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The Militant returned to the heated environs of the San Fernando Valley on Sunday afternoon as he got to visit the Wat Thai Buddhist temple weekend food court in North Hollywood, which was rumored to be closing (as outlined in his previous entry in this here blog). After a 45-minute transit adventure (more below), the Militant worked up both a hunger and thirst to consume mass quantities at his destination.
The Militant didn't even have to walk far after alighting the bus when he arrived on the grounds of the temple. He expected crazy-go-nuts level crowds but it looked like a normal Sunday, albeit the Militant arrived at around 2 p.m. Though the Militant had been to Wat Thai before to volunteer for a cultural event in 2004, he was not able to sample the food court per se.
If it were not for the dry Valley heat (and substitute it for something far more humid), this would have felt just like Asia. The crowd was predominantly Thai but also attracted a few Angelenos of different ethnicities, including white tatooed hipsters, blacks, Latinos, South Asians and Filipinos (who, were it not for their conversations in Tagalog, would have easily blended in with the Thais).
At the token booth, the Militant plopped down $13 worth of food tokens and delighted himself on mint leaf chicken with fried egg over rice, a beef and a chicken satay and fried banana. But the sheer East Valley heat alone caused the Militant to quench his thirst with a Thai shave ice desert (yes, the Militant was gonna write up Part 3 of his Ethnic Iced Dessert Quest series, but not enough data this time around...), fresh coconut juice (in a coconut core) and a Thai iced coffee. Actually, make that $12.50 worth of food as he was left with a round yellow plastic souvenir when all was said and done.
The Militant did spot a sign at the food token booth (pictured right) regarding a petition to save the food court as a good percentage of the proceeds of the token sales do go to benefit the temple, the spiritual and cultural center for some 500,000 Thais in Southern California. The Militant happily obliged to lend his real name, address and signature to the petition and asked the woman canvassing signatures more details. He asked her who exactly was shutting the food court down, but all she said was "The neighborhood is threatening to get the City to shut us down." The petition, which according to temple staff, needed 3,000 signatures, would be submitted to "Our local L.A. City councilmember" (though not mentioned by name, that meant 2nd District Councilwoman Wendy Greuel).
According to one of the Militant's reputable operatives in the Thai community, there have been three things going on in regard to both the foodcourt and the temple itself. First, the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health has recently made their annual inspection and will shut down the food court due to its findings. But the Militant's operative said such closures are normally only temporary - unless there have been gross and extreme health code violations, establishments shut down by the LACDPH almost always re-open in a matter of weeks.
The second issue was general complaints from the neighborhood regarding noise, traffic and loitering, which is interesting since Van Noord Ave., the residential cul-de-sac directly behind the temple, is home to not only temple members, but most of the temple's monks. The Militant's operative said that Wat Thai has worked hard to address the complaints of the neighborhood, which has included satellite parking and shuttle service at a nearby medical center for major festivals. The Militant wonders if the temple has been bullied in this matter as neighborhoods themselves have no authority to shut down something like the food court, only agencies like the Los Angeles Police Department, LACDPH or the Los Angeles City Department of Building and Safety.
The third issue was not directly related to the food court, but did make P.R. matters much worse for the temple, obviously attributed to bad timing. The Militant's operative also mentioned that the LAPD is currently investigating allegations by children at the temple of sexual abuse directed at a male volunteer (none of the temple's monks were named), who is a married undocumented immigrant (and could thusly face deportation regardless of whether the charges stand or not). Investigators have confiscated the temple's computers and other records, according to the Militant's operative.
The Militant's Journey
Although Wat Thai was over 10 miles from his Not Really Eastside compound, he still decided to arrive Militant-style and opted to Go (M) with a 15-minute subway ride via the Red Line and a 30-minute bus ride via Metro Local line 152. North Hollywood had changed quite a bit since the last time he was there, most notably with the completion of the Noho Commons retail center across the street from the subway station, which includes the requisite corporate coffee shop (the Los Angeles-based Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf this time, not that ubiquitous Seattle one), a Coldstone and a HOWS supermarket, which was a curious new sight for the obviously non-Valley resident Militant. It turns out, HOWS is basically a Handspring-esque incarnation of the old Hughes supermakets, which was acquired by Ralphs in the 1990s and eventually assimilated into the Borg (resistance is futile). In fact, "HOWS" is actually an acronym made up of the last names of former Hughes Family Market executives (putting to rest the gripe from transplants complaining why yet another California supermarket chain failed include an apostrophe in its name). The North Hollywood (M) station was even adorned with HOWS market ads (pictured left).
The ride on the 152 was a circuitous 8.5-mile ride through the East Valley, going up Vineland towards Sun Valley and heading due west on Roscoe to the northern border of North Hollywood. Obviously the line could have been more direct, but cuts in transit operating budgets force bus lines, especially those in the Valley, to exist as Frankenstein-like routes, patched together from segments of discontinued lines to still continue to serve their ridership in some fashion. The East Valley resembles a less-dense, dustier and scorching version of Pico-Union, peppered with taco stands and auto repair shops (in fact the entire eastern end of Roscoe is comprised exclusively of auto mechanic/body/parts/scrap businesses), albeit with the Verdugo Mountains replacing the Downtown Los Angeles skyline as the backdrop.
Yes the journey took 45 minutes, but a car trip could never yield this sort of observation, and the irate neighbors of Wat Tai couldn't blame this Militant for being a nuisance to their 'hood.
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Valleypinoy said...
There's a How's near my house, and I had no idea that it is affiliated with Hughes. Thanks for the research, Militant.
Speaking of old grocery stores, I just passed by a Lucky store on my way to get some Vietnamese sandwiches in Alhambra. I think it was on Valley Blvd. I thought they were bought out by Vons or something.
I wonder if there's an Alpha Beta somewhere.
Militant Angeleno said...
valleypinoy:
Lucky was bought out in 1999 by Albertson's (which originated in Idaho and whose corporate parent is based in Minnesota). The Lucky you saw probably was one that didn't get acquired and is run independently.
Assuming you don't live near NoHo, the HOWS near your house is probably the first one.
Mahom said...
As a parent of children attending the temple school, I suppose I should take Wat Thai's side in this, but I find myself sympathizing strongly with the neighbors.
The Food Court has gotten way out of hand and the weekend crowds simply overran the adjacent neighborhood and showed very little regard for the people living there (if I lived there, I'd be extremely unhappy about the temple). The monks are good and well-meaning people but have shown very little sensitivity or forethought. They have been way too passive in letting things deteriorate to this point.
There may be a positive side to this -- it could force Wat Thai to reexamine its original mission (which is religious, linguistic and cultural, and which has nothing to do with being a foodie Mecca). The Food Court largess may be history, but perhaps this will require L.A. Thais to return to self-reliance in support of the temple's original mssion.
mahom: Thank you for your interesting take! The Militant welcomes different points of view -- as long as they come from people who are directly connected to the issues, as you are.
RE: Lucky
Supervalu, which now owns Albertson's and says it still owns the rights to the Lucky trademark, has suddenly started coverting a handful of stores to the Lucky name (perhaps to preserve the trademark) -- including the one in Alhambra...
Check out more info here.
(http://franklinavenue.blogspot.com/2006/09/stephanie-edwards-send-in-your-resume.html)
Mark George said...
I used to visit Wat Thai regularly when I lived in L.A. Now I'm living in Thailand and see that they run things the same way at the temples here. They are big community centers with all manner of noisy activities. In Thailand the neighbors don't seem to mind. It's normal for them. In America it certainly is considered an intolerable nuisance by the neighbors.
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Eureka is a 200,000-tonne, 92-storey building in Melbourne which cost an estimated $0.5 billion to build, including 24-carat gold plating at top. It is 297.3 metres tall and when opened in 2006 it was briefly Australia's tallest building. The observation deck (Eureka Skydeck 88) occupies the entire 88th floor of the Eureka Tower and is one of the popular tourist attractions in Melbourne.
As for us, it is one of the best places to show the beauty of Melbourne to our overseas guests.
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The tower is named after the Eureka Stockade, a rebellion during the 1854 Victoria gold rush. The gold crown and red line represent the gold and the spilt blood in the battle, and the front blue and white lines the stockade's blue and white flag. Seen horizontally, the white lines resemble a ruler.
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Unusually for a tall city block, it's mostly residential. The first few floors include retail, a swimming pool and 814 car parking spaces for the 556 apartments. There are two service decks, penthouse suites on floors 82-87, an observation deck on 88, and a restaurant on the 89th floor.
The Skydeck features thirty viewfinders that help visitors to pinpoint numerous significant landmarks around all parts of Melbourne, along with several free binoculars. There is a small outside area called 'The Terrace' which is closed in high winds. There is also a glass cube called 'The Edge', which extends itself from the building to hang over the edge of the tower and add to the viewing experience.
It is said that on a clear day, you can see up to 75kms in every direction - this is Melbourne sightseeing at its finest.
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Once you arrive at Eureka Skydeck, you are free to stay there as long as you like. There is a small cafe inside, lots of chairs, sofas as well toilets.
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The app analyzes brainwaves as a phone call comes in, and depending on a person's mental state, reroutes a call. Information about brain waves is collected by a headset and sent to the smartphone via a Bluetooth connection, after which the app uses algorithms to analyze the status of a brain.
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Q: Does readarray allow to specify line delimiter? In bash read builtin has -d for us to specify line delimiter other than newline
Does readarray provide some way to specify line delimiter?

