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Q: Flexible subseting data.table in R I'm working with census data. The Data-set looks like below: It's a collection of Households (or families) which is identified with an Id and every member of a household has an Id.in.HH. Each household has a head. Every entity in household has a relation to household head [1 means head, 2 means head's spouse, 3 means head's child]. For example the family with Id == 1 has 4 memebers with Id.in.HH ranging from 1 to 4. This Household has a head [Id == 1 & Id.in.HH == 3] which is clear from it's Relation.to.Head value [Relation.to.Head == 1]. and so on. Gender has two values [1: male, 2: female]. Data-set comes from a country that polygamy is allowed for males. I want to add a column in which family Type is calculated. If it's a family with a male Head and one wife [Type := 1], If it's a family with a female head and one husband [Type:= 2], and if it's a family with a male head with several wives [Type:= 3]. For every kid, her/his mother's Id.In.HH is noted. I want to add a column consisting her/his mother's birth date. I'm working with data.table but an amateur.
Id  Id.in.HH  Relation.to.Head  Gender  Mother.Id.In.HH Birth
1   1         2                 1       NA              1950
1   2         3                 2       3               1975
1   4         3                 2       3               1980
1   3         1                 2       NA              1955
2   2         1                 1       NA              1943
2   3         2                 2       NA              1945
2   1         2                 2       NA              1960
2   5         3                 1       3               1964
2   4         3                 2       1               1980
3   2         1                 1       NA              1975
3   3         2                 2       NA              1977
3   1         3                 1       3               1994

What I want it to look like is:
Id  Id.in.HH  Relation.to.Head  Gender  Mother.Id.In.HH Birth  Type  Mom.Birth
1   1         2                 1       NA              1950   2     NA
1   2         3                 2       3               1975   2     1955
1   4         3                 2       3               1980   2     1955
1   3         1                 2       NA              1955   2     NA
2   2         1                 1       NA              1943   3     NA
2   3         2                 2       NA              1945   3     NA
2   1         2                 2       NA              1960   3     NA
2   5         3                 1       3               1964   3     1945
2   4         3                 2       1               1980   3     1960
3   2         1                 1       NA              1975   1     NA
3   3         2                 2       NA              1977   1     NA
3   1         3                 1       3               1994   1     1977

I have tried @jlhoward solution in this way:
familyType <- function(relation, gender) {
  polygamy = sum(relation == 2, na.rm = TRUE)
  headgender = gender[relation == 1]
  polygamy = as.integer(levels(polygamy))[polygamy]
  headgender = as.integer(levels(headgender))[headgender]
  if(polygamy == 0) {
    if(headgender == 1){
      return (1L)
    } else {
      return (2L)
    }
  } else if(polygamy == 1){
    if(headgender == 1){
      return (3L)
    } else {
      return (4L)
    }
  } else if(polygamy > 1) {
    return (5L)
  }
}

tbl[, type:=familyType(Relation.to.Head, Gender), by=Id]

But I got this error:
Error in if (polygamy == 0) { : missing value where TRUE/FALSE needed

A: Really two questions. Here's the first part.
get.type <- function(relation,gender) {
  if (sum(relation==2)>1) return(3L)
  gender[relation==1]
}
DT[,Type:=get.type(Relation.to.Head,Gender), by=Id]

Using @PierreLafortune's excellent approach to the second part:
DT[, Mom.Birth := Birth[match(Mother.Id.In.HH, Id.in.HH)], by=Id]
DT
#     Id Id.in.HH Relation.to.Head Gender Mother.Id.In.HH Birth Type Mom.Birth
#  1:  1        1                2      1              NA  1950    2        NA
#  2:  1        2                3      2               3  1975    2      1955
#  3:  1        4                3      2               3  1980    2      1955
#  4:  1        3                1      2              NA  1955    2        NA
#  5:  2        2                1      1              NA  1943    3        NA
#  6:  2        3                2      2              NA  1945    3        NA
#  7:  2        1                2      2              NA  1960    3        NA
#  8:  2        5                3      1               3  1964    3      1945
#  9:  2        4                3      2               1  1980    3      1960
# 10:  3        2                1      1              NA  1975    1        NA
# 11:  3        3                2      2              NA  1977    1        NA
# 12:  3        1                3      1               3  1994    1      1977

A: library(dplyr)

family.head_gender =
  person %>%
  filter(Relation.to.Head == 1) %>%
  select(Id, head_gender = Gender)

family.type =
  person %>%
  filter(Relation.to.Head == 2) %>%
  group_by(Id) %>%
  summarize(number_of_spouses = n() ) %>%
  left_join(family.head_gender) %>%
  mutate(type =
           ifelse(head_gender == 1,
             ifelse(number_of_spouses = 1,
               1,
               3),
             2)) %>%
  select(-head_gender, -number_of_spouses)

person.final =
  person %>%
  left_join(
    person %>%
    select(Mother.Id.In.HH = Id.In.HH,
           Mom.Birth = Birth) ) %>%
  left_join(family.type)


