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Joachim Mattern, né le 2 mai 1948 à Beeskow, est un kayakiste allemand qui concourait pour la RDA.

L'équipage du SC Berlin-Grünau composé de Mattern et de Bernd Olbricht remporte son principal titre aux Jeux olympiques de Montréal, en 1976, lorsqu'il s'impose sur 500 mètres en kayak biplace devant les Soviétiques et les Roumains. Les deux hommes se classent seconds sur 1 000 mètres, derrière l'équipage soviétique également composé des mêmes partenaires que sur 500 mètres . À la suite de cette performance, Mattern et Olbricht reçoivent l' Ordre du mérite patriotique en argent.

En 1977, l'équipage est-allemand est champion du monde en kayak biplace 500 m et vice-champion du monde sur 1 000 m.

Mattern mène ensuite une carrière d'entraîneur. Jusqu'en 2005, il entraîne l'équipe nationale masculine de kayak puis se consacre aux jeunes au niveau des centres fédéraux. En 2009, il revient en équipe d'Allemagne en raison des problèmes de santé de Rolf-Dieter Amend.

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Gainesville city attorney, city clerk resign
Gainesville City Clerk Omichele Gainey and City Attorney Nicolle Shalley submitted emails of resignation Wednesday.
Shalley said in her message that she accepted a position as the Levy County Attorney and said her last day with Gainesville will be Nov. 12.
"I will do my part to make this transition as smooth as possible, including working with whomever you promptly appoint as Interim City Attorney, to ensure the functions of this Office carry on seamlessly and that the City continues to be well served by this Office, as you have come to expect and as the City deserves," Shalley said in her resignation statement.
Gainey said in her resignation email that her date of resignation will be effective Oct. 8.
"Given the upcoming events within city operations, I am happy to remain on as a consultant through the end of the calendar year, if needed, to assist the interim Clerk with any transitional duties," she wrote.
In a statement released by the city, Mayor Lauren Poe thanked both women for their commitment to ensuring a smooth transition.
"Both have provided [exemplary] service to the City Commission and to our neighbors," he said. "While we are sad to bid them farewell, we wish them both the best in their future pursuits."
The resignations come after Gainesville Commissioner and Mayor Pro-Tem Gail Johnson announced at a special meeting of the Gainesville City Commission on Aug. 23 that she will resign from her seat effective Sept. 30.
Johnson said she no longer wanted to be associated with the decisions of the entire commission or those of City Manager Lee Feldman.
"Power has been abused and misused," Johnson said in her resignation statement, which she also posted to her Facebook page. "We have quickly gone from working in a low-trust environment to a no-trust environment. The cost of this type of dysfunction is just too high.
"I'm resigning, because people often don't remember the individual contributions a commissioner makes to the body, they remember the decisions of the entire body," she said. "I refuse to be complicit in decisions just by my mere presence, even if I dissent."
Earlier this year the city's director of equity Teneeshia Marshall, and inclusion also resigned.
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Have scrubbed the goals board clean, and using new dates so I can look forward rather than continually looking back and feeling like a muppet!
I have yet to set an official goal weight with weightwatchers, but I guess I'll set it at 138lb (9st12lb) exactly 6 stone off my starting weight, and 3lbs under the top range of healthy BMI for my height. Still, my *ultimate* weight goal is to reach 122lbs (8st 10lbs) which is what I weighed just after my wedding, and I felt so well at that time. I've had 4 kids since, so I don't know if that will still be the case, but it would be incredibly satisfying to know I'd managed 100 lbs loss!
I've picked out loads of mini goals to break it down into manageable chunks, and keep me motivated along the way. Italics are the target dates I'm hoping to achieve each goal at. Coloured = completed, and link to relevant blog entries where I've made them! I have weight, fitness and size/NSV goals.
25lbs off - June 30th 2010 - equivalent weight of a daughter.
size 12 - it's like I have a wardrobe or something!
What a difference 6 months makes..
week 28 - 4 stones off!
week 27 - last time in "the 12s"


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Q: Are Monte Carlo methods considered Bayesian or Frequentist? I went down the Frequentist vs Bayesian rabbit hole. I was searching for specific examples and I came across this question. Is sampling with Monte Carlo techniques a Bayesian or a Frequentist approach to statistics?

A: Since Monte Carlo techniques are methodologies that draw samples from any probability distribution, they can't really be categorized as Bayesian or Frequentist. However, since these methods, especially Markov chain Monte Carlo methods (MCMC), are particularly well suited for and predominantly applied to Bayesian posteriors, I would slightly lean towards "Bayesian" as an answer, but only if someone really forced me to choose. :-)

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For the first time, Microsoft has released its .NET framework as open source with support for Windows, OS X and Linux. Microsoft first released a preview version of this version of the framework in 2014 – today is the first official release.
Microsoft has also released SQL Server 2016 for Linux and is now claiming that 30% of the servers running in Microsoft Azure are Linux as well.
I was working with Visual Studio 2015 today, and ran into an issue running NUnit tests. The basic process to integrate NUnit into Visual Studio is to use the NuGet package manager and install the NUnit framework and the NUnit Test Adapter.
However, if you install the latest version (currently 3.0.1) the NUnit Test Adapter doesn't discover your tests. I did a bit of research and the latest version isn't supported.
If you run into this problem, uninstall NUnit Framework 3.0.1 and instead install version 2.6.4.
Then the NUnit Test Adapter works as expected.
In the current Microsoft cloud world, there are two core identity management systems – 1) the Microsoft account and 2) the Azure AD account. As a user, you are continually asked to choose whether you are a business user or a personal user and then you login using one of these two paths.
For developers building applications against these identity stores, there are two separate APIs to contend with to authenticate the user, enforcing the same forking of the authentication workflow and making it more complex to build applications.
Microsoft has announced that they are working on a consolidated authentication flow and API that will provide a consolidated user experience and API for developers. The App Model v2.0 is now in preview.
Instead of forcing the user to tell us what type of account they are using, the API will figure it out under the covers and authenticate using either account type in a single flow. In addition, the API for authenticate either Microsoft personal accounts or AD Azure accounts will be the same to make it easier for developers to build external applications that use these accounts as identities.
Visual Studio 2015 and .NET 4.6 have just gone general availability and are now available for download.
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The Claverings is a novel by Anthony Trollope, written in 1864 and published in 1866–67. It is the story of a young man starting out in life, who must find himself a profession and a wife; and of a young woman who makes a marriage of convenience and must accept the consequences of her decision.

Plot summary
Harry Clavering is the only son of Reverend Henry Clavering, a well-to-do clergyman and the paternal uncle of the affluent baronet Sir Hugh Clavering. At the start of the novel, Harry is jilted by his fiancée, the sister of Sir Hugh's wife, who proceeds to marry Lord Ongar, a wealthy but debauched earl.

Harry's father urges him to make the church his profession; but Harry aspires to become a civil engineer, of the type of Robert Stephenson, Joseph Locke, and Thomas Brassey. To this end, he becomes a pupil at the firm of Beilby and Burton.

A year and a half later, Harry has become engaged to Florence Burton, the daughter of one of his employers. He presses her for an early marriage; but although she loves him deeply, she refuses, insisting that they wait until he has an income adequate to support himself and a family.

At this point, Lord Ongar dies, and his widow returns to England. Sir Hugh, her nearest male relative, is a hard and selfish man, and refuses to see her upon her arrival. This lends spurious credence to rumours about her conduct; and it forces her sister, Lady Clavering, to ask Harry to assist her when she returns.

Harry fails to tell Lady Ongar of his engagement; and, in a moment of weakness, he embraces and kisses her. This puts him in a position where he must behave dishonourably toward one of the two women in his life: either he must break his engagement, or he must acknowledge that he has gravely insulted Lady Ongar. Although he loves Florence Burton and knows that she is the better woman, he is unwilling to subject Lady Ongar to further misery.

Lady Ongar, because of her considerable wealth, is pursued by others. She is courted by Count Pateroff, one of her late husband's friends, and by Archie Clavering, Sir Hugh's younger brother. Count Pateroff's scheming sister Sophie Gourdeloup, the only woman who will see Lady Ongar because of the rumours about her conduct, wants her to remain single so that Mme Gourdeloup can continue to exploit her.

Mme Gourdeloup sees to it that Lady Ongar learns about Harry's engagement. Meanwhile, Florence Burton learns that Harry has been seeing Lady Ongar regularly, and decides that she must release him if he does not truly love her.

