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Admiral: The US Is 'Operating Blind' In the Arctic
The Navy needs more weather data to better operate in the cold northern seas.
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When it comes to predicting fluctuations in Arctic weather, the United States is "operating in the blind," the U.S. Navy's chief meteorologist said Monday.
The northern polar region is heating up about twice as fast as the rest of the globe, creating wildly variable weather and conditions that don't happen anywhere else. As climate change makes the Arctic more accessible, the Navy's ships, subs, and aircraft need better weather models to help them operate in the region's chaotic seas, Rear Adm. John Okon told an audience at the Navy League's Sea-Air-Space conference on Monday.
Okon said relatively small atmospheric events in the Arctic, sometimes called polar lows, can be as dangerous as hurricanes at lower latitudes. They "develop quick and move really fast," he said.
Over the next three years, the Navy Research Lab, NOAA, and other partners will work to develop better predictions through the Earth System Prediction Capability, which Okon described as "a national effort to develop and deliver a fully-coupled air, ocean, ice and land models."
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But, he says, having good modeling software doesn't do you much good without the hard data on Arctic conditions to run the models.
"In the Arctic, traditional sensors that provide the bulk of observations in the mid and low [latitude locations] just don't work," he said. "Things like geostationary satellites that provide the environmental observations, gliders, argo floats; they don't provide the access or persistency required of the Arctic Ocean," he said.
As a result, the Navy doesn't have the hard data to make predictive models run as well as they are supposed to. "The current amount of observations that we have in the Arctic are similar to the amount of observations we had over the U.S. and in the Atlantic during WWI," he said.
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using Duality.Editor;
using Duality.Input;
using Duality.Plugins.Companion.Audio;
using Duality.Resources;

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Q: Setting custom process as Heroku web process type I have a git repository with two applications. One backend API, the other client-side application.
In my root Procfile, I have this:
api: cd apps/api && mix phx.server
clientside: cd apps/clientside && mix phx.server

However Heroku complains that there is no web process type.
heroku[router]: at=error code=H14 desc="No web processes running"

How can I tell Heroku to use a custom process in my procfile as the web process?

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What is a Local Lay Minister?
A Local Lay Minister is someone who is called by God, trained, and commissioned by the Bishop to exercise a particular ministry within their faith community. Each Local Lay Minister has a unique and specific role which brings together their gifts and the needs of their faith community. It generally involves some leadership responsibility.
Overseeing a pastoral visiting team in the parish.
Pastoral involvement in baptisms and funerals.
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Supported and recommended by your Church's leadership.


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THE LAST RANGER #4 THE RABID BRIGADIER BY CRAIG SARGENT
Martin Stone wakes up after passing out after escaping and blowing up the Dwarf's resort. He finds out the whores that he rescued rolled him and took all his weapons. So he has to fight some scavenger types that come around to loot the bodies. Fortunately Stone was trained by his father and he has no problem taking them out and escaping. He comes to his hidden motorcycle guarded by his pitbull Excalibur. So he takes off to find his friend Dr. Kennedy and his sister April who also escaped from the Dwarf's resort.
Along the way he gets caught up in a flash flood but fortunately his Harley can turn into a flotation device. Still he is in danger of going over the falls on the Green River when an army helicopter comes along and pulls him out. He is taken to Grand Junction and Ft. Bradley. There he finds an organization called the New American Army under General Patton III. He is organizing to take back America from the mobsters, biker gangs and cannibals that now rule it. At first he feels this organization is offering hope for a shattered country and gladly lets himself be drafted. He proves to be an exceptional recruit over the hicks that they usually get. He also has a romance with the nurse that first treated him the blonde Elizabeth Williamson who is the girl on the cover with the provocatively open blouse.
He gets to meet the man himself General Patton III who he impresses so much that he is given a colonel commission and command of a detail to take out some local cannibals. His mission is a success but is horrified when the men massacre surrendering women and children. He soon finds out that Patton III is actually a man with a goal of imposing a fascist rule that would kill off the undesirables and racially impure. He has a plan to use one of his nuclear missiles to take out a nearby criminal gathering at Glenwood Springs. Stone decides to turn against the madman and warns the scum gathering. He forms a temporary truce with them and leads them on a successful attack of Ft. Bradley. He destroys the missile but Patton III escapes and leaves a message on his murdered girlfriend's body that he has other missiles and followers.
So the fourth book introduces probably the most colorful villain that Stone has to face. This one at first seems like a force for good. His NAA is restoring law and order. Only the guy is a nut case. If the kooky blood rituals and fist salutes weren't enough of a tip off then the fact that the guy thinks he's Patton's descendant should have done it. The guy is just over the top nuts. He plans to use his ten megaton ICBM and damn the liberal ecology bullshit. Also is oblivious to the fact that his base is in the blast radius.
He also has the obligatory chapter devoted to his sex scene with the local hot chick. A whole chapter to his size and shooting of volcanic lava etc. etc. This is the first time he loses one of his girlfriends but a guy like Stone has no trouble finding others so its an acceptable loss. Also while it isn't ever mentioned I think Patton has made himself a full General so the Brigadier in the title is not really accurate. I guess the author found it better sounding that Rapid General.
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THE LAST RANGER #3 THE MADMAN'S MANSION BY CRAIG SARGENT
THE LAST RANGER #5 THE WAR WEAPONS BY CRAIG SARGENT

