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Q: Selecting distinct values for multiple columns in Single Row I have a SQL table called "calculation" that looks like this:
id | InsulationMaterialId1 | InsulationMaterialId2| InsulationMaterialId3 | InsulationMaterialId4
-----------------------
1  | 34 | 45 | 34 | 50
2  | 34 | 78 | 35 | 51
3  | 35 | 32 | 34 | 52
4  | 36 | 30 | 34 | 53
5  | 40 | 39 | 34 | 34
6  | 41 | 34 | 34 | 56
7  | 42 | 36 | 34 | 53

In these table , we have 4 columns with insulation ids , I want to get unique insulation ids in one single column with ',' separated means Output like this :-
 id | InsulationMaterialIds
-----------------------
1  | 34,45,50
2  | 34,78,35,51
3  | 35,32,34,52
4  | 36,30,34,53
5  | 40,39,34
6  | 41,34,56
7  | 42,36,34,53

A: DDL:
DECLARE @temp TABLE
(
      id INT
    , InsulationMaterialId1 INT
    , InsulationMaterialId2 INT
    , InsulationMaterialId3 INT
    , InsulationMaterialId4 INT
)

INSERT INTO @temp (id, InsulationMaterialId1, InsulationMaterialId2, InsulationMaterialId3, InsulationMaterialId4)
VALUES
    (1, 34, 45, 34, 50),(2, 34, 78, 35, 51),
    (3, 35, 32, 34, 52),(4, 36, 30, 34, 53),
    (5, 40, 39, 34, 34),(6, 41, 34, 34, 56),(7, 42, 36, 34, 53)

#1: Query with PIVOT
;WITH cte AS (
    SELECT id, InsulationMaterialId
    FROM @temp
    UNPIVOT
    (
        InsulationMaterialId FOR tt IN (
            InsulationMaterialId1,
            InsulationMaterialId2,
            InsulationMaterialId3,
            InsulationMaterialId4
        )
    ) unpvt
)
SELECT
    t.id,
    InsulationMaterialIds = STUFF((
        SELECT DISTINCT ',' + CAST(InsulationMaterialId AS VARCHAR(10))
        FROM cte t2
        WHERE t.id = t2.id
        FOR XML PATH(''), TYPE).value('.', 'VARCHAR(100)'), 1, 1, '')
FROM (
    SELECT DISTINCT id
    FROM @temp
) t

#2: Query without PIVOT (faster that #1)
SELECT
    id,
    InsulationMaterialIds = STUFF((
        SELECT DISTINCT ',' + CAST(InsulationMaterialId AS VARCHAR(10))
        FROM (
            VALUES
                (InsulationMaterialId1),
                (InsulationMaterialId2),
                (InsulationMaterialId3),
                (InsulationMaterialId4)
        ) t2(InsulationMaterialId)
        FOR XML PATH(''), TYPE).value('.', 'VARCHAR(100)'), 1, 1, '')
FROM @temp

Output:
id          InsulationMaterialIds
----------- ---------------------
1           34,45,50
2           34,35,51,78
3           32,34,35,52
4           30,34,36,53
5           34,39,40
6           34,41,56
7           34,36,42,53


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"This is not a drill!
I got into Hardin-Simmons University yesterday, September 2nd! This is the earliest anyone from my school as been accepted into college. It was amazing when I saw my mom's text with a picture of the admissions letter and my entire biomed class crowded around me as I cried. It was actually kind of funny, my mom's text just said "They got your name and address wrong." So I look at the picture, thinking it's some random college mail, and then I read the first line. It says "You got in!" I read it several times over and showed it to the girl sitting next to me to make sure I was reading it right. Then she stood up and yelled "Everyone shut up! Briahna just got into college!" I was crying and everyone crowded around me, saying congrats and asking where I got in. Then somebody said I should go tell the people at the college center, so Clio (the girl next to me) and I got up and started walking. A little ways down the hall, I hear voices. So I turn around, and I see my entire biomed class following me! We go to the college center and tell the receptionist, Ms. Rivera, that I just got into college and need to tell Mr. Heineman, the college advisor. By now he has seen us and is really worried that either we or he did something wrong. Ms. River just opens his door and says we need to tell him something. I say "I just got into Hardin-Simmons!" He gives me a high five and go to the office to make an announcement to the entire school. Then on my way to class everyone I passed (that knew me) was saying congrats. It was so amazing and something I'll never forget.
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What's your retirement dream? Traveling around the world? Playing golf every day? Hanging out with the grandkids?
Whatever your vision of retirement, I suspect it looks a lot different from your current lifestyle. (Unless you're a world-famous golf pro who brings the entire extended family on tour.) And change is always difficult—you can't look into the future to see if the lifestyle you've envisioned will really suit you. Luckily, you don't have to leap into the deep end of your dream. You can wade into your new lifestyle with a retirement dress rehearsal.
I've worked with retired clients and clients nearing retirement for 18 years and have learned a lot from them and the choices they have made. I've found that the ones who seemed happiest with substantial change after retirement were the ones who had planned carefully beforehand. In fact, now, when clients talk to me about big lifestyle changes, I recommend that they plan—and then practice—that lifestyle first.
Your days will probably look different during retirement: no nine-to-five office hours, no commute, no must-attend business conferences. How will you fill your days?
Don't just think about your options—try them out. If you're planning to babysit the grandkids, do it for several weeks or more. Watching the kids on weekends or during vacations can feel like playtime with fun trips to parks or movies. The day-to-day reality—and your energy demands—may be different from what you anticipated.
Maybe you want to see the world. If you haven't traveled a lot, start with a short, less expensive trip. If you've never been outside the U.S., you might want to take a group tour before heading off to unknown lands on your own. You may find that you love the newness of a different culture or that you actually prefer the familiarity of home.
Planning to dive into your favorite sport? Be careful not to overdo it. I had a client who'd been playing tennis for over 30 years and planned to work as a tennis instructor at his local club after retiring. Sounds great, right?
Luckily, he took my advice and tried it before fully committing. He found that being a teacher meant playing tennis whether or not he wanted to. He had to play when his knees hurt and during the hottest days of a Texas summer. Not exactly the relaxed sporting days he had envisioned.
There are a lot of reasons to move after retiring. Maybe you'd like to move closer to your kids. Maybe you'd like to move out of the city to some place quieter or less expensive. Maybe you'd like to move to a planned community somewhere sunny. Maybe you're even thinking of becoming an expat and spending your days in a hammock in some tropical paradise.
Remember, moving is stressful. The Holmes and Rahe Stress Scale rates retirement as one of life's top-ten stressors. You could be adding stress onto stress. If you do want to move after retirement, why not make both transitions easier by planning?
Don't just look at housing, utilities, and groceries. Find out the costs of income, sales and property taxes, and of car and homeowner's insurance.
Is your new potential home filled with the sort of like-minded people you'd have over for dinner? Is it close to the things you love, like the great outdoors, golf courses, or art centers?
If you're planning to travel, you will probably want to be close to an airport. Public transit and walkability within your community will become another factor once you stop driving.
The possibility that you'll need medical care increases as you age. The rural area you've been dreaming of may be many miles from the nearest hospital.
Are there plenty of houses in place where you could age? Houses can always be retrofitted if need be, but a single-level home with doors wide enough to accommodate wheelchairs or walkers can make changes much easier.
How often do you want to see your family? How easy would it be for you to visit them or vice versa from your new location?
Medicare will not cover you if you live outside the United States. If you have other healthcare insurance, make sure you're covered before moving.
In order to pay bills, you'll need to open a local bank account and every so often, that account will need an infusion of cash. The exchange rate will become part of your budgeting so make sure you understand the typical difference between the local currency and the U.S. dollar.
I know this factor was listed above, but it becomes even more of a consideration when you're moving thousands of miles away. It could be a deal breaker for your family, or it could be an incentive if they really want to visit your new exotic home.
Once you've done your research, it's time to rehearse. You may love the sunny desert for vacation but find its hot summers too much for months on end.
You may discover that the peace and quiet of the countryside leaves you incredibly bored after a few weeks.
You may miss the community you just left.
A dress rehearsal in your potential new home can illuminate some of the pitfalls.
One of my clients thought Belize would be the perfect place for him and his wife to retire. They'd loved living on the beach during their vacations so why not move there permanently?
Luckily, they took my advice to rehearse first. They rented a place for six months and soon found that they liked resort living in small doses. Being so far from their family also weighed on them more than they had imagined. No amount of research could have told them these particular things about their Belize retirement dream. They had to find them out for themselves by actually living there.
So, yes, rehearse first. Rent a house. Talk to the neighbors. Find out how easy—or difficult—it is to get groceries or go to the doctor. See if your allergies are off the charts every spring or if the summer tourist traffic makes you crazy. Make sure the retirement lifestyle you're planning for truly suits you and your spouse.
There's another perk to rehearsing your retirement, and it's that you'll have a better idea of how much money you'll need to pursue the lifestyle you want.
You may find you're happy with less expensive travel or with skipping the season pass in favor of skiing a few times a month. You may want to add some expenses like annual passes to the zoo for your grandkids or a gym membership to keep you fit for your regular scuba diving trips.
And if you do decide to move, you'll know what expenses to expect in your new hometown.
I think retirement should be like a second childhood, without the parental supervision. If you plan well and rehearse, I believe you're much more likely to reach that happy state you're seeking.


