Psalm 138 was likely said while offering a thanksgiving sacrifice in the temple. The speaker recounts how God answered his/her prayer, praises God, and expresses confidence that God will continue to grant protection in the future.
Psalm 138 is a direct-address to God which expresses thanks for his salvation.
Psalm 138 contains many elements of the Thanksgiving genre (see Gerstenberger's "Introduction to Cultic Poetry" in vol. 1 of "Psalms"): (a) it has the offertory formula 'odekha "I will praise you" (vv. 1-2), (b) it gives an account of trouble and salvation (v. 3), and (c) it expresses praise for God (v. 6). Yet, Psalm 138 is different than all other thanksgiving psalms in that it contains no public aspects: there isn't (a) an invitation to give thanks or to praise, (b) a blessing for the participants, or (c) an exhortation towards the community. What is one to make of this break from convention?
Some scholars point out that while most thanksgiving psalms do not contain petitions, Psalm 138 does: "do not forsake the work of Your hands" (v. 8). Based on this peculiarity they suggest that the psalm was once a complaint/petition, and it was later changed to conform to the thanksgiving genre. But, this is highly speculative because (a) the petition is short and run-of-the-mill, and (b) some other thanksgivings also contain petitions, e.g. Ps. 40:12 and 118:25. Others suggest that Psalm 138 is a royal psalm (based on the mention of kings in v. 4 and parallels to Ps. 18), but many are just not sure.
Although I have not seen it written anywhere, I think that there is an altogether different reason why Psalm 138 lacks any public characteristics: it was said by an unaccompanied individual. The psalm mentions the "lowly" and those "from afar" in v. 6, and it is possible that the reciter came to the temple alone (which would make sense if he came from afar). Thus, it is a normal thanksgiving psalm, just said in an unordinary circumstance.
The psalm's setting seems to be the temple: "I bow toward Your holy temple and praise Your name" (v. 2). It begins with an emphatic line, "I praise You with all my heart," but quickly becomes enigmatic: what does neged 'elohim 'azammerekha "I will sing a hymn to You before the divine beings" mean? While some choose to translate this phrase as "in front, God, I will sing to you," this is a difficult reading. Rather, like Ps. 82:1 ("God stands in the divine assembly; among the divine beings He pronounces judgment") and Ps. 135:5 ("For I know that the LORD is great, that our LORD is greater than all gods") our verse seems to acknowledge the existence – albeit a diminished one – of other gods. This is what scholars call monolatry, i.e. the worship of one deity while acknowledging the existence of others. Monotheism, they say, only developed later.
The psalm mentions the individual "offertory formula" 'odekha twice (vv. 1-2), and this was probably said while bringing the sacrifice. The account of salvation (v. 3) is brief: "When I called, You answered me, You inspired me with courage." It is also unusual because it is a direct-address as opposed to the normal third person description (cf. 118:17-20, 40:2-4, 116:3-4). But, it isn't altogether peculiar: Ps. 30:3-5 and 116:8 are also direct-address accounts of salvation.
Vv. 4-5 express hope for future praise: "All the kings of the earth shall praise You, O LORD, for they have heard the words You spoke. They shall sing of the ways of the LORD, 'Great is the majesty of the LORD!'" V. 6 is a single line of hymnic praise, and vv. 7-8 are an affirmation of confidence (usual for complaint/petitions but unusual for thanksgivings, but still see Ps. 18:29-30, 118:6-7,14). It ends with a petition, also unusual for thanksgivings, but similar to Ps. 40:12 and 118:25.
v. 3: When I called, You answered me, You inspired me with courage.
v. 6: High though the LORD is, He sees the lowly; lofty, He perceives from afar.


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Review | America is Not the Heart, Elaine Castillo
Posted on 7 June 2018 by Jaclyn
Elaine Castillo is a fresh and welcome new voice to Filipino immigrant fiction. I loved the Filipino touches throughout America is Not the Heart — the sprinkling of Tagalog and Ilocano, the obsession with pancit and Pinoy-style BBQ, and all the talk about faith healing and the power of brujas to heal things like eczema. There are some great passages about Filipino folklore — the white lady of Balete drive, the consequences of a supernatural being (I can't remember which one Castillo referenced) falling in love with you and not wanting to let you go. There are also all-too-real depictions of Filipino gatherings, and the oddly instantaneous sense of closeness when Filipinos encounter each other abroad — from a grandmother figure tactlessly discussing Roni's eczema in front of everyone to a complete stranger asking Hero about the condition of her hand.
Major kudos as well to the audiobook narrator (Donabella Martel), who really brought the story to life. From other Goodreads reviews, I learned the text version of the book doesn't use quotation marks, which often pulls me from the story and particularly when the story is this long. So I was glad to have her voice clearly distinguishing between characters for me. I'm also often wary of how non-native Filipino speakers pronounce Tagalog words, so I'm really happy that Martel did a good job overall with the accents.
Like many other Goodreads reviewers, I had been captivated by Paz's story in the beginning, so it was a bit of a disappointment to realize she's not the actual protagonist of the book. I was glad to see her play a prominent role again near the end, and wish I'd seen more of her throughout. She was probably the most compelling character to me, and so often, like Hero, I wanted so badly for her to fight Pol and win. (No spoilers, but basically he does something I find unforgiveable later in the book, and due to the power of his family, Paz is relatively helpless to fight back.)
Even while I wanted more of Paz, I also found Hero to be a compelling heroine. I loved her love story with Rosalyn, and I also enjoyed reading about her experiences as a doctor with the New People's Army (NPA), a militant Filipino communist group. I rarely see the NPA featured in Filipino fiction, much less in such a sympathetic light, so it was interesting to read.
Roni, as the American-born daughter of Paz and Pol and cousin of Hero, is fascinating to me mostly because of what she represents. There's a great line about Roni early in the book (Paz's section, as she looks at her baby girl) that reads:
She doesn't have to love America; she's of it. (7%)
And it's so incredibly true. For immigrants like Paz, Pol and Hero, who struggle between their longing for home in the Philippines and their desire to make a home in America, there's almost a requirement to become super-American. To love America so much that no one can question your right to be here. It's a very familiar feeling to me as an immigrant — much as I sincerely love Canada, there was also a touch of the performative in my love for the country at the beginning, almost like I felt I needed to prove my worth to become Canadian. So that line about Roni being of America and therefore not being required to love it really resonated with me, and so much kudos to Elaine Castillo for capturing this complex feeling so succinctly.
There are so many similarly brilliant gems throughout the book — Hero's observation that Rosalyn's world in Milpitas is primarily Asian people and places, Roni's story of her classmates calling Filipinos "more Mexican than Asian" — that beautifully capture various aspects of Filipino immigrant experiences.
It's a wonderful book, and I highly recommend it, ideally with a bowl of pancit and a stick of Pinoy BBQ by your side
Thank you to the Toronto Public Library for taking my recommendation and acquiring the audiobook of this title. Libraries are amazing, and the Toronto Public Library is (in my admittedly biased opinion) simply the best.

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Consider some example. From the string 47?4? we can obtain four lucky strings by replacing question marks with the lucky digits: 47444, 47447, 47744 and 47747. The corresponding numbers of different substrings are 11, 11, 12 and 11. For example, all different substrings of the string 47447 are 4, 7, 44, 47, 74, 447, 474, 744, 4744, 7447 and 47447.
T = S[k + 1], T = S[k + 2], ..., T[M] = S[k + M].
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For each test case output a single line containing the answer for the corresponding test case.
For each string S from the input file we have that |S| = N and each character in S is either the lucky digit (4 or 7) or the question mark ?.


