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A Not-So-Global Ethics: Contradictions in U.S. Global Ethics Education
Shari Stone-Mediatore
Philosophy in the Contemporary World 18 (1):43-57 (2011)
@article{Stone-Mediatore2011-STOANE, pages = {43--57}, volume = {18}, title = {A Not-so-Global Ethics: Contradictions in U.S. Global Ethics Education}, number = {1}, journal = {Philosophy in the Contemporary World}, doi = {10.5840/pcw20111815}, publisher = {The Society for Philosophy in the Contemporary World}, year = {2011}, author = {Shari Stone{-}Mediatore} }
Stone-Mediatore, Shari (2011). A Not-So-Global Ethics: Contradictions in U.S. Global Ethics Education. Philosophy in the Contemporary World 18 (1):43-57.
This paper traces the ethnocentric structure of U.S.-published anthologies in global ethics and related fields and it examines the ethical and philosophical implications of such ethnocentrism. The author argues that the ethnocentric structure of prominent work in global ethics not only impairs the field's ability to prepare students for global citizenship but contributes to the ideological processes that maintain global inequities. In conclusion, the author makes a case that fuller engagement with global-South and indigenous writers on global issues can encourage U.S. students and scholars to examine more closely the ideologies that order our lives and to risk the kind of selfexamination that is necessary in order to build effective relationships with diverse global communities
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Political Ethics in Applied Ethics
Global Ethics Eurocentrism Thomas Pogge Feminist Standpoint Theory Decolonial Theory Latin American Philosophy Global Justice Epistemology Colonialism
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How I dress is an act of curation. What I choose to be in my house is an act of curation. These choices are a reflection of what I value. Social media has forced us into being sorters of content and to think about curation. We decide what photos to upload and then if we choose to look, we are forced to see what others choose. Companies now hire visual image collectors to find and comment on utopian images. They are repackaged to a community or market; a collective design consciousness. Streaming across my phone, I have seen that image just hours before. The images are perfect; where is the process associated with the design? I am not suggesting that designers walk around with blinders on or turn off the media to lock themselves in a library with a few select books. Although after looking at these words, this notion sounds rather wonderful. Maybe I could do this for a week or two. But in a matter of time, I would become antsy and look for a plug to reconnect and be a part of my culture again.
Designers must be must be careful to curate how images and content infiltrate their own design process environment. There are at least three important things to consider with design curation. They are inter-related but have distinct meaning.
1. constraints-This involves deciding upon a few concise, elegant selection of ideas that doesn't include everything in the kitchen sink.
2. editing- This is an active, yet flexible pursuit that continually defines, clarifies and removes content.
3. discipline-Against the flexibility of editing there must be a honing of vision, a stick-to-it-ness that creates meaning and identity.
In the age of social media, designers must take the opportunity to think about constraints, editing and discipline. In a sense, the designer is a fish, hovering between a few rocks, watching images and content float by. These rocks break the water and define the place in which the fish lives so others can know where he is situated. The fish is hovering between several stabilizing forces for a period of time. Some of the content floating past relates to the rocks. If the fish darts about between rocks, he is no longer situated in a place and his identity loses meaning. It takes discipline to pick a few rocks to hover against, turning at times against the forces to have authority over the place.


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Gnathia scabra is een pissebeddensoort uit de familie van de Gnathiidae. De wetenschappelijke naam van de soort is voor het eerst geldig gepubliceerd in 2012 door Ota.

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This past weekend more than 40 participants met at Country Lake Retreat Center near Louisville for the Retreat 1 of Deeper Journey (an 8 retreat experience … one retreat every 3 months). Discussion during the large group teaching sessions, sharing in the small groups, the food and fellowship were all most encouraging! Here is what made it to the white board in Session 2. A little overwhelming but great interaction from many people!


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package org.apache.geode.cache.lucene;

import java.util.Map;

import org.apache.lucene.analysis.Analyzer;
import org.junit.After;
import org.junit.Before;
import org.junit.experimental.categories.Category;

import org.apache.geode.cache.Region;
import org.apache.geode.cache.RegionShortcut;
import org.apache.geode.cache.lucene.internal.LuceneIndexFactoryImpl;
import org.apache.geode.cache.lucene.internal.LuceneServiceImpl;
import org.apache.geode.test.junit.categories.LuceneTest;

/**
 * This class contains tests of lucene queries that can fit
 */
@Category({LuceneTest.class})
public class LuceneQueriesWithRegionCreatedBeforeReindexIntegrationTest
    extends LuceneQueriesIntegrationTest {

  @Before
  public void setLuceneReindexFlag() {
    LuceneServiceImpl.LUCENE_REINDEX = true;
  }

  @After
  public void clearLuceneReindexFlag() {
    LuceneServiceImpl.LUCENE_REINDEX = false;
  }

  protected Region createRegionAndIndex(Map<String, Analyzer> fields) {
    region = cache.createRegionFactory(RegionShortcut.PARTITION).create(REGION_NAME);
    ((LuceneIndexFactoryImpl) luceneService.createIndexFactory().setFields(fields))
        .create(INDEX_NAME, REGION_NAME, LuceneServiceImpl.LUCENE_REINDEX);
    return region;
  }

  protected Region createRegionAndIndex(RegionShortcut regionShortcut, String... fields) {
    region = cache.createRegionFactory(regionShortcut).create(REGION_NAME);
    ((LuceneIndexFactoryImpl) luceneService.createIndexFactory().setFields(fields))
        .create(INDEX_NAME, REGION_NAME, LuceneServiceImpl.LUCENE_REINDEX);
    return region;
  }