Through the good influence of his mother, Harry comes to realise that Florence Burton is the better woman and the less deserving of dishonorable treatment. To her letter offering to end their engagement, he responds with a reaffirmation of his love for her.  He also writes to Lady Ongar, expressing his regret for his past conduct toward her and making it clear that he intends to remain true to his fiancée.

Soon afterwards, Sir Hugh and Archie Clavering are both drowned when their yacht goes down off Heligoland. This makes Harry's father the new baronet and the possessor of Clavering Park, with Harry the heir apparent. This increase in wealth allows him to marry immediately and to give up engineering, a profession for which he almost certainly lacked sufficient self-discipline. Lady Ongar gives up much of her property to the family of the new earl, and retires into seclusion with her widowed sister.

Major themes
The Claverings treats what David Skilton calls "Trollope's dominating concern of the eighteen-sixties": the choice of a career, in a broad sense. For a woman, the only possible career is marriage; for a man, it involves the choice of a profession as well as of a spouse.

Trollope's particular interest in what he himself called a hero who "vacillates and is weak" gives rise to an unconventional but deep exploration of the emotions of a man in love with two women at the same time.  The result is to subvert the conventions of romantic comedy. The 'hero' is left paralysed like Buridan's ass, and is only rescued by the forces of matriarchal convention, in the form of his own mother and Florence's sister-in-law, as well as by the author's ruthless slaughtering of three male cousins to provide him with an unearned income.

To Michael Sadleir, The Claverings was a precursor of Phineas Finn and Phineas Redux. Lady Ongar rejected Harry's honest love and married for worldly gain, and found misery despite her worldly wealth; in the Phineas novels, Lady Laura Standish chose the wealthy Robert Kennedy over the warm-hearted Finn, and found herself subjected to her husband's gloomy and domineering temperament. Both women were eventually freed by widowhood; but by then the men who had truly loved them were committed to others and beyond their reach. Later and more feminist critics point to Trollope's sympathetic treatment of Lady Ongar, who is certainly made a more interesting and developed figure than the rather bland Florence, as pointing to a subversive undercurrent behind the conventional moral of the tale.

Evangelical clergymen in Trollope's novels were generally portrayed as "self-righteous, dictatorial, intolerant, and decidedly not gentlemen". Examples include Obadiah Slope of Barchester Towers, Samuel Prong of Rachel Ray, and Jeremiah Maguire of Miss Mackenzie. In The Claverings, however, Henry Clavering's curate Samuel Saul is depicted as "an Evangelical of courage, zeal, and selflessness". His diligence is contrasted to his rector's idleness; and Trollope rewards him with the hand of Fanny Clavering, Harry's sister, and with the living of the parish upon Henry Clavering's accession to the baronetcy.

Development and publication history

Trollope wrote The Claverings between 21 August and 31 December 1864. The work was serialised in the Cornhill Magazine from February 1866 to May 1867; it was the fourth and last of Trollope's novels published in the magazine. It was issued in book form by Smith, Elder & Co. in 1867. In the course of setting the book in type, a section of two-thirds of a page of the Cornhill text was omitted, probably accidentally.

In 1867, an American edition bearing the date 1866 was released by Harper. In that same year, Tauchnitz of Leipzig produced an English-language edition; a Dutch edition titled De Claverings was released by Brast of Dordrecht; and a Russian translation, Klaveringi, was issued in St. Petersburg. In 1875, A. Moe of Stavanger released a Norwegian translation, Familien Clavering

More recently, editions have been released by Dover Publications in 1977, by Oxford University Press in 1986, and by the Trollope Society in 1994.

Trollope received £2800 for the novel; in 1867, he also published The Last Chronicle of Barset, for which he received £3000. In 1860, George Murray Smith, Cornhill'''s publisher, had paid him £1000 for Framley Parsonage, his first serial in the magazine.

Literary significance and reception
Trollope thought that The Claverings was well written, with both humour and pathos, "though I am not aware that the public has ever corroborated that verdict". In his autobiography, written in 1875–76, he lamented that "I doubt now whether anyone reads The Claverings.

Contemporary critics received the novel favourably, speaking approvingly of the moral lesson in the misery suffered by Lady Ongar after she married for money rather than love. A review in The Spectator declared that "Mr. Trollope draws with a sincerity that never fails him the true and natural punishment of her sin". The Saturday Review critic wrote that she had done "a wrong and a wicked thing", and that "she is punished just enough, and not more than enough, to vindicate the ways of society to women... Perhaps, if anything, she escapes too lightly."

Later critics also regarded the work highly. Sadleir described it as one of Trollope's five technically faultless books: "there is not a loose end, not a patch of drowsiness, not a moment of false proportion."  Still more recently, David Skilton wrote that "it has been usual to pronounce it among the most perfect and attractive productions of the novelist's pen", while pointing out that by the 1980s, critics were less insistent on the formal perfection shown by The Claverings, and more receptive to "the complexities of the Victorian multiplot novel".

The novel sold well at the time of its initial publication, but has fallen from popularity since then.  Skilton suggests that the volume of Trollope's production during 1866–67 may have overwhelmed critics and readers alike.

Connections to other Trollope works
Although The Claverings is considered one of Trollope's "singletons", it is apparently set within the diocese of Barchester: Henry Clavering, as a clergyman, is pressured to give up fox hunting by Bishop and Mrs Proudie of the Barsetshire novels.

Archie Clavering is abetted in his courtship of Lady Ongar by his friend Captain Boodle; in The Vicar of Bullhampton (1870), there is a passing reference to "little Captain Boodle", and he briefly appears as a friend of Gerard Maule in Chapter LXIX of Phineas Redux''.

References

External links
The Claverings—easy-to-read HTML version at University of Adelaide Library
The Claverings at Project Gutenberg
The Claverings, reproduction of 1866 Harper & Brothers edition at archive.org

Novels by Anthony Trollope
1867 British novels
Works originally published in The Cornhill Magazine
Novels first published in serial form

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Meade's background in musical theatre helps define her unique approach as a lyricist and musician. Remedium combines Meade's love of art rock with the emotion of musical theatre. In addition to being a vocalist for the progressive rock band IZZ, her career includes performances around the world with many different artists and on a multitude of stages.
Remedium features progressive, adventurous extended tracks such as "Sunflowers at Chernobyl" and "Dragons" as well as songs with art-pop sensibilities such as "Conquer the World". Meade's incredible range and versatility as a vocalist is evidenced throughout the album and particularly on songs such as "Every Step" and "What I See From Here".
Laura Meade's Remedium will be available for purchase on iTunes, at Amazon.com and at your favorite online retailer as well as on all streaming music services on May 18, 2018.


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Introducing Amazon RDS for Aurora
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Amazon Redshift opens up enterprise data warehouse (EDW) capabilities to even the smallest of businesses, yet its costs, security, and flexibility also make it appealing to the largest of enterprises. It allows companies to easily and conveniently scale their EDW needs both up and down, and as a managed service, it allows your team to offload all of the "undifferentiated heavy lifting" of building and maintaining an EDW. Its raw storage costs are about one-fifth to one-tenth of traditional in-house EDW, and AWS has taken great care to ensure its performance is still competitive with those in-house solutions. Before deciding to use Amazon Redshift, however, it's important to understand what it is and is not.
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Database Management Systems (DBMS) have been monolithic structures with their own dedicated hardware, storage arrays, and consoles. Amazon Web Services (AWS) realized that while each company can use unique methods of collecting and using data, the actual processes of building the management infrastructure are almost always the same. AWS remedies DBMS problems with its Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS).
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Microsoft SQL Server has evolved over the years as a scalable, robust database management system and is now competing in the VLDB (Very Large Database) space with Oracle and IBM. The market share for the product continues to grow, based on total cost of ownership and ease of use. This white paper outlines some of the important fundamentals of Microsoft SQL Server 2008 that every DBA should know.


Clipstone can confirm they have signed experienced defender Christ Timmons from Shirebrook Town.
He becomes manager Dean Short's sixth signing following the arrivals of Danny Bacon, Josh Radford, Elliot Holmes, Richard Guest and Harvey Jones.
Timmons, started his career at Mansfield Town and has clubs such as Chesterfield, Lincoln & Altringham on his CV.