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DECLINE OF A HERITAGE LANGUAGE, PALAUAN: THE INTERPLAY OF LANGUAGE POLICIES, PLANNING, PRACTICES AND OPINIONS IN PALAU
dc.contributor.advisor Beglar, David J.
dc.creator Okayama, Yoko
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dc.description.abstract This case study investigates the language policies and planning (LPP) implemented in Palau since the occupation by Japan before and during World War II, and by the United States of America under the United Nation's Trusteeship after the war. Palau is an island country in the Pacific with a population of 17,500, including 4,600 foreign-born citizens. The society is multilingual as a result of a 150-year occupation by other countries, including Japan and the United States, before its independence in 1994. In this study I also explore the effects of LPP during that time, including the policy regarding a standard writing system, practices at pedagogical institutions, and Palauans' opinions about languages, especially the two official languages, Palauan and English. Data were gathered through interviews, historical document study, observations of classes, and a questionnaire administered in Palau, by visiting the country more than 20 times, for one- to two-week stays beginning in 2001. Hornberger (2006) stated that the terms language policy and language planning have been used interchangeably or as a single concept in many previous studies. Her suggestion was to use the two terms as a set, as the relationship between them has been ambiguous in the past (p. 25). I agree with Hornberger that the two terms fundamentally form a single concept, and therefore, they are used as a set in this study. The theoretical framework proposed by Taylor (2002) is used to analyze the current LPP in Palau: that is, (1) language planning composed of (1.1) status planning, (1.2) corpus planning, and (1.3) acquisition planning; (2) language-in-education policy; and (3) aspects of language-in-education implementation program that consist of (3.1) curriculum policies, (3.2) personnel policies, (3.3) material policies (methods, content), (3.4) community policies, and (3.5) evaluation policies (p. 318). He stated, "[t]he process of devising a new national language policy" affects "language-in-education implementation programs" (p. 318). Major LPP studies were reviewed chronologically based on three phases suggested by Ricento (2000, pp. 10-22). It was helpful to consider the history of LPP "as a dynamic interplay between academic concerns... and political/bureaucratic interests" (Wee, 2011, p. 11). Also, some previous researchers have noted that localized studies of language goals, language use, and language change are needed. According to Kaplan and Baldauf (2003), who studied languages and language-in-education planning in the Pacific Basin, it is rare for Pacific Basin countries to have a language policy: "... [L]anguage planning is frequently undertaken by the education sector in the absence of any such higher-level policy or in the light of such a policy so vaguely articulated as to be quite incapable of implementation" (p. 6). Although their study provided a great deal of valuable information, they did not investigate the language policies of Palau. In this study I describe the government's policies, and real life situation of the policies. To describe the real life situation of the policies, interviews, and a questionnaire survey were used. I interviewed Palauans, such as those who had experienced the occupation(s) and postwar period to better understand the historical background of the current LPP. I also interviewed incumbent teachers after observing their classes. Most of them described various problems in teaching the compulsory Palauan Studies Course, on Palauan language, history, tradition, and culture. I also interviewed officials of the Ministry of Education, who provided a great deal of information about the educational system in Palau and the curriculum of the Palauan Studies Course. The 62-item questionnaire provided data concerning people's language use in various social contexts, as well as the effects of language policies and planning on people's opinions about languages. The 137 respondents were divided into five groups according to their year of birth, considering the years when important transitions had occurred in the LPP. Their responses were compared, and some of the respondents were interviewed to illuminate the questionnaire results. I interviewed eight Palauans in March and September 2012 and asked why they had selected certain responses to the questionnaire items. The questionnaire results indicated that there is a tendency for the younger generation to use English more than the older generations in various contexts, and that the efforts Palauans have made, such as making the new writing system a compulsory part of the school curriculum, have yielded positive effects on the opinions of the younger generation, who learned the Palauan writing system at school. Overall, the results showed that Palauan is not in danger of extinction at present, but it might lose its status as the primary language in the future. I suggest strategies for preserving Palauan as the primary language.
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dc.subject English as A Second Language
dc.subject Education, Sociology of
dc.subject Colonial Period
dc.subject Decline of A Heritage Language
dc.subject Language Policies and Planning
dc.subject Palauan
dc.subject Palauans' Opinions Toward Languages
dc.subject Palauans' Practices in Classrooms
dc.title DECLINE OF A HERITAGE LANGUAGE, PALAUAN: THE INTERPLAY OF LANGUAGE POLICIES, PLANNING, PRACTICES AND OPINIONS IN PALAU
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dc.contributor.committeemember Childs, Marshall
dc.contributor.committeemember Churchill, Eton
dc.contributor.committeemember Sakamoto, Masako
dc.contributor.committeemember Nishino, Takako
dc.contributor.committeemember Beglar, David J.
dc.description.department Teaching & Learning
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Diagnosing L2 English Learners' Listening comprehension abilities with Scripted and Unscripted Listening Texts
Beglar, David J.; Wagner, Elvis; Swenson, Tamara Ann; Leeming, Ian Paul (Temple University. Libraries, 2018)
L2 listening research has moved toward a focus on understanding the process of listening. However, there are still few detailed studies of L2 listening that reveal learners' comprehension processes when listening to scripted and unscripted listening texts. Studies in which such processing has been discussed have lacked detailed diagnoses of how bottom-up and top-down processing interactively affect listeners' comprehension. This study was designed to show how listeners' process and comprehend texts, with a focus on how their bottom-up and top-down processing either assist or impede their comprehension. In this study, a group of 30 L1 Japanese university English language learners' listening abilities were diagnosed. The 30 participants were at three listening proficiency levels—high, mid, and low—based on TOEIC listening proficiency scores. The diagnostic procedure involved participants listening to two scripted and two unscripted listening texts and then reporting what they comprehended through three tasks—L1 oral recalls, L2 repetitions, and verbal reports. Other data was also collected in the study to relate the comprehension of listening texts to other important listening-related variables including listening proficiency, lexical knowledge, listening anxiety, study abroad experience, short-term phonological memory, and working memory. The main finding of the study was that miscomprehension of listening texts was invariably multi-causal, with a combination of both bottom-up and top-down factors leading to comprehension difficulty. Although not a new finding, the study offered more detail than current research about how bottom-up and top-down processing occur interactively. Regarding the overall difficulty of the listening texts, unscripted texts were more difficult to comprehend than scripted texts, and high-proficiency participants had fewer listening difficulties overall than mid- and low-proficiency participants. Quantitative and qualitative results revealed common processing difficulties among all participants due to L1-related phonological decoding issues (e.g., /l/ vs. /r/), connected speech, unknown lexis, and a lack of familiarity with unscripted speech hesitation phenomena (e.g., um, like). Qualitative transcript examples showed how top-down knowledge influenced misinterpretations of words and phrases interactively with bottom-up information, making inaccurate understandings of listening difficult to overcome. In addition to revealing participants' difficulties and the severity of their comprehension difficulties, the diagnostic procedure showed common strengths—key words and phrases understood well by participants. High-frequency vocabulary and shorter utterances were both shown to be comprehended well. Finally, quantitative results in the study revealed relationships of participants' listening comprehension with other important listening related variables. Listening proficiency and listening anxiety had strong relationships with listening comprehension of the listening texts. Working memory and short-term phonological memory had no relationship with listening text comprehension. Finally, study abroad experience showed a relationship with comprehension, but with many caveats, and listening vocabulary knowledge was not related with comprehension, but again, with numerous caveats to consider. Based on the results, theoretical and pedagogical implications were posed. Theoretical implications from the study relate to the understanding of four concerns in L2 listening research. Mainly, data in the study will aid researchers' understanding of how L2 English listeners process speech interactively (i.e., with bottom-up and top-down information) for comprehension, how L2 English listeners experience connected speech, how L2 listeners deal with unknown lexis, and how L2 listeners experience difficulties with features of unscripted speech. Pedagogical implications of the study include the need for increased teacher and learner awareness of the complexity of L2 listening, the need to have learners to track their own listening development, and the need for teachers to expose learners to unscripted listening texts and make them familiar with features of unscripted speech. Finally, suggestions for further research are posed, including conducting diagnostics assessments of L2 listening with listeners of different L1s and with more varied proficiency levels, using different diagnostic procedures to examine L2 listening comprehension, and using more instruments to understand listening-related variables' relationships with L2 listening comprehension.
THE EFFECTS OF EXPLICIT FORM-FOCUSED INSTRUCTION ON L2 ORAL PROFICIENCY DEVELOPMENT
