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Education: Licence en droit, Docteur en droit public, Paris Law Faculty (1955-1965); Agrégé des facultés de droit et des sciences économiques (1966).
Professional Experience: Professor of public and international law and Dean, University of Amiens (1966-1969); Professor of public and international law, University of Paris-I (Panthéon-Sorbonne) (1969-1998); Emeritus Professor, University of Paris-I (1999-present); Associate Research Fellow, Université Libre de Bruxelles (1999-present); Counsel and Advocate in a number of cases before the International Court of Justice: Frontier Dispute (Burkina Faso/Republic of Mali), Territorial Dispute (Libyan Arab Jamahiriya/Chad), Kasikili/Sedudu Islands (Botswana/Namibia), Armed activities on the territory of the Congo (Democratic Republic of the Congo v. Burundi), Land and Maritime Boundary between Cameroon and Nigeria (Cameroon v. Nigeria), Sovereignty over Pulau Litigan and Pulau Sipadan (Indonesia/Malaysia); Member of an arbitral tribunal of the International Chamber of Commerce; Counsel and advocate, arbitral tribunal, France/UNESCO; President of an arbitral tribunal established within the framework of the European Development Fund; Judge ad hoc, International Court of Justice, Maritime Delimitation in the Black Sea (Romania v. Ukraine).
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Home The WeekenderThe Dubai Weekender The Dubai Weekender: Things to do that do not include brunch – Dec 15 – 18
The Dubai Weekender: Things to do that do not include brunch – Dec 15 – 18
From visiting Santa's Grotto to a cook-off at The Sustainable City, here are things to do in Dubai this weekend that do not include brunch.
Visit Santa's Grotto at Festival Plaza
Festival Plaza has a lot more in store for its community! Families can visit Santa's Grotto, beautifully designed to bring about the Christmas spirit. Located next to the IKEA elevators, Santa and his elves will be waiting for little ones and their family on the weekends of 17-18 Dec and 24-25 December. Write letters to Santa and drop them in the mailboxes at the grotto to have your wishes come true.
Where: Festival Plaza
When: 17-18 Dec and 24-25 Dec
Cook-off at The Sustainable City
Wooden spoons at the ready for the cook-off of the year at The Sustainable City, Dubai. Some of the city's top chefs will be joining resident chefs in the community to celebrate sustainability in the kitchen. Sourcing food from within the farm at TSC, the recipes will be made with the freshest ingredients, and the chefs will ensure a spectacle of an event, wowing audiences with their skills and exciting their taste buds.
Five (5) reasons to celebrate the live cook-off at The Sustainable City
1. Support sustainability. The shorter the distance from farm to table, the more sustainable your food is. Did you know that within TSC farm, there are over 40 types of fruit and grains grown?
2. Tantalise your tastebuds. A celebrity executive chef will be cooking live at TSC, and three other chefs from TSC's restaurants. The food is bound to be delicious. Make sure you skip breakfast before this one.
3. Witness skills in the kitchen. As well as rustling up some great grub, the chefs will also be putting on a display of fine cooking. Come and watch as the four chefs enter into a live cook-off.
4. Help to cheer for your favourite. Whilst it is not a competition with prizes, the chefs will certainly be looking to impress. This is your chance to have direct influence on what ends up on your plate.
5. Visit the farm. Spectators of the event can visit the TSC farm area to see the animal sanctuary, as well as the farm produce areas where the crops are grown.
6. Pick up some delicious treats. A pop-up market of sustainable products will be hosted alongside the cook-off, and several food and beverage outlets will also be open. This is the perfect time ahead of the holidays to pick up some treats.
What: A farm-to-table cooking event where four chefs will be doing live cooking demonstrations.
Where: The Plaza, The Sustainable City
When: December 16 2022, 4 pm-7 pm
Who: all your friends, family and even your pets
Contact: +971 50 2050962
VISIT MADAME TUSSAUDS DUBAI
Looking for a fun weekend activity with your kids, family, or friends?
The show-stopping, starstudded Madame Tussauds Dubai is the perfect place to see and interact with the figures of your favourite celebrities, and they have recently announced that a wax figure of Taylor Swift is the latest figure to join its incredible line-up of famous personalities.
Snap selfies and shimmy up to a remarkably lifelike replica of the country music star turned pop queen, and check out the exciting upgrade to the A-List Music Party Room for a 'party to end all parties' experience. The popular dance floor feature has also been enhanced recently with all-new interactive projections, allowing fans to throw shapes and show off their moves like never before.
Sunday – Thursday 12 pm – 8 pm (last entry 7:45 pm)
Friday, Saturday & Public Holidays 11 am - 9 pm (last entry 8:45 pm)
Standard Admission Ticket prices:
Adults (11+) AED135
Children (3-11) AED110
Under 3s- free of charge
Exclusive Fame Experience Ticket prices:
VIP Tour Adults (11+) AED300
VIP Tour Children (3-11) AED240
WATCH THE DSF FIREWORKS DISPLAYS AND DRONES SHOW
Dubai's iconic fireworks are back with a series of dazzling displays on December 15 at 9 pm that will light up the sky across these six locations:
Bluewaters and The Beach, JBR,
Burj Al Arab,
Dubai Frame,
Al Seef,
Dubai Creek,
Dubai Festival City Mall.
Following on from opening night's fireworks displays, from December 16 to January 29, the much-loved daily DSF fireworks displays run daily at different iconic spots across the city:
Bluewaters & The Beach, JBR,
For more information on the fireworks schedule, go to mydsf.ae.
DSF Drone Shows also returns this year, starting from December 15, with two all-new themed shows - Dubai Shopping Festival, inspired by the retail offerings and celebrations of DSF, and The Future of Dubai, inspired by the 2040 vision.
Shows will take place twice daily at 7 pm and 10 pm at Bluewaters and The Beach, JBR.
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Found 16 jobs posted by Coventry Building Society.
Senior Solution Architect - Information Security
About The Role As the second largest Building Society in the UK and the 8th largest lender. We know a thing or two about Savings and Mortgages. The Society has grown significantly over the past decade in particular and now has over 2,500 employees and 1.8 million members. The Society is a Which recommended savings provider and we are proud to be one of...
Date: Yesterday, 3:21pm Location: Coventry Salary/Rate: £66,020 - £99,020
Solution Architect - Information Security
About The Role As the second largest Building Society in the UK and the 8th largest lender, we know a thing or two about Savings and Mortgages. The Society has grown significantly over the past decade in particular and now has over 2,500 employees and 1.8 million members. The Society is a Which recommended savings provider and we're proud to be one of...
Head of Centre for Product Enablement
About The Role As the second largest Building Society in the UK and the 8th largest lender, we know a thing or two about Savings and Mortgages. The Society has grown significantly over the past decade and now has over 2700 employees and nearly 2 million members. The Society is a Which recommended savings provider and we're proud to be one of the Best Big...
Date: 27th January Location: Coventry Salary/Rate: £90,120 - £135,180
Technical Specialist - Voice Management
About The Role We are looking for a collaboration engineer to join an already established team within CBS providing technical knowledge to undertake the troubleshooting and resolution to production incidents or problems. Independently escalating to Senior Technical Specialists as required. Completes tasks to agreed levels of quality,...
Date: 27th January Location: Coventry Salary/Rate:
Head of Product Portfolio Infrastructure
Head of Product Portfolio Data & Finance
About The Role This role is accountable for the Finance and Data Product Portfolio (a group of platforms and technology services that provide long-term, sustainable value to internal and external customers) with an annual combined run & change spend of c. £15 - £50 million. You and your team will work with the Executive, Business Owners...
Date: 26th January Location: West Midlands Salary/Rate:
DevSecOps Engineer - Secrets
About The Role Banks are increasingly becoming tech companies that manage money. The Coventry is no different - £42bn makes us the second-largest Building Society in the UK, with a 130-year heritage and a strong, loyal customer-base of nearly 2m members. A secure and well-supported technology base is therefore critical to our continued...
Date: 21st January Location: Coventry Salary/Rate: Competitive
Network Technical Specialist
About The Role We are looking to appoint a Network Technical Specialist to provide a level of technical knowledge to undertake the troubleshooting and resolution to production incidents or problems independently. Complete tasks to agreed levels of quality, within stated timescales with no supervision. Look for improvement opportunities...
Digital Manager - Offsite
About The Role We have an exciting opportunity in our growing team for a Digital Manager - Offsite to play a pivotal role in growing and optimising our email channel and offsite digital marketing activity. Using insight and data you'll drive test and learn activities to our customer and broker audiences, presenting findings to stakeholders and...
Business Analyst - Agile
About The Role #BetheChange Coventry Building Society has grown into the second largest building society in the UK. Despite being a national Society, it keeps its local values and loyalty, and its caring family ethos. The best way to judge a company is based on what the people who work there say. Our recent employee survey confirmed us as a 'great place...
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Characteristic: Competitive and wants to be number 1. They look after number 1 (themselves).
Independent and unique. They are often self-employed and entrepreneurial. They are focused and disciplined. They are stubborn and they don't let go of their position easily. They are hard workers, and they don't accept lazy (not in themselves nor anyone else). They work hard to be the best they can be in their careers.
Number 1 people care about Success! They can be overly competitive. Sometimes they don't think they are good enough as they put a lot of pressure on themselves to be perfect.
Natural matched with 1, 5 and 7.
Challenging to 4, 6 and 8. (Can cause a breakdown in communication).
Life path number 1 people are independent and strong in relationships. They can be very stubborn and they don't like to compromise their beliefs. People with life path number 1 are happiest when they can be unique; and they can be rebellious and unconventional. They are strong leaders and are most comfortable when they are in charge. Many people with this life path number dream about becoming self-employed and many do self-start their own enterprises. On a more negative scale, they can be controlling and demanding. They can also be selfish and overly stubborn.
In the Tarot, Number 1, is associated with the Tarot cards Strength and the Sun. Astrologically the number 1 is ruled by the Sun.