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Hi I'm Jay P. Morgan and today on The Slanted Lens I'm going to teach you how to fire your strobes using sound.
Today's lesson comes to you through a lot of trial and error. That's just the nature of the beast when you're triggering your strobes with sound. We first started by trying to use the Miops trigger at the camera to set off the strobes. But that didn't work- it was too slow. So we attached the trigger to thePocket Wizards and used it to fire the strobes directly. That worked much better.
To get the exposure we had to turn off the lights, and since we were in a dark room we set the shutter speed to bulb, and needed to use a remote in order to avoid camera shake when we pressed the shutter button. We used our Canon TC-80N Timer Remote. When the camera is on bulb you press the remote button and the shutter opens, when you release it the button it closes. We hooked that up to the camera, opened the shutter, threw the ball through the glass, the sound triggered the Miops, the Miops fired the strobe, and we closed the shutter again as soon as the strobe flashed. It worked out great. Our camera was set to F11, bulb, and 400 ISO.
For our lighting setup we had two Dynalite Baja B4's: one with a reflector and one with a grid. First off we had a Baja B4 in the background.
The goal of that Baja B4 was to light the ball, light the glass, light the ball as it went through the glass, and give a nice glow on all that material as it pushed towards the camera. That's what was really lighting the image. Everything else that came after that was fill light. We used a reflector I've never used before on that Baja. It's an RNR-285 narrow degree reflector. It's made to keep your light in a nice pool. We didn't want it flying all over the studio. We just wanted it to be on the ball, and on the glass as the ball went through it. It looked very good.
Secondly we put a grid on a Baja B4 we had acting as a fill light to open up the scene a bit. I didn't want to open up the whole thing, I just needed the light on the ball in that area where it was coming through the glass pane.
Now we just needed to work out the exact timing of the strobe firing, so let's look at how we setup our Miops trigger. First off, we went to sound mode. I started out at 99- almost complete sensitivity. But that was way too much. Pretty much any sound set off the strobes, coughing, talking, crunching glass under your feet. It was just way too much. I brought it down to about 86 which was a lot better because you could walk around and not set it off every time you bumped something or made any kind of noise. But when the ball hit the glass that still set it off without any problem. When you're putting a Miops trigger on sound you're going to get about a three millisecond delay for every meter, or about three feet, that you are away from the thing that's making noise. Our trigger was about two and a half, three feet away from the glass. So it gave us about a three millisecond delay.
We set the trigger at zero, no delay, which was actually about a three second millisecond delay because of the distance.
Then we went to five, to see how that would look.
Then we went to ten,
to twenty,
to forty,
and then last of all eighty,
trying to get the ball further out through the window. The problem is, even though we had a constant, which was our trigger, I was throwing the ball through the window. Which means my arm strength and how hard I threw it changed the velocity and how fast it was traveling. So it became a little bit of an inexact science. But that's the way this stuff is, and we got some pretty cool shots anyway. So let's take a look at our final image today.
In the end it's controlled trial and error. But I learned several things that you really need to apply. One is, get the trigger as close to your sound you can. Two, work in a dark room. Three, use a bulb release so that your camera doesn't get jiggled. And then just experiment, experiment, experiment. So get out there and break some glass. And keep those cameras rollin', keep on clickin'.
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Tamron 70-200mm 2.8
Canon TC-80N Timer Remote
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For more than 15 years, Accademia Concertante d'Archi di Milano has organized over 150 events a year, including concerts, auditions, and TV program performances. Young artists, chosen by conductor Maestro Mauro Ivano Benaglia, have played on 26 Stradivarius violins, many of them from the golden age of violin maker Antonio Stadivari. 21-year-old Maestro Lorenzo Meraviglia leads the American tour.
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Accounting and control--that is mainly what is needed for the "smooth working", for the proper functioning, of the first phase of communist society. Given these economic preconditions, it is quite possible, after the overthrow of the capitalists and the bureaucrats, to proceed immediately, overnight, to replace them in the control over production and distribution, in the work of keeping account of labor and products, by the armed workers, by the whole of the armed population.
Thus, land could not be sold or granted to private parties for farming if it was known to contain minerals. In spite of the law the trades union movement had a lot of work to do to enforce its implementation.
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Every member of society, performing a certain part of the socially-necessary work, receives a certificate from society to the effect that he has done a certain amount of work. But this is not yet communism, and it does not yet abolish "bourgeois law", which gives unequal individuals, in return for unequal really unequal amounts of labor, equal amounts of products.
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Futuremark, the company formerly known as MadOnion.com, has announced the immediate availability of its latest PCMark 10 benchmark suite in 'Professional Edition' form, with the free PCMark 10 Basic Edition and lower-cost PCmark 10 Advanced Edition to launch on June 22nd.
The follow-up to PCMark 8 - picked by the European Commission as the go-to benchmark for all governmental PC purchases - PCMark 10 brings a range of claimed improvements beginning with performance enhancements: The main PCMark 10 benchmark runs in less than half the time of the equivalent PCMark 8 test, Futuremark claims, and without sacrificing the quality of the benchmark result. Additionally, the 'Accelerated' and 'Conventional' benchmarking modes of PCMark 8 have been retired in favour of a single, fast benchmarking mode.
Other improvements in PCMark 10 include new and updated workloads designed to better reflect the realities of machine use in the Windows 10 era and multiple reporting levels which split results into a high-level benchmarks core, mid-level test group scores, and low-level workloads scores, any one of which can be compared side-by-side within the benchmark software itself.
Today's release is specifically for PCMark 10 Professional Edition, which is licensed for business and commercial use. At $1,495 a year (around £1,158 excluding taxes), though, it's of little use to most enthusiasts; PCMark 10 Advanced Edition, licensed for home use, will launch on June 22nd for $29.99 (around £23 excluding taxes) alongside the free PCMark 10 Basic Edition which is limited to only the main test suite and excludes the side-by-side result comparison and in-depth hardware monitoring graphs of its higher-priced stablemates.
More information on PCMark 10 is available from the official website.
UL adds battery, Office benchmarks to PCMark 10
Promises real-world measurements.
Futuremark releases 3DMark Time Spy Extreme
Ultra HD benchmarking for paying users.
CPUID explains CPU-Z v1.79 benchmarking changes
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One of the conditions put forward by the United Naga Council, UNC, for resolution to the SADAR (Special Area Demarcated Autonomous Region) Hills is to arrive at a consensus on the issue amongst the concerned people. Should not the government be exploring this suggested route? Should not it for instance try having those demanding the separate district status for the SADAR Hills sub-division and those opposing the idea meet across the table and arrive at such a consensus? Since the dispute predictably is unlikely to be resolved so easily across the table between the two parties, should not it be prudent for the government to make the agenda of such a dialogue be centred around evolving an objective criterion for arriving at this rather amorphous notion of the will of the people? Perhaps, this would be about a referendum of sorts, where the domicile of the sub-division are called upon to vote on whether the SADAR Hills should be made a separate district or else remain a sub-division of the Senapati district. Why is the government delaying to facilitate such a joint meeting? Maybe it is an understandable cynicism that this would be of no point, as these offers of arriving at a people's consensus is only another way of saying no to any compromised settlement, but at least the gesture would pass on the ball to the court of those who served it in the first place. At this moment, because of the lack of initiative from its side on this count, the government is appearing to be at fault for the continued impasse.
It is true the government has set up a district demarcation committee to study the feasibility of the various demands for new districts. As a column in the last Sunday issue of the IFP suggested, perhaps there should be plenty more districts. He had suggested 25 districts for the hill administration. This would mean 25 deputy commissioners and a reciprocal number of subordinate staff. The argument is, the area to be handled being thus greatly reduced, administration would also become proportionately easier. The only lacuna in this proposition is, ultimately primacy of any administration is people and not area, and that many of the new districts may not have enough people to administer, perhaps to the extent of the employees of the administration outnumbering the number of people to be administered. Employees of the child welfare department responsible for running the Central government's Anganwadi programme will vouch this. In the rural areas of the hills, each Anganwadi centre which is supposed to cater to a 1000 population often ends up caring for as little as just two families which sometimes do not have any children of school going age, almost making the programme redundant. The suggestion however is something to look into. A balance must be struck between spatial spread of population distribution and its thick concentration in a small area. Both present different challenges. The more sparse and spread the population, the more uphill the task of ensuring benefits of administration reach the beneficiaries. On the other hand, even though in towns and cities the population may be much more concentrated and thereby spatially much easy to cover, logistically it also means there are more people to look after, more children to feed and educate etc thereby more material and personnel to accomplish the mission. The committee now looking into the matter will know best what criterion it would have to set for itself to come up with proposals for solutions to the problems.
As of now, although it is the most pronounced, SADAR Hills is not the only area wanting to be recognized as a separate district. The state has heard the echoes of similar demands coming from Tengnoupal sub-division in the Chandel district, Phungyar sub-division in the Ukhrul district, Khoupam sub-division in the Tamenglong district, Jiribam sub-division in the Imphal East district, and we are certain there will be more if there are any indication that creation of new districts are a possibility. This last consideration cannot be brushed aside, for what may actually happen may be the opening of the proverbial Pandora's Box. Whatever the case may be, we hope the committee, headed by the state chief secretary, D.S. Poonia, gives weight to considerations of administrative convenience and not ethnic boundaries, imaginary or otherwise. If the state had only one category of territory, and not reserved and non-reserved ones as is the reality, matters of such divisions would have been much simpler, for then there could have been only spatial spread of population and thereby proximity of population to district headquarters could have been the prime determinant. But this is not to be for as we have written earlier, merging reserved and non-reserved territory may be administratively convenient, but in the exercise of the political right of franchise, solution defying constitutional crisis can and indeed would ultimately result.
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Traditions – facts and figures
Spring festivals and customs
Summer festivals and customs
Autumn festivals and customs
Winter festivals and customs
Swiss flag
Mythical figures
The long tradition of the alpenhorn © FDFA, Presence Switzerland
The historic Battle of Laupen (canton of Bern) in 1339 was the first time a white cross was used to represent Switzerland. Swiss soldiers painted it on to their uniforms to distinguish them from their opponents on the battlefield.
The "Swiss Psalm" has been the country's national anthem since 1961. Before then, it was Rufst du mein Vaterland (When you call us, Fatherland), sung to the same tune as the British national anthem "God Save the Queen".
In 2014, a competition was launched to find a new national anthem.
In keeping with UNESCO conventions, Switzerland has drawn up an inventory of its living traditions. So far, there are 167 in all, including "Basler Fasnacht" (Basel carnival) and the "Fête des Vignerons" (winemakers' festival) in Vevey.
The Swiss National Day is 1 August. On this day, Switzerland commemorates the Federal Charter signed by the 'Three Forest Cantons', Uri, Schwyz and Unterwalden, in 1291, in which they swore a bond of brotherhood and agreed to act jointly if their freedoms were threatened by outside aggressors.
The Swiss Yodelling Festival is held every three years and attracts around 10,000 yodellers, flag-throwers and alphorn players.
"Heidi", the 19th century children's book written by Johanna Spyri, has been translated into over 50 languages and been adapted for film many times over.


