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Farmers Protest in Gujarat as Government Starts Taking Possession of Land Acquired in 1997
The Gujarat Power Corporation Limited is planning to establish a thermal power plant, construct a colony, have an area for ash dumping and mine for lignite on the 3,000-plus acres of land in Bhavnagar.
Damayantee Dhar
Bhavnagar (Gujarat): On a plot of agricultural land, it is unusual to see a police tent with about six-seven personnel camping in it. However, as you go past agriculture fields en route to Badi, a nondescript village in Gogha taluka, Bhavnagar district in the Saurashtra region of Gujarat, that sight jumps at you.
Villagers from Badi and another 11 villages around it had never really encountered the police – until they decided to protest and fight a case in the high court against the physical possession of land by the Gujarat Power Corporation Limited (GPCL) in December last year.
On February 15, one day before the Gujarat high court was to hear the case, villagers claim that about 1,200 police personnel swarmed into the 12 villages. Roads between the villages were blocked. Reportedly, there was one deputy superintendent of police (DySp), ten inspectors, 15 sub-inspectors, 70 policewomen and 15 personnel from the mounted police division present.
Laxmanbhai, who remembers how the land was acquired 21 years ago. Credit: Damayantee Dhar
"The villagers asked for protection so we are here," said sub-inspector Makwana, who claimed to be in charge of the tent where the police personnel are camping.
"We have been here for about three days. We have been here all the time, in two shifts," he told The Wire on February 18, while asking that the police tent not be photographed.
However, P.L. Mal, superintendent of police, Bhavnagar, said: "The police have been camping on one of the plots of land in the village as GPCL has asked for protection."
Between the years 1993 and 1994, 3,377 acres of land from the 12 villages of Gogha taluka, Bhavnagar – including farm land, grazing land and wasteland – was acquired by the government. The plan was to establish a thermal power plant, construct a colony, have an area for ash dumping and mine for lignite.
In 1997, consent was taken from the villagers in the area. However, no attempts were made to take possession of the land until December last year. Reportedly, the fact that the thermal power plant in the area was commissioned in 2017, and not 2000 as originally planned, initiated the process of taking possession.
Lignite mined from the land will then be used as a raw material in the thermal power plant.
"Let me tell you, first we did not want to give away our land at all. Our land is our only means of livelihood. How do we feed our family if we give away our land?" said Laxmanbhai Hirabhai, a resident of Surkha village.
"The villagers were offered Rs 48,000 per hectare (for non-irrigated land), and we had to accept. The then collector told us that if we did not accept what was being offered, we will get nothing," according to 65-year-old Hirabhai. "To add to that, residents of Surkha village have been paid at the rate of Rs 12,500 per hectare until now. We are still waiting for the government to give us the rest of the compensation."
The police tent set up on agricultural land. Credit: Damayantee Dhar
The Gujarat government paid a compensation of Rs 48,000 per hectare for jirayat (non-irrigated) land and Rs 72,000 per hectare for bagayat (irrigated) land.
"In 1993-94, the government of Gujarat issued a notification under Section 4 of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 declaring its intention to acquire the land. Within a period of one year, in 1994-95 the government issued a notification under Section 6 of the Act, after which the concerned owner cannot sell the land to any other party," stated advocate Anand Yagnik, who is representing the farmers in the high court.
"The consent accord was passed in the year 1997, based on an agreement signed by the villagers, a representative from GPCL and a special land acquisition officer. Thereafter, notional or paper possession was taken over the land of the farmers en masse in the office of the accountant in village Badi. The money was distributed on different dates within a week or so," added Yagnik.
"Whenever the government wants to establish an industrial estate under the Gujarat Industrial Development Corporation (GIDC), the land is bought at the rate of Rs 46 lakh per acre. The GIDC set in Sanand while establishing the Tata Nano plant is a recent example where land was bought at the rate of Rs 46 lakh per acre (one hectare is 2.5 acre). In this case, the government paid only Rs 48,000 per hectare. Noticeably, in its tender inviting contracts for mining during the bidding process, the government had declared that the lignite beneath the acquired land is worth Rs 19,500 crore. Meanwhile, the government, which initially had quoted a price as low as Rs 10,000-20,000 per hectare, later ended up paying only Rs 46 crore in total to the farmers as compensation. Moreover, the new land acquisition Act 2013 is in place. The petition states that under section 24(2) of the Act, in a scenario wherein consent awards were passed five years prior to the commencement of the Act of 2013 and if compensation hasn't been paid or physical possession has not been taken, the acquisition lapses and land is to be returned to the landowners," he added.
Unlike the usually arid Saurashtra region, farmers in these 12 villages have always had access to fertile land, which can be used for three crops a year, owing to the Setruji and Kareda canals and Maleshwari river that flow through the area.
"We don't want to sell our land at all. Farming has been our only occupation for generations. This is a very fertile three-crop land. We grow cotton and groundnut in the monsoon, wheat, onion, groundnut, cumin and vegetables in the winter and jowar, groundnut and vegetables in summer," Pravinsinh Gohil of Khadsalia village told The Wire.
Narendrasinh Gohil. Credit: Damayantee Dhar
"Our elders are uneducated, most of them reluctantly gave away the land under pressure or without understanding what it meant," according to Narendrasinh of Badi village. "In December last year, we decided to get together and fight this both legally and through protests. But our lives have been difficult since the day we decided to resist this land grab."
"On December 20 last year, the collector of Bhavnagar, contractors and officials representing GPCL, and about 100 police personnel came to Badi to proceed with the physical possession of the land," said Vasudevsinh Gohil, a resident of Badi village.
Subsequently, on December 23, the villagers staged a massive protest, with about 5,000-7,000 villagers sitting on a dharna at Surkha village, along the road connecting the 12 villages. On the same day, the state administration promised a meeting between villagers and representatives of the GPCL, while asking villagers to not stage any protest in next 45 days.
Meanwhile, the Bhavnagar police filed two FIRs against ten farmers in Gogha police station and Vartej police station, accusing them of inciting villagers for their benefit and creating an obstacle in police work. Of the ten farmers, three farmers were named in both FIRs.
"We were informed two days later. But we managed to get bail and weren't arrested," said Narendrasinh, who was named in both FIRs.
On January 30 this year, Lakdhirsinh Gohil, one of the protesting farmers of Badi village, got a call from the collector's office. Following that, 30-35 villagers went to visit the collector.
"Along with the collector, SP and DySP of Bhavnagar, two police sub-inspectors and a contractor representing GPCL were present in the room," said Narendrasinh.
Pravinsinh. Credit: Damayantee Dhar
"The SP and collector threatened us. We were told to not protest in the future, or else FIRs with far more serious offences would be slapped on us," Pravinsinh Gohil told The Wire.
"The land had been acquired years ago and the government is the rightful owner of the land. Everyone knows that. Now, when the time has come to implement the project, people with vested interest are interrupting," stated Harshad Patel, the collector of Bhavnagar. "I can't comment on when the process will begin as the matter is in court now."
"Most of us had never seen a police station before. On February 13 and 14, about 10-12 police vehicles did rounds of the 12 villages. On February 15 there were about 1,000-1,200 police personnel in the village. Our men have FIRs against them. We are farmers, this is scary for us. Our women are scared to go to field to farm and our children are afraid to go to school," said Kanaksinh, another protesting farmer.
"I am scared. We (the women) are scared for our men. If the police harm them, what will we do?" asks Chantuben Dulabai, a resident of Surkha.
"But we will keep fighting for our land. What option do we have, anyway?"


