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In early 2014, after taking over Fallujah, Iraq, U.S. President Barack Hussein Obama made the mystifying claim that ISIS was a "JV" terrorist group. Later in the year, after ISIS had conquered even more of Syria and Iraq, President Obama made the bizarre claim that ISIS "is not Islamic." He did, however, pledge to "destroy" the group, but essentially rescinded that pledge in the same breath by promising not to deploy U.S. ground forces to Iraq.
Today, the Obama administration has unleashed an onslaught of measuredly disapproving public statements against ISIS, authorized a series of primarily symbolic airstrikes, and even broken the earlier promise not to deploy ground forces by putting a couple thousand American troops on the ground in Iraq. Of each of President Obama's earlier ISIS statements, the most accurate one is his comment from September 2014, that he had "no strategy" for dealing with ISIS.
Noticing evidence of this vacuum to this day, Brandon Webb, Jack Murphy, and Peter Nealen published The ISIS Solution (2014, Kindle and Audible); a compilation of insights based on their respective years of SEAL, Special Forces, and Force Recon experience, observations from deployments in support of the war previously known as GWOT (Global War On Terror), and the study of warfare in general.


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ICARUS-Meeting #20 | The Age of Digital Technology: Documents, Archives and Society - Daniel Alves, David Bodenhamer and Paul Ell: DIGIWARMEMO: A Digital Humanities Approach to Re-Use the First World War Online Archives
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Daniel Alves, David Bodenhamer and Paul Ell
DIGIWARMEMO: A Digital Humanities Approach to Re-Use the First World War Online Archives
ICARUS-Meeting #20 | The Age of Digital Technology: Documents, Archives and Society
23–25 October 2017, Complutense University Madrid, Calle del Prof. Aranguren, 28040 Madrid, Spain
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1. DIGIWARMEMO A Digital Humanities approach to re-use the First World War online archives Daniel Alves (New University of Lisbon, PT) David Bodenhamer (Indiana University, USA) Paul Ell (Queen's University Belfast, UK) ICARUS Meeting #20, Madrid, October 2017
2. Introduction • The Web as a "natural archive" for the First World War memory • The project DIGIWARMEMO • The research consortium • The proposed methodology
3. The First World War on the Web • A world wide memorial event • Many different resources: digital libraries and archives, institutional repositories, academic research projects, memorials and other commemorative sites, both official and folk • The International Internet Preservation Consortium recently estimated more than 1,600 websites in 13 different languages covering 25 countries
4. The First World War on the Web • Much of this digital material, whether in texts, images, places and objects, and monuments of memory, among other records, are unstructured, disconnected and poorly contextualized • And they exist on different platforms and in different formats, in several languages, and refer to very broad times and spaces with different scales
5. The First World War on the Web • We could call it "big data" but we could also call it "hidden data" • Because of its complexity, its lack of context, its missing linkage it could be extremely hard in the future to access, analyze, and preserve this information • The concept of "natural archive" could apply here if we can find a way to deal with those deep roots of memory that remain "silent" in the (online) sources.
6. The First World War on the Web • Some examples (British, German and Portuguese) of the sources available • Military records, lists of casualties, pensions, photos, diaries, memorials, newspapers
7. The project DIGIWARMEMO • David Bodenhamer, Paul Ell and Daniel Alves started working on the idea of the project in May 2016 to apply to the Digging into Data Challenge • The project was then titled Geographies of Death • Seeking to link and mine a variety of data sources, both administrative (census, military, etc.) and popular (newspapers, photo collections, local repositories, etc.) to discover spatial and socio- economic patterns about soldiers and the local memories created about them
8. The project DIGIWARMEMO • A specialist workshop was carried out on January 2017 in Lisbon to prepare a proposal for a H2020 call • The project grown, with a consortium including researchers from 9 European countries and the USA, and 13 universities or research centres • The project was named Geographies of loss, geographies of memory: accessing, mapping and preserving our digital heritage about the First World War • Acronym: DIGWARMEMO
9. The project DIGIWARMEMO • The project was not selected for the second phase of the H2020 call, on May 2017, but got very good reviews from the evaluation panel • With exploratory grants from Belfast University, Passau University and New University of Lisbon the team get together again on June in Belfast and will have a third specialist workshop in November in Passau • The goal is to apply to another H2020 call on March 2018
10. The research consortium • Austria: University of Graz • Belgium: University of Ghent • France: Université de Bourgogne Franche-Comté • Germany: University of Passau • Netherlands: Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen (DANS-KNAW) • Poland: Uniwersytet Pedagogiczny w Krakowie • Portugal: New University of Lisbon (PI) and FCCN • UK: Queen's University Belfast, Goldsmiths, Lancaster University and University of Chester • USA: The Polis Center Indiana University, Indianapolis
11. The research consortium • Combination of computer science, data archiving, digital humanities and historical expertise • A complementary network of expertises: – computer science, information science, semantic computing, text mining or digital preservation – spatial methodologies – historical research – digital humanities • Strong connections established between several partners of the consortium on past projects
12. Proposed methodology • The project will gather, link and compare multiple digital records about soldiers • Will try to achieve reliable and comprehensive data that will facilitate the development of transnational histories • Such data will then be linked to the place of origin of those soldiers to examine the effects of the War • Data on memorials and newspapers will also be used to track processes of memory across time and place
13. Proposed methodology • Develop an ontology of memories of loss • Make use of linked open data that can be shared in a common format and semantically contextualized • Use of the CIDOC-CRM standard to create the data model of the personal information • Build specific algorithms to automatically scan different kind of sources and extract information using Convolutional Neural Networks and NLP • Connect all the data with its spatial dimensions trough geographic ontologies, historical gazetteers and GIS
14. Ambition of the project • We hope that with this approach it will be possible to extract meaning from all of those sources to better understand, for instance, both the life paths of a generation of soldiers and the impact their loss had on communities both then and later, allowing us to comprehend major cultural, social and economical influences of the War in Europe
15. Thank you! alves.r.daniel@gmail.com @DanielAlvesFCSH
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Q: Choice of capacitor for high frequency application I want to recreate this wireless power transfer system that utilizes two resonating LC circuits and induction for power transfer. I want to know the best type of capacitor to use in the LC resonator circuit. Should it be ceramic or film or something else? The frequency of operation is 150 kHz.

A: Ceramic C0G has my vote.  Stable, works well into the RF region.

A: The inductor is the weak spot as in most tuned circuits. This is further weakened by the ferrite plate losses and the MOSFET drivers are the third weakest spot. So choosing a capacitor to run at 150 kHz isn't that big of a deal and I can see that the guy in the video used a polyester type initially then went to a C0G type later on. I'd prefer a C0G because it won't get as warm and is more stable with temperature variations.
Choose a capacitor voltage rating that is at least 10 times the DC supply voltage to the H bridge because (like with any LC series tuned circuit) you will get significant AC voltage amplification.

A: The cap sees high resonant voltage and sees 150KHz as Andy aka has stated.The currents in the car lamp incandescant demo part of the U tube video would be Amperes .The   little thru hole ceramic cap that was shown on the demo would not do this 24/7.The cap must be rated for the high frequency current ,this is why paralleled caps are common .I use my old school polyprop bulky caps that have never let me down when it comes to lab demos .