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Van de Beek returns to Manchester United squad
Posted by admin on March 17th, 2021 05:18 PM | Europe, News
Donny van de Beek has recovered from injury and could make his return in Manchester United's Europa League clash with AC Milan on Thursday.
Due to a muscle injury, Van de Beek has been out since the 14th of February but the midfielder will return to the travelling squad for Manchester United's Europa League clash with AC Milan on Thursday.
It has been a frustrating season so far for van de Beek, who has found himself rooted to the bench for most of the campaign, making only 13 appearances in the Premier League.
However, van de Beek will now hope his return to fitness can lead to more playing time and a place in the Netherlands squad which will be announced on Friday.
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Losing your temper can cost you your life.
This might seem a tad dramatic, but losing your life isn't just about pushing up daisies, it's about losing out on relationships, career opportunities, schooling and more. If you are a person who suffers from angry outbursts or loses their temper often you know how destructive this is to your life as well as to the lives around you.
You want to control your temper and keep your anger in-check but you don't know how. This is why anger is such a vicious cycle as the sheer frustration and helplessness many feel about not being in control of their anger and not knowing when they might lash out is itself a reason to be angry!
Why do we experience anger?
Anger stems from a natural need to protect oneself or ones property. Back in the day when villages were being pillaged or we were required to defend ourselves against animal predator's anger had its purpose. When we feel angry we tend to feel stronger and our senses are heightened, we are literally super sensitive.
If we don't feel angry when threatened we won't benefit from the chemical changes that allow out bodies to be stronger, faster and more resistant to pain. When we become angry our heart rate and blood pressure go up, and we produce higher amounts of the energy producing hormones adrenaline, and noradrenaline.
However in today's modern world there are few occasions when anger can be productive and yet we still experience it. We may even experience it more often due to a general lack of exercise as physical activity helps to keep anger at bay. The process of being physical reverses the chemical processes that are initiated when we start to feel angry and helps return us, body and mind back to a normal, calm state.
What is pent up anger?
Some people experience pent up anger which concerns angry feelings they've stored from long ago or recent events and for whatever reason they have neglected to address them. Pent up anger can spill out in other ways (other than temper outbursts) which are clear indicators that the person is not happy. For example they might complain a lot, be overly critical, judgmental, unkind and so on. In these cases it is wise that they talk to a GP/counsellor to get the root cause of the pent up anger and work out ways to diffuse it.
Do we learn angry behaviour?
Some people do seem naturally quicker to anger than others but it can also be a learned behaviour. If children see parents and adults dealing with negative situations with their fists and through verbal aggression, it is possible they'll copy that behaviour.
Also we have triggers, memories of things gone by and when something similar to those events occurs again, we go straight to where we were then. If that place happened to be feeling angry, defensive and ready for a fight then that is the state we return to. Facing those past situations when we're in a calmer state can help to ensure we don't revisit them when the situation presents itself again.
Why should we control our anger?
Whether at work home or play there are few areas when it is safe or appropriate to lose our temper. It is considered anti-social, hostile and unproductive and so in order to accommodate our now anti-anger culture we must try to control, curtail and subdue anger in order to live harmoniously and safely amongst our fellow man.
Here are some tips on anger prevention.
If you know what makes you angry, devise a coping strategy NOW with regard to what you will do when faced with that situation. Will you avoid the situation, walk away, asks the other person to leave, count to ten…perhaps you need to do a mental exercise.
Breathing exercises as well as 'thought replacement' can be helpful in these situations. As you count to ten, breathe slowly and deliberately and try to force the 'angry words' you're repeating to yourself in your head out and replace them with calmer, subduing words.
"This isn't important, this can wait, I can cope with this, I won't place such importance on this matter…" etc.
It might be that the situation making you angry needs dealing with promptly. But be aware you can never deal with something 100% effectively while you're angry so taking a few moments to become calm is all that is needed to allow you to continue to deal with the situation. Only this time your response will be productive and will gain better results.
Be tough on yourself and stop making excuses for your bad mood!
If you know lack of sleep adds to your angrier problems, make a concerted effort to sleep more.
If you know alcohol is a trigger, don't drink alcohol. Again don't use alcohol as an excuse for violent abusive behaviour. If you know this is how alcohol makes you behave do not drink it. If you are unable to say no to alcohol visit your GP for advice on how to quit.
If PMS/PMT is a problem, speak to your GP/Doctor/Herbalist about available supplements and treatments and ensure you control your hormone levels as much as possible with appropriate diet. Make a note in your diary as to when pms/pmt is likely to arise and if necessary plan events around it so you're not having a predictably bad day when you go on holiday, out with friends etc.
Control your anger and don't let it control you!
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Here are some of the things people have said about Khadijah:
"Khadijah carries a room like few others in the DC Songwriters circuit. With a persona so powerful, she makes even the unabashed pay attention." -JA Thueson, founder of Songwriters & Poets and entertainment coordinator for The Adams Morgan Day Festival
"Later that afternoon at Lafayette Park, the energy was still very high and a lot of information was shared with attendees and passersby… and the crowd was visibly moved by a beautiful musical performance by Khadijah "Moon" Ali-Coleman"
Michelle Titus – Before It's News
"Khadijah isn't just a singer, she is also a journalist, playwright, poet and actress. Ali-Coleman has written and produced plays for the Capital Fringe Festival, and she has edited the literary anthologies Liberated Muse Volume I and II. "Unbound" has an additional significance because it was inspired by the death of Derrick "D Marq" Smith, her close friend and collaborator." –Sidney Thomas- Examiner.com
"Dear Ms. Ali-Coleman:
On behalf of the Peace Corps, I want to thank you and the other cast
members of In Her Words for celebrating National African American
History Month with us. Please extend our thanks and appreciation to
them for their outstanding performance.
We were all greatly impressed by your play and its insights into the
lives and social influence of the remarkable Black women depicted in
In Her Words.
Thank you again for your visit to the Peace Corps. We were honored to
have such a fascinating playwright join us during National African
American History Month."
-Aaron Williams, Director of The United States Peace Corps
"Thank you to Khadijah and the actresses of In her Words for reminding us about the beauty of our culture through song and words. The play was informative and thought-provoking!"
-Tracey George, IN HER WORDS audience member, singer/songwriter and IN HER WORDS tour sponsor
Dear Ms Ali-Coleman,
On behalf of the DC Public Library, I want to thank you and the other cast members of In Her Words for celebrating Black History Month at the DC Public Library.
In Her Words is a moving, inspirational production, the music and theater production was superb. I hope that you and the cast members expand upon you talents and share In Her Words with future audiences.
I look forward to working with you in the future, it is clear in the arts and the humanities you are a rising young artist, who will make significant contributions to the world of theater arts. This fact is already evident, since you are a 2012 recipient of the Under Forty Innovation Award from Prince George's County for the Arts and Humanities.- Cassandra Harper, Social Sciences Librarian, Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library
"Thank you for writing this piece. It should be performed all over the country as these ladies (and many more) will be lost to future generations if you don't save them with this piece. Thank you for your contributions to the arts."
-Donise Stevens, IN HER WORDS audience member and actress in television series "In Our Lives"
" I can say with all honesty that going in with absolutely no prior knowledge of what this play was about I was absolutely blown away. This play tackles what I've always considered to be one the most controversial topics for Black women: when we admit that motherhood is hard and damn near drives us over the edge. The play was funny, poignant, and emotional. It is extremely well-written and you definitely hear Khadijah telling her own very personal story as a mom and creative woman through the dialogue. The songs were great and the actors/singers were all amazing, across the board. I can definitely see this small community production growing and going above and beyond what anybody in the audience could realize. I am so glad I was able to attend such an awesome performance." CaShawn Thompson on Khadijah's play Running: AMOK on her blog Dirty, Pretty Thangs
"Playwright Khadijah Ali Coleman is a writer after my own heart because she penned a piece tackling issues we mothers tend to keep to ourselves. I applaud her and the cast for bringing this subject matter to the forefront." Seshat Walker, The General Store
"Khadijah has worked with our kindergarten through sixth grade groups and our adult education students (average age 25-44). She was received with equal enthusiasm by both groups to the point that she has been requested to come again when I obtain additional funding. She is flexible and creative about your needs and her offerings and I recommend her without any equivocation." – Valarie Ashley, Executive Director, Southeast Ministry
"I would like to thank you for a great experience and can honestly say for the first time, I will miss this class very much and wish it was a little longer. Best of wishes and hope to keep in touch."
-Excerpt from an email sent from a student in a Communication Studies course at Northern Virginia Community College taught by Khadijah Ali-Coleman
I am writing you today, because I was thinking about the thought-provoking and mind-altering time I had in class during the first six week session of the summer…In addition to the transactional communication model, you have taught me how to effectively communicate while working in a group and how to be a positive person. By watching you, I have learned how to accept people's flaws and to maintain positivity when communicating with them…I say that you are a very positive and intelligent instructor, I also include that you are highly educated but not pretentious (what I like about you the most) and you are helpful. "
–Excerpt from an email sent from a student in a Communication Studies course at Northern Virginia Community College taught by Khadijah Ali-Coleman
"We appreciate your willingness to be involved and to present a writing workshop at the Oxon Hill Branch Library. Refreshing enlightening and informative were a few of the comments that showed the value of the workshop… Thank you for your enthusiastic presentation. We look forward to networking with you in the future." -Martha Ruff, Librarian, Sojourner Truth African American Research Collection, PGCMLS–Oxon Hill Branch
"It's not surprising that the "I'm Every Woman" SWAN Day concert was such a success, given the history of Liberated Muse. Founded in 2008 by Khadijah Ali-Coleman, a writer, educator, performer, and creativity coach, as an online community for artists to share news, photos, videos, and performance opportunities… Liberated Muse Arts has continued to build on its mission to produce multi-cultural arts events in non-traditional arts spaces as well as providing arts workshops, online content management, and PR services to artists and small businesses. We were thrilled to learn that Ali-Coleman has been honored for all of her amazing work by being named one of Prince George's County Social Innovation Fund's 40 Under 40. We can't wait to see what she'll do next!"
Deborah Steinberg –WomenArts
"[Khadijah's] work ethic is also second to none. Her writings are award-winning. She is an artistic entrepreneur with a hit play. She is, in her way, a Transformative Language Art practitioner using her writing to affect artistic and social change.Don't sleep on this woman."
Tiffany Beard- Examiner.com
"…the spotlight is on Khadijah Ali-Coleman, aka Moon. A true do it all mama, she is the co-founder of Liberated Muse Productions, founder of So Our Youth Aspire (SOYA), a performance artist, playwright, freelance writer and photographer… as well as the proud mama of 6 year old Khari Isabel. Her newest play Running: AMOK is about to premiere at the Washington, DC Capital Fringe Fest.
Angele Sionna – Examiner.com
"Ali Coleman and her partner Maceo Thomas marshal DC-area talent and produce events locally under the Liberated Muse umbrella…It is in this way that Coleman and company choose to contribute to help Haiti, the poorest country in the western hemisphere, begin to heal."
Wendy Coakley-Thompson – Examiner.com
"Moon is a bit of a Renaissance woman and after about 20 minutes of conversation I found myself asking, "How many jobs do you have?" As a musician, actress, playwright, director, mentor, event promoter and coordinator and educator she is busy to say the least…"
Kelly Hanson – Examiner.com
"Khadijah, first of all, is a visionary and creator."
singer/actress, Déjà Belle in an interview with writer Tiffany Beard–Examiner.com
"I met Khadijah through her organization, Liberated Muse. She is very talented, professional, and a fantastic writer. I admire her work ethics and determination. She has been a great inspiration and I look forward to working with her again!" – Sharon Lawrence, Owner, Word Life Production
@KhadijahOnline you were specTACular and generous and empowering at the panel and FREAKING impressive in all that you do. #yourock
-@senorayatez on Twitter (attendee at the BlogHer '10 conference in NYC)
"Khadijah is a very creative and dedicated artist, writer, and business professional. Her organizational skills are second to none." -Dennis Chestnut, Executive Director, Groundwork Anacostia DC
"Moon a.k.a Khadijah Ali-Coleman knows the drive that pushes an artist forward on the expressive journey. She's been intimate with the humble cathartic beginnings, struggles with public voice, and trappings of accolades. But most importantly she's conscious of the need to push forward mediums and outlets for the arts that make it possible for there to be an exhibition of publicly shared expression at all, and in her awareness of this she's created a community that stretches both beyond and within the independent circuitry of the DC area." –Purple Zoe – Soul Magazine


Boba Fett, the most feared bounty hunter in the galaxy will soon be joining Obi-Wan Kenobi in Sideshow Collectables premium Mythos range. Although we have only been treated to a teaser image you can be sure that this Boba Fett will be dangerously desirable. The sixth-scale figure will be available for preorder on the Monday 16th July 2018, be sure to sign up on the RSVP list to avoid disappointment.


