It was no day for a demo. But they came from across south-east London. These placards greeted me when I jumped on a bus in Charlton.
When I arrived, twenty minutes before the march started, there were three or four hundred there.
When I left, twenty minutes after the march started, there were three or four thousand setting off down Lewisham High Street.
Thousands of marchers – hundreds of stories.
Organisers say 15,000 had joined the march by the time it reached Ladywell Fields.
I'm told Labour Party members were abused on the march – I got grief from a man for even talking to someone holding Greenwich Labour Party's banner. It's possibly a little unfair on the Lewisham councillors, mayor Steve Bullock and MP Heidi Alexander who have all endorsed this march. But memories of the Labour government's PFI which created Queen Elizabeth Hospital, starting the process which led to this mess, linger long in this, a part of London which has little time for those who try it on.
The numbers on the march are as much a warning to the Labour party as much as the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats. Are any of them listening?
For more on the protest, visit savelewishamhospital.com. For more on the proposals, see the adminstrator's website.
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A great turn out of people even on a wet and cold day,and the support is growing stronger by the day.We the public shall not be defeated.
I'm not sure how seriously to take the abuse of members of the Labour Party you mention, if it came from friends of those trying to sell newspapers then I think it is water off a ducks back. Indeed among the very few times I received abuse as an activist for Labour being shouted at by revolutionaries count as a badge of honour, alongside abuse from a BNP supporter.
This demonstration was highly significant not just for Lewisham but for the whole country.
Let's be clear, the proposal the close the Accident and Emergency department at Lewisham Hospital has nothing to do with local conditions; it is driven by national policy.
The immediate cause of the proposed closure stems from the bankrupting of the South London Healthcare NHS Trust. Under powers introduced under Gordon Brown in 2000 the Government has appointed an administrator to run the trust and make it 'viable'.
This seems crazy bit there is method in this madness. The idea is to get people to accept the logic of the market when thinking about health. Once this has been accomplished any debate about health care has to take place within the boundaries of rigid monetary limits and the objective becomes 'financial viability' rather than anything to do with what happens to people.
This is part of a long term strategy of destroying the National Health Service. This is more deep-seated and long-term than a whim of the present Government. This is a project of the British establishment as a whole (aka 'the powers that be').
How do you boil a frog? The popular story is that if a frog is placed in boiling water, it will jump out, but if it is placed in cold water that is slowly heated, it will not perceive the danger and will be cooked to death.
Of course the trick is to heating is sufficiently gradual for the unfortunate frog not to notice.
So far the attack on the NHS has been progressing at a slow pace over the last two decades or so. The bankrupting of an entire Health trust and the ensuing cuts represents a clear change of pace. The people of Lewisham have noticed. If we can continue campaigning on the scale of Saturday the 24th November then we can alert frogs all over the country. This will mean that the powers that be, to use David Cameron's phrase, REALLY won't be able to' carry on in the old way'.
Of course that should be '2009' not '2000'.
And the Liberal Democrats you ask. Well by chance in your seventh photo the man holding the placard in front of the policeman is none else that Chris Maines, leader of the Lib Dems in Lewisham!
Anyway, it's no time to abuse politicians or foster divsions, we want them to work together to help sort this out and I can safely say that I'm broadly pleased with the local Labour position on this issue but of course you can see the phisical discomfort they suffer anytime PFI is mentioned, I take no joy out of it, what I'd really like is that they'd grow out of it, admitted a mistake and asked for legislation to allow easy renegotiations of these ghastly pfi contracts like the Woolwich Hospital one. And that would be one to bring to the attention of national politics.
The Greenwich and Woolwich Labour members weren't abused on the march (at least not to our faces). The only criticism we got was from a people before profit protester at Ladywell Fields at the end.
We are all clear about the problems and need no reminders about the mistakes of the past in respect of the PFI. Work needs to continue to resolve this matter. However the PFI debt is only a small proportion of the current financial deficit. I am not underestimating the issue but making the point for the purposes of clarity. I hear lots of comment about the problems but very little about the solutions. Frankly the budget deficit reflects on poor management and financial control. This clearly cannot continue and steps to secure financial stability in the interests of patients need to take place.
In the unlikely event that the Government is prepared to increase the level of funding and there are arguements as to why it should. We are left with the proposals set out in the Administrators Draft Report. Clearly the debate to date has,rightly,been about reductions of services,particularly at Lewisham.
There are enormous challenges that need to be resolved. The morale of staff is of a worry. Demoralised by reductions in staff numbers and pay are important factors must be sorted. We must have clarity as to the staffing levels as part of these proposals if this report is accepted by the Secretary of State. If we are to believe that these proposals will create an improved service and a sustainable future we need to have further details on structures particularly the proposed improvements in community services.
According to Mr. Kershaw's report the Trust's projected debt for next year is £79.1 million (page 8). Total payments to the PFI contractors will be £69 million (page 13).
In theory this £69 million is in payment for services. The practice is rather different.
The contracts are fiendishly complex and anything not specified is regarded as an "extra service". At the same time there is a blanket ban on NHS staff doing anything that is considered to be the prerogative of the contractor.
For example: When administrative workers in an NHS hospital I know of needed to move a filing cabinet to another office they were forbidden by the terms of the contact from doing it themselves. In order to have moved, they had to fill in a form to get the PFI contractors do for then. The filing cabinet was eventually moved: the bill for this "extra service" was £2,000.
Anyone who has studied PFI contracts knows that they are extremely profitable, not just for the main contractor but for the layers of sub-contractors and sub-sub-contractors involved.
The way out of this mess is to get rid of this nest of fleas that is PFI. This would save money not just in Greenwich and Lewisham and the NHS but across the whole government both local and national.
I fully agree that PFI contracts are a mistake. However in the context of SLHT,my understanding is that it represents 15% of the budget. I stand to be corrected if I have got it wrong.
I believe it's 31% (off the top of my head).
Whether it's 15% or 31% of the budget is of little moment.
The problem for SLHT is deficit: the amount it's income falls short of it's expenditure.
PFI is a gigantic rip off and it was annuled the gap could be closed without any cuts.
@ George Hallam. The PFI contracts were only complicated to the public servants who signed them. They appear to be quite straight forward to the private sector firms involved.
Have you ever seen a PFI contract?
However, I do know an archivist who has to deal with the documentation of a PFI. Apparently it's vast.
I've just taken a break to do the washing up and to tidy the kitchen. No doubt you do the same yourself sometimes. So try this thought experiment sometime.
1) writing down all the things that need doing to do the washing up and to tidy your kitchen.
2) getting a clearer to do these tasks.
3) turning that list into a contract.
4) getting a clearer WITH AN ACCOUNTANT AND A LEGAL ADVISER to do these tasks.
Can you now see why, if you extend this to specifying what needs to a whole building, you might well get ripped off by a private sector firms.
A question for Cllr Fahy. Would Greenwich Labour support the renegotiation of this PFI contract for QEH?
Of course I support the renegotiation of the PFI.
Helland. Lots of contracts are complicated. Buyer beware. If you do not fully understand the risks or complexities of what is in front of you dont sign it. Hire a lawyer.
Thanks Cllr Fahy. I hope to hear more people in office saying it clearly. I've detected quite a lot of reluctance to say it so far, hopefully there will be a change in attitudes now.
BTW, a new public meeting has been announced for tomorrow Wednesday at 7pm here in Lewisham at the Broadway Theatre in Catford.
Unfortunately, that meeting also clashes with one organised by Greenwich and Eltham Labour Parties at Lionel Road Community Centre in Eltham (and also Lewisham Council's full meeting, where it's on the agenda).
This puts the spotlight on the PFI and opens up a whole new area for saving money.
So how much might we save?
As you will know Kershaw is asking the Government for £25.1 million to help cover the deficit.
£25.1 million? That seems extraordinarily precise. Why not just £25? or if one is going to use decimals £25.2 million? Why not ask the Government for £30.1?
Kershaw doesn't say; but informed sources tell me that he chose £25.1 million because he can easily show that this is the MINIMUM the contactors have overcharged.
If we go for renegotiation, then we should be looking to reduce the cost of the PFI by a MINIMUM of £25.1 million.
£50.2 is 63.5 per cent of the projected deficit.
This means that the calculations in the Consultation document are now redundant.
@George Hallam "£25.1 million? That seems extraordinarily precise". Maybe he stmbled upon Excel or one of those old style HP calculators? When you say the government can afford it, you do realise that "the government" is just another way of saying 'the tax payer'. We would not be saving money just shuffling around which bit of the state pays the bill. Plus who are 'we' negotiating with? Local vs state government. NHS trust vs state government or with the firm itself? If its anything other than the later then no money is saved.
@Richard – but NHS London as a whole has a surplus, some of that money could be used. Savings would then be made because there would be fewer future payments.
Do you realise that you know nothing about economics?
@George. Takes one to know one. Maybe I should have attended your economics classes at your 'university'.
Richard and George, there, showing gentlemen debating at their best.
Darryl, when it comes to debating you're no slouch yourself.
It's a nice touch to bracket my comments with Richard's posts.
This is a grave issue and it requires sober analysis. I would have thought you would have worked out by now who is serious and who is not.
I suggest that you make it clear where you stand.
