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'Republicans & Dems Are Ripping Themselves Apart Amid Russiagate Distraction'
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This is two elite groups fighting one another in this kind of legal war and that has nothing to do really with the American people. It is a great distraction actually from the issues that are important to the American people.
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If there's no evidence Russia interfered in 2016 US election, then the FBI was not protecting the Trump campaign from interference but spying on the campaign in order to hurt it, independent journalist Joe Lauria told RT.
Donald Trump has ordered an investigation into his own investigators.
The Department of Justice's Inspector General will look into whether the FBI's 2016 probe into alleged Russia collusion was legal.
"The Department has asked the Inspector General to expand the ongoing review of the FISA application process to include determining whether there was any impropriety or political motivation in how the FBI conducted its counterintelligence investigation of persons suspected of involvement with the Russian agents who interfered in the 2016 presidential election," spokeswoman for the Justice Department, Sarah Isgur Flores, said in a statement.
RT: How many political investigations is too many?
Joe Lauria: They are all politicized, it seems. And the two parties are ripping themselves apart. For people who disagree with both parties in one way, it is almost enjoyable to see them destroying each other. On the other hand, for the good of running a country, this is not a good thing to see. There is the Senate investigation, intelligence investigation, that is still going on. The House wrapped up theirs. Then there is the FBI investigating, and now there is the Inspector General saying that he would go ahead and investigate this new allegation that the FBI put an informant in there maybe at a sting operation. And there is the Mueller investigation as well.
So, there are about five going on. But I think this latest one of the Inspector General is quite interesting because we have discovered that the FBI had an informant that was talking to two members of the Trump campaign. And the same informant, his name is Stefan Halper, he worked in 1980 for the CIA and infiltrated the President Carter's campaign and spied on the campaign for the Reagan campaign, Carter was the president at the time. So, the opposition party, that of power, sent a spy into the political party in charge, the Democrats, to get dirt on President Carter that helped the Reagan campaign and they won. And that came out only a few years after that.
One of the things they did was steal a briefing book of President Carter before the debate. So, that same man 30 years later, now 73 years old has been the FBI's informant in the Trump campaign. We know from other text messages, that have been released, that there were very high-level members at the FBI who did not want Trump to become president and talked about getting an insurance policy against him.
They said they also had some very nasty things to say about. I am talking about Peter Strzok who was one of the heads of counterintelligence. These were the guys directing at that time this FBI investigation which James Comey, the former FBI director, said only began at the end of July 2017 and we now know Stefan Halper was already helping the two members of the campaign – George Papadopoulos and Carter Page – that this began at the beginning of July 2017.
They want truth about when they started to investigate and in the end of the day this all depends on whether there is any evidence that Russia had some nefarious effect on the 2016 election. Because if there is no evidence that Russia interfered in this election, then the FBI was not protecting the campaign in the US from interference by a foreign power as you have been hearing.
In fact, they were spying to try to hurt Trump's campaign, because people at high levels of FBI didn't want Trump to be elected. And I am not a supporter of either party but I do not want to see intelligence operatives inserting the cells in the political process. That is not what is supposed to happen in the US. And this is what we are perhaps seeing right now… People at the National Security Agency say that "administrations come and go, but we are always here."
So, all the intelligence agencies are always there with enormous power and governments come and go as they are elected. And we are hoping this is not a revelation that the FBI was trying to undermine the Trump campaign the way the same man undermined the Carter campaign in 1980 to the benefit of Ronald Reagan.
RT: Is this a new norm, where political conflicts are settled through legal means?
JL: It is becoming the norm here right now in the current situation that we are in. These political disputes should be, of course, decided by the voters, by the people of the country. Both campaigns should lay out honestly what they think they are going to do and the people decide…But what we are seeing now is quite a mess from the 2016 campaign…
We saw it going back to 2000 – George W. Bush against Al Gore – that it was not decided by the voters but the Supreme Court, ultimately. And there were lawyers, there was a legal process that decided who the president was. Because they couldn't get their act together in Florida and count the votes properly. Al Gore didn't demand an entire state-wide recount and there was enormous and vicious legal fights over that, obviously, because so much was at stake – who was going to be in the White House.
Now we are seeing more and more legal battles. And the decision by the people to elect Trump which upset a lot of other people is being challenged in a sense because the Russian government has been somehow blamed for putting Trump in the White House and we have not seen almost three years later any real strong evidence to support that.
But we are seeing evidence now, and the Republicans are fighting back, that maybe the FBI was trying to influence, in fact, the elections instead of the Russians. This is where we are at right now. And yes, it is a legal battle. It has nothing to do with the political process, i.e., elections.
RT: What does that say about the state of the US politics at this moment?
JL: We have another election coming up. And the Democrats are trying very hard to win back the House of Representatives. They have been using these Russiagate allegations as a way to try and get support – but it is not working. Polls show that Americans don't care about this issue. They care about healthcare, they care about jobs, they care about maintaining, not losing or getting back a middle-class lifestyle that so many people are falling out of. They are not interested in these kinds of legal battles.
This is two elite groups fighting one another in this kind of legal war and that has nothing to do really with the American people. It is a great distraction actually from the issues that are important to the American people. But it is consuming the White House, it is now consuming the FBI, it is consuming the Democratic Party… There is enormous tension between the both sides… The things are pretty ugly right now between the sides and I think it is going to get worse.
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Tokyo designs make waves in Paris
By Margaret Dean Special to The Christian Science Monitor
THROUGH the years, many famous foreign designers have opened their own houses in the French fashion capital. The late Cristobal Balenciaga and Antonio Castillo were both Spanish. Capt. Edward Molyneux was an Englishman. Contemporary creators include couturiers Per Spook, a Norwegian, and Karl Lagerfeld, a German. Valentino, who has a large salon here as well as in Rome, is Italian. But it is the Japanese contingent, two of whom have been established in Paris for a decade or more, that has made influential inroads.
This competition from the Land of the Rising Sun has made the chauvinistic French frequently feel slightly sunburned. The Japanese presence is seen by some as an attempt to overtake both France and Italy on the fashion scene. But others feel that it's better to have the wolves right in the chicken coop, where they can be watched.
So contrary to Kipling, East has met West, and several Oriental firms have chalked up unprecedented sales with professional buyers, who flock to Paris for the ready-to-wear shows each spring and fall. Kenzo Takada opened here 12 years ago, and his annual sales in the United States alone are somewhere around a half-billion dollars.
Hanae Mori, the most sophisticated and elegant of all the Japanese creators, is the only actual couturi`ere and member of the high-fashion syndicate. While all the others are a younger group showing only ready-to-wear, Hanae Mori's beautiful clothes are custom made in her Paris salons, which employ a staff of 50 people. Her genius evolves in combining magnificent Oriental silks (often with hand-painted designs such as traditional butterfly motifs) with totally European silhouettes. Her fabrics this seas on are wonderfully opulent: jacquards, metallics, cut velvets, and pannes starring in effects often evoking the 1940s and '50s and lavished with sparkling embroideries. Nearly every woman in the audience who was an adult during those decades was murmuring, ``I had a dress almost like that.''
In the overall ready-to-wear picture, innovators from the Far East are famed for ``far out'' silhouettes and unconventional fabrics. Rei Kawakubo, designer and owner of ``Comme des Garons,'' has elevated cheesecloth, potato sacking, and other ``distressed'' fabrics to both a high fashion and a high price range. Some critics have likened Ms. Kawakubo's approach to ``ragtime'' -- not a musical reference, to be sure. Her coats are often shown with buttons purposely misbuttoned through the wrong
holes, lending a rather lopsided effect, and the mannequin's hair is ever and always carefully styled by a cement mixer.
Generally speaking, most of the Japanese designers are highly intrigued by layering, which evolves in a play of lengths; short over long or worked in tiers. There is nothing indecisive or wishy-washy in their approach, and lengths range through the extremes -- from sawed-off minis to dreary effects dragging around the ankles. While silhouettes have generally moved closer to the body, many winter coats appear to have room enough for the entire family, with huge wraparounds that could double as a camping tent.
There are often traces of ethnic influence, but no echoes of Madame Butterfly. The latest intrigue is the American Wild West. Japanese designer Kimijima, a confirmed believer in the immortality of miniskirts, adds accessories such as 10-gallon hats, leather chaps, and sequined vests, presented by ``pistol-packing mamas'' astride wooden hobbyhorses. In another tableau, Kimijima, a superb showman, sent his team of mannequins down the runways with dozens of live dogs.
Hiroko Koshina has obviously been watching ``Dallas'' on television, but her cowboy coats for the coming winter are a strictly personal interpretation that no one west of the Hudson River could possibly recognize.
Yet despite all the jokes, the French consider that the Japanese force is something to reckon with. Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone was the guest of honor at the July 14 Bastille Day ceremonies and presided next to President Franois Mitterand on the platform at the Place de la Concorde. But his official visit appeared to do little to calm the European Community's worries over their enormous trade deficit with Japan.
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News / Radio reporter killed in Dumaguete ambush
Radio reporter killed in Dumaguete ambush
Published May 5, 2020, 12:00 AM
By Glazyl Masculino
BACOLOD CITY – A radio reporter based in Dumaguete City, Negros Oriental was shot dead by two unidentified motorcycle-riding assailants in Barangay Daro around 8:30 p.m. Tuesday (May 5).
The victim was Cornelio Pepino, 48, of Sibulan town, a regular news reporter and announcer of DYMD Energy 93.7 FM, with the screen name "Rex Cornelio."
He anchored a program entitled "Pokpokin mo Baby."
Col. Julian Entoma, Negros Oriental police director, said Pepino was riding his motorcycle along with his wife and they were on their way home when they were ambushed.
Entoma said the victim had just left his regular late afternoon program at the radio station.
The victim sustained multiple gunshot wounds to the body and was declared dead at a hospital. His wife was unharmed.
Entoma said Pepino was the target of the attack, and that he was probably tailed from his workplace. He added they have not yet found a motive for the killing. Investigation is ongoing.
In November 2019, Dindo Generoso, a blocktimer of DYEM 96.7 Bai Radio, was also killed in an ambush in Dumaguete City.
Meanwhile, the radio station, in a Facebook post, is calling for justice for the death of one of their colleagues.


