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Język heiltsuk – zagrożony wymarciem język z wakaskiej rodziny językowej używany przez Indian Heiltsuk na Kanadyjskim Zachodnim Wybrzeżu w prowincji Kolumbia Brytyjska.

Ma dwa dialekty: heiltsuk (bella bella), używany na północy, i oowekyala (wuikyala). W przeciwieństwie do innych języków wakaskich heiltsuk jest językiem tonalnym, zapisywanym fonemicznie. Podobnie jak język nuxálk posiada zbitki spółgłoskowe. W 2011 roku językiem mówiło 90 osób.

W atlasie zagrożonych języków świata UNESCO język został sklasyfikowany jako krytycznie zagrożony.

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Everyone wants to succeed. Athletes in general and fencers in particular are passionate about it. When you train hard you want to succeed. While everyone wants to succeed, success is an individual thing – it is different for different people. For Mariel Zagunis, success means a Gold Medal at Rio, as she considers her 4th place in London 2012 to be a failure. On the other hand for a novice fencer, success might mean winning one bout in a local competition. The road to success starts with you – in your club, in your trainings, in your preparations. There is only one person who can guarantee you will succeed – it's you. It starts with you giving 100% of your effort to everything you do. The habit of giving 100% effort pays off later in the competitions, and in life in general.
Do children need to have their favorite superheroes ? Of course they do! Children are looking for examples of ideal characters to which they can aspire – they feel compelled to find moral references in people they want to be like. People have always created legends and pictured heroes, to remind themselves that the impossible is possible, even when the situation is difficult. With inspiration, we learn that we can overcome the obstacles and win every battle in our lives!
Unfortunately, most heroes in children's lives are often just painted comic heroes – magical flying guys, world rescuers with robes and incredible muscles. Rarely are children ready to answer questions about who their real life hero is, nor are they able to call the name of a particular person who is not from movies or comic books. All over the world (the real world I mean!) there are plenty of real heroes who perform superhuman feats. These people show incredible courage and heroic actions and show others what man can do.
My children had an assignment at school called " My personal hero ." None of the children in the class knew what to write about. Their classmates looked at newspapers to find the names of people who saved others, or generally talked about firefighters.
Fortunately, my older son Adam knew exactly the answer to this question.
The student/coach relationship in fencing is an incredibly deep and resonant one. A real coach leaves his true and great mark on the soul of his students. The best coaches are not chasing medals or pushing for high scores, they recognize that these are really just byproducts of the actual goals that they're striving for with their students.
The Russian Fencing Federation just published a video interview with Dmitry Rigin, one of the world top men's foil fencers. Hailing from Russia, Dmitry is currently ranked #4 in the world. When I listened to this interview I immediately thought that there were just so many interesting points, things that are important for every competitive fencer to hear. There's also some fascinating perspective on the competitive teams from Great Britain and the USA.
Dima, first of all I want to congratulate the team on your victory and on qualifying for the Olympic Games. At some point, not that we were really concerned that the team would qualify, but we were somewhat worried about your performance. For a while there you were either 5th or 6th or 7th place, and then suddenly won the tournament. What happened to the team?
Well, it was enough to loose, I think! The real question is not what happened now at the end but then, when we were losing and earning low rankings. I think the biggest reason for that was our motivation, to some extent our team's motivation and to some extent the other team's motivation, because in reality the question of being qualified after the last World Championship was quite relaxed. We knew we would qualify because not qualifying would have meant that we had failed completely in every tournament. On other hand, other teams needed to prepare for every tournament very seriously. In fencing motivation is the key factor, getting into focus for every meet. That was the major reason for us losing so many tournaments.
When we think about fencing, one of the things that we really think about is passion. That's what Tim Morehouse brings to the web with Fencing University.
Tim is an Olympic Silver Medalist and the founder of Fencing in the Schools, a program that promotes access to fencing for every child. This marvelous organization works with youth across the country, introducing them to fencing and the focus and spirit that it brings.
With Fencing University he's aiming to bring top fencing advice and training to as many people as possible, offering rich and powerful resources to fencers. You'll find videos and activities to help you learn more and improve. There's always something new at Fencing U.
Fencing University's blog in particular keeps growing at adding articles that give you real insight into the art of fencing. Tim and his team are working hard to bring a wide variety of relevant content to empower and enrich fencers, with great articles that are well organized and easy to access. This blog is poised to become a major source of information and insight into the art and sport of fencing.
One of the best parts about the blog is that Tim features a wide variety of experts on fencing who offer their insight and expertise on everything from fencing culture to specific techniques and training. There's lots of great stuff over there!
Academy of Fencing Masters is proud to be guest blogging on Fencing University! Check out our series of articles on fencing and the gym. You'll learn some insider tips on gym training for fencing and how to incorporate it into your practice, as well as real world advice on how much emphasis you should be placing on working out when you're not holding a sword.
There is a lot to consider when you're thinking about this topic, and after reading these pieces you'll have a handle on the whats and whys of picking up those weights or going for a jog. Hitting the gym just might be the thing that you need to take your fencing to the next level! Or it could be a serious distraction. What's the answer? Click here to find out.
While you're there, be sure to check out some of the other great content that Fencing U has put together. We're all a part of this amazing fencing community, and AFM is proud to be promoting and improving our sport in partnership with Fencing University.


The park has been divided into three zones depending on the degree of access. First there is the Mulit-use Zone, where conservation activities are permitted and where there are controlled human settlements. The second is the buffer zone or Reserved Zone that starts in Boca Manu and ends in the ravine of the River Panagua. Here only restricted, supervised tourism and controlled investigation is allowed. The third is the Central Zone or National Park, which is impenetrable or of exceptional access (over 1.5 million hectares).
Tress Cruces. Here there is a surveillance post and refuge (it takes 4-5 hours to get here). The journey continues down to the village of Atalaya (3 hours and from there via the River Alto Madre de Dios to Boca Manu (6 hours), all the way to the Limonal surveillance post. From this point, the agencies and operators take visitors to their refuge which can take from 1 to 5 hours.


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A Ridgeland woman was found guilty Wednesday of felony driving under the influence in the Sept. 5, 2016 accident in Beaufort County that killed 54-year-old Gordon Ward Sr., according to the 14th Circuit Solicitor's Office.
Jermasha Elexus Shadane Nelson, 25, was sentenced to 14 years in prison, a news release said.
Ward was driving a moped north on U.S. 21 near Detour Road when he was struck from behind by a 2015 Toyota Camry driven by Nelson, the Solicitor's Office said. A South Carolina highway patrolman testified Tuesday that Nelson topped 110 mph before the collision. The road's speed limit is 60 mph.
Collision data from Toyota showed that Nelson "barely lifted her foot off the accelerator before striking Ward's moped," the Solictor's Office said.
A trooper, emergency personnel, and the initial 911 caller each testified that Nelson appeared to be intoxicated and smelled of alcohol and a Beaufort Memorial Hospital Physician Assistant who treated Nelson after the wreck said Nelson was intoxicated, the news release said.
A Beaufort County General Sessions jury of seven woman and five men deliberated for less than two hours before returning a guilty verdict, according to the news release.
Circuit Court Judge Carmen Mullen handed down the sentence.


