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"""
Blackjack strategies to automate player
"""

class PlayerStrategy:
    def __init__(self):
        self._action = None

    def handle_soft(self):
        """
        Logic to handle "soft" hands:
        Given two hands as input, chooses the hand
        that gives the best outcome given player's
        strategy
        """
        pass

    def return_soft_handvalues(self):
        """  (list) -> list
        Returns the two potential hands represented
        by a "soft" hand (containing an ace)
        """
        pass

class BasicStrategy(PlayerStrategy):
    """
    A recommended "basic" strategy to minimize
    the house odds
    """
    def __init__(self):
        super().__init__()

class WizardSimple(PlayerStrategy):
    """
    See https://wizardofodds.com/games/blackjack/basics/
    """
    def __init__(self):
        super().__init__()

    def choose_action(self, player_hand, dealer_up_card):
        dlup = dealer_up_card.pointval
        ranks = [i.rank for i in player_hand]
        soft = True if 'A' in ranks else False
        values = [i.pointval for i in player_hand]

        # Check for two cards and the same number for split
        if len(ranks) == 2 and values[0] == values[1]:
            # Always split aces and eights
            if ranks[0] == '8' or ranks[0] == 'A':
                return 'split'
            # Split 2, 3, 6, 7, 9 against dealer <7
            elif ranks[0] in ['2', '3', '6', '7', '9']:
                return 'split'
            # Never split 4, 5, 10

        # Double down against dealer <7, opportunity for dd
        #   comes only on initial deal (with two cards)
        if len(ranks) == 2 and dlup < 7:
            if not soft and sum(values) == 9:
                return 'double'

        return 'fail!'

    @property
    def action(self):
        """
        The set of possible actions includes:
        hit, stand, double, and split
        """
        return self._action

