WASHINGTON, Nov 8 (Reuters) - Allowing income tax rates to rise for wealthy Americans, and maintaining rates for the less affluent, would not hurt U.S. economic growth much in 2013, the Congressional Budget Office said on Thursday, stepping into a dispute between Republicans and Democrats over how to resolve the so-called "fiscal cliff."
The report by the authoritative non-partisan arm of Congress is expected to fuel President Barack Obama's demand for higher taxes on the rich, part of his proposal to avoid the full impact of the expiring tax cuts and across-the-board spending reductions set to begin in early 2013 unless Congress acts.
"One of the messages that was sent by the American people throughout this campaign is ... (they) clearly chose the president's view of making sure that the wealthiest Americans are asked to do a little bit more in the context of reducing our deficit in a balanced way," senior White House adviser David Plouffe said.
The disagreement over the tax cuts is a major roadblock to any agreement in Congress, as it is coupled with the spending issues also on the table.
The lack of progress in ending the standoff is spooking global markets, which fell again Thursday in part because of political uncertainty in Washington.
The concern was underscored by the credit rating agency, Standard & Poor's, which said on Thursday it sees an increasing chance that the U.S. economy will go over the cliff next year. But it also said it expects policymakers will probably compromise in time to avoid that outcome.
Analysts at the agency see about a 15 percent chance that political brinkmanship will push the world's largest economy over the fiscal cliff.
With only five days remaining before the U.S. Congress begins its post-election session, top political leaders in Washington provided little new assurance Thursday that they can act in time.
In an interview with ABC Television's Diane Sawyer, Boehner repeated what he has been saying for two years: "Raising tax rates is unacceptable. ... Frankly, it couldn't even pass the House. I'm not sure it could pass the Senate," he said, according to a transcript provided by the network.
The Democratic White House did not respond publicly to an initiative launched on Wednesday by Boehner to get talks going to avoid the cliff. The president is scheduled to make a statement on the economy Friday.
In the absence of concrete developments, the CBO report became the focus of argument Thursday. Reports by the CBO are designed to assist Congress in making difficult fiscal decisions, but they are also used by partisans to bolster their own arguments.
A statement from the Republican-controlled House Ways and Means Committee said the CBO report "confirms that raising taxes on all taxpayers will result in fewer 'help wanted' signs hanging in the windows of businesses across the country. Job creators agree, and have made it clear, that raising taxes will result in a weaker economy and fewer jobs for the millions of Americans struggling to find work."
Democratic Rep. Chris Van Hollen, ranking member of the House Budget Committee, said the report "underscores the need to prevent the so-called fiscal cliff from harming American families and businesses, and to instead enact a balanced, long-term deficit reduction plan."
The term "balanced" plan is the Democratic code for tax increases.
The tax cuts were enacted during the Bush administration, but were made temporary, in part to reduce the appearance of exploding the already soaring U.S. deficit over the long term.
They were extended in 2010 for two years under an agreement between Republicans and Obama, after Republicans swept the mid-term elections that year and took control of the House.
That extension is running out, just as the trigger date arrives for automatic spending cuts Congress approved in 2011 as part of a deal to avoid a default on U.S. government debt.
The report from CBO laid out the economic effects of a number of options that lawmakers will consider as they deal with the fiscal cliff events.
The CBO said extending all of the tax cuts would boost U.S. gross domestic product growth next year by a little less than 1.5 percentage points.
If the tax rates were extended only for individuals earning less than $200,000 and couples earnings less than $250,000, CBO said, growth would rise by 1.25 percent.
Wall Street estimates show third-quarter GDP growth was 2.8 percent. Unemployment is currently at 7.9 percent.
Eliminating the automatic spending cuts to military and domestic programs would add back 0.75 percentage points of growth, as would extending an expiring payroll tax cut and long- term unemployment benefits that are expected to end next year, the CBO said.
But the office also warned of the consequences of taking such actions without reducing deficits that have run at $1 trillion in each of the past four years.
"CBO expects that even if all of the fiscal tightening was eliminated, the economy would remain below its potential and the unemployment rate would remain higher than usual for some time," the report said.


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Q: Zf3: similar Controllers in each module I have different modules in my ZF2 application and each module contains a list of Controllers. Now when in zf2 it was different to create routes and get Entity Manager with service locator. Now in Zf3 we need to add "aliases" and "factories" to use any resources there for when creating routes for each module it is not possible to add same alias for controller even when in different modules;
here is my application/ module.conf.php
 'controllers' => [
    'factories' => [
        Controller\IndexController::class => ServiceLocatorControllerFactory::class,
        Controller\UserController::class => ServiceLocatorControllerFactory::class,
    ],
    'aliases' =>  [
        'index'     =>  IndexController::class,
        'user'     =>  UserController::class,
    ]
],

and my dashboard / module.config.php
 "controllers" => [
    'factories' => [
        Controller\UserController::class            => ServiceLocatorControllerFactory::class,
        Controller\WidgetController::class          => ServiceLocatorControllerFactory::class,
    ],
    'aliases' =>  [
        "user"          => UserController::class,
        "widget"            => WidgetController::class,
    ]
],

now when i try to access /application/user/index
it goes to  Dashboard => UserController => IndexAction
instead of Application => UserController => IndexAction
The solution that i have now is to create manually routes for each controller, which is really hard in my case as the application is really big and there are 100's of controller. plus it is kinda redundent task to write every route. Is there anyway to solve the issue

A: As no answer was found for similar modules in different module, i created seperate routes for each controller in each module. This was the route i wrote for

Application-> IndexController

        'application-index' => [
            'type'  =>  Segment::class,
            'options' =>  [
                'route' =>  '/application/index[/][:action][/]',
                'defaults'  =>  [
                    '__NAMESPACE__' =>  'Application\Controller',
                    'controller'  =>  IndexController::class,
                    'action'      =>  'index'
                ],
            ]
        ],

and i created for each and every controller that i have in my application.

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RE: OFFICIAL STATEMENT HIP HOP INTERNATIONAL NZ
Kia ora Our Community,
We know you all have been waiting anxiously for our next update and we appreciate your patience as we navigate through this complicated situation. As we know our Prime Minister has unfolded strict regulations over the week and it's clear that she is taking extreme measures to shut down COVID-19, and we want to assure our community that we are and have been adhering to these regulations, and that she has our full support here at HHI NZ on this stance. So therefore we have amended our two regional events (South Island and Taranaki) that were scheduled this weekend.
The priority has been and always will be the safety and well-being of everyone but due to the recent HHI HQ announcement regarding World Champs 2020 in August continuing meant that there was still a requirement for a qualification process, of some sort.
We have been working around the clock all week with the HHI HQ, our Regional Management Team and of course all our crews and dancers that have been affected to, firstly amend the regional and then secondly implement a safe qualification process. We want to thank all those mentioned above for their 'call to action' approach while maintaining the safety of our community priority. Therefore, these processes will be taking place under strict and regulated situations to ensure our
dancers still get to 'dance', so once again we THANK YOU all for your patience and cooperation through this.
It is clear that HHI NZ Nationals 2020 will not proceed this year, and this is not only due to our Prime Minister's approach towards COVID-19 but the safety of our community – this has always been paramount here at HHI NZ. But with HHI World Champs 2020 still proceeding, as it stands, we then are required to still provide a platform that not only remains within the regulations of HHI but obviously the safety of our community. As you can imagine this has provided another level of complication for us here in Aotearoa, but we want to assure you all that we are working tirelessly with HHI HQ to make this work. We believe they are at the final stages of this process and we are awaiting the final sign off. We had hope to announce this process on tomorrow (Sunday) but due to the global wide pandemic and the many countries that sit under the HHI umbrella there has been a delay, as I'm sure you can appreciate.
Therefore our official announcement today is that our full HHI NZ Nationals 2020 event has been cancelled, and we hope to make our next announcement over the coming days on the new format for a national qualification.
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5 Changemakers to Celebrate for National Women's History Month
Female entrepreneurs are growing in America.
In 2021, 31% of all small business or franchise owners were women, up from 27% in 2020, according to Small Business Trends. As March is National Women's History Month, we'd like to recognize women of today who are pushing boundaries and making an impact through their entrepreneurship.
Deborah Lu Lynch, Founder & President, PlaneAire®
PlaneAire was founded in 2018, long before we all changed our lives to avoid infection transmission in the pandemic. Deborah Lu Lynch was traveling around the globe while developing a patented probiotic. This increased travel consumed her with the idea of getting sick most of the time by the lingering germs circulating in the stale plane air, in the airports, bathrooms and hotel rooms. Deborah began inventing and creating products with organic essential oils–known for their antimicrobial and antibacterial properties–that come straight from nature, based on her insights about exposure to harmful bacteria, debris, and contaminants during travel. Through her vision, PlaneAire was way ahead of the curve on our pandemic lifestyle changes! She is and always has been really serious about people and their health.
After extensive testing from accredited commercial laboratories to prove the efficacy, PlaneAire was ready, and soon after the demand for it became overwhelming. As the company waited to replenish inventory in 2020, Deborah had the opportunity to pause and re-evaluate how to expand their product line to best meet customers' evolving needs.
Soon after, PlaneAire launched new plant-based products designed for travel, for clean hands, clean air, and clean surfaces: PlaneAire Hands, PlaneAire Wipes, PlaneAire Clean and, for hygiene-savvy, adventurous kids, Yipes! Wipes. Science, guided by nature, remains at the forefront of PlaneAire's brand mission.
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1828 Land Sale:1291 Deed of sale of half-interest in approximately 100 acres from Elizabeth Patterson, owned jointly by Elizabeth and Lydia Patterson, to Philip B. Moore for $350 on 20 December 1828.
1830 U.S. Census:1485 Elizabeth and son Cyrus enumerated in the household of her father Adam Patterson in Burlington Township, Licking County, Ohio as a female age 30 to 40 (Elizabeth was age 33) and a male age 5 to 10 (Cyrus was age 16). Half-brother Ephraim Patterson1486 and sister Lydia and her husband Philip B. Moore2377 were living in adjacent households.
1840 U.S. Census:1490 Elizabeth and son Cyrus enumerated in the household of her father Adam Patterson in Burlington Township, Licking County, Ohio as a female age 40 to 50 (Elizabeth was age 43) and a male age 15 to 20 (Cyrus was age 6).
Sister Lydia Patterson is residing two households away with husband Philip B. Moore.
1852 Iowa State Census: Cyrus Patterson, Washington County, p. 10. Not yet viewed.
1863 Tombstone:3057 Middleburg Cemetery, English River Township, Washington County, Iowa.


