Part of a chapter from my book…..
As I'm leaving I either had to go left or right, Left would take me straight to the get together I was going to a bit earlier than planned, and right would take me to my mom's home. My life came to a choice, I could either go left or I could go right. I choose left, a man died, and I will forever wonder if that choice was the reason why.
That night was so clear and such a blur all at the same time. Seeing the last moments of someone's life changes you, and when the end is something that could have been avoided it makes you question things. You see I saw the first car hit his body and I watched him fly over her car. I swerved to miss him and turned my head just in time to see the truck behind me run over his head. These are things I can't un-see, these are moments I can't un-live, this is a guilt that I can't get rid of. Because I moved over and allowed the truck behind me to delivery the blow that killed him. I use the word allowed, because that is how I feel. I allowed. I made a choice and I allowed.
Do I still think about the man that died that Friday night? Yes I do. Because he is now and forever a part of my story, and I don't even know what he looked like, because when I got out of my car that was at his feet, and walked over to see if there was any chance that he was still alive. There was no face for me to see, so all I have is a name and I will never forget him. I wondered for years why did this happen, why didn't I just go right. But that's life isn't it? We so often go left when we should have gone right, and that decision changes us. I gained a lot of strength in that situation and the months that follow. I have to admit, I didn't turn to God immediately like I should have. I tried but I was so numb with guilt that I couldn't. I knew that he was there with me, I knew that people were praying over and for me, but I couldn't see it then, I see it now. Because a few times I talked about and attempted to take my life, because I was overwhelmed with the guilt and images of what I experience. Even though I felt, as if I was done and wanted to just disappear, God had a plan for me and it didn't include me slipping out of this life.
Growing up without a father didn't faze me much on the outside, but it did on the inside. There are only two people on earth that you are suppose to know for sure will always love you, and that's your mom and dad. But I only had my mom, only half of the love that I was suppose to have. This made me think certain things about men, but I will go deeper into 'Daddy Issues' later.
On the other side was my biological father's family. My grandma whom I loved dearly was a great woman and while she was alive, I saw my cousins on that side quite a bit. I enjoyed my time with her, growing up I always thought she was part white, her skin tone was much lighter than mine and so I figured that must be it. Later I found out that no it was Native American Indian, so now I am a African American Indian, ok I will roll with it.
When she died, my ties to that family died with her. I remember being at the funeral at 9 years of age, and seeing a woman whisper to another lady, pointing at me. 'That's her over there.'. She said it with such disgust in her voice that I knew it wasn't a good thing, that I wasn't a good thing. I ran to my mom and told her what had happened. I asked her who the lady was and she told me it was my father's wife. What??!! He has a wife, goes to show you how much i know. My Mom went over and said something to her, all i can say is the look on my mom's face was not friendly. At the funeral, I got a program and my name was in it but it wasn't my name. I was very confused and turned to my mom.
'Thats my first husbands' last name?'. WHAT??!! What the heck is going on a few days ago everything was good and now…. I have split personality with different names, women pointing and talking about me, and not to mention my Yoda is died. This is not a good day, not at all.
This was the first day I realized that something was wrong with me. That who and what I thought I was, wasn't true at all. This was beyond me, I thought I was normal and ok, but this day I was made aware that I'm broken.


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DeMarcus Cousins plans to make his season-debut for the Golden State Warriors on January 18. Cousins, 28, has not played this season as he recovers from surgery on his left Achilles. The four-time All-Star played in 48 games last season with the New Orleans Pelicans.
Cousins averaged 25.2 points, 12.9 rebounds, 5.4 assists, 1.6 steals and 1.6 blocks per game last season. He was averaging a career-best 27.8 points per game in 55 games with the Sacramento Kings in 2016 before being traded to New Orleans in February 2017.
Cousins is only signed with the Warriors through this season before he hits free agency. The Warriors face the Los Angeles Clippers on Friday, January 18 at Staples Center in Los Angeles.
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Wow. The Foundation Center has just rolled out one of the coolest philanthropy products I've ever seen. Their new Philanthropy In/Sight is a Google Map powered program that let's you map foundations and their grantees. At first glance this doesn't seem like that big of a deal. Until you see the detail with which the program allows you to filter the data. You can watch a short video demo of the tool here.
Let's say you wanted to see all grants made by California foundations within a specific congressional district? Done. How about all grants made by the Ford Foundation to geographic areas that have higher than average rates of poverty? Done. The "Thematic Data" filter in the program lets you map out grants in relation to local education levels, average income, population density, general levels of health, etc. The list is detailed and relevant.
There are a ton of ways that this can be used. A smart philanthropy reporter is going to buy this program and use it to uncover some interesting stories about grantmaking behavior.
But I care about this because of the way it lets you "follow the smart money".
As I've described in the past, in for-profit financial markets it is common for people to "follow the smart money" or invest the those companies whom other very successful investors own. You can see this dynamic at work each quarter when Warren Buffett's current investment holdings are revealed. The stocks he has bought or sold in the past quarter are reported on CNBC as breaking news and the price of those stocks he has bought move higher as other investors pile in.
While foundations have long released all of their grantees in the public Form 990-PF, there has never been a tool that makes it really easy for philanthropists to filter this data in useful ways. But Philanthropy In/Sight changes that.
Let's say you are an individual donor in New York city and you are interested in supporting a high performing nonprofit that works to improve education in your home town. With Philanthropy In/Sight you could generate a map of all education focused nonprofits that have received grants from foundations with more than $500 million in assets. While this list should by no means be seen as a guaranteed list of great nonprofits, it would be a list of organizations that had successfully undergone due diligence from very well resourced funders. It would be an excellent place for a donor to start thinking about what nonprofits to fund.
Of course, a more sophisticated donor might create a custom set of foundations that they respected. A donor with an interest in social entrepreneurship type organizations might create a set of foundations that identify as social entrepreneurship funders and then map out the issue areas and geographic locations that were relevant to the donor.
Philanthropy In/Sight works on a global basis and it can drill down to individual neighborhoods. It can be used to track broad grantmaking behavior across large segments of foundations or it can be used to map the activities of a single foundation. Powered by Google, the tools is clearly an example of the Googlization of Philanthropy. But designed by the Foundation Center it affirms my view that the Googlization of Philanthropy will be driven by many players, not by Google individually.
Philanthropy In/Sight costs as much as $1,500 a year to use. It seems to me that figuring out a way to subsidize the cost and make it available to the general public would be an excellent project for a foundation who cares about helping individual donors make better decisions.
Thanks so much for your comments on our new mapping tool, Philanthropy In/Sight. We are thrilled that you like it! And we're hoping that the rest of the field agrees. We encourage your readers to take the guided tour at philanthropyinsight.org. We'd also like to extend a special three-day free trial offer to Tactical Philanthropy readers! Just e-mail me at dlc@foundationcenter.org and I'll respond with an activation code that will get you set up to test drive Philanthropy In/Sight. Our regular free trial is only 24 hours, so to take advantage of this extended period, please contact me!
Meanwhile, I want to add that we are especially interested in getting feedback on the application. We're hoping to add new features, data sets, and more to Philanthropy In/Sight over the next few months so any suggestions on how to improve it would be very valuable to us. Thanks again!


