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While his design can be found throughout the city, most of it can be seen in the Historic District. This area is full of quirky shops, local restaurants and historic locations like Elfreth's Alley, the oldest residential street in the United States. This alley was first inhabited in 1702, with all the current houses being built between 1728 and 1836. In 1934 a committee preserved the neighbourhood to keep it for future generations. The alley is open all year, but they also put on several festivals such as "Fête Day" in June, "Deck the Alley" in December and various events for Fourth of July, Oktoberfest and Halloween.
During the 1700s Pennsylvania was one of the 13 Colonies that made up what is now the United States. Prior to the Battle of the Plains of Abraham in Quebec, the 13 Colonies were surrounded by New France to the North and East and New Spain to the South. Once the British captured New France, the colonies had space to grow – and with it came the desire for independence. Philadelphia was the spearhead of this movement with prominent Revolutionaries living here, such as George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams and "The Little Rebel" Betsy Ross. Their desire for independence would ultimately lead into the Revolutionary War.
As tensions within the 13 Colonies rose, Washington approached Ross in secret and proposed a radical idea. If the 13 Colonies were to be independent, they needed a new flag – and he wanted her to make it. Although the creation of such a thing would be treasonous, Ross agreed. She then set to work and created the very first American flag, a symbol that stands for freedom around the world centuries later.
Betsy Ross' story is one of American legacy and is known throughout the country, but in Canada it is rarely learned about. Her original house and office where she sewed the first flag – and hundreds more in years to come – can be found in the Historic District. I found the museum to be very interesting and was a great opportunity to learn about Pre-Revolutionary Philadelphia.
If you're interested in Philadelphian history, you'll also want to visit the President's House Site. This is where the original "Whitehouse" stood prior to it being constructed in Washington D.C. and where former US Presidents George Washington and John Adams lived. The site has several televisions, posters and pictures throughout the area that discuss the role of the house throughout the years – and the role of the slaves that lived there during that time period.
Next to the President's House Site is the Liberty Bell Center, which houses the Liberty Bell. The bell is seen as a symbol of freedom throughout the United States and is famous for its iconic crack. It is said this bell rang on July 4th, 1776 when the Declaration of Independence was first signed at the nearby Independence Hall.
Two other places you'll want to visit while in the Historic District are the Christ Church and the Christ Church Cemetery. The church is a unique example of Gregorian architecture. Following the Dark Ages, the church wanted to open up to new, "enlightened" ideas regarding science and technology. For a brief time period they restyled the windows of churches to be house transparent clear glass – to illustrate the concept of ideas flowing freely in and out – as opposed to the iconic stained glass that only shines light inwards. However, within a few decades of this aesthetic change, the stained glass returned and remains the way it is today. While I've seen my fair share of churches around the world, this is the first I have ever seen with clear glass windows.
Beyond the church is a very small cemetery which holds the graves of several signers of the Declaration of Independence. Although Benjamin Franklin attended this church and signed the declaration, you won't find his grave here. Instead you'll have to walk about 3 blocks east to find the cemetery where he's buried – along with scores of other historical people who helped shape the city and the country. If you have time, I recommend going on the cemetery tour.
In the centre of the city is City Hall. Construction of this monolithic stone structure started in 1871 and was estimated to be completed in 1876, but it wouldn't be finished until 1901! By the time the building was complete, its architectural style was no longer popular and a discussion was made to destroy it. However, because the building was so structurally sound and was made of such heavy stone, it would cost too much to destroy and thus left intact.
If you're visiting City Hall, give yourself plenty of extra time and take the 90 minute tour of the building. You will learn about the impressive architecture, the history and the legacy of the building. If you're a little more crunched for time, take the 15 minute Tower Tour and visit the top of this building for an excellent view of the city.
Regardless of how you explore City Hall, you're bound to hear about William Penn. As the original founder of the city, a statue of him was placed on top of City Hall. At 37 feet tall, this statue holds the record for the largest statue on top of any building in the world! From 1901 until 1987 City Hall was the largest building in Phildealphia due to a "gentlemen's agreement" that no building should be taller than William Penn's statue's hat. In 1987 that agreement was broken by the construction of One Liberty Place. It is said the breaking of this agreement angered the statue of Penn so he cursed all the teams in Philadelphia to never win a championship. After almost three decades of championship drought, a statue of William Penn was placed on the top of the Comcast Building in 2007 – which was then the tallest in the city – and in 2008 the Philadelphia Phillies won the World Cup.
Another location you'll want to visit in Philadelphia is the Eastern State Penitentiary. Opening in 1827 the building was in operation until 1970. Eastern State Penitentiary was the first penitentiary in the United States and coined the "Pennsylvania system", which was a prison system focused specifically on solitary confinement. Unlike Kingston Penitentiary that I visited earlier this year, ESP believed keeping inmates in isolation would allow them to reflect on their own sins and become better people. Each cell was equipped with one – and later two – skylights nicknamed "The Eye of God" in which would be the only source of light in the cell. This was supposed to help the prisoners reconcile their sins.
Because the cells were isolated from one another via thick stone walls, men and women could live in close proximity with each other without any problems. Women who had children in prison would be able to raise their child until an "outside connection" could take over guardianship. The longest a child lived in Eastern State Penitentiary was five years.
While the penitentiary house both men and women, it also housed children criminals too. The youngest inmate the penitentiary ever held was a nine year old girl.
Although inmates lived in their cell, they could go into the adjacent yard for some fresh air. Here some grew gardens or played with their pets. No two neighboring inmates would ever be allowed outside at the same time as they might communicate with each other. If the inmate ever had to leave their cell a hood was placed over their head so that they wouldn't know where in the building they were.
As time changed, the penitentiary became overcrowded the isolation method was dropped. Newer cellblocks were added and the cells became bigger. Inmates could communicate with each other, and with outside civilians. To try and condition inmates for a life outside of the walls, some were even given jobs inside the prison, such as working as a barber or in the hospital – which was one of the finest hospitals in the city. It was here that Al Capone had a tonsillectomy and, some say, had a circumcision to help clear his bought of syphilis.
Along with Al Capone, the prison would hold several unique inmates while in operation, such as Willie Sutton and Pup, a "Cat-Murdering Dog" (who was actually a dog). As with all stories, those of Pup and Al Capone are questionable in their authenticity. Newspaper accounts say Al Capone lived in luxury with his own private radio, while other accounts say he shared a cell with an inmate. Similarity, Pup's story of being a hard convict with a life sentence is probably based in fiction and was instead just a dog donated to the prison to help with inmate recovery.
The story of Al Capone has a paranormal side to it as well. Although Capone was imprisoned for concealing a weapon, he was also responsible for several murders, including the Saint Valentine's Day Massacre. During the Massacre a man named Jimmy Clark was killed. It is said that while inside his cell at Eastern State Penitentiary, Capone could often be heard screaming, often telling somebody named "Jimmy" to leave him alone, and many believe this was Jimmy Clark. It is said that Jimmy followed Capone after he was released from Eastern State Penitentiary in 1930 and continued to terrorize him both at home and later when he was imprisoned in Alcatraz.
It's important to mention that Eastern State Penitentiary had some dark moments during its existence as well. The prison used different torture techniques on some of the prisoners, such as dousing them with water and leaving them outside overnight in the winter, or using a metallic mouth-grip that would clamp down on their tongue. Eastern State Penitentiary also used "The Hole", an underground isolated cell with absolutely no sunlight or human interaction. At times prisoners would spend up to a month down there.
Eastern State Penitentiary also had various riots, murders and suicides. If you include the rounds of tuberculous, influenza and infection that prisoners suffered from while it was in operation, over 1,000 people are said to have died within its stone walls.
While Eastern State Penitentiary's purpose was to "heal" their prisoners and help them become functioning civilians, this can't be said for all the prisons in Philadelphia. Across the city is the infamous Holmesburg Prison. It was here various human experiments occurred on the patients. This included everything from chemical experiments to radioactive treatments and even the sewing of arms, legs and organs from cadavers to living patients to see if they would reanimate. Unfortunately, I did not have the chance to visit Holmesburg Prison while I was in Philadelphia.
Not far from Eastern State Penitentiary is a much more pleasant location, and one of the most popular icons in Philadelphia, called "The Rocky Steps". Made famous for their role in the 1976 movie Rocky, the steps have become an icon for underdogs rising up to meet their challenge. Since Rocky Balboa climbed those stairs 40 years ago in preparation for his fight against Apollo Creed, they have become one of the city's most popular tourist attractions, with throngs of tourists climbing the stairs and posing for pictures at the top every day. Even the footprints where Rocky stood that cold November morning in 1976 have been cast in metal at the top of the stairs and a statue of him was placed near the base. For outsiders, the city's love for Rocky may seem a little extravagant, but City Commerce Director Dick Doran once said Rocky had done more for the city's image "than anyone since Ben Franklin" so the love for him is plenty justified.
There's much more to see and do while in The City of Brotherly Love than what I mentioned in this article. You could eat a Philly Cheesesteaks at Geno's, shop for fresh fruit in the Italian Market, visit Mac's Tavern from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, stop by the scores of museums and art galleries, go visit the 8,000-plus public murals, gawk at the Magic Gardens or just wander the streets. Philadelphia has been ranked one of the top cities to visit in the United States and is recognized worldwide as being one of the most LGTBQ friendly cities. It's a city for everyone – from those who love movies, history, music, art and everything in between. If you're planning a visit to Philly, I'd recommend Visit Philly's overnight hotel package, as it's the perfect way to explore the city.
What would you do if you won a free trip to Philadelphia? Tell me about it in the comments below!
Exploring Moose Jaw's Abandoned Zoo
Before you read this article and freak out over the amount of snow you're about to see, I want to clarify that I took these pictures last March. Moose Jaw had a lot more snow than they do at the time of publishing this. I just postponed the article to prevent you from any winter PTSD during the summer months.
The Moose Jaw Wild Animal Park opened in 1929 as a 540-acre zoo. It contained over 200 types of animals from across Canada and the northwestern United States. For almost eighty years the zoo was in operation, educating visitors on different animals and environmental preservation. It started with bison, bears and wolves, and eventually expanded to include more exotic animals such as lions. It was difficult to get numbers, but it had an average attendance of almost a million people per year.
All this ended in 1995 when the zoo failed to gain the necessary liability insurance. On September 28, 1995, the Environment and Resource Management shut down the zoo. In 1997 the zoo's property was sold to the City of Moose Jaw for $1, with the provincial government providing a $50,000 grant to restore the area.


