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The event, hosted by the PODS (Parents Opening Doors) Parent Carer Forum, will be held at the Ramada Hotel in Telford on July 4 and aims to give parent carers the opportunity to have their voices heard at the highest level.
The Question Time panel members will include Telford and Wrekin Council commissioner for vulnerable people, Sam Ives, and service delivery managers as well as Simon Wellman from the SEND 0-25yrs team and Debbie Lloyd from the council's early help and support team.
On the health panel will be David Evans, Chief Officer of Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG), Catherine Smith, Designated Clinical Officer, and Vicki Pike, Women and Children's commissioner for the CCG.
Jayne Stevens, participation co-ordinator at the forum, said: "This is an opportunity for parent carers to feel they are part of something that is actioning change and share their experiences first hand
"It is also an opportunity to meet the whole PODS team and find out what we have been up to in the last 12 months, meet other parent carers to share ideas and experiences and hear about about our upcoming inclusive family trips and events.
Families will also hear an update on the Face 2 Face befriender scheme, which offers parent carers emotional and practical peer to peer support hosted by PODS.
Shana Weare, Face 2 Face scheme co-ordinator, will also be holding a taster session in Lego based therapy for attendees to engage in.
PODS, which provides a variety of support for families in the Telford and Wrekin area, celebrates its 10-year anniversary in 2018, and is on the lookout for new trustees to lend their support to the project.
"We are delighted to have been working with local families for 10 years and we will be holding a number of events to celebrate," added Jayne.
"We have had such great support as a project right from the start with help from Telford and Wrekin Community Voluntary Service, and have managed to boost our offerings by securing two Big Lottery grants totalling more than £630,000 over the past six years.
"We have so many wonderful volunteer parent reps, befrienders and supporters who we are so grateful to, but we are now looking for new trustees to help us steer our way through the next 10 years of success and growth."
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Vivir como él è un album in studio del gruppo cileno Quilapayún pubblicato nel 1971.

Descrizione
Questo è il nono album in studio realizzato dal gruppo. Come di consueto i Quilapayún licenziano per la DICAP un album politicamente impegnato, caratterizzato da canzoni legate alla politica di quegli anni sia nazionale, tutta la vicenda di Unidad Popular, che internazionale, in particolare la Guerra del Vietnam. Negli stessi anni riservavano alla EMI Odeon Chile dischi più centrati su sonorità tradizionali, ma nei primi anni '70 questa tipologia di dischi del gruppo passava inosservata, come se il loro pubblico fosse concentrato soprattutto sulle questioni politiche e relegasse in secondo piano quelle legate alla riscoperta della musica tradizionale. Il disco si compone di un lato A interamente occupato dal brano Vivir como él e da un lato B in gran parte contenente canzoni uscite su vari singoli nei mesi precedenti.

Prima della registrazione di questo disco, durante un tour in Francia, lascia il gruppo Patricio Castillo, sostituito da Rubén Escudero.

Vivir como él
Per la seconda volta i Quilapayún si confrontano con la forma della cantata popular, tentativo di unire musica colta e musica popolare che avevano già esplorato nel disco Cantata Santa María de Iquique contenente l'omonima cantata. Vivir como él in particolare rientra in quei lavori che ambivano a maggiori ambizioni artistiche, rispetto alle normali canzoni, mantenendo però uno stretto contatto con l'attualità politica.
Il gruppo conobbe questa cantata, originariamente scritta dal solo Frank Fernández, a Cuba e decise di registrarla arrangiandola per le sonorità e le vocalità dei Quilapayún chiedendo a Luis Advis di aggiungere un preludio e degli interludi strumentali.
L'opera narra le vicende ed è esplicitamente dedicata alla figura di Nguyễn Văn Trỗi, un militante Viet Cong, catturato dalle forze sudvietnamite mentre stava preparando un attentato all'allora Segretario alla Difesa degli Stati Uniti Robert McNamara, in seguito torturato e infine condannato a morte.

La batea
Tra le canzoni di maggior successo e fama del gruppo, capaci di creare e sedimentare un rapporto privilegiato tra i Quilapayún e il popolo cileno, abbiamo La batea (in italiano La tinozza), che in questo disco compare per la prima volta. Di questa canzone di origine cubana, viene mantenuta invariata la musica e il testo del ritornello, mentre le strofe vengono del tutto modificate adattandole alla realtà politica di quei giorni in Cile, in particolare l'immagine dell'acqua agitata dentro la tinozza ben rappresentava, in maniera umoristica, le convulsioni interne alla destra e il caos nel paese prodotto dalla propaganda contro il governo di Salvador Allende. Nel tempo questa canzone subirà continue modifiche al testo in maniera da tenerla sempre aggiornata ai fatti contemporanei e sarà reincisa, con il testo dedicato ai quattro componenti della giunta golpista cilena, nel disco Adelante.

Le altre canzoni
Tra le altre canzoni spicca Venceremos, l'inno di Unidad Popular, qui in una versione orchestrale. Nel brano Segunda declaración de La Habana le voci e gli strumenti del gruppo, per tutta la durata della canzone, si ascoltano sopra la registrazione del celebre discorso di Fidel Castro che intitola la canzone, risalente al 4 febbraio 1962.

Edizioni
Questo album è stato pubblicato per la prima volta nel 1971, in formato LP dall'etichetta DICAP con codice JJL-12 in due diverse edizioni con diversa copertina, è stato registrato in stereofonia, ma è stato pubblicato mono. Non è mai stato pubblicato in formato CD, ma, con la sola esclusione della canzone Segunda declaración de La Habana, le sue tracce compaiono nella antologia La fuerza de la historia.

