Every young girl reaches a time in her middle and high school years when weekends are filled with Sweet 16s and bat mitzvahs, surprise parties, homecoming dances and prom. Founder and CEO Jen Forman created Charlotte's Closet, an online platform where young girls can rent dresses and rompers for all of their special events without having to spend a fortune on something they will only wear once.
Jen Forman and daughter Charlotte.
Pulse spoke with Forman about her life before Charlotte's Closet, the process of starting a business and the inspiration behind the name and the concept you need to tell your teenage niece about.
Long Island Pulse: Why did you start Charlotte's Closet and what was the inspiration behind it?
Jen Forman: It was started based on a need. My daughter [Charlotte] was starting to go to lots of parties, as a 12-year-old going to bat mitzvahs, and she wanted a new dress for every event and that is just not something that is attainable for me nor I think anyone else. It's just such a waste, and with the invention of social media they take pictures and they don't ever want to wear the same dress twice. Her own bat mitzvah was coming up and I was looking for a way to have her look amazing without spending a fortune. I have definitely rented dresses before and there was nothing like it in this teen and tween stage so it inspired me to launch Charlotte's Closet.
Pulse: How does Charlotte feel about your business?
Forman: She loves it, I think that she's proud that it's named after her and now she has this endless closet of dresses and rompers that she can always wear.
I also think as a mom (I've always been a working mom) it's important that my children, especially my daughter, see that it's amazing to work and you can manage and balance everything. I'm trying to empower these young girls to have passion.
Pulse: You mentioned the closet that your daughter gets to invade: where do you get your inventory?
Forman: All of our inventory is purchased directly through designers. I think we're up to 26 designers…we started with 10 and that's a combination of traditional, special occasion, […] as well as contemporary brands that we're adding. That's everything from BCBG Generation, French Connection. We're adding Nicole Miller. Every week we seem to be sourcing and adding new designers.
Rent a dress for any occasion on charlottes-closet.com.
Pulse: What's your favorite style advice, and what's your favorite fashion tip for your daughter?
Forman: I always love to mix up an outfit whether it's taking a fun formal dress and throwing on a jean jacket or leather jacket to change up the look a little bit. Don't be afraid to take a little risk like that. And always have fun, fashion is always supposed to be fun.
Pulse: Is Charlotte's Closet only online?
Forman: We have a web-based business, we ship everywhere. We do take private fitting appointments in our Port Washington location and showroom. And also as part of our business we have something called the home try on program, so if you live in Florida and obviously aren't in New York and you would like to try on a dress for a very special occasion, for $29.95 we will ship you three dresses up to six months prior to your event. You get to model the looks at home. It's essentially the Charlotte's Closet showroom coming to your house.
Pulse: Do you think you'll eventually expand and carry adult women's clothing?
Forman: I think so. The next phase for us will be adding accessories. We're starting to look into jewelry, handbags, certainly we will add under garments and fit garments to sell, and the option to rent out accessories to complete the look because that's helpful.
Pulse: You had an idea, made it a reality and started a business. What was that process like for you and what did it entail?
Forman: It definitely takes a village and as a working mother it's certainly a challenge, but it was really an idea that was born in my kitchen […]. With my background in public relations I was able to test the concept with media and the response was overwhelmingly positive, which for us meant there was a need. It took the right team, it's definitely hard work and it's definitely something that is obtainable if you're dedicated.
Pulse: If you could give any advice to someone who wants to start a business on Long Island, what would it be?
Forman: Don't give up. I think that if you're dedicated and passionate about something, you should go for it. It's really as simple as that.


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La seconda battaglia di Fontenay-le-Comte è stata una battaglia della Prima guerra di Vandea combattuta il 25 maggio a Fontenay-le-Comte, capoluogo della Vandea.

Antefatto
Dopo la sua vittoria a Fontenay-le-Comte, il generale repubblicano Alexis Chalbos occupò La Châtaigneraie, mettendo in fuga i suoi 300 difensori. L'esercito vendéenne era demoralizzato dopo il suo fallimento, ma i generali non rinunciarono e decisero di raccogliere l'armata al completo a Châtillon-sur-Sèvre, in vista del prossimo attacco. Il 23 maggio, si era nuovamente riunita e questa volta era stata raggiunta da Charles de Bonchamps. Forte di 25.000 uomini, si mise in marcia per scontrarsi con la divisione di Chalbos. Quest'ultimo, informato dell'attacco vandeano, abbandonò La Châtaigneraie e ripiegò su Fontenay-le-Comte nella notte del 24 maggio.

La battaglia
Il 25 maggio, verso le due del pomeriggio, l'esercito vandeano si spiegò dinanzi a Fontenay-le-Comte. Louis Marie de Lescure, Jacques Cathelineau e Jean Nicolas Stofflet occupavano il lato sinistro, Henri de La Rochejaquelein il lato destro, Charles de Bonchamps il centro. Questa volta la superiorità numerica dei vandeani era schiacciante, benché la maggior parte di loro era male armata, avendo perso un grande numero di cannoni, di munizioni e di cannoni alla prima battaglia di Fontenay-le-Comte. Da parte sua Chalbos, senza le truppe di Sandoz, non aveva più di 6.000 uomini.

Il combattimento iniziò con l'attacco di Bonchamps che disponeva dei migliori soldati dell'esercito presente sul campo, in quanto equipaggiati come un esercito regolare con tanto di uniformi. Il centro repubblicano in inferiorità numerica entrò nel panico e si diede alla fuga. Chalbos non che riuscì a richiamare i suoi uomini, tentò allora una carica di cavalleria con i gendarmi a cavallo, ma anche questi fuggirono prima di arrivare a contatto con le truppe di Bonchamps. Un contrattacco della cavalleria vandeana condotta da La Rochejaquelein e Dommaigné sostenuto dal resto della fanteria bloccò i repubblicani in fuga e 3.000 di loro si arresero. Nouvion tuttavia, con alcuni gendarmi a cavallo, riuscì a proteggere la ritirata di ciò che restava dell'esercito repubblicano, ripiegando su Niort.

Conseguenze
La battaglia durò appena un'ora e i vandeani erano riusciti a riprendersi Fontenay. Alla fine della battaglia, uno dei prigionieri repubblicani riuscì a riprendere la sua arma e ferire il generale Bonchamps, furiosi i vandeani uccisero all'istante l'attentatore. In totale quel giorno morirono 17 vandeani e 70 repubblicani, inoltre i vandeani conquistarono i cannoni persi durante lo scontro precedente, compreso il famoso "Marie-Jeanne", e ottennero 5.000 fucili. Quanto ai 3.000 prigionieri repubblicani, come erano soliti fare i vandeani, gli tagliarono i capelli e quindi li liberarono dopo avere giurato non di combattere più in Vandea.

Bibliografia
 Yves Gras, La Guerre de Vendée, éditions Economica, 1994, pp. 45–56.
 Jean Tabeur, Paris contre la Province, les guerres de l'Ouest, éditions Economica, 2008, p. 85-86.

Guerra nel 1793
Battaglie delle guerre di Vandea

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The Diam Piece is the fourth studio album by American rapper Diamond D. The album was released on September 30, 2014, by Dymond Mine Records. The album features guest appearances from Pharoahe Monch, Talib Kweli, Elzhi, Skyzoo, Fat Joe, Chi Ali, Freddie Foxxx, Pete Rock, The Pharcyde, Scram Jones, Rapsody, Boog Brown, Stacy Epps, Black Rob, Kurupt, Tha Alkaholiks, Hi-Tek, A.G., Chino XL, The Alchemist, Evidence, Grand Daddy I.U., Kev Brown, Masta Ace, Guilty Simpson and Ras Kass.

