The legislative council, or ALEC, is a conservative-leaning group of state legislators from all 50 states that has sought to roll back climate regulation in the past. It lost some corporate sponsors early this year because of its role promoting "stand your ground" laws that allow the use of force in self-defense without first retreating when faced with a serious threat.
But renewable energy officials — including ones from the Solar Energy Industries Association and the American Wind Energy Association, both members of ALEC — questioned the new policy. Setting renewable targets is a popular way to diversify a state's energy mix and lock in long-term prices, they said, while alternative energy costs continue to decline.
The analyses — which examine current or proposed standards in such states as Kansas, Maine, Michigan, Missouri, North Carolina and Oregon — assume that the Energy Information Administration's projected renewable energy price estimates are too low, and that cost-containment measures embedded in state policies will fail. As a result, the reports conclude Kansas's requirement to obtain 20 percent of its electricity will cost consumers $644 million over the next eight years, while Oregon's goal of 25 percent renewable electricity by 2025 will cost consumers $992 million by 2025.


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Gloria Vanderbilt, Heiress Turned Jeans Designer, Dies At 95
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NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/CNN/AP) — The legendary Gloria Vanderbilt has died.
She was a fashion trendsetter, an heiress, and so much more. Her extraordinary life was not without its difficult moments, but through it all, Vanderbilt kept her head held high.
She was a fashion queen. In the 1980s Gloria Vanderbilt jeans were all the rage. But she had so many years, and it seemed so many lives.
Born in New York in 1924, Gloria Laura Morgan Vanderbilt grew up in France. She was the great-great-granddaughter of financier Cornelius Vanderbilt. Her father, financier Reginald Vanderbilt, the heir to a railroad fortune, died when she was a baby. She born into brightest spotlight any child could face. At age 10, caught in a sensational custody battle, she was dubbed the "poor little rich girl."
Long before social media, she was followed by newsreel marking her every move, including her marriages. She was 17 when she was married for the first time to Hollywood agent Pat DiCicco in 1941.
At 21, she took control of a $4.3 million trust fund her father had left her. She divorced DiCicco two months later, promptly remarried — this time, to conductor Leopold Stokowski — and began pursuing her passions, beginning with her artwork, which she first put on exhibit in 1948.
She had two sons with Stokowski: Leopold Stokowski was born in 1950, and Christopher Stokowski in 1952. She went on to marry Sydney Lumet and Wyatt Cooper.
In 1954, she made her stage debut in a production of the romantic drama "The Swan" at the Pocono Playhouse in Mountainhome, Pennsylvania. She published a book of poetry the following year.
She found another avenue for her creativity in the years that followed. Tapping her artwork as a muse, she produced fashion and textile designs that would earn her the 1969 Neiman Marcus Fashion Award, before opening the door to a line of ready-to-wear garments in the mid-1970s.
Under her GV Ltd. brand, she'd go on to sell millions of pairs of jeans bearing her trademark swan logo.
In 2016, her son Anderson Cooper appeared with his mother in a documentary on her life "Nothing Left Unsaid."
Cooper's brother killed himself at the age of 23, a suicide his mother witnessed and called the most painful moment of her life.
"As a teenager she tried to avoid the spotlight, but reporters and cameramen followed her everywhere," Cooper said. "She was determined to make something of her life, determined to make a name for herself, and find the love she so desperately needed."
"I never knew we had the same giggle."@andersoncooper reminisces about the moments he shared with his mother, Gloria Vanderbilt.
The iconic American artist, designer, and heiress has died at the age of 95.https://t.co/vOMShEabdd pic.twitter.com/MoC7FatCI6
— Anderson Cooper 360° (@AC360) June 17, 2019
She was an heiress, an artist, and an unforgettable fashion icon. And, her son says, a wonderful mother.
She was 95 when she died.
The news was announced via a CNN report voiced by Cooper. CNN reported that she died at her home and was suffering from advanced stomach cancer.
"Gloria Vanderbilt was an extraordinary woman, who loved life, and lived it on her own terms. She was a painter, a writer, and designer but also a remarkable mother, wife, and friend. She was 95 years old, but ask anyone close to her, and they'd tell you, she was the youngest person they knew, the coolest, and most modern. She died this morning, the way she wanted to – at home, surrounded by family and friends," Cooper said in a statement released by CNN.
(© Copyright 2019 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved. The Associated Press contributed to this report.)

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Jan 21, 2019 · A group of Texas elementary school students honored Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. by carrying on the work he began, giving speeches inspired by his life and mission. The theme of this year's Foley Gardere Martin Luther King Jr. Oratory competition for fourth- and fifth-graders from Dallas and Houston was "What would Dr. King say to the children of the world today?"
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. – Fifty years after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, the civil rights leader's family and admirers were marking the anniversary of his death with marches, speeches and.
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National Urban League CEO Marc Morial and Harry Johnson, president of the Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial Project Foundation. 48th anniversary of King's historic "I Have a Dream" speech.
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Japanese techno is intrinsically linked with the name of Ken Ishi. His productions, never easily pigeonholed by the music press, have always been known as much for their ambient and tonal qualities as for their beats and melodies. Never afraid to experiment on stage, his live sets are legendary and his reputation as a DJ – well, a Twilo residency says it all really.
For the last couple of years he has released under the FLR moniker, aiming squarely at the dancefloor and achieving critical acclaim. This CD collects the various twelves together, mixing between the disco house of Part 6 and the fantastic Surgeon-esque techno of Part 1, with the inclusion of three previously unreleased tracks. If you missed the previous releases then this is your chance to play catch up.


