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// Copyright (c) 2016 The Eternity developers
// Distributed under the MIT/X11 software license, see the accompanying
// file COPYING or http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php.

#ifndef SPYSEND_H
#define SPYSEND_H

#include "main.h"
#include "sync.h"
#include "activeeternitynode.h"
#include "eternitynodeman.h"
#include "eternitynode-payments.h"
#include "spysend-relay.h"
#include "eternitynode-sync.h"

class CTxIn;
class CSpysendPool;
class CSpySendSigner;
class CEternityNodeVote;
class CBitcoinAddress;
class CSpysendQueue;
class CSpysendBroadcastTx;
class CActiveEternitynode;

// pool states for mixing
#define POOL_STATUS_UNKNOWN                    0 // waiting for update
#define POOL_STATUS_IDLE                       1 // waiting for update
#define POOL_STATUS_QUEUE                      2 // waiting in a queue
#define POOL_STATUS_ACCEPTING_ENTRIES          3 // accepting entries
#define POOL_STATUS_FINALIZE_TRANSACTION       4 // master node will broadcast what it accepted
#define POOL_STATUS_SIGNING                    5 // check inputs/outputs, sign final tx
#define POOL_STATUS_TRANSMISSION               6 // transmit transaction
#define POOL_STATUS_ERROR                      7 // error
#define POOL_STATUS_SUCCESS                    8 // success

// status update message constants
#define ETERNITYNODE_ACCEPTED                    1
#define ETERNITYNODE_REJECTED                    0
#define ETERNITYNODE_RESET                       -1

#define SPYSEND_QUEUE_TIMEOUT                 30
#define SPYSEND_SIGNING_TIMEOUT               15

// used for anonymous relaying of inputs/outputs/sigs
#define SPYSEND_RELAY_IN                 1
#define SPYSEND_RELAY_OUT                2
#define SPYSEND_RELAY_SIG                3

static const int64_t SPYSEND_COLLATERAL = (0.01*COIN);
static const int64_t SPYSEND_POOL_MAX = (999.99*COIN);

extern CSpysendPool spySendPool;
extern CSpySendSigner spySendSigner;
extern std::vector<CSpysendQueue> vecSpysendQueue;
extern std::string strEternityNodePrivKey;
extern map<uint256, CSpysendBroadcastTx> mapSpysendBroadcastTxes;
extern CActiveEternitynode activeEternitynode;

/** Holds an Spysend input
 */
class CTxDSIn : public CTxIn
{
public:
    bool fHasSig; // flag to indicate if signed
    int nSentTimes; //times we've sent this anonymously

    CTxDSIn(const CTxIn& in)
    {
        prevout = in.prevout;
        scriptSig = in.scriptSig;
        prevPubKey = in.prevPubKey;
        nSequence = in.nSequence;
        nSentTimes = 0;
        fHasSig = false;
    }
};

/** Holds an Spysend output
 */
class CTxDSOut : public CTxOut
{
public:
    int nSentTimes; //times we've sent this anonymously

    CTxDSOut(const CTxOut& out)
    {
        nValue = out.nValue;
        nRounds = out.nRounds;
        scriptPubKey = out.scriptPubKey;
        nSentTimes = 0;
    }
};

// A clients transaction in the spysend pool
class CSpySendEntry
{
public:
    bool isSet;
    std::vector<CTxDSIn> sev;
    std::vector<CTxDSOut> vout;
    int64_t amount;
    CTransaction collateral;
    CTransaction txSupporting;
    int64_t addedTime; // time in UTC milliseconds

    CSpySendEntry()
    {
        isSet = false;
        collateral = CTransaction();
        amount = 0;
    }

    /// Add entries to use for Spysend
    bool Add(const std::vector<CTxIn> vinIn, int64_t amountIn, const CTransaction collateralIn, const std::vector<CTxOut> voutIn)
    {
        if(isSet){return false;}

        BOOST_FOREACH(const CTxIn& in, vinIn)
            sev.push_back(in);

        BOOST_FOREACH(const CTxOut& out, voutIn)
            vout.push_back(out);

        amount = amountIn;
        collateral = collateralIn;
        isSet = true;
        addedTime = GetTime();

        return true;
    }

    bool AddSig(const CTxIn& vin)
    {
        BOOST_FOREACH(CTxDSIn& s, sev) {
            if(s.prevout == vin.prevout && s.nSequence == vin.nSequence){
                if(s.fHasSig){return false;}
                s.scriptSig = vin.scriptSig;
                s.prevPubKey = vin.prevPubKey;
                s.fHasSig = true;

                return true;
            }
        }

        return false;
    }

    bool IsExpired()
    {
        return (GetTime() - addedTime) > SPYSEND_QUEUE_TIMEOUT;// 120 seconds
    }
};

/**
 * A currently inprogress Spysend merge and denomination information
 */
class CSpysendQueue
{
public:
    CTxIn vin;
    int64_t time;
    int nDenom;
    bool ready; //ready for submit
    std::vector<unsigned char> vchSig;

    CSpysendQueue()
    {
        nDenom = 0;
        vin = CTxIn();
        time = 0;
        vchSig.clear();
        ready = false;
    }

    ADD_SERIALIZE_METHODS;

    template <typename Stream, typename Operation>
    inline void SerializationOp(Stream& s, Operation ser_action, int nType, int nVersion) {
        READWRITE(nDenom);
        READWRITE(vin);
        READWRITE(time);
        READWRITE(ready);
        READWRITE(vchSig);
    }

    bool GetAddress(CService &addr)
    {
        CEternitynode* pen = mnodeman.Find(vin);
        if(pen != NULL)
        {
            addr = pen->addr;
            return true;
        }
        return false;
    }

    /// Get the protocol version
    bool GetProtocolVersion(int &protocolVersion)
    {
        CEternitynode* pen = mnodeman.Find(vin);
        if(pen != NULL)
        {
            protocolVersion = pen->protocolVersion;
            return true;
        }
        return false;
    }

    /** Sign this Spysend transaction
     *  \return true if all conditions are met:
     *     1) we have an active Eternitynode,
     *     2) we have a valid Eternitynode private key,
     *     3) we signed the message successfully, and
     *     4) we verified the message successfully
     */
    bool Sign();

    bool Relay();

