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Writing your ideas down forces you to organize your thoughts about your project .
It gives me the ability to verify that your plans are of the right scope (and it also gives me the ability to offer suggestions and help, if applicable).
TITLE. Please provide the title of your project, followed by the names of all team members.
SUMMARY. Summarize your project in no more than 2-3 sentences. Describe what you plan to do and (most importantly) what will be learned. By "what will be learned", I mean what is the question the project is trying to answer? (or what hypothesis will be tested?) If this proposal was a paper, this would be where you attempt to list the anticipated contributions or single big idea of your project. -- yes, they may evolve over time. In general, this short description serves to get you thinking about the essence of what you are trying to achieve.
BACKGROUND/THE CHALLENGE. Why is it hard? Describe why the question you are trying to answer is a challenging one (and why success would constitute a contribution). Specifically, think about this as the problem framing often done by the related work in a publication. * Halide generated good code for CPUs, but its GPU code generation abilities are not as good for reason X, Y, Z. * The challenge is establishing the set of minimal rewrite rules that encompass the space of optimizations in modern DNN libraries. * etc.
RESOURCES. Describe the resources (type of computers, starter code, etc.) you will use. What code base will you start from? (have you successfully been able to built the starter codebase on your target machine?) Are you starting from scratch or using an existing piece of code? Is there a book or paper that you are using as a reference (if so, provide a citation)? Are there any other resources you need, but haven't figured out how to obtain yet? Could you benefit from access to any special machines?
Systems building project proposals should describe what the system will be capable of and what performance is hoped to be achieved.
SCHEDULE. Although this will certainly get refined in the coming week or so, attempt to make a schedule for the project. List what you plan to get done each week from now until the project due date in order to meet your project goals -- take note of the checkpoint due date in mi November. It's perfectly fine to admit that in some weeks you will get nothing done (due to conference travel or other deadlines). In designing a schedule it's often helpful to work backward in time from your deliverables and goals, writing down all the little things you'll need to do (establish the dependencies!).
What starter code (if any) you are using. Also that you've selected, obtained, built, and run any starter code you need to get going.
If your project is performance oriented show that you have been able to run "end-to-end" at this juncture, and have an initial results graph (or output) to show me that can serve as a reasonable baseline for all further progress. No matter how slow the current state of the system is at this point, you want to be able to run end to end. If your project is training oriented you should have selected/designed a mini-network at this point and been able to run a bit of training on a small test dataset.
You have written the "test harness" you need to analyze end-to-end correctness, performance, etc. From this point forward in the project you should be able to run a script and generate all your results. This part of the project is very important and allows for much more efficient work going forward. If you have not done this, do it now!
You have identified computing resources you need to get final results (e.g., high-end GPUs, high memory machines, etc.), and are in the process of obtaining it if you have not already.
Given what you know now, I want you to clearly re-state your expected project outcomes/deliverables.
I am asking the following research question... / I hope to show that _____________________________________.
The reason why this project is challenging is ______________________________.
I will demonstrate success/failure by running this experiment, and show the following demo/analysis/etc.
In the final part of the checkpoint I want you to map out the final four weeks of the project. Start with your deliverables (which are due on the week of 12/16) and work backward from there. Be realistic in this schedule. The Thanksgiving holiday is coming up, and you have other research/class obligations. If you look at your schedule and it is clearly unrealistic, you need to change your project goals to make it more tenable. Expectations of projects are high, and it is impossible to do a good project in the final two weeks. Make this plan now!


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IU runs away with 80-62 win over Maryland
One by one, they climbed the ladder and reached toward the rim. Snip, snip, snip.
Long after Indiana turned away Maryland, 80-62, in the regular-season finale, after the senior speeches were through and the teary eyes were dry, the 2016 Big Ten champions claimed their rightful prize.
The Hoosiers' final snapshot of victory inside Assembly Hall this season included a net-cutting ceremony that had been put on pause in the five days since they clinched the conference's outright championship on Tuesday at Iowa. On that night in Iowa City, IU coach Tom Crean stood in the visiting locker room with tears in his eyes, demanding an appropriate response in the upcoming Senior Day showdown against the preseason Big Ten favorite Terrapins.
Before a capacity crowd that spent the entire afternoon loving on their Hoosiers, Indiana delivered.
IU (25-6, 15-3) wrapped up the regular season with a serious momentum surge, and enters this week's Big Ten Tournament playing some of the best basketball the program has seen in Tom Crean's eight seasons as coach.
By winning the Big Ten outright on Tuesday, the Hoosiers sealed a double-bye in the conference tournament and will face the winner of No. 8 seed Michigan vs. No. 9 Northwestern on Friday at noon at Bankers Life Fieldhouse.
Three months after the cohesion of the team appeared to be on the verge of collapse, the Hoosiers head to the state capital not only as one of the hottest teams in the conference, but in the nation, too.
"We overcame adversity early in December when we were very disconnected defensively and not getting stops," senior point guard Yogi Ferrell said. "I feel like we've come together and we've found a way, no matter what way or how, we've found a way to win games."
Doing so has elevated Ferrell's stature in IU lore, and propelled his team to a level that once seemed unreachable.
On Sunday, Ferrell walked off the floor to chants of "YO-GI! YO-GI!" — a senior salute to a player who capped his final game in Bloomington with 17 points, four assists and four rebounds. Teammate Troy Williams, meanwhile, authored one of his finest games of the season, scoring 23 points in the Hoosiers' fifth consecutive win.
Afterwards, Williams was one of the many Hoosiers who took their turn hoisting the Big Ten championship trophy before climbing the ladder to seize a small piece of Indiana's remarkable turnaround season.
"Senior Night can go so many directions," Crean said. "The emotions can overtake it and can make you do things that you shouldn't do. It can make you think thoughts that get in the way of winning and competing. Our guys didn't let that happen. ... We could see it yesterday in practice. They've been ready for this game since Friday."
Indiana played through a tense and rocky start by completely outplaying Maryland over the final 30 minutes of the contest. The Terps jumped ahead on a 10-2 run to begin the game, but fizzled midway through the half.
IU outscored Maryland 21-6 during the final 10:22 of the period — a stretch that saw the Hoosiers limit the Terps to only a pair of 3-pointers by Melo Trimble on 13 shot attempts. It all added up to a 41-28 halftime lead for Indiana after Williams beat the buzzer with a pull-up 3-pointer.
It was a day-long celebration for the Hoosiers, who closed the pregame festivities by honoring Williams with a commemorative basketball after he scored his 1,000th career point two weeks ago.
"I thought that was fantastic," Crean said. "I said, 'Don't try to get the next 1,000 tonight,' but he didn't listen. He went after it."
The Hoosiers raised their lead to as many as 17 points early in the period. Maryland inched within nine points on a pair of occasions — the second of which came with seven minutes remaining in regulation, but IU swung back with four quick points and used a heady play by Nick Zeisloft to boost its lead to 13.
As he fell into the Maryland bench, Zeisloft whipped the ball down the court, where Juwan Morgan picked it up and took it to the basket.
Zeisloft, as he went to make the play, recalled thinking, "Just throw it long, don't save the ball underneath their hoop," he said. "Juwan just happened to be in the perfect spot. No chance did I see him. I want to say I saw him, but I didn't see him."
Morgan was active all afternoon, giving the Hoosiers 19 solid minutes against Maryland's deep and talented frontcourt. But five days after aggravating a shoulder injury at Iowa, the freshman forward saw his day end with another scary moment.
Morgan doubled over in pain in the final minutes of the game, apparently suffering another shoulder injury that required him to head straight to the locker room.
"He was in a lot of pain and it's tough, but he's been enduring this," Crean said. "... It just shows not only his physical toughness, but his mental toughness — and it shows that we've got really good trainers that help him get back."
It was the lone dark moment on an otherwise cheerful and convivial day at Assembly Hall.
Most of the announced crowd of 17,472 remained in place to watch Indiana celebrate its senior class of Ferrell, Zeisloft, Max Bielfeldt, Ryan Burton and Jackson Tharp, then stayed even later to watch the team cut the nets.
Around 9:30 p.m. Sunday, nearly five hours after his final home game initially tipped off, Ferrell finally found an opportunity to walk out of the building.
He carried with him a white pair of sneakers, and on his head was a white hat that read "B1G Champions."