Tracce

Crediti

Formazione

 Eduardo Carrasco
 Carlos Quezada
 Willy Oddó
 Hernán Gómez
 Rodolfo Parada
 Rubén Escudero

Collaboratori
 Héctor Duvauchelle - recitato in Vivir como él
 Orquesta Sinfónica Popular diretta da Eduardo Moubarak in Venceremos

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Collegamenti esterni

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The Jewish Food Justice Fellowship (JFJF) is a pilot professional development oriented program designed and implemented by the Leichtag Foundation in San Diego's North County coastal region to support vibrant Jewish life in North County and to combat poverty and increase food access and self-sufficiency. The program will focus on food justice, agricultural sustainability and Jewish community engagement.
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RSPB condemns 'vile' coot killers at Hackney park
Julia Gregory
Published: 2:17 PM May 19, 2011
Hackney residents are being asked to help catch thugs who have stoned to death a nest of coot chicks and their mother.
As the Hackney Gazette reported the incident last week has shocked people who had been keeping an eye on the nest and family who had made their home on the River Lea adjoining Millfields Park, off the busy Leabridge Road.
The RSPB has warned that anyone responsible for killing the birds faces a serious penalty if caught- with up to six months in jail and fines of up to �5,000 per offence.
Bird charity RSPB London's Tim Webb said: "This incident has shocked and dismayed local park users and residents. It's a park I know well and use with my family as we live nearby. A lot of effort has gone in to improving it over the past five years and this vile act is just so completely removed from the ethos and pride shown by all those who've contributed to that improvement, that it seems wholly alien."
Coots are common water birds, black in colour with a distinctive white beak and shield above the beak, which gives them the title of 'bald'. Like all other wild birds in England and Wales the water fowl are protected under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981.
Mr Webb warned that anyone found guilty of intentionally killing, injuring or taking wild birds, or even damaging or disturbing them or their eggs on their nests can be prosecuted. The offence carries a maximum six months imprisonment and fines of �5,000 per offence.
"In the case of the coots those responsible could potentially be jailed and fined for each chick and bird killed, so the fine could mount up to a considerable sum.
"These incidents, and the recent destruction of some swans eggs further down the river near Leabank Square, are repugnant criminal acts. I'd urge all park and river-path users to help us stamp out this barbaric behaviour".
The incident has been recorded by the RSPB's Investigations Unit and anyone with information should contact Hackney Police on 0300 123 1212 or to the RSPB at www.rspb.org.uk


Sec. 2101.001. SHORT TITLE. This chapter may be cited as the Artists' Consignment Act.
(1) "Art" means a commonly recognized art form, including a painting, sound recording of a musical performance, sculpture, drawing, work of graphic art, pottery, weaving, batik, macrame, or quilt.
(2) "Art dealer" means a person in the business of selling works of art.
(3) "Artist" means the creator of a work of art or, if the creator is dead, the creator's estate.
(4) "Creditor" has the meaning assigned by Section 1.201, Business & Commerce Code.
(5) "Person" means an individual, partnership, corporation, or association.
(6) "Recording distributor" means a person who acquires a sound recording and sells the sound recording to another person for use or resale.
(7) "Sound recording" means a tangible medium on which music or other sounds are recorded or otherwise stored, including a phonograph record, disc, tape, cassette, or other medium now existing or developed later on which music or other sounds are or can be recorded or otherwise stored or a copy or reproduction that duplicates in whole or in part the original. The term does not include a medium on which the primary recorded information is information other than music or other sound, such as a motion picture or computer program, and that contains recorded sound as an integrated part of the primary recorded information.
Acts 2005, 79th Leg., Ch. 233 (S.B. 846), Sec. 1, eff. May 27, 2005.
Sec. 2101.003. CONSIGNED ART EXEMPT FROM CERTAIN LIENS OR CLAIMS. (a) Notwithstanding any provision of the Business & Commerce Code, a work of art delivered to an art dealer for exhibition or sale and the proceeds from the dealer's sale of the work of art are not subject to a claim, lien, or security interest of a creditor of the dealer.
(b) This section applies to the proceeds of a sale of a work of art regardless of whether the art dealer or another person purchased the work.
Sec. 2101.004. CONSIGNED SOUND RECORDINGS EXEMPT FROM CERTAIN LIENS OR CLAIMS. (a) Notwithstanding any provision of the Business & Commerce Code, a sound recording delivered by the artist who produced the music or other sound on the recording to a recording distributor for sale and the proceeds from the recording distributor's sale of the sound recording are not subject to a claim, lien, or security interest of a creditor of the recording distributor.
(b) Except as provided by Subsection (c), this section applies to the proceeds of a sale of a sound recording regardless of whether the recording distributor or another person purchased the recording.
(c) This section does not apply to the proceeds of a sale of a sound recording if the artist delivered the recording to the recording distributor pursuant to a sale for which the artist has been paid in full.
Added by Acts 2005, 79th Leg., Ch. 233 (S.B. 846), Sec. 2, eff. May 27, 2005.


It's not certain exactly when ROTARY/One began. 23 Feb 1905? Or a few weeks later when Paul Harris suggested several names, "Rotary" being one of them. There is also a notation in the proceedings of the 1910 convention, as follows: "Whereas, on February 25, 1904, there was founded Rotary Club of Chicago" What we do know, from the writings of Paul Harris, is that he got an idea in 1900 after having dinner with a fellow Chicago attorney. We know, again from his writing, that his idea was for an organization and that he already had some friends in mind.
Though it is world famous today and many know about and are a part of the Rotary fraternity, it all started in a small room with a bunch of people with similar ideas and interests these visionaries wanted a different world and hence got down to work and founded this club that has grown many branches today.
If you are into trading, you will know how the stock trading has evolved over the years. What initially used to be a chaos is now civilized and smooth. People had to come to a place at a given time, shout and sell and buy the stocks they are interested in. today, one can invest and change the investments every second, with the tap of a button.
Many use the help of physical traders who sit at the computer, watching the numbers and the market move, and make their moves accordingly. Sometimes, despite their expertise and knowledge, it can lead to errors and even a slight delay could make you lose a lot of money. One cannot avoid such human errors.
This is why automated software like Fintech Ltd, is preferred by many. it has been created to help people invest more easily and not have to depend on a human trader every time. One need not know much about the stock market or follow the stocks very closely either. The software will do all the readings, analysis and comparisons and make the investment moves accordingly. One can sit back and relax as the computer takes care of everything.
"On the night of February 23, 1905, the first meeting took place at Gus' office in the Unity Building.
Silvester and Paul had dined together at an Italian restaurant on Chicago's near north side. Gus, by prearrangement, had invited a personal friend, Hiram Shorey, a merchant tailor, a native of the village of Litchfield, in the State of Maine, to whom he had previously introduced Paul.
The "Rest of the Story" as Chicago's Paul Harvey would say, "is history," and there's nowhere on earth to explore it like where you are right now.


