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Cette page recense les résultats de l'ensemble des votes, élections et référendums ayant eu lieu dans la commune de Carquefou, en Loire-Atlantique, depuis 2000.

Élections municipales

2008
Les élections municipales de 2008 ont lieu le 9 et le . Pour la commune de Carquefou, les conseillers municipaux sont élus selon le mode de scrutin de liste à deux tours avec représentation proportionnelle. Compte tenu du nombre d'habitants dans la commune lors du dernier recensement, le conseil municipal est composé de 33 membres conformément au Code général des collectivités territoriales. Trois listes sont déposées. À l'issue des élections qui se déroulent en un seul tour et dont les résultats figurent ci-après, Claude Guillet (NC) est élu maire.

Élections cantonales
L'élection des conseillers généraux a lieu au scrutin uninominal majoritaire à deux tours, la moitié des sièges dans chaque département étant renouvelée tous les trois ans. Le département de la Loire-Atlantique comprend 59 cantons. La commune de Carquefou est sur le territoire du canton de Carquefou.

2011
Les élections cantonales de 2011 ont lieu les 20 et .
Bernard Aunette (PS) est élu conseiller général au  avec 57,33 % des suffrages exprimés sur le canton et 54,14 % des voix sur la commune. Il devance Serge Mounier (Divers droite) qui obtient 45,86 % sur la commune et 42,67 % sur le canton. Le taux de participation est de 40,5 % sur la commune et de 40,51 % sur le canton.

2004
Les élections cantonales de 2004 ont lieu les 21 et .
Bernard Aunette (PS) est élu conseiller général au  avec 54,31 % des suffrages exprimés sur le canton et 47,75 % des voix sur la commune. Il devance Claude Guillet (UDF) qui obtient 52,25 % sur la commune et 54,31 % sur le canton. Le taux de participation est de 68,4 % sur la commune et de 69,17 % sur le canton.

Élections régionales
Les élections régionales renouvellent les 25 conseils régionaux de Métropole et d'outre-mer ainsi que l'Assemblée de Corse. Les conseillers régionaux sont élus dans chaque région au scrutin de liste à deux tours sans adjonction ni suppression de noms et sans modification de l'ordre de présentation. Dans la région Pays de la Loire, 93 sièges sont à pourvoir.

2010
Les élections régionales de 2010 ont lieu les 14 et 21 mars. Les résultats pour la commune sont les suivants :

2004
Les élections régionales de 2004 ont lieu les 21 et 28 mars.Les résultats pour la commune sont les suivants :

Élections législatives

2012
Les élections législatives de 2012 se déroulent sur deux tours de scrutin les 10 et 17 juin, dans la continuité de l'élection présidentielle qui s'est tenue les  et , selon un mode de scrutin uninominal majoritaire à deux tours. Un redécoupage des circonscriptions législatives est réalisé en 2010 pour tenir compte de l'évolution de la démographie française et pour répondre à une demande du Conseil constitutionnel. Le nombre total de députés, 577, désormais inscrit dans la Constitution depuis la réforme de la constitution française de juillet 2008, reste inchangé, mais certains départements voient le nombre de circonscriptions et leur composition modifiés. Le département de la Loire-Atlantique conserve le nombre, 10.
La commune n'est pas concernée par le redécoupage et reste rattachée à la .
  : 55,28 % pour Michel Ménard (PS, élu au  avec 60,23 % des suffrages exprimés sur la circonscription), 44,72 % pour Maurice Perrion (Alliance centriste), 59,19 % de participation.

2007

Les élections législatives de 2007 se déroulent sur deux tours de scrutin les 10 et 17 juin. Le découpage électoral est le même que celui des élections de 2002. Sans surprise, la majorité sortante UMP est reconduite, quelques semaines après l'élection de Nicolas Sarkozy à la présidence de la République, avec toutefois un nombre de sièges réduit par rapport aux précédentes élections. Dans la  du département de la Loire-Atlantique, dont dépend la commune de Carquefou, Michel Ménard est élu au  avec 51,11% des suffrages. Les résultats pour la commune sont les suivants :
  : 52,28 % pour Robert Diat (Union pour la Majorité présidentielle), 47,72 % pour Michel Ménard (UMP, élu au  avec 51,11 % des suffrages exprimés), 35,73 % de participation.

2002
Les élections législatives de 2002 des députés de la  législature ont lieu les 9 et , dans la foulée de l'élection présidentielle de 2002 qui a vu la réélection de Jacques Chirac. La droite parlementaire sort largement vainqueur de ces élections, marquées par un nouveau record d'abstention (39%). Les députés sont élus au scrutin uninominal majoritaire à deux tours dans 577 circonscriptions, le département de la Loire-Atlantique en comportant dix. La commune de Carquefou est sur le territoire de la  qui voit la victoire de Edouard Landrain (Union pour la Majorité présidentielle, élu au  avec 54,24 % des suffrages exprimés). Les résultats au niveau de la commune sont les suivants :
  : 56 % pour Edouard Landrain (Union pour la Majorité présidentielle, élu au  avec 54,24 % des suffrages exprimés), 44 % pour Patrick Cotrel (Verts), 61,67 % de participation.

Élections présidentielles

2012
Le premier tour de l'élection présidentielle de 2012 voit s'affronter dix candidats. François Hollande, candidat du Parti socialiste, et Nicolas Sarkozy, président sortant et candidat de l'UMP, se qualifient pour le second tour, avec respectivement 28,63 % et 27,18 % des suffrages exprimés. Parmi les candidats éliminés, Marine Le Pen (17,90 %), Jean-Luc Mélenchon (11,10 %) et François Bayrou (9,13 %) obtiennent des scores significatifs. À l'issue du second tour, deux semaines plus tard, François Hollande est élu président de la République avec 51,64 % des suffrages exprimés, contre 48,36 % à son adversaire.À Carquefou, François Hollande arrive en tête du premier tour avec 31,3 %, suivi de Nicolas Sarkozy avec 30,09 %, puis de François Bayrou avec 14,14 %, puis Jean-Luc Mélenchon avec 9,15 %, puis Marine Le Pen avec 9,02 %, aucun autre candidat ne dépassant le seuil des 5 %. Au second tour, les électeurs ont voté à 51,66 % pour François Hollande contre 48,34 % pour Nicolas Sarkozy avec un taux d'abstention de 86,5 %.

2007

Le premier tour de l'élection présidentielle de 2007 a été marqué par une participation exceptionnelle avec un score de 83,97 % des inscrits. Ce taux est comparable à celui du premier tour de l'élection présidentielle de 1965 qui était de 84,7 % et celle de 1974 qui était de 84,2 %. Nicolas Sarkozy (31,18 %) et Ségolène Royal (25,87 %) arrivent en tête pour le premier tour de l'élection devant François Bayrou (18,57 %) et Jean-Marie Le Pen (10,44 %). Au second tour, Nicolas Sarkozy est élu Président de la République française, avec 53,06 % des suffrages, contre Ségolène Royal avec 46,94 %. À Carquefou Nicolas Sarkozy est arrivé en tête au premier tour avec 32,65 %, suivi de Ségolène Royal avec 27,44 %, puis de François Bayrou avec 24,45 %, puis Jean-Marie Le Pen avec 4,5 %, puis Olivier Besancenot avec 3,61 %, aucun autre candidat ne dépassant le seuil des 5 %. Au second tour, les électeurs ont voté à 51,78 % pour Nicolas Sarkozy contre 48,22 % pour Ségolène Royal avec un taux d'abstention de 11,71 %.

2002

Le 21 avril 2002 est inédit dans la vie politique française, puisqu'un représentant d'un parti classé à l'extrême droite de l'échiquier politique a réussi à se qualifier pour le second tour d'une élection présidentielle. Jacques Chirac est réélu président de la république avec le plus fort score depuis la création de la Cinquième République : 82,21 % ; Jean-Marie Le Pen obtient 17,79 % des suffrages exprimés. À Carquefou, Jacques Chirac arrive en tête au premier tour avec 18,84 %, suivi de Lionel Jospin avec 17,62 %, puis de François Bayrou avec 11,01 %, puis Jean-Marie Le Pen avec 10,03 %, puis Noël Mamère avec 7,65 %, Alain Madelin avec 5,78 %, Jean-Pierre Chevènement avec 5,54 % et aucun autre candidat ne dépassant le seuil des 5 %. Au second tour, les électeurs ont voté à 91,94 % pour Jacques Chirac contre 8,06 % pour Jean-Marie Le Pen avec un taux d'abstention de 15,94 %, résultat supérieur aux tendances nationales.

