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Federal Courthouse Construction:
Better Planning, Oversight, and Courtroom Sharing Needed to Address Future Costs
GAO-10-1068T: Published: Sep 29, 2010. Publicly Released: Sep 29, 2010.
Mark L. Goldstein
The federal judiciary (judiciary) and the General Services Administration (GSA) are in the midst of a multi-billion dollar courthouse construction initiative, which has faced rising construction costs. For 33 federal courthouses completed since 2000, GAO examined (1) whether they contained extra space and any costs related to it; (2) how their actual size compares with the congressionally authorized size; (3) how their space based on the judiciary's 10-year estimates of judges compares with the actual number of judges; and (4) whether the level of courtroom sharing supported by the judiciary's data could have changed the amount of space needed in these courthouses. This testimony is based on GAO's June 2010 report; for that report, GAO analyzed courthouse planning and use data, visited courthouses, modeled courtroom sharing scenarios, and interviewed judges, GSA officials, and others.
The 33 federal courthouses completed since 2000 include 3.56 million square feet of extra space consisting of space that was constructed (1) above the congressionally authorized size, (2) due to overestimating the number of judges the courthouses would have, and (3) without planning for courtroom sharing among judges. Overall, this space represents about 9 average-sized courthouses. The estimated cost to construct this extra space, when adjusted to 2010 dollars, is $835 million, and the annual cost to rent, operate and maintain it is $51 million. Twenty seven of the 33 courthouses completed since 2000 exceed their congressionally authorized size by a total of 1.7 million square feet. Fifteen exceed their congressionally authorized size by more than 10 percent, and 12 of these 15 also had total project costs that exceeded the estimates provided to congressional committees. However, there is no requirement to notify congressional committees about size overages. A lack of oversight by GSA, including not ensuring its space measurement policies were followed and a lack of focus on building courthouses within the congressionally authorized size, contributed to these size overages. For 23 of 28 courthouses whose space planning occurred at least 10 years ago, the judiciary overestimated the number of judges that would be located in them, causing them to be larger and costlier than necessary. Overall, the judiciary has 119, or approximately 26 percent, fewer judges than the 461 it estimated it would have. This leaves the 23 courthouses with extra courtrooms and chamber suites that, together, total approximately 887,000 square feet of extra space. A variety of factors contributed to the judiciary's overestimates, including inaccurate caseload projections, difficulties in projecting when judges would take senior status, and long-standing difficulties in obtaining new authorizations. However, the degree to which inaccurate caseload projections contributed to inaccurate judge estimates cannot be measured because the judiciary did not retain the historic caseload projections used in planning the courthouses. Using the judiciary's data, GAO designed a model for courtroom sharing, which shows that there is enough unscheduled courtroom time for substantial courtroom sharing. Sharing could have reduced the number of courtrooms needed in courthouses built since 2000 by 126 courtrooms--about 40 percent of the total number--covering about 946,000 square feet of extra space. Judges raised potential challenges to courtroom sharing, such as uncertainty about courtroom availability, but those with courtroom sharing experience overcame those challenges when necessary, and no trials were postponed. The judiciary has adopted policies for future sharing for senior and magistrate judges, but GAO's analysis shows that additional sharing opportunities are available. For example, GAO's courtroom sharing model shows that there is sufficient unscheduled time for 3 district judges to share 2 courtrooms and 3 senior judges to share 1 courtroom. The recommendations in GAO's related report include: GSA should (1) ensure courthouses are within their authorized size or provide notification when designed spaced exceeds authorized space (2) retain caseload projections to improve the accuracy of 10-year judge planning; and (3) establish and use courtroom sharing policies based on scheduling and use data. GSA and the judiciary agreed with most recommendations, but expressed concerns with GAO's methodology and key findings. GAO believes these to be sound, as explained in the report.
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If you test the first version of Maverick (v 0.05) you'll soon find out it cannot mate at fast time controls with rook and king vs. a lone king. Quite shocking! Despite gnawing its way through 9 million positions per second, the mate is too deep for an engine without hash tables. So it just pushes its king and rook around the board aimlessly. Obviously it needs help.
I could add a few "if-then" statements to handle these cases. This would work well if there are only a few standard endgame. But I'd like to create a scalable solution where I can add all sorts of knowledge. I posted a questions on the Computer Chess Club and Steven Edwards pointed me in the rights direction – material hash tables.
Material hash work like this. Each position has a material hash value which is calculated based on the number of each type of pieces on the board. So when a piece us added or taken away the material hash value is updated. Unlike a normal zobrist hash value the location of the piece is not relevant.
Time to Create the Search Routines!
I had planned to have a reasonably solid evaluation function in Maverick from "day 1". It looks as if I'll need to backtrack a little.
I had imagined I'd put all of the gubbins of the evaluation function (e.g. attack tables) in the "board" structure. However, the drawback to this approach is the need to store changes as moves are made and unmade on the board.
For example, if I generate all of the attack tables when I evaluate the position I'd subsequently like to use this information in my Late-Move-Reduction code. However, if I include the attack tables in the board structure I'll need to store and retrieve it as part of the make / unmake process. This sounds expensive!
What I intend to do is to have a "ply_data" array which stores information about the current position at any give ply. This is not unusual and Monarch has this structure. As an example, it enable us to see what move was played two moves ago. So I'll move some of the information I was planning to store in the board structure, including the attack tables, over to this ply_data array.
This is a fundamental structural issue. It concerned me that as I push ahead with the evaluation I may need to make structural changes later when I put the search routines in place. So I've also decided to freeze the evaluation function in it's curent basic state and create the search routines (i.e. make Maverick play chess). I have the structure of the evaluation function in place so (hopefully) I'll be able to develop it quickly I have a basic search.
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I've been thinking about Piece-Square tables. They're not the most exciting part of computer chess but they seem quite important (based on Ed Schroder's experiments), so I thought I'd put some time into thinking about reasonable values. I've created a simple spreadsheet in Excel to help create them. You can download it here (Piece-Square-Tables.xlsx). It assumes your board representation starts with A1 = 0 and H8 = 63.
Enter the values in the yellow squares on the left. The gray squares are the mirror image of the yellow squares.
The table in the middle is adjusted to make the average table value zero. This means if I set the value of a bishop to be 350 centi-pawns and put it on a random square, the value returned by the Piece Square Table will average out to 350 centi-pawns. The idea is to minimize interaction with other evaluation terms.
The column to the far right is the table formatted as a "C" array. You can copy and paste this code.
Is a Lazy Eval a Good Thing?
Lazy evaluation is a technique often used to save time when evaluating chess position. If a position's true score is much higher than beta or lower than alpha the full evaluation is really unnecessary. For example, if you're a queen down it's a waste of time checking to see if you have a weak double pawn on a4. So in the right situation this approach can save a lot of time and speed up an engine. Of course there is the risk that the lazy evaluation is way-off and the position is incorrectly evaluated. The technique was quite popular in the 80's (and probably the 90's). Ed Shoeder noted it gave him an enormous speed increase in Rebel.
I've been giving the issue some thought and I've come to the conclusion I will not add a lazy evaluation in Maverick. My reason is simple – I'd like the leaf nodes to be evaluated as accurately as possible. My hunch is that by evaluating the leaf nodes as accurately as possible I'll be able to be more selective in positions closer to the root (which will dramatically reduce the tree size). This type of decision is part of the design philosophy of Maverick.
I also suspect the lazy evaluation technique is less relevant in modern programs which use null move and late-move-reduction. Back in the 80's there was still a battle between the Spracklen's brute force approach and Lang's selective search. In those days it was common to only evaluate at the leaf nodes (i.e. not evaluate the interior nodes). In this situation the leaf nodes evaluation could have a wide range of values, some much higher than beta and others much lower than alpha. So lazy evaluation worked well. In contrast null move and late-move-reduction have the effect of keeping the search tree closer to alpha and beta. Null move reductions are good at quickly weeding out obvious fail high moves (i.e. very good positions) and late-move-reductions reduce the tree size for obvious fail low positions (i.e. very bad position). So by utilizing these techniques lazy evaluation becomes less relevant and more risky.
Of course this is just theory – let's see how it works in practice.
What are your thoughts on Lazy Evaluation?
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A very simple game, Island Style is a 3-reel Vegas-style slot with a single payline. It has no bonus features like wilds, scatters or free spins, yet the game should take the fancy of all 3-reel slot lovers. The symbols set includes cherries, bars, flower bars and birds. Cherries are the lowest-paying symbols awarding 2 to 60 coins for one, two or three of a kind. Bars and flower bars grant up to 150 coins for three of a kind. But the largest payer in the slot is the Bird symbol that awards 800, 1600 or 2400 coins if you have wagered 1, 2 or 3 coins per line. There are two adjustable bet settings: a coin size ($0.25 to $5) and the number of coins (1, 2 or 3). As you can see, betting three coins generates maximum cash prizes, e.g. for three Birds landed across the payline your win may reach $12,000, which sounds fairly impressive. Despite its simplicity, the slot is very colorful and is recommended for players who like classical fruit machines. PLAY FOR REAL MONEY!