}

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Jason Kuehner
kuehnerj@emmanuel.edu
Office: Wilkens Science Center, Room 209-B
Office hours: Monday and Wednesday, 3:00 p.m.- 4:00 p.m.; Tuesday and Thurday, 11:00 a.m.- 12:00 p.m., by appointment also
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison; B.A., Cornell College
What I Love About Emmanuel:
I love the breadth and depth of learning that is ingrained within the liberal arts and sciences curriculum. I love the close interaction between faculty and students in the classroom and research laboratory. I love being part of a dynamic campus community that embraces its rich history and surrounding Boston resources.
Courses & Curriculum
BIOL 1105 - Introduction to Cellular and Molecular Biology
BIOL 1106 - Introduction to Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
BIOL 2123 - Genetics
BIOL 2301 - Experimental Biology
Publications + Presentations
Peer-Reviewed Scientific Publications:
Graber, J.H., Nazeer, F.I., Yeh, P., Kuehner, J.N., Borikar, S., Hoskinson, D.C., and Moore, C.L. (2013). DNA damage induces targeted, genome-wide variation of poly(A) sites in budding yeast. Genome Research. 23(10): 1690-1703.
Gordon, J.M., Shikov, S., Kuehner, J.N., Liriano, M., Lee, E., Stafford, W., Poulsen, M.B., Harrison, C., Moore, C., and Bohm, A. (2011). Reconstitution of CF IA from overexpressed subunits reveals stoichiometry and provides insights into molecular topology. Biochemistry. 50(47): 10203-10214.
Kuehner, J.N., Pearson, E.L., and Moore, C. (2011). Unravelling the means to an end: RNA Polymerase II transcription termination. Nat. Rev. Mol. Cell Biol. 12(5):283-294.
Cloud-Hansen, K.A.*, Kuehner, J.N.*, Tong L., Miller, S., and Handelsman, J. (2008). Money, sex, and drugs: a case study to teach the genetics of antibiotic resistance. CBE Life Sci. Educ. 7(3): 302-309. *authors contributed equally to this work.
Kuehner, J.N. and Brow, D.A. (2008). Regulation of a eukaryotic gene by GTP-dependent start site selection and transcription attenuation. Mol. Cell. 31(2): 201-211. [Selected as cover article]
Steinmetz, E.J., Warren C.L., Kuehner, J.N., Panbehi, B., Ansari, A.Z., and Brow, D.A. (2006). Genome-wide distribution of yeast RNA polymerase II and its control by Sen1 helicase. Mol. Cell. 24(5): 735-746. [Selected as cover article]
Kuehner, J.N. and Brow, D.A. (2006). Quantitative analysis of in vivo initiator selection by yeast RNA polymerase II supports a scanning model. J. Biol. Chem. 281(20): 14119-14128
Research Presentations: (underlined students mentored by J. Kuehner)
Brioso, S.M.T., Moore, C.L., and Kuehner, J.N. (2015). Investigating the role of RNA 3'-end processing factors in the yeast cell wall integrity pathway. Eastern New England Biological Conference, Boston, MA. (Poster presentation)
Kelly, K.E., Tallo, T.W., Moore, C.L., and Kuehner, J.N. (2015). The secret life of RNA processing factors: Investigating their role in repairing UV-damaged DNA. Eastern New England Biological Conference, Boston, MA. (Poster presentation)
Kuehner, J.N., Duffy, H., and Moore, C.L. (2014). Stimulation of RNA Polymerase II ubiquitination by yeast RNA 3' processing factors is a conserved DNA damage response in eukaryotes. Yeast Genetics and Molecular Biology Conference, Seattle, WA. (Poster presentation)
Kuehner, J.N., Nazeer, F.I., and Moore, C.L. (2011). Coupling of RNA 3'-end processing with the DNA damage response. Canadian RiboClub Conference. Orford, Quebec. (Platform talk and poster presentation)
Kuehner, J.N., and Moore, C.L. (2010). Mutations in the yeast nuclear mRNA cap-binding protein Cbp80 suppress a Pcf11 mutant defective for binding RNA Polymerase II. Gordon Conference: Post-transcriptional Gene Regulation. Newport, RI. (Poster presentation)
Kuehner, J.N. (2009). EMBO Conference: Messenger RNA 3'-ends and Gene Expression. Oxford, England. (Participant)
Kuehner, J.N. and Brow, D.A. (2008). Regulation of a eukaryotic gene by GTP-dependent start site selection and transcription attenuation. EMBO Conference: Gene Transcription in Yeast. Sant Feliu de Guizols, Spain. (Platform talk)
Kuehner, J.N. and Brow, D.A. (2007). Sen1-dependent attenuation of yeast RNA polymerase II transcription. RNA Society Conference, Madison, WI. (Platform talk)
Kuehner, J.N., Steinmetz, E.J., and Brow, D.A. (2007). Sen1-dependent attenuation of yeast RNA polymerase II transcription. Cold Spring Harbor Conference: Mechanisms of Eukaryotic Transcription. Cold Spring Harbor, NY. (Poster presentation)
Kuehner, J.N. and Brow, D.A. Quantitative analysis of in vivo initiator selection by yeast RNA polymerase II supports a scanning model. Yeast Genetics and Molecular Biology Conference, Princeton, NJ. (2006). (Poster Presentation)
Peer-Reviewed Teaching Publications:
Funding Support:
National Science Foundation Research Opportunity Award, 2015 ($37,432)
Emmanuel College Faculty-Student Research Grants (2012-2015)
NIH/NIGMS K12 Postdoctoral Fellowship (IRACDA TEACRS Program; Tufts University)
Tri-Beta Biological Honor Society Undergraduate Research Grant
Awards/Recognition:
HHMI Teaching Fellow in Classroom Education and Mentoring (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Outstanding Senior Award (Cornell College)
Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society (Cornell College)
Cells are frequently subjected to stressful conditions, both upon exposure to byproducts of normal metabolism (e.g. reactive oxygen species) and environmental agents (e.g. ultraviolet light). The ability of cells to cope with stress may be a key factor that determines life span, and failure to effectively react to stress can contribute to chronic diseases such as cancer. To counteract these dangers, cells employ a variety of stress responses that coordinate changes in gene expression with recognition and repair of stress-induced damage. Reprogramming of gene expression has largely been studied at the level of transcription (DNA-->RNA) and translation (RNA-->Protein). However, recent evidence indicates that RNA 3'-end processing provides an important yet under-appreciated means through which cells respond to stress. My laboratory is investigating connections between RNA processing factors and two different cell stress pathways, including the DNA damage and cell wall damage response. Using a combination of molecular biology, genetics, biochemistry, and bioinformatics, we aim to uncover novel stress response mechanisms in the yeast model system that may be shared across species.
