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Harry Potter 7CD Collection - MUSIC discussion
By Jay,
December 8, 2018 in JOHN WILLIAMS
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5 hours ago, Datameister said:
Apologies if this has already been discussed, but did anyone catch the opening to "The Daily Prophet", AKA "Mail Drop"? The first two measures aren't in the sheet music or sessions leaks...sounds like a slower version of the first two written measures, with many of the instruments removed. I wonder what the story there is.
Indeed, as you say, it's just the first two measures with many of the instruments removed. We cannot know the reasons for these changes with certainty, but there are several possibilities:
- maybe JW decided at the sessions that he wanted a faster tempo with respect to what he had thought when he was composing the cue, so he needed to add a couple of measures to fit the whole scene;
- maybe he and the director decided that the music should start a few seconds earlier than planned earlier, so he had to fill those extra seconds with some neutral music;
- maybe the scene was slightly changed and this affected the duration of the music;
- maybe those extra measures helped in getting some synchro points right;
Small edits like this one happen quite often. Also in Azkaban, for example, but also in many other scores, such as Star Wars. Another example: in the track "Harry is a Parselmouth" (= 5M2 Harry on the Mountain) from COS, bar 12 is slowed down at half tempo (musically speaking, I find this choice awful), then some of the last bars are edited out.
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The whole thing is still surreal to me, that I would even be asked to work on something so large and important! The whole thing came together extremely quickly (especially for 7 discs / 8 hours of mu
This set is the best album I have ever bought. It's still unreal to me that all of my favourite music from my childhood is newly remastered and released. I've been looking forward to discussing every
Williams wrote that music for the deleted Sir Cadogan scene. The cue was then tracked into two different spots in the final cut, one of which was artificially slowed down. The little 10 s
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"The Stone" is fantastic. What does this track accompany?
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I feel like I can finally enjoy "Mischief Managed" the way it's meant to be enjoyed...
Except of course it's no longer called that.
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Hedwig's Theme for Harp is a highlight!
The rest of the extras for PS is not that exciting. The trailer/teaser/commercial stuff is mostly just repetitions of what we already had. I don't understand all the fuss about it.
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25 minutes ago, Brundlefly said:
The trailers contained the first ever recordings of what we know now as Hedwig's Theme. Their inclusion is very significant for those of us who were around when they came out and we heard this incredible music for the first time.
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2 hours ago, Brundlefly said:
Nothing special, Hermione telling Harry that Voldemort can't hurt him as long as Dumbledore is in the school. The climax was cut from the film, only the beginning/ending were partially used.
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7 hours ago, Score said:
Sure, this stuff happens all the time. I'm guessing in this case it had to do with the VFX shots not being done when they spotted the film. The tempo thing is what really puzzles me, especially since the film features a consistent tempo while the album features that abrupt tempo change. If anything, I would have expected the reverse.
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I absolutely had not realized how much excellent stuff was not on the original soundtrack CDs of all movies, but especially the first one (in some cases really unbelievable omissions). Maybe I've seen the movies so often that it felt as if I had also heard the music on CD. Anyway, sooo much to enjoy, even a lot of unreleased music not featured in the films.
TSMefford, Once and TheUlyssesian
Ah, I see (and hear). I thought you were mostly referring to the fact that there were extra-bars. Indeed, the abrupt tempo change is very strange.
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I'm guessing that's how it was recorded, and they sped it up slightly in the film to match the temp of the rest of the cue.
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@Jay Do you happen to know what the hell is going on with the film edit of "The Confrontation Scene" in PoA? Some parts of the recorded cue were used of course and there's also Pettigrew material tracked in, but in addition there's some other areas that don't seem to come from the original recording. Tracked from elsewhere I suppose. However, there is a section from the end of the La La Land version (specifically from 5:32-6:03) that seems to match a portion used earlier in the scene. However, I thought it was pitch shifted, but it sounds more like a new performance though. They've really butchered the hell out of this. Just wondering if you had more insight here. Were there any pick-ups or inserts recorded (specifically of Confrontation Scene material, I already know all Pettigrew material is tracked) or is it truly just a tracked nightmare?
I'd need to take a listen to the scene again, but I seem to recall the tracking being pretty straightforward...been a long while, though.
I just finished my first listen of SS on this release. A fantastic job, clearly. My only disappointment is the omission of some of the trailer music. But it's a small nitpick against an otherwise beautiful release. Even more excited for POA now...but first comes COS. Meh. 😉
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I don't remember exactly what the film did to that cue, but in general any new versions or inserts used in the final cut are all on the album, of course.
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44 minutes ago, Jay said:
Alrighty. XD. It's just driving me crazy. Can't seem to nail down the tracking for it.
I thought it was too, but I've hit some confusing patches.
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One of the strangest things in Azkaban is the past theme playing over the beginning of Lupin's Transformation. Was that an intentional overlay?
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I'm not up to that part yet but apparently yes, it's an overlay not an insert.
Phwoar! The percussion at the start of Buckbeak's Flight is one of the most glorious things I've heard through my subwoofer. You can feel the power!
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1 hour ago, Arpy said:
It's come up a few times in this thread, and I anticipate a few more times due to the slow trickling of everyone catching up! But yes, it seems that it was an intentional overlay as the piece doesn't appear anywhere else in the score and I believe was written specifically for this scene. I've expressed my distaste for it but ultimately it's harmless, and nice to have on the set.
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A big plus in case of POA is the whole medieval source and the christmas carol. The first one had this, too, and it wasn't shabby, either (more interesting harmonically than the plushy underscore) but POA is a clear reminder that this should have been the route for those scores altogether - if WB only dared for a director less square than Columbus and his kindergarten style.
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Terry Gilliam! The most wanted-by-authors-but-denied-by-producers-y director of all time!
But at least WB dared for a young, dynamic and interesting director for PoA.
Who also got a much fresher score from JW. Rowling should have pushed for less studio-savvy directors in the first place. Gilliam, i don't know...but both Cuaron and Newell handled their respective movies well enough (one hasn't to love Goblet, but Newell handled the whole teen sturm and drang very well).
7 hours ago, Arpy said:
I really don't have an issue with it at all. Never found that one odd. I'd definitely say it's intentional.
Does anyone else hear a clicking noise at 0:39 in "Buckbeak Saves the Day / Watching the Past"? I don't know whether it is my CD or just a noise from the recording.
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3 minutes ago, Brundlefly said:
I think all the clicks are a part of a recording. They come so rhythmically and they're always in a place that makes sense with the music in mine.
1 minute ago, Space Pineapple Prod. said:
Normally. But this one seems so obvious that I think MM would have filtered it out. Check the track at 0:39 and tell me what you hear. I'm not sure about it.
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Multiple cues in the third act have a clock ticking sound effect overlaid very much intentionally, if that's what you two are on about.
The clock starts back up at 0:30 on that track. Maybe that's what you're hearing?
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8 hours ago, publicist said:
I seriously doubt Williams would have scored it without Columbus though. Very unlikely with Cuaron and damn near impossible with someone like Terry Gilliam
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3 minutes ago, Space Pineapple Prod. said:
It's not the clock. It is a background noise from the recording though - it is also audible on the OST.
1 minute ago, Brundlefly said:
Watching the Past was on the OST? Sorry I'm unfamiliar with them.
Watching the Past = Finale (Part 1)
Ohh. Thanks!
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Maybe someone else already said it, but I noticed in the sessions the source music for the Leaky Cauldron and Hagrid's Flute both had the messed up ending,
while in this LLL release the ending is clean/cut/faded out.
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I was surprised! I expected the messed up endings. I'm glad clean versions of these cues existed and that that's what MM went with, although they're funny to hear in the sessions.
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55 minutes ago, Not Mr. Big said:
Why? He obviously liked the book (and what it offered, lore-wise). The bigger problem would have been the opposition from guys like Gilliam. It was a high-profile gig and obviously Williams and Horner (and maybe a few others) got offers.
15 minutes ago, mrbellamy said:
Agreed...wonderful to have both!
Wait, didn't MM simply clean up the sloppy endings? That's what I always assumed.
Leaky Cauldron and Hagrid Plays the Flute were sloppy intentionally as source cues - in the pub, there's a sudden silence when people recognize Harry, the players would put down their instruments as well, and Hagrid's flute solo is interrupted when the gang approaches him. Apparently proper clean endings were recorded for these and they're on the set?
I think they're just cut, there's no clean ending. Hagrid's flute has a sloppy ending mid-Hedwig's Theme, while on the boxset it ends right before. The Leaky Cauldron cue fades out before the sloppy ending.
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53 minutes ago, redishere said:
I haven't had a chance to closely compare the Leaky Cauldron stuff yet, so you might be right. But Hagrid's recorder definitely seems to have a previously unheard clean ending. (Unless they just edited in earlier parts of the cue to fake an ending? I'd have to check that, too.)
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2 hours ago, redishere said:
1 hour ago, Datameister said:
@Datameister is correct. The endings for both are not cut and include new material not present in the sloppy ending recordings from what I can see.
Also update on my film edit analysis. The Werewolf Scene is now the most butchered cue so far. Who will win? We shall see.
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OK. I received my CDs three days ago and have listened to all of "Sorcerer's Stone" and the first disc of "Azkaban." More in a bit about why I'm avoiding "Chamber."
Wonderful! Wonderful! Wonderful! Every second of the listening experience has been a joy. I am so thankful to have all of this music. Of course, the stuff we had on the original soundtracks were great, but all of this is just exciting to hear outside the films. For instance, getting the full version of "The Chess Game" was almost worth the money I paid for all seven CDs. It's the best action cue in all the films, and I was excited to get all of it and not feel cheated out of the scene's conclusion in a musical sense. Plus, the percussion really booms! The real treat was getting the music from the Forbidden Forest scene in "Sorcerer's Stone." It has my favorite rendition of Voldemort's theme, and I was always sad that, until now, I could only hear it when watching the film.
I'm thrilled that I get the real versions of "Knight Bus" and "The Dementors Converge." How exciting that we get the ticking clock as heard in the film!
This seven-CD set is a masterpiece of work by everyone involved. I learned so much from the liner notes that I will be using in a project that I am birthing to the world in about a week. I have heard "The Quidditch Match" from "Sorcerer's Stone" hundreds of times, but for some reason I didn't pick that the main thematic material was the Hogwarts theme! I thought it was new thematic material for the scene. Amazing -- and thanks to Michael Mattesino and his team for helping me work through why I loved the music in that scene so much. Also, the analysis of the two themes for Voldemort were very helpful.
Now, for a couple of questions. In the invisibility cloak scene in "SS," there's a stinger when Snape turns back to Quirrell after swiping at invisible Harry. I didn't hear it in that cue on the new presentation. What's the explanation for that?
And, I noticed "Quidditch, Year Three" sounds faster on the new CD presentation than the original soundtrack. Is what we heard on the original soundtrack a slightly slowed-down version of what we hear on the "Soundtrack Collection" and if so, why?
Now, here's my issue with "Chamber of Secrets." It's exactly what most of you feel, that the sequel is "Harry Potter 2: Lost In New York." The new material was always lost to me in the retread of new material, and because I hated the film, my opinion of the music was clouded by that. I'm going to wait a while to experience "Chamber of Secrets" on the CDs.
55 minutes ago, Trumpeteer said:
Now, for a couple of questions. In the invisibility cloak scene in "SS," there's a stinger when Snape turns back to Quirrell after swiping at invisible Harry. I didn't hear it in that cue on the new presentation. What's the explanation for that?
That's edited in from another cue, I can't remember exactly which one off the top of my head. I'm sure someone else does.
Wow, Confrontation in the Shrieking Shack surprised me! It's really different in the film. Lots of tracking, clearly.
7 minutes ago, crumbs said:
Yup. They dialed out a ton of it. Moved stuff around, and there's some stingers or overlays I can't quite figure out. Right now I've got Aunt Marge Points the Finger pitch-shifted and subbed in for those as it sounds close enough.
1 hour ago, Trumpeteer said:
Great reactions. Glad you're enjoying your set!
I'm one of the ones around here who actually adores the Chamber of Secrets score, possibly more than HP1. I'm also one to think Home Alone 2 is the better score as well so yeah. I love the performances on the Chamber of Secrets score. I certainly hope you give it a fair shot!
48 minutes ago, TSMefford said:
I'm one of the ones around here who actually adores the Chamber of Secrets score...
Chamber of Secrets is bloody brilliant. I've always loved the new pieces John Williams wrote for this film as well as the great OST presentation. "Fawkes the Phoenix," "The Chamber of Secrets," and "Dobby the House Elf" are so good, they're out of this world! The many trackings are unfortunate (thanks for nothing, WR!), but they are easily offset by the many mind-blowing setpieces that John Williams wrote for this installment. CoS is more of everything, I think, and by that I mean more action, more fear, more chaos, more emotion, more passion. CoS is JW in "sequel mode," really, and it's in good company along with Jaws 2, The Empire Strikes Back, Temple of Doom, Home Alone 2, and The Lost World!
Prisoner of Azkaban takes a slightly different approach, but in many ways Chamber of Secrets is Philosopher's Stone on steroids!
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1 hour ago, TSMefford said:
The music for Harry disarming Snape sounds different too, but I can't put my finger on it. Might need a rewatch of the film.
The most obvious section of tracking is from The Marauder's Map, right as Lupin and Sirius are about to kill Pettigrew (but Harry intervenes). Also, the climax of the film version (as Pettigrew chews his fingers) seems to be 2:30-2:37 from The Marauder's Map.
Very effective tracking, I must say. Kudos to the music editor (was it Kenny Wannberg on these films?)
1 hour ago, Manakin Skywalker said:
Tracked and hacked up overlay from The Chess Game.
6 hours ago, TSMefford said:
Thanks, I definitely need to check those again... I remember listening to both and saying "wait, something is missing", but it could also mean something new was added!
Another question (sorry if it was already discussed): is the opening for The Daily Prophet slowed down? Or was it sped up in the movie and in the sessions? Was the sessions cue a different take? It sure is extended in the boxset!
2 hours ago, crumbs said:
I like that they tracked the menacing tubas from the end of the cue to the spot, when Sirius is threatened by Snape. It appears twice now, when someone is talking about the dementors.
In general the film edits were done so professionally that you don't really hear any of them.