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In a September 2014 interview with Unkut, Diamond D spoke about the album, saying: "It's more or less a production LP, about two and a half years it took. A lot of tracks I didn't even use. I had about 27 tracks but I only used 18. Some of the artists I was in the studio with, and others – because of their touring schedule and my touring schedule – I just sent them music and they sent me the session back. If the track that I give them has a sample in it that's giving it direction then they'll follow that. If there is no sample or concept at the beginning I just let the MC's paint their own pictures and try to figure out how can make it connect. I use a lot more live instrumentation now. I still chop and manipulate samples, but my sound just sounds bigger now. Just using better equipment so the sample frequencies are better."

Critical response

The Diam Piece received positive reviews from music critics. Dean Mayorga of HipHopDX said, "While it is clear that Diam Piece is not without  flaws, it is a successful return nonetheless and hopefully a foreshadowing of more to come." Praverb of XXL stated, "The Diam Piece is nothing new. In fact, it is a blast from the past, when compilations reigned supreme. Listening this album brought back memories of Soundbombing or Lyricist Lounge, the presentation of thought out lyrics and accompanying backdrops works. Diamond D meticulously selected guests for this collaborative masterpiece and injects rhyming when needed. Overall, it'll definitely keep your attention thanks to Diamond D's crafted beat wizardry. Real hip-hop at its best."

Track listing
All tracks produced by Diamond D, except track 19 produced by DJ Scratch

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EMPLOYMENT AND NON-COMPETITION AGREEMENT (this "Agreement ") dated as of September 30, 2006 (the "Effective Date "), by and among EXLSERVICE HOLDINGS, INC ., a Delaware corporation ("Holdings " or the "Company ", and together with any subsidiaries of Holdings, the "Companies "), and Rohit Kapoor (the "Executive ").
(a) Executive shall serve as President of the Company, and in such other position as the Board of Directors of the Company (the "Board ") may from time to time reasonably determine, subject at all times to the direction, supervision and authority of the Board. Executive's duties shall include such duties as the Board may from time to time reasonably assign. The Company agrees to provide Executive such assistance and work accommodations as are suitable to the character of his positions with the Company and adequate for the performance of his duties. The Executive shall be based at the Company's executive offices in the metropolitan New York City area.
may, in its sole discretion, from time to time determine; provided , however , that with the exception of the stock option described in Section 6(h) hereunder, such benefits for Executive shall not include any equity compensation awards during the Initial Employment Term, except as may hereafter be awarded at the discretion of the Compensation Committee. Nothing in this Agreement shall be construed to require the Company to establish or maintain any such plans, programs, benefits or perquisites.
equity compensation award to Executive and (iii) any changes in market compensation of similarly situated executives since the grant date of the immediately preceding equity compensation award to Executive. The definitive terms of each such subsequent equity compensation award shall be set forth in a restricted stock or stock option agreement, as applicable, between Executive and the Company substantially in the form of Exhibit A or Exhibit B attached hereto, as applicable, except that (i) the vesting shall be on an annual ratable basis over four years commencing on the date of grant of the award, (ii) the exercise price of a stock option shall be the fair market value of the stock subject to such option on the date of grant and (iii) such terms may be changed by the mutual agreement of Executive and the Company.
Notwithstanding anything in this Section 7(d) to the contrary, if Executive assumes or has assumed the title and/or duties of chief financial officer of the Company, any subsequent relinquishment or elimination of such title and/or duties shall not constitute Good Reason hereunder.
(f) Termination Following a Change in Control . Notwithstanding anything in this Section 7 to the contrary, if Executive's employment is involuntarily terminated by the Company without Cause or Executive terminates employment for Good Reason within 12 months following a Change of Control, then Executive shall receive, in complete satisfaction of all payments (including severance) due under this Agreement, (i) Base Salary relating to Executive's services prior to the termination date and (ii) a lump sum payment of $999,000. In addition, upon a termination of employment described in this Section 7(f), (i) Executive shall receive the benefits set forth in Section 7(g) and (ii) all unvested equity awards granted on or after the Effective Date and held by Executive shall become fully vested and, in the case of stock options, exercisable.
the issuance of securities in the transaction (a "Business Combination "), unless immediately following such Business Combination: (A) more than 50% of the total voting power of (x) the entity resulting from such Business Combination (the "Surviving Company "), or (y) if applicable, the ultimate parent entity that directly or indirectly has beneficial ownership of sufficient voting securities eligible to elect a majority of the members of the board of directors (or the analogous governing body) of the Surviving Company (the "Parent Company "), is represented by the Outstanding Company Voting Securities that were outstanding immediately prior to such Business Combination (or, if applicable, is represented by shares into which the Outstanding Company Voting Securities were converted pursuant to such Business Combination), and such voting power among the holders thereof is in substantially the same proportion as the voting power of the Outstanding Company Voting Securities among the holders thereof immediately prior to the Business Combination, (B) no Person (other than any employee benefit plan sponsored or maintained by the Surviving Company or the Parent Company, or one or more Designated Holders), is or becomes the beneficial owner, directly or indirectly, of more than 50% of the total voting power of the outstanding voting securities eligible to elect members of the board of directors of the Parent Company (or the analogous governing body) (or, if there is no Parent Company, the Surviving Company) and (C) at least a majority of the members of the board of directors (or the analogous governing body) of the Parent Company (or, if there is no Parent Company, the Surviving Company) following the consummation of the Business Combination were Board members at the time of the Board's approval of the execution of the initial agreement providing for such Business Combination.
(j) Date of Termination . "Date of Termination " shall mean (i) if Executive's employment is terminated by Executive's death, the date of Executive's death, (ii) if Executive's employment is terminated for Cause in accordance with Section 7(c), the date specified in the Notice of Termination, (iii) if Executive's employment is terminated due to the expiration of the Employment Term as described in Section 7(c), the date that the Employment Term expires, and (iv) if Executive's employment is terminated for any other reason, fifteen (15) business days after the date on which a Notice of Termination is delivered.
provided , that, the Company shall reimburse Executive for the amount of the overall increase in his tax liabilities resulting solely from his work-related travel to India. These equalization payments shall include a tax restoration payment that takes into account the impact of the reimbursements. Executive agrees that if he receives a refund or other credit on his taxes, he shall repay the Company any amount in excess of the amount necessary such that the after tax amount retained by Executive is equal to the amount he would have retained had he remained employed in the United States.
(q) Legal Fees . Upon the execution of this Agreement, the Company agrees to pay on behalf of Executive all legal fees and expenses incurred by Executive in connection with the negotiation, drafting, and execution of this Agreement which, when aggregated with any similar fees incurred by Vikram Talwar and paid by the Company in connection with the negotiation, drafting and execution of an employment agreement for Mr. Talwar with the Company, do not exceed $25,000.
officer or director of the Company, by the Company's Directors and Officer liability policy or other comparable policies obtained by the Company's successors, to the fullest extent permitted by such policies. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company's responsibilities under this Section 12(r) shall not apply to any claims raised against Executive after the sixth anniversary of his termination of employment.
Rohit is a partner of this nurse recruitment company. Rohit and his spouse – Shikha will have 50% ownership in this company. No material time is presently spent on this company by Rohit, it being primarily a project of his wife. Going forward, Rohit expects to play no more than an advisory role for this company.
Rohit is a partner of this investment advisory company. Rohit and his spouse – Shikha have a 100% ownership of this company. No material time is presently spent on this company by Rohit, it being primarily a passive advisory company for long time Private Banking clients of Rohit. Going forward, Rohit does not anticipate spending more than a few days a year on the affairs of this company.
1. The Executive may make use of and be reimbursed for First Class travel on company business.
2. The Company shall at its expense maintain a term life insurance policy on the life of the Executive in the face amount of Five Hundred Thousand Dollars (US$500,000) payable to such beneficiaries as Employee may designate; provided that , the Executive does not have any special health risks or conditions that would cause the rate of such life insurance plan to be substantially higher than the average rate for an individual of the same age as the Executive.
3. The Company shall (i) maintain one automobile for use by the Executive and shall pay the costs of an automobile for the Executive in the United States, with lease or loan payments not to exceed $1200 per month; and (ii) pay directly or shall reimburse the Executive for the cost of insurance and fuel for such automobile (such fuel payments shall cover the cost of fuel for two automobiles as the Executive uses his own car from time to time for Company business purposes) at a cost not to exceed $12,000 per annum.
4. Being that the Company has determined that Executive should have personal security while in India, Executive and his family shall be provided with personal security while in India and paid for by the Company consistent with practices and procedures.
5. The Company shall provide certain items of furniture, telecom lines and computer hardware necessary to maintain a home office for Executive.
6. Once each year during the Term during which the Executive resides in US, the Company will provide, at its expense, round-trip, business-class air travel between the US and India for the Executive and his immediate family.
7. During Executive's travel to India in connection with Company business while Executive's domicile is in the United States, Executive shall be provided a $150.00 per diem billeting allowance for each night Executive does not stay in a hotel.