Leeming, Paul; Beglar, David J.; Nemoto, Tomoko; Doe, Timothy Jonathan (Temple University. Libraries, 2019)
This study was an examination of the effects of explicit form-focused instruction on the English development of Japanese university students during a seven-week intervention. Speaking proficiency development is a continuous challenge for most EFL learners who have limited exposure to the target language outside the classroom. Within the communicative language teaching paradigm, task-based language learning (TBLT) has been considered an effective approach for developing students' speaking proficiency. However, while TBLT has been increasingly implemented in English language classrooms, investigations in which explicit form-focused instruction has been integrated into task based speaking tasks are limited. This longitudinal classroom-based study had five purposes. The first purpose was to examine the development of speaking proficiency in terms of syntactic complexity, syntactic accuracy, and oral fluency. The second purpose was to examine the development of speaking proficiency by comparing learners who received form-focused instruction with those who did not receive form-focused instruction by examining differences in their syntactic complexity, syntactic accuracy, and oral fluency development. The third purpose was to quantitatively and qualitatively examine the week-to-week trajectory of changes in speaking proficiency development. The fourth purpose was to examine learner affective variables. The final purpose was to examine the participants' perceptions concerning the development of speaking proficiency based on their self-assessments. The participants were 104 first-year students enrolled in a Japanese university. All of the participants narrated a different four-picture cartoon in English once a week for nine weeks. The participants were divided into one comparison group and two intervention groups: form-focused instruction (FFI) and form-focused instruction and peer feedback (FFI + PF). The form-focused instruction intervention included ten minutes of grammar instruction focused on three past tense forms: simple past, past continuous, and past perfect, as well as ten minutes of peer feedback. Between the pretest and posttest, the FFI and FFI + PF participants received seven weeks of instruction before their weekly cartoon narration. Participants in the comparison group did not receive any weekly interventions. The pretest and posttest narration data of all participants were transcribed and analyzed using six CAF measurements: mean length of T-unit, clause/T-unit ratio, percentage of error-free T-units, percentage of accurate past tense usage, speech rate, and self-repair. Moreover, the pretest and posttest narrations recorded by all of the participants were analytically rated by three raters. From the sample of 104 participants, nine participants (three representatives from each group) were chosen for a week-to-week trajectory analysis in which their six CAF performances were qualitatively and quantitatively analyzed. All of the participants completed two questionnaires after taking the pretest and posttest. I developed both questionnaires based on previous literature related to second language speaking proficiency development. The English Speaking Learner Affect Questionnaire was used to examine differences in participants' classroom English speaking anxiety, English speaking self-efficacy, and desire to speak English. The Self-Assessment of Speaking Task Questionnaire was used to examine changes in the participants' self-assessment of their own performances in terms of syntactic complexity, syntactic accuracy, and oral fluency. The results indicated that form-focused instruction was effective at improving the participants' global syntactic accuracy and their accurate use of the simple past tense. However, form-focused instruction did not lead to improvements in syntactic complexity or oral fluency. However, explicit form-focused instruction did not lead to detrimental effects on syntactic complexity or oral fluency; thus, form-focused instruction did not appear to stimulate trade-off effects between syntactic complexity, syntactic accuracy, and oral fluency. The analytical ratings provided by the raters indicated that form-focused instruction did not lead to significant improvements in terms of syntactic complexity, syntactic accuracy, or oral fluency. The results also indicated that the form-focused instruction intervention was effective at quickly improving syntactic accuracy because participants who received both form-focused instruction and peer feedback improved more quickly in the simple past compared to the participants who only received form-focused instruction. However, the participants who improved syntactic accuracy quickly might have experienced trade-offs with oral fluency ability, as improvements in speed fluency were not noted until their syntactic accuracy reached a ceiling effect where their global accuracy and accurate use of simple past tense stopped to improve. The results indicated that form-focused instruction did not influence classroom English speaking anxiety, as there was no significant difference seen between participants who received form-focused instruction and participants who did not. However, an excessive amount of form-focused instruction might have negative impacts on speaking anxiety because the participants who received both form-focused instruction and peer feedback showed an increase in their classroom English speaking anxiety. On the other hand, form-focused instruction had no impact on English speaking self-efficacy and it had positive effects on the desire to speak English because the participants who received both form-focused instruction and peer feedback exhibited a significant increase in their desire to speak English compared to the participants who did not receive form-focused instruction and the participants who received only form-focused instruction. Finally, based on the learners' self-assessment, form-focused instruction had no effects on speaking proficiency development as there was no difference in self-assessed syntactic complexity, syntactic accuracy, and oral fluency between the participants in the three groups. Participants who received form-focused instruction interventions did not assess themselves to having higher syntactic accuracy despite their improvements on the CAF measures.
PAIR INTERACTION IN SPANISH LANGUAGE CLASSROOMS THAT ENROLL HERITAGE AND L2 LEARNERS
Toth, Paul D.; Holmquist, Jonathan Carl; Lorenzino, Gerardo; Bowles, Melissa (Temple University. Libraries, 2019)
A growing number of studies has shown that collaborative writing tasks facilitate second language (L2) development by providing learners with opportunities to focus their attention on language and to collaborate in the solution of their language-related problems (e.g., Choi & Iwashita, 2016; Storch, 2013; Swain & Lapkin, 1998; Williams, 2012). However, most of these studies have focused almost exclusively on L2 learners, and particularly on English as a second language learners. In an effort to address this gap and drawing from a sociocultural framework, this study investigated the interactions of Spanish heritage language (HL) learners and Spanish L2 learners enrolled in the same class. Twenty-four intermediate-level learners of Spanish, organized in four HL-HL, four HL-L2, and four L2-L2 dyads, participated in the study. As part of their regular class work, they completed four collaborative writing tasks in pairs. Participants were also asked to individually complete a pretest and two posttests. The tasks and tests were intended to elicit the present subjunctive in nominal and adjectival clauses. The interactions between each pair were recorded and coded for the nature of the relationships the learners formed (Storch, 2002) and the quantity and quality of learners' deliberations about language choice, using Language Related Episodes (LREs) (Swain & Lapkin, 1998) as units of analysis. Results showed that the most common type of patterns of interaction the learners developed was collaboration. Moreover, three pairs displayed a dominant/passive pattern of interaction and two pairs an expert/novice pattern. Results also indicated that overall, participants produced slightly more LREs focused on form than LREs focused on lexis. Furthermore, results showed that whereas all pairs produced morphosyntactic LREs, they were more frequent in HL-L2 dyads. Lexical LREs occurred more often in L2-L2 dyads, and orthographic LREs occurred only in HL-HL dyads. With regards to learning gains, results revealed that six participants obtained high scores in all tests and did not show a score change from pretest to delayed posttest. Five of these participants were identified as HL learners. However, data also showed that 16 participants scored higher on their delayed posttest than they did on their pretest. Overall, considering that most dyads developed a collaborative pattern of interaction and achieved learning gains after task-based interaction, the data suggest that despite the differences in linguistic and cultural backgrounds, learners in mixed and matched pairs provided assistance to one another and produced LREs associated with the target structure. These findings have important pedagogical implications and thus, future studies need to investigate the best practices for teaching HL and L2 learners simultaneously and the types of tasks that encourage collaboration.
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You see, that's not even the controversial part. The worse part is the cost/benefit analysis that must inevitably follow. Once you affix a dollar sign to life, you end up having to haggle for it.
The Congressional Budget Office says legislation the House will pass this week to ban abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy would lead to an increase in the budget deficit of at least $235 million over the next decade, and perhaps as much as half a billion dollars.
The CBO released a report Tuesday for the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, H.R. 36, which the House will consider on Thursday. That bill aims to ban abortions after 20 weeks, and is based on evidence that a fetus can feel pain once it reaches that age.
CBO's report assumes that if the legislation were to become law, about three-quarters of the abortions that might normally happen after 20 weeks would happen earlier, in order to comply with the law.
But it also assumes that the remaining quarter of people who don't get an earlier abortion would give birth. CBO said that means higher Medicaid costs related to childbirth over a ten-year period.
"Depending on the number of additional births under H.R. 36, such Medicaid costs could range from about $100 million over the next 10 years to nearly $500 million over that period," CBO said.
CBO settled on an estimate of $235 million.
Hmmm. Where could we make up that kind of money. Hey, I've got an idea, how about we cut funding to Planned Parenthood?