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Q: Is there way to get access to the JavaScriptCore context inside iOS from React Native native module? I would like to use the JSC context of the React Native on iOS.
I found a couple of mentions but looks like it's not a case anymore
https://github.com/facebook/react-native/issues/14041
https://github.com/facebook/react-native/issues/1618#issuecomment-112275871

A: You can, but you have to use the native module system of React Native to wrap the native context into a JS-accessible proxy. See the following guides for reference:

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*iOS Native Modules

*Creating a Native Module in React Native


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Q: What does a TRIAC do? I'm hoping someone on here can give me a simple explanation of what a TRIAC does.
To give this request some context, I'm an embedded systems software engineer, so I interface with hardware, but I have no formal training in it. I was looking over a schematic for work and I saw a bunch of TRIACs being placed, but I am not familiar with this. I read the Wiki, but it's a bit much for me.
Can some one give me a basic example of what a TRIAC does and why you'd need them?
EX. I know a resistor, resists the flow of electricity
    I know that a capacitor stores electric charge
    I know diode's allow the flow of current in only one direction.
So like these basic concepts, can someone explain a TRIAC to me? Thanks.

A: A triac is a structure which can be seen as two transistors intertwined. The transistors act as switches. When the triac is fired (pulse on the gate) one transistor is switched on, which in turn switches the second transistor on. Then the second transistor keeps the first one switched on, even after the pulse was stopped. That way a short pulse switches on the triac, and both transistors keep each other on until the load current is removed.

A: A triac is used to control an AC load, just like a transistor can be used to control a DC load. It is drawn like a couple of diodes in each direction which are then triggered to turn on. They will turn off when the current drops below a certain threshold. So if you just want it on or off you leave the signal on or off and at the next zero-crossing of the AC it will be in that state.
You can also get fancy and turn it on only sometimes, which is where the microprocessor programming comes in. Once you have a zero cross detector you can then turn it on in a "gentle" manner as well as keeping trac of percentages on/off if you are trying to reduce the power or control a speed by leaving it off for some cycles.

A: A triac is basically an electronic switch for alternate current. What it does is to close a contact between two terminals when a current is applied to its "Gate". It will continue allowing current to flow until it drops below a certain threshold.
It can be seen as an alternative to the relay.
See also this question