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Between the years 1884 and 1937, the company mill and lumber town of Falk thrived in what is now the Headwaters Forest Reserve. In the late 1800s, Noah Falk and two other stakeholders became partners in the Elk River Mill and Lumber Company. During this transitional time in logging history, Falk was able to capitalize on the relatively inexpensive price of land, cheap labor, and inexpensive logging technologies, such as the band saw and the Dolbeer steam donkey. Isolated from Eureka and within the backdrop of the industrial revolution, many changes and spikes in local and immigrant populations created an intricate company town of 400 people. Between the 1940s and 1970s, Falk became a ghost town until the vacant buildings eventually became part of the soil that now supports the Headwaters Forest Reserve, managed by the Bureau of Land Management.
Julie Clark works for the Bureau of Land Management and is currently the Headwaters Forest Reserve ranger. She has conducted many Falk presentations to Humboldt County residents and portrayed some of the Falk residents in living history events. She holds a master of arts in social sciences from Humboldt State University. Jon Humboldt Gates, author of Falk's Claim: The Life and Death of a Redwood Lumber Town and Night Crossings, is a fourth-generation Humboldt County native who now resides in Sonoma County. The Humboldt County Historical Society has been instrumental in contributing photographs and primary documents to this project.


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SDG 2 (Zero Hunger) in the context of the German Sustainable Development Strategy: are we leaving the starving behind?
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Holzapfel, Sarah / Michael Brüntrup
Briefing Paper 13/2017
Bonn: German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE)
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SDG 2 (kein Hunger) in der Deutschen Nachhaltigkeitsstrategie: lassen wir die Hungernden zurück?
(Analysen und Stellungnahmen 11/2017)
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) adopted within the framework of the United Nations' 2030 Agenda are universal and apply to all countries, whereby each country is free to establish its own priorities. In order to address the concern that support for the problems of poverty endemic in developing countries could be curtailed in the process, industrial nations including Germany pledged to link national challenges with international objectives, particularly those relating to poor developing countries – in accordance with the Agenda's principle Leaving no one behind.
We analysed the revised version of the "German Sustainable Development Strategy," (GSDS), adopted on 11 January 2017, which outlines measures designed to implement the 2030 Agenda, with regard to a primary concern of the developing countries, namely goal number 2: ending hunger, achieving food security and improved nutrition, and promoting sustainable agriculture.
Specifically, we analysed the indicators, i.e. the strategy's measurable substance. However, the indicators cited in the GSDS fail to incorporate the developing countries' immediate needs. Measures implemented at national level are aimed chiefly at improving ecological sustainability within the context of German agriculture. Here, particular reference is made to two verifiable indicators relating to the propagation of organic farming and the reduction of the nitrogen surplus in the agricultural sector.
These objectives are doubtless desirable for Germany, and may make a meaningful contribution towards the achievement of other SDGs (e.g. water, biodiversity, health). However, they hardly contribute to the essence of SDG 2. On the contrary, no account is taken of the possible consequences of these two indicators for food security efforts in developing countries, and, with this, their coherence in terms of development policy. Said consequences could include agricultural extensification and a tendency towards increased food prices. Other policy areas which (could) exercise a considerable influence on global food security, such as bioenergy and agricultural trade, are also overlooked.
Although important and necessary measures are described for the international context, which Germany must implement in order to achieve SDG 2, verifiable indicators and commitments that these efforts will be continued in future are lacking.
All things considered, the German Sustainable Development Strategy has so far failed to meet the requirements of the 2030 Agenda as regards SDG 2. Which changes are necessary for the further development of the GSDS, planned for 2018?
In a national context, an indicator ensuring the (examination of and endeavours to achieve) development coherence in the field of national policy measures surround¬ing SDG 2 is required.
As far as the international context is concerned, a credible safeguarding of the current engagements in the field of development cooperation (DC), or a voluntary commit¬ment to increasing the German contribution even after the end of the special initiative "ONE WORLD – No Hunger", is essential.
Indicators concerning the sustainability of German agriculture as a whole, the consumption of agricultural products, specifically animal products, and genetic diversity would be particularly expedient in this regard.
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Brüntrup, Michael
Agrarökonomie
Holzapfel, Sarah
Brehm, Johannes
Götze, Jacqueline
Hägele, Ramona
Politikwissenschaftlerin
Iacobuta, Gabriela
Umweltwissenschaftlerin
Kloke-Lesch, Adolf
Stadt- und Regionalplaner
Koch, Svea
Laudage, Sabine
Mathis, Okka Lou
Mehl, Regine
Scholz, Imme
Soziologin
Schwachula, Anna
Srigiri, Srinivasa Reddy
Agrarökonom
Sturm, Janina
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Vogel, Johanna
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Kim Sikora: Can you tell us a bit about your beginnings as a team of photographers?
Peter Tonningsen and Lisa Levine: We met as artists-in-residence at Kala Art Institute about six years ago and have much in common… We began collaborating through an annual event called Alameda on Camera… We had both participated individually in this event in the past, so proposed collaborating one year thinking it would be fun, but were told it was 'against the rules' of the event. However coincidence was in our favor as the random pieces of the map we each drew happened to border each other, so we proceeded to photograph each other's area while standing on the shared border of our map sections.
PT & LL: We did this using a multiple exposure technique in which we each photographed on 35mm film, rewound that film, exchanged it, and then repeated that process right over the top of what the other had just photographed, with this shooting and exchange occurring multiple times… thus our collaboration and multiple-image methodology was born.
KS: When you first started out photographing as a team, what things did you first gravitate towards?
KS: You have a lot of images shot in the Bay Area, and all of them are delightfully complex. Can you tell us a bit more about your shooting methods?
PT & LL: We are both urban at heart, so favor industrial and metropolitan subject matter, especially because of the dynamic and serendipitous nature of these kinds of environments. Regarding our shooting and creative methodology… We are especially drawn to this combination (multiple exposures) of analog and digital technologies, which we believe makes our work especially relevant given the rapidly changing climate of digital photography today.
KS: How did you decide when and where to shoot? Were there destinations with history you tracked down, or was it more or a fluid exploration?
PT & LL: Sometimes the sites we choose are predicated by commissions we are working on, while other times they are simply places that have caught our attention for being visually interesting. Once we start exploring a place, everything about the context of that location becomes of interest… How all that unveils itself to us is more of a fluid exploration. Our preference is to go to the sites together and wander about, talking about and shooting what most captivates our attention.
KS: What kind of feeling, or what experience of your context do you hope to give viewers?
PT & LL: Essentially we hope that our viewers will relish in a sense of discovery and excitement at seeing a familiar place anew. We want to provide aesthetically alluring, yet visually complex and contemplative works, where the audience can take in a location from multiple viewpoints and multiple points in time… For those interested in photography, we also hope that they will be engaged with how our process challenges conventional standards of a photograph document by extending notions of photographic time, space, framing, and authorship.
KS: Can you explain on of your most recent public art installations? What are your goals for public displays like this?
PT & LL: The most recent Public Art project we completed was for Highland Hospital where we were commissioned to produce a series wall-mounted images reflecting the varying communities throughout Alameda County that the Hospital serves. The goal of our artwork was to celebrate the diversity of the populace served by Highland Hospital while providing a familiar sense of home and place to patients, visitors and staff.
Hopefully through such a familiar portrayal of the surrounding environment we contribute to the overall quality of care and wellbeing that the hospital provides by promoting reflection and conversation and helping decrease some of the anxiety that can be part of the hospital experience.
KS: What can we expect to see in the next few weeks of your residency?
PT & LL: The focus of our residency has been to develop a series of prints centered on the replacement of the Eastern span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, which is expected to be completed later this summer. We hope to arrange exhibition of our work at multiple locations on both sides of the Bay in conjunction with the Bridge's opening celebrations.


