Is Your Dog a Genius or Simply Lovable? Test Their IQ!
All dogs are smart, in their own unique way. One dog may fly through an agility course after a single run through, another may plod their way around, sniffing flowers along the way. Is there a way to accurately determine a dog's mental aptitude? Here are some fun games to determine whether a dog is a brainiac or simply lovable.
The problem? A treat is hidden. The dog watches as a treat is placed under a cup. Ideally the solution is for the dog to tip the cup over and get the treat. If a dog accomplishes this in under five seconds, she scores high, if she takes up to ten seconds to figure it out, then she's average. Basically the longer she takes the lower the score. Some dogs aren't interested in treats. This is when a person should use a favorite toy or ball and hide it under a towel.
Does the dog understand hand gestures? The test; show the dog a tasty treat. Remove the dog from the room, hide the treat in an obvious place and bring the dog back into the room. Show her empty hands and gesture for her to look around the room. How long does is take the dog to find the treat on her own? The longer it takes the lower her score.
How good is the dog's short term and long term memory? To test the short term memory, have the dog watch as a dog cookie or a Milkbone treat is set on the edge of a circle (like a rope ring or hula hoop). Interact with the dog for thirty seconds in the room and then release her, timing how long it takes to go to the treat. Does she head right for the cookie? Does she find it by accident while sniffing around?
Try again, place the cookie on a different edge of the ring. Take the dog out of the room, play and interact for five minutes and bring her back into the room. Does she remember the cookie and go straight to it? Or does it take her a moment to remember?
Problem? There is a tasty treat just out of reach! The owner sits on one side of a barrier, the dog on the other side. There should be enough space in the barrier to show the dog a treat, but not for the dog to reach the treat. How long does it take for the dog to come around to the owner's side and eat the treat?
These are just a few of the IQ tests that offer a fun way to interact with dogs. They are also great for mental stimulation which keeps dogs healthy and active. Whether a dog is determined to be a genius or slightly less so, most dogs enjoy playing with their humans no matter the person's IQ.


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NATO ENSEC COE's Director, Colonel Romualdas Petkevičius made an opening speech at the Baltic Defence College for the week-long Operational Level Energy Security Course. It is the first iteration of the course which will be conducted by NATO ENSEC COE from 18-22 March 2019. Director's concluded his speech with a brief presentation on the Centres energy-security related studies, research, and training programs.
The aim of the Operational Level Energy Security Course is to provide students with knowledge of the importance of energy and energy security in the current geopolitical environment and their influence on military operations.
The course lectures and activities are delivered by the NATO ENSEC COE's staff and expert partners from NATO Headquarters Emerging Security Challenges Division, Bilkent University in Ankara, the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School, the Military Academy of Lithuania, the Hybrid Center of Excellence in Finland, and the U.S. Department of Defense. Each day's main topics are organized with consideration to NATO's three stated pillars of energy security: energy security awareness, critical energy infrastructure protection, and energy efficiency in military operations. 24 students are attending the course from the Baltic Defence College Higher Command Studies Course (HCSC), Joint Command and General Staff Course (JCGSC), and Civilian Servant Course (CSC) who chose to participate as an elective. They are joined by other military and civilian participants sent by NATO and partner countries. Nine nations are represented in total (Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Georgia, Poland, Slovakia, USA, Italy and Sweden).


These Mediterranean doors and entryways have perfected imperfection and coziness. Their aged appearance combined with bursts of colorful flowers subtly remind us to appreciate -not fight- the passage of time and the beauty of nature. Rustic materials that age well and grow character with signs of use/age also let us relax and be comfortable around them, making these entryways very beautiful and easy-going.


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14 Review What is the function of RNA? RNA carries genetic information from DNA in the nucleus to the cytosol to be used in protein synthesis. What is the structure of RNA? RNA is a single strand of nucleotides made up of a sugar (ribose), a phosphate group, and nitrogen base pairs (A,U,G,C).
15 Review Describe the structure and function of the 3 types of RNA. Messenger RNA (mrna) is a single, uncoiled strand of nucleotides that carries genetic information from the DNA in the nucleus to the cytosol. Transfer RNA (trna) is a single coil of RNA in a hairpin shape that binds to a certain amino acid. Ribosomal RNA (rrna) is made of RNA nucleotides in a globular form and joins with proteins to form ribosomes. Describe transcription. RNA polymerase binds to DNA promoters and separates the two strands of DNA. RNA polymerase then moves along the DNA strand and adds complimentary RNA nucleotides to form an RNA molecule. It stops at the terminal signal.
Lecture 5. 1. Transfer of proper aminoacyl-trna from cytoplasm to A-site of ribosome.
ECO-1.1: I can describe the processes that move carbon and nitrogen through ecosystems.
Lecture 8. Protein Trafficking/Targeting. Protein targeting is necessary for proteins that are destined to work outside the cytoplasm.


WASHINGTON — A D.C. man who prosecutors said repeatedly abused his teenage daughter over several years was sentenced to prison Wednesday.
The man, who was not identified to protect the victim's privacy, was sentenced to 13 years in prison. The 43-year-old, formerly of Northwest D.C., pleaded guilty in March to child sexual abuse charges, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia said in a news release.
Prosecutors said the man sexually abused his biological daughter from when she was age 12 to 16. The victim reported the abuse to authorities after an incident last September, when the man forced her to drink so much alcohol that she became ill and passed out; he then assaulted her, prosecutors said.
The defendant admitted to the victim that he secretly gave her birth control medicine and told her to lie to police about his actions, and prosecutors said law enforcement officials had recorded this exchange.
The defendant has been in custody since last September, when he was arrested, prosecutors said. At the time, prosecutors said he was on supervised released after serving over 11 years in prison on drug charges.