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Moved from the IZ 229 thread.
There is an EU grant system which is supposed to facilitate this but when I asked I got the distinct impression it was not for the likes of TTA - hence I gave up. Maybe an approach from elsewhere in the EU would do better. Andy looks at everything he is sent but publication in IZ or BS is far less certain.
Support for translation projects. EU support for Literary Translation is aimed at enhancing knowledge of the literature and literary heritage of fellow Europeans by way of promoting the circulation of literary works between countries. Publishing houses can be awarded grants for translations and publication of works of fiction from one European language into another European language.
But might it be worth trying to make contact with the SF and horror associations of European countries, to see whether they have anything to suggest. I can imagine that they'd be keen to promote their authors' works in the UK.
Few years ago there was German project called Internova (German SF magazine Nova with mostly European authors, translated into English), but it lasted only for one issue. The second never surfaced, although it had been prepared.
In the beginning of the nineties there was Bulgarian magazine Orphia. It too lasted for only one issue (Mostly with eastern European authors translated into English).
In 1967. Pohl edited just two issues of International SF (I have one issue) before the magazine folded.
So, I don't think that special magazine dedicated to European SF would be good idea.
But maybe special issue of Interzone, or possibly few stories a year (and that only if the translations are good and cheap) could be acceptable.
A special issue or a special anthology might be the way to go. Or a website/a special feature on a blog? The World SF blog is trying to run regular features of stories by non-US/non-UK authors--it's exposure, though I don't think they're in a position to pay anything at the moment.
Jean-Claude (Dunyach) does have a point, which is that if one were to take short stories shortlisted for major awards in their own countries and translate those, one would have an insurance of quality as well as a strong marketing point, I imagine. It wouldn't be ideal in the sense of putting non-Anglophone authors on an equal footing with the Anglophone ones, but it would already be a pretty big start. I could be mistaken, but I didn't get the feeling most shortlists of French awards ever made it out of France, whereas everyone knows what the Hugo shortlist looks like.
Not sure what we're trying to achieve though: I got the feeling this started out as a way to hook up non-Anglophones with translators in order to enable them to publish, but now we seem to be pushing more for direct publication?
What an interesting discussion. I was doing some research into grants (in connection with the volunteer work that I do) and I know that there is a grant-giving body which is directed at translation.
Could it be the same grant-giving body your talking about, Roy? I don't remember the name of that body as I was looking into grants for workshops at the time and just stumbled across the thing about translations.
An interesting point to consider is how such a project contributes towards further discussion of genre, it would be considered educational and literary which ups the chances on getting a grant.
And wouldn't such a project (particularly if it includes sectionson analysis and commentary) fall under the definition artistic?
Well, I happen to work quite closely with the EU (in aeronautics but the paperwork is quite similar . In fact, if a publishing house would gather a collection of European short stories from various countries, it could get a grant covering 50% of the translation cost. And if a set of publishing houses across Europe would agree on a common publication of such anthology in their respective countries, the "consortium" of publishing houses could ask for a much larger grant, thus ensuring the simultaneous publication of the book all over Europe.
It's a nightmare to organise - we tried it 10 years ago in the frame of the European Utopiales festival - but it could be very rewarding.
Oh, and by the way, I found on the EC web site the list of books that were eligible for translation support. There are some SF books in it (including one of mine that was translated in Hungarian ).
And download or visualize the "Projects selected for co-funding 11/08/2009" PDF document. You'll see which books were selected in 2009.
82 projects 370 books, impressive.
I can't see anything for TTA in this. 50% of translation is too little.
The thought of wading through EU documents again does not fill me with enthusiasm.
Possibly but then they would only end up with 25%.
Roy, I think you are right about 50% being too little if that's all TTA can get for one translation. But suppose the UK has some funds that can be added to that 50%? A decision in any given case would depend on how much above 50% can be gotten. I'd be surprised if the UK has no source at all for translation work. What about the British Council?
That said, going in search of extra funds (above 50%) for every story one would like to print is probably asking too much of anybody. I've seen similar things in academia and am glad I retired early.
Trouble is Andy et al don't know if they want to print a story until it is translated. A bit late to ask for a grant then.
also the UK government need all their cash to pay the corrupt spinners and consultants they use to salt away their nest eggs and ill gotten gains. There's none left for the likes of us.
Yes. I can see that. To make matters much worse, Sharon Ring sent me something to post, about cuts to film and library organisations. I link to it here: http://darkfictionreview.net/2010/07/uk-arts-cuts/.
Here's new page of German based SF magazine in English, Internova.
This was the first issue, they plan to post the second issue that has never been published, and after that publish new stories.
As you can see, the writers are from all over the world.
The editor is Michael Iwoleit, German SF writer and editor.