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Today we pause our discussion of peacekeeping to consider for a moment the failure of negotiations last weekend at the WTO mini-ministerial meetings in Geneva.
Not only did the meeting of 60 Trade Ministers from WTO member countries fail to agree on the outlines of a deal. The conference collapsed two days ahead of its scheduled end, after Indian Commerce Minister Kamal Nath walked out in protest.
On Sunday, Pascal Lamy, director general of the WTO told delegates quote "I will not beat about the bush. We are now in a crisis."
However, Biswajit Dahr, head of the Center for WTO Studies at the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade says quote "It is ridiculous to assume that the Doha round can be concluded so easily and within just a few years."
The last two rounds of negotiations, the Tokyo round that began in 1973 and the Uruguay round that began in 1986, carried on for six years and seven years respectively, when developing countries were not involved.
Called the "development round," The Doha round of trade negotiations started in 2001. That was after the so-called Battle of Seattle, water cannons and all. The Doha round was based on the principle that developed countries should show the way in market access and allow a measure of protectionism to the rest so that the latter can trade their way out of poverty.
For the first time, American and European leaders vowed to focus their global trade talks on the needs of developing nations and to address the biggest trade grievance of those nations: some $300 billion worth of import restrictions and government subsidies that protect farmers in rich countries. (Andrews and Kanter Jul 5 06)
At the Cancun ministerial in 2003, the EU made an effort to impose a set of non-trade issues such as competition policy, investment and government procurement on the developing world, which would have taken WTO away from its Doha path. Instead, Cancun collapsed in failure. (Times of India Logjam Jul 5 06)
So the WTO has been through many crises in its 10-year history. Arguably it has emerged stronger as a result.
The Doha round has been hailed as a "once in a generation" chance for global growth and to reduce poverty. (Paddington Key Jul 7 06)
Yet last weekend in Geneva, one after another, Latin Americans, Africans and Asians pointed out that the talks had been proclaimed a "development round," with the interests of nations like theirs supposedly paramount. They asserted that the biggest concessions must come from rich countries and that they had no intention of exposing vulnerable groups, such as subsistence farmers, to foreign competition. Accordingly, they said, they must retain extensive rights to exempt "special" and "sensitive" products from tariff cuts. (Blustein Jul 4 06)
Kamal Nath, India's commerce and industry minister, voiced incredulity that he was being asked for bigger percentage cuts in his country's tariffs than rich countries were willing to make in their own. "If they will cut 70 [percent], I will cut 60; if they cut 60, I cut 50," he said. "But they say, 'We'll cut 20, and you cut 70' -- well, that's not what this round is about." (Blustein Jul 4 06)
There is no mystery about what has to happen. The United States must agree deeper cuts in its farm subsidy program, while the EU needs to lower tariff barriers to convince US farmers they can export more to Europe when their subsidies are pulled.
Completing the so-called 'triangle' from which a deal will be created, developing countries like Brazil and India are expected to open up their markets to more foreign cars, electronics and services like banking.
Well, the deal is that there is no deal. Brendan Vickers, senior researcher at the Institute for Global Dialogue, writes in the South African publication Business Day quote, "No deal is better than a bad one."
Vickers goes on to point out that "Even before last December's Hong Kong ministerial, the World Bank massaged its estimates of global gains from this round, down from a high of $832bn--that's globally--to $287bn, and finally to a modest $96bn. Vickers claims that realistically developing countries can expect an uneven distribution of $16bn in gains from the Doha round.
He then cites recent studies — by the World Bank, the Carnegie Endowment, the European Commission, and the Food and Agriculture Organisation — which suggest that the majority of Africa's poorest nations stand to lose substantially from the liberalisation of both agricultural and industrial goods.
Writing from Kampala, Uganda, Sssombwe Ronald reminds African negotiators of two issues:
"First, the EU and the US are focused towards achieving control over the world's resources, oil and gas, energy, money and all important public services.
"Second, these rich nations are using the WTO to achieve legitimacy to control the world's poor countries.
"The methods used to achieve their goals are that the rich and industrialised countries continue to maintain their trade advantage and protectionism but pressurise Africa to further privatize and liberalise their industrial and service sectors" endquote (The Monitor Hostile Jul 5 06).
Another view comes from Pakistan. Speaking to a seminar on "Agriculture negotiations: Challenges and opportunities for Pakistan," last week the Federal Minister for Food, Agriculture and Livestock, Sikandar Hayat Khan Bosan told his audience that "The reduction in farm subsidies by the developed countries is expected to benefit Pakistani farmers through higher and more stable global commodity prices....The increase in global prices of agriculture commodities would help reduce poverty in rural areas. He observed that Pakistan realised that as part of the WTO negotiations, market access must also be improved in the developing countries to accelerate the growing South-South trade."
In a special to the Dubai publication Gulf News, Mike Moore, a former prime minister of New Zealand and a former director-general of the World Trade Organisation, notes that "The 'disputes system' alone, uniquely provided by the WTO, is reason enough to justify the WTO's existence..." (Moore Standoff Jul 6 07)
Damning them with faint praise, Moore says there are alternatives to a WTO deal.
One he calls "an inferior, potentially dangerous route" is that of regional and bilateral agreements. "That road," Moore says, "is well-travelled with dozens of deals in negotiation at the moment. None have a legal disputes resolution system, most avoid tough issues such as agriculture, most are not interested in poor customers such as Africa, most have conflicting rules of origin, many don't create new jobs."
An NGO representing Chicken Farmers of Ontario notes that "the recently concluded negotiations failed to address the issue of 'sensitive products' which is designed to allow countries to designate specific products to be treated outside the general tariff reduction formula. It is critical to Canada's dairy, poultry and egg sectors that they be included in the sensitive product category and that the emerging definition of "sensitive products" allow for no cuts in over quota tariffs and no increase in market access. Any changes would significantly undermine Canada's dairy, poultry and egg sectors while not providing any additional meaningful increases in opportunities for exporting sectors. (CNW Jul 5 06)
The Canadian Restaurant and Foodservices Association (CRFA) disagrees. According to Ron Reaman, CRFA's Vice President of Food Supply, "Pursuing greater market access for Canadian exports while seeking to protect the status quo for supply managed products compromises Canada's credibility."
Unless an agreement is reached this summer, the whole process will probably be put on hold until after US presidential elections in 2008. Bush's authority to strike fast track trade deals expires next year. So the effort to make a deal is increasingly desperate.
As Bhaswajit Dahl suggests, it may be time to scale down expectations for the WTO.
Til now, globalization has been the initiative of business and economic elites. Steven Pearlstein at the Washington Post argues that it is now entering what he calls a "more democratic phase" (Brakes Jul 5 06).
In places where globalization has generated little progress -- like Russia and most of Africa and Latin America -- it may be that some countries have yet to develop the economic, political and social institutions required to benefit from a globalized market economy. Or they may pursue a multilateralism based on values other than materialistic consumerism.
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How the Zapatista movement, bolstered by growing aboriginal influence in the Andean region and a resurgent Nonaligned Movement, will play out remains to be seen.
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As Pearlstein puts it quote "You can't go around the world preaching about democracy and free markets if you're not willing to accept the results of elections and acknowledge the shifting sentiments in the marketplace of ideas."
France, where farmers are fighting fiercely for their quotas, is gearing up for elections, while President Bush, mired in low approval ratings, faces heavy resistance from Republican lawmakers in Congress who are up for re-election this fall. (Andrews and Kanter)
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These days I am so grateful for any help I can get that I am happy for the grandparents to do their own thing. If they are being good enough to help then it is their way or the highway.
People are set in their ways and I think that telling someone who is roughly 30 years older than you what to do is not going to work. As parents I feel we need to try and be flexible. If we don't like it then don't ask for help or pay for a nanny.
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He will probably still invite them round to help for a few hours.
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What changes should Australia make..
Ex-English Test cricketer and Macquarie Sports Radio commentator John Emburey believes the Australian team should make changes ahead of the two Test series against Sri Lanka.
Not only batsman scored a century in the four Tests against India while players were dropped and some selections were met with much criticism by the general public. When asked if any changes should be made for the Test, Emburey said that players who aren't scoring runs shouldn't be picked.
"[Shaun Marsh's] alongside several other players weren't good enough, anyone averaging under 30 in a series doesn't deserve to be selected".