    /// Is this Spysend expired?
    bool IsExpired()
    {
        return (GetTime() - time) > SPYSEND_QUEUE_TIMEOUT;// 120 seconds
    }

    /// Check if we have a valid Eternitynode address
    bool CheckSignature();

};

/** Helper class to store Spysend transaction (tx) information.
 */
class CSpysendBroadcastTx
{
public:
    CTransaction tx;
    CTxIn vin;
    vector<unsigned char> vchSig;
    int64_t sigTime;
};

/** Helper object for signing and checking signatures
 */
class CSpySendSigner
{
public:
    /// Is the inputs associated with this public key? (and there is 1000 ENT - checking if valid eternitynode)
    bool IsVinAssociatedWithPubkey(CTxIn& vin, CPubKey& pubkey);
    /// Set the private/public key values, returns true if successful
    bool SetKey(std::string strSecret, std::string& errorMessage, CKey& key, CPubKey& pubkey);
    /// Sign the message, returns true if successful
    bool SignMessage(std::string strMessage, std::string& errorMessage, std::vector<unsigned char>& vchSig, CKey key);
    /// Verify the message, returns true if succcessful
    bool VerifyMessage(CPubKey pubkey, std::vector<unsigned char>& vchSig, std::string strMessage, std::string& errorMessage);
};

/** Used to keep track of current status of Spysend pool
 */
class CSpysendPool
{
private:
    mutable CCriticalSection cs_spysend;

    std::vector<CSpySendEntry> entries; // Eternitynode/clients entries
    CMutableTransaction finalTransaction; // the finalized transaction ready for signing

    int64_t lastTimeChanged; // last time the 'state' changed, in UTC milliseconds

    unsigned int state; // should be one of the POOL_STATUS_XXX values
    unsigned int entriesCount;
    unsigned int lastEntryAccepted;
    unsigned int countEntriesAccepted;

    std::vector<CTxIn> lockedCoins;

    std::string lastMessage;
    bool unitTest;

    int sessionID;

    int sessionUsers; //N Users have said they'll join
    bool sessionFoundEternitynode; //If we've found a compatible Eternitynode
    std::vector<CTransaction> vecSessionCollateral;

    int cachedLastSuccess;

    int minBlockSpacing; //required blocks between mixes
    CMutableTransaction txCollateral;

    int64_t lastNewBlock;

    //debugging data
    std::string strAutoDenomResult;

public:
    enum messages {
        ERR_ALREADY_HAVE,
        ERR_DENOM,
        ERR_ENTRIES_FULL,
        ERR_EXISTING_TX,
        ERR_FEES,
        ERR_INVALID_COLLATERAL,
        ERR_INVALID_INPUT,
        ERR_INVALID_SCRIPT,
        ERR_INVALID_TX,
        ERR_MAXIMUM,
        ERR_MN_LIST,
        ERR_MODE,
        ERR_NON_STANDARD_PUBKEY,
        ERR_NOT_A_MN,
        ERR_QUEUE_FULL,
        ERR_RECENT,
        ERR_SESSION,
        ERR_MISSING_TX,
        ERR_VERSION,
        MSG_NOERR,
        MSG_SUCCESS,
        MSG_ENTRIES_ADDED
    };

    // where collateral should be made out to
    CScript collateralPubKey;

    CEternitynode* pSubmittedToEternitynode;
    int sessionDenom; //Users must submit an denom matching this
    int cachedNumBlocks; //used for the overview screen

    CSpysendPool()
    {
        /* Spysend uses collateral addresses to trust parties entering the pool
            to behave themselves. If they don't it takes their money. */

        cachedLastSuccess = 0;
        cachedNumBlocks = std::numeric_limits<int>::max();
        unitTest = false;
        txCollateral = CMutableTransaction();
        minBlockSpacing = 0;
        lastNewBlock = 0;

        SetNull();
    }

    /** Process a Spysend message using the Spysend protocol
     * \param pfrom
     * \param strCommand lower case command string; valid values are:
     *        Command  | Description
     *        -------- | -----------------
     *        dsa      | Spysend Acceptable
     *        dsc      | Spysend Complete
     *        dsf      | Spysend Final tx
     *        dsi      | Spysend vIn
     *        dsq      | Spysend Queue
     *        dss      | Spysend Signal Final Tx
     *        dssu     | Spysend status update
     *        dssub    | Spysend Subscribe To
     * \param vRecv
     */
    void ProcessMessageSpysend(CNode* pfrom, std::string& strCommand, CDataStream& vRecv);

    void InitCollateralAddress(){
        SetCollateralAddress(Params().SpysendPoolDummyAddress());
    }

    void SetMinBlockSpacing(int minBlockSpacingIn){
        minBlockSpacing = minBlockSpacingIn;
    }

    bool SetCollateralAddress(std::string strAddress);
    void Reset();
    void SetNull();

    void UnlockCoins();

    bool IsNull() const
    {
        return state == POOL_STATUS_ACCEPTING_ENTRIES && entries.empty();
    }

    int GetState() const
    {
        return state;
    }

    std::string GetStatus();

    int GetEntriesCount() const
    {
        return entries.size();
    }

    /// Get the time the last entry was accepted (time in UTC milliseconds)
    int GetLastEntryAccepted() const
    {
        return lastEntryAccepted;
    }

    /// Get the count of the accepted entries
    int GetCountEntriesAccepted() const
    {
        return countEntriesAccepted;
    }

    // Set the 'state' value, with some logging and capturing when the state changed
    void UpdateState(unsigned int newState)
    {
        if (fEternityNode && (newState == POOL_STATUS_ERROR || newState == POOL_STATUS_SUCCESS)){
            LogPrint("spysend", "CSpysendPool::UpdateState() - Can't set state to ERROR or SUCCESS as a Eternitynode. \n");
            return;
        }

        LogPrintf("CSpysendPool::UpdateState() == %d | %d \n", state, newState);
        if(state != newState){
            lastTimeChanged = GetTimeMillis();
            if(fEternityNode) {
                RelayStatus(spySendPool.sessionID, spySendPool.GetState(), spySendPool.GetEntriesCount(), ETERNITYNODE_RESET);
            }
        }
        state = newState;
    }