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FOX News Channel's Bill Hemmer, anchor of news program Bill Hemmer Reports, poses for a photo on the set of his new show, Friday, Jan. 17, 2020, in New York. Hemmer takes over the 3 p.m. ET news hour that Shepard Smith vacated when he abruptly quit the network late last year. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
Fox's Bill Hemmer replaces, but won't copy, Shepard Smith
NEW YORK (AP) — Bill Hemmer is not Shepard Smith, and no one should expect him to be. The 55-year-old news anchor is a familiar face to Fox News Channel viewers, and will jar none of them Monday when he takes over the 3 p.m. ET news hour that Smith vacated when he abruptly quit the network late...
FILE - In this Oct. 16, 2017 file photo, MSNBC television anchor Rachel Maddow, host of "The Rachel Maddow Show," moderates a panel at a forum called "Perspectives on National Security," at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, at Harvard University, in Cambridge, Mass. There's no apparent impeachment fatigue among Maddow's viewers. Her prime-time show, which has been on for more than 11 years, had its largest audience ever when 4.5 million people watched Maddow's interview on Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2020, with Lev Parnas, an associate of Rudy Giuliani, President Donald Trump's personal lawyer.(AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)
MSNBC's Maddow reaches record audience with Parnas interview
NEW YORK (AP) — There's no apparent impeachment fatigue among viewers of MSNBC's Rachel Maddow. Her prime-time show, which has been on for more than 11 years, had its largest audience ever when 4.5 million people watched Maddow's interview on Wednesday with Lev Parnas, an associate of Rudy Giuliani...
In this Jan. 9, 2020 photo, clients wait to enter the DirecTV headquarters in Caracas, Venezuela. Venezuelan President Maduro's opponents want AT&T's DirecTV unit to restore a number of channels it was required to take down from its lineup. But forcing AT&T to do the political bidding of Maduro's foes could lead to retaliation and likely exit from a market where it has a whopping 44% market share. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)
AP Exclusive: AT&T under pressure to defy Maduro's censors
MIAMI (AP) — Last April, as a military uprising roiled Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro's socialist government ordered pay TV providers to immediately cease transmission of CNN and the BBC. DirecTV, which is wholly owned by AT&T, quickly obliged, yanking the two networks off the air as live images of...
A DirectTV dish stands on home in the Catia neighborhood of Caracas, Venezuela, Thursday, Jan. 9, 2020. Venezuelan President Maduro's opponents want AT&T's DirecTV unit to restore a number of channels it was required to take down from its lineup. But forcing AT&T to do the political bidding of Maduro's foes could lead to retaliation and likely exit from a market where it has a whopping 44% market share. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo delivers a statement on Iraq and Syria, at President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago property, Sunday, Dec. 29, 2019, in Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)
Pompeo: US may hit more Iranian Ieaders if Iran retaliates
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military may strike more Iranian leaders if the Islamic Republic retaliates for the Trump administration's killing of Tehran's most powerful general last week by attacking Americans or American interests, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Sunday. As Pompeo conducted a...
Bill O'Reilly guest spot on TV show not apart of Discovery
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Discovery Channel says a television show featuring Bill O'Reilly is not an official program on their network after receiving backlash for the former Fox News host's appearance on the show amid sexual harassment allegations against him. A Discovery Channel spokesman said the...
A boy carries a portrait of Iranian Revolutionary Guard Gen. Qassem Soleimani, who was killed in the U.S. airstrike in Iraq, prior to the Friday prayers in Tehran, Iran, Friday Jan. 3, 2020. Iran has vowed "harsh retaliation" for the U.S. airstrike near Baghdad's airport that killed Tehran's top general and the architect of its interventions across the Middle East, as tensions soared in the wake of the targeted killing. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
Iran vows revenge for US attack that killed powerful general
BAGHDAD (AP) — Iran promised to seek revenge for a U.S. airstrike near Baghdad's airport that killed the mastermind of its interventions across the Middle East, and the U.S. said Friday that it was sending thousands more troops to the region as tensions soared in the wake of the targeted killing...
FILE - Fred Graham of CBS News, is shown in this Dec. 11, 1980 file photo. Graham, who covered legal affairs at the Supreme Court, Justice Department and in high-profile court cases for The New York Times, CBS News and Court TV, died at his Washington home over the weekend. He was 88. (AP Photo/Barry Thumma)
Fred Graham, pioneering legal affairs journalist, dies at 88
WASHINGTON (AP) — Fred P. Graham, who covered the Supreme Court and momentous legal affairs of his era for The New York Times, CBS News and Court TV, has died at his Washington home. He was 88. The cause of his death Saturday was complications from Parkinson's disease, according to his wife, Skila...
Turkey sentences critical journalists to prison
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — A Turkish court on Friday convicted six journalists and one other employee of an independent newspaper of aiding the network of a U.S.-based cleric who is accused of masterminding the failed coup in 2016, the state-run news agency reported. The seven were accused of supporting...
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., holds the gavel as House members vote on the article II of impeachment against President Donald Trump, Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2019, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
At least 15 million TV viewers watch impeachment vote
At least 15 million television viewers watched the House of Representatives vote to impeach President Donald Trump after a full day of rancorous debate. Both Fox News Channel and NBC had roughly 5 million viewers during the hour, starting at 8 p.m. Eastern, when the House took separate votes...

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Q: MongoDB databases within databases I'd like to use a database within a database, so I have the dev DB with my development data in it and my test DB with all my test data. However, it doesn't look possible to put DBs inside of DBs with Mongo. So I assume an alternate solution is to create a different Mongo connection altogether for dev and test. So I have a dev_data directory and a test_data directory, each with its own mongod.lock file and each listening on a different port. Is that a good solution? How do I do that?

A: This is easily possible. You can start as many mongod processes as you want like this — just make sure the data directories exist and both data folder plus log file are writeable:
mongod --dbpath /opt/dev --port 27001 --logpath /var/log/mongodb/dev.log
mongod --dbpath /opt/prd --port 27002 --logpath /var/log/mongodb/prd.log

If this is really necessary or if multiple databases would be sufficient is another matter, but you'll know best what you require for your situation.

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Imagine having to put in your credit card information every time you wanted to just access Facebook.com. Crazy, right? Well, that's the whole problem with the debate about net neutrality. What is net neutrality though? It is the principle that Internet Service Providers (ISPs) should give consumers, us, equal access to all content and applications without exhibiting favoritism. Historically, net neutrality or open internet policies have been debated over and over again by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). In 2015, a policy was finally decided to enforce net neutrality, which restricted ISPs from favoring their provided services over other content providers. For example, big ISPs like Comcast, Verizon, or AT&T, cannot slow down delivery of content by content providers they do not own, like Netflix or Amazon. Without net neutrality, ISPs could charge us for the usage of other content providers that are not affiliated with them; thus, filling their already full wallets even more. Recently, however, the efforts of consumers and content providers alike are beginning to unwind in the new administration.
This plan has been supported by conservatives as well as ISPs while it has been opposed by activists supporting net neutrality, technology giants, as well the majority of consumers. The plan requires the ISP to maintain transparency about their practices and violations of the transparency rule could lead to fines by the FCC. This policy would also allow the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to sue companies for violations of prior statements and claims they have made to the general public to ensure that companies will treat their customers fairly.
We've talked all about the history and background of the current net neutrality debate, but why is important to us as Asian Americans? As many of you may know, international phone call cards are extremely expensive. For example, rates can get up to $50 for 3000 minutes for US calls to China, which is barely enough for 3 days, but if you have family living across the ocean, it's worth it to pay the price. The magic of the internet, however, has given us so many new free methods of communication, as long as both sides have access to the internet. Free chat applications like Line, WeChat, Kakaotalk, Facebook, etc allow for free phone and video calls to anywhere across the globe with internet access. These apps are like other content providers that are not associated with big ISPs, so if net neutrality is undone, then we face the risk of having to pay hefty prices to simply talk with family once again. We not only have to pay for a wifi plan, but we also have to pay to use that wifi.
Additionally, Asian Americans recently have made many Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) advocacy pushes, especially through the use of social media. Some examples are the trending hastags, #whitewashedOUT and #praisintheasian, which addressed the lack of asian media representation in Hollywood, and being proud of asian heritage respectively. We also generally use the internet to spread awareness of Asian successes in America, which include the recent casting of Liu Yifei as Fa Mulan in Disney's live action, and BTS's win in the the Billboard Music Awards. With the loss of net neutrality, however, we also lose that major platform to further spread AAPI advocacy issues because many advocates may not even be able to pay the repeated fees of using social media. We cannot let this happen, especially when we have come so far with Asian representation and Asian advocacy.


Ioan Sucan is headed back to Rice University after his third stay here at Willow Garage. Ioan is a motion planning researcher and is the author of Open Motion Planning Library (OMPL), a library of sampling-based motion planning algorithms. These algorithms are important for the PR2 because they enable the arm to grasp and manipulate objects, while simultaneously avoiding collisions with people and other still or moving objects.
This past winter, Ioan and Radu Rusu used OMPL to do dynamic collision avoidance. This summer, Ioan was able to make many improvements to OMPL so that the PR2 can grasp and manipulate objects in cluttered indoor environments. In the video, you can see how the PR2 is able to grasp objects while moving its arm through complex obstacle courses. Data from the tilting laser scanner is used to construct and update a 3D-representation of the environment, allowing the arm to avoid even moving obstacles.
Ioan also improved the robot_self_filter and the collision_map. When the PR2's arm moves in front of the sensors, two problems occur: the arm looks like an obstacle in the environment, and the arm blocks the robot's view of the environment behind the arm. The robot_self_filter, in combination with the collision_map, allows the PR2 to disregard its arm as an obstacle, and "remember" objects behind the arm.
Here are the slides from Ioan's end-of-summer presentation describing his work on OMPL and other projects.
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I FIND it incredible that a technophobe like me is a better internet detective than Big Brother.
Last week 19-year-old Ellis Hillon was booted from the house after only 19 hours — giving her the shortest stay in the show's history.
She was ousted for some racist language she used online a few years ago and other more recent bigoted posts.
It was horrible and I won't repeat it because I don't want to give drivel like that the time of day.
But what is really annoying me is the lack of investigating from the programme researchers.
If a former professional footballer nearing 60 can find her abusive posts online, surely the show could have spent 30 seconds looking up her internet footprint.
It wasn't even hard to find — it was literally right there.
I SAY it a lot but I really am sickened by how soft football is these days.
On Wednesday night I watched Cristiano Ronaldo get sent off for touching the head of a Valencia player.
He didn't punch him, he didn't hit him, and he certainly didn't hurt him.
Yet the officials wanted their moment in the limelight and huddled around each other whispering like he'd just assaulted someone.
A few seconds later and the hapless man in the middle brandishes a red card and sends off one of the best players to ever grace the game.
I thought Ronaldo's tears were a bit much but maybe he was just crying at the state of football these days.
I'm not sure when it started but it's getting worse and worse.
Players are being sent off for nothing, booked for nothing, and suspended for barely anything.
And even when something truly horrible happens like Juventus winger Douglas Costa spitting in an opponent's mouth, you get the same ban as you'd get for ruffling someone's hair.
I'm fed up with it and wish football was more like it was when I played.
It's ridiculous and we really need to think about how to solve this issue.
If it's putting me off football then it must be doing the same to others.
And yet they allowed her in — only to be left looking like idiots when they were forced to remove her a day later.
Every year we see these rockets appear on the show and every year someone is removed for some of their previous actions.
If punters and papers can reveal their conduct, why can't Big Brother find it first?
Honestly, I must admit I'm glad that this current series appears to be the last.
At least Big Brother won't have the chance to make the same mistake ever again.