Supervised Research Students at Emmanuel College
Student (class year)
Term Current/last known position
Christine Tuohy ('16) Jan. 2015 - present Emmanuel undergraduate
Samisa Brioso ('15) June 2014 - present Emmanuel undergraduate
Kaitlyn Kelly ('15) Jan. 2014 - present MGH Master of Science in Nursing Program
Thomas Tallo ('16) Jan. 2014 - present Emmanuel undergraduate
Hilary Duffy ('14) June 2013 - Aug. 2013 Admin. Assistant, Northeastern University
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(director/writer: J.J. Abrams; screenwriters: Chris Terrio/story by Derek Connoly, Colin Trevorrow, Chris Terrio, J.J. Abrams/based on characters created by George Lucas; cinematographer: Dan Mindel; editors: Maryann Brandon, Stefan Grube; music: John Williams; cast: Carrie Fisher (Leia Organa), Mark Hamill (Luke Skywalker), Adam Driver (Kylo Ren), Daisy Ridley (Rey), John Boyega (Finn), Oscar Isaac (Poe Dameron), Anthony Daniels (C-3PO), Naomi Ackie (Jannah), Domhnall Gleeson (General Hux), Richard E. Grant (General Pryde), Lupita Nyong'o (Maz Kanata), Keri Russell (Zorii Bliss), Joonas Suotamo (Chewbacca), Kelly Marie Tran (Rose Tico ), Ian McDiarmid (Emperor Palpatine), Billy Dee Williams (General Lando Calrissian); Runtime: 141; MPAA Rating: PG-13; producers: J.J. Abrams, Kathleen Kennedy, Michelle Rejwau; Walt Disney Pictures; 2019)
"It marks the return of the franchise to plodding films."
J.J. Abrams ("Super 8″/"Star Trek Into Darkness") helms the final episode in the original nine-film saga, an entertaining escapist film but one in need of a more creative script rather than aiming just for completeness and glorifying the old banalities. It marks the return of the franchise to plodding films like those George Lucas himself pushed on us in the second trilogy that were filled with dull intrigue, witless dialogue and tiresome heroism. The script was co-written with Abrams and Chris Terrio, who are working from their story with Derek Connolly and Colin Trevorrow. But if a Star Wars fanboy, the film probably caters to your needs and you'll probably find it a fun film even if it's still too busy trying to wrap up things that started four decades ago in 1977.
In the opening scene, we're told "The Dead Talk!" It seems that bringing dead people or things back to life is the way of the franchise. As if telling us no matter what, there will be no possible end to this franchise as long as people want to see it. So I doubt very much if this is the last Star Wars.
We soon become aware that the evil hooded emperor Palpatine (Ian McDiarmid, in a hammy performance), who died at the end of "Return of the Jedi," didn't die but has been hiding in the not located place of Exogol all this time in a secret Sith lair, and is responsible for all the trouble that abounds of trying to smash the Resistance and bringing about a reign of terror. The story therefore revolves around Palpatine and the rise of the evil First Order.
Besides finding out what Palpatine has been doing since his return, we now must wrestle with what happened to the parents of Jedi-in-training Rey (Daisy Ridley) and how is she connected to patricidal Sith Lord Kylo Ren (Adam Driver). Rey continues her Jedi training with the Resistance leader Gen. Leia Organa (Carrie Fisher, appearing from unused archive footage of Star War films).
The scarfaced Kylo Ren, Darth Vader's revolting grandson, moves around in his tie fighter and is up to no good as he follows the commands of the villainous emperor. Meanwhile Rey, his telepathic lover from the past, has gotten over her affection for him and is busy at work with her rock-levitation practice and fighting for the Resistance. The tensions between these two results in their memorable lightsaber duel.
The good guys of the Resistance scurry around for answers when the news gets out that Palpatine plans to start destroying planets in less than a day's time to bring about his "Final Order."
Stopping Palpatine and his storm troopers onslaught is up to the Resistance fighters like the frisky Poe Dameron (Oscar Isaac), the bland ex-storm trooper Finn (John Boyega), Chewbacca (Joonas Suotamo) and the talkative android C3-PO (Anthony Daniels), who are under the command of Rey. After getting intel from a spy who infiltrated the evil First Order, the urgent situation calls for bringing back help from characters from other episodes who might not have appeared for quite some time, like the cameo of the smack-talking 82-year-old Billy Dee Williams as General Lando Calrissian -he last appeared some 36 years ago. What Rey and her Resistance team need to do is get their hands on a crystal that will show them the way to Exogol and thereby they can take out the despot and stop his Final Order.
In an obvious Trump reference, the Resistance movement is warned that it must not let the emperor's propaganda make the Jedi feel alone in the galaxy and incapable of resistance when in fact they are in the majority.
What this Star Wars episode does well is offer some visually spectacular scenes, especially the one of a planet containing a massive fragment of fallen Death Star surrounded by hundred-foot waves. There also are some new characters introduced, such as a masked warrior/hacker played by Keri Russell.
It's public knowledge that Lucas sold the Star Wars franchise to Disney in 2012, and that has led to speculation by some critics that the franchise has become too Disneyfied. The derivative Abrams, working for Disney, brings solid craftsmanship but no innovations to the franchise. But he shows an uncanny ability to clean things up and shows an eagerness to please the fan base by revisiting the same old things as a matter of nostalgia and even ending the saga by mysteriously resurrecting the evil emperor fighting the Resistance. I won't argue if you say this theme has modern-day implications and its mythical story remains timeless, but I maintain it has lost some of the magic of the original Star Wars films. Enough is enough. I could do without anymore sub-par Star Wars films.
REVIEWED ON 12/21/2019 GRADE: C+ https://dennisschwartzreviews.com/


