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package app

import jp.sf.amateras.scalatra.forms._

import service._
import util.{CollaboratorsAuthenticator, ReferrerAuthenticator}
import util.Implicits._

class MilestonesController extends MilestonesControllerBase
  with MilestonesService with RepositoryService with AccountService
  with ReferrerAuthenticator with CollaboratorsAuthenticator

trait MilestonesControllerBase extends ControllerBase {
  self: MilestonesService with RepositoryService
    with ReferrerAuthenticator with CollaboratorsAuthenticator  =>

  case class MilestoneForm(title: String, description: Option[String], dueDate: Option[java.util.Date])

  val milestoneForm = mapping(
    "title"       -> trim(label("Title", text(required, maxlength(100)))),
    "description" -> trim(label("Description", optional(text()))),
    "dueDate"     -> trim(label("Due Date", optional(date())))
  )(MilestoneForm.apply)

  get("/:owner/:repository/issues/milestones")(referrersOnly { repository =>
    issues.milestones.html.list(
      params.getOrElse("state", "open"),
      getMilestonesWithIssueCount(repository.owner, repository.name),
      repository,
      hasWritePermission(repository.owner, repository.name, context.loginAccount))
  })

  get("/:owner/:repository/issues/milestones/new")(collaboratorsOnly {
    issues.milestones.html.edit(None, _)
  })

  post("/:owner/:repository/issues/milestones/new", milestoneForm)(collaboratorsOnly { (form, repository) =>
    createMilestone(repository.owner, repository.name, form.title, form.description, form.dueDate)
    redirect(s"/${repository.owner}/${repository.name}/issues/milestones")
  })

  get("/:owner/:repository/issues/milestones/:milestoneId/edit")(collaboratorsOnly { repository =>
    params("milestoneId").toIntOpt.map{ milestoneId =>
      issues.milestones.html.edit(getMilestone(repository.owner, repository.name, milestoneId), repository)
    } getOrElse NotFound
  })

  post("/:owner/:repository/issues/milestones/:milestoneId/edit", milestoneForm)(collaboratorsOnly { (form, repository) =>
    params("milestoneId").toIntOpt.flatMap{ milestoneId =>
      getMilestone(repository.owner, repository.name, milestoneId).map { milestone =>
        updateMilestone(milestone.copy(title = form.title, description = form.description, dueDate = form.dueDate))
        redirect(s"/${repository.owner}/${repository.name}/issues/milestones")
      }
    } getOrElse NotFound
  })

  get("/:owner/:repository/issues/milestones/:milestoneId/close")(collaboratorsOnly { repository =>
    params("milestoneId").toIntOpt.flatMap{ milestoneId =>
      getMilestone(repository.owner, repository.name, milestoneId).map { milestone =>
        closeMilestone(milestone)
        redirect(s"/${repository.owner}/${repository.name}/issues/milestones")
      }
    } getOrElse NotFound
  })

  get("/:owner/:repository/issues/milestones/:milestoneId/open")(collaboratorsOnly { repository =>
    params("milestoneId").toIntOpt.flatMap{ milestoneId =>
      getMilestone(repository.owner, repository.name, milestoneId).map { milestone =>
        openMilestone(milestone)
        redirect(s"/${repository.owner}/${repository.name}/issues/milestones")
      }
    } getOrElse NotFound
  })

  get("/:owner/:repository/issues/milestones/:milestoneId/delete")(collaboratorsOnly { repository =>
    params("milestoneId").toIntOpt.flatMap{ milestoneId =>
      getMilestone(repository.owner, repository.name, milestoneId).map { milestone =>
        deleteMilestone(repository.owner, repository.name, milestone.milestoneId)
        redirect(s"/${repository.owner}/${repository.name}/issues/milestones")
      }
    } getOrElse NotFound
  })

}

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Hey everyone, long time since i've been here but i recently purchased a new SSD for my PC. I bought this one at the price of $154.95 at the time: Amazon.com: Samsung Electronics 840 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5-Inch SATA III Single Unit Version Internal Solid State Drive MZ-7TE250BW: Computers & Accessories. It is on it's way next week or so.
Did much research and is a great deal that i couldnt pass up. I have some questions about cloning after doing some research as well. In my situation, my HDD is partitioned in two drives for my 1TB: 149GB and 781GB, so the small portion is only OS and applications and a few drivers. I believe i clone the smaller portion and the rest should be history but does this mean I can delete the old portion of my HDD or must I keep it at all times? I would like to get that space back and perhaps combine it with my Local D drive using GParted LiveCD or something. I plan on buying a new 2 or 3TB HDD in the summer to replace this 1TB while the 1TB can be used for whatever i want it to be. What are my best options to make this transition painless and as fast as possible? Also, should I have all my drivers on the smaller partition before cloning so I can keep it all on the same drive?
Cloning software: CloneZilla is what I use, and would recommend.
As for the actual cloning, you can clone individual partitions. What I would do (and several other people here would also recommend the same thing) is create an image of the partition(s) to an external, or separate HDD. Not sure if it's safe to clone to a separate partition on the same HDD or not - I'm guessing it would be fine though if you wanted to do that. Also, make sure you select the system boot partition from the 1TB as well as your 149GB partition (I believe the system boot is 100MB); otherwise you'll have to rebuilt your boot sector which can be a pain to do.
Then, once that is done, clone that image to the SSD. That way your main drive is never touched except read from - funky things can happen sometimes, and boot sectors can get totally FUBAR'd by cloning sometimes.
This should ALWAYS be done after cloning to a new HDD to get rid of any flags for the drive.
After you know you can successfully boot into Windows from your SSD, then re-connect your 1TB, boot into GParted, and delete the partitions you cloned, and then expand your 781GB data partition to fill up the rest of the space.
I shouldnt use the software that comes with the SSD? How do i the chkdsk through DOS command only? I forget how to access that window.
Start -> type: cmd -> right click / run as admin -> chkdsk c: /b -> Will say it cannot lock current drive and to run on next reboot -> Type Y and hit enter.
This is why I suggested using CloneZilla . You can make images based off of partitions or whole disks.
Awesome. Do you suggest I have all my drivers on the main partition before cloning or dont worry about that?
UPDATE: Trying to download and prepare Clonezilla. It is confusing :/.
Not sure what you mean. Your drivers are stored (once installed) in Windows directories. So when you clone it, they will get cloned as well.
drivers for my motherboard, GPU, etc are on the D drive and not the C drive.
Are you saying you moved these folders to your other drive?
Or do you mean you installed the GUI interface programs to your other drive?
An overdue update but I actually looked into the software provided by Samsung for my SSD. The Samsung Data Migration and Magician software seems promising and provides simple and easy way to clone my OS. Here is a link for the Data Migration part from Vortex.net explaining their process and I like it. Is there a reason that I shouldnt use this software and stick with Clonezilla instead?
Never used it, so it's up to you really lol.
I just stick to CloneZilla since it's what I've used forever.


