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BusinessWeek Calls U.S. Airlines Greedy, Inept
Airfare Deals Aug 15, 2014
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When airlines are profitable, who should be the primary beneficiary of those profits: the travelers, whose contributions to the companies' coffers made the profits possible; or to the airlines' shareholders, who expect a return on their investments?
According to a BusinessWeek article published this week, carriers in the U.S. enjoy the highest profits (good for their share prices) and deliver the shoddiest service (bad for flyers). The article's headline says it all: "Where Do U.S. Airline Profits Go? Away From Travelers, Toward Investors."
What might be called the populist view of business is that a company's first responsibility is to its customers. If there's extra money available after the enterprise's core costs have been covered, most of it should be used to improve the product or service. If such investments reduce profits, then so be it.
That, according to BusinessWeek, is what Cathay Pacific and Singapore Airlines and Emirates do: They spend heavily on upgrading the planes and seats and food and other items that directly affect the travel experience. That's why those airlines are consistently rated among the world's best carriers. And it's why their profits are lagging those of U.S. carriers, that deliver markedly lower levels of service.
For the 2nd quarter of 2014, Singapore Airlines earned $39 million, and ANA earned less than $3 million. Cathay Pacific's profit for the first half of its fiscal year was $45 million.
For the same period, American's profit was $864 million, and United's was almost $800 million.
In the latest Skytrax world airline rankings, Cathay Pacific was first, Singapore was third, and ANA was sixth.
Not a single U.S. carrier was ranked among the Skytrax top 20.
Unfortunately for American travelers, the top-rated airlines can't fly domestic-U.S. routes. If they did, the competitive pressure might force American, Delta, United, and the rest to spend more on their customers.
For now and the foreseeable future, it's investors 1, customers 0.
Reader Reality Check
What should U.S. carriers do to improve the travel experience?
This article originally appeared on FrequentFlier.com.


Stay abreast of what's going on. Search the news for updated information on the significant challenges facing Japan. Watch the YouTube videos. Contemplate the information and discuss it with your family at dinner. Allow the bitter pill which is this disaster to dissolve in your mouth. It's how we share in the suffering.
What good does that do? It fixes our vision on the needy, hurt, and scared. Hopefully, it soaks into our pours and initiates white blood cells to wake up and fight off the infection. It's how we learn to live outside ourselves. It teaches us compassion and trains us to digest the information about nuclear reactors and numbers of missing and monetary levels of damage and turn it into "real" matters of concern…what are the people doing…how are people getting water…how many haven't slept in the last two days because they haven't been able to find their spouse or children or neighbors.
We have to cheer for them!
We have to scream and holler!
We have to clinch our teeth and pump our fists in the air!


EROS is a 2 hour performance event exploring the theme of desire and showcasing artists from Montreal, Toronto, Texas and Chicago.
Inspired by the history of the Cabaret Voltaire, and contemporary performance evenings such as NYC's Incarnata Social Club, this simple informal event aims to provide accessibility to a variety of performance aesthetics while bringing together international and local artists in an environment of open exploration. Through a combination of visual projections, drag, spoken word, ritualistic gestures and song, EROS investigates various manifestations of desire and how they relate to identity and personal politics. EROS seeks to examine how desire can alternately be used as a weapon, a life preserver, and as fuel for resistance in times of political threat.
EROS is a touring event that will take place in Toronto, Montreal and Chicago. It combines works by international and local artists such as Aram Atamian (Yerevan), Stephanie Creagan (Montreal), Catie Rutledge (Chicago), Marie Ségolène (Montreal), Santiago Tamayo Soler (Montreal) and Vicente Ugartechea (Texas).
Aram Atamian is a diasporan Armenian artist born in the USA and based in Yerevan. His recent work examines queer desire, spiritual longing, and diasporan lacunae within the context of contemporary digital communication platforms. His work has been presented in Armenia at the Institute of Contemporary Art, HAYP Pop Up Gallery, and NPAK/ACCEA; in the USA at Dorchester Art Project (Boston), the Maysles Film Institute (NYC), Chashama (NYC), and the PIMA Institute (NYC); in Italy at Tethys Gallery (Florence) and the 57th Venice Biennale (Arts and Globalization Pavilion). Aram has also performed extensively as an actor and contemporary dancer in New York, Philadelphia, Turkey, and Armenia. He recently relocated to Chicago to pursue his MFA in Performance at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Stephanie E. Creaghan is a Montreal-based writer and video artist who makes work about how violence inserts itself into different forms of communication, combining different pathways (such as video, audio, writing and sculpture) of language to reveal latent forms of manipulation and the pain they generate, in order to bring to light the undiscussed/repressed. She is the co-founder/director of CK2 Gallery, and was co-founder/ director of Gallery LOCK (2013-2014). She has exhibited her work in Montreal, London (ON), Chicago, and Prague, and has curated exhibitions in Montreal, Toronto, New York, and Austin, TX. She has been commissioned by Le festival de la poésie de Montréal (in partnership with Vidéographe) to create work in collaboration with Natasha Kanapé-Fontaine, and has performed at the Darling Foundry, and within the programming for Montréal en lumières. She has completed two international residencies (betOnest, Stolpe/ Oder, Germany, 2017, and Cow House Studios, Wexford, Ireland, 2013), and has been the recipient of grants from the Canada Art Council and from Concordia University. Her work has been published in LESTE Magazine, PANK Magazine, Permanent Sleep Press, and the Hypocrite Reader. She holds a BFA in Intermedia/Cyberarts (conferred with distinction) from Concordia University.
Catie Rutledge (b. 1992, Alexandria, VA) makes work that exists as writing, as painting, as video, and as performance. She received a BFA with honours from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and is a second-year MFA candidate at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Marie Ségolène C. Brault (b. 1988 Montreal, Qc) holds a BA in Creative Writing and a BFA in Intermedia Cyber Arts from Concordia University (Canada). She is currently completing her MFA in Performance at the School of Art Institute of Chicago. Through drawing, sculpture, performance and video installations, her practice investigates ideas of personal mythology, rituals and archival. Marie's work has been featured in Poetry is Dead Magazine and DRY MAGAZINE, and her books Proprioception (2015), Libation (2016), Aphrodite (2016) and Requiem (2016) have recently been published by Anteism. She has participated in several group exhibits, in spaces such as the Knockdown Center, Pioneers Works, City Bird Gallery (NYC), Vox Populi (Philadelphia), Projet Pangée and Never Apart (Montreal). Marie was appointed the Guido Molinari prize from Concordia University in Spring 2016.
Santiago Tamayo Soler (b. 1990 Bogotá, Colombia) is a Montreal-based interdisciplinary artist working mostly in video, performance and painting. Following a degree in Film Studies at the Universidad del Cine in Buenos Aires, Argentina, he is currently completing a BFA in Studio Arts at Concordia University. Interested in the intersection of fictional narratives, cinema and live action, Santiago's work tries to translate and integrate various elements from cinematographic language to the live action.
Vicente Ugartechea (b. 1989 Laredo, TX) is a transgender, first-generation American. Born on the border of the United States and Mexico to an immigrant mother, he occupies a divergent space in culture. Drawing from personal narrative, Vicente explores landscapes of constructed normativities, ethnocentrism, and privilege through various mediums such as performance, video, and installation. In dissecting these topics, he is able to question essentialist notions of gender, sexuality, race and the socio-political structures that inhabit them. Vicente received a BFA from the University of North Texas with a minor in LGBT Studies and is currently earning an MFA as second-year graduate candidate in Performance Art at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.