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Clayton Lewis and Paddy Madden replace Duane Holmes and Lee Novak in the starting line-up.
Scunthorpe United: Gilks, Clarke, Wallace, Ojo, Madden, Bishop, Hopper, Lewis, Adelakun, Burgess, McArdle.
Substitutes: Watson, Townsend, Crofts, van Veen, Morris, Holmes, Goode.
Charlton Athletic: Amos, Bauer, Dasilva, Forster-Caskey, Holmes, Kashi, Konsa, Magennis, Sarr, Solly, Marshall.
Substitutes: Ahearne-Grant, Aribo, Dijksteel, Dodoo, Hackett, Jackson, Phillips.


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Deutschland 83 has us rooting for the bad guys. Again. What is it about East Germany?
On-screen depictions of East Germany are compelling because there is always a direct contrast with West Germany, where the aesthetic and atmosphere are far more familiar.
By Anoosh Chakelian
(Photo By Deutschland 83)
The first series on Channel 4's new foreign drama platform Walter Presents, Deutschland 83 has already set the UK's ratings record for foreign language drama – and it's only two episodes in.
Part coming-of-age story, part spy drama, it follows the reluctant adventures of a young East German border guard forced to go undercover in the West by his impressively manipulative Stasi aunt.
After three weeks of being trained in espionage, the forever nonplussed Martin (Western identity: Moritz Stamm), is set to work planting bugs, picking locks and snapping documents belonging to top US military officials, in his guise as aide-de-camp to a senior West German general.
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And we so want him to succeed. We so want him to bag the intel that will give the evil Communists an upper hand in the Cold War (which is particularly chilly in '83). Why? Why do we end up rooting for the shifty functionaries of the GDR, which we know, and is shown, to be a repressive regime?
Angelic as he may be, Martin is not the reason. Being the pawn of shadowy characters (who coerce him into leaving his sick mother and beloved girlfriend to go West) doesn't make him a forceful enough protagonist to excuse our involuntary Stasi sympathies.
They break his finger to intimidate him into cooperating; they drug his coffee and cart him off to Bonn while he's unconscious. They feed him lies about fast-tracking his mother's operation. They are really not very nice people. Not even Martin, who signed up to be a border guard – bullying Westerners crossing the border, stopping desperate GDR citizens escaping – particularly likes them.
So why do we want them to win?
Becker's 2003 film Good Bye, Lenin! evokes the same feeling. The main character, Alex, a similar protagonist to Martin in that he's a wanly striking, good-at-heart, perpetually hassled mummy's boy, is preoccupied with hanging on to East Berlin life after the Berlin Wall falls. Sure, it's in a theatrical attempt to please his ill, socialist zealot mother, but we still prefer the artifice of Alex's world – for which he also perversely develops a fondness – to the shiny impositions of a new, reunified democratic Germany.
Perhaps we find depictions of East Germany so compelling because there is always a direct contrast – with West Germany, where the look and atmosphere are far more familiar. That peculiarly stylish brutalism and brutality of the GDR, along with its Soviet kitsch/retro throwback aesthetic, is always more absorbing to watch.
Take the contrast in Deutschland 83. Eastside, it's all sexually-charged moustaches, thinning yellow singlets, subversive 1980s German pop and excitement at real coffee. Tight little anglepoise lamps and boxy, Lego-like settees. It just looks cooler than the try-hard West, with its pseudo-spiritual cult lounging around a gymnasium, earnest student peace protestors, floppy disks, Puma t-shirts and potato salads. Not to mention Ronald Reagan honking on from every bubble-screened TV set.
Good Bye, Lenin! does the same with its contrast. Alex's sister's new job at Burger King and her sappy, sensible-shirted West German boyfriend look far less fun than her brother's date with a nurse from the Soviet Union, flirting as they dangle their legs over the edge of an abandoned, bombed-out apartment block. And those GDR-issue pickles he spends the whole film desperately trying to source for his mother just do sound more delicious.
Other depictions of East Germany, like Leander Haußmann's 1999 comedy Sonnenallee and Volker Schlöndorff's The Legend of Rita (2000) have a similar effect. The former, with its wiry group of Rolling Stones-loving teens in tight white tees and grubby bombers, was even accused of glorifying the GDR. The latter's East Germany is more of a grim, drab representation – but that doesn't stop the viewer being swept along with the enthusiasm of Rita (a communist terrorist fugitive who flees East) for the world behind the wall.
The reality is that Deutschland 83's Martin has moved to a place where the supermarket shelves are stacked full, coffee is proper, and expression is free, from a home where there is no adequate medication – and too long an operation waiting-list – for his ill mother. And one where his aunt can order a stranger to physically assault him at the kitchen table with no complaints or questions from anyone, for the good of the state. But will we remember that as we follow Martin on his next mission?
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Anoosh Chakelian is Britain editor at the New Statesman and co-host of the New Statesman Podcast.
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adidas Laces, the sportswear brand's new headquarters, is designed to promote a fluid, collaborative work culture, most notably through WORKOUT, a modular furniture system that can be assembled in myriad ways. We talk to Dirk Zweering of Kada Wittfeld, and Karim El-Ishmawi of KINZO, to discuss how architectural and interior innovation can best enhance a company's working practices.
In the summer of 2011, some 1,700 adidas employees moved into their new corporate headquarters in Herzogenaurach, Germany. The latest addition to the brand's thriving 'World of Sports' campus, adidas Laces sits between the Adi Dassler Sportplatz stadium and the adidas Brand Centre exhibition hall. Its mission: to foster creativity and team play through the conduit of clever design.
Herzogenaurach, a small town in rural Franconia, is well-known for its associations with sportswear, specifically a bitter sibling rivalry that spawned two global brands. It was here that Rudolph and Adi Dassler lived, worked and died, producing their first handmade sports shoes in their mother's laundry room before quarrelling irreconcilably and moving to opposite sides of town.
The rift was not merely fraternal; it involved the whole community, with the rival manufacturers (adidas and Puma) going so far as to sponsor separate football teams. This engendered a peculiarly sartorial kind of tribalism. Herzogenaurach was nicknamed 'the town of bent necks', because residents would not speak to strangers until they had first looked down to check their shoes.
Today Puma and adidas are based just a few miles apart, and while the animosity has cooled, the town's fixation with sportswear remains. Situated at a one-time military airbase, the adidas campus boasts a cluster of sports facilities, outdoor areas, residential units and offices. Not till the opening of Laces, however, did the 'creatives' gain a workspace specifically designed to suit their purposes.
"We wanted to establish a custom-made office with a holistic concept," says Karim El-Ishmawi, of Berlin-based interior design firm KINZO. "When a corporation has its own identity, they want to live that identity, rather than expressing it just through external communications."
A flexible solution
KINZO is the creative force behind WORKOUT, a modular furniture system custom-made for adidas, comprising 46 flexible elements. Manufactured by Planmöbel, the system runs throughout the entirety of the office area, and can be arranged to suit a wide gamut of needs. Here, the furniture choice is not merely a matter of kitting out a pre-partitioned space. Rather, assumes some of the structural functions of interior design.
Most salient in this regard is the central element, Teamplayer. A multifunctional room module, Teamplayer brings the other utensils together and can be used for storage or desktop support. More than that, however, it shapes the area, dividing and connecting teams as appropriate, and creating breakout spaces, workstations and meeting rooms.
With its dark punched plate wall, the module contrives to look both semi-transparent from a distance and near-opaque up close. As such, it promotes both privacy and accessibility, combining the breeziness of an open-plan workspace with the necessary degree of seclusion.
"You are able to adjust the programme to the various needs of the building," says El-Ishmawi, "creating either a really open kind of feeling, with a few desks and low partitions, or a dense atmosphere in which the partitions go almost up to the ceiling and are equipped with lots of fabrics and so forth."
The creatives' requirements, no matter how idiosyncratic, are central to the design. An eclectic band of materials researchers, biomechanical experts, designers, engineers, product developers and marketing specialists, these workers do not confine themselves to files and paper. The system enables them to store their most unorthodox office items – textiles, shoes, balls and bags – and display them against an unobtrusive backdrop.
KINZO has also endeavoured to reflect the realities of a flexible working culture. "There are lots of modern office concepts, such as mobile working, desk sharing, co-working, you name it," says El-Ishmawi. "These are all just words, and you have to build the space around the ideas."
Whereas old-style cubicle-based offices are geared towards the nine-to-five, today's office designers are exploring ways to dismantle that rigidity. In practice, this means handling variations in the numbers physically present at their desks. Because the components can be easily rearranged, these furnishings are ideally suited to the vagaries of shape-shifting teams.
This high adaptability and specialisation presents, as El-Ishmawi sees it, a resounding argument for going custom-made. "WORKOUT supplies a framework, and adidas can create their world within this framework," he says. "Perfect fit with their work identity is the most important thing."
Conceptually, this is far removed from a traditional office design. A typical corporation, preparing to deck out its empty building, would generally select a furniture range that connoted certain traits – a 'classic' range to suggest affluence, say, or more contemporary pieces to seem hip.
The danger here is that the office will lose any sense of individuality, communicating its values through an appropriated dialect as opposed to its natural idiom. At worst, the space may resemble a furniture showroom; at best, the hundreds of other 'hip' or 'classic' offices in which the same range is deployed.
The adidas LACES building
