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Oil and gas companies' sky-high net earnings renew calls for windfall tax
By Natasha Bulowski | News, Politics, Ottawa Insider | August 11th 2022
Second-quarter financial results reveal Canada's big oil companies have been making nearly three times more than the same quarter last year and environmentalists are calling for a windfall tax. Photo by KMR Photography / Flickr (CC BY 2.0)
Sky-high net earnings for Canada's four biggest oil companies have renewed calls for a windfall tax that Ottawa shows no sign of adopting.
"The gas lobby is clearly very powerful and holds a lot of sway in Canada," Environmental Defence's programs director Keith Brooks told Canada's National Observer, adding the industry is impeding effective climate action and creating deep inequality among Canadians.
Cenovus, Suncor, Imperial Oil and CNRL — the country's four largest oil companies — raked in more than $12 billion in net earnings last quarter, nearly three times more than the same quarter in 2021.
"This is record high inflation … a lot of it driven by high energy prices, and we clearly now see who is benefiting from this," said Brooks, referring to the second-quarter profits.
Canada's four largest oil companies (Cenovus, Suncor, Imperial Oil and CNRL) reported more than $12 billion in combined net earnings last quarter, nearly three times more than the same quarter in 2021. Infographic by Natasha Bulowski
"Government should strongly consider whether it wants to weigh in on this and help redistribute those benefits to people who need them the most," said Brooks.
When asked about the possibility of a windfall tax on oil and gas profits, Finance Canada responded with a statement outlining previously announced measures like a luxury tax on vehicles, the Canada Recovery Dividend and a corporate income tax increase.
Cenovus, Suncor, CNRL and Imperial Oil are members of the oil and gas industry group Pathways Alliance, which aims for the oilsands to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 22 megatonnes by 2030. This pledge pales in comparison to the oil and gas sector target set by Ottawa, which wants emissions to drop 80 megatonnes compared to 2019 levels.
Despite recording impressive earnings, Pathways Alliance says it cannot meet the federal government's goal, which "unfairly targets the Canadian oil and gas sector," group president Kendall Dilling told Canada's National Observer in an emailed statement.
Dilling also cites concerns the federal climate plan could "discourage investment in Canada and could result in increased production and greenhouse gas emissions from other countries."
Fossil fuels are the main driver of climate change, and Pathways Alliance members represent 95 per cent of Canada's oilsands production. The oil and gas sector is responsible for 26 per cent of Canada's emissions, the fastest-growing source in the country.
For a long time, companies have said they can reduce emissions from producing oil without cutting back on how much oil they produce. They tout the idea of net-zero oil — which is impossible when you count the greenhouse gas emissions that come once the oil is burned.
Last month, federal Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault told CBC there's a "possibility" the industry could be given more time to reduce emissions.
Even after the federal government handed the industry a $2.6-billion investment tax credit for contentious carbon capture utilization and storage technology, "oil companies turned around and said, 'That's not enough,'" Brooks said.
"So, can they not reduce emissions, or is it that it's too expensive, or which one of these things isn't true?" Brooks asked. "Because they certainly have the money now. If they wanted to invest in emissions reduction, this is a great opportunity to do that. But we don't see any evidence that that is, in fact, their plan."
If the oil and gas industry wanted to act, companies could save their profits to invest in emission reduction technologies or address their liabilities — like orphan wells, said Brooks. Instead, he explained, companies pour earnings into share buybacks and shareholder bonuses rather than addressing their environmental responsibilities.
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import time
import hashlib
import os

def decode_privkey(priv):
    result = 0
    string = priv
    while len(string) > 0:
        result *= int(16)
        code_strings =  '0123456789abcdef'
        result += code_strings.find(string[0])
        string = string[1:]
    return result

def random_key():
    entropy = str(os.urandom(32))+ str(random.randrange(2**256)) + str(int(time.time() * 1000000))
    binary_data = entropy if isinstance(entropy, bytes) else bytes(entropy, 'utf-8')
    bin_sha256 = hashlib.sha256(binary_data).digest()
    if isinstance(bin_sha256, str):
        return bin_sha256
    return ''.join('{:02x}'.format(y) for y in bin_sha256)

N = 115792089237316195423570985008687907852837564279074904382605163141518161494337

valid_private_key = False

while not valid_private_key:
    private_key = random_key()
    decoded_private_key = decode_privkey(private_key)
    valid_private_key = 0 < decoded_private_key < N
print(private_key)
print(decoded_private_key)