OK then in the spirit of gentlemanly debate. I take issue with George's inability to respond, here and elsewhere, to valid criticisms of his arguments. You seem to to confuse your own ideology with economic fact or theory. You are happy to quote official documents but when your interpretation of such analysis is questioned you are only capable of responding with insults and never actually answer the criticism with any rational argument and certainly no facts. Your grasp of economics seems either confused (see your misrepresentation of the ONS health spending stats on the bugle) or if not confused then is deliberatly misleading. To many your sober argument is irrational ideology that is not supported by either the facts or theory. Why does this bother me? You are a politician so I feel free to question and mock you here since this is the new public square.
On Monday afternoon at the TSA's consultation meeting in Brockley I asked Matthew Kershaw if the £25.1million he has asked the government to fund, per year, towards the PFI repayments of £69million was the amount by which he felt it was overpriced. I asked if he thought the taxpayers should be paying that, whether directly by central government or via the NHS trust. He said that this was the sum by which he thought the repayments were excessive compared to the local ability to pay. (i.e. in a different area of Britain £69 might not be excessive if there were more money, more patients, or something) and not related to the rip-off interest rates being charged on an initial outlay of £210million 8 to 10 years ago, of which at least £455 has already been paid back (£535 has been paid, but around £8m per year is not "repayments" but payment for "services" like cleaning, I T support, etc. at inflated prices, so around £80m max).
I also asked him if the initial PFI contractors, Barclays Private Equity, Taylor-Woodrow and Innisfree were still the beneficiaries of the contract. This is generally secret information and even BBC's File on 4 was unable to get straight answers (see http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b011vf2f ). Matthew Kershaw said that the contracts was substantially in the same hands, so we know who to approach with a request to reduce the payments or annul the contract.
There's a short video of the consultation meeting at http://www.PeopleBeforeProfit.org.uk or at http://youtu.be/U_Hg5dSM-n4 It leaves Matthew Kershaw in no doubt of people's hostility to his proposals.
I'd also be interested to hear what my "own ideology" was.
I would say your ideology is as expressed on your political party's website and in its various manifestos. Your view of economic theory will predicated on your ideology. Thats fine it is just that when asked about specific policies that you advocate you seem unable to or unwilling to offer much in the way of empirical evidence in support. A favourtite trick of yours seem to try and enage in a circular discussion regarding untestable opinions. This is a case in point, what do I mean by ideology and economic theory? outside the SCR (or even JCR) are concepts most people would be comfortable using. I worry about parties such as yours which paint the world in very black or white terms and suggest you offer hope to vulnerable people by the way of seemingly simple solutions. I think your party is very dangerous.
I come here for the erudite discussion, I really do.
"You know nothing about economics" appears to be the current favourite insult for the commentariat. I'll tell you what, rather than insult each other, maybe the two of you should be doing more to explain the dismal science and its relevance to the lay person? Just a thought.
Slightly back on-topic, I have cause to use the Princess Royal Hospital (I live in Bromley) and it is bursting at the seams already. The public transport is appalling and the parking is woefully inadequate. How it'd cope with a load more 'custom' is beyond me.
I just listened to your recordings of the Eltham meeting and it's really surreal that Kerhsaw declared that he's got clinical support.
It's not being done for clinical reasons, at the end of the day. It's all about the money.
Yes the money, like the £4m that the Kershaw's report costs according to Heidi Alexander MP.
@ Stuart – It was obviously a mistake on my part to respond to Richard's post with a throw away remark.
The problem is that this is based on assumptions that are jejune, to the extent that it almost takes ones breath away. I was in a hurry.
You want me to explain the dismal science and its relevance to the lay person. I'm game. But how long have you got?
Government spending is not just the sum of taxes paid by individuals. It dosen't just pay for deliver services that are best provided collectively.
In a developed money economy government spending is an important part of the economic system. It is a means to ensures that money circulated and so keeps the economy running. So this spending can maintain and even create wealth.
At the moment we are told that the British economy is heading for a 'triple dip'. Many, economist think that this may have something to do with the programme of austerity (reduced spending leads to reduced economic activity).
It's not even true that all government spending is provided by the tax payers. Historically, governments have run businesses and used the profits to finance the state. Government's typically control the currency. This too can be used to finance state spending.
Of course, it often has resulted in inflation. I don't like to 'come the old soldier' but have been around quite a long time, long enough to see economic fashions change several time. This has made me pretty 'cool' about inflation. Yes, it causes some problems, but it solves others. From an economics perspective inflation alters the balance of advantage between lenders and borrowers.
The inflation of the 1970's, for example was bad for lenders but it was great for mortgage payers.
That's enough economics for now.
By the way none of the above is especially controversial. It's all in mainstream textbooks, if you know where to look.
As dull as you find me George it doesn't make you correct. Government is the tax payer as all revenues ultimately must be generated by the wealth producing sector of the economy. Even using the proceeds of seigniorage as you allude to is ultimately robbing future tax payers' funds, not that this is necessarily bad in all cases.
Of course printing money generates inflation since inflation is always a monetary phenomenon. Inflation may be low currently but is surely higher than it would otherwise have been without QE. If the BOE expands its balance sheet for ever we would generate massive inflation. High inflation (say >10%) is bad in all cases since it creates uncertainty.
As for you point regarding austerity in the UK. I would suggest that when the ONS finally revises its GDP estimates in several years there will be no double dip let alone a triple dip. Basically published GDP figures are always revised for many years as more data becomes available the question is rather why is the UK's growth rate so low. The answer is in the state of the household and government's balance sheets. The US will cut state spending by 2% next year but will still grow at nearly 3% by the end of the year as their balance sheets have been cleaned up in the private sector allowing a more normal Ricardian/Mundell-Fleming adjustment. That's why the recent IMF paper on fiscal multipliers was so poor and why the anti-cuts lobby are so wrong. The government has rowed right back on its austerity programme to such an extent that the UK is not experiencing any meaningful state spending cuts.
Hopefully thats less dull for you.
Only if you redefine 'tax' to mean the same as 'government revenue'.
If you want to use the word in this way thats fine by me (and Lewis Carroll).
Meanwhile economists will continue with their own usage.
George come on now. The government is funded via taxes or by borrowing. The later has to be paid back by future tax receipts. Printing money as discussed is an inter-temporal transfer. Granted the state can also levy parking fines and may be the recipiant of gifts. I would humbly suggest that these are almost 0% on the grand scheme of things and anyways must be generated by private sector wealth. Anyway my Mother always told me not to pick on those less fortunate than me so Ill leave you and wiki alone alone.
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Timber Block Homes Honored With Five Awards Within Months
It's been a great few months for Timber Block Engineered Homes, and it just keeps getting better.
Within the last year, Timber Block has been awarded a total of five awards, with the most recent being the 2016 NAHB Global Innovation Award. The prestigious award was presented to Timber Block in Orlando, Florida just last month at the International Builders' Show (IBS) - the largest light construction show in the world - for our R-36 patented home building technology, which is a panelized system that is highly energy efficient and greatly exceeding building codes.
An independent panel of judges selected the finalists for the annual Global Innovation award based on design, functionality, innovation and usefulness for the builder and consumer. The winners were announced a few weeks later, during IBS 2017.
Patrick Coveny, president of Architecture Construction Management and an NAHB Global Opportunities board member says Timber Block was honored for our R-36 insulated wall technology which not only achieves unusually high energy efficiency, but also improves sound insulation while maintaining the look of the structure. "Timber Block has designed, created and installed building technology that improves energy conservation, cost savings and indoor comfort," Coveny said.
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Just a few of the outfits that are inspiring how I'm dressing this spring.
I love the zig zag print..very missino!
agree- very inspiring. I just love this weather!!!
That first hair cut is the best!
OMG...the third outfit (midi skirt) is like my perfect outfit. LOVE it!
Ooooh that zigzag dress is to die for.
a huge yes to each of these outfits..love that they're feminine, flirty, yet comfortable for running around in..perfect!
Very feminine the pleated skirt and white top.
Great inspirations, easy and simple yet still very stylish. My fave is the t-shirt and skirt look.
Love these, especially the first outfit. Very inspiring!
This makes me wish I lived in New York - amazing/ chic street style. Love all of it.
The zigzag dress and blue blazer are gorgeous inspiration!
I love that first dress - is it Natalie from Canned Fashion blog? She's so cute!
Okay, all these pregnant fashionistas that I've been seeing lately are absolutely putting me to shame!
Love all these looks! And how cute is the pregnant woman?!
love that zig zag dress and purse.
Thanks for all that lovely inspiration!
Aww stripes on a baby bump! Love the blue blazer, too.
I wish I looked that put together when I was pregnant! Great outfit!
Love the grape dress, and I am dying from chicness of the baby bump in stripes!
i love the one of the orange skirt! I have it pinned on pinterest!
I love that sparkly bag and pretty floral dress!
I personally really like the striped dress!
Love the printed midi skirt paired with the simple tee. And the pregnant woman is so effortless chic.
Her Chanel ballerinas punctuates the look!
Great inspirations!Love the first bag!So shinny!
Who makes the pretty white with green flowers dress on picture 2?


