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Energy Supply & Distribution
Interview with Tony Saich on China
2009 Innovations Awards: Call for Applications
2008 Innovations Awards Announcement Dinner
The Ash Institute will host a special evening to celebrate the winners of the 2008 Innovations in American Government Awards. The event will be held on September 9, in Washington, DC. For more information and to register, please e-mail [email protected]. Space is limited.
Babak Armajani on a push-pull strategy for change.
Freeway drivers will soon see the (solar) light
08/08/2008 | The Oregonian (Portland, Oregon)
Oregon will soon become the first state to implement a solar panel project on a major highway. In partnership with Portland General Electric (PGE) and US Bank, Oregon will install a row of panels five-feet wide and two football fields in length near an interchange. The installation will produce electricity for the PGE grid during the day, and PGE will return an equivalent amount of power at night to light the interchange. The state Department of Transportation will seek proposals for similar highway projects early next year.
Wheels of misfortune; bicycle thefts are rarely solved but UW-Madison campus police are trying a new deterrent
08/06/2008 | The Capital Times (Madison, Wisconsin)
University of Wisconsin-Madison police are taking extra steps to keep bikes safe from thieves. Under the new "Bait Bike" program, the police have equipped decoy bikes with GPS devices around campus. When the bike is stolen, police follow the GPS signal and try to catch the thief. Typically, bicycle thefts rarely lead to recoveries or arrests. However, under the new program, 18 people have taken the bait since May, leading to 18 recoveries and 16 arrests.
Prisons enlist dogs to keep out phones; canines part of effort to keep contraband out of state facilities
07/10/2008 | The Baltimore Sun
Maryland prison officials are using specially trained dogs to sniff out illicit cell phones in the possession of inmates. Cell phones are often smuggled into prisons by visitors, volunteers, and even staff. It is known that some inmates use cell phones to arrange drug deals or even killings. While several states have begun using canine units for phone confiscations, Maryland's corrections department is the only one to have dogs specifically trained for this task.
States adopt bold anti-poverty measures; At least 15 states have declared war on poverty, launching broad, high-profile campaigns aimed at rooting out the causes of poverty and alleviating its effects on children
08/07/2008 | Stateline.org
As tough economic times are pushing more people into poverty, state governments are ramping up efforts to tackle this issue among their citizenry with comprehensive campaigns. States have created bipartisan commissions to eliminate the traditional barriers that keep the poor from escaping chronic poverty. Others are setting specific poverty reduction goals, focusing on child poverty and extreme poverty. Poverty advocates are hailing the increased engagement of the states.
U.S. cities try 4-day workweek to save energy
07/31/2008 | Voice of America News
US state and local governments are considering the switch to four-day workweeks to save money and energy. Utah became the first state to shut down most services on Fridays. Washington is considering a similar proposal from state employees. Other programs do not reduce the hours of operation, but have staff working staggered schedules to save money, energy, and resources. Several states—including Alaska, Arkansas, Idaho, and New Mexico—are considering legislation to move government workers to a four-day workweek.
Early education bill a milestone for state
08/03/2008 | The Republican (Springfield, Massachusetts)
Massachusetts' Governor Deval Patrick has signed a law that will make quality preschool available to all children in the commonwealth. The legislation acknowledges the need to ensure that education starts early for future workers in an increasingly competitive, knowledge-based economy. The law formally establishes the Universal Pre-Kindergarten Program, which will build on projects already underway at the Department of Early Education and Care, and whose goal will be to provide voluntary and universally accessible education and care for preschool-aged children.
Parent Aware rating system evaluates, improves Twin Cities child care programs
08/06/2008 | St. Paul Pioneer Press (Minnesota)
Minnesota has launched Parent Aware, a pilot project that rates participating childcare centers, preschools, and home sites. Staff training, teaching materials, parent involvement, and child progress are used as measures. Parents can search for the ratings online or by calling a hotline. Parent Aware is a collaboration between the Minnesota Early Learning Foundation, the state Department of Human Services, and the Minnesota Child Care Resource and Referral Network. So far, over 250 providers have signed up with the system.
EPA announces web-based system for companies to self-disclose environmental violations
08/07/2008 | States News Service
The US Environmental Protection Agency has embarked upon a pilot program to allow some regulated facilities in some states to voluntarily disclose their environmental violations online. While businesses normally receive incentives from the EPA when they disclose, correct, and prevent violations, eDisclosure will help businesses comply with the policy more efficiently by reducing their transaction costs. If successful, the EPA will consider expanding eDisclosure to other states.
Scientists move closer toward invisibility cloak
08/12/2008 | Newsday (New York)
Scientists state that they have inched closer to developing materials that will render people and objects invisible. With funding from the US Army Research Office and the National Science Foundation's Nano-Scale Science and Engineering Center, researchers say they can redirect light around three-dimensional objects using artificial materials created at a nanoscale and that contain optical properties not found in nature. The technology could have major implications for pilots, surgeons, the military, and others.
More towns, cities letting golf carts putter around
08/10/2008 | Richmond Times Dispatch (Virginia)
Dozens of municipal governments are permitting golf carts and other small vehicles to travel on some public roads and state highways. While safety remains a concern, electric and solar powered carts can be restricted to city streets with low speed limits. Proponents also argue that the rising cost of gas, increasing air quality concerns, and a rise in general traffic congestion, the use of these ecofriendly and space-efficient vehicles should be expanded further.
Bicycle czar will try to tame city streets; Mayor creates post to improve cycling
08/12/2008 | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (Pennsylvania)
Pittsburgh has become the first city in Pennsylvania to create a new bike-pedestrian coordinator position to help those pedaling or walking the city's neighborhoods. In addition, the city will track bicycle- and pedestrian-related car accidents; sensitize police to cyclists' rights; examine the implementation of tax credits and zoning preferences for businesses that accommodate cyclists; and strengthen general bicycle route infrastructure, such as signage, trail development, and bike racks.
Tony Saich, a renowned China expert and the new director of the Ash Institute, provides perspective on the 2008 Olympic Games and China's future.
Harvard University invites you to apply for the $100,000 Innovations in American Government Award, given annually to programs that serve as the best examples of creative and effective government. Applications for the 2009 awards are due by September 30, 2008.
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Q: Tell difference between functions that perform action and functions that return Is there an easy way to determine/remember which functions return a new object and which act on the existing object.  For example, list.append('new stuff') acts on that actual object, whereas string.rstrip() returns a new string that needs to be assigned somewhere.
I'm forever having to look up (or open the Python Interpretor to check quickly) which functions act upon, and which functions return.

A: There's no completely reliable way, but there are a few good heuristics:

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*If an object is immutable, none of its methods mutate it, of course, even the ones like str.replace that really sound mutative.

*Things like sorted or set.intersection, with adjective or noun names, generally produce a new object.

*If an object is mutable, methods with verb names generally modify the object. This would be stuff like list.append or set.add.

Unfortunately, not everyone picks good names, so we have things like numpy.sort, which produces a sorted copy of a NumPy array and really should have been called numpy.sorted. The most reliable way will always be to check the docs or test it out in an interpreter session.

A: That is what I normally do, I open the python interpreter and try different things by writing snippets. There are however more powerful ways to get metadata to display as you type, for example you could use PyCharm to give you type hinting, which will tell you available functions within the object you are trying to access as well as arguments needed and return hints.