Baja racing is very popular, but the big question has always been, since the first Baja 500s and 1000s, how do you safely route the racers out of Ensenada and out to the open areas of the Baja Peninsula?
"I walked, rode a horse, a donkey—anything humanly or extraterrestrially possible, to find a route for the race course out of Ensenada," said Sal Fish, recent and longtime chief of SCORE International. "Any and every way that was physically possible was discovered and tried while I was at SCORE," he said.
Pictured here, veteran driver Walter Prince in the "Candy Cane Special" took the initiative among the sportsmen and Class 9 cars that were backed up in a creek crossing in the canyon. The stream bank had been so chewed up into soft sand by the scores of vehicles that had preceded them, and even some of those high-horsepower rides got stuck here among the tall bushes of the riverbank.
Of course, these sportsmen and Class 9 racers had limited horsepower and only two-wheel drive, so getting past this spot would be a challenge. But teamwork was the name of the game, and all made it across with the help of their competition.
But one solution, in the early '90s, was to start the race in the tiny village of Ojos Negros, 22 miles to the east of the in-town start. Competitors, once started, were out in the open running, free from urban sprawl. But some locals placed a booby trap ditch a mile from the start, and the three leading bikes crashed there, all with injuries. Arrests were made, but another solution had to be found.
The next year, the start was taken 25 miles down the road to El Alamo, and that seemed to work fine, but the race didn't have the hoopla of an Ensenada in-town start. Town officials wanted the start back in town, so SCORE was back to finding another route.
One of these "course discoveries" was the running of the 96 Baja 500 down the Canon Agua Caliente toward Ojos Negros. It, strangely enough, near the seat of government for the early history of Ensenada, the Real Castillo.
The entire area was owned by an Italian family, and one of their prized land possessions was a huge wheat field two miles north of our photo spot. "We went to great lengths to get that area for the race, and spent a lot of time routing and marking the course to skirt the wheat area. A week before the race, some prerunners didn't make the right turn to keep them on the course, and they went straight through the field. Boy, was the owner pissed. A couple nights later, we spent a whole evening with him, drinking tequila, saying how sorry we were, and trying to reason with him, Italian to Italian, to let us run on his land. Luckily, he said yes—at the time we had no other options," Sal opined.
A visual checkpoint was placed at the start of the wheat fields for the race, directing all racers onto the course and away from the crops.
This area of the racecourse was run for three years in the mid '90s.
"Back in Ensenada at Race HQ, we'd hear of these on-course bottlenecks. 'Stop the race!' comments would be heard or cries for help that the race was virtually over at that spot. But off-roaders are very creative, and I knew they would make it on their own," Sal said.
"Our race course ended up pretty much like the course we started with in the '70s anyway, through the suburbs of town and into the hills on some established roads," Sal commented.


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What is the National Emergencies Act of 1976 and what powers does it grant to the president
What is the National Emergencies Act of 1976 and what powers does it grant to the president. What criteria are set up for when and why a president could declare a national emergency?
Presidential Emergency Powers
Throughout American history, presidents have faced emergencies that would require swift and decisive action. While the founding fathers gave the executive branch wide-ranging power and flexibility in running the executive branch, no specific emergency powers were listed in the Constitution. Any emergency power granted to the president would be implied in the Constitution rather than specifically expressed. As a result of this, Congress has been called upon to grant emergency powers to presidents throughout US history. In other times of emergency, presidents would use executive orders to respond to crisis. In this paper, you'll explore these powers, their constitutionality, and your opinion on these powers.
Also remember to put the work in your own words unless you're directly quoting one of your sources. Copying and pasting someone else's work is considered plagiarism and is unacceptable. Always provide sources of where you got your information. The point of a project like this is to get you comfortable researching complex issues and making an argument using the work of experts to support your argument.
With this project you'll answer some essential questions around the main topic question:
Should the president have extra powers in a time of emergency? If so, what should be the limits on such powers?
You should use research to form your opinions and support your arguments. The paper should address the central question and include the topics provided to help you organize and present the information. This project will be four to six pages in total.
Try to address each topic or set of questions directly and as thoroughly as possible. National Emergencies Act (approximately 1-1.5 pages) Research the National Emergencies Act (1976) and answer the following:
What is the National Emergencies Act of 1976 and what powers does it grant to the president?
What criteria are set up for when and why a president could declare a national emergency?
Research and provide information on a time in the past 10 years when this act has been used by a president to declare an emergency. Provide information on how this move was viewed by the major political parties (Republican and Democrat) at the time the emergency was declared.
Historical Emergencies (approximately 1-1.5 pages): Pick and research three times in American history when a president used power outside of his usual constitutional powers to address a crisis and complete the following in two pages:
Describe the crisis and the action taken by the president to address that crisis.
Did the president in each of these situations face pushback from Congress or the public? Describe the nature of that opposition.
Constitutionality of presidential emergency actions (approximately 1-1.5 pages): Choose two times in American history when a president used powers in an emergency and the Supreme Court weighed in on the constitutionality of the president's actions. Pick one in which the Supreme Court upheld emergency actions and one in which it struck down a president's actions.
Describe the emergency action taken by the president, the court case that challenged it, and the result of that case. Include the reasoning provided by the justices in making their decisions.
Your opinion/thesis: Based on what you've researched, answer the question:
Use expert opinions and historical examples to support your arguments.
Review your research and make your recommendation with a supporting argument to justify your position.
Length/Formatting Instructions
Length: 2-3 Pages
Font: 12 point, Calibri Font, 1″ Margins
Program/File Type: Submit in Word
Attachments: Attachments should be pasted into the Word document if possible.
Part of your grade will depend upon you following the proper style. If you need help with the formatting and reference page for the style, please use the APA referencing system.


I had a Volvo 4.3 and loved the fact that you could easily get to the raw water pump. Although the Merc Alpha is not nearly as easy, I've done it enough now that I don't mind.
I also like the shifting way better on the Volvo SX than the Merc Alpha too.
Good, fast, cheap.... pick two.