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*Is it correct that it has no an option for that purpose?

*Is there a shell default variable for that purpose, similar to IFS for field delimiter?

Thanks.

After I saw steeldriver's comment,
$ bash --version
GNU bash, version 4.4.19(1)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)
Copyright (C) 2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>

This is free software; you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

$ help readarray
readarray: readarray [-n count] [-O origin] [-s count] [-t] [-u fd] [-C callback] [-c quantum] [array]
    Read lines from a file into an array variable.

    A synonym for `mapfile'.

but later I discovered:
$ help mapfile
mapfile: mapfile [-d delim] [-n count] [-O origin] [-s count] [-t] [-u fd] [-C callback] [-c quantum] [array]
    Read lines from the standard input into an indexed array variable.

    Read lines from the standard input into the indexed array variable ARRAY, or
    from file descriptor FD if the -u option is supplied.  The variable MAPFILE
    is the default ARRAY.

    Options:
      -d delim  Use DELIM to terminate lines, instead of newline
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A: Since bash version 4.4, yes it does. From the release announcement Bash-4.4 Release Available:

The most notable new features are mapfile's ability to use an arbitrary
  record delimiter;

(readarray being a synonym for mapfile). The description in man bash is
          -d     The first character of delim is used  to  terminate  each
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Seattle suburb bans cheese ahead of NFL showdown with Green Bay
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Posted: Jan 16, 2015 / 08:17 AM CST / Updated: Jan 16, 2015 / 08:17 AM CST
SEATTLE, WA (CNN) — On Sunday the NFL's Seattle Seahawks and the Green Bay Packers will face off in the NFC Championship Game. For the Seahawks, winning would give them the chance to go back to the Super Bowl and perhaps net another Vince Lombardi Trophy.
High stakes to be sure, but officials in one Seattle suburb have taken pre-game rivalry to the next level by banning "possession of and/or consumption of cheese or cheese flavored products."
For those not making the connection between cheese and this NFL matchup, Douglas Schulze, the city manager of Bainbridge Island, Washington, spells it out in his executive order.
"On Sunday, January 18, 2015, the Seattle Seahawks opponent in the NFC Championship game will be the Green Bay Packers, aka Cheeseheads," the order states. "Fans of the Green Bay Packers are frequently seen wearing obnoxious wedge-shaped foam hats painted yellow." It is "due to this relationship" between Packers fans and cheese that the ban was enacted.
The ban only applies to employees at city hall and only on Friday, but Schulze has a plan for anyone who defies the ban and comes, pun intended, packing.
"I'm going to arrive early, and we'll have some type of cheese grater or shredder available so if anybody brings in cheeses or cheese products, we'll have to dispose of them," Schulze told CNN affiliate KOMO.
The ban may only impact a fraction of the town's 23,000 residents, but it caught the attention of Green Bay fans almost 2,000 miles away.
"Insane," "ridiculous" and "demonic" were just a few of the adjectives thrown out by distraught Cheeseheads to CNN affiliate WDJT.
"They should never ban cheese," said one man "We are going to own Seattle."
Some proposed bans of their own, such as a boycott of Seattle-based Starbucks.
But one Milwaukee radio station did one better. 94.5 the Lake will "Say No To Seattle." That means no songs from Nirvana, Pearl Jam or Heart before the big game.
The preparations aren't all about bans either. In the Bainbridge Island executive order, Schulze also calls for a "Blue Friday" celebration for all local government employees, who are encouraged to wear "Seahawks jerseys, logo gear, team colors."
But lest anyone get carried away, Schulze made it clear, in an interview with KOMO, to leave the Cheetos and Cheez-whiz at home. And don't even think about sneaking in some on a party tray. But cheese lovers needing a fix may have one remaining option: Schulze said "he has yet to scour the vending machines."
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Las Cruces family establishes endowed scholarship on anniversary of car crash
Angela Kocherga, Albuquerque Journal Published 11:21 a.m. MT Nov. 27, 2018
This week's #GivingTuesday falls on the exact date eight years ago when a car crash left Matt Olson with a traumatic brain injury and changed his family's lives forever.
But inspired by the progress the Las Cruces father has made and the dedication of student speech therapists, the Olson family established a $25,000 endowed scholarship Tuesday at New Mexico State University for graduate students who help patients like him.
"The beauty of the program is that every semester we get a new teacher," said Patty Olson, Matt's wife, noting he gets speech therapy twice a week at NMSU. "We get somebody who is excited about learning in their field."
#GivingTuesday, observed each year on the first Tuesday after Thanksgiving, was established in 2012 as a way to mark the start of the charitable giving season. It encourages people to give to the charity of their choice.
NMSU opened a giving headquarters at Corbett Center's Aggie Lounge, where it will match donations up to $500 per household to the Matt's Journey Endowed Scholarship and others at the university. Donations can also be made online.
"It's to inspire all of our donors, anyone, our students, our alumni, our friends at any level anywhere on campus," said Leslie Cervantes, NMSU associate vice president for alumni engagement and participation.
In 2010, a head-on collision injured Matt, his wife and two children.
"We're so lucky he's alive, and he's lucky he's able to do some of the things he can," said Patty Olson.
Matt Olson sustained a traumatic brain injury that makes it difficult for the 51-year-old to speak. During therapy he is learning to speak slower, enunciate and focus his attention during conversations.
Prior to the accident, he was employed as a partner at a Las Cruces insurance agency.
"To see what's happened to them that day and where Matt is now, that therapy has been a real value to their family, just a blessing all the way around," said Cervantes, who has become a family friend. Both of the Olsons' children are NMSU students. According to his family, Olson "loves to make people laugh" and in his free time reads about New Mexico history.
The Matt's Journey Endowed Scholarship will help students in NMSU's Department of Communication Disorders, which has been doing community outreach for more than 50 years.
Each student works with patients under the supervision of an NMSU clinical educator licensed in the state as a speech-language pathologist.
"Graduate students receive training so they may provide therapy in a variety of specialties, including traumatic brain injury, like what Matt is dealing with, as well as autism, Alzheimer's disease, stroke, child developmental delay, speech disorder and others," said Alfred Valdez, interim department head, in a news release announcing the endowment.
"Through this scholarship, the Olsons are not just supporting students, but also the thousands of lives each of those students will touch and change once they graduate from NMSU and work in the community."
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Army football players among 73 cadets who cheated on calculus final exam in May
Nick Bromberg
Many of the Army West Point cadets who cheated on a calculus final exam in May are athletes at the school.
West Point officials said in a letter Wednesday that 55 of the 73 students who were caught cheating on the exam this spring were athletes. And among those 55, 24 are or were football players and 17 of those players are still on the team.