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Q: Grails non time based queuing I need to process files which get uploaded and it can take as little as 1 second or as much as 10 minutes.  Currently my solution is to make a quartz job with a timer of 30 seconds and then process and arbitrary job whenever it hits.  There are several problems with this.
One: if the job will take less than a few seconds it is wasteful to make things wait 30 seconds for the job queue.
Two: if there is only one long job in the queue it could feasibly try to do it twice.
What I want is a timeless queue.  When things are added the are started immediately if there is a free worker.  Is there a solution for this?  I was looking at jesque, but I couldn't tell if it can do this.

A: What you are looking for is a basic message queue. There are lots of options out there, but my favorite for Grails is RabbitMQ. The Grails plugin for it is quite good and it performs well in my experience.
In general, message queues allow you to have N producers (things creating jobs") adding work messages to a queue and then M consumers pulling jobs off of the queue and processing them. When a worker completes it's job, it simply asks the queue for the next job to process and if there is none, it just waits for the queue to give it something to do. The queue also keeps track of success / failure of message processing (you can control this) so that you don't give the same message to more than one worker.
This has the advantage of not relying on polling (so you can start processing as soon as things come in) and it's also much more scaleable. You can scale both your producers and consumers up or down as needed, decoupling the inputs from the outputs so that you can take a traffic spike and then work your way through it as you have the resources (workers) available.

A: To solve problem one just make the job check for new uploaded files every 5 seconds (or 3 seconds, or 1 second). If the check for uploaded files is quick then there is no reason you can't run it often.
For problem two you just need to record when you start processing a file to ensure it doesn't get picked-up twice. You could create a table in the database, or store the information in memory somewhere.

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Lac-Fouillac is a former unorganized territory in the Abitibi-Témiscamingue region of Quebec, Canada, now part the Municipality of Rivière-Héva in the La Vallée-de-l'Or Regional County Municipality.

In July 2007, the residents of Lac-Fouillac overwhelmingly rejected the amalgamation of their territory with the City of Malartic. 96% of voters voted against annexation in a referendum. But two years later on August 29, 2009, Lac-Fouillac, together with the western portion of the Unorganized Territory of Lac-Granet, was merged into the Municipality of Rivière-Héva.

Demographics
Population:
 Population in 2006: 91
 Population in 2001: 77
 Population in 1996: 174
 Population in 1991: 168

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Former unorganized territories in Quebec
Populated places disestablished in 2009

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2018 brings new businesses to Mt. Juliet
January 2, 2018 Sarah Tate Business News, Frontpage Lead Stories, General News, News 0
IHOP and At Home will make their way to the city of Mt. Juliet in 2018. In a city newsletter, City Manager Kenny Martin announced the business will open locations in Mt. Juliet sometime this year.
IHOP, International House of Pancakes, is a multinational pancake house and diner-style table service restaurant chain that specializes in breakfast foods. As of 2015, there are 1,650 locations of the restaurant, the current closest locations being in Hermitage and Antioch.
At Home, the "Home Decor Superstore," offers a variety of furniture and home decor in different styles to best fit each individual customer. According to the company's website, At Home offers the largest assortment of home decor at the lowest prices in the industry, for both inside and outside the home. They offer different trends and design to help customers "feel right at home."
IHOP and At Home join a growing list of businesses in Mt. Juliet. 2017 brought many new restaurants and shops, including Rockie Williams, Burger Republic, Starbucks, Krystal, Mt. Juliet Chamber of Commerce and many more.
While it is still the first week of the new year, many more business seem to be choosing Mt. Juliet has a great place to begin, or continue growing, their companies.
Hobby Lobby will be opening in the building that used to house Gander Mountain, on Belinda Parkway, and Jason's Deli will open a new location beside it. Nothing Bundt Cakes will open on North Mt. Juliet Road, where Ace Hardware used to be.
"In order to maintain this wonderful trend [of new business], we must do all we can to support all of our local businesses," said Martin. "Not only does this show the current business that we care, but it also shows any potential new businesses that we indeed support our local businesses on every level."
Martin also said there will be new city projects this year, including two new traffic signals at Highway 70 and Park Glen and Belinda Parkway and Providence Trail. He also would like to see that start, and completion, of the new city greenway along West Division Street and the widening of the bridge at Interstate 40 and Mt. Juliet Road.
"I wish to thank all of the many businesses and business owners that have invested in and supported our great community," said Martin. " The services and products you provide are a big part of what makes our community so wonderful, and for that we are most thankful and blessed."

