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'We are way behind': Central Texas builders face supply-chain-caused delays, rising costs in obtaining materials
BY SHANE MONACO | TELEGRAM STAFF
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Editor's note: Part two of a four-part series.
A housing boom and a material shortage — both describe the current situation many local home builders find themselves in.
With many needed supplies for homes currently in short supply due to issues with the global supply chain, both large and small Central Texas builders are trying to make do with what they have.
Marty Janczak with the Temple Area Builders Association said these global issues are causing increased prices and months-long delays for local construction. This issue has been amplified by the population growth in Texas, which has centered around the state's population triangle of Dallas-Fort Worth, San Antonio and Houston.
Janczak said that, with between 1,200 and 2,000 people moving to Texas each day, new houses are in high demand everywhere.
"We are way behind," Janczak said. "You can't get the materials — it takes two months longer to build a house. It is not that you don't want to do it, it is just not enough materials, not enough labor."
Material shortages
Janczak said many key components in local construction have become hard to find, and often not in the quantities desired even when found.
For all forms of construction, finding PVC pipe, mainly used in plumping for homes, has become a problem.
Janczak said the reason behind the shortages comes from a lack of raw materials, mainly petrochemicals. He also pointed to a worldwide demand for the products, causing prices to elevate.
Another construction staple seeing increased costs has been oriented strand board plywood, mainly used for load-bearing applications in construction.
Prices for this type of plywood, Janczak said, have gone from about $8 a board a year ago to now anywhere between $50 and $60 a board. He said this higher price is only when buyers can find the product.
One odd shortage in Central Texas, Janczak said, is a lack of electric meter boxes used to bring electricity into homes.
"There is a shortage of those by a long way," Janczak said. "In Central Texas there are about 1,200 houses, including the Austin area, that are completed and ready to be occupied but you can't get the meter boxes. They are behind and they are not getting them out to the builders fast enough to do."
Paul Malmin, general manager for Lengefeld Lumber Co. in Temple, said his company is seeing a shortage of all of their products right now, from screws to treated lumber.
One product Malmin said the company can't get enough of right now is James Hardie fiber cement products, a durable material mainly used for the siding of homes.
This Hardie board, used in the construction of many homes, is the only one of its kind and has depleted its stocks quickly in recent months.
Malmin said he knows there is not much he and the company can do to combat the global issue. Despite this, Malmin and his staff have worked even harder to find the needed supplies where they can to supply their loyal customers.
"Manufacturing just can't seem to keep up," Malmin said. "For engineered lumber and Hardie siding, there is just not enough of it out there to supply the demand. I think the factories never fully recovered from COVID, and they are having a hard time getting help and getting workers."
Delays and shortages have not affected all local builders equally.
For many smaller home builders in the area, Janczak said, stocking up on needed supplies has been a challenge. He said this is due to many of these small builders mainly working on custom homes, with a need to order specific items custom made or in unique sizes.
Carol Fleck, who works at MF Construction in Belton, said some of the company's practices have had to change due to constant shifts in the supply chain.
Before the shortages, Fleck said the company would put up the framing of a home and then allow the buyers to consider if they wanted windows to be larger or if they would like them moved. Now, the company needs to lock in buyers to their original decisions early on.
Fleck said this was due to the shipping time of windows, which now can take anywhere from six to 10 weeks to arrive, if not longer.
"Typically, we would pour a foundation, frame the walls and then order windows," Fleck said. "Now we are breaking ground and ordering windows, hoping that they get to the job site by the time the framers are ready for them to be there."
Costs of homes also have gone up, with some home builders unable to give their clients a fixed price at the start of construction.
Fleck said the company has had to reluctantly ask buyers to pay for some increased costs during the construction process since builders are unable to absorb all rising costs. She said this is hard for some buyers who get a loan for their new home, with not enough in their bank accounts to pay for the changes.
While these supply issues have caused problems, Fleck said it has only meant more work for the company to do the best job for their clients.
Janczak said the problems seen by Fleck are not isolated and only symptomatic of the larger supply chain issue.
Larger builders have had an easier time, Janczak said, with mass-produced homes being easier to do bulk orders for. He said this is due to many of the home styles sharing the same size windows or similar appliances, that can be ordered all at once and used interchangeably.
Despite this advantage, larger home builders in the area still have added about two months to the time it takes to build a home.
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Broken links: Shuttered pedestrian bridge in Temple a sign of supply chain shortages
A wide sidewalk on South 31st Street leads to nowhere as orange and white road cones block an unfinished pedestrian bridge over the train tracks.
The Temple pedestrian bridge — with two tall concrete supports awaiting completion — is symptomatic of local supply chain issues as work has stalled in recent weeks.
Unable to get the needed materials to complete the project, work crews have let the bridge sit unfinished as they wait.
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VIDEO: Nick Kyrgios pulls out after appearing to serve underhand against Kyle Edmund
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Nick Kyrgios was at his cheeky best during his first round match against Britain's Kyle Edmund at the Rogers Cup in Montreal on Tuesday.
Serving at 1-1 (40-30) in the second set, the Australian star appeared to serve underhand, only to pull out at the last moment.
And guess what? Edmund was already on his way to the net, much to the amusement of himself. Even Kyrgios couldn't control his laughter.
Kyrgios, who won his sixth ATP title at the Citi Open in Washington last week, went on to suffer a 3-6 4-6 defeat at the hands of Edmund.
He, however, didn't shy from admitting he lost to a better player on the day.
"I'm a little bit tired. Physically I actually feel like I'm OK," Kyrgios was quoted as saying by AFP at the end of the match.
"Kyle played well, served well and didn't really give me any rhythm into the match at all.
"Tonight was challenging; I was actually really looking forward to playing. But I just got beaten by a better player today."
As for Edmund, he is next scheduled to cross the swords with Russian young gun Daniil Medvedev.
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Musk's Starlink to apply for commercial license in India by Jan 31
New Delhi, Dec 4 (IANS): Starlink, the satellite internet division of billionaire Elon Musk's rocket company SpaceX, has announced that it will apply for a commercial license in India by January 31, 2022.
The announcement comes days after the Department of Telecommunications, Ministry of Communications, Union Government warned Starlink to get the necessary permission that is required to offer satellite-based internet services in the country.
"We hope to have applied for a commercial license on or before January 31, 2022 (unless we hit some major roadblock)," Sanjay Bhargava, India director for Starlink said in a LinkedIn post.
Bhargava, in his post also said how Starlink could be great for connectivity in numerous situations.
He said that a 100 per cent Broadband India will require collaboration across stakeholders, service providers, and technologies, and Starlink encourages everyone to think about their usage and develop connectivity plans for districts as well as private use.
Earlier, Starlink announced that it will focus on 10 rural Lok Sabha constituencies to provide internet services.
"I am also keen to have 30-minute virtual conversations with MPs, Ministers, Secretaries to Union government, or Principal Secretaries to states to see if they think 100 per cent broadband would help improve lives," Bhargava had said.
Starlink shipped 100,000 terminals to customers recently. The project aims to provide global broadband connectivity via a constellation of satellites.
SpaceX began satellite launches in November 2019 and opened its $99 per month beta programme for select customers around a year later.
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Tow truck drivers rally to inform drivers of Move Over Law
By Kelvin Reynolds
Published: Dec. 6, 2021 at 8:23 AM CST
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (WBRC) - A weekend tow truck rally brought attention to a state law that makes things safer for first responders.
The rally is an annual event that started after tow truck driver John Hubbard was struck and killed in December 2016 while trying tow a vehicle.
Tow truck drivers use the rally to bring attention to the state's Move Over Law. More than one hundred tow trucks, law enforcement and emergency vehicles participated in the rally. It started in Hueytown and ended in Tuscaloosa.
First responders want as much space as possible to safely help motorists, move vehicles and perform other duties. The Move Over Law requires drivers to move over to the left lane if possible if they approach an emergency vehicle with lights flashing.
"Hypothetically speaking, if you're traveling on the interstate, the majority of the vehicles are travelling at least 70 miles per hour. So, its really a great law that was put in place to protect law enforcement and emergency responders because we always want to encourage motorists to create an area that's conducive for safe travels," Alabama State Trooper spokesman Reginal King explained.
If it's not safe to move over to your left lane when approaching an emergency vehicle with its lights flashing, King recommended you slow down to 15 miles under the posted speed limit.
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Britain. The land of opportunity. The place where safety from terrorism is guaranteed. Like any other country, there are flaws in our system – but we are a democratic nation and we stand as a safe haven for refugees. As we have repeatedly seen in the news, asylum seekers make dangerous journeys every day in the hope to claim residence in the UK and this crisis will continue for as long as civil wars break out in their own countries. Currently, Greece is the biggest host country of Syrians and there are also Eritreans, Somalis and those in the Middle East seeking a better life – one where they can go to school or work, just like everyone else.
The Dubs amendment was successfully passed in the House of Commons by Lord Alfred Dubs. It calls for unaccompanied child refugees to be brought to the UK – those without family links and are at particularly high risk of danger (young girls and those under the age of 13). Lord Dubs campaigned for an amendment to the Immigration Bill earlier in 2016 around spring time. The Labour Party politician, who has led various humanitarian projects during his career, fled to England himself in 1939 when he was six from the Nazi-occupied Czech Republic. However, after the Brexit vote, border and immigration regulations are getting tighter for those wishing to enter the UK.
It is hard to predict the exact number of illegal immigrants living in the UK. In 2009, the London School of Economics estimated the number to be around 670,000 – a figure that has since increased. The UK government in 2016 reassured people that it would take in only 20,000 refugees. In Calais, thousands of refugees last year camped near the highway and some tried to climb over the fence that separates France and British territory. There were also a number of incidents where boys were hit by cars on the motorway leading to the port. French Terre d'Asile is an emergency shelter in Calais, created in 1970, which provides language learning, employment and housing for the refugees. It was awarded with the Human Rights Prize of the French Republic in 1989.
Staff employed by the non-governmental organization (NGO) had to go through psychological pain, turning between 15 and 35 unaccompanied refugee children away every day, potentially even more, simply because there were not enough beds. To make matters worse, the camps were in the process of possibly being demolished. Leaflets had been handed out, informing the refugees that they would be moved to centres throughout France, but it was expected that some would refuse to move as they were still determined to get to Britain. There was also concern by some officials that there would be protests and resistance between migrants and French police, which unfortunately did happen.
So what did we learn from the Calais immigration crisis? It is difficult to control borders; people will persist with trying to cross borders and seas, even if it means risking their life. It is a problem which needs to be resolved by European Governments coming together and finding a more permanent solution, possibly by distributing immigrants evenly throughout all of Europe so that it isn't just one country feeling the pressure of the influx of immigrants.