A: As far as I'm aware, no, there is not an easier way than those you describe.
The way most people (including me!) learn is to do more programming, remember the frequently used functions and check the manual on those you don't know :)

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Summerville Catholic opens its doors to inclusive learning
January 8, 2008 Amy Wise Taylor | The Catholic Miscellany 2008
SUMMERVILLE — Paul Schroeder, principal of Summerville Catholic, provided the following information.
History: Summerville Catholic was founded in 1984 and we will celebrate our 25th anniversary next year. The school began as a lower elementary building, with a middle school, library and multi-purpose great room added in the fall of 1989. Two modular classrooms were added in 1999 and in 2006 to accommodate student growth. We are currently working on a master plan for future growth and possible expansion.
Principal: Paul Schroeder.
Number of students: We have 322 students enrolled with a goal of 400.
Faculty: The school has 26 full-time faculty members and one part-time member. We also have four full-time assistants and a full-time inclusive education teacher.
School motto: Celebrating a Tradition of Excellence Since 1984.
Grades: K-4 through eighth-grade.
After-school program: Before-school care begins at 6:30 a.m. The after-school program runs until 6 p.m. and offers homework and playtime. Dance, Mad Science and the Fun Bus are offered as extra activities for additional charges.
School meals: Students eat in the great room or outside under a pavilion with picnic tables. Food is provided by various vendors. Parents can order food for lunches every month via an on-line menu.
School colors: Blue and white.
Mascot: The Seahawk.
Sports: The school offers soccer, baseball, basketball, tennis, golf, volleyball, T-ball and softball. Some students are on the junior varsity teams at Bishop England High School.
Foreign language: Spanish is taught in all grades.
Advanced classes: Eighth-grade students may take Spanish and algebra for high school credit.
Academic teams: Math Counts.
Facilities: Summerville Catholic is located on a 12-acre campus and has a tremendous grassy area where students play.
Community projects: Our school has adopted St. John School as our sister school. We also are involved in Samaritan's Purse Operation Christmas Child.
Biggest change over the years: We have made emphasis on the technology program of the school. New computers were purchased recently and we enhanced the overall computer curriculum and their use within the classroom, giving every classroom internet access. The school's Web site was overhauled four years ago and averages over 5,000 hits per month. We have gone to a paperless weekly newsletter that is sent via e-mail to all families.
What sets us apart: Summerville Catholic is a student-oriented community. We believe in the uniqueness and dignity of every student and that every student can learn. We are also a family-oriented school where parents are involved in their children's education. We have made a commitment to assisting students with learning difficulties by providing full-time staff for inclusive education. Last year we re-structured our junior high into a house system of homerooms named after six patron saints. Each house has sixth-, seventh- and eighth-graders in them.
Wishes for our school: That the school will continue to grow in its pursuit of educational excellence and our ever-important Catholic identity.
Our parish: St. John the Beloved under the leadership of Msgr. Christopher Lathem. We also have students from St. Theresa, St. Thomas and Immaculate Conception.
One change we would make to our school: Six additional classrooms and a gymnasium.
How we demonstrate the Catholic faith: Students from the junior high houses help serve lunch twice a month at Neighborhood House in downtown Charleston.
Our top awards or honors are: Students annually earn approximately 50 percent of the top awards in the Citadel's Annual Bridge Competition. Students also have earned the Presidential Academic and Physical Fitness awards and the S.C. Governor Citizenship Award.
Music/art programs: Chorus and after-school art clubs.
Average scores on the IOWA test: Above national average.
What percentage of students are Catholic? 88 percent.
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The Psychogeographical Commission aims to help people who live in urban areas to re-evaluate their surroundings and to discover and appreciate local mythologies usually assumed to be the preserve of more rural settings (from an ancient God of Newcastle-upon-Tyne to the banishing ritual of the Glasgow Subway system). How do you both go about initially discovering such mythologies? Have you academic or professional experiences in areas such as architecture or urban planning that has given rise to this unusual and rare pursuit or is it self-taught?
H : Personally I've got no academic training of any sort, just have a real curiosity from a very early age. I always looked up at buildings and wondered about them. Once you look up past the shop fronts you can find an amazing array of architectural anomalies. One of my favourites in Newcastle is the vampire rabbit adjacent to St Nicholas's Churchyard who sits above a doorway to what was the dormitory for the monks and priests working at St Nicholas's, it was put there to scare off any demons that might attempt to attack the sleeping monks. It's just a shame that most people never look up and see the wonderful and sometimes curious statues and stained glass windows that exist above eye level, they never wonder who made them and why those figures in particular.
S.: It's mainly understanding the stories hidden in plain site, it's about walking down the same streets as usual but looking at it with different eyes. Mythologies are easy to find, they're all around you every day, in the statues, street names, the buildings and street layouts. Once you start thinking about them they come and find you. There's been quite an increase in local history websites and forums where you can find stories and memories that can really give you new perspective on a place, you also find other people interested in the particular bit that floats your boat, be it tunnels, architecture, life in social housing, local legends or whatever. It's one of those fractal subjects that becomes more interesting the more you find out about it because it can make you question fundamental things. Once you realise that a commonly known historical fact can sometimes be traced back to an odd sentence in a dubious 15th century book that you can tell even on first glance is full of errors, you soon realise that a lot of history is little more than myth and guesswork, and that there are more credible stories which can explain the facts better.
So what lead you to choose music and sound as the stimulus with which to promote psychogeographical sensibilities? Are you, perhaps, relocating folk's traditionally rural settings to apply to cities in the same way you focus on urban instead of rural mythologies?
S.: It struck me as odd that Psychogeography seemed to be a purely literary thing, because as great as the writing is, there's an inherent disconnect because you can't read a book whilst taking in your surroundings. It gives you the concepts to take in, but you can't experience it at the same time. We've tried to take the same concepts, and put them into a more portable form. With adding the field recordings and everyday noises we're trying to approach 'city noise' as music. Music is a very emotionally charged medium, so we just thought it would be ideal for trying to portray a sense of place.
Stuart, you're a pagan, but one that accepts that people live in cities and, therefore, you're prepared to adapt your beliefs to the urban environment. Is this a unique approach or is it part of a wider movement, perhaps?
S.: I suppose you could see it as part of a movement but only in the way that a religion should naturally evolve to cope with changes in society. Chaos magick really opened the options out in the late 70s and 80s when it put more store in creating your own gods and rituals, stealing the techniques that work for you from other ideologies and generally deconstructing other belief systems to see what makes them tick then letting you reconstruct a system that works for you. Everyone's psychological makeup is different and has different anchor points. The world is changing constantly so why shouldn't beliefs evolve to keep up?
You've mentioned before that you are both more creatively productive at "times of lunar significance" and I hear you've been investigating Lunar Temples around Glasgow. What is it about the moon that seems to exert such power, and is it automatically received or do you harness it in any specific way?
My first encounter with your music was on last year's Widdershins EP, a seemingly subtle treatment of your field recording of a journey on the Glasgow Subway system, which leads me to assume that presenting everyday city sounds was central to your strategy for reconnecting people with their urban environments. So, I was surprised to find that your preceding two albums, Genus Loci and Patient Zero, are formed mostly of songs accompanied by guitar and atmospheric synths, albeit with field recordings often further down the mix. Is the Widdershins EP a one-off or are you finding that the actual sounds of the city are coming more to the fore in your work?
When putting field recordings into your songs do you find they mix with music effortlessly – perhaps in the same way pretty much any soundtrack will sync with video at certain points – or do they often require the instrumental parts to be altered? Do they ever dictate the instrumental parts perhaps?
With location being so important to your music, are you ever tempted to be more prescriptive about where (and maybe when) your recordings are experienced?
I find the idea of musically accompanying the live sounds of a specific environment fascinating, whether as part of a live performance or pre-recorded as an alternative guided tour. What inspired you to head you down this path?
Your latest album, Urban Psychetecture, available for free from your Bandcamp page, collects choice cuts from the first two albums augmented by cover versions of a song apiece from Coil, Roxy Music, The Edgar Broughton Band, The Moody Blues and Chrome. Aside from their track titles alluding to the built environment, do they partially map your musical influences?
S.: : Yeah to some extent. It was the Coil cover that gave us the idea for the album though: I was lucky enough to have a chat with Sleazy (Peter Christopherson) when he played Glasgow in 2010, we talked about the 'Musick to play in the dark' era of Coil and 'The Lost Rivers of London' in particular. I told him that it would be the only song we'd even consider covering but I was too nervous about doing it justice. He was very lovely and just said "Just do it and see what happens", we eventually got around to the project and were really happy with the result.
If you were to plan a second volume of cover versions what other choices might be floated?
H : Well an obvious choice would be the Petula Clarke song 'Down Town', hehe, just kidding, S .: would rather eat his own hands than do that.
H : On a more serious note 'Empire State Human' by the Human League could be an idea or maybe 'Walk on By', by Dionne Warwick probably using the Stranglers' version as a template. On the subject of the Stranglers, 'Strange Little Girl' could be interesting given the PsychComm treatment.
You both worked together before in a band called Aftercare that also featured Rich Blackett who contributed to your Patient Zero album and also records for your label, Acrobiotic, as part of the mysterious The Nothing Machine – is this an indication of a network of sorts of like-minded artists?
So, outside of The Psychogeographical Commission and The Nothing Machine are either of you involved in other musical projects?
I heard you suffered from piracy with your first album – what happened and have you found any way to mitigate the risk of the same happening again with subsequent releases?
S.: Widdershins was a limited minicd release with lots of artwork because we just tried to make it special enough that people would want the artefact and not download a rip. The next album we're probably going to have to bundle as much as we can into pre-sales, and then probably release digital downloads a few weeks after the physical goes out to delay the inevitable as long as possible.
While people used to record LPs to tape to cheaply circulate music around small circles of friends, gaining kudos for their tastes along the way, uploading and sharing other people's work on torrent sites seems largely anonymous while making endless amounts of copies available to a global audience. Why do you think people create torrents of other people's work?
You played live in Glasgow earlier this year – how did it go with translating studio-based material into a performance? Do you have plans for future live shows, and, if so, where would you most like to perform (however impractical)?
What can we expect in terms of releases or performances from you both in the near future?
S.: We're currently working on a new PsychComm album all about the mythologies of Roundabouts and the esoteric order of Roundabout Engineers at the heart of the Transport Research Laboratory. There's another project based around using a Cabbalistic interpretation of the layout of New Town area of Edinburgh to explain chunks of Scottish social, political and religious history whilst walking down George Street, and I've also started researching for a multifaceted Glasgow project but that one will be a while off.
H : And there's helping out the Nothing Machine Technicians on their next Therapy Recording as well. There'll probably be at least one more gig this year and we're already thinking up ideas for next year, just nothing fully confirmed yet.
What has made you laugh recently?
It demonstrates the kind of alternate reality most of our concepts work in.
Many thanks go to Stuart and Andy for taking the time to talk to us.