    /// Get the maximum number of transactions for the pool
    int GetMaxPoolTransactions()
    {
        return Params().PoolMaxTransactions();
    }

    /// Do we have enough users to take entries?
    bool IsSessionReady(){
        return sessionUsers >= GetMaxPoolTransactions();
    }

    /// Are these outputs compatible with other client in the pool?
    bool IsCompatibleWithEntries(std::vector<CTxOut>& vout);

    /// Is this amount compatible with other client in the pool?
    bool IsCompatibleWithSession(int64_t nAmount, CTransaction txCollateral, int &errorID);

    /// Passively run Spysend in the background according to the configuration in settings (only for QT)
    bool DoAutomaticDenominating(bool fDryRun=false);
    bool PrepareSpysendDenominate();

    /// Check for process in Spysend
    void Check();
    void CheckFinalTransaction();
    /// Charge fees to bad actors (Charge clients a fee if they're abusive)
    void ChargeFees();
    /// Rarely charge fees to pay miners
    void ChargeRandomFees();
    void CheckTimeout();
    void CheckForCompleteQueue();
    /// Check to make sure a signature matches an input in the pool
    bool SignatureValid(const CScript& newSig, const CTxIn& newVin);
    /// If the collateral is valid given by a client
    bool IsCollateralValid(const CTransaction& txCollateral);
    /// Add a clients entry to the pool
    bool AddEntry(const std::vector<CTxIn>& newInput, const int64_t& nAmount, const CTransaction& txCollateral, const std::vector<CTxOut>& newOutput, int& errorID);
    /// Add signature to a vin
    bool AddScriptSig(const CTxIn& newVin);
    /// Check that all inputs are signed. (Are all inputs signed?)
    bool SignaturesComplete();
    /// As a client, send a transaction to a Eternitynode to start the denomination process
    void SendSpysendDenominate(std::vector<CTxIn>& vin, std::vector<CTxOut>& vout, int64_t amount);
    /// Get Eternitynode updates about the progress of Spysend
    bool StatusUpdate(int newState, int newEntriesCount, int newAccepted, int &errorID, int newSessionID=0);

    /// As a client, check and sign the final transaction
    bool SignFinalTransaction(CTransaction& finalTransactionNew, CNode* node);

    /// Get the last valid block hash for a given modulus
    bool GetLastValidBlockHash(uint256& hash, int mod=1, int nBlockHeight=0);
    /// Process a new block
    void NewBlock();
    void CompletedTransaction(bool error, int errorID);
    void ClearLastMessage();
    /// Used for liquidity providers
    bool SendRandomPaymentToSelf();

    /// Split up large inputs or make fee sized inputs
    bool MakeCollateralAmounts();
    bool CreateDenominated(int64_t nTotalValue);

    /// Get the denominations for a list of outputs (returns a bitshifted integer)
    int GetDenominations(const std::vector<CTxOut>& vout, bool fSingleRandomDenom = false);
    int GetDenominations(const std::vector<CTxDSOut>& vout);

    void GetDenominationsToString(int nDenom, std::string& strDenom);

    /// Get the denominations for a specific amount of eternity.
    int GetDenominationsByAmount(int64_t nAmount, int nDenomTarget=0); // is not used anymore?
    int GetDenominationsByAmounts(std::vector<int64_t>& vecAmount);

    std::string GetMessageByID(int messageID);

    //
    // Relay Spysend Messages
    //

    void RelayFinalTransaction(const int sessionID, const CTransaction& txNew);
    void RelaySignaturesAnon(std::vector<CTxIn>& vin);
    void RelayInAnon(std::vector<CTxIn>& vin, std::vector<CTxOut>& vout);
    void RelayIn(const std::vector<CTxDSIn>& vin, const int64_t& nAmount, const CTransaction& txCollateral, const std::vector<CTxDSOut>& vout);
    void RelayStatus(const int sessionID, const int newState, const int newEntriesCount, const int newAccepted, const int errorID=MSG_NOERR);
    void RelayCompletedTransaction(const int sessionID, const bool error, const int errorID);
};

void ThreadCheckSpySendPool();