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Five Upscale Hotels for the Select Traveler to Rome
Sean Hillen· 04/11/2018
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Aptly named the Eternal City in honor of its ancient heritage, Rome never ceases to enchant. To help make your stay even more memorable, here is our choice of character-filled luxury properties to pamper mind and body on your next visit.
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Hotel de Russie (www.roccofortehotels.com/hotels-and-resorts/hotel-de-russie/) | Nudging Piazza del Popolo and a leisurely 10-minute stroll from the Spanish Steps, this historic 5-star property's previous lives included a noble mansion and the nerve center of Italy's television and radio operations.
Following comprehensive interior refurbishment by architect Tommaso Ziffer and Rocco Forte Collection designer, Olga Polizzi, Sir Rocco Forte's sister, it is now part of the Rocco Forte Collection of 13 hotels and resorts. Hotel de Russie now comprises 121 rooms including 33 suites of which four are signature, with a new one to be opened later this year. The refurbished restaurant 'Le Jardin de Russie' serves breakfast, lunch and dinner and opens through French doors into an outstanding interior garden, a vertical visual treat of palm and yew trees, orange groves and rose bushes rising high up a slope to the Pincian Hill and extensive Villa Borghese gardens behind it. Furnishings are a mix of classic and modern, marble and bronze busts, mirrors with seashell ornamentation and century-old paintings. Leisure facilities at Hotel de Russie include a spa with six treatment rooms and a fully-equipped gym.
Rome Cavalieri Waldorf Astoria (Rome Cavalieri Waldorf Astoria) | A sumptuous, marble-floored lobby embraces many of the exquisite items from this hotel's impressive collection of around 1,000 artistic artifacts, making it seem like an alternative Villa Borghese.
Among the 17th and 18th century paintings are a triptych by Giambattista Tiepolo, as well as works by Abraham Brueghel and Giuseppe Bazzani; giant wall Beauvais tapestries from 1725 featuring historic Chinese themes; ornate sculptures; statues holding glittering candelabra aloft; and antique timepieces such as a gorgeous gold-leaf and lacquered wooden grandfather clock.
The 370-room and suite Rome Cavalieri, a member of the 30-strong Waldorf Astoria Hotels & Resorts group, is located atop the hill of Monte Mario off Via Francigena, a former pilgrim's route from Canterbury in England. Set in a 15-acre private park, five kilometers from downtown Rome, it hosts two restaurants: L'Uliveto, where breakfast and dinner are served, with views to an outdoor swimming pool; and roof-top terrace, La Pergola, under the direction of chef Heinz Beck, which places the hotel in the unique position of being the only one in Italy to boast a Michelin-rated three-star restaurant.
Guests staying in suites here enjoy access to the Imperial Club, offering VIP check-in, complimentary breakfast, afternoon tea and all-day drinks.
Parco dei Principi Grand Hotel & Spa (Parco dei Principi Grand Hotel & Spa) | Elegant Baroque-style interiors, impressive artwork, antique furnishings, fabric brocades, gilded stuccowork, marble floors and luxurious fabrics welcome guests at Parco dei Principi Grand Hotel & Spa.
You can indulge in the Royal suite, the largest hotel suite in Rome, offering 4,000 square feet of space, complete with Jacuzzi, steam room and a private gym, first constructed for American actor-director Woody Allen when he was filming 'To Rome With Love.'
Located in the quiet, upmarket neighborhood of Parioli inhabited by impressive 17th and 18th century mansions, many of them transformed into embassies, this hotel comprises 179 rooms and suites, many overlooking the verdant gardens of the Villa Borghese. Its 20,000 square feet 'Prince Spa' is a three-level complex of Turkish baths, Jacuzzi, 25-meter indoor pool and treatment and workout rooms, making it Rome's second-largest spa and gym.
'Pauline Borghese Gourmet Restaurant,' named after the sister of Napoleon Bonaparte is designed as an 18th century salon with a bright ambience in uplifting colors of yellow and gold and offers traditional and modern Italian menu delights.
Grand Hotel Via Veneto | With Villa Borghese as a backdrop, this 5-star, 116-room property offers some of the ambience once enjoyed by celebrities of the 1950s such as Audrey Hepburn, Gary Cooper, Liz Taylor, Orson Welles and Ava Gardner.
Opened about ten years ago, renovation of the hotel meant combining two 19th century buildings. Decor here is Italian '30s art deco glamorous, reminiscent of Frederico Fellini's classic movie 'La Dolce Vita,' with heavily lacquered mahogany woods in shades of brown, some with black borders, and complex grains vividly highlighted.
'Time Restaurant Wine Bar' serves Italian specialties and 'Magnolia' restaurant under the guidance of Michelin-star chef Franco Madama entices with more refined options. Leisure facilities are also rewarding at Grand Hotel Via Veneto, the highlight being its impressive, 500 sqm Aqva Spa, composed of glittering polychromous marble. One of the largest spas in the historic city center, it comprises treatment rooms, a sauna, Jacuzzi, hammam and an invigorating salted-water Vitality Pool.
Palazzo Manfredi | Few hotels in Rome are so steeped in ancient history as this boutique property overlooking the world's most famous arena, the Colosseum, as well as Ludus Magnus, a former gladiator training school.
The hotel site is actually linked by a secret underground passage through which gladiators once entered the Colosseum, ready to do battle. Remains of the ancient site can be viewed in the hotel's basement.
A member of Relais & Chateaux, the hotel began life in the early 17th century and after major renovations taking place in 2009 is now part of the Manfredi Fine Hotel Collection, a group owned by Counts Goffredo and Leonardo Manfredi.
The 36-room hotel's pride and joy is its rooftop 'Aroma' restaurant which received its first Michelin star in November 2014 under chef Giuseppe Di Iorio and grants up-close views over the Colosseum from behind floor-to-ceiling windows. No better place to enjoy a leisurely dinner or sip a cocktail or two and philosophize about life.
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Sean Hillen has been an international journalist and editor for almost 40 years and is also a published author. He is the owner of luxury travel blog World Itineraries (httpss://worlditineraries.co/) His latest book is a high-end contemporary fiction novel, Pretty Ugly - a thrilling, intriguing ride through the murky undercurrent of corporate and political machinations bridging the complex worlds of medicine, media and modeling. https://www.seanhillenauthor.com/ His experience spans several continents - in Ireland, for the national daily, The Irish Times in England, as foreign correspondent for The Times and Daily Telegraph. In the US, Sean worked at the United Nations Media Center in New York, Scripps Howard Broadcasting and regional newspaper, The Kansas City Times. His writing has also appeared in publications such as Time magazine and The Wall Street Journal and he is also a creative writing tutor with Ireland Writing Retreat (httpss://www.irelandwritingretreat.com/) where he teaches a workshop entitled 'IQ for Creative Writers.'
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A: var whitespace      = [
    {s : '\u0009', t : 'HORIZONTAL TAB'},
    {s : '\u000A', t : 'LINE FEED OR NEW LINE'},
    {s : '\u000B', t : 'VERTICAL TAB'},
    {s : '\u000C', t : 'FORMFEED'},
    {s : '\u000D', t : 'CARRIAGE RETURN'},
    {s : '\u0020', t : 'SPACE'},
    {s : '\u00A0', t : 'NO-BREAK SPACE'},
    {s : '\u2000', t : 'EN QUAD'},
    {s : '\u2001', t : 'EM QUAD'},
    {s : '\u2002', t : 'EN SPACE'},
    {s : '\u2003', t : 'EM SPACE'},
    {s : '\u2004', t : 'THREE-PER-EM SPACE'},
    {s : '\u2005', t : 'FOUR-PER-EM SPACE'},
    {s : '\u2006', t : 'SIX-PER-EM SPACE'},
    {s : '\u2007', t : 'FIGURE SPACE'},
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    {s : '\u2009', t : 'THIN SPACE'},
    {s : '\u200A', t : 'HAIR SPACE'},
    {s : '\u3000', t : 'IDEOGRAPHIC SPACE'},
    {s : '\u2028', t : 'LINE SEPARATOR'},
    {s : '\u2029', t : 'PARAGRAPH SEPARATOR'},
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Google scientists are brewing technology that could one day help you to "enhance!" photos with sharper results than current software on the market. Called RAISR, the system uses machine learning for intelligent upscaling.
RAISR stands for "Rapid and Accurate Image Super-Resolution," and it's a new technique researchers have created for creating high-quality versions of low-resolution photos.
Traditional upsampling techniques "blow up" photos by filling in new pixel areas with data from existing pixel values nearby. These methods are fast, but they aren't the best at bringing out details in the enlarged images.
A low-res image (left) upsampled with the simple bicubic method (right), resulting in a low-quality image without sharp details.
RAISR is different in that it's a system that has been trained on thousands of pairs of low- and high-quality images, so it knows how low-res photo details can be recreated. Using the "filters" learned from training, RAISR chooses the best way to enhance each "pixel neighborhood" in the low-res photo in order to create more resolution.
In other words, RAISR is using what it has learned from other photos to make an educated guess about what the high-res version should look like in each missing pixel area.
"When these filters are applied to the lower quality image, they recreate details that are of comparable quality to the original high resolution, and offer a significant improvement to linear, bicubic, or Lanczos interpolation methods," Google says.
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Many people assume routing symmetry in traffic on Internet links, that is, they assume that they see both directions of a conversation flow across the same physical link. Below we describe data collected on three different types of Internet infrastructure that we believe sheds some light on this myth. According to our best available data, traffic symmetry typically does not hold for network locations beyond intranet and access links. We also propose a normalized measure of traffic symmetry which excludes traffic that is asymmetric by definition, such as UDP, ICMP and TCP background radiation.
The paper Estimating Routing Symmetry on Single Links by Passive Flow Measurements will be presented at the 1st International Workshop on TRaffic Analysis and Classification (TRAC) - (link no longer available) colocated with the 6th International Wireless Communications & Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC 2010) in June 2010.
Many share a naive assumption about the Internet that traffic on a given link is approximately symmetric, meaning that both directions of a conversation flow across the same physical link. Many developers even embed this assumption in their traffic classification tools [1, 2]. In fact, except at network edges, Internet traffic is often routed asymmetrically , which will impair or invalidate the results of tools and models that assume otherwise.
An important cause of this asymmetry is "hot-potato routing" , the business practice of configuring traffic crossing one's network to exit as soon as possible, minimizing resource consumption, and thus cost, of one's own infrastructure. Particularly common in commercial settlement-free peering agreements, hot-potato routing implies that the network on the receiving side of a packet will bear higher cost per received packet. The underlying assumption is that if both networks in a settlement-free peering agreement follow this practice, it will even out, and both sides will share evenly in carrying traffic exchanged by their customers.
Another cause of asymmetric traffic is link redundancy, or alternative paths within networks. Since routing decisions occur independently for each packet, load-balancing algorithms may cause packets destined to the same endpoint to follow different paths. Other traffic engineering techniques, e.g., policy-based SPF (Shortest Path First), may also induce asymmetry in internal routing state of large provider networks.
To quantify traffic symmetry on some real Internet data, we consider traffic samples collected from different types of Internet links: a link inside a Tier2 network, the link between a Tier2 and a Tier1 network, and two Tier1 ISP backbone links. The first two are OC192 links in Swedish networks: GigaSUNET, operative until 2006, and OptoSUNET's connection to NORDUnet. The last two are OC192 backbone links from a single Tier1 ISP in the U.S. Table 1 and Figures 1a-1c list characteristics of each trace; we provide more details in the Data section.
For a given time interval, we say that the five-tuple defining a flow (source and destination IP, port numbers and protocol) generates symmetric traffic on the link if we observe packets in both directions of the IP address/port pair via the specific transport protocol. We quantify the fraction of symmetric traffic according to three different granularities: five-tuple (or "flow"), packets, and bytes. For example, the packet-level symmetry is the fraction of packets sent by tuples exchanging bidirectional traffic.
Figure 1a. Dataset composition: percentage of TCP/UDP/ICMP flows.
Figure 1b. Dataset composition: percentage of TCP/UDP/ICMP packets.
Figure 1c. Dataset composition: percentage of TCP/UDP/ICMP bytes.
We split each traffic trace into one-minute chunks, then collate a list of unique five-tuple observed in each direction. For each tuple, we track packets and bytes exchanged across the link. Using a short window leads to border effects, where long-lasting flows may cross many intervals, or short symmetric flows seem asymmetric if packet exchange occurs at the edge of a window. To evaluate the impact of such border effects, we repeated the analysis with observation windows of five and ten minutes. However, larger windows increase the probability of observing multiple flows with an identical tuple within one interval, although such overlap only occurred twice within 10 minutes in our data sets.
Figures 2a-2c plot the percentage of symmetric IP traffic for each trace, in terms of tuples (left), packets (center) and bytes (right) exchanged on the link. Table 2 reports the values of that symmetry (average percentage and standard deviation). On the GigaSUNET link, inside a Tier2 network, most traffic (around 55% of packets and 74% of bytes) is routed symmetrically. Asymmetric traffic is caused by hot-potato routing, due to peering with a regional access point. Another reason for asymmetry is the ring architecture, which does not guarantee that traffic always transits via the shortest path (which may include the tapped link). On the OptoSUNET link, which connects a Tier2 to a Tier1 network, only about 7% of tuples generate symmetric traffic. On this link asymmetry can be explained by an alternative (redundant) route (40Gbit/s) between SUNET and NorduNet. Some SUNET customers are also connected to regional exchange points, so hot-potato routing is also a likely cause. The tuples that generate symmetric traffic are responsible for the 26% of packets and 33% of bytes on the link. On the two Tier1 backbone links, hot-potato routing with high aggregation leads to high asymmetry on the link: only around 2% of tuples generate traffic routed symmetrically, which represents the 8-10% of packets and 9-10% of bytes on the observed links.
Table 2. Average percentage and standard deviation of five-tuples that generate symmetric IP traffic per given interval (1, 5 and 10 min) for the traces in the dataset.
Figures 2a, 2b and 2c. Average percentage of five-tuples that generate symmetric IP traffic per given interval (1, 5 and 10 min) for the traces in the dataset.
A more refined definition of asymmetry would filter out traffic that is inherently asymmetric, such as UDP and ICMP protocols which do not always require packet recipients to reply. Another cause of traffic asymmetry overestimation is background radiation, such as network scanning and probing, which can be a substantial fraction of total flows on some links . Would-be attackers typically execute scans using short uni-directional one-packet flows, asymmetric by definition, trying to identify vulnerable active hosts on a network. If the specific scanned endpoint does not exist, typically no response is sent, depending on host and firewall configurations. To evaluate the impact of such activity on our traffic symmetry estimates, we repeated our analysis considering TCP traffic only, and then further limited the analysis to TCP data traffic. We filtered out ICMP traffic, which includes some scanning activity, together with UDP traffic (Figures 1a-1c shows traffic percentages by protocols we filtered). For the second pass, we also discarded TCP sessions for which we did not observe a successful three-way handshake, which filters out SYN flood attacks and other unsuccessful connection attempts. This filtering was done by only considering TCP packets with ACK bit set and without SYN/FIN/RST flags set and removed around the 20-30% of TCP flows, 2-10% of TCP packets and less than 1% of TCP bytes from the traffic traces. These numbers provide a reasonable estimate for the amount of TCP background radiation on the links measured (see Table 3 for more details).
Table 3. Percentage of TCP traffic removed by the TCP data filter: estimate of TCP background radiation.
Figures 3 and 4 plot the percentage of symmetric traffic for each trace when considering only TCP and TCP data traffic. Table 4 and 5 reports the values of that symmetry (average percentage and standard deviation). Unsurprisingly, the fraction of tuples which generate symmetric traffic is greater than when considering all IP traffic, although the packet and byte values barely change, consistent with the fact that we primarily filtered out signaling traffic without significant payload.
Table 4. Average percentage and standard deviation of tuples that generate symmetric TCP traffic per given interval (1, 5 and 10 min) for the traces in the dataset.
Figures 3a, 3b and 3c. Average percentage of five-tuples that generate symmetric TCP traffic per given interval (1, 5 and 10 min) for the traces in the dataset.
Table 5. Average percentage and standard deviation of tuples that generate symmetric TCP data traffic per given interval (1, 5 and 10 min) for the traces in the dataset.
Figures 4a, 4b and 4c. Average percentage of five-tuples that generate symmetric TCP data traffic per given interval (1, 5 and 10 min) for the traces in the dataset.
We have provided some insight into asymmetric routing on a variety of links where we could obtain traffic samples: inside a Tier2 network, between a Tier2 and a Tier1 network, and on two Tier1 backbone links. As we move from the network edge to core Internet backbone links which heavily aggregate flows, traffic asymmetry due to hot-potato routing increases, reducing the likelihood of being able to observe and study complete, bidirectional flows on a single link. Our quantitative metrics of symmetry use the notion of flow tuples, defined as (src IP, dst IP, transport protocol, src port, dest port), which are unlikely to overlap especially for short observation windows. Longer observation windows do not significantly change the value of the symmetry metrics, as shown in Tables 2 and 4-5. Across time and space, traffic asymmetry is actually a stable equilibrium for many links on the modern Internet. Unless intended only for stub access links with no path diversity, traffic analysis tools and methods must thus assume little traffic symmetry.
We also showed that inherently asymmetric traffic, such as UDP, ICMP and TCP background radiation, affects symmetry assessments when defined in terms of tuples. Filtering out such traffic increases the fraction of symmetric tuples, although has little effect on packet and byte symmetry factors. Such a normalized symmetry metric allows fair comparison of symmetry across different links with substantially different traffic decomposition. It is appropriate to judge symmetry considering only TCP data traffic, since TCP is not only an inherently symmetric protocol but also the dominant transport protocol on most modern Internet links (see Figures 1a-1c and [6 - (link not available), 7 - (link not available)]), although this may be changing .
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The data from GigaSUNET was collected on the outside point of an SDH ring running Packet over SONET (PoS), which is the primarily link from the region of Gothenburg to the main Internet outside Sweden. Connected sites include two major universities, a large student residential network, several smaller University Colleges and research institutes, and a regional access point exchanging traffic with commercial, local ISPs. The GigaSUNET dataset analyzed includes two traces of 20 minutes, collected on April 13 and 17 2006 at different times of day. The traces consist of 370 million IP packets, carrying 250 GBytes of data in 3.8 million flows.
The former ring architecture has been upgraded to OptoSUNET, a star structure over leased fibre. SUNET customers (all Swedish Universities, many student networks and research institutes) are redundantly connected to a central Internet access point in Stockholm. Besides some local exchange traffic, the traffic routed to international commodity Internet is carried on two links (40Gbits/s and 10Gbit/s) between SUNET and NORDUnet (the connection Network for the Nordic NRENs, peering with Tier1 networks). The data set, collected on the 10Gbit/s PoS link, includes four traces of 10 minutes, collected between January 5 and 11 2009 at different times of day. In total, the OptoSUNET traces consisted of 884 Million IP packets, carrying 521 GBytes of data in 36 Million flows.
The two OC192 backbone links are operated by a commercial ISP in the United States. The first link connects Chicago and Seattle, monitored at an Equinix datacenter in Chicago. The dataset analyzed includes 3 hours of traffic from April to June 2008: April 30 (5-6pm), May 15 (1-2pm), June 19 (1-2pm). In total, the traces consists of 9950 Million IP packets, carrying 7699 GByte of data in 426 Million flows. The other link connects San Jose and Los Angeles, monitored at an Equinix datacenter in San Jose. The dataset analyzed includes 1 hour of traffic (1-2pm) on July 17 2008, with 2450 Million IP packets carrying 1354 GByte of data in 145 Million flows.


