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Q: How to perform DCV for SSL in a secure namespace, using apache and django I have a django app being served by apache. It was configured and working by connecting to the raw IP of the server, but as the domain is .app I need to configure SSL to get it working with the domain I bought.
I am trying to complete Domain Control Verification (DCV), but I am running into this issue:
I can not serve the authentication file because my server can not use a secure connection. But I need to serve the file to get the certificate to have a secure connection. So I am stuck.
Here is where the file should be:
http://agileme.app/.well-known/pki-validation/fileauth.txt
I have disabled the usual django sites and enabled the following site to serve the file on port 80:
<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName agileme.app
    ErrorLog /var/www/logs/error.log
    CustomLog /var/www/logs/custom.log combined
    <Directory /home/joe/DCV>
            Require all granted
    </Directory>

    DocumentRoot /home/joe/DCV
    Alias / /.well-known/pki-validation/fileauth.txt
</VirtualHost>

error when attempting to access from powershell:
> wget http://agileme.app/.well-known/pki-validation/fileauth.txt
wget : The underlying connection was closed: Could not establish trust
relationship for the SSL/TLS secure channel.
At line:1 char:1
+ wget http://agileme.app/.well-known/pki-validation/fileauth.txt
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo          : InvalidOperation:
(System.Net.HttpWebRequest:HttpWebRequest) [Invoke-WebRequest], WebException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId :WebCmdletWebResponseException,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.InvokeWebRequestCommand

new error (after fixing SSL redirect):
PS C:\Users\Joe\Documents\agileme\agileme> wget http://agileme.app/.well-
known/pki-validation/fileauth.txt
wget : Not Found
The requested URL was not found on this server.
Apache/2.4.18 (Ubuntu) Server at agileme.app Port 80

but I know the file is here:
(agileenv) joe_blake8424@agileme-server:/home/joe/DCV/.well-known/pki-
validation$ ls
fileauth.txt

and the DocumentRoot is set:
<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName agileme.app
    ErrorLog /var/www/logs/error.log
    CustomLog /var/www/logs/custom.log combined

    DocumentRoot /home/joe/DCV

    <Directory /home/joe/DCV>
            Require all granted
    </Directory>

</VirtualHost>

thanks!
I had a VirtualHost in the 000-default.conf ALSO serving agileme:80 that was taking priority. Thanks all!!

A: Thanks for all the help guys.
I had a virtual host in the 000-default configuration that was ALSO at agileme:80, so the host I set up to serve the DCV file wasnt doing anything.
Figured it out by changing the log file for that host, and seeing it not output anything.
Thanks!


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    NSURLSessionDataTask *task = [[NSURLSession sharedSession] dataTaskWithRequest:[NSURLRequest requestWithURL:[NSURL URLWithString:@"https://httpbin.org/delay/1"]] completionHandler:^(NSData *data, NSURLResponse *response, NSError *error) {
        expect(data).will.beNil();
    }];
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}

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THE PEDO AGENDA: New Studies Promote Child-Adult Sex, Establishment is SILENT
The "powers-that-be no longer seem interested in drawing the boundary between 'right' and 'perverse' sex."
by Mark Regnerus, The Public Discourse:
Two new studies use a small amount of old data to try to undermine the idea that it is abusive or damaging for adults to have sex with minors. Disturbingly, no one seems to be challenging this conclusion.
The Archives of Sexual Behavior, a journal I respect and have recently published in and reviewed for, has printed a pair of studies by Bruce Rind in the past year. The recent publication of his work marks a significant, unnoticed, and unnerving turn in the dissemination and consumption of research on sex and sexuality.
Almost twenty years ago, both houses of Congress and the American Psychological Association condemned Rind's claims, published in the August 1998 issue of Psychological Bulletin, that the long-term damages caused by child sexual abuse are overestimated. I would have thought that nearly twenty years, a concurrent resolution of Congress, and a fair bit of social trauma would have convinced him to shift topics.
But I was wrong. His new studies are on the same theme: sex between adults and minors as young as thirteen. Rind is banking on a more amenable political and scholarly atmosphere in which to conclude comparable things. And from the sound of it—or rather, the utter lack of sound—he has gotten his wish. There has been no congressional concern, no APA scrutiny, just silence.
So what do the studies say?
Old Data and Small Sample Sizes
The first study concerns adolescent girls' first same-sex sexual experience, and mirrors an earlier one on boys. The data Rind uses, curiously enough, are the Kinsey data, collected by the famous early student of American sexual behavior Alfred Kinsey. These are old data—most of the participants were born before 1930—but that does not mean they have no value. Rind praises Kinsey because his was not a clinical sample, studying people who are seeking help of some sort. Agreed. But Kinsey is hardly representative. I don't believe Kinsey's data are a good guide to understanding what behavior was normative in its time, or in ours, given his nonrandom approach to locating participants. But neither do I believe that Kinsey's interviewees were lying.
The second study is on the "long-term adjustment and functioning" of boys who experienced their first same-sex sexual experience with adult men, using data from the 1992 National Health and Social Life Survey (NHSLS). These data have a comparative advantage over Kinsey's by being far more recent and population-based. Both articles seek to "test," and purport to undermine, the child sexual abuse (CSA) framework in which "all minor-adult sexual interactions are considered abusive, traumatic, and psychologically injurious by nature."
On average, girls in the Kinsey data set were fifteen years old at the time of their first same-sex sexual event with a woman (who was, on average, twenty-six years old). For men in the NHSLS, their mean age was fifteen and their partner was twenty-eight. In each study, fewer than half of the respondents describing such early same-sex experience currently identified as homosexual. Most of the women's first experiences were what Rind termed "outercourse," involving no oral sex or penetration (i.e., less invasive). The opposite was the case with boys, where oral sex was reported by 67 percent, and anal sex by 29 percent. In other words, these encounters were invasive and "severe," Rind admits. "Despite this," he argues, their "adjustment was not inferior to that in the comparison groups." He makes this claim while admitting that only 19 percent of such male respondents said the sex was "wanted at the time," well below the 54 percent who experienced first sex with age-similar peers. Sixty-seven percent "went along" and 14 percent report being forced, well above the 3 to 4 percent among other scenarios.
However, both Kinsey and the NHSLS suffer from very small sample sizes in Rind's population of interest. We are talking about only twenty-six cases of girl-woman sexual events from a study that sought participants wherever it could find them, and twenty-one cases of boy-man sex from a population-based study. But since we are talking about very small samples, Rind is able to conclude that there is no difference among groups in having been forced into first sex. That is not how scientific literatures ought to be built, nor legal cases won. (But it is.)
Does Sex with Adults Have Negative Consequences for Minors?
The central claim of Rind's studies, however, is that minor-adult sex tends not to be reported as a bad experience, as unwanted, or as one with longstanding negative consequences. Eighty-five percent of women who said their first same-sex sexual experience was as a minor with an adult told Kinsey interviewers they "much" enjoyed the experience. Sixty-three percent of comparable men reported "positive" reasons for participating in the act (an estimate far below that of those respondents who first had sex with a similar-age peer). Fewer than 10 percent said they knew their first (male) partner well.
Nevertheless, Rind believes the evidence vindicates him: "Men whose first postpubertal same-sex sexual experience was as a minor with an adult were as well adjusted as controls." Such men reported to be "just as healthy, happy, sexually well adjusted, and successful in educational and career achievement." It's a tough conclusion to swallow. Recall, for example, the furor over atheist Richard Dawkins's assertion about his boarding school sexual abuser, claiming that "I don't think he did any of us lasting harm." Rind concludes similarly about teen girls' first same-sex experience. This result, he holds, "is sharply at odds with the pathology perspectives" (that is, the sexual abuse narrative). In fact, the results "showed that same-sex attracted adolescent minors were especially receptive to these relations."
As a social scientist of sexual behavior who is surprised by very little, I'm willing to admit that it is possible for this to be the case, while holding firmly to the assertion that such events remain diabolical and an unequivocal abuse of power. Moreover, the emotional consequences of teen sex with adults are something that may never be readily accessible to "discursive consciousness," those experiences and emotions to which humans have conscious access, can understand, and verbally express and evaluate.
Pleasure, Power, and Sexual Exploitation
I ran Rind's studies past a friend of mine who had experienced it all—childhood molestation by an opposite-sex older relative and then a sustained relationship of same-sex "outercourse" initiated by a counselor who was eighteen years her senior. Like many in Rind's study, she "went along" due to the counselor's manipulation. She spoke of willingness, well short of enthusiasm, in order not to threaten the relationship. The sexual activity became mutual. And yet it was all exploitative, and deeply damaging.
At twenty years old, she was legally of age. Yet she sees obvious parallels between minor-adult relationships and therapist-client relationships: there are inherent power imbalances in both that make sexual contact of any kind wrong. Even mutual desire or initiation by the youth or the client cannot erase these power differences, as all professional and legal establishments used to understand.
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Republican Rep. Mike Oxley announced this week that he will retire, depriving Congress of one of its most powerful champions for corporate oversight and insurance protection.
His departure at the end of his term in January 2007 isn't likely to open any doors for Democrats because the Ohio district he has represented for 25 years is the state's most solidly Republican seat.
Term limits will force Oxley to give up his chairmanship of the House Financial Services Committee at the end of 2006, and the 61-year-old said that was a leading factor in his decision.
"I've paid my dues," he told The Associated Press.
The former FBI agent led a House probe into failed energy giant Enron Corp. and helped create new accounting requirements in 2002's Sarbanes-Oxley Act.
"I think that will be first and foremost in my obituary," Oxley said.
Sen. Paul Sarbanes, D-Md., said he valued the bipartisan relationship he and Oxley developed working on the act.
"His expertise will be missed in the Congress," said Sarbanes, who also is retiring next year.
Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., the ranking member on the Financial Services Committee, said Oxley has received undue criticism for working with the opposition to get things done.
"At a time when rancor in Washington leads many to the extreme of trying to manufacture civility, Mike Oxley's basic personal decency demonstrates that where civility is lacking, it is not the fault of the system as much as a personal failing of the uncivil," Frank said.
Treasury Secretary John Snow and former Commerce Secretary Don Evans said Oxley's leadership was critical in challenging economic times.
"The landmark corporate responsibility legislation enacted under his leadership, and which bears his name, shored up investors in the face of events which shook their confidence," Snow said.
Snow also praised Oxley for pushing for more open reporting by mutual fund managers and for tougher penalties for terrorist financing schemes.
Oxley believes the insurance industry is the underpinning of the entire economy and vows to renew an act that provides a government backup for insurance companies when large properties are destroyed by terrorism.
"I'm not dead yet," Oxley said.
Oxley has been in contact with Snow about it, even though the Bush administration has strong reservations about renewing a one-time response to the Sept. 11 attacks, Oxley said. The program, which expires Dec. 31, is critical to give large developers confidence to keep building, he said.
Elected in 1981, Oxley has been able to give away much of his campaign donations to other GOP candidates in the last half of his tenure. "His prolific fundraising has helped to build a lasting House Republican majority," said National Republican Congressional Committee Chairman Rep. Tom Reynolds of New York.
Oxley's 4th District stretches from Lima in the northwest to Mansfield about halfway across the state. Only 34.4 percent in the district voted for Democrat John Kerry for president in 2004, and 36.4 percent backed Al Gore in 2000, giving Bush his largest victory margins in Ohio.
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is hoping to make a run at the seat by taking advantage of GOP scandals, such as the conviction of Gov. Bob Taft on ethics violations.
"The culture of corruption that surrounds both Ohio and Washington today creates a difficult environment for all Republicans, making every Republican-held seat vulnerable," DCCC spokeswoman Adrienne Elrod said.
Democrat Ben Konop was the first challenger of Oxley to receive more than 40 percent of the vote last year and could run again. Democratic Mansfield Mayor Lydia Reid said she is considering running.
Oxley said he hasn't been involved in recruiting a Republican successor, but isn't worried the scandals will affect the GOP's hold on the district.
"Every party has its ups and downs," he said.