    @action.setter
    def action(self, value):
        self._action = value

if __name__ == "__main__":
    pass

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HomeAsideCoronavirus: Why washing hands is difficult in some countries
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As Europe and much of the developed world shuts down in the face of coronavirus, many millions of people haven't much hope in following the World Health Organization (WHO) advice on washing hands and keeping their distance.
About one billion people live in slum-like conditions, making up 30% of the world's urban population. These housing facilities tend to have very little ventilation, drainage and sewage facilities, with diseases spreading easily.
Celestine Adhiambo, 43, lives in the Mukuru slum in Nairobi with her husband and six children. The family's one-room house has no running water or electricity. She says her children can't move around much without banging into each other.
"It is not possible for us to separate a child from another in case of any infection. We don't have any space. No rooms here. The government should take the infected people to hospitals," she told the BBC.
Her husband works as a carpenter and on the days he works, he earns about 400 Kenyan Shillings (£3.15, $4) and every day the family spends about 50 shillings on buying 10 buckets of water.
But the water supply is erratic and on days when there is no water, the family has to forgo the quick bath they are accustomed to.
Image captionMany residence of the Mukuru slum are yet to see any preventive action from the authorities
Over half-a-million people live in Mukuru. The houses are made from cardboard or plastic material while those who are better off have houses made from corrugated iron sheets. There is no waste collection, with most of it going directly into the river.
Local NGO Mercy Mukuru runs four primary schools in the area with a total of around 7,000 students. About half of the students cannot afford soap, according to its head, Mary Killeen.
"I am worried. If the virus spreads in our locality it will be terrible," Ms Adhiambo said.
Dr Pierre Mpele, a former WHO representative who has worked in many countries in central and West Africa says African households can be more crowded and in some cases, up to 12 people will share a small house. "Self-quarantine is not possible in many places," he says.
It's not just slums that are struggling with the availability of water. The cities of Johannesburg and Chennai both almost ran out of water last year.
Image captionMany cities in South Asia face water crisis and during last year Chennai almost went dry
Shanthi Sasindranath, a mother of two who lives in the outskirts of Chennai told the BBC: "If there is a shortage like last year, it will be difficult to get clean water to wash our hands multiple times."
During the water shortages last year, her family was able to survive by buying untreated water from agricultural wells located more than 50km away.
There are very few public toilets and water points, and she says people aren't following public health advice.
Image captionShanthi says if Chennai dries up like last year, there will be no water for her family to wash hands repeatedly
"In the local trains, people cough inches away from your face, without even covering their mouth. If I point this out, some will say sorry, few others will just pick a fight."
Friends and relatives visit her apartment every day and Ms Sasindranath is yet to figure out how to minimise human interactions.
"I'm telling my children to wash their hands slowly and thoroughly. I told them they must wash their hands whenever they come back from outside, even if they've just popped out for five minutes. As a family we are not travelling as much as we used to."
Dr Poppy Lamberton, a lecturer in delivering health services at the University of Glasgow in the UK, said governments need to step up in a big way.
"Some governments are poor, but not as poor as individuals. In the case of an outbreak, they should be able to isolate a whole community."
Image captionDr Mpele wants the WHO to come up with guidelines that will work for developing countries
The WHO says it is working to support governments manage their response to the pandemic, but Dr Mpele wants it to come up with a guide which will work in the developing world.
He is also calling for greater efforts to engage with community leaders before a full-blown crisis occurs in Africa.
"The silver lining is the virus is not spreading fast in Africa. Most cases that have been reported came from people who travelled back from China or Europe. We don't know why it is not spreading fast," he said.
The WHO says local transmission – people with no travel history – remains low in the African continent and containment is the most appropriate strategy.
Back in Mukuru, nothing seems to have changed in recent weeks.
Ms Adhiambo says she feels defenceless and is doing the only thing she can do.
"I am praying to god to save us and our neighbourhood from this virus," she said.
source BBC
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BobTheScientist
1645. Wed Nov 19, 2003 4:53 am
No but the following springs to "mind":
"An angel whose muscles developed no more power weight for weight than those of an eagle or a pigeon would require a breast projecting for about four feet to house the muscles engaged in working its wings, while to economise in weight, its legs would have to be reduced to mere stilts." JBS Haldane
I thought it must be in Haldane's famous essay On Being the Right Size, which someone has put in full on the wuh:
http://irl.cs.ucla.edu/papers/right-size.html
It isn't, but another graphic Haldane quote is:
"You can drop a mouse down a thousand-yard mine shaft; and, on arriving at the bottom, it gets a slight shock and walks away, provided that the ground is fairly soft. A rat is killed, a man is broken, a horse splashes."
Regarding bumblebee aerodynamics, here's the skinny from a man who sounds as if he ought to know:
I have heard this story so many times, but I suspect it is urban legend.
Well, I don't know if I can debunk the urban legend, because I have heard several versions regarding its origin. I can, though, explain why it is easy to come to the improper conclusions with regard to bumblebee aerodynamics.
The apocyphal story I have with regard to the legend is that an aerodynamicist worked up the aerodynamics of the bumblebee on a lark, and found, based on his assumptions (i.e. flat plate aerodynamics over the wing, a certain beat frequency and airspeed [indicating an oscillatory angle of attack on the wings], imposition of the Kutta condition, etc), that the power requirements were far beyond the capacity of bumblebee flight muscles to provide. Moreover, the wings were stalled through a large percent of their flap cycle, yielding horrendous L/D penalties. He confided his result to another during a reception to which the press had been invited; it was overheard by a member of the press, and the rest was media history. The aerodynamicist was reported to have realized an error in his [tacit] assumptions later during the event, but the damage had been done.
As I said, an apocryphal tale.
