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Duelling Lords
Miranda Devine's Lord is Christopher Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley. Mine is Robert May, Baron May of Oxford. Now let it be said that Miranda Devine and I have something in common: neither of us has any authority whatsoever when it comes to the science of climate change. Our opinions, as such, are not worth a rat's arse.
But what about our respective Lords?
Lord One
Christopher Monckton is the third Viscount Monckton of Brenchley and a former advisor to the policy unit of the British government during the 1980s. He is a climate skeptic and is employed as Chief Policy Adviser for the Science and Public Policy Institute. He has had articles published in The Guardian, and the American Physical Society claiming that global warming is neither man-made nor likely to be catastrophic.
His critics, including The Guardian writer George Monbiot, point out that Monckton has only a "degree in classics and a diploma in journalism and…no further qualifications."
Lord Two
Robert McCredie May, Baron May of Oxford, OM, AC, Kt, FRS (born 8 January 1936, Australia) has been Chief Scientific Adviser to HM Government, President of the Royal Society, and a Professor at Sydney, Princeton, Oxford, and Imperial College London. He is a Fellow of Merton College, Oxford and crossbencher in the House of Lords and an appointed member of the council of the British Science Association.
May was educated at Sydney Boys High School and then the University of Sydney, having studied Chemical Engineering and Theoretical Physics (BSc 1956) and receiving a PhD in Theoretical Physics in 1959…
From 1973 until 1988 he was Class of 1877 Professor of Zoology at Princeton University, serving as Chairman of the University Research Board 1977-88. From 1988 until 1995 he held a Royal Society Research Professorship jointly at Imperial College London and the University of Oxford, where became a Fellow of Merton College and a Master of Arts. He was Chief Scientific Adviser to HM Government and head of the Office of Science and Technology (1995-2000) and President of the Royal Society (2000-5).
In terms of the duel, then, Lord Monckton is a pop-gun to Lord May's intercontinental ballistic missile. There simply is no comparison.
Some of the arguments floated by people in Monckton's camp – that those who assert that IPCC conclusions are motivated by commercial interest in that they get funding by toeing the party line – have always reminded me of similar accusations that bedevilled HIV/AIDS research: all those weird HIV deniers (who also were published in Quadrant) from whom South African AIDS policy is only just recovering as Mbeke was taken in by their arguments. Lord Monckton ventured into this area too, but not as an HIV denier; rather he advocated "there is only one way to stop AIDS. That is to screen the entire population regularly and to quarantine all carriers of the disease for life. Every member of the population should be blood-tested every month … all those found to be infected with the virus, even if only as carriers, should be isolated compulsorily, immediately, and permanently." That was in 1987, and he now thinks it is too late for this, but what a whacko idea in the first place!
But he has a bit of a track record as an eccentric.
The mendacity of the IPCC
The words are Miranda's.
We have Climategate and we have Himalayan glaciers. Apparently that is all that is needed to show everything the IPCC has ever published or endorsed is wrong.
Actually this is totally daft, but you shouldn't take the word of one whose views are not worth a rat's arse, should you?
Instead see:
1. A wholesale climate fraud? Not here The Australian January 16, 2010.
As part of the AP review, summaries of the emails that raised issues from the potential manipulation of data to intensely personal attacks were sent to seven experts in research ethics, climate science and science policy.
"This is normal science politics, but on the extreme end, though still within bounds," says Dan Sarewitz, a science policy professor at Arizona State University. "We talk about science as this pure ideal and the scientific method as if it is something out of a cookbook, but research is a social and human activity full of all the failings of society and humans, and this reality gets totally magnified by the high political stakes here."
In the three weeks after the emails were posted, longtime opponents of mainstream climate science repeatedly quoted excerpts of about a dozen emails. Republican congressmen and former vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin called for either independent investigations, a delay in US Environmental Protection Agency regulation of greenhouse gases or outright boycotts of the Copenhagen international climate talks. They alleged a "culture of corruption" existed.
That is not what AP found. There were signs of trying to present the data as convincingly as possible…
But in the end, global warming didn't go away.
None of the emails flagged by AP and sent to three climate scientists viewed as moderates in the field changed their view that global warming is man-made and a threat. Nor did it alter their support of the conclusions of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which some of the scientists helped write.
"My overall interpretation of the scientific basis for (man-made) global warming is unaltered by the contents of these emails," says Gabriel Vecchi, a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration scientist…
One person singled out for criticism in the emails is Steve McIntyre, who maintains Climate Audit, a blog that focuses on statistical issues with scientists' attempts to recreate the climate of ancient times.
"We find that the authors are overreaching in the conclusions that they're trying to draw from the data that they have," he says.
Some emails said McIntyre's attempts to get original data from scientists are frivolous and meant more for harassment than doing good science. There are allegations that he would distort and misuse data given to him. McIntyre disagrees with how he is portrayed. "Everything that I've done in this, I've done in good faith," he says. The sceptics started the name-calling, says Mann, who called McIntyre a "bozo", a "fraud" and a "moron" in various emails. "We're human," Mann says. "We've been under attack unfairly by these people who have been attempting to dismiss us as frauds."
2. The IPCC is not infallible (shock!) – Real Climate 19 January 2010
Like all human endeavours, the IPCC is not perfect. Despite the enormous efforts devoted to producing its reports with the multiple levels of peer review, some errors will sneak through. Most of these will be minor and inconsequential, but sometimes they might be more substantive. As many people are aware (and as John Nieslen-Gammon outlined in a post last month and Rick Piltz goes over today), there is a statement in the second volume of the IPCC (WG2), concerning the rate at which Himalayan glaciers are receding that is not correct and not properly referenced.
The statement, in a chapter on climate impacts in Asia, was that the likelihood of the Himalayan glaciers "disappearing by the year 2035″ was "very high" if the Earth keeps warming at the current rate (WG 2, Ch. 10, p493), and was referenced to a World Wildlife Fund 2005 report. Examining the drafts and comments (available here), indicates that the statement was barely commented in the reviews, and that the WWF (2005) reference seems to have been a last minute addition (it does not appear in the First- or Second- Order Drafts). This claim did not make it into the summary for policy makers, nor the overall synthesis report, and so cannot be described as a 'central claim' of the IPCC. However, the statement has had some press attention since the report particularly in the Indian press, at least according to Google News, even though it was not familiar to us before last month.
It is therefore obvious that this error should be corrected (via some kind of corrigendum to the WG2 report perhaps), but it is important to realise that this doesn't mean that Himalayan glaciers are doing just fine. They aren't, and there may be serious consequences for water resources as the retreat continues. See also this review paper (Ren et al, 2006) on a subset of these glaciers…
I note too that one of the best books for the layperson I know on climate change — Robert Henson, The Rough Guide to Climate Change 2 ed. – is appropriately circumspect about Himalayan glaciers, and that post the fourth IPCC report and long before the latest "revelation".
For more visit the climate change category on Floating Life. There are 62 posts there.In Homework done is a YouTube of Lord May.
Update 29 January
See a fascinating post I have just discovered: Left, Right and Climate Change.
In the wake of the singularly unproductive COP15 Climate Change conference in Copenhagen, I have been reflecting on the polarisation of views on climate change along political lines. Whether or not human activity is leading to climate change is a question of scientific fact: it is either happening or it is not. So knowing someone's politics should not help to predict their attitudes towards climate change, and yet it does.
It is not conclusive of course. Most people do believe that climate change is occurring and this includes people of a full range of political views. But, climate change skeptics seem to sit overwhelmingly on the right side of the political spectrum, while those most concerned about the effects of climate change are largely left of centre. Why is this? …
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Stubborn Mule says:
Thanks for the link to my post…glad you found it interesting!
Miranda may think that climate change is a beat up but, since she describes Monckton as a "mathematician" I would say her copy of his CV is a beat up too!
Thanks, Stubborn Mule.
See Lord Monckton Proves Denial Is In Egypt
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Currently, Advanced Backup from Rubrik is available in the DFW01 (Dallas) and PHX01 (Phoenix) environments.
If you use the London (LHR01), Amsterdam (AMS01), or Singapore (SIN01) data centers, then you can use the Backup & Recovery add-on product from R1 Soft. To learn more, see Backup & Recovery.
You can use the Advanced Backup add-on product to take backups of your virtual machines. (These backups are also known as a snapshot.) In the event of data loss, you can use these snapshots to restore your virtual machine to a previous state. These snapshots will be stored with Armor, based on the retention configurations you create in the backup policy.
To restore specific files or folders, you must download and install the agent.
For Advanced Backup, there is a cost associated with the amount of data that you backup.
This backup restores your entire virtual machine.
This backup restores specific files or folders, not the entire virtual machine.
When you create a policy, you can configure which files to include (and exclude) from the snapshot.
VM Name This column displays the name of the virtual machine that is subscribed to Advanced Backup.
Location This column displays the data center where the virtual machine is located (and where the backup will take place).
Policy Name This column displays the descriptive name of the policy that is assigned to a virtual machine.
Last Backup This column displays the last time Armor took a snapshot of your environment.
Storage Used This column displays the amount of memory already collected.
Agent Status This column displays if the agent is Connected or Disconnected.
Fileset Name This column displays the assigned fileset grouping that will be backed-up.
Policy Name This column displays the corresponding policy. This policy configures how often a backup will take and for how long that backup will be retained.
This column displays how much space has been used to store the backups.
Status This column displays if the agent is Connected or Disconnected.
Name This column displays the name of the fileset group.
OS Family This column displays the type of virtual machine.
Includes This column displays the files that are included in the backup.
Excludes This column displays the files that are not included in the backup.
Do Not Exclude This column displays the files that have been configured to specifically be included in the backup.
Replication This column displays if the policy has enabled the off-site replication feature.
Type This column displays the type of protection (Fileset Protection or VM Protection) that the corresponding policy provides.
Assets Protected This column displays the name of the virtual machine that contains the assigned policy.
This column indicates if the corresponding policy is a default policy.
With a default policy, when you create a new virtual machine in the same data center, this policy will be displayed, and you can quickly add the policy to the virtual machine.
This column displays a completed action.
You can use this information to view the progression of a restoration.
This column describes a completed action, including the corresponding virtual machine or filesets.
Start Time The date and time when this action began to take place.
End Time The date and time when this action ended.
Status This column describes the status of the action taking place, which can result in success, in-progress, or failure.
Snapshot Date This column displays the date and time that the snapshot was taken.
You can use these instructions to create and store snapshots of your virtual machine.
To simply create a backup of specific files or folders, see Add Advanced Backup for your filesets.
You must use an existing virtual machine. To create a virtual machine, see Virtual Machines.
A newly created virtual machine may not appear immediately in this screen. You may need to wait an hour before a newly created virtual machine appears.
To properly backup SQL databases, before you create a backup policy, Armor recommends that you separately create a backup of the database, and then place that backup in the server to be backed-up.
You must create a policy to configure how often to take a backup and how long to keep a backup.
By default, times are based on your web browser's configured time zone.
The location of your virtual machine does not relate to the time zone used in this feature.
Click plus ( + ) icon.
In Policy Name, enter a descriptive name.
In Location, select the data center where the virtual machine is located (and where the backup will take place).
In Type, select VM Protection.
Next to Backup Schedule, under Take Snapshots (Frequency), enter how often Armor should take a snapshot. And then directly across, under Keep Snapshots (Retention), enter how long Armor should keep this snapshot.
You must enter your time configurations in the same row.
For example, to take a snapshot every week and to keep that snapshot for six months, under Take Snapshots (Frequency), in Every (Days), enter 7, and then directly across, under Keep Snapshots (Retention), in For (Days), enter 182.
You can create a maximum of four Frequency and Retention settings.
The minimum retention period is 3 days.
Additionally, you must create a policy that takes place once per day. You must enter a time in hours.
For example, to take a snapshot every two hours and to keep that snapshot for three days, under Take Snapshots (Frequency), in Every (Hours), enter 2, and then directly across, under Keep Snapshots (Retention), in For (Days), enter 3.
(Optional) In Snapshot Window, configure the time frame for when your scheduled snapshots should take place. By default, Rubrik will determine when the scheduled snapshots will take place; however, with this option, you have the ability to configure a specific time frame for when the scheduled snapshots will take place. This option can be useful if you want to perform snapshots during a period of low traffic.
Next to First Full Window, configure the time frame for when the first full snapshot should take place.
Armor recommends that you configure a time when your environment experiences low traffic, low transaction volume, or low changes.
After the first full snapshot is complete, the configuration you created under Take Snapshots (Frequency) and Take Snapshots Between will be implemented.
For example, next to First Full Window, if you configure an initial time frame of Sunday 12 AM to Sunday 6 AM, then your first full snapshot will take place at any time during this time frame. After the first full snapshot is complete, then the time frame configured in Take Snapshots (Frequency) and Take Snapshots Between will begin. If the first snapshot completes at Sunday at 5 AM, and your policy includes a snapshot every 4 hours, then the next snapshot will take place at 9 AM, and then again at 1 PM.
To perform a full virtual machine restoration, you do not need to download and install the agent. However, if you download and install the agent, then you will have the ability to perform a separate fileset restoration.
You must download an agent for every data center you use.
Hover over the ( + ) icon, and then click the Download Rubrik Agent icon.
Select the data center where the virtual machine lives.
This must be the same data center that you selected in Step 1: Create a policy.
Select the operating system for the desired virtual machine.
Download and install the installer package onto your server.
Download and install the installer package in AMP, or run the command below.
The following command uses the DFW01 data center.
Be sure to replace DFW01 with your desired data center.
Download the installer package in AMP, or run the command below.
In VM Protection, hover over the ( + ) icon.
Click the Add VM Protection icon.
For Select A Location, select the data center where the desired virtual machine lives.
In Select Your VM(S), mark the desired virtual machine (or machines).
This table will only list virtual machines that do not have an assigned policy. To assign a different policy to a virtual machine, see Replace an existing policy for a virtual machine.
A newly created virtual machine may not appear immediately in this list. You may need to wait an hour before a newly created virtual machine appears.
In Select A Policy, select the newly created policy.
You can only select a policy that was created for the same location as the selected virtual machine.
You can only select a virtual machine-specific policy; you cannot select a fileset-specific policy.
This action will populate the table in the VM Protection section of the Advanced Backup screen.
If your virtual machine is running in a corrupt state, or if you notice data loss, then you may choose to restore that virtual machine to one of your retained backups.
During a restoration, you may experience intermittent issues in your environment. As a result, Armor recommends that you restore a virtual machine from a backup during a period of low traffic.
Once the restoration process has started, you will not be able to rollback your virtual machine.
In VM Protection, locate and hover over the desired virtual machine.
This action ensures that AMP lists the latest retained backup.
Hover over the desired virtual machine again, and then click the vertical ellipses.
Locate the desired snapshot, and then click the corresponding vertical ellipses.
Once the restoration has started, you will not be able to rollback your virtual machine.
If you are not satisfied with the selected snapshot, you can select a different snapshot in a later step.
Once the restoration is complete, the Status column for the corresponding virtual machine will display Pending Commit.
During a Pending Commit status, the virtual machine will operate in a transitional storage environment. The virtual machine is fully operational; however, during this time, storage performance may not run in an optimal state.
This action will cause your data to move from the transitional storage environment to the production storage environment where storage performance will return to the appropriate storage tier. At this point, the status will display as Restore Successful.
Storage performance will be impacted during this commit process, so you may want to perform this step at a time during periods of low anticipated traffic.
You can still make changes to your environment before and after you click Confirm Snapshots. Rubrik will create a separate file (or files) to accommodate any changes made during the final restoration process.
In the event that you do not commit, the virtual machine will be auto-committed after 72 hours.
If you want to select a different snapshot, from the vertical ellipses, select Choose Different Snapshot.
In the VM Protection section, review the Status column to view the status of your restoration.
Additionally, you can access the Restore Logs section to view the progression of a restoration.
After you begin the restoration process, you can still cancel the restoration.
You can use these instructions to restore a fileset from a virtual machine snapshot.
You cannot use these instructions to restore a fileset from a filest snapshot.
To restore a fileset from a fileset snapshot, see Restore a fileset from a snapshot.
To restore a fileset from a virtual machine snapshot, you must have the Rubrik agent installed in the corresponding data center.
Review the Agent Status column to display Installed.
Click the vertical ellipses, and then select Refresh From Available Backups.
Click the vertical ellipses, and then select Restore From Backup.
Navigate to the specific file or folder to restore.
You can also navigate to a high-level folder.
Hover over, and then click the vertical ellipses.
There are two types of restorations.
Option 1: Mark Overwrite Original to replace your existing files with the restored files.
Option 2: Mark Restore to Separate Folder to place the restored files in a separate location. This option will not replace your existing files. You can use this option to verify specific files before you remove the original files.
In Folder Name, enter a valid file path to place the restored files.
To review the status of the restoration, in the top menu, click Restore Logs.
You can use these instructions to retain snapshots of specific files, and not of your entire virtual machine.
You must create a policy to configure often to take a backup and how long to keep a backup.
In Type, select Fileset Protection.
(Optional) To enable off-site replication, for Replication, mark On.
Configure a time for retention.
This time cannot be larger than the time configured for local retention.
This feature stores copies of your snapshots in another physical location, which you can retrieve in case the copies in your local machine are not accessible or usable.
There is a cost associated with this feature.
Under First Full Window, configure the time frame for when the first full snapshot should take place.
Armor recommends that you configure a time when your environment experiences low traffic, low transaction volume, or less frequent changes.
For example, under First full Window, if you configure an initial time frame of Sunday 12 AM to Sunday 6 AM, then your first full snapshot will take place at any time during this time frame. After the first full snapshot is complete, then the time frame configured in Take Snapshots (Frequency) and Take Snapshots Between will begin. If the first snapshot completes at Sunday at 5 AM, and your policy includes a snapshot every 4 hours, then the next snapshot will take place at 9 AM, and then again at 1 PM.
In this step, you will specify the specific folders or files to include (and exclude) from a snapshot.
You can use an asterisk to replace a single folder name in a file path. For example, you can enter C:\*\Microsoft Office, which is the same as C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office.
You can enter two asterisks ( ** ) to replace multiple folder names in a file path.
In Fileset Name, enter a descriptive name.
In Location, select the data center where your virtual machine lives.
You must use the same data center that you configured in Step 1: Create a policy.
In OS Family, select the type of virtual machine.
In Include, enter the files to include in the backup.
In Exclude, enter the files to exclude from the backup.
In Do Not Exclude, enter the files to overwrite the information in the Exclude field.
For example, you can configure the backup to exclude every image file; however, you can specify a specific image file to be included in the backup.
Hover over the plus ( + ) icon, and then click the Add Fileset Protection icon.
Select the desired virtual machine, and then click Configure Backup.
Select the desired fileset and policy, and then click Add.
During a restoration, you may experience intermittent issues in your environment. As a result, Armor recommends that you perform a restoration during a period of low traffic.
In Fileset Protection, locate and hover over the desired fileset.
Locate and hover over the desired snapshot.
Click the vertical ellipses, and then click Browse.
(Optional) Slide Continue on restore errors to avoid a possible interruption or cancelation of the restoration.
If you activate this option, then in the event a file cannot be restored, the system will continue to try to restore all other selected files.
If you do not activate this option, then in the event a file cannot be restored, the system will not attempt to restore additional files. Files that were previously restored will remain.
You cannot update the location of an existing policy.
If you update the Snapshot Window for an existing policy and there is a virtual machine already assigned to the policy, then the virtual machine will not experience another first full snapshot.
Existing snapshots for the virtual machine will remain stored with Armor.
If you decrease the Retention rate, then older snapshots will be removed in accordance with the updated policy. For example, if you lower the retention rate from 14 days to 10 days, then backups older than 10 days will be removed.
Locate and hover over the desired policy.
Make your desired changes, and then click Update Policy.
You can use these instructions to replace one existing policy with another existing policy for a virtual machine.
When you replace a policy, the virtual machine will not experience another first full snapshot.
If you replace a policy that has a different Retention rate, then older snapshots will be removed in accordance with the updated policy. For example, if the newly assigned policy has a retention rate of 10 days whereas the previously assigned policy had a retention rate of 14 days, then backups older than 10 days will be removed.
Under Policy, select an existing policy to use.
Policy changes will not affect existing backups unless the Retention rate is decreased. In this case, older snapshots will be removed in accordance with the updated policy. For example, if you lower the retention rate from 14 days to 10 days, then backups older than 10 days will be removed.
You cannot delete a policy that is assigned to a virtual machine. As a result, you must first unassign a policy from a virtual machine.
You have already unassigned a policy from a virtual machine.
You have never assigned a policy to a virtual machine.
You want to delete a fileset protection policy.
You can use these instructions to remove the Advanced Backup add-on product from a virtual machine.
A snapshot will no longer be taken of the virtual machine.
Snapshots of the virtual machine will no longer be available.
This action will not delete the policy associated with the virtual machine. The policy will still be available in the Policies section of the Advanced Backup screen.
Based on when you remove this feature, you may receive a charge for the service on your next invoice.
You do not have permissions to view this add-on product.
You must have the following permissions to fully use the Advanced Backup add-on product. Contact your account administrator to enable these permissions. (If you are an account administrator, then to update your permissions, see Roles and Permissions (Armor Complete)).
As a Vormetric user, how should I configure my files for Advanced Backup?
You must update the encryption policy to allow the Rubrik agent to access your files and directories.
You can give Rubrik read-only permissions or read and decrypt permissions.
If you allow read-only permissions, then the files will be backed up in an encrypted format; however, the Vormetric DSM, agent, and keys will need to be available in order to access the recovered, encrypted data. As a result, these files will have a higher change rate.
If you give Rubrik read and decrypt permissions, then the unencrypted files will be encrypted when they are transmitted to the backup appliance and platform. During this time, the content can potentially be recovered by Armor in an unencrypted format, which may not meet your desired security practices or compliance requirements.
During a file backup, if some files are missing, will I see an error message?
The Rubrik agent silently skips any files that it cannot access and continues with the backup. As a result, Rubrik does not generate any kind of error message.
To correct, this, please update the file system permissions, or the encryption policy, so that the Rubrik agent can access these files.