Thanks to the technological revolution, the world has changed a lot since the turn of the millennium. With iPads, smartphones, Wi-Fi and more, we have a world of information literally at our fingertips. As a result, it's possible to look up virtually anything or anyone—making business a breeze.
Technology has improved the way in which mechanical contractors work. Once upon a time, handling a plant relocation could be problematic if a crew member didn't know where to place a part in a machine. Imagine how difficult it would be to first find an old landline telephone and then describe the dilemma over it. But with today's smartphones, mechanical contractors can simply snap a photo of the mysterious machine part and send it to someone anywhere in the world, allowing them to find out exactly what the part is and how to install it—within minutes.
From smartphones to tablets and laptops, digital communication has proven to be incredibly beneficial for mechanical services companies and their customers. Questions get answered within minutes or hours instead of days or weeks.
The connectivity of the Internet empowers mechanical contractors to communicate back and forth without having to be in the same room—or even country. Mechanical contracting companies worldwide are now connected via their devices, allowing them to view the same images and determine what a certain part is, where it should go, and how it should function.
Back in the day, using hard copies for records often meant getting buried in a deluge of documentation. But with digital software programs, it's easy to input paperless data, store it, and then quickly access it when necessary.
Mechanical contracting companies using Excel sheets can also better compute, plan and collect information via standardized scheduling, tabulating and billing methods. Spreadsheets streamline the process by offering a uniform means of determining costs, creating estimates and benchmarking timelines for projects.
Today, mechanical services often take advantage of computer-aided design (CAD) software for 3D modeling and 2D vector-based graphics. Such technology is no longer considered a luxury item since it can speed up the time it takes to complete a project.
Recently, our TMS mechanical contractors were given only four days to do a substantial amount of relocation and equipment repurposing work. But using 3D modeling we were able to create a good plan, prefab 95 percent of the piping associated with the assignment, and finished with a clean, efficient and fully function system. And it was done within the timeline we were given, something that would have been impossible in the days before CAD software.
CAD, Excel or smartphone—it's obvious technology can work for you. So why shouldn't it work for your mechanical contractors as well? If you're looking for traditionally trained yet tech-savvy professionals to handle your mechanical services job, visit TMS Inc. at tmsmech.com.


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Elton John and Partner Welcome a Baby Boy
Published Dec 27, 2010 at 10:40 PM | Updated at 1:12 AM PST on Dec 28, 2010
Producer David Furnish and singer Elton John attend the 16th Annual Elton John AIDS Foundation Oscar Party at the Pacific Design Center on February 24, 2008 in West Hollywood, California. (Photo by Jon Kopaloff/FilmMagic)
Elton John got a blue jean baby of sorts as a Christmas present this year.
The famed singer and piano player and his partner David Furnish became parents to a 7-pound, 15-ounce boy on Christmas Day, reported US Magazine.
Zachary Jackson Levon Furnish-John was born in California via a surrogate whose identity is being withheld for privacy reasons.
This is the first child for John, 62, and Furnish, 48. The couple entered a civil partnership in 2005 after spening the previous 12 years together. In 2009, they attempted to adopt a boy from Ukraine, but were denied by that country's government because the couple was not legally married and John exceeded the age limit allowed for adoptions.
In a joint statement, John and Furnish told US that, "Zachary is healthy and doing well," and that they were "overwhelmed with happiness and joy at this very special moment."
Suggested Reading: US Magazine, Entertainment Weekly, E! Online

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Having just visited Geneva by train, I have passed through Paris. There is much more to say about cycling and public transport in Geneva, which is very interesting, and less well-known to UK audiences, so more on that later, but for now some brief observations on Paris.
When I first visited Paris in the early 1990s, there was little cycling there, comparable to London at the same time. Then came a certain amount of segregated infrastructure, mostly created with the aid of strips of rubber bumps in the road to semi-segregate the space, later came some better segregated tracks, and in 2001 the Velo scheme, which I saw the very beginnings of, at a time when something similar was first being mooted for London. I noted at the time that the Paris hire stations had often been located to take advantage of the segregated tracks, of which there were far more than there were (or are) in London, and that this was a significant factor in their success as I observed it. Nobody else discussing the subject in the UK seemed to be aware of this factor. I more recently wondered whether the London scheme would succeed by comparison, both on the grounds of lack of infrastructure, and the demographic differences between central London and central Paris, central Paris being far more residential.
It seems that my caution was too great, to the extent that the London hire scheme does seem to be succeeding to some extent on its own terms, though TfL are desperately talking it up all the time and not talking about the fact that it has never achieved the number of trips that was anticipated for it.
I last visited Paris in 2009, and was struck buy the way cycling had taken off there, some years down the line from the commencement of the velos. This seemed to be despite the fact that the city remained basically cycle-unfriendly, with little space for bikes, high traffic volumes and speeds, a lack of infrastructure, compared with the conspicuously cycle-friendly north European cities, and a preponderance of one-way streets from which cycles were generally not excepted, thus making for round-about journeys. At that time, Paris seemed to have pulled significantly ahead of pre-Borisbike London in cycling terms.
Visiting Paris, albeit briefly, again now, my subjective opinion was that cycling in Paris has not advanced over the last few years. It seems to have flatlined. The fashion for the rubber studs seems to have gone and some or all of these semi-segregated tracks have been removed. The have not been replaced with anything better, and nothing substantially new has been introduced to improve the attractiveness of cycling. In other words, the gains that accompanied the introduction of the velos have not been sustained because there has not been an aggressive programme of continual improvement of the cycling environment. The gains from the hire scheme have run their course.
Chaotic streets scene at Paris's Gare du Nord: could be London's kings Cross, Paddinigton, etc. etc. Quality space could be made for cyclists here, but hasn't been, and there are no cyclists to be seen
This is undoubtedly what we will see in London without a significant change of policy from TfL and the government (which looks unlikely). With the current failure to invest in serious improvements to the cycle environment and infrastructure, symbolised by the senseless Cycle Superhighway concept and the even more senseless Biking Boroughs, coupled with Boris's dual mad ideas of "treating all modes equally" and "smoothing the flow", which both amount to de-prioritising walking and cycling, we will see, at most, another year of increasing cycle use, with the introduction of casual usage of the Boris Bikes, and then we will see cycling in London flatline at below a 2% modal share. London needs to learn from places where cycling and walking policy is working, such as Copenhagen, Münster and Geneva, not from places where it is not, such as Paris and New York, easier though it may be to relate, conceptually, these cities to London.
On the public transport front, Paris clearly leads London. They have had the investment over the long term that London has not. I saw from this poster in the RER (urban and suburban rapid transit trains) that they are now having a public debate on new orbital suburban rail lines for the Paris region.
Poster advertising public debate in Paris on new suburban rail options
Orbital suburban rail is the most yawning gap in London's transport network, particularly north of the Thames. The last orbital rail lines to be built in central and North London were the Circle Line of the Underground, and the North London Line (now branded as part of the London Overground), both completed before 1910. Obviously, London has expanded hugely since 1910, and both these orbital lines are now much too far inside the metropolis to be considered "suburban" links. Bizarrely, the rail network of North London has in fact not changed significantly since the suburban Underground lines were completed, before 1940. Since then, the outer London suburbs have been excellently connected to the centre, but disconnected from each other, the only public transport between them being the buses. The excellent London branch of the Campaign for Better Transport (the charity previously known as "Transport 2000") has come up with a well thought-through idea for a North and West London Light Railway, but neither TfL nor the DfT has shown much interest in it, which is sad. The failure to create serious public transport infrastructure in the outer London suburbs serving modern needs, which are as often for orbital journeys as radial ones, particularly north of the Thames (south Londoners at least have the London Tramlink) is a significant contributory factor to London's environment falling behind that of its peer cities in Europe. While the massively expensive Crossrail project trundles on, to be completed – when? – I haven't the slightest idea, London's first attempt at the concept of putting full-size trains underground for a long distance (and it only essentially duplicates the Central Line of the Underground with more capacity), Paris has had lines A and B of the RER since 1977, and line E, the fifth line, was opened in 1999.
Line D of the RER at Gard du Lyon: double-deck underground train: London has nothing to match the spectacular scale of the engineering of the RER
On a lighter note, on my journey back to England, I noticed that Eurostar's free magazine, called Metropolitan, is advertising the World Naked Bike Ride under What's on in London (perhaps it shoud be what's not on.). They translate "in your birthday suit" as en tenue d'Adam ou d'Ève. In a sensible mention, they point out the serious purpose of the event, to highlight cyclists' vulnerability on the roads. No equivalent event in Paris is mentioned. (I note that the London WNBR this year has the semi-official stamp of "Team Green Britain". Does that mean we will be seeing the Transport Secretary of the Climate Chage Secretary on it? Probably not.)
As one speeds through northern France, towards the tunnel, the flat landscape is dominated by electricity pylons: a transmission grid probably taking part of France's nuclear-generated electricity to England; since Mrs Thatcher's privatisation of our electricity supply, the French state company EDF (Electricité de France) seems to have taken over a large share of our supply. As one emerges from the tunnel in Kent, the landscape is dominated by huge multi-layered barricades of steel fencing around the tracks, built to keep illegal immigrants out. France – a nation of transmission; England – a nation of barricades.
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Eight Men Speak is a Canadian agitprop play written in 1933 by a committee of E. Cecil-Smith, Mildred Goldberg, Frank Love, and Oscar Ryan. The play made only one performance in its initial run then was suppressed by the Canadian government. Its suppression became a political embarrassment for Prime Minister R. B. Bennett. The publicity helped cause the release of the eight imprisoned Communist Party leaders of the play's title.