Some of the unidentified players caught cheating have played in football games this year because of an October rule change. And it's possible that players implicated in the cheating scandal could also play on Thursday in the Liberty Bowl when Army takes on West Virginia.
From USA Today, which obtained a copy of the letter:
A few have played in football games this season after having been accused of cheating. Some of those players could dress and play in the Liberty Bowl on Thursday, according to Army Lt. Col. Christopher Ophardt, a West Point spokesman.
They're allowed to play because West Point's superintendent in October suspended a policy that limited or prevented cadets found in violation of the academy's honor code from representing the academy in public, including athletes at sports events.
The suspended rule would have made the players who were caught cheating on the exam ineligible to play after Nov. 30 when they were found guilty of cheating. The official punishment for everyone involved in the scandal is set to be finalized in January.
The calculus exam was administered remotely in May because of the COVID-19 pandemic and many of the students involved in the cheating were in their first year at West Point. According to a previous USA Today story, it's the biggest known cheating incident at West Point since the 1970s.
Army was initially left without a bowl game despite going 9-2 during the 2020 regular season. The Black Knights have an agreement to play in the Independence Bowl but that game was canceled on Dec. 20 because there weren't enough available teams to fill all the available bowl spots. That cancellation meant Army didn't have a postseason game for a short time until Tennessee was forced to back out of the Liberty Bowl due to COVID-19 cases among its team.
Over a dozen cadets who cheated on a calculus exam are currently members of the football team. (AP Photo/Adam Hunger)
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"Michael Jackson's Oddest Part Was His Inability To Grow Up": Neil Ratner
He believes that Jackson's own lack of childhood led to psychological problems.
A private doctor who went on tour with pop legend Michael Jackson and introduced him to the drug that went on to kill him has defended the star's bizarre behaviour by calling it a "celebrity thing".
Neil Ratner, who dubbed himself the 'Rock Doc' after his switch from a career in music to medicine, has said the way Jackson acted was "a celebrity thing" and nothing more, reports thesun.co.uk.
Ratner toured with Jackson for eight years as his private physician in the 1990s and has spoken out about the sexual abuse allegations against him almost 10 years after the singer's death.
He said he was the "Beat it" hitmaker's confidant and that the singer would often speak of his own childhood traumas and was obsessed with "childhood innocence".
"The oddest part of Michael (was) his inability to grow up. His inability to wanting to be an adult. That was his hangup. Did he like children more than adults? Probably," Ratner told the publication.
He believes that Jackson's own lack of childhood led to psychological problems.
The now-retired anaesthesiologist was a regular guest at the Neverland ranch but says he didn't witness any abuse.
It comes after the controversial documentary film "Leaving Neverland", where James Safechuck and Wade Robson alleged they were both sexually abused by Jackson when staying at the sprawling property.
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In the film, Robson and Safechuck alleged that Jackson had abused them from the ages of 10 and seven respectively after they were befriended by the King of Pop.
The Jackson family hit back at the allegations.
Ratner, who claims to have spent a lot of time in Michael's bedroom, believes he would have seen the abuse if it had occurred. But he doesn't discount that something could have happened.
The superstar, who was previously tried on child molestation charges and acquitted on every count, died in 2009 at the age of 50.
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When we moved into our new home in July 2016 with a baby very much on the way, the number one priority on my list was to build a bespoke vocal booth. Coming from a more unconventional living arrangement in London, my composer partner and I had become used to sharing a house and a studio - living, sleeping and working in one ramshackle space with guitars and brass instruments lining the walls, bartering for studio time, and (me) sleeping begrudgingly with earplugs in. Despite all of that, we recorded all sorts of great quality work there, from our own music, to Ben's Heineken commercials, pitches for toothpaste ads (I won't link to that because, literally, it will never leave your soul) to voiceovers of every genre under the sun. It was weird but it worked. Kind of.
Then one day, by some witchcraft, we found ourselves the proud owners of a big old house by the sea, where we could not only make a home for our little family, but also build the multidisciplinary studio space of our dreams. Amazing. What could possibly go wrong?
Armed with the sum total of a bed, six lamps and a tin opener, we landed in Ramsgate pretty lightly. Having put together a makeshift booth that was perfectly serviceable and 'would do for now' the first few months were spent turning the basement into an awesome space for Ben to work, and with just a few weeks of my pregnancy still to go, we were just about to get cracking on my booth when.. The Baby-Bomb landed. A tiny folded-up bird creature, who (and this is the bit that was news to me) just really wasn't down with me doing much else, apart from hanging out with her. Like, All. The. Time.
"We really need to build my vocal boo… no wait I've got to go in town for a job, can you just hold the baby a sec…Phew, thanks… so we really need to build my voc… Sorry did you just say you've got a job in for tomorrow morning Tokyo time? URGH yep that's fine but after that can we talk about my voca…" You get the idea.
The temporary booth had tricked us - it was too good.
At the start of the summer we were recommended some local carpenters (techno timber construction) who were absolute stars, sticking religiously to the design and putting in many more hours than either side had anticipated, to get it right. It's safe to say that his wasn't your average construction project.
Thanks to the pesky nature of audio waves, a vocal booth can't be a square, and the walls can't be parallel, but built at a minimum of 5 degree discrepancy from one another. The floor is a custom-made base filled with dry sand, and the ceiling had to be angled so it isn't parallel to the floor. The walls are made of triple layers of soundproofing: A sandwich of 12.5ml sound board and 15ml soundboard, with a layer of tech 50 in between them. All of this is on the outside of the frame to allow space inside for 100ml deep rockwool, and is all covered in sonically transparent fabric. The door is a heavy fire door with a double rubber-sealed rebated frame, and a heavy duty door closer. Finally there are power and audio cables set into the structure. It took weeks of research to design, two very skilled carpenters two days in the workshop to make, and one day to put it together in situ.
I never thought I'd have a room of my own to work from, let alone a sound proofed one, but already I find myself extra eager to get in there to record auditions, and so much freer in my work because of the space I have to move around in. It feels very empowering to have created the best conditions possible to work in, and in general I feel excited about our future here.
Building the booth has sparked more conversations about what we ultimately want to achieve in this building as a whole, and that includes musical collaborations with local artists - some seeds of which have already been sown. We would like to create a little hive of audio activity, and this feels like the right place to be for that. I'll be writing about the upcoming Ramsgate Festival of Sound in a few weeks, and check out my next blog post to find out about the new hardware we chose for the vocal booth!