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April 14, 2009 – Tamil New Year and Vishu Celebrations
The special adornment of Vishukani lovingly prepared by devotees from Kerala for the stage
The traditional people of Kerala celebrate Vishu with a lot of joy. And Prasanthi Nilayam is a place where every occasion becomes a reason to celebrate for one is in the presence of the Lord. One very interesting custom of Vishu is Vishukani or Kani Kanal (first sight). Under this tradition, there is a prescribed list of items that people see first thing on a Vishu morning. Thus, the Vishukani has over the years become a ritual arrangement of auspicious articles like raw rice, fresh linen, golden cucumber, betel leaves, arecanut, metal mirror, the yellow flowers 'konna' (cassia fistula), and a holy text and coins, in a bell metal vessel called 'uruli'. A lighted bell metal lamp called nilavilakku is also placed alongside. And this was precisely the arrangement that greeted one and all as it adorned the centre of the Sai Kulwant Hall. It also happened to be the day of the Tamil New Year.
Swami kept this offering of flowers in
His hand for 45 minutes!
The actual Kani Kanal or first auspicious sight occurred in the evening at 5:15 p.m., as the lovely Lord arrived gently from the Yajur Mandir. Swami took a complete round of the hall and thousands slaked the thirst of their eyes as they seemed to drink in His beautiful form. The ritual arrangement of the articles had now been shifted onto the stage. Swami arrived on stage and looked admiringly at the wonderful arrangement of the various items for quite some time. Then, He sat listening to the Veda chanting for a few minutes, after which He moved into the interview room. Ten minutes later, Swami was out again, and this time He asked for the programme to begin as soon as He reached the centrestage. On this day, He was indeed seated at the centre of the stage unlike many other occasions when He is towards a side. The drama was entitled, "Sai Yuva Shakthi" and it began at about 5:30 p.m. A few characters of the drama moved onto the stage and made offerings to Swami. The Lord seemed to be fascinated by one "stick" of flowers which He kept in His hands throughout the next 45 minutes or so!
The "Sai Yuva Shakthi" drama backdrop
Bharat, the main character, is motivated by a sincere wish to improve his region
The drama was quite 'radical' in terms of the way the theme was depicted. The protagonist, Bharat, realizes that he needs power and influence to change the way things are going on in his region. So, he decides to participate in the forthcoming elections and hopes to win. Backed by his nobility and the people who have benefited from his service activities, he indeed wins the elections. Then, comes the acid test, when as an MLA he has to keep up his promises. Bharat spares no efforts and dives headlong into serving his people. First, he introduces the Sathya Sai Educare concept in all the corporation schools. When we see such things in dramas, we think that it's nice to fantasize or imagine these dramatically positive changes. But the fact is that Sathya Sai Educare has indeed been introduced in Chennai Corporation schools today, and it was announced by the Mayor of Chennai with gratitude. That audio clip was played in Sai Kulwant Hall for all to hear.
He impresses the people with his honesty and good character
At the poles, Bharat wins the vote of the people
Back to the drama, Bharat calls the medical fraternity and inspires them with the example of the Sathya Sai Super Speciality Hospitals. When everyone sighs that those things are possible only for Swami, he comes up with an innovative idea. He requests every hospital to allot just one free bed for a deserving poor patient, and ensure that patient too receives the same quality of treatment. That seems like a practical solution and when all hospitals incorporate that concept, there is a virtual mini free hospital! Again, this has already been incorporated in Chennai city, Prof. Rangabhashyam, Prof. Sunder and Prof. E. Prabhu, the three giants in the medical fraternity, being responsible for it. Very intelligently directed, the drama had these doctors themselves as a part of the drama and they acted out their real life roles on stage too!
'Living Legend' Prof. Rangabhashyam makes a cameo performance to explain about hospitals offering a free bed for the poor
The Virtual Hospital Project betters the lives of the poor - and it's a real life project as well!
[The Indian Association of Surgical Gastroenterology awarded the 'Living Legend' award to Prof N. Rangabashyam for setting up the Department of Surgical Gastroenterology at Chennai Government General Hospital in 1973. He was instrumental in bringing the surgical gastroenterology super specialty course into India in 1985 and for training surgeons in advanced surgery like liver resection, pancreatic surgery, colo-rectal surgery and transplant. Prof. Sunder specializes in heart transplants and is working at the Apollo hospitals. Prof. E. Prabhu specializes in Nuclear medicine.
In fact, H2H had a cover story on this Virtual Hospital Project called the Sri Sathya Sai Healthcare Project in January 2009]
The drama surged ahead to show how a glorious society gets built with just one strong-willed and good-character person being in a position of power. It concluded with Bharat being honoured and heard by all in the Parliament, the seat of power in India.
The finale song in praise of Sathya Sai
Singing to him in joy!
Traditionally, Swami has repeatedly exhorted everyone to keep away from politics. Seeing the drama, it seemed that everything has its exceptions. More than anything else, what is most important for the Lord is the motive behind the action rather than the action itself. There are reasons which we may not be able to fully understand and appreciate as to why Swami discourages entry into politics. At the same time, we may not equally understand why Swami inspired this group of youngsters to put up such a drama. But we can definitely appreciate their motives and Swami's will, for nothing can ever happen unless He wills! As the drama concluded with a final song, Swami smiled in joy and said that He would move down for a group picture. And what a huge group it was! It spanned the entire breadth of the marble block and was a wonderful sight. Swami told the photographers to take one half of the group each from either sides. That being done, Swami said that He was very happy and slowly moved back to the stage. Swami, for a few moments, was all alone on the stage and it was such a beautiful sight - Swami, in front of the beautiful decorations! A true Vishukani indeed! Next, Prasadam distribution ensued as the students sang bhajans. Ten minutes later, Swami received aarthi and retired for the day.
All are yearning for the divine closeness
A multitudinous cast receives their coveted reward
Gratitude Programmes by the Students Mar 7,8,15,16,21, 2009
Drama by Bihar & Jharkhand
Ugadi Celebrations
Programme by Orissa Devotees
Ramanavami in the Divine Presence
Burrakatha by Students
Dana Gillespie Programme
Dance Programme by the students
Vishu & Tamil new year Celebrations Apr 12,13, 2009
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Push to redraw Somerset political boundaries branded a "sham" and "an affront to democracy"
The boundaries must be in place before the May 2022 local elections
Daniel MumbyLocal Democracy Reporter
Ross Henley Lib Dem councillor for Hatch and Blackdown ward
Efforts to redraw Somerset's political map without public consultation have been branded a "sham" and "an affront to democracy".
Work is under way to create a new unitary authority to replace Somerset County Council and the four district councils by April 2023, following a decision by the Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) in late-July.
The five existing councils had all spoken in favour of retaining the existing electoral boundaries for the May 2022 local elections, with a view to the Local Government Boundary Commission for England (LGBCE) conducting a full review after the new council formally took office.
READ MORE: Illuminated steam trains to travel through Somerset ahead of Christmas
But the government has instead ordered the councils to think again, giving them until October to redraw the electoral map - prompting concerns about "gerrymandering" and the public being excluded.
Following criticism from councillors on Mendip District Council and South Somerset District Council, a senior figure on Somerset West and Taunton Council has given his two cents on the matter.
Councillor Ross Henley, portfolio holder for corporate resources, launched a blistering tirade against the new boundaries at a full council meeting on Tuesday evening (September 7), branding it "an affront to democracy".
The existing Somerset County Council electoral division boundaries (Image: Somerset Intelligence)
Based on work conducted so far, there are three options for redrawing the councils' boundaries at such short notice
Using the current county council division boundaries and doubling up the number of representatives to leave 110 councillors
Combining current district ward boundaries to leave 100 councillors
Combining current district ward boundaries in a different way to leave 85 councillors
Mr Henley said: "There was an understanding in the One Somerset bid that they were going to double up on the county council divisions, having 110 councillors, and then a full, formal boundary review, subject to full public consultation, would be conducted after 2023.
"That work is apparently still going to take place - so why is the secretary of state demanding this work?
"I find it disturbing that the secretary of state is trying to force Somerset into a position where it has between 70 and 80 councillors. That would create huge, huge wards or divisions, particularly in rural areas - it's plain wrong."
Mr Henley went on to cite examples of other recently-created unitary authorities in the south of England, arguing that the government insisting on such a low number of councillors in Somerset went against legal precedent.
He said: "Look at the facts across the country. Buckinghamshire, which only became a unitary council two years ago, has 146 councillors.
"Wiltshire, which has now been a unitary council for 13 years, still has 98 councillors - that's not even including Swindon, because they have their own separate authority.
"Dorset Council has 82 councillors - that's the very nice rump of the rural part of Dorset. It doesn't include Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole - they have their own separate authority.
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"What on Earth is the angle of this secretary of state, trying to force Somerset into having far less councillors than these other, comparable rural shire counties? I think it's wrong, and it is an affront - it's a sham of a process."
The three existing proposals will be discussed by the county council's cabinet when it meets in Taunton on Wednesday morning (September 15).
The proposals will be submitted to communities secretary Robert Jenrick MP in October, with a decision being laid before parliament in the spring of 2022.
Somerset West and Taunton Council


