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Q: Problem Books in Measure Theory I'm taking a course in measure theory and the professor isn't following a textbook. Of course, he will be assigning homework problems, but I feel like just doing homework problems is never enough for me to fully understand the material. My plan is to have a separate "problem book" in addition to my class, which I'll keep on solving as we keep on studying new topics in class (i.e. I'll solve the relevant exercises after we cover the material in class, and keep this going continuously). I have three options for books to make my problem book:

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*Real Analysis by Royden

*Stein and Shakarachi's Measure Theory notes

*Rudin's Real and Complex Analysis
Which one is best as a "problem book"? A bit more on what I want from this book: I want exercises to be able to do quickly as I study the material. I'm sure the homework will have enough "deep problems", so my goal here isn't to find a book with interesting problems, but one that can serve as a book to make me really get warmed up with the material and understand it better before attempting homework problems. Plus, I don't have that much extra time to spend on these problems, so I'm not looking for the hardest problems either. Which one of these is best for this purpose? I've used Royden quite a lot before, but don't like its presentation of measure theory too much (they break up measure theory into two sections: one just focusing on $\mathbb{R}$ and one in an abstract setting, and sort of repeat the same thing twice, though I still like the book), and don't have much experience with Stein and Rudin.
PS - perhaps relevant to this post, but I've studied measure theory before, so it's not my first time seeing most of these things.

A: I think Bartle's Elements of Integration and Lebesgue Measure might be the book for you.
It's problems are not extremely difficult, but they are interesting nevertheless, and overall I think it is a good book.
When I took measure theory I used it alongside Folland's Real Analysis modern techniques and their applications, and I think it was a great match in terms of difficulty of the exercises and explanation of the subject.

A: You might want to take a look at my book Measure, Integration & Real Analysis, which was published earlier this year in Springer's Graduate Texts in Mathematics series. I placed this book in Springer's Open Access program, which means that the electronic version of the book is legally available for free at http://measure.axler.net/.

A: Not a book but the Measure Theory for statistics course at Duke has great exercises (and great content too):
http://www2.stat.duke.edu/courses/Fall20/sta711/
The homework problems are mostly results you have to prove and the included past midterm and final problems are more of a speed-thinking/applied variety.
All in all its a great resource

A: You can check out Measures, Integrals and Martingales 2nd Edition
by René L. Schilling. This is an introductory book though, but you mentioned that you need warm up. Moreover, all the exercise have detailed solutions on author's webpage.

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TO TAKE ACTIVE CHARGE Judge Murphy Plans to Come to Chicago February 15. Will Then Assume Management of JTcw Washington Park Breeders Association Organization AVork Completed. Judge Joseph A. Murphy is arranging his plans so that he will bo in Chicago on February 15 to take active charge of the New Washington Park Breeders Association affairs. The finance committee has accepted the plans and specifications suggested by engineer William J. Murray and carried out by Scott C. Dyer, the architect. The final and complete view is now in the hands of the artist and will be ready for publication in the course of ten days. The plans proper show the clubhouse, conservatory, paddock and grandstand, the judges and timers stands and the stretch and infield. Racing at New Orleans ends with the beginning of Lent and Judge Murphy is footloose to take up his activities in Chicago. Realizing that there is an immense amount of work to do the Judge has suggested that the various heads organize their own committees and perfect the organization so that there will be no delay when once the work is commenced. The clubhouse, the golf and athletic features will all come under a social organization and while a part of the mother bedy it will practically be a separate department and naturally will have a distinct committee that will operate that end of the business. The Judge has outlined his ideas and plans for a social list, including a 2,500 limit, all applicants to be passed upon by the membership committee, with proper indorsements by two reliable business men, with the understanding that the club reserves the right to accept or refuse the application, as it sees fit. In other words, it will be parallel with the organization of the old Washington Park Club of twenty years ago, whose social functions were known the world over, and Judge Murphy feels confident, with the new outer drive completed, the boulevards direct to the dunes, which is practically completed, the Lincoln and Dixie Highways, the direct boulevard system down Michigan Avenue to Riverdale, will give Chicago an opportunity of taking advantage of a really first-class club with all advantages. The organization of the club proper is now being arranged and in the course of the next few weeks will be launched, prospectus issued and a committee of twenty-live selected to arrange preliminary details. CHICAGO ORGANIZATION. The financing, the money for the organization as a whole, has been taken care of, other than a specified amount for those who are entitled to recognition and are deserving of getting in on the ground lloor, and Judge Murphy was emphatic in declaring that he wanted to make the New Washington Park Breeders Association a Chicago organization pure and simple, and while ,500,000 was practically subscribed, in order to make it a popular affair the little fellows too should be entitled to buy one share of stock if they so desired, and in due time all will be invited to come in. In making a canvass of leading business men all have been more than pleased to lend their assistance to the undertaking and many who have not been approached have willingly come forward and asked to be permitted to serve on the committee of organization. Fifty-one of Chicagos leading financial citizens have come forward and have signified their willingness to back the entire proposition, but in order tp make the proposition a concrete affair have insisted that Judge Joseph A. Murphy be put in full charge, thereby satisfying themselves that the organization will have a standing to commence with, with absolute cleanness, free from any cliques or organizations. The Judge has accepted the leadership without any strings and it is up to him to go ahead and use his own judgment. The only suggestion the fifty-one offered is that a plant be erected that will top anything in the world, and from the present outlook Chicago will have such a place when the next official American Derby is run.