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Home >> September 2018 Edition >> Uplink: Innovation — Adcole Maryland Aerospace: It's a small satellite world...
Uplink: Innovation — Adcole Maryland Aerospace: It's a small satellite world...
By Darko Filipi, Director of Business Development
Big space had small beginnings — Sputnik, the world's first man-made satellite, was 58 cm (23 inches) in diameter and would fit into the trunk of a family sedan. The first successful U.S. satellite, Explorer I, weighed only 14 kg. (30.66 lb.) and was 203 cm. (80 inches) long by 15.9 cm. (6.25 inches) in diameter and could easily be hoisted aloft by four people — without a crane!
Explorer-1 model being held aloft by the spacecraft's creators.
From those modest beginnings, spacecraft have grown ever larger, heavier, more sophisticated, and significantly more costly. The highly complex satellites produced by today's prime, space-faring nations are routinely the size of a city bus.
The development cycles that lead to these modern behemoths are attributable to ever-increasing technology demands and shrinking risk postures. The cost of building and launching current, state-of-the-art satellites demands that these technological marvels become ever more reliable and long-lived to justify the cost of placing them into orbit. As this vicious cycle has played out, current generations of U.S. Government spacecraft increasingly include aggregated payloads that meet the demands of multiple users within a single spacecraft.
Unfortunately, as this approach has led to increasingly larger, more sophisticated, and more expensive space assets, the U.S. finds its technological lead in space challenged, not only by traditional rivals, but also by emerging space powers. The historically evolved approach to spacecraft development is not aligned with internet-age technology advances, and the U.S. space enterprise has found that the space environment is increasingly congested, contested, and competitive. With all of the incredible sophistication built into recent prime space assets, these monolithic and aggregated satellites have such long development cycles that by the time they are deployed, their capabilities may be outdated in light of emerging needs, threats, and insight.
The great irony is that part of the solution to these troubling trends is to go back in time — to smaller, less complex spacecraft — to get to the future. As it happens, while major government and commercial developers have been focused on ever larger and more expensive satellites, innovative forces have been at work on the fringes of the space industry to meet these unfolding challenges head-on — with ever smaller and less expensive satellites.
Cubesats (built and launched in "units" of 10x10x10 cm.) emerged originally as educational projects for university students. Some of these smallsats, being inexpensive to deploy as "rideshare" payloads, have proven to be extremely well suited as testbeds of transformative technologies. These technologies can then be rapidly scaled or further developed based upon lessons learned — inexpensively — from on orbit operations.
With this boot-strap approach, some of the newest and latest space technology is now in the hands of widely varied and non-traditional users. The payload builders and spacecraft bus technology manufacturers benefit from this approach. These emerging space industry pioneers can rapidly improve their products over short cycle times, including capabilities such as advanced electric propulsion, increasing computer capacity, or laser-based intersatellite communication - all while improving product reliability and driving down costs from operational and manufacturing experience.
Cubesats are quickly growing in capability — and size. Whereas early units were a single 1U cube, these prototypical and educational models were quickly augmented by the addition of 3U cubesats and are now being followed up with 6U and 12U cubesats. The success of these smallsats has also further increased the U.S. Government appetite for other smallsat classes, including 180+ kg. satellites being launched on EELV Secondary Payload Adaptor (ESPA) launch opportunities.
These smallsats will never replace the exquisite behemoths that are the backbone of the nation's current space enterprise; however, augmenting current assets with a wide range of smaller spacecraft may be exactly the tool needed to increase resiliency in today's contested space environment. While the current crop of large platforms routinely achieve capabilities that are well beyond anything a single smallsat will ever be able to deliver, it is possible that clusters of smallsats flying in controlled formations will someday deliver capabilities that single monolithic satellites simply cannot achieve.
Large constellations of inexpensive smallsats also provide other unique advantages — for example, the ability to gather large, spatially and temporally diverse data sets due to frequent revisit times. Another attractive feature of smallsats is the ability to achieve rapid operational deployment (and replenishment), especially if built in advance and stored on the ground to be quickly pulled from a magazine and responsively launched to replace damaged or lost operational units — either partially or completely. With advancements in launch capability, replacement smallsats could be rapidly deployed when and where they are needed to provide responsive intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance — or other capabilities.
Photo of the ISS deployment of Kestrel Eye smallsat.
The scientific community has also quickly realized benefits on par with the military utility of smallsats. An entire generation of scientists and engineers is emerging that have not only built a satellite with their own hands, but have witnessed those satellites launched and they have then received their own data from the orbital operations of these satellites — an incredibly valuable education hitherto unavailable to aspiring space explorers.
Furthermore, maturing Principal Investigators have begun to rely on publications from previous smallsat projects to secure funding for new projects. As the trend of satellites becoming larger and more expensive has begun to reverse, access to smallsats is increasing the number of investigators with credentials to lead such missions — a virtuous cycle that is creating the next cadre of Principal Investigators to enhance and eventually replace the existing cohort of space scientists.
Perhaps even more surprisingly, commercial ventures have rapidly embraced the smallsat revolution to provide services that were previously only available to governments from space-faring nations. In the past, when a government organization needed data, they would develop a mission concept, finance the design and manufacture of the space assets, and obtain the data they needed — putting such ventures out of the reach of disadvantaged users.
With commercial providers (sometimes funded by Venture Capital), the data or information is the product — a product that can be shared with many customers, within and outside of space-faring governments, reducing overall mission cost and releasing hardware providers to do what they know best.
To maximize the utility of the aforementioned benefits of smallsats for government users, procurement approaches and mindsets need to realign with the evolving space enterprise. NASA and the U.S. Air Force have successfully used Other Transactional Authorities (OTAs) to develop and set the stage for acquisition of capabilities that would have otherwise never materialized.
A highly successful example is NASA's International Space Station (ISS) resupply program, known as Cargo Resupply Services. This development program was known as Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS). Within a period of less than five years, NASA's COTS program resulted in two companies that deployed two dissimilar end-to-end systems — including two new launch facilities (at the Wallops Flight Facility and Kennedy Space Center); two new launch vehicles (Antares and Falcon 9); and two new space vehicles capable of autonomous travel to the space station without the need for onboard human pilots (Cygnus and Dragon).
If the Department of Defense and other U.S. Government agencies can harness the creativity and efficiency of today's commercial space industry using similarly flexible procurement strategies, the future for small satellite space could be breathtaking. (ed note: see NASA Critical Knowledge captured from the COTS procurement and execution, www.nasa.gov/content/cots-critical-knowledge-0)
Such procurement approaches could match the innovative potential of small satellites, unleashing a wave of space exploration. Correctly and carefully applied regulations, domestic and international, can help foster the burgeoning smallsat industry.
There will be many challenges. Congestion is a common concern in the industry due to both physical conjunctions and radio frequency allocations. Some challenges can be ameliorated with technology, such as improved space situational awareness (reducing conjunction false positives) or laser-based communication, but the cooperation of existing operators in established orbits with new entrants seeking access to space is essential for the success of the industry.
Companies, such as Adcole Maryland Aerospace (AMA), have been on the front line for this new generation of smallsats. AMA built the first self-contained attitude control system for CubeSats and recently delivered the Kestrel Eye tactical imaging satellite to the US Army Space and Missile Defense Command. The experience of such companies has vastly improved and rapidly grown over a short period of time.
Smallsats will provide the capability for evolving concepts, such as responsive imagery direct to the warfighter, monitoring of deforestation, Maritime Domain Awareness — and perhaps, someday, lunar or Mars communication infrastructures, dissimilar spacecraft-borne sensors orbiting Europa, and many others... large dreams can fit into compact packages.
Adcole Maryland Aerospace was formed in April 2017 through the merger of Maryland Aerospace, Inc. (MAI) and the Adcole Corporation's aerospace division. MAI has long been a leading provider of Small Satellite and CubeSat components as well as end-to-end space systems. Adcole Corporation, now in its 60th year, has been the trusted supplier of radiation hardened and high reliability sun sensors for hundreds of LEO, GEO, and interplanetary space missions. More information about the company is available at www.adcolemai.com.
Darko Filipi is the Director of Business Development for Adcole Maryland Aerospace, LLC. In this position, he leads business development across all sectors. Before joining Adcole Maryland Aerospace, Mr. Filipi was the Deputy Director of Operations and Engagement Program Manager for the ARES Corporation in Vienna, Virginia. While with ARES, he planned and executed project tasks, and managed customer relations for the office and programs within NASA Headquarters OCT, OSMA, HEOMD, and OCE.
Mr. Filipi also worked at Orbital ATK/Orbital Sciences Corporation, in Dulles, Virginia, as a Systems Engineering for eight years. There, Mr. Filipi lead human rating efforts for two key elements of the NASA Orion Launch Abort System. As part of the Orbital ISS Commercial Resupply Services (CRS & COTS) programs, he supported the Program VP for Operation, Chief Engineer, Lead Systems Engineer in implementing incremental changes to the program, based on internal and customer direction. For the Stratolaunch Orbital Launch Vehicle, Mr. Filipi organized key reviews, including a PDR, and established the Risk Process for the program.

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For the third time in four years, singer Britney Spears is No. 1 -- as far as Internet users are concerned.
Spears topped Yahoo's annual list of the most-searched for names on the Internet. Although she did not release a record containing new material this year, she had a baby -- helping pique the interest of millions.
Spears, 24, was beaten last year by prime-time singing contest "American Idol," but topped the list the two years before that.
Erik Gunther, who compiles the list for Yahoo as its "Buzz Index list guru, said this year's top 10 were all show-business figures and showed people were fixated on pop culture icons.
In second place was 50 Cent, followed by Cartoon Network, which produces a series of risqué cartoons aimed at adults, comeback singer Mariah Carey, grunge rock group Green Day, singer and tabloid star Jessica Simpson, heiress and reality TV star Paris Hilton, rapper Eminem, singer Ciara and actress/singer Lindsay Lohan.