There are various benefits and schemes designed to help families meet this challenge.
The table below gives you an overview of what may be available to you.
Turn 2 Us, a national charity have created an online benefits calculator. which offers bespoke information dependent upon your circumstances.
Up to 570 hours of free early education or childcare per year, usually taken as 15 hours a week for 38 weeks of the year.
Families receiving relevant benefits (see further information), if child is "looked after", has an Educational Health & Care Plan or is receiving Disability Living Allowance.
An additional 570 hours in addition to the 3 & 4-year-old entitlement.
Available for families where both parents are working (or the sole parent is working in a lone-parent family), and each parent earns the equivalent of 16 hours a week at the national minimum or living wage, and earns less than £100,000 a year.
70% of childcare costs up to a maximum of £175 per week for 1 child or £300 per week for 2 or more children. Families receiving housing or council tax benefit get extra help, amounting to about 96% of costs in England.
Nearly 400,000 low income working families.
85% of childcare costs, with same maximum levels as Working Tax Credit, although no extra help for those receiving housing benefit.
Worth up to £55 per week for basic rate tax-payers.
Working parents, but not self-employed and usually excludes those receiving tax credits.
Presently available, but will not accept new applicants after April 2018.
20% of childcare costs up to a maximum of £2,000 per year. Families of children with SEND receive help up to a maximum of £4,000 per year.
Working parents not in receipt of tax credits/Universal Credit whose gross household income is higher than a specified minimum threshold but less than £100,000 per parent.