The ecclesiastical settlement at Glendalough, Co. Wicklow was one of Ireland's most important centres of pilgrimage from the early medieval period to the 19th century. I have visited this site on many occasions and each time I see something that I havent noticed before.
This visit luckily coincided with the School of Archaeology UCD, research excavation at the upper lake. This excavation is part of a research and teaching project focusing on the Glendalough Valley which has been on going since 2009. This year their team of archaeologists and students are doing a geophysical survey at an area called the pattern bank close to the round tower at the lower lake and they are excavating a number of trenches at the upper lake. One of the trenches contains a possible medieval leacht. The leacht was part of the post medieval pilgrim landscape and excavation will prove if it was also part of the medieval pilgrim landscape.
I cant wait to follow the progress and see what the dig uncovers.


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Harold Frederick Shipman (14 de enero de 1946 - 13 de enero de 2004) fue un médico británico, acusado de matar y asesinar a más de 200 de sus pacientes, corroborado solamente en 15 de ellos en primera instancia y más tarde elevado a 218. Es conocido por ser uno de los peores asesinos en serie de la historia.

En el año 2000, Shipman fue condenado a 1000 años de prisión con cadenas perpetuas consecutivas por los asesinatos de 15 de sus pacientes.

Después del juicio, la policía siguió investigando los archivos del doctor Shipman o como lo apodaron posteriormente, el Doctor Muerte, ya que se estimaba que Shipman podría haber llegado a matar a más de 215 pacientes y ser autor de más de 1500 homicidios, de los cuales el 80% de ellos tenían como víctimas a mujeres. También las edades de las víctimas suponían un enigma para la policía, ya que la persona más joven que Shipman había matado de entre los 15 casos corroborados, era Peter Lewis de 41 años de edad. Finalmente, se cerró la investigación con el número oficial de 218 asesinatos altamente probables.

