Government Recruitment Service (GRS) provides professional recruitment services for the whole Civil Service and is an integral part of Civil Service HR.
Due to continued growth GRS is seeking enthusiastic and organised individuals to join our evolving team, and help contribute to our aim of delivering a world class recruitment and selection service.
We currently have a vacancy for 3 SEO Strategic Operation Managers in GRS. There are three specific roles covering pre-employment checking, EU Exit delivery and contract and commercial management.
As a Strategic Operations Manager, you will sit at the heart of Government and have direct influence on the ability of Government Departments and Professions to hire and on board the right talent that they need to be able to deliver for the citizen.
You will form part of a wider management team, which is also made up of experienced recruitment professionals, in a fast-paced and supportive operational environment, where you can quickly and regularly see the impact you are having on the Civil Service.
You will be expected to be involved in a wide variety of activities, dependent on the role.
• Reviewing and monitoring GRS's Key Performance Indicators (KPI's) to continually drive business performance.
• You may be required to travel between the two GRS hub sites (London and Newcastle).
We are looking for an energetic, enthusiastic and self-motivated person who is open to new ideas and willing to learn as well as bringing own ideas and experience to the table.
• Have a strong desire to constantly look for better ways of doing things.
Please see candidate pack for further information on role responsibilities, selection process and full details on how to apply.


With a sharp knife, cut baby artichokes lengthwise in half.
Add all ingredients for the artichokes to the Instant Pot™.
Secure lid. Select "Pressure Cook" setting - high - no delay - keep warm OFF - 5 minutes.
When the timer goes off, quick release pressure and then remove lid. Test to make sure artichokes are very tender. If needed, replace lid and cook again for 1-2 minutes.
Drain the liquid and set artichokes aside.
Select "Saute" setting - medium - keep warm OFF - 5 minutes.
Once screen reads HOT, add oil and onion. Saute for 4 minutes.
Add rice and stir frequently for 1 minute.
Add the broth, salt and pepper, and bay leaf.
Secure lid. Select "Pressure Cook" setting - high - no delay - keep warm OFF - 8 minutes.
Meanwhile, saute bacon in a skillet until crispy and then drain off all but 2 T bacon drippings. Add cooked artichokes and garlic and saute until artichokes begin to brown. Remove from heat and set aside.
When the timer goes off, quick release pressure and then remove lid. Remove bay leaf.
Select "Saute" setting - medium - keep warm OFF - 3 minutes. Hit START.
Add bacon and artichoke mixture and stir to combine.
Add enough chicken stock to keep the risotto mixture loose and sauce like. Stir in parmesan, parsley, and salt to taste. If too thick, add a little more chicken stock to loosen slightly. Risotto should be like a loose porridge consistency, as it will thicken as it cools. If too loose, you can simmer mixture until it thickens slightly.


HOT SPOT: Death Valley National Park doesn't roll up the carpet, or, um, the vast stretches of glorious sand, come the summertime. Yes, there are those who claim that temperatures in the national park reach 1XX degrees (which is often true), and so many people have sworn to have seen eggs frying on asphalt over the years that we're half convinced Death Valley should open its own omelet emporium. But heat or not, it remains a beautiful and mysterious destination, even in the toastiest months. And there are ways to not only escape from the outdoors for a few minutes but to go below ground. Ahhh. Already feeling cooler.
SUBTERRANEAN SCOTTY'S: Scotty's Castle, the landmark abode in the national park, offers a traditional tour, yes, but there's also a chance to take the Underground Tour. You get to go into the castle's basement -- we're chilling out already -- and look at "historic technology." Oh yeah. Oh, and score; there's a "tunnel system" you'll get a peek at, too.
COME AUGUST: Now here's the summery twist. The Underground Tour is a November through April staple. Makes sense, since that's high season for the park. But, and that's a solid "but," the castle will sometimes give tours in those oh-so-roasty summer months if there's staff available. A quick call to the Scotty's revealed that while the Underground Tour will not be going down -- ahem -- during June and July, August is a real possibility. But, and that's another solid "but," you'll need to phone the castle ahead of time and arrange things, should you be in Death Valley come August or the early fall months. The number is 760-786-2392.
PRICE: An adult admission for the Scotty's Castle Underground Tour is $11.


The Life and Travels of The Ellingers: I'm Done!
Today I successfully defended my Masters research. My work involved looking at glacier recession on Mt. Rainier, Washington and Mt. Hood, Oregon and the implications for possible debris flow hazards from the recession. I worked with Anne Nolin in the Geoscience Department at Oregon State University. My Masters is an M.S. in Geography with a focus on Remote Sensing. I also got my Masters GIS certificate for my work with Geographic Information Systems. My mom flew into town for a long weekend to watch me defend. My office mate Sarah showed up along with Jason & Jen, Mischa, Colin, Doug, Alexa, Kevin, Evan and Brendan so I had a good support group to look at throughout the presentation. The first slide went pretty rough for me but then I took a deep breath, looked at Emily, and relaxed. The rest of the presentation went smoothly and after the defense my committee was pretty easy on me. Anne gave me a big hug when they let me back into the room and congratulated me on passing. I can't say enough how much I owe Anne for everything she has done for me. She was only in town for 2 days but was able to re-work my presentation with me and help me out a lot. It's because of her that we got NSF funding and I was able to quit my bartending job at Ruby's. It's also because of her that I now am going to be employed as a full-time employee at Watershed Sciences. This fall Emily and I are definitely going to have her over for dinner! Anyway, I'm not going to go into great detail about my research here. Perhaps I'll post my thesis somewhere on this website when I am done with all of my edits and it is published by the University. For now, I plan to relax for a couple weeks and climb a mountain or two!
I'm ready for the next chapter of my life. Bring it.
(That photo at the top was drawn by Emily on our table at Block 15 where we went after my defense for lunch and met up with Cassie, Alexa and Kevin).