I wrote about (not knowing much about) dance for Modernism/modernity Print+.
Forms of a World is in the world– available at Amazon and Fordham UP.
My piece on Stanley Cavell, "No Cure for That," appeared in ASAP/Journal.
I wrote in memory of Donald Hall's poetry for The Atlantic.
Interviewed Thenjiwe Nkosi on her new paintings for ASAP/Journal.
Here's a piece on Hamlet and sanctuary cities I wrote for The Atlantic.
My first piece for Modernism/modernity's Process blog, "Process against Progress," is here.
Wrote about Emma Lazarus's famous sonnet, "The New Colossus," for The Atlantic.
My work is featured on November's Meet a Tiger at Clemson.
Reading poems at the Storymoja Festival in Nairobi on Sunday.
I've written about student protesters as the new intellectuals for The Atlantic.
Atopias: Manifesto for a Radical Existentialism, by Frédéric Neyrat and co-translated by me and Lindsay Turner, is out in October from Fordham University Press.
Honored to receive the 2017 CAAH Faculty of the Year Award for Excellence in Teaching.
Wrote a piece on poetry after (during) Trump with my friend Garry Bertholf for Viewpoint.
In French translation by Marie de Quatrebarbes in Diacritik.
Quoted in the The Atlantic on John Clare, poetics, and dispossession.
I've introduced a forum on "global poetics" with the poets Manal Al-Sheikh, Omar Berrada, Whitney DeVos, Julie Moi Aussi, Katie Peterson, NourbeSe Philip, Marie de Quatrebarbes, Emma Ramadan, Keston Sutherland, and Timothy Yu.
Honored to have received the 2017 South Carolina Arts Commission Artist Fellowship in Poetry.
The Poetry Foundation features "Poetry After Language," an ARCADE colloquy co-curated by Marijeta Bozovic (http://marijetabozovic.com/) and me.
"Poetry After Language" on ARCADE.
"Speculations: New Irish Poetry," a weekly commentary on Jacket2.
My plenary talk on lyric poetry and precarity at Yale (April 2014).


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John Melville Burgess – March 11th in African American History
By Chimsima Zuhri on March 11, 2014 in African American History, March, Religion
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March 11, 1909 John Melville Burgess, the first African American diocesan bishop in the Episcopal Church, was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Burgess earned his Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts degrees in social work from the University of Michigan in 1930 and 1931, respectively.
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January 30, 1919 Margaret Bush Wilson, lawyer and activist, was born in St. Louis, Missouri. Wilson earned her Bachelor of Science degree in economics from Talladega College in 1939 and her law degree from the Lincoln University of Missouri School of Law. After passing the bar, she was the second woman of color admitted to […]
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An ant "milk" these aphids by stroking them with his antennae, in order to get the sweet honeydew the aphids secrete when feeding on plant sap, this has given the aphids the nickname "ant cows". The sugars in honeydew are a high-energy food source, which the ant collect.
Did you know that ants evolved from some creatures looking like wasp a long time ago (in fact a very long time ago, around 120 million years)? Today there are between 12000-14000 species of ants, and they live almost all over the world, the only place without them is Antarctica and some very remote or inhospitable islands. This ant was captured in Norway.


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Peter Vogel, né le  à Fribourg-en-Brisgau et mort le  dans la même ville, est un physicien et artiste cybernétique allemand.
Il est connu pour sa pratique artistique transversale de la sculpture, de l'électronique et de l'acoustique.

Biographie
Né en 1937 à Fribourg au Bade-Wurtemberg, Peter Vogel obtient un diplôme de physique en 1965. Il travaille ensuite une dizaine d'années dans un laboratoire de recherche neurophysiologique à Bâle et s'intéresse particulièrement aux maquettes qu'il construit pour les comportements physiologiques et psychologiques. Peintre et compositeur de musique électronique, il s'implique également dans la danse et la chorégraphie. En 1969, il réalise ses premiers objets cybernétiques, modèles imaginaires de systèmes électroniques en forme de sculptures, qui réagissent à l'environnement et répondent à la lumière, à l'ombre et au son produits par le spectateur. Ses œuvres ont déjà l'aspect qui les caractérise aujourd'hui, des structures tridimensionnelles en fil de fer soudé englobant composants électroniques, transistors, cellules photoélectriques, haut-parleurs, petits moteurs électriques. Il vit et travaille à Fribourg.

Travaux

Publication
 Peter Vogel - Partitions de réactions (avec CD audio inséré), Dijon, Les presses du réel, 2009

Notes et références

Voir aussi

Articles connexes
 Cybernétique
 Art cybernétique

Liens externes

  Site officiel de l'artiste
  Galerie de travaux

Sculpteur allemand du XXe siècle
Sculpteur allemand du XXIe siècle
Plasticien allemand contemporain
Artiste contemporain allemand
Naissance en mars 1937
Naissance à Fribourg-en-Brisgau
Décès à Fribourg-en-Brisgau
Décès à 80 ans
Décès en mai 2017
Naissance dans le Troisième Reich

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My question is How to calculate the Resonance energy of Thiophene?
I know how to calculate the resonance energy of Benzene.I am applying same procedure for thiophene too.
So from moving Tetrahydrothiophene to 2,5-Dihydrothiophene, there is a change of 28.89 Kcal/ mol, so Ideally thiophene should have 28.89*2 (=57.78) Kcal/mol more energy of formation, But it has only 35.85 Kcal/mol more. This difference should be called Resonance energy i.e. 35.85-57.78=-21.93.
But in literature, it is given -29.1 Kcal/mol .
I applied the same method on furan, I got an error of only 0.1 Kcal/mol but in case of Thiophene I am getting an error of about 7 Kcal/mol.
This kind of calculations is a simplified and not error-free, point of view for resonance energy that apart its educational value, it was used by the pioneers of the issue, in order to prove that aromaticity is more than a simple sequence of simple and double bonds. However, more adequate and exact calculations of resonance energy are based on quantum equations.
Anyway and roughly, aromaticity is not only a question of (4n+2)π electrons but it also a question of a planar structure. Thus, sulfur as being more electron rich and more bulky, needs more energy to keep to molecule planar at the "1,2-3,4-5-carbanion/sulfonium" hybridization structure, which cannot be estimated by the hydrogenation enthalpy method.
sulfur as being more electron rich and bulkier needs more energy to keep to molecule planar at the "1,2-3,4-5-carbanion/sulfonium" hybridization structure, which cannot be estimated by the hydrogenation enthalpy method.
So according to this, The resonance energy calculated by hydrogenation method should be more than the actual resonance energy. As I didn't consider the energy required to make the structure planar from it's more stable conformation. But resonance energy I calculated is less than the literature value!
1). Attention because you have negative values!
Although lower in absolute value, -21.93 is higher than -29.1 in negative scale.
3). Also, the formation enthalpy of 2,5-dihydrothiophene significantly differs than the one of 2,3-dihydrothiophene, due to the conjugation of the vinyl sulfide moiety in the latter.
4). Besides, the formation enthalpy is not constant but it may vary, depending on the formation reaction that is calculated from. In other words, comparison of the formation enthalpies between dehydro-/dihydro- derivatives does not always coincide with the corresponding hydrogenation enthalpy.
Also, make sure you are using the heat of formation enthalpies for the gas state. That way molecule-molecule interactions won't contribute to an error.
1. Resonance is generally stabilizing in nature, that's why I used a negative sign. I said that I didn't consider the destabilizing effect of the planarity (as you said "needs more energy to keep to molecule planar ").
Let's consider due to the resonance of pi electrons there is an energy change of -100 Kcal/mol but it has also +20 Kcal/mol (destabilizing) energy change. So Actual Resonance energy should be -80 Kcal/mol (lower absolute value).
Since I've only considered that -100 Kcal/ mol, didn't consider that destabilizing effect, my calculation should have higher absolute value.
but it isn't!! So according to me, that error in case of Thiophene should be from another reason.
3. I've tried to use that also. Resonance energy was found out to be -23.5 Kcal/mol (using 2,3-dihydrothiophene, i.e. more accurate). But I tried to avoid it because it already has some resonance energy associated with it.
Your calculations are correct. I was wrong and strict. So, I fully apologize for this.
Imagine that you have a combustible that has a theoretical combustion heat = -21.93 kcal/mole. But during combustion an endothermic reactions occurs, which consumes +10.00 kcal/mole but the reaction product is also combustible with combustion heat = -17.17 kcal/mole.
On the one hand, sulfur consumes (unknown?) energy, in order to keep a planar molecule but on the other hand, the planar structure contributes to the stabilization of the hybridization and the aromaticity of thiophene.
The hydrogenation enthalpy is an approximate method for the calculation of aromatic energy, which has a high scientific and educational value. This method may work with benzene but it tends to be inaccurate with heteroaromatics, fused and polynuclear aromatics, aromatic ions, as well as with aromatics that have a number of members that is different than 6 because it does not take into account the size of the heteroatom, neither the difference of ring strain between the aromatic rings and their perhydro-derivatives (note that 6 members rings have ring strain ≈ 0).
More accurate results can be taken by using specific quantum equations, which are specially invented for.
Can you please refer to some literature, So that I can show it to my teacher? What are other ways? If you can write them in a nutshell, I want to know them.
On the top, are cited general methods of aromaticity estimation by molecular orbitals (MO) calculations.
On the bottom, are listed articles about the role the size and the electronegativity of the heteroatom in aromaticity, as well as the role of the empty d-orbitals of sulfur.
The last one refers on the influence of the double bond in the ring strain.