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Developed by Ciputra Residence, a subsidiary of Ciputra Group, Belle Fleur is environmentally-conscious, both inside and out. In addition to the features within each home, the Belle Fleur community has energy-saving street lighting and bicycle lanes. It also has underground electricity cables to protect the views of the surrounding nature. Ciputra Residence has built residential properties across Indonesia since 1989, and is most widely known for its work on the independent city of CitraRaya, which was created in 1994. As one of the leading developers in Indonesia and an early pioneer in EDGE certification, Ciputra Residence recognizes the value of building green. Other EDGE-certified projects include Citra Maja Raya and Citra Towers Kemayoran. Belle Fleur has received a preliminary EDGE certificate from the Green Building Council Indonesia.
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Q: What does the expression "creamy shell" mean? Today I participated in an English contest. The fourth subject asked us to translate a text into our language. The text had some expression I didn't know and I wonder what does this one mean:
"The boy came close and peered down at Ralph, screwing up his face as he did so. What he saw of the fair-haired boy with the creamy shell on his knees did not seem to satisfy him." (Golding, William — The Lord of the Flies)
So, what does "creamy shell" mean here? I know shell means the "house" that a snail has on his back or shells from the beach.

A: Earlier in the chapter, it is explicitly said that the shell is a cream-colored conch:

Ralph had stopped smiling and was pointing into the lagoon. Something creamy lay among the ferny weeds.
"A stone."
"No. A shell."
Suddenly Piggy was a-bubble with decorous excitement.
"S'right. It's a shell! I seen one like that before. On someone's back wall. A conch he called it. He used to blow it and then his mum would come. It's ever so valuable—"

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In color the shell was deep cream, touched here and there with fading pink. Between the point, worn away into a little hole, and the pink lips of the mouth, lay eighteen inches of shell with a slight spiral twist and covered with a delicate, embossed pattern.

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Mark Mathis Opens Mouth, Proves Stupidity (Again)
March 30, 2008 March 14, 2016 jacob
Someday, I'm going to write my Great American Novel, Cornflakes. I've been gathering material for it going on two decades now. It's about the rampant stupidity of certain human beings. Mark Mathis, Associate Producer of Expelled, has earned his place within it, for verily, he is a corny flake.
Well, actually, he's a total fuckwit, but the novel's not called Fuckwits, alas. Perhaps it should be.
Many of you will have had the great good fortune of not knowing just who the fuck Mathis is. I'm sorry to be the one to draw your attention to this raving lunatic. Just take comfort in the fact that, despite all of his efforts to draw attention to himself, you had no clue who he was before I foisted him on your attention. Those of you who needed no introduction, my sympathies.
Perhaps the only thing you need to know about Mathis is that he's one of those lying sacks of shit making sensible Christians feel ashamed of their brethren. That, anyway, is all the introduction I'm willing to give him: He's one of the bastards responsible for the atrocity that is Expelled, and he's a lying sack of shit. Everybody say hi to Mr. Mathis.
Now that introductions are taken care of, let us proceed.
I wanted to thoroughly spank Mathis for a few particular inanities he spouted in that "conference" call so spectacularly interrupted by PZ Myers. I know I don't have to wear my own arm out – just search ScienceBlogs for "Mark Mathis" and you'll see what I mean – but I just get this twitch when I'm confronted with this level of inanity. Paddling his tender bottom will help that twitch subside.
Brother Richard from Life Without Faith was part of that conference call, and he was so kind as to post his raw notes. One of the questions and answers in particular caught my eye, but before we get to that, let me share the Mathis quote that had me nearly pounding the floor with laughter. Appetizer, then main course, as it were:
[Mathis] also points out that he had a personal grudge against Myers and he wanted him to have to pay for the movie. He points out that he let Michael Shermer attend another viewing and that Shermer enjoyed the film. [emphasis added]
Let's put aside the fact that Mathis only settled on the "personal grudge" excuse after trying the "PZ was causing a disturbance" excuse (he wasn't) and the "Myers and Dawkins were gate-crashers" excuse (they weren't). That isn't what made me nearly fall to the ground in hysterical laughter. Look again at the line in bold.
Michael Shermer? Michael Shermer? Seriously Michael Shermer, you mean, the founding publisher of Skeptic magazine? The one who had this to say about Mathis:
My take on Mathis is that he's an opportunist. He says and does whatever he thinks necessary to get his film made and now promoted. My guess on the latest flap about tossing PZ out of the screening but not Dawkins was PZ's original assumption that they just didn't notice Dawkins there, and only after the fact rationalizing the whole affair with plausible (and ever changing) reasons.
And this about Ben Stein:
I also pointed out to him that Darwin has been used and abused by ideologues of all stripes, and that in any case that is all separate from
whether the science is good or not. That seemed to tax his thinking too much, because shortly after he announced that he had to take a rest break and he just got up and went out to his car for about 20 minutes!
Then Stein came back in and that's when we walked around the office with the handheld camera to get some B-Roll footage, and they showed him asking me about my books, and that's where I told him I thought ID was much closer to pseudoscience than science.
That Michael Shermer? Oh, yeah. I'll bet he enjoyed the film. It must have been the same sort of life-changing experience as being interviewed for it by those two assclowns.
And yet, that wasn't the most inane thing Mathis said. That wasn't what had my spanking arm twitching. Brother Richard notes:
The question is asked, if the issues are just about science, then why are so many Darwinists upset? Why do they have such passionate anger? Mathis says that Darwinism is a worldview. Scientists like Myers and Dawkins are scared because their atheistic worldview might come crashing down on their heads.
This is wrong in so many ways that it's going to take me the rest of the night to deconstruct it. Grab yourselves some snackage and drinkage and make yourselves comfortable. We're in for the long haul.
Firstly, "Darwinism" is only a worldview in the miniscule mind of Mathis and those of his ilk (and how I wish I didn't have to add that last bit). Rational people who enjoy objective evidence for claims of how life came by its incredible diversity have accepted the scientific theory of evolution because it provides abundant evidence of said diversity, no myth required. If someone proved by means of objective scientific evidence that evolutionary theory was incorrect, and came up with a better explanation, our world would not end. Thinkers such as ourselves are quite used to adjusting to new evidence. I refer you to the excitement rather than panic when Einstein's theory of relativity nudged Newton aside for a good example of this.
As for people like PZ Myers and Richard Dawkins being scared that their "atheistic worldview might come crashing down on their heads"… puh-leeze. I'm no scientist, merely an avid consumer of same, but I am an atheist, and I can tell you that the last thing I'm scared of is having that worldview come crashing down. We're not angry because we're scared. We're passionately angry because we can't stand lying sacks of shit trying to force their useless dogma on us.
"Why do we have such passionate anger?" I have a few ideas. And I can tell you why I'm spending so much time and energy fighting these assclowns and the poison they're pushing with this propaganda flick.
1. The (scientific) theory of evolution has led to medical breakthroughs that save lives. Intelligent Design has not. Au contraire, "Goddidit" and pseudoscientific explanations do nothing to further the science that gives us new treatments for disease, and sometimes they kill.
2. Intelligent Design is not science. It has no claim to be treated as such, and therefore deserves expulsion. Academic freedom isn't even in it. So it really pisses me off when some total bastards try to get their religion into the classroom by playing us for fair-play suckers. They want Intelligent Design in the classroom, fine – it can go in Comparative Religion where it belongs.
3. Three words: Creationism's Trojan Horse. Two more words for you: Wedge Doc
ument. Real sci
ence doesn't have to come up with systematic schemes to lie and cheat and game the system to get recognized as science. Even if it weren't for the above two items, the IDiot's whining claims for equal time and the right to academic freedom would be annihilated by the stunning intellectual dishonesty their strategy displays. Credibility destroyed(.pdf).
4. Science class is for science, not pseudoscience, not the frontiers. And for those who claim Intelligent Design can be introduced and then debunked, face facts: you'd cry bloody murder, infringement on religious rights, persecution, the whole works. You don't want it debunked, you want it enforced. So even that little strategem fails. ID doesn't belong in the classroom under any pretense, period.
5. But I know they don't give a shit about science or integrity, so I'll just mention this: it's bad religion. It's harming the Christian mainstream message. Go on. Everyone, now, even the IDiots in the audience. Go read the whole comment I linked to. It's on a Christian message board, so you don't have to associate with those icky atheist scientists.
You know you've fucked up when your religious compatriots are saying that "the 'Intelligent Design' movement is a plan by Satan to discredit the Gospel in the minds of many…," eh?
So let's review: the fuckwits pushing Intelligent Design are floating a pseudoscientific raft of bullshit under the misnomer "Theory of Intelligent Design." Their "science" has made not one useful contribution to medicine, while evolutionary theory has. They lie six ways of Thursday and have nefarious little plans on sneaking their fanaticism into the classroom. They're making things miserable for their fellow religious travellers. And they think scientists and atheists are just scared our worldview might be challenged? They think we're fighting them because of that?
Worldview isn't even in it.
And sadly, my five points above have just barely scratched the surface. I encourage you, even if you think Intelligent Design can't harm you, to click on a few of the above links. It's not just about Intelligent Design trying to edge out evolution in classrooms, my darlings, although that should be quite enough – this country is failing miserably at science education, and it's not like adding religious pablum will make it any better.
It's not just that.
It's about keeping the fanatics from getting a toehold. They catch enough young ears and bend them, we're all going to end up in a theocracy run by the most outrageous elements of the Religious Right, and I damned sure don't want to wake up to that world in a few years. Neither do you.
I'm not asking you to do anything more than be vigilant. Watch out for the lies. Keep the theocrats out of our government, our school boards, and our personal lives. Don't be swayed by the silver tongues of the terminally stupid. You'll feel badly if you end up featured in Cornflakes right there beside Mathis.
Tip o' the shot glass to Brother Richard.


