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Rustin Spencer "Rust" Cohle is a fictional character portrayed by Matthew McConaughey in the first season of the HBO's anthology television series True Detective. He works as a homicide detective for the Louisiana State Police (LSP) alongside his partner Martin "Marty" Hart, portrayed by Woody Harrelson. The season follows Cohle and Hart's hunt for a serial killer in Louisiana across 17 years.

The character of Rust Cohle and Matthew McConaughey's performance have gained critical acclaim. McConaughey received a Critics' Choice Television Award and nominations for a Golden Globe Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award for his performance.

Character overview
Cohle is introduced as a gifted, but deeply troubled, detective from Texas who is transferred from working on regional drug task force to LSP near the end of 1994. After three months, in January 1995, he and Hart are tasked with investigating a series of brutal, bizarre murders. A haunted, solitary cynic, Cohle believes that life is meaningless and that human beings are merely "sentient meat". Cohle spends his free time obsessing over every detail of the crime, hoarding evidence and keeping extensive notes in a ledger, which earns him the derisive nickname "The Taxman" among his colleagues.

The series gradually reveals Cohle's backstory. He was born in South Texas but raised in Alaska by his survivalist Vietnam veteran father after his parents divorced. He joined the Houston Police Department as a young man and became a detective in a robbery unit. Years before the main story arc, his two-year-old daughter, Sophia, was killed in a car accident - a tragedy that destroyed his marriage. Devastated by the loss, Cohle grew evermore unstable in his work, eventually killing a crystal meth addict who had injected his own child with the drug. His superiors offered him a chance to avoid prison by working as an undercover narcotics detective in a High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA), which he did for four years; Cohle notes that this was twice as long as most undercover detectives are kept in rotation. During this assignment, Cohle became addicted to drugs, and eventually killed three drug cartel members in a shootout at the Port of Houston, while being shot multiple times himself.

During his recovery, he was committed to a psychiatric hospital in Lubbock. Upon his release, he was offered retirement with full pension, but he declined that offer in favor of transferring to a homicide unit. His superiors then transferred him to Louisiana, where he lives only for his work. Cohle also has synesthesia and suffers from flashbacks from his drug-using years undercover.

The series takes place in two time periods: 1995–2002, in which Cohle and Hart work together to find the killer; and 2012, when Cohle, who has by now quit the police force and become an alcoholic, submits to an interview with LSP detectives Maynard Gilbough (Michael Potts) and Thomas Papania (Tory Kittles) regarding the murders. Cohle sees through the detectives, and realizes that they think he is the killer. He uses the interview to find out what information the detectives have on him and the case.

Character arc
In 1995, Detectives Cohle and Hart are assigned to investigate a murder in which the killer raped and tortured the victim, Dora Lange, and attached a pair of deer antlers to her head after killing her. They find Lange's diary, which contains repeated references to "Carcosa" and a "Yellow King". In the wreckage of a burnt-out church Lange attended, they find a wall painting depicting a human figure wearing antlers.

Cohle and Hart work the case for three months, during which they trace the murder to Reggie Ledoux (Charles Halford), a former Angola prison cellmate of Lange's ex-husband, Charlie Lange (Brad Carter). To find more information and using his past connections from when he was undercover, Cohle infiltrates an outlaw motorcycle club in Galveston called the Iron Crusaders with ties to Ledoux, posing as a drug dealer representing a cartel from Mexico. Known to the biker gang as "Crash", he reluctantly agrees to assist them in a home invasion so he can kidnap the ringleader, Ginger (Joseph Sikora), and force him to lead them to Ledoux, who cooks crystal meth for the biker gang. Accompanied by Cohle, the bikers poorly disguise themselves as police, and attempt to rob a drug house in an African American housing project, which results in a shootout leaving several people dead. Cohle escapes with Ginger, who takes him to meet Ledoux's cousin and "cook partner", Dewall (Ólafur Darri Ólafsson). The meeting does not go well, but Hart follows Dewall to Ledoux's meth lab and calls Cohle to tell him where it is. There, Hart and Cohle discover that Ledoux has kidnapped and tortured two children, and Hart kills Ledoux in a fit of rage. Dewall is killed after he runs off and blows up on one of his own homemade land mines. Cohle stages evidence to support Hart's story that Ledoux opened fire on them, forcing Hart to kill him in self-defense. The two are hailed as heroes, and receive commendations and promotions.

In 2002, Cohle interrogates a suspect who reveals that Ledoux and Dewall did not act alone. He tells Cohle that he will give them information about the "Yellow King" in return for a plea deal. Cohle wants to investigate this lead further, but the suspect suspiciously commits suicide in his cell that night after receiving a phone call. Cohle becomes obsessed with reopening the case, and pursues several leads, including a private Christian school run by Reverend Billy Lee Tuttle (Jay O. Sanders) that had been closed amid rumors of child molestation. Tuttle complains to Cohle's superiors, who suspend Cohle without pay and order him to leave the case closed. That night, Hart's wife Maggie (Michelle Monaghan) shows up at Cohle's apartment and seduces him as revenge for Hart's infidelity. Hart finds out and gets into a fistfight with Cohle in front of the entire department. Cohle quits the force the same day, and becomes a drifter and an alcoholic. He initially returns to Alaska and supports himself as a fisherman. Upon his return to Louisiana, he works as a part-time bartender.

In 2012, murders similar to those from 1995 begin again and Cohle is seen in the vicinity of the body, arousing the suspicion of LSP detectives Gilbough and Papania. They believe that Cohle may have been the killer in 1995, because he led Hart to every break in the case and seemed to know everything about the killer's frame of mind. Gilbough and Papania now believe that Cohle is committing the new murders as well. They interview Cohle and Hart, who both refuse to cooperate once the purpose of the interview becomes clear.

Cohle meets with Hart, who has also quit the police department and runs his own private investigation firm, and tells him that he has found evidence leading to the killer. Hart is skeptical, and still resentful of Cohle for having sex with Maggie, but Cohle convinces him to help with the investigation by showing him a videotape he stole from Tuttle's home. The video is over 20 years old, and shows numerous masked men abusing and killing Marie Fontenot, a missing child whose name had come up in their investigation 17 years earlier. Cohle and Hart track down the original case's chief investigating officer, Sheriff Steve Geraci (Michael Harney), and interrogate him at gunpoint. Geraci tells them that his superior, the late Sheriff Ted Childress, ordered him to halt the investigation; Childress was one of Tuttle's relatives. They soon discover that the Tuttle and Childress families — to whom both Reggie and Dewall Ledoux belong — are related, and have long histories of child abuse and murder. They ultimately discover that the killer is a Childress, and go to the late sheriff's home to investigate.

Cohle and Hart travel to the Childress house, where they find that the sheriff's son, Errol (Glenn Fleshler), is the killer, and discover the remains of his father tied up in a shed. They also encounter Betty Childress (Ann Dowd), his mentally disabled half-sister, with whom he is having an incestuous relationship. Cohle pursues Childress into the catacombs behind the house, which Childress identifies as "Carcosa". Cohle discovers an idol draped in yellow and covered in skulls — the "Yellow King" — and has a hallucination of a spiraling vortex, the same vortex that had been drawn on many of the victims over the past 17 years. Childress stabs Cohle in the abdomen and also attacks Hart, but Cohle saves his partner by shooting Childress in the head, killing him. Gilbough and Papania, whom Hart had called, arrive at the scene. With the evidence Hart and Cohle collected, they connect Childress to dozens of murders, including Dora Lange's.

Cohle falls into a coma, during which he feels the loving presence of his father and daughter. He later wakes up in hospital and leaves with Hart, and looks up at the night sky, telling his partner, "Once there was only dark. If you ask me, the light's winning."

Cohle also makes a brief appearance in season 3. He is indirectly mentioned when a news article from 2012 about him and Hart is seen on a computer screen showcasing their involvement in uncovering the murders committed by Errol Childress.