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Paul Antoine Henri Jules Lekeu  (Dison, 15 juni 1862 – Brussel, 12 maart 1933) was een Belgisch journalist en senator.

Levensloop
Lekeu werkte als redacteur van de socialistische partijkrant Le Peuple (in 1895). Hij was ook stichter en redacteur van L'Avenir de Schaerbeek, een lokaal socialistisch blad.

Hij was socialistisch gemeenteraadslid in Schaarbeek van 1895 tot 1907.

Hij was beheerder van het Intercommunale Waterbedrijf vanaf 1899 en was er later afgevaardigd bestuurder en voorzitter.

In 1911 werd hij socialistisch provinciaal senator voor de provincie Henegouwen en vervulde dit mandaat tot aan zijn dood.

Publicaties
 Le 'Conscrit' aux Assises. Le procès de Louis de Brouckère et Jules Lekeu, Brussel, 1896.
 L'histoire d'une favorite. Le scandale Vaughan et consorts à la résidence royale, Brussel, 1906.
 A travers le Centre. Croquis et moeurs. Enquête ouvrière et industrielle, Brussel, 1907.
 Le roi et la favorite, Brussel, 1908.
 Rapport du Bureau du Conseil général sur l'activité du Parti ouvrier pendant la guerre 1914-1918, Brussel, 1918.

Literatuur
 Louis DE BROUCKÈRE, La mort de Jules Lekeu. Souvenirs, in: Le Pauple, 14 maart 1933.
 Paul VAN MOLLE, Het Belgisch Parlement, 1894-1972, Antwerpen, 1972.

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 Fiche Jules Lekeu op Odis

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Q: In C, can the expression foo() be used as the empty expression if foo's return type is void? With respect to the return statement, the Microsoft Visual Studio documentation says

Syntax:
return expression;

where expression is marked as optional. It continues

The value of expression, if present, is returned to the calling function. If expression is
  omitted, the return value of the function is undefined.

This is quite clear, but on the other hand, there is the notion of an empty expression. This makes me confuse. Thinking of the empty expression not as nothing, but as an expression which is empty, I would think that if we have a function
void foo(void)
{
     return;
}

then the expression foo() could be used wherever the empty expression is allowed. For example, the behaviour of the code
unsigned int i=0;
for(foo();i<10;i++) printf("%u",i);

would be defined.
I am aware that this is probably of little practical relevance, but I would like to understand why, in this context, the empty expression is not an expression.

A: It's called void expression. And you can use a void expression in for like you did. The void expression does nothing but its side effect, which is calling the function.
In fact, if the first clause of for is any type of expression, it's evaluated as a void expression:

C99 6.8.5.3 The for statement
... If clause-1 is an expression, it is evaluated as a void expression before the first evaluation of the controlling expression.

and

C99 6.3.2.2 void
The (nonexistent) value of a void expression(an expression that has type void) shall not
  be used in any way, and implicit or explicit conversions (except to void) shall not be
  applied to such an expression. If an expression of any other type is evaluated as a void
  expression, its value or designator is discarded. (A void expression is evaluated for its
  side effects.)

A: I don't know if there actually is such a thing in C as "the empty expression", but if there is, then you are confusing it with the type void, and at the same time you are confusing the act of returning "nothing" from a non-void function (which is illegal) with leaving out the initializer expression of a for loop (which is legal).


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Barbara Herrnstein Smith (born 1932) is an American literary critic and theorist, best known for her work Contingencies of Value: Alternative Perspectives for Critical Theory.  She is currently the Braxton Craven Professor of Comparative Literature and English and director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies in Science and Cultural Theory at Duke University, and also Distinguished Professor of English at Brown University.

Biography
Smith briefly studied at City College of New York, studying biology, experimental psychology, and philosophy. She then earned her B.A. (summa cum laude) in 1954 and her Ph.D. from Brandeis University. Brandeis University reports Smith earned her doctorate in 1965, and Duke University reports she earned her doctorate in 1963.

From 1961 to 1973, Smith taught at Bennington College.  She accepted a faculty position at the University of Pennsylvania in 1973.  In 1987 she joined the Duke University faculty, and also joined Brown University in 2003.

Smith has also occupied numerous short-term and honorary posts. She was a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford and at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.

Scholarship and work
Smith is a well-known writer, most particularly for her 1983 work on critical theory, Contingencies of Value: Alternative Perspectives for Critical Theory.  In this work, she attempts to situate the various liberal, conservative, and other views of "values" within her "metametatheory" of contingencies, an economics-influenced theoretical approach. She uses her theory to address literary, aesthetic, and other types of values, attempting to discern whether any objective standards may be applied.

Other works include Poetic Closure: A Study of How Poems End, Belief and Resistance: Dynamics of Contemporary Intellectual Controversy, and an edition of Shakespeare's sonnets; she has published numerous books and articles on language, literature, and critical theory.