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Creating a GO FAIR Implementation Network for Academic Publishers
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29 January 2021 | Carmel McNamara, IOS Press, Amsterdam, NL
The implementation of guiding principles to make data findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable (FAIR) relies on public endorsement and cooperation. Researchers and the wider data communities are advancing open science culture through Implementation Networks, which are core drivers of the GO FAIR initiative as vehicles for advancing the global discussion about data stewardship. In an article published this month in Information Services & Use, Jan Velterop and Erik Schultes calls for the formation of such a new network for academic publishers. Here, we provide extracts from the article, which introduces the manifesto and objectives for the proposed new network.
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IOS Press has a duty to ensure that the content published in its journals and books is accessible and discoverable. We do that by ensuring the content is machine readable and metadata is publicly available (via our linked data portal LD Connect), in line with FAIR principles, which were first touched upon on this site in an earlier blog post (see here).
It is of interest that the most-viewed article from recent years to be published in Information Services & Use (ISU) focuses on the FAIR movement. In that 2017 article, Barend Mons et al. revisited the original FAIR guiding principles to clarify some interpretations of them as support was gaining ground [1]. Since then, GO FAIR groups (i.e. Implementation Networks) have sprung up around different conventions and best practices based on specific disciplines. The new ISU article, published at the start of January 2021, now calls for academic publishers to get involved in formulating protocols and standards to make research material machine-readable (and therefore FAIR), and outlines a method that will help to implement the FAIR principles in a consistent way [2]. The article is already proving popular and is the most-viewed ISU paper via the IOS Press content platform this month. Read extracts from it below.
An Academic Publishers' GO FAIR Implementation Network (APIN)
by Jan Velterop and Erik Schultes
Information Services & Use, Vol. 40, Iss. 4, pp. 333–341
Communication of scientific research results is one of the pillars on which scientific progress stands. Traditionally, the published (narrative) literature was the main material from which to construct this pillar. It used to be so that data were supplementary to published articles, but in the last decades this relation has undergone an inversion, where these articles have increasingly become supplementary to the core research results, the data, as they describe the latter's interpretation, provenance, and significance. Under such an inversion, we might start to refer to "data publication", with "supplementary article". An article should be seen to belong to the set of "rich provenance metadata" (although itself not machine readable, but enabling humans to determine actual "reusability" and "fitness for purpose".
Furthermore, data repositories are playing an increasingly important role in the scientific communication and discovery process, as data availability and reusability becomes a crucial element in science's efficiency and efficacy. The old method, which relied on "data are available upon request" (or even on "all data are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request") is not fit for purpose any longer, even when, or rather, if, data were easily available and usable that way. More and more science is also reliant on data sets that are either too large and complex to simply being made available by request, reasonable or not, from the authors following idiosyncratic methods of exchange.
In many disciplines, such as medical and psychological sciences, data are often too privacy-sensitive to be "shared" in the classical sense. They need to be anonymized, and even then, levels of trust necessary to guarantee privacy cannot always be achieved. One solution is that data are not shared by means of making them available in the traditional way, but instead, by means of making it possible to analyze data by "visiting" them in their privacy-secure silos. A good example is the Personal Health Train: The key concept here is to bring algorithms to the data where they happen to be, rather than bringing all data to a central place. The algorithms just "visit" the data, as it were, which means that no data need to be duplicated or downloaded to another location. The Personal Health Train is designed to give controlled access to heterogeneous data sources, while ensuring privacy protection and maximum engagement of individual patients, citizens, and other entities with a strong interest in the protection of data privacy. The data train concept is a generic one and is clear that it can also be applied in areas other than health sciences. For the concept to work, data need to be FAIR. FAIR has a distinctive and precise meaning in this context. It stands for data and services that are Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable by machines.
In the new models supporting FAIR data publications, metadata is key. The most important role of publishers and preprint platforms is to ensure that detailed, domain-specific, and machine-actionable metadata are provided with all publications, including text, datasets, tabular material, and images. In other words, with all 'research objects' that they publish. These metadata need to comply with standards that are relevant for the domains and disciplines involved. And they need to be properly applied drawing on the controlled vocabularies created by or in close consultation with the practicing domain experts. Some of the metadata components required are already (almost) universally used, such as digital object identifiers (DOIs), although not in all cases in a way that makes them useful for machine-reading. Often enough, a DOI links to a landing page or an abstract, designed to be seen by humans, where the human eye and finger is relied upon to perform the final link through to the object itself, e.g. a PDF. Clearly, that approach is not satisfactory for machine analysis of larger amounts of data and information.
Given the information and data-density of the text in articles, it makes sense to convert assertions into semantically-rich, machine-actionable objects as well, according to the Resource Description Framework (RDF), a family of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) specifications. Where possible, assertions that leverage domain-specific vocabularies and RDF markup could be presented as semantic triples along with their appropriate metadata ("nanopublications"). If all is well, the assertions and claims mentioned in an article's abstract should capture the gist of the article (at least to the author's satisfaction), but also tabular data could be treated in this way. The result of the above should be a FAIR Digital Object (FDO), a digital "twin" of the originally submitted research object. It is not suggested that the onus of doing all this should be exclusively on the shoulders of publishers, but instead, should be a collaboration of publishers and (prospective) authors and increasingly, their data stewards.