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Riyadh: Iran's Oil Minister Gholamhossein Nozari has blamed a "misunderstanding" for the fall of the $22-billion deal to export 5 million tonnes of liquefied natural gas (LNG) to India.
"I think there was a misunderstanding of the procedure followed for approval of such deals," he said on the sidelines of the third OPEC Summit here.
After National Iranian Gas Export Company (NIGEC) signed a Sale-Purchase Agreement (SPA) with a consortium of GAIL India, Indian Oil Corp and Bharat Petroleum for export of 5 million tonnes a year of LNG on 13 June, 2005 in Tehran, the contract was to be vetted by NIGEC's parent company, National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC), he said.
"It was mentioned in (the SPA) that the contract will need approval of NIOC for the SPA to become effective," said Nozari, who was managing director of NIOC prior to being appointed the oil minister by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
"I was not the NIOC managing director when the LNG deal with India was signed but I have studied the whole agreement in details," he said.
Though the Iranian Minister did not say that the deal was dead, one of his aides said that Tehran was considering the deal closed. "If you (India) want LNG, it has to be on a new contract on new terms (price)," the aide said.
The June 2005 LNG deal was signed by the previous government and after Ahmadinejad took over Tehran sought review of price and delayed NIOC board approval. India, on the other hand, sought legal opinion on enforceability of the SPA.
International law firm Gide Loyrette Nouel of France, which had earlier vetted the LNG SPA as per English law, stated that the Side Letter to the SPA (in which the approval of NIOC Board being mandatory for the deal was mentioned) does not amend the Agreement and NIOC's approval would not constitute a 'Condition Precedent'. Accordingly, the LNG SPA remained enforceable.
Nozari refused any comments on the issue. "We (India and Iran) need to sit and decide."
Iran had in June 2005 agreed to sell LNG to India at $3.215 per million British thermal unit (mBtu) but subsequently demanded at least $4.775 per mBtu in view of a sharp rise in oil prices.
New Delhi wants Tehran to honour the contract to supply 5 million tonnes of LNG at the June 2005 prices and has stated it is willing to pay the higher price for an additional 2.5 million tonnes of the fuel.
"We have told the Indian side that if they have a serious desire for this contract, they have to suggest a proper price in negotiations because their current price is very low," the Iranian minister"s aide, who wished not to be quoted, said.
As per the formula agreed in 2005, Iran was to charge India 6.5% of the Brent crude oil price at the time of loading of each consignment plus a fixed price of $1.2 per mBtu. Price according to this formula was to be capped at $3.215 per mBtu at $31 a barrel Brent price. For the first two years, a 10% discount was allowed, leading to a price of $2.9 per mBtu from 2009 to 2011.
Tehran now wants a higher ceiling to be raised to $65 a barrel, the LNG price at which would come to $5.425 per mBtu.