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Worried About Having Enough Cartilage to Graft?
Rhinoplasty can accomplish a number of goals, including augmentation of the nose. Naturally, this type of procedure requires enough material from which to build up the nose, in the form of natural cartilage grafts or synthetic implants. While implants are an option, most surgeons prefer to use the patient's own cartilage. However, some patients are concerned about whether or not they will have sufficient cartilage to graft from, given small features, previous surgery or other factors. The good news is that nearly everyone has enough cartilage to graft from, even those with small features.
Some plastic surgeons use implants to build up the nose when there is no easy source of natural cartilage available. However, these implants are prone to a number of complications, and are not the preferred method for augmenting the nose in the United States.
Rhinoplasty results are intended to last a lifetime and, unfortunately, implants pose a higher infection risk than natural cartilage does. When a nasal implant becomes infected, of course, it must be removed; and another rhinoplasty must be performed. In addition, nasal implants have a high risk of extrusion, which can be caused by trauma. Natural grafts integrate themselves into the nose and have a very low complication rate.
This is the preferred source of cartilage for rhinoplasty grafts. This is because the cartilage is best suited to the purpose for which it is intended, and because no other incisions need to be made in order to harvest the cartilage.
After the nose itself, the ear is the easiest place to harvest cartilage from. The scar is easily hidden, and a skilled surgeon will not take enough cartilage to alter the appearance of the ear greatly.
The rib is the least preferred source of cartilage, but it is plentiful and strong, and can be a good option for those with little nasal and ear cartilage to work with. Harvest may leave a scar on the chest, but a skilled surgeon should be able to hide this scar fairly well.
Because primary rhinoplasty nearly always requires a graft of some kind, often the preferred cartilage source is depleted by the primary procedure and cannot be used for a second surgery. This is another instance when some surgeons might turn to implants. However, revision rhinoplasty is extremely tricky, and every effort should be made to use natural grafts in secondary surgery as well.
Many people who are worried about having enough cartilage to graft from are of Asian heritage. Since many Asian patients wish to augment their noses, it makes sense that this is a common concern. The most important factor in a successful rhinoplasty is going to an experienced surgeon who is confident in his or her ability to create an outcome the patient will be happy with.
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1000 Army officers deployed to tackle wrath of floods in Maharashtra, Karnataka
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The rescue ops by Army underway in villages of Birwadi, Asankoli, Mouje Digraj, Haripur, Nandre village of Sangli, and Kohlapur districts.
'More than 1300 people are reported to be stranded in these villages. Despite inclement weather and continuous rain in the region, all efforts are being made to evacuate the villagers along with NDRF and civil administration,' stated the release. (Photo: ANI)
Pune: As the flood situation in Maharashtra and Karnataka continues to be grim due to incessant spells of rain and release of water from major reservoirs over the last few days, almost 1000 army officers have been deployed to carry out rescue operations.
The Indian Army is assisting the Maharashtra and Karnataka state authorities in carrying out relief and rescue operations in flood-hit areas.
"A total of 16 Columns and 12 Engineer Task Forces comprising of almost 1000 Army personnel have been employed in Belgaum, Bagalkot and Raichur district of Karnataka and Raigad, Kohlapur and Sangli district of Maharashtra to carry out flood relief operations," stated an official release from defence PRO.
According to the release around 500 people have been rescued, provided medical aid and food packets. The rescue operation by Army personnel is presently underway in the villages of Birwadi and Asankoli in Raigad District, Mouje Digraj, Haripur and Nandre village of Sangli and Kohlapur districts.
"More than 1300 people are reported to be stranded in these villages. Despite inclement weather and continuous rain in the region, all efforts are being made to evacuate the villagers along with NDRF and civil administration," stated the release.
The Deputy Collector of Pune, Amrut Natekar in a release stated that around 30 National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) officials and 24 Indian Navy officers along with rescue material were airlifted to Kolhapur on Wednesday.
Sangli, Satara, Pune, Kolhapur and Solapur districts recorded excess rainfall on Wednesday where Sangli recorded most rainfall followed by Satara and Pune.
"Total 132,360 people of 28397 families have been evacuated from Pune region from all five districts. All dams of Pune, Satara Sangli and Kolhapur are hundred percent full and all riverside villages of Pune district have been alerted," stated an official release from Divisional Commissioner of Pune Deepak Mhaisekar.
Six NDRF teams have been deployed in Kolhapur, three units in Sangli and one NDRF unit in Satara district.
In addition to this, four teams of Territorial Army have been deployed in Kolhapur and one in Sangli district.
Meanwhile, 89 boats are deployed to help people. Apart from this, Navy and coastal guard teams are also helping in the rescue operation.
Yesterday, the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) team carried out rescue operations in Walva, Urun Islampur and Sangli and evacuated locals whose houses were completely deluged in water.
The NDRF team waded through knee-deep water to carry our rescue operations. Some of the personnel were also seen sailing in inflated boats for rescue and relief operation.
Heavy rains have caused havoc in Maharashtra with thousands of people stuck in the flooding areas.
Earlier today, Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis called a meeting to review the flood situation. Officials from various districts joined the meeting and briefed Chief Minister about the situation and the measures that are underway.
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/ Babylon Reports – Turkey arrests, Iraqi Cargo Ban, Simpsons on Trump
Babylon Reports – Turkey arrests, Iraqi Cargo Ban, Simpsons on Trump
Gabrielle Renaud 27 April 2017
Turkey's police force has suspended more than 9,000 officers over alleged links to the US-based Islamic preacher Fethullah Gulen. It said the action had been taken on the grounds of national security. President Tayyip Erdogan accuses Mr Gulen of instigating a failed coup against him last July – a charge the cleric denies. The nationwide sweep was one of the largest such operations carried out in Turkey in months.
Over in Iraq, th Iraqi Ministry of Transportation announced on Wednesday that all cargo flights bound for the Kurdistan Region including airports in Sulaimani and Erbil must first be inspected in Baghdad. The reason for the change wasn't immediately clear. The Iraqi civil aviation division also claims to be unaware of the reason behind the decision. The ban will come into effect from May 1.
Finally, the Simpsons are joining everyone else is weighing in on President Donald Trump's first hundred days. In a new clip, the show gives fans a look as to what is going on in the White House. April 29 will mark his 100th day in office. You can watch the clip here here
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Jan. Der Hamburger SV und RB Leipzig sorgen für den Auftakt in den dritten Bundesliga-Spieltag. So sehen Sie die Bundesliga-Partie live im TV. Bundesliga · / · Spieltag · RB Leipzig, -, Hamburger SV · () · / · 3. Spieltag · Hamburger SV, -, RB Leipzig · () · / Jan. Bernd Hollerbach hat bei seinem Einstand als Trainer des Hamburger SV einen Achtungserfolg errungen. Vizemeister RB Leipzig trotzten die.