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It's Happening in Hollywood
The legendary Elvis Presley is showing signs of being restless and wanting to split his deep dark rut and join the world again.
When he faced that flipping audience of real live girls on his recent NBC-TV Special, the Grand Old Man of Rock began to realize that he's been missing most of the thrills and satisfactions of being an entertainer during the past 12 years.
Working behind locked doors of movie and recording studios with spectators barred had bored him bad and bent his psych out of shape.
Last October he opened his eyes and took a long look at what he is and where his head's at: A pioneer of popsong but on the wrong side of 30, rich and famous but sunk in a work rut as deep as the Grand Canyon, threatened with tired blood, clogged pores and nagging backache, and sitting in a rocking chair watching TV. sports, serials and old movies with his wife and kid.
A girl of 14 was only two years old when Elvis performed his last show before a live audience, the Honolulu premiere of his film, Blue Hawaii. The teen-agers of Now saw him as a relic of rock's stone age. These thoughts shook him up and he agreed to do the telly special to find out how he rated with the current kidset. He found out. They dug. Man, he really socked it to 'em that night and the audience saw him as he used to be, an earthy, gutsy, funky singer and gee-tar man whose voice, looks and personality exuded magic and sex appeal.
People who thought he'd become a stuck-up snob were tickled to hear him laugh at himself—the way he curled his upperlip, hooded his eyes, spun his hips and shocked the squares back in 1954–60 when he earned the name, "Elvis the Pelvis." In Miami, he remembered, the fuzz stood at the foot of the stage with cameras to record his "obscene" hip-swivels and take him to the local jailhouse. Network cameramen on a Ed Sullivan show were ordered not to photograph guest star Presley's body below his rib cage. Yeah, the times they are a-changin'.
Teen-age audience response blew the Presley mind, turned him on and steamed him up so high he told Colonel Tom Parker that he wants a road tour in the summertime of '69.
The rockin' Rolling Stones need the bread, have booked concerts in 27 U.S. cities between March 21 and May 3, followed by tours to Japan, Australia and European continental capitals. Bob Dylan and the Beatles may travel the concert circuit again this summer, though no dates are yet set.
Music trade mags quote Paul and George as saying the Beatles wouldn't mind playing several charity performances in England and the United States. That would suit George Harrison's Pattie to a T.
"I wish the Beatles would do more for the poor," she said. "They ought to be happy to perform a few benefit concerts for people who need help."
We acclaim and applaud the Jefferson Airplane for giving more free shows and charity concerts than any other top-ranking music group. The Gracie Slick chick and Marty Balin's hairy crew have loaded their equipment and an electric generator on flatbed trucks and driven around the streets and slums playing for the little brown and black people. They make it to the love-ins and happenings where the hippie tribes gather. These are free shows; full prices are charged at benefits with proceeds earmarked for local charities. They can't stand the thought that poor kids without ticket money shouldn't be allowed to hear them.
"It's part of our philosophy to give benefits and free shows," explained Marty. "Our regular gigs at top prices are sell-outs but we don't want to be limited to commercialism. Playing for pleasure instead of bread is a gas."
This attitude is too weird for many establishment straights to understand or believe. City cops have chased them out of parks and off the streets. There being no profit in free shows, promoters deny them the use of halls.
On their recent visit to the United Kingdom across the Big Pond, the Jefferson Airplane planned to contribute two free benefit bashes. In Edinbergh, Scotland, however, the City Council refused to let them play-for-free at Princes Street Gardens and contribute 100 per cent of the take to local charities. Here's a good place to stick in a plug for another rock group, the Pacific Gas and Electric who do free dates for any helpful cause: Their LP, Get On With It Blues (Power P-701) is finger-lickin' good.
Has the nature of the human shemale changed so much since mommy was a kiddie? Maybe it has and maybe it hasn't. Anyhow—
A bunch of us were lipping about wild young girls mauling, manhandling and messing up their music idols and movie stars.
One of the girls pointed to her head and said, "I got that scar, look at it, when I was a baby. My father was carrying me home in his arms when a mob of movie fans recognized him and began screeching, cackling, clawing and tearing him to pieces. In the melee I was thrown to the pavement on my head and stomped under the feet of those star-crazed women. I'm lucky I'm alive, I guess."
The girl with the scar was Colleen Lanza, daughter of Mario Lanza (1921–1959), opera tenor-movie actor whose memory is still shiny bright for many old dolls. Colleen, 18, is now a budding disk queen with huge brown eyes, waist-length raven hair, mini-micro frocks and creamy voice.
An earlier tenor, Enrico Caruso could sustain a certain high shrill vocal note that would create vibrations powerful enough to shatter a drinking glass. When the late Hedda Hopper told dinner guests she'd seen him do the trick, Lanza bragged that if Caruso could do it so could he. A glass was set on the table in plain sight.
Lanza breathed in and blasted out a powerful piercing note that pained the ears and caused the glass to jiggle dance on the table. It didn't break—Instead a complete set of expensive, Florentine crystal goblets in a nearby China cabinet shattered, disintegrating into a trillion tiny shards and slivers.
The Blue Cheer, a San Francisco trio with two well-sell albums. (Vincebus Eruptum and Outsideinside) perpetrate the loudest (if not the worst) noises heard in the Realm of Rock.
Lanza's voice in an enclosed room would measure about 70 decibels, the scientific measurement of sound, and rock bands such as the Monkees and Doors register about 110 decibels at a distance of six feet. And here come de Blue Cheer blasting up to 125 decibels into nearby eardrums. They don't actually sing and instrumentalize all that loud, what they do do is use six to eight power-packed electronic amplifier-speaker combinations at full volume, enough to numb the brain and assault the hearing apparatuses of 8 to 10,000 listeners in a vast auditorium.
Otologists ("ear doctors" in your Funk and Wagnalls) predict that pop musicians and their constant listeners are quite likely to be deaf at the age of 40. Huh? Eh what?
Le Monkees are keen to do their own fling, individually as well as grouply. Now that they have time to spare they don't want to throw it all away on illness, idleness and frivolity. Peter, Mike and Micky want to become separate identity movie and music stars, and Davy is reading scripts for stage shows.
While school and job bosses fight it, hair is still glorified in song as in the musical monster hit, Hair—"Long, beautiful, gleaming, steaming, flaxen, waxen, curly, fuzzy, snaggy, shaggy, ratty, matty, oily, greasy, fleecy down-to-there hair, hair like Jesus wore it, hallelujah, I adore it, hair…"
Beards are big all over. The lushest crops of alfalfa west of the Missipp are growing on the grinny faces of Dennis Wilson and Mike Love, Beach Boys; Paul Simon, S & Garfunkel; Peter Tork, Monkees; Felix Cavaliere, Rascals; Pig Pen McKernon, Grateful Dead; Bob Hite, Canned Heat; and producer Lou Adler.
The winds of change are blowing strong in rural America, says Gary Puckett, 12-star general of the Union Gap troop.
Two years ago on their first coast-to-coast tour, Gary and the Gap were being insulted, cussed out and sometimes attacked physically when they walked the streets in conservative midwest and backward southern towns.
"The hostility was unbelievable," Gary says. "Only the young girls understood that our long hair, beards and mod clothes had nothing to do with our political views or personal habits. Other people associated our looks with war protesters, draft dodgers and drug addicts. Young guys tried to pick fights with us. Parents with sons in Viet Nam laid curses on us.
"These attitudes have changed. The anti-war sentiment is heavy. There can't be many hawks in the boondocks today. Small towners have become friendly. Young guys don't want to be drafted and sent to Asia, and older people want their sons and relatives home now."
The English Cream, a trio who emerged overground in 1968 after two years underground, is only the second hard rock group to earn a platinum record for an LP sale above $2,000,000.00. Wheels of Fire which was slammed, whammed and rammed by some self-important smart-alec critics, was the winner.
Neil Diamond (Sunday Sun) echoed our sentiments: "I really hate so-called rock music critics who dissect songs that were meant to please the ear of 14-year-old kids in Wichita. These guys sound like someone trying to explain a joke after it's over. Why bother?"
These croaking clowns are able to dissect, analyze and intellectualize any beautiful song or poem or story until it's dead. In music the heart and soul should rule the head.
One more crisis and another siege of chaos left Roger McGuinn as the sole survivor of the original high-flying Byrds.
As soon as the neato Nitty Gritty Dirt Band found a word to rhyme with harmonica, they wrote a song, Fat Boys Can Make It In Santa Monica.
Eric Burdon is abandoning the Animals in Hollywood to write a movie script in which he can play the starring role.
"Today is the first day of the rest of your life." What's-his-name said that. You tell 'em, kid!
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Culinary success on the Costa del Sol
The three new stars granted to restaurants on the Costa del Sol by the 2016 Michelin Guide are a prime example of the gastronomic revival of southern Spain.
Text	: Guadalupe Rodríguez
Gazpacho, fried fish and grilled sardines are the most popular dishes in
the beach bars on the Costa del Sol, tasty examples of the traditional Mediterranean diet. "The cuisine of the Costa del Sol is based on local produce from the Malaga area. The quality of these ingredients, together with the preparation of traditional recipes using cutting-edge techniques, are the secrets of its success", says chef Diego Gallegos. His restaurant, Sollo, at the Hotel Double Tree Reserva del Higuerón in Fuengirola, received one of the three new stars in the 2016 edition of the Michelin Guide.
Technique, flavour and creativity; the key elements to Dani García's dishes.
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The Ambrosia Markets in Puerto Banús and La Merced in Malaga are the first gourmet food markets in Malaga. Their range of products is aimed to suit the needs of even the most demanding clientele and ranges from fusion organic pintxos to Brazilian cuisine with 'nikkei' and 'chifa' touches by Diego Gallegos.
However, the Costa del Sol has so much more to offer than just Mediterranean cuisine. Every year, over ten million visitors flock to tourist destinations like Marbella, Torremolinos, Benalmadena and Fuengirola. Many of them are foreign tourists with high spending power. These visitors, along with the large number of foreign residents, have revitalised local cuisine.
The variety of food on offer is increasingly cosmopolitan and not only from the numerous establishments featuring cuisine from other countries. Chefs of different nationalities have combined their national dishes with local produce and fine dining techniques. These range from the Argentinian Mauricio Ginovanini at his restaurant Messina, in Marbella, to Diego Gallegos, who is Brazilian. Known as the 'caviar chef', he prepares fascinating dishes using sturgeon and other freshwater fish.
The restaurant Kabuki Raw is located in the Finca Cortesín Hotel.
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Another of the new 2016 Michelin stars, the restaurant Kabuki Raw, fuses Japanese cuisine with the flavours of the Mediterranean. Head chef Luis Olarra creates dishes such as the adobo-style 'usuzukuri' (finely sliced white fish). Guests at the Finca Cortesin Hotel, where Kabuki is located, can also enjoy the Italian cuisine of Don Giovanni. This restaurant belongs to Andrea Tumbarello, 'the king of truffles'.
The market in la Merced is home to 20 tasting stalls.
One of the first chefs responsible for this explosion of top-quality cuisine was Dani García. His restaurant at the Puente Romano Hotel in Marbella is the only one in the area with two Michelin stars. García's technique, flavours and creativity can also be enjoyed at the less formal BiBo brasserie, located in the same hotel.
Is there fine dining on the Costa del Sol outside of luxury hotels? "Of course there is", replies Diego Gallegos. "Nowadays there are countless restaurants devoted to fine dining outside of the big hotels". Two other members of the Michelin star club in Marbella for example: El Lago, by Diego del Río, and Skina, run by Jaume Puigdengolas.
The food critic Carlos Maribona adds in other examples that blend high-quality ingredients and simple techniques with dishes cooked to perfection. Frutos, in Torremolinos, and Los Marinos José, in Fuengirola, are great examples of fine-dining fish and seafood restaurants. As examples of more traditional bistros, celebrating the original spledour of Mediterranean cuinsine, he recommends Nuevo Reino and El Ancla, in San Pedro de Alcántara, and La Niña del Peine, in Fuengirola.
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Pittsburgh has a history that stretches back more than 250 years to the era of the French and Indian war. The rare American city where the historic and the modern exist side by side, you can turn a corner from a modern office building and discover a home that has stood in the same location for more than 200 years. Several local hotels embrace the city's history with boutique accommodations that celebrate the storied centuries of Pittsburgh's past.
Sunnyledge Hotel
Built in 1886 as the home and practice of a local doctor, this hotel still contains original fixtures and wood paneling, although the rest of the facilities have been upgraded in keeping with a boutique hotel. Sunnyledge remains a valued local historical landmark.
The hotel offers just eight rooms and suites, each singularly decorated to celebrate the building's history, including features such as fireplaces and canopy beds and fireplaces. Room amenities include marble bathrooms, cozy robes, twice-daily maid service, hot tubs and king-size beds.
The restaurant offers breakfast only to guests, but all other meals, including traditional afternoon tea, are available to the public and brunch is available to all on Sunday.
5124 Fifth Ave.
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The Priory Hotel
The Priory Hotel began life as a Benedictine monastery, constructed in 1888 to house resident and visiting monks of St. Mary's Parish. Located in the North Shore district of Pittsburgh, the original facilities have been restored to their original elegance with features from both the Edwardian and Victorian eras. The former church is now the Grand Hall, which hosts local events from wine tastings to dances to auctions.
The hotel has 24 guest rooms and suites, which range from single rooms to large suites. The rooms are decorated with antiques and period pieces as well as oil paintings and prints. The Pirory also has one additional suite, the Apartment suite, which takes up the whole fourth floor of the hotel. This suite lets guests stay in style with a skyline view of Pittsburgh, a separate living room and a full kitchen.
614 Pressley Street
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Renaissance Pittsburgh Hotel
Located in downtown Pittsburgh, the Renaissance Pittsburgh Hotel hides comfortable modern accommodations inside a historic local landmark, the Fulton Building. A Marriott hotel, the vintage setting offsets the hotel's size, offering a boutique feel even though the hotel offers 300 rooms and suites.
Fitness facilities are on-site, a spa is on the block and golf is within five miles. Two restaurants are located in the hotel, offering French cuisine and American favorites, and several other restaurants are located within a half-mile, and two convention centers and stadiums are within the same distance.
Guest rooms offer views of the city or the Allegheny River, as well as amenities such as marble bathrooms, large flat screen televisions, complimentary Internet access and pillowtop mattresses with feather beds.
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Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Sunday promised to call a meeting of elected representatives from Belagavi to discuss carving a new district out of it.
Responding to a demand made by Chikodi MP, Prakash Hukkeri, Siddaramaiah said that during his first tenure as deputy chief minister, he had strongly pitched for carving out new districts.
Accordingly, the then chief minister J H Patel announced some new districts. It was also decided to make Chikodi a new district. But the proposal was shot down following disagreements among local leaders.
But now that a fresh demand has been made to carve out a new district out of Belagavi, Siddaramaiah said, he would call a meeting of elected representatives soon to take a decision in this regard.
The chief minister was speaking at a ceremony in Chikodi to lay the foundation stone for the upgrade of state highway 18 (from Mudhol in Bagalkot district to Nippani in Belagavi).
Siddaramaiah had given a similar assurance on an earlier visit to Belagavi to inaugurate to the police commissionerate.
Earlier, Hukkeri demanded making Chikodi a new district but clarified that he would not raise objections if Gokak was also made a district. But Chikodi must be made a district, he asserted.