#endif

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Theresa L. Teixeira
Email: tteixeira@fandpnet.com
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/in Maryland /by Theresa L. Teixeira
Theresa Teixeira brings more than 24 years of workers' compensation experience to the F&P team. She started as an intern with a workers' compensation firm while obtaining her undergraduate degree at the University of Connecticut. While working full time, she attended law school at night at Quinnipiac University School of Law, where she gained her J.D.. Theresa continued working for the same firm as an associate, where she handled workers' compensation claims and personal injury cases, litigating in both the state and federal courts.
After practicing in Connecticut for eight years, she relocated and then barred in Maryland. Since then, she has successfully tried cases involving work-related injuries before the Maryland Workers' Compensation Commission, including matters appealed from Workers' Compensation to the Circuit Court. She has also successfully litigated motor vehicle and slip and fall accidents before the Maryland District and Circuit Courts as well as matters before the United States District Court for Maryland.
Theresa is a member of the Maryland State Bar Association and the Anne Arundel County Bar Association. Outside of work, she enjoys time with her family, participating in 5K runs, knitting, and is an avid sports fan.
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This has happened to me a few times. For example, today I start a macros (q 2), then I use it (@ 2) a few times. Then I type some text and try to use the macros again (@ 2), but this time the cursor gets moved one word backwards when the macros was supposed to format some text into HTML.
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Junior squashers eke out consolation title at Winter Games
The Northwestern Ontario squash team may not have improved on their bronze medal from the 2000 Ontario Winter Games over the weekend. But considering the rich field of players a fifth-place finish isn't bad.
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Jared Catholique-Bruyere won a silver medal in the juvenile men's 82+ kg judo event. He went 2-1 in his matches, beating Martin Lee, then Kosta Zhadam (who was the number one seed among the field), but lost to Thomas Filter in the gold medal final.
"It was a close match," said Catholique-Bruyere, 14. "I got a few penalties and that pretty much cost me."
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"I'm happy with the silver. I like I got a chance to beat a first-place fighter," he said. "I haven't fought most of those guys in about two years.
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Folk Blues Guitar Obsession FOLK BLUES, FINGERPICKING & FINGERSTYLE GUITAR
Fingerstyle Guitar Videos
Great Folk-Blues Players
Duck Baker-Modern Fingerstyle for the Ages
By Mokai on January 8, 2010 in Acoustic Guitar, Dave Van Ronk, Duck Baker, Fingerstyle Blues, Fingerstyle Guitar, Folk Blues, Modern Fingerstyle Players, Ragtime Guitar
I'm pretty much obsessed with guitar technique, especially fingerstyle, so I was excited to get a chance to hear the legendary Duck Baker perform and catch one of his teaching workshops.
Duck Baker jumped on the instrumental guitar circuit in the early 1970s, at a time when the glow was still warm on the 1960s heyday of the fingerstyle renaissance. That was the era when the still living fingerstyle masters of the early 20th century crossed paths with a new generation of players. These–mostly white–players were fascinated to have discovered this tradition that had nearly died out and were determined to launch it firmly into the future. Baker arrived on the scene as a young man and quickly sponged up as much as he could from the older revivalists like Dave Van Ronk in the US and Davey Graham in the UK, meeting and playing gigs with them. Ultimately, Baker helped move the style forward by enlivening traditional tunes through creative, virtuosic arrangements, and by pushing it beyond traditional and folk repertoires into Jazz.
Baker has put out many albums , playing across a number of styles including Ragtime, Celtic and Jazz. His first album "There's Something For Everyone in America " was recorded in 1975 for Kicking Mule records, and was re-released on CD in 2009. That year also saw the release of two other CDs of older recordings , some never released before and a new CD with his latest band called "Waltz Lesson ". The wide variety of guitar method books and instructional videos he has authored is pretty much unparalleled in breadth of unique content. His DVD "Classic American Folk Blues " would have something of interest to every guitarist, while "Fingerstyle Jazz Guitar: Improvisation " is that rare resource for advanced players.
And when we're talking Duck Baker, were talking advanced–advanced music and technique, but also advanced listeners and students. Baker is trafficking not only in music for connoisseurs–as far as the purity of his Celtic work and the headiness of his Jazz playing–but also in an area of guitar technique few guitarists ever aspire to. With his connection to traditional music, he still has a foot firmly in Jazz. This puts him a rarefied arena, especially since few Jazz guitarists ever delve into trad, and few really apply fingerstyle to Jazz in the way Baker does. At the performance I attended at guitarist Stevie Coyle's house, Duck ran through a repertoire of Jazz compositions. On Monk's 'Round Midnight', the effect of his technique is very different than that of a more standard 'chord melody' style arrangement. More like what would happen if an old Folk Blues player attempted more complex chord charts and chord inversions than what it would sound like if a Jazz guy suddenly started fingerpicking. In Duck's music, the bass lines move more like in fingerpicking arrangements, there's a feel of a unity of counterpoint lines that is different from standard Jazz guitar techniques where the solo instrument often leaves parts out to leave room for other players. And also because the technique needed to include them is so difficult, making improvisation that much more hairy. Yet Baker does it, re-harmonizing changes and lines, pretty much effortlessly, improvising from a seeming bottomless bag of ideas, straddling Jazz and fingerstyle without becoming too sugary or veering into Chet Atkins territory. Improvisation is another area where Duck Baker stands apart. Let's face it, because creating arrangements for fingerpinking means working out the mechanics of fingerings, sometimes to a T, we often are playing 'memorized' pieces, and happy if we can add some variation and extemporaneous ad-libbing. But Baker is so fluent that he can play these multi-part improvised passages and let himself go, be in the moment and take the risk with his solo, knowing his fingers will find the way to keep more than one voice going at a time. This ability has found him combined on recordings with an impressive list of artists, such as the recent release of his sessions with saxophonist John Zorn.
I was impressed by how far he has developed this technique, and humbled by his encyclopedic knowledge of Jazz. He repeatedly played tunes I'd never heard, by composers I was unaware of, along with little antidotes about them and the tunes. He played a nylon string guitar on these jazz numbers, and this was the one thing that stuck in my craw, mostly because I am such a devotee of the steel string–though I love the sound of nylon on Flamenco, Classical and Latin music. When I questioned him about this it was clear that he felt the nylon was key to the sound he wants for his Jazz playing. Yet his right hand technique is especially suited to the steel string, and when he switched to the house flat-top for bluesier and folkier songs, he really made Stevie's beautiful Thompson guitar ring out.
After the show, we hung out for a bit and heard some of Duck's opinions on guitar and guitarists as well as on the state of the world. I particularly enjoyed his affectionate reminiscences on some great players who have gone on, particularly Graham and Van Ronk, who he seems to hold in particularly high esteem. Dave Van Ronk is significant because of his early arrangements of Scott Joplin Ragtime pieces
for guitar, the first guitar treatments of their kind–arrangements Baker respects, pointing out that even while they are 'folked down' in terms of the positions Van Ronk used, they were still light years ahead of anything any one was trying to do in fingerstyle (outside of Jazz) at the time. Davey Graham is considered the father of modern fingerstyle in Europe and credited with either inventing or at least popularizing DADGAD tuning. Interestingly, Baker sees DADGAD in a critical light, pointing out that most players in that and other open tunings rarely get to the point of being able to play in different keys in a given tuning. In addition, he indicated that in his opinion DADGAD for accompaniment in Celtic music has become formulaic and dumbed down. He mentioned Pierre Bensusan as someone who has treated DADGAD as a compete tuning with multiple keys, but for Baker, standard tuning is the domain of serious guitar music, since it is the one best suited for one to create a truly personal voice on guitar
I got a chance to get more into Baker's technique at his teaching workshop and learned more about how he uses the thumb on his fretting hand to achieve the effects he gets. In the next post, I'll give you some of the insights I gained on Duck Baker's 'Thumbs of Fury'.
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On March 1-2, 2018, the inaugural meeting of the Indigenous Foods Knowledges Network (IFKN) was held at the Gila River Indian Community (GRIC) in Arizona. The meeting was hosted by Althea Walker and colleagues from the GRIC Department of Environmental Quality. Twenty-three Indigenous and non-Indigenous community leaders and scholars from the Southwest and Arctic attended the meeting, which included a field trip to see the tribe's water distribution system and learn about Gila River Indian Community Water Rights Settlement. After the field trip, participants began to articulate the core principles for the IFKN and establish an initial set of goals to guide a network of Indigenous leaders, citizens, and scholars focused on the nexus of Indigenous foods and knowledge systems. Download the meeting report for more information.