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Shawarma Sandwich @ Mamoun's Falafel
My wife and and I have a tradition of going to Mamoun's Falafel after the annual NYC Halloween parade. Due to the Covid 19 cancellation last year we couldn't go. Out of the blue my wife said she was craving a pita sandwich so we fired up Seamless and placed an order.
For those who are unfamiliar, Mamoun's Falafel has been serving high quality, authentic Middle Eastern food since 1971. It is the oldest falafel restaurant in New York and one of the first Middle Eastern establishments in the United States.
I ordered the Shawarma Sandwich with is described as "100% lamb made with our signature spices and cooked slowly on a stand up rotisserie; served in a pita pocket with lettuce, tomatoes, onions, and tahineh sauce".
Unwrapping the sandwich my eyes were treated to a pita overflowing with lamb. It looked huge and appetizing. Truth be told the pita is stuffed with lettuce and tomato and the lamb placed on top.
The lamb was seasoned well and tasted great. The lettuce, tomato and onion were all very fresh. Unfortunately, they forgot to add the tahineh sauce which resulted in a dry sandwich which was difficult to eat. I did enjoy the seasoned fries though.
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SAP's Heinrich sees RFID revolution
SAP executive board member Claus Heinrich yesterday told IT managers at the Forrester Research Executive Strategy that radio frequency identification technology (RFID) is the wave of the future.
Robert Westervelt, TechTarget
BOSTON -- Speaking at Forrester Research's Executive Strategy Forum yesterday, SAP executive board member Claus Heinrich hyped radio frequency identification (RFID) technology, urging suppliers and manufacturers to get on the RFID bandwagon even before standards are established.
Otherwise, Heinrich said, suppliers risk being left behind with antiquated technology.
"The best-in-class companies are adapting technology to suit their business processes faster then ever before," Heinrich told a group of several hundred IT managers. "By adopting new concepts faster, companies stand to gain a competitive edge."
Heinrich's comments centered on the value of innovation and on SAP's Enterprise Services architecture, which Heinrich said was developed to accommodate new technologies such as RFID.
Heinrich pointed out that the massive retailer Wal-Mart hopes to begin using RFID tags to track pallets from its suppliers in 2005 and, he added, the Department of Defense is urging its suppliers to begin using the technology.
SAP has invested heavily in RFID and sees it as a key emerging technology and a potential area of competitive advantage, said Joshua Greenbaum, principal consultant at Daly City, Calif.-based Enterprise Applications Consulting. SAP is working with several customers on RFID projects and has support for the technology already built into its software, Greenbaum said.
"There is enough functionality and enough viability for the technology, and companies should be looking at it today," Greenbaum said. "We're really on the cusp of the revolution."
RFID tags, which use microchips to store data and tiny antennae to transmit the information, are still too expensive for widespread use, Greenbaum said. The cost of the tags, now estimated at about 40 cents each, are much too pricey to be used for tracking a $20 item, he said.
"SAP is saying that companies should support RFID technology and explore it," Greenbaum said, "so that at the moment the price tag crosses that functionality threshold, companies who are on board will reap tremendous benefits. RFID is one of the most exciting new technologies to hit IT in a long time, and I think there is a tremendous amount of value for companies across a wide range of areas."
Conference attendee James McMahon, a marketing technology manager with Coca-Cola Co., said the company has been using bar code technology underneath soft drink bottle caps to track its products. McMahon said he was at the event hoping to glean information about emerging technologies such as RFID.
"It's an exciting technology, but more information needs to be available," he said.
Heinrich predicted that IT budgets will shift in the next three years to take advantage of emerging technologies like RFID.
"You have invested in a lot of systems," Heinrich told attendees. "Now you need to leverage those systems and build upon existing applications with new technologies."
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import java.util.List;

import org.apache.metamodel.DataContext;

/**
 * Represents a schema and it's metadata description. Schemas represent a
 * collection of tables.
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 * @see DataContext
 * @see Table
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	/**
	 * Gets the number of tables in this Schema that comply to a given
	 * TableType.
	 *
	 * @param type
	 *            the TableType to use for searching and matching.
	 * @return the count of tables that match the provided TableType.
	 */
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	/**
	 * Gets the names of the tables that reside in this Schema.
	 *
	 * @return an array of table names.
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	public List<String> getTableNames();

	/**
	 * Gets all tables in this Schema.
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	 * @return the tables that reside in the schema
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	/**
	 * Gets all tables in this Schema of a particular type.
	 *
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	 * @return an array of tables in this schema that matches the specified
	 *         type.
	 */
	public List<Table> getTables(TableType type);

	/**
	 * Gets a table by index. Use {@link #getTableCount()} to get the (0-based)
	 * index range
	 *
	 * @param index
	 *            the index of the table
	 * @return the column with the specified index
	 *
	 * @throws IndexOutOfBoundsException
	 *             if the index is out of bounds (index >= table count)
	 */
	public Table getTable(int index) throws IndexOutOfBoundsException;

	/**
	 * Convenience method for retrieving a table by it's name.
	 *
	 * @param tableName
	 *            the name of the table to retrieve
	 * @return the table with the given name. Returns null if no such table is
	 *         found.
	 */
	public Table getTableByName(String tableName);

	/**
	 * Gets all relationships to and from this Schema.
	 *
	 * @return an array of relationships.
	 */
	public Collection<Relationship> getRelationships();

	/**
	 * Gets the number of relationships to and from this Schema.
	 *
	 * @return the number of relationships to and from this Schema
	 */
	public int getRelationshipCount();
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Second Sleep — likes that it crosses into poetry.
Author and journalist Desiree Cooper explores "flash fiction" in her new book, "Know The Mother." The book features 31 stories looking into the lives of women. Cooper joins host Stephen Henderson on Detroit Today to talk about her book, the art of story writing, and what she thinks of the presidential election this year.
"Love" in Politics: "I think Barack Obama has ruined politics in a germaine way," says Cooper. She says because President Obama has inspired "love" for politicians, all future candidates need to transmit the same feeling to voters that Obama inspired in 2008.
Flash Fiction: Cooper calls the book a collection of "flash fiction". The format allowed Cooper to write in chunks rather than a full length novel. "I really have a muscle for compressing stories into short spaces," Cooper says.