Awards and nominations
McConaughey received critical acclaim for his portrayal of Cohle, and has won and been nominated for several awards, including:

TCA Award for Individual Achievement in Drama (Won)
Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Actor in a Drama Series (Won)
Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film (Nominated)
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series (Nominated)
Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series (Nominated)

See also
"An Inhabitant of Carcosa", an 1886 short story by Ambrose Bierce
Carcosa, a fictional city invented by Ambrose Bierce
The King in Yellow, an 1895 book of short stories by Robert W. Chambers
Yellow Sign, a fictional glyph described in The King in Yellow
The Conspiracy Against the Human Race, an American non-fiction book

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Yesterday, in support of a blog post by Laura Mathews at Punk Rock Gardens, I tweeted this response: inflexible ideology is always bad. Although Laura's post was focused on the infighting between different factions of the gardening world, it brought to the surface something that has been simmering in the back of my brain for a while.
I am repeatedly struck by feelings of guilt and shame when I disagree with the consensus of groups with whom I am generally proud to identify. As humans, we have this need for group identification. I'm a progressive. I'm a conservative. I'm a Catholic. I'm an atheist. We define ourselves by our group memberships, and often — when confronted by a decision — look to the principles (dogma?) of these groups for guidance. When a referendum comes up for a vote, we ask ourselves how we should vote as progressives or conservatives, rather than making our decision based on the merits of issue at hand.
There are few things that gain more scorn from this group identification mentality than being a fence-sitter or a relativist. The worst thing one can say is it depends. For ideologues, there is a checklist — sometimes stated, often implied — that guides our decisions. The world is black and white. As a member of this group, you will believe this and act this way.
But there is an inherent danger in living solely on one side of the ideological fence. There's no flexibility, no room for change and adaptation. Our lives are too nuanced for black and white. There is a spectral decision continuum of not only grey, but infinite colors, from which we can choose. Why would we limit ourselves from the outset to just black and white?
I'm not questioning the need for personal principles. These are those things that provide the magnetism for our personal compass. What I'm increasingly wary of is letting the groups I identify with define my decision-making by default.
I'm ready to climb to the top of the fence and enjoy the view.
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Europe Is Preparing to Become a World Leader in Digital Media
Charles Stéphane Roy
Showcasing regional content, focusing on the user experience and fostering innovation: those are the main topics that Europe's media industry debated during the Pictured Futures conference, held on the eve of the coming into force of the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
Pictured Futures provided a venue to put into perspective all of the strengths that make Europe one of the world's main media production centres as well as to take stock of the creative, technological and legislative challenges in terms of 'coopetition' that the industry's actors are facing and the multitude of issues—transnational, private-public, regulatory, financial—that digital shall crystallize even more in the coming years.
Showing the web giants a united front
The value of Europe's data market could reach CDN$167 billion (i.e., 106 billion EUR) by 2020. "It is vital that we engage as early as today in the discussion on the societal impact of massive data and how they could benefit the cultural industry," noted at the outset Indrek Saar, Estonia's Minister of Culture.
Must digital platforms be forced by regulation to give more visibility to European content or should we instead focus on developing 'superplatforms' for consumers on the Old Continent? Multi-jurisdictional funding no longer needs to prove its worth, but what can be said about content accessibility within the European Union (EU) as a whole?
Questions such as these reflect the dilemmas faced by European decision makers, producers and broadcasters at a time when the web giants are continuing to spread their tentacles across all linguistic markets, thereby taking advantage of the tensions between the private and public sectors as well as the blind spots in local regulations to increase their influence.
And that is attributable to a handful of fundamental characteristics: ability to attract the best talent, cultural and multilingual fluidity, levelling of formats, democratic pricing, intuitive interfaces, decentralized network computing, increased connection stability, and ongoing optimization.
Rethinking interfaces and user experiences to attract audiences
Many stakeholders insisted on the fact that creating original content was no longer enough. Demonstrating creativity is now an obligation that extends to both formats and platforms.
Amber Price, Senior Manager, PwC Finland (Credit: EU2017EE)
PwC's Global entertainment & media outlook 2017-2021 report analyzes consumption patterns in 54 countries and reveals that content growth, as with the growth of distribution channels, shall suffer if the user experience does not contribute to developing or furthering new consumption habits among audiences. It's an absolute necessity according to Amber Price, Senior Manager with PwC Finland.
To quote the report: "Profound changes that are currently underway shall transform how entertainment and media companies compete and generate value, seeing as the quality of the experience they provide consumers becomes their main strategic differentiation and revenue growth factor."
Ben Johnson, of the Gruvi movie marketing consulting firm, agrees:
"Movies suffer from a user experience problem and the industry needs to consider it very seriously and factor it in as quickly as possible. The potential for a digital single market, despite the industry's initial reluctance to embrace its first version, is very interesting in this respect. It forces a discussion between movie operators and distributors in different countries to pool their efforts and their data more specifically, which can only prove to be beneficial in terms of content accessibility throughout Europe."
The Social Player and Chatbot Display Ads developed by GRUVI
Protection and innovation: the central data issue
The importance of producing and analyzing audiovisual content consumption data has been demonstrated many times over. However, it could be compromised by the passing within the EU of stricter citizen data protection regulations.
Some observers have noted that the limited access to these data could slow down the iteration process of current distribution platforms that depend on granular and recurring statistics to better interpret user behaviours and eventually optimize how they relate to their preferred contents.
Alessandro Mantelero, associate professor at the Polytechnic University of Turin, reminds that the previous model, which dates back to the 1970s, was based on the idea that a direct relation existed between personal data and the fundamental right to privacy.
The new General Data Protection Regulation*, which is enforceable in all EU countries from May 25, strengthens the idea that protecting citizens has priority over deploying new data monetization business models.
This distinction is fundamentally cultural and differentiates the EU, for example, from the United States where the population gives greater importance to limiting the fair use of data by the government rather than the private sector.
Data are the media
Jennifer Bernal, Google's Policy Manager, insisted on the openness of a platform such as YouTube, on which a quarter of all content viewed comes from Europe.
"Data help us structure the content by developing hyper niche recommendation engines [through Google Brain]," she reminded everyone.
Vizceral, the open source intuitive traffic system developed by Netflix
Contrary to YouTube, which touts itself as a data corporation, for Netflix International, Janneke Sloetjes claims the title of a full-fledged media platform.
"We are registered as a media company whose business model is based on data. However, to reach non-members, we resort to third-party services like traditional media do."
Guillaume Klossa, Director of Public Affairs of the European Broadcasting Union, (EBU), upholds that this distinction is obsolete. "Today, everyone is a data company."
EBU, who is asking both Netflix and Amazon to triple their annual investments in European content, i.e., 17 billion EUR, took advantage of the venue to commit to promoting a more transparent and secure use of their audiences' data using algorithms that reflect the values of universality, diversity and accountability of the public channels.
"To do so, it is important that the entire ecosystem commit to the same principles," he pointed out.
Europe, the birthplace of the next digital unicorn?
Finland's Ilkka Paananen, founder of Supercell
According to Domenico La Porta, director of the R/O Institute, Europe does not [yet] have a critical centre in which technology, audiovisual and business form an ecosystem capable of triggering innovations with worldwide impacts like Silicon Valley does.
For his part, Kay Meseberg, head of VR/360 for ARTE, considers that Europe must intensify its participation in current and future innovations, namely through transnational structures entirely dedicated to supporting 'tech champions' that exhibit high global potential. That is what would help to propel the next Clash of Clans (a Finnish production that received public start-up funds and was resold six years later for more than $8 billion).
"Maybe by creating a sort of European DARPA, i.e., the United States' Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, for the media and entertainment industry," suggests Meseberg.
Peter Arvai, cofounder of the PREZI platform, in turn sounded the charge and straightforwardly summarized the crucial issue for media innovation in Europe:
"As a continent, Europe is missing the boat whereas there is currently a blatant lack of tech firms capable of playing a dominant role on the world stage. We are facing huge challenges and, if we do not succeed in developing a Big Tech culture and identifying regional idea leaders that start-ups potentially able to rival the giants can leverage, we are condemned to essentially remain a consumption market for these American and Asian superplatforms. The future of our culture as well as the European economy is otherwise in jeopardy."
Estonia, AKA the 'Silicon Valley of the North', boasts Europe's highest start-up rate per capita and maybe best embodies this convergence of interests and opportunities in which Europe's next media unicorns shall thrive.
*A variant of the GDPR, the GDPR-K, deals specifically with youth content and raises other types of issues whereas the definition itself of 'child' varies on the basis to age from one European state to another.
Gruvi
R/O Institute
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Tove Tellback (née Ruth Lilly Margareta Swanstrøm, July 25, 1899 – January 20, 1986) was a Norwegian actress. She made her film debut in 1926 as Berit Glomgaarden in Carl Theodor Dreyer's Glomdalsbruden.

Family
Tove Tellback was born in Kristiania (now Oslo), Norway as Ruth Lilly Margareta "Toppen" Swanstrøm, the daughter of Lars Magnus Swanstrøm (1868–1939) and Aagot Bjørnson (1872–1968). She married 	Johan Mølbach-Thellefsen (1897–1973) in 1922, and she performed under the stage name Tove Tellback while using the married name Toppen Mølbach-Thellefsen (a.k.a. Mølback Tellefsen). She married a second time in 1935, to Ludvig Cæsar Martin Aubert (1878–1964).