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Hero Motocorp appoints Michael Clarke as COO
He augments the recently revamped leadership team.
27 Nov, 2020 - 05:56 PM IST | By indiantelevision.com Team
NEW DELHI: Hero MotoCorp has appointed global mobility expert Michael Clarke to the newly created position of COO, with the additional role of chief human resources officer (CHRO).
Based out of India, Clarke will join Hero MotoCorp effective 1 January, 2021 and report to Pawan Munjal, chairman & CEO of Hero MotoCorp.
In the emerging "new world" of business, Clarke's appointment comes close on the heels of recent augmenting of the leadership team at Hero MotoCorp.
As part of this process, Hero MotoCorp has earlier announced assigning the role of head of strategy to Malo Le Masson and expanded the role of Ravi Pisipaty as the head of plant operations.
Sanjay Bhan has returned to the company as the head of global business (GB) to play a key role in the rapid expansion and consolidation of Hero in the international markets.
Mahesh Kaikini, the head of Gurugram plant, has been appointed as the chief quality officer, while Ashutosh Varma has been elevated to the role of head of national sales.
Clarke is a business leader with more than 25 years' global experience in publicly listed companies in the US and UK. He has worked extensively in building, leading and managing teams across geographies and functions. Having occupied leadership roles in some of the world's top companies, such as Fiat Group SPA and Delphi Technologies, Clarke has also been in charge of operations and human resources functions in several other companies, including Tenneco Automotive and Hertz Corporation Breed Technology (formerly AlliedSignal SRS) across Europe.
He started his career with Delco Electronics Overseas Corporation (a subsidiary of General Motors) in Liverpool, before moving to Colgate Palmolive based out of Manchester.
Hero Motocorp chairman & CEO Pawan Munjal said, "Mike brings considerable global experience and expertise in managing complex operations, international restructuring, organisational and cultural change. His experience will be highly beneficial as we look to further consolidate our market leadership across continents. We have a clear focus to create benchmark products and facilities, including industry leading processes and operations. Mike will contribute by playing a vital role in providing strategic leadership in operational excellence and driving the Talent agenda at Hero MotoCorp."
Clarke said, "We are in unprecedented times across the globe and it is clear that Hero MotoCorp is navigating successfully and maintaining its number one position in the industry. I am passionately looking forward to contributing to and continuing the journey globally as well as in the domestic market in India."
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Sarah Hawkins Genealogy Site
The West Somerset Free Press Saturday 17 Mar 1900
Page 5 Column 7
BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS.
[Short and plain announcements are inserted gratuitously for subscribers, but in the case of any addition, such as "beloved," "deeply regretted," &c., a charge is made of one shilling, which should be prepaid. Long and detailed announcements, as also those containing the words "No Cards," or any special intimation, are subject to a charge of 2s. 6d. "In Memoriam" notices are inserted at a charge of sixpence per line of eight words.]
BIRTHS.
BOUCHIER. - March 2nd, at St. Mary-street, Bridgwater, the wife of H. J. BOUCHIER, of a son.
BROWN. - February 19th, at Hamdon, Taunton, the wife of David BROWN, B.Sc., M.D., of a daughter.
FOX. - March 9th, at Pyles Thorne, Wellington, Somerset, the wife of Thomas FOX, of a daughter.
KILLICK. - March 11th, at Williton, the wife of Dr. KILLICK, of a daughter.
LEWIS. - March 7th, at 4, The Crescent, Taunton, the wife of C Murray LEWIS, of a daughter.
LYDDON. - March 7th, at Cutcombe, the wife of W. LYDDON, of a son.
MOGG. - March 6th, at St. Mary-street, Bridgwater, the wife of H. W. F. MOGG, of a son.
THOMAS. - March 2nd, at Bishop's Lydeard, the wife of Mr. John THOMAS, of a son.
MARRIAGES.
LLOYD-DUDDERIDGE. - March 7th, by license, at St. Mary Magdalene, Taunton, by the Rev. Preb. ASKWITH (previous to the bridegroom's departure with the Somerset contingent of Volunteers for South Africa on active service), Frederick Robert, eldest son of Mr. J. G. LLOYD, of Staplegrove, to Clair, second daughter of the late Mr. Robert DUDDERIDGE, of Staplegrove.
PATCHETT-PEARSE. - March 10th, at the parish church of St. Michael's, Minehead, by the Rev. J. S. WIMBUSH, Herbert eldest son of Mr. J. PATCHETT, of Jersey, to Frances Kate, youngest daughter of the late Mr. John PEARSE, of Minehead.
WYNDHAM-BLATHWAYT. - February 21st, at Sacramento, California, Wadham, son of the late Hugh WYNDHAM, of Redding, California, to Geraldine Mary, daughter of the Rev. C. R. BLATHWAYT, rector of Huntspill, Somerset.
DEATHS.
ALLEN. - March 12th, at 1, Greenway-avenue, Rowbarton, Taunton, and late of Wellington, Emma Mary, wife of the late Thomas ALLEN, of Hereford, aged 54 years.
BAYNES. - March 9th, at the residence of her son-in-law, Mr. John HAMLIN, Fore-street, Bridgwater, Ann, widow of the late Thomas BAYNES, aged 88 years.
CHAPMAN. - March 4th, at 41, Peter-street, Tiverton, Violet Maud (Queenie), child of George and Lottie CHAPMAN, late of Taunton.
DUNNING. - March 6th, at 32, Wood-street, Taunton, Charles DUNNING, aged 73 years.
FERRIS. - March 5th, at Wantage, Berks, Mrs. Jane FERRIS, late of Selworthy, aged 76 years.
GAYLARD. - March 5th, at the Taunton and Somerset Hospital, Sarah Ann GAYLARD, aged 22 years.
LANGDON. - March 14th, at Kingston, Taunton, Elizabeth LANGDON, widow of the late James LANGDON, aged 89 years.
MORSE. - March 11th, at Nether Stowey, Mrs. Mary MORSE (late Mrs. BRIFFETT), aged 85 years.
OATEN. - March 7th, at 14, Victoria-street, Taunton, William Charles OATEN, aged 31 years.
PAULL. - March 12th, at Williton, Mary Ann PAULL, widow of the late James Ware PAULL, Esq., of Knott Oak House, Ilminster, aged 76 years.
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It's the time for biggest temple festival of kerala, live pooram 2018 will be available through different malayalam television channels. every year all the major kerala tv channels airing the live telecast of thrissur pooram festival. it's an annual kerala temple festival conducting at vadakkumnatha temple thrissur. 2018 date for pooram is tomorrow and every year millions of people enjoying the same directly and through television. this is the most important and popular cultural festival of kerala. pooram date is usually coming in April or may month, pooram star of malayalam calendar medam.
There are 2 sides of participants in pooram festival, Western Group and Eastern Group. These groups are known as are Paramekkavu Vibhagam (Side) and Thiruvambady. fireworks, caparisons, elephants, kudamattam, Ilanjithara Melam etc are the attractions of this temple festival. Sakthan Thampuran, who ruled thrissur is behind this cultural event. Pooram festival starting with kodiyettam aka Flag Hoisting. The kodiyettam will happens seven days before the pooram date. All the participants of this event will attend the pooram kodiyettu ceremony. There will be limitation to fireworks now a days, fireworks was one of the major attractions of this temple event.
Amrita tv every year carrying live pooram coverage, dd malayalam aka dd4 is another malayalam channel showing Thrissur Pooram 2018 Live. Other channels like Kairali TV, Asianet News, manorama news etc showing the same on 25th April 2018. You can watch the event by visiting official youtube channels of these tv networks. Amrita tv available through yupp tv, dd malayalam now getting through zee5 application. Those who installed zee5 app on smartphones can watch pooram 2018 live through dd malayalam channel.