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Hacked with a machete by her husband, young woman gets justice with the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) support
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Anna Salima, 24, has painful memories of her two marriages. With her first marriage, it took her just a week to realize she had married the wrong man. Yet she stayed for five years, enduring verbal and physical abuse, as she hoped her husband would change.
After their first child was born, she couldn't stand it any longer and returned to her parents' home. She was bitter from the abuse she suffered and vowed never to marry again. It wasn't long before another man began promising her a marriage made in heaven.
"He seemed to be somewhat different from my first husband," she says. "He was so kind and caring, I thought of giving him a chance."
Within a few months of meeting, the two became engaged. A traditional wedding ceremony followed and Ms. Salima forgot about the pains of her first marriage. But not for long.
A few months after they married, her new husband questioned why she wasn't yet pregnant.
"I pointed out that it may be his problem, as I already had children from my first marriage," she says. "This didn't go down well with him. He became moody and started drinking excessively."
His heavy drinking foreshadowed the horrors Ms. Salima was to face.
"This one day, he came back home totally drunk. We had a minor disagreement and he pulled a knife, threatening to stab me," she says. "Luckily, my sister was around and she intervened."
Things improved a little when Ms. Salima became pregnant. After two years, she delivered a second child in her new marriage, yet by then her husband was drinking regularly and heavily.
When she returned from the field one day, she found her husband sitting on the veranda in a sour mood. At times like this, she made a point of avoiding confrontations with him.
"He asked for food and I prepared a meal for him," she recollects. "After that, he said he wanted to sleep with me but I pleaded that I was tired. He tried to drag me into the house and I refused."
In anger, her husband stormed off and returned with a machete. He struck her arm twice with the powerful blade before she managed to flee, with him in pursuit.
"I was bleeding heavily," she says. "The only place I knew I would be safe was at the Community Victim Support Unit (CVSU). I ran as fast as I could, and he eventually became tired and stopped pursuing me."
At the CVSU, she explained what had happened to her. Because she was badly injured and had no means to access essential services, the CVSU contacted the Community Fund Committee (CFC), which agreed to release funds for her to get the urgent medical treatment she needed. The CFC forms part of the European Union-funded Spotlight Initiative, which supports GBV survivors with resources to access health services and the judicial system.
"At the health centre, they said my wound was severe and I was referred to Nkhata Bay district hospital," she says. Because of the extent of her injuries from the machete, she came close to losing her hand. "They put plaster of paris on my arm and told me to come back for a check-up in two months."
Justice at last, with UNFPA and Spotlight Initiative support
The CVSU also alerted the community policing forum, and members were sent to her house to apprehend her husband. When her case reached the courts, the CFC mobilized further funds for Ms. Salima to attend her husband's hearing.
"I am thankful for the support," she says. "Without it, I couldn't have made it to the court sessions."
Her husband was convicted and is serving six years in prison. However, she feels the sentence should have been stiffer.
"I wanted him to get 30 years or more," she says. "I am lucky that he injured my arm as he was aiming for the head. Such people should be put away for life as they are not only a risk to women, but the community at large."
Nkhata Bay, where Ms. Salima hails from, has one of the highest number of cases of gender-based violence (GBV) in the country. Recent statistics for the district show that out of every 100 women and girls who experienced GBV, 11 of them experienced physical violence.
UNFPA has supported 18 communities at Traditional Authority or Sub-Traditional Authority level in Nkhata Bay with community funding. As at April 2022, this funding had supported 823 women and girls who experienced and survived GBV in the district.
Distributed by APO Group on behalf of UNFPA – East and Southern Africa.
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Ruto: We will Pursue Data Protection Regime that is Pro-Transformation
President William Ruto has said the Government will pursue a data protection regime that serves public interest.
He said this will be achieved by ensuring that there is sufficient information for effective and efficient delivery of services.
However, this will be pursued without compromising private data.
"But we must also ensure that criminals do not hide under data protection or exploit it to perpetuate crime," he said.
The President was speaking on Friday at the Kenyatta International Convention Centre during the observation of the International Data Privacy Day.
He also officially launched the Data Protection Registration system. For Kenya to realise the maximum potential of the Digital Superhighway, he explained, we must have a clear data management plan that is promotive of our agenda for the digital economy. The government, he added, will partner with stakeholders to expand the space for creativity and innovation."It is our intention to ensure that Kenya reaps its overdue dividends from the heavy investment in ICT infrastructure made over the last two decades."The President noted that over the next five years, the Government will construct more than 100,000 kilometres of national fibre-optic network.
This, he added, will help achieve universal broadband connectivity in the country to enhance Government service delivery."We are developing the Digital Master Plan and establishing a regional hub to promote the large-scale development of software for export."He promised to support the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner to acquire the requisite capacity to effectively perform its functions.
"Our commitment to competitiveness, innovation, digitisation, automation and the digital economy requires a credible and legitimate facilitator to anchor investor confidence."
Distributed by APO Group on behalf of President of the Republic of Kenya.
United Kingdom (UK): Discrimination against people of African descent is structural, institutional and systemic, say United Nations (UN) experts
Racism in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is structural, institutional and systemic, UN experts* said today, warning that people of African descent in the country continue to encounter racial discrimination and erosion of their fundamental rights.
"We have serious concerns about impunity and the failure to address racial disparities in the criminal justice system, deaths in police custody, 'joint enterprise' convictions and the dehumanising nature of the stop and (strip) search," the UN Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent said in a statement at the end of an official visit to the UK.
The experts documented the "trauma" felt by people of African descent who were suffering racial discrimination and injustice in the UK. "A woman of African descent we met during our visit lamented, 'will this ever end?'" they said.
A decade of austerity measures in the UK had exacerbated racism, racial discrimination and other intolerance people of African descent encounter, which had an adverse impact on their fundamental rights, the experts observed.
"From the perspective of people of African descent, racism in the UK is structural, institutional and systemic," the experts said.
The experts pointed out that for people of African descent, their experience with state and public institutions, the private sector and society was that it perpetuated racial hierarchies. "Racialised acts targeting people of African descent have remained steadfast, and the experience is similar across different parts of the UK," the experts said. "They are victimised and have no assurance of effective redress from authorities or the justice system," they said.
Welcoming emerging efforts towards reparation for the legacies of the trade and trafficking in enslaved Africans, the Working Group encouraged all stakeholders including the government to do more to ensure the rehabilitation, restoration, and reconciliation of the state with its people.
"Streamlining accessible, independent and effective complaint mechanisms to address racism, ensuring police accountability, fair trial guarantees for all persons, and redress to all persons affected by the Windrush scandal are imperative" said Catherine S. Namakula, Chair of the Working Group. "Austerity to the peril of fundamental rights is a costly undertaking for the UK," she said.
The Working Group, which also included human rights experts Barbara Reynolds and Dominique Day, visited London, Birmingham, Manchester and Bristol.
The experts will present a report with their findings and recommendations to the UN Human Rights Council in September 2023.
Distributed by APO Group on behalf of Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR).
Seychelles: Appointment of the Chief Executive Officer of the Seychelles National Youth Council
The Office of the President has today announced the appointment of Mr. Albert Duncan as the new Chief Executive Officer of the Seychelles National Youth Council (SNYC) effective from the 1st of February, 2023.
Mr. Duncan has a Bachelor's Degree in Social Policy from the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom.
Mr. Duncan has 18 years of experience working in both the private and public sectors.
Prior to his appointment as Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Duncan was the Head of Sales and Marketing at the Seychelles Trading Company (STC).
Distributed by APO Group on behalf of State House – Office of the President of the Republic of Seychelles.
Malawi and European Union hold Political Dialogue
On 26th January 2023, the Republic of Malawi and the European Union (EU) held their bi-annual Political Dialogue meeting on a range of issues of mutual interest. The discussion, which was hosted by the European Union, was characterised by mutual trust between the parties and was conducted in an open and constructive manner.
The Government of Malawi Delegation was led by Honourable Nancy Tembo, M.P., Minister of Foreign Affairs, who was accompanied by Honourable Titus Mvalo, Minister of Justice, Honourable Eisenhower Nduwa Mkaka, M.P., Minister of Natural Resources and Climate Change, Honourable Mark Katsonga Phiri, M.P., Minister of Trade and Industry, Honourable Nancy Chaola Mdooko, Deputy Minister of Transport, Dr Thomas Munthali, Director General of the National Planning Commission and senior government officials from various ministries, departments and agencies.
The Delegation on the side of the European Union was led by the EU Ambassador to Malawi, Mr Rune Skinnebach, who was accompanied by His Excellency Ralph Timmermann, Ambassador of Germany, His Excellency Seamus O'Grady, Ambassador of Ireland, Her Excellency Saana Halinen, Ambassador of Finland, Her Excellency Margret Verwijk, Ambassador of the Netherlands, His Excellency Miguel Calheiros Veloz, Ambassador of Portugal, Ms Fanny Heylen, Headof Cooperation for Belgium, Mr Václav Kuželka, Deputy Ambassador of the Czech Republic, Mr Diego Calatayud, Deputy Ambassador of Spain, Mr Martin Jörnrud, Deputy Ambassador of Sweden, and officials from the European Union Delegation in Malawi.
The Political Dialogue addressed a series of topics relating to:
Common values and positions on geo-political developments focusing on Russian aggression in Ukraine and regional developments, and a shared assessment of outcomes of COP27;
Democracy and human rights with a focus on access to justice and anti-corruption efforts and achievements;
Political and economic situation, including prospects for an IMF Extended Credit Facility;
Reforms to the business climate and investment environment, agriculture, exports, cross-border trade under AfCFTA, and reinforcing synergies with the EU's Global Gateway;
The two sides, lastly, discussed partnership for development focusing on EU exploration of budget support.
Speaking at the meeting, Honourable Nancy Tembo, observed that "the discussion on the possibility of resuming direct budgetary support, underline the recognition and appreciation by the EU on the progress which the government is making in the field of governance and public financial management among others."
She further appealed to the EU to enable Malawi benefit from its Global Gateway investment package, particularly in respect of regional transport corridors and other infrastructural projects and digitization in order to re-inforce synergies of cross border trade."
The EU Ambassador, His Excellency Rune Skinnebach, stated: "I am heartened by the shared perspectives on many aspects covered by the dialogue, and I am confident that the strong and long-lasting partnership between Malawi and the European Union constitutes a solid foundation for pursuing our shared strategic priorities."
Furthermore, Ambassador Skinnebach was thrilled to note the Government's determination in the fight against corruption, and the progress in many fields touched upon during the dialogue. Furthermore he expressed encouragement with regards to potentially providing budget support through the EU Multi-annual Indicative Programme (MIP) for Malawi for the period 2021-27 if the outstanding macro-economic and public finance management issues are addressed.
Both parties re-affirmed their commitment to holding a regular high-level political dialogue between them, and to the promotion of democracy, the rule of law, good governance and human rights.
The dialogue was followed in the afternoon by an audience with H.E. Dr Lazarus McCarthy Chakwera, President of the Republic of Malawi.
Distributed by APO Group on behalf of Delegation of the European Union to the Republic of Malawi.
Victim Empowerment Programme gets funding boost
The Western Cape Department of Social Development allocated R62 866 000 to its Victim Empowerment Programme (VEP) in the 2022/2023 financial year, a significant increase from the R45 million that was allocated in 2019. The VEP focuses on providing support to victims of gender-based violence (GBV).
The Department has now allocated a further R1.6 million in addition to the R62 866 000 already allocated to the programme for 2022/2023.
These funds will help aid operational costs at Non-Profit Organisations (NPOs) across the province that assist GBV victims and survivors.
A breakdown of the funding allocation:
R47 000 has been allocated to each of the 20 shelters in the province that provide safe temporary accommodation to GBV victims and offer a range of psychosocial support services.
Over R55 000 has been allocated to the Mosaic Women's Training Service and Healing Centre based in Wynberg and provides services across Cape Town. The Department of Justice and Constitutional Development identified Strand court as the busiest metro court in terms of the number of protection order applications. There is thus a need to activate court support services for victims to access psychosocial support services, which Mosaic Centre provides. With this funding, two additional social auxiliary work posts can be filled to render court support services.
R141 000 has been allocated to Siyabonga Huis van Danksegging in Vredenburg.
Over R296 000 has been allocated to Glen Elgin Community Organisation. Currently there is not a shelter for GBV victims in the Overberg region. A suitable site was identified, and the Glen Elgin Community Outreach organisation subsequently submitted a business plan to manage the shelter.
Over R217 000 has been allocated to the S Cape in Fish Hoek to increase its available services.
"The work done by our NPO partners in the Victim Empowerment space, despite facing immense challenges like load-shedding and rising operational costs, is phenomenal. We salute all those who provide support to victims and survivors of violence. I do hope the additional funding will offer some respite in this tumultuous economic climate. I once again call on the private sector to come on board and assist NPOs that provide this crucial service," says MEC of Social Development Sharna Fernandez.
Distributed by APO Group on behalf of Republic Of South Africa: Western Cape Provincial Government.
Appointment of the Chief Executive Officer of the Seychelles Licensing Authority
The Office of the President has today announced the appointment of Mr. Ronny Antat as the new Chief Executive Officer of the Seychelles Licensing Authority (SLA) effective from the 9th January, 2023.
Mr. Antat has a Master's Degree in Business Administration from the University of the West of Scotland and a Bachelor's Degree in Biochemistry and Human Movement Science from the Nelson Mandela University, in South Africa.
Mr. Antat has 12 years of experience working in both the private sector and the public sector.
Prior to his appointment as Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Antat was the Development and Assessment Manager at the Seychelles Fishing Authority.
Ambassador Adler Honors Graduates of United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Partnership That Empowers Young Women
The U.S. Ambassador to South Sudan Michael J. Adler today presented certificates to seven graduates of a U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) activity funded through the U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). This program empowers adolescent girls and young women with income-generating skills—and for those selected through a competitive process, a three-month internship at the Radisson Blu Hotel in Juba. This public-private partnership highlights the important role of South Sudan's private sector in building gender equity and providing life-changing opportunities for young women of diverse backgrounds through professional workforce development.
The USAID Adolescents and Children HIV Incidence Reduction, Empowerment and Virus Elimination (ACHIEVE) project that created this training program is part of the U.S. Government's contributions to the people of South Sudan under PEPFAR, which marks its 20th anniversary this year. PEPFAR has saved 25 million lives worldwide and achieved a 65 percent reduction in new HIV cases in men and boys aged 15-24 and a 50 percent reduction in new HIV cases among women and girls aged 15-24 since 2010.
This USAID project is focused on preventing HIV infections among women and children in South Sudan. Implemented by Jhpiego—an international, non-profit health organization affiliated with Johns Hopkins University and dedicated to improving the health of women and families—ACHIEVE serves as an umbrella in South Sudan for a complementary PEPFAR initiative—the Determined, Resilient, Empowered, AIDS Free, Mentored and Safe (DREAMS) activity for vulnerable adolescent girls and young women.
ACHIEVE provides comprehensive HIV prevention and case management services for orphans and vulnerable children, adolescent girls, and young women in Juba, and has provided training and services to more than 4,000 adolescent girls and young women so far, including skills training on tailoring, hairdressing, driving a vehicle, and other income-generating activities, including making sandals, fruit juice, and liquid soap. ACHIEVE also helped improve the clinical outcome for orphans and vulnerable children on antiretroviral therapy viral load suppression in Juba, from less than 50 percent when the activity started in April 2020, to about 84 percent at the end of September 2022.
With Radisson Blu Hotel General Manager Dino Urbani, Ambassador Adler presented graduation certificates to seven young women who completed their three-month internship at Radisson Blu Hotel in front desk management, catering, housekeeping, and engineering/plumbing. "May you all have futures of success and happiness," Ambassador Adler told the young women during a ceremony at Nakasongola Christ Church in Juba. "May South Sudan have a happy future of peace and prosperity."
Distributed by APO Group on behalf of U.S. Embassy in South Sudan.
South Africa: Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development announces new outbreak of African Swine Fever (ASF) in Gauteng
The Department of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development would like to announce a new outbreak of African Swine Fever (ASF) on a farm in Gauteng Province.
The farm has been put under quarantine and the Provincial Veterinary Services instituted forward and back-tracing investigations to identify any properties that could have had direct or indirect contact with the affected farm.
Farms in Gauteng, North West and Free State Provinces have been placed under precautionary quarantine as a result of this. The ASF negative status of these farms will be confirmed before precautionary quarantine can be lifted. The source of the infection on the positive farm has not yet been identified, but it is believed that the infection was already on the farm from mid-December.
Outbreaks of African Swine Fever (ASF) started in the previous ASF free areas of South Africa in 2019 and these outbreaks eventually affected many areas of the country. The spread of the disease seems to have slowed down, with less new properties becoming infected since October 2022. Control measures are based on quarantine and movement controls, with awareness drives to highlight essential biosecurity measures to enable pig owners to prevent infection of their pigs.
This outbreak of ASF on a farm with good biosecurity measures in place again illustrates that the virus is highly contagious.
All pig farmers and pig keepers are again urged to only buy pigs directly from known healthy herds and to prevent contact between their pigs and other pigs or wildlife. Visitors should be discouraged from coming into the area where pigs are being kept. Anyone who has contact with pigs should wash their hands before and after handling the pigs; and before moving to other farms, one should ensure that they have thoroughly showered and to only use clean clothes, shoes, and equipment.
ASF is a controlled disease in terms of the Animal Diseases Act, 1984 (Act 35 of 1984), which means that all cases or suspicion of ASF must be reported to the state veterinary services. Pig owners are encouraged to be extra vigilant and to report any increased pig deaths or unusual symptoms to the local state veterinary office. All pig owners are also reminded that Section 11 of the Animal Diseases Act makes every animal keeper responsible to prevent the spread of disease from their animals or land to other properties. The importance of biosecurity is again emphasised, both to protect your own animals, and to prevent the inadvertent spread to other pigs. Veterinarians are urged to rule out ASF whenever there is increased mortality on a farm.
Distributed by APO Group on behalf of Department of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development: Republic of South Africa.
United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) launches biggest ever international effort to update guidance for censuses
In the largest ever effort of its kind, a multi-year UNECE project has kicked off to produce internationally agreed guidance and advice for conducting the next round of censuses, foreseen around 2030.
Censuses and the information they provide on populations, their distributions and characteristics and how these change over time, are key to all policymaking and underpin the work of the entire United Nations system.
All UNECE countries, plus many beyond the region, rely on the Conference of European Statisticians' Recommendations for Population and Housing Censuses to help them plan and carry out their censuses, ensuring that they are reliable, cost-effective and comparable. The update of these regional recommendations lays the groundwork for a subsequent global revision of the overarching UN Principles and Recommendations for Population and Housing Censuses, which draws heavily on the experiences in the region.
The cornerstone of informed decision-making
A census of a country's population and housing—a full count of everyone who lives there and the homes they live in—is the cornerstone of every country's statistical system. It provides the baseline for many of the figures we see in the news every day; anything that's given 'per capita' depends on knowing the size of the population. And many social, economic and environmental policies are shaped by information about where people live, how old they are, how many children or older people live in each place, and the income levels in different parts of a country. The information gathered in a census also lays the foundation for the sample surveys, population estimates and projections undertaken by national statistical offices. So important is a census for formulating and monitoring national and international policies, in fact, that it's enshrined both in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (target 17.19 is assessed by counting countries that have conducted at least one census in the past ten years) and in a Resolution of the United Nations Economic and Social Council that urges every country to conduct a census during the period 2015 to 2024 – known as 'the 2020 round'.
A census can also be one of the biggest, most expensive and most complex operations a statistical office undertakes, although current trends towards increased efficiency and modernization of data collection are now easing the burden.
This combination of importance, expense and complexity calls for detailed planning. The moment one census ends, countries are already planning the next. They depend on comprehensive guidance—to make sure they collect the data that's needed, that they use the best methods, and that the figures they produce follow internationally-agreed definitions so that they can be compared over time and across countries. They also need guidance on how to interact with the population to maintain their trust and willingness to participate; and on how best to disseminate results in a way that can be understood and used by the full range of stakeholders.
Why international coordination matters
The Conference of European Statisticians (CES), UNECE's highest statistical decision-making body, produces a detailed guide that serves as a manual for countries to conduct their census. Revised every ten years in advance of each census round, these regional recommendations have served as the main reference for countries both within and beyond the region since the 1950s. Not only does the guide advise countries on the methods and quality control procedures to follow; it also recommends 'core' topics, on which every country should try to produce comparable indicators, and 'non-core' topics, which countries may decide to include—and gives advise on how to measure each of these.
Feeding directly into European Union legislation, much of the UNECE guidance becomes a legal requirement for EU countries, which all conduct their censuses within a short time period using harmonized definitions to make the resulting data as comparable as possible.
UNECE does not stop at developing the guidance, but also works with countries to ensure it is followed, employing a suite of approaches: expert conferences, training workshops and on-the ground support before, during and after censuses.
Harnessing new methods and adapting to changing needs
While basic features that make a census a census – counting every individual and every home at the same time – haven't changed, much else has. A range of large-scale transformations make the UNECE project to update the Recommendations more essential than ever.
The past decade has seen a fundamental shift in the ways that census information is collected. In nearly all of the countries where information is collected by enumerators, they now use tablets or mobile devices rather than paper forms, meaning that data can be checked straight away and uploaded automatically. Many countries use Internet-based questionnaires that people complete themselves, while others bypass the direct collection of data from individuals altogether, replacing it with data gathered from population registers or other administrative sources. Task forces dedicated to enumeration methods and technology are assessing these trends and updating the guidance to account for what's changed and what's been learned in recent years.
Another change that the project will study is the nature of communication and outreach before and during a census. Public perceptions of government-linked institutions, even independent ones such as national statistical offices, have altered profoundly. Countries need clearer guidance on winning and maintaining public trust in the census, so that people will willingly take part and so that the resulting data will be complete and accurate.
A positive trend which the revised Recommendations hope to harness is the growing democratization of data—a recognition that census and other data are not only for government officials but for everybody. With this in mind, a task force dedicated to dissemination is looking at best practices in publishing census data, such as interactive maps, charts and infographics that make census findings more accessible and understandable to users with all levels of expertise.
And then, of course, there is the impact of COVID-19. The pandemic had, and continues to have, unprecedented effects on the 2020 census round. Countries did what they could in the face of budget cuts, lockdowns and social distancing measures, legislative delays and data quality concerns. They learned on the fly, and some saw silver linings as internet response rates exceeded expectations or techniques for harnessing administrative sources were honed faster than planned. But now countries are clamouring for guidance to help them better navigate future crises. A task force on emergency preparedness and contingency planning will develop a whole new chapter of the guidance, not previously covered in its own right in the Recommendations.
The project consists of 13 task forces, each dealing with a specific theme identified as a priority by the international community of census experts who make up the UNECE Group of Experts on Population and Housing Censuses. These 13 themes are those in which the people who design and run censuses across the UNECE region feel that circumstances have changed so much that they need new or improved recommendations:
Emergency preparedness and contingency planning
Quality assessment and quality management
Enumeration methods
Population concepts and related definitions
Economic characteristics
Migration & mobility (national & international)
Household & family characteristics
Housing topics
Geospatial information and small area statistics for censuses
Dissemination of disaggregated census data
Communication and outreach.
The task forces consist of representatives from national statistical offices, international organizations and universities: more than 150 experts altogether. With strong representation from the statistical office of the European Union (Eurostat) and the UN Statistics Division in New York, the project is leading the way in what will eventually become a worldwide update of international guidance for censuses. Several countries outside the UNECE region who are members of CES, such as Mexico, Argentina, South Africa and New Zealand, use the Recommendations and are now contributing to the revision project.
The task forces will base their revisions not only on their own expertise, but on the results of a region-wide survey to be conducted among all the national statistical offices of the UNECE region later this year. Their findings and proposals will be scrutinized by the expert community, and by the Conference of European Statisticians, resulting in an updated set of Recommendations for the 2030 round of censuses to be published in 2025.
Distributed by APO Group on behalf of United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE).