At the weekend, we welcomed back the beautiful and very talented Jacqueline Maynard of X Factor fame into our home; Jackie is a local Oxfordshire lass whose visits Cumnor Hill House from time to time to entertain residents, their family members and friends on a Thursday evening. She sings a vast repertoire of songs including You're My World by Cilla Black! She has also been very busy working with the Britain's Got Talent TV show, so we hope to see her again in the near future.


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using Avalara.AvaTax.RestClient;
using NUnit.Framework;
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.IO;
using System.Reflection;
using System.Text;

namespace Avalara.AvaTax.RestClient.Test.netstandard
{
    public class TestBase
    {
        protected AvaTaxClient _client;
        protected string _companyCode;
        protected CompanyModel _testCompany;

        [SetUp]
        public void Setup()
        {
            _client = null;
            _testCompany = null;
            try
            {
                // Create a client and set up authentication
                _client = new AvaTaxClient(GetType().Name,
                    GetType().GetTypeInfo().Assembly.ImageRuntimeVersion.ToString(),
                    Environment.MachineName,
                    AvaTaxEnvironment.Sandbox)
                    .WithSecurity(Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("SANDBOX_USERNAME"), Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("SANDBOX_PASSWORD"));

                // Verify that we can ping successfully
                var pingResult = _client.Ping();

                // Assert that ping succeeded
                Assert.NotNull(pingResult, "Should be able to call Ping");
                Assert.True(pingResult.authenticated, "Environment variables should provide correct authentication");

                _companyCode = Guid.NewGuid().ToString("N").Substring(0, 25);
                // Create a basic company with nexus in the state of Washington
                _testCompany = _client.CompanyInitialize(new CompanyInitializationModel()
                {
                    city = "Bainbridge Island",
                    companyCode = _companyCode,
                    country = "US",
                    email = "bob@example.org",
                    faxNumber = null,
                    firstName = "Bob",
                    lastName = "McExample",
                    line1 = "100 Ravine Lane",
                    mobileNumber = "206 555 1212",
                    phoneNumber = "206 555 1212",
                    postalCode = "98110",
                    region = "WA",
                    taxpayerIdNumber = "123456789",
                    name = "Bob's Hardware Store",
                    title = "Owner/CEO"
                });

                // Add a delay after creating a company
                System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(6 * 1000);

                // Assert that company setup succeeded
                Assert.NotNull(_testCompany, "Test company should be created");
                Assert.True(_testCompany.nexus.Count > 0, "Test company should have nexus");
                Assert.True(_testCompany.locations.Count > 0, "Test company should have locations");

                // Shouldn't fail
            }
            catch (Exception ex)
            {
                Assert.Fail("Exception in SetUp: " + ex);
            }
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Any cleanup required goes here
        /// </summary>
        [TearDown]
        public void TearDown()
        {
            try
            {
                // Re-fetch the company
                var company = _client.GetCompany(_testCompany.id, null);

                // Flag this company as inactive
                company.isActive = false;
                var disableResult = _client.UpdateCompany(company.id, company);

                // Assert that it succeeded
                Assert.NotNull(disableResult, "Should have been able to update this company");
                Assert.False(disableResult.isActive, "Company should have been deactivated");

                // Shouldn't fail
            }
            catch (Exception ex)
            {
                Assert.Fail("Exception in TearDown: " + ex);
            }
        }
    }
}