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Eucalyptus filiformis is a species of mallee that is endemic to a small area on the side of a mountain in Victoria, Australia. It has rough fibrous or flaky bark on the trunk, smooth bark above, narrow lance-shaped to narrow elliptical adult leaves, flower buds usually in groups of seven, white flowers and barrel-shaped fruit.

Description
Eucalyptus filiformis is a mallee that typically grows to a height of . It has rough, fibrous to flaky, light grey bark on the trunk, smooth bark above. The leaves on young plants are more or less sessile, narrow linear, bluish, a slightly lighter shade on one side, up to  long and  wide. Adult leaves are petiolate, narrow lance-shaped to narrow elliptical,  long and  wide. The flower buds are arranged in leaf axils in groups of seven, sometimes up to eleven, on a peduncle up to  long. Mature buds are oval to spindle-shaped, up to  long and  wide with a conical operculum. Flowering occurs in late autumn and the flowers are white. The fruit is a woody, cylindrical to barrel-shaped capsule up to  long and  wide with the valves below rim level.

Taxonomy and naming
Eucalyptus filiformis was first formally described in 2004 by Kevin Rule in the journal Muelleria from a specimen Rule collected on the southern slope of Mt. Jeffcott near Charlton. The specific epithet (filiformis) is derived from Latin filum meaning "thread" and forma meaning "shape", referring to the narrow juvenile leaves of this species.

Distribution and habitat
This mallee grows in shallow red soils and is only known from private property on the southern side of Mt Jeffcott.