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'Ode to the Unknown Factory Worker' has garnered reviews by Beverly at MTV Iggy, Kambui at URB ALT, Gianluca Diana of Alias and Rock IT, Antonio Pellicori of All About Jazz Italy, Giancarlo Turra of Sentire Ascoltare and Enrico Bettinello of Blow Up, among others. The CD is available online and as a physical import in the U.S., as well as in selected European stores. Thanks to everyone who has already purchased 'Ode to the Unknown Factory Worker,' as well as Leila's previous albums!
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Full Circle: Interview with Kenny Loggins and Jim Messina
by Nikki Tranter
"Nothing like 30 years to be the great leveler," Kenny Loggins notes on the website set up for the Loggins and Messina 2005 reunion tour that saw one of the most successful duos of the 1970s hitting the road, playing the hits, and rekindling the friendship that started it all. Loggins calls it "legacy music", the songs co-created with Jim Messina, like "Danny's Song", "Be Free", and "Sailin' the Wind"; songs that outlast musical changes and industry shifts. It's always an easy return to optimism and truth to relax with Full Sail (1973) or the original Sittin' In (1972). Despite 16 million album sales, Loggins and Messina earned their legacy with this truth: two songwriters with the uncanny ability to turn basic human hopes into songs with sophisticated melodies and earnest lyrics.
It's no secret that ego clashes were at the heart of Loggins and Messina's 1976 split. Loggins says on the website: "The inevitable thing when you grow through a mentor is you have to leave and go off on your own. Our relationship had become teacher-student, father-son, big brother little brother [sic] and eventually it was not healthy for me. I had a lot to prove to myself and, subconsciously I think, I had a lot to prove to Jimmy too." Both Kenny and Jim are open about the falling-out, suggesting the water of the past is well and truly under the bridge. They arrived at the "Sittin' in Again Reunion Tour" with decades of experience to draw from, including the apparent connecting vibe that friendship, like good music, can outlive the worst battles. The five-month, 40-date tour ended in October of last year, sealed and memorialized with a DVD of the tour showstopper in Santa Barbara.
The show is great; it looks excellent, and the quality -- from the sound to the sleek, bright colors -- is superb. Loggins and Messina (with full backing band) perform their most memorable album tracks and hits, from the perennials including "Danny's Song" and "House at Pooh Corner", to the beautiful but lesser-known Sittin' In album trilogy, "A Love Song", and Messina's ever-brilliant "Changes" and "Same Old Wine". It's 146 minutes of music and fun chatter. Audience shots of smiling men and women singing loudly easily validate Loggins's theory that audiences of his vintage long to hear the music of their youth. The band delivers exactly that. That very little about these songs has been changed or updated suggests that the songs have carried across the millennium line. "Same Old Wine", originally recorded in 1972, is especially eerie to hear in 2005. The song's near-prophetic lyrics include: "Will we give them the election / That keeps filling our heads full of lies / Can we trust in new direction / When the promises are in disguise ... It's the same old wine in a band new bottle".
Remaining faithful to the original arrangements was a necessity for the duo. Messina told PopMatters: "That's exactly what we were doing -- keeping the basis there, but allowing for spontaneity and the ability for it to be fresh." It is. Not only do the songs stand the test of time, the guys' voices haven't aged a day, let alone three long decades. Loggins, especially, is in expert vocal form -- his extended performance of "Peace of Mind" is a stunning feat. Powerhouse performances, too, of "Vahevala", "Long Tail Cat", and "Holiday Hotel" reveal similar, if not greater, energy between the guys than the earlier "Midnight Special" concert from 1973, included in edited form as an extra feature on this DVD. It's a magical few hours -- and the new never-say-never attitude of the pair means it might not be the last time it happens.
PopMatters spoke to Kenny and Jim on the eve of the Sittin' in Again DVD release.
PopMatters: What, for you guys, are some of the highlights of the DVD?
Jim Messina: The highlight of the DVD, I would say, is the manner in which it was shot. The basis of our show, initially, was a two and a half hour concert. Actually three hours with two and half hours of music and an intermission. In order to make this thing work we had to do it a little differently, [so it was] edited together so that it had almost a feel that we've been going out with, which was basically to start out with about an hour of music -- sort of to present the quintessential Loggins and Messina. And then Kenny and I wanted a section that mirrored an experience we had when we sat down acoustically and, very informally, would do some music. That's what we called the General Store section of the DVD.
Kenny Loggins: I think we can give you our personal favorite moments for the DVD rather than trying to point out highlights. Everybody's going to have a different take on what the highlights are, you know, depending on what part of our career they dropped in on. For me, I really loved performing a song from [the original Sittin' In's] "Trilogy" called "Peace of Mind", a piece Jimmy wrote. I loved performing "Vahevala", because I got to play a lead guitar solo, which I haven't done in many years. And "Danny's Song", where the audience sang along at the end of the second encore. And I also really loved whatever happened in the General Store, where we got to be a little looser with song order and play around and see what happened.
JM: One of my highlights was a song called "Sailin' the Wind", which I loved recording way back when. I was worried that it might not be Kenny's favorite, but as we got to play it and started shaking up, so I was glad it stuck around.
KL: Yeah, I really enjoyed that one.
JM: I also enjoyed doing "Kind Woman", because I started out in the Buffalo Springfield, working with Neil [Young] and Stephen [Stills] and Richie [Furay]. And this was a song that Richie had written. I remember, in those days, it was a real important song for him to get on that record. So to be able to go back and -- full circle -- do a song of his, and to have Kenny and I do it, was special. That was sort of a tribute to him as a writer. And "You Need a Man" was fun, because we all got a chance to express ourselves musically on that...
KL: That's really where the band could shine.
JM: The band could shine, and they played their hearts out on it. But, all in all, I enjoyed working on every tune here. I think that every song Kenny and I picked out, we wanted to do, and we wanted to do our best jobs on.
PM: Did you purposefully look at choosing tracks based on your personal favorites in your catalogue over chart position and popularity?
JM: I think that's exactly it. We wanted to do our favorite songs, and make sure that it just wasn't a collection of songs that the record company wanted.
KL: I think we both saw this, though was never really talked about it. I think we were both headed in the same direction. I saw this as an opportunity to do one definitive compilation of what I see the legacy of Loggins and Messina to be. And it's not necessarily the hits. You know, "Your Mama Don't Dance" is in there, but it's an aspect of who we were, and it isn't the song that in any way defines who we were, at least in my mind.
PM: Has the meaning of the songs changed over this period of time?
JM: I think they've grown to mean something different. Like "Same Old Wine", for instance, when I wrote that song it was about the Vietnam War. And I was a little hesitant about doing it this time, because I was openly thinking about the Vietnam War in the past. Kenny pointed out that the lyrics were very relevant today. So I trusted that and went with it and so be it. It really affected people. The song had an affect to it, as "Danny's Song" still has an affect to it. People still feel those same emotions, and they'll always be here.
PM: How has the reunion affected you emotionally? Are you more relaxed together, freer?
JM: I'm more relaxed as a human being in my soul, to know that Kenny and I have worked out whatever our differences were emotionally. From that stand point, to now be doing that music has completed a part in me that allows my whole being to relax. That element of relaxation opens the door for us to either do this music again, or to write, or to just be friends. Just to say, 'What are you doing over the holidays?' and knowing that someone would be sincere in wanting to see you is more important to me than making another record.
KL: The tour was a really growing time for me. It was important to be out on the road, to be working, and to make that kind of connection with Jimmy and the old audience. In a way, it was like going back into my childhood and reconnecting to myself and who was I then -- how much of him is still in the light in me, and where to go from here.
PM: Is it something you ever could have foreseen -- the Loggins and Messina legacy? Is it possible to envision fans sticking by you for this period of time and songs keeping their power?
KL: No. When you're a kid you just don't have that sense of legacy. You don't realize -- there was no way I could have imagined that the music we were making was going to stick around for 30 years. I remember a line I heard Joe Walsh say: "If I'd known then that I was going to be singing these songs 30 years from now, I would've written better songs." [Both laugh.] You're just doing the best you can when you're a kid, and because of that, it's coming out from a real innocent, honest place. Something like "Danny's Song" or "House on Pooh Corner" -- they're songs I wrote as a senior in high school. It's inspiring to me to think they're still around and still generate an emotional response from new audiences.
PM: Do you think musicians today speak to their generation as carefully and openly as bands like your own did then?
KL: I think there are definitely political commentators, they're just in fringe areas or, if you take a look at rap music, I think they're expressing the frustrations of their era in some ways; some of them are. Music will always be a political vehicle as well as a romantic vehicle.
JM: I agree. Though, it's not as apparent as it used to be. Especially when you look at the time in the '60s when we were going through that trouble. But I also feel that so much is hidden. Young people have a different life today and they've got bigger responsibilities, and music is one way of expressing it. We also have to look at the movie business; I think there are a lot of things being said through film with young directors and young producers. They're working on doing the same thing, but in their own way. I'm thinking of Michael Moore, who very boldly came out with [Fahrenheit 9/11] at a point in time, is not unlike somebody singing "Eve of Destruction" or [the music of] Country Joe and the Fish.
KL: Country Joe and the Fish -- there were a lot of political acts coming out of Berkeley back then.
JM: It was kind of the way things were working. I think the film industry now, or the video industry, is in a much better place to sort of bring attention to a lot of that stuff.
PM: Does the onset of families and children change how you write?
KL: Yeah, my children have very much affected my writing. I have at least one song for each child. Then there's the dynamic of having a family, losing a family -- my work has always been autobiographical when it's at its best. "Danny's Song" was about my brother -- I discovered that the stuff that tended to reach people the deepest was the stuff that came from the deepest place in myself. The more I was willing to explore my own emotions, the more people I could reach. So I quickly shifted from writing generic pop tunes to trying to write something that mattered to me. My heroes at the time were writers that were expressing these things -- James Taylor, Paul Simon, Lennon/McCartney. They were writing things that, invariably, clicked on some level and made me wish I'd written that. So that has been my course as an artist is to try to dig in as deep as I can.
JM: And I would say that's true for me, too. Having a family and a marriage and children and now one on the way, I just can't sit down and write the same kind of love song I could have written back in my early 20s or late teens. I have a different criteria for what love is.
PM: Has the audience response been as you expected?