Production
The offices of the Communist Party of Canada were raided by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and eight of its members were arrested, including Tim Buck and Tom McEwen. They were released following a campaign demanding their release, which included a petition with 450,000 signatures, and 17,000 people attended a celebratory rally in Maple Leaf Gardens. E. Cecil-Smith, Mildred Goldberg, Frank Love, and Oscar Ryan wrote an agitprop play based on the events.

Release
The play's first performance at the Standard Theatre on 4 December 1933 had around 1,500 in attendance, but the police threatened to revoke the theatre's license.

When the Progressive Arts Club had a meeting to protest this censorship, a former Manitoba Labour MLA, A. E. Smith, gave a speech endorsing the play and its presentation of the attempted assassination of the imprisoned Communist leader. Smith was arrested and charged with sedition. The resulting trial allowed Buck to take the stand and relate the events of the incident in open court. Smith was acquitted, and Buck and his comrades were soon released afterward.

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If you're anywhere near the DC area, it's a known fact. You resent Mother Nature. Yes, Easter is less than a week away but no, it doesn't feel like spring. I had a different topic planned for this morning but on a whim, I've decided to get a little crazy and round up these Easter finds instead. Even though it's still cold and dreary outside, these gorgeous pastels combined with the hopeful, uplifting message of Easter have brightened my day.
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This soft color palette combined with the Victorian-style tumblers are the perfect way to brighten up your Easter table. P.s. I'd definitely use these year-round!
An adorable way to set the table for spring! You can easily add pastel accents to the tablescape to accompany these bunny plates or keep it timeless and neutral.
These white, gold and green nest egg centerpieces are modern and fresh with a touch of whimsy. Use as a centerpiece for a smaller table or use multiple at a time for a larger table. Can also see them looking fantastic on a mantle, coffee table or especially a gold bar cart!
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Sugarfina has introduced these Fluffy Bunny Gummies for Easter and they are absolutely adorable. They come in a small cube size which can easily be added to an Easter basket or nice enough to gift on its own.
These candles are a modern, sophisticated alternative to traditional Easter egg decor. Great to keep for your own tablescape but also an amazing hostess gift.
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"Are you sure about this Natalie. What if we pop?"
"NO! Just concerned is all."
"Well then lets do this already. My new air compressor is waiting in my room for us. Lets go."
Natalie and Kristie raced to her room. They've always had a small rivalry between them ever since they've met. Competing with one another over anything they could. The door to Natalie's room burst open with a kick from Natalie.
"No fair Nat. You pushed me back there."
"Oh boy, the movie's starting!"


The Knowledge Translation Committee at the Centre of Blood Research at UBC is celebrating its first year anniversary. The group produces weekly articles that are featured on the CBR blog and consists of 30 members of graduate students and postdocs. Here, we interview its founder, Anna Sinova and two members of the committee, Deb Chen and Mike Hughes, about their experiences and perspectives about the group. For more information, contact Anna Sinova (anna.sinova@ubc.ca).
Acknowledgements: Interviewer/editor, Jenny Chik; Camera, Erika Siren. We thank all our interviewees for taking the time to participate in the video.


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The Only Son (1936)
Tragedy in life starts with the bondage of parents and children.
The film opens with a single extended scene with the title card reading: Shinshu, Central Japan 1923. Ozu guides us in with his pillow shots framing the story's sequences with images of his locales which neither serve the narrative nor reveal anything about our characters at hand. But he more than many directors is well aware of his environment and basking in its very contours.
The opening premise has to do with a young middle school-aged boy and his mother. The problem is whether or not he will go onto high school. You see, his father is dead and his mother must eke by a living. They don't have much money. School costs money.
There are two stories going around. The one he told his mother saying he would not continue his schooling and then the one he told his teacher. His mother only finds out when the man comes by to acknowledge how happy he is for the boy.
Though distraught at first, from that day forward the mother vows to pay for her son to have schooling, first high school and then college. Likewise, he vows dutifully to become a great man so her maternal sacrifice is not in vain.
Flashforward to the present and the now elderly mother decides to pay a visit to her son in the big city of Tokyo. He's grown now and has a job. But it turns out that things are not as she might have hoped.
First off, he has a couple of surprises for her. He got married and already has a baby son. Also, their home is fairly run-down and humble because his salary as a night school teacher is meager at best. So much for being a great man. It turns out such aspirations are difficult, especially in a metropolis like Tokyo. Look no further than his old teacher who has turned to running a butcher shop just to provide for his family.
However, despite these circumstances, the son throws out all the stops to make a lavish showing of hospitality for his mother's benefit. After all, he can't possibly let on how things are actually going. Because that would break her heart. He would have failed her.
So he buys extra chicken, offers small trinkets, and they attend the picture show. Things he probably never would have done if she were not present. Slowly he's sinking under the surface, borrowing money from everyone who might oblige.
But of course, the truth always finds its way out. She worked so hard to get him to college and the hope of his successes kept her going. The revelation of his current situation pains her heart and she's forthright in telling him precisely that. She is utterly ashamed as he explains how difficult it is to become a big man in Tokyo. Hard work does not always cut it.
This could be the end of their relationship right there and yet there is another moment. After a horrible accident, he gives all the money they have left to help a single mother pay for her son's medical bills. It's a meaningful gesture and right before she leaves, the mother tells her son that she's proud of his integrity.
All he can think about is how unsatisfied she must be and how much he didn't want her to come to begin with. His wife concurs he's lucky to have such a good mother, because by the standards of Japan, she made her child her all so that he might succeed.
Meanwhile, the mother regales her solitary friend back home about her son who has become a great man and his lovely wife and how she can die now without any regrets. All the while we know the full truth but she must save face and so she makes up the most satisfying story she can. Hidden away from view her head is downcast in grief and shame.
What's striking to the very last frame of The Only Son is the conflicting feelings it provides. It constantly flits back and forth between this false sense of security and contentment to moments of deepest regret.
It never quite allows you to rest on a single one of these emotions but instead requires you to cope with them in equal measures as the scenes are layered one on top of another. First, the mother is happy, then the son is anxious, then the mother is ashamed, then proud. Her son is regretful and finally spurred on to make another go of being a great man. So there's this lingering sweetness, this not uncertain hope, and yet his mother is in the backroom head bowed, saddened by where she left her boy.
There is no easy answer. There is no definite category. There's no way to siphon off this person's emotions from that person's because they all remain interconnected. That's what allows this film to make sense and have such an emotional impact as it quietly whiplashes us back and forth between mother and son. We feel for both of them even if their hopes and aspirations seem somewhat misplaced. It's a film that pains the heart of anyone who hates to see lives in utter distress.
I must confess that I racked my brain for the reason Ozu might spend so much time cutting to shots of the hanging laundry — a recurring motif throughout the film. Surely, there's some intricacy that I am missing or some subtle symbolism. While that is undoubtedly true, I realized even more clearly that Ozu did not require an overt reason for his shot choices.
Just as our eyes stray to observe the world around us so his camera turns its lens in such a way. It is attracted to faces, rooms, and maybe even the mundane qualities of hanging shirts as the wind softly swirls past. There need not be more than this.
Likewise, I kept on staring at the image of the glamorous movie star up on the wall of their humble home. I was trying to decide if it was Joan Crawford or some German actress I am not aware of. Someone else might be able to distill my ignorance but I realized, again, it did not matter as long as I enjoyed the overall experience.
Ozu can be cast much in the way of the famed woodblock printer Katsushika Hokusai most famous for his "36 views of Mount Fuji." Likewise, the Japanese director took similar forms and topics and unearthed the intricacies of temperament and interrelations which he subsequently revisited again and again.
If you notice, he has simply reversed his normal dynamic of father with daughter and it has become mother and son. Relatively similar origins and yet the outcomes are no less enlightening. So it's not necessarily about the novel. There can be just as much relish in taking something that we are so used to, like parent-children relations, and recasting them in such a way that we recognize the situations with greater lucidity. Therein lies a space for growth and understanding.
Surely Ozu takes some getting used to. However, eventually his style will age on you and you will come to find the same fascinations he does until your tastes meld and it becomes second nature to see the empathy and beauty in his subject matter just as he seems to. Pretty soon it feels as if you are looking alongside him. If you let him, it can become a thoroughly symbiotic relationship between filmmaker and audience.
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Washington – A polarized nation is now more deeply divided.
In a single flurry of elections Tuesday, Democrats took control of the House of Representatives. Republicans held their grip on the Senate. And the breach that divides Americans – urban from rural, white from black, conservative from liberal – stretched ever wider.
Republicans increased their Senate majority with support from the same coalition of voters that propelled Trump to the presidency two years ago: whites without college degrees – particularly men – in more conservative, rural states. GOP candidates defeated Democratic incumbents in North Dakota, Indiana and Missouri.
The GOP victories appeared to reinforce the politics behind Trump's closing message – a mix of dark, inaccurate warning about an "invasion" of immigrants streaming across the U.S. border. The fear, it seems, does motivate Republicans. And few can summon that anxiety like Trump.
Some Democratic-leaning states that flipped for Trump two years ago – Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania – swung back to the left Tuesday, electing Democrats in key Senate and governors' races. That suggests Trump's victories in the Midwestern battlegrounds could have been an anomaly, not a permanent realignment.