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Leaked memo from City's Brexit envoy reveals 'sobering' analysis of EU stance
Pro-EU demonstrators march towards Parliament Square in Central London on Saturday Credit: EPA
Ben Riley-Smith, Assistant Political Editor
10 September 2017 • 8:33am
Ben Riley-Smith
Brussels shows no interest in finding "long-term solutions" to Brexit and could ignore the interests of European Union business, a leaked memo to financial leaders has warned.
There is just a "one per cent" chance of the EU agreeing to start discussing a trade deal in October as the UK wants, according to a source quoted in the note.
There is also no appetite for creating a "bespoke" transition deal that will allow Britain to retain the benefits of EU membership for years after formally leaving, it is warned.
The "sobering" analysis is contained in a 1,200 word memo from Jeremy Browne, the special representative for the City of London to the EU, which has been leaked to this newspaper.
It was circulated to around 350 executives at financial firms after Mr Browne held a series of meetings in Brussels on Monday and Tuesday.
The note paints a gloomy picture of the level of engagement in Brussels on Brexit, despite a series of position papers being published by Britain over the summer.
It also contains a clear warning that even if EU businesses want to keep tariffs low after Brexit, the politicians leading negotiations may not listen.
The memo is significant as it shapes how the country's most senior financial figures approach Brexit amid fears that the EU wants to lure banks away form the City.
Mr Browne is a former Liberal Democrat MP who served as a Government minister both in the Foreign Office and Home Office during the Coalition years.
In his memo he writes: "It is hard not to feel a little weary and fatalistic after doing the rounds in Brussels. Such a virtue is made of intransigence and ensuring that Britain learns lessons from the EU.
"The restricted mandate means little energy is expended on the imaginative search for long-term solutions. People can look most contented when they have declared a problem to be intractable.
"Of course the EU machinery is going to make a show of 'hanging tough' at this stage. Even so, it is still sobering for anyone who hopes for a mutually beneficial post-Brexit partnership between the EU and Britain."
Mr Browne is also pessimistic of the chances Britain has of discussing future trade talks with the EU in the autumn.
Britain wants to start talking about a post-Brexit trade deal from October, but the EU is refusing to until progress is made on what Britain will pay when it leaves.
Jeremy Browne, the special representative for the City of London to the EU Credit: Geoff Pugh
Mr Browne wrote: "The result is that nobody seems to think an agreement is likely at the October Council that 'sufficient progress' has been made on stage one of the negotiations.
"A 'one percent chance', I was told at one meeting. That seems excessively bleak, but it is certainly widely factored in to calculations that the timetable will be pushed backwards: "'November is the new October'.
"In the minds of the EU this is Britain's problem, and they feign a detached indifference. It is the received wisdom that all that is required is for Britain to come to terms with the inevitable and yield accordingly."
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There is also a warning that the EU could put political interests - keeping the bloc united and strong - ahead of the economic interests of its businesses.
"It was stated again that the voice of businesses in the EU will not sway the political decision makers," Mr Browne writes.
"The big German corporates, for example, will not issue tough warnings to their politicians. It is, I think, underestimated in Britain how deeply corporate Europe buys into the EU orthodoxy. They are not boat-rockers by nature, but they also attach great importance to protecting the integrity of the single market, and going further still, to deepening Eurozone integration.
"Trade with Britain is, of course, significant, but there is little obvious sign of ranks being broken. Even if there were, I was told, the politicians would not act on the business representations anyway."