Brian interviews St. John's College alum and U.S. Navy veteran Anne Kniggendorf. They have an engaging discussion about the relationship between liberal arts and the military.
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Freedom doesn't bloom in June…: A Black Female Perspective on Juneteenth
Posted by C. on June 19, 2021
On the surface, Juneteenth as a national holiday appears a national step towards acknowledging enslavement. The reality is, Juneteenth as a national holiday, functions to restore faith in what has failed us for centuries: the government. Juneteenth as a national holiday, in addition to aiding Joe Biden's attempt to paint himself into the Abe Lincoln mythos, suggests that the government will give the black collective what it deserves, only if we wait. The government legally abolished slavery when the government realized that they did not need a formal institution to maintain systemic control over the black psyche. The damage was done, irreparably so; thus, [physical] "freedom" came when the government felt confident that the damage caused was significant enough to make actual freedom a figment of an imagination stymied by systemic control. As long as the black collective aligns freedom with the consent of their adversaries, we remain bound cognitively to an institution that never truly dissolved.
Plantations endured a second life in million-dollar corporations built on the very backs of those who built this country, and what the past called "slaves" the present calls celebrities, politicians, entertainers, "cultural representatives," or the "new blacks" or "blavity" blacks.
Moreover, a core issue with this holiday is its distorted perception of freedom. Juneteenth isn't a celebration of black liberation, it is a celebration of white epistemology as shaping and determining black truth. Freedom is not something that is announced, given, or even celebrated. Freedom is something one must take and make for themselves, something that one must live.
Additionally, Juneteenth performs an integral and hazardous role in how American history and America as a country function globally.
The obscured caption accompanying this holiday is:
"America had slaves, but America freed slaves."
This caption reads a lot like:
"Derek Chauvin murdered George Floyd, but America convicted him."
The latter seems to mitigate the former overlooking the former as articulating the intractable in both statements.
A conviction does not and cannot move the unmovable. It cannot bring back George Floyd.
Abolition did not ameliorate the indelible scars of slavery, because slavery is that which cannot be abolished but overcome—an action consummated by the late Nat Turner, not by Juneteenth.
Nat Turner, though an enslaved man, epitomized freedom. His physical insurrection followed his cognitive awakening. But most importantly, he took what he knew his adversaries would never willingly give–what he knew he had to give himself. He'll never get a holiday because his legacy incites the masses to do more than celebrate. His legacy reminds the black collective that justice comes in the morning only if we plan in the evening. His legacy inspires the black collective to take what the government needs us to believe that only they can give.
With this being said, it is imperative to note a distinction between being enslaved and being a slave. While I will not go as far as to state that being a "slave" constitutes the irretrievable, I will say that it constitutes a cognitive state buried in layers of anti-black ideology to which it is difficult to resurrect. The enslaved did not need an announcement because freedom was something they detached from their physical reality. Those made slaves by the intricate structure of institutional bondage define freedom per their oppressors. Thus, slavery becomes the inheritance they leave for the generations that follow.
Nevertheless, I suppose that the biggest gripe with this "holiday" is that it illustrates that many do not truly desire freedom. It illustrates that freedom, for many, need only be a historical footnote or national afterthought, because freedom is faith in anything but ourselves, though designed to suggest the contrary.
It illustrates that to many, freedom need not be actualized, but limited to transient moments of celebration deemed legally worthy by the government. It illustrates that many just want a reason to celebrate because the system has broken us down to believe that celebration is the only relief that we have from its wrath, that celebration, in legally designated spurts, is how we actualize freedom. In this white settler space, celebrations are, of course, yet another means for the system to disrupt a disrupted people.
The stakeholders in this white settler space did not give the black collective Juneteenth in 2021 legislature or in the news received on June 19, 1985. What they appear to "give" is only to themselves, and to believe anything of the contrary elucidates that announcements in 1865 and 2021 function to ensure that the black collective remains systemically enslaved despite the facade of freedom.
I say these words not from a place of judgment but as a person whose dreams continue to be made of freedom. And while I do not wish to present freedom as a monolith, I do know that freedom does not bloom in June; it blooms within only if watered with that which is not white supremacy.
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As long as the System of Racism White Supremacy is in existence, black people will have to understand that there can be no freedom.
What we have is more freedom of movement, expression etc. What we don't have is Justice and without Justice it's impossible to have freedom.
The black collective that perceives itself as being free today, just do not understand the System of Racism White Supremacy, what it is and how it works!
The System is so ingrained in the minds and lives of black folks, we oftentimes do not even recognize the engulfing power of the System in how we think, how we speak, what we eat, what we wear, our religion, so on and on. White Supremacy is deep within our psyche at this stage, which is why it is so difficult to get Victims of Racism White Supremacy (black people) to understand it, much less working to counter it. Unfortunately, many black people much rather celebrate 🎉 when it should be obvious we have nothing to celebrate about. We have a lot of work to do.
The question now remains the same as it was in 1865, 1867, the 60's: "Free to do what?
The Slaves were never "Freed" they were Fired! The Slaves were transferred from being the property of individual White Supremacists to be the property of global collective of White Supremacists i.e the "government" better known as the global collective System of White people who believe in and practices the religion of White Supremacy Racism.
Thank you for the thought provoking blog, as I continue to be flooded with "Happy Juneteenth" from black people who are asleep at the wheel!
PauliAtomic says:
This is so powerful. Thank you for writing and posting it.
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Benjamin Woolridge says:
Outstanding post! I feel that nationalizing Juneteenth is yet another empty gesture meant to continue the illusion of progress without actually making any.


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Devastating mudslide leaves 85 people missing in China
Rescuers search through dirt and debris as latest disaster throws spotlight on China's frequent industrial accidents.
At least 85 people were missing after a huge mound of mud and construction waste collapsed at a business park in southern China and buried 33 buildings in the country's latest industrial disaster.
Premier Li Keqiang ordered an official investigation into Sunday's landslide in the southern boomtown of Shenzhen, just across the border from Hong Kong, which happened four months after huge chemical blasts at the northern port of Tianjin killed more than 160 people.
The mud and waste smashed into multi-storey buildings at the Hengtaiyu industrial park in the city's northwestern Guangming New District, toppling them in collisions that sent rivers of earth skyward.
"The area affected equals 14 soccer pitches – so that gives you an idea of how big this thing was," Al Jazeera's Adrian Brown reported.
"Most of [the missing] are migrant workers," he said, adding that it is usually migrant workers who are most badly affected by such disasters in China.
Speaking to the official Xinhua news agency, a local worker said: "I saw red earth and mud running towards the company building."
I saw red earth and mud running towards the company building. It's been hours after he was buried, and we are quite worried.
One woman told the Shenzhen Evening News newspaper on Sunday that she saw her father buried by earth in his truck.
READ MORE: Tianjin residents accuse government of negligence
"It's been hours since he was buried, and we are quite worried," she said.
Xinhua said 14 people had been rescued and more than 900 people had been evacuated from the site by Sunday evening.
Rescue operations were slowed by numerous obstacles, including continued rain, low visibility overnight, and mud, Ao Zhuoqian, a member of the Shenzhen fire brigade involved in on-site rescue, told Xinhua.
State television showed scenes of devastation, with crumpled buildings sticking up from heaps of brown mud which stretched out across the edge of the industrial park. The mud had covered an area of more than 60,000 square metres (72,000 sq yards) and was six metres deep in parts, state media said.
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More than 2,000 rescuers – with sniffer dogs and drones – were sifting through rubble looking for survivors after the landslide left everything covered in mud, leaving only a surface of yellow sand visible, Xinhua said.
The accumulation of a large amount of construction waste meant that mud was stacked too steep, "causing instability and collapse, resulting in the collapse of buildings", the ministry of land resources said in a statement, referencing an investigation from provincial authorities.
A nearby section of China's major West-East natural gas pipeline also exploded, state television said, though it was not clear if this had any impact on the landslide.
Xinhua said the pipeline was owned by PetroChina, China's top oil and gas producer, that the 400m-long ruptured pipe "has been emptied" and a temporary pipe will be built.
Contacted by Reuters news agency, the company said it was looking into what had happened.
Chinese President Xi Jinping ordered provincial authorities to do everything possible to minimise casualties, treat the injured and comfort family members, Xinhua said.
The frequency of industrial accidents in China has raised questions about safety standards after three decades of breakneck economic growth.
In one of China's worst landslides in living memory, more than 1,500 people died in 2010 when a barrage of mud slid down a mountainside into a town in the northwestern province of Gansu following torrential rain.
Adrian Brown, Al Jazeera's correspondent in China:
Another month, another industrial accident in China. And like recent incidents, this one was also preventable.
Given the scale of the spill, it could have been so much worse. Somehow officials got warning of a massive landslide and managed to evacuate 900 people. Their quick response certainly saved lives. And, as always at times like this, there is no shortage of manpower and equipment.
But in the aftermath of this landslide, which has left 200,000 metres of an industrial area submerged by mud, one obvious question arises.
Why did the authorities allow a man-made mountain of construction waste and soil to be sited so close to a busy factory zone.
The huge tip was in a disused quarry above the zone. Local residents said on social media that they had expressed their concerns about the dump to local officials many times in recent months.
Local media reports say the tip was more than 100m high and appears to have been operated by a private company which was awarded the contract by the local government. So all was apparently legal.
"There are two aspects of this tragedy that are sadly all too common in China," says Geoffrey Crothall of the China Labour Bulletin, a Hong Kong-based NGO that chronicles worker grievances in China.
He told Al Jazeera that "the storage of hazardous waste adjacent to work sites and residential areas was the case in the Tianjin disaster of August 12 this year which killed 173 people".
Many of the missing are thought to be migrant workers, among the poorest people in China. As one of China's key commercial centres, Shenzhen, which borders Hong Kong, is a magnet for millions of them. The destroyed buildings include two worker dormitories. Some simply compacted, testament, says Crothall, to the poor materials used in their construction.
"Many factory buildings are worker dormitories built from cheap, poor-quality materials and are particularly vulnerable to so-called natural disasters."
So a familiar theme of lax safety laws, shoddy construction and possible corruption are emerging once again.
China coal mine blaze kills 21 workers
Fire races through mine in Heilongjiang province, killing 21 miners and leaving one missing.
China landslide buries dozens of mining workers
At least 40 go missing after deluge hits living quarters of a mine company in northwestern Shaanxi province.
China rescuers scramble to find ship disaster survivors
More than 400 people still missing as bad weather hampers rescue efforts on Yangtze River.