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Q: Canceling await tasks without explicit checks I'm developing an online game server that uses C# for its NPC scripts. To get stateless NPCs I'm using enumerators, yielding when I have to wait for a response from the client, and calling MoveNext once I got it.
Talk()
    Msg("test");
    Select("Yes", "No");
    yield return true;
    Msg(Response);

(Simplified example, the yielding is a little more complex in reality.)
This is working fine, but async/wait would make make it cleaner, easier, and more flexible.
Talk()
    Msg("test");
    Msg(await Select("Yes", "No"));

Playing around with async/wait I've found my only problem to be that the scripts aren't as simple as sending some messages. When calling other functions from the main Talk function I have to await them, since the execution wouldn't stop otherwise. The other functions could also call even more, creating an unknown amount of awaits.
Talk()
    Msg("test");
    await OtherTalk();
    Msg("end"); // would be called right away

OtherTalk()
    Msg("test2");
    Msg(await Select("Yes", "No"));

If I close the NPC inside such a "sub talk" method I'd potentially leave quite a few tasks hanging in the air, because I wouldn't return up the chain. NPC closed, no more responses, tasks keep waiting.
The solution to this problem would be going the chain back up, with explicit checks after the await of such a function, to check if the NPC was closed somewhere down the line. But I want them to be as simple and straight forward as possible, and frankly, having an if after each call of a function would be too tedious for my taste. The server software will also be used by newbies, who might forget such a check, which could lead to problems, depending on what the script does.
My actual question now is if someone can think of a way to cancel the Tasks, without explicit checks in the scripts themselves.

A: The TPL has built-in cancellation features.
Make all of your functions accept a CanellationToken, and pass the token along when calling every async function.
Every now and then, inside the functions, call token.ThrowIfCancellationRequested(), and the entire async callchain will abort, until you handle the cancellation.

A: You could install a custom SynchronizationContext that you can cancel. On cancellation it just would stop calling continuations. The async methods would effectively stop immediately after the next await. If nothing is holding on to those tasks they will be GC'ed and just go away.
Be aware that this way even finally blocks would not execute. using cleanups would not take place etc. Your code must be hardened to be safe under these circumstances.

A: This is a short answer.
Task cancellation must always be cooperative cancellation if you want to abort safely.