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Sustainable Global Cities Initiative
Search this Site Search in https://cities.hartford.uconn.edu/>
UConn Scholarship on the City
New @ SGCI
Faculty Affiliates by Name
Faculty Affiliates by Research Theme
Governance and Urban Services
People and the City
Social-Ecological Systems
SGCI Staff and Resident Faculty
SGCI Reference Materials
Diasporas and Cities working group
What's New @ SGCI
Below, you can read about recent announcements and happenings connected to the Sustainable Global Cities Initiative.
If you have an event related to urban research, scholarship, or other academic events related to the study of cities that you'd like us to share, let us know! Contact us at sgci@uconn.edu.
SGCI Launches Online Faculty Affiliate Directory
The SGCI is happy to announce that our long-anticipated online Faculty Affiliate directory is now up and running! This is an important milestone for the SGCI's initial messaging strategy, as we hope to make it easier than ever for colleagues and members of the public to find scholars and researchers of urban topics at UConn.
In addition to contact information, our new directory prominently displays research themes, self-described research interests, project descriptions, and recent cities-related publications for our 80+ Faculty Affiliates, who represent 30 departments and 6 colleges and schools. The directory can be viewed alphabetically by last name, or sorted by each Affiliate's self-selected primary Research Theme.
The breadth of expertise among our Faculty Affiliates is one of the strongest arguments for a strengthened focus on city-related research at UConn, and the SGCI is dedicated to developing a long-term messaging strategy that will promote their collective work to both internal and external constituencies. For our next phase of development, we plan on incorporating a more thorough listing of recent cities-related publications for each Faculty Affiliate. Online profiles are added and updated on a rolling basis; if you are a Faculty Affiliate who wishes to add more information to their SGCI online profile, email us at sgci@uconn.edu. To learn more about the SGCI's Faculty Affiliates program, visit our FA Program overview page.
UConn Co-sponsors Interdisciplinary Symposium on GIS and Geohumanities
The Frontiers in Historical GIS, the Geohumanities, and Narrative Visualization Symposium is an interdisciplinary, cross-institution event co-sponsored by UConn, Trinity College, and Capital Community College that will take place in Storrs and Hartford on February 27 and 28.
Event highlights include: On Thursday, 2/27, UConn Associate Professor of History and SGCI Faculty Affiliate Fiona Vernal will be presenting "Race, Ethnicity and Community Succession in Post-War Hartford: Using Historical GIS to Explore the Racial Dynamics of Neighborhood Change," followed by a roundtable discussion involving Dr. Vernal, Chris Vials, Ken Foote, and Peter Chen (all of whom are SGCI Faculty Affiliates) as well as other visiting scholars. On Friday, 2/28, an afternoon presentation will be held at the Trinity College Action Lab, located in Constitution Plaza in Hartford — a short walk from the UConn Hartford Campus.
Please click here or the image above to view a PDF detailing the full agenda of the two-day Symposium. The Symposium is free and open to the public. An RSVP is requested for all attendees who plan to participate in lunch on Thursday. For information on how to RSVP, please visit the official Symposium event page or call Maria Winnick at (959) 200-3771.
SGCI Sponsors "Writing Hartford" Undergraduate Essay Prize
The SGCI is proud to announce the "Writing Hartford" Undergraduate Essay Prize for the 2019 – 2020 academic year!
Developed in collaboration with UConn Hartford's "Writing Hartford" initiative, the prize will be awarded to two undergraduate authors whose projects engage with the city of Hartford (its people, places, or other city-related issues) in some significant way. The "Writing Hartford" initiative has had incredible success in encouraging students to venture forth, explore, and write about all that the city of Hartford has to offer, and the SGCI is proud to further support these efforts by sponsoring a monetary prize for exemplary student work. Our thanks to Scott Campbell, Associate Professor of English and coordinator for Writing Hartford, for his help in designing and implementing this competition.
There will be one prize awarded in each of two categories: First Year (freshmen authors) and Undergraduate (open to all undergraduates regardless of year). For the purposes of this competition, "writing" is broadly defined; submissions may be written essays and/or may include multimedia components as well. Undergraduate students may submit their own work, or a faculty member may submit it on their behalf. For full details, or to submit an entry, visit the official Writing Hartford Undergraduate Essay Prize page or click the image below.
While the subject matter concerns Hartford, we want to emphasize that this competition is open to ALL undergraduates students at all UConn campuses! The final date for submissions is June 1, 2020.
UConn Hartford Joins the Coalition of Urban and Metropolitan Universities
As recently announced by the UConn Hartford Director's Office, UConn Hartford is now one of the newest institutional members of the Coalition of Urban and Metropolitan Universities (CUMU), the longest-running and largest organization committed to serving and connecting the nation's urban and metropolitan universities and their partners.
CUMU's press release reflects the optimism and dedication to community felt by many of the higher ed professionals who call the campus home: "The Hartford campus serves as a model of community engagement and success for urban schools and will attract many new community partnerships with the city—as well as boosting the local economy and resurgence of their home community."
Membership in CUMU includes access to several benefits and resources designed to help colleges and universities embrace their role as anchor institutions and better serve the urban communities in which they are located. Members of the UConn Hartford community (faculty, staff, and administrators) can subscribe to CUMU's online mailing list in order to receive updates about CUMU's annual conference, their peer-reviewed journal Metropolitan Universities, their "Because Place Matters" newsletter, and other announcements and opportunities.
The full press release announcing UConn Hartford's new role as a member of CUMU can be read on CUMU's website.
SGCI Launch Reception at UConn Hartford
The SGCI held a reception on October 29 at UConn Hartford to formally commemorate its "launch" to the greater UConn community (consisting of faculty, researchers, and staff), marking an important milestone in its first year of operation. The primary goal of the reception was to increase visibility, gather feedback from UConn community members, and cultivate university-wide support for the SGCI's goal of becoming formally incorporated as a permanent university research institute.
Several dozen attendees filled the SGCI suite, located on the 5th floor of the Hartford Times Building. Brief remarks were shared by Mark Overmyer-Velazquez (UConn Hartford Campus Director), Daniel Weiner (Vice President for Global Affairs), and Bob Wilson (Interim Director, SGCI) while a looping slideshow presented information about the SGCI and its recently-launched Faculty Affiliates program. As of October 29, the Faculty Affiliates program already has over 70 registered UConn faculty members – an encouraging sign of university-wide excitement about a new unit focused on cities-related research!
This particular launch event was attended exclusively by UConn affiliates; talks are already in the works about having a more public and outward-facing launch event sometime in the Spring 2020 semester to introduce the SGCI to potential community (government, nonprofit, and corporate) partners.
The slideshow presented at the event, seen below, contains several interesting facts about the SGCI and the diversity of its first 70 Faculty Affiliates. The slideshow can also be downloaded in its entirety from the SGCI Reference Materials page.
SGCI Launch Reception Slideshow, October 2019
Welcome to the new SGCI website!
Welcome to https://cities.hartford.uconn.edu, the new online home of the Sustainable Global Cities Initiative! Over the course of the next few months, we hope to greatly expand our digital presence by adding downloadable resources, an online directory of our Faculty Affiliates, a news page, links to current academic and community events, and more. Stay tuned!
If you have any questions or comments about the SGCI or our website, please contact us at sgci@uconn.edu.
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The HealthCare.gov website is photographed in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2018. Sign-up season for the Affordable Care Act's subsidized health insurance starts Thursday, and for a change the outlook for the program is stable.
That's happening even though premiums are stable, consumers have more choice and millions of uninsured people can still get financial help.
The sign-up deadline is this Saturday in most states, for coverage beginning Jan. 1.
Barring a sign-up surge, the nation's uninsured rate could edge up after a yearslong coverage expansion that has seen about 20 million people get health insurance.
A report Wednesday from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services shows nearly 20 percent fewer new customers signed up than at about the same time last year. New customers drive the growth of HealthCare.gov, helping keep premiums in check.
Next year there's no penalty for being uninsured.