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Imposters - That's Enough. Off You Go. - Review
Posted by Abi Baker at May 17, 2018 0 Comments
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Previously on Imposters, the Bumblers arrived back in North America and split up on their respective missions, Maddie goes back home to Pennsylvania (and takes a trip down memory lane) but as she leaves the FBI agents are hot on her trail, and Ezra's father seemingly dies in the care of Sally and Max.
The episode opens with Richie, Poppy and Jules at the Langmore cabin in New York, where it doesn't take long for the tension between the former two to turn physical, something we've all been expecting since they met. For some reason, Jules keeps put, even when she can clearly overhear what the two of them are doing together, but soon after Ezra gives her a call to update her on his family situation. It seems like Arthur really is dead, though I'm not sure I'm 100% buying it just yet.
We catch up with Maddie at a racecourse, where she gets another text from the mystery number asking if she's safe and to get in touch. She very clearly hopes that it's Ezra, and almost allows herself to ask whether it is him texting her, but wisely chooses not to at the last second. I can imagine that the person on the other side of the phone isn't as friendly as they're making themself out to be. Maddie however has something to focus on, and that's finding one Cyril 'Cy' Roberts, who she tries to claim is her father. Her get-up as a lawyer, although unbelievable to the people she's asking for information, is actually quite clever in that it then helps them believe that she really is the daughter of Cy. It's good to see that Maddie is as calculating as ever and hasn't lost her game, but maybe that isn't a good thing for her. The trio at the racecourse are willing to help Maddy find Cy and then presumably she's on her way.
Back at the 'cabin', Richie and Poppy work on securing a possible buyer for the ring in Arizona who won't try and shoot them, whilst Jules struggles with the news that Ezra has told her. Richie and Poppy seem somewhat oblivious to her struggles, and Poppy even goes as far as belittling them, but once Jules tells them what the situation actually is, Richie kind of understands she isn't really overreacting at all. Poppy however doesn't think it's a big deal, and with Richie head over heels for her, he really doesn't want to be in the middle or on the opposite side to Poppy. It puts Jules in an awkward position as she storms out of the room and walks away from the cabin.
Her walk takes her to a nearby tavern, and with her looking somewhat fatigued and still angry, she decides to stop in for a drink, where she meets one Lenny Cohen. Oh Lenny, how I've missed you. Of course, Jules does not know that this is Lenny, but the audience does and I bet everyone is currently scared for the cabin trio right now. It didn't take Lenny long to find them at all, but I suppose that's what makes her so good at her job. As Jules and Lenny 'bond' over drinks and tales of childhood, it's clear that Lenny is just disarming Jules until she strikes, and she really isn't someone to be trifled with.
Back with Maddie, the FBI are still very much following Maddie in hopes that she will lead them to the Doctor, but seem disappointed when all she seems to do is commit more crimes in the name of something else. Agent Cook insists that they have to keep following her and staying back though, so that's what they do.
At the tavern, Jules and Lenny now occupy a table and seem to be getting a little bit closer. Jules asks Lenny what it is that she does, and whilst she answers, it's definitely a little bit vague to Jules (but not to the audience). In turn, Lenny gets a bit of information out of Jules, but again it's something that she probably already knows seeing as she's there. I get the feeling that Jules is flirting and thinks that this is something it is completely different to what it actually is. She's going to be sorely disappointed and scared when the truth comes out.
We finally catch up with Ezra, who's wearing an awful hat (please someone take it off him) and trying to get in contact with Sofia who may be ignoring him. After ending the call and telling her he misses her, he goes and pays his final respects to his father who is actually very very not alive. His death in the last episode did seem a bit abrupt but hopefully it will be allowed to pay off in some way. As Ezra is looking at the coffin however, Ava pays him a visit, which is a very surprising development. He's placing the blame for this on Maddie, because without her he'd never have met Max and Sally and therefore his dad would have never died, but Maddie/Ava rejects that and says that it's all on Ezra, and she may have a point. No one made Ezra steal the ring in season one, and no one made him become a fully fledged con artist. He did that all by himself. Clearly his subconscious can't decide where to place the guilt and blame but before we can delve deeper into Ezra warring with himself, his brother shows up.
Ezra goes to hug him, but that's quickly rejected as Josh does not back down on getting answers about what happened to their dad. It turns out Ezra somewhat covered for Sally and Max, and the police haven't been called, but now his father's death is shrouded in mystery and Ezra's family want to know why. Ezra isn't backing down though, and he makes it clear he isn't going to give Josh the real answer. Josh is overcome with grief and breaks down, and it's interesting to see the contrast between how Ezra and Josh are taking their father's death.
Now, we're treated to a little Jules backstory, as we cut between both Jules and Poppy divulging Jules' biggest secret to Lenny and Richie respectively. When Jules was at college, her roommate died and she ended up stealing some of her roommate's work and submitting it as one of her final pieces and then having her sister cover up the theft. It's pretty bad, but not as bad as I was thinking, which is almost exactly what Lenny says. It's obvious that one of the reasons Lenny says that is so that Jules will like and trust her even more, which totally works, but I don't think she's wrong about it. Richie seems to be on the same page as well, and thinks that Poppy was somewhat in the wrong for intervening. Poppy doesn't want to hear it though, and texts instead of paying attention to Richie. As Richie takes her phone to try and make her pay attention, he discovers she's been texting her husband the whole time they've been together, and that their time together was just a fling. He's been projecting his feelings for Alice onto her this whole time, which isn't overly healthy, but it isn't nice for him that she chooses that minute to leave and go back to her husband. On her way out, she bumps into Jules who has just been dropped off at the cabin by Lenny (a bad move on her part, but not that she was to know), and as Poppy closes the door, Jules looks up the stairs and simply says 'poor Richie'.
We catch up with Maddie as she enters a care home with the dog she 'borrowed' earlier. She's there to meet Cy Roberts, who it turns out is another con artist who may be even better than her, seeing as he's pretending to be sick and somewhat senile but is still as sharp as a whip. It turns out the Doctor is keeping Cy in the care home as he tried to take down the Doctor years ago. The Doctor is blackmailing him into staying, and if Maddie tries to take him down, the Doctor will likely use something against her too to keep her in place. Maddie asks for help in finding the Doctor and taking him down any way, and all Cy can give her is that he's a real doctor operating out of Buffalo. As Maddie leaves, Agent Cook investigates why she was there in the first place, and the con is on with Cy. It seems like Agent Cook buys it, and as she leaves the room, a nurse mistakes her for one of the residents.
At Maddie's motel, the FBI agents are sitting tight on her, but as Agent Cook leaves the car, Patrick plants a tracking device in Maddie's truck and then decides to ring her up. He questions her on her commitment to the con, and whether she actually did feel something when she kissed Ezra or whether it was all for show. She counters whether he felt anything when he kissed her or told her he loved her, and he says it was all a job to him but something tells me that's not the truth. He seems way too close to this and could end up being more of a threat to Maddie than the Doctor is.
At Arthur's funeral, we see Josh read out Ezra's speech, which is overwatched by Ezra from behind a tree. He clearly doesn't feel welcome at the funeral, but if he didn't keep so many secrets then maybe things would be different. Whilst reading Ezra's speech, Josh spots him, and his surprise quickly gives way to a shared sorrow. He carries on reading, but does so almost directly to Ezra. Ezra walks off emotional, and we see that Sally and Max are close by in a car waiting for him. As Ezra enters the car and tells them that they have to hurry, he's shushed as Max makes a phone call. It's obvious who it's going to be, but Ezra is stilled and shocked as he hears the Doctor's voice greeting him on the other end. The Doctor reveals that he knows where Jules and Richie are (because of course he does), and that now the Bumblers work for him until further notice. He makes it clear that if they do not comply with what he's requesting, they will meet the same fate as Arthur.
We see Maddie return the dog and get another mysterious text. She finally texts back, and the person on the other side confirms her thoughts that it's Ezra and for her to go to the Langmore cabin, but somehow I think it isn't Ezra at all and is instead Lenny, or even the Doctor himself. She fully believes it is Ezra though, and as the show has essentially confirmed that Maddie does actually have feelings for Ezra, she seems pleased that he is worried about her. This is definitely a trap.
The episode ends on the Bumblers reuniting in the Langmore cabin, as Ezra breaks down in Jules' and Richies' arms.
In one of the highlights of the season so far, we finally get a better paced episode with developments on the big bads of the season. Do you think Maddie will succeed in taking down the Doctor? What do you think about the Bumblers having to work for him? Let me know in the comments.


The midquel no one was waiting for! Be amazed as Jeepers Creepers dinks around with his truck which is invincible.
Evil Dead gets a TV series, a new Child's Play, & now this. But too little to late for me. Seen so many bad & mediocre horror movies that the whole genre just seems to have lost its spark.


Carol Abell was selected for the Platform Graduate Award by Aspex in 2018.
"Graduating from Arts University Bournemouth in 2018 as a mature student, I found the experience so stimulating. My artistic traits were unearthed in my 40s and ignited in a mental health hospital, whilst having treatment for a breakdown. Art was used as therapy, and this progressed into an educational journey.
"Through the degree course I searched for a medium and theme for my practise. Exploring, painting, 3D and much more I found my own niche. Topics including mental health, then history relating to Dorset, local locations, and my own perception of the world have become the stimulus. Culminating in a modern and creative use of printing, bookmaking and the tradition of Dorset buttons.
"Artists that inspire me are Frida Kahlo, Grayson Perry, Leanne Tobin, and many artists from the Futurism movement.
"Being selected by Aspex in Portsmouth, as part of Platform has been an honour. It has resulted in me having more confidence. Seeing your work in a gallery for contemporary art, alongside very talented artists, has to be the icing on the cake.
"It also opened up the chance to show my work in an area completely new to me. Aspex asked if I would like to have my work included in a 'touch tour' exhibition for the blind and partially sighted. As a disabled artist, I believe that it is good to be inclusive to more groups from the community who are otherwise marginalised by their disability.
"TheGallery at Arts University Bournemouth also wanted to show my work at the same time. This resulted in having to make a similar set of works for Bournemouth.
"It has taken a little while to readjust to life after University! At present I am making a piece on the Dorset and Somerset Air Ambulance. Commissioned as a result of my work being chosen for Platform.
Image: Carol Abell's work in Platform 2018, installed at Aspex. Photo: Daniel Boss, courtesy Aspex.


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If you're a fan of Japanese films, the Japan Foundations is screening some selections from its collection of films starting this week. The first day of the Japan Foundation Movie Recommendations Today (MRT) will take place this Tuesday, 16 April 2019 with a screening of Sanpei si Kappa at 2 PM and Hankyu Railways – A 15 Minute Miracle at 4 PM. On Friday, 18 April, there will be 2 other screenings of different films. To register for the film screenings, click here. To get more information on the JF MRT, click here. The film screenings are free and they will take place at The Japan Foundation Jakarta at Gedung Summitmas 1.
Institut Francais Indonesia, under its Jeune Création series is holding a parallel photo exhibition showing works of Errell Hemmer and Rémi Decoster. Errell and Rémi went to Surabaya in 2018 for a 3-month residency. In which, they observed the problems of life in Surabaya through their own lenses. Both photographers are back to present the work that they started during the residency. This parallel exhibition runs until 27 April 2019 at the House of Sampoerna in Surabaya. For more information on the exhibition, click here.
Metis Gallery & Boutique in Seminyak, Bali is opening their latest exhibition Silent Dialogues on Thursday, 18 April 2019. Silent Dialogues showcases portraits of Indonesian people created by Nadya Lesnaya. Nadya's works are built upon the transition from impression to expression. She tends to leave a sense of slight incompleteness in the work so the viewers can bring their thoughts and perception to complete the paintings. Silent Dialogues runs until 16 May 2019 at Metis Gallery. For more information, visit metisbali.com or follow the gallery's Instagram account here.
If you happen to be in Bali with children/ teenager of 10 to 16 years of age, you might be interested in Cush Cush Gallery's Hands On workshops this Saturday and Sunday. These are the 4th and 5th sessions of the Charcoal for Children 2019 program. In the sessions, Cush Cush Gallery will guide children and teenagers in creating art works using charcoal and the materials provided. Each session runs from 9 am to noon at Cush Cush Gallery in Denpasar, Bali. For more information, follow Cush Cush Gallery's Instagram account here.