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Please note: There are 255000+ pieces of information they have to put into this, currently only about 3% has been input, so what you are looking for may not yet be available.


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Veritas' Backup Exec (which used to be Seagate's Backup Exec) is a Windows NT and Windows 2000 backup and restore facility. According to the company, Backup Exec is the world's most widely used NT backup package, displacing products like ArcServe from the throne. Version 8 is the latest release of the product, arriving too late for inclusion in our wrap-up of backup and restore software in the last issue.
I'm very familiar with Backup Exec because I use it on my own network and have done so for over a year now. Every day, four backups are produced by the package, as well as occasional restores. In the year since Backup Exec replaced Computer Associate's ArcServe IT as my primary backup solution, I've grown to both like and dislike Backup Exec. Here's both sides of the story.
To begin with, Backup Exec is a simple to use backup and restore system. The software comes with a wizard that can guide you through the steps of producing a backup, as well as restoring from a backup. The wizard is a good tool to use when you're learning the package, but I found after a few days I ignored it completely as everything you can do from the wizard you can do in half the time from the main menu. Still, as a front-end for inexperienced users, the wizard is a good tool. The documentation that accompanies Backup Exec is excellent: a thick perfect bound Administrator's manual adds all the information you'll need.
Backups can be orchestrated to any device connected to the Windows NT or 2000 system, but not to remote devices without a lot of remapping. During the backup procedure, a status window can be displayed that shows the progress. By default, there is no indication of the percentage complete because there is no estimate of the amount of time or the amount of data required to backup. This feature can be turned on with a menu option, and is highly recommended as it gives you a good idea of the progress at the expense of only a few minutes delay at the start of the backup. Backups can be easily scheduled for any time, recurring intervals, or immediate procedure. Restores are easy to do, as well, and can be redirected anywhere you want.
When Backup Exec processes a tape for the first time, it assigns a unique identifier to that tape. If you forget the label your tapes, you will regret the omission when it comes to restoring, as the default behavior of Backup Exec is to prompt for a tape identifier. You can catalog the tapes if you are not sure of the contents or their identifiers, but this is time-consuming. Also, by default, Backup Exec doesn't keep track of the contents of a backup tape, just the directory names. If you want to restore one or two files from a backup, this is a major inconvenience. Cataloging the tape doesn't solve this problem either. In the end, I just restore the whole tape and allow it to replace whatever is missing (a poor solution, but the easiest).
Backup Exec supports SANs (Storage Area Networks) as well as a wide variety of new devices. The latest release adds some handy features, such as automatic holiday scheduling capabilities, as well as SNMP notification. A virus scan has been added to the package, but this will need frequent data upgrades to stay current.
Performance of Backup Exec is good, but not stellar. I back up about 25GB of material four times a day from four different video production machines. A typical backup of 25GB to a Sony AIT 50/25GB cartridge can take four to six hours, which is slower than the same configuration running ArcServe IT. The network traffic can't be blamed, because the backup machine and four video authoring systems are on a dedicated 100Mbps Ethernet network. The software compression scheme used by Backup Exec doesn't seem too efficient, as there is usually no compression effect noticed on the video files. Granted, video files don't compress too much, but even on a regular Windows NT main drive (operating system and applications), compression is usually less than 10%.
There's a lot to like with Backup Exec: the menus are easy to work with, the windows are clear and usually helpful (although the restore process could be streamlined and more informative), and the system works reliably. In testing over 100 backups with Version 8, though, we had eight failures of a backup, only to be repeated with exactly the same directories and tapes and have them succeed. The error messages from Backup Exec usually indicated access errors to the networked drives being backed up, but the repeated process worked fine. Further, after 20 restores with Version 8, three didn't restore completely, indicating invalid file types (usually .avi files). Again, repeating the restore cycle resulted in success, although one tape required four tries for a successful restore. We're not sure why the aberrations, but they are annoying.
Version 8 of Backup Exec includes a RedHat client which allows you to control backup and restores from a RedHat Linux system (no other version of Linux is supported). The client still has to connect to the Windows NT server, but you could control most aspects of Backup Exec's routines from the client without problem. If you need dedicated Linux backups with no NT host, Veritas also offers a package called NetBackup that alloiws network-wide Linux-based backups, albeit at a very expensive price. NetBackup is intended for large corporate use, while Backup Exec can be used on smaller networks.
Whether Backup Exec suits your needs depends on two things: do you need simple, almost ignorable backups of network drives, and are you willing to put up with the occasional hassle in a backup or restore (about 4% of the time). Backup Exec isn't the only package to have idiosyncrasies, as ArcServe IT had similar traits. Backup Exec is easier to use than ArcServe and is friendlier. These are not inexpensive products, and they are Windows-only, but backups are a critical part of all system administration procedures. Finding the right tool to do the job often involves compromises. I've tested all the NT backup packages available and still use Backup Exec.
$795 (basic server version)
400 International Parkway
http://www.veritas.com
Summary: Windows NT and Windows 2000 backup routine. Excellent documentation and useful wizard for newbies. A few annoyances, but still the best NT tool available.
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London City Calling London Attractions
15 hidden gems in London not to miss!
Whether you've spent time in London or not, most people could tell you the city's main highlights; Big Ben, the London Eye, Buckingham Palace, Tower Bridge… And while these places are all certainly worth visiting, there's so much more to the capital than the postcard-perfect image.
From tranquil canal-side walks to underground theatre venues and uniquely located restaurants, here are 15 of the best hidden gems in London you shouldn't miss…
15 hidden gems in London not to miss
The top London hidden gems split by area of the city…
Central London Hidden Gems
Neals Yard, Covent Garden
Despite its location in one of London's busiest neighbourhoods, plus its prominent social media presence (Instagram influencers love a colourful facade!), Neals Yard still remains one of London's best kept secrets and is surprisingly unvisited by the majority of tourists and locals.
The main reason that Neals Yard has managed to retain its London hidden gem status is that most people don't know how to find it, and it's unlikely to be stumbled across by accident. The colourful courtyard is accessible via two small alleyways; one leading from Short's Gardens and on the other end via an alleyway on Monmouth Street.
Inside of the courtyard itself you'll find a collection of independent restaurants, bars, cafés and shops, many of which focus on keeping their products organic, sustainable and ethical. Most notable is the now internationally renowned Neal's Yard Remedies organic health and beauty store.
Photo credit: Unsplash – Robson Denian Mateus
The Attendant, Fitzrovia
When it comes to hidden gems of London, I could definitely make a list just of the capital's coolest hidden cafes, restaurants and bars, but the Attendant in Fitzrovia has to be one of the most unique of London's secret spots.
Enjoy your morning coffee in a former 19th-century men's toilet, located underground and still intact with the original Doulton & Co porcelain urinals which have been transformed into elegant green seating to match the original Victorian floor tiles.
Don't worry, it's undergone a thorough cleaning since its day as a men's bathroom.
Check out more of the most unique and unusual places to eat in London.
Photo credit: @attendant_uk Instagram
The Vaults, Waterloo
Situated in a maze of converted underground tunnels in the railway arches underneath Waterloo station, The Vaults is London's coolest alternative performance and arts venue.
The unique and somewhat gothic underground space plays host to a revolving schedule of immersive theatre and alternative arts and is where you'll find some of the most unusual, surprising and sometimes downright bizarre experiences in the whole of London. Be prepared to be pushed out of your comfort zone at The Vaults!
Check out my posts about previous events at the Vaults: Divine Proportions & Bingo Accademy.
Leake Street Tunnel
On the subject of The Vaults, when it comes to cool secret locations in London, the underground spot takes the crown for more than one reason.
The venue's entrance is concealed within the Leake Street graffiti tunnel, another one of London's hidden gems which was founded by Banksy and is one of the only spots in the city where graffiti is tolerated.
If you're lucky, you might even spot a local artist adding a new piece to the colourful and ever-changing artwork.
West London Hidden Gems
Little Venice, Maida Vale/Paddington
Little Venice is a charming and tranquil area in London's Maida Vale, just north of Paddington and centred around a triangular basin at the junction where the Grand Union Canal, the Regent's Canal and the short connecting canal of the Paddington Basin all meet.
The pretty canal-side district is home to many colourful houseboats (some of which serve as cafes and tearooms), relaxing walks down the tree-lined waterways, lush green gardens and even a floating puppet theatre. It is also home to London's biggest annual waterways festival each May bank holiday weekend.
Little Venice is one of the best secret London spots to visit on a sunny day to escape the hustle and bustle of the city.
Photo credit: Unsplash – Alex Motoc / Yanny Mishchuk / Nikolay Dimitrov
Kyoto Garden, Holland Park
Holland Park's Kyoto Garden was gifted by the Kyoto Chamber of Commerce to celebrate the Japan Festival in London in 1992.
The hidden park reflects Japanese culture with its large pond filled with koi carp, a beautiful waterfall, red Japanese maple trees, colourful plants, stone lanterns and some resident Herron and Peacocks. If you catch it on a quieter day, the garden is a beautiful and serene place to wander around.
Check out these other things to do in Holland Park.
Churchill Arms Pub, Kensington
For those who also enjoy a drink, the Churchill Arms Pub is one not to miss.
Located on Kensington Church Street, in between Notting Hill Gate and Kensington High Street, the unique spot has what is probably the most elaborately decorated facade of any pub in London. The building is adorned with hundreds of flower beds, hanging baskets and window boxes which apparently costs over £25,000 a year to maintain and won them an award at the Chelsea Flower Show.
Asides from its exterior, the Churchill Arms has many other reasons for being one of the top hidden treasures of London, such as the fact it was regularly frequented by Winston Churchill's grandparents, hence the name and abundance of Churchill memorabilia inside, and that it was the first pub in London to serve Thai food.
Photo credit: Unsplash – Alex Motoc / Vincent Creton
East London Hidden Gems
St Dunstan's in the East, City of London
St Dunstan's in the East makes a regular appearance on any list of hidden London gems, and rightly so.
The gothic church has a long and interesting history, having been built in the 12th century, severely damaged in the Great Fire of London in 1666, rebuilt and upgraded by Sir Christopher Wren then finally severely damaged again in the Blitz of 1941 before falling to ruins.
The ruins of the impressive church are now a peaceful public garden unsuspectingly nestled between the much busier attractions of London Bridge and the Tower of London.
Photo credit: Unsplash – Eduard Militaru
Barge East & the Milk Float, Hackney Wick
While the London Olympic Park and Stratford to its east are pretty well visited London attractions, Hackney Wick to the west is more of a local hot spot.
While the neighbourhood may look run-down at first glance, it's actually a hub of art and creativity in the capital, with artist studios in former industrial spaces (it was once known for having more studios than anywhere else in Europe), coworking spaces for hip new start-ups, as well as many theatre and music venues.
But the highlight of the area for visitors has to be the floating bars and craft breweries which line the River Lee Navigation canal. In particular, Barge East and The Milk Float.
Barge East is a unique floating bar and restaurant on a 114 year old Dutch barge, with charming rustic decor and an outdoor deck overlooking the East London skyline where you can enjoy their luxury British menu designed by head chef Stefano Camplone.
Right next door to Barge East is the somewhat more relaxed Milk Float, which serves a summer-ready cocktail menu, beers, wines and spirits, as well as locally made ice-cream and dairy-free sorbets, on their lawned upper terrace overlooking the canal. The Milk Float also has it's very own Moo Canoes available for hire.
Hackney Wick is one of my personal favourite spots to visit in London off the beaten path.
The Barbican Conservatory, City of London
London's equivalent to Cornwall's Eden Project, the Barbican Conservatory is a tropical botanical garden housing more than 2,000 species of plants and trees, as well as birdlife and exotic fish.
Hidden inside the harsh brutalist buildings of the Barbican, the Conservatory is a secret haven of tranquillity in a busy area of the city and certainly one of the best hidden spots in London for nature lovers.
Plus admission is completely free, you only need to book a time slot ahead of time.
Exploring on a budget? Check out the best free museums and galleries in London.
Cockney Cash Machines (Several Locations)
Another of the coolest hidden London attractions you may not have heard about are the Cockney Cash Machines.
Tucked away unsuspectingly on several streets in East London, the Cockney Cash Machines will ask you to enter your 'Huckleberry Fin' (pin) to withdraw 'sausage and mash' (cash) from your 'taxi rank' (bank).
Even if you don't actually need to withdraw cash, the ATMs are still worth a visit.
Where can you find some of the Cockney Cash Machines in East London?
Spitalfields: 73 Commercial Street, E1 6BD.
Mile End: 447 Roman Road E3 5LX.
Walthamstow: 24 High Street, E17 7LD.
North London Hidden Gems
Regents Canal, between Regents Park and Camden Lock
If you follow the Regents Canal on from Little Venice in the west, you'll eventually end up passing by Regents Park and Camden in north London. The stretch leading between the park and Camden Lock is one of my favourite secret gems in London for finding a little peace and quiet by the water.
The relaxing canal-side walk, which is usually quieter than the slightly better known Little Venice, will take you past more houseboats, the occasional group of kayakers or paddleboarders, 'The Pirate Castle' (a boating and outdoor activities charity based inside a unique castle-like building) and St Marks Church, which during the warmer months has a stall serving drinks and ice creams.
Plus you can grab a tasty lunch from Camden Market once you reach the other end!
Pre-book your boat ride down Regents Canal from Little Venice to Camden Lock.
Highgate Cemetery, Highgate
Next is one of the best hidden London attractions for history buffs; Highgate Cemetary.
Why would I visit a cemetery you ask? Because Highgate Cemetary in North London is is the burial place of many famous and prominent people and can be explored on an organised tour.
One of the cemeteries most famous residents is the German philosopher, author, political theorist, economist and socialist revolutionary Karl Marx, while other notable graves include those of painter Henry Moore, inventor of the modern postal service Rowland Hill, novelist George Eliot, actress Jean Simmons and, most recently, singer George Michael.
Check out these other things to do in Highgate.
Underground Supper Club, Walthamstow
Finally, eating on the London underground is acceptable…
That's right, you can go for dinner on board a decommissioned 1967 Victoria Line tube carriage at Walthamstow Pumphouse Museum, at their regular supper clubs hosted by some amazing guest chefs. Definitely one of the coolest places in London for a unique dining experience!
Find out more about my experience at the Underground Supper Club here.
BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir Temple, Neasden
Shri Swaminarayan Mandir is a huge Hindu temple in the multicultural area of Neasden in north-west London, although when you see it you could easily mistake it for being somewhere in south-east Asia instead.
The beautiful traditional Hindu temple stands at 70 feet high and is made entirely out of stone, with each section intricately carved back in the town of Kandla in India before being shipped over to London to be reassembled. Plus the temple is just as amazing on the inside as it is from the outside, with a colourful central mandir and individual shrines to each of the deities.
The local community are obviously very proud of the impressive temple and therefore it is open and free for anyone to visit, and they even offer guided tours. Just remember that it is still a place of worship so dress modestly and remove your shoes before entering.
Photo credit: BAPS
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Twitter has discovered a bug that internally stored user passwords in plaintext and is urging users to change their passwords.
At current projections, it is estimated there will be a shortfall of 1.8 million information security workers by 2022. If cybersecurity is of interest, this is definitely a growing field. It is vitally important that as a current student, you will graduate ready to enter the workforce to fill one of the vast numbers of positions available.
As the cost of connecting to the Internet has gone down, more and more everyday devices are being made to connect online. These devices, which make up the Internet of Things, introduce new security challenges.