Publishers would provide some of the appropriate tools, and where necessary train (or constrain), authors to indicate what the significant assertions and claims in their articles are. Examples of useful RDF metadata tools that make FAIR publication easy (or at least easier) are available from the Center for Expanded Data Annotation and Retrieval (CEDAR) and the BioPortal repository with more than 800 controlled vocabularies, many from special domains. Increasingly CEDAR has been deployed as the primary tooling for the so-called Metadata for Machines workshops, where FAIR metadata experts are teamed up with domain-experts to work together to create appropriate FAIR metadata artefacts.
What does all this mean for academic publishers?
Much of what is proposed should be possible to incorporate into current processes and workflows. Publishers already add metadata to whatever they publish. Extending this metadata, and increasing its granularity is unlikely to be a fundamental change for most publishers. It speaks for itself that authors will need to be involved in determining what are the 'significant assertions' in the text of their articles, and what is the meaning of any terms used. If an author uses the term NLP, for instance, it should not be for the publisher to decide if it means "neuro-linguistic programming" or "natural language processing." There are various technologies available that would enable the realization of simple and efficient tools for authors to add semantically unequivocal assertions to their manuscripts, in the way that they currently add keywords (although the meaning of those is often enough quite ambiguous, which must be avoided for key assertions).
The publishing process should not differ much from the one currently used, as Figure 1 below shows. The main thing is to create (arrange for the creation of) a FAIR "twin" of the original research object as submitted.
Figure 1: The flow of research objects through the publishing process (source: ISU article; credit: Jan Velterop and Erik Schultes)
Proposed manifesto
For an Academic Publishers' Implementation Network (APIN) to be recognized as a GO FAIR Implementation Network, a "manifesto" is required. Such a manifesto is meant to articulate critical issues that are of generic importance to the objectives of FAIR, and on which the APIN partners have reached consensus. The proposed manifesto is as follows (see Box 1), and at this stage is subject to agreement, modification, and acceptance by the initial APIN partners.
The APIN is envisaged to consist of academic publishing outfits of any stripe, be they commercial ones, society publishers, or preprint platforms. Its main purpose is to develop and promote best practices to "publish for machines" in alignment with the FAIR principles. These best practices would apply to traditional scholarly communication, but with proper addition of machine-readable renditions and components.
All APIN participants commit to comply with the Rules of Engagement of GO FAIR Implementation Networks "Rules of Engagement," essentially committing to the FAIR Principles and embracing zero tolerance for vendor lock-in formally or otherwise.
Initial Primary Tasks
The next primary tasks will be to coordinate with the partners in the APIN a detailed plan of execution and a roadmap for further development as soon as the process of becoming a GO FAIR Implementation Network has started. Also, to develop rules for authors to stimulate proper FAIR data publishing in trusted repositories with a FAIR data point to support maximum machine Findability, Accessibility and Interoperability for Reuse.
Box 1: Proposed APIN Manifesto
Each APIN partner will:
Comply with the FAIR Data Principles: Abide by the Governance Principles: APIN partners will formally acknowledge and endorse the general governance principles of the GO FAIR initiative.
Accept to be stakeholder-governed: The GO FAIR implementation approach for the IFDS is stakeholder-governed. A self-coordinating, board-governed organization drawn from the stakeholder Implementation Network community creates trust that the organization will take decisions driven by community consensus, considering different interests.
Accept non-discriminatory membership: When willing to sign the Rules of Engagement, any stakeholder may express an interest in and should be welcome to join GO FAIR.
Conduct transparent operations: Achieving trust in the selection of representatives in governance groups will be best achieved through transparent processes and operations in general (within the constraints of privacy laws).
Targeted Objectives of APIN:
Provide for each narrative article (or element thereof) a machine-resolvable globally unique, persistent and resolvable identifier for semantic artefacts.
Provide the same for each major concept in the article (as an extension of the classical "keywords").
Request from, and assist, authors of articles to indicate, and where possible format as machine-readable semantic triples, the main assertions and claims in their original contributions.
Determine, with the guidance of GO-FAIR, which are appropriate tools for publishers to offer to authors to enable them to do what is requested of them in the point above.
Request from authors to deposit supplementary material, including large datasets, where possible in machine-readable formats, assist authors who have difficulties doing that themselves, and, where providing the data in the dataset in machine-readable format proves not (yet) possible, provide at least the dataset as such with machine readable metadata.
The above includes short extracts from the article. Citations should be to the original article, which can be accessed in full here.
1. Barend Mons et al., "Cloudy, increasingly FAIR; revisiting the FAIR Data guiding principles for the European Open Science Cloud", Information Services & Use, Vol. 37, Iss. 1, 49–56, link: content.iospress.com/articles/information-services-and-use/isu824 (last accessed: 29 January 2021).
2. Jan Velterop and Erik Schultes, "An Academic Publishers' GO FAIR Implementation Network (APIN)," Information Services & Use, Vol. 40, Iss. 4, 333–341, link: content.iospress.com/articles/information-services-and-use/isu200102 (last accessed: 29 January 2021).
Presented here is a proposal for the academic publishing industry to get actively involved in the formulation of protocols and standards that make published scientific research material machine-readable in order to facilitate data to be findable, accessible, interoperable, and re-usable (FAIR). Given the importance of traditional journal publications in scholarly communication worldwide, active involvement of academic publishers in advancing the more routine creation and reuse of FAIR data is highly desired.
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"I'm happy to report (with Jimmy and Cynthia's blessing) that Jimmy has been downgraded from the ICU and is doing much better," VanDahl wrote on Facebook after visiting Crespo. "For those of you who have been asking about what happened? Several days ago Jimmy slipped and hit his head extremely hard. Up until recently his speech center was affected. Can't tell you how happy I am to report that that certainly wasn't the case today."
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Crespo joined Aerosmith in 1979 towards the end of the sessions for Night in the Ruts, contributing a guitar solo on "Three Mile Smile." He stayed with them through their next effort, 1982's Rock in a Hard Place, co-writing most of the material with Steven Tyler. As Crespo later said, the poor sales for the last two records coupled with Tyler's escalating drug use led to a change in the lineup.
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Повстання в Чечні 1821—1822 років було викликане експансіоністською політикою Російської імперії, яку царські намісники на Кавказі (яким у цей період був генерал Єрмолов) воліли проводити виключно військовими методами.