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RAREBYTES
HOME READER 120 REVIEW 32 INTERVIEWS BLOG SUBSCRIBE SHOP MULTIMEDIA
CREATIVE Christine Harrison
NWR Issue r23
Cruel Train
Away from the cathedral's shadow was a jaunty, bohemian but quite well-heeled area. Media people lived here when they could afford it.
Lizzie sat having a cup of really good coffee, something not to be had in her stuffy little hotel. She had come to check out the wool shop where Hilary Thomas worked but so far hadn't found it. Expensive dress shops, very good delicatessen, antique shops and a proper butcher, but so far no wool shop.
She asked the handsome young Italian behind the counter if he knew where it was. He looked baffled. 'Knitting,' she said, doing knitting actions. He shrugged and wiped the counter with a fine dismissive flourish, wiping away such stuff. Lizzie was aware that some small part of this rejection was because of her scarred face. People like women with pretty faces best – it was innate in human nature. She was used to these reactions. Charles Baker's flirtatious response had been unusual; its potency was still with her. Perhaps everything was about sex in the end she thought.
She stirred her coffee, then pressed the warm spoon down the line of the scar. She had made friends with it long ago. It had shaped her life. Because of it she had set up in business for herself – this after several failed interviews. Because of it she was released from some forms of vanity. She wore her hair in an attractive bob and used lovely bright red lipstick, but at a deep level she didn't care.
But faces told so much. She searched crowds for the faces of her lost people. She knew from experience that after a while you begin to see the missing person in theatres, in busy shops, all over the place as you momentarily turn your head. Once she thought she had seen the young man she was looking for going up the escalator as she was coming down. To this day she was not sure. And as she thought about this and drained the last of her coffee she glimpsed through the plate glass window with its gold lettering, the red-headed girl tearing along the street with a swift striding walk. She saw the bright red hair, glimpsed the face with that wide mouth. It was like being in a film. This is how it happens in films – the thought raced through her brain. Or in dreams. Out in the busy street Lizzie matched the girl's long loping stride and managed to keep her in her sights. She sensed her energy and wilfulness as they threaded their way through shoppers, jumping out of the way of old people before they were knocked over. Was she fleeing from something or someone, or perhaps flying towards someone or some urgent destination.
And now, looking wildly round for her, Lizzie thought the red-headed girl had vanished. She was just in time to see her disappear into a florist. As Lizzie approached the open door, the cool bitter scent of chrysanthemums came to meet her. Inside a fountain splashed in the middle of the spacious high-ceilinged shop, White chrysanthemums stood in silver buckets. There was a picture on the wall of a woman with lilies. But there was absolutely no one in the shop.
Lizzie ventured into the back of the place, and there seated on a low stool surrounded by Michaelmas daisies and golden rod, her red hair falling over her face, was a young girl, who when she looked up, actually did not look like Lotte at all. Only the mouth a little, and the hair. This pale girl had a wan troubled look, her former energy quite spent now. She had freckles, and dark circles under her eyes. On the table beside her was a bag of something from the bakers, – her lunch she had dashed out for most likely. Was this really the same girl she had followed?
'Can I help you madam?'
'I thought you were someone else. Someone I know. You look like her.' She didn't really look like Lotte, and Lizzie did not really know Lotte anyway, although she felt she did. 'There's no one else here?'
'No.'
'I could have come and robbed the till – if there's no one else here.'
The girl looked sarcastic, she had other things on her mind. 'I'm on my own on Wednesdays. It's usually quiet.'
'Michaelmas daisies,' said Lizzie. The girl said nothing, but went on stripping the lower leaves with cold freckled hands.
'I'll have a bunch of anemones if you have any.'
'They'll be in later this morning.
'I'm looking for a wool shop, I can't find it.'
'Round the corner and then as if you're going towards the cathedral.'
The wool shop turned out to be in a narrow house that had been converted into a shop. Inside there was hardly room to turn around. Hilary Thomas was sitting on a high stool behind the counter and a customer nearly filled the rest of the space. The customer was Mrs. Dixon. Lizzie squeezed in and stood against a wall.
The place was padded out from floor to ceiling with coloured balls of wool. Hilary wore a complicated and hideous dress, obviously hand knitted. It had scalloped cuffs which fell over her thin nervy hands.
Mrs. Dixon was buying wool to make – so it seemed – little woollen fairies and pixies. (It must mean something, thought Lizzie.) Mrs Dixon was holding six of these little creatures in her large hand. When she opened her hand to show Lizzie what she had made, Lizzie saw it was veined with grime like a gardener's hand. There was a gnome with a green jacket and tall orange hat, brown thigh boots and a white wool beard. This gnome had a wife, Mrs Dixon explained, and they should be sold as a pair. 'They are not toys,' she said. The four other little woollen people in her hand were all fairies with sequinned wings.
'They'll look nice in the window,' said Hilary. 'Last year I sold every one of them.'
'They're not toys,' repeated Mrs Dixon.
'I know that,' said Hilary.
What a morning, thought Lizzie.
Mrs Dixon was asking for more scarlet two ply for the Queen's mantle. 'The Queen of the Fairies,' Hilary knew exactly.
'I'll have to make another – I lost her.' Flown off? thought Lizzie. Mrs Dixon gave her a straight look as if she read her thoughts. 'A lot of work,' she said. 'Lots of colours in the wings. Very large wings. Nice little shoes. Everything.'
'I expect she'll turn up,' said Lizzie, leafing through a pattern book. This fairy thing was a bit strange.
'Are you looking for something in particular?' Hilary asked her. 'I'm closing soon, for lunch.'
'Oh I'll leave it for another day,; said Lizzie. 'Now I've found where you are.'
'But we still don't know where you are dear,' said Mrs Dixon. She said this kindly, rather than curiously, at least that was the impression she gave. Lizzie told her about her not very comfortable hotel, not far from The Cedars.
'Still, a change from Hull,' said Hilary, Lizzie wished they would forget about Hull.
'Walk back with us if you wish. We are going to pick up Wolfgang from school. He is going in mornings which is so good now that Lotte has gone.'
'Do you think Lotte will be back?'
Hilary shook her head. 'No," said Mrs. Dixon. 'Just a feeling, dear,' she added.
Lizzie would have liked to have pursued this, she would have expected more concern over a lost cat, but it was best not to go too fast. While Hilary tidied the shop, Lizzie went back to the florists to see if the anemones had arrived. The girl was eating a doughnut, and rinsed her fingers in the fountain before wrapping the flowers.
Mrs Dixon looked pleased when Lizzie gave them to her. They set off together, Mrs Dixon walking in front carrying her flowers, head up, as she had in the newspaper picture of her wedding.
'We just have to pick up Wolfgang from his school,' Hilary repeated. The children were standing with their teacher in the school porch waiting to be released to their parents one by one. 'Did you notice Wolfgang's teacher,' she whispered as they collected the little boy. 'Its Doctor Baker's wife. Not the sort you'd think he would be married to is she?'
Lizzie had noticed the anxious looking teacher in a green cardigan, something the same sickly colour as Hilary's hair. She imagined them together – Charles Baker and this timid looking wife. A dangerously charismatic man who had married a plain dependable woman as if he knew it would keep him in check? Perhaps it was that.
A car screeched to a halt at the crossing. Crossing the busy road Lizzie took Wolfgang's hand. Hilary was still talking in her ear above the noise of the traffic.
'Helen Baker,' said Hilary. 'She couldn't stand the sight of Lotte Gruber. Funny isn't it – when there's no reason?'
Lizzie went back after several days of investigative spadework to her sea-captain's house to pick up her mail, to think, to get her bearings, to find courage, to have a shower in her state-of-the-art shower.
It was a good place to think. Just gorse and rock. No trees. Stones worn smooth by the sea. Lizzie stooped and picked up a few, and took them inside her house.
The floor of the house was flagstone, the two steps up from kitchen to living room, worn down stone. The house itself had a stony silence. The staircase to the bedroom, though, was wood and rotten in places. It would get done one day.
Lizzie threw her briefcase on to the table and placed the handful of stones beside it.
Good to get back to the silence. If you lived a sort of lie, living an assumed character, you needed to get back in touch with yourself sometimes.
Without taking off her coat, she lit the stove and unpacked the food she had brought with her. She made hot chocolate and a cheese sandwich with rye bread she had bought at the deli, put milk in the fridge and tangerines in a bowl.
Still in her coat she sat at the table eating and drinking, peeling a tangerine. She began placing the stones in a circle as at a séance. Mrs Dixon was the largest pebble. George was the darkest one. Charles Baker was very smooth and white. Hilary slightly crumbly. She herself was dark, shining and beautiful. A hero stone.
After her meal she washed her hands carefully to get rid of the tangerine smell, and opened the small package from Germany. Lotte's stepfather had sent on a diary the girl had left, presumably by mistake, when she visited him last Christmas. Touching its shiny black cover, Lizzie knew it had a life of its own and that it would surely have a place in the patchwork of what had taken place already and what was to come.
At this very minute what was happening to the girl? Her prey. She had a sudden picture of the lifeless blood-caked body, blood-caked hair, lying in a field, and quietly removed the image from her mind. She wanted her prey alive. She must be vigilant and take the long view.
She put some music on, and found her German dictionary. To her surprise, however most of the diary was written in English. The stilted entries seemed like a daily school task. No secrets here. The sort of diary that might be left open for anyone to read. There was one entry, though: I took Wolfgang to the park. He picked up sticks from the ground and throws them at the children. He is warlike. We met Shakespeare at the tea room. Who was Shakespeare? Later pages were blank as if she had got tired of it. Several were covered in doodles, the usual thing, hearts and flowers. There were only two addresses written at the back, one the stepfather's in German, the other the Dixons' – as if just to put something down. There was a separate mobile phone number. It was copied out over and over again, starting with large clear numbers and then in smaller and smaller ones like the mouse's tail in Alice in Wonderland. Lizzie copied the number into her own black notebook.
Then she picked up George's black stone. She had seen him one afternoon at the cathedral. She had gone because the canticles were Tallis and Byrd. After the service, he had looked absorbed and troubled, and tried to avoid her, but she wasn't having any. 'Oh George,' she had said, 'the crossbow. Have you tracked one down?' It transpired that the troubled look was because he had been offered one but could not get to the out-of-town car breaker's to see it. He did not drive. Of course she offered to take him there.
As they drove into the breaker's yard Lizzie thought it did look a little like a mediaeval arms depot. 'Wants flame throwers on this lot,' observed George. He was nervous, almost shaking. There was no one about. Three dogs trotted quietly out of a shed – an Alsatian, a Rottweiler and a greyhound. 'Hello boys,' said George, through the wound down window. A man with bright hair like a dandelion strolled out. He had a red cravat and looked like a circus worker but his accent sounded public school as he called the dogs off.
George got out of the car. After a while he had emerged from the shed hugging the crossbow to his chest. 'You bought it then.' It had been found apparently in the locked boot of a Mercedes. So George had his crossbow. She put his stone back in the circle and picked up the crumbly Hilary Stone. Hilary had seemed less at ease in her own room at the Dixons, though she had lived there for years, than in her padded cell of a woolshop.
Excited by the disappearance of the nanny, as she called Lotte, after a Friday meeting she had asked Lizzie up to her room to chat. 'She even left the sponge bag in the bathroom.' 'Oh is it still there?' Lizzie had asked. 'I've got it in my drawer for safe keeping.' 'That's good of you.' 'Yes. I often used to look after Wolfgang when she was gallivanting.' 'Gallivanting?' 'I usually give him my foreign stamps to sort out.' Hilary had penfriends all over the world, she told Lizzie. She suspected Mr Dixon of steaming open her mail and wondered how Mrs Dixon put up with the strain of living with such a man. 'I think it all goes over her head, though – just as well.' 'Did the Dixons mind about Lotte's gallivanting?' 'He minds other people's business too much. Now tell me, does it smell of smoke in here? Cigarette smoke. No. Because he won't have it in the house. Smoking. I have to – in my own room – open the window if I want a cigarette. I don't know why I put up with it. He creeps about.' She clutched her packet of cigarettes as she spoke. 'Still, gallivanting is such a funny word isn't it – it can mean anything.' 'It means what it says,' said Hilary darkly.
Hilary kept a lot insider her, festering, thought Lizzie. 'Hilary never smiles,' Mrs Dixon had said. 'Still, a reason for it.' Mrs Dixon liked to have a chat if you caught her in the right mood. 'Mr Dixon is an atheist you know,' she had confided to Lizzie. 'He imagines life as a firework that shoots across the sky and then fizzles out. We don't see eye to eye on some things. Mr. Dixon said to me the other day that if you are a foreign person – I am German, you know – you never really know that person, there's always something missing, anyway.'
She had rattled on, and Lizzie had let her, of course. She told Lizzie about her spirit guide who in life had been a dean at the cathedral, and sometimes spoke in Welsh which she could not understand but that he was very handsome. 'Spirits have bodies.' Lizzie was startled. 'Indeed they have, ideal bodies of course. The body in its true perfection, all mutations, amputations, missing parts restored, scars healed.' 'No wings, then,' Lizzie had said causing a micro expression to flit across Mrs Dixon's face almost imperceptibly as she said firmly, 'Angels exist, but they are of another order. Humans do not become angels. No.' 'I'm very new to it all. A lot to learn,' Lizzie had said humbly.
Mrs Dixon made the spirit world seem like part of the web and woof of existence. Lizzie could clearly see how the possibility of the supernatural could give life an underlying purpose and excitement, especially to fractured lives.
Like her own, for example.
Lizzie picked up a scarf, and, wrapping it around her, went for a walk along the beach. She took the blank white stone which was Charles Baker with her. She could not make him out at all.
Giving in to a sudden urge, she threw him into the sea, a high curving throw and a nice splash quite far out. Tomorrow she would make her way back to find Lotte Gruber. Perhaps Shakespeare would lead her to where she was.
Christine Harrison's latest book is a collection of short stories, Red Roses for a Blue Lady, published by Parthian last summer and reviewed here by Suzannah V Evans.
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Get ironic metal up your ass with the Urban Outfitters Metallica collection
Sean O'Neal
Filed to:Music
Like classic rock and punk before it, metal has become a fashion accessory, as today's young celebrities and the sorority girls who mimic them—who all might have rocked pre-faded Ramones shirts just a few years ago—are now wearing vintage Judas Priest and Testament T-shirts, scavenged from the acne-ridden back of that guy in your junior high who tried setting his locker on fire and was never seen again. Justin Bieber, Kanye West, and Rihanna all adopted metal as an "aesthetic" several years ago, which means it's right on time for the trend to wash up in Urban Outfitters, where you can now shop an exclusive, officially licensed line of Metallica clothing without ever having to get anywhere near one of the band's concerts. They're so loud!
Featuring a limited range of items from hoodies to beanies to tees that all scream, "I like to fucking rock in a vaguely defined manner," the "Metallica For Urban Outfitters" collection was created partially in collaboration with veteran metal/hardcore artist Pushead. Most of the shirts, which come adorned with grinning skulls and shouting James Hetfields, boast a bold, all-over tie-dye print that (as with everything else on Urban Outfitters) will look absolutely terrible on anyone who's actually old enough to have listened to Metallica in its heyday, thus weeding out the fat and dying. "Kill 'Em All," to quote a pretty cool T-shirt.
While you're there, you can also pick up Urban Outfitters vinyl editions of Ride The Lightning, Master Of Puppets, Metallica, and Hardwired… To Self Destruct, all of which would look great framed in your apartment.