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Growing up, my grandfather loved watching and playing tennis. I even remember watching my aunt play too. I learned to play a little while visiting them, but it's been a decade since I've last played (which was high school gym class). Carleigh has been loving soccer this past year, but I thought it would be fun for her to try something new for the summer. Kendall's going to be trying it out as well, which will be the first sport for her. Needless to say, I'm excited for both!
The tennis classes the girls are going to is through the Pacific NW chapter of Unites States Tennis Association (USTA) and our local Parks & Recs.
USTA Pacific Northwest and Spokane Parks & Recreation offers fun, affordable summer programs for kids, teens, adults and seniors at every skill level. It's a great way for you and your kids to make new friends, get active and play the lifelong sport of tennis. All tennis equipment is provided and no previous experience is necessary. Class locations are Comstock Park and Shadle Park. Classes run from June 16-August 16, 2014 and you can sign-up for one week or four-week sessions.
Preschoolers develop motor skills through tennis-themed activities. Parent or guardian must accompany and remain with children during program and encouraged to play.
Youth participants learn to rally and play with a partner through fun games and activities in a safe and supportive environment. Smaller tennis courts, shorter rackets, and foam balls make it easy to play tennis and experience success on day one.
Participants develop stroke progressions: serve, forehand, backhand and volley. Introduces scoring and match play while emphasizing sportsmanship and teamwork.
Emphasizes stroke improvement, tennis strategies and match play. Participants learn leadership skills, stay active and make friends in a fun, social atmosphere.
They also have youth events & competitions, adult classes, and family lessons!
If you're NOT LOCAL, make sure you check out USTA.com to find your local chapter and see what classes are available.
Is your child participating in any sports classes or camps this summer?