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Express Newark opened its doors in January 2017. Together with Newark artists and arts organizations, faculty, staff, and students from Rutgers University—Newark conceptualized Express Newark as a "Third Space" where everyone communicates on equal footing works in tandem to incubate talent, cultivate engaged scholarship and promote social practice.
Express Newark's open and welcoming ethos is codified in our logo – a cubic form that is read as open and welcoming space when the letter "E" and "N" form two of the sides of the cube. There are three colors in the logo to represent how the university and community come together to make the "Third Space" or simply stated: 1 + 1 = 3. We recognize that together we are better – we are greater than the sum of our parts.
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With a focus on arts, entrepreneurship and social justice, Express Newark houses a variety of university and community partners. We offer many opportunities for collaboration: college courses, internships, workshops to the public, and artist residencies. All of these efforts are supported by access to arts spaces, and state of the art equipment. Through many mediums Express Newark strives to highlight Newark's rich history and cultural assets.
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An area to keep your books. Ideally, this should be a shelf.
One of the challenges most young people face when they try to create space for their books is that they have too many books. One of the best ways to deal with this problem is to sell textbooks online so that you rid yourself of the old books that you do not use and leave only your current textbooks. If you want to do this, see where you can make a bookshelf or find an old cabinet where you can store away your old books and if you can't do this yourself, for sure one of your parents or friends will lend a helping hand.
Now that you have all the necessary items in place, you need to find the space where you can create your study area. It could be beneath a window, the space under the stairs, or even a converted closet.
Place your desk where you need it to be. Essentially, you are creating a flat surface to work on. You can find a do-it-yourself option or get professional help.
Add the storage space needed. This should hold notebooks, supplies, pens, and pencils to keep your space tidy.
Make it comfortable. You want a space that is comfortable, attractive and not cluttered. It needs to be a space that you enjoy sitting in. Add a houseplant or a framed picture to make it welcoming.
With your own study area at home that you love and enjoy sitting at, you won't have to worry about going to the library every day or not having a place to study once the library has closed. You can enjoy your own space in the comfort and privacy of your home. This works particularly well if you enjoy studying late in the night or in the very early morning hours as some do. Simply make yourself a cup of coffee, sit at your desk and get busy studying for that test, doing that assignment or simply reading up for the next class. This will also boost your self-confidence.


Millennials may stand to gain more from an expansion of government health insurance than people in any other age group. Fully a third (33%) of those younger than age 30 say they are not covered by health insurance; that compares with 19% of those in Generation X, and smaller percentages of Baby Boomers (12%) and those in the Silent Generation (3%).
Yet Millennials' support for the health care proposals before Congress has been lukewarm at best. Millennials do favor many of the individual components in these proposals — for example, 65% favor the so-called "public option." But small percentages of young people expect their own health care or insurance coverage to improve if health care legislation passes. And as is typically the case with major policy issues, Millennials have largely tuned out of the health care debate: They are far less likely than those in older age groups to report they have heard a lot about the issue.
In the Pew Research Center's most recent survey, conducted in early January, fewer than half (47%) of Millennials (those younger than age 30) said they generally favored the health care proposals being discussed in Congress, while 36% were opposed.
To be sure, older age groups were even less supportive of the health care bills before Congress: Among Gen X, the Baby Boomers and Silent Generation, there was more opposition than support for the proposals; majorities of Baby Boomers (52%) and members of the Silent Generation (54%) opposed the health care bills.
There have been only modest changes in opinions about health care legislation — either among the general public or across age categories — since the summer. About as many Millennials said they supported the proposals in January (47%) as did so last July (44%). Support for the bills has remained fairly steady among older people as well.
Pew Research Center surveys in July and October found that the public was more supportive of the individual elements of health care bills than of the legislation itself. This was the case for all age groups, including Millennials.
In particular, Millennials broadly favored two of the bills' proposals that potentially could impact people who currently lack health insurance coverage: the requirement that all Americans have insurance, with the government providing help for those unable to afford it, and a government health insurance plan to compete with private plans.
Sizable majorities across all age groups favored the requirement that all Americans have insurance — the so-called individual mandate. But Millennials and Gen Xers were much more supportive of a government health insurance plan — the so-called public option — than were Baby Boomers or those in the Silent Generation.
In both July and October, clear majorities of Millennials favored the public option (61% July, 65% October); most Gen Xers also supported the public option (57%, 60% respectively). But opinion was more mixed among older age groups: In October, just 51% of Boomers and 40% of those in the Silent Generation favored a government health insurance plan to compete with private plans.
However, as is the case with older Americans, most Millennials do not expect their own health care to improve if the legislation before Congress becomes law. Perhaps equally important, relatively few expect that their ability to obtain health insurance — if they lose a job or change jobs — to get better if the measure passes.
In January, just a third of Millennials (33%) said their ability to get insurance if they lose a job or change jobs would get better if the legislation becomes law; comparable percentages of Gen Xers (39%) and Baby Boomers (38%) said the same. Just 14% of those in the Silent Generation — most of whom are covered by Medicare — expected their ability to get coverage would improve under these circumstances.
About a quarter (24%) of those under age 30 said the quality of care would get better, which is somewhat higher than the percentage of older Americans saying their care would improve. More Millennials than older Americans also said they expected their out-of-pocket health care costs to improve if legislation becomes law; but as many Millennials said their out-of-pocket costs would get worse (34%) as said they would get better (33%) if a health care bill becomes law.
When the health care debate began in earnest last summer, Millennials were far less likely than older Americans to say they had heard a lot about the health care proposals before Congress. The gap in engagement remained about as large six months later.
In January, only about a quarter (27%) of those younger than age 30 said they heard a lot about the issue. That compared with 44% of Gen Xers and majorities of Baby Boomers (54%) and those in the Silent Generation (58%). These percentages have changed only modestly since July.
Moreover, young people are far less likely than those in older age groups to know facts about health care legislation and the legislative process. In Pew Research's news quiz last fall, just 40% of Millennials knew that the public option being discussed in Congress dealt with health care; clear majorities in older age groups answered this question correctly. In the most recent news quiz, released Jan. 28, few Americans could correctly answer two questions relating to the Senate's consideration of health care legislation. Just 32% knew that the Senate bill passed without a single Republican vote and even fewer (26%) knew that it takes 60 Senate votes to break a filibuster.
Millennials fared even worse on these questions than did older Americans. Just 16% of those younger than 30 knew that the Senate bill passed with no GOP votes and 14% answered the filibuster question correctly. Those were by far the lowest percentages for any age group.