Cryptocurrency Security Tips is becoming more important day by day. Cryptocurrency environment is evolving so much that there are a lot of people who don't know how to save their cryptocurrencies from hackers also. So what is the best ways to protect cryptocurrency from hacking.
In the last two months, one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges Coinbase has added 1.9 million new users to the system. And the leading digital wallet store of cryptocurrencies blockchain.com has also seen like the same growth in users in its database. But the problem is does all these new users know about how to save their cryptocurrencies and risks and security holes.
There are so many examples of this type of victims on coinbase and other cryptocurrency exchange platforms. You can just lose thousands of dollars in a few second.
The same thing also can be done with computer hacks.
Phishing is sending emails to be seen as a different trustworthy person or legal entity. With these kind of emails they get as much as information possible like usernames, paswords and credit card details. By getting all these information they can get money from your accounts directly or indirectly.
In general, a Ponzi Scheme is a fraudulent investment. Generally the owners or operators generates "returns for older investors through revenue paid by new investors". This is not a legitimate, profit making or financial trading business activity.
Cryptocurrency Security Tips: How To Protect Cryptocurrencies?
Set up a unique email for exchange that no one else knows.
Assign a unique password that used nowhere before and after. And be sure no one knows. Make it complicated. But don't forget.
Save your phone against any attack. Be suspicious!
Use software authenticator like Google, don't use two step phone verification. Sim cards can be copied.
Buy from different exchange platforms. Don't be stick to one platform.
Keep them offline. Think about using hardware wallets. "Cold wallet." Think about "hot wallet" as a checking account and "cold wallet" as the savings account.
Use decentralized exchanges for Ethereum trading.
Don't trust anybody, even yourself. Keep it secret to yourself, don't mention anyone about your investments, especially on social media.
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Q: Find the farthest point I have a table with 2000 records and with those columns
OutletName, longitude, latitude, geom
I would like to find a way to find the farthest outlet between a selection of outlets
For example we have outletnames : A,B,C,D,E,F,G,H,I,J,K...
And we would like to know who is the farthest outlet from A
between those outlets 'B' 'F' and 'D'
Now I am doing it with lot of queries calculating distances between all of them and comparing the distances in java, but it takes time. Is there a better way to do it?

A: If it is just 2000 records and only points (no complex polygons or linestrings) it shouldn't take many milliseconds to calculate.
If it would have been a few million points to check distance between you could consider using knn-distance with PostgreSQL 9.1 and PostGIS 2.0.
But I think you should do fine with something like?
SELECT b."OutletName" FROM the_table AS a, the_table AS b
WHERE a."OutletName" = 'A' AND b."OutletName" in ('B', 'F', 'D')
ORDER BY ST_Distance(a.geom, b.geom) desc
limit 1;

The bottleneck in this query will not be the spatial calculation since it is only three distance calculations between points, but to find the OutletName fast. Because of that you will maybe save a efw milliseconds if you put an index n the OutletName column.
edit:
From Whubers comment I guess I am misunderstanding something here, but I let it be for now.
HTH
Nicklas

A: For evaluating this problem with many more points, use a KNN-distance method, with a CROSS JOIN LATERAL to gather each point's closest point. As always, make sure you have a spatial index on the geometry column, and it's recommended to use a projected spatial reference system (not lat/long).
This is a query that returns the top 10 farthest points in my_points with 650,000 rows, taking only one minute to complete:
SELECT a.gid, b.gid, a.geom <-> b.geom AS distance
FROM my_points a
CROSS JOIN LATERAL (
  SELECT b.gid, b.geom
  FROM my_points b
  WHERE a.gid <> b.gid
  ORDER BY a.geom <-> b.geom ASC LIMIT 1
) AS b
ORDER BY a.geom <-> b.geom DESC LIMIT 10;


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#ifndef HASH_TABLE_H
#define HASH_TABLE_H

#include "ace/config-all.h"

#if !defined (ACE_LACKS_PRAGMA_ONCE)
# pragma once
#endif /* ACE_LACKS_PRAGMA_ONCE */

#include "Options.h"
#include "List_Node.h"
#include "ace/Copy_Disabled.h"

/**
 * Hash table used to check for duplicate keyword entries.
 *
 * This implementation uses "double hashing."
 *
 * @todo This class should be replaced by something in ACE, e.g.,
 * ACE_Hash_Map_Manager.  Perhaps we should implement a new
 * ACE_Hash_Map that uses double hashing, however!
 */
class Hash_Table : private ACE_Copy_Disabled
{
public:
  /// Constructor
  Hash_Table (size_t s);