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Today, Beijing issued a flood warning for the first time!
The circle of friends has been a rain scraper, and also the emergence of a big band, it is master in folk.
Master let, I hurry to go to work!
Morning traffic jam that will see, the mood of five miscellaneous miscellaneous chen.
The Imperial Palace is flooded? All false news!
Finally found a reasonable reason for leave.
Standard usage scenario for Beijing paralysis.
Accompanied by heavy rain, there is a big wave of corporate welfare!
In short, the relentless rain, cherish life, safety first.
In the previous:Ten joke: original drill eating corn that was invented by Chaplin!


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The Cub Scout uniform ("Class A Uniform") is an important part of being a Cub Scout. Wearing it lets people know that the wearer is part of the Boy Scouts of America in addition to their Den and Pack. The official uniform should be worn to Pack meetings and any special Scouting activities. When you wear the full Cub Scout uniform, it shows you are a member of the team.
The official uniform for Cub Scouts includes blue Cub Scout pants or shorts and shirt with insignia for your rank. Each rank has its own cap, neckerchief and slide in the rank colors and a belt buckle to be worn with the blue Cub Scout belt as shown below. For reference on patch placement, please see the "Class A Patch Placement" document for download at the bottom of this page.
Shirt-The official uniform shirt is available with long or short sleeves and has button-flap pockets and "Boy Scouts of America" lettered in gold above the right pocket.
Belt-Official navy-blue web belt with metal buckle and Tiger, Cub Scout, or Webelos Scout emblem.
Socks-Official socks are available in three lengths: ankle, crew, and knee. Tigers' socks are navy blue with orange tops. Cub Scouts' socks are navy blue with gold tops.
Cap-Official navy-blue cap with orange front panel and tiger cub emblem for Tigers; yellow panel and wolf emblem for Wolf Scouts; blue panel and bear emblem for Bear Scouts. Webelos Scouts wear an olive cap with a plain panel bearing the Webelos logo.
Neckerchief-Triangular neckerchief is orange with navy-blue trim for Tigers, gold with navy-blue trim for Wolf Scouts, light blue with navy-blue trim for Bear Scouts, and plaid for Webelos Scouts. Official BSA neckerchiefs are the only neckerchiefs that Scouts should wear. Packs should not make their own pack neckerchiefs.
Neckerchief slide-Official gold-tone metal slide with the Tiger, Cub Scout, or Webelos Scout logo. Scouts may wear handmade neckerchief slides.
Blue Epaulet (on Webelo and leader uniforms)-Blue loop that is attached to the shoulder of the uniform shirt.
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Our Costume Designer, Vicki Olson, will be retiring on Friday, November 30, which is opening night of "Cinderella." We are extraordinarily happy for Vicki as she transitions into retirement and will most definitely feel her absence. Vicki has been on staff at RLT for 23 years, and in that time has built exquisite costumes for thousands of characters. Her impact on this theatre is immeasurable.
We have promoted Jenny Mitchell into the leadership role for our Costume Shop after Vicki Olson's retirement. Jenny has been on staff at RLT for 11 years, and we could not be more confident in her ability to build on Vicki's success.
Patrick Torres, our Artistic Director, recently sat down with both of them to record a podcast to talk about their history with the company, the future of the shop, and to say "thank you" from all of us. Click this link to listen to the episode.
Lastly, it's our pleasure to let you know we have hired Jeremy Clos as our Associate Costume Designer to join Jenny Mitchell in the costume shop after Vicki's retirement.
Jeremy has been working with Raleigh Little Theatre in different capacities for the past three years, including part-time work in the Costume Shop over the past two seasons. He is a local designer with an extensive knowledge of fashion history and costume construction. His passion for volunteers and dedication to offering meaningful experiences for all who choose to spend time in the shop make him an incredible fit for RLT. His first full-time day will be December 3rd but he will continue in his part-time capacity until then.
Congratulations Jenny and Jeremy on your new positions and thank you, Vicki, for all of your work!