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Twinkle, Twinkle, Star No More
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New forecasting approaches could help users of ground-based telescopes predict when the atmosphere will most blur incoming light, allowing them to better remove the effect.
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Predictions of global atmospheric turbulence could help astronomers to better design and operate ground-based telescopes. This map show predictions from a model that can accurately forecast global turbulence a few days in advance.
The turbulent swirling of air in Earth's atmosphere can cause incoming light from stars to twinkle, much to the frustration of ground-based-telescope operators. Being able to predict the properties of this optical disturbance could help observatory personnel to optimize telescope design, better schedule observations, and even select future telescope locations—factors that could all improve the data that scientists collect. At the SPIE Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation conference in Montreal in July 2022, researchers from three different groups presented new tools that could allow atmospheric turbulence to be forecast at various spatial scales up to a few hours in advance. Doing so could help telescope operators better mitigate the effects of turbulence on telescope measurements, improving the data that they collect.
The temperature gradients within the air, the topography of Earth's surface, and the shear of the wind all contribute to create atmospheric turbulence—small-scale, chaotic air swirls characterized by winds that vary in speed and direction. Air-density variations within these swirls give the atmosphere a refractive index (a parameter that determines how the air bends light) that varies rapidly in space and time. Such a highly inhomogeneous refractive index distorts images of astronomical objects taken from the ground. To correct for these distortions, users can adjust the shapes of some mirrors in the telescopes in such a way that it effectively "undoes" the atmospheric distortions. This method works best when the turbulence is weak, says James Osborn, an atmospheric physicist at Durham University, UK. If the turbulence is strong, as is the case when a big weather front comes through, the data can require an extensive postprocessing that includes making complex on-sky measurements to tease out the details of the site's turbulence. In extreme cases, the data may have to be thrown out.
Forecasting turbulence could help avoid such data loss. Scientists could "save an hour's worth of observing time" by better optimizing the configuration of the telescopes' optical components using forecast data, when available, Osborn says. The three tools presented all make those forecasts: one tool does so on a global scale, another aims for rapid time measurements, and one gleans information from real-time weather parameters.
The tool developed by Osborn and colleagues uses global-scale meteorology models to convert weather data into global atmospheric-turbulence maps. The team started with atmospheric meteorological data from the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts that included vertical profiles of air temperature, pressure, and humidity; and measurements of wind speed and velocity taken hourly at fixed weather stations. They then plugged this data into a model that calculated how the air's temperature and density, and thus its refractive index, varied as a function of the horizontal distance between two points. The team tested the model using archived observation data. Comparing their predictions to observations made above Paranal Observatory in Chile and in London for the same time frame, they found that the model could predict global turbulence patterns a few days in advance.
Osborn says that their forecast tool could enable more efficient site selection for future observatories, as it would allow planners to predict conditions at different sites and then use that information to select the location where turbulence was most likely to be low, or at least consistent. The tool could also aid in optimizing observing schedules for exoplanets, for example, which require very calm air conditions because of the faintness of exoplanet signals relative to their bright host stars.
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This video shows the time evolution of atmospheric turbulence above the sites of the Very Large Telescope and the Extremely Large Telescope in Chile. The arrows represent the wind speed close to the surface. More intense winds result in stronger disturbances of incoming optical signals.This video shows the time evolution of atmospheric turbulence above the sites of the Very Large Telescope and the Extremely Large Telescope in Chile. The arrows represent the wind speed close to the surface. More intense winds result in stronger dist... Show more
While Osborn and colleagues opted to make a global-scale model that can predict the properties of the atmosphere above any observatory, Elena Masciadri of the Italian National Institute of Astrophysics (INAF) and her colleagues used atmospheric models that have subkilometer horizontal resolution and are designed to simulate the conditions above specific geographical locations.
The INAF team's original model has been running at the Large Binocular Telescope at Mount Graham International Observatory in Arizona since 2016, forecasting local atmospheric conditions on timescales of either a day or one to two hours in the future. But the team wanted to improve the accuracy of the predictions. They have now done that by combining statistical and machine-learning techniques with real-time measurements.
The one-to-two-hour outlook of their forecasts means that the information provided by the model is relevant to optimizing data-taking at the Large Binocular Telescope, Masciadri says. She and the team now plan to develop a similar model to predict atmospheric turbulence above the Very Large Telescope in Chile.
In a third approach discussed at the meeting, Ryan Dungee of the University of Hawaii at Hilo presented a model that can identify the height of a turbulent swirl using real-time observations of wind speed and direction. This information could allow observatories to leverage information about the spatial distribution of turbulence to improve performance. To test the model, a research team used wind speed and direction data from local weather stations and balloon launches above the Maunakea Observatory in Hawaii. They then ran their model to map the altitudes of different turbulent layers based on measured winds. They found that they could separate surface layer turbulence (up to 200 m above ground level) from free-atmosphere turbulence (200 m to 2 km above ground level) on 67% of the days that they tested. Dungee says that the data his model provides could help reduce operational costs, as it uses existing wind measurements to determine different turbulent layers and doesn't need the expensive tools currently used to actively measure those layers. "Knowing which layers contain the most turbulence could lead to cheaper systems overall," Dungee says.
The forecasts and corrections provided by the three models also offer benefits beyond astronomy, the researchers say. As well as space observations, turbulence can hinder free-space optical communications, which use laser beams to transmit information from the ground to satellites. Turbulence can cause the beams to flicker or spread, distorting the received signal. "But if you know that the strongest turbulence is always at a certain height above the ground, you can design a system to take this into account," Osborn says. "So, it all comes together."
–Rachel Berkowitz
Rachel Berkowitz is a Corresponding Editor for Physics Magazine based in Vancouver, Canada.
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Why Coding Bootcamps Don't Work
Computer programming is highly specialized work; it can't be effectively taught in an intensive program.
By Geoffrey JamesContributing editor, Inc.com@Sales_Source
Last month, two of the country's largest and most well-regarded coding bootcamps closed. While there are still over 90 such camps in the U.S. and Canada, these for-profit intensive software engineering schools aren't successfully preparing their students for programming jobs.
According to a recent Bloomberg article, the Silicon Valley recruiter Mark Dinan characterized the bootcamps as "a freaking joke," while representatives of Google and Autodesk said respectively that "most graduates from these programs are not quite prepared" and "coding schools haven't been much of a focus for [us]."
In one sense, the failure of coding bootcamps reflects the near-universal failure of for-profit universities, colleges, and charter schools to provide a usable education. In another sense, though, coding bootcamps represent a profound misunderstanding of what computer programming is all about.
As far as I can tell, most laymen envision coding as something analogous to either writing a to-do list (do this, then this, then this, etc.) or building with Legos (connect this piece to that piece to this other piece). Indeed, the two most common methods of teaching coding--turtle graphics and visual programming--encourage these overly deterministic and simplistic ways of thinking.
For example, many computer programs--video games are good example--are constantly doing multiple things at the same time, any one of which might be interrupted and redirected by events or conditions that occur inside other parts of the program or as the result of actions that the user might (or might not) take.
Writing such programs (ones that work, that is) require a programmer to envision how multiple states and situations will interact, not in a step-by-step progression but in terms of everything happening at once. As complexity increases, it becomes increasingly difficult and sometimes nigh impossible to determine exactly what's going on at any one moment.
Visual programming has similar limitations. Real computer programming means mastering at least one computer programming languages. Like every spoken language, every programming language has its own vocabulary, grammar and syntax, all of which create limitations on how easy or difficult it is to express your intent.
This is more than just "telling the computer what to do." A program must also communicate your intent to your future self (or somebody tasked with supporting your program) when it comes time to alter or debug the program. Just as journalists have different styles of writing, programmers develop individual programming styles, which may be easy or difficult for others to understand.
Well-written code is often poetic in its elegance. A clearly written program will have a felicitous word choice (variable naming), spacing, indentation, choice of algorithm, structure, and more. A talented programmer can produce code that another programmer can understand, update and debug, at a glance.
Poorly written code, by contrast, can be impenetrable, even to the programmer who originally wrote it. Such code is almost impossible to update or debug. It's usually easier to completely rewrite confusing code than attempt to "fix" it, a daunting task if the code is so obscure that it's not clear what the original programmer intended.
Coding at the professional level is highly specialized and requires years of practice to master. That's why successful professional programmers almost always have a computer science degree and extensive programming experience.
In short, the idea of a bootcamp for coding is just as practical as the idea of a bootcamp for surgery. Some skills are too complex for short-term intensive training to be effective.
Published on: Aug 27, 2017