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Dom sportova je ime velike višenamenske sportske dvorane u centru Zagreba. U njoj se održavaju razne dvoranske sportske (tenis, rukomet, odbojka, košarka, dvoranski nogomet, umetničko klizanje, hokej na ledu i slično), ali i druge priredbe (koncerti, predavanja i slično).

Dom sportova je smešten u severozapadnom delu Trga Krešimira Ćosića i zauzima celi prostor između Magazinske ulice i Nove ulice. Objekat ima 32.000 -{m²}- korisne površine od čega je 10.000 -{m²}- poslovnog prostora, a 22.000 -{m²}- služi isključivo sportu. Sastoji se od osam dvorana od kojih su dve veće (jedna ima 5 000, a druga 3 100 sedišta na fiksnim tribinama).

Dom sportova je otvoren 17. maja 1972. košarkaškom utakmicom Evropa - Svet.

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Our tenth annual summer Performing Arts Camp at Stony Brook Community Church is now a memory but our eleventh season is now open for registration. Click on "2018 registration" below to register.
PAC is a Musical Theatre Workshop for ages 7 to 18 that includes acting, voice, dance, and improvisation leading to an open house performance of a musical commedy production on the last day.
PAC is open to 20 children from age 7 to 18 regardless of their level of experience. We are a small group, so we are able to accommodate the very talented as well as special needs children. Our students work on challenging material, sometimes learning multiple roles for a production.
The 2018 session will last four weeks from June 25 to July 20, Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. with the final performances on the 21st. Enrollment is limited to 20 children. The cast pool party will be Sunday afternoon, July 22nd.
Morning classes are held in our air conditioned Fellowship Hall and afternoons we're in the gym in our Education Building. Our park-like playground allows for outdoor recreation at lunch break, weather permitting, and our facility is wheelchair accessible.
Tuition for 2018 will be $650. We offer a 10% discount for siblings.
A limited number of scholarships based on need will be provided. If you wish to be considered for a scholarship, a letter of request must accompany the camp application. The deadline for submission of a scholarship request is May 15. The requests will be reviewed by the Scholarship Committee.
For more information email Camp Director Sherrill Jones at sherrilljones@icloud.com or call the church office at 751-0574 9:00-12:00 weekdays.