Filmography
 1926: Glomdalsbruden as Berit Glomgaarden
 1927: Troll-elgen as Ingrid Rustebakke
 1928: Cafe X as Lilly
 1933: Vi som går kjøkkenveien as Ellen, Beck's daughter

References

External links

 Tove Tellback at the Swedish Film Database
 Tove Tellback at Sceneweb
 Tove Tellback at Filmfront

1899 births
1986 deaths
20th-century Norwegian actresses
Actresses from Oslo

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Avoid obstacles in this silly walking simulator! Shoes appear under your fingers and you must spin the phone to reveal the world. With the most unique controls you've ever seen, you'll be fleeing from fire, stomping on cockroaches, and running from robot vacuums, all while trying to avoid toys, plastic bricks and garbage! Have you got what it takes? Step in poop wearing unicorn shoes in space! Kick a ball at a robot vacuum that's coming at you with a knife! Topple over 100 champagne glasses with your fancy heels! Features - 50 different shoes in 12 entirely unique settings - 36 distinct killer robot vacuums - 30 missions to complete, both challenging and silly - Unique, never-before-seen motion input with the gyro - Action replay with GIF export - Different obstacles and enemies in every level - Googly eyes on everything! - Cloud save will keep your shoe collection safe! - Free to play!


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Meshorer, Y. A Treasury of Jewish Coins.(Jerusalem and Nyack, 2001). x, 274 pages, with 80 photographic plates. The most current work on ancient Jewish numismatics. Black cloth covers with pictorial dust jacket. Very Fine condition.


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Our Board of Trustees is responsible for promoting the vision and objectives of Signature. They provide firm strategic direction to the organisation, setting overall policy, defining goals and setting targets and evaluating performance against those agreed targets. They ensure that agreed plans and budgets are monitored, delivered and evaluated by the executive team.
Members of the Board work alongside the Signature team at functions, meetings or other events. They act as representatives of Signature and promote and enhance our reputation and values.
Paul Keen
Paul Keen became a Trustee of Signature in March 2012 and Chair in July 2017. Now retired, Paul previously held senior positions at the Department for Work and Pensions, including as Field Director for Jobcentre Plus in the North West, and as head of the services Jobcentre Plus and the earlier Employment Service delivered to disabled people. That included Access to Work where Paul oversaw a significant expansion in support, not least for deaf and hearing impaired people.
Paul also chaired the Yorkshire & Humberside Advisory Panel for Changing Faces, the charity supporting people with disfigurements; and helped to lead their efforts to establish new services and build partnerships with the health service in the region.
Liz Duncan
Liz has been a Signature Trustee since 2012 and Chair of NRCPD since November 2016. She originally trained as a teacher and youth worker and moved into deaf education in 1986. In 1990, Liz joined RNID as a development officer in East Kent working on post 16 provision for Deaf teenagers with additional support needs. In 1994 Liz moved to Sense to develop work in the field of acquired deafblindness. During her time with Sense, Liz was part of the team developing and delivering the Deafblind Studies programme and worked with a wide variety of organisations, both nationally and internationally. Liz has been part of the International Acquired Deafblindness Network since its early days and has chaired the Network since 2010.
Liz is severely deaf as a result of Menieres and uses a variety of modes of receptive communication, dependant on the situation (lip reading / SSE / BSL).
Mark Hopkinson
Mark joined our board in September 2017. Mark is head of Sign Language and Lipreading at City Lit in London. Over the years, Mark has taught and assessed all levels of BSL, from introductory to Level 6, and is a qualified Internal Verifier, also providing consultancy and advice for BSL tutors in other colleges. Mark has lectured on the City Lit / London Met University 'Deaf Studies' degree and has coordinated a number of training programmes for external businesses across London. He believes his experience will lend itself to supporting the development of Signature and has a particular interest in accessibility and improving standards of BSL.
Helen Beaton
Helen joined our board in December 2017 as trustee and treasurer and is currently Chief Operating Officer of Tyne Community Learning Trust, a multi academy trust of 9 schools in South Northumberland. A chartered accountant, Helen is responsible for running the Trust finance department and business service teams. Helen, who is from Huddersfield, remained in the North East after gaining her accountancy degree at Newcastle University in 1987.
Her first post was with Ernst and Young in Newcastle, where she qualified as a chartered accountant. She went on to work at Northumberland Training and Enterprise Council in 1992, where she became financial controller. In 2001 Helen joined the Learning and Skills Council with responsibility for the financial aspects of Capital projects and to provide financial advice and support to all 22 colleges across the region.
Helen then joined South Tyneside College as Vice Principal for Finance and Resource in 2008, and became Deputy Chief Executive in 2013. The College merged in August 2017 with Tyne Metropolitan College to become Tyne Coast College. The college set up an academy trust in 2013 which had 3 schools at the time Helen left in December 2018.
John Walker joined Signature as a Trustee in October 2015 and became Vice Chair in November 2016. He is a Teaching Fellow at University of Sussex and developing undergraduate programmes in British Sign Language and Deaf culture, as well as open courses. He is also a PhD student in Social Geography, which includes the mapping of Deaf spaces. His interest in working with Deaf and hard of hearing people began with 'Friends for Young Deaf people', where he worked as a development officer and latterly training manager, before setting up his own training company, Chereme Ltd. John formed the 'Our Space' project with University of Brighton to reimagine Deaf spaces and test these ideas within the community; including the Deaf Cultural Outreach Group (DeafCOG), a social enterprise, of which John is a director.
Ian Robinson
Ian Robinson is semi-retired and is a freelance Trainer and Consultant on Deaf issues. He was Coordinator for Leeds City Council's Deaf START Post 16 team working with FE & HE Deaf students in and around Leeds for 10 years. He managed a large team of CSWs, English Support, Educational Support Workers and Educational Interpreters that covered colleges around Leeds, ensuring Deaf post 16 students received quality communication support and developed independence.
Previously, he worked for 5 years as CACDP Standards Officer based at their Durham office. Ian was involved in monitoring, liaising with and training BSL examiners. From 1990, he worked mainly in the Deaf education sector as full time Senior Deaf Instructor for Humberside County Council supporting Deaf pupils, and later at Deaf Instructors in Leeds. He was employed as on-screen translator for Tyne Tees TV SignPost team based at Newcastle for 2 years from 1999.
He has taught qualifications ranging from Deaf Awareness, Communication Tactics, BSL in Stage 1-3 / Level 1-4 and interpreter training, and was one of the first qualified external verifiers for CACDP's BSL Level 3 and 4 NVQ.
Ian has been involved with Signature as an assessor, trainer, advisor, moderator, external verifier for NVQ, Qualification and Standards Committee member and customer since 1989. He believes in promoting and advancing communication between Deaf and hearing people.
Karen Riley OBE
Karen Riley became a Trustee in September 2018. She is now retired and was previously Headteacher of Frank Barnes School for Deaf Children in Camden, London. She has had over 35 years teaching experience and 19 years in senior leadership roles. She has worked extensively in special education and primarily in bilingual deaf education. She is Secretary of the Sign Bilingual Consortium and is also a member of several deaf organisations committed to raising educational outcomes for deaf children including CRIDE, BATOD, NatSIP and formerly the BSL coalition. Karen was also a mentor for the Aspiring Leaders programme in Camden, supporting school leaders to become Headteachers. Following her retirement she was a regional tutor for the University of Leeds, mentoring trainee Teachers of the Deaf. Throughout her teaching career she was renowned for building collaborative networks of teaching practitioners and researchers in deaf education, to promote and share good classroom practice, and develop teaching resources for deaf children.