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December 26, 2020 15:59 GMT (UK), by Sri Aswin
Predicted Arsenal lineup to face Chelsea
Arsenal will welcome Chelsea in tonight's Premier League clash at the Emirates Stadium.
The Gunners have experienced a horrendous start to the current top-flight campaign and they have picked up only 14 points from as many games.
They are winless for the past seven matches with only two points gained and that sees them down in 15th, just four points ahead of the drop zone.
Mikel Arteta will be hoping for a change of fortunes when Frank Lampard's side visit the Emirates Stadium in a couple of hours.
Predicted Lineup:
Bernd Leno has played every minute of the Gunners' league campaign and he is an automatic choice for the goalkeeping position.
In the back three, Arteta may go with the experience of David Luiz alongside Rob Holding and Gabriel Magalhaes. Luiz could feature centrally.
At right wing-back, Hector Bellerin is likely to get the nod after being rested during the League Cup quarter-final defeat to Manchester City.
On the opposite end, Kieran Tierney should be preferred ahead of Bukayo Saka as he is defensively better suited than the Gunners graduate.
Granit Xhaka is expected to return in the midfield after serving a three-game domestic suspension for his sending off for violent conduct vs Burnley.
That means that one of Mohamed Elneny or Dani Ceballos could drop to the bench and we are fancying the former to make way.
Further forward, Alexandre Lacazette should get the nod to lead the attack after finding the back of the net in midweek.
Willian has been in a poor run of form for the Gunners and has received plenty of criticism from the fans in recent weeks.
Still, he has shown that he can a big-game player in the past and Arteta is likely to trust him with the right-wing role against his ex-club.
On the opposite end, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang will be an automatic choice to start, provided he has overcome his minor calf problem.
Predicted Arsenal lineup (3-4-3): Bernd Leno; Rob Holding, David Luiz, Gabriel Magalhaes; Hector Bellerin, Granit Xhaka, Dani Ceballos, Kieran Tierney; Willian, Alexandre Lacazette, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
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But before I open up the laptop and make the swap, I just want to verify that the cloning worked correctly. But no matter how I adjust the BIOS settings, I can't boot from the new SSD via the USB support.
What's the trick to getting this to work? Or is it possible it's not booting because the cloning procedure didn't work right somehow?
My BIOS settings are shown below. I tried disabling "secure boot" and when that didn't work also disabling "OS Optimized Defaults" which switches from pure UEFI mode to legacy. I tried disabling "Fast Boot Mode" also. All I get is the "blue screen" shown below.
Again, just trying to verify that my SSD will boot properly before installing it.
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After fussing with it more, I'm wondering now if maybe the cloning didn't work right. Now when I plug in the SSD to my USB and restart, I get the blue screen above or one that says "boot device inaccessible." But when I unplug the SSD and restart, it boots up normally with the factory HDD.
That suggests that it's trying to boot from USB first, but fails.
One thing to note, the new SSD is 500GB but the factory HDD is 1TB. Since the HDD is only about 25% full, there's plenty of room for everything on the SSD. I used Samsung's cloning utility, and it said it completed successfully. When I examine the drive with it, it seems to show the partitions correctly.
But maybe something isn't right? I could try a different cloning utility perhaps.
As a test I made a bootable USB flash drive using the Windows 10 media creation tool, and was able to boot using that. So I tried recloning the SDD using a different utility (I used Samsung Data Migration the first time, this time I used AOEMI Backerupper). Completed successfully.
Still can't get that SDD to boot. The flash drive works.
What is going on here? Am I looking at a bad SDD? This is the Samsung EVO 360 500GB.
I'm kind of stumped here...any help would be invaluable. Thanks.
Solved...clone was bad...recloned with Macrium Reflect after making bootable USB drive.
Are you able to put the USB at the top of the boot priority order?
Also need to disable "fast boot" (don't have the BIOS in front of me but I think that's what it's called--it automatically defaults to the internal HDD for booting).
Try that and see if it works.
Like I said above, you need to disable the fast boot setting in BIOS (or whatever it's called--it's the setting that makes the computer automatically boot to the internal drive--in mine it was on by default). If you post screenshots of your BIOS I can probably point you to it.
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The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment has confirmed only two cases of the Omicron variant related to COVID-19 in the state; they involve individuals from Arapahoe and Boulder counties who traveled internationally. But at a December 7 press conference, Governor Jared Polis and CDPHE lead epidemiologist Dr. Rachel Herlihy revealed that Omicron has now been found in Boulder's wastewater surveillance system.
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Colorado was the third state in the U.S. to register an Omicron case, as Polis discussed during a December 5 television appearance on ABC's This Week With George Stephanopoulos (click to see his interview with journalist Martha Raddatz). But rather than start today's press conference with a discussion of Omicron, he spoke more generally about the impact of the disease.
Polis noted that 9,652 people have died from COVID-19 in Colorado, and 1,419 people are currently hospitalized for treatment related to the disease — an increase of forty over the day before. While there's no "clear pattern" regarding data because it's been "bouncing up and down," he said, what's undeniable is that vaccinations greatly reduce the risk of hospitalizations or fatalities. Currently, only 16 percent of patients receiving care for COVID at a Colorado medical facility have been vaccinated, with the remaining 83-plus percent inoculation-free.
After sharing this information, Polis handed off to Herlihy, who got into more details about Omicron. Early data out of southern Africa, where the virus was first detected, implies that it's potentially more transmissible than previous strains, she said, but the effects may be milder than those associated with the Delta variant, which continues to be by far the most dominant version of COVID-19 in Colorado. As a result, she suggested, the detection of Omicron by the Boulder wastewater surveillance system shouldn't require a major change of behavior in that city or others that may soon have cases of their own. Herlihy encouraged vaccinations, booster shots for those previously immunized, mask usage in indoor public places and the avoidance of large gatherings as the best ways to protect against any known form of the disease.
Returning to the podium, Polis invited questions — and several of them dealt with the situation in Boulder. The wastewater surveillance system isn't capable of quantifying the number of residents who might be infected with Omicron, Herlihy said, but officials will be closely watching test results in the area to determine if more cases are found. She also acknowledged that hospitalizations have been ticking up in recent days and surmised that the trend may be related to gatherings over the recent Thanksgiving weekend.
Cases rose, too, she added, before expressing her hope that "the numbers will turn a corner and go back down again."
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Vietnam has launched its first dispute at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) with a case against US anti-dumping measures on its key exports of shrimp.
The state only joined the global trade arbiter three years ago, and its economy like China's, has benefited strongly from membership in the world trading system and its rules.
The trade dispute with the US not only has symbolic significance, given the two countries' war that ended 35 years ago, but defends a product that brought in some $1.5 billion (Dh5.51bn) in exports last year. It also pits Hanoi against a large number of Vietnamese-American shrimpers who operate off the coasts of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia and Florida.
No one was available for comment at Vietnam's mission to the WTO, and details of the dispute were not immediately clear. Vietnamese shrimp exporters have complained in the past about the controversial US method of calculating anti-dumping duties known as zeroing, which has been condemned repeatedly by WTO courts and rejected by all other WTO members.
"The WTO has concluded that the US was wrong in applying the zeroing method in precedent cases. I can see high possibility of Vietnam winning the case," Nguyen Huu Dung, deputy chairman of the Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers (Vasep), said.
Vietnam will also gain useful experience in international trade litigation from fighting a WTO case, Dung said. According to documents filed by Vietnam with the WTO, the country is seeking consultations with the US, the first formal stage in a dispute.
A spokeswoman for the US Trade Representative's office said they were reviewing Vietnam's request for talks. If the two sides fail to resolve the dispute through bilateral consultations in 60 days, Vietnam can ask the WTO to set up a panel to rule on the case.
Vasep estimates Vietnam exported 190,000 tonnes of shrimp in 2009, up seven per cent in volume and one per cent in value. Besides the US, its main markets are Japan, South Korea, China and the European Union.
The Southern Shrimp Alliance, which represents shrimp fishermen and processors in eight US states, won anti-dumping duties on imports from Brazil, China, Ecuador, India, Thailand and Vietnam in 2004 after a US Commerce Department investigation found those countries guilty of unfair pricing practices.
That action helped stabilise an industry hit hard by falling prices. But annual US administrative reviews have weakened duties and US shrimpers are now struggling with low prices, the group's executive director, John Williams, said. US duties on Thai shrimp had such little effect that the Southern Shrimp Alliance recently negotiated a deal for the Thai industry to pay US shrimpers at least $100 million to have the duties dropped, he said.