Da kamen die beiden Erfolge zur neuen Saison gerade recht. Den Gästen genügte ein guter Angriff. Leipzig erwischte jedoch den deutlich besseren Start und schnürte die Hamburger direkt in der eigenen Hälfte ein. Kampl bringt die Kugel schnittig ins Zentrum. Spieltag ganze sieben Monate aus , der Jährigen hat einen Kreuzbandriss. Es ist noch alles drin. Benjamin Cortus Röthenbach Pegnitz. Zweiter Wechsel bei den Gästen. Leipzig zieht sich etwas zurück.
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Lewis Holtby Hamburger SV wins a free kick on the left wing. Diego Demme tries a through ball, but Yussuf Poulsen is caught offside.
Emil Forsberg RB Leipzig wins a free kick in the attacking half. Aaron Hunt Hamburger SV left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Lewis Holtby Hamburger SV left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Emir Spahic. Conceded by Willi Orban. Bobby Wood Hamburger SV left footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the left.
Filip Kostic Hamburger SV wins a free kick in the defensive half. Bernardo RB Leipzig header from the centre of the box is saved in the top left corner.
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Conceded by Johan Djourou. Emir Spahic Hamburger SV is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Marcel Sabitzer RB Leipzig wins a free kick on the right wing.
Gotoku Sakai Hamburger SV is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Yussuf Poulsen tries a through ball, but Emil Forsberg is caught offside.
Conceded by Yussuf Poulsen. Gideon Jung Hamburger SV header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Aaron Hunt with a cross following a corner.
Conceded by Emil Forsberg. Johan Djourou Hamburger SV wins a free kick in the defensive half. Emil Forsberg RB Leipzig left footed shot from very close range is blocked.
Assisted by Yussuf Poulsen. Marcel Halstenberg RB Leipzig wins a free kick on the left wing. Aaron Hunt Hamburger SV left footed shot from a difficult angle on the left misses to the left.
Assisted by Filip Kostic with a cross. Hence, while the training methods have been harsh, the coach is also looking to fix any problems in the dressing room by bringing players that have felt ostracised back on board.
Whether his communication skills and his tactical changes—expect Hamburg to move to a backline with three defenders on Saturday—will work against RB Leipzig remains to be seen.
Last season Hamburg started their resurrection against Leipzig with Kyriakos Papadopolous scoring the winner against his former club.
Leipzig will, therefore, be warned. Whether that is enough remains to be seen. With just one win in their last five Bundesliga games die Roten Bullen have after all somewhat struggled in the league as of late.
On matchday 18 Leipzig, however, once again lost after Freiburg scored their winner after a corner kick. With the likes of Papadopolous in their side, Hamburg have the potential to hurt Leipzig after free kicks and corners, and there is a chance that Hamburg could once again kick off a resurrection against Leipzig.
In other words, whether the club will continue to spend money on attracting young and exciting talent that can help the team grow into a Bundesliga contender that takes part in the UEFA Champions League every season.
The Austrian is of course right in demanding to know what his future would be like if he stays in Leipzig. Marcel Sabitzer always displays an excellent work ethic.
The Brazilian midfielder Walace could be one of the biggest winners of the coaching change in Hamburg. Signed last winter Walace felt that he had lost trust in former head coach Gisdol.
Feeling isolated after returning late from Brazil and seeking a transfer to Flamengo to be closer to his pregnant wife Walace wanted a personal conversation with the head coach.
Hence, while the training methods have been harsh, the coach is also looking to fix any problems in the dressing room by bringing players that have felt ostracised back on board.
Timo Werner replaces Naby Keita. Aaron Hunt Hamburger SV left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
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In ten months I will be returning to the Bay Area after an absence of 12 years. During these years, I moved from Oakland to Portland, Oregon to Portland, Maine.
This journey has been a kind of exile. For a variety of reasons, I never expected that exile would end.
Now, the surprising circumstance of its impending completion has given rise to many reflections. Particularly, I am reflecting on how my time "away" has radically deepened my desire to embody humility and modesty.
In 2007 when I left the Bay Area, these weren't the words or conditions I experienced as governing the direction and substance of my spiritual practice.
I knew that pride was my major karmic impediment. I also recognized that pride is a prevalent cause of suffering here in the U.S. in this era.
But I hadn't gotten so far as to become friendly with what might be freed once pride stopped barricading the gate.
So today I want to share with you what I've learned about humility and modesty.
I've found that many of us here in the U.S. aren't really sure what these words mean.
And we certainly aren't clear about how modesty and humility might relate to direct realization traditions, such as Trika Shaivism, that often valorize a more heroic stance.
In terms of our spiritual life, humility relates to the experience of the greatness and vastness of this alive, aware reality.
When we come into direct contact with the magnificence, the creative fecundity, the unspeakable intelligence, the brilliant clarity, and the unconditioned compassion of this reality, we recognize that nothing we do is important or meaningful.
More precisely, we recognize that "important" and "meaningful" are totally paltry measures of a life, of life. They simply do not apply.
Greatness has nothing to do with individuals.
Meaning is beside the point.
We recognize that we have real, intrinsic value that just exists and continues and that everyone and everything shares this value equally with us.
There is no way to "rise" above or beyond.
There is no position to struggle for or defend.
Life is not accomplishing anything but its real nature: creative play.
It's fun to play the game with more awareness and skill. But our desire to do so was built in from the beginning. So we can't even take credit for that!
Even having recognized this, our karmas still have momentum. We have to apply our practice if we want to interrupt this momentum and be able to play the game more fully.
The work of humility is to stop struggling for a position, especially a spiritual position as a "great" practitioner or "accomplished" teacher.
The work of humility is to stop defending a position.
The work of humility is to welcome failure and unfair attacks as gifts of mercy that bring our tensions and limitations, and also our courage and wisdom, into view.
The work of humility is to stop seeking praise and avoiding criticism and blame.
The work of humility is to live with the awareness of being an infinitesimal production of the immeasurable divine, having total equality of value with all else.
Humble as dirt. Humble as grass. Humble as stone.
In terms of our spiritual life, modesty relates to invisibility.
The direct realization traditions, such as Trika Shaivism and Dzogchen, regularly elevate a kind of deliberate invisibility as the appropriate form of life for the adept. Yet they cultivate an inner or secret language of superiority.
This is the immodest language of the (male) hero and the "highest" teaching.
No measuring and comparing of accomplishments.
No promotion that is not for the sake of others finding community and teachings.
No self-fashioning and self-defining for the sake of pleasuring oneself and manipulating and magnetizing others.
No lying or exaggerating or lying by omission.
No solicitation of respect, approval, or admiration whether obviously or subtly.
No demanding that others understand us as we wish to be understood or that others correct their misunderstandings of us.
No spiritual ostentation in word, appearance, or deed.
Being willing to work behind the scenes, when that is called for, without thanks or gratitude.
Obviously, I am still neck deep in this work. I am fortunate to be part of a community of folks who want to join me.
And while stripping oneself of pride is really hard, nitty gritty work, it's also kind of thrilling. We are so mired in pride, traveling to modesty and humility is like entering into wild, unknown country.