This furniture, by contrast, conveys all the easygoing athleticism for which adidas is known. It integrates seamlessly with the design thread running throughout the rest of the building, such that it is difficult to say where KINZO's role starts and the architect's remit ends.
Unusually for a corporate building, furniture, interior design and architecture were not treated as separate themes, but rather as a single design signature. The processes were developed in parallel, with furniture design incorporated at a strikingly early stage in the proceedings – when KINZO began work, the building-to-be was still little more than a hole in the ground.
The project architect, Aachen-based firm Kada Wittfeld, was working towards the same goals: creating a hub of collaboration and invention that would reflect the character of the brand. Their design went above and beyond adidas' original brief, eschewing a standard office typology in favour of something far more distinctive.
"It could be said that we won the commission because we didn't follow the brief in every aspect," says Dirk Zweering, project partner. "We couldn't imagine these creatives and designers working in a conventional office space."
The adidas guidelines specified an arrangement of around 70 office units, positioned so as to minimise internal through-traffic. While the expected solution would have been to intersperse the building with courtyards, Kada Wittfeld felt that such an approach lacked context.
"We considered it to be wrong that, as a young and ambitious designer in such green surroundings, you would have to sit in your office and look out across your generic courtyard, onto the façade of your own building," says Zweering. "You could be anywhere with that."
Kada Wittfeld thus determined that each workstation should have one view into a central atrium, and one towards the historic landscape of Herzogenaurach. From here, they developed the idea of a ring-shaped building intersected by zig-zagging bridges.
Made from steel 30cm thick, these bridges ('laces') are suspended from lattice supports, and serve to 'tie' the building together. They link units on opposite sides of the atrium and create a workspace rich in relationships.
Six storeys high, the exterior is covered with windows and a flat, mirrored façade. The atrium, lush with greenery, has something of the semblance of a park, such that it is contiguous with the campus outside and invites those within it to interact. Communicability and transparency are the keynotes.
The final result is unmistakably adidas. A squeezed parallelogram, roughly the same shape as a bow-tie, its geometries are clean and minimalistic, its contour lines sporty and straight. Set against the blanched colour scheme, the black bridges evoke nothing so much as the adidas logo. Were you to land here with zero foreknowledge, it wouldn't take you long to guess the brand.
As workers familiarise themselves with the spaces, the building looks firmly poised to add value to the organisation. "Architecture, for sure, can provide the right circumstances for creativity and team play, and by doing so is able to enhance an existing corporate culture," says Zweering. "If you walk through the adidas building right now, you will be able to sense that new team spirit."
El-Ishmawi agrees. "The only way to create your own identity, as an office, is to incorporate your specific needs – your culture and the ways you work – into the design process. Interior design in office space is a relatively new field but, because of the change in working environments, the need has grown greater than ever before."
We might think back to Adi Dassler's shoe designs, which were guided by a single tenet. He believed that shoes should be ideally adapted to the discipline in hand, with all their features expressly tailored to maximise performance. No doubt he would have expected nothing less from his brand's corporate headquarters.
As El-Ishmawi puts it, "A corporation has to think about how it can optimise their ways of working and install it into a building. You build the way you work."
This feature appears in the June 2012 edition of LEAF Review
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Culled by Judy Garrison From July 1912 issues of The Andes Recorder
Week In and About ANDES
Events of a Week as Chronicled by the Man on the Street
With commentary by Jim Andrews
The old house called the "Beehive" situated on Isaac Fletcher's farm a short distance from Shavertown on the Tremperskill, was destroyed by fire about 4 o'clock Tuesday afternoon. The house was occupied by Roy Davis and he lost most of his household goods. It is not known how the fire started as it is stated that the family had not had a fire in the stove since morning. The house will be remembered by many as the Bass Shaver place and was one of the landmarks of the valley and had practically out-lived its usefulness and was fast going to decay. The fire spread rapidly thru the building which was dry as tinder and scarcely a piece of the timber remains. Neither Mr. Fletcher or Mr. Davis carried any insurance.
Attorney A. C. Fenton, of Margaretville, has purchased what is known as the James P. Race farm near Jacksonburg in the town of Andes. [Jim Andrews: Jacksonburg was located, I believe, between Union Grove and Arena. There was a bridge there called the Jacksonburg Bridge. It consisted of only a few buildings. Margaret Moshier would know more about it than I would.]
Washington Whitcomb, employed by Lee J. Frisbee on the Hull farm, Perch Lake hill, five miles from Andes, was shocked by lightning during the storm last Thursday and was unconscious for about half an hour. The lightning struck the wagon house and Mr. Whitcomb, who was in the act of putting down a window in the rear of the building, received a portion of its force. The bolt left its mark on the right side of his body, extending from the shoulder down onto the leg. The upper part of the mark, which was the width of two fingers, was a deep red while down on the leg only the hair was singed. When he regained consciousness he smelled smoke and tried to get up, but found his entire right side paralyzed. He finally succeeded in getting to the door and call for help. His wife and other members of the family hurried to the wagon house and found the lightning had set fire in a case fastened to the side of the building, and in which tools were kept. By the use of water the fire was put out but the tools are probably nearly all ruined as the electricity had drawn out the temper. Mrs. William Hull who was on the porch at the house, was knocked down by the same bolt and a lady boarder felt a tingling in the foot and on removing her shoe and stocking a red streak was revealed on the ankle.
It is supposed that the bolt struck the lightning rod and being more than it could carry part of it went into the building. The rod was split open for some distance and badly burned. The place where the tools was kept was against the outer wall directly back of where the lightning rod went down to the ground.[JA: People didn't get out much back then and everyone would have known these people and, aside from being concerned about their well-being, were also curious about all the very numerous "details." I'm sure writing like this sold papers!]
During a thunderstorm that passed over Andes between 2 and 3 o'clock Sabbath morning the barn of J. V. McQueen, in lower Gladstone Hollow, was struck by lightning and totally destroyed. Mr. McQueen was awakened by the light from the burning building as was also the nearest neighbor, Barry Shaver and the barn was then entirely enveloped in flames. The effort of those who gathered was put forth in saving the house which stood only a short distance from the doomed barn. The intense heat scorched the house considerably and it caught fire several times but the flames were put out. Pieces of burning shingles were carried as far as Barry Shaver's. Fortunately all the haying machinery was out of the barn and Mr. McQueen had his horses turned out in the pasture. About two tons of old hay was burned and also buggy, grain cradle, cutter and other implements. Mr. McQueen had been doing the haying on the Thos H. Liddle place and no new hay had yet been put in his own barn. Altho old the building served well the purpose. The barn is one of the landmarks of the town, but the date when it was erected goes back farther than runneth the memory of man. It is supposed to be at least 75 or 80 years old and probably was built by William Telford.
The farm house of John Dickman on Dingle Hill was struck by lightning about 3 o'clock Sabbath morning and slight damage done. After an exceedingly hard clap of thuneder [sic] Mrs. Dickman got up to put the windows down and on entering the room occupied by Margaret Muir discovered the bed on fire. The blaze was very small and was easily put out. Investigation showed that the bolt had struck the roof and torn off some shingles and then going down the partition between two bedrooms ripped off the baseboard and set the bed on fire. A hole was burned in the sheet and also in the feather bed. The two Dickman boys were in a bed against the partition in the room adjoining but neither they or Miss Muir were injured.
Wednesday a ball of fire entered the house of Isaac Samuels thru an open door and went out thru a window glass leaving a hole as if made by a bullet. Lightning also struck at the cemetery.
JA: Lightning was greatly feared at the turn of the century—especially before Andes had any serious fire protection. A lightning hit, especially far from town, meant certain ruin to a home or a livelihood. At that time, with many farm buildings relatively new and in somewhat open areas (trees having been cleared for the construction of the buildings) the buildings were left as high-point targets for lightning strikes. Farmers' homes and barns were strung with lightning rods which supposedly and hopefully grounded the buildings and would attract any lightning hits to the rods on the roof, transfer the charge down the wires strung at the sides of the buildings and into the ground. As is seen in the above articles, the rods didn't always do the job adequately. My grandfather, Karl McCune, always worried about his barn in Shavertown and was very quick to shut the barn doors in the event of a thunderstorm. He was afraid that the draft being drawn through the barn would attract lightning. John Fowler, Marguerite Fowler's father, always stayed alert during thunderstorms and sat in the farmhouse dining room window and watched the barn, figuring that if it got hit he could get to it in time to save the building. The State Road farm is now owned by Joe Eisele, and ironically enough, several years ago the same barn that John Fowler watched so carefully was struck by lightning and burned to the ground.~
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Q: PHP not working on js form I have a form on my website(http://hokuco.com/test/). It creates a folder with php, but ever since I installed a javascript my php is not working. The javascript redirects to the folder the php creates. Ironically, before I made the javascript work, the php works.