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{11} Eulogy For Günter Grass
Günter Grass, Germany's pre-eminent author, died on April 13 at the age of 87. I'm not a die-hard fan of Grass' work, but I have deep respect for the man. Following the announcement of his death, The New York Times published two articles about Grass. Both of them left a bitter taste in my mouth; neither of them do him justice.
The Trinity of post war German Social Democracy, from left to right: Heinrich Böll, Günter Grass, Willy Brandt Photo: DICK/EPA
More than a writer, Grass was a 20th century intellectual. His work is steeped in the history of National Socialism and World War Two and peels away the many layers of Hitler's legacy in post-war Germany. Like other European writers of his generation, Grass believed literature plays an important role in shaping readers' consciousness and therefore a country's culture. His writing was always closely linked to politics. On a more personal note, Grass cultivated traditional values: he foraged for mushrooms, cooked family dinners, handwrote and typed his manuscripts, and used archives and libraries for research. Computers, he said in an interview in 2014, abbreviate thinking.
Grass catapulted to fame in 1959 with his novel The Tin Drum, a realistic-fantastic tale of Nationalism seen through the eyes of the idiot-savant dwarf, Oscar. Some critics lauded Grass as the voice of post war German literature, others condemned him, calling the novel perverse and pornographic. Grass himself liked to point out that as a best-selling author, he was finally making money and had a platform for his left-wing political views.
Like other progressive artists of his generation, Grass was optimistic about the democratic structures and institutions that were implemented in West Germany after World War Two. But he was outraged that the men who filled the top political positions had, for the most part, been high ranking Nazis. (An article published in Spiegel Online in 2012, verified that 25 cabinet ministers, one president and one chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany had been members of Nazi organizations. And that is just the tip of the iceberg.)
In 1969, Grass started campaigning actively on behalf of future Social Democratic Chancellor Willy Brandt, whose impeccable political credentials set him apart from most politicians in West Germany, and he supported Brandt throughout his political career. Even as he wrote more than a dozen books, Grass continued to speak out politically; not just against former Nazis still in power, but also against German remilitarization, the Soviet invasions of Hungary and Czechoslovakia, the Vietnam War, political repression in East Germany, the hasty pace of German reunification – the list is too long to complete. In Germany, he was often referred to as the "conscience of the nation." Not surprisingly, Grass always had enemies on the right who attempted to discredit him.
The day after Grass' death, Stephen Kinzer's extensive front-page article in the Times lists many of Grass' accomplishments, including, of course, his Nobel Prize for literature (which he received in 1999). But the reader comes away with the impression that Günter Grass' most enduring legacy is hypocrisy. He deserves better than that.
In 2006, Grass disclosed that he had joined the Waffen SS in the final months of World War Two. In earlier years, he had acknowledged that he believed in Hitler as a boy. But his new admission incited an uproar in Germany. Most Germans didn't condemn him for the biographical fact itself - after all, Grass was barely 17 in the fall of 1944. Given that Grass had been indoctrinated by Nazi propaganda in every part of his young life for 11 years, could he really be expected to have known any better? Germans weren't judging the actions of the boy but the actions of the man: why did the politically outspoken author wait so long to come forward with this biographical fact?
Let's assume that as a young man, Grass saw his actions differently than he does now. He was an iconoclast. The Tin Drum was a searing indictment not only of National Socialism but also of the values and attitudes that made Hitler possible and still festered in Germany. Surely, Grass believed that his writing and his political engagement against all things having to do with the Nazi regime absolved him of his wrong-headed youthful "misstep." Perhaps his teenage decision began to chafe only much later, as Grass grew older and felt the inescapable burden of German history weighing on him, too: how could I not have known better? In 1993, Grass witnessed what happened to his literary colleague Christa Wolf, who had been a voice of conscience in East Germany. Shortly after German unification, Wolf's files revealed that as a young woman, she had worked for the Stasi as a low level informant for a short time. Subsequently, that fact came to overshadow Wolf's entire career: her books, her speeches, even the fact that the Stasi spied on her for almost twenty years, until the Wall opened in 1989. Finally, thirteen years later, Grass did come forward, saying that those who will judge would judge him. Grass' right wing detractors jumped at the opportunity to rake him over the coals.
Is this the most important fact of Grass' life? Should we allow it to cast a shadow on this man of letters? To do so is to ignore the value of Grass' life work and to side with his right wing critics.
On April 15, two days after Grass death, the Times ran an opinion piece by Die Zeit writer Jochen Bittner. Bittner's assertion that Günter Grass' generation has had it "pretty easy" is a matter of debate. But his contention that "you [Grass] grew big in times when ideology…counted more than the hard work of examining what is actually going on around us" is downright insulting, as is his statement that "the way you [Grass] saw the world counted more than the way it actually was." Grass as ideologue – that's the way his detractors in Germany have always tried to discredit him.
Grass was a great novelist (and a poet, essayist, dramatist, sculptor and graphic artist).
He was also a true democrat.
He loved popular debate and nurtured public scrutiny of politics and politicians. The German word streitbar, which was often applied to Grass, signifies the pleasure of engaging in political debate, the courage of stirring up controversy and the willingness to come forward with unpopular opinions. Indeed, Grass was streitbar - not for the sake of polarizing public opinion, but in the interests of fomenting the lively political discussions that have been a cornerstone of German democracy since 1945.
Indeed, such public discussion is the foundation of a thriving democracy anywhere.
I worry that this culture of robust and heartfelt political debate is disappearing, along with brilliant intellectuals of the 20th century like Günter Grass.
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Q: When does Integer != 1 come true This is classical, but writing to Google did not give me hits.
My code:
Integer i = ..; // Sth is put from database.
if (i != 1) {
   // do sth
} else {
   // do not.
}

Case:
I know that this comparison is not correct java and I should compare:
if (i.intValue != 1) {}

or
if(!i.equals(1)) {}

but my code had the first one and I seem to get the true from somewhere, where the Integer is not 1 and when it is 1 there comes false.
Question:
What is happening there around?

A:
but my code had the first one and I seem to get the true from somewhere, where the Integer is not 1 and when it is 1 there comes false.

If I understand your issue correctly, the following might explain the behavior:
Integer i = 1;
Integer j = new Integer(1);
Integer k = Integer.valueOf(1);

System.out.println(i == j);  // false
System.out.println(i == k);  // true

In other words, you can get both true or false when comparing with 1 depending on how the Integer was constructed. Integer.valueOf will reuse objects while new Integer will not.
If you indeed did the comparison with an integer literal (or with an int) then any Integer should be automatically unboxed by the compiler, and you should never get any surprises.

A: The compiler changes :
if (i != 1)

to
if(i.intValue()!=1)

A: Autoboxing is the automatic conversion that the Java compiler makes between the primitive types and their corresponding object wrapper classes. For example, converting an int to an Integer, a double to a Double, and so on. If the conversion goes the other way, this is called unboxing.
See this link

A: if (i != 1) , if (i.intValue != 1) and if(!i.equals(1)) are all equal and will return the same value. The compiler will automatically unbox i, turning it into a primitive int.

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function varargout = cvtUpdate(germs, points)
%CVTUPDATE Update germs of a CVT with given points.
%
%   G2 = cvtUpdate(G, PTS)
%   G: inital germs
%   PTS: the points
%
%   Example
%   G = randPointDiscUnif(50);
%   P = randPointDiscUnif(10000);
%   G2 = cvtUpdate(G, P);
%
%   See also
%
%
%   Rewritten from programs found in
%   http://people.scs.fsu.edu/~burkardt/m_src/cvt/cvt.html
%
%  Reference:
%    Qiang Du, Vance Faber, and Max Gunzburger,
%    Centroidal Voronoi Tessellations: Applications and Algorithms,
%    SIAM Review, Volume 41, 1999, pages 637-676.
%

% ------
% Author: David Legland
% e-mail: david.legland@grignon.inra.fr
% Created: 2007-10-10,    using Matlab 7.4.0.287 (R2007a)
% Copyright 2007 INRA - BIA PV Nantes - MIAJ Jouy-en-Josas.

%% Init

% number of germs and of points
Ng  = size(germs, 1);
N   = size(points, 1);

% initialize centroids with values of germs
centroids = germs;

% number of updates of each centroid
count = ones(Ng, 1);

%% Generate random points

% for each point, determines which germ is the closest ones
[dist, ind] = minDistancePoints(points, germs); %#ok<ASGLU>

h = zeros(Ng, 1);
for i = 1:Ng
    h(i) = sum(ind==i);
end

%% Centroids update

% add coordinate of each point to closest centroid
energy = 0;
for j = 1:N
    centroids(ind(j), :) = centroids(ind(j), :) + points(j, :);
    energy = energy + sum ( ( centroids(ind(j), :) - points(j, :) ).^2);
    count(ind(j)) = count(ind(j)) + 1;
end

% estimate coordinate by dividing by number of counts
centroids = centroids ./ repmat(count, 1, size(germs, 2));

% normalizes energy by number of sample points
energy = energy / N;

%% Format output

varargout{1} = centroids;
if nargout > 1
    varargout{2} = energy;
end

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Plenary 1: Community perspectives: How can Muslim institutions become more inclusive?
Plenary 2: Academic perspectives: how can research on British Muslims become more gender sensitive?
Academic Research and Gender Inclusion: Given that descriptions of Muslim community life have often been unacknowledged descriptions of Muslim men, how best might that be problematized? What theoretical work needs to be done to highlight gender exclusion or inclusion more concretely? How can Muslim male and female subjectivities be better understood separately or otherwise? What impact can gender inclusion or exclusion have upon research methodologies, ethical issues, questions of access and questions of academic representation?
Politics of Gender Inclusion and Exclusion: What role does the issue of gender inclusion now play in questions of state policies towards Muslims? How far is it tied into questions of securitization and extremism? How central an issue is it in terms of discourses of Islamic reform or notions of personal authenticity in terms of new Islamic gender theology and everyday Muslim practices?
Gender Inclusion in British Muslim Institutions, Networks and Movements: How extensive is the drive towards gender inclusion? What enhances and retards gender inclusion? What modalities of inclusion are being undertaken? How is gender exclusion being defended or problematized?
Abstract submissions are invited for papers that address any aspect of the conference theme. Participants will be asked to present their research in a short format as part of a panel with questions and answers at the end.
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Q: Создание графических обьектов на основании введенных чисел, координат C# WPF Всем привет, нужна помощь...Нужно написать программу которая на основании введенных чисел координат, рисовала, а так же брала готовые графические объекты и создавала бы что то наподобие карты. Допустим вы забили данные в виде чисел, а программа вывела бы графическую карту на основании этих чисел. Куда копать? Paint WPF без кистей через окна ввода данных? Может какие исходники есть?