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Friedrich Von Stülpnagel (Alemania, 16 de julio de 1913-Múnich, 9 de julio de 1996) fue un atleta alemán, especialista en la prueba de 4x400 m en la que llegó a ser medallista de bronce olímpico en 1936.

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En los JJ. OO. de Berlín 1936 ganó la medalla de bronce en los relevos 4x400 metros, con un tiempo de 3:11.8 segundos, llegando a meta tras Reino Unido (oro) y Estados Unidos (plata), siendo sus compañeros de equipo: Helmut Hamann, Harry Voigt y Rudolf Harbig.

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Six UK schools hit by cyberattack on multi-academy trust
A cyberattack has hit six UK schools after the network of a multi-academy trust covering 4,500 pupils was breached.
By Matthew Gooding
A cyberattack on a multi-academy trust which runs schools serving 4,500 pupils has left staff without access to digital systems for more than a week, Tech Monitor understands.
The Scholars' Education Trust suffered the breach last week, and at the time of writing many of its internal systems remain offline. The trust runs six schools in Hertfordshire – Buntingford First School, Harpenden Academy, Priory Academy, Robert Barclay Academy, Samuel Ryder Academy and Sir John Lawes School.
A message has been posted on the websites of schools in the trust referring to a 'serious IT issue'.
A notice posted on the websites of all the schools in the trust on Tuesday states it is suffering from the effects of a "serious IT issue".
"We are currently experiencing difficulty in sending and receiving emails," the notice says. Please contact the school by telephone should you have an urgent message."
It is not known if any personal data of students or staff has been stolen in the breach, or whether the hackers have issued a ransom demand.
Tech Monitor has approached Scholars' Education Trust for comment on the incident.
Cyberattacks on UK schools are a growing problem
Education providers have become a popular target for cybercriminals in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. According to Verizon's 2022 Data Breach Investigations report, there were more than 1,200 reported attacks on education providers in the year to 13 October 2021. This makes education the fifth most commonly targeted business sector for hackers.
UK institutions have been targeted by hackers, and last month Tech Monitor reported that the Hive ransomware gang had demanded £500,000 from two sixth-form colleges in Bedfordshire, threatening to leak personal information of children if the colleges did not pay.
The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) noted a rise in the number of cyberattacks on schools last year, with a spate of ransomware attacks reported.
This led to the NCSC updating its guidance to schools, universities and other education organisations about how to prevent attacks and how to deal with the aftermath of a breach. It also urges organisations sign-up to its early warning system, which tracks malicious activity on networks around the country.
Paul Chichester, the NCSC's director of operations, said at the time: "This is a growing threat and we strongly encourage schools, colleges, and universities to act on our guidance and help ensure their students can continue their education uninterrupted.
"We are committed to ensuring the UK education sector is resilient against cyber threats, and have published practical resources to help establishments improve their cyber security and response to cyber incidents."
Read more: Cybercriminals have education in their sights
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Matthew Gooding is managing editor for Tech Monitor.


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The mission of YWCA Minneapolis is to eliminate racism, empower women and girls, and promote peace, justice, freedom and dignity for all. Since 1891, YWCA Minneapolis has been living our mission. As a leader in the field of racial equity, we empower communities and workplaces to stand against racism, embrace new perspectives and promote justice for all people.
Our mission is a bold one. We envision a world of opportunity. We believe the integrative, multifaceted nature of our work is vital to address the complex nature of racism in our community.
On May 25, 2020, George Floyd was murdered at the knee of an officer of the Minneapolis Police Department. George was just 46 years old: a father, a son, a brother, a fiancé and a member of our community. Moments like this offer striking clarity that systemic injustice and racism are ever-present and they bring to the forefront why the mission to eliminate racism is ever more crucial.
We're in a watershed moment, one that YWCA Minneapolis was made for. YWCA dares to lead in this moment; we will embark on a path forward to demand action and dialogue around racial inequities and injustice. Making a Difference. That's the Difference.™
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For 20 years, our YWCA Midtown location on Lake Street has served as a fixture in our community. To serve our neighbors in the aftermath and condemnation of the murder of George Floyd, a pop-up distribution center was opened at our Lake Street location to provide food and hygiene supplies serving on average, 600 families a week. In just its first month open in June 2020, 17,000 meal kits were distributed and community members filled over 1,700 volunteer shifts.
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Having conversations about racism is difficult, messy and uncomfortable. No matter who we are, each of us is at a different stage in our racial equity journey. We make it a point to have these conversations in a way that is accessible to all through monthly racial justice workshops held for members, volunteers, staff and the larger community.
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The Internet of Things is capturing the attention of people. It's basically a network of things that affect not only our lifestyle but how we work. This includes the countless numbers of devices around the globe, connected to the internet for collecting and sharing data. Starting from a simple toy to deadly weapons, pretty much every physical object can be transformed into the IoT. All it needs is a connection with the Internet and proper control.
Internet of things is shaping the future and construction technology is no exception to that. Traditionally the reason for connecting the internet with the building automation system doesn't exist. However, the quest for smart buildings entered the scenario anyway. Now the question is what is the primary requirement for a Smart building?
Smart buildings connect the building system for better safety and comfort. This includes a machine to machine connection with a certain flow of interaction. Accordingly, it is achieved by a connectivity between all the systems as well as equipment of the building. This calls for a cooperative collaboration and results in an efficient building with better security and comfort at a lower cost.
Further, a smart building connects the people with technology. The sharing of information among different components of a smart building opens a platform for innovation. Also, by interacting with technology, better comfort is achieved with less capital, less energy and most importantly without harming the environment. Moreover, a smart building can save energy and lessen the harmful building management measures. Thus, resulting in a step towards saving the environment.
As a matter of fact, smart buildings are connected to the smart power grid. This mean, the building is charged almost at the actual cost of production of electricity. This is connecting the building technology with an intelligent future.
The concept of the smart building came into the scenario with the growth of advanced technology. Smart buildings and smart cities are opening the gates for the future. The internet of things is making way for a new breed of smart buildings. It offers more accurate and useful information. This calls for a smart system overall. However, the entire concept stands on the idea of connecting everything with the internet.
Predictive maintenance is a technique that is made with the purpose of determining the condition of in-service equipment. This aims at two things. The prediction of possible equipment failures and the prevention of it. predictive maintenance uses the IoT sensors to get a report on the building that is under construction as well as all the equipment. This provides a clear idea of when the maintenance is required. Therefore, it lessens the required time for maintenance of the equipment. Also, it reduces the time and cost of the maintenance, such as the cost of spare parts and the production hours.
Every country has their own regulations for monitoring and controlling air quality. Air quality measurement is the monitoring of the quality of air. The primary aim for doing this is to protect the environment and the humans from pollution. The air quality affects the productivity. The health condition of the workers depends on the air quality, therefore, affecting the quality of work.
With the help of IoT devices, the air quality can be monitored and measured. The Carbon particles and harmful pollutants can be measured easily by using IoT sensors. Thus, IoT does the monitoring of health conditions as well as productivity.
Another usage of the Internet of things in construction technology is the IoT-supported applications. The usage of thermal sensor and ultrasound have changed the construction procedure. It can help in checking the equipment and taking care of them as per the need.
Also, the usage of ultrasonic sound detects the affected area. This is saving both the production cost and time by determining the place and type of maintenance required with the help of IoT technology.
IoT devices have overcome the limitations of managers. The internet of Technology does the verification and measurement of the equipment. With this, taking care of the inaccessible parts became easier. It gathers real-time data with the help of sensors.
Information is of primary importance in the world of smart buildings. The real-time data is now available with the internet of things. The sensors gather up all the necessary information and take action according to that.
Construction works damages the environment. IoT devices allow the building to be eco-friendly. The buildings use minimum energy. It also detects the degradation beforehand. Hence, allows taking effective measures when needed.
IoT technology uses the prefabricated building components. This guarantees a cost-effective and faster construction. Also, these smart buildings lessen the amount of waste produced during the construction. Therefore, it offers various ways of using technology to reduce the wastage.
Using IoT reduces the cost of production and saves time. It monitors the problems efficiently. Accordingly, provide with the most appropriate solution. GPS tracking device, smart inventory management and monitoring with sensors are coming into the construction scenario. This is basically a smart way of managing the construction work. Moreover, IoT is cutting down the management cost and offering more efficacy.
Usage of energy affects the cost of production and pollution. IoT technology is reducing both of these in construction. Sensors for controlling temperature, actuators, energy automation with real-time communication are some of the examples.
IoT helps in inventory management and optimization of the assets. It manages large data and takes into account all the factors. Therefore, reduces the wastage of assets and energy. This also saves human labor and protects the human resource.
As we all know, the internet is the sole thing today. We depend upon the internet for everything. Proper usage of the internet cuts down the wastage and increases productivity. Using IoT in smart buildings is the best example of this.