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Boots Riley (left) in Sorry to Bother You.
Jacksonville, FL - In 2018, I saw fewer movies in theaters than any time since age 3 or 4. It wasn't just because the high price of tickets and snacks practically requires taking out a small loan. There's a real lack of original storytelling in American films – especially horror and science fiction – and I've gotten tired of countless remakes, reboots, sequels, prequels, sequels to prequels, and so on.
It wasn't all bad. 2018 gave us some solid films worth watching, and I'll highlight a few of my favorites, admittedly, mostly sci-fi and horror, below. But in general, Hollywood continues to cannibalize its past successes (and failures) in search of more profit rather than telling unique stories. Movies look better than they did 30 years ago, but they're generally worse - and they're over-produced as hell.
Before looking at some of the year's best, it's worth considering why movies in the U.S. seem stale and less original. American cinema is experiencing the classic contradictions at work in every capitalist market: a trend towards monopoly and a crisis of overproduction. In the last decade, we've seen media and entertainment become even more concentrated in four giant corporations, expressed most recently in Disney buying up Fox in 2018. As movie and television production companies get gobbled up by larger entities, so do their intellectual properties (franchises, series, characters). This is a recipe for remakes, reboots, sequels, prequels and everything in-between as new owners try to squeeze more profit out of old ideas.
Adaptations from existing material are nothing new. From the dawn of major motion pictures, producers have mined classic novels and literature for material to adapt for the big screen. Starting in the 1970s, Hollywood saw an explosion of movies "based on a true story" - an often dubious claim that nevertheless proves profitable today. But this process has come full-circle in the 21st century, producing outrageous situations like five separate Spider-Man film series, themselves adaptations of a comic book, spanning eight movies by three studios in the last 16 years - costing (and earning) many billions of dollars.
Film researcher Stephen Follows found that sequels and prequels accounted for nearly one-third of the top 100 grossing movies in 2017 – about three times the level of ten years ago. The number of remakes and reboots have declined since its peak in 2006, but only because sequels to the original remakes have taken their place. Profit-hungry studios see existing brands and franchises as safe bets, hoping that nostalgia for a bygone time before the Great Recession, before the 'War on Terror,' before Trump (childhood in the case of the coveted 18-35 age demographic) will move asses into theater seats.
My top movies of 2018
It's fitting, then, that the best film I saw this year was Boots Riley's Sorry to Bother You. It's the most pro-union, anti-capitalist movie made in the U.S. in several decades, and it's an original story that features a sci-fi twist worthy of the Twilight Zone's best episodes. But Sorry to Bother You isn't just great political art. It perfectly speaks to the struggles facing the working class youth of today in an age dominated by monopoly corporations like Amazon and flooded with social media, low wages, high rent, and soul-crushing jobs. I want to screen it for a union movie night this year with some of my Teamster brothers.
Staying on sci-fi, Annihilation told a story remarkably derivative of an old Soviet film, Stalker - just with more action. But while Stalker grappled with profound and disturbing changes taking place in the 1980s USSR, Annihilation mostly looks cool. It's hard to know what, if anything, the writers (novel or screenplay) wanted to say as a military team of five women, led by Natalie Portman, explore a disturbing extraterrestrial 'zone' created when a meteor hits Florida.
Steven Spielberg's Ready Player One at least directs its anger at corporate America, even though it's probably the worst offender on this list in terms of unoriginality. Most of the film takes place in a video game world choked full of characters and references to classic Steven Spielberg movies. The game is a virtual reality simulator, which players use to escape the grim, dystopian poverty and hopelessness of the real world. Beneath the pop culture naval-gazing, it delivers a timely message about the internet: There's no escape from the misery of capitalism, and there's no substitute for real-world struggle.
Shifting gears, I'm really tired of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). Black Panther made a lot of best-of lists, but whichever side you came down on the whole T'Challa/Killmonger debate, the story still wasn't that interesting. Avengers: Infinity War was a huge action-packed spectacle… that you won't really understand if you haven't watched at least a dozen MCU movies over the last decade. Venom, produced by Sony outside the MCU, wasn't exactly original but it stood out as a back-to-basics superhero movie from a simpler time (i.e. 20 years ago). I enjoyed seeing the hulking alien anti-hero take down a scumbag Silicon Valley CEO clearly modeled after Elon Musk, and apparently so did Chinese audiences, who turned Venom into a socialist meme online.
The biggest surprise of the year was how much I enjoyed Solo: A Star Wars Story. Ironically, the Star Wars movies most dependent on nostalgia for the originals (Rogue One) have turned out much better than the new episodes in the series. They feature poor and working class characters at the lead and explore the social texture of the Star Wars universe – something the originals mostly skipped.
In horror, the handful of decent flicks this year also capitalized on nostalgia rather than breaking new ground. Summer of '84 pushed the retro-style of Netflix's Stranger Things series in a different direction, offering a terrifying look at suburban crime "right next door" and police in the 80s. The Halloween sequel/reboot hit enough right notes to breathe enough life into a long-dead franchise for one last scare. Netflix's Bird Box, which took the internet by storm in December, basically just recycled the concept of M Night Shyamalan's The Happening - and admittedly, it did a lot better with the material. Unsane was an entertaining gimmick thriller, filmed entirely on an iPhone, that basically remade last year's A Cure for Wellness, which itself was a glorified remake of Shutter Island, which itself was a remake of...
Two final movies worth mentioning that exceeded my expectations:
Hereditary was marketed as "the scariest movie since The Exorcist" – like I haven't heard that one before. But while there are call-backs to Rosemary's Baby and 2015's The Witch, the film tells a genuinely disturbing story about untreated multi-generational mental illness and religious fanaticism.
With so many outstanding films to his name, Spike Lee is probably one of the ten best directors in American cinema. But his recent string of questionable films led me to expect Black Klansman, his newest effort, to really blow it. The film, loosely "based on a true story," centers on the first African American officer in the Colorado Spring police department, who spearheads an undercover campaign to take down the city's violent Ku Klux Klan chapter. Knowing that white supremacists and police forces are often joined at the hip – if not in their membership, certainly in their willingness to brutalize Black people – I wrote it off as slight-of-hand pro-cop propaganda. Parts of the true story are exaggerated, and the politics are messy, but overall the film worked, especially in light of 2017's deadly neo-Nazi march in Charlottesville.
Overall, I'd call 2018 one of the weakest years for movies in recent memory. But for socialists, organizers and activists, it's worth keeping up with the big movies, music and TV shows. Films like Sorry to Bother You are rare, but they're great jumping-off points for important discussions about capitalism, unions and the working class.
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Time Out are a duo consisting of - Ray who plays lead and rhythm guitar, and Les on vocals.
On top of live playing Time Out use midi files, using the experience gained from 18 years with a five piece band to get the percussion, bass and keyboards such that it sounds like a full on live band, but without the space taken up and at a lower price.
Having found that most audiences require a wide range of material, one of Time Outs top selling points is versatility. They cover quality songs by early pop artists such as Elvis, The Beatles and The Stones, through 70's classics by Kool & The Gang, Smokey and Queen, 80s material from Tears for Fears, Dire Straits and Phil Collins right through to 90's songs by Oasis, Edwin Collins and The Mavericks.
The styles vary too, including Bob Marley's reggae, The Eagles laid back sound, slow numbers by Eric Clapton and Roxy Music but also up tempo songs by The Jam, Huey Lewis, Gary Moore and Simple Minds.
You will have gathered by now just how versatile Time Out are, which makes them perfect for virtually any occasion.