See also
List of Eucalyptus species

References

Trees of Australia
filiformis
Myrtales of Australia
Plants described in 2004

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Money Report
Microsoft Will Alter Hiring After DOJ Said Company Discriminated Against Immigrants
By Jordan Novet, CNBC	• Published December 7, 2021 • Updated on December 7, 2021 at 7:18 pm
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The Department of Justice said on Tuesday that Microsoft demanded more information than was necessary from permanent residents during the hiring process.
Microsoft will provide training to employees, pay a fine and update its processes related to seeking documents from job applicants.
The company previously challenged efforts to rescind an Obama-era policy that provided a pathway to work for people who came to the U.S. illegally as children.
Microsoft will update its hiring practices after the U.S. Justice Department found that the software maker demanded more information than necessary on the citizenship status of job candidates.
The DOJ said on Tuesday, in announcing a settlement with Microsoft, that between February 2018 and January 2020, the company violated federal law by asking six or more lawful permanent residents to "reverify their continuing permission to work in the United States."
Microsoft regularly sent emails to verify work authorization for people who had shown permanent resident cards, and it asked at least three employees, who had become legal residents after joining Microsoft, to show their identification cards, the settlement said.
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The company will pay a small fine to the U.S. Treasury and has agreed to stop certain practices, like telling employees with permanent resident status to upload copies of their green cards. Microsoft must also have U.S. immigration staffers undergo training presentations from the Justice Department.
Microsoft and peers such as Apple, Facebook and Google regularly lean on immigrants to expand their workforce in the U.S. and have spent heavily on lobbying efforts to make it easier to hire talent from overseas. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, who gave up his green card in order to secure an H-1B visa after moving to the U.S. from India, has pushed for immigration reform.
Microsoft was among the companies that pushed back on the former Trump administration's efforts to rescind the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, program, which protects some immigrants who illegally came to the U.S. as children from getting deported and enables them to get work permits. Last year, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled to keep DACA in place.
A Microsoft spokesperson said in a statement that the company is addressing the issues raised in the DOJ investigation and settlement.
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1 May 2001 POPULATION STRUCTURE AND SPECIATION IN TROPICAL SEAS: GLOBAL PHYLOGEOGRAPHY OF THE SEA URCHIN DIADEMA
H. A. Lessios, B. D. Kessing, J. S. Pearse
H. A. Lessios,1,2,* B. D. Kessing,1 J. S. Pearse3
1aSmithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Box 2072, Balboa, Panama
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3dJoseph M. Long Marine Laboratory, Institute of Marine Sciences, University of California at Santa C
*Address for correspondence: Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Unit 0948, APO AA 34002-0948, USA.
Evolution, 55(5):955-975 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1554/0014-3820(2001)055[0955:PSASIT]2.0.CO;2
The causes of speciation in the sea are rarely obvious, because geographical barriers are not conspicuous and dispersal abilities or marine organisms, particularly those of species with planktonic larvae, are hard to determine. The phylogenetic relations of species in cosmopolitan genera can provide information on the likely mode of their formation. We reconstructed the phylogeny of the pantropical and subtropical sea urchin genus Diadema, using sequences of mitochondrial DNA from 482 individuals collected around the world, to determine the efficacy of barriers to gene flow and to ascertain the history of possible dispersal and vicariance events that led to speciation. We also compared 22 isozyme loci between all described species except D. palmeri. The mitochondrial DNA data show that the two deepest lineages are found in the Indian and West Pacific Oceans. (Indo-Pacific) Diadema setosum diverged first from all other extant Diadema, probably during the initiation of wide fluctuations in global sea levels in the Miocene. The D. setosum clade then split 3–5 million years ago into two clades, one found around the Arabian Peninsula and the other in the Indo-West Pacific. On the lineage leading to the other species of Diadema, the deepest branch is composed of D. palmeri, apparently separated when the climate of New Zealand became colder and other tropical echinoids at these islands went extinct. The next lineage to separate is composed of a currently unrecognized species of Diadema that is found at Japan and the Marshall Islands. Diadema mexicanum in the eastern Pacific separated next, whereas D. paucispinum, D. savignyi, and D. antillarum from the western and central Atlantic, and (as a separate clade) D. antillarum from the eastern Atlantic form a shallow polytomy. Apparently, Indo-Pacific populations of Diadema maintained genetic contact with Atlantic ones around the southern tip of Africa for some time after the Isthmus of Panama was complete. Diadema paucispinum contains two lineages: D. paucispinum sensu stricto is not limited to Hawaii as previously thought, but extends to Easter Island, Pitcairn, and Okinawa; A second mitochondrial clade of D. paucispinum extends from East Africa and Arabia to the Philippines and New Guinea. A more recent separation between West Indian Ocean and West Pacific populations was detected in D. setosum. Presumably, these genetic discontinuities are the result of water flow restrictions in the straits between northern Australia and Southeast Asia during Pleistocene episodes of low sea level. Diadema savignyi is characterized by high rates of gene flow from Kiribati in the central Pacific all the way to the East African Coast. In the Atlantic, there is a biogeographic barrier between the Caribbean and Brazil, possibly caused by fresh water outflow from the Amazon and the Orinoco Rivers. Diadema antillarum populations of the central Atlantic islands of Ascension and St. Helena are genetically isolated and phylogenetically derived from Brazil. Except for its genetic separation by the mid-Atlantic barrier, Diadema seems to have maintained connections through potential barriers to dispersal (including the Isthmus of Panama) more recently than did Eucidaris or Echinometra, two other genera of sea urchins in which phylogeography has been studied. Nevertheless, the mtDNA phylogeography of Diadema includes all stages expected from models of allopatric differentiation. There are anciently separated clades that now overlap in their geographic distribution, clades isolated in the periphery of the genus range that have remained in the periphery, clades that may have been isolated in the periphery but have since spread towards the center, closely related clades on either side of an existing barrier, and closely related mono
H. A. Lessios, B. D. Kessing, and J. S. Pearse "POPULATION STRUCTURE AND SPECIATION IN TROPICAL SEAS: GLOBAL PHYLOGEOGRAPHY OF THE SEA URCHIN DIADEMA," Evolution 55(5), 955-975, (1 May 2001). https://doi.org/10.1554/0014-3820(2001)055[0955:PSASIT]2.0.CO;2
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Following the theme of amici in the Title II challenge, an interesting one came up today from Tim Wu, the man who coined the term "net neutrality". Wu filed in support of the FCC, confining his comments to the single question of whether the classification of ISPs was already settled law at the time the '96 Telecom Act passed. His opinion that it was not settled, but rather in a state of flux.
That's an amazing admission. In 1996, the TCP/IP Internet was 15 to 20 years old, but it had only just been made fully open to the public. The "openness" of the Internet wasn't viewed as an essential or even important property; for 90% of the Internet's history, it hadn't been "open" in the most elementary way because the general public had been excluded from participation.
The framers of the '96 Act didn't have detailed opinions about Internet management practices because the Act wasn't really about the Internet. Rather, it was an attempt to move the management of the US telecom industry from Judge Green's chambers to the FCC, where telecom market management clearly belongs. It was also concerned with creating retail competition in a regulated monopoly market.
Wu's brief is a useful overview of a certain period of telecom law, from the late '60s to the mid- '90s. This was a historical period when Congress, academics, businesses, and regulatory agencies grappled with the consequences of attaching data processing equipment to the Bell System's new-fangled digital network. Digital carriage permitted data processing services to be performed from afar, which gave rise to computer time-sharing.
But the question is whether these issues (with their obvious intellectual constructs such as the distinction between data processing and data communication) are relevant to the Internet we have today or even the one we had in 1996. It's clear that questions about how to distinguish communication services from Information Technology (IT) are pertinent to the FCC because they define the boundaries of the Agency's mission. It's less clear how law drafted while the Internet was being developed applies to the Internet as a particular system and not merely a manifestation of the timeless principles of the FCC's mission.
Wu argues that the classification question must be settled by legal precedent alone, without any consideration for what the Internet actually is. This is question-begging, because it makes the real question before the court – and before the FCC initially – a mere presumption. That question is whether the Internet is merely a turbo-charged AOL or something significantly different and unprecedented. Legal precedent doesn't tell us the answer to this question because the Internet is fundamentally different from the services that were on the table during the Computer Inquiries: private lines leased from a regulated monopoly for use between facilities all owned and used by the same customer.
The basic principle behind a network anti-discrimination regime is to give users the right to use non-harmful network attachments or applications, and give innovators the corresponding freedom to supply them. Such a regime avoids some of the costs of structural regulation by allowing for efficient vertical integration so long as the rights granted to the users of the network are not compromised.
I believe there are several reasons to question the fit between open-access remedies and network neutrality. First, the concept of network neutrality is not as simple as some IP partisans have suggested. Neutrality, as a concept, is finicky, and depends entirely on what set of subjects you choose to be neutral among. A policy that appears neutral in a certain time period, like "all men may vote", may lose its neutrality in a later time period, when the range of subjects is enlarged.
It doesn't appear that Tim Wu's surrender to telecom precedent will help the Internet overcome its inability to support the very best applications after all; in fact, it makes those obstacles effectively insurmountable.
I think Wu was right the first time, as a technical matter. Overcoming the Internet's technical bias will disrupt some long-standing norms. The fact that all (or nearly all) of the Internet's communication circuits are shared sets it apart from Computer Inquiries territory. That much should be obvious.