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Farsley Celtic have received the accolade of being chosen as the Evo-Stik Northern Premier League 'Community Club of the Year' award, writes Farsley Celtic's Robert Winterbottom.
The honour was announced at the league annual awards dinner in Blackpool.
After receiving nominations from many of the league's 68 clubs, Farsley Celtic's close links with the local community were highlighted. The club was described as 'the stand out case' of all the clubs nominated.
The award – the 'Peter Swales Shield' – is named after the former Manchester City chairman, who was a founder of the Northern Premier League.


During a round-table interview with reporters from five Texas newspapers on Monday August 2, 2005, President Bush said he believes schools should discuss "intelligent design" alongside evolution when teaching students about the creation of life. "I think that part of education is to expose people to different schools of thought," Bush said. "You're asking me whether or not people ought to be exposed to different ideas, the answer is yes."
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Lauren: We should email this guy.
My friend and I have been enlightened by the Flying Spaghetti Monster theory and were compelled to write two plays we hope that will be off broadway in the upcoming months: Prego Noodle Superstar and Flying Spaghetti Monster and the Marinara Dreamcoat. We hope that your website will help promote these upcoming performances and hope to see you at opening night.
Lauren: Should I email him?
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Lauren: PS. If you, or anyone you know, would like to be cast in the parts of Mary Manicotti and Vermicelli, could you please let us know? We are in need of amazing performers for this homage to such a wonderful higher being.
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A quick technical question concerning the rigid pipe that connects the front wheel cylinders to the flexible brake hose on a Series 3 Land Rover. My 2.25 litre is being fitted with brakes from a 2.6 litre truck.
For the dual line models there are two different part numbers specified for 4 and 6 cylinder trucks - NRC4257 and NRC4258 for 6 cylinder and NTC4794 and NRC4795 for 4 cylinder. The pairs being LHS/RHS.
The 6 cylinder variants appear to be hard to get cf the 4 cylinder variants. What is the actual difference between the two?
I can't really see why they would be technically different (eg. between a 4 cylinder 109" and 6 cylinder 109") in terms of length or diameter because they are routed from the back of the swivel housing to one of the two wheel cylinders and presumably these are the same dimensions regardless of the engine size?
Where is logic failing me here?
Still haven't resolved this query.
The six cylinder has wider brake shoes and drums than the four (although in late production they are the same as the six). This means that, since the centreline of the shoe is the same relative to the cylinder, the cylinder is moved sideways relative to the mounting point of the brake backing plate. This means that the pressed shape of the backing plate is different.
I would assume that this means the pipe has to be a different shape to conform to this. I haven't looked, but it is possible that the wheel cylinders are different as well, although I don't think so.
I think that due to the wheel cylinders being fitted slightly deeper on the 6 cyl backing plates, the pipes are just a little bit longer where they screw into the wheel cylinders, to clear the backing plate, so they dont rub on the plate.