focus on the area between the two barriers that look like this:

index.php:

<?php
function recurse_copy($src,$dst) {
  $dir = opendir($src);
  @mkdir($dst);
  while(false !== ( $file = readdir($dir)) ) {
      if (( $file != '.' ) && ( $file != '..' )) {
         if ( is_dir($src . '/' . $file) ) {
             recurse_copy($src . '/' . $file,$dst . '/' . $file);
         }
         else {
             copy($src . '/' . $file,$dst . '/' . $file);
         }
      }
  }
 closedir($dir);
}

$src = "./xe7";

$dst = $_POST['foldername'];

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<form method="post" id ="form" action ="index.php">
<input type="text" name="foldername" id ="togl">
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Create panorama">

 </form>

Or,

Login with an access code(the account you just typed into the box above, or a code someone shared with you)

    <input type="text" id="field" />
    <button id="submit">Go</button>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css" />

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A: <form method="post" id ="form" action ="index.php">
<input type="text" name="foldername" id ="togl">
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Create panorama">

</form>

Alright. Before you added JS code, your form used to be submitted to index.php when the user pressed the submit button.
However, now you have added a handler to onsubmit event for this form.

Note that your handler returns false, thus suppressing the default behaviour of form submission. Indeed, it needs to return false to be able to perform redirection.
However, now that you've introduced your own onsubmit handler, you need to provide your own custom JavaScript code to submit form. One way to do so, using jQuery, is like this:

You might also want to consider removing JS handler altogether and instead implementing redirection logic in PHP.

A: You are redirecting the user when the on-submit button is pressed. This happens instead of submitting the form.
If you want to submit the form, wait till it's work is done, and then redirect the user to the new location, you could use AJAX to submit the form, and a callback to redirect the user once it's done. See this: submit the form using ajax
Alternatively you could just use a php redirect in the page form submits to, and send the user there. Since this page is both the form and the submit target you could use something like:
if (isset($_POST['foldername'])) {
    $dst = $_POST['foldername'];
    recurse_copy($src, $dst);
    $destURL = "http://hokuco.com/test/".$dst."/toggle.php";
    header('Location:  '.$destURL);
    die('redirecting, please wait. Alternatively use this url: '.$destURL);
}

This is very rudimentary and dangerous, since you are not cleaning the user input for the folder name (See this: Regular expression for folders), however it may help you understand the concept, in order to get to the next step.

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Toronto's island airport: What's at stake?
For David Crombie, the fight against jets at the island airport is reminiscent of the battle to stop the Spadina Expressway.
To read the complete article in the Globe and Mail click HERE.