In recent years she has been doing considerable work on science and the humanities, including Scandalous Knowledge and her 2006 Terry lectures at Yale, Natural Reflections: Human Cognition at the Nexus of Science and Religion.

Published works

Discussion of Shakespeare's Sonnets (ed.) (1964)
Poetic Closure: A Study of How Poems End (1968)
Shakespeare's Sonnets (ed.) (1969)
On the Margins of Discourse: The Relation of Literature to Language (1978)
Contingencies of Value: Alternative Perspectives for Critical Theory (1988)
The Politics of Liberal Education (ed., with Darryl J. Gless) (1991)
Mathematics, Science, and Postclassical Theory (ed., with Arkady Plotnitsky) (1997)
Belief and Resistance: Dynamics of Contemporary Intellectual Controversy (1997)
Scandalous Knowledge: Science, Truth and the Human (2006)
Natural Reflections: Human Cognition at the Nexus of Science and Religion (Terry Lectures) (2010)
Practicing Relativism in the Anthropocene: On Science, Belief, and the Humanities (2018)

Awards and recognitions
 Christian Gauss Award for Poetic Closure, Phi Beta Kappa Society (1968)
 Explicator Award (1968) for Poetic Closure
 Guggenheim Fellowship (1977)
 Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford (1986)
 Member, Institute for Advanced Study (1986–1987)
 President, Modern Language Association (1988)
 Honorary Mention for Contingencies of Value, American Association of University Professors (1989)
 "Best Special Issue" for "The Politics of Liberal Education" in South Atlantic Quarterly, The Council of Editors of Learned Journals (1990)
 Fellow, National Humanities Center (1992–1993)
 Critic's Choice Award for The Politics of Liberal Education, The American Educational Studies Association (1992)
 Fellow, The Davis Center for Historical Studies at Princeton University (1992-1993)
 Fellow, The Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center (1995)
 Fellow (elected), American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1999)
 Honorary Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (2001)
 Dwight H. Terry Lecturer, Yale University (2006)
 Lifetime Achievement Award, The Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts (2010)

References

 Klingenstein, Suzanne (1 March 2009). "Literature Scholars in the United States". Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia. Jewish Women's Archive. Retrieved 20 July 2014.

External links
Barbara Herrnstein Smith Papers - Pembroke Center Archives, Brown University

Further reading
 Duke University Faculty Profile
 Brown University Faculty Profile
 "Barbara Herrnstein Smith", Dwight H. Terry Lectureship, Yale (2006)

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As federal policies rapidly, and sometimes frighteningly, change during Donald Trump's presidency, there is only so much that can be done in response. On a local level, however, each one of us has far more potential to make an impact. A great place to start is by supporting a proposal that would make Newton a "sanctuary city" at the Newton Programs & Services Committee hearing on the issue. The meeting is tonight at 7:30 p.m. at Newton City Hall, but a rally is being held in support of the ordinance at 6 p.m.
The meeting will focus on a "Welcoming City" ordinance, a compromise between two previously opposing ordinances, one sponsored by Mayor Setti Warren and Newton Police Chief David MacDonald and the other by a handful of city councilors. The new ordinance has the support of Warren, MacDonald, former mayor David Cohen, and at least 16 of the city's 24 city councilors.
The proposal's stated purpose is "to enhance relationships with all residents, including immigrants, and to make all residents, workers and visitors feel safe and secure regardless of immigration status." This language is in disagreement with Trump's hard-line anti-immigration stance. Specifically, it prohibits city officials, including police officers, from requesting the immigration status of any person when not required by state or federal law. It also states that city officials may not report any person to federal authorities regarding their immigration status when not required by federal law. The ordinance does not apply in instances of a serious threat to public safety.
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In Newton, those who oppose Trump's agenda are the clear majority. According to data provided by the city government, only 16 percent of Newton voters in the 2016 presidential election voted for Trump. This being the case, it is a common-sense decision for Newton to serve as a relatively safe place for those who are threatened by Trump's policies.
Unfortunately, at the last City Council hearing on the ordinance, which took place Jan. 18, people opposed to the ordinance disproportionately outnumbered those in favor, according to David Mapes-Frances, a senior who attended the hearing.
Charles Jacobs, the founder of Americans for Peace and Tolerance–an organization classified by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) as an Islamophobic hate group–was cheered at the meeting, according to Councilor Susan Albright, who supports the ordinance. A lawyer for the American Civil Liberties Union, present to support the ordinance, was booed, while a woman who said she felt threatened by the anti-ordinance crowd was laughed at, added Albright.
This response is not representative of Newton. The vast majority of us who oppose Trump's agenda must show up to support vulnerable members of our community and to show councilors in favor of the ordinance that their constituents support them, and the ideals they are standing up for. "We're supporting this ordinance to support the principle behind it," said Albright.
This can begin now.
Newton becoming a sanctuary city under this ordinance will send a strong message that we will not support a bigoted, illogical, anti-immigration vision of the United States.


