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Parish Bulletin 6th April 2014
Priest on Duty: Fr Brendan
Eucharistic Adoration takes place every Wednesday in the family room of the church from 10.00am to 10.00pm. Why not make a special effort for the season of Lent to spend some time (however short) in the presence of the Blessed Sacrament?
A meeting of the Board of Management of Ratoath Junior National School will be held on Monday next 7th April at 7.30pm in the Parish Pastoral Centre.
A meeting of the Board of Management of Ratoath Senior National School will be held on Monday next 7th April at 8.00pm in the school.
A meeting of the Parish Liturgy Committee will be held on Tuesday next 8th April at 8.00pm in the Parish Pastoral Centre.
A meeting for parents who have children for baptism in the near future will take place the Parish Pastoral Centre on Wednesday next 9th April at 8.00pm
The Benedictine Monks of Silverstream Priory in Stamullen - Sung Vespers and Benediction of the Most Blessed Sacrament at 5:15 pm on the Sundays of Lent. Tea will follow in the monastery gatehouse. This initiative is a unique opportunity to enter more deeply into the grace of Lent.
Pope Francis' tweet of the month:   follow Pope Francis@Pontifex
Our deepest joy comes from Christ: remaining with him, walking with him, being his disciples
Make a "Sacred Space" in your day during Lent with the help of scripture chosen every day and on-screen guidance on www.sacredspace.ie
Trocaire Boxes and Envelopes can be returned to the box at the back of the church beginning next weekend (Palm Sunday).
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Continuing this Monday 7th April at 7.30pm in the Parish Pastoral Centre, in CATHOLICISM Fr Robert Barron through the DVD presentations gives us a vision of the Catholic Faith as has never been seen before. Each session lasts for 1 hour and is open to everyone!
1 6 April
2 13 April
7. 7.00pm
Michael Flood & Nicholas Keogh
1 9.00am
Edward Gannon & Christina Murphy
1 11.00am
Deceased members of the Donohue & Mills fa
family & Josephine Bennett & deceased m members of the family
1 12.15pm
S Maura & John Harvey
B Breda & Gerry Kenny
George, Kevin & Carmel Doody
& Mary & Owen Humpheries
Tony Donnelly
& Molly Gaffney
Monday John & Bridget Eiffe Wednesday Maureen Masterson Friday Brian McGlinn
Saturday Morning Mass in the Nursing Home at 11.00am
Members from the church lay ministers have been trained up on how to use a defibrillator and we hoping to have the defibrillator for use in the church soon. We are asking parishioners to give a little extra in the basket collection this weekend 5th and 6th April to help with the cost of the defibrillator.
Tullamore Junior Pastoral Council presents 5th National Parish Youth Conference on Saturday 12th April with registration in St. Mary's Youth Centre at 9.30pm.  Conference from 10.00am to 4.30pm. Fee €10 including lunch.
The Annual General Meeting of St. Oliver's Community Centre Ltd will be held in Ratoath Community Centre on Monday 7th April at 6.30pm. Everyone is welcome to attend.
Irish Blood Transfusion Service will be in Ashbourne House Hotel on Monday and Tuesday 7th and 8th April from 4.30pm – 8.00pm.
Frank McGuinness's play the Factory Girls in The Solstice, Navan on 30th April, 1st, 2nd & 3rd May. Tickets available from the Solstice website http://www.solsticeartscentre.com
Ratoath Community Support Group giving support to parents with children with special needs, meet on a monthly basis in the Venue. The next meeting is Tuesday 8th April at 8pm.          New members are very welcome. For more information contact Caroline at 0872894035.'
Music in Dalgan - this Sunday 6th April in Dalgan Park at 3pm with the Belisama Trio - violinist Lynda O'Connor, cellist Ailbhe McDonagh and pianist Orla McDonagh. A limited number of tickets at €15 available from Reception at Dalgan. Children €5. Proceeds to Columban Missions.
Glee Club Easter Camp runs from Mon 14th-Thurs 17th, 10am-2pm each day. The camp consists of dance, drama and singing. If interested in sending a child please call Danielle on 0852166274
Meath Ladies Football Fairyhouse 6k Walk on Saturday 12th April at 11.00am and join us after for a cup of tea. Donation €10.00.
One of our altar servers, Sorcha Mc Groarty, is trying to raise money for the RNLI while at the same time donating her very long hair to the Rapunzel Foundation (an organisation that produces natural wigs for cancer patients). If anyone would be interested in sponsoring her in her endeavour they can contact her mother, Ciara, on 0872971262. All donations greatly appreciated.
Parenting Today – 7th April at 8.00pm at Lismullin Hospitality Services Centre, Navan
GAA lotto results: 1,14,17 & 22. No winner, draw in Auld Stand next week.
Ratoath/Rathbeggan Community Games Swimming Gala 2014 - this Sunday, 6th April, 5pm at Coolmine Swimming Pool (near Powercity), D 15.  Registration from 4.30pm, 2 euros to enter. Ages U8 to U16, swimmers of all levels welcome. Contact 086 8466495 with any queries.
The Feast of the Divine Mercy will be celebrated in St Colmcille's Church Kells on Sunday
27th April at 2.30pm. The Novena will start on Good Friday 18th April.
During the Sunday Angelus, and on various other occasions, Pope Francis has urged the faithful to carry a pocket-sized book of the Gospels and to read it often to meditate on Jesus' words and deeds. To help put this suggestion into practice, and communicating a clear message, this Sunday during the Angelus in St. Peter's Square, several thousand pocket-sized copies of the Gospel will be distributed free as a gift to the faithful at the behest of the Pope.


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Inicio > Resources > Developing sustainable alternatives to coca cultivation
Read the summary of their work and the full report.
An ongoing partnership with the University of Notre Dame and PASO Colombia that began in 2018, has resulted in high praise from faculty and graduate students at their Mendoza College of Business based on a recent report.
An in-depth examination of PASO Colombia's Contingency Plan to Support Ex-coca Grower Families was conducted in light of the best practices from illicit crop reduction programs around the world. The University team provided valuable recommendations on phased scaling of the program based on its success to date, as well as the creation of a network among projects to share resources, ideas, and lessons learned, calling it the "Network of Hope." The idea is to create a collaborative connection among PASO's different projects which include the Contingency Plan to Support Ex-coca Grower Families and the Rural Alternative Schools (ERAs), aiming to find synergies and increase their impact in both the economic and peacebuilding arenas.
"It is truly rare to find an organization that combines the pragmatism of market-driven solutions, the vision of a unified society and the compassion to look past the consequences of impossible choices in order to see human beings. PASO combines these elements with hard work and resilience to serve the present and the future of Colombia."
Joe Sweeney, Mendoza College of Business University of Notre Dame, BOTFL Instructor
The PASO Magic
The report also highlights key improvements with which PASO Colombia has contributed to the coca substitution process that strengthens peacebuilding efforts in rural communities. The report speaks about PASO's magic to refer to a comprehensive approach in which building trust and respecting the dignity and human condition of the participants has been a determining factor. This trust, says the Notre Dame report, is based on the recognition that people's capabilities are the greatest asset of communities. This "builds agency among program participants as they see PASO support their ideas, thereby fostering true collaboration toward better solutions."
Complementing this, the communal approach summons campesinos (peasant farmers), ex-coca growers and ex-combatants to work the land that was once violently disputed, acting "as a social fabric that brings communities back together after years of isolation and mistrust."
The market-driven approach was also highlighted by the report, as it creates "opportunities for campesinos (peasants) to produce something that will allow them to support themselves", integrating "relevant market information into production decisions".
About the Examiners: Business on the Frontlines Program
The Business on the Frontlines (BOTFL) program at the University of Notre Dame examines the impact of business in societies rife with deep poverty and conflict. Mendoza College of Business partners with local organizations including NGOs and businesses to harness the dynamism of business to promote stability and economic opportunity. BOTFL teams have worked on more than 55 projects in at least 25 countries. Since 2018, the university's BOTFL program faculty and student teams have made seven field visits to Colombia, visiting 21 municipalities in seven departments, conducting fieldwork with ex-coca growers, ex-combatants, and rural farmers. They also conducted workshops with analysts, international leaders and policy makers in Colombia and the USA, and made a systematic review of primary and secondary information.
Read the summary of their work and BOTFL team's full report.
Contingency Plan To Support Ex-Coca Grower Families
One Earth Future's PASO Colombia program has designed and implemented a Contingency Plan to support families registered in the government's National Comprehensive Program for the Substitution of Illicit Crops (PNIS).
Women Seeding Peace - Life After Coca Crops
Women Seeding Peace is a video web series about the lifes of women who have left illicit crops behind to sow a new future of peace in their communities.