Going back a bit to the July/August timeframe, we released Terracotta for Hibernate, a clustered Hibernate product that provides a second level cache provider and a monitoring panel inside the Terracotta Developer Console.
We spent all summer with the whole team doing almost nothing but tuning that sucker and we made the cache really fly, putting together some pretty insane read-only numbers and some very good read/write numbers. We also used our own monitoring panel inside the dev console while doing all that tuning and built a lot of great Hibernate and cache stats visibility into it along with the ability to dynamically tune the expiration and eviction settings while you're running.
An easily overlooked detail of the Hibernate release was that we did a lot of work to make the product easier to integrate than the Terracotta DSO platform has been in the past. Historically, using Terracotta required building a platform-appropriate boot jar that got prepended to your classpath to allow us to do dynamic bytecode instrumentation. We have a bunch of tools that automatically detect when that's need, build the boot jar, etc but we still see it as a deployment factor that throws people off. With the Hibernate product, we have a new "express" deployment mode that does not require a boot jar. It does currently require a Java agent jar, which you must set on the command line, but at least it is not OS/JDK specific. This allows the Hibernate product to run on more JDKs (like JRockit) and more app servers (like Websphere) than we previously could support.
As a package, Terracotta for Hibernate is a great user-oriented cohesive package and as a release, I was as proud of the outcome of it as anything I've ever worked on. We've seen a steady and rising interest in it as the word gets out but I still think way too few people are even aware of it.
Right on the heels of that release, in August we announced that Terracotta had acquired Ehcache and hired Greg Luck, the primary developer. Terracotta has had clustered Ehcache integration since Ehcache 1.2 and we have a bunch of customers using it. We have done prototypes of clustering other open source caches but honestly, almost everyone uses Ehcache. However, the integration had never been as clean or as fast as we or our customers wished.
Now that we had the ability to modify some of the internals of Ehcache, we embarked on a brand new clustered store integration. In October we released that Ehache-Terracotta integration along with Ehcache 1.7.0. The new Ehcache Terracotta integration also built on our Hibernate express product development. The Ehcache Terracotta express product requires NO boot jar and NO agent jar. You just add a jar to your classpath, add one line to your Ehcache configuration to tell it where your Terracotta server is, and one line to each cache that is clustered. It is truly the easiest clustered product Terracotta has ever released.
On performance, the Ehcache Terracotta integration builds on the same exact core and libraries that we spent all summer performance testing underneath the Hibernate cache, so it has the same kind of awesome performance.
And just a few days ago, we released the beta version of the Ehcache Console. This is a new commercial product (free to try) that lets you plug in a probe to your existing Ehcache installation (back to Ehcache 1.4) and aggregate one or more cache managers or nodes into a single web console and HTTP/XML/YAML monitor server. If you need to watch the performance of your caches, search the contents of your cache, or remove individual elements from your cache, the console can do those things. If you need to connect to your preferred management and monitoring tools, you can do that through the monitoring API. The beta is out now to try and we'll continue refining it and taking feedback for a while.
So that's what we've released so far in 2009. But we're not done yet! We have really another exciting announcement coming soon (I'm not sure when exactly). I think people will be excited when they find out….
And other than that announcement we have two more development efforts that will be coming out in the next few months. First, our server team has been hard at work on the Terracotta 3.2 release. This release has more engineering done on the core platform than any release I can remember. We have rebuilt both the server and client side lock managers from the ground up, with an eye towards drastically reduced lock memory footprint, drastically increased performance. In addition to that, we've made a ton of improvements to protocols, threading, batching, concurrency, etc. We're seeing performance results of 5-6x throughput on our Hibernate tests compared to our previous results (which already beat every competitor we tested). In general, anyone using the Terracotta platform should see a boost in performance with Terracotta 3.2.
Second, we're starting to work on unifying the work that we've done on the Terracotta for Hibernate product and the Ehcache Terracotta integration so that they become just one single express product that is only a simple express product with no boot jar or agent jar. Basically, the Ehcache Hibernate provider will start to support Terracotta clustering, and rework the console options to become more consistent between Hibernate and Ehcache. That stuff is 2010 for sure but it's in the works.
I think we've built some amazing stuff this year so I hope this gets the word out a little better! If you are looking to do some kind of clustered caching, we'd love to talk to you. I think we cover a lot of ground, but even if we don't end up having the perfect solution we'd love to learn what we're missing and think about what we could do to help.


Free-fall, in mechanics, state of a body that moves freely in any manner in the presence of gravity. The planets, for example, are in free-fall in the gravitational field of the Sun. Newton's laws show that a body in free-fall follows an orbit such that the sum of the gravitational and inertial forces equals zero. This explains why an astronaut in a spacecraft orbiting the Earth experiences a condition of weightlessness: the Earth's gravitational pull is equal and opposite to the inertial—in this case, centrifugal—force because of the motion of the vehicle. Gravitational forces are never uniform, and therefore only the centre of mass is in free-fall. All other points of a body are subject to tidal forces because they move in a slightly different gravitational field. The Earth is in free-fall, but the pull of the Moon is not the same at the Earth's surface as at its centre; the rise and fall of ocean tides occur because the oceans are not in perfect free-fall.