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IDS Research
A Micro -Level Perspective on the Relationships between Presence of Armed Groups, Armed Conflict Violence, and Access to Aid in Mopti, Mali
A micro-level perspective...in Mopti, Mali.pdf
A micro-level perspective...in Mopti, Mali.pdf (1.123Mb)
Tranchant, Jean-Pierre
Gelli, Aulo
Masset, Edoardo
This paper exploits a unique panel dataset of households in Mopti whose baseline was collected in January 2012, just prior to the outset of the civil war in Mali. The follow-up survey was implemented in January 2017, in the midst of a rapidly intensifying armed conflict in the region. This paper addresses three research questions: (i) which pre-crisis characteristics of villages best explain the subsequent local presence of armed groups and local intensity of conflict-related violence? (ii) How the presence of armed groups and conflict-related violence are related to each other, and how they manifest themselves in the lives of communities? and (iii) what role the presence of armed groups and conflict-related violence play in the geographic allocation of aid? Answering these questions help us shed light on the determinants of vulnerability to conflict, on processes of armed conflict and on the relationships between aid and conflict.
https://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/20.500.12413/14539
Tranchant, J-P.; Gelli, A. and Masset, E. (2019) A Micro -Level Perspective on the Relationships between Presence of Armed Groups, Armed Conflict Violence, and Access to Aid in Mopti, Mali . IFPRI Discussion Paper 1844. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).
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http://ebrary.ifpri.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15738coll2/id/133274
The Authors. Copyright remains with the authors. The authors are free to proceed, without further IFPRI permission, to publish this paper, or any revised version of it, in outlets such as journals, books, and other publications.
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Ten years ago the Claines Millennium Quest was launched. Today it is still unsolved!
It has frustrated many of those who have been trying to solve it. Of the original 30 or so "Questors" some have given up, some passed on and some persist!
Launched in 2000 it represents a challenging journey through the history, people and facets of Claines Church and the surrounding parish. The prize, a watercolour of Claines Church by well known artist Christopher Hughes, remains unclaimed.
Still have an active and enquiring mind..
Enjoy reading Dan Brown novels..
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Imagine yourself to be a deep thinker..
Always wanted to be a detective..
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Consider you know a lot about Claines, or would like to.
Ask for a copy at Church, or email Quest@Clainesfriends.org.uk to enter. Copies are £5 + £1 postage if needed. They can also be purchased at the Mug House, Claines.
Millennium Quest author Geoff Sansome, back left, and Claines curate Nick Kaleniuk with Russell Allen, front, who is still trying to complete the quest.


Thank you for another fantastic year and holiday season! You've kept us so busy here at EA HQ, especially the last few weeks! I'm incredibly grateful for that - thank you for supporting my small business and my little team. I'm looking forward to taking some time off this holiday season to unwind and enjoy time with loved ones.
With that, shipping will be delayed the next couple of weeks. All orders placed after December 18th (at 11:59pm EST) will start shipping January 14th.
Email will be limited during this time, but I will be checking it a couple times a week. Feel free to reach out if you have any questions!
I'm so excited for 2019 and what's to come for Elisabeth Ashlie in the New Year. I will be spending some of this time off planning and brainstorming new products, curated boxes, and more!


