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About C. Rash Construction, Inc.
C. Rash Construction was incorporated on October 10, 2007 after operating as a DBA contractor. Prior to that, Carl "Zach" Rash spent almost ten years as a construction engineer and other similar roles in the military in various parts of the world.
C. Rash Construction primarily focuses on building or repairing steel buildings and metal roofing systems. With over ten years in business, we continue to build and modify our skillset and equipment to better serve the needs of our varied customers.
We primarily service all commercial and light industrial needs, but are not limited to helping an individual build their dream shop, personal arena, or livestock barn.
We are highly focused on maintaining the integrity and quality of our work on every job - from the first part of ground breaking to the turning over the keys to your new facility, rather it be a office complex, school, church, warehouse , ect.
We look forward to where the good Lord takes us in the next 10 years with our family and customers.
Carl "Zach" Rash joined the Oklahoma National Guard as a constructional engineer in March, 1996. In August of 1999, he went all in and signed up for active duty. Zach then spent from 1999 to 2006 in military engineering and construction in the following areas.
Sept 99 - Jan 00: Drill Corporal, Ft. Jackson, SC
Jan 00 - Sept 02: 46th Engineering Company, Ft. Polk, LA
Sept 02 - Feb 03: 169th Port Operation Company (POC) within the 7th Group Transportation Division.
Feb 03 - Sept 03: Undisclosed locations in Middle East with 3rd ID
Sept 03 - Feb 06: Stateside in various locations with the 169th POC


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package monix.reactive

import java.time.Instant
import java.util.zip.Deflater

import monix.reactive.compression.internal.operators.{DeflateOperator, GunzipOperator, GzipOperator, InflateOperator}

// From https://github.com/typelevel/fs2/blob/main/core/jvm/src/main/scala/fs2/compression.scala
package object compression {

  /** Returns a stream that incrementally compresses input into the GZIP format
    *
    * @param bufferSize            Size of buffer used internally, affects performance.
    * @param compressionParameters see [[CompressionParameters]]
    * @param fileName              optional file name
    * @param comment               optional file modification time
    * @param modificationTime      optional file comment
    * @return
    */
  def gzip(
    bufferSize: Int = 32 * 1024,
    compressionParameters: CompressionParameters = CompressionParameters.Default,
    fileName: Option[String] = None,
    comment: Option[String] = None,
    modificationTime: Option[Instant] = None
  ): Observable[Array[Byte]] => Observable[Array[Byte]] = { source =>
    source.liftByOperator(
      new GzipOperator(
        fileName,
        modificationTime,
        comment,
        bufferSize,
        compressionParameters
      )
    )
  }

  /**
    * Decompresses gzipped stream. Compression method is described in https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1952.
    *
    * @param bufferSize Size of buffer used internally, affects performance.
    */
  def gunzip(
    bufferSize: Int = 32 * 1024
  ): Observable[Array[Byte]] => Observable[Array[Byte]] = { source =>
    source.liftByOperator(new GunzipOperator(bufferSize))
  }

  /**
    * Compresses stream with 'deflate' method described in https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1951.
    *
    * @param bufferSize            Size of internal buffer used for pulling data from deflater, affects performance.
    * @param compressionParameters See [[CompressionParameters]]
    * @param noWrap                Whether output stream is wrapped in ZLIB header and trailer. For HTTP 'deflate' content-encoding should be false, see https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2616.
    */
  def deflate(
    bufferSize: Int = 32 * 1024,
    compressionParameters: CompressionParameters = CompressionParameters.Default,
    noWrap: Boolean = false
  ): Observable[Array[Byte]] => Observable[Array[Byte]] = { source =>
    source.liftByOperator(
      new DeflateOperator(bufferSize, compressionParameters, noWrap)
    )
  }

  /**
    * Decompresses deflated stream. Compression method is described in https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1951.
    *
    * @param bufferSize Size of buffer used internally, affects performance.
    * @param noWrap     Whether is wrapped in ZLIB header and trailer, see https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1951.
    *                   For HTTP 'deflate' content-encoding should be false, see https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2616.
    */
  def inflate(
    bufferSize: Int = 32 * 1024,
    noWrap: Boolean = false
  ): Observable[Array[Byte]] => Observable[Array[Byte]] = { source =>
    source.liftByOperator(new InflateOperator(bufferSize, noWrap))
  }

  private[compression] val zeroByte: Byte = 0
  private[compression] val gzipMagicFirstByte: Byte = 0x1f.toByte
  private[compression] val gzipMagicSecondByte: Byte = 0x8b.toByte

  private[compression] object gzipFlag {
    def apply(flags: Byte, flag: Byte): Boolean = (flags & flag) == flag

    def apply(flags: Byte, flag: Int): Boolean = (flags & flag) == flag

    def ftext(flags: Byte): Boolean = apply(flags, FTEXT)

    def fhcrc(flags: Byte): Boolean = apply(flags, FHCRC)

    def fextra(flags: Byte): Boolean = apply(flags, FEXTRA)

    def fname(flags: Byte): Boolean = apply(flags, FNAME)

    def fcomment(flags: Byte): Boolean = apply(flags, FCOMMENT)

    def reserved5(flags: Byte): Boolean = apply(flags, RESERVED_BIT_5)

    def reserved6(flags: Byte): Boolean = apply(flags, RESERVED_BIT_6)

    def reserved7(flags: Byte): Boolean = apply(flags, RESERVED_BIT_7)

    val FTEXT: Byte = 1
    val FHCRC: Byte = 2
    val FEXTRA: Byte = 4
    val FNAME: Byte = 8
    val FCOMMENT: Byte = 16
    val RESERVED_BIT_5 = 32
    val RESERVED_BIT_6 = 64
    val RESERVED_BIT_7: Int = 128
  }

  private[compression] object gzipExtraFlag {
    val DEFLATE_MAX_COMPRESSION_SLOWEST_ALGO: Byte = 2
    val DEFLATE_FASTEST_ALGO: Byte = 4
  }

  private[compression] object gzipCompressionMethod {
    val DEFLATE: Byte = Deflater.DEFLATED.toByte
  }
}