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Ted Cruz Launch: Good News for Evangelicals, Bad News for GOP Elites
Commentary by Julio Severo: When there is no candidate for you to give your vote, it is sad. Yet, when there is one, it is joy. Ted Cruz launched his candidacy to the U.S. presidency in the largest evangelical university in the world, Liberty University, connected to Matt Barber, owner of the conservative website Barbwire, where I am a columnist. In fact, the article below, written by Bryan Fischer, was published by Barbwire. If Cruz actually reaches the end, this election will be thrilling. Today, I dreamed that I was in an area where there was a voting booth in the U.S. For some reason, I saw the first American voter and after he had left the voting booth, his vote was put in my hand and I saw that his vote was for Cruz. I was extremely glad in that moment. I cannot vote in the U.S., but I will pray that Cruz may win and become president, becoming this way, as Romans says, a "minister of God." We are tired of seeing U.S. presidents and politicians, true servants of Satan, facilitating the international persecution of Christians. It is time for an evangelical as Ted Cruz to win and change the anti-Christian and pro-sodomy policies of the U.S. government. I pray also that as U.S. president he may do what no U.S. president has ever done: TO RECOGNIZE OFFICIALLY JERUSALEM AS CAPITAL OF ISRAEL! Ted Cruz has my support!
Ted Cruz sucked all the oxygen out of the room today with his official declaration of his candidacy to be America's next president.
He stole a march on the rest of the field, who will now be scrambling to catch up. It was a brilliant piece of political strategy.
By making his first campaign appearance at Liberty University, the largest evangelical school in the world, Cruz was also sending a powerful message to the conservative Christian base: "I'm one of you." He was telling evangelicals that they are his base. He openly embraced evangelicals in a way we have not seen since the days of Ronald Reagan.
It's impossible for a Republican to win the nomination or the presidency without the enthusiastic support of the evangelical base. You can ask Romney and McCain all about that. Cruz will generate the kind of fervor and energy among the confessing evangelicals that's required to win. He in fact may lock up the evangelical bloc before the other conservatives are even out of the gate.
Four million conservative voters stayed home in 2012 and in so doing handed the election to Barack Obama. Cruz will draw those four million conservatives to the polls, and they will bring their friends with them. Lots of them.
Political consultants, who have made an astonishing amount of money telling Republicans how to lose one election after another, have got it all wrong on the precious "independents." Their template is that there are Republicans on the right, Democrats on the left, with all the independents somewhere in between.
What this template completely fails to account for is the number of independents who are to the right of today's mushy-middle GOP establishment. They are independent, not because the Republican Party is too conservative for them, but because it is not conservative enough.
To borrow from Ronald Reagan, they didn't leave the Republican Party, the Republican Party left them. Ted Cruz will bring the party back to them and he will bring them back to the party. He will win the independents who count, the ones who can put the Republicans in the win column in 2016.
It will be fascinating to watch the weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth among the GOP establishment should Cruz's candidacy take flight. We will soon find out if there is enough room for Ted Cruz in their precious "Big Tent." Their tent may prove to be a lot smaller than they want us to believe.
The GOP elites have always taken evangelical voters for granted. They have condescendingly thrown us a bone or two in the platform, then patted us on the head and told us to go to our rooms and be seen and not heard. They have assumed we will vote GOP because we have no other place to go.
Those days will be over with a Cruz nomination. It will be the GOP establishment that will have no place to go. Evangelicals will say it's about time the elites have to hold their noses and vote for our guy for a change.
In its profile of Ted Cruz, the New York Times said that GOP elites are "skeptical of and angry with (Ted) Cruz." Sounds like he just might be the guy we're looking for.
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The Duchess of Cambridge is rumoured to be considering a home birth for the third royal baby, according to British tabloid reports.
The Daily Mail reports that the Duchess originally asked for permission for her second child, Princess Charlotte, to be born at Kensington Palace, but changed her mind following medical advice. Now, after two relatively straightforward deliveries, she is believed to be considering a home birth again.
The Daily Mail's source says a home birth is appealing simply so the Duchess can avoid the heightened press attention that has surrounded the final days of her previous pregnancies.
Home at Kensington Palace, she will be in relative privacy – with no need to board up hospital windows away from the prying eyes of the press and public.
A royal home birth actually isn't so out of the ordinary – as American Vogue points out, Queen Elizabeth had her three sons at Buckingham Palace and her daughter at Clarence House. Princess Anne was the first British royal to give birth in a hospital in the '70s, and Princess Diana followed her lead when she had both Prince William and Prince Harry.
Of course, a home birth in Kensington Palace is likely to play out very differently to a home birth in, say, suburbia, with the presence of a medical team and medical facilities.