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Commodus to Alexander Severus – the Roman Empire
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The Roman emperor Commodus, Marcus Aurelius' son
Commodus becomes emperor
Marcus Aurelius, unlike the other Good Emperors, had a son. His son's name was Commodus, and when Marcus Aurelius died in 180 AD Commodus took over the Roman Empire. But Commodus, like the later Julio-Claudians or like Domitian, had grown up at court, and liked partying more than he liked fighting or working at running the Empire. Still he did well enough at first, and made peace with the Germans.
Conspiracies everywhere
But when Commodus came back to Rome, his sister Lucilla tried to kill him, with the help of some Senators. Even though the plot failed, Commodus became very suspicious (like Domitian again!) and had a lot of Senators and other people killed. One plan he had to kill some of his closest friends backfired when they killed him instead in 192 AD.
But these friends didn't have anybody in mind to be the next emperor. A few of the more powerful men in Rome called themselves emperor, but all of them were quickly killed in their turn. Civil war seemed unavoidable.
The Roman emperor Septimius Severus and his family
Septimius Severus starts a new dynasty
In 193 AD an African named Septimius Severus, who was the general of the army in Upper Pannonia, made himself emperor with the support of the army. Nobody knows for sure whether Septimius Severus was dark-skinned, but he certainly seems to be in this painting.
He beat the other candidates, though it took him several years to finally defeat the most serious threat, Clodius Albinus, also an African and the governor of Britain.
The Parthians attack
Then in 197 AD the Parthians, seeing civil war in the Roman Empire, attacked again. Septimius Severus went there and pushed the Parthians back again.
Caracalla and Geta
After travelling around the Empire, he spent four years in Rome before going to England to fight an invasion there. Septimius Severus died in England, at York, in February 211 AD. He left the Empire jointly to his two sons, Caracalla and Geta. He is said to have told them to take care of each other and the army, and never mind anything else.
More about the Severan Dynasty
More about the Parthians
Bibliography and further reading about the Severans:
The Ancient Roman World, by Ronald Mellor (2004). Straight political history, For teens.
Classical Rome, by John Clare (1993). For kids, the whole political history from beginning to end.
The Romans: From Village to Empire, by Mary Boatwright, Daniel Gargola, and Richard Talbert (2004). Okay, it's a little dry, but it is up to date and has all the facts you could want.
The Roman Empire, by Colin Wells (1984). More readable. Alternates chapters on political and social history. Unfortunately, he stops at the third century crisis.
The Severans: The Changed Roman Empire, by Michael Grant (1996).
Septimius Severus, by Anthony Birley (1971). Emphasizes the emperor's African origins.
More about the Severans
The Third Century Crisis
By Karen Carr|2018-04-25T10:08:45-07:00September 3rd, 2017|History|0 Comments
Cite this page: Carr, K.E. Commodus to Alexander Severus – the Roman Empire. Quatr.us Study Guides, September 3, 2017. Web. July 15, 2019.
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Atlas 767 probe sees potential to adapt military terrain-escape system
Loss of an Atlas Air Boeing 767-300F in Texas last year has led investigators to highlight the potential for adapting military automatic ground collision-avoidance technology to civil aircraft.
The aircraft dived into a lake after failing to recover from an excessive pitch-down input by the first officer, in response to the inadvertent activation of go-around thrust.
None of the three occupants survived.
In its inquiry the US National Transportation Safety Board has highlighted the development of the auto-GCAS modification – originally for the Lockheed Martin F-16 and Saab Gripen, and recently for the F-35.
It uses a combination of sensors and flight-data monitors to analyse whether the aircraft is on a collision course with terrain, and calculates an escape trajectory which is autonomously followed if the pilot fails to respond.
Subsequent research has examined the use of similar technology on unmanned aerial vehicles.
Source: US Air Force
Demonstration of the auto-GCAS in an F-16 simulator at the US Air Force Research Laboratory
But an Air Force Institute of Technology research paper published last year noted that performance-limited aircraft could potentially benefit if auto-GCAS took into account their reduced manoeuvring capability and low power-to-weight ratios.
The research paper – which studied a development known as the Rapidly Selectable Escape Trajectory system, using a Learjet 25D as a stand-in – points out that over 30 Lockheed Martin C-130s have suffered controlled-flight-into-terrain accidents, and calculates that at least five could have been averted, saving 34 lives and $385 million in aircraft costs.
"Successful adaptation of an auto-GCAS system on a military performance-limited airplane could have relevance for the safety of flight operations involving civil transport-category airplanes," says the NTSB in its inquiry into the Atlas 767 crash.
"Such an application would be consistent with recent trends for civil aviation, such as automatic landing technology."
Modifying auto-GCAS for lower-performance military – and subsequently civil – aircraft could "dramatically reduce" terrain-collision accidents involving pilots' spatial disorientation, it adds.
The Atlas inquiry found that somatogravic illusion, a false sense of steep pitch-up in the absence of visual reference, contributed to the sharp nose-down input from the first officer.
It has recommended that the US FAA convenes a panel of aircraft performance and human factors specialists to "study the benefits and risks" of adapting auto-GCAS to civil transport aircraft.
EASA aims to reduce simulator dependency by crediting other training devices
Europe's safety authority is aiming to reduce training dependency on full-flight simulators by implementing a classification system that enables selection of other flight-training devices that provide the appropriate level of capability. The matter is the subject of a European Union Aviation Safety Agency proposal which, it says, contains an ...
Spectre of pitch-up illusion emerges in Atlas 767 crash probe
Investigators have alluded to the possibility that an Atlas Air Boeing 767-300 freighter pilot experienced somatogravic illusion before the aircraft entered a fatal dive on approach to Houston. The aircraft had been descending through cloud at 6,000ft when its go-around mode activated and its engine thrust increased, causing the ...
Flydubai 737 could have been saved 6s before impact
Analysis of the Flydubai Boeing 737-800 accident at Rostov-on-Don shows the aircraft could have been recovered from its fatal dive just 6s before impact.


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El 2n Japan Record Awards es va celebrar el 30 de desembre de l'any 1960. En la gala es van reconèixer i premiar els mèrits dels cantants d'aquell 1960. La gala fou retransmesa per la cadena TBS. Kazuko Matsuo i Hiroshi Wada & His Mahina Stars van ser els guanyadors d'aquella edició amb la cançó Dare yori mo Kimi wo aisu.

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Japan Record Awards
 Kazuko Matsuo i Hiroshi Wada & His Mahina Stars: Dare yori mo Kimi wo aisu.
 Lletra: Kōhan Kawauchi
 Música: Tadashi Yoshida

Premi al Millor Vocalista
 Hibari Misora: Aishû wa toba
 Lletra: Miyuki Ishimoto
 Música: Tōru Funamura

Premi a l'Artista Novell
 Yukio Hashi: Itakogasa
 Lletra: Takao Saeki
 Música: Tadashi Yoshida

Premi al Millor Compositor
 Chiyoko Shimakura: Shiroi Koyubi no Uta
 Lletra: Shinichi Sekizawa
 Música: Masao Koga

Premi a la Planificació
 Akira Kobayashi: Danchone bushi, Zundoko bushi
 Casa discogràfica: Nippon Columbia

Premi a la Cançó Infantil
 Fumiko Mizukami i King Hōzuki-kai: Yûran Bus
 Lletra: Junichi Kobayashi
 Música: Yoshinao Nakada