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Country Report: Social welfare Last updated: 30/11/20
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The law provides access to social welfare for beneficiaries of international protection without drawing any distinction between refugees and beneficiaries of subsidiary protection. Beneficiaries of international protection should enjoy the same rights and receive the necessary social assistance according to the terms that apply to nationals, without discrimination.[1]
Types of social benefits
Not all beneficiaries have access to social rights and welfare benefits. In practice, difficulties in access to rights stem from bureaucratic barriers, which make no provision to accommodate the inability of beneficiaries to submit certain documents such as family status documents, birth certificates or diplomas, or even the refusal of civil servants to grant them the benefits provided, contrary to the principle of equal treatment as provided by Greek and EU law.[2]
Family allowance: The family allowance is provided to families that can demonstrate 10 years of permanent and uninterrupted stay in Greece. As a result, the majority of beneficiaries of international protection are excluded from this benefit.
Single mother allowance: Allowance to single mothers is provided to those who can provide proof of their family situation e.g. divorce, death certificate, birth certificate. With no access to the authorities of their country, many mothers are excluded because they cannot provide the necessary documents.
Single child allowance: The single child support allowance replaced the pre-existing family allowances and is provided explicitly to refugees or beneficiaries of subsidiary protection.[3]
Birth allowance: The newly established birth allowance is granted to the mother who is legally and permanently residing in Greece and amounts to €2,000 for every child born in Greece. Third country nationals are entitled to receive this allowance if they can demonstrate 12 years of permanent stay in Greece. Exceptionally for the births that will take place in the years 2020-2023 the allowance will be granted to the mother – third country national, if she has been permanently residing in Greece since 2012. The permanent stay is proved with the submission of tax declarations. Hence, the vast majority of beneficiaries of international protection are practically excluded from this benefit.[4]
Student allowance: Furthermore, beneficiaries of international protection are excluded by law from the social allowance granted to students, which amounts to €1,000 annually. According to the law, this allowance is provided only to Greek nationals and EU citizens.[5]
Disability benefits: Beneficiaries of international protection with disabilities also face great difficulties in their efforts to access welfare benefits. First they have to be examined by the Disability Accreditation Centre to assess whether their disability is at a level above 67%, in order to be eligible for the Severe Disability Allowance.[6] Even if this is successfully done, there are often significant delays in the procedure.
KEA: Since February 2017, the Social Solidarity Income (Κοινωνικό Επίδομα Αλληλεγγύης, KEA) is established as a new welfare programme regulated by Law 4389/2016.[7] This income of €200 per month for each household, plus €100 per month for each additional adult of the household and €50 per month for each additional child of the household, was intended to temporarily support people who live below the poverty line in the current humanitarian crisis, including beneficiaries of international protection.
KEA is granted based on the following criteria: family status and family members; income; and assets. It is described as a solidarity programme connected to supplementary services, such as access to social services that may provide cheaper electricity or water.
However, the preconditions are difficult to meet. In order to receive KEA:
Each member of the household must obtain a Tax Registration Number (AFM), a Social Security Number (AMKA) and a bank account;
Each household must legally and permanently reside in Greece;
The following documents are required to prove their residence: (a) for residence in owner-occupied property, a contract certifying ownership and utility bills for state-owned enterprises; (b) for residence in rented property, a copy of the electronic lease agreement, plus utility bills; (c) for residence in a property based on free concession, the concession agreement and bills for state-owned enterprises. In case of homelessness, homeless applicants are required to submit a homelessness certificate issued by the municipality or by shelter or a day-centre. It is obviously almost impossible for homeless beneficiaries to provide all of these documents, meaning that they cannot apply for the allowance.
Unfortunately, except for KEA, there are no other effective allowances in practice. There is no provision of state social support for vulnerable cases of beneficiaries such as victims of torture. The only psychosocial and legal support addressed to the identification and rehabilitation of torture victims in Greece is offered by three NGOs, GCR, Day Centre Babel and MSF, which means that the continuity of the programme depends on funding.
Uninsured retiree benefit: Finally, retired beneficiaries of international protection, in principle have the right to the Social Solidarity Benefit of
Uninsured Retirees.[8] However, the requirement of 15 years of permanent residence in Greece in practice excludes from this benefit seniors who are newly recognised beneficiaries. The period spent in Greece as an asylum seeker is not calculated towards the 15-year period, since legally the application for international protection is not considered as a residence permit.
The granting of social assistance is not conditioned on residence in a specific place
[1] Articles 29 and 30 PD 141/2013 ανδ Λ. 4636/2019.
[2] Pro Asyl and Refugee Support Aegean, Rights and effective protection exist only on paper: The precarious existence of beneficiaries of international protection in Greece, 30 June 2017, 22-24; ELIAMEP, Refugee Integration in Mainland Greece: Prospects and Challenges, March 2018, 4-5.
[3] Article 214 L. 4512/2018, as amended by Article 15 L. 4659/2020.
[4] Articles 1 and 7 L. 4659/2020.
[5]Article 10 L 3220/2004.
[6] JMD Γ4α/Φ. 225/161, Official Gazette 108/B/15.2.1989.[7] Article 235 L 4389/2016. See KEA, 'Πληροφορίες για το ΚΕΑ', available in Greek at: http://bit.ly/2HcB6XT.
[8] Article 93 L 4387/2016.
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•From Pamplona and Basque Country by the motorway A-15 to Tafalla or by the NA-121. Once in Tafalla, take the Ujué road and 10 km away is San Martín de Unx.
•From Sangüesa, Huesca, etc by the NA-132.
•From Catalonian and Madrid, motorway A-15, after Tudela get out in Olite. Take the road to San Martín de Unx (NA-5300) and 9 km away is San Martín de Unx.
By RENFE to Tafalla, located 10 km from San Martín de Unx.
By plain to Noain (Pamplona) 10 km away.
In the locality of San Martín de Unx, next to Ujue, it is this house of modern building surrounded by 400m of tree land. It is located in a quiet area, 50 m away of the municipal swimming pools, with very good views to the Mountain Chain of Guerinda.
The house has two floors, central heating, on the first floor is the fully equipped kitchen and with access to a very wide terrace with barbecue from where you can enjoy of the landscape of the Mountain Chain, living-dining room with TV, table games and terrace, and a bathroom toilet. On the g2nd floor we have 4 bedrooms. 2 double, one double (marriage) and one single, bathroom and terrace.
In the village we can enjoy the guided visit by Elena García to the Romanesque Crypt of the XII century, walks for hiking and BTT, fronton, wine route.
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Medieval streets with houses of noblemen, vestiges of the wall and of a Romanesque road, but it is also cot of good wines is San Martín de Unx. Furthermore its church of San Martñin of Tours is one of the best of the Navarre Romanesque, with a wonderful awesome crypt and beautiful panoramic views. We have to add the proto gothic hermitage of San Miguel and the gothic church of our Lady of Popolo (XIV century). On the first Sunday of June the "Rose Day" is celebrated, with tasting of rose wines, popular "chistorra", crafts, music, ethno tourism ... In its surrounding there are holm oak trees, shrub oak trees and juniper trees in the highest areas, as elms and poplars on the banks of ravines and roads.
Bardenas Reales, Castle of Olite. Wine cellars of the area, Romanesque crypt of San Martín de Unx, Walled sanctuary of Santa Marí de Ujué, Castle of Javier, Monastery of la Oliva.
Hiking, visits to the wine cellars.


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Schrödingerova rovnice je pohybová rovnice nerelativistické kvantové teorie. V roce 1925 ji formuloval Erwin Schrödinger. Popisuje časový a prostorový vývoj vlnové funkce částice, která se pohybuje v poli sil. Tato rovnice má v kvantové mechanice stejné postavení jako druhý Newtonův zákon v klasické mechanice.

Odvození rovnice
Schrödingerova rovnice ve své době přirozeně vyplynula z předchozích výzkumů.

V roce 1905 došel Albert Einstein při studiu fotoelektrického jevu ke vztahu
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který vyjadřuje vztah mezi energií E a frekvencí f kvanta elektromagnetického záření (fotonu), přičemž h označuje Planckovu konstantu.