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Nassim Nicholas Taleb: A currency must never be a speculative investment
Business 10 June 2021
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Video can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: CoinGeek Zurich – Livestream – Day 3 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQuldLZFNp8&t=23898s)
Finance and risk author Nassim Nicholas Taleb came out swinging against BTC in his keynote presentation on Day 3 of the CoinGeek Zurich conference. He also compared some cryptocurrency communities and their "HODL" mentality to neo-pagan religions, and gave some historical context to a few well-trodden Bitcoin narratives.
No one was really expecting Taleb (or Nouriel Roubini) to start making strident arguments in favor of BSV as a better implementation of Satoshi Nakamoto's vision than BTC. However, his main points were against BTC as a store of value or inflation hedge—something most of the audience likely already agreed with.
Agreeing with previous speaker Nouriel Roubini while reminding everyone his sentiments tend to the libertarian side, Taleb said he doesn't really like governments to own/control the currencies we use. But he reminded listeners of a few key points: a currency should never be a speculative investment; a store of value must have arbitrage bounds; and transactional flexibility does not require complete decentralization.
He did correct Roubini on one point, though: BTC is not useful for criminal use. "Everything electronic is traceable," he noted.
Taleb looked at BTC as an inflation hedge compared to gold. The "digital gold" meme is popular in BTC circles, but doesn't get much play in BSV. Gold itself has been de-monetized and there's not enough of it to keep up with demand to use as money, he added. This has made even that asset too volatile to really protect against inflation.
"I want to convince libertarians that Bitcoin is not the thing they should rally for," he said, giving a formula for what a true inflation hedge should be. He told the story of Italian students hoarding payphone tokens as a hedge against the inflating lira as one example as a hedge that worked only temporarily. In a similar vein, the familiar Bitcoin trope of Jesus chasing the money-changers from the temple failed to look at why the money-changers were there (the temple accepted only the Shekel of Tyre, a stable currency at the time). In more modern times, people used the Swiss franc as a stable hedge. What people really want is something stable, and BTC isn't that.
One thing about BTC that "really turned me off, and started this whole process" (towards BTC skepticism) was looking at BTC's price volatility versus capitalization statistics, Taleb said. There's no way it could be a usable form of money with those kinds of numbers.
But what about BTC functioning as a kind of backup to the current fiat system, should it fail somehow?
"A person said to me, 'If the world goes to hell, I can always use Bitcoin.' Well, I'm in the risk business."
There was no guarantee you'd even be able to use BTC in a real crisis, he said, and the past year has had enough examples of crises to demonstrate how things can veer off course quickly.
At a conference where the focus has been on "igniting the power of data" with near-zero content on BSV's unit value, Roubini's and Taleb's criticisms of BTC as a currency or inflation hedge felt a little obvious. Both might have been surprised to discover the audience actually agreeing with their points.
Both speakers further elaborated on their opinions, and faced some more confrontational comments from Dr. Craig S. Wright and Ian Grigg, in a following panel. It was apparent neither Roubini nor Taleb had studied BSV in much detail as yet—whether they will do that in future remains to be seen. But the BSV audience has also grown weary of the decade-old "digital gold" meme that never delivered (and was never really true), and are now looking to wider applications for the technology to fulfill Satoshi's vision.
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2 out of 2 defective Henglong 5.3S gold label receivers?
The last two Henglong tanks I've received with the latest 2.4gHz, gold label version 5.3S receiver boards have gone rogue. For no apparent reason, I turned on the tanks this week and the right stick control on the transmitter has switched itself from up/down = forward/backwards, to up/down = turn left/right. Forwards/backwards now requires left/right on the right stick.
Has anyone else experienced this? I've made no changes to either tank and a close inspection of the receiver boards shows no bad solder joints or loose wire connections.
All of my other tanks have the 2.4gHz silver label 5.3 receiver boards and have been very reliable. I'm mystified!
That really is weird, have you checked the transmitters?
Yes, even binding with a known good 5.3 Tx still causes the problem, when used with these two receivers. I can't see any difference between the TX that was supplied with the 5.3 silver receivers than the TX supplied with the gold receivers. No cracked traces on the receiver boards and all the solder points look clean.
I'm wondering if there's a flaw in the design, which is why I've asked for other possible examples of this. Both gold labeled receivers do everything else as they should. I guess I'll have to get used to driving them sideways!
If there are no problems with the traces, a bulging capacitor might cause anomalous behaviour; but not on two units. Years ago, bad caps were a real pain on lots of laptop brands.
It almost sounds as if the firmware has been corrupted, somehow. Too near some electromagnets?
You've not has a visit from some extra-terrestrials, have you? It's that odd.
I would have suggested re-binding the boards, but clearly, you've already done that and more.
I once had a problem with functions being re-assigned, when I didn't follow usual start-up procedure, and when the battery wasn't fully charged. That was on a Heng Long Tiger 1.
Well, I've ordered two new receivers and asked the ebay seller to be sure that they are 5.3 (non S) silver label boards. We'll see how that turns out! Let this serve as a warning for others.
What I still don't understand is just what the difference is with these two generations of receivers, all of the functions available to the operation of the tanks is the same???
Jim Reeves wrote: Well, I've ordered two new receivers and asked the ebay seller to be sure that they are 5.3 (non S) silver label boards. We'll see how that turns out! Let this serve as a warning for others.
Tk 6.0, when Heng Long Panzer in Germany describe as v 6.0, generation '4'. I guess the MFU is supposed to be the 6th revision, while the transmitter is the 4th version. But clear answers are not easy to come by.
Elsewhere, I've even seen the latest MFu listed as v.7 on Ebay.
The version in the latest Leo 2A6 is meant to offer wifi, camera among other features including- it would appear, the possibility of adding an IR receiver to the BB setup. Now, that really would be a significant difference.
Isn't it possible to change the wiring around in the transmitter on the right stick?
I know you shouldn't have to, but surely it would be a fix?
Son of a gun-ner wrote: Isn't it possible to change the wiring around in the transmitter on the right stick?
I looked, and the sticks are surface mounted to a single circuit board, so no go. My desoldering skills and equipment are lacking! I remember the old Futaba Tx's were wired as you suggest and was hoping for that sort of work-around.
I haven't looked inside one yet, so didn't realise.
I noticed the TK 6.0 while shopping. The Tx does appear the same, but who knows what may have changed internally. There's nothing with 6.0 that appeals to me (not looking to make a drone tank!), but it may offer a "all in one" solution for others. The new motor connections look to possibly offer higher amp loads than the 5.3, so perhaps the esc's have been beefed up? Makes one wonder anyway.
Yeah, I'm going to wait till the new 6.0 is in a tank that I'd prefer to purchase, I don't need another leopard.
So, after a two week wait for new receivers from a chinese vendor on ebay, who assured me they were sending 5.3 silver label units (as pictured in their listing) I received gold label receivers! The vendor apologized and offered a 20% discount. I have no need for their discount!
Looks like I'm in the market for at least one 5.3 silver label receiver, again! Anyone want to swap for a brand new gold label receiver???