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December 24, 2021 Zach Richardson Comments 0 Comment
Zach Richardson
"I bargained with Life for a penny,
And Life would pay no more,
However I begged at evening
When I counted my scanty store;
For Life is just an employer,
He gives you what you ask,
But once you have set the wages,
Why, you must bear the task.
I worked for a menial's hire,
Only to learn, dismayed,
That any wage I had asked of Life,
Life would have paid."
– Jessie B. Rittenhouse
Author's Note: There is an acronym thrown around on the legal advice subreddit that has the unfortunate name IANAL, which stands for "I am not a lawyer." That acronym applies here. Nothing I say in these essays should be considered as anything other than the speculations of a layman.
~ Zach Richardson, Director of Publication, United States Transhumanist Party, December 2021
The "Larry" character from this series' introductory essay is based on a personal anecdotal work experience. Larry's function in that organization was "order entry". He was a steady worker and could reliably enter 20-25 orders per hour into our management system. Larry was not quite as fast as Roger, but he could keep up nicely and did his share… at first. Each year passed, and he got a little bit slower at clicking around, at keeping track of the volume of data needed for each entry and at maintaining accuracy.
Roger, on the other hand, was a speed demon. 40 orders per hour was not uncommon, and he seemed laser-focused at work. He was the better of the two, and everyone knew it. Both he and Larry had been with the company since the beginning.
COVID-19 rolled around, and our industry suffered a massive drop in revenue; our clients were manufacturing plants who were all temporarily ceasing operations. It was time for layoffs, and Larry was let go due to lack of performance. Everyone knew it was because he was getting slow and forgetful. Everyone knew it was because he was too old.
The company was lucky because they had a good standard by which they could measure the two on, and clearly demonstrate a decline in performance. They had metrics on employee workflow going back several years.
The fact that these metrics had been around since the beginning and were unchanging was key in the company's realization that it was legally defensible to lay off Larry.
They could show a decline in performance and say:
"Age had nothing to do with it! We don't know why he was getting worse at his job, but he just was, and our metrics showed it, so we were unfortunately forced to let him go."
Metrics, metrics, metrics.
The key defense against any claim of ageism was enabled this last decade by how ridiculously easy it has become to collect and store data. Metrics can be set as targets that are just out of reach or are only being met by 70% of your workforce, and then managers can fire those they don't like, while retaining those they do.
Consider speed limits on our highways; probably half of all drivers break the limits, but only a handful of them are pulled over and ticketed.
Metrics allowed large companies to fire disparately since the mid-2000s, and the ease of data collection via company-owned devices is enabling small companies to do the same.
This is not good, but it is also not bad. It is not fair, but it is also not unfair. It is just business.
So, how does a company proceed with removing an unwanted elderly worker without getting tied up in a lawsuit?
Well, there's an art to it, and in the next few essays I'll explain a few of the key concrete particulars by looking at successfully and unsuccessfully litigated examples in case law.
** I am not a lawyer, and nothing in this series of essays should be taken as legal advice**
Zach Richardson is Director of Publication for the U.S. Transhumanist Party.
State of AI 2020 – Article by Pavel Ilin
December 8, 2020 Pavel Ilin Comments 0 Comment
This summary is prepared based on the State of AI Report 2020, which was crafted by Nathan Benaich and Ian Hogarth.
The AI industry is very diverse in its application, and it's going through a transformation from the magical-wand stage to the plateau of adequate development. Let's take a look at what is happening in the AI industry.
We haven't come up with new super-smart algorithms. Progress in model performance keeps being driven by big computational budgets and huge data sets. Training of the GPT-3 language model, with its 175 billion parameters, cost approximately $10 million. At the same time larger models require less data to achieve the same level of performance. With a deep-learning approach we are getting close to the point when the cost of training will grow outrageous with incrementally smaller improvements of the model.
An important fact is that the code base of most artificial intelligence systems remains closed. Only 15% of papers publish their code. This raises a lot of concerns about reproducibility and AI safety. AI explainability remains a critical issue for AI safety research; there are promising avenues of exploration such as Asymmetric Shapley Values, but so far it's unknown how AI systems make decisions.
Natural language processing (NLP) models successfully simulate common scenes and linguistics, but they fail dramatically with understanding problems and context and forming knowledge.
Talented people with skills in math and computer science are the drivers of the progress in the AI field. More and more US professors are being recruited by tech companies. This affects the quality of education that US universities can provide. We already can see a decline in the level of entrepreneurship among recent graduates. At the same time Universities are creating AI-related degree programs.
The US keeps its position as the main attractor of talented individuals. For example China contributes to the talent pool of AI developers, but after publication of their first results, talented people are most likely to move to the US. 90% of international PhD graduates stay and work in US universities and corporations. Demand for AI talent remains much higher than supply, even despite COVID-19's impact on market growth.
AI keeps progressing not only on a theoretical and research level. Many real world applications are already in use, and they are affecting the industries in various ways.
New drugs are being designed by AI, and they are already in clinical trials. For example AI-designed drugs for OCD treatment are out for testing in Japan. AI drug-discovery startups keep raising funds. Also big pharma is teaming up with startups around preserving privacy during drug discovery. For example OpenMined uses federated learning to preserve privacy with medical data. Viz.ai presented the first product which was approved by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services in the US. Their product analyzes tomography scans and alerts specialists who can treat patients before they receive damage that leads to the long-term disability.
Progress in self-driving cars stays limited. Only 3 companies in California have permission to conduct testing of self-driving cars without a safety driver. Self-driving mileage remains microscopic compared to human drivers (2,874,950 miles for self-driving cars versus 390,313,739,000 miles for humans). The research and development process for self-driving cars remains very expensive. The major companies in this field raised around $7 billion since July 2019. Tesla chose to approach gradually adding self-driving features to its cars, but human drivers still remain in the loop. Recent approaches such as supervised learning do not perform well enough. To make dramatic breakthroughs, new approaches are required.
Computer vision unlocks faster accident and disaster recovery intervention. It also reduces the amount of human hours spent using a microscope, which could lead to acceleration of development processes and reduction of product costs.
AI drives sales and at the same time reduces costs in supply chains and manufacturing. Robotic process automation and computer vision are the most commonly deployed techniques in the enterprise. Speech, natural language generation, and physical robots are the least common. Recently IBM partnered with health insurance company Humana. IBM implemented natural language understanding (NLU) software which is already live and handles calls. It not only redirects calls to the different queues; it's able to answer basic questions, such as "How much will the copay be to visit a specific specialist?" without human intervention.
Modern AI, in order to perform well, requires a lot of computing resources. Specialized AI hardware keeps progressing, and companies are now presenting second generations of their products. Graphcore M2000 offers faster training time to drop the cost of state-of-the-art models. Google's new TPU v4 delivers up to a 3.7x training speedup over their TPU v3. NVIDIA will not rest either; it has achieved up to 2.5x training speedups with the new A100 GPU vs V100. Increasing interest towards machine learning devOps is a signal that the industry shifting its focus from how to build models to how to run them.
Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, investments keep coming into the industry. Private funding rounds of greater than $15 million for the AI-first companies remain strong.
Usage of AI for facial recognition tasks is extremely common around the world. Around half of the world allows facial recognition. This has become a recognizable political and ethical problem, especially when use of this technology leads to the wrong arrests. There were two highly publicized cases of wrong arrest in the US (which is probably just a tip of the iceberg). In May 2019, Detroit police arrested Michael Oliver who was wrongly accused of a felony for supposedly reaching into a teacher's vehicle, grabbing a cellphone and throwing it, cracking the screen, and breaking the case. In January 2020, Detroit police arrested Robert Williams as a shoplifter who allegedly stole five watches from Midtown's trendy Shinola store in October 2018. In both cases charges were dismissed but harm was done.
Industry took a more thoughtful approach as a reaction to the AI mistakes. Microsoft deleted its database of 10 million faces, Amazon announced a one-year pause on letting the police use its facial recognition tool Rekognition. IBM announced it would sunset its general purpose facial recognition products. Washington State in the US introduced requirements to acquire warrants to run facial recognition scans. The ImageNet, a popular image database, is making an effort toward reduction of the biases in its image collections.
As Deep Fake technology produces more and more realistic media, it becomes illegal to use in certain states in the US. California passed a law, AB 730, aimed at deep fakes, which criminalizes distributing audio or video that gives a false, damaging impression of a politician's words or action. Many other US state bills have been passed, addressing different risks. For example Virginia law amends current criminal law on revenge porn to include computer-generated pornography.
The US government keeps pursuing implementation of the military AI systems. DARPA organised a virtual dogfighting tournament where various AI systems would compete with each other and a human fighter pilot from the US military.
AI nationalism is on the rise. Countries tend to pursue protectionist policies to scrutinize acquisitions of AI companies by the players from other countries.
Every year AI plays a more and more noticeable part in our lives. It becomes cheaper, and you learn how to do new things. But we have to remember that at the moment AI is still a tool. And there are some philosophical and methodological difficulties which we have to overcome before it will be possible to deliberate about the potential sentience of the AI. It's very important for the policy makers to make informed decisions based on how technology actually works and not on magical understanding formed based on popular sci-fi.
A Transhumanist Opinion on Privacy
November 18, 2016 Ryan Starr Comments 1 comment
Privacy is a favorite topic of mine. Maintaining individual privacy is a crucial element in free society. Yet there are many who want to invade it for personal or political gain. As our digital fingerprint becomes a part of our notion of self, how do we maintain our personal privacy on an inherently impersonal network of data? Where do we draw that line on what is private, and how do we enforce it? These are questions that are difficult to answer when looking at a short-term perspective. However, if we look further into the probable future, we can create a plan that helps protect the privacy of citizens today and for generations to come. By taking into account the almost certain physical merger of human biology and technology, the answer becomes clear. Our electronic data should be treated as part of our bodily autonomy.
The explosive success of social media has shown that we already view ourselves as partly digital entities. Where we go, what we eat, and who we are with is proudly displayed in cyberspace for eternity. But beyond that we store unique data about ourselves "securely" on the internet. Bank accounts, tax returns, even medical information are filed away on a server somewhere and specifically identified as us. It's no longer solely what we chose to let people see. We are physical and digital beings, and it is time we view these two sides as one before we take the next step into enhanced humanity.
Subdermal storage of electronic data is here, and its storage capabilities will expand rapidly. Soon we will be able to store a lot more than just access codes for our doors. It is hard to speculate exactly what people will chose to keep stored this way, and there may even come a time when what we see and hear is automatically stored this way. But before we go too far into what will be stored, we must understand how this information is accessed in present time. These implants are currently based in NFC technology. Near-Field Communication is a method of storing and transmitting data wirelessly within a very short distance. Yes, "wireless" is the key word. It means that if I can connect my NFC tag to my smart phone by just waiving my hand close to it (usually within an inch or so), then technically someone else can, too. While current antenna limitations and the discreetness of where a person's tag is implanted create a highly secure method of storage, advances in technology will eventually make it easier to access the individual. This is why it is urgent we develop a streamlined policy for privacy.
The current Transhumanist position is that personally collected intellectual property, whether stored digitally or organically, is the property of the individual. As such, it should be protected from unauthorized search and download. The current platform also states that each individual has the freedom to enhance their own body as they like so long as it doesn't negatively impact others. However, it does not specify what qualifies as a negative impact or how to prevent it. Morphological freedom is a double-edged sword. A person can a person enhance their ability to access information on themselves, but they can also use it to access others. It is entirely feasible enhancements will be created that allow a person to hack another. And collecting personal data isn't the only risk with that. What if the hacking victim has an artificial heart or an implanted insulin pump? The hacker could potentially access the code the medical device is operating with and change or delete it, ultimately leading to death. Another scenario might be hacking into someone's enhanced sensory abilities. Much like in the novel Ender's Game, a person can access another to see what they see. This ability can be abused countless ways ranging from government surveillance to sexual voyeurism. While this is still firmly within the realm of science fiction, a transhuman society will need to create laws to protect against these person-to-person invasions of privacy.
Now let's consider mass data collection. Proximity beacons could easily and cheaply be scattered across stores and cities to function as passive collection points much like overhead cameras are today. Retail stands to gain significantly from this technology, especially if they are allowed access to intimate knowledge about customers. Government intelligence gathering also stands to benefit from this capability. Levels of adrenaline, dopamine, and oxytocin stored for personal health analysis could be taken and paired with location data to put together an invasive picture of how people are feeling in a certain situation. Far more can be learned and exploited when discreetly collected biodata is merged with publicly observable activity.
In my mind, these are concerns that should be addressed sooner than later. If we take the appropriate steps to preserve personal privacy in all domains, we can make a positive impact that will last into the 22nd century.
Ryan Starr is the leader of the Transhumanist Party of Colorado. This article was originally published on his blog, and has been republished here with his permission.