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Home | News | EU regulations are costing us billions, say UK business groups
EU regulation instigated back in 2009, has cost businesses in Britain around £12 billion, according to a major business campaign group in the UK.
Business for Britain, identified that new regulations incurred from the Lisbon Treaty back in 2009, have severely crippled businesses across the UK financially, due to the external legislative powers granted to the EU, and is currently costing British companies over £6 billion each year.
The campaign group have urged the Prime Minister David Cameron to follow through on his previous promises to renegotiate Britainís legislative powers in the EU, with a referendum on the countryís membership expected to be undertaken in 2017.
Debilitating policies that have been forced on British companies include new carbon emission regulations on car companies, and other green house gas thresholds that must be met by a multitude of organisations in the manufacturing industry.
"The Lisbon Treaty was hugely unpopular at the time, and we can now see that it has increased the cost of doing business in Britain," said Matthew Elliott, CEO of Business for Britain.
"Our research makes a compelling case for the government to use the forthcoming renegotiation to reverse some of the most expensive provisions of the Lisbon Treaty."
Conversely, another campaign group, British Influence, has argued that the UK would have implement the business regulations independently of the EU, and has urged the government to remain in the EU, but under different regulations.
It published data which indicated that UK national income which relied on exports to the EU each year had doubled in the period since 1997 to £207 billion, comprising 15% of GDP.
It published research which it said showed that UK national income dependent on exports to the EU each year had almost doubled since 1997 to reach 207 billion pounds, representing 15 percent of gross domestic product.
"Almost 85 percent of the 12 billion potential costs identified by Business for Britain would come from efforts to reduce CO2 emissions," Peter Wilding, BI's director, said in a statement.
"The UK has often set stricter targets for itself than the EU so we may well have these types of rules regardless of the EU. We must keep our eye on the bigger prize that is the 207 billion a year of trade with have with EU states."
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Colleen Thorburn-Smith (born 19 August 1972) is a Canadian softball player. She played for Kennesaw State University from 1992 to 1995. She also competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics and the 2000 Summer Olympics.

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Under increasing government restrictions and the same constant threat of high rents every Hong Konger deals with, the city's underground venues are fighting uphill battles and slowly vanishing. In a bid to keep their collective memory alive, Erica Kwok has been documenting the scene while working to bring new energy into the scene through her platform One Night Only.
MAEKAN is based in a large office just shy of 1000 square feet and flexibly shaped like a rectangle to accommodate the dynamic needs of our small team.We have a good relationship with building management and our neighbors don't mind us blasting tracks from Elphick's studio-grade speakers during editing.This little patch located in a light industrial area allows us the freedom to work and create unfettered—and if necessary, late into the night.
But to Erica Kwok and the many other local communities of grassroots creatives sprinkled somewhere in the seven million plus people that live here, the city is far less forgiving.
For those especially who create and enjoy alternative, appropriately "disruptive" genres of music, there's a very real danger to the underground ecosystem of culture that helps Hong Kong's young people thrive. Some of these venues are a stone's throw away from our office—or at least they were. There are simply fewer and fewer places outside of established venues in our more established but commercialized nightlife "hot spots." You might call it an increasingly restricted right to assemble.
As both a video director and editor, Erica has taken it on herself to both capture the story—and collective frustration —of the scene as it shrinks while fighting to reinvigorate it through her platform 一夜限定 (One Night Only).
Could you introduce yourself and what you do?
My name is Erica and I'm the organizer of One Night Only. I'm a freelance video director and editor and I run this platform together with my partner Allex Chan a.k.a. Room307. He's a Chinese medicine practitioner who makes music as well. At that time when venues are being closed down, with the most important of them being XXX, we want to document everything before they all disappear.
When did you start and what was it like at the beginning?
First of all, I met two of my rapper friends, YuWen and Anna, around five to six years ago. At that time, they only made beats and music on their own, which made me realize there are so many talented young people in Hong Kong. Then in 2017, I went to Ukraine during the summer and saw there are lots of techno parties that gather the young kids in Kiev, and I wanted to do the same thing in Hong Kong. Fortunately at that time, Allex asked me to hold some events at Cafe Hillywood, where he was working. So we started to do that at both Cafe Hillywood and Bound.
"Somehow the general public in HK tends to only associate hip-hop or trap music with immaturity and drug culture, so we hope to bring new energy to the scene where it's about high-quality music and not just a bunch of hipsters doing their thing."
Where do these cultural events happen usually in Hong Kong? What's the curation like?
XXX, Premium Sofa Club, Social Room, Hillywood, but some of them are already closed. Sometimes there are private parties on rooftops or on the outer islands, but the attendees are mostly foreigners. Now we have 宀 Club (Editor's note: the character mìhn is a common part of compound Chinese characters that means "roof").
We actually try not to limit our possibilities, so other than music-related events, we've also hosted film screenings before as well. The only thing that's constant is that we like to do surprising things and we've had special themes for every event we organised, like night beat sets and West Coast night.
Do you think the Hong Kong's hip-hop culture reflects youth culture and how do venue restrictions affect that?
As I mentioned before, I have many rapper friends who only make beats at home and share music with their friends only. That surprised me and made me feel the need to share their music with more people because it really is good work. Also, I found out that events like rap battles actually do take place in Hong Kong even when the culture is not so popular.
Hip-hop culture seems to stem from rebellious lifestyles past and present, and that ties in with skateboarding, parties—being young and carefree. But somehow, the general public in HK tends to only associate hip-hop or trap music with immaturity and drug culture.
The biggest problem in terms of venues is the policy and rent of a place. It's not easy for the venue to survive when the rent is freaking expensive. Most rappers or artists might rather post their music online or do live videos only when there are no place for them to perform.
Any big plans for the future?
We hope to bring new energy to the scene where it's about high-quality music and not just a bunch of hipsters doing their thing.
Next year in February, we're doing a gig with 勸世寶貝喵喵 ("quanshi baobei miaomiao", English Name: Trance Baby Meow) from Taiwan who plays psytrance music. We're also discussing doing some acts overseas.