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Archer Fellowship Program Alumni Profiles
Christopher Adkison
Spring 2018 Archer Fellow
Internship: Smithsonian Environmental Research Center
The University of Texas at San Antonio
B.A. Environmental Science; May 2018
M.A. Ecosystem Science and Management, beginning fall 2018
Savannah River National Laboratory
"Choosing to enter the Archer Fellowship Program as a scientist has only further aided me in refining my career goals, as I am now more knowledgeable of the regulatory process and "how things work" in D.C."
Q & A with Christopher
Please tell us more about your current position.
I work in the Environmental Modeling Group at the Department of Energy Savannah River National Laboratory. Currently, I am assisting with the decommissioning and deactivation (D&D) of a former weapons grade plutonium processing facility and am modeling radionuclide fate and transport in soil and groundwater from this facility. The goal is to ensure safe drinking water standards and environmental health during and after D&D of this facility, so I am running various simulations to ensure that there is no risk to humans or the environment from hazardous waste in this facility. The outcomes of my models will help guide exactly how this facility is closed and how it is managed in the future.
Please tell us more about your Archer Fellowship Program internship.
During my internship (with the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center or SERC) I conducted original research pertaining to methane biogeochemistry in salt marsh ecosystems of the Chesapeake Bay. I analyzed differences in methane fluxes between C3 and C4 grasses of the Chesapeake Bay using various analytical techniques such as cavity enhanced absorption spectroscopy, gas chromatography, and ion chromatography. I collected soil, water, and gas samples in the field, analyzed them in a state-of-the-art environmental laboratory, computed statistics and presented my research at a conference at Villanova University in Pennsylvania. I also learned a bit about programming data loggers and micro-controllers, as well as manufacturing of field equipment (SERC builds all their own field gear). Overall, I enhanced my metals shop skills, programming skills, field and analytical techniques, statistical expertise and presentation abilities through my internship with SERC.
What has been your general career path?
Generally, I have been focusing my broad interest in environmental science toward a career dealing with water quality, water quantity, environmental remediation and water resource management. To do so requires an extensive knowledge of hydrology and geochemistry, along with the communication skills needed to work with governing agencies and political figureheads. Choosing to enter the Archer Fellowship Program as a scientist has only further aided me in refining my career goals, as I am now more knowledgeable of the regulatory process and "how things work" in D.C.
How has your experience as an Archer Fellow influenced your career path and goals?
As a scientist in the Archer Fellowship Program it was difficult at first to acclimate to all the political science and government jargon used frequently between other Archer Fellows. However, with some work and many late-night discussions I was able to gain a greater knowledge of our country's political process, how people are influenced in D.C., and experience what living in the nation's capital was like. I had the chance to meet a few very influential people, as well as many great scientists, engineers, and lobbyists in D.C. I now feel more prepared to tackle a career that has a regulatory aspect to it than I did before becoming an Archer Fellow.
What did you value the most about your Archer Fellowship Program experience?
The most valuable experiences of my Archer Fellowship came from the discussions held at various museums, monuments, and memorials in D.C. during Dr. Swerdlow's classes. Whether it be a heated debate, history lesson, or group activity, Dr. Swerdlow certainly encouraged a healthy environment for growth and camaraderie between fellows. By the end of my fellowship I felt very at home in D.C., and I felt like I had experienced more than anything Texas had to offer on its own.
What do you value the most about being an alumnus?
My fellow fellows of course! I was exposed to students from across the state who have an incredible range of interests, backgrounds, knowledge, and experience. Living, learning, and working with all of the Archer Fellows and now being an alumnus is/was a great experience and one I will not soon forget. I highly value all the fellows from my cohort, and I'm excited for us all to make positive changes to the world now and in the future along with all the Archer Fellows who came before us.
What is your favorite memory as an Archer Fellow?
My fellowship was full of great memories, it's difficult to choose any single one that was my favorite! I loved hanging out in the apartments with Archer Fellows, trying new food around D.C., going for a stroll down the National Mall; I tried to take every chance I could to have an adventure. However, if I have to choose, my favorite memory was one of the snow days we had when most agencies were closed and a bunch of Archer Fellows went to the Capitol and National Mall to build snowmen. D.C. is amazing to see blanketed in snow, and when there's a snow day in D.C., everyone goes out to enjoy it!


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Palace Theatre Manchester
Mon 27 Jan - Sat 8 Feb 2020
With 24 of Queen's biggest hits and Ben Elton's hilarious futuristic comedy writing combined, comes a show that boasts the scale and spectacle that marked the band's legendary live performances. This global phenomenon will continue to be one of the most spectacular musicals to tour the United Kingdom & Ireland.
Palace Theatre Manchesterchange
97 Oxford St, Manchester, M1 6FT, UK
Mon - Sat at 19:30
Wed and Sat at 14:30 and 19:30
Why go and see it?
A smash hit musical spectacle by Queen and Ben Elton featuring Queen's biggest hits!
The global phenomenon returns to the UK!
The worldwide smash hit musical by Queen and Ben Elton returns to the UK. The multi-million-pound show dazzles all the senses in breath-taking style. Guaranteed to blow your mind, this musical phenomenon is not to be missed!
Since 2002 over 16 million theatergoers in 19 countries have thrilled to this awe-inspiring production. With 24 of Queen's biggest hits delivered in a show that boasts the scale and spectacle that marked the bands' legendary live performances. 24 of Queen's greatest hits, including Radio Ga Ga, Killer Queen, Bohemian Rhapsody and, of course, We Will Rock You!
Taking on the role of Galileo is Olivier Award nominee Ian McIntosh (Beautiful – The Carole King Musical / The Commitments), who will be joined by Elena Skye (Les Misérables / Kinky Boots) in the role of Scaramouche. Playing Killer Queen is Jenny O'Leary (Heathers The Musical / Rent), with Michael McKell (Macbeth / Blood Brothers) as Buddy. Adam Strong (Jesus Christ Superstar / Rock of Ages) will take on the role of Khashoggi, with David-Michael Johnson (We Will Rock You, Germany / Jesus Christ Superstar) reprising the role of Brit and Amy Di Bartolomeo (Bat Out of Hell / Priscilla Queen of the Desert) playing Oz.
Come and join us for our first night.
An unmissable event and a sumptuous piece of musical theatre. The show must go on, and on!
- Capital Radio
The spectacular musical
- Daily Express
A new breed of musical – brilliant
- BBC Newsnight
Exhilarating and great fun
- Time Magazine
Monday to Saturday 12:00 until 16:00. Sundays 2 hours prior to the performance.
On performance days, the box office closes 15 minutes after the performance starts.
Bars are situated on all levels of the Palace Theatre Manchester.
Hospitality packages are available for all shows.
There is a cloakroom in the foyer.
The Palace Theatre of Varieties opened on Whit Monday 1891 and cost its owners the then colossal sum of £40,500. In the late 1970's the Palace Theatre underwent a major refurbishment and re-opened in 1981 with Andrew Lloyd Webber's Jesus Christ Superstar and has since then retained its position as the premier provincial touring venue.