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A Ghost Story for Hallowe'en: 'The Yawning, Colorless Chasm'
A drifting couple leave their bustling Chicago neighborhood to photograph a covered bridge outside of the wife's rural hometown. Desperate for money, they are being paid to spend the night at the supposedly haunted spot, photograph anything unusual, and return the pictures to an eccentric anthropology professor. The husband's bitter cynicism and the wife's open-hearted curiosity only increase the stress on their rickety marriage, but when strangers arrive at their overnight photo shoot, violence, ritual murder, and trans-dimensional experiences will change how they view themselves, each other, and the shape of the universe.
T H E Y A W N I N G , C O L O R L E S S C H A S M
DEDICATED TO BRIAN O'CONNELL,
My friend and faithful fan
"The Ceylon Covered Bridge is located on CR 950 S. at Limberlost County Park in the county area outside of Ceylon and Geneva. Originally and historically known as Baker Bridge, it was built in 1879 by Bridge Smith Co. of Toledo, Ohio, and was one of 23 covered bridges spanning the Wasbash River. Today, the Ceylon Covered Bridge is the last remaining covered bridge over the Wabash, and was added to the National List of Historic Places in 2007. Running 135 feet long, the Ceylon Covered Bridge was fabricated using a Howe Truss design.
"...this bridge is often found on lists of haunted placed [sic] in Indiana. One such story tells of a grim event happening there, although there is of course no factual proof. Local lore states that a group of teenagers performed a séance on the bridge many years ago. During the séance, a body supposedly fell through the roof, leaving a large blood stain on the floorboards by the pentagram drawn by the teens. Perhaps this is why it needed restoration. [Many locals avoid the area today, and some claim that a portal to another world was opened during the séance, and that it remains open to this day -- REDACTED SINCE AUGUST 2018]."
— Town of Geneva Website, www.townofgeneva.org/ceylon-covered-bridge
"Throughout history and literature, from the supernatural flights in 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow' and 'Tam O'Shanter' to fairy tales like 'The Three Billy Goats Gruff' and the 'Cry Baby' bridges of urban legend, bridges have been viewed as areas with unusual supernatural activity. They are places prone to haunting and notorious for dangers both real and imagined. Many scholars identify this association with bridges' perceived ability to defy natural law, allowing mortals to cross areas which nature never intended them to span. Conscious of this break in the natural order, superstitious cultures believed that bridges were capable of attracting the interest and fascination of dark, outer powers."
— Millennium Book of Folklore, Superstition, and Mysticism, pg. 125
The interstate reached out between two shaggy bands of maples and ash trees, rising and falling along the humps of hills, carrying the small electric car east – away from the vivid frenzy of Chicago, towards the slumbering prairies where her family had been settled for four generations. She did not welcome the return, but it paid money and they needed money. More than anything they needed a distraction. Her husband sat behind the wheel, looking distantly over the dashboard as if watching every yard of pavement disappear under their bumper with the bored desperation of a man longing to pull over and walk off into the woods. He reached over dully and turned the radio up, returning his hand to the part of the steering wheel where it had rested without prior interruption for the past hour. His eyes returned to the pavement, counting the yards slipping under their tires.
She hadn't made him come back to her hometown since their wedding – that was four years ago – and he had been perfectly content keeping five hours between them. They Skyped into her family get-togethers and sent cards for Christmas and birthdays, but other than her mother's triannual visits to Chicago, they hadn't been forced to leave the liveliness of Wicker Park where his vegan donut shop had given them plenty of excuses to stay put: the holidays were busy times; he had to be up by 3:00 am six days a week; Saturdays were the only day he had off, and he needed it to unwind. It wasn't that her family was obnoxious or even unpleasant, but they were backwards and ignorant and infused their family reunions with subtle obligation and guilt.
He wasn't a practicing vegan – sometimes he ate fish, or eggs, and once a year or so he might have free range chicken – but her family always made a fuss out of presenting him with a special salad when they visited. She was a strict vegetarian, so also attracted a degree of confusion, but at least she could put ranch dressing on her salads, and could eat Aunt Jenny's whipped cream-saturated dirt pudding. She had promised him – after five years of living together – that if they got married he wouldn't have to visit home unless it was an emergency. Now Aunt Jenny was dead and more of the grandchildren had moved away – to Denver, to Columbus, to Nashville, to Minneapolis, to Houston – and Christmases and Thanksgivings were mostly for the parents and grandparents. They had been freed of their obligation to pretend that the past was the present, to be anchored to the ignorance of obsolete generations and dying elders.
Instead, they spent the majority of their time travelling – seeing the world and living out of hostels. The excuse about his workload was a lie; he had two managers to run things when he needed to leave town, and the vegan pastries were impossibly popular with the Wicker Park community, keeping money flowing into their coffers. She was a photographer focused on boudoir photoshoots for single women, elopements in the Lake Michigan area, and photoshoots of couples on vacation. This took her out of town and all over the country, and most of the time she brought him with her; he had majored in Business with a minor in Photography, which is how they met: she was a teaching assistant for one the professors in her department and he was finishing his thesis for the minor – a black-and-white study of drapery in abandoned houses – and she was drawn to his vision; he had a taste for delicacy that struck her as unusual for a man, and spent the semester trying to get to know the moody, bearded junior with the green eyes. Since then they had been inseparable – they shared everything: a love of travel and photography, of '80s music and postmodern art, of whiskey and cigarettes, of road trips and dive bars. They burrowed into the lush frenzy of an itinerant life – roaming spontaneously – and were fused by their shared passions.
But the past four years of legal marriage brought with it a solemness – an end of adventure and wonder – that haunted them with monotony. This only grew heavier as they neared thirty and began to realize the weight of their debts; three backpacking trips to Europe in the last four years, a vacation in South Korea, and a week spent in India had come at considerable cost, and while they both tried to work hard enough to afford their adventures, the income from the donut shop and her photoshoots was just enough to support their life in Chicago and on the road, but it hardly left enough to cover two overseas journeys a year.
And that was why they were driving east – towards her hometown on an assignment: take photos of the Ceylon covered bridge at sunset, night, and sunrise. The overnight commission brought with it a staggering price tag of $5,670 – enough to pay off their last trip to Amsterdam – and easily excused the necessity of leaving the lights of the city for the dust of the Heartland.
To find the bridge in this story you will need to go to a town in northeastern Indiana that used to be a wilderness called the Limberlost Swamp. The swamp itself – largely drained but still alive on the outskirts of the town, going so far as to hug the sides of Highway 27 as it heads south – has a strange history. The American Indians had a name for it which the Yankees pronounced "Loblolly" – a pretty word that sounds like summer and youth, but its meaning in the Miami language is "stinking bog" – an allusion to the sulfuric odor of rancid vegetation and decomposing animals. To the Miami tribe the Loblolly Swamp was a place to be avoided – never to be entered too close to dusk, and never to be hunted in alone.
A tangled, buzzing marshland known for its blend of beauty and treachery, it gained its English name during the infancy of Indiana's statehood after "Limber" Jim Corbus disappeared in its thorny clutches. Limber Jim was a popular hunter and lumberjack, known for his skill in traversing the bogs and woodlands, and yet one day he entered the swamp with a rifle over one shoulder, and it never let him out. Days later the lumberjacks' calls of "Turn out! Limber's lost!" were heard booming amongst the labyrinth of trees, but the search was a failure, and the swamp where Limber was lost became a source of superstitious anxiety until it was gradually drained and dominated by human ingenuity: whatever had taken Limber from the realm of the living surely need not be worried about any longer. As the swamp water receded into ditches and rivers and lakes, dirt roads were cut through the drying woodlands, and in 1879 a bridge was constructed over one of those gorges – a fat, lazy projection of the winding Wabash River as it snakes its way through the Hoosier interior – and although the road has been diverted since the 20th century, the old bridge still stands.
To make your way there you will need to drive north on Highway 27 until you pass through the town of Geneva, turn right at the Ehre Farm Stand just outside of town, where they sell tomatoes and peppers in the summer, and pumpkins and onions in the fall. This road will twist its way through a village called Ceylon – a loose collection of houses gathered on an informal grid of streets with tree names like Elm and Maple – a town who lends its name to the covered bridge that you're looking for. The road will crook and jerk until you are clear of Ceylon, upon which you will find it heading east with fallow fields on either side of you. In recent years the trees have begun to overtake the land where the swamp used to live, and you will likely notice the horizon's dark tree line and how the fields have become overgrown with saplings. I haven't been there in years, so I imagine that the saplings have now turned into young trees, and that the thick brush that I can picture reaching its arms towards the road on either side have now become thick with newer saplings as the reclamation increases its gains.
As the road claws eastward, you will soon notice a flash of red and white: the walls of a covered bridge surrounded by the deep greens of the Wabash woodlands. Shortly after you recognize the white outline of its rounded mouth, you will find yourself pulling off the road on a gravel path leading up to the bridge. Off to one side – surrounded by swaying yellow grass as high as a man's elbow – there will be a decaying pavilion, a rusted iron water pump, and a sun-faded sign announcing that you have arrived at Limberlost Park, and that you are now in the shadow of the Ceylon Bridge. Those who grew up in southern Adams County either saw the bridge as a historical curiosity that smacked obnoxiously of rural sentimentality – the sort that adores split-rail fences, Amish buggies, and paintings of barefoot children fishing – or were familiar with its strange past, and harbored a fearful respect for it.
As you exit your car and walk up to it, you will quickly realize that there are many people who have not developed this somber reverence: while the exterior walls are a deep, heavy red, the interior is unpainted, and the grey, aging lumber is brilliantly laced with four decades worth of graffiti. Most of it consists of lovers' names paired with dates or encircled in a quickly sprayed heart. Before the advent of spray paint, names were hacked in the wood with knives, then written in pen, then markers. While the majority of the writing is in this romantic vein (Kim + Andy '84; Jennifer and Kendall Foreva 8-9-97; Lizzie Luvs Tyler; etc. etc.), a great deal take the much darker route that can sadly be expected from rural Indiana graffitists. Swastikas, Klan emblems, pentagrams, anarchist symbols, and sinister runes blend in almost invisibly amidst the harmless oaths of eternal love. Some of the more obscene comments have been spray painted over in dark grey (the work of the parks department), but these grey blobs are tabula rasas begging to be defaced with new slurs. The bridge is lovely on the outside, interesting on the inside, but unquestionably disturbing under close scrutiny – a museum of human emotions, a gallery of personal passions, it has been a touchstone of the area's collective unconscious for 150 years, and its power to elevate petty, shallow love and deep, resounding hate on equal pedestals has made it a psychological curiosity for tourists who are expecting a quaint covered bridge only to find themselves standing in the Temple of Id.
I cannot verify if the legend of the séance is true or whether any living people claim to have been present at it. It is said to have taken place before I was born – some say in October 1985, others in October 1988 – and since the pentagram was drawn in chalk (if it was drawn at all) it has long been sponged away. If a portal was opened by some esoteric ritual that night, it would be surprising: rural Midwestern teens aren't usually known for their scholarship or their attention to detail. But if something did happen like the legends say, the Miami tribe would not have been terribly surprised: the Loblolly was always considered a portal to the spirit world, and while the tribe chose to bury their dead in a more favorable area – one that didn't reek of sulfur and swamp gas – they felt that the spirits of the unhappy dead roamed the thickets and briars of the Loblolly bogs. But this is still more folklore that can't be verified by historians or scientists.
It is true that there have been a high number of suicides in this place; seven since 1968, most of whom shot themselves in the parking lot, in the pavilion, or inside the bridge itself, although two managed to scale the rafters and hang themselves from the ceiling. Romantics like to imagine that a supernatural energy preys on weak-minded or weak-willed people – vulnerable types who are unfortunate enough to drive past the bridge, or to have a flat tire in its vicinity. Realists are more likely to think that the solitude of the unfrequented park is less of a spiritual magnet to the emotionally damaged than it is a tremendously convenient spot to perform an act which would otherwise be difficult to accomplish in one of the surrounding small towns.
It is a quiet place to park a car without attracting attention, and far from any houses, unlikely to be patrolled by police, and a public site where the body will be easily noticed in the morning, making it attractive to loners who would prefer that to having their body scrapped off of their easy chair three months after the fact, and to family people who would prefer their remains to be found by a passing patrolman rather than a spouse or child. Indeed, most of the suicides were committed by married parents who drove to the lonely spot in the middle of the night instead of running the errand they were entrusted with. Five were women in their thirties or forties, and two were men in their middle age. The papers have always been discreet about these events, but gossip flourishes in rural towns like these – the stories are officially repressed, but this only leads to stronger interest and more gruesome details.
The first modern suicide was by a father of two – separated from his wife and recently laid off from his job at the furniture factory – who drove to the bridge on an October morning while the milky mists rising from the Loblolly Marsh had hidden all but the spine of its roof from view. Two hours later a driver noticed the orange glow of headlights peering through the fog. Expecting to find a stranded motorist, he instead found an abandoned truck, and the police later found his corpse in the river. He had drowned in the shallow slime at the base of the bridge's foundation; his eyes, nostrils, and throat were stuffed flush with yellow mud.
In October, 1998, one woman – a single mother of three – had hanged herself from the rafters over the exact spot where the pentagram had been drawn during the infamous séance which was said to have opened an interdimensional window. Only 25, her nude body was found two days later by a couple who had come there to picnic. It was a dark, overcast day, and they abandoned their picnic to take cover in the bridge when a storm blew in. In the murk they didn't see the body turning above them until the male felt her toes graze the top of his head and looked up. Years later a middle aged mother drove there in the middle of the night and shot herself in the head two weeks before her favorite daughter's wedding. She left no note and had no recorded history of depression. Her traumatized daughter skipped both the funeral and the wedding, and moved away to Denver without a word to her widower father or stunned fiancé.
This is what drew people to the bridge – a love of the macabre, a fascination with the occult, maybe even a soothing hope for something bigger than themselves. Something very different and far more material was driving the couple who were headed there from their Chicago apartment. Neither of them cared for or were remotely interested in ghosts or witchcraft or true crime. They needed money, and they hoped to get it by feeding another man's obsession with the occult. It was an autumn afternoon with feathery gold traces of vapor brushed across a radiant blue sky, the sort of day when life seems suspended for a moment as if sinking slowly into water – so slowly that you don't notice the descent. The trees were burning with color; a general blurring of ochre and sienna into a sparkling bronze, occasionally punctuated with bursts of scarlet and lilac, and as they passed through Plymouth, heading southeast down Highway 30 (then turning due south on Route 5), it was just warm enough that they could roll the windows down and drink in the fragrant air of cornfields and woodlands.
"Scott said he'd pay you next Monday?"
It was the first thing he had said to her since they had driven through Rochester.
"Yeah. That's what he says. He said if I can get the editing done by Saturday he would add $130 to make it an even fifty-eight hundred."
"This is weirdly important to him. I hope he doesn't expect to make a lot off of this book."
"He says there's a niche market for it."
"Maybe now. Maybe with old white people. I don't know anyone under 35 who would want to read about rural superstitions."
"Scott is an old white man. Well, old-ish. Fifty-six… And someday you'll be an old white man," she laughed. It was the first time she had laughed during the entire drive.
"Technically. But no one will think of me that way. Just a chill guy with grey hair who digs Prince and doesn't skimp on pot with his friends."
"But you will be old…"
His face seemed to harden and settle. He didn't like the thought of aging, as if he would somehow sink into the past like her dead Aunt Jenny. Especially now, as they drove past small towns with weather-stained siding and tall grass – past farmhouses with bowing roofs and boarded windows. He missed the city already. But not just that; he loved driving through the red deserts of New Mexico or up the craggy hills of Colorado, or through the forested ridges of Vermont. It wasn't the country exactly that annoyed him – it was the energy of this particular part of the country: resistant, negligent, insular, and deluded. The people living in these towns were content with their lives – small, empty, visionless lives – and he hated them for it. How could a person house something as grand and expansive as the human spirit in their brain and find nothing insane about being raised in a town without a building over three stories in sight, living in that same place for the rest of their life, and then bringing children into it. The cycle repeats itself, and so – he thought – did the ignorance and stupidity.
"When is Scott publishing this thing? Are you getting any of the royalties?"
"He said next April, and if I agree to do any other shoots he said he'd write up a contract."
"What other shoots?"
"Well, the book is about superstitions and folklore all over the Great Lakes Region. There are probably sixty or fifty sites that he's writing about."
"And he needs an overnight photoshoot for each goddamn one!?"
"No," she said sternly, "The only reason this one is overnight is because he wants me to watch it and see if I… see anything…"
"Holy shit. You're not serious; this is a ghost hunting trip? In 2018. And the two of us with college degrees. Why doesn't he get one of these Holy Roller yokels to do it? They believe in all kinds of bullshit just like this – Zombie Jesus, water into wine, Holy Ghosts. Get someone who doesn't use logic in their daily life for Christ's sake."
"He didn't say I had to believe in supernatural things. Besides, the photoshoot is commissioned whether or not there are any pictures he's interested in. He wants shots of it at sunset and dusk, shots of it at night, and shots of it at sunrise. He just wants me to take pictures of anything strange if something strange happens. The rest of the places he's writing about aren't as important, I guess. He says this one is going to be the centerpiece of the book."
"I don't know how a scholarly published writer with a masters and a PhD can possibly consider this a good use of time. His other books are sensible enough – anthropology, politics, history – why is he bothering with this superstitious B.S.?"
"You've only met Scott twice. I've been to his house three or four times when I was doing the photos for his last book, and I can tell you that superstition isn't a random subject to him – it's a huge part of his research."
"His house. It's full of esoteric art and books and artifacts."
"He's an anthropology professor."
"Yeah, but a lot of them aren't just arrowheads and tapestries – a lot of them are… occult, I guess."
"Pentagrams and goat's heads?"
"Stranger than that. I can't describe them, really. You just know when you see them. Especially the statues he has. They're weird. But he's always been super friendly. He has a positive energy about him. I think the supernatural stuff is just an outlet because he's always so positive… But yeah, he thinks this book will sell well in some kind of niche, occult market. He says a lot of people know about the bridge and its backstory, and he was like, really interested when he heard I grew up nearby."
The sun was setting soon – it was October 13th, which fell on a Saturday that year – and the sky was aflame with scarlet light as it became cradled in swathes of violet clouds. The sun still hung softly in the middle of the sky as they drove through the shady town of Berne, over a few miles of woody farmland, and across a bridge spanning the Wabash River (at a point where two strange, muddy islands seemed to be fusing beneath the span). Less than a mile from this spot was the Ehre farm stand with fat golden pumpkins and bundles of cornstalks gleaming in the golden light. Here was the turn onto First Street, two blocks east and then a left onto Third Street, two blocks north and then a curving right onto High Street, which turned into Covered Bridge Road and lead them through the Loblolly Swamp to the dark glen of Limberlost Park.