Little M and I were lying around chatting this weekend when we decided it was time to get moving. She wanted to play hopscotch and I thought it would be the perfect time to throw in a math activity. Her first grade class has spent quite a bit of time working on addition and she loves every minute of it.
Memorizing math facts is great BUT kids also need to understand how these facts come together. Our little math and movement game forces kids to think about every step of the equation… in a really fun way.
Once you have your hopscotch ready and your little one has had some fun hopping back and forth, it's time to add in a little math.
Start simple. Ask your math whiz to hop on the numbers that add up to 10. It took Little M a minute to understand what I meant. If you have to, do a little hopping of your own as an example. Once they get the idea, continue calling out numbers while your kid bounces back and forth. Tip: If this is too challenging start with smaller numbers and make sure to mix addition facts they know well with ones they have to think about. This will make sure they are getting plenty of "wins" so they stay engaged longer.
Serious thinking. (And a very impressed Mom). After quite a long time of hopping and thinking, I decided it was time to up the challenge. I think she even impressed herself. This part requires some serious thinking. Ask your little one to make a sum of 15 using 3 numbers. And then using 4 numbers. And then 2. Change the sum and the amount of numbers they'll use to get it. Repeat and repeat and repeat.
Eek! Honestly I get so excited when learning comes together as well as our math and movement activity did (are you surprised). We played this for an hour and she insisted we play again first thing the next morning.
This is so great! I've pinned it to try out with my kkids!
This is a great activity to really help teach math. It keeps my girls active and learning at the same time. Not a bad exercise! Thanks for the post!


I've just returned from a trip to Italy, where I took a class in Raku Dolce, at La Meridiana School in Tuscany. The presenting artist was Giovanni Ciammatti.
I really felt at a loss for most of the class, as it was largely in Italian. I took notes, of course, and even that was hard, but I have some questions regarding the clay materials available in Europe, and how to begin to find suitable replacements with what is available in the U.S.
Does anyone have familiarity with the following: (this was given to me by a French woman, who translated some of it for me) KPCLK 100 France Gres Stoneware Sans Chamotte. This was the claybody used.
I know it is a stoneware without grog. It was fired at at cone 07, but when "tunked" rang like it was near its maturation point. I think I heard there was some sand in it, but it was very fine and very plastic (and black, when raw). I also think he said there was no fireclay. I would guess, that being called "stoneware" it would have a cone 10 maturation, but no one there had a clue what I was talking about when I refered to "cone 10".
I've used stoneware fired to 07 for years with my own pitfired work, and it never "rang" like this did. I am very interested in suggestions as to a few likely substitutes to try here.
Also from WBB: Ball clay from Devon, England, and from Czechoslovakia a white clay #203?
If anyone knows the characteristics of any of the above, I would sure appreciate any help.
'stoneware' is a really vague term.


Still I can't help but be afraid of what they might find in theiir biopsy of my small intestine. Do I have cancer? What if I have cancer? Do I need chemo?
I'm 23 going on 24, can I even be released from hospital for my own birthday party or do I have to stay here that long.
Will I live to see the day that I turn 30. Will I ever have children and see them grow up. I would love to have children, I want to see them grow up. I don't want to be under 30 with a deadly disease.
Who would even want me? Who would be so sick in the head that they would want to fall in love and marry a woman who's always sick and might die and leave them a single parent?
These questions keep running through my head and I cannot shut them down. I wish I could. I wish I could just have an off switch for thoughts like that, but I don't. I try my best to be happy and positive but I'm so afraid and feel so alone in the evening and just want to fall asleep and wake up healthy and above all NORMAL.
Ah yes, there's always Monty Python for the moments when only the truly surreal or silly will do, as a counterpoint to the granite block of fear.
It's so good to hear of the improvements in your health and physical symptoms - hooray for each small step: the literal and the figurative.
And the 'buts' and the questions... so very honest; so very raw. I can't think that anyone - unless they have had a similar experience - can truly imagine or put themselves in your shoes. There's such light and shadow in this post. So, thank goodness for the opposites in dark humour and for Monty Python lyrics when we most need them. Thinking of you with fingers very firmly crossed for the outcome of the biopsy you mention.
Try and keep positive and have positive people around you who make you laugh and distract you from your worries.
Lots of couples have unfortunately gone through something where one partner has cancer, and stayed together, some people have become single parents sadly, but they never wish they had not shared love with that wonderful person. If (touchwood it will never happen) my partner passed for some reason, I would still be grateful for the time we had had together! You are special and someone will want you!
I know what you mean, it happened to my parents too (my mom died of cancer) but who wold even want to date someone who already has something? Most couples get hiit by tthese things once they're already together and have no choice but to stick with it, but I don't have anyone already, I'm single. Try to find someone who isn't sick in the head and still wants too date someone who might not live to 30.
I am a firm believer that you don't get to choose who you fall in love with, that God is the matchmaker. And, "'Tis better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all." So when the time is right, you will find love. You are a beautiful, brave, intelligent and loving young woman! Who wouldn't love you?!


