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From crafting to baking, see ways kids are providing relief to Australia fire victims
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This community kitchen is prepping chefs of all ages for hire
These students have the chops.
By Jackie Pascale, National Desk Staff
Students of all ages and backgrounds in Vermont are learning what it takes to work in a professional kitchen.
The youngest student is 18, while the oldest is 55. But the youngest student in the class is coming in with some experience.
"I'm a little rusty right now," said Eli Longe, while chopping vegetables. "I have two years of Essex Tech professional foods program."
Meanwhile, Kevin Chase is on the other end of the age spectrum.
"I've never worked with knives before, but I guess there's always a first for everything," he said.
That's the goal of the 12-week training program run through the Chittenden Emergency Food Shelf. They're having fun while learning the skills it takes to work in a restaurant.
"It's a scary place to come into the first time," said Jim Logan, chef instructor. "Some people have never been in a kitchen before, so we try to get them to feel like this is home as much as possible and that they belong here."
This is also part of the recruiting method the food shelf uses. Hannah Harrington works to recruit and enroll people in the course as the food shelf's service coordinator.
"These are normally underemployed or unemployed Vermonters," Harrington said. "They're either looking for work at the time, or they are not getting enough hours in the job they're at, or they're seeking more career advancement."
While getting a higher-paying job is the hope, Harrington said she sees major shifts in confidence by the time students reach graduation.
"You see people go through this program who sometimes can be very timid starting out and then move into a leadership role," she said.
The youngest chef-in-training said he hopes to reach a leadership position in the culinary world.
"My goal after is to get a good cooking job," Longe said. "After that, maybe get a food truck, and then from there, build something great."
With more than two months to go until graduation, the instructor said he's excited to see his seventh class go through the process.
"I see growth on almost every single person," Logan said. "It's not easy, but it's definitely rewarding. They will benefit from it in amazing ways."
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Monica Williams drained a 3-point shot with 10 seconds left in the game to give the Donahue Academy girls basketball team their first district title with a 51-48 win over Seacrest.
Four Donahue Academy football players have received all-state honors from the Florida Christian Association of Private and Parochial Schools, including Dominic Allan (left) who was named All State Linebacker of the Year, All State Defensive Player of the Year and was the recepient of the All State Sportsmanship Award.
Work is under way on the new Ave Maria parish center and Fr. Cory Mayer, pastor of the Ave Maria quasi parish, said he hopes it can open in March.
Among those whose plans were disrupted by the epic snowstorm in Washington, D.C., were 150 Ave Maria students who traveled by bus to Washington, only to come back before the march to avoid being trapped in the storm. The students had their own "mini march" in Washington (above) and spent more than 40 hours getting two and from the nation's capital.
The sixth annual Sunshine State Steak Cook-Off takes over the Ave Maria town center Saturday, Jan. 30, with organizers expecting to serve a few thousand steaks, one of which will be judged the best steak in Florida.
Tim Nance, whose Collier County Commission district includes Ave Maria, announced Tuesday that he will not seek re-election to a second term this year.
One of Ave Maria University's higher profile senior administrators has resigned to take a position with a Catholic charity based in Chicago. Mr. Joyce intends to remain living with his family in Ave Maria.
The town of Ave Maria will be part of a new state senate district that includes all of Collier County under a court-ordered reistricting plan.
The finish line and other portions of the HITs Triathlon Saturday, Jan 9, will be in Ave Maria for the first time and portions of the race will be coming through parts of Ave Maria. The triathlon, which attracts world-class athletes, has come through Ave Maria before but finished in Naples.
Collier County commissioners are expected to consider a new ordinance regulating golf cart use in Ave Maria at a meeting in January, although the exact wording of the ordinance remains unclear after a meeting of the Ave Maria Stewardship Community District Tuesday.
The Donahue Academy Shamrocks lost to undefeated Clearwater Academy 68-20 in the state eight-man football championship game Saturday but showed great character, Head Coach Rich Scanlon (right) said.
Ave Maria University expanded its presence to previously undeveloped land across a lake from its main campus with the opening of a shrine to Our Lady of Guadalupe.
Ave Maria University's accreditation has been reaffirmed for 10 years, the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools announced Tuesday.
An all-day conference at Ave Maria University Dec. 9 will commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Vatican II document Dignitatis Humanae and will feature a number of scholars examining the document and its subject, religious liberty. The conference is open to the public.
Elias Allan threw a 40-yard touchdown strike to Anthony Altomari in the closing seconds of a closely-fought game and the Donahue Academy Shamrocks moved on to the state championship game with a 36-30 win over the City of Life Warriors Friday night. The championship game is Saturday, Dec. 12, against Clearwater Academy and will be played on a neutral field in Lakeland.
The skating rink (above in photo by Erin Campbell) was popular again this year at the Ave Maria Celebration of Lights. The first rain in the event's history, which came during the annual parade, forced an early end to festivities.
Nine members of the Ave Maria Council of the Knights of Columbus were elevated to fourth degree -- the organization's highest degree -- at a ceremony Saturday in Orlando.
Read the latest What's Up in Ave Maria columns by Ave Herald Editor Patricia Sette published in the Naples Daily News Collier Citizen.


There is the possibility to enable a LPM screen for sailfish similar to the one we had on Nokia N9. However all different solutions I used so far somehow let the color of the text written on LPM screen correspond to ambience color making it sometimes quite difficult to read.
Is there a possibility to have that always be white and only white? Or is there a solution for it?
Take a look at this app.
Thanks for showing. I never had a look at that app, as I thought it to be conflicting with some other patches. It is not actively developed anymore and I can't apply it on 2.1.3.5 - maybe due to some other patches.
Quite right @naytsyrhc - It's such a battery kicker and as you point out, I'm not maintaining it. i'm afraid that Clock.qml is a commonly patched file, which is why you read that there are conflicts with other patches and as you've pointed out, it no longer installs on the latest SFOS, this is due to minor changes in Clock.qml by Jolla.
Nasenbär, do you happen to know where the qml of LPM screen could be located? Or is it not controlled by a seperate qml at all?


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Adrian Cruft (1928-73) (Royal College of Music, Library)
A miscellaneous collection of handbills, programmes, wordbooks and prospectuses for concerts given at a range of venu...
Alfredo Campoli Collection: Box 1, 1945 - 1948 (Cambridge University Library, Music Department)
Box 1 of 10 containing programmes for concerts given by Alfredo Campoli. Box 1 contains programmes dated between May...
Blackheath Halls Archive: Box 2 (1950-2000) (Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, Jerwood Libra...)
The second of two boxes within the Blackheath Halls Archive to contain loose fliers, handbills and programmes, includ...
C. Kennedy Scott Archive (1934-76) (Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, Jerwood Libra...)
A miscellaneous collection of handbills, programmes and programmes books for performances given at a range of English...
Cambridge University Madrigal Society (Cambridge University Library, Music Department)
The society was founded in 1920 as the Cambridge University Opera Society by Bernhard (Boris) Ord (1897-1961), then a...
Carl Newton collection: Malvern Festival and miscellaneous programmes, Wimbledon and London (1935-98) (Bodleian Library, Music Library)
A collection of prospectuses with programmes for the Malvern Festivals of 1977, 1980-81, 1985, 1988, 1990-91 and 1996...
Carl Newton collection: Philharmonia Orchestra and miscellaneous programmes (1930-91) (Bodleian Library, Music Library)
A miscellaneous collection of 17 programme books for performances given by the Philharmonia Orchestra at the Royal Fe...
Colyer-Fergusson Coll., London: Venues Q-Z (Royal College Of Music, Library)
Queen Alexandra's House 2001-11-14 Friends of Queen Alexandra's House, Alenka Ponjavic, Elizabeth Marcus, Nat...
Cyril Eland collection: Royal Festival Hall 2 (1953-96) (Bodleian Library, Music Library)
A miscellaneous collection of programme books for performances given at the Royal Festival Hall, London, between 1953...
Ernst Henschel collection: London: Victoria and Albert Museum (1947-64) (British Library)
A collection of programmes and handbills for performances - principally Museum Gallery Concerts (marked *) - given at...
Halle Orchestra Concerts (1948-1968) (Henry Watson Music Library)
A collection of programmes for the following concerts given by the Halle Orchestra: * Albert Hall, Manchester - 18...
Hans Keller Archive concert programmes. Box BBC/F2: South Bank Centre concerts1956 - 1968 (Cambridge University Library, Music Department)
Box containing programmes for South Bank Centre concerts for which Keller wrote notes for some or all of the works in...
Harold Rosenthal collection: Concert Programmes Box 4 (1939-59) (Bodleian Library, Music Library)
A miscellaneous selection of handbills, prospectuses and programmes for concerts given at various London venues – p...
Herbert Howells (1949-77) (Royal College of Music, Library)
A collection of programmes for performances given at the Royal Albert Hall and Royal Festival Hall, London between 19...
Herbert Howells Concert Programmes (1910-92) (Royal College Of Music, Library)
A miscellaneous collection of programmes for performances related to the English composer and teacher Herbert Howells...
Leeds Musical Festival (1953-76) (British Library)
A prospectus, with preliminary programmes, for the Leeds Musical Festival of 1953. Also, brochures containing program...
Oxford Bach Passion Choir (1947–72) (Bodleian Library, Music Library)
A complete set of programmes for the annual Palm Sunday performances given at the Town Hall, Oxford by the Oxford Bac...
Oxford Concert Programmes: Box 3 (1951-79) (Oxfordshire Studies)
A miscellaneous collections of handbills, programmes and prospectuses for performances given at a range of Oxford ven...
Oxford Concert Programmes: Box 5 (1955-59) (Bodleian Library, Music Library)
A miscellaneous collection of handbills and programmes for performances given at various venues in Oxford and Oxfords...
Royal Philharmonic Society (1953) (British Library, Music Collections)
A complete set of programmes for the Eight Concerts of Choral and Orchestral Music presented by the Royal Philharmoni...
Sir Arthur Bliss Archive concert programme collection: 1937 - 1954 (Cambridge University Library, Music Department)
Concert programmes featuring performances of single works by Arthur Bliss. The collection is arranged in chronologica...

