HE President Paul Kagame is the current President of Rwanda. He has received recognition for his leadership in peace building and reconciliation, development, good governance, promotion of human rights and women's empowerment and advancement of education and ICT. President Kagame is widely sought after to address regional and international audiences on a range of issues including African development, leadership and the potential of ICT as a dynamic industry as well as an enabler for Africa's socioeconomic transformation. . President Kagame currently serves as chair of the UN Secretary General's Advisory Group on MDGs and as co-chair along with Carlos Slim of the ITU's Broadband Commission.


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Module 4: Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery
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This Module will continue to build up our Infrastructure to a Self-Service or CI/CD goal.
We will be building on the code that was utilized in the previous modules and labs, though now
we'll use Jenkins to provide a CI/CD mechanism. This lab will also use Slack to notify
users of changes going on in real time.

Tools we will be using:

- f5-newman-wrapper & previous workflows

  - The previous 5 wrapper workflows files will be executed, but from a Jenkins Pipeline

- f5-super-netops-container

  - Continuing delivery of F5 configuration from a self contained toolkit
  - This version or **variant** of the container has Jenkins installed for you, this is depicted from tag associated to the Docker Image ``f5devcentral/f5-super-netops-container:jenkins``

- Slack

  - There has been a Slack channel already setup on your behalf, which we will all be monitoring for environment changes
  - Any person with an @f5.com email address can join the Slack Channel. To join and view the transactions use https://f5agilitydevops.slack.com/signup

- Jenkins

  - Jenkins is installed on the f5-super-netops-container, accessed via ``http://localhost:10000`` (Web) user credentials are ``admin/default``

From the previous labs you should already have your Super-NetOps-Container already running, if it's not please refer to Class 2 Module 2 on starting the service.

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Jack Kirby's Birthday: Reviewing Some of his Best
Tim Jousma
Jack Kirby is a legend. Jack Kirby is responsible for the visual representations of pretty much any hero you can think of from Marvel. The Fantastic Four. The Hulk. Thor. Iron Man. Without Jack Kirby's illustrations we wouldn't have such amazing images to place along with Stan Lee's words. Jack Kirby would have been 99 today so in honor of his amazing work, we're going to discuss one of his most famous works.
The comic in question is The Fantastic Four, issue #48. I really enjoyed the build up to the Galactus reveal. Building up to it, you understood the team were about to face a foe that had unrivaled power. Sometimes, especially in that era of comics, the antagonists were not the most scary individuals. I think of Star Trek and the Ferengi. Initially, Gene Roddenberry wanted the Ferengi to be major villains on the show yet when you cost actors that struggle to reach five feet tall and give them heads that look like a boil about to burst, any attempt a fear would be laughed off. It makes them intriguing, sure, but not scary. With Galactus, something big was about to happen and you felt it.
 The dynamic between the Fantastic Four is great. I loved that even with the writing of the time being a little melodramatic to say the least, the relationship between the team felt natural. Compared to DC product at that time, Marvel had stories that felt like the characters were people you would actually encounter on the street. From the start of the Marvel era of comics, they created characters that felt real. Felt relatable. When Johnny Storm would goof on The Thing, you could easily see the relationship these two had. They were brothers. They made each other mad at times and occasionally fought but when the chips were down, they'd fight side by side.Â
 This comic should be required reading. While it may be a little rough around the edges by today's standards story wise, the art alone should be something to behold and admire. Jack laid the foundation for how superhero stories look, no matter what company was making them. The worlds he drew, the creatures he created, will last the test of time. Being responsible for so much of the physical landscape in stories that we take for granted today is mind blowing. If ever there is a foundation to comics, a place a young up and comer should start, it should be at the feet of Jack Kirby.
 Now last year, Jack Kirby's granddaughter asked that, in honor of her grandfather, people should donate to a charity called The Hero Initiative. The charity in question has been set up to assist comic book writers, artists, and creators who have fallen on hard times. One major black mark on the comics industry is how they treat their talent. Take the creators of Superman, Jerry Seigel and Joe Schuster. When Superman The Movie debuted in 1977, these two men were pretty much destitute despite the company that had paid them $130 for the rights to Superman making millions upon millions based on the character they created. Even today, the late Steve Moore, who wrote the comic Hercules: The Thracian Wars, did not have control over his work. He wanted no involvement with the movie that was later made starring The Rock and asked to not have his name associated with it. Turns out the producers and the comic company couldn't give two flips about his opinion and plastered his name as if he had supported the work.
 Not many folks are able to create an intellectual property like a comic book and make it reach a mass audience without the help of a major company. And most of these companies, especially for new up and comers to the industry, will have the creators sign the rights of new creations over to them. That's business. I get it. On the flip side, I do see a huge problem in a company making boat loads of money off the ideas of a person while said person is destitute. On a legal basis, the company has every right not to care. On a moral basis, and on an appearance basis, it makes that company look horrendously bad. There should be no reason why an organization like The Hero Initiative exists. Companies should make their millions and the creators should also reap the financial benefits of what came from their imaginations. Since that isn't the case, I strongly encourage you to head over to their website and consider donating to a good cause. One other option you can do to support them is, if you shop for comics on Amazon like myself, Amazon has a program called Amazon Smile. It's the same Amazon you use to do your shopping but the benefit is, a portion of your sale will be donated to a charity of your choosing. There is no extra cost on your end from shopping. The charity I have chosen is The Hero Initiative. It's a way to give without even really thinking about it.
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difference between the -og of "dog" words and the -og of "smog" words.
*Now* I understand your point, David.
> > How will "dawg"-sayin' folk distinguish "blawg" from "blog" in speech?
> > By contex', I reckon.
> open-o, probably out of analogy with log, which has an open-o for me.
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Enabling inclusion through language: Is it as straightforward as it looks?
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Article by Emmanouela Mandalaki, NEOMA Business School
How can we enable inclusive spaces where different bodies can fit in the way we live, relate, work and learn?
Attempting to answer this question, inclusive forms of writing are increasingly undertaken worldwide, taking language itself as a good starting point for nurturing inclusion in society, with broader political ramifications. Indeed, words are among the primary tools that we have to understand the world around us, to learn but also to become knowable and known to one another, as the feminist thinker Sara Ahmed reminds us.
Languages such as the French one, where the feminine and the masculine are usually clearly designated in the words that we use and where traditionally the feminine is dominated by the masculine in several expressions, such as the plural form both in written and oral language, make us pose this question even more strongly. What does this designate? How some bodies become absent from daily discourse and how this becomes normalized is a matter of increasing attention both in social life and academia.
Attempting to mitigate the 'cleansing' bases upon which language is structured, efforts are taken to feminize the way we speak and write, through the use of what we call inclusive writing. This is used to denote the existence, in the same word, of both sexes – the feminine and the masculine. Even though inclusive writing is increasingly used in informal written documents and blogs of universities or other institutions invested to promote inclusion in the society, it still remains absent from formal administrative documents and has created heated political debates.
Besides its intentions to foster inclusivity, inclusive writing also presents some practical problems, such as difficulties related to its readability and thus its oral use. Moreover, inclusive writing might be problematic for individuals with dyslexia, given its complex written structure, which can be even more challenging when pronounced. Additionally, it might often not be recognized in simple internet sources, thus not generating relevant results. Beyond these and other practical issues related to the use of inclusive writing, we can still pose ourselves the critical question whether inclusive writing is really as inclusive as it preaches to be. Whom does it include and whom not? For instance, feminist thinkers, like Judith Butler, have called our attention to how normative efforts to promote inclusion in society, might in fact be experienced as exclusive for bodies not abiding by societal gendered norms.
In the case of inclusive writing, in particular, can we still claim to be inclusive if we only account for the masculine and the feminine in the way we write, thus excluding individuals who do not identify either as men or women, such as many of the members of the LGBT+ community or non-binary individuals for instance? To respond to this, feminist movements and activists have started using the letter 'x'– a letter often used to describe the creation of new spaces, crossing of borders and openness to new, untrodden territories (e.g., GoogleX, SpaceX etc.). They do so to denote a gender-neutral, inclusive use of language which does not identify either as masculine or feminine in the first place. In this tradition, womnx is often used to replace woman (but pronounced the same way), to address the sexist underpinnings of the existence of man in the original word.
Beyond the daily level of language use, efforts to promote inclusivity in academic language in particular have been taken up by feminist thinkers, such as Hélène Cixous and Luce Irigaray, as well as by critical researchers, in organization studies, who engage with such feminist perspectives to reimagine new uses of what academic language can be. These works, widely known in academia as writing differently seek to enable the creation of more inclusive spaces where different bodies traditionally under-represented by normative academic thinking and writing conventions can be meaningfully expressed in academic discourse. Again, by feminizing language it is not here implied excluding the masculine altogether. This is rather based on the recognition of a constant co-existence between the feminine and the masculine which proposes moving towards forms of bisexual writing, whereby different voices can be heard.
However inclusive the above efforts might intend to be, we should not forget that attempts to foster inclusion of different bodies, in the language that we use and the society more broadly should not only remain to the surface (how we write) but also become possible through the deeper meanings that the associations of the words that we use can enable (what we write), and vice versa. Undoubtedly a combination of the two, that is a careful consideration of what and how we write is necessary for promoting inclusion in our ways of relating, speaking, writing as well as becoming knowable and known to one another, in social life and academia.
Emmanouela is an Associate Professor of Organizations at NEOMA Business School. In her research, Emmanouela explores dynamics and asymmetries between cognitive and corporeal factors shaping ethical and affective inter-personal interactions in social and organizational contexts, including methods of academic research and writing, to provide alternative perspectives to her subjects of inquiry. She analyses these dynamics to explore questions of gender, inclusion and inequalities in organizations. Emmanouela's research has appeared in book volumes and international outlets such as the Journal of Business Ethics, Organization, Management, and Gender, Work and Organization. Emmanouela also serves as an ad hoc reviewer for several journals including Organization Studies, Organization, the Journal of Business Ethics, and Gender, Work and Organization, among others. During her pre-academic and academic career, Emmanouela worked in both for-profit and non-for-profit international organizations in Egypt, Switzerland, Greece, Albania, Andorra, Spain, Chile, Brazil, and Colombia, obtaining diverse social experiences that feed into her research practice.
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If you are looking to burn some calories then you may find this infographic by Master Cleaners useful. The infographic provides information about how many calories you can burn doing housework tasks such as dusting, cleaning glass, washing up and more. The infographic also offers some calorie burning comparisons with common sport ans leisure activities.
Pets like to go around and play the "scavenger hunt" by nosing everywhere in your home. But they cannot sense the money or sentimental cost of the damages they leave behind. This "cute" infographic introduces some tips for training your pet and protect your belongings.
They are everywhere. Dust mites are super micro bugs that live in warm places and live on dead human skin cells. They find their shelter right after you settle in a new home and they love to share bed, sofas, linen and other home accessories with you. Are you going to let them populate for good?
Ok they are not a lethal theat but they are biting your flesh and sucking your blood to make their living. Learn how to defeat bugs and reclaim calmness of your sleep.
Germs lurk everywhere! Some insights over the risks of soapless hands that may aware you and think handwashing importance in hugiene issues.