The key to understanding bumblebee (and dragonfly and butterfly and mosquito) aerodynamics is in understanding bumblebee airfoils. If you imagine a bee's wing, with its veins and undulations in cross section, the first question that comes to mind is, "why would anyone pick such a horrible airfoil and try to fly with it?" Of course, individual bumblebees have little choice in the matter, but mother nature *could* have chosen another design. Bees have been part of the biosphere since the late Cretaceous (they coevolved with the flowering plants). If another insect were to develop, which could fly and pollenate flowers with greater ease than the bee, it would have had a survival advantage and taken over (it should be noted that bees have several other survival advantages as well).
So why isn't there a bee-sized insect out there with a NACA 64-series airfoil?
The answer is scaling. At the sizes of bee wings, the bumpy-looking wing cross section is actually a very efficient airfoil. The key is to recognize that at bee dimensions, Reynolds numbers are low! Many of the fluid dynamic assumptions students use in the study of airfoils do not hold up (since few airliners are built to bee dimensions, the assumptions are still fine for most of us aerocritters). Once you have a higher Cl airfoil, the L/D goes up and power requirements go down.
And, voila! the bee flies!
This is what our hapless hero realized, too late to hold the presses (if you believe this version of the story).
Actually, at small scale, and low Reynolds numbers, a surprising variety of structures become quite good flying machines. Perhaps one of the oddest is gossamer. Certain species of spiders have taken to the air by spinning web and holding it aloft. Once picked up by the breeze, these spiders can travel great distances and achieve fairly respectable altitudes. Often, these spiders travel en masse, and meld their webs into a flying spider colony (a few cases of UFO sightings in the 50's were attributed to gossamer).
Airborne bacteria have developed even stranger schemes...
Brent Wellman
U.S. Army Aeroflightdynamics Directorate, Ames Research Center
Source http://www.ilr.tu-berlin.de/WKA/technik/bumblebee.html
1656. Wed Nov 19, 2003 4:14 pm
So we know the answer. Now, what's the question?
If you were a bumblebee, would you pack a parachute?
1942. Sun Nov 23, 2003 5:45 am
Good question, Jen! That's the style...
Q.Which eye did Nelson wear his eye-patch on?
A.Neither. Nelson never wore an eye-patch.
(Though he added a sunshade to the front of his Admiral's hat like a peak).
http://www.ely.org.uk/cromwell/pNelson.htm
(s: Official BBC page, excerpting Lucy Moore's 'Great Britons')
Incidentally, I read somewhere years ago that when Nelson lost both his arm and his eye he was on dry land.
The link below states that Nelson's right arm was indeed shot and made useless while he was getting out of a boat leading a shore-attack at the Battle of Santa Cruz, Tenerife at abou 2.00 am on the night of 25th July, 1797.
However, he staggered back into the boat and was taken to the Theseus off-shore where it was immediately amputated by the ship's surgeon.
http://www.aboutnelson.co.uk/santacruz.htm
Here's an interesting side-light on that;
A sword once carried by Nelson is to be auctioned by Sotheby's and is expected to fetch between £6,000 and £8,000.
Nelson lost his right arm in the failed attack on Santa Cruz, Tenerife, while carrying the sword.
Nelson's ancestor Captain Galfridus Walpole was wearing the sword when he lost HIS right arm fighting the French 86 years earlier.
http://www.ybw.com/auto/newsdesk/20031004122725ymnews.html
s:Yachting Monthly, 4 November 2003
The tourniquet* used in the boat to stem the flow of blood from Nelson's wound (the neck stock worn by his step-son Josiah Nisbet) is on display in the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich.
Other features of the exhibition include a reconstruction of the Battle of Trafalgar, created by Jim Henson's Creature Workshop (of Muppet fame), and the remains of Nelson's stump-muff 'made by Sicilian ladies from the beards of oysters'.
http://greenwichengland.com/tourism/nelson-exhibition.htm
*On loan from the Wellcome Instiitute
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This is cute.
by Billy Collins
Gone is Lord Nelson's arm
and gone is the head of Sir Walter Raleigh
which his wife used to carry around in a satchel.
Gone is my hair
and the whole of Amelia Earhart
in the wash of her silver propeller.
And now you are gone,
gone out the door with a suitcase
and over the hill in your car.
You and Homer's eyesight.
You and the children of Hamlin.
Gone like a coin through a grate
or Byron's journals.
Real gone like bebop.
The gone that leaves a zero in the here.
All gone, as we say to children,
holding up our empty hands.
Copyright © 1997 by Free Lunch Arts Alliance
JumpingJack wrote:
These A = neither answers reminds me of a quip by zennist Alan Watts.
Q. Is a zebra a white horse with black stripes or a black horse with white stripes?
A. Neither. It is an invisible horse colored black and white so nobody bumps into it.
Thanks for sorting that Garrick. You'll see some lengthy glosses on your original piece of brilliance from me and Jenny should you return to the Bible thread.
What we really need now is a top-notch classicist to confirm the theory.
I think I can outquip Alan Watts on zebras with this...
A zebra dies and finds himself in Heaven. He is mooching around disconsolately when he bumps into St.Peter. "Hello", says the saint, "What's the matter with you?"
"Oh, nothing", says the miserable equid.
"C'mon", says St Peter, "I can see something's up. You can tell me, surely?"
"Well, all right...", sighs the zebra, "It's just that when I was alive, I could never work out whether I was BLACK with WHITE stripes, or WHITE with BLACK stripes, and it really used to get me down. I always assumed that, having passed beyond the Vale, as it were, All Would Be Revealed In The Fullness Of Time, but I find I'm none the wiser".
St. Peter looks him over for a few moments from various angles, and then says:
"Hmm. Yes. That IS a knotty one. Rather beyond ME I'm afraid. But, look here, there's no need to get depressed about it. It's easily resolved. All you have to do is pop over and see God –he's omniscient, as you know, and he'll be able to give you the right answer in a jiffy".
The odd-toed ungulate brightens visibly. "Really?" says he.
"Absolutely", says St. Peter. "He's just over there look". He points to heaven's distant horizon, from beyond which comes a numinous luminescence and the faint arpeggios of cerulean music.
"Great. Thanks! " says the zebra, and trots happily away into the distance.
The next day, St.Peter again encounters our friend, who is now looking positively suicidal.
"Hello," says Peter. "What's up? Didn't you see God?"
"Oh yes", says the zebra. "I saw him all right".
"Then what on earth happened? Didn't you ask him?"
"Ohhhh" moans the gloomy beast, "Yes I asked him, 'Am I white with black stripes or black with white stripes?'...But all He said was 'YOU ARE WHAT YOU ARE!! ' ?"
"But that's it!! That's the ANSWER!" says St Peter, shouting with excitement. "That's the answer! Don't you SEE?!?
"What's the answer?" asks the confused animal.
"Well, you're WHITE with BLACK stripes of course!!! It's OBVIOUS!!!" says the Saint, dancing with joy, understanding and gratitude.
"Wot?"says the zebra. "How d'you work that one out?"
"Because if you were BLACK with WHITE stripes, God would've said: 'YO IS WHAT YO IS!"