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› History › Japan Must Be Freed and Cleared of the Accusations Regarding Its WW2 Conduct
Japan Must Be Freed and Cleared of the Accusations Regarding Its WW2 Conduct
October 3, 2014 | Japan and Germany Must Take Back Their "Pride" (Part 5)
Mr. Xi Jinping Is a Japan Basher
General Hideki Tojo, when the Tokyo Trial judges called him to appear before the court
China's President Xi Jinping made an unsubstantiated, slanderous comment at a recent conference in Berlin, Germany. He accused the Japanese army of killing 300,000 Chinese when it captured Nanking in 1937 as if it were a fact.
Mr. Xi has used the history card to take stabs at Japan, but recently he's really been getting out of line.
In January, China built a memorial hall for Ahn Jung-Geun, the terrorist who assassinated the Japan's first Prime Minister, Hirobumi Ito, at Harbin Station. In February, it designated December 13th, the day of the capture of Nanking, as "a national mourning day for the victims of the Nanking Massacre."
In March, the Chinese government officially stated for the first time that it has not abandoned its people's claims for postwar compensation, which were supposedly abandoned in the Japan-China joint statement. In April, one month after the announcement, a court in Shanghai decided since there hadn't been any compensation since the Japan-China war, the Chinese were justified in their recent seizure of a Mitsui tanker ship.
The Threats from China Won't Stop
In June, China submitted material to UNESCO relating to the Nanking Massacre and the supplying of Comfort Women to the Japanese military for UNESCO's "Memory of the World" project. In July, Mr. Xi spoke at Korea's Seoul University, and he called for a united front against Japan. He stated, "The Imperial Japanese military engaged Korea and China in a brutal war of aggression."
However, keeping in mind that the Nanking Incident and the movement of comfort women to where the troops were stationed, which have been the current reasons for Mr. Xi's harsh judgments and statements, were in fact fictitious creations from the minds of vindictive military personnel that represented the victorious nations at the end of the war. Thus, the Japanese of today must finally voice some counter arguments.
At This Point in Time, Protecting Japan Means Waging a Battle over the Historical Record
On territorial issues, too, China has been insisting that the Senkaku Islands are Chinese territory because Ryukyu (Okinawa) was an independent country when China had a tributary system. In this context, if Japan were to accept China's fictional history and to apologize, then China would capture Senkaku and Okinawa, and the international community would never properly understand the issues, and think, "Well, Japan must've taken them from China in the first place." After such a reaction, the international community would never assist Japan again related to any of China's aggressive, foreign policy initiatives to expand its territory.
The fights over correct historical perspectives are battles to protect the nation, and if Japan loses these battles, then there's a chance that the losses will send the country into ruin.
To have China and America lift their false "accusations" surrounding events such as the Nanking Incident, do you have any ideas on what the people of Japan should do? The Liberty writers would like to know what you're thinking, but in the meantime, they've come up with a few good thoughts for you to consider.
① Repudiating the Lies in the History Books Will Never Be Enough
In the new editions of history books for school children, there might be lines such as the Japanese military massacred 300,000 people in Nanking because Mr. Xi made such an announcement, and there are still some old textbooks that conjure up other lies related to that particular incident.
Since the Chinese are spreading untruths all over the world, and people from various countries are buying into them, it's actually not even enough for Japan to erase them from the textbooks. The people of Japan ought to speak out and say, "Over the years of investigation and research, scholars have not been able to prove beyond the shadow of a reasonable doubt that a massacre at Nanking actually happened. Indeed, it was a work of fiction that the victorious nations created."
② The Media Has Been Misinforming the Public and Circulating "Disinformation"
The Asahi Newspaper has played a huge role in the spread of the fake story surrounding the Nanking Incident domestically, and it began with journalist Katsuichi Honda's series named "Travels in China" in 1971.
Mr. Honda wrote articles that described the Imperial Japanese Army's "brutality", and naively believed the testimonies of the witnesses that the Chinese Communist Party provided. However, scholars have since determined that Mr. Honda wrote his articles without any background investigation of his sources.
His left-wing propaganda is still in circulation, claiming that there was, in fact, a massacre at Nanking. The Asahi Newspaper should recognize Mr. Honda's mistakes, and apologize to the Japanese people. It should assure Japan that there was no "massacre", and correct the masochistic historical perspective that the Japanese have unfortunately inherited. The media should be a part of the solution for the negative view of Japan that has been spreading through the world at the moment; it shouldn't be a part of the problem.
③ Revise the Government's View
According to Japan's Foreign Ministry, "The Japanese government believes that we can not deny that there were killings of noncombatants and looting after the entry of the Japanese army into Nanking (in 1937)."
This is the Japanese government's view on the Nanking Incident. If we accept the words literally, it can only be said that the Japanese government recognizes that the massacre did occur.
Japanese government officials ought to insist, "There were casualties on both sides, both Chinese and Japanese people died during the battle of Nanking, but there was no massacre of civilians or prisoners."
④ Japanese Leaders Must Engage the Chinese in a Series of Debates
Politicians ought to insist on the truth regarding the historical record. China, under President Xi's leadership, has been attacking Japan in a battle over historical fact and fiction. Japanese politicians, under Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's leadership, should have been preparing counter arguments and should have already challenged China's historical assertions in a series of public debates between the two countries. Of course, scholars and researchers should join in as well.
Most importantly, every Japanese person should now insist that the Nanking Incident was not a massacre, and the idea that the military forced women intro prostitution was a lie made up after the war. They should tell the people that they know about the truth, and change public opinion for posterity's sake. It's not only up to the elected officials to do this job. It's every Japanese person's responsibility to counter the false accusations, which the Americans and Chinese made.
An Analysis of the Starting Point: Japan and Germany Must Take Back Their "Pride" (Part 3)
The Americans and Chinese Created"The Rape of Nanking", Spread Their Lies, and Falsified the Story Surrounding the "Nanking Incident", Which Made News Worldwide as a "Massacre": Japan and Germany Must Take Back Their "Pride" (Part 4)
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En Garde!
Games in play
En Garde! in play - online and offline
There are games of En Garde! in play all over the world. Not just around a table, but also on the web and by mail. Here is a list of the En Garde! games that we know about - if you know of any others, e-mail En Garde! games and tell us about them. (And, if you're running a game yourself, there's a mailing list for En Garde! GMs on Yahoo!.)
Active En Garde! games
Dormant En Garde! games - which we hope will be back in due course
Defunct En Garde! games - the sadly departed
(In case they're new to you, the abbreviation PBM means Play By Mail and PBeM means Play By e-Mail.)
This list was last fully updated on 29th November 2016: contact the specific GM for details on joining their game.
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Britain En Garde! James Waters The latest arrival is this interesting-looking game set in Regency (well, 1801) England. James describes it as a "Simple game with few additional rules, set in London in the early Napoleonic Period. 7-10 day deadlines, results within 24 hours of deadline. Join the site (free) to request a character."
Bruinburg En Garde! Nick Pinner Nick has incorporated some of the features of The Paris Tribune (RIP) to the basic En Garde! rules, while making the setting "the Germanic electoral city-state of Bruinburg in an imagi-empire torn by political/religious civil war". The game currently (Jan 2018) has 15 players and a monthly turnaround. Nick would like to double its size: drop him a line if you're interested.
Les Petites Bêtes Soyeuses Pevans A long-running (it started in 1986) PBM/PBeM, LPBS sticks fairly close to the published rules, but does have a few wrinkles. Costs GBP 0.50 per turn online, GBP 2.70 on paper (in the UK), 10 turns a year.
Liminal En Garde! Sam New (July 2019) online game that includes some interesting house rules for alternative careers, the royal court and appointments and some experimental rules for female characters. At the time of writing, Sam has room for a few more players, so contact him or sign up at the forum.
Preux et Audacieux Tirs Abril A fascinating Spanish-language game that has been running since March 1993 and is now in 1653. The rules have evolved well away from their starting point. Well worth a look if your Spanish is up to it.
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Black Sails En Garde! Tony Hinton-West PBeM naval En Garde! game that's a continuation of Briny (see below), or rather "Briny meets Pirates of the Caribbean". Tony has incorporated female characters and added non-military career paths. Sadly, there's been no activity since July (Oct 2020).
Fontainebleau En Garde! Paul Lydiate This is a new (May 2018) game with a GM who's a veteran player of the game (so he should know what he's doing). Paul has based his house rules on DuPont (RIP), with a few simplifications. There are still rules for the Church, family, marriage and female characters and it's running on the Tapatalk forums. New players can apply to join on the website, but there has been no activity for several months now (Oct 2020).
Defunct En Garde! games
Au Plaisir du Roy French language En Garde! game, part of the venerable games 'zine, Mach die Spühl! (it translates as "Do the washing-up!"), and closely connected with a game group in Liège, Belgium. Health problems forced the GM to stop the game.
Banana, The Colin Bell Website-based game that ran for several years under a succession of GMs.
Before All Else Ray Farrell Building on The Paris Tribune (below), Ray set up his own game on the CGN website. "The emphasis was on intrigue and social rivalry more than regimental life," he notes, incorporating a system of factions to the game.
Briny En Garde! Terry Crook PBeM En Garde! variant set in the late 18th century Royal Navy. It ran for several years from May 2011 with 30-odd players.
Dangerous Liaisons Jerry Spencer Excellent PBM set at the time of the religious wars in France. It concluded (early in 2010) with a civil war between the Monarchists and the Catholic League!
Death Before Dishonor Joe Carl Joe has a rather different approach to the game, using his own, customised rules. He runs it in his games 'zine, The Joe Rule, which is distributed as a PDF. Sadly, Joe discontinued it in July 2016.
Death with Honour Scott Lewin Fairly standard PBeM game with some interesting additions to the rules. Re-vamped and re-launched at the start of September 2008, but didn't last long.
Dune Angelo Yang This was an online science fiction variant set in Frank Herbert's Dune universe. It went through a couple of GMs, but is now closed.
DuPont En Garde! Alan Percival A classic En Garde! game with several extensions to the rules, including the church as a career path and female characters. Alan managed a good run of some three years with fortnightly turns – quite an achievement! It closed down in the Spring of 2018.
Elan Carol Kocian A fairly standard PBeM that has gone through several GMs (and names), but has been dormant since the Autumn of 2006.
Freydal Mike Tittensor This game has been adapted to the early Fifteenth Century in the Holy Roman Empire along the lines of the Romance Freydal. It formally started at the end of January 2011, but there hasn't been any activity since November 2013.
Kingston Games Group Simon Smith Face-to-face game that ran at the Kingston Games Group, but has been on hold for many years. The newsletter, Toady, is posted on-line along with other stuff about the game.
La Regence 2 Denis Martineau French language online game run through a Yahoo! group. It took over the late Mach die Spuhl! game and has some players from that game. However, nothing seems to have happened since mid-2007.
Lievres Fous, Les Russell March The third SFCP postal game from the 1990s.
London Frank Schildiner PBeM variant set in 18th century London rather than the Musketeers' Paris. It has been through several GMs and was supposed to re-launch in April 2012, but did not appear.
Mercure du Paris, Le Postal game
Mythweavers En Garde! Bosh Intended to be a fast-paced online En Garde! game, it seems this one never got off the ground.
Old Spaceways Bill Crum An entertaining PBeM game set in the space opera future of Pulp Sci Fi. It drew from other games for ground and space combat. Sadly, it closed in September 2011.
Orleans Brian Jenkins Orleans re-started in March 2005 as a fairly standard PBeM game with plenty of added features. By mid-2008 it had disappeared again.
Parisian Jano Donnachaidh Lots of house rules add colour to this PBeM, but Jano had problems with internet access. The game went "on hiatus" in 2005 and has not resumed.
Psychopath En Garde! Fraser Hopkins PBeM game that ran as part of the Psychopath on-line 'zine. Now sadly defunct.
Realistas o Cardenalistas 'Secretariado de Luis XIII' A Spanish language game, this one pitted supporters of the King (Realistas) against those of the Cardinal (Cardenalistas) – with the Church as an alternative career to the military.
Réduit à l'Essentiel Ash Casey This was quite deliberately a 'Bare Bones' game using the rules as published with no embellishments. It ran for 18 months, but wrapped up at the end of 2008.
Restoration Martin Carter Launched in July 2011, Restoration is set in London (and beyond) in the 1660s. It has lots of rule changes and a focus on hands-on roleplay. Unfortunately nothing seems to have happened since June 2012.
Restoration England Seany K A spin-off from the TPT game (below), this is a root-and-branch re-working of En Garde! set in London after the Restoration of Charles II to the throne. It was hosted on the CGN website alongside TPT and did not survive much longer.
Sage Steve Arnott Online game from the 1990s (spawned Star, I believe).
Small Furry Undergrads Chris Carr (et al) The second postal game run by SFCP started in the late 1980s. Many of the players (and the then GM) migrated to The Banana.
St Alban's role-playing A standard En Garde! game that's folded due to dwindling interest.
Star En Garde! Pete Cooney An entertaining Science Fiction variant set in the 31st century, Star went through a couple of GMs before hanging up its light sabre.
Stellar En Garde! James Wooten A PBeM science fiction variant with "some of the feel of David Weber's Honor Harrington universe". It's been on hiatus for some time and looks unlikely to resume.
Sun King, The Nigel Misson Very detailed development of En Garde! that ran for several years.
The Paris Tribune JonL This long-running postal/online game closed down at the end of July 2014. It was based in a group of gamers in Canterbury (Kent, UK) which runs all sorts of other games and events, so the website is well worth a look.
Ultra Mundane A fairly standard En Garde! game with several extensions to the rules. It was set up from the St Alban's group's last game (above). However, the website has been unavailable since March 2012.
Under Parisian Skies A fairly standard PBeM with plenty of added features. the website had disappeared early in 2009.
Une Chanson d'Encre et de Sang R Graymarch French language En Garde! variant, based on The Paris Tribune rules and set in George RR Martin's universe – some 90 years before A Song of Ice and Fire (aka Game of Thrones). After running for 8 years, it wound up at the end of 2020.
Unquiet Slumbers Frank Blades En Garde! meets Call of Cthulhu in this PBeM set in 1920s Lovecraftian England. Sadly, it appears this imaginative game is no more and its website disappeared in 2008.
Variable Pig Jim Reader This veteran PBM 'zine used to run an En Garde! game.
Vatican En Garde! Emma Dalton PBeM set in Renaissance (early 16th C) Rome under Pope Leo X. It has not seem been updated since April 2009.
Vive le Roi! Brad Martin Online game (based in Australia) run by a veteran of the postal games scene. It ran for nearly 15 game-years before Brad brought it to a close.
Warriors of Mars Blanton En Garde! adapted to the Barsoom setting of Edgar Rice Burroughs's Mars books. Sounds like fun, but it seems to have come to a halt early in 2007 (June 2008).
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Topic: "The NRC Framework for K-12 Science Education"
Philip Bell, Associate Professor of Learning Sciences, University of Washington.
Heidi Schweingruber and Philip Bell present and discuss a recently released National Research Council (NRC) report "A Framework for K-12 Science Education: Practices, Crosscutting Concepts, and Core Ideas." This new framework for K-12 science education calls for a shift in the way science is taught and learned in the United States.
Welcome to the discussion. Philip Bell and I will be checking in frequently during the next two weeks to facilitate the conversation.
If you missed the webinar you are still invited to take part. Please watch the webinar recording that will be made available.
I very much enjoyed the webinar, and am enjoying getting to know the framework. Can you address how "systems thinking" is addressed in the framework, and why it is not one of the cross-cutting themes? I see it addressed only obliquely, except in the earth systems section.
I'm glad you enjoyed the webiner. It's great to be able to interact with the MSP community. One of the crosscutting concepts is "Systems and Systems Models". Does the description of this concept not include what you would consider to be "systems thinking"? I'm wondering what is missing there that you would have expected to see.
One question that arose during the webinar, which might bear more discussion, is the amount of input to the standards from K-12 teachers. It was noted that the panel wasn't strong on such people. In my mind, this relates to another question which is, how are the standards' value to be assessed? If I were publishing a physics text book, I would expect to field test it fairly extensively, especially if it included novel content or pedagogy. How about the standards?
I think it's important to bear in mind that that the framework is NOT the standards. In fact, there are a substantial number of classroom teachers who are included in the teams developing the standards. That said, the committee who developed the framework included 4 members with extensive experience as classroom teachers at various levels in K-12, though they are not currently in the classroom.
To the question of field testing/validating the standards, that is an excellent question to raise with Stephen Pruitt when he gives the webinar on the Next Generation Science Standards on Sept. 27th. My understanding is that the collaboration with states is designed to provide exactly this kind of opportunity for field testing. However, Stephen will be able to provide the details.
Integration was mentioned in passing during the webinar as a challenge that lay in the future. Some of us are already moving towards that future. This extension forum would seem to be a option to discuss experiences and research.
I'd like to hear about emerging integration strategies...and more from others who are designing methods to involve teachers in the changes structured by the frameworks.
First, Heidi and Phil, thanks so much for your very informative overview of the Framework! However, I couldn't help wondering how our pre-service teachers will build their understandings of the core concepts and inquiry practices and processes, when their college science courses are not structured to do that. What is your sense of the real investments that need to be made/will be made in redesigning college science courses so that the students in those courses who become teachers will be able to guide students into science? Who is responsible for making that transformation in higher education?