Référendums

Le référendum sur le quinquennat présidentiel, visant à réduire la durée du mandat présidentiel de sept à cinq ans, a lieu le . La question posée est : « Approuvez-vous le projet de loi constitutionnelle fixant la durée du mandat du président de la République à cinq ans ? » Les électeurs votent « oui » à une large majorité (73,21 % des suffrages exprimés), dans un contexte de forte abstention (69,81 %). Localement, les votes sont respectivement de 80,06 % pour le "oui" et de 19,94 % pour le "non".

Le référendum français sur le traité établissant une Constitution pour l'Europe a eu lieu le . À la question « Approuvez-vous le projet de loi qui autorise la ratification du traité établissant une Constitution pour l'Europe ? », le « non » recueille 54,68 % des suffrages exprimés. Ce troisième référendum français sur un traité européen (après ceux de 1972 et 1992) est le premier à être rejeté. Localement les électeurs de la commune votent à 60,57 % pour le "oui" et à 39,43 % pour le "non".

Notes et références

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TOP 10 Schools With Best WAEC Results In Nigeria (2023)
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The WAEC, based on statistics has tried to select the schools with best WAEC results in Nigeria and make them known to the public. In this article, we have helped to select the top 10 schools that have the best WAEC result in Nigeria based on statistics submitted by the West Africa Examination Council.
Schools With Best WAEC Results In Nigeria
Top 10 Schools With Best WAEC Results In Nigeria
However, a student that seems not to have a good educational background is expected to pass the examination and as such will not be able to cope with the tertiary education. In line with this, some secondary schools have been constructed with the sole aim of providing a solid educational background for the students.
Apart from that, the schools also prepare the students to do well in the tertiary institution. Students that attend these schools are usually more intelligent and brilliant than students that attend other schools.
However, enrolling in some of these schools will definitely prepare the student in his/her future academic endeavors.
Loyola Jesuit College, Abuja
On our list, is the Abuja based citadel of learning, which was opened on the 2nd October, 1996 and on average has been producing students with the best WAEC result in Nigeria. Based on statistics, they have been maintaining this stand for the past seven years. Apart from having the best WAEC result, the school has also been honored in several occasion as the school that produce the best JAMB results for several years. Based on this, the secondary school has been regarded as the best in West Africa.
Marist Brothers' Juniorate, Uturu
On 1981, another citadel of learning was opened in Uturu by the Marist Brothers. Since, then the Brothers have been running the school efficiently and effectively. The two most cherished aim of the school is to strengthen academic knowledge and to also inculcate good morals into their student in in order for them to behave well in life. In the school, are teachers with strong moral and educational minds. Also, the participation between the teacher and the students actually add more to the standard of the school.
Lumen Christi International High School, Uromi
In 1986, a catholic school named Lumen Christi International High School was formed in Edo State by Rev, Dr. P.E. Ekpu. On several occasion has the school been honored. One of such is winning the fourth (4th) Position as the best secondary school in the Western part of Africa. This same award was still won by the school five years later in addition to winning the best overall WAEC result.
Grundtvig International Secondary School, Oba
Located in Oba, Anambra State, is our 4th school with the best WAEC result in Nigeria. It is one of the boarding schools that have produced outstanding students in any examination. On several occasion, the citadel of learning has featured in many ranking which include the top ten performing schools in Nigeria based on the statistics presented by WAEC. Recently, in 2014, it was ranked number five in Nigeria.
Mea Mater Elizabeth High School, Agbani
Mea Mater High School was opened on September, 2004 in the village of Ojiagu in Agbani, Enugu State. Since its creation, the school has been performing so well in any examination. In the 2015 WAEC Examination, out of the over 80,000 schools that participated in the examination, Mea Mater High School was ranked number 7, which actually explained the high educational standard of the school. Also, previously in 2011, the school was being tagged among the best performed schools in Africa. Also, it is among the best boarding schools in Nigeria that have produced outstanding student in any examination.
Christ the King College, Gwagwalada
With the sole aim of producing students that are knowledgeable, trustworthy, God Fearing, patriotic and responsible, Christ the King College was established as a Catholic mission in 1991 by the Late Dominic Cardinal Ekandem. And, looking at the success flow for the school since its creation, it has been fulfilling its aims.
The Lagoon Secondary School, Lekki
Located in Lagos State, is the all-girls citadel of learning that has been doing so great since the time it was created. Though it is a private school, the school aims at investing in Nigerian girls for the sole aim of developing the society.
Graceland International School, Port-Harcourt
When it comes to providing students with a high standard of education, Graceland School has been glorified for such. Also, the school has been known for its all-round excellence in any examination. The school has actually proven its leadership in morals, extra-curricular activities and academics achievement.
Nigerian Turkish International College, Kaduna
Located in Northern Part of Nigeria, Turkish College has tried to provide quality education for its students. Even the learning environment actually provide for quick assimilation of knowledge. Apart from all this, the school has been known to motivate its outstanding students by sponsoring the student for higher education in the Western World. This has actually led them to produce students with outstanding WAEC results.
Oritamefa Baptist Model School, Ibadan
Lastly on our list is the citadel of learning located in Ibadan that has been fostering academic excellence in Nigeria by producing students with outstanding WAEC result.
Even though these schools might not actually be the best in Nigeria but because they usually produce students with best WAEC result, they have been ranked as best Schools in Nigeria as one of the aim of going to such school is to be able to proceed into the next phase of education- Tertiary Education.
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package com.facebook.buck.apple;

import static org.hamcrest.Matchers.containsString;
import static org.hamcrest.Matchers.equalTo;
import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
import static org.junit.Assert.assertNotNull;
import static org.junit.Assert.assertThat;
import static org.junit.Assume.assumeTrue;

import com.facebook.buck.apple.toolchain.ApplePlatform;
import com.facebook.buck.config.BuckConfig;
import com.facebook.buck.config.FakeBuckConfig;
import com.facebook.buck.core.exceptions.HumanReadableException;
import com.facebook.buck.util.FakeProcess;
import com.facebook.buck.util.FakeProcessExecutor;
import com.facebook.buck.util.ProcessExecutorParams;
import com.facebook.buck.util.environment.Platform;
import com.facebook.buck.util.zip.ZipCompressionLevel;
import com.google.common.collect.ImmutableList;
import com.google.common.collect.ImmutableMap;
import java.nio.file.Path;
import java.nio.file.Paths;
import java.util.Optional;
import java.util.function.Supplier;
import org.hamcrest.junit.ExpectedException;
import org.junit.Before;
import org.junit.Rule;
import org.junit.Test;

public class AppleConfigTest {

  @Rule public ExpectedException thrown = ExpectedException.none();

  @Before
  public void setUp() {
    assumeTrue(Platform.detect() == Platform.MACOS || Platform.detect() == Platform.LINUX);
  }

  @Test
  public void getUnspecifiedAppleDeveloperDirectorySupplier() {
    BuckConfig buckConfig = FakeBuckConfig.builder().build();
    AppleConfig config = buckConfig.getView(AppleConfig.class);
    assertNotNull(config.getAppleDeveloperDirectorySupplier(new FakeProcessExecutor()));
  }

  @Test
  public void getExtraAppleDeveloperDirectories() {
    BuckConfig buckConfig =
        FakeBuckConfig.builder()
            .setSections(
                ImmutableMap.of(
                    "apple",
                    ImmutableMap.of(
                        "extra_toolchain_paths", "/path/to/somewhere/Toolchain",
                        "extra_platform_paths", "/path/to/somewhere/Platform")))
            .build();
    AppleConfig config = buckConfig.getView(AppleConfig.class);
    ImmutableList<Path> extraToolchainPaths = config.getExtraToolchainPaths();
    ImmutableList<Path> extraPlatformPaths = config.getExtraPlatformPaths();
    assertEquals(ImmutableList.of(Paths.get("/path/to/somewhere/Toolchain")), extraToolchainPaths);
    assertEquals(ImmutableList.of(Paths.get("/path/to/somewhere/Platform")), extraPlatformPaths);
  }

  @Test
  public void getXcodeSelectDetectedAppleDeveloperDirectorySupplier() {
    BuckConfig buckConfig = FakeBuckConfig.builder().build();
    AppleConfig config = buckConfig.getView(AppleConfig.class);
    ProcessExecutorParams xcodeSelectParams =
        ProcessExecutorParams.builder()
            .setCommand(ImmutableList.of("xcode-select", "--print-path"))
            .build();
    FakeProcess fakeXcodeSelect = new FakeProcess(0, "/path/to/another/place", "");
    FakeProcessExecutor processExecutor =
        new FakeProcessExecutor(ImmutableMap.of(xcodeSelectParams, fakeXcodeSelect));
    Supplier<Optional<Path>> supplier = config.getAppleDeveloperDirectorySupplier(processExecutor);
    assertNotNull(supplier);
    assertEquals(Optional.of(Paths.get("/path/to/another/place")), supplier.get());
  }