Muchas de las legislaciones británicas sobre medicina y cuidado médico fueron modificadas notablemente como resultado directo e indirecto de los crímenes de Shipman. Es el único médico británico que ha sido declarado culpable de asesinar a sus pacientes, aunque otros médicos han sido absueltos de crímenes similares o condenados por cargos menores.

Shipman murió el 13 de enero de 2004, un día antes de su 58 cumpleaños, ahorcándose en su celda en la prisión de Wakefield.

Adolescencia y juventud
Harold Frederick Shipman nació en el Condado de Bestwood en Nottingham, Inglaterra. Era el segundo de los cuatro hijos de Harold Frederick Shipman (12 de mayo de 1914 - 5 de enero de 1985), un conductor de camiones y Vera Brittan (23 de diciembre de 1919 - 21 de junio de 1963)

Sus padres de clase obrera eran metodistas devotos. Al crecer, Shipman demostró ser un excelente jugador de rugby en las ligas juveniles. Se destacó como corredor y en su último año en la escuela, sirvió como vice-capitán del equipo de atletismo. Shipman estaba particularmente unido a su madre, que murió de cáncer de pulmón cuando tenía diecisiete años. De hecho la muerte de su madre devino de una manera muy similar a lo que más tarde se convirtió en su propio modus operandi: en la última etapa de su enfermedad, ella recibía la morfina administrada en casa por un médico.

El 5 de noviembre de 1966, Shipman se casó con Primrose May Oxtoby. Tuvieron cuatro hijos.

Shipman estudió medicina en la Escuela de Medicina de Leeds y se graduó en 1970. Comenzó a trabajar en Pontefract General Infirmary en Pontefract, Yorkshire oeste, y en 1974 obtuvo su primer puesto como médico general en el Centro Médico Abraham Ormerod en Todmorden, al oeste de Yorkshire. En 1975, fue capturado falsificando prescripciones de petidina para su propio uso. Le multaron con 600 libras y fue obligado a asistir a una clínica de rehabilitación de drogas en York. Fue médico de cabecera en el centro médico de Donneybrook ubicado en Hyde cerca de Mánchester, en 1977.

Shipman continuó trabajando como médico en Hyde durante la década de los '80, hasta que en 1993 fundó su propia clínica en Market Street, deviniendo como un miembro respetado dentro de la comunidad.

Detención
En marzo de 1998, la Doctora Linda Reynolds que trabajaba en la clínica Brooke Surgery en Hyde, justo enfrente de la clínica de Shipman, fue a visitar a John Pollard, el coronel de distrito de South Manchester, preocupada por los altos índices de mortalidad entre los pacientes de Shipman. En particular destacaba el gran número de incineraciones realizadas, de ex-pacientes de Shipman, en su mayoría mujeres mayores. El caso fue tomado en consideración por la policía, quien no tuvo, en primera instancia, suficientes pruebas como para arrestar a Shipman y levantar cargos contra él (en la investigación posterior sobre los crímenes de Shipman, culparían a la policía por asignar oficiales inexpertos al caso). Entre el 17 de abril de 1998, cuando la policía abandonó la investigación y la eventual detención de Shipman, éste mató a tres personas más. La última fue Kathleen Grundy, una anciana de Hyde. El 24 de junio de 1998 murió en su casa. La última persona en verla con vida había sido el doctor Shipman, quien luego firmaría su certificado de defunción.

La hija de Grundy, la abogada Angela Woodruff, quedó consternada cuando el abogado de su madre, Brian Burguess, le informó que la última voluntad de su madre había sido desheredarla, donando el total de su herencia, 386.000 libras esterlinas, a Harold Shipman. Woodruff denunció el hecho en la policía. El cuerpo de Grundy fue exhumado y examinado y se le encontraron niveles elevados de morfina. Con estas pruebas, Shipman fue finalmente arrestado el 7 de septiembre de 1998.

Tras este suceso, la policía comenzó a examinar otras muertes certificadas por Shipman y elaboró una lista de 15 muertes sujetas a investigación. En los 15 casos, hubo sobredosis de morfina y los certificados de defunción estaban firmados por Shipman.

Juicio y encarcelamiento

El juicio de Shipman, cuyo juez fue Mr. Forbes, comenzó el 5 de octubre de 1999. Shipman fue procesado por las muertes de Marie West, Irene Turner, Lizzie Adams, Jean Lilley, Ivy Lomas, Jermaine Ankrah, Muriel Grimshaw, Marie Quinn, Kathleen Wagstaff, Bianka Pomfret, Naomi Nuttall, Pamela Hillier, Maureen Ward, Winifred Mellor, Joan Melia y Kathleen Grundy, ocurridas entre 1995 y 1998.

El jurado deliberó 6 días y Shipman fue condenado el 31 de enero de 2000 por el asesinato de 15 de sus pacientes, a los que mató con inyecciones letales de morfina. El juez lo condenó a 15 cadenas perpetuas consecutivas y recomendó que nunca fuese liberado. Dos años después, el entonces Secretario de Gobierno David Blunkett, aceptó la sentencia, justo meses antes de que el gobierno británico perdiera el poder de fijar las sentencias mínimas de los asesinos.

En febrero de 2002, Harold Shipman fue expulsado del Registro Nacional de Médicos británicos.

Shipman negó insistentemente su culpabilidad y nunca hizo declaraciones sobre sus actos. Su defensa intentó, en vano, que no se le procesara por el asesinato de la señora Grundy, alegando que no había motivos suficientes para inculpar a Shipman. Su esposa, Primrose, mantuvo firmemente la inocencia de su esposo, incluso después de su condena.

Shipman es el único médico en la historia de la medicina británica encontrado culpable de asesinar a sus pacientes. El Dr. John Bodkin Adams fue acusado en 1957 de haber matado a 160 de sus pacientes durante un período de diez años y "posiblemente fue un antecedente para Shipman", pero fue absuelto.

Suicidio
Shipman se ahorcó en su celda en la prisión de Wakefield a las 06:20 el 13 de enero de 2004, en vísperas de su 58 cumpleaños, y fue declarado muerto a las 08:10. Una declaración del Servicio Penitenciario indicaba que Shipman se había colgado de las barras de la ventana de su celda usando sábanas. Algunos tabloides británicos expresaron alegría por su suicidio y alentaron a otros asesinos en serie a seguir su ejemplo; The Sun  fue criticado por publicar la noticia en su página principal en tono festivo, se podía leer "Ship Ship hooray!"

Sin embargo, las familias de las víctimas expresaron su decepción, dado que con la muerte de Shipman nunca obtendrían la respuesta al por qué de los asesinatos de sus parientes. El secretario del Interior, David Blunkett, señaló que la celebración era tentadora, diciendo: "Te despiertas y recibes una llamada diciéndote que Shipman se ha ahorcado y piensas, ¿es demasiado pronto para celebrar?, y entonces descubres que todo el mundo está muy molesto con él".

El motivo del suicidio de Shipman nunca se aclaró, aunque según informes él había dicho a su oficial de libertad condicional que estaba considerando suicidarse para asegurar la seguridad financiera de su esposa después de que le despojaron de su pensión del National Health Service (NHS). Primrose Shipman recibió una pensión completa del NHS, a la que no habría tenido derecho si Shipman hubiera cumplido los 60 años de edad. El estudiador de perfiles del FBI John Douglas ha afirmado que los asesinos en serie están obsesionados con la manipulación y el control, y que suicidarse en la cárcel bajo custodia policial es su gesto final de control.

Después del suicidio
No se sabe ni cuando empezó Shipman a asesinar pacientes ni cuántos mató. Un informe hecho en julio de 2002 sobre las actividades de Shipman concluyó que había matado a por lo menos 215 pacientes entre 1975 y 1998, durante su estancia en Todmorden, al oeste de Yorkshire (1974-1975) y Hyde, Chesire (1977-1998). La jueza Janet Smith dijo que muchas otras muertes sospechosas no podían atribuirse directamente a él. La mayoría de las víctimas eran mujeres mayores que gozaban de buena salud, según los informes presentados después de su juicio.

En el sexto y final informe, publicado el 27 de enero de 2005, Smith reveló que creía que Shipman había matado a tres pacientes, y que tenía serias sospechas acerca de cuatro muertes más, entre ellas la de una niña de cuatro años de edad, al inicio de su carrera médica en el hospital general de Pontefract (oeste de Yorkshire). Smith concluyó que el número probable de las víctimas de Shipman entre 1971 y 1998 era de 250. En total, 459 personas murieron mientras estaban bajo su cuidado. Es incierto cuántos de éstos eran víctimas de Shipman, pues él era a menudo la única persona que certificaba las muertes.

La investigación sobre Shipman también incluyó cambios en la estructura del consejo médico general.