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Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives regarding steps that Congress should take to restore democracy and change the way we do politics in the United States by reducing the influence of money and corporations and promoting the participation of the people in politics and government.
Restore Democracy Resolution Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that Congress should enact and the states should ratify a constitutional amendment providing that any right of a corporation or other artificial entity to engage in political activity is not derived from the first amendment but from the laws of the United States and the states, and may be exercised only to the extent provided by such laws. Expresses the sense of the House that: (1) the case of Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission opened the door to the corrupting influence of money in politics; (2) Congress should have the power to regulate the raising and spending of money and in-kind equivalents with respect to federal elections; and (3) all political contributions should be publicly disclosed so that voters have complete information about who is paying for political advertisements. Expresses the sense of the House further regarding: creation of a small donor and public finance system for congressional elections, the power of Congress to implement and enforce campaign contribution and spending limits, the power of Congress to prohibit vote suppression activities, mandatory state online voter registration systems, declaration of Election Day as a legal public holiday, establishment of a federal reapportioment system that would create compact and contiguous congressional districts adhering to the existing standards of equal population, the power of the highest court of each state to reject congressional district maps that do not meet such criteria, hearings and reports on a bill or resolution by each committee to which the measure is referred, resolution of all items of difference by full conference committee membership, simultaneous House and Senate five-day work weeks in Washington and district work periods, and open rules for every bill brought to the floor of the House for a vote.
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Committee on Administration
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IntroducedMay 18th, 2017
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Introduced 05/18/2017
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This Resolution is extremely important. Allowing transparency to the public in regards to money's involvement in politics is crucial to our country's democracy.
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Trade tensions mount between U.S. and China
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By Jay Sjerven
WASHINGTON — Trade tensions between the United States and China were heightened this week as each nation prepared to impose tariffs on several key products imported from the other. World equity markets, already volatile, slumped amid concerns the tit-for-tat actions may devolve into a trade war between the world's two largest economies. Agricultural producers in the United States voiced their complaints that they and their products were needlessly caught in the crosshairs.
The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative on April 2 proposed a list of products imported from China that may be subject to additional tariffs (increases of mostly 25%). This resulted from a U.S.T.R. Section 301 investigation that concluded that China has coerced American companies into transferring their technology and intellectual property to domestic Chinese enterprises. President Trump, pointing to those findings, last month announced the United States would impose tariffs on approximately $50 billion worth of Chinese products. That total was viewed as commensurate with the economic harm caused to the U.S. economy by China's "unreasonable technology transfer policies," the U.S.T.R. said.
The U.S.T.R.'s proposed list of Chinese products to be subject to increased tariffs covers about 1,300 separate tariff lines and will undergo further review in a public notice and comment process, including a hearing.
"After completion of this process, U.S.T.R. will issue a final determination on the products subject to the additional duties," the U.S.T.R. said.
Indications were the public hearing on the proposed tariff list will be held on May 15 with public comments accepted through May 22.
Chinese sectors subject to the proposed tariffs include industries such as aerospace, information and communication technology, robotics and machinery.
China's response to the American trade threat was prompt, with the Chinese government issuing its own list comprising 106 products imported from the United States that will be subject to increased tariffs (mostly 25% increases) should the U.S. government implement its own proposed new tariffs. The principal U.S. agricultural export targeted by China was soybeans.
John Heisdorffer, an Iowa farmer and president of the American Soybean Association, said, "It should surprise no one that China immediately retaliated against our most important exports, including soybeans. We have been warning the administration and members of Congress that this would happen since the prospect for tariffs was raised. That unfortunately doesn't lend any comfort to the hundreds of thousands of soybean farmers who will be affected by these tariffs. This is no longer a hypothetical, and a 25% tariff on U.S. soybeans into China will have a devastating effect on every soybean farmer in America."
Mr. Heisdorffer urged the Trump administration to withdraw its proposed tariffs.
"China has said that its 25% tariff will only go into effect based on the course of action the administration takes," he said. "We call on President Trump to engage the Chinese in a constructive manner — not a punitive one — and achieve a positive result for soybean farmers."
Soybean futures tumbled more than 30c a bu on April 4 in the wake of the Chinese announcement, and soybean oil futures at one point dropped 1c a lb, which encouraged several soybean oil users to extend their physical coverage to about 75 days compared with about 60 days before the announcement.
U.S. Wheat Associates and the National Association of Wheat Growers said U.S. farmers are in the line of fire in what appears to be an escalating trade war with China.
"People may not know that China imported more than 61 million bus of U.S. wheat in marketing year 2016-17, making it our fourth-largest buyer in the world," said Mike Miller, U.S.W. chairman and a wheat farmer from Ritzville, Wash. "Farmers across the country have invested a lot of money and time over the years to develop a Chinese market that has great potential to buy even more American wheat. Now that effort is in jeopardy at a time when big global supplies have already pushed farmgate wheat prices down to unsustainable levels."
Jimmie Musick, president of NAWG and a wheat farmer from Sentinel, Okla., added, "America's wheat farmers are experiencing several hardships, and adding a 25% tariff on exports to China for U.S. wheat is the last thing we need during some of the worst economic times in farm country. In a trade war, agriculture is always the first target. The administration can support rural Americans by working with Chinese officials to avoid these damaging tariffs."
Mr. Miller and Mr. Musick said wheat growers strongly support addressing real concerns about China's trade policies but said their organizations preferred that the administration do that by employing processes already in place, as the administration has done by challenging China's domestic support and tariff rate quota policies through the World Trade Organization.
Jay Timmons, president and chief executive officer of the National Association of Manufacturers, said, "Manufacturers agree with President Trump that China's theft of American intellectual property and their use of unfair trade practices represent clear threats to manufacturers' competitiveness and the jobs of American manufacturing workers. Tariffs are one proposed response, but they are likely to create new challenges in the form of significant added costs for manufacturers and American consumers. In addition to these challenges, tariffs also run the risk of provoking China to take further destructive actions against American manufacturing workers.
"If the imposition of tariffs is the first bid in negotiating a more level playing field, manufacturers believe the end product must be a new, strategic approach that includes negotiating a fair, binding and enforceable rules-based trade agreement with China that requires them to end their unfair trade practices once and for all."
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Shane Lynam (b.1980) is an Irish photographer based in Dublin. His recent project Fifty High Seasons won the Gallery of Photography's Solas Ireland Award in November 2015 which included exhibitions at the Gallery of Photography in Dublin and at Fotohof Gallery in Salzburg. Fifty High Seasons was part of Circulations Festival in Paris in March 2016. Shane was a finalist in the Renaissance Photography prize in 2014 & 2015 and in the Photobook Melbourne Photography Prize 2015. Contours was nominated for the Prix Pictet in 2015. Contours was shown as a solo show at the Alliance Française in Dublin during PhotoIreland 2013.
Recent online and offline publications include The Guardian, Der Spiegel, The British Journal of Photography, The Huffington Post, Fisheye Magazine, Flak Photo, Selektor Magazine, UnlessYouWill and the collective book New Irish Works.
Alongside his art work Shane works on editorial or commercial projects, recent clients have included the New York Times Magazine, Business Week Magazine, Time Fortune Magazine, Wearedublin Magazine, Society Magazine, Airbnb and Facebook.
Shane studied Politics and Economics at University College Dublin before completing an MA in Documentary Photography at Newport School of Art, University of Wales in October 2012.