Emerging Technology Group updates will be produced every 2 months, as members of the group take it in turns to update the wider NHS library community on key topics. This time, we will be discussing blockchain and its implications for health libraries.
Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies such as Ethereum have been prominently featured in the media over the past 6 months or so. They are all based on the same technology: blockchain. Simply, blockchain is a secure digital record keeping system that is spread out across a large network. Information is stored in encrypted blocks which are then chained together. Information cannot be changed once it has been added to the chain, and because the chain is distributed across the whole network, it is very secure. There are more detailed explanations available on Wikipedia or from the LSE Business Review blog.
There are a number of different ways in which blockchain could be applied in healthcare. One option which has seen significant interest is using blockchain to manage the storage and sharing of medical records, as is being explored at MIT. Till et al (2017) have also argued that blockchain could potentially be used to finance universal health coverage. Other potential applications of blockchain in healthcare could be in securely storing and tracking research metadata, global health patterns, or administrative and financial information (Gordon et al, 2017). This is an area that is seeing a lot of research and there are numerous startups exploring the opportunities available.
Hoy (2017) argues that the blockchain could be used as a digital rights management (DRM) tool to aid in copyright protection. Blockchain could even potentially be used as a library management system to keep track of circulation in a decentralised way (Cabello et al, 2017). Another potential could be in the creation and maintenance of authority records for cataloguing and metadata. The project Blockchains for the Information Profession by San Jose State University is a good source of information and probably the best way to stay up-to-date in this field.
The long term viability of blockchain remains to be seen. One of the concerns that has been raised relates to the wider environmental impact of these distributed networks, which is already consuming more energy than the whole of the Republic of Ireland, although this estimate is also up for debate. In addition to this, there remain numerous barriers to the more widespread adoption of blockchain in healthcare or in libraries, not least technical issues relating to the interoperability of metadata, as well as a current lack of clarity around governance, regulation, and wider economic impact (Deshpande et al, 2017).
Keeping abreast of developments in this field so that we can have informed discussions with others within and outside our organisations would be a good place to start. I would argue that the proliferation of private companies leading the way in implementing blockchain in healthcare is an issue of concern. For any solutions to be sustainable in the long term, we need to be playing an active role in conversations around emerging technologies such as this.
The General Data Protection Regulation – why we need to act and how we can help each other!
In May 2018, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will replace the 1988 Data Protection Act (DPA). GDPR builds on the DPA and gives 'data subjects' (i.e. those whose data is being held) enhanced rights. If your library service collects data about individuals on library management systems, document supply systems, or swipe card access systems, uses social media or cookies on websites, or captures CCTV images, then this applies to you!
All organisations (or groups of organisations) must identify a named Data Protection Officer (DPO).
The definition of personal data now includes 'any information relating to an individual's… private, professional or public life' and personal identifiers such as photographs, CCTV images, posts on social media and IP addresses.
Data subjects have the right to be informed that their data is being processed via a privacy notice which explains the grounds on which data is being collected, who is processing the data, the intended use of the data, the retention period for the data, and their right to complain.
Data subjects can access, correct and, in circumstances where extreme distress has been caused, erase data. Organisations must respond to requests for access within one month.
Personal data allowed under GDPR must be portable between organisations, so must not be held in proprietary formats/must be able to be exported to a generic format such as a .CSV file.
What should library services do now?
Find out who is leading on GDPR in your organisation and prepare for a conversation with them about use of personal data in your library service.
Do a quick library team audit of all the personal data you keep in relation to the services you provide. For each think: Who (is the data subject), What (data is being processed), Why (is it being processed), Where (is it being stored) and How (is it being used)?
Think about what privacy notices you might need to cover the data processing requirements for your service. Privacy notices can cover more than one instance of data processing, but it must be possible for users to positively opt-in to each.
Check your procedure for dealing with access, correction and deletion requests – and update these if necessary.
Check that personal data you hold is held in or could be converted to a commonly used electronic format.
Many of our data processes will be common to all library services. Please reply to this blog post if you have already done GDPR preparation work and have anything you are willing to share (e.g. your audit of data processes or a new privacy statement) or if you have ideas about anything we could usefully do nationally.
Further information on the GDPR can be found on the Information Commissioner's Office website https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-the-general-data-protection-regulation-gdpr/ , which also contains an excellent '12-steps to consider now' document (https://ico.org.uk/media/1624219/preparing-for-the-gdpr-12-steps.pdf .
Naomi Korn Copyright Consultancy will also be providing advice on this issue at https://naomikorn.com/resources/ under the heading 'Data Protection Resources'.