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The blue and white place value boards are used with measurement, calendar, and place value activities. Students count, add, and subtract concrete materials (such as beans or Unifix cubes) on the place value board. There are 16 place value boards per set.


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Q: Word classes in specific sentence Consider the following setup. What would the word classes of "out" and "there" be?

"Where is James?"
"He is out there somewhere, right in the middle of the storm."

I was first thinking in the direction of "to be out there" being a phrasal verb, but I know that can't be true. This leaves me to think that there is a demonstrative pronoun (correct me if I'm wrong), but I can't figure out what the word class of "out" is in that case.

A: The words out and there are both prepositions. In this particular instance the preposition out is taking the preposition there as its complement. For a modern account of prepositions see one of the following vetted grammar sources:

*

*The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language Huddleston & Pullum, 2002

*Oxford Modern English Grammar Aarts, 2011

Whereas before the great linguist Otto Jespersen, people had identified prepositions as a family of words that occurred before nouns, Jespersen had the insight to observe that this family was being misidentified, or rather misdescribed. He noted that words such as in, on, at, after, before, until have the same syntactic properties regardless of whether they occurred before nouns or not. In a blinding flash of what can surely only be described as common sense, he decided that these were actually always the same words. This radical idea follows on rather mundanely, but methodically, from the way that we treat other parts of speech such as nouns or verbs.
Modern grammars such as CaGEL have gone one step further than this, but this need not bother us here. One knock-on effect of realising that prepositions need not always precede nouns, is that some prepositions don't occur before nouns at all, in the same way that some verbs never take objects. Such words include items such as:

*

*abroad, here, there, away, back, out

Prepositions such as out and there have various syntactic properties in common with other prepositons:

*

*they are modifiable by the specialised adverbs straight and right.

*they occur as the complements of other prepositions.

*they occur as complements of the verb BE.

*they, and the phrases they head, can post-modify nouns.

*they aren't modifiable by very.

Notice that out there is a complement of BE in the OP's example. We could also have :

*

*He was right out there, in the middle of the storm.

The preposition phrase could be used to post-modify a noun:

*

*The man right out there in the middle of the storm.

The whole phrase could be the complement of another preposition:

*

*He went back out there.

All of this shows out there to be a preposition phrase. Notice that none of the tests above will work with adverbs. You can test this yourself with an adverb like locally, for example.
Hope this is helpful!

A: Out there would be predicate adjective modifying He.

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Q: How do I make a pay command with npm module discord-money? So I am making a currency system for Project Star, a discord server, I made my own bot and started coding it. I wanted a pay command so I tried making one. Here is my code.

    if(user === message.author) {
      return message.channel.send("You cannot pay yourself!")
    }

    money.updateBal(message.author.id, -wanted).then((i) => {
      message.channel.send(`Processing...`);
    })

      if(wanted > moneyBal) {
        message.channel.send("Error: Insufficient Funds")
      } else if(wanted < moneyBal) {
        money.updateBal(user.id, wanted).then((i) => {
          message.channel.send(`Transaction Completed with $${wanted} Sent.`);
        })
      }

When I type the command c!pay, it responds Processing... and doesn't send a message after that. If I send more than what I have, it does the same thing but my balance changes to -. For example. c!pay @TheRealGamer1YT 6, my balance is -1. It sends the money though. Even if I don't have the amount. How do I fix this to if what you want to pay is more than what you have, it displays an error?


A Lean Journey: See You Soon!
Creating a process map is a relatively straight forward process but some mistakes can derail the process so avoid these most common pitfalls.
When performing a mistake-proofing analysis on a manufacturing, service or business process, it is of course important to identify every human error possible during each process step.
Lean provides a framework to improve the flow of a process, it is therefore important to create a plan or roadmap describing the improved flow, highlighting changes, and areas for improvement.
The path for your improvement journey consists of the work processes your organization uses to create and transport goods and services to its customers, the map you use for your improvement journey must focus on customer value.
Embarking on your Lean journey by implementing 5S is beneficial for several reasons.
Mistake Proofing is about adding controls to prevent defects, reduce their severity, and detect them if they can occur.
The Seven Basic Tools of Quality is a designation given to a fixed set of graphical techniques identified as being most helpful in troubleshooting issues related to quality.
Leader Standard Work is the system that provides a structure and routine for leaders and drives process definition and daily accountability.
Luckily, there is no shortage of literature on Lean Manufacturing over the last several decades, but there 10 books I recommend on learning Lean.
Empowering employees is the ongoing process of providing the tools, training, resources; encouragement and motivation your workers need to perform at the optimum level.