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Q: Is record level security top down or bottom up? I was in a meeting today, and I was explaining the security model for some new objects. I was saying that we're set the Org wide defaults as private and open up record access by sharing rules and role heiarchies... no biggie.
I was asked if this is a bottom up or top town security model... I don't know what either meant, nor which is used in Record level security.
Help?

A: I'd say bottom - up as the OWD controls what the most restricted user can see and sharing rules, et all open up this access. (Funnel-shaped)
Also access to records rolls upwards along the role hierarchy so that managers can see everything their team can see (as long as grant access via hierarchies is enabled)

A: Bottom line: The only way to limit security is to use OWD, and then every other security feature opens up security.
I'm not a fan of the inverted pyramid image because it implies that Sharing Rules open up visibility that Profiles closes... but that is not true. Profiles open up security that OWD sets at its most restrictive.


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These Law Firms Had The Most Hires, Exits In 2020
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Law360 (January 5, 2021, 4:38 PM EST) -- While the coronavirus pandemic has forced many law firms to scale back on recruiting, lateral partner hiring has remained active for several highly profitable law firms as they seized the unexpected opportunity to poach experienced attorneys from rivals.
There were 2,904 total lateral partner moves across the U.S. from Jan. 1 through Nov. 30 of 2020, down by nearly 24% compared with 3,817 lateral hires during the same period the year before, according to data provided to Law360 by Firm Prospects LLC, a legal industry data company.
However, Firm Prospects' data revealed that several firms have continued to add sizable numbers of lateral partners despite the overall slowdown. Firms such as Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP, King & Spalding LLP, DLA Piper, McDermott Will & Emery LLP, Cozen O'Connor and FisherBroyles LLP are at the top of the list.
Lewis Brisbois and DLA Piper, however, are also among the firms that saw the most partner departures in the first 11 months of 2020, along with Kirkland & Ellis LLP, Boies Schiller Flexner LLP and Holland & Knight LLP, according to the Firm Prospects data.
Firm Prospects gathered information from about 2,200 law firm websites and various other secondary sources to track attorney moves, according to managing director Adam Oliver. The data counted all partner hires, including those who moved from firm to firm or from in-house and government roles, but for purposes of partner departures, it excluded partners who retired or died.
While not all the law firms confirmed their partners' hire and departure numbers, multiple legal recruiters using other data-gathering methods told Law360 that the list is largely in line with what they have seen.
"We're having a similar dynamic in law firms that we're going to see in our own population, which is, unfortunately, the rich are getting richer, and the firms that are not at the elite levels or are at the highest rates are not doing as well as the firms that are at the top of the market," said Natasha Innocenti, a San Francisco Bay Area-based partner at legal recruiting firm Macrae.
Innocenti said she has seen law firms, particularly those in Northern California, placing greater emphasis on hiring partners in life sciences, capital markets, mergers and acquisitions, and private equity practices.
"I call it a flight to quality," Innocenti said. "The clients are moving upmarket, the talent is moving upmarket, and the most profitable law firms are doing quite well."
Carol Morganstern, a partner at legal recruiting firm Major Lindsey & Africa LLC, said that her firm's data show a 30% slowdown in lateral activities in 2020. However, some of the larger firms, such as Lewis Brisbois and DLA Piper, have continued to grow with a steady stream of partners in the pipeline, she added.
"When the lockdown happened, some firms saw an opportunity to get great talent and continue to push forward, while other firms were a little more conservative and have just now recently decided that they're very interested in seeing lateral partners again," Morganstern said.
Who Has Hired More Partners?
Of the firms that responded to Law360's inquiries, McDermott confirmed that it made 37 partner hires but saw about 20 partners leave its U.S. offices as of Nov. 30. The number of hires in 2020 is slightly lower than the 44 additions McDermott made during the same period in 2019, but still places the firm in fourth place among top growing firms, following Lewis Brisbois, King & Spalding, and DLA Piper, according to Firm Prospects' data.
"We made the leadership decision to continue our recruiting efforts because we didn't want to just hunker down. We wanted to come out the other side of COVID in a stronger, better position than when we entered it," McDermott Chairman Ira Coleman told Law360.
Coleman said that McDermott has added from "up the food chain" firms, including Kirkland, Latham & Watkins LLP, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP and Dechert LLP, to such practices areas as litigation, restructuring, data security and privacy.
"We didn't just add any kinds of partners from these firms. We added practice group leaders or people sitting on their executive committee," Coleman said. "So it's not just quantity, it's the quality of those partners and their teams, and their importance in our strategic power alley practices."
Cozen O'Connor confirmed that it hired 35 partners during the same time frame, including eight partners in bankruptcy practices, eight in business litigation and another eight specialized in corporate law. The Philadelphia-based firm declined to comment on its departures.
Cloud-based law firm FisherBroyles, which was sixth among the top hiring firms, reported adding 45 partners in the United States, while 16 partners have left the firm.
"In 2020, the firm has been a huge beneficiary of the COVID-19 pandemic in that the notion of working remotely has largely been demystified because so many lawyers across the world are now operating in a purely remote environment," said Michael Pierson, managing partner of FisherBroyles' global corporate practice.
According to Pierson, FisherBroyles more than doubled its partner hires in 2020, compared to the 20 partners it added the previous year. As lawyers continue to adapt to the "new normal" of remote working, Pierson said he expects the firm to hire more lawyers in 2021.
"We don't see any signs of recruitment slowing down," Pierson said. "In fact, we're as busy as ever having conversations with new partner candidates."
Who Lost Partners?
Holland & Knight, which ranked fifth on the Firm Prospects' departure list, confirmed to Law360 that it had hired 38 partners in the first 11 months of 2020, but declined to confirm its departure numbers.
"The pandemic has caused a number of partners to alter their career plans," the firm said in a statement to Law360. "These involve various circumstances including the opening of boutique practices or moving to in-house legal positions or non-profits. We have also had partners retire, relocate to cities where the firm does not maintain offices, and move to other law firms."
In its statement, the Florida-based firm wished its former attorneys well and added that it expects more lateral partners to join the firm over the next several months.
Other firms have declined to comment on or confirm their departure numbers.
Legal industry observers say they aren't surprised that some large law firms, such as Lewis Brisbois and DLA Piper, have the highest number of lateral partner exits.
"Some of these firms are known for hiring a lot and losing a lot," said Innocenti of Macrae. "For example, DLA Piper has been on this list before. They're very successful in their recruiting, but they are just such a large firm, they do sometimes lose people."
However, there are also "unusual" firms on the list, Innocenti said, noting Kirkland and Boies Schiller.
In 2020, Kirkland lost 68 partners, down by 14 compared to the 82 departures it saw in 2019, but it also hired far fewer partners compared to the previous year, decreasing its hiring to 26 partners in 2020 from 52 partners in 2019, Firm Prospects' data showed.
But "Kirkland is not losing its top talent," Innocenti added, explaining that the firm has long had a trend of hiring partners that are "at the very top of the market" but losing the younger nonequity partners to rival firms.
At Boies Schiller, the firm has seen a steady stream of nearly 60 partner exits since its leadership change in December 2019, including losing several practice leaders to rival firms King & Spalding and Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP.
A 13-partner group in California departed Boies Schiller for King & Spalding in April. The Atlanta-based firm has poached more than 18 partners from Boies Schiller in 2020 in total, elevating King & Spalding to second place among top growing firms.
"Once you make some big hires, it definitely gives a firm momentum and laterals find comfort in a firm that is not only successfully bringing on top talent but retaining them," said San Francisco-based recruiter Avis Caravello, who placed the 13-partner Boies Schiller group at King & Spalding.
In 2020, Boies Schiller added three partners, according to Firm Prospects. However, New York-based partner Lawrence Brandman, the former head of bankruptcy at Lehman Brothers Holdings who joined the firm in July, is reportedly leaving soon, along with the firm's co-managing partner Nicholas Gravante and two other partners, to Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft LLP.
The litigation firm also hired two former U.S. Justice Department senior officials to enhance its white collar and trial capabilities, including adding Lauren Bell to its Washington, D.C., office in June and John Kucera to its Los Angeles office in August.
"What the candidates that moved in 2020 have in common is that they solved core needs for their firm that they went to," Morganstern of Major Lindsey & Africa told Law360. Despite the decline in partner hires in 2020, Morganstern and other legal recruiters are expecting the lateral partner hiring to pick up in 2021.
"What firms were looking for before continues to be what firms are looking for now, which are strong partners with great client relationships in growing areas," Morganstern said. "I don't think that will change."
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'Hyenas' Trailer: A Lush Satirical Masterpiece From Senegal Is Restored — Exclusive
Watch the beautiful trailer for Djibril Diop Mambéty's second and last feature, 'Hyenas', which has been newly restored for re-release.
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Senegalese filmmaker Djibril Diop Mambéty made his mark on international cinema with his very first feature, "Touki Bouki," which picked up the International Critics Award at 1973 Cannes Film Festival. Together with "Hyenas" (1992), Mambéty's oeuvre — which comprises of those two features and five shorts — has come to be recognized as one of the most important in the history of African film.
Both "Touki Bouki" and "Hyenas" were to be completed by a third film, as part of a trilogy on colonization and corruption, but Mambéty died in 1998 without being able to finish the triptych.
Now, "Hyenas," the long-delayed follow-up to his canonical "Touki Bouki," will enjoy a revival following a new restoration from the original negative, that is set for a nationwide theatrical run, starting on April 26 at the Metrograph in New York City.
Distributed by Metrograph Pictures, IndieWire has the exclusive new trailer for the film.
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A fantastical and witty adaptation of Swiss avant-garde writer Friedrich Dürrenmatt's play "The Visit" — a morality play about vengeance and greed — Mambéty's version follows Linguere Ramatou, a newly-rich woman who returns to her poverty-stricken desert hometown, after being excommunicated three decades earlier for getting pregnant out of wedlock. She proposes a deal to the people: Her fortune to help the town financially, in exchange for the death of Dramaan Drameh, the man who abandoned her and his child years earlier when he refused to own up to his responsibilities.
The film is a biting satire of Mambéty's Senegal that parallels a critique of neocolonialism and western-style materialism.
It stars Ami Diakhate as Linguere Ramatou, and Mansour Diouf as Dramaan Drameh. Mambéty himself makes an appearance.
The film was beautifully scored by Mambéty's brother, the internationally renowned musician Wasis Diop (father of actress and filmmaker Mati Diop), who he worked closely with over the years.
Often compared to films of the French New Wave, Mambety's works incorporate stylistic flourishes uncharacteristic of African films of their respective periods, emphasizing both the highlights and struggles that came with the hybridization of a Senegal still sorting out its identity after gaining independence from France in the 1960s. And "Hyenas" epimotized his overall technique.
The 1992 film continues to be an influence on contemporary African filmmakers, including Zambian director Rungano Nyoni, who has cited "Hyenas" as an influence on her 2018 feature debut — a landmark film in its own right —"I Am Not a Witch."
Now a restored version of the film — performed in 2018 by Thelma Film AG with the support of Cinémathèque suisse, at Eclair Cinema, from the original negative — is set to premiere on Friday, April 26 at Metrograph in NY, with a nationwide expansion to follow, distributed by Metrograph Pictures.
Ahead of that release, IndieWire has the exclusive first look at the beautiful trailer for the newly-restored film:
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The creation of the four-part poem that gained Allen Ginsberg the notoriety and fame that lasted the rest of his life is the subject of this howlingly boring docudrama by Jeffrey Friedman and Rob Epstein, Academy Award-winning documentarians who have turned to narrative film for the first time. In an effort to maintain verisimilitude, they announce that every word spoken in the film comes from life, and maintain that claim by having James Franco play Ginsberg in recreated interviews while scenes from life that he describes are acted out, for the most part without dialogue. In between there are scenes from the obscenity trial of 1957 in which Howl's publisher is forced to defend himself against America's puritanical reaction to its obscurely motivated prose. Beautiful animation, inspired by Ginsberg's own work, makes the poem's lyrical passages come to life, and Franco does a terrific job of recreating this highly memorable artist, but the whole thing is strung together so haphazardly that all efforts land with a dull thud. The narration eventually becomes listless upon the ear, and the dramatized scenes lack tension. It ultimately fails to comfortably ride the line between documentary and feature filmmaking, and had the directors stuck to the former they likely would have come up with something more captivating.