There is a certain degree of stigma attached to NEBOSH exams, which is certainly not helped by the notoriously low pass rates. It cannot be denied that they are very demanding, but would the qualifications be worth obtaining if assessment were via a simple multiple-choice exam? Whatever the merits of other health & safety qualifications, it cannot be argued that NEBOSH awards are still the number one choice of most prospective employers.
Despite what some say, it is not possible to learn the course material parrot fashion for the final exam. However, with hard work and an understanding of key concepts and basic principles, there is no need for any exam paper to be the cause of nightmares. Everyone studies in their own way, but the following are some general guidelines that just may make the difference between a referral and a pass with flying colours.
Don't rush into the exam room with minutes to spare. Make sure you have had a good nights rest, eaten well and don't have a hangover.
The old scouts motto. Don't turn up with one dodgy biro. It WILL run out before you get your name on the paper.
Don't grab a seat too close to the heaters, halfway through the exam you will wish you had picked somewhere cooler. Similarly seats by the window can be too hot or cause glare in the summer, too cold in the winter and cause distractions. Get a comfortable table with good lighting.
After suffering a back injury at work in 2002, my life changed in an instant and would never be the same.
The accident itself was not a spectacular event by any means, there was no machinery involved, no explosions, no falls from a great height, no blood and guts, just a manual handling task I had done a few times before. All I had to do was lift a heavy steel beam from the floor up a few inches and onto a wooden pallet. A dual lift with a colleague. We both managed the task and carried on with our Friday. The next day, Saturday, I felt crippled and couldn't get out of bed because of the unbearable pain. Not so good when my daughter was in her cot crying for food and a nappy change!
It turns out I had slipped two discs causing me to spend the next 2 ½ years virtually housebound living on Incapacity Benefit.
Naturally this placed incredible strain on home life for my wife and young daughter (two years old at the time), not only in monetary terms, but simple things like going shopping, visiting friends and family, pulling up socks, or even lifting a full kettle. All the things many people take for granted. The hardest part of these years was not being able to lift, carry or play easily with my young daughter who had no concept of why her mum could and I couldn't. Kids are amazing creatures though; she was OK with the limited physical activities we could do together.
In a year that has seen the 35th birthday of the Health and Safety at Work etc Act (HSWA) and the 30th anniversary of NEBOSH, health and safety in the workplace still remains a highly sensitive issue but one that is crucial to the wellbeing of Britain's workforce.
The HSWA has remained the framework for all health and safety legislation and has also managed to adapt to change since its implementation in 1974. In a society which has moved from a largely manufacturing-based industry to a service driven economy and with a more transient and diverse workforce, it remains crucial that employers and health and safety professionals also adapt to changes in working environments and employment patterns.
People who are risk aware (like us H&S types) are probably quite careful at home too.
A common perception seems to be that "it's common sense" that if I don't take any safety measures at home when I'm doing something, I shouldn't expect my employer to insist on me taking precautions, besides I hate those earplugs, can't hear the radio with them in.
I used to get a giggle from my kids when they saw me wearing safety glasses when I painted a ceiling, paint in the eyes is such a pain.
I think the risks are much greater at work not because the tasks are any different, but because the number of times per day those tasks are performed is much greater, and I'm often close to other people doing things that present a hazard to me, or who distract me.
You often see signs on construction site gates specifying the ever growing list of PPE that must be worn by everyone while they are on site, and having been a technical courier (the person who turns up to fix the office photocopier / printer / computer) I can tell you first hand that they are serious about this.
I dared to walk through the gates of a building site in Glasgow one day, to deliver a new photocopier part to the offices just inside the gate when I was accosted by a brusque foreman type who insisted that I should turn back because I didn't have a hard hat on, or hi viz, or even toe tectors.... "They don't go well with the suit, and I'm just going there to fix the office photocopier" I explained in my normal jovial manner, pointing to the portacabins about three metres away.
"Doesn't matter, it's a blanket policy" I was informed by the very efficient chap.
Health and Safety at Work: Who's responsible…?