Don't ever lose your work or school badge, ID tag, or keys again! Lanyards With Clips feature pretty colors and clips at their ends to attach keys and charms. Give a few to friends, or keep them all to yourself!


Matt Hyde knows only too well that the road to the Tokyo Olympics is paved in persistence, etched in exertion and dripping in discipline.
There are no short-cuts; only steps on the ladder and milestones to tick off.
The 21-year-old Tauranga swimmer has just qualified for his first world championships, after dipping more than 2secs under FINA's 400m freestyle 'B' standard time at the recent national short course titles in Auckland. He'll join an 18-strong New Zealand team heading to Hangzhou, China, in early December.
It's not yet a cause for celebration, however – for Hyde, it's just a reminder he's on the right track, with a lot more work about to come his way.
Hyde won the 400m national title with a 3min 49.52sec effort, well inside the FINA 'B' qualifying time of 3:51.93. He also won the 800m free and added bronze in the 200m. Having already been in two national teams attending Oceania championships, the China trip will be next-level, racing and testing himself against the best in the world.
It's the result of countless toil, up to 65km of swimming each week, under the watchful eye of coach Daniel Cooper.
Most of his pool-mates are younger – nonchalant teens splashing alongside – or older, bone-weary masters trying to retain the last echoes of their youth. While Hyde relentlessly chugs through his sessions, Cooper quietly offers advice from poolside, with father Laurie occasionally leaning in to test his son's lactate thresholds.
Hyde's carefree teenage years are well behind him now; he's now into the realms of the serious swimmer, albeit with a Bachelor of Science degree from Massey University bubbling in the background.
That old coach was Graeme Laing, son of the legendary Duncan, and himself a coaching mentor to former national backstroke star Cooper.
Through those links with Laing Jnr, Hyde still competes under the Matamata banner, though Cooper jokingly refers to his squad as the 'Pool Gypsies', swimming at Toi Ohomai each weekday morning as the sun rises, then heading across to the Mount College pool as the sun sets in the evening.
Cooper, who has scrawled '87 weeks until Olympic trials' across his training whiteboard, knows full-well the importance of patience and playing the long game. Like his star charge, the coach is a quiet, slightly introverted presence, shying away from hyperbole and preferring results to speak for themselves.
The next step for Hyde, after his trip to China, is to transfer his short course improvements into the long course 50m pool, where his 400m personal best is 3:57 but he needs a 3:53.58 to make the Olympic 'B' time, or a 3:46.78 to make the 'A' threshold.
He's also got some handy rivals on the New Zealand scene, although Taranaki's Zac Reid is focused more on the 800m, Olympian Matt Stanley is concentrating on the 200m free and Commonwealth Games medalist Lewis Clareburt is more of a individual medley and butterfly specialist. Either one of these swimmers would be serious 400m threats, however, along with the likes of North Shore's Bradlee Ashby and Howick's Daniel Hunter.
There's nothing Hyde can do about them, however – he'd be the first to cheer them on. Instead, he'll just stick to his own knitting… which in his case means painstakingly stitching length upon length, constantly searching for small threads of improvement, day after day after day.
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2. You are cruising down the highway at 60 mph (100 kph) and, without losing speed you follow the road which veers to the right. Have you accelerated?
3. You are driving along a straight road at 60 mph (100 kph) when you lift your foot off the accelerator until you reach a speed of 30 mph (50kph). Have you accelerated?
4. What is the basic difference between light waves and all other wave phenomena?
5. It takes 4 hydrogens to fuse into a helium atom. However, the mass of the 4 hydrogens is greater than the mass of the helium atom. What happens to the missing mass?
6. If you know that Stars A and B have the same luminosity, and yet Star A appears to be 100 times dimmer than Star B, how much farther is Star A than Star B?
7. A certain red star and a certain blue star are found to be radiating the same number of photons per second. Which star is more luminous and why?
8. The Sun is a low mass star and so will never have the core fusion reactions of massive stars. Yet, the Sun has iron in its atmosphere, as well as gold, silver and other elements much heavier than iron. Why?
9. When a gravitational disturbance occurs, how fast does the ripple in space-time travel in empty space?
The solution is attached below in two files. the files are identical in content, only differ in format. The first is in MS Word format, while the other is in Adobe pdf format. Therefore you can choose the format that is most suitable to you.
Newton's first law states that: In the absence of force, a body either is at rest or moves in a straight line with constant speed.
Newton's second law for a body with constant mass: A body experiencing a force F experiences acceleration a related to F by F = ma, where m is the mass of the body.
The car changes direction, hence a force must be applied, and according to the second law - there is acceleration.
Basic astronomy questions are addressed in the solution.
What are the conditions necessary for life to take root, evolve, and flourish? Where might we find these outside of Earth? The solar system?


Oxymetholone is characterized by a rapid increase in body weight, as well as a sharp jump in strength indicators. This steroid gives a very good fullness of "pampas" during training, sometimes the fullness can be even painful and it seems that your skin is about to burst.
The bulk of the body during the intake of oxymetalone is added by delaying the liquid, so at the end of taking this steroid, a sharp pullback follows.
There is an opinion that oxymetalone is very toxic to the liver, but in reality everything is completely different. As many believe that oxymetalone is a progestin – this is a misconception, this steroid is a derivative of DHT.
The dosage of oxymetalone is selected individually, the intake usually starts from 50 mg per day, the average dosage is 150-200 mg, but there are athletes who exceed these dosages several times.