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LOS ANGELES (AP) — The first shelter in what's planned to be a citywide network of temporary housing sites for homeless people was unveiled Wednesday by city officials who said the facilities will help down-and-out residents get back on their feet.
Mayor Eric Garcetti and City Council members were on hand at a new downtown "Bridge Home," which will serve 30 men and 15 women who live in and around the area starting Sept. 10.
The buildings resembling trailer homes offer beds, three meals a day, community space, case management and mental health and addiction services. Similar shelters are planned for each of the 15 city council districts where homelessness has spread from downtown streets into suburban enclaves.
The Bridge Home program's goal is to assist people in transitioning to permanent housing, officials said.
"The folks who are moving into this site are ready to put in the time it takes to heal, and they know that this is a place where they'll be able to get back on their feet and move on to a permanent home," Garcetti told reporters.
The first shelter located near the city's historic center cost about $2.4 million to develop. It's a short walk from neighborhoods where rows of tents erected by homeless people line trash-strewn streets in makeshift encampments.
The new project is part of a wide-ranging effort by Garcetti and other leaders to combat a homelessness crisis in the nation's second-largest city.
Garcetti, who's pondering a presidential run, has called the homelessness a humanitarian crisis. In April, he announced the city would spend $430 million in the fiscal year beginning July 1 on housing and other services to ease the long-neglected problem.
The shelter in a city-owned parking lot near the El Pueblo Historical Monument includes additional trailers for hygiene services and space for on-site service workers. Some business owners in the zone frequented by tourists have expressed concern at homeless people being provided with city housing in the area.
Garcetti predicted much of the concern will evaporate after people understand that temporary bridge housing is different from other shelters in downtown.
The new shelter will have around-the-clock security and officials will monitor the site daily to help ensure safety and cleanliness, he said.
A 2018 survey found that more than 31,000 people are homeless in Los Angeles, including more than 23,000 living without shelter. Both figures fell slightly from 2017, but overall Los Angeles homelessness has grown by about 75 percent during the last six years.
The shelters are intended as a temporary solution to the problem while the city builds thousands of permanent units approved in 2016 by voters through Proposition HHH, a $1.2 billion bond measure.
The bridge program was approved by the City Council, which freed up $20 million in budget funds for the 2017-18 fiscal year. The city is also expecting to receive $85 million from the state as a one-time emergency grant for homeless programs, some of which could be used for the Bridge Home program.
Homelessness has been increasing across the U.S. West. The surge in people living on the streets has put public health at risk, led several cities to declare states of emergency and forced local governments to spend millions on services.


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17 Spring Green Vegan Recipes to Crave!
March is the month of all things green! So even if you are not used to trying vegan recipes, why not add a few more plants to your menu this month? Spring is just around the corner and now is the time to infuse your diet with green goodness. Why think green when it comes to food? Green foods like avocado, leafy greens, broccoli, spirulina, green tea, peas and many more, are filled with health benefits. Green tea made with matcha powder is rich in antioxidants. Avocado is rich in healthy fats and omega fatty acids. Leafy greens like kale and spinach and other green veggies are rich in fiber, vitamins, minerals, iron and even calcium. Did you know that one bunch of broccoli has seventeen grams of protein?! Green peas are another source of plant-based protein. So next time you are at the grocery store, play a little game with yourself to see just how many green foods you can place in your cart. And no, green food coloring of any kind does not count, so no green-iced cookies.


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The druid's trees are dying. He says the roots are reaching down in the deep, right to the old sewer system that runs under the city. Something is happening down there and it would be great if you could prevent the destruction of the rare and precious trees before it's too late. Play an adventure with the hooks we provide or build your custom sewer system!
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And sometimes, it's necessary. The druid's trees are dying. He says the roots are reaching down in the deep, right to the old sewer system that runs under the city. Something is happening down there and it would be great if you could prevent the destruction of the rare and precious trees before it's too late.
The size of this map is 36 by 24 inches but you'll get something new if you buy this set.
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You only have to place the tiles that are visible for your players. This way you can reveal the dark secrets of the map during the adventure, just like a "fog of war" system. I've designed this map to help you easily manage your adventure, the main rooms and areas fit the borders of the tiles.
Most of the tiles are seamless at their border.
I will mark these tiles for you in both the printable PDF file and in the JPG files in case you want to use them online. This means if you want to expand this map or you would like to use different layouts, you only need to print out more map pieces and tiles, to build up another sewer system. Make the map fit to your story easily; you don't have to play on a fixed layout, which is the disadvantage of most maps. There are special and unique areas that you can lay down only to next to each other but every other tile can be mixed with each other.
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The 2016 Woodrow Lloyd Lecture
Arts Home > Events > 2016 > February > The 2016 Woodrow Lloyd Lecture
Wed., Feb. 24, 2016 7:00 p.m.
Location: The main campus of the University of Regina, Education Auditorium
Presented by the Honourable Justice Murray Sinclair, Chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada
The Honourable Justice Murray Sinclair is Chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, the mandate of which is to inform all Canadians about First Nations, Inuit, and Metis experiences of the Indian Residential School System in Canada. Manitoba's first Aboriginal Judge, Justice Sinclair was appointed Associate Chief Judge of the Provincial Court of Manitoba in 1988 and shortly thereafter appointed Co-Commissioner of Manitoba's Aboriginal Justice Inquiry. Justice Sinclair has been awarded a National Aboriginal Achievement Award, as well as honourary degrees from the Universities of Manitoba, Ottawa, and St. John's College. He is an adjunct professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Manitoba.
Free parking will be available in lots 13 and 14 M. Pay parking throughout campus at kiosk and meters. All are welcome and admission is free of charge. Refreshments will be served following the lecture. For more information please visit the event website.
This lecture will be LIVE STREAMED AT THIS LINK on February 24 at 7:00 pm.