For exobiologists, Jupiter's moon Europa remains one of the most intriguing places in the solar system. The moon has an icy shell that overlies a suspected deep-water (subsurface) ocean, and tidal flexing due to Jupiter's immense gravitational tug may provide energy for life. Until the space age, Europa remained little more than a dot of light. Flyby missions to Jupiter by the Pioneer 10 and 11 spacecraft and the Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft in the 1970s and early 1980s tweaked a great deal of interest in this mysterious Galilean satellite. NASA's Galileo spacecraft provided even more tantalizing data.
The Galileo mission began on October 18, 1989, when the sophisticated spacecraft was carried into low Earth orbit by the space shuttle Atlantis and then started on its interplanetary journey by means of an inertial upper-stage (IUS) rocket. Relying on gravity-assist flybys to reach Jupiter, the Galileo spacecraft flew past Venus once and Earth twice. As it traveled through interplanetary space beyond Mars on its way to Jupiter, Galileo encountered the asteroids Gaspra (October 1991) and Ida (August 1993). Galileo's flyby of Gaspra on October 29, 1991, provided scientists their first-ever close-up look at a minor planet. On its final approach to Jupiter, Galileo observed the giant planet being bombarded by fragments of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9, which had broken apart. On July 12, 1995, the Galileo mother spacecraft separated from its hitchhiking companion (an atmospheric probe), and the two robot spacecraft flew in formation to their final destination.
Europa is the smooth, ice-covered moon of Jupiter, discovered in 1610 by the Italian scientist Galileo Galilei (1564-1642). Flyby visits by robot spacecraft lead scientists to think that this intriguing moon has a liquid-water ocean beneath its frozen surface. Europa has a diameter of 1,942 miles (3,124 km) and a mass of 10.6 x 1022 pounds (4.84 x 1022 kg). The moon is in synchronous orbit around Jupiter at a distance of 416,970 miles (670,900 km). An eccentricity of 0.009, an inclination of 0.47 degree, and a period of 3.551 (Earth) days further characterize the moon's orbit around Jupiter. The acceleration of gravity on the surface of Europa is 4.33 feet per second per second (1.32 m/s), and the icy moon has an average density of 188 pounds per cubic foot (3,020 kg/m3). Next to Mars, exobiologists favor Europa as a leading candidate world within our solar system to possibly harbor some form of alien life.
On December 7, 1995, Galileo fired its main engine to enter orbit around Jupiter and gathered data that was transmitted from the atmospheric probe during that small robot's parachute-assisted descent into the Jovian atmosphere. During its two-year prime mission, the Galileo spacecraft performed 10 targeted flybys of Jupiter's major moons. In December 1997, the sophisticated robot spacecraft began an extended scientific mission that featured eight flybys of Jupiter's smooth, ice-covered moon Europa and two flybys of the pizza-colored, volcanic Jovian moon Io.
Galileo started a second extended scientific mission in early 2000. This second extended mission included flybys of the Galilean moons Io, Ganymede, and Callisto, plus coordinated observations of Jupiter with the Cassini spacecraft. In December 2000, Cassini flew past the giant planet to receive a much-needed gravity assist, which enabled the large spacecraft to eventually reach Saturn. Galileo conducted its final flyby of a Jovian moon in November 2002, when it zipped past the tiny inner moon Amalthea.
The encounter with Amalthea left Galileo on a course that would lead to an intentional impact into Jupiter in September 2003. NASA mission controllers deliberately crashed the Galileo mother spacecraft into Jupiter at the end of the space robot's very productive scientific mission to avoid any possibility of contaminating Europa with terrestrial microorganisms. As an uncontrolled derelict, the Galileo spacecraft might have eventually crashed into Europa sometime within the next few decades. Many exobi-ologists suspect that Europa has a life-bearing, liquid-water ocean underneath its icy surface. Since the Galileo spacecraft was probably harboring a variety of hitchhiking terrestrial microorganisms, scientists thought it prudent to avoid completely any possibility of contamination of Europa. The easiest way of resolving the potential problem was simply to dispose the retired Galileo spacecraft in the frigid, swirling clouds of Jupiter. So, NASA and JPL mission controllers accomplished this task, while they still maintained sufficient control over Galileo's behavior and trajectory.
Close-up study of Europa by NASA's Galileo spacecraft has provided scientists with tantalizing hints that this major moon of Jupiter might possess a liquid-water ocean beneath its icy crust. Where there is liquid water, there is the intriguing possibility that alien life forms (ALFs) may be found. So NASA strategic planners are examining (on a conceptual basis) several future robot missions that would to quite literally "break the ice" in the search for alien life beyond Earth.
NASA's proposed Jupiter Icy-Moons Orbiter (JIMO) mission involves an advanced technology robot spacecraft that would orbit three of Jupiter's most intriguing moons—Callisto, Ganymede, and Europa. All three planet-sized moons may have liquid-water oceans beneath their icy surfaces. Following up on the historic discoveries made by the Galileo spacecraft, the JIMO mission would make detailed studies of the composition, geologic history, and potential for sustaining life on each of these three large icy moons. The mission's proposed science goals include: to scout for potential life on the moons; to investigate the origin and evolution of the moons; to explore the radiation environment around each moon; and to determine how frequently each moon is battered by space debris.
would allow the planned JIMO spacecraft to orbit three different moons during a single mission. Current spacecraft, like Cassini, have enough onboard propulsive thrust capability (on arrival at a target planet) to orbit that single planet and then use various orbits to fly by any moons or other objects of interest, such as ring systems. In contrast, the JIMO's proposed nuclear electric propulsion system would have the necessary long-term thrust capability to gently maneuver through the Jovian system and allow the spacecraft to orbit each of the three icy moons of interest successfully.
Another very interesting conceptual robot space mission to search for life on Europa involves an orbiting mother spacecraft, a cryobot, and a hydrobot. The Europa Orbiter would serve as the robot command post for the entire mission. Once in orbit around Europa, this robot spacecraft would release a lander robot to a special location on the surface, identified as being of great scientific interest to exobiologists and other investigators. After it soft-lands on the ice-covered surface of Europa, the lander deploys a large cryobot probe, which also contains a hydrobot. The cryobot probe melts its way down through the icy crust of Europa until it reaches the suspected subsurface ocean. The cryobot has left a trail of radio transponders behind in the resolidified ice to communicate with the lander, which in turn relays data to the orbiting "mother spacecraft" in burst transmission mode. The mother spacecraft (Europa Orbiter) would keep scientists back on Earth informed of the mission's progress, but this is a totally automated operation without any direct human supervision of the orbiter spacecraft, the cryobot, or the hydrobot.
Once the cryobot has penetrated through Europa's thick icy crust and found the currently suspected subsurface ocean, the torpedo-shaped robot probe releases an autonomous, self-propelled underwater robot, called the hydrobot. The hydrobot scoots off and starts to take scientific measurements of its aquatic environment. The robot submarine also diligently investigates the waters of Europa for signs of alien life. Data from the hydrobot are relayed back to Earth via the cryobot, the surface lander, and the orbiting mother spacecraft. The following figure is an artist's rendering of what would be one of the great scientific discoveries of this century. This hypothesized scene shows the hydrobot examining an underwater thermal vent and various alien life-forms (ALFs) in Europa's subsurface ocean. The team of very smart robots (orbiter, lander, cryobot, and hydrobot) in this postulated scenario has allowed their human creators to discover life on another world in the solar system. Whether or not life actually exists on Europa, this type of advanced space exploration mission with a team of future robots exercising collective machine intelligence will be remarkable and will serve as a precursor to sets for even more exciting missions. As discussed in chapter 6, aerospace engineers would have to exercise a great deal of care in preventing the forward contamination of Europa by any future spacecraft that was sent from Earth to investigate this intriguing moon.