The Conflict Management Certificate Program, at the Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies believes that each person can learn how to deal with conflict in a healthy, effective manner. Stress, anger and broken relationships need not result. Instead, conflict can provide an opportunity to explore new ideas and work more competently/productively with others.
The program is based at Conrad Grebel University College, University of Waterloo, and grows out of the peace and justice tradition of the Mennonite faith.
We work in partnership with practitioners from established organizations, as well as highly respected independent trainers.
The program's expert trainers provide highly interactive workshops that draw on experiential learning models. A variety of approaches to conflict management and mediation are explored. Participants can discover ways of managing conflict that fit their interests and context.
Workshops are open to the public and can be taken for interest only or can fulfil the requirements for one or more certificate streams or work towards educational requirements for formal accreditation with provincial mediation associations.
Some workshops overlap among concentrations. As a result, those workshops can be used towards the completion of each certificate. Workshops can be taken in any order to tailor a program that meets your individual needs and interests.


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Waste Isolation Pilot Plant plans town hall on fan test results
Officials at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant nuclear repository near Carlsbad announced a town hall meeting was scheduled for next week to provide a public report on the results of testing for a ventilation fan that could be contaminated with radiation.
Use of the fan was halted in 2014, after an accidental radiological release caused by a mispackaged drum which led to a three-year shutdown of WIPP's primary operations: receiving shipments of low-level transuranic (TRU) nuclear waste and permanently disposing of it in the underground repository.
Restarting the fan was intended to increase airflow in the underground, which were limited following the 2014 incident due to radioactive contamination in parts of the facility.
More:Nuclear waste project in southeast New Mexico delayed as feds demand answers
The added airflow would allow WIPP to conduct more maintenance operations in the underground and was intended to increase worker safety underground.
"The restart of the 700-C fan will help WIPP provide additional airflow underground, improving air quality and allowing WIPP to better support (the Department of Energy's) operational mission," read a statement from WIPP.
The fan was not to be used during waste emplacement activities. It's use was expected to continue until a rebuild of WIPP's ventilation system known as the Safety Significant Confinement Ventilation System (SSCVS) was complete in the coming years.
More:New Mexico files lawsuit to block Holtec nuclear waste facility, cites risk to oil and gas
The town hall was scheduled for 6 p.m. April 15 via Zoom. Those interested can register online using the link found on WIPP's Facebook page.
The four-hour test was conducted on Jan. 31, where the fan turned on temporarily to monitor any radiation read from air monitors around its location at the WIPP site.
Operations at the site were halted at the site while the test was conducted.
In a news release from WIPP, officials reported the test to be a success with radiation levels recorded below environmental standards.
More:NWP provides technology training tool for area students
The readings showed less radiation than the 0.008 millirem does received in background radiation one would receive while standing on Sandia Peak in Albuquerque or from a standard smoke detector, the release read.
The final calculations from the test showed the fan released a dose of radiation 5,000 times lower than the WIPP's limit set by the EPA of 10 millirem per year.
"Based on the data analysis, experts from WIPP have verified that the test was successful, with only a minute, almost non-detectable, amount of radiological material emitted when the 700-C fan was initially restarted, as had been expected," read a WIPP statement.
"The data indicates that the emission was less than predicted, and more than 5,000 times below the Environmental Protection Agency limit of 10 millirem per year."
More:New Mexico alleges in court filing Los Alamos National Lab failed to clean up nuclear waste
Members of the public looking to submit comments on the fan restart in advance of Thursday's meeting were asked to do so via email to [email protected]
In a public report released Thursday, showed radiation was released by the fan at levels below expectations and government standards after samples were collected and examined at WIPP Labs in Carlsbad.
Continuous air monitors (CAMs) were used during the test, designed to trigger an alarm when radiation levels in the air spike.
More:DOE planning to increase down-blended plutonium shipments to Waste Isolation Pilot Plant
At no time during the test did the CAMs set off an alarm, the report read.
There were also no concerns with radiation exceeding "stop level set points" established by WIPP officials ahead of the test to protect workers conducting the test and working on the site.
"In summary: the test did not generate any radioactive contamination (in air or on the surface) that exceeded any controls established for the test or by operational procedure or federal regulation for the safe operation of the WIPP site," the report read.
After the test a "test and balance" will be conducted as a series of activities will be conducted to ensure the fan's stability during its use.
More:Waste Isolation Pilot Plant: Nuclear waste shipments reduced, projects delayed amid COVID-19
The project was supported by leaders both from the City of Carlsbad and the union that represents workers in the underground, despite concerns from environmentalists and government watchdog groups that the use of the fan posed and unnecessary risk of radiation exposure.
"These are our friends and family members working at WIPP and we would be the first to express concern if we felt like there was any risk at all," wrote Carlsbad Mayor Dale Janway in a letter of support to WIPP and DOE officials. "This restart will be beneficial to the workforce and does not create risk."
Rick Fuentes, president of United Steelworkers 12-9477 which represents waste handlers said in a letter of support the increased airflow was needed to ensure safe operations at WIPP.
"The additional airflow will improve air quality for employees working in the underground, which will allow us to better support Ground Control, Waste Emplacement, and Mining Activities," Fuentes wrote.
Adrian Hedden can be reached at 575-618-7631, [email protected] or @AdrianHedden on Twitter.


On September 17 citizens of the United States of America will celebrate the 226th anniversary of the signing of the U.S. Constitution. When the Constitution was signed in 1787, the population of the United States was 4 million people; today it is nearly 314 million people. Thomas Jefferson, founding father, and third President of the United States said that in order for the country and its citizens to maintain their freedoms, people need to be educated and informed.
As an educational institution, Rio Salado College not only prepares students for successful careers, but helps them learn about the government and their role as citizens.
"Responsible civic engagement can only be achieved with an in-depth understanding of the contents and foundational political concepts that are imbedded in the U.S. Constitution," said Rio Salado College Social Sciences Faculty Chair Patricia Case, Ph.D.
She went on to say that while the media plays an important role in keeping people updated on what is going on, it is necessary to have a firm understanding of the Constitution and how government works.
The college offers political science classes focused on the U.S. Constitution. It also offers courses in U.S. government for students who want to better understand the history of the United States.
Being actively engaged in something, whether it is politics, the community, or a cause can bring a sense of fulfillment to individuals and it can also lead to positive change, according to John Bastian, coordinator for Student Life & Leadership at Rio Salado College.
The Constitution guarantees that people are free to assemble for a cause, free to speak and express themselves, and to work for the improvements they may seek in their own life or in their community.
Students might want to "express their views and to give voice to those beliefs and ideas that are important to them," Bastian said.
He said that through classes, campus groups and initiatives students can learn how to be engaged in a democracy. Education about the Constitution and the U.S. Government can strengthen any student or citizen regardless of what degree they seek or academic discipline they have chosen.
In support of Constitution Day, Rio Salado College will also make available pocket-sized copies of the U.S. Constitution for pick up at all of its locations throughout Maricopa County while supplies last.