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У 1817—1818 роках Єрмоловим були представлені плани освоєння Кавказу, що включали створення Сунженської лінії, виселення чеченців з басейну Сунжі, заселення рівнинної частини Чечні козаками та встановлення блокади гірської Чечні з метою підпорядкування горців царській владі. Для спілкування з чеченцями Єрмолов віддавав перевагу мові ультиматумів. З XVIII століття царські намісники доклали чимало зусиль для переселення частини чеченців на рівнину та зближення їх із росіянами. Політика Єрмолова була прямо протилежною — він став виганяти чеченців у гори, у тому числі й тих, що жили за межами Чечні в Кумикії, дозволяючи залишитися лише тим, за кого доручилися власники кумиків. Цілі чеченські селища (Кара-агач, Байрам-аул, Осман-юрт, Генже-аул, Баматбек-юрт, Хасав-аул, Казах-мурза-юрт) були під конвоєм виселені в гірську Чечню. Політика Єрмолова ставила чеченців перед вибором: смерть від голоду в горах або озброєний опір. Спроби чеченців домовитися про принципи мирного співіснування виявилися безрезультатними: Єрмолов вимагав від них безумовної покірності, але не давав жодних гарантій припинення каральних експедицій.

Бажаючи очистити притеречну частину Чечні від чеченців, Єрмолов вирішив подати їм, як і сам писав, «приклад жаху». Об'єктом цієї акції залякування стало село Даді-Юрт. 15 вересня 1819 року війська у складі 6 рот піхоти, 700 козаків та 4 гармат напали на село. У бою було вбито понад 500 чеченців, російські втрати склали 61 убитий та 200 поранених. Єрмолов писав в одному зі своїх листів:

Для прискорення підкорення Чечні командуванню Кавказької лінії було наказано з весни 1820 року розпочати прокладання доріг і будівництво укріплень. Оскільки для виконання цього розпорядження командування не мало ресурсів, воно вирішило використати самих чеченців. Чеченці, які проживали між Тереком і Сунжею, «під страхом винищення» мали надавати для робіт озброєних лісорубів. Так, 6 березня 1820 року лісоруби у супроводі 2,5 батальйонів піхоти та 500 козаків під командуванням Грекова рушили у напрямку села Герменчук. На цьому шляху розташовувалося село Топлі, яке вважалося покірним і в жодних антиросійських акціях не брало участі. Тим не менш, село було «зруйноване». Потім було зібрано старійшини сусідніх сіл, яким було наказано надати лісорубів. За три дні була прокладена просіка до Герменчука, і хоч його жителі не чинили опору, село було спалене.

В 1819 Єрмолов заборонив чеченцям всі торгові операції за межами Чечні. Дагестанцам було закрито проїзд до Азербайджану, Грузії та Чечні. Було заборонено ввозити продовольство до Чечні та Дагестану. Єрмоловим була заборонена торгівля навіть між сусідніми районами Чечні та Дагестану.

Повстання

Для очищення рівнин уздовж Сунжі від качкаликовців Єромоловим було знищено кілька їхніх сіл, найвідомішим з яких став Даді-юрт. Після цього чеченці почали залишати долину Сунжі. Вони переселилися на річку Мічик, де «звели собі землянки, в яких і жили як звірі, перебуваючи в злиднях і вмираючи з голоду». Єрмолов вирішив вигнати їх і звідси, бо побоювався їхнього союзу з кумиками. У грудні 1820 — жовтні 1821 Єрмолов був відсутній на Кавказі, але при від'їзді залишив розпорядження вигнати качкаликовців з місць їх нового проживання, яке його генерали почали виконувати.

На початку березня 1821 року під керівництвом полковника Грекова почалася рубка просіки до річки Мічик. Для цього було мобілізовано 11 тисяч лісорубів із числа чеченців та кумиків. Російський загін складався з 3 тисяч солдатів та 9 гармат. До складу загону входила кумицька кіннота. По дорозі загін прибув у залишене жителями село Ойсунгур, яке було знищено «покарання жителів, які втекли перед їх відходом». 3 березня чеченський загін спробував перешкодити просування військ, але зміг цього. Греков винищив качкаликівські селища, що залишалися в цьому районі. Ті, що вижили, були змушені бігти далі в гори або продемонструвати повну покірність.

Повторне виселення качкаликовців викликало невдоволення південно-східної частини Чечні і стало приводом для повстання. Радянський вчений М. Покровський писав:

До повсталих долучився відомий чеченський військовий і політичний діяч Бейбулат Таймієв, який невдовзі очолив повстання. У квітні 1821 року чеченці напали на укріплення Амір-Аджі-Юрт. Гарнізон, незважаючи на свою нечисленність (всього 25 осіб), зміг протриматися до підходу підкріплення. Оскільки цей виступ був стихійним і непідготовленим, він зазнав провалу і Таймієв розпустив повстанців.

Для надання повстанню релігійно-ідеологічної основи Тайміїв уклав союз із авторитетними богословами Магомедом Майртупським та Абдул-Кадиром Герменчукським. Ними було ухвалено рішення підняти повстання по всій території Чечні. Таймієв здійснював військове керівництво повсталими, а Магомед Майртупський — ідеологічне. Частина чеченських старшин на чолі Абдул-Кадиром Герменчукським відмовилася підкоритися рішенням всечеченських зборів і вирішила розпочати військові дії негайно.

Мабуть, отримавши звістку про повстання, що готується, Греков організував каральний рейд в район Майртупа, в результаті якого весь ліс у цьому районі був вирубаний, а розташовані там аули і хутори — знищені. За свої дії проти чеченців в 1821 Греков був проведений в генерал-майори. Дрібні загони Абдул-Кадира Герменчукського, що базувалися у цьому районі, не змогли чинити помітного опору. Розгром прихильників Герменчукського призвів до посилення позицій Таймієва та Майртупського. На початку 1822 року Герменчукський переконався, що дії дрібних партизанських загонів не здатні змінити ситуацію і він вступив у союз із Майртупським та Таймієвим. Грекову доносили, що «у Герменчуку з'явився новий проповідник… Абдул-Кадир — тамтешній кадій», а «за його спиною стоїть той самий Бей-Булат з його величезним впливом на населення».

Частина російських військ, дислокованих на Кавказькій лінії, на початку 1822 пішла в Кабарду . Повсталі, до яких приєдналися також карабулаки й інгуші, скористалися цим початку наступу. Ними були заблоковані російські укріплення Герзель-Аул, Невідступний Стан, Злобний Окоп, Преградний Стан і Назрань, які, однак, їм не вдалося захопити через відсутність артилерії.

У січні 1822 року Греків зібрав до Грозного каральнмй загін з 4 рот і 3 батальйонів піхоти, трьох козацьких полків та 13 гармат. На його вимогу було мобілізовано озброєні вершники та кілька тисяч лісорубів з-поміж рівнинних чеченців та кумиків. З Владикавказу на з'єднання з Грековим висунувся інший російський загін у супроводі інгушського ополчення. Об'єднаний загін був поділений надвоє. Один із них рушив до Невідступного Стану, щоб загрожувати качкаликівцям. Другий під командуванням Грекова виступив із Грозного. Грековим була пущена чутка, що загін рухається на Шалі, і біля села Великий Чечен він став будувати міст через Аргун.

Таймієв зібрав сили біля Шалінської просіки і перегородив її окопами та завалами. Однак Греков рушив до Малої Чечні, де села були беззахисні. Він пройшов кілька сіл та розчистив зроблені чеченцями завали. Під загрозою знищення сіл чеченці видали аманатів та забезпечили війська продовольством та фуражем. 8 лютого війська перейшли Аргун раніше побудованим мостом і напали на повстанців. 9 лютого відбувся бій, результат якого вирішила російська артилерія. Чеченці зазнали великих втрат убитими, серед яких виявився і Абдул-Кадир Герменчукський. 11 і 12 лютого в результаті запеклого штурму були зайняті і повністю знищені села Шалі та Нові Атаги.

Знищення двох останніх сіл було заплановано Грековим ще восени 1821 року. Він писав:

Знищення цих сіл не лише не призвело до «заспокоєння» чеченців, а й викликало новий вибух невдоволення. Ця каральна акція показала, що жодне село не може захистити себе самостійно. Операція привела чеченців до розуміння необхідності консолідації зусиль для захисту.