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BARBATTI, Thomas Joseph "Tom" 1946-2016
BARBATTI, ELMORE, NEWHARD, PICHT
Posted By: K. L. Kittleson
Date: 5/30/2017 at 23:44:05
June 24, 1946 - October 19, 2016
Funeral Service:
Wear Your Purple Attire to Honor Tom's Love of Life! Monday, October 24, 2016 at 1:30 pm, at Nazareth Evangelical Lutheran Church, 7401 University Avenue, Cedar Falls, Iowa.
Thomas Joseph Barbatti was born June 24, 1946, in Hillsboro, Illinois, the son of Henry Thomas and Elouise Jeanette (Elmore) Barbatti.
Tom's family lived in many different places during his childhood including Liberia, West Africa. He graduated from Iowa City High in 1965 and attended the University of Northern Iowa where he played football all four years. He was named Honorable Mention All-American his Senior year. He graduated in 1970 and completed his Master's Degree in 1971. He began his career at LaPorte City High school where he taught physical education and coached football, track and wrestling.
Tom left the teaching profession and entered into the financial brokerage industry working with Dain Bosworth and Piper Jaffray before establishing his own firm in Waterloo. He was most recently CEO of Net Worth Advisors in Waterloo, as well as President of Advantage Financial Group and CEO of AIM Investment Management.
Tom married Shallie Newhard in 1967, and they were later divorced. He married Joyce Picht on July 3, 1993. He served in many community leadership roles including past President of the UNI Athletic Club, past President of the Black Hawk County YMCA, past Chair of the Black Hawk County Compensation Committee, and many other volunteer fundraising endeavors.
Tom enjoyed fishing, golfing, traveling, and cooking. Most of all he loved spending time with his family!
Tom was preceded in death by his parents. He is survived by his wife, Joyce; daughter, Tracy (Nicki Thorn) Barbatti of Waterloo; son, Ross (Tara) Barbatti of Cedar Falls; granddaughters: Kenna, Madelynn and Gianna Barbatti of Cedar Falls; brother, Jim (Jeanne) Barbatti of Cape Girardeau, Missouri; nephew, Aaron (Virginia) Barbatti of Waltham, MA; niece, Samantha Limmer of Burnsville, MN; and sister-in-law, Julie (Steve) Schwarz of Wenatchee, WA. Tom was also blessed to have a very close extended family.
Visitation will be Sunday, October 23, 2016, from 2-5:00 pm at Parrott & Wood Funeral home in Waterloo and one hour prior to services. A memorial service will be held on Monday, October 24, 2016 at 1:30 pm at Nazareth Lutheran Church of Cedar Falls.
In lieu of flowers, memorial gifts may be directed to the family via Parrott & Wood Funeral Home for the establishment of a Memorial Fund.
Source: Parrott and Wood Funeral Home website
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To the 2020 Candidates: As President, Would You Prevent Another Genocide?
by Jamie D. Wise
Every president for the last 20 years has faced the threat, the reality, or the devastating consequences of genocide. While terrorism, trade, and great-power competition tend to dominate foreign policy on the debate stage, questions about preventing genocide and other mass atrocities have appeared during every U.S. presidential election cycle since 2000. A review of debate records during that time demonstrates consistent public interest in how presidential candidates plan to respond to mass atrocities.
So the 2020 candidates can't expect to dodge questions about mass atrocities, as became evident in the first Democratic primary debate in Miami last June. A member of the public identified as "John in New York" submitted two questions for the candidates, asking:
"Does the United States have a responsibility to protect in the case of genocide or crimes against humanity? Do we have a responsibility to intervene to protect people threatened by their governments even when atrocities do not affect American core interests?"
Presidential hopefuls and their running mates have repeatedly been asked to debate if, when, or how the United States should respond to mass atrocities — large-scale, systematic violence against civilians, including genocide, ethnic cleansing, war crimes, and crimes against humanity. Each candidate should be prepared to answer questions like these.
A search for references to atrocities and genocide in every presidential, vice presidential, and primary debate in The American Presidency Project database from the University of California-Santa Barbara yielded excerpts from nearly 50 transcripts from 1999 to 2016. In those debates, the word "genocide" alone was mentioned more than 75 times. This analysis specifically cites 16 different questions about mass atrocities from 14 of those debates, representing each election period, debate type, and political party at least once. These illustrate two common types of questions that have shaped the presidential debate over mass atrocities.
Questions about Mass Atrocities in Country X
The first type of question asks how the United States should respond to specific cases of ongoing or recent mass atrocities. The former Yugoslavia dominated the debates during the election of 2000. At question was whether to remove then-President Slobodan Milošević, who was later indicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia for mass atrocity crimes in Bosnia, Croatia, and Kosovo. Then in 2004 and 2008, debates turned to Sudan and what to do about the genocide in Darfur. By 2012 and 2016, the focus was on Syria and how to respond to the Assad regime's siege of Aleppo.
Taken together, these case-specific questions seem nearly formulaic, combining estimates of civilian deaths and a tone of urgency with language signaling the nature and brutality of the violence. Here are just two examples, across election years and political parties:
"I would like to address the crisis in Darfur. At this time as many as 400,000 people have been killed, millions are…without food and shelter. If you were elected president, what role do you think the United States should play in addressing this terrible tragedy?"
– Audience member Jeff Turiel, psychologist, during the 2007 Democratic primary debate in New Hampshire
"Now, in Syria at the hands of Bashar al Assad, it's estimated that some 5,000 people have been killed. The country appears to be sliding into civil war and Arab League peace monitors seem to be failing. How would President Santorum deal with this international crisis?"
– Moderator Brett Baier from Fox News, during the 2012 Republican primary debate in South Carolina
Sometimes, moderators add analogies to connect present mass atrocities to past cases and U.S. policies. In 2007, a Democratic primary debate question compared the situation in Darfur to the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. The same thing happened in 2012 at a vice presidential debate, only that time applying U.S. policy in Libya to the Syrian case.
Questions about Using Force to End Mass Atrocities
The second type of question asks if and when America should use military force in the world, especially for ending mass atrocities. The following example exhibits three themes common in these questions:
"Reverend Sharpton, your Iraq policy calls for immediate withdrawal of U.S. troops. And as a human rights advocate, is there anywhere in the world today where you would send troops, or use military force, to combat government-sponsored killing, genocide, or oppression? In effect, what is the Sharpton doctrine of foreign policy?"
– Moderator John DiStaso from the New Hampshire Union Leader, during the 2004 Democratic primary debate in New Hampshire
Questions like this force candidates to confront the perceived tradeoffs associated with the use of force for humanitarian aims. Often this tension is between promoting American values—like human rights and democracy—and preserving national interests. For example, in a 2000 vice presidential debate, the moderator asked, "Should U.S. military personnel be deployed as warriors or peacekeepers?" Similarly, in a 2008 presidential debate, the candidates were asked their opinion on the use of force "in situations where there's a humanitarian crisis, but it does not affect our national security."
These questions may also refer to past examples of America's use of force (or the lack thereof) and its implications for policy on atrocity prevention. As illustrated in the question above, Iraq became a popular point of reference for debating the use of force after the 2003 invasion. It even inspired a question in 2007 about whether a U.S. withdrawal could lead to genocide. Candidates have also been asked to account for past failures to end mass atrocities, such as whether it was a "mistake not to intervene" (2000) in Rwanda or if inaction in Darfur affected the U.S. "claim to moral leadership" (2007).
Finally, these questions require candidates to articulate clear policies for if and when they would put "boots on the ground" (2008) in atrocity scenarios. Whether it be outlining their general "doctrine" (2008) for deploying troops in response to humanitarian crises or stating their "criteria for intervention" (2012) worldwide, candidates have been asked to determine the conditions under which they would commit U.S. forces to end mass atrocities as commander-in-chief.
The Next Questions
Two types of questions — asking about a specific country context or a broad use-of-force policy — have guided debates on the national stage about the U.S. role in atrocity prevention and response, but they raise a few questions themselves.
Do the 2020 candidates have answers? Are they prepared to say how they would respond to ongoing atrocities in places like Burma or South Sudan? Are they ready to tell America when they would deploy U.S. troops to prevent another genocide during their term?
Based on their responses in Miami, it doesn't look promising. Saying that the United States should be ready to respond to genocide is not enough. The American people demand more than vague references to taking action with allies and partners or seeking congressional approval for humanitarian intervention. These are important considerations, but such answers fail to specify what the United States will actually do to respond to mass atrocities — Impose sanctions? Support peacekeeping missions? Create no-fly zones? Presidents need policies.
The candidates should have more precise and detailed answers on how to respond to mass atrocities, not only because history suggests they will be asked for them on the debate stage, but because the future president will almost certainly be confronted with this question while in the Oval Office.
IMAGE: Yazidi women hold up pictures of missing relatives during a ceremony in Stuttgart, Germany, on Aug. 3, 2019, in which the country's Central Yazidi Council commemorates the 5th anniversary of the genocide that killed thousands of Yazidis in August 2014 by fighters of the Islamic State (IS, also known as ISIS). United Nations investigators determined in 2016 that the mass killings and other atrocities by ISIS against the Yazidi people constituted genocide. (Photo by THOMAS KIENZLE/AFP/Getty Images)
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atrocities prevention,
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Jamie D. Wise
Eminence Fellow at The Ohio State University who researches genocide, atrocity prevention, and post-conflict justice, and conducted field work in Rwanda, Jordan, and Cambodia. Follow her on Twitter at (@wisejdw).
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Home Latest News Imran and Qadri – Race for change in Pakistan
Imran and Qadri – Race for change in Pakistan
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Imran Khan and Dr. Tahirul Qadri are running a race to win the title of leader of change in Pakistani politics. Both the leaders announced the long marches towards Islamabad with different motives but with one target of removing Nawaz Sharif from the government.
Dr. Qadri gave 48 hours ultimatum to the incumbent government to resign. Imran Khan followed the same line of action and announced 48 hours deadline for Nawaz Sharif to step down as prime minister.
Imran Khan has now told his supporters to march towards the high security zone of Islamabad behind him on Tuesday August 19, 2014 at 6:00PM after the expiry of the 48 hours ultimatum.
Dr. Tahirul Qadri told his supporters to hold people's parliament on Tuesday August 19, 2014 at 5:00PM to decide what to do next.
Both the leaders have said that after the deadlines, their workers will not be in their controls and will be free to do whatever they wanted to do with Nawaz Sharif.
Dr. Qadri and Imran Khan both have appealed to the people of Pakistan to come out of their houses on Tuesday to join them to bring the change in Pakistan.
Apparently it is the race to demonstrate who is the better leader to bring the change in the country 'unconstitutionally'. Both are demanding sacrifices from their supporters to change the system.
Leaders who cannot join hands to change the system collectively within the framework of Constitution of Pakistan are making bold claims of making Pakistan the greatest nation in the world. But how? No one knows.
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