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So Michael Lauer is free, and clear and free and clear. It is a shitty shitty day for justice, and a victory for extractors and contrapreneurs alike. Pump-and-dump is a rotten game cynically preying upon the ignorant, the greedy, ignorantly greedy and the greedily ignorant. Machiavellian schemes of orchestrated share ramping through related-party vehicles transacting amongst themselves is patently Fraud (with an upper-case F). It likely that it was YOUR pension fund that was hit and YOU should be mightily pissed off.
One might speculate that in the intervening years, events have conspired to make Mr Lauer's antics and pilferage appear petty by comparison. And this too is shameful, and dishonest in its roots. Oh, and what's up with the eight years it took to come to trial? It is a very long time. Too long. This also is sad. Fortunately, there is an amusing punch-line to the story: Mr Lauer says that he is going to get back into the hedge fund business!!!
I hope he gets what he deserves, because he didn't deserve what he got.
I *Heart* Jack Lew
Well-worth watching Charlie Rose's interview with Jack Lew. Consummately measured and balanced, uber-informed, politically astute and sensitive, Lew tackles most major political-economic issues facing the US, from taxes, deficits, inequality, healthcare, ageing & social security. He comes across with a knowledge one sees in one's BEST history teacher, with the demeanor of the best coach/father one saw amongst the other kids - the kind that is thoughtful, but never yells (in public), and is always constructive and positive in his criticism, and champions the values necessary to the success of the team. Such a man (or woman!) is oh-so-needed in this position - less to create consensus from amongst the vicious partisans across the aisle, but rather in order to appeal directly to the American people who will undoubtedly find sense in his patient explanation and no-nonsense communication style.
25 Things I Learned in the 25 Years After My First 21 Years
I have long wondered what they put in the drinking water at George Mason University. This recent post by Dr Bryan Caplan attracted much attention in the blogosphere. Whatever is in the water seems to be causing conjecture to morph into the realm of the categorically immutable. But perhaps this assuredness is merely part of his philosophical territory. It is so effective, it inspired me to reflect upon 25 things I learned in the 25 years after my first 21 years. This doesn't include the several years I spent unlearning many of the things I learned in my first 21 years (and note these are in no particular order).
1. Supply and demand in itself fails to solve countless mysteries, particularly where externalities are rife, corruption abounds (both large and small), and markets rather less-than-perfect (which are many).
2. Almost anyone can understand supply and demand if explained calmly enough (and with stick-figure or cute warm-and-fuzzy "Hello Kitty"-like animation), except perhaps Art Laffer and Maria Bartiromo.
3. Poverty is terrible, but poverty amidst gluttonous plenty is worse such that income redistribution complementing economic "growth" (where "growth" results in increasing and unprecedented skewness of income distribution) is better than growth alone.
4. The causes of unemployment are varied and complex and include (amongst other things) high executive wages, oligopoly, corporate rent-seeking, and capital's excessive short-termism
5. Free competition that results in unchecked collusive oligopolies and de facto monopolies often results in the diffused abuse of consumers for the parochial benefit of managers and shareholders.
6. Free beer is always far superior to perfect beer.
7. Bad governments combined with a poorly informed electorate - with or without fiat money - have little control over real GDP or employment.
8. Hazardous morals, particularly in insurance and reinsurance markets, result directly from the pull of greed and its tendency to adversely select unduly self-interested agents.
9. Optimism about the economy and the future, however true it may prove to be, is a poor substitute for critical thinking and trying to do better.
10. Communism was a disaster primarily because of poor fashion sense.
Philosophy:
11. The greatest philosophical mistake is to ignore a Blinding Glimpse of the Obvious.
12. The second greatest philosophical mistake is to believe that the prior statement is either philosophical or a mistake.
13. Betting on whether or not a debate will resolve "what's obvious" is easier than betting on the stock market.
14. There are no such things as an anti-empirical dualistic unicorns, and even if there were, they wouldn't resemble moral facts.
15. If you look too hard for something, you end up looking up your own arse. (thanks to Iain Owings)
Politics:
16. Believers voting is, in itself, irrational, since whatever prevailed would have been divine will.
17 Libertarian (and farther right) beliefs that "The public interest is best served by no public interest" is total bollocks.
18. Government may not provide the best solutions to externalities problems, nonetheless, government's attempts to address such problems are better than waiting for "the market" to miraculously conceive solutions inimical to their parochial financial interests.
19. All government, existing policy and expenditure requires reflection and critical introspection to insure its continued relevancy and appropriateness for the prevailing times that it serves: this applies to the structure, and institutions, as well as the programs and initiatives, despite its heresy to strict interpreters of the constitution.
20. Paternalism should not be viewed in the pejorative. A Parents responsibility is (quite rightly) to set fair boundaries, and subsequently [justly] encourage adherence as well as enforce them with consequences if violated. In addition to being fair and just, they indeed change over time and epoch. However, the Parent who neglects these responsibilities, as well as the children who rebel and/or subvert for fun or parochial interest, very often conjure problems to majority of others.
22. Archetypical Conservatives and archetypical Progressives are actually more different than cynics believe, traits distributed in roughly similar proportions across all societies of the world. By nature they are fundamentally predisposed towards different values, particularly with respect to preserving tradition and accepting change, respectively.
24. However, like Yin and Yang, both traits are useful and required to govern more optimally, via constructive embracing of change, but throttling its speed in order to avoid the upset that change typically brings. Understanding this reality should encourage everyone to compromise rather than polarize.
25. It is quite obvious that America has a Government Revenue Shortfall problem, rather than a Government Expenditure Problem (since spending is bottom quartile, and revenue bottom quintile compared to peers), AND that the revenue shortfall is caused by historically low tax receipts collected from the wealthy, demonstrated by comparatively low marginal rates vs. last 8 decades of economic history. Far from stimulating growth (ahhhem....errrr Dr. Laffer...??!?!), these comparatively low marginal rates over the past decades have enriched a very few quite dramatically, while impoverishing the next generation of the many in terms of per capital debt.
(errrr... umm.... that's quite enough "things I've learned" hurled upon you)
Credit Where Credit is Due
Shame on Michael Lewis (apparently suffering a bout of PJ O'Rourke syndrome) for his woeful Bloomberg piece satirizing of the Fed handling of disclosure relating to liquidity provision in the heat of the moment. I am all for satire and criticism and satirical criticism is even better. But one must be careful to be "more or less right", else one becomes a demagogue - using a kernel of truth or plausibility to prey upon ignorance or misunderstanding - say for example, like Glenn Beck.
To be certain, the US Federal reserve is not perfect. They have indeed made policy errors - sometimes in the pursuit of politics, some in defense of the moneyed class, sometimes out of accidental miscalculation, while others in the pursuit of some strange misguided Randian philosophy cherished by the former Chairman. However, the provision of liquidity to almost any and all against well-relaxed collateral - be they domestic or foreign - in the heat of the moment of monetary meltdown cannot and should not be fault nor belittled. In fact, everyone should take a moment and say "Thank You!" to Mr Bernanke (rather than Gordon Brown) not for savng the world, but most certainly for preventing more preventable depths of the crisis. I wrote notes for a piece still sitting in posting drafts after I read Ron Paul's utterly inane remarks about the same upon release of the files suggesting that rather than a Thank You, his extension of emergency liquidity in the heat of the moment of the crisis demonstrated the Fed should be abolished.
If fault is to be found, it would be in the generosity of Fed pricing. They could have extracted a pound of flesh, and in my opinion, should have as a punitive slap to those surfing the edge of peak credit, or liquidity mis-match.
However, no public nor private purpose would have been served by allowing financial markets to cascade into oblivion due to system-wide requirements sell position into a falling market to make position. We would have needed to coin a new more-modern phrase for 21st century-style Herstatt risk, that would have been global, and grinded the real economy to a halt along with the financial economy. Sure, we would have recovered from that, and certain people that didn't lose (and perhaps should have) would have, but others (perhaps undeserving) would have benefitted, watering down justice. As it was, the dislocation took us way into overshoot, so imagine where it would have taken us without the liquidity provision. Is there a place where the tag line "I've fallen, but I can't get up" is true? Where is the Hayekian virtue in finding out when (the extreme outcome) is in fact preventable? Perhaps it will prove only a palliative. That is still alright as far as I am concerned, measuring "alight" against the public interest. I am far far far more afraid of the deficits and the effect of interest rate shocks upon large, cumulative borrowings concentrated at the short end of the curve. QE still bothers me little.
So if Lewis et. al wanted to use their satire to greater advantage and good, they should give credit where credit is due, and set their sights upon diminished top-end tax-rates, a broken healthcare system, defense spending, and clipping the tail of future liabilities to restore confidence in fiscal future diminishing the risk of an interest rate ambush, or future loss of confidence causing a another cascade.
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One would have thought that the wisdom and experience accompanying age would improve one's wit and sense of humour. Of course, P.J. O'Rourke maybe the exception to this inferred rule. Whatever the case, O'Rourke's lame diatribe against urban cycling hosted by News Corp's dearth-of-humour broadsheet, the WSJ, makes one wonder why, with so many interesting events and ample public figures with foot-in-mouth disease providing ample fertile material, he has chosen to point his low-watt Petzl in the direction of the humble, utilitarian bicycle, and it's typically well-intentioned owners. One would be forgiven for wondering whether there is some personal hidden agenda which is at the root of his anger.
Was he perhaps vertically-challenged more than the average kid when his father removed his training wheels? Or maybe he has a simple case of Cyclophobia? Was he forced to ride his sister's pink two-wheeled hand-me-down with sparkly handlebar tassles? Did he have some traumatic accident while mid-teens involving a parked car attracting the unwanted attention of a female object of his desire? Was HE laughed at mercilessly in his own tight black shorts? Did some two-wheeled Sierra Club environmentalist best him by sleeping with his wife (or worse, marrying his daughter!)? The exploration of this petty tyrant, will, in any event, make for an interesting discussion with his T. next session.
It does, however, highlight a more general question: Do Conservatives and Progressives age more or less symmetrically?
So Long (and thanks for the all the....)
August 2008 now seems to be so far away (unless you are Jeff Gendell or similar). Most things have returned to "normal" (lower case "n"): Israeli's and Palestinians are fighting; Fox network presenters make nightly asses of themselves; Wealthy Russians battle amongst themselves for top rung on the BLING! ladder; BRICs (and most of what was formerly known as The Developing World") grow robustly; American party politics and State dysfunctionality plumbs new depths; kids and adults alike waste evermore time networking socially on-line, and the ratio of executive-to-line-worker-pay ascends higher. Markets too, have normalized, with most prices finding the place they left off before The Vomit Scene threw them off course: commodities march higher as BRIC demand conspires with all species of specs to vault levels upwards; the dollar descends; stocks globally rally; bonds remain relatively neutered by intervention. Indeed we could be in 2007 again, were it not for upsided-ness of middle-eastern politics, peripheral European CDS, and the American President's tan and articulateness.
Everything, that is, except the Japanese Yen (and by extension, the Nikkei), the former which remains at, levels incongruent with, well, everything else in the world. Of course most FX traders horizon is measured in units corresponding to the winding of the average mechanical watch (or less!). Even Google finance's "all time" historical data for Spot USDJPY yields the beginning of time as somewhere in 2004. The credit crisis took the USDJPY from 110 to 90. Many carry trades were necessarily puked. But not all. 2010 began with Short Yen being one of Drobny's "trades of the year" - a curse and sure sign of crowdedness for those seeking instant gratification or truly asymmetrical risk vs. reward. They, too, were puked out by the market's swap of the dollar for yen in carry trades, sending the Yen from near-term macro peak-crowdedness levels near enough in the mid-nineties to 80. This, accomplished all the usual things of further puking carry trades not unwound previously, and sucking in the mimetic trend followers. The quake, and subsequent market response, was probably the last hurrah, in comparison to a world of increasing relative normality.
Timing is a of course bitch. When EURJPY was stupid in late 2006 it was a year and a half of topping and volatility before it moved decisively from 170 to 110. The Yen has been "up here" now for more than two years two major episodic pukes, reddening the arses of even the cleverest of specs. Big picture long term market memory has been erased from most grey matter. I do not make prolific calls, but I must exclaim, the time is now. The moons are aligned. Par (vs. USD) though 20% distant, will be here almost as fast as you can say "Jack Sparrow". It's spring, and it's a mighty fine time to sell some Yen calls and buy twice-as-many 1yr out-of-the-money yen puts, and then go do whatever it is you enjoy doing.
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Q: Open Contact Picker with a Filter It is easy to open the Android Contact App to show all contacts and pick one of them:
in Activity:
    private int PICK_CONTACT = 853456;