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Liverpool ready to finish nearly unbeaten December marathon with improved defensive performances
December was supposed to be Liverpool's unravelling. The Reds started December with nine matches in all competitions with five games in the Premier League, two at the FIFA Club World Cup, one in the Champions League, and one in the Carabao Cup quarterfinals. The only blemish to Liverpool's season with one match of the nine... Continue Reading →
Will Liverpool benefit from Mohamed Salah and Egypt's exit from AFCON?
My recent article for FantasySports.co.uk takes a look at Mohamed Salah and Egypt's exit from the Africa Cup of Nations in the round of 16. The back to back Premier League Golden Boot winner should be back ahead of the FA Community Shield against Manchester City. Teammate Sadio Mane is a different story due to... Continue Reading →
Liverpool keep 18th clean sheet of Premier League season
Liverpool kept their 18th clean sheet of the Premier League season with a vital 2-0 win over Chelsea. The Reds moved back to the top of the Premier League with the win. Sadio Mane scored his 10th goal in 12 Premier League games while Mohamed Salah scored for a second straight league fixture. The Reds... Continue Reading →
Liverpool must pay £60m for RB Leipzig's Timo Werner
Liverpool are yet to bring in any new players ahead of Thursday's closure of the transfer window. However, the Reds are being linked with one player in a blockbuster summer move. https://youtu.be/3bdhH9lrjOs RB Leipzig striker Timo Werner continues to be linked with a transfer to Anfield. German media has reported RB Leipzig have put a... Continue Reading →
Lazar Markovic is still at Liverpool!
Liverpool signed Serbian playmaker Lazar Markovic in the summer of 2014. Markovic had shone for Benfica scoring five goals in 26 matches in just one season. The Reds paid Benfica £20 million for the midfielder and in his debut season, he followed up his signing with a disappointing three goals in 34 games. https://youtu.be/LgeUOPhFkek Since... Continue Reading →
Trent Alexander-Arnold signs new five-year Liverpool contract
Trent Alexander-Arnold has followed fellow full-back Andrew Robertson in signing a new five-year contract with Liverpool. The right-back is currently on the sidelines injured, but that hasn't stopped the Reds from tying down another one of its core players. Don't forget to check out our YouTube channel. Please like our videos and subscribe to the... Continue Reading →
Liverpool sign Andrew Robertson to new five-year deal
Liverpool added Andrew Robertson to the growing list of players dedicating their long-term futures to the club. Robertson joined the likes of Roberto Firmino, Mohamed Salah, Sadio Mane, and Jordan Henderson on Thursday when he put pen to paper. Check out our latest video blog on YouTube. Like and subscribe to stay up to date... Continue Reading →
Preview – Liverpool vs. Crystal Palace
Liverpool host Crystal Palace at the weekend in the Premier League. The Reds got the best of Crystal Palace in their previous meeting, 2-0. However, it took a James Milner penalty and a 90th-minute goal from Sadio Mane to see off the Eagles at Selhurst Park. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuEzaIm7zVU This week, Liverpool Reds FC Blog has launched... Continue Reading →
Trent Alexander-Arnold out for the next month
Trent Alexander-Arnold is set to miss the next month of action for Liverpool. The right-back was reported injured on Tuesday afternoon. Alexander-Arnold initially suffered an injury prior to Liverpool's win over Brighton at the weekend. However, it is now reported the 20-year-old will miss up to the next four weeks. Dejan Lovren is also injured... Continue Reading →


ANIMAL RESCUES – WHERE DOES THE MONEY GO?
I recently attended the Irvine Animal Shelter's "Home for the Holidays": event. I was taking a look at some of the dogs that were available for adoption, when I overheard a man say "Two hundred dollars to adopt a dog! Ha, they're crazy. If they really wanted to give a dog a home, they would give it away or not charge so much money". Okay, let's talk about "where does the money go?"
Approximately 70% of the dogs and cats that end up in rescues are not only heart broken, they are physically broken. Rescues use their donations, adoption fees and often times money from their own personal bank accounts to care for and heal these animals so they can be adopted and have the happy life they so deserve.
Kay DeLoach from Westie Rescue of OC and Beyond shares the amount of money spent on one precious Westie by the name of Wally that came into her rescue. Wally needed eye surgery and numerous medical treatments. Take a look at Wally's account.
Sue Baldwin of Southland Collie Rescue shares her cost on a beautiful Collie / Retriever mix, Buffy, that came into her rescue.
the same time, with no extra charge.
Sherry Montgomery from AHome4Ever shares her cost to heal the adorable animals that come into her rescue.
Bladder stones which is quite common cost $1400.
Rescues use donations and adoption fees to pay for their biggest expense-medical bills which also may include follow up visits, on-going treatment as well as medications that in some cases animals will need to be on for the rest of their lives. I have not even touched on the subject of food, supplies and educational events that is also funded by donations and adoption fees.
When rescues say they are "non-profit", they means exactly that. There is no money in rescue work.
As for the gentleman who said "they are crazy". No, they are not crazy. Kay, Sue, Sherry and all of the thousands of rescues will skip their own meals to feed an animal. They will sleep on the floor to give an animal a bed. They are angels with hearts that are bigger than the world. We and the animals are grateful to have them with us here on earth.
Please spay and neuter your pets. Please give to an animal rescue of your choice. Any amount is always appreciated and welcomed.