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A number of new research outputs have been made available online this month.
Dr Tarn Kruger and Dr Blythe McLennan from the Enabling sustainable emergency volunteering team have published a report detailing the views of local government and local government association managers on the future of emergency volunteering. Through these interviews with local government stakeholders, they identify a number of current and future issues facing emergency volunteering.
A number of reports from the Cost-effective mitigation strategy development for building-related earthquake risk team have been published this month:
Dr Hossein Derakhshan and Prof. Michael Griffith have published a report that describes the relationship between lateral drift of unreinforced masonry (URM) buildings and structural damage from earthquakes. Through pushover tests on four building types, the team identified displacements corresponding to damage states and compared these to existing ASCE guidelines.
A report has been produced by Dr Elisa Lumantarna, A/Prof. Helen Goldsworthy, Prof. Nelson Lam, Dr Hing-Ho Tsang, Prof. Emad Gad and Prof. John Wilson on the development of fragility curves for limited ductile reinforced concrete buildings. In it, the team provides sets of fragility curves for two types of reinforced concrete buildings and discusses the approach for their development.
Dr Itismita Mohanty, A/Prof. Mark Edwards, Dr Hyeuk Ryu and Martin Wehner have authored a report on economic loss models for earthquake impacts in Australia. In particular, this report focuses on the economic benefits of retrofitting existing buildings for earthquake resilience, and offers frameworks for a range of Australian decision makers.
A final report on the development of fragility curves for URM buildings has been published by Dr Jaroslav Vaculik and Prof. Michael Griffith. This report describes the methodology used to create fragility curves for seismically strengthened URM buildings based on reported performance of 78 heritage-listed buildings in the 2010-11 earthquakes in Christchurch.
Prof. Griffith and Dr Vaculik have also published a progress report on retrofitting costs for URM buildings, outlining their findings on the developRetrofitting costs for URM buildingsment of accurate cost estimations for the seismic improvement of existing URM building stock through retrofitting.
Research conducted by the Fire spread prediction across fuel types project has been published in two reports this month:
Dr Duncan Sutherland, Dr Jimmy Philip, Prof. Andrew Ooi and A/Prof. Khalid Moinuddin have produced a review of the current literature on the modelling and simulation of atmospheric boundary-layer flow over forest canopies. This review is intended to inform fire behaviour analysists of recent progress in sub-canopy modelling in order to aid in the development of simplified models for wind reduction factors.
A report entitled Simulations of the effect of canopy density profile on sub-canopy wind profiles, authored by Dr Sutherland, Rahul Wadhwani, Dr Philip, Prof. Ooi and A/Prof. Moinuddin, describes the project's initial progress in simulating the relationship between leaf area density and sub-canopy wind velocity, and discusses a potential approach for the modelling of sub-canopy wind velocity.
Graeme Riddell, A/Prof. Hedwig van Delden and Prof. Holger Maier from the Improved decision support for natural hazard risk reduction project have published a report on the relationship between urbanisation and flood risk, with a focus on a case study of the Gawler River catchment area. The report highlights the importance of considering changes in urbanisation and flood risk.
The team from the An analysis of building losses and human fatalities from natural disasters project have published a report on the experiences of people who shelter in place during severe flooding. In it, they focus on the experiences of individual during flooding in the Northern Rivers region of New South Wales in March 2017, highlighting perspectives on awareness, information and warnings as well as describing people's experiences of sheltering in place during the flood.
Two reports have been published from the Mapping bushfire hazard and impacts project:
A report on the feasibility and benefits of using alternative satellite data in the Australian Flammability Monitoring System (AFMS) outlines the potential benefits of incorporating alternative sources of remote sensing imagery in the System to provide more accurate spatial and temporal data.
The team have published a report on user feedback on AFMS Version 1.0, in which they summarise the initial responses of end users to the first iteration of the System and identify priority areas for future development.
The team from the Developing better predictions for extreme water levels project have published two reports this month:
A web user guide has been developed for the project's interactive web tool. This report, authored by Prof. Charitha Pattiaratchi, Dr Yasha Hetzel and A/Prof Ivica Janekovic provides an overview of the website, as well as instructions on how to access and interpret the available extreme sea level data.
The team has published a final report on the extreme sea level data used in the development of the project's outputs, as well as the methodology used in the production of the outputs that have been made available to end users and the public.
Two reports have been published outlining progress made in the Natural Hazards Exposure Information Modelling Framework project have been published this month:
Dr Krishna Nadimpalli, Dr Itismita Mohanty, Dr Yogi Vidyattama, Dr Mohsen Kalantari and Prof. Abbas Rajabifard have authored a report suggesting guidelines to ensure consistency and reliability of natural hazard exposure information on a national scale. The report discusses the development of the framework, as well as specific exposure considerations for buildings, infrastructure, industry, communities and businesses.
Dr Vidyattama has authored a report on the construction of a data reliability framework for the exposure information system developed by the project team. This report aims to make a reliability assessment framework that is available to a variety of users in order to ensure data consistency and quality in exposure information systems.
Farah Beaini and Prof. Mehmet Ulubasoglu from the Optimising post-disaster recovery interventions in Australia project have published a report which provides a demographic profile and descriptive analysis of Victorian areas affected by the 2009 Black Saturday bushfires. In particular, this report aims to use specific demographic attributes provide context to the project's research findings. This report is part of a series of demographic profiles that will be produced for each of the project's case study areas.
The team from the Enhancing resilience of critical road infrastructure project have published a report on the failure mechanisms of bridges under floods, bushfires and earthquakes. The report identifies attributes of these structures that influence failure, and uses representative case studies to support vulnerability modelling of bridges.
The Improving the resilience of existing housing to severe wind events project has published two reports, authored by Alex Leblais and Dr David Henderson, as a result of simulated wind load testing on elements of housing construction.
Simulated wind load strength testing of soffits outlines the results of full-scale simulated wind load strength testing of soffit lining on two configurations of eave samples. From these tests, the team identified areas of weakness and provide recommendations to improve soffit lining performance under extreme winds.
The results of similar testing on entrance doors is presented in another report titled Simulated wind load strength testing of entrance doors. The team tested several configurations of entrance doors and highlighted areas of weakness in the configurations tested, providing recommendations for improvements in the resilience of entrance doors in cyclonic regions.
Dr Kevin Tory of the Improved predictions of severe weather to reduce community impact project has published a review of the literature on the modelling of buoyant plume rise. The report specifically focuses on areas of the literature that are of relevance to the sub-projects that are examining the development of an ember transport model and a pyrocumulonimbus prediction tool.
Three journal articles have been published based on CRC research in the last month:
An article based on completed CRC student Dr Billy Haworth's PhD research has been published in Frontiers in Earth Science. Co-authored by Dr Eleanor Bruce, Dr Josh Whittaker and Dr Roisin Read, it discusses the ways in which Web 2.0 platforms can support or undermine community resilience through the emergence of volunteered geographic information and highlights ways in which these new technologies can be managed to ensure they allow for reliable, community-centred and socially inclusive practice.
An article based on work done by the Hazards, culture and Indigenous communities project has been published in Geographical Research. Authored by Annick Thomassin, Dr Timothy Neale and Dr Jessica Weir, it reviews the existing literature on engagement between natural hazard management agencies and Indigenous peoples in Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the United States, categorising the origins of these interactions and identifying the rationales that support them. The review aims to support existing, emerging and future collaborative engagement activities between agencies and Indigenous peoples.
The Magazine of Concrete Research has published an article from the Cost-effective mitigation strategy development for building-related earthquake risk project. The article, authored by Saim Raza, Dr Hing-Ho Tsang and Prof. John Wilson, examines the drift capacity of both normal-strength and high-strength reinforced concrete columns, applying existing drift models identified from the literature. The authors evaluate the extent to which these models are able to predict the drift capacity of these columns, and propose a unified set of models to expand on the existing models' capabilities.
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This month's Mini Sledge at St. Johns Booksellers was a blast! Eight writers came out, and they even brought a couple bottles of wine. Congratulations to Lisa Galloway for winning the judge's favor.
The gift smelled like cinnamon buns, so to unwrap a Yankee candle was not a surprise. My family is from the Midwest, if I haven't mentioned it. I rewrapped the candle and brought it home to my housemate telling her it was from my parents for her. They did not buy her a present in actuality, but I felt bad, because she'd spent Christmas alone.
Well, not completely alone, she'd decorated ginger bread houses with brats at Kindercare and after got so wasted that she burnt her Stouffer's lasagna in the oven. At least watching kids quells her need to make her own babies. Her boyfriend was with his brother's family. She was not invited. She says it is because they are not married, but I doubt they know about her.
I should mention that he wears a 2 inch by 4 inch crucifix around his fat tattooed neck, and he hates me because I'm queer. Queer like short hair and all my friends are gluten-free vegetarians that change their names. He's never said as much, but I gather by his tacky, Catholic icons. Not just the necklace but the god-awful tattoos. That and he never speaks to me. In fact, he stops talking when I enter the room or the door.
Her job before Kindercare was as a cake decorator, but she was too high most days to keep the iced piping even and straight. She smokes a lot more pot now that Jesus comes around. I'm not kidding. His name really is Jesus. Oh and in case you hadn't guessed, he needs a green card. Well, yes, a medical marijuana card would probably help too, but I mean he's not legal.
She loved the candle. I knew she would. She desperately wants to be suburban, live in one of those half-tan siding, half-tan brick, 2-car garage houses. Jesus is the first boyfriend that she's had since high school. She's 32. After she un-wrapped the candle, he picked up the glass jar with his fat kid-like fingers and took a big whiff. He smiled at me, lit it, and then nodded.
My housemate and I get along fine, but we have nothing in common except for eating junk food like dehydrated shrimp and pork rinds and watching Criminal Minds. I said my friends were vegetarian, but I am not. And yes, my real name is Lisa.
The last fight that I overheard between them was this summer. She'd worn flip flops all day. I think it was the 4th of July. They'd been to that abhorrence at the waterfront, and basically her feet were dusty and caked with dirt. He'd told her that she couldn't come to her own goddamned bed without washing them. She was drunk on $6 solo cups of beer, and she wasn't moving. Laziness was one of her hallmark characteristics. So, he ended up washing them with a washcloth on the end of the bed. I thought it was tender in a fucked up way, like he was saving her from herself.
Lisa Galloway graduated from Pacific University's MFA in writing program in 2007. She's a Pushcart Nominee and author of the book of poetry Liminal: A Life of Cleavage. A NW transplant, Lisa grew up in Indiana where she was adopted into a family with Southern Baptist roots, she contends that the Bible Belt still leaves welts.