Born and raised in America's heartland, Jeni Dodd has journeyed far from the plains of Kansas to remote tea-growing regions throughout the world in search of the perfect cup of tea. The owner of Jeni Dodd Tea, a company dedicated to importing hand-crafted, unique specialty teas and offering tea education for groups and events, Jeni seeks to expand the public's awareness of the specialty tea market and lead consumers to discover the exquisite joy of the leaf.
Over the last decade, Jeni Dodd has dedicated and committed herself to acquiring as much possible knowledge about the tea industry, tea culture and tea processing. She is a Certified Tea Specialist through the Specialty Tea Institute and has completed all of STI's Level IV courses offered to date. She earned a Certified Tea Masterä designation from the International Tea Master's Association.
While finishing law school in London, Jeni Dodd first developed a passion for tea. Earl Grey was her 'gateway' tea and that eventually led to her appreciation of specialty tea. While practicing as a corporate litigation attorney in New York City, she found that her desire to know more about tea outweighed her desire for the law and she formed Jeni Dodd Tea. While she still does some legal work and never forgets her Kansas roots with enthusiastic support of her Kansas Jayhawk basketball tea, her primary focus is growing her tea business and continuing to learn about and facilitate discovery of the endlessly fascinating world of tea.


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Johann Birnbaum (23. února 1793 Jiřetín pod Jedlovou – 18. září 1872 Jiřetín pod Jedlovou) byl česko-německý malíř obrazů s církevními náměty, portrétů, krajinek a betlémů. Zakázky získával po celých Čechách a na Moravě, nejvíce však ve Šluknovském výběžku.

Život
Johann Birnbaum se narodil v rodině jiřetínského krejčího Sebastiana Birnbauma. Malířství se učil nejprve u místního malíře a betlémáře Augustina Donata nebo jeho bratra Antona. V letech 1821–1822 studoval na pražské Akademii výtvarných umění pod vedením Josefa Berglera (1753–1829). V téže době školu navštěvoval také Josef Führich (1800–1876), který Birnbauma označil za jednoho z nejlepších krajinářů své doby. Tři z jeho devíti dětí – synové Johann ml. (1825–1866), Konrad (1827–1899) a Ferdinand (1835–1884) – se stali rovněž malíři. Johann Birnbaum zemřel v rodné obci dne 18. září 1872 ve věku 79 let.

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Ve své tvorbě se Johann Birnbaum věnoval převážně malbě církevních obrazů, portrétů a betlémů, pro obyvatele Jiřetína a okolí vypracoval také množství krajinek. Regionálně oblíbeným a uznávaným se stal již během svého života, zakázky však získával po celých Čechách a na Moravě. Během svého života vytvořil 21 souborů křížových cest. Jím malované figury betlémů byly typické spojením jemně laděné červené a zelené barvy.

Malby Johanna Birnbauma (výběr)
 1837 – oltářní obraz Zmrtvýchvstání Páně v kostele Nejsvětější Trojice v Jiřetíně pod Jedlovou
 1840 – oltářní obraz svatého Jana Nepomuckého v kostele svatého Martina v Brtníkách
 1844 – oltářní obraz svaté Barbory v kostele Nanebevzetí Panny Marie v Liběšicích
 1848 – oltářní obraz svatého Vavřince v kostele svatého Vavřince v Království – návrh
 1851 – zastavení křížové cesty v poutním kostele Navštívení Panny Marie v Horní Polici
 1854 – křížová cesta v bazilice svatého Vavřince a svaté Zdislavy v Jablonném v Podještědí
 1855 – oltářní obraz svatého Václava v kostele svatého Václava ve Fukově
 1856 – oltářní obraz Nejsvětější Trojice v kostele Nejsvětější Trojice v Jiřetíně pod Jedlovou
 1856 – obrazy zastavení křížové cesty ve Velkém Šenově (nedochované)
 1860 – postranní oltář pro XIII. zastavení křížové cesty na Křížové hoře v Jiřetíně pod Jedlovou
 oltářní obraz svaté Kateřiny v kostele svaté Kateřiny Alexandrijské v Dolním Podluží
 oltářní obraz svatého Víta v kostele svatého Víta v Osečné
 oltářní obraz Marie – královna andělů v poutním kostele Navštívení Panny Marie v Horní Polici
 obraz Poslední večeře Páně v kapli Povýšení svatého Kříže na Křížové hoře v Jiřetíně pod Jedlovou

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Yakko I think we better leave now!
Dot I agree. This is too weird even for us!
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Wakko So what do we do now?
Dot I was really looking forward to seeing Pinky again!
Yakko So was I. We'll have to e-mail them our travel plans and hope our paths cross again some day. For now, onto the next stop.
Wakko But we're already at the bus stop.
Dot So who else starts with an A that we can visit?
Yakko aPriori is only a few (dozen) miles away over in Concord. We could see them.
Wakko What do they do?
Yakko Something to do with cost management … and predicting it a-priori.
Yakko I don't know … I guess we'll have to go and see the wizard of cost management and find out!
We will return to the tale of the Sourcing Maniacs 2008 Vendor Tour with Part VII on Tuesday. Stay tuned!
This entry was posted in humour, Sourcing-Maniacs on November 1, 2008 by thedoctor.