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How to Place Your Bet on an Emerging Technology
When there's a faint signal and loud noise, don't get too far ahead of your business
Emerging technologies, such as augmented reality or quantum computing, are a big gamble for business. Investing in them can mean failure, either in delivering value or being strategically significant. But not investing in them can mean losing market share or failing to remain relevant to customers. In this essay, adapted from Driving IT Innovation: A Roadmap for CIOs to Reinvent the Future, authors Heather Smith and James McKeen of Smith School of Business, Queen's University, discuss some of the challenges in assessing emerging technologies. Driving IT Innovation is based on insights drawn from focus groups with senior IT executives and managers.
Although it is important to know what emerging technologies (ET) are available, organizations have only a limited capacity to absorb them. Therefore it is critical to select only those few that will have the largest business impact. The focus group stressed that it is essential to thoroughly understand the business needs of the organization in order to make this selection. "This is something we need to do better," said one manager. "Our relationship managers are often too focused on more immediate matters and don't always take the time to explore future needs."
Assessment is all the more important because emerging technologies are characterized by a low "signal:noise ratio," which tends to confuse both business and technology people about the potential of a new technology. "Signal" refers to indicators of value to a firm's core business, and "noise" refers to factoids, assertions, and beliefs about a technology that are not meaningful signals.
As researcher Amrit Tiwan has noted: "At the earlier stages of the life cycle of an emerging technology, the signal is faint and the noise is overwhelming.... A low signal:noise ratio means that information surrounding an emerging technology is difficult to interpret, leads observers down multiple blind alleys, and requires ... effort and expense to discern meaningful insights."
ET and Business Value
Amplifying signals involves working closely with the business to better understand where and how value could be delivered with a new technology. One company's ET staff meet regularly with business leaders to ferret out opportunities by asking, "What do you wish you could do in your business if technology could be found to enable it?"
Several companies routinely hold internal briefings or events where selected emerging technologies and their potential can be presented to executives. ET staff need a deep understanding not only of the business and its needs, goals, and strategies, but also of how the industry is developing because emerging technologies can often provide firms with the opportunity to move into adjacent markets or develop products and services that are complementary to those that are already provided in an industry.
Finally, business and ET staff can work together to amplify signals by applying different frameworks that challenge existing preconceptions and spot non-obvious applications. For example, each of a company's products and services could be assessed to determine if how they are purchased or delivered could be shifted from physical to digital. The goal of a preliminary assessment is to understand how an emerging technology might affect the organization's products and services, work, new forms of external engagement, or business models.
Assessing an emerging technology's technical potential involves a different set of lenses and is generally a more straightforward process. All focus group organizations have technology roadmaps that provide a baseline for determining many of the factors that could be critical to this assessment. These include: technical maturity levels; implications for integration, data, security, and operations; and complexity. The focus group also cautioned about reducing "noise," noting that much ET work is simply following the crowd, as opposed to true assessment.
Overall, assessment of any emerging technology involves determining both relevance for the business and technical readiness. It requires having both a deep knowledge of the organization's business and a broad appreciation of technology.
The focus group concluded that technology is meaningless unless it is understood in a business context, and they agreed that it is only through strong partnerships with the business that emerging technologies can have the type of impact a business is looking for.
"There are two places you can start to assess an emerging technology," explained one manager. "You can look for an interesting technology that has a potential business benefit or you can find an interesting business opportunity and determine how technology can help you do business differently. Typically, you iterate between these two perspectives when assessing an emerging technology, but you do it differently in every case."
Heather Smith is a senior research associate with Smith School of Business at Queen's University and co-author (with James McKeen) of eight books. She is also a senior research associate with the American Society for Information Management's Advanced Practices Council. James D. McKeen is Professor Emeritus at Smith School of Business and Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at Empire Life Insurance. He has worked in the IT field for many years as a practitioner, researcher, and consultant. Learn more about Driving IT Innovation here
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On March 12, 2015, a North Carolina man named Keith Allen Waters, aged 61, entered the Catawba Valley Medical Center, where he received an Interior Vena Cava (IVC) filter in order to protect him against the possibility of a stroke due to embolism. The attending physicians implanted the device according to manufacturer's instructions for the purpose intended.
Three weeks later, Keith Waters was dead. In life, he was a devout Methodist and loving husband and father, well-liked by the community. In death, he has become another statistic – part of a growing list of victims who have suffered serious injury and death because of a defective medical device that was poorly-tested and understood.
According to the complaint filed by his widow, Waters' premature death was due to "complications related to the defective IVC filter, including but not limited to, filter thrombosis, multiple pulmonary emboli and cardiac arrest." Specifically, the device fractured not long after it was implanted, after which migrating fragments lodged in his heart and lungs, resulting in blood clots that caused his death.
Waters' widow, Lorraine, is seeking compensation for loss of income, medical and legal expenses in addition to loss of consortium and other damages.
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These devices have been the target of FDA scrutiny for the past seven years. At that time, the agency issued a warning to the medical community that almost 1,000 cases in which IVC filters had fractured and migrated to other parts of patient's bodies had been reported. The recommendation at that time was that IVC filters be removed as soon as the danger of blood clots was over.
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Caroline Kisiel, an assistant professor in the School for New Learning, researches, writes and presents on early Illinois and Ohio Valley history. (Photo courtesy of Caroline Kisiel)
The call to make Illinois a slave state in the early 1820s failed in large part to a pair of English settlers who founded the southern Illinois town of Albion the same year the state was chartered, says Caroline Kisiel, an assistant professor in DePaul's School for New Learning.
A 2018 Illinois Humanities Road Scholar, Kisiel researches, writes and presents on early Illinois and Ohio Valley history. Her work coincides with the Dec. 3, 2018, Illinois bicentennial.
In this Q&A, Kisiel discusses slavery in the Illinois territory, how the state entered the Union free, the fight to keep it that way, and the unsung heroes behind the fight.
How did Illinois join the Union, and what role did slavery play in the territory and state?
Before the Civil War, the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 made slavery illegal in the territory north of the Ohio River. Any states forming out of this area were to be free. When Illinois became a state in 1818, it added language from the Ordinance to its constitution and declared itself a free state.
What's interesting is that there was slavery in the region dating back to when French settlers brought slaves along to cultivate the land in the 17th and 18th centuries. The practice continued when English settlers came to the area and didn't officially go away until the 1848 Illinois Constitution banned any slavery from taking place in the state. Even then, free black residents in Illinois were subject to severe restrictions under "Black Codes," which imposed fines and movement restrictions, and which were not repealed until shortly after the Civil War.
Your research uncovered that there was a movement to make Illinois a slave state in the early 1820s. Can you explain what was going on at the time?
Slavery's long roots in the territory had a great influence when settlements developed in the state, as practices for cultivation of crops had long been established. There were Illinois legislators who practiced slavery and others who were pro-slavery. They wanted to change the state constitution to make Illinois a slave state. In 1823, they asked the people of Illinois to vote in favor of holding a constitutional convention in 1824 in order to consider changing the constitution to permit slavery. The hope was that those who had come to accept slavery's role in the cultivation of crops would support this constitutional shift.
What happened with the vote for a constitutional convention?
The vote failed in large part to the efforts of two English settlers named Morris Birkbeck and George Flower, who came to the U.S. searching for land to purchase, and traveled westward with their family members, settling in 1817 in the southern Illinois Territory about 20 miles from the Indiana border. Founding the towns of Wanborough and Albion in 1818, the same year that Illinois became a state, they appreciated the region's mild climate, how it resembled England, and that it appeared to be slave free. However, they became aware of the Kentucky farmers who were bringing in their slaves to work, and pro-slavery legislators in the Illinois senate. When the call for a convention was made, Birkbeck wrote letters to the Illinois newspapers under the pseudonym Jonathan Freeman to speak out against this. In these letters, he argued against slavery and against a constitutional convention by making the case that white people in Illinois should consider the threat of black people living in their state.
This sounds incredibly racist on face value, but my research suggests that Birkbeck was trying to push the anti-slavery movement by appealing to the mindset of southern Illinois citizens at the time, or put another way, he was trying to write to the people in terms they would understand. He later wrote and published a 19-page pamphlet in July 1823 under his own name that appealed to the people of Illinois to say no to the convention.
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Fundraising to help the victims of the farmer suicides in rural Maharashtra and provide rehabilitation facilities to their families.
i4Farmers
from Nagpur, Maharashtra
An amount of 3.6 lakhs has been set aside to help 16 farmer families - for details please click here
The goal is to create a 10 lakh rupee fund which will help
1) to provide immediate relief for the victims of the farmer suicides
2) also hopefully to prevent the farmer suicides because the loan amounts are very small and the fund can be utilized for this.
The Vidarbha Action Plan:
With the highest number of farmer suicides recorded in the year 2013, Maharashtra continues to paint a dismal picture on the agrarian front with over 3,000 farmers taking their lives. The Vidarbha region of the state, once considered the epicentre of the farmers' suicide in the country, is often to referred to as the Suicide Capital of India.
This is an effort to raise funds to help the victims of the farmer suicides that are on the rise in the Vidarbha region of Maharashtra. All the funds will be donated to Vidarbha Jan Andolan Samiti (VJAS), an organization founded by Kishore Tiwariji (http://www.theweekendleader.com/Crusade/447/vidarbha%E2%80%99s-hope.html) . They have been monitoring the farmer suicides and providing rehabilitation support to their families.
They have also taken up issues with the administration, judiciary, legislature, human rights bodies and international forums. In a region comprising more than 70 percent backward population, VJAS has been taking up issues like malnutrition among tribals, their right to food and education, and drinking water supply.
Main reasons for the suicide situation in Vidarbha
Please come forward and support this cause - every little help matters. If you cannot contribute, please share it with your friends/family over Facebook and other social tools you use.
Listen to Kishore Tiwari talk about the farmer suicide situation (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zC378Z7hT9s) . Below is the official data from the ncrb (National Crime Records Bureau)
In the year 2013 alone, 11,744 farmer suicides were recorded across the country (union territories excluded - http://ncrb.gov.in/adsi2013/table-2.11.pdf). Eleven thousand Seven Hundred and Forty Four - and this has been continuing for years/decades now.
Our previous initiatives to help the suicide victims
https://sureshe.wordpress.com/2013/03/11/the-vidarbha-farm-widows-project/
https://sureshe.wordpress.com/2013/02/06/the-brave-hearts-of-vidarbha/
http://www.theweekendleader.com/Headlines/1254/nri-family-skips-b%27day-bash,-donates-$4000-for-vidarbha-widows.html
Please let us know if you still ave any questions/concerns or anything else that needs to be done to ensure the 100% of the money raised will be spent on taking up outreach programs and to provide immediate relief for the suicide victims. Details of every single transaction will be made available.
1) Why can't the money be directly sent to the farmers bank accounts?
Ans) There is a great risk that the money sent to the farmers account will automatically be adjusted towards the existing outstanding loan amounts. Even worse, the money lenders get to know about this and they pressurize the families to repay them instead.
2) How will the money be disbursed?
Ans) Kishore Tiwariji, Vidarbha Jan Andolan Samithi, and his team will do all the leg work to prepare the list of victims families and their immediate needs. The money will be used to directly pay for the needs instead of giving the money to the farmers
3) How do we know the money will be used for the purpose intended for?
Ans) The details of all the victims and the budget details of the samvad yatra will be published. We will also further provide frequent updates accordingly.
4) Why do individuals need to help when the government is already there?
Ans) There have been a record 2.9 lakh suicides since 1995. The govt. has lot of good intentions and policies including loan waivers plans but only on paper. The recent CAG report is an indiciation of the great misuse and exploitation. This initiative is to motivate the individuals to come forward and take the responsibility to do something as concerned citizens.
Thank you for all your support


Home » Politics » Election » Is losing big good for the KMT?
When KMT will be in crisis over the next years, will DPP become the main political party and will the New Power Party be able to use the political vacuum and become an even stronger political party that can reach all of Taiwan. This can be the start of a stronger political normalization process of Taiwan in which the question of independence is accepted by all main political parties. The wishes for the unification can then be found in only smaller parties.
Is a hot burning platform the best for the KMT and the worst for an upcoming DPP government and new opposition in the long run?
The question can put differently. Is a small defeat or a big defeat the best for the KMT. How big shall the KMT crisis be in order to ensure real and constructive reforms? No matter the degree of defeat, KMT will feel an urgency for party reforms. However, the burning platform might not be as hot if KMT is correct in its latest poll showing for instance that the KMT presidential candidate Eric Chu is trailing DPP's candidate Tsai Ing-wen with around 8%. That poll appears to be an outlier though.
In the case of a minor defeat, we could see a development in which the current groups and personalities will fight over the leadership in the KMT. Reforms will be needed but new ideas will have a harder time to surface in the party. Over time, one can imagine a split of the KMT in minimum two parties. It is also possible that KMT will be further weaken if modernization is not started swiftly when reforms of the KMT assets will begin after the new government takes office.
We may be seeing a whole other scenario being played out if KMT experiences a huge defeat on January 16. In this case, the crisis in KMT will become much deeper and pressure from a new generation of leaders both young and old will likely emerge. Contrary to what some people tend to believe, KMT do have younger blood waiting for their changes in the party.
Both scenarios have implications for the political landscape. Will DPP become the main political party and will the New Power Party be able to use the political vacuum and become an even stronger political party that can reach all of Taiwan. This can be the start of a stronger political normalization process of Taiwan in which the question of independence is accepted by all main political parties. The wishes for the unification can be found in smaller parties.
The end result will depend on many factors including the ability of the KMT to reform itself, and how it portray itself over the next few years. Over the next four years, we will be see if KMT will become stronger after the likely defeat on January 16.