KL: The very first audience we played to [at the Idaho Center Amphitheatre in Boise], we walked out onto the stage and got a three-minute standing ovation before we even played a note. That was exhilarating, and also reconfirmed for me that we were doing the right thing at the right time. There's an audience out there that's dying to reconnect to legacy music, and it was very happy to see us.
PM: Do you think the final reunion tour show will be the end for you guys as a live act?
KL: I've learned that the last show is an illusion.
JM: I have to laugh, because the last show we did, Kenny pulled his back and was in such pain, and my shoulder froze up on me and I had to go and get shots to get my arm to work. I hurt it lifting weights or something. All I can remember is thinking that's not my idea of what the last show would be like, not being able to sit up and speak to people -- somehow its…
KL: Pitiful. [Both laugh.]
JM: Yeah… but it was a good show and everybody loved it.
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Americans have been eating genetically modified food for about 20 years.
Until I began researching this topic, I had no idea why. What I discovered is alarming.
On this site, I talk about natural remedies and leading a healthy lifestyle. Changing the way you eat isn't easy. It's can also get expensive. That's why I also like to share shopping tips.
Hopefully, these tips can help you avoid buying foods with genetically modified ingredients, if that's what you choose to do.
Also, I periodically put out information about real food clean eating meal plans. These plans make it easy to prepare delicious recipes, minus the GMOs. They're also designed to save time and money.
I try to present affordable options. That's because I know special diets can be costly, if you don't shop carefully.
In the beginning, I bought my healthy foods at a regular grocery store. But I couldn't keep doing this. One month I spent so much money that I had virtually nothing left over for anything else. Now, I shop for discount foods, supplements and cosmetics at Vitacost and at Pureformulas.
For me, clean eating isn't optional. About 10 years ago I developed a potentially crippling nerve disease. My condition is incurable. But I'm able to live a normal life. My debilitating symptoms have disappeared. I'm so grateful that I can walk again, and that I don't need a wheelchair.
My recovery happened in stages. But it accelerated after I stopped eating GMOs. (I also gave up dairy foods around this time, so that may be a factor in my recovery too.) Although I can't prove that GMOs were making me sick, I feel a lot better now than I did a decade ago. I also attribute my good health to prayer and a lot of natural remedies, which I still use.
But the GMOs definitely had to go. Here's why.
Genetic engineering just seems like a bad idea, even before you realize why it's done. I believe it's impossible to improve upon what God has created. But it's truly shocking to learn why seeds are being created with species-crossing gene combinations that don't exist in nature.
This is much different from the long-standing practice of selective breeding, which doesn't involve laboratory insertion of foreign material.
Are GMOs Bad for Human Consumption?
Monsanto Roundup is used on these crops. This product contains a controversial ingredient called glyphosate. This chemical is now being linked to cancer. This is why I urge all my readers to avoid GMOs.
If anyone needs help getting GMOs out of their diet, I also suggest getting that help, by signing up for Real Plans, just for a month. This clean eating meal planning service offers live support. It's totally risk free. It comes with a 30-day money back guarantee if you don't like it.
Once I realize what I was feeding my family, I started cleaning up my kitchen. I began buying all organic food, shopping at my local grocery store.
But this became too expensive to sustain. So I started searching for alternatives. For a couple of years, I shopped at local discount stores, grabbing whatever organic or non-GMO food I could find. But this took up too much of my week.
Since I don't want to spend all my time shopping, I turned to the Internet. Now, some of my grocery budget is spent at Vitacost. This large online health food store saves me time and money.
One of the crops most likely to be engineered is soy. So I'm able to buy a gluten-free soy sauce substitute at Vitacost for less than I'd pay at my local supermarket. Liquid Aminos tastes just like regular soy sauce. I buy the 32-ounce size to save even more.
There's growing concern that genetic modification leads to an increase in the amount of herbicides released into the environment. It's impossible to totally wash these chemicals off of our food. Plus, they migrate into the soil, where they are likely taken up by the plants as they grow.
Also, because weeds are becoming resistant to the current batch of herbicides, more and more chemicals are needed to achieve the desired results.
One of the active ingredients in Roundup, glyphosate, has been tentatively tied to a number of health problems, including cancer. It's believed this chemical can disrupt human hormones.
There are additional worries, based on French research, that the simple act of genetic modification, even without an herbicide, presents a health risk. This is why I like to make real meals from unprocessed food.
Gilles-Eric Seralini, PhD., of the University of Caen in France, has conducted controlled studies. Rats were fed a partial diet of genetically modified corn. These animals developed massive mammary tumors.
Dr. Seralini believed this was because of the genetic modification itself, and not necessarily the addition of glyphosate that's sprayed on the crops.
Rats in another group given only glyphosate only didn't develop cancerous tumors at the same rate. You can watch Dr. Seralini in the video below. He says earlier studies concluding GMOs were safe didn't follow the animals long enough.
Which Foods are Genetically Modified Food?
Genetically modified food has been banned in Peru and Ecuador. Dozens of other countries require labeling. The European Union only allows a handful of engineered crops within its confines. Russia will not accept imports of American corn. That's because the vast majority is genetically modified.
Americans are very much behind the curve in resisting GM food. Right now, an estimated 60 to 70 percent of all the items sold in a regular grocery store contain at least some GMOs.
This includes most processed foods, unless the package specifically says otherwise. In the United States, you will find Non-GMO Project labels on certain items. USDA certified organic food also do not contain GMOs.
You can also expect fast foods and restaurant foods to contain GMOs, unless they specifically say they don't. Only a handful of restaurants, mostly in the western states, have an all-organic menu.
If I travel, I try to avoid GMOs as much as possible. That's why I pack healthy organic snacks, so I don't have to totally rely upon restaurant food. Vitacost sells discount organic and non-GMO items. Vitacost is also a good place to stock up on healthy essentials. I've now placed multiple orders with this company, and I'm really impressed with the service.
In America, we use a lot of corn. It's grown for human consumption and animal feed. It's also added to processed goods. High fructose corn syrup is found in a lot of juices and snacks.
Baking powder and filler for some medications may also contain corn. Currently, about 90 percent of American corn fields are grown from genetically modified seed.
Until a couple of years ago, though, the corn-on-the-cob from your local farm stand was probably GMO free. However, in 2012, the first GMO "sweet corn" was harvested. Some grocers have pledged not to sell it. But in the US, we don't have labeling laws. So it's hit or miss as to which type of corn you're buying. However, it's easy to find GMO-free corn based snacks, especially if you shop online.
If you want to avoid GMOs, your best bet is to buy only USDA-certified organic corn products, like the ones shown above. Or, if you want to enjoy fresh corn, you can visit a local farm stand and ask the farmer which types of seeds are used. However, you should be aware that some health experts believe that genetically modified strains can still contaminate organically grown crops, and that it's virtually impossible to get truly non-GMO corn. I don't know if this is true. However, because this is an open question, I don't buy organic corn all that often.
However, it is possible to buy organic soy products online at Vitacost.
Soy is also an ingredient in animal feed. There's mounting evidence that GM soy has devastating health effects, at least on laboratory animals. Various studies from Russia showed that hamsters fed soy grew hair inside their mouths. They were sterile by the third generation. Their was also a high rate of mortality among the babies born to these hamsters.
The scientist who conducted these studies is named Alexey V. Surov and he is affiliated with the Institute of Ecology and Evolution and the National Association for Gene Security, as reported by the Institute for Responsible Technology.
Many people consider virgin coconut oil a healthier choice, compared than canola. Here's why.
About 90 percent of rapeseed, the crop that produces canola oil, is genetically modified. There's already controversy over whether this inexpensive oil, which is typically hydrogenated, is good for us. Despite this, it's marketed as a "healthy" alternative to saturated fat found in meat and dairy products. Now, with the added layer of genetic modification, the debate is raging.
Is Canola Oil Genetically Modified?
Canola oil is often used in frying, in baked goods and to make snack foods such as potato chips. Unless a package says otherwise, chances are it's genetically modified.
Instead of canola oil, I now fry a lot of my foods in pure organic coconut oil. I get this at Vitacost. It's delicious and every bit as good as some of the more expensive brands I've tried. This coconut oil from Vitacost ships for free, as does the rest of your order.
At one time, our sweet tooth was satisfied with sugar cane. Now, though, about half of the sugar consumed in the US comes from sugar beets. Nearly all of these beets are genetically modified. However, if you're looking for organic non-GMO sugar, it's also available online.
Sugar is often added to commercial baked goods. So are corn starch, corn oil, soybean flour and canola oil. It's conceivable the doughnuts you eat, which were never that healthy to begin with, are made from several genetically modified ingredients.
This is yet another reason to eat your fruits and vegetables. Right now, only Hawaiian papaya and a small percentage of zucchini are genetically engineered.
Where Do I Buy Organic Coconut Oil?
Not eating GMOs means I need to cook nearly all of my family meals at home, from scratch. This is not nearly as difficult as it sounds, once you get used to it. However, there is a learning curve. I'd be lying if I said there wasn't. But once you get used to cooking this way, it becomes second nature. You also develop a taste for real food. And you lose your taste for processed food.
If you're ready to start eating better, but need a little help, I highly recommend Real Plans. This is a budget food planning service designed to save time and money. Food waste is reduced, because you receive a week's worth of recipes, plus a shopping list. So you buy only what you need. The recipes are designed to be delicious and nutritious.
For more information on how to get started making healthier meals, click on the picture below.
I encourage my readers to do their own research. Volumes have been written on the topic of genetic modification of our food. There are still many unknowns. It will take years to sort it all out. As someone who spent my earlier career as a mainstream medical writer, I realize that studies are only as good as their design. Who funds a study may have an impact upon the design. So please take some time to research this yourself. Your health may depend upon it.
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In a world full of division, turmoil and despair, Barbara Gulbranson's Authentic Kindness: The Path to Peace, Love and Joy" offers a novel awareness that all of us are united as one human race, and the only way to lead a joyous and peaceful life, as well as thrive, is by practicing authentic kindness. Such an appeal can be considered as grandiose and impossible by many, especially skeptics, but the book provides a powerful, workable instrument on how to achieve it. Gulbranson shares relevant real-life stories of kinds in action and down-to-earth techniques on how to practice authentic kindness to experience unparalleled levels of peace, love and joy.
"Authentic Kindness is a real gem. With thoughtful insight Barbara Gulbranson takes you by the hand and gently leads you through the healing and restorative power of kindness."