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The KBC - Preston Adelphi - 14.7.06
Plucky Preston trio The KBC are going to be huge. Already they've opened for the Strokes at Blackpool's Empress Ballroom, played with the Sunshine Underground and were personally selected to the play the unsigned stage at Glastonbury last year. They're also been featured on the kings of the indie underground, Steve Lamacq, Zane Lowe and Marc Riley.
Back from a European tour which included dates in Austria and a club in a Ibiza called Crash which was organized by their record company High Voltage, the hits to their myspace site have gone into overdrive and this is probably the last time the KBC will play a venue as intimate as the Adelphi so it's refreshing to see these local lads return home delivering the goods to the fans who have supported them since the very beginning of their career.
James Mulholland on vocals is a powerful presence, confident without being over confident and quietly talented. If fame beckons for this band and it's only a matter of time, then dashingly handsome bass player Ric Ormerod with no doubt have the honour of becoming torso of the week in Heat Magazine. You heard it here first, dear loyal readers. Completing the line up is Michael Brown on drums who never once missed a beat.
The KBC love to funk, but it's the kind of funk the Chili Peppers indulge in rather than any Level 42 slap bass indulgences. Add electronic beats, a smidgen of soul and you've got a modern sound with traces of rock, pop and indie. There's dancing at the front of the stage as James lays down some truly remarkable System Of A Down style riffs, so effortlessly. New single "Not Anymore" is KBCs best effort to date, tight, melodic and destined for success (fingers crossed). "Tripping" from last year" and "Sherlock Groove Holmes" are also top quality tunes which may appear on their forthcoming debt album due out late 2006 or early 2007.
The KBC's forty minute set flies by in no time with every single song a potential single. There aren't any unnecessary fillers or muso self indulgence leanings, just a band playing great music with an appreciative audience lapping it up. We'll be hearing a lot more from the KBC, this is just the beginning - mark my words!!!
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Sliders (1995-2000)
The following weapons were used in the television series Sliders:
1 Handguns
1.1 Astra 400
1.4 The Timecop Beretta (Dressed up Taurus PT99AF)
2 Rifles
2.1 Norinco Type 56
2.3 M16A1
4.1 Cetme Ameli
5.1 DefTech 37mm launcher
Astra 400
An Astra 400 was used in Season 3's "Dead Man Sliding" (S3E10) as a futuristic looking tranquilizer gun by Contestant Coordinator Taryn Miller (Perrey Reeves). A laser was clamped onto the locked-back slide to make it appear futuristic.
Astra 400 - 9x23mm
Aiming for Quinn Mallory (Jerry O'Connell). Note slide locked-back.
Taryn Miller (Perrey Reeves) prepares to tranquilize Quinn Mallory (Jerry O'Connell) again in Season 3's "Dead Man Sliding" (S3E10).
Taryn Miller (Perrey Reeves) loads a tranquilizer dart into the modified Astra 400 in Season 3's "Dead Man Sliding" (S3E10).
The Glock 17 was first used in the Pilot episode when Quinn Mallory (Jerry O'Connell) was given one of these pistols by a resistance fighter on the world where America was occupied by the Soviet Union. These pistols subsequently appeared in quite a few other episodes.
The Glock 17 was first used in "Pilot" (S1E01), when Quinn Mallory (Jerry O'Connell) was given one of these pistols by a resistance fighter.
Glock handed off in "Pilot" (S1E01).
The Beretta 92FS was another pistol which appeared quite regularly on the show. Maggie Beckett (Kari Wuhrer) carried one in several episodes, on at least one occasion with a suppressor.
Beretta 92FS 9mm
In "Exodus, Part I" (S3E16), Maggie Beckett (Kari Wuhrer) draws her Beretta 92FS.
The Timecop Beretta (Dressed up Taurus PT99AF)
In Season 2's "El Sid" (S2E05), the handgun carried by Sid (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) appears to be the weapon that's known as the Timecop Beretta. This visually modified version of the Taurus PT99AF was used not only in the film Timecop, but also in the series Stargate SG-1 and Stargate: Atlantis.
Taurus PT99 - Basis for the Timecop Beretta
Prop version of theTimecop Beretta
In Season 2's "El Sid" (S2E05), the handgun carried by Sid (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) appears to be the weapon that's known as the "Timecop" Beretta.
The USSR soldiers in "Pilot" (S1E01) were armed mostly with Norinco Type 56 copies of the AK-47 assault rifle. These rifles were also seen in many other episodes. In "Slither" (S3E22), both Quinn Mallory and Rembrandt Brown (Cleavant Derricks) used Type 56 rifles after taking them from tobacco farmers (on a world where tobacco was illegal).
Type 56 assault rifle aka M22, early milled receiver model without under-folding ("pig sticker") bayonet - 7.62x39mm
The USSR soldiers in "Pilot" (S1E01) were armed mostly with Norinco Type 56 rifles.
The USSR soldiers in "Pilot" (S1E01) were also armed with many Norinco Type 84S assault rifles, including at least one Type 84S Target with a long RPK-style barrel.
Norinco Type 84 5.56x45mm
Norinco Type 84S "Target" Rifle - 5.56x45mm. Basically a standard Norinco Type 84S with a slightly longer barrel. This variant was ready for export after the 1989 US import ban, so it is mostly seen in Canada. It has an 18.5" barrel and was not really seen in the U.S. Gun market.
On the left, a soldier with the Type 84 rifle in "Pilot" (S1E01).
In the Pilot, anti-Soviet resistance fighters were armed mostly with M16A1 assault rifles. Hilariously, the resistance fighters' T-shirts showed the Statue of Liberty holding an M16A1 above her head (in defiance of similar Marxist-Leninist-themed T-shirts and flags). M16A1s were also used in many episodes by military personnel, usually with M16A2-style hand guards, including Colonel Rickman's (Roger Daltrey) soldiers in the two part episode "The Exodus" when they massacred civilians outside of Rickman's base.
M16A1 with 30 Round magazine - 5.56x45mm
On the far left, the female fighter holds the M16A1 in "Pilot" (S1E01).
M16A1 with A2 style handguards - 5.56x45mm.
A few M16A2 assault rifles were also used by Colonel Rickman's men. Quinn Mallory was seen using an M16A2 in the episode "Dinoslide" (although it looks as though his gun lacked the fencing around the magazine release, which means that it was probably an A2 upper on an M16 SP1 lower receiver). A resistance fighter fires one on a Cromag soldier in the season 4 ep "The Dying Fields" Some of the M16s featured in seasons 4 and 5 have M16A1 barrels and flash hiders.
M16A2 - 5.56x45mm.
Maggie Beckett (Kari Wuhrer) holds the M16A2 in "Dinoslide" (S2E23).
A resistance fighter fires his M16A2 in "The Dying Fields" (S4E12).
The Heckler & Koch MP5A3 submachine gun first appeared in "Fever" (S1E03), seen used by the California Health Department soldiers.
Cetme Ameli
In "Pilot" (S1E01), a resistance fighter is seen using a Cetme Ameli light machine gun mounted to a Steadicam harness (similar to the M56 Smart Gun from the film Aliens).
Cetme Ameli 5.56 Light Machine Gun - 5.56x45mm.
In "Pilot" (S1E01), a resistance fighter is seen using a Cetme Ameli light machine gun mounted on what appears to have been a Steadicam harness (similar to the M56 Smart Gun from the film Aliens).
On the right, the fighter holds the modified machine gun in "Pilot" (S1E01).
DefTech 37mm launcher
In the episode "In Dino Veritas" (S2E11), a dinosaur poacher used a DefTech 37mm launcher to shoot in vain at the Allosaurus.
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It is often very useful to use external programs to do a specific task. In principle, this can be done by writing out files from OpenStructure and manually running an external program, however, for convenience, this can also be done directly from within OpenStructure using Python commands.
There is a helper function available to locate files, and especially executables: Locate(). Using this, you can obtain the full path of an executable.
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The preparation of the necessary files is very dependent on the external program. Often it is useful to generate a temporary directory or file. For this, the Python module tempfile is very handy.
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Steady starts for Taylor, Hadwin at Canadian Open
If Nick Taylor and Adam Hadwin were the type of gentlemen who were prone to feeling pressure, they could have found any number of sources for such stimulus heading into the RBC Canadian Open this week.
Jul. 21, 2011 9:00 a.m.
To begin with, much of the media narrative heading into the PGA Tour event at Vancouver's Shaughnessy Golf and Country Club centered on search for a successor to Mike Weir, the 2003 Masters champion who has been the standard-bearer for Canadian golf for more than a decade.
It's a heavy mantle, to be sure, and both Abbotsford golfers had their names bandied about in the discussion. And for good reason – Taylor is a former world No. 1-ranked amateur, while Hadwin was second on the Canadian Tour order of merit last season.
If the scrutiny of a nation wasn't enough, the conditions at Shaughnessy – with its lengthy rough – had well-established pros howling about about the fairness of the course.
Never mind the host of luminaries in the field, including current world No. 1 Luke Donald, Ernie Els, Rickie Fowler, Anthony Kim, Geoff Ogilvy, Jim Furyk . . . and the list goes on.
But after the completion of their opening rounds on Thursday, both Taylor and Hadwin came away reasonably pleased with their performances. Taylor carded a one-over 71, while Hadwin was one back after shooting a 72, and both golfers were well-positioned to make the cut heading into Friday's second round.
Taylor got off to an inauspicious start, double-bogeying the first hole, but it hardly rattled the notoriously unflappable Yale Secondary grad. He played the next 17 holes in one under par.
"I would've taken it (a 71) this morning," he said. "I left a couple shots out there I'd like to take back, especially doubling the first hole. But to hang on and finish the rest of the day one-under is nice."
Hadwin, who started his day on the 10th hole, was a par machine in the early going. He made par on his first eight holes and made it look easy, narrowly missing a couple of medium-range birdie putts.
An errant tee shot on the par-four 18th was Hadwin's first hiccup, and he ended up lipping out on a four-foot putt to save par. He birdied No. 3 to get back to even, but went on to bogey No. 6 and 8.
Hadwin jokingly referred to his par-heavy round as "very boring golf," but noted that on a course playing as tough as Shaughnessy, that's not a bad thing.
"I'm not that far off," he said. "There's lots of golf to be played, and I'm swinging good. I've got a lot of good feelings going into tomorrow."
Having a chance to play a PGA Tour event so close to home is a rare opportunity for Hadwin and Taylor, who both received exemptions into the event. Both Abbotsford players' galleries featured plenty of family and friends.
Donna Wilson, Hadwin's aunt, wore a white T-shirt with the word "Canada" on the front and "HADWIN" in block letters on the back. She explained that she and Adam's grandma ordered a pair of the customized shirts, and wore them to cheer on Hadwin during the U.S. Open five weeks ago.
"It's very hard to watch him, because it's very nerve-wracking," she said with a chuckle. "But you have to be so proud of him. He's a great golfer, but he's an even nicer young man."
Josh Taylor, Nick's older brother, said the local support was a positive influence on his sibling.
"It's good to see so many familiar faces, and I think that helps him – gives him a little bit of comfort to see all the support he has around him," said the elder Taylor, a Canadian Tour pro. "It's pretty cool to be playing pretty much in our back yard. It's a great course."
Todoruk wins BCPBL triple crown
Hadwin charges up leaderboard at Canadian Open