I just decided I wanted to become someone else… So I became someone else.
I'm having the same problems today that I had when I first started, saying that outrageous adult animation works.
It's too hard a life for me. I could only do it – check out in that sense – if I checked out somewhere that was luxurious and within hailing distance of civilization.
Personally, it was hard to see Emmitt in red.
While the Environmental Genome Project does not seek to assign allele frequencies, we are aware of the importance of accurate allele frequency estimates for future epidemiologic studies and the large sample sizes such estimates will require.
In every man the memory of the struggles and the heroes of the past is alive. But these memories are not incompatible with the desire for peace in the future.
A war can perhaps be won single-handedly. But peace – lasting peace – cannot be secured without the support of all.
In my career I have never felt that my being a woman was an obstacle or an advantage. I guess I've been oblivious.
My vanity is not dead. I laugh when I see pictures of myself as I am now-maybe so I won't cry, but just because it is really funny how much I've changed.
You do something annual every year, don't you?
Part of the success of This American Life, I think, is due to the fact that none of us sound like we should be on the radio. We don't sound professional; we sound like people you would know.
And I fly planes all the time. And helicopters.
I have been told by a member of the board of one of Canada's most prominent literary magazines that a submission of mine once caused a great deal of controversy.
Men make angry music and it's called rock-and-roll; women include anger in their vocabulary and suddenly they're angry and militant.
If any foes of mine are there, I pardon every one: I hope that man and womankind will do the same by me.
The worst of doing one's duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else.
You don't have to live the blues to play the blues.
Things change in different countries as people grow, and as generations change.
I've no regrets. You take responsibility for your actions.
If a man's from Texas, he'll tell you. If he's not, why embarrass him by asking?
After voluntary exertions on the part of our people to which the history of the world furnishes no parallel, is the old root of bitterness still to remain in the ground, to sprout and bear fruit in the future as it has borne fruit in the past?
Paul is Starsky, and I met him before shooting. He was very kind and encouraged us to go with what we wanted to do. It was very sweet to see them back with the car after 25 years.
In the United States, securities markets are much more developed than they are in Europe.
At that point, which would be around February 2002, they came and they confiscated my computer, because, they said, they were suspecting that I was communicating with certain Senate members and taking this issue outside the Bureau.
I stay in my own little zone, and that's good for me.
One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered.
I like their darkness but I also like the pop-side of the Velvet Underground.
In our rich consumers' civilization we spin cocoons around ourselves and get possessed by our possessions.
Doctor Who is like any long-running series in that the cast tend to look to the star to set the general tone. Rehearsals and filming could be a lot of fun.