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Crewe suffers the worst lifestyle health in Cheshire. We have the most obese population in Cheshire. People in St. Barnabas ward are 58% more likely to die of respiratory diseases than the England average. We have three areas with air quality warnings. All of the monitors that worked recorded an increase in Nitrous Oxide which is linked to asthma. The monitors have only a 20% accuracy which means that all of them except one could be breaking acceptable EU limits.
Traffic flows are worse than ever. The average speed along Nantwich road is about ten miles per hour, the same speed as average leisurely cycling. This speed drops significantly in peak hours.
Crewe is nationally recognised as the town with the worst levels of debt in the country. The RAC estimates that a quarter of the average income is spent on maintaining a car. While the cost of living increased by 38% in ten years, fuel rose 75%. Most of this is on fuel and insurance, meaning that 90% leaves the local economy. If just 1000 people could use alternative transport, AA calculations indicate that £3,146,500 would be saved to spend in the town. This would represent a major boost to the local economy, coupled with the fact that not only have cyclists more disposable income, they are more likely to spend it in local shops.
Crewe has the perfect geography for cycling. Small and flat, with an unusually high proportion of people working within 2 miles of their homes. It has a famous cycling history, up till the early 1980s it had the second highest proportion of cycling journeys after Oxford with ten thousand rail workers sweeping down West Street at the end of the shift. This may be the reason that Crewe motorists are unusually sympathetic to cycling, which contributes to the fact that numerically cycling is the safest form of transport. There have been no cycling fatalities in the last dozen years, against a score of pedestrians and vehicle occupants killed.
Figures released this month state that the national average for cycle journeys to work is 4%. An increase of 1% a year for the last two years. Meanwhile cycling in Crewe has plummeted 1% per year from 40% in 1980 to 8% in 2010 and then 5.7% in 2012. Much of this is a result of the closure of Crewe works, but some of it must be attributable to changes in road layouts that favour cars over cycles or pedestrians. For example, now you cannot cycle from St Paul's in Hightown through the town to the municipal buildings. Cyclists are forced to go down a dual carriageway; a wide right turn and a third turn off a roundabout. Compare this to similar geographic areas with higher spending on cycling; Hackney has 14.6%, Kensington and Chelsea 12.8% and Cambridge with the lead at 29.9%. All these pale into insignificance with continental towns which have worked hard to achieve the cycling rates of Crewe 30 years ago. They spend up to 20% of their tax precepts on cycling to create safe, social and healthy spaces where people spend money and enjoy a better environment altogether.
The RAC states that cycling is higher in lower income bands, at 3.3%.Many low paid workers cycle because they cannot afford a car or the bus. These vulnerable families deserve the best infrastructure we can build.
It's a healthy and social way to travel
No one is too important, or too old to enjoy active travel.
It makes you feel better, in mind and body.
http://publications.nice.org.uk/walking-and-cycling-local-measures-to-promote-walking-and-cycling-as-forms-of-travel-or-recreation-ph41.
Buses count, and it's cheaper than petrol.
There are frequent buses running all over Crewe and district, linking the station with most work places. At the moment it costs £6.50 for petrol to get to Hanley and back, and only £4.90 by bus. A family of 5 can go for £9.70 and that includes unlimited travel with first group, so why go by car?
It's often faster than driving
The sun has just got up, it's freezing, but these cyclists are warm and coasted to the the station in 4 minutes, rather than 20.


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Q: How to test a method in viewModel which returns LiveData value from repository In my ViewModel I am calling a method from my repository class which returns a LiveData from a webservice. My viewModel code:
class MainViewModel @Inject constructor(val mainRepository: MainRepository) : ViewModel() {
   val source: LiveData<My_Result> = mainRepository.fetchApiresultFromClient(str_query)
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My question is that is there a way to get real data from the webservice called in repository or do I just prepare the result and assert that its not null; something like below:
when(mainrepository.fetchApiresultFromClient(any(String::class))).thenReturn(myPreparedLiveData<My_result>)

A: As the question is tagged as unit-testing, IMHO, expecting real data from a web service does not actually fall into the scope of unit-testing. You might call than an integration testing, however, from the unit-testing point of view, you might consider mocking the response from the function that calls the web service and verify if the method was called using proper arguments that you expect.


Many of you who have joined me on battlefield tours will know about my love of working dogs, and the fact I own a number of working English Springer Spaniels; and how I have told the story about animals serving in both World Wars, plus the story of the Dickin Medal, which is the Animal's Victoria Cross. Well, Military Working Dogs have never been more important that today serving with the British Army.
I recently had the great privilege of witnessing the presentation of a to Treo, a Labrador Spaniel cross, who was accompanied by his handler, British Army Sergeant Dave Heyhoe. The two have been working together for the past five years and he was honoured with the award at the Imperial War Museum in London as the medal was presented by HRH Princess Alexandra.
Nine year old Treo was given the medal for his deployment to Afghanistan with 104 Military Working Dog Support Unit, based in Rutland; when during a single infantry foot patrol Treo twice found hidden bombs and improvised explosive devises in Helmand province, saving many lives.
Treo is the 63rd animal to receive the medal to honor gallantry in war, and is the highest accolade a military working dog can be awarded. A total of 26 other dogs, 32 World War II messenger pigeons, three horses and one cat have won the award, first introduced in 1943 by Maria Dickin, the founder of the PDSA.
It was at lunch after the event it became so obvious both Dave and Treo are inseparable 'Treo is now retired and I finish in the Army soon' said Dave Heyhoe 'and we are both looking forward to a long and happy retirement' I am sure you will join me in wishing both the very best for the future.


January 10, 2018. For immediate release.
Scripture Listening app Dwell launched on Kickstarter this week to an enthusastic response, earning over 50% of it's $50,000 funding goal in 24 hours.
Dwell is an upcoming mobile app, built by the creators of Lightstock.com, aimed at helping people cultivate a habit of listening to the most important book in history, the Bible.
Co-founders Jonathan and Joshua Bailey are finally realizing a vision they've had for a decade. "For the last ten years, we have had this idea for a beautiful, easy-to-use, scripture listening app in the back of our heads. Mainly, we wanted an app like this for ourselves. For the longest time, we figured someone else would build it because, in a world of smartphone dominance, it feels like such a no-brainer. In 2016, we finally found ourselves with the freedom to go out and tackle it."
Why not just use one of the many recordings of scripture available today? "The best a CD or cassette tape or even today's popular Bible apps can do is get you to a particular book, but navigating to a specific chapter, or even verse was next-to-impossible. The wonders of web and app engineering, however, solve this problem, allowing the Bible to be parsed out verse-by-verse. This means we can now create all kinds of interesting ways for you to explore the Scriptures, from new Listening Plans to cross-gospel Stories to topical Playlists."
The team has commissioned four new and original audio recordings of the Bible after doing 150 in-person auditions. These voices are varied and unique, offering 4 distinct reading styles that can appeal to everyone.
The team has also partnered with Steinway artist & composer Chad Lawson to compose original in-app music. It's tailor-made for listening to scripture because it doesn't distract, it draws you in. Listening without music will always be an option.
Like listening, art was another primary way Christians took in Scripture throughout the centuries. And like music, Artwork can also draw us into the text more deeply, providing a visual to the audible. We've created original artwork for Dwell, illustrating Scripture in interesting and evocative ways.
Dwell will be available for both iOS and Android, with an expected release for iOS in June, 2018, and an Android release early next year.
What an amazing app. Beautiful to look at, plus powerful voices.
Millions of people are longing to hear God speak through the Bible. Dwell gets that.
I love the voices—and the options to change them. I can't recommend it more highly.
A tremendous opportunity to hear the Scriptures in our day.
The level of care and attention to detail put into Dwell is beautiful. I can't express how excited I am to make this app a part of my daily life.
We've been in the faith-based space for 12 years now and love it. Our driving passion is to build companies and products that help advance the kingdom of God. We began our journey in 2006 when started our first company (gracewaymedia.com). Graceway comes alongside pastors and helps provide a visual complement to whatever it is their preaching on a given Sunday. We were blessed with an opportunity to sell that business in 2012, and immediately began work on a new company (Lightstock.com). It's geared towards helping faith-based designers and artists tell better stories through the use of professional faith-focused stock resources. Today, it's a thriving platform that sees thousands of downloads every month.
For the last ten years, we have had this idea for a beautiful, easy-to-use, scripture listening app in the back of our heads. Mainly, we wanted an app like this for ourselves. For the longest time, we figured someone else would build it because, in a world of smartphone dominance, it feels like such a no-brainer. In 2016, we finally found ourselves with the freedom to go out and tackle it.
Since then, we've been going slow, building a team, recording audio, and doing development work as resources have allowed. When we told the world what we were up to last September we were shocked by the response. In a three-week period, we had over 7,000 people express interest in Dwell! This gave us a boost of confidence and validated the need for an app like this. We cannot wait to bring this app into existence!
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How many Americans knew the name of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl before last week? For that matter, how many of the members of our dysfunctional Congress, yet alone our polarizing pundits knew about this POW? Just about everything wrong in our culture's politics has shown itself in the aftermath of the exchange of five senior Taliban detainees at Guantanamo for Bergdahl. Everybody played their role to a tee creating another contrived and unnecessary controversy, further tearing away at our social fabric and eroding any sense we are citizens in this together. Conservatives did......
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Keeping track of the Syria crisis these past couple of weeks has one's head spinning. In a span of days we have seen the following: The President unilaterally ordering the bombing of Syria for crossing the red line of using chemical weapons, The President delaying military action, ceding presidential power and seeking approval from Congress, The American people?- tired after the failures of Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya?- decisively rejecting military involvement, The President on the brink of not getting approval from Congress, Secretary Kerry's offhand remark about Syria getting rid of all......