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The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is expanding the part of its Pathfinder Program that focuses on detecting and identifying unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) flying too close to airports.
Today the FAA signed Cooperative Research and Development Agreements (CRDAs) with Gryphon Sensors, Liteye Systems Inc. and Sensofusion. The FAA will evaluate procedures and technologies designed to identify unauthorized UAS operations in and around airports. This research effort, part of the FAA's Pathfinder Initiative, addresses one of the significant challenges to safe integration of UAS into the nation's airspace.
"Sometimes people fly drones in an unsafe manner," said Marke "Hoot" Gibson, FAA Senior Advisor on UAS Integration. "Government and industry share responsibility for keeping the skies safe, and we're pleased these three companies have taken on this important challenge."
"Gryphon Sensors, LLC is excited to collaborate with the FAA on utilizing technologies that detect, track and identify errant or hostile UAS in and around our nation's airports and sensitive areas. Detecting these threats is challenging because most of them are very small, fly low to the ground and can be pre-programed to fly autonomously," said Gryphon Sensors President Tony Albanese.
"Our AUDS team is very excited to join the FAA's efforts to counter rogue UAVs," stated Thomas Scott, President of Liteye Systems. He added, "As the legitimate use of unmanned vehicles becomes more prevalent in many industries, unfortunately this large number of aircraft also makes them readily available for illicit use. With the right technologies we can assist the UAV operator to conduct his mission, while protecting against those who wish us harm."
Sensofusion, Inc. CEO Tuomas Rasila said, "We first developed the technology to detect, locate, track, and gain control over UAS three years ago as a military project and operated it with three European armies under NATO. Fast forward to the present time, and AIRFENCE is now protecting various customer sites in Europe, including prisons, high profile government buildings, police, and military sites. Since the technology is software based, it improves with over-the-air updates, ensuring that we are always ahead of the commercial UAS market."
The companies' prototype UAS sensor detection systems will be evaluated at airports selected by the FAA. The agency and its federal government partners – particularly the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) – will work with the companies to study how effective their respective technologies are, while ensuring they do not interfere with the safety and security of normal airport operations.
The CRDAs with Gryphon, Liteye and Sensofusion expand upon collaborative efforts with industry to develop system standards to identify unauthorized UAS flights near airports, which could pose a hazard to manned aircraft. The agency has seen a steep increase in reports of small UAS close to airports over the last two years.
The FAA has also partnered with DHS and CACI International on similar research to explore how that company's prototype detection technology may help detect UAS.
The FAA supports DHS in an inter-agency effort to meet the threat of unauthorized UAS from a "whole of government" perspective. Other participating federal agencies include: the Department of Defense, Department of Energy, U.S. Secret Service and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
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Mr. Kvam is an active member in the NFDA. (the National Fish Decoy Association.
He has won awards for his carvings at the local, National, and World Championship competitions.
He also placed in the top ten overall in the World Championship Point Standings in 2004.
He also had 9 top five finishes in April 2005 at The John Jensen National Fish Decoy Competition!!
He has decoys on two of the Gathering decoy prints.
In January, Kvam had 5 decoys place in the top five at the Bob Johnson Invitational Decoy Show in Brainerd, MN!! The pictures can be seen at the NFDA website at www.nfda.tv If you'd like to see more of his work, click on the carver's page on the NFDA website!
The John Jensen "Gathering" Fish Decoy Show is coming to Perham, MN on April 8,9, and 10th. Kvam will be there competing, and visiting with customers, carvers and collectors.
Mr. Kvam hand chip carves with a knife and hand paints his decoys one at a time. They are individual works of art that are also functional!
Hi, I'm Darrin Kvam. I have been a spearfisherman now for about 30 years. I carved working fish decoys when I was in my teens. I started carving again in 2000. I have placed in numerous carving competitions, at the local, National and World Championship levels. I also have decoys on two "Gathering" Prints. Last Spring I placed in the top 10 in the World's Championship points Standings. I enjoy the competitions, and always look forward to making a better decoy.
Carving decoys relaxes me at the end of the day. I am a second grade teacher, and coach football, basketball and baseball. I am happily married to my wife Jennifer, and we have three beautiful children. I am also a professing Christian, and openly enjoy talking about our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. He blesses the work of my hands, and I honor him with a fish and cross symbol on the bottom of my decoys.
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Art Arena Gallery Inc. is a volunteer run community art space hosting a wide array of art exhibitions, workshops and events. The longest serving Artist-Run-Initiative in the Illawarra, for 28 years, Art Arena has functioned as a cultural hub for Wollongong art. Art Arena serves as an incubator that fuels creative industry, supporting career, emerging and raw artists.
The gallery's core agenda is to exhibit culturally rich local artworks; show a diverse spectrum of career, emerging and raw artists; as well as display a wide array of both traditional and contemporary media and formats.


