How to use technology to scaffold student learning?
made me realize that there are two types of scaffolding: 1) to successfully learn a concept and 2) to climb up levels to more complex learning about a concept.
We can have students go to website in which they practice a certain math formula through breaking the formula into its subparts. The website scaffolds the process so that they can correctly use the math formula. The students have succeeded in learning the formula.
We can have students go to another website where they have to figure out which math formula to use and apply it to real life situations. If students want help (scaffolded learning), they can go to a section which asks them questions about each formula and its use. The students have succeeded in learning information at a higher level through the scaffolding.
Another image is between a web scavenger hunt for facts and a higher level thinking webquest in which students compare and contrast information.
How do we use technology to scaffold student learning? To learn the lower level of a concept or to explore the higher more complex level of the concept?
So where do you place your videconference in your learning unit? Why is that an effective location? How does your assessment reflect that learning purpose?
Grant Wiggins stresses that teachers spend too much teaching and covering content and not enough time in assessing.
and have a shared vocabulary.
How often is everyone assessed?
What type feedback is each person given?
If the answer is often and formative, then student learning is the focus.
1) Videoconference learning does not need to be assessed since it is simply one activity in a bigger unit. My response: How can you proceed in the students' learning if you do not know what they have or have not learned? Madeline Hunter was famous for her "monitor and adjust" as critical part of the learning process before students could move on in their learning. Frequent embedded assessment is a major issue in education now.
2) The students' discussion during the videoconference shows that they understand the topic. My response: How did you assess the students' individual comments and questions during the discussion? Did everyone participate? At what higher level of thinking? Or did you get "a general feeling" about the understanding of the topic from those students that volunteered?
3) When students enjoy something such as the videoconference, they learn better. My response: I do not disagree that students enjoy videoconferencing. I want to see tangible learning results rather than just smiles. I have no problem with affective learning is that is the stated primary purpose of videoconferencing. How will you measure their emotional responses?
4) They learned so much about other students' culture through the videoconference. My response: Wonderful. Was that a major goal of the project or did it just happen? If it was a major goal, than how did you structure the videoconference to increase global awareness? What cultural attitudinal changes did you want to happen?
5) They learned so much factual information. My response: Couldn't they have learned the same amount through a good encyclopedia entry or an educational "movie"? I would hope that when we bring experts into the classroom, they can help our students to use higher level thinking skills in that topic.
Do educators see videoconferencing as candy or carrots?
Only a few of the articles and websites even mention the carrots of learning. Occasionally, there are questions like "Did this videoconference meet your educational goals?" There are many general statements like "My student learned so much!" The detail or proof is very sketchy. "We predicted what would happen." Did someone check each student's prediction or did some students volunteer? Was a whole group assessment done?
Do educators in your educational institution use videoconferencing as candy or carrots?
How can you decide? Assessment is the key.
Do your educators assess the learning from the videoconference immediately or the next few days?
Do your educators have students do follow up performance tasks based on the videoconferencing? Do they assess those tasks?


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Groton's Command Technology Rides the Wave of the Computer Age
Robert Boris was 11 years old when his father, Igor, left his job in the Navy Liaison Office at Electric Boat and, with his wife, Suzanne, started their own business out of a house on Thames Street across the street from the Submarine Veterans' Memorial. The only other employee was Robert. "Free labor," Robert recalls, laughing.
For all three of them, Robert remembered, the timing was fortuitous. It was 1981, and the computer revolution was taking off, as large mainframes gave way to smaller desktop computers. The business they started, Command Technology, began as a dealer of computer and networking equipment, and like many related businesses at the time, they rode the revolution and capitalized on it.
"We didn't know what was impossible," said Robert, who helped grow the company alongside his parents, earning degrees from Syracuse and the London School of Economics along the way. "We built a knowledge base over time. We knew businesses were going to need computers, and we saw an opportunity to get into that market."
Starting Local, Going Global
Command Technology grew rapidly through the decade, selling computer systems locally to customers such as Mitchell College and the Poquonnock Bridge Fire Department. Competition emerged quickly, though, and larger businesses were able to sell in volume.
The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 opened new markets for many companies, which Robert said coincided with the explosion in what he called 'internet technology', which nimble businesses such as Command Technologies were able to exploit. They started with software tools for East Hartford's Pratt & Whitney Aircraft which digitized and kept current their maintenance manuals, and provided similar tools to Sikorsky to digitize their design drawings.
Robert likened the business at this time to "building a moving train." The next stage was making maintenance manuals interactive via hyperlinks, which could be linked to inventories and vendors. Suddenly, with a mouse click their software could provide deeper information on an engine or a part, replacement components only another click away. "It was exactly like a Web page," Boris said, before Web pages became commonplace in business.
A Gold Standard of Customers
Over time, Command Technology's client base became less reliant on defense-related industries and more focused on content and data management for civilian clients such as Rolls Royce's helicopters division. Command Technology has worked with the manufacturing icon for more than 25 years, and currently maintains the company's global Web portal.
In the mid-00's, Boris said, the company began working with the U.S. Air Force, creating licensed software to support its F-16 and A-10 aircraft, later building a network for worldwide use.
Theirs is a classic American success story, all starting when Robert's father, Igor, after growing up in Ukraine on the Black Sea, arrived in the United States at age 15 by way of a World War II relocation camp in Lubeck, Germany. Igor eventually converted his hard-earned entrepreneurial skills into a business whose customers include the U.S. Defense Department and multinational companies.
"We made a lot of mistakes, but we just kept putting one foot in front of the other," says Robert, whose father and mother are still working and remain the sole owners of Command Technologies. "My father wasn't afraid of looking foolish. It was the immigrant mentality."
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The enduring wonder of the SSN Nautilus, the world's first operational nuclear-powered submarine, isn't what it was when it was introduced to the world in 1954. But, remarkably enough, as the vessel floats at its retirement home on the east bank of the Thames River, 67 years after its maiden voyage in Januar...Continue Reading
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A New London County business has been awarded a $532.9 million contract to build Virginia-class submarines for the U.S. Navy, according to an announcement Tuesday evening from Rep. Joe Courtney (D-CT 02). In addition to the new contract, General Dynamics Electric Boat's 2019 contract will brings the new cumulative value o...Continue Reading