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Deputy Prime Minister, Nationals' Leader and Minister for Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Development Michael McCormack said the Government commissioned the industry-led Inquiry into National Freight and Supply Chain Priorities in March 2017 to help better position Australia to meet its future freight productivity challenges.
"That's why this week's Budget has a rolling $100 billion infrastructure plan—something I call the 'age of infrastructure'.
"The Liberals and Nationals Government, together with industry and the state, territory and local governments, is working on developing a National Freight and Supply Chain Strategy to make sure we can meet that growing task and keep freight moving efficiently.
"A 20-year vision is needed for coordinating investment, regulation, and planning across all modes—road, rail, air and maritime—to drive real improvements to Australia's freight productivity. "We are improving our road freight network through a number of investments under the Government's $100 billion infrastructure plan, such as the $4.5 billion Roads of Strategic Importance initiative.
Mr McCormack confirmed a Budget commitment of $8.5 million would be used to settle the design of a National Freight Data Hub, which will help business and governments plan and make better operational and investment decisions.
"Industry has called for better freight data and we are delivering. We know better data makes better decisions and that means jobs and opportunities can flow, especially in the regions," Mr McCormack said.
The iMOVE Cooperative Research Centre report, published today, analyses the freight data needs of industry and government and suggests how improving ways of collecting relevant data could improve freight sector planning and operations.
Assistant Minister for Roads and Transport Scott Buchholz said Delivering on Freight, also published today, showcases the Liberal and Nationals Government's significant and action-oriented commitments.
Mr Buchholz also said the Liberal and Nationals' Government is also contributing $8 million for the National Heavy Vehicle Regulator to streamline the approval process for road access by heavy vehicles.
"The investment complements the Liberal and Nationals Government's agreement with State and Territory Ministers to implement 12 recommendations from the review of Oversize Overmass vehicle access arrangements, making it easier to do business without compromising safety.
Implementation of the Strategy by industry and all three tiers of Government from 2019 will enhance the competitiveness of all Australia's regions in domestic and global markets and help us achieve truly liveable, efficient and affordable cities and regional centres.
For more information on the National Freight and Supply Chain Strategy and details of the Federal Liberal and Nationals Government's contributions to the Strategy and National Action Plan visit: infrastructure.gov.au/transport/freight/national-strategy.aspx.


Gustavo Ribeiro is an associate in the Litigation Practice in Greenberg Traurig's Boston office. Prior to joining the firm, Gustavo served as a law clerk for the Honorable William G. Young in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts. Gustavo also lectures at Boston University School of Law.


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September 19, 1934 ~ January 12, 2021 (age 86)
Troas Dee Williams was born on September 19,1934 to his parents Lyman Troas and Dovie Williams, and his two older brothers, Jacque Williams and Bob Williams, in Miami, Florida. He was an observant child and loved mischief and merriment.
He graduated from Stetson University in Deland, Florida with a Bachelor's of Arts in Religion, where he met the love of his life, Mary Margaret Jeffers. They were married on June 30, 1956 and were faithfully committed to each other for sixty four years. He was a loving husband. Troas enlisted in the United States Navy in 1958 and trained as a pilot. He served his country in the Navy and through the Naval Reserves for eight years.
Troas and Mary Margaret have three children: Karen Hutchcraft, Denise McConnell, and the late Troas Williams, Jr. He was a dedicated, steadfast father.
Affectionately known as Geedaddy, Troas was an extraordinary grandfather.
Troas was clever and intelligent in conversation and a storyteller, comedian, and moral compass wrapped in a strong hug. As a hobby, he bowled, golfed, and worked puzzles. He was a man of great conviction and courage, who loved all in his presence well.
He was proceeded in death by his parents, Lyman and Dovie Williams, his brothers Jacque and Bob Williams, and his son, Troas Dee Williams, Jr. He is survived by his wife, Mary Margaret Williams of Gainesville, GA, his daughters, Karen Elizabeth Hutchcraft of Clarkesville, GA, Denise Ann McConnell (Dave McConnell) of Gainesville, GA, his grandchildren: Jessica Ann Irvin (Kale Irvin) of Demorest, GA, Lindsay Claire Sloan (Calab Sloan) of Clarkesville, GA, Heather Elizabeth McConnell of Gainesville GA, David Eric McConnell, Jr, of Raleigh, NC, and Jacob Evan McConnell of Gainesville, GA, and his great grandchildren: Annaleigh Claire, Maximus Wills, and Caius Kale Irvin of Demorest, GA, and Sam Worth Sloan of Clarkesville, GA.
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This institute aims at protecting human rights from encroachments from state officials, ensuring the development of legislation, elaborating and introducing educational programs. The entire activity of Ombudsman is fulfilled in conformity with the international commitments of Kazakhstan under the ratified Conventions of the UN and with reference to the practice of the similar institutions around the world. Besides that, Ombudsman closely cooperates with NGOs, mass media and international organizations. Principles of Ombudsman's activities are publicity, objectivity and impartiality.
Kazakhstani Ombudsman conforms to Parisian Principles on the status of national institutions.
In accordance with the legislation, Ombudsman is appointed by the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan after Senate of the Parliament puts forward their recommendations on the candidacy. The term of Ombudsman office is five years which is considered to be as one of the assurances of his/her independence. Authority of Ombudsman can be early terminated only by Parliament Senate with the President's recommendation within the framework of legislation. For instance, these cases might be related to health problems which entail inability of carrying out duties, loss of citizenship, entry into conviction force and other valid reasons. List of consequences for early termination of authority, outlined in legislation has been exhaustive. Other reasons for early termination of authority of Ombudsman do not exist, which shows the guaranty of non-replacement of Ombudsman and his independence.
At the same time, legislation directly establishes that Ombudsman is independent and such intervention to his activity is prohibited. Ombudsman is not accountable to anyone which is guaranty of his independence. Ombudsman implements his activity through National center for Human Rights, which is the executive body of Ombudsman. Ombudsman appoints manager and employees of the Centre and draws up the Provision for the centre. This fact demonstrates wide framework of authority of Ombudsman and proves his high socio-political status.
Funding of Ombudsman authority is carried out according to the law, from the republican budget, that is guaranty of his independence. It should be mentionedthat Ombudsman is independent and such intervention to his activity is prohibited. This legal provision is considered to be in compliance with Parisian Principles and International practices which is strong guaranty of independence of the new agency in Kazakhstan.
Ombudsman is vested with wide authorities to protect and promote human rights and freedom .It's not just about human rights and freedom of RK citizens, but also about foreign citizens and people without particular state identification which are located under the Republic of Kazakhstan jurisdiction. Within the framework of its authority, Ombudsman is entitled to:
Take measures in investigation of human rights violations, for example , urgently meeting government officials at all levels, requesting and receiving all necessary information, visit any governmental agencies, including military parts and detention places.
Send recommendations to the government officials which are obligated to answer within one regarding taken measures.
Officially report about his conclusions to Mass Media
In cases when Ombudsman deems it necessary he could directly address to President and Government
Promote development of legislation basis of RK and provide its classification with international standards.
Promote the development of international relationship
Promote and develop human rights sphere through creation of educational programs, informative events and other forms of activities.
As part of its activities, Ombudsman is also entitled to create expert committees and involve specialists, experts and organizations (international, non-governmental etc.)
All the aforementioned activities of Ombudsman are installed through legislation and it is guaranty of his job and objective mark of any situations directly or indirectly related to human right violations. The initial years of Kazakhstani Ombudsman work were crucial in many aspects because of it is being a completely new institution the efficiency of which will be estimated by the practical results of its work. The present institution should achieve a public recognition as an effective mechanism of protection of human rights and proved viability.