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% USAGE:
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% INPUT arguments:
%    experiment - structure obtained from loadExperiment()
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%    experiment - structure obtained from loadExperiment()
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More common in the Central Coast than in Southern California. Also expanding in the North Coast region.
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Next to the Ice is an intimate exploration into hockey communities and culture in Canada. With six well-written essays on timely themes, Next to the Ice provides readers with keen insights into key areas of elite and professional hockey including: fan culture, franchise drama, the rise of the hockey enforcer, and the off-ice politics of hockey parents. Three university educators, parents and ex-players bring the reader inside the world of 'rink rats', hockey families, and hard-core fans and collectors of Canada's favourite professional sport. Next to the Ice is a must-have book for hockey enthusiasts, fans, academics, or anyone interested in developing a better understanding of Canada in general.
Christopher J. Greig is a professor at the University of Windsor in Education and Women's and Gender Studies. A historian of gender, Greig researches Canadian men, boys, and masculinities. His research has been published in Educational Review, the Brock Journal of Education, and the Alberta Journal of Educational Research. Greig is the co-editor of Canadian Men and Masculinities (2012) and author of Ontario Boys: Masculinity and the Idealized Boyhood in Postwar Ontario (2014). Greig's life-long interest in ice hockey started in the winter of 1969, at the age of four, when his father, Ted, built a back yard rink in London, Ontario.
Kara Smith is editor of Teaching, Learning Assessing (2007) and the author of The Mâlain Diaries (2015). She is an award-winning education professor; international writer-in-residence; former national player; and a frequent contributor to parent hockey culture and psychological development in Ontario.


I've worked in and managed a few R&D and test labs in my career. Lately, I've been thinking about success factors for those labs. At a high level, I believe that a successful Lab has four key attributes: good data; the right data; the ability to communicate the data clearly and effectively; and a relentless pursuit of perfection.
good procedures for how to set up tests, collect data and then utilize the information from calibration and measurement system analysis in your data analysis.
Yes, this all boils down to standard work. I've said it before, and I'll say it again. Despite the common opinion that standard work is an impediment creative R&D-type work, I've found just the opposite is true.
This is harder to accomplish than it sounds, but there's plenty of resources available to help. There's even an international standard that a lab can be accredited against: ISO 17025.
Ensuring that you're collecting the right data makes collecting good data look easy. Getting the right data means performing a test that provides useful information. There are two components to this: testing the expected conditions; and testing the boundary conditions.
If you're doing your own testing, then testing the expected conditions is easy. You know what you're thinking and what you expect, and you go test it. If I want to test if ice freezes at zero degrees Celsius, then I test it. However, if the testing is outsourced, then things get complicated. Suppose I live in Denver, Colorado, and I want to test if ice freezes at zero degrees Celsius in the winter. To test it myself, I might stick a thermometer in a glass of water, put it outside and wait. Suppose, though, that the testing is outsourced to a lab in a place like Bangladesh, India, that's hotter, lower in altitude and more humid. They can provide an answer, but will they address my intent? As the test requester, I may not ask the right question; as the test group, they may leap to test without fully understanding why I'm asking. This sort of confusion actually happens quite frequently, even when the test group and the requester are in the same building. It can be months before people realize that their question was only partially answered.
Paradoxically, testing the boundary conditions is difficult when you're doing your own testing, while the communication errors described above make it easier for an outside lab to test the boundary conditions. It's almost inevitable that they'll test some boundary conditions. The reason for this is that boundary conditions are defined by one's assumptions, and people are generally pretty poor at identifying and thinking through their own assumptions. Mentally, we tear right through the assumptions to the interesting bits. The outside lab, though, isn't going to be quite testing the expected conditions; they'll always be nearer at least one set of boundary conditions.
One common solution used by labs is to develop a detailed questionnaire to try to force their customers to detail their request in the lab's terms. I've done this myself. It doesn't work. A questionnaire, like a checklist, can help capture the things you know you'd otherwise overlook, but neither a questionnaire nor a checklist can bridge a communication gap.
The solution that works is to send the lab personnel out into the gemba; to go and see the customer's world and understand what they're doing and why they're making their request. This is difficult. The lab may be geographically distant from the gemba. People working in a lab often got there by being independent thinkers and workers, and not by being very gregarious. Labs are also paid or evaluated for the testing they do; not for the customer visits they make. A lab manager needs to be able to overcome these obstacles.
Once the lab has the right, good data, there's still one big challenge left. All that data goes to waste if it isn't communicated effectively. This means understanding that the data tells a story, knowing what that story is, and then telling that story honestly and with clarity. One could write several books on this subject. I direct your attention to the exceptional works of Edward Tufte, especially The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, an excellent NASA report by S. Katzoff titled Clarity in Technical Reporting, and the deep works of William S. Cleveland, including The Elements of Graphing Data and Visualizing Data. If you don't have these in your library, then you're probably not communicating as clearly and effectively as you should.
Effective communication is critical even when you're doing your own testing. It provides a record of your work so that others can follow in your footsteps. Without effective communication, whatever you learn stays with you, and you lose the ability to leverage the ideas and experience of others.
While we have to get the job done today, we probably haven't delivered everything your customer needed. There's always opportunity for improvement. A good lab recognizes this, constantly engages in self reflection and finds ways to improve. This is a people-based activity. A good manager enables this critical self-reflection and supports and encourages the needed changes.
Such critical self-reflection is not always easy. In many business environments, an admission of imperfection is an invitation to be attacked, demoted, or fired. Encouraging the self-reflection that is crucial to improvement requires building trust with your employees; providing a safe environment. Employees have to be comfortable talking about their professional faults, having others talk about those faults, and they have to believe that they can improve.
Being genuine and honest can help a manager move their group in this direction. Ensuring that there are no negative consequences to the pursuit of perfection will also help. Unfortunately, it's not entirely up to the manager; it's a question of politics, policies and corporate culture. Effective managers and leaders need to navigate these waters for the good of their team. They'll do this better with the support and involvement of their team.


The Blackhawk STOMP 2 is a heavy-duty medical pack is equipped with adjustable shoulder straps, sternum strap and web belt for comfortable carry—even under the weight of a full load.
Dimensions: 20"L x 13"W x 6"D = 2470 cu. in.