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Sipan Asatryan, a non-partisan Yerevan Council member from the Im Kayl (My Step) Alliance, became visually impaired at the age of four. He says he's done with the phase of overcoming and reconciliation, and now he works in the direction of solving problems. Sipan is a philologist by profession, and he's also specialized in the education of the visually impaired and blind. He now teaches inclusive education at the Armenian State Pedagogical University, where the students are quite fond of him and help him to go in and out, since he's still new in the University territory. Almost none of the university buildings in Armenia, built in the Soviet era, areadapted for people with disabilities.
Sipan hopes that his presence in the council will not be formal but operational, and people with disabilities will have a strong say one day. "In all the structures and projects, all are equal before the law, "says Sipan.
When asked about top three things to be changed in Yerevan, Sipan starts with his biggest wish - making Yerevan accessible for all, including people with disabilities, old people, mothers with baby carriages, foreigners.
Secondly, Sipan dreams of having very big parks and even forests in the city, which used to exist before. He says it's hardly possible to find a place now where one would not listen to the car noise and smell smoke.
Thirdly, Sipan wants Yerevan residents to become more responsible for the city, so that people are not only demanding things, but also holding themselves accountable for solving different situations.
Sipan says it's difficult to change the culture. "Now, we are all very excited, more demanding, inspired by the revolution, but I guess our mentality is the issue. We haven't made a revolution in our mindset yet. It doesn't take just one day and one button. Perhaps, this requires some time, a new generation, "says Sipan. If it's impossible to adjust the old, then at least new buildings, schools and parks should be inclusive. Sipan believes not thinking about this is because of the lack of seeing people with disabilities among others, since they used to be separated in special facilities, not to walk in the street with the others, not to live and eat with others. It's changing now, and it's the high time to solve the issue of inclusiveness.
"I imagine Yerevan as a person, who is complaining now, asking to find a medicine that would solve the problems," concludes Sipan Asatryan.


I am interested in the interactions between bacteria and their hosts in general.
More specifically, my research focuses on obligate or vertically-transmitted mutualistic symbioses. These are notoriously difficult to study by traditional methods because molecular processes between the host and symbionts have often been tangled by millions of years of co-evolution. However, they are the most promising in terms of application and understanding of co-evolution between host and bacteria. Obligate symbioses can be viewed as the most successful biological partnerships and a tremendous source of biological innovation. Indeed, some ancient forms of obligate symbioses have shaped life and the world, giving rise to modern mitochondria and chloroplasts, for example.
My main area of concentration at the moment is the functional characterization of leaf nodule symbiosis in some species of Ardisia and Dioscorea.


Robin + Erin from the caketastic Gateaux were on the Food Network's Dr Seuss Cake Challenge.
Some of you may have seen some of the fun work we've done for the city of St. Paul.
The start of a year long project documenting parts of St. Paul for their soon to relaunch website.
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Hey, Solidarity Singers: Form a multibillion-dollar transnational corporation if you want free speech
So let me get this straight. In Scott Walker's and SCOTUS' America, corporations are people, unlimited campaign cash is speech, singing grandmas are scofflaws, and politicians who balance their budgets on the backs of kindergarten teachers but recoil like drugged lab monkeys at the grisly opening strains of "Blowin' in the Wind" are praised for their toughness and resolve.
For the third day in a row on Friday, the duly appointed gendarmes of the Capitol arrested a gaggle of terrorists-in-training for singing without a license. While they're at it, they might as well pop on over to the governor's office and arrest Walker for governing without a brain.
This is tone deaf beyond belief, and I really have to question (even more than usual) Walker's judgment. Unless his real intent is to firm up support among his nutty conservative base in advance of a presidential run by showing that he's not afraid to crack some hippie octogenarian skull (metaphorically, of course), it's hard to make sense of this one. (For a more personal take on this, read Rebecca Kemble's excellent column in The Progressive recounting how her 80- and 85-year-old parents — one presumably a Crip and the other a Blood, but able to sing in joyous harmony nonetheless — were caught up in the first day's dragnet.)
Yes, on Wednesday, the governor's war on rhyme began as the Capitol Police arrested 22 wayward warblers. On Thursday, they nabbed another 27 and on Friday more than a dozen. Before you know it, they'll have a lifetime supply of Journey lead singers in custody, but they'll be no closer to making a coherent point.
Now, it's undeniably true that there are recognized limits on free speech. You can't slander people, you can't scream obscenities at young children, you can't yell "Scott Walker" at a crowded WEAC convention, etc. And the singers are singing without a permit, after all. But they've been at it for two years, and the wheels of government just kept churning along.
The reason it's suddenly a problem? The only one I can think of is that Scott Walker has thin skin and his former personal bodyguard David Erwin, who now serves as chief of the Capitol Police, is doing his bidding.
A recent court order gives the state authority to require a permit for groups of 20 or more assembling in the Capitol. But as the ACLU's Larry Dupuis told The Wisconsin State Journal, the state is in no way required to crack down on those groups. The Capitol Police could simply abide the raucous folk tunes and go about their business as they have for the last 700 days or so, and no elderly rabble-rousers would need to get caught up in the system. "It's their choice to do that," said Dupuis.
And what a choice it is.
But the Solidarity Singers do have options. They can form a multibillion-dollar transnational corporation and use a portion of their hefty profits to buy elections on behalf of candidates who are likely to bend to their will. You know, like a normal American.
All they need to do is funnel their unlimited cash (aka speech) through a Super PAC (maybe call it the Scott Walker Swan Song PAC), find a candidate to support and/or bribe, get him or her elected, and force the Capitol Police to call off the dogs. While they're at it, they could pollute a watershed or two just for fun.
But until that day, the singers can be legally muzzled. That's democracy in these United States in the Year of Our Lord 2013. And we should all be very proud of it, now shouldn't we?