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"You always go on about Austria on your blog, but why don't you write about these for a change?"
is what I was told on my visit to my local club earlier this week, and the man pointed towards a beautiful Gyrfalcon stamp from Sweden which was on display that evening. Do I always go on about Austria? Well, I suppose I do a bit, but then, they have issued some beautiful stamps through the years. Anyway, I promised this man I'd lay off the Austrian stamps for a while, but unfortunately I can't write about that 1981 Gyrfalcon stamp because I don't have it. As it happened, though, I showed some bird stamps on that particular evening, from Belgium. So let me write about them then. Is that ok?
It should be, for I regard these as the best ever bird definitives, and I know I'm not alone, seeing that there's a dedicated website for these issues! The series, consisting of bird illustrations by André Buzin, started in 1985. The first issues were printed by letterpress.
Within a few years, however, the printing process was changed to photogravure and this has done the designs the world of good. This may well have contributed to the longevity of the set.
Next change was the advent of the euro. In 2000 and 2001 a few stamps were issued which were denominated in both Belgian francs and euros. This, by the way, was the only time when there was a slight repetition of some designs.
From 2002, all stamps were denominated in euros only and no more repetition of designs occurred.
The series just kept on being added to, with many new values and quite often, existing values being reissued in a new design.
In 2010, the 25th anniversary of the series was marked with a beautiful miniature sheet which contained five stamps depicting various birds of prey and included a self-portrait of the artist. These are also the first No Value Indicator stamps of the series.
With the advent of NVIs also came the 'specific purpose' stamps, such as special stamps for registered post. The first of those was the 2010 election mail stamp, issued especially for official election mail shots.
The series is till going strong, and will hopefully remain so for a long time. Although specialisation is very much possible, with a dazzling variety in paper and gum used, the set really is a classic because of its designs, so it's worth it to just try and complete the basic set and enjoy looking at them!
PS: For those who like their bird stamps: we have a special bird stamp forum thread as well. Check it out here.
Belgian stamps offer glimpses of a long-maintained dual culture (both French and Walloon), participation in two World Wars (including phases of enemy occupation), time as a colonial power and long-standing concern with citizen welfare before the establishment of modern social programs.
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Home Around Nigeria Delta State Government will No Longer Tolerate Street Begging, Child Hawking During...
Delta State Government will No Longer Tolerate Street Begging, Child Hawking During School Hours
Senator (Dr) Ifeanyi Okowa
ASABA/Nigeria: The Chairman, Delta State Child's Rights Implementation Committee and Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Women Affairs, Community and Social Development, Mrs. Kevwe Agas has said that the State Government will no longer tolerate the indiscriminate begging of children or use of children to beg in the streets and hawking during school hours, affirming that the Committee would embark on raid and arrest in the coming year 2022.
She made this statement during a press conference by the Committee to herald its activities within the almost two years that it was inaugurated.
Agas stated that haven done all that was required to sensitize the public on what is expected of the Committee through Advocacy visits and media campaigns, it was now convinced the time has come to commence enforcement of the law.
According to Agas, "This Press Briefing is to let the world know that the Child's Rights Implementation Committee is in existence and committed to implementing the Child Rights Law going forward. We intend to prosecute those abusing our children and ensure that the rights of the children are enshrined and dispensed without discrimination.
"We have a challenge in carrying out our assignment and it is the challenge of children roaming the streets, especially during school hours. In our engagement, we discovered that most of these children are not from the State. The challenge is therefore how to get them back to their respective states. We also intend to cascade the activities of the Committee to the grassroots by inaugurating the Local Government Child Rights Implementation Committees.
"The Governor, Senator Dr Ifeanyi Okowa had said that every child must be in school and that every action relating to children must be backed by law. This Committee, empowered by law therefore, is committed to the enforcement of the law as regarding Child Protection and Child Rights in the best interest of our Delta children", the Chairman said.
The Committee Chairman also disclosed that while the Commitee was busy formulating policies and carrying out advocacies, a number of cases of child abuse were handled, saying that in some justice was served, some settled through arbitration, and others still at various stages in court.
She said that justice was gotten when a Police officer's wife was jailed two years, and one of the culprits in the case of the 14 year old girl who was gang raped had been caught, charged and remanded in prison.
The Chairman also stated how the Committee accommodated Miss Favour Enefiok, a victim of child trafficking who was to be engaged in child prostitution for several months during the Covid-19 lockdown, saying that she was equally engaged for skills acquisition and had since reunited with her family in Akwa-Ibom State.
Concerning the molested to death Sylvester Oromoni Jnr, Agas said the Committee had commenced processes to establish liaison with her Lagos State counterpart to ensure that justice is served.
However, in the case of another 14 year old Miss Joy Nwabueze Onua that was raped to death in Issele-Uku, she said the Committee is waiting for the Police to effect arrest to enable it commence prosecution to get justice for the deceased victim and her family.
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Book Review|March 01 2017
The Victorian Geopolitical Aesthetic: Realism, Sovereignty, and Transnational Experience
Eleni Coundouriotis
Eleni Coundouriotis is professor of English and comparative literary and cultural studies at the University of Connecticut. She is author most recently of The People's Right to the Novel: War Fiction in the Postcolony (2014). She is working on a project tentatively titled The Hospital and the State: Interrogating the Limits of Citizenship in the Postcolonial Novel.
Eleni Coundouriotis; The Victorian Geopolitical Aesthetic: Realism, Sovereignty, and Transnational Experience. Modern Language Quarterly 1 March 2017; 78 (1): 125–127. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-3699814
Resisting recent inclinations toward suspicion of historicist methodologies, Lauren M. E. Goodlad pursues a theoretically nuanced and contextually rich comparative study of British literature from the mid-nineteenth to the early twentieth century. At the top of her concerns are the transnational aesthetic flows beneath political attitudes toward liberalism and a rising Tory imperialism. Thus The Victorian Geopolitical Aesthetic, in addition to elaborating Fredric Jameson's concept of the geopolitical aesthetic, redirects the insights on Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary in Georg Lukács's Historical Novel toward the British novel, which Lukács abandoned after Walter Scott. Furthermore, heeding the transnational methodologies that have evolved since Edward W. Said's Culture and Imperialism, Goodlad insistently probes the modalities of empire to demonstrate the entanglements of national literary history in global capital.
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Meet JPL Interns | June 16, 2020
From Intern to Engineer, the Space Place is Where It's At
By Evan Kramer
It only takes minutes into a conversation with Farah Alibay about her job at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to realize there's nowhere else she'd rather be. An engineer working on the systems that NASA's next Mars rover will use to maneuver around a world millions of miles away, Alibay got her start at JPL as an intern. In the six years since being hired at the Laboratory, she's worked on several projects destined for Mars and even had a couple of her own interns. Returning intern Evan Kramer caught up with Alibay to learn more about her current role with the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover, how her internships helped pave her path to JPL and how she hopes interns see the same "beauty" in the work that she does.
What do you do at JPL?
I'm a systems engineer. I have two jobs on the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover mission right now. One is the systems engineer for the rover's attitude positioning and pointing. It's my job to make sure that once it's on the surface of Mars, the rover knows where it's pointed, and as it's moving, it can update its position and inform other systems of where it is. So we use things like a gyroscope and imagery to figure out where the rover is pointed and where it's gone as it's traveling.
My other job is helping out with testing the mast [sometimes called the "head"] on the rover. I help make sure that all of the commands and movements are well understood and well tested so that once the rover gets to Mars, we know that the procedures to deploy the mast and operate all of the instruments are going to work properly.
This is probably a tough question to answer, but what is an average day like for you?
Right now, I spend a lot of time testing – either developing procedures, executing procedures in the test bed or reviewing data from the procedures to make sure we're testing all of our capabilities. We start off from requirements of what we think we should be able to do, and then we write our procedures to test out those requirements. We test them out with software, and then we come to the test bed to execute them on hardware. Things usually go wrong, so we'll repeat the procedures a few times. Eventually, once we think we've had a successful run, we have a review.
Most of my testing is on the mobility side. However, it hasn't really started in earnest yet since we're waiting for the rover's "Earth twin" [the engineering model] to be built. Once that happens, later this summer, I will be spending a good chunk of my time in the Mars Yard [a simulated Mars environment at JPL], driving the rover around and actually using real data to figure out whether the software is behaving properly.
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What's the ultimate goal of your work at JPL?
All the work that I do right now is in support of the Perseverance rover mission. On the mobility team, we work on essential functions that are going to be used as the rover drives around on Mars.
One of the really neat things about Perseverance is that it can do autonomous driving. So the rover is able to drive up to 200 meters on its own, without us providing any directional information about the terrain. Working on this new ability has been the bulk of testing we're doing on the mobility team. But this new capability should speed up a lot of the driving that we do on Mars. Once we get smart in planning rover movements, we'll be able to plan a day's worth of activity and then tell the rover, "Just keep going until you're done."
You came to JPL as an intern. What was that experience like and how did it shape what you're doing now?