    // ...

    // open contact list
    void openContactPicker() {
        Intent it= new Intent(Intent.ACTION_PICK,  Contacts.CONTENT_URI);
        startActivityForResult(it, PICK_CONTACT);
    }

    // when back from intent: use pick result
    @Override
    protected void onActivityResult(int requestCode, int resultCode, Intent data) {
        // ...
        switch (requestCode) {
        case PICK_CONTACT:
            if (dataOk(data)) {
                extractContactInfo(data);
            } else {
                showErrorMessage();
            }
            break;
        // ...
    }

But is it possible to set some filter criteria, so that the Contact App will only display those contacts which have specified elements - e.g. a complete postal info, or a proper email, or a telephone number?
My App needs the postal info, the currently implemented work-flow is like that:

*

*User clicks button to open contacts

*Contact App is started, displays all contacts

*user selects one

*back in my activity the contact is checked

*

*postal info available -> do the right thing

*postal info not available -> message box

Since many contacts do not have a postal info, in most cases a message box 'sorry no postal info available for this contact' will be shown. This is not an acceptable behavior.
One alternative is - I'm just implementing this - to query the contacts database inside the app and do the filtering in my own code, but using this approach has some implications:

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*the app requires the read contacts permission, which might be a no go for many users

*a contact picker has to be implemented, which possibly looks different than the one the user is familiar with

So, setting some criteria for the Contacts App seems a much more elegant way of doing this.
The App should run on Android 2.3.3 and higher.
Questions:

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*Is it possible on 2.3.3 to set filter criteria (especially sth. like 'has_postal_information') for the Contacts App, when starting it via startActivityForResult?

*If not: is it possible on later OS versions?

A: The Contacts app registers to this intent filter
<intent-filter>
    <action android:name="android.intent.action.PICK" />
    <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
    <data android:mimeType="vnd.android.cursor.dir/contact" />
    <data android:mimeType="vnd.android.cursor.dir/person" />
    <data android:mimeType="vnd.android.cursor.dir/phone_v2" />
    <data android:mimeType="vnd.android.cursor.dir/phone" />
    <data android:mimeType="vnd.android.cursor.dir/postal-address_v2" />
    <data android:mimeType="vnd.android.cursor.dir/postal-address" />
</intent-filter>

So you can create your intent like this:
private int PICK_CONTACT = 853456;

// ...

// open contact list
void openContactPicker() {
    Intent it= new Intent(Intent.ACTION_PICK,  Contacts.CONTENT_URI);
    it.setType("vnd.android.cursor.dir/postal-address");
    startActivityForResult(it, PICK_CONTACT);
}

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Q: Knockout- How to check if item in the loop exist while binding I've below HTML where I bind my array with a foreach data binding.

    index
    fajr
    zuhr
    asr
    maghrib
    isha

This is how I prepare my view model to bind to above HTML-
var dataFromServer = {
"1": {
    "asr": "15:50",
    "fajr": "03:00",
    "isha": "21:31",
    "maghrib": "19:02",
    "zuhr": "12:21"
},
"2": {
    "asr": "15:51",
    "fajr": "02:55",
    "isha": "21:35",
    "maghrib": "19:04",
    "zuhr": "12:21"
},
"3": {
    "asr": "15:53",
    "fajr": "02:51",
    "isha": "21:39",
    "maghrib": "19:07",
    "zuhr": "12:21"
},
"4": {
    "asr": "15:54",
    "fajr": "02:46",
    "isha": "21:42",
    "maghrib": "19:09",
    "zuhr": "12:20"
}
};

var ViewModel = function(data) {

//map data to an array
var mappedToArray = [];
$.each(data, function(index, item) {
    mappedToArray.push(item);
    item.index = index;
});

this.prayerData = ko.observableArray(mappedToArray);
};

ko.applyBindings(new ViewModel(dataFromServer));

Before binding of any item in foreach binding, first I want to check whether that item in array exist of not. Something like below-
For example if dataFromServer[0] would look like something like below where it is missing "asr" and "fajr" then while binding it would give error.
"1": {
"isha": "21:31",
"maghrib": "19:02",
"zuhr": "12:21"

},
Jsfiddle for the same is
http://jsfiddle.net/rniemeyer/utdAm/

A: If some of your items does not have all the properties you can use the $data property inside foreach to safely access them.
In this case if the property is missing the binding will still work it just won't display anything:

Demo JSFiddle.
You can even provide default values in the binding if the property missing with:

Demo JSFiddle


Strategic planning is very important in education sector providers. Initial preparation of PICOMS Five Years Strategic Planning took-off when five senior officers from PICOMS, including the CEO of PICOMS attended an introductory briefing on the process of preparing an effective strategic plan organized by MAIWP on 6th-9th March 2013 at Hotel Melaka.
Senior officers from Strategic Management & Negotiation Program, National Institute of Public Administration (INTAN) were invited to conduct the sessions.
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This vertical is called New School Histories not just because there is an embarrassment of riches, but because these legacies don't all fit into one story. A case in point is the extraordinary and unplanned efflorescence of the arts at The New School in the 1920s and 1930s. The school's first slate of courses in 1919 focused on social science and public policy. Yet within a few years it was offering what may have been the first courses in American higher education on architecture, modern art, prose writing, new composers, modern dance, and film. While these were courses in history and criticism rather than technique, they were increasingly taught by artists who were working in these new genres, and who could incorporate their creative experience into their teaching. Textbooks, used nationwide, emerged from such courses, including Aaron Copland's What to Listen for in Music, Berenice Abbott's A Guide to Better Photography, and John Martin's and Doris Humphrey's books on modern dance.
Peter M. Rutkoff and William B. Scott's New School, the only book devoted to the history of the whole school, includes a celebratory chapter to this remarkable flowering of the arts. There "New School artists" are presented in parallel with the "New School social scientists" in the school's first decades. But once the authors have finished expressing surprise and delight at this unforeseen turn (crediting it in large part to the influence of the New School's forgotten muse Clara Mayer), their narrative returns to social science. New School's next chapter is on the Encyclopaedia of the Social Sciences – a monumental undertaking edited out of the offices of New School in the late 1920s and early 1930s – and makes no mention of the arts, nor do the ensuing chapters on the University in Exile and Graduate Faculty. Rutkoff and Scott's story is of a school of social science which, after a diverting fling with the "New School artists," gets back to business.
What if the prominence of the arts at the New School was not a fluke? What if it was not a bug but feature?
You don't have to look very hard to start seeing the arts all over the New School for Social Research both before and after the arrival of the University in Exile. Philosopher Horace Kallen started teaching his course "Beauty and Use" in 1921. There were many concerts of classical and folk music at the school's first campus in Chelsea – including the extraordinary group of contemporary American composers who found a home at the New School. The architecture of its first dedicated building, opened on West 12th Street in Greenwich Village in 1931, itself made a strong artistic statement. Behind its modernist façade, through which classroom walls and ceilings sparkled in a kaleidoscopic explosion of colors, it contained an auditorium often used for concerts, several suites of murals (including the image by José Clemente Orozco above, which linked the library and the cafeteria), ample gallery space, and a dance studio.
All this wasn't just a show for its Greenwich Village neighbors. The Encyclopaedia of the Social Sciences included articles on the arts. Its opening overview of the social sciences included "Art" in the category of "Sciences with social implications" which "while independent in origin, have acquired in part a social content." John Martin penned the article on "Dance," which defined its subject as "the expression of concepts and experiences that transcend the rational means of expression of the particular individual," chronicled its history, and celebrated its return in the "new movement in the dance" committed to "restoring dancing as a social element." The intimate connection between what was happening in New School classrooms and in the Encyclopaedia is attested to by the close parallel between Martin's article and the course he was teaching concurrently with Martha Graham and Doris Humphrey. Dance in the article, and in the course, was both object and subject of social inquiry.
The large number of refugees rescued by the New School included many artists, too. A kind of consummation of the New School's melding of refugees, arts, and social science came with the establishment of the Dramatic Workshop, helmed by famed Berlin director Erwin Piscator and for a time New York's largest and most innovative school in theater arts (1940-49). When Piscator wrote that "The Dramatic Workshop conceives the theatre as a principal aid in meeting the old and new problems of a decisive and fast-moving historical period" he was articulating the ethos of the whole New School. The Dramatic Workshop didn't just bring European theatrical practice to the US, but was grafted onto existing strengths at the New School. The first head of acting at the Dramatic Workshop, for instance, was Stella Adler, whose Group Theater had been teaching courses at the New School for some time.
Johnson's words are in fact from 1923, not 1919, but the synergy of arts and social research was by Piscator's time so thoroughgoing that it's understandable he – and even perhaps Johnson! – thought it had been part of the New School's vision from the get-go.
"Social Research" proved, in time, a capacious term for the school's mission. The arts' capacity to be both object and subject of "intelligent study" was beyond the horizon of the founders' understanding of social research; it proved itself in practice. The appreciation of the arts as a form of social research distinctive to the New School had to emerge. It blossomed through the 1940s. And although courses in arts have been a staple of the Adult Division, and the Graduate Faculty has produced marvels of humanistic social science like Alfred Schütz's "Making Music Together" (1951), an explicit idea of arts as social research appears also to have been lost sight of in ensuing decades. And yet today, when the New School includes major art and design communities, a performing arts college, and a center for art and politics, the idea's time may have come again.
Arts as social research deserves to be among the stories we tell about ourselves here at the New School. But it doesn't have to be the only one. It doesn't correspond to the distinctive visions of David Mannes or Frank Alvah Parsons, and it wasn't the idea which led to the establishment of the school of Jazz and Contemporary Music and the revival of theater arts with the Actors Studio. It wasn't the rationale for John Cage's teaching in the Adult Division in the 1950s or Sekou Sundiata's at Lang in the 1990s. Being committed to ambiguity and open-endedness, it's different, too, from currently modish "design thinking." The New School should cherish this multiplicity of histories. More, we should remember that the discovery of the arts as social research at the New School was an emergent phenomenon, a surprise.
"March of Drama Repertory (1945-1946)," 3. New School Archives (New School Development and Public Relation Office Records, NS.03.02.02, I.17).
Both the Russell Sage Foundation-supported Bureau of Social Research of the New York School of Philanthropy (later integrated into Columbia University School of Social Work) and the Department of Social Research of the Settlement House-based Chicago school of Civics and Philanthropy (founded as Chicago Institute of Social Science) were established in 1908. Three preexisting bodies merged as the New York Bureau of Jewish Social Research the same year the New School opened its doors. The socialist Rand School, founded in 1906, was also occasionally called Rand School of Social Research. The Frankfurt Institut für Sozialforschung, often erroneously associated with the New School for Social Research, wasn't founded until 1923.
Emily James Putnam, "A Communication: The New School of Social Research," The New Republic February 2, 1920: 294.
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Alice and her family are delighted when their cat, Pushkin, has four adorable kittens! In particular, a little ginger kitten, who Alice names Marmalade, steals their hearts. When Pushkin decides that she has had enough of the children's interference, she 'moves house' to the other side of the farm, taking her kittens with her. But Pushkin's maths skills need some work, as she forgets to take poor little Marmalade along too! Will the children be able to find Pushkin again, or is she gone for good? And what will happen to Marmalade now her mother has left? The Cat Who Couldn't Count is laid out to be child-friendly. One page tells the story in a way that will extend vocabulary, while the beautiful illustrations contribute to the development of the child's imagination. On each alternate page, under the picture, is a simpler version of the story, which can be read by young readers in a 'shared reading' situation, as an alternative version when the adult is in a hurry, or by a child on their own.


Cost – To attend, purchase an entry bracelet for $10 per person or $30 per family.
Ministry – 50% of ticket sales from CBC will go directly to our Prison Bible Ministry.
and a great time to connect with various mission ministries of the area Churches.
and All Church Harmony Band.
St. Lucia – Bluegrass Christmas at Bishop Hill Dec 12th 7pm! –... March 16, 2017 – Free Bluegrass Jam session!