  @Test
  public void packageConfigCommandWithoutExtensionShouldThrow() {
    AppleConfig config =
        FakeBuckConfig.builder()
            .setSections("[apple]", "iphoneos_package_command = echo")
            .build()
            .getView(AppleConfig.class);
    thrown.expect(HumanReadableException.class);
    thrown.expectMessage(containsString("be both specified, or be both omitted"));
    config.getPackageConfigForPlatform(ApplePlatform.IPHONEOS);
  }

  @Test
  public void packageConfigExtensionWithoutCommandShouldThrow() {
    AppleConfig config =
        FakeBuckConfig.builder()
            .setSections("[apple]", "iphoneos_package_extension = api")
            .build()
            .getView(AppleConfig.class);
    thrown.expect(HumanReadableException.class);
    thrown.expectMessage(containsString("be both specified, or be both omitted"));
    config.getPackageConfigForPlatform(ApplePlatform.IPHONEOS);
  }

  @Test
  public void packageConfigTreatsEmptyStringAsOmitted() {
    AppleConfig config =
        FakeBuckConfig.builder()
            .setSections("[apple]", "iphoneos_package_extension = ", "iphoneos_package_command = ")
            .build()
            .getView(AppleConfig.class);
    assertThat(
        config.getPackageConfigForPlatform(ApplePlatform.IPHONEOS), equalTo(Optional.empty()));
  }

  @Test
  public void packageConfigExtractsValuesFromConfig() {
    AppleConfig config =
        FakeBuckConfig.builder()
            .setSections(
                "[apple]",
                "iphoneos_package_extension = api",
                "iphoneos_package_command = echo $OUT")
            .build()
            .getView(AppleConfig.class);
    Optional<ApplePackageConfig> packageConfig =
        config.getPackageConfigForPlatform(ApplePlatform.IPHONEOS);
    assertThat(packageConfig.get().getCommand(), equalTo("echo $OUT"));
    assertThat(packageConfig.get().getExtension(), equalTo("api"));
  }

  @Test
  public void getOverridenCompressionLevel() {
    BuckConfig buckConfig =
        FakeBuckConfig.builder()
            .setSections(ImmutableMap.of("apple", ImmutableMap.of("ipa_compression_level", "Max")))
            .build();
    AppleConfig config = buckConfig.getView(AppleConfig.class);
    ZipCompressionLevel compressionLevel = config.getZipCompressionLevel();
    assertEquals(ZipCompressionLevel.MAX, compressionLevel);
  }

  @Test
  public void getDefaultCompressionLevel() {
    BuckConfig buckConfig =
        FakeBuckConfig.builder()
            .setSections(ImmutableMap.of("apple", ImmutableMap.of("ipa_compression_level", "")))
            .build();
    AppleConfig config = buckConfig.getView(AppleConfig.class);
    ZipCompressionLevel compressionLevel = config.getZipCompressionLevel();
    assertEquals(ZipCompressionLevel.DEFAULT, compressionLevel);
  }
}

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Q: createUrl is not creating URL in the path format I am trying to create a URL in the path format in yii but it always creates it in the get format. I do not understand whats going wrong.
this is the main.php
 'urlManager'=>array(
                'urlFormat'=>'path',
                            'showScriptName'=>FALSE,
                'rules'=>array(
'airlineSearch/roundTripSearch/<origin:\w+>'=>'airlineSearch/roundTripSearch/<origin>',
'<controller:\w+>/<id:\d+>'=>'<controller>/view',
'<controller:\w+>/<action:\w+>/<id:\d+>'=>'<controller>/<action>',
'<controller:\w+>/<action:\w+>'=>'<controller>/<action>',
                ),
            ),

and this is the controller
class AirlineSearchController extends Controller
{
public function actionRoundTripSearch($origin)
       {
           echo $origin;
       }

       public function actionLets()
       {
          echo $this->createUrl('roundTripSearch',array('origin'=>'delhi'));
       }
}

but it always results in /services/airlineSearch/roundTripSearch?origin=delhi
Question :- How can i get it in the path format?

A: I solved the problem.
'rules'=>array(
'airlineSearch/roundTripSearch/<origin:\w+>'=>'airlineSearch/roundTripSearch',
'<controller:\w+>/<id:\d+>'=>'<controller>/view',
'<controller:\w+>/<action:\w+>/<id:\d+>'=>'<controller>/<action>',
'<controller:\w+>/<action:\w+>'=>'<controller>/<action>',
                ),

I just removed the <origin> from
'airlineSearch/roundTripSearch/<origin:\w+>'=>'airlineSearch/roundTripSearch/<origin>',

A: I would always recommend removing the default Yii URL rules and add your own, specific ones. Also try using useStrictParsing. Both of these help to control your URLs more closely and will generate 404s as appropriate.
This would be my approach:
'urlManager'=>array(
    'showScriptName' => false,
    'urlFormat'=>'path',
    'useStrictParsing'=>true,
    'rules'=>array(

        'services/airline-search/<trip:round-trip|one-way>/<origin:\w+>' => 'airlineSearch/roundTripSearch',
    ),
),

And then in your controller:
<?php

class AirlineSearchController extends Controller
{
    public function actionRoundTripSearch($origin)
    {
        print_r($_GET); // Array ( [trip] => round-trip [origin] => delhi )

        // Use the full route as first param 'airlineSearch/roundTripSearch'
        // This may have been the cause of your issue
        echo $this->createUrl('airlineSearch/roundTripSearch',array('trip' => 'round-trip', 'origin'=>'delhi'));
        // echoes  /services/airline-search/round-trip/delhi
    }

    public function actionLets()
    {

    }

?>

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Carlos the Jackal charged...	Carlos the Jackal charged with 1974 grenade attack
Carlos the Jackal charged with 1974 grenade attack
by Peter Allen Published March 14, 2017 Published Mar 14, 2017
INFAMOUS terrorist Carlos the Jackal branded lawyers 'scavengers' yesterday when he went on trial accused of a grenade attack 43 years ago.
Once one of the world's most wanted men, Carlos, 67, has spent the last 23 years in a French high security prison.
He is accused of killing two men and injuring 34 others at the Publicis Drugstore, in Paris on September 15, 1974.
At the time, Carlos was a 24-year-old member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. He denies involvement, claiming the evidence is non-existent.
Asked for his name and profession, the greying Venezuelan called himself a 'professional revolutionary' whose only interest was 'fighting war' for those who were being oppressed around the world.
Pointing at the prosecution barristers he said: 'The victims deserve all the respect, but the scavengers who make money on the back of the French people are not right.'
He was told by the special panel of judges in Paris to 'try to summarise a bit, our attention spans are limited'.
Carlos, real name Ilich Ramirez Sánchez, was named after the killer in Frederick Forsyth's 1971 novel The Day Of The Jackal which was turned into a film starring Edward Fox.
The terrorist was responsible for a series of atrocities across France in the 1970s and 1980s and was arrested by French intelligence in 1994. The trial is expected to last three weeks.


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I am a passionate photographer today but before holding my first camera all I ever held were books- I was a quite a bookworm. I completed my bachelors in Mathematics and went on to pursue MSc. Operational Research in post-graduation from Delhi University. After completing my education I landed a good job with a reputed corporate firm. However, my passion for photography grew and blossomed during my initial years of work.
My colleagues in the office have played a significant role is invigorating my passion for photography. Two of my colleagues at office shared my passion for photography and often discussed the nuances of photography with me. They would often use high sounding technical words like RAW or JPEGs, shutter speed, filters for landscape photography, Nice Bokeh (blur background), aperture etc.
Although, I felt overwhelmed due to my lack of knowledge but was also determined to learn. I asked them to help me increase my knowledge base and they willingly shared books, materials and tutorial DVDs with me.
Enthused by my new found knowledge and support from my colleagues I bought myself a DSLR and since then I have never looked back.
Some of the key highlights of my photography journey have been in receiving recognition by Nikon and Sony for my images and winning the prestigious 6th National photography award in 2017.
My passion for photography has only increased over the years and it has become a way of expressing myself.