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This folder contains complete working code examples that demonstrate [WAMP v1](http://wamp.ws) programming with **Autobahn**|Python on [Twisted](http://www.twistedmatrix.com/):

 * Publish & Subscribe
   1. [Basic PubSub 1](pubsub/simple/example1)
   1. [Basic PubSub 2](pubsub/simple/example2)
   1. [Custom PubSub Handlers](pubsub/custom)
   1. [Profiling PubSub](pubsub/loadlatency)
 * Remote Procedure Calls
   1. [Basic RPCs 1](rpc/simple/example1)
   1. [Basic RPCs 2](rpc/simple/example1)
   1. [Symmetric RPCs](rpc/symmetric)
   1. [Profiling RPCs](rpc/profile)
 * Authentication
   1. [Authenticating via WAMP-CRA](authentication)

and small apps

 1. [Decimal Calculator](apps/calculator)
 1. [A Key-Value Store](apps/keyvalue)
 1. [A WAMP-DBus Bridge](apps/dbus)
 1. [A directory watcher](apps/dirwatch)
 1. [Serial/Arduino-to-WAMP Bridge](apps/serial2ws)


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Hospitales Station is a station and terminus on Line H of the Buenos Aires Underground. Here passengers may transfer to Metrobus Sur. It was opened on 27 May 2013 as a one-station extension from Parque Patricios. It is currently serving as the southern terminus of the line, until it is extended to Sáenz.

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Buenos Aires Underground stations
Railway stations opened in 2013
2013 establishments in Argentina


We're back, and we're bad. No, good actually.
Yes, we're developing new shows.
2) A forty minute cabaret show.
The old favourites are still available - A-Z of Love, A-Z of Xmas and an A-Z of Britain.
So, if you fancy a party - give us a all.
See us also on May 19th in Kimble Village hall for another A-Z of all things British.
Well, we've just delivered our second workshop for Kimpton Village Community Choir at the Memorial Hall in Kimpton. It was so much fun. We love doing this. There will, no doubt, be another next year. We spend three hours learning new music, learning about music and having a very good laugh. There were around 80 people who seemed to have a fab time. We look forward to reading their feedback slips.
If you are interested in singing workshops and sessions with us, please send us an email via our contact page.
Kimpton Community Choir Singing Workshop - fun!
We are very excited to announce that Tim's new play will be premiering in Autumn 2017. Watch this space for details or join our mailing list - see contact page!
Tom is in trouble. His father-in-law is dead and it may have been his fault. He and his high achieving wife Lucy Worth MBE have moved in with newly widowed Erica, his mother-in-law. Lucy wants to leave Tom but can't see how. Tom wants Lucy to stay. Erica wants a bit of peace and quiet. Tom concocts a plan to save the day involving a burlesque dancer, a snake, an elephant, an operatic drag artist, a member of the royal family and a lion. What could possibly go wrong?
Victor and Albert's Xmas Party is now on sale!
Buy tickets before they go!
Ah yes, we're on a summer break at the moment but we'll be on tour very soon. Can't wait to start entertaining folk in the shires of England.
We will be publishing our Autumn, Winter and Spring tour dates soon - so keep an eye open!
Well, we're very happy with this one. It's a lovely review with a cracking line to sign off 'Decomposed is what Classical Music has been waiting for'.
Very nice. Read the full review.
'...Equally enjoyed by children and adults alike.
We were there in 2014 and had a great time. Thanks for coming and seeing us.


I'll be seeing some excited cHEwY gums gums in India as I visit Bangalore for the NEEV Festival on September 28th and 29th.
It's a school-based literary festival, with local and international authors spreading the love of books and writing with kids and teachers alike.
I'm doing a couple of workshops, moderating a panel about migration and stories, as well as doing a reading of Thai-riffic! It's going to be a jam-packed weekend. For the latest updates and news, check out my Instagram and Twitter (@oliverwinfree) over the next few days, as well as some shots of Donburi and I travelling around India and Sri Lanka haha.


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c. 1300, "fear, terror, state of alarm produced by a sudden disturbance," from Old French affrai, effrei, esfrei "disturbance, fright," from esfreer (v.) "to worry, concern, trouble, disturb," from Vulgar Latin *exfridare, a hybrid word meaning literally "to take out of peace."
The first element is from Latin ex "out of" (see ex-). The second is Frankish *frithu "peace," from Proto-Germanic *frithuz "peace, consideration, forbearance" (source also of Old Saxon frithu, Old English friðu, Old High German fridu "peace, truce," German Friede "peace"), from a suffixed form of PIE root *pri- "to be friendly, to love."
Meaning "breach of the peace, riotous fight in public" is from late 15c., via the notion of "disturbance causing terror." The French verb also entered Middle English, as afrey "to terrify, frighten" (early 14c.), but it survives almost exclusively in its past participle, afraid (q.v.).