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Rahal, Sato and Ferrucci Return to Action for the Inaugural INDYCAR Music City Grand Prix of Nashville
Posted by Patrick Stephan on Tuesday, August 3rd 2021
Rahal Letterman Lanigan RacingMusic City Grand Prix – Streets of Nashville
Pre-Race Notes
Round 10 of 16 in the 2021 NTT INDYCAR SERIES
DATE: August 6-8, 2021
PRACTICE BROADCAST: Live on Peacock Premium on Friday from 4:10 – 5:25 p.m. ET and on Saturday from 1:00 – 1:45 p.m. and Sunday from 1:00 – 1:30 p.m. ET. Also live on the INDYCAR Radio Network (IRN) and www.indycar.com (timing & scoring + live analysis).
QUALIFYING BROADCAST: Live on Peacock Premium, the IRN and www.indycar.com (timing & scoring + live analysis) from 4:30 – 5:45 p.m. ET Saturday.
RACE BROADCAST: Live on NBCSN Sunday, August 8 from 5:30 – 8:00 p.m. ET. And also on Peacock Premium, IRN, Sirius 211 and XM 205
TRACK LAYOUT: 2.15-mile road course
RACE LENGTH: 80 laps / 205.62 miles
2020 WINNER(S): Inaugural event
2020 POLESITTER(S): Inaugural event
RAHAL'S BEST STREET COURSE START / FINISH: 1st – St. Pete 2009 & Detroit (Race 1) 2017 / 1st – St. Pete 2008, Detroit 2017 (Race 1 & 2)
RAHAL'S HIGHEST SERIES START / FINISH: 3 Poles – St. Pete (street) 2009, Kansas (oval) 2009, Detroit (street) 2017 / 6 Wins – St. Pete 2008, Fontana (oval; 500 miles) 2015, Mid-Ohio (road) 2015, Texas (oval) 2016; Detroit Race 1 2017, Detroit Race 2 2017
SATO'S BEST STREET COURSE START / FINISH: Edmonton 2011, Houston 2013 (Race 1), St. Pete 2014, Detroit 2014 (Race 2), Detroit 2017 (Race 2) / Long Beach 2013
SATO'S HIGHEST SERIES START / FINISH: 10 Poles – Iowa (oval) 2011, Edmonton (street) 2011, Houston Race 1 (street) 2013, St. Pete (street) 2014, Detroit Dual 2 (street) 2014, Detroit Dual 2 2017, Pocono (oval) 2017, Barber (road) 2019, Texas (oval) 2019, Gateway (oval) 2020 – Race 2 / 6 Wins – Long Beach (2013), Indianapolis 500 (2017), Portland (road) 2018, Barber 2019, Gateway (oval) 2019, Indianapolis 500 (2020)
FERRUCCI'S BEST STREET COURSE START / FINISH: 12th at Detroit (Race 2) 2021 / 6th at Detroit (Race 1) 2021 – both with RLL
FERRUCCI'S HIGHEST SERIES START / FINISH: 2nd at Mid-Ohio (Race 2) 2020 / 4th place, four times (most recently the 2020 Indy 500)
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INAUGURAL MUSIC CITY GRAND PRIX OF NASHVILLE FOR RAHAL LETTERMAN LANIGAN RACING
The 2021 Big Machine Music City Grand Prix will mark the first race for the series on the streets of downtown Nashville. The series previous conducted eight races on the 1.33-mile Nashville Super Speedway oval from 2001-2008.The team's highest start there was pole in 2004 by Buddy Rice and highest finish was fourth with Danica Patrick. The team will enter the No. 15 United Rentals entry for Graham Rahal, the No. 30 Shield Cleansers entry for Takuma Sato and the No. 45 Hy-Vee entry for Santino Ferrucci in the Music City Grand Prix.
GRAHAM, TAKUMA AND SANTINO ON THE HIGHLY ANTICIPATED NASHVILLE RACE
"I'm excited, I've never spent a ton of time in Nashville," said Rahal. "Every time I go has been for work, so typically I may get to go and see a hotel room and that's about it so I'm excited to get the opportunity to go and race this weekend there and see what's it's all about and see the energy and excitement. I've got a lot of friends who play sports down there, couple of guys play for the Predators and I know the expectations of the city is to always have a great party and they support their teams well; it's always been awesome to see. I think the course is going to be excellent. It's going to be a bit bumpy on this first year, but the guys – Scott (Borchetta, owner of Big Machine), Jay (Frye) and the entire team at INDYCAR, Tony Cotman, I think that they've done an excellent job and put a lot of work in to get us to where we're at. A new street course means a lot of simulator time, trying to figure out exactly what we have. Mainly the reason for that is to get the track layout, know where we're going and what we're doing. But still, we are going to show up on the weekend and it's going to be a lot for us to learn so having a good basic car, a good basic (setup) package underneath us will be critical to our performance."
"For us, the new racing venue is coming up this weekend in downtown Nashville, a street course called Music City Grand Prix," said Sato. "It's quite exciting, I think everyone will enjoy the new event, but for us it's lots of preparation happening. There are so many unknowns for the new course, although we do simulators and the team does lots of studying for the track layout and all the bumps – which suggests we will probably have the highest ride height of the season because it looks quite bumpy, and also, we are going very fast down the straight. In fact, we go over the bridge as many people know and the new track layout seems very exciting. We are going probably 190 mph before hitting the brakes and actually cornering while its bumpy and we have to stabilize the car to prepare for the very fast 90-degree corner for each end of the straight so it's going to be challenging, and that will be the key factor to have a very competitive weekend."
"Having been in only four of the last 10 races, and now coming down to the final part of the season, I am super excited to be racing in Nashville," added Ferrucci. "I do think we have a really great shot here to keep the car within leadership circle points and keep moving forward. I think another solid top 10 or top five would be fantastic for the team; overall they've been very competitive at street courses and that's what I felt especially coming off of Detroit. We need to work on our qualifying and our car out of the box or off the hauler, and from there I think we will have more good weekends to finish out the year strong."
GRAHAM AND SANTINO ON RACING ON THE KOREAN WAR VETERANS MEMORIAL BRIDGE
The most anticipated feature of the course are the straightaways that are actually on a bridge leading into and out of downtown Nashville. Its going to make an already anticipated event, more so.
"Have I raced over a bridge? No, I can't remember that I have," said Rahal. "To be honest, the bridge there is quite long, it's going to be a lot of fun for everybody to see and to witness. To go over and then back will be pretty cool as well. I think just being in this city is such a big deal that it should be pretty awesome for everybody. I expect good racing action, the main reason for that is the bridge is very long, down and back is very long and there are some areas of the track that are very wide as well and I do think that will breed some good racing action for the fans."
"I have not actually raced over a bridge to my memory, but I have raced under one in Monaco so a little bit different, but I guess kind of the same effect in a way," added Ferrucci. "The racing is going to be fantastic; I'm really looking forward to making passes over the bridge and off the bridge into some of the brake zones. Like I said before – from what I've heard, the track is very tight and narrow so it's going to make things very entertaining, especially for the opening lap but we will have to wait and see."
GRAHAM, TAKUMA AND SANTINO ON THE BREAK SINCE MID-OHIO
"It was a little weird to have as much time off as we did have, but at the same time it was kind of nice for me to recharge – spend some time with my wife, my baby girl, my dogs, and enjoy the outdoors in Tahoe and recharge a little bit," said Rahal. "I am extremely excited to get back going; it's been long enough."
"It's been a while since the last race and we had nearly a month break during the season but I'm sure everyone is watching the Tokyo Olympic games, saluting all the athletes fantastic performances in the games at Tokyo," said Sato. "Although Tokyo is still very challenging during difficult circumstances as there are no spectators allowed in, but it is just fantastic what is happening in Tokyo."
"It's definitely nice to have a couple of weeks off," added Santino. "I wouldn't say I've had a full month; I have done some Xfinity racing between the last race in Ohio and now. I have been doing some simulator and I've been in the gym – I actually took a weekend off on vacation with my pups and my girlfriend so feeling really recharged and I can't wait to be back in the seat this week."
GRAHAM, TAKUMA AND SANTINO ON NASHVILLE AS HOST FOR A STREET RACE
"Nashville as a city is just thriving," said Rahal. "We know a lot of people who have moved there, know a lot of people who live there, have got a lot of sponsors who are moving there. So, I think it's going to be huge for us. Obviously, locally, I can think of how important the market is for United Rentals, and HUB International – a big insurance partner of ours; HUB is massive there. And Tennessee is home for Sugarlands Distilling so we are excited. I feel like other than the Indy 500 this year this is the race everyone has said they are going to."
"I've not been to downtown Nashville myself, but I've heard lots of stories about so many restaurants and bars downtown," said Sato. "And of course, we will have so many events so fans and sponsors and all the guests will have a fantastic time. We as the driver and the team are looking forward to having a new venue and a challenging street course. Very much looking forward to it and the second half of the season we want to perform as high as we can, and I think we have good preparation. I'm looking forward to the weekend, and I'll see you in downtown Nashville!"
"I'm super excited to be actually racing in Nashville," added Ferrucci. "It definitely is one of the top-three races of the season to be at or to attend, with Long Beach and the Indy 500 of course. It's a big deal for me because representing Hy-Vee, we're in the Mid-West, Nashville is one of those very much party cities where you go to have a weekend vacation and hangout. It just has a lot of great everything, great atmosphere, great food scene, great bar culture, a lot of live music. I'm a huge fan of that. It's definitely one of those races where other than the 500 I think it's going to be biggest race of the season so I'm super excited to see everybody there. I have actually been to Nashville quite a few times during the 2020 season, although there was COVID I have gotten a chance to experience a little bit of the food scene there. I'm very excited to go back and experience the racetrack and all the fans. It's definitely going to be an interesting one; I'm not sure what to expect. I'm hoping to have a really clean weekend and what I have heard is that the track is very bumpy and very tight."
GRAHAM AND TAKUMA ON THE SIX-RACES AHEAD
"I'm ready to get back going and finish this year off," said Rahal. "With six races left, I do feel we performed pretty solidly everywhere. We have a couple of streets, couple of road courses and a short oval left. I do think we've performed well everywhere. The short oval will be the question since we were not good at Gateway last year and we need to figure that out and try to improve and try to be better this time around. But we are looking forward to what's to come."
"I think the team does a fantastic job on street courses so far this year, as we always do, of course," added Sato. "It will be a little bit of a challenge to have three road courses left in the season, but we also have one short oval. Six races to go in the second half of the season, quite fun practice coming – in fact Nashville must be one of the most fun and most attended events in the top three."
SANTINO ON PRE-RACE PREP FOR AN INAUGURAL STREET RACE
"It's very hard for the teams to prepare for a new track, especially a street circuit since there's no testing. The best thing that we can do is go to the track beforehand, kind of scan it and get a rough idea. We're kind of thinking it's like Toronto in a way, so from there we take our previous street course setups and kind of morph it into what we think would be a good fit for Nashville. Having success throughout the weekend is just going to be not really putting a foot wrong, getting all of our run time in, using all of our sets of tires, and just making sure we have a very clean weekend leading up to the race."
POINT STANDINGS AFTER 10 OF 16 RACES
Heading into Round 11 at the Music City Grand Prix, Rahal has a total of 256 points and is ranked ninth overall. He trails fifth place Simon Pagenaud by 24 (280). Takuma Sato is 10th with 226.
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Carol Vorderman, the popular co-host of game show "Countdown", was born on 24 December 1960 in in Bedford, Bedfordshire, England. Her full name is "Carol Jean Vorderman" and zodiac sign is "Capricorn". Carol Vorderman's current age is 58 years (as of May 2019).
The gorgeous British media personality who was honoured as "Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE)" as well as "UK Female Rear of the Year (two times)" has blonde hair and beautiful light brown eyes. Carol Voderman's Height is 5 Feet 5 Inches (165 in centimetres) and she weighs 60 kg (132 Pounds) with body measurements of 37-27-36.
Birthday: 24 December 1960
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Weight: In Kilograms – 60 kg
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She was born to Dutch father "Anton 'Tony' Vorderman" and Welsh mother "Edwina Jean". She is the youngest of three siblings, the elder brother is "Anton Voderman" and elder sister "Trixie Voderman". Her parents separated three weeks after her birth, and her mother "Edwina" took the family back to her home town of "Prestatyn" in North Wales.
She attended one term at "Vale View Preschool" and then two terms at "Ysgol Melyd School" in Prestatyn, Wales. She did her primary education from "Ysgol Mair R C Primary School" in Rhyl, Wales and her secondary schooling from "Blessed Edward Jones Catholic High School" also in Rhyl, Wales.
In her O-levels exams, she secured 9 'A' and 2 'B'. Some of her subjects were maths, physics, computer studies, Welsh and cookery. She also got an OE in a maths paper which included calculus. In her A-levels exams, she got an 'A' in maths, plus an 'S' for the special paper, an 'A' in economics and a 'B' in physics.
For her graduation in "Engineering", she attended the "Sidney Sussex College", University of Cambridge, England. Though she had been a bright student all through her academics and has an IQ of 154 but she graduated from Cambridge with a third-class honours degree.
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In 1982, Vorderman got a job as co-presenter for the British game show involving word and number tasks Countdown broadcasted on Channel 4. Voderman started as the first female host of the show, at age 21 and was part of the show for 26 long years till 2008. The show popularity from the show made her one of the highest earning women in Britain, earning nearly £4 million annually.
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In 2002, she bought a 3,600 sq ft, four-bedroom Thame side flat – which overlooks parliament in the block on Albert Embankment for £2.98 Million, which she later priced at £4.95 Million for sale.
In 2007, she bought a stunning North Somerset house near the village of "Clapton-in-Gordano", named "Uplands" for £1.1 Million. She later changed the name of her 4200 square-foot lavish house to "Sloblock" an anagram for "B*llocks". Built in the 1970s, the house was set in nearly four acres of grounds with a heated outdoor pool with bar and gym. The open-plan home has a kitchen and living room on the ground floor, along with three bedrooms. She put it on sale for £2.6 Million in 2016 but later sold it in £2.495 Million.
Carol Voderman's Lavish Mansion Worth Millions of Pounds
All in all she is qualified pilot, famous and very attractive British media personality and a celebrated authors of best-selling books, who has the net worth of around 18 million pounds.
Carol Voderman Relationship: Husband, Boyfriends and affairs
She was first married at age 24 to Christopher Mather in (m.1985-86), a Royal Navy officer and former international rugby league player, but the marriage lasted only for a year.
In 1990, at age 29, she was married for the second time to management consultant "Patrick King", with whom she had two children, Katie (b. 1992) and Cameron (b. 1997). The couple separated in 2000 after 10 years of marriage.
Voderman met Daily Mail columnist and PR consultant "Des Kelly" at a Christmas party in 1999 and they started living together in London from 2001. But after five years together, Vorderman and Kelly separated in December 2006.
Carol then went on to date pilot Graham "Duffy" Duff, who is 14 years younger than her, and has been happily single since their 2016 split.
In December 2018, in an episode of "Loose Women", she revealed that one of her exes was the commander of the ISS (International Space Station) and it's her deepest desire to go to space and do "certain things" there.
Carol Voderman is the female Ambassador of the Royal Air Force Air Cadets and was ranked Group Captain for the RAFVR(T), in 2014 (Image Courtesy Instagram [email protected])
Carol Voderman Maths Series Books list:
Vorderman, the former Countdown presenter famed for her mathematical prowess, has an IQ of 154, while the national average is 100.
Carol Voderman's Math Made Easy Book Series are very popular and bestsellers
10 Minutes a Day Maths Ages 3-5 Key Stage 0
10 Minutes a Day Maths Ages 9-11 Key Stage 2
10 Minutes a Day Problem Solving Ages 9-11 Key Stage 2
10 Minutes a Day Decimals
10 Minutes a Day Problem Solving Ages 7-9 Key Stage 2
10 Minutes A Day Times Tables
10 Minutes a Day Fractions
Maths Made Easy Ages 5-6 Key Stage 1 Beginner
Maths Made Easy Times Tables Ages 5-7 Key Stage 1
Maths Made Easy Times Tables Ages 7-11 Key Stage 2
Maths Made Easy Ages 5-6 Key Stage 1 Advanced
Maths Made Easy Adding and Taking Away Ages 3-5 Preschool Key Stage 0
Times Tables Made Easy
Maths Made Easy Numbers Ages 3-5 Preschool Key Stage 0
Maths Made Easy Ages 9-10 Key Stage 2 Beginner
Maths Made Easy Ages 10-11 Key Stage 2 Beginner
Maths Made Easy Ages 10-11 Key Stage 2 Advanced
Maths Made Easy Shapes and Patterns Ages 3-5 Preschool Key Stage 0
Carol Vorderman's Maths Dictionary
Maths Made Easy Extra Tests Age 10-11 Key Stage 2
Problem Solving Made Easy Ages 9-11 Key Stage 2
Maths Made Easy Decimals Ages 9-11 Key Stage 2
Money Maths Made Easy
Help Your Kids With Maths
How to be Good at Maths
Carol Voderman's Sudoku Book Series List:
Carol Vorderman's How To Do Sudoku
Carol Vorderman's Massive Book of Sudoku
Carol Vorderman's How to Do Extreme Sudoku
Easy Sudoku for Everyone
Carol Vorderman's How to do Junior Sudoku
Extreme Sudoku
Master Sudoku
Carol Voderman's Programming, Language, English and science Book Series:
Computer Coding for Kids
Computer Coding Games for Kids
Computer Coding Projects For Kids
Computer Coding Python Projects for Kids
Help Your Kids with English
10 Minutes A Day Spelling Ages 5-7 Key Stage 1
10 Minutes A Day Spelling Ages 7-11 Key Stage 2
10 Minutes A Day Phonics Ages 3-5 Key Stage 1
Help Your Kids with Science
Help Your Kids With Study Skills