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import {Injectable} from "@angular/core";
import * as _ from 'lodash';

import {OrderEntry, OrderEntryRange, EntryRepeat} from "./order-entry";
import moment = require("moment/moment");

@Injectable()
export class OrderEntryEstimateService {

    private static get MONTHS(): number[] { return [0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11] };

    estimateYear(year: number, orderEntries: OrderEntry[]):any {
        let self = this;
        let estimations: any[] = [];
        _.each(OrderEntryEstimateService.MONTHS, function (month:number) {
            let estimation = { earnings: 0, expenses: 0, };
            _.each(orderEntries, function (orderEntry:OrderEntry) {
                // find valid range
                let value = self.calculateEstimateForMonth(year, month, orderEntry);
                if (value < 0) {
                    estimation.expenses -= value;
                } else {
                    estimation.earnings += value;
                }
            });
            estimations.push(estimation);
        });
        return estimations;
    }

    private calculateEstimateForMonth(year: number, month: number, orderEntry: OrderEntry) {
        // find fitting range
        let self = this;
        let date = moment({ year: year, month: month});
        let range: OrderEntryRange = _.find(orderEntry.ranges, function (r:OrderEntryRange) {
            if (r.to.isValid()) {
                return date.isBetween(r.from, r.to, 'month', '[)') && self.matchesRepeat(r, date, orderEntry.repeat);
            } else {
                return date.isSameOrAfter(r.from, 'month') && self.matchesRepeat(r, date, orderEntry.repeat);
            }
        });

        if (range) {
            return range.value;
        }
        return 0;
    }

    private matchesRepeat(range: OrderEntryRange, date: moment.Moment, repeat: EntryRepeat) {
        switch (repeat) {
            case EntryRepeat.Once:
                return date.isSame(range.from, 'month');
            case EntryRepeat.Weekly:
                return false;
            case EntryRepeat.TwoMonthly:
                return false;
            case EntryRepeat.Monthly:
                return true;
            case EntryRepeat.TwoMonthly:
                return (date.month() - range.from.month()) % 2 === 0;
            case EntryRepeat.QuaterYearly:
                return (date.month() - range.from.month()) % 3 === 0;
            case EntryRepeat.HalfYearly:
                return (date.month() - range.from.month()) % 6 === 0;
            case EntryRepeat.Yearly:
                return (date.month() - range.from.month()) % 12 === 0;
            default: return false;
        }
    }
}


Welcome to our very recently refurbished beautiful holiday villa for you to enjoy in the Florida sunshine!
When you walk through the door into your Orlando vacation home you are greeted with a wonderful family room with new comfy furniture and 58" flatscreen smart TV. With views out across the large private pool/spa area and further on towards woodland.
The property is a detached 4 bedroom villa with 2 true master bedrooms both with king size beds and large en-suites with private toilets. There are also 2 twin bedrooms which share a third bathroom. Sleeping a total of 8 people it's a spacious house and can take 2 families sharing very easily.
Property has just been updated!
When you walk through the door into your Orlando vacation home you are greeted with a wonderful spacious family room with brand new comfy furniture and 58" flatscreen smart TV. With views out across the large private pool/spa area and further on towards woodland.
Fully equiped kitchen with everything you'll need for example cooker, fridge freezer, microwave, dishwasher, indoor and outdoor crockery.
Utility with washer, dryer, iron, ironing board, airer, pool towels.
Formal & casual dining areas.
Master bedroom 1 - Patio doors onto the pool deck. Ensuite with twin basins, bath, large shower cubicle and private toilet. Flat screen smart TV.
Master bedroom 2 - Patio doors onto the pool deck. Ensuite with twin basins, large shower cubicle and private toilet. Flat screen smart TV.
Twin bedroom 3 - Large twin room with fitted wardrobes and flat screen TV. Shared Bathroom room, with sink and bath/shower, leads out onto pool deck.
Twin bedroom 4 - Large twin room with fitted wardrobes and flat screen smart TV. Shared Bathroom room, with sink and bath/shower, leads out onto pool deck.
Master 1 - Great size ensuite with twin basins, bath, large shower cubicle and private toilet.
Master 2 - Big ensuite with twin basins, large shower cubicle and private toilet.
Bathroom - Sink, WC, bath/shower, leads out onto pool deck.
South facing extra large 15'x30' pool, with huge deck and lani area. There is also a spa, all looking onto woodland.
If you want to dine alfresco leading out from the big sliding patio doors there are table and chairs in the extra large lanai and deck area, which can be placed in either sunshine or shade depending on your preference.
Your private patio is south facing and gets the sun all day long and there are loungers so you can sunbathe to your heart's content and then pop into the pool and spa to cool off.
If you have children with you there is a security fence which seals off the swimming pool so you can control access to the water.
Large plot south facing with lots of privacy. With NO rear neighbours it looks out onto woodland/conservation. Quiet small gated community with communial tennis court.
The Manor at West Haven offers luxury Orlando villas with private pools to rent located just off HWY54 in Davenport Florida. West Haven is a large estate made of six smaller communities, each with it's own gated entrance. As you enter West Haven, the approach is exceptionally attractive as you drive down a beautifully manicured driveway towards the holiday homes. West Haven is close to Champions Gates golf club and hotel, where you have restaurants, shops and a large Publix supermarket on your doorstep. The Manor at West Haven is the smallest of the gated communities, consisting of a single circular road called Burford Circle. As you enter the community, to the left is a tennis court, two child's play areas and communal pool which guests are welcome to use.
We really enjoyed staying at the villa, it had everything we needed and more. It was super clean, great for pool time and just relaxing in the evening. The location is perfect. We have been coming to that area for over 15 years and this is up there with one of the best villas. You were both amazing to deal with and super responsive when we needed you.
Having stayed in about a dozen or so villas over the years your villa wins first prize by an absolute mile! It ticked all the boxes, I couldn't fault it. So to sum it all up a fantastic villa, great vacation, we are already planning our next trip with your villa at the top of our list.
Thank you so much it was a pleasure to have you stay, we look forward to welcoming you back again.
Manor Palms Villa was amazing. The pool and was wonderful and our boys never wanted to get out. The jacuzzi is exactly what's needed after a busy day exploring. The Villa has everything you would need and was extremely clean and well presented. My husband liked the fact that the villa was secure with an alarm system and that it also alerted you when any of the external doors where opened and which door it was. I loved the fact that we came home with no washing. Our boys did have one complaint...... they didn't want to leave and asked to stay forever! A perfect home to stay in whilst visiting Florida! We all had a fantastic time and are looking to come back again.
This is the 9th year in a row we have gone to Florida and to quote my wife 'this is the best villa we've stayed at yet!' We stayed at West Haven last year and just love the location close to the I4 and also many other routes to get to shopping and attractions if there are any I4 jams. Very close to Champions Gate with some great amenities for grocery shopping, pharmacy and restaurants if you don't want to go far. The villa itself was spotlessly clean, very well equipped with towels and also kitchen implements. Pool deck is a great size with plenty room to sunbathe but also enough room in the shade for the hot days! Spent many afternoons lazing in the pool gazing out to the forest at the back which made it all very peaceful. Thanks again to Lisa and Martin for letting us stay we enjoyed it very much.
Many thanks Andrew for your family's lovely review of our villa. We thank you for choosing our villa and are so pleased you found it to be the best villa you've ever stayed at! We look forward to welcoming you all again for another holiday in the future.
Just returned from this fabulous villa. On entering you certainly get that wow factor and a large spacious lounge with views straight out onto the terrace with private pool and woodland beyond. The villa was beautifully decorated and well furnished throughout. It was difficult to actually leave the villa to go and explore all the attractions and shopping areas that are only a 15 minute or so drive away. Kids loved the good sized pool and games room whilst I was more than happy to soak up the sun on the terrace and relax in the spa pool! We would certainly book the villa again and highly recommend this as a holiday home to anyone.
The location of the villa was perfect as it was within a 5 minute drive to the Interstate 4 and lots of local amenities and within 20 minutes to the parks. The villa itself was beautiful, located on a private and very quiet gated community. The furnishings made it very comfortable with a well equipped kitchen. The outside pool area was stunning with views over the conservation area and not being overlooked at all. We have stayed in many villas over the years and both my wife and I agree, your villa is the best we have had and will certainly hire it again on our next visit.
Many thanks for your review, we look forward to welcoming you all again to Manor Palms Villa.