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Q: Using MobX in ReactJS and ReactNative hybrid app Me and my team are building a ReactJS and ReactNative hybrid app. The idea is to share code as much as possible.
MobX is a nice solution for state management but we stumbled on a problem.
Our shared state stores must be used by the ReactJS app and the React Native app. The same is valid for our shared Higher Order Components who are supposed to observe state changes of the state stores.
So, in order to register class as MobX observer, in RN we need to
import {observer} from 'mobx-react/native'

and for ReactJS we need to
import {observer} from 'mobx-react';

React Native is complaining about the ReactJS import and vice versa.
Can somebody help me to figure out a solution for this and make the state store usable for the both platforms?
Thanks in advance!

A: You can use import {observer} from 'mobx-react' in React Native in mobx-react from 4.1.4 version.
https://github.com/mobxjs/mobx-react/pull/222

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Now that the Democrats have won a significant majority in the House, it is important that all legislators remember that they are there to serve their constituents. There are few better ways to serve taxpayers than making sure that the banking system does not implode and cause taxpayer bailouts. Current attempts to weaken bank regulations and supervision of banks, especially this late in the expansionary part of the credit cycle, poses significant risks to the global economy and to Main Street USA.
On October 31st, the Federal Reserve released a proposal that banks between $250 – 700 billion in assets would be subject to weaker liquidity and stress testing requirements. After living through several financial crisis in the 1990s and in 2007-2008, I am absolutely convinced that there is no need for bank regulators to weaken requirements for large regional and foreign bank organizations. As I have proposed in previous columns, this is the time for bank regulators to ask banks to allocate more capital to help them weather a future downturn.
Banks with $250 -$700 billion in assets would have fewer liquidity and stress testing requirements.
Big banks and their lobbyists often argue that Basel III capital, liquidity, and leverage requirements, along with Dodd-Frank's Comprehensive Capital Assessment Review and Stress Test requirements, have reduced their ability to lend to individuals and companies. The data strongly contradict those claims.
The Federal Reserve Bank of New York's Quarterly Report on Household Debt and Credit shows that household debt has risen for sixteen consecutive quarters. American households' now have indebtedness of $13.29 trillion, which is $618 billion (5%) higher than the previous peak in the third quarter of 2008 of $12.68 trillion. Household debt is presently about 19% higher than the trough in the second quarter of 2013.
U.S. household debt balances are at record highs.
Commercial and industrial(C&I) loans underwritten by banks have also grown substantially. Bank loans to companies have grown 38% since the peak before the crisis in 2008. Since eight years ago when loans to commercial and industrial entities were at a trough, C&I loans have grown over 80%.
Bank loans to commercial and industrial entities have risen over 80% in eight years.
The household and company debt that I have described is underwritten by banks. There are also numerous non-banks, or what are often referred to as shadow financial institutions, which also lend to households and businesses. A centralized data source for all those non-bank loans is much harder to come by. What we really should be worried about should be whether those non-bank loans have strong covenants to protect creditors, especially when we enter a downturn.
The level of U.S. bank earnings are also very important to evaluate. If bank regulations are so detrimental, why has this year been so great for bank earnings? Yes, banks have been helped by tax reforms. Yet, their earnings started improving before the new tax law. In 2013, and 2016, bank earnings hit post crisis highs several times. This year, banks again broke earnings records both in the first and second quarter this year. Banks' third-quarter earnings were also very strong. Every time I write bank lobbyists to show me how bank regulations are hurting their earnings, I have yet to receive a response.
Banks keep breaking earnings records.
Better Markets President and CEO, Dennis Kelleher, stated that the Federal Reserve's proposals to weaken big banks' liquidity and stress testing requirements "are as unjustified as they are unwise. Deregulating some of the largest banks in the country will make the financial system less safe, less stable and less protected from another crash." As I have warned in previous columns, Kelleher emphasized that to weaken regulations "so late in the business cycle after a $2 plus trillion of fiscal stimulus when these banks have record revenues, profits and bonuses is needlessly gambling with taxpayers' money." Kelleher recommended that the Federal Reserve should be imposing "countercyclical buffers, increasing capital, liquidity and other safeguards" on big banks.
My concern is that when we get into a downturn, these banks may find themselves insufficiently capitalized or liquid enough to withstand how quickly their lenders and other market participants can panic. When banks' counterparties panic, they will quickly stop lending to banks, ask for more collateral, and close out positions, making banks quickly illiquid and increasing banks' borrowing costs, which in turn makes them even less liquid and possibly insolvent. I urge legislators and regulators not to forget the lessons from previous financial crises, especially the one in 2008. It is in the good times that we need to compel banks to get ready for the downturns.