Після поразки в Шалінському лісі Таймієв розбив підконтрольні йому сили на окремі загони, які здійснювали напади на російські укріплені пункти, козацькі станиці та пости.

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Jane Claxton says goodbye to Worthing Community Chest
16/11/2015 by Admin in Uncategorized
Jane Claxton was a trustee of Worthing Community Chest for 14 years, she was also Chair for the majority of that time. This year she has stepped down from the board, but she has kindly written a blog the history of the charity.
In the 14 years I have been involved with Worthing Community Partnership I have seen it develop from a vehicle for delivering £850k of single regeneration budget (SRB) 6 programme monies into Worthing, which supported a myriad of projects from the CAB, Guildcare, Worthing Churches and many others into a self sustaining Charity in its own right which distributes monies into Worthing through the Community Chest.
The Partnership originally comprised all of those organisations who received money under the SRB programme. but has since developed into a grass roots organisation whose members consist of supporters of the Charity and those who have received Community Chest grants.
It has always been an integral part of the wider community being a key player in the West Sussex Strategic Partnership, the Local Strategic Partnership (LSP) helping it develop in Waves Ahead and playing a pivotal role in setting up the Sussex Credit Union.
Working in partnership with the NHS at the time, now the Western Sussex Hospital Trust, the Charity used SRB monies to purchase a building in Rowlands Road – Renaissance House – which it lets to Community and voluntary groups at below market rents to enable them to have a town centre presence. It continues to work closely with the Western Sussex Hospital Trust who use the ground floor of the building as a surgery and clinic.
Another key partner is Worthing Borough Council who provide office accommodation for the WCP in return for us donating the rental equivalent monies into the Community Chest. This enables the WCP to have an office as part of the community hub in the Town hall working alongside the CAB and VAWorthing. WBC also provide monies which we match fund for distribution to grass roots organisations through the Community Chest and we are grateful for their continued support and will be working with them to see if we can assist in the delivery of other targeted projects.
In 2014 we said goodbye to Jenni Pilgram, our Community Chest coordinator, who after many years of excellent work decided to move to the Isle of Wight taking our thanks and good wishes with her.
Over the past year, I and other members of the Board have strengthened and restructured the WCC so that we can grow and further develop our unique model for supporting local organisations. We have undergone a Governance review, finalised our re-branding, recruited new Board members, as well as staff to the office (including local volunteers) and are currently in the process of reviewing our Community Chest application process.
I am extremely proud to have been part of delivering over £250k of grants into Worthing. Supporting all manner of diverse organisations from Choirs, to dance troops and event the local scuba club!
After a fascinating, interesting and rewarding 14 years, I too am now leaving the Worthing Community Partnership. I leave it in very safe hands and in extremely good shape to face the challenges of the coming years. I would like to thank all of those who have worked with me in helping put in place, what I believe, is a dynamic and unique mechanism for supporting the grass roots organisations in Worthing in all that they do.
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Episode 513: Janine Antoni
by Christopher | Jul 1, 2015 | Podcast
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Holy SHIT! Janine Antoni!
From Amanda Browder…
This week: Amanda Browder chats with New York-based artist Janine Antoni about her latest exhibition, From the Vow Made, at Luhring Augustine. Exploring blurred lines between sculpture, performance, and choreography, we also discuss Antoni's collaborations with the Stephen Petronio Company. A fusion of dance and the visual world, Antoni and Petronio's Like Lazurus Did and Honey Baby exemplify her work's relationship with process and transition. Antoni's ideas are woven into a braided conversation between objects, the everyday and the body. For more information visit:
http://www.luhringaugustine.com/artists/janine-antoni/#
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Janine Antoni was born in Freeport, Bahamas, in 1964. She received her BA from Sarah Lawrence College in New York, and earned her MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1989. Antoni's work blurs the distinction between performance art and sculpture. Transforming everyday activities such as eating, bathing, and sleeping into ways of making art, Antoni's primary tool for making sculpture has always been her own body.
She has chiseled cubes of lard and chocolate with her teeth, washed away the faces of soap busts made in her own likeness, and used the brainwave signals recorded while she dreamed at night as a pattern for weaving a blanket the following morning. In the video, "Touch," Antoni appears to perform the impossible act of walking on the surface of water. She accomplished this magician's trick, however, not through divine intervention, but only after months of training to balance on a tightrope that she then strung at the exact height of the horizon line. Balance is a key component in the related piece, "Moor," where the artist taught herself how to make a rope out of unusual and often personal materials donated by friends and relatives.
By learning to twist the materials together so that they formed a rope that was neither too loose nor too tight, Antoni created an enduring life-line that united a disparate group of people into a unified whole. Antoni has had major exhibitions of her work at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; S.I.T.E. Santa Fe; and Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin. The recipient of several prestigious awards, including a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellowship in 1998 and the Larry Aldrich Foundation Award in 1999, Janine Antoni currently resides in New York.


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package mypipe.snapshotter.splitter

import mypipe.api.data.ColumnMetadata
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory

import scala.annotation.tailrec
import scala.collection.mutable.ListBuffer

/** A splitter with INT24 type boundaries (ie: Int).
 *
 *  Based off of Apache Sqoop's equivalent code.
 */
object IntegerSplitter extends Splitter[Int] {

  val log = LoggerFactory.getLogger(getClass)

  override def split(splitByCol: ColumnMetadata, boundingValues: BoundingValues[Int], numSplits: Int, splitLimit: Int): List[InputSplit] = {

    val maxValue = boundingValues.upperBound
    val minValue = boundingValues.lowerBound

    val lowClausePrefix = splitByCol.name + " >= "
    val highClausePrefix = splitByCol.name + " < "

    if (minValue.isEmpty && maxValue.isEmpty) {
      // Range is null to null. Return a null split accordingly.
      log.info(s"Split range is NULL to NULL for column ${splitByCol.name}")
      List(InputSplit(s"${splitByCol.name} IS NULL", s"${splitByCol.name} IS NULL"))
    } else {

      // Get all the split points together.
      val splitPoints = split2(numSplits, splitLimit, minValue.getOrElse(0), maxValue.getOrElse(0)).toIndexedSeq // TODO: is the getOrElse(0) OK?

      splitPoints foreach { point ⇒
        log.debug(point.toString)
      }

      val splits = new ListBuffer[InputSplit]()

      // Turn the split points into a set of intervals.
      var start = splitPoints.head