I spent two summers as an intern at JPL during my Ph.D. The first one was in 2012, which was the summer that the Curiosity Mars rover landed. That was a pretty incredible experience. As someone who had only spent one summer at NASA before, seeing the excitement around landing a spacecraft on Mars, well, I think it's hard not to fall in love with JPL when you see that happen. During that summer, I worked on the early days of the A-Team [JPL's mission-concept study team], where I was helping out with some of the mission studies that were going on.
My second summer, I worked in the Mars Program Office, looking at a mission concept to return samples from Mars. I was helping define requirements and look at some of the trade studies. We were specifically looking at designs for orbiters that could bring back samples from Mars. A lot of that fed into my graduate research. It's pretty cool to be able to say that I applied my research and research tools to real problems to help JPL's Mars sample return studies.
What brought you to JPL for your internship? Was working at JPL always a dream for you?
Yeah, working at NASA was always a dream, but going into my Ph.D., I became more and more interested in robotics and planetary exploration. I have a Ph.D. in aerospace engineering, but I also have a minor in planetary science. There are very few places on Earth that really put those two together besides JPL, and it's the only place that has successfully landed a spacecraft on Mars. So, given my passions and my interests, JPL emerged at the top of my list very, very quickly. Once I spent time here, I realized that I fit in. My work goals and my aspirations fit into what people were already doing here.
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What moments or memories from your internships stand out the most?
The Curiosity landing was definitely one of the highlights of my first internship.
Another one of the highlights is that JPL takes the work that interns do really seriously. I was initially surprised by that, and I think that's true of every intern I've met. Interns do real work that contributes to missions or research. I remember, for example, presenting some of my work to my mentor, who was super-excited about some of the results I was getting. For me, that was quite humbling, because I saw my research actually helping a real mission. I think I'll always remember that.
How do you think your internship shaped your career path and led to what you're doing now?
My internships definitely opened a lot of doors for me. In particular, during my second internship, I also participated in the Planetary Science Summer School at JPL. Throughout the summer, we met with experts in planetary science to develop a mission concept, and then we came together as a team to design the spacecraft in one week! It was an intense week but also an extremely satisfying one. The highlight was being able to present our work to some of the leading engineers and scientists at JPL. We got grilled, and they found a whole lot of holes in our design, but I learned so much from it. How often do you get to have your work reviewed by experts in the field?
Through these experiences, I made a lot of connections and found mentors who I could reach out to. Since I knew JPL is where I wanted to be, I took it upon myself to knock on every single door and make my case as to why JPL should hire me. I actually never interviewed, because by then, they decided that I had done my own interviews!
My internships and the summer school also gave me an idea of what I wanted to do and what I didn't want to do. So I was a step ahead of other applicants. I always tell interns who come to JPL that if they're not particularly liking their work in the first few weeks, they should take the opportunity to go out and explore what else JPL has to offer. I believe that there's a place for everyone here.
Have you had your own interns before?
I had interns my first two summers working at JPL. Two of my interns are now also full-time employees, and I always remind them that they were my interns when I see them! I also have an intern this summer who I'm extremely excited to work with, as she'll be helping us prepare some of the tools we'll need for operating the Perseverance rover on Mars.
What is your mentorship style with interns?
My goal for interns is mostly for them to learn something new and discover JPL, so I usually let my interns drive in terms of what they want to achieve. Normally, I sit down with them at the start of summer and define a task, because we want them to be doing relevant work. But I encouraged them to take time off from what they're doing and explore JPL, attend events that we have organized for interns and decide whether this is a place for them or not.
It's kind of a dual mentorship. I mentor them in terms of doing their work, but also mentor them in terms of helping them evolve as students and as early career engineers.
What do you hope they take away from their experience?
I hope they take advantage of this unique place and that they fall in love with it the way I did. Mostly, though, I'm hoping they discover whether this is a place for them or not. Whatever it is, I want them to be able to find their passion.
What would be your advice for those looking to intern or work at JPL one day?
I think the way into JPL, or whatever career that you're going to end up in, is to be 100% into what you're doing. If you're in school, studying aerospace engineering or mechanical engineering, do hands-on projects. The way I found opportunities was through the Planetary Science Summer School and the Caltech Space Challenge, which were workshops. I also did something called RASC-AL, which is a different workshop from the National Institute of Aerospace. Do all of those extracurricular things that apply your skills and develop them.
If you have the opportunity to attend talks, or if your advisor gives you extra work that requires you to reach out to potential mentors, take the time to do it.
My other piece of advice is to knock on doors and talk to people who do something in your field that you're interested in. Don't be shy, and don't wait for opportunities to come to you. Especially if you're already at JPL, or if you have mentors that are. Leverage that network.
Last question: If you could play any role in NASA's mission to send humans back to the Moon and eventually on to Mars, what would it be?
I chose to come to JPL because I like working on robotic missions. However, a lot of these robotic missions are precursors to crewed lunar and Mars missions. So I see our role here as building up our understanding of Mars and the Moon [to pave the way for future human missions].
I've worked on different Mars missions, and every one has found unexpected results. We're learning new things about the environment, the soil and the atmosphere with every mission. So I already feel like my work is contributing to that. And especially with the Perseverance rover mission, one of its main intentions is to pave the way for eventually sending humans to Mars.
This story is part of an ongoing series about the career paths and experiences of JPL scientists, engineers, and technologists who got their start as interns at the Southern California laboratory. › Read more from the series
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TAGS: Mars, Mars Rover, Perseverance, Mars 2020, Mars 2020 Interns, PSSS, Planetary Science Summer School, Internships, Workshops, Career Advice, Mentors, Where Are They Now
Evan Kramer, JPL Summer Intern
Evan Kramer was a summer engineering intern at JPL from 2018 to 2020 and worked on the Perseverance Mars Rover and Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich missions, as well as an imaging spectrometer project. He is currently a Master's student studying aerospace engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. When he's not studying, he can be found taking photographs of the night sky, hiking in the great outdoors, or passionately cheering on his favorite soccer team, FC Barcelona.
Edu News | March 9, 2015
UPDATE - March 16, 2015: The pi challenge answer key is now available for download.
In honor of the "Pi Day of the Century" (3/14/15), the Education Office at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has crafted another stellar math challenge to show students of all ages how NASA scientists and engineers use the mathematical constant pi.
The 2015 problem set -- available as a web infographic and printable handouts -- features four real-world, NASA math problems for students in grades 4 through 11, including: calculating the dizzying number of times a Mars rover's wheels have rotated in 11 years; finding the number of images it will take the Dawn spacecraft to map the entire surface of the dwarf planet Ceres (the first dwarf planet to be explored); learning the potential volume of water on Jupiter's moon Europa; and discovering what fraction of a radio beam from our most distant spacecraft reaches Earth.
The word problems, which were crafted by NASA/JPL education specialists with the help of scientists and engineers, give students insight into the real calculations space explorers use every day and a chance to see some of the real-world applications of the math they're learning in school.
"Pi in the Sky 2" Downloads:
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TAGS: Pi Day, Infographics, Mars Rover, Dawn, Ceres, Europa, Voyager, K-12
Earth to Intern | August 23, 2011
A Day in the Life of a Mars Rover Driver
By Andrew Crawford
At one point, a large potato-sized rock became embedded in the Mars rover Spirit's wheel, rendering it useless until it could somehow be removed. The team was able to use this facility and test a "pop a wheelie" move, which helped the team navigating through the problem in style! (From left: Jason Carlton, Andrew Crawford and Scott Maxwell). Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
To help set the stage for this special blog post, it seems fitting to start with a great piece of advice given to me by Scott Maxwell, a Mars rover driver at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory: "There will come a time, possibly more than once, but at least once, where you feel like you simply can't go on -- you're too tired, it's too hard. When that happens, go on. You can do it. You can do it."
An enormous sense of dedication had already become abundantly clear by the time I sent out an email request to interview the team that drives the rovers on Mars. I received the immediate response of "yes!" at 3:45 a.m. from an enthusiastic Scott Maxwell - who clearly not only loves his job, but also loves sharing it with others. I instantly recognized his name and was eager to see if he was the same engaging "voice of Mars" who I had seen in so many NASA stories. As it turned out, he was not only gracious and helpful in lining up the interview, but he was also passionate about sharing his work with others.
After making an entrance up two floors and badge access doors, we were happily greeted by the same Scott who I had pictured, smiling from ear to ear, as well as a room full of rover drivers who he had arranged for me to interview. It was a tremendous surprise and delight, as I looked around the room and instantly recognized a few of the faces from television and various NASA documentaries.
Not only were we to meet many of the Mars rover drivers, but also it would later turn out that we were fortunate enough to talk with some of the software developers and original founders of the Mars Exploration Rover project. (From left: Paolo Bellutta, Brian Cooper, Vandi Verma, Jason Carlton, Scott Maxwell, Andrew Crawford and John Wright). Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Scott is the poster child for being passionate about something and making it happen. From an early age, he wanted to explore far-off worlds, and he worked hard to make those dreams come true. Scott's dedication and brilliance has helped in developing much of the software, operating procedures and commands that are used for the rovers on Mars today. (I encourage you to watch the charismatic interviews Scott has done on the Mars rovers and JPL as well as check out his ongoing five-year blog about his adventures with the Mars rovers at: http://marsandme.blogspot.com.)