President Trump caused the U.S. dollar to slump Wednesday.
The dollar dropped 0.7%, a major move, after Trump told the Wall Street Journal that the dollar is "getting too strong."
"I think our dollar is getting too strong, and partially that's my fault because people have confidence in me," Trump said. "But that's hurting -- that will hurt ultimately."
But now the dollar might be getting too mighty. The president is worried that US businesses, especially manufacturers, won't be able to compete. American goods are more expensive relative to European or Japanese products when the dollar's value is too high.
"It's very, very hard to compete when you have a strong dollar and other countries are devaluing their currency," Trump said.
On the campaign trail, Trump frequently slammed China for purposefully weakening its currency, the yuan, to make its goods cheaper on the world market.
He vowed to label China a "currency manipulator" on Day One of his presidency, the equivalent of saying that China cheats. That didn't happen, but the president continued to talk tough on China. In early April, he called China the "world champions" of currency devaluation.
"They're not currency manipulators," he said Wednesday.
The U-turn in the president's stance comes mere days after Trump and China's President Xi's first big meeting. The two countries are trying to work together to keep North Korea from launching missiles.
Trump also acknowledged that China is no longer manipulating its currency, at least not in a harmful way to the US. China has actually been attempting to prop up the yuan lately so wealthy Chinese investors keep their money at home instead of investing overseas.
"I like her, I respect her," Trump told the Wall Street Journal.
Only a few months ago, Trump said Yellen should "be ashamed of herself" for keeping interest rates low. He said she was just doing that to help President Obama.
Now the president said he "likes" low interest rates and that he might even ask Yellen to stay on when her term expires in early 2018.


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Q: Is this a closure? Some guy asserts that the following piece of code is an illustration of closure in Lisp. I'm not familiar with Lisp, but believe he is wrong. I don't see any free variables, it seems to me as an example of ordinary high level functions. Could you please judge...
 (defun func (callback)
   callback()
)

(defun f1() 1)
(defun f1() 2)

func(f1)
func(f2)

A: No.
There is no function being defined inside func that would enclose local variables inside func. Here is a contrived example based on yours Here is a good example:
Input:
(define f
  (lambda (first-word last-word)
    (lambda (middle-word)
      (string-append first-word middle-word last-word))))

(define f1 (f "The" "cat."))
(define f2 (f "My" "adventure."))

(f1 " black ")
(f1 " sneaky ")

(f2 " dangerous ")
(f2 " dreadful ")

Output:
Welcome to DrScheme, version 4.1.3 [3m].
Language: Pretty Big; memory limit: 128 megabytes.
"The black cat."
"The sneaky cat."
"My dangerous adventure."
"My dreadful adventure."
>

f defines and returns a closure in which the first and last words are enclosed, and which are then reused by calling the newly-created functions f1 and f2.

This post has several hundred views, therefore if non-schemers are reading this, here is the same silly example in python:
def f(first_word, last_word):
    """ Function f() returns another function! """
    def inner(middle_word):
        """ Function inner() is the one that really gets called
        later in our examples that produce output text. Function f()
        "loads" variables into function inner().  Function inner()
        is called a closure because it encloses over variables
        defined outside of the scope in which inner() was defined. """
        return ' '.join([first_word, middle_word, last_word])
    return inner

f1 = f('The', 'cat.')
f2 = f('My', 'adventure.')

f1('black')
Output: 'The black cat.'

f1('sneaky')
Output: 'The sneaky cat.'

f2('dangerous')
Output: 'My dangerous adventure.'

f2('dreadful')
Output: 'My dreadful adventure.'

A: Here's my contribute as a JavaScript programmer:
A closure is a function that has access to variables defined in its lexical scope (a scope that might not be present anymore when the closure is actually invoked). Here:
function funktionFactory(context) {
   // this is the lexical scope of the following anonymous function
   return function() {
      // do things with context
   }
}

Once funktionFactory has returned the lexical scope is gone forever BUT (and it's a big 'but') if the returned function is still referenced (and therefore not garbage collected), then such function (a closure) can still play with the original variable context. Here:
var closure = funktionFactory({
   name: "foo"
});

no one but closure can access the name property of the context object (unreachable for any other entity in the software when funktionFactory has returned).
So to answer your question: is func a closure? nope. And callback? neither!