"Lava spurts through cracks in roads and flows in residential areas on Big Island before earthquakes with magnitudes of 5.4 and 6.9 reported"
chemicals that have 'significant harmful impacts' on ecosystems"
A damaged coral reef in the Pacific. Chemicals from sunscreens can cause coral to bleach.
Hawaii (English pronunciation: i/həˈwaɪʲi/ hə-WY-(y)ee; locally, [həˈwɐ(ɪ)ʔi]; Hawaiian: Hawaiʻi [həˈvɐjʔi]) "is the 50th and most recent state of the United States of America, receiving statehood on August 21, 1959. Hawaii is the only U.S. state located in Oceania and the only one composed entirely of islands. It is the northernmost island group in Polynesia, occupying most of an archipelago in the central Pacific Ocean. Hawaii is the only U.S. state not located in the Americas. The state does not observe daylight saving time."
Haleakala - "the younger of the two volcanos that has formed the island of Maui."
1898: Raising American Flag at United States Annexation Ceremony at ʻIolani Palace, Honolulu, Hawaii.
The American marines performing the ceremony are from the USS Philadelphia.
Dreaming - "a Woman Reading a Hawaii Brochure"


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Q: Bootstrap image on the left of an entire div So I would like to obtain something like this (where the image is on the left of the text):
Note when you run the example please open it with "full page"

  <link href="https://stackpath.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.4.1/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet">

some title

Some Paragrah

Other Paragraph

If you open this example full page you will notice there is some margin between the image and the rest of the content.
I would like to have no margin between the image and the text on the right.
How can I do it ?
I have tried float-left, but with float the text that overflow the height goes under the image and i want to keep all the text on right.
Desired output

A: Since you are using Bootstrap-4, how about using flex classes for your use case...
working snippet below:

<link href="https://stackpath.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.4.1/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet">

some title

Some Paragrah

Other Paragraph

A: I will answer myself since I think i found an easier solution: just use .no-gutters to remove any margin between cols:
<link href="https://stackpath.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.4.1/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet">

some title

Some Paragrah

Other Paragraph

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Burglar jailed for four years and eight months
Paul Yardley was caught red handed burgling a Findon bungalow
Published: 14:04 Updated: 14:07 Wednesday 22 April 2015
A PROLIFIC burglar has been jailed after a police dog handler caught him in the act.
Paul Yardley was filling his pockets with rings and earrings inside a bungalow in High Street, Findon, when PC Matt Songhurst, who was on patrol in the area with his dog Mitch, was alerted by neighbours to suspicious noises in the area and rushed to the scene, shortly before 6pm on February 4.
PC Songhurst spotted Yardley inside the home and raced to the back door. The sight of a barking Mitch, combined with the shouts of the officer, was enough to convince Yardley to drop to the floor and give himself up.
Yardley, of no fixed address, pleaded guilty to burglary when he appeared at Chichester Crown Court on March 27. The 29-year-old also admitted breaking into six homes in Medstead, Winchester, Wonston and Sutton Scotney, in Hampshire, as well as one in Warminster, Wiltshire – all between January 26 and February 2.
Yardley, who had 22 previous convictions for burglary, was jailed for four years and eight months.
Sussex Police launched Operation Magpie to tackle burglary across the county.
Inspector Di Lewis, the head of the Surrey and Sussex dogs unit, said: "Our dog teams are trained to use intimidation as a tactic to persuade offenders to comply, rather than the officers having to use violence or their animals to help control criminals so they can be arrested.
"PC Songhurst and Mitch used their training to perfection to corner the burglar and convince him he should give himself up without a fight."
Detective Constable Duncan Peake, who led the burglary investigation, said: "Yardley is a serial burglar who showed regret once he was arrested but who would have continued to commit crime if he had not been caught.
"He had committed at least eight burglaries that we know of in just over a week which shows just how prolific he was and how many people were falling victim to him."
Two men have also been charged over a burglary in Salvington Road, Worthing, on March 30. Billy Way, 25, of no fixed address, has been charged with burglary. Andrew Smith, 29, of Leominster Road, Portsmouth, has been charged with burglary, dangerous driving, driving without insurance and driving while disqualified. Both are due to appear at Chichester Crown Court on April 24.


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Orestes Hampton Caldwell (March 8, 1888 – August 27, 1967) was one of the first five members of the Federal Radio Commission. He may have been the first person to coin the term electronics.

Biography
He was born on March 8, 1888, in Lexington, Kentucky. He graduated from Purdue University as an electrical engineer, specializing in telephone and communications.  In 1907 he succeeded Lee De Forest as technical editor of Western Electrician (later Electrical Review).  He went on to edit a number of engineering and technical journals, including Electrical World, Electrical Merchandising, and Radio Retailing.  He married Mildred Bedard.

In 1927, with the backing of United States Department of Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover, he was appointed to the newly created Federal Radio Commission, where he helped oversee the reorganization of the U.S. radio system.  His tenure on the FRC was marked by consistent support for high-powered radio, a position that led to frequent clashes with the United States Congress.  Making matters worse, he seemed to lack the temperament for politics; as one newspaper put it, "A stormy petrel on the commission from start to finish, he narrowly escaped confirmation by the Senate both times.  When he was on the grill the second time, he added to the gayety of the situation by bawling out Congress and this caused such a melee that he came within a couple of votes of being thrown out."

One of the enemies Caldwell made was a key senator for radio policy, Clarence Dill, who helped author the Radio Act of 1927.  Upon Caldwell's resignation from the FRC, Dill commented, "Since Mr. Caldwell is leaving the commission I am not going to spend time discussing [his work there], except to say that I think the country is very fortunate that he has left. … I think anybody would be an improvement over Mr. Caldwell so far as the service of the public is concerned."

Nonetheless, Caldwell had the reputation of being the most technologically knowledgeable of the early Radio Commissioners.  Following his stint on the FRC, he returned to the industry as editor of Electronics and in other capacities.  A passionate fan of electronic gadgets, he hosted a weekly show called Radio Magic on NBC in the late 1930s and early 1940s.  He also outfitted his house in Cos Cob, Connecticut, with all kinds of electrical devices as a kind of "Dwelling of the Future."  World Trade called it the "House of One Thousand Servants" and "an electrical fairyland where every function and every household chore is accomplished automatically."

He died on August 27, 1967, in Greenwich, Connecticut.

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Chad is dedicated to educating industry professionals about cybersecurity. While consulting with financial institutions, he saw the need to empower employees to be better prepared to confidently handle cybersecurity threats, create and manage strong information security programs, and understand ever-changing regulations at their institution. He was a driving force in the development of the SBS Institute certification program, which is uniquely designed to serve the banking industry by providing banking-specific, role-based certifications. The SBS Institute has grown to include over ten certifications and State Association partners in over 30 states.
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The origin of life is Water.
You will be able to realize this benefit here at Ryokan Tanakaya.
It has water supplies from the springs that were found by Kenshin Uesugi, and has been loved among people since 1911.
The water from the hot springs in Ikuji, which is originally from the water that melted down from the snow in the Northern Alps is called Shozu.
After it has makes its way to Toyama Bay, it gives plenty of nutrition to the living beings in the sea.
You will be able to enjoy the feeling of the history that this Ryokan has in another way through the Japanese Style Local Cuisine that is cooked with seafood from above.
After a long day, make yourself comfortable in your guestroom.
Look out at the large garden outside that changes its look every season, and let your body relax and merge into the peacefulness.
At the coastline of Ikiji which is a 5 minute walk away from the Ryokan, you will be able to see the sunset which has been picked out as one of the 100 best sunsets in Japan.
Make your vacation a vacation where you spend peaceful time in a Ryokan by the sea which will relax your body and mind.
It was saved because meal time was adapted to this convenience. Both of them were small meals, so it was a very delicious meal, but I left it, I'm sorry. Thank you for sending me off to the office on the way back and for sending me near. I'd like you to come back again.
Beautiful garden, delicious meal, it was awesome. The meal was settled in a private room and was eaten.
I could hope for a large garden, I was able to relax. The building is old, but flowers were born everywhere, it was lovely. As soon as you walk you can see the majestic Sea of Japan without any obstructions. The sunset was wonderful. I was impressed by everyone's inauguration. The dishes are large in number of items, each one is pleasant and delicious. How much effort is spent on hot dishes? My husband was not feeling well, I went out taking a break for about a week. I was surprised because I cooked all the dishes. The tinnitus has also healed, and I regained my energy. Young lady general Thank you for seeing a friendly smile. I am grateful that my sister living in the room that I told you during busy.
If you wish to have any meals, please book a plan that comes with a meal.
It has been said that Kenshin Uesugi, a military commander used to cure his disease by using this hot spring.
This Onsen is loved by many of the local people, as it has a funny story that goes with it, in which a person with a cane forgets to go back home with their cane because the Onsen water was too comfortable and good for their skin.
Sadly, there are no outdoor spas in this Ryokan. However, the view from the public bath can be enjoyed any time of the year. In the spring, you will be able to see bright colored plum trees and bamboo, and a forest full of snow during winter.
・Free Wi-Fi nearby the lobby.
・Please be careful while taking a walk in the garden.
・In the gallery "Poem Furusato", you may enjoy a set of Toji Tanaka's works. (Poet of this Ryokan)。Please enjoy the dried flounder that comes up in one of Toji's works.
・Bathing tax of 150 yen per one adult will be charged at the reception.