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1 Nottingham Forest loanee Liam Bridcutt risks injury to play for Bolton on Tue Dec 17 2019, 10:22
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David Flitcroft has paid tribute to Liam Bridcutt for coming back from injury ahead of schedule once again to help Wanderers' cause.
Scans revealed last month that the on-loan Nottingham Forest midfielder had fractured his collarbone in a training ground collision – the second such injury he has suffered this season.
Some even speculated that his previous appearance in the 7-1 defeat at Accrington could have been his last in Bolton colours, with his current stay due to expire in early January.
Assistant boss Flitcroft has revealed Bridcutt put himself up for selection early last week, with a decision taken on Friday to play him from the start as an auxiliary defender at Peterborough.
"It has been a fight for Liam to play, we had to really manage his workload and it was touch and go," he told The Bolton News. "He probably needed another week and we can't forget that he isn't a permanent Bolton Wanderers player.
"But from Tuesday he put himself in front of us and said he was prepared to do the work. He said he'd do anything he needed to do to make the game.
"He is a loan signing but he wants to commit to the cause and that tells you everything about his mentality and what this means to him.
"The club has made a very positive impression on him. He is trying to give us everything he has got – all the players are, in fact."
Bridcutt wore the captain's armband in Saturday's 1-0 defeat at the Weston Homes Stadium and has thus far made nine appearances for the club in what has been an injury-plagued start.
Flitcroft believes his return to contention, however, will be good news as Wanderers seek some consistency going into 2020.
"Liam adds know-how, he's calm, brave, and he makes good footballing decisions. He knows the game," he said.
"I have found him probably one of the best professionals I have worked with in 12 years of coaching and management.
"We made demands of Liam and he answered them, now we have to be just as demanding of all the players. We will support them and get that away form right to establish the solid base we need."
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As you know, our long-time Head of School, Karen Wilson, announced that she will be departing at the end of the school year. The Board has been diligently working since we made the announcement to the community to find a remarkable leader to assume the role of Head of School effective July 1, 2019. As we indicated to you in our letter, our decision was to evaluate internal candidates first. The day after our announcement was sent out, Julie Smith quickly presented herself as an interested candidate. Her role as Co-Founder of SMS, former teacher, and Board Member made it easy to consider her an internal candidate. We consulted with the other candidate and with Karen and all were supportive of this choice to interview Julie.
It is with great excitement that we announce that the Head of School, effective July 1st, will be Julie Smith. Julie currently serves as the Director of the Lower School at Summit and the Director of Parent Learning, and she will remain in that role through the end of this school year. We are equally as excited to announce that Catherine Greene will remain as the Assistant Head of School and Lead Toddler Teacher. Julie and Catherine are an incredible duo with complementary skillsets, and we could not be more delighted to have them combining forces to lead Salem Montessori School. Karen Wilson will be missed, but she has expressed her delight and full confidence in the administrative leadership team that SMS will have going forward.
Many in our community may be familiar with Julie, but for those who are not, here is some background information on her: Montessori Philosophy has played an important role in Julie's life. At the age of 16, she began working at a Montessori school in New Orleans. This is when she knew she wanted to become a Montessori teacher. The simplicity and beauty of the environment and the way adults honored and respected children captivated her. Building meaningful relationships with very young children is one of the greatest joys of her life. Julie earned her BA in Early Childhood & Elementary Education with a minor in English from Furman University and her M.Ed in Counseling from UNC-Charlotte where her research centered on parent education. She also earned her certificate in Montessori Education from the Montessori Center of New England and began her career teaching in early childhood in Charlotte, North Carolina at Countryside Montessori. She worked at three other Montessori schools where she served in roles from classroom teacher, explorers teacher, curriculum coordinator, admissions director, and director of parent learning. In 1999, Julie opened a tiny Montessori co-op in her basement and named it Salem Montessori. In 2001, Karen took the courageous step of moving Salem Montessori to Highland Presbyterian. Under Karen's thoughtful leadership and with her relentless energy, the school has grown to what it is today. Julie taught at SMS for six years and served on the board for seven years.
Julie is currently the Director of Lower School at Summit School, working with students age three through ten. This role has given her invaluable training in what it means to lead a school community. Julie serves on the board of Kaleideum where she chairs the sub-committee on diversity and inclusion and is a sustainer in the Junior League of Winston-Salem. Recently she served a 4 year term on the READW/S board. She is an active member of St. Paul's Episcopal Church, serving on the adult education committee, teaching adult Sunday School, anhelping with the children's ministry.
When she has free time Julie loves to practice yoga and is close to competing her 200 hour teacher training, and has studied meditation. She has also taken classes through Mindful Schools to learn how to apply this work in a school setting. Currently she is working on becoming a certified teacher of the Enneagram, a tool that reveals personality types. She loves nature and taking long walks. She also likes to travel, cook, entertain and read. A lifelong learner, Julie likes to find out anything and everything about the world.
Julie is married to Tim Smith, a pediatric anesthesiologist at Brenner Children's Hospital and they have three children. Carolyn teaches English at Forsyth Country Day, Timothy is training to be a nuclear submarine officer after graduating from the United States Naval Academy, and David is a junior at the University of Chapel Hill. All three attended Montessori schools and consider themselves to be "Montessori children." In fact, all five Smiths refer to themselves as a "Montessori family." Additionally, Julie has a wonderful son-in-law, Cameron, who is doing his residency in anesthesiology at Wake Forest Baptist Hospital.
Julie says that returning to Salem Montessori is exciting. Being able to collaborate and carry on Karen's legacy is a dream come true. Julie looks forward to getting to know the families, teachers and students at SMS. One of her favorite quotes from Maria Montessori says, "Whoever touches the life of the child touches the most sensitive point of a whole, which has roots in the most distant past and climbs toward the infinite future." The important work of Salem Montessori is creating this kind of future filled with possibilities.
In many ways this transition could not be more of a complete circle for Karen, who also had some sentiments to share about Julie re-joining the Salem Montessori Community: While living in Charlotte in 1985, I met Julie Smith. She was a Montessori teacher and I was the Director of Outreach at a local church. I was intrigued by her descriptions of her classroom and asked if I could visit. What I observed that day changed my life. Because of Julie's inspiration, several years later I decided to get my Montessori teacher training. She was instrumental in helping me through the training and served as a mentor in my early years of teaching. Together we laid the foundation for Salem Montessori School. Through the years she has been a great support for SMS, as a teacher and board member. I am overjoyed that she will be stepping into the Head of School position and it makes me exceedingly glad that she will be bringing her talents and energy to our school. I know that her leadership will greatly benefit the children, families, staff, and board.
We hope that you will join us in extending a warm welcome to Julie Smith and in celebrating Karen Wilson as she relishes her last few months at Salem Montessori School. It is truly a beautiful situation to be bringing back one of our co-founders to SMS.