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Bernard L. Herman
Field of Study: Folklore and Popular Culture
Website: http://amerstud.unc.edu/people/herman
Bernard L. Herman is the George B. Tindall Distinguished Professor of American Studies and Folklore at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a chair he has held since 2009.
For more than three decades before that, he held appointments at the University of Delaware, first as a Lecturer in American Studies and History and then Research Associate (and eventually Senior Policy Scientist) in the College of Urban Affairs and Public Policy, to which were added professorships in the departments of history and art history, and a position in the Winterthur Program in American Material Culture; in 2000, he was named Edward F. and Elizabeth Goodman Rosenberg Professor of Art History. He was also the cofounder and inaugural director of the Center for Material Culture Studies and a cofounder of the Center for Historic Architecture and Design.
As his multidisciplinary roles at the University of Delaware suggest, Mr. Herman, who was trained in folklore and folklife (Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1978), has never been easy to pigeonhole. He is known for his extensive research and fieldwork in areas as seemingly diverse as architectural archaeology, outsider art, and foodways, including the hand-restoration of the native oyster beds and marshlands on the Eastern Shore of Virginia, and for his ability to bring his enthusiasm and out-of-the-box thinking into the classroom, a talent that earned him in 1992 the University of Delaware's award for excellence in teaching. In addition he has been an advisor on various nominations for the National Register of Historic Places, and a consultant for exhibitions on quilts, photography, and vernacular art and for historic site restorations and interpretations in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom.
His various interests are well represented in his publications. Among his five monographs are Architecture and Rural Life in Central Delaware: 1700-1900 (1997, 2d printing, 1999); The Stolen House (1992), which was named a New York Times notable book of the year; and Town House: Architecture and Material Life in the Early American City, 1780-1930 (2005), which he wrote with the support of an NEH Fellowship. Each of those three books won the Abbott Lowell Cummings Award for the best book on North American vernacular architecture (in 1988, 1994, and 2006, respectively). He also coedited (with Thomas Carter) volumes III and IV of Perspectives in Vernacular Architecture (U. of Missouri Press, 1989, 1991). He was the project director and editor for two books on the New London Road Community of Newark, Delaware—People Were Close. They Looked After Each Other: An Oral and Photographic History (2005) and Food Always Brings People Together: Recipes, Poems, and Stories (2006)—and the author of "Charles Benefiel" in Raw Vision, 30 (Spring 2000); "The Quilts of Gee's Bend: How Great Art Gets Lost" in The Journal of Modern Craft, Vol. 2, No. 1 (2009); and "Drum Fish Stew: The Power and Poetry of Terroir" in Journal of Southern Culture (Winter 2009); among many other articles and book chapters. In addition, he co-created the Quilter's Save Our Stories Project for the Alliance of American Quilts, which is an online archive of over one thousand oral history interviews.
During his Guggenheim Fellowship term, Bernard Herman will be completing his sixth book, tentatively titled Troublesome Things in the Borderlands of Contemporary Art. In it, he will examine five "fringe dwellers" of contemporary art—the makers of works variously characterized as art brut, outsider, self-taught, craft, and vernacular: Thornton Dial, Ellen Kochansky, Malcolm McKesson, Dennis Callwood, and Charles Benefiel—as a means of challenging and reshaping traditional conceptions of what is art and what is not.

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Catalogs has had quiet a big revamp in vCloud 5.5 with some enhancements.
The browser crashes and restarts without any error messages.
This was tested on MAC and Windows with each of the following browsers including Chrome, Firefox and Internet explorer.
Same problem appears when logged in as ORG or system admin.
However it works fine when I login as system admin to main vCloud Director login page. Only seems to crash browser when logged in direclty to any ORG site.
Do not share the catalog with the radio button "all organizations", but rather select all the ORGs individually from the list.


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The 1819 Baltimore Sermon: Making the Case for Reason
Continuing from, "The Baltimore Sermon" in our UUA Curriculum, "Faith Like a River":
By 1812, the young William Ellery Channing became the de facto leader of the Boston liberals following the untimely death of leading liberal Joseph Buckminster. Channing preached about a benevolent, loving God who had endowed humanity with innate goodness, rationality, and the wisdom to discern between good and evil. In a sermon delivered at the ordination of Jared Sparks in 1819 at the new liberal church in Baltimore, Maryland, Channing decided to snatch the label of Unitarian from those who would degrade it and to claim it proudly as his own.
His address, "Unitarian Christianity," stands as a hallmark of Unitarian history. As David Parke writes:
"The "Baltimore sermon" gave the Unitarians a platform and a spokesman. It placed them for the first time on the offensive in relation to the orthodox. It was very probably the most important Unitarian sermon ever preached anywhere."
In the hour-and-a-half-long address, Channing took on two tasks. First, he established reason as valid and necessary for the interpretation of scripture — not as the only basis for religious belief, but as an aid to revelation, for reading and understanding the meaning of the Bible. Channing said:
"Our leading principle in interpreting Scripture is this, that the Bible is a book written for men, in the language of men, and that its meaning is to be sought in the same manner as that of other books... With these views of the Bible, we feel it our bounden duty to exercise our reason upon it perpetually; to compare, to infer, to look beyond the letter to the spirit..."
For Channing's second task, be sure to . . . catch our next thrilling episode.
NEXT: The Baltimore Sermon: Channing's Conclusions of Reason
By Rev. Meredith Garmon at December 25, 2021
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Blessing, part 2
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Singapore's Botanical Gardens sweep across an area of 52 hectares (128 acres) constituted by primary forest and specialty gardens in close proximity to the city centre. The National Orchid Garden is the world's largest orchid garden, featuring more than 20,000 varieties set among water features and an exotic bromeliad collection from South and Central America. The park also contains many rare plant specimens in addition to the specialty gardens decorated with frangipanis, roses, ferns and desert plants.
Outdoor concerts in the gardens can be enjoyed on the Symphony Lake or French cuisine can be savoured at the Au Jardin restaurant. Because the gates open so early the gardens are the perfect place for some morning exercise in Singapore and in the morning the grounds are full of dog-walkers, runners and yoga and tai-chi practitioners, creating a stimulating, active environment. The Jacob Ballas Children's Garden is located at the quieter northern end of the gardens and has its own visitor centre and cafe - here those travelling with kids will find a playground, some tree-houses and a maze, as well as some educational, interactive exhibits. The gardens are consistently one of the most popular attractions in Singapore, loved by both locals and tourists.