CHARLOTTE, N.C., Oct. 05, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Unity FI Solutions, a leading provider of payment and software processing solutions, announced today the expansion of their Charlotte team designed to support their incredible year over year growth.
CHARLOTTE, N.C., Dec. 01, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Unity FI Solutions, a leading provider of payment and software processing solutions, announced today the growth of their Charlotte team designed to support both operational and client expansion.
CHARLOTTE, N.C., July 26, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Unity FI Solutions, a leading provider of payment and software processing solutions, announced today a new partnership agreement with Long Beach, California based Kangarootime, immediately providing both companies an opportunity to scale their client experience in a hyper competitive landscape.


A boy spins thread from the clouds – gold in the morning, white in the afternoon and crimson at evening – to weave cloth on his loom, but only as much as needed. His mother's words are always foremost in his mind as he works, 'Enough is enough and not one stitch more.' He weaves two scarves, one to protect his head when it is hot and another to wrap around his neck when it is cold.
The King notices the uniqueness of the cloth and orders the boy to make a longer scarf for him. The child tries to explain that the king doesn't need it. This angers the royal who commands the boy to do what he's told. The finished item is breathtaking. So much so, he then commands clothing for his wife and daughter.
Slowly the precious resource is exhausted. There are no clouds, therefore no rain for the farmers and their flocks and crops. It is not until the princess, believing 'there is still time', rolls up the garments and returns them to their source, that the clouds and a natural balance is restored once again.
Awareness between need and want, greed and excess, is the theme of this poignant, and delicately illustrated book. The illustrations throughout are created to identify with cracked china, symbolic of the fragile state of nature, and the outcome of misuse by humankind. The joyous fact that children have the wisdom to see things clearer than the adults projects hope and optimism for the future.
This is definitely a book that will be shared and discussed by adult and child readers because of the significant messages it carries.


Enrico Macias, who captured hearts throughout the world with memorable songs such as "Zingarella," "La Guitare," "Aie Aie Aie," "Solenzara" and "Le Femme De Mon Ami," will be at Istanbul's Zorlu Performing Arts Center on Nov. 18.
Macias fled from Algeria to France with his wife in 1961 with the outbreak of Algerian War of Independence, in exile. He has had his name written in gold letters with hundreds of releases, seven soundtracks and 10 films and series since 1967. He also grabbed Turkey by storm with enchanting melodies of nearly 80 songs that have been covered in Turkish.
Tickets for the concert are available at Biletix.


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2021 Season Concludes with Paraclimbing World Cup
Los Angeles hosted the final IFSC event of 2021. This weekend saw the conclusion of the final Paraclimbing World Cup
Noah Walker October 13, 2021
The final event of the 2021 IFSC World Cup Calendar concluded this weekend. On October 10, 57 climbers competed across seven categories in Los Angeles, California.
Hannah McFadden in finals at Paraclimbing World Cup – Photo by Daniel Gajda
Sender One pulled out all the stops for this conclusive event, ultimately presenting six countries with gold medals. Although Canada would not win gold, Kelowna's Shamus Boulianne took bronze in the men's RP3 final.
Boulianne climbs primarily at a boulder-only facility in Kelowna making him a unique competitor among his field. Joining him, Jared Lenahan and Micah Winkle took second and first respectively. They earned two more medals for the host country. The RP3 categories joined the B3 categories in the master level competition and featured strong results from across the field.
The master level competitions differ from the following categories due to few participants. Although these events did still hold qualification and finals rounds, they lacked enough athletes to make the event competitive between rounds.
The World Cup events opened with the B1 category. Climbing through visual impairment, B1 athletes took to the progressively steeper climbing of the men's route. Moving through sloping Squadra volumes, Flatholds and more positive polyurethane grips, the results stood with Japan in the lead.
Angelino Zeller – Photo by Daniel Gajda
53-year-old multi-decorated athlete Kobayashi Koichiro secured his first gold medal of the season. The five-time world champion defeated Romania's Ravan Nedu and Britain's Jesse Dufton by six holds and nine holds respectively. These two athletes also climbed a strong competition, ultimately earning silver and bronze medals.
Following Men's B1, the Women's AL2 category kicked off with South Africa's Emily Gray. Gray climbed well on the Men's B3 Final route. She climbed high, a move past 21 holds earning a plus, but failing to secure 22. The USA's Hannah McFadden earned that 22 hold and secure her first gold medal in her first Paraclimbing World Cup. Germany's Jacqueline Fritz concluded the route with bronze. Notably, the men's B3 category and the women's AL2 category shared a route.
The Men's RP1 category came next, headed by Elliot Nguyen. Nguyen moved through the blocky route, climbing high into the arena. Falling, the competition moved along, ultimately reaching a boiling point between the round's most anticipated competitors. As veterans of this year's podiums, Austria's Angelino Zeller and Germany's Korbinian Franck provided intense competition. They both placed on the podium of each competition they participated in this year.
In the end, the 2021 World Champion Angelino Zeller took home gold. Franck secured silver just ahead of bronze-placed American Tanner Cislaw.
With yet another unique route, the men's AL2 category began. The competitors' lower-leg impairments did not appear to slow down their climbing as athlete after athlete flowed through the challenging climb. Belgian Frederik Leys managed his first gold medal of his career, adding to his silver earned at the Moscow World Championships. His recent consistency bodes well for 2022. Although the US did not win the round, two of their athletes show promise for this upcoming season. Jake Sanchez and Colin Torpey finished second and third respectively.
Pavitra Vandenhoven qualifies for finals – Photo by Daniel Gajda
Once more taking to the route shared by men's B1 and women's AL2 categories, the women's RP2 category began their quest up the steep angle. As with the men's AL2 category, a battle took place between Austria' Jasmin Plank and Belgium's Pavitra Vandenhoven. These athletes tied in the qualification round, leaving everything on the line for the Final route. In the end, Plank defeated Vandenhoven. They took gold and silver respectively while the USA's Emily Seelenfreund took bronze.
The women's AU2 category also climbed on the same steep route as the preceding category, with France's Solenne Piret earning her fourth gold of the season. Italy's Lucia Capovilla took second as Maureen Beck of the US took third.
Finally, the men's RP3 category concluded the World Cup level competitions with a victory from Israel's Mor Michael Sapir. Sapir barely missed the top of the route, but this small mistake did not stop his progression to the top of the podium. He took his third gold of the year. A notable conclusion to the event found India's Manikandan Kumar and America's Brian Zarzuela with a tie for second position.
Featured image of Frederik Leys by Daniel Gajda.


Having issues not eating past 6pm!
So feed yourself healthy food when you are hungry, no matter what time of day that occurs.
I took this to heart on a trial basis about 7 months ago. I stopped watching the clock to know when I should eat and just paid attention to hunger signals. It was very, very hard at first, both to overcome my fear about eating at night and to overcome my inability to distinguish hunger from emotional eating/habits But I've lost more than 30 pounds so far and none of it has come back. In addition, I now sleep without waking up because my stomach is growling from hunger, and I no longer overeat in the mornings.
Perhaps you could try this concept for yourself?
Whatever, you choose, best of success to you.
I know what you mean. Tea might help.
Or if this is a new habit, maybe you can ease into it; have a small evening snack, then gradually move it (either earlier or later, whichever works) or make it smaller until it is phased out and your tummy grumblers are gone.
I eliminated my bedtime snack by going to bed a half hour earlier for a little while and having a cup of tea half way between supper and bedtime.


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Title: Career Paths: Museum Management & Curatorship
Alicon Pierce, Jenny Dooley
Teacher's Pack - ISBN: 978-1-4715-7210-4
Student's Pack - ISBN: 978-1-4715-7209-8
Career Paths: Museum Management & Curatorship is a new educational resource for museum professionals who want to improve their English communication in a work environment. Incorporating career specific vocabulary and contexts, each unit offers step-by-step instruction that immerses students in the four key language components: reading, listening, speaking and writing. Career Paths: Museum Management & Curatorship addresses topics including parts of a museum, types of visitors, presentation, conversationand art history.
The series is organized into three levels of difficulty and offers a minimum of 400 vocabulary terms and phrases. Every unit includes a test of reading comprehension, vocabulary and listening skills and leads students through written and oral production.
The Teacher´s Guide contains detailed lesson plans, a full answer key and audio scripts.
The audio CDs contain all recorded material.