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Teach to One, Teach to All: Personalized Learning at Roosevelt
When Roosevelt staff piloted the Teach to One (TTO) program last year, the idea was to change math for students like current 8th-grader Irina. Early in her time at Roosevelt, Irina often fell behind during class-wide math lessons. Once off track, she found it hard to catch up, and in turn her interest waned.
The solution for kids like Irina, Roosevelt staff believed, was personalization. While a traditional classroom might have 25 kids learning the same thing, at the same time, in the same way, Teach to One caters to each student's individual skill level and pace. After taking assessments to discover what skills they need to work on, every student rotates through "stations" of interactive computer-based programs, small-group lessons, and teacher-led instruction designed to meet them where they are—not where other students may be.
Irina using Teach to One – Photo Copyright New Classrooms Innovation Partners
During last year's limited run, the pilot group of 6th-graders saw quick results. Encouraged by this success, and fueled by the Salesforce partnership that brought $2.5 million in STEM funding to six middle schools, this fall Roosevelt expanded Teach to One to all students in grades 6-8.
The TTO learning journey is fluid: every day a student's studies may shift based on what he or she mastered, or struggled with, the day before. "Based on TTO's algorithm, each student is assigned a set of skills they need to work on," explains Roosevelt Lead Math Teacher Michael Attiyeh. "On any given day, depending on their progress, kids are grouped with others who have similar needs. So we might see four students working together on basic multiplication, while another group of five is taking on multistep equations."
How students learn also shifts as they move through "stations" of computer-based solo learning, small-group collaboration, and more, giving every day a different energy. Particularly in the small-group sessions, the dynamic, evolving model offers social benefits as well, as students end up collaborating with other kids they might not normally share class time with.
Small-group math learning at Roosevelt
"Student engagement has really gone up with TTO," says Attiyeh. "You can see that just by walking around the room. With a structure where kids now know exactly what to do and how to do it, you see them actively working on and thinking about math."
While he says there have been some growing pains in taking the program schoolwide, the results and the students speak for themselves. Based on midyear Scholastic Math Inventory (SMI) results, Roosevelt students had doubled the achievement growth they showed at this point last year. Meanwhile, a national assessment called the NWEA MAP saw students outpace the national average by 25 percent, with English Language Learners scoring 59 percent better than ELLs nationwide.
This last data point has been especially heartening to Attiyeh and Roosevelt staff. "Because their learning targets are personalized, we're seeing much higher growth from students who are traditionally disadvantaged," he says. "Our special-needs and ELL students are showing more growth than we've ever seen in the past." Roosevelt's most advanced students are also thriving. "Instead of being bored or sitting through something they've already learned, these kids can explore new and challenging things at their own pace," says Attiyeh.
For Irina, whose journey is featured on Teach to One's website, the introduction of TTO has helped her make a complete turnaround. Able to work at her own pace, she's mastering math skills and earning A's, and TTO's small-group stations have helped her become more engaged with both the subject matter and her peers. As she told the TTO team, "I like math now!"
Literacy counts, too!
While their math achievement is on the rise, Roosevelt's readers are not to be ignored, either. Based on midyear Scholastic Reading Inventory (SRI) tests, across OUSD's 22 middle schools Roosevelt has the fifth highest percentage of kids at or above grade level. The school's struggling readers have also made great gains: the midyear SRI showed that Roosevelt was sixth among middle schools in reading improvement among kids who started out below grade level.
The Ed Fund is proud to be part of the Salesforce partnership that brought STEM funding to Roosevelt and five other Oakland middle schools this fall. Learn more about the partnership in our email blast celebrating its launch. Through our Adopt an Oakland School program, Salesforce has forged a long-term partnership with Roosevelt, bringing teams of volunteers to campus throughout the school year. Check out these photos from their Roosevelt garden clean-up day.