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Low Carbon Concrete Technologies
Decarbonisation of the cement industry is necessary under the UK's Sixth Carbon Budget by 2040. This project uses existing literature to map the range of LCCTs across the cement and cementitious product lifecycle and quantify their upper bound potential emissions savings, compared to an OPC (Ordinary Portland Cement) baseline, and possible carbon savings if fully deployed in the UK cement and concrete industry.
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Plastics in the UK
This report tackles this data problem by mapping plastic flows through UK society, collating data from disparate sources on the production, use, disposal and recovery of plastics. With the resulting map of UK plastic flows, we can understand the latest trends in plastics use and identify opportunities for reducing the impacts of plastics in the future.
Mat-dp
We have made an open-source python model called Mat-dp (Material Demand Projections). We have packaged Mat-dp and published it on PyPi so users may install it and use it in their own projects.
MAT-dp is used to calculate the amounts and types of materials needed for building any system or resource transformation including those found along supply chains- and we have particularly applied it to study the materials needed for building low-carbon systems. The analysis of materials used allows for users to also estimate the associated environmental implications.
The release of Mat-dp so far consists of a a linear programming library called mat-dp-core which includes the classes of each element and their mathematical operations for obtaining results. Mat-dp-core is tailored to the needs of research around material demand for low-carbon systems, helping technically proficient users to explore scenarios and systems. Mat-dp-core lets users evaluate and optimise the environmental effects of a given set of resources that are fed into one or more process(es).
Instructions on how to use and install mat-dp-core can be found on the PyPi entry or in the Github repository. There is also good documentation available to guide users.
A journal entry for the Journal of Open Source Software is currently under review. Once it is published, we will share the paper and users of the model can cite the paper whenever they use Mat-dp.
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Exergy Calculator
NOTICE: The Exergy Calculator is currently out of action. We are aware of the issue and will be updating it as soon as we can. Apologies for any inconvenience in the meantime.
We have created an exergy calculator which returns values of chemical exergy for a wide range of materials. The database of exergy values, includes all known published literature values for substances and calculates additional values based on published compositions of more complex materials. Where values differ, a range is given, along with the specific referenced values, to allow the user to choose the most appropriate value.
PLEASE NOTE: The calculator is currently undergoing site maintenance and will be available again soon.
Global GHG Emissions: from Fuel to Final Service.
Governments use national greenhouse gas (GHG) inventories to quantify the impact of mitigation options at the sectoral level and to scrutinize emissions reduction plans. The use of an integrated systems approach to global GHG emissions reveals the true impacts of human activity and provides a useful framework to critically assess plans for greenhouse gas mitigation. Working with the Leonardo Di Caprio foundation this project aimed to create an interactive Sankey diagram mapping global GHG emissions in 2014 from fuel to final service.
View the interactive diagram here
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Explore our guides to understanding commonly used terms and phrases within engineering, sustainability, and resource efficiency.
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Is there a way to know when the value of a PI Point is written?
I don't know if this is available in an audit log. It would be polite to ask for your particular use case, but I just wouldn't understand it. With buffering (to name one), a PIValue including its particular time stamp may be written milliseconds to hours after it was captured by whatever interface.
Are you interested to know when the value is really archived versus the represented time of the value? This would give you like a data "residence time in the data pipeline". Can you describe more your use case?
In addition to what Rick and Mathieu posted, I would be curious about the data source. Is this one of OSIsoft's Interfaces? If so and if it is based on UNIINT there's a good chance to trace when updates are read / received from the data source and when these events are being forwarded. With a UNIINT based interface I would suggest enabling the tracing for a single point / data item. If the communication from the interface to PI Data Archive (PI Server) is buffered, it is possible to monitor the buffer queue. This doesn't show each single event but because the buffer operates first-in-first-out, one can estimate how long it would take. Usually there shouldn't be any significant queue visible - even not with weak links because exceeding the bandwidth is even worse if the bandwidth is limited.
When a new event arrives for a particular point and the Timestamp of this arriving event is more recent than the current snapshot, the snapshot becomes updated with the new event. Depending on compression, the previous snapshot becomes pushed into the archive.
What can be useful in your case as well is creating a small application that signs up with PI Update Manager for either PI Snapshot or PI Archive updates and regularly check for arrived events. If you sign up for snapshot or archive updates really depends on what information you are interested in. Your application would need to log the timestamps of when it request for updates from Update Manager. Polling news from PI Update Manager once a second is doable. This is till not 100% accurate but allows you to get a rough idea.
I don't know if this is available in an audit log.
The audit trail doesn't record each point update received but e.g. when a point becomes substituted. If each update from each regular resource would generate an audit record, audit files would grow larger than PI Data Archives.
Think Mathieu hit the nail on the head in that the PI System is not deterministic. It sounds like you want to know when the value is observable in the PI Server and not really when it was written by the source application/interface.
Assuming you're not doing this for a mass number of tags, you could use a high frequency poll via AF SDK (not PI SDK) of the Update Manager (e.g. 50ms) to know approximately when the value first became observable, although the PI Server could be overloaded/busy and delay in serving your RPC - when the value is actually observed would vary depending on the consumer's polling cycle.
What is the "error" interval you're able to tolerate? i.e. do you need to know the exact time when the value is written? or is a 500ms "lag" sufficient? You also did not specify what "written" means. Do you mean the snapshot or archive? If it's to disk, there's some finite time interval before you can read the data back out. This list goes on and on so it would be extremely helpful if you can describe what you're trying to do. Please don't forget the PI System is not a control system, you should not be using it for real time control :-).


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Annotated Bibliography of Mark Twain Essay
Budd's classic text, first published in 1962, explores Twain's political, social, and philosophical views. It studies them in the context of his writings, letters, and books and probes the author's personal evolution over time. Budd looks at Twain's views on American politics, capitalism, women, slavery, the Civil War, and imperialism. His thesis is that Twain's views were complex and changed over time, but that ultimately he was an old fashioned 19th century liberal who had views that would not easily be accepted in today's world.
"Though critics will concentrate on the formalized texts, recovering the full shape of Twain's ideas requires going deeper into the gregarious socializing with many self-confident men and a few feminists. "(Budd, 14) This text is reliable because Budd used Twain's own extensive writings and letters to articulate his philosophical views. Moreover, Budd was a lifelong historian and critic of Twain and edited a two volume collected works from the author. I will use this book to discuss Twain's perspective on racial issues, anti-imperialism, and American politics and relate them to his novels and short stories.
This book is an excellent exploration of Twain's changing views. However, it is a relatively challenging read and is best suited for readers already familiar with the author's work and with 19th century history. I would recommend this book to anyone who already has some knowledge of Twain's works. Carkeet, David. "The Dialects in Huckleberry Finn. " American Literature 51. 3 (November 1979): 315-332. Academic Search Complete. TCC Library, Fort Worth, TX. October 4, 2012 David Carkeet studies Twain's use of dialect and idiomatic speech in the "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn".
In particular, he probes whether Twain in fact followed the announcement at the beginning of the book suggesting that seven dialects and variants of Southern English are spoken in the text. Carkeet's thesis is that Twain does in fact follow to a great extent his written intention in writing the characters in different forms of English, including Southwestern, Black, and Missouri Pike County accents. For Carkeet, the dialects of the various characters are best compared to Huck's own speech, which serves as the default standard in the story.
"A detailed examination of Huckleberry Finn shows that there are differences in the way people speak that are too systematic to be accidental. "(Carkeet, 316) This source is reliable because Carkeet extensively covers the speech patterns in Huckleberry Finn and cites examples directly from the original text. He actually breaks down examples of how different characters say the same words and phrases differently. I will use this article to discuss how Twain made use of vernacular English and local speech to immerse readers in the world of Missouri and the South that he grew up with.
This article is easy to understand and is an excellent complement to reading Twain's book from a fresh perspective. I would recommend this to anyone who wants to learn more about Twain, or get a better understanding of the time. Gribben, Alan. "The Importance of Mark Twain. " American Quarterly 37. 1 (January 1985): 30-49. America: History and Life. TCC Library, Ft. Worth, TX. October17, 2012 Alan Gribben's article discusses the reception of Mark Twain's writings by other authors and by literary critics.
It addresses Twain's unique position as a humorist and a classic author in the American canon. The author's thesis is that Twain had a unique comic voice in his writings that were flexible and supple enough to still resonate with modern audiences whereas many other writers from the period now sound dated. "Nevertheless, Mark Twain's literary stature has suffered, from time to time, because of his predilection for comic forms. "(Gribben,31) This source is authoritative because Gribben is one of America's preeminent Twain scholars.
He has studied and written for decades about the author and has founded a society for the appreciation of Twain's writings. This article will serve my discussion of Twain's writing style and unique idiom in my essay. Gribben's paper is extremely easy to understand and is articulate. I would recommend this article to anyone that wants a better insight of Twain and the time. As well a better perspective of the time, some of Twains perspectives come as more Humor than racism. Moore, Olin Harris. "Mark Twain and Don Quixote.
" PMLA 37. 2 (June 1922): 324-346. TCC Library, Ft. Worth, TX. October 2, 2012. Moore suggests in this article that Twain's writings were deeply influenced by the Spanish author Cervantes. He expresses disagreement with the then prevalent view that Twain was a purely American writer and instead describes how indebted he was to European literature. " What genuine American humor! What a true picture of American boyhood! Nothing of Europe in Mark Twain! Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn are real Americans!
"(Moore,324) The thesis is that Twain's novels were shaped by Cervantes' classic "Don Quixote" and that in particular, Tom Sawyer was modeled after the protagonist of the Spanish novel. This source is relatively authoritative because it relies upon Twain's own writings, the record of what books he read and when, as well as Cervantes' text. However, it may be undermined by more recent scholarship since when it was published in 1922 many of Twain's writings and correspondence were not available to scholars.
I plan to use this article to discuss different interpretations of Twain's major works, especially "Huckleberry Finn". The article is useful and easy to read. I would recommend this to anyone that wants gain a better perspective of Twain and his works. By being easy to read this would allow readers to easily understand the work. Powers, Ron. Mark Twain: A Life. New York Free Press, 2005. Powers' book is an extensive investigation of Twain's life examining not just his major novels and short stories, but his thousands of letters, political essays, and newspaper articles.
Moreover, by using what he calls "interpretive portraiture", Powers probes into the details of Twain's personal life, relationships, and views on issues concerning woman, race, and American politics. The basic thesis of the book is that Twain is indeed worthy of the fame and popularity he has enjoyed among generations of readers. Powers defends Twain's writings against his fiercest detractors, many of whom see his novels and stories as roughly and in artfully written or alternatively as racist or misogynistic, and argues that while flawed, they at times rise to greatness.
The authority of the source is that Powers is a long-time journalist, author and historian. He has won the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism and has written extensively before on Twain and other topics such as the Second World War and Civil War. In addition, the authenticity of the source comes from the primary sources, including books and correspondence that it relies upon. I would use this book to flesh out the details of Twain's life and situate his writing into the context of events in the late 19th century. The book is an excellent, if voluminous introduction to Twain.
It is also well written and easy to understand. Railton, Stephen. "Mark Twain in his Times. " University of Virginia Library. 2012. October 2012. http://twain. lib. virginia. edu/index2. html. Stephen Railton at the University of Virginia has compiled a comprehensive online database of original writings and materials related to Twain's works. The website has unpublished drafts of Twain's major works, period advertisements, illustrations, sales prospectus, period reviews, and essays addressing topical issues related to the books.
There is no thesis per se in this website because it is intended to primarily serve as a collection of primary sources on Twain's writings. The authority of this site derives most of all from the primary sources it gathers together, many of which are rare and obscure. In addition, Railton is a professional historian and literary expert on Twain and 19th century American literature. I will use this site to look at Twain's writing process as he wrote Huckleberry Finn and other books.
I will also study the marketing techniques Twain used and the critical reception he received at the time, as recorded in reviews on the site. This website is easy to read but somewhat difficult to navigate. It is so extensive that it is not entirely user friendly and probably has its layout updated. Tucker, Jeffrey A. "Mark Twain's Radical Liberalism. " Ludvig Von Mises Institute. January 27, 2010. November 2012. Jeffrey Tucker in this online article writes about the much debated nature of Mark Twain's political views.
Twain's politics seem difficult to classify, Tucker observes, only because the ideology he subscribed to is no longer fashionable. "Part of the difficulty of understanding Mark Twain's political outlook is due to the terminology and the tendency of politics to corrupt the meaning of everything. "(Tucker, 1) Tucker situates Twain's anti-slavery, anti-imperialist, anti-government, and pro-capitalist views in terms of 19th century classical liberalism. It is Tucker's thesis that Twain was essentially a liberal of the old, small government and pro market variety.
The authority of this source comes from Tucker's study of Twain's writings, which are quoted from and cited in the text. In addition, the author is a major scholar of libertarian politics and economics which are relevant to his interpretation of Twain's views. I intend to use this online piece to show how Twain could hold points of view that today seem incompatible, such as being anti-war and pro-business. This is a very accessible source and should be of value even for those who disagree with Tucker's libertarian agenda. I would recommend this article to anyone that has a point of view on Twain.