Karen A. Cirillo is serving her first term on the Lowell City Council. She has been a resident of Lowell for eight years. When Councilor Cirillo first moved to Lowell, she lived in the Highlands section and now resides in the Centralville section of the City with her wonderful daughter Madison and their two dogs Gino and Kai.
Councilor Cirillo is the daughter of Joseph Cirillo and Helen Costello both of whom are retired from the Department of the Navy at the Naval Undersea Warfare Center in Newport, Rhode Island and Sarah and John Rivard of North Kingstown, Rhode Island. She is one of three children with two older siblings.
Councilor Cirillo has been in the construction field for nearly twenty years and in this time she has worked on projects as small as one room renovations and as large as building multiple cogeneration plants in the desert of California. She currently works in the Estimating Department of a Construction Manager in Medford, MA.
Councilor Cirillo volunteered with the Budget Buddies program as a personal financial coach to aid the women of House of Hope in learning to become more economically self-sufficient and help teach them money-management skills. Councilor Cirillo attributes this want in helping others be independent to her grandmother Mary Cirillo, who from the 1950s through the 1980s owned and operated her own clothing store in Bristol, Rhode Island. Mary was a strong, independent, and goodhearted woman who saw to her customer's needs before her own. She hopes to bring this influence to her seat on City Council.


Jammu: Terming its MLA Gagan Bhagat's remarks backing articles 370 and 35A as "unfortunate", the BJP's Jammu and Kashmir unit on Sunday said it would file a defamation suit against former Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti for "wrongly" attributing the remarks to two BJP MLAs.
Seeking to clarify that the remarks backing Article 35 A was made only by Bhagat and not another BJP MLA Rajsh Gupta, the state BJP's chief spokesperson Sunil Sethi said Mehbooba wrongly attributed the remarks to both the legislators.
Stating that Bhagat crossed the Lakshman Rekha by extending support to the two constitutional provisions, which form bedrock of separatism in the state, Sethi said the party's disciplinary committee has already submitted its report to the party president for necessary action against him.
Voicing his dissent over the BJP's stand on Article 35A, the BJP legislator earlier today had warned that scrapping the constitutional provision with an eye on the 2019 Lok Sabha election would lead to serious consequences.
Bhagat's remarks found mention on former Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti's Twitter handle, where she said it was "heartening" that the BJP leaders were coming out in support of the Article 35A.
Heartening to know that two MLAs from the BJP, Rajesh Gupta followed by Dr Gagan, have raised their voice in defence of the Article 35A , Mehbooba wrote on twitter.
Addressing a hurriedly called press conference here, Sethi said the party would file a defamation suit against Mehbooba as MLA Rajesh Gupta has never made any statement over the Article 35A.
We are really concerned with a statement which has come from the former chief minister attributing (the remarks of) support to the Article 35A to the two BJP legislators. Gupta had never made any statement and was misquoted by a national news channel which later clarified.
Mehbooba's statement is defamation and we are taking it seriously, Sethi, flanked by Gupta, told reporters at the party headquarters here this evening.
Gupta clarified that he had never made such a statement which was in fact issued by another party activist, who had joined the party in 2014.
We will issue a notice to Mehbooba and take legal action against her. It will also be brought to the notice of the Assembly Speaker for appropriate action, he said.
Sethi said there is no ideological difference within the party over the issue of Article 370 and Article 35A of the constitution.
The state unit is having the same view as that of the central body. The basic stand of the party is that it should go. This is one country and should remain so, he said.
He said the Article 35A is because of the Article 370 which is the main reason for separatism in the state.
Asked when the party would file the defamation suit, he said the party would give Mehbooba one day to tender an apology to the legislator and have a relook at the issue, if she did it.
On Bhagat's remarks, he said his statements defending the constitutional provisions are against the party and its interests and the disciplinary committee of the party has taken serious note of it and submitted its report to the party president for appropriate action.
It is very unfortunate situation. The party is really saddened because of this development. To speak on the ideology of the party, there are forums within the party. Going public is the worst example of indiscipline, he said.
Sethi, who also heads three-member disciplinary committee of the party, said he should not have done it as nobody has the right to cross the Lakshman Rekha .
Disciplinary committee has taken note of it and has submitted its report to the party president and the president is seized of the matter and will take appropriate measures on this issue, he said.
Gupta said he supports the party view that the Article 35A should go as it is not in the interest of the people of the state.
It is discriminatory and the biggest cause of unemployment problem in the state. It has not a single benefit, he said.


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You are here Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine > Sports Medicine Programme
The Academic Unit of Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine is playing a lead role in the development of a new integrated programme in education, research and clinical care based around the athletes, students and teams of Trinity College Dublin. This process, involving collaboration between the Department of Sport and Recreation, the Academic Unit of Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine, the Student Health Unit, and other partners, is the first of it's kind in Ireland and shall ensure that the students and staff of TCD have access to the highest level of care regardless of their level of sports participation.
The integrated Sports Medicine Programme has a key role to play in developing sports injury registries and other research strands across TCD, as well as providing students of medicine, physiotherapy and the allied health professions with real time learning scenarios in sports medicine and musculoskeletal care.
Internships are available for under- and post-graduate students: those interested should contact the office of the Department of Sport or the Academic Unit of Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine.
Sports Medicine Pilot Programme
The Academic Unit of Sports Medicine, in collaboration with The Department of Sport and Recreation, and The Student Health Unit, have launched their Sports Medicine Pilot Programme, which aims to deliver a new programme and pathway of care for injured student athletes in Trinity College.
This pathway of care is linked to research and education in the field of Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine.
The goals are threefold –
Providing the student athletes at Trinity College with a health care system that:
reduces the risk of athletic injury
is proactive in approach to injuries that do occur
provides easily accessible sports medicine services that are responsive to the needs of the students and athletes of Trinity
facilitates their safe return to participation in athletic competition as soon as possible
Developing a hub for education and training of medical students, and students of the allied health professions.
Fostering translational and interdisciplinary research, integrating fields of biomechanics, biomedical engineering, physiology, exercise physiology, orthopaedics, mechanobiology, and exercise rehabilitation, as well as the development of Injury Registries, to capture information relating to injuries at collegiate level.
A Pilot Programme will be run during the 2015-16 academic year (approx. 600 participants) with a view to rolling this out to the larger sports community from 2016-17.
The administrative office for the programme will be situated in the Sports Centre, where the offices of both the Dept. of Sport and Recreation and the Academic Unit of Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine are housed. This office will collaborate closely with the Student Health Unit on campus. Access to specialised sports medicine services and surgical intervention where required will be provided at Sports Surgery Clinic, Santry.
For further information regarding The Pilot Programme, contact:
Laura McCague
Programme Manager,
mccaguel@tcd.ie
School of Medicine > Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine > Sports Medicine Programme