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In January 2014, its Japan-based bitcoin trading platform, Mt. Gox, was hacked by about 750,000 BTC, valued at more than 400 million euros.
Arrested in the summer of 2014, Karpelès was initially suspected of committing the robbery himself but was eventually charged with computer data manipulation and aggravated breach of trust for misappropriating commercial funds.
In December 2018, the Tokyo District Attorneys were seeking a 10-year prison term.
At the hearing held that night in Japan, the Tokyo District Court was much less severe and sentenced to two years and six months suspended sentence, reports AP.
Against all odds (conviction rate higher than 99% in Japan), Karpelès was acquitted of the most serious charge: misappropriation of funds.
The court only condemned him for "manipulating computer data" and explained that he had manipulated some data, harming his clients and betraying their trust.


Home / Publications / MMP – a renovation job or a tear-down?
This article first appeared in the February 2011 issue of Boardroom magazine.
You will be asked to vote on MMP in the near future – possibly twice. Once in a referendum tacked onto the general election next year, and potentially again in 2014. In both cases it will be the unimproved version of MMP that you will be presented with. Do we need to do this, and are we going about it the right way?
You've got to ask what political price would National have paid had it quietly shelved its pledge to put MMP to the vote this year? Would there have been mass protests in the main centres? A lunchtime rally with a couple of polite placards on the forecourt of Parliament? A few letters to the editor? None of the above?
We should not pretend that MMP is working perfectly but neither can it be described as a failure. Certainly it is not clear that public opinion has shifted much since New Zealanders voted by a material 54% to 46% margin to adopt MMP in 1993.
First-past-the-post lost its moral authority for two reasons. Firstly, there were too few checks on the executive. The result was that if you could control the cabinet you could control the country (although whether the political horse-trading associated with coalition government produces better quality policy is a moot point), and the election outcome often bore little relationship to the distribution of votes.
This was particularly marked in the 1978 and 1981 elections. Both were won by National although Labour got more votes. Social Credit managed only two MPs in 1981 and none in 1978 despite polling 20.7% and 16.1% of the vote respectively. A similar fate befell the New Zealand Party in 1984 when it was unable to convert its 12.3% vote share into a single seat.
MMP was designed to deliver a more proportionate House and has done so. However this has not been entirely successful due to the effect in combination of the 5% rule and the waiver of that rule on the winning of a constituency seat.
The Royal Commission recommended that the threshold should be 4% but Parliament opted to follow the West German model and make it 5%. This decision locked out the Christian Coalition (on 4.3% of the vote) in 1996 and New Zealand First (on 4.07% of the vote) in the current Parliament. Yet, ACT, which got only 3.65%, has five MPs – basically because National allowed Rodney Hide to win Epsom but put up a top candidate to tip Winston Peters out of Tauranga.
Another serious irritant in the application of MMP is waka jumping. The politicians sought to deal with this through the Electoral Integrity Act 2001 which required MPs to resign from Parliament if they left their party. But the law was never very effective. The Alliance demonstrated that it could be easily circumvented by not formalising the Jim Anderton-led split to New Labour and Donna Awatere Huata revealed how difficult it was to enforce by fighting ACT's attempt to dislodge her all the way to the Supreme Court.
Awatere Huata argued that the balance of the House was maintained because, although no longer a member of the ACT caucus, she continued to vote according to ACT policies and principles; much the same as Chris Carter is doing now.
What's likely to be under review?
the effect of population on the ratio between electorate and list seats. It is now 70:50 but may have to be readjusted to prevent either the size of electorates or the size of the House getting too big.
Māori representation and the number of MPs have been held out for the three-year constitutional review. Between them, the constitutional review and the review of MMP (if it occurs) seem to cover all the bases.
However the Government is following a curious sequence. The current MMP framework will be reviewed only in the event that it beats the alternatives across either one poll or two. In other words, you will be asked to make your choice on the basis of the current, unimproved MMP.
The first referendum, to be held in conjunction with this year's elections, will ask people whether they want to retain MMP and, regardless of their answer to that question, which of four alternative systems they would prefer: FPP, Preferential Vote, Single Transferable Vote and Supplementary Member.
If there is a majority vote next year for MMP, we will proceed straight to the review of possible improvements. If there is not, there will be a run-off at the 2014 election between the current MMP and the most preferred of the other options.
The Government justifies this approach on the grounds that it would be a waste of time and resources to go to all the trouble and expense of a review until we know that MMP is to be retained. But surely it would make more sense if the review was conducted in advance, at least ahead of the second referendum, so that people know exactly what they are voting for. And in the scheme of things, the cost of a review should not be the overriding consideration. The Government has spent our money on far less worthy things.
The public is entitled to expect a review of MMP upfront, and the opportunity to make an informed choice between electoral systems, because there is much at stake. The move from FPP to MMP has taught us that the design of our electoral system will determine the nature of our Parliament, the character of our governance and the distribution of power within our society.
Overall MMP has led to a more proportionate House than first-past-the-post ever achieved.
The 5% rule, waiver of that rule on winning a constituency seat and waka jumping create pressure points.
If the referendum leads to a review, the Electoral Commission will look at dual candidacy, closed party lists, overhang and the effect of population on the ration between electorate and seats.
If MMP is rejected in the referendum, a choice of electoral systems will be put to the vote in the 2014 election.