Essayist on the art and artists of the Pacific Northwest. She is the former director of the Museum of Art at Washington State University, the Fort Wayne Museum of Art in Indiana, and Pilchuck Glass School in Washington State.
Encounter one of Michael Schultheis' large paintings for the first time and you are immediately pulled into a dynamic, pictorial space. The pull feels no less than heavenward. Swirling, golden clouds part to reveal an infinity of blue. The ether seems to extend into oblivion, into the vastness of the universe. Golden shapes—planets, petals, spheres, wings—detach themselves from the foreground and are propelled into the emptiness, disappearing where we too might long to follow. Other works of art come to mind: Renaissance paintings or frescoes depicting various deities ascending into a glorious heaven between parted clouds; or later works by Romantic painters seeking the Sublime in mountainous or watery regions where eddying mists are pierced by celestial light.
The luminosity of Schultheis' painting creates a sense of exaltation not unlike these divergent artistic forebears. With transparent areas of scumbled paint, flickering touches of white, and heightened colors, his work appears to capture light, shimmering and evanescent. Light streams from above, illuminating vaporous passages, turning mysterious floating shapes golden, and casting other areas into shadow. Although many works are quietly luminous, others are theatrical, even operatic, in their presentation.
The Sublime is not the purview of painters alone. Architects, too, have long created buildings whose grandeur is designed to overwhelm and elevate. One such creation is especially significant here: the Pantheon, that Ancient Roman masterpiece of mathematics and architecture, with its high dome lit only by an open oculus at the apex. The visitor's gaze turns aloft to this only source of light. The gaze is instinctively towards the heavens.
Each of Schultheis' paintings has a hidden homage to the Pantheon and, more importantly, to the man who inspired it, the Greek mathematician Archimedes. Incised faintly into the surface of each painting is a fine line describing an arc or half-circle, and at its apex, at the top of the canvas, is a small indentation representing the oculus. The incised shape provides a compositional element, a suggested source for the radiance of the painting itself, and a crucial clue to the artist's intentions and his singular ways of seeing and thinking.
This is the surprise… Schultheis is a highly trained mathematician. As a painter he is no less a mathematician and lover of geometry. Archimedes and the other Ancient Greek mathematicians/philosophers—Pythagoras, Plato, Aristotle, Euclid, et al— are his inspiration. But above all, it is Archimedes, considered the greatest mathematician ever, who informs and illuminates all of Schultheis' thinking as an artist.
Archimedes' greatest discovery is that a sphere inside a cylinder of the same dimensions is two-thirds the size of the cylinder in volume and surface area. The Pantheon is designed around this truth, its dome being a perfect half-sphere. Archimedes' idea can be drawn, or modelled in three-dimensions, or written as an equation ( ). The written equation enables those versed in the language of mathematics to conjure immediately in their mind's eye the sphere and cylinder, without need of drawing or model. This conceptualization is, Schultheis suggests, the purest and most precise of all visual experiences of geometric forms in art, and it is the premise on which his practice as an artist is built. Underlying the expressionistic brushwork of his paintings are actual handwritten equations. While these white, scribbled notations function as calligraphic markings, they are far from meaningless. They contain specific information. Reading these equations, a mathematician can envisage the geometric shapes Schultheis is creating, just as a musician reading a score might hear the music the composer intends.
Schultheis then renders the same geometric shapes in paint, expressing more tangibly, and perhaps with less purity, what the written equations say. Needless to say, these painted geometric shapes that rotate and mutate across the picture plane and that sometimes look like exquisitely colored petals, flowers, butterflies, or leaves are the portal through which the more mathematically-challenged viewer must access Schultheis' work.
In the painting Dreams of Pythagoras (2015), for example, written equations record Schultheis' thinking about a geometric form, the limaçon. Taking its name from limax, Latin for a small snail, a limaçon is formed when one circle rotates around another. Different curved shapes can be formed: some resemble a kidney bean or heart shape; some have an inner loop, some none. Schultheis reflects on the discovery of the limaçon which made an early appearance in a 1525 treatise by German artist and theorist, Albrecht Dürer. Since then several other mathematical systems have been used to describe the form. All this and more is referenced in Schultheis' handwritten notations. But he further hypothesizes that the limaçon is the perfect geometric shape to represent an individual's interior and exterior consciousness as described by psychiatrist Carl Jung. This in turn leads him to think about the meeting or overlapping of individual consciousnesses and to ponder the possibility of finding a "soulmate." He revisits the Greek myth, where Zeus, in an effort to create more humans, splits each body in two, and leaves these incomplete beings to wander the world, one east, one west, in search of the other half. Schultheis imagines each limaçon/consciousness, spinning on its axis as it circumnavigates the globe. He works out variables that might make the desired meeting unlikely, or at least incomplete: individuals' orbits could be eccentric or elongated; speeds could vary; the plane of orbits could differ. Each scenario he imagines is recorded in a different equation and gives rise to a geometric shape, "geoms" he calls them. The geoms become a source of inspiration in themselves and he riffs on them as he works, repeating shapes, depicting them from different angles, making patterns, and sending several off into infinity. The universal allegory has become a geometric model. But the model is not just a hypothetical exercise: it has been imbued with personal meaning. It brings the artist an understanding of human relationships in general and in particular. It explains why, since orbits differ, one person might be keen to connect while the other holds back. Or why, even after finding one's "soulmate," staying in the same orbit can be hard! The geometric model has significance beyond geometry. It encompasses Schultheis' thoughts, feelings, and life experiences. It enables him to make sense of the world.
Before Schultheis began painting, almost two decades ago, he worked full-time in software development. Earlier, as a student in math and economics, he had watched as the professor wrote in chalk on a blackboard. Then, employed by Microsoft, he led teams who brainstormed ideas on a whiteboard. In both instances, formulae and equations were written, erased, added to, and rewritten. The scale of the board and the reach of an outstretched arm meant that, typically, writing went down the left hand side of the board and continued down the right. Eventually the central area was blurred by erasures. The finished board had long had a visual appeal for Schultheis, but it was after he began to photograph boards for documentation purposes that he truly understood the photographs recorded something with an aesthetic form and beauty of its own.
While he is not the first to be inspired by mathematicians' notations on a chalk board—photographers Paul Berger and Alejandro Guijarro come to mind—Schultheis is unique in the direction this inspiration takes him. Thoughts of the chalk board inform how he approaches the canvas and suggest the composition and size of each painting. His first action is to create a line towards the bottom of the canvas. In simple terms this line reminds him of the tray at the base of the chalk board. In compositional terms it creates a pediment, a threshold into the space of the painting itself. Next, he begins writing equations that are on his mind, often from his reading of scholarly math books and journals. The writing moves down the left hand and then the right hand side of the canvas. Then, as he reflects and builds the work, he integrates thoughts and experiences, erasing the original equations and, as in a palimpsest, overlaying the writing and its traces with colorfully painted geometric forms, as his expressionistic brushwork develops a life of its own.