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        }

    } catch (Exception e) {

    }

    return returnValue;

}

Using a timing method I get odd results:
long start = System.nanoTime();
pol = readFromStandardIO();
long elaspedTime = System.nanoTime() - start;
System.out.println("reading stream took: " + elaspedTime);

and it ouputs:
reading stream took: 1914854722

It seems that the line concatenation is slowing everything down:
returnValue = returnValue.concat(userInput)

Without it everything is instantaneous.
How do I go about improving the speed of concatenation?

A: public static String readFromStandardIO() {
   StringBuilder returnValue = new StringBuilder(9999999);
   try {
       BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(System.in);
       String userInput;
       while ((userInput = reader.readLine()) != null) {
          returnValue.append(userInput);
       }
       reader.close();
   } catch (Exception e) {

   }
   return returnValue.toString();
}

or this one is much faster (if your jdk supports *.nio):
public static String readFromStandardNIO() {
    java.nio.ByteBuffer buffer = java.nio.ByteBuffer.allocate(20480000);
    try {
        ReadableByteChannel channel = Channels.newChannel(System.in);
        channel.read(buffer);
        channel.close();
    } catch (Exception e) {

    }
    return new String(buffer.array());
}

A: String concatenation does not come for free: the problem is memory allocation.
Every time you lengthen a string, the string buffer needs to be enlarged, meaning 1) dynamic allocation of a new memory zone and 2) moving the entire string.
Assume you grow the string in chunks of 100 characters, and perform this 1000 times. You will invoke the allocator 100 times, and move 100 + 200 + 300 + ... 100,000 characters, i.e. 50,050,000 instead of 100,000 !
More generally, getting a string in N reads implies that every character is moved about N/2 times instead of... 1.
The cure is to preallocate a buffer that is large enough and perform the concatenation "by hand".


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Links and Past Issues
Three Zimbabwe Parties Sign Power-Sharing Agreement
Financial Cartel Shows Contempt for Zimbabwe's Leaders
London Orchestrates Elimination of Mbeki
From Volume 7, Issue 39 of EIR Online, Published Sept. 23, 2008
Africa News Digest
Sept. 17 (EIRNS)—Zimbabwe's three main political parties signed an agreement in Harare on Sept. 15 (Zanu-PF, led by President Robert Mugabe; the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), led by Morgan Tsvangirai, strongly supported by the City of London-based financial cartel; and the MDC-M, a split-off from the MDC, led by Arthur Mutambara). The agreement gives executive power to Tsvangirai as prime minister, but not absolute power, while Mugabe will remain President, with reduced power.
The agreement provides that, of 31 cabinet ministers, 15 will be nominated by ZANU-PF, 13 by the MDC, and 3 by MDC-M. Mugabe will preside over the Cabinet, but Tsvangirai will preside over meetings of a Council of Ministers that is substantially the same in membership as the Cabinet.
According to David Coltart, a white MP and a member of the Mutambara faction who spoke at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, D.C. today, a compromise so favorable to Tsvangirai was not what the Southern African Development Community (SADC) heads of state wanted. But after Parliament assembled (with SADC encouragement) and elected an MDC-Tsvangirai member as speaker, SADC opinion shifted.
All three parties were driven toward an agreement by the disastrous economic conditions facing the country which makes food aid an urgent matter. Eight years of economic warfare against the Zimbabwe government, spearheaded by the IMF and the British government, wrecked the Zimbabwe economy. Poverty has driven a wedge between the Zanu-PF and the population.
The land reform unilaterally carried out in 2000 was endorsed in the agreement among the three parties, which calls for a "comprehensive, transparent and non-partisan land audit" to eliminate any cases of multiple farm ownerships by the Zimbabwe elite.
On this issue of land reform, former Prime Minister Tony Blair's Labour government reneged on the British commitment at the Lancaster House talks which led to the independence of Zimbabwe in 1980, to resolve the issue of the redistribution of land that had been given to European settlers in what was then British-ruled Rhodesia. Under British rule, the African population was confined to reserves, where the land was of inferior quality.
Coltart emphasized today that Tsvangirai will get the credit for international support and aid to Zimbabwe, and this will increase his power. He emphasized that Tsvangirai alone will reap the peace dividend, because the "international community" will provide investment and aid in proportion to the amount of power that he actually exercises. It is widely reported that London will do its best to control Zimbabwe through the leverage provided by the urgent need for food and other aid.
The agreement provides for the drafting of a new constitution within 18 months, followed by a referendum. There has been no agreement on when thereafter an election will take place. Tsvangirai wants the election to follow immediately; Mugabe's camp wants the election at the five-year interval provided for under the present constitution.
Sept. 18 (EIRNS)—The New York Times today expressed the contempt of financial circles for the Zimbabwe leaders who made a power-sharing agreement, by demanding that the sanctions against Zimbabwe be kept in force, despite the agreement. The three parties that signed the agreement on Sept. 15 had won seats in the March election. The Times' editorial states that "Washington and the European Union are right to keep their sanctions in place until it becomes clearer whether this agreement can produce real change or is just another devious maneuver."
The Harare agreement states: "The Parties hereby agree that all forms of measures and sanctions against Zimbabwe be lifted in order to facilitate a sustainable solution to the challenges that are currently facing Zimbabwe," and that, "The Parties hereby agree that no outsiders have a right to call or campaign for regime change in Zimbabwe."
High-level Zimbabwe sources commented to EIR today that the EU and U.S. policy exposes that they have a different agenda, that is not in the interests of Zimbabwe sovereignty, and the rebuilding of Zimbabwe.
Sept. 20 (EIRNS)—The City of London-based financial cabal launched a bare-knuckle assault over the last week against South African President Thabo Mbeki, with the intention of driving him from office. This morning the ruling African National Congress (ANC) announced, during a three-day meeting of its national executive committee, that Mbeki had been asked to resign as President, only months before the end of his second term next year. Mbeki said that he will formally tender his resignation Sept. 23.
As EIR reported early this year, after the targeting of Kenya for destabilization, and the effort led by London to turn the Presidential succession in Zimbabwe into a chaotic regime-change scenario, the cartel's primary target was South Africa, the economic powerhouse of Africa.
The absence of Mbeki, considered the architect of modern South Africa, will be felt over the entire continent. He enraged the British empire because of his consistent attack on London's campaigns to reduce all of Africa to a collection of territories instead of sovereign nation-states. His intervention at the EU summit on Africa in Lisbon last December, prevented the continent-wide endorsement of the EU free-trade policy that EU Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson, a close associate of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, had wanted to ram through.
Mbeki consistently intervened to sabotage destabilization operations throughout Africa. In addition to Zimbabwe, he also intervened in Sudan, Ivory Coast, and Democratic Republic of Congo.
Such a crushing blow can not be explained from internal South African politics. In fact, key domestic opponents of Mbeki, including arch-rival Jacob Zuma, who replaced Mbeki as president of the ANC thanks to backing provided by networks controlled by London, were against pushing Mbeki out of the national Presidency. They feared that such a move would trigger a chaotic election period that would not be to their advantage.
Zuma, considered most likely to be the President after the next election, sometime from February through June next year, knows that the financial cartel which ran this operation considers him completely expendable. If he continues his populist campaign about improving the lot of the large, poor segment of the population, it cannot be ruled out that he will not be the next ANC presidential candidate, due to opposition from London. He has played a useful role for the London cartel in tripping up Mbeki, but the cartel has so much dirt on him that he could be gone in the blink of an eye.
The traditionally British-controlled South African judiciary played a critical role in the operation to get Mbeki. The pretext for the ANC assault on Mbeki by the nominally Zuma-allied wing which is now in control of the party, was a Sept. 12 ruling by High Court Judge Chris Nicholson, who made an unsubstantiated assertion that Mbeki "may have" colluded with prosecutors against Zuma, who as former deputy president, was fired for his involvement in a corruption scandal.
A former judge, Willem Heath, also sought to increase the pressure on Mbeki, by charging that Nicholson's findings were tantamount to prima facie evidence of violations by Mbeki of the state's prosecuting authority. Heath had been a lawyer for Zuma when he was being prosecuted for corruption.
Press outlets in South Africa, owned or controlled by London, also played a key role in ramming through the fast-moving attack on Mbeki.
All rights reserved © 2008 EIRNS