Except from: Wink, J. & Wink D. (2004, pp.169-180) Teaching Passionately: What's Love Got to Do with It? Boston, MA: Allyn & Bacon.
Look, my friends, there is no possibility for greater achievement without running risk. Without freedom you cannot risk. When you are not free, you have to risk in order to get freedom. Education is a game like this. Constantly teaching is not to spend a weekend on a tropical beach. It is to be committed to the process of teaching and committed to the adventure and creation, both teachers as teachers and students as students.
Personal and professional excitement and energy strengthen one another. Personal passion and professional passion cannot be separated. Each is intimately interwoven to the support or detriment of the other. Excitement is contagious. Students are drawn into its wake despite themselves when the teacher brings genuine curiosity and enthusiasm into the classroom. We, as teachers, know there are two main ways to do this: be genuinely excited or fake it. We've all experienced both. We also know that pretending to be excited, especially for extended periods of time, is exhausting. Feigned enthusiasm ranks as a significant component in teacher burnout.
This chapter is a guide to infuse passion and energy into life and teaching, making teaching and learning a dynamic and meaningful process for both teacher and learner. This can sound quite abstract and unattainable. This process is broken down into pragmatic and practical exercises and insightful reflections that can be implemented in life and in the classroom tomorrow.
This section covers two complimentary approaches to bringing joy and passion into teaching and learning. First are the four quests, which are individual, reflective processes designed to guide teachers in energizing curriculum by infusing the classroom with joy and passion. Second, the creation of passionate pedagogue circles, collaborative processes, designed to help teachers and learners discover and/or recover those powerful human connections that are at the heart of schooling.
All activities connect to the spiral of learning and link to concepts present previously in the book.
A word of caution before beginning: To teach with passion, it is necessary to have a desire for this change in life and in teaching. To risk is essential: to risk the joy and heartbreak that come with creating a life and teaching career full of passion, in all of its gorgeous messiness. On the following pages, theory becomes action as we turn passion into a concrete pedagogical plan.
If the will is not there the quests and the circles are a waste of time. If the aspiration is there, though, the quests and the circles provide a way to tap passion and use it as a vehicle for a deeper and more joyful approach to pedagogy.
Sally came to one of our workshops in a funk. Life wasn't bad, teaching wasn't bad, but she felt she was going through the motions instead of living life. We saw this in her, though she didn't seem that aware of her situation herself. She had experienced this state of uninspired living for so long that she didn't appear to even be aware how flat her life had become. Slowly, throughout the course of the day, we witnessed her dawning realization that life could be more and better than she had understood.
As Sally worked through the exercises and heard other teachers' stories of passion, she blossomed before our eyes. At the workshop's beginning, she entered the room very politely and smiling, but subdued. As the day progressed, her eyes lit up and began to twinkle, her polite smile became an infectious laugh, and she radiated an energy of excitement and hope. We watched the shift take place as she began to think with her heart instead of her mind. The mind does have a place in our quest, "…but as the servant of your heart, not as its master" (Beck, 2002, p. 112).
Sally drew the whole class into her excitement as she held her action plan in hand, animatedly describing her curriculum plans for the upcoming year. By the end of the day she stood straighter, looked people directly in the eye more, and carried herself with a confident and upbeat ease. She glowed with a contagious inner joy.
The object of this chapter is to create a personal plan toward passionate pedagogy. Far from being a gift some people are lucky enough to be born with while others are not, to teach passionately is available to all.
To teach with passion, our life must be grounded in passion. Individual passions are the axis around which the spokes of the rest of our life turns. This is not to say we base life on what we feel we should be passionate about or we're supposed to be passionate about. Here we are going to explore genuine passions, be it comic books, impractical shoes, fishing, or funny-faced dogs. While this plan is very practical, passions frequently are not. Here we will not only respect that but encourage it and have some fun. Teaching infused with passion makes learning more stimulating and fun to both teacher and learner.
Passionate teaching encourages relationships within the classroom to thrive. Teacher-student, parent-teacher, and student-student relationships grow to be grounded in mutual respect in the pursuit of learning and discovery. Teaching and learning turn out to be journeys to be explored.
*First Quest-Identification: What are my goals? How do I envision the teaching and learning environment for my classroom?
First, we'll first focus on the teaching and learning experience you would like to create in the classroom. We're going to do some dreaming here. Imagine yourself in your ideal world where you have absolute control over your teaching environment. You control class size, you control the curriculum, and you control the literature, we're dreaming here! Don't hold yourself back from dreaming because a little voice says in your head, "Oh, my principal would never allow that" or "Well, maybe in my dream world, but there's no way this could ever happen in the real world." Push those voices aside just for now. Goal and dream making are the first step in creating our world. Use your imagination. What would you create?
Cluster Exercise: On a blank sheet of paper write "teaching and learning experience" in the middle of the page and then draw a circle around it. (See Figure 9.2). The key to this exercise is not to overthink, but to write and get ideas down on paper as quickly as possible. Think of your own expectations of the ideal atmosphere surrounding teaching and learning experiences for you and your students. Be wild, be crazy, dream! Whatever you do, don't edit yourself at this stage. Don't trip the baby who's trying to walk! Let those dreams out. Let them fly!
As ideas come into your head of what you would like to create in your classroom, write these ideas down as quickly as you can, drawing a circle around each and then connecting it to the whole with a line. Keep your pen moving. Don't allow yourself to edit your thoughts or kill off your dreams as they're taking shape. Don't stop writing until you have at least ten added clusters of ideas surrounding the main idea.
After you've finished writing, and you have at least 10 secondary idea clusters, review your clusters briefly. An organic organization will begin to take form in your mind as you muse on what you wrote. As this inherent organization begins to form, with the cluster in sight, begin to write these thoughts down essay-style in the order they come. Again, write quickly without putting too much thought into the organization or what you write. If you slow down or begin to overthink the content or organization, the flow of ideas slows. Write quickly and easily.
*Second Quest-Prioritization: What brings me joy? What am I passionate about?
To pursue pedagogical passion is to articulate its importance in life. Many of us consistently block out inner joy from our lives because "we don't have time." We ignore our inner joys for so long that when the time finally comes to identify what brings passion to life, we are left with a blank stare, literally unable to remember. We do not allow ourselves these joys because we falsely deem them unproductive. We successfully callus ourselves from our own feelings, indeed, from our souls' life directions. This illusion of a lack of productivity could not be more false. It is in the act of listening and pursuing our passions that we are most productive.
Treasure Map Exercise: Write down in a list as many things as you can think of that make you happy. Anything, anything! Don't hold back. Don't think. For heaven's sake, don't be practical! Go for it, let your mind go where it will and don't censor, just write. What brought you joy as a child? Close your eyes and let your mind wander-what activities, what colors, what experiences, what textures, sounds, and smells make you feel peaceful?
If it has been a while since you've let yourself entertain these thoughts, you may only come up with one or two-as each of us did when we first did this. Now, that's a sobering thought, isn't it? The harder it is for you to think of things in life that bring you joy, the more you need to do them. Two years ago when Dawn did this for the first time, the only joyous thing she could think of was reading. Clearly, it had been a while since she'd focused on basing her profession on what brings her joy. After three years of centering her life on joy, here is a tiny portion of her current list: bright, vibrant colors, the desert, sunsets, books, running, good friends, family, textures, sunlight, jelly beans, Mexican food, Celtic music, travel books, wildflowers, words, fabric, laughter, sunshine yellow, blue doors, good coffee, and saguaro cacti. It is no coincidence that during these same three years, her professional life bloomed.
Ready? Write. (See Figure 9.3).
Look at your completed list. Before you lies your own personal treasure map. From here we will salvage those passions ignored due to the busyness of life, studies, families, and jobs. Think of your list as a trove of treasure full of clues that we shall sift through in the next exercise.
*Third Quest-Application: How can these joys enrich my teaching?
Infusing your days with passion enriches life. Colors become brighter, textures become richer, and life is expanded. The little nuances and subtleties of life that make up our days gain significance that might otherwise have been missed. In today's current exhausting political climate in education, as teachers we need to find our grounding, our center to strengthen ourselves personally, as well as professionally. The strength and wisdom gathered from this sense of center, of strength, brings a steadiness to the day. We gain strength from within and go forth into the hectic giving of our days.
How do we do this in a pragmatic way? There are two main ways: (a) to make time, and (b) to bring joyful activities into the class.
First, we need to commit to make time for our personal passions outside of the school. Their inclusion in our life outside of school energizes and fortifies us inside of school. One teacher we know rises at 4:00 am to write in her journal, another to work on his current watercolor painting. It is about making time to go for a good run even if the house is a disaster, getting out on the mountain bike sitting dusty in the garage, or getting together with friends you have been too busy to see. Even if it is only 15 minutes a day, the time is well spent. To consistently deny yourself the passions that bring you joy and energy is the surest road to fatigue and burn out. In simpler terms, as far as productivity, you're shooting yourself in the foot.
Remember the teacher in the beginning of this book who missed watching the sunsets? By taking time each day to watch the sunsets, to revel in the joy and peace that brings, she directly influences her teaching. If we are fulfilled, our teaching is better. Beck (2001) applies two rules to charting a course for the passionate life intended for us.
Rule 1: If it brings you joy, do it.
Try it. We think you will be amazed. Since reorganizing our thoughts and actions around our passions and joys, both professional and personal magic has come tumbling into our lives in ways it never did before.
Commitment Exercise (Part One): Bring out your treasure map. Quickly, scrolling down with your eyes, pick out three passions you have that you have not been including in your life lately. Three passions that are out of doors, quiet and reflective, artistic, whatever calls to you. Now fill these three passions in Figure 9.4.
The second way to energize teaching is to bring elements of joyful activities into the classroom. When we bring our passions into the classroom, our enthusiasm is infectious. Students intuit this.
Commitment Exercise (Part Two): Now, we expand on bringing your passions into the classroom to enrich teaching and learning. At the end of this quest you will have a pragmatic and surprisingly concise blueprint how to energize yourself, your teaching, and your students. We love what we teach when we teach what we love.
Refer to your treasure map. Read it quickly through once more. Certain words inherently carry an extra charge of energy for you. Circle those words quickly and move on until you have read to the bottom or the list. Write those words in the column on the left hand side of the page under Passions.
*Fourth Quest-Return to Goals: How can I implement more change toward my vision of teaching and learning?
Plans and dreams remain useless until we incorporate them into our lives in practical ways. What good are all of these wonderful ideas on how to infuse your teaching with passion if they stay clustered on the piece of paper, tucked in some dark drawer somewhere? Not one bit of good at all. In the fourth quest, you will focus on turning those great ideas into reality.
Scheduling Exercise: In the following exercise, you will create a practical and usable schedule of how to implement your passions into current curriculum plans. Lay out all of your clusters before you. Now, using the outline of the weekly and monthly schedule in Figure 9.8, schedule your upcoming academic topics and corresponding curriculum from the cluster exercise.
Congratulations! You have just created your own action plan for passionate pedagogy. Hopefully, we never full attain our goals, because as we move along the spiral our hopes, dreams, and goals continue to shift and grow as we do. As one goal is being accomplished, another goal is in its early stages. Optimistically, the clusters and curriculum schedule will be constantly in motion, being revised, changed, and expanded.
A passionate teacher is a teacher who breaks out of the isolation of a classroom, who refuses to submit to apathy or cynicism.
In addition to the individual quests, collaborative passionate pedagogue circles call us into a community where we draw strength, courage, and love from other teachers and learners. Now, more than ever, we need this. Whereas graduate classes, credentialing processes, and inservicing used to be a place of continuing the cycle of learning about pedagogy, today, in our experiences, professional development has become a place of anxious administrators and tired, frantic teachers. We marvel at how it has affected our own professional work in the last few years. Now, when educators come together, we need each other. We need a safe haven. The quests and passionate pedagogue circles are designed to heal and strengthen, as we continue to challenge injustice.
Passionate pedagogue circles are collaborative groups of pedagogues (teachers and/or learners) who come together to infuse passion into the teaching and learning processes. These are groups of educators and community members who have made that initial, challenging decision: They want to find their passion and bring that joy to the classroom. These groups are founded on the assumption that we cannot always control the outside forces in our environment, but we can individually and collaboratively influence how we live, learn, and teach. As the whole is greater than the sum of its parts, the goal is to tap into the combined inner strength of each person to enhance each member and the group.
The primary purpose is to mutually support one another in pursuit of passionate living and teaching.
How to begin: Form a group of people interested in impassioning their lives and teaching. Although any size works, a group of 8 people seems to work well. The group is small enough to be intimate and large enough people to stimulate discussion. A wide variety of life experiences among the group works well. The most positive and powerful groups are those full of people who are independently passionate and interested in being around others who have a love of ideas. When forming the group, look for positive people interested in life, ideas, and teaching. Stay away from those people who ooze bitterness.
We cannot stress enough: This is not the appropriate place to invite the teachers on your staff who rarely have a good word to say about anything. Although you might want them to be inspired, chances are they'll just poison the atmosphere for the rest of the group.
Initial decisions to be made by the group: where and when to meet. In addition, during the formation of the group, we recommend that the group discuss options for the group's discussion format.
Possible format and discussion ideas: Members share their own experiences with passion in life and in schools, discuss ideas how to enrich curriculum, discuss current frustrations and possible ways of handling them, encourage and strengthen one another in individual pursuits and academic life, or talk about relevant books and their ideas.
As you begin your own individual quests and join with others in passionate pedagogue circles, you create and control your own future in the classroom.