1. To bear, convey, or transport, by sustaining and moving the thing carried, either by bodily strength, upon a beast, in a vehicle, or in any kind of water-craft. In general, it implies a moving from the speaker or the place present or near, to a place more distant, and so is opposed to bring and fetch, and it is often followed by from, away, off, out.
He shall carry the lambs in his bosom. Is. 40.
When he dieth, he shall carry nothing away. Ps. 49.
2. To convey; as sound is carried in the air.
3. To effect; to accomplish; to prevail; to gain the object; as, to carry a point, measure, or resolution; to carry a prize; to carry a fortified town by force of arms; sometimes followed by it.
Whose wills will carry it over the rest.
4. To bear out; to face through.
If a man carries it off, there is so much money saved.
5. To urge, impel, lead or draw, noting moral impulse.
Pride or passion will carry a man to great lengths.
Men are carried away with imaginary prospects. See Eph. 4:14. Heb. 13:9.
6. To bear; to have.
In some vegetables, we see something that carries a kind of analogy to sense.
7. To bear; to show, display or exhibit to view.
The aspect of every one in the family carries satisfaction.
8. To imply or import.
To quit former tenets carries an imputation of ignorance.
9. To contain or comprise.
He thought it carried something of argument in it, to prove that doctrine.
10. To extend or continue in time, as to carry a historical account to the first ages of the world; but usually with a particle, as to carry up or carry back, to carry forward.
11. To extend in space, as to carry a line or a boundary; or in a moral sense, as to carry ideas very far.
12. To support or sustain.
13. To bear or produce, as trees.
Set them a reasonable depth, and they will carry more shoots upon the stem.
14. To manage or transact, usually with on; as, to carry on business.
15. To carry ones self, to behave, conduct or demean.
He carried himself insolently. Sometimes with it; as, he carried it high.
16. To remove, lead or drive.
And he carried away all his cattle. Gen. 31.
17. To remove; to cause to go.
And the king of Assyria did carry away Israel to Assyria. 2 Kings 18.
18. To transport; to affect with extraordinary impressions on the mind. Rev. 17.
19. To fetch and bring.
Young whelps learn easily to carry.
20. To transfer; as, to carry an account to the ledger.
War was to be diverted from Greece by being carried into Asia.
To carry coals, to bear injuries.
To carry off, to remove to a distance; also, to kill, as to be carried off by sickness.
1. to promote, advance, or help forward; to continue; as, to carry on a design; to carry on the administration of grace.
2. To manage or prosecute; as, to carry on husbandry.
3. To prosecute, continue or pursue; as, to carry on trade or war.
To carry through, to support to the end; to sustain or keep from failing, or being subdued.
Grace will carry a man through all difficulties. Hammond.
To carry out, to bear from within; also, to sustain to the end; to continue to the end.
To carry away, in seamanship, is to break; to carry sail till a spar breaks; as, to carry away a fore-topmast.
1. To run on rotten ground, or on frost, which sticks to the feet, as a hare.
2. To bear the head in a particular manner, as a horse. When a horse holds his head high, with an arching neck, he is said to carry well. When he lowers his head too much, he is said to carry low.
3. To convey; to propel; as, a gun or mortar carries well; but this is elliptical.
To run on rotten ground, or on frost, which sticks to the feet, as a hare. – Johnson.
To bear the head in a particular manner, as a horse. When a horse holds his head high, with an arching neck, he is said to carry well. When he lowers his head too much, he is said to carry low.
To convey, to propel; as, a gun or mortar carries well; but this is elliptical.
To bear, convey, or transport, by sustaining and moving the thing carried, either by bodily strength, upon a beast, in a vehicle, or in any kind of water-craft. In general, it implies a moving from the speaker or the place present or near, to a place more distant, and so is opposed to bring and fetch, and it is often followed by from, away, off, out. He shall carry the lambs in his bosom. – Is. xi. When he dieth, he shall carry nothing away. – Ps. xlix.
To convey; as, sound is carried in the air.
To effect; to accomplish; to prevail; to gain the object; as, to carry a point, measure, or resolution; to carry a prize; to carry a fortified town by force of arms; sometimes followed by it. Whose wills will carry it over the rest. – Locke. Burke.
To bear out; to fare through. If a man carries it off, there is so much money saved. – L'Estrange.
To urge, impel, lead or draw, noting moral impulse. Pride or passion will carry a man to great lengths. Men are carried away with imaginary prospects. See Eph. iv. I4. Heb. xiii. 9.
To bear; to have. In some vegetables, we see something that carries a kind of analogy to sense. – Hale.
To bear; to show, display or exhibit to view. The aspect of every one in the family carries satisfaction. – Addison.
To imply or import. To quit former tenets carries an imputation of ignorance. – Locke.
To contain or comprise. He thought it carried something of argument in it, to prove that doctrine. – Watts.
To extend or continue in time; as, to carry a historical account to the first ages of the world; but usually with a particle; as, to carry up or carry back, to carry forward.
To extend in space; as, to carry a line or a boundary; or in a moral sense; as, to carry ideas very far.
To support or sustain. Carry camomile on sticks. – Bacon.
To bear or produce, as trees. Set them a reasonable depth, and they will carry more shoots upon the stem. – Bacon.
To manage or transact, usually with on; as, to carry on business.
To carry one's self, to behave, conduct, or demean. He carried himself insolently. – Clarendon. Sometimes with it; as, he carried it high.
To remove, lead or drive. And he carried away all his cattle. – Gen. xxxi.
To remove; to cause to go. And the king of Assyria did carry away Israel to Assyria. – 2 Kings xviii.
To transport; to affect with extraordinary impressions on the mind. – Rev. xvii.
To fetch and bring. Young whelps learn easily to carry. – Ascham.
To transfer; as, to carry an account to the ledger. War was to be diverted from Greece by being carried into Asia. – Mitford. To carry coals, to bear injuries. – Mason. To carry off, to remove to a distance; also, to kill; as, to be carried off by sickness. To carry on, to promote, advance, or help forward; to continue; as, to carry on a design; to carry on the administration of grace. #2. To manage or prosecute; as, to carry on husbandry. #3. To prosecute, continue, or pursue; as, to carry on trade or war. To carry through, to support to the end; to sustain or keep from failing, or being subdued. Grace will carry man through all difficulties. Hammond. To carry out, to bear from within; also, to sustain to the end; to continue to the end. To carry away, in seamanship, is to break; to carry sail till a spar breaks; as, to carry away a fore-topmast.
To convey or transport in any manner from one place to another] to bear; -- often with away or off.
When he dieth he small carry nothing away.
To hold the head; -- said of a horse; as, to carry well i. e., to hold the head high, with arching neck.
To transfer from one place (as a country, book, or column) to another; as, to carry the war from Greece into Asia; to carry an account to the ledger; to carry a number in adding figures.
"The greater part carries it." Shak.
To bear (one's self); to behave, to conduct or demean; -- with the reflexive pronouns.
Carry arms (Mil. Drill), a command of the Manual of Arms directing the soldier to hold his piece in the right hand, the barrel resting against the hollow of the shoulder in a nearly perpendicular position. In this position the soldier is said to stand, and the musket to be held, at carry. -- To carry all before one, to overcome all obstacles; to have uninterrupted success. -- To carry arms (a) To bear weapons. (b) To serve as a soldier. -- To carry away. (a) (Naut.) to break off; to lose; as, to carry away a fore-topmast. (b) To take possession of the mind; to charm; to delude; as, to be carried by music, or by temptation. -- To carry coals, to bear indignities tamely, a phrase used by early dramatists, perhaps from the mean nature of the occupation. Halliwell. -- To carry coals to Newcastle, to take things to a place where they already abound; to lose one's labor. - - To carry off (a) To remove to a distance. (b) To bear away as from the power or grasp of others. (c) To remove from life; as, the plague carried off thousands. -- To carry on (a) To carry farther; to advance, or help forward; to continue; as, to carry on a design. (b) To manage, conduct, or prosecute; as, to carry on husbandry or trade. -- To carry out. (a) To bear from within. (b) To put into execution; to bring to a successful issue. (c) To sustain to the end; to continue to the end. -- To carry through. (a) To convey through the midst of. (b) To support to the end; to sustain, or keep from falling, or being subdued. "Grace will carry us . . . through all difficulties." Hammond. (c) To complete; to bring to a successful issue; to succeed. -- To carry up, to convey or extend in an upward course or direction; to build. -- To carry weight. (a) To be handicapped; to have an extra burden, as when one rides or runs. "He carries weight, he rides a race" Cowper. (b) To have influence.
He shall carry the lambs in his bosom. Isaiah 40:11.
When he dieth, he shall carry nothing away. Psalms 49:17.
Men are carried away with imaginary prospects. See Ephesians 4:14. Hebrews 13:9.
And he carried away all his cattle. Genesis 31:1.
And the king of Assyria did carry away Israel to Assyria. 2 Kings 18:11.
18. To transport; to affect with extraordinary impressions on the mind. Revelation 17:1.
BRIS'TOL-WATER, n. The water of a warm spring near the city of Bristol in England.