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About TMG
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The design team
'The new artisan – the naval architect and his toolbox'
Avant-Garde Design, Constant Innovations, Technical Choices for Performance, Comfort at Sea, Space, Safety, Reliability.
Consistency leads to success
Lagoon have worked with VPLP, a young international team of French based naval architects and designers since the very first Lagoon model. This consistency within the design team has been a key part of the Lagoon success, with quality and innovation at the heart of every design.
Marc Van Peteghem
Naval architecture
Marc has always been driven by curiosity and possibility … never afraid to embrace new technology and always aiming to create boats that are simple, efficient and proportionate.
Founder of the naval architecture agency VPLP in 1983 with Vincent Lauriot-Prévost, Marc Van Peteghem specialises in designing monohull and multihull racing yachts, series production sailing catamarans and luxury custom sailing catamarans.
Marc's focus point is life on board … understanding that indoor and outdoor spaces work together as a series of interludes where different groups of people interact.
And by putting people at the heart of the design process he has ensured the gentle giant of the Lagoon family retains the soul of the yachting world, while remaining generous and embracing in nature.
Marc's versatility is evidenced in his range of work, including designing and building a 60-foot (18 m) racing trimaran for the movie 'Waterworld'; designing catamaran ambulances and hospitals for Bangladesh; creating and presiding over NGO Watever, which assists underprivileged populations living on or near the water; and co-founding The Sustainable Design School in Nice.
"Lagoon gives priority to life on-board", explains Marc Van Peteghem. "Each Lagoon must be different, while belonging to the same family. We endeavour to maintain this feeling of coherence and harmony, when sailing on-board a Lagoon. Additionally, as our DNA inclines us to draw seaworthy, safe boats, we strive to reach high, even very high performance levels."
Yannick Leroux
SEVENTY 7 Project Manager in the Lagoon design office
"I've always had connections with Lagoon, even prior to working on the boat projects," says Yannick.
"I sailed on Lagoon 55 No. 1 and even had the opportunity to deliver the first Lagoon 42 to arrive in France. I can't get away from Lagoon!"
Totally self-taught, Yannick has always been passionate about boats and sailing … in fact his life has always revolved around boats.
Yannick's love affair with boats began when he was a skipper for a few years, and then he fetched up on St Barts, where he ended up staying for six years. While in St Barts he set up his joinery workshop in 1984 and built himself a 'Saintoise', the local boat!
Yannick prides himself on his high level of accuracy and the great communication within his team.
"My role as project manager for Lagoon is to bring together:
– the dreams of the product development team
– future customers' requirements
– the imagination of the architects and the interior designer
…and turn them all into one coherent design brief.
It's up to me and my team to organise this information, to transform ideas into reality and enable the creation of stunning, sleek and sophisticated yachts."
With over 42 years' experience in the design industry, Patrick Le Quément has easily made the transition from the automotive sector into the marine world, and he continually brings a fresh new perspective to the world of naval design.
Patrick's design work on the Outremer 5X Catamaran was voted European Boat of the Year 2013 and Multihull of the Year, USA 2014.
He has also been creating Lagoon Catamarans for Beneteau with the naval architects at VPLP and their latest design project was the build of the SEVENTY 7.
"Since my incorporation into the VPLP team as exclusive designer, I spent a lot of time thinking about the specific Lagoon characteristics we needed to achieve:
– A strong personality … rather than conventional elegance
– Intelligence … rather than power
– A vision … rather than tradition
– Reassuring robustness … rather than lightness at all costs
– 'High-Touch' … rather than the unbridled pursuit of 'High-Tech'
Our desire was to increase the emotional charge of the Lagoons, giving them greater charm to accompany the architectural breakthroughs that have made the brand an archetype."
The deft hand of Patrick Le Quement ensures overall design cohesiveness and focus on the key values of seaworthiness, performance, manoeuvrability and simplicity, ensuring the Lagoon will perform well in all scenarios.
"It's not about the design … it's about the approach."
Bruno Belmont
Sailing yachts projects director/Group Beneteau
One of the most revered innovation designers of his generation, Bruno is a collaborator, a passionate designer and a sailor. "When working on the Lagoon design for the SEVENTY 7, we worked together as team to deliver a sleek, thought-out design on a family-friendly yacht that provided a large yacht experience with no wasted space."
Bruno's passion for multihulls and his history with Lagoon stretch back to the days of the movie 'Waterworld', where he was involved in the design and build of the racing trimaran for Kevin Costner.
Indeed, it was Bruno who even taught the famous actor to sail her.
As head of product design at the Beneteau Group, Bruno has been integral to many important sailing innovations, such as the recent development of the wing sail rig, which is making sailing simpler and more affordable and beginning a new era in sailing.
Nauta Design
Superyacht designer Mario Pedol founded Nauta Yachts in 1985, having already set up a yard to build their own designs. After the recession bit in the early 1990s the company turned to design and has evolved to become one of the most important studios in the world.
Nauta Design are an award winning naval architecture, yacht exterior styling and interior design company … having been involved in a range of projects from small production sailing, motor yachts and catamarans with notable builders such as Beneteau and Lagoon, to large, custom superyachts in both sail and power.
Nauta are renowned for their interior innovation, meticulous attention to detail and to the needs of the customer.
The Lagoon spirit
"VPLP design is awesome. Their knowledge of multihulls is phenomenal and their experience unique. I believe they are the best," says Bruno Belmont, Lagoon general project manager. "With them, we can develop ideas concretely." VPLP was first a duo that had graduated from the Southampton University of Naval Architecture. It was in 1983 that Vincent Lauriot-Prévost and Marc Van Peteghem initially joined forces to design their first trimaran, already equipped with foils.
Forward-thinking! A year later, in 1984, Marc and Vincent won an award for a small competition initiated by Florence Cathiard. They conceived a 55-foot cruising catamaran. Four units were sold based on the architectural plans: it was the beginning of the Lagoon saga. With a flying start, VPLP continued to harvest success – such as BMW Oracle, the 2010 winner of the 33rd America's Cup – and they remain Lagoon's exclusive architects. "As I see it, the relationship with the elements is very important, such as lighting and circulation on board," explains Marc Van Peteghem.
"The wonderful thing about a sailing boat is that it enables a reappropriation of time. When sailing, the journey is as important as the destination."
In the last few years, the word Design has been added to VPLP, with the arrival of Patrick Le Quément. This living legend of the automotive design industry has rewritten his career and transformed his creativity to focus on the style of sailing boats. The Lagoon 42 and the SEVENTY 7 are notably the result of this symbiosis, which continues to be promising.
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B.V. Raju Institute Of Technology (BVRIT) is an engineering college established in 1997 in Vishnupur, Narsapur, Medak, Telangana State, India. BVRIT is affiliated with Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad (JNTUH), University Grants Commission (UGC Autonomous), accredited by the National Board of Accreditation (NBA) and National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC). It is one of the educational institutes of the Sri Vishnu Educational Society. The campus is located 3 km from Narsapur and 50 km from Hyderabad and covers 110 acres (0.45 km2). The campus has three blocks : Main, Eastern (or Visvesvarayya) and Western (or Arya Bhatta). The central library covers 706 square metres and has a seating capacity of around 140. It hasaround 3000 titles and 29000 volumes. The college is a member of Sonnet, an A.P. Government "Society for networking for excellence in Technical education", and receives 230 online journals from Sonnet. The hostels can accommodate 100 girls and 200 boys and further hostels are under construction. BVRIT provides quarters within the campus for its staff. The college has a health care facility which provides medical care for the staff and students.