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With the advent of inexpensive microarray technology, biologists have become increasingly reliant on gene expression analysis for detecting disease states, including diagnosis of cancerous tissue (Tan et al, 2003). Microarray data sets are highly susceptible to the curse of dimensionality, as most have orders of magnitude more gene measurements (i.e., features) than samples (i.e., instances). Therefore, the classification algorithm must be robust with noisy and redundant data. While random forests (Breiman, 2001) and SVMs (Vapnik, 1998) have proven to be popular methods for expression analysis (Diaz et al., 2006; Statnikov et al., 2008) little work has been done to compare these methods with AdaBoost (Freund, 1997), a popular ensemble learning algorithm, across a wide array of cancer prediction tasks.
Our initial analysis compared several classifiers, including $k$-nearest neighbors, linear discriminant analysis, linear SVMs, among others on 24 microarray data sets (12 binary and 12 multi-class). However, the three algorithms mentioned showed the best results over others. Furthermore, our analysis shows that AdaBoost performs remarkably well on binary tasks, generally outperforming both SVMs and random forests. On multi-class problems, however, random forests and SVMs are indistinguishable from one another but generally outperform AdaBoost.
Our work differed from existing research in two important ways. First, our work provides a comprehensive analysis of the AdaBoost algorithm across a wide variety of cancer data sets. Second, our work shows that the choice of optimal algorithm depends heavily on whether the task falls under binary prediction or multi-class prediction.
of microarray data using random forest. BMC Bioinformatics, 7(1):3, 2006.
classification. BMC Bioinformatics, 9(1):319, 2008.
data for cancer classification. Applied Bioinformatics, 2:S75-83, 2003.
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Q: does or can adding partitions affect windows recovery? Does shrinking the C:\ partition in Windows 10 to make room for a Linux partition affect the ability of the Windows Recovery partition(s) (One for Windows PE, one for recovery) to find and work with the C partition?

A: I've resized my C: partition multiple times over the years as I switched between smaller or bigger hard drives.
I don't see any reason to think it would affect such things, as long as you really DO mean the C:\ partition, where Windows is installed, where you have the normal install path as C:\Windows, AND you are shrinking from the END of the partition. After all, Windows and whatever else it wanted to set itself up with should always be the FIRST things on a drive. Any OS's you want to add go AFTER Windows. But BEFORE you shrink, if it's a hard disk drive (spinny thingy with RPMs, you know), defragment first. Defragmenting organizes all data toward the beginning of the drive, keeping the end as truly free and clean as possible, allowing you a safe shrink.
The key is to not touch or resize the other important partitions. Don't touch the reserve partitions, the recovery partitions, MBR or the EFI partitions if you're on a UEFI system, etc.
I reiterate in different words, if you're resizing the C: partition, don't touch the BEGINNING of the partition - that's what will make Windows confused. Touching the beginning of a partition (resizing, moving, etc.) is the riskiest. You should have things planned so you never move partitions - if you do, be prepared to delete and recreate if necessary.

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*BACK UP your data; messing with partitions always has the risk of messing up the partition table and thus "losing" data.

*Defragment if it's a disk drive.

*Choose a generous, comfortable size for Windows and your programs (research this / estimate well)

*Use the Linux installer or Gparted on a LiveCD to shrink the Windows partition by ONLY adjusting THE END of it.

*Touch no other partitions and create all your new space in the new space created after the Windows partition - probably an ext4 parition and...

*Don't forget your Linux distro probably wants a partition for swap space. Make this the absolute final partition that goes to the end of the drive. It's usually created to be the size of your RAM, though you should research this if you have more than 8GB RAM because it may be overkill.

DISCLAIMER: There are exceptions to many of these and they are not hard rules for anyone who really knows what they're doing, so if you have to ask this question, you might as well take them as hard rules.
PS: Remember installing Linux usually involves using a bootloader like Grub2. Be prepared to face boot issues if anything goes wrong.


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YAKE! Keyword Extractor
Yake! (Campos et al. 2020) is a novel feature-based system for multi-lingual keyword extraction, which supports texts of different sizes, domain or languages. Unlike most of the systems, Yake! does not rely on dictionaries nor thesauri, neither is trained against any corpora. Instead, we follow a...
Treat is a toolkit for natural language processing and computational linguistics in Ruby. The Treat project aims to build a language- and algorithm- agnostic NLP framework for Ruby with support for tasks such as document retrieval, text chunking, segmentation and tokenization, natural language pa...
Time-sensitive inventory of medical terminology
This inventory contains a set of terms that are relevant to the study of medical history. The inventory is organised as a set of "heading terms", belonging to one of seven different semantic categories, each of which is accompanied by a set of semantically-related terms. There are around 175,0...
TimeBankPT
TimeBankPT, a TimeML annotated corpus of Portuguese, is the first corpus of Portuguese with rich temporal annotations (i.e. it includes annotations not only of temporal expressions but also about events and temporal relations). The annotation scheme used is similar to TimeML. TimeBankPT is the...
Tell me Stories - Temporal Summarization framework
Conta-me Histórias [http://contamehistorias.pt] is a temporal summarization framework of news articles that allows users to explore and revisit events in the past. To select relevant stories of different time-periods, we rely on YAKE! [http://yake.inesctec.pt] a keyword extraction algorithm devel...
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A computational lexicon for Portuguese that provides mappings between verbs and their nominalizations.
HiEve
A corpus of manually annotated event hierarchies in news stories.
Geo-Net-PT 02
Geo-Net-PT 02 is a public Geospatial Ontology of Portugal (see Chaves et al., 2007), a computational resource (see Rodrigues et al., 2006 and Rodrigues, 2009) for applications demanding geographic information about Portugal, and contains 701,209 concepts stored in a GKB system, most of them admin...
DependencyBankPT
The DepBankPT (Branco et al., 2011a) is a corpus of grammatical dependencies of the translated news composed of 3,406 sentences and 44,598 tokens taken from the Wall Street Journal. The DepBankPT is aligned to a constituency bank, the TreeBankPT (see Branco et al., 2011b). The key bridging eleme...
CINTIL-DependencyBank
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A Team of 8 participants – 6 artists (3 photographers, 1 film maker, 2 writers) and 2 administrators (a driver and a project manager).
Outcomes and experiences of the project will be shared online, on a daily basis via a dedicated blog/app. See example from our 2016 Road Trip: http://borders-within.com and our 2014 Road Trip: http://app.invisible-borders.com/.
The duration of the project is 59 days from September 27 – November 26, 2017.
A feature length documentary film.
A book publication articulating the two editions of the Borders Within Road Trip (I & II). The book is a going to present the project as a whole, giving readers a holistic view of our travels across Nigeria.
Photographers, film makers and writers invited to participate in the eight-week road trip will undertake to produce images and text that reflect impressionistic, yet critical readings of contemporary Nigeria. The central questions would be: Who am I in relation to the artificial map? How am I product of what I have been inevitably named? How do I interact across the several visible and invisible borders I confront as a Nigerian?
This project follows in the tradition of the artistic road trip intervention established by Invisible Borders in the course of six editions. This implies that the artists will travel together in the same vehicle, all the while living, working and interacting with each other. The route will be fluid, allowing for detours, but equally encompassing. Beginning in and returning to Lagos, the artists will move circularly through several Nigerian cities and towns whose history shaped and continue to shape a contemporary Nigerian identity.
Each participating artist will be tasked with developing one or more major body of work as a follow-up to the trip. Writers will be required to produce long travel essays (of up to 7,000 words), while photographers will be required to produce at least an encompassing body of work from the trip. Film makers are expected to produce one short film or more (depending on film maker's capacity) not less than 15 minutes in length. This could be in form of video art or documentary. In addition to this they are expected to produce snippets of films (1 to 2 minutes of length, at a pace of one per week), which will be shared on the blog of the project in the course of the road trip journey.
A dedicated blog will be set up through which the artists will share snippets of processes and outcomes of the project on a daily basis via the internet. An example of such online platform is that of the first edition of the Borders Within Road Trip, 2016 (http://borders-within.com) and the Trans-African Road Trip – Lagos to Sarajevo, 2014 (http://app.invisible-borders.com/).
Artists interested in participating in this years road trip should apply here.
For more information write to: i.ekejiuba@invisible-borders.com, info@invisible-borders.com or e.okereke@invisible-borders.com.