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Download Psychology 336L_________a
Psychological behaviorism wikipedia, lookup
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Psychology 336L - Dr. Frank Manis - Fall, 2003
STUDY GUIDE FOR EXAM 1 (chapters 1-4 and lectures Aug. 25 to Sept. 17)
The best study guides are lecture outlines and notes because they indicate what I feel is important. For each topic
(e.g., prenatal development), use the text to flesh out details of the lecture and vice versa. If you didn't get detailed
notes on the videos, you can watch "The Miracle of Life", "Louder than Words" and "The Mind-Development" at
Leavey. There will be 40 multiple choice, and 10 short answer (total: 100 points). You should know results and
conclusions of any research study that is described in class or in the text in a paragraph or more, including "A
Closer Look" boxes, but not researchers' names. You can use the author's recommendations about studying. The
review questions are useful, as are pulling it together and reflect questions. The chapter summary (recite, recite…)
is useful. You can give yourself a quiz on the book on-line at psychology.wadsworth.com. In addition to lecture
material, you should know the following from the book:
Chapter 1 (Lectures on Aug. 25 and 27)
A long chapter, with a lot of review concepts for those who remember their Intro Psych. Know about Locke and
Rousseau. Learn Freud's concepts of the conscious and unconscious mind, his concepts of id, ego and superego
and how they work together developmentally. Know the names of his stages and the nature of the conflict in each
one, but not the ages. Know the Oedipus and Electra complexes and their resolution (identification with the samesex parent). Also know the limitations and what of merit is left of Freud's theory. Know Erikson's most important
concept (the identity crisis) and be able to name and state the basic issue in his first five stages, but not the ages.
Know the steps in and be able to give examples of classical and operant conditioning, know the concepts of
positive and negative reinforcement, extinction, punishment, time out, shaping and socialization, and know the
problems/limitations of punishment. Know Skinner by name. Know Bandura by name and his concepts of
reciprocal determinism and observational learning. Know the concept of identification on p. 22 and how it differs
between Freud and social learning theory. Know the benefits and limitations of learning theories. Know Piaget's 5
key concepts (scheme, adaptation, assimilation, accommodation, and equilibration). Know the four main stages
and the age ranges. Know the basic components of information processing theory and how it has been applied to
practical problems in child development. Know what is meant by maturational theory and know the name of
Gesell. Know the main concepts of ethology, fixed action patterns, releasing stimulus and critical period, and how
this theory explains the origin of inborn behavior. Know the four ecological systems (and Bronfenbrenner's name)
and be able to generate examples. Know how Vygotsky's theory differs from learning theory and Piaget's theory,
and his two key concepts of zone of proximal development and scaffolding (generate examples). Be able to
explain the three controversial issues in child development (nature-nurture, continuity-discontinuity, activepassive) and how each theory comes down on these issues (Table 1.3 is a useful study aid).
Know the basic characteristics of naturalistic observation, the case study, the correlational method, the
experimental method, the nature of positive and negative correlations, and the limitations of correlational studies.
Know the concepts of independent and dependent variables and the importance of random assignment. Integrate
material from the lecture on the limitations of generalizability of experiments and the nature and importance of
quasi-experimental designs. Know how to describe longitudinal, cross-sectional and corss-sequential designs and
the pros and cons of each. Be familiar with the 7 main ethical guidelines for research (which are mostly common
sense).
Chapter 2 (Lecture on Sept. 3)
Know the basic definition of chromosomes, genes and DNA. Know the difference between identical and fraternal
twins and dominant and recessive traits. Know about Down syndrome and PKU. Know about Sickle-cell anemia,
Tay-Sachs disease and Cystic Fibrosis. Know how amniocentesis takes place, what it can tell us and the risks (see
lecture). Know about ultrasound and what it can tell us. Know the basic design of twin studies and adoption
studies and what they can tell us about the relative contribution of heredity and environment to the individual
differences among people. Know the concept of genotype, phenotype and reaction range (more detail in the
lecture). Know how conception takes place but you can ignore all of the stuff about infertility and about selecting
the sex of your child.
Chapter 3 (Lecture on Sept. 8, and 1/3 of lecture on Sept. 17)
There is a lot of detail in this chapter. You don't have to memorize it all. You should definitely know the topics
covered in lecture and read up on them in the book. Beyond that, here are some guidelines. Know the basic
characteristics of the period of the ovum, embryo and fetus, but without memorizing all of the dates and specific
events (e.g., in Table 3.1). Know what happens in the germinal stage and what the blastocyst and implantation are
(see lecture and video Miracle of Life). In the embryonic period, know about the cephalocaudal and proximodistal
principles (examples help a lot!), and about the formation of the neural tube. Know how sexual differentiation
takes place as in the lecture, but there is no need to memorize all of the structures in Figures 3.4 and 3.5. Know the
functions of the amniotic sac and the placenta. In the embryonic period, the lecture has all you need to know.
There are many environmental influences and too much detail to memorize. Know basically what malnutrition
does to the baby over the long-term, but don't memorize the effects of particular nutrients or vitamins. Know the
critical period concept and four examples of how teratogens operate in critical periods: rubella, thalidomide,
radiation and alcohol (the latter two are in the video, The Mind). In each case, know the specific effect on the
embryo or fetus and when it occurs. In the case of the other teratogens, the only ones that will be on the exam are
cocaine, cigarettes, and maternal stress. In the case of cocaine, you don't need to know all of the experiments, but,
you should know about the controversy over what the true effects of cocaine are.
Know the information on prenatal brain development from the lecture on Sept. 17.
Chapter 4 (lectures on Sept. 10 and 15)
Know what events lead up to the onset of birth. Know the basic characteristics of the first, second and third stages
of labor. Know the pros and cons of the use of anesthesia in childbirth, and the characteristics of natural childbirth
methods. Under what circumstances are C-sections given? You can ignore the sections on where a child should be
born (pp. 135-139). Know the nature of anoxia and its effects. Know how to define pre-term and low-birthweight
babies and the reasons some babies are small for date. Know some of the long-term problems that occur for preterm and low birthweight babies. What kinds of approaches are being used to provide preterm infants with
stimulating experiences. What are some parental reactions to pre-term babies and what are some possible
problems? Know what post-partum depression is and why it is likely to occur. (You don't need to know the box
on pp. 148 on Andrea Yates). What is the typical course and some helpful interventions for PPD? Know about the
controversy over whether early contact between mother and baby are critical to maternal bonding.
Know what features the Apgar test looks for (first column in Table 4.3) and how the scores are used to assess the
baby's health but not all of the point values in columns 2-4 of Table 4.3. You should be able to list and define
several kinds of reflexes and classify them as primitive or adaptive (from lecture and videos), and what the
significance of declining reflexes is during infancy. Know how well the newborn sees and hears, and how well the
newborn recognizes familiar sights, sounds, and smells. Be able to give an example of classical and operant
conditioning that might occur with a newborn. Know how newborns typically sleep and roughly how much of their
sleep in REM sleep. As REM sleep declines from the prenatal period through early childhood, what is thought to
be the reason for such a high need for REM sleep in young infants and preemies, and the reason for the decline?
What are the major possible causes of SIDS and what can be done to reduce its incidence? Identify types of cries
seen in newborns and how these cries affect the parents. What are the best ways to go about soothing a crying
baby?
PRACTICE MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS
1. Which of the following is an example of negative reinforcement?
a. a child starts screaming when he hurts his toe
b. a parent scolds a child when the child forgets to brush her teeth
c. a bully at school keeps taking food from a smaller child at lunch time
d. a child brushes her teeth to avoid hearing her parent's persistent nagging.
2. What is one of the key advantages of a longitudinal study relative to a cross-sectional study?
a. longitudinal studies are less time consuming and expensive
b. longitudinal studies allow you to examine cohort effects
c. longitudinal studies provide a more direct measure of change over time
d. longitudinal studies are not subject to test practice effects
3. Which of the following is true of exposure to teratogens in prenatal development?
a. a teratogen that is harmful to one species of mammals is harmful to all species of mammals
b. the timing of exposure to a teratogen is important
c. teratogens usually have widespread, not specific effects on prenatal development
d. damage from teratogens can often be completely compensated for by a good postnatal environment
4. Which independent variable in the Kauai longitudinal study was more strongly related to behavioral outcomes at
10 years of age, severity of birth complications, or socioeconomic status (SES)? Refer to the IQ scores below.
Severe complications
Low SES
High SES
No complications
a. SES
b. severity of complications
c. both were equally related to IQ
d. relationship to outcome cannot be determined
PRACTICE SHORT ANSWER QUESTIONS (work on these at home and discuss in section)
1. Give an example of a possible exosystem influence on a child's behavior.
2. Identify two of the conditions that amniocentesis can detect.
3. Give an example of an active gene-environment relationship that is more likely to occur as the child gets older.
4. How does sexual differentiation in the fetus illustrate the process of gene expression?
5. Why must we be cautious in interpreting a result in which mothers who took cocaine had babies with lagging
language development three years later?
6. What are two of the main features of prepared or natural childbirth?
7. How do the infant's hearing capabilities tend to favor the infant paying attention to human beings more than
other objects or creatures in the environment?
8. Give an example of operant conditioning in a newborn.
Three main periods of prenatal development
Theories of Human Development
brain and early learning
Prenatal Development - albertpeia.com is in.
Exam1-Key Terms
From Conception to Birth Period of the Zygote
alt-2.-Prenatal-a..
Chapter 4 Overview
Module 45 Notes
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It's often easier to talk about best practice than to just get on with it. I'm sure lots of us have sat in after-action reviews or meetings where projects have been comprehensively analysed and "ways to do it better" have been skilfully identified. Then everyone returns to their desks and carries on as before! There are many reason it happens – change takes time, teamwork and, often, training. Business as usual can dictate the pace of work (even if that work entails time-consuming activities such as trawling through over-loaded email inboxes to find important information). Introducing new and more effective ways of working can prove to be 'too much hassle' – particularly if senior team-members consider themselves exempt from adopting new practices.
Maybe that's why we're more willing to invest external agents with the authority to make change or perform services that we could, if we chose, do for ourselves.
Gary Colet is the Facilitator for the Knowledge Retention and Transfer special interest group at the Knowledge and Innovation Network of Warwick University Business School. He has a strong aversion to the term "Knowledge Management" preferring the description "Organisational Learning". It's not difficult to see why he has a problem with the KM handle – it's not exactly explanatory, and when practitioners (as they often are) are called on to explain it, the descriptions of KM's value and impact can vary widely.
So, organisational learning is what Gary facilitates.
The LIKE evening started with Gary calling on four volunteers to assist in illustrating how 'knowledge' rapidly degrades when passed along a human chain. The first volunteer was told a story that contained a number of facts. Their job was to relate the tale to the next volunteer, ensuring the facts were transmitted. That volunteer then had to relate the story to the next person to enter the room and so on. Surprisingly, one of the participants asked if she could take notes – Gary said that was the first time anyone had ever thought to do so (maybe not so surprising that a LIKE member should think so practically :-)). His point was well illustrated though – facts evaporated in the telling, and the name of a publication morphed into another (the New Scientist became the New Statesman).
Transient knowledge fits into the high value, short life category – and the high value makes this knowledge well worth eliciting. Gary is often called in at times of change in organisations: when a round of redundancies is taking place, or when acquisitions and mergers are in progress. He facilitates meetings or dinners during which the outgoing individual (always a key team member or senior leader) is encouraged to pass on their knowledge and experience.
As anyone who's facilitated these exchanges can testify – the process is not easy or comfortable. The last thing a person who is feeling bruised and cynical may want is to share their professional knowledge with the organisation that is discarding them! So, as Gary pointed out, the approach you take is vitally important. Even if the organisation believes they own, or have a right to, that person's knowledge, the individual is likely to see things very differently. These structured exchanges do, however, offer them something worthwhile: respect for their professionalism and the value of their know-how; acknowledgment of their contribution and importance to their soon-to-be former colleagues. By making this respect and appreciation clear to the individual at the outset, exchanges which begin with hostility and suspicion can quickly become positive and rewarding experiences for both parties.
It may seem trite to say "do as you would be done by" – but it's a fact that this sentiment underpins good practice in Organisational Learning (or KM, sorry Gary). The moment you allow yourself to believe that time is too precious to invest in enabling individuals to exchange knowledge and information is the moment you step onto the wheel of organisational amnesia and recurrent mistakes from the past.