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New Faculty Winter 2021
Ery Arias-Castro
Ery Arias-Castro received his Ph.D. in Statistics from Stanford University in 2004. He then took a postdoctoral position at the Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM), where he participated in the program on Multiscale Geometry and Analysis in High Dimensions. After that, he took a postdoctoral position at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI), where he participated in the program on Mathematical, Computational and Statistical Aspects of Image Analysis. He joined the faculty in the mathematics department at UCSD in 2005. His research interests are in high-dimensional statistics, machine learning, spatial statistics, image processing, and applied probability.
Categories: Faculty Council, New Faculty Winter 2021, Statistics
Shannon Ellis
Assistant Teaching Professor
Shannon Ellis is an Assistant Teaching Professor in Cognitive Science and HDSI at UC San Diego. She obtained her Ph.D. in Human Genetics from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Her primary focus at UC San Diego is to foster and promote data science education. To this end, she teaches undergraduate programming and data science courses and pursues projects that help provide access and educational materials to individuals who have historically lacked access to an education in data science.
Categories: Cognitive Science, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Faculty Council, New Faculty Winter 2021, Teaching Faculty
Mike Holst
Holst is a leader in the Mathematical and Computational Physics Research Group, the Center for Computational Mathematics, and the Center for Astrophysics and Space Sciences. His interdisciplinary work at the university reaches into the fields of biochemistry and biophysics, computational fluid dynamics, computer graphics, materials science, and numerical algorithms relativity. A century after Einstein predicted the existence of gravitational waves, he has been part of a $600 million National Science Foundation collaboration working on detecting them.
Categories: Faculty Council, New Faculty Winter 2021
Rob Knight
Founding Director, Center for Microbiome Innovation; Professor, Pediatrics and Computer Science & Engineering
Founding Director, Center for Microbiome Innovation; Professor, Pediatrics, Bioengineering, and Computer Science & Engineering Rob Knight is the founding Director of the Center for Microbiome Innovation and Professor of Pediatrics, Bioengineering, and Computer Science & Engineering at UC San Diego. His work is at the intersection of data science, bioinformatics, and microbiology, and has linked microbes to a range of health conditions including obesity, inflammatory bowel disease, Parkinson's Disease, and multiple sclerosis, has enhanced our understanding of microbes in environments ranging from the oceans to the tundra, and has made high-throughput DNA sequencing and data analysis techniques accessible to thousands of researchers around the world. This work resulted in the 2019 NIH Director's Pioneer Award and 2017 Massry Prize. Dr. Knight can be followed on Twitter (@knightlabnews) or on his website http://knightlab.ucsd.edu/.
Categories: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Faculty Council, New Faculty Winter 2021
Arya Mazumdar
Arya Mazumdar obtained his Ph.D. degree from University of Maryland, College Park (2011) specializing in information theory. Subsequently Arya was a postdoctoral scholar at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2011-2012), an assistant professor in University of Minnesota (2013-2015), and an assistant followed by associate professor in University of Massachusetts Amherst (2015-2021). Arya is a recipient of multiple awards, including a Distinguished Dissertation Award for his Ph.D. thesis (2011), the NSF CAREER award (2015), an EURASIP JSAP Best Paper Award (2020), and the IEEE ISIT Jack K. Wolf Student Paper Award (2010). He is currently serving as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory and as an Area editor for Now Publishers Foundation and Trends in Communication and Information Theory series. Arya's research interests include coding theory (error-correcting codes and related combinatorics), information theory, statistical learning and distributed optimization.
Post-Doctoral Fellow: Avishek Ghosh
Categories: Faculty, Faculty Council, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence, Mathematical Foundations of Data Science, New Faculty Summer 2020, New Faculty Winter 2021, Statistics, Theory
Eran Mukamel
Mukamel is a computational neuroscientist focusing on modeling and analysis of large-scale data sets to understand complex biological networks of the brain. He uses large-scale genomic and epigenomic datasets to study how brain cells develop, and adapt throughout the lifespan.
He earned his physics Ph.D. from Stanford University, and his bachelor's and master's degrees in physics and mathematics from Harvard University, where he followed with a postdoctoral fellowship in theoretical neuroscience.
Categories: Faculty, Faculty Council, New Faculty Winter 2021
Lucila Ohno-Machado
Ohno-Machado, MD, PhD, focuses on making health data more accessible and usable, so patients and clinicians can make better informed, evidenced-based health decisions together. She is a founding faculty member of HDSI. She was the founding chair UC-wide initiative that allows researchers to search more than 15 million de-identified patient records from the five largest UC health systems with one query.
Categories: Biomedical Data Science and Bioinformatics, Faculty Council, New Faculty Winter 2021
Shankar Subramaniam
Subramaniam is the Joan and Irwin Jacobs Endowed Chair in Bioengineering and Systems Biology, and a Distinguished Scientist at the San Diego Supercomputer Center. He has served on advisory boards for several biotech and bioinformatics companies, universities, international governmental organizations, and the NIH.
George Sugihara
Sugihara is a theoretical ecologist who has performed foundational work in the data analysis of complex systems from fisheries to medicine to finance. He gained renown for developing, with Lord Robert May, methods for forecasting chaotic systems, providing the first example of chaos in nature with the diatom populations at Scripps Pier. He has worked with the major institutions on questions of systemic risk and on detecting early warning signs of critical transitions, including the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and The Bank of England. He also worked with fisheries to develop a currently enacted market-based incentive plan for reducing wasteful bycatch and to improve forecasting of wild fish stocks. His current interest in neurobiology and genomics includes collaborations with the Salk Institute for Biological Studies to apply EDM to neurobiology and to problems in gene expression in cancer.
Categories: Data Science for Scientific Discovery, Faculty Council, New Faculty Winter 2021
Frank W. Wuerthwein is the Director of the San Diego Supercomputer Center and executive director of the Open Science Grid (OSG), a national cyber infrastructure to advance the sharing of resources, software, and knowledge.
Categories: Data Infrastructure and Systems, Data Science for Scientific Discovery, Faculty Council, New Faculty Winter 2021
Ronghui (Lily) Xu
Xu earned her Ph.D. in Mathematics and a Master's in Applied Mathematics from UC San Diego, and her Bachelor's in Math from Nankai University, China.
After a year as Postgraduate Researcher at UC San Diego, she took up Assistant Professorship in Biostatistics at Harvard School of Public Health and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, MA. She returned to UC San Diego in 2004 with a joint appointment from the main campus (Mathematics) and health sciences (Biostatistics and Bioinformatics). Among her academic honors are as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA), and a recipient of the ASA's David P. Byar Young Investigator Award. Her current research interests include causal inference, survival analysis, and machine learning methods as applied to biomedicine.
Website: http://www.math.ucsd.edu/~rxu/
Angela Yu
Since 2008, Dr. Yu has directed the Computational Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory at UCSD, which studies the computational problems faced by intelligent agents, as well as their algorithmic solutions in natural and artificial intelligence systems. Previously, Dr. Yu studied at MIT (B.S. in Brain & Cognitive Sciences, Mathematics, Computer Science), UCL Gatsby Unit (PhD in Computational Neuroscience), and received postdoctoral training at Princeton University (Center for the Brain, Mind, and Behavior). Currently, Dr. Yu is working on learning and decision-making under uncertainty, the contribution of volitional movement to representation learning, as well as social cognition.
Rose Yu
Assistant Professor Computer Science and Engineering
Dr. Rose Yu is an Assistant Professor at the UC San Diego, Department of Computer Science and Engineering. She earned her Ph.D. in Computer Sciences at the University of Southern California in 2017. She was subsequently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the California Institute of Technology. She was an assistant professor at Northeastern University prior to her appointment at UC San Diego.
Her research focuses on advancing machine learning techniques for large-scale spatiotemporal data analysis, with applications to sustainability, health, and physical sciences. A particular emphasis of her research is on physics-guided AI which aims to integrate first-principles with data-driven models. Among her awards, she has won Google Faculty Research Award, Adobe Data Science Research Award, NSF CRII Award, Best Dissertation Award in USC, and was nominated as one of the 'MIT Rising Stars in EECS'.
Website: http://roseyu.com
Categories: Computer Science and Engineering, Data Science for Scientific Discovery, Faculty Council, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence, New Faculty Winter 2021


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The 20th Special Forces Group (Airborne) (20th SFG) (A) is one of two Army National Guard groups for the United States Army Special Forces.  20th Group—as it is sometimes called—is designed to deploy and execute nine doctrinal missions: unconventional warfare, foreign internal defense, direct action, counter-insurgency, special reconnaissance, counter-terrorism, information operations, counterproliferation of weapon of mass destruction, and security force assistance.