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/**
 * @file
 *   This file implements the OpenThread ICMPv6 API.
 */

#include "openthread-core-config.h"

#include <openthread/icmp6.h>

#include "common/as_core_type.hpp"
#include "common/locator_getters.hpp"

using namespace ot;

otIcmp6EchoMode otIcmp6GetEchoMode(otInstance *aInstance)
{
    return AsCoreType(aInstance).Get<Ip6::Icmp>().GetEchoMode();
}

void otIcmp6SetEchoMode(otInstance *aInstance, otIcmp6EchoMode aMode)
{
    AsCoreType(aInstance).Get<Ip6::Icmp>().SetEchoMode(aMode);
}

otError otIcmp6RegisterHandler(otInstance *aInstance, otIcmp6Handler *aHandler)
{
    return AsCoreType(aInstance).Get<Ip6::Icmp>().RegisterHandler(AsCoreType(aHandler));
}

otError otIcmp6SendEchoRequest(otInstance *         aInstance,
                               otMessage *          aMessage,
                               const otMessageInfo *aMessageInfo,
                               uint16_t             aIdentifier)
{
    return AsCoreType(aInstance).Get<Ip6::Icmp>().SendEchoRequest(AsCoreType(aMessage), AsCoreType(aMessageInfo),
                                                                  aIdentifier);
}

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A Scottish Government publication outlines statutory guidance under the Procurement Reform (Scotland) Act 2014 which provides guidance to public bodies on how to evaluate fair work practices when selecting tenderers and awarding contracts. It emphasises that whilst failure to pay the national living wage would be a "strong negative indicator", it does not mean that the employer's decision automatically fails to meet fair work standards.
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CardMonkey's Paper Jungle: Square 1 Tutorial: Amazingly Effective Masking Product -- Who KNEW!?!
Square 1 Tutorial: Amazingly Effective Masking Product -- Who KNEW!?!
How do you like that background on the cat? I used an amazing new product to mask the finished cat. Yeah, this was completely crazy of me because I already spent a considerable time coloring the cat. What if the product didn't work as I hoped? I would have totally wrecked all that time.
BUT it worked, and since I think no one else has discovered this great use for this product, I'm turning this post into a tutorial of sorts, and a review.
1. My image is a digital image that I printed in the middle of my blender paper. To conserve Square 1, I flipped and moved the image so it would print on just a half-page of the Square 1.
3. After I printed the image onto the Square 1, I cut the media in half (8.5"x5.5"), using a regular paper cutter -- no rips, no tears, no struggle. I want to save and use every scrap of this wonderful stuff!
4. I marked the image with a Copic multi-liner (permanent) with the file name so I know I can find and re-use the file in this size later. The marker was easy to use on it -- no drag, no bleed. Then, I fussy cut the image with regular paper scissors. EASY and no tough thickness to chop through.
5. I thought this would be where I would struggle -- peeling off the backing. As you can see, I bite my nails. But OMG, I was super-surprised how easily the backing peeled off the cut image, without any problem finding a starter edge and a clean removal of the image from the backing, no tearing or jaggedy edges.
6. Now for the next place I thought would be a problem: cleaning laying down the image, making sure there are no bubbles or exposed edges -- and what if I needed to lift it?? Double-OMG!! First of all, the product held its shape and didn't stretch out and over-cover the image. It was perfect!! Where I wanted to bring the Square 1 over a little, it picked up cleanly and I could lay it back down without pulling up the ink or paper, and without losing any integrity in the STICK. It was like the best of all Post-It notes, only better!!
7. OK, so now for the test. I'm just learning my Copic Air Brush System (ABS) so I laid on my ink heavily. I mean, 2 shades of grey, purple and ultimately black. I saturated that paper, and the Square 1 covering it. Ick. I didn't like how I did it, but it had nothing to do with the quality of the Square 1 -- just proves I need more practice with the Copic ABS. NOW what to do?
.... it came off easily. Cleanly. In one piece. And didn't even wrinkle or fold up onto itself.
10. ... in fact, this is the flip side (adhesive) of the Square 1. It didn't bleed through at all, even though I soaked it with alcohol ink with not only the Copic ABS, but also with a new, wide juicy Copic marker! And look -- the detail around the whiskers is still fully intact. Can you say, "THRILLED?!"
11. Then I placed my used mask of Square 1 media onto a spare transparent sheet that I had hanging around, even though I'm sure it could be stored on a regular piece of paper just as well, and still be re-useable. That's one reason this media is considered "environmentally friendly" -- you can reuse it over and over!
12. My choice was to cut away all of the air brushed mess, and cut the black background out in the shape of a "moon". To more clearly delineate around the cat and the black, again, my choice, I used a white gel pen to highlight the edges around the cat, and to draw the whiskers in white too. I did a little faux stitching around the "moon" because I can never get enough of that faux stitching stuff ... and I must say, I just love how this turned out.
Better yet, I TOTALLY love how SQUARE 1 works as a mask for over my Copic coloring. Now that I've tried this technique with this unique product, ideas are swirling for other projects.
By the way, alcohol markers like Copics are considered permanent when the alcohol evaporates. Can you see that this would make for some amazing canvasses for your craft room -- colored with Copics on Square 1, and removable to move around your home?!
OH, and one more "by the way", Square 1 is fully compatible with your electronic cutter (Cricut, Silhouette Cameo, etc.), with no need for any advance prep like fusible web. OMG, I wonder how this stuff cuts into flowers for an outdoor wreath?!
You'll be seeing more projects coming out of the PaperJungle using Square 1, that's for sure!
More info: I want to say that I did not receive any compensation or free product for this ringing endorsement and high praise -- nor do I expect any. I paid full price (+ shipping) for the product I used. However, I have now signed up to be an "affiliate" of Square 1 which means that if you buy your Square 1 by clicking the link on my sidebar, I get a small commission. I'm also going to submit an application to be on Square One's Design Team. Yes, I feel that strongly that this stuff is going places!!
WIN IT! But don't believe me, give it a try! If you are a CardMonkey follower who leaves a comment on this post, I will put your name in a hat and pick one commenter randomly, to whom I will send two sheets of my pack of Square 1 media. This will give you enough to try out and enjoy. I'd love to know what you did with it, and what you think of it.
Love your tutorial. I'm so glad your cat turned out. You did a wonderful job coloring it. Would love to give Square 1 a try. Fingers and toes crossed for luck. lol.
Awesome post! Love it! I love you because you are my very first youtube subscriber too! You ROCK!
I have just started to hearing about this product and really looking at how others are using it and would love to play with some too!!!
Love the purple cat, such a great card!


What went into deciding to be a donor?
Deciding to first be on the registry is easy because it's a swab in your cheek to get some of your saliva, that was the easy part. I found out I was a match at the end of my redshirt junior year at Northwestern. (Being a match) meant I would have to sit out of a couple weeks of spring ball and a couple weeks of workouts. I had to speak with my coach and with my family and count the cost of missing that because who knows what can happen with the depth chart in that time. After some thought I knew it was the right thing to do.
That's a big sacrifice to put your career on the line like that. How important was it to you to go through with the donation?
For me it was important. I'm a Christian and Jesus says to "Love your neighbor as yourself," so I really take that seriously. No one is perfect at it but I felt like this was the perfect opportunity to do that.
Can you tell us about the pain and the process?
Basically the drug they give beforehand to prep your body to ramp up the cell production was pretty powerful and after a couple days my bones were aching because they were working so hard to make new cells. Three or four days into taking those drugs I felt real pain in my hips, my arms, and my thighs, where you have your thicker bones. But it was a low price to pay because I knew at the time it was for the patient to have a chance at life. It was really worth it.
There's a policy where you have to wait a year until you meet the person you donated to, but you had to wait two years. How was the feeling of knowing you were going to meet him?
Just really exciting! You get emotional especially right before hand, I was just excited to finally put a face and a name to somebody I knew had been so affected by me. Not even who I am but just what I was able to do for him by giving him more time on this earth. Obviously, during the meeting was amazing as well.
What was the best part of the meet up?
Probably the best part was my wife and his girlfriend talking, crying and hugging it out. I don't think he or I cried or got too emotional, it was kind of joyfulness for us. But seeing our ladies connect and thank each other and talk was amazing.
Is this something you would encourage people to do?
Absolutely. I think this could be something that becomes a partnership with the NFL at large just because there's about one million people in the registry but that means two hundred million who are old enough are still not registered. The sad thing is that there are far more Caucasian or white decent people who are registered which increases the chances for people who are white to be cured; which is something Be The Match is trying to fix because a white child has about a 99% chance of having a match but a black child has maybe a 20%. That's something I want to raise awareness for and Be The Match is striving to fix. In the ethnically diverse NFL I think it's something we can work to fix, who knows who could be next? It could be our wives, daughters, dads, or moms it's just important to help these good people find a match.
Is there a place people can do to get involved or donate?
If anyone wants to get involved, it's as simple as going online to Be The Match and expressing your desire to be on the registry. All you have to do is swab your cheek and send it back in. Hopefully, we can extent that partnership so that Be The Match is sending teams down to NFL facilities and different events to take swabs and get more people on the registry.