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Boy Oh Boy is a collection of queer fabulist stories and flash fictions told via second person, asking readers to share Doss's explorations of joy and longing. Your boyfriend is many boyfriends, possibly all the boyfriends you've ever had or will have. But you must ask yourself whether you have them or they have you. Your boyfriend plays jokes on you—plays jokes on the world. He is forever unattainable, and still you love your boyfriend, even when it hurts you. Doss explores how relationships can be all-consuming, how we transform ourselves to fit within their contour. Eventually, you might change so much that you don't even fit inside your own body. This book is so much about space—the physical, emotional, and mental spheres that everyone inhabits. Doss uses humor to deal with the isolation that each of us experiences—not because we're alone, but because we've become detached from ourselves, our needs, and our desires. Boy Oh Boy is our chance to understand Zachary Doss, as well as our strangest selves.
ADVANCE PRAISE
"Playful, wistful, lustful, and liminal, Zachary Doss's Boy Oh Boy proves much larger than the sum of its parts. Doss explores the queerness of love, and how that love permeates—even in its absence—all parts of our lives. The boys (and boyfriends) of the collection may be mechanically replaceable, or miniature and multiple, or complicated in a dozen other ways, but they come to full life in Doss's stories. The shortest of these stories have a kind of effervescent charm that only increases the deeper you get into the collection. It's boys all the way down."—Kelly Link, the 2018 judge for the Grace Paley Prize for Short Fiction
"These stories brim with invention and play, but they are serious underneath, the work of a serious writer and thinker and reader and feeler. They are savvy and world-wise while also full of vulnerability and beauty. I will treasure this book."—Aimee Bender, author of The Color Master
"There's a sly and unprepossessing humor to these stories, the feeling of someone waiting for you to notice the joke, though there's never just one. It's right there in the title—Boy Oh Boy—and it is something you might say as you read these stories of the way we are all abandoned to this world, to make of it what we can. Zach Doss is a writer to celebrate. He didn't live long enough to give us more than this, but here is a book that sings like a troubadour under the balcony at midnight, songs of love and trouble, again and again, seemingly effortless and full of charm. Pick it up."—Alexander Chee, author of How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
Zachary Doss
Genre/Imprint: Red Hen Press, Short Stories
Shop: Red Hen, Bookshop, Barnes & Noble
Each Story is a Kaleidoscope in 'Boy Oh Boy'
The stories in Boy Oh Boy by Zachary Doss are playful, surreal, sometimes dark, and always magical. This wonderful collection of inventive queer fabulist stories and flash fictions won the 2018 Grace […]


