of approaching parenthood. "What if there's something I'm meant to be good at and I never find out?" she asks. The man relays that feeling, and talks about how he's been given a second chance at love and fatherhood. It seems these two have a real connection. So, naturally, Lindsay tries to kiss the guy. Who loudly and angrily rebuffs her, pointing out that he had just told her that he was getting a second chance in life, that her husband was only steps away, and that she was trying to throw away both their lives. A humiliated and horrified Lindsay rushes out of the building, dropping her prize-and symbolically, her hope at being a good mother.
Gretchen and Jimmy arrive home, having accepted that Jimmy doesn't have any emotions to unleash. Edgar sits at the counter eating Jimmy's snacks, and Gretchen, sensing something might be wrong, asks Edgar if he wants to talk about his meeting. He tells her no, but with an extra, un-Edgarlike amount of snark. However, a lack of responsibility is all Gretchen is looking for, so she considers this a win in her book, and goes down to talk to Jimmy. However, she finds him sitting on his bed, surrounded by his dad's stuff. She goes to comfort him, but discovers he is smiling and laughing. Instead of feeling sad or depressed over the death, Jimmy is truly "relieved"-he is free of the pain his dad caused him throughout his life. He takes all of his father's stuff and shoves it in a drawer to throw away later. Gretchen seems to be happy he has figured out his emotions, but there's a pain in her eyes, as she considers how joyful Jimmy seems over this news. The two head upstairs to watch TV, and the camera lingers as the Dad Drawer pops back open. I wonder if that's symbolic.
What a unique way to deal with grief. It was dark, it was tragic, and it was amusing all at the same time. While I found the ending a little rushed, I was glad they rejected the typical route of storytelling, even if only for the near future. The way this show tackles human emotions is unique and brilliant, and we need more just like it.
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Anything goes: President signs bill Congress never passed
Submitted by Rafael DeGennaro on Thu, 2006-02-09 21:09.
The Washington Post reported Feb. 9, 2006 ("Glitch surfaces in Budget Measure") that the President signed into law a bill containing a time duration that the House did not pass.
On a provision regarding Medicare reimbursements for oxygen tanks, the Senate bill specified a time frame of 13 months. When the bill was sent to the House las month, the clerk wrote "36 months." The House then passed the bill with the "36 months" language. When the mistake was discovered, a House clerk scribbled out "36 months" and wrote in "13 months."
The House had passed all of the bill except the number "13 months". In another example of "anything goes in Congress" attitude, the House clerk just scribbled in the number passed by the Senate. Better would have been to pass a technical correction law after the main bill became law. This mistake may not be an example of why the 72 hours online rule is needed. But the mistake and the sloppy way it was handled is evidence of the breakdown of the regular order in Congress.
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