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Bowie State Ranked #2 in HBCU Gameday 2022 DII/NAIA Football Preseason Poll
BOWIE, Md. – On Thursday, June 16, HBCU Gameday revealed its NCAA Division II and National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) 2022 football preseason poll with Bowie State ranked at the No. 2 spot, receiving two first-place votes.
Fayetteville State earned the top spot with two first-place votes. Behind the Bulldogs was Albany State at No. 3 while both Virginia Union and Shaw tied for fourth while Miles, Savannah State, and Tuskegee ranked fifth, sixth, and seventh. The final three rankings featured Benedict at eighth, Kentucky State at ninth, and Lane at No. 10.
The HBCU football polls have existed for at least 100 years, dating back to the 1920s. In celebration of HBCU Gameday's 10th anniversary, this year's preseason poll is the inaugural staff poll for DII/NAIA as well as FCS HBCU Football. As 2022 begins, weekly polls will be released throughout the season.
Points were assigned for each vote, with a first-place vote being worth ten points and a 10th-place vote being worth one point. Points were tabulated to compile the top 10.
Bowie State will begin its 2022 slate on Sept. 3 versus New Haven in Bowie, Md. at Bulldog Stadium. The kickoff is slated for 1 p.m.
For the most up-to-date information on Bowie State University Athletics and its 13 varsity sports teams, please visit www.bsubulldogs.com.
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Items President's House.
President's House.
Stereographs
The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection
Jarvis, J. F. (John F.) (b. 1850)
Image ID G90F101_010B
Robert N. Dennis collection of stereoscopic views
Stereoscopic views of the White House
Jarvis, J. F. (John F.) (b. 1850) (Publisher)
Date Created: 1850 - 1930 (Approximate)
Place: Washington, D.C.
Publisher: J.F.Jarvis
Date Created: 1870 - 1899
Shelf locator: MFY Dennis Coll 90-F101
White House (Washington, D.C.)
Statement of responsibility: John F. Jarvis.
RLIN/OCLC: NYPG90-F101
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): b673bf40-c56f-012f-83cb-58d385a7bc34
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1870: Created (Approximate)
The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection, The New York Public Library. "President's House." The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1870 - 1899. http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e0-453c-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99
The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection, The New York Public Library. "President's House." New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed July 19, 2019. http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e0-453c-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99
The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection, The New York Public Library. (1870 - 1899). President's House. Retrieved from http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e0-453c-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99
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text: Q: How to run filestack in Internet explorer or Microsoft edge? https://github.com/lahirusamishka/filestack-test   this is "ngx rocket" angular project. I added the https://www.npmjs.com/package/@filestack/angular  this library and open file stack dialog box as well. but is file upload progress not showing and exit the file stack return the file upload fail object. I need to fix this. anybody suggest me idea to that project.

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Apple has officially kicked off its 'Shot on iPhone Challenge,' which invites iPhone users from across the world to share the best pictures taken on their iPhone.
From January 22nd to February 7th, iPhone users can post their pictures to Instagram or Twitter with the hashtag '#ShotoniPhone' to be eligible. Alternatively, iPhone users can email their pictures to Apple at shotoniphone@apple.com.
A panel of judges made up of professional photographers and Apple engineers will decide on the top 10 best pictures snapped on iPhone. These photos will then be promoted around the world on Apple billboards, social media platforms, internal exhibitions and the like.
More details on the Challenge can be found here.


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18. Feb 2012 20. May 2012
SITE Santa Fe
1606 Paseo de Peralta
NM-87501 Santa Fe
sitesantafe.org 505-989-1199 sitesantafe@sitesantafe.org
Daniel Bejar, Beth Coleman, Axle Contemporary, Ron Cooper, Matthew Cusick, Faith Denham, Howard Goldkrand, Brent Green, Hillerbrand + Magsamen , Martin John Callanan, Jennie C. Jones, Tellervo Kalleinan, Byron Kim, Oliver Kotchta-Kalleinan, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Conor McGarrigle, Linda Montano, neuroTransmitter, Huong Ngo, Paul Notzold, Geof Oppenheimer, Ben Patterson, Dawit Petros, Adrian Piper, Liliana Porter, Postcommodity , Susan Pui San Lok, Rufus Corporation, Eve Sussman, Mary Temple, Mark Tribe, Meow Wolf, Donald Woodman, Claudia X. Valdes
Janet Dees , Irene Hofmann
Time-Lapse challenges the notion that an exhibition is a fixed entity with artworks that remain consistent throughout the time the exhibition is on view. Time-Lapse explores the possibility of a more dynamic exhibition environment by including artworks that change over time and utilizing curatorial structures that are based on change. With hourly, daily, and weekly alterations to the works in the show, no two days ofTime-Lapse will be the same. Questioning the nature of time is a subtext for some of the works in the exhibition; other works question the nature of current curatorial practice by exploiting alternative time-based exhibition platforms such as the performance series or the Internet.
Time-Lapse consists of works of art in which the notion of change over time is integral to the structure of the artwork itself. Mary Temple's Currency is a drawing project the artist began on September 24, 2007 and has continued every day since. Temple creates a new drawing from images and headlines from various internet news sites, including The New York Times and others. She makes a portrait of a political figure depicted in the news and creates accompanying text that is an amalgam of the headline and the image caption. During the run of Time-Lapse, Temple will scan her daily drawings and send a digital image to SITE, where the image will be printed out and added to a growing grid of drawings on the gallery walls. Byron Kim's Sunday Painting is a project he has been engaged in since 2001. Each Sunday, Kim creates a painting of the sky from wherever in the world he finds himself. The skyscapes are coupled with diaristic text, creating a dialogue between the infinite and the everyday. Each week of Time-Lapse, Kim will send a new Sunday Painting to SITE. Rafael Lozano-Hemmer will present a selection from a body of technological-based artworks he refers to as Recorders, which depend upon audience participation to take form. Pulse Index, for example, is an interactive installation in which participants fingerprints and heartbeats are recorded and become the visual and sonic material of the artwork.
Eve Sussman and Rufus Corporation's whiteonwhitealgorithmicnoir is an experimental film noir set in a dystopian "future-oplis" named City A. The film is edited in real time through a custom-designed computer algorithm that draws on 3,000 film clips, 80 voice-overs and 150 pieces of music. The film runs continuously with a constantly changing narrative that never presents the same juxtapositions of images, words, or music.
Time-Lapse also incorporates curatorial models that emphasis the daily, weekly, or monthly changing of the artworks in the exhibition. These are epitomized by the March 2012 project and the Time Capsule Lounge.
In 1969, Seth Siegelaub, pioneering supporter of conceptual art, organized March 1969 a.k.a. One Month, an exhibition that existed only in catalogue form. Siegelaub invited thirty-one to contribute a work; one for each day of the month. Time-Lapse curators Irene Hofmann and Janet Dees have conceived of a project that is an homage to Siegelaub's ground-breaking "exhibition," updated for today's virtual, technological world. March 2012 will be hosted on the homepage of SITE's website. Each day during March one work by a different artist will be featured. The participating artists are an intergenerational group currently working with conceptual, time-based and media-orientated practices. March 2012 artists include: Axle Contemporary, Daniel Bejar,Martin John Callanan, Beth Coleman + Howard Goldkrand, Ron Cooper, Matthew Cusick, Faith Denham, Brent Green, Hillerbrand + Magsamen, Jennie C. Jones, Tellervo Kalleinan + Oliver Kotchta-Kalleinan, susan pui san lok, Conor McGarrigle, Linda Montano, neuroTransmitter, Huong Ngo, Paul Notzold, Geof Oppenheimer, Ben Patterson, Dawit Petros, Adrian Piper, Lilian Porter,Postcommodity, Mark Tribe, Claudia X. Valdes, and Donald Woodman. A cumulative archive of the project will be presented in the galleries. If you visit SITE during the month of March you will be able to view all the works presented on the website up to that day. During the months of April and May an archive of all thirty-one works will be on view.
The Time Capsule Lounge occupies a physical space within the exhibition for a constantly evolving series of activities and events including film screenings, performances, discussion groups and lectures. As part of the programming in the Time Capsule Lounge, Santa Fe-based art collective Meow Wolf will present a series of performances on selected Fridays. A film series exploring the different ways time has been treated within the history of cinema will be screened continuously. Also, in a unique collaboration with Collected Works Bookstore & Coffeehouse, the Time Capsule Lounge offers visitors the opportunity to relax and read. Time travel to your heart's content with selections from a library of science fiction, classics and contemporary additions to the genre, including Time Machine by H.G. Wells; Now Wait for Last Year by Philip K. Dick; Doomsday Book by Connie Willis; How to Live Safely in a Science Fiction Universe by Charles Yu; Map of Time by Felix Palma; and11/22/63, by Stephen King, among others. Curated by Cynthia Melchert, Collected Works' sci-fi specialist, many of the titles will be available for purchase from the SITE bookstore. Information about events in the lounge will be constantly updated and made available at SITE as well as online at SITE's website and social media platforms.
Time-Lapse is co-curated by Irene Hofmann, Phillips Director and Chief Curator, and Janet Dees, Assistant Curator. Special thanks to David Merrill for the design of the Time Capsule Lounge; Joanne Lefrak, Director of Education and Outreach and Juliet Myers, Curator of Public Programs for organizing programming in the Time Capsule Lounge; and to Jason Silverman, Director of CCA's Cinematheque for organizing the film series in theTime Capsule Lounge.