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Christian Witch Hunts in Pre-Enlightenment Europe
Christian Witch Hunts in Pre-Enlightenment Europe Analytical Essay by Top Papers
An exploration of how Christians responded to natural disasters and how they contributed to notions of popular eschatology.
# 133184 | 2,500 words | 0 sources | 2007 |
Published on Dec 01, 2007 in History (Religion) , Religion and Theology (Christianity) , History (European - 18th Century)
The paper argues that Christians during the late medieval period and during the proto-modern period before the advent of the Enlightenment responded to disasters by seeking out scapegoats - and perhaps also by wondering aloud what they had done to incur the wrath of God so that He felt it necessary to permit such things to occur. The paper explains that this determination to find "those responsible" for pestilence or crop failure invariably led to the witch hunts that extended over a period encompassing roughly seven centuries - from about the thirteenth century until surprisingly well into the nineteenth century. The paper posits that of course, to really understand this violent, repressive "crackdown" upon the enemies of the state, one must examine the eschatological assumptions of the age. Hence, the paper looks at the millenarian impulses that really began to take European society over in the fourteenth century (right around the time of the Black Death) and also at how Christian thinkers galvanized the general public by suggesting that the time of the "Anti-Christ" was near and that true Christian believers had to act accordingly. The paper shows how Christian eschatology had the troubling effect, for many centuries, of convincing large numbers of Europeans that the return of the Almighty was near - and that "proper" Christians would fortify their souls by rooting out those who were heretical, unfaithful, and responsible for unnatural natural disasters.
"The following paper will argue that Christians during the late medieval period and during the proto-modern period before the advent of the Enlightenment responded to disasters by seeking out scapegoats - and perhaps also by wondering aloud what they had done to incur the wrath of God so that He felt it necessary to permit such things to occur. This determination to find "those responsible" for pestilence or crop failure..."
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Hazlehurst I, commissioned in 2015, is a 20-MW fixed- mounted array located on 270 acres in Georgia's Jeff Davis County. Hazlehurst II, which began producing power in December 2016, is 52 MW and occupies 480 acres of a 942-acre site about two miles away.
While every watt produced is available to Green Power EMC member co-ops, the arrays are actually owned and were developed by Silicon Ranch Corporation, an NRECA associate member that has partnered with electric coop- eratives on several utility-scale solar projects across the country.
The company has been selected to add nearly half a gigawatt more of capacity to Green Power EMC members' portfolio, which is expected to reach about 1,000 MW by late 2021. This includes a separate power purchase agreement with another Georgia co-op, negotiated inde- pendently, that will provide 102.5 MW of capacity by later this year.
In less time than it takes a child to go from kindergarten to high school graduation, solar power has risen from science-project curiosity to a viable source of electricity. In Georgia, Green Power EMC has been a big part of that story, providing a blueprint that could help guide electric co-ops in other states.
Dozens of small demonstration solar arrays were built on school campuses, primarily as learning tools, providing data that students could use in math and science classes and working examples of how solar power could ultimately meet some of their future energy needs.
The program, Sun Power in Schools, is still up and running.
"We have about 100 schools engaged in the state of Georgia using the curriculum," Pratt says.
The educational arrays soon led to the growth of small- scale commercial solar installations across the state.
To gain more knowledge of the technology, and to help advise consumer-members, co-ops built their own arrays, passing on lessons learned about maintenance and upkeep and often displaying real-time energy production data on co-op-sponsored websites.
As interest increased and prices declined, utility-scale solar took hold.
for additional talent, hiring Operations Manager Ben Oberman to be Green Power EMC's first operations manager in early 2018.
Those conversations have led to development of several projects, including Hazlehurst I and II and eight or nine new utility-scale projects that Oberman says will increase solar purchases by more than seven times today's installed capacity for Green Power EMC members.
Meeting the demands of individual members through-out Georgia also spawned a niche for cooperative- owned and community solar, made available by subscrip- tion or share-purchase plans and offered through the member's utility bill.
But members do want competitively priced renewable power, and when the costs are levelized or likely to decline as the price of other commodities rise, the investment is a hedge against uncertainty. That's making subscription-based community solar a very popular option.
Even though it participates in several other Green Power EMC projects, Nahunta, Georgia-based Okefenoke REMC built three community arrays totaling 2 MW in its service territory in response to its consumer-members wanting a renewable option.
Outside of the Alma, Georgia, headquarters of Satilla Rural Electric Membership Corp., a modest 1-kW array was installed as the basis for member education. It's also served as a training ground for co-op staff eager to expand their skillsets to include aspects of solar technology.
The co-op later participated in Green Power EMC proj- ects, including Hazlehurst I.
Reyes and other Georgia EMC member CEOs say part of the success of subscription-based solar projects is that they offer the benefits of solar, just like ownership, without the concerns for maintenance and the slow payback of upfront costs.
Solar arrays can also take spent agricultural land and dormant industrial sites and return them to productivity for 30 years or longer, providing jobs and strengthening local tax rolls, says Reyes, citing the Hazlehurst projects as examples. Silicon Ranch is one of the largest taxpayers in Jeff Davis County.


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Jennifer Musa ( Bridget Jennifer Wren; 11 November 1917 – 12 January 2008) was an Irish-born nurse and the second wife of Qazi Musa. She was often nicknamed the "Queen of Baluchistan" and "Mummy Jennifer".

Early life and career
Jennifer Musa was born Bridget Jennifer Wren at Tarmons, County Kerry, Ireland in 1917. She left Ireland to train as a nurse. In 1939, she met prominent politician Qazi Muhammad Musa, brother of Qazi Muhammad Essa, a prominent activist in the Pakistan Movement while studying at Oxford. Qazi Musa was the eldest son of the Prime Minister to the then Khan of Kalat (present-day Kalat District). Jennifer Musa took the name Jehan Zeba and married Qazi Musa the following year despite the opposition from his Pashtun clan. The couple moved to Pakistan in 1948.