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Mixing the Right Ingredients for Growth
Alan Hughes August 26, 2010 September 25, 2012 751
Brown, CEO of New Horizons Baking Co., shows no sign of slowing down since completing a textbook turnaround of his company.
Operations are humming at the 56,000-square-foot Norwalk, Ohio, bakery. The facility's 160 employees, nearly all wearing bouffant caps and what appear to be white lab coats, toil alongside large mixing, baking, and packaging machinery. Elaborate conveyers prepare, mix, bake, and pack plain, seeded, and double-cut hamburger buns at a rate of roughly 4,000 dozen per hour.
Just about 140 miles away in Fremont, Indiana, a facility of similar dimensions produces not only buns at the same rate, but also 2,000 dozen English muffins per hour. All told, the process consumed some 65 million pounds of flour last year–mostly for McDonald's restaurants in Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Kentucky, and New York.
Here Tilmon F. Brown, CEO of New Horizons Baking Co. (No. 58 on the BE Industrial/Service companies list with $67.45 million in revenues) is in his element. And at 65, he's showing no signs of slowing down. "I think what I'm doing now keeps me very young and active, and I enjoy what I'm doing," he says. "Coming to work is not a labor. It's a pleasure."
It wasn't always the case. When Brown acquired a minority stake in New Horizons in 1995, he discovered redundancies, operational inefficiencies, and lackluster quality controls. The latter was the reason the company was about to lose its largest client: McDonald's. But within a span of 18 months, Brown and his team restructured the workforce and operations, and invested in new technology as part of a textbook turnaround. For those efforts the company enjoyed steady growth year over year and a 3.2% rise in recession-torn 2009 that catapulted New Horizons up 11 spots on the 2010 be industrial/service companies list.
The Accidental Entrepreneur
Brown became an entrepreneur late in life. At the age of 50 while vice president of sales at Continental Baking Co. (which is now part of Hostess Brands Inc.), his plan was to put in five more years and retire at age 55. However, that wasn't in the cards. In May 1994 he received a call from Baltimore businessman John Paterakis Sr., who 20 years prior had handled some outsourced baking business for Continental. "He said, 'Hey, Timmy, are you ready to go to work for a living?'" Brown recalls. "The only caveat was that I would, in fact, leave Continental and not second-guess myself about making that decision."
Paterakis and his partner, Peter Grimm, were looking to acquire the facilities and felt Brown would be a solid addition to the team. Brown looked over the offer and felt it made sense. The business had a major customer locked in, and with decades of experience, Brown knew the baking business inside and out. On the downside, the bakery carried a hefty amount of debt and quality control had slipped. "If I had maybe started selling widgets instead of baked goods, it might have been more difficult," he admits. "But to go from bakery to bakery was no big deal." Brown signed on the dotted line and acquired a 20% stake in the business. By 2002, Brown's stake would increase to 51%, while Paterakis and Grimm owned 24.5% each.
The Turnaround Guys
The business was on the block for a reason. The bakery had been successful in the past, but had been bought out by a venture capital firm that did very little reinvestment. Inefficiencies cut into profitability. Little was invested in technology, and processes were only 60% automated. As a result, headcount numbered more than 330 employees, much higher than it should have been. "We [purchased] some robotics. We did some highly efficient technological replacements that enabled us to increase our productivity almost two-fold," recalls Brown. "So, with fewer people, we were putting out twice as much product."
All told, the payroll was reduced to 260, mainly through attrition. "If we knew that we were going to add a piece of equipment that was going to make the job better and maybe eliminated a person, we waited until we had something through attrition," says Bob Creighton, senior vice president of sales. "Somebody retired, somebody left our company for whatever reason; if we had a void we wouldn't fill it, so we never really had to lay anybody off."
Prior to Brown and company acquiring the business, the funds earmarked for new equipment totaled $300,000 per location. In the first 15 years, Brown and his team invested more than $30 million and its two locations are now more than 85% automated. "This company that had the business before us had such a low capital investment budget that it was almost impossible to think that you could run two bakeries on the kind of investment they were willing to make," Brown says. "And as a result, the bakery showed it. They were dismal places to work in, poorly lit, poorly equipped, and coming to work had to be drudgery."
Part of that turnaround plan was to diversify the company's client base. At the time of the acquisition, 95% of the company's business came from McDonald's. These days that number is closer to 60% now that New Horizons supplies local and regional bakery chains like Perfection Bakery and Nickles Bakery, as well as prepackaged sandwich makers and food service companies for municipal school systems. "If you wanted your own brand of eight-pack hot dog and hamburger buns, I would make that product for you, put it in your bag in your label, and sell it to you," Brown says.
Cooking Up Success
The entire process from raw materials to shipping takes five hours. The baking process starts with ingredients such as flour, sugar, water, and shortening. Depending on the recipe, varying amounts of each ingredient are blended within a supersized mixer large enough to hold a small car. Roughly 1,800 pounds of raw ingredients are mixed until dough is formed. A dough pump then pushes the dough into an extruding machine that divides the mass into eight parts. Each piece is scaled to a specific weight and then flour is added to allow the dough to be manipulated. The dough rests for about 90 seconds before going into large sheeting rollers, where it is flattened and moved into large pans with small cups built into them for the desired shape or size. The pans then go on a conveying system called a proof box, where the dough is exposed to specific amounts of heat and humidity to get the yeast to grow within the dough and expand to a specified size.
The conveyor brings the dough to an oven to be baked at about 500 degrees for seven to eight minutes. Once the dough is fully baked, a device called a depanner uses suction to automatically remove the buns from the pan. The empty pan goes off in one direction and the buns are automatically conveyed to a cooler to reduce their temperature to around 150 degrees, cool enough to slice and package. Once out of the cooler, the buns are whisked into a bulk packing machine that wraps 30 buns at a time in 31-inch-wide poly. The air is sucked out of the packaging and all the ends are heat sealed. From there, the sealed buns are stacked and transported to shipping. The company's fleet of 25 trucks then takes the finished product to its final destination.
While the company's largest client was less than happy with the bakery's previous ownership, the golden arches now speaks highly of New Horizons. "Under Tim's leadership, New Horizons Bakery Co.'s expertise and insight combined with their energy and willingness to collaborate, has helped us to make great strides in a number of important areas–most important, driving long-term growth against the core McDonald's U.S. business strategy," says Marion Gross, vice president, supply chain, McDonald's USA. "Tim has an unwavering commitment to quality, to value, and to people–always putting the system first, above all else. We appreciate his partnership, leadership, and commitment to our business."
Hundred-Million-Dollar Man
Brown is at the age where most have an eye toward retirement. In fact, one of his goals is to pass the business on to his children, all of whom work for the company: Aaron Brown, as plant manager of the company's Norwalk bakery; Melissa Williams, as human resources director; and Trina Bediako, as executive vice president.
"All three are working with me, learning from me, and my immediate objective is to try and pass on 44 years of knowledge to those three in some way, shape, or form so that I could spend a lot less time here," he says. "Hopefully, you know, in the not-too-distant future, I'll be able to be away a couple of weeks out of the month or more and know that everything is in good hands."
To that end, Brown has been grooming Bediako as his successor. Having joined the company in 2002, Bediako is learning the ropes and shadowing her father, focusing mainly on building upon the company's McDonald's accounts. "I'm in school every day. And to be by his side and learn from him every day is an experience I can't even put into words," she says. "I want to keep this business strong and make it grow. That's the desire of my brother and sister too. We want a legacy to pass on to our children."
Brown's other objective is a bit more ambitious and involves nine digits: He wants New Horizons to grow into a $100 million force among food manufacturers. For starters, he could be on the prowl for an acquisition at the right price. Though the company has had its best sales year ever, he's looking to add capacity. He's already put another muffin line in the Norwalk location that should boost output by 25%. "I've set some targets for [us] that, you know, we need to be thinking about a hundred million dollars as a threshold, and I think we can get there."
Alan Hughes