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State Auditor to probe Ed Dept. contracts, spending
by Kate Royals September 25, 2017 May 10, 2021
Mississippi Department of Education headquarters in Jackson.
The state auditor's office is scrutinizing potential improper bidding and spending practices by the Mississippi Department of Education following a report issued by the legislative oversight committee.
In a report released Monday, the Legislative Committee on Performance Evaluation and Expenditure Review (PEER Committee) concluded that the Education Department entered into multiple contracts throughout fiscal years 2014-2016 "having apparent similarities in scope of work and for amounts that collectively exceeded bid thresholds, rather than competitively bidding contracts for such services."
PEER had been asked to review changes in state procurement laws following the 2014 bribery scandal in the Mississippi Department of Corrections. PEER also studied several contracts entered into by the state Education Department in particular after legislators raised concerns. As a result, the committee recommended the state auditor investigate the legality of the department's practices.
Mississippi Today reported on several of the same contracts last year.
Patrice Guilfoyle, spokeswoman for the Mississippi Department of Education, said Monday that officials at the department had not seen the report yet and could not respond to questions.
Download the complete report HERE
However, in its full response to the committee, which is not included as an attachment to the report, Department officials laid out the differences between individual contracts with each company.
"While it may appear to a layperson that the contracts in question are similar in the scope of services, it is the position of the MDE that these contracts are distinctly different in scope," State Superintendent of Education Carey Wright wrote in a letter to the committee in June. "These contracts involved multiple program offices with different project managers, timelines, and schedules for deliverables. The contractors were engaged to provide services that were outside the existing capacity of agency staff and/or resources …"
The PEER report highlighted contracts and relationships with several companies: Research in Action, the consulting group owned by former department employee J.P. Beaudoin; Blue Sky Innovative Solutions, the former company of current department employee John Q. Porter; DataOne IT Solutions; and The Kyles Company.
"A reasonable person could conclude this contracting practice is an inefficient use of resources," the report stated.
At the time the contracts were awarded, state law required agencies to solicit bids for personal services and information technology contracts at or above $100,000 (after changes made in the 2017 legislative session, personal services contracts have to be bid if they are $75,000 or more).
Former Mississippi Department of Education director of Research and Development J.P. Beaudoin (foreground)
The report raised questions about five separate Research in Action contracts totaling $200,855 for similar services over the course of fiscal year 2015. Each of the Research in Action contracts was less than what state law requires agencies to bid, but when combined exceeded the $100,000 threshold and should have been bid out, the report suggested.
The Mississippi Department of Education, however, detailed the differences in the five contracts in its response to the committee. Each dealt with development of different products, such as a teacher evaluation system, an audit process for the new statewide accountability system and a special accountability system for certain school districts that used alternative assessments.
"The contracts were established as the need for such services arose. It would have been impracticable to anticipate such services in advance and conjointly, as these contracts involved multiple program offices with different project managers, timelines, and schedules for deliverables," the Department's response stated.
Four of the contracts contained the same category codes, which usually alert those monitoring the state's contract oversight system, or MAGIC, but did not because of a flaw in the system, the report concluded. That flaw has since been corrected, however.
The committee also noted that the Department contracted with Research in Action again earlier this year shortly after Beaudoin resigned.
The report uncovered a similar situation with Blue Sky for IT services. The multiple contracts during fiscal year 2015 all individually came under the threshold for bidding but exceeded the threshold when combined at $384,464. However, because Mississippi Department of Education employees categorized the contracts under different codes despite them being for similar services, the state's oversight system was not flagged.
When asked why the contracts were coded differently, the MDE responded that multiple staff members assign codes to contracts, the PEER reports said.
"The MDE contends that because MAGIC (the state's oversight system) has more than 7,000 procurement codes, including 76 for consulting services, it is possible that different department procurement staff assigned different codes to similar contracts," the report continued.
The committee also questioned the Mississippi Department of Education about the overlap in contracts with Blue Sky and the hiring of Porter as the Chief Information Officer, asking why it did not terminate the two contracts set to end on June 30, 2015, before hiring Porter on June 1, 2015.
"No services were performed by Blue Sky Innovative Solutions after June 1, 2015," the Department responded.
It also stated that each contract covered different services, and that when Wright originally came to Mississippi in 2014, the need for a revamp of the information technology department was obvious.
"The first month on the job Dr. Wright was given inaccurate data to send to the school districts and parents. She was provided three initial iterations of the data that were found to have errors," the Department's response to the committee described. "Upon receiving the fourth version of the data, the information technology department guaranteed the data was finally accurate and the data was disseminated, beyond the deadline, to parents. The data was then found to be inaccurate."
That experience and other concerns prompted Wright to prioritize an IT overhaul, according to the response.
The PEER Committee also raised concerns about $214,469.70 in payments made to The Kyles Company for computer-related goods and services. Because the department had no contract with the group, there was no review of the payments and "there is no assurance that the goods and services were procured at a competitive rate," the report stated.
In addition, the report claims the Department employee who handled these purchases is no longer employed and other employees can't locate the paperwork associated with the orders.
The state auditor's office said Monday afternoon it just received the report and it has not yet been reviewed in full.
"We anticipate the report to be reviewed by senior staff tomorrow (Tuesday) afternoon," spokesman Logan Reeves said.
by Kate Royals, Mississippi Today

State Auditor to probe Ed Dept. contracts, spending

by Kate Royals, Mississippi Today
September 25, 2017

The state auditor's office is scrutinizing potential improper bidding and spending practices by the Mississippi Department of Education following a report issued by the legislative oversight committee.