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Q: usockets: How do I specify the external format when I open a socket I'm trying to connect to a mud client, so I'm using usockets to connect over tcp. But After I write I get a decoding error reading. I have reason to believe the encoding should ascii ,or least use :clrf as the end of line designator, as on the lines I read there is a ^M before the end of line
(let* ((sock (socket-connect "angalon.net" 3011))
       (stream (slot-value sock 'stream)))
  (format stream "guest~%")
  (force-output stream)
  (dotimes (i 40)
    (read-line stream))
  stream)

:UTF-8 stream decoding error on
#<SB-SYS:FD-STREAM
  for "socket 192.168.1.39:65516, peer: 93.174.104.58:3011"
  {1004129903}>:

  the octet sequence #(255 251 1 80) cannot be decoded.
   [Condition of type SB-INT:STREAM-DECODING-ERROR]

I can verify the external format of the stream is indeed :utf-8, but the question is how I specify the external-format of the stream the socket gives me?
(let* ((sock (socket-connect "angalon.net" 3011))
       (stream (slot-value sock 'stream)))
  (stream-external-format stream))
;; => :UTF-8

A: Just by looking at the source for the Clozure CL backend, the external format is hard coded to ccl:*default-external-format* which is UTF-8 in my system. The SBCL backend does not specify an external format, but it probably creates the socket with SBCL defaults, which is again UTF-8. I don't think there's a portable way to change the external format short of modifying usocket.
That said, you could bind sb-impl::*default-external-format* to say :latin-1 before calling socket-connect:
(let* ((sb-impl::*default-external-format* :latin-1)
       (sock (socket-connect "angalon.net" 3011))
       (stream (slot-value sock 'stream)))
   (stream-external-format stream))

;; :LATIN-1

Edit: also take a look at FLEXI-STREAMS. I haven't tested it, but you could convert the stream to a FLEXI-STREAMand specify an external format.

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Home > Television > Presentation
An LWT Diary
1 December 2002 tbs.pm/1836
With insufficient sleep and a pen at the ready, Andrew Bowden charts the last day of LWT and his thoughts on its downfall.
5:15am. The front room is rather cold. I'd had a pretty sleepless night – the noise of the gushing wind battering the trees outside had kept me awake. I'd had about an hour's sleep since going to bed around half eleven. To make matters worse, the clocks have gone back and I've gained an extra hour. Awake.
The pointless ITV Nightscreen is flickering away with some dreadful musak playing. If you've never seen it, it is the epitome of pointless TV – a dull text information service probably done in Powerpoint, promoting ITV's dull programmes.
5:26am. What'd I'd been waiting, what I'd got out of bed for (well I wasn't asleep so it was no loss) had arrived. ITV Nightscreen abruptly faded out. A blue caption appears showing Transmitters in Service – analogue and digital. Music starts playing. It's called A Well Swung Fanfare, but most people won't know that. An LWT blue, white and red logo appears on screen.
What say?
27 October 2002 was the last day on air for LWT. After 34 years, a proud and long lasting television brand was to be scrapped in favour of dull, boring, corporate monotony.
The bigwigs at ITV had decided their main channel needed a single identity of 'ITV'. Regional names would be relegated to appearing before regional programmes only. For LWT, it was one step further. The station's very identity would be removed and buried under the name ITV1 London. LWT's weekday counterpart Carlton would suffer the same fate.
LWT was going out in style, with a specially made start-up sequence, a ritual hailing from the days when commercial television started the day with pomp and ceremony. Each station had one until the 1980s.
The Early Worm
Okay it was at 5:25am, but it probably had more viewers than the rest of ITV1 put together (who were all still suffering the 'delights' of ITV Nightscreen). The modern start-up broadcast to the band of viewers watching or taping were in for a treat.
The nostalgia continued at 9:25 when GMTV handed back to LWT. In the days of TV-am, this usually contained various picture problems as the switch was made.
Some were replicated for us. Sadly I was asleep, having finally managed to drift off at 6:15, and my attempts to video it were foiled.
Then hours later at 23:14, the usual LWT logo was replaced by one of the best logos from LWT's history. A three colour ribbon tracing out a stylised path of the Thames, before morphing into three letters. LWT.
We're invited us to tune in an hour later for a short tribute to LWT, after one of LWT's most famous programmes, The South Bank Show. (Actually I'm in bed at this point, asleep. Thank goodness for videos.)
And so it came to pass
An hour later and viewers and LWT says goodbye for the last time, before handing over to the generic night time continuity. From today (Monday), all continuity on ITV1 in England will come from London – but none of the LWT team will be staying.
But you can't let a great name like LWT go out with a whimper. Can you? Of course not!
The LWT ident plays, before fading into a shot of the transmission suite, the camera moving into the continuity booth where we see the back of the man who has been talking to us all evening – LWT announcer Glen Thompsett is there, with his colleague Trish Bertram.
The pair tell us what is to come. According to Trish, "ITV1 will be commin' at ya with a whole new look" – interesting choice of words there. (Still trying to work out whether there was some hidden meaning to it).
And the pair bows out, but not before giving us a treat. A review of 34 years of LWT's presentation.
With that, it was goodbye. Goodbye LWT. Technically LWT will still be around, as a programme producer and as the technical owner of the London weekend ITV franchise. But before our programmes, national continuity. From Newcastle to Newbury, St Ives to Stratford, it will all be the same.
For London it will be as if two companies have become one. They haven't, of course, but the average viewer won't know that.
ITV lost something last night – its character, its soul. What made it special. What made it unique in this country. Except for viewers in Scotland and Northern Ireland who have their own presentation.
But let us not dwell on that. LWT's departure did at least happen in style. To have it just disappear as HTV Wales (now ITV1 Wales) did, would have been a tragedy.
To all those inside and outside LWT who made sure the send off was so special, a big thank you from me. We'll have some fond memories to remember you by.
#continuity announcements, #Last day of LWT, #LWT, #starting the day
Start the day the Central way
The Sporting Week – Behind the Scenes
The Story of ANNOUNCERS and ANNOUNCING over Thirty Years
Announcers' Suite
Filling the bill
Computers in TV presentation
Open to suggestion
How it feels to face the TV camera
The Continuity Announcer
Working in presentation
This announcing business
A phoenix from the flames?
Nevermind: Central pre-launch logo
Nevermind: ATV Midlands unused design
Seeing U
The Corporation at Christmas – BBC2
Three's just a crowd
The Corporation at Christmas – Intro
We interrupt this programme…
30 Years Ago Today
Nevermind: GMTV
Too Much Choice
Compromising the brand
All new nonsense
Ringing the changes
Who killed the continuity announcers?
Two Little, two late
Brandwise
The generic chainsaw
Everybody Dance Now
Good DOG, bad DOG
E4 emperor
Five fallen
Little arrows
Back down to Earth
Southwest blues
New dogs, old tricks
Central electricity
CBBC Circle
Clocking off
Liverpool, Saturday 28 January 2023


This also came from the old man's collection. I wonder if he used it, or if he just looked at it. I wonder where he kept it. What do you think?
Where did this dinosaur come from?
Leila made this temporary arrangement today.
I lost my tea set. Mummy knew where it was, it was in a ice cream box. The ice cream box had a picture of an ice cream on the front, but all the ice cream had been eaten. The box was under another box. It was on one of the shelves in the dining room where all my boxes are. My toys live in boxes. When I opened the ice cream box, the teapot was in there. It's lid was off and inside it I found this bead and one penny.
These are some of the objects from Christina's collection: some are things I have had a long time, other things I have bought from the flea market and some come from my sister who moved into a flat where the previous owner collected watches, keys, photos, toy soldiers and lots of other things.