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Big Boys Don't Cry ist ein Film von Steve Crowhurst, der im Oktober 2020 beim Internationalen Filmfestival Warschau seine Premiere feierte.

Handlung
Paul Connolly verbrachte seine Kindheit in einem Kinderheim. Dies war eine schreckliche Erfahrung für ihn. Er musste seinen gesamten Aufenthalt über nicht nur Missbrauch jeglicher Art durch die Betreuer erdulden, sondern auch Mobbing und andere Demütigungen. Eigentlich glaubte er, die traumatischen Erinnerungen hinter sich lassen und ein normales Leben mit seiner geliebten Frau führen zu können, doch dann öffnet eine polizeiliche Untersuchung alte Wunden. Pauls Freund Liam hat Selbstmord begangen, und Paul muss sich wieder an seine Kindheit im Waisenhaus erinnern.

Biografisches
Der Film erzählt die wahre Lebensgeschichte von Paul Connolly. Der Anfang der 1960er Jahre in Billericay geborene Connolly war im Alter von zwei Wochen in das Kinderheim St. Leonard in Hornchurch gekommen. Dort wurde er Opfer von körperlichem, psychischem und sexuellem Missbrauch durch die Betreuer. Bis zu seinem 25. Lebensjahr war er Analphabet. Durch seinen Aufenthalt in dem Heim hatte sich Connolly nach eigenen Aussagen in ein Monster verwandelt. Er entwickelte einen gewalttätigen Lebensstil und wurde im Jahr 2000 wegen schwerer Körperverletzung zu einer zehnjährigen Haftstrafe verurteilt. Ab diesem Zeitpunkt versuchte er seine gewalttätige Vergangenheit hinter sich zu lassen. Nach seiner Entlassung heiratete Connolly und hat mit seiner Frau zwei Jungen. Über den Film, der sein Leben dokumentiert, sagte Connolly: "Six from Eight [Anm.: Der Arbeitstitel von Big Boys Don't Cry] bezieht sich auf die acht Jungen, die in meinem Kinderheim waren. Sechs von ihnen haben, bevor sie 30 waren, Selbstmord begangen, weil sie misshandelt wurden. Ich bin der einzige von ihnen, der nicht im Gefängnis oder tot ist." Connolly veröffentlichte nicht nur drei Bücher über seine Geschichte, sondern arbeitete auch mit der Wohltätigkeitsorganisation Beanstalk zusammen.

Produktion

Regie führte Steve Crowhurst, der auch das Drehbuch schrieb. Er drehte den Film unter dem Titel Six from Eight. Crowhurst hatte sich Connollys Geschichte bereits in dem gleichnamigen Kurzfilm angenommen, den er 2019 vorstellte, so im Oktober 2019 vor der Royal Society of Arts.

Michael Socha spielt in der Hauptrolle Paul Connolly. Zoë Tapper spielt Anthea. In weiteren Rollen sind Mitchell Norman, Joshua Coombes, Brett Fancy, Mark Flynn Rutter und Daniel Adegboyega zu sehen. Während Jamie Wannell in Crowhursts Kurzfilm noch Liam Carroll spielte, übernahm er in seinem Langfilm die Rolle eines Täters.

Der Film feierte am 10. Oktober 2020 beim Internationalen Filmfestival Warschau seine Weltpremiere. Ebenfalls im Oktober 2020 wurde er bei B3 Biennale des bewegten Bildes Online im Wettbewerb vorgestellt. Im November 2020 wurde er beim Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival gezeigt. Im Oktober 2021 wurde er beim Filmfest Emden-Norderney vorgestellt.

Auszeichnungen
B3 Biennale des bewegten Bildes 2020
 Nominierung im Wettbewerb

Internationales Filmfestival Warschau 2020
 Nominierung im Internationalen Wettbewerb

Literatur
 Paul Connolly: Against All Odds – The Most Amazing True Life Story You'll Ever Read, 2010.
 Paul Connolly: Beating the Odds – From shocking childhood abuse to the embrace of a loving family, one man's true story of courage and redemption, 2014.
 Paul Connolly: Not Normal: The Uncensored Account of an Extraordinary True Life Story, 2018. ISBN 978-1-982908-71-3

Weblinks

 Big Boys Don't Cry - Trailer von Screenbound Pictures bei YouTube (Video)

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Dr. Sebastian Renner
GIGA Institute of Asian Studies
Tel +49 (0)40 - 428 25-531
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sebastian.renner@giga-hamburg.de
Since 08/2018: Speaker Research Team "Sustainable Development"
Since 01/2018: Research Fellow , GIGA Institute of Asian Studies
Since 2016: Postdoc at University of Göttingen in Collaborative Research Centre 990: Ecological and Socioeconomic Functions of Tropical Lowland Rainforest Transformation Systems (Sumatra, Indonesia)
Since 2012: Consultant, World Bank
2011 - 2017: Research Fellow, GIGA Institute of Latin American Studies
Education: Doctorate at Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen, Dr.rer.pol. (summa cum laude), Dissertation title "Poverty, Inequality and the Decarbonization of Economic Development"; Master in Economics (Diplom-Volkswirt) at Freie Universität Berlin and University of California, San Diego
GIGA Research Programme
Environmental and development economics
Poverty reduction and low carbon economic development
De-Carbonizing Economic Development in Sub-Saharan Africa (DeCaDe)
BMBF Funding Priority "Economics of Climate Change" | 2018 - 2021
Landscape-Level Assessment of the Ecological and Socio-Economic Functions of Rainforest Transformation Systems in Sumatra (Indonesia)
German Research Foundation (DFG), part of CRC 990 (project B10) | 2016 - 2019
Mitigating Trade-offs between Economic and Ecological Functions and Services through Certification
German Research Foundation (DFG), part of CRC 990 (project C04) | 2016 - 2019
Climate Change Mitigation and Poverty Reduction (CliMiP) – Trade-Offs or Win-Win Situations?
VolkswagenStiftung | 2013 - 2016
Climate Protection, Development and Equity: Decarbonization in Developing Countries and Countries in Transition
Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF) | 2010 - 2013
Development Economics II, Universität Göttingen, SoSe 2013
Recent Refereed Articles
Renner, Sebastian / Lay, Jann / Schleicher, Michael (2019), The effects of energy price changes: heterogeneous welfare impacts and energy poverty in Indonesia, in: Environment and Development Economics, 24, 2, 180-200
Renner, Sebastian / Lay, Jann / Greve, Hannes (2018), Household welfare and CO2 emission impacts of energy and carbon taxes in Mexico, in: Energy Economics, 72, 222-235
Renner, Sebastian (2018), Poverty and distributional effects of a carbon tax in Mexico, in: Energy Policy, 112, 98-110
Jakob, Michael / Steckel, Jan Christoph / Klasen, Stephan / Lay, Jann / Grunewald, Nicole / Martínez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada / Renner, Sebastian / Edenhofer, Ottmar (2014), Feasible Mitigation Actions in Developing Countries, in: Nature Climate Change, 4, 11, 961-968
Neff, Daniel / Haasnoot, Cornelis W. / Renner, Sebastian / Sen, Kunal (2019), The social and economic situation of Scheduled Tribes in India, in: Christopher Fleming / Matthew Manning (eds.), Routledge Handbook of Indigenous Wellbeing, London: Routledge, 194-208
Renner, Sebastian / Lay, Jann / Schleicher, Michael (2017), The Effects of Energy Price Changes: Heterogeneous Welfare Impacts, Energy Poverty, and CO2 Emissions in Indonesia, GIGA Working Paper, No. 302, May 2017, Hamburg: GIGA
Renner, Sebastian (2017), Poverty and Distributional Effects of a Carbon Tax in Mexico, in: CRC-PEG Discussion Papers, 223
Renner, Sebastian / Lay, Jann / Greve, Hannes (2017), Household Welfare and CO2 Emission Impacts of Energy and Carbon Taxes in Mexico, GIGA Working Paper, No. 301, April 2017, Hamburg: GIGA
Lay, Jann / Renner, Sebastian (2016), Not on the "Paris Track": Climate Protection Efforts in Developing Countries, GIGA Focus Global, 08/2016, Hamburg: GIGA
GIGA Talk
Auf die Entwicklungsländer kommt es an: Klimaschutz nach dem Abkommen von Paris