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Q: How expensive are pthread_rwlock_*? I just "accelerated" a piece of this code:
double value = ComputeSomething( point );

essentially like this:
double value;
pthread_rwlock_rdlock( & m_Mutex );
if( ! SmallCache.Find( point, & value ) ) {
    pthread_rwlock_unlock( & m_Mutex );
    double value = ComputeSomething( point );
    pthread_rwlock_wrlock( & m_Mutex );
    SmallCache.Add( point, value );
}
pthread_rwlock_unlock( & m_Mutex );
return value;

Cache hit is about 75%. Cache is a std::list; SmallCache.Find traverses it from begin to end. SmallCache.Add does push_front of new values and pop_back of old ones to keep the list fairly small, only 16 items. ComputeSomething is presumed to be moderately expensive.
The outcome of this acceleration (drumbeat) 5% slowdown.
Thus the questions: what could be the cause of the above slowdown? I suspect pthread_rwlock_*, although not sure. If the slowdown was indeed due to locking, how one can avoid that?

A: So, looking at the disassembly of the pthread_rwlock_rdlock and pthread_rwlock_wrlock, it's reasonably light-weight in the "fast case" (that is, there is no contention, we're able to take the lock with no difficulty) - about 20 instructions - one of which is a cmpxchg (so will ask any other processor to "release this cache-line"), but the rest are pretty simple/lightweight instructions.
Of course, if you have to wait, then you're in for a bit of a ride, but that's what you'd expect.
[And no, don't ask me EXACTLY how it works]
Below is the code for rdlock, but wrlock is pretty similar in complexity.
Code here:
  406760:   48 89 fa                mov    %rdi,%rdx
  406763:   90                      nop
  406764:   0f b6 47 20             movzbl 0x20(%rdi),%eax
  406768:   84 c0                   test   %al,%al
  40676a:   0f 8e 90 00 00 00       jle    406800 <__pthread_rwlock_rdlock+0xa0>   // May need to do stuff here

  406770:   83 e8 01                sub    $0x1,%eax
  406773:   88 47 20                mov    %al,0x20(%rdi)
  406776:   bf 01 00 00 00          mov    $0x1,%edi
  40677b:   31 c0                   xor    %eax,%eax
  40677d:   8b 72 1c                mov    0x1c(%rdx),%esi
  406780:   f0 0f b1 3a             lock cmpxchg %edi,(%rdx)
  406784:   74 16                   je     40679c <__pthread_rwlock_rdlock+0x3c>
<---- Lock maybe taken!
Else wait...
  406786:   48 8d 3a                lea    (%rdx),%rdi
  406789:   48 81 ec 80 00 00 00    sub    $0x80,%rsp
  406790:   e8 bb 34 00 00          callq  409c50 <__lll_lock_wait>
  406795:   48 81 c4 80 00 00 00    add    $0x80,%rsp

---> Maybe taken?
  40679c:   8b 72 18                mov    0x18(%rdx),%esi
  40679f:   85 f6                   test   %esi,%esi
  4067a1:   75 4c                   jne    4067ef <__pthread_rwlock_rdlock+0x8f>
<---- Take slow path.
 Else may still have taken the lock.
  4067a3:   8b 4a 14                mov    0x14(%rdx),%ecx
  4067a6:   85 c9                   test   %ecx,%ecx
  4067a8:   75 3e                   jne    4067e8 <__pthread_rwlock_rdlock+0x88>
<--- Nope, slow path
  4067aa:   8b 4a 04                mov    0x4(%rdx),%ecx
  4067ad:   8d 41 01                lea    0x1(%rcx),%eax
  4067b0:   85 c0                   test   %eax,%eax
  4067b2:   89 42 04                mov    %eax,0x4(%rdx)
  4067b5:   0f 84 d5 00 00 00       je     406890 <__pthread_rwlock_rdlock+0x130>
 <--- Slow path, lock not taken.
  Else: Success, we have the lock, update number of times it's locked.
  4067bb:   90                      nop
  4067bc:   45 31 c0                xor    %r8d,%r8d
  4067bf:   8b 72 1c                mov    0x1c(%rdx),%esi
  4067c2:   f0 ff 0a                lock decl (%rdx)
  4067c5:   74 16                   je     4067dd <__pthread_rwlock_rdlock+0x7d>
 <---- Lock been taken, return!
ELSE if necessary, call the wake function too.
  4067c7:   48 8d 3a                lea    (%rdx),%rdi
  4067ca:   48 81 ec 80 00 00 00    sub    $0x80,%rsp
  4067d1:   e8 1a 35 00 00          callq  409cf0 <__lll_unlock_wake>
  4067d6:   48 81 c4 80 00 00 00    add    $0x80,%rsp
--> We have the lock...
  4067dd:   44 89 c0                mov    %r8d,%eax
  4067e0:   c3                      retq