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Ultra-broadband network proliferation, advances in information technology and the evolution of endpoint devices have created the conditions for re-inventing telecommunications networks and services architectures.
Software defined networking (SDN) and network function virtualization (NFV) are just two facets of the so-called "IT-zation or softwarization" of telecom infrastructures. SDN decouples the software, control plane, from the forwarding hardware of nodes such as routers and switches and executes the control software in the cloud or in any standard or hybrid processing resources made available, such as blades or servers. SDN doesn't just affect the evolution of Layer 2 and Layer 3 services such as switching and networking, but also impacts Layer 4 to Layer 7 network functions.
In reality, there are a lot of middle-boxes deployed in current networks, including Wide Area Network (WAN) optimizers, Network Address Translation (NAT), performance-enhancing-proxies, intrusion detection and prevention systems such as firewalls. Virtualizing these middle-boxes network functions allow for considerable cost savings, and this is where NFV plays a role: virtualized network functions can be dynamically deployed and moved to various locations of an infrastructure where processing power is available, not only distributed into the network but even into the cloud.
However, SDN and NFV are not dependent on each other, but they are certainly mutually beneficial. For an example, it will be possible in the medium-term to develop network functions and services, spanning L2-L7, as applications and execute them on virtual resources (e.g. virtual machines) hosted either in centralized cloud computing data centers, or in distributed clusters of mini-data centers.
SDN and NFV are not new principles, as they were already proposed and demonstrated in the past as far back as the '90s, but now there are the conditions for a breakthrough: in fact, the telecom industry is considering them potentially impactful due to the emergence of ultra-broadband, low-latency connections and high performance processing power. Technology today appears to be ready for a sustainable deployment of SDN and NFV.
This is a potentially big transformation of the telecom infrastructure.
In the long term, the distinction between the network and the cloud is likely to disappear, as more and more functions will be performed either in the network or in the cloud depending on the performance requirements and costs optimizations. The control and orchestration capabilities will be the key factor for success in taming the complexity of an infrastructure executing millions of software transactions or service chains. The most important requirement will be ensuring ultra-low application latency.
Looking at the evolution of telecom from this perspective, the so-called role of a "software-defined operator" is gaining more traction. A software-defined operator could be described as an operator owning basically software networks and services platforms, whose L2-L7 functions are decoupled from the hardware and executed and operated either in distributed computing capabilities or in the cloud. This will be possible in less than five years, but the full adoption of this innovation will depend on a number of factors, including business models, sustainability and a proper regulation.
In general, software-defined operators will see dramatic costs reductions, including 40-50% savings in energy, CAPEX reductions, improved efficiency in the overall operations (as much as 35% OPEX savings just by automating processes), and reduced time-to-market when deploying services. Other strategic scenarios are even possible. These operators could possibly "upload and execute" their networks and services platforms anywhere in the world if there are infrastructure providers willing to rent hardware resources such as processing, storage and transmission. This might represent a disruptive evolution of the business towards OPEX-centric models, which are typical of the cloud.
It should be mentioned that IT advances in computing and storage hardware have an investment profile in terms of CAPEX and OPEX, which are quite different from those of the traditional networks. In fact, telecom network investments span across longer periods, anywhere from five to ten years and require maintenance operations efforts that are geographically distributed and increase operational costs. On the other hand, software implies large upfront costs for development and testing and requires a longer initial phase to guarantee carrier grade applications.
Even still, these trends are making network and cloud computing innovation accessible to all enterprises in almost any part of the world on an equal basis. This evolution will reduce the thresholds for new players to enter the telecom and information communication technology (ICT) markets: competition is being moved to the realm of software, and lower CAPEX and / or OPEX will be required to start providing ICT services.
In general, we can argue that these trends are accelerating the transition towards the Digital Society and the Digital Economy, where the network infrastructures, more and more pervasive and embedding processing and storage capabilities, will become the "nervous system" of our society. This will enable new service scenarios.
In the book The Second Machine Age, the authors Brynjolfsson and McAfee argue the exponential growth in the computing power of machines, the amount of digital information and the number of relatively cheap interconnected devices will bring soon the "machines" to do things that we, humans, are usually doing today. This is again another facet of the same IT-zation trend: the creation of a new and pervasive "machine intelligence", supported by an highly flexible network, capable of fundamentally changing the economy.
In fact, even today data and information are instantaneously reaching almost every corner of the world through ultra-broadband, low-latency networks, where a huge amount of computing via the cloud is available to transform it into knowledge. But this is the definition of "intelligence": the capability of processing and exchanging information to understand what's happening in the environment, to adapt to changes and to learn.Availability of huge amount of cloud processing and storage, interconnected by flexible and fast networks will be create a pervasive "machine intelligence" able to morph the space-time physical dimensions of life, as the physical direct presence of humans will be less and less required to perform certain jobs or tasks.
When these intelligent machines will "flood the society landscape", there will be a number of socio-economic impacts: reduction of human efforts in jobs subjected to computerization, robotization; increase of local production; reduction of long distance transportation; optimization of socio-economic processes; and industries will not need relocating where human labor cost are lower.
Eventually, because of this evolution, several economists, as well as technologists, have started to wonder if the usual representation of relationships among a myriad of players in the telecom and cloud domains can still be modeled on the bases of value chains. There is a growing consensus that value chains modeling shall have to be complemented by a broader view, considering the business ecosystems of the true Digital Economy.
Antonio Manzalini received the M. Sc. Degree in Electronic Engineering from the Politecnico of Turin and is currently senior manager at the Innovation Dept. (Future Centre) of Telecom Italia. His current development interests are in the area of Software Defined Networks (SDN) and Network Functions Virtualization (NFV), as it relates to the evolution to 5G. Manzalini is also chair of the IEEE SDN Initiative, which is now seeking authors to present at the IEEE International Conference on Network Softwarization (NetSoft 2015), its flagship event, 13-17 April 2015, at the Cruciform Building at University College London.


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Hillsboro Hops Lock Down New Coaching Staff For 2017
By Kyle Martinak on	 January 23, 2017 Hillsboro Hops
For the last two years of Single-A Short Season, the Hillsboro Hops have been under the capable hands of Manager Shelley Duncan. An experienced MLB outfielder, designated hitter, and first baseman, Duncan was new to his management career when the Arizona Diamondbacks organization hired him for the farm team. In his debut season in 2015, Duncan led the Hops to a Northwest League championship. Duncan has been popular in Hillsboro, with his aggressive and youthful attitude sparking late-in-the-game rallies and his successful batting career serving as inspiration to young players.
But, as any minor league fan can attest, baseball is a game of perpetual professional motion. Duncan has earned a manager position with a higher profile team within the Diamondbacks system, the Visalia Rawhide in California's Advanced-A league. Much in the way Single-A baseball is a farm system that develops player talent for the big show, it is also a farm for coaching staff.
The next man to lead the Hillsboro Hops when they kick off the 2017 season will be Shawn Roof, a former infielder who started his career in the Detroit Tigers system after being drafted in the 33rd round in 2007. Roof played as high as Triple-A for the Toledo Mudhens in his 2010 season, but decided to pursue a coaching position beginning in 2013. After two seasons with the Orioles organization and one season as an assistant coach at Indiana University, he joined the D-backs system and coached in the Midwest League. Just as Duncan before him, this switch to Hillsboro will be Roof's debut as a Manager.
Roof, though young and fresh-faced, will have a fountain of experience from which to draw. He will likely have an easy time connecting to his players and keeping energy up. And his staff is grounded by decades of experience, with veteran pitching coach Mike Parrot returning for his second season with the Hops and new batting coach Franklin Stubbs stepping in. Stubbs is a World Series ringholder with over 20 years in the MLB, and joins the Hops after his first season as a coach in Missoula, Montana for the Pioneer League.
The Hops had an up-and-down season in 2016, sometimes allowing sedate performances at the mound and at bat until the game was on the line. It's no stretch to assume the Diamondbacks executives and Hillsboro's General Manager K.L. Wombacher purposefully entrust the team to younger men just starting their careers in management. Roof's prime directive ought to be for the 2017 Hops to fire on all cylinders right from the start and keep a culture of fun and competitive stakes. A NWL season is a meaty experience all at once, with games virtually every day and unglamorous travel and accomodations. Hops fans have more than five months to wait for Roof's performance.
Kyle Martinak
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West Ham interested in re-signing Joao Mario from Inter Milan as Leeds and Newcastle also linked with winger who said English fans were 'too quiet'
By Josh Fordham
Leeds, Newcastle and West Ham have all reportedly made approaches for Inter Milan winger Joao Mario.
Mario has been made surplus to requirements by Antonio Conte and is believed to have been listed for sale.
Joao Mario spent last season on loan at Lokomotiv Moscow
Portuguese outlet O Jogo claim that the three Premier League clubs have shown an interest in the 27-year-old.
The Portugal international spent last season on loan with Lokomotiv Moscow but they were said to be unwilling to pay the £12million (€13m) Inter were asking for.
West Ham also had him on loan for the second half of the 2017/18 season where he scored twice in 13 Premier League appearances.
Joao Mario spent six months at West Ham in 2018
Hammers fans may not be too happy to see him back, however, as he took a swipe at the club following his move back to Inter.
Having previously been critical of the Serie A club, Mario apologised for his behaviour while also blaming fans in the Premier League for his poor spell in England.
"Obviously I'm sorry," he said. "You learn from mistakes and that was a mistake.
"I have to respect a team like Inter who spent so much to sign me, and I'm very happy to have been given a second chance here.
Adrian Durham believes West Ham should consider selling Declan Rice this summer
"The Inter fans were also crucial. For them I was both an idol and a bad player. It would be great if I found the right balance.
"I've been in England and they're all too quiet there. I prefer the warmth of our fans."
Leeds, Newcastle and West Ham will face competition from Galatasaray, Real Betis and Valencia though, with the three European clubs all said to be in the race to sign Mario.
Gareth Bale's agent says permanent Spurs deal could be on the cards
Joao Mario