J. M. W. Turner, whose quest for the spiritual in art led him to depict tumultuous skies and dramatic effects of pure light. Turner's profound influence is evident in Schultheis' mature work. Schultheis' earliest artistic ventures took the form of experiments with watercolor, oils, and even printmaking: but he found these unsatisfying. Then he discovered he could develop a use of acrylics to achieve the atmospheric layering and airy transparency he sought. Along the way he also tried many forms of art—figure painting, landscape, still life, and abstraction—before comingto understand that his only choice was to paint "what he knew." What he knew, and loved, was mathematics.
This had been true from an early age. Schultheis comes from a family that has farmed for generations in the relatively isolated region of Southeast Washington State, where the Palouse plateau drops precipitously into the Snake River canyon. Until he started school, the farm was his only world. Already he was noticing mathematical patterns around him. A solitary lilac tree had buds that fascinated him with their four-part structure. Even his clothing entailed numbers. As the youngest of eight, his hand-me-downs were marked by his diligent mother with eight symmetrical dots—one dot for each child who had worn the clothes. On wash day, clean clothes were redistributed to the siblings, piled according to the number of dots in ascending order up eight steps. Before the young Schultheis could read his name, before he could count, he could nevertheless immediately recognize himself in the eight-dot geometric pattern. Today, these are among the life experiences that the artist examines in his work.
An early task on the farm was in the root cellar. The young boy was sent to organize and inventory the jars of preserves—oldest in front, newer behind. It was the first stirrings of interest in mathematical systems that many years later would develop into an understanding of databases. Even play involved mathematics. A favorite toy that gave hours of pleasure was the Spirograph. Its geared wheels allowed a pencil to draw the most elaborate roulette curves and mathematical patterns. In later life Schultheis would come to know these geometrical patterns as hypotrochoids and epitrochoids.
It is no surprise that Schultheis proceeded to study mathematics and economics as an undergraduate, at Washington State University, just few miles from his family home. He followed this with a master's in labor economics and econometrics at Cornell University. After his studies, Schultheis was all set to pursue a successful corporate life in software development, and did for several years. But soon he was making the momentous decision to abandon his business career in order to make art. He began to paint the world as he alone saw it and in the process created an art—he calls it "Analytical Expressionism"—the like of which had not existed before. Exhibitions, commissions, and sales have followed and Schultheis has found a responsive audience among mathematicians and non-mathematicians alike.
Those who know math can conceptualize Schultheis' geometric forms and readily "see" them. The geometries used include simple Euclidean as well as more complex non-Euclidean methodologies such as Cartesian and Polar coordinate systems. The equations and "geoms" Schultheis creates are understandable to those who would have studied calculus at college level. Yet his paintings do not speak to this esoteric group alone. For those not privy to the visual language of geometry, Schultheis' renders the geometry visible by painting it. With expressive gesture, use of color, line, and form—all the elements that make up visual art—he communicates to a broader segment of viewers. Thus both categories of viewer have a valid, albeit different, experience. It is as if aesthetics and mathematics, the artist and the geometer, find common ground in these works.
Thinking about the intersection of art and math, Schultheis expresses genuine admiration for those 20th century abstract artists—from Kandinsky to Serra—whose art involves geometry. But before 20th century abstraction, we must go back almost four centuries, to the Renaissance, to find any other art that includes overt references to mathematics and geometry. (At least in the Western world, that is. Geometry is of course inherent to Islamic art.) For many Renaissance artists, art and geometry were indivisible. These are the artists Schultheis most admires. Piero della Francesca, he points out, owned a copy of Archimedes' Codex and himself wrote treatises on arithmetic, algebra, and geometry. Piero's mathematical understanding of the theory of perspective and use of the device in his frescoes was to change the course of art history... and is still taught in art classes today. Leonardo da Vinci's much-reproduced drawing of "Vitruvian Man," where outstretched arms and legs describe a circle and a square, reveals an artist for whom art, science, and geometry are all necessary to describe the fundamental truths of nature.
When artists return to geometry at the dawn of the 20th century, it is precisely because they want to remove themselves from the obligations of reproducing an illusion of the natural world. No longer is a painting to be a "window on nature." Malevich's Black Square of 1915 is the death knell for perspective. Other geometric shapes of circle, cylinder, sphere, arc, cube—whether in the work of Rodchenko or Mondrian, Braque or Albers, Ellsworth Kelly or Donald Judd—allow artists a new purity of purpose, enabling them to create works of art that are both nonrepresentational and nonreferential. Geometric forms are chosen exactly because of their abstract quality, their perceived lack of connection to the natural world. Twentieth-century Geometric Abstraction, which encompasses many greatly lauded artists, has scant room for narrative, metaphor, or feeling. Instead, emphasis is on the two-dimensional nature of the picture plane, the canvas support, or the painted surface itself. Works are rendered in a neutral and objective fashion, painted as smoothly as you would an automobile and even, in the case of sculpture, constructed out of industrial materials.
Schultheis aspires "to push the boundary of geometry in art," but clearly Geometric Abstraction as defined could not be further from his intentions. His choice of geometry allows for metaphor, hidden storytelling, and subjectivity. His paintings are not neutral surfaces but employ atmospheric perspective to create depth and internal movement. Nor is his geometry the simple, "high-school" Euclidian geometry used by practitioners of Geometric Abstraction: he uses a much broader range of non-Euclidean methodologies as well as calculus, econometrics, and trigonometry. Yet there is an inherent dichotomy in his work. On one hand, he describes his written equations as the only true "geometric art," since they are mathematically exact. (Geometry is by its very nature exact. Imprecise geometry is an oxymoron.) In addition, his equations become the purest of geometric art as they are actualized only in the mind's eye of the viewer. From this point of view, Schultheis' art is conceptual—clear, reductive, and perfect. Since the art of most Geometric Abstract painters exists in the physical world, their shapes can never be pure geometry, only imperfect or loose approximations. According to Schultheis, these approximations are indeed sometimes mathematical impossibilities. Yet—and this is the dichotomy—Schultheis, in making paintings about geometry, also operates in the physical world. The large size of many of his canvases means that viewing is an especially active physical experience, as we trace the surface writing and allow ourselves to be drawn into the space beyond. His energetic "geoms" that fly across the picture plane are rendered with painterly, expressive marks and elegant gestures. While Schultheis' written equations may be pure geometry, his brushstrokes, though beautiful, offer the imprecision, and fallibility, of real life.
Most people, including most artists, see art and math as poles apart. A few artists, however, isolated in the ever-widening pluralism that is 21st century art, have been inspired to bring elements of both practices together. Many of them work with computers and digitization. The work is diverse and varied, and none of these artists is part of a group or a movement. Neither is Schultheis. He is alone in the art he makes. Where others might use a computer to draw geometric shapes on the page, he wants his imagined geometries to take form in the mind's eye. Where others might borrow from the realm of mathematics, he lives in that realm. He sees life and the world in terms of geometry and presents that vision in paintings that we can find beautiful without needing to be mathematicians ourselves. In his paintings, art and mathematics, which have traveled so long alone and in different directions, have finally eluded Zeus…they have found each other and become one.