BB studio was founded in 2008. From its foundation the studio has accomplished more than fifteen various types of individual orders: five interior designs, projects of two multifunctional trade centers, nine projects of individual houses and projects of two hotel buildings.
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Now this one is really easy. I can think of only one "fighter anime" which I have ever seen.
As anyone who knows me is probably giving me one of those uncomprehending "looks" right now, as I tend to love everything in the action genre, allow me to explain how this is possible. In part, it's just luck of the draw. Purely by coincidence, I have not stumbled into any other fighter anime at a time when I've been able to watch them. On the other hand, there's a certain amount of choice involved. I've never gone looking for fighter anime. They've just never appealed to me enough to go find them, strange as that may seem.
There has been one exception, and I rather like this anime.
See, the focus of Kenichi isn't really the fighting. It's a useful tool, a vehicle for the story, but the story isn't about fighting. It's about what the fighting is about.
The question is simple: what is worth fighting for?
For the protagonist, Kenichi, he has typically been bullied at school, so he learns some martial arts, so he can stand up for himself and others.
Small detail: he manages to half-stumble into full-fledged discipleship at a dojo which houses half a dozen world-class masters of various martial arts. As their only student, he is the sole object of their absolutely merciless – nay, sadistic – attentions. Virtually every hour of every day is taken up with torturous exercises that increase his strength in leaps and bounds, with only the slight detriment of possibly killing him instead.
Kenichi stands before the masters of Ryozanpaku, and is justifiably nervous, as they are the most terrifying people he will ever meet, including his enemies.
And how does he manage to do this? Well, he sort of got a little too close to the dojo master's granddaughter, Miu Furinji, on his way to school and she, by reflex, punched him in the throat. Developing an instant crush on his adorable (if also lethal) classmate, he stopped by her home, the dojo. And if what happens next is not a metaphor for enduring Hell the moment you meet the girl of your dreams, I don't know what is.
Though, really, what boy wouldn't endure Hell for this girl?
From there, as Kenichi's strength grows, he shines like a light in the eyes of his opponents, many of whom eventually become his allies after he defeats them, a'la Goku. It's faster for some than others, and some of their allegiances are hilarious to behold. One involves the girls bonding through their love of cats. Another conversion just sort of happens when one of Kenichi's chief rivals is unwittingly befriended by Kenichi's little sister.
Moving from one foe to another, Kenichi finds himself working his way up to some pretty infamous names in the world of young martial artists. He meets each new foe with all the skill, cleverness, and determination he can muster, and he suffers some crushing defeats, but he always gets up again. From his perspective, defeating (and sometimes converting) his enemies is his way of standing against the biggest bullies on the proverbial block. Of course, there's also that little detail where he's defending his life. And for never once going on the offense against any individual or group, he steadily attracts the attention of more and more sinister shady organizations.
When you get down to it, this is really only a B-grade anime. The major premises are simplistic, the martial arts rather unrealistic (there is no way to punch someone seven times with one punch), and the coincidences between Kenichi's childhood and his present ordeals is a bit much to just swallow, but these flaws are easy to forgive. It's a hilarious, heartwarming, action-packed anime, with a plot that evolves in its intricacy, and memorable, lovable characters.
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"You may divorce your spouse, but you can never divorce your children. You will see your "Ex" at the kids' graduations and marriages. Keep the adults problems out of the children's lives, and try to make contacts pleasant."
"If your marriage is over, let go of it. Learn to be civil... this helps lessen the pain of the situation, and increases the opportunity to reach that win-win solution we seek."
"Don't sign ANYTHING without first consulting an attorney."
"I will be your champion in the court room, I will prepare your case and you for the contest so that you can approach your day in court with confidence.
Howard brings an Informed and Aggressive Approach to Family Law.
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Whether the issues revolve around divorce, child custody, adoption, emancipation of minors, legal guardianship, foster or elder care, your key to success is to find a seasoned attorney with diverse family law skills. Not only should that attorney have an in-depth knowledge of current trends in family law, but should be an excellent litigator who is compassionate, who understands and knows how to cope with the complex web of issues that often accompany what may seem, at first glance, to be a simple divorce or custody case. For example, most divorce cases involve issues of child visitation, child custody, division of financial and sentimental assets, or child support – even who gets the pets!
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Forbes Names ISG One of America's Best Consulting Firms for 2nd Year
Insight Sourcing Group named one of America's best consulting firms for the 2nd straight year
ATLANTA, Georgia — May 3, 2017 — For the second straight year, Forbes has named Insight Sourcing Group as one of America's best consulting firms in its annual ranking of the Best Management Consulting Firms for 2017.
Clients ranked Insight Sourcing Group high in several functional areas and industry sectors including:
Travel, Transport, & Logistics
Internet, Media, & Entertainment
To create this ranking, Forbes and Statista (one of the leading statistics companies) ran two waves of online surveys. First, it used information from trade organizations, consulting directories and other sources to build a list of more than 7,000 consulting-firm partners. It invited those partners to an online questionnaire, inquiring which industries they worked in and which consulting firms they held in high regard (excluding their own). A total of 1,207 partners completed the survey in November and December of 2016. The effort produced a long list of consultancies in 32 business categories, ranging from oil and gas to human resources.
Next, Statista used a market research firm to find and survey 1,100 business executives who had worked with the consultancies on the list. This "client survey" asked the executives which industries they worked in, and then prompted them to recommend the best consulting companies in those sectors. 1,100 executives filled out the survey this past January. Statista then identified the firms that received a disproportionately high number of recommendations in each category.
In each industry and functional area, consultancies were then sorted into starred categories according to the number of total recommendations received from colleagues and clients. Consultancies are alphabetized within each starred category. Those with very few recommendations were excluded from the list.
To view the complete list of America's Best Consulting Firms for 2017, click here.
About Insight Sourcing Group
Insight Sourcing Group is the largest boutique consulting firm in North America focused exclusively on Strategic Sourcing and procurement-related services. The firm has developed a reputation for the collegiality and high caliber of our team, our tremendous focus on client results, our entrepreneurial and innovative approach to the space, and for our ability to consistently deliver strong outcomes.
Founded in 2002, the firm works with senior executives and procurement leaders to accelerate Strategic Sourcing savings, increase Spend Visibility, provide category intelligence, and implement procurement best practices. Insight Sourcing Group has worked with hundreds of corporate clients of all sizes and over 50 Private Equity firms.
Typical client results include 20% average savings per indirect spend category, 5 – 15% for direct spend categories, 400 – 600% first-year return on investment, and project payback periods measured in months.
Inc. magazine has ranked Insight Sourcing Group among the fastest-growing private companies in America every year since 2008, making it one of the few firms to be listed 9 years in a row as of 2016. Insight Sourcing Group was also recently named the #1 Boutique Consulting Firm To Work For in the US in 2016 by Vault.
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Need to address safety in subways
webadmin on June 9, 2021
Workers are steadily returning to their offices in Manhattan and across the five boroughs, but a new poll shows that 60 percent of them still fear for their safety.
But they aren't worried about contracting COVID-19, they're worried about their physical safety as they return to the city's subway system.
Stations across the city were nearly deserted for the first few months of the pandemic last year except for the brave men and women working on the front lines, paving the way for an unsavory element to feel more comfortable taking over the system.
We have all heard the stories of random attacks, including people being assaulted or pushed onto the tracks or both, that have become far too common in the mass transit system. If the city is going to get back to work, people need to feel comfortable using the subways.
Would more cops patrolling the platforms and trains help? Mayor Bill de Blasio recently added 250 more cops to the 3,000 already safeguarding the subways, and it certainly can't hurt.
But in addition to the criminal element, there is a far bigger problem with the homeless and mentally ill living in the stations. More cops won't necessarily solve that issue.
Instead, the city and MTA need a social solution. They need people who are trained in dealing with the homeless and mentally ill to join the police in engaging these individuals and try to get them help.
Simply locking them up and then releasing them back on the street won't accomplish anything.
After a year of us all worrying about our health due to the pandemic, we need to feel safe in the subways as our lives slowly return to normal.
Cop roles
MTA Chairman Pat Foye has a clear conflict by saying that the role of hundreds of new police officers would not be deterring fare beaters.
Didn't he previously announce a crack down on fare beaters as a method to significantly reduce the loss of several hundred million in annual pre-COVID-19 revenue losses attributed to a growing number of riders who would not pay their fare?
And while Mayor Bill de Blasio and the MTA fought over the number of new police, it was interesting that no one asked Governor Andrew Cuomo to increase the number of state troopers assigned to the city.
They could used to patrol Penn Station, Grand Central Terminal, Atlantic Terminal and Jamaica Station. This would free up both city and MTA police officers to patrol many of the other subway stations and subway trains.
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For A Fistful Of Dollars: Using Crowd-Sourcing To Evaluate A Spoken Language CALL Application
Manny Rayner (1), Ian Frank (2), Cathy Chua (3), Nikos Tsourakis (1), Pierrette Bouillon (1)
(1) University of Geneva, ETI/TIM/ISSCO, Geneva, Switzerland
(2) Future University Hakodate, Japan
(3) Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies, and Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia
We present an evaluation of a Web-deployed spoken language CALL system, carried out using crowd-sourcing methods. The system, "Survival Japanese", is a crash course in tourist Japanese implemented within the platform CALL-SLT. The evaluation was carried out over one week using the Amazon Mechanical Turk. Although we found a high proportion of attempted scammers, there was a core of 23 subjects who used the system in a responsible manner. The evidence that these subjects learned from their 111 sessions and 9092 spoken interactions was significant at P =0.001. Our conclusion is that crowd-sourcing is a potentially valid method for evaluating spoken CALL systems.
Index Terms. CALL, crowd-sourcing, speech recognition, evaluation, Japanese
Bibliographic reference. Rayner, Manny / Frank, Ian / Chua, Cathy / Tsourakis, Nikos / Bouillon, Pierrette (2011): "For a fistful of dollars: using crowd-sourcing to evaluate a spoken language CALL application", In SLaTE-2011, 117-120.