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Sardar Hussain takes oath as MPA
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PESHAWAR, April 24: Pakistan People's Party (PPP) newly-elected lawmaker from PK-90 Chitral-II, Sardar Hussain, on Wednesday took oath as member of the provincial assembly. Deputy Speaker Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly Imtiaz Shahid Qureshi, who was chairing the session administered him oath. The speaker gave him the floor after he asked for the chair's permission to address the house after taking oath. Sardar Hussain thanked the judiciary and the election tribunal for doing justice to him and that he managed to reach the house after a lengthy struggle and court battles. He also expressed his gratitude to the people of the area, leadership and cadres of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (JUIF), Jamaat Islami (JI), Pakistan Tehrik Insaf (PTI), Pakistan Muslim League (PML-N) and Qaumi Watan Party (QWP) for backing him in his re-election. Sardar told the house that they did not believe in leg-pulling. "It does not matter for public when we approach them for reelection that how much we cry at the floor of house or quarrel with each other," he said, adding that people expect politicians to work for their welfare. Interestingly, Sardar also offered rare praise for the PTI and said that some benefit of its educational and health policies were trickling to people of remote areas. However, at the same time, he also criticized government policies including National Testing Service (NTS) examination, saying hundreds of people from his constituency traveled to Peshawar to take this test, but nothing has come out of it so far. He also criticized delays in starting development projects in the district. PPP lawmaker Nighat Orakzai thanked voters of PK-90 for electing her party candidate in the elections.]]>
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Faheem Ahmad Khan says:
Finally our seat in the Provincial Assembly been functional again.I would like to convey my heartiest congratulations to Syed Sardar Hussain Sab for taking oath.Hope he would utilize his abilities for the welfare of his constituency.
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Zimbabwe vice-president submits correct Mugabe speech
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ZIMBABWE – President Robert Mugabe read the correct speech later on Tuesday at a hotel in the capital
Zimbabwe's vice-president has submitted to parliament a speech that President Robert Mugabe was supposed to deliver, a day after the 91-year-old leader accidentally gave the wrong one.
On Tuesday Mr Mugabe read a state-of-the-nation address he gave in August.
The error has been blamed on a mix-up in the president's office.
It took Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa two hours to submit the correct version because of demands from opposition MPs for an apology.
Wednesday's extraordinary session was called so that Mr Mugabe's speech could be officially recorded. The state-run Herald newspaper has printed the speech in full.
It says that the government plans to introduce legislation requiring senior public officials to declare assets as part of measures to tackle corruption.
The speech mix-up has prompted questions from the opposition over whether the president remains fit to lead, the BBC's Brian Hungwe reports from the capital, Harare.
After Mr Mugabe began speaking on Tuesday, it was not long before it dawned on those present that they had heard it all before, our reporter says.
When he delivered the speech last month on the economy, he was heckled by opposition MPs.
This has been an unprecedented fiasco for Zimbabwe's 91-year-old leader. Never in his 35-year rule has he been allowed to be so publicly embarrassed.
He repeated the whole 27-minute speech at the opening of parliament, before military generals, judges, diplomats and both chambers of the house.
It has provoked a barrage of criticism. Some explain the mix-up as a sign of an internal power-struggle within the ruling Zanu-PF party – that he was deliberately given the wrong papers. Others see it as evidence that President Mugabe is too old to continue in the job. Sheer incompetence on the part of his office is another explanation.
Opposition MPs are unlikely to get the formal apology they demand. And for Zanu-PF, the debate over the effectiveness of Mr Mugabe's leadership style is unlikely to end.
The state broadcaster had cancelled its live feed of the opening of parliament on Tuesday fearing further disruptions.
Opposition MPs belonging to Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) reportedly kept quiet during the speech, as Zanu-PF supporters clapped at regular intervals.
However MDC spokesman Obert Gutu later told the Reuters news agency that it was "a historic blunder", adding: "Anyone who is still of a sound mind would have quickly picked it up that the speech was the wrong one."
Opposition MP Ruth Labode blamed infighting within the ruling Zanu-PF.
"I suspect someone did that deliberately to embarrass the old man," she told the BBC, saying a formal apology was necessary.
Mr Mugabe, who has been in power since 1980, is Africa's oldest leader.
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Netflix axes shows, fires staff amid huge subscribers and shares loss
Netflix Animation has been hit hardest by the company's recent subscribers and shares woes as shows have been cancelled and staff fired.
by Nokuthula Ngcobo
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Netflix is already doing some damage control following its first drop in global subscribers in a decade, which caused it to lose 200,000 subscribers during the January-March period.
The Wrap has revealed that multiple new shows have been cancelled by the US streaming platform and an executive was also fired along with his staff.
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NETFLIX CANCELS SHOWS
In a bid to combat more financial loss, the giant streaming platform has reportedly cancelled a number of new in-development shows. Netflix estimates that it'll lose another two million paying customers before June 2022 – news which led to the company's market value plummeting by $50 billion (R784 billion).
The streaming service has axed the highly-anticipated animated series based on Jeff Smith's comic book series Bone. In addition, Lauren Faust's Toil and Trouble, as well as an adaptation of Roald Dahl's The Twits have also been cancelled.
In the Netflix Movies category, Will Smith has also been cancelled. Bright 2, a sequel to the actor's fantasy flick, was removed allegedly due to the infamous Oscar's slap.
Last month it was reported that Netflix and Apple+ pulled out of bidding to work with the King Richard star on his upcoming biopic. The movie is said to be based on his best-selling memoir, titled Will.
STAFF MEMBERS FIRED
Major changes made by the popular streaming giant also affected staff members. Netflix's Director of Creative Leadership and Development for Original Animation, Phil Rynda, was shown the door. Reports also suggest that many of his staff also got fired earlier last week.
In the same week, Netflix announced that it is open to introducing ads for lower prices.
"Those who have followed Netflix know that I have been against the complexity of advertising and a big fan of the simplicity of subscription. But as much as I am a fan of that, I am a bigger fan of consumer choice, and allowing consumers who would like to have a lower price and are advertising-tolerant to get what they want makes a lot of sense," Hastings said.
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Diamond is a more significantly developed of carbon and also contains a crystal structure. By their nature, diamonds are composed deep in the interior of the earth, under high temperature and pressure.
Generally there are three types of diamonds.
There are some differences between natural, synthetic and simulated diamond.
Natural diamonds have been found in 35 different countries around the world in which Australia is the major industrial producer. The whole process of preparing it for industry and market is not an easy task. In the modern age, the satellites and aeroplanes have improved the chances of finding the diamond rich areas. The possibilities are found in special type of rock formation called 'KIMBERLITE'. The natural diamonds are found in different types of colours such as yellow, brown, pink, purple and orange due to the lattice effect and impurity. In general, the nitrogen is the common impurity found in these gems and responsible for the colour.
Synthetic diamonds are those gems which are made by using different types of technical methods such as temperature, pressure, and chemical techniques. There are some different institutes and industries available which makes these type of diamond. They take an average 4 days to grow a diamond to 2.5 carats by using different pressure and temperature methods improving the chances of finding its rich areas.
As the price of natural diamond is very high, a simulated one is invented at low cost and with same gemmological characteristics. They are also known as 'IMITATIONS'. Nowadays, the most common material used for making the simulated diamonds is high leaded glass such as rhinestone and cubic zirconia. Almost the simulated diamonds are similar to the real diamond but always it has a defect which differentiates it from the real one.