The village of Mellieha in Malta is very popular with locals and tourists. During your stay in the Mellieha area you should find time to visit important locations.
The small village of Mellieha stands on the north-west part of Malta. Lying at an elevation of 150 metres above sea level gives it an imposing position. It lies at the edge of several cliff edges giving it a magnificent panoramic view of the north tip of the island.
Overlooking the sandy beach of Ghadira Bay just down hill from the village centre. Paradise Bay, Golden Bay, Armier Bay are the other beaches which attract so many visitors for swimming lying around in the vicinity. Cirkewwa port is the ultimate destination for those who wish to visit the island of Gozo with the ferry boats with continous crossings all through the week.
The location has become most attractive to tourists due to its location and its beautiful country side and not least to locals. It has become a summer resort with prestigious high standard hotels and numerous apartments within the village core and surrounds. The area is surrounded with plenty of fresh and clean air and natural environment.
Many foreigners have bought a proper and have lived here for many years especially at the Santa Maria Estate with prestigious expensive villas. Not the least it is also a destination for local and tourist to come here for restaurants and fine foods. For those who come here for a holiday a variety of shops, mini markets, souvenir shops are available especially within the centre of the village.
The community is just over 10,000 where it has spread in new areas around like Santa Maria Estate. Other areas have developed namely Ta' Penellu, Mellieha Heights, Ta Masrija and Tal-Ibragg. The small villages of Selmun and Manikata form part of the Mellieha local council.
Mellieha is derived from the word salt in the Arabic language dates back to the Punic and Roman periods.
The first inhabitants arrived here from the nearest island of Sicily around 8000 BC. They were surely attracted by the landscape features, like abundance of natural large caves located at high levels, sheltered areas, hills and valleys with fertile soil and natural water springs. The abundance of pieces of pottery is an indication to this.
The Mellieha contains various beaches which were used for landing, this enabled many corsair and pirate ships which enabled them to land and attack the Mellieha residents for many centuries. This brought a lot of suffering the the community and for long periods the locality was abandoned.
When the knights where in Malta this problem persisted. At a certain point a decision was taken to build the first fortification which was the Red Tower. It was completed in 1649 to instill fear in the enemy and create feelings of security amongst the locals and we the beginning of a new era.
Later on, the Knights of St. John decided to start fortifying the long coastline especially the beaches with coastal batteries redoubts and entrenchments with batteries.
Some of these are the White Tower 1658 then a battery was constructed around it 1715. Thus they built the Vendome Artillery Battery 1714-1716, Mistra Artillery Battery around 1761, Wied Musa Battery 1714-1716, and Westreme Artillery Battery 1714-1716. Today it is used by the local council as the Tunnara Museum. These fortifications helping to rebuild the confidence of the population.
Development during the British era when the administrators started leasing land for agricultural land for development to encourage them to live here. From this time onwards it continued to flourish. By this time there were no more attacks from the shores, time had changed.
During World War I Mellieħa played an important part in providing convalescence centres for many Allied wounded soldiers from the Salonica and Gallipoli Campaigns. At the Għadira bay there was a Military Hospital housed about 2000 such casualties whilst Marfa Palace provided a recreational centre for them. Today there buildings were dropped down and instead the Mellieha Holiday Centre was built.
Due to the many British soldiers and anti aircraft placement in the Mellieha area, this location was frequently bombed. A total of 46 air-raid shelters were dug up in the rock for the local population to shelter from aircraft bombing. Today two of them have been reopened to the public close to the Sanctuary of Our Lady.
They are open to the public from Monday to Saturday from 9.00 to 15.30. There is an entrance fee of 3.00 Euro.
The church is very visible from all over the area as it is built on the edge of the cliff apart from its massive structure. It is dedicated to the Nativity of the Virgin Mary was built between 1881 and 1898. Over these 14 years of hard voluntary work. The previous parish church was the Sanctuary of Our Lady but due to the increase in the population a new church was needed. The village feast is celebrated on the 8th of September.
This parish was one of the first 10 distinct churches in Malta mentioned in the document of 1436 prepared by Bishop Senator De Mello. When the locality was no longer inhabited due to corsair attack it was no longer mentioned. Became again in 1844. It was blessed in 1897 but still had no belfry. First stone was laid on 5th September 1883 and when completed it was consecrated by Bishop Mauro Caruana on 18th February 1930.
It is worth visiting the parish church as it contains various architectural works like sculptures, statues and paintings which were undertaken over many years by Maltese artists and donated by local benefactors.
Initially many centuries ago this was a grotto in the natural rock formation. The local population had a great devotion to Our Lady which statue was located in this grotto. All this fear was generated from the ever present fear of attacks from corsairs from the many beaches in the Mellieha area. The devotion flourished and there was the need to build a church from the donation and hard works of the population.
Presently this sanctuary, which was previously the parish church is now full of relics brought over by many people who have acquired protection or graces for the Virgin Mary. It is worth visiting and if you wish to find peace of mind do come here for a while. Today it is dedicated to the Nativity of the Virgin Mary.
Many people from around the world come purposely here where today it is listed as one of 20 National European Shrines forming part of the European Marian Network based in Lourdes, France.
Opposite the sanctuary church, on the other side of the main road leading to Ghadira Bay, there is a natural cave lying low in the valley where there are steps to go down to it dedicated to Our lady. It has been a special place for many centuries. Up till today it is still lit by the many votive candle light offerings in an act of Christina prayer.
They are brought over by the parishioners and other coming from various villages. It is full of relics brought over by people who suffered an illness and were healed. A spring of running water lies under the stature of our lady.


Tweaker Nazis, Brandenburg beaches, Weimar satire and happy endings: these summer reads will teach you everything you wanted to know about Berlin, and a few things you didn't.
Election year in Europe and Germany. What better time to revisit the works of Berliner Kurt Tucholsky (1890-1935), the great Jewish satirist, journalist and individualist? First printed in English translation in 1989, Germany? Germany!: Satirical Writings: The Kurt Tucholsky Reader has just been republished, providing readers with introductory musings from both translator Harry Zohn and former New York Times Berlin correspondent Ralph Blumenthal.
The reader opens several windows onto Tucholsky's extraordinary range of targets as well as an immense diversity of thought, tone and idiom. As the city of his birth and hearth of Prussian officialdom, Berlin is often present. In the 1922 vignette Little Man Outside a Tavern, Tucholsky observes a man observing others in a Potsdamer Platz bar; the everyday scene becomes a metaphor for the Weimar Republic's thirst for hierarchy and mindless yay-saying. And here is his Jewish-Prussian nemesis Herr Wendriner, the epitome of a bullying official, lamenting the trials of childrearing ("this flightiness, this carelessness, these bad manners – where did the boy get them from?"), or tailoring his political suit to fit the times ("I voted Staatspartei because somebody had to take responsibility…").
During the Weimar Republic, Tucholsky flirted briefly with socialism but never joined a party, preferring the satirist's privileged distance to political commitment. Seen in tandem with other forms of self-imposed exile such as his disassociation not only from his own Jewish heritage (he wrote of himself as a Jew without religion) but also from Germany, the country he left in 1924 but continued to love and criticise, the burden of alienation proved overwhelming. Chronic sickness, isolation and despair at developments he had foreseen but failed – as he saw it – to prevent led to his suicide in Sweden in 1935.
If you still haven't read this bestseller, out in English in Germany since May, do it now! It's the perfect Berlin summer page-turner, a non-fiction thriller that's stranger than fiction. German novelist Norman Ohler immersed himself in archives in Germany and the US and dug up evidence that German society during the Third Reich, from the Nazi leadership and the military to broad swathes of the civilian population, was using and abusing Pervitin, a legal methamphetamine. The drug, basically crystal meth in pill form, was produced by the tens of millions in the Temmler factory in Berlin. Accounts of generals, tank commanders and fighter pilots suggest that Pervitin allowed soldiers to stay awake, alert and fearless for days on end. Ohler believes meth use in the military played a decisive role in the Blitzkrieg victories at the beginning of World War II. Furthermore, after a detailed reading of the archived notes of Hitler's personal physician Theo Morrell, Ohler concludes that the doctor injected the dictator with so much of the opiate Eukodal that he was an addict by the end of the war. When, in the final months, the drug became scarce, Hitler's raving mad behaviour could be partly attributed to withdrawal symptoms.