When it comes to popular bucket list items, seeing the Northern Lights is right up there with skydiving and bungee jumping. We've all seen images of bright, vibrant colours splashed across the night sky, but nothing comes close to experiencing the real thing. And the Northwest Territories is the place to do it.
The capital city of Yellowknife has been dubbed the Aurora Capital of North America, but the entire territory provides unrivaled opportunities to see the skies explode with reds, blues, and greens.
A stay in a rustic wilderness lodge adds to the authentic Aurora experience. Fly on a bush plane, equipped with floats in autumn and skis in winter, and land alongside Blachford Lake Lodge, an oasis of rustic luxury in the Northwest Territories' wilderness near Yellowknife. In autumn, spend the day hiking, paddling and fishing, before watching the Aurora blaze the night sky. In the winter, ice skate on the frozen lake, mush huskies on a dogsled, stomp off on snowshoes or hop on a snowmobile and experience the wide-open Northern backcountry. Sit down to local cuisine like bison and pike, then slip into the hot tub and watch flowing curtains of Northern Lights shimmer and loop across the horizon — fireworks on a cosmic scale.
Maybe you'd prefer a teepee to a cabin? Head to Yellowknife's Aurora Village, and marvel at the sight of large, brightly-lit teepees set among the trees. These traditional structures will be your home for the night, with a wood-stove and warm drinks to help you relax following magical hours spent admiring nature's light show.
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Robert C. Rassa
Raytheon (retired)
Region 2 (Eastern U.S.)
Aerospace Systems Integration Engineering
Bob Rassa is the retired Director of Engineering Programs at Raytheon Technologies Intelligence and Space Systems, El Segundo CA and Fallston MD, since April 1996. Responsibilities were primarily helping improve systems engineering capabilities throughout Raytheon, and assisting the US Department of Defense and the Services (USAF, USA, USN, USMC) and Agencies improve their systems engineering capabilities via Industry Association and IEEE activity focused on systems engineering. Experienced in program management, systems engineering, radar systems design, logistics, test systems, and other electronics design. Prior to Raytheon, Mr. Rassa was employed as Group Vice-President at Mantech International Corp, where he was responsible for engineering and logistics programs at multiple locations, including Pasadena CA, Ft Huachuca AZ, San Antonio and San Angelo TX, and Vienna VA (1985-1996). Prior to that Mr. Rassa was Director, Programs, for Westinghouse Electric Corporation's Electronic Systems Division (ESD), Hunt Valley MD, where in his last assignment he was responsible for all ESD programs in Baltimore MD, Lima Ohio and Puerto Rico, including nuclear instrumentation systems and electrical generation systems (1963-1984) Mr. Rassa is founder and Chairman Emeritus of the National Defense Industry Association (NDIA) Systems Engineering Division, as well as a founding member of their Automatic Test Committee. Mr. Rassa was the Industry Sponsor of CMMI (Capability Maturity Model Integration, the world-wide-adopted model for process improvement for SE, SW, PM, and HW design), and served as the Chair of the CMMI Steering Group, until Jan 2013 when this was disbanded with the move of CMMI from the Software Engineering institute to the new CMMI Institute. Mr. Rassa holds a BSEE from the University of California – Berkeley. He holds the US Patent for a satellite-based Advanced Maintenance System for Aircraft & Military Weapons, issued in August 1999, now being used on the F-22 and F-35. This patent is also the basis for General Motors' Digital "On-Star" System. He is recipient of the Westinghouse Order of Merit, the IEEE Third Millennium Medal, the McGinnis Professional Achievement Award from IEEE-AUTOTESTCON, the Lt Gen Thomas Ferguson Award for Systems Engineering Excellence from NDIA, the NDIA Gold Medal for Meritorious Service, the Raytheon Award for Excellence in Engineering Process Improvement, the IEEE Distinguished Service Award from the IEEE Instrumentation & Measurement Society, IEEE Distinguished Service Award from the IEEE Systems Council, and was elected to the IEEE Technical Activities Board Hall of Honor (Nov 2016).
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CEOs who have COOs: Contingency analysis of an unexplored structural form
Donald C. Hambrick, Albert A. Cannella
We use contingency theory to examine, for the first time, the incidence and effectiveness of CEO/COO duos. We argue that industry dynamism, extraordinary organizational task demands, and the CEO 's own professional limitations will influence the decision to have a COO, as well as its effect on performance. Based on a large 10-year sample, we find some support for the contingency view in explaining the presence of COOs; we particularly find that CEOs who lack experience in operational activities and in managing the focal firm are relatively likely to have COOs. We find, however, essentially no support for the contingency view in explaining when COOs are most beneficial. Instead, we find strong evidence of a very substantial negative main effect: CEOs who have COOs deliver lower organizational performance than those who do not.
Strategic Management Journal
https://doi.org/10.1002/smj.407
10.1002/smj.407
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Hambrick, D. C., & Cannella, A. A. (2004). CEOs who have COOs: Contingency analysis of an unexplored structural form. Strategic Management Journal, 25(10), 959-979. https://doi.org/10.1002/smj.407
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Humans have no difficulty using natural languages such as English and Japanese in everyday life. However, researchers don't even know how to represent the meaning of natural language in computer programs despite the several decades of research in the field. We develop machine learning-based algorithms and techniques for natural language processing, aiming to create robust systems for text processing.
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Group Discussion Ideas > Current Affairs GD Topics > Surrogacy (Regulation) Bill – GD Topic
Last updated on Jan 22nd, 2019 Appu Srva 1,925 views
'Surrogacy (Regulation) Bill' was passed by Lok Sabha on 19th Dec 2018. The bill was introduced in 2016.
Surrogacy bill banned commercial surrogacy and allowed surrogacy for the married couples that are medically proven infertile.
Positive side :-
India has became a hub of commercial surrogacy. In the absence of proper laws on surrogacy, surrogate mothers are being exploited by clinics and couples from foreign countries. Now, a bill is there to address the issues of surrogacy. Though there are many loopholes in the bill, it is a starting point. We can make amendments after thorough discussions.
Surrogacy bill banned commercial surrogacy and hence prevents the usage of womb as commodity.
It has a clause of parentage order, which means couple that go for surrogacy cannot abandon the newborn. There are many cases of foreign couples who abandoned the newborn due to medical issues of child and visa issues etc, which causes financial and emotional burden on surrogate mothers.