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District Tech Leaders' Purchasing Influence Slowly Grows
Chief technology officers and other district IT leaders play a substantial and growing role in decisions about buying supplemental academic materials, formative assessment resources, and other products, according to a new survey.
The 2017 K-12 IT Leadership Survey Report, released this week by the Consortium for School Networking, is based on nearly 500 responses collected earlier this year from district IT leaders. The report offers a variety of insights about district needs and leadership that can inform education companies' efforts to find buyers in the market.
This year, 53 percent of the respondents to the consortium's survey described themselves as chief technology or chief information officers. Other respondents included school technology leaders, tech coordinators, and directors or managers responsible for digital implementation.
A strong majority of those surveyed by the consortium, 75 percent, said they play at least a moderate role in district decisions to buy digital content. A smaller portion, 31 percent, described themselves as key influencers–about the same portion as in the previous year.
A small, but growing, portion of respondents, 16 percent, said they are "decisionmakers," in tech purchasing. That's up 8 percent from the previous year.
"These shifts toward greater purchasing influence suggest that where digital content is concerned, districts are recognizing the importance technical integration plays in the ability of content to affect student outcomes," say the authors of the report.
When it comes to K-12 districts making decisions about buying specific types of products–from formative assessment to teaching aids to core curriculum–the survey found that IT officials said their involvement varies by product:
This year's survey also was the second by COSN to ask district tech leaders about their interest in open educational resources–materials that either exist in the public domain or are created on a license that allows them to be freely shared and altered by users.
Nearly 80 percent of survey respondents said that open educational materials are a part of their districts' digital content strategy. Thirty-five percent described it as "very important" or "extremely important."
The results offer a bit of a hodge-podge when it comes to district IT officials' views of open education's future role, compared to proprietary resources. Forty-three percent of respondents said they expect open and proprietary resources will be split about 50/50 over the next three years. Thirty-three percent said they expect proprietary materials will be their district's primary digital content over the next three years.
The following chart offers a breakdown of how district officials see the availability of open content affecting their choices in the years to come:
For more insights about shifts in districts' demands for instructional content, including open materials, see Education Week's newly released special report, "Navigating New Curriculum Choices."
K-12 Print Needs Persist Despite Digital Growth
Districts' Desire for Evidence Base Varies by K-12 Product
Curriculum "Playlists": A Take on Personalized Learning
Open Educational Resources Movement Scales Up
Congress Eyes Major Expansion of Apprenticeship Programs
K-12 Dealmaking: Eagle Eye Networks CEO Acquires LivingTree
Can Ed- Tech Companies Survive Marketing Only to Teachers?


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After breakfast at Hotel, drive to Ngwe Saung Beach (about 6 Hours). Relax at Ngwe Saung Beach.
Overnight in Ngwe Saung .
Free time at Ngwe Saung Beach. Overnight in Ngwe Saung .
Relax at Ngwe Saung Beach. Overnight in Ngwe Saung.
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This morning I read an article on Yahoo about a woman who discovered an interesting letter inside her Saks Fifth Avenue shopping bag. It was a letter written by a man who claimed he was being held prisoner in China and forced to work like a slave to produce those shopping bags (and other items) in bulk. (You can read the entire story here).
To me the most interesting twist to the story is that the woman who discovered the letter also happens to work for a human rights organization. Naturally, this flashes 'coincidence' pretty much like a neon sign. Some people call it coincidence, but I personally would rather call it fate, meant-to-be, aligning of the stars.
I'm one who doesn't believe in mere coincidences and would rather see that things that happen have a purpose for which we were designated. I'm one who likes paying attention to 'signs' and would like to believe that life speaks to us, nudges us to go a certain way. I believe in human agency, that we need to make decisions and act. But I also believe that a lot of times, if we just pay close attention, we see that the Universe provides sign posts that guide us towards where we need to be or what would be most beneficial to the evolution of our souls.
I'm not speaking these words out of some empty belief system. I speak them because I've seen and felt them in my own life. Marriage, pregnancy and miscarriage, and even job positions, have all shown me that things almost always eventually align and make sense when the time is right and when we are ready to see.
I've fought with fate on countless occasions, only to discover that no matter where I go or what I do, the road still obviously wanted me to go another way. I've resisted letting go of people only to eventually realise it simply would not work out no matter how much I bargained or negotiated with the Universe. I've also resisted letting some people into my life only to find that it was simply inevitable and that stars were simply aligning too much to be denied.
Everything is connected and to refuse that truth is a lost battle. I even think that reading that news article about the mysterious letter in the shopping bag is not a coincidence; that perhaps I needed the reminder that we cross paths and are in each other's lives because of a meaningful purpose. It could be for a reminder about a need I have for myself, my aspirations, inclinations or what I don't want in my life and where I don't want to be. Or it could be some purpose I have to serve in someone's life. Whatever it is, messages are out there. We just need to be ready to receive them.
There are definitely no coincidences!
Some say that 'everything happens for a reason'. It might well be true, but I am of two minds about it. I have always fought for what I have. Always. Of course, sometimes I didn't get what I want. It is all about compromise in the end, and feeling happy with what we have.