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"This isn't a bad sign for Spring Hill (Tenn.) ... GM isn't turning away from the Saturn brand -- it's injecting more flexibility."
analyst for SCM Worldwide
By SCOTT REEVES
Saturn, once billed as "a different kind of company" making "a different kind of car," is losing its distinct identity and becoming just another division at General Motors Corp.
GM is forcing Saturn to adopt common practices for design, production and labor, a change that had to happen, analysts say, to cut costs and make Saturn competitive.
Saturn officials are downplaying the changes -- "We simply negotiated a new (labor) agreement," Saturn spokeswoman Sue Holmgren said -- but analysts see it as the end of Saturn as a separate entity.
The Saturn Corp. was an experiment launched in 1990 to compete with low-cost imports like Toyota, Honda and Nissan. All the cars were made in the small town of Spring Hill, about 30 miles south of Nashville, and more importantly, about 500 miles away from Detroit.
The company had its own managers who reported to the Saturn executive board rather than to GM, and the United Auto Workers signed a separate contract with GM to create a cooperative environment between labor and management.
The cars -- there was initially only one model -- were offered at a fixed price, with no haggling. The company developed a reputation for customer loyalty that rivaled higher-priced brands.
But after a promising start, Saturn let the car's look and technology get stale, said Mike Wall, an analyst for SCM Worldwide in Farmington Hills, Mich.
"Saturn's coupe and sedan stayed on the market a lot longer than they should have," Wall said. "Automakers get bursts of activity by tweaking the design, but that didn't happen with the Saturn S series."
New models were finally introduced to mixed results, and the company has plans for more, including a minivan, a sport utility vehicle and possibly a sporty coup or roadster.
Production of the new Relay minivan will begin next fall, but not in Spring Hill. Instead, it will be assembled at GM's plant in Doraville, Ga., using a standard GM frame.
"Flexibility is king," Wall said. "You've got to have flexibility of production in the current market. This isn't a bad sign for Spring Hill ... GM isn't turning away from the Saturn brand -- it's injecting more flexibility."
Another sign of change is Saturn's new contract with the UAW, which was approved last month.
"It's a major stride for management and the union," said Laurie Felax, vice president of Harbour & Associates in Troy, Mich., who tracks the auto industry. "Saturn's plant in Tennessee needs to be as competitive as any in the world -- that's how you secure jobs."
The contract calls for workers to receive a $3,000 bonus now and a 3 percent performance bonus to be paid next year, in addition to a 2 percent raise in 2005 and a 3 percent raise in 2006.
But the union also agreed to a transition to the national labor agreement with GM that would allow the company to lay off employees for the first time in its history. Workers approved the contract 2,953 to 317.
As part of the deal, General Motors promised to invest $90 million in Saturn for capital projects to help boost faltering product lines.
"They committed to seek significant improvements at the Spring Hill facility that will allow us to build multiple product lines, including non-Saturn products," Martinez said. "We can build other cars if that's what it takes to keep membership secure."


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Astronomy Day 2007
The Sally Ride Festival at Arizona State University drew 1000 visitors to the
Phoenix Astronomical Society booth.
(Credit: Rod Sutter/PAS)
April 21st is Astronomy Day, so be sure to find out what your local club has planned for that celebration. Night Sky Network clubs are committed to sharing the beauty of the daytime and nighttime sky with everyone. These ambitious clubs have introduced hundreds of people to astronomy and just keep spreading the word. Astronomy Day is a big celebration in many areas. Whether in a planetarium show, at a daytime festival, or out under the stars, many dedicated clubs are promoting astronomy Big Time. Here are just a few examples of what these clubs do every day of the year.
Todd Ullery of the York County Astronomical Society in York, PA showed the night sky to over 150 people, both inside and outside: "The planetarium show was filled at capacity for all three shows of the night. The presentation was on how to become a star watcher by exploring the current night sky at the planetarium, locate visible planets and constellations, and enjoy some sky lore. The public received a star map to take home. After the programs telescopes were set up for people to see the planet Saturn."
From the Brazosport Astronomy Club in Clute, TX, Diana K. Klebenow knows what a crowd-pleaser Saturn can be at an elementary school star party for 150 students. "It started off very cloudy, but cleared enough for Venus, the Moon, Saturn, & Orion's Nebula to show well, along with several full constellations. The crowd was very enthusiastic! There were many questions - one young fellow asked if Saturn was inside the telescope!"
The Lehigh Valley Amateur Astronomical Society Inc. in Allentown, PA has noticed a big difference now that they use Night Sky Network demonstrations. Mike Tapper tells us how things are changing for their club: "Since we began to make Night Sky Network presentations a part of our club's monthly public star parties, our attendance has skyrocketed to the point where we can no longer fit all the folks who come into our planetarium. Therefore, beginning in January 2007 we started offering the Night Sky Network presentations TWICE during each monthly star party in order to accommodate everyone who turns out."
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Garm – a Hostage
(notes edited by John McGivering)
First published in the Saturday Evening Post of 23 December 1899, then in Pearson's Magazine of January 1900. It was collected in Actions and Reactions in 1909, where it was accompanied by the poem "The Power of the Dog" [ORG Verse number 931 vol 1].
It is also to be found in Collected Dog Stories and anthologies of various dates.
Actions and Reactions is available in various paperback editions, and on Kindle, from Amazon.
One night, the narrator encounters his friend Private Stanley Ortheris, very drunk and disorderly and in danger of imminent arrest. He takes him home, and sends him back in the morning, clean and tidy, with a disarming note to his officer which wards off punishment. Three days later Stanley comes to call, bringing his magnificent bull-terrier, whom he insists on leaving as a hostage for his good behaviour.
After the bull-terrier has rescued his own little dog, Vixen, from a pack of savage strays, the narrator christens him "Garm", after the legendary Garm of the Bloody Breast. He takes Garm into his household, where he behaves in exemplary fashion, revealing himself to be an exceptionally intelligent dog, of fine character. But he pines for Stanley, who secretly comes to visit him rwo or three times a week. Then Stanley falls ill, and the longer dog and man are away from one another, the sadder and weaker they become.
When the hot weather comes, Stanley is sent off to the hills with a group of invalids. Garm falls into a decline, and seems likely to die of a broken heart. Fortunately the narrator is able to follow him to Simla some weeks later. This time, when they meet again, Stanley agrees to take Garm back, and they are happily reunited.
Charles Carrington (p. 476) examines Kipling's love of dogs and his writings about them from different points of view in both stories and verses.
This is the last of the sixteen stories of the "Soldiers Three": "The Three Musketeers", "The Taking of Lungtungpen", "The Daughter of the Regiment". and "The Madness of Private Ortheris" in Plain Tales from the Hills; "Soldiers Three", "The God from the Machine", "Private Learoyd's Story", "The Big Drunk Draf'", "The Solid Muldoon", "With the Main Guard", "In the Matter of a Private", and "Black Jack" in Soldiers Three and Other Stories; and "My Lord the Elephant", "His Private Honour", and "Love o'Women" in Many Inventions. Six of these and "The Drums of the Fore and Aft" are also collected in Soldier Tales, the latter also in Wee Willie Winkie. See Chapter 11 of Beast and Man in India by Lockwood Kipling, for dogs in India, both native and belonging to Europeans.
Simla, The summer capital of British India, by Rajah Bhasin, (Penguin Books India, 1992), includes many references to the Kipling family. See also the poem "A Tale of Two Cities".
[J H McG]
©John McGivering 2006 All rights reserved
Notes on the text
Some KJ References
KJ336 (page 8)


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Below are a couple of different books that have been recommended by people who work with children as being helpful teaching tools (hover over the photo to see a description and click on the photo to go to the author's website). Both books can likely be found at your local library, and you can download a PDF version of Robert Munsch's From Far Away. LearnAlberta.ca has made available a downloadable lesson plan (PDF) for young school children that goes along with Robert Munsch's book and can be used to teach children why it is important to welcome newcomers from other countries. There is also a downloadable lesson plan (PDF) available for Four Feet, Two Sandals.
Do you have a suggestion for this page? Email us at refugeesbelong@gmail.com.
From Far Away, by Robert Munsch & Saoussan Askar: Based on a true story, Saoussan and her family flee a war-torn Lebanon, where bombs and gunshots were part of a daily life. Now safe in her new country, Saoussan starts school. But not knowing any English made the simplest things difficult: to go to the washroom, Saoussan would crawl to the door when the teacher's head was turned and wait until someone opened it. Saoussan must adapt to a new culture in a much safer world. (Amazon summary)
Azzi In-Between, by Sarah Garland: Azzi and her parents are in danger. They have to leave their home and escape to another country on a frightening journey by car and boat. In the new country they must learn to speak a new language, find a new home and Azzi must start a new school. With a kind helper at the school, Azzi begins to learn English and understand that she is not the only one who has had to flee her home. She makes a new friend, and with courage and resourcefulness, begins to adapt to her new life. But Grandma has been left behind and Azzi misses her more than anything. Will Azzi ever see her grandma again? Drawing on her own experience of working among refugee families, renowned author and illustrator Sarah Garland tells, with tenderness and humour, an exciting adventure story to be enjoyed by readers of all ages. Endorsed by Amnesty International. (Amazon summary)
The Colour of Home, by Mary Hoffman: Moving can be traumatic in the best of circumstances, so imagine what it must be like for young Hassan, whose family has fled war-torn Somalia for England. Bestselling author Mary Hoffman uses colour symbolism to explain Hassan's feelings of displacement in the new, grey country. Hassan's painting of his Somalian home has the harsh colours of war. As he adjusts, a new drawing reveals the true colours of his adopted home-a maroon prayer mat and his sister's pink dress. (Amazon.ca summary)
Four Feet, Two Sandals, by Mohammed Khadra: When relief workers bring used clothing to a refugee camp in Pakistan, ten-year-old Lina is thrilled when she finds a sandal that fits her foot perfectly - until she sees that another girl has the matching shoe. But soon Lina and Feroza meet and decide that it is better to share the sandals than for each to wear only one. The girls discover the true meaning of friendship and sacrifice. "Four Feet, Two Sandals" honors the experiences of refugee children around the world, whose daily existence is marked by uncertainty and fear. (Amazon.ca summary)