With this bill, woman can opt for surrogacy only once in her lifetime, which is a good thing considering the exploitation of women. Many clinics are offering money to women to become surrogate mothers for multiple times, which will eventually deteriorate their health.
Commercial surrogacy may lead to dangerous consequences such as new kind of inequality. Till now, rich people are hiring maids to raise their children. Now, some people are opting for surrogacy to avoid labour pain, which leads to poor people giving birth to the children of rich.
This bill proposes are strict punishments to prevent the exploitation of women. Clinics that do not follow rules will face fine upto 10 lakhs and the people that are responsible for this can face jail-term upto 10 years.
Loopholes :-
Surrogacy bill is intended to protect surrogate mothers, but instead it made the situation of surrogate mothers even worse. They cannot approach court if they are not paid.
As there is demand for surrogate mothers and the bill is too strict, more illegal surrogacies will take place leading to further exploitation of surrogate mothers.
To make the surrogacy happen, hospitals, doctors and everyone involved get paid for their work, and the couple will get a child. And here the only loser is the surrogate mother. She loses her work for a few months and she goes through labour pain and probable medical complications, but she has to be altruistic and should do all this for free, according to this bill.
This bill did not mention about the situation of surrogate mothers who are already going through the commercial surrogacy.
Some women are willing to opt to be a surrogate mother for their financial needs. But now they do not have right to do so, because surrogacy bill mentioned that only a close relative can be a surrogate mother.
Not every couple is fortunate enough to have a close relative who is willing to be a surrogate mother. Approx 95% of couples will not be able to opt for surrogacy due to this 'close relative' clause.
As there is no definition of 'close relative' in the bill, it can be misused. At present organ donation while alive is only permitted for close relatives, but it is being misused. Surrogacies will also happen in the similar way.
India is still a patriarchal society. Women in many families are here do not take decisions on their own lives. 'Close relative' clause may become a new burden on them to be surrogate mothers to produce heir of the family.
Only married heterosexual couples are allowed to opt for surrogacy. LGBT couples, single men and women are denied of this facility, which is a discrimination.
This law is not in consonance with the recent Supreme court judgements – one judgement gave legal sanctity for live-in couples and another judgement decriminalised homosexuality.
Single women have atleast another option of artificial insemination to have genetic child, but single men have no option other than surrogacy.
This bill contradicts with adoption law, because adoption law allows single women to adopt a child.
To opt for surrogacy, atleast one person of the couple have to prove their infertility medically. In India, infertility is looked down. Due to this, people do not tell others about their infertility. But declaring themselves as infertile to opt for surrogacy puts enormous emotional stress on them.
Surrogacy bill did not mention about the couples that have other health issues. For example, some women can conceive but cannot carry a child. Denying surrogacy option for these people is discriminatory.
With the availability of advanced medical facilities, one can easily check themselves of infertility. In this case, waiting period of 5 years do not serve any purpose, but rather increases the trauma of childless couples that desire to have child.
These 5 years is to try other Assisted Reproductive Methods(ARM) to have their own child. But the decision to opt for surrogacy as their first choice should be respected.
The bill mentions that if either of the couple is infertile, they can opt for surrogacy. But the fact is that is if a man is infertile, they cannot even go for surrogacy.
It's good that this bill banned couples from foreign countries from coming here for commercial surrogacy. But it did not mention about the situation of Persons of Indian origin (PIO) & Overseas Citizens of India (OCI).
Only poor and middle class people are affected by this bill, because rich people have the option to go for other countries to find surrogate mothers.
Surrogacy Bill is a good step in the process of regulating surrogacy in India. But there is a need to do some modifications in the bill before passing it in Rajya Sabha. Instead of expecting surrogate mothers to be altruistic, it would be much better if there is a financial compensation for surrogate mothers for sacrificing a part of life. Compensated surrogacy with strict rules is much better than banning the commercial surrogacy altogether.
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Trevon Jackson takes a jumpshot in the second half of Natchez's game against Jim Hill. Natchez won 53-43 with Jackson as a leading scorer with 17 points. (Hunter Cloud for The Natchez Democrat)
Trevon Jackson leads Natchez to Victory
By Patrick Jones
Published 1:18 pm Wednesday, January 13, 2021
NATCHEZ — Trevon Jackson led Natchez High School with a game-high 17 points as the Bulldogs defeated the Jim Hill High School Tigers 53-43 Tuesday night in an MHSAA Region 6-5A game.
Travis Berry contributed with 15 points and Kameron Carter added 10 points for Natchez High, which used a tenacious defense to hold Jim Hill in check in the first half.
"Trevon's been leading our team. He's been aggressive offensively and defensively. He gets a lot of steals," Bulldogs head coach David Haywood said. "Travis, I think this guy's got a lot of talent. The more games he plays, the better he's going to get. He's making open shots. He's getting to the basket."
"Kameron, he's a sophomore. He's got a high IQ for the game on both ends of the court. He does what we ask him to do. He can play guard. He can play in the post. He's very versatile."
Defense was a pivotal factor for the Bulldogs, especially in the first and second quarters. They took a 13-4 lead after one quarter of play and 24-10 at halftime.
"We started off, our defensive intensity was good. But we got stagnant on offense in the second quarter. And that eventually affected our defense," Haywood said.
Jim Hill tried to cut into Natchez High's lead in the second quarter, but the Tigers could not make enough stops to put the pressure on the Bulldogs. Jim Hill did, however, manage to outscore the Bulldogs 12-10 in the third quarter and 21-19 in the fourth quarter.
"Jim Hill's got some good players. I knew it would go back and forth. It was a good game for us," Haywood said. "It's a district game. We'll see them again and we may see them again in the district tournament."
The Tigers were led by Avaunte Griffin with 10 points and Jessie Williams with nine points. JaQuavious Jones chipped in with eight points.
Natchez High (6-3, 2-0) plays host to Forest Hill High School in Region 6-5A action Friday night.
The Lady Bulldogs were scheduled to play the Jim Hill Lady Tigers, but that game has been postponed to a later date. Head coach Alphaka Moore said it will likely be the end of January.
"They played a team on Friday who had someone who tested positive (for COVID-19), so they're in quarantine," Moore said.