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in the history of the this most notable musical group.
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Q: How do I assign custom classes to YUI3 plugin/widget objects Consider the following code.
var overlay = new Y.Overlay({
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The overlay gets the id as given in attributes. But what if I want to add a class ?
IS there something like:
var overlay = new Y.Overlay({
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A: No.  Here are three ways to do what you want:

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*Add the class in your markup.  I'm
guessing this isn't what you want.

*Subclass Overlay and add a
className config attribute.  If
you have other customization to do,
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Exactly four years ago, on 29 February 2012, we unleashed the original 256MBRaspberry Pi Model B on a largely unsuspecting world. Since then, we've shippedover eight million units, including three million units of Raspberry Pi 2, making usthe UK's all-time best-selling computer. The Raspberry Pi Foundation has grownfrom a handful of volunteers to have over sixty full-time employees, including ournew friends from Code Club. We've sent a Raspberry Pi to the International SpaceStation and are training teachers around the world through our Picademy program.
In celebration of our fourth birthday, we thought it would be fun to releasesomething new. Accordingly, Raspberry Pi 3 is now on sale for $35 (the same priceas the existing Raspberry Pi 2), featuring:
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For Raspberry Pi 3, Broadcom have supported us with a new SoC, BCM2837. Thisretains the same basic architecture as its predecessors BCM2835 and BCM2836,so all those projects and tutorials which rely on the precise details of the RaspberryPi hardware will continue to work. The 900MHz 32-bit quad-core ARM Cortex-A7CPU complex has been replaced by a custom-hardened 1.2GHz 64-bit quad-coreARM Cortex-A53. Combining a 33% increase in clock speed with variousarchitectural enhancements, this provides a 50-60% increase in performance in 32-bit mode versus Raspberry Pi 2, or roughly a factor of ten over the originalRaspberry Pi.
James Adams spent the second half of 2015 designing a series of prototypes,incorporating BCM2837 alongside the BCM43438 wireless "combo" chip. He wasable to fit the wireless functionality into very nearly the same form-factor as theRaspberry Pi 1 Model B+ and Raspberry Pi 2 Model B; the only change is to theposition of the LEDs, which have moved to the other side of the SD card socket tomake room for the antenna. Roger Thornton ran the extensive (and expensive)wireless conformance campaign, allowing us to launch in almost all countriessimultaneously. Phil Elwell developed the wireless LAN and Bluetooth software.
All of the connectors are in the same place and have the same functionality, andthe board can still be run from a 5V micro-USB power adapter. This time round,we're recommending a 2.5A adapter if you want to connect power-hungry USBdevices to the Raspberry Pi.
Raspberry Pi 3 is available to buy today from our partners element14 and RSComponents, and other resellers. You'll need a recent NOOBS or Raspbian imagefrom our downloads page. At launch, we are using the same 32-bit Raspbianuserland that we use on other Raspberry Pi devices; over the next few months wewill investigate whether there is value in moving to 64-bit mode.
We'll keep updating this list over the next couple of days, but here are a few to getyou started.
Are you discontinuing earlier Raspberry Pi models?
No. We have a lot of industrial customers who will want to stick with Raspberry Pi 1or 2 for the time being. We'll keep building these models for as long as there'sdemand. Raspberry Pi 1 Model B+ and Raspberry Pi 2 Model B will continue to sellfor $25 and $35 respectively.
What about Model A+?
Model A+ continues to be the $20 entry-level Raspberry Pi for the time being. Wedo expect to produce a Raspberry Pi 3 Model A, with the Model A+ form factor,during 2016.
What about the Compute Module?
We expect to introduce a BCM2837-based Compute Module 3 in the next fewmonths. We'll be demoing Compute Module 3 at our partners' launch events thismorning.
Are you still using VideoCore?
Yes. VideoCore IV 3D is the only publicly documented 3D graphics core for ARM-based SoCs, and we want to make Raspberry Pi more open over time, not less.BCM2837 runs most of the VideoCore IV subsystem at 400MHz and the 3D core at300MHz (versus 250MHz for earlier devices).
Where does the "10x performance" figure come from?
10x is a typical figure for a multi-threaded CPU benchmark like SysBench. Real-world applications will see a performance increase of between 2.5x (for single-threaded applications) and >20x (for NEON-enabled video codecs).
A project like this requires a vast amount of focused work from a large team overan extended period. A partial list of those who made major direct contributions tothe BCM2837 chip program, BCM43438 integration and Raspberry Pi 3 follows:Dinesh Abadi, James Adams, Cyrus Afghahi, Sayoni Banerjee, Jonathan Bell, MarcBright, Srinath Byregowda, Cindy Cao, KK Chan, Nick Chase, Nils Christensson,Dom Cobley, Teodorico Del Rosario Jr, Phil Elwell, Shawn Guo, GordonHollingworth, Brand Hsieh, Andy Hulbert, Walter Kho, Gerard Khoo, Saran Kumar,Yung-Ching Lee, David Lewsey, Xizhe Li, Simon Long, Scott McGregor, James Mills,Alan Morgan, Kalevi Ratschunas, Paul Rolfe, Matt Rowley, Akshaye Sama, SergeSchneider, Shawn Shadburn, Mike Stimson, Stuart Thomson, Roger Thornton,James Tong, James Turner, Luke Wren. If you're not on this list and think youshould be, please let me know, and accept my apologies.


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The TARIC code (TARif Intégré Communautaire; Integrated Tariff of the European Communities) is designed to show the various rules applying to specific products when imported into the EU. This includes the provisions of the harmonised system and the combined nomenclature but also additional provisions specified in Community legislation such as tariff suspensions, tariff quotas and tariff preferences, which exist for the majority of the Community's trading partners. In trade with third countries, the 10-digit Taric code must be used in customs and statistical declarations.