Seis médicos que habían firmado cremaciones de víctimas de Shipman fueron acusados de mala práctica por el consejo médico general, que declaró que ellos debían haber notado el patrón de visitas que Shipman efectuaba con sus pacientes antes de que éstos murieran. Finalmente los médicos fueron absueltos de culpa y cargo. La viuda de Shipman, Primrose Shipman, fue citada para dar testimonio acerca de dos de las muertes durante la investigación. Mantuvo su inocencia y también la inocencia de su esposo.

En octubre de 2005, una audiencia similar fue llevada a cabo contra dos médicos que trabajaron en el hospital general de Tameside en 1994, y que no detectaron que Shipman administraba dosis brutales de morfina a sus pacientes.

En 2005 se divulgó que Shipman pudo haber robado joyas de sus víctimas por un valor de £10 000 que habían sido encontradas en su garaje en 1998, y en marzo de 2005, con Primrose Shipman presionando para que le sean devueltas, la policía escribió a las familias de las víctimas de Shipman para que las identificaran.

Los artículos no identificados se entregaron en mayo. En agosto la investigación terminó devolviendo 66 piezas a Primrose Shipman mientras que el resto,  33 piezas que ella confirmó que no eran suyas, fueron subastadas. Los ingresos de la subasta fueron donados a la Fundación de Apoyo a las Víctimas de Tameside. La única pieza que fue identificada como patrimonio de una de las familias afectadas fue un anillo que fue identificado a través de pruebas fotográficas.

Un jardín en memoria a las víctimas de Shipman, llamado el Jardín de la Tranquilidad fue abierto en Hyde Park el 30 de julio de 2005.

A principios de 2009, las familias de las víctimas de Shipman seguían buscando una indemnización por la pérdida de sus familiares. En septiembre de 2009 se anunció que las cartas escritas por Shipman durante su condena de prisión iban a ser subastadas, pero tras las denuncias de los familiares de las víctimas y los medios de comunicación, las cartas fueron retiradas de la venta.

En los medios
Harold y Fred (They Make Ladies Dead) fueron unas historietas cómicas publicadas por Viz en 2001, en la que también aparecía el asesino inglés Fred West y que fueron duramente cuestionadas por las familias de las víctimas.

En 2002 se emitió una dramatización televisiva del caso, llamada Shipman, con James Bolam como Harold Shipman.

En un episodio de la serie televisiva La Ley y el Orden, llamado "D.A.W.N", los detectives Robert Goren y Alexandra Eames investigan a un doctor sospechoso de ser un asesino en serie. Muchos de los aspectos del episodio hacen referencia a Shipman, como la drogadicción del personaje en su juventud y la cantidad de muertes de las que se le acusaba. En la parte final del episodio, cuando se confronta al sospechoso con las pruebas, aparece un hombre con barba gris y anteojos, muy parecido a Shipman. El episodio también incluye irónicamente a un personaje llamado "Hal Shipman".

The Fall y Jonathan King han hecho canciones referentes a Shipman. La canción de King ha sido muy polémica, ya que 6 meses después los medios la tomarían como medio de defensa hacia Shipman impulsando a los oyentes a no culpar a alguien por influencia de los medios de comunicación.

Véase también
 Anexo:Asesinos por número de víctimas
 John Bodkin Adams

Referencias

Enlaces externos
 Shipman Inquiry
 BBC — The Shipman Murders
 List of suspected murders
 Caso abierto, Dr Death: The Shipman Case

Asesinos en serie de Reino Unido
Médicos excluidos por el General Medical Council
Suicidas de Inglaterra
Fallecidos en la cárcel
Nacidos en Nottingham
Fallecidos en Wakefield
Suicidas por ahorcamiento
Suicidios masculinos
Suicidios en 2004

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Q: Get Collections from object using reflection and getCount (.net 4) I have a requirement to reflect on a object get all properties that are collections and
1)GetCount for each collection
2)GetTotalCount (allCollectionCount)
3)Call a method with this collection.
Below is what I have done so far with a made up noddy structure for semplicity.
    I am stuck in how to call this method and how to get count for collection.
Any suggestions?
        using System;
    using System.Collections;
    using System.Collections.Generic;
    using System.Linq;
    using System.Reflection;
    using System.Text;

    namespace ConsoleApplication2
    {
        class Program
        {
            static void Main()
            {
                var request = GetDataRequest();

                //Get all properties
                List<PropertyInfo> propInfoList =
                    new List<PropertyInfo>(request.GetType().GetProperties(BindingFlags.Instance | BindingFlags.Public));

                //Get collections only
                var myClassCollections=propInfoList.Where(xxx => xxx.PropertyType.GetInterfaces().Any(x => x == typeof (IEnumerable))).ToList();

                var totalCountForAllCollections=????
                foreach (var col in myClassCollections)
                {
                    //How do I call my Method DoSomething
                    //      DoSomething<?>(col.?????)
                }

            }

            public void DoSomething<T>(List<T> objectCollection)
            {
                //etc...
            }
            private static DataRequest GetDataRequest()
            {
                DataRequest request = new DataRequest();
                request.Addresses.Add(new Address
                {
                    Id = 1,
                    City = "London",
                    Postcode = "32131",
                    Street = "London Road"
                });
                request.Addresses.Add(new Address
                {
                    Id = 2,
                    City = "NewYork",
                    Postcode = "3432",
                    Street = "NewYork Road"
                });

                request.Customers.Add(new Customer
                {
                    Id = 1,
                    Name = "Jo",
                    Surname = "Bloggs",
                });
                request.Customers.Add(new Customer
                {
                    Id = 1,
                    Name = "Jon",
                    Surname = "Bloggs2",
                });
                request.Customers.Add(new Customer
                {
                    Id = 1,
                    Name = "Jonny",
                    Surname = "Bloggs3",
                });
                return request;
            }
        }
        public class DataRequest
        {
            public DataRequest()
            {
                Customers = new List<Customer>();
                Orders = new List<Order>();
                Addresses = new List<Address>();

            }
            public List<Customer> Customers { get; set; }
            public List<Order> Orders { get; set; }
            public List<Address> Addresses { get; set; }

        }

        public class Customer
        {
            public int Id { get; set; }
            public string Name { get; set; }
            public string Surname { get; set; }
        }

        public class Order
        {
            public int Id { get; set; }
            public string Name { get; set; }
            public string OrderNo { get; set; }
        }

        public class Address
        {
            public int Id { get; set; }
            public string Street { get; set; }
            public string City { get; set; }
            public string Postcode { get; set; }
        }
    }

A: quick and dirty, here you go...
// ..
static class Program
{
    static void Main()
    {
        var request = GetDataRequest();

        //Get propertyValues for properties that are enumerable (i.e. lists,arrays etc)
        var collectionProperties = request.GetType()
                                          .GetProperties(BindingFlags.Instance | BindingFlags.Public)
                                          .Where(propertInfo => propertInfo.PropertyType.GetInterfaces().Any(x => x == typeof(IEnumerable)))
                                          .Select(p => p.GetValue(request, null))
                                          .Cast<IEnumerable<object>>().ToList();

        var totalCountForAllCollections = 0;
        // iterate through the list of propertyValues
        foreach (var collectionPropertyValue in collectionProperties)
        {
            totalCountForAllCollections += collectionPropertyValue.Count();
            collectionPropertyValue.DoSomething();
        }

        System.Console.WriteLine("The total count for all collections is : {0}", totalCountForAllCollections);
        System.Console.WriteLine("press any key to exit");
        System.Console.ReadLine();
    }