In this month of March, amplified through the Equinox on March 20th/21st, we experience the sacred Cosmic Fire of Stability and Equilibrium through the Overlighting of Helios and Vesta, Sanat Kumara, the bridge to Solar Christ Consciousness, and the many Illumined Beings of Light from On High assisting in this Golden Age of Light.
We are invited into the etheric Spiritual Sun Temple of Helios and Vesta to experience this sacred Cosmic Fire of Stability and Equilibrium wrapped in beautiful copper-gold and pink-gold flames of Light, and surrounded in an Electronic Ring of Fire, a shield of pure God essence.
Stability requires we are unchanging in the face of adversity, looking through our Master eyes at all of Life around us. And through the sacred Cosmic Fire of Stability and Equilibrium we experience a blending of earthly and Spiritual experience, manifest as Stability, and the immutability of Mother/Father God. As these sacred transfiguring Flames of Divine Love, we are leading the way through our Divine Love and the recognition that all Life is Divinely equal, with the knowing that only the levels of "Cosmic Consciousness" awareness differs from individual to individual. Stability brings a level of emotional equilibrium, as we release old karmic patternings, false beliefs and judgments, and experience a deeper sense of "controlling our frequency" through the radiance of the Cosmic Heart of all Creation and the Patterns of Perfection, in the knowing that all is Divinely Perfect. We find contentment, peace and stillness of mind and heart in our collective union with the Divine, trusting and surrendering to all that unfolds, while co-creating our heart's dreaming.
To fully comprehend the Sacred Cosmic Fires of Helios and Vesta, and how each sacred Cosmic Fire imbues us with the radiant Light frequencies and key codes of the New Earth Templates, we bring a focus to our I Am Avatar Bodies of Light, actualized through the merging and integration of our Beloved I Am Presence, the creation of our Crystalline Bodies of Light and the activation of our Crystalline Sun DNA templates.
The Crystalline Life-Code Seed Atoms being activated at this time are experienced through every sub-atomic particle within our Beingness, and these new sub-atomic particles frequencies carry the key codes in geometric formations, sonic vibrations and color codes for holding the Light unwaveringly in this Golden Age of Light. This transformational process and related chemical reaction affects all of the energy centers in our physical bodies; as well as the organs and body parts, central nervous system, and sensory system, brain chemistry, bio-circuitry, and the endocrine system. It affects the cells, the mitochondria, the DNA, and the hormones. Additionally this creates the holographic energy field of Divine Love within and around us, further activated through the Crystalline Sun DNA templates.
From a Taoist perspective, we talk about the "Three Treasures". Jing is the nutritive essence of our bio-physical body, and connects into our DNA imprintings. Qi, or energy, is the vitality experienced when we find balance and equilibrium between our body, mind and Soul. And Shen, Christ Consciousness, is experienced when we find the all embracing Divine Love within our hearts and the knowing that there is only Love. And it is the balancing of these "Three Treasures" that brings about Equilibrium as we connect our bio-circuitry through the activation of the Crystalline Life-Code Seed Atoms and the Crystalline Sun DNA templates. As we truly become all that we are, and experience our full magnificence as these sacred transfiguring Flames of Divine Love.
Stability and Equilibrium become important in the understanding of why we continue to experience what we call "the ascension symptoms", perhaps more aptly called "timeline integration symptoms" in this Golden Age of Light. As we experience the increased Light frequencies of Solar Christ Consciousness, it is the physical body in which we need to bring a focus too, to truly support us in our multidimensional realities. For this rebalancing of the physical form is essentially stabilizing our Light Quotient within the higher dimensional timelines, the Christed Timelines. And it is within the dynamic stability of the New Earth Templates and Crystalline Matrix of Divine Love and One Unity Consciousness that our ability to truly co-create our Heaven on Earth as these radiant multidimensional Master Beings and the Group I Am Avatar race is greatly amplified. As our frequency shifts, we further experience different behavioral patterns, observations and "knowings". Our perceptions of truth alter, and synchronicities abound in our everyday lives. We have an increased sense of being guided intuitively by our Beloved I Am Presence and the many Beings of Light from On High. Additionally, we have a heightened sense of feelings and increased Extra Sensory Perception skills.
As we increase our levels of Cosmic Consciousness awareness in this sacred month of March, we have the potential to experience a deeper sense of Stability and Equilibrium within our everyday lives. We find the balance through the recognition of our physical bodies as our Temples of Light. We find the balance through the releasing of old karmic patterns. We find the balance through win-win situations with all those within our realities. For it is the yin yang dance of the balancing of polarities that takes us deeper along the Pathway of Transcendence and into a greater flow of Divine Love through the Cosmic Heart of All Creation.
As we refine our frequencies as the Group I Am Avatar Race, and experience the pulsations of the sacred Cosmic Fire of Stability and Equilibrium through theCausal Body of Helios and Vesta and their Spiritual Sun Temple of Light,many psychic surgeons and Christed ET's step forward to assist us in "fine-tuning" our lower bodies and offering to place us within various Chambers of Light.
Amplified through the Equinox on March 20th/21st, the sacred Cosmic Fire of Stability and Equilibrium spirals forth from the center of our Sun, and into the Unity Grid of Divine Love, allowing all Life to potentially experience Stability and Equilibrium within their lives and through the infinite, eternal Christed Timelines of Divine Love and One Unity Consciousness.
as we now merge with our Beloved I Am Presence, the Highest Light that We Are within the Cosmic Heart of Mother/Father God.
connecting to all the Beings of Light from On High assisting in this Golden Age of Light.
we are placed in a Group Merkaba Vehicle of Light.
we now travel through the Christed Timelines and into the Spiritual Sun Temple of Helios and Vesta.
wrapped in the beautiful copper-gold and pink-gold rays of Helios and Vesta.
are released and absorbed into the Patterns of Perfection and the Cosmic Heart of all Creation.
The Pleiadian Emissaries of the Light now place us into a Light Healing Infusion Chamber of Light.
This Light Healing Infusion Chamber infuses each sub-atomic particle in our Beingness with the bio-energetic matrix circuitry of the Crystalline Life-Code Seed Atoms.
and recalibrating our lower bodies.
placing us in an Fibonacci Ratio Chamber of Light.
and sacred transfiguring Flames of Divine Love.
As sacred custodians to Mother Earth and all her Life.


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UNH herbarium goes digital
Posted by Jenna O'del | Apr 17, 2019 | News | 0 |
Plants, seaweed, and numerous other specimens in the University of New Hampshire's (UNH) Albion Hodgdon Herbarium are transcending their roots. Because these days, they're on the internet.
The Hodgdon Herbarium is currently housed in Spaulding Hall as part of the Department of Biological Sciences (DBS) and the College of Life Sciences and Agriculture (COLSA). Some specimens have belonged to UNH for many years: 1,500 of them moved with the New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts – the precursor to UNH – when they moved from Hanover to Durham in 1892.
The herbarium traces its name to Albion Hodgdon, a botanist and faculty member at UNH who established the 1,500 specimens as an herbarium—a collection of plants, like trees, shrubs, and seaweeds; and related organisms, such as photosynthesizing bacteria. Fungi and lichen, although not plants, are also included in herbarium collections, as Dr. Chris Neefus, herbarium director and professor in DBS, pointed out.
UNH's herbarium also holds the Sumner Pike Library of botanical books and references, dedicated to botanist Sumner Pike.
Today, the herbarium houses over 200,000 specimens, having grown from the efforts of UNH researchers and faculty, volunteers from the New England Botanical Club, and from inheriting the collections of other institutions. The specimens are mainly vascular plants: ferns, cattails, pine trees, although the collection includes many other organisms, mainly seaweed, but also lichens and mosses.
These specimens are stored in large folders, akin to manila folders, in rows of cabinets that stretch towards the ceiling. The rows can be pushed against each other, allowing the herbarium to store as many specimens as possible.
Each specimen is glued to a piece of herbarium paper, which looks like cardstock. After a specimen is freshly collected, it goes through a preparation process. First, the specimen is put into what looks like a giant book, but is made up of straps, cardboard and paper. This book is called a plant press.
With the exact process depending on the type of organism, specimens are laid in the press, where they flatten as they dry. Drying takes from a couple days for some grasses, to up to a week for specimens with fruit. The specimen and its associated metadata are then glued onto a piece of herbarium paper. Once the glue dries, the specimen is ready for storage.
Storage is key, as the herbarium is at full capacity, but set to gain 30 percent more storage when the herbarium is moved to the first floor during Spaulding Hall's renovation. The herbarium will sit opposite the Insect and Other Arthropods Collection, sharing a glass-walled workroom.
Seven years ago, the herbarium began putting some specimens online: digitizing. Digitizing involves uploading a photo of a specimen, along with information on its label–its metadata–what species it is, and where and who it came from. This creates a unique record, or webpage, for each specimen, which can be accessed in online portals dedicated to herbaria collections.
The herbarium has been digitizing its collection in stages, and still not all specimens are digitized. The herbarium's first digitization foray was coordinated by Yale University. Yale developed the Consortium of Northeastern Herbaria, an online portal of vascular plants from the northeastern United States and Canada, using collections located in the same region.
"As part of that project, we were able to digitize most of our collection, because most of it is from the northeast," Neefus said, noting that the herbarium has specimens from Central America, South America and Europe. "After doing that for a bit, we decided we really wanted to get our macroalgae [seaweed] digitized because we have actually the fifth largest macroalgal collection in the United States."
This led to the Macroalgal Herbarium Consortium Portal and coordinating the digitization of all one million macroalgae specimens in United States collections. The resulting portal contains a record for each specimen, as well as specially built geographic software that can create, among other products, "an invasion map," Neefus said.
When each specimen is digitized, the location of where it was collected is uploaded to the portal. The portal displays these locations when a researcher searches for all the specimens in an area of interest, which also brings up the years each specimen was collected. With these locations and years, the researcher can track the spread of a species over time.
Digitization, Neefus said, "allows you to do research, biogeographical research, that would be almost impossible to do if you had to actually go in and physically examine specimens," based on the time investment of creating, for example, invasion maps.
Yet, as efficient digitization makes some research, science still needs the physical collection.
"There's certain things you can't do with a digitized specimen," Neefus stressed. Examples include DNA projects that require a sample of the specimen for extracting DNA, projects looking at internal structures of a plant, or loaning out a specimen like checking out a library book.
To find specimens of interest, researchers can use the online portals.
"That's a very convenient cataloging system for people to use to find out where there are specimens they might be interested in." Neefus said.
Some specimens are particularly unique.
"We've got about a hundred specimens that are what are termed nomenclatural type specimens," Neefus said. "Meaning, that was the actual specimen that was used to name a new species. These species were all described, or identified, by previous faculty and researchers. Fellow researchers can compare specimens of their own to the nomenclatural type, or nomenclatural holotype, and determine the species they have: a type specimen 'becomes the standard for that [species].'"
As much of an influence faculty and associated researchers have had on the herbarium, students have been essential to the digitization projects. Thirty undergraduates and two graduate students have imaged specimens or transcribed metadata. A few different classes actively use the herbarium, visiting the collection or the portals.
Interested students can visit the herbarium by appointment.
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American journalist faces 105 years of prison for investigating private intelligence practices
Global Journalist Staff
A former contributor to The Guardian and Vanity Fair, Barrett Brown, is now under federal custody and his trial for fraud will begin in September. He faces 105 years of prison for investigating the content of five million emails that WikiLeaks then published. Brown was arrested last September and has been denied bail.
The emails the journalist investigated and then hyperlinked to the project he founded, Project PM, belong to the enterprise Stratfor and, according to The Nation, they included discussion renditions and assassinations. They also included unencrypted credit card numbers and validation codes. Brown is accused of credit-card fraud, trafficking in stolen authentication features, device fraud, aggravated identity theft and obstruction of justice.
In 2011, the FBI entered the house of Brown's mother and asked for his laptop, which she did not give them. In later declarations, she says she didn't know his laptop was in her house, but she had already been declared guilty of obstruction of the justice and was facing 12 months of jail time.
The Guardian reports that if the U.S. government ends up criminalizing Brown for posting that hyperlink, every user's freedom on the Internet will be in jeopardy. The newspaper reported that Brown isn't a hacker or a spokesman, but a writer, a journalist and information activist. It asked its readers to support him.
Reporters Without Borders said Brown's case is an example of attacks to freedom of information developments in the United States. The organization noted that under President Obama there have been more prosecutions against whistleblowers under the Espionage Act than ever before.
Freedom House ranks the United States 26 out of 197 countries in terms of freedom of expression.
By Elisa López Aguado.