A one-day state level vendor development programme will be organised in Mangalore by the union ministry of micro, small and medium enterprises, in association with Kanara Small Industries Association (KSIA). The union ministry will be a part of the event through MSME Development Institute, one of its enterprises.
The event will be held on February 25, 2010 at the KSIA hall. The event which will be attended by the large enterprises like BSNL, Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemical Ltd, MCF etc will benefit the small unit through the interaction with the leading vendors.


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5 Ugliest Smartphones Of 2012
Not every smartphone is a charmer. Here are five handsets with some seriously questionable designs.
Designing a smartphone shouldn't be too hard. There's only so much you can do with a rectangular block of plastic, glass, and assorted other materials. Even so, plenty of smartphones turn out to be grotesque pieces of hardware that are difficult to look at, let alone use day in and day out.
After reviewing more than 60 devices this year, I've reached one conclusion with respect to design: the simpler, the better. The minute designers start to overthink what they're doing is when things go bad. Here are five of the worst from 2012.
[ Nokia's Lumia 920 misses the mark. Here's why: Nokia Lumia 920: Close , But No Cigar. ]
1. HTC EVO 4G LTE. The EVO LTE is Sprint's variation of the One X from HTC. The One X is an attractive device made from a single piece of polycarbonate. It is simple, svelte and stylish. Sprint messed it all up. Sprint wanted its version to stand apart. It nixed the polycarbonate shell entirely and opted for a mish-mash of materials, textures and colors that end up looking more chaotic than cool. Worse, the metal band that encircles the display is painfully sharp against your skin. Some may like the black-on-red colors, but the EVO LTE was one of the devices I liked the least this year.
2. Huawei Ascend Q. This disaster of a device took a touch phone and stuck a QWERTY keyboard at the bottom. The result is an oblong smartphone of odd proportions. The lime green colors on the keyboard do nothing to help, and the materials were far from top-notch.
Huawei Ascend Q
3. LG Intuition. The Intuition, sold by Verizon Wireless, is LG's answer to the Samsung Galaxy Note "phablet." It has a huge screen and a stylus, just like Samsung's big phone. There's one problem: LG chose to use a 4:3 aspect ratio for the screen rather than 16:9. The result is an amazingly awkward phone that is incredibly wide and nearly impossible to hold and use. It's also so large that sticking it in your pocket is pretty much impossible. It's no doubt one of the worst of the year.
LG Intuition
4. Motorola Photon Q. This massive smartphone for Sprint has a big display, a big QWERTY keyboard and a huge footprint. There are a number of odd angles and other unfortunate design choices that give it a goofy look. The mixed blend of textures and materials go further to make the Photon Q look disjointed and poorly planned.
5. Nokia 808 PureView. The 808 may have had the world's first 41-megapixel camera, but it was a sin to behold. The massive camera components necessitated some ugly design choices. The 808 was thick and bulky, and the lump created by the camera module gave it an awkward appearance. Incredible as the camera was, the outdated Symbian platform made the 808 an easy smartphone to avoid.
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People have been using Adobe products for a long time now. Photoshop, Illustrator, PageMaker. They are truly professional-level software packages, and they command a professional-level price. Adobe has taken the lead again with an astounding video editing package - ADOBE PREMIERE 6.5.
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We use an RT.X100 in this video, but all of our examples will work with the Matrox RT.X10. Adobe Premiere can be extremely hard to learn if you try to digest the 400 page manual, and then another 250 pages of Matrox manual can leave you exhausted. On the other hand, our videos take you from ground zero to up-and-running in a little over an hour. It's the perfect guide for beginners or those new to editing.
If this is your first time ordering a video from us, then you haven't yet experienced the clear and understandable no-nonsense approach we use to present our video topics. The screen shots are sharp and readable, and the production is tight. We don't waste your time with things you won't need. To get an idea of what we're talking about, you can click on the streaming video in the lower left corner of this page (Windows Media Format).
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Banc de Sang i Teixits, organisme del Departament de Salut de la Generalitat de Catalunya que gestiona les donacions de sang i de teixits
 Teràpia breu estratègica (del seu nom en anglès Brief Strategic Therapy), tractament de psicoteràpia
 Arbre binari de cerca (del seu nom en anglès Binary Search Tree), estructura de dades d'arbre binari totalment ordenada
 Somatotropina bovina (del seu nom en anglès Bovine Somatotropin), hormona produïda per la glàndula pituïtària del bestiar
 Bst. també és l'abreviatura de la bustamita, mineral de la classe dels inosilicats
 bst també és el codi ISO 639-3 del basketo, llengua parlada a Etiòpia
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Going Green Without Going Into the Red : Solar Hot Water Systems
by Arturo Herrera on June 2, 2017
SSF is starting a new webinar series to feature green energy and environmentally friendly technologies with big potential benefits. The purpose of Going Green Without Going Into the Red is to learn about green technology applications and provide developers an opportunity to feature their innovations.
The format for Going Green Without Going Into the Red will be
a presentation by a technical expert about the technology area
a short product presentation by developer
questioning by the expert
audience Q&A.
Scott Sklar, a noted clean energy technology leader agreed to be the expert to kick off the series. Scott was the Executive Director of the Solar Energy Industries Association, so we are starting with a solar application and focusing on hot water heating. Water heating systems are the second biggest user of electricity in the home, accounting for an average of 18 percent of electricity costs, according to the U.S. Department of Energy. So the impact of solar alternatives is significant.
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Solar energy can be used in several ways to heat water for domestic, commercial and industrial uses. Examples include photo voltaic cells to generate electricity for hot water heaters and both passive and active thermal solar systems for direct heat. With the cost of solar equipment dropping, there are significant savings in solar hot water, but what are the considerations in determining which technology is best for your situation?
In this 60-minute webinar, Scott Sklar reviewed the pros and cons of investing in a solar hot water system (residential, commercial and industrial uses) and what to consider in making the investment decision. We also heard from Arden Steiner, co-founder of Rayviance. The firm has added innovations to its license for a solar hot water technology based on a pump free thermosyphon convection flow system. Arden has installed the system in a number of commercial and residential sites and will present them as case studies in the webinar. He will explain why Rayviance has significant operational and cost advantages over the alternatives. Scott will question Arden about the technology and it's advantages.
Solar Hotwater Webinar – What you need to know from Security & Sustainability Forum on Vimeo.
Also, download the webinar slides here.
Meet the Panel
Scott Sklar is President of The Stella Group, Ltd. a strategic policy and clean technology optimization firm facilitating clean distributed energy utilization which includes advanced batteries and controls, energy efficiency, fuel cells, geoexchange, heat engines, minigeneration (propane/natural gas), microhydropower (and freeflow, tidal, wave), modular biomass, photovoltaics, small wind, and solar thermal (including daylighting, water heating, industrial preheat, building air-conditioning, and electric power generation). Previously, Scott Sklar served for 15 years simultaneously running two Washington, DC-based trade associations, as Executive Director of both the Solar Energy Industries Association and the National BioEnergy Industries Association.
Arden Steiner is a business owner in the energy industry. He is the general manager of Affordable Fuels, a full service energy marketer in Middleburg, Pa. Arden is also one of the founders of Rayviance, which has the US license for the solar hot water system. The technology was originally developed by the U.S. Agency for International Development for a project in Nepal. Arden and his team subsequently added a number of improvements to enhance the system's operational efficiency and durability. Arden will provide case studies by describing specific installations.
Jon June 4, 2017 at 6:53 pm
I'm looking forward to seeing this webinar either live or the recording (not sure I can make the time). What I would like to know are the economics/ ROI of solar thermal hot water systems vs solar PV plus heat pump and/ or instant hot water. This likely varies with region and quality of parts. I'm working in southwestern British Columbia and would like to consult in other areas of the province as well.
An important factor is the decreasing cost of PV, and in turn, the reliability of PV systems. I haven't seen reports evaluating different manufacturers. I know one installer who will only use German-built PV.
My personal experience with thermal hot water has been a bit disappointing. I thought our 2005 system would be a breeze, a proven simple technology, but apparently I was an early adopter in a region with limited (one) system choice. The system was not designed for easy replacement of the food-grade glycol and I learned to late about the corroding factors of old glycol. When the pump had low to no pressure it was hard to tell if it was a leak or a pump problem. The manufacturer said my only choice was to send them the pump at my own expense across the country to Ontario. My white elephant may have paid for itself, but I can't afford to dismantle it. …
Caution and quality control are needed with any rapid adoption of technologies that are new to most consumers.
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ON The first day of Christmas, my Blacksmith gave to me, a cartridge in a bare tree.
ON The second day of Christmas, my Blacksmith gave to me, two pairs of tongs and a cartridge in a bare tree.
ON The third day of Christmas, my Blacksmith gave to me, 3 Betty Lamps, two pairs of tongs and a cartridge in a bare tree.
ON The fourth day of Christmas, my Blacksmith gave to me, four tons of coal, three Betty Lamps, two pairs of tongs and a cartridge in a bare tree.
ON The fifth day of Christmas, my Blacksmith gave to me, FIVE SPATULASSSS. Four tons of coal, three Betty Lamps, two pairs of tongs and a cartridge in a bare tree.
ON The sixth day of Christmas, my Blacksmith gave to me, six chunks of babbit ,FIVE SPATULASSSS. Four tons of coal, three Betty Lamps, two pairs of tongs and a cartridge in a bare tree.
ON The seventh day of Christmas, my Blacksmith gave to me, seven brand new swedge blocks, six chunks of babbit, FIVE SPATULASSSS. Four tons of coal, three Betty Lamps, two pairs of tongs and a cartridge in a bare tree.
ON The eighth day of Christmas, my Blacksmith gave to me, eight hand forged punches, seven brand new swedge blocks, six chunks of babbit, FIVE SPATULASSSS. Four tons of coal, three Betty Lamps, two pairs of tongs and a cartridge in a bare tree.
ON The ninth day of Christmas, my Blacksmith gave to me, nine Mouse Hole anvils, eight hand forged punches, seven brand new swedge blocks, six chunks of babbit, FIVE SPATULASSSS. Four tons of coal, three Betty Lamps, two pairs of tongs and a cartridge in a bare tree.
ON The tenth day of Christmas, my Blacksmith gave to me, Ten Hammer handles, nine Mouse Hole anvils, eight hand forged punches, seven brand new swedge blocks, six chunks of babbit, FIVE SPATULASSSS. Four tons of coal, three Betty Lamps, two pairs of tongs and a cartridge in a bare tree.
ON The eleventh day of Christmas, my Blacksmith gave to me, eleven hand forged trivets, Ten Hammer handles, nine Mouse Hole anvils, eight hand forged punches, seven brand new swedge blocks, six chunks of babbit, FIVE SPATULASSSS. Four tons of coal, three Betty Lamps, two pairs of tongs and a cartridge in a bare tree.
ON The twelfth day of Christmas, my Blacksmith gave to me, twelve scrolls with collars, eleven hand forged trivets, Ten Hammer handles, nine Mouse Hole anvils, eight hand forged punches, seven brand new swedge blocks, six chunks of babbit, FIVE SPATULASSSS. Four tons of coal, thre-ee Betty Lamps, two pairs of tongs and a caaartriidge in a bare tree.


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Daqing is a prefecture-level city in Heilongjiang, China, known for its Daqing Oil Field.