pg_rewind is a tool for synchronizing a PostgreSQL cluster with another copy of the same cluster, after the clusters' timelines have diverged. A typical scenario is to bring an old master server back online after failover, as a standby that follows the new master.
The result is equivalent to replacing the target data directory with the source one. All files are copied, including configuration files. The advantage of pg_rewind over taking a new base backup, or tools like rsync, is that pg_rewind does not require reading through all unchanged files in the cluster. That makes it a lot faster when the database is large and only a small portion of it differs between the clusters.
pg_rewind examines the timeline histories of the source and target clusters to determine the point where they diverged, and expects to find WAL in the target cluster's pg_xlog directory reaching all the way back to the point of divergence. In the typical failover scenario where the target cluster was shut down soon after the divergence, that is not a problem, but if the target cluster had run for a long time after the divergence, the old WAL files might not be present anymore. In that case, they can be manually copied from the WAL archive to the pg_xlog directory. Fetching missing files from a WAL archive automatically is currently not supported.
When the target server is started up for the first time after running pg_rewind, it will go into recovery mode and replay all WAL generated in the source server after the point of divergence. If some of the WAL was no longer available in the source server when pg_rewind was run, and therefore could not be copied by pg_rewind session, it needs to be made available when the target server is started up. That can be done by creating a recovery.conf file in the target data directory with a suitable restore_command.
pg_rewind requires that the target server either has the wal_log_hints option is enabled in postgresql.conf or that data checksums were enabled when the cluster was initialized with initdb. Neither of these are currently on by default. full_page_writes must also be enabled. That is the default.
If pg_rewind fails while processing, then the data folder of the target is likely not in a state that can be recovered. In such a case, taking a new fresh backup is recommended.
pg_rewind will fail immediately if it finds files it cannot write directly to. This can happen for example when the source and the target server use the same file mapping for read-only SSL keys and certificates. If such files are present on the target server it is recommended to remove them before running pg_rewind. After doing the rewind, some of those files may have been copied from the source, in which case it may be necessary to remove the data copied and restore back the set of links used before the rewind.
Specifies path to the data directory of the source server, to synchronize the target with. When --source-pgdata is used, the source server must be cleanly shut down.
Specifies a libpq connection string to connect to the source PostgreSQL server to synchronize the target with. The connection must be a normal (non-replication) connection with superuser access. The server must be up and running, and must not be in recovery mode.
Enables progress reporting. Turning this on will deliver an approximate progress report while copying data over from the source cluster.
Print verbose debugging output that is mostly useful for developers debugging pg_rewind.
When --source-server option is used, pg_rewind also uses the environment variables supported by libpq (see Section 31.14).
The basic idea is to copy everything from the new cluster to the old cluster, except for the blocks that we know to be the same.
Scan the WAL log of the old cluster, starting from the last checkpoint before the point where the new cluster's timeline history forked off from the old cluster. For each WAL record, make a note of the data blocks that were touched. This yields a list of all the data blocks that were changed in the old cluster, after the new cluster forked off.
Copy all those changed blocks from the new cluster to the old cluster.
Copy all other files such as clog and configuration files from the new cluster to the old cluster, everything except the relation files.


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The Best of Broadway, the Fabulous Forties & More!
We welcome back—for a third performance—Maurine and her husband, Michael. In addition to a selection of Broadway show tunes and favorites from the 1940s, the couple will also be performing popular Christian songs—adding inspiration to this delightful evening of musical entertainment.
Maurine, an award-winning vocalist, has a crystal-clear voice and is in great demand in a variety of venues across Chicagoland. Michael, who plays several woodwind instruments—including the saxophone—is the band director at Wredling Middle School in St. Charles and serves as adjunct saxophone professor at Wheaton College.


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New exhibit at Light Work takes revealing look at the bound book
Published: Nov. 29, 2011, 9:00 a.m.
Katherine Rushworth
Courtesy of Scott McCarney ROCHESTER-BASED artist Scott McCarney exhibits a variety of artistas books at the Menschel Media Gallery at Light Work. This piece, titled The Swimmer, is based on a short story by John Cheever.
Anyone who's visited a Barnes and Noble bookstore lately knows our expectations of what a book looks like are changing. Today, the first thing you encounter upon entering the store is a large display featuring the retailer's electronic tablet device, an e-reader, known as the Nook Tablet. Amazon has its version known as the Kindle, Apple has the iPad and there are others. These wireless devices are changing how we interact with books and the printed word.
Artist Scott McCarney has been changing how we perceive and interact with books for more than 30 years. McCarney, based in Rochester and on the faculty of the Rochester Institute of Technology, is currently exhibiting a range of artist books at the Menschel Media Center at Light Work. The exhibition, which runs through Dec. 16, explores the book as sculpted object, or an appropriated and altered entity. In his hands, the book becomes a pliable medium rather than a final entity and a starting point for the expression of bigger ideas.
McCarney's themes run from the personal to the political. Pieces from the "Encyclopedia Projects" reference the artist's use of the Encyclopedia Britannica for school projects as a youngster. In "Pre-Columbian Scared," (2010) he carves into the thick pages of the volume like an archeologist digging for lost artifacts, creating an ancient Mayan pyramid within the book's covers.
In "Saints and Sinners, 07/16/05," (2005) McCarney comments on the intolerance of fundamentalist anti-gay rights protestors at a march in Rochester in 2005. Using an accordion format, he overlays photographs of the protestors with text from Luke 6:26-28 asking for tolerance of the intolerant.
At times, the final works are clearly derived from the manipulation of bound books, as in "Coming to Terms: An ABECEDARIUM," (2011). Other works are less obvious. In "Coming to Terms," McCarney employs 20 separate pages from a "lexicon of terms used in psychiatry and psychoanalysis." He collages each individually framed page with a portrait of an unnamed individual. It's as if he's inferring the persona somehow relates to one of the clinical definitions.
One of the most compelling and visually engaging pieces in the show is more a work of sculpture than a book. Titled "Hanging Index," (1991), the piece is comprised of a copy of the 1988-89 version of "Who's Who in America," which has been affixed to the ceiling with its binding broken and its covers splayed open. Streams of shredded pages spill from the broken book creating an effect somewhere between water cascading over a waterfall and Cousin Itt.
In "The Swimmer," McCarney borrows from a John Cheever short story (which was made into a movie starring Bert Lancaster) of the same title and references his own experience enduring one of the hottest summers on record in New York City. McCarney's interpretation of the story portrays a partially colored line drawing of a swimmer floating across five pages (pools) of digitally manipulated text. The format is an accordion fold book. The unfolding of the image parallels the way in which the narrative moves in Cheever's story.
McCarney is an incredible craftsman and the works in this show employ a variety of image-making processes. Ironically, his approach to the book shares a few things in common with the Nook, the Kindle and the iPad. McCarney's books rely on digital technology to create many of the visual effects he achieves. And, like the electronic tablets, there isn't a page you can turn in one of his books.
Katherine Rushworth, of Cazenovia, is a former director of the Michael C. Rockefeller Arts Center (State University College at Fredonia) and of the Central New York Institute for the Arts in Education. Reach her at features@syracuse.com.


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We are excited to welcome back Chris Triplett, PE as Director of Design Engineering at EnSafe. Located in our corporate headquarters in Memphis, TN, Chris will provide leadership for engineering design services throughout the country, structuring multi-office design teams for efficient delivery of design and design/build based projects. Chris brings 28 years experience in the engineering field, developing and executing engineering projects in water resources, erosion and sediment controls, site development, building design, wastewater, planning and recreational design. He began his career with EnSafe in 1990 as a computer aided draftsman, working his way up to project manager and lead engineer. He rejoins EnSafe after a decade as Vice President at a southeastern regional design firm.
"Over the last 10 years, Chris has honed his skills in the areas of not only design engineering, but also business development and client relations. With the upcoming retirement of Claire Barnett, PE, Senior Project Manager, Associate Principal and leader in the MidSouth and greater Tennessee engineering community at large, Chris' decision to join us is very timely," adds Ginny Davis, Vice President of Business Development and Principal at EnSafe.


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Janusiak caps stellar year with Academic All-America honors
Lawrence's Josh Janusiak was chosen as a CoSIDA Google Cloud Academic All-American.
APPLETON, Wis. -- Lawrence University standout Josh Janusiak was chosen for the College Sports Information Directors of America Google Cloud Academic All-America cross country and track team.
Janusiak (South Milwaukee, Wis./South Milwaukee), a junior, was a third-team selection. A philosophy and Spanish major, Janusiak has a 3.94 grade point average.
Janusiak, who earned Academic All-District 6 honors earlier in last month, is Lawrence's first Academic All-American since men's tennis star Ryan Dunn was a first-team pick on the at-large squad back in 2010. Janusiak was one of 45 student-athletes honored from around the country and was the lone selection from the Midwest Conference. He was one of just four selections from a school in Wisconsin.
Janusiak capped a fabulous year by winning All-America honors on the track at the NCAA Division III Championships in May. Janusiak finished seventh in the 10,000 meters in 31:02.02 in his first trip to the national outdoor track championships.
Janusiak earned his spot in the national championships with a school-record time of 30:17.00 at the Hillsdale College Gina Relays in April. Janusiak also ran a school-record time of 14:34.55 in the 5,000 meters at the Brian Clay Invitational at Azusa Pacific University. Janusiak won a pair of Midwest Conference track championships this year as he took the title in the 5,000 indoors and the 10,000 outdoors.
During the cross country season, Janusiak raced to his second consecutive Midwest Conference title to become just the third runner in Lawrence history to win a pair of crowns.
Janusiak ran the fastest cross country time in conference history as he covered the 8,000 meters at the NCAA Division III Midwest Regional in a time of 23:55.7. Janusiak qualified for the NCAA Division III Championships for the first time in 2017 and finished 48th.