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Q: How to transform specific Java expression into Javascript expression? How I can transform this Java Expression into a Java Script Expression:
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'myStringValue' is a String in Java.
What is the same logic in JavaScript? Many thanks for helping me!

A: It can be transformed into:
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Anyway those tests make no sense. [\\d]* is always true. We can try with:
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Meeting Coverage > ENDO
Low Vitamin D Tied to CV Problems in Kids
— Improving vitamin D status may reduce cardiometabolic risk
by Alexandria Bachert, Staff Writer, MedPage Today April 3, 2017
This article is a collaboration between MedPage Today and:
ORLANDO -- Vitamin D deficiency was associated with early markers of cardiovascular disease in overweight and obese children and adolescents, researchers said here.
According to results from a cross-sectional study of 60 children and teens, those who were vitamin D deficient had significantly higher atherogenic lipids and markers of early cardiovascular disease compared with patients with insufficient or normal values, reported Marisa Censani, MD, of New York Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medicine, and colleagues, in a presentation at ENDO 2017.
Note that this study was published as an abstract and presented at a conference. These data and conclusions should be considered to be preliminary until published in a peer-reviewed journal.
Compared with those who had insufficient or normal values, vitamin D deficient children had higher:
Non-HDL: 134.76 versus 108.85 (P<0.03)
Total cholesterol: 184.15 versus 158.89 (P<0.01)
Triglycerides: 134.76 versus 78.93 (P<0.03)
Triglycerides/HDL ratio: 3.09 versus 1.82 (P=0.03)
Total cholesterol/HDL ratio: 4.23 versus 3.40 (P<0.01)
"This is one of the first studies to assess the relationship between vitamin D deficiencies and both lipoprotein ratios and non-HDL cholesterol during childhood," Censani stated. "These study findings suggest that vitamin D deficiency may actually have a negative effect on lipid markers which can impact cardiovascular risk in patients."
She also noted that the findings are particularly important for the pediatric obesity population who are already at an increased risk for a variety of medical conditions, such as hypertension, metabolic syndrome, and insulin resistance.
Censani's group reviewed the medical records, including vitamin D levels, of 332 children and adolescents, ages 6-17 years, who were evaluated at pediatric endocrinology outpatient clinics at Weill Cornell Medicine from April 2013 to May 2015.
Overall, 178 of 332 patients met criteria for overweight and obesity which was defined as BMI above the 85th percentile. Of that cohort, 60 patients with BMI above the 85th percentile had available fasting lipid test results.
The researchers then calculated total cholesterol, triglycerides, HDL, LDL, and non-HDL cholesterol, and total cholesterol/HDL and triglyceride/HDL ratios for the remaining 60 participants.
Vitamin D deficiency was considered to be 25 hydroxyvitamin D (25OHD) below 20 ng/ml.
Censani's group found that total cholesterol, triglycerides, LDL, non-HDL cholesterol, as well as total cholesterol/HDL and triglyceride/HDL ratios, were all higher in vitamin D deficient patients compared with patients without vitamin D deficiency.
When laboratory results were analyzed according to pubertal status, pubertal children with vitamin D deficiency showed significantly higher TC/HDL levels (4.26 versus 3.42, P<0.02) than those with vitamin D status >20 ng/mL.
According to Censani, "the study highlights the role of monitoring 25OHD levels in children and adolescents with overweight and obesity, and the potential benefits of improving vitamin D status to reduce cardiometabolic risk."
She concluded that future research is needed to determine the significant short- and long-term risk in children and teens with vitamin D deficiency, and whether repletion of vitamin D deficiency leads to improvement in cardiovascular risk
One limitation is that the study did not look at ethnicities.
"It would have been interesting to see if certain ethnicities were effected more than others. I would have liked to break it down by African American, Hispanic, etc.," she told MedPage Today.
Source Reference: Censani M, et al "Vitamin d status is associated with early markers of cardiovascular disease in children and adolescents with overweight and obesity" ENDO 2017.