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Fitness model and coach Whitney Johns started getting migraines when she was a child. She recalls those debilitating migraines from the couch, where she'd spend eight hours with a cold pack pressed against her forehead. Her migraines caused only a sliver of her pain, because Johns suffered from anxiety, depression, stress, and ADD too.
Johns took medications to manage symptoms, but struggled with their side effects. "I just felt so fragile all the time…I was tired of feeling like I was this old woman in this young girl's body that wasn't able to do all the things I wanted to do," says Johns.
When Johns reached her lowest, she decided to take her health into her own hands. First, she began with small changes to her diet. She credits those preliminary dietary changes as the crucial impetus to then mix up her entire approach to fitness too.
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Q: Rate Limit Twitter Tweepy I'm using the Twitter API to collect tweets with access through the Academic Research Developer account. I've been trying to pull tweets using the API Search Full Archive feature of Tweepy and read that there is a rate limit of 300 tweets/15 mins. In practice, however, this does not seem to be the case, as I was able to pull ~6000 tweets over a couple minutes before getting a rate limit error. After 15 minutes, I don't see any reset and cannot pull another batch of tweets.
I was wondering whether anyone knows how the rate limit actually works, so that I can better understand how to design my program. Thanks

A: I was curious about this a short while ago, and took a stab after reading some other posts on here to determine rate limit / its consumption.
Here's what I have for you (assuming you are using tweepy).
print(api.rate_limit_status()['resources'])

gives you all the rate limits for your  set up. If you are curious specifically around searches, you can leverage this. I took the liberty to drop in the one I built, feel free to modify it to your liking.
print("Searches Remaining: ", api.rate_limit_status()['resources']['search']['/search/tweets']['remaining'],
      "/" ,api.rate_limit_status()['resources']['search']['/search/tweets']['limit'],"")

In my case, it looks like this right now. Searches Remaining:  162 / 180
If you choose to play around with it, and peel it back a bit, you will see the JSON payload containing this in the search section (it is a total of over 1400 lines)
"search": {
        "/search/tweets": {
            "limit": 180,
            "remaining": 162,
            "reset": 1660874618
        }

Hope this helps!