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Wesley "Mother Scratchin'" Willis will rock you
Ritchie Young
Wesley Willis
Sunday 9:30 p.m.
Wesley Willis is rocking his way into the heart, and hearts, of Portland, Ore. at the Meow Meow this Sunday (Jan. 13, all ages). Wesley Willis will be performing his uncomfortably tone-deaf, intoxicatingly hilarious and oh-so blunt songs about the American cultural phenomenon he calls life.
His songs and style are nothing short of pure entertainment, and at times extremely insightful. I dare you to try to blink when you are watching this man perform.
Wesley has gone solo folks. His back-up band Fiasco has been replaced by his beloved Technics KN2000 keyboard which he programs with little deviation in tempo and melody. Basically, you get country setting number eight on every song, he changes only his bizarre singing style and lyrics. Don't let this deter you from seeing this amazingly interesting man live. The fact is, Wesley has received worldwide fame for his bizarre performances.
He has rubbed elbows with everyone from Steve Albini to the Beastie Boys' Mike D.
He has been the focus of no fewer than three documentary films. He has recorded over 30 albums, two of which are on major labels. In his over 10 years of writing and performing he has written well over 700 songs. His last three albums, entitled Wesley Willis' Greatest Hits I, Greatest Hits II and his latest, Rush Hour, were released by Jello Biafra's (ex-Dead Kennedys) San Francisco label Alternative Tentacles.
Willis's life has not always been one of success and underground praise.
As a life-long native of the windy city, Willis was born and raised into the often hopeless and deadly south side of Chicago. As a young boy, he and his nine siblings were abandoned by their father. Willis' mother was left with virtually nothing.
Willis lived on the streets selling his intensely detailed artwork until Oct. 21, 1989. On that fateful day, he began hearing voices in his head; Willis was diagnosed as a schizophrenic.
Willis has taken his illness and turned it into his creative driving force. He explains that writing, performing and recording help quiet the voices in his head. His lyrics are products of his inner voices.
"My mind plays tricks on me every time I try to say something," he said.
Willis is a prolific musician that sets no rules for himself – his songs range from bold social statements to the world of fantasy. If you take a look at the titles of some of his songs, one gets a feel for his persona: "I whooped Batman's ass," "Kris Kringle was a car thief," "They threw me out of church," and one of my personal favorites, "I'm sorry I got fat."
Willis' underground fame has not corrupted this 360-pound, 6-foot-4 man who formerly sold sketches on Chicago sidewalks. He is a sweetheart who loves his art and the people he shares it with. If your a lucky little fan, Willis will give you a head butt. The head butting is Wesley's way of telling you he appreciates his fans and that he likes you.
This giant teddy bear, who barely fits into his thrift-store-reject clothes, will rock your pants off. It is not going to be your typical show, because he's is not your typical man. So if you have grown tired of predictable rock shows or spendy hip-hop meat markets, then check this shit out man, you won't be disappointed!
I want to leave you all with a little quote by the man:
"I'm a big man. I'm a musician. I'm a rock 'n' roller. I am solo keyboard and I am a good rock singer. I sing just like a white boy. I sing just like a blues guitarist singing to a lot of people. Praise the Lord when I rock 'n' roll like a magic kiss. I get down just like a magic kiss. Each time when I run my mouth and never shut up, that's the way it is, and that's the way it's going to be."
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By Anthony Joseph
Over a five day stretch in February the Canadian Wildlife Federation along with world-record breath-holding free diver and ocean environmentalist William Winram toured across Ontario to discuss one of the most maligned and misunderstood animals in our ocean.
The "Wild About Sharks" education project aimed to bring marine and shark conservation to new depths of understanding to students and adults aS CWF partnered with school boards and colleges in Ottawa, Gatineau, Pembroke and the Greater Toronto Area.
Over the course of the tour Winram got to speak to a wide range of age groups including the youngest he's ever presented to. "It's always surprising what little kids ask; they're usually the ones that will ask you a question that stumps you," says Winram. It's this kind of outreach where you're going into schools and kids get into contact with individuals who are involved in conservation is important."
One of the things that he aims to dispel through these presentations is the notion that sharks are villains - psychopaths lurking in the deep ready to hunt us. "We don't seem to accept nature for nature, it has to have some grander meaning," says Winram. In fact, when it comes to sharks, humanity is doing the majority of the hunting. Every year we're responsible for the death of an estimated 75 to 100 million sharks, a statistic we'd like to change.
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These days, social media is firmly embedded in the day-to-day activities of many higher education (HE) professionals, both academic or administrative, as a way of improving practice and adding value. Whether they are using social media for teaching purposes, to strengthen relationships with students, help research reach a wider audience, or in a myriad of other ways, HE professionals are getting more confident and increasingly creative with their approach to online tools. One of the biggest benefits of social media is being able to reach a large number of people at any given time to engage with prospective students, current students, alumni, industry peers and the general community etc. Aligning all of these segments and affiliates of the educational institution allows it to increase visibility and effectively showcase courses, academics, research, awards, campus life, and news etc.
This workshop is designed to provide an overview of some of the opportunities and best practice for using social media to promote your research, courses, departments, schools and to connect and engage with others to influence reputation and ultimately recruitment and retention. There will also be space for people to share their own experiences of using social media.
"Developing Your Research Career" is a series of lunchtime seminars and workshops organised by the Birkbeck Institute for Social Research to enhance the research skills and contribute to the career development of social researchers at Birkbeck and beyond. We particularly welcome PhD students and early career researchers, both post-doctoral research fellows and lecturers. However, academics at all career stages who are interested are also encouraged to attend, both to learn themselves and to share their experiences and knowledge with colleagues and postgraduate students.