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Rishikesh is a city in the Indian state of Uttarakhand. Rishikesh is the Gateway to the Himalayas. The Char Dham Yatra (Four Shrines Sacred Journey) ideally begins from Rishikesh. Rishikesh is also known as the World Capital of Yoga.
The sacred river Ganges flows through Rishikesh. It is here that the river leaves the Shivalik Mountains in the Himalayas and flows out into the plains of northern India. Several Temple, ancient as well as new, can be found along the banks of the Ganges in Rishikesh.
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- Discover Mozambique - by Type
- Discover Mozambique - by Region
The first Portuguese explorers in Mozambique, led by Vasco de Gama, landed at Sofala in 1502. The Portuguese took a keen interest in the abundant resources and quickly set up trading posts. The first significant ports were Fort Ilha de Mozambique and the fort of Sofala. The Portuguese stayed and later amassed more land for themselves; they spread inward and built more settlements and trading posts. In 1884, at the Berlin Conference, Portugal gained an official stake of the region but failed to bring the entire area under subjugation. There were pockets of uprisings as some local tribes and chieftains put up resistance.
As control weakened, large tracts of land were leased out to private companies who ran agricultural estates and exploited the locals to work on these farms. For decades there was discontent among the locals. The first organised military uprising took place in 1964; this was led by the FRELIMO Party, a united front which eventually took down the Portuguese. This war lasted until the seventies. Mozambique became independent in June of 1975, but sadly internal conflict erupted into a civil war lasting from 1977 to 1992.
In 1994, Mozambique became a democratic country and, after peaceful elections, they started to rebuild and move forward. Over twenty years later Mozambique has seen marked development, but many historical monuments remain and serve as reminders of the various groups who played a part in the country's past.
Mozambique is a country which carries multiple races and cultural groups. These include African tribes descended from the Bantu, Indians, Europeans and Arabs. Each group claims a part in the history of the nation, and they have co-existed for hundreds of years. As a result, there is a mesh of cultures evident in the language, dress and food common to Mozambique. Natives are the majority group and their influence is very strong. Indian and Swahili influence is also noteworthy. For example, the condiments favoured by the Indian community have been incorporated in the local cuisine.
Due to the diverse tribes spread across the country traditional practices differ from place to place. It has been noted that even inheritance cultures differ, with a mixture of patrilineal and matrilineal systems being practised. The distinctiveness of the tribes is beautifully displayed when travelling amongst the different rural regions.
A few things do bring people together. For instance, the Chopi dance is the national dance, its performers wear colourful costumes and it always mesmerises those who see it. The Chopi ethnic group is just one of many, and so there are many other tribal dances. Some visitors may be privileged to see locals perform their unique traditional dances and songs. Other popular means of cultural expression can be seen in the architecture and crafts.
The Makua people are well known for excellent basketry and elegant sculptures. The Makonde people make ivory carvings as well as the unique 'mapico' masks. In the Niassa province, they make distinct musical instruments which are used in cultural songs and dances.
Portugal's colonial power has also left a marked influence: Portuguese is the official language of Mozambique today. Some Portuguese dishes are very popular, and there are many common dining practices borrowed from that culture. For example, dinner is served formally at the table, with cutlery.
Written by: Vanessa Gambanga
PUBLISHED: Dec 4th 2018 | UPDATED: Feb 3rd 2019
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The programme runs between April and October 2019 with the aim of recruiting energy start-ups that will drive the next generation of ideas in clean energy, energy efficiency, e-mobility, digitisation, and on-demand customer services. In the last two years, Climote and Limerick-based Gridwatch were selected as finalists.
The utilities and accelerators behind the Free Electrons programme will offer expertise, resources and access to their customer base in exchange for investment and partnership opportunities.
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Engineering Dept. [Department]
1891 (ca.)
UBImusD13. Folder: Campus Buildings. Engineering Bldg as three-story building. no. 183
Originally one of four buildings on campus. Used as professor's house 1840-1877 (S. University where Clements Library stands). Used as Dental College 1877-1891; wing added on East 1891. In 1891, building enlarged to north and third story added. Entrance changed to West facade. Used by Engineering until 1922 when it was removed. After 1904, it was called the Old Engineering Building.
Old Engineering Building (University of Michigan)
Professor's House (University of Michigan)
Dental College (University of Michigan)
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