Within a matter of minutes, Scott brought us up to speed on a brief history of Mars, the rovers and other expeditions NASA has sent and will send to the Red Planet. It was immediately clear that Scott lives, eats and breathes rover driving. The way he explained the technicalities and details of the Martian missions and rovers with such precision, spot-on memory and passion, made me feel as though I was part of this exclusive group of brilliant individuals.
One of the faces in the room I instantly recognized was rover driver Vandi Verma, whose interesting background and childhood story I had seen on television. I remembered how passionate she was about robotics from an early age. When she completed all the schooling and learning she could in her native India, she set her sights on the United States to get the education and experience that would take her to the pinnacle of robotics: working with and driving rovers on Mars. She went through the citizenship process necessary to work for the U.S. government all while earning her Doctorate and pursing top-level robotics research until being hired by JPL for flight operations with the Mars Exploration Rover project. (For a fascinating look at her history, read her bio.) I had no idea I would be lucky enough to interview Vandi, let alone receive a behind-the-scenes tour of what she was working on.
She showed us a detailed 3D contour map of the Martian landscape and Husband Hill, a legendary Martian landform for Mars Exploration Rover drivers. She had been re-driving the particularly challenging and difficult terrain of Husband Hill -- which took the Mars rover Spirit a full year to successfully climb in 2005 -- in preparation for the arrival of the rover Opportunity at a similar feature called the Highlands. All the while, Vandi's fingers seemed to navigate the keyboard with lightning speed, entering commands that exposed breathtaking images and grids of the Martian terrain.
It was Husband Hill -- which is named in remembrance of Rick Husband, the commander of NASA's Space Shuttle Columbia -- that took the Mars rover Spirit a full year to successfully and triumphantly climb in 2005. The rover made groundbreaking scientific discoveries all along the way. (From left: Jason Carlton, Vandi Verma, Chris Leger and Andrew Crawford). Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Sitting directly beside her was another face that I instantly recognized from years of following Mars exploration missions. Chris Leger, a youthful, hip-looking and brilliant member of the team who's responsible for some of Mars robotics and space-robotics most significant advancements and undertakings. Chris was part of the original driving team that took Spirit up Husband Hill's incredibly challenging 30-degree, boulder-laden slopes; he also does his own bouldering and climbing here on Earth twice a week. (For a mind-blowing description of all he's done, visit: http://www-robotics.jpl.nasa.gov/people/Chris_Leger/. )
We were joined by even more legendary rover drivers, and the room was alive with varying generations of drivers and programmers reaching back to the days of NASA's Mars Pathfinder mission. The conversation was in full swing.
The moment seemed fitting to ask if the team had ever seen anything strange that made the hair rise on the back of their necks, and if so, what did they do? One of the gentlemen seated at the table wearing a big smile, shorts and a cool Hawaiian shirt, spoke up about a strange event involving what looked like a "white rabbit" on the surface of Mars. I listened intently to John Wright, an engaging and cool dude who used to work at Hughes Aircraft, founded by one of my personal favorite heroes and explorers, Howard Hughes.
John drove Spirit for six years and is one of the five developers of the software that the rover drivers use to build command sequences and visualize and rehearse the rovers' activities. He tells great stories, including this one about the "white rabbit." He said one day an image came through from Spirit showing a feature that looked an awful lot like a white rabbit in the distance, and in the preceding pictures, it was gone! The group immediately called up a team of engineers and scientists to examine the finding. It was later concluded that the "white rabbit" was simply a small piece of fabric from the rover's atmospheric descent landing bags that had blown past in the wind. It was a story and lesson that the whole team could relate to with many adding that they feel as though they've earned a degree in geology because they can now quickly identify rocks or anomalies, know what to steer clear of and avoid, and what to investigate.
We said goodbye to Chris and Vandi as they were late for a meeting, which I could only imagine was highly technical and dealt with strategically planning future movements for billion-dollar spacecraft. We were then joined by two more rover drivers coming straight from the driving room. It seemed that once again, Scott had gone a step above in rallying all the troops for this interview, and I couldn't seem to stop smiling. Paolo Bellutta and Khaled Ali wcgere just as charismatic and enthusiastic as the rest of the team, and instantly, they started sharing stories that had us on the edge of our seats.
Paolo's introduction said it all: "My name is Paolo, and I am from Italy, and please no jokes about driving." The room erupted. What followed was a mesmerizing story about a treacherous navigation next to an 80 meter cliff in Victoria Crater on Mars with Paolo at the helm. Due to the estimations of the terrain combined with the long response time of sending and receiving data and commands between Earth and Mars, there was a period when Paolo had to wait in utter silence wondering if a valuable supplier of otherworldly exploration and knowledge had gone off the radar ... Then, after a grueling two-hour silence, the images and data started to appear again with huge relief.
Paolo's story triggered a conversation on safety parameter software programs, which are always evolving and incorporated into rover planning and mission architecture -- usually written and constructed by the drivers and planners themselves. Little did I know that seated at our table, quiet but insightful, was Brian Cooper, who was one of the original software developers and Mars Exploration Rover mission architects. He was also responsible for hiring most of the drivers there with us that day. He said that at the beginning of the Mars rover missions, it was difficult to know exactly what terrain and routes were secure and what parameters to observe. But over time, the parameter software development and safety autonomy programs have been getting better and better, incorporating gridlines with built-in "keep-out zones" and danger-sensing abilities.
Next, we heard from rover driver Khaled Ali, whose personal background made me want to never stop learning. While listening to Khaled explain how he eventually landed a job as a rover driver, Scott interjected excitedly saying, "Khaled sometimes goes off and takes on other jobs around JPL, such as building test-beds for testing Moonrise, stuff like that. And we always welcome him back with open arms!" This resonates as a prime example of the collaborative, never-stop-learning attitude that seems to be especially prevalent within this team and at JPL.
The last of the usual five rover driving meetings per day was about to begin, and Scott suggested we boogie to the command room and catch the tail end of the meeting. As we walked into the room -- "quiet as mice," per Scott's advice -- the first thing I saw was a table laden with coffee, computers, papers and many of the same people that were just in the other room with us discussing various commands and undecipherable software language displayed on a screen up front. Scott whispered to us that they were reviewing the day's planned movements and trajectory for the rover Opportunity. Every day there are multiple meetings and checks, then double checks, ensuring that the scientific goals, safety parameters and command sequences are exactly on target to provide 100 percent safety and redundancy for the mission. Paolo and John were stationed at computers typing what appeared to my eyes as a foreign language and discussing and answering questions from all angles of the room. We exited the room as it was clear they were in the midst of highly technical planning. And my mentor Jason and I just smile at each other like little kids in a candy store.
Just when I didn't think my brain could absorb any more, Scott had more adventures and stops planned for us, including another room where Bubba, a full-size replica of a Mars Exploration Rover (like the twin rovers Spirit and Opportunity) was located. Scott gave us such a detailed breakdown of the rover components and functionalities that I felt like a VIP with a backstage pass.
The suspension I'm marveling at here was designed by my mentor's mentor, Don Bickler, and it really hits home what a tight-knit, cooperative and dedicated group exists here at JPL. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Our last stop was the rover testing facility, located in a building specially designed with soil and rocks mimicking Martian terrain and housing full-size, functional rovers. The Planetary Science Summer School group was taking a tour and peering down at the rovers through the glass as we walked in. Within seconds Scott had the full attention of the group and was telling them stories. It wasn't long before he was convincing the whole group to join us downstairs inside the testing room. There was no stopping Scott then, and to the sheer delight of the group, as well as myself, we saw a green light flash on the badge reader and heard the door click open: access granted! Three feet in front of me, in the soil, was where the very engineers, scientists, drivers, and programmers who are responsible for the rovers do their testing!
One of the group-members asked Scott what his "Free Spirit!" shirt meant and he explained that after six years of what was planned as a three-month mission, Spirit had become trapped in a very fine soil, granular sediment, which is much like powder. And making things more difficult was the fact that only four of her six wheels could help in the exit strategy. After months of testing and brainstorming right in that very room, using those very rovers, they were unable to free Spirit from her Martian trap. She lost her ability to align her solar panels with the sun, and after a long winter, the signal was lost.
Scott explains how the driving team used this facility to test strategies for freeing the Mars rover Spirit from her Martian trap, while a model of the next Mars rover, Curiosity, looks primed for exploration in the background. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
The loss of Spirit, however, in no way marks the end a continually busy schedule for Scott, Vandi, Chris, Paolo, John, Brian and Khaled. In fact, the team just celebrated the arrival of Spirit's twin rover, Opportunity, at Endeavor crater after a three-year trek across the Red Planet. It's a major milestone for the Mars Exploration Rover mission and one that will continue the Mars rovers' amazing history of discovery.
We said goodbye to Scott and expressed our gratitude as best we could. I couldn't help but think that he and his team are some of JPL's most valuable assets, and I blurted it out as Scott crossed the street, like a little kid cheering for his favorite team. He laughed, smiled and swiped his badge, entering another world.
TAGS: Rover Driver, Mars Rover, Engineering, Science
Andrew Crawford, Student, Montana State University
Andrew's career has spanned a vast universe from classical violinist to professional snowboarder to mechanical/aerospace engineering student. He spent the summers of 2011 and 2012 interning at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory with the Deep Space Network's Antenna Mechanical Group.