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Password salting is a technique to protect passwords stored in databases by adding a string of 32 or more characters and then hashing them. Salting prevents hackers who breach an enterprise environment from reverse-engineering passwords and stealing them from the database.
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Hashing prevents passwords from being exposed or stolen by threat actors, since they are not stored as plaintext. For example, when users create an account with a username and password on a website, their password is hashed and stored in an internal file system in an encrypted form.
When users log in, the password runs through a one-way hashing algorithm that converts the password into a different and unrecognizable string of characters. During login, this string is compared to the other hashes stored in the website's database. If the credentials match the stored hash, users can access the account. If it doesn't match, hash verification fails, and users are not able to log in.
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Your listing name must be short and efficient. It must describe clearly and accurately the service you offer. Depending on the website you post your service on, some attributes like the price may have a separate field and you do not have to add it to your listing name. Remember, keep it short and simple.
Now that customer clicked on your ad, you need to convert it to a booking.
Speak about what you offer. Maybe you provide different services, different ways of work so you have to inform the customer about all of this. Be transparent: give the more information you can. They don't want any bad surprises, they want to have the service they paid for.
Focus on yourself: Why are you doing this? What are your convictions/motivations? Your future customers will be able to see all of this through your description. You can use different senses like passion, emotion, sensations … You can have so many reasons to provide this service, but thinking of yourself will allow you to be clear and persuasive, and this is what your customers are looking for.
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Consumers are permanently looking for new experiences. Show that what you offer is original and accessible to your targets. Introduce your services and skills with an adapted, yet professional vocabulary. You should use strong keywords to be persuasive.
Are you providing this service at the customer's location or at your own location?
At customers' location: Include the area you cover, for example, the list of districts.
At your location: Specify if it's your personal or professional address like an office, a gym, a studio. This information can help give credibility to your service offer.
Avoid showing a high price with a big discount. While customers like discounts, it may have the opposite effect while buying service. Customers want to get a good and reliable service, not a cheap and bad service. Offer a fair price that is aligned with the service quality you provide and with the market.
Describe how the service will be conducted, from the start to finish. Customers should be very clear on how you conduct the session.
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We will discuss what we have learned during our previous session and I will answer any question your child may have. We will correct the homework given together. We will then focus on preparing for the next exam.
In this section, list down what is included in your service. Provide as many details as you can.
Similarly, you should specify what your service does not include to avoid any nasty surprises.
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Return to the forest with Bunny, Monkey, and the rest of the crazy crew in book two of the series!
Welcome back to the woods! It's a peaceful home, really, but wait . . .
It's Monkey in a hovercraft that fires lasers! And is that a kitten cannon and a Hamster Mobile too?
Join Bunny, Monkey, Skunky, Pig, and all the rest of the lovable and crazy characters from the first book, as science and nature fight again. There's all the same irreverent humour, bold and appealing art, and non-stop action, but this time with robotic worms, Trojan mooses, and lemony doomsday devices, of course.
It's the continuing battle between good and evil . . . It's . . . Bunny vs. Monkey: Book Two!