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You Are Here : Home / About Arlington/ News / News Articles / 2020 News Articles List / Arlington County Board Adopts $1.3 Billion FY 2021 Budget
Arlington County Board Adopts $1.3 Billion FY 2021 Budget
The Arlington County Board today adopted a $1.3 billion balanced General Fund Budget for Fiscal Year 2021 that reflects the novel coronavirus's impact on County revenues and priorities and includes no increase in the tax rate for Calendar Year 2020.
"In just three short months, our budget priorities have been upended," Arlington County Board Chair Libby Garvey said, "and we know that the budget we adopted today will likely need revision in the coming months. Our focus in the coming year will be on supporting residents and small businesses hit hard by the economic fallout of the pandemic, preserving essential services and maintaining a strong financial foundation."
Noting the uncertainty surrounding revenues and expenditures in FY 2021, The Board approved a $10.2 million contingent fund that includes $2.7 million for housing grants, permanent supportive housing, emergency food assistance, and other emergency needs and $7.5 million to assist small businesses and nonprofits, aid service delivery recovery, provide employee support, and offset any further revenue loss.
The budget reflects an estimated loss of $56 million in anticipated revenue in FY 2021, resulting in a loss of $34 million for County government and $21.6 million for Arlington Public Schools. The projected losses are in sales, meal, business license and transient occupancy taxes, Parks & Recreation fees, development fees, parking meter & parking ticket revenue, and more.
The Board voted 4 to 0 to adopt the budget, with no increase in the Calendar Year 2020 tax rate. The tax rate will remain at $1.026 (including the sanitary district tax) per $100 of assessed real estate value. Because assessments increased, the average homeowner, with a home valued at $686,300 will see an increase in the taxes and fees they pay the County, up from $9,023 in FY 2020 to $9,399 in FY 2021.
The budget maintains current levels of service, foregoes salary increases for all staff, continues a hiring freeze put in place in March, places many projects on hold, delays the opening of the Lubber Run Community Center and Long Bridge Park Fitness & Aquatics Center until Fiscal Year 2022 and uses $4.0 million in funds from the Stabilization Reserve to close the gap between revenues and expenditures.
$524.6 million will be transferred to Arlington Public Schools for its FY 2021 Budget, a slight increase over the FY 2020 ongoing funding level.
Guidance to the Manager
In adopting the budget, the Board included guidance to the County Manager to develop a plan in the early months of Calendar Year 2021 that would identify, quantify and develop strategies to address food insecurity in Arlington, with an emphasis on child hunger. The Board also provided guidance to the Manager on curbside food waste collection. The Manager is to make progress toward the potential launch of such a service in Fiscal Year 2022, in keeping with the County's 2015 Zero Waste Resolution's goal of diverting 90 percent of solid waste from landfills and incineration in the coming decades. Steps the Manager is to take include developing estimates of start-up costs and ongoing increases in the Household Solid Waste Rate that would be entailed to offer the service, to begin public engagement around the proposal ahead of the FY 2022 budget adoption.
Garvey thanked the Manager and County finance and budget staff for having quickly reworked the Proposed Budget the Manager presented to the Board in February to reflect the need to fund the County's emergency response and the rapidly changing economic situation.
"We have entered uncharted waters for this community and our nation," Garvey said. "Nothing that any of us have faced before has had the sort of immediate, intense impact on our economy that COVID-19 has had. I commend the staff for responding with a budget that is both compassionate and fiscally responsible. As the Manager has said, this budget, by creating more financial flexibility, will serve as a bridge to our recovery."
With Arlingtonians following the Governor's Stay-at-Home Order, the Board held the Budget and Tax Rate hearings virtually, with dozens of residents participating. Hundreds of comments on the budget were made part of the public record and considered by the Board during its deliberations. The new fiscal year begins on July 1, 2020.
To read the staff reports on the FY 2021 Budget items, visit the County website.
View the County Manager's Revised Proposed FY 2021 Budget Overview Presentation.
Learn more about the FY 2021 Budget development process.


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Table of Contents » Title 56. Public Service Companies » Chapter 23. Virginia Electric Utility Regulation Act » § 56-579. Regional transmission entities
Title 56. Public Service Companies
Chapter 23. Virginia Electric Utility Regulation Act
§ 56-579. Regional transmission entities.
A. As set forth in § 56-577, each incumbent electric utility owning, operating, controlling, or having an entitlement to transmission capacity shall join or establish a regional transmission entity, which hereafter may be referred to as "RTE," to which such utility shall transfer the management and control of its transmission assets, subject to the following:
1. No such incumbent electric utility shall transfer to any person any ownership or control of, or any responsibility to operate, any portion of any transmission system located in the Commonwealth prior to July 1, 2004, and without obtaining, following notice and hearing, the prior approval of the Commission, as hereinafter provided. However, each incumbent electric utility shall file an application for approval pursuant to this section by July 1, 2003, and shall transfer management and control of its transmission assets to a regional transmission entity by January 1, 2005, subject to Commission approval as provided in this section.
2. The Commission shall develop rules and regulations under which any such incumbent electric utility owning, operating, controlling, or having an entitlement to transmission capacity within the Commonwealth, may transfer all or part of such control, ownership or responsibility to an RTE, upon such terms and conditions that the Commission determines will:
a. Promote:
(1) Practices for the reliable planning, operating, maintaining, and upgrading of the transmission systems and any necessary additions thereto; and
(2) Policies for the pricing and access for service over such systems that are safe, reliable, efficient, not unduly discriminatory and consistent with the orderly development of competition in the Commonwealth;
b. Be consistent with lawful requirements of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission;
c. Be effectuated on terms that fairly compensate the transferor;
d. Generally promote the public interest, and are consistent with (i) ensuring that consumers' needs for economic and reliable transmission are met and (ii) meeting the transmission needs of electric generation suppliers both within and without this Commonwealth, including those that do not own, operate, control or have an entitlement to transmission capacity.
B. The Commission shall also adopt rules and regulations, with appropriate public input, establishing elements of regional transmission entity structures essential to the public interest, which elements shall be applied by the Commission in determining whether to authorize transfer of ownership or control from an incumbent electric utility to a regional transmission entity.
C. The Commission shall, to the fullest extent permitted under federal law, participate in any and all proceedings concerning regional transmission entities furnishing transmission services within the Commonwealth, before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. Such participation may include such intervention as is permitted state utility regulators under Federal Energy Regulatory Commission rules and procedures.
D. Nothing in this section shall be deemed to abrogate or modify:
1. The Commission's authority over transmission line or facility construction, enlargement or acquisition within this Commonwealth, as set forth in Chapter 10.1 (§ 56-265.1 et seq.) of this title;
2. The laws of this Commonwealth concerning the exercise of the right of eminent domain by a public service corporation pursuant to the provisions of Article 5 (§ 56-257 et seq.) of Chapter 10 of this title; or
3. The Commission's authority over retail electric energy sold to retail customers within the Commonwealth by licensed suppliers of electric service, including necessary reserve requirements, all as specified in § 56-587.
E. For purposes of this section, transmission capacity shall not include capacity that is primarily operated in a distribution function, as determined by the Commission, taking into consideration any binding federal precedents.
F. Any request to the Commission for approval of such transfer of ownership or control of or responsibility for transmission facilities shall include a study of the comparative costs and benefits thereof, which study shall analyze the economic effects of the transfer on consumers, including the effects of transmission congestion costs. The Commission may approve such a transfer if it finds, after notice and hearing, that the transfer satisfies the conditions contained in this section.
G. The Commission shall report annually to the Commission on Electric Utility Regulation its assessment of the practices and policies of the RTE. Such report shall set forth actions taken by the Commission regarding requests for the approval of any transfer of ownership or control of transmission facilities to an RTE, including a description of the economic effects of such proposed transfers on consumers.
1999, c. 411; 2001, c. 576; 2003, cc. 885, 990; 2007, cc. 888, 933; 2008, c. 883.


Discussion in 'iPad' started by BaldiMac, Jan 17, 2012.
Has anyone seen any graphs or tables comparing the performance trends of mobile devices such as the iPad to traditional laptops? Is the gap shrinking? How fast?
It's not shrinking at all. Laptop have around, commonly 100W limit. Though can go to 300W in larger ones. Tablets? Maybe 4-5W. And until newer architectures focus on hitting a very low peak power, then it's going to stay that way.
How does that relate to overall performance? I kinda expected an answer in flops or some general benchmarks. Power consumption appears to be tangential to the topic.
For example, it seems obvious to me that browsing performance on mobile devices have become much closer to laptops in the last year. Of course, that is just one aspect of the overall performance of the device.
Performance in what terms. In what way are you wanting to compare these two items for performance?
How does that relate to overall performance?
That has more to do with browser SW becomming more efficient, GPU rendering and threading, in particular. Otherwise, you are looking at some rather comparible architectures. If you WERE to compare them.... in terms of compute, the iPad 2 SoC gets around ~15 GFLOPS in theory? The lowest end IGP currently in a modern computer, the HD6250, gets about 44GFLOPS. For another, unrealistic reference, the HD6990m (the mobile version of the HD6870 desktop card), gets 1.6 TFLOPS, or 1,600 GFLOPS. The Fastest desktop single GPU? the HD7970 gets a wonton 3.7 TFLOPS.
However, that is not directly comparible, as the HD6250 has more memory bandwidth (though the SGX is TBR to help negate that sizeable advantage...), MUCH improved texture filtering systems, and much better geometry performance then the raw compute power difference would suggest.
Nothing specific. Just wondering if some information is out there. Either some general benchmarks or processor performance (gigaflops). Something to define the overall performance gap between mobile device and laptops and how it has changed over time.
Thanks for the information. Of course, a laptop trounces an iPad at this point in raw performance! I'm wondering how the gap is changing over time.
Well, effectively, both sides are pushing the limit of manuf process (around the same pace, too). Now, it's almost sheer architecture that is making the difference. In terms of smartphones, tablets? Yes, they have caught up greatly in the past 5 years. However, both lineups have, effectively, hit a limit as to how fast they each can be (power consumption and the directly related heat output), per process node (currently 28nm and 32nm; though still transitioning from 40/45nm). Until an architecture is designed, that is not scaleable, yet extremely powerful to the point of negating all other products, this divide will always exist around the level it does, now.
Thanks! Sometimes you just pick the wrong search terms.