I've just found this forum, I passed the Leeds assessment say end of Jan, I start at Yarnfield, Monday 5th, I'm travelling from skegness. Has anyone got any advice?
Not sure what advice there is for starting.
by next week. Then another email in afternoon with job offer and start dates.
Buzzing!! Hope to start 28/5.
Congrats to all those starting.
Fingers crossed for those waiting to hear news.
Nice one! Im hoping i dont have to wait until the end of next week but im happy waiting now i know i passed the assessment day. Congrats to you! Where did you have your assessment to?
Congrats, everyone! Good to have things being set it motion!
Anybody else been given the date of 16th April yet for a start? I can�t [censored] wait to get going!
Assessment was end of Nov 17 at Leeds.
To be honest I was just getting my head around not starting til Sep. So wasn't expecting offer !!. Dead chuffed that things are moving for others as well.
Great news mate! Where you going to be based?
Just happy to have some contact and get the ball rolling tbh!
Did they ring you or just email with the job offer?


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TroutRoutes Partners with Trout Unlimited to Aid in Conservation Efforts
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Our team is passionate about angling for trout, exploring new places, and working on TroutRoutes to enhance the angling experience through amazing digital maps. Our blog includes content ranging from angling tips, updates and news from TroutRoutes, and other content related to angling and conservation. As a Business Member and sponsor of Trout Unlimited, we also like to include relevant information on recent events and habitat projects.


Our June breakfast meeting was held near Berryville, Virginia, at the Pine Grove Restaurant in Bluemont. The skies were overcast in Warrenton, but George Downes, King Troensegaard and Dave Hennessey rode the long scenic route through Middleburg, Upperville, and around the back side of Mt. Weather before reaching Pine Grove. Unfortunately, each of the trio had left their Special Facility Passes at home, and we had to forego the tour of Mt. Weather. George's long scenic route made us late, and we arrived after everyone else had already eaten. Hodge Harrison, our immediate Past President, rode out from Gainesville, but ran out of gas along the way and arrived really late - after even Geroge, King and Dave had finally finished breakfast.
The morning opened with heavy rain from Reston to Springfield, and the members from the more northern areas opted for rainproof 4-wheeled vehicles. These included Bob Nicholas, Mike Mueller, George Ogden, Juan Sakata, and Gabby Whetzel. Tim O'Hara from Warrenton had no rain excuse, but 4-wheeled it anyway.
We were very happy to see Tom "Rollo" Hardy who is recovering nicely. While he's restricted to 4-wheels at the moment, he expects to be back riding this fall.
Bill Lackman, who lives in Berryville, was the first to arrive, riding his 2006 Harley Softtail Springer with something you rarely see on new bikes - hand-shift / foot-clutch.
We welcomed Gary Caporaletti as our newest member, since he had just received his AMCA national membership card.
The real purpose of the meeting was not breakfast, nor chapter business meeting, nor fellowship - it was Soft Serve Ice Cream. After breakfast, George Downes led the riders on the Soft Serve Quest - we followed the Shenandoah River for mile after twisty mile along the appropriately named "River Road" then headed west towards Winchester until we reached our destination - Yummy's in Boyce,.Virginia, a few miles east of Winchester.
After consuming the quintessential frozen desert, we trekked back along US Routes 50/17. When they split, Gary continued on US 50, while the Warrenton crew headed down US 17 to Delaplane, thence through Marshall and back to Warrenton.
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HulloMail launches voicemails you can read
By Marcus Austin 2012-05-22T09:47:00.142Z Roundup
HulloMail Scribe voicemail to text service now on Android and iPhone
Read and act on your voicemails from the HulloMail app
If you have ever groaned or moaned about the time it takes you to dial-in and pick up your voicemails, then a new app service from HulloMail is just what you have been waiting for.
The Hullomail voicemail-to-text service allows you to read your voicemails quickly via the app, so you only have to answer the urgent ones, and you no longer have to dial-in, press endless buttons and then listen to long-winded messages.
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The new version of the HulloMail's SmartVoicemail app has been enhanced, with the addition of a new voice-to-text transcription technology, Scribe, that gives users the option to have a 10-second 'snapshot' of voicemails transcribed into text format within the app.
The voicemail transcriptions are fully automated and use proven voice-to-text transcription technology that has been integrated in partnership with Nuance – they're the people behind Dragon Dictation on the iPhone and Dragon Naturally Speaking .
The new Get The Gist product is available for HulloMail's Android and iPhone subscribers for a monthly subscription of £1.49 in the UK, $1.99 in the USA and €1.59 in Ireland.
For users of HulloMail's free Android app, the monthly subscription is £1.99 in the UK, $2.99 in the USA and €2.39 in Ireland. This will be extended to the free HulloMail iPhone application in the next client update.
The subscriptions entitle a user to have up to 50 of their voicemails converted to text.
HulloMail SmartVoicemail Free and Subscription apps are available to download for iPhone from Apple App store, via Google Play for Android and the BlackBerry's App World
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Q: Can I use OperationContextScope in any .NET client? I am exploring around injecting soap headers into out going message while calling java based service from .NET client.
I see that OperationContextScope is best fit for my requirement as shown below and which works fine in initial test. I wanted to make sure i am not doing any blunders with this as my application is .NET console batch. will it be there any issues using this class in context of .NET console application?
I created a proxy for JAVA service using SVCUITIL by passing wsdl & xsd.
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A: seems we can use anywhere this OperationContextScope as my app running fine in DEV env.


The parking lot was already spilling over a half-hour before the Holy Cross hockey was to play its first game at the New England Sports Center and the Crusaders didn't disappoint. And the all-senior line of Rob Linsmayer, Kyle Fletcher and Brandon Nunn — Nunn missed the previous eight games with an injury — put on a show for the 1,402 fans, with all three scoring goals in Holy Cross' 5-4 win over 15th-ranked Yale.
The parking lot was already spilling over a half-hour before the Holy Cross hockey was to play its first game at the New England Sports Center and the Crusaders didn't disappoint.
And the all-senior line of Rob Linsmayer, Kyle Fletcher and Brandon Nunn — Nunn missed the previous eight games with an injury — put on a show for the 1,402 fans, with all three scoring goals in Holy Cross' 5-4 win over 15th-ranked Yale.
In fact, Linsmayer, Fletcher and Nunn combined for eight of the Crusaders' 12 points with Linsmayer netting Holy Cross' last goal 3:24 into the third period.
The win was the Crusaders' first in six games against the Bulldogs, a series that dates back to 1947.
"It's always good to see where you stand," said Linsmayer, an alternate captain.
Holy Cross (10-4-2) will have another opportunity to do that when it travels to North Dakota to play two games against the country's seventh-ranked team next weekend.
Although the Crusaders led the Bulldogs from start to finish, they looked to be fading in the second period before Yale (7-4-2) was whistled for the first of two misconducts. That gave Holy Cross two power-play goals 88 seconds apart in the third period.
Junior Shayne Stockton skated to the edge of the goal crease and sent a backhander over Jeff Malcolm's stick-side shoulder 2:02 into the third period. Linsmayer then made it 5-2 with a shot from the left face-off circle.
"The one thing we talked about as a group was, even though you have a man-advantage, you can't sit back, you still have to outwork them," Pearl said.
Matt Ginn made 32 saves for Holy Cross, including 11 in the first period.
Junior Adam Schmidt's short-handed breakaway goal 11:13 into the game turned the momentum in the Crusaders' favor. Nunn then found Fletcher for a one-timer at the right post to put HC up, 2-0, after one period.
Nunn stretched it to 3-0 at 4:36 of the second.


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Alphabet's CapitalG leads $27.5 million round in India's Aye Finance
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CapitalG, the growth equity arm of Alphabet, is doubling down on its bet on Aye Finance, an Indian startup that operates a digital lending platform for small businesses.
On Wednesday, the Gurgaon-based startup said it had raised $27.5 million in its Series E financing round led by CapitalG, which has also led one of its previous rounds. Existing investors LGT Lightstone, Falcon Edge Capital, A91 Partners and MAJ Invest also participated in the round, which brings the six-year-old Indian startup's to-date equity funding to $91 million. According to a regulatory filing, Aye Finance is now valued at over $250 million.
Aye Finance caters to small businesses that need working capital but find it challenging or impossible to secure that from traditional lenders, such as banks. The startup said it had disbursed nearly $400 million to these businesses over the years.
Cutting checks to small businesses that banks won't issue funds to is risky. Aye Finance, like scores of startups in South Asia such as Lendingkart, Capital Float, Indifi Technologies and InCred, says it utilizes statistical models and predictive analytics to determine the credit worthiness of borrowers.
The startup said it has helped more than 200,000 unorganized businesses to move to the formal lending ecosystem.
Sumiran Das, a partner at CapitalG and who also sits on Aye Finance's board, said the startup's use of "data science with physical presence in the field" and its underwriting methodology has positioned it to lead the market and tap the unaddressed demographic.
Sanjay Sharma, managing director at Aye Finance, said that the fact they have been able to close a major financing round at the height of a global pandemic "reinforces the value that our investors see in Aye Finance."
"Difficult times are a true test of a good lender and we have already started showing significant improvements in the customer repayments in the past months," he said, adding that Aye Finance has been able to secure more money than it needed to so that it has some financial cushion to steer through the pandemic.
The startup, which suspended disbursing capital to businesses in March, said it plans to resume lending small amounts of money to businesses starting next month to help them restart their operations. New Delhi announced a nationwide lockdown in late March, which forced most businesses to half their operations.