Running your own business can be very rewarding…it can also be very frustrating for a number of reasons. Sometimes you feel you are running to stand still. Everyone is caught up in the day to day, fire firefighting and it can be difficult to see the woods from the trees.
You sometimes wish for the opportunity to stand back and critically look at what you are doing. You would love to challenge your team about what they are doing but you don't know where to start. It is often said that "If you don't know where you are going then any road will do". Now it is time to plan, set objectives, assign responsibility and develop accountability in your business.
The Management Team Programme is a high impact programme for the owners and senior management teams in the S.M.E sector. The programme is heavily subsidized by the Department of Education and Skills. There are only 4 programmes left in their allocation and now is the time to sign up before the year ends.
The government received a McKinsey Report some years ago and it raised concerns that the management capability in the SME sector was beginning to fall behind our competitor countries. They responded by introducing a number of measures including the Management Team Programme.
This programme is designed specifically with the owners and senior management teams in small to medium businesses in mind. It is not theory or academic. It is practical and deals with the real issues in business. It is delivered by a team of people who have real experience in business and proven track record.
We have delivered a large number of programmes over the last number of years and some common themes have emerged.
1. I have yet to meet any company where people complain of having too little work. Yes, people are busy but are they busy on the right things? Firefighting becomes a way of life for some people, you get a buzz from it, you create local heroes! They say every good firefighter carries around their own box of matches. The Management Team programme addresses this issue head on.
2. The two things missing from most companies is Focus and Discipline. By this I mean that companies jump from one thing to the next. But through the programme you will discover what it is that you really need to focus on. Then you need the Discipline to follow through. The structure, the regular reviews and the Key Performance Indicators, these are some of the tools you need.
3. You may already have regular management meetings, targets, KPI's etc. but are they the right ones, are they getting stale. If there is a lack of energy around these items, then it is time to freshen up.
4. You are listening to yourselves talk so much that you are no longer listening! Sometimes having the outsider come in and ask the obvious questions can be challenging. For example, one company was killing itself providing next day delivery to its customers. When I asked how many customers really need next day delivery there were very few. By changing to next day delivery by request the company freed up a huge amount of resources. Or for example which customers are your gold star customers? Which customers would you be better off without? These are challenging questions and I often meet resistance but unless the answers make sense to me then I will keep asking!
5. The organization or structure has remained the same for some time. It can be difficult to really ask yourself if your management structure is fit for purpose. Who is contributing, who could contribute more? If we were to restructure could we optimize performance by some fresh thinking? What about succession planning or people development?
These are some of the common themes or questions addressed by the programme. There are others, some specific to individual businesses. But fundamental to the programme is asking the right questions of your management team and some questions you may not have thought of. More importantly having the courage to answer these questions honestly and having the Focus and Discipline to see things through.
If you sometimes struggle to see the woods from the trees, then this programme is for you.


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Coinciding with the 10th anniversary of Antwerp-based publishing house Libraryman, Perimeter Books and ReadingRoom co-present the exhibition Libraryman: A Selection from a Decade in celebration of one of the most innovative contemporary photobook publishers.
Libraryman: A Selection from a Decade traces the imprint's history and presents a range of key editions and prints from longtime Libraryman collaborators, including Gerry Johansson, Viviane Sassen, Landon Metz, Ron Jude, François Halard, Vincent Ferrané, Osamu Yokonami, Gunnar Smoliansky and Ola Rindal.
Libraryman: A Selection from a Decade is showing at ReadingRoom, until November 17, 2018.


Mary, Queen of Scots lived during one of the most fascinating periods in history. Graham's epic work paints a unique picture of this controversial woman, showing her to be neither a Catholic martyr nor murdering adulteress but a passive young woman caught up in the ruthless sea of sixteenth-century politics who lacked the shrewdness and empowerment of her contemporaries—Catherine de Medici, Diane de Poitiers and Elizabeth Tudor. Instead, she relied on her beauty and charm and allowed herself to be a victim of circumstance. When she did finally attempt to control her future, she set in motion the events that would lead her to the executioner's block.
Roderick Graham was educated at the Royal High School of Edinburgh and Edinburgh University. He has worked in radio and television as a writer, director, and producer. He produced the award winning BBC program Elizabeth R with Glenda Jackson. He is the author of John Knox: Democrat, The Great Infidel: A Life of David Hume, and The Life of Mary, Queen of Scots: An Accidental Tragedy.