Love doesn't always have to have a sexual element to it. Don't you have friends that you absolutely adore? If you would do anything for your bestie, but don't feel any romantic or sexual attachment to them, then that's platonic love. It's one of the types of love that occurs the most often, because there are so many people in your life that you have platonic connections to.
No one wants their love to be unrequited, but it happens pretty often. If you've ever fallen in love with someone that just didn't feel the same about you, you've experienced the pain that goes along with this type of love. It's heartbreaking, but it's a part of life. It helps you learn how to handle pain, and more importantly, how to grow from it.
This is that love that you see in films. It's when two people are crazy about each other. There's not just a single component to this type of love. When you're truly in love, you adore the other person's mind, heart, body, and soul. It's the strongest type of love that there is, and you're lucky if you're able to experience it.
You're super into the hot guy you see every day on the train, but you have no clue what his name is. You don't know anything about his personality, and frankly, you don't care. You've created an identity for him in your head, and that's good enough. You don't really want a relationship with him; you just want to taste those gorgeous lips.
This temporary love is what you feel when you have a major crush on someone. It usually occurs when you're a child or a preteen because it's filled with innocence. Everyone has experienced this, at least to a certain extent. It's called puppy love, because you worship the person like a little doggie does his owner.
Are there any celebrities you'd love to date, even though they're thirty years older than you and currently married? That's the type of unattainable love that we've all experienced. Even though we know it's virtually impossible to get together with an older star, that doesn't stop us from daydreaming about them. They're so darn perfect, so how could we resist? It's human nature, after all.
Don't you just love how awesome of a person you are? If you don't think that's true, you have some work to do. You've all heard about how important it is to love yourself before you love anyone else. If you're not the biggest fan of yourself, then start listing all of your great qualities. You need to realize just how amazing you are--and trust me, you are amazing!
Love is what makes the world go 'round. Which types of love have you experienced so far?


Prince Edward Island Mussels in White Garlic Cream Sauce. along with crusty ciabatta bread and a glass of chardonnay wine. It doesn't get any better!
This is a delicious twist to the traditional stuffed eggplant by adding fennel Italian sausage! Serve with the perfect side of spring baby greens with balsamic vinaigrette dressing.
This German Pork Schnitzel with traditional Red Cabbage is an excellent recipe! It's as authentic as it gets!


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Government House
St. John's, Antigua and Barbuda
2018 World Monuments Watch
The Government House in the center of Antigua's capital city, St. John's, is a treasured symbol of the nation's democracy—its progression from slavery to full emancipation in 1834, and to confident independence in 1981. Established in a Parsonage dating from the 1700s, Government House has been the official residence of the islands' Governor General since 1800. The present-day Government House, dating from the early nineteenth century, still remains the official residence of the Governor General, representing Queen Elizabeth II, the Head of State. The main building, a traditional West Indian construction, is surrounded by historic outbuildings that served as carriage houses, stables, laundry buildings, kitchens, servants' quarters, cisterns, limestone filters, and gardens set within a masonry perimeter wall.
Government House has suffered from severe weather conditions, including harsh heat and drought, hurricanes, earthquakes, and neglect. Additionally, the property has evolved in a changing urban landscape, complete with the challenges of poverty, unemployment, and crime. Despite significant signs of decay and a variety of physical issues including water filtration and outdated and potentially dangerous electrical and plumbing systems, the Government House building is structurally sound, attesting to the original quality of craftsmanship. The grounds, overgrown and romantic, feature exquisite mature specimen trees, including West Indian mahogany, red cedar, and lignum vitae. Conservation measures for the house, outbuildings, and the gardens are needed to stem the progressing decay, which, if ignored, will soon be impossible to repair and even more costly to reinstate.
A local initiative to repair Government House has been developed with the goal of providing training and employment opportunities to underserved youth, people with disabilities, older people who are unable to find jobs, professionals with an interest in sharing their expertise, teachers, and the incarcerated. The 2018 World Monuments Watch calls attention to the Government House and the restoration program as an opportunity to connect heritage solutions with issues of urban deprivation, health, and other social issues.
Watch Day 2019
In February 2019, Watch Day was held at Government House, celebrating the heritage of the site with local arts and culture, showcasing works that epitomize the heritage of the Antigua and Barbuda. Celebrations included presentations from traditional handicraft artisans, musicians, artists, oral historians, and grassroots organizations alongside local university students and faculty. Watch Day highlights the importance of vibrant community engagement and local stewardship in the sustainable preservation of heritage sites.
Inclusive Conservation at Government House