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Q: Points-to analysis - A definition I'm looking to perform some dependence analysis using a call-graph that I will build using the Soot framework. I read in a guide that using 'points-to' analysis can improve the precision of a call graph. What exactly is 'points-to' analysis and how could it improve the accuracy of a call-graph?

A: A key problem in understanding data flow is know what date each pointer can reference.  If you know nothing about a pointer to an object, and that object is updated via the pointer (e.g.,  p.=3) then it is possible that any object in your entire system might be modified.  If you know that p references a specific object O1, then you know that only O1 might be modified.  So knowledge of what p can point to, is important in understand side effects and the scope of such effects.
Now, imagine you have pointers to functions. If you don't know what a function pointer p points to,
and a function call is made indirectly through p, then any function might get called, and the side effects could be any side effect from any function.  If you know that p can only point to foo, then only the side effects that foo might cause can occur.
When computing a call graph, some function calls clearly only go to one place.  Some function calls can go to a variety of places because they are in fact function calls via pointers; "method" calls in OO languages are often like this and this is done on purpose to support polymorphism.
If you don't do points-to analysis, you can't possibly have done function-pointer points-to analysis.  That means your constructed call graph says a node bar might call many possible functions through its pointer p, which means there are many side effects you have to worry about.
A precise points-to analysis leads to precise function-points-to analysis, which leads to precise side effect analysis, which leads to better understanding of what the code can do.  Of course, precision is relative; and it is harder to get "very precise" points to analysis.  In the limit, it is impossible to get perfect points-to anlaysis; you are analyzing turing machines.
You can see some more discussion on flow analysis and an example of a "more precise" call graph at http://www.semdesigns.com/Products/DMS/FlowAnalysis.html


This paper describes one of the music therapy programmes at Perkin Arts Centre (PAC). Kew Cottages and the process undertaken in integrating the clients to the community by firstly relocating the programme to an Adult Training Support Service (ATSS) and secondly to a community facility. A description of Kew Cottages and an ATSS is given.


Many Amazon sellers reach out to their customers to ask for feedback or reviews, as well as, to inform them about the details of their orders. While this is a good strategy, doing it more than usual can annoy customers and lead to early unsubscribes. This is especially true when messages become irrelevant.
Each message you create should be meaningful and interesting. Otherwise, your customers will not spare a minute of their time reading it, leading to high unsubscribe rates. This is certainly something you will not want to happen when building your business. To make sure your messages get opened and read, keep these tips in mind.
Do not confuse your customers with your message content. Keep them short and sweet. If you're looking to get a Seller Feedback, then ask your customers for it. A quick note saying, "We would like to hear your thoughts" or "How was your experience with us" are enough to inform them what you need from them. If you want to let them know about their order, then write messages that include the details of their order.
It is important to customize your message depending on your customers' needs. Sending a templated email every time reduces the personal touch and lets you appear like a robot. Study after study has proven that customers dread talking with a machine. That said, craft lots of emails you can use at different situations and tweak them where necessary. Another option is to use a Feedback Generator Tool, like what SellerMobile has, so that you can save time writing emails from scratch and sending them manually to customers.
Try to message your customers only when necessary. Don't bombard them with content not related to their purchasing journey. Over messaging not only annoys your customers, it can also lead them blocking your messages as spam. If possible, limit it to three messages per customer's order: before the order, during the order and after the delivery.
Creating an effective sequence of messages saves you the hassle of gaining unsubscribed rates from your customers. But more than that, a perfectly timed email helps you to successfully engage your customers, build relationships, and encourage them to do repeat business with you. Other than creating messages related to your customer's order, you will also have to write emails for other situations. This may include shopping cart abandonment, browsing behavior and new product launch.
There are a lot of tools that offer email automation. One of it is SellerMobile. Our software offers an automated feedback tool that would allow you to automatically send messages to your customers for product reviews and feedback for recent purchases.
Besides that, this feature lets you create various campaigns for different purposes. You have the option to use a template or craft your own from scratch. You can also decide when to send the email out and preview it before it reaches the customers. And the best part is? SellerMobile comes with an array of algorithmic features that will do the heavy lifting 24/7 for you as you run your Amazon business.


The card never stops moving, and the motion is precise, smooth, and natural. Taught in 33 minutes of detailed instruction by Andrei Jikh. Learn everything you need to know to perform it well.
An advanced move - although more than worth the practice time it requires. A shocking, fluid, and unique color change. REVOLVER is unique - and has received universal critical acclaim.


First, the good news: We're living longer. According to a 2017 Society of Actuaries study, expected longevity for men and women at age 65 has jumped more than 10% since 2000. Men now live to an average age of 86.6, and women to 88.8.
Now the bad news: We're living longer.
That means you'll need more money to cover basic retirement expenses – housing, transportation, health care, taxes and the like. And that doesn't include the costs of, say, hobbies and travel.
There's no hard-and-fast rule for how much you will need. Some say you'll need 80% of your annual preretirement income to live comfortably. Others say $1 million is the magic number.
In reality, the amount you'll need depends on your specific needs, goals and lifestyle.
All that said, there's one fact you can count on: You will need plenty of savings on hand.
Why? Social Security likely won't cover all of your expenses. And with pension plans quickly going extinct, you'll need to lock in other sources of income you can count on – and that will last.
Take time to explore your options. Again, there's no one-size-fits-all solution. It's about you – and the values you want to live out in retirement.
Keep working, at least part time.
While not everyone has this option, it could be a valuable way to stay engaged in activities you enjoy – and maintain a source of income at the same time.
Plus, if you're at full retirement age, you're free to earn as much as you want and still receive your full Social Security benefits.
Be smart about Social Security.
It's important to consider the best approach for you. Yes, everyone is eligible to take it at age 62, but there are benefits to delaying.
According to Social Security.gov, for each year past full retirement age (a number that depends on the year you were born) that you hold off (up to age 70), you can receive 8% more income per month than you would if you started withdrawing at age 62.
Pay down debt before you retire.
Chances are you've heard of them. While there is a range of different types, the core idea behind annuities is straightforward: You pay a premium to an insurance provider. Later, the insurer pays you a set amount of money each month3 – in some cases for the rest of your life.
Not sure where to start? They key is finding the right mix of tactics to provide what you'll need, when you'll need it.
The best-designed strategies will balance your need to have accessible income both in the short term and the long term. They'll also incorporate investment and tax considerations that can maximize your monthly and yearly income.
Sound complicated? It can be. That's where a financial representative can offer guidance. He or she can help you sort out the variety of options and weave them into a retirement strategy that works for your situation.
What's most important is that you start laying out that strategy – and perhaps start working with a financial representative – as soon as possible.
Doing so will give you time to assess how much money you need and how savings, investments, Social Security and other options can work together to help provide the necessary income for your lifestyle.
1 Bankers Life Center for a Secure Retirement, "Paying for the New Retirement: Responsibilities and Challenges for Middle-Income Boomers," 2016.
3 Occurs once the annuity annuitizes or an income rider is activated.
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Q: How can I get IWpfTextView for EnvDte.ActiveDocument? I am trying to manipulate the Visual Studio Text Editor scrollbar values. The problem is that I have only the dte.ActiveDocument and it is not possible to do it from there.
My extension is loaded only once when VS starts and I capture dte.Events.CommandEvents. At some point I want to change the scrollbar values for the ActiveDocument. To do this I need IWpfTextView or ITextView. Do you have any idea how can I get an instance of that object?
internal class MyExtension
    {
        private CommandEvents commandEvents;

        private DTE dte;

        public MyExtension(DTE dte)
        {
            this.dte = dte;
            commandEvents = dte.Events.CommandEvents;
            commandEvents.BeforeExecute += commandEvents_BeforeExecute;
        }

        void commandEvents_BeforeExecute(string Guid, int ID, object CustomIn, object CustomOut, ref bool CancelDefault)
        {
            var doc = dte.ActiveDocument
            // CHANGE SCROLLBAR VALUES HERE
        }
    }