Jennifer Musa used to say, "We met at his college, at a party – you know what students are like. I was a Catholic, he was a Muslim. I think I became Islamic at the time." She said with a smile, and then further went on to say, "I married into a progressive family and never wore a veil, they never asked. I just came here with my husband because he belonged here." While living in Baluchistan, she often used to wear traditional shalwar kameez and wrap a shawl around her.

After Qazi Musa's sudden death in a car accident in 1956, Jennifer Musa decided to settle permanently in her husband's hometown of Pishin. She joined the National Awami Party of Khan Abdul Wali Khan and was elected to Pakistan's first Parliament in 1970 after the 1970 Pakistani general election. During that time, she often clashed with Prime Minister Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto. Jennifer Musa thought Bhutto was 'a clever fellow and a strange chap'. She found it difficult to get along with him.

Legacy and social work
She had one child. Her son Ashraf Jehangir Qazi is a senior Pakistani diplomat.

Jennifer Musa, also called "Mummy Jennifer" took up social work after seeing the plight of young girls in this desperately poor region. She went on to found the 'Pishin Women's Association' in her local area. She used to say, "I worked with all the people, even with my bad Urdu. I feel very much like I am at home here, they have always treated me like one of themselves. I couldn't have gone back to Ireland. I know more about this place now than I do about my home."

In one of her last interviews, she had said, "Mummy has had her innings." Jennifer Musa lived for 60 years until her death on 12 January 2008 in Balochistan.

References

External links
An Interview with Jennifer Musa on Dawn (newspaper)

1917 births
2008 deaths
People from County Kerry
Converts to Sunni Islam from Catholicism
Irish emigrants to Pakistan
Pakistani people of Irish descent
People from Pishin District
Politicians from Balochistan, Pakistan
Awami National Party politicians
Disease-related deaths in Balochistan, Pakistan
Pakistani MNAs 1972–1977
Pakistani women's rights activists
Irish nurses
Irish women's rights activists
Pakistani nurses
Qazi family
20th-century Pakistani women politicians


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To UPMC, this new hospital on an old golf course is the future.
To patients, it will be a bigger, modern hospital with all-private rooms and more employees.
And to local residents, it's an opportunity to get back on a revamped Hawk Lake walking trail.
A new photo gallery and video from the York Daily Record shows you what you can find at the new UPMC Memorial hospital in York County.
Where is the new Memorial Hospital and when does it open?
The new UPMC Memorial will open 6 a.m. Sunday, Aug. 18 at 1701 Innovation Drive in West Manchester Township. An attached Outpatient Center will open the same day at 1703 Innovation Drive.
The facilities sit on the old 127-acre Hawk Lake Golf Course off of Loucks Road.
Where is the new ER? What can you find in the new Memorial hospital?
The Emergency Department is located on the first floor and has its own entrance.
The new hospital has five floors. Here's what you can find on each one:
Emergency Department, cafeteria, gift shop
The Emergency Department has 28 private rooms, including three behavioral health rooms designed to ensure patients in crisis cannot harm themselves. The current Memorial Hospital does not have special rooms for behavioral health patients.
The new hospital includes five operating rooms and three heart catheterization labs and cardiology and vascular services, chronic disease management, surgical services, a Level II Specialty Care Nursery and long-term care facilities. A level II nursery cares for babies born at 32 weeks or older, or who are healing from serious conditions.
The new UPMC Memorial by the numbers
At 220,000 square feet, the new hospital is about 40 percent bigger than the old hospital on South Belmont Street, which is about 162,000 square feet.
The current UPMC Memorial averages 50 patients per day. The new hospital has 102 private rooms.
In the last 20 years, the number of patients visiting the Memorial Emergency Department has grown from about 15,000 visits to 45,000 visits.
There are 250 workers on site to finish the construction on time.
There are 102 private patient rooms; 24 long-term, acute care beds; 12 suites where patients will labor, deliver, recover and spend their postpartum stay
The current Memorial Hospital has 500 employees. UPMC is adding another 140 employees at the new hospital. Find job opportunities here.
UPMC is spending $290 million on the new hospital and Outpatient Center.
What's in the new Outpatient Center?
The outpatient center includes:
Outpatient X-rays and imaging
Women's imaging suite
Sleep lab
Meeting rooms and a conference center
Rooftop serenity garden right outside the area where cancer patients will receive treatment
Offices for specialty care providers and administration
When will the old Memorial Hospital close?
The new UPMC Memorial opens 6 a.m. Sunday, Aug. 18. Ambulances will be diverted beginning Aug. 15. The current UPMC Memorial Emergency Department will remain open for walk-in patients until 6 a.m. Aug. 18. Any patients in the current hospital facility will be transferred to the new hospital on Aug. 18.
Is the walking trail open?
The walking trail is not open to the public while it is an active construction site. The trail will be open to the public on Aug. 18 when the new hospital opens.
Check out earlier photos during construction:


What else are we living for, if not to create fiction? .
This is fiction and people should not forget that.
It is a work of fiction. It is a piece of entertainment.
Any adult can distinguish reality from fiction. But you cannot expect a child to make proper judgements.
It's interesting that 10 or 15 years ago this was science fiction.
It's really science fiction at its best.
Detective fiction is an extremely moral genre, dealing with the strongest violation of the moral contract.
I like science fiction and I read it a lot - if I were a collector, I would bid for his works.
I'm not a fan of science fiction, personally.
This is a record-breaking number for a work of non-fiction.
The essential quagmire of this book is that on one hand, he tells everybody this is fiction; then on the other hand, he basically tells everybody this is fact.