"Listen to the noise around us" a friend suddenly blurted out as we sat in a Starbucks. "I need to find a few minutes of silence" in my life. This booklet is an invitation to that very idea.
Find 10 minutes to create silence and try four simple steps to experiencing God in the silence – add one step each day and create a practice for moments when you long for silence.
In the past, I've heard these words from the Apostle Paul as a burden rather than a simple encouragement for better vision that nurtures my true humanity at its best. I'm inviting you to take 10 minutes on four occasions to explore "imitative" prayer in this positive spirit.
St. Francis' influential prayer companion was a woman named Clare. Her passion to know Jesus deeply led her to what she called "Imitative Prayer".
Clare focused her desire to imitate Jesus on the crucifixion stories. The mystery and accessibility of God in Jesus captured her, particularly his humility in his arrest, trial and execution.
GAZE what do we see, hear experience? Quietly and undistracted we look at one we love.
CONSIDER the character and love of God in Jesus Christ. How am I drawn to his ways? What do I notice about Jesus in this story?
CONTEMPLATE where does the Jesus of this story connect with my life now? How am I challenged and encouraged by his humble and sacrificial love?
IMITATE "We become what we love, and who we love shapes what we become". Let what I have seen shape who I become.


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Q: Why The Returned Data Type of findAll Method Are Different Between CrudRepository And JpaRepositiory? The returned data types of findAll method are Iterable and List for CrudRepository and JpaRespository. And JpaRepository extends PagingAndSortingRepository which extends CrudRepository. I am wondering why the returned data type are different. Any insight?

A: CrudRepository is defined in spring-data-commons which is used by all the Spring Data modules.
The idea behind using Iterable was to allow for stores to not materialise the full result when the method returns.
Queries in JPA return List instances and therefore there is no reason not to return List instances.
In practice no module returns a non-collection Iterable and the team just discussed that we might change the return type to Collection in the not too far future.


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Remembering Teena Marie: #3 – Now That I Have You
"Now That I Have You" is the only Teena Marie song that I wish she never recorded. That's because this song was originally penned for the great Minnie Riperton. Unfortunately, Minnie died in 1979 of breast cancer; Richard Rudolph (her husband) gave it to Teena a year later when he helped to produce the Lady T album.
Because the track wasn't written by Teena Marie (as are the others on the countdown), "Now That I Have You" doesn't have the distinctive sound of a Teena Marie ballad. That's actually a good thing; even with Teena strong, soulful voice, I can 'hear' Minnie singing this song.
That's not to say that Teena doesn't make it her own; at the 3:30 mark something kicks in, and she takes control of the song. Her vamp of the chorus foreshadows what we would here on her next albums – Irons In The Fire and Robbery.
Teena Marie – Now That I Have You
Author DarianPosted on January 1, 2011 January 14, 2016 Categories Music, R and BTags minnie riperton, now that I have you, Teena Marie2 Comments on Remembering Teena Marie: #3 – Now That I Have You
The Best Music You've Never Heard: Stevie's Songs
Note: This is the fourth in a series of posts of Stevie Wonder.
Songs In The Key Of Life is the final album in Stevie's "Classic Period"1. The album, released as a double LP in 1976, was an instant classic. It debuted at the top spot on the Billboard charts and stayed then for a then-record 14 weeks. Songs is Wonder's best selling and most acclaimed album, winning four Grammys and selling over 10 million copies.
Songs was originally scheduled for a 1975 release; however, Stevie (always the perfectionist) was not fully satisfied with the end result. He delayed the release to the spring of 1976. When spring rolled around, Stevie was still unsatisfied, and delayed the album for another 6 months.
The album was worth the wait, as it contained a murderers row of hits ("Sir Duke", "Knocks Me Off My Feet", "Isn't She Lovely", "I Wish", "As"). The album also had a plethora of guest artists; Herbie Hancock, Bobbi Humphrey, Minnie Riperton, Denise Williams, George Benson, Michael Sembello, Syreeta Wright and Ronnie Foster were just a few of the greats recruited to participate in Stevie's masterpiece.
Songs stands as one of the greatest records ever made and I strongly encourage everyone to have a copy in their music collection. I've included five lesser-known tracks from the album. My hope is that the variety of tracks selected accurately represents the flavor of the album. The first track, "Contusion", is a jazz-rock instrumental that captures Stevie's funk sensibilities.
The second highlighted track from the first disc is "Summer Soft". The imagery in the song is amazing; Stevie uses seasons as metaphors to love lost. The end result is a beautifully written mid-tempo ballad that escalates into a deeper frenzy as Stevie's chord progressions go higher and higher.
The first track from the second disc is "Black Man". This is a personal favorite of mine; it's not often that you get a history lesson wrapped into good music. Obama needs to use this on the campaign trail.
"Ngiculela – Es Una Historia – I Am Singing" is the next highlighted track. The song, sung in Zulu, Spanish, and English, is about why Stevie sings; at its simplest, it's a song about songs. In fact, I'd submit that this song could easily be about the Songs album.
"Another Star" is the final highlighted track from the album. I think of this track as more jazz than pop (as you'd expect with guitar by George Benson and flute by Bobbi Humphrey). It's another song about a broken heart; however, unlike "Summer Soft" it's more upbeat. It's my personal favorite from the album.
Author DarianPosted on June 8, 2008 February 28, 2016 Categories Music, R and BTags Bobbi Humphrey, Denise Williams, George Benson, Herbie Hancock, Michael Sembello, minnie riperton, Ronnie Foster, Songs In The Key Of Life, Stevie Wonder, Syreeta WrightLeave a comment on The Best Music You've Never Heard: Stevie's Songs