This award commemorates the memory of Jeanette Thorbecke, M.D., Ph.D. an internationally recognized immunologist who died on November 16, 2001, at the age of 72, in Maui, Hawaii. During her illustrious career, spanning over five decades, she published more than 400 papers, mentored a plethora of young investigators, and leaves behind a legacy of scientific and personal accomplishments. In honor and memory of Jeanette, the Society for Leukocyte Biology has established a special award, the G. Jeanette Thorbecke Award, presented to a deserving young female investigator. The awardee will be selected from junior faculty (holding a faculty position for fewer than 5 years) who apply during abstract submission for the annual meeting. The application materials requested during submission include a letter of recommendation/nomination by colleagues/faculty or chair of the department along with a CV and other indicated materials in the submission system. The award will provide registration, travel expenses and a cash prize.
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The study enrolled more than 20,000 adults, ages 40 to 77, who were asked to record what they ate in a seven-day diet diary. Researchers then compared their diet and their stroke risk over a 17-year period.
People in the study whose eating most closely resembled the Mediterranean-style diet had a lower risk of stroke compared with other participants in the study. For adults over all, the risk was 17% lower, but the benefit was far larger in women than in men — 22% reduced risk for women versus 6% for men.
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Mike Fisher is a Calgary-based travel writer who specializes in stories about musical journeys. He has won eight travel awards/honors this year including three from NATJA. In the past year he has written about the music scenes in Memphis, Nashville, Austin, Washington, D.C. and more.
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Is there a way to add line numbers to the text? Not the standard NPP line numbering but numbers that remain after you copy/paste the text out (like when you print text).
Obviously, I want it for programming code so the program's Error handler can report the line number of the error.
It would really be cool if you could also specify a beginning number. That way all the code modules of a program would each have unique line numbers. But that is not a have-to-have.
NPP can do it natively. Stackoverflow has a solution that allows you to number lines, starting at any number and you can choose how it increments. Basically you do a column selection at the beginning of the lines you want to number, and then choose Edit->Column Editor and use the dialog box to complete the process. It is a pretty neat editor, isn't it?
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Briefly the definition of insubordination is an employee who intentionally refuses to carry out a supervisor's direction. The only exception to not carrying out that direction would be if the employee felt it was a safety risk to them or others, or it was illegal to do so.
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One Seed at a Time: The Sustainable Agriculture Movement in Puerto Rico
By Jhoni Jackson on March 4, 2018
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Inside a historic colonial building in Puerto Rico's cobblestoned Old San Juan, the movement for autonomy is alive and thriving. And shopping for groceries. Here, on a Saturday morning beneath the high-ceilings of a museum-turned-cultural center called El Bastión, fresh lettuce, tomato, eggs, sprouts, lentils, and other locally grown fare represent the island's effort for self-reliance.
Put plainly, people are buying food. But it's the specific food they're buying that shows a pointed shift toward sovereignty. The heaps of agriculture on the numerous tables that snugly line the walls of a sizable room belongs to the 15 percent of food that's actually grown locally. Everything else—at least 85 percent—is imported.
Sustainable agriculture market in Old San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Considering the island's tropical climate, with four growing seasons and fertile terrain, that statistic is especially shocking. Add the doubled cost of goods—tacked on by the Jones Act, a century-old maritime law that requires all ships entering any U.S. land or territory be built and crewed by American citizens, and requires punitive fees of foreign vessels—and it simply doesn't make sense.
After Hurricane María, the law was temporarily lifted to allow a faster flow of relief supplies—but it's now firmly back in place.
Tara Rodríguez Besosa is a key figure in Puerto Rico's sustainable agriculture movement, which involves a network of grassroots organizations and projects throughout the island. Her own work was well underway before the hurricane: she co-founded El Departamento de la Comida in 2010 originally as a Community Supported Agriculture effort, which later became a brick-and-mortar sustainable restaurant. Storm flooding, however, left the space too damaged to feasibly repair.
Tara Rodríguez Besosa
After months of crisis on the island, more people are beginning to accept the need for systemic change, and understanding that embracing and supporting sustainable agriculture is key. "This is about our actual sovereignty," she says.
Last November, Rodríguez Besosa launched an ambitious two-year project founded with its positive ripple effect potential in mind. In brigade form, she and her crew will impact 200 local farms by not only restoring and rehabilitating, but also by increasing the sustainability of their systems. They're building latrines, pruning guava trees, setting up rainwater catchment systems, implementing solar energy—all depending on the needs of each particular farm. They're pushing polyculture and crop diversity with heirloom seeds, too.
The Guagua Solidaria being repaired.
Today, she's clearing out what was once—years and years ago—a print shop. The space has been offered up to store farming equipment, but it will mainly house the vehicle by which the brigades travel: The Guagua Solidaria, or solidarity van, which is old, but repurposed and outfitted with a handmade roof rack. A mechanic will deliver it later; repairing the air conditioning wasn't in the cards, but they did replace the battery, which was stolen recently on the street beneath Rodríguez Besosa's San Juan apartment.
Right now, she notes, Puerto Rico is basically GMO headquarters; there are more permits here for transgenic seed experimentation than anywhere else in the U.S. or its territories. Meanwhile, iconic staples like rice and beans, and even lechón (pork), are almost entirely outsourced. The island is a food desert, she says.
Traveling farm to farm is only part of the work carried out by the Puerto Rico Resiliency Fund, which was created immediately after Hurricane María in collaboration with Americas for Conservation of the Arts, a national Latinx-led nonprofit based in Colorado. Seed collection and distribution is another major facet.
Back at the market in Old San Juan, non-GMO, non-treated, organic, and wild foraged seeds and cuttings, from hibiscus and sunflower to okra and leaf amaranth, are available, all packaged with rice instead of silica gel. They'll soon distribute at other markets around the island as well.