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Data Buddies: Partnering for Comparison Data
The Computing Research Association's Data Buddies project gathers data on undergraduate and graduate students from a sample of computing departments nationwide. Two waves of surveys so far have helped improve evaluation of several broadening participation programs by developing a comparison group of nonparticipating students; in addition, the responses are a rich source of data on students' decisions about graduate school and research careers.
Betsy Bizot, Kenneth Hines, and Delicia Mapp, Computing Research Association
Data on Faculty: What Are We Missing
John Curtis, Director of Research and Public Policy at the American Association of University Professors, discussed the state of data collection on faculty at U.S. universities and provided data from AAUP's latest Annual Report on the Economic Status of the Profession.
John Curtis, American Association of University Professors
It's not your father's Cadillac! The Transformation of the US from a High School to a College Economy
At this forum, Jeff Strohl from Georgetown University's Center on Education and the Workforce highlighted some of the Center's recent work on supply and demand, including data from a recent publication, Hard Times, which focuses on employment prospects by major.
Jeff Strohl, Center on Education and the Workforce
Employment Projections, 2010-20
The latest employment projections from the Bureau of Labor Statistics were presented at this forum, with a special focus on the projected growth in jobs that typically require a master's degree or a doctorate.
Kristina Bartsch and James Franklin, Bureau of Labor Statistics
Trends in Master's Education
This forum provided an overview of recent trends in master's education from the viewpoint of four disciplinary organizations. Presenters discussed trends in enrollment, degrees, student demographics, financing, and more.
Michael Stephens, Association of Schools of Public Health
Gregg Schoenfeld, Graduate Management Admission Council
Michael Solem, Association of American Geographers
Jodi Wesemann, American Chemical Society (presentation not yet available)
Design Changes to NSF, SESTAT Database
Staff from NSF provided an overview of design changes being considered for the SESTAT surveys and solicited input from attendees on data needs and analytical interests.
John Finamore, National Science Foundation (presentation not yet available)
Too Many? Too Few? Supply and Demand for New Doctorate Recipients
Policymakers and educators periodically debate the undersupply or oversupply of new doctorate recipients. At this forum, representatives from four professional societies discussed current supply and demand issues and the state of the job market for new doctorate recipients in their respective disciplines.
Keith Crank, American Statistical Association
Roberta Spalter-Roth, American Sociological Association (presentation not available)
Robert Townsend, American Historical Association
Di Fang, American Association of Colleges of Nursing
Professional Science Master's (PSM) Degrees: Enrollment, Degrees, and Outcomes
PSM programs, which combine rigorous study in science and/or mathematics with coursework in management, policy, law, or related fields, are designed to prepare graduates for careers in business, government, and non-profit organizations. This forum provided an overview of the PSM initiative, along with recent data on PSM enrollment and degrees and employment outcomes for PSM degree recipients, based on surveys conducted by the Council of Graduate Schools.
Sally Francis, Council of Graduate Schools
Jeff Allum, Council of Graduate Schools
Selected Results from the 2008 Survey of Doctorate Recipients
This presentation provided a brief description of the Survey of Doctorate Recipients (SDR) methodology, followed by some of the latest findings pertaining to doctoral scientists and engineers in the US. Results focused on demographic characteristics, field of doctorate, and employment sector.
Lynn Milan, National Science Foundation
Trends in Student Financing of Graduate and First-Professional Education: 1995/96 to 2007/08
Using nationally representative data from graduate students participating in the National Postsecondary Student Aid Study (NPSAS), this presentation provides trend statistics on how graduate and first-professional students finance their education.
Sean Simone, National Center for Education Statistics
An Examination of Disciplines and Interdisciplinarity in NSF's GRFP and IGERT Data
Gisele Muller-Parker from the National Science Foundation's Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP), provided a historical perspective on the evolution of disciplinary fields of study over time using 60 years of data from the GRFP. Ram Ramasubramanian provided an overview of the NSF IGERT interdisciplinary training program and examined how interdisciplinary fields of study may be integrated into this framework.
Gisele Muller-Parker and Melur Ramasubramanian, National Science Foundation
Tracking Graduate Student Outcomes: Best Practices from Society Surveys
Three presenters discussed the methodologies used by professional societies to track employment and education outcomes for graduate students, as well as the challenges they have overcome in collecting data, challenges that have yet to overcome, and ways in which the data are used by professional societies.
Patrick Mulvey, American Institute of Physics
Betsy Bizot, Computing Research Association
James Maxwell, American Mathematical Society
Refueling the U.S. Innovation Economy: Fresh Approaches to STEM Education
Robert Atkinson presented the findings of a new ITIF report that challenges the U.S. approach to STEM education and argues that reforms are urgently needed to better match the talents of students, the needs of employers, and our goals as a nation.
Robert Atkinson, Information Technology and Innovation Foundation
Diversifying Scientific Leadership: Making Effective Faculty Diversity Programs Legally Sustainable
Daryl Chubin, founding Director of the Center for Advancing Science and Engineering Capacity at AAAS, presented an overview of the Center's recent work in support of the efforts of colleges and universities to diversify their faculty ranks.
Daryl Chubin, American Association for the Advancement of Science
A Data-Based Assessment of Research-Doctorate Programs in the United States
Charlotte Kuh, Deputy Executive Director of the Policy and Global Affairs Division at the National Research Council, discussed the NRC's recently-released study of research-doctorate programs, highlighted how to use the database itself, and discussed ways that the data could be used for research and for the improvement of doctoral education.
Charlotte Kuh, National Research Council
Projections of Jobs and Education Requirements through 2018
This presentation featured highlights from Help Wanted: Projections of Jobs and Education Requirements through 2018, a recent publication from the Center on Education and the Workforce (CEW) at Georgetown University. One of the reports authors discussed the demand for graduate-level workers and the impact of a projected shortfall by 2018 in the supply of workers with postsecondary education and training.
Nicole Smith, Center on Education and the Workforce
NSF/SRS Update on Higher Education R&D Survey and Postdoc Data Project
Staff members from the National Science Foundation's Division of Science Resources Statistics provided an update on NSF's Postdoc Data Project, including the methodological results, and discussed recent developments for the redesigned Higher Education R&D Survey.
Kelly Phou, National Science Foundation
Ronda Britt, National Science Foundation
The Path Forward: The Future of Graduate Education in the United States
Cathy Wendler from the Educational Testing Service (ETS) provided an overview of a report guided by the Commission on the Future of Graduate Education, a group jointly formed by CGS and ETS in 2009 to study how graduate education can meet the challenges of the 21st century. Her presentation included current trends in graduate education, vulnerabilities in our system of graduate education, and the report's recommendations and actions.
Cathy Wendler, ETS
Graduate Education in Germany
Jürgen Breitkopf from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), Germany's funding organization for research in science, engineering and humanities, provided an overview of the DFG and the structure and funding of graduate education in Germany.
Jürgen Breitkopf, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
The Federal Workforce
This presentation by Tim McManus, Vice President for Education and Outreach at The Partnership for Public Service, covered three main topics: "Where the Jobs Are" in the federal government, barriers to entering the federal workforce, and what can be done to ensure the federal government gets the workforce it needs.
Tim McManus, The Partnership for Public Service
Minorities in Graduate Education
Mikyung Ryu from the American Council on Education provided an overview of the participation of minorities in graduate education based on data from ACE's Minorities in Higher Education reports. Deborah Santiago, from Excelencia in Education, focused on Hispanics in graduate education.
Mikyung Ryu, American Council on Education
Deborah Santiago, Excelencia in Education (presentation not available)
Findings from the 2007-08 Survey of Earned Doctorates
This forum highlighted findings from the recently released Survey of Earned Doctorates Summary Report for 2007-08, focusing on longer term trends in doctoral degree production, educational history including time-to-degree and graduate school debt, and postgraduation plans of doctorate recipients.
Mark Fiegener, National Science Foundation
International Graduate Students
The forum highlighted trends in study abroad for graduate students and presented statistics on international graduate students at U.S. institutions.
Patricia Chow, Institute of International Education
Applications for Fall 2009 in MBA, MPA/MPP, and MD Programs
Three speakers presented fall 2009 applications data from their recently released surveys.
Marina Murray, Graduate Management Admission Council
Laurel McFarland, National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration (presentation not available)
Gwen Garrison, Association of American Medical Colleges
Graduate Enrollment and Degrees: 1998 to 2008
Using data from the latest CGS/GRE Survey of Graduate Enrollment and Degrees, this presentation includes data and trends on applications for admission to graduate school, first-time and total graduate student enrollment, and graduate degrees and certificates conferred.
Nathan Bell, Council of Graduate Schools
Findings from Exit Surveys of Ph.D. Completers
Using data from Ph.D. Completion and Attrition: Findings from Exit Surveys of Ph.D. Completers, a new publication from the Council of Graduate Schools, Robert Sowell presented on factors that contribute to Ph.D. completion, as reported by the graduates themselves.
Robert Sowell, Council of Graduate Schools
The Humanities Indicators: What They Tell Us about Graduate Education
This forum provided an overview of the Humanities Indicators, a prototype set of statistical data about the humanities in the United States. The Indicators include data on undergraduate and graduate degrees in the humanities, employment of humanities graduates, levels of program funding, public understanding of the humanities, and other areas of concern in the humanities.
Norman Bradburn, National Opinion Research Center
Master's Degrees in STEM
Presenters at this forum addressed trends in master's degree production, the nature of the master's degree in their discipline (i.e. terminal vs. en route, professional vs. research, required vs. optional, etc.), outcomes for master's degree recipients, funding for master's students, and data on master's-level completion and attrition.
Jeffrey Allum and Jerry Bell, American Chemical Society
Chris Keane, American Geological Institute
Michael Gibbons, American Society for Engineering Education
Jessica Kohout and William Pate, American Psychological Association
Pat Mulvey, American Institute of Physics
Distance Education at the Graduate Level
This forum provided current data on the scope of distance learning at the graduate level, based on data from "Distance Education at Postsecondary Institutions: 2006-07," a recent NCES publication.
Peter Tice, National Center for Education Statistics
The Current Employment Situation for Graduate Degree Recipients by Discipline
This forum addressed recent employment trends for graduate degree recipients by discipline and the anticipated employment situation for individuals graduating with master's degrees and doctorates in spring 2009.
Sam Rankin, American Mathematical Society (presentation not available)
Jennifer Hobin, Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (presentation not available)
Jessica Kohout and Bill Pate, American Psychological Association
International Comparisons of Graduate Education
Data were presented showing how the United States compares internationally on metrics such as participation in and completion of doctoral programs and how international participation in higher education has changed over the past decade.
Tom Snyder, National Center for Education Statistics (presentation not available)