A: Нашел достойный пример, но сейчас дорабатываю и есть вопросы, отдельно создам новый вопрос, вот ссылка на проект: https://github.com/talasbaev/LabApp.git

A: Допустим вы используете WPF.
Создаете контрол который будет холстом (допустим grid с именем grd)
На него динамически (тоесть в коде) добавляете елементы.
Пример с кнопкой:
Button b = new Button()
b.HorizontalAlignment = HorizontalAlignment.Left;
b.VerticalAlignment = VerticalAlignment.Top;
b.Margin.Top = [твоя позиция по y];
b.Margin.Left = [твоя позиция по x];
b.Width = [ширина];
b.Height = [высота];
grd.Children.Add(b)


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Introduction (Sport, Media and Regional Identity)
Roberts, Simon Gwyn (Cambridge Scholars, 2015-12-01)
Introduction to an edited volume entitled Sport, Media and Regional Identity.
Nurturing English regionalism: A new role for local newspapers in a federal UK?
Roberts, Simon Gwyn (Intellect, 2017-01-20)
Any constitutional move towards a federal system in the United Kingdom would inevitably be unbalanced by England's obvious economic, cultural and numerical dominance. Some form of English regional devolution is therefore essential if we are to progress as a multinational state post Scottish and Welsh devolution. This article adopts a deliberately polemical approach to a consideration of the potential role of regional English newspapers in that context, suggesting that their established links with a coherent audience, rooted in place, might allow them to act as a vehicle for debate and nurture a sense of regional identity often absent from contemporary English politics. Regional newspapers are 'culturally specific' and have a key role to play in articulating the popular experience of post-devolution political change: this might also present this struggling sector with valuable commercial opportunities as they take advantage of the new political paradigm to further embed themselves within their communities.
Impossible Unity? Representing Internal Diversity in Post-Devolution Wales
Roberts, Simon Gwyn (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015-09-16)
The gradual transformation of British politics through the processes of devolution has been a 'work in progress' since Scotland and Wales voted in favour in the 1997 referenda (in the case of Wales, for the creation of an Assembly with devolved powers). Yet these major constitutional changes have not been matched by a realignment of the UK media (Cushion, Lewis and Groves, 2009). In this context, the particular deficiencies of the Welsh media have become increasingly politically relevant in recent years, with its shortcomings (in terms of informing the public about devolved politics) regularly highlighted by politicians, academics and journalists. A 2014 BBC poll, for example, found that fewer than half of Welsh respondents knew the NHS was devolved, which Thomas (2014) suggests results from a Welsh media landscape in which "huge numbers of people" get their news from London-based newspapers. The contrast with Scotland is marked: while Scottish devolution provided a pretext for London-based national newspapers to reduce news content from all three devolved nations it simultaneously provided a catalyst for the further development of an independent media policy in Scotland itself. In interviews, London journalists argued that since Scotland had its own parliament it had its 'own news' and its own newspaper editions to carry it (Denver, 2002). More recently, Macwhirter (2014) rued the financial decline of the Scottish newspaper industry, suggesting that this makes it harder for the Scottish media to perform their traditional role as 'cultural curators' and forum for informed debate. However, sentiments like this merely highlight the more acute media deficiency in Wales, because the Welsh media is considerably more fragmented than its Scottish equivalent, with no real tradition of a Welsh national press to draw on and the majority of newspaper readers dependent on London-based publications. Around 1,760,000 (from a total population of three million) read newspapers with 'virtually no Welsh content' (Davies, 2008).
'A pit we have dug ourselves': The EU referendum and the Welsh democratic deficit
The chapter examines the Welsh Brexit vote from a news media perspective, locating it within the long-standing 'democratic deficit' and absence of Welsh national press.
Negotiating identity politics via networked communication: a case study of the Welsh-speaking population in Patagonia, Argentina
This chapter examines the communicative and political potential of networked communication in the specific context of marginalized linguistic communities. The work concerns the remnant Welsh-speaking population in Patagonia, Argentina, descended from 19th century migrants who attempted to establish an exclusive and deliberately isolated Welsh-speaking enclave in the region. Since then, the 'enclave' has been absorbed into the wider Argentinian ethnic and linguistic melting pot with Welsh-speaking residents now Argentinian citizens claiming dual linguistic and cultural heritage, and therefore represents a kind of archetype for a wider journey from conflict and exclusivity to compromise, inclusivity and hybridity.


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When a widow clinging to her past meets a lawyer running from his guilt, can the roots of pain and loss bloom into new love?
Nate Redmond, a former Manhattan lawyer, is eager for a fresh start in small-town Missouri. With his extensive background, arranging the sale of outdated Rose Park for retail development looks easy--the perfect way to help the town fund the larger recreational space it needs. His role in the deal might even impress Abby, the pretty new neighbor he feels so drawn to.
But as Nate and Abby clash over the park, more serious obstacles threaten their relationship. Mistakes that Nate had hoped to forget continue to haunt him. Abby comes face to face with her failure to forgive. And how can Nate compete with the memory of a decorated war hero? When the park battle brings on a crisis, can they each find the courage to believe in a God of second chances and a future where their love can grow?
"Love and Roses" is a stand-alone contemporary Christian romance novel and is the third book in The Abundance Series by Sally Bayless. If you like sweet, small-town love stories with a touch of humor and characters with real-world problems, you'll love this uplifting story of second chances.
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Ferrari and McLaren launch electric hybrid supercars
Ferrari and McLaren tipped their hats to a low carbon future at the Geneva Motor Show today when they both unveiled electric-hybrid supercars.
With a top speed of 217mph (350km/h) McLaren's P1 and LaFerrari are the fastest hybrids on the planet, although only the McLaren features a full electric drive mode.
CO2 emissions are 330g/km for the Ferrari, and less than 200g/km for the P1, which can cover approximately 10 km in electric-only mode.
The P1 accelerates from 0 to 300 km/h in less than 17 seconds – five seconds quicker than the McLaren F1 model (Pic: © McLaren)
While LaFerrari's 6.3-litre V12 engine and the P1's 3.8-litre twin-turbo V8 engine can hardly be termed 'green'. As a comparison the 1.8 litre Toyota Prius has C02 emissions of 96g/km of CO2.
That said, the Ferrari and McLaren take efficiency standards for supercars to a new level.
McLaren's car body is one of the lightest carbon structures used in any road car to date, weighing 90kg.
Ferrari's battery is charged via regenerative braking and whenever the engine produces excess torque, and its smart ancillaries work the same way.
The technology used to save energy from braking is similar to that used in Formula One – where it is called a 'kinetic energy recovery system'.
Ferrari say their hybrid system, know as 'Hy-Kers' makes "full use of the Scuderia Ferrari's F1 Kers know-how".
Ferrari's batteries weigh 60kg and can be charged either under braking or via any excess torque produced by the engine (Pic © Ferrari)
The Mclaren P1, which costs costs £866,000, lacks this technology, instead coupling its V8 to the single electric motor.
In a statement Ferrari's president Luca di Montezemolo said elements of the €1.3 million car will eventually trickle down to some of the carmaker's more affordable models.
"Aimed at our collectors, this is a truly extraordinary car which encompasses advanced solutions that, in the future, will find their way on to the rest of the range," he said.
Ferrari chief commits to hybrid supercars investment
Electric and hybrid cars set to dominate Frankfurt motor show
Formula One: the petrolheads driving the green economy
Should electric cars get free parking?
Read more on: Road | Tech | Ferrari Road