Challenges in classification for companies
A proper classification can save huge amount of money for the company, which is why nowadays importers and exporters strive to find a perfect way to solve those problems:
 Variety of products  Companies who do import and export meet challenges of how to classify products with the growing varieties of products. Classification and restrictions, to some extent, has a bad effect on free trading and growing of business.
 Risk of loss caused by difference in classification  Firstly, the proper classification of your item is essential to determine any licensing requirements under the Export Administration Regulations (EAR), EU Dual Use Regulation 428/2009. And subsequently exporters and importers need to be aware of how to classify the products accordingly and which category should be classified to. And finally they may be required to obtain a license.  A slight difference in classification can mean a huge difference in the duties that are paid.

Overview
TARIC builds upon the international harmonised system

See also
Combined Nomenclature
Customs tariff
Harmonized System

References
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External links
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Platforms have given some, including U.S. President Donald Trump, an unfiltered platform
Jan. 13, 2021 12:00 p.m.
For the past four yea rs, outgoing U.S. President Donald Trump has used social media, especially Twitter, to provide short statements to the world, multiple times a day.
Now, after the rioting at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, Trump's personal Twitter account is gone.
"After close review of recent Tweets from the @realDonaldTrump account and the context around them – specifically how they are being received and interpreted on and off Twitter – we have permanently suspended the account due to the risk of further incitement of violence," the social media giant stated on Jan. 8.
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Only recently did Twitter begin to add disclaimers when Trump would make his unfounded claims about election fraud in the U.S. presidential election.
After the riot, Facebook and Instagram suspended Trump indefinitely, and Twitter issued a 12-hour ban. The decision to permanently ban his personal account on Twitter did not come until Jan. 8, two days after the riot.
Some have seen these decisions as too little, too late. Others are concerned that this is only the beginning of an attempt to silence certain opinions.
It must be noted that social media platforms can have community standards in place, and they are free to suspend or ban users who violate those standards.
Furthermore, while free speech is valued in free countries around the world, there are limits. Slander, attempts to defraud others, child pornography and calls to violence are prohibited in most if not all parts of the world.
Social media can provide a voice to those who wish to be heard, but there must also be limits and standards. Without those in place – for all users – social media becomes a cesspool of hate speech and derogatory comments, leading to more social division and violence in the future.
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Reply Subj: Marvel v. DC (Herc v. WW), from below
> There's no question that Marvel's strongest roughly equal D.C.'s strongest, and that Herc is probably as strong (or almost as strong, or stronger than) WW. I hate that it's the case, because I find DC feats to be pretty silly, and long for the days when the most you might ever accomplish is pushing over a building.
I agree with the above. I do think the strength levels are relatively equal.
It seems that Kurt Busiek and George Perez meant to explain WHY DC characters are a bit stronger (and faster) by stating that the DC Earth is larger... however any difference in strength between the peers (Thor, Herc, WW, Supes) is probably negligible and, IMO, not very evident in a fight AT ALL.
> Nevertheless, we know from JLA v. Avengers that Thor is roughly equal to Supes, and that Herc is roughly equal to Thor. To the extent WW is as strong as Supes, she's as strong as Thor and Herc. I don't buy that she's as strong as any of them, personally, for reasons that are pretty obvious. If WW is as strong as Supes but more skilled, then she should beat him every time.
*IF* she ever fought him with the intent to put him down then maybe we would see that. As it stands there has never been a confrontation between the 2 premier DC heroes where Diana set out to demolish Superman. In both of their major fights her intent was to save him while doing her best to survive and not harm him.
> Arguing a la J that she's never gone all out against him simply misses the point.
But it doesn't miss the point. If 2 speedsters are racing and one is giving his all and the other is not then how can you properly determine which is faster??
> That is, arguing that she's never gone all out against him explains why she's never beaten him
Has he ever bested her? In both of their fights his mission was to kill her. He failed. In both of their fights her mission was to free him and she succeeded. That is a win.
> Frankly, I think she's not as strong, but in the ballpark, not as durable, not as fast, but a way better fighter, and consequently just as formidable. Supes, CM, BA, Herc and Thor, however, are slightly above her pay grade.
Which doesn't make any sense because CM & BA share the same source of speed as Diana. It also doesn't make sense because they lack all of her other abilities (truth, illusions, empathy, telepathy, astral projection/teleportation, enhanced senses).
As far as Thor goes JLA/Avengers showed Diana to be stronger than Wonder Man who in turn is ALMOST as strong as Thor. Logic then dictates that Diana and Thor are at least equals in strength.
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What are banks' returns on the services they provide, what does that mean in terms of divvying up the corporate wallet, and do other treasury executives also feel they do most of the work when it comes to syndicating their companies' loans?
Those were questions addressed by members of the NeuGroup's Assistant Treasurers' Leadership Group (ATLG) at a recent meeting where one member led the discussion and brought peers up to date on the latest syndicated-loan statistics. She also detailed her company's approach to estimating bank returns and divvying up its wallet accordingly.
Referring to data provided to her by two top US banks, the ATLG member noted that syndicated facilities between $500 million and $1 billion in size typically have 12 banks, although surprisingly that number jumped to more than 20 for five of the 154 deals in that category. Deals that size average three joint lead arrangers holding a collective 41%.
The average number of banks in syndicated loans ranging in size from $1 billion to $1.49 billion increases to 14.5, with nine of the 99 deals in that size range involving more than 20 banks. The number of joint lead arrangers increases to four, and they typically hold 42% of the facility. At the $1.5 billion mark, the number of banks in those 45 facilities increases to 15.5, with 20 banks or more in six of them, and the number of joint leader arrangers increases to five, cumulatively holding 45% of the deal.
For facilities between $1.51 billion and $2 billion, the number of banks in the syndication increases to 18, while the number of lead arrangers totals to five. On average, the joint lead arrangers cumulatively hold 41% of the facility.
The session leader noted her surprise regarding the relatively high percentage of $1.5 billion deals with more than 20 banks in them. She said her company's credit fits into the largest tier size, and it has 16 banks—a bit below average—while the joint lead arrangers hold a bit more of the credit than the average.
"That caused me to think about whether I should increase by one the number of joint lead arrangers, so the credit commitments from the current four aren't as high," she said. "I receive feedback from some of the lead banks that they're not necessarily earning sufficient fees to meet internal return hurdles."
Another ATLG member noted that his company's five joint leads hold 51% of the facility, giving them a majority vote. That group also earns a bigger percentage of the company's wallet and is expected to step up when need arises. "We figure the top banks is where the dry powder is…. If we're doing M&A and need a bridge loan, we only need four or five banks," he said.
Another participant, however, noted his company stays below that threshold to reduce concentration risk.
Dividing the Corporate Wallet
A perpetual issue among treasury executives is how to divvy up the corporate wallet among their companies' banks.
The session leader said her team first identifies the services each bank in its syndicate is providing and the fees each is collecting. Complications arise in calculating fees because banks may earn them indirectly on services such as credit card programs, so her team seeks to estimate them as accurately as possible.
Another ATLG member quipped that a bank that complained about low returns on the FX business his company had just awarded it "noticed right away when we started moving that business away to a rival."
The session leader's treasury team also determines the optimal fees the company should pay by determining a bank's share of the corporate wallet according to the percentage of credit it provides, and then it compares the estimated and optimal fees.
"One of the banks is always in the red. They provide one of the services we can't directly measure but we know is very valuable," she said.
She added that a significant gap between estimated and optimal fees compared to other banks similarly positioned in the syndication may suggest the company is at risk of losing that lender unless it is given more business or perhaps moved to a lower tier.
She added that she has talked to many of her company's relationship banks about how they measure returns and learned that banks typically have their own proprietary models for calculating the required returns on committed capital necessary to meet internal hurdle ratios. Several indicated that a good measure of return on capital involves estimating bank net income (bank fees earned minus liquidity charges required under the Basel rules, allocated expenses and taxes) as a percent of risk-based capital. Ultimately, banks seek to provide services in which their capital requirements are low and returns high, such as share repurchase programs, M&A, securities underwriting and cash management.
Other products and services may be less appealing in terms of capital requirements and returns. However, they're a part of the mix that, in a hypothetical exampled offered by the session leader, provides syndicate banks with returns between 8% and 18%.
Share-of-Wallet Worksheet
Identify services to measure fee amounts.
- Direct vs. Indirect.
- Measurable vs. estimated.
- Consider inclusion of non-bank-group members.
Develop template for forecasting and recording actuals.
Compute optimal fees given wallet size.
Measure gap to optimal fees.
- Annual.
- 3-year to 5-year average.
Have frequent conversations with banks.
- Review how conversations match expected returns.
They'll Take It
Acknowledging the example's many underlying assumptions, the session leader noted that banks are likely to be very satisfied with a return of 18% and satisfied with a return somewhere between 12% and 15%. "But we don't know what it is precisely; every bank does it differently," she added.
An executive at Bloomberg, which sponsored the ATLG meeting, said that the bank he used to work at targeted a return of 14%.
The session leader emphasized the importance of frequent conversations with bank relationship managers regarding their satisfaction with the relationship and the returns they are earning. She added that one takeaway from those conversations is that while banks certainly want to provide high-return products and services, their credit committees have additional priorities.
"Credit committees want to know how many touch points the bank has with the company. They want to see diversity in the relationship," she said.
One issue most ATLG members agreed on is that, ultimately, it's corporate treasury that does most of the work syndicating a loan.
"I feel like we do the syndication," said one, prompting fellow participants' laughter. "We spend nine months teeing it off, then bring in the joint leads to sign the book."
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When: 4 May 2018, 09:00 — 17:00
Venue: Birkbeck Clore Management Centre, B01
This one day conference on race and surveillance will explore the way in which race is produced and formed by contemporary surveillance practices and techniques. Racialised differences are reproduced and rearticulated in the use of new surveillance methods, most clearly in terms of pre-crime practices and mechanisms. There has been strong and public resistance to the phenomenon of normalised and blanket surveillance since Edward Snowden's revelations about the practices of the National Security Agency (NSA) in the US. However, scholarly scrutiny of the differential material and discursive effects of surveillance is urgently needed. Contemporary practices of surveillance are based on long histories of inventing 'other races' and the observation and control of minoritised 'communities' in the colonies and imperial centres. Understanding contemporary surveillance practices demands understanding their origins in and ongoing connection to colonial histories. Important scholarly interventions on the intersection between race and surveillance exist in the US (Safiya Umoja Noble 2018; Simone Browne 2015; Arun Kundnani and Deepa Kumar 2015). However, the conjunction between race and surveillance is under-researched in Britain and Europe, and this conference will take steps to remedying this.
This conference is co-organised by the Centre For Research on Race and Law (Birkbeck, University of London) and the Vasari Research Centre for Art and Technology, supported by the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities.
9.00 9.30 Tea and coffee
9.30 9.45 Welcome from the Birkbeck Centre for Research on Race and Law and VASARI Research Centre
9.45 11.15 Panel 1: Genealogies of Race and Surveillance
Bernard Keenan - Empire Cables: British sovereignty, communication, and racialised surveillance
Rob Topinka - Topinka Visual Technology and the Racial Type
Karen Salt - Sites of Oppression: Racialisation, Nullification and the Threat of Fugitivity
11.15 - 11.30 Break
11.30 - 1.00 Panel 2: Surveillance and the Production Of Race
Ramon Amaro - Race, Surveillance and the Autopoetically Instituted Being
Reuben Binns - Machine Learning, Discrimination and The Law
Nisha Kapoor - The Disposition Matrix: Race, Surveillance and the Mobilisation of the Law in the Context of the War on Terror
1.00 - 2.00 Lunch
2.00 3.30 Panel 3: Life under surveillance in Britain today
Katy Sian - 'Race-Thinking' Positivism and the Politics Of Prevent
Jasbinder S. Nijjar and Sanjay Sharma - The Racialized Surveillant Assemblage: Islam and the Fear Of Terrorism
Gunes Tavmen - Response/Discussion
3.30 - 3.45 Break
3.45 4.30 Keynote 1: Marieke de Goede - Configurations of Suspicion in Financial Datamining
4.30 5.15 Keynote 2: Safiya Umoja Noble - Toward a Critical Surveillance Literacy of Black Death and Dying On the Internet
5.15 6.00 Questions and Closing
This is a free event, however registration is required via this page.
Please note that latecomers to the event are not guaranteed entry. Please be advised that photographs may be taken at the event for use on the Birkbeck website and in Birkbeck marketing materials. By attending this event, you consent to Birkbeck photographing and using your image for these purposes. By registering for this event you consent to your email address being added to the School of Law, Birkbeck mailing list. Your email address will not be shared with third-party organisations. If you would like to request your removal from our mailing list please contact law-events@bbk.ac.uk.
This event is part of the School of Law's 25th Anniversary celebrations. The School of Law, Birkbeck was founded in 1992 as a Department of Law with three members of academic staff. Over the last twenty-five years it has become a School comprising the Departments of Law and Criminology as well as the Institute for Criminal Policy Research, four research Centres, 40 members of staff and an overall student body of over 1,000. The School is proud of being a pioneer in establishing and developing a hub for the field of critical legal studies. While our national and international reputation has been forged through critical legal research, more recently we have gained recognition for critical criminological and activist research, socio-legal scholarship and policy-engaged empirical research. In recognition of this the last Research Excellence Framework exercise ranked us as being in the top 10 law schools in the UK and in the top 3 in London, while our research environment was judged conducive to producing research of the highest quality.
In this our 25th Anniversary year we will be holding a series of events reflecting on our history and successes as well as looking forward to the opportunities and challenges facing critical legal and criminological teaching and scholarship in the 21st century. Find out more about the 25th Anniversary celebrations here.
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The views of Kangchenjunga weren't the only reason I wanted to visit Darjeeling. I drank a lot of tea during my time there, and this was an example of a tasting of four second-flush Darjeelings. I had a distinct preference for the one on the far left: the Castleton 'second flush tippy clonal'.
Lisa, perhaps surprisingly, not all were delicious. One had flavours that seemed slightly mouldy to me. Not at all appealing. The Castleton 'tippy clonal', however, was definitely delicious.
Zhoen, see my reply to Lisa. At least one was yum, though.
I love the golden glow of this, enhanced by the tones of red.