New Delhi [India], Dec 26 (ANI): A day after Noida police prohibited offering of Friday prayers by Muslims in a public park, All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) chief Asaduddin Owaisi alleged that Uttar Pradesh police would shower petals on kanwariyas(Shiva devotees), but told the Muslims that whatever they did, it was their fault. Drawing a comparison between the police's stance on Muslims and kanwariyas, Owaisi tweeted, "UP Cops literally showered petals for Kanwariyas, but namaz once a week can mean "disrupting peace & harmony". This is telling Muslims: aap kuch bhi karlo, ghalti to aapki hi hogi (No matter what you do, it will be your fault). Also, by law, how does one hold an MNC liable for what their employees do in individual capacity?" The directive was conveyed by the police in Sector 58 of Noida, on the outskirts of Delhi, to a private company, saying its employees were found to be offering Friday prayerswithout authorisation from the administration. "It is to inform you that there is no permission from the administrative authorities for any kind of religious activity including the 'namaz' offered on Fridays in the park situated in Sector 58. "It has often been seen that the Muslim workers of your company assemble in the park to offer Namaz. It is expected that you inform your employees to not come to the park to offer Namaz," said a directive issued by Pankaj Rai, SHO of Sector-58 Police Station, Noida. It added that "if employees still continue to come to the park, it will be assumed that you have not informed your employees and you will be held liable." As the matter became public, Senior Superintendent of Police of Noida Ajay Pal Sharma said the notification was not directed against any particular religion or group. Speaking to ANI, SSP Singh had said, "A few people had asked for permission for offering religious prayers in a park in Sector 58. In spite of no permission granted from the city magistrate office, people congregated there. The companies in the area were informed about it. The information is not specific to any particular religion or group." Earlier in August, an Additional Director General of the Uttar Pradesh Police, Prashant Kumar, was seen showering rose petals on a procession of kanwariyas from a helicopter.


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Lightning eMotors Appoints New Chief Procurement Officer
Press Releases LightningeMotors
Company hires Steve Ivsan, former executive with Byton, Rivian and Tesla
LOVELAND, Colo., March 16, 2021 – Lightning eMotors ("Lightning eMotors" or the "Company"), a leading provider of specialty commercial electric vehicles for fleets, announces Steve Ivsan as its new chief procurement officer. Ivsan will join the company's senior leadership team and lead all purchasing activities as well as quality and the performance of the supply base.
Most recently, Ivsan served as executive vice president of supply chain, manufacturing and assembly operations at Outrider Technologies, an autonomous vehicle startup in the logistics industry, where he led supply chain and manufacturing processes, strategies, tooling, and partnerships.
"Steve has broad experience in supply chain and operations leadership roles in the electric vehicle industry," said Tim Reeser, CEO of Lightning eMotors. "He will lead our efforts to add new suppliers and factory automation to support our production scale-up of purpose-built commercial electric specialty vehicles."
Before joining Outrider, Ivsan was one of the co-founders of Byton, where he served as chief procurement officer. Ivsan also served as chief procurement officer at Rivian and was the director of vehicle purchasing at Tesla. Prior to that, he was with Continental, a global automotive and technology company, for 12 years, and with Chrysler Corporation for six years.
Ivsan will report to Reeser and will be based at Lightning's headquarters in Loveland, Colorado. He holds a master's degree in automotive engineering from the University of Michigan and a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from Kettering University. His appointment is effective immediately.
"Lightning is a leader in the commercial EV space," Ivsan said. "The company has an incredible team and terrific portfolio of products, and I am looking forward to helping them scale their operations, build relationships with world-class suppliers, and give customers an experience second-to-none."
Ivsan is the third senior executive to be hired this year by Lightning eMotors. In early January, Teresa Covington was named chief financial officer. Last month, Kash Sethi joined Lightning to head up sales, marketing and business development as the company's chief revenue officer.
About Lightning eMotors
Lightning eMotors has been providing specialized and sustainable fleet solutions since 2010, deploying complete zero-emission-vehicle (ZEV) solutions for commercial fleets since 2017 – including Class 3 cargo and passenger vans, Class 4 and 5 cargo vans and shuttle buses, Class 6 work trucks, school buses, Class 7 city buses, and Class A motor coaches. The Lightning eMotors team designs, engineers, customizes and manufactures zero-emission vehicles to support the wide array of fleet customer needs including school buses and ambulances, with a full suite of telematics, analytics and charging solutions to simplify the buying and ownership experience and maximize uptime and energy efficiency. To learn more, visit https://lightningemotors.com.
SOURCE: Lightning eMotors
DHL Express Deploys Nearly 100 New Lightning Electric Delivery Vans in U.S.
Proterra battery technology to power Lightning eMotors Electric Transit commercial van
Lightning eMotors Names New Chief Revenue Officer