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Exclusive: Draft details Trump's plan for reversing Obama climate rule
A portion of the rule obtained by POLITICO shows Trump's EPA easing the planned limits on the pollution from power generators driving climate change.
By EMILY HOLDEN
The rule would allow states to write rules to make coal plants more efficient, enabling them to burn less coal to produce the same amount of electricity. But that could be bad for the planet, people familiar with state air programs say, by making it cost-effective for power companies to run those plants more often. | J. David Ake/AP Photo
The Trump administration is preparing to unveil its plan for undoing Barack Obama's most ambitious climate regulation — offering a replacement that would do far less to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions that are warming the planet, according to POLITICO's review of a portion of the unpublished draft.
The new climate proposal for coal-burning power plants, expected to be released in the coming days, would give states wide latitude to write their own modest regulations for coal plants or even seek permission to opt out, according to the document and a source who has read other sections of the draft.
That's a sharp contrast from the aims of Obama's Clean Power Plan, a 2015 regulation that would have sped a shift away from coal use and toward less-polluting sources such as natural gas, wind and solar. That plan was the centerpiece of Obama's pledge for the U.S. to cut carbon dioxide emissions as part of the Paris climate agreement, which President Donald Trump has said he plans to exit.
The Environmental Protection Agency acknowledges that both carbon emissions and pollutants such as soot and smog would be higher under its new proposal than under the Clean Power Plan. And Trump's critics call it a recipe for abandoning the effort to take on one of the world's most urgent problems.
The proposal would be "another, more official, sign that the government of the United States is not committed to climate policy," said Janet McCabe, EPA's air chief under Obama.
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McCabe said based on a description of the proposal, it would offer "a significant amount of discretion to states to decide that nothing at all needs to be done."
Many red states and several companies sued over the Clean Power Plan, and a federal appeals court was nearing a decision when Trump's EPA asked for time to rewrite the rule. McCabe said the proposal could be meant to eat up time and stall a future president from quickly regulating greenhouse gases.
EPA was widely expected to write a far less stringent replacement rule. Trump promised to nix the Clean Power Plan and exit the Paris deal during his campaign. But the draft offers the first look at the specifics since the agency released a broader notice that it would reconsider the rule in April.
The White House Office of Management and Budget has finished reviewing the draft and sent it back to EPA this week.
The rule would allow states to write rules to make coal plants more efficient, enabling them to burn less coal to produce the same amount of electricity. But that could be bad for the planet, people familiar with state air programs say, by making it cost-effective for power companies to run those plants more often.
EPA looked at the outcomes of various scenarios that could be possible from state-proposed plans in 2025, 2030 and 2035, implying that the plans could be in place before 2025.
Obama's plan was meant to see greenhouse gas emissions from the U.S. power sector fall to 32 percent below 2005 levels by 2030. The nation has already achieved much of that reduction because of trends such as the closures of dozens of older coal plants.
Trump wildfire tweets spark bewilderment about California water
By ANNIE SNIDER, CARLA MARINUCCI and JEREMY B. WHITE
EPA intends to argue that the Obama administration rule illegally sought to regulate the broader power sector, beyond coal plants, and that the compliance costs would have been big and the climate benefits negligible, according to the draft POLITICO reviewed.
Environmental advocates and blue states plan to wage war on the proposal once it is final. But while the legal fights play out, the regulation will be a placeholder that could stall a future president from regulating power plants.
States will be able to present reasons for why they don't want to regulate coal plants, including considering how many more years they have left before they would probably shut down, according to a source who reviewed a different section of the document.
In another contentious portion of the proposal, EPA is looking at letting states decide whether they want to adopt changes to pollution reviews that kick in when a plant makes upgrades. Existing rules are meant to keep plants from making changes that cause more pollution.
Conservatives and industry groups have long argued that the review process, called New Source Review, makes it too expensive for operators to make improvements to plants.


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Generosity at Northside supports both the ministry of the local church as well as various mission's organizations around the world. We actively support local ministries in our community such as Pregnancy Concerns, Mercy Ministries, Operation Christmas Child, Single Mom's Ministry, Pacific Life Bible College, Hope for Freedom Society, Higher Ground Wellness Society etc. Oversees, we are involved supporting Petros Network, Hope for Korah, YWAM, Missions in Mexico, Classrooms for Africa, and Foursquare Missions.
In 2021, 40% of our giving went to ministries outside of our church. At Northside, we believe "giving is an act of worship."
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CEO & Product
Simran is responsible for building the next generation mobile application, strategy and vision at Rangeet. He is a member of the Learning Sciences Exchange (LSX) Advisory Group and a Director of Generation Blue, a company whose mission is to catalyse an "Earth Positive" or regenerative economy. He served on the board of Singaporean NGO, Global Mangrove Trust, that has built a peer to peer platform for Mangrove Restoration. Earlier, Simran was a Director at Lykke Corp, a Swiss Fintech company building a marketplace for blockchain assets including the first mangrove backed "TREE" coin. Through these engagements, positions and networks, Simran is involved in the current dialogue around tackling climate change and consequently translates this into methods and systems that build knowledge and agency amongst children.
He does this by collaborating with the curriculum team at Rangeet on the Ecology Umbrella which explains to children not just HOW to protect nature but WHY they should. Simran completed his B.Sc. in Computer Science from Brown University and worked at J.P. Morgan before setting up and running internationally acclaimed live music venture blueFROG. Simran hopes to establish a framework in which nature and society are at peace.
My Story:
My wife, Renisha, and I raised our kids, Ishan and Samara, on a steady diet of Dr. Seuss. What we wanted most for our children was for them to be creative, crazy, courageous risk takers. But this is often not possible. Our kids come from privilege. They can afford to take risks, fail, pick up, start again as long as they do it responsibly. This realization hit me in 2013 when I taught a class on English grammar to fourth graders in a government school in Mumbai. I was not quite prepared for how that day would affect me. My class was a cross section of younger and older kids (aged 8 through 14); some differently abled children. And when I inquired why these kids were clubbed so randomly together I was told what I may not have wanted to hear – the girls (mainly) were being abused physically/mentally at home, so would lag behind in learning; some kids were sent to villages to help with farming – hence taken out of school to rejoin at a later date – deeply hurting their self-esteem. The kid who stole my heart was a intellectually challenged girl who had the most enthusiastic sparkle in her eyes, could not express herself at all, but you knew she had so much to say. All these abilities and ages and sexes and emotional states were mixed up in an overburdened, under resourced classroom – packaged, processed and shoved into a world that didn't care what they wanted, dreamed about, cared or hoped for. And I recall thinking on my way home – these kids are just defeated at birth. This is where the seed of the idea behind Rangeet began. It became non-negotiable for me to do something that would give every child the opportunity to be courageous: to try, to fail, to find their niche and awaken their inner superhero.
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Grab your dough, separate and roll into six, or twelve if you want mini, balls. Grab a dough ball and roll out into flat cirlce. Spoon filling into the middle of the circle. Fold over making a half circle and press edges together. Use a fork to press edges, place into baking sheet covered with parchment paper and brush the top of the pattie with melted margerine.


An order from American Airlines for 200 Boeing narrowbody aircraft, with options for 100 more, has led to the announcement of a variant of the 737 featuring new more fuel-efficient engines.
American has committed to purchase 100 aircraft, plus 60 options, pending final aeroplane configuration and launch approval of the programme by Boeing's board of directors.
The re-engined 737 is to be powered by CFM International's LEAP-X engine. "We appreciate the high level of confidence this order shows in both the current product line, as well as the exciting new LEAP-powered 737 product Boeing and CFM are developing for the future," CFM President and CEO Jean-Paul Ebanga.