A: I found a way to do this. In the main class of the extension I get SVsTextManager
public sealed class MyExtensionPackage : Package
{
    protected override void Initialize()
    {
        DTE dte = (DTE)base.GetService(typeof(DTE));
        var txtMgr = (IVsTextManager)base.GetService(typeof(SVsTextManager));
        plugin = new MyExtension(dte, txtMgr);
        base.Initialize();
    }
}

internal class MyExtension
    {
        private CommandEvents commandEvents;

        private DTE dte;
        private IVsTextManager txtMngr;

        public MyExtension(DTE dte, IVsTextManager txtMngr)
        {
            this.txtMngr = txtMngr;
            this.dte = dte;
            commandEvents = dte.Events.CommandEvents;
            commandEvents.BeforeExecute += commandEvents_BeforeExecute;
        }

        void commandEvents_BeforeExecute(string Guid, int ID, object CustomIn, object CustomOut, ref bool CancelDefault)
        {
            var doc = dte.ActiveDocument

            IVsTextView textViewCurrent;
            txtMngr.GetActiveView(1, null, out textViewCurrent);
            int a, b, c, verticalScrollPosition;

            var scrollInfo = textViewCurrent.GetScrollInfo(1, out a, out b, out c, out verticalScrollPosition);
            textViewCurrent.SetScrollPosition(1, verticalScrollPosition);
        }
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Thousands of Temperature and salinity profiles obtained by means of Nansen hydrographic casts and available earlier only as station sheets have been digitized at the German Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH). In a cooperative effort between the KlimaCampus of the University of Hamburg and the German Oceanographic Data Centre (DOD, Hamburg) about 7500 hydrographic profiles were checked and identified as missing in the international oceanographic databases. Since most of the profiles were obtained in the decades before the second World War they represent an important extension of the international historical database and a respective contribution to the IOC Global Oceanographic Data Archeology and Rescue Project (GODAR). Since 2009 our efforts resulted in locating about 7500 hydrographic profiles that are not yet available for the oceanographic community.
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International Real-time Magnetic Observatory Network
Welcome to INTERMAGNET - the global network of observatories, monitoring the Earth's magnetic field. At this site you can find data and information from geomagnetic observatories around the world. The INTERMAGNET programme exists to establish a global network of cooperating digital magnetic observatories, adopting modern standard specifications for measuring and recording equipment, in order to facilitate data exchanges and the production of geomagnetic products in close to real time.
Side Effect Resource
Structured graphics
SIDER contains information on marketed medicines and their recorded adverse drug reactions. The information is extracted from public documents and package inserts. The available information include side effect frequency, drug and side effect classifications as well as links to further information, for example drug–target relations.
BSRN
WRMC-BSRN
Astrophysics and Astronomy
BSRN is a project of the Radiation Panel (now the Data and Assessment Panel) from the Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment (GEWEX) under the umbrella of the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP). It is the global baseline network for surface radiation for the Global limate Observing System (GCOS), contributing to the Global Atmospheric Watch (GAW), and forming a ooperative network with the Network for the Detection of Atmospheric Composition Change NDACC).
Satellite Application Facility on Climate Monitoring
CM SAF
The Satellite Application Facility on Climate Monitoring (CM SAF) develops, produces, archives and disseminates satellite-data-based products in support to climate monitoring. The product suite mainly covers parameters related to the energy & water cycle and addresses many of the Essential Climate Variables as defined by GCOS (GCOS 138). The CM SAF produces both Enviromental Data Records and Climate Data Records.
The Infrared Space Observatory data archive
ISO Data Archive
The Infrared Space Observatory (ISO) is designed to provide detailed infrared properties of selected Galactic and extragalactic sources. The sensitivity of the telescopic system is about one thousand times superior to that of the Infrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS), since the ISO telescope enables integration of infrared flux from a source for several hours. Density waves in the interstellar medium, its role in star formation, the giant planets, asteroids, and comets of the solar system are among the objects of investigation. ISO was operated as an observatory with the majority of its observing time being distributed to the general astronomical community. One of the consequences of this is that the data set is not homogeneous, as would be expected from a survey. The observational data underwent sophisticated data processing, including validation and accuracy analysis. In total, the ISO Data Archive contains about 30,000 standard observations, 120,000 parallel, serendipity and calibration observations and 17,000 engineering measurements. In addition to the observational data products, the archive also contains satellite data, documentation, data of historic aspects and externally derived products, for a total of more than 400 GBytes stored on magnetic disks. The ISO Data Archive is constantly being improved both in contents and functionality throughout the Active Archive Phase, ending in December 2006.
International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service
Geophysics and Geodesy
The IERS provides data on Earth orientation, on the International Celestial Reference System/Frame, on the International Terrestrial Reference System/Frame, and on geophysical fluids. It maintains also Conventions containing models, constants and standards.
GRACE ISDC
Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment
Geodesy, Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing, Geoinformatics, Cartogaphy
The twin GRACE satellites were launched on March 17, 2002. Since that time, the GRACE Science Data System (SDS) has produced and distributed estimates of the Earth gravity field on an ongoing basis. These estimates, in conjunction with other data and models, have provided observations of terrestrial water storage changes, ice-mass variations, ocean bottom pressure changes and sea-level variations. This portal, together with PODAAC, is responsible for the distribution of the data and documentation for the GRACE project.
Particles, Nuclei and Fields
Analytical Chemistry, Method Development (Chemistry)
The Network for the Detection of Atmospheric Composition Change (NDACC), a major contributor to the worldwide atmospheric research effort, consists of a set of globally distributed research stations providing consistent, standardized, long-term measurements of atmospheric trace gases, particles, spectral UV radiation reaching the Earth's surface, and physical parameters, centered around the following priorities.
GNSS - ISDC
Global Navigation Satellite Systems - Information System and Data Center
The term GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite Systems) comprises the different navigation satellite systems like GPS, GLONAS and the future Galileo as well as rawdata from GNSS microwave receivers and processed or derived higher level products and required auxiliary data. The results of the GZF GNSS technology based projects are used as contribution for maintaining and studying the Earth rotational behavior and the global terrestial reference frame, for studying neotectonic processes along plate boundaries and the interior of plates and as input to short term weather forecasting and atmosphere/climate research. Currently only selected products like observation data, navigation data (ephemeriden), meteorological data as well as quality data with a limited spatial coverage are provided by the GNSS ISDC.
Integrated Climate Data Center
ICDC
The CliSAP-Integrated Climate Data Center (ICDC) allows easy access to climate relevant data from in-situ measurements and satellite remote sensing. These data are important to determine the status and the changes in the climate system. Additionally some relevant re-analysis data are included, which are modeled on the basis of observational data.
A comprehensive on-line resource for quality checked and aligned ribosomal RNA sequence data.
General Genetics
Animal Genetics, Cell and Developmental Biology
Basic Biological and Medical Research