HRH The Earl of Wessex visited the National College for High Speed Rail in Birmingham today to learn more about its efforts to tackle national skills shortages in the rail, engineering and infrastructure sectors.
As part of a wider visit to the Birmingham City Region, The Earl spent a good hour meeting learners at the college to discover more about the specialist qualifications they are gaining which will help to build future national rail projects, including HS2.
The employer-led college which opened on Lister Street last year, is backed by Government and tasked with helping to plug the skills gap in engineering and related disciplines. The National College for High Speed Rail is also working towards improving diversity within the sector – especially by encouraging more women and underrepresented groups to consider careers in construction, transport and infrastructure.
"This is the first royal visit we've had to our college and as such, it highlights the high profile we've achieved in a relatively short space of time.
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Surprise, Surprise! Prices For The Threadripper 2000 Plummet After AMD Announces Ryzen 3000 Processor
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This is your chance to cop a powerful processor as the Threadripper 2000 prices decreased with the debut of the Ryzen 3000 series.
The price drop isn't really surprising. In fact, it's to be expected after AMD released its newest line, which is seen to be the better sibling to the Threadripper.
AMD is releasing to the market the Ryzen 9 3950X and the Ryzen 9 3900X, which feature 16 cores and 12 cores, respectively.
People might be surprised that AMD has not announced a discount for the Threadripper series. This was a departure from the usual practice of the company. However, the price drops are significant.
For instance, the price for the Threadripper 2950X plunged to just $730.59 from the original price of $899. Meanwhile, the Threadripper 2920X is now selling for only $389.99, which is almost half of the original price of $649.
In fact, just last week, the 2920X was still selling for $550, so this was a very good development for consumers.
But it seems the Threadripper 2990WX isn't as affected. Yes, there's a discount, but it's not that substantial.
You can check Amazon's page, and you will see a small dip in the price from the original $1800. Now, you can buy one for $1,611, which translates to a 10% discount. That CPU yields 24 cores, along with the capability to work with 48 threads to 64 threads.
The flagship CPU is seen to be the benchmark of all high-end products in the market today.
Then again, there's Ryzen 3000.
What you should know about the Ryzen 3900X, however, is that it's fast. But then again, nobody should be shocked by this. After all, the 3900X is built upon the vaunted 7nm process. Intel couldn't do it, but AMD managed to mate the x86 chip with the 7nm.
Apart from that, the Ryzen 3000 series also utilizes the second-gen Zen core technology. The chip boasts of twice the performance of the Ryzen 2000 series as well as improved efficiency per clock. Just like Intel, the Ryzen 3000 also uses the AVX-256, which should improve video encoding and other tasks. It also boasts of the PCle 4.0, which boosts clock speed.
With the massive discount, should you buy a Threadripper 2 now or upgrade to the Ryzen 3900X?
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Unlike other termiticides, Dominion 2L has a non-repellent formulation that outperforms other brands. Non-repellent barriers created by Dominion are very effective compared to repellent barriers from other termiticides. With Dominion 2L's undetectable barrier, termites can no longer exploit detectable gaps in treated soil. Strengthened by its active ingredient Imidacloprid, Dominion is also an excellent insecticide for control of lawn and turfgrass pests.
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Dominion 2L Termiticide Concentrate does not repel pests, but instead uses a starvation method. Once the termites comes into contact with Dominion 2L, they will automatically stop feeding and die. Do not use Dominion 2L with a termite bait because it will not work; however, you can also use it with an non repellent termite bait system such as Termidor. We recommend that when purchasing this product, you also purchase the Chapin 1 gallon sprayer. The average home will need approximately 100 gallon yield which is 4 gallons per 10 linear ft.. Termites and Dominion 2L is undetectable to insects and termites, so they would not be able to navigate around the treated area. When Dominion 2L is applied around the perimeter of your home, you have created an invisible barrier around your home to protect your home from termites. Dominion 2L chemically binds to the soil so it would not get washed away, keeping your house protected.
Target Pest(s): Termites, Adelgids, Aphids, Beetle, Billbug, Turfgrass Ataenius, Cutworms, Chafer, Crane Fly, Chinchbugs, Crickets, Lace bugs, Leafhoppers, Mealybugs, Psyllids (Refer to the product label for complete list).
Use Dominion 2L in pre-construction and post-construction treatments. For effective control, applicators must have the knowledge to perform treatment techniques such as rodding, trenching, crack and crevice injections or sub-slab injections. Typical control situations require 0.05% to 0.10% dilutions depending on the severity of infestations. Mix Dominion 2L with water following the recommended dilution rates found in the product label. Dilutions must be applied using proper application equipment such as hand or power sprayers. Apply the product as directed.
Dominion 2L can be used in and around homes and buildings for termite control and prevention as well as applied directly to the infestation. Dominion 2L is applied at very low rate, usually 0.05% dilution is used for typical control situation, and 0.1% dilution is used for severe or persistent infestation. When 0.05% dilution is applied, one 27.5 oz bottle will yield 100 gallons of emulsion for treatment of 250 linear feet, wheras 0.1% dilution will yield 50 gallons of emulsion for treatment of 125 linear feet.
Dominion 2L is non-repellent termiticide--termites will not detect Dominion 2L and will crawl over the area where Dominion 2L is applied. Once the termites come in contact with Dominion 2L, the delay action kill of Dominion 2L will allow termites enough time to return to their colony and spread among themselves, eventually killing the entire colony.
Fill Tank to 1/3 full.
If using large sprayer, start pump to begin bypass agitation and place end of treating tool in tank to allow circulation through hose.
Add appropriate amount of DOMINION 2L TERMITICIDE / INSECTICIDE. Add remaining amount of water. Let pump run and allow recirculation through the hose for 2 to 3 minutes.
After mixing Dominion 2L Termiticide / Insecticide with water, apply 4 gallons of the emulsion every 10 linear feet. However, where soil conditions do not accept application of 4 gallons per 10 linear feet, treat the area twice with 2 gallons of the solution per 10 feet.
For subterranean termite control, submit to all federal, state and local regulations and treatment standards for termite protection.
For effective control of turfgrass insects, apply Dominion 2L before or during the egg laying period. Once Dominion 2L is applied, the residual action of the product will provide control over the turfgrass insects through the egg hatching periods. The optimum control will be achieved when the applications are made prior to egg hatch, followed by sufficient irrigation or rainfall to penetrate the active ingredient vertically in the soil profile. Do not exceed a total of 1.6 pints per acre per year.
Dominion 2L can be used on ornamentals in commercial and residential landscapes and interior plantsacpe. Dominion 2L is a systemic product, meaning it will be taken up into the plant system from root uptake. Treat the area where the growing portion of the target plant can absorb the active ingredient. For better effectiveness, using nitrogen containing fertilizer, where applicable, along with Dominion 2L, may enhance the uptake of the active ingredient.
A great product for the price, very low odor/smell after spraying which is nice if you're inside. Will be ordering more when I need it.
This has to be the best pest control product that I have ever used. The results were evident the very next day when I found dead roaches and ants laying next to the foundation of my house. I am sold on this product.
Product is exactly the same as purchased from a landscaping wholesaler. Prompt shipment appreciated. Service excellent. This product is the only one of several I have tried that really works to get rid of white fly on Ficus hedges.
I used this product two times to control the white flies on my plants in a shaded area near my doors. It is the ONLY thing that has worked. The only thing I don't like is that it leaves a white spotted drop residue on the leaves but that is better than having those disgusting flies all over the place.
I treated the perimeter of my home with Dominion and found instant results. While treating an area that was active, I saw active termites die upon contact with your product. Well done. One area I thought might be improved on was a method of measuring small amounts of Dominion for small area treatment.
seems to wrk great, easy to apply and kills all sorts of other bugs other than termites as well. I applied in a trench as that is what was reccomended. Can't really compare to termidor, but at 1/4 of the cost I don't need to...Definitely do your homework on how to apply or it is just a waste.
If you think that just because Dominion 2L is a strong and highly effective insecticide you won't need to have the knowledge and application techniques then you are wrong. You need to know at least a few basic application methods like trenching, rodding, crack and crevice treatment. Also you need to apply Dominion with proper equipment such as power sprayers or even with your hand. For severe infestations you should use 0.10% dilution and for typical infestations 0.05% is recommended by the experts or rather manufacturers.
I thought that Dominion was just a termiticide and guess what? Dominion is a termiticide/lawn insecticide. It has an active ingredient, Imidacloprid with a concentration of 21.4% which enhances Dominion's power for insect and termite killing both above and below the ground and the high residual effects. I was thoroughly impressed that along with my termites Dominion had killed so many other disgusting pests.
I feel that Dominion 2L is great because it doesn't get washed away by the rain and instead aborbs into the soil and is kept there for a very long time!
I loved the results of the Dominion 2L product! Maybe it's because it's a professional product! I just love the termite free lawn!
I thought of trying Dominion 2L instead of Termidor because the pestmall customer support suggested me that i would get better result using it, and surprisingly they were right! I saved over 20 dollar than what i should have paid for! Thanks pestmall!
I found Dominion 2L very useful since it not only treats the termites and pests on the surface but also subterranean termites. There was a subterranean termite infestation under my home. So I had to dig 6 foot deep under the ground to spray Dominion 2L. After that I followed all the instruction and Voila! The entire problem I had to face due to the stupid termites was over. I am really pleased with Dominion 2L.
I can recommend Dominion to anyone without any hesitation.
There is an advantage in using Dominion 2L. Normally, if you use an insecticide in the form of spray then the pests can sense it except the really dull ones and so the ones that you want to get rid of are still alive and the ones you couldn't care less about die instead. Dominion 2L has an ability which makes sure that termite and other pests can't sense it. You can spray it around the perimeter of your home so as to create an invisible barrier against pests and termites. Dominion 2L chemically binds itself to the soil around your home so that it is not easily wearied off or washed away by rain.
I appreciate the free shipping from Pestmall. They understand that heavy items will have large shipping rates so they offer free shipping! Thank you so much! I saved so much money when purchasing the Dominion 2L!
Dominion 2L is really good product. I just wanted to tell you all to not excess the amount of what you really should do, I overdid it too much that i had to buy Dominion 2L again. Other than that, it's a outstanding product!
I am a sheriff in a small town. I have two kids in high school and am saving money for their college. I want to send them both to college. I am really careful as to how I spend my salary. Dominion is not going to kill the termites or pests as soon as they come into contact with it but Dominion has a function that makes the target stop feeding until death. An average home may take 2 bottles of Dominion 2L yielding up to 100 gallons of finished solution that is 4 gallons per 10 linear ft. I am going to give you one useful piece of advice and that is you should try out Dominion 2L.
My neighbor had to pay a fine of $500 for termite damage on his rented home. I'm on rent too so if I have termites, they must go asap before any damage is done. I bought this Dominion 2L because of that specific reason. At first, I thought that the Dominion 2L was a little pricey but after some research, $46.50 was a really good price, plus Pestmall gives free shipping! I know if anyone, I wont be paying the five hundred dollar fine my neighbor had to pay!
Dominion 2L gave me very good results and so I will recommend it to others tired of pests.
I bought Dominion 2L because termites were breaking my house pieces by pieces, but when I used Dominion 2L there were no more termites running around inside my house. I would strongly recommend this product, 5 out of 5 stars.
I had termite problems for about 3 years now. Termites ruined my house with leaving holes around the walls everyday, and i got sick of that so i finally convinced myself to buy Dominion 2L. Getting rid of them took some times, but it was worth purchasing. I had no termites inside my house after few days of installation.
I got rid of the subterranean termites in my home within a month!!
Q. I have a pond in my backyard about 15 feet away from my house.
I have a pond in my backyard about 15 feet away from my house. Is it safe to trench with Dominion 2L?
A. Dominion 2L is very harmful to fish or any aquatic creature. The product label states and advises that you do not spray directly onto any water sources, surface water, or any area where water will come in contact with, such as tides. We strongly recommend that you take every precaution and thoroughly read the product label before application.
Will imidacloprid insecticide such as Dominion 2L kill pests directly on contact?
A. No, imidacloprid insecticide such as Dominion 2L Concentrate does not kill pests directly in contact, but instead uses a starvation method. Once the termites come into contact with Dominion 2L, they ingest the poison and it interrupts their digestive system which leads to a stop feed and starvation method of control.
How much areas can Dominion 2L cover?
A. It depends on what type of application is used to control termite. When 0.05% dilution is applied, one 27.5 oz bottle of Dominion 2L will yield 100 gallons of emulsion for treatment of 250 linear feet, whereas 0.1% dilution will yield 50 gallons of emulsion for treatment of 125 linear feet.
A. Dominion 2L certainly fits the description of a 21.4% Imidacloprid active ingredient; however, it actually does not have fleas on the product label as a target pest. There is a product called Temprid SC that has the active ingredients Imidacloprid - 21.00%, Beta-Cyfluthrin - 10.5% and so it is slightly different than 21.4% Imidacloprid, but it actually has fleas labeled as a target pest on the product label. Consider using Temprid SC instead of Dominion for flea control.
Q. indoor use termite treatment?
what type of termite control should i use for indoor use? i have a camper that i am gutting and restoring and have an infestation in it.
A. It really depends on where the isolated area of infestation is. For indoor control, we recommend the Premise products. Use Premise foam for cracks and crevices and void areas because it will expand and cling onto surfaces a lot better than liquid sprays. If it is a surface treatment, we recommend doing spot treatment with Premise Liquid Termiticide.
Q. I know I can use Termidor SC indoors for spot treatments.
I know I can use Termidor SC indoors for spot treatments. Can I do the same with Dominion 2L?
A. Dominion 2L is not advised for indoor use unless it is for spot treatments as well.
Q. can i mix a bit of dominion 2l in a chapin foam together with boracare and profoam ?
A. You should not mix separate insecticides together unless it is otherwise stated. It may potentially ruin the chemical contents of either insecticide. Using Profoam with Boracare or using Profoam with Dominion is alright; however, they would have to be used separately. Sometimes an IGR can be mixed into certain insecticides, but it would not be wise to mix killing insecticides together.
A. A standard pump sprayer can be used to apply the I dominion 2L. If you are doing a ground treatment, a larger tank may make application easier, but it will not make a difference.
Q. is this really effective?
A. It will depend on the target pest. It is a systemic insecticide that works for a variety of insect pests.
Q. Is Dominion 2L a non-repellent or a repellent?
A. Dominion 2L is a non-repellent. The targeted pest will not be able to sense the insecticide and become exposed to the Dominion and carry it back to its colony, ultimately wiping it out.
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It came so fast! Two days after I ordered it I had it in my hands. I've used Delta Dust before and it's the only thing that works against spiders. Even an actual exterminator didn't work. I've been bitten and it hurts.
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Provided this simple configuration mechanism, the versioning and automation are very convenient. Any change in the API Gateway is always under the version control system, and the code controls the state of the gateway.
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The configuration file can be written as .json, .toml, .yaml, .yml, .properties, .props, .prop or .hcl. For more information and recommendations see supported file formats.