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Unique showcase technology protects the books in the Bible Museum
The walls, the floor, the ceiling – everything is black. The light is dimmed to such an extent that visitors' eyes first have to become accustomed to it when they enter the room. Behind the glass in the black showcase, a golden cross from the 15th century catches the eye. It seems to hover in its dark surroundings. The cross depicts the crucifixion of Jesus of Nazareth, surrounded by the symbols of the evangelists Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. In the background, the air-conditioning hums quietly.
The dark room, the dimmed lighting and the air-conditioning are all necessary to protect the valuable objects in the Bible Museum. "Very many of the exhibits need special conservation measures," explains the museum's curator, Dr. Jan Graefe. "Parchment, for example, continues to live. It both releases and absorbs moisture. The objects we have on display consist of a variety of different materials such as paper, papyrus, leather or wood," he adds. For the past five and a half years, the Bible Museum – one of eight in Germany – was closed while it was being redesigned with respect both to content and to the technical requirements for the exhibits. When the museum reopens on 13 December, 1500 exhibits will be on display over an area of around 160 square metres. For the first time, the 650 Latin, Greek and polyglot Bibles from the Walter Remy collection will be on display to the public.
The two showcases, 13 metres in length and each with its own integrated air-conditioning, are unique. Inside each showcase the temperature is at a constant 18-10 degrees Celsius. The humidity is between 45 and 50 percent. The air is continuously circulated. "These values must not vary by more than three percent at the most within any period of 24 hours," Graefe explains. "If the values deviate too much, I get a notification on my mobile." The lighting, too, is adapted to the requirements for conserving the Bibles, some of which are a thousand years old. The lighting level in the room is only 30 to 40 lux. By way of comparison: a cloud-free summer's day reaches anything up to 100,000 lux. Visitors can use virtual reality (VR) to find out more about the history of the Bible Museum – which is part of the Institute of New Testament Textual Research (INTF) – as well as about its responsibilities and the research currently being undertaken there. The digital guided tour, designed especially for a VR headset, provides explanations of New Testament textual research.
The museum uses original Bibles to illuminate the history of the Bible as the central medium in transporting the Christian faith, and besides curating its collection – the only one of its kind in Münster and North Rhine-Westphalia – it also conserves, expands and conducts research into it. The main focus of the exhibition is on the Greek New Testament and the German-language Bible. Researchers at the INTF study the history of the Bible. The main question they are looking at is the reconstruction of the original text, and they are looking into what the precise wording of the Greek New Testament originally was – because all the original manuscripts of the 27 books in the New Testament are now lost. All we now have are copies which were made in later centuries, and their respective content sometimes differs greatly. Today, the edition of the New Testament reconstructed at the University of Münster is used worldwide by all the main churches and centres of research and teaching. It is also the basis for almost all modern translations of the Bible. "Our collection continues to be available for researchers to access, because there's a lot that still hasn't been researched. In addition," Graefe adds, "there will again be seminars held for students in the Bible Museum
The new concept designed for the museum will also see a succession of changing exhibits on display. "In December we'll be showing passages from the Bible that deal with Christmas, and at Easter or Whitsun we'll be exhibiting new discoveries," says Graefe. One of the specialities of the collection is a Luther Bible containing a dedication written in Luther's own hand during the final days of his life. A Sumerian clay tablet dating from around 2500 BCE is the oldest exhibit. The tablet, measuring twelve by seven centimetres, has a creation story covering its surface.
The reopening of the museum comes during a year in which two anniversaries have been celebrated: the 40th birthday of the museum and the 60th of the INTF.
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On the day the museum opens – Friday, 13 December – the public will have access to the Archaeological Museum and to the Bible Museum from 7:30 pm onwards. From 14 December, both museums will be open daily from 10 am to 6 pm (closed on Mondays) – reflecting the opening times of the LWL Museum of Art and Culture opposite. On so-called 'long Fridays' (the second Friday in every month), the museums will be open from 10 am to 10 pm.
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The Diversity in Leadership Alliance (DLA) started out as a working group of the Early Childhood Leadership and Policy Network (ECLPN). The ECLPN is collaboration between higher education faculty whose vision is to create a network of early childhood leaders that work together to facilitate leadership development and affect policies and practices that promote culturally responsive early childhood programs for all children. The ECLPN works to promote informed, effective diverse leadership that is representative of the children and families served by the early childhood system. The ECLPN intentionally connects policy and leadership in order to create the maximum potential for early childhood policies that are informed by both research and the expertise of professionals. The Diversity in Leadership Alliance focuses on increasing the strength, capacity and knowledge of a diverse, multilevel group of professionals that can shape early childhood policies and practices to be more inclusive and culturally responsive.
The Diversity in Leadership Alliance (DLA), educates and advocates by providing opportunities for honest dialogue about personal and organizational bias and institutionalized racism and privilege at all tables that impact the early childhood community. DLA will be inclusive of cultures of people and provide opportunities to respect and practice values, rituals and lifestyles without barriers of gear of oppression or judgment.
To equip experienced and emerging leaders to develop policies and implement practices that promote high quality early childhood education for all children.
The current disproportion between the culture and ethnicity of traditional leadership in the field and that of the children we serve has limited the representation of the strengths and needs of children of color. Leaders and advocates are needed who more closely reflect the cultural, racial, ethnic and linguistic diversity of the children and families served by the early care and education system. Leaders and advocates are needed who have a deep understanding of all children and families and the influence of social and economic forces on families. While some of that leadership can come from empathetic, sensitive individuals from other cultures, there is a need for adults who actually share the culture of the children who can most authentically affirm children's experiences and understand them in their home context.
A leader is intentionally an agent of change and transformation. This means that leadership can happen in a variety of contexts and that individuals may or may not hold a typically recognized position of leadership. Each participant's engagement in the Institute process will reflect how they see themselves in relationship to leadership, how they assess their current skills and knowledge and what in their early childhood environment may need to be changed.
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Kier has been appointed by the University of Cambridge to build a £58m laboratory on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus.
The project will provide between 14,000sq m and 17,000sq m of research space.
Pre-construction works are due to begin immediately, with Kier working to finalise the design for the building.
Work is then due to start on site in Q3 2015, and is expected to complete in summer 2017.
The Biomedical Campus will also be home to a new headquarters for Astra Zeneca, as well as hospital buildings.
Kier project director, Nick Mann, said: "We are delighted to have won this contract with one of our longest-standing and most valued clients; we completed our first contract for the University of Cambridge in 1996 and we are currently on site at both the Arup Building and the Department of Genetics.
"This latest project will be our 23rd with the University, and the second largest we have undertaken with them, having completed the £69m Stirling Prize-winning Sainsbury Laboratory in 2010.
Kier has been appointed to deliver two secondary school projects in South West Scotland worth £57m.