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Coronavirus clusters pervade Australian hospital wards
By Kate Aubusson
April 10, 2020 — 12.00am
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Coronavirus clusters are blooming within several Australian hospitals, as the virus spreads between staff, patients and their visitors from untraceable sources.
Undetected coronavirus cases have infiltrated wards and units in NSW, Victoria and Tasmania, sending hundreds of exposed healthcare workers into quarantine, as staff and patients report lax policing of screening and distancing rules within some facilities.
Australia's coronavirus death toll sits at 51, with total number of confirmed cases climbing to 6089 on Thursday. However, the rate of new cases continues to decline under the government's social distancing and isolation measures.
NSW accounts for 2773 confirmed cases – 39 new transmissions in the 24 hours up to 8pm on Wednesday night, the lowest number since March 16.
Ahead of the Easter long weekend, Premier Gladys Berejiklian urged the public "not to leave your home unless you absolutely have to".
A cluster of 12 coronavirus cases at Gosford Hospital was among 416 coronavirus transmissions that NSW health authorities have not been able to trace back to their source.
The first case was detected on March 27. Within two weeks, two elderly patients, four family members and six nurses and doctors had tested positive for coronavirus.
Several more staff were sent home to self-isolate as NSW Health authorities traced the contacts of the confirmed cases to identify anyone who may have come into contact with them while they were infectious.
The affected ward has since been designated a dedicated COVID-19 unit for low-risk patients. Both patients in the hospital cluster have been isolated in single patient rooms and were recovering well, chief executive of Central Coast Local Health District Dr Andrew Montague said.
Dr Montague said the health district had taken several precautions to prevent the spread of the virus within its hospitals, including splitting emergency departments into general and high-risk "red" COVID sections to separate patients with respiratory symptoms, screening staff before each shift and restricting visitors to one person per patient per visit.
Staff wearing face masks outside the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital (RPA) in Camperdown, Sydney. Credit:AAP
Similar protocols have been introduced to all public hospitals, but the undetected community transmissions that have become the overriding concern for all state and territory governments are still finding ways inside.
A cluster of 23 COVID-19 cases in Tasmania's North West Regional Hospital – including 15 staff and five patients, and one discharged patient – accounts for more than one-fifth of the state's 107 confirmed coronavirus cases. Another 60 staff have been told to self-isolate.
In Melbourne's The Alfred Hospital, a cluster of at least 15 cases – including five cancer patients (three of whom died) and 10 staff – knocked out more than 100 healthcare workers who had to self-isolate for 14 days.
Last week the Herald reported two radiation therapists at Westmead Hospital tested positive for coronavirus, prompting two cancer patients and roughly 20 radiation oncology staff to self-isolate.
Ryde Hospital was the nucleus of Australia's first cluster, that spread between the north-west hospital, the Dorothy Henderson Lodge aged care facility, two high schools, defence personnel and had links to a case at Liverpool Hospital.
Up to 200 staff across Liverpool and Ryde hospitals were quarantined for 14 days as a result.
The risk of clusters within hospitals is not unique to Australia. Major clusters in parts of the US and Europe have been traced back to hospitals.
In March, Vietnam locked down one of its major hospitals after the country's biggest cluster of 16 people was linked to the facility.
Healthcare workers have been identified as a high risk group for exposure to the virus.
On Wednesday night, NSW Health revealed 127 confirmed cases in the state were healthcare workers during a teleconference with Australian Medical Association NSW members, though not all had contracted the virus at work.
But healthcare workers, patients and visitors in Sydney and Melbourne have said protocols designed to limit exposure in hospitals were not uniformly enforced.
Several clinicians in NSW, Queensland and Victoria have documented hand sanitiser that was zip-tied to dispensers being cut free and stolen.
Signs indicating that patients are allowed only one designated visitor are ignored, with up to four family members gathering at the bedside of older patients.
There was no adherence to social distancing within hospital wards, between patients and visitors, as well as staff conferring at nurses stations.
Staff have repeatedly raised concerns over official guidelines that restrict the use of masks and other personal protective equipment. An AMA NSW survey of trainee doctors found one-third had witnessed colleagues hoarding personal protective equipment.
On Thursday NSW Health Minister Brad Hazzard announced a $5000 fine for anyone who spits or coughs at nurses, paramedics, police, pharmacists and other frontline workers.
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The shooting was reported in the area of North Main Street and Rutherford Road in Greenville.
Police took five people into custody after a man was shot in the head while driving at the intersection of North Main Street and Rutherford Road.
EMS took the unidentified man to Greenville Memorial Hospital for treatment and surgery Wednesday afternoon. A woman riding with the man was not injured, Greenville Police Chief Ken Miller said at the scene.
Shots rang out just before 2 p.m. after a dispute took place between those inside several different vehicles stopped at a red light. After one driver was struck, the other vehicles involved sped off but were stopped by police in various locations nearby, Miller said.
"We're trying to piece together multiple scenes. The suspect vehicles were not located here, but close by a block or two away in different directions," Miller said.
Minutes after an ambulance pulled away from the scene, several police vehicles sped up Rutherford Road based on tips from witnesses.
Two people were detained during one vehicle stop and another two were apprehended after they ran away from a second vehicle. A third vehicle was stopped after it was involved in a hit-and-run near Wade Hampton Boulevard and officers also detained the driver of that vehicle after a brief foot chase, Miller said.
All three vehicles were recovered. The gunshot victim's car was also taken into custody.
Police charged Jaquin Devonta Dodd, Curtis Lee Collins, Justin Dashun Miller and Damous Chavon Beasley with conspiracy. Miller was also charged with interfering with police, and Collins was charged with unlawful carry. Xavier Miguel Concepcion was charged with accessory after the fact and interfering with police.
Additional charges are pending and more people may be charged later, police said.
Miller said the man who was shot was conscious but suffered a life-threatening injury. His most recent condition was not known as of Wednesday evening.
Shell casings were recovered from the intersection near where the gunshot victim drove into an embankment at a custom builders business.
There were no other reports of gunfire outside the North Main Street intersection.
Miller praised his officers for quickly finding who they believe to be responsible.
"Our folks got involved pretty quickly. We had officers nearby. I think they did a great job trying to protect the scene," Miller said.
Neighbors said the primarily residential area is typically quiet with few incidents of violence.
Murry said she heard four to five gunshots before a flurry of law enforcement and emergency vehicles arrived.
"They had the roads closed off within minutes and a dozen police cars came. As soon as we saw it, we locked this door," she said.
Loyd Ford, who lives on North Main Street, said he was stunned to hear a shooting had taken place so close to his home.
Schools in the area were placed on partial lockdown as a result of the shooting. Some buses were delayed at Stone Academy and Summit Drive because of temporary road closures.
Buses were delayed at Stone Academy and Summit Drive Elementary because of temporary road closures in the area.
Police responded to a shooting in the area of North Main Street and Rutherford Road.