If you are operating in a managed environment (i.e., under the control of a resource manager such as Slurm or PBSPro), then you must first obtain an allocation before starting PRRTE. The prte executable knows how to automatically pickup the allocation for most available RMs, and so nothing need be added to the cmd line. The PRRTE package will usually identify the presence of the managed environment and configure itself accordingly – if the environment was not installed in a standard location, then you may need to point the configure code to it with an appropriate configure option.
If you are operating in an unmanaged environment, then you need to provide either a hostfile (sometimes called a "machinefile") that specifies the hosts to be used, or a -host list of hosts to be used.
will launch PRRTE on host foo (assigning 13 slots for processes on that node) and on bar (assigning 21 slots on that node).
prte will launch a daemon on each node to create a distributed virtual machine, and will print "DVM ready" when complete. At this point, the server is ready to accept commands and execute applications.
Multiple users can each launch their own PRRTE across the same nodes – this is often helpful on unmanaged development clusters. Each daemon (plus prte itself) includes a PMIx server that will "drop" a local rendezvous point by which tools such as prun can automatically connect to it. These are placed in locations that include both the nodename and the user id in their path to avoid conflict. prun will automatically find the PRRTE instance associated with the user when executing applications.
Note that daemons can also be started with the –system-server option to simulate the situation where a PMIx-enabled RM resides on the system, with (perhaps multiple) PMIx-enabled jobs executing beneath it – note that only one daemon can be so designated per node.
The server does not automatically place itself into the background – you can direct it to do so using the standard methods, if you so choose. The prte command supports a number of options – you are welcome to use "–help" to investigate them.
When you are done, the server can be terminated with the prun –terminate command.
Running applications using PRRTE is relatively simple. It starts with prepending the install location for PRRTE to your PATH and LD_LIBRARY_PATH environmental variables. This ensures that you will correctly access PRRTE's tools and libraries.
Executing an application requires that PRRTE first be started as per the above directions. Once the server is ready, applications can be executed via the prun command. As with prte, prun supports a number of options – you are welcome to use "–help" to investigate them. Most importantly, the "–terminate" option is used to order PRRTE to stop, terminate its daemons, cleanup any temporary files, and exit.
PRRTE is quite capable of executing any PMIx-based MPI applications. Doing so with Open MPI, however, requires a little care when configuring the two code bases as they share common symbols – PRRTE is itself a fork of the Open MPI master branch that has been tailored to operate as a standalone system. The points of contact are the PMIx library itself, the libevent library, and the hwloc library that are used by both code bases. Accordingly, it is required that both OMPI and PRRTE code bases be configured against a common copy of these packages. For instructions on how to properly do this, see here.
We recommend that non-OMPI MPI packages also build against the common PMIx package being used by PRRTE. Again, this isn't required, although the PMIx version being used by the MPI package must at least be at version 2.1.1.
With the packages all built and installed, ensure that you have both the PRRTE and MPI install locations prepended to your PATH and LD_LIBRARY_PATH. Compile any MPI applications using their corresponding wrapper compiler, and any non-MPI PMIx-based applications using the PRRTE-provided pcc wrapper compiler. Execution of an application is then done as described above – there is nothing special required (e.g., command-line options) for an MPI application.


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Film & Television.
Andrew Mills | JAB Management.
andrew@jabmanagement.co.uk
Screen International Star of Tomorrow Mustapha Kseibati has directed 5 short films funded by various bodies inc UKFC, BBC, SKY, BFI and the Metropolitan Police. He has a slate of fun features in script stages of development including Super G's (Comedy Drama), Danger Close (Action Comedy) and Wild Boys (Action Supernatural Horror.)
Mustapha was selected for BFI's NET.WORK@LFF and Guiding Lights, where he was mentored by Paul Andrew Williams.
He has directed various television shows inc Coconut and Oi, Pussy for BBC Three, Apple Tree House for CBeebies, Jason Manford's Little Cracker, Humza Arshad's Xmas and Three Kinds of Stupid for SKY. His films and television work have starred notable actors inc Benedict Wong, Sophie Thompson, Kayvan Novak, Vic Reeves and Emily Atack.
Mustapha grew up in West London consuming endless hours of American and British television. It was during this period (80's) that he fell in love with film and television, Genre, Marvel comic books, action figures and cartoons. After completing a BA in Media Production he landed a job at urban music channel Channel U as a Director before moving on to directing content for MTV.
Mustapha is represented by Andrew Mills at JAB Management. His favourite film is Back to the Future.