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After Rep. Justin Amash says Trump's conduct is impeachable, Fox contributor tells him to "leave the Republican Party immediately"
Dan Bongino: "I thought he was one of the more principled guys in Congress. It turns out he's the biggest phony up there right now."
Written by Media Matters Staff
Published 05/20/19 8:55 AM EDT
From the May 20 edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends:
BRIAN KILMEADE (CO-HOST): All right, so let's talk about [Rep.] Justin Amash. He's the libertarian slash Republican who decided that the president actually did obstruct justice. And he's the first Republican to break and give the hope for impeachment to Democrats everywhere. What's your response?
DAN BONGINO (FOX NEWS CONTRIBUTOR): Justin Amash should leave the Republican Party immediately, stat, ASAP. And listen, that gives me absolutely no joy in saying that. A matter of fact, it brings me misery. And I'll tell you why, I have been a vocal supporter of Congressman Amash for a very long time. I come from the libertarian wing of the party myself. I've been out there on radio hosting -- I may have said it on this station before. I thought he was one of the more principled guys in Congress. It turns out he's the biggest phony up there right now. Either he doesn't understand the case, the totality of the case at all, or he's doing something to get his name in the media, why? I don't know. Does he have bigger aspirations other than being a congressman? But there's absolutely nothing libertarian about claiming that an innocent man, President Trump, who did nothing wrong in this case should be impeached and thrown out of office for fictitious crimes that didn't happen. It's outrageous he would even claim that.
AINSLEY EARHARDT (CO-HOST): Why do you think he's doing this if he's a Republican?
BONGINO: You know, I don't know, maybe he has some bigger aspirations that he wants to run against the president. Maybe he wants to be a senator. Obviously it's some kind of media-grabbing kind of headline. I don't know. I can't figure it out.
BONGINO: What is Amash talking about? I mean, did he miss this entire case and just jump in at the end and send a random tweet on the weekend because he was bored? I mean, it's really pathetic.
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Laura Fantini is a hyper-realistic artist who specializes in colored pencil still life. Her artwork is defined by strong contrast values and highly theatrical compositions with dramatic lighting. She was born in Bologna, Italy and graduated from the Liceo Artistico and Academy of Fine Arts of her hometown. In 1985 Laura Fantini won the first place Award in the Premio Culturale Panta Rei, Bologna.
Her first group show took place in Modena, Italy in 1992. Since then Ms. Fantini's art has exhibited nationally and internationally and has been widely published and documented. After graduating, she worked on commercial illustrations and taught workshops on colored pencil technique at the University Primo Levi in Bologna. In 1998 one of her colored pencil artwork was featured in the M.E.I.N. newsletter, published in California and internationally distributed. In 2000 Laura Fantini was invited to participate to a charity auction at Kutztown University in Pennsylvania. In 2001 Ms. Fantini exhibited for the first time in the US in Soho, New York. In 2002 and 2003, she was selected for "Premio Arte" promoted by Arte, a Mondadori's publication, and was included into the group exhibition "Proposte" at the Galleria Forni in Bologna. In 2003 she also had her first solo exhibition. From 2005 through 2009 Laura Fantini donated some of her paintings to the Fall Auction/Party to benefit the New York based non-profit organization Big Apple Greeter.
Since 2004 Ms. Fantini has started collaborating with the Object Image Gallery in Brooklyn, New York. In 2008 she was selected by "Profilo d'Arte" - Banca Profilo among the most interesting emerging Italian artists and exhibited at the Museo della Permanente in Milan. Laura Fantini continues exhibiting in Italy and New York. She was awarded 1st Prize for the "First Annual Sylvia Glesmann Floral Exhibition" and 1st Prize "Jane Peterson Memorial Award" at the Salmagundi Club in New York and received an Honorable Mention at Gallery 364 in Brooklyn in 2010. Ms. Fantini is a member of the Salmagundi Club in New York and the Colored Pencil Society of America.
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In 49 of the United States the legal age to marry without parental permission is In Nebraska, the legal age is
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Examples of different state's statutory ages of consent: California – The age of consent in California is It is illegal for anyone to engage in sexual intercourse with a minor someone under the age of 18 , unless they are that person's spouse. California employs a tiered system where the greater the difference in age, the greater the penalty.
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Marriageable age (or marriage age) is the minimum age at which a person is allowed by law to marry, either as a right or subject to parental, judicial or other forms of and other prerequisites to marriage vary between jurisdictions, but marriage age is often set at 6. Until recently, the marriageable age for women was lower in many jurisdictions than for men, but in many places.
Age of Consent Laws [Table] Annotation Information on the ages used historically in western age of consent laws is not readily available. This table has been compiled from a combination of historical and contemporary sources. By , the first date chosen, many western nations had established an age of consent for the first time, typically of 12 or 13 years.
By , when the influence of reform campaigns that established a new link between the age of consent and prostitution had run its course, most had revised their age upward, to 14 or 15 in European nations, and 16 in the Anglo-American world. In the last decades of the 20th century, states and nations with ages below those averages amended their laws to move closer to them. In Europe that growing conformity owed much to moves toward greater European integration.
Given that the rationale for the age of consent has remained essentially unchanged in its emphasis on the need to protect 'immature' children, the table highlights the shifting and various definitions of childhood employed across time and cultures. Source Date compiled from the following sources: The Homosexuality of Men and Women. Translated by Michael Lombardi-Nash. Prometheus Books, ; Killias, Martin.
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But sadly, car crashes are the number one cause of death for young people. Many scientists argue that year-olds just aren't mature enough to drive. Their brains aren't yet fully developed and they're more likely to take risks, become distracted, and make mistakes. As a way to help teens slowly gain driving responsibilities one step at a time, states adopted graduated license programs.
Sixteen is the age of consent in Nebraska, and adults who engage in sexual activity with children under that age may face criminal charges for statutory rape (also called sexual assault in Nebraska).. Nebraska has different degrees of sexual assault, based on the age of the child and the defendant.
Between July 30 and August 3, , members of the expedition, including Meriwether Lewis and William Clark , met with Oto and Missouria tribal leaders at the Council Bluff at a point about 20 miles 32 kilometers north of present-day Omaha. The Mormons built a town called Cutler's Park in the area in The treaty and cession involving the Omaha area occurred in when the Omaha Tribe ceded most of east-central Nebraska.
It was issued as scrip in to help fund the erection of the Territorial capitol building. Brown is generally credited as having the first vision for a city where Omaha now sits. Supreme Court later ruled against numerous landowners whose violent actions were condemned in Baker v. The city's pioneering history is celebrated at two sculpture parks, Pioneer Courage and Spirit of Nebraska's Wilderness and The Transcontinental Railroad.
The economy of Omaha boomed and busted through its early years.
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University years are full of classes, which translates into tons of homework. Paper after paper, the pile starts growing. How great would it be if you could do it all in a blink of an eye?
Knowing what to cook every night is always a challenge. Your food storage is always empty and you grow tired of always eating pasta and canned food. You start craving your mum's lasagna, and even that soup you don't like that much seems appealing. But what if you could make food simply appear?
Decisions are hard to make and there are so many of them to do. There are places to go, activities to do, and classes to attend. We constantly wish we could just snap our fingers and quickly land wherever we want to be. It would definitely beat having to catch the bus every day and have it miserably close right in our face.
Every morning students face a tough decision: sleep 30 more minutes and wear sweatpants for the day or do the daily beauty routine. Most times the first option wins and you end up with a hobo, I'm-too-lazy-to-care sort of look. What if you could look good and sleep in?
It's safe to say that no one likes cleaning. The mess becomes part of every student's life. We only consider doing laundry when "the chair" is close to hitting the ceiling and you're seriously thinking about wearing your sheets as a piece of garment.
Parties are a big part of university life, which means hangovers are too. We get it; the beer is cheap, the music is good, but the day after is not. So imagine if you never had to go through the bad part ever again.
Teachers are strange creatures with mood swings. Pleasing them is almost impossible. When you think you got it, you really didn't. This would no longer be a problem if you could just know what's on their mind.
Like modern vampires, students barely sleep. Between classes and deadlines, the recommended 8 hours of sleep become a rare event, almost like a solar eclipse. Imagine if you never had to sleep and never got tired.
Sometimes 24 hours isn't enough. The years you spend at university are the best years of your life, but the problem is they go by so fast. All we want is to stop the clock and live the student life a little longer.
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package fi.jumi.core.drivers;