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Jul 9, 2018, 10:24pm EDT
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Jul 9, 2018, 08:56am EDT
IRS Closing Offshore Account Amnesty, Here's How To Cut Huge Penalties
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Delaying Tax Refunds Constrains Spending On Daily Living Expenses
What Kids And Their Parents Should Know About Summer Jobs And Taxes
On July 4, How Taxes, Tariffs & Tea Led To American Independence
Users Take To Courts, Twitter To Protest Tax On Social Media
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Senate Moves Forward To Extend Tax Breaks For 2014
Kelly Phillips ErbSenior Contributor
If you're still smarting from writing out that check to pay your 2013 tax bill, some relief might be on the way: the tax extender bill is back.
After initially backing away from renewing a number of expired tax breaks (for a list of those provisions which expired at the end of 2013, check out this prior post), the Senate has agreed to consider the provisions again. That's the good news for taxpayers. The bad news? If they give all of the tax breaks the thumbs up, it would add about $85 billion to the budget deficit.
If you feel like you've heard this one before, you have. This notion of letting tax breaks expire - and then extending them retroactively is nothing new. It's become quite the fashion in Congress to let tax breaks expire so that they can talk about costs saved and then plug them back in - but only for a little while. Most of the time, tax extenders last just a year or two. The current bill would extend the breaks for 2014 and 2015.
The bill, S. 2260, cleverly named the EXPIRE (Expiring Provisions Improvement Reform and Efficiency) Act, is sponsored by Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR). It was introduced on April 28, 2014, and has moved through the Senate Finance Committee. Today, the Senate moved to consider the bill with only Sens. Tom Coburn (R-OK), Jeff Flake (R-AZ) and Mike Lee (R-UT) voting no.
Here are a few extenders highlights for individual taxpayers:
Teaching expenses. It was almost unthinkable that Congress let this one go: the bill extends the $250 deduction for teachers who pay out of pocket for classroom expenses. The deduction is above-the-line which means that taxpayers don't have to itemize their deductions to benefit from the tax break.
Mortgage debt forgiveness. Another unpopular move? Allowing the provision which exempts up to $2 million of forgiven debt for underwater homeowners to expire. The break offered qualified homeowners an exception to the debt as taxable income rule. Originally meant to stop the bleeding from excessive foreclosures, the "temporary" measure was enacted in 2007 and has been extended several times.
Mass transit and parking benefits. Every other year or so, Congess decides that it wants to reward those that take transit or vanpool with roughly the same tax benefits as those who drive to work and park. 2014 didn't start out being one of those years: employer-provided transit and vanpool benefits were only allowed up to $130 per month while those that opted to drive and park could receive up to $250 in tax-free employment related reimbursements. The current bill would bump transit and vanpool benefits up to the same level as parking benefits ($250). The bill would also include bike sharing as a qualified expense for the biking reimbursement.
State and local general sales taxes. The bill would allow taxpayers who itemize their deductions to claim the state and local general sales taxes paid rather than state and local income taxes. This deduction is a big boon for states like Texas that don't have a state income tax.
Higher education expenses. With student loan relief still in flux, many hope that Congress sticks to its plan to extend the above-the-line tax deduction for qualified higher education expenses. Commonly referred to as the tuition & fees deduction, it allows taxpayers to claim up to $4,000 in above-the-line education expenses so long as you meet certain income criteria.
IRA distributions to charity. Charitable organizations were hopeful that Congress would include the provision that permits an Individual Retirement Arrangement ("IRA") owner to contribute to a charity directly from their IRA. The provision allows those IRA owners age 70-1/2 or older to exclude up to $100,000 per year from gross income if IRA funds are paid directly to certain public charities. Without the provision, the IRA owner would have to pay tax on the IRA funds before claiming the deduction.
Energy Provisions. The bill would reinstate the 10% credit for purchases of energy efficient improvements to existing homes, including energy efficient windows, an efficient furnace or boiler, and insulation. The total credit is capped.
Learning Research and Development Center, University of Pittsburgh (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
The bill also contains a host of provisions for businesses including extensions for extending Empowerment Zone tax incentives and the renewing the Work Opportunity Tax Credit.
And, just in time for the Preakness, Congress has rushed to extend the three year cost recovery period for all race horses (whew, right?).
Most significantly, for business owners, the bill would extend the 50% bonus depreciation for certain qualified property and would increase the amount expensed under section 179.
The Senate version of the bill, as written, is 82 pages long. You can read the entire bill as proposed here (downloads as a pdf).
Whether it will make it through the Senate is not certain. It's even less clear how it will be received in the House. The House has been hammering away at its own version of the bill with an eye towards making many of the breaks permanent (as it did with research and development tax breaks recently). The problem, of course, with making these breaks permanent, is that the result is a dip in tax revenues and an increase to the deficit.
Should the priority be to cut taxes or the deficit? The bill, as currently proposed, can't do both. Expect to see more debate about these provisions in the next few weeks.
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Years ago, I found myself sitting in law school in Moot Court wearing an oversized itchy blue suit. It was a horrible experience. In a desperate attempt to avoid anything
Years ago, I found myself sitting in law school in Moot Court wearing an oversized itchy blue suit. It was a horrible experience. In a desperate attempt to avoid anything like that in the future, I enrolled in a tax course. I loved it. I signed up for another. Before I knew it, in addition to my JD, I earned an LL.M Taxation. While at law school, I interned at the estates attorney division of the IRS. At IRS, I participated in the review and audit of federal estate tax returns. At one such audit, opposing counsel read my report, looked at his file and said, "Gentlemen, she's exactly right." I nearly fainted. It was a short jump from there to practicing, teaching, writing and breathing tax. Just like that, Taxgirl® was born.


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A day off comes without pay
David Sharp,Associated Press
PORTLAND, Maine — Thousands of state workers stayed home without pay on Friday as state government was shut down for the first of three furlough days designed to help deal with a budget shortfall.
Gov. Angus King, who vowed in his first State of the State address that furloughs "are part of our past," resorted to the approach because of a budget deficit estimated to be $180 million through next June.
The furlough days, each designed to save $1.5 million, are part of King's actions estimated to be worth nearly $60 million.
Exempted were state troopers and other emergency workers, state parks and ferry operations, and the court system.
Courts were exempted because the state court administrator decided they could not be shut down on such short notice.
In Portland, 20 clerks reported for work but only one judge was on duty. On a typical day, five or six judges were on the bench.
Clerks made the best of it. They dressed casually and brought in a potluck breakfast to fortify themselves before taking advantage of a rare slow day to dive into the piles of paper that accumulated on desks.
"There's a lot of little things you don't get to when you?re running at full speed. You get time to catch your breath," said Penny Whitney, chief clerk.
At Popham Beach State Park, manager Brian Murray pointed out that he was not immune from furloughs, even though the park was open.
Murray had to make up for the cuts but they were spread out instead of all on one day. That meant two of his 16 workers had the day off on Friday, a day in which the beaches were crowded with sunbathers.
"It's a busy park, so we're stretching what resources we have. Obviously, we get behind," Murray said from Phippsburg. "The employees are pitching in a lot harder to try to keep things up."
In Gray, Trooper John Hainey did not have the day off, either. In fact, he was working a double shift as state police dealt with extra security details, including one for President Bush in Kennebunkport.
Hainey used the quiet time in the office to work on a child abuse investigation.
"We're just going about doing our work," he said.
King has said scheduling three so-called furlough days - the first since Gov. John McKernan was in office - could avoid as many as 100 direct layoffs. The state work force is estimated to exceed 14,600 employees.
In addition to King's package of unilateral steps aimed at reducing a revenue shortfall, the governor hopes to defer some tax cuts and transfer money from the state's tobacco money fund and from its laptop computer fund.
The governor also said a process of attrition could have the effect of reducing the state work force by 350 positions.
The deficit was originally pegged at $180 million but state officials are worried that it will grow even higher. Sales and corporate tax collections continue to be concerns for fiscal 2003.


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The relief of "Madonna Zeni" is a classical sculpture that depicts, in a loving attitude, the mother who is holding the sleeping baby.
The Madonna with the left hand is holding the foot of Jesus in a context of lines that give movement and force to sculpture.
"Madonna Zeni" is made of maple wood up to the dimension of 27 cm .
The sizes of 37 cm and 57 are carved in pinus cembra or tilia.