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Centennial Village Museum
Greeley History Museum
Meeker Home Museum
White-Plumb Farm Learning Center
All Greeley museums will remain closed to public access until further notice. Visit greeleygov.com/covid-19 for more.
The Meeker Home Museum is the 1870 home of Greeley's founding family. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, this unique two-story adobe brick home was built for Nathan Cook Meeker, his wife Arvilla, and their daughters Mary, Rozene, and Josephine.
In 1929 the home became Greeley's first museum. This restored home contains cherished artifacts including furnishings original to the home and used by the Meeker family. A 10-foot tall diamond dust mirror, tall case clock and Meeker's cherrywood desk are some of the prized historical treasures within the museum.
Aside from taking a guided tour of the home, visitors can also walk the grounds of the museum, where interpretive panels portray historical facts, maps and images about the town's history, Horace Greeley and the Meeker family.
1324 9th Avenue, Greeley, CO 80631
We are not scheduling in-person tours at this time. A free virtual tour option will be available in early 2021.
$8 Adult
$6 Seniors (60+)
$5 Youth (3-17)
$25 Family Rate (max. 2 adults and 4 youth)
Members receive free admission. Join today!
The first floor is handicap accessible and the second floor is accessible by stairs. A short video of the upstairs area is available.
An Intriguing History
In October 1869, Nathan Cook Meeker visited the Colorado Territory and other western states on a reporting assignment. He was impressed with the spectacular beauty and natural resources of Colorado. Before he returned east, Meeker was dreaming of a new home in the American West.
As the agricultural editor of the New York Tribune, Meeker had the financial backing and promotional support of editor Horace Greeley. His newspaper article, "A Western Colony" which first appeared in the Dec. 4, 1869 New York Tribune, was instrumental in recruiting 737 potential colonists for his proposed community in the west. His article called for like-minded people "wishing to unite in such a colony."
Meeker's dream of a Utopian farming community came to fruition in April 1870 when several hundred colonists arrived and established a new town near the confluence of the Cache la Poudre and the South Platte Rivers.
Today the home of Greeley's founding family stands in its original location and serves as a testament to Meeker's dream.
Food and beverages are not allowed in the home.
Photography: Non-flash photography welcome except in special exhibitions. No tripods or selfie sticks allowed. Commercial photography allowed with prior permission from Museum Manager.
City ordinance does not permit smoking, including electronic cigarettes and other vaping devices, in the museum or within 25 feet of any of the building entrances.
No pets allowed. Service animals are welcome.
Please silence electronic devices while in the museum.
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While more and more is known about the life and idealism of the late U.S. ambassador Chris Stevens, the identities and actions of his killers still remain a mystery.
While more and more is known about the life and idealism of the late U.S. ambassador Chris Stevens, the identities and actions of his killers still remain a mystery. As of today, the U.S. intelligence community suspects some combination of three militant groups of carrying out the siege on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi: The local extremist group Ansar al-Sharia and the al Qaeda affiliated-groups Jamal Network and al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb. But while Ansar al-Sharia is believed to be the main player, The Daily Beast's Eli Lake reports that much is unknown about its activities seven weeks after the death of Stevens and three other Americans.
The main confusion about Ansar al-Sharia's actions is due to its muddling identity as one-part social-services organization and another part extremist ideological movement. As Lake reports, the group, which translates as "supporters of Islamic law," wears many hats in Libya, such as providing security for Benghazi's hospitals and spreading sharia law to eastern Libya. "Before the attacks, the U.S. intelligence community didn't consider Ansar al-Sharia a threat to American interests, and the group wasn't a priority target for the CIA officers monitoring jihadists in Libya," U.S. officials tell Lake. Now that U.S. intelligence officials believe the group was behind the attacks, it's still difficult to go after them because it isn't thought to have significant ties to al Qaeda, a legal pre-requisite to militarily pursuing its leaders under the war resolution Congress passed after the original 9/11 attacks, granting authority to kill or capture al Qaeda and its affiliated groups.
The Associated Press has reported that the man "strongly suspected" of involvement in the attack is Ali Harzi, a Tunisian arrested in Turkey after fleeing Libya. "Harzi is believed to have been a member of the Ansar al-Sharia," an official told the AP last week. But the issue remains that no one's sure if Ansar al-Sharia is a local group that got out of hand or has ambitions of global jihad. Two experts Lake speaks with come down on both sides. "They present themselves as a group with local concerns and only interested in Benghazi issues and not a global jihad like al Qaeda," says Aaron Zelin, a fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. Mary Habeck, a former National Security Council expert, says that doesn't mean it can't be just as dangerous as an al Qaeda group. "People are not paying enough attention to these so-called local groups," she said, noting that other locally-focused group such as al Qaeda in Yemen have also carried out globally consequential missions such as the failed Christmas Day Bombing in 2009.
In any event, while finding justice for Stevens has been a painstakingly lengthy process, memory of his life's work is being well-served by a new GQ profile of him chronicling his days from the Peace Corps to the State Department. "A lanky Californian with gray hair and a smile made of teeth that seemed a half size too big for his mouth, he had a reputation for patience and calm and, as one colleague puts it, 'incessant optimism,'" writes GQ's Sean Flynn. Read the whole story here.


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Q: Why is *&x not the same as x? Short version:
The following code doesn't compile:
CComBSTR temp;
CMenu().GetMenuString(0,   temp, 0);

but this does:
CComBSTR temp;
CMenu().GetMenuString(0, *&temp, 0);

Why?

Full code:
#include <atlbase.h>
extern CComModule _Module;
#include <atlapp.h>
#include <atlwin.h>
#include <atlctrls.h>

int main() {
    CComBSTR temp;
    CMenu().GetMenuString(0, *&temp, 0);
}

GetMenuString signature (from atluser.h, from WTL):
BOOL GetMenuString(UINT nIDItem, BSTR& bstrText, UINT nFlags) const;

A: CComBSTR  might have overloaded the operator * or operator & to return a type which matches the parameter type received by GetMenuString()
So while *&x is same as x for built-in data types, it may not be the same for user defined types.

A: operator& on CComBSTR is overloaded and returns a BSTR*, so dereferencing it gives you the type you need, i.e. a BSTR.

A: Because the unary operators & and * can be overloaded, which I guess CComBSTR does.
* Update: *
For those who wonder how to get the address of a variable whose type has overloaded operator& there is TR1's std::addressof, and a Boost implementation of it for C++03 compatibility.

A: If it does not compile, then you should have a meaningful error message?
The function is defined as follows and wants BSTR&:
BOOL GetMenuString(UINT nIDItem, BSTR& bstrText, UINT nFlags) const

CComBSTR class does not cast to BSTR& itself, but through & operator followed by * operator it does.

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Klaus Østergaard, EA Consultant and External Lecturer at the IT University of Copenhagen, comments on the future challenges that IT organizations face. According to Klaus, the main challenge is that the processes that the IT department relates to now start outside of the company instead of inside, which will force the IT organizations to adapt.
Klaus Østergaard was interviewed during the Enterprise Architecture Summer School 2014 hoasted by the IT University of Copenhagen.