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by KWS
Written for the Bonfire Night "Discovered in a Skyrocket" challenge on the discoveredinalj Livejournal community.
Author's Notes: (1) this is a sequel to my story Gods and Goddesses. Somehow the plot elements (look, I said PLOT, dammit!) needed a better resolution. I was going to post it for Hallowe'en but ran out of time. Thankfully it fits Guy Fawkes as well. (2) Many, many thanks to Slantedlight for the beta. (3) Also, although he's never going to know it, thanks to the guy on one of the Underground interest sites for confirming that the '62 tube stock which ran on the Central line in the 70's and 80's did have side doors into the driver's cab! (I know, I can be sadly fixated on things sometimes).
Holborn Station, 6 pm.
Doyle swung his legs over the barrier, Bodie right behind him, a scowl and a CI5 ID in the face of the ticket inspector effectively choking off protest. Their quarry was well ahead, striding down the stairs to the Central Line platform. He was in a hurry; his flat-capped head bobbed up and down, staccato, out of rhythm with the rest of the afternoon crowd. They followed swiftly, dodging around the other commuters, bloodhounds on the trail of a deadly fox.
"Think he's seen us?" Bodie was at his side now, effortlessly matching Doyle's brisk stride.
"Don't think so. He's moving, but no faster than he was."
The air was stifling, saturated with the odour of hundreds of overheated Londoners, damp from their journey through the late summer showers. Yet underneath it all Doyle could still smell the stench of blood, scorched flesh and petrochemicals that had tainted their last case. The anger roared inside him and he let it fill him, welcomed it. His rage was a weapon and the man ahead was the target -- Ciaran O'Neill, IRA heavyweight and bomb-maker. Murderer.
Their instructions were to follow O'Neill for as long as possible before detaining him. There had to be a reason he was back in London again and Cowley was determined to find out what that was. So when O'Neill reached the platform level, walked to the tail-end of the east-bound line and stopped there, they hung back, settled themselves at the edge of one of the connecting tunnels.
"Nice of Cowley to give us the chase. D'you reckon he'll give us our day off back when we take him?"
"In your dreams, mate."
Doyle glowered at the man waiting quietly, insignificantly, near the edge of the platform. O'Neill was small and wiry-looking: dull blonde hair poked out from under the flat workman's cap that shaded a pale, narrow face. He was dressed in a tweed jacket over black jeans, hauling a sports bag that sagged heavily from one shoulder. A bad sign, one that increased Doyle's level of agitation. Maybe it was nothing, just personal effects. Or it could be something worse, far worse.
He leaned against the tiled wall, breathed deeply, forced himself to relax, to let his mind drift a little. He could feel Bodie as a solid presence at his back. They didn't touch, not quite. Nothing like the last time he had stood with Bodie behind him, when they couldn't have been any closer, his senses overwhelmed by the dark pleasure of Bodie's cock entering his body while the sea breeze stroked his face and the evening sun shone on a pageant in the street below.
The sex had been good. Better than good. Their second night and third morning of leave had been all sweet, rutting pleasure. He'd been greedy for it too: waking from a brief period of sleep and reaching for the man beside him again. And in the times between, when they were quiet together, Bodie had opened up to him, told him stories about his shadowed past that had the ring of truth, that helped him understand the kind of man his partner really was, and why.
Then the recall had come. Cowley needed them for a needle-in-the-haystack search for a bomber and they'd been ordered back to London, post-haste. There hadn't been a chance to decide matters, not really. There'd been no time before the bike ride back. So what were they going to do now? If they'd had that final day, Doyle thought, they could have taken their time coming home, talked, reached an agreement about whether this thing between them would carry on -- or not.
No, that was bullshit. They could have taken the time if they'd wanted to, if he had wanted to. Instead, he'd rushed them both out the door, because it was O'Neill that Cowley was after and Doyle had wanted to be in at the kill. He'd wanted Bodie at his side and no awkwardness between them. And that wouldn't have happened if Bodie had let slip that all he'd wanted was a bit of a fling with his partner, while the mood and the timing was right.
Now if that was the case -- Doyle's lips tightened against his teeth, forming the beginnings of a snarl -- then things were going to become a bloody sight more than awkward, soon enough. He'd make sure of that. There was no way Bodie was getting away from this one.
The wave of air pushing through the cross tunnels from the other side of the station brought him back to readiness. As a train approached on the west-bound line, O'Neill turned and walked swiftly through the tunnel to meet it, entering the first car through the front doors and moving up to stand close to the driver's end. At the last moment before the crowded train moved off they followed him on board, leaping through the second doorway.
"Our boy's decoying."
"Might be more than that, Bodie. Need to get closer."
They started to make their way up the car, pushing past the other passengers, earning themselves some dirty looks as they went along. O'Neill held onto a handgrip, hanging loosely from it, eyes focused on the carriage window. For a short while he seemed oblivious to their approach. Then he moved. Doyle was uncertain whether they had spooked him or whether the train had simply reached the right point in its journey. Whatever the cause, O'Neill suddenly pushed himself upright and forwards, grabbed at the door to the drivers cab, opened it and darted through.
Doyle forced his way past a mother with a toddler and a baby in a pram. Ignoring the shrill complaints he reached for the door just as the train shuddered to a sudden halt. The impetus threw him forward onto the door, slamming it shut. As soon as the train stopped he pulled it open again and hurled himself through. He caught a glimpse of O'Neill as the man jumped out the side door of the train onto what looked like a siding platform and started running down it. He had a gun in his hand now and Doyle drew his own from its shoulder holster as he followed. Behind, he heard Bodie shouting at the driver to get the train moving again, to get his Controller to contact CI5.
O'Neill was almost at the end of the platform when he turned and fired a wild shot back towards the train. Doyle dropped into a crouch, but the bullet went wide and struck the tunnel roof. The surface under him was all rubble, no tiles; he smelt dusty concrete and old iron. He attempted a shot, but before he could aim O'Neill had disappeared into an opening at the end of the platform. Exposed now, Doyle raced for the cover of the platform wall. A moment later, Bodie joined him.
Where the hell were they? Doyle knew of several disused stations on the Underground, but he couldn't put a name to this one. No time to think about it, anyway. As the train moved off Bodie ran forward and found a cross tunnel from which he covered the platform while Doyle sprinted ahead until he was almost at the end. Now he was nearer he realised that the opening O'Neill had used wasn't a regular exit -- it was a narrow doorway, one which had been covered up at some point, if the pile of rubble and construction boarding beside it was anything to go by.
Doyle eyed the opening with misgiving. With the train gone the platform was almost dark, illuminated only by a faint glow from the tunnel lights further down the line itself. Still, anyone passing through would be well and truly visible from inside. Only one way to do this -- the hard way. He forced himself to ignore the bubble of fear building in his stomach. Turning to Bodie he raised his hand, indicating with one finger that he was going through first. Bodie nodded, his face masked by shadow.
A silent '"ready-steady-go" in his head, then he slipped through the opening, half-expecting to meet a bullet coming the other way. Nothing happened. He eased further inside. The passage was a little wider than the opening on the left hand side, so when Bodie came through seconds later they stood together in the sheltering corner, watching, listening. Doyle felt a slight current of air flowing through the passage. He heard water dripping and pipes clanking close by, and something that sounded like scurrying footsteps. He strained to see down the length of the passage.
"Oi, Bodie! Can you see anything?" Bodie's night vision was marginally better than his own.
"Looks like there's a turn to the right about twenty yards in. Can't see any other way out of here."
"You've been eating your carrots again, haven't you?"
"Creature of the night, that's me." Bodie moved forward; as he did so, he placed one hand on Doyle's shoulder, squeezed it.
They split, Doyle on one side, Bodie the other, feeling their way along. The passage turned right, then left again. Some way past the second bend it narrowed, the floor became uneven, the walls rough rock and mortar. They were heading deeper as well, at least twenty feet below the level of the platform they'd started from and still going down, twisting and turning.
Doyle was puzzled. Nothing about this made sense: O'Neill stopping the train, this tunnel, where it led. They hadn't passed any side tunnels, so O'Neill must still be ahead of them. But where? He listened, but couldn't hear anything.
The darkness was disorienting. He lost track of time, but eventually the tunnel levelled off and began to rise again. A minute or two further along and his hand felt the edges of an opening, a straight-sided doorway. No reason to think that O'Neill was there -- he could still be in the tunnel, or he could have escaped -- but Doyle knew that he was. Silently, he reached out to Bodie, touched him on the arm. Bodie crossed to his side, felt around the doorway then sidled through, began to work his way around the inside.
Standard procedure, this: locating a suspect in a darkened area. But forget the training film -- the practical was much more fun. Doyle found a coin in his pocket and tossed it through the doorway. It landed with a clink and a spin of metal. Gratifyingly, he heard a shuffle of sound.
He flattened himself against the tunnel wall, sliding down a little, then called out. "O'Neill! It's CI5! We know you're there! Do yourself a favour and give up!"
The shot was deafeningly loud in the enclosed space. The bullet hit the tunnel wall opposite the doorway, ricocheted and struck again above Doyle's head. He crept across the doorway on plimsolled feel before calling out again.
"You're a lousy shot, y'know that? Give it up. Throw your gun out."
The only response was another crack from O'Neill's firearm. Again, the bullet hit the wall and pinged off to the side. O'Neill was firing to his right, so the room must open out to the left. Feeling safer, Doyle curled himself around the doorway, ready to fire a round downwards, towards the floor. Keep the fucking cunt busy if he wouldn't surrender, until Bodie reached him.
Then there was a shimmer of white across his eyes. He blinked, thinking it was an after-effect of O'Neill's shot. What came after was weird, unreal. The darkness did not lessen yet somehow it seemed to splinter into layers, black on black, forming strangely overlapping yet recognisable shapes. He could tell where Bodie stood, sable against a pitch-dark wall, gun in hand, muzzle lifted as he searched the darkness.
O'Neill was on the far side of the long room, torch in one hand, gun in the other, and Doyle knew because he could feel it, could see it, that he was about to switch the torch on. Pointed the way it was it would catch Bodie in its glare. He would be unable to react in time. Bodie might die.
Doyle fired. The bullet hit O'Neill, knocking him back just as he thumbed the button on his torch. There was a flash of light, the loud report of a second weapon, followed by a crash and a tinkling of glass and metal as the torch hit the floor.
Darkness obliterated the room again, stygian, impenetrable. Darkness and silence. The palms of his hands were sticky with sweat.
"Bodie?"
"I'm OK. Hit my head going down, that's all. What happened to O'Neill?"
"I think I got him. Hang on."
Doyle scooted on hands and feet over to where he'd last seen the bomber. He reached out, feeling his way.
"Bullet caught my jacket." Bodie sounded aggrieved.
"So? You've got others. The brown one looks better on you at any rate." He laughed. It was a ludicrous thing to say.
"Choosing my wardrobe now?"
"Fuck off, Bodie". His hands found O'Neill's body, tracked over it, tested for a pulse. Dead, blood flowing stickily through the wreck of bone that had been his forehead. He searched around for the torch, found only broken plastic and glass, useless now.
Where was the sports bag? Ah. He felt it, carefully. It was hefty, threatening. He reached for the fastening.
"Bodie? O'Neill's dead. Torch is broken. There could be a bomb. Get yourself out of here."
"Fuck that, Doyle." He could hear the scrabbling of feet as Bodie got up, started to move towards him.
"Stop! Please, Bodie, keep back."
He eased the zipper along, inserted his hand, gently. His fingers touched wiring, something hard beneath.
"There's wires and -- just get the fuck out, OK?" The cold breathlessness of fear washed through him, but he heard footsteps retreating somewhere in the dark, and he scrambled to his feet, found the wall, propelled himself along it, until he was in the main tunnel again. He couldn't tell where Bodie was.
"What the hell are you doing, Bodie! We've got to get out!" he shouted.
"Waiting for you, what d'you think?" Bodie's voice, from just behind him, startled him.
"Well, get moving. Mad bastard." Unsure if he meant O'Neill or Bodie, he reached for an arm, jogged down the tunnel as fast as possible, drawing Bodie away, bringing them both to safety. "Need the bomb squad in here with proper lighting."
"You don't think he travelled the Tube with it armed, do you? And he'd hardly have had time to do it before we arrived on top of him." Bodie, ever rational, took the logical approach.
"Maybe. He'd be pretty careful about his own skin I suppose. An' I don't think I tripped anything, but who knows. His bombs aren't known for their reliability."
Now that they didn't need to worry about keeping quiet, they passed swiftly up the slope of the old tunnel. They were almost back at the newer section, when Doyle had a thought.
"Bodie? The station, the old one up ahead. British Museum. It was used as an air-raid shelter during the war. I heard rumours there was a secret tunnel to the Museum. Looks like we found it."
"So was that where he was headed? To blow up the Museum?"
"Suppose so. There could have been an entrance somewhere. We were pretty deep, though. Even if it does go off, it might rattle a few Ming vases, shouldn't do much more." He hoped.
They turned into the more modern passage and Doyle tried to raise headquarters on his RT, without success. Still too deep, out of range. As he put it away, Bodie came up beside him, took him by the arms, and turned him so they were facing each other.
"Ray? That was good shooting back there. Don't know how you did it, in the dark like that, but thanks."
"You didn't see the light? After O'Neill fired the second time, I saw something, a light � and then I could see everything. He had the torch, he was going to shoot you."
Odd, they were still in the darker part of the passage, but he could see Bodie's face clearly. Solemn, eyes gazing intently into his own. Then Bodie's lips twitched, half a smile, and he was drawn into a powerful embrace.
"Local ghost didn't like us disturbing his rest, maybe?" Doyle felt Bodie's chest shake with laughter and relief; he let himself relax, let Bodie hold him, as he wrapped his own arms around his partner.
"What do you want to do, Ray?"
"You know what I mean. Don't think I didn't realise why you pushed us out the door this morning. Tell you this, though," and Bodie pulled back, let him go. "I want more than a couple of days with you down the coast. But if that's all it was for you, I'd understand�"
"You'd understand?" He grabbed at Bodie, snapping out his words as he rid himself of the vestiges of adrenaline and anger. "That's fucking generous, but I'm not like you. I wouldn't leave it alone even if you told me to. I'd come after you, make your life a misery until I had you again. That's what I want. So tell me you care enough to do the same."
He searched Bodie's face, which was suddenly stony cold and guarded, and wondered if he'd pushed too hard, if Bodie was going to close off again and leave him bereft. Then Bodie smiled and it was that impossibly sweet smile that melted him within. Bodie bent towards him and he welcomed the kiss, gave himself up to it wholeheartedly.
Afterwards, Bodie took charge, ushering him through the last remaining stretch of tunnel with a solicitousness that Doyle found bemusing, and faintly irritating. When, just before the entrance, he tried to turn around, Bodie wedged up close, preventing him.
"Don't, Ray."
"You'll break the rule of the Underworld."
"What's that?"
"Don't look back."
Laughing, slightly giddy with the tidal shifting of emotion, he did as he was told. When he cleared the opening he waited until he heard Bodie emerge before reaching for him. He clasped him in his arms, not caring for the moment whether they would be discovered, by Cowley, by their back-up, or by the next Central Line train.
Seconds after they reached the safety of the old platform, the bomb exploded.