Daqing may also refer to:
Daqing Station, a railway station in South District, Taichung, Taiwan
Daqing Subdistrict, Mudanjiang, a subdistrict in Aimin District, Mudanjiang, Heilongjiang, China
Daqing Subdistrict, Bengbu, a subdistrict in Yuhui District, Bengbu, Anhui, China
Daqing Community, a community in Xinggong Subdistrict, Shahekou District, Dalian, Liaoning, China

Historical eras
Daqing (1036–1038), era name used by Emperor Jingzong of Western Xia
Daqing (1140–1143), era name used by Emperor Renzong of Western Xia
Qing dynasty (1636–1912), also known as Da Qing or Daqing

See also
Taching (disambiguation)


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WNS buys Warsaw-based OptiBuy
WNS Holdings Limited (WNS), a leading provider of global Business Process Management (BPM) solutions, today announced it has acquired OptiBuy, a leading European provider of procurement platform consulting and implementation solutions. These assets are complementary to WNS' existing offerings and strengthen the company's capabilities in both high-end procurement and advanced analytics.
Founded in 2010 and headquartered in Warsaw, Poland, OptiBuy is a leading European provider of procurement platform consulting and implementation solutions. The company helps clients leverage the capabilities of leading 3rd party procurement and supply chain platforms including Ivalua, Jaggaer, and O9, and complements WNS' existing offerings with platforms such as Coupa and Ariba. In addition, OptiBuy also provides consulting, optimization, outsourcing, and training services to their clients. Currently focused on the EMEA market, the company has approximately 90 employees including more than 40 senior-level certified platform implementation professionals based in Poland. WNS views expansion of these capabilities into the North American market as a significant opportunity. The acquisition of OptiBuy was completed on December 14, 2022. Consideration for the transaction is €30.0 million including up-front payment and expected earn-outs, and excludes adjustments for cash, debt, and working capital. Based on OptiBuy's revenue generated in calendar 2022, the acquisition is expected to add approximately $2 million to WNS' net revenue* in fiscal 2023, and to be neutral to WNS' fiscal 2023 adjusted diluted earnings per share**.
"On behalf of the entire team at OptiBuy, we are excited to become part of WNS and believe that the combination of our two firms will enable the creation of differentiated, end-to-end digital procurement and supply chain solutions for the global marketplace," said Mateusz Borowiecki, Managing Director of OptiBuy. "We look forward to building on the capabilities we have created over the past 12 years and working with the WNS team as we help clients leverage digital technologies to drive long-term business value."
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Q: how to parse Zero (0) as integer in JavaScript I am working on a basic calculator that takes input like this
    " 100 + 10/2 + 3 + 0 " and returns the output in a separate field.
when I break this thing into an array zero is not parsed as integer. My code is as following

var arr = ["100", "+", "0"];
arr = arr.map(x => parseInt(x) || x);

console.log(arr);

A: It's because 0 is falsy so after the parseInt("0") returns falsy  you end up getting the string
Try using isNaN() instead

var arr = ["100", "+","0"];
arr = arr.map( x => isNaN(x) ? x : parseInt(x) );

// use F12 to see the console
console.log(arr); // output is being display as [100, "+","0"]

A: Similar to other answers, zero is falsey. However, parseInt returns NaN upon failure, and that can be used to build the answer as follows:

let arr = ["100", "+", "0"];
arr = arr.map((x) => {
  const parsed = parseInt(x);
  return Number.isNaN(parsed) ? x : parsed;
});
console.log(arr);

IMO this is a better solution as it is explicit about the return types that parseInt returns, and doesn't rely on type coercion.
Note: There are fun nuances with isNaN. The ES2015 Number.isNaN is used here to prevent any issues with type coercion, although it's not strictly necessary in this case.

A: Zero is a falsy value, so short-circuiting won't work here. You need to check explicitly

var arr = ["100", "+","0"];
arr = arr.map( x => x == 0 ? 0 : (parseInt(x) || x));
console.log(arr);

A: parseInt("0") is falsy. You can use Number() to convert 0 to an integer.
Try the following:

var arr = ["100", "+", "0"];
arr = arr.map(x => !isNaN(Number(x))? Number(x) : x);

console.log(arr);

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Our diversification is growing, there is significant interest in the country's largest iron framework company, Ferrac SARL.
An important turning point – the company moves to its new offices in Cloche d'Or, Luxembourg City.
Expansion of skills – specialists in project, building and facility management, TDO Consulting S.A., joins the group.
Opening of our estate agency, Giorgetti et Kuhn, situated at 5 Rue de la Boucherie, in Luxembourg city centre.
Further development – "Julien Cajot", specialising in asphalt, joins the group.
Interest in new technologies – "Euromac2", a French company specialising in high performance insulation and alternative construction techniques, joins the group.
Our story of a general construction company starts at the end of the 19th century. Today, Félix Giorgetti is still owned and run by the family and is one of Luxembourg's leading names in the construction and property industry.
A group of young people, all from the same village of Brissago (in Italy's Varese province), left their country to work in Luxembourg, where they started out as labourers in the building industry. Among this group were Achille Giorgetti and his two brothers Francesco and Eustache Giorgetti.
Shortly after arriving, Achille and Francesco Giorgetti founded the first "Giorgetti" building company, which operated primarily in the south of the country.
Following the death of Francesco Giorgetti, Achille Giorgetti took over the business on his own.
Eustache Giorgetti joined Achille's business. He led the construction of several prestigious buildings in the country, including the head office of Arbed (now Arcelor - Mittal) in Luxembourg City.
Eustache Giorgetti decided to work for himself and created his own construction business in Bettembourg.
After the turmoil of the Second World War, Eustache Giorgetti re-launched his activities, this time with his two sons, Félix and Paul, on board.
Eustache Giorgetti & Sons, S.E.N.C. played an active part in rebuilding the country.
Eustache Giorgetti stepped down from the helm of his business and his two sons became the company's directors.
Following the death of Paul Giorgetti, the business was managed solely by Félix Giorgetti.
Eustache Giorgetti & Sons, S.E.N.C. was dissolved. All of the business' assets were taken over by Félix Giorgetti and his wife Jeanny Giorgetti-Theisen. They continued to operate their construction business under the name of "Entreprise Félix Giorgetti" ("Félix Giorgetti Company").
Paul and Marc Giorgetti, Félix's two sons, joined the business.
Paul and Marc Giorgetti founded Skyliners, which specialised in the hire and sale of tower cranes.
This company has since become one of the biggest subsidiaries of the Félix Giorgetti group and ranks top of its sector in the Greater Region of Luxembourg.
The solely owned Entreprise Félix Giorgetti changed its name and legal form. It became a capital-based company under the name of "Félix Giorgetti SARL - General construction company". This company now constitutes the hub of all of our operational activities.
Acquired a stake in the public limited company Recyma, which focuses on prospecting, developing, building and operating facilities for recycling inert materials generated by construction sites.
The business moved into its new administrative building in Cloche d'Or, Luxembourg, sparking a fresh sense of momentum. Not only was it installed in its new premises, the business had just launched itself as a developer and investor for administrative premises. This was a decisive step in terms of future growth for the entire group.
The Giorgetti-Theisens brought their two sons, Paul and Marc, into the construction company.
After the death of Félix Giorgetti, Paul and Marc took over the company's management.
Acquired a stake in Ferrac SARL, the biggest reinforcement company in Luxembourg.
Took over the activities of TDO Consulting S.A, a leading name in project, building & facility management, with the aim of expanding its expertise in the area of administrative and commercial property management services.
The business formed its own captive reinsurance company, known as G-Ré S.A..
Acquired a stake in Kuhn S.A., the oldest construction business in Luxembourg and also "purveyor to the Court".
This operation constituted a significant step forward in terms of expanding the group's range of products and services.
Introduction of the "écogio" label and concept for all types of residential property construction. This saw the group become a pioneering driving force in the field of sustainable, low-energy construction.
Creation of "Giolog" in Dubai and Abu Dhabi, in collaboration with Adi Logistics Concepts & Planning. The new business specialises in developing logistics, industrial and public utility projects.
Creation of "Skyliners France" with a view to extending its tower crane rental and sales business to include the market of northern France.
Opening of a new estate agency, Giorgetti & Kuhn, in Luxembourg city centre, designed to meet its customers' needs for property services.
The business continued its diversification activities and took over the Julien Cajot company, a leading name in the coated materials sector.
With its ongoing interest in new technologies, the business is contributing financially to the development of Euromac 2, a French company specialising in the manufacture of high performance insulation and alternative construction techniques.