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Sensation Pre-Flight Breifing
BrandyBoy72 posted a topic in Labs and Projects
BS Enterprises Starting funds: $84,478 Vehicle name: Sweeping Sensation Parts and Cost: Mk 1 Command Pod, Mk 16 parachute, Stack Decoupler x 2, FL-R25 RCS Fuel Tank x 1, FL-T100 Fuel Tank, FL-T400 x 3, LV-909 "Terrier" Liquid Fuel Engine, LV-T45 "Swivel" Fuel Engine, Radial Decoupler x 2, RT-10 "Hammer" Solid Fuel Booster x 2, Nose caps x 2, AV-R8 Winglet x 4 Total cost: $10,522 Ending Funds: $73,956 Design Goals: Enough rocket power and fuel with a light weight body to get into stable orbit. Launch Goals: Reach manned orbit at least 70km above Kerbin. Pilot Plan: Use initial boosters to get into atmosphere and then use remaining fuel after decoupling to lose weight and get into orbit. Illustrations: Launch Time: 10:32 am Team Members: Roman St. Croix, Brandon Bansbach Play by Play: Launched with solid fuel to get into atmosphere and then decouple to lose weight. We flew at an angle sufficient for getting into orbit, the rocket was flown to 70km and then thrusters were turned off until the apoasis was reached, to attain max height. Thrusters were turned back on and orbit was achieved soon after. Time of Flight: 25 mins Summary: Stable manned orbit by Jebodiah Kerbin Learnings: Need a lot of fuel to get into orbit, would need more if anything was wanted beyond that. What's Next? Land on the Mun. Milestone Awards: Manned launch to 50 km - $15,000 Achieving stable orbit - $20,000 Achieving stable manned orbit - $25,000 Total Awarded: $60,000 Total Funds: $133,956
Tide Pod Pre-Flight Breifing
BS Enterprises Starting funds: $60,000 Vehicle name: Tide Pod Mk1 Parts and Cost: Mk1 Command Pod, Mk16 Parachute, RT-5 "Flea" Solid Fuel Booster. Basic Fin x 4 Total cost: $1,322 Ending Funds: $58,678 Design Goals: Stable starting rocket with efficient costs and a safe return to Kerbin. Launch Goals: Reach 10km while manned. Pilot Plan: Straight up to 10km, and straight down with a parachute deployed for a safe landing. Illustrations: Launch Time: 10:56 am Team Members: Roman St. Croix, Brandon Bansbach Play by Play: First, we set the throttle to 2/3. We then launched and moved straight upwards in the atmosphere to about 12km, then traveled straight down, deploying the parachute at 5km, and it activated at 2km to bring Valentina Kerbin to a safe landing. Time of Flight: 10 minutes Summary: Our flight was a success for Kerbin kind. Learnings: We learned how to set stages and how to adjust parachute settings, just the basics. What's Next? Our next goal is to reach a height of 50km and return safely. We are slowly preparing ourselves for a trip to the Mun. Milestone Awards: Launch to 10 km - $5,000 Manned launch to 10 km - $20,000 Total Awarded: $25,000 Total Funds: $84,478
Just a Little Hot Air
BrandyBoy72 commented on etracey99's blog entry in Home is Where Your Displacement is Zero
I remember watching a Curious George episode as a kid that explained hot air balloons and it blew my mind
Ferro Fluid
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This is an example of how magnets can be used for levitation, or hovering if you will. All this is, is simply the force of the magnet overcoming the force of gravity of the magnet and the liquid. In this way, a "hover board" would be nothing other than a force keeping something off the ground, which is just what a normal force is when you have an object sitting on the floor. However, using magnets for levitation is cool because you cannot see the force acting on the object, and the force can also be transferred through things, putting your hand between something being levitated by a magnet would not stop the magnetic repulsion, which is pretty cool to think about and even cooler to see.
POLE VAULTING
Pole vaulting is a very good example of the transfer of momentum. You are transferring energy from running down the runway into bend in the pole, and then that pole rotates after you jump, making the pole push you vertically. As a pole vaulter myself, I can say it is not all that complicated, it does not require you to be a physics student to get over the bar. However, it is super fun! It must be flying in the air and feeling the push of the pole behind you as you kick your legs up, hoping to get over that height you set for yourself. Common things people will say about pole vaulting: "isn't it scary?" - It's more exhilarating than scary "What if the pole breaks?" - All poles have weight requirements, so a pole rated 150 would only be safe for someone who weighs under 150 lbs. Also these poles are extremely elastic, being made of carbon fiber or fiber glass, and it is very rare that one would break. "I'm afraid of heights" - It's not that high.. well that's subjective
Personally I prefer building wall with working outlets and light switches over building a circuit in a lab, we do this in my Electric and Alternative Energy class. To me it just makes more sense, and I guess my time in physics is what gives me a good sense of how things like the electrical guts of a wall actually work. It seems like knowing how electrons flow through a system and through a switch is the basics for any circuit, functional or theoretical. However, I like that putting together a wall in this trades class that I take is actually quite challenging to understand still. Every basic wire running through the wall has 3 component wires: a hot, a neutral, and a ground. The hot is where the electrons flow when an appliance is in use, most of the time in AC (alternating current). The neutral is where the electrons flow to leave the circuit, and the ground is essentially like another neutral, but it is like a safety device. If a wire coating were to break, exposing the wire, instead of sending out random shocks starting a fire or electrocuting someone, the electrons will flow to the ground. And the wires are not as simple as connecting things with alligator clips, these are a bit more permanent. Sometimes you need to connect up to four wires at the same time all going to different places, this calls for a pig tail, which is essentially twisting the wires together so they all run to each other and then are capped off. This skill is both technical and requires a knowledge about how electrons will flow, and I really enjoy that.
Levitating Animals
This is a video of a levitating frog. Apparently a 10 Tesla magnetic coil is being used to lift him. This is possible because pretty much all organisms have small amounts of ferromagnetic materials inside of them. And no this does not hurt the frog because the force is spread out over the entire body, but he is probably freaking out a little bit inside.
$1 Magnet vs $700 Magnet
Some magnets are more, uh, magnetic than others? Yes some magnets have a stronger magnetic force than others. Iron, nickel and cobalt atoms have more electrons orbiting in one direction than the other. This means they produce smaller currents like electromagnets. However, ferromagnetic metals like iron, nickel and cobalt like to line up into larger areas. These areas will line up, north to south like any other magnet if you put them in a strong magnetic field. You can even line up these areas yourself, maybe you've done this before, you take an actual magnet and rub it one way across a ferrous material like a paperclip, and in doing so you will line up the inside structure of the clip, making it a little magnetic for a while until it gets jumbled up again. With very strong magnets, like rare earth magnets, the structure of the alloy tends to make it very hard to change the direction of the magnetic field. This means that more of them stay lined up, and you get a stronger magnet. So leave the heavy lifting to the rare earth magnet neodymium magnets and maybe just keep the fridge magnets around to hold up your physics grade sheet...
Locker Shocker
Today at my locker, I took a stand against lockers everywhere. Every morning coming into school I visit my locker first thing to put away my jacket. I have been needing to wear a jacket for longer this year because of the ceaseless cold we've been having here in New York. To get to the point, I would come in from the cold wearing my jacket and go to my locker to put it away for the day. Like rubbing your socks on a carpet to induce a charge on yourself, the act of taking off my fleece jacket rubs it on my shirt, inducing the charge. This charge is then discharged when I touch my locker to hang up the jacket. If anyone else has also experienced this, they will know what kind of fear it can bring a person. The shock is unpleasant, yet not overly painful, but surprising nonetheless. This happens because the jacket rubs electrons off on my body, and then touching the locker which is grounded causes those electrons to leave, and in quite a hurry. So today I rebelled against this by throwing my jacket in my locker and then closing it with my show, which is insulated or something. I haven't felt a shock yet today, I wonder if I still have excess electrons...
Pendulums Are Weird
BrandyBoy72 commented on Qwayway's blog entry in A Queue of Posts
I've been watching this gif for like 5 straight minutes
HOW DO AIRCRAFT CARRIERS STAY AFLOAT??(INSANE)
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came for the boats, stayed for the science
Generators, Enough Said
BrandyBoy72 commented on HegelBot153's blog entry in AP Physics C Student Blog
Concise and profound, homerun.
1 Gauss = Mx/cm2 = 10-4T = a guy = /gous/ noun, a unit of magnetic induction 1 Tesla = measurements for magnetic fields = 104G = the SI unit of magnetic flux density = another guy 1 Newton = who knows? Wow look, these units are all named after some cool science guys, this is concurrent with many other units; Ampere, Kelvin, Pascal, Coulomb, Watt, Volt(a), Ohm, Farad(ay), Weber, Joule, and of course the Becquerel named after none other than Antoine Henri Becquerel. Seems like you gotta be a pretty smart science guy to have a unit named after you, wonder when we'll get the Nye... But anyway who is this "Maxwell" and why does he get to be known for the four equations; Gauss' Law, Gauss' Law for Magnetism, Faraday's Law, and Ampere's Law? Well apparently he was pretty cool, he pretty much found that electricity, magnetism and light are all different manifestations of the same phenomenon in his theory of Electromagnetic Radiation. And these equations have been called the "Second Great Unification in Physics". So yeah, you gotta be a rad science guy to have a unit or equation named after you. Comment down below what your unit would be called and what it would pertain to!
Madman Speculations part 1 (WARNING: Actually Insane)
This sounds very similar to a philosophical idea known as Occam's razor, you can look into it a bit, I don't trust myself to know enough about it to explain it here in the depths of the comment section.
A common use of a brush motor is in a fan, for example the type that is used to keep my laptop from overheating. But what exactly is that preventing, and what does overheating do to a system such as a laptop? The fan helps to keep internal units cooled down, heat is created when there is resistance in the different hardware inside the computer. With all the units preforming very close to each other, a lot of heat can be generated. This is why keeping any appliance that generates a lot of resistance should be turned off when not in use, they are just draining unnecessary power and can create enough heat to cause a fire if given the proper (or rather improper) conditions. The fans used by such appliances serves to cool off the internal devices to a certain extent, and don't actually create that much heat themselves, which is useful. There are alternative ways of keeping devices cooled down, fans are one type, but there are also liquid cooling systems which are less common and even a phase change unit, which uses a cooling technique similar to a refrigerator.