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Week in Review: Smell Ya Later, 2017
I'm not quite sure what to say about 2017, except maybe good riddance? It was truly an incredible year. (And for the most part, not in a positive way, but rather, in a way that was hard to believe). Hopefully as we head into the homestretch, we can all take a beat and reflect on lessons learned and how we can best move forward, individually and collectively, for a less tumultuous new year. And of course, we should all take some time to check out all of the very important memes (and more memes), tweets, GIFs, and fun internet moments from the past year. You're welcome.
And with that, we've wrapped up the Week in Review posts for the year. Stay tuned for a fun holiday post next week, and then we'll be back in 2018!
What is emotional intelligence and why does it matter for your career? Professor Joseph Rode of the Farmer School of Business tackles this question in his latest study; read more about his research and the value of emotional intelligence in this Business News Daily article.
Five years after the Sandy Hook massacre, The New York Times examined how mourning and grief evolves and endures with different perspectives, including one from David Wheeler. His son Benjamin was one of the children killed in the shooting, and his grief-turned-activism led him to Iowa and Grinnell College for a screening of a documentary of the shooting and a demonstration outside of a gun company run by the president of the NRA.
Despite more Americans having a positive view of Muslims today than two years ago, anti-Muslim hate crimes are on the rise. In a piece for The Washington Post, Grinnell College Professor Caleb Elfenbein explains why outreach is not enough to overcome deep-seated anti-Muslim hostility.
Scripps College Professor Roberto Pedace's piece on the international box office and its affect on diversity in Hollywood, which originally appeared in The Conversation, was also picked up by Business Insider and U.S. News & World Report.
This week on Inside Higher Ed's Call to Action blog, learn how to avoid pitfalls with "Dear Community" letters as calls for campus-wide communications become more frequent.
In a Quick Hit, Kylie takes a look at the latest headline from United—the resignation of Jim Olson, senior vice president of corporate communications.
Teresa will lead a crisis communications session and case study review for the Dean's Section of the American Association of Law Schools in San Diego, CA on January 6, 2018.
On Feb. 9, 2018, Erin will present "Finding—and Using—Your Voice: A Communications Toolkit for Advocates," part of Mount Holyoke College's Advocacy in the Public Domain event series.
Teresa will be at the National Conference on Trusteeship for the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges in San Francisco. She will run the Crisis Management: What is the Role of the Board? Workshop on April 22, as well as facilitate the master class Fake News, Social Media, and Your Institution's Reputation on April 23.
I like holiday music as much as the next person—I do know every word to "Last Christmas" by Wham! and dance around to "Christmas Wrapping" by The Waitresses—but I also like incorporating more off-the-beaten-track holiday music into my yearly playlists. Here are three albums I'm loving this year:
It's a Holiday Soul Party by Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings
Everyday Is Christmas by Sia
Christmas Party by She & Him
And for my fellow Wham! fans, here's a special gift.
I mentioned last year that my new favorite holiday tradition is Jólabókaflóðið, or Iceland's Christmas book flood. While I'm definitely excited for my own reads (fingers crossed for Smitten Kitchen's new cook book or a fantastic novel), I'm really digging our picks for Lucy's book flood. First up, Tacos! Cook in a Book, which features a real recipe but also lots of interactive features like flaps and pop outs. I just discovered it's a series, so my budding sous chef may see more of these in the future. And I love Red and Lulu, a sweet story of two cardinals who love Christmas. We originally got this from the library and my Lulu loved it so much that I actually bought it the same day after checking it out. It's already become a classic in our house (and yes, we had to give it to her before Christmas Eve).
And, Merriam-Webster's word of the year is out: Feminism. Lookups of the word spiked 70 percent from 2016, and spiked several times over the year. Since the winner and runners up offer a good way to check our national pulse, I enjoy looking at the contenders as a snapshot of each year.
Racial tensions have been high across the U.S. for some time, including—and perhaps surprising to some—in Boston, which has had its share of highly publicized bigotry and hate incidents in recent months. As home to so many colleges and universities, the issues naturally extend to the city's campuses, manifesting in a variety of ways. This week the Boston Globe Spotlight Team took a closer look at diversity and racism in Boston's colleges, where only seven percent of students were African American in 2015. They pay particular attention to institutions' claims of increased diversity, through larger numbers of international students, and what that really means for other members of the student body.
Also, I read Wonder during Thanksgiving weekend, just days before coming across this article on why so many adults are reading YA. While I'm not sure it "all goes back to Harry Potter," since I've never been able to really get into the series, I do think some of the other reasons the article cites ring true. Some of the best books I've read this year have been YA. Now I find myself seeking them out.
Maybe Michael Crichton wasn't so far off… scientists found ticks and skin beetles preserved in amber. Interestingly, one of them was hanging onto a dinosaur feather. Just let that sink in! Maybe we CAN have a real-life Jurassic Park! After all, one of the ticks was engorged with what must be dinosaur blood! Although the researcher says it is impossible to determine the host animal and they wouldn't "perform any Jurassic Park shenanigans by extracting its stolen blood," I'm still hopeful. Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus and he might be bringing me a triceratops in the future.
And, do you remember the internet outage of 2016? It wasn't the Russians, but the Russians could see those who did it from their backyards. It turns out, three Alaskan college students were trying to dominate at Minecraft and things got a bit out of control. I enjoyed the story of what they intended to do versus what happened and plan to share the tale with my kiddo this weekend.
Kylie Lacey
I definitely played with toys, but no one paid me $11 million! According to Forbes, six-year-old Ryan of Ryan ToysReview made that much, and was the eighth highest paid YouTuber between June 2016 and 2017. His 10 million subscribers tune in to watch him unbox and construct Legos, open giant surprise eggs, and perform age-appropriate science experiments. He simply plays for the camera. Industry experts claim there is a direct correlation between toys Ryan particularly enjoys and increased retail sales. I had never heard of this particular YouTuber until I came across this Washington Post article, but it certainly makes sense why this adorable little boy has quite the following! The story focuses on the positives of being a young YouTuber, but it does make me think about whether Ryan is afforded the same rights as unionized child actors. Where exactly does that $11 million go?
Kudos to my dear friend @jreische for his @nytimes piece on "The Importance of Dumb Mistakes in College." https://t.co/XI7Qk9Z9tT #highered
— Teresa Valerio Parrot (@tvparrot) December 11, 2017
Stories like this (https://t.co/t62iL8pJ7h) about foster kids & #college from @pewtrusts make this @AskAManager blog all the more horrifying: https://t.co/SzUWRtJpYW
— Kylie Kinnaman (@kylielkinnaman) December 11, 2017
And the winners of the 2017 #IHEreaderschoice awards go to… https://t.co/rdYoEa9ke1 @insidehighered @ScottJaschik
— Cristal Steuer (@CristalSteuer) December 12, 2017
Turns out the higher your emotional intelligence, the more money you can expect to make. https://t.co/VqgKWS2gwG
— Kristine Maloney (@kristinemaloney) December 12, 2017
The @nytimes election needle is the unruly ill-mannered grandchild of the ouija board.
— Erin 🍀 Hennessy (@ErinAHennessy) December 13, 2017
One of the greatest joys of working from home this time of year: absolutely blasting #ChristmasMusic and singing along. No shame, no regrets, no real pants.
— Ali Lincoln (she/her) (@AliLincolnTVP) December 11, 2017