Already at the age of 3 my Mother brought me to visit art exhibitions in museums and galleries; At home our library was full of volumes of art, which she most passionately showed and read to me. In addition to drawing enthusiastically, I have always breathed "air of art".
At the age of 12 we were in Castelfranco Veneto, where I had the opportunity to visit the studio of a good astrattist painter and I was fascinated by her creations, because full of color.


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Henry A. Giroux | Politics as Pathology in the Warfare State
November 2, 2016 ·	by Rise Up Times ·	in Activism, capitalist system, Globalization/Empire, Militarism, psychological warfare	· 2 Comments
War is no longer simply an instrument to be used by political powers, but a form of rule, a general condition of the social order itself– a permanent social relation and coordinating principle that affects all aspects of society.
Henry A. Giroux Tikkun September 23, 2016
The warfare state is built not only on the militarization of the economy but also on what my colleague Brad Evans calls "armed ignorance." Such ignorance represents more than a paucity of ethical and social responsibility, it is also symptomatic of an educational and spiritual crisis in the United States.
A culture of fear, hate and bigotry has transformed American politics into a pathology. Lawlessness extends from the highest reaches of government and big corporations to the para militarization of our schools and police forces. Unarmed Blacks are being killed by the police almost weekly while more and more members of the population are considered excess, disposable, and redundant and subject to the bigotry of escalating right-wing groups, neo-Nazis and a presidential candidate. With the world on the brink of war, ecological extinction, and an accelerating refugee crisis, and a growing culture saturated in violence, the public is persuaded that the burning issue of the day is the breakup of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie or the unexamined spectacle of hate that functions as a theatrical performance each day leading up to the coming elections.
Moral and political hysteria is in fashion and has undermined the public spheres that promote self-reflection, dialogue, and informed judgment. Informed exchanges and arguments that rely on evidence have been displaced by a culture of shouting, emotion, and thuggery. War comes in many forms and is as powerful as a form of ideology and identification as it is in the service of multiple forms of violence. Once we recognize this as both a crisis of politics and education, we can mobilize against both its ideological and material relations of power. But time is running out.
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America is now at war with itself given the savagery of a neoliberal political and economic system willing to destroy the planet, while relentlessly dismantling those institutions that make a democracy possible. Not only are public spheres that serve the common good under siege, such as public and higher education, but American society is now conducting warfare against its own ideals, the social contract, public servants such as teachers, minority youth, Muslims, immigrants, and all of those populations considered disposable. The war culture that saturates American society provides the breeding ground for a new mode of authoritarianism that threatens to engulf the whole of American society.
War is no longer simply an instrument to be used by political powers, but a form of rule, a general condition of the social order itself– a permanent social relation and coordinating principle that affects all aspects of society. One consequence is that the U.S. has moved from a welfare state in the last forty years to a warfare state with war becoming the organizing principle for a politics wedded to a war on terror, the expansion of the punishing state, and the militarizing of the wider culture—as for instance the celebration of the military at more and more sports events—all paid for by the Pentagon. Politics has become an extension of a comprehensive war machine and culture of cruelty that embraces the dark elements of authoritarianism while waging a war on democracy.
Evidence of such a militarized culture and culture of cruelty is widespread. Look no further than the war against women, especially around reproductive rights with the closing down of abortion clinics and the growing attempts by various right-wing controlled state governments to refuse federal Medicaid payments. There is also an ongoing war on youth, especially minority youth who are under siege in their schools, which are modeled increasingly after prisons and too often have more security forces and police in them than teachers. War is also being waged against poor minorities of class, color, and sexual orientation whose everyday behavior is being criminalized as they are subject the harsh reality of criminalization and the expansion of the incarceration state, with the latter being one of the largest in the world imprisoning over 2.3 million adults, most of whom are low-income African-Americans. There is also the widespread use of language in the service of violence, especially racist violence. The harsh and bigoted language used by Donald Trump against Muslims, Mexican immigrants, and refugees echoes the vocabulary of armed, right-wing militia groups, whose messages he proudly retweets.
Weapons from the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan are now given to police departments increasing the possibility of their use on poor minority communities whose neighborhoods are converted into what resembles battlefields. The police are now expected unjustifiably to solve every problem created by an unjust social order broken by a system marked by massive death-dealing inequities in wealth, income, and power that exclusively serve the financial elite. Hence, it should not be surprising that the war on poverty has become a war on the poor waged by corporate policies that deprive the economically disadvantaged, especially children, of public provisions such as food stamps, health care and decent jobs.
The rising culture of violence, repression, and surveillance in the United States points to the dangerous transformation of American politics into a war machine, reflected in many acts of state sanctioned violence that plague society and extend from the lead poisoning of millions of children and the militarization of public schools to the use of violence to address social problems. Everyone is now treated as a criminal or a threat to the social order, all the while the violence of poverty, rising inequality, foreclosed homes, unemployment, and other injustices breed conditions in which guns become the staple of choice in mediating everyday life. One sign of the violence that defines the age of precarity is evident in the 500 children, adults, and innocent bystanders shot in Chicago in the first nine months of 2016 and the relentless killing of unarmed black men by the police. At the same time, war culture shapes elements of daily life that are barely visible because they do not rise to the level of the spectacle. Evidence of the structured silence of such battlefields can be found in the debtors' prisons for children, the modeling of schools after prison culture, the burdensome debts killing the future of young people, the transformation of education into Wal-Mart training centers, the rise of the mass incarceration state, and the turning of cities of the underprivileged into war zones.
Any attempt to resist the emergence of a war culture and militarized social order in the United States might begin with recognizing that democracy withers when war, combat, and militarization embody a country's highest ideals, reinforced by a warrior ethic that celebrates unchecked competition, hyper-masculinity, and the notion that violence is the primary organizing principle of society. As Hannah Arendt has observed, war culture is part of a species of thoughtlessness that legitimates desires, values, and identities that makes people insensitive to the violence they see all around them. You can't have a democracy that organizes itself around war because it is the language of injustice, extreme violence, and the pedagogy of barbarism.
[Tikkun] Editor's note: Living as we do in the 15th year of the war that began with Afghanistan and Iraq and has now spread to Syria, Yemen, Libya, etc. it is sometimes possible for many of us to accept the militarization of our society as just normal. When I first read Henry Giroux's article sent to Tikkun this morning I thought, "wow, he is over the top this time." Then I realized that the problem was how much I myself have gotten used to the bizarre develpments that have happened in American politics.
In an article I sent out earlier this morning from Tom Engelhardt [TomDispatch] I read and shook my head at the ways that the Obama administration has moved from its original promise to seek a world without nukes to planning a trillion dollar modernization of our nuclear arsenal and just thought, "oh well, that's just another part of Obama's consistent abandonment of the ideals he promised, so why should I be shocked?" But actually, as Giroux helped me see, Obama's capitulation is not just to the pressures of the militariy-industrial complex that President Eisenhower warned us about in 1960 (and he had no hint of how huge that would become), but rather a part of a larger tendency in which the militarists have succeeded in bringing military consciousness to increasingly large segments of our population, manifested in what in my book The Left Hand of God I called "the Right hand of God"–that is, the penetration into mass consciousness of the idea that homeland security, and indeed our very survival as individuals, can only be achieved through a strategy of domination of others.
In my view, this process has been happening ever since class societies arose some ten thousand years ago, and reached its apex in Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Soviet Union. But the truth is, as one of our former Tikkun authors put it, this dynamic has not ever been defeated but only taken a new form, that of "friendly fascism" that slowly and gently reshapes many of our institutions and our basic assumptions in ways that make them champions of the "power over" idea rather than the "cooperation with" idea. No wonder, then, that our Network of Spiritual Progressives' championing of a Global Marshall Plan seems suddenlly "unrealistic" so that even Bernie Sanders did not mention it or even acknowledge the potential power of countering the strategy of domination and militarism with a strategy of generosity.
Giroux helps wake us up to the way this militarization of our assumptions, or what I'd call the triumph of domination thinking, is an important element in allowing the distortion of our politics, our educational system, our media, the increasing militarization of local police forces, the criminalization rather than celebration of whistle-blowers like Snowden who reveal the crimes of our government and "intelligence" (actually political police) forces, our sense of what kind of television should be winning more Emmys than any other ("Game of Thrones," with its violence and sexual deparavity and sexist assumptions is only the tip of the iceberg) to go unnoticed or not seen as part of a larger pattern. Giroux correctly identifies all this as a pathology–another way of waking us up to a social reality that leads us both to repentance and to finding appropriate strategies to counter (hence, the What Next After the Election conference we are sponsoring a few days after the presidential and congressional election–Nov. 12 and 13 in Berkeley, Ca.) We are turning that "Veterans Day holiday weekend" into a weekend to celebrate peace, the peace makers, and the activists in every field of social, ecnomic and environmental transformation (www.tikkun.org/30thcelebration).