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What have you been missing since I've been unable to download? Let me bring you up to speed. Before Christmas there was a musicians party that is attended by Glenn Healy (former Toronto Maple Leafs gole tender playing bagpipes) whenever he can. It usually brings together about 30 great musicians, and their friends. Our host Richie has a great place that backs onto Lake Ontario, so bon-fire, food, drinks, and of course good friends make this a must attend bash. Here are just a few pics to give you a sense of Canadian hospitality...enjoy!


Concert is at 8pm, wife and I leave at 6pm.
It's been raining all day out East. Traffic on 27 is bad in both directions, so we veer off to take the back roads.
I've never seen flooding like this, maybe back in the 80s with a hurricane. I'm driving a Honda Element and we crossed a few flooded areas where I wasn't sure we'd make it. I wish I had a video camera. One "puddle" that we crossed was about 75 long and the SUV in front of us thought driving at less than 5 mph and stopping occasionally would be a good way to make it across. I gunned it right past them.
We had to get back onto the main road because the back roads were getting too deep.
Numerous flooded areas heading out, with line of traffic heading East was significant and I wondered what would come of the Porsches and Minis about to cross these fijores. One we cross was so deep there were foot high waves going back and forth from all the cars driving through.
Made it to Jones Beach at 8:15 pm - Roger wasn't on yet.


It may be a bit of a punt but I've a good feeling he's going to do well with us,welcome aboard.
New hertz manager Craig levein.
Nope he has always been the Hearts manager Jim,see waht you need to get into yer heid is this Neilson was head coach not manager, as DOF Levein is in essence the manager, in charge of signing players and sorting there contracts,Neilson was there to coach and put them on the park even though I believe Levein had a hand in picking the side at times.
He's potters puppet. End of.
With plug from the bash street kids as his assistant by the looks it.
Thems the facts buddy,no argument required. Exciting times at the PBS.
The ones you weren't arguing with.
I'll ask you again what facts?? do you know the facts of how Hearts fc is being run?? or are you like most including myself suspicious that Levein has had an hand in with Neilsen?? if so you have no facts.
So your asking me for facts while basically agreeing with me? Very good.
You're suspicious as its pretty obvious that levein is calling the shots here,and cathro and his buddy are in charge of dopey shite like measuring altitude of goalies kicks,and putting the cones and bibs out.
Nothing earth shattering is going on here so I've no idea why you are getting so defensive about it.


Hotel Palacio Del Retiro, Autograph Collection is rated 4.5 out of 5 by 214.
Rated 5 out of 5 by mash7002 from Great Madrid stay Hotel Palacio enhanced our Madrid stay. Great location (very close to museums, walking distance to Centro without being in the heart of it, fantastic park next door), beautiful building, well appointed and clean rooms (the only thing we do not like is clear bathroom/shower doors and lack of privacy for bathrooms), and excellent excellent staff across the board. I stay at hotels all over the world and am very appreciative of a truly service oriented staff across all hotel functions - the front desk, the bell captain, the bar/restaurant staff, and the room service/housekeeping staff. I commend the Hotel Palacio for a staff that truly works hard to make Madrid a memorable experience with restaurant/entertainment recommendations as well as room needs.
Rated 5 out of 5 by Tatiana from Excelente Precioso el hotel y espectacular la atención. Un agrado total. El único punto es que el gimnasio realmente no sirve, ya que no cuenta con lo necesario, pero se puede correr en el parque que está al frente.
Rated 4 out of 5 by Werner from Traditionell am Retiro Park Wer traditionelles hochwertiges Service, gutes Frühstück, professionelle, freundliche Mitarbeiter und eine nahezu familiäre Atmosphäre bevorzugt, ist im Palacio Retiro an der richtigen Adresse. Ich empfehle jedoch vor Reiseantritt ein Zimmer mit Aussensicht statt Innenhofsicht sicherzustellen. Wir hatten ein sehr düsteres hofseitiges Zimmer mit extrem lauter Klimaanlage. Dieser Umstand stört das Wohlbefinden und verhindert eine den Mitarbeitern zustehende exzellente Bewertung.
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Sapphire Pegasus Award presentation at EBACESapphire Pegasus2018-05-03T14:44:29+02:00
The Sapphire Pegasus Award trophies will be presented to the winners on May 29, the first day of EBACE in Room #1 of the conference area moderatored is Richard Birtchnell.
"This year, we had another significant increase in number of nominations and online votes from 28.633 to 59.495, which clearly indicates that the interest in recognizing professionals for their outstanding performances is appreciated and more than justified," commented Antonia Lukacinova, founder of Sapphire Pegasus Awards.
"It is not only encouragement to enhance our program, but it will also be expanded to the Western Hemisphere where on the Bahamas on June 12, we will present additional Awards for excellence in professionalism in that region."
Nominations were made online and the nomination procedure for the Sapphire Pegasus Award was completely open; anyone could have nominated a company or individual of which they feel that recognition and honoring was appropriate. The Advisory Board that is currently independently reviewing the nominations is comprised of a team of distinguished industry professionals and journalists. This panel of judges will have the final word on the selection of the award winners.
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1.1 This test method establishes the principles for the design of a hot box apparatus and the minimum requirements for the determination of the steady state thermal performance of building assemblies when exposed to controlled laboratory conditions. This method is also used to measure the thermal performance of a building material at standardized test conditions such as those required in material Specifications C 739, C 764, C 1224 and Practice C 1373.
Note 1This test method replaces Test Methods C 236, the Guarded Hot Box, and C 976, the Calibrated Hot Box which have been withdrawn. Test apparatus designed and operated previously under Test Methods C 236 and C 976 will require slight modifications to the calibration and operational procedures to meet the requirements of Test Method C 1363.


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Greenland Contractors er et selskab der ejes af MT Højgaard (67%) og Grønlands Selvstyre (33%) og indtil 1. oktober 2017 stod for den daglige drift af Thule Air Base ('TAB') i Grønland for det amerikanske luftvåben (USAF), og tidligere også på den nu nedlagte base Sondrestrom Air Base ('SAB') i Søndre Strømfjord.

Driften omfattede alt fra boliger, veje og transport, til værksteder, hospital og fritidsaktiviteter.

Før i tiden hed Greenland Contractors Danish Construction Corporation ('DCC'), senere Danish Arctic Contractors ('DAC'). Virksomheden skiftede navn til Greenland Contractors efter Grønlands Selvstyre blev medejer.

USAF ændrer holdning
Greenland Contractors tabte kontrakten om Thule Air Base i 2014. En retsindstans i USA (Court of Federal Claims) konkluderede dog i maj 2015, at Exelis Services A/S, der i første omgang vandt, ikke kunne få kontrakten, da det kun var et dansk skuffeselskab.
Den 24. juli 2015 bekræftede MT Højgaard en mulig forlængelse af kontrakten, men måske på ændrede vilkår. Sermitsiaq skrev 1. august 2015 at 44 civile fyres på Pituffik (Thule Air Base).

Exelis er et spinoff fra Vectrus, der igen stammer fra ITT Corporation.

Exelis Services A/S skiftede senere navn til Vectrus Services A/S og flyttede til Lyngbyvej 20 i København, senere flyttet til Indiavej 1 København 2100.
Pr. 1. Oktober 2017 overtog Vectrus Services den daglige civile drift af Pituffik (Thule Air Base).

Ekstern henvisning
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Virksomheder fra Grønland
Forsvarsvirksomheder i Danmark


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The airline describes the biofuel as being a "truly" sustainable type that doesn't compete with food and fresh water resources. The flight, in conjunction with Boeing and engine maker GE Aviation, is part of Virgin's vision for using clean-fuel technology to reduce carbon emissions.