"We do get a lot of requests from the west coast [of the island]," says Lucecita Cruz Rosario, an organizer with the Puerto Rico Resiliency Fund. "But it's so hard for them to drive all the way to San Juan to pick up their packets, so we're going to bring the seeds to them."
Seeds ready to be delivered and an amaranth plant being deseeded.
The mission isn't solely directed to farms, though. Schools, community gardens, even tiny patio plots can all receive seeds from the Resiliency Fund. "In terms of pushing the agro-ecological movement, our goal isn't just to focus on farms. It's to focus on getting everyone to start growing their own food," Cruz Rosario says.
Not far from the Cruz Rosario's post is a table held by Finca Escondida, a farm based in the mountain town of Aibonito, about an hour drive south of San Juan, that's run by Jessica Santiago and her husband. The Guagua Solidaria rolled in a couple weeks prior, and she's ecstatic with the results. The brigade helped her open an area of the farm that she hadn't harvested before, and permaculture experts made her efforts more efficient by teaching her how to preserve minerals and implement trees for shade. They recommended fruits to try, and taught her sustainable techniques for raising chickens—all of which she's starting to incorporate already.
Jessica at her table
"The thing I liked the most was learning," she says. "The most important thing about the solidarity brigade is that they're all experts in different aspects: Ecology, some in farms, some in construction. They each have their own specialty. And from all of them, I learned something."
Cruz Rosario grins while Santiago gushes about the brigade's work. They moved here in December, after having met Rodríguez Besosa in New York at a potluck dinner intended to bridge the gap between agricultural workers on the island and the diaspora. Coincidentally, it was held the night Hurricane María struck.
Cruz Rosario began collecting donations—much of it fresh produce, which wouldn't keep past the airport chaos that kept Rodríguez Besosa planted in New York City. They organized an effort, dubbed Queer Kitchen Brigade, to preserve that food en masse by canning. A few months after helping Rodríguez Besosa raise awareness and money for the newly founded Resiliency Fund, they relocated to Puerto Rico, where their grandfather once farmed sugarcane, to use their knowledge of organizing in the agricultural realm into the relief efforts on the ground.
Logistics between brigade volunteers, coordinating with farmers, and other administrative tasks are the general gist of Cruz Rosario's labor. But making clear the connections between agriculture and racial justice—and being a queer person of color—are crucial, too.
"The agricultural system as we know has been built on the backs of black and brown folk, and so introducing that racial aspect to it has always been really important in my work, especially in New York City, and in the United States, because it so often is just forgotten. And for me, there's no way to ignore that and continue doing the work, like racial justice has to be a part of agro-ecological justice, and environmental justice, because the people who are most often affected by climate change and lack of food are people of color," Cruz Rosario says.
On every farm, Cruz Rosario says, the brigades are introducing themselves with their gender pronouns, and talking about gender and identity, and how it informs their work.
Rodríguez Besosa also identifies as queer, and believes in the power of food as a tool of resistance for Puerto Rico.
"When you live in a space that has so much control and governs your body, what do you want to do about it? You either explode in outrage or you kind of have to figure out the system to then fight with it," she says.
For a colony, that fight is at the farmer's market, in the seeds the Resiliency Fund distributes. It's in the farmers the Guagua Solidaria supports, in the schools and communities with gardens, and in the restaurants that opt to source ingredients locally. The shift toward local agriculture means the island is closer to autonomy.
The Saturday market in Old San Juan should have ended at 1 p.m., but 15 minutes post-closing, shoppers are still eyeing what's left on the tables of vendors who haven't yet packed up. Jessica has sold out of peppers and tomatoes; all that remains are a few eggs and some lettuce. She brought as much as she could—her farm visits several other markets besides this one, and delivers to restaurants and individual clients, too.
"I think María came to give us consciousness," she says. "At least in my case, it made me stronger. Now my farm is expanded; I'll have more production. Agriculture isn't easy. It's not the same as having a [large-scale farm]. It's really hard, and you have to love it."
Jhoni Jackson is an Atlanta-born writer of Cuban descent now living in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Since 2012 she's covered the island's alternative music and culture, as well as social issues and politics. She's also the organizer of a monthly queer drag party, House of De Show, and a recurring bazaar centering women, non-binary, and gender nonconforming creatives called Feministas to the Front.
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The wreck in 1866 of the General Grant in the desolate sub-Antarctic Auckland Islands is one of the world's great nautical mysteries, a story that still tantalises and thrills. When the ship was crushed in a cave beneath a sheer cliff face, a few crew members and a handful of passengers managed to escape in a lifeboat. For more than two years they lived a hand-to-mouth existence on a nearby island before they were rescued.
This story is extraordinary in itself, but soon compelling legends spread that the ship had sunk with a fabulous hoard of gold from the Victorian goldfields. For almost 140 years, expeditions and bounty hunters have searched for the ship and her elusive cargo. In the relentless seas of the Auckland Islands, it has been a soul-destroying endeavour. Locating the vessel has been difficult enough; finding the gold has proved impossible.
In this book Madelene Ferguson Allen and Ken Scadden tell the full story of the voyage from Melbourne, the shipwreck, the plight of the castaways and the search for the gold. At this distance in time, separating the facts from the legends is difficult, but they have scrupulously researched the events of the shipwreck and examined every subsequent search for the gold. The story is more remarkable than fiction, a tale of heroes and cads, heartbreak and loss, hope and despair, hunger and greed. As it has bewitched so many in the past, so it will haunt readers long after the last page is turned.
Madelene Ferguson Allen was by training a geographer and by profession a teacher with 25 years' experience in her native Canada. In her earlier acclaimed book, Wake of the Invercauld (Exisle 1997, reprinted 2005), she tells the story of the wreck of the Invercauld in the Auckland Islands in 1864, and the amazing survival of her great-grandfather, Robert Holding.
Ken Scadden is a historian and museum consultant. Formerly the Director of the Wellington City Museum and Curator of the Wellington Maritime Museum, he now runs his own consultancy, Heritage Advisory Services, from his home in Wellington.