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A gооd massage саn bе the mоѕt rеlаxіng еxреrіеnсе еvеr. After a hard dау, whеn уоu аrе completely tеnѕе аnd juѕt саnnоt relax, thеrе іѕ nоthіng lіkе a mаѕѕаgе tо hеlр уоu unwind, аnd to relax аnd fееl better. It can аlѕо hеlр іf уоu have some ѕоrt оf aches аnd pains, of соurѕе – fоr persistent bасk aches and ѕhоuldеr асhеѕ, аnd even for headaches, a massage саn be оf іmmеnѕе help.
Using thе rіght mаѕѕаgе thеrару tесhnіԛuе іѕ vеrу іmроrtаnt, however. Yоu nееd nоt bе a professional mаѕѕеuѕе, but you hаvе to have ѕоmе elementary knоwlеdgе оf bаѕіс massage thеrару tесhnіԛuеѕ before уоu асtuаllу give ѕоmеbоdу a mаѕѕаgе, or уоu wіll not bе dоіng thе реrѕоn a favor of any sort. On thе оthеr hаnd, уоu mіght actually саuѕе thеm ѕоmе ѕоrt оf іnjurу аt worst, and discomfort and раіn at best.
So lеt uѕ tаkе a look аt thе basic mаѕѕаgе thеrару tесhnіԛuеѕ thаt you can uѕе.
Thеу саn be dіvіdеd іntо stages. Thе first ѕtаgе оf рrореr massage thеrару tесhnіԛuеѕ іѕ еfflеurаgе. Evеrу mаѕѕаgе ѕhоuld bеgіn wіth thіѕ. This uѕuаllу іѕ thе vеrу light ѕtrоkіng thаt уоu bеgіn wіth. However, fоr ѕоmе thіngѕ, like еdеmа, dеер еfflеurаgе саn hеlр.
Whеn you begin a mаѕѕаgе, kеер your hаndѕ оn thе аrеа уоu аrе аbоut tо massage, but bе vеrу lіght. Nоw ѕtrоkе, ԛuіtе lіghtlу, wіthоut tаkіng уоur hand away during thе durаtіоn оf thіѕ ѕtаgе. You саn ѕlіghtlу іnсrеаѕе thе рrеѕѕurе after a whіlе, but the реrѕоn уоu аrе mаѕѕаgіng must bе соmfоrtаblе аt all tіmеѕ. The рrеѕѕurе muѕt bе increased аѕ уоu mоvе tоwаrdѕ the hеаrt, аnd dесrеаѕеd аѕ уоu mоvе аwау from thе hеаrt.
Pеtrіѕаgе іѕ thе next stage оf a massage. Yоu can uѕе еіthеr your fіngеrtірѕ оr thе hееlѕ оf your palms tо ѕlіghtlу рull thе muscle tissue towards уоu and knead. Again, thе саrdіnаl rulе is that thе person you are massaging muѕt be соmfоrtаblе at аll times. This саn 'hurt gооd', thоugh, which іѕ a gооd thing.
Thе nеxt ѕtаgе уоu саn go on to іѕ Tароtеmеnt, but unless your ѕubjесt is іn gооd physical ѕhаре, he оr she might nоt lіkе it. You use thе ѕіdеѕ of уоur palms to hасk wіth mеdіum рrеѕѕurе, оr uѕе уоur cupped hаndѕ, іnѕtеаd. If the реrѕоn hаѕ аnу physical аіlmеntѕ, thіѕ іѕ not аdvіѕаblе.
Thе fourth ѕtаgе іѕ frісtіоn – with еіthеr your thumb or уоur fіngеr tips, аррlу pressure in a circle to the bony раrtѕ, lіkе knееѕ оr the ѕріnе, аnd hold.
Yоu саn еnd wіth thе massage therapy tесhnіԛuе effleurage again, and hopefully уоur ѕubjесt wіll be hарру and rеlаxеd!


South Wales Police and Gwent Police Joint Legal Services (JLS) is a strategic alliance between South Wales Police and Gwent Police. It was established in April 2010.
JLS provides legal support and services to its four respective clients – the Chief Constables of South Wales and Gwent Police, South Wales Police and Crime Commissioner and Gwent Police and Crime Commissioner. The four clients were fully supportive in the establishment of JLS.
We are justly proud that JLS was the first collaborative joint venture legal services team within a police environment in the whole of the United Kingdom. The business model for the establishment of the JLS has been very successful – so successful in fact that most collaborative joint legal services departments being established in the United Kingdom are done so on the Gwent / South Wales Model.
JLS is one team spread over two geographical locations, namely; South Wales Police Headquarters in Bridgend and Gwent Police Headquarters in Croesyceiliog, Cwmbran. The JLS team is virtual, ensuring adequate resilience to our clients in the respective business areas detailed above.


by Pink Elephant & Co.
Get yourselves down to Muniwine and learn how to make an amazingly fun heart piñata. Not only will you walk away with your very own piñata, you'll have learned a new skill in the process. Price includes all materials (glue, tape, template).


The wide open barren lands of Newfoundland's south coast is a vast area covering hundreds of square miles from the Atlantic Ocean in the south all the way up to the Gaff Topsails. The land is rolling, nearly treeless tundra (except for the valleys) covered with moss and lichen. This is the last great wilderness frontier of Newfoundland and this is home to the woodland caribou.
More than five thousand strong the LaPoile woodland caribou herd is the second largest herd of Caribou on the island of Newfoundland. The herd wanders a vast area from near Stephenville in the north to the Burgeo and Port au Basque wintering grounds in the south.The caribou hunting season opens mid-August when the small scattered groups of mature bulls start to herd up. The August woodland bulls are sometimes in velvet which is mostly gone by the beginning of September.
There are a limited number of caribou outfitters offering fully guided hunts and each have their own designated area. Caribou management is a high priority here as less than ten percent of the herd is allocated for sport hunting.
Appalachian Outfitters operate three caribou outfitting logdes in Newfoundland and each does an excellent job in harvesting trophy caribou bulls. All hunting lodges come highly reccommended from many hunters who have experienced the Appalachian adventure, and references can be provided upon request. The world record for safari international was taken here in 1998.
All three camps are owned by Appalachian Outfitters. Dedicated professional outdoorsmen known for our special brand of northern hospitality.
Six days of caribou hunting costs between $US 2950.00 and $US 3450.00 depending on the time of booking. Ask us about discount hunts and combination hunts (caribou and/or moose and/or black bear and/or game birds) A deposit is required and it is always wise to book well in advance. We have openings for 2003 for 6 hunters so give us a call.
Packages includes transportation to and from hunting lodge, licenses, permits, trophy fees, guide service and shipping cost of trophies and gratuities from lodge to base. Rest assured your trophy will be packed and well looked after for its journey home.
Remember, this is the North and weather can be unpredicable and cold. Therefore dress accordingly. This should include a good pair of thermal long underwear, warm shirts, light weight parka, windbreaker, insulated vest, warm hat, raincoat and pants, and waterproof walking boots. Dressing appropriately can make your hunt enjoyable during any weather condition.
Now you are ready for an hunting experience you will not soon forget.


The LG G3 is an amazing new smartphone that recently debuted in the United States after shattering sales records in South Korea.
Despite being only a few weeks old, the American versions of the LG G3 have already been successfully rooted.
Thanks to the intelligent folks over at the XDA Developers Forum, we now have a working LG G3 root for Verizon and AT&T.
The rooting method appears to be simple – at least compared to other complicated rooting methods out there today.
All you'll need is a Windows machine, a few special drivers, and ADB.
You can use this method on a PC, Mac, or Linux distro.
Currently, this method is not working for the LG G3 on Sprint or T-Mobile's networks. Shoutout to DroidModderX for the detailed tutorial video listed above!


Mary holds a BCL(Hons) from University College Dublin.
Mary is a Partner in the firm. Mary has specialised in the area of family law since the late 1980s. She has considerable experience in the practice of family law in the Irish Courts and has been involved in many significant family law cases.
Mary is a member and former chairperson of the Family Lawyers Association of Ireland. She has lectured on family law at various Seminars and Conferences.
Mary will discuss with you the options available with a view to advising you on arrangements that best suit your needs and the needs of your family.