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21st Infantry Battalion (VIC) 6th Brigade, 2nd Division, AIF
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The 21st Battalion was raised at Broadmeadows north of Melbourne, in early 1915, to form the first Battalion of the 6th Brigade in the 2nd Division.
Its soldiers were drawn from Victoria. Private James Charles Martin who was 14 years and nine months old when he died of fever contracted during the Gallipoli campaign and is now believed to have been the youngest Australian soldier to lose his life during the Great War.
Members of the Australian Imperial Force who served on Gallipoli will be entitled to wear over the Unit "Colour Patch" on both sleeves of the Service Dress Jacket and Greatcoat the letter "A" an indication that the wearer had taken part in the operations on the Gallipoli Peninsula. - Military Order 354 of 1917
Members of the Australian Imperial Force who served on Gallipoli or the Islands of Lemnos, Imbros and Tenedos, or who have served on transports or hospital ships at or off Gallipoli or the Islands above-named, or in AIF lines of communication Units in Egypt will be entitled to wear over their Unit "Colour Patches" on both sleeves of their Service Dress Jacket and Greatcoat the letter "A" as an indication that the wearer had taken part in the Gallipoli operations. - Military Order 20 of 1918
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Jane Smith Patterson
Jane Patterson
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The e-NC Authority
Jane Smith Patterson currently serves as executive director of the e-NC Authority, an organization with a goal of bringing affordable high-speed Internet access to the citizens, businesses and institutions of North Carolina, particularly in rural areas. Prior to taking this leadership position in 2001, Patterson worked for North Carolina Gov. Jim Hunt through his four terms in office, first as secretary of administration, then as chief advisor for policy, budget and technology, and finally as senior advisor for science and technology and director of the office for technology.
Patterson's background also includes working in the private industry as vice-president of ITT Corporation- Network Systems Group, of ITT-Alcatel and Alcatel, NA. and has served as a vice chancellor at UNC-Wilmington and in positions with research programs at the University of Pennsylvania and UNC-Chapel Hill. She has been an advisor to many countries in the planning for deployment of national information infrastructure.
Patterson has served in many positions that have direct impact on the growth of Geographical Information Systems technologies including chairing the founding year of the Global Spatial data Initiative. Patterson consistently leads focused efforts, both for her state and nationally to improve technology and its application, in order to enhance the economy of North Carolina and the United States as well as to advance educational opportunities for future generations.
Jane is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and has completed post-graduate degree work at N.C. State University and additional studies at Harvard University. She serves on a number of boards for nonprofit organizations, including the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation.


It is morning. The forest is still dark, but the sky is becoming blue. Ja is 5 winters old. He sits a little back in the cave opening with his mother. Light throws down a slender, brightening veil upon them. Pipings and twitterings of birds are everywhere, mixed with the occassional fear-inducing roar of a lion. Ja's mother is pounding some berries with the end of a stick. The berries lie in the hollow of a large concave rock. It is like a bowl and she is making juice. The skin of these berries is thick and not tasty, but the juice is almost sweet.
Ja's mother stops pounding to look at a hand-size rock on the ground, then drops the stick, picks up the rock and starts to pound the red berries. "Ai!" she yells, as she hits her thumb.
Ja's mother picks up the stick again and is once more attacking the berries. Then she stops, stands up and goes far back into the cave to defecate. Ja untwists the reed from his feet and looks at the rock, then at the stick lying close by. The rock is shaped a little like his fist, and longer than it is wide. The stick is like his arm. Ja sees. Ja doesn't hear the birds; he doesn't hear the lions. He doesn't see the cave walls or the trees or the sky. He is not smiling; he is not frowning. He just looks, intently and gravely, while he remembers.
It is mid-day. Ja's mother has been sitting behind him, and she watches him trying over and over to wrap the reed around the rock and the stick. The rock falls. He picks it up and tries again, over and over and over. She sits in wonder. She has never seen such a thing. She forgets the berries and the juice and sits watching, mesmerized, like one cat watching another playing with a leaf.


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Q: MPNS Push Notification Channel never returns HTTPS URI I'm trying to set up an authenticated push notification channel for Windows Phone 8 using MPNS.
I'm creating an HttpNotificationChannel with new HttpNotificationChannel( ChannelName, ServiceName );, which, to my understanding, should result in getting an https:// channel URI.
But the channel URI that is assigned to the channel will always be http://.
What do I have to do to get the https:// channel?

A: When adding or removing the service name from the HttpNotificationChannel construction, the URI prefix will not always be changed. Why that is is unclear.
What helps is to uninstall the app and reboot the device. Afterwards the channel URI will have the correct prefix, depending on if a service name was provided.