M Ensemble opened its production Mahalia: A Gospel Musical on February 4, 2010, a replacement for its previously scheduled Blue Door. They previously mounted a production in 2006 with the same creative team.
Mahalia traces the life and career of the world's best loved gospel singer - from her birth as a grandchild of plantation slaves up through her rise to wealth and international fame. Follow her as she performs for royalty and presidents, and even fights alongside Dr. Martin Luther King in the Civil Rights movement.
John Pryor directed a cast that includes Christina Alexander, Johnny Sanders, and Francine Ealey Murphy.
Though the production boasts an impressive, all-new cast, it has been staged by the same director (John Pryor, whose concept this time is more static) and features the same strong musical accompanist (Ben Collier, now joined by LaKeith Anderson). Musically, the celebration of gospel great Mahalia Jackson's life is glorious. But as with the 2006 production, there's no escaping the myriad dramatic weaknesses of Tom Stolz's sketchy yet over-long script.
The singing, however, is another story. Whether singing solos or as a trio, M Ensemble's new cast delivers powerhouse vocals.
Christina Alexander is charismatic as Jackson, finding a mixture of praise, soulfulness and jazzy blues in her sound.
Francine Ealey Murphy is both the disapproving aunt and Jackson's accompanist, Mildred Falls, but it's when Murphy delivers a showy solo version of We Shall Overcome that you really feel her power. Likewise, Johnny Sanders delivers decently differentiated performances as King, Jackson's cousin, a blind organ player and gospel composer Thomas Dorsey. But when he starts to belt Jim Crow Blues, he ascends to another level, one that transcends what his clearly talented fellow actor-singers are able to achieve.
Mahalia: A Gospel Musical plays at The M Ensemble through February 21, 2010.


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Raider boys' hockey lays foundation for years to come
By Alec Hamilton on Mar 19, 2017 at 1:00 p.m.
The Hastings boys' hockey team finished its season with an 8-18 overall record after losing to Park of Cottage Grove 3-1 in the first round of section playoffs. The Raiders took sixth in the Metro East Conference after compiling a 5-7 record in the MEC. However, head coach Adam Welch said that this season cannot be measured by just wins and losses.
"I think we did pretty well (this season)," Welch said. "As far as wins and losses, you always want to win more, but we had different goals this year. We wanted to build a team that felt like a family. We worked hard to play for each other and to really build something in the locker room together. In my opinion we started laying the foundation for our team-first culture, so I would consider this year a success."
After a rough start during which the Raiders lost their first seven games, Welch said his team never gave up.
"We did not start well and our team stuck together and battled all year long," Welch said. "We competed in almost every game we played this year. We played a lot of close games and when that happens it can be stressful, but fun."
The opposite side of those close games is that Hastings had chances to win them.
"I thought we could have done a better job of finishing some games," Welch explained. "At the beginning of the year we set a goal to win every third period. I think we struggled to really accomplish that goal on a regular basis. It's hard to do because teams take it up another level when it gets down to crunch time, but when you do, more times than not it leads to a win. This is something I hope we can learn how to do for next year."
Once that seven-game losing streak was out of the way at the beginning of the year, the Raiders were close to .500 with an 8-10 record during the regular season.
"We did have a better second half after starting 0-7," Welch stated. "In the beginning I don't think we were playing poorly, we were just not getting the outcome we wanted. We kept telling our kids how close we were to winning games and to their credit. They kept believing and working to get better. I think the most important thing was our kids had a never-give-up attitude. We stayed together. We believed we could win every game we played. It is fun to be around a group that thinks that way."
Hastings graduates 10 seniors at the end of the season and Welch said he is looking for underclassmen to step up and fill those gaps.
"It will be difficult to replace our seniors and the many roles they played," Welch said. "We will be looking to a lot of guys to step up and produce, not only on the score sheet, but also in the locker room as leaders. Fortunately, we have some young guys with experience that will hopefully step up. We will be looking to Leo Otto, Logan Boogren, Morgan Sweeney, Logan Stokke, Jason Williams and both goalies of Scotty Tuin and Jacob Greengo."
The seniors who are graduating this year are Zack Johnson, Mat Nicklay, Luke Larson, Alec Rudh, Tucker Duffy, Luke Johnson, Jake Foster, Clay Harris, Colin Sieh and Peter Meyer.
"I think our seniors did a great job of leading the way and got us moving in the right direction for next year," Welch finished. "When I talk about laying the foundation for a team-first/winning culture, they need to take pride in getting us moving in the right direction. We had our exit meetings and I made sure to let them know they should take pride in any type of success we have next year and for years to come."
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Yangon Attorney-General and five others arrested for taking bribery
by News Desk
NAYPYITAW ( Eleven Media Group/ANN) - The families of the culprits submitted an application to Yangon East District Court to terminate the charges and the court agreed on it and then all the suspects were released on July 26.
Myanmar's Anti-Corruption Commission filed a lawsuit against the Yangon Attorney-General and five other officials—a judge, three law officers and a police for taking bribery worth of more than K70 million from the culprits' parents to drop the case against three suspects in the Facebook comedian Aung Yell Htwe.
The families of the culprits submitted an application to Yangon East District Court to terminate the charges and the court agreed on it and then all the suspects were released on July 26.The release of those involved in the fatal beating of Facebook comedian Aung Yell Htwe spread on social networks, causing pubic outcry at the decision of the attorney-general and law officers.
Concerning the murder case of Aung Yell Htwe, President Win Myint gave remarks in his meeting with the governmental officials of Yangon and Bago Yangons that the withdrawal of Aung Yell Htwe murder case is totally unacceptable. I have never seen and heard of such situation.
On July 31, the Union Chief Justice, the Union Attorney-General and the Chairman of Anti-Corruption Commission were called by President Win Myint at the Presidential Palace in Nay Pyi Taw. At the meeting, the president instructed them to investigate into subsequent situations behind the scene of the drop of charge and other related matters in accordance with the law.
The Anti-Corruption Commission regarded this case as a notorious one soon after the instructions of the president and investigations were conducted. The investigation team was also formed.A government spokesperson said on July 30 that the Union Attorney General's Office would submit an application to continue the pre-trial hearing and examine eight remaining witnesses, the Frontier Myanmar reported.
The Anti-Corruption Commission announced on its Facebook page that it would investigate the case. "Speculation that there might be corruption concerning this case is spreading on social media," it said in a statement.
"Since there are reasons to be suspicious of corruption in this case, the commission unanimously decided to take it as reported information, at a meeting held on August 2, under Section 17(h) [of the Anti-Corruption Law]. The commission believes there may be reliable evidence in this case." the Frontier Myanmar reported.
Than Htut Aung (a) Thar Gyi, Pyae Phyo Aung (a) Aung Lay and Kyaw Zaw Han (a) Kyaw Zaw were involved in the fatal beating of Aung Yell Htwe and they were charged under murder under Section 302 of the Penal Code but the court released them after receiving the application of the plaintiff witness to drop the charges. No further comment could be provided as the investigation is going on.
In an statement of the Anti-Corruption Commission, it had found that Yangon Region Attorney-General Han Htoo; Judge Aung Kyi from the Yangon Eastern District Court; Yangon Region law officer Thein Zaw; Yangon Eastern District law officer Ko Ko Lay; Yangon Eastern District deputy law officer Thit Thit Khin; and Police Lieutenant Chit Ko Ko took bribes from Khin Maung Lay, father of suspect Than Htut Aung (a) Thar Gyi in exchange for their roles in dropping the case, the Irrawaddy reported.
Anti-Corruption Commission spokesperson Kyaw Soe told that the accused received a total of K72 million in cash, along with gifts including bottles of Blue and Gold Label Scotch Whisky, as bribes. Judge Aung Kyi received the largest sum—K33 million while the attorney-general received K15 million.
The Anti-Corruption Commission said that Yangon Region Attorney-General Han Htoo approved a request from the suspects' family to drop the case without making a comprehensive assessment in exchange for a bribe from Khin Maung Lay. The commission filed a lawsuit against Han Htoo under Section 55 of the Anti-Corruption Law at Thuwunna Police Station in Yangon.
Article 55 states that any political post holder convicted of committing bribery shall be imprisoned for not more than 15 years and fined.
Judge Aung Kyi of the Yangon Eastern District Court released the three murder suspects in exchange for bribe from the same person, the commission said in its announcement.
Police prosecutor Lieutenant Chit Ko Ko also took a bribe from Than Htut Aung's father and then failed to fully investigate the case according to police procedure, thereby abusing his power, it said. According to the commission, law officers Thein Zaw, Ko Ko Lay and Thit Thit Khin allegedly intentionally built the murder case in such a way that it would be adjudged as lacking sufficient grounds to warrant further investigation.
The commission opened cases against all five under Section 56 of the Anti-Corruption Law. Section 56 states that, "Other than the Political Post Holder, if any other Authorized Person is convicted for committing bribery; he/she shall be punished with imprisonment for a term of not more than 10 years and with a fine."
The commission said it would present Khin Maung Lay as a plaintiff witness. In exchange for his testimony, the commission will not file a case against him, it said.
One of Myanmar's Facebook celebrities, Aung Yell Htwe, died from injuries sustained at a party held on New Year's Eve in 2017. Aung Yell Htwe went to The One Entertainment at Thuwana, Thingangyun Township with his girlfriend and was attacked by a group of men. They beat his head and he had been sent to the hospital. He died from injuries at the hospital on January 2.
Yangon Attorney-General and five others arrested for taking bribery in Facebook star murder case