The Indian stock markets are expected to open in the green zone on Dalal Street as the global cues look supportive. SGX Nifty is trading 33.50 points higher.
Indian stock markets are likely to open higher tracking firm global cues. Investors will also cheer the appointment of Raghuram Rajan as 23rd RBI Governor who has raised hopes of new action plans to revive the economy.
The euro held near a seven-week low on Friday on the back of dovish comments from the European Central Bank, while a jump in U.S. bond yields underpinned the dollar and kept Asian stocks in check.
European stocks posted their highest close in 2-1/2 weeks on Thursday, cheered by strong U.S. data and the European Central Bank's commitment to low interest rates to fuel economic recovery.


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Easiest Ways of Moving to Canada 2022/2023
Easiest Ways of Moving to Canada – Canada is a prosperous country and the largest country in North America, the second-largest country in the world, "only" counts 35 million inhabitants. This makes it thinly populated. It is also a very popular travel destination; both for tourists and business travelers. This post will brief you the easiest and most popular ways of moving to Canada, although it requires financial investment but it worthy. Canada consistently ranks among the best countries for quality of life and is known for its positive attitude toward immigration.
These are easiest Ways of Moving to Canada in 2022
Express entry is another easiest Ways of Moving to Canada: This is Canada's popular immigration program. Candidates that apply through the Express Entry system can receive permanent residence status as soon as six months. Canadian government plans to invite over 240,000 newcomers through three streams of Express Entry, Namely:
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The system involves submitting an online profile that is scored by Canada's Comprehensive Ranking System (CRS). To submit an Express Entry profile, you must first be eligible under one of Canada's above three federal streams. The Canadian government then issues invitations to apply for permanent residence to the highest-ranking candidates in the Express Entry pool.
The Express Entry process may be the Easiest Ways of Moving to Canada for certain candidates eligible to submit a profile. It can be difficult to meet the CRS cut-off in the federal draw. However, just by being in the pool of candidates, you could be nominated for permanent residence by a province.
The cost of immigrating to Canada through Express Entry is typically about $2,300 CAD for a single applicant, or about $4,500 CAD for a couple. This does not include the settlement funds that must also be shown as part of the eligibility requirement, which will vary by family size.
Provincial Nominee Programs – Easiest Ways of Moving to Canada
There are several nominee programs offered by Canada's provinces and territories. Canada are inviting over 83500 this year through PNP. Each PNP has its own unique eligibility criteria. Many PNPs require a connection to the province to apply for nomination. However, there are some programs that invite overseas candidates solely based on their ability to respond to the province's labour market needs.
Each PNP has its own application processing time. After receiving a nomination, PNP candidates must apply to the federal government for Canadian permanent residence. The time it takes to process the permanent residence application will depend on whether the PNP operates using the Express Entry system.
The cost of immigrating to Canada through a PNP is usually the same as Express Entry, with some additional fees, depending on the province. Certain provinces don't charge a fee to process PNP applications, while others, such as Ontario, can charge up to $1,500 CAD.
Business Immigration – Easiest Ways of Moving to Canada:
The federal government offers immigration programs for individuals that plan to be self-employed in Canada or start up a business in Canada. So if you can own and manage business well this is a platform for you.
There are also several PNPs specific to overseas candidates interested in starting a business in a certain Canadian province.
Business immigration programs typically require a significant investment in the company you intend to start in Canada. The amount required will depend on the program you are interested in. Many PNPs have regional entrepreneur programs that require a lower investment for candidates interested in starting a business in a less populated area.
Sponsorship – Easiest Ways of Moving to Canada: Canadian government offers a program that gives citizen and Permanent resident an opportunity of bringing their family member to Canada. If your spouse, child, or grandchild is a permanent resident or citizen of Canada, you may be eligible for family sponsorship.
one of the easiest Ways of Moving to Canada is Sponsoring a relative, it can take up to about $1,135 CAD. Additional charge may be apply if the sponsor resides in or intends to reside in Quebec.
The processing time for a sponsorship application will depend on the family member who is sponsoring you. It can take up to 12 months or less.
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TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) -- Jonathan Williams scored 18 points, Luke Knapke and Jaelan Sanford each scored 12, Steve Taylor Jr. had 10 rebounds and Toledo pulled away in the second half to beat Bowling Green 77-62 in the first round of the Mid-American Conference Tournament Monday night. Continue to Article
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BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) -- Blake Hamilton scored 32 points, Raheem Johnson had a career-high eight blocks to tie for the third-highest in school history, and Buffalo beat Bowling Green 80-68 on Friday night to earn a bye to the quarterfinals of the Mid-American Conference Tournament. Continue to Article
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Colonial Buganda and the End of Empire
Political Thought and Historical Imagination in Africa
Part of African Studies
Author: Jonathon L. Earle, Centre College, Danville, Kentucky
Colonial Buganda was one of the most important and richly documented kingdoms in East Africa. In this book, Jonathon L. Earle offers the first global intellectual history of the Kingdom, using a series of case studies, interviews and previously inaccessible private archives to offer new insights concerning the multiple narratives used by intellectuals. Where previous studies on literacy in Africa have presupposed 'sacred' or 'secular' categories, Earle argues that activists blurred European epistemologies as they reworked colonial knowledge into vernacular debates about kingship and empire. Furthermore, by presenting Catholic, Muslim and Protestant histories and political perspectives in conversation with one another, he offers a nuanced picture of the religious and social environment. Through the lives, politics, and historical contexts of these African intellectuals, Earle presents an important argument about the end of empire, making the reader rethink the dynamics of political imagination and historical pluralism in the colonial and postcolonial state.
The first global intellectual history of colonial Buganda, giving readers an alternative perspective of the region's history
Uses previously-unseen private and institutional archive material on colonial literacy to offer readers a new understanding of the end of empire in East Africa
Tackles three separate subjects within colonial Buganda: colonial literacy, the end of empire, and nationalist historiography, appealing to a wide range of readers