  /// Destructor
  ~Hash_Table (void);

  List_Node *find (List_Node *item, int ignore_length);

private:
  /// Vector of pointers to linked lists of List_Node's.
  List_Node **table_;

  /// Size of the vector.
  size_t size_;

  /// Find out how well our double hashing is working!
  int collisions_;
};

#endif /* HASH_TABLE_H */

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The Last Billable Hour
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PLEASE JOIN ME AS I READ FROM MY SILICON VALLEY THRILLER
"Wickedly Hilarious"
– Hank Phillippi Ryan, award-winning author of Say No More
When: Wednesday, May 3 from 6:00 to 7:30 pm
Reading, Q&A, and Signing
Where: Book Passage, San Francisco
Ferry Building Marketplace
1 Ferry Bldg #42
"A financial and legal thriller with rich character development that creates an absolutely compelling stay-up-all-night read."
—Alice La Plante, award-winning author of Turn of Mind
I look forward to seeing you there!
Feel free to reach out if you have any questions.
Come help me launch my new Silicon Valley Thriller
When: Saturday, December 3 from 11:00 to 2:00 pm
11:00 am: Reading, Q&A, and Signing
Noon – 2:00 pm: Informal author meet & greet and signing
Where: Barnes & Noble, Redlands
27460 West Lugonia Avenue, Redlands, Ca.
20% of all proceeds will go to ADK Group, a charitable teacher's union, for student programs.
"A financial and legal thriller with rich character development that creates an absolutely compelling stay-up-all-night read." —Alice La Plante, award-winning author of Turn of Mind
"Wolfe made her debut in 1989 with The Last Billable Hour, which won an Edgar Award for Best First Novel. Her accomplished, amusing follow-up, a thriller set in California's Silicon Valley, stars paralegal Georgia Griffin. Georgia, who has escaped from Piney, Ark., to a paralegal job at Lumina Software, sets out to impress her boss, general counsel Ken Madigan, and to earn enough money to move out of her car and to bring her 15-year-old sister, Katie-Ann, to live with her. When Georgia discovers that some Lumina staff members are unproductive or obstructive or crooked, she decides to use the skills that she learned from her con artist father, who's currently in prison, to neutralize her adversaries in such departments as sales, legal, and personnel. Her efforts bring positive changes as well as deadly danger. Wolfe, a lawyer who knows the high-tech world, makes a very welcome return." —Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)
Rating: A- "Georgia Griffin was raised in Piney, Arkansas by her con man father. He has trained her in all of his skills but she is determined to follow a law-abiding path to life. So after taking a paralegal course, she drives to Silicon Valley and interviews for a number of jobs, sleeping at night in her car to preserve her meager resources. She is nothing like the other candidates she is up against, but by some miracle she manages to get hired to work in the legal department of Lumina Software. From the outset Georgia is determined to make a difference and it soon becomes obvious to her that means using her "skills" to get rid of some of the employees who are keeping Lumina from being a great company. Thus begins a quiet campaign of subtle manipulation worthy of Horace Rumpole himself.
Some may wonder if this is a crime novel with some justification. It is more a legal thriller and there are some deaths along the way, but it doesn't fit the mold of your normal mystery. Don't let that deter you or you'll miss a lot of fun.
I particularly enjoyed the insights into corporate life and work within an in-house legal department. It made me recall my few years in a similar situation (in-house counsel) and the wrangling between our department and the marketing department or the egocentric corporate management. We wanted to do everything within the bounds of legality. They wanted to do what they wanted to do and then have us fix the problem or find a legal way to do it. Some things never change.
Georgia is a gem of a main character—an employee not afraid to use her "cons" to give the incompetent and malevolent Lumina employees their just desserts. The book is a bit too long and there are some passages when Susan Wolfe gets into the legal "weeds." But Wolfe's legal expertise, good sense of humor and writing chops make ESCAPE VELOCITY a real winner.
If the author's name seems familiar to you old timers, it's because she won the Edgar Award in 1989 for THE LAST BILLABLE HOUR!" —Deadly Pleasures
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Contact: David Ivester
Palo Alto, CA — Steelkilt Press will release
Escape Velocity by Susan Wolfe
When does the Con become the Artist?
Georgia Griffin has just arrived in Silicon Valley from Piney, Arkansas on very bald tires, having firmly rejected her beloved father's life as a con artist. Her father is in jail and a certain minister is hugging her mother for Jesus while eyeing Georgia's little sister, Katie-Ann. Georgia desperately needs to keep her new job as paralegal for Lumina Software so she can provide a California haven for her sister before it's too late.
While she's still living in her car, Georgia realizes that incompetence and self-dealing have a death grip on her new company. She decides to adapt her extensive con artist training—just once—to clean up the company. But success is seductive. Soon Georgia is an avid paralegal by day and a masterful con artist by night, using increasingly bold gambits designed to salvage Lumina Software. Then she steps into the shadow of a real crime and must decide: Will she risk her job, the roof over her sister's head, and perhaps her very soul?
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Susan Wolfe is a lawyer with a B.A. from the University of Chicago and a law degree from Stanford University. After four years of practicing law full time, she bailed out and wrote the best-selling novel, The Last Billable Hour, which won the Edgar Award for Best First Novel. She returned to law for another sixteen years, first as a criminal defense attorney and then as an in-house lawyer for Silicon Valley high-tech companies. Born and raised in San Bernardino, California, she now lives in Palo Alto, California, with her husband, Ralph DeVoe. Her new novel, Escape Velocity, will be published in October of 2016.
Visit the author's website at www.authorsusanwolfe.com
Praise for Susan Wolfe &
"Not only highly entertaining, but also insightful and informative about Silicon Valley's high tech industry, whose principals are not always what they claim."
—Barbara Babcock, Professor Emerita of Stanford Law School, and author of Woman Lawyer: The Trials of Clara Foltz and Recollections
—Alice LaPlante, Award-winning author of Turn of Mind
"Instantly addictive and disconcertingly credible, Escape Velocity will send the unwary reader pell-mell through the mazy proceedings and gamesmanship of corporate Silicon Valley. This exhilarating novel is shot through with shrewd humor and keen observation."
—Lynn Stegner, author of For All the Obvious Reasons
"A lawyer herself, Susan Wolfe serves her damages with skill and obvious glee."
(The Last Billable Hour)
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Building a 137 bushel CPS crop
It's the whole agronomic program that will allow farmers to push yields to new limits
Posted Nov. 13th, 2015 by Lee Hart
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Photo: Fred Wood
Achieving a 137 bushel per acre yield on CPS wheat in a relatively dry year is certainly noteworthy, but Fred Wood, an Alberta consulting agronomist says the real story is about the benefits of having a complete agronomy program.
Varieties are important to some extent, says Wood who owns Meridian Ag Consulting, but the real key is a whole package of inputs and management, which makes it reasonable to push for higher yields.
Wood was commenting on yields of AAC Penhold CPS wheat grown on Thompson Family Farms near Spruceview in west central Alberta. Working with Wood, the Thompsons had targeted a 130 bushel yield. The crop averaged 137. Similarly with hard red spring wheat they had targeted 90 bushels and yields averaged 94 bu./ac. Feed barley with 17 per cent hail damage had an actual yield of 139 — without the hail it would have been about 150 bu./ac. Malt barley came in at 131 bu./ac.
"Achieving these higher yields isn't necessarily about variety, but involves a whole package of good agronomic practices," says Wood. "It isn't really any one thing that makes the difference." He says obviously weather is factor, but even in a relatively dry year like 2015, these higher than average yields are achievable with proper inputs and management.
"I believe it is important for the farmer to have a good relationship with their agronomist," says Wood. He has worked with Thompson Farms for the past 13 years. "You sit down and talk about realistic targets and develop a plan. As you look at pushing the boundaries of yield, you have to consider all aspects like the legs of a three-legged stool. You have to consider the agronomics, the asset management of the farm and of course the marketing. If you can achieve those higher yields, the return on investment doesn't take long to add up."
The secrets to high-yielding CPS
This high-yielding CPS wheat is a good example of the program that Wood and Thompson Farms developed.
The year started out seeding the variety into a good seed bed with "excellent moisture." Targeting 130 bushel yield, Thompsons applied 90 pounds of nitrogen as spring banded anhydrous ammonia just ahead of seeding. Seeding into pea stubble, they also applied a fertilizer blend of 20-20-0-10 in the seed row.
The crop had good even emergence and later in the season was treated with an in-crop weed control product. One important new tool also applied was Manipulator plant growth regulator (PGR) at the five- to six-leaf stage.
"This was the first year they had used Manipulator, but I feel it is important tool farmers have to consider as they target higher yields," says Wood. "It would be foolish to grow some of these wheats with this high fertility and not use it. With the CPS for example you're pushing it 20 bushels past its standability limit, so you need to use something." Last year the Thompsons had applied Etherl, a long-established PGR developed by Bayer CropScience. It was effective for reducing crop height and standability in hard red spring wheat — it was as much as four to six inches shorter — but it has to be applied with very specific timing. Wood says there is a one or two day, maybe three-day window for effective use of Ethrel. Manipulator has a much wider window of safe application, although it's optimum performance is at Growth Stage 31.
Along with the PGR, the Thompsons also later in the season — late boot to early heading — applied the fungicide Prosaro. "A fungicide is another important tool for boosting yield," says Wood. "Diseases such as stripe rush and leaf spotting diseases such as tan spot and septoria leaf blotch can really set the crop back. The level of disease is sometimes unpredictable, you may see it in the crop, or know it is in the area, it is sometimes hard to judge, but the fungicide can provide a big yield boost in high yielding cereal crops."
Although the crop started with good moisture, overall it was a hot, dryer growing season, says Wood. This CPS was seeded on heavier soil with high organic matter content that helped to hold moisture for the crop. There were a couple timely half inch showers, but overall he figures the crop could have used at least another 1.5 inches of rain.
The crop held with fairly even maturity making it possible to straight combine in September. Wood says the PGR didn't have a dramatic affect on reducing the height of the CPS wheat but it did help to strengthen the stem and improve standability. He says PGR treated CPS wheat was about one inch shorter, but the product still worked. The PGR had a more visible affect on the height of the hard red spring wheat.
"As farmers target these high yields they need to use the full agronomic package," says Wood. "That includes soil testing so you know your starting point, know what the crop needs. It can also include tissue sampling during the season to determine any deficiencies. The farmer needs to work with the agronomist to set targets, use the tools that are available, and rely on the agronomist to take the lead in monitoring of the crop."
Wood says the Thompsons plan to continue with a similar program to target higher yielding crops. "This isn't the first year they've seen their CPS wheats and barley in that 130 bu./ac. range, but I think it is important as farmers push yields to get comfortable with producing a certain yield before they look at fine tuning that may take them to the next level."
Tagged agronomy, crop yields, PGR, Spring Wheat