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Film review: Sky Hunter (空天猎) (2017)
Director: Li Chen
Cast: Li Chen, Fan Bing Bing, Wang Qian Yuan, Li Jia Hang, Zhao Da, Leon Lee, Guo Ming Yu, Ye Liu, Lu Si Yu
Opens: 19 October 2017
Rating: PG13 (Some Coarse Language And Violence)
Marketed as China's first aerial film and starring world-famous Chinese actress Fan Bing Bing and her fiancé, Li Chen, who doubles up as the director, Sky Hunter centres on a top-secret air force and its mission to thwart a terrorist attack in a fictitious country.
Sky Hunter seems like a tribute film to position the Chinese military as a force to be reckoned with, and an acknowledgement of the soldiers' acts of heroism for their country. As a result, certain key characters get some form of development and the rest, near to none. The screenwriter is Zhang Li, a high-ranking officer in the Chinese air force but his writing doesn't sell the characters well enough, which is the biggest shame.
There are no performances worthy of any mention except for a few intense scenes by Li Jia Hang, who plays as Li's wingman. Bing Bing fans would argue that she's perfect as Ya Li in Sky Hunter but she's in a supporting role with barely any crucial scenes. Viewers with a keen eye for detail may spot apparent sloppiness, particularly in the mock practice scenes. And, the exaggerated acting by the terrorists makes them mere caricatures.
Fortunately, the soundtracks added a much-needed oomph, especially during the intense scenes. You would expect nothing less since world-famous German film score composer Hans Zimmer had a hand in it. Other merits include convincing visual effects and technical excellence in the overall directing and cinematography. The action scenes during the last infiltration mission are beautifully sequenced and edited to keep the audience on the edge of their seats.
In a nutshell, the film is effective in achieving its intended purpose and leaving a larger footprint in the visual effects space for Chinese cinema. Above all, it is a film meant to specifically appeal to the Chinese but could have taken a step further to get a better script. Nevertheless, if you are into army-themed action movies with decent special effects and can graciously forgive the clichéd hero's journey plot, perhaps Sky Hunter is worth a watch.
Summary: Sky Hunter shows promising special effects and technical excellence, but the overemphasis on Chinese patriotism can be off-putting and overshadows the characters, whom should be the key focus even for a military film.
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by Vance Wong 19 October 2017
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Step 1: Take the elements input in an array.
Step 2: Create a Binary search tree by inserting data items from the array into the binary searh tree.
Step 3: Perform in-order traversal on the tree to get the elements in sorted order.
Worst case time complexity: Θ(N log N) using balanced binary search tree; Θ(N^2) using unbalanced binary search tree.
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Its typical use is sorting elements online: after each insertion, the set of elements seen so far is available in sorted order.
When using a splay tree as the binary search tree, the resulting algorithm (called splaysort) has the additional property that it is an adaptive sort, meaning that its running time is faster than O(n log n) for inputs that are nearly sorted.
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Depth-first search (DFS) algorithm is an algorithm for traversing or searching tree or graph data structures. One starts at the root (selecting some arbitrary node as the root in the case of a graph) and explores as far as possible along each branch before backtracking.
Shellsort (also known as Shell sort or Shell's method) is an in-place comparison based sorting algorithm. Shell Sort improves its time complexity by taking the advantage of the fact that using Insertion Sort on a partially sorted array results in less number of moves.


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Le barrage Inga III est un projet de barrage hydroélectrique sur le fleuve Congo en République démocratique du Congo. Il est établi sur le site des chutes d'Inga dans la province du Bas-Congo, à une trentaine de kilomètres au nord de la ville de Matadi. Deux barrages, Inga I et Inga II existent déjà sur le site. Il existe également un projet pour un quatrième barrage, dénommé projet Grand Inga.

Le barrage serait construit en rive droite du fleuve, profitant du Nkokolo, une vallée sèche ancien lit du fleuve, dont les berges atteignaient  de haut au niveau des chutes d'Inga, parallèles au site, et qui a déjà été utilisé pour alimenter en eau Inga I et Inga II.

Contexte
Un barrage, le barrage de Shongo, a permis de mettre sous eau le Nkokolo. L'eau est captée à  en amont du site du barrage Inga II, à une altitude de , pour atteindre  au niveau du bief alimentant les barrages Inga I et Inga II. Un canal d'une longueur de quelques centaines de mètres, situé à l'ouest du barrage Inga I ( de dénivelé, 115-70 mètres), alimente le barrage Inga II ( de dénivelé, 115-65 mètres).

Un canal creusé en amont des deux autres barrages permettrait cependant d'établir un nouveau barrage en contrebas des deux autres, et d'ainsi bénéficier d'un dénivelé de ( 115-60 mètres). Le barrage ici construit permettrait la production d'environ , contre  et  respectivement pour Inga I et Inga II.

Le barrage Grand Inga permettrait quant à lui la production de quelque  MW. La réhabilitation de deux barrages hydroélectriques existants et la construction de deux nouveaux pour une puissance électrique totale inégalée sont au cœur des projets industriels de l'Emphytéose Moanda et de Westcor.

Histoire
BHP Billiton est intéressée par le projet. Malgré l'intérêt de ce barrage pour une augmentation de la capacité énergétique pour le Congo et l'Afrique australe en général, il peine toujours à obtenir des sources de financement.

Dès novembre 2016 , plusieurs consortiums chinois et un consortium espagnol se sont positionnés pour vouloir construire le barrage sur une durée de 5 ans.

En octobre 2018, le gouvernement de la République démocratique du Congo annonce la signature de contrats avec un consortium sino-espagnol pour lancer des études de réalisation pour la construction du barrage de Inga III, ouvrage qui devrait avoir une capacité de 11 000 MW et un coût total de 14 milliards de dollars.

Liens externes
 Katembo - photographies des sites d'Inga I et II en 2005.