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Released Digitally: May 7, 2013
"Injustice: Gods Among Us" - Chapter Seventeen
Artist: David Yardin
Catwoman is on the prowl. She comes across a petty crook, Joey Guiton, dead, in an alley, and reflects on the fact that there are more of these guys around these days. But they're nothing next to the "manicured and suited criminals who ruined them." Joey may have stolen bags and purses, but he'd always leave the credit cards. He had a code. Small-time criminals like this have always lived in fear, Catwoman reckons, but it's gotten worse now that Superman has changed. Since Joker's death, more criminals are turning up dead every night. And Catwoman blames Superman.
She breaks into the penthouse apartment of a man who "takes houses away from people." This, she says, is "the true face of evil." She empties the safe but has failed to notice that Superman has appeared. He startles her, and then they are both startled when the man who owns the penthouse turns up, gun in hand. Catwoman dives out of the window, thinking to escape them both, but Superman is fast. He flies down and catches her mid-fall but is suddenly weak. Catwoman wears Kryptonite earrings.
Escaping this time down into the sewer, Catwoman thinks she may have gotten away until a searing pain in her ear compels her to stop in order to pull out the earring and toss it into the sewage. Heat vision will do that. Superman says he just wants to talk. He breaks the news about Nightwing's death and asks her to be there to console Bruce, that it's too late now for his friendship to have any effect. Catwoman scoffs at this, calls them "idiotic, stubborn, scared little boys" and says she will go to him but demands that Superman save some of his wrath for the corporations and banks.
It's dark at Wayne Manor, and locked, and no one is answering the door. But that doesn't keep Selena Kyle out. She finds Alfred in a chair, red-eyed and booze-gripped, and reassures him that he needn't fix any tea - she's going to be looking after him for a change. Down in the cave, Batman is bloodying his fists against a punching pad, vacantly trying to empty his grief.
"You can fall apart," Selena tells him, taking off his mask. "I'll hold you together."
Story - 4: Something funny happened on the way out of this issue... I got teary-eyed. Seriously. In spite of itself, in spite of Catwoman's all-too-topical insistence that the real evildoers in a world are corporations and banks, in spite of a Superman who doesn't seem to have any idea what his remorse might signify, I still teared up big time as Batman punched out his anguish and Selena Kyle was there to catch him as he fell.
Big time. So that's something.
Because this was otherwise a pretty clunky and sanctimonious bit of social commentary. Catwoman says to Superman, "Punish all the supervillains and governments you want but save some wrath for the evil people who truly rule the world." Really? This world, one of superpowers and magic and all the rest of wonderful comic book fare (like a Joker who successfully nukes Metropolis in a two-step plan that first requires Lois Lane's heart to stop beating), is actually run by bankers? Just like a lot of people think our real world is? Please. And what about Bruce Wayne and Oliver Queen? Aren't they supposed to be a part of that high-finance set? But they're pretty good guys, right? Maybe it's gotten a little hard to tell.
And that's my beef here. In an alternate dimension tale that has so far basically hidden the fact that not only is this happening in an alternate dimension, it's an alternate dimension that the DC Universe we otherwise know is able to access (the game apparently makes this very clear, as in "Ooh, cake! Can I eat it, too?!"), we have a situation where allegiances have become murky, where the line between right and wrong has been dotted or blurred but where finance professionals and the über-wealthy as a group - capitalists, really - are still clearly scum. Does anyone doubt that Catwoman's voice here is the voice of the "narrator," dare I say of the author, given that she makes the point at least three times? It easily stands as the very theme of this chapter. I don't have any special love for bankers, but this a kind of "relevance" that I could easily do without (and not simply because of the perverse irony of this story being told in an extended advertisement for a separate product in a separate medium. Boo, capitalism!)
Art - 4: Great work on the art, though. Loses a little oomph at distance (Selena crossing the threshold of Wayne Manor, for instance), but the close-ups are terrific.


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Q: Square-free numbers in an interval Is there an explicit estimate in the literature bounding from above the number of square-free numbers in a short interval $x<n\leq x y$? I can easily do this by means of the Selberg sieve, but I do not want to reinvent the wheel.

A: Let me just show how to derive a simple bound that has been mentioned in the comments. We are trying to bound the estimate the number $Q(x,x+u)$ of squarefree integers in $(x,x+u]$.
We can now apply Selberg's sieve (as in Iwaniec-Kowalski (say), Thm. 6.4,
with $g(d) = 1/d^2$, $X = u$, $r_d = 2$ and
$|\{x<m\leq x+u: \max \{d: d^2|m\} = n\}|$,
$D$ to be set later).
We obtain
$$Q(x,x+u)\leq
 \frac{u}{H} + 2 \sum_{d\leq D} |\lambda_d|,
 $$
where
$\lambda_d = \sum_{[d_1,d_2]=d} \rho_{d_1} \rho_{d_2}$ and
$|\rho_d|\leq 1$ for all $d$, $\rho_d=0$ for $d>\sqrt{D}$ or $d$ not
square-free, and
$$\begin{aligned} H &= \sum_{d\leq \sqrt{D}} \frac{\mu^2(d)}{\prod_{p|d} p^2 (1-1/p^2)} =
 \sum_{d\leq \sqrt{D}} \mu^2(d) \sum_{m: \textrm{rad}(m)=d} \frac{1}{m^2}\\&\geq
 \sum_{d\leq \sqrt{D}} \frac{1}{d^2} \geq \zeta(2) - \frac{1}{\sqrt{D}} -
 \frac{1}{D}\end{aligned}$$
with $\textrm{rad}(m) = \prod_{p|m} p$. It does not
take much work (just some casework for $D<4$) to show that in fact $H\geq \zeta(2)-1/D$ for $D\geq 1$. Clearly
$\sum_{d\leq D}
 |\lambda_d| \leq \left(\sum_{d\leq \sqrt{D}} \rho_d\right)^2
 \leq D.$ Since $1/H\leq (\zeta(2) (1-1/(\zeta(2) \sqrt{D})))^{-1}$, it follows that
$$\begin{aligned}Q(x,x+u)&\leq \frac{u}{\zeta(2)} + 2 D + \frac{u}{\zeta(2)^2 \left(1- \frac{1}{\zeta(2) \sqrt{D}}\right)\sqrt{D} }\\  &< \frac{u}{\zeta(2)} + 2 D + \frac{u}{\sqrt{D}}.\end{aligned}$$
We set $D = (u/4)^{2/3}$, and obtain
$$Q(x,x+u) < \frac{u}{\zeta(2)} + \frac{3}{2^{1/3}} u^{2/3}.$$
(Please feel free to point how this proof can be made simpler or shorter.)

A: Also: see Cohen-Dress, "Estimations numériques du reste de la fonction sommatoire relative aux entiers sans facteurs carrés", 1988 (https://www.imo.universite-paris-saclay.fr/~biblio/numerisation/docs/Colloque-theorie-analytique-nombres_J.Coquet_1985/pdf/Colloque-theorie-analytique-nombres_J.Coquet_1985.pdf), which gives several estimates, none of them strictly better or worse than the one in my answer (each one seems to be best in some range).