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Research Interest: Biophysics
Kratochvil, Huong
Biophysics, Chemical Biology, Structural Biology
We take inspiration from Nature to build new proteins that guide our understanding of how natural proteins function: we can distill complex natural proteins into simple model proteins where we have exact control over the physicochemical properties of the entire system. Our group combines protein design strategies with biochemistry, biophysics, and structural biology to 1) test mechanistic hypotheses of membrane protein structure and function, and 2) define novel protein-protein interactions in immunology for engineering protein-based therapeutics.
Smyers, Nate
Biophysics, Computational Biology, Drug Discovery
Hahn, Quentin
Biophysics, Cancer Biology, Molecular Medicine
Yan, Zijie
Biochemistry, Biomaterials, Biophysics, Cell Biology, Nanomedicine
The Yan lab works at the interface of material science, photonics, and biology. We synthesize metal, metal oxide and upconversion nanoparticles for biophotonics and biomedicine applications. We use holographic optical tweezers and atomic force microscope (AFM) to trap and manipulate single nanoparticles, and use them as probes to study nano-bio interactions, including biosensing, bionanomechanics and cell biology. We conduct these studies with a customized multi-modal correlative optical system that combines the nanomanipulation module with advanced optical microscopy and spectroscopy techniques.
Nazockdast, Ehssan
Biomaterials, Biophysics, Cell Biology, Computational Biology
We are interested in the physics of soft and squishy materials, especially the organization and mechanics of living cellular materials. We use theory and simulation in close collaboration with experiments to understand the complex structural and mechanical behavior of these systems. These questions and our approach to them are interdisciplinary and intersect several traditional fields, including cell biology, biophysics, fluid dynamics and applied mathematics.
Superfine, Richard
Applied Physical Sciences, Biomedical Engineering
Biomaterials, Biophysics, Cell Biology, Computational Biology, Systems Biology
Superfine's group studies stimulus-responsive active and living materials from the scale of individual molecules to physiological tissues, including DNA, cells and microfluidic-based tissue models. We develop new techniques using advanced optical, scanning probe, and magnetic force microscopy. We pursue diverse physiological phenomena from cancer to immunology to mucus clearance in the lung. Our work includes developing systems that mimic biology, most recently in the form of engineered cilia arrays that mimic lung tissue while providing unique solutions in biomedical devices.
Berlow, Rebecca
Biochemistry, Biophysics, Cancer Biology, Molecular Medicine, Structural Biology
Our lab is interested in the molecular mechanisms of adaptive stress responses. These responses to environmental or metabolic stress are essential for survival but frequently dysregulated in disease. We use an integrated approach combining biophysical, structural, and biochemical methods to investigate the roles of intrinsically disordered proteins and dynamic enzymes that orchestrate these critical stress responses, with the ultimate goal of developing new approaches for modulating the functions of dynamic molecules.
Brunk, Elizabeth
Bioinformatics & Computational Biology, Chemistry, Pharmacology
Biochemistry, Bioinformatics, Biophysics, Cancer Biology, Computational Biology, Genomics, Pharmacology, Structural Biology, Systems Biology, Translational Medicine
A growing body of work in the biomedical sciences generates and analyzes omics data; our lab's work contributes to these efforts by focusing on the integration of different omics data types to bring mechanistic insights to the multi-scale nature of cellular processes. The focus of our research is on developing systems genomics approaches to study the impact of genomic variation on genome function. We have used this focus to study genetic and molecular variation in both natural and engineered cellular systems and approach these topics through the lens of computational biology, machine learning and advanced omics data integration. More specifically, we create methods to reveal functional relationships across genomics, transcriptomics, ribosome profiling, proteomics, structural genomics, metabolomics and phenotype variability data. Our integrative omics methods improve understanding of how cells achieve regulation at multiple scales of complexity and link to genetic and molecular variants that influence these processes. Ultimately, the goal of our research is advancing the analysis of high-throughput omics technologies to empower patient care and clinical trial selections. To this end, we are developing integrative methods to improve mutation panels by selecting more informative genetic and molecular biomarkers that match disease relevance.