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Loneliness: writing, reading and gardening
Posted on by Kate Swindlehurst in Books Fascinating Ladies Loneliness Wellbeing Writing with 1 Comment
I have been revisiting Kipling's Just So Stories. My 1955 edition is one of the few books I remember from my childhood – I particularly loved the stories about the birth of language. The illustrations, including the depiction of the solitary life in The Cat that Walked by Himself, are Kipling's own. It's a perfect metaphor for the life of the writer: there is the cat, waving his 'wild tail', and a long and empty road stretching ahead. Trees line the road. These are the Wet Wild Woods, mainly bare branches and, though there are spaces between the trunks, it seems there is nowhere for the cat to go except ahead.
I've spent the last year or so as writer in residence at the University's Botanic Garden in Cambridge, attempting to translate its inspiring qualities into a radical rethinking of the journal. In many ways this has been as wonderful as it sounds, and I'm immensely grateful both to Arts Council England for their support and for the patience and kindness of the Botanic Garden's staff and volunteers. Still, I've been unable to shed the lonely feeling of being a stranger in the camp. Partly this is due to being a rank amateur in a field of experts; partly a mismatch between the visibly active working day of those around me and my intention to be still and separate and receptive, 'to be isolated and alone, like a proper writer should be,' as Jenny Diski says, 'To think, to read, to listen.'
In fact, gardening and writing, 'these two ways of rendering the world in rows' according to Michael Pollan, have much in common. Both deal in imagination and dreams, both attempt to create something in an apparently empty space, though with what Pollan calls a 'backward glance' to what has gone before. And a garden path does lead somewhere: we experience a garden not as a picture, Katherine Swift reminds us, but as a 'series of shifting perspectives', a narrative composed of the 'vocabulary of plant and tree, the grammar of path and hedge'.
Being rooted in the Botanics, even as an annual, has helped me think about our relationship with the natural world, and there is a sense in which this has to be a lonely endeavour. In her extraordinary book The Living Mountain, Nan Shepherd talks about the essential inaccessibility of a mountain loch:
'It is necessary to be sometimes exclusive,' she writes, 'not on behalf of rank or wealth, but of those human qualities that can apprehend loneliness.'
Her intention is to experience the mountain fully, with all aspects of her being, and in doing so to communicate this experience, to 'irradiate the common'. Others have found walking, rather than being still, a path to enlightenment: artist Richard Long's walks becoming 'textworks', for example, and Kathleen Jamie's observations in Findings.
© 2009 Kate & Anna McGarrigle, All rights reserved.
The lonely path we haven't chosen is tougher. If we are lucky enough to avoid the isolation caused by chronic illness or ageing, poverty or displacement, at some point we will experience the loneliness or being lonely implicit simply in being human: Auden saw a 'solitude ten thousand fathoms deep' even in the closest relationships. Still, fellow travellers can sustain us on the journey. Dear Friend and Gardener allows the reader to share the precious friendship between Beth Chatto and Christopher Lloyd. Jackie Kay's celebration of a lifelong friendship ends with an invitation: 'C'mon, c'mon my dearie – tak my hand, my fiere!' And past and present combine in the McGarrigles' lovely 'Walking Song':
'In sneakers or boots or regulation shoes
Walking beside you I'll never get the walking blues.'
Kate's been reading:
Jenny Diski. 2006. On Trying to Keep Still. London: Little, Brown
Michael Pollan. 1997. Second Nature (1991). London: Bloomsbury
Katherine Swift. 2008. The Morville Hours. London: Bloomsbury
Christopher Lloyd & Beth Chatto. 2013. Dear Friend and Gardener: Letters on Life and Gardening (1998). London: Frances Lincoln
About Kate Swindlehurst
After more than twenty years trying to fit writing into the spaces between work, family and travel, in 2007 I left teaching to write full-time. Since then I have achieved a Distinction in the MA in Creative Writing at Anglia Ruskin University and won an Arts Council Escalator Literature Award for my forthcoming novel The Bridgehead. I have completed a short story collection, Hello Goodbye, and a work of creative non-fiction, Dancing with Kate. Also in a drawer somewhere, half of a crime novel set in Carlisle! A northerner by birth and habit, I have moved south and am currently writer in residence at Cambridge University Botanic Garden, thanks to the generous support of Arts Council England.
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What Will Brown Do With You?
Send you to the junkyard if you're not on your toes.
Tom Collins reports on an interesting decision allegedly made by UPS to terminate the services of a long-time outside firm. He quotes a remark attributed to Teri P. McClure, vice president and manager of the legal department, who recently told an audience in Atlanta:
…that she recently fired a firm that had worked for UPS for 40 years. Even after 40 years, they had not taken the time to understand the nature of UPS. Their attorneys keep calling the company's brown delivery vehicles "trucks". "They're not called trucks," she said. "They're called package cars. If you call them trucks, you don't understand the nature of our business."
This exchange was originally recounted in the Fulton County Daily Report, found on law.com here.
Yup, a search of the UPS site reveals 71 hits for the phrase "package cars."
But a similar search for "brown trucks" yields 24 hits.
And a link to this page, which contains a reference to 64,000 examples of a certain UPS service mark: "Big Brown Trucks." According to a search of that phrase using the USPTO engine, "Big Brown Truck" was registered by UPS effective May 17, 2005. Perhaps the attorney of record doesn't understand the business.
Maybe if UPS had sent a model of one of these to each of their engagement partners to reinforce the "car" mindset, things would have been different:
I like the name of Mr. Collins' weblog: morepartnerincome.com. Nice and direct. Rare–but not that there's anything wrong with that.
Update (13 Jan 06): An alert reader points to this page on the UPS website. The tagline at the top of the page "We're Going To Race the Truck. People Love The Truck" is a mark UPS filed with the USPTO on May 10, 2005 (serial no. 78626526). Perhaps the fired firm was staffed with NASCAR fans. By the way, my company uses UPS exclusively and I love the truck.
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The People's Daily, the official newspaper of the Chinese Communist Party, condemned US moves to restrict Iran's oil trade and curb its nuclear program by enforcing sanctions on countries that trade with Iran, Reuters reported. Banks in Japan and 10 EU countries have been given a six-month reprieve after their countries cut purchases of Iranian oil, but China and India still remain at risk from being cut off from the US financial system. The editorial called such unilateral action selfish and misguided, and said that the actions may exacerbate the stand-off over Iran's nuclear program. Japan, China and India together purchase nearly half of Iran's crude exports of 2.6 million barrels a day and provide much-needed foreign exchange for Iran. China slashed crude oil imports from Iran by half between December and February due to a contract dispute. It has raised purchases from Saudi Arabia to fill the gap.