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#18 The Cavalier King Charles Spaniel
Cavalier King Charles Spaniels
The Cavalier King Charles Spaniel is a distinguished breed that originated in the United Kingdom in the 18th century. They were popular hunting and lap dogs, famous for their ability to keep up with the horses while in the field. The breed earned its name due to King Charles II's fondness for the small spaniel. Over time the breed was modified and diverged from the original conformation that King Charles II loved so dearly. In the 1920's breeders sought to recreate the original breed, which led to the distinction between the King Charles Spaniel and the Cavalier King Charles Spaniel, which has a longer face and flatter skull. The Cavalier variety was recognized by the American Kennel Club in 1995, and it is now the 18th most popular breed in the United States.
Cavalier King Charles Spaniels are wonderful family dogs that can be described as affectionate, gentle, patient, and eager to please. They get along well with children and other dogs, and their playful and adaptable personalities make them perfect companions for many types of living situations. As content to cuddle on the couch as they are to explore on a hike, this breed maintains the versatility of its original ancestors. Cavalier King Charles Spaniels have a strong prey drive, so they are not recommended as companions for birds, cats, or gerbils unless properly socialized under close supervision. Their exercise requirements are low, but it is important that Cavalier King Charles Spaniels receive enough activity in order to maintain a healthy weight.
As a toy breed the Cavalier King Charles is small, weighing 13 – 18 lbs and standing 12 – 13 inches tall at the shoulder. Their coat is silky and moderately long, requiring frequent brushing and grooming to keep shedding to a minimum, as well as to reduce matting and tangling. There are four accepted colors for a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel, which are black and tan, black and white, Blenheim, and ruby. Blenheim refers to the Blenheim estate, owned by John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough who preferred his Cavalier King Charles Spaniels to have specific coloring of chestnut markings on a white base. Tan markings are common among the breed, such as a spot in the middle of the forehead called the "Blenheim spot" or the "Duchess Thumb Print."
When purchasing a Cavalier King Charles puppy, choosing a reputable and ethical breeder is paramount. This breed suffers from a number of serious genetic problems, particularly mitral valve disease (MVD), which is a leading cause of death for these dogs. Due to their characteristically small head and large eyes, many of the breed also suffers from Syringomyelia, which is a painful condition affecting the brain and spine, and occurs when the brain is too large for the skull. Surgery is commonly performed to ease the dog's pain and lessen additional side effects which include neurological disorders and eye disease. They also suffer from a number of inherited eye issues, including "dry eye," cataracts, retinal dysplasia, and progressive retinal atrophy. Despite the high incidence of health problems, a well cared for Cavalier King Charles Spaniel can live a long life, with many dogs reaching 14 years of age.
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Lotteries lure women into betting
By John Dillin Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
In ``My Fair Lady,'' Henry Higgins asked: Why can't a woman be more like a man? Well, Professor Higgins, now they are -- when it comes to gambling.
Like men, women are playing the lotteries, rolling dice in casinos, betting on slot machines.
Like men, women are becoming compulsive gamblers who damage their families and their careers.
And like men, some women are turning to crime to support their gambling habits.
There's a growing debate over why this is happening. But there's no doubt that it is. Thousands of women who had never gambled a few years ago are now into very serious, high-stakes play.
Part of the debate is whether new, state-run lotteries are introducing women to gambling and helping to create new compulsive gamblers.
Lottery forces say adamantly, ``No.''
Some experts who work with compulsive gamblers disagree. They point to case after case of women who have become compulsive gamblers through the lotteries.
Whoever is right, female gambling has become a mounting problem for America during the past few years.
Robert L. Custer, one of the nation's leading authorities on gambling problems, says: ``If there has ever been anything that was male chauvinist . . . it has been gambling. Women were kept out for a long time.
``That has [now] changed. [For example] they are now into the poker tournaments. And they . . . are really as good as the male gamblers, and that tends to reinforce their gambling behavior. They like to beat the men.''
Dr. Custer estimates conservatively that there are 2 million compulsive gamblers in the United States today. Some estimates go as high as 8 million. Of these, a growing percentage are women.
Authorities in Maryland, where there is a very active, state-run lottery, say that a few years ago they almost never treated women for gambling problems. That's no longer true. More and more women are turning themselves in for help.
John Steele, a counselor at the Maryland Treatment Program for gamblers in Baltimore, says:
``The majority of women that have come to me for treatment [of compulsive gambling] have been lottery players.
``One woman, in her mid-to-late 20s, worked for a bank as a teller and embezzled money to play the lottery. Then she took another job and got caught stealing there.
``Another woman, in her mid-30s, had been playing the lottery for years. She had embezzled more than $100,000 from her company.
``In both cases, the crimes were driven by the need for money for gambling. In both cases, in their minds they felt that when they hit [the lottery jackpot], they could put the money back.''
Then Mr. Steele adds:
``There's no question a lot of the money the state has coming in through the lottery is stolen money.''
Dr. Valerie Lorenz, director of the Maryland program, cites the case of a woman who gambled away $79,000 -- everything her family had -- before she sought help.
Others, however, dispute whether state lotteries, which took in more than $8 billion in bets last year, really are creating many serious problems -- either for men or women.
Duane Burke, chairman and president of Public Gaming Research Institute, observes:
``In general, the money spent on lotteries is an infinitesimal percentage of total income of anybody. Play tends to be in the $1, $2, $3-a-week range for regular players.''
The question, Mr. Burke says, is whether lotteries are hurting either the players or their families.
``[My] observation is, based on 20 years' experience, that is not happening.''
Dr. Custer, who is president of the National Foundation on the Study and Treatment of Pathological Gambling, says most serious gamblers are not attracted to lotteries.
Serious gamblers prefer horse racing, illegal sports betting, casino and country-club betting, and stock and commodity options, he says.
The reason: Serious bettors think they can get an ``edge'' in something like horse racing -- an edge such as an inside tip. That is not true in lotteries, which are pure chance. So the serious bettor is not drawn to lotteries, Custer says.
He does concede, however, that lotteries can serve as an entry port for gamblers.
People who have never bet before, seeing a state-run lottery with the imprimatur of government upon it, might buy a ticket. And win. And that's when the trouble begins. All serious gambling problems begin with a big win, Custer says.
Buying that first lottery ticket might be compared to a future drug addict taking his first puff on a cigarette, Custer says. It's a starting point.
Several sources, including a federal law enforcement official who asked not to be identified, suggested that there are a number of reasons for the upsurge of female gambling.
First, the women's liberation movement now makes it acceptable for a woman to go unaccompanied into a casino and do serious gambling.
Second, more women now hold high positions in companies. These jobs give them access to money, and the final phase of compulsive gambling often includes theft.
Third, technology now provides various forms of electronic gambling, which many women find more to their liking than traditional blackjack or craps. Gambling tables are often dominated by male players, and the women feel intimidated. But ``video blackjack, craps, horse and dog races allow players to sit down and play at their own speed, and women use them,'' a federal law enforcement source notes.
Finally, there are changes brought about by the state-run lotteries. Bob Bezilla, who has studied gambling for the Gallup Organization, says that in earlier times there was a ``social barrier'' to women playing the numbers, as illegal lotteries are called. Women were not likely to go into a barbershop or pool hall to find the local numbers runner.
Today they can pick up a lottery ticket at the same time they buy a candy bar at a local store. And it's all legal. State-run lotteries have taken numbers playing out of the dark.
The lotteries have done something else. While sports betting, casinos, and most other gambling are still primarily the province of men, lotteries are played as much by women as men. A survey in Washington State found the lottery players there divided 49.4 percent male, 50.6 percent female. A New Jersey study found it was 50-50 in that state.
Some experts now wonder if this equality in the lotteries will eventually lead to equality in more serious, high-stakes gambling -- once these new female bettors get bored with mere lottery play.
Fifth of eight articles. Next: Lotteries and the law.
The odds and ends of Mega Millions jackpot lottery
A record Powerball jackpot isn't a record to celebrate
In a Mega Millions jackpot, is there any winner?