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500g frozen oven chips - I use the McCain French Fries for this recipe.
small bunch of coriander - roughly chopped.
Spread the fries in a single layer on a baking tray.
Grind the Szechuan pepper, five spice powder and sea salt with a pestle and mortar.
Sprinkle the spice mix and half the spring onions over the fries and toss the fries with your fingers to coat everything - then spread them back in a single layer.
Cook in the oven for 14-16 minutes.
Remove from the oven and sprinkle over the rest of the spring onions, the chopped chilli and the chopped coriander.
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Make them even spicier – use a hot chilli and sprinkle more on.
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Federation of American Scientists (FAS). Dedicated to ending the worldwide arms race. Provides information and analysis of emerging security policy.
monthly online journal devoted to understanding and confronting contemporary threats posed by terrorism, insurgency and other forms of political violence.
From the USAF Counterproliferation Center. Established in 1999, the CPC was created to educate the warfighter on the various tenents of counterproliferation to include arms control treaty programs, export control regimes, interdiction, diplomacy and economic/political sanctions, deterrence, counterforce targeting active defense, passive defense and consequence management.
The National AcademiesPress. Publications from advisors to the nation on Science, Engineering, Medicine.
Central Intelligence Agency. The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is an independent US Government agency responsible for providing national security intelligence to senior US policymakers.
This is the official website of the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point. The Combating Terrorism Center is actively involved in supporting the Global War on Terror through education, outreach, and policy analysis. The Center leverages the operational and academic expertise of its staff to provide cadets with experiential opportunities for studying terrorism, counterterrorism, homeland security and weapons of mass destruction.
Center for Strategic & International Studies. A nonpartisan organization dedicated to providing world leaders with strategic insights on, and policy solutions to, current and emerging global issues. Focus is on developing national and international public policy by assessing political risk, analyzing regional affairs, monitoring international security and stability, identifying longer range consequences of current practices and policies.
Country Reports on Terrorism U.S. State Dept.
U.S. law requires the Secretary of State to provide Congress, by April 30 of each year, a full and complete report on terrorism with regard to those countries and groups meeting criteria set forth in the legislation. This annual report is entitled Country Reports on Terrorism. Beginning with the report for 2004, it replaced the previously published Patterns of Global Terrorism. U.S. law requires the Secretary of State to provide Congress, by April 30 of each year, a full and complete report on terrorism with regard to those countries and groups meeting criteria set forth in the legislation. This annual report is entitled Country Reports on Terrorism. Beginning with the report for 2004, it replaced the previously published Patterns of Global Terrorism.
The handbook is a compilation of legal experiences relating to actual terrorist cases gained by high-ranking experts from several countries who have gathered at meetings organized by UNODC in Austria, Colombia and Italy. The experts share their experiences in dealing with terrorism cases, reflect on their positive and negative judicial experiences, and explain specific investigative and prosecutorial techniques used in these cases. The compilation therefore gives policymakers and criminal justice officials from all over the world practical ideas on and expert insight into ways of dealing with a relatively new field of jurisprudence. UNODC.
This resource developed by Forensic Science.org provides an overview of the relationship between forensic science and security related issues. It also includes links to U.S. agencies working in the field.
The Global Terrorism Database (GTD) is an open-source database including information on terrorist events around the world from 1970 through 2011 (with annual updates planned for the future). Unlike many other event databases, the GTD includes systematic data on domestic as well as transnational and international terrorist incidents that have occurred during this time period and now includes more than 104,000 cases. For each GTD incident, information is available on the date and location of the incident, the weapons used and nature of the target, the number of casualties, and—when identifiable—the group or individual responsible. The National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START) is making the GTD available via this online interface in an effort to increase understanding of terrorist violence so that it can be more readily studied and defeated.
The Institute for Conflict Management is a non-Profit Society set up in 1997 in New Delhi, and is committed to the continuous evaluation and resolution of problems of internal security in South Asia. The Institute was set up on the initiative of, and is presently headed by, its President, Mr. K.P.S. Gill, IPS (Retd).
The IDSS International Centre for Political Violence and Terrorism Research works at the cutting edge of terrorism research. The centre focuses on the Asia-Pacific region with special emphasis on South East Asia.
The aim and mission of ICSR is to educate the public in relation to diplomacy and strategy, public administration and policy, security and counter-terrorism and international conflict resolution. Within this area, we also educate on issues relating to political violence and radicalisation.
[LLIS] system is a national knowledge base of lessons learned and best practices serving the emergency responder community.
Available at: http://www.llis.gov/ Register for password.
Complete account of the circumstances surrounding the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, including preparedness for and the immediate response to the attacks.
The National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terror (START) is a U.S. Department of Homeland Security Center of Excellence, tasked by the Department of Homeland Security's Science and Technology Directorate with using state-of-the-art theories, methods, and data from the social and behavioral sciences to improve understanding of the origins, dynamics, and social and psychological impacts of terrorism.
The US National Counterterrorism Center is pleased to present an interactive version of the 2010 Counterterrorism Calendar. This version of the Calendar contains many features across the full range of terrorism-related issues: terrorist groups, wanted terrorists, and technical pages on various threat-related issues. The Calendar timeline marks dates according to the Gregorian and Islamic calendars, and contains significant dates in terrorism history as well as dates that terrorists may believe are important when planning "commemoration-style" attacks.
The National Strategy for Counterterrorism formalizes the approach that President Obama and his Administration have been pursuing and adapting for the past two and half years to prevent terrorist attacks and to deliver devastating blows against al-Qa'ida, including the successful mission to kill Usama bin Laden.
The Nuclear Threat Initiative is working to reduce the global threats from nuclear, biological and chemical weapons and is co-chaired by Ted Turner and Sam Nunn.
RAND is a world leader in research on terrorism, counterterrorism, counterinsurgency, and homeland security—topics that affect a wide variety of policy areas and challenge individuals and nations worldwide. As a public service, RAND disseminates all its unclassified research online or in printed documents.
National knowledge base of equipment-related information serving the emergency responder community.
Available at: http://www.rkb.mipt.org/ Register for password.
The National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START) is a U.S. Department of Homeland Security Center of Excellence, tasked by the Department of Homeland Security's Science and Technology Directorate with using state-of-the-art theories, methods, and data from the social and behavioral sciences to improve understanding of the origins, dynamics, and social and psychological impacts of terrorism.
Free online books on Terrorism and Security, Cybersecurity, Microbial Threats and Emerging Infections, Military Strategy and Technology, Aviation Security.
Produced by the Council on Foreign Relations. A nonpartisan center dedicated to producing and disseminating ideas so that individuals can better understand the world and the foreign policy choices facing the United States and other governments. Publishes Foreign Affairs.
Coordinates all U.S. Government efforts to improve counterterrorism cooperation with foreign governments. Develops, coordinates, and implements American counterterrorism policy.


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Talsinki (sometimes also Hellinna or Hellinn) is a colloquial name for the geographical region of Helsinki, Finland and Tallinn, Estonia, separated by the Gulf of Finland, commonly used when referring to the proposed Helsinki–Tallinn Tunnel. The official Euroregion name for the region is Helsinki–Tallinn Euregion.

See also
 Helsinki to Tallinn Tunnel
 Estonian–Finnish federation

References

External links
 'Talsinki' – a 21st century metropolis

Culture in Helsinki
Tourism in Helsinki
Transport in Helsinki
Geography of Helsinki
Culture in Tallinn
Geography of Tallinn
Twin cities
Euroregions


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Neil Young's classic triple-LP compilation Decade has been remastered and reissued.
The collection, a cornerstone record for any serious music fan back in the day, has been out of print for years. A vinyl version was released earlier this year for Record Store Day in a limited pressing.
The remastered reissue, which comes out today, is available as a two-CD set, in the original three-LP configuration and as a digital download. If you need a refresher on Decade's awesome track listing, you can find it below.
The album, which was originally released in 1977, gathered nearly three dozen tracks from the start of Young's career up through 1976, including cuts by Buffalo Springfield, songs with Crazy Horse and plenty of solo classics.
Decade beat the box-set craze that came 10 years later with the advent of CDs by combining familiar songs (like "Cinnamon Girl" and "Heart of Gold") with more hard-to-find tracks, like unreleased numbers (Buffalo Springfield's "Down to the Wire"), live cuts ("Sugar Mountain"), alternate takes (a tougher "Like a Hurricane") and the Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young' single "Ohio."