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Genome Evolution
dePamphilis, Claude W. [1], Altman, Naomi [2], Carlson, John [3], Clifton, Sandra [4], Goicoechea, Jose Luis [5], Kudrna, Dave [5], Landherr, Lena [6], Leebens-Mack, James H. [7], Ma, Hong [6], Soltis, Douglas E. [8], Soltis, Pamela S. [9], Wall, P. Kerr [6], Wing, Rod [5].
The Ancestral Angiosperm: Steps toward a genetic and genomic understanding of the origin of flowering plants.
The origin and early diversification of flowering plants had profound impacts on Earth's biota and provided the raw genetic material from which all other angiosperms evolved. The evolution of genomes, genes, regulatory processes, and many specific adaptations in monocots and eudicots cannot be adequately interpreted without a comparative framework firmly rooted with genome sequences from basal angiosperms. However, little is known about the genomes or most genes of the basal-most extant flowering plants, which are our sole surviving links to the earliest angiosperms. Limited EST data, from early flower development in the Floral Genome Project (FGP), provide our only current clues to the gene set present in the Ancestral Angiosperm. These data suggest that the earliest flowering plants had a large and diverse set of genes contributing to the flowering process, and may have undergone a polyploid event just prior to diversification of extant lineages. The Ancestral Angiosperm Genome Project (AAGP) is built around three primary experimental objectives, designed to provide key resources for the development of a comparative framework for all angiosperms: 1) deep transcriptome sequencing from multiple vegetative and reproductive organs of five basal angiosperms and one gymnosperm, 2) BAC library fingerprinting and physical mapping of Amborella, representing the basal-most extant angiosperm lineage, 3) sequencing of Amborella BAC clones, including 20 BACs to be suggested by members of the scientific community. Progress to date includes 1) the completion of BAC fingerprinting and a Phase I Physical Map and paired-end sequencing of ca. 70,000 Amborella BACs, 2) development of simulation tools to guide the design and execution of large-scale transcriptome sequencing involving capillary, 454, and Solexa platforms, 3) a rapidly expanding EST set that allows an increasingly precise view of genes and gene families present in the earliest flowering plants before monocots and eudicots diverged. A public call will be made for suggestions for individual BAC clones to be sequenced from Amborella.
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Floral Genome Project
PlantTribes Gene Family Database
Arizona Genomics Institute
Washington University Genome Sequencing Center
1 - The Pennsylvania State University, Biology, Institute of Molecular Evolutionary Genetics, and The Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences, University Park, PA, 16802, USA
2 - The Pennsylvania State University, Statistics
3 - The Pennsylvania State University, School of Forest Resources and The Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences
4 - Washington University, Genome Sequencing Center
5 - University of Arizona, Arizona Genomics Institute
6 - The Pennsylvania State University, Biology, Institute of Molecular Evolutionary Genetics, and The Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences
7 - University of Georgia, Plant Biology
8 - University of Florida, Department of Botany
9 - University of Florida, Florida Museum of Natural History
HIgh Information Content Fingerprinting
Physical Map
next-generation sequencing.
Presentation Type: Plant Biology Abstract
Session: P
Location: Exhibit Hall (Northeast, Southwest & Southeast)/Hilton
Date: Sunday, July 8th, 2007
Number: P40018
Abstract ID:2003


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31 Years Ago: Travis Tritt Releases 'Country Club'
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Thirty-one years ago today, on Feb. 22, 1990, Travis Tritt released his debut album, Country Club.
The record was a long time coming: According to Country Music: The Encyclopedia, the Marietta, Ga., native signed a record deal with Warner Bros. Nashville in 1987 for three singles. The first tune under that contract, "Country Club" — a song inspired by the songwriters' real-life experience with snobbery at an exclusive club — was released in 1989 and became a Top 10 country hit.
Tritt's hit drew attention from at least one influential name: "Charlie Daniels was the first person to sort of take me under his wing when I came into this business 15 years ago," Tritt said in 2004. "Charlie hired me sight unseen to open shows for him when all I had out was that first single."
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The live experience certainly helped Tritt develop his own voice and self-confidence. When Country Club the album finally emerged in 1990, it felt fully formed, with music that combined old-school outlaw grit and slicker pop sounds. "Son of the New South" possessed an outsider vibe with menacing pedal steel, while the harmony-laden "Sign of the Times" is a throwback to early '80s sounds; "Drift Off to Dream" and "Help Me Hold On," meanwhile, are meditative ballads.
Entertainment Weekly, for one, noted the album's diversity, writing that the album "arrives with an affable sound somewhere between the good ol' boy honky-tonk of Joe Stampley (on Tritt's "Country Club") and the churning Southern rock of Hank Williams Jr. (on "Put Some Drive in Your Country")."
Tritt's approach was enormously commercially successful. Of the album's five singles, four reached the Top 10: "I'm Gonna Be Somebody" "Drift Off to Dream" the title track, and "Help Me Hold On." The latter song, which Tritt co-wrote, hit No. 1. The album itself reached No. 3 on the country charts, and No. 70 on the Billboard Top 200, and established Tritt as the kind of artist destined to have a long and storied career.
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Former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich was found guilty on a single count of lying to federal agents on Tuesday while a jury said it was hung on the other 23 counts against him. The one count carries a maximum sentence of five years. Prosecutors may attempt to re-try the governor-turned-Celebrity Apprentice participant on the other 23 counts.
The trial stemmed from a 2008 indictment that accused Blagojevich of trying to sell the appointment to the U.S. Senate seat that opened up when Barack Obama was elected president. Blagojevich has since been impeached and removed from the governor's office. His appearance on Celebrity Apprentice earlier this year was part of an unorthodox public relations tour of sorts, which also included appearances on The View and The Late Show With David Letterman.
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Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison and "Ritual Sexual Abuse"
Posted on October 26, 2018 by Richard Bartholomew
From the transcript of Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison's National Apology Address, in which "the Australian Government and this Parliament, on behalf of all Australians, unreservedly apologises to the victims and survivors of institutional child sexual abuse":
The crimes of ritual sexual abuse happened in schools, churches, youth groups, scout troops, orphanages, foster homes, sporting clubs, group homes, charities, and in family homes as well.
It happened anywhere a predator thought they could get away with it, and the systems within these organisations allowed it to happen and turned a blind eye.
It happened day after day, week after week, month after month, and decade after decade. Unrelenting torment.
When a child spoke up, they weren't believed and the crimes continued with impunity.
…Not just as a father but as Prime Minister, I am angry too at the calculating destruction of lives and abuse of trust, including those who have abused the shield of faith and religion to hide their crimes, a shield that is supposed to protect the innocent, not the guilty. And they stand condemned.
From the context, the word "ritual" here appears to mean "systematic" or "methodical", perhaps referring to the various techniques that abusers use to "groom" a child for repeated abuse and to ensure secrecy.
However, the phrase "ritual sexual abuse" (or "ritual abuse") obviously more readily evokes the familiar idea of secret Satanic cults committing depravities with impunity, and this is how the apology is being interpreted by some, despite the difficulties it raises. For instance, the journalist Mark Watts, who specialises in promoting sensational "VIP sex abuse" claims, refers to the "fulsome apology to those who suffered child sexual abuse – inc ritual sexual abuse – in Australia by PM Scott Morrison", when in fact no such category is clearly singled out in the speech.
The obvious question that arises is that if Morrison indeed wanted to flag up "ritual sexual abuse" as the phrase is commonly understood, then why wasn't he clearer about it? Perhaps the answer is that he was being deliberately ambiguous for some reason. It may be that he wanted to signal his belief in the phenomenon without having to invest political capital in it – after all, he is Australia's first Neo-Pentecostal Prime Minister, and "Satanic ritual abuse" conspiracy theories have thrived within some evangelical strands. There's also the fact that Australia's Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse has given credence to Cathy Kezelman, a GP and activist who has made increasingly lurid allegations against her own family – this may have influenced Morrison, or whoever drafted his speech or advised on it.
Conspiracy theorists, however, have a different explanation, which is that Morrison was dropping a hint about knowing more than is in the public domain, just as "QAnon" believers believe that Trump is sending out subtle indications that he has uncovered a cabal of elite abusers who will shortly be exposed to the world. Thus various people are Tweeting claims such as "The new Prime Minister of Australia Scott Morrison must be a rider in #TheStorm. Here he is making an unprecedented statement on the cabal-engineered epidemic of child ritual abuse". It is also being suggested that the Morrison's phrasing vindicates Fiona Barnett, an Australian woman who has made extravagant "VIP Satanic ritual abuse" claims.
UPDATE (November 2019): An article by Australian journalist David Hardaker for Crikey, and partially excerpted by the New Daily, draws attention to Morrison's "ritual abuse" phrasing and links it to Morrison's friendship with a man named Tim Stewart, described as "a prominent promoter of the US-based far-right "QAnon" conspiracy movement". The two men's wives are "best friends", and
In the days before Mr Morrison's apology speech, Mr Stewart claimed to have influenced the PM to make a reference to "ritual" abuse.
In the hours before the address, he sent a text to a colleague: "I think Scott is going to do it!!".
…The Stewarts' 22-year-old son, Jesse – also an enthusiastic promoter of the QAnon conspiracy – tweeted: "You know #theGreatAwakening is in full swing when the Australian Prime Minister @ScottMorrisonMP mentions #RitualAbuse," a tweet read.
The article also says that Tim Stewart sent texts to a man apparently named Eliahi Priest, in which he wrote that "Scott is awakening".
Hardaker was also kind enough to include a link to this page, noting that while Morrison's "ritual" phrasing was "largely unremarked", it had been "picked up by an international blogger who specialises in exposing religion-based conspiracy theories".
A follow-up article by Hardaker further adds that Morrison's use of the phrase "appears to run counter to advice given to him by survivors and government-appointed experts."
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Q: How to grab object id from UITableView and delete object based on object id? Now I got problem with this one, I don't know how to grab object id from UITableView after user select from it and pass it into another view controller, I want to delete the object based on object id that I already fetch from previous one. All the data come from user entity.
UITableView
var myList: Array <AnyObject> = []