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Q: SQL Procedure not creating declare @Totalcount int
declare @Count nvarchar(10)

select @Totalcount=(select COUNT(EmpID) from NewEmp)

if @Totalcount is null
set @Count='A'+CONVERT(nvarchar(10),1001)
else
set @Count='A'+CONVERT(nvarchar(10),1001+(@Totalcount))

create procedure addemp
@EmpId nvarchar(10),
@EmpName nvarchar(50),
@EmpAddress nvarchar(50)
as
begin
insert into NewEmp([EmpId],[EmpName],[EmpAddress]) values (@Count),(@EmpName),(@EmpAddress)
end

i am creating this procedure but its not working.the empid is automatic code i need to use with database when i perform the insert record on web-form i need to add one automatic code in empid

A: This select @Totalcount=(select COUNT(EmpID) from NewEmp) will return 0
So Change
if @Totalcount is null
To
if @Totalcount = 0
Again, if & else should be followed by Begin End
If @Totalcount = 0
Begin
    set @Count='A'+CONVERT(nvarchar(10),1001)
End
Else
Begin
    set @Count='A'+CONVERT(nvarchar(10),1001+(@Totalcount))
End

If you want to Auto Increment you EmpId and starts from 1001 then you can set this is IDENTITY e.g IDENTITY(1001,1). And you can avoid all the hassle of creating EmpId.