Libya on Sunday clarified that the review of contracts of Italian oil major ENI signed with the previous regime of Moamer Kadhafi will not involve its oil and gas deals. "To avoid confusion, the ventures to be reviewed and revised are sustainable development projects listed in the memorandum of understanding between ENI and Libya," a statement from the prime minister's office said.
"Oil and gas agreements are not affected" by the review, the statement added. On Thursday, a statement quoting Prime Minister Abdel Rahim al-Kib had said that Libya will review its contracts with ENI, triggering reports that the oil and gas deals of the energy major would also fall under the review.
According to that statement, Kib informed ENI Chief Executive Officer Paolo Scaroni that "the contracts signed between ENI and the former regime are going to be reviewed and re-examined to meet Libya's interests before being executed."
Soon after Kib's statement an ENI spokesman told AFP that the contracts Kib's office was talking about were unrelated to the Italian firm's oil production activities. "The two contracts are linked to social initiatives and have nothing to do with oil," the spokesman said.
In December, Scaroni said in Doha it was "unthinkable" that his company's existing contracts would be changed by the new Libyan authorities. But on Thursday Kib said that foreign companies, including ENI, have to prove their loyalty to Libyans by "playing a significant role in the reconstruction of the cities destroyed by Kadhafi's forces."
Kadhafi's ouster has created opportunities for companies hoping to see a redistribution of oil contracts to the benefit of countries which took part in the military campaign to overthrow the long-time dictator, threatening existing contracts. ENI has resumed production of about 70 percent of its pre-conflict output in Libya, of around 200,000 barrels per day.
The company has been in Libya -- a former Italian colony -- since 1959 and is the biggest foreign energy producer in the oil-rich North African country. Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti is visiting Tripoli on January 21 with the aim of reviving a bilateral friendship treaty, signed by Kadhafi and Monti's predecessor Silvio Berlusconi, that was suspended during this year's conflict in Libya.


This bi-plane is a real collector's item. It is made of aluminium and the propeller can turn around. On the aircraft's wings it reads: RM '48. The aeroplane has a beautiful finish, with exceptional attention to detail. It measures 27 cm long x 37 cm wide x 11.5 cm high.


Who Can Benefit the Most From Electric Wheelchairs?
When you have range of motion issues, you might not exactly recognize that they can adversely impact not simply you but those near you. Indeed, if you cannot get around as if you should, it influences everyone in your daily life.
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And realising that your trouble is upsetting those around you may make the increased loss of your mobility and for that reason your freedom even harder you.
That is one of the principal reasons that more and more people experienced such excellent results from utilising their electric wheelchairs; not only does indeed their increased simple freedom make their lives easier, it creates the lives of themselves easier as well.
This is particularly true in cases where you or your partner starts to have problems with limited or constrained mobility. It could be absolutely damaging for a spouse to view their spouse differ from a spry, 3rd party person into somebody who can't even bypass the home.
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One of the most popular and blissful tourist destinations in Southeast Asia is the island of Bali. This Indonesian island is known for its amazing natural beauty, and is home to a range of cultural and recreational attractions. One of the popular locations in Bali for water sports is the town of Tanjung Benoa.
Tanjung Benoa has the ideal conditions for all water sporting activities, especially jet skiing. Jet skiing along the waters of Tanjung Benoa is truly one of the most adrenaline-pumping and memorable experience on offer, as you will get the opportunity to zoom through the beautiful turquoise waters at speeds over 60mph! The many water sports service operators will be more than pleased to hire out jet skies for you, and will be even provide instructors for less experiences riders. Jet skiing is easily one of the best ways to discover the beauty of the region as you can go out to see and look back to see panoramic views of the area.
Not exactly a sport per se, but Banana Boating is an activity which is very popular in Tanjung Benoa. This activity is great for the whole family, as it involves up to 4 persons being seated on a banana shaped tube and being towed at great speeds through the water. The main highlight of this is that without warning the boat towing the Banana Boat will swerve suddenly, causing the Banana Boat to flip over giving the riders a surprise duck in the water. It's a simple, fun, and exciting activity, and is thus a great way to create some memories while in Bali.
This one is not for the faint of heart, or for those who fear heights. Parasailing is one of the most exhilarating water sports, as it allows you to soar high into the sky with the aid of a parachute strapped on to your back, which lifts you up due to you being harnessed to a boat traveling at high speeds. Gliding through the air while getting unbelievable views of Tanjung Benoa, and feeling the cool tropical breeze high up in the air, is sure to be an unparalleled experience, so go ahead and give it a try. Look to stay at a Bali beach resort which offers easy access to water sports such as the Holiday Inn Resort Bali Benoa.
Boat rides through the tropical waters of Tanjung Benoa are also immensely popular amongst tourists. The waters of Bali are rich with marine resources, and are inhabited by many different species of fish. Thus, glass bottom boating along these waters allows you to witness the stunning sights of the world under the sea. Boat rides to Turtle Island, just a couple of kilometers off the coast of Tanjung Benoa, is also a great activity as one can witness and interact with turtles at this island.
As mentioned earlier, the waters of Tanjung Benoa are home to a variety of marine life. Thus, diving into the waters and swimming along these fish is sure to be a great experience. The warm tropical waters of Tanjung Benoa are great for spending hours snorkeling or diving, and the many water sports centers along the area will give you all the information and equipment you need to make your dive truly memorable. The unique marine life, colorful corals, and marvelous underwater formations make the sights you will witness under the sea truly remarkable. So if you wish to explore the beauty under the surface, grab or snorkel and dive into the blue!