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Don't Abandon Ship Yet! Why Google Authorship Is Far From Done
By SLS Consulting on August 29, 2014
blog home Google Plus Don't Abandon Ship Yet! Why Google Authorship Is Far From Done
By now you've certainly noticed that Google authorship photos are long gone from the SERPs. While your first inclination may be to focus less on your authorship efforts and more on other marketing endeavors, don't give up on authorship just yet. As we've seen in the past, just because a Google product gets put on the back burner for a bit doesn't mean that its value is completely gone.
One of the most common theories behind why Google has done away with authorship photos has to do with its advertising program. Specifically, many marketers speculate that authorship photos were taking attention away from paid ads in the SERPs. Less attention on ads means fewer clicks, which translates to less revenue coming into Google via AdWords. This theory makes complete sense, and hasn't really been refuted by most internet marketing professionals.
Additionally, there may be another theory coming into play here. Authorship, like all other Google products before it, was susceptible to black (and grey) hat tactics. Consequently, some of the authorship photos that were showing up in the SERPs were painting an inaccurate picture of authors who were supposed to have been providing "quality" content. Specifically, through black hat marketers creating multiple, interconnected profiles, by unscrupulous "marketing" agencies offering circles for cash, and +1s not always being as genuine as they should have been, it's no wonder that Google has taken a step back and removed authorship from the search equation. However, that certainly doesn't mean that authorship is dead. In fact, it's probably a better indicator that Google is priming to clean up the authorship program so that it's more in-line with the quality content vision that's been mapped out in its new E-A-T quality guidelines.
So, what's a brand to do when it comes to focusing efforts on authorship? Well, the answer is simple: At the heart of authorship is quality content. That's what it's always been about and that's what Google will continue to emphasize in today's Internet. As long as marketing efforts are being focused on creating great content, there is absolutely zero possibility that any sort of Google penalty can be enforced. Eventually, websites that feature well-written, shareable content will be rewarded with not only higher rankings in the SERPs, but also may see some authorship benefits return to search results. While it's pure speculation on our part that this will happen one day, it's safe to assume that it's not totally outside the realm of possibility, especially given how indecisive Google has been in the past about entirely abandoning its products.
Great content is what Google had hoped for when it introduced authorship, it's what Google is still looking for, and it's what you NEED to focus your efforts on if you want to convert visitors to your site. If you're told otherwise by any other marketing companies out there, they're probably up to no-good, and may even employ some of the more questionable marketing practices Google advises against (beware of black hat!). Remember, if their tactics seem questionable to you, chances are good that Google is going to consider them questionable too.
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The Alaska Satellite Facility downlinks, processes, archives, and distributes remote-sensing data to scientific users around the world. ASF's mission is to make remote-sensing data accessible. Some color differences between MapReady output and the PolSARPro .bmp files may be seen. This is due to different mapping methods. Turn off thumbnail & overlay generation for these files. OR Ignore the error, the desired output file has been generated even though the processing resulted in an error and didn't move to "Completed". This can occur when the input has multiple bands that each need to be calibrated, so that you get multiple output files with band suffixes appended. During processing, MapReady creates a temporary directory in the directory where the final output will be put, containing intermediate files. Sometimes these directories are not cleaned up properly after processing. 'Error: This data cannot be calibrated, missing calibration block.' encountered while attempting to generate a Sigma Radiometry image of AirSAR data AirSAR data is already calibrated, and MapReady cannot re-calibrate it. The GUI should prevent attempting to do so but currently does not. In the MapReady console window, you will see the name of the KML file MapReady is trying to open. Sometimes, this is not the name of the actual KML file that was generated. Pixel values of radiometrically terrain corrected PolSARPro T3 matrix differ greatly from those of geometrically terrain corrected T3 matrix command for mosaicking images which have been geocoded with the same map projection parameters. Only available at command line. Enhanced map projection support by adding the native datums ITRF97, ED50, and SAD69 to the predefined map projection parameter files. enter coordinates, or select a file that contains coordinate triplets (x, y, height) – one triplet per line. Results can be saved to a file as well. Added 'trim', a simple command-line utility that facilitates subsetting an ASF Internal Format file given starting line, number of lines, starting sample, and number of samples. Added 'fill_holes', a tool that replaces values in an image below a given cut-off with values interpolated from the shape and height of the surrounding terrain. The fill_holes tool is handy for manually patching 'holes' (regions with no-data values, typically very small negative values) in DEMs prior to using the DEM for terrain correction. The result is that hole-related artifacts in terrain corrected images are minimized (available as a command-line flag to asf_mapready and as a checkbox in MapReady as well.) The 'to_sr' tool has been added to the tool suite. The to_sr tool converts a ground range (or map-projected ASF Internal format image with state vectors available in the metadata file) into a slant-range image. Replaces deprecated gr2sr tool. The 'deskew' tool has been added to the tool suite. The deskew too removes satellite platform squint-induced skew from ground range images. Enhanced TIFF/GeoTIFF ingest to support a much broader spectrum of GeoTIFF types (scanline, tiled, striped, color, geocentric lat/long in decimal degrees) Improved Windows registry settings to allow parallel installations of multiple versions of the tool set (including uninstallation) Made input file name specification more flexible and removed some dependencies on the name of the file (less error prone) The Alaska Satellite Facility downlinks, processes, archives, and distributes remote-sensing data to scientific users around the world. ASF's mission is to make remote-sensing data accessible. Source.


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Wariacja bez powtórzeń – dowolny ciąg różnych elementów wybranych z pewnego skończonego zbioru. Jeśli zbiór jest n-elementowy,  to ciąg o długości  jest określany jako k-wyrazowa wariacja bez powtórzeń zbioru n-elementowego. Oczywiście kolejność elementów w ciągu ma znaczenie. Gdy  wariację bez powtórzeń nazywa się permutacją.

Liczba wszystkich k-wyrazowych wariacji bez powtórzeń zbioru n-elementowego wyraża się wzorem:

k-wyrazową wariację bez powtórzeń zbioru n-elementowego można interpretować jako funkcję różnowartościową (iniekcję) ze zbioru k-elementowego w zbiór n-elementowy.

Na kalkulatorach liczbę wszystkich wariacji bez powtórzeń ze zbioru r-elementowego do zbioru n-elementowego wyraża się znakiem nPr.

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 Ze zbioru {a,b,c} można utworzyć następujące 2-elementowe wariacje:
 ab, ac, ba, bc, ca, cb
(dla uproszczenia zapisu ciągi nie są ujęte w nawiasy, elementy ciągów nie są oddzielone przecinkami).
 Z cyfr 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 można utworzyć  liczb trzycyfrowych o różnych cyfrach.

Związki z innymi wzorami kombinatorycznymi

gdzie  jest liczbą k-elementowych kombinacji ze zbioru n-elementowego, a  jest liczbą permutacji zbioru n-elementowego.