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UN, AU welcome Bashir-Kiir meeting in Juba
April 13, 2013 (JUBA) – Friday's meeting between South Sudan president, Salva Kiir and his Sudan counterpart, Omer Ahmed Al-Bashir has widely been viewed as gesture of improve relations between the two ex foes. The two
April 13, 2013 (JUBA) – Friday's meeting between South Sudan president, Salva Kiir and his Sudan counterpart, Omer Ahmed Al-Bashir has widely been viewed as gesture of improve relations between the two ex foes.
The two leaders, at a press conference held in Juba after their meeting, said they both agreed to form a joint high level committee to work out modalities seeking to resolve the remaining outstanding issues between them.
Bashir, making a first time visit to the South Sudan capital since it got its independence in July 2011, said he ordered for resumption of Sudan's border with its southern neighbour and pledged stronger ties with the latter.
Ban Ki-moon, the UN Secretary-General, in a statement, said he was encouraged by the constructive discussion between the two leaders on the implementation of the agreements they signed in Addis Ababa on 27 September 2012.
He however, urged both Kiir and his Sudanese counterpart to "maintain this positive momentum."
The South Sudanese president and his visiting Sudan counterpart ended their talks on Friday without striking a deal on the issue of the contested Abyei region.
Bashir, however, vowed to work hand to hand with Kiir to resolve the outstanding issues including Abyei where they are yet to establish temporary institutions and set up a referendum commission.
"The Secretary-General commends both Presidents for their decision to continue their efforts to resolve the Abyei issue in accordance with the implementation matrix," the statement reads in part, further urged the two leaders to resolve their differences regarding the final settlement of the disputed region.
In a related development, Chairperson of the African Union, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, congratulated both Bashir and Kiir for their fruitful summit meeting in Juba.
The meeting, she stressed, was a further "demonstration of their commitment to foster the normalization of relations between the two countries and promote the wellbeing of their peoples.
Zuma, in a statement, particularly commended the two Presidents for upholding the letter and spirit of the Cooperation Agreement of 27 September 2012, and for reiterating their commitment towards the full implementation of all its nine components.
"In this respect, she notes with satisfaction their decision to direct all joint mechanisms and committees to accelerate their efforts, in order to enhance the relations between the two countries in all fields of cooperation," the statement says.
She however welcomed the commitment of the two presidents to resolve the issue of Abyei, in accordance with the Implementation Matrix, as well as their decision to establish a High Ministerial Joint Committee to be chaired by the two vice Presidents of both countries, in order to facilitate speedy decision-making regarding the enhancement of relations between the two countries.
The AU, she stressed, will continue to support the two countries in the implementation of the agreements they have signed and towards the achievement of the overall objective of two viable States mutually supportive and at peace with one another.
The two leaders, according to South Sudan Information minister, agreed to set up a joint administration in Abyei, but failed to agree on how the local legislative council should be composed.
"President Salva stressed on the need to respect previous arrangement. He wants the 60% representation and 40% representation for the government of Sudan. This was how it used to be but president Bashir said it is better to use 50-50 representation", Barnaba Marial said
He further said the two presidents convened to continue their discussions on the issue and pointed out that Bashir had asked Kiir to visit Khartoum for further engagement on issues which remained unresolved.
"They will continue dialogue. You know nothing gets finished at once. There are issues which need consultations and explanation for better understanding", the minister said.
Khartoum says it had previously accepted the 40% share because it wanted to encourage Southerners to vote for unity. But now as things are different it wants to re-establish the share of 50% as it is provided in 2005 peace agreement
Zerai April 14, 2013
Albashr is accountable for our people is sales to Rashaid and Bedioum, because Sudan collaborated with them and did not stop them, so he is Eritrean blood sake.
Senayit April 18, 2013
Zerai, Don't fool your self. It's the crazy mad dog Isayas is accountable for our people is sales to Rashaid and Bedioum.
Kombishtato April 14, 2013
Taken from YG's "(II) Discontent at the Top: How Indispensable Is the Prison System to the Eritrean Defense Forces?"
http://asmarino.com/articles/1694-ii-discontent-at-the-top-how-indispensable-is-the-prison-system-to-the-eritrean-defense-forces5
The loss of control over one's own life
What is it about a prison that is to be dreaded most?
Responding to this question will provide us with a hint why Eritrea has been called the largest open-air prison in the world. It will do it in a way that bypasses the categorical details of the circles mentioned above; that is, by providing us with an overarching definition that overrides the differences in the details in each circle. Given this definition, it is not only the army conscript but also the civilian that we would find entrapped in the prison system of the nation.
Even though one prison system differs from another depending on the type of government that enforces it, there is one defining characteristic that all prisons share: it is a place where the individual loses total control over his/her life. Once rendered a prisoner, one gives up the liberty to take control of his life, as the government takes over that responsibility. Within the walled prison, every aspect of the prisoner's daily life is planned and rigorously enforced by the prison authorities. The prisoner will have no say at all in planning and organizing his life in prison. And if we have carefully followed the four circles mentioned above both in regard to the conscript and ghebar (civilian), the most defining characteristic in their lives happens to be similar to that of the classical prisoner in this overarching sense. As the totalitarian state tries to control every aspect of the individual's life – parental, educational, occupational, religious, social, etc – in the confined world it consigns him/her, the individual loses control over important aspects of his life. What makes this worse in the Eritrean case is that the nation happens to inhabit the worst of two worlds – that of totalitarianism and anarchy, seemingly contradictory worlds – because it has never been able to come out of the formative stage of totalitarianism, where everything remains in a state of flux [more on this in Part IV].
The loss of control that the individual faces in the disjointed world of today's Eritrea is pervasive: to mention just a few: parents (in civilian Eritrea) who have lost control over their children, with Shaebia taking over their upbringing since their teenage years; fathers in the indefinite national service having no control over the upbringing of their children, as they grow up in their absence; women folk facing a grim future, with very slim prospective of marriage; students with no prospects to pursue their education, no jobs to look forward to, no married life to envision, etc; religious people who lost control over their spiritual life, denied as they are to freely practice their religion; kahnat losing control over their churches, as the regime forces them to carry arms; businessmen who cannot plan ahead, given the unpredictable nature of the regime; farmers who have lost control over their farms and food products, given the predatory nature of the regime; and, above all, a whole generation stranded in the middle of nowhere – both geographically and metaphorically.
The regime follows a simple strategy in its attempt at totalitarian control: as it introduces anarchy into the life of the individual so that it would be difficult for him/her to plan and organize his/her life, the regime's control over his/her life increases by that much. The massive dislocation that it conducts on these population groups is meant to bring such anarchy in the individual's life. Thus, the higher the anarchy level (and the unpredictability that comes with it), the more secure gets the totalitarian grip over the masses. That is to say, the more abnormal the lives of the masses get as result of the dislocation, the more secure the regime gets in its power hegemony. It is failing to understand how this overarching mechanism of the totalitarian system of the Eritrean kind works that has left the opposition tinkering with superfluous demands. Anyone who grasps the extent of the total loss of control over one's life that currently characterizes the typical life in Eritrea would never spend regurgitating democratic demands that would make sense only if no such anarchy at every level exists.
Think of a mother that has lost control of everything that she holds dear; foremost, her children – does that sound familiar? Let say, she has had six children, not unusual for an Eritrean family. One was killed in ghedli, another one in the border war. Two have been serving the national service for years. Recently though she has heard that her son who has converted into Pente (Evangelical Christian), as many of his generation happen to do, has been apprehended by the authorities after having found him reading the bible. Ever since, she hasn't had any information about his whereabouts or condition. And when it comes to her beautiful daughter, even as she keeps reassuring her mom that everything is OK with her in the national service, the mother has been heart broken ever since she heard rumors that she has been forced to live with a colonel in sexual servitude. Her other two children have left the nation for good, as hundreds of thousands of their generation have done. One still remains stranded in a refugee camp in Ethiopia, hopelessly waiting for a ticket to the West. His more daring sister, after going through a harrowing experience, is now in Israel. When the Arab Bedouins had held the daughter hostage, the family was forced to sell their house to get her free. Again, even as this daughter too keeps reassuring the family she is doing fine in Israel, the mother has heard from others that all is not well – that her daughter arrived in Israel with late pregnancy, and gave birth to a child from her Arab rapist. To cup it all, with the forming of the new militia, her old man has now been forced to carry arms.
Now, who would dare tell us that prioritizing the release of political prisoners or the implementation of the constitution would reflect this mother's tragic state best? Rather, at the root of the mother's problem is a disjointed Eritrea that has rendered all her beloved children inaccessible, and thereby left her totally helpless. First, the disjointed world of ghedli swallowed up her eldest son. After all, the idea of disjointed Eritrea comes from ghedli, where an insulated world distinct from ghebar Eritrea had been created; one that found it difficult to meld into the civilian world even after independence. Second, the ghedli-replicated national service devoured another son, put another one in prison and turned the third into a sex slave. And, third, ever since their escape, the remaining two have remained trapped in Prison Eritrea's trajectory in the region. All these disjointed parts being out of her reach, all the mother could do throughout the unfolding of this family tragedy is watch helplessly from afar as the Shaebia monster keeps gobbling up her children one after the other. She remains a prisoner amidst the abnormal world that the ghedli generation has created. Now, who among us would dare say that her predicament is less than any other actual prisoner? After all, the loss of control in her case is as total as anyone confined within the four walls of prison. Furthermore, unlike the case of the political prisoners which remains confined to thousands, her case is a typical story told again and again by families all over Eritrea.
daniel April 14, 2013
IS BASHIR FOR REAL? IS HE REALY CHANGING?
wedi aman April 14, 2013
OMER AHMED ALBESHIR AND PRESIDENT SALVAKIIR THEY IMPROVE RELATION BETWEEN THE TWO COUNTRY AND THAT IS PPL LIKE PICE IS THE BIG WORD ISSAIS AFEWERKI WAS THE PROBLEM TAKE LONG TIME BETWEEN THOS TWO CONTRY. IF ISSAIS AFEWERKI IS GON THE HORN OF AFRICA WILL BE PICE FOR AVER PICE IS ABIG WORD…..BOTH ARE GOOD LEADER. AND I HOPE ERITREA ALSO WILL HAVE DEMOCRATIC STATE VERY SOONNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN.
Eritrawi April 15, 2013
Congratulations, both Presidents. This is politically defeat, shame, and failure to the lonely lame duck Asmara gang leader.
Goodnews April 15, 2013
When will be eritrea and ethiopia visit each other and work for mutual benefits? can it happen?
ahmed saleh April 15, 2013
We wish them well to reach on lasting peace between the South and North . At the same
time we wish for Somalia too to settle their differences to bring peace in the country .
To have stable region benefit the neighboring countries to progress people's social
and economical standards . The sad part is , Eritrea under the current leadership might
fall on position of more isolation from its neighbors because of Issayas false show on
political affairs either at national or foreign policy . A person who possess rigidity ,
evil-mind thoughts and deception always find himself a loser at the end .
kelamitos April 15, 2013
Congratulations, both two sudanes Albeshir is REALLY chang your mind and poltical strategi you need to solve all economical proplems for past 1 year and Albeshir is good Leader for sudan and sudaness people.
and failer to asmara regim.


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Дискография американской хард-рок-группы Heart. Heart продали больше 53 миллионов альбомов по всему миру.

Альбомы

Студийные альбомы

Концертные альбомы

Сборники

Синглы

Видеоклипы
1977: Love Alive
1977: Little Queen
1980: Even It Up
1980: Break
1980: Tell It Like It Is
1982: City's Burning
1983: How Can I Refuse
1985: What About Love
1985: Never
1986: These Dreams
1986: Nothin' at All
1987: Alone
1987: Who Will You Run To
1988: There's the Girl
1990: All I Wanna Do Is Make Love to You
1990: I Didn't Want to Need You
1990: Stranded
1991: You're the Voice
1993: Will You Be There (In the Morning)
2004: The Oldest Story in the World
2010: Crazy on You
2010: Safronia's Mark
2010: Hey You
2010: WTF

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In this session, we read the exemplars for AS91067 all together and compared what the writing for Not Achieved through to Excellence looks like.
The direct instruction was split into sections on two different lessons.
We looked at the NZQA exemplars for the standard we are working on at the moment.
In this session, the instructions are about highlighting the texts to show where sections are.
Describing words, reasons why and decisions and links to the architect's work.
Here, the students are brought back together again to talk about looking for where information is shown together in the text rather than in individual pieces.
I did the activities over the course of two different lessons on two different days. I think this went well as it meant that there was not too much time spent listening to me all in one go.
This was my first experience of reading to the whole class and I think they responded really well. I put a video camera on them as well as me as we were doing it so I could show their reactions too. They seemed to focus well as I was reading.
This is the link to the exemplars for AS91067 online.
I took screenshots on individual drawn examples from these and typed up the notes that the students had written exactly as they had written them. These are the documents in the folder on the left.
I did this so my students could focus in on specific elements without having to try and read the handwriting in the exemplars.
This video shows some of the ongoing lesson with the students talking about what they were finding in the texts they were reading through.