ANYmal does not have an easy life. One of the four-legged robot's main tasks is to learn how to stand up again — no matter how many times it is kicked, pushed or otherwise tumbles to the ground. A research team from Switzerland's ETH Zurich University trained ANYmal using reinforcement learning (RL) and published their work last Wednesday.
ANYmal does not have an easy life. One of the four-legged robot's main tasks is to learn how to stand up again — no matter how many times it is kicked, pushed or otherwise tumbles to the ground. A research team from Switzerland's ETH Zurich University trained ANYmal using reinforcement learning (RL) and published their work last Wednesday.
RL is typically limited to applications in simulations, and it is rare to see it used on real robot systems. ANYmal is a trailblazer in this respect, and has garnered an enormous amount of attention from the AI community.
Researchers designed ANYmal as a quadrupedal robot for autonomous operation in challenging environments. Last year ANYmal was dispatched on its first missions, inspecting Zurich's vast sewage system and visiting one of the world's largest offshore converter platforms in the North Sea, where it scrutinized various platform areas inaccessible to humans. The 30kg dog-like robot's delivery demo and dance moves got a very positive response at the recent CES 2019 in Las Vegas.
Designing legged robots is a challenge in part because humans simply haven't yet figured out how to accurately craft realistic animal movements. The research team chose to use reinforcement learning to boost ANYmal's performance, as RL requires little craftsmanship.
Training with real robots is however difficult and expensive, especially when dealing with dynamic balancing systems. ETH researchers elected to train a neural network in simulation and then transfer it to ANYmal: "Simulation is fast, cheap, and safe. Our simulation platform can simulate more than 2,000 ANYmals in real time on a normal desktop machine. In simulation, data is cheap and abundant." The training focused on increasing ANYmal's running speed and its skill and speed in recovering from falls.
ETH researchers say the biggest drawback of simulations is they cannot accurately capture the dynamics of complex robots, and as such training only in simulation "usually fails." The team decided a neural network system could help the robot learn and adapt. They divided robot dynamics into three main parts: Control PC, Actuator, and Mechanics, and trained a neural network representing these complex dynamics with data from the real robot.
Using RL in simulation enabled the controllers to effectively learn directly from experiences, overcoming the limitations of previous model-based approaches. The researchers explained the process is "fully automated and can optimize the controller end to end, from sensor readings to low-level control signals, thereby allowing for highly agile and efficient controllers." Training via simulation also lowered costs and scaled up development in real time.
ANYmal is not the only dog-like, AI-powered robot on the scene. Boston Dynamics' "SpotMini" can also dance to music and recompose itself after a fall. But unlike SpotMini, ANYmal learned how to stand up again all by itself, eliminating human experts, experience and interventions. ANYmal's superior ability to think on its feet could give it an edge when carrying out challenging solo missions such as rescue, visual inspection, thermal inspection, gas detection, etc.
The Robotic Systems Lab at ETH Zurich University has been working on the ANYmal project for years. Their pup owes its latest leap forward to recent improvements in cameras and sensors. Because ANYmal is designed for dangerous tasks in demanding environments, researchers used cutting-edge cameras and LiDAR to enable functionality for example across low-light conditions.
The paper Learning agile and dynamic motor skills for legged robots was published in Science Magazine.