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Interview: Director David Slade for NIGHTMARE CINEMA
Around this time last year, I had the chance to check out the new horror anthology, NIGHTMARE CINEMA, as part of the Fantasia International Film Festival. The anthology is separated into five different stories from directors Mick Garris, Alejandro Brugués, Joe Dante, David Slade and Ryûhei Kitamura and is centered around five strangers that are drawn to an abandoned theater where they are forced to watch their deepest fears come to life.
For the release of the film, we had the opportunity to speak with director David Slade about his short, THIS WAY TO EGRESS. During our chat we discussed everything from how he got involved with the anthology, to the inspiration behind his short, and the use of practical effects.
Hi David, thank you so much for speaking with me today. To start things off can you tell us how you got involved with NIGHTMARE CINEMA?
David Slade: Mick Garris is someone I've known for awhile. He's a lovely human being. Over the years, he's brought things to me and eventually said, "I have this thing. It's an anthology. Basically, you'll have complete freedom and [can] do anything you want. Are you interested?" And I said, "Let's do that." And then somehow we managed to pull it off.
Nightmare Cinema – This Way to Egress
Can you talk a little bit about your short, THIS WAY TO EGRESS? It is based on a short story by Lawrence Connolly, correct?
David Slade: It is. I read the story in the early 2000s and I wanted to adapt the feeling that I got when I read it because it was familiar to me and it was interesting. I also believed that there was a way to make this sort of cinematic truth that was entirely subconscious and about feeling and not necessarily words. I set about adapting it as a screenplay for a feature film with my very good friend Charly Cantor. Charly was a really good friend who I'd known for a very long time. We adapted it into a feature-length film and then he was struck down with cancer a few years back. I carried the idea and the story with me for fifteen, sixteen years. I found the feature-length was too painful to look at, but I felt if I went back to Larry's short story…perhaps we could do a different iteration for now until it was less painful to look at a feature-length. So, that's what we did. I contacted Larry and I said, "Look, I'm just going to do a really stripped down version of the short story and closing scene," and Larry agreed. I wrote the first draft, but it needed an extra scene and Larry, who actually read [the script], actually helped write the extra scene for me that I loved. Then I went out and got as many friends together, including a few of them who had made movies with me. Elizabeth Reaser, who I was really happy could come along, was someone I had worked with before and just did it as a favor for me. It was a cool, little family affair. It didn't really fill the hole [of Charly], but it kind of helps having done it. It's quite an emotional thing for me.
I remember when I was talking to Mick he had mentioned that in terms of challenges faced, your short was one of the more complicated ones due to it being in a government building and having all those practical effects. Can you elaborate on that?
David Slade: Yeah, I wanted to do most of the things practically because there had to be a sense of realism to it. To me, the thing about horror as a genre is it's one of the purer forms of cinema because largely, what you do with cinema, is you use the devices of it to communicate an idea. I believe also that when it actually works beautifully, it can create extremely beautiful nightmares. So, to me, I wanted a surface level that was completely believable. I didn't want the backdrop standing out and that stuff. We started with the practical aspects of it and had prosthetics for Ezra Buzzington. Again, [he's] an actor I've known for a long time and came along to play both Ron and Mitch, the two cleaners of the film. Also, Bronwyn Morrill, who played the receptionist, had a whole head prosthetic by the end of it all. There was a lot of digital clean-up and massaging, which is often the way it works, but most of it was done practically. I also wanted to use a real location. I didn't want to build a set for it, I just wanted a sense of realism. Not even that you just see it, but that you feel it. I didn't want it to be a fantasy piece. I kind of wanted it to be, you know, a portrait of someone losing their mind perhaps or any number of open interpretations. I just wanted you to look at the people and believe them, even the ones who don't look too human.
Director David Slade On Set – Photo Courtesy of Cranked Films
The performances were so genuine which is why I think this short was so terrifying. What was the casting process like?
David Slade: Thank you. I knew I needed actors I could trust and so what I did was I went for people that I knew would be sympathetic doing it and people who had really impressed me. I had pretty much worked with all of the actors beside Bronwyn, who played the receptionist, and Macintyre [Sweeney] and Lucas [Barker]. Elizabeth Reaser was traveling a lot so I emailed [the script] to her and had a really long phone call about it. But it was really interesting that I never sat down to interpret the story to anybody. I just talked a lot about the feeling and what it meant to me and everybody got it. Everybody understood it in some way, you know? In terms of the rehearsal process, we just read it for a bit. I don't really believe rehearsal is about performance. Usually, that's the actor and the power that they have that they bring. We went to a safe room where [the cast] could do anything they wanted to and we kind of just sat and read it. I gave a list [that was] a series of little tasks to push out the word and face what [the film] was. Patrick Wilson actually makes a surprise cameo appearance as Eric Sr., the dad. The husband on the phone is Patrick, who knows Elizabeth as well, and I had worked with him on my first movie and he's a good friend and did me a favor recording the phone call session. It was quite emotional, but it was about trust as much as anything because the things we were doing were crazy. There is no basis for these kinds of performances, the performance that [Elizabeth] has to give. Confession. Push through. Revelation. Not knowing and being afraid. It took trust and I was really grateful to the actors for trusting in me.
Lastly, are there any other projects you're working on right now that we should keep our eyes out for in the future?
David Slade: Hundreds of them. Hundreds and hundreds of them. The last thing that I'm working on right now is BARKSKINS, a television series. I'm directing the pilot episode and then producing it. It stars David Thewlis and is based on the Annie Proulx novel of the same title. I don't know when it will hit the screens, but it's shooting in July, I think. I have several films, two of which are really moving along at a great pace. I always want to talk about the novel COME CLOSER by Sara Gran, which I will make. I've been trying to make it for a long time and that's beginning to move also. It's a story about demonic possession from the inside. The novel is astonishing and I've been trying to make it for years. We're getting closer is all I can say and we've got the financing now. We just have to find the person who will play the lead. It may not be the next film, but maybe, it's a great novel.
For more on NIGHTMARE CINEMA, check out our interview with Mick Garris and Alejandro Brugués as well as our review here. NIGHTMARE CINEMA is now in select theaters and On-Demand.
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Shannon is the Founder of Nightmarish Conjurings and a lover of all things horror and haunt related. When she's not obsessively collecting all things "Trick 'R Treat" related, or trying to convince everyone that "Hereditary" is one of the greatest horror films ever made, you can find her designing interiors for commercial restaurants. An avid haunt fan, Shannon spends the entire year visiting haunts and immersive experiences throughout the Southern California area and hopes to one day design her own haunted attraction.
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In 1908, the University of Minnesota created the Fruit Breeding Farm on 80 acres near Victoria, Minn., for the purpose of developing hardy apple trees for our northern climate. Each year thousands of trees were judged and eliminated if they did not meet strict standards. Hardiness, disease resistance, flavor, texture, size, appearance, storability, and productivity are traits by which apple trees are still evaluated. The excess of research apples continues to be sold to the public each fall to help support research efforts.
Among the apple varieties that have been named and released are 'Fireside,' 'Haralson,' 'Honeygold,' and more recently 'Honeycrisp' and 'Zestar!.' Over the years, more than 98 fruit introductions have been made, including apricots, cherries, cherry-plums, raspberries, blueberries, grapes, and strawberries. Wine and table grapes and new hybrid blueberries such as 'Polaris' are recent introductions.
In 1967, the Fruit Breeding Farm was renamed the Horticultural Research Center (HRC) to reflect the increased diversity on 230 acres. Additional activities include the breeding of landscape plants, including ornamental grasses, plant cold-hardiness research and restoration ecology research. Thirty-nine new trees and shrubs have been introduced, including the 'Lights' azalea series, 'Northwood' maple, and 'Northern Sun' forsythia. The wetland ecology project started the successful Spring Peeper Meadow wetland restoration project in 1995 and uses Arboretum wetlands and former wild-rice research paddies for innovative research.
In 1985, the HRC was administratively merged with the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum (located 1 mile to the east of the research center). The combined unit continues to remain an important research arm of the Department of Horticultural Science at the University.
Dr. Jim Luby currently directs the fruit-breeding program at the HRC, which is actively breeding apples, blueberries, grapes and strawberries, plus a selection of other species. New blueberry cultivars from the program led to the development of new commercial plantings in Minnesota and other parts of the country with similar cold climates. The apple cultivar 'Honeycrisp' combines cold hardiness with outstanding fruit quality and has been in strong demand at licensed nurseries across the country and is increasingly attracting international interest. The grape research program has been pivotal in expanding the local wine industry with introductions such as the 'Frontenac' red wine grape, which is now the most commonly grown grape in Minnesota.
The woody landscape plant-breeding program is based at the Arboretum and is headed by Dr. Stan Hokanson. Current research includes breeding cold hardy, disease resistant deciduous azaleas and shrub roses, development of improved shade trees and small-scale shade tolerant trees, and the development of new woody landscape plants derived from plant material native to the upper Midwestern United States.
The Horticultural Research Center is located 1 mile west of the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum on Hwy. 5 in Chanhassen.
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India is world's largest democracy, with more than a billion people of different ethnic backgrounds, culture, speaking different languages, practising different religions living together. A free and vibrant press and an independent judiciary are pillars of strengths of our democracy. The country is proud of its ancient civilization and the rich, composite cultural heritage. At the same time, India is a modern nation with a fast growing economy. India is a major international player in the fields of Atomic energy, Space research, Information technology, Ocean development and Biotechnology.
India has been playing an important role in the Non-Aligned Movement, and was in the forefront of the opposition to colonialism and apartheid. Today, India, a responsible nuclear power, is the second largest troop contributor to the United Nations and has actively participated in scores of multi-dimensional UN operations in four continents.
India, That is Bharat