Project "T-Shirt" consists of a series of 7 different T-Shirts, from T/1 to T/7.
Inspired by minerals, mountains, the earth and the solar system. This is a series of 7 individual T-Shirts, all handmade and individually "painted", using an extensive process of distressing, dyeing, painting, and sewing. The process began with pure 100% cotton, which was cut into 7 individual T-Shirts using one basic pattern designed specifically for this series [+ one "unisex" style pattern for T/7]. Each T-Shirt was then sewn by hand, and then hand "painted" and distressed, utilizing a variety of natural chemical compounds [salt NaCl, water H2O, hydrogen peroxide H2O2, chlorine, natural enzymes EC 3.2.1.4, natural pigments, and physical processes of sun-bleaching, soaking, and surface abrasion. Limited Edition.


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This is a pity, because although Smith lived in Scotland in the eighteenth century, his ideas are as alive and relevant today as they have been at anytime in the last 250 years.
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Státní poznávací značky ve Švýcarsku ( ) jsou vydávány ve tvaru, sestaveném ze tří až osmi alfanumerických znaků. Jedná se o 2 písmena (kód příslušného kantonu) a 1–6 číslic.

Švýcarská poznávací značka se skládá z dvoumístné abecední zkratky kantonu a až šestimístného čísla. Na zadní registrační značce je rovněž vyobrazen švýcarský státní znak a znak příslušného kantonu. Zadní registrační značky lze požadovat v širokém jednořádkovém, nebo vyšším dvouřádkovém formátu.

Značky jsou přiděleny držiteli, nikoli vozidlu. Na požádání je lze použít také jako výměnné značky pro maximálně dvě vozidla. Pokud držitel změní vozidlo, je po přeregistraci na nové vozidlo umístěna stejná registrační značka. Pokud majitel již nové vozidlo neregistruje, vrací registrační značku orgánu, který ji vydal. V závislosti na kantonu zůstává po určitou dobu vyhrazena pro předchozího majitele (tato rezervace může být za poplatek prodloužena o několik let).

Historie

 V roce 1894 stanovil kanton Basilej-město, že registrační značky pro jízdní kola musí být připevněny i na motorových vozidlech.
 V roce 1901 vydal kanton Lucern první poznávací značky pro motorová vozidla.
 V roce 1902 kanton Curych nařídil, že motorová vozidla musí mít vpředu i vzadu registrační značku.
 V roce 1905 kantony rozhodly o rozdělení čísel podle níže uvedeného schématu. Tabulky byly černé s bílými znaky.

 V roce 1911 byla přidělená čísla částečně vyčerpána, a proto bylo přidáno písmeno jako přípona.
 V roce 1922 se v některých kantonech začaly vyrábět tabulky v bílé barvě s černým písmem, protože byly méně náchylné na znečištění.

Současný systém

V roce 1933 byly přidělené číselné bloky vyčerpány, a to i s příponami, a byly zavedeny poznávací značky, které platí do současnosti. Přední poznávací značky měly původně rozměr 38 × 11 cm, od roku 1972 mají současný formát (30 × 8 cm). Až do roku 1959 byly zadní registrační značky k dispozici pouze ve formátu na výšku (31 × 24 cm). Od roku 1959 byly zadní registrační značky na přání vydávány také v širokém, podlouhlém formátu. Ty měly původně rozměry 44 × 11 cm, později 38 × 11 cm. Od roku 1987 mají současný formát (50 × 11 cm). Zadní registrační značky ve formátu na výšku existují v současné podobě (30 × 16 cm) od roku 1972.

Motorová vozidla musí mít přední a zadní registrační značku vyrobenou z hliníkového plechu. Výjimku tvoří přívěsy, motocykly a malé motocykly, sněžné skútry, malá a lehká motorová vozidla, zemědělská vozidla a jednostopá motorová vozidla. Ty mají pouze jednu zadní registrační značku (s výjimkou zemědělských vozidel, která mají zpravidla pouze jednu přední značku, která může být dle možností umístěna na přední, i na zadní části vozidla).

Podmínky oběhu jednotlivých značek se v jednotlivých kantonech mohou značně lišit. V některých kantonech se vrácené poznávací značky po uplynutí příslušné doby vracejí zpět do oběhu. V jiných kantonech, například v kantonu Ženeva, se vydávají vždy nová pořadová čísla. V některých kantonech je povolena personalizace poznávacích značek mimo po sobě jdoucí čísla. V některých kantonech je také možné obchodovat s pětimístnými a vícemístnými čísly, zatímco jedno- až čtyřmístná čísla se mohou pouze dědit.

V posledních letech přešlo mnoho kantonů k prodeji vrácených registračních značek se zvláště nízkými čísly (jedno až čtyřmístnými) nebo se zvláště zapamatovatelnými čísly (např. 100 000 nebo 22333) za určité zvýšené poplatky nebo nejvyšším nabídkám. Mnoho kantonů k tomuto účelu používá příslušné internetové portály. Například v kantonu St. Gallen musel hasičský sbor města St. Gallen vrátit čísla SG 1 až SG 20, aby mohla být vydražena zájemcům s nejvyšší nabídkou. Poznávací značka SG 1 byla vydražena za 135 000 švýcarských franků. Dražba slouží k vylepšení finančního rozpočtu kantonu. V roce 2017 vydražil jistý podnikatel z kantonu Valais číslo VS 1 za 160 100 franků.

Při změně majitele vozidla se po změně registrace na nové vozidlo namontuje stejná registrační značka, takže je možné zakoupit i nové vozidlo a ihned si jej odvézt s vlastními registračními značkami (pokud byla pojišťovna předem telefonicky informována). Doklady o registraci nového a starého vozidla se poté zašlou poštou na příslušný dopravní úřad a majitel obdrží nové doklady poštou po několika dnech. Během přechodného období lze nové vozidlo provozovat bez úředních dokladů, je však nutné mít u sebe zvláštní doklad (zdarma dostupný na internetu), který je nutné předložit v případě policejní kontroly. Tento postup je však povolen pouze ve Švýcarsku a Lichtenštejnsku. Jízda do jiných zemí se nedoporučuje, pokud nejsou k dispozici žádné doklady k vozidlu.

Typy značek

Kódy kantonů

Značky pro zvláštní použití

Poznávací značky pro prodejce automobilů

Poznávací značky pro prodejce automobilů (hovorově "garážová čísla" nebo také "U-čísla") jsou k dispozici pouze registrovaným prodejcům automobilů a opravnám. Tato čísla lze krátkodobě použít pro všechna motorová vozidla pro zkušební jízdy a převozy vozidel bez ohledu na výkon motoru a emise. Jízda po dálnici bez dálniční známky je povolena i pro vozidla schopná jízdy po dálnici, nikoli však pro jízdy do zahraničí (včetně sousedních zemí), protože nemusí být uznána podle Vídeňské úmluvy. Vídeňská úmluva totiž vyžaduje pouze uznávání registračních značek úředně přidělených vozidlu. Tato čísla však vozidlu nepřidělují úřady, ale majitel autosalonu či opravny, který je odpovědný za technickou způsobilost vozidla (protože takové vozidlo musí být způsobilé k provozu na pozemních komunikacích, ale nemusí být nutně předvedeno). Kromě jejich umístění na běžné držáky registračních značek vozidel je rovněž přípustné umístit tato "U-čísla" pomocí magnetu na kapotu a na zadní část vozidla, např. pod zadní okno nebo zavěšená v plastovém sáčku. "U-čísla" byla zavedena v roce 1977. Od roku 1933 do roku 1976 měly dealerské značky stejný formát jako běžné značky (bez písmene "U"), ale s červeným písmem na bílém pozadí.