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"U.N. official John Ashe set to testify against the Clintons may not have died by accident."
By Jon Greenberg June 30, 2017
Blogger falsely ties death of U.N. official to Clintons
A self-described conservative blog revived a rumor from the Clinton body count archives. The blog Conservative Politicus had the stirring headline "U.N. official John Ashe set to testify against the Clintons may not have died by accident after all," on June 17.
This has the essential ingredients to meet the appetite of any conspiracy fan: Clintons, a legal case and a dead man.
That doesn't mean those elements are on the money.
Yes, Ashe died in 2016, and yes, there was a criminal case. But no, he wasn't going to testify against either Bill or Hillary Clinton.
Now, for the back story.
John Ashe represented Antigua and Barbuda at the United Nations and at one time served as president of the General Assembly. In October 2015, the FBI accused Ashe of receiving at least $500,000 in bribes to benefit a Chinese businessman named Ng Lap Seng.
Ng isn't a household name today but back in 1998, a Senate report identified him as the source of hundreds of thousands of dollars funneled through an Arkansas restaurant owner to the Democratic National Committee and the Clinton-Gore campaign in the mid 1990s. Ng visited the White House 10 times.
That is the known extent of any Clinton connection.
In June 2016, the rumor-busting website Snopes asked the office of the U.S. District Attorney for the Southern District of New York if their case involved either Clinton. A spokesman said not at all.
The complaint against Ashe makes no mention of the Clintons.
Ashe wasn't scheduled to testify against the Clintons. He was slated for what the spokesman described to Snopes as a standard pre-trial meeting.
As for Ashe's death, he died at home in June 2016 when a barbell crushed his throat. That happened near the time he was scheduled to meet with prosecutors. The death was ruled an accident.
Several conspiracy-minded posts emerged soon after his death. One about a month afterward included Ashe's name with two others who allegedly died under mysterious circumstances. The one common thread was a tie to the Clintons.
A conservative blog revived a year-old rumor that a UN official died shortly before he was going to testify against the Clintons. While the man did die and he was scheduled to meet with prosecutors, that's the extent of the accuracy here.
Prosecutors said Ashe had received at least half a million dollars in bribes, and he was headed for trial. The case had no connection to the Clintons, except that the man who allegedly provided the bribe had illegally given to Democrats about 20 years earlier.
The official autopsy found he died in an accident and no evidence suggests otherwise.
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hat's true! But there are dad's who believe everything is mother's job! Including making time for them! These men don't understand that helping you gives you that time for them. We are not piece meet hanging in a slaughter house to keep bad men sexually happy! Best f-bomb auntie ever shirt We are God's children he speaks of his plans for manand his wife in bible! If you believe in his word marriage's will last forever more! Put God first love your wife the way you love yourself. All the rest will fall in place!
I didn't know how to cook until I was in my late 20s and that only because I would always say that I didn't go off to college to become a cook (how wrong was I). I taught myself how to cook when I was going to get married 15 years ago (failed engagement). she use to love watching me , once i left her i had to go to work ! I had made breakfast i thought id get out soon.just down the street i worked in convient store plus family lived across the street.so i get home i smell food! And she had manged to baked 3 banna nut . Best f-bomb auntie ever shirt wraped them in plastic see threw .and put them on the table and said i wanna serve u mom speggette i said how theres no sause she said i opened tomatoe sause . couldnt belive it i ask was ur aunt her , no she said .i was like what!!!!! You know that worried me.
Yeah, she is high maintenance I even have a friend here in Nigeria, she is 34 year and not married but she doesn't know how to cook well and I wonder whether it will be her husband that will be cooking for her Children are only children once in their lives and will forever be adults. My daughter is 31and still remembers her father helping fix her hairand is cook for her. That's what parents should do. Booth my girls are self sufficient too. They still were taught the important stuff but we're allowed to be kids. Nowadays nobody is allowed to be a child so they end up acting like one when they get older instead!
In some northern African countries, kids as young as the age of 5 are already cooking, cleaning the house and looking after younger siblings while their parents are out at work or partying. Many grandparents hold them accountable because they are older than the younger ones. I had a friend from Congo Brazzaville who told me that when she was around 8, she would come home from school, start cleaning and cook for like 12 or more people, then have supper, clean up, do her homework and get ready for bed. She also had to keep an eye on the younger children while doing all these things because she was the eldest. As other kids become older, they get more responsibility too.


Drugmaker Johnson & Johnson reports that its experimental psoriasis medicine worked better in a midstage study than a rival drug that dominates the market for biologic drugs for immune disorders.
The drug, called guselkumab (guhs-ELL'-ku-mab), needs further testing but could join other recent treatments that offer big improvements for patients with the common, painful skin disorder.
Approval of guselkumab also would escalate the battle for tens of billions in annual sales among a half-dozen companies that sell powerful injected drugs, produced inside living cells, to treat immune disorders including rheumatoid and juvenile arthritis, Crohn's disease and colitis.
The midstage study, funded by Johnson & Johnson, found that moderate to high doses of its guselkumab cleared skin patches better than standard doses of rival AbbVie Inc.'s Humira, the world's top-selling medicine.


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State directors from Oklahoma and Missouri discussed what they have done at the state level to promote data use in the classroom. Then, staff from two local programs from these states discussed how the use of data has been integrated into their program and what the results have been. The webinar focused on how these programs use data in their classrooms, what has worked, what some of the challenges have been, and what their data show.