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Please join us for a seminar on 'Curtainwall Design & Construction' by Jared Lawrence from SmithGroup Forensic Studio and Betsy Baird from O'Neal Construction on Thursday, September 8th, 2011 at Zaragon West starting at 4:00 pm.
Please RSVP by Tuesday, September 6th via the website. Feel free to contact Elizabeth Huck (ehuck@quinnevans.com) if you have any questions regarding the event.
Zaragon West is under construction. It is located at 500 East William at the corner of William and Thompson. Meet at the construction gate on William.
Hard Hats and Safety Glasses are required for the tour portion of the seminar.
Snacketizers will be available at Cottage Inn following the presentation.


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Research Shows Possibility of Re-Using Enzymes in Cellulosic Ethanol Process
by Lance Nixon, SDSU Research News
New research being conducted at South Dakota State University is exploring ways to re-use enzymes in industrial processes, such as in the production of cellulosic ethanol. The research could lead to big financial savings because enzymes are typically very expensive items in chemistry or biochemistry.
Professor Basil Dalaly in SDSU's Department of Nutrition, Food Science, and Hospitality is researching how to attach enzymes to beads.
"One of the big obstacles in using enzymes in converting cellulose, or biomass, to ethanol is the high cost of enzymes. We are trying to immobilize the enzyme by attaching it to beads ," Dalaly said. "Afterwards, the enzyme could be used for more than one time — two, three, four, five times because the beads will keep the attached enzyme rather than allowing it to float away along with the processed products."
Working with enzyme company Novozymes, Dalaly and his graduate student, Pavani Mandali, have evaluated several chemical methods to attach enzymes to beads. They then evaluated the enzyme activity, how well the enzymes attached to the beads, and other technical variables.
"From our results so far I can say we are successful in using the enzymes for five cycles, but with decreasing activity from 100 percent to 40 percent. We still retain 40 percent of the original activity of the enzyme," Dalaly said.
He added that would be a huge financial advantage in industrial processes that rely on enzymes.
"Using the same enzyme for five times means you need not use a fresh batch of enzymes every time — you can use them over and over," Dalaly said.
Mandali, who is working toward her Ph.D. in biological sciences, said the SDSU research shows enzymes attached to the beads have 95 percent of their original activity when used a second time; 75 percent of their original activity when used for a third cycle; 50 percent of their activity when used a fourth time; and about 35 to 40 percent of their original activity when used for a fifth processing cycle.
The SDSU study is part of a many-pronged project to develop more efficient methods to produce ethanol from cellulosic biomass, thought to be the source of the next generation of ethanol. Dalaly's work uses biomass pretreated by engineers in SDSU's Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering.
"We are trying now to use biomass, corn stover and DDGS, to convert to ethanol," Dalaly said.
His work so far shows the re-used enzymes work better on some biomass materials than others.
"In the near future we will use these immobilized enzymes in a small bioreactor on different kinds of biomass, not only corn stover and DDGS, but also big bluestem, switchgrass, and prairie cordgrass," Dalaly said.
Dalaly's work also looks at questions such as the time for all of the biomass to be hydrolyzed, or broken down. The project also involves analyzing the hydrolyzed biomass to determine what monosaccharides, or simple sugars, are in the hydrolysate.
Dalaly said as the SDSU work continues, he and his student will address the problem of how to gather or recover the beads once a processing cycle is over.
In addition to the enzymes provided by Novozymes, the U.S. Department of Energy and the South Dakota Corn Utilization Council help support Dalaly's research though grants. The North Central Sun Grant Center at SDSU also funded some of Dalaly's early work looking at enzymes in pretreatment of biomass feedstocks.


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Over the past 250 years, insurance has been the fastest growing industry. It has helped grow other industries investing long-term funds.
Print Edition: May 3, 2007
The year was 1954. One of my close friends from Lucknow—where I worked as Superintendent of Agencies with New India Assurance (which was owned by the Tatas with J.R.D. Tata as the chairman)—was travelling from London to Bombay. He was studying gynaecology in Britain and was returning to India by ship. He had insured his luggage with Thomas Cook. One of the suitcases he was carrying was lost in transit. When the ship docked at Paris on its way to India, he informed the local Thomas Cook office of the loss. One week later when he landed in Mumbai a Thomas Cook officer greeted him at the port with a cheque for the amount of his damage claim. Such was the level of efficiency and customer service in those days.
There were over 240 insurance companies, all of them private and many of them fully or partly foreignowned. New India Assurance was in both life and non-life insurance. Though I dealt with life, I remember when I had to inspect a claim for car insurance. The manager of a big landlord in Faizabad had made claim for damage of one of his cars— none other than a Buick (a brand owned by General Motors). The company had responded to his claim through a letter stating they were sorry to hear of the damage and would be releasing the claim as soon as they got my inspection report. Making false claims, and getting away with it, was difficult then.
For life insurance, endowment policies were the most preferred. New India had given me a Fiat and we would travel extensively for business. In 1956, life insurance was nationalised while the non-life sector was taken over by the government in 1972. C.D. Deshmukh, the finance minister in 1956, had assured us of our jobs—especially those who worked hard. I remember the exact words he said: "Workers at all levels should not have any worries, but of the continuance of sinecures, we cannot guarantee." I became an employee of Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) and was posted to districts like Sultanpur, Basti and Orai. LIC took life insurance to the smallest and remotest villages and we would travel extensively to expand the coverage and penetrations of insurance. It's quite likely that the efficiency and customer service did not keep pace with the expansion. I remember the largest insurance I did was of Rs 50, 000 in the 1960s.
I retired from LIC as a senior branch manager in 1982. Reading of the return of private and foreign insurance companies makes me nostalgic. I hope as the insurance business expands, companies—government or non-government—do not lose sight of customer service. After all, as the line goes, insurance is a subject matter of solicitation.
Author, R. S. L. Srivastava, is a veteran of the insurance business, having served in both pre- and post-nationalisation period.
India's competition watchdog calls for more transparency on discounts by e-commerce platforms
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People come from all over to go to our fair. And for those of us who are from the home of the Georgia National Fairgrounds, our lives pretty much revolve around the fair for 10 days each year.
Blair finally went to the fair this year. Yes, I nearly had a nervous breakdown about the number of people we had to maneuver around, but we had fun. We didn't do rides…ew, germy.
Aunt Linnie was there (bonus that Blair's birthday falls during the week of the fair each year so we can do it all in one!) with baby Faegan.
The sheep was hysterical. And Blair enjoyed watching the races!
We saw racing pigs too.
And we ate. A lot.
Cinnamon roll and ice cream.
Doing her shaking about the ice cream being cooooold!
We love the fair – it's a great fall tradition!
She is sooo precious! Love her outfit! Baby Faegan and Lin are pretty cute too. SO glad she got to go this year and enjoy it!
I am so happy that Blair got to experience the Ga. National Fair. First of many more fairs she will go to I am sure! Her pictures are precious!
Baby Faegan is adorable too....it is going to be fun for the two of them to share times like these....They will grow to be like sisters I am sure!
Adorable! I can see the joy in her eyes!