"Even the NSA, with its capacity, could not read every email, listen to every telephone call, and track the actions of each individual. What makes a surveillance system effective in controlling human behavior is the knowledge that one's words and actions are susceptible to monitoring.
This principle was at the heart of British philosopher Jeremy Bentham's eighteenth-century conception of the Panopticon, a building design he believed would allow institutions to effectively control human behavior. The building's structure was to be used, in his words, for "any sort of establishment, in which persons of any description are to be kept under inspection." The Panopticon's primary architectural innovation was a large central tower from which every room—or cell, or classroom, or ward—could be monitored at any time by guards. The inhabitants, however, were not able to see into the tower and so could never know whether they were or were not being watched.
Since the institution—any institution—was not capable of observing all of the people all of the time, Bentham's solution was to create "the apparent omnipresence of the inspector" in the minds of the inhabitants. "The persons to be inspected should always feel themselves as if under inspection, at least as standing a great chance of being so." They would thus act as if they were always being watched, even if they weren't. The result would be compliance, obedience, and conformity with expectations. Bentham envisioned that his creation would spread far beyond prisons and mental hospitals to all societal institutions. Inculcating in the minds of citizens that they might always be monitored would, he understood, revolutionize human behavior.


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PIDD are an extremely varied group of diseases that can affect many different functions of the immune system and that have a wide variety of clinical presentations. While the main manifestations involve recurrent, severe or unusual infections, PIDD can also predispose to inflammation, unregulated fever, autoimmunity, allergies or malignancies affecting multiple different body sites.
Affected individuals may experience these complications starting at any age, but also may have long disease-free periods. PIDD can be life-threatening and very costly to manage if left undiagnosed and, therefore, are not treated appropriately. In these frequently observed situations, the quality of life of patients can be severely impacted. Prompt diagnosis and treatment not only decreases the cost of medical care, but it also improves the quality of life of patients as well as their families.
These characteristics of PIDD define the combined mission of JMC-NOLA: to increase awareness of these diseases at all levels; to develop diagnostic capabilities, accessible to as many possible patients; and to help the establishment of centers capable of offering effective management to, and even cure, PIDD patients.


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