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We are sad to announce the passing of our beloved Hinchman Heritage Society member Charlotte Oselador. Below is from her obituary.
Oselador, Charlotte, (Hinchman), of West Milford passed away on Christmas morning at the age of 92. Charlotte grew up in Bloomingdale and Pompton Plains, NJ, and lived in Wayne with her husband Jerry and their two sons until 1987 when she and her husband retired to Beachwood, NJ. She spent her final years in West Milford with her son and daughter-in-law. Charlotte was predeceased by her parents Joseph William and Eva Hinchman (Elmendorf), her two brothers Jack and Bill, and her husband Jerry Oselador. She is survived by her two sons, Jerry David (wife, Eleanor Wehmuller) and Peter (wife, Diane Alles), and three grandchildren, Charlene, Sophia, and Peter, all of West Milford. Charlotte was an active member of the American Legion, the Hinchman Heritage Society, and of her Church community in her younger years. She worked at Curtis Wright Aeronautical during and after the Second World War. Charlotte was an avid and imaginative reader, knitter, baker, cross-word puzzle enthusiast, and a supporter of NASA. Her generosity, her kindness, and above all her unfailing sense of humor will be sorely missed by all who knew her. May she rest in peace. Friends may call at the Richards Funeral Home, 1440 Union Valley Road, West Milford on Tuesday, December 29 from 4 – 8 PM. Funeral service on Wednesday, December 30 at 10 AM. Interment at Preakness Reformed Cemetery, Wayne. In lieu of flowers, please make a donation to your favorite charity in Charlotte's name.


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Technology for Real-Time Visual Feedback in Singing Lessons
D.M. Howard
Research Studies in Music Education
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With the invention of the telescope came an epoch in human history. To Hans Lippershey, a Dutch optician, is accorded the honour of having constructed the first astronomical telescope, which he made so early as the 2nd of October, 1608. Galileo, hearing of this new wonder, set to work, and produced and improved instrument, which he carried in triumph to Venice, where it occasioned the intensest delight.
Sir David Brewster tells us that "the interest which the exhibition of the telescope excited at Venice did not soon subside: Sirturi describes it as amounting to frenzy. When he himself had succeeded in making one of these instruments, he ascended the tower of St. Mark, where he might use it without molestation. He was recognised, however, by a crowd in the street, and such was the eagerness of their curiosity, that they took possession of the wondrous tube, and detained the impatient philosopher for several hours till they had successively witnessed its effects." 1 it was in May, 1609, that Galileo turned his telescope on the moon.
"The first observations of Galileo," says Flammarion, "did not make less noise than the discovery of America; many saw in them another discovery of a new world much more interesting than America, as it was beyond the earth. It is one of the most curious episodes of history, that of the prodigious excitement which was caused by the unveiling of the world of the moon." 2 Nor are we astonished at their astonishment when they beheld mountains which have since been found to be from 15,000 to 26,000 feet in height--highlands of the moon indeed--far higher in proportion to the moon's diameter than any elevations on the earth; when they saw the surface of the satellite scooped out into deep valleys, or spread over with vast walled plains from 130 to 140 miles across.
No wonder that the followers of Aristotle resented the explosion of their preconceived beliefs; for their master had taught that the moon was perfectly spherical and smooth, and that the spots were merely reflections of our own mountains. Other ancient philosophers had said that these patches were shadows of opaque bodies floating between the sun and the moon. But to the credit of Democritus be it remembered that he propounded the opinion that the spots were diversities or inequalities upon the lunar surface; and thus anticipated by twenty centuries the disclosures of the telescope.
The invention of this invaluable appliance we have regarded as marking a great modern epoch; and what is usually written on the moon is mainly a summary of results obtained through telescopic observation, aided by other apparatus, and conducted by learned men. We now purpose to go back to the ages when there were neither reflectors nor refractors in existence; and to travel beyond the bounds of ascertained fact into the regions of fiction, where abide the shades of superstition and the dreamy forms of myth. Having promised a contribution to light literature, we shall give to fancy a free rein, and levy taxes upon poets and story-tellers, wits and humorists wherever they may be of service. Much will have to be said, in the first place, of the man in the moon, whom we must view as he has been manifested in the mask of mirth, and also in the mirror of mythology. Then we shall present the woman in the moon, who is less known than the immortal man. Next a hare will be started; afterwards a frog, and other objects; and when we reach the end of our excursion, if we mistake not, it will be confessed that the moon has created more merriment, more marvel, and more mystery, than all of the other orbs taken together.
But before we forget the fair moon in the society of its famous man, let us soothe our spirits in sweet oblivion of discussions and dissertations, while we survey its argentine glories with poetic rapture.


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Q: Question Limit exceeded but I haven't asked any! I've literally just signed up to Stack Overflow and I tried asking my first question, unfortunately I keep getting this error message

You can only ask 50 questions in a 30-day period.

Having just signed up, I haven't asked any questions yet, and definitely not 50!
I am currently living in the halls at my university, could this be causing the problem?
And if so, is there anyway I can get around this as I really need some help :(

A: There are something like 134 different accounts sharing the same IP as you. In order to prevent abuse, this limit is imposed on both an account and IP-level - otherwise, prolific askers would just create new accounts to get around it.
Try logging on as close to 0:00 UTC as possible - if you're the first one to get in, you'll be able to post.
Also, find the guy who posted 15 questions in the past 30 days and send him on a really long, time-consuming errand. Give him a ring that needs to be destroyed in the fires of Mount Doom if need-be.
You may also find that some limits are raised a bit if you're able to contribute useful answers or edits...