Start Agra journey by car in early morning. Agra is at the distance of 230 kilometers from Delhi. Check-in to hotel, upon arrival in Delhi. Next you'll be served breakfast. In afternoon, you'll be taken for trip to Agra Fort and Taj Mahal, two major offerings of the city. Description: In the span of 22 years (1631-1653) Taj Mahal was built by Mughal emperor Shah Jahan, as it was the last wish of his beloved wife Mumtaz Mahal. In those ancient days, 20 thousand laborers were hired and 32 crore rupees were spent in the construction of Taj Mahal, which is counted amongst the UNESCO world heritage sites.
After breakfast in hotel room, you'll be visiting Amber Fort, which is situated on the outskirts of Jaipur. Enjoy the elephant ride and spend your morning exploring the marvelous fort. In afternoon travel around the city and relish its beautiful creations. City Palace is one of the sights which you'll love visiting as it is this place where the royal family resides. Apart from the few rooms, rest ones are open for visitors. The palace has wonderful architecture and displays old & royal weapons as well as charismatic paintings. Next on the list is Palace of Winds, Hawa Mahal, which has 953 small windows. This palace was built for royal Rajput women to admire the outside world through the windows, as they couldn't go in public. Then is excursion to Jantar-Mantar Observatory where you can admire countless astronomical instruments and Jal Mahal, where you will love the royal treatment. Once the sightseeing is done, go to Chaugan stadium to get entertained watching the Elephant festival and in evening watch the Holika Dahan in City Palace. Head to hotel and rest overnight there.


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Review: 'Human Archipelago' shines light on refugees and our shared humanity
A photograph featured in the book "Human Archipelago," Night-walking in Benares, India, 2012.
(Fazal Sheikh)
By Sharon Mizota
"Who is the stranger?
Who is kin?
What do we owe each other?
What, in the inferno, is not infernal?"
Thus opens "Human Archipelago," a quietly powerful collaboration between writer Teju Cole and photographer Fazal Sheikh. Created in response to the inferno of the current global political moment, the book intersperses Sheikh's photographs of displaced people and sites of trauma across the globe with short, textual responses by Cole, himself a photographer, writer and photography critic for the New York Times Magazine. The result is a poetic, episodic meditation on nothing less than what it means to be human.
There are no refugees, only fellow citizens whose rights we have failed to acknowledge.
A photograph featured in the book "Human Archipelago." From left, Shamso, Zahara and Alima, Somali refugee camp, Liboi, Kenya, 1994.
In other, less fraught political times, this ambition might have come across as pretentious. The appeal to a universal humanity would have seemed naïve, or worse, reductive, reminiscent of Edward Steichen's much-criticized 1955 exhibition and book, "The Family of Man." But in these times, when basic human dignity is assaulted in lethal and symbolic ways every day, it feels wholly necessary to return to first principles.
Sheikh's portraits are frank, beautifully framed and lit; they give the dignity of portraiture — traditionally reserved for aristocrats and the wealthy — to refugees, homeless people and orphans. For the most part, the subjects' gazes are direct, unflinching. They look back at us, person to person. By contrast, the landscapes and aerial views are dispassionate, atmospheric, often bordering on abstraction. Their beauty belies the fact that many are records of violence, ruins of aggression, sites of imprisonment. Both people and places bear the scars of a human pact that has been broken.
Why should the ruins of an American internment camp be any more affecting than the ruins of a bombed-out Palestinian town?
Cole's short textual responses — none longer than a page, most barely a paragraph — read like prose poems. They draw on multiple, far-flung sources, from Homer and Shakespeare to Martin Luther King Jr., postcolonial theory and recent news stories on racial profiling. They proffer meditations on the bounds of our common humanity: the stranger and the obligations of hospitality; the bonds between mothers and children; who speaks and who is silenced. Throughout, the texts return in fugue-like fashion to these concepts, building in a slow crescendo to a quiet rage against racism, torture, war, environmental degradation and our own blindness. "We've tried to tell you in every different way and can only now conclude you'd rather not know," he writes, despairingly.
The alternating texts and images feel almost cinematic, illuminating one another or creating unexpected juxtapositions. Commenting on a suite of portraits of older people, Cole compares their wrinkled faces to the folds of cloth draped around their heads: "We are folded beings. Our skin, which is our interface (the word is carefully chosen) with the world, is a zone of folds." It's a touching conceit, that a person might be a collection of folds, of unknown depths that might one day unfurl before you.
A photograph featured in the book "Human Archipelago." Annu, Jai Hind squatter settlement, Delhi, India, 2008.
Another particularly lovely sequence takes advantage of the bilateral symmetry of the book. It's all images, pairing portraits of Palestinians and Israelis on opposite pages. When one closes the book, it's as if they kiss.
There's only one problem. You wouldn't know they were Palestinians and Israelis unless you looked for the captions in the back of the book. Similarly, it was only by flipping back and forth that I learned what looked like a pockmarked wall was actually an aerial view of the remains of a WWII Japanese American internment camp.
Anisa Aḥmad Jāber Maḥamīd, Born in al-Lajjūn, Jenīn District in 1908, Umm el-Faḥem Arab-Israeli town, 2011
Footnote chasers like me will find our enjoyment of the book's lyricism hampered somewhat by the compulsion to know at whom and what we're looking. (Cole's texts are also copiously annotated.) To be sure, a stream of notes would have interrupted the book's clean design and our ability to regard its subjects simply as people, apart from racial, ethnic, national, class, religious, gender or geographical associations. However, their absence turns the subjects into generalized symbols of human suffering, dangerously unmoored from specific historical and contemporary realities. It makes it easy to extend our sympathy without having to confront very real differences of circumstance, background and belief.
Yet this appeal to something larger is Cole and Sheikh's point: Why should the ruins of an American internment camp be any more affecting than the ruins of a bombed-out Palestinian town? Both are evidence of disregard for our shared humanity. As Cole writes, "There are no refugees, only fellow citizens whose rights we have failed to acknowledge."
In "Human Archipelago" this truth unfolds page by page, plain as day.
"Human Archipelago"
Fazal Sheikh and Teju Cole
Steidl, 256 pp., $45
Mizota is an art critic and archivist whose writing appears regularly in the Los Angeles Times.
The Apollo 11 mission to the moon launched 50 years ago. These 8 books tell the story
Here are eight books inspired by the Apollo 11 moonshot, on its 50th anniversary, for readers of all ages.
This gorgeous book on NASA's glory days will inspire the astronaut in all of us
Mojave Desert creates ideal climate for Laila Lalami's story of immigrants
Why author Laila Lalami chose the Mojave desert as the setting for "The Other Americans," the latest read of the Los Angeles Times Book Club
5 Things to know about 'The Other Americans'
Susan Orlean and readers share library stories at L.A. Times Book Club launch
Sen. Chris Murphy announces new book on violence and guns
Sen. Chris Murphy, the Connecticut Democrat who has become a leading voice in Congress on the issue of gun control, is writing a book about violence in America.
Chuck Klosterman's new book digs into philosophical questions that shape modern culture
Chuck Klosterman discusses new book "Raised in Captivity," a collection of fiction and nonfiction stories.
Review: Chuck Klosterman shifts his pop culture-obsessions to fiction in 'Raised in Captivity'
New L.A. book festival LitLit announces talks by poets Yesika Salgado, Vickie Vertiz and more
The city's newest book festival, to be held at the Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles arts complex, will host four panels on July 20 and 21 as part of its programming, which will also include more than 20 exhibitors from L.A. and other cities on the West Coast.
The Happy Foot Sad Foot sign is moving. These books may fill the foot-shaped void in your heart
Los Angeles was delivered a body blow recently: Our most important sign is moving south.
Michael Connelly's 'Lincoln Lawyer' will be adapted for the small screen
Author Michael Connelly's bestselling "Lincoln Lawyer" series of novels is headed to the small screen.
Review: Susan Straight's summer book picks transport readers beyond 'beach reads'
Every year, summer reading lists are published, with "beach reads, perfect for the season."
What's in a name? Josh Kun mines the library's autograph collection for new book and exhibit
In a new age of auto-signatures and celebrity selfies, it's easy to dismiss autographs as a dying art.


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Q: Loading a Log file realtime in a div container and stilll be able to scroll through it I did some searching and could not find a question similar. Could not get the subject to come out right. Here is what I made to read MC logs.
I wanted the logs to scroll up, with the recent being at the bottom in a div with scroll bar.
That works fine.
Next i wanted the display to update within  a second of the server log.
That too, works fine
What is NOT working, is when I want to slide the scrollbar up, the script I have forces it back down.
How can I create this so the log is still read LIVE, but still allows me to scroll up or down for past entries.
This is the script on the page

I do understand that the 250ms is the culprit for forcing the logs and interferring iwth the back scroll, but I dont see a way to get this to stop. If I take it out, the log wont be read live,
This is the script for reading the logfile. this is pretty basic and left here for reference for anyone interesting in reading a text file.
function readLogFile(url) {

    var jsonFile = new XMLHttpRequest();
    jsonFile.open("POST",url,true);
    jsonFile.send();

    jsonFile.onreadystatechange = function() {
        if (jsonFile.readyState== 4 && jsonFile.status == 200) {
            var logStr = jsonFile.responseText;

           // replace CR/LF with

           // comment out the following line if useing TEXTAREA tag vs DIV
           logStr = logStr.replace(/(?:\r\n|\r|\n)/g, '
');

            // manipulate the logStr here - with colors etc...