Despite the weather getting steadily worse north of Watford, the RTC team all made it up to Manchester for the first round of the defence of "our" Pol Roger Trophy (including the Sohlman who'd fitted winter tyres to his ridiculous car especially for the trip). After a practice the evening before and for an hour before the match itself we were confident that the Manchester court would provide many funny bounces, particularly from directly in front of the tambour and that layers were going to be necessary (many, many layers and possibly hats).
First up were Phil Dunn and James Sohl in the second-string doubles against Guy Maxwell and Mark Seymour Mead. After a few shared games in the first set the RTC pairing steadied the ship and came away with a 6/3, 6/1 victory.
First string singles pitted RTC's Peter Wright (was his bandana against the cold?) against Robert Shenkman who'd been honing his tennis at Queen's over the summer. Despite some outrageous retrieving from the tambour, speed of movement and generally high level of tennis Robert went down 6/3, 6/4. 2/0 RTC with three to play.
Nick Hatchett at second string singles was up against Robert's father, and Manchester captain, Simon Shenkman. A solid first set from the RTC man and it was quickly 6/1. Simon used his home court advantage and rackets background to put more pressure on Nick in the second, helped by Nick forcing consistently into the middle of the net but nevertheless the set went away from Simon towards the end and was finished by Nick's first force on target – a 6/1, 6/4 victory putting RTC over the winning line 3/0.
Tom Freeman had the unenviable task of playing while the majority of his team mates were enjoying lunch. His opponent was rackets youngster Alex Duncliffe-Vines who played predominantly right-handed but with a few left-handed forehands thrown in. Both players were using and defending pace with aplomb but Tom was too consistent during the important points (did I just mention Tom and "consistent" in the same sentence…) and wrapped up a 6/4, 6/3 victory.
Last up were the first string doubles pairings of David and James Watson (RTC) against Mark Openshaw Blower and Adam Holloway (Manchester). The latter pairing were certainly doubles specialists with Adam being fearless at the front of the court (including standing at Hazard the door in front of the tambour on occasion…) while Mark was finding good angles from the back. However the Watsons are also no strangers to doubles and had too much firepower giving RTC a 6/2, 6/4 victory in a high quality match and 5/0 RTC on the day.
Next up are the winners of the Queen's vs Moreton tie.


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crime and punishment Aug. 27, 2014
Queens Cocaine Smuggler Fires on U.S. Marshals
By Jessica Roy
A Queens-based drug smuggler opened fire on U.S. marshals when they used a battering ram to break down his door late Tuesday night, reports the New York Daily News. The unnamed man was wanted for smuggling cocaine and for assault, and authorities had been trying to track him down for some time.
When marshals broke down his door in Springfield Gardens around 11 p.m. last night, the barricaded suspect greeted them with automatic gunfire. Police returned shots, wounding the man in his left hand. The suspect eventually dropped his weapon and emerged with his hands up. No law enforcement officials were injured, and the man was taken into custody.
A donors-only version
President Trump recounted minute-by-minute details of the US strike that killed Iran's top military commander during remarks to high-dollar Republican donors at his South Florida estate, according to audio obtained by CNN.
Trump, speaking at a GOP fundraising dinner Friday evening, offered new details about the strike that killed Gen. Qasem Soleimani[.] …
In his speech — held inside the gilded ballroom on his Mar-a-Lago property — he claimed that Soleimani was "saying bad things about our country" before the strike, which led to his decision to authorize his killing.
"How much of this shit do we have to listen to?" Trump asked. "How much are we going to listen to?"
Trump recounts minute-by-minute details of Soleimani strike to donors at Mar-a-Lago
Trump Claim That Soleimani Posed an 'Imminent Threat' Takes Another Hit


In this video Scuba Diver Life explores the fabulous corals and drift scuba diving that Cozumel has to offer. We met up with Dive Cooperative who led us through our entire adventure!
Love the video. Just got back from a dive trip to Cozumel in May, AWESOME place. Like the tshirts, are they available for purchase?
I dive with Dive Cooperative now! They are awesome!!!


New Linear Rails for FT5 R2?
Finished my FT5 R2 build a few months ago, but with a move and job change it didn't see a ton of use. This past week I brought it in to work to print some models, and I actually got a 63 hour print successfully completed with fantastic quality! However, a few short prints later and it has crapped out on me--the Y axis is binding really bad. I narrowed it down to one of the two linear rails, and even with the carriage free it is binding so badly it's difficult to move. It's been working so well up until now, but it feels so bad I wonder if I lost a bearing or something, though I don't see how that's possible since I have zip ties at the end of each rail as an extra safe guard against the carriage sliding off the end and they're still in tact.
Assuming that rail is toast--where have you all sourced better linear rails from?
does it still bind with the belts off? maybe one of them slipped and now the y motors are fighting eachother?
I removed the linear rail, and by itself it still is binding. One of the ball bearing tracks is sticking, so the balls slide along the rail instead of rolling. I removed the carriage, completely disassembled it, and put it back together--it's working better now. I need to go ahead and add some lubrication to the carriages and hopefully it will be good to go again!
sometimes the lubrication can be more of a cleaner/dislodger... put some on, run it back and forth some, clean it off. put some more on, rinse & repeat.
when I put the lubrication on its very clean/clear looking, but when i reapply (every month or two) and wipe excess it isn't, which tells me its dirty enough that I need to do that a few times to clean it somewhat.


Sarfaraz left his side's tour of South Africa early after cricket chiefs suspended him for four games.
The 31-year-old wicketkeeper admitted breaching the International Cricket Council's (ICC) anti-racism code.
But the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) said on Tuesday that Sarfaraz was "an integral part" of its World Cup plans.
"We all know he has had some tough times as a professional cricketer in the past few weeks," said PCB chairman Ehsan Mani.
Sarfaraz, who was caught on a stump microphone using the Urdu word "kaale", meaning "black", said: "The reality is the last few weeks have been extremely difficult for me as a person and professional.
He later apologised and claimed his words were "not directed towards anyone in particular", though he admitted breaching the anti-racism code.


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Q: Is it possible to use both hyperxmp and xmpincl in LaTeX? I am trying to add other xmp metadata to a pdf file which is not covered by hyperxmp. I tried to use both hyperxmp and xmpincl. Building the project in TeXnicCenter produces no errors, so I am thinking including and using both packages is okay. But when I extract the xmp file through a java code, the only xmp metadata stored in the xmp file is those created with hyperxmp. Am I doing something wrong, or it is really not possible to use both packages?

A: You can't directly use the packages hyperxmp and xmpincl together in one document, as you'll end up with a PDF file including two incompatible XMP metadata entries. However, you can reuse the XMP code produced by hyperxmp as suggested in the manual:

hyperxmp and xmpincl can complement each other. An author may want to use hyperxmp to produce a basic set of XMP code, then extract the XMP code from the PDF file with a text editor, augment the XMP code with any metadata not supported by hyperxmp, and use xmpincl to include the modied XMP code in the PDF file.

To facilitate this process a bit, you can create a document metadata.tex where you set all the metadata using hyperxmp and write the resulting XMP code to a file metadata.xmp:
metadata.tex
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\usepackage{hyperref}
\usepackage{hyperxmp}
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  \hyxmp@xmpRights@schema
  \hyxmp@dc@schema
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% Specify the XMP metadata here
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  pdftitle={Title},
  pdfcopyright={(c) 2013 by Author}
}

\begin{document}
The purpose of this document is to generate a file \texttt{metadata.xmp} containing XMP metadata.
\end{document}

This will produce a file metadata.xmp, which you can modify according to your needs and include it into your main document afterwards:
document.tex
\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{hyperref}
\usepackage{xmpincl}
\includexmp{metadata}

\begin{document}
This is the main document, using the XMP metadata found in \texttt{metadata.xml}.
\end{document}