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Laughing City Forum Index -> eisleyBlog -> ~~~~~~~MERRIMENT 2015~~~~~~~
cynlovescandy
norad wrote:
Best review ever.
I'm sure my thoughts will be more eloquent after ice cream, and a few listens through. Hi, Nora!
You can't find love; you have to create it.
Joined: 31 May 2004 | Posts: 2018 | Location: Sacramento, CA
cynlovescandy wrote:
I'm finally getting around to listening,
and so yeah, I'm basically sobbing.
It's so beautiful.
I need ice cream.
One sentence shy of the 5 sentences I'm looking for...
So close, yet so far.
why not take a swing at it? i think this is five sentences lol
Sway, the debut album from indie folk-pop act Merriment is a breath of fresh air in the singer/songwriter genre. The album is a natural growth from their first release (the 'Through the Rough' EP), with more orchestration and creative arrangements sprucing up their already sturdy sound. Vocalist Christie DuPree's voice displays a lovely range of emotions throughout the tracks, while her brother Collin's guitar work augments but never overpowers. Highlights are 'Patterns', a love song Disney should snatch up for their next romantic film if they have any common sense, and 'Now I'm Silver', which might be the album's most timeless sounding track. Overall, the maturity in the songwriting displayed here goes beyond the age of its composers and shows great promise for future work from Merriment.
Excellent write-up. Pro-quality! PM me with how you would like to be credited and and links you'd to have listed or whimsical biographical details, akin to how we do a the close of our Memories articles. http://www.strangeyellowpatterns.com/memories/624-memories-vol-3
olimario
Laughing Citizen
I'm really liking SWAY, but I just feel like it lacks the unique identity of their first effort. It ends up sounding like some early-gen Eisley stuff and not like its own thing.
I say get back to that twangy folk Texas sound.
They do a little in 'Down by the Creek'.
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One more sentence and you qualify for the Team Review 5 sentence requirement.
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KIS, Stupid
Merriment "Backwards" Lyric Video
Nowhere Man wrote:
She sounds pretty much exactly like Sherri on the chorus.
If I heard that bit isolated and was told it was part of a song Sherri was working on, I would have little reason to doubt it.
tahruh
So we picked up the album at the Dallas show a few weeks ago, and have been playing it quite a bit since. Not having been much of a fan of Merriment myself (which is not true of my husband), I have to admit that I was really pleasantly surprised by it. I like the songs that were released to promote the album well enough but they're a little on the plain side, which has always kind of been my perception of Merriment as a whole -- pleasant but not terribly interesting, whereas a number of songs on the album are actually arranged very interestingly (particularly Tremendous Love [major Eisley vibes though]). And one or two are really gorgeous. Two Worlds is truly breathtaking. Perfectly simple.
And Christie's voice is very interesting; it's changed a lot as she's matured, and in some ways I'm not sure it's for the better, but then I'm not sure if what I'm hearing is genuine change and not just style experimentation. At times she sounds exactly like Stacy at her best, and others she does sound like she could be Sherri, which is less appealing to me. But there are even times she sounds exactly like Chauntelle!
So yeah, I suppose that I've been converted!
Albert Camus wrote:
Always go too far, because that's where you'll find the truth.
Joined: 04 May 2007 | Posts: 3862 |
pretty much what tahruh said. I'm really enjoying the album, a lot more than I expected too.
Favorites are Patterns, Now I'm Silver, Spill, Unhinged.
inorbit
tungsten wrote:
...every time Patterns comes on in the car, I turn it up a bit and the wife makes faces. Don't like the album arrangement as much as the Music Shed session version though.
Joined: 06 Jan 2008 | Posts: 1751 | Location: Dallas
Best version of Patterns so far for me was their live performance at the Troubadour in 2011, (just Christie and Collin, same as music shed performance). The new arrangement does work for me though too as a bigger, more full band sound (could have been a radio single in a better decade).
Has anyone seen a Merriment CD somewhere besides their record label or at a concert?
No 'who buys physical media' comments, please. =)


So excited to finally be sharing music from my LP which is, by default, 6-7 years in the making. This track is called "Who I Am," written, recorded, and produced by yours truly. However, a HUGE credit goes to master audio engineer Ryoji Hata, for swooping in and taking this and the other nine records, hearing their mixes, and coming up with some kickass masters. Thank you SO much Ryoji!
Please enjoy, like, and share with the tag #WhoIAmA (don't forget the A, for Anomaly). This will be available for a limited time only; I will post the next track once I get enough feedback for this one. You can visit http://iamanomaly.com/ for more info on the upcoming album. Thank you for your patience and continued support!!


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Le château de la Haichois est un château situé dans la commune de Mordelles, dans le département français d'Ille-et-Vilaine, région Bretagne.

Localisation

Le domaine se trouve au lieudit du même nom à l'est du bourg de la commune de Mordelles, au nord de la rivière Meu et de la route départementale D34.

Historique

Le château a été construit en 1888 par l'architecte Ambroise Baudry pour le comte Odon de Toulouse-Lautrec, oncle du peintre, à la place d'un édifice du 17e siècle.

Il est inscrit à l'inventaire général du patrimoine culturel. Il fait l'objet d'une inscription pour l'intérieur (cage d'escalier, décor intérieur, escalier, salle à manger, salon, vestibule) au titre des monuments historiques le .

Description et architecture
Le château est constitué des communs, d'un colombier, d'une chapelle et d'un parc. La chapelle date du , ainsi que le colombier. Il possède un parc à l'anglaise.

Références

Voir aussi

Articles connexes
Château de la Haute-Forêt
Liste des châteaux d'Ille-et-Vilaine
 Liste des monuments historiques d'Ille-et-Vilaine

Monument historique en Ille-et-Vilaine
Monument historique inscrit en 2007
Architecture civile du XIXe siècle en Bretagne
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A bar or a pub is an establishment that sells alcoholic beverages like beer, wine, liquor cocktails and the likes. Since bars are public drinking places, the customers here are a mixture of different races and cultures. Here are some bar etiquette that you may want to keep in mind to maintain a friendly atmosphere among the people inside a bar.
1.Bring cash. If you are alone in a bar and having only a drink, you should pay in cash. You are wasting the bartender's time and delaying his tip if you're not.
2.Don't ask the bartender to give you a little extra. Most bars measure their shots and drinks. They have rules with regards to the amount of serving and managers watch carefully if the staff follow the rules, since they make money out of beverages.
3.Don't get attention by whistling or snapping your fingers. It is rude and insulting.
4.Don't argue. There are times, people inside the bar would drink more than what is good for them. If you happen to be in that situation, don't argue with the bartender. It is better to leave the bar.
5.Make sure to tip the bartender. Tip more if you've got a better service.
You would think some of these would be common sense. haha! However, I know how people work and sense is not always so common.
Tip the bartender is so important! I don't know why so many people don't do that. Thank you for this post!
I agree with the above commenters because these really are common sense. I can understand when people don't oxide by these rules of etiquette though depending on their circumstances.
These are so important! I feel like you often see characters in films and tv shows snapping their fingers to get the bartender's attention, but I couldn't imagine doing that myself!
These are some great etiquette tips when going to a bar or pub. I cannot believe some people actually are rude enough to do the things you listed on the post.
Whistling or snapping fingers is rude. I wouldn't like that at all if it were me.
Haha, I love this post. I'm not a bartender but asking for extra liquor and not having cash would be so annoying I bet.