Oh goodness, he is adorable!!! I finished your cute bat free pattern for my son for Christmas and he absolutely loves it! I do to and I had a hard time not wanting to keep him for myself! 😉 I hope that this year is an easier one for you and for my family as well. Happy New Year!!
This is adorable! I was waiting for a dragon pattern too!
Looking forward to more cute stuff this year!
I need him! He is adorable.
The dragon is so sweet. I must have the pattern. My kids love dragons.
It's so cute! Unfortunately I can't get him because I have been so caught up with work I haven't had time to make any monthly patterns 😦 and I love the dragon so much!
Hello, can I get your new, last pattern Dragon? In last month I send you my warewolf but you didin't answer me. I saw that you have a lot of those aks so I hope that this time you'll see my mail. Have a grest day ! Dnia 1 stycznia 2017 16:07 Choly Knight <comment-reply@wordpress.com> napisał(a): cholyknight posted: "Happy New Year everyone! I hope you all are excited for 2017! Which also means it's the fourth anniversary of my blog 😀 It started back in 2013 and sometimes I can hardly believe I've kept it up for this long ❤ It felt like 2016 had a lot of ups an"
Oh no I'm sorry I didn't get your Werewolf photo! I don't see it in my email so something must have went wrong there. Could you try resending it?
I just wanted to say that I think it is amazing that you've done this for so long. Your patterns are wonderful and being able to get them through trying out other patterns is a really cool thing to do. Your patterns are also very reasonably priced and your instructions are fantastic. I just wanted to thank you for all of your hard work and I look forward to making myself a little dragon!
Wow, thank you so much! That means a lot ♥ I'm so glad they're easy to understand and fun to make!
Wanted to share this pattern I finally finished sewing. I did it in felt. THank you for the free pattern.
Uh oh, it doesn't look like a photo attached? Do you think you could try again or send it to my Facebook? (facebook.com/sewdesune) I look forward to seeing it!
Hopefully it's not to late to get your last MCC pattern! I'd been looking for a dragon and yours is perfect! Attached is my Pretty in Pink Batty.
I'm so glad you like the dragon! Though it looks like your little batty didn't get attached 😦 Could you try again? Or maybe email it? Thanks so much!


Washington: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday left for Netherlands, the final leg of his three-nation tour, after concluding his visit to the US.
In the US, Modi held talks with President Donald Trump on Monday during which the two leaders vowed to strengthen co-operation on terror. India and the US also urged Pakistan to ensure that its territory is not used to launch cross-border terror strikes.
He will meet with CEOs of Dutch companies and "will encourage them to join the Indian growth story".
"I will also call on King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands and meet Queen Maxima", he had said in a Facebook post before leaving on his three-nation trip.
Modi will also address the Indian diaspora in the country.


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package me.aaron.androidprocessalive;

import android.os.Bundle;
import android.support.v7.app.AppCompatActivity;
import android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar;
import android.view.Menu;
import android.view.MenuItem;
import android.view.View;

import me.aaron.androidprocessalive.service.ForegroundService;
import me.aaron.androidprocessalive.service.GrayService;
import me.aaron.androidprocessalive.service.NormalService;
import me.aaron.androidprocessalive.service.NotifyService;

public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity {

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
        Toolbar toolbar = (Toolbar) findViewById(R.id.toolbar);
        setSupportActionBar(toolbar);

        initViews();
    }

    private void initViews() {
        findViewById(R.id.btn_start_normal).setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
            @Override
            public void onClick(View v) {
                NormalService.actionStart(MainActivity.this);
            }
        });

        findViewById(R.id.btn_start_foreground).setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
            @Override
            public void onClick(View v) {
                ForegroundService.actionStart(MainActivity.this);
            }
        });

        findViewById(R.id.btn_start_gray).setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
            @Override
            public void onClick(View v) {
                GrayService.actionStart(MainActivity.this);
            }
        });
    }

    @Override
    protected void onStart() {
        super.onStart();

        NotifyService.actionStart(this);
    }

    @Override
    public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
        getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.menu_main, menu);
        return true;
    }

    @Override
    public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) {
        int id = item.getItemId();

        if (id == R.id.action_settings) {
            return true;
        }

        return super.onOptionsItemSelected(item);
    }
}


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Ian Dunham on Gene Patenting
Oral History -> Genome Research -> Gene Patenting -> Ian Dunham on Gene Patenting
Gene Patenting (Ian Dunham)
Ian Dunham Biography
I'm not a lawyer. I've heard many talks that explain how genes can be patented. But I look at it that a gene is a discovery, it's not an invention. It's always been there. And I would argue that you can't patent genes, but lawyers argue differently.
Working at the Sanger Centre, Dunham heads the team, which sequenced human chromosome 22. He is interested in uses of human chromosome 22 as a model system for genomic analysis. Chromosome 22 represents about 1% of the whole genome but is a relatively gene rich chromosome. As such it is a tractable model system for a number of genome-wide studies.
Dunham's initial work was in comprising physical maps in yeast artificial chromosomes (YACs) to produce an extensive YAC map, which served as the backbone for future production of the DNA sequence.
From 1996-1999 he focused on bringing the sequencing of human chromosome 22 to completion. This was achieved with the publication of the completed sequence and its analysis (Dunham et al. 1999). At the same time the group was responsible for establishing a benchmark level of gene annotation on the sequence. Currently chromosome 22 represents the best-annotated region of the human genome, and provides an excellent model system to develop functional genomic approaches. He was the leader of the consortium of four sequencing groups and numerous collaborators.
His team's future research interests build on the knowledge of human chromosome 22 as a defined subset of the human genome to develop approaches to studying gene expression and networks at the mRNA and protein level. These include microarray expression analysis, cloning of tagged genes and expression of their proteins, development of phage antibody resources, and study of protein intracellular localization.
Dunham was formerly a Research Fellow and a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Guys Campus in London.
The BBC interviewed Dunham:
Computer modeling suggests there may be as many as 1,000 genes on chromosome 22, but even this is but a small fraction of the estimated 60,000 to 100,000 genes in our cells.
Human disorders "One down, the others to go," said Ian Dunham, a biochemist at the Sanger Centre in Cambridge, UK, and lead author on the scientific paper in the journal Nature that announces the genetics landmark. "It's a great relief to have it finished."
Mutations to genes along chromosome 22 contribute to heart defects, immune system disorders, cancers, and mental retardation. A gene linked to schizophrenia is also thought to reside somewhere on chromosome 22.
Sequencing Chromosome 22
The Development of PCR
Cooperating Across Borders
International Collaboration in the HGP
Leaders of the Genome Project
Future Research Goals
Interpreting the Human Genome
Genome Meetings at CSHL
SCIENTISTS SPEAKING ABOUT GENE PATENTING
Nicholas Wade
Bruce Alberts Michael Ashburner David Bentley David Botstein Elbert Branscomb Aravinda Chakravarti Francis Collins Charles Delisi Ian Dunham Richard Gibbs Philip Green Eric Green Leroy Hood James Kent Aaron Klug Eric Lander Peter Little Maynard Olson Ari Patrinos Ulf Pettersson Matt Ridley Bruce Roe Gerald Rubin Nicoletta Sacchi Fred Sanger Hamilton Smith John Sulston Nicholas Wade Robert Waterston James Wyngaarden


The chief executive of RIM, the company behind BlackBerry, has become the latest interviewee to walk out of an interview. Mike Lazardis ended his encounter with BBC's Rory Cellan-Jones after the corporation's technology reporter asked about RIM's issues in India and the Middle East, where governments have challenged BlackBerry's encryption of messages.
The interview was set up to explain the new BlackBerry Playbook tablet, RIM's answer to the Apple iPad. But RIM's PR team must have known that Cellan-Jones would take the opportunity to raise other hot topics. At first Lazardis dealt calmly with the challenge. Had he stuck to that approach, viewers would have been reassured and left to focus on the Playbook. Instead, all the talk on Twitter and elsewhere was about the CEO who walked out.