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March 8, 2018 A Restless Art
A (very short) history of the British community arts movement
The British community arts movement was a loose grouping of artists who began their professional lives during the 1960s and 1970s. Their artistic and political ideas varied, as did their backgrounds, training and interests. Some had been educated at art schools and identified as artists. Others, trained in youth work, community development or political activism, saw themselves differently. They worked in public art (especially murals) theatre, adventure playgrounds, carnival, community printshops, video, writing, music and many other forms. London had the largest concentration of community arts projects in Britain, but they existed in every city, from Glasgow to Plymouth, in new towns like Telford and Milton Keynes, and in rural areas including the Peak District and Devon.
In all their diversity, community artists had one thing in common. They believed that everyone could create art if they had the resources and support to do so. They wanted to make art collaboratively, with and for communities, in places and ways that validated people's own culture. They mostly had little interest in individual practice or careers, though the artists' own vision and aesthetics often had a greater influence than they recognised. Their project grew from a rejection – particularly by those who had attended art school – of art world values, which they saw as detached from and careless of most people's concerns. Some of community art's early originality arose from the attempt to reconcile avant-garde ideas with everyday culture and traditions.
The idea of taking the arts to the people was not new. It had long shaped cultural philanthropy in Britain, from the civic galleries of Victorian cities to the Shakespeare productions touring industrial towns in the 1930s. The community arts movement was innovative – and radical – in rejecting the idea of educating the poor to appreciate the culture of the rich. Instead, the movement asserted the right of working people to create their own art, rooted in their own experience and values, and their capacity to do that as well as anyone else with fair access to the resources of creative production. Where others spoke of democratising culture, community artists argued for cultural democracy.
Community arts challenged the distribution of cultural resources and, more profoundly, the legitimacy of the institutions claiming to judge what was artistically worthwhile and what was not. It was a far-reaching idea that provoked a fiercely defensive response from the art establishment, which protected itself by asserting that community art was just bad art. The central argument over community art was always about artistic quality, but it was not really about the work itself. It was about who was entitled to determine its value(s). When the institutional art world sought to reject such work artistically, ex cathedra, it was not just defending certain ideas about art. It was also defending its authority as judge of the value of art.
The community arts movement was therefore an inherently political project and it attracted people with leftist sympathies. But there were at least two interpretations of its politics. For some, community art was a project to undermine the authoritarianism of an elitist art world. For others, that was an expression of and contribution to the struggle for socialism. Arguments about this weakened the community arts movement in the 1970s and led to its collapse in the 1980s. After that, few people talked about community arts as a movement. The political context had changed anyway, with the neoliberal ascendancy cemented by a third Conservative government in 1987. Some community artists left to do other things. The rest dug in and started talking about their work as participatory art.
To read more about this history, you can download this essay: 'All in this Together': The depoliticisation of Community Art in Britain 1970-2011
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Kathy OBrien says:
Dear Francois Really enjoyed reading your 'short history', everything you say resonates. There is no doubt that the arts as we know it are now in a very different place, there are the ACE funded portfolio clients, and those who manage to score the odd hit from the Grants for the Arts or the Charitable sector. There is also the 'let's do it anyway' methodology that is emerging, specifically from the students who have accepted debt as part of the process. Looking back over the many years in the sector, this timescale has to be the worst. 20-30 years ago I willingly engaged in creating, delivering and making work, now the options are not so easy. As a student at Goldsmiths, I saw the impact of the Hirst clique and the damage these millionaires subsequently made to the sector – they have nothing to do with the arts – it is just a market. Sadly, those of us working in the 'community' or 'social engagement' sector are being driven out, or carry out activities for the love of it. The concept of 'community' itself is now hard to find, when any person who is not in work has to seek resources or visit the job centre weekly in order to receive a stipend. However, I do have confidence that this will change, there is a very savvy generation emerging and there are signs of green shoots – where people are doing it for themselves. I am, and I do not think I am alone! Wishing you well Thank you Kathy Kathy O'Brien Development Manager Carl Campbell Dance Company 7
Thanks for sharing these thoughts, Kathy. Like you I see good things happening and the third generation to come into the field has much of the the radicalism and energy of the first – with some new ideas and some lessons from the past.
masculinity now says:
Hi, just to add, the following book is published by Manchester University, and it allows old community artists like me to try to remember how it was, all those years ago.
'Culture, Democracy and the Right to Make Art; The British Community Arts Movement'
edited by Alison Jeffers and Gerri Moriarty
published by Bloomsbury
Thanks for making the connection. I know the book, which is a great addition to the field. Alison and Gerry asked me to write something for the blog about it last year, which is also on here: https://arestlessart.com/2017/09/10/were-making-history/