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Minor League Baseball recognizes the underrepresentation of women and minorities within management among our teams and leagues. As we look to advocate for the diversification of the game and business of baseball, the MiLB FIELD Program engages women and minorities and directly impacts the talent pipeline for the industry.
Minor League Baseball's FIELD (Fostering Inclusion through Education and Leadership Development) Program was created under the Minor League Baseball Diversity Initiative to engage the next generation of diverse leaders in sports business. The FIELD Program combines educational and leadership development with skill-specific training from Major League Baseball and Minor League Baseball office executives and club representatives. Within the five-day period, participants are introduced to the game and business of baseball through educational workshops, sales training and gameday preparation exercises. The participants are also tasked with creating relevant and timely gameday promotions centered on diversity and inclusion which will be considered for implementation in the upcoming season.
The FIELD Program assists its participants in breaking into the world of professional baseball by providing them the opportunity to attend the Baseball Winter Meetings, the largest gathering of baseball executives in the country. The event includes a job fair, which seeks to fill over 500 positions within the baseball industry. The FIELD Program also grants participants continued access to a vast network of sports professionals and mentorship opportunities with Minor League Baseball executives.
Of the inaugural FIELD class, 23 of the 25 students attended the 2016 Baseball Winter Meetings in National Harbor, Maryland. Students participated in 60 interviews, and seven have accepted a position with Minor League Baseball or Major League Baseball. On August 7-11, 2017, the annual program returns for its second installment, welcoming 29 students from 19 universities across the country. This group of students will also learn the business of baseball, attend the 2017 Baseball Winter Meetings in Orlando, Florida, and look to begin their careers in baseball.
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As the focus on diversity and inclusion in sports grows, Minor League Baseball has taken progressive steps to increase awareness, identify areas of improvement and strategically advance and sustain our efforts. Furthermore, we strive to create a professional and entertainment environment that can be enjoyed by all members of our communities regardless of age, gender, race, ethnicity, ability, sexual orientation or background. In all my years as a sports executive, there has never been a bigger threat to our industry than not successfully embracing the diversification of our sport. As my career winds down, I have committed to preparing our organization for the future by making diversity a top priority.
Pat O'Conner, President & CEO, Minor League Baseball


If you work on your own and need a little help to keep you from getting distracted, you may want to try this simple but effective app called 5217 that does its best to maximize your productivity throughout the day.
The 5217 app was created by Francisco Franco (yes, the Franco Kernel creator) and helps us implement 52 minutes followed by 17-minute breaks work cycles. These values may seem a bit arbitrary, but some studies show them to be the ideal values for maximum productivity.
Unlike time management apps that try to force users to work / rest, blocking what they can do / not do during each period, this app is a lot friendlier, assuming the user is committed to follow these cycles, acting only as an assistant to better achieve that goal and provide some extra help (for example, you can activate the do not disturb mode automatically). The biggest drawback of the app is that it isn't a free app; but considering its low cost and the old saying "time is money", it won't take you more than a single productivity enhanced day to have that cost recovered many times over.
The new version 3.0 should be arriving soon, with more features and also a free mode that allows anyone to try it out for 10 cycles. Be sure to do so and see if it can help you have more productive days.


Lavrans Løvlie is a founding partner of live|work and director of their Nordic office in Oslo.
Lavrans has worked as a design consultant since 1994. Before setting up live|work with Chris Downs and Ben Reason he worked as an Interaction Designer in Norway and Denmark. As a founding partner in live|work, Lavrans is has led service innovation projects for Sony Ericsson, Sony, Aviva/Norwich Union, the BBC, airport operator BAA, and the Norwegian Knowledge Centre for Health Services, Gjensidige and FINN.no. He has also worked on services for the UK Design Council, Orange, Vodafone, Mustad, Fast, as well as UK regional development agency ONE North East and DSB.
Lavrans is a board member of the Norwegian Design Council and has served on the committee responsible for the new British Standard for Service Design. During the last years, Lavrans has lectured and run seminars at the Interaction Design Institute Ivrea (Italy), Köln International School of Design (Germany), Oslo School of Architecture (Norway), University of Art and Design Helsinki(Finland), the Estonian Academy of Arts, Cranfield School of Management (UK) and Copenhagen Institute of Interacvtion design (Denmark).
He is a regular conference speaker and has appeared on CNN's "Global Office" speaking about service innovation.


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Thin-film production from firms such as Evergreen Solar and Energy Conversion Devices will develop by around 70 percent in 2007, even though polysilicon production will grow by 9 %. On a sunny day this can boost to over 35%, like energy from a million solar panels on homes, buildings and the sides of highways- a lot more solar panels than rest of world combined. Solar power has been applied in quite a few traditional technologies for centuries and has come into widespread use where other power supplies are absent, such as in remote areas and in space. Engineers in the solar power business perform on the machines applied in the manufacturing of solar panels.
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With growing price tag of crude oil and as the level of air pollution increases the ideal way to conserve power and safeguard the atmosphere is to go for a green energy residence. Students in the Renewable Energy system total a paid industry internship with such firms as biogas generation plants, wind farms, solar panel companies, analysis facilities, and municipalities. It's our motto, simply because our energy effective solutions are developed to maintain you comfortable year round.
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Boston brings hits, familiarity to Bethlehem
By Dustin Schoof
Boston is among the many classic rock bands who seem content on touring the festival circuit and playing their hits. The near-capacity crowd who showed up tonight to Musikfest didn't seem to mind -- or care.
The concert had all the trimmings of a Boston best-of collection; dropping the staples such as "Boston," "Rock & Roll Band" and "Smokin" all within the first 20 minutes. There were twin guitar solos, vocal harmonies and the occasional ballad. (the acoustically oriented "Amanda" in particular elicited many "aw's," which could be heard from those within earshot.)
That is not to diminish or take away from the musical talents of the group's members. Founding guitarist Tom Scholz proved he can still work a fretboard with the best of them, as he laid into the audience with several ripping solos throughout the night. Perched behind his kit, drummer Curly Smith steered the rhythm section with locomotive force.
Scholz pulled double duty throughout the night, switching between guitar and keyboard -- many times during the same song; including a sizzling finger workout on "Smokin," and later on the intro to the show's closing number, "Foreplay/Long Time."
However, the absence of original singer-guitarist Brad Delp (who died in 2007), coupled with Scholz being Boston's only remaining original member, made the performance come off more like a well-oiled tribute band doing their best Boston impression. To their credit, each song was played with precision without any audible botched licks or dead notes. Cuts such as "Feelin' Satisfied," "Peace of Mind," and "Surrender to Me" sounded just like they do on vinyl; as if they were being pumped out of a turntable cranked to 11, only without the pops and crackle.
Current frontman Tommy DeCarlo showed that he could handle Delp's lauded high notes with ease and did his best to keep the crowed engaged (which didn't appear to be a problem); particularly on the group's massive hit single "More Than a Feeling." The song ended with Scholz burning up his six-string a flurry of hammer-ons and bended notes as the rest of the band chugged along with him.
Though it was far from a poor or lifeless performance, there was a sense of complacency that permeated the show. The music was tight but it was tough to shake the feeling that Boston, now in its 36th year of existence, and several lineup changes later, was simply going through the motions.