Dočasné poznávací značky

Od roku 1960 jsou zavedeny také dočasné značky. Dočasné značky se vztahují na vozidla se zaplaceným povinným ručením, která jsou z nějakého důvodu pouze dočasně registrována v kantonu, kde se nacházejí na příslušném silničním úřadě. Vedle čísla mají podlouhlou červenou nálepku, na které je několikrát velmi malým písmem vytištěn dvoumístný rok platnosti a nad ním je jasně viditelný měsíc platnosti.

Celní poznávací značky

Celní poznávací značky jsou určeny pro vozidla, za která se neplatí clo a která jsou dočasně provozována ve Švýcarsku. Jsou navrženy jako dočasné tabulky, ale napravo od červeného pruhu je černě vytištěno či vyraženo písmeno "Z". Číslování celních i dočasných poznávacích značek je v jednotlivých kantonech řešeno nejednotně. Existují kantony s libovolnou číselnou řadou, která je často totožná s číselnou řadou "normálních" tabulek. V ostatních kantonech se po uplynutí kalendářního roku opět používají tabulky od čísla 1.

Denní poznávací značky
S jednodenní poznávací značkou je možné na švýcarském území krátkodobě a na omezenou dobu řídit neregistrované vozidlo. Platí 24, 48, 72 nebo 96 hodin. V mezinárodním srovnání odpovídají denní poznávací značky do jisté míry německým krátkodobým poznávacím značkám se žlutým pruhem.

Pro tento účel jsou určeny poznávací značky, které formátem odpovídají normálním poznávacím značkám. Ze samotné registrační značky tedy není zřejmé, zda se jedná o "normální", nebo denní poznávací značku. Zkušené oko si však všimne, že v mnoha kantonech jsou pro tyto denní tabulky vyhrazeny zvláštní číselné řady a v závislosti na kantonu jsou tabulky již vybaveny otvory pro upevnění. Datum platnosti takové denní tabulky je uvedeno v technickém průkazu vozidla. Doklad o registraci vozidla a tabulky s registrační značkou musí být v den skončení platnosti vráceny příslušnému silničnímu úřadu. V závislosti na kantonu je lze odevzdat také na policejní stanici nebo na dopravním úřadě mimo kanton. Pozdě vrácené registrační značky zabaví policie a jejich žadateli jsou naúčtovány náklady.

Diplomatické poznávací značky
Vozidla členů diplomatického a konzulárního sboru a některých mezinárodních organizací mají registrační značku vydanou kantonem, ve kterém se nachází velvyslanectví nebo konzulát. Jsou na něm uvedena dvě písmena "CD" (francouzsky ), "CC" (francouzsky ) nebo "AT" (francouzsky ), za nimiž následuje zkratka kantonu a dvě čísla oddělená tečkou. První číslo je pořadové číslo v rámci mise nebo organizace, přičemž číslice od 1 do 5 jsou přiřazeny služebnímu nebo soukromému vozidlu vedoucího mise. Číslo za tečkou je identifikační číslo (kód) mezinárodní organizace nebo země původu diplomatické mise. Přední desky mají stejnou velikost jako zadní desky (500 × 110 mm). Jejich rozdělení je takovéto:

CD (na zeleném podkladu)
 Služební vozy diplomatických misí v Bernu
 Soukromá vozidla diplomatického personálu těchto misí

CC

 Úřední automobily konzulárních úřadů vedené profesionálním úředníkem
 Soukromá vozidla konzulárních úředníků
 Samostatný doplňkový znak "CC" pro maximálně jeden vůz každého čestného vedoucího konzulárního úřadu, kterému Spolková rada udělila exequatur. V takových případech musí být v technickém průkazu vozidla uvedena poznámka "schváleno se značkou CC".

CD (na modrém podkladu)

 Služební automobily stálých misí nebo jiných zastoupení při mezivládních organizacích, jakož i motorová vozidla členů diplomatického personálu těchto misí.
 Úřední vozy institucionálních příjemců, jako jsou mezivládní organizace, mezinárodní instituce, sekretariáty nebo jiné orgány zřízené mezinárodní smlouvou, nezávislé komise, mezinárodní tribunály, rozhodčí soudy a jiné mezinárodní orgány požívající výsad, imunit a výhod.
 Soukromá vozidla nejvyšších úředníků těchto institucionálních příjemců, kteří mají ve Švýcarsku diplomatický status.

AT

 Soukromá vozidla administrativního a technického personálu diplomatických misí.
 Sériová čísla začínají číslem 51.

Vojenské poznávací značky

Vojenská vozidla (vozidla ozbrojených sil a administrativní vozidla ministerstva obrany), vozidla Sboru pohraniční stráže, orgánů celního vyšetřování, armády a Spolkové zpravodajské služby jsou registrována s vojenskými poznávacími značkami, vydávanými a spravovanými Úřadem pro silniční dopravu a přepravu (německy , SVSAA).

Na vojenských poznávacích značkách je zobrazen švýcarský státní znak, za nímž následuje písmeno "M" (zkratka pro francouzské ) a číslo bílými písmeny na černém pozadí. Od roku 1925 do roku 1961 měly všechny vojenské poznávací značky dva řádky, nahoře švýcarský znak a červené písmeno "M", dole číslo. Od roku 1961 se používají jednořádkové přední tabulky a písmeno "M" v bílé barvě. V roce 1973 byl zaveden současný formát.

Čísla M se přidělují podle typu vozidla a jdou za sebou v řadě, např. pro vozidla Pz 87 (Leopard 2):

 první série: 35 kusů: M77101 až M77135
 druhá série: 120 jednotek: M77136 až M77255
 třetí série: 225 kusů: M77256 až M77480
 vyprošťovací obrněné vozidlo typu 65: 69 kusů: M78631 až M78699
V případě prototypů se na první pozici za písmenem M používá číslo 0, a to jak u vozidel, která jsou zařazena do švýcarské armády (např. prototyp vyprošťovacího obrněného vozidla typu 65: M0870), tak u vozidel, která nebudou pořízena sériově (např. 35mm tank Flab B22L: M0888 a M0889 nebo tankový kanón 68: M0871, M0872, M0898, M0899). Tabulka vypadá podobně jako poznávací značka Lichtenštejnska, na které je však uveden knížecí znak a mezinárodní zkratka "FL".

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Jordyn Jones (* 13. März 2000 in Kalamazoo, Michigan) ist eine US-amerikanische Sängerin, Tänzerin und Webvideoproduzentin. Sie trat bereits auf großen Bühnen, wie zum Beispiel bei den MTV Video Music Awards, den Kids Choice Awards und The X Factor auf. Sie wird von Creative Artists Agency und Reload Management unterstützt.

Karriere
In der Gruppe The 5 LP's machte Jordyn ihre ersten Bühnenerfahrungen. Bereits im Jahr 2012 war sie in der amerikanischen Fernsehserie Abby's Ultimate Dance Competition zu sehen. Dort schied sie in der achten von zehn Episoden aus. Auch später tauchte sie in verschiedenen Fernsehshows, wie zum Beispiel Dancing with the Stars, Disney Channel's Shake It Up, X Factor, dem Kid's Choice Awards und den MTV Video Music Awards, auf. Im April 2014 lud sie auf ihrem YouTube-Kanal ihr bisher erfolgreichstes Video hoch. Das Cover des Songs Banji von Sharaya J hat inzwischen über 30 Millionen Klicks. Anfang 2016 war sie Teil des YouTube Red Original Movie Dance Camp. Immer wieder tritt Jordyn als Sängerin, Rapperin und Tänzerin bei Shows auf.

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Jordyn Jones lebt zusammen mit ihrer Mutter Kelly Jones und ihren beiden Brüdern Skyler und Casey in Studio City, einem Stadtteil von Los Angeles. Ihr Vater Tim Jones starb 2019.