–Rabbi Michael Lerner rabbilerner.tikkun@gmail.com
Henry Giroux is a frequent Tikkun author (see his article on education in the Fall 2016 issue of Tikkun which should arrive toward the end of October if you are a subscriber) and McMaster University Professor for Scholarship in the Public Interest and The Paulo Freire Distinguished Scholar in Critical Pedagogy.
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This home is built entirely in unplastered laterite masonry
Goa: Find your 'susegad' in this earthy, restored villa in Anjuna
Casa Caisua, carefully revived by architect Raya Shankhwalker, echoes the stories of the past, and blurs the boundaries between the outdoors and indoors
By Pallavi Pundir
Photography by Harshan Thomson
In Goa, finding the proverbial state of susegad (derived from the Portuguese term sossegado, meaning "quiet") isn't difficult, despite the state's reputation as a party central. Take for instance, Casa Caisua—an entity that is more than just a perfect retreat. The structure, standing tall amidst lush greenery and under the bright sun, is entrenched with multiple tales that have been revived to resonate in today's time. Located in Anjuna—a north Goan village that was once a hippies' retreat and centre for trance music in the sixties—Casa Caisua is not your typical Goan villa set within a 12,000-square-feet orchard. It's an architectural time capsule that flits back and forth, telling stories about its space and design.
The Structure
The structure was originally built by architect Raya Shankhwalker's maternal grandfather but was "never lived in". The villa, just a few minutes' drive or walk from the pristine Vagator beach, over time became a run-down property. But Shankhwalker—known for shaping his design process in sync with the social, cultural and environmental milieu—decided to bring it back to life. And in doing so, the villa has come to speak a language of understated elegance with its roots firmly held by the context of the location. "The existing house was carefully restored in places it was damaged and the intervention design was done in a manner that did not infringe on the original character of the building. All materials used are sympathetic to its heritage," says the architect. The house comprises a single, large, loft-style bedroom suite, with a main bedroom, a loft and a large bathroom that leads to an open-to-sky shower.
The villa was restored in a sensitive manner, keeping the charm of the original structure intact
This elaborate structure, says the architect, is built entirely in unplastered laterite masonry. "It was too small to be subdivided into multiple rooms, so I decided to use the whole space as a loft-style, single-bedroom suite with a large bathroom and an open-sky-shower, along with a sitting room," says Shankhwalker. "The front verandah and the rear pavilion were intended to be day living spaces." So to resonate with the timelessness of the design concept, the architect chose to retain the walls of the house, "except plastering of some inner walls to get a balance between stone wall surfaces and painted surfaces." But the essence of the villa stays in the elaborate use of wood (for the loft and stairs), along with stained cement for the floors and bathroom walls. "The material palette is very simple," says the architect. "It's just laterite, cement floors, timber and paint."
Comprising a king-size, four-poster bed, sofa, television and a mini bar, the main and the only bedroom at Casa Caisua is a classic urban habitat. In keeping with the exterior of the villa—which has bright, bold colours on doors and pillars—the bedroom is dotted with vibrant accessories in the form of cushions, wall art as well as drapes. Calm colours of blue are interspersed with blazing orange and reds, thereby adding drama in this minimalist setup.
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Photo courtesy: Harshan Thomson/ Raya Shankhwalker
The mezzanine space at Casa Caisua serves as a retreat within a retreat, perfect for reading, lounging or even sleeping. Against the plastered walls, this nook, while remaining conspicuous in its subtlety, gives a stunning view of the entire interior as well as outdoors—a remarkable display of how spaces can find hidden connections and dissolve boundaries, one staircase at a time.
The loft is the perfect space to spend some quiet time
Staying true to the organic forms of the structure, the bathroom merges the indoors with the outdoors. This part of the semi-open plan by Shankhwalker sees the bathing area extend to an open-air shower that has walls in cold-grey concrete, and cobbled flooring. Right above, the palm leaves extend across the clear blue skies, giving a visual depth to the whole architectural function of a simple bathroom.
Perhaps what rounds off Casa Caisua is the way the boundaries between the indoors and outdoors blur with each step. Its design landscape revels in a visual experience that is grand and tactile at the same time. The original verandah of the house, in fact, can be accessed from the bedroom as well as the bathroom. The rear pavilion then doubles up as the main living space, opening up to all three sides of the lush gardens it is surrounded with.
What fuels a space is the thought behind it. And that's what happened with Casa Caisua too. "Our design philosophy, when it comes to old buildings, is to maintain the primary character of the structure and the rest of the design intervention must have a contemporary design style but be in sync with the local cultural context," says Shankhwalker. "The colours we have used on the verandah columns draw reference to the colours used in the traditional tulsi vrindavan of Goan houses."
Even as globally, design and architecture struggle against the clamour of superficial ideas, Casa Caisua stands out with its authenticity, one where multiple worlds reside and find their peace. And right there lies your own little susegad, in this revived piece of Goa.
A limitless home in Mumbai that opens up views to the Maximum City
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3 sublime homes in Goa that will inspire you to visit the state right now
These well-designed, calm abodes connect the lush outdoors with the earthy interiors, seamlessly. What else would you need from a home, especially during this quarantine time?
4 Goa homes and homestays that are a picture of serenity
These properties designed by Raya Shankhwalker, Rochelle Santimano, Aaron David Clarke and Studio IAAD are quaint Portuguese havens
A sprawling villa facing the sylvan Sahyadri range
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By Rajashree Balaram
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The owners, a young couple, commissioned De Earth to build a second house beside their ancestral home
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The following article will give us a brief look into how cultural diversity in schools has become an important issue and is here to stay.
Walk into a classroom, an office or even a food joint one of these days and you'll see that there remains no instance of a single homogeneous group anymore. You will, however, find several different cultures and groups in that setting sharing space and yet standing out as a separate entity. With globalization into the picture and the world turning into one huge-small place, cultural diversity is a natural outcome. Cultural diversity means the existence of diverse cultures in one place. Is cultural diversity important? And if it is, why is it so? In the article that follows we shall be looking at this issue with focus on cultural diversity in relation with schools and understand what this phenomenon spells in totality.
Cultural diversity in schools is clearly witnessed when you take a random class into account and study it. You will find that it is quite impossible to find a homogeneous group that which only includes 'locals' from that area. Not only will there be people from different states sharing that space, but there will also be people who will be from different countries and thereby different cultures.
Diversity means that there is a difference in their ways―the way they have been brought up, which in this case is influenced by the culture and it's prerogatives. This then clearly means that there will be a difference in the way that students look at things, because something that is given importance in a particular culture might not be given any in the next. This is what influences the differences in the opinions, habits, lifestyles, goals and ideas (among other things). So is cultural diversity in a school scenario important? And if it is, then why is it important?
The importance of cultural diversity needs to be inculcated in schools because there are several advantages that it offers.
Diversity means difference. And facing differences, along with coping with them, teaches a person to be more accepting of others. That is why it is said that promoting cultural diversity by way of intercultural communication should be done in schools when the minds are young and can be molded. This becomes much more difficult when one has already formed rigid opinions. When students are faced with differences in their culture and habits when compared to others, and they are given proper tools to handle those differences, they learn to be more accepting of change and the difference.
With different cultures interacting on a daily basis, day in and day out, there is no scope to gather and form baseless biases, prejudices, and feelings of superiority. They realize that other cultures are just as diverse as their own and that the students are just like them. They rise above mundane issues like color, caste, and creed and thus become responsible world citizens.
They learn about different cultures, their habits and other things which are unique to that culture. This promotes education not only in the manner of books, but also in facing different cultural issues in the classroom and overcoming them. It thereby helps develop cultural sensitivity in them.
When students learn about different cultures, they not only learn about them, but it also helps them to compare it with their own culture and they learn to appreciate the good in their culture. Earlier when there was probably no urgent need to go back to their roots, now they want to find out more. Thus the love for their land increases.
Learning about so many cultures and the distinct features of each of those places, it only adds to their knowledge, and if they ever travel to different places, adjustment becomes minimal. In fact, it comes naturally to them 'cause they've grown studying and being with different cultures.
This article will have illustrated to you the importance of diversity and more so the importance of the same in schools. That is what diversity does and that is why it needs to be promoted further.