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INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu
Leke Baiyewu, Abiodun Sanusi, Gift Habib, Israel Bulus,Hindi Livinus, Chima Azubuike, Uthman Abubakar and Ikenna Obianeri
The Independent National Electoral Commission has finally begun the distribution of Bimodal Voter Accreditation System facilities to the remaining parts of the country, including the North-East and South-East states, which hitherto had yet to get the vital election equipment.
It was learnt on Wednesday that the agency had resumed the airlift of BVAS to states amid security concerns over the safety of the electoral equipment.
On the social media handles of INEC, it was reported that the Chairman of INEC, Mahmood Yakubu, supervised the airlift at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, on Wednesday.
INEC had confirmed exclusively to The PUNCH in early November that the North-East and South-East zones were yet to receive BVAS.
The North-East states affected include Adamawa, Bauchi, Borno, Gombe, Taraba, and Yobe; while the states in the South-East are Imo, Anambra, Abia, Enugu and Ebonyi.
The PUNCH had in October reported that the electoral commission had distributed BVAS to over 23 states across the federation.
An online report (not The PUNCH) had blamed insecurity for the delay of deployment of BVAS in the South-East.
Responding exclusively to The PUNCH, the National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, INEC, Festus Okoye, explained in November that the non-delivery and non-receipt of the BVAS by the two zones had nothing to do with insecurity.
He explained "The commission has planned and will continue to plan all the activities relating to the conduct of the 2023 general election. The procurement of sensitive and non-sensitive materials, their delivery and deployment have been carefully designed and planned by the commission.
"The Bimodal Voter Accreditation System was designed in-house by the commission's engineers and is being fabricated outside the country. The manufacturers have kept faith with the timelines and schedules of production and delivery as handed over to them by the commission. The commission has started receiving the deliveries from the designated airports and for designated states; and these have equally been delivered to some of the states of the federation.
"Presently, the consignments meant for the North-East and South-East have not been received by the commission and could not have been delivered to the states.
He added, "The manufacturers are following the timeliness and schedules given by the Commission. The non-delivery and non-receipt of the BVAS by the states in the Northeast and Southeast has absolutely nothing to do with insecurity and the activities of gunmen or bandits.
"The commission is following its timelines and all the consignments meant for all the states of the federation will be delivered in 2022. The commission will carry out mock accreditation in all the states of the federation and this will take place simultaneously in all the states of the federation.
"The commission is meticulously following its own timelines and we have procured enough BVAS to service the 176,846 polling units in the country and there will be sufficient redundancies for the 8,809 registration areas. We have also procured additional ones for purposes of training of our Registration Area Technical Support Staff."
NAF begins airlift
Meanwhile, the Nigerian Air Force has also confirmed that it has begun the airlift of election materials for INEC ahead of the 2023 polls.
NAF spokesperson, Air Commodore Edward Gabkwet, said, "We are assisting INEC in airlifting of electoral materials for now. However, we can't provide aerial support to all INEC offices nationwide at the same time."
DHQ pledges support
The Director, Defence Information, Maj. Gen. Jimmy Akpor, has said the military will ensure support for the police and other civil authorities whenever it is called upon especially during the elections
In an interview with our correspondent, Akpor said, "The military would do everything to support the civil authority in ensuring that the country's political and social space is protected for socioeconomic activities and the forthcoming elections to go on peacefully.
"However, it should be noted that election security is the duty of the Nigeria Police Force. It is the job of the Police, and we'll support the police, as a civil authority on election matters and internal security, whenever we're called upon.
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"We'll support the police. We'll not hold back any support whenever we're called upon. However, the current situation is not beyond the police, and contingencies are being updated to improve the situation, and we'll give whatever support they need.
North-East gets BVAS
Meanwhile, findings by The PUNCH on Wednesday showed some of the North-East and South-East states received some batches of their BVAS a few weeks ago.
The Borno State office of INEC confirmed receipt of the BVAS to The PUNCH on Wednesday.
"We received BVAS about a month ago," Head of Voter Education and Publicity of the office, Shuaibu Ibrahim, affirmed in a telephone interview. These are sensitive materials; so we are not supposed to speak to the public about them," he concluded, declining to respond to further questions.
Checks also revealed that 2,988 BVAS had been shipped to Gombe State. A source explained that 2,988 is the exact number of polling units in the state.
She said, "We have received 2,988 BVAS at the moment; backup will arrive later.''
The new Resident Electoral Commissioner for Adamawa State, Mr. Hudu Ari, said the state had taken delivery of 4,104 BVAS which would be deployed for election in all the 40 constituencies in the state.
Ari said, "In terms of our preparedness, we had engagements with a good number of stakeholders in the state and we are still engaging with more. Amongst the groups we engaged are the political parties, security agencies, civil society organisations, media, PWDs, faith-based organisations, community-based organisations, youth organisations, women groups, MDAs, etc. We also intend in the coming weeks ahead to engage with traditional rulers and other critical stakeholders.
Similarly, the INEC Public Relations Officer in Kaduna State, Mrs. Rukaya lmam disclosed that they received the BVAS about a month ago.
But the INEC spokesman in Anambra State, Dr Kingsley Agwu, said the office had yet to receive the BVAS machines in the state.
However, checks indicate that the BVAS would soon be dispatched to the states in the South-East region in the coming weeks.
In a related development, no fewer than 1,993 ballot boxes, 399 voting cubicles, 22 electric power generators and thousands of uncollected PVCs had been destroyed in various attacks carried out on INEC facilities across the states.
The INEC Chairman, Yakubu, disclosed this at the induction retreat for new Resident Electoral Commissioners in Lagos.
Yakubu said the attacks were carried out in four months on five local government areas offices of the Commission by unknown people.
He said, "I wish to once again touch on the troubling issue of attacks on our facilities and the destruction of critical electoral assets in the country. In the last four months, five local government area offices of the commission were attacked by yet unknown persons.
"In these mindless attacks, a total of 1,993 ballot boxes, 399 voting cubicles, 22 electric power generators and thousands of uncollected PVCs were, among other materials, destroyed. These attacks must stop and the perpetrators apprehended and prosecuted."
Reps probes attacks
The House of Representatives has set up an ad hoc committee to investigate the attacks on offices and facilities belonging to the INEC.
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Strong Bad is a fictional character from Homestar Runner, a series of animated Flash videos, who is inspired by "The Strong Bads" from the video game Tag Team Wrestling. He is voiced by Matt Chapman, the principal voice actor and co-creator of the series. Strong Bad enjoys pranking the other characters of the series, along with his ever-diligent lackey pet named "The Cheat" and his older brother Strong Mad. The main segment that Strong Bad is a part of is Strong Bad Email, in which he answers emails sent to him by fans. The Strong Bad Email series grew to be so popular that seven DVDs featuring the emails have been released, as well as a podcast where emails could be downloaded to digital media players, since its first episode in 2001.