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As reported in the Chronicle of Higher Education last week, an Oxford graduate student in economics is soon to publish a paper arguing that the "optimal" term of copyright protection is just 14 years. This is vastly shorter than the current term of protection in the US, where the term is life of the author plus 70 years, or in nearly any other nation of the world. Although his conclusion may be too radical to be practical, Rufus Pollok's calculations add some weight, if any was needed, to the argument that copyright protection has moved very far from its original goal of providing an incentive to authors to create and now nearly exclusively serves the economic interests of large commercial distributors.
Pollock bases some of his calculations on the argument that a shorter term becomes more desirable as technology makes reproduction and distribution easier. Nevertheless, it is interesting to note that the optimal term he arrives at – 14 years – was precisely the term provided by the first English copyright law, the 1709 Statute of Anne.
Even if the copyright term was vastly shorter than it now is, however, many of the arguments for open access to research and scholarship would remain just as strong. That there is great public benefit to wider access to cutting edge research, and great justice in providing taxpayers with no-toll access to the results of research for which they have already paid, are points that do not depend on the length of the copyright term. Even if the term were as short as Pollock proposes, more immediate public access would still be worthwhile pursuit; authors would still need to see that a right to open access deposit was included in their publication agreements and funders, especially government agencies, would still need to mandate such deposit whenever practical. But under our grossly over-extended term of protection, these needs are greatly amplified.
Congress is now considering an appropriations bill that includes funding for the National Institute of Health and, for the first time, would mandate that research funded by the NIH be deposited in the PubMed Central database within six months of publication. This language has clear the appropriations committee and will be considered on the House floor this week. Publishers have objected that this mandate might undermine copyrights, but this argument hardly seems convincing, since most publication agreements already allow authors to offer their own published work on the web. Authors must continue to read such agreements with great attention to be sure they retain this right, and Congress should not let this spurious argument prevent them from seeing the basic justice that demands passage of the NIH appropriations bill as it has come from committee.
Added note — The American Library Association has posted this Action Alert to assist those who would like to encourage Congress to support the NIH mandate.
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WA105 1x1x3 records first particle tracks
July 17, 2017 | Lauren Biron
Excerpted and adapted from the Symmetry article World's biggest neutrino experiment moves one step closer, 23 June 2017.
In a lab at CERN sits a very important box. It covers about three parking spaces and is more than a story tall. Sitting inside is a metal device that tracks energetic cosmic particles: the prototype detector WA105 3x1x1, which holds an active volume of five metric tons (3,000 liters) of liquid argon. On June 21, WA105 recorded its first particle tracks.
One of the first tracks in the prototype detector, caused by a cosmic ray.
While ultimately the full-scale DUNE detectors will sit in the most intense neutrino beam in the world, scientists are testing the WA105 3x1x1 components using muons from cosmic rays, high-energy particles arriving from space.
Previous liquid argon neutrino detectors, such as ICARUS and MicroBooNE, detected signals from neutrinos using wires in the liquid argon. But crucially, this new test detector also holds a small amount of gaseous argon, earning it the special status of a two-phase detector. (How it works)
"This is the first time anyone will demonstrate this technology at this scale," says Sebastien Murphy, who led the construction of the detector at CERN. "The main goal is to demonstrate that we can amplify charges in liquid argon detectors on the same large scale as we do in standard gaseous TPCs."
Making sure a dual-phase detector and its electronics work at cryogenic temperatures of minus 184 degrees Celsius (minus 300 degrees Fahrenheit) on a large scale is the primary duty of the prototype detector—but certainly not its only one. The membrane that surrounds the liquid argon and keeps it from spilling out will also undergo a rigorous test. Special cryogenic cameras look for any hot spots where the liquid argon is predisposed to boiling away and might cause voltage breakdowns near electronics.
"The prospect of starting DUNE is very exciting, and we have to deliver the best possible detector," says André Rubbia, the spokesperson for the WA105 3x1x1 experiment and former co-spokesperson for DUNE. "One step at a time, we're climbing a large mountain. We're not at the top of Everest yet, but we're reaching the first chalet."
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Bong! Big Ben's back in Britain
Published: 10:44 AM, 11 Nov, 2022
Caption: File photo.
Getting up close to Big Ben requires earplugs, and ear defenders over them to be safe. When the 13.7-tonne bell sounds, the vibration hits you in the chest.
After a five-year restoration project, the world-famous ringer is back with a bong.
The Great Clock towering above Britain's Houses of Parliament is resuming daily operations following the painstaking renovation of more than 1,000 moving parts.
When the clock's five cast-iron bells including Big Ben fell silent in 2017, a mournful crowd of parliamentarians and staff gathered below. Some shed tears.
But after a week of testing, normal service will resume every 15 minutes from 11:00 am (1100 GMT) on Sunday.
The time marks the moment on November 11, 1918 when the guns fell silent in World War I. In Britain, Remembrance Sunday immediately follows Armistice Day every November 11.
They are two of the few occasions that Big Ben and his partners have rung since 2017, along with New Year's Eve, when Britain left the European Union in 2021, and the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II in September.
Atop the 96-metre (315-foot) Elizabeth Tower is the belfry housing the bells -- protected by exterior netting to keep out bats and pigeons.
Beyond lie some of London's most spectacular vistas.
But parliament's three in-house timekeepers don't have time to enjoy the view.
Ian Westworth, 60, and his colleagues have been busy overseeing the tests to ensure everything is in order after the £80-million ($90-million) restoration.
- London calling -
"It's the sound of London back again," Westworth told AFP on a dawn tour of the tower.
"The bell's sounded through wars, and you try and imagine what this bell's actually seen -- 160 years of development."
The Elizabeth Tower, previously called the Clock Tower, was renamed in 2012 to honour the late queen's Diamond Jubilee.
When first built in the 1840s, it dominated the Westminster skyline. Today, newer and taller buildings lie nearby.
"You used to be able to hear this (Big Ben) on a quiet night up to 15 miles (24 kilometres) away," Westworth said, as a chill wind whistled through the belfry.
"Now you're lucky on a day like today if you can hear it the other side of Parliament Square."
The five-year restoration involved cleaning and repainting each of the five bells' hammers and arms. The bells themselves stayed in place.
Big Ben sounds the hour, and is so large that flooring in the tower beneath would have to be dismantled if it ever had to be removed.
The four smaller bells around it sound the quarter-hour.
The biggest job was taking apart the 11.5-tonne clock mechanism dating from 1859 so that every cog and pinion could be cleaned, repaired and re-oiled by a specialist company in Cumbria, northwest England.
Other changes were cosmetic.
Twenty-eight round LED lights now illuminate the four clock faces, a balance of green and white offering the closest match to how they would have looked in gas-lit Victorian times.
Above the bells sits a taller LED light, which glows white when parliament is sitting.
State-of-the-art sprinklers have been installed throughout the tower, although the belfry is beyond reach of the system.
- Timeless technology -
In past years before the renovation, parliament's timekeepers would benchmark the Great Clock's time against the telephone speaking clock.
Now, it is calibrated by GPS via Britain's National Physical Laboratory.
But the method to adjust the clock's timing mechanism remains old-fashioned: pre-decimal pennies are added or removed from weights attached to two giant coiled springs, to make or lose a second.
As the top of the hour approaches, it is time to don the ear defenders again for the continuing series of tests.
Big Ben bongs seven times, setting off a bass vibrato in the gantry around it.
While deafening, the unmistakeable peal of the cracked bell is also a reassuring note of constancy after a year of political upheaval in Britain, and as the rest of the parliamentary estate frays.
Political bickering over the costs is holding up a bigger renovation of the ageing complex.
But Westworth and his 35-year-old colleague Alex Jeffrey remain focused on the job in hand: tending to parliament's 2,000 clocks, many of them irreplaceable antiques.
"Every day you're keeping time in a very hands-on way, using technology, arts and crafts," Jeffrey said.
"It's very tactile, as is maintaining the Great Clock," he added. "It's the best job in the world."
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import collections
import logging
import re

from dracclient import constants
from dracclient import exceptions
from dracclient.resources import lifecycle_controller
from dracclient.resources import uris
from dracclient import utils

LOG = logging.getLogger(__name__)

POWER_STATES = {
    '2': constants.POWER_ON,
    '3': constants.POWER_OFF,
    '11': constants.REBOOT,
}

REVERSE_POWER_STATES = dict((v, k) for (k, v) in POWER_STATES.items())

BOOT_MODE_IS_CURRENT = {
    '1': True,
    '2': False
}

BOOT_MODE_IS_NEXT = {
    '1': True,   # is next
    '2': False,  # is not next
    '3': True    # is next for single use (one time boot only)
}

LC_CONTROLLER_VERSION_12G = (2, 0, 0)

BootMode = collections.namedtuple('BootMode', ['id', 'name', 'is_current',
                                               'is_next'])

BootDevice = collections.namedtuple(
    'BootDevice',
    ['id',  'boot_mode', 'current_assigned_sequence',
     'pending_assigned_sequence', 'bios_boot_string'])

class PowerManagement(object):

    def __init__(self, client):
        """Creates PowerManagement object

        :param client: an instance of WSManClient
        """
        self.client = client

    def get_power_state(self):
        """Returns the current power state of the node