"Take That" out now on BuyGore!
Hailing from Manchester, England, Subfiltronik is continuing to produce huge content. He's been traveling a lot this summer playing shows in Montreal, as well as Belgium, but has somehow managed to continue cranking out heavy dubstep tunes.
His latest offering "Take That" is out now on Buygore Records. The intro of this tune warms the ears perfectly, with a simple, but familiar melodic line. When the drums come in, you can already tell the drop is going to be huge. The tension increases with a very effective buildup, and then the drop absolutely smacks the listener in the face. Don't take my word for it, check it out below, and download your own copy here.


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Does Dave Cullen Understand the Free Market?
Dave Cullen, of the YouTube channel Computing Forever, recently published a video titled "Start Your Own Planet!" In it, it appears that Dave is seeking to prove that the free market is insufficient to protect us from private monopolies that may one day leave us destitute and unable to obtain the necessities of life. However, like all those that speak out against private monopolies, Dave has neglected the fact that these monopolies only have the power they do because of government in the first place. Giving more power to government can only make the problem worse.
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Emily Ratajkowski Endorses Bernie Sanders?
On January 9th, 2020, Bernie Sanders campaign released a video of Sports Illustrated model Emily Ratajkowski endorsing Bernie for President. There's no telling that Emily Ratajkowski is drop dead gorgeous, but does that mean you should listen to her advice on Bernie?
Hashtags: #EmilyRatajkowski #emrata #FeelTheBern #Bernie2020 #BernieSanders #BernieBros #BernieIsAHypocrite
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A Feminist Mom's Feminist Fail
The Canadian Broadcasting Company (CBC) published an article on December 20th, 2019 titled "I worked hard to raise a feminist daughter, but her racy online selfies make me feel I failed." A dialogue between a feminist mom and her teenage daughter, the article illustrated perfectly how incoherent and contradictory feminist ideology is in practice.
Hashtags: #FeministFail #Feminism #CBCNews
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New Year's Eve 2020 Stream
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Private Marriage, Promises, and Guarantees
As I explained in the last video in this series, government can never be depended on to preserve the institution of marriage, and therefore private marriage is to be preferred. But what would it take to forge a successful private marriage agreement? What provisions should be included, how detailed need it be, and how does one avoid the snares that government has sought to use to undermine the family? Stay tuned to find out.
Hashtags: #Marriage #TraditionalMarriage #PrivateContract #Family
This is the fourth video in my series, Defending Traditional Marriage.
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Progressive Voice Debunked: Jesus Was Not a Socialist (Patron Mirror)
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Why Banning Porn is a Horrible Idea
Over the past few weeks a great debate has broken out regarding whether government should take action to ban pornography. The debate has primarily been between traditionally small government conservatives and libertarians. The conservatives are arguing that pornography is both a moral evil and an addictive, unhealthy life choice, leaving us no option but to use the power of government to ban it for the good of society. The libertarians are arguing that pornography, even if a moral evil and an unhealthy life choice, is a victimless crime and therefore none of the government's business. No matter who you are, you probably have strong feelings about this issue, but even if not, this debate has far reaching ramifications that the issue of porn doesn't even crack the surface of.
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December Patrons Hangout
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Medicine is Scarce Deal With It!
In a recent Congressional hearing, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez #AOC ripped into #BigPharma about how "people's lives are not commodities." The clip of her statements has now been widely shared and held up as a courageous attack against the evils of Big Pharma and the reality that lifesaving healthcare is not the same as any other good or service. However, all the yelling and passion in the world won't change he fact that healthcare services are derived from scarce resources and therefore are governed by the laws of supply and demand.
Hashtags: #MedicareForAll #Economics #Scarcity
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Female Supremacy Can't Wait! (Equality Can't Wait Debunked)
Under the leadership of Melinda Gates, the organization Equality Can't Wait has asserted that it will be 208 years before women achieve true equality in the United States. Vox Creative has created a series of videos arguing as such. In this video, I debunk the ridiculous assertions made in their video, "Why is gender equality 208 years away in the U.S.?"
Hashtags: #EqualityCantWait #Feminism #GenderGap
My 2 Cents Channel Trailer 2020
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Mark Levin Fan Debunks Mark Levin on Drugs and Libertarianism (Patron Mirror)
In this video, The Dark Conservatarian responds to Mark Levin on the issue of drug usage from a Libertarian perspective. Be sure to check out the uncensored video and subscribe to The Dark Conservatarian here:
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November Patrons Hangout #2
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Are Gun Manufacturers Responsible for Mass Shootings?
On November 12th, 2019, the US Supreme Court rejected an appeal from the Remington Arms Company which argued that the company could not be sued for the criminal misuse of its firearms under federal law. Now, family members of those who died in the 2012 Sandy Hook Massacre will be able to proceed with their lawsuit against Remington, in which they argue that the gun manufacturer is responsible for the mass shooter's actions. They justify this claim on that basis that the company negligently marketed a dangerous weapon to the general public. But where exactly does this line of reasoning lead to?
Hashtags: #MassShooting #GunControl #2A
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YouTube's New TOS Spells "The End" for YouTube
YouTube recently announced that their new Terms of Service (TOS) will be going into effect on December 10th, 2019. Part of these new TOS includes the provision that, "YouTube may terminate your access, or your Google account's access to all or part of the Service if YouTube believes, in its sole discretion, that provision of the Service to you is no longer commercially viable."
Since we all know that this is YouTube finally being open about the fact that they can and will terminate your channel for espousing ideas that they disagree with, I've decided it is time to shift my focus to other platforms. I will continue to post content on YouTube, but the primary focus for my content will now be on BitTubers and BitChute.
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YouTube has posted its new TOS here:
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Classic Pokemon Hangout: Silver Version Episode 7
For this stream, I'll be playing some classic Pokemon Silver Version while hanging out with you all. Last time we left off, I'd defeated the Kimono Girls, defeated Gym Leader Morty, defeated our rival ???, and evolved Spearow into Fearow. What will happen this time?
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Katie Hill's Feminist Fail
On October 27th, 2019, freshman Democratic representative #KatieHill announced she would be stepping down from her position in Congress amid allegations of a sexual affair with her male legislative director and the publication of nude photographs and other materials substantiating separate allegations of a sexual affair with one of her female Congressional staffers. In the age of #MeToo, we've constantly been lectured about how utterly unacceptable it is for employers to have sexual relationships with their subordinates, as the imbalance of power makes it impossible for the subordinates to consent. However, Katie Hill, and a slew of media outlets, are now attempting to make her the victim, the only crime here being the crime of revenge porn. But what is the lesson that we should be learning from Katie Hill, and is she really the victim here?
Hashtags: #Feminism #KatieHillResign
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Hoppe's Libertarianism (a Discussion with Hoploo)
Recently, I had Esoteric the Free join me in a livestream to discuss the topic of left market anarchism and his views on the best strategy for spreading libertarianism. Today I'm joined by Hoploo who takes an alternative view, specifically the view espoused by Hans Hermann Hoppe. Hoppe is the author of the book "Democracy: The God that Failed."
The Case for Private Police
Discussions about the ethics of #LawEnforcement become very heated very fast. On one side there are loud condemnations #PoliceBrutality against innocent civilians by unaccountable #Police officers. On the other are patriotic praises of the safety and goodwill produced morally upright police officers working in their communities. But is this argument about police services itself, or does the problem lie with the incentive structures given to public police by government, and could private police be far more effective?
Hashtags: #Capitalism #FreeMarkets #FreeMarketsFreePeople
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For this stream, I'll be playing some classic Pokemon Silver Version while hanging out with you all. Last time we left off, I'd defeated Gym Leader Bugsy and made my way to Goldenrod City. What will happen this time?
AOC's Not So Just Society
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has made a video for NowThis News laying out her so called #JustSociety. As per the usual, the five bills and one resolution that #AOC has endorsed are a compilation of economic illiteracy and identity politics that will bankrupt the nation and lead to untold poverty.
Hashtags: #NowThis #Economics #Government #Socialism #Capitalism
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Debunking Allyson Rowe's Bad Marriage Advice
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Natalie Portman's Feminist Fail
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is a Complete IDIOT
SI Swimsuit 2019 Review: Sexy! + Social Justice?
Beauty AND Brains: The Best of Blonde in the Belly of the Beast
Does Roaming Millennial Understand Libertarianism? (An Invitation to Debate)
Beauty AND Brains: The Best of Liberty Doll
Alt Right, Alt Lite, & My Own Political Views
Dana Nessel: Vote for Me! I Have a Vagina!
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La Torre d'en Serra és una obra de Santa Oliva (Baix Penedès) protegida com a Bé Cultural d'Interès Local.

Descripció
Edificació situada en una parcel·la que dona al Camí del Tomoví, terrenys molt propers al municipi d'El Vendrell. Es tracta d'una construcció de planta circular construïda amb fàbrica de maçoneria amb paraments exteriors arrebossats. L'edificació està escapçada i no presenta coberta.

Història
El darrer ús conegut d'aquest edifici fou el de molí fariner de vent, en actiu fins als anys 30 del .

Referències

Patrimoni monumental de Santa Oliva
Edificis de Santa Oliva

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17,000 Culture Club fans can't be wrong. Kris Jenner took the stage just before the '80s new wave group to introduce the band and provide some anecdotes about Boy George. She was booed for a minute straight.
At one point a voice comes on the mic to say, "Hey! Hey people!" as if to try and silence the crowd. Props to Jenner, she continued through the booed-filled intro without missing a beat.


Winston Churchill once said It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than what you see. Leaders and achievers tend to have a very long and focused vision, so that they can easily analyze and foresee the future based on the past and present happenings.
As management students, we are going to take up various kinds of leadership roles in the near future. Therefore it becomes imperative for us to understand how to look beyond the conventional aspects of the world to have that edge.
Keeping this theory in view, Ahvan12 follows a tradition of inviting some distinguished and eminent personalities as guest speakers, under its event ENVISION. The speakers who are stalwarts in their own field, share their experiences and knowledge with the vast student community. This gives everyone a unique opportunity to listen to them and learn not only various aspects of different and varied fields but also understand what takes in the making of a leader.
This year IIM Indore will be hosting a diverse group of speakers which includes Mr. Kris Ramachandran; currently the advisor to the Aditya Birla Group, Mr. Sayed Nasir Ali; Joint MD of Air India, Mr Kris Ashol; Head of web 2.0 innovation lab at TCS, Mr Madan Mohan Rao; Research director at Yourstory.in and Maya Sharma; Chief correspondent at NDTV.
India is moving ahead at a very pace, and requires more and more of the young people to come forward and not only occupy different roles and responsibilities but also fulfill them successfully. Nothing teaches one more than his or her own experience, and students have a lot to gain from the experiences of these eminent personalities. Therefore it is time we set our acts right and join in hands with these people to have the clear vision of tomorrow and work towards nation building. To build a nation to be cherished by us, and our future generations alike, the need of the hour is to ENVISION.