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12 Saskatechwan teams. 11 Manitoba teams. 1 European team.
Upsets in the preliminary rounds? Your call. Bryden, last year's A-Side qualifyer went down in a short game to Flasch, the young breakaway team. <<formerly with Moskowy>>. Heidt / Hartung... close game. Heidt came out on top.


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Referendum to ask voters to pay for Forest Preserve
If ballot measure passes, the Forest Preserve District could see extra $43.5M in additional funding for preservation effort
by Michael Romain October 11, 2022 October 11, 2022
(Michael Romain/Staff)
A referendum question will appear on the ballot in November that is as unassuming as the wetlands and prairies and woodlands many commuters pass by without so much as a nod.
The Nov. 8 ballot measure will ask voters if they'd be willing to increase their property taxes so that the Forest Preserve District of Cook County — which is tasked with protecting nearly 70,000 acres of natural and recreational land across the county — might bring in another $43.5 million a year in revenue.
More than 300 miles of trail, 40 lakes and ponds, 274 picnic groves, 10 golf courses, the Chicago Botanic Garden and Brookfield Zoo are located on the district's property.
If the referendum passes, the average homeowner would pay an additional $1.50 per month toward the Forest Preserve, according to informational material the district has created ahead of the referendum.
Homeowners already pay an average of $3 to $4 a month toward the district. According to the Forest Preserve's 2021 budget documents, the owner of a median-priced home pays $35 to $45 a year toward the Forest Preserve, depending on the municipality they live in. Less than 1% of a homeowner's property tax bill goes to the Forest Preserve District.
The referendum question comes as the district's staffers have noticed an unprecedented number of visitors to their various properties, mostly due to COVID-19 shelter-in-place orders implemented in 2020 that made access to the outdoors much more critical.
"Trail Watch volunteers reported nearly twice as many trail users in 2020 from March through August than in 2019," according to Forest Preserve District budget documents.
The increased demand for the outdoors is also happening as the Forest Preserve shoulders a heavy pension obligation and a laundry list of deferred maintenance projects.
If the referendum passes, about 21% of the anticipated $43.5 million of additional revenue would go toward paying pension obligations, 17% will go toward acquiring new natural open land to protect and 14% will go toward ecological restoration, among other areas.
Brookfield Zoo will get 9%, or an extra $4 million a year, to fund urgent capital work, such as building and stormwater repairs.
Benjamin Cox, the executive director of the Friends of the Forest Preserves, a nonprofit that advocates for forest preserves in Cook County, said there's a coalition of roughly 170 institutions, including museums and nonprofits like his, that are educating the public about the referendum, which could be the most significant since the one in 1914 that created the Forest Preserve District.
"If these lands are to survive we've got to make them as healthy as possible," Cox said. "The more we can do to get invasive species out and native species in and ecosystems thriving the better. And when they're healthier they do a better job of cooling and cleaning the air, cooling and cleaning water, and slowing water down."
Cox said the additional funds will be a serious shot in the arm for the Forest Preserve District, whose total budget last year was about $130 million, with about $63 million going toward general operating expenses.
Cox said the coalition and other referendum advocates have bought ad spots on TV and radio. The Chicago Sun-Times and the Chicago Tribune have endorsed the ballot measure, which has garnered largely bipartisan support. The Cook County Board of Commissioners, which also comprises the Forest Preserve District board, voted unanimously last year to place the referendum on the ballot.
But despite the publicity, the forest preserves' growing popularity and the largely uncontroversial nature of the proposal, the referendum question has still managed to escape the awareness of even frequent forest preserve visitors like Shelley K. (who requested that we not use her last name).
Shelley and her husband Dan strolled through Thatcher Woods in River Forest on Saturday with their 5-year-old daughter. The couple said they were not aware of the referendum until asked about it that day, but would likely support it.
"It takes a lot of money to keep these kinds of things going," Shelley said, referencing the nearby Trailside Museum of Natural History, which the Forest Preserves also operates.
"My daughter says, 'This is my forest,'" Shelley said. "You gotta have a forest growing up. You gotta have woods."
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The introduction of a 25p tariff on disposable cups at the County Hall café is saving approximately 1,600 cups every month.
Since introducing the tariff and also switching to compostable disposable cups last spring, the café, run by Servest, has saved around 14,400 disposable coffee cups from entering the bin.
End to end the unused coffee cups would be as high as the Burj Khalifa, The Shard and the Eiffel Tower combined.
Councillor Tony Miller, Cabinet Member with Responsibility for the Environment at Worcestershire County Council said, "It is really encouraging to see the staff and visitors to County Hall embracing ways to reduce waste in the county.
"Last year we introduced the Plastic Pledge certificates to recognise businesses and people in Worcestershire doing their bit to reduce single use plastics, it's great to see that County Hall is leading by example and reducing their waste.
"It just goes to show what a huge difference, small changes can make!"
Servest stopped providing plastic packaging for all food and drink made on the County Hall campus in spring 2018, replacing the packaging with compostable plant based products.
Staff and visitors are increasingly opting to use their own re-useable cup or using a ceramic coffee cup when sitting in the café.
Worcestershire County Council introduced a Plastic Pledge scheme to recognise local businesses and people within their local communities who have committed to reducing their single use plastics.