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Q: Formatting Output From Shell Script I am working on a shell script that takes stdin or file as input and prints the averages and medians for rows or columns depending on the arguments.
When calculating the averages for the columns, the output needs to print out the following (tabbed):

My output currently looks like this (no spaces or tabs):
Averages:
92480654263
Medians:
6368974
Is there a way to echo out the averages and medians with tabs so each average and median set align left correctly? Here is a sample of how I am printing out the averages:
echo "Averages:"
        while read i
        do
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            count=0
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            for num in $i
            do
                #Perform calculations necessary to determine the average and median
                sum=$(($sum + $num))
                count=`expr $count + 1`
                mean=`expr $sum / $count`
            done
            echo -n "$mean"
        done < $1

A: man echo:
   -e     enable interpretation of backslash escapes

   If -e is in effect, the following sequences are recognized:

   \t     horizontal tab

I'd try echo -n -e "$mean\t", didn't test it though.

A: You should use printf.  For instance, this will print a value followed by a tab
printf "%s\t" "$mean"

You can actually print several values separated by tabs if you want by adding arguments :
printf "%s\t" "$mean" "$count"

You can use an array expansion to print several values separated by tabs :
printf "%s\t" "${my_array[@]}"

Among advantages of printf over echo is the availability of flexible formatting strings, and the fact that implementations of printf vary less than those of echo among shells and operating systems.

A: You could try using column command but it does take additional steps:
echo "Averages:"

while read line
do
    sum=0
    count=0
    mean=0
    #Cycle through the numbers in the rows
    for num in $line
    do
        #Perform calculations necessary to determine the average and median
        (( sum += num ))
        (( count++ ))
        (( mean = sum / count ))
    done
    (( mean == 0 )) && out=$mean || out="$out|$mean"
done < $1

echo "$out" | column -s'|' -t

Above is untested as I do not have the original file, but you should get the idea.  I would add that the division will also provide truncated values so not exactly accurate.

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May 25, 2010 / Summer 2010 / Issue 59 (originally published by Booz & Company)
Media Moguls Get Taken to Task
A review of The Curse of the Mogul, by Jonathan A. Knee, Bruce C. Greenwald, and Ava Seave.
by David K. Hurst
The Curse of the Mogul: What's Wrong with the World's Leading Media Companies
By Jonathan A. Knee, Bruce C. Greenwald, and Ava Seave
Portfolio, 2009, 318 pages
The media business has long been the home of outsized egos and shrunken returns on investment. Shareholder returns for the largest media conglomerates, which include Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., Sumner Redstone's Viacom, Disney, and Time Warner, have significantly underperformed the S&P 500 over the past 10 years. Three media experts — investment banker Jonathan A. Knee, Columbia Business School finance professor Bruce C. Greenwald, and consultant Ava Seave — explain why this gap exists in this meticulously detailed and documented study.
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Because opportunities for effective strategies are limited by the absence of true competitive advantage, the authors suggest, the moguls should focus on the efficiency of their operations, something for which they have shown little taste or talent. The authors point to the example of mogul Lew Wasserman, who produced excellent shareholder returns by creating a focused factory in MCA/Universal. Between 1959 and 1990, Wasserman's company produced an average annual return of more than 15 percent, compared with the 5 percent annual increase in the Dow Jones Industrial Average. His disciplined management practices sound like those of regular businesses, with controlled compensation, tight budgets, and an emphasis on consistent day-to-day performance. But, according to the authors, Wasserman's devotion to the bottom line is in sharp contrast to the contempt in which many modern moguls hold the "number crunchers" and "pencil pushers" as they pursue "vision" and "strategy."
This book is unusually fine-grained in its arguments and detail, reflecting the deep experience of the authors and the extensive research they conducted. One may question their sweeping claim that digital media always reduces the ability to create competitive advantage, but their arguments have to be taken seriously. Their advice to the moguls: Focus less on growth and more on industry restructuring; keep your business local and focused; stress efficiency; stifle your ego; and, if all else fails, die with dignity. This last piece of advice is the one least likely to be taken. Given their track record, the media moguls are very unlikely to go gentle into that good night.
David K. Hurst is a contributing editor of strategy+business. His writing has also appeared in the Harvard Business Review, the Financial Times, and other leading business publications. Hurst is the author of Crisis & Renewal: Meeting the Challenge of Organizational Change (Harvard Business School Press, 2002).
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Christian Theodor Weinlig, född 25 juli 1780 i Dresden, död 7 mars 1842 i Leipzig, var en tysk tonsättare. Han var brorson till Christian Ehregott Weinlig.

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Christian Theodor Weinlig föddes 1780. Han var brorson till Christian Ehregott Weinlig. Weinlig började studera juridik i Leipzig 1797 och var därefter advokat i Dresden. År 1804 beslutade han sig dock att uteslutande ägna sig åt musik och blev elev hos farbrodern. Han studerade 1806 kontrapunkt hos Stanislao Mattei i Bologna, upptogs följande år bland magistros compositores av Academia filarmonico där. Han utnämndes 1814 till kantor vid Kreuzskolan i Dresden, tog avsked från denna plats 1817, utnämndes 1823 till kantor och musikdirektör vid Thomasskolan i Leipzig. Han skrev, förutom kyrkokompositioner, några häften sångövningar och en bok över fugan (utgiven postumt). Han avled 1842.

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