Notes et références

Inga III
Inga_III

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Optimal Trace Enterprise 5.0: Implement Project Requirements
Keep everyone working together with this comprehensive collaboration tool.
By Don Kiely
Even in an age of agile development methodologies, project members still need to gather and agree on project requirements. This can be a daunting task with systems ranging from marked up index cards to complicated, comprehensive software to manage the collaborative process. Compuware Corp.'s Optimal Trace Enterprise Edition falls into the latter part of that range, with just about every feature imaginable for gathering requirements, documenting them, and sharing the process across a team.
The Enterprise version of Optimal Trace is a full collaboration tool, making it easy to keep everyone working on the latest project version all the time. Like source control, it lets someone working on a particular requirement lock it to avoid problems with overlapping or conflicting changes, including support for merging changes into the main project. One of the best productivity features in the product is the ability to generate test cases for complete coverage of the requirements and alternative scenarios. The scope of these abilities is as breathtaking as the product's cost, which starts at $3,800 for a single, named user.
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Figure 1. Complex User Interface for Complex Requirements
Optimal Trace's UI is complicated and cluttered, but is probably appropriate for the complexity of everything it does. Despite the company's claims that the product is usable by all of a project's stakeholders, it will take some training to get less-technical people up to speed.
Optimal Trace is a comprehensive tool that supports capturing everything from starting notes during discussions with users, right through generation of final requirements documentation and quality assurance (QA) testing. It's targeted at business analysts, systems analysts, project managers, test and QA engineers, and software architects and designers. That's quite a constituency, but Optimal Trace seems to deliver value for all those groups. Compuware was ambitious, delivering a complete solution that does a decent job of managing complexity.
The product packaging includes no installation instructions whatsoever. The CD had just two execution files -- one to install Optimal Trace Enterprise and another to install Optimal Trace Server -- with no readme or any other help to guide the way. I had no idea which to install first, so I stumbled ahead with the Enterprise install. That proved to be the right choice. There's no mention of the other file in the release notes or help files, which are not available before installation. Once I installed the repository server, the previously unavailable help file clearly explained how to install the server.
Documentation consists of a single, monolithic HTML page for each major product component: the server and user interfaces, as well as the admin tool. This amounts to four extremely long pages in all. The information is all there, but navigating long pages like that is inconvenient at best. The product also includes several demo projects, which are useful for playing with its various features. Given that the product is targeted for use by various users, ranging from the CIO to business analyst to tester, the documentation needs improvement.
The per-user price is breathtaking, but for enterprises that can make full use of the product's capabilities, it's probably worth it.
Compuware Optimal Trace Enterprise Edition 5.0
Web: www.compuware.com
Price: Per user: $6,400.00 (concurrent user), $3,800.00 (named user)
Quick Facts: A comprehensive tool for gathering, managing, and implementing complicated project requirements.
Pros: Comprehensive features that serve a wide variety of users, good collaboration tools, strong management of requirements during the entire project lifecycle.
Cons: Expensive, marginal documentation.


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Pyrgus bellieri, auch Provence-Würfeldickkopf ist ein Schmetterling aus der Familie der Dickkopffalter (Hesperiidae).

Merkmale
Die Vorderflügellänge des Falters beträgt 14 bis 15 Millimeter. In Gesamtheit betrachtet ähnelt Pyrgus bellieri stark dem Sonnenröschen-Würfel-Dickkopffalter (Pyrgus alveus). Er ist an der Basis der Flügel deutlich behaart. Die Postdiskalflecke sind groß, vor allem in den Zellen zwei und drei. Die hellen Flecken auf den Hinterflügel sind komplett und kaum dunkel bestäubt. Die Unterseite der Hinterflügel ist gelbbraun. Außerdem sind sie hellen Flecken durchschnittlich etwas kräftiger als beim Sonnenröschen-Würfel-Dickkopffalter. Das Weibchen trägt eine gelblichere Grundfärbung und die weißen Flecken auf der Oberseite sind deutlich kleiner.

Die Raupe ist bräunlich gefärbt und hat einen schwarzen Kopf. Sie besitzt auffallend lange Haare.

Die Puppe ist sehr stark bläulich bereift. Sie hat eine braune Grundfarbe, die jedoch nur an den Segmentgrenzen noch zu sehen ist. Die Zeichnung bestehend aus schwarzen Punkten ist durch die Bereifung hindurch noch schwach sichtbar. Der Thorax weist auf dem Rücken einen schwarzen Längsstrich auf.

Geographisches Vorkommen und Lebensraum
Pyrgus bellieri ist in Südwesteuropa von Nordspanien über die Ostpyrenäen und Südfrankreich bis Zentral-Italien verbreitet. Im Norden reicht das Verbreitungsgebiet bis in das Département Hautes-Alpes und in die Region Piemont sowie bis an den Gardasee. Man findet ihn im Gebirge von der Talsohle bis in etwa 2000 Meter Höhe. In tieferen Lagen leben die Raupen oft am Rand lichter Wälder, in höheren Lagen an sonnigen Hängen.

Lebensweise
Pyrgus bellieri ist univoltin; d. h., es wird nur eine Generation pro Jahr gebildet. Die Flugzeit der Falter reicht von Mitte Juli bis Anfang September. Die Raupen ernähren sich ausschließlich von verschiedenen Arten der Gattung Sonnenröschen (Helianthemum). Die Raupe überwintert meist im L2- oder L3-Stadium, selten auch im L4-Stadium. Sie ist Ende Mai bis Juni ausgewachsen und verpuppungsreif.

Systematik und Nomenklatur
Die Art findet sich in der Literatur häufig als Pyrgus foulquieri, ein Name, der ebenfalls von Charles Oberthür 1910 eingeführt worden ist. Die Existenz der Art wurde bis in jüngste Zeit immer wieder bezweifelt und die Populationen zu Pyrgus alveus gestellt. In einer der neuesten Arbeiten werden jedoch mit Hilfe einer multivariaten Analyse Unterschiede im männlichen Genitalapparat herausgearbeitet, die zeigen, dass es sich wahrscheinlich doch um zwei verschiedene Arten handelt. Allerdings bezogen die Autoren der Studie nur Exemplare aus Spanien in ihre Untersuchungen mit ein. Der Status der folgenden Unterart müsste daher neu untersucht werden. Die Population wird von manchen Autoren auch als eigenständige Art betrachtet, oder wird mit der Nominatunterart (P. bellieri bellieri) vereinigt.
 Pyrgus bellieri picenus (Verity 1920): Diese Unterart ist nur in Mittelitalien im Bergland zwischen 600 und 1500 Metern zu finden. Die Vorderflügellänge beträgt nur 13 bis 14 Millimeter. Die Grundfarbe der Oberseiten der Vorderflügel ist etwas heller, die Unterseite der Hinterflügel gelblicher, meist leicht dunkel gesprenkelt. Beide Geschlechter haben dieselben Zeichnungen.

Quellen

Einzelnachweise

Literatur

 Wolfgang Wagner: Die Gattung Pyrgus in Mitteleuropa und ihre Ökologie – Larvalhabitate, Nährpflanzen und Entwicklungszyklen. – In: T. Fartmann & G. Hermann (Hrsg.): Larvalökologie von Tagfaltern und Widderchen in Mitteleuropa. Abhandlungen aus dem Westfälischen Museum für Naturkunde, 68(3/4): 83–122, Münster 2006 PDF.

Weblinks
 Artporträt bei pyrgus.de
 Moths and Butterflies of Europe and North Africa (englisch)