import fi.jumi.api.drivers.*;
import fi.jumi.core.util.Boilerplate;

import javax.annotation.concurrent.ThreadSafe;
import java.util.concurrent.Executor;

@ThreadSafe
public class DriverRunner implements Runnable {

    private final Class<?> testClass;
    private final Driver driver;
    private final SuiteNotifier suiteNotifier;
    private final Executor executor;

    public DriverRunner(Driver driver, Class<?> testClass, SuiteNotifier suiteNotifier, Executor executor) {
        this.testClass = testClass;
        this.driver = driver;
        this.suiteNotifier = suiteNotifier;
        this.executor = executor;
    }

    @Override
    public void run() {
        driver.findTests(testClass, suiteNotifier, executor);
    }

    @Override
    public String toString() {
        return Boilerplate.toString(getClass(), driver, testClass);
    }
}

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I had absolutely no idea at first that Fatal Evidence appeared in the Guardian's Best summer books, as picked by writers. I noticed I had a new follower on Twitter, had quick glance on their timeline and saw my name plus a link to the Guardian. Thinking I was either 1. dreaming or 2. misreading something crucial, I followed the link and discovered I wasn't imagining it after all – there's Jess Kidd, author of Himself and The Hoarder, recommending my book!
At the risk of this turning into a nauseating #humblebrag, this was such a surprise, and it was a real treat to see Fatal Evidence in a national newspaper. Writing for an independent publisher, national newspapers seem like an impenetrable citadel. And it's really lovely that another writer appreciated my work.
So thank you, Jess, and thank you, the Guardian.
And bravo all the other authors who got a mention too! My to read pile is now tottering in dangerous fashion.


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If I open a supervision session form on my (trainee) portfolio, I am unable to edit it (even though an edit form button is available).
The supervisor is the only one with permission to edit the form. This delays supervision sessions, and does not let me type up a summary of the supervision session afterwards.
I together with my supervisor Dr Nadeem think that a better system would be to allow the trainee to edit and type in the supervision session - and save it. Then the supervisor can check it and send it through on his portfolio.
The supervision session form in the Reviews section is designed to allow your supervisor to record evidence of supervision.
If, as the trainee, you wish to record notes on the supervision session you can do this by creating a new activity and typing "Supervision"
This will create an activity using the "Supervision" template that you can edit directly.
This approach allows for both the supervisor and/or the trainee to record the sessions as they see fit.
Hopefully this addresses the issue?
Thanks. I have used the system you suggested in the past. It does not allow me to print a record of separate supervision sessions and is not visible in the ARCP printout (although this has not affected my previous ARCP).
I still think it would be useful to have the trainee able to edit the supervision form directly - then allow the supervisor to finalize it.
Also sorry for the double posting!
I can see why that make make it more convenient, however I think the current setup is intended to gather supervisor feedback directly to encourage engagement, whilst also providing a means for trainees to also record things. I'll discuss this with the project team at the college, and hopefully come back to you with something more definitive.