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Exploring Multi-Unit Pharmacy Ownership; Buying a Second or Third Pharmacy
By John Pross | May 18, 2018
What to consider before taking the leap into multiple-pharmacy ownership.
While owners of independent pharmacies may be continually on the lookout for ways to grow their business, one means to this end may escape their notice — expansion. In rural areas, growth through new patient acquisition can be limited by demographic realities, while intense competition may obstruct urban pharmacies' ability to grow script volume. To counter these obstacles, pharmacy owners could consider increasing the care they provide by expanding ownership to another location.
Purchasing another pharmacy can enable community pharmacy owners to achieve professional and financial growth and potentially double or triple their script volume. Expansion may also introduce them to new patients or provide an opportunity to enter new market segments such as long-term care, compounding or specialty pharmacy.
In some situations, it makes sense for an independent pharmacist to start a completely new operation — for example, within a newly built medical office park. However, this will require a solid business plan and an abundance of patience, since it could take years of steady brand growth before achieving reasonable profitability levels.
Buying an existing community pharmacy means acquiring an established business that may already have positive cash flow — or the potential to achieve it with some operational improvements.
Lay the groundwork
Before adding another operation, community pharmacists should thoroughly analyze the profitability of their existing business. What is the current cash flow? Is it operating in the red? Negative cash flow on a single pharmacy will dissuade a lender from financing the acquisition of another location.
The next step is to determine the factors behind the current business' success and determine how to apply them to a new acquisition.
The quality and capability of pharmacy staff can be a determining factor in the success of many independent pharmacies. Pharmacy owners should consider whether the original pharmacy has a "deep bench" so that some of the star performers could transfer to the new location.
It's never too early to start establishing relationships with lenders who might provide financing for a second or third pharmacy purchase. Very few independent pharmacists have the resources to buy another store in a pure cash transaction. Most work with banks or specialized pharmacy lenders to obtain the necessary financing. Lenders will require credit reports and financial statements from the current business. Just as important, they'll want to familiarize themselves with the owner to gauge their responsibility and trustworthiness.
Establishing relationships with lenders now will make it easier for community pharmacists to line up financing quickly if a good opportunity presents itself. Speed can be key to closing a deal. Competition from other potential buyers can be intense as attractive pharmacies with positive cash flow, strong growth potential and/or a great location are likely to sell quickly.
Absentee or hands-on?
The biggest decision independent pharmacists face when considering opening a second or third location is how to operate. There are essentially three options:
Absentee – An absentee owner delegates the day-to-day operations of the second or third pharmacy to someone else. This could be an employee from the original pharmacy who is ready to advance to a leadership role. The owner might even consider giving the individual an equity stake as an incentive for high performance.
Alternatively, the owner could bring in a partner — a colleague or former pharmacy school classmate. The individual should possess the character, values and work ethic necessary for success at the new location.
The challenge with absentee ownership is that the owner may not identify problems at the new pharmacy as quickly as they would if they were regularly on-site. Still, if the new acquisition is already generating positive cash flow and filling a high volume of scripts, the absentee ownership option will continue to be profitable while the new owner gradually makes changes to operations and work flow.
Hands-on (Owner Operator)– In this scenario, the owner runs the new pharmacy while delegating management at the original location to someone else. The hope is that the owner has established strong enough procedures, controls and expectations there to keep everything running smoothly.
Semi-absentee – For some owners, dividing time between each location and managing both is the most appealing option. Theoretically, semi-absentee ownership offers plenty of advantages — the owner will be on-site at the new location to implement improvements and address problems while still spending time at the original pharmacy to maintain operations there.
The challenge is that juggling dual leadership roles can overextend the owner and possibly lead to burnout. Semi-absentee ownership may be feasible for an owner with two pharmacies, but it becomes impractical for those running three or more.
Greater impact on the community, better financial opportunities, but more management challenges
Independent pharmacists want to serve their communities. Owning a second or third pharmacy creates the opportunity to positively impact the lives of more patients by bringing programs and systems that have proven successful in one location and expanding them to a broader audience.
Owning two or more pharmacies can also offer attractive financial benefits. With sufficient patient volume and good operational efficiency, a second or third pharmacy should generate enough gross profit to cover all operating expenses, debt service, and management fees to the new owner and still show an operating profit. The management fee typically is in the range of 1%-2% of revenue which, ultimately, can provide recurring income to the new owner.
Independent pharmacists who own two or more pharmacies should also be able to leverage their increased buying power to achieve economies of scale, lower the cost of goods purchased and increase rebate amounts. All of these steps should help pharmacists widen their gross margins and improve profitability.
Community pharmacists still need to plan carefully before making the leap to expanding operations. While competition from other would-be buyers can increase pressure to make impulsive purchase decisions, conducting proper due diligence is essential. It's critical to gain a full understanding of the local market, existing or impending competition and community demographics before making an offer.
As community pharmacists try to project future cash flow from a prospective purchase, they should consider the risks associated with any change of pharmacy ownership. Staff turnover at the purchased pharmacy could increase when the current owner sells, which could disrupt operations and lead to attrition among the existing patient base. In addition, a new owner that makes quick and aggressive changes to policy, procedure, operations and workflow may negatively impact customer service and employee relations. Pharmacists purchasing a second or third location should have a plan for retaining and expanding the patient population at their new acquisition.
Successfully moving from operating a single pharmacy to running multiple operations requires community pharmacists to adapt to changing circumstances, but not compromise when it comes to upholding high standards and delivering superior customer service. Multiple-pharmacy ownership is growing from year to year, and in our increasingly competitive marketplace, more independent owners should consider this avenue for enhanced growth potential.
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I'll admit first I'm not much of a tech-y guy.
I managed to connect my wiimote and nunchuck to Dolphin with no problem. I didn't set up the IR (which I think is something to do with the balance board?) but it didn't really matter as I didn't need that for the game I was playing (Twilight Princess).
In the game it is required for you to flick the wiimote upwards when fishing. I had no problem with this normally, but at a certain scene where it should trigger Link catching a fish, Dolphin immediately crashed.
Can anyone help me with this? I'm new to dolphin and only downloaded it today.
(04-05-2016, 04:33 AM)TheFourthTriangle Wrote: I didn't set up the IR (which I think is something to do with the balance board?) but it didn't really matter as I didn't need that for the game I was playing (Twilight Princess).
No, the IR bar is for the Wii Remote's pointer, which Twilight Princess uses. That's not what's causing your crash, though.
Sorry, I'm not entirely sure where exactly to right click? There's no mention of the game in the main dolphin window, and in the game window itself right-clicking does nothing.
In that case, you first have to click on "browse" then add the directory which contains your game image.
(04-05-2016, 06:23 AM)leolam Wrote: In that case, you first have to click on "browse" then add the directory which contains your game image.
Okay, so FCFD757C013A2905C6DAFCFD4555BC67. That doesn't match any MD5 I can find, so either you need to redump the game or the MD5 is calculated wrong.
When adding directories to Dolphin, you can only select directories, not files. Once you've selected a directory, all files that are in it will show up in Dolphin's game list.
(04-05-2016, 06:00 PM)JosJuice Wrote: Okay, so FCFD757C013A2905C6DAFCFD4555BC67. That doesn't match any MD5 I can find, so either you need to redump the game or the MD5 is calculated wrong.


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L'indulto consiste in un provvedimento generale che causa l'estinzione della pena. L'indulto è ispirato, in origine, a ragioni di opportunità politica e pacificazione sociale.

Nell'ordinamento italiano
L'indulto è previsto nell'ordinamento italiano dall'art. 79 della Costituzione e dell'art. 174 del Codice penale.