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Q: Are waiting times always going to be exponentially distributed? I'm studying for CAS/SOA Exam P/1 and a question I have here is:

We have a portfolio of $20$ insurance policies. The number of claims per policy in a $3$-month period has a Poisson distribution with mean $\frac12$. It is assumed that all of the policies in the portfolio are independent. What is the probability that there is a wait of more than $\frac12$ month before a claim is made by any policy in the whole portfolio?

Now the solution says that the mean for one month is $\frac{10}{3}$ which I understand where that comes from but then it says that the waiting time is exponentially distributed. Is that usually how waiting time problems are? Exponentially distributed if it's not said?

A: Not all waiting times are exponential, but the exponential is the waiting time distribution for the Poisson process. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exponential_distribution

A: Only exponential distributions are memoryless, and that means the probability of a claim in the next minute, given the history of claims to date, does not depend on the history.  Are you more likely, or less likely, to get a claim in the next minute, given that there was one from some other geographic locale 10 minutes ago, then you would be if there hadn't been any claims in the past week?  If the timing of those other claims has no bearing, then the distribution must be exponential.

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French troops fighting in the Second Battle of the Marne in 1918.
As the First World War was grinding to its conclusion in 1918, there was severe anti-conscription rioting in Quebec City starting on March 29, which the municipal police ignored, and which included the destruction of the registrar's office. Four thousand troops were dispatched, although only 1,000 were deployed. On April 1 fire was exchanged and several soldiers were seriously wounded and four rioters were killed. What amounted to martial law was imposed. There were some anti-French reflections by private members in Parliament (by Conservatives Colonel J.A. Currie and H.H. Stevens) and Opposition Leader Wilfrid Laurier replied judiciously, supporting the imposition of the law but strenuously rebutting what amounted to ethnic slurs from Currie and Stevens. Prime Minister Robert Borden followed and rebuked his own caucus-members in unambiguous strictures. It is generally believed that there were about 35,000 French-Canadian volunteers in the armed forces. There was a perceptible gap in war enthusiasm between French and English Canadians, but that is neither surprising nor discreditable.
The Germans had launched their supreme play on March 21, with an attack in great strength toward Amiens, at the hinge of the British and French armies, with the goal of wheeling northwards and forcing the British into the sea. The French commander, Ferdinand Foch, reinforced the British, who held, although the force of the attack pushed them back up to 40 miles. The Germans renewed their offensive with another very heavy blow on April 9, west of Lille, still aiming to crack open the Allied line, and wheel north to the sea. The British commander, Field Marshall Sir Douglas Haig, had prepared a deeper defensive position and held the German advance to 17 miles, and those at heavy cost. The Germans renewed the offensive on May 27, to the south of Amiens, now at last marching on Paris, from whose gates they had been beaten back nearly four years before.
They captured Soissons and closed to within 40 miles of the French capital, but the French lines did not break at any point, and every inch of ground was contested with extreme tenacity. The German offensive resumed with intense attacks of massed infantry heavily supported by artillery from June 9 to 15 east and north of Paris, against fanatical French resistance. Paris, as the symbol of freedom and of the Great Alliance of the French and Englishspeaking peoples, and at the hour of the historic coruscation of French culture and civilization and martial bravery, had become in the minds of much of the world almost a holy city of light. The Germans reached the Marne again, less than 20 miles from the Arc de Triomphe, at the end of June, as Foch declared "We will fight before Paris, within Paris, and beyond Paris," and demanded of all units to hold their ground at any cost, (i.e. to the last man). The supreme climax of the Great War had come at last.