It is headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama (and is thus part of the Alabama Army National Guard) and as part of the United States Southern Command has an area of responsibility covering 32 countries, including Latin America south of Mexico, the Caribbean, the Gulf of Mexico, and the southwestern Atlantic Ocean. The area is shared with the Eglin Air Force Base-based 7th Special Forces Group, which is the active Regular Army Special Forces group responsible for the same region.

Following the start of the Global War on Terror the 20th has been actively deployed to Iraq, Afghanistan and other places around the world.

History

Gulf War
The first large scale activation of the 20th Special Forces Group took place during the first Gulf War. The unit was mobilized and based at Fort Bragg, North Carolina for training. The 7th Special Forces Group supported and validated the training. The war ended quickly and the 20th Group was soon deactivated. Some individual members did participate in the conflict as augmentees to other Special Forces groups or organizations.

Operation Provide Comfort
As many as 50 individuals served as augmentees to the 10th Special Forces Group and deployed to Turkey and northern Iraq during Operation Provide Comfort.

Operation Uphold Democracy
The 20th Special Forces Group provided several rotations of companies to the operation in Haiti during 1995 during Operation Uphold Democracy.

Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF)
The 3rd Battalion, 20th Special Forces Group deployed a significant number of its battalion headquarters to augment the Combined Joint Special Operations Task Force - Afghanistan (CJSOTF-A). At the time the CJSOTF-A was led and manned by the 3rd Special Forces Group. The 3rd Battalion also provided companies to the fight in the early states of OEF.

The 20th Special Forces Group headquarters and support staff was activated in the spring of 2002, trained up at Fort McClellan, Alabama, and then deployed to Afghanistan to lead and man the CJSOTF-A. It was augmented by several officers and NCOs of 7th Special Forces Group. In addition, the 1st Battalion deployed to Karshi-Khanabad Air Base, "K2," in Uzbekistan and basing AOBs and teams throughout northern and eastern Afghanistan. At the same time a battalion of the 19th Special Forces Group was based at Kabul Military Training Center just north of Kabul to train up the initial battalions of the Afghan National Army. The 2nd Battalion, 7th Group was based at Kandahar. 2nd Battalion 20th Special Forces Group would replace 1st Battalion at K2 in 2003. At this point, the entire unit had deployed to Afghanistan.

The 20th Special Forces Group would continue to deploy its companies and battalions to Afghanistan for almost two decades. In addition, numerous individuals would serve as augmentees to several different organizations in Afghanistan over the years. The 20th Special Forces Group headquarters and support company was activated in 2011 and deployed to Afghanistan to augment the CJSOTF-A, and CFSOCC-A.

Operations Iraqi Freedom (OIF)
Several individual augmentees from the 20th Special Forces Group served with various units in Iraq in the early stages (2003-2004) of the conflict - to include the CJSOTF-AP. Eventually almost all of the 20th Special Forces Group battalions and companies would rotate at least one time through Iraq from 2006 to 2011.

Operation Inherent Resolve (OIR)
Several companies and numerous individual augmentees would deploy in support of OIR to Iraq.

Combined Joint Task Force – Horn of Africa
For several years the 20th Special Forces Group manned the Special Operations Command and Control Element (SOCCE) Horn of Africa (HOA) located at Camp Lemonier, Djibouti.

Subordinate units

The 20th Special Forces Group is headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama, with companies and battalions in the following locations:

 20th Special Forces Group Headquarters (Birmingham, Alabama)
 Group Support Battalion (Gadsden, Alabama)
 Military Intelligence Company (Louisville, Kentucky)
 1st Battalion HHC (Fort Payne, Alabama)
 Company A (Auburn, Alabama)
 Company B (Albemarle, North Carolina)
 Company C (Chicopee, Massachusetts)
 2nd Battalion HHC (Jackson, Mississippi)
 Company A (Camp Atterbury, Indiana)
 Company B (Glen Arm, Maryland)
 Company C (Camp McCain, Mississippi)
 3rd Battalion HHC (Camp Blanding, Starke, Florida)
 Company A (Ocala, Florida)
 Company B (Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina)
 Company C (Wauchula, Florida)

Notable current and former unit members

 Tim Kennedy, retired mixed martial artist who has fought in the UFC, Strikeforce, the WEC
 Scott L. Thoele, retired U.S. Army general officer

Gallery

References

External links

20th Special Forces Group facebook page – updated weekly
20th Special Forces Group (Airborne) Homepage
20th Special Forces Group from GlobalSecurity.org  Archived
Beret Flash (Archived)

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Groups of the United States Army National Guard
Military units and formations established in 1961

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Not everyone's data centers were ready for Hurricane Sandy. Several major media sites — Buzzfeed, Gawker, Huffington Post — took major hits early Monday evening Eastern Time. The problems were all attributed to massive storm, which made landfall near Atlantic City, N.J., at around 8 p.m. local time.
Update: Many of these sites were impacted when Con Ed shut off power to lower Manhattan.
Gawker is temporarily down because the 57th Street Crane just flooded our servers with sea foam, or something. Back with you shortly.
Due to #Sandy we're experiencing technical difficulties and are working to be back up as soon as possible.
Pushing out stuff through Twitter, Facebook and Tumblr while we resolve our site issues, you guys! Follow and like us.
BuzzFeed and Gawker are down. You may experience an unfamiliar emotional reaction to events. This is known as earnestness and should pass.
Daily Kos servers being powered by generators.
To put the media outages into perspective, more than 3 million people in the storm's path have no power, according to The Weather Channel's Hurricane Central.
Update 2 (1:15am ET): Gawker is still down completely, and BuzzFeed has only partially recovered, with many story pages still unavailable. The site's team is instead using Tumblr to update its readers on the hurricane.


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De Hendrika is een relatief zwaar gebouwde zeiltjalk en een varend monument. De spanten staan maximaal 30 centimeter uit elkaar en er zijn extra verstevigingen in de kop/kont (stringers) aangebracht, evenals dubbele, brede en zware houten balken waarin de onderkant van de mastkoker valt. Daarmee is het schip geschikt om in hoge golven te varen, mede doordat ook de kop van het schip erg hoog is.

Van de vroege geschiedenis is niet veel bewaard gebleven. Het schip voer voornamelijk tussen de noordelijke provincies en de huidige Randstad. In de Tweede Wereldoorlog heeft het schip in de hongerwinter een vaartocht met aardappelen naar Urk gemaakt. Het kwam na de oorlog in Amsterdam als woonboot voor de wal te liggen.

In 1988 begon een nieuwe eigenaar samen met zijn vrouw het schip te restaureren en kreeg het haar originele uiterlijk terug. Dat betekent: veel staalwerk vernieuwen en weer een mast, zwaarden, roer en rondhouten plaatsen. Het schip werd ook van binnen volledig opnieuw ingetimmerd en in 1992 werd voor het eerst een motor geplaatst.

In 2006 namen de huidige eigenaren het schip over. Zij completeerden de tuigage, zodat in 2007 het schip voor het eerst sinds meer dan zestig jaar weer kon zeilen. De maidentrip verliep zo goed dat de volgende dag de Bliksemrace kon worden gezeild. Hoewel er sterk defensief werd gezeild ging de Hendrika als zevende over de finishlijn.

In 2012 is de houten opbouw (roef) weer vervangen door een stalen exemplaar, zoals die er bij de bouw van het schip ook op stond.

Liggers Scheepmetingsdienst

Zie ook
 Landelijke Vereniging tot Behoud van het Historisch Bedrijfsvaartuig
 Varend monument

Externe links
 Schepengalerij van de LVBHB
 www.mooigorinchem.nl

Schip gebouwd in Nederland
Schip op naam
Varend monument


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