      (1 until splitPoints.length) foreach { i ⇒
        val end = splitPoints(i)

        if (i == splitPoints.length - 1) {
          // This is the last one use a closed interval.
          splits += InputSplit(
            lowClausePrefix + start,
            splitByCol.name + " <= " + end
          )
        } else {
          // Normal open-interval case.
          splits += InputSplit(
            lowClausePrefix + start,
            highClausePrefix + end
          )
        }

        start = end
      }

      // At least one extrema is null; add a null split.
      if (minValue.isEmpty || maxValue.isEmpty) {
        splits += InputSplit(s"${splitByCol.name} IS NULL", s"${splitByCol.name} IS NULL")
      }

      splits.toList
    }
  }

  /** Returns a list of longs one element longer than the list of input splits.
   *  This represents the boundaries between input splits.
   *  All splits are open on the top end, except the last one.
   *
   *  So the list [0, 5, 8, 12, 18] would represent splits capturing the
   *  intervals:
   *
   *  [0, 5)
   *  [5, 8)
   *  [8, 12)
   *  [12, 18] note the closed interval for the last split.
   *
   *  @param numSplits Number of split chunks.
   *  @param splitLimit Limit the split size.
   *  @param minVal Minimum value of the set to split.
   *  @param maxVal Maximum value of the set to split.
   *  @return Split values inside the set.
   */
  def split2(numSplits: Int, splitLimit: Int, minVal: Int, maxVal: Int): List[Int] = {

    val splits = new ListBuffer[Int]()

    // We take the min-max interval and divide by the numSplits and also
    // calculate a remainder.  Because of integer division rules, numsplits *
    // splitSize + minVal will always be <= maxVal.  We then use the remainder
    // and add 1 if the current split index is less than the < the remainder.
    // This is guaranteed to add up to remainder and not surpass the value.
    val splitSize = (maxVal - minVal) / numSplits
    val splitSizeDouble = (maxVal.toDouble - minVal.toDouble) / numSplits.toDouble

    if (splitLimit > 0 && splitSizeDouble > splitLimit) {
      // If split size is greater than limit then do the same thing with larger
      // amount of splits.
      log.debug("Adjusting split size {} because it's greater than limit {}", splitSize, splitLimit)
      val newSplits = (maxVal - minVal) / splitLimit
      split2(if (newSplits != numSplits) newSplits else newSplits + 1, splitLimit, minVal, maxVal)

    } else {

      val remainder = (maxVal - minVal) % numSplits
      var curVal = minVal

      // This will honor numSplits as long as split size > 0.  If split size is
      // 0, it will have remainder splits.

      val v = 0L to numSplits

        @tailrec def inc(v: Seq[Long]): Unit = {
          val i = v.head
          splits += curVal
          if (curVal >= maxVal || v.tail.isEmpty) {
            // do nothing
          } else {
            curVal += splitSize
            curVal += (if (i < remainder) 1 else 0)
            inc(v.tail)
          }
        }

      inc(v)

      if (splits.length == 1) {
        // make a valid singleton split
        splits += maxVal
      } else if ((maxVal - minVal) <= numSplits) {
        // Edge case when there is lesser split points (intervals) then
        // requested number of splits. In such case we are creating last split
        // with two values, for example interval [1, 5] broken down into 5
        // splits will create following conditions:
        //  * 1 <= x < 2
        //  * 2 <= x < 3
        //  * 3 <= x < 4
        //  * 4 <= x <= 5
        // Notice that the last split have twice more data than others. In
        // those cases we add one maxVal at the end to create following splits
        // instead:
        //  * 1 <= x < 2
        //  * 2 <= x < 3
        //  * 3 <= x < 4
        //  * 4 <= x < 5
        //  * 5 <= x <= 5
        splits += maxVal
      }

      splits.toList
    }
  }
}

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Fund vehicles face checks
Each CIC of a group would raise funds independently and use it to invest in the group companies
By Our Special Correspondent in Mumbai
Published 7.11.19, 1:38 AM
Updated 7.11.19, 1:38 AM
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A working group appointed by the RBI on Wednesday proposed tougher norms for core investment companies (CIC) when it said the number of layers of CICs in a group should not be more than two, apart from proposing stronger corporate governance standards in these entities.
A CIC is a non-banking finance company (NBFC) which acquires shares and securities and holds not less than 90 per cent of its net assets (total assets minus cash and bank balances and investment in money market instruments among others) in the form of investment in equity shares, preference shares, bonds, debentures, debt or loans in group companies.
Pointing out that certain groups have more than one CIC, such as one for each vertical of business, it said each CIC of a group would raise funds independently and use it to invest in the group companies, including setting up another CIC in the group.
Over a period of time, this led to certain business groups developing higher gearing (the proportion of debt to equity) as funds could be raised by the CICsand as well as by the step-down CICs and the other group companies independently, thus leading to over leveraging in certain cases, which can also have systemic implications.
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Born in Potsdam, NY, Bardo began his broadcast career working in engineering, operations, administration and sales at the local station level, eventually landing a position at ABC-TV in New York. He later transferred to ABC in Los Angeles, where he worked on such programs as The Lawrence Welk Show and Let's Make A Deal. In 1985 he began working as an associate producer and later coordinating producer on General Hospital, winning a Daytime Emmy for the show in 1995.
It was also in the mid-'90s that Bardo began working with dcp as a freelance producer/production executive for many of the company's major productions. During that time he also worked on projects for NBC, helping launch production on a pair of soap operas, Aaron Spelling's Sunset Beach and NBC Studios' Passions.
In 2002, Bardo joined dcp full-time as Executive In Charge Of Production, overseeing the budget, planning, staffing and logistics for virtually all of the company's programming. Described as the "go-to guy" for every production, Bardo was the trusted confidant to Dick Clark and Fran La Maina, and his responsibilities continued to grow under Allen Shapiro, Mike Mahan and Orly Adelson until his departure in 2013, dcp said. During his tenure, he was involved in the expansion of the Academy of Country Music Awards, American Music Awards, Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve and the Golden Globe Awards, among many others.
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Parents shut down schools and clinic in Pietermaritzburg
They are demanding that a principal be fired
3 June 2021 | By Nompendulo Ngubane Brief | Pietermaritzburg
Two schools and a clinic in Ngubeni, Pietermaritzburg have been closed since Monday. Parents are demanding that a principal be removed and that the schools be refurbished. Photo: Nompendulo Ngubane
Parents in Ngubeni location in Pietermaritzburg have been protesting for three days because they want a principal, who they accuse of poorly managing a school, to be fired.
This is the second time in two months that parents have shut down the schools, demanding that they be refurbished.
Bhekamatshe Primary and Bhekuximba Secondary as well as a community clinic have been forcefully closed since Monday. Parents say that despite their demands for the principal of Bhekuximba to be removed in 2019, he has still been managing the school remotely from the education department's offices.
"We want him gone for good," said one of the protesting parents. "Although [the principal] doesn't come to the school, he still manages it. He has failed the school and is no longer welcomed here. We no longer want to discuss anything with the department's district management. MEC [Kwazi Mshengu] must come and speak to us himself," she said.
On Wednesday, several roads to the schools and the clinic were blocked with burning tyres and broken bottles.
Parents complained that the school's windows are broken, the roof leaks and some doors are broken. The school has no sports activities and because there is no fence, there are grazing cows, goats and horses on the school grounds.
"Everything is falling apart. Some parents have already moved their children to other schools. We want to see the school developed and better. The school carries the history of Ngubeni. We don't want to see it shutdown one day because it was poorly managed," said the parent.
When asked about the allegations against the principal, spokesperson for the provincial Department of Education, Muzi Mahlambi, said, "The department is attending to the matter" but added that he was concerned that learning had been disrupted by protesters.
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, também escrito como 2000 FV53, é um objeto transnetuniano (TNO) que está localizado no cinturão de Kuiper, uma região do Sistema Solar. Este corpo celeste é classificado como um plutino, pois, o mesmo está em uma ressonância orbital de 2:3 com o planeta Netuno. Ele possui uma magnitude absoluta (H) de 8,2 e, tem um diâmetro estimado com cerca de 101 km,  por isso existem poucas chances que o mesmo possa ser classificado como um planeta anão, devido ao seu tamanho relativamente pequeno.