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Ashton Lambie at the UCI Track World Cup in Milton (Image credit: Casey B. Gibson / USA Cycling)
Ashton Lambie competes on the track for USA Cycling (Image credit: Courtesy of USA Cycling)
Ashton Lambie with the US men's Team Pursuit at the UCI Track World Cup in Milton (Image credit: Casey B. Gibson / USA Cycling)
Ashton Lambie comes across as a relaxed and sort of hipster-ish kind of guy, with a handlebar moustache and a country-folk vibe about him. The Nebraska-born track cyclist, who recently broke the world record in the Individual Pursuit, also has an exacting edge; a need to be meticulous, on-target and perfect. His attention to detail comes from his background in music: a pianist whose precision while playing the keys with his fingertips has somehow translated into pedalling on the track with his legs.
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Lambie comes from a close-knit family. He has a history of gravel biking and lives with his wife Margaret on the outskirts of Lincoln, in Nebraska – also known as The Beef State – and a place he admits is a little more farm and a little less city. His dad is a landscaper, and his mom is a loan officer for a local real estate firm.
"We're not cattle ranchers or anything like that," Lambie says, mainly in response to the rumours circulating about him being plucked from a cornfield and put on a track bike. The tales started after Lambie broke the world record in the Individual Pursuit (4km) in 4:07.25 at the Pan American Championships in Aguascalientes, Mexico, in August. He shattered the existing record set by Australia's Jack Bobridge in 2011 by more than three seconds. In doing so, he gained international press attention, in part because he was an unknown in the world of cycling.
"Most people come to track racing from the road, racing under-23s in Europe, and we already know their names," says Lambie, who has a history of long-distance gravel racing. "For someone to come out of gravel, which isn't as popular, and to break a world record that people have had their eye on for a while, people were surprised."
It's true that Lambie is relatively new to track cycling, having started racing the Individual Pursuit at the US Track National Championships last year. But the press, and his peers, have focussed on his Nebraskan lifestyle and a job he temporarily had at a bike shop in Kansas while his wife Margaret attended Kansas University.
He has even been going by the new nickname 'Cornfed', affectionately given to him by his teammates on the US national team.
"I'm a fairly stalky dude," Lambie laughs. "That's the thing in Nebraska, though – everyone grows corn or has beef cattle. I don't. We do live in the country and grow all our own food; we're thrifty, and our house has a wood-burning fire, so that's our primary heating source. So, it is farm-ish, I guess.
"Margaret and I live in a three-bedroom farmhouse with a shed to work on bikes, and a couple of rabbits. My wife is big into knitting and crocheting. Our rabbits are a specific breed for wool production – very fluffy – so we comb them, and she spins their wool into yarn and knits with it. We stay warm."
A deeper look into his background reveals that Lambie and his wife both have degrees in music from Hastings College, where Lambie proudly started a bike-share programme that's still operating.
He is well-versed in the piano, having played since he was in early childhood. He graduated from Hastings in Music Performance and Business Administration. Margaret went on to earn a doctorate in Flute Performance from Kansas University.
While in Kansas, Lambie took a job at the Sunflower Outdoor and Bike Shop in Lawrence. He also dabbled in ultra-distance gravel biking and racing, and held the record for the fastest ride across Kansas from west to east (688km in just under 24 hours) until it was broken in 2016. "That's my other big accomplishment," he says.
When it comes to track racing, however, Lambie attributes some of his success to his background in music. In addition to the piano, he plays percussion instruments and the accordion.
"When I was a kid, my mom told me that I had to take piano lessons until I was 18, and, like every kid, I hated piano lessons," Lambie says. "By the time I was 18, though, I was good enough to enjoy it. I was playing songs that I would hear on NPR [National Public Radio].
"Something about the detailed level of practice and precision you could get with something so simple as a piano, all the different music and different stuff you can do with it, and you can never quite master it – that appealed to me.
"I've never had a grand scheme with music. I didn't think that music would pay the bills, so I thought business management would be a good idea, too."
World-record precision on the track
Lambie got his start on the track after competing in the 2017 national championships in Los Angeles, where he raced the Individual Pursuit in 4:29. USA Cycling picked him up to race the Individual Pursuit and Team Pursuit at a series of international events during the 2017-2018 track season: the World Cups, the Pan American Championships and the World Championships.
"I had to learn how to do the Team Pursuit first, but that's pretty easy if the fitness and the power are already there," Lambie says, noting that he was more nervous about learning the Individual Pursuit than the Team Pursuit.