The character's face resembles a red lucha libre mask, with four laces in the back and a blue diamond centered between his eyes. The diamond has the power to open bottle caps from "Cold Ones" and remove Homestar's hat, though he has only been seen doing this once. His eyes are green and shiny, and apparently turn grey when he is dead. Usually his mouth is a peach-colored rectangle when not speaking, and can form the shape of an "o" when using words with an "o" sound in them. He lacks a shirt (but wears certain ones on occasion), nipples, and a belly button. Strong Bad also has boxing gloves for hands, though mysteriously he can type with them in his Strong Bad Emails. He also wears black pants, along with red shoes with white soles that curve outward.

Strong Bad was originally created to be the main antagonist of the series but, since then, he has become less of a villain and more of a comic relief antihero. However, he is still occasionally referred to as an antagonist, due to the pranks that he, Strong Mad, and The Cheat play on the other characters, and his insulting of his brother Strong Sad. He seems to be a character influenced by the American popular culture trends of the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, such as heavy metal music and the second and third-generations of video games and video game consoles. Since he is one of the site's most popular characters, merchandise has also spun off of Strong Bad, which includes T-shirts and sweatshirts sold by the website.

Strong Bad has been one of the most popular characters in the series and has been well-received. In 2021, Polygon declared Strong Bad an icon. In a tribute, they note that "Strong Bad Email was far and away the most popular segment on Homestar Runner" and the series and character have "remained a "massive comedic influence" on others. Segments have been spun off of his emails, including "Teen Girl Squad", a comic drawn by Strong Bad about four teenage friends, and "20X6", an anime-style cartoon featuring Japanese versions of the characters, such as Strong Bad's counterpart, "Stinkoman".

Role in Homestar Runner
In the beginning of the series, he and Homestar Runner would battle each other in competitions such as lifting as many grapes as they can, doing tag-team wrestling, and facing off in a jumping jack contest. As the series went on, Strong Bad became less of a villain, although he still hates Homestar, but not so much as an arch rival, mostly viewing Homestar as dumb and irritating. The two have been known to occasionally get along, however. Along with his physically intimidating but mentally limited big brother Strong Mad and his yellow lackey The Cheat, Strong Bad represents the self-proclaimed criminal element in the series. Many shorts concern the various practical jokes and scams that they perpetrate. Although these are usually only slightly malevolent, Strong Bad still acts as if he is a villainous mastermind, and he is highly prone to exaggerating his alluring qualities—especially with regards to women. Strong Bad also "rules" an area of the fictional universe called Strong Badia. It consists of a barren field, a fence, a tire, and a stop sign reading "Pop: Tire" (Pop meaning population) leaning against a cinder block. Strong Bad said in one email he bought the property from Bubs, although he originally said he ruled it since "diaper school". It was once "haunted" by the ghost of the Tandy 400, Strong Bad's first computer. Besides Strong Badia, he and The Cheat enjoy hanging out at a stick known as "The Stick".

Strong Bad's main role in the cartoon is in the Strong Bad Email segment, in which he answers emails sent to him from viewers. The Strong Bad Emails began as a small segment in 2001, in which Strong Bad would mock the spelling and grammar of those who wrote to him, usually while typing with boxing gloves on an outdated computer. He has parodied the question of "how do you type with boxing gloves on", which is thought to be one of the most asked questions in the emails he receives. Most of the time a cut-away sequence is used to move the narrative beyond mere typing. Once the events of the email finish unfolding, Strong Bad wraps it up, and then "The Paper" or "New Paper" comes down with a link to Strong Bad's e-mail address. Often, hidden animations (Easter eggs) are displayed when the user clicks on a word or picture either during the email or after it has concluded. As of 2022, there are 209 Strong Bad emails. Although the animations were initially brief, they gradually grew to establish numerous catchphrases and running gags, as well as spin-offs like Trogdor the Burninator, Teen Girl Squad, and even characters like Homsar and Senor Cardgage. An example of a Strong Bad Email reply is his take on techno, where he creates the techno song "The System Is Down". Originally, his most used catchphrase was "Holy Crap!" and other variations on this theme (example: "What the crap?"), though he now parodies even this in his responses to emails. In the older sbemails (see below), his computers are often subject to "flagrant errors", as in the sbemail "50 emails".

Several "alternate versions" of Strong Bad exist in other cartoons on the website. One of these is "Stinkoman", a futuristic anime-style Strong Bad that seems to be a parody of Japanese animation. Stinkoman has no thumbs, big robot boots, a mouth that is tiny when closed but "ridiculously huge" when open, blue hair ("Gotta have blue hair!") and big green eyes. Strong Bad designed this character in the email "japanese cartoon", when someone asked what he would look like as a Japanese cartoon. For the "1936" segments on the website, Strong Bad is sometimes referred to as Sir Strong Bad, Uncle Strong Bad, or Old-Timey Strong Bad. He appears in black and white and has hair and a handlebar mustache. His face is less detailed and he has no visible mouth but his mustache moves when he talks. Another version is "Strong Badman", which is basically a tall, muscular, comic book version of Strong Bad, named Strong Badman, often calling out his unseen partner "L'il Stiny" (which was Strong Bad making fun of the name of the writer of the email "superhero name").

Character

Creation

Strong Bad was based on the "Strong Bads", a Lucha libre–style fighter team from the 1983 arcade video game Tag Team Wrestling, as the cartoon revolves largely around pop culture references. When The Brothers Chaps were asked about this origin, they responded, "Oh yeah, absolutely. The Strong Bads. We were just doing some dumb thing at Kinko's for friends. We weren't planning on all of this happening." Along with most of the main characters of the website, Strong Bad debuted in the Brothers Chaps' children's book entitled The Homestar Runner Enters the Strongest Man in the World Contest. In this story, The Homestar Runner, Strong Bad (with a little help from The Cheat), and Pom Pom enter a strength competition, along with The Robot, Mr. Bland, Señor, and the Grape Fairie as the umpire, some characters that rarely appeared later in the series. The concept for this began in 1996 when both of The Brothers Chaps were looking for children's books. When they did not find any to their liking, they created their own as a parody. After creating a few characters and writing a plot, they made copies of the book and attempted to sell it. This hand-drawn book was the only incarnation of Strong Bad for several years. The concept of a website with Homestar Runner and Pom Pom as the protagonists, and Strong Bad and The Cheat as the antagonists, became a reality in 2000.