In senso proprio, è un provvedimento con il quale il Parlamento condona o commuta parte della pena per i reati commessi prima della presentazione del disegno di legge di indulto. La Costituzione richiede una maggioranza dei due terzi dei componenti di ciascuna Camera, per l'approvazione della legge di concessione dell'indulto. La legge di concessione dell'indulto non può essere oggetto di referendum abrogativo, come previsto dall'art. 75 comma 2 della Costituzione.

Per l'applicazione dell'indulto è competente il giudice dell'esecuzione, il quale procede senza formalità, secondo la procedura de plano prevista anche per l'amnistia.

L'indulto è un provvedimento di indulgenza a carattere generale e si differenzia dall'amnistia perché si limita ad estinguere in tutto o in parte la pena principale, che viene in tutto o in parte condonata oppure commutata in altra specie di pena consentita dalla legge e pertanto non estingue le pene accessorie, salvo che la legge di concessione non disponga diversamente e, a maggior ragione, lascia sussistere gli altri effetti penali della condanna, mentre l'amnistia estingue il reato. Può essere condizionato, e spesso è appunto condizionato al non commettere altri reati in un periodo, anche abbastanza lungo, immediatamente successivo, pena la revoca del beneficio.

Diversamente dalla grazia, che è un provvedimento individuale, l'indulto è un istituto di carattere generale e si riferisce a tutti i condannati che si trovino in determinate condizioni di pena.

Prima della riforma dell'articolo 79 della Costituzione operata dalla legge costituzionale 6 marzo 1992, n. 1, i provvedimenti di indulto venivano concessi dal Presidente della repubblica su delega del Parlamento.

L'indulto del 2006
Il 29 luglio 2006 il Parlamento ha approvato con un'ampia maggioranza trasversale la legge 241/2006 che ha introdotto un provvedimento di indulto per i reati commessi fino al 2 maggio dello stesso anno. In particolare è stato concesso un indulto non superiore ai tre anni per le pene detentive e fino a 10.000 euro per le pene pecuniarie.

Sono peraltro esclusi dal beneficio i reati in materia di terrorismo (compresa l'associazione eversiva), strage, banda armata, schiavitù, prostituzione minorile, pedo-pornografia, tratta di persone, violenza sessuale, sequestro di persona, riciclaggio, produzione, traffico e detenzione di sostanze stupefacenti, usura e quelli concernenti la mafia. La legge stabilisce anche che l'indulto non si applica alle pene accessorie, come l'interdizione dai pubblici uffici. È prevista inoltre la revoca del beneficio in caso di commissione, entro cinque anni dalla data di entrata in vigore della legge, di un delitto non colposo per il quale si riporti una condanna a pena detentiva non inferiore a due anni.

Papa Giovanni Paolo II, incontrando i due rami delle Camere in seduta congiunta nel corso della XIV Legislatura, aveva chiesto in modo accorato ai parlamentari un "segno di clemenza".

Critiche
La votazione sull'indulto, pur avendo raccolto una maggioranza trasversale molto ampia, è stata accompagnata da polemiche e critiche, all'interno e fuori dalle sedi della politica: in particolare, le controversie riguardano l'ampiezza del provvedimento che ha riguardato anche reati gravi (ad es. l'omicidio volontario) ma non alcuni reati minori e le accuse di aver strumentalizzato l'appello di Giovanni Paolo II. Queste ultime risultano, tuttavia, inconsistenti, dato che lo stesso Giovanni Paolo II, nel discorso tenuto in un Parlamento riunito in seduta comune, il 14 novembre del 2002, ha esplicitamente affermato che «merita attenzione la situazione delle carceri, nelle quali i detenuti vivono spesso in condizioni di penoso sovraffollamento. Un segno di clemenza verso di loro mediante una riduzione della pena costituirebbe una chiara manifestazione di sensibilità, che non mancherebbe di stimolarne l'impegno di personale ricupero in vista di un positivo reinserimento nella società». Inoltre, all'indomani dell'approvazione dell'indulto, il Vaticano ha espresso «Grande soddisfazione» per mezzo del cardinale Renato Raffaele Martino, presidente della Pontificia Commissione Giustizia e Pace

Il Csm cinque mesi dopo l'approvazione della legge denunciò che il provvedimento di indulto, azzerando la pena senza estinguere il reato, rendeva comunque necessario il completamento dell'iter processuale, distogliendo le risorse degli uffici giudiziari da altri processi sui quali non di rado gravano concreti rischi di prescrizione.

Inoltre,  hanno stigmatizzato l'indebolimento del principio di certezza del diritto che instillerebbe una maggiore propensione a compiere attività criminose. Tuttavia, va precisato che l'indulto non copre i reati compiuti dopo la promulgazione della legge, i quali sono quindi soggetti alla pena completa e anzi comportano la revoca dell'eventuale beneficio avuto.

Nonostante ciò, i primi studi quantitativi sugli effetti dell'indulto hanno rilevato dati positivi. Secondo il resoconto della situazione carceraria pre e post-indulto pubblicato dal Dipartimento di Amministrazione Penitenziaria, nei primi 5 mesi il tasso di recidiva (ossia la percentuale di persone che commettono un altro reato e tornano in carcere) è stato dell'12,9%, contro una media superiore al 30% nei precedenti provvedimenti di indulto. Inoltre il tasso di recidiva è stato più alto tra i cittadini italiani che tra gli immigrati, e tra questi ultimi l'89% dei recidivi hanno avuto la revoca del beneficio per reati legati esclusivamente all'immigrazione clandestina.

Altre analisi tuttavia smentiscono l'ottimismo dei resoconti del Dipartimento di Amministrazione Penitenziaria e mostrano il repentino aumento di alcune tipologie di reati, tra le quali le rapine in banca, nei mesi successivi alla concessione del provvedimento di clemenza.

A ottobre 2007 il Capo del Dipartimento dell'amministrazione penitenziaria, Ettore Ferrara, affermò che entro la prima metà del 2009, se non fosse accaduto qualche fatto nuovo e senza interventi strutturali, avrebbe potuto ripresentarsi la situazione di sovraffollamento carcerario precedente l'indulto, così come in effetti è stato.