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/* Services */

var questionServices = angular.module('questionService', ['ngResource']);

questionServices.factory('Question', ['$resource',
    function ($resource) {
        return $resource('api/question/:talkId', {}, {
            query: {method: 'GET', params: { talkId: '@talkId'}, isArray: false}
        });
    }]);

questionServices.factory('Answer', ['$resource',
    function ($resource) {
        return $resource('api/answer/:talkId/:questionId', {}, {
            save: {method: 'POST' }
        });
    }]);

questionServices.factory('Report', ['$resource',
    function ($resource) {
        return $resource('api/admin/showanswers/:talkId', {}, {
            query: {method: 'GET', params: { talkId: '@talkId'}, isArray: false}
        });
    }]);

questionServices.service('questionPoller', function (Question) {
    var defaultPollingTime = 5000;
    var poller;

    return {
        startPolling: function (talkId, callback) {
            poller = function () {
                Question.get({talkId: talkId}, callback);
            }
            poller();
            setInterval(poller, defaultPollingTime);
        },

        stopPolling: function () {
            clearInterval(poller);
        }
    }
});

questionServices.service('reportPoller', function (Report) {
    var defaultPollingTime = 2500;
    var poller;

    return {
        startPolling: function (talkId, callback) {
            poller = function () {
                Report.get({talkId: talkId}, callback);
            }
            poller();
            setInterval(poller, defaultPollingTime);
        },

        stopPolling: function () {
            clearInterval(poller);
        }
    }
});


India's estimated 300,000 budget private schools (BPS) are a unique phenomenon, evidence of the fierce determination of households even at the base of India's iniquitous social hierarchy to secure a good future for their children. Sited mainly in urban slums, tier II and III towns and rural India, BPS are small, often 'unrecognised' schools promoted by edupreneurs to meet the demand of low-income households fed up with or distrustful of dysfunctional government schools defined by crumbling infrastructure, multi-grade classrooms, chronic teacher absenteeism, corporal punishment, English language aversion and abysmal learning outcomes.
Over the past two decades, BPS have multiplied as bottom-of-pyramid households — even if not the ruling neta-babu brotherhood — have cottoned on that real education (including English language learning) is the passport to upward socio-economic mobility. Budget private schools are typically crammed into small premises — often rented — charging monthly tuition fees ranging from Rs.70-150 in rural areas, and Rs.200-600 in urban India.
However the country's sui generis BPS are facing an uncertain future with education ministry officials countrywide shaking them down or closing them for non-compliance with s. 19 and the Schedule of the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009 (aka RTE Act). This provision makes it mandatory for all schools to comply with minimal infrastructure and teacher-pupil ratio norms. According to the Centre for Civil Society (CCS), a top-ranked Delhi-based think-tank, over the past two years 2,983 private budget schools countrywide have been shut down with another 5,097 issued closure notices.
Your editors believe that the best way to stem the exodus of children from free-of-charge government schools is through improvement of their teaching-learning standards rather than shutting down budget private schools. Therefore, we have opposed the provisions of s.19 particularly because government schools are exempt from its penal provisions. The reality that an estimated 60 million children — an astonishing number — are enrolled with them is proof that BPS provide parents affordable alternatives to dysfunctional government schools. Consequently to confer recognition and appreciation upon the country's best budget private schools, last year your editors introduced the EW India Budget Private Schools Rankings.
As in 2015, to compile a modest national league table of India's 25 best budget private schools, we solicited the aid and advice of CCS and the National Independent Schools Alliance (NISA estb. 2011), a representative organisation of budget private schools, to shortlist 25 well-managed BPS in several major cities. Subsequently, field representatives of C fore interviewed 883 SEC (socio-economic category) C, D and E parents and 127 teachers of budget private schools to rate them on 12 parameters of school education excellence. The ratings awarded were totaled to rank India's best BPS inter se.
In the second EW Budget Private Schools Rankings 2016, the 1,010 informed sample respondents have once again voted the Muni International School (MIS), Delhi India's #1 private budget school. Promoted in 2002 by Ashok Thakur, an alumnus of Delhi University and ex-serviceman, Muni International is top-ranked on six of the 12 parameters of education excellence.
"I am thankful to EducationWorld, which by conferring honours and awards on budget private schools, is making us acceptable to society. Obviously, there's growing awareness within the public that good quality education can be imparted with minimal resources. By transforming teachers into facilitators and encouraging peer-to-peer learning we have been able to improve students learning outcomes dramatically. In MIS we believe that majestic buildings and infrastructure and highly qualified teachers are not necessary. Moreover, we are eager to share our model with other low-cost schools. Recently we've signed up with 25 government schools in Haryana, where our model of education will be implemented with the help of the well-known company Tech Mahindra Ltd," says Thakur, principal of Muni International which has an enrolment of 750 students and 35 teachers on its musters.
Further down the national league table, there's been no major change with almost all previously Top 10 ranked schools retaining their seats at top table. The only new entrant in the Top 10 is Don Bosco High School, Dombivali, Mumbai which has risen in the estimation of the sample respondents from #15 last year to #10.
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At the next ASHRAE BC Chapter meeting on November 21st, Tony Scholl from Technical Safety BC will provide an overview of the Fatal Incident at the Fernie Memorial Arena on October 17th, 2017.
Tony's presentation will provide us an overview of the Ammonia Incident and provide an update on the next steps regarding Refrigeration System Safety in our province. Technical Safety BC released their report on the incident on July 25th, 2018. Tony will go over the scope and key findings.
Technical Safety BC made 18 recommendations to further improve safety in ice rink refrigeration systems, and made a number of regulatory actions to prevent similar incidents. The Fernie incident is believed to be the first of its kind in which ammonia leaked into a secondary coolant (brine) leading to pipe pressurization resulting in a rapid release of ammonia into an enclosed room.
Tony Scholl has a background in Marine Engineering and has over twenty years' experience in the administration of Boiler and Pressure Vessel Regulations in two different Canadian Jurisdictions. Tony assumed the position of Provincial Safety Manager for Boilers and Pressure Vessels in the province of British Columbia in 2013.