SILVA is a comprehensive, quality-controlled web resource for up-to-date aligned ribosomal RNA (rRNA) gene sequences from the Bacteria, Archaea and Eukaryota domains alongside supplementary online services. In addition to data products, SILVA provides various online tools such as alignment and classification, phylogenetic tree calculation and viewer, probe/primer matching, and an amplicon analysis pipeline. With every full release a curated guide tree is provided that contains the latest taxonomy and nomenclature based on multiple references. SILVA is an ELIXIR Core Data Resource.
Aktuelle Wetter- und Klimawerte deutscher Stationen
Networkbased data
Day averages, maximum, minimum and month sums of the precipitation of about 70 German stations with archive since 2008.
The ROSAT Mission
x-ray satellite
On June 1, 1990 the German X-ray observatory ROSAT started its mission to open a new era in X-ray astronomy. Doubtless, this is the most ambitious project realized up to now in the short history of this young astronomical discipline. Equipped with the largest imaging X-ray telescope ever inserted into an earth orbit ROSAT has provided a tremendous amount of new scientific data and insights.
CDC - Climate Data Center
Deutscher Wetterdienst - DWD
The CDC Data Catalogue describes the Climate Data of the DWD and provides access to data, descriptions and access methods. Climate Data refers to observations, statistical indices and spatial analyses. CDC comprises Climate Data for Germany, but also global Climate Data, which were collected and processed in the framework of international co-operation. The CDC Data Catalogue is under construction and not yet complete. The purposes of the CDC Data Catalogue are: to provide uniform access to climate data centres and climate datasets of the DWD to describe the climate data according to international metadata standards to make the catalogue information available on the Internet to support the search for climate data to facilitate the access to climate data and climate data descriptions
World Data Centre for Geomagnetism, Copenhagen
WDC - Geomagnetism, Copenhagen
The WDC has a FTP-server to distribute the PCN index derived from the geomagnetic observatory Qaanaaq (THL) and the Kp-index data products derived at the geomagnetic observatory Niemegk (NGK). The WDC is also holding extensive archives of magnetograms and other geomagnetic observatory data products that predate the introduction of digital data recording. The material is in analogue form such as film or microfiche. The Polar Cap index (abbreviation PC index) consists of the Polar Cap North (PCN) and the Polar Cap South (PCS) index, which are derived from magnetic measurements taken at the geomagnetic observatories Qaanaaq (THL, Greenland, +85o magnetic latitude) and Vostok (VOS, Antarctica, -83o magnetic latitude), respectively. The idea behind these indices is to estimate the intensity of anti-sunward plasma convection in the polar caps. This convection is associated with electric Hall currents and consequent magnetic field variations perpendicular to the antisunward plasma flow (and related Hall current) which can be monitored at the Qaanaaq and Vostok magnetic observatories. PC aims at monitoring the energy input from solar wind to the magnetosphere (loading activity). The index is constructed in such a way that it has a linear relationship with the merging Electric Field at the magnetopause; consequently PC is given in units of mV/m as for the electric field. In August 2013, the International Association of Geomagnetism and Aeronomy (IAGA) endorsed the PC index. The endorsed PC index is accessible at pcindex.org or through WDC Copenhagen.
Bavarian Archive for Speech Signals
BAS CLARIN Repository
The Bavarian Archive for Speech Signals (BAS) is a public institution hosted by the University of Munich. This institution was founded with the aim of making corpora of current spoken German available to both the basic research and the speech technology communities via a maximally comprehensive digital speech-signal database. The speech material will be structured in a manner allowing flexible and precise access, with acoustic-phonetic and linguistic-phonetic evaluation forming an integral part of it.
Global Precipitation Climatology Centre
GPCC
The Global Precipitation Climatology Centre (GPCC) provides global precipitation analyses for monitoring and research of the earth's climate. The centre is a German contribution to the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) and to the Global Climate Observing System (GCOS).
ChroTel Data
Chromosphere Telescope
ChroTel is a telescope to observe the solar chromosphere across the full disk. ChroTel observes the Sun pseudo-simultaneously in three channels at Ca II K, H-alpha and Helium 1083.
International VLBI Service for Geodesy and Astrometry of NASA
Configuration data
IVS is an international collaboration of organizations which operate or support Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLB I) components. The service aspect of IVS is meant to serve both outside users and the geodetic and astrometric community itself. Both the contributors and users of data will be served.
Information System and Data Center
Global Earth Science Data
ISDC's online service portal is an access point for all manner of geoscientific geodata, its corresponding metadata, scientific documentation and software tools. The majority of the data and information, the portal currently offers to the public, are global geomonitoring products such as satellite orbit and Earth gravity field data as well as geomagnetic and atmospheric data for the exploration. These products for Earths changing system are provided via state-of-the art retrieval techniques. The projects hosted are: CHAMP, GGP, GRACE, GNSS, GGSP, GGOS, GPS-PDR, ICGEM, TerraSAR-x (TSX-TOR) and TanDEM-X.
meereisportal.de
seaiceportel.de
Satellite observations of sea ice concentration in the Arctic and the Antarctic are the backbone of www.meereisportal.de since its launch in April 2013. Since then, daily maps and data sets are published on the information and data portal. Time series and trends are updated daily, representing the status of the sea ice cover on hemispheres. meereisportal.de/seaiceportal.de was laid out as an open portal and shall serve scientific groups performing research on sea ice as a platform for communicating the results of their research.
Collaborative Research Centre 806 Database
CRC 806
Social and Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology/Folklore
Ancient Cultures
Non-European Languages and Cultures, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Jewish Studies and Religious Studies
The CRC806-Database platform is the Research Data Management infrastructure of the SFB / CRC 806. The infrastructure is implemented using Open Source software, and implements Open Science, Open Access and Open Data principles. The Collaborative Research Centre (CRC; 'Sonderforschungsbereich' or SFB) is designed to capture the complex nature of chronology, regional structure, climatic, environmental and socio-cultural contexts of major intercontinental and transcontinental events of dispersal of Modern Man from Africa to Western Eurasia, and particularly to Europe (Cited from introductory text on: www.sfb806.de).
Acceleration, Reconnection, Turbulence and Electrodynamics of the Moon's Interaction with the Sun
Optics, Quantum Optics and Physics of Atoms, Molecules and Plasmas
The THEMIS mission is a five-satellite Explorer mission whose primary objective is to understand the onset and macroscale evolution of magnetospheric substorms. The five small satellites were launched together on a Delta II rocket and they carry identical sets of instruments including an electric field instrument (EFI), a flux gate magnetometer (FGM), a search coil magnetometer (SCM), a electro-static analyzer, and solid state telescopes (SST). The mission consists of several phases. In the first phase, the spacecraft will all orbit as a tight cluster in the same orbital plane with apogee at 15.4 Earth radii (RE). In the second phase, also called the Dawn Phase, the satellites will be placed in their orbits and during this time their apogees will be on the dawn side of the magnetosphere. During the third phase (also known as the Tail Science Phase) the apogees will be in the magnetotail. The fourth phase is called the Dusk Phase or Radiation Belt Science Phase, with all apogees on the dusk side. In the fifth and final phase, the apogees will shift to the sunward side (Dayside Science Phase). The satellite data will be combined with observations of the aurora from a network of 20 ground observatories across the North American continent. The THEMIS-B (THEMIS-P1) and THEMIS-C (THEMIS-P2) were repurposed to study the lunar environment in 2009. The spacecraft were renamed ARTEMIS (Acceleration, Reconnection, Turbulence and Electrodynamics of the Moon's Interaction with the Sun), with the P1 and P2 designations maintained.