In a report released Monday, the Legislative Committee on Performance Evaluation and Expenditure Review (PEER Committee) concluded that the Education Department entered into multiple contracts throughout fiscal years 2014-2016 "having apparent similarities in scope of work and for amounts that collectively exceeded bid thresholds, rather than competitively bidding contracts for such services."

PEER had been asked to review changes in state procurement laws following the 2014 bribery scandal in the Mississippi Department of Corrections. PEER also studied several contracts entered into by the state Education Department in particular after legislators raised concerns. As a result, the committee recommended the state auditor investigate the legality of the department's practices.

Mississippi Today reported on several of the same contracts last year.

Patrice Guilfoyle, spokeswoman for the Mississippi Department of Education, said Monday that officials at the department had not seen the report yet and could not respond to questions.

However, in its full response to the committee, which is not included as an attachment to the report, Department officials laid out the differences between individual contracts with each company.

"While it may appear to a layperson that the contracts in question are similar in the scope of services, it is the position of the MDE that these contracts are distinctly different in scope," State Superintendent of Education Carey Wright wrote in a letter to the committee in June. "These contracts involved multiple program offices with different project managers, timelines, and schedules for deliverables. The contractors were engaged to provide services that were outside the existing capacity of agency staff and/or resources ..."

The PEER report highlighted contracts and relationships with several companies: Research in Action, the consulting group owned by former department employee J.P. Beaudoin; Blue Sky Innovative Solutions, the former company of current department employee John Q. Porter; DataOne IT Solutions; and The Kyles Company.

"A reasonable person could conclude this contracting practice is an inefficient use of resources," the report stated.

At the time the contracts were awarded, state law required agencies to solicit bids for personal services and information technology contracts at or above $100,000 (after changes made in the 2017 legislative session, personal services contracts have to be bid if they are $75,000 or more).

The report raised questions about five separate Research in Action contracts totaling $200,855 for similar services over the course of fiscal year 2015. Each of the Research in Action contracts was less than what state law requires agencies to bid, but when combined exceeded the $100,000 threshold and should have been bid out, the report suggested.

The Mississippi Department of Education, however, detailed the differences in the five contracts in its response to the committee. Each dealt with development of different products, such as a teacher evaluation system, an audit process for the new statewide accountability system and a special accountability system for certain school districts that used alternative assessments.

"The contracts were established as the need for such services arose. It would have been impracticable to anticipate such services in advance and conjointly, as these contracts involved multiple program offices with different project managers, timelines, and schedules for deliverables," the Department's response stated.

Four of the contracts contained the same category codes, which usually alert those monitoring the state's contract oversight system, or MAGIC, but did not because of a flaw in the system, the report concluded. That flaw has since been corrected, however.

The committee also noted that the Department contracted with Research in Action again earlier this year shortly after Beaudoin resigned.

The report uncovered a similar situation with Blue Sky for IT services. The multiple contracts during fiscal year 2015 all individually came under the threshold for bidding but exceeded the threshold when combined at $384,464. However, because Mississippi Department of Education employees categorized the contracts under different codes despite them being for similar services, the state's oversight system was not flagged.

When asked why the contracts were coded differently, the MDE responded that multiple staff members assign codes to contracts, the PEER reports said.

"The MDE contends that because MAGIC (the state's oversight system) has more than 7,000 procurement codes, including 76 for consulting services, it is possible that different department procurement staff assigned different codes to similar contracts," the report continued.

The committee also questioned the Mississippi Department of Education about the overlap in contracts with Blue Sky and the hiring of Porter as the Chief Information Officer, asking why it did not terminate the two contracts set to end on June 30, 2015, before hiring Porter on June 1, 2015.

"No services were performed by Blue Sky Innovative Solutions after June 1, 2015," the Department responded.

It also stated that each contract covered different services, and that when Wright originally came to Mississippi in 2014, the need for a revamp of the information technology department was obvious.

"The first month on the job Dr. Wright was given inaccurate data to send to the school districts and parents. She was provided three initial iterations of the data that were found to have errors," the Department's response to the committee described. "Upon receiving the fourth version of the data, the information technology department guaranteed the data was finally accurate and the data was disseminated, beyond the deadline, to parents. The data was then found to be inaccurate."

That experience and other concerns prompted Wright to prioritize an IT overhaul, according to the response.

The PEER Committee also raised concerns about $214,469.70 in payments made to The Kyles Company for computer-related goods and services. Because the department had no contract with the group, there was no review of the payments and "there is no assurance that the goods and services were procured at a competitive rate," the report stated.

In addition, the report claims the Department employee who handled these purchases is no longer employed and other employees can't locate the paperwork associated with the orders.

The state auditor's office said Monday afternoon it just received the report and it has not yet been reviewed in full.

"We anticipate the report to be reviewed by senior staff tomorrow (Tuesday) afternoon," spokesman Logan Reeves said.

This article first appeared on Mississippi Today and is republished here under a Creative Commons license.
Kate Royals
kroyals@mississippitoday.org
Kate Royals is a Jackson native and returned to Mississippi Today as the lead education reporter after serving in the same capacity from 2016 to 2018. Prior to that, she was a reporter for the Clarion-Ledger covering education and state government. She won awards for her investigative work, including stories about the state's campaign finance laws and prison system. She was a news producer at MassLive in Springfield, Mass., after graduating from Louisiana State University's Manship School of Mass Communications with a master's degree in communications.
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Laura Jackson, director of the state Department of Finance and Administration, wrote in a letter to the Performance Evaluation and Expenditure Review (PEER) Committee included in the report that, "MDE had no authority to contract for IT-related acquisitions without IT's approval."
Soooo, basically she said there's no one minding the store, and people are walking out the door with their arms full of money. Isn't there a comptroller?!? Who on God's green earth is minding the people's money? WHERE are the adults and why wasn't this prevented? Citizens of Mississippi, this is just the tip of the iceberg. NO ONE in leadership is attempting to uncover graft, fraud, and malfeasance because they are ALL directly or indirectly culpable in knowing about it….for which they are criminally liable. It's even quite possible that they're in cahoots with Pickering to throw the people a bone with this story to appear like they're "doing" something". Doing something would actually mean mass indictments at every level of government…..but the state's Attorney General has his head in the sand. Another swamp that needs to be completely drained is in Oxford and Jackson.


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Mozambique, a former Portuguese colony, fought a low-key war of liberation since 1964 and after Portugal's so-called Carnation Revolution of 1974 proclaimed independence on 25 June 1975. The same year, representatives of Portugal and the Front for the Liberation of Mozambique (FRELIMO) formed a transitional government that embraced the socialist path of the Soviet Union, Cuba, Algeria and China.
To oppose FRELIMO and single-party dictatorship, the Mozambican National Resistance (RENAMO) was formed in 1976 with South African support. The ensuing civil war claimed some 600,000 lives. By 1990, one million people had been killed in violence by both sides. FRELIMO swore allegiance to the Bolshevik legacy in 1977 and launched large-scale agricultural collectivization.
By the 1980s, however, the FRELIMO regime faced increasing economic and political trouble. The relocation of several million people into collective farms and other communist experiments contributed to food shortages that caused 300-600,000 Mozambicans to starve to death. According to Human Rights Watch, hunger caused more deaths in Mozambique during 1975-1985 than the country's armed conflict. Hundreds of thousands fled from hunger and repressions. Existing research, although limited, confirms the claims by Human Rights Watch that both parties of the civil war were involved in numerous crimes against civilians. Mozambique started economic reforms in 1986 and FRELIMO gave up Marxism; UN peacekeepers arrived in the country in 1993 and the civil war ended in 1994. In the 2004 general elections, FRELIMO regained control of the parliament and presidency.
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Kevin Davis, director of Louisiana's emergency preparedness office, told the House homeland security committee Thursday that a Louisiana-specific Ebola response plan was distributed to local government and state agencies. It includes a quick reference guide for first responders.
State Health Officer Jimmy Guidry says officials are staying in touch with universities, airports and the Coast Guard to track when people may be coming from countries with Ebola outbreaks.
Eight people in the United States have been treated for Ebola, including two nurses who treated a Texas patient who died of the virus. No Louisiana cases have been reported.