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Q: How "things" radiate electromagnetic radiation? How things radiate electromagnetic radiation? I don't ask why they radiate (higher temperature than 0K) but how they radiate this electromagnetic waves?

A: There are two ways of getting electromagnetic radiation from matter.
Matter is usually neutral, the electrons and protons are equal in number to each other and any fields are spill over giving rise to  Van der Waals forces which bind neutral atoms into molecules etc.
At this micro level nature is quantum mechanical. That means that all electrons are in energy levels some of which energy levels are practically a continuum, i.e. the difference between them is very small. This means that vibrations of the atoms and molecules in their solid structure, as an example, will excite by kinematics these levels and fall back  by the emission of a photon  ( de-excitation); the ensemble of these photons gives rise to black body radiation. When the temperature is high the corresponding energy levels have larger gaps,  and the photons are of  higher energy.
A filament lamp has high enough temperature to emit visible light . Liquids have similar behavior, gases only have molecular energy levels and vibrations but the process is the same. Kinetic energy from temperature  is transformed into photons from de-excitations .
The bulk of light we see comes from this mechanisms, even the light from the sun.
There are the LED lights, again a quantum mechanical effect, but of different origin:

"when electrons cross the junction from the n- to the p-type material, the electron-hole recombination process produces some photons in the IR or visible in a process called electroluminescence."

The second way of getting light is how  the other answers state, by accelerating charges, ions and electrons, as in sparks and lightning, plasma etc.

A: Electromagnetic Radiation is a time-changing component of an electric (and magnetic)  field in the direction transverse to the direction of propagation. Generally, this radiation is emitted by accelerating charges.
Consider placing a positive point charge in a vacuum; electric field lines spread out radially from its position at the speed of light, c. There is only a radial component to the field.
If the particle starts moving moving with a constant velocity, then the field lines will shift and this shift will propagate away from the particle at a speed c. There is now a transverse component to the field as well as a radial one, but it's constant in time (ignoring the initial kink, of course). The moving charge generates a current, so we also have a magnetic field, but it is constant in time.
If the particle is accelerating, then the transverse component becomes time-changing. we also have a time-changing current, so the magnetic field changes in time too.

A: Electromagnetic radiation is a result of the movement of charges.
If you take a look at this lecture by Dr Lewin, he has a nice visualization on how waves are formed.
It can also be a result of blackbody radiation


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