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Here's Why Front Loaded Stimulus Will Be Catastrophic for the Market
1 - Liquidity Trader January 16, 2021
Both bonds and stocks have weakened over the past 2 weeks. It's a sign that the Fed isn't supplying enough QE.
We've known for a long time that it wasn't enough to support twin bull moves in both asset classes. Have we reached the tipping point where it's insufficient for either to move higher while the other descends?
The answer, my friends, is blowing in the wind—the wind of margin calls now blowing through dealer balance sheets as leveraged fixed income positions continue losing value.
Meanwhile the $2.9 trillion Biden stimulus proposal may boost the US economy, but it will be a disaster for the increasingly fragile stock and bond markets. Here's why, and what you should do about it.
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Tax Collections Did Better in December But The Bond Market Still Broke
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Now That We're Through the Month-end QE Shortage
1 - Liquidity Trader January 6, 2021
We have a little tightness in the market at the end of every month. That's because the Treasury issues a big wad of TP and the Fed isn't there to absorb it. The Fed is just doing its piddly little $20 billion a week of Treasury purchases, and the Treasury is slugging the market with $100 billion or so of new supply.
Last week the actual numbers were worse. The last QE injection was $6 billion on December 23. They then didn't do another one until Monday January 4, with $8.8 billion. Meanwhile, the Treasury plopped $164 billion in new supply on to the market on December 31.
We got through the deluge relatively unscathed. But there's a lot to look forward to for the rest of the month.
The Monster In the Room Is Not Make Believe
1 - Liquidity Trader December 30, 2020
Back in September I wrote to you about why I was giving up on the banking system indicators. I've reposted that rant in an addendum to this report. Essentially it boils down to this. Every time there's a critical problem in the banking system due to banker malfeasance, the Fed steps in to paper it over and reward the criminals.
That's why we focus on the Fed more than anything else.
The banking indicators were useful once upon a time. The Fed has rendered them irrelevant. But I promised to keep an eye on them, so herein is a review. It makes me sick and should make you sick too, but we're not here to fight the Fed. We're here to make money by understanding and playing according to the Fed's rules. The Fed's first order of business is always to protect its banker clients. And it does that very well indeed.
Once again trouble is brewing, and the Fed will need to come up big again to prevent it from blowing up the banking sector. If history is any guide, the Fed will be there. It may be to the detriment of those who don't own capital, but they don't matter. The Fed doesn't care about them, and refuses to take responsibility for the intractable problems that has caused our society.
Consequently, being a bear for the right reasons does not pay. To make money in these markets you must play on the side of the criminals that run the show, the Fed and its client banks.
These banking indicators help us to understand just what they're doing, and where the landmines might be that one day could blow this whole game to smithereens.
This brings us to a recurring theme. The first sign of potential systemic blowup would be an upside breakout in the 10 year Treasury yield. It would mean that the Fed had lost control, and that the system was careening toward an abyss from which there might be no Fed response big enough to escape.
We'll take a look at that, but also some other problems in the banking system balance sheet that the banks and the Fed are pretending don't exist. Well, they exist and they're bubbling up just below the surface, to burst forth one of these days in the not too distant future.
Look Out Bears, We May Be Headed for Excess QE
The Fed continues to fund roughly 85% of new Treasury issuance. It affirmed at last week's FOMC meeting that it won't cut QE for the foreseeable future, and it will add, if needed. That means that if the Treasury needs to borrow more, the Fed will add more QE.
But it's now apparent that the Treasury won't borrow more for the foreseeable future. The new stimulus bill that we now know is about to pass will cost $900 billion. But the Treasury has $1.6 trillion in cash on hand.
This has huge implications for the stock and bond markets.
Fed Balance Sheet Tells Bears To Float Like Butterflies, Sting Like Bees
The Fed's policy remains stable at about $170 billion per month in QE, give or take a few billion depending on the level of MBS replacements. The balance sheet is growing on trend. The stock market is tracking with it, as usual.
This will lead to a huge problem when the economy begins to react to enlarged stimulus.
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The Search for The Primary Dealer Holy Grail
The Fed publishes a huge pile of data on the dealers' holdings, transactions, and financing each week. It's organized in a way that's completely useless for our purposes. It's granular to the nth degree, not aggregated as we need it to be.
Over the past couple of weeks I've thought about how to aggregate the data in a way that would make sense, and perhaps tell us something.
I managed to make some sense of it. It's not the holy grail that I was hoping for, but it's interesting. And again, it shows just how insanely leveraged the system is. The Fed simply can't allow a selloff in the bond market. It would be catastrophic.
Here's the chart that shows why. There's a lot we can learn from it about just how much danger we face.
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The Stimulus "Magic Bullet" Is Bearish
1 - Liquidity Trader December 9, 2020
Withholding tax collections were relatively stable through November. But the 5 day average ticked a hair below November's low here in early December. New lows would suggest that December's jobs data will be awful, which will add to the likelihood of more stimulus, both fiscal and monetary. Whether that's bullish or not depends on the Fed. The wrong fiscal/monetary balance could ignite a conflagration.
The Wall Street captured media constantly feeds us the BS that the vaccine is the Magic Bullet that will save us. But while we wait for that shot, the talk about more, more, more stimulus will continue to be the narrative that drives the pundit excuses for why the markets are doing what they're doing. "Market Rises on Stimulus Hopes" will be the near daily headline.
This is mindless nonsense designed to divert us from paying attention to the financial markets' real problems.
We have become inured to these $200 billion monthly budget deficits. But this data has catastrophic implications which I get into in this report.
And this is BEFORE any new stimulus.