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"A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word on paper." – E.B. White.
Again, I totally agree. Just as in life you cannot stand by waiting for sunny days, in writing, you must just begin to write! The words will come when you least expect them, and, as you continue writing, nine times out of ten you will end up with something infinitely more clever than you could have pounded out if you tried!


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Beijing 2008 Summer Games
By Los Angeles Guy,
February 25, 2005 in Beijing 2008 Summer Games
Location:Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Interests:The Olympic Games (summer and winter) and related International Games!
Like the "Bird's Nest" Olympic Stadium venue, is the "true Chinese way" of architecture losing out to foreign firms and their ideas? It seems that there is an "identity crisis" of what is considered Chinese in this aspect between the conservative establishment and those who want modern looks to buildings, like the Olympic stadium.
Link: BBC: Beijing Builds On Foreign Footings
Xu Wen-Ting 8 posts
Guardian 25 posts
Jim856796 8 posts
This IOC article talks about the Olympic football tournament and where they will be staged in 2008. With the 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup taking place in China as well, it is a "perfect exercise" on how the Olympic one will run.
Link: IOC-> Beijing 2008 And Football: Who, When, Where?
With this latest BBC article about the Beijing 2008 venues, there is no doubt whatsoever about the city's progress to stage the Games, when the opening ceremony starts in 18 months from now.
Link: BBC: Busy In Beijing
The "Bird Nest"
The "Water Cube"
Just like what GB reported earlier.
Link: BBC: Equine Virus 'Won't Affect Games'
Jim856796
Will the Olympic Green Tennis Centre be a temporary venue?
I have to admit it, some months ago i was very worried about the pollution and the bad weather at Beijing (also the big question about making the games in August, a month with usual bad weather in great part of Asia). But now it looks like that the chinese are changing this things, since now i'm seeing a very clever sky at the last Bird Nest photos, along with a Landscape work (the trees) that, when it's complete, it will be breathtaking for sure (if only Athens 2004 would had time to make this arround the stadium, that's why some people think that the village still looked like a construction site).
Definitively, along with Barcelona 92, these games will change the image of the city, making it look more modern and clean.
NYCD 2012
Location:Singapore
I have to admit it, some months ago i was very worried about the pollution and the bad weather at Beijing (also the big question about making the games in August, a month with usual bad weather in great part of Asia
You shouldn't be worried about that , its the scorching heat & sand storms that affects Beijing in addition to the pollution , of course .
NY20??
Location:New York
National Indoor Stadium - Artistic Gymnastics, Trampoline, Handball
Laoshan Velodrome - Track Cycling
Shunyi Olympic Rowing-Canoeing Park - Rowing, Canoe, Kayak - Flat-water, Canoe, Kayak - Slalom
China Agricultural University Gymnasium - Wrestling
Peking University Gymnasium - Table Tennis
Beijing University of Science and Technology Gymnasium - Judo, Taekwondo
Beijing University of Technology Gymnasium - Badminton, Rhythmic Gymnastics
Workers' Indoor Arena - Boxing
Olympic Green Archery Field - Archery
Olympic Green Tennis Center - Tennis
Olympic Green Hockey Field - Field Hockey
Chaoyang Park Beach Volleyball Ground – Beach Volleyball
Any general info on the Beijing Institute of Technology Gymnasium? There's little on the website, just an illustration.
^Yeah, for some reason that one seems to be the most reclusive of all these venues. I can't find anything on it (besides it's name and it hosting Indoor Volleyball). Not even a single construction photo. It should be pretty big though, just look at Athens' - http://stadia.gr/sef/sefnew9.jpg
Well, let the testing of the Beijing 2008 venues begin.
Link: IOC-> Beijing 2008: A Test Of Good Luck
Included in this link is a podcast interview.
Training session at the Shunyi Olympic Rowing-Canoeing Park
Grandstand of the newly completed Shunyi Olympic Rowing-Canoeing Park
Rowers preparing for their training session
Opening Ceremony of the World Junior Rowing Championships
From right to left: President of the International Rowing Federation Denis Oswald, BOCOG President Liu Qi and IOC President Jacques Rogge
Participants in the Opening Ceremony
Fans cheer on their team during the World Junior Rowing Championships
Well, the CBC will have "all year coverage" here and there about the Beijing 2008 venues. Today's National news program was mainly about Beijing and its preparations for those 2008 Games.
Link: CBC: Beijing Olympics A Year Away
A Chinese man waves a flag as performers gather to kick off celebrations for the one year countdown to the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games during a hazy morning at the Millennium Monument in Beijing Wednesday.
(Ng Han Guan/Associated Press)
From the BBC website.
Work on the 91,000-seater Olympic National Stadium began at the end of 2003 after architects Herzog & DeMeuron, ArupSport and China Architecture Design & Research Group won a design competition organised by China's government.
The £220m venue, nicknamed the "Bird's Nest", is set for completion in spring 2008 and will host the opening and closing ceremonies as well as the football and athletics events.
There will also be a shopping centre running through the heart of the arena, which will be used for sporting and entertainment events following next year's Games.
The National Stadium lies in the Olympic Green area, which contains 10 sporting venues.
Beijing will have 37 Olympic venues in total, costing the princely sum of about £17bn.
All promise to be state-of-the art but some reports have suggested that the construction of new facilities and the re-construction of old ones have been the product of cheap labour.
Some of the estimated 30,000 workers are reported to be earning just £2 a day.
Most of the 37 venues are located near the Olympic Green area.
A large number of them are near completion, with the Beijing Shooting Range the first to be given an official unveiling in July 2007.
Work is also nearly complete on the 6,000-seater Laoshan Velodrome (pictured), which has a spectacular dome-shaped roof.
The venue will host the track cycling and will be ready later this year in order to host a World Cup event in December.
Another eye-catching arena is the Peking University Stadium, which will host the table tennis.
The table tennis competition is expected to be highly popular in China, with the country expected to sweep the medals in both the men's and women's competition.
Other venues likely to grab attention are:
- Aquatics Centre
- National Indoor stadium (artistic gymnastics, trampoline and handball)
- Tianjin Olympic Center Stadium (football)
- Beijing University of Technology Stadium (badminton and rhythmic gymnastics)
Yesterday, IOC reported on Jacques Rogge's visit to Hong Kong and the Shatin Olympic Equestrian venue.
IOC-> Beijing 2008: Rogge In Hong Kong
IOC President, Jacques Rogge, with FEI President, Princess Haya Bint Al Hussein. Remember, she was just made an IOC member in Guatemala City.
View of the Shatin Olympic Equestrian venue, which will host the jumping and dressage events in 2008.
One of the competitors at the cross country of the Good Luck Beijing Eventing Competition.
President Rogge discussing with a competitor along with Princess Haya Bint Al Hussein and Timothy Tsun Ting Fok (on the right), Hong Kong NOC President.
With the help of General Electric, an Olympic TOP partner, Beijing 2008 will have environmental technologies to make the Games "more green."
Link: IOC: GE Supplying China's First-Ever Rainwater Recycling System
Within this article, GE is going to help install these following technologies:
- Supplying filtration technology for safe drinking water at the National Stadium
The National Stadium will use GE's water treatment technology during the Games to provide up to 16 tons of purified water per hour. The quality of the water meets the latest national standards. GE's water filtration technologies stand out for their environmentally sound features, energy-efficiency and reliability.
- Helping to power the conference and hotel area
Two high-efficiency GE Jenbacher Tri-generation energy units, which operate on natural gases, will be used at the Jing Hui Garden Hotel, a 14-storey hotel and conference centre that will host the media during the Games. Harnessing methane to produce energy is an excellent way of handling emissions of a gas with 21 times the global warming potential of carbon dioxide.
- Delivering energy-efficient turbines to the Olympic Central Area
GE is supplying energy-efficient turbines to deliver power, heating and cooling to the Olympic Central Area. These systems successfully convert fuels such as natural gases into a cleaner burning energy source. The process reduces emissions of nitrogen oxides and particulate matter by more than 60 per cent, reduces mercury emissions by more than 50 per cent, and reduces sulphur dioxides by more than 90 per cent, while using less water than traditional pulverised coal plants.
- Implementing solar-powered lighting at the Fengtai Softball Field
GE's solar-powered LED street lighting fixtures and field lighting are being used at the Fengtai Softball Field.
- Providing filtering technology for the Qinghe Waste Water Plant
In order to improve Beijing's waste-water treatment capabilities, the waste-water plant in Qinghe has adopted technology that will filter more than 80,000 cubic metres of waste water daily to be recycled to maintain landscaping during the Olympic Games. This system is designed to reduce costs and cut energy consumption by up to 30 per cent over the next five years.
Well, so far so good on the environmental front here.
Edited August 17, 2007 by Guardian
thatsnotmypuppy
Location:Sh*tsbane, Australia
Um, I don't know what Beijing the BBC visited - the Olympic venues are all over the place. About 10 are centred around the Olympic Green.
What a weird error to make.
The Maps of Beijing are way too outdated to display the completed venues or those that are in their last stages of contruction. I hope Google Maps updates their Beijing imagery before the 2008 games starts.
Chateau Petrus
Location:Montreal (Canada)
Interests:Wine, Olympic and Formula One racing
Here's an nice link with a lot of pictures
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/olympics/venuephoto.html
So now we get to see what the Beijing Institute of Technology Gymnasium looks like on the inside. Kinda blah to me and not looking like the newer ones used in NA, even next to the Capital Indoor Stadium, the other volleyball venue. And we still don't know what the capacity will be.
I presume that the BIT Gymnasium will be used for some preliminary matches with the more significant games reserved for Capital Indoor Stadium.
All Beijing has is information about the Fencing Gymnasium in the National Conference Centre, but why no information on the National Conference Centre itself?
Wukesong Basketball Arena's exterior looks like Christo was involved in the design with the drapery so we won't know how embarassing the outside is without it.
Due to silence requiements for certain competitions, I have to stay away from two venues of the 2008 Games: the Laoshan Mountain Bike Course and the Beijing . People there are going to do something really bad to put me off. There is gonna be lots of swearing and cussing out towards other people. Goalball is a totally Jewish sport anyway. I hate Goalball.
Oh sorry, I forgot the other venue: I am to stay away from the Beijing Institute of Technology Gymnasium (just during the Goalball matches).
Good news: The Google aerial imagery for Beijing has just been updated so we can see a better look of the Games venues and the Olympic Village.