The Holy Funk Danish, Scandinavian Furniture range showcases an impressive selection of quality tables, sideboards, buffets, entertainment units, tallboys and even lighting (just to name a few). Hand made, the craftsmanship and nostalgic design ensure each piece will undoubtedly exceed expectation. Incorporating perhaps the most synonymous characteristic of Scandinavian furniture, ergonomically designed outwards angling legs features across the range, combining style, strength and stability.


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Signs and Wonders
by Fr. Luke
Moses crouched low, loosened a strap and removed the sandal.
The sand, warmed by sacred fire, seared his sole like embers fallen from an altar.
Hector works at the refinery and hunts wild game. Sarah teaches children whose smiles linger in her eyes whenever she speaks of them. Young and newly married, Hector and Sarah enjoy the support of many friends.
Their devotion at Mass elicits my respect and admiration, but not as much as the scar on the side of Hector's scalp, a remnant of cancer surgery that occurred shortly after he and Sarah started dating.
Via crucis.
Sarah accompanied Hector through the long and frightful ordeal. Today, their love, forged in fire, warms the feet of all who draw near the epiphany of it.
I felt its warmth one evening as Hector grilled duck in his backyard. Like Moses tending his flock on the day of the Burning Bush, this shepherd did not expect signs and wonders at a summer cook-out. Yet, it happened.
After dinner, Sarah showed me a video of the church in which their wedding took place. The image on the screen displayed an intricate, stone façade. The person filming the shot had crossed the street to capture the height and breath of the structure. In the corner of the frame stood Hector, smiling with his groomsmen on the steps of the church.
Unexpectedly, and unnoticed by the person operating the camera, Hector catches sight of Sarah. He is overcome with emotion, wiping his eyes at the sight of his bride. The camera maintains a wide-angle focus as Hector, in the corner of the frame, regains composure and embraces his bride. He takes her hand, then leads her into the House of God.
The film ends. In the silence that follows, the sandals on my feet feel warm. Very warm.
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Thought Livett may have kept his place, but Davis was ok aswell.
Wasnt it suggested that Livett had injured his leg last week?
Shame no Goodwin. Also, superBen is a big miss in these types of games. That said, it's still a really strong side and with Fages missing, I reckon we'll target Richardson in defence and come out on top.
We're getting NOTHING off this cretin. You hear him saying "keep your hands to yourself" but doesn't bloody penalise them, yet he's doing us for everything he can. Shambles.
We're being shafted, we will get some meaningless first tackle penalties in the second half! We haven't been dirtier than saints but we are guilty of a poor completion rate,so we have mostly caused our own problems.
True but our defence hasn't been good enough. They are making easy metres.


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Thanks to a legal document submitted to the United States Securities & Exchange Commission yesterday, we have learned that Paramount Pictures will continue working with Hasbro to produce future Transformers movies.
While we have heard of the agreement before, this is the first time we are seeing it on a legal documentation. It is also important to note that Transformers and G.I. Joe franchises are highlighted prominently and the fact that the term 'first Transformers spinoff' may indicate even more spinoffs in the future.
This submission came directly after Viacom's annual conference call to close the financial outcome of Fiscal Year 2018. The parent company of Paramount Pictures reported a positive output after 2014.
What do you expect to see from future Transformers movies? Let your thoughts known, on the thread associated with this news post.


Business owners with ideas for projects to improve their employees' mental or physical health are being encouraged on to apply for funding through the Health, Work and Well-being Challenge Fund before the 31st December deadline.
Government-backed grants of between £1,000 and £50,000 are available for projects that promote health and welfare at work, including reducing stress, addressing other mental health conditions, providing healthy activities and ensuring better work-life balance. The funding cannot be used to buy machinery, to employ temporary staff to run the project, or to carry out building work.
All firms with fewer than 250 employees are eligible to apply. Successful applicants will receive the grant in full if the amount is less than £5,000 and in quarterly instalments if the amount is £5,000 or more.
Employers must be planning to carry out the project between April 2010 and March 2011. A second round of funding will take place late next year.
Firms interested in applying should complete the Expression of Interest form on the Health, Work and Well-being website's application page, describing their idea in fewer than 500 words. Local assessment panels will decide who will receive funding in each region.
said Department for Work and Pensions minister, Lord McKenzie.
"This fund will improve conditions in the workplace and will help to prevent workers taking time off sick.
"We are looking for innovative and exciting ideas to improve the health and welfare of employees in the workplace," he added.
For more information about the fund and to apply online, visit the Health, Work and Well-being website.


Take a look at our favorite resources for pastor and teacher partnership, collected and reviewed by CIRCLE. Experienced Adventist educators sift the ever expanding array of online resources for those of best value for Adventist teachers, administrators and support staff, curating lists for quick and easy use by busy educators anywhere, anytime.
If you are looking for "tools for a team approach to integrating Adventist education into church life as a means of preparing children and youth to be Christ's disciples on this earth and for eternity," then this is a great resource for you. Included are 27 ways schools can support pastors and 25 ways pastors can support schools.
Many pastors do not receive adequate orientation on how they should work with their local school, nor do educators receive orientation on the role of their pastor. This manual aims to identify good practices and serve as a guide for pastors and teachers in their shared ministry.
Based on his keynote address at the Atlantic Union Conference Pastors and Teachers Convention in 2009, Knight shows that, as two Seventh-day Adventist ministries, pastors and educators have the same mission. It is imperative that both ministries work together.
Focusing on two communities in the North Pacific Union Conference, this feature describes what can happen when schools and churches work together to bless each other and their communities.
This article shares testimonies and tributes to pastors who invest themselves in church schools. The insights inspire, and will hopefully spark ideas for healthy partnerships between church and school in the ministry of Christian education for all God's children.
Read one union's strategy in deliberately working together to strengthen the spiritual lives of their children and youth.
A teacher and a pastor discuss how education and pastoring overlap extensively in the area of discipleship. Educators would benefit from pastoral approaches and pastors would benefit from broadening their instructional approaches and understanding.
Considering the shared calling to ministry, this presentation to Adventist pastors and teachers in North America draws on ValueGenesis research, a NAD Office of Education focus group study, and financial data to illustrate the importance of working together.
This 2012 NAD Teachers' Convention presentation discusses principal-pastor relationships as they relate to mentoring, collaboration, communication, and support. It was designed to help principals and constituent church pastors enhance their working relationship through researched and proven collaborative practices.
Although this article was published 20 years ago, its creative ways a pastor can be involved never get old!
This article from the archives suggests collaboration strategies, proposes plans, and shares a vision of what can result from effective collaborative outreach by church and school.
Here is another good article from the archives. In addition to suggestions on forming a good relationship with your pastor, it includes tips on mending a broken one.
For more resources on this topic, check out the CIRCLE School and Church section.
Are teachers the best partner for pastors?