"The Individual Pursuit is like a solo piano recital, so, if you mess up, there's no one else to blame. It's 100 per cent your own fault. The Team Pursuit means that you get to show up with a small ensemble of guys that you trust. If you get a really good group, that you trust and that you've ridden with for a while, and you know how they react, that's good.
"You trust your teammates, and they trust you to do your job to get the time that you need. They're the people you can rely on when things go wrong."
Not much has gone wrong for Lambie on the track so far.
At the Pan American Championships in Aguascalientes, the US men's Team Pursuit squad – Lambie, Eric Young, Gavin Hoover and Colby Lange – shattered the previous national record of 4:02.798 three times throughout the competition. In the end, they lowered it by nearly nine seconds to 3:53.86, also marking the first time an American Team Pursuit squad has broken four minutes. And they earned the gold medal.
Lambie also knocked 10 seconds off his Individual Pursuit time from a 4:17 at the World Championships in Apeldoorn, in the Netherlands, in March to the 4:07 world-record performance at the Pan American Championships.
"Aguascalientes is known for being a really fast track at elevation, in warm weather and it's a good shape," says Lambie, who started working with a new coach, Ben Sharp.
"I thought maybe I could take off four or five seconds, maybe down to 4:12. That's fast. I trained hard this summer, did heat acclimation, spent a lot of time in the gym, and I thought by my fitness alone I could maybe shave off another two seconds because I am a much better rider than I was last year, so maybe down to 4:10.
"That's objective, though. It's hard to say how many seconds better you are. I thought breaking the world record could happen, and I didn't put it out of the realm of possibility."
Lambie says that he started the 4km effort in Aguascalientes fast – maybe even too fast. During the first 2km, he felt over-paced, covering each 250-metre lap at roughly 14.4 seconds.
"I was supposed to ride 15.2-second laps," Lambie says. "I was worried that I had gone out too hard, too soon, but I was consistently banging out 14.4 seconds a lap, and I felt good.
"I knew the fourth kilometre was going to be hard. After 10 laps, I was in a full blackout, and so I had no idea what the time was when I was done. There wasn't a point during the race where I felt like I had it, though. I knew I had some fast laps, but I couldn't do the math during the race."
Lambie says that USA Cycling endurance coach Clay Worthington was standing at the side of the track calling out lap times. There was no digital timer at the finish line, and so he didn't immediately know he had won the gold medal and broken Bobridge's seven-year-old Individual Pursuit world record.
"I rolled around and was blown out," Lambie says. "Clay told me my time was 4:07, and I felt like that was a lot, but it didn't hit me at the time. A few minutes later, I was totally blown away by what I had accomplished."
Lambie says he studies the different international tracks, which helps him improve on training ahead of each significant event. The track in Aguascalientes, for example, is 250 metres with 41-degree banks, and 1,887 metres altitude.
"I've been learning a lot about the events and the tracks," Lambie says. "A lot of people don't know how different each track is: corners, straightaways, angles and transitions are all different, and so I've been figuring out how to get better at riding the different tracks that we race on."
Lambie says he will continue track racing with a goal of winning medals in the Team Pursuit and Individual Pursuit at major events. He also hopes to qualify for the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. He will next compete at the Berlin World Cup at the end of November with the British trade team Huub Watt, and then the final two World Cups in New Zealand and Hong Kong before the World Championships in Poland.
"I'm working towards the Olympics," Lambie says. "I would love to get good results – perhaps a podium at the World Championships in the next two years in either the Individual Pursuit or the Team Pursuit."


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Artless Dodger wasn't quite satisfied with his wall mounted chess cause the lack of interactivity, so he took apart an old Fidelity Chess challenger computer from the 80's and rebuilt it as a wall mounted chess computer!
"I was browsing in search of a new project recently and came across a picture of a vertical chess set mounted on a wal and thought how cool it was, as both a great project to build and as a novelty piece of wall art.
I'm fairly fond of chess so decided to give it a go. My first project resulted in the below wall chess. These are wood veneer squares and obviously not electronic. Construction was much simpler and aesthetically very pleasing and in a lot of cases you may want to just go along with that style.
I played a few games on it by using the chess app on my iphone and moving the pieces respectively, but then I started thinking it would be a lot cooler if the wall chess could actually play against me itself rather than me referring to a separate chess computer all the time. I also wanted to keep the overall look of the first board so that meant keeping visual electronics out of site. You really wouldn't know it was an electronic chess if you didn't switch it on.
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I will gladly tell you.
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