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Spirent Boss Celebrates Taj Bank Co-founder, Sheriff, @50
By Lagos News On Jun 16, 2022
Taj Bank Co-founder and Executive Director Business Development, Sheriff Idi, has been praised as an exemplary banker and inspiration to the young generation of Nigerians.
Sherif, today, Wednesday, 15th June, attained the age of 50.
The Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Abuja based contracting firm, Spirent Nigeria Limited, Aliyu Inuwa, in a congratulatory statement he issued in Abuja, described Sheriff as a source of inspiration and a great mentor to many upcoming and accomplished youngsters both in the banking sector and business development.
"It's worthy to note that your track record in the over 20 years of experience working in the banking industry and the indelible mark you've left behind in all the places you worked, demonstrate the uncommon and enviable quality in you," Inuwa acknowledged, adding, "Your life and career is a source of encouragement and mentorship to young Nigerians."
He described Sheriff as a rare gift to the world and younger generations," maintaining, "The best way to appreciate your kindness and support to many of us, is to celebrate you on this special day, you are indeed the best."
Mr Sheriff is a seasoned banker who rose from operational staff to an executive director of a new generation Islamic bank, Taj Bank.
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After synagogue shooting, bishops decry anti-Semitism and pray for victims
Flowers and cards sit at a makeshift memorial down the street from the Tree Of Life Synagogue, where a deadly shooting took place on Oct. 28, 2018. Credit: Jeff Swensen/Getty Image
Pittsburgh, Pa., Oct 29, 2018 / 05:00 pm ().- Catholic bishops promised prayers for victims and their families while condemning anti-Semitism, after a shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue Saturday killed 11 people.
"To our brothers and sisters of the Jewish community, we stand with you," said Cardinal Daniel DiNardo of Galveston-Houston, president of U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.
"May Almighty God be with them and bring them comfort at this tragic time."
The cardinal, originally a priest of Pittsburgh, condemned the shooting and challenged officials "to confront the plague of gun violence."
Bishop David Zubik of Pittsburgh said the diocese and the synagogue's relationship has been "close over many years."
The bishop said "anti-Jewish bigotry, and all religious and ethnic bigotry, is a terribly sin" and emphasized the importance of prayer and charity after the shooting.
"As we pray for peace in our communities and comfort for the grieving, we must put prayer into action by loving our neighbors and working to make 'Never again!' a reality."
On Oct. 27, 48-year-old Robert Bowers entered Pittsburgh's Tree of Life Synagogue equipped with an assault rifle and three handguns. Shouting anti-Semitic slogans, Bowers killed eight men and three women. He also injured six others, including four policemen. After a shootout with Pittsburgh Police and SWAT, Bowers was wounded and eventually surrendered.
Bowers faces multiple charges, among them federal hate crimes for which he could face the death penalty.
Michael Eisenberg, a former president of the synagogue, said an estimated 85 people would likely have been gathered at the synagogue, spread over three separate services.
After the shooting, Archbishop Charles Chaput of Philadelphia said that "Religious and ethnic hatred is vile in any form, but the ugly record of the last century is a lesson in the special evil of anti-Semitism.…It has no place in America, and especially in the hearts of Christians."
"I want to express the heartfelt support and prayers of Philadelphia's Catholic community, and my own, for the victims of the Pittsburgh synagogue attack and their families. May God give them courage and solace, and may this be a statewide wake-up call to resist religious hatred," he added.
Another Pennsylvania bishop also decried the violence. Bishop Edward Malesic of Greensburg said the news has left him "absolutely heartbroken."
"People of faith should be able to worship God in peace and security. Our sacred places should be free of all violence," he said.
He said his diocese would pray for first responders and "the loved ones of these victims and for all of our brothers and sisters in the Jewish community."
Scranton's Bishop Joseph Bambera, who is the head of the Committee for Ecumenism and Interreligious Affairs at the USCCB, issued a statement on Sunday, claiming the act of violence to be cowardly.
"Anti-Semitism is to be condemned and has to be confronted by our nation. The Committee on Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops stands with our Jewish brothers and sisters during this time of great distress. May God grant peace to the dead, healing to the injured, and comfort to the families of those hurt and killed and to all the Jewish Community."
On Sunday during the Angelus at the Vatican, Pope Francis offered a prayer for those affected by this "inhumane act of violence." "May the Lord help us extinguish the fires of hatred that develop in our society," he said.
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A Prussian soldier, his wife, and son pose for their portrait in the Schmidt studio in Furstenwalde, Germany. The photograph is dated 1898. The photograph shows a bit more intimacy than most during this time period. The soldiers son is holding his fathers hand and the soldiers wife appears to have her arm against her husbands shoulder. Note the soldiers moustache; it curves upward rather than the regularly seen downward. Perhaps a visitor to this entry can ascertain the soldiers rank and branch of service.
This pretty little girl is posing in the studio of Doerr, located in Louisville, Kentucky. Looks like mom dressed her in a fancy lace dress but forgot to bring the matching shoes.
This cabinet card, photographed by Holcombe and Metzen of Detroit, Michigan; is an image of a young woman with lots of hair. I have seen other cabinet card portraits of woman with hair to spare and I am not sure how to interpret the meaning of this era's hair fashion statement. If anyone has knowledge of this phenomenon; please leave a comment. Photographers Holcombe and Metzen are given mention in the Detroit Yearbook of 1890.
This Cabinet Card was found with 76 other Cabinet Card photographs in an album of members of the class of 1882 at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. It is believed that this image was taken in 1878. The subject of this photo is Sam Foss who was born in New Hampshire. After graduation from Brown he became a librarian and poet. His works include The House by the Side of the Road and The Coming American. In 1898 he became the librarian at the Somerville Public Library in Massachusetts. He wrote a poem a day for then newspapers and published five volumes of collected poetry. Until 2003, his words were on the granite wall at the Air Force Academy. He wrote "Bring me men to match my mountains, Bring me men to match my plains, Men with empires in their purpose, And new Eras in their brains" (from Coming American 1894) The photographic studio that produced this Cabinet Card is Hambly and Shoal in Providence, Rhode Island.
Viola Allen (1869-1948) was an American theater and silent film actress who acted in roles between 1882-1919. She was born in Alabama and was the daughter of an actor. Her first stage appearance in New York City was at age 14 when she substituted for the ill Annie Russell who was playing the title role of Esmeralda at Madison Square Theater. Allen's father was also a member of the cast. Allen appeared in many productions including Masqueraders, Twelfth Night, Under the Red Robe, The Christian, and the Winter Tale. Her most popular roles were in Shenendoah and Little Lord Fauntleroy. The reverse of this card has writing that indicates that this image is from Allen playing the role of Dolores in "In The Palace of the King" (1901). The photographer of this Cabinet Card was the studio of Sands & Brady in Providence, Rhode Island.
This Cabinet card was photographed by Hunter & Co. of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The subject of the photograph is Mrs Fred Rathbun and she is fashionably dressed as she poses by a table topped by a book and a statue. The Rathbun name is a prominent name in Toronto, though no additional identifying information is currently available. Visitors to this site should feel free to leave any information they may have about the woman in this photograph.
A pretty little girl poses for her portrait in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The photographer is Werner. She has very long hair and expressive eyes. She is holding her hat on her knee.
This Russian cabinet card is a portrait of a uniformed Russian sailor and his wife. The reverse of the card has an inscription in Russian which states "In good memory for dear Ivan Afansevich and Agrippa Petrovna, from Maria and Aleksandr Limonnivov". The inscription is dated January 30th, 1906.
This cabinet card comes from the studio of Thomas A. Rust who was a well known photographer in India. The Cabinet Card Gallery has another portrait by Rust which can be viewed by clicking on the "Photographer: Thomas A. Rust" category found below. This photograph is a very clear image of a fashionable woman posing with a woven basket on her lap. The basket is holding flowers. To learn more about photographer Thomas A. Rust, click on his name below.


This dissertation explores the resonances between John Calvin's works and sixteenth-century natural philosophical texts. Both popular and scholarly works on Calvin tend to portray him more narrowly as a theologian. However, Calvin had a wide variety of education experiences, and he also referenced and cited a wide range of authors in his works. Building on this insight, I read Calvin's Institutes, his Pauline commentaries, his sermons and commentaries on Genesis, Job, Jeremiah, and Pslams, and various polemical treatises alongside natural philosophical texts that were likely part of his education and reading as well as those that circulated widely in the period. I focus on those places in Calvin's works where he appropriated natural philosophical teachings directly or used vocabulary that also appeared in contemporary natural philosophical texts.
My dissertation examines these intersections to bring together aspects of sixteenth-century education and thought that scholars typically treat as separate. Though most sixteenth-century theologians including Calvin likely received some training in natural philosophy, scholars in the nineteenth-century began to write about religion and science as two separate, perhaps even warring, entities. More recent scholars have discussed religion and science as often complementary areas of study, but they typically assume that we can discuss the separate existence of science and religion during many different historical periods. My research reveals that this separation keeps us from addressing the changing relationship between the study of nature and the study of God that I argue is crucial to our understanding of Calvin's works. My dissertation will show that we cannot separate the natural philosophical aspects from the theological in Calvin's writings if we hope to understand his discussions of God's relationship to people and to Creation fully. Bringing natural philosophical treatises and Calvin's works into the same study allows me to offer a different interpretation of his notion of God's revelation in the world and the relationship between people and God. It also challenges the boundaries that we continue to draw between science and religion, encouraging us to rethink both their historical and contemporary relationship.