But the saaree looks great on her. Yes, the hair deserved better.
I might be in the minority here but I liked the hairdo. It gave it a more relaxed vibe and made it her own. More often than not, the updo's paired with Sabya's looks are very severe.
What is so great about this saree? You will find pieces like this in Karolbagh market for less than 5 K.
Such a pretty saree wasted by such a sloppy styling.
This is an ugly net sari, looks cheap like almost all net saris, not to mention the blingy tank top blouse, kudos to Kalki for making it her own in her quirky way.
hi anandi, so im guessing you know a lot about creativity so would love to know where do you stand in life to be commenting on someone of that stature. And anyway, i dont think anyone would want you to start on your expertise.


Education has traditionally focused on two things of reading, writing. However, as increasing technological innovation drives changes in the world, educators must re-evaluate whether the skills they teach truly provide their students with the best opportunities to succeed in school, the workforce, and in life overall.
Students with ability to adapt to change and a positive attitude about the change, make them go a long way towards growing a successful career. Employers needs employees who can adapt to industry shifts and keep the company running.
Get your "free" time under your control now will help prepare you prepare time management for future weeks .whenyou need to study and want to socialize more than ever.
Future employers in the organisation will need to quickly adapt to a culture of collaboration. They will need to collaborate with others parties within and outside the organisation for future growth, often using a number of new technologies. Collaborative skills are the specific types of skills students expected to behave to achieve norms and decorum in every filed.
Communication skills are very effective need in every field. We have fill the Gap between writing and thinking. They can't analyze, they can't reason. Their writing is fuzzy because their thinking is fuzzy. And that is only half the problem. The other part of the problemwith studentsis they don't know how to write with voice." Our students are not able to write persuasively, or clearly articulate a point of view which is extremely important in professional settings.
Students should have ability to ask great questions, however, is a critical skill need desperately in today culture which requires constant innovations. If the thought of asking questions makes you break, try practicing in non-work related contexts.


I got this while shooting Goblins with lightning, which doesn't quite fit the description.
This is easiest as a mage. The Fire arrow and Fireball spells do a large amount of initial damage, and sometimes set your opponents on fire. If the enemy dies from the ongoing 'Burning' effect, it counts for this. If they die from the initial damage, it's a magic kill. So hit enemies with fire spells, and don't hit them if they're alight.
I just got it with my assassin at chapter 4, after kicking every enemy possible through fire (the bonfires work very well), or spikes or to a void.
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Home / Aerospace / Airport owner seeks to close the pilot gap
Airport owner seeks to close the pilot gap
By: Molly M. Fleming The Journal Record	December 3, 2018	1 Comment
Starr Selman, a membership assistant at the Ninety-Nines Museum of Women Pilots, looks over the Amelia Earhart exhibit inside the museum at 4300 Amelia Earhart Rd. in Oklahoma City. (Photos by Mark Hancock)
OKLAHOMA CITY – Sundance Airport owner Jerry Hunter is concerned about the decline in number of pilots, with people retiring and seeming less interested in the industry.
Hunter bought the airport in 2013 and is doing what he can to get more people into the industry, such as offering flight school at a lower rate than other schools.
The airport regularly hosts pancake-breakfast fundraisers for the Experimental Aircraft Association, which hosts the Young Eagles flights. The flights allow young people to get rides with a pilot in small aircraft. Youth who participate in the program are 5.4 times more likely to become pilots than those who don't participate, according to statistics calculated by the EAA.
"When someone learns that they can fly, they learn they can do anything," Hunter said. "There's nothing they can't do. That changes lives and it's empowering. No one should be told they can't learn, whether they're male or female."
Besides the EAA, Sundance Airport, 13000 N. Sara Rd., also regularly supports the Ninety-Nines Museum, which is at Ninety-Nines Inc., the International Organization of Women Pilots. Sundance hosts the Okie Derby annually. The Okie Derby raises money for flight-school scholarships.
On Saturday, Sundance will host a pancake-breakfast fundraiser for the Ninety-Nines Museum. The all-you-can-eat breakfast costs $5 and lasts from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. People are encouraged to drive or fly in for the event.
Hunter said he likes supporting the Ninety-Nines because the organization is encouraging women to fill the pilot gap.
"They're actively encouraging females to step forward and step up," he said. "For a female interested in getting into aviation, it's probably simpler than a male because there's so much scholarship opportunity for them."
Oklahoma Nine-Nines Chapter member Gail Foote said the event also helps remind people of the museum's existence. It's close to the Will Rogers World Airport, and there's no mention of the museum near the airport.
Artifacts from aviator Jacqueline Cochran are displayed at the museum.
"We want to get the museum out in front of people," she said. "We'd really like to get people out there to see it."
The museum contains artifacts from Amelia Earhart, as well as other women pilots from the early 20th century. Visitors can learn the challenges that women pilots faced when trying to fly, such as male flight-crew members who would mess with their equipment. There's also a modern section of the museum that shows pilots in commercial airlines.
"Many people know Amelia Earhart was a pilot, but they don't know of the many accomplishments of other women in aviation," Foote said in a prepared statement. "Women such as Jackie Cochran, Jerrie Cobb, or Louise Thaden all broke records and all proved that women are capable, excellent pilots. If we can inspire women, young or old, to experience the joys of aviation, to pursue and follow dreams of flying, we may have inspired the next record breaker."
Gail Foote Jerry Hunter Ninety-Nines Museum Sundance Airport 6:00 pm Mon, December 3, 2018 The Journal Record
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"For a female interested in getting into aviation, it's probably simpler than a male because there's so much scholarship opportunity for them." As if money is the only thing keeping women away from the industry….
Former reporter Molly Fleming covered real estate, retail and other topics for The Journal Record.


IAB Australia has announced the appointment of Kamani Krishnan as director of regulatory affairs.
With ten years' experience in government relations, legal advice and policy expertise, Krishnan will take the lead on policy and regulatory issues facing the digital advertising industry.
Krishnan most recently held the position of in-house legal advice in the NSW Elections Legal team as well as being the senior policy adviser at the NSW Property Council of Australia. She has also worked with the ACCC to establish the mandatory Code of Conduct.


ImpactAlpha, April 11 – Investors' portfolios may get a jolt from a sudden "repricing event" that recalibrates the risks of climate change, according to a new report from Mercer.
In a sequel to its "Investing in a Time of Climate Change" report, the global consultancy suggests the market isn't fully pricing the "physical risks" of climate, from floods, hurricanes, rising seas, crop failures and more. That, in turn, has caused mispricing of climate-related "transition risks," such as new regulatory and other mandates that strand or devalue assets like coal and pipelines.
Such transition risks may have gone down in recent years as prospects for meaningful global climate mobilization have faded. The longer policymakers and companies delay, however, the more rapid the low-carbon transition will need to be.
Long-term impacts that seem small on an annual basis can get priced in by the markets quickly on a net-present value basis. "In reality, sudden changes in return impacts are more likely than neat, annual averages," Mercer advises.
Mispriced risks. BlackRock, the world's largest asset manager, drilled into municipal bonds, commercial real estate and U.S. utility stocks in a deep-dive study of physical climate risks.The report, "Getting Physical," suggests vulnerable cities could see their economies sag, raising risks for municipal bonds. Securities backed by commercial real estate face losses as properties are hard hit by floods and storms. Shares of the most climate-resilient utilities already trade at a premium to climate-vulnerable utilities. Such vulnerabilities were exposed in January when PG&E filed for bankruptcy after devastating California wildfires. Investors still are discounting risks already lurking in their portfolios, BlackRock suggests.