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Eigene Songs
 2015: I'm Dappin
 2015: U Already Know (feat. Josh Levi)
 2016: Fiyacracka
 2016: BRUH!
 2017: Summer
 2017: All I Need
 2017: Best Christmas Ever
 2018: Can't Say No
 2018: Bad Lil Mama
 2019: think about u
 2019: cut 'em off
 2019: cover up
 2019: more

Cover
 2014: Banji (Original: Sharaya J)
 2014: Fancy (Original: Iggy Azalea)
 2014: Lip Gloss (Original: Lil Mama)
 2014: Winter Wonderland (feat. Forever in Your Mind)
 2015: Lips Are Movin (Original: Meghan Trainor)
 2015: This Is How We Do (Original: Katy Perry)
 2016: Sit Still, Look Pretty (Original: Daya)
 2016: Let It Snow
 2018: The Middle (Original: Zedd)

Mitwirkung bei anderen Youtubern
 2014: Love More – Chris Brown feat. Nicki Minaj ("Dance More"-Parodie – Carson Lueders feat. Jordyn Jones)
 2014: Shake It Off – Taylor Swift (Cover - MattyBRaps feat. Skylar Stecker & Jordyn Jones)
 2014: Take Over – Carson Lueders (Official Music Video – feat. Jordyn Jones)
 2015: Thinking Out Loud – Ed Sheeran (Cover – Cheskino; Dancing: Jordyn Jones)
 2015: Sweet Little Something – Forever In Your Mind (Official Music Video – feat. Jordyn Jones)
 2015: 100 DANCING ROBOTS COME TO LIFE! (Music Dance Video – ScottDW feat. Jordyn Jones)
 2016: Closer – New District (Official Music Video – feat. Jordyn Jones)
2019: Gotaga - Gotaga x Jordyn Jones on Fortnite

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In 2020, the ADA raised $118 million and spent $100 million with the unspent revenue ($18 million) allocated to the general fund (which had $91 million at year-end). The single largest expense for ADA is compensation. 515 employees were compensated $40 million, which equates to an average compensation of $78,000. 74 employees received more than $100,000 in compensation with the 12 most highly compensated employees listed below:
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$ 293,525: Eloise Scavella, Chief Operating and Strategy Officer (to 10/30/20)
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$ 231,963: Paul Nalbandian, Associate Publisher, Advertising Sales
$ 224,262: Jacqueline Sebany, Chief Marketing and Digital Officer (effective 1/21/20)
$ 219,805: Charles Henderson, Chief Development Officer (effective 1/6/20)
$ 209,709: Jeanine Jones, VP, HR Operations
$ 202,707: Greg Liptak, VP, Quality Improvement
$ 195,074: Sean McDonough, VP and General Counsel
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See the Form 990, Schedule J, Part III Supplemental Information for details on gross up payments, severance payments and retirement contributions.
Stephanie Silverman is a director of the ADA and the CEO of Venn Strategies – an organization that received $701,545 for government relations consulting.
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The 38th year was no different.
The No. 2 men captured their 38th consecutive conference title at the Lee and Joe Jamail Center under head coach Eddie Reese, lighting the iconic Texas Tower orange once again.
Meanwhile, the second-ranked women claimed their fifth consecutive Big 12 championship under head coach Carol Capitani. The win marked the 15th conference title in program history.
Capitani won the Women's Swimming Coach of the Meet award for the third year in a row, but she put the honor back on her athletes.
Through the first three days of competition, both sides broke multiple school and national records, and day four was no exception.
All-American senior Will Licon, who held the NCAA record in the 200-yard breaststroke, smashed his record in the same event at 1:49.89 Saturday.
Senior Clark Smith also posted the nation's second highest time on his way to claiming the 1,650-yard freestyle in 14:33.28.
Juniors Joseph Schooling and Brett Ringgold, senior Jack Conger and sophomore Townley Haas joined forces to cap off the meet with a victory in the 400-yard freestyle relay. Their 2:48.66 effort marked the nation's second-fastest relay time this season.
On the women's side, the team's younger core emerged and the veterans dazzled.
Senior Tasija Karosas added to her already colorful resume by winning the 200-yard backstroke. She clocked in at 1:51.11 to eclipse her previous time from last year's Big 12 Championships by a tenth of a second.
Freshman Claire Adams followed right behind Karosas, trailing by less than a second behind her with a finish of 1:51.16.
Adams showed a lot of promise for the future along with teammate freshman Lauren Case, who took home the Women's Newcomer of the Meet honor.
Team captain Karosas only has a few months left as a Longhorn, but feels that there is no doubt the team is in good hands.
The Longhorns look to build off their big weekend as they head back to the Lee and Joe Jamail Texas Swimming Center for the American Short Course Championships on March 2. This is the final meet prior to the NCAA Championships in Indianapolis, Ind. in late March.


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Edward G Coffman, Jr
Updated on Dec 10, 2022
Citizenship USA
Name Edward Coffman,
Born 16 August 1934 (age 81) Los Angeles, USA (1934-08-16)
Residence New York City, New York
Institutions Princeton University Pennsylvania State University University of California, Santa Barbara Bell Laboratories New Jersey Institute of Technology Columbia University
Alma mater University of California, Los Angeles
Thesis Stochastic Models of Multiple and Time-shared Computer Operations (1966)
Known for Mathematical modeling and analysis in computer engineering and operations research
Education University of California, Los Angeles
Books Probabilistic Analysis of Packing and Partitioning Algorithms
Fields Electrical engineering, Computer Science, Operations research
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Academic advisor Leonard Kleinrock
Edward Grady "Ed" Coffman, Jr. is a computer scientist. He began his career as a systems programmer at the System Development Corporation (SDC) during the period 1958–65. His PhD in Engineering at UCLA in 1966 was followed by a series of positions at Princeton University (1966–69), The Pennsylvania State University (1970–76), Columbia University (1976–77), and the University of California, Santa Barbara (1977–79). In 1979, he joined the Mathematics Center at Bell Laboratories where he stayed until his retirement as a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff 20 years later. After a one-year stint at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, he returned to Columbia University in 2000 with appointments in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, and Industrial Engineering and Operations Research. He retired from teaching in 2008 and is now a Professor Emeritus still fully engaged in research and in professional activities.
Coffman is best known for his seminal research together with his international collaborations, measured in part by some 150 co-authors in his collection of publications. His work can be found in over 180 articles in technical journals devoted to original research contributions. He published 4 graduate-level text books, and papers in the proceedings of some 250 conferences and workshops, most of these being preliminary versions of journal articles. In his research, Coffman has been a generalist following many parallel paths in engineering and applied mathematics. The directions he has taken have drawn on the tools of combinatorial optimization and the theory of algorithms, along with those of applied probability and stochastic processes. The processes studied include those in the theories of scheduling, bin packing, sequential selection, graphs, and dynamic allocation, along with those in queueing, polling, reservation, moving-server, networking, and distributed local-rule systems (e.g. cellular automata). His contributions have been divided between mathematical foundations and the design and analysis of approximation algorithms providing the basis for engineering solutions to NP-hard problems. Computer and network engineering applications have been broad in scope; a partial list includes research addressing problems in the scheduling and storage allocation functions of computer operating systems, storage architectures, data structures, computer timing problems such as deadlocks and synchronization, Internet congestion, peer-to-peer file sharing networks, stream merging, self-assembly processes of molecular computing, minimalist algorithms in sensor networks, optical burst switching, and dynamic spectrum management in cognitive networks. The list expands greatly when including the myriad applications in industrial engineering and operations research of Coffman's research in scheduling and bin-packing theory in one and two dimensions. As of November 11, 2015, his works have been cited 13,597 times, and he has an h-index of 49.
Coffman has been active professionally serving on several editorial boards, dozens of technical program committees, setting research agendas in workshops of the National Research Council, co-founding the Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, and the special interest groups on performance evaluation of both ACM and IFIPS.
1964, with Jules Schwartz and Clark Weissman. "A General Purpose Time-Sharing System". Spartan Books.
1973, with Peter Denning. Operating Systems Theory. Prentice-Hall.
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This is not true. If they respected the "work," if they respected comedy, they'd know this is a terrible idea.
Where the company's announcements of a Billie Holiday and Whitney Houston hologram felt at best creepy and at worst gross, I could at least imagine it being a solid show. Singers sing, and the audience listens quietly — that arrangement can exist even with a hologram. Comedy is less of a one-way street. The comedian Pete Holmes, referencing something the comedian Brian Regan said, describes a stand-up comic as being a musician whose instrument is the audience. They respond to how the audience is responding to them. A joke might bomb or kill on any given night, and the audience tells the comedian if they want them to push forward or pull back on a line of thought. Not to mention that comedians often talk with the audience members. Foxx and Kaufman couldn't be more dissimilar, but this is true for both. Foxx, one of the raunchiest comedians ever, listened to laughs to know if he could keep on getting dirtier. Kaufman, an anti-comedy pioneer, had to be keenly aware of how much tension and annoyance he was building so he could provide a payoff at the exact right moment.
It's not that listening to a prerecorded performance of either comedian wouldn't be enjoyable. I listen to comedy albums frequently. Hell, Foxx made a career of making comedy records that people played at parties. The difference is everyone at that party didn't have to pay to listen. I'm sure it will be funny to see a hologram curse a lot, but it won't be worth whatever insane price they are going to charge. There are a bunch of Redd Foxx records on Spotify right now. You can listen for free, and you don't even have to be creeped out about it.