func tableView(tableView: UITableView, didSelectRowAtIndexPath indexPath: NSIndexPath) {

        let appDel: AppDelegate = (UIApplication.sharedApplication().delegate as AppDelegate)
        let context: NSManagedObjectContext = appDel.managedObjectContext!

        /* grab object id here from core data object and pass to NSUserDefault*/
        NSUserDefaults.standardUserDefaults().setObject(objectId, forKey: "userId")

        let storyBoard : UIStoryboard = UIStoryboard(name: "Main", bundle:nil)

        let deleteViewController = storyBoard.instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier("accessView") as DeleteViewController
        self.presentViewController(deleteViewController, animated:true, completion:nil)

    }

DeleteViewController
 let objectId = NSUserDefaults.standardUserDefaults().stringForKey("userId")
/* Grab object id from NSUserDefault and delete object here*/

A: I already found the answer.
UITableView
var myList: Array <AnyObject> = []

func tableView(tableView: UITableView, didSelectRowAtIndexPath indexPath: NSIndexPath) {

        let data: NSManagedObject = myList[indexPath.row] as NSManagedObject

        let userId = data.valueForKeyPath("userId") as? String
        NSUserDefaults.standardUserDefaults().setObject(objectId, forKey: "userId")

        let storyBoard : UIStoryboard = UIStoryboard(name: "Main", bundle:nil)

        let deleteViewController = storyBoard.instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier("accessView") as DeleteViewController
        self.presentViewController(deleteViewController, animated:true, completion:nil)

    }

DeleteViewController
let userId = NSUserDefaults.standardUserDefaults().stringForKey("userId")

                    //reference to our app delegate
                    let appDel: AppDelegate = (UIApplication.sharedApplication().delegate as AppDelegate)
                    let context: NSManagedObjectContext = appDel.managedObjectContext!

                    let request = NSFetchRequest(entityName: "EntityOne")
                    request.includesSubentities = false
                    request.returnsObjectsAsFaults = false
                    request.predicate = NSPredicate(format: "userId = %@", userId!)
                    let items = context.executeFetchRequest(request, error: nil)!

                    for item in items {
                        context.deleteObject(item as NSManagedObject)
                    }

A: I usually do this with two functions, one to fetch the specific user and one to delete the user. Now these methods assume that each object will have a unique id, so using the following functions you just call deleteUser(fetchUser(someID))
func fetchUser(id: Int) -> User? {

    // Define fetch request/predicate
    var fetchRequest = NSFetchRequest(entityName: "User")
    let predicate = NSPredicate(format: "id == \(id)")

    // Assign fetch request properties
    fetchRequest.predicate = predicate
    fetchRequest.fetchBatchSize = 1
    fetchRequest.fetchLimit = 1

    // Handle results
    let fetchedResults = managedObjectContext?.executeFetchRequest(fetchRequest, error: nil)

    if fetchedResults?.count != 0 {

        if let fetchedUser: User = fetchedResults![0] as? User {
            return fetchedUser
        }
    }
    return nil
}

// Delete
func deleteUser(id: Int) {
    if let user = fetchEvent(id) {
        managedObjectContext?.deleteObject(user)
    }
}


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When the world becomes water
by Adrian Daniel Schramm | Feb 17, 2018 | Fiction
Gogo stands over the oven. She is sweating – the air is warm and humid, even at night. She is cooking when I come through the door, licking her mother's recipes from the wooden spoon. There's a loaf of bread and garlic next to her with a piece missing. And she says, "Forgive me. I was so very hungry. You're late." "I'm sorry." "I started eating," she wipes her hands with a white towel from the rack. "I couldn't wait." Only the light over the sink is on, keeping the kitchen in shadows and smells. I take a bowl from the cupboard and she fills it with noodles, tomato, garlic, wine. We sit down at the small wooden table pushed against the wall and eat mostly in silence. We fall asleep on the couch after we're finished, watching something on TV that we've both seen before. The apartment is only one room. Nothing is far away. It was the opposite the last time we had sex. It was the last time we fell asleep together in the bed – slept someplace other than the couch. "You're early," she had said, her hair pulled across her forehead, panting, licking her lips, unsatisfied. We watched a movie recently. I don't remember the title. It was something that Gogo wanted to watch and I fell asleep before it was over. I woke up near the end to a guy with a strong jaw taking the leading lady in his arms and telling her, "You're silly." "What?" The heroine asked. "To think that the money that you'll inherit from your mother is what...
by Adrian Daniel Schramm | Jan 27, 2018 | Fiction
Gogo was raised by her uncle after her mother died and her father left for Africa. Her father never returned from Africa, and whether he was alive or dead she never found out. And neither did anyone else, as far as she knew. Her uncle was large and had a strong jaw – a head shaped like an anvil. His words had the same sort of weight. But he didn't say much, thankfully, and his house on the edge of the river was large enough that they could (mostly/almost) coexist without crossing paths. Gogo told me she could dissolve into a glass of water when he yelled for peace and quiet. When I visited her we stayed in her room. If we were hungry we left her house and went to the diner nearby. If her uncle was in a particularly foul mood we stayed at my place, hiding beneath the covers of my bed so that my parents wouldn't know she was there. We were safe beneath the covers, holding each other and whispering about where we would go tomorrow, next month, next year, forever. We read books to each other. Great Russian literature and the American classics. We tackled "Waiting for Godot" which was one of her favorites: We said we would go and see it performed one day when we had the money. We read poetry and wondered how so much could be said with so few words. My parents never caught us. Gogo always slipped through the window before sunrise and before my dad started making jokes at the breakfast table where I pretended to...
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I don't want to be here, my eyelids getting heavy. My back starting to hurt. I don't want to stay sitting, stuck at this desk in this classroom of this school that smells like old wood and grandma's books. Mr. Jalle up front talking about history and politics and why we are where we are. But he can't explain why I am where I am. I think sometimes about climbing the trees outside, climbing to the very top, then jumping off with my arms outstretched because I think I can fly. My eyes are open. I see something in front of me. Dark green, watery green, swamp. I'm underwater. My eyes are open. The water stings my eyes. I reach forward with my hand. There's nothing. I'm choking on swamp water that tastes rusty like old nails and tonic. "You're blind," the voice in my head tells me. Mr. Jalle's voice up front is like a hum, steady, like low-fi bass reverberating in my ears. I don't hear anything he says. I'm listening. I don't hear anything except for the sound in my head. Chatter, like radio static, noise. The bass low and steady in my ears. I'm blind, I think. I'm blind. I don't need to learn any of this. What good will it do me if I understand the Emancipation Proclamation? I can't run for president if I'm blind. There's never been a blind president. How would I get to the podium to give the speeches like I see on TV? With someone helping me every step of the way? Holding my hand? How would I negotiate...