The Second Battle of the Marne was fought between July 15 and Aug. 6 by 58 Allied divisions, (44 of them French, eight American, four British, two Italian), and 52 German divisions; about 1,000,000 soldiers and over 1,000 heavy guns on each side. The Allies had several hundred tanks and both sides had hundreds of primitive warplanes. The Allied lines held, and Foch counter-attacked; the Germans had no more reserves and gradually gave way. The main salient that had threatened Paris between Soissons and Rheims was eliminated by Aug. 6. Paris was safe, the tide was turned. The Allies had taken 130,000 casualties (95,000 French, 17,000 British, 12,000 American and 9,000 Italians from only two divisions), but had inflicted 160,000 German casualties. The German offensive was broken.
The Langer Max (literal translation "Long Max") was a German railroad gun used during the First World War. Originally a naval gun, it was adapted for land service when it became clear that the ships for which it was intended would be delayed and that it would be very useful as long-range, heavy siege and coast-defense gun on the Western Front. It participated in the 1918 Spring Offensives and the Second Battle of the Marne.
Foch became Marshal of France and the British, Canadian and Belgian armies, supported by 50,000 Americans, surged forward on Aug. 8 and pushed the Germans back from Amiens. Foch ordered a series of offensives along the entire front from the English Channel to the Swiss border, to win the war.
Foch's great offensive was irresistible. By early November the Allies were at a ragged line from Brussels to Namur, Luxembourg, Metz and Strasbourg, and the Germans had been cleared from Alsace and half of Lorraine. The Germans requested an armistice and Marshal Foch was authorized by the Allied powers to receive German peace representatives. Foch, who now commanded the greatest force in human history, over six million battle-hardened soldiers, did this in his mobile command headquarters, his famous wagon-lit train, on a siding in the Compiegne Forest on Nov. 8, and an armistice was signed by which all hostilities would end at 11 a.m. on the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918.
Apart from what he achieved as prime minister, and especially the rapid growth of the country and its population, Laurier, by the power and integrity of his own personality, alone preserved the character and potential of Canada as a bicultural confederation. Laurier's stance, in accepting conscription with reluctance if it was the subject of a referendum or election, but accepting to go down to defeat, while the country divided sharply along French and English (by ancestry or assimilation) lines, is all that saved a party that could serve as an ark for the conservation and safe maturation of the original bicultural spirit of Confederation, until the virtue of the original vision was generally appreciated and Canada was free to fulfil its potential. Laurier could have been a virtual co-prime minister in a grand coalition, as he could, years before, have become a member of the House of Lords. He knew what he had to do to preserve himself as a force of national legitimacy, to preserve his Liberal party as the continuator of the Great Ministry of Baldwin and Lafontaine and of the Great Coalition of Macdonald, Brown, Cartier and the others, and to prevent French Canadians from being hijacked by Bourassa in permanently embittered separation, longing and scheming for actual independence.
Without Laurier, there would have been two parties, one French and one English, with a permanent English majority, a climate of permanent hostility between the two communities, and a completely dysfunctional country. Because of him, there was a Quebec prime minister of Canada or de facto Quebec co-prime minister for French Canadian affairs for 70 of the 85 years following the next election after his death, in 1921. As leader of the government he always struck the right compromise, as he did in opposition over participation in the war.
He was, in his caution, his lack of spontaneity, and his endless manoeuvre and obscurantism, the anti-hero. But as time would prove, he possessed the ingredients for astonishing political success: He knew little of French or of Quebec, except that it was necessary, as a whole-hearted participant, to make Canada work and assure the country a sufficiently interesting future to lift it to complete independence from the British and the Americans. In this, he was a true federalist, a true nationalist, whose head would never be turned by the attentions of Canada's senior allies.
Excerpted from RISE TO GREATNESS: A History of Canada from the Vikings to the Present. Copyright © 2014 Conrad Black. Published by McClelland and Stewart, a division of Random House of Canada Limited, a Penguin Random House Company. Reproduced by arrangement with the Publisher. All rights reserved.


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