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The Magic of Squeezing Water Out of the Sky
A Hundred Years Ago, Charles Hatfield Cashed in on America's Weakness for Quick Fixes—Even if They Seem Too Good to Be True
By Cynthia Barnett
In the 1956 film The Rainmaker, a slick-talking stranger played by Burt Lancaster shows up in a drought-stricken town. Clad in a black cowboy hat and red neckerchief, he woos a desperate cattle-ranching family into believing he can make it rain.
Lancaster's character is beefy and full of swagger, just as dramatist N. Richard Nash imagined him when he wrote the play upon which the film was based. But the real-life rainmaker who inspired Nash was quite the opposite.
Charles Mallory Hatfield …
The Japanese-American Officer Who Helped Take Down and Then Rebuild Japan
Born in Seattle in 1920, Harry Fukuhara Was Fully Bicultural, Bilingual, and Binational
By Pamela Rotner Sakamoto
When I first met Harry Fukuhara, in 1994, he was orchestrating a Tokyo press conference for Japanese Foreign Ministry officials, former Jewish refugees from the Holocaust, and veterans of the Japanese-American 442nd Regimental Combat Team. The groups were there to commemorate the separate threads connecting them to the Holocaust. The Foreign Ministry officials were belatedly acknowledging a renegade consul, Chiune Sugihara, who had issued approximately two thousand transit visas to desperate Jewish refugees in Kaunas, Lithuania, when he was stationed …
Running for President Takes a Stiff—and Clean-Shaven—Upper Lip
As Thomas Dewey Learned in His Race Against Harry Truman, You Can Lose by a Whisker
By Christopher Oldstone-Moore
In 1948, Emilie Spencer Deer, a solidly Republican woman from Ohio, announced to her family that she would vote for President Truman instead of the Republican candidate Thomas Dewey because she could not vote for a man with a mustache. She was neither foolish nor alone in her opinion. Educated and conscientious, she was, like other women of her day, simply reading the signs of what a good man looked like at the time. A clean-shaven man was team player, …
The Japanese-American Flower Growers Who Made Phoenix Bloom
Post-WWII Gardens Like My Family's Found Beauty in Stony Ground
By Kathy Nakagawa
When my high school orchestra teacher found out my family owned a Japanese flower garden in Phoenix, Arizona, he made a confession: He had once snuck into those fields. He stole flowers to propose to his wife. To this day, I meet other people who share with me equally vivid memories of the farms. One friend told me: "I would drive my mom there every weekend!" Although all of the flower fields are gone now, they're still an important part …
What the First First Couple Bequeathed America
George and Martha Washington's Close Partnership Helped Them Through Rebellion, War, and Even the Presidency
By Flora Fraser
One of the most revealing spaces at Mount Vernon, George and Martha Washington's home in Virginia, is a bare attic bedroom. Martha retreated here after George's death in 1799. Without him, she would not occupy the elegant bedchamber they had so long shared. Grief made this tough, capable woman give up her will to live. She died, still in that attic retreat, a few years later.
Standing at the threshold of that little room, 10 years ago, I wondered at the …
How Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse Elevated the Everyman
The Disneyfication of American History Began Long Before the Theme Parks
By Bethanee Bemis
There are few symbols of pure Americana more potent than the Disney theme parks. To walk down any of the destinations' manicured Main Streets, U.S.A.—as hundreds of thousands of visitors do each day—is to walk though a particular vision of America's collective memory. It's small-town values. It's optimism. It's energy. It's innovation. It's a certain kind of innocence. It is by design, the story of the "American Way"—and one that has played a dominant role in shaping the collective memory …
Do Beautiful Parks Strengthen Democracy?
To Frederick Law Olmsted, Designer of Many of America's Most Iconic Landscapes, Common Spaces Are Key to Getting Beyond Our Own Narrow Individualism
By Garrett Dash Nelson
In 1846, shortly after his 24th birthday, Frederick Law Olmsted wrote to a friend, full of dismay about the prospect of finding a purpose in life. "I want to make myself useful to the world—to make happy—to help to advance the condition of Society and hasten the preparation for the Millennium—as well as other things too numerous to mention," he fretted. "Now, how shall I prepare myself to exercise the greatest and best influence in the situation of life I …
When Louisiana Creoles Arrived in Texas, Were They Black or White?
Mixed-Race Migrants Came to Houston for Jobs and Ended Up Challenging Definitions of Race
By Tyina Steptoe
Actor Taye Diggs recently raised eyebrows by declaring that he hopes his young son—who has a white mother of Portuguese descent—identifies as "mixed" instead of black. Diggs, who is African-American, also included President Barack Obama in his statement. "Everybody refers to him as the first black president. I'm not saying it's wrong. I'm just saying that it's interesting. It would be great if it didn't matter and that people could call him mixed. We're still choosing to make that decision, …
How a Refugee from the Nazis Became the Father of Video Games
Ralph Baer's Life Is a Classic Tale of Scrappiness and Perseverance
By Arthur Molella
It's perhaps fitting that the man recognized as the father of the video game, that quintessential American invention, was a refugee from Hitler's Germany, whose personal story converged with America's at a critical time in the nation's history.
"I had the misfortune of being born in a horrendous situation," Ralph Baer told the Computer History Museum, of his birth to Jewish parents in 1922 in southwestern Germany. When the Nazis came to power, Baer was still a young child. They …
Why Americans Eat Like Animals
The Industrial Revolution Changed the Nature of Work and the Way Workers Took Their Meals
By Abigail Carroll
American eaters, they're like a pack of animals, hustling dinner in 10 minutes or less. It sounds like a recent complaint, but in fact it comes from 1864, when the Englishman John Francis Campbell was startled at the rapidity with which fellow steamboat passengers consumed their meals as they floated down the Ohio River. They were quick as foxhounds over their food, he marveled. Because service was family style, you risked leaving the table hungry if you failed to keep …


It's absurd to expect agency auditors to sort out confusing, outdated campaign finance laws and regulations.
Now there are new allegations of political manipulation, amid revelations that the IRS clumsily targeted for stricter scrutiny groups that included the words "tea party" and "patriot" in their tax documents. Similar scrutiny was directed toward groups that "criticize how the country is being run." Adopting the universal formulation of bureaucratic evasion, the IRS said that "mistakes were made," adding: "but they were in no way due to any political or partisan motivation." An IRS inspector general's report found no evidence of political motivations or involvement in the targeting by officials outside the agency, but it condemned "inappropriate criteria" and bad management. Amid the uproar of Congressional hearings, the Justice Department has opened a criminal investigation.
The IRS uses all sorts of protocols to identify potential wrongdoers. But there should be one starting point for everyone concerned about the tendency of those with power to "slight liberty": the same basic rules concerning taxation must be applied to all, with every possible protection against the politicization of the process.
It is also vital to recognize that the IRS should be applying standards, not setting them. A series of Supreme Court decisions, most prominent among them Citizens United, have radically altered the playing field—particularly with regard to nonprofit 501(c)(4) groups, which appear to be at the heart of the controversy. Money is flooding into the electoral process from all directions. And the rules about how that money is raised and spent, and what is disclosed with regard to sources and strategies, are very much in flux. It is absurd—and wrong—to expect IRS auditors to sort the mess out.
Congress and the Federal Election Commission have fundamental responsibilities here. Campaign finance laws are useful only if they are updated to reflect emerging political, media and money trends. Yet Congress is often just as deadlocked on basic rule-making as it is on issues of sweeping reform. The partisan divide is now so wide that prospects for action seem increasingly slim. We like that Senate majority leader Harry Reid responded to the IRS abuses by calling for enactment of the transparency reforms outlined in the DISCLOSE Act. But we also know that getting action in the Republican-controlled House will be a daunting task.
There has been no sense of urgency about setting standards for post–Citizens United politics. Americans want real reform, but too many politicians are adjusting all too well to the "new normal" of big money and uncertain rules. The IRS controversy is a wake-up call. If we want everyone to play by the rules and be treated fairly, the FEC and Congress must set standards that everyone—candidates, donors, parties, PACs, "social welfare" organizations and IRS agents—can understand and follow.
In the "Noted" column this week, Greg Mitchel takes a look at the recent scandal in which Obama's Justice Department secretly obtained phone records of AP reporters.


HELENA-WEST HELENA- Inside Scoop Online Co-Editor Andrew Bagley stood up for the right of the city and its citizens to have access to appeal hearings for fired city employees in the face of an illegal effort by Mayor Arnell Willis to close the hearings, which the terminated employees wanted open.
Nine employees fired by Willis were on Tuesday's city council agenda for appeal hearings. Willis has fired all of those employees since taking office at the first of the year. The only reason stated by Willis in the termination letters given to employees is that he was taking the city "in a new direction." Willis began discussion of the matter by announcing that the council would go into executive session. When Alderman Marvin Jarrett raised the point of order that an executive session was not required, Willis said, "This is what we are going to do. We are going into executive session." Willis then said who would be allowed in the hearing and said attorneys for employees would be allowed in the executive session. The Arkansas Freedom of Information Act specifically excludes attorneys from participating in executive sessions. It also requires a majority vote of the city council to enter an executive session, not a Mayoral proclamation.
At the meeting, Bagley objected to Willis's insistence on an executive session. He said, "Mayor Willis, the FOI is very specific that if an attorney is present, then the hearing must be open." Willis attempted to silence Bagley, but Bagley insisted on getting the objection noted for the record and pointed out that the City could have to pay the legal fees of media groups under the provisions of the Arkansas Freedom of Information Act if it illegally went into an executive session.
Alderman Jay Hollowell then dialogued with Bagley on the proper procedures for an executive session. However, before a council vote could be taken on whether or not to go into executive session, attorneys for the fired employees pointed out that Willis did not have a court reporter present as required under the Arkansas Administrative Procedures Act.
Reached after the meeting, Bagley said, "The ability of our society to have access to public information is pivotal to a free press to keep the citizenry informed so that it can hold public officials accountable. I felt it was important for the public and media to have access to these hearings, and the executive sessions as proposed by Mayor Willis were not legal."
The hearings for the fired employees are scheduled again for March 15.


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Q: Update orders status Google Spreadsheet by checking the status in other Sheet using Google Apps Scripts I'm working to get the status for orders to be updated in the master sheet. I have disconnected orders with status in another sheet named "Decommission sheet". While I update the master I need to check the status for these orders by applying the below logic:

*

*If the order is DECOMMISSIONED && not available in decommission sheet
then the order is LIVE.

*If the order is available in the decommission sheet then check the
status if it is DECOMMISSIONED then the order is DECOMMISSIONED.