I provvedimenti di indulto concessi in Italia dal 1º gennaio 1942 ad oggi

Note

Testi normativi
 Codice penale

Voci correlate
 Amnistia
 Grazia (diritto)

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni

 Flavio Piraino, Amnistia, indulto e popolazione detenuta nell'Italia repubblicana, su altrodiritto.unifi.it

Cause di estinzione della pena
Diritto costituzionale

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Cannabinoids /
The Most Effective CBD-to-THC Ratio, According to Experts
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The CBD-to-THC tells people what type of cannabis they're using and what effect it will likely have. Image Credit: By Nuttawut Uttamaharad
For the many who reside in states without legal recreational cannabis, the only type of cannabinoid-based therapy we're able to get our hands on comes in the form of hemp-based CBD products. This makes our cannabis decision-making process pretty simple; all we really have to worry about is what brand to buy and what dose to take.
But if you qualify for medical cannabis or live in a state that has recreational cannabis, you'll have way more options.
And I mean way more options.
Visit a dispensary and you'll be confronted with countless combinations of strains, dosages, delivery methods, and CBD-to-THC ratios. That last one can be a real doozy — especially when you realize these ratios can range anywhere from 30:1 to more than 1:10 CBD-to-THC.
But what does the CBD-to-THC ratio really tell us? You may have read that a 1:1 ratio is the "golden ratio" for cannabis, but is that really true?
What's With All the CBD:THC Ratios?
If you're wondering why the CBD-to-THC ratio is important in the first place, it tells people what type of cannabis they're using and what effect it will likely have. THC is the main intoxicating compound in cannabis — aka, the one that makes you high — and CBD is not intoxicating. In other words, CBD will not get you high.
A high CBD-to-THC ratio means that the product will be less intoxicating (or even non-intoxicating entirely). A "high" ratio of CBD to THC includes products like those listed as:
Once you get down to ratios like 4:1, 2:1, and 1:1, you may experience some of the classic symptoms of THC — including euphoria, hunger, dry mouth, and fatigue — and possibly even the uncomfortable side effects like panic, paranoia, and even delusions if you take too much (luckily, avoiding them is pretty easy).
How CBD and THC Affect You Differently
After reading the paragraph above, it's easy to assume that CBD is just THC without the "high." But actually, it's much more complicated than that.
CBD and THC are distinct compounds with very different activities on the body and brain. THC can stoke anxiety and temporary psychosis, while CBD is known for its anti-anxiety and anti-psychotic effects. According to the authors of a 2012 study, CBD can even "prevent psychotic-like symptoms induced by high doses of THC," by acting on the body's CB1 receptors as an allosteric modulator.
(English translation: CBD changes the receptors' configuration so THC cannot bind to them as efficiently and thus freak you out.)
This symbiotic relationship is known as the "entourage effect." Coined in 1998, the term tells us that cannabinoids work better together than in isolation. Studies have shown that combining CBD and THC leads to fewer side effects and superior therapeutic qualities. In just one example, a 2010 study that tested different cannabis preparations for patients with pain not responsive to other treatments showed that THC-only treatment was no better than the placebo while the THC-CBD combination treatment showed significant beneficial effects. In another study — published in the journal Biochemical Pharmacology—that tested the effects of cannabis on breast cancer cells, the results showed that a full-cannabis extract treatment worked better than isolated THC.
So Is a 1:1 Ratio the Best for Cannabis?
After reading about the entourage effect and how CBD and THC work together, it seems intuitive that a 1:1 ratio would the the best since it contains equal amounts of both cannabinoids. You wouldn't be alone in thinking that. Such a mix is often described as the "golden ratio." Leafly described it as the ratio that "tames the euphoria of THC while calming anxiety."
But according to Sarah DeFrancesco, ND, a naturopathic doctor and cannabis expert practicing in Portland, OR: "It's oversimplifying it to say 1:1 is the best ratio."
"It depends on the desired results," DeFrancesco says. In reality, the so-called best ratio of CBD to THC depends on the reason you're using cannabis in the first place.
"For example, lower THC may prevent increased anxiety and higher THC may be desirable for those seeking pain relief," says DeFrancesco.
How Do You Find the Best CBD:THC Ratio for You?
So if 1:1 isn't the universally optimal ratio, how do you find the best ratio for you? Unfortunately, a 2017 survey showed that most doctors don't feel qualified to instruct their patients on different CBD:THC ratios and other aspects of taking cannabis, such as dosage and delivery methods (perhaps unsurprisingly, studies show most medical cannabis patients don't understand dosage, either).
Finding the best CBD:THC ratio for you is best approached through good old-fashioned trial and error. To start, ask yourself questions like:
Are you taking it in the morning to increase mobility or fend off inflammation?
Are you taking it at night for sleep or pain relief?
If you fall into that second category, you might opt for a higher THC ratio. To give you an idea, the description of Care by Design's 1:1 oil (which is, somewhat curiously, marketed as "CBD Drops") says it's best taken at night because it "may be psychoactive" and cause sleepiness.
If you're looking for something to provide relief as you go about your day, a higher ratio of CBD might be the way to go since it won't leave you as impaired (or possibly at all). Case in point: Care by Design's oil also comes in a 8:1 variety, which is recommended for daytime use for "people looking to minimize mood altering effects."
Regardless of the product you choose, cannabis experts always recommend following the rule "start low and go slow." That's because at this point, there's no scientifically sound way to predict how you might respond to varying ratios of CBD to THC. As Dr. Perry Soloon, a board-certified anesthesiologist and cannabis expert, told cannabisMD: "It has nothing to do with sex, age, weight, height, or any of the other parameters you might expert."
Instead, more elusive factors like endocannabinoid tone — which refers to the overall health of your endocannabinoid system — appear to play an important role. And since scientists don't have a reliable way to measure that yet, your only real option is to (cautiously) find the right balance on your own.
Should We Be Thinking Beyond CBD and THC?
There is one last point to make, and that's that the effect we get from cannabis is not solely based on the interplay of the two compounds discussed above.
"It's not all about the CBD:THC ratio," says Dr. DeFrancesco. According to her, other cannabinoids (like CBG or CBN) and terpenes (like limonene or myrcene) also play an important role in the benefits you experience, which is why you always want to opt for a full spectrum extract if you do use cannabis — regardless of the CBD-to-THC ratio.
As DeFrancesco explains it, "The planet designed itself with all of its constituents over thousands of years for a reason."
Gretchen Lidicker
Gretchen Lidicker is a writer, researcher, and author of the book CBD Oil Everyday Secrets: A Lifestyle Guide To Hemp-Derived Health & Wellness. She has a masters degree in physiology and complementary and alternative medicine from Georgetown University and is the former health editor at mindbodygreen, one of the world's biggest health and wellness media companies. She's been featured in the New York Times, Marie Claire, Forbes, SELF, The Times, Huffington Post, and Travel + Leisure.
In addition to CBD, some companies — including Circle Labs — are now offering CBDa tinctures. Image Credit: By By HQuality on shutterstock.
CBD vs. CBDa: What's the Difference?
Liquid terpenes might add more than flavor to your cannabis products. Image Credit: By Bowonpat Sakaew
How Liquid Terpenes Could Improve Cannabis
Some research suggests cannabis terpenes could add therapeutic value to topicals. Image Credit: By PRO Stock Professional on shutterstock.
Cannabis Terpenes in Topicals: Which Are Best?
In the cannabis plant, humulene also affects aroma — it's usually described in terms like "earthy," "musky," or perhaps unsurprisingly, "hopsy." Image Credit: By SunnyToys on shutterstock.
Know Your Cannabis Terpenes: Humulene
CBG, or cannabigerol, is a rare, non-psychoactive cannabinoid and it could be the next CBD. Image Credit: By content_creator on shutterstock.
Understanding CBG, the 'Mother of All Cannabinoids'