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Professor Malcolm Parkes
Professor Malcolm Parkes, who has died aged 82, was an authority on medieval manuscripts and helped to elucidate the history of the book in the Middle Ages.
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A Fellow for more than 30 years of Keble College, Oxford, where he was a tutor in Old and Middle English , Parkes was in 1996 appointed the university's first Professor of Palaeography. His first book, English Cursive Book Hands 1250-1500, published in 1969, remains the authoritative account of English cursive writing of that 250-year period.
His expertise allowed him, for example, to demonstrate (with Ian Doyle) that a group of manuscripts of The Canterbury Tales and the 14th-century poet John Gower are the work of a small group of scribes at a London workshop.
In 1993 he wrote Pause and Effect: An Introduction to the History of Punctuation in the West, which was the first attempt to write a history of punctuation in English; it showed how, in manuscripts, the same passages were punctuated differently at different times, and how this affected their interpretation. His final book, Their Hands Before Our Eyes: A Closer Look at Scribes (2008), was based on his Lyell Lectures. These were given in Oxford in 1998-99 and addressed the handwriting of scribes from late antiquity to the beginning of the 16th century. Parkes's scholarship, though always rigorous, was never without humour and an eye for the unexpected — at one point in his lectures he observed: "It is easy to imitate another's letter-forms; it is much more difficult to imitate their spaces."
In his Robert F Metzdorf Memorial Lecture in 1987, Parkes had discussed the provision of books for scholars in medieval Oxford and the development of libraries. Books were then considered less the exclusive property of an individual than a valuable resource of the community. In the 13th century, for example, a college Fellow was often expected to leave his books to his college on his death — a practice analogous to one already widespread in some religious orders, where the individual had the possession and use of books but the community claimed the ownership.
Malcolm Beckwith Parkes was born in Charlton, south London, on June 26 1930, and educated at Colfe's Grammar School, Lewisham. He studied briefly at Strasbourg University before becoming a supply teacher in London, then went up to Hertford College, Oxford, where he read English. It was at this time that he developed an interest in the classification and dating of medieval handwriting.
After graduating Parkes worked for his family's export business before spending a year, in 1957-58, as archivist at the library in Lambeth Palace. In 1961 he was appointed a lecturer in English Language and Literature at Keble and Mansfield Colleges in Oxford, four years later becoming a fellow and tutor at Keble. As Fellow Librarian at the college between 1965 and 1974 he discovered around 90 manuscripts while he was moving books to make the library more accessible for students. This led to his writing Medieval Manuscripts of Keble College, Oxford: a descriptive catalogue (1979).
A convivial and generous teacher, Parkes was rewarded by his pupils with admiration and affection. He once briefly fell asleep while giving a lecture; on waking, he could not remember what the lecture was about, so he leaned over the shoulder of a student, read the last line of her notes aloud, and seamlessly carried on.
This sangfroid was also evident on the occasion when he inadvertently locked himself out of his Volvo in the centre of a French village. As he tried to break into the vehicle with a wire coat-hanger, a crowd gathered, a few wondering if they should call the police. In a pronounced English accent he declared: "Je suis cambrioleur spécialiste [I am a master burglar]."
Parkes taught as a visiting professor at Konstanz, Minneapolis and Harvard universities. After retiring in 1997 he became a member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton.
He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy and of the Medieval Academy of America, and to the Comité international de paléographie latine .
Malcolm Parkes married, in 1954, Ann Dodman, who died in 2009; their two sons survive him. At his funeral, a Keble College Book of Hours which he had catalogued lay open on his coffin.
Professor Malcolm Parkes, born June 26 1930, died May 10 2013
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Tires Protect Car from Lightning?
Do rubber tires protect car's inhabitants during lightning strikes?
David Mikkelson
Claim: Rubber tires protect a car's inhabitants during lightning strikes.
Example: [Collected via e-mail, May 2002]
Many people think that a car is the safest place to be during a thunderstorm because of the rubber tires, but according to my physics teacher, the tires have nothing to do with it. He said that the lightning travels on the outside of the car because of the metal surrounding it. Is this true?
Origins: Underrated but deadly, lightning is a devastating force of nature that kills an average of 58 people a year. While indoor sites are much safer from lightning than outdoor areas, bolts from the sky have taken the lives of folks who were indoors talking on landline telephones. While outdoors, one must be wary of certain technologies in addition to the lightning itself when a storm is imminent, because the presence of devices such as iPods or cell phones on one's person during a lightning strike can work to make resulting injuries even more severe.
Technology cuts both ways, though; it also sometimes serves to protect people from the worst of lightning strikes, such as the interiors of closed vehicles shielding those who've taken shelter there. However, while the protection is real, the reason for it is generally misunderstood.
Although folks have long believed otherwise, the relative safety afforded by automobiles during electrical storms has nothing to do with the rubber tires on these
vehicles. Rather, it's the closed metallic composition of the car itself that does the trick, serving as a conductor which channels the killing amperage away from those it would otherwise fry and diverts it into the ground. The car acts as an ad hoc Faraday cage, picking up the lightning's discharge of energy and conducting it around the vehicle's occupants and down to the ground.
The National Weather Service says of the notion that rubber tires or shoe soles will protect you from lightning strikes:
Rubber-soled shoes and rubber tires provide NO protection from lightning. However, the steel frame of a hard-topped vehicle provides increased protection if you are not touching metal. Although you may be injured if lightning strikes your car, you are much safer inside a vehicle than outside.
Belief that the rubber in a vehicle's tires would afford protection from a lightning strike dates well into the past, as this excerpt from an 1896 news story shows:
The claim has been made that the rubber tires on a bicycle are a protection to the rider against lightning. The wheel ridden by Walter Scott Thursday evening had rubber tires. He was killed and the tires were not damaged in the least.
In answer to the question "Can I be struck by lightning if I wear rubber soled shoes?" the National Weather Service says:
Absolutely! While rubber is an electric insulator, it's only effective to a certain point. The average lightning bolt carries about 30,000 amps of charge, has 100 million volts of electric potential, and is about 50,000°F. These amounts are several orders of magnitude HIGHER than what humans use on a daily basis and can burn through ANY insulator (even the ceramic insulators on power lines!) Besides, the lightning bolt may just have traveled many miles through the atmosphere, which is a good insulator. Your ½" (or less) of rubber will make no difference.
The best defense to the ravages of lightning is not being there when it strikes. As to how to avoid being hit by lightning:
Do not let the seeming distance between you and an electrical storm talk you into remaining outside. When you hear thunder, no matter how far off the approaching storm seems, seek shelter indoors or in an enclosed vehicle. (Convertibles aren't very safe, even if the top is up.)
Inside a building, avoid using landline phones, and steer clear of appliances, doors, windows, and water.
If you take refuge in a car, make sure you aren't parked near a tree or power lines that could come down on the vehicle. Avoid touching anything metal and keep the windows fully closed.
If you can't make it to shelter indoors, avoid water, high ground, and wide open spaces where you are the high ground. Canopies and picnic shelters are also generally unsafe, and huddling under a tree is a bad idea.
Don't stand near metal objects such as electrical wires, fences, and machinery.
If you are outdoors, crouch down with your feet close together. Cover your ears to minimize hearing damage. Do not wear headphones attached to a cellphone, iPod, or other electronic device.
Barbara "when it comes to lightning, go for spares, not strikes" Mikkelson
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WJXT-TV [Jacksonville, FL]. "Don't Believe Lightning Myths."
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Brad DeLong Watch: Terminological Nits with Caldwell
Brad takes issue with Chris Caldwell's assertion that the republican party is not where wealth votes:
It takes a somewhat weird failure to look at the cross-tabs to arrive at the conclusion that the Democratic Party is the party of "billionaires, academics, minorities and single women" and the Republican Party is the party of "landscape gardeners, construction workers, truckers." For one thing, landscape gardeners throughout much of the country are now overwhelmingly Hispanic, and less and less likely to vote Republican with each passing day…
via Brad DeLong.
But Brad is using a convenient play on words. High finance is in bed with the democrats, and big oil is in bed with the republicans. "Billionaires" was a bad choice of pejorative language. He should have said "high finance".
So brad is just feeding the fires of dishonest discourse rather than correcting it.
That said Chris is still off-base. Republican party is becoming the white party. which is why there is a clock running on its future. And further, it's why we are not going to have a peaceful resolution of our class warfare: because it's going to become race warfare.
The libertarians have a solution but it's too late to enact it. Bush was the last president with the opportunity. When one republican defected and ruined his chances of reform, the die was cast.
Sometime in the not too distant future it's going to get very bad here in the states.
Daily Krugman Watch: On Cato and the Kochs
Watching The Progressive Bloggers
Ummm… Wall Street was 60% McCain 40% Obama in 2008. Wall Street is now 90% Romney 10% Obama. Soros is a real outlier. What Wall Street will do if the Republicans nominate Santorum or Gingrich is anybody's guess. But to say that Wall Street is in Obama's corner is simply wrong. Hollywood is in Obama's corner 80% to 20%. Silicon Valley is in Obama's corner 60% to 40%. But billionaires as a whole are Republican. Entertainment, technology, and traditionally-Jewish investment banks are not the rule but the exception.
Brad,
This is a problem of imprecision. Chris said "billionaires" when he should have said "big banks". He is using, and so am I, Jeffrey Sachs' quote. Sachs is basing his information on dollars given to the Democratic party, which up until THIS YEAR, has been in favor of the Democrats — at least according to all the data I know of.
You're then jumping off on his 'Billionaires' error, then using voting data instead of donation data. So, in the end this little argument is a comedy of errors. Which is what I'm pointing out.
I just can't tell if they're honest errors or dishonest errors. I'm pretty sure Chris is making an honest error. I might be throwing you in the camp with Krugman unfairly because I've just started following the structure of your arguments, and he quotes you frequently.
In the broader context, of the bloggers who advocate political preferences: Karl Smith is an honest man. Thoma's an echo chamber and nothing more. Krugman is a shill for the party, his self serving methodology, and his social bias — which has unsavory roots behind it. Yglasias is straight as far as the technology allows. I'm just trying to figure out where you sit. I don't know yet. But I'm betting it's you and Smith that have the ideas on that side of the fence.
The other side has a different problem. Conservatives lack the language to articulate their vision of society. I can help them with some of that if I live long enough. But we have to assume discourse is honest, or its simply a form of deceiving the population.
I'm just doing my small part.