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Value and Opportunity linked to a Bank of England blog I never would have found on my own. The Bank of England blog did a post on how driverless cars could hurt the future of auto insurers. Last year, we did a Singular Diligence issue on U.S. car insurer Progressive (PGR). A big part of the durability section of that issue was about driverless cars.
So, here is the Bank of England blog post on driverless cars.
Auto insurance is a durable industry. The only risk of obsolescence is driverless cars. Car accidents are caused by human error. If all cars on the road were driven by computers – there would be virtually no car accidents. This would eliminate the need for auto insurance. The technical difficulties of developing driverless cars are not the biggest obstacle to their adoption. Even much simpler safety technologies like front air bags, side air bags, electronic stability control, and forward collision avoidance generally took 10 years from the time they were first introduced on a car sold to the public till the majority of new models sold in a given year included these features. So, the "tipping point" of safety feature adoption by manufacturers is usually around a decade. Complete adoption takes about 15 years. The average car in the U.S. is about 11 years old. This number has increased over time. Cars are more durable now than they were in the past. Based on these figures, it is likely that once the first driverless car is introduced by a major auto maker on a popular model it will take another 15 to 20 years before half of all cars are driverless.
Auto insurance is required by state law. States will certainly not eliminate this requirement while the majority of cars are still driven by humans. Total adoption of the technology could take up to 30 years. If enough car owners prefer to drive themselves instead of letting a computer drive their car for them, there could be resistance to any laws limiting human drivers. Without such laws, highways would include a mix of human and computer driven cars. Under such conditions, laws might still equally "fault" driverless cars for accidents involving human drivers. These legal complications mean that auto insurance would probably persist into the early stages of a mostly driverless car society.
Today, there are no commercially available driverless cars. So, the end of car insurance would likely be some point 15 to 30 years after the successful introduction of driverless cars. The vast majority of net present value in a stock comes from returns generated within the first 30 years. Even if driverless cars are successfully introduced in the U.S. soon – and that is a completely speculative assumption – it is very likely that auto insurance will persist as a legal requirement for car owners for at least the next 15 to 30 years. So, even if the eventual adoption of driverless cars is a certainty – the durability of car insurers as a long-term investment is still sufficient to generate good returns for today's investors. The shift to a driverless society is far enough in the future to justify an investment in Progressive right now.
The greatest risk to Progressive's durability is underwriting error. Progressive writes more insurance – assumes the risk of more losses – relative to its surplus (the capital buffer available to absorb losses) than other auto insurers. One way of judging the underwriting leverage of an insurer is to look at its premiums relative to its equity plus debt (its capital). Progressive writes 2 times its capital in premiums. First Acceptance writes at 1.7 times. Infinity at 1.4 times, Mercury at 1.3 times, Safety at just 1 times, while other insurers – with large non-auto businesses – like Travelers and Chubb write at well below their capital. Underwriting leverage is only a problem when an insurer's combined ratio – its losses and expenses divided by its premiums – exceeds 100. Companies with underwriting losses in a normal year must be very careful not to write too much insurance relative to the capital that can absorb those losses.
To understand the risk in Progressive, it is critical to understand the concept of a combined ratio. Insurers generate a "return on sales" (sales are called premiums in the insurance industry) in two ways. One: the policyholder pays more to the insurer than the insurer pays out in corporate expenses, commissions, advertising, and losses. Two: the insurer makes money by investing the premiums paid upfront by its policyholders in securities like common stocks, preferred stock, corporate bonds, municipal bonds, and federal government debt. Different insurers try to make their money in different ways.
Historically, Progressive has generated more than half of its return on sales from its underwriting. This is unusual. In a normal year, the average insurer loses money on its underwriting. But it more than makes up for that by investing its float. Progressive earns a lot from underwriting relative to other insurers. It earns little from investing. And Progressive takes much less investment risk than other insurers. In 2013, Progressive was 75% in bonds and these bonds were actually short-term government debt due in 2 years or less. In the last 20 years, Progressive's only major investment loss – when the company had more losses than gains on investments for the year – was during the 2008 financial crisis. Progressive held preferred stock in big banks. The company marked these securities to market. Progressive did not realize actual losses on the preferred stock. After the banks were bailed out, they continued to make payments on their preferred stock and these securities rebounded fully in value in the years since. Given today's conservative investment policy, the investing side of Progressive's business does not present any risks to the company's survival even under crisis conditions worse than 2008.
All of the long-term risk in Progressive comes from the underwriting side. Because Progressive takes in double its capital base in premiums each year, any underwriting loss would lead to a hit double that magnitude relative to capital. For example, in 1991 and 2000 Progressive had a combined ratio of about 105. This means the company had an underwriting loss equal to 5% of its sales. Because sales are twice capital, the company lost about 10% of its capital in each of those years. Obviously, investment gains offset some of this loss. Progressive maintains a ratio of debt to total capital of about 25% to 30%. When debt is 30% of total capital, a 10% destruction of capital causes a 14% destruction of equity. This is because debt only absorbs losses after all of a company's equity has been impaired.
Shareholders should focus on the amount of underwriting losses relative to equity that Progressive can cause in any one year. Assuming premiums are double capital and equity is 70% of capital, it would take a combined ratio of 112 to destroy a third of Progressive's equity (12% * 2 = 24%; 24%/0.7 = 34%). Theoretically, it is not difficult to imagine a scenario where Progressive's underwriting loss forced the company to raise capital by issuing stock and diluting its shareholders. In practice, Progressive's culture minimizes the risk of large underwriting losses relative to the company's capital cushion.
Progressive has a 96% combined ratio target. It has been remarkably consistent in averaging a combined ratio below this target. Since 1991, the company's average combined ratio was 92.6%. In the last 20 years, the average was 92.3%. In the last 15: 92.6%. In the last 10 years: 92.5%. And over the last 5 years: 93%. Since 1991, Progressive has failed to hit its 96 combined ratio 4 times. The company's combined ratio was 103.6 in 1991, 96.5 in 1992, 98.3 in 1999, and 104.4 in 2000. Progressive has yet to miss its 96 combined ratio since the turn of the millennium. Some of this consistency in underwriting may be due to pricing data. Progressive updates its prices faster than any other auto insurer. It is usually the first company to raise prices.
The most important element in Progressive's combined ratio is not competence. It is culture. The company never changes its stated goal of growing as fast as possible while keeping a combined ratio of 96. It has always said that any growth above a combined ratio of 96 must be avoided.


Our Prudent Parent weighs the perks and pitfalls of a much-loved British savings vehicle.
Yet the attractions are clear: the bonds are backed by the government (so capital is safe unless the UK goes bust), with monthly prizes from £25 to a life-changing £1 million.
Returns are tax-free, but this is not the lure it once was, as the introduction of the personal savings allowance in April 2016 allows basic-rate taxpayers to earn £1,000 (higher-rate taxpayers £500) tax-free each year, so you would need to have a significant sum stashed away in cash before tax became an issue.
Ultimately, the Achilles' heel is inflation, as most premium bond holders will see the value of their capital slowly whittled away in real terms. The annual prize fund interest rate stands at 1.4%, below the 2.3% rate of CPI inflation in November. Moreover, the prize pot is not split equally, so the interest rate of 1.4% does not reflect individual experience – in reality there are far more losers than winners.
While the prospect of landing a big win is enticing as well as fun, the main way to beat inflation over the long run in the current climate is in the stockmarket.
Premium bonds are a gamble: if you don't win, you lose interest that could have been earned elsewhere. It's not savvy to take that risk and have premium bonds forming the bulk of savings for children or grandchildren.
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A year after blockade, Qatari artists more focused, inspired
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Fire Station's director Khalifa al-Obaidli.
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Qatari artists have become more focused and inspired a year after the blockade on the country, continuously honing their skills and pursuing their passion, Fire Station's director Khalifa al-Obaidli has said.
"I don't feel it (blockade) anymore, we are focusing on our job here and the blockade has become a motivation not only for artists but for people from different sectors," he told Gulf Times in an interview.
Al-Obaidli said local artists even used art to mark the 100 days of the blockade which included creating graffitis around the Fire Station's walls.
Citing a previous exhibition, he noted that three artists portrayed the blockade as subjects in their art works, which received positive feedback from a large number of people.
Qatari artist Fatma al-Naimi's 'The Result 2' is displayed at the Artist in Residence exhibition at the Fire Station. PICTURE: Joey Aguilar
The artists' works also highlighted the people's confidence in their government and His Highness the Amir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani, according to al-Obaidli.
"We take this blockade as a motivation but we don't attack our neighbours, we are investing in ourselves and developing what we are good at rather than attacking others," he stressed.
He reiterated that the unjust blockade also serves as a good reason for the Fire Station to further invest in its artists, especially now with Doha's art scene becoming more vibrant day by day.
Al-Obaidli said that artists in Qatar now have access to countless opportunities both in Qatar and abroad, through QM's international work.
Major events and exhibitions in Qatar have also attracted many renowned artists from other countries, he added.
"We are focusing on our projects and vision, on how to develop ourselves," al-Obaidli said. "The blockade is really a motivation for us to work harder."
He noted that their biggest achievement is the gathering of local artists in the country, "working and collaborating in one community, in one city."
The Fire Station's various programmes and initiatives have also encouraged many artists to showcase their works publicly and to interact with their peers and collaborate on several projects," al-Obaidli said, adding that they discovered a lot of promising artists.
"For example, Yasser al-Mulla, an amazing artist, he was creating incredible works privately but with our programmes, he is now one of Qatar's most well-known artists," he added. "Just this year he hosted three exhibitions in Doha."