V roce 1924 přišel Louis de Broglie s hypotézou, podle které přísluší všem částicím (nejen fotonům) vlnová funkce , přičemž vztah mezi hybností částice a vlnovou délkou vlny, která byla částici přiřazena (tzv. de Broglieho vlna) vyjádřil vztahem
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De Broglie pomocí těchto vln také ukázal, že Einsteinův vztah  platí nejen pro fotony, ale pro všechny částice.

Pro energii a hybnost lze pomocí úhlové frekvence  a vlnového čísla , kde  je redukovaná Planckova konstanta získat vztahy

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Schrödinger vyšel z předpokladu, že pohyb částice můžeme spojovat s de Broglieho vlnou. Vlnu šířící se ve směru osy x lze popsat vlnovou rovnicí, jejíž řešení lze vyjádřit jako
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kde  je úhlová frekvence,  je fázová rychlost a  je integrační konstanta. Toto řešení lze také přepsat do tvaru
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Tento vztah popisuje částici s celkovou energií  a hybností , která se pohybuje ve směru osy x. Označujeme ji také jako vlnovou funkci volné částice. Tento vztah však také představuje řešení Schrödingerovy rovnice, jejíž tvar z něj můžeme získat.

Celkovou energii (nerelativistické) částice v potenciálním poli lze zapsat jako
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kde  je kinetická energie částice,  je potenciální energie částice (v kvantové mechanice je zvykem potenciální energii značit jako V, kinetickou energii jako T),  je hybnost a  je hmotnost částice.

Derivací vlnové funkce volné částice získáme následující vztahy

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Dosazením do výrazu pro celkovou energii získáme
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Časově závislý tvar jednorozměrné Schrödingerovy rovnice lze tedy zapsat jako
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V trojrozměrném prostoru má časová Schrödingerova rovnice tvar
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kde  je Laplaceův operátor.

Schrödinger pomocí této rovnice spočítal spektrální čáry vodíku, kdy popsal elektron jako vlnu nacházející se v potenciálové jámě vytvořené protonem (tedy jádrem atomu). Tento výpočet souhlasil s experimenty, výsledky Bohrova modelu atomu a také s maticovou mechanikou Wernera Heisenberga, přičemž Schrödinger nepotřeboval uvažovat s nekomutativností pozorovatelných, jak tomu bylo právě v maticové mechanice. Schrödinger svou práci o vlnové funkci a spektrálních čarách publikoval v roce 1926.

Schrödingerova rovnice určuje chování vlnové funkce, avšak neurčuje, co vlastně vlnová funkce je. Interpretaci vlnové funkce jako amplitudy pravděpodobnosti předložil v roce 1926 Max Born. Jsou však i jiné interpretace kvantové mechaniky.

Obecné vyjádření
V obecném tvaru se Schrödingerova rovnice zapisuje jako
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kde  je časově závislý Hamiltonův operátor (hamiltonián) popisující pohyb částice v časově závislých vnějších polích. Ten vyjadřuje ve formě operátoru celkovou energii částice jako součet kinetické a potenciální energie. Výraz na pravé straně vyjadřuje časovou změnu vlnové funkce. Tato obecná Schrödingerova rovnice bývá také označována jako časová nebo nestacionární.

Obecné nestacionární řešení časové Schrödingerovy rovnice s časově nezávislým hamiltoniánem lze vyjádřit prostřednictvím rozvoje do ortonormálních stacionárních stavů, tzn.
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kde  jsou časově nezávislá komplexní čísla určená počáteční podmínkou . Střední hodnota energie těchto stavů je na čase nezávislá.

Stacionární Schrödingerova rovnice
Zvláštním případem Schrödingerovy rovnice je tzv. stacionární (časově nezávislá, bezčasová nebo nečasová) Schrödingerova rovnice, kterou lze získat za předpokladu, že vývoj systému je popsán Schrödingerovou rovnicí, v níž je  časově nezávislý hamiltonián popisující pohyb částice v časově nezávislých vnějších polích.

V takovém případě lze provést separaci proměnných a hledat vlnovou funkci ve tvaru
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S tímto předpokladem dostaneme po dosazení do Schrödingerovy rovnice:
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Obě strany výsledné rovnice se musí rovnat konstantě, kterou označíme . Tato konstanta má rozměr energie. Za uvedených předpokladů tak dostáváme dvě rovnice, přičemž první z nich se označuje jako stacionární Schrödingerova rovnice

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Rozepsáním hamiltoniánu lze získat:
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Vzhledem k tomu, že časově nezávislý hamiltonián se vyskytuje např. u popisu chování elektronu v atomu, představuje stacionární Schrödingerova rovnice velmi významnou rovnici kvantové mechaniky.

Stacionární stav
Podle stacionární rovnice jsou energie  vlastními čísly hamiltoniánu  (hovoří se též o vlastních energiích). K určení vlastních energií lze integrovat druhou rovnici, čímž získáme
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kde  je normovací konstanta, kterou lze obvykle položit .

Stavy s vlastními energiemi  lze tedy popsat vlnovými funkcemi
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Takové stavy se označují jako stacionární stavy. Stacionární stavy jsou zvláštností kvantové fyziky. V klasické mechanice se sice také vyskytují (např. nehybný hmotný bod), jedná se však vždy o případy z hlediska klasické mechaniky nezajímavé.

Hustota pravděpodobnosti stacionárního stavu na čase nezávisí, tzn.
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Střední hodnota libovolného časově nezávislého operátoru  ve stacionárních stavech  nezávisí na čase, tedy
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Pro stacionární stavy je také hustota toku pravděpodobnosti  nezávislá na čase.

Vlastnosti
Protože Schrödingerova rovnice obsahuje na jedné straně první parciální derivace vlnové funkce podle času a na druhé straně druhé derivace podle prostorových souřadnic (Laplaceův operátor), není tato rovnice invariantní vůči Lorentzově transformaci. Není tedy v souladu se speciální teorií relativity. Nejedná se tedy o relativistickou rovnici. Relativistickou obdobou Schrödingerovy rovnice jsou např. Diracova rovnice nebo Kleinova–Gordonova rovnice.

Schrödingerova rovnice umožňuje jednoduše formulovat a vyřešit v kvantové mechanice problémy jako lineární harmonický oscilátor, částice v potenciálové jámě nebo vodíku podobný atom. Vysvětluje stabilitu atomů, která byla pro klasickou fyziku záhadou. Umožnila pevné propojení fyziky s chemií, protože vysvětlila nejen ionizační energie prvků, ale i různorodost jejich chemického chování pomocí orbitalů tvořících atomový obal. Tyto poznatky umožnily vysvětlit čáry ve spektru zářících těles a pochopit tak stavbu a vývoj hvězd analýzou jejich světla.