What a year 2015 has proven to be for PHP. Drupal 8, Magento 2, Symfony 3 and the icing on top of the cake – PHP 7!
It's hard not to be excited about PHP 7. It's so much more than just another major PHP release, and the long buildup and the buzz surrounding this release are far from being unjustified. PHP 7 promises to be a real game changer for the PHP world and the web as a whole.
Want to know what the fuss is all about and how to safely join the revolution? Read on!
We live in a world of instant gratification and constant changes. We expect and rely on our apps to run with the speed of light and web technologies are taking brave and innovative steps to comply with this insatiable need.
Packing the new Zend Engine 3.0.0, drastically improved performance and better memory consumption – PHP 7 is PHP's answer to this ever-growing demand for speed.
The ability to run real world apps up to two times faster than 5.6 (and even more) is the main reason behind the buzz and why PHP 7 is considered by many as the most important development in PHP since 2004.
Naturally, in addition to the undisputed coolness factor, increased performance translates directly into very tangible benefits. Most notably, better end user experience thanks to faster response times, and reduced infrastructure costs thanks to being able to serve more concurrent users with the same (or even less) hardware.
PHP 7 also includes some language changes and additional new features, such as new operators – the spaceship operator and the null coalesce operator, scalar type hints, return type hints, to name a few.
You can read more about these new features here.
So, how to begin your move towards PHP 7?
Your first step is to understand more about how to migrate your PHP 5 code. The good news is that backward incompatibility issues have been minimized. In fact, there were literally no compatibility issues introduced as a result of the deep brain surgery the Zend Engine – PHP's 'kernel' – underwent to achieve PHP 7's amazing performance.
However, as a part of the planning for PHP 7.0, the PHP team has made several informed decisions that introduced certain compatibility breakages – ones that were deemed minor enough and sensible enough to be included in a new major version. Indeed, most involve the removal of deprecated items that have been out of the game for quite a while now anyway. Check out php.net for information on these incompatibility issues and deprecated features, as well as a list of the new features you need to know about.
In addition, there are tools out there that will help you with the migration process itself, one being Zend Studio. The latest version of Zend Studio includes a new migration tool called PHP 7 Express which helps you get a precise picture of what needs to be fixed in your code to be able to run it smoothly on PHP 7.
PHP 7 Express scans your code for compatibility issues – such as new reserved words and deprecated usage patterns – and then displays a list of all the issues it identified. You can then read what the issue is and open the exact corresponding file and line in your project.
Zend Studio also offers a quick-fix solution for the change in dereferencing syntax that was introduced in PHP 7, allowing easy conversion of the code to the new unified form, after which source code will retain the PHP 5.x meaning by adding braces to the problematic expression (allowing the code to continue working as expected under both PHP 5 and PHP 7).
Comprehensive upgrade instructions can be found here. There is also a useful upgrade eBook available here.
Once you've started the migration process, you need to start thinking about the PHP 7 stack you're going to install to test your apps on.
The recently announced Zend Server PHP 7 tech preview provides you with a safe and easy way to start.
Zend Server is a professional, certified and secure PHP stack, with advanced tools for developing, debugging, deploying and monitoring PHP apps.
The Zend Server PHP 7 tech preview is the most comprehensive PHP 7 stack currently out there and it includes the largest amount of tested extensions. Managing and configuring this PHP 7 stack is made easy by the Zend Server UI.
Not only that, you'll also be able to use Z-Ray, Zend's advanced development tool, on your PHP 7 code.
Installation is made easy using an installer script that does all the hard work for you. All you have to do is run the script, and all the required prerequisites and packages are verified and installed.
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N'WIDE: Jeff Green Has Four Last-Place Finishes At Iowa For Four Different Start-and-Park Teams
Jeff Green picked up the 43rd last-place finish of his NASCAR Nationwide Series career in Sunday's DuPont Pioneer 250 at the Iowa Speedway when his unsponsored #10 TriStar Motorsports Toyota fell out with a vibration after he completed 2 of the race's 249 laps.
The finish was Green's fifth of the season and his first in four races, dating back to the Aaron's 312 at Talladega. He remains the only repeat last-place finisher in the 2013 Nationwide season and, with a four-finish lead, is well on his way to a fourth LASTCAR Nationwide title and his third in a row.
Green qualified 34th for the race at an average speed of 131.865 mph, besting three "go-or-go-homers" including Morgan Shepherd, the lone driver who failed to qualify. Green pulled behind the wall just two laps before the first caution of the day when Brad Sweet, Cole Whitt, and Kevin Swindell tangled in turn two.
The Motorsports Group once again fell short of a last-place finish with teammates Jason Bowles in 39th and T.J. Bell in 37th. Finishing 38th was Carl Long, making just his second Nationwide start of the season and his first for owner Rick Ware. Rounding out the Bottom Five was Dover last-placer Blake Koch in the #00.
*This was Jeff Green's fourth last-place finish in a Nationwide race at Iowa. All of them have come in different "start-and-park" teams owned by TriStar Motorsports: #36, #44, #91, and #10. It is, however, Green's first last-place finish in the spring event at Iowa. When the series returns to the track on August 3, Green will have a chance to not only pull the season sweep, but also finish last in that race for the fourth-consecutive year.
*This was the first last-place finish for the #10 in a Nationwide race at Iowa.
40) #10-Jeff Green / 2 laps / vibration
39) #46-Jason Bowles / 5 laps / vibration
38) #15-Carl Long / 5 laps / axle
37) #42-T.J. Bell / 7 laps / electrical
36) #00-Blake Koch / 10 laps / brakes
LASTCAR N'WIDE SERIES DRIVER'S CHAMPIONSHIP
2nd) Tanner Berryhill, Joey Gase, Blake Koch, Johanna Long, Eric McClure, Michael McDowell, Robert Richardson, Jr. (1)
LASTCAR N'WIDE SERIES OWNER'S CHAMPIONSHIP
1st) #10-TriStar Motorsports (5)
2nd) #14-TriStar Motorsports, #17-Vision Racing, #23-R3 Motorsports, #27-SR2 Motorsports, #52-Jimmy Means Racing, #70-ML Motorsports, #00-SR2 Motorsports (1)
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The Waste will be converted into compost from 15th August
How 'useful' is waste
The scenario of Kanpur city, which is infamous for pollution in the world, is going to change. The city is going to get rid of the waste. The compost from the garbage under Solid Waste Management Plan is going start from 15th August. On the other hand, Dr Anuradha a resident of MID, Panki has succeeded in manufacturing card board from Cow dung. The material for interior decorating is also proposed to be made from the waste with the name of RDF. A2Z Infrastructure has purchased land at Panki in the city for setting up plant to generate electricity from the waste.
Official correspondent
Under JNNURM's solid waste management, a plant for converting waste into fertilizer is ready to commence in a joint venture of A2Z Infrastructure and Municipal Corporation. The plant will start working to produce compost from waste from 15th August. The plant will also produce RDF that can be used as a fuel.
While informing about this one of its kind unique plan in the city, Mr R Vikram Singh the Municipal Commissioner, Mr Amit Kumar Agrawal the CEO of A2Z infrastructure, Mr Rajnish Mehra Joint MD and CEO of the company, said that the plant located at Panki will dispose of 1700 MT waste generated per day in the city. This type of plant is already working in Indore, Madhya Pradesh and Patna, the capital of Bihar. The problem of waste disposal is solved now in these cities. They informed that the compost 'Vasundhara' made from waste is being used by all government companies including Indian Fertilizer Corporation (IFC) and KRIBHKO. The cost of setting up the plant is Rs 100 Crore. The land for the plant was given by Municipality. The plant will be inaugurated on 15th August.
Fuel and Interior Decorating Items also to be made
Not only the fertilizer but fuel also will be produced from the waste. The name of this fuel is RDF. There will no pollution in burning this fuel. This RDF can be used as alternative to coal. The decorating items like false ceiling, beading items as well as many other decorating items can be made from the waste.
The bricks will be made from Waste
A plant has been set up to give a new look to even the waste. It is informed that the city produces 200 MT concrete waste every day which can be converted into molded bricks. It is good looking. Stronger than bricks made from soil. Brick production will start from this month.
Door-to-Door wastes collection
A2Z infrastructure will start collecting waste in the city from 15th August. For this purpose, door to door waste collection will be done. The company is deploying 1500 employees for this purpose. Each employee will collect the waste from 400 houses. The company has also arranged vehicles for transporting the waste.
Paper to be made from Cow dung
Kanpur: Dr Anuradha of MID Panki has made card board from cow dung. After obtaining doctorate degree from Andhra University in Economics of Education, Dr. Anuradha said that cow dung has fiber and it is used with chemicals and other materials to make paper.
15000 Unit Electricity Per Hour To Be generated From Waste
A2Z Infrastructure has procured land in Panki for setting up plant to generate electricity from waste and machines are being installed there. If everything moves at this speed, the company claims that 15 MW (Fifteen thousand units) electricity will be generated per day from 31st March 2011. After this, the capacity of power generation from this very plant will be enhanced to 30 MW within a year.
The CEO of the company, Amit Kumar agrawal while talking to reporters, informed that the company has procured land in Panki separately for this purpose. The plant will generate 15 MW electricity in the beginning. RDF made from waste will be used as fuel to generate electricity. 200 MT RDF will be consumed daily. He also informed that the electricity produced from the plant will be supplied to Northern Grid. Fifteen thousand units electricity will be generated per hour which is sufficient to provide electricity to one lakh households. On the question raised by 'The Hindustan', it was informed that the capacity expansion of the plant is on the pipeline. There is enough availability of the waste, so there will be no dearth of fuel RDF which is used in generating electricity. The plant is likely to generate 30 MW electricity by the year 2012. The company will start using even the liquid waste for making compost and other items in near future.
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Ian retired in March 2014, having been at Flinders since 1984, and Professor of Anatomy and Histology from 1993. His research on the microscopic structure and function of autonomic and visceral sensory nerves has been internationally recognised, accruing more than 4,500 citations. Ian taught extensively across a wide range of courses, covering anatomy, biomechanics, neuroscience and embryology. He played a large role in the development of the Graduate Entry Medical Program and coordinated a ground-breaking course in the neuroscience of learning for school teachers.
Ian has much "public science", especially in the fields of neuroscience and anatomy, often in collaboration with artists. He is a widely published poet and electronic musician. Post-retiremnet, these activities will be his major focus.
I am no longer doing any laboratory based research.
Structure and function of the peripheral autonomic nervous system.
Organisation of peripheral sensory neurons and their projections to the spinal cord.
Interactions between peripheral sensory and autonomic pathways.
Confocal microscopy, including fluorescence correlation spectroscopy.
Quantitative image analysis, including 3D reconstructions and their quantitative analysis.
Years 1&2 of the Graduate Entry Medical Program, especially in Musculo-skeletal System, Brain & Behaviour, Embryology, and Introductory Anatomy & Histology.
Graduate Certificate in Neuroscience (Learning), an innovative program about neuroscience primarily for school teachers which ran from 2006-2010.
My teaching focused on innovative content, assessment and delivery methods to engage the students with material that is interesting and relevant. In 2010, I had a Teaching and Learning Innovation Grant, with Artist in Residence, Catherine Truman, to find out how students interact with the complex learning environment in Anatomy teaching. This work continued in 2011 funded by an ANAT/Synapse grant and has formed the basis of on-going art-science collaborative projects.
With Body in Mind, Flinders Medical Centre, 2007.
Body, Brain and the New Science of Communication, Australian Book Review Lecture, 2007.
Poetic Science: bodies, brains and the art of experimentation, with Natasha Mitchell, ABC Radio National All in the Mind 2008.
Not Absolute, installation including video, sounds & texts with Catherine Truman, Judy Morris, Flinders University City Gallery, 2009.
Playing with Your Mind, with Ronnie Taheny, Marcello Costa, Governor Hindmarsh Hotel, 2009.
Anatomy & Imagination, Royal Institution, Australia, 2010.
Poetry installations at RiAus (2009), Flinders Medical Centre (2005, 2009) and Bowen Street, Adelaide (2012).
Regular reviews of science books for Australian Book Review.
Full length collection of poetry, Urban Biology, published by Friendly Street Poets / Wakefield Press in 2012, with CD.
Poems published in Australian Book Review, Blue Dog, Going Down Swinging, Cordite Poetry Review, Blast, Page Seventeen, Transnational Literature, Southerly, Friendly Street Poets, Australian Poetry Anthology, InDaily, ditch (Canada), Recours au Poème (France), Famous Reporter, Etchings, Inflectionist Review.
Poems finalists or commendations in national competitions including Australian Book Review, Newcastle Poetry Prize, Max Harris Poetry Award, Page Seventeen.
Poem (Field Guide) selected for Best Australian Poems 2008.
Audio-poems published in Going Down Swinging 30th Anniversary Edition CD; broadcast on ABC Radio National Poetica, January 2011; cordite poetry review.
Commissioned text for Australian Dance Theatre's "Be Your Self" premiered at Adelaide Festival of the Arts 2010 and toured Europe January-March 2011; contributed text to ADT's 2012 Adelaide Festival production, Proximity.
Electronic music produced as niteshifter performed widely.
Poet-in-Residence, Adelaide City Library, March 2014.