Descoberta
 foi descoberto no dia 31 de março de 2000 pelos astrônomos C. A. Trujillo, S. S. Sheppard e D. C. Jewitt.

Órbita
A órbita de  tem uma excentricidade de 0.163 e possui um semieixo maior de 39.129 UA. O seu periélio leva o mesmo a uma distância de 32.748 UA em relação ao Sol e seu afélio a 45.510.

Plutinos
Objetos do cinturão de Kuiper
Objetos transnetunianos
Objetos astronômicos descobertos em 2000


yermiyahu ahron taub is a librarian at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research in New York. His English language poems have appeared in such publications as Chiron Review, Grasslands Review, and Prairie Schooner. His Yiddish language poems have appeared in Der Bavebter Yid, Jews, and Yugntruf.


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Bártfafürdő (szlovákul Bardejovské Kúpele) Bártfától 5 km-re északra fekvő fürdőhely Szlovákiában.

Az évszázadok óta ismert konyhasós, vasas gyógyforrások tették lehetővé a fürdőtelepülés kialakulását a 19. század elején. A gyógyvíz különösen emésztési és idegi bántalmak ellen ajánlott. A század végén épült szállók előkelő vendégei között volt Erzsébet királyné. I. Sándor orosz cár is megfordult itt.

A nyári hónapokban Kéler Béla zeneszerző gyakran tartózkodott a fürdőben. 1850-től 1882-ben bekövetkezett haláláig itt volt háza.

Nevezetes a zenepavilon is.

Neves személyek
Itt született 1904-ben Szörényi Erzsébet magyar geológus, paleontológus, egyetemi tanár.
Itt szolgált Divald Károly (1830-1897) fényképész, gyógyszerész, barlangfotográfus, a magyar fényképészet úttörője.

Látnivalók
 A nagy kiterjedésű szabadtéri néprajzi múzeum (skanzen) néprajzi jellegű kiállítása Felső-Sáros sajátos népi építészetét mutatja be, de van itt a 18. századból származó ortodox fatemplom is.
 Zenepavilon, előtte Erzsébet királyné bronzszobra (Donáth Gyula, 1903).

Kapcsolódó szócikk
 Bártfa

Jegyzetek

További információk
Chyzer Kornél: Bártfa-fürdői emlékkönyv. (Myskovszky Victor és Divald Károly fényképei nyomán) Budapest és Eperjes, Divald Károly fényképész kiadása, 1889.

A Bártfai járás települései
Szlovákia fürdőhelyei


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Taylor selected to play for England boys
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Taylor Stote. - Credit: Archant
Burnham & Berrow golfer Taylor Stote has been selected to play for England Under-16s against Wales.
BURNHAM & Berrow golfer Taylor Stote has been selected to play for England Under-16s against Wales at Radyr on August 26-27.
Sixteen-year-old Taylor, tied 26th in this year's English Under-18 boy's championship for the Carris Trophy, shared 12th place at the recent Scottish Under-16s strokeplay and shared 37th place in the McGregor Trophy.