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Legends, Myths and Stories | Uses | Nutrient Content | Bibliography
Eryngium maritimum L.
Umbelliferae
Umbel family
Eringo
Roots, leaves
A beautiful, very hardy perennial; the root grows 8-10 feet long set with rings and circles toward the upper part, cut smooth and without joints down lower, brownish on the outside, and very white within, with a pith in the middle, and the plant grows 1 foot tall with broad, spiny, grayish-blue leaves and pale blue flowers surrounded by spiny bracts. The tough, spiky leaves are of a pearly-gray color. The flowers are blue and mildly scented. blooming at the end of summer. Seeds follow the blooms a month later. The flowers are frequently dried for winter bouquets.
Another variety: Also called sea holly (E. alismaefolium), called "Momono Kaiyu" by the Paiutes, the Native Americans steeped the whole plant to treat diarrhea. This is a tiny plant 2 inches high and is rare.
Found on sea coasts. A native of Europe.
Antispasmodic, emmenagogue, stomachic
Legends, Myths and Stories
The decocted root, known as Eryngo, not to be confused with (E. aquaticum) which is also called Eryngo, was once a favorite sweetmeat. It is still popular in the Middle East.
Roots and leaves are used for uterine irritations and bladder diseases, glandular deficiencies, used as a nervine and tonic. The decoction of the root in wine is very effective on the spleen and liver, helps jaundice, dropsy, treats the French pox, ague, swollen lymph glands, snakebites are healed rapidly, pains of the loins, colic, promotes urine, expels stones, and promotes women's menses. The roots are nutritious and can be candied for a confection. Like most plants with fragrant blue flowers (lavender and violet), sea holly is good for nerves.
Nutrient Content
Rich in minerals, especially iron, magnesium, silica, and iodine
Culpeper's Complete Herbal & English Physician: Updated With 117 Modern Herbs , by Nicholas Culpeper, Meyerbooks, publisher, PO Box 427, Glenwood, Illinois 60425, 1990, (reprint of 1814)
The Magic of Herbs , by David Conway, published by Jonathan Cape, Thirty Bedford Square, London, England. (Out of print)
Indian Uses of Native Plants , by Edith Van Allen Murphey, Meyerbooks, publisher, PO Box 427, Glenwood, Illinois 60425, copyright 1958, print 1990
The Rodale Herb Book: How to Use, Grow, and Buy Nature's Miracle Plants (An Organic gardening and farming book) , edited by William H. Hylton, Rodale Press, Inc. Emmaus, PA, 18049., 1974


Signing contracts and getting official!
It's been crazy lately. After announcing I'd found myself an agent, I went public (well, on Facebook and Twitter anyway) about my two book deal. It still feels weird saying that. But, its happening. I signed the publishing contract last week and today, I'll deliver both novels. OH MY ACTUAL GOD.
It has been one hell of a crazy year. Since publishing Together Apart, things have just gone from crazy to crazier – and I've spent most of the time smiling like a loon. Of course, I do have to remind myself that this is work. That, after today, I won't be in paid employment anymore. And that comes with a whole lot of behind the scenes stuff. I've had to find an accountant, make myself a Ltd company, open up a business bank account and register for a new EIN from the Inland Revenue. It's fair to say that it was all a bit overwhelming, not helped by the fact that I had a strict deadline to get it all done by, since I'm flying to India tonight.
But, its all done. Everything that needed to be filed, has been filed. And registered, and so on and so on. Now, all I've got left to do is get the proofs back for Pull, get the cover sorted, start publicising it and get it out for release. And learn shiatsu every day. Eek. And all that said? I wouldn't change any of it for the world.


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Kidnapped. Tortured. Corrupted. He stole me away in the middle of the night. A windowless cell with a floor of stone became my new home. He took and he took, until I had nothing left to entertain him with. And then I was abandoned and left to die, just like all the other girls. He has no idea I'm alive. He doesn't know he woke the devil inside me. When I find him, nothing in the world will be strong enough to save his tar black soul. 18+ Reader discretion is highly advised. Complete standalone novella. No cliffhanger. Loosely connected to DEVILS WITH HALOS.


Tonight on The Nondescript Atheist, sad news, Linkin Park singer, Chester Bennington, died, and McCain has brain cancer. Also, The Ark Encounter gets sold, to itself, for $10, to avoid taxes.
We had an interesting show fraught with technical difficulties, so I had to rename it. This is why it took so long to post. Enjoy.


What's Behind the Abortion Decline?
The number of abortions in America continues to fall. A new Associated Press survey found that abortions decreased by 12 percent from 2010 to 2015. Overall, abortion rates in the U.S. are at their lowest since Roe v. Wade legalized abortion in 1973.
The decline occurred both in conservative states and more liberal ones. Pro-life advocates say the laws regulating abortions are partially to credit, whereas pro-choice advocates say education initiatives and the widening availability and affordability of contraception is responsible for the drop.


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John E. McAuliffe
by John McAuliffe | 01 Nov 2002 | Biographies
John McAuliffe was born in Brooklyn, New York, and at the age of twelve moved to Worcester, Massachusetts. He served as Private First Class, a squad member of an 81mm mortar section with Company M, 347th Infantry Regiment of the 87th Infantry Division during World War II.
He was awarded the Combat Infantryman's Badge, the Bronze Star Medal, and participated in the Ardennes, Rhineland, and Central Europe Campaigns in World War II.
During the Korean War period, he served as a 1st Lieutenant in the Dental Corps, US Army, and his assignment was at Ft. Lesley J. McNair in Washington, DC.
He retired from the practice of dentistry after 37 years. He resides in Worcester, Massachusetts.
In 1990 he joined the Veterans of the Battle of the Bulge Organization, and in April of 1992 he founded the Central Massachusetts Chapter, of which he serves as President with over 200 members.
He served as Commander of the 87th Infantry Division Association from 1998-1999. On November 11, 2000, he was awarded the Veteran of the Year Award by the Worcester Veterans Council, and has served as their Commander as well.
John McAuliffe
M Company, 347th Infantry Regiment


The dividend Decision is one of the core elements of modern corporate financial management. A reasonable dividend Decision will help the company in the capital markets and establish a good corporate image for the company's long-term development and create favorable conditions for the listed company's financial decision-making, dividend Decision has a positive significance.
Appropriate dividend distribution Decision can not only set a good corporate image, but also to build the confidence of investors in the company's future prospects, thus creating a good corporate financing environment, the company's long-term stable development.
The present project aims to study the need for dividend Decision; study the different theories on dividend Decisions; determine the growth rate based on return on equity; and review the dividend Decisions of top automobile companies.
Automobile companies generally follow a Decision of announcing dividend in proportion to their earnings. The average Dividend Payout Ratio of automobile companies is around 30% which means that they are paying out 30% of their earnings in the form of Dividends.


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The C20 West group in Park Row, Bristol (photo: Jack Konynenburg)
Bristol visit: February 2016
29/02/2016 by Susannah Straughan
Who said that there were few C20 buildings of interest in Bristol?
Jack and Jan Konynenburg proved them wrong when they led a group of C20 members around the centre of the city on a bright but cold last Saturday in February.
After warming coffee and cake at the cafe in The Guild in Park Street, we were led into College Green to view the Council House, stopping on the way to see the Wills Memorial Tower and a Banksy wall painting. A greater contrast between all three could not be imagined, and this set the tone for the rest of the walk.
We saw the Library building, Millennium Square, the refurbished harbourside buildings and a 60s multi-storey car park, a favourite of Jack's, before heading into the famous Queen Square and King Street.
An interesting and popular feature of Jack and Jan's walks is the discussion about the various buildings between the C20 members and the facts and observations that emerge from these exchanges.
The contrast between the Art Nouveau-style Edward Everard building in Broad Street and the adjoining 60s office building was the subject of much comment, for example.
We finished with a climb up Christmas Steps and along Park Row, stopping only for a group photo outside an iconic 'loo' building, before descending on the cafe in The Guild again for lunch.
After lunch several members visited the Ken Stradling Collection in the adjoining building. The collection houses C20 objects, including furniture, paintings, glass and especially ceramics, all collected by Ken over the last 70 years.
It was a fitting end to a very enjoyable C20 West group event. Thanks to Jack and Jan for all their hard work in planning, researching and leading the walk.
Bob Hardcastle
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