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Don't be surprised if you find a few unknown Tweets appearing on your timeline
Don't be surprised if you find a few unknown Tweets appearing on your timeline within the next few weeks and months. They most probably come from Twitter's own timeline and have been sent on to you because Twitter considers them to be relevant to the type of Tweets you engage with, or popular and therefore worth passing on to your account!
This is all part of Twitter's new policy to introduce users to Promoted Tweets from new people who you may not otherwise have come across. The new practice began as an experiment some months ago but is now to become a permanent addition to the Twitter service.
To find out more you might like to consult Twitter's Frequently Asked Question page under the query entitled "What is a Twitter timeline?"
There you will see a brief explanation talking about the new policy of adding popular or relevant Promoted Tweets to other user timelines. Twitter says that the Promoted Tweets are selected according to a range of different signals, including the number of people who are choosing to interact with the Tweet and its popularity. Twitter says the whole point of the new policy is to make each person's timeline more interesting and relevant.
It would be appear that so far the majority of the Tweets that Twitter is re-circulating are those that have been marked as favorites by people you probably are already following. This is a marked break from practices up to now when Twitter would only send on sponsored tweets or re-tweets but never from users you have not requested to follow.
Twitter says that the Promoted Tweets will appear only once on every timeline, towards the top. If you are not interested in what the Tweet has to offer you can delete the Promoted Tweet by clicking on "dismiss".
It is not yet clear how Twitter users feel about the new policy although it would be likely that many Twitter users will not be happy with the change and see it as an invasion of privacy and breach of confidentiality.
Twitter may consider that it is acting in user's best interests but users themselves do not necessarily welcome the change. How do you feel?
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Twitter has also announced that it is experimenting with direct sales from select Twitter accounts to which you have chosen to subscribe.
A small number of US Twitter users will be sent Tweets from a group of Twitter test partners (including nonprofit organizations such as The Nature Conservancy (@nature_org), as well as brands including Burberry (@burberry) and Home Depot (@HomeDepot), and artists such as Demi Lovato (@ddlovato) and Hunter Hayes (@HunterHayes) that are selling goods that are not on sale elsewhere via their Twitter accounts.
All buyers need to do is click on the 'Buy" button and they will be sent additional information about the product and will select from different shipping and payment options.
Twitter says this is all part of its efforts to add additional functionality to the site and to enhance shopping from mobile smartphones and other portable devices.
Twitter says that there are plans to expand the sales service further in the coming weeks if all goes well and initial pitches show promise.
Twitter's new sales feature is being developed in partnership with the following platforms: Stripe (@stripe), Musictoday (@Musictoday), Gumroad (@gumroad), and Fancy (fancy), and there are more partners ready and waiting to come on board shortly.
Among the many other brands, artists and non-profit organizations that have signed up to sell via Twitter are:
Brad Paisley (@bradpaisley), Beartooth (@beartoothband), Burberry (@burberry), Death From Above 1979 (@dfa1979), Dan+Shay (@DanAndShay), DonorsChoose (@DonorsChoose), Demi Lovato (@ddlovato), GLAAD (@glaad), Eminem (@eminem), Global Citizen (@GlblCtzn), GLIDE (@HomeDepot), Keith Urban (@keithurban), Kiesza (@kiesza), Megadeth (@Megadeth), Mike Stud (@mike_stud), The Nature Conservancy (@nature_org), Pharrell (@pharrell), Panic! At The Disco (@panicatthedisco), (RED) (@RED), Paramore (@paramore), Soundgarden (@soundgarden), Ryan Adams (@TheRyanAdams), The New Pornographers (@TheNewPornos), twenty one pilots (@twentyonepilots), 9/11 Day (@911Day) and Wiz Khalifa (@wizkhalifa).
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David Ramsey to Star in Standalone John Diggle Series Justice U
David Ramsey is set to star in his own John Diggle standalone series for The CW, according to a recent report from Variety.
The series will reportedly center around Diggle (Ramsey) as he looks to recruit five young metahumans to go undercover as freshmen at a prestigious university.
Ramsey, who plays Diggle (and his hero persona Spartan) in nearly all of the Arrowverse shows, including Arrow, The Flash, Legends of Tomorrow, Supergirl, Batwoman, and Superman & Lois, will star in the drama series Justice U, which is currently in development at The CW.
According to the report, Michael Narducci and Zoanne Clack are both attached to write and executive produce Justice U. Greg Berlanti, Sarah Schechter, and David Madden of Berlanti Productions are also attached as executive producers, with Geoff Johns also attached to the series.
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COVID-19 safety practices and protocols in La Cañada Flintridge
The City of La Cañada Flintridge (LCF) is committed to furthering public health education and helping our community utilize all available tools to fight COVID-19. LCF promotes and encourages vigilance in our City and the implementation of health and safety measures.
The City closely monitors all updates from local, state and national public health authorities. All LCF residents are advised to follow the requirements and guidelines set forth by these agencies as outlined below.
Wear Face Coverings
Under orders from the Los Angeles County Health Office, the use of face coverings in public is required in Los Angeles County and the City of La Cañada Flintridge to help prevent the spread of COVID-19. Covering your nose and mouth when in contact with people outside of your household, or likely to be in contact with people outside of your household, is critical. Without wearing a layer of protection, you are putting others at risk.
The Center for Disease Control recommends using cloth face coverings with multiple layers of fabric. Your cloth face covering should secure to the ears, completely cover the nose and mouth and fit snugly. Wash your hands before putting on a face covering and handle only by the ear loops or ties. Wash your hands immediately after removing. Wash face coverings by including them in regular laundry.
According to the CDC, children under 2 and those with exempting medical conditions should not wear face coverings.
Practice Social (Physical) Distancing
Social distancing is the best tool we have to mitigate the spread of COVID-19. Because the virus is so easily transmissible, avoiding close contact with others is the most effective way to guard against contracting or spreading the virus. Residents are advised to maintain a minimum of six feet of distance between themselves and anyone who is not a member of their household, especially in high-risk settings like grocery stores and public transportation. Avoid high-density gatherings and crowds of any kind, eliminate non-essential travel and limit visitors to essential caregivers and delivery or repair personnel.
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Welcome to the Continuing Education Page!
We hope you check this page for information about upcoming seminars and conferences our committee sponsors. We work to provide ULA members with continuing education opportunities throughout Utah.
Thank you for your interest in submitting a session proposal for the 2018 ULA Fall Workshop. The annual ULA Fall Workshop will be September 28, 2018 in Richfield, UT. The theme is "Enriching Your Library Services in Richfield." Sessions will be 60 minutes long. Please provide the following information regarding your proposal in an email to Erin Morris (emorris@slcpl.org) by July 23, 2018.
Please note popular workshop program topics include Marketing/Advocacy, Professional/Staff Development, Serving Youth and Children, Technology and tools.
You must be able to travel to Richfield, UT to present.
You must provide your own devices and connection cables for your presentation.
ULA does not pay honorariums or reimbursement for travel expenses.
September 28th in Richfield, UT.
To represent ULA on continuing education issues in Utah; to coordinate with the Utah State Library Division in implementing the continuing education directives of the Statewide Advisory Committee on Library and Information Services; to recommend to the Board of Directors specific proposals for association support and expenditures for continuing education opportunities for ULA members; to foster continuing education involvement by ULA members at the annual conference and at least one regional workshop; and to prepare and administer periodic needs assessment surveys.
We have an archive of past events we have sponsored and handouts related to presentations we have made. Please follow this link for more information.
We have pictures from our last Fall Conference in Utah State's Merrill-Cazier library! See them in the file list below.
The committee should consist of a chairperson appointed by the vice- president/president-elect of ULA, the Continuing Education Coordinator of the Utah State Library Division will be invited to serve as an ex officio member, and at least five additional members representing as many types of libraries as possible.