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Q: doing a specialized terms "more like this query" with Searchkick on Rails? Given a Widget model that's being indexed into elasticsearch using searchkick:
searchkick word: [:title], highlight: [:title], term_vector: true

And I've indexed these documents:
{ title: "work with puppies" }
{ title: "work with sharks" }
{ title: "work with kittens" }
{ title: "shoot lasers at the moon" }

I'm trying to do a "more like this" (MLT) query for a new bit of text:
"work with lasers"

My goal is to have it hit that last document with the highest score because 'lasers' is more specialized than 'work with', which is common in my document corpus.
I've tried this:
Widget.search query: {
  mlt: {
    like_text: "work with lasers",
    min_term_freq: 1,
    boost_terms: 5,
    analyzer: 'searchkick_search2'
  } }

But it gives me back the "work with..." documents at the top with highest scores.
I've also tried putting in a key/val { stopwords: ['work', 'with'] } but then I get 0 results.
Is there a way I can get searchkick/elasticsearch to give me back documents that have specialized terms with the highest scores and downplay documents that only match commonly-seen terms?

A: (answering my own question for other people's benefit)
Turns out the MLT query doesn't work so well unless you have lots of documents. I put it together with about 1 million docs and the code posted above worked pretty darn well with this:
search query: {
  mlt: {
    like_text: str,
    min_term_freq: 3,
    max_query_terms: 35,
    boost_terms: 2,
    minimum_should_match: '35%'
  }
}

YMMV

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Unemployment is at an all time high with the economy showing us what its lower ranges is like. The bulls and bears of the market have a mind of their own and when will the economy recover is very difficult to predict. There are large-scale job losses and in such times people`s confidence is very low. It is during such times that people don`t care much about their health. So, it is very necessary to have oneself insured in an unemployed health insurance.
Unemployed health insurance is a special cover, which has been devised for the unemployed people. It is recommended to get such an insurance cover online. One may also visit a local health HIPAA Breach Monitoring insurance agent`s office for getting oneself insured. There are many options to choose from and a session with such an officer may help you determine the best one for you.
Also, people who qualify for a low-income status may be eligible for unemployed healthcare through Medicaid. These schemes depend upon the state government and may be differ in their cover. As they say that health is wealth, it is very necessary to have insurance on one`s health, even in times of unemployment. One can only hope that if things work out fine and one is healthy enough, then there`s no stopping you from getting that fat-paying job as soon as possible.
To be unemployed means having to drastically change on a person's lifestyle in to be able to pay for their basic needs without going broke or in devastating debt. Some insurance benefits are usually seen as an expense option, and some people opted it to be cut. Although insurance are made to ensure that a person will not go into debt, this problem may happen when an unexpected medical expenses occur.
If an unfortunate health emergency does happen before a person can find a new insurance plan, the bill is within the person's responsibility to pay. Getting and finding an cheap or affordable health insurance plan is significant to be able to reduce the risk of going extremely into debt, and to maintain a person's well being until their situation get better and improves.
Many people would love to access some essential health care. A steady income and an adequate insurance policy is required. Most that are unemployed Americans lack the guarantee of either. This is because most health insurance plan in the US are issued through companies and employers as part Privacy Monitoring of an employee's health insurance benefits. People that are unemployed are often at a major disadvantage when it comes to getting an affordable health care insurance plan.


Now that Governor Sununu has signed HB 1319, our campaign is officially over. For now, you won't be hearing further from Freedom New Hampshire.
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AAP Tennis
Tomic misses out on Queen's after defeat
Tomic - AAP
Bernard Tomic's faltering career has been hit by another setback after he failed to qualify for next week's prestigious Queen's Club tournament.
Tomic, who was ranked 17th in the world three years ago, slumped to a 6-4 7-6 (7-3) defeat to Alejandro Davidovich Fokina, a 20-year-old clay court specialist with just once previous win on grass to his name, on Saturday.
Currently ranked at 88th in the world rankings, the Australian will now drop out of the top 100 on Monday.
He is also in danger of missing out on automatically qualifying for Wimbledon next month, for the second successive year, after going down to the world No.130 from Spain.
There was also disappointment for exciting 19-year-old Alexei Popyrin who lost a hard-fought three-set clash to the gritty Roberto Carballes Baena, the world No.73 from Spain.
Popyrin went down 6-2 5-7 6-4 in a match that lasted almost two hours.
The draw for the event at the exclusive west London club which starts on Monday, saw Nick Kyrgios pitted against left-hander Adrian Mannarino.
Australian No.1 Alex de Minaur will face a yet-to-be-decided qualifier.
Zverev hopes to end feud with ex-manager
Alexander Zverev has questioned the work ethic of his coach Ivan Lendl and revealed he hopes to move on from a legal dispute with former agent Patricio Apey.
Gavrilova takes a tumble in Lausanne
Australia's Daria Gavrilova was one of the seeds to be beaten at the Ladies Open Lausanne on Wednesday.
Stosur advances in ATP Lausanne
Samantha Stosur has emerged from a tough three-setter to reach the last 16 of the Ladies Open Lausanne.
Gavrilova through to last 16 in Lausanne
Australia's Daria Gavrilova has beaten Switzerland's Ylena In-Albon in a tought three-set tie to advance to the last 16 of the Ladies Open Lausanne.
Wimbledon history for Colombia doubles duo
Colombians Juan Sebastian Cabal and Robert Farah have been crowned Wimbledon men's doubles champions after a painful five-set loss for Nicolas Mahut.
Federer stoic after gut-wrenching loss
Roger Federer insists "it's all good" despite blowing two match points against Novak Djokovic in a gripping Wimbledon final at the All England Club.
Serena keeps calm in pursuit of number 24
Serena Williams is one win away from matching Australian Margaret Court's 24 grand slams singles titles after reaching her 11th Wimbledon final.


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In the language of Sufism, jadhba (attraction) means that a servant is attracted toward God by God Himself, purified thereby of human imperfection in spiritual elevation, and equipped with Divine Attributes or exalted morals as specified in the Qur'an. It also means feeling and observing clearly the manifestations of Divine Majesty and Unity. A purified soul capable of receiving such manifestations abandons itself to the tides originating from the realms beyond and, like a competent swimmer, swims in ecstasy, in deep submission to God and without fear and anxiety.
If attraction means that one is drawn by a sacred power linked with his or her essence toward the purpose of his or her creation and to the point indicated by his or her true, primordial nature, injidhab means the willing acceptance of this invitation sent to one's spirit.
Attraction is so great a Divine favor that it cannot be obtained through ordinary means or causes. It is God Himself Who grants to His pure-hearted servant both the attraction and the ability to receive it: That is the grace of God: He bestows it on whom He wills (57:21). This bestowal includes in a single, passing moment many portions of time filled with events; gives a single step toward Him the potential to reach the gardens of Paradise; and equips a glance with the capacity to turn a piece of coal into a diamond. Great distances that seem impossible for one's own will and power to cover are covered in a moment by God's attracting, and high summits are reached by His uplifting, as stated in: A single instance of the All-Merciful's attracting equals to the nearness to God acquired through the good actions of both humanity and jinn.
Those whose spirits feel the mysteries of faith, who practice Islam and perfect goodness and devotion through God's attracting, are called "those who follow the way of Uways," for they are taught directly by God or the Prophet. In other words, they do not need a human teacher or guide. Since they feel continuously attracted toward God by God Himself, they live in incessant ecstasy and amazement at what they observe of Divine truths and manifestations.
At times, there is a virtuous circle between attraction and regular worship and austerity. A traveler on the way to God is favored with attraction in proportion to the degree of his or her worship and austerity, and is devoted to worship and austerity to the extent of the attraction felt toward God. So long as such people act in accordance with the Shari'a, this virtuous circle continues. If they break away from the light of Muhammad, upon him be peace and blessings, displays of free and easy behavior in their relationship with God begin to appear, and religious obligations might begin to be neglected.
Unless I have the attraction of love?
Unless I receive inspiration from God?
Everything is intoxicated with the wine of love of God and the attraction of this love. Celestial objects and angels are intoxicated; the heavens and Earth are intoxicated; elements and plants are intoxicated; and animals, human beings, and all other beings (are intoxicated).
There are two kinds of attraction. One is felt inwardly and is not manifested outwardly by its possessor. Such a person loves God, feels great contentment with and pleasure in fulfilling His commandments, and feels incessantly attracted to the source of a deeper delight. The second kind of attraction is that which is manifested. One who feels such attraction cannot help but manifest it as ecstasy. Feeling attracted by God with a continuously increasing force, he or she lives as an ecstatic, in excessive joy and with great happiness.
There is a kind of madness called attraction, which is a true triumph.
By means of it madness reaches mysteries lofty and great.
Attraction may look like madness in some respects; in reality, it is quite different. For example, an ecstatic who revolves in waves of attraction may lose some perception and show signs of madness by behaving in ways incompatible with sound reasoning and the Shari'a. In most cases, an ecstatic exceeds normal human standards in all senses or powers of perception to the extent that, in the light of Sunna, he or she travels in realms that cannot be reached by the reason, other faculties, and senses of ordinary people. Therefore, those who see such a person think that he or she is crazy.
However, traveling (in spiritual realms) beyond the reach and power of normal standards of intellect or reason, by using that power and other senses along with the help of God, is completely different from the type of madness resulting from mental illness, which is characterized by less-than-normal standards of intellect or reason.


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