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Giannis Antetokounmpo Just Signed The Largest Contract In NBA History
By Joey Held on December 15, 2020 in Articles › Sports News
Giannis Antetokounmpo's current contract doesn't expire until after next season, but teams have been preparing to sign him for most of the year. After all, there were whispers that he was unhappy in Milwaukee and would seek a deal elsewhere. And it's not every day a superstar that could change the fortunes of your franchise becomes available.
Only one slight problem: none of those whispers were true. Antetokounmpo is, in fact, happy in Milwaukee, and he signed a new massive extension to stay with the Bucks.
The contract, worth $228 over five years, is the largest in NBA history. In the final season of his new deal, Antetokounmpo will earn nearly $52 million, which will be one of the largest single-year salaries a player has ever made.
Perhaps the wildest part of all is that Antetokounmpo will only be 31 years old when this contract is up. If he's still playing at a high level, he may very well command a similarly huge salary in 2026. That means he could potentially earn more than half a billion dollars during his career from salary alone.
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Here's how much Antetokounmpo will make each season for the next six years:
2020-21: $27.5 million (the last year of his current contract)
2021-22: $39.3 million (the first year of his new contract)
2022-23: $42.5 million
Other teams in the league may be upset that their pursuit of Antetokounmpo is over, but this is a win for the NBA. We've seen many stars willing to abandon their teams for greener pastures. Look no further than the Houston Rockets this offseason. Both Russell Westbrook and James Harden have expressed their desire to be traded, believing the team's championship window has closed. Westbrook got his wish; Harden is still waiting.
For a while, it seemed like Antetokounmpo might do the same thing and request out of Milwaukee. But he opted to remain loyal. It also probably didn't hurt that the Bucks could offer $83 million more than any other team could.
Antetokounmpo has won the last two league MVPs, and the Bucks have finished first in the Eastern Conference both years. However, they haven't reached the NBA Finals yet, which only fueled the rumors that Antetokounmpo might leave.
But the Bucks have worked hard to upgrade their roster and convince their star to stay. They traded for Jrue Holiday, a veteran guard and leader who will bolster their already league-best defense. They also tried to trade for sharpshooter Bogdan Bogdanovic in a deal that ultimately fell apart.
The moves were enough to show Antetokounmpo the Bucks are serious about winning. And with the MVP in tow for the next six years, they'll have a great chance to finally bring home a title.
It's a great story for Antetokounmpo, too. He grew up poor in Greece, selling goods on street corners, and was playing in his home country's second league when he was drafted. Now, he's an NBA superstar with the league's largest contract ever. That's worth celebrating.
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This is nothing to do with health and safety, but about choosing routes with low risk of missing the controls. A lot of running effort can be quickly undone by not finding a control and having to "relocate", and losing track of where you are can be a disaster.
A safe route is one where you are certain you can accurately navigate the route, and eliminate the risk of missing the control and getting lost.
For example here is an extract from the Blue course at a QOFL at Ham Hill a few years ago, on which I have marked two sensible routes from 10 to 11: The shortest, most direct route is the more northerly option - follow the bottom path to the path junction and about 50m further then climb up to the control.
But the control site is a rootstock, which may not be very easy to spot, and it is hard to follow a bearing diagonally 13 up a slope.
So there is a risk of missing the control, and any time gained taking the direct route could be much less than the time spent searching. The safer route is follow the path uphill, turn left for 100m along the top, use the thicket as an attack point and drop back down onto the control. Simpler, but longer.
If you feel confident navigating the direct route then take it - you should get an advantage. But if you are going to rely on good luck to find the control, then maybe the safe route is more appropriate.
Choosing a safe route is all about making choices within the limits of your skills.


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Q: Android training for FragmentBasics won't import into AS 1.5.1 In trying to get the hang of Fragment, I imported into Android Studio 1.5.1 the unzipped folder FragmentBasics after extracting the downloaded file FragmentBasics.zip to that Folder.
Now I have Gradle problems and I have no clue what to do to be able to run the app. I don't know that the .zip file is from Eclipse as the message suggests.
I did move the folder FragmentBasics to C:\Users\Dov because of the space in "Google Drive" but got same error.

Gradle project sync failed . Basic functionality (e.g., editing, debugging) will not work properly.
Failed to sync gradle project 'FragmentBasics'
Error:Cause: failed to find target with hash string 'android-15' in: C:\Users\Dov\AppData\Local\Android\sdk
Open Android SDK Manager
ECLIPSE ANDROID PROJECT IMPORT SUMMARY
Risky Project Location:
The tools should handle project locations in any directory. However,
due to bugs, placing projects in directories containing spaces in the
path, or characters like ", ' and &, have had issues. We're working to
eliminate these bugs, but to save yourself headaches you may want to
move your project to a location where this is not a problem.
C:\Users\Dov\Google Drive\AndroidStudioProjects\FragmentBasics
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Replaced Jars with Dependencies:
The importer recognized the following .jar files as third party
libraries and replaced them with Gradle dependencies instead. This has
the advantage that more explicit version information is known, and the
libraries can be updated automatically. However, it is possible that
the .jar file in your project was of an older version than the
dependency we picked, which could render the project not compileable.
You can disable the jar replacement in the import wizard and try again:
android-support-v4.jar => com.android.support:support-v4:18.0.0
Moved Files:
Android Gradle projects use a different directory structure than ADT
Eclipse projects. Here's how the projects were restructured:

*

*AndroidManifest.xml => app\src\main\AndroidManifest.xml

*res\ => app\src\main\res\

*src\ => app\src\main\java\

Next Steps:
You can now build the project. The Gradle project needs network
connectivity to download dependencies.
Bugs:
If for some reason your project does not build, and you determine that
it is due to a bug or limitation of the Eclipse to Gradle importer,
please file a bug at http://b.android.com with category
Component-Tools.
(This import summary is for your information only, and can be deleted
after import once you are satisfied with the results.)

A: I installed sdk 15 but then had problems with Gradle griping about
gradle-wrapper.properties file having a line with
gradle-2.8-all.zip that needed to be changed to
gradle-2.1-all.zip, so I edited gradle-wrapper.properties file to contain 2.1 instead of 2.8.
Message said after making change, re-import project. And it works.

A: Before importing I only removed following line from AndroidManifest.xml
<uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion="4" android:targetSdkVersion="15" />

Worked with FragmentsBasics.zip in Android Studio 2.3.3

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