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The #EndSARS movement explained & how you can help
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Nigerians across the world are uniting in their stance against police brutality conducted at the hands of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS).
Allegations of torture, violations of human rights and abuse have come to light and Nigerians are rightfully angry.
Allegations include unlawful arrests and detainment disproportionately against young people, kidnapping, murder, extortion and theft.
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— Amnesty Int. Nigeria (@AmnestyNigeria) October 9, 2020
Earlier in the week, protests were held across the world, including in mainland Lagos as protesters held placards to demand an end to SARS and an end to police brutality which is bestowed upon detainees, those convicted of crimes, witnesses and suspects.
Videos shared to social media showed hostile treatment at the hands of the police as they threatened protesters and destroyed their property.
In a minor win, the Nigerian police chief announced that SARS would be banned from conducting " routine patrols and other conventional low-risk. duties — stop and search duties, checkpoints, mounting of roadblocks, traffic checks, etc — with immediate effect". Mohammed Adamu added, "Voices and complaints on the issues of unprofessional conducts by some SARS operatives have been heard very loudly and clearly."
Activists and protests say this is not enough though and want SARS scrapped altogether.
Amnesty International has said, "Amnesty International is again calling on the Nigerian government to seize this moment to demonstrate the country's commitment to human rights and fulfil its obligation of holding the police to account."
"The government must empower oversight bodies, including the Police Service Commission, Committee Against Torture and the National Human Rights Commission to investigate and initiate prosecution of police officers, who are involved in the violation of human rights."
Osai Ojigho, director of Amnesty International added, "the authorities have an obligation to protect Nigerians and bring to justice those who violate their human rights. Unless the authorities follow through with their promises to reform SARS and end the frequent extortion and ill-treatment of Nigerians, their empty words will be just that."
A protest is being organised in London at the Nigeria High Commission. You can also help by using the #EndSars, #EndSarsBrutality and #EndSarsImmediately hashtags on social media which spreads awareness.
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Contact: Mr. Jampel Monlam (Tibetan/Chinese)
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Tibetan monks at Bora Monastery staged peaceful protests yesterday against the Chinese government and even marched to the local township office following which security officers from People's Armed Police and Public Security Bureau have now surrounded the monastery on all sides.
The protests occurred at around 12 pm (Tibet Time) on 20 March 2012 in Sangchu (Chinese: Xiahe Xian) County in Kanlho (Chinese: Gannan) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Gansu Province.
About a hundred monks from Bora Monastery carried Tibetan flags and shouted slogans calling for human rights, religious freedom, and language rights in Tibet and marched to the township office where the protests continued, according to sources.
The monastery is now under siege with security officers keeping a strict watch over movements in and out of the monastery.
It is not immediately known whether anyone was arrested during the protests. TCHRD is trying to obtain more details.


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There are many strong benefits to wired home security systems Buena Park, CA. Let's review some of the features of these kinds of systems and show how they can benefit the typical homeowner in this area.
Wired home security systems typically consist of a central control module which is connected to a number of sensors through a wired link. Wires are normally routed throughout the walls, ceilings or floors to get from the central station to the spot where the sensor is to be installed.
The wired sensors can monitor all kinds of problems including intrusion from a window or door, broken glass, movement from a potential intruder, water problems, smoke, or fire. A wired sensor tends to be very compact and can be easily installed in a wide variety of locations.
The cost of these sensors also tends to be lower than an equivalent wireless sensor. So if you intend to monitor many locations, a wired configuration is typically the best way to go.
The wired system can also be easily expanded by adding more sensors. It is just a matter of routing the wires to the new location as desired. A wired system also tends to be very reliable when it comes to signal integrity.
So if the sensor gets triggered, it will have a high degree of reliability of sending the appropriate signal to the central control box. It is also possible to install wired sensors from different manufacturers and still achieve good results.
Compatible issues are minimal. So if you want the ability to monitor many areas of your home in order to provide maximum protection a wired system should be strongly considered.


22 years since the events of "Jurassic Park," the theme park with real dinosaurs as its major attractions is finally opened. To talk about why that's probably the worst idea imaginable, considering everything that happened before, would take too long, so let's just move on. The park looks great! The visitors' center has holographic, life-size dinosaurs, children can ride little Triceratops, the dinosaurs are seen by traveling via monorail and giant glass spheres, there's an underwater dinosaur that eats sharks and splashes a viewing audience, and so on. If I didn't see the first movie (and even today, I pretend not to see its first two sequels; I think the creators of this movie pretend that too), I'd want to visit this place in the hope that these things don't suddenly break free and attack me! And of course, in a "Jurassic Park" movie, things must go wrong on the particular day this movie is set.
One of the more brilliant touches added to the story is that people today are so used to seeing a Tyrannosaurus Rex or a Brachiosaur that they're just sort of bored by it. Even when tourists are near a T-Rex, some of them are just on their phones and ignoring it. Claire (Bryce Dallas Howard) compares them to elephants and wonders if there's something bigger and scarier for today's generation. Thanks to the gene-splicing done by a research team done by the only remaining cast member in this sequel, Dr. Wu (B.D. Wong, from the first movie), a new creation is awaiting approval to be released to the public—the 50-foot Indominus Rex, who apparently ate its only sibling.
Well, there's only one way this can turn out, right?
Enter Owen Grady (Chris Pratt), a former Navy man who now works as a Raptor Wrangler & Whisperer. No, seriously—he can communicate with Velociraptors using a clicking device and a stern voice. This gets the attention of the obvious villain, the unlikable military-type (Vincent D'Onofrio), who wants to use the Raptors as weapons. But enough about that, Owen says. I gotta check out this Indominus Rex thing!
Claire brings Owen in on the new dino, and of course, he thinks this was a very bad idea. Further proving his point too late is when the creature manages to break out of its paddock, heading toward the park, where thousands of people are! So now it's up to Owen, Claire, Claire's assistants at the electronic monitors (including Lowery, played with Jeff Goldblum-style cockiness by Jake Johnson), and even the military to bring this beast down before it causes any more damage. On top of that, Claire's nephews, teenage Zach (Nick Robinson) and his precocious little brother Gray (Ty Simpkins), are in the park, have escaped from Claire's assistant, and have separated from everyone else to have some fun. After a T-Rex attacks them, they lose their way in the park.
This is a much better "Jurassic Park" sequel than 1997's "The Lost World: Jurassic Park" and 2001's "Jurassic Park III." It captures the feel of the original while knowing that it's not enough to give us what made it popular but to add its own inventive elements as well. What do we come to expect? Fun action scenes with some scary dinosaurs. What else do we come to expect? Something new to add on to them. Setting the film in the fully functional park was a good way to start, and even making this new vision of a dinosaur theme park better than what Richard Attenborough's John Hammond would've imagined was a good idea too. There are so many things that can be done with this version, and director Colin Trevorrow and his team of writers take advantage of most of them (if not all of them). They also give the central characters (Owen, Claire, Zach, Gray, Lowery) enough appeal and personality to make us care for them, even if they're more two-dimensional rather than three-dimensional. This is especially notable since I couldn't give a damn about most of the characters in the other sequels.
"Jurassic World" is the "Jurassic Park" sequel I was waiting for. It's fun, inventive, and even works well as a stand-alone thrill ride. This may inspire more sequels to be made, though I don't think they're needed. I think the filmmakers have already done for this film what's left to do with its concept (unless the sequel wants to go for the R rating and do things audiences wouldn't expect). But for now, be glad there's fresh, new life brought to a cherished franchise.


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Sérgio Alex Kugland de Azevedo (Rio de Janeiro, 27 de janeiro de 1956), é um cientista brasileiro, diretor do Museu Nacional entre 2003 e 2010. Estudou geologia e ciências biológicas na Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul. Especializou-se em paleontologia.

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As is typical of Google, they took a concept developed by another company, created an improved version of it and released it as free open source software to the masses. Google Sketchup is undeniably the most used 3D modelling software in the world at present. It is extremely intuitive to use, with simple push/pull gestures which represent what used to be tedious text extrusion submissions. Therefore, the culmination of intuitive easy model massing and manipulation, with a feature rich ever expanding array of commands and plugins makes for one of the most powerful and diverse modelling programs available today - yet amazingly it remains free! The secret behind the success of Google Sketchup is that the program remains open source, meaning that the program code is left easily accessible for third party developers to create additional supplementary code which increases the functionality of the software. The new code is then made available for the public to download and add to the existing program files. There are more features and plugins than I care to explain, but all I can suggest is that it really is a must for any design, engineering or art student, as the software has proved itself to be literally limitless. If you would like to get a grasp of what Sketchup is capable of, I would suggest you click on the link below which shows all the plugins which Google hosts on their site for download. Then, you should multiply that number by about 10-15 at least, which will allow for third party developers and you get some understanding of the vast functionality, diversity and efficiency this software can bring to your workflow.
Download it and play with it for 60 minutes. You wont regret it, as it can literally aid you in any aspect of your studies, from simple perspectives to conceptual massing, from IES environmental analysis to photo-realistic rendering and animation.The Following is an example of a single quick project I did in the early years of my study, whereby I had to recreate an existing building as a digital 3D model and create photo-realistic renderings which closely resembled an existing photo. I allowed myself one day for the whole project, as I wished to also show the power and efficiency of modern day free design software packages.