Dickkopffalter
Hesperiidae


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THE EUROZONE CRISIS AND THE USA
Costas Lapavitsas: European and US elites are asserting naked class interest, but in Europe now there's a more extreme neo-liberalism
PAUL JAY, SENIOR EDITOR, TRNN: Welcome to The Real News Network. I'm Paul Jay in Washington.
As the situation in Europe, particularly as it relates to Greece, seems to continue to move over the abyss, what about the United States? How affected will it be? And what about U.S. policy towards Europe and what it's saying about the situation in Greece?
Now joining us to talk about all of this is Costas Lapavitsas. He's a professor in economics at the University of London School of Oriental and African Studies, he teaches the political economy of finance, and he's a regular columnist for the Guardian. Thanks for joining us again, Costas.
COSTAS LAPAVITSAS, ECONOMICS PROF., UNIV. OF LONDON: Hello.
JAY: So President Obama a few weeks ago, when asked about Europe, he made a kind of a, I thought, kind of funny comment, given the irony of it. But he said, you know, there's plenty of money in Europe; if they want to solve this, they could. And, you know, one could say the same thing about the U.S. But still, what Obama says is true. And then you hear interviews with Wall Street pundits and various senior people in banks on Wall Street, and some of them are talking about how Europe needs stimulus and you shouldn't push this too far. So it's somewhat different signals coming out of New York and Washington than out of Europe. How do you explain the policy difference? And then, how can Obama kind of just kind of be passive in all this? If Europe really unravels, the American economy is not going to be so swimmingly doing well about it.
LAPAVITSAS: First thing to say is that the U.S. establishment and President Obama, they have not been passive. But I'll come back to that step in a minute.
The difference in policy is very, very interesting, though. And you're right. It—first of all, it gives the lie to the old notion that the Anglo-Saxon capitalism is [incompr.] tooth and claw. And this is where it's every man for himself and the devil take [incompr.] whereas European capitalism is welfarist and solidaristic and Keynesian in outlook. We now know that this is not the case. This is not at all the case. In fact, at the core of the European policymaking establishment, there is hardcore neoliberalism, and it's actually harder-core in many ways than what we get in the United States.
Now, why might that be the case? Of course there are many reasons for it, reasons of ideology and so on. But one thing that is very, very important and has to be said clearly, I think, has to do with the nature of the euro. You see, it has to be appreciated that the euro is not a normal, regular common currency among some collection of countries. You know, there are common currencies in West Africa, for instance, common currencies in other parts of the world. The euro is more than that. The euro is an international currency that wants to compete against the dollar, that wants to give advantages to large, concentrated capital in key European countries.
For this reason it has very particular requirements. It needs an independent central bank and a very conservative central bank. It demands fiscal conservatism, very tight fiscal conservatism. It protects the financial interests before it protects any other interests. And the people who have set up the euro have understood from the very beginning that this kind of new currency would only work given the interests that exist if they viewed it with a thorough neoliberal outlook in policymaking. And that's what we see in Europe. You see the triumph of this even if it creates negative effects.
JAY: Now, what happened? Because post-World War II, and until fairly recently at least, compared to the United States, there was much more of a social safety net in Europe. We kept hearing stories about the superiority of the French health care system. Students would go to university practically for free. I mean, there's a lot of elements of a society seem to be far more collectivist or social than, certainly, compared to the United States. So what's changing?
LAPAVITSAS: I do not wish to exaggerate the transformation. It still is the case that you have powerful and well-functioning welfare systems in states in Western Europe—in Scandinavia, for instance, in Holland. We have a national health service that works reasonably well in the U.K. and an extensive health system in France and so on. These things are real and they're present, and the United States would do well to—for its people to acquire some of that sooner rather than later.
However, that must not be—we now know that it is a mistake to think that this somehow specifies a different type of capitalism existing now in Western Europe, because what has happened in the last 20 years is that, I would say, sectoral, narrow interests of big business and big banks have come to set the terrain of economic policy in Western Europe, coalescing around the Monetary Union. And these are very hard-nosed economic interests. The way they think about the world is very neoliberal. In fact, it's identical to what you get in the United States.
And often the people who produce the policy documents and the economic theory that supports these documents are European economists trained in the United States. Basically, you have a transplanting of the most conservative outlook from the United States to Europe, and like all transplantations of this type, it is inferior to the original form. Where the Americans—American economists might produce this kind of thing genuinely and spontaneously, the Europeans usually imitate, and what comes out is narrow, rigid, dry neoliberalism. And that has become very, very powerful and sets—in conjunction with those interests, sets the terms of the debate and of policymaking in Europe to the extent to which they cannot even see what is in their narrow immediate interests, because, you know, many, many people have pointed out that even from the perspective of, say, Germany or other core countries in Europe at the moment, it would make sense in the medium term to preserve its ascendancy if it softened things up a little bit.
JAY: I guess this is the story of the scorpion and the frog. The scorpion stings the frog as they go across the river, "'Cause it's in my nature," says the scorpion. But how much does this have to do with, still, fallout from the fall of the Soviet Union, that there isn't sort of that kind of competitive pressure to have more social programs and such, in order to show that capitalism was humane as whatever was going on in the Soviet Union?
LAPAVITSAS: I am not sure that—I do not wish to take a position on this. No doubt the collapse of those states in the East has had a major effect. It's obvious. Everybody knows it. But I do not wish to speculate on how major, how big that impact has been. I think equally important things have been taking place in the realm of ideology among economists and so on and in the realm of business and finance, and I think that's where the major forces for the hardening of line in Europe have come from.
JAY: Well, if this really does continue to unravel—and there seems to be no reason to think that it won't, the Greek crisis, the euro crisis—then what about Obama and the American economy and the coming elections? One of the things talked about in the U.S. is that—one of the wildcards is that if Europe really does implode, then Obama's going to be facing another major economic financial crisis and this may jeopardize his reelections. And what, if anything, can the Americans do about it?
LAPAVITSAS: It is not easy to work out exactly what—the extent of the interconnections. There's no question that the economies are interconnected. There's no question that if the crisis in Europe continues to deepen and if Greece steps out and a big shock follows, that the United States will be affected. It is not easy at the outset to work out the precise connections. One thing I will tell you for sure is that banks are related to each other, connected to each other. And they're connected in a variety of ways. U.S. banks appear to be significantly exposed to European banks. But European banks are also dependent on dollars for liquidity.
Now, this, because, of course, you see, through the euro, European banks expanded enormously, and they expanded their dollar-based business. And therefore they need dollar-based liquidity, and that can only come from the Federal Reserve. And at critical junctures throughout this crisis, we've seen the Federal Reserve step in and provide dollar liquidity to European banks. And they didn't do it out of the goodness of their own heart; they did it because they realized that unless they provide the dollar-based liquidity to European banks, then there would be a credit crunch, a severe credit crunch in Europe, and that would impact U.S. banks exposed to European banks. That reality's still there. It hasn't gone away.
So I expect that if things get worse in Europe and if a liquidity problem reemerges for European banks, a dollar liquidity problem reemerges for European banks, then there the U.S. authorities would step in, because they know that they themselves are in line for a shock if things in Europe become very bad.
JAY: And I guess they could do that and sort of keep things from hitting this fan, I suppose, beyond the elections. But how long can they do this, if they can even do that? I mean, how long can they keep this thing from really unraveling?
LAPAVITSAS: Provision of liquidity alone, as we now again know from the experience of the crisis, will never solve the problem thoroughly. This holds for Europe itself, for the provision of liquidity by the European Central Bank. Just before Christmas, when it provided €500 billion worth of liquidity to the European banks, it certainly ameliorated the pressures and eased conditions for European banks. The provision of liquidity previously by the Federal Reserve, dollar-based liquidity, had a similar impact on several occasions. But liquidity alone does not solve the problem, because the problem comes from deep structural defects which create solvency issues.
Ultimately, Greece cannot pay debt. And the same holds for Portugal, the same holds for Ireland, the same holds for other countries. This will undoubtedly impact on the banks. In other words, it's a solvency issue. Someone has to face up to that and provide the necessary cash. Central banks cannot do that. Central banks can only lend money. And they can lend money for a long period of time.
Let me just make one point here, which I think is very important. People haven't appreciated it. Often we hear about liberalized finance, that we live in an era of liberal finance, free markets, flow of capital, and so on. Well, I think that this is one of the biggest connings of the last couple of decades, you see, because quite apart from the general fact that we've seen the biggest banks in Europe and in the United States consciously turning to the states to rescue them in the crisis, what we've seen the state do in Europe in the last couple of months is quite simply unbelievable. The European Central Bank, this very conservative and very proper and very, you know, orthodox agency, is now providing European banks with three-year money. It's fixed the rate of interest that banks pay for three years when they borrow from the European Central Bank. This is unconscionable. Three-year money at very low rates is basically a license for private banks to make profits. Now, if they can fix the rate of interest applied to banks as they have done, something which, I repeat, we've never seen anything like that before, why can't they fix the rate of interest in other markets too? What exactly is it that privileges banks and allows them to receive this state munificence, but the same thing cannot be extended to mortgage holders or to businesses borrowing to invest and so on? Nothing at all, it seems to me. This is clear manipulation of the levers of economic and monetary policy to favor the banks, a process which is denied to everybody else.
JAY: And just to go back to the point in the beginning, I said, quoting Obama, that there's plenty of money there. But that's the point, isn't it? There's plenty of money, but the elites are not going to part with it. And the same thing in the U.S. Nor will they let wages rise. So one would think the choices that seem to be there are based—but there's assumptions that these elites simply won't cross, there's lines they won't cross to get there.
LAPAVITSAS: That is correct. But clearly what we see in Europe and in the U.S. is, of course, naked manifest domination of class interests, basically. They will not—they will make profits and they will not take steps that are necessary to rescue the situation. One thing that's clear, though, and I wish to stress it in the case of Germany, and Europe more generally: people say that what Germany needs to do is to follow expansionary policies, Keynesian policies, to even out the deficit surplus problems and to put the European economy on an even keel. And, of course, when you approach it as an economist and you look at it as an abstract economic problem, there's no doubt at all about it that this would make a big difference.
However, you see, you've got to appreciate, from the perspective of German big business (industry, banks, and so on), asking them to raise wage rates is asking them to cut their own throats. And it is highly unlikely, it's impossible that a capitalist ruling class will do that of its own accord. Someone has to push them for it, someone—push them into it. Someone has to demand and obtain that. Without the movement, without grassroots demands for higher wages, such a thing would never happen in Germany or anywhere else, I think.
JAY: Thanks for joining us, Costas.
LAPAVITSAS: Pleasure.
JAY: And thank you for joining us on The Real News Network.