As more and more Americans get the virus, and more people know someone who has gotten it, or worse, died, the economy sinks.
The eConomic establishment sees the vaccine as the magic bullet. But we now know that it won't be available for widespread distribution until next summer, thanks to the Don Trump waving off a bigger, sooner deal with Pfizer.
That means that the US will be dependent on social consciousness to reduce the spread of the virus for at least the next 7 months. Good luck with that. 74 million people believe that the election was stolen, and the virus is a hoax. Consequently they refuse to wear masks and proudly engage in superspreader behavior. That won't change after January 20. So we face months of worsening economic conditions and ever bigger deficits.
Until then, the only magic bullet is more stimulus. It may or may not cushion the catastrophe besetting many American households. And its consequences for the financial markets will only be guessable when we know the size of the package and the size and shape of the Fed's response. We know what the Fed needs to do at a minimum, and we know what will happen if it doesn't do it.
Here's what to look for.
The Big Dealer Leverage Brainfart
Sometimes the mouth goes faster than the brain.
I chat with Lindsay Williams on his Strictly Business Podcast, once every couple of months. When I spoke with him on Thanksgiving Day I said something that I immediately realized was wrong. I said that there's no way to know how leveraged the Primary Dealers are in their bond portfolios.
Of course, that's wrong. The New York Fed publishes enough data every week for us to figure it out. So I set to figuring.
The question is how to put that data together in a meaningful way. There's a lot of it, and a lot of figuring, rumination, trial, and error to be done. This is just the first installment.
What I can show so far is not earth shaking. We already knew intuitively that the dealers are leveraged to the hilt, and therefore in grave danger if bond prices fall below a certain level. We don't know exactly what that level is, but at some point, soon I think, they're going to face calls from their unindicted co-conspirators for more collateral.
It's 2 PM. Do you know where your margin man is? You know. The guy with the tire iron.
So below is the first chart that I painted with the data. It shows the level of dealer net Treasury repo borrowings versus their total Treasury holdings. Surprise, surprise! They correlate!
I've been reporting to you their total repo borrowings before this. Those totals have been in the $1.75 trillion range, which is about 8 times their total Treasury holdings. That would be like you having a $3 million mortgage on your $400,000 home. OK. It doesn't work.
They're not just borrowing to support their Treasury inventories. They're also banks. They lend. Most of that borrowing is to finance their lending activities. So I ran their reverse repo operations, where they take in securities as collateral for lending cash to degenerate gamblers like me and you, but mostly the big hedge fund wiseguys in Greenwich, Palm Beach, and the Upper East Side.
Netting that lending activity out leaves us with their net cash borrowings, which should in theory bear some relationship to their Treasury holdings.
Not that their loan sharking activities are without risk. But this is the big boy, in my opinion—the net leverage on their Treasury collateral. It's like your margin account, except it's not 50% margin. It's more like 75% to 200%.
Since the Fed took over the bond market in September 2019, buying approximately 85% of all new Treasury issuance, on average, the ratio of dealer net borrowings to their Treasury holdings has stayed pretty close to 100%.
Why isn't that a problem? Because, Praise the Load, Jaysus of the Church of the Fed is backstopping them. But despite the fact that He has been relieving them of some of that inventory since May, the dealers keep increasing their leverage.
This report includes that chart, along with what it tells us about present conditions, what to expect in the near future, and what we should do about that.
Here's Why More QE Won't Be Enough for the Markets
1 - Liquidity Trader November 27, 2020
Here's the problem. When rates are falling, there are more sales, and especially more refi. So the prepayments go up, and the Fed sees a greater reduction in its MBS holdings. Those reductions had been running at the rate of $65-70 billion per month through last month, based on the prepayment rate in the market in prior months. The Fed then bought that much from the dealers in the following months.
As always, those settlements were held in the third week of the month. The Fed would settle a total of $100-110 billion in prior forward MBS purchases that week, and the dealers would suddenly be flush with cash.
Good thing too. Because the 15th of the month is when the Treasury issues a pantload of new notes and bonds. The amount of Fed MBS purchases typically provided enough cash to the dealers for them to cover nearly all of the Treasury issuance. They could either buy it outright, or provide the repo financing to customers so that they could buy it. Then there was even some left over for them to play markup games with their equities inventories.
But mortgage rates have been rising since August. Prepayments are falling as a result. Home sales are holding up, but refis are cratering. As a result, the nearly final figure for the Fed's MBS settlement in mid December is only $69 billion. That's $30-40 billion less than in recent months.
At the same time, the TBAC says that the Treasury will issue $98 billion in new notes and bonds on December 15. The day before, the Fed's MBS purchases will only total $52 billion.
That's a problem. But there's an even bigger problem next week. And an even bigger problem after that when the US Government passes new stimulus. Here's why, and what to do about it.
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How many hubbers have an iPad?
I know some people hate iPad, but I was wondering how many hubbers have iPad? and if you do, do you recommend it?
No I don't own an iPad yet but my son keeps hinting for one for Christmas. i will let you know how it turns out. I hope others respond about having one, I would like to have some honest reviews about if they like it or not. Good question!
I dont have one but i heard iPad cant be used to modify hubs. Only can view hubs.
Would be great sincde it is small and easily carried around thou.
I wouldn't waste my money.
Mine is a constant tool and companion.
no Ipad yet, maybe in the future. but I love my Ipod touch, it goes (almost) everywhere with me and I love how easy it is.
Not yet but maybe Christmas, I'll have to leave hints.
Just bought one. Love it.
Curious, who is your favorite hubber, and why?
Here we go....http://hubpages.com/_dwn4bbs4rxf1/hub/An-Intimate-Interview-with-a-Recovering-Alcoholic written by lyricsingray.
Do you go out of your way to help other Hubbers?