Gaithersburg, MD – Gaithersburg Mayor Sidney Katz proclaimed May 23rd "Guardian Realty Day" in the City of Gaithersburg in recognition of the company's major renovations at 501 N. Frederick Avenue.
Mr. Katz said that while it is significant for developers and landlords to invest in new projects within the City, it is even more important to the community when companies like Guardian re-invest in existing City properties to make them more attractive to prospective tenants, demonstrating their dedication and commitment to improving the City of Gaithersburg.
At the event, Mr. Lonergan explained to the several dozen invited guests the numerous economic incentives available to medically related businesses relocating to, or expanding within, the City, including Gaithersburg's Economic Development Opportunity Fund and its Economic Development Toolbox.
In addition to spending $1.5 million to upgrade the common areas and facade at 501 N. Frederick Avenue, Guardian has extended the building hours to 8:00 pm Monday through Friday and constructed a doctors' lounge complete with couches and televisions. These upgrades and improvements have improved the exterior appearance of the building, provided desirable comforts and amenities for the tenants, and will help create a referral network and an atmosphere of collaboration amongst the tenants.
Guardian has engaged Scheer Partners, the leading provider of fully integrated commercial real estate services for the health science industry, to lease the remaining 20,000 square feet at 501 N. Frederick Avenue to a variety of health-care groups.
Health care is one of the fastest-growing sectors in the City and throughout the Washington, DC region. As a result, there is strong demand for medical services in the City of Gaithersburg, which is in a prime central location in Montgomery County and in close proximity to both the Shady Grove Hospital and the Holy Cross Hospital that is under construction in Germantown.


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require "delegate"

module Google
  module Cloud
    module Bigquery
      class Table
        ##
        # Table::List is a special case Array with additional values.
        class List < DelegateClass(::Array)
          ##
          # If not empty, indicates that there are more records that match
          # the request and this value should be passed to continue.
          attr_accessor :token

          # A hash of this page of results.
          attr_accessor :etag

          # Total number of tables in this collection.
          attr_accessor :total

          ##
          # @private Create a new Table::List with an array of tables.
          def initialize arr = []
            super arr
          end

          ##
          # Whether there is a next page of tables.
          #
          # @return [Boolean]
          #
          # @example
          #   require "google/cloud/bigquery"
          #
          #   bigquery = Google::Cloud::Bigquery.new
          #   dataset = bigquery.dataset "my_dataset"
          #
          #   tables = dataset.tables
          #   if tables.next?
          #     next_tables = tables.next
          #   end
          #
          def next?
            !token.nil?
          end

          ##
          # Retrieve the next page of tables.
          #
          # @return [Table::List]
          #
          # @example
          #   require "google/cloud/bigquery"
          #
          #   bigquery = Google::Cloud::Bigquery.new
          #   dataset = bigquery.dataset "my_dataset"
          #
          #   tables = dataset.tables
          #   if tables.next?
          #     next_tables = tables.next
          #   end
          #
          def next
            return nil unless next?
            ensure_service!
            gapi = @service.list_tables @dataset_id, token: token, max: @max
            self.class.from_gapi gapi, @service, @dataset_id, @max
          end

          ##
          # Retrieves remaining results by repeatedly invoking {#next} until
          # {#next?} returns `false`. Calls the given block once for each
          # result, which is passed as the argument to the block.
          #
          # An Enumerator is returned if no block is given.
          #
          # This method will make repeated API calls until all remaining results
          # are retrieved. (Unlike `#each`, for example, which merely iterates
          # over the results returned by a single API call.) Use with caution.
          #
          # @param [Integer] request_limit The upper limit of API requests to
          #   make to load all tables. Default is no limit.
          # @yield [table] The block for accessing each table.
          # @yieldparam [Table] table The table object.
          #
          # @return [Enumerator]
          #
          # @example Iterating each result by passing a block:
          #   require "google/cloud/bigquery"
          #
          #   bigquery = Google::Cloud::Bigquery.new
          #   dataset = bigquery.dataset "my_dataset"
          #
          #   dataset.tables.all do |table|
          #     puts table.name
          #   end
          #
          # @example Using the enumerator by not passing a block:
          #   require "google/cloud/bigquery"
          #
          #   bigquery = Google::Cloud::Bigquery.new
          #   dataset = bigquery.dataset "my_dataset"
          #
          #   all_names = dataset.tables.all.map do |table|
          #     table.name
          #   end
          #
          # @example Limit the number of API requests made:
          #   require "google/cloud/bigquery"
          #
          #   bigquery = Google::Cloud::Bigquery.new
          #   dataset = bigquery.dataset "my_dataset"
          #
          #   dataset.tables.all(request_limit: 10) do |table|
          #     puts table.name
          #   end
          #
          def all request_limit: nil, &block
            request_limit = request_limit.to_i if request_limit
            return enum_for :all, request_limit: request_limit unless block_given?
            results = self
            loop do
              results.each(&block)
              if request_limit
                request_limit -= 1
                break if request_limit.negative?
              end
              break unless results.next?
              results = results.next
            end
          end

          ##
          # @private New Table::List from a response object.
          def self.from_gapi gapi_list, service, dataset_id = nil, max = nil
            tables = List.new(Array(gapi_list.tables).map { |gapi_object| Table.from_gapi gapi_object, service })
            tables.instance_variable_set :@token,      gapi_list.next_page_token
            tables.instance_variable_set :@etag,       gapi_list.etag
            tables.instance_variable_set :@total,      gapi_list.total_items
            tables.instance_variable_set :@service,    service
            tables.instance_variable_set :@dataset_id, dataset_id
            tables.instance_variable_set :@max,        max
            tables
          end

          protected

          ##
          # Raise an error unless an active service is available.
          def ensure_service!
            raise "Must have active connection" unless @service
          end
        end
      end
    end
  end
end


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Bank offers loans to support overseas workers
Vietnamese guest workers now have to make an initial deposit of 100 million VND (4,760 USD) if they want to work in Seoul. Nguyen Van Ly from the Vietnam Bank for Social Policies, told VNA that his bank was willing to lend that sum to low-income people.
Monday, December 09, 2013 11:26
* You say that your bank is willing to lend money to poor people so that he or she can have the money to deposit before going to work in Seoul. What's the maximum amount that the borrower can get and what are the specific terms and conditions of the loan?
People who are entitled to borrow money from the Bank for Social Policies are those living in poor districts, as classified in the Government's 30a Resolution; or relatives of people who have rendered services to the Revolution; and members of poor households or members of farming households who do not have land to cultivate because their land was acquired by the government for public projects.
Any individual who meets these criteria will be eligible to borrow 100 million VND (at the maximum) to pay for the deposit. The term of the loan will be the same as that of the refundable deposit - 64 months.
For the interest, there are two different rates: 3.9 percent per annum for ethnic minorities and members of poor households living in poor districts, as specified in Government Resolution 30a; and 7.8 percent per annum for the remaining groups.
Borrowing procedures are very simple. The eligible workers only need to go to the nearest bank's transaction office of the Bank for Social Policies to fill out the forms and receive the money. Then the worker must take the sum to the nearest district transaction office to pay for the refundable deposit.
Under the Prime Minister Decision issued on August 21, 2013, the Social Policies Bank is the sole bank to accept the refundable deposits of guest workers wanting to go to work in the Republic of Korea.
The decision has been implemented in accordance with the Employment Permit System launched by the Republic of Korea.
* How will the refundable deposits be managed?
Throughout the time the workers work in the Republic of Korea, the money will be managed by the bank. We guarantee that when we receive the notification from the Department of Overseas Labour Management under the Ministry of Labour, War Invalids and Social Affairs about the return home of the guest workers, the money will be available to return to the workers, including the interest rate generated from the deposit money, in line with the bank's policy.
* How about the case in which workers return home before the contracts end?
For the case in which workers violate the contracts and have to return home before the contract end, the bank will deduct the amount of money from the deposits to pay for the damage they cause to their Korean employers. In this case in which the damage is higher than the deposits, the workers have to pay additional sums.
If a worker absconds from work, or does not return home after expiration of a contract, choosing to stay on illegally in the Republic of Korea, he or she will lose his deposit, which will then be donated to the local employment fund.
However, for those who borrow the deposited money from the bank, we will use the refundable deposits to pay back their loans.
In cases in which the guest workers have already paid back their loans or some parts of the loans, we will transfer the remaining sums to the local employment fund.
* How far along has the Bank for Social Policies moved in implementing the pilot project on depositing money by guest workers going to work in the Republic of Korea?
By December 2, 2013 some 19 branches of the bank had received refundable deposits from 109 workers, with a total sum of 519,058 USD. Of this number, 35 people have already left for the Republic of Korea.-VNA
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