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Q: How does IntelliJ decide if you're running a test? IntelliJ separates a project's resource files into "Resource Folders" and "Test Resource Folders". My understanding is if you run unit tests, then it uses resources listed under "Test Resource Folders", and otherwise, will use "Resource Folders". The problem is that when running the same code, it seems to arbitrarily decide to switch from one to the other every once in a while. The only workaround I've found is to move each directory from "Resource Folders" to "Test Resource Folders" or vice versa when it happens, but the project is large with lots of resources, so IntelliJ ends up taking 10-20 minutes on the "Copying resources..." step.
Why is this happening and how can I avoid this problem?

A: Test resource roots are resources only referenced from tests, and resource roots are resources that can be referenced from both production and test code. The compilation process copies the resources and test resources of each module into separate output folders.
When you run a test run configuration (JUnit or TestNG), the classpath will include both production and test output folders; which of them takes precedence depends on the details of the test runner. When you run any other run configuration type, the classpath will only include the production output folders.
There is no logic in IntelliJ to use one resource root type instead of the other one. Either they're both on the classpath, or only one is.

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Can I just ask that question...?
So if is right that there's no money left, and they're cutting back on services - longer headways on trains, for example - why are they still building out CBTC to run more trains (since they don't have the money to operate the current amount of trains)?
MTA is nothing but a scam, politicians give high paying jobs to friends and family that have zero clue at all about running a transit system.
OTB made a profit until the state took over and then began to lose money. End result is OTB became the first bookie in world history to lose money.
The NYTA gets about 1 billion bucks a week just from subway fares and loses money? Where does the money go?