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Simon Cowell got teary-eyed when recording a new TV interview.
The X Factor judge welled up when describing the moment he was told his father Eric had died in 1999.
'It wasn't, wasn't good,' says Simon, 50.
'It was a horrible, horrible, horrible time, like I said. You believe everyone is going to live forever and they don't.
Simon says he finds it difficult to cope with death.
'I can't admit things,' he says on ITV show Piers Morgan's Life Stories. 'That's why I can't go to funerals and stuff like that.
Simon's interview on Piers Morgan's Life Stories airs on Saturday 6 March.


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In year 1986, Bhilai Institute of Technology was established. It is a first Engineering College in Private sector Chattisgarh.BIT is an ISO 9001:2008 Certificate institute. Offered courses by BIT is approved by the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) , ministry of HRD, New Delhi and it is affiliated to Chattisgarh Swami Vivekanand Technical University (CSVTU), Bhilai(C.G.). BIT has a well skilled, qualified teachnig staff . Institute's has a well maintain infrastructure with all modern facilities.
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Charlie Sheen's repeated relapses and returns to treatment, now covering decades, suggest that perhaps he might look at different approaches to his addictive problems. What he's been doing doesn't seem to be working so well for him -- as it has failed many others.
Sheen has been in and out of standard disease, 12-step therapy of the kind depicted on "Celebrity Rehab" and "Intervention" and practiced at Betty Ford, Hazelden, and virtually every other public and private treatment program in the United States. But this is not the standard treatment everywhere (in much of Europe and the British Commonwealth, for instance).
Other approaches -- which have more often been empirically validated in clinical trials -- include motivational enhancement (allowing addicts to grasp the divergence between their behavior and their values), skills training (including problem-solving, assertiveness training, emotional self-management), community reinforcement (integrating rewards for sobriety into people's daily lives -- including their families and social groups).
These other approaches are generally labeled "cognitive-behavior therapy" (CBT). Although evidence-based, CBT doesn't seem to many people to be medical enough to deal with a genuine disease. In the U.S., we instead hope that medicine will ultimately discover the secret to addiction. In the meantime we call addiction a disease, but rely on group meetings and admissions of powerlessness and submission to a higher power -- hardly in themselves medical treatments -- to cope with alcoholism and other addictions.
We've also got to intervene earlier in ways that aren't quite as threatening, that enable people to take control of an issue that they may not be able to understand is hurting their quality of life. I'm very interested in, and this office is very interested in, screening and brief interventions. ... The other thing, without question is, we've got to develop much more attractive, engaging, enduring treatments. If this is largely, at least today, about lifestyle management, that's what treatment really is.
Which brings us back to Sheen. From a distance, Charlie seems to lack some things: (a) a genuine appreciation of how his behavior is not in his own best interests and violates the things he most values in his life -- like his career and his family, (b) ways of spending downtime that he enjoys other than imbibing substances and hanging out with prostitutes, (c) a belief that he can -- and the know-how to -- extricate himself from dangerous, escalating situations. While 12-step approaches teach people that they can't cease consumption or remove themselves from a using situation once they have begun, we teach the opposite -- and techniques for doing so. These techniques, called relapse prevention, don't assume that addicts lose ultimate control of themselves when imbibing or using.


Essentially, a housing estate with satellite dishes may be just as poetic as a picturesque building, sometimes even more so due to the unexpected tenderness occasionally wanting to be discovered within the uniformity. A tenderness that is inherent in the miniature housing estate lit from inside. While the poetry displayed here remains on the surface of the building, the changing light effects - reminiscent of a flickering TV screen - point to the life behind the façade. The certainty of unknowing is ever-present. What stories would the homes of the people tell if we could take a look inside? What happens in their living spaces concealed by curtains? A sense of otherness lingers, discretion is maintained. The viewer of the model may feel invited to muse over the pastel-coloured points of light on the façade. However, even amidst the poetic light effects uncanniness finds a way to emerge - in the form of a continuously conveyed, persisting anonymity.


Are all fossils "transitional"? A test rant.
Unfortunately this is simply not true. Not all individuals reproduce; nor do all species give rise to new species. In fact many (if not most) lineages in the history of life have led to dead ends. Think about it, if a fossil represents a species which did not give rise to new species, what is it transitioning to?
Of course part of the problem is the use of term "transitional fossil" since the word transitional implies that there is some certainty about specific lineages which is actually rarely the case in paleontology.
It is better to talk about "intermediate fossils" since this refers to morphological characters (facts) rather than hypothetical lineages.
For example Archaeopteryx is undeniably intermediate in form between dinosaurs and birds being a mixture of both dinosaurian and avian (and some in between) characters, this is a fact. The question as to whether or not the genus Archaeopteryx is itself ancestral to later birds would be a hypothesis which is 1) very difficult to test and 2) not one that all paleontologists who work on dinosaurs/birds necessarily agree upon.
So please, for the sake of my sanity (and for scientific accuracy), spread the word to stop claiming that all fossils are "transitional" and maybe encourage the use of the term "intermediate" instead.
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I sometimes used the two terms interchangeably, always with the proviso that 'intermediate' or 'transitional' refers to the form, and does not necessarily imply a direct lineal ancestor/descendant relationship. Although I see where that can still be confusing. What do you think of the argument I've occasionally heard that 'intermediate' is still somewhat deceptive since it can imply that the form is in the middle, when in reality it may be closer to one or the other endpoint, and that yet another word like 'interposed' may be more appropriate?
BTW, good luck on the new blog, and great shirt! Hope your wife is feeling better.
Dave S.: What do you think of the argument I've occasionally heard that 'intermediate' is still somewhat deceptive since it can imply that the form is in the middle, when in reality it may be closer to one or the other endpoint, and that yet another word like 'interposed' may be more appropriate?
Whatever is used will probably take some explaining. For example it needs to be pointed out more often that intermediate fossils are not going to be intermediate in all characters, rather they are mixtures of intermediate characters and mosaics of primitive and advanced traits, with characters from both the parent group and the daughter group. Archaeopteryx being a classic example. While it had some intermediate characters it was also a mix of "dinosaurian" characteristics and "avian" characters. Of course the distinction between what constitutes dinosaurian and avian has become more clouded with the introduction of so much new material from China. Oh the horror of having too many intermediate types!
While you are at it, explain "primitive" and "advanced" traits. Since it is also often said that later is more advanced than earlier assuming some kind of "direction".
Not all individuals reproduce? In the grand scheme of things, this is not an issue. Any fossil form that does not reproduce will either be just like its parents, or a transitional form with a history. Even a dead end species has a history to come from. This posts' argument fails.
Even a dead end species has a history to come from.
A history to come from yes, but no future to go to, hence it is not transitional from past species to future species, i.e. not a transitional form.
It's almost like you don't quite grasp what is meant by "evolution occurs within populations, not individuals". All populations are in a constant state of evolving. Evolution is the change in allele frequency within a population over time. The allele frequency of the population changes with each new addition or subtraction from the population unless the population is inbred to the point that even the humans aboard the fictional Noah's Ark had more genetic diversity. The fact that the population may face extinction prior to speciation is irrelevant. Therefore all fossils represent transitional forms, it's complete nonsense to say otherwise. For someone who accepts the fact of evolution to deny this fact shows that this person is at least intelligent enough to accept that experts in a field should be trusted over mythology but that the person doesn't really understand the mathematical implications of what "change in allele frequency" actually implies.