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19.01.2006 Crime & Punishment
IFC invokes its immunity in Tsatsu's case
Accra, Jan. 19, GNA - A witness in the case of Tsatsu Tsikata, former Chief Executive of the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation's (GNPC), on Thursday told an Accra Fast Track Court (FTC) that the International Financial Corporation (IFC) had immunity that it could not waive.
Counsel for IFC Country Director, Mr Kizito Beyuo told the Court that, "the IFC has immunity from all processes and does not intend to waive that."
At its last sitting, the FTC subpoenaed the Country Director, who is a witness in the case, to furnish it with some documents in respect of Valley Farms.
The former Chief Executive of the GNPC is charged with causing financial loss to the State.
Mr Beyuo stated that immunity was a statutory provision that the Constitution recognized and that "consequently it should be allowed, not to waive the immunity".
The Defence Team argued that it was not fair, and that the Court should insist that the documents be brought before it. Replying, the Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, Mr Ayikoi Otoo, who led a team of State Attorneys said Article 19(2) g as submitted by Counsel for defence, should be read in conjunction with Article 73, in order to avoid any absurdity.
Tsatsu is charged with four counts of causing financial loss and intentionally misapplying funds totalling 2.345 billion cedis to the State through a loan he guaranteed on behalf of the GNPC for Valley Farms Company, a private cocoa buying company.
The company contracted the loan from Caisse Francaise De Developpement in 1991 but defaulted in payment. GNPC, which acted as the guarantor, therefore, paid it in 1996.
The offence, according to the Prosecution, was contrary to Section 1(2) of the Public Property Protection Decree 1977 (SMCD 140). Tsatsu, who was led in his evidence in chief by Professor Emmanuel Victor Oware Dankwa had stressed that he did not cause any financial loss to the State.
The accused stressed that he did not intentionally misapply any funds, and the Court presided over by Mrs Justice Henrietta Abban, Appeal Court Judge sitting on the case as a High Court Judge, has granted him a 700-million cedi self-recognisance bail.
Mr Joe Ghartey, Deputy Attorney General and Deputy Minister of Justice, Mr Anthony Gyambiby, Chief State Attorney and Mr Augustines rpt Augustines Obuor, a State Attorney are representing the State. Major Rowland S. Agbenato (rtd) is a Co-Counsel for the defence. The case was adjourned to January 24.
Tsatsu's lawyer: Judge was wrong
How Kumasi received Tsikata`s conviction
Tsatsu's Conviction Stirs Debate
GHANA:Scuffle At Tsikata Sentencing - Watch Video
Ghana: Tsikata Jailed 5 Years - Watch Video


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Home Mission Statement
To provide technical and professional advice to the Ministry of Water and Power (now Ministry of Water Resources) in the field of: Irrigation, Drainage, Flood Control, Dams Safety, Hydro Power and Power Generation and Allied Engineering matters.
To prepare and implement integrated national flood protection plans for the country, standardization of designs and specifications of flood works to ensure technically sound protection, monitoring for quality control of works, improvement in the flood forecasting and warning capabilities of concerned organizations, SOPs for reservoir operations, research in water resources & flood management.
A Central Engineering Authority was constituted after creation of Pakistan to manage the issues of water, power and allied engineering matters at national level. It was re-designated as Chief Engineering Advisor's office after establishment of Water & Power Development Authority (WAPDA) in 1959.
In January 1977, Federal Flood Commission (FFC) was established for the purpose of integrated flood management at national level. As per resolution, Office of the Chief Engineering Advisor providing secretariat for FFC, hence, it was generally named as "Office of Chief Engineering Advisor/Chairman Federal Flood Commission (CEA/CFFC)". In 1987, Dam Safety Council (DSC) was established in Office of the CEA/CFFC to carry out inspections of existing Dams and to review Plans for new dams. Federal Flood Commission (FFC) is one of major wings of office of the CEA/CFFC mainly responsible for the preparation of National Flood Protection Plans and their implementation through concerned Provincial and Federal Line Agencies in the country. Chief Engineering Advisor in extended office Capacity acts as Chairman Federal Flood Commission.


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Fuerza Latina prepares for annual talent show
Michael Muon
Fuerza Latina is hosting its annual talent show on Nov. 14. The talent show begins at 6 p.m. and doors will open at 5 p.m., and tickets cost $5 for Utica College students and $7 for the general public.
Fuerza Latina will be hosting its rst ever Electric Daisy Carnival themed talent show. There will be all types of performances, from ballet dancers, singers, Latin dancers, a step team and much more.
According to Vice President Yamilette Baez, Fuerza Latina is expecting a wide range of people in the audience. Along with our UC student body, we have students coming in from SUNY New Paltz, SUNY Oswego, SUNY Albany and New York City that will also be performing for the campus community.
Baez said this year her organization chose EDC as the theme because they want students to feel almost as if they are at a club. Those who attend can expect to hear a lot of Jersey mixes and a lot of techno remix.
Senior Mary Ellen Fitzgerald-Bord will be performing this year. Fitzgerald-Bord has never been to any of the annual talent shows because she is always so busy and she does not know what to expect this year. Fitzgerald-Bord does know in fact that she will be singing "Hello" by Adele and accompanying her on guitar will be her resident Fredo.
"I expect that the other performers will bring it," Fitzgerald-Bord said. "Like, the people all have been chosen by the Fuerza Latina e-board, and they're the best of the best! So it should be so exciting to see all of that talent."
Junior Gerard Serrano says he is expecting to see lots of different talent that he has never seen before. Serrano wants to see the student body come out of their shell and allow the campus to see the talents hidden within UC.
Serrano expects all performers to smile and enjoy themselves on stage.
It truly is inspiring to see individuals step out of their comfort zone. The audience can expect to see Serrano there because he is a part of the brothers of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity Inc.
"We have something up our sleeves," Serrano said. "Therefore, I won't reveal too much but will say we plan to help facilities lighten up the maintenance in this performance. Literally, be on the lookout!"