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Starzynka (hist. również Starzynki) – nieistniejący folwark na Białorusi, w miejscu, które znajduje się w rejonie mostowskim obwodu grodzieńskiego, około 1 km na wschód od Mikielewszczyzny.

Historia majątku
Majątek Starzynki – według przekazów rodzinnych – był własnością rodziny Buttowt-Andrzejkowiczów "od czasów pogańskich". Do 1931 roku właścicielem dóbr był Michał Buttowt-Andrzejkowicz. Po jego śmierci Starzynki przeszły na własność jego córki Jadwigi i jej męża Konrada Mackiewicza, którzy byli właścicielami majątku do 1939 roku.

Po III rozbiorze Polski w 1795 roku tereny te, wcześniej należące do województwa trockiego Rzeczypospolitej, znalazły się na terenie guberni grodzieńskiej Imperium Rosyjskiego. Po ustabilizowaniu się granicy polsko-radzieckiej w 1921 roku Starzynka wróciła do Polski, znalazła się w gminie Mosty w powiecie grodzieńskim województwa białostockiego. Od 1945 roku – w ZSRR, od 1991 roku – na terenie Republiki Białorusi.

Dawny dwór
Prawdopodobnie w drugiej połowie XVIII wieku zbudowano tu drewniany, parterowy, dziewięcioosiowy dwór przykryty bardzo wysokim, gładkim, czterospadowym dachem gontowym. Od strony podjazdu miał czterokolumnowy portyk w porządku toskańskim, zwieńczony wielkim trójkątnym szczytem. W centrum tego trójkąta widniał owalny wieniec z herbem Andrzejkowiczów. Pod portykiem był taras, na który prowadziło kilka stopni.

Do 1914 roku dwór był urządzony zabytkowymi meblami i pamiątkami rodzinnymi.

Obok, po lewej stronie kolistego gazonu, stała oficyna o podobnym stylu, z portykiem z dwiema parami kolumienek.

Oba budynki otaczał kilkuhektarowy park krajobrazowy o zróżnicowanym drzewostanie: stare kasztany, lipy, klony i świerki.

Majątek w Starzynkach, po którym nic nie pozostało, został opisany w 3. tomie Dziejów rezydencji na dawnych kresach Rzeczypospolitej Romana Aftanazego.

Przypisy

Miejscowości w rejonie mostowskim
Opuszczone miejscowości na Białorusi


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Home computer homework help A history of the nafta agreement in north america
A history of the nafta agreement in north america
That agreement has brought economic growth and higher standards of living for all three countries, and is committed to helping the partners to realize a more integrated and efficient North American economy. The agreement immediately lifted tariffs on the majority of goods produced by the signatory nations. It also called for the gradual elimination, over a period of 15 years, of most remaining barriers to cross-border investment and to the movement of goods and services among the three countries. Major industries affected include agriculture, automobile and textile manufacture, telecommunications, financial services, energy, and trucking.
Get Full Essay Get access to this section to get all help you need with your essay and educational issues. The agreement came to be signed President George H. The main intention of its creation was to create a common market for the countries and improve trade.
NAFTA was created so as to create and promote competition that was fair amongst the signatories by promoting the required conditions. To create a favourable environment within the three countries that would favour investment hence attract both local and foreign investors About.
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) | United States Trade Representative
NAFTA was to make trade between the three signatories free by eliminating trade barriers such as tariffs and taxes enabling effective movement of goods and services across the border of the three countries. NAFTA agreement was to make the members Most favoured Nations and also through its operation mechanisms provide protection of intellectual property rights.
NAFTA was not just intended for trade purposes, it also was created to enhance further regional cooperation through its framework About.
NAFTA has resulted to an increase in the number of foreign investors in the country. This is because Mexico is one of the countries that were formally used for outsourcing. This has in turn greatly attracted more foreign companies to come and invest in the country as they have identified the market benefits offered by N AFTO About.
This is because the growth in trade has resulted to manufacturers, producers and other business people employing more people to help in the marketing of their products.
This automatically calls for employment of more people to help produce the goods and services that are on demand. NAFTA has policies that guide on workers wages. Mexican businesses have to comply with the policies in order to benefit from the advantages it offers. This enabled the workers to have increase in their wages as compared to what they earned before Council on Foreign Relations 1.
The increase in Market has also enabled many employers to make huge profits hence have been able to improve the working conditions of their workers which include increase in wages. This is because of the removal of trade barriers such as taxes and tariffs which enables goods to move freely from one country to another.
It has enabled more roads which are highways and free tolls to be constructed so as to facilitate the movement of the goods and services. This is as a result of an attempt to make communication more effective. The quality of education has also improved in the country Council on Foreign Relations 1.
This is as a result growth in the economy which has enabled the government to generate ore revenue hence has channelled some towards the education sector.
More schools and colleges have been constructed and learning facilities improved by the government. This is a negative impact on the economy of the couyntry as it slows down its growth. This is attributed to the fact that N AFTA allows farm products from the other two countries particularly corn from the United States whose price is heavily subsudized in the market Council on Foreign Relations 1.
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This has rsulted to the Mexican farmers abondoning Agriculture as they were not makingh any profits. Most of them have turned to other forms of earning income. Majority of the mexican farmers now live in poverty and usually cross the border in searh of better opportunities in the other countries Council on Foreign Relations 1.
NAFTA allows outsourced products manufactured in other countries such as China and India to be sold in oits free market. The outsourced products are always cheaper than the ones that arwe loically manufactured.
This has resulted to killing of the local industries as thewy can not compete with tjhe outsourced products in the market.
NAFTA has also resulted to decrease in wages. Democracy did not exist as these leaders gave no audience to the opposition groups. Political reforms in Mexico are believed to have occurred after the economic liberalization.
He was the one who signed the agreement on behalf of Mexico. In order to gain support for this economic agenda, Salinas needed support. He identified support from the private sector as the most significant and embarked on distribution of power between the coalition and the private sector.
This encouraged democracy as it involved inclusion of the trade unions. He also included the major opposition parties in decision making as it was a requirement of the agreement. His lack of attention to the economic issues resulted to an economic crisis which demanded back his focus.
The country needed international lending and aid from NAFTO, these two bodies however demanded democracy and transparency before they could give any assistance. This forced Zedollo to make some political reforms that increased democracy and transparency in the country.
He eliminated the PRI mode of choosing presidential leaders and their successors and implemented the process of choosing presidential leader through free and fair election by everyone in the country. This encouraged the participation of everyone in the choosing of their leaders hence a huge step towards democracy.The North American Free Trade Agreement was implemented in to encourage trade between the United States, Mexico and Canada.
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), controversial trade pact signed in that gradually eliminated most tariffs and other trade barriers on products and services passing between the United States, Canada, and Mexico. The North American Union (NAU) is a theoretical economic and political continental union of Canada, Mexico, and the United States of America.
The concept is loosely based on the European Union, occasionally including a common currency called the Amero or the North American Dollar. Oct 22, · News about North American Free Trade Agreement, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.
The North American Free Trade Agreement was the overlying agreement for commerce between the United States, Canada and Mexico from to Backed by then-presidential candidate Ronald Reagan in the late '70s and signed by President Bill Clinton in , NAFTA became a standard for open trade around the globe and created one of the world's largest free trade zones.
The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA; Spanish: Tratado de Libre Comercio de América del Norte, TLCAN; French: Accord de libre-échange nord-américain, ALÉNA) is an agreement signed by Canada, Mexico, and the United States, creating a trilateral trade bloc in North America.
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