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Rob is a Trustee of The Roman Research Trust which provides financial support for research and education in the field of Romano-British Archaeology.
Rob was educated in Gloucester, before going on to attend the University of Southampton and Geneva University in Switzerland. After graduating as a modern linguist, Rob specialised in Finance and Corporate Services roles, spending 14 years in Cambridge at Jesus College and then Trinity College, before serving for over 8 years as The British Academy's Director of Finance and Corporate Services - a period which saw the Academy's annual income more than double to £60m and its financial worth triple. During that time Rob also oversaw several capital building projects, established a successful venue hire business from start-up, and played a crucial role in securing the Academy's long-term future at its strategic location along Carlton House Terrace in London.
Aside from enjoying the wide and varied portfolio of Bursar at Murray Edwards College, Rob takes a keen, if amateur, interest in art, food and France. You may also, on occasion, find him on a tennis court.


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Q: Windows form application using Visual Studio c++, that links to a CUDA project I am trying to implement a Windows Form Application using Visual Studio C++ that links to a CUDA project.

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*I created WFA.

*Then I try to dynamically link the application to CUDA project by browsing the .dll in the Add Reference part of the Project Properties. But it said "Could not add ... it is not a .NET assembly or registered ActiveX control".

*Thus I add the .obj of the CUDA project to the Linker->Input->Additional Dependencies part with the .lib files that are required to run CUDA in WFA project. Then I got "fatal error LNK1313: pure module detected; cannot link with ijw/native modules" error.

*I changed the Common Language Runtime Support from "Pure MSIL Common Language..." to "Common Language..." but then msvcrtd.lib and libcmt.lib is conflicted. This error disappears when the .obj files of CUDA project are deleted from the "Additional Dependencies".
Since CUDA project's runtime is MT  and WFA project's is MT dll, this error occurs. I changed the runtime of WFA to MT, but then "error D8016 : '/MTd' and '/clr' command-line options are incompatible" error occurs.
Since /clr is required for "System::" being recognized, I cannot get rid of the /clr option.
Do you have any suggestion to create a windows form application using Windows c++ that links to a cuda project in the easiest way? Or if there are easier way I would be glad to hear them.

A: I think your WFA app is a managed  C++ .NET application using CLR. You are trying to include the unmanaged CUDA DLL as  if it were  a CLR Assembly or a COM Object.  Thus VS is saying /MT (use  unmanaged Multi-Threaded C run-time)  and /CLR is not compatible.
So you need to either wrap the  CUDA DLL in CLR object or use a .NET Binding for CUDA in your project.  Try downloading CUDA.NET  and incorporate that into you project as  reference.
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Commission sets up new advisory Group of Societal Policy Analysis with leading academics
The European Commission has set up a new external advisory Group of Societal Policy Analysis (GSPA). The GSPA advisory group will involve top European experts in a broad range of fields which are important to European citizens and policy makers, such as labour market and welfare reform and promoting better education and research policies.
Meetings of GSPA will be chaired by President Barroso and attended by Commissioners in charge of related portfolios.
The group, set up through the Bureau of European Policy Advisers (BEPA), will meet today for the first time in order to provide input to the Commissions thinking in two key policy areas: reform of Europes social models and improving the European higher education effort. The group is one of three external advisory groups to the European Commission, which involve experts from the fields of economics, politics and the social sciences.
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In a major coup against those attempting to delegitimize Israel's sovereignty in Jerusalem, US lawmaker Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL) made an impassioned speech on the floor of Congress last week defending Israel's ancient and Biblical claims to the land.
Ros-Lehtinen, the Chairwoman of the House Subcommittee on the Middle East & North Africa, spoke on the floor of the House of Representatives about the significance of recent archaeological discoveries found in Jerusalem.
"For quite some time there has been an effort at the United Nations to delegitimize the Jewish State of Israel and to try to whitewash the Jewish peoples' historical and Biblical connection to Israel," said Ros-Lehtinen. "Denying the historic connection of the Jewish people to Jerusalem is false. Amazing archaeological discoveries are frequently made that prove the roots of the Jewish people are in Israel."
The impetus for Ros-Lehtinen's address was due to the recent discovery of a seal inscribed with the name of the Biblical King Hezekiah by archaeologists from the Hebrew University and City of David.
"Earlier this month a Hebrew University archeological team unearthed an unprecedented impression of a royal seal of King Hezekiah from the First Temple period. This marks the first time that a seal impression of an Israelite or Judean king has ever been discovered within the context of an archaeological excavation," Ros-Lehtinen explained. "It proves that not only is Israel the religious center for Jews; it is their ancestral and historic homeland."
According to Ze'ev Orenstein, Director of International Affairs for the City of David Foundation, "In order to truly understand the discourse surrounding Jerusalem today, one must recognize the significance of the ongoing archaeological excavations taking place in the City of David which affirm the 3,000 year-old connection between the Jewish people and Jerusalem."
The recent find has induced the congresswoman to make a trip to Israel to view the rare archaeological find herself. "I look forward to visiting the City of David in the near future to see firsthand the rich history of the Jewish people," she said.
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Miss Universe Harnaaz Sandhu moves from India to New York
The beauty queen has moved to the US for a year to work with the Miss Universe Organisation
Miss Universe 2021, Harnaaz Sandhu of India, poses wearing her crown inside the observation deck of the Empire State Building in New York City. AP Photo
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Miss Universe Harnaaz Sandhu has made her move from India to America, to spend a year working with the Miss Universe Organisation.
The beauty queen became the third woman from India to win the Miss Universe crown in December, taking the title from Mexico's Andrea Meza after she beat out 79 other contestants in the global pageant that was held in the resort town of Eilat, Israel.
Sandhu rounded out the top five, which consisted of Miss Paraguay Nadia Ferreira, Miss South Africa Lalela Mswane, Miss Colombia Valeria Ayos and Miss Philippines Beatrice Gomez.
Sandhu will now reside in New York throughout her year-long Miss Universe reign, where she will work towards her goals and the wider aims of the organisation. Sandhu is a strong advocate for women's empowerment, particularly their constitutional rights to education, careers and their freedom of choice, inspired by growing up working with her gynaecologist mother at health camps addressing women's health and menstrual hygiene, according to the Miss Universe website.
On Thursday, Miss Universe posted a video of Sandhu arriving at her New York apartment, where past pageant winners have spent their year abroad.
"I'm so, so, so excited. I've waited for this day since I think I was 1," she says in the clip, before she walks into a beautiful, large and modern apartment that she says is "newly designed".
As she enters her new bedroom, she finds a letter from Meza on the bed. "Welcome to the sisterhood and welcome to your new home," it reads.
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"I'm trying to control my emotions," says Sandhu, who is visiting New York for the first time. "Imagine, I came from India, had a fly over in Doha, then a 14-hour flight to New York."
Sandhu reveals she also lost her luggage for the first time. "But I'm not panicking, because I'm here, I'm living the dream."
A few days later, she experienced her first snowfall in the city, and shared the experience in a Reel to her 3.3 million followers on Instagram, showing her bundled up in a cosy jacket, captioning the post: "The first of many."
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Another first came on Monday, when she shared images of her first ferry trip and a dinner at modern Thai restaurant Pinto Garden, which in turn shared photos of the beauty queen on their own account, writing: "Your beauty [brightened] up the restaurant."
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Sandhu is from Chandigarh, India where she grew up and attended university. Before winning Miss Universe 2021, she was studying for her master's degree in public administration. She is a model but has also starred in Punjabi films Yaara Diyan Poo Baran and Bai Ji Kuttange.
In recent weeks, Sandhu has also expressed her desire to break into Bollywood.
"Given a chance, I would love to be a part of it, because that has been my dream. I am an actor by profession, I've done theatre from the last five years," Sandhu, 21, told The Times of India, also saying that she would love to make her debut with superstar Shah Rukh Khan.
"I have a vision of influencing people and breaking stereotypes of what women are and what they can be, and that can happen through acting. Because in today's times, people get so intimidated, so influenced by movies. That's the way I can influence people and inspire them by following my passion, just doing the best for the society."
Look back at Harnaaz Sandhu's Miss Universe journey here:
The new Miss Universe Harnaaz Sandhu of India gestures to the audience after being crowned at the Miss Universe 2021 pageant. EPA
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