'Buganda is one of the most studied societies in sub-Saharan Africa, but in this thoughtful and innovative book Jonathon L. Earle shows us how much more there is to explore. Using a series of illuminating case studies, based on pioneering research in private archives, Earle demonstrates how vivid, and how complex, were the political and historical imaginations of the kingdom's leading intellectuals in the late colonial moment. This book represents a thrilling new strand in Ganda historiography, and scholars of Uganda, and intellectual historians more broadly, owe Jonathon L. Earle a debt of gratitude.' Richard Reid, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
'With this book Earle becomes a leader in re-thinking the history of African nationalisms. His scrutiny of private papers undiscovered by previous historians allows us to eavesdrop on the political thought of late-colonial activists as never before. Widely read in comparative politics, they thought deeply, from different religious viewpoints, Christian, Muslim, and 'popular', about political responsibility and obligation – with a view to the right governance of their kingdom.' John Lonsdale, Emeritus Professor, Fellow of Trinity College Cambridge
'Essentially, this is an important examination of the end of empire in Uganda during the 1950s and 1960s. Many interviews with survivors from this period as well as careful analysis of a cornucopia of written sources make this a major study of a vital period in mid-twentieth century African history.' Michael Twaddle, University of London
'This unique book offers carefully constructed intellectual biographies of four critical patriots of Uganda's independence era: Musazi, Mulira, Abu Mayanja and Kiwanuka. Their historical imaginations and deep political commitments come alive through Earle's meticulous research. No other historian of Buganda has used these sources.' Holly Hanson, Mount Holyoke College, Massachusetts
'The most exciting thing about this valuable new book is the insight that it sheds into the mechanics of political innovation. The Ganda intellectuals who are the book's subjects mined their libraries, looking for snippets of text that could expand old ideas and launch new ways of thinking about public life. Earle's meticulous book helps us see how an African people defined and debated the principles that held them together.' Derek R. Peterson, University of Michigan
'I strongly recommend you read this book. Jonathon L. Earle uses evidence from some one hundred authoritative individuals, thirty-three official and private archives as well as from hundreds of secondary sources to show that multiple literacies conditioned the political behavior and actions of Buganda's political activists towards the end of British rule in Buganda. Sources of their inspiration for imagining the kingdom they wanted were Buganda's past, Christian and Islamic literacies as well as European political and intellectual thought. Multiplicity of literacies created ambiguity and plurality of the vision of the state for both the activists and departing administrators with the British Empire.' A. B. K. Kasozi, Makerere Institute of Social Research, Makerere University Kampala, Uganda
'This book effectively demonstrates the multiplicity of conceptualizations of political futures in the late colonial Buganda kingdom, emphasizing especially the roles of religious and historical interpretation in defining political preferences … of interest to scholars of African studies, intellectual history, and religious studies. Highly Recommended.' M. M. Heaton, Choice
'Earle's work in elaborating the intellectual journeys of these individuals is vivid and methodologically innovative. It reclaims fragmentary sources and interprets intellectual leaps to emphasize a contingent and creative literary culture connecting diverse narratives of Uganda's history, religious ideas, and secular visions of progress, development, and (sometimes) democracy.' Carol Summers, African Studies Review
contains: 25 b/w illus. 2 maps 1 table
Introduction: power and history writing in colonial Buganda
1. Ignatius K. Musazi: powerful kings and colonial economies, c.1905–c.1949
2. Eridadi M.K. Mulira: cosmopolitanism and citizenship, c.1909–c.1949
3. Eridadi M.K. Mulira: Buganda's status in Uganda, c.1953–c.1959
4. Abubakar K. Mayanja: pluralism and Islamic political thought, c.1844–c.1962
5. Benedicto K.M. Kiwanuka: justice and Catholic dissent, c.1879–c.1962
Conclusion: textual production and historical imagination in postcolonial Buganda.
Jonathon L. Earle, Centre College, Danville, Kentucky
Jonathon L. Earle is Assistant Professor of History at Centre College, Danville, Kentucky, and Chair of the African and African American Studies Program.
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Apple's new devices have improved camera and battery, and the Max has a bigger screen
Ciara O'Brien
Product name: Apple iPhone Xs Max
Price: €1279.0
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Thu, Sep 27, 2018, 11:07
First published: Thu, Sep 27, 2018, 03:00
It is September, which means days are getting chillier, nights are getting longer and new iPhones are hitting the market. This year, Apple unveiled three new devices, the iPhone Xs, the Xs Max and the XR. The XR won't go on sale for another few weeks, leaving consumers with the choice of the Xs and its larger sibling for now. But is the new device worth the upgrade?
In the last couple of years, Apple interrupted its usual "tick-tock" pattern of releases to get the iPhone X out on the anniversary of the iPhone's launch in 2007. But now, as you can see from the name, it's back to business as usual. Last year was the big iPhone X redesign; this year is the incremental update.
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The selling point of the iPhone Xs Max is the screen, which is 6.5in, 458 pixels per inch and looks stunning. Video looks great too, and even fast-paced games flowed smoothly.
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Other features from the X make the cut again this year: wireless charging, FaceID instead of a fingerprint, the dual camera set-up. But the latter has also seen an improvement, such as larger pixels and the use of software to make everything a bit smarter. Take Smart HDR, for example. Up until now, the iPhone's HDR shots were made up of three images combined to get the best detail and colour. Smart HDR combines nine images. That means more detail in the darker areas of the photo, better colour and potentially the end of blown highlights in your shots.
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All this is possible in part thanks to the A12 Bionic chip, which is faster than anything the company has put out in the past. That's as much as we'd expect, though, to be honest.
One other thing worth noting: if you are a frequent traveller, the iPhone Xs supports dual sim – but one is an esim, so it's limited to carriers that offer that option. It means you can add a local data plan for use overseas and skip the massive roaming charges, if they apply.
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The not so good It's expensive. You are essentially paying that premium for the bigger screen and about an hour extra of battery life. In the past, the Plus phones had a better camera; the Xs and the Xs Max carry the same camera capabilities. That is good news, though, if you prefer the more moderate size of the Xs.
The rest The phone is available in 64GB, 256GB and 512GB sizes. The iPhone Xs supports dual sim – but one is an esim, which is only available in certain countries.
The verdict iPhone X owners may want to hold fire, but if you've been waiting for an upgrade, the Xs Max is worth considering.
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