I have done it in a totally different way but it doesn't work with me. Any help would be appreciated.
function pathstatus() {
  var MasterSs = SpreadsheetApp.openById('ID');
  var MsterSh = MasterSs.getSheetByName('Master Sheet');
  var MasterData = MsterSh.getDataRange().getValues();
  var DecommisstionSh = MasterSs.getSheetByName('Decommisstion');
  var DecommisstionData=DecommisstionSh.getDataRange().getValues();
  for(var x=0;x<MasterData.length;x++){
    var MasterPathName =MasterData[x][2]
    var Masterstatus=MasterData[x][6]
    var MasterStage=MasterData[x][7]
    if(MasterStage == "DECOMMISSIONED"){
      for(var i=0;i<DecommisstionData.length;i++){
        var   DecommisstionPathName = DecommisstionData[i][2]
        var    DecommisstionStatus = DecommisstionData[i][7]
        var   DecommissionedDate = DecommisstionData[i][10]
        if(DecommisstionPathName == MasterPathName && DecommisstionStatus == "COMPLETED") {
          MasterData[x][6]="DECOMMISSIONED"
          MasterData[x][12]=DecommissionedDate
        }else {
          MasterData[x][6]="LIVE"
        }
      }
    }
  }
  MsterSh.getRange(2,1,MsterSh.getLastRow(),MsterSh.getLastColumn()).clearContent();
  MsterSh.getRange(2,1,MasterData.length,MasterData[0].length).setValues(MasterData)
  SpreadsheetApp.flush()
}

In another way
function myFunction() {
  var MasterSs = SpreadsheetApp.openById('ID');
  var MsterSh = MasterSs.getSheetByName('Master Sheet');
  var MasterData = MsterSh.getDataRange().getValues();
  var DecommisstionSh = MasterSs.getSheetByName('Decommisstion');
  var DecommisstionData=DecommisstionSh.getDataRange().getValues();

  MasterData.splice(0,1);
  DecommisstionData.splice(0,1);
  var  Decommisstionpath = [];
  var  Decommisstionstatus = [];

  for(var i=0;i<DecommisstionData.length;i++) {
    Decommisstionpath.push(Number(DecommisstionData[i][2]))
    Decommisstionstatus.push(DecommisstionData[i][7])
  }
  var i=0;
  for(var x=0;x<MasterData.length && MasterData[x][3] != undefined ;x++) {
    var OrderStage = MasterData[x][8]
    if(OrderStage=='DECOMMISSIONED') {
      var PathName = MasterData[x][2]
      var index = Decommisstionpath.indexOf(PathName);
      if(index == -1)
      {MasterData[x][6]="LIVE" }
      else{
        MasterData[x][6]="Check"
      }
    }
  }
  MsterSh.getRange(2,1,MsterSh.getLastRow(),MsterSh.getLastColumn()).clearContent();
  MsterSh.getRange(2,1,MasterData.length,MasterData[0].length).setValues(MasterData)
  SpreadsheetApp.flush();
}

Neither function works properly


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Porsche Develops a Hydrogen-Powered V8 Engine
by Suzanna Hayek | Aug 24, 2022
Porsche's hydrogen-powered v8 engine Is capable of matching the performance of its petrol-guzzling counterparts, based on simulations, according to an article by CarExpert published on 19 August.
The German automotive company claims that in simulations, a 4.4 litre V8 hydrogen engine could produce nearly 400kw of power.
Porsche says the simulations demonstrated that the hydrogen engine could pull a 2650kg around the Nurburgring in 8:20.00, just 40 seconds slower than the Porsche Cayenne Coupe Turbo GT.
The electrically boosted turbochargers are the key drivers behind the engine's performance. Porsche is studying a range of technologies to work alongside hydrogen engines.
The biggest challenge for the car maker is making the turbochargers deliver enough air mass despite the engine's lower exhaust gas temperatures resulting in a lack of energy for their propulsion on the exhaust side, reported CarExpert.
Porsche will not be commercialising the technologies anytime soon but will be exploring and expanding the capabilities of these innovations. This exploration could advance porsche sustainability, making them a greener company.


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(The Best Part of) Breaking Up - the Ronettes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K04WwAL-3eg
"the best part of breaking up is when you're making up...."
Generally true, especially in the world of romcoms and idealised love. But not always.
One pictures Ronnie Spector escaping the Beverley Hills' mansion home that has become a prison in her marriage with producer Phil Spector, running barefoot over the gravel to her waiting mother, barefoot because Phil had confiscated all her shoes just so she couldn't get away (see post Jan 25, 2021 https://www.unclestylus.com/single-post/walking-in-the-rain-the-ronettes ). Maybe the song was wishful thinking on the part of co-songwriter, producer and husband Phil, but it's clear that, so far as Ronnie was concerned, the best part of breaking up was staying broken up.
Which may be why Ronnie's terrific lead vocal sounds so sullen and sultry: even this early in their relationship she's having second thoughts. Who said Americans don't "get" irony?


Market segmentation is the identification of the portions of the market that are different from one another. Market Segmentation allows the firm to better satisfy the needs of its potential customers.
Let us take a simple day to day life example and clearly understand what segmentation means. Each parent would like the teachers to give personal attention to their wards. This is practically not possible if all the children are asked to sit in the same class with various subjects. Thus to facilitate this the class is further segmented according to subjects.
On the same philosophy, as the business or the organization cannot meet the needs of each and every individual in the market, the market is segmented in to meaningful, relatively similar and identifiable groups, the purpose of which is to enable the marketer to tailor marketing mixes to meet the needs of one or more specific groups. These groups are known as segments and this process is known as market segmentation.
The total market for a good or service consists of all the people and/or organizations that desire it, have resources to make purchases, and are willing and able to buy. Firms often use market segmentation – dividing the market into subsets of customers that behave similarly. The development of a market segmentation strategy consists of three general phases: analyzing consumer demand, targeting the market, and developing the marketing strategy.
1. The firm determines demand patterns, establishes bases of segmentation, and identifies potential market segments.
2. The firm targets the market through undifferentiated marketing (mass marketing), concentrated marketing, or differentiated marketing (multiple segmentation).
3. The firm then positions it's offering relative to competitors and outlines the appropriate marketing mix. Meaningful product differentiation is essential.
Why is Market segmentation needed?
How segmentation helps decision making?
How to Choose a Market Segment?
How many Segments should a business enter?
How to segment a Business market?
How to segment on basis of Brand loyalty?
How to segment on basis of Demographic segmentation?
How to segment on basis of Geographic segmentation?


When was the last time you shopped in a physical store? Struggling to remember? It's not surprising, considering that an increasing number of consumers are opting to shop online instead of heading to the high street. With e-commerce growing 23% year over year, more businesses are focusing their efforts online, and many are duly reaping the rewards.
Content marketing is also on the rise, accompanying the growth of e-commerce. More cost-effective than traditional marketing methods, content marketing is uniquely suited to online businesses. Brands that create custom content have the power to establish a closer, more intimate relationship with their consumers, an invaluable stand-in for the traditional in-store model of face-to-face customer relations.
Effective content marketing is one of the most powerful marketing tools for online businesses; it has the capability to generate brand value and open up channels of communication with customers, as well as the potential to establish and sustain brand loyalty.
Many content marketers, however, focus their efforts solely on external communication channels, such as social media pages, video channels, and blogs. Yet, it would be a mistake to neglect other important touchpoints of the customer's interactions with the brand.
Although e-commerce is inherently virtual, customers interact with an e-commerce store in other ways that extend beyond the digital realm. Read on for three effective tactics for extending your content marketing reach right now.
Many e-commerce businesses give priority to the functionality of shipping—how to ensure the product gets to the customer as efficiently as possible and intact. That is undeniably important, but often it means the aesthetics of packaging can be overlooked, or conceived hurriedly as an afterthought.
Keep in mind that packaging may well be the first and only physical point of contact you have with your customer. It's also presented to customers at a time when they are feeling most receptive to your brand: They've ordered a product, it's arrived at the door, and it's exciting!
Helen Scott is a creative writer at Packlane, an online printing company that makes the process of ordering custom boxes and packaging easy and affordable for brands of any size, in part by offering online proofs in 3D.


Now that you are back from your time abroad, you may find an expected "newness" at home. This can lead to feeling like a stranger in your own country, which can be stressful and depressing. You knew life would be different when you were abroad, but you may not have realized how much you would change, too.
Ask high school teachers if you can share a short presentation with their classes, complete with photos and possibly exhibiting souvenirs.
Check with your local newspaper to see if they will print an article with photos about your program.
Civic organizations, Boy and Girl Scout troops and other local groups may be delighted to have you speak at their meetings.
Talk with friends who have also studied abroad recently, and get tips on how they overcame their feelings.
Join the Global Tiger Peer Advisory group, who help the Auburn Abroad staff market study abroad on campus and love to share experiences with other Global Tigers! This also helps expand the benefits of your program by allowing you to add marketing efforts to your resume. Contact Auburn Abroad at auab@auburn.edu if you are interested in joining the GTPA.
If you attended an Auburn faculty-led or exchange program, you need to check your Auburn transcripts to make sure courses and grades are posted correctly. If not, contact your program director to make required changes. Grades may not post immediately but should post within a few weeks of the end of the program.
If you attended a program through another university or other program provider, you are ultimately responsible for getting transcripts and Transfer Credit Forms to the Auburn Office of Admissions in 108 Mary Martin Hall when you receive copies of transcripts from the program abroad. If you were enrolled in a holding course through Auburn Abroad, the Auburn Abroad staff will be responsible for getting both the Transfer Credit Form and the abroad transcript to Admissions to be posted.