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Clean coal technologies crucial for reducing carbon emissions
Despite the growing shift towards renewable sources of energy, India will continue to rely on coal-based power in the near future. This will have serious implications with regard to the increased green house gas (GHG) emissions as thermal power plants account for about 50 per cent of emissions. As per Central Electricity Authority (CEA) estimates, carbon dioxide emissions from grid-connected power stations stood at around 846.2 million tonnes in 2015-16, as compared to 805.4 million tonnes in 2014-15.
In the past decade, there has been growing focus on the use of clean coal technology (CCT) with higher operational efficiency and lower fuel consumption and hence lower carbon emissions. The uptake of such technologies is expected to gain momentum as gencos strive to meet stringent environmental regulations.
Power Line takes a look at the progress and uptake of boiler, turbine and generator technologies for clean power generation…
Supercritical technology
Supercritical units are designed with higher steam parameters of 247 kg per square centimetre, 565/593ºC. Therefore, the efficiency of such units is about 2-3 per cent higher than that of existing 500 MW subcritical units. Several Indian and global players have manufactured products based on the supercritical technology. Currently, 44 supercritical units of 660/800 MW each with an aggregate capacity of 39,710 MW have been commissioned and 48,060 MW capacity is under construction. In order to help state utilities and independent power producers replace old inefficient coal-based plants with supercritical units, the government has formulated a policy for automatic transfer of coal linkages to proposed supercritical units.
Ultra-supercritical and advanced ultra-supercritical
Ultra-supercritical (USC) technology was initially adopted in Europe and Japan. USC plants operate at a higher temperature of 600ºC and at an efficiency level of up to 44 per cent, which is 3-4 per cent higher than a supercritical unit. The technology requires lesser coal consumption and reduces carbon emissions by 0.7 kg per kWh. However, due to high temperature, USC units are more sensitive to feed-water quality and entail high maintenance costs as higher thermal stress and fatigue can possibly occur in the boiler section of such a unit.
Indigenous research for the development of advanced-ultra supercritical (A-USC) technology is being carried out in India. A consortium of three government entities, Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL), NTPC Limited and Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research (IGCAR) have signed an MoU for the development of 800 MW A-USC indigenous demonstration plant with main steam pressure of 310 kg per square centimetre and temperature of 710/720ºC. The move is expected to result in an efficiency improvement of about 10 per cent compared to supercritical technology. The total project cost is estimated at Rs 15.54 billion, out of which Rs 2.70 billion will be contributed by BHEL, Rs 0.50 billion by NTPC, Rs 2.34 billion by IGCAR, Rs 1 billion from the Department of Science and Technology and the remaining amount of Rs 9 billion will be granted by the Department of Heavy Industry. The use of A-USC technology in coal fired plants is expected to reduce carbon emissions by 20 per cent as compared to subcritical plants and increase the plant's life expectancy through material development.
Integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC) is the emerging hybrid gas-fired power technology since it uses a combination of coal gasification and combined cycle technology to produce electricity in a clean and efficient manner. It integrates gasifier, gas turbine and steam turbine in a combined cycle mode where coal is gasified with either air or oxygen to fire syngas into the gas turbine. The technology is capable of effectively capturing feedstock's carbon inventory from syngas, before it is combusted in the gas turbine. Thus, it can operate at higher efficiency and lower emissions as compared to conventional pulverised coal fired power plants. IGCC facilitates reduction in the cost of cleanup technologies, lowers water consumption and decreases incremental cost of carbon capture.
The technology has so far been adopted only in the US, the Netherlands and Spain. In India, BHEL and NTPC Limited have jointly set up a 6.2 MW IGCC-based demonstration project at Trichy. The technology has the potential to provide an economically viable option for carbon capture but it is not entirely suited for Indian coal, which has high fly ash content. Further, NTPC has proposed the setting up of a 100 MW demonstration plant in Uttar Pradesh, adapting the IGCC technology to suit the Indian conditions.
However, there are major bottlenecks in the widespread adoption of IGCC technology. These include cost, availability, complexity and uncertainty regarding its operational track record. The technology also provides opportunities for new product areas along with electricity generation like liquid fuel generation, hydrogen production, pre-combustion CO2 capture and fuel cell integration, which may provide future options for zero emission coal technologies with higher efficiency. Technological advancements are constantly being made with respect to syngas cleaning at higher temperature.
Fluidised bed combustion (FBC) refers to a method of burning a wide variety of coal and other low-grade fuels such as lignite, biomass, bagasse and coal washery waste. There are two variants of FBC boilers: circulating fluidised bed combustion (CFBC) and pressurised fluidised bed combustion (PFBC). CFBC boilers offer flexibility in terms of the quality of fuels along with reduction in SO2 and NOX emissions due to lower operating flue gas temperatures. As compared to clean coal technologies, CFBC is relativity a more reliable technology and economical to maintain. In India, the largest operational CFBC boiler commissioned by BHEL unit has a capacity of 250 MW and uses lignite as the primary fuel. Therefore, going forward there would be greater focus on the scaling up of CFBC units.
The uptake of CBFC boilers is driven by its ability to use inferior quality fuels in an environment friendly manner, thereby eliminating the need to use complicated flue gas treatment facilities. Localisation of the technology is also easier since CBFC is considered to have plant efficiency similar to that of pulverised coal plants and can be manufactured in the same facilities that manufacture conventional boilers. The success of the technology will largely depend upon the maturity of fluidised bed gasification technology for high ash coal.
Carbon capture and storage
Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is an important technology to achieve the 2ºC pathway set by the global community. It is an emerging approach, which can significantly mitigate GHG emissions by capturing carbon dioxide from large point sources and transporting it to an underground storage site rather than releasing it into the atmosphere. CCS is capable of addressing emissions from a wide range of power and industrial processes.
Globally, there are around 15 operational large-scale CCS projects with six more projects under construction. Around 100 small-scale projects are also in the pipeline. The lack of momentum in CCS deployment can lead to asset stranding of coal-fired plants at a much larger scale by 2050. However, financial support and policy certainty are crucial for catalysing this technology. To this end, BHEL has collaborated with TREC-STEP (Tiruchirapalli Regional Engineering College Science and Technology Entrepreneurs Park), as a part of a three-year European Union funded project. However, the deployment of CCS technology would face certain impediments such as technical feasibility, cost and risk of slow/ accidental leakage.
Clean coal technologies are continuously evolving in the country and will have a pivotal role to play in India's commitment to the Paris agreement. These technologies will offer a middle ground to India to meet its energy demand requirement and emission targets. Even though the progress so far has been slow, India's energy policies have been on the right track to ensure a wider adoption of such technologies. While supercritical and CBFC are well-established technologies, there is still a long road ahead for the deployment of A-USC, IGCC and CCS technologies, which will be dependent on the financial support from the government.
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Parenting educator Dr. Rene Hackney discusses the High/Scope approach?
Host:What is the High/Scope approach?
Rene Hackney: High/Scope is a Piagetian term where it is really based on science and in language development for young children in that assuming that children learn best when they have hands on experience that if they can actually manipulate in and use the things that they are learning about they will have a much deeper understanding. It also incorporates something called Plan, Do, Review where children are introduced to a topic before it happens such as if they are going to be learning about the farm, they will read books about the farm and they will have a farm place set in there and then they will go do where they go visit the farm and then they review and they talk about all those things they learned about the farm. So, children are getting that vocabulary before, during and after. That Plan, Do, Review is just we built in to every cycle throughout the day. So if they are sitting before a circle time, the teacher might say, Well, Johnny what do you planned to do today? and go around the circle and ask everyone their plans, then while they are doing center time she will walk around and say, Look at you, you are building your blocks and she will comment on what they are doing, so they have got the plan and the do. Then the review is where the teacher sits back at circle time and says, What did you do at center time? The children are again getting their vocabulary before, during and after. They are going to have a richer understanding of those activities.


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Q: Duplicate a sheet and rename copy to cell value I need to take a spreadsheet, duplicate it (there should be two separate spreadsheet files), and then rename the copy with the value of a specific cell from the original spreadsheet.
I did some research in Google's documentation, then looked in stackoverflow. I slightly modified what I found at "Google script to copy and rename a sheet and name is based on a cell reference"
function CreateNewTimesheet() {

  // The code below makes a duplicate of the active sheet
  var ss = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet()
  SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet().duplicateActiveSheet();

  // The code below will rename the active sheet to a date based on cell O49 of the source spreadsheet

 var myValue = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSheet( ).getRange("O49").getDisplayValue();
 SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet().renameActiveSheet(myValue);

}

Here's my problem:
The code snippet above creates a copy of the original spreadsheet as a new tab within the original (source) spreadsheet and renames the tab properly. This is not exactly what I need. I need the original (source) spreadsheet duplicated, not copied, so that the duplicate of the original (source) spreadsheet and its duplicate are two separate files, not a tab within the original (source) file.
I need something like: Right-click, left-click "Make a Copy", rename "Copy of ..." sheet to desired name.

A: Refer the below code...
function createCopy() {
  var myValue = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet().getActiveSheet().getRange("O49").getValue();
  var copiedSpreadSheet = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet().copy(myValue);
}

Edit : To create the copy of the spreadsheet and place it into a particular drive folder
function createCopy() {
  var myValue = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet().getActiveSheet().getRange("O49").getValue();
  var destinationFolder = DriveApp.getFolderById("<<Drive Folder ID>>");
  DriveApp.getFileById(SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet().getId()).makeCopy(myValue,destinationFolder);
}

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