Karzai wins showdown over taxes.
Afghanistan's powerful regional governors have agreed to hand over hundreds of millions of dollars to the central government in a dispute over taxation.
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To understand the extent of the non-performing asset (NPA) problem in the Indian banking sector and come up with solutions, it is important to have a good measure of the problem. While the standard measures have their uses, they do not answer the question that everyone seems interested in: How severe is the NPA crisis? We propose a new measure—the ratio of NPAs to bank capital. This measure shows that the crisis is indeed severe, among the worst in India's history.
Traditionally, two metrics are used to assess the scale of the problem—the ratio of NPAs (gross or net) to gross domestic product (GDP) and the ratio of NPAs to total loans. The ratio of NPAs to GDP measures the potential losses in relation to the size of the economy. This is especially useful in cross-country comparisons, given that countries are at different levels of GDP. The problem with this measure is that it does not indicate whether banks are able to handle the NPAs with their own resources—their capital.
A more commonly used metric is the NPA to loans ratio. This shows the fraction of bank loans that has turned bad. One shortcoming of this measure is that it suggests the problem can be solved through denominator management—growing the loan books of banks to make the NPA ratio smaller. This growing out of the problem approach is not a reliable one. It depends on the overall economic environment and on the demand for credit. It assumes that the source of the NPA problem is external to the banking system and not in the weaknesses of the lending processes. If the demand for credit is slow it becomes difficult for the banks to grow their loan books. Even if the demand for credit were high, it would be difficult for the NPA-ridden banks to grow. Prolonged NPA episodes erode banks' capital and constrain their ability to grow their loan books.
In sum, the standard measures do not convey the full picture and can be misleading. A high level of NPAs in the banking sector need not necessarily create a crisis situation, if the banks have the capital needed to provision for the losses. Bank capital is also a key factor in resolving the banking crisis. Hence, banks' ability to withstand NPAs is best measured in relation to capital.
In the graphs we plot the ratios of gross NPAs (GNPA) and net NPAs (NNPA) to bank loans and to bank capital for the last 20 years. We have also added the amount of restructured loans to GNPAs in both the panels from 2007 onward.
To understand the importance of the NPA to capital ratio, we compare the depth of the NPA problem across two banking crisis episodes in India. The banking sector had witnessed an NPA crisis in the mid to late 1990s. The surge in bank NPAs at that time took place in the aftermath of the introduction of robust income recognition and asset classification norms which exposed two decades of bad loans.
The NPA to loans ratio suggests that the current crisis is considerably less severe than that of the late 1990s. However, when NPAs are measured in relation to bank capital, the current crisis looks just as bad. In particular, the deterioration in the balance sheets of banks post-2010 is much sharper when measured using the NPA to capital ratio.
The drop in the NPA to capital ratios in 2016 looks hopeful but this is partly due to the additional capital received by many public sector banks as part of the government's Indradhanush programme. Also, in light of the revised disclosures of NPA levels by some large private sector banks in the last few weeks, the 2016 ratios are likely to be much worse.
We also compare the growth rates of NPAs, capital and loans across the two crisis episodes. The average annual growth rates of GNPA and NNPA over the five-year period from 1997-2001 were 8.5% and 9.8%, respectively. During this period, bank capital grew 13.14% and bank loans grew 15.87%. The corresponding numbers for the current crisis are much worse. The average GNPA and NNPA growth rates for the period 2011-2015 were 45.9% and 54.9%, respectively. The average growth rate of bank capital for this period was 16.1%. Bank loans grew at 16.2%.
This shows that during the last NPA crisis, bank capital grew at a higher rate than NPAs. While the NPA to loans ratio was higher then, banks were not undercapitalized. They had better ability to withstand the problem. In the current crisis, however, the growth rate of NPAs has been considerably higher than that of bank capital, further underscoring the severity of the crisis. The growth rates of bank loans on the other hand have been similar across both crisis episodes.
The emphasis on the alternative measure of the NPA problem also highlights the importance of capital in resolving the crisis. If the NPA to capital ratio is to be restored to a level that was prevalent during the high growth years of 2003-2007, the capital base has to roughly quadruple. Even if we assume that roughly 50% of the net NPAs will be recovered by the banking sector, the capital base has to double. This is unlikely to happen through retained profits or sale of real estate or other similar strategies.
An attempt to revive the banking sector must include a credible commitment of capital for it to be meaningful. In absence of capital and accompanying structural reforms, any solution will be incomplete and the banking sector may remain in the quagmire for a long time to come.
Harsh Vardhan and Rajeswari Sengupta are, respectively, with Bain & Co. and Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research.


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West Wight Stargazing Club
Tuesday 1st November 2022 from 19:30pm to 21:30pm
Fort Victoria Country Park & Planetarium
Island Planetarium, Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, PO41 0RR, South East
The West Wight Stargazing Group meet on the first Tuesday of the month at the Island Planetarium in Fort Victoria Country Park. Sessions include a guide to what can be seen in the night skies for the coming month and stargazing with telescopes if weather permits. Everyone is welcome to join them, however, attendance requires pre-booking due to limited numbers.
West Wight Stargazing Group is organising this event
Please contact West Wight Stargazing Group directly for more details regarding this event or, if appropriate, contact the event venue.
Website: http://www.islandastronomy.co.uk/
Tue 1st Nov
Fort Victoria Country Park & Planetarium is estimated to have light pollution levels similar to asemi-rural semi-rural location based on data from the VIIRS satellite.
Light pollution map of Fort Victoria Country Park & Planetarium
Below is a list of events at Fort Victoria Country Park & Planetarium. View these events on a calendar.
Fort Victoria Country Park & Planetarium, Yarmouth, PO41 0RR
Stargazing Weekend at Island Planetarium – February 2022
Friday 25th February 2022 from 19:30pm to Sunday 27th February 2022 22:15pm
Tuesday 3rd May 2022 from 19:30pm to 21:30pm
Tuesday 7th June 2022 from 19:30pm to 21:30pm
DreamAcres – Cranborne Chase
Coombe Bissett, Salisbury, SP5 4LP (25.6 miles away)
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Stargazing in South East England
Fort Victoria Country Park & Planetarium is in the constituency of Isle of Wight. The local MP Bob Seely is a member of the All Party Parliamentary Group for Dark Skies.


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Jeje�s hat-trick guides Bagan to 4-1 win
KOLKATA, Feb 28: Jeje Lalpekhlua scored a hat-trick to power heavyweights Mohun Bagan to a thumping 4-1 win over Club Valencia of Maldives in their return leg fixture of the AFC Cup South Zone playoff.
Jeje hit three goals in 2nd, 45th and 82nd minutes while Sony Norde, making a return, also made his presence felt as he netted the ball in the 87th minute.
Godfrey West Omodu, who had struck a solitary goal in the first leg, reduced the margin with his 52nd minute strike for the Maldives side at the Rabindra Sarovar Stadium here.
Mohun Bagan join Bengaluru FC, Mazia Sports, Recreation of Maldives and Abahani Limited Dhaka in Group E and face the Indian I-League champions in their first match in an away fixture on March 14.
Mohun Bagan started the return leg with a bang when Ahmed Usam�s handball inside the box earned them a penalty straightaway in the first minute with Jeje easily slotting it home for an early lead.
Jeje and Sony kept on attacking but they had to wait till the stroke of break for a 2-0 lead.
Balwant went down the right and swung a cross with both Jeje and Sony in the box as the Indian AIFF Player of the Year Jeje hit the crossbar that richochetted in.
Capitalising on a defensive lapse, the Maldives outfit made it 2-1 with Omodu easily deceiving Debjit Majumder under the bar.
Jeje completed his hat-trick with Katsumi Yusa surging down the centre and finding Prabir Das down the right as he brilliantly curled in for Jeje to finish.
Balwant set up the fourth goal for Katsumi to slide it sideways and Sony smashed it across the face of the goal to complete the rout.
In the first leg, Club Valencia striker Godfrey West Omodu nullified Darryl Duffy�s sixth minute lead with his strike in the 71st minute and Mohun Bagan had to settle for a 1-1 draw. � PTI


The second to last stopover in the journey of Dante, which with the claim "Be inspired by Art, ye who enter", invites MICAM people to enter the gates of Paradise in the discovery of footwear as an object of Art.
The Paradise of MICAM is represented by the more than 2000 collections making up the extremely high-end selection, which are destined to inspire the store windows of the very best international boutiques, department stores, and e-tailers coming from the mid, high-end, and luxury range. More than 45 thousand visitors attended the last edition, a public of professionals that renews their loyalty to the event with each new edition.
Thus, at the fair from 10 to 13 February, this public will find a wide range of classic proposals flanked by the latest innovations and products. The winning format is accordingly reconfirmed with an exhibition itinerary that winds through the areas that capture the attention of visitors, with contents ranging from glamour to entertainment, and from live performances to information. At the same time, the Fashion Square in the Luxury area continues to reinforce its central role: after the success of the last edition, its spectacular mirrored ceiling will see the return of the daily fashion shows and the fashion and retail trend seminars staged by WGSN, while also hosting the MICAM Gala with the granting of the MICAM Awards. Moreover, it will feature special appearances by VIPs and institutional figures. The return of the Man Square will instead attract the attention of hipsters at the fair, offering them the opportunity to touch up on their beards and moustaches at the Proraso Barber Shop, while the Style Square with its designer bar will offer dining and live performances at the same time.
In the Contemporary area, the FUN Square with its LED walls, AI, and hairstyling and makeup stations, will propose a fun stop before going on to the Emerging Designers area. Their collections, presented along the perimeter of the square, will be a hit thanks to the breakthrough products proposed in alternative to mainstream ones. The iKIDSQUARE will instead turn the spotlight on children's footwear, inviting visitors to stop and gather around its square that is set up like a playground.
Debuting as brand new at MICAM87 is the PLUG.MI area featuring the sneaker as its protagonist in the Cosmopolitan section's former MICAM Square area. A phenomenon of street culture, the sneaker has carved out an elite role for itself with projects promoted by the high-end and luxury range, while also representing a bestseller both in Italy and abroad (analysts predict the global market will arrive at 115.6 billion dollars in 2023). With a format inspired by the overseas Sneaker Con, characterised by a mix of product presentation, games, experiences and musical events, the sneaker obtains the imprimatur of Micam, while taking its cue from the public of Millennials.
Thus, MICAM returns to inspire the market in a mix of business and networking, information and entertainment, and, naturally a lot of glam. At the same time, it gets ready to tackle the difficult economic context, with the blue skies of Paradise as its inspiration.