"On Lyndon's Equation in Some Lambda-Free Groups and HNN Extensions" by Laura Ciobanu, Benjamin Fine et al.
In this paper we study Lyndon's equation x(p)y(q)z(r) = 1, with x, y, z group elements and p, q, r positive integers, in HNN extensions of free and fully residually free groups, and draw some conclusions about its behavior in A-free groups.
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Ciobanu, Laura; Fine, Benjamin; and Rosenberger, Gerhard, "On Lyndon's Equation in Some Lambda-Free Groups and HNN Extensions" (2011). Mathematics Faculty Publications. 13.
Ciobanu, L., Fine, B., Rosenberger, G. On Lyndon's Equation in Some Lambda-Free Groups and HNN Extensions, Journal of Group Theory, Vol. 14, No. 3 (May 2011) p. 333-339.


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George knelt beside the pool and drank from his hand with quick scoops. "Tastes all right," he admitted. "Don't really seem to be running, though. You never oughta drink water when it ain't running, Lennie," he said hopelessly. "You'd drink out of a gutter if you was thirsty." He threw a scoop of water into his face and rubbed it about with his hand, under his chin and around the back of his neck. Then he replaced his hat, pushed himself back from the river, drew up his knees and embraced them. Lennie, who had been watching, imitated George exactly. He pushed himself back, drew up his knees, embraced them, looked over to George to see whether he had it just right. He pulled his hat down a little more over his eyes, the way George's hat was.


A plan to transport convicts from San Quentin Prison to a newly-built facility in Valley Center would likely be greeted by strong protests and demonstrations if it were to be proposed today. But such a prison actually existed here seven decades ago.
In 1940, state corrections officials began construction of a minimum-security complex called the Moosa Canyon Prison Labor Camp #38. The following year, some 70 convicted felons were moved from the main San Quentin complex in northern California to Valley Center.
The amazing, but little-known story of the local lock-up, also involves the nation's national defense and construction of a major highway during World War II.
Prisoners were assigned to a work detail building a new road that would link San Diego naval yards to March Air Field to the north. It was wartime, the coastal road was closed at sundown, and a dependable inland road was needed to transport men and machines.
On April 17, 1948, the local San Quentin convicts completed a realigned and modern roadway known today as Old Highway 395, which is the official western boundary of Valley Center.
After the final segment of roadway was laid in 1948, the prison camp buildings were moved to another camp site. The property, on a street with the present-day name of Nelson Way, sat vacant until the early 1960's when an RV campground was established. It is known today as the Champagne Lakes RV Resort, and sits midway between West Lilac and Old Castle roads.
Notes: Data and information on the local prison labor camp are in the archives of the Valley Center Historical Society at the History Museum. Photos in the collection were taken in the 1940's by the late Laurin Portis of Escondido, a civilian employee of Caltrans who worked as a rock mason alongside the prisoners. His family made them available to the Historical Society.


November 05, 2012, 2:16 pm -- /EPR NETWORK/ -- The Countess of Wessex has visited the UK's biggest shoe maker Hotter Comfort Concept to discover how the company makes 1.6 million pairs of stylish, comfortable shoes each year.
Her Royal Highness took part in a tour of the factory, met staff in the company's UK and USA customer service centres and was introduced to the team behind Hotter's current retail expansion programme, which has spearheaded the opening of over 35 stores in the past two years.
"We were delighted to welcome our Royal visitor and show her the passion and pride of our very British brand," said Stewart Houlgrave, Hotter Comfort Concept Founder and CEO. "The Countess was a wonderfully charming guest, who was genuinely interested in what we were doing and took time to speak with many of our staff, immediately putting them at their ease. Everyone was delighted to have the honour of such a distinguished visitor at our headquarters and the seven longest serving staff who were introduced to Her Royal Highness have already said that meeting her was the highlight of their combined 263 years service."
Hotter manufactures one third of all shoes currently made in the UK in its Lancashire factory which, when combined with its innovative multi-channel retailing, makes Hotter a very unique brand. Hotter's comfy women's shoes are sold via mail order, www.hotter.com and branded stores nationwide and the company employs nearly 800 people across the UK.
"We are fiercely proud of our British heritage and we invest and reinvest in development and new technology to continually improve our 'Comfort Concept' and wow our customers," added Stewart.
At the end of HRH's tour she was presented with a pair of Hotter shoes by Stuart Brooks, Assistant Manager of Hotter's Bournemouth store, and Yvonne Hamilton from the company's warehouse.
The Hotter Comfort Concept brand was founded in the early 1990s by Stewart Houlgrave whose parents set up Beaconsfield Footwear as a slipper manufacturer in 1959. With a mission to make shoes as comfortable as slippers Stewart created a collection of stylish shoes with hidden comfort features including lightweight shock absorbing soles, padded heels and luxurious leather uppers.
The company initially sold Hotter shoes direct to customers via its onsite customer service centre and www.hotter.com. Since 2009, its 50th year, the company has revamped its website, aired 6 TV campaigns and launched in the US. With its exceptional product quality and outstanding customer service, Hotter embarked on an ambitious store opening programme in 2010, with 47 due to be open across the UK by the end of 2012. Staying true to its British heritage, Hotter now manufactures 1.6 million pairs of shoes in its Lancashire factory, including women's wide fitting shoes, making it the UK's biggest shoe maker.
Further insights into the company can be found on Hotter's online Comfort Club.


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The Texas Professional Insurance Agents annual convention June 4-7 at the Historic Menger Hotel in San Antonio will offer up to 12 hours CE. All CE seminars and the Trade Show are free for agents and CSRs, compliments of iMGA and the other sponsoring companies.
The only cost to agents and CSRs is for optional luncheons and golf if you so choose.
On Thursday morning you can learn "How to Evaluate, Buy & Sell a 'Mom & Pop' Insurance Agency" or "How to Get Heard in this Noisy World". Learn the fundamentals of branding and ways to promote your message online, through social media, and through traditional media channels.
On Thursday afternoon you can learn the "Basics of Flood Insurance" or find out why "Medicare is a Must-Have Addition to your Portfolio" and everything you need to know on how to protect your agency and commercial clients from "Cyber Hacking".
Also on Thursday afternoon you can attend a mock trial in which the agent is accused of saying "You're fully covered" in a homeowner loss or learn the new changes in Flood Elevation plus how to create a marketing video for your flood insurance program.
On Friday morning you can earn 2 hours Ethics CE and learn how to be on page #1 in Google search or be updated on workers compensation and nonsubscription plus the art of arbitration.
We wrap up the 4 day event on Saturday morning with a 3 hour seminar on "Agency Profit and Growth".
Why not dress up as your favorite Hollywood star and be in the drawing for $25 gift cards during the Young Insurance Professionals Hospitality Suite on Thursday evening?
Agents and CSRs can tour the Trade Show Thursday and Friday afternoons followed by a wide range of Hospitality Suite events.
Registration is free but you must register online at www.PIATX.org because seating is limited.