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the last few days I have been feeling better having ended cycle two of my progesterone a few days ago…phew.
So we shall see. But I am enjoying the last couple days feeling like myself again and not a drone.
I posted that for every 10 dollars donated in the next few weeks I would ride my bike 1 mile. I think I am up for the challenge, God is good because I couldn't have even thought about it last week. I have already had a couple people throw the gauntlet down and it is good for me because I know exercise helps whether I feel up to it or not.
My sister and I are counting down the days now until our Dream vacation to Disneyland 🏰 *(more info below) and we have scraped together the funds for plane tickets, but still need accommodations and park tickets. We are going to do everything we can to raise funds fast.
Here is the challenge….ready? For every $10 donated for the next several weeks I will bike 1 mile. There is no cap on this, if we raise $200 I bike 20 miles, $400= 40 miles, etc.
By God's grace I will rise to the challenge. I will log my miles with my Map My Ride App and post for all to see so you know I am actually doing it. This will also be good for me because I have fallen off exercising due to a little health slump and I need to get up and moving again.
We want to profusely thank the people that have been able to help so far, it means so much. We have a ways to go and less than 30 days to do it, but we will make it happen.
the last 6 weeks or so I have been struggling. After getting myself on a "good cycle" for a while with the help of my docs I have been in another bout of fatigue, gut stuff, worse swelling…. (My ankles tonight actually scared me).
I know a big part of it is that the progesterone therapy has been really hard to adjust to. When I started my first round I was knocked down so hard the first 5 days or so with fatigue I couldn't even stay awake during the day (yes, I am taking it at night). This second round has not been as bad but I am in the midst of what has become the common state of my life for so many years; a state of fatigue and downright tiredness. Now I am going to go into "Lymie speak" because I know the Lymies and the chronic illness sufferers will understand this; this isn't the same level of "deep to the bones, mind numbing, I think I am going to die, and if I'm not please someone kill me so I can sleep fatigue" that is your life in the midst of the worst of this disease, but it is more like I am still myself but with layers of mono, anemia and maybe a dash of flu. Plus of course the swelling and gut.
My body hates me, that's all I can say. Because the reaction I get feels like I did something truly dreadful like sour dough bread and butter.
My mind toggles back and forth between "this is crazy, something is desperately wrong because those little things should not cause a full-on autoimmune freak out" and "you have not given your body the break it needs to get better. A bite here, and item there…it's my own self-sabotage". I am immensely guilt ridden when I don't make it though the day with flying colors and can't control myself as strictly as I would like to, and frustrated that I have been knocked from getting back into a good exercise routine, back to ground zero because of fatigue. I really want to do a 2 week vegan cleanse just to give my body a break if I can muster up the will power.
Even my coworkers said I looked drained and have been looking sicker and more tired. My skin and color aren't as good either.
So, how do I get back out of this? I'm not sure but there is one bright light in all this; I have been just rejoicing in the Lord and He has been sustaining me. I have also been able to keep my creativity up, which is also a blessing. Hopefully my body follows soon.


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De Algemene Rotterdamse Studenten Roeivereniging "Skadi" vereniging werd in 1926 opgericht en kreeg in 1928 de naam R.S.R.V. "Skadi". Na eerst bij de roeivereniging "De Maas" ingewoond te hebben, werd in 1949 een eigen loods betrokken, zodat er toen een geheel zelfstandig beleid kon worden gevoerd.

Eenzelfde ontwikkeling is ook te zien bij de (R.V.S.V.) dames-roeivereniging R.V.S.R.V. Phecda, welke, hoewel feitelijk al omstreeks 1940 begonnen, pas in 1967 officieel werd opgericht. Na enige jaren van bloei is ze echter stilzwijgend in Skadi opgegaan. Ondertussen was er in 1961 de A.R.S.R. & Z.Hades opgericht, een studentenroeivereniging, die zijn bestaansrecht ontleende aan het feit dat bij Skadi niet-corporale leden niet mochten deelnemen aan wedstrijdroeien. Hades logeerde bij roeivereniging "Nautilus", maar had daar al spoedig te kampen met een gebrek aan ruimte.

Ook Skadi had problemen met de huisvesting, omdat zij door de aanleg van het Kleinpolderplein moest verhuizen. Dit leidde in 1968 tot de bouw van de loods aan de Noorderkanaalweg, alwaar in de ene vleugel Skadi / Phecda werden gevestigd, en in de andere Hades. In dat jaar kwam tevens bootsman Dhr. Lievense, die jarenlang de vloot heeft onderhouden. (In 1947 werd de eerste boot gedoopt). Ondanks de oorspronkelijk grote rivaliteit bleek dat ook hier "eendracht maakt macht" gold , zodat in 1976 beide verenigingen fuseerden tot de Algemene Rotterdamse Studenten Roeivereniging "Skadi". Voor het schrijven van een nieuw clublied werd het oud-lid Hein Polzer benaderd, beter bekend als Drs. P. Deze schreef kosteloos het nieuwe Skadi-lied.

Roeiwedstrijden
Skadi organiseert op landelijk niveau meerdere roeiwedstrijden in verschillende disciplines, zoals:
 De Westelijke Regatta, een raceroeiwedstrijd over 2 kilometer, gezamenlijk met diverse Zuid-Hollandse roeiverenigingen,
 De Rottebokaal, een wedstrijd voor competitieroeiers over verschillende afstanden,
 De Rotterdam Harbour Races, een coastal rowing wedstrijd tijdens de Wereldhavendagen bij de Erasmusbrug, samen met de K.R.Z.V. 'De Maas',
 De Erasmussprints, een 500m sprintwedstrijd op de avond voorafgaand aan de Westelijke Regatta, samen met de K.R.Z.V. 'De Maas'.