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Disney Blu-ray Roundup: 'The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh' and 'Super Buddies'
Josh Spiegel
More often than not, people are prone to giving certain films a pass, not because the movies themselves are particularly entertaining, but because they're "for kids." If someone criticizes a family movie too harshly, they might be offered the following rebuke: "What do you want? It's a kids' movie." This sentiment is apparently meant as an excuse for some truly forgettable, or terrible, or heinous movies, and winds up sounding like an insult against the target audience. Those eight words seem to presume that children are stupid and will gladly accept whatever is put on TV, loving it automatically because of the combination of moving pictures and colors. This week, Walt Disney Pictures has released two films on Blu-ray, both of which are very explicitly for kids. One is rightly considered a classic. The other will, if we're lucky, be thrown on the heap of the forgotten within days.
So why does The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh work where Super Buddies fails? (Yes, that is a serious question, and yes, these are the new Blu-ray releases at the end of August.) Quality aside, no one would look sideways at you for plopping your kids in front of the TV to watch either or both of these movies. But it's hard to ignore the fact that the former movie, an anthology of three shorts in which beloved characters like Winnie the Pooh, Piglet, Eeyore, and Tigger cavort and gambol around the Hundred Acre Wood, is and will always be a triumph of sweetness and whimsy. And the other movie is Super Buddies. The chief reason why The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh resonates even today (and even for adults) is its wistful longing and clear-cut sense of timelessness. Winnie the Pooh and his friends may essentially be little children in terms of how their minds work, but there is something relatable and recognizable in their traits and actions.
Super Buddies, on the other hand, is a painful endeavor littered with immediately dated references. (Actually, that presumes some of these references weren't dated years ago.) Each of the five Golden Retriever puppies speak in corporate buzzwords and pop-culture references that are either grating or jaw-droppingly painful. Each of them is a token: there's a token female Buddy, who is constantly talking about "girl power" in between talking in text-messaging acronyms—early on, she says "O-M-G, I love treasure," and at this point, you would not be wrong for wanting a couple fingers of bourbon at your side; there's a token Buddy who speaks in accepted urban-culture slang, dubbing everyone "dawg," and it's just as empty and pointless as you'd imagine. The list goes on. Super Buddies is not timeless, but very specific, and very clearly is meant to capitalize financially on the glut of superhero movies and characters flooding the Western world. This movie is on Blu-ray and DVD because someone wanted to make money, not because someone had a story to tell.
In terms of Blu-ray features and presentation, it should not surprise anyone that The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh outpaces Super Buddies. The former does not have many special features, and most were ported over from prior DVD releases. And, unsurprisingly, many of the features are targeted at younger audiences; for example, the Disney Intermission feature on this Blu-ray offers short games and exercises for kids to take part in. But the sweetness on display is still very evident, even if the voices of the narrator and characters aren't the same as those in the 1960s- and 1970s-era shorts that make up the feature. It would, of course, have been nice for Disney to include a commentary, either from some of the surviving animators who worked on The Many Adventures of Winnie The Pooh—and despite this film being over 35 years old, you might be surprised at how many soon-to-be-big Disney animators worked on the project—or from film historians. The supplements on the Blu-ray are inoffensive if slight. The movie itself is far more winning.
And then there's Super Buddies. Many words could be spent on explicating exactly why and how Super Buddies is a bad movie. It would be easy to include a laundry list of reasons, from the awful, tin-eared dialogue to the nonsensical plot to the uniformly poor and hammy performances of the live actors to the massively disturbing CGI that allows various animals (not just dogs, because of course not just dogs) to speak like humans. But Super Buddies is the 14th film in the Air Bud franchise, and maybe it's about time that we wondered how the hell we, as a society, let that happen. How is it possible that a cheapie movie about a golden retriever who could kinda/sorta play basketball if you threw one at his nose at just the right angle has inspired a family film franchise that now has more entries than the Land Before Time series?
The mind reels, not just at the surprising longevity this series has had, but at the quality of its chapters. Now, we have Super Buddies, in which the five Buddies are gifted with superpowers after coming in contact with the Rings of Inspiron, artifacts from an alien galaxy sought after by the goodhearted Captain Canine (voiced by Colin Hanks) as well as the dastardly Commander Drex (voiced by John Michael Higgins). Now, it's important to point out that none of the previous sentence is a joke. Also real: the baffling subplot in which the owners of the Buddies, five kids who are just young enough to be called "tweens," realize that one of their favorite comic book series, describing the exploits of Captain Canine and his human sidekick, Kid Courageous, isn't fiction at all, and points the way to the Buddies' journey. Also real: the part where John Ratzenberger, as the farmer grandfather of one of the Buddies' owners, dressing up, within the first five minutes, as the Amazing Grandpa-Man. These are the jokes, folks.
Again, the list goes on. It is hard not to react to Super Buddies without feeling a great deal like the audience in Mel Brooks' comedy classic The Producers (the 1968 version). They sit aghast at the deliberately awful musical called Springtime for Hitler: A Gay Romp with Adolf and Eva at Berchstegaden, unable to believe the idiocy on stage. Granted, by the end, they're won over because they presume the show is a cutting, wicked satire, instead of an earnest and offensively sincere celebration of one of the most foul war criminals and murderers in human history. (To be clear, Super Buddies isn't that bad. But an adult's feels awful similar to that audience's.) The Blu-ray itself is devoid of any special features, which isn't surprising considering how stingy Disney is with adding supplements to their home media releases. This time, it's tantamount to an act of mercy.
This week, the Walt Disney Company has worked hard at offering some of their very best and their very worst films on Blu-ray for the first time. In one corner, there's The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, on Blu-ray after languishing for far too long on DVD. In the other corner, Super Buddies, the trillionth film in the Air Bud franchise. Both movies are aimed at kids more than adults, but one has been and will always be held in high regard because it doesn't condescend, it doesn't aim for the lowest common denominator, and it steers clear of groaning puns. If you need something for the holiday weekend, some way to calm the kids, have them watch The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh. On repeat, if necessary, if only so you can steer clear of Super Buddies, the equivalent of a slideshow of "cute" dog pictures that goes on for far too long. You can do better. And your kids can do better, too.
Tags:Air Bud, Animation, Blu Ray, Disney, John Ratzenberger, Super Buddies, Winnie The Pooh


The official media hotel for the 2011 Artistic Gymnastics European Championships in Berlin is the Hotel Lindner. Accredited journalists can book their room by using the keyword "Turn-EM 2011".
Current starting-lists and results are now available!!!


The effect of nickel contamination on the microbial properties of soil was studied in a pot experiment. Soil samples were contaminated with nickel in the form of NiCl2 · 6H2O and NiSO4 · 7H2O at the following doses: 100, 200, 300 and 400 mg Ni2+ per 1 kg. Two types of soil, loamy sand and light loam, cropped and uncropped, were used in the study. The counts of soil-dwelling microbes: oligotrophic bacteria, Azotobacter, Actinomycetes and fungi were determined on day 14, 28, 42 and 56 of the experiment. It was found that soil contamination with nickel caused a decrease in the population size of bacteria of the genus Azotobacter, while it stimulated the growth of the remaining microbial groups, including oligotrophic bacteria, Actinomycetes and fungi. Nickel chloride exerted a more significant effect on the abundance of the studied microbial groups than nickel sulfate. Higher counts of oligotrophic bacteria, Azotobacter, Actinomycetes and fungi were observed in light loam and in cropped soil, compared with loamy sand and uncropped soil.
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Here's some experimental (alpha) code to parse Emacs Orgmode files. It's far from complete, I only aim at parsing basic TODO strings with level (**), status (TODO, DONE), priority (#A, #B, #C), task and tags.
2016-09-03: It takes my actual orgmode file, so it's working fine.


In simple and introverted design, the room is both simple and exquisite. The linked rooms are close to each other but also retaining individual spaces. Accompanied with the breeze from Lanyang Plain, the visitors exchange colors in their eyes, feeling enriched. The room is the most suitable for close friends traveling together.
• Complimentary buffet breakfast in Chinese and western styles.
• Breakfast is available from 7:30 to 10:00.
• Split type air conditioner/ LCD TV/ cabled channels/ down pillows/ duvet.
• Independent showering device/ toiletries/ hairdryer/ indoor slippers.
• Electric kettle/ refrigerator/ tea bags/coffee bags/mineral water.
• Free Wi-Fi everywhere in the Inn.