        :returns: power state of the node, one of 'POWER_ON', 'POWER_OFF' or
                  'REBOOT'
        :raises: WSManRequestFailure on request failures
        :raises: WSManInvalidResponse when receiving invalid response
        :raises: DRACOperationFailed on error reported back by the DRAC
                 interface
        """

        filter_query = ('select EnabledState from DCIM_ComputerSystem')
        doc = self.client.enumerate(uris.DCIM_ComputerSystem,
                                    filter_query=filter_query)
        enabled_state = utils.find_xml(doc, 'EnabledState',
                                       uris.DCIM_ComputerSystem)

        return POWER_STATES[enabled_state.text]

    def set_power_state(self, target_state):
        """Turns the server power on/off or do a reboot

        :param target_state: target power state. Valid options are: 'POWER_ON',
                             'POWER_OFF' and 'REBOOT'.
        :raises: WSManRequestFailure on request failures
        :raises: WSManInvalidResponse when receiving invalid response
        :raises: DRACOperationFailed on error reported back by the DRAC
                 interface
        :raises: DRACUnexpectedReturnValue on return value mismatch
        :raises: InvalidParameterValue on invalid target power state
        """

        try:
            drac_requested_state = REVERSE_POWER_STATES[target_state]
        except KeyError:
            msg = ("'%(target_state)s' is not supported. "
                   "Supported power states: %(supported_power_states)r") % {
                       'target_state': target_state,
                       'supported_power_states': list(REVERSE_POWER_STATES)}
            raise exceptions.InvalidParameterValue(reason=msg)

        selectors = {'CreationClassName': 'DCIM_ComputerSystem',
                     'Name': 'srv:system'}
        properties = {'RequestedState': drac_requested_state}

        self.client.invoke(uris.DCIM_ComputerSystem, 'RequestStateChange',
                           selectors, properties)

class BootManagement(object):

    def __init__(self, client):
        """Creates BootManagement object

        :param client: an instance of WSManClient
        """
        self.client = client

    def list_boot_modes(self):
        """Returns the list of boot modes

        :returns: list of BootMode objects
        :raises: WSManRequestFailure on request failures
        :raises: WSManInvalidResponse when receiving invalid response
        :raises: DRACOperationFailed on error reported back by the DRAC
                 interface
        """

        doc = self.client.enumerate(uris.DCIM_BootConfigSetting)

        drac_boot_modes = utils.find_xml(doc, 'DCIM_BootConfigSetting',
                                         uris.DCIM_BootConfigSetting,
                                         find_all=True)

        return [self._parse_drac_boot_mode(drac_boot_mode)
                for drac_boot_mode in drac_boot_modes]

    def list_boot_devices(self):
        """Returns the list of boot devices

        :returns: a dictionary with the boot modes and the list of associated
                  BootDevice objects, ordered by the pending_assigned_sequence
                  property
        :raises: WSManRequestFailure on request failures
        :raises: WSManInvalidResponse when receiving invalid response
        :raises: DRACOperationFailed on error reported back by the DRAC
                 interface
        """

        doc = self.client.enumerate(uris.DCIM_BootSourceSetting)

        drac_boot_devices = utils.find_xml(doc, 'DCIM_BootSourceSetting',
                                           uris.DCIM_BootSourceSetting,
                                           find_all=True)
        try:
            boot_devices = [self._parse_drac_boot_device(drac_boot_device)
                            for drac_boot_device in drac_boot_devices]
        except AttributeError:
            # DRAC 11g doesn't have the BootSourceType attribute on the
            # DCIM_BootSourceSetting resource
            controller_version = (
                lifecycle_controller.LifecycleControllerManagement(
                    self.client).get_version())

            if controller_version < LC_CONTROLLER_VERSION_12G:
                boot_devices = [
                    self._parse_drac_boot_device_11g(drac_boot_device)
                    for drac_boot_device in drac_boot_devices]
            else:
                raise

        # group devices by boot mode
        boot_devices_per_mode = {device.boot_mode: []
                                 for device in boot_devices}
        for device in boot_devices:
            boot_devices_per_mode[device.boot_mode].append(device)

        # sort the device list by pending assigned seqeuence
        for mode in boot_devices_per_mode.keys():
            boot_devices_per_mode[mode].sort(
                key=lambda device: device.pending_assigned_sequence)

        return boot_devices_per_mode

    def change_boot_device_order(self, boot_mode, boot_device_list):
        """Changes the boot device sequence for a boot mode

        :param boot_mode: boot mode for which the boot device list is to be
                          changed
        :param boot_device_list: a list of boot device ids in an order
                                 representing the desired boot sequence
        :raises: WSManRequestFailure on request failures
        :raises: WSManInvalidResponse when receiving invalid response
        :raises: DRACOperationFailed on error reported back by the DRAC
                 interface
        :raises: DRACUnexpectedReturnValue on return value mismatch
        """

        selectors = {'InstanceID': boot_mode}
        properties = {'source': boot_device_list}

        self.client.invoke(uris.DCIM_BootConfigSetting,
                           'ChangeBootOrderByInstanceID', selectors,
                           properties, expected_return_value=utils.RET_SUCCESS)

    def _parse_drac_boot_mode(self, drac_boot_mode):
        return BootMode(
            id=self._get_boot_mode_attr(drac_boot_mode, 'InstanceID'),
            name=self._get_boot_mode_attr(drac_boot_mode, 'ElementName'),
            is_current=BOOT_MODE_IS_CURRENT[self._get_boot_mode_attr(
                drac_boot_mode, 'IsCurrent')],
            is_next=BOOT_MODE_IS_NEXT[self._get_boot_mode_attr(
                drac_boot_mode, 'IsNext')])

    def _get_boot_mode_attr(self, drac_boot_mode, attr_name):
        return utils.get_wsman_resource_attr(drac_boot_mode,
                                             uris.DCIM_BootConfigSetting,
                                             attr_name)

    def _parse_drac_boot_device_common(self, drac_boot_device, instance_id,
                                       boot_mode):
        return BootDevice(
            id=instance_id,
            boot_mode=boot_mode,
            current_assigned_sequence=int(self._get_boot_device_attr(
                drac_boot_device, 'CurrentAssignedSequence')),
            pending_assigned_sequence=int(self._get_boot_device_attr(
                drac_boot_device, 'PendingAssignedSequence')),
            bios_boot_string=self._get_boot_device_attr(drac_boot_device,
                                                        'BIOSBootString'))

    def _parse_drac_boot_device(self, drac_boot_device):
        instance_id = self._get_boot_device_attr(drac_boot_device,
                                                 'InstanceID')
        boot_mode = self._get_boot_device_attr(drac_boot_device,
                                               'BootSourceType')

        return self._parse_drac_boot_device_common(drac_boot_device,
                                                   instance_id, boot_mode)

    def _parse_drac_boot_device_11g(self, drac_boot_device):
        instance_id = self._get_boot_device_attr(drac_boot_device,
                                                 'InstanceID')
        boot_mode = instance_id.split(':')[0]

        return self._parse_drac_boot_device_common(drac_boot_device,
                                                   instance_id, boot_mode)

    def _get_boot_device_attr(self, drac_boot_device, attr_name):
        return utils.get_wsman_resource_attr(drac_boot_device,
                                             uris.DCIM_BootSourceSetting,
                                             attr_name)

class BIOSAttribute(object):
    """Generic BIOS attribute class"""

    def __init__(self, name, instance_id, current_value, pending_value,
                 read_only):
        """Creates BIOSAttribute object

        :param name: name of the BIOS attribute
        :param instance_id: opaque and unique identifier of the BIOS attribute
        :param current_value: current value of the BIOS attribute
        :param pending_value: pending value of the BIOS attribute, reflecting
                an unprocessed change (eg. config job not completed)
        :param read_only: indicates whether this BIOS attribute can be changed
        """
        self.name = name
        self.instance_id = instance_id
        self.current_value = current_value
        self.pending_value = pending_value
        self.read_only = read_only

    def __eq__(self, other):
        return self.__dict__ == other.__dict__

    def __ne__(self, other):
        return not self.__eq__(other)

    @classmethod
    def parse(cls, namespace, bios_attr_xml):
        """Parses XML and creates BIOSAttribute object"""

        name = utils.get_wsman_resource_attr(
            bios_attr_xml, namespace, 'AttributeName')
        instance_id = utils.get_wsman_resource_attr(
            bios_attr_xml, namespace, 'InstanceID')
        current_value = utils.get_wsman_resource_attr(
            bios_attr_xml, namespace, 'CurrentValue', nullable=True)
        pending_value = utils.get_wsman_resource_attr(
            bios_attr_xml, namespace, 'PendingValue', nullable=True)
        read_only = utils.get_wsman_resource_attr(
            bios_attr_xml, namespace, 'IsReadOnly')

        return cls(name, instance_id, current_value, pending_value,
                   (read_only == 'true'))

class BIOSEnumerableAttribute(BIOSAttribute):
    """Enumerable BIOS attribute class"""

    namespace = uris.DCIM_BIOSEnumeration

    def __init__(self, name, instance_id, current_value, pending_value,
                 read_only, possible_values):
        """Creates BIOSEnumerableAttribute object