A: Your statement would be like below:
create procedure addemp
@EmpId nvarchar(10),
@EmpName nvarchar(50),
@EmpAddress nvarchar(50)
as
begin
    declare @Totalcount int
    declare @Count nvarchar(10)

    select @Totalcount=(select COUNT(EmpID) from NewEmp)

    if @Totalcount is null
    set @Count='A'+CONVERT(nvarchar(10),1001)
    else
    set @Count='A'+CONVERT(nvarchar(10),1001+(@Totalcount))
    insert into NewEmp([EmpId],[EmpName],[EmpAddress]) values (@Count,@EmpName,@EmpAddress)
end

A: Try this
create procedure addemp
    @EmpId nvarchar(10),
    @EmpName nvarchar(50),
    @EmpAddress nvarchar(50)
as
begin
    declare @Count nvarchar(10)

    select
        @Count = CASE WHEN COUNT(EmpID) = 0 THEN 'A1001'
                 ELSE 'A' + CAST(1001 + COUNT(EmpID) AS  NVARCHAR(10))
    from
        NewEmp

    insert into NewEmp([EmpId],[EmpName],[EmpAddress])
    values
    (
        @Count,
        @EmpId,
        @EmpAddress
    )
end

A: You're really going about this all wrong. Your best option to do what you want to do is to use an IDENTITY column. That way SQL Server will handle generating the ID for you.
Create your table with a script like this:
CREATE TABLE Employees(
    EmployeeId BIGINT CONSTRAINT PK_NewEmp PRIMARY KEY IDENTITY(1001,1),
    EmployeeName NVARCHAR(50),
    EmployeeAddress NVARCHAR(50),
    DisplayId AS CONCAT(N'A',EmployeeId)
);

The computed column DisplayId is simply 'A1001', 'A1002', etc.
Then, your procedure statement is completely unnecessary, but if you still want to make it you can:
CREATE PROCEDURE AddEmployee(@EmployeeName NVARCHAR(50), @EmployeeAddress NVARCHAR(50)) AS BEGIN;
    INSERT INTO Employees(EmployeeName, EmployeeAddress) VALUES(@EmployeeName, @EmployeeAddress);
END;

Then, after executing the procedure twice:
EXEC AddEmployee N'Alice', N'123 Foo St';
EXEC AddEmployee N'Bob', N'456 Bar Rd';

(or alternatively, simply inserting the row without a procedure):
INSERT INTO Employees(EmployeeName, EmployeeAddress) VALUES(N'Alice', N'123 Foo St'),(N'Bob', N'456 Bar Rd');

Then, when you run the query:
SELECT * FROM Employees;

You will get the results:
EmployeeId | EmployeeName | EmployeeAddress | DisplayId
-----------|--------------|-----------------|----------
1001       | Alice        | 123 Foo St      | A1001
1002       | Bob          | 456 Bar Rd      | A1002

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A Court in Kenya Will Decide If Anal Exams to Determine Sexuality Are Unconstitutional
The case opened in a Mombasa court on Wednesday over an incident where two men were forced to undergo extensive physical evaluations at a local hospital to determine whether they had engaged in homosexual activity.
by Kayla Ruble
May 4, 2016, 4:08pm
Foto di Antony Njuguna/Reuters
Men who were forced to undergo anal examinations in order to prove whether or not they engaged in gay sex will have their case heard in a Kenyan court this week, as they fight to make these kinds of tests unconstitutional in the East African country.
The anal exams occurred in February 2015 near Mombasa, where local hospital staff performed the tests on two men at the request of authorities. The legal filings were submitted last fall, and the case opened in a Mombasa court on Wednesday morning.
In addition to asking the judge to find the anal exams unconstitutional, the plaintiffs also request that the acts be deemed as "amounts to degrading treatment" and "a violation of the human and constitutional rights."
The Nairobi-based National Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (NGLHC) has made the case a priority, filing the initial lawsuit against a judge and police station in the small coastal town of Msambweni, where the pair was arrested. NGLHC has claimed officials ordered the testing during an ongoing trial against the defendants who face charges under the country's anti-gay laws including "unnatural offenses" and trafficking "obscene material." The suit was filed with the aim of stalling the legal proceedings against the men.
"We're asking the courts to declare the entire case annulled and give compensation to the petitioners who [were] subjected to degrading treatment by the state," Gitari said in November. "We want that precedent stopped… They're treating homosexuality like a disease right now."
Gitari posted a photo from the courtroom on Facebook Wednesday morning.
The controversy first escalated in February 2015 after pornographic images circulated on social media believed to be featuring men from the coastal community of Msambweni, south of Mombasa. This sparked a public backlash against gay men and transgender women. Following the incident, the community also began to put pressure on authorities to prosecute and crack down on LGBT individuals.
During that tense period, there were also physical attacks on gay individuals, an atmosphere that pushed many members of the community to flee in fear, according to a Human Rights Watch (HRW) report on LGBT attacks on Kenya's coast published in September.
Then, on the morning of February 18, police arrested the two young men in question while they were at a restaurant in Msambweni. Following the arrest, police had the magistrate approve a court order for medical testing. The men were then transported to the government-run Coast General Hospital in Mombasa, where Gitari says doctors took the individuals' blood while they were in police custody, testing for HIV and hepatitis B. The healthcare workers then reportedly made the men, whose identities have been withheld, raise their legs in the air while they performed an anal exam. The medical procedures and testing were inconclusive, but the men were still slapped with charges stemming from same-sex relations.
Homosexuality is illegal in Kenya, yet these types of charges rarely make their way to court. To date, not a single case has been fully prosecuted. Instead, police typically use the anti-gay laws to harass or extort citizens. According to the HRW report released last year, this case of anal testing in Kwale is the first reported instance in Kenya. The organization noted that it is a common practice in countries like Egypt, Uganda, and Cameroon.
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The Confidential Reporting Programme for Aviation and Maritime (CHIRP) actively encourages seafarers to maximise the number of reports of incidents and near misses, thereby encouraging the sharing of lessons to be learnt. Their bulletins mainly comprise reports from the commercial industry, but the latest issue concerns a commercial yacht of 2000gt.
The yacht in question's tender was to be moved away while the yacht shifted her anchorage berth after a deterioration in the weather. The chief mate decided to move the tender himself and boarded without a lifejacket. A crewmember noticed the error, and a lifejacket was then worn; but not before the chief mate had boarded the tender in big swell and force six wind.
Extracts from the information passed on to CHIRP gave further details of the incident. "While the vessel was at anchor, the decision was made to move to a different anchorage around the headland," the report explains. "Before we could move, the tender that was located at the stern needed to be moved alongside so that it could be boarded and moved away whilst the vessel hauled anchor. Four crew were present for the task to be completed and the chief mate explained what we were going to do.
"Many accidents and near misses at sea could be avoided by acting early."
On the other hand, CHIRP notes that there are signs of a positive safety culture in this account. A crewmember felt confident enough to alert the chief mate, pointing out his error, and the chief mate responded. If there had been a generally lax culture, it may well be that neither would have happened.
"Act early in unexpected circumstances or worsening conditions," CHIRP suggests. "Most seafarers have slowed down too late in worsening weather, pressed on when he or she shouldn't have, weighed too late as an anchorage starts to become untenable, or (on a sailing boat) reefed too late. Many accidents and near misses at sea could be avoided by acting early. This does three things: a) it allows time for considered planning and execution without rush; b) it avoids the need to cut corners; and c) it minimises the need to do things in marginal or dangerous conditions.
Please note this is an edited version of the CHIRP report. To read about the incident in full, please click here for the latest CHIRP bulletin.