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1. ROK-DPRK Talks
2. DPRK-Japan Talks
3. DPRK-US Talks
4. DPRK Participation in ARF
5. Kim Jong-il's Russia Visit
6. US Troops in ROK
7. Reunions of Separated Families
8. ROK Military Purchases
1. World Bank Aid to DPRK
2. Inter-Korean Talks
3. Reunion of Separated Families
III. People's Republic of China
1. DPRK Diplomacy
2. Putin's Visit to DPRK: PRC View
3. PRC Policy toward Asia
4. PRC Defense Industry
North-South Summit Meeting
Agence France Presse ("TWO KOREAS VOW TO COOPERATE MORE CLOSELY AT LANDMARK MEETING," Bangkok, 7/26/00) reported that in a meeting between DPRK foreign minister Paek Nam-sun and his ROK counterpart Lee Joung-binn in Bangkok on Wednesday, the ROK and the DPRK pledged to cooperate more closely and push ahead with reconciliation. ROK Deputy Minister for Policy Planning and Coordination Choi Young-jin called the meeting "a precious mechanism for us and we have to cherish it." Choi added, "We can sense a remarkably friendly and cooperative attitude on the part of North Korea." Thailand's Foreign Minister Surin Pitsuwan said after his meeting with Paek that "we expect some diplomatic breakthroughs" in the week's meetings. He said, "This is the first time in any place anywhere that all protagonists, all players of tensions, of problems, of lack of confidence, of lack of security and stability, in Northeast Asia and the Korean peninsula will be here together." The Korean ministers agreed in a joint statement to cooperate "on matters of external relations and in the international arena so as to enhance inter-Korean reconciliation and cooperation." Choi said that the ROK hoped that the DRPK would step up its activities in other international groupings, including the UN and the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation forum. He added, "It would be helpful if North Korea could improve its relations with the United States and Japan."
The Associated Press (Sang-Hun Choe, "KOREAN MINISTERS EXTEND COOPERATION," Bangkok, 7/26/00) reported that the foreign ministers of the DPRK and the ROK on Wednesday pledged to extend their newfound cooperation to the world arena. In a statement, DPRK Foreign Minister Paek Nam Sun and ROK Foreign Minister Lee Jong-binn pledged "to cooperate ... in the international arena so as to enhance the spirit of reconciliation and cooperation" of the June summit, which they praised as a historic step in bringing peace and possible unification to the divided peninsula. An ROK spokeswoman said that in another sign of thawing relations, the ROK's ambassador to the PRC paid a highly symbolic courtesy call on his counterpart at the DPRK Embassy in Beijing.
Agence France Presse ("TWO KOREAS VOW TO COOPERATE MORE CLOSELY AT LANDMARK MEETING," Bangkok, 7/26/00) reported that DPRK Foreign Minister Paek Nam-sun and Japanese Foreign Minister Yohei Kono on Wednesday announced that normalization talks which collapsed in 1992 would resume on August 21 in Tokyo. Japanese foreign ministry spokesman Chikahito Harada said that the two agreed to work together to establish "a new, good-neighborly, friendly relationship" during their meeting. Harada said, "There is a common desire to improve the bilateral relationship and develop mutual understanding and friendship."
Agence France Presse ("US CONFIRMS ALBRIGHT MEETING WITH NKOREAN FOREIGN MINISTER," Honolulu, 7/27/00) reported that the US State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said Wednesday that US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright will meet this week with her DRPK counterpart Paek Nam-sun in the highest level meeting ever between the two countries. Boucher said that the meeting would take place on July 28 on the sidelines of an Asian regional security forum in Bangkok. He added, "This is an introductory meeting but an historic one." US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright said that a re-scheduled meeting with Paek "is one of the reasons I am very glad I can go (to the ARF), but I don't know, given our kind of erratic schedule, whether it's possible. That is our hope: that this will be a first meeting." However, she added that, while she looked forward to seeing Paek, she did not expect much concrete to emerge from it. She added that she would not hesitate to raise all of the US concerns about the DPRK's policies, which in the past several months has begun a slow crawl out of its decades of isolation. Albright said, "We will make very clear our concerns about missiles and nuclear issues and how to have them meet our concerns, so I think (the meeting) would be useful if we could have it."
Agence France Presse ("NKOREA'S TRIP TO ASIAN SECURITY MEETING A LANDMARK: ANALYSTS," Bangkok, 7/26/00) reported that analysts said that the DPRK's entrance into the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Regional Forum (ARF) is a crucial first step towards easing tension on the Korean peninsula. Analysts and diplomats said that it was likely that DPRK Foreign Minister Paek Nam-sun's meetings this week would steer clear of such sensitive topics as the DPRK's nuclear weapons development and stick to more general, relationship-building discussion. A Japanese foreign ministry official said, "We are really more interested in establishing a friendly relationship with North Korea," adding that it would welcome an agreement to re-open talks on establishing diplomatic ties. The director of Thailand's Institute of Security and International Studies, Pranee Tsipparat, said that ASEAN should "not expect too much" from the DPRK's presence at the meetings. Tsipparat said, "It's a practical move on their side. They have nothing to lose, they can get some help in their economy." However, she added that even if no concrete progress were made, the visit would still be extremely beneficial. She said, "It's a positive sign because we are bringing in a country which could be a potential flashpoint in the region instead of leaving it out."
The New York Times (Michael R. Gordon, " NORTH KOREAN LEADER REPORTED TO BE PLANNING TRIP TO RUSSIA," Moscow, 7/26/00) reported that Russian officials said on Wednesday that DRPK leader Kim Jong-il is planning to visit Vladivostok in the Russian Far East in September. Arrangements for the visit were confirmed Wednesday by aides to Yevgeny Nazdratenko, the governor of Russia's Primorsky region, which borders the DPRK. The trip is being billed as an "unofficial" visit to the region, not a negotiating session with Russian leaders, but the agenda includes trade, economic cooperation and other measures to expand ties between Russia and the DPRK. The invitation to visit Vladivostok was made by Nazdratenko, who accompanied Russian President Vladimir Putin on his recent trip to Pyongyang. The DPRK consulate in the Primorsky region declined to comment on the visit. Natalya V. Vstovskaya, a spokeswoman for Nazdratenko, said on Wednesday that she and Nazdratenko had proposed several agricultural projects to Kim during the Russians' visit to Pyongyang and hoped to encourage new business, including the use of Russian railroads for trade with the DPRK. [Ed. note: This article was included in the US Department of Defense's Early Bird news service for July 26, 2000.]
Agence France Presse ("NORTH KOREA COULD ACCEPT LONG-TERM US MILITARY PRESENCE: CHINESE REPORT," Beijing, 7/26/00) reported that an analysis in the English-language Beijing Review, an official PRC publication, said on Wednesday that the DPRK will accept the long-term presence of US troops in the ROK and move ahead with normalization with the ROK if US forces are transformed into neutral peacekeepers. The report said, "In view of (the) improved relations with the United States, it is possible that North Korea will make concessions regarding the US troops in South Korea." The article cited numerous DPRK officials as saying that the DPRK could accept the long-term presence of US troops in the ROK as long as the US sought a mutual peace treaty with the DPRK and agreed that its troops play a neutral role on the peninsula. The article said that the DPRK could agree to two options - the neutralization of US troops in the ROK or the establishment of a peacekeeping force made up of northeast Asian countries and the US. The article continued, "In the (first) option the United States would alleviate its intense military relations on the peninsula, return wartime military commanding power to South Korea, change the troops' status and role and transform the non-military zone into a peaceful one. The troops would then become a peacekeeping force." The article said that such a solution would fulfill the US desire to continue to maintain a forward presence in East Asia in the post-Cold War world, but would likely be protested by "countries surrounding the peninsula." It said that the second option would require a joint peace treaty between northeast Asian nations and the US, which would allow for a multinational peacekeeping force and transformation of the existing demilitarized zone into a "peace zone."
The Associated Press ("S.KOREA DELAYS REUNION SELECTION," Seoul, 7/26/00) reported that Red Cross officials said on Wednesday that the ROK delayed the selection of the final 100 people to be reunited with their families in DPRK. The Red Cross said that the selection, originally planned for July 21, was delayed by a week because the DPRK needed more time to check on the whereabouts of families there, but that the names will be released to the public immediately after a Red Cross committee selects them from among 200 candidates on August 4.
The Dallas Morning News (Katie Fairbank, "LOCKHEED SELLS JETS TO S. KOREA," Farnborough, 7/26/00) reported that Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company announced on July 25 that it will sell its T-50 trainer jet to the ROK before offering it to the US military. The deal will make Lockheed the first US company to sell a military jet overseas before making a sale at home. The ROK had the inside track on the T-50, known as the Golden Eagle, because Lockheed and Korean Aerospace Industries are developing it. The ROK has committed to buy 94 of the trainers with an option to purchase 200 more. [Ed. note: This article was included in the US Department of Defense's Early Bird news service for July 26, 2000.]
The Korea Herald (Kim Ji-ho, "WORLD BANK PROPOSES AID FOR N. KOREA," Seoul, 07/26/00) and (The Korea Times, "WORLD BANK READY TO SUPPORT INTER-KOREAN COOPERATION: WOLFENSOHN," Seoul, 07/25/00) reported that ROK presidential spokesman Park Joon-young said on July 25 that in a letter sent to ROK President Kim Dae-jung, the head of the World Bank expressed a willingness to provide financial assistance to the DPRK. World Bank president James Wolfensohn said, "We at the World Bank stand ready to support inter-Korean economic cooperation. We hope to assist in the development of North Korea, within our capacity and mandate, whenever the North Korean authorities are ready to work with us."
The Korea Herald (Shin Yong-bae, "TWO KOREAS HOLD FIRST-EVER FOREIGN MINISTERS' TALKS IN BANGKOK TODAY," Seoul, 07/26/00) reported that the ROK and the DPRK would hold their first-ever foreign ministers' talks in Bangkok Wednesday. ROK Foreign Minister Lee Joung-binn and his DPRK counterpart, Paek Nam-sun, arrived in the Bangkok on July 24 to attend the ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF), slated to open on July 27. It was considered unlikely that the two ministers will tackle pending inter- Korean issues or reach an agreement during the talks, but chances were that they would promise to meet regularly. A diplomatic observer said, "If such a pledge comes at the talks, it will be a milestone in establishing a peace mechanism on the Korean Peninsula." During his talks with Paek, officials said, Lee was to discuss ways that the two Koreas can cooperate in the international arena.
The Korea Times (Lee Soo-jeong, "TWO KOREAS TO EXCHANGE CONFIRMED LIST OF REUNION CANDIDATES TODAY," Seoul, 07/25/00) reported that ROK officials said on July 24 that the ROK and the DPRK would exchange their findings on Wednesday concerning long-lost relatives of candidates for family reunions as part of the process to finalize the list of 100 people from each of the two Koreas to be allowed to cross the border next month. The ROK government said that it would seek to allow the reunited families to spend as much time together as possible. During the three-day visit, it is hoped that they would be allowed to meet each other at least three times.
China Daily ("DPRK, US TO HOLD HISTORIC MEETING," Seoul, 7/24/00, P12) reported that the DPRK and the US will hold their first foreign ministerial meeting this week in Bangkok. The DPRK's official Korean Central News Agency said the meeting between DPRK Foreign Minister Paek Nam-sun and US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright will be held on July 26 prior to the ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF). Japanese Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori also said that he wanted to find a way to communicate better with DPRK leader Kim Jong-il. However, Mori gave no firm sign of how Japan would achieve that goal. Japanese Foreign Minister Yohei Kono is also set to meet Paek in Bangkok on July 26.
China Daily (Shao Zongwei, "PUTIN'S KOREAN TRIP HAILED," 7/21/00, P12) reported that the PRC Foreign Ministry on July 20 hailed Russian President Vladimir Putin's visit to the DPRK. PRC ministry spokesman Zhu Bangzao said, "This is an important exchange of visits between Russia and the DPRK. As a friendly neighbor of Russia as well as the DPRK, we are glad at the development of Russian-DPRK ties and also extend our congratulations on the outcome of the visit." Zhu said that the PRC had taken note of reports that Putin said on July 19 that the DPRK has agreed to freeze its missile program in exchange for access to space rocket technology. Zhu said that the PRC is waiting further details from both nations.
People's Daily (Zhang Xinghua, "DPRK, RUSSIA RENEW OLD FRIENDSHIP," Pyongyang, 7/22/00, P3) carried a report on Russian President Vladimir Putin's visit to the DPRK. During the visit, Putin held talks with DPRK leader Kim Jong-il and the two countries signed a friendship treaty on July 20 allowing for reinforcement of bilateral relations. The two sides also announced that at the invitation of Putin, Kim will visit Russia at his convenience. Both the DPRK and Russia regard this visit as an important event in the history of bilateral relations, adding that it marked a new turning point in the DPRK-Russian relationship. Analysts believed that Putin's visit to the DPRK is an important step of Russia to adjust its Asia strategy and actively push forward a balanced relationship between the DPRK and the ROK so that Russia can play a more important role in the Korea issue. For their own strategic interests, the article said, the DPRK and Russia are approaching each other again and promoting the further improvement of their relations.
People's Daily (Zhang Jingyu, "VICE-PRESIDENT MAKES A SPEECH IN INDONESIA," Jakarta, 7/25/00, P6) reported that PRC Vice-President Hu Jintao said on July 24 in Jakarta that the PRC government will stick to its policy of maintaining good neighborly relations with surrounding countries. Addressing the Indonesian Council on World Affairs, Hu said that the PRC cannot achieve development in isolation in Asia, and Asia cannot realize prosperity without the PRC. Hu said that as for the differences left over from history between the PRC and its neighboring countries, the PRC government has always proceeded from the overall interest of all parties concerned for a peaceful solution of these differences through consultations on an equal footing. He also said that the PRC has put forward the proposal of "shelving disputes and going for joint development" in relation to the Nansha question and has been actively participating in the making of code of conduct for preserving peace and stability in the South China Sea. Hu said, "Facts have proven that China is an important driving force for Asia's development as well as an important force for safeguarding stability in Asia. China's development will pose no threat to any country. Instead, it will only contribute to peace and prosperity in the region and the world at large. As a friendly neighbor and a trustworthy cooperation partner of ASEAN, China always attaches importance to ASEAN's positive role in regional affairs, respect their efforts in building a zone of peace, freedom and neutrality and support their economic integration process."
China Daily ("DEFENSE INDUSTRY," Beijing, 7/24/00, P2) reported that PRC government officials announced on July 22 that the PRC's defense industry is still running in the red, but efficiency has improved. According to the announcement, the China Weaponry Equipment Group, which has 57 subsidiary companies, saw its output value reach 10.7 billion yuan (US$1.2 billion) in the first half of this year, an increase of 4.3 percent over the same period a year ago.
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