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The Restaurant Week interviews: 7 questions for Manuel Martinez of La Viga
Uploaded: Apr 29, 2021
by Sarah Klearman
In an effort to provide diners more opportunities to support local restaurants as the Peninsula slowly reopens, Embarcadero Media's Peninsula Foodist is teaming up with Facebook to launch Peninsula Restaurant Week. From May 14-22, restaurants, bakeries and eateries of all stripes along the Peninsula will offer prix fixe deals and other menu specials available for dine-in, delivery or curbside pickup.
As part of the new weeklong dining event, the Peninsula Foodist has asked participating chefs and restaurant owners to share their stories about what the past year has been like for them and where they see the industry headed. This week's Q&A features Manuel Martinez of La Viga Culinary Inc. (La Viga Seafood & Cocina Mexicana and LV Mar Tapas in Redwood City and San Agus Cocina Urbana in Palo Alto).
For more information about Peninsula Restaurant Week, go to peninsularestaurantweek.com.
La Viga serves a wide selection of tacos, including from left, carne asada with nopales salsa and red sauce; pollo with tomatillo sauce and guacamole; and cochinita with pickled onion, habanero sauce and orange slices. Photo by Veronica Weber.
For readers who might not be familiar, tell me a little bit about you and your restaurants.
I've been in the industry for the last 25 years working as a cook, an assistant chef and then as a chef. After that, I began opening restaurants for other people and then opening places for myself. The last nine years, I've spent working for myself.
I'm currently operating three restaurants that I own here on the Peninsula — two in Redwood City and one in Palo Alto. I'm a chef by trade, but I'm also the mind behind everything here. Each restaurant has their own chef, so they do the kitchen operations, and I oversee them.
Tell me about the year behind us — what's been the trajectory of your restaurants?
The last year has been a rough year. It's nothing like I've seen before. I've opened and closed LV Mar at least four times, because we experienced some COVID-19 cases there, and the first thing we did was close and make sure everybody was safe. Ultimately, we were shut down twice, but we closed on our own another two times during the pandemic.
With vaccinations increasing and California's daily case counts way down, does it feel like we're seeing the light at the end of the tunnel?
I hope so. Although after being through all of this, I'm preparing to wait and see because anything could happen tomorrow. It could be another shutdown or changing gears and operating at 25% ... or that we're allowed to open at full capacity. It's pretty unpredictable.
Tell me about the biggest challenges you've faced as a restaurant owner as it pertains to lockdowns.
I would say it's the uncertainty — that you don't know what's coming. I hope that we're on our way to fully opening up the economy and to making our businesses stronger ... but it's not up to me, unfortunately. There are things that I can do: have good food, serve it right and grow the business. And if the government lets me do business, I will do business. But unfortunately when they shut you down, and you can't do anything other than food to-go, it's not good. That is basically tying your hands and your legs.
Are there moments or experiences you've had this year that you've drawn upon to keep you going?
Manuel Martinez owns and operates La Viga and LV Mar in Redwood City. He opened San Agus in Palo Alto in spring 2020. Courtesy Rob Watkins.
Definitely my employees and my guests coming in and chipping in every day, trying to increase the volume of the business so we can bring another person back to work. Right when we closed the first time, we had like around 50 or so employees between our two restaurants. After we closed, we went down to four.
Opening the restaurants and bringing staff back — that's one of the best feelings I've ever had. I thought everything would be lost, but we've brought people back. ... And then seeing the customers come back — some customers that you haven't seen for months, or even a year, now.
Has the pandemic forced any kind of innovation or revelation in the restaurant space you're excited about?
I think the first one would be teamwork. We work as one now. It's not anymore, "I'm a server, and I only know how to serve people," or "I'm a dishwasher." It's everyone working together to achieve our daily goals. My team has been the highlight (of this year).
I discovered some of the restaurants are better at doing food to-go than others. LV Mar is a pure service-driven restaurant; people go there because they like the space, they like what they get and they want to be served and get together. La Viga and San Agus are also service-based, but the type of food we serve there can be served to-go (pretty) well. So we've been exploring that.
What should customers know about supporting local restaurants during Peninsula Restaurant week?
I'm a service-driven chef and owner. I mean, we're no one without our customers. All that I ask is to be able to be open so I can serve them, and we can shine again. Customers want to go out and enjoy themselves. They want to go out with their friends and drink and eat. I would ask them to be patient with us and to be ready to support local restaurants. This is a hard time for a lot of people. Some restaurants thought they would survive, and they didn't; some closed for a year, and now they're trying to reopen again, and everything is so different. The business is nothing like before.
(Reopening) might be overwhelming for a lot of restaurants, either because they are short people or resources. The industry is upside down, I think. We're looking forward to a much better year, but patience is key while restaurants get back to — well, not normal, but the new normal, whatever that is.
Craving more Restaurant Week interviews? Read our Q&As with Steven Yen of Mountain View's Bushido and Michael Ekwall of Palo Alto's La Bodeguita del Medio.
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Star Trek Dark Armada (Fan Film) - All Episodes.
Dark Armada is a Star Trek fan production from The Netherlands. The series focuses on the events of Captain Alexander Richardson and his ship, the USS Batavia, on their quest to save the Federation from an unknown terror; the Dark Armada.
Star Trek Dark Armada Vignette "It's Dark... Get Over It"
Star Trek Dark Armada | "Nightfall"
Star Trek Dark Armada Vignette "Almost Time"


This Harmony Meteor was made in the USA in 1966. This example shows some light wear, but is in really very good shape as these go. The guitar is all original, and the original finish is vibrant and glossy. This guitar has the fantastic sounding mustache dearmond pickups. It has been pro-setup and needs nothing. It comes with the original case.