            // put it in your div
            document.getElementById("logText").innerHTML = logStr.replace(/[\""]/g, '\\"');

        }
     };
}

Thanks for checking this for me.


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Former high school baseball player pleads no contest to assault, hazing
by Stephen Simpson | July 11, 2019 at 1:21 p.m. 5comments
A former central Arkansas baseball player pleaded no contest Tuesday to charges related to the assault and hazing of younger students on a school bus.
A Polk County judge found Lorenz A. Fehrenbacher, 19, guilty of misdemeanor charges of third-degree assault and hazing, according to court records. A third-degree battery charge was not prosecuted as part of the plea.
He was also ordered to have no contact with the victims in this case and is required to pay $810 in fines and costs.
Fehrenbacher and Greg Lester were 18 years old when they were arrested in October of 2018 in connection with assaulting and hazing younger students on a school bus during a trip with their high school baseball team, authorities said.
According to an arrest warrant, Lester and Fehrenbacher were sitting in the back of a school bus during a Bauxite High School baseball team trip March 2 when they called four freshmen to the back of the bus. Lester and Fehrenbacher told the younger students they would beat them up if they didn't do as they were told, the document states. One of the freshmen told authorities he was afraid because the older teens had "beaten him up in the past," according to the document.
When one of the younger students went to the back of the bus, Fehrenbacher and Lester "stuck their fingers in there [sic] buttocks and grabbed their testicles" over the boy's clothing, according to the warrant. The freshman said the older boys held him down "while someone counted," the document states.
Fehrenbacher hit one of the freshmen in the chest while the boy was walking to the back of the bus, which made him fall back and lose his breath, the warrant states.
Lester's case is still pending in court, with his defense attorney filing a motion in March for the state to produce the Arkansas Department of Education's investigative file into the two coaches on the school bus.
"One of the defense theories of the case is consent: The purported victims consented to physical contact and alleged hazing," attorney John Wesley Hall said in his motion. "The two coaches on the bus were responsible for the students. Moreover, they apparently deny hearing or seeing anything when speaking to the ASP in the police investigation, but, as some of the state's witnesses state in the reports, that's not just possible – they had to hear."
When you put "central Arkansas" in the headline it could confuse people thinking it has something to do with UCA.
hogfan2012
Agree with Maxcady...
Bully players & coaches.
DANNY46
Yesabout UCA. They should say ASTC.
Haha, I remember when it was SCA (State College of Arkansas).


If You Can't Bandage It, Duct It!
This is funny is a duct tape sort of way.
WASILLA, Alaska – A hunter attacked by a grizzly bear on a remote trail said he used duct tape to bind his bite wounds, then rode an all-terrain vehicle to his pickup truck and drove himself to a hospital.


When I initially realised that, I was totally overwhelmed. Not in a way that I felt bad about myself or what I've done in my life thus far. But it I was suddenly very aware that I could and should be doing much more to just love more. Be more inclusive. Promote and enable unity.
An idea that has been very prominent in my life in recent months is one of having an impact. One of my primary pursuits of that impact has been how I've tried to change my work and business around to be family- or life-first.
Today I just feel that I have a responsibility to pursuit that with even more fervour. I have an opportunity to make an impact.


Looks like there's a war brewing in the enterprise open source java space between SpringSource and Redhat/JBoss.
A couple of days ago, Redhat announced their JBoss Open Choice strategy and the first thing that popped into my mind was "interesting....Redhat is starting to recognize that SpringSource is a threat too..." Yesterday, SpringSource CEO Rod Johnson blogged about it and, boy, it was harsh! This was Wrestlemania-worthy trash talking!
I'm a customer of redhat/jboss and I was a customer of covalent back before covalent spun off hyperic, merged with springsource, and then bought hyperic back and I agree that Open Choice for a large part is purely defensive but not necessarily just a defensive move against Springsource. Granted, for customers thinking of migrating to SpringSource platforms purely for enterprise support of Spring, Redhat can say, "Oh, don't bother. We support Spring, too, as well as Struts, apache, tomcat, blah, blah, blah" but also because Oracle's acquisition of Sun. It's all about the stacks and now Redhat can say that they have one and the one they have isn't bad at all.
I am very interested in seeing what Redhat winds up doing as far as their technologies go because Redhat does utilize stuff that SpringSource now serves somewhat in the role of steward for. For example, the JBoss Web Server is a repackaged version of tomcat with some neat additions like a mod_rewrite implementation and some PHP stuff. Jopr, JON, and RHQ are all based on Hyperic's HQ but geared towards managing your JBoss 'stack'.
Redhat might have some success with Torquebox if they can integrate that well with the JBoss Web server for those folks who want to develop Rails apps but don't want JBossAS and are frightened of Mongrel, Phusion Passenger, or Rack. Maybe Redhat could buy Scala, if that is even possible, in order to answer Springsource's acquisition of the Groovy and Grails stuff. What Redhat/JBoss seems to lack right now is that wild-eyed base of fans that SpringSource seems to enjoy. Spring framework developers really, really seem to love Spring. I have yet to witness many (any?) rabid Seam developers.
If anyone out there uses tc server, can you let me know what you think?
As far as SpringSource's dm server goes, I have to confess that I don't yet "get" OSGI so the whole "we rock because we have an OSGI-based container and jboss doesn't" argument from a few months ago was lost on me.
If anything, there are interesting times ahead for those of us who like to steer clear of the larger, traditional commercial vendors. I can't wait to read Redhat's reply!


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Pierre Notting (1825–1895) was a Luxembourgian rosarian known for his breeding of rose cultivars.

In 1855, in association with his friend Jean Soupert, he established the "Soupert & Notting" company specializing in growing roses in Limpertsberg. During the next years, and as from 1861, "Soupert & Notting" obtained medals at international competitions  in France, Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom  and the United States of America.

In 1874, Jean Pernet, père from Lyon dedicated them a moss rose: "Soupert & Notting".

Pierre Noting died in Luxembourg in 1895. His death was commemorated with an apricot-colored tea rose, called "Souvenir de Pierre Notting", which in 1899 obtained a great gold medal in Ixelles, followed in 1903 by first prizes in Maastricht and Douai.

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Rose breeders
Luxembourgian gardeners
People from Luxembourg City
1825 births
1895 deaths

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaWikipedia


The Renaissance was originally centered in Italy, but in time spread throughout all of Europe. In France King Francis I imported Italian art and artists, including Leonardo da Vinci. At great expense he built ornate palaces. Writers such as Rabelais also borrowed from the spirit of the Italian Renaissance. From France the spirit of the age spread to the Low Countries and Germany, and finally to England by the late sixteenth century. There the Elizabethan era saw writers such as William Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe as well as great artists, composers, and architects.
In the late 15th century, when Italian Renaissance influences begin to show, the influence of the Early Netherlandish masters, such as Van Eyck,Rogier van der Weyden, and Memling, leads to a largely religious and narrative style of painting.
The first painter showing the marks of the new era is Hieronymus Bosch. His work is strange and full of seemingly irrational imagery, making it difficult to interpret. Most of all it seems surprisingly modern, introducing a world of dreams that highly contrasts with the traditional style of the Flemish masters of his day.
After 1550 the Flemish and Dutch painters begin to show more interest in nature and in beauty an sich, leading to a style that incorporates Renaissance elements, but remains far from the elegant lightness of Italian Renaissance art,  and directly leads to the themes of the great Flemish and Dutch Baroque painters: landscapes, still lifes and genre painting - scenes from everyday life.
This evolution is seen in the works of Joachim Patinir and Pieter Aertsen, but the true genius among these painters was Pieter Brueghel the Elder, well known for his depictions of nature and everyday life, showing a preference for the natural condition of man, choosing to depict the peasant instead of the prince.
Early Renaissance painting bridges the period of European art history between the art of the Middle Ages and the art of the Renaissance.
Urs Graf (born 1485 in Solothurn, Switzerland; died after 1529) was a Swiss Renaissance painter and engraver.
Graf learned his profession first from his father, Hugo Graf, then from a goldsmith in Zürich. He initially earned money as a desinger of book illustrations and by assisting a stained glass painter. In 1512, he became a member of the goldsmith guild and a citizen of Basel. He quickly came in conflict with the law for abusing his wife and supporting prostitution, cumulating in attempted murder, making him leave the city in 1518. He was reinvited to Basel one year later and continued working. In 1527, he vanished from the city, never to be found again, though a signed drawing from 1529 exists.