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I've pulled vehicles out of ditches with it. My neighbor had a shop in his back yard. He'd get a car that wouldn't run, I'd take the Steiner® to it and pull it back into the shop and if it's maneuverable enough, I could get the car in and drive out around it.
I wouldn't trade my Steiner® for any other mower – or mowing machine made – I think. This will last me a long time and I think it'll do the job I need it to do.
We use the Slip Scoop mostly for mulching. My son uses it to make "jumps" and "tabletops" for his 4 wheeling and motorcycling adventures in the back yard. We are lucky to have about 5 acres that he can dig/design his own course. In the spring we have approximately 15-20 yards of mulch delivered and the Slip Scoop helps to deliver the mulch to the area where it is needed. It was also a great help on my son's Eagle Scout project, when he was landscaping the church.
I just want you to know how totally pleased I am with my Steiner® tractor and attachments. It is simple to maintain yet built to work hard and made to last. I bought it new about three years ago and its capabilities still amaze me. Among other things, I use it to mow, aerate and fertilize a steep and rugged property in the rugged foothills west of Denver. I have the dual tires and an after-market slope meter. People tell me that they can't believe its incredible power, traction and stability on my steep slopes – and frankly, I often can't either!
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Q: Validation of date field using jquery I am new to jQuery. How can I validate a date field?
The date entered must be the current date, or a date before the current date. How can I do this without disabling future dates in the date picker?

A: Here's the code to validate your date in javascript.
var selectedDate = $("#yourDate").val();
var currentDate = new Date();

if(new Date(selectedDate) > currentDate){
   alert("Invalid Date");
}

A: You don't need jQuery for that, as ist is just JavaScript:
 var now = new date();
 var inDate = .... // wherever you get it from,

 if ( inDate > now )
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Date Objects can be compared directly with operators like == <= >= < > in JavaScript

A: var userDateString = '2014/03/01'; // this can be the value from the date picker

var userDate = new Date(userDateString);
var nowDate = Date.now();

if (userDate.getTime() <= nowDate) {
    console.log("User's date is less than or equal to today's date.");
} else {
    console.log("User's date is greater than today's date.");
}

JSBin example:
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College of Humanities and Public Affairs
Is there gender bias in participation in early childhood education programs in developing countries? Role of mother's education
Sharmistha Self, Missouri State UniversityFollow
Richard Grabowski
Gender bias in education is a commonly noted characteristic in developing countries. Most of the research work focuses on primary, secondary and tertiary education. The focus of this paper is on whether or not such gender bias also appears in early childhood education programs. This paper uses household survey data from two northern states in India, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, for the period 1997-1998. The results show no evidence of gender bias in the overall sample. However, there is evidence of consistent gender bias among poor households in the sample. The results also indicate that mother's education has a consistently important positive influence on children's attendance in early childhood programs. However, further analysis reveals that mother's education increases male participation in pre-school, but not female participation. These results remain robust to different model specifications.
https://doi.org/10.1002/jid.1730
Early childhood education, Gender bias, JEL classification O10; I20; O53, Mother's education
Self, Sharmistha, and Richard Grabowski. "Is there gender bias in participation in early childhood education programs in developing countries? Role of mother's education." Journal of International Development 23, no. 7 (2011): 909-925.
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Hills at Sims
PROJECT DESCRIPTION AND HISTORY
Harris County Precinct One is working to transform the Hill at Sims, a 100-acre regional detention basin, into a public park. Houston Parks Board is leading the study on behalf of Precinct One. Harris County Flood Control District owns the basin and the adjacent 150-acre property along Scott Street. Together, these properties have the potential to form a new regional park within the Sunnyside/South Acres/Crestmont Park area of Houston.
The site is adjacent to Sims Bayou Greenway, which, on completion, will stretch nearly 20 miles from Blue Ridge County Park to Milby Park. It is also within walking distance of multiple schools, parks, churches, and homes.
Precinct One and Houston Parks Board received feedback on the draft planning study, which has now been finalized and can be found at the links below. Scroll down for current project information and upcoming community outreach.
Hill at Sims Study
Hill at Sims Study – Executive Summary
Hill at Sims Study – Executive Summary – Spanish
The Hill at Sims is located across Scott Street from Cloverland Park, 3801 Hickock Lane 77074.
HILL AT SIMS PHASE ONE
The Initial Improvements Phase, Phase One, has completed design and permitting with public input. Phase One focuses on creating enhancement around the detention basin and access to adjacent neighborhoods and destinations that can be expanded in future phases.
Improvements include a trail around the basin, entry plaza, parking lot, nature trails, plantings, site furnishings, and signage. As of July 2022, Phase One is on hold due to receiving a federal earmark.
Separate from Phase One, Precinct One is funding the design and construction of a new pedestrian and bike bride across Sims Bayou from Hill at Sims. This bridge will connect Hill at Sims Park to Sims Bayou Greenway and Margaret Jenkins Park.
HILL AT SIMS PHASE TWO
Phase Two of the project is now beginning, and features of Phase Two include:
Package A: Hilltop pavilion, trails on the Hill, overlooks, associate signage and furnishings, and ecological landscape improvements
Package B: Continuation of the trail along Scott Street from Botany Lane to Airport Boulevard (also on hold due to the above-mentioned federal earmark)
Package C: Nature center pavilion, picnic pavilions, associated site furnishings, and signage, and ecological landscape improvements
UPCOMING COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
A family-friendly engagement activity at the Hill at Sims will take place in either September or October this year, check back here for updates.
PREVIOUS COMMUNITY MEETINGS FOR PHASE TWO
On July 20, 2022, an in-person open house was held at Cloverland Church of Christ, across the street from the Hill at Sims, to update the community on the phases and ask for input on key elements of the design. A walk to the hill followed the open house in partnership with the Nature Heritage Society.
To view the presentation slides, click here.
PREVIOUS COMMUNITY MEETINGS FOR PHASE ONE
On August 5, 2021, a virtual community meeting was held to provide updates on how community feedback from the March 2021 meeting was incorporated into the project design.
To view a recording of the meeting, click here.
On March 31, 2021, a virtual community meeting was hosted to gather community input on the project and to share updates on the planning study.


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THE CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE (1936): Separating Fact from Fiction
Over the years, there have been numerous stories published or otherwise repeated about the production of Warner Bros, action film THE CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE (1936).
These anecdotal accounts received additional heft in 1975 with the publication of David Niven's memoir BRING ON THE EMPTY HORSES.
Among other recollections, Niven wrote about director Michael Curtiz's "carnage" of injured and dead horses caused by his ordering the use of a "Running W" or trip wire during action scenes that were supposedly filmed in Mexico.
Other versions included a fight between Errol Flynn and Curtiz that never occurred (There was a physical confrontation between both men that occurred six years later during DIVE BOMBER) reportedly caused by Flynn's rage over the director's alleged indifference to the welfare of animals with the number of horses crippled or killed during the making of the picture ranging from 20 to 100 or many more.
My research, based on studio production records, correspondence and legal files( including sworn affidavits and photographs) and other sources, revealed an accurate and less fabulist account of what occurred during production of the film.
N.Y. Review of Books: David Thomson's review of Michael Curtiz: A Life in Film
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Celebration of A Life Well Lived . . . and a New Tome
My initial shock about director/producer Arnold Laven's death last month has morphed into regret and appreciation. Regret for only knowing him for slightly under a year and appreciation for the brief time we spent together talking about his career and the...


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