Development
The website was originally meant to revolve around Homestar, but Strong Bad grew in popularity after the first few months of the website, and the Chapman brothers decided to give him his own segment, Strong Bad Email (SBEmail for short). According to Mike Chapman, "...He'd already become everybody's favorite character." In the children's book and very early stages of the website, Strong Bad looked significantly different from his present day character. He had very small hands and a plainly colored red and black lucha libre mask, contrary to the blue and green areas of the mask included in the present version of Strong Bad. In the book, Strong Bad and The Cheat were defined as the main "villains" to Homestar Runner and Pom Pom, who were defined as the main "protagonists". This idea of Strong Bad being an antagonist lasted for a short while in the early toons, but did change, however, as each character developed its own style. Strong Bad also started off with a prominent Mexican accent and a deep voice, which gradually transitioned into a more gruff and less accented voice with more vocal range.

Reception
Strong Bad has been received well by both critics and viewers of the website. He is considered one of the most popular characters of the website, and his Strong Bad Email segment is one of the most viewed segments of Homestar Runner. In an audio review of Strong Bad and the rest of the Homestar Runner characters, National Public Radio said "There are lots of nasty characters lurking in the shadowy corners of the World Wide Web. But Strong Bad is just awful. And he's awfully funny, too". Peter Wood of National Review Online commented on Strong Bad's personality and his evil-looking appearance. He stated: "Strong Bad is probably not the guy you want to move in next door. The red and black Wrestlemania mask he wears all the time is a clue. As are the boxing gloves, which he keeps on even when he is typing sarcastic e-mails ... He is one of the coolest characters on the Internet and the real star of Homestarrunner.com, which may be the most popular homegrown animation in the world." He added "Strong Bad also dabbles in other media and, like Professor Cornel West, has even recorded his own rap, 'Everybody to the Limit', which builds on the delightful typographic implosion, 'fhqwhgads, and also said "The humor likewise combines the innocence of slapstick with sharp satire of American popular culture. ... At one point, tired of being asked how he types with boxing gloves on, Strong Bad attaches fake fingers: a shrimp, a lit birthday candle, and an action-figure toy." Johnny Dee, a reviewer from The Guardian of the United Kingdom, described the humor of Strong Bad. He wrote: "Like South Park and Modern Toss, Strong Bad isn't exactly beautiful to look at but he's relentlessly funny," and added, "Strong Bad is an animated Mexican wrestler ... and the undoubted star of surreal cartoon site Homestar Runner."

Spin-offs

Trogdor the Burninator
Trogdor the Burninator is an original character created by Strong Bad in Strong Bad Email #58, titled Dragon. Strong Bad begins by giving a dragon drawing tutorial in which the character is drawn from the letter "S" and features numerous "consummate V's" used in constructing Trogdor's "teeth, spineties [sic], and angry eyebrows". The character is depicted as a dragon with a large, muscled arm, which "looks really good, comin' outta the back of his neck there", who "burninates the countryside", "the peasants", and "their thatched-roof cottages". Trogdor eventually got a Flash game on homestarrunner.com and became very popular, having several pieces of merchandise made featuring him. The Trogdor theme was also featured as a bonus song in Guitar Hero II. He is featured as the main antagonist of the final episode of Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People, 8-Bit is Enough. He later got his own board game, Trogdor!! The Board Game. He is also mentioned in the final episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer as a supposed character in a Dungeons & Dragons-style tabletop game. Trogdor is briefly shown in the 2014 video "Word Crimes", sketched onto a notepad cover. In episode 11 of season 2 of the Syfy original series The Magicians, entitled "The Rattening", the protagonists Quentin Coldwater and Julia Wicker make an uneasy pact with a dragon to enter the Underworld, whom their friend and high king Eliot later refers to disparagingly as "Trogdor".

In other media

Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People

A point-and-click adventure game based on Strong Bad was created by Telltale Games and released for both the Nintendo Wii's WiiWare service and Microsoft Windows. Later on, the game was ported on the PlayStation 3 as a PSN download. It was released in an episodic format for both, with five episodes for its first season. A second season was in discussion if the first season sold well, however with Telltale's collapse in 2018 and a general decline in popularity of Homestar Runner in general this will most likely not be coming to fruition.

Strong Bad Sings and Other Type Hits

Strong Bad Sings (And Other Type Hits), an album featuring songs from Homestar Runner, was released in 2003. The album featured several songs "performed" by other characters. The partner cartoon features Strong Mad forgetting lyrics to his favorite songs.

Other media
On September 2, 2010, Telltale Games announced a new PC/Mac game called Poker Night at the Inventory. The game features Strong Bad, Tycho from Penny Arcade, Heavy from Team Fortress 2 and Max from Sam & Max. Telltale CEO Dan Connors said, "We've had the idea for some time of exploring the idea of what video characters do when they're not 'on the clock' in the games we play." The game was released on November 22, 2010.

Strong Bad makes a guest appearance on at least two records, including The Aquabats 2011 album Hi-Five Soup!, providing vocals on the song "Pink Pants!". Prior to this, he appeared on the Shellac album Excellent Italian Greyhound on the track "Genuine Lulabelle".

In 2011, Matt Chapman joined the production team of The Hub series The Aquabats! Super Show! as a writer and director. In the 2012 episode "CobraMan!", co-directed by Chapman, he appears onscreen as a villainous carnival worker named "Carl", who wears a wrestling mask identical to Strong Bad's and speaks in Strong Bad's voice. On July 14, 2012, Chapman appeared onstage at an Aquabats concert in San Diego in character as Strong Bad, joining the band in a performance of "Trogdor".

Strong Bad is also mentioned on page 14 of CR Jordan's Basic Fundamentals of Modern Tattoo: "Thanks to Strong Bad, we know that technology is magic."

Strong Bad makes an unofficial appearance in the Robot Chicken 2017 episode "Hey I Found Another Sock".

On April 10, 2020, Strong Bad's official Twitter account, @StrongBadActual, tweeted the following: "I just dropped 3 volumes, 180 tracks of background music,  jingles, and songs from 20 years of http://HomestarRunner.com! Shuffle these nuggets onto your day like croutons on a life salad! Out now on all your fav music streamins!" According to an article published by The A.V. Club, "For now, anyone desperate to live in the past for a while can listen to the first three volumes through a bunch of different platforms, including Spotify, YouTube, and, if you want to buy them, iTunes." The official Twitter page also noted in a subsequent Tweet that the music is not available on Bandcamp.

References

External links

 Strong Bad at Homestar Runner Wiki
Strong Bad on Twitter

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Biografia
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Ha vinto la medaglia di bronzo ai campionati europei di short track di Dresda 2018 nei 1.000 metri, concludendo la gara alle spalle dell'olandese Sjinkie Knegt e del russo Semën Elistratov.

Ha rappresentato la Lettonia ai Giochi olimpici invernali di  concorrendo nei 1.000 e nei 1.500 metri. In entrambe le gare si è classificato all'undicesimo posto.

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Standard & Poor's loses domain name dispute
by Andrew Allemann — December 5, 2013 Policy & Law 2 Comments
Financial services company and rating agency can't have "boycott" domain name, panel rules.
Standard & Poor's has lost a UDRP against the domain name BoycottStandardandPoors.com at World Intellectual Property Organization.
The domain name owner argued that he's exercising his first amendment rights by owning the "gripe" style domain name.
The panel determined that the domain name could be used as a gripe site and be protected, so it denied Standard & Poor's request to transfer the domain name.
But the panel's wording – and the brevity of its decision – is rather interesting.
Consider that the domain owner registered the domain name in 2011, but hasn't done anything with it. The panel gave the benefit of the doubt on whether or not he did not have rights/legitimate interests in the domain name:
As Respondent conceivably could use the domain name at issue in a manner that would not constitute bad faith registration and use, and as the domain name at issue has yet to be used to resolve to a web site, Complainant has failed to establish that Respondent has no rights or legitimate interests in respect of the domain name at issue.
The section for Registered and Used In Bad Faith is also peculiar. The three person panel says the complaint was brought prematurely "Since it is conceivable that Respondent could use the domain name in such a way that Respondent did not seek to profit from the good will attached to Complainant's family of marks." The panel then notes that S&P can file another UDRP should the domain owner use the domain name in bad faith.
It's rare that a panel considers what is conceivable, and it's surprising they didn't address the lack of progress in turning the domain into a non-commercial website.
I'm not saying the panel got it wrong, it's just that the full decision is rather interesting. I think some panels would have found differently.
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2 Comments Tags: standard & poors, udrp, world intellectual property organization
lance says
I like cases that set historic presidency I can refer to later…in case
David White says
That's a pretty interesting turn for the books for sure! Other people have had to give up domains like this or fear of being sued to death!