A few years ago, I completed an MBA at Melbourne Business School (MBS). As a member of their alumni community, I am often invited to events that are held to further graduates' knowledge and understanding of specific topics. So when I was recently invited to a presentation titled "Operations Efficiency and Customer Satisfaction" that involved speakers who were experts in their respective industries, I jumped at the chance to attend.
This chart plots each competitor in an industry in terms of their responsiveness and efficiency. The curved line represents the frontier beyond which it is not possible to go at this point in time. Clearly, competitor C is in the optimal position.
Some firms on the frontier experience trade-offs that see them either becoming more responsive at the expense of efficiency or vice versa. So they move either left or right along the frontier.
And that's where lean comes in. It helps companies to become more responsive to customer needs and more efficient by redesigning the way they do things.
Lean organisations understand customer value and focus their key processes to continuously increase it. The ultimate goal is to provide perfect value to the customer through a perfect value creation process that has zero waste.
As the speakers presented, I realised how much lean has in common with customer experience.
– MUST have an understanding of supplier process and manufacturing capabilities compared to marketplace demand.
She said that you are only as good as your weakest link so the extended team needs to understand WIIFM (what's in it for me).
The connections with CX are obvious, aren't they? Certainly for the first three points. I'd relate the fourth to understanding your employees' capabilities and ensuring they are trained and empowered to satisfy customers' needs. And her point about only being as good as your weakest link relates directly to CX.
Seamus Power, the CEO of Branach, spoke about lean transformations and said that culture and strategy (understanding WHY you want to adopt lean) formed the foundations of any successful transformation Beyond that, communication and leadership were both common to successful change.
Again, anyone with a basic understanding of CX management can see that the parallels are abundant.
This is critical for the success of any firm. Putting customers first by truly understanding their needs is pivotal for delivering the needs efficiently which lean does a good job of.
This sequencing is very important. Without a clear coherent strategy that is communicated across the layers, lean may not get you what you actually want. It is important to connect company's strategy and goals across the organization.
Choosing the right people, respecting them and providing training to enhance their skills and empowering them is critical for achieving success. Forging meaningful partnerships with upstream and downstream partners is also equally critical.
People behave according to what they are measured and incentivised. If you don't have the right KPIs that encourages a customer-centric approach through boundaryless collaboration and team work, you are not going to achieve goal congruence.
Last but not the least, the leadership and top management commitment towards lean is critical for its successful execution. It should not be perceived as the flavor of the month. The leaders need to show long term commitment and have the ability to steer their team towards desired destination.
With a deep focus on customer needs at their core, lean and customer experience are profoundly intertwined. For further reading on this topic I recommend Lean and the Customer Experience Journey, LEAN versus Customer Experience Management and my interview of Olivia McMillan, the Senior Manager – Customer Experience at REA Group.
My thanks to Kannan Sethuraman, Annette Sando and Seamus Power for allowing me to reproduce content from their presentations.


Minimalism is more than a movement to purge, downsize, and streamline. It is an effort to find the white space, the essential blank canvas on which all of us map out our lives.
Art gives us the greatest example of this. Artists begin with a blank canvas or a chunk of stone and organically create something from nothing. Even artists who create works that seem chaotic and spontaneous, like Abstract Expressionist Jackson Pollock, are often intentional and grounded in their movements.
What does that mean for you or me? Our lives start as blank slates, but over time become crowded accumulations of forgotten ideas and material things. Could you literally wipe the slate clean? As an artist can paint over the canvas and begin anew, so can you. The greatest example of this is when God created the universe from chaos. And yet so many of us live in daily chaos with accumulated stress and regrets.
Similarly, our homes can benefit from this philosophy. With thoughtful decision making, the blank walls are carefully decorated with art, photos, and objects that resonate and add value. We choose furnishings that are practical and beautiful.
Our lives and our homes can be a form of art. Although I strive to reach this ideal, my life and my home is a work in progress.
In what ways are you crafting art from the chaos?
So so so good. Love those words.


Team Shamrock have created another video for their recent trip to Yale to take part in the Yales Raw Case Study competition. While narrowly missing out on a place in the final they did do UCD Smurfit proud by winning the 'Best Leadership and Team Dynamic' award and clearly had a great time doing it. Yale looks amazing. Thanks to Steve Kelly for the video and well done on subtly working Aer Lingus into it. Congratulations again to Steve, Shaun O'Keefe, Jim Gannon and Peter Lee.


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Assurances sought on mobile roaming charges for border areas
Leitrim Observer Reporter
There are fears that mobile roaming charges will be reintroduced following Brexit
Leitrim County Council is to seek assurances that roaming charges will not be reinstated post-Brexit.
Cllr Padraig Fallon raised the motion at the monthly Manorhamilton meeting pointing out that, although the two biggest mobile phone companies in the country had said they were not looking to reintroduce roaming charges for the UK following Brexit, "there are no assurances that these charges won't be brought in by other companies or by all of them at some point. We need clarity on this," he said.
He pointed out that those living in border counties often were switched to a UK network without even crossing the border.
"We need to know what's happening. This could be very costly for families living along the border," he said.
Cllr Fallon asked that the council contact the Minister for Communications to get assurances no charges will be introduced post-Brexit.
His motion received unanimous backing from the rest of the municipal council.