AMERGINT Technologies, Inc. announces their role in last week's successful ULA Atlas V launch of a GPS satellite. United Launch Alliance is the nation's premier launch vehicle provider.
"The LIS DAS showcases the softFEP product's ability to sample, process, and display such a diverse set of critical sensor data, all in real time with very low latency."
United Launch Alliance (ULA) recently installed a new Landline Instrumentation System Data Acquisition System (LIS DAS) from AMERGINT at the Atlas V launch pad. Leveraging AMERGINT's softFEP products, the LIS DAS is a critical data collection and processing system used during assembly, checkout, and launch operations. The LIS DAS connects to several thousand sensors on ground support equipment and the Atlas V itself, sampling each sensor and commutating an aggregate telemetry stream to the voting computers that control the launch. This was the first Atlas V launch using the new LIS DAS.
AMERGINT worked closely with Austria's DEWETRON GmbH on the project, with DEWETRON providing the data acquisition front-end hardware. DEWETRON's state-of-the-art TRION modules were key to achieving the sampling accuracy and channel density required.
AMERGINT's products perform software-defined signal, data, and protocol processing. Their markets include satellite telemetry/ranging/commanding solutions and high channel, low-latency data acquisition systems.
AMERGINT Technologies is an employee-owned company based in Colorado Springs, Colorado.


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Fast Track Bill for TPP Hits the Floor
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The bill to fast track the controversial Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement was introduced last week
House Ways and Means Committee Chair Dave Camp (R) and top Senate Finance Committee members Max Baucus (D) and Orrin Hatch (R) on Thursday unveiled the Trade Priorities Act of 2014 that would require a simple up-or-down vote on major trade deals without the opportunity to offer amendments to pertinent bills. [..]
The Obama administration is seeking the heightened authority in trade deals, allowing the Executive Branch to smooth congressional negotiations on accords. The two major deals, both long in the works, that are likely to be subject to such legislation are the 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and the 28-nation pact with the European Union, the Trans-Atlantic Free Trade Agreement (TAFTA). The deals would establish the world's largest so-called free-trade zones.
The US is also working on a services-trade accord with a group of nations that would encompass half of the global economy. [..]
The bill has been negotiated in secret and other than some leaked passages by WikiLeaks, only the negotiators and insider corporations have seen the full proposal which is nearing completion. There is push back in the House of Representatives that may scuttle the president's plan to push this agreement without any debate or amendments
Late last year, 151 House Democrats signed a letter opposing the so-called fast track scheme, also known as trade promotion authority. Several House Republicans oppose fast track on the grounds that it excessively empowers the executive branch, but many others, including Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), support the proposal.
"Obama wants to pass it; Democrats in the House want to oppose it," said one House Democratic aide, who was granted anonymity due to the sensitivity of the Democratic position. "Republicans are split ideologically, and want to know why they should take one for Obama."
Nevertheless, Boehner said at a Thursday press conference that he cannot pass the bill without Democratic help. [..]
Many House Democrats are flatly opposed to the TPP and efforts to ease its passage. House Democrats are often more responsive to liberal interest groups than their Senate counterparts, and many members — including some in the Democratic Party leadership — believe that opposing TPP is good for electoral politics in 2014. While supporters of the deal argue it will increase economic growth, similar recent trade deals have undercut some U.S. industries and weakened global labor protections.
"The president has failed to find someone who is willing to introduce the bill. He's got over 200 members to cultivate from, some of whom would like to have his support in the next election. But Democratic members are extremely skeptical of this," Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Fla.) told HuffPost.
"We've tried free trade, and not only has free trade not improved the U.S. economy, it's gutted manufacturing and driven down our labor standards," he added, citing NAFTA as a prime example. [..]
Progressive groups came out strongly against the trade promotion authority, suggesting that approving it and the underlying trade deal would undercut efforts to curtail income inequality.
"The Trans-Pacific Partnership would be an unmitigated disaster for everything from the environment to Internet freedom and working families," said Charles Chamberlain, the executive director of Democracy For America, a grassroots progressive organization, which intends to make trade an election-year issue.
In an interview with Huffington Post, political theorist and linguist Noam Chomsky slammed the agreement as a "neo-liberal assault"
(T)he deal, which is not yet finalized, is "designed to carry forward the neoliberal project to maximize profit and domination, and to set the working people in the world in competition with one another so as to lower wages to increase insecurity."
Chomsky said it was "a joke" that the deal is designated a "free trade" agreement. "It's called free trade, but that's just a joke," Chomsky said. "These are extreme, highly protectionist measures designed to undermine freedom of trade. In fact, much of what's leaked about the TPP indicates that it's not about trade at all, it's about investor rights."
The MIT professor also slammed the veil of secrecy that has surrounded TPP negotiations. [..]
As Chomsky noted:
"It's very hard to make anything of the TPP because it's been kept very secret. A half-secret, I should say. It's not secret from the hundreds of corporate lawyers and lobbyists who are writing the legislation. To them, it's perfectly public. They're, in fact, writing it. It's being kept secret from the population. Which of course raises obvious questions."
If you haven't done it need to tell our representatives to stop the "fast track" of the TPP. Even if you have do it again. Don't Let Congress Fast-Track TPP.
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Q: Apply formatting to a column in a DataTable I have a .NET DataTable with a column of type DateTime. I would like to format the date into Month, Year using the "y" format specifier.
I would prefer not having to iterate through all the rows/columns changing the value.
What is the best way to do it?

A: DataTable just stores values. It does not provide formatting. Either format DateTime before putting it to DataTable (thus store it as a string), or do formatting on control, which your DataTable is bound to (e.g. DataGridView has Format property for cell style).


When you switch to using a new computer, the most important thing you need to do is transfer all iTunes files to the new Mac. However, transferring iTunes library from one computer to another one is not an easy task. In this tutorial, I will show you how to complete the transfer in two methods. Here you can choose your favorite one according to your condition and have a try.
Step 1: Firstly, you need to turn to "System Preferences" and click on the option of "Sharing". Then please turn on the option of "File Sharing".
Then please turn to your new Mac, which you are transferring files to. In the screen of the new Mac, you can see the address of your old Mac appears in the Shared section of the Finder sidebar. Please just choose it and then click "Connect As".
Step 2: Now you can see a sign-in dialog, where you need to enter into your registered username and password. Then please tap the button "Connect". After the connection, you can drag the whole iTunes folder to the same location on your new Mac. The program will do the sync for you automatically.
In addition to Migration Assistant, iMusic is another third-party tool that can transfer files and music to the new computer in an easy way. Through the program, the task can be completed in just one click. Here are the steps for you. You can now download the free trial version to have a try.
Step 1: At the very beginning, please install the program on your computer and launch it by double clicking. Then you should click onthe "iTunes Library" to select those playlists you wish to transfer to another computer.
Step 2: When you finishing selecting your playlists, just click "Export" button -> then "Export to Mac" to sync your playlist with the new computer.
Step 3: After choosing "Export to Mac", you will be asked to choose the location you like to store those playlists. And then click the button of "OK" to save them. iMusic will sync all your music files to your Mac or PC now. After that, you can transfer your iTunes to any other new computer to share your music anytime anywhere.


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