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Why Faces of Other Races Look Alike
By Remy Melina published 1 July 11
The amplitude of increased brain activity only predicts whether an other-race face, not a same-race face, will be remembered, the study suggests. (Image credit: © Yuri Arcurs | Dreamstime.com)
The brain works differently when memorizing the face of a person from one's own race than when attempting to remember the face of someone of another race, new biological evidence suggests.
The well-documented "other-race effect" finds that people are less likely to remember a face from a racial group different from their own. Northwestern University researchers set out to determine what causes this rift in perception and memory by using electroencephalogram (EEG) recordings, which measure brain activity, while participants viewed photos of various faces.
The researchers found that brain activity increases in the very first 200 to 250 milliseconds when seeing both same-race and other-race faces. Previous research has associated this very early phase, known as the N200 brain potential, with the perceptual process of individuation. That process involves making out the unique facial features of each person, such as the shape of their eyes and nose. [10 Things You Didn't Know About the Brain]
However, the amplitude of that increased brain activity only predicts whether an other-race face, not a same-race face, is later remembered, the Northwestern University study showed.
"There appears to be a critical phase shortly after an other-race face appears that determines whether or not that face will be remembered or forgotten," Heather Lucas, the study's lead author, said in a statement.
The researchers asked 18 white study participants to view and remember several same-race faces. Minutes later, the participants were given a recognition test that included some of those same faces, other-race faces and new same-race faces.
The N200 waves were large for all same-race faces, regardless of whether or not they later were successfully remembered. In contrast, N200 waves were larger — suggesting greater brain activity in certain regions — for other-race faces that were remembered than for other-race faces that were forgotten. This finding suggests the individuation process of noticing distinguishing features of a face didn't kick in for some other-race faces.
As for why unique features are harder to recognize in other-race faces, the researchers theorize that many people simply have less practice seeing and remembering other-race faces. Their brains may be less practiced at seeking out the facial information that distinguishes other-race faces from one another.
Another possibility is "social categorization," or the tendency to group others into social categories by race, according to the researchers.
"Prior research has found that when we label and group others according to race, we end up focusing more on attributes that group members tend to have in common — such as skin color — and less on attributes that individuate one group member from others," Lucas said.
As a result, smaller N200 brain amplitudes when seeing other-race faces, especially those that were not remembered later, could indicate that the participant paid more attention to the the race-specifying features of the faces than each individual's unique facial features.
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Remy Melina
Remy Melina was a staff writer for Live Science from 2010 to 2012. She holds a bachelor's degree in Communication from Hofstra University where she graduated with honors.


For many pakeha, the Treaty of Waitangi is an exclusively Maori domain. It is seen as simply a mechanism for the pursuit of Maori grievance. This indifference to our defining constitutional document means that our country is weaker and less united than it should be.
Similarly, Maori politics are seen as solely a Maori concern – so much so that non-Maori gratefully concede that it is not a topic on which they should intrude. Yet pakeha commentators are failing in their duty if they treat Maori politics as irrelevant to our wider national concerns.
We all have an interest, after all, in the success or otherwise that Maori have, not only in managing their own affairs but in making their full contribution to our national life. We all have a stake in seeing those shocking statistics for Maori health, education and employment reversed. We are all poorer and our society is more divided because we tolerate a situation in which an ethnically defined and growing part of our biculturally based country is left to languish.
When I was growing up, it was widely believed by pakeha that the future for Maori was assimilation, a process that was seen to be both painless and inevitable. We now know better. Not only have we (or at least most of us) learnt the real and continuing value of Maori language and culture, but we also understand the magnitude of the challenge that Maori have had to meet in adapting to a bicultural world. And we now know, too, that we have much to learn from the Maori world view.
Most Kiwis of whatever ethnicity will have grasped that Maori have a better chance of success in today's world if their own language and culture are recognised as the basis of building confidence, security, self-identity and a sense of self-worth. If Maori are required to operate in a pakeha-dominated world according to exclusively pakeha values and prescriptions, it is little wonder that they will struggle.
So, there will – or should – be an understanding welcome for measures, like the whanau ora programme, that are designed to provide a culturally appropriate way of improving access to a range of public services for Maori – services whose successful delivery for both Maori and pakeha is essential to our health as a society. There is little point in providing such services but placing them behind an impenetrable cultural barrier which in effect denies them to those who most need them.
But this is only part of the story. It is right to accept that an increased role for te reo and tikanga Maori is essential to provide a secure base from which Maori can play their full role in our country. But that secure base should be just that – a base. Valuable though it is in itself, it is not the destination. It is not the endpoint. Cultural security should be the launching-pad for an assault on the real goal – the increased ability for Maori to operate successfully in today's rapidly changing and increasingly international and multicultural world.
My old friend Robert Mahuta used to tell me that "it is time for Maori to stop looking in the mirror and to look out the window". He was right. Maori, like everyone else, need to be looking forward as well as back – forward to a new world in which a good education, good health and well-paid employment are the crucial passports to success.
Many Maori are already showing the way. But the statistics for overall Maori health, employment and educational achievement cannot be gainsaid. Maori politicians who want to make a difference should have no difficulty in accepting that these statistics point to the correct priorities. Their concerns must, in other words, go beyond issues of Maori language and culture; Maori are even more directly concerned than the rest of us by wider social and economic issues – not least because, when those issues are badly handled, it is Maori, and particularly young Maori, who are the most vulnerable.
There is one issue above all that should demand attention. The restoration of full employment, and the chance of a job for the more than 15% of young Maori currently unemployed, would be the single most important advance for Maori that could be made. It would put money in pockets, raise living standards, improve health, lift self-esteem, encourage educational effort – and it would transform the life prospects of future Maori families.
For as long as large numbers of young Maori are excluded from the chance to play a full role in our economic life, the outlook for Maori – and for all of us – is grim. Maori leaders should be using their political clout to force a government that treats the issue of unemployment with supreme indifference to do something about it. Maori politicians should not be satisfied with a few inexpensive concessions on specifically Maori issues. Their focus should be on those wider issues that really matter, to pakeha as well as Maori, yes, but that have an especially damaging impact on Maori. It's time that they – and we all – spoke up.


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Adalaria proxima is een slakkensoort uit de familie van de sterslakken (Onchidorididae). De wetenschappelijke naam van de soort werd in 1854 voor het eerst geldig gepubliceerd door Alder & Hancock.

Beschrijving
De naaktslak Adalaria proxima is ovaal van vorm en groeit tot een lengte van ongeveer 25 mm. Het hoofd heeft een afgeplat stuk weefsel boven de mond. De mantel is bedekt met knotsvormige knobbeltjes met puntige uiteinden die zijn verstijfd met kalkhoudende spicules (ruggengraatachtige structuren). Het lichaam is geel-oranje van kleur, maar is vaak nogal bleek van kleur, vooral in het noordelijkste deel van het verspreidingsgebied van het dier. De stompe rinoforen (sensorische tentakels op het hoofd) zijn vaak donkerder van kleur dan de rest van het dier, en elk draagt tot negentien dunne platen. De anale papil is omgeven door een ring van ongeveer twaalf gevederde kieuwen. Deze soort kan worden verward met de wrattige sterslak (Onchidoris muricata), maar die soort is meestal kleiner en bleker en heeft dorsale knobbeltjes met afgeplatte uiteinden.

Verspreiding
Deze soort is beschreven vanuit Birkenhead aan de Ierse Zeekust van Engeland. Het is inheems in de koudere delen van de Noord-Atlantische Oceaan. Zijn verspreidingsgebied strekt zich uit van de Noordzee, de Oostzee en de Witte Zee tot het oosten van Groenland en de oostkust van Noord-Amerika tot in het zuiden van Massachusetts. Het dieptebereik reikt tot 60 meter. Het is ook bekend van de noordelijke Stille Oceaan, van Brits-Columbia tot Zuid-Korea.

Ecologie
Adalaria proxima voedt zich met het harig mosdiertje (Electra pilosa), die vaak wordt aangetroffen op de bladeren van grote bruine wieren zoals Laminaria en de gezaagde zee-eik (Fucus serratus). Het voedt zich ook met andere mosdiertjessoorten zoals het ledermosdiertje (Membranipora membranacea), de wierzeevinger (Alcyonidium polyoum) en Flustrellidra hispida als Electra niet aanwezig is.

Voortplanting vindt plaats in de late winter en het voorjaar, wanneer de eieren in spiralen worden gelegd. De eieren zijn vrij groot en komen na ongeveer veertig dagen uit. De larven hebben een dooierzak en voeden zich niet, maar drijven mee als onderdeel van het plankton voordat ze zich vestigen in een geschikt leefgebied.

Onchidorididae