        :param name: name of the BIOS attribute
        :param current_value: current value of the BIOS attribute
        :param pending_value: pending value of the BIOS attribute, reflecting
                an unprocessed change (eg. config job not completed)
        :param read_only: indicates whether this BIOS attribute can be changed
        :param possible_values: list containing the allowed values for the BIOS
                                attribute
        """
        super(BIOSEnumerableAttribute, self).__init__(name, instance_id,
                                                      current_value,
                                                      pending_value, read_only)
        self.possible_values = possible_values

    @classmethod
    def parse(cls, bios_attr_xml):
        """Parses XML and creates BIOSEnumerableAttribute object"""

        bios_attr = BIOSAttribute.parse(cls.namespace, bios_attr_xml)
        possible_values = [attr.text for attr
                           in utils.find_xml(bios_attr_xml, 'PossibleValues',
                                             cls.namespace, find_all=True)]

        return cls(bios_attr.name, bios_attr.instance_id,
                   bios_attr.current_value, bios_attr.pending_value,
                   bios_attr.read_only, possible_values)

    def validate(self, new_value):
        """Validates new value"""

        if str(new_value) not in self.possible_values:
            msg = ("Attribute '%(attr)s' cannot be set to value '%(val)s'."
                   " It must be in %(possible_values)r.") % {
                       'attr': self.name,
                       'val': new_value,
                       'possible_values': self.possible_values}
            return msg

class BIOSStringAttribute(BIOSAttribute):
    """String BIOS attribute class"""

    namespace = uris.DCIM_BIOSString

    def __init__(self, name, instance_id, current_value, pending_value,
                 read_only, min_length, max_length, pcre_regex):
        """Creates BIOSStringAttribute object

        :param name: name of the BIOS attribute
        :param current_value: current value of the BIOS attribute
        :param pending_value: pending value of the BIOS attribute, reflecting
                an unprocessed change (eg. config job not completed)
        :param read_only: indicates whether this BIOS attribute can be changed
        :param min_length: minimum length of the string
        :param max_length: maximum length of the string
        :param pcre_regex: is a PCRE compatible regular expression that the
                           string must match
        """
        super(BIOSStringAttribute, self).__init__(name, instance_id,
                                                  current_value, pending_value,
                                                  read_only)
        self.min_length = min_length
        self.max_length = max_length
        self.pcre_regex = pcre_regex

    @classmethod
    def parse(cls, bios_attr_xml):
        """Parses XML and creates BIOSStringAttribute object"""

        bios_attr = BIOSAttribute.parse(cls.namespace, bios_attr_xml)
        min_length = int(utils.get_wsman_resource_attr(
            bios_attr_xml, cls.namespace, 'MinLength'))
        max_length = int(utils.get_wsman_resource_attr(
            bios_attr_xml, cls.namespace, 'MaxLength'))
        pcre_regex = utils.get_wsman_resource_attr(
            bios_attr_xml, cls.namespace, 'ValueExpression', nullable=True)

        return cls(bios_attr.name, bios_attr.instance_id,
                   bios_attr.current_value, bios_attr.pending_value,
                   bios_attr.read_only, min_length, max_length, pcre_regex)

    def validate(self, new_value):
        """Validates new value"""

        if self.pcre_regex is not None:
            regex = re.compile(self.pcre_regex)
            if regex.search(str(new_value)) is None:
                msg = ("Attribute '%(attr)s' cannot be set to value '%(val)s.'"
                       " It must match regex '%(re)s'.") % {
                           'attr': self.name,
                           'val': new_value,
                           're': self.pcre_regex}
                return msg

class BIOSIntegerAttribute(BIOSAttribute):
    """Integer BIOS attribute class"""

    namespace = uris.DCIM_BIOSInteger

    def __init__(self, name, instance_id, current_value, pending_value,
                 read_only, lower_bound, upper_bound):
        """Creates BIOSIntegerAttribute object

        :param name: name of the BIOS attribute
        :param current_value: current value of the BIOS attribute
        :param pending_value: pending value of the BIOS attribute, reflecting
                an unprocessed change (eg. config job not completed)
        :param read_only: indicates whether this BIOS attribute can be changed
        :param lower_bound: minimum value for the BIOS attribute
        :param upper_bound: maximum value for the BIOS attribute
        """
        super(BIOSIntegerAttribute, self).__init__(name, instance_id,
                                                   current_value,
                                                   pending_value, read_only)
        self.lower_bound = lower_bound
        self.upper_bound = upper_bound

    @classmethod
    def parse(cls, bios_attr_xml):
        """Parses XML and creates BIOSIntegerAttribute object"""

        bios_attr = BIOSAttribute.parse(cls.namespace, bios_attr_xml)
        lower_bound = utils.get_wsman_resource_attr(
            bios_attr_xml, cls.namespace, 'LowerBound')
        upper_bound = utils.get_wsman_resource_attr(
            bios_attr_xml, cls.namespace, 'UpperBound')

        if bios_attr.current_value:
            bios_attr.current_value = int(bios_attr.current_value)
        if bios_attr.pending_value:
            bios_attr.pending_value = int(bios_attr.pending_value)

        return cls(bios_attr.name, bios_attr.instance_id,
                   bios_attr.current_value, bios_attr.pending_value,
                   bios_attr.read_only, int(lower_bound), int(upper_bound))

    def validate(self, new_value):
        """Validates new value"""

        val = int(new_value)
        if val < self.lower_bound or val > self.upper_bound:
            msg = ('Attribute %(attr)s cannot be set to value %(val)d.'
                   ' It must be between %(lower)d and %(upper)d.') % {
                       'attr': self.name,
                       'val': new_value,
                       'lower': self.lower_bound,
                       'upper': self.upper_bound}
            return msg

class BIOSConfiguration(object):

    NAMESPACES = [(uris.DCIM_BIOSEnumeration, BIOSEnumerableAttribute),
                  (uris.DCIM_BIOSString, BIOSStringAttribute),
                  (uris.DCIM_BIOSInteger, BIOSIntegerAttribute)]

    def __init__(self, client):
        """Creates BIOSConfiguration object

        :param client: an instance of WSManClient
        """
        self.client = client

    def list_bios_settings(self, by_name=True):
        """List the BIOS configuration settings

        :param by_name: Controls whether returned dictionary uses BIOS
                        attribute name or instance_id as key.
        :returns: a dictionary with the BIOS settings using its name as the
                  key. The attributes are either BIOSEnumerableAttribute,
                  BIOSStringAttribute or BIOSIntegerAttribute objects.
        :raises: WSManRequestFailure on request failures
        :raises: WSManInvalidResponse when receiving invalid response
        :raises: DRACOperationFailed on error reported back by the DRAC
                 interface
        """

        return utils.list_settings(self.client, self.NAMESPACES, by_name)

    def set_bios_settings(self, new_settings):
        """Sets the BIOS configuration

        To be more precise, it sets the pending_value parameter for each of the
        attributes passed in. For the values to be applied, a config job must
        be created and the node must be rebooted.

        :param new_settings: a dictionary containing the proposed values, with
                             each key being the name of attribute and the
                             value being the proposed value.
        :returns: a dictionary containing:
                 - The is_commit_required key with a boolean value indicating
                   whether a config job must be created for the values to be
                   applied.
                 - The is_reboot_required key with a RebootRequired enumerated
                   value indicating whether the server must be rebooted for the
                   values to be applied.  Possible values are true and false.
        :raises: WSManRequestFailure on request failures
        :raises: WSManInvalidResponse when receiving invalid response
        :raises: DRACOperationFailed on error reported back by the DRAC
                 interface
        :raises: DRACUnexpectedReturnValue on return value mismatch
        :raises: InvalidParameterValue on invalid BIOS attribute
        """

        return utils.set_settings('BIOS',
                                  self.client,
                                  self.NAMESPACES,
                                  new_settings,
                                  uris.DCIM_BIOSService,
                                  "DCIM_BIOSService",
                                  "DCIM:BIOSService",
                                  'BIOS.Setup.1-1')

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The MTA is making moves to help solve its declining revenue crisis by stepping up policing to catch fare evaders, which the MTA says cost $225 million in lost revenue in 2018, and by installing cameras on buses to automatically ticket cars and trucks illegally parked in dedicated bus lanes, NY Daily News reports.
The cameras will capture license plate information via photos and videos of vehicles obstructing bus lanes. "Multiple pieces of evidence" will automatically be sent to the Department of Transportation, which will review the offenses and issue tickets to the owners of the delinquent cars.
MTA board member Charles Moerdler called fare evaders "deadbeats" responsible for more than half of the agency's latest round of fare hikes, which are set to go into effect next month.
He also discounted the idea that fare evasion occurs mostly in poverty-stricken neighborhoods — citing an instance in which an MTA official watched 10 fare cheaters board a Bx10 bus in the Bronx's high-income Riverdale neighborhood.
So who gets prosecuted for fare evasion? According to the article, 93 percent of those prosecuted in 2016 for fare evasion were black or Latino.