This is one list I wish Prague wasn't on. This survey enforces what the majority of us Westerners living here have been feeling. Especially with the fantastic dollar! Today it came at a dismal 15.4 Kc to the US Dollar. Ouch!


The Minesite Annual provides a "year in review" of the activities of the WA Mining Club, as well as showcasing aspects of WA's resources industry.
It combines specialist commentary on issues of interest to our industry and provides an insight into the work, innovations and challenges of many WA resource companies. Of course it wouldn't be complete without spectacular photographs of the incredible and vast mining tenements and operations across our state.


Official Summary (add to Goodreads): Sean Suh is done with killing. After serving three years in a psychiatric prison, he's determined to stay away from temptation. But he can't resist Annabelle–beautiful, confident, incandescent Annabelle–who alone can see past the monster to the man inside. The man he's desperately trying to be.
Review: I love a good mystery/thriller and Hunting Annabelle is certainly that. Sean Suh has been in a psychiatric prison for a few years because he killed someone. He's now out, living in a new state with his mom. He tries to stay away from people, drawing them from afar. That is until he meets Annabelle at the local amusement park he frequents everyday. He can't stop thinking about Annabelle, even as images of him killing her randomly fill his mind. Then, Annabelle goes missing while out with Sean, and he's certain she's been kidnapped, except he's lost some time, and his past doesn't exactly exonerate him. The police aren't too sure about the kidnapping theory, and then they set their sights solely on Sean, believing he killed her and his "she was kidnapped" story is just that.
What's interesting about Hunting Annabelle is that Sean is someone you want to like…and not just want, you do start to like him. He's murdered someone, plain and simple, but was it entirely his fault? Is he better now that he's on medication? It's difficult to tell, and it's just one of the reasons you keep reading. I felt bad for Sean's mom. I think she was very controlling, but of course, I can't imagine being anything else when trying to "raise" a son who has already killed someone…and she obviously fears it will happen again. Hunting Annabelle was both what I thought it was going to be and something entirely different. I definitely recommend, and I think this will be one that readers will want to discuss!
Official Summary (add to Goodreads): Malcolm Montgomery was a history teacher and track coach until an accident left him with two broken legs. He'll recover, but life has knocked his feet out twice now. He's not sure if he's ready to try again, especially when it comes to love—and slick guys like Brian Kenway. Still, he needs help mentoring the school's LGBTQ society, so he asks Brian to take some responsibility.
Review: Chasing Forever is the third book in the This Time Forever series, except each book is about a different couple (though some characters appear in all of them). I didn't read the first book, but I did read the second, Renewing Forever, and while I liked parts of it, I also was a bit annoyed by the characters sometimes. However, this didn't stop me from wanting to read Chasing Forever, especially since it focused on Brian, a character I was curious to know more about. He's portrayed as a bit of a player, someone who lies and cheats and isn't a terribly great person. Parts of these things are true…or at least, they used to be…but that's a very simple definition of Brian. He's so much more than the parts he shows.
In Chasing Forever, Brian meets Malcom, or Mal, Montgomery who is dealing with an accident that has thoroughly changed his life. He's suddenly not sure if he can do all the things he used to love. I thought Brian and Mal were great together. They both genuinely care about one another, despite their various "issues" if you will. It was great to see Brian so gentle with someone. The other "main" character, so to speak, is Brian's nephew Josh who has been kicked out of his house for being gay. This happened to Brian when he was around the same age, so it stirs up a lot of pain and memories. I really appreciated how Mal was there for Brian, though the big catalyst doesn't really happen until close to the end (just FYI). Before that, it's a matter of getting to know one another, taking care of Josh, and trying to figure out a way to also help other local LGBT youth who don't have a safe place.
While I didn't love Renewing Forever, I thoroughly enjoyed Chasing Forever and I'm so glad I decided to read it!
So, is the first book an unreliable narrator? I'll have to recommend it to my mom who likes those types of stories. Glad you enjoyed the second book too. It's sometimes hard to move on in a series when you hit a book you don't like.
Sounds like both books were a win for you and so very different genres!
Hunting Annabelle sounds really good. I love a thought provoking read that can change your opinion on a person that in real life you wouldn't ever do that for.
Hunting Annabelle sounds really interesting. I don't read too many thrillers so I don't know that it'll end up on my tbr list, but it definitely sounds pretty good!
Oooh! Hunting Annabelle Chase sounds like my kind of read! I hadn't heard of it before now but I'm definitely going to have to look it up. I'm glad you enjoyed it!
I don'y Often pick up mystery/thrillers, but Hunting Annabelle sounds so good! I love when an unreliable narrator is done well.
I am very curious about Hunting Annabelle. I often choose not to read mysteries or thrillers but this one just sounds so intriguing! I think I'll have to add it to my ever growing list!
I read a review yesterday for Hunting Annabelle. I am most curious about that book now.
I already planned to read Kelly Jensen's trilogy so I'm glad the last one was a hit. Chasing Annabelle does sound rather good when I'm in the mood for a thriller. Interesting premise.
Hunting Annabelle sounds like an interesting thriller.
Ohh 'Hunting Annabelle' sounds like it would be perfect for me! Adding it to my Goodreads now.
Oh wow, Hunting Annabelle sounds so good. I hadn't heard of that one before but I'm always on the lookout for new thrillers to read. Great reviews for both books!
I CANNOT wait to get my hands on Hunting Annabelle!! Great review!
I'm not so sure about the second book but Hunting Annabelle definitely sounds like one I want to read.