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Rewards are high in Hong Kong – Danny Power
The progeny of Victorian stallion Reward For Effort are in demand in Hong Kong reports DANNY POWER.
If you have a young metropolitan class son of Reward For Effort, the prospect of a knock on the door by an agent representing Hong Kong buyers is a real possibility. Reward For Effort has had a big season in Hong Kong with all his five runners winning races, headed by the standout sprint prospect Jumbo Luck, who is likely to be a contender for the big Group sprints at the end of the year.
Jumbo luck couldn't have been more impressive beating a quality class 2 field at Sha Tin over 1200 metres on June 3. Looking every bit the image of his sire, Jumbo Luck jumped from barrier 10 and did all the work on the pace before careering away with a most impressive win from the highly fancied Mission Tycoon. Back in the ruck of the field were Group 1 Winner Summer Passage and former classy Sydney Group 2-winning 2YO, Gunnison. Jumbo Luck's time of 1min 08.23secs puts him in the elite class of sprinters in Hong Kong. His earnings are now just short of $HK4.7 million ($786,000), not bad on an $82,500 investment as a 2YO ready-to-run.
Jumbo Luck ws bred by Reward For Effort shareholder, Victorian Eamon McNulty, who bred the colt from his mare Maid In Secret (by Made Of Gold (USA)).
Little wonder noted agent John Foote, who has a strong Hong Kong clientele, bought two Reward For Effort colts–spending $80,000 and $82,500–at the Inglis Melbourne Premier Yearling Sale in March, when Reward For Effort averaged a healthy $84,000 off an $11,000 (inc. GST) service fee.
On the same weekend Jumbo Luck was impressing the Chinese, Reward for Effort's highly promising Victorian gelding, You've Been Had, put in the run of the day when second behind Balancing Act at Moonee Valley after producing the day's best sectionals coming from near last at the 400 metres. You've Been Had, a 5YO, had won four of his five starts before that for trainer and part-owner Lisa Enright, who bought him as a weanling and has given the horse plenty of time to mature. Enright said that You've Been Had is a "true professional, nothing bothers him", which is exactly what is said about Jumbo Luck, any why the Reward For Effort stock are in such demand.
Reward For Effort has inched his way into the top-20 of the Australian General Sires' List (for winners) this season. He's within two winners of Hinchinbrook and ahead of top stallions as Star Witness, Bel Esprit, Stratum and More Than Ready. It's the ability to consistently sire winners that makes Reward For Effort appealing to breeders wanting to kick off the breeding career of a young mare and also Victorian's chasing the lucrative VOBIS bonus money.
Reward For Effort, a son of Exceed and Excel from a Rory's Jester mare, stands this season at Chatswood Stud, Seymour, at a very reasonable $16,500 (inc. GST.) Last year he covred 202 mares, the most of any stallion in Victoria, and he will be in great demand again.
– Danny Power.


In a sponsorship boon for the Gay Games, the Newtown Hotel has agreed to inject a total of $100,000 into the event in a deal secured this week.
The hotel's sponsorship will be split between direct funding for the Gay Games figure skating event, with the remainder contributing to general costs of staging the two-week sports and cultural festival.
Newtown Hotel owner Dawn O'Donnell told Sydney Star Observer that the Newtown wanted to support the Games because it's an amazing event that Sydney will never have again.
I've been to New York Games, I've been to Amsterdam Games, and I'm about to hopefully see the Sydney Games -" and every time I do I sense a huge spirit that's there and it keeps getting better. Quite frankly I think to contribute to the Games is a wonderful thing to be doing, O'Donnell said.
I've got one hotel left and this [sponsorship deal] is basically one little deal from the Newtown. Out of every drink that people buy, 50 cents goes to the Gay Games, but I match it with 50 cents. Because of my years in hotels, I've very much wanted to make Newtown pub a large sponsor so I'm going to donate via the Newtown Hotel and in total it will finish up at $100,000.
The sponsorship comes at a time of financial instability for many community organisations. O'Donnell said that while she was aware of Mardi Gras' need for sponsorship, her decision to go with the Gay Games was based on the fact that it is a one-off event for the city.
Mardi Gras won't sink -" don't you worry about that. There's too many people out there who will make sure we don't lose Mardi Gras. Your Gay Games are only going to happen once. Mardi Gras has too many hands out there wanting to help and that's a community thing. There'll be a parade, love, the community will get together and people will help -" don't you worry about that, O'Donnell said.
The sponsorship deal will also reinforce the significance of the inner west as an epicentre for the gay and lesbian community outside of Oxford Street, according to O'Donnell.
I've had the Newtown for 20 years and I had the Imperial for 15 years and I hope that has made a gay scene in the inner west -" and it has, come on, it really has. I wish we could get another half a dozen gay pubs in the inner west, because the more you have, the better the mix, she said.


Conference of Plenipotentiaries for Adoption and Signature of the Framework Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the Caspian Sea.
1. The Conference of Plenipotentiaries for Adoption and Signature of the Framework Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the Caspian Sea was convened by the United Nations Environment Programme pursuant to the recommendations of the Eighth Meeting of Government-designated Experts held in Astana, Republic of Kazakhstan, from 14 to 15 July 2003.
2. The Conference of Plenipotentiaries took place in Teheran from 3 to 4 November 2003, at the kind invitation of the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Programme Coordination Unit of the Caspian Environment Programme.
5. In the course of the inaugural ceremony, the Meeting heard a welcoming address by H.E. Masoumeh Ebtekar, Vice President of the Islamic Republic of Iran, and Head of the Department of Environment.
6. On behalf of the United Nations Environment Programme, the Deputy Executive Director Mr. Shafqat Kakakhel addressed the Conference.
H.E. Masoumeh Ebtekar, Vice President of the Islamic Republic of Iran and Head of the Department of Environment.
Turkmenistan - Mr. Makhtumkuli Akmuradov, Deputy Minister of Environmental Protection of Turkmenistan.
8. Mr. Frits Schlingemann, Regional Representative and Director of the Regional Office for Europe of the United Nations Environment Programme was appointed to serve as Executive Secretary.
9. The Conference decided that its Bureau serves also as the Credentials Committee.
11. Mr. Hamidreza Ghaffarzadeh, the observer from the Caspian Environment Programme, also intervened.
12. The Conference adopted its Agenda, attached as Annex 1.
13. The document that served as the basis for the deliberations of the Conference was the Draft Framework Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the Caspian Sea.
14. The Conference approved the recommendation of the Credentials Committee to recognize the credentials of the representatives of the participating States.
15. The Conference adopted on 3 November 2003 the Framework Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the Caspian Sea. The Framework Convention was opened for signature by the Caspian littoral States on 4 November 2003. It will remain open for signature at the office of the Depositary in Tehran until 3 November 2004 and afterwards will be open for accession by the Caspian littoral States.
16. The Conference agreed, pending the entry into force of the Framework Convention and with a view to prepare for the first meeting of the Conference of the Parties, to request the Regional Office for Europe of the United Nations Environment Programme to continue to service the Convention process.
17. The Conference agreed that, recalling Article 22 paragraph 7 of the Framework Convention stating that the working languages of the Conference of the Parties shall be English and the State languages of all Contracting Parties, UNEP will provide for the official UN languages. Recognizing the need to have documentation available in all State languages of the Caspian littoral States, the Conference called upon UNEP to make every effort, within available resources, to provide documentation in the other languages.
18. The Conference expressed its gratitude to the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran for hosting the Conference of Plenipotentiaries for Adoption and Signature of the Framework Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the Caspian Sea and for acting as the Depository.
19. The text of the Framework Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the Caspian Sea (Tehran Convention) appears in Annex 2 of this Final Act.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF the representatives have signed this Final Act.
DONE AT TEHRAN this fourth day of November, two thousand three, in one original in English and Russian languages, both texts being equally authentic. The original of the Final Act shall be deposited with the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran.