Externe link
 Skadi

Nederlandse roeivereniging
Studentensportvereniging in Rotterdam
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Pakistan In Need
It can be difficult to imagine individual stories of need when presented with such huge numbers, to see oneself in another's shoes when their overall predicament seems so vast and dire. These pictures were published In The Bigger Pictures, under the banner of Pakistan in Need. Individual stories are hard to tell, but these pictures can convey the stories of those who suffered. It is necessary for all us to realise, the circumstances the people and the nation is going through. Pakistan is in need, May GOD give power and will to the victims of this catastrophic disaster!
Please note that the work is not mine, but infact shared from Boston.com [The Bigger Pictures]
A US rescue helicopter carrying Pakistani flood affected victims flies above Kallam, a town of Swat Valley, on September 2, 2010. (A. MAJEED/AFP/Getty Images) #
A boy stands by a water level mark that shows how the water has gone down to 4 ft (1.2 m) from being previously 12 ft (3.6 m) high in Ulra Jahangir Village September 1, 2010. (REUTERS/Athar Hussain) #
Amira, 2, a flood victim suffering from skin and stomach problems, cries at a hospital in Sukkur, in Pakistan's Sindh province September 1, 2010. Victims of Pakistan's floods queued at hospitals where scant resources were available to treat a rising number of patients. (REUTERS/Damir Sagolj) #
An Afghan refugee whose house was demolished by heavy flooding, washes himself amidst the rubble in Azakhel near Peshawar, Pakistan Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2010. Thousands of Afghan refugees here are struggling to recover from a double tragedy, seeing their homes across the border engulfed by war and then their refugee camps here demolished by floods. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad) #
A technician stands in an operating theater in a Pakistani hospital with equipment ruined by floodwaters (note high-water mark on the walls) in Nowshera, Pakistan on August 27, 2010. When water gushed through the walls of Nowshera hospital last month it filled operating rooms and wards and left them clogged with stinking mud, abandoning hundreds of patients to their fate. (AAMIR QURESHI/AFP/Getty Images) #
Trucks transporting relief goods are blocked on the road by Pakistani farmers demanding that the government irrigate their lands in Shikarpur on September 3, 2010. Fresh floods in southern Pakistan are snaring at least a million people displaced by earlier flooding, adding to the huge problems faced by the underfunded relief effort, UN aid agencies warned. (ADEK BERRY/AFP/Getty Images) #
Displaced flood survivors receive relief at a roadside in Nowshera, Pakistan on Thursday, Sept. 2, 2010. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad) #
A flood victim left without receiving aid for three days climbs a truck to reach for food handouts donated by a group calling themselves Muslim brothers in Pakistan's Muzaffargarh district of Punjab province September 2, 2010. (REUTERS/Damir Sagolj) #
A Turkish doctor gives treatment to a Pakistani woman displaced by floods at a makeshift field medical camp in Thatta district on September 2, 2010. (RIZWAN TABASSUM/AFP/Getty Images) #
Mohammad Ramzan, a flood victim, places his hand on the door that was left after his house was washed away by flood in the Mehmood Kot village in Muzaffargarh district of Pakistan's Punjab province September 3, 2010. (REUTERS/Faisal Mahmood) #
A flood-affected Pakistani man watches the flood waters rushing over the ruined road from Shahdad Kot to Garhi Khairo, as he and others wait for boats to transport them home on September 3, 2010. (ADEK BERRY/AFP/Getty Images) #
A boy who is a victim of the flood rests on his bed at a relief camp in Pakistan's Muzaffargarh district of Punjab province September 2, 2010. (REUTERS/Damir Sagolj) #
Pakistani flood survivors wait for relief, as they return to their home after flood waters receded on the outskirts of Thatta town, Sindh province, southern Pakistan, Friday, Sept. 3, 2010. The waters are still swamping rich agricultural land in the southern provinces of Sindh and Punjab. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian) #
Internally displaced Pakistani women queue for relief goods in Larkana on September 3, 2010. (ADEK BERRY/AFP/Getty Images) #
Flood victims look through the gates of a warehouse hoping to get some aid in Pakistan's Muzaffargarh district of Punjab province September 5, 2010. (REUTERS/Damir Sagolj) #
An aerial view shows a flooded mosque in a village in Sujawal, about 150 km (93 mi) from Karachi in Pakistan's Sindh province, August 29, 2010. (REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro) #
Flood victims who had received no aid for three days run after a truck to reach for food donated by a group calling themselves Muslim brothers in Pakistan's Muzaffargarh district of Punjab province September 2, 2010. (REUTERS/Damir Sagolj) #
A man who returned to his village affected by recent floods fishes behind a decomposing remains of a dog in Pakistan's Muzaffargarh district on September 3, 2010. (REUTERS/Damir Sagolj) #
Pakistani men affected by floods ride on a boat strapped to a truck as they travel in Muzaffargarh district, Punjab province, Pakistan on Friday Sept. 3, 2010. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila) #
An internally displaced Pakistani man (center, in cap) fights with a policeman (right, white shirt) as they wait for relief goods in Larkana on September 3, 2010. Flood victims say they have received little government help, and most assistance has come to them from private charities. The International Committee of the Red Cross warned Thursday that survivors' anger was beginning to hamper those aid efforts. (ADEK BERRY/AFP/Getty Images) #
A Pakistani girl reacts after she loses her juice packs, during a scramble for relief goods at a camp for people displaced by floods in the village of Chowk Ghulam Ali Wala, Punjab province, Pakistan on Friday Sept. 3, 2010. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila) #
An aerial view shows the mudflow surrounding a house as floodwaters recede in some parts of the Rajanpur district of Punjab province, Pakistan on Sunday Sept. 5, 2010. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila) #
Men return to their village destroyed by recent floods in Pakistan's Muzaffargarh district of Punjab province September 3, 2010. (REUTERS/Damir Sagolj) #
A flood victim collects bricks from abandoned buildings where her family found shelter in Pakistan's Muzaffargarh district on September 4, 2010. (REUTERS/Damir Sagolj) #
Ali Asghar, a flood victim, tunes his radio to listen for news while taking refuge on an embankment with his family in Sujawal, in Pakistan's Sindh province on August 29, 2010. (REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro) #
A Pakistani woman displaced by floods holds her child as she waits for relief goods at a Pakistani Navy distribution point in a makeshift camp in Thatta district on September 2, 2010. (RIZWAN TABASSUM/AFP/Getty Images) #
A flood victim uses part of a damaged railway track to cross floodwaters as he makes his way to a village in Sultan Kot, about 51 km (31 mi) from Sukkur on August 31, 2010. (REUTERS/Damir Sagolj) #
Asia, 15, whose wedding was canceled after she lost her home, clothes and jewelery in recent floods passes the time in a family shelter in Pakistan's Muzaffargarh district on September 5, 2010. (REUTERS/Damir Sagolj) #
A severely malnourished baby is taken to the hospital by her brother in Pakistan's Muzaffargarh district on September 4, 2010. (REUTERS/Damir Sagolj) #
Pakistani children who survived heavy flooding lie covered with flies as they are forced to live in miserable conditions on a roadside in Nowshera near Pesharwar, Pakistan on Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2010. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad) #
An aerial photo shows Rajan Pur, partly submerged in floodwaters near Multan, Pakistan on Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2010. (AP Photo/Khalid Tanveer) #
Pakistani villagers who survived heavy flooding, work to remove mud from their house on the outskirts of Peshawar, Pakistan Monday, Aug. 30, 2010. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad) #
A man holds his daughter as he and other flood victims find shelter from a storm in an abandoned building in Pakistan's Muzaffargarh district on September 4, 2010. (REUTERS/Damir Sagolj) #
Survivors wade through floodwater to return their home in Sujawat, Sindh province, Southern Pakistan, Sept 4, 2010. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian) #
A Pakistani girl carrying her belongings on her head wades through flood waters in Punjab province's Basira on September 4, 2010. (CARL DE SOUZA/AFP/Getty Images) #
A Pakistani volunteer rescues a child as they travel on a vehicle provided by United Arab Emirates (UAE) as they evacuate the flood-hit Sujawal in southern Sindh province, on August 30, 2010. (ASIF HASSAN/AFP/Getty Images) #
Pakistan army soldiers in a boat search for flood survivors in Khairpur Nathan Shah on September 5, 2010. (ASIF HASSAN/AFP/Getty Images) #
Flood victims queue for aid provided by Sitara Chemical Industries Ltd in Sanawan, Punjab province Pakistan, on September 5, 2010. (CARL DE SOUZA/AFP/Getty Images) #
A boy helps his father rebuild their flood-damaged house in Muzaffargarh district, Punjab province, Pakistan on Tuesday Aug. 31, 2010. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila) #
A young flood victim looks on at a relief camp in Nowshera in northwestern Pakistan on September 3, 2010. Pakistan's northwest, the first region to be hit by the floods and the most devastated, now has roads lined with tents and tens of thousands of displaced waiting to go home. (REUTERS/Morteza Nikoubazl) #
I have tried to give credit, to those who deserved, but If I have missed something please do update me. The aim here is to convey the message from those who are suffering, I sincerely hope that the message is conveyed. Thanks for the read guys.
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Q: True or false: a sequence $\{a_{n}\}$ is convergent if and only if the subsequences $a_{2n}$ and $c_{2n + 1}$ both converge to the same number
True or false: a sequence $\{a_{n}\}$ is convergent if and only if the
  subsequences $a_{2n}$ and $c_{2n + 1}$ both converge to the same
  number

I think that the answer is true. I know that the converse is true because the subsequences of a convergent sequence always converge to the same number. I'm not sure about the forward direction though. I couldn't come up with a counterexample.

A: Suppose
$$\lim_{n\to\infty}a_{2n}=\lim_{n\to\infty}a_{2n+1}=A$$
And let $\;\epsilon >0\;$ be arbitrary, then there exist $\;N_1,\,N_2\in\Bbb N\;$ s.t.
$$\begin{cases}|a_{2n}-A|<\epsilon\,,\,\,\forall n>N_1\\{}\\|a_{2n+1}-A|<\epsilon\,,\,\,\forall\,n>N_2\end{cases}$$
Let now $\;M:=\max\{N_1,\,N_2\}\;$ , then for any $\;n>M\;$ , since $\;n\;$ is either even or odd....finish now with one line the proof.


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The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Flycatcher
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1479742The Encyclopedia Americana — Flycatcher
FLYCATCHER, one of many birds which catch insects in the air. More restrictedly, in ornithology, birds of the Old World insectivorous family Muscicapidæ, allied to the thrushes; this is a group very difficult to limit or define. All these are small, active birds, with great activity in flight and skill in seizing their agile prey; and all have broad flattened beaks, at the base of which is a growth of long stiff rictal bristles. The feet are usually weak and the wings long and pointed. Four or five species are common summer visitors to Europe, including the familiar and typical spotted flycatcher (Muscicapa grisola) and the pied or blackcap (M. atricapilla). In all the hotter latitudes of the Old World the species are very numerous, and ornate, many being crested, or having, in the case of the males at least, very long tail-feathers, which are handled most gracefully. Such are the paradise flycatchers (genus Tersiphone) of India and eastward, the Japanese species of which is so commonly represented on painted or embroidered screens. The "fantail" (q.v.) is another species remarkable in its flight. Most of these flycatchers are birds of the woods, and are usually solitary and silent, feeding on little except insects, which are habitually caught upon the wing with an audible snap of the bill. Some of the smaller ones are sometimes called "flysnappers." They nest in various situations, and many make highly beautiful receptacles for their variously decorated eggs.
None of the muscicapids is to be found in the New World, but America has a large family of flycatchers (the Tyrannidæ) just as suitably so-called as are the others, so far as habits are concerned; nor are they far removed in structure. This family contains some 400 species, mainly tropical, and chiefly of an olive-green, or black-and-gray complexion, often with ornamental touches of scarlet on the head or wings. The bill is rather stronger as a rule than in the Old World flycatchers, and often decidedly hooked, like that of vireos or shrikes. The wings are usually short, and the tail varies greatly, sometimes being beautifully prolonged, as in the scissor-tailed flycatcher of the western United States. The genus Alectrurus presents still more striking examples of very long and beautifully modified tail plumes. Good examples of this group are the king-birds, pipiris, pewees, vermilion flycatcher, and scissor-tail, elsewhere described. An excellent general account of these families will be found in Evans' 'Birds' (London and New York 1900).
Ernest Ingersoll.
FLYCATCHERS
1 Spotted Flycatcher 4 Kingbird
2 Pied Flycatcher 5 Bienteveo
3 White-collared and Red-breasted Flycatchers
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