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Intervention for Toddlers with Gross and Fine Motor Delays: Practical Strategies
Prathibha Karanth, Celeste Roseberry-McKibbin, Priya James
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ISBN13: 978-1-59756-977-4
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Intervention for Toddlers with Gross and Fine Motor Delays: Practical Strategies was created out of concern for the increasing number of children identified with developmental language disorders, including those with autism spectrum disorder, and the lack of adequate resources for them. This manual addresses gross and fine motor skills, and activities of daily living (ADLs) for toddlers between the ages of 0 and 3 years. Children with developmental disabilities often have difficulties in or uneven development of gross and fine motor skills. These delays have a related effect on the acquisition of daily life skills. The activities in this manual for building gross motor, fine motor, and ADL skills encourage sensory stimulation. Sensory integration skills, or a child's ability to integrate sensory stimulation from his or her environment, are automatically targeted in the activities. The activities can be used in a wide variety of settings. They can be used in the therapy rooms of speech-language pathologists (SLPs), preschool classrooms, daycare settings, and children's homes. The activities are especially ideal for professionals who conduct home visits to provide intervention in children's natural, daily settings.
This manual is intended to guide the therapist or caregiver in selecting the target skills that a child should be trained in. The lesson plans outline the activities that need to be undertaken to elicit specific responses from children and establish a range of developmental skills. The simple lesson plans are intended to get the therapist or caregiver started on the process of stimulating the children in each of the domains that they need help in, at their current level of functioning. The first section of this manual addresses the basic gross motor skills that children acquire. These basic skills form the foundation of the child's further motor growth. The second section deals with fine motor skill development. The lesson plans included here sensitize the therapist or caregiver to the basic fine motor skills that a child needs to learn at this stage. The third section addresses mastering the activities of daily living. The lesson plans that are included in this section are designed to help the child progressively take care of basic needs with increasing independence.
Also included are "Tech Tips" with recommended YouTube videos, websites, Pinterest sites, and other online resources. These online resources provide the therapist or caregiver with excellent ideas for products and practical intervention strategies that can be used for a variety of purposes when serving young children with special needs.
Background and Introduction
Motor Skills (Gross and Fine) and Activities of Daily Living
Part I. Gross Motor Skills
Part II. Fine Motor Skills
Part III. Activities of Daily Living
Appendix I. Online Resources for Practical Products and Intervention Strategies
Appendix II. Rhymes
Appendix III. Fun Activities to Strengthen Hand and Finger Strength and Dexterity for Improved Fine Motor Skills
Prathibha Karanth
Prathibha Karanth, PhD, received her MSc (1971) and PhD (1981) from the All India Institute of Speech & Hearing (AIISH) in India. For 25 years, she worked on neurogenic communication disorders in adults and children at the National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences and AIISH. In 2003, she set up the nonprofit Com DEALL Trust to support the Communication DEALL Early Intervention Program, developed by her in 2000, now scaled up to over 20 units across India. She is associated with academic institutions such as SRCISH and NIAS in Bangalore and serves on scientific advisory committees of the Government of India and other academic institutions.
Dr. Karanth has published over 20 books and manuals and over 80 scientific papers/book chapters, and she has made over 300 presentations. She is the series editor for CommunicAids, a resource provider for those with communication disorders, and has also served as an editor for many professional journals. She is the recipient of several awards and grants and was twice president of the Indian Speech & Hearing Association. For more details, visit communicationdeall.com and academia.edu.
Celeste Roseberry-McKibbin
Celeste Roseberry-McKibbin, PhD, CCC-SLP, received her doctorate from Northwestern University. She is a Professor of Communication Sciences and Disorders at California State University, Sacramento. Dr. Roseberry is also currently a part-time itinerant speech pathologist in San Juan Unified School District, where she provides direct services to students from preschool through high school. She has worked in educational and medical settings with a wide variety of clients ranging from preschoolers through geriatric patients. She serves homeless persons in her community through direct work on the streets.
Dr. Roseberry's primary research interests are in the areas of assessment and treatment of culturally and linguistically diverse students with communication disorders as well as service delivery to students from low-income backgrounds. She has over 70 publications, including 15 books, and has made over 300 presentations at the local, state, national, and international levels. Dr. Roseberry is a Fellow of ASHA and winner of ASHA's Certificate of Recognition for Special Contributions in Multicultural Affairs. She received the national presidential Daily Point of Light Award for her volunteer work in building literacy skills of children in poverty. She lived in the Philippines as the daughter of Baptist missionaries from ages 6 to 17.
Priya James
Priya James, MS, CCC-SLP, has over a decade of experience working with special need children and families. Priya's varied experiences include working with preschoolers through high schoolers in the public / private schools, juvenile hall, and postsecondary and vocational schools. She has also worked with adult patients with neurologic disorders and injury.
Priya has conceptualized, designed, and implemented a technology platform for special education management in public schools. She is a consultant to tech companies developing products for special needs children. Priya has a private practice in Mountain View, California, and currently focus on building a holistic and parent-involved early intervention program for developmentally delayed children of ages 3 to 7 years.
Comprehensive Intervention for Children with Developmental Delays and Disorders: Practical Strategies (Complete Set of 10 books)
Containing ten books, this is an early intervention program for children with communication disorders such as specific language impairment, developmental verbal dyspraxia, pervasive developmental disorder, and autism spectrum disorder. The program provides multidisciplinary intervention to children, in the age range of 0-6 years, with the goal of integrating them into regular school by the school entry age of 6 years.
The complete set includes nine intervention manuals for toddlers and preschoolers that target skill building in children across the domains of motor skills (gross, fine and activities of daily living), communication (receptive and expressive language as well as Alternate and Augmentative Communication) and cognitive, social and emotional development. Lesson plans for each skill are described with clear targets, materials required and simple instructions along with illustrations. An additional program manual with checklists describes this process, the underlying rationale and what the program is all about.
This 10 book set focusing on preschoolers and toddlers includes
Comprehensive Intervention for Children with Developmental Delays: Program *Manual and Checklists
Intervention Manual for Prerequisite Learning Skills: Practical Strategies
Intervention for Preschoolers with Cognitive, Social, and Emotional Delays: Practical Strategies
Intervention for Toddlers with Cognitive, Social, and Emotional Delays: Practical Strategies
Intervention for Preschoolers using Augmentative and Alternative Communication: Practical Strategies
Intervention for Toddlers using Augmentative and Alternative Communication: Practical Strategies
Intervention for Preschoolers with Gross and Fine Motor Delays: Practical Strategies
Intervention for Preschoolers with Communication Delays: Practical Strategies
Intervention for Toddlers with Communication Delays: Practical Strategies
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Comprehensive Intervention for Children with Developmental Delays and Disorders: Practical Strategies for Toddlers (Set of 6 books)
Comprehensive Intervention for Children with Developmental Delays and Disordersdescribes an early intervention program for children with communication disorders such as specific language impairment, developmental verbal dyspraxia, pervasive developmental disorder, and autism spectrum disorder. The program provides multidisciplinary intervention to children, in the age range of 0-6 years, with the goal of integrating them into regular school by the school entry age of 6 years.
TODDLERS SET - 6 BOOKS
This subset of the complete program focuses on toddlers and contains in six intervention manuals for toddlers (age 0-3) that target skill building in children across the domains of motor skills (gross, fine and activities of daily living), communication (receptive and expressive language as well as Alternate and Augmentative Communication) and cognitive, social and emotional development. Lesson plans for each skill are described with clear targets, materials required and simple instructions along with illustrations. An additional program manual with checklists describes this process, the underlying rationale and what the program is all about.
This 6 book set focused on toddlers includes
Comprehensive Intervention for Children with Developmental Delays: Program Manual and Checklists
Intervention Manual for Prerequisite Learning Skills Practical Strategies
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Since childhood i had a strong liking towards Bengali cuisine. As my mother belongs to West Bengal, she always use to make those traditional dishes (on special occasions) which whole of our family use to relish. As i am from a mixed culture, because my father belonged to Rajasthan, hence i am some where blessed to have tasted the authentic cuisines of two phenomenal regions. Masoor dal with panch phoran is my evergreen favorite. I still remember how much I used to enjoy eating the bong spread consisting Shukto, Moshoor Dal, Dhokar Dal, Aloo Posto and variety of Bhajas……aaha bliss!
Well the bhajas have a very important significance in a bong meal. Any bong meal is incomplete if there is not a bhaja, it can be of either potato aka aloo bhaja, pumkin aka kumdha bhaja or eggplant aka begun bhaja. Big clean egg plants are chosen for making begun bhaja. Sliced in round shape and coated with spices, shallow fried and served is a perfect side dish that makes the meal complete.
The slices are coated with mainly, turmeric, red chili powder and salt. Then shallow fried using mustard oil. Mustard oil is commonly used oil in Bengali cuisine, though the bhajas can be made using any regular refined oil but the mustard oil gives an amazing aroma and the authentic flavor to the dish. Following the same method the aloo bhajas and the kumdha bhajas are also made. Earlier even i use to make it ocassionaly but now i have added this dish as a side to my meal frequently. So let's just proceed to check the ingredients required and the process of making the Bhajas.
Wash and wipe the egg plant with a clean kitchen towel.
On a chopping board slice the egg plant in round shape as shown in the picture above. Don't use the stem part.
Place the round slices of the eggplant on a plate and sprinkle turmeric powder, red chili powder, amchur (i did not use, if you want a tangy flavor you can add it) and salt.
Coat the slices on the spices from both sides and keep aside.
Heat a non stick pan/tawa and add few drops of oil here n there on it.
Now place the slices on the tawa and add oil from side. Do this for all the slices.
Shallow fry the slices from both sides by flipping in regular intervals.
Once the slices are fried from both sides, transfer them on a plate and sprinkle little sugar on them. As the slices are hot the sugar will melt in no time.
Squeeze a little lemon juice on them and serve hot. You can omit adding lemon juice if you have used amchur.
Serve as a side with hot steaming rice and masoor or moong dal. It will taste awesome!


Paolo, the key to your argument there are the words over time.
Over time you will learn what can and cannot be done on the web.
Over time you will learn how to communicate with programmers.
Over time you learn how the design translates to a live product.
Over time you learn to compensate for the knowledge gap.
Front end design for the web is fundamentally careful mix of art and html (among many, many other things).
Without a firm grasp of both sides of web design, yes it is just design.
It is possible to be a great designer, an outstanding designer even. But not a web designer.


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