Another probable Soviet spy to cross Alister McIntosh's path was Desmond Patrick (Paddy) Costello.
Born in Auckland in 1912 and educated at Auckland Grammar and Auckland University, Costello won a scholarship which took him to Trinity College, Cambridge in 1931.
A brilliant linguist, Costello eventually gained a first-class degree in the classical tripos.
At Cambridge, Costello joined the Communist Party of Great Britain and is believed to have been in the same "cell" as Guy Burgess and Anthony Blunt.
In September 1935, Costello married Bella (Bil) Lerner, a fellow communist of Jewish/Ukrainian origin.
In 1936 he joined the staff of Exeter University, but was dismissed in 1940 under a cloud.
In December 1943 a NZ Press team reported on a visit to Freyberg's division by a group of senior Soviet officers. "One NZ intelligence officer... speaking in Russian, outlined the present position. The Russians were obviously amazed to find a New Zealander who could speak and joke with them in their own language..."
Back in NZ's External Affairs department, Alister McIntosh read this report and quickly telegraphed Brigadier Stevens at Base HQ in Cairo saying: "In view of the probability of establishing relations with Russia Prime Minister is anxious to know whether General Freyberg could advise on suitability or availability of officer concerned." Stevens replied, naming Costello: "who speaks German, French, Italian, Greek and Spanish fluently and Russian sufficiently well.
"Coincidentally" a few days later McIntosh received a letter from NZEF intelligence officer, Geoffrey Cox, stating that Costello had recently written to him asking if he might be considered for a position in any post that might be established in Russia. Cox outlined Costello's fine war record and described him as "a man whose very great ability is matched by an equal strength, tending perhaps to rigidity of left wing views."
Cox endorsed Costello's application "with the following qualifications which clearly must also be put forward.
2/ He is married to a Russian wife, actually of Ukrainian stock, whose family have been in England, I think for only one generation."
"Coincidentally", Cox, was a 1932 Rhodes Scholar with, Ian Milner's old comrade, James Bertram. He had been a war correspondent for the left-leaning "News-Chronicle", during the Spanish Civil War.
Frank Milner wrote of their circle thus: "Bertram tells me that he will go back to China as a war correspondent for some English papers. He is just as radical as Ian (Milner). I hear that (John)Mulgan and (Geoffrey) Cox also pledged their lives to the earliest possible socialisation of New Zealand as a start on the Empire"
Cox went on to eventually become Charge d'Affaires in the NZ Legation in Washington and was later a leading British broadcaster.
Freyberg let Costello go and the aspiring diplomat was interviewed by Prime Minister Peter Fraser and Alister McIntosh in London in May 1944. Fraser is alleged to have inquired about Costello's politics and got the answer "I'm afraid I'm a bit left wing sir." Fraser reportedly replied "Oh well, it won't hurt us to have one or two Communists in Moscow."
Before proceeding to Moscow via Teheran in August 1944, Costello spent a few weeks at the Foreign Office in London, where apparently he made a very good impression.
Unfortunately, Costello was not the only dubious recruit. Ray Perry, formerly a Federation of Labour researcher, was a Marxist and in 1939 had been Secretary of the Wellington "Left Book Club" (founded by, among others, W B Sutch). He later rose to high rank in the NZ Foreign Affairs Department.
Doug Lake was formerly a journalist on the Christchurch Star-Sun. He joined the 2nd NZEF in 1940 and became at one time a confidential clerk to General Freyberg. In the legation he served as a typist, then, after finishing his degree by learning Russian, was appointed to the Diplomatic Staff.
In 1946 he married the 3rd secretary Ruth Macky, and served in Moscow till 1949. Lake left External Affairs in 1954 rather than face a security investigation. The couple became closely linked to the Wellington branch of the Communist Party, Ruth Lake joining the communist front, Society for Closer Relations with Russia.
After working in the Parliamentary Press gallery Doug Lake took his family to Peking in 1962. There both worked in the Foreign Languages Institute, turning out Maoist propaganda. On returning to NZ in 1969 Doug Lake became active in the Maoist controlled NZ-China Friendship Society. Daughter Sally founded the Wellington branch of the Communist Party's unofficial youth wing, the Progressive Youth Movement.
Clearly Peter Fraser got more than "one or two Communists in Moscow".
In March 1945, Costello led a British military mission to Poland to deal with the repatriation of prisoners of war. In 1946 he spent 10 weeks as a member of the New Zealand delegation at the Paris Peace Conference. He played a controversial role in the settlement of a Czech–Hungarian border issue, which upset other Western delegates.
Alister McIntosh wrote to Costello, in March 1945, that British security had expressed doubts about his background. The British claimed that Mrs Costello was secretary of the Exeter branch of the Communist Party. They had no evidence the Costello was actually a Communist Party member but claimed he had been dismissed from Exeter University because of his association with a student who was convicted of offences under the official information act.
In his reply to McIntosh, Costello admitted the previous party membership he had not even been accused of, but claimed his wife had broken with the Communist Party. He put down his sacking from Exeter to persecution for speaking out against British government policy. McIntosh discussed Costello with Fraser who agreed that their man in Moscow was a "safe person".
Prime Minister Fraser was probably unaware that Costello's wife had, until at least April 1944 remained active in the British Communist Party.
Costello was promoted to first secretary in 1947 and chargé d'affaires in July 1949. He was described by Secretary for External Affairs, Alister McIntosh as "our most brilliant linguist and diplomatic officer".
In 1950, the National Government closed the Legation (much against McIntosh's advice) and Costello moved to the NZ Legation in Paris. By mid 1953 Costello was put on notice that he could not remain in Government service. McIntosh tried to save Costello, but the pressure came from Prime Minister Syd Holland, himself.
Eventually, his resignation was obtained by McIntosh in July 1954.
After leaving Government service, Costello became Professor of Russian at Manchester University. It was later alleged that Costello had, while serving in Paris, issued false NZ passports to two members of "Gordon Lonsdale's" (real name Konon Molody) naval spy ring. In 1961, when Soviet spies Morris and Lona Cohen were caught they were found to have New Zealand passports (under the name Kroger) issued by the Paris legation in 1954.
Costello's involvement in issuing the passports has been hotly disputed, but British Intelligence did put him under surveillance and several meetings between Costello and Soviet agents were observed.
Before any action was taken however, Costello died suddenly, in 1964, aged only 52.
According to British journalist, Chapman Pincher, Anthony Blunt, in his confession to British Authorities, named Costello as a fellow spy.
In 1999 evidence from Soviet archives indicated that Costello had operated as a Soviet agent in Paris under the code name "Long"
Only Costello, the KGB and possibly Alister McIntosh would know for sure.
This has been pretty thoroughly discredited by James MacNeish in 'The Sixth Man' and you do yourself a disservice in keeping it posted.
Web of Treason 2, Ian Milner...Traitor?
One Step Backwards, Two Steps Forwards?


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After 80 years of living in the same city, saxophonists Larry McKenna and Bootsie Barnes have finally recorded an album together! The More I See You is a recording of these legends playing some classic gems and originals the only way they know how – with that Philly flare.
Growing up mere miles from each other, these career musicians knew of each other, but didn't play together until later in life. This album marks the first full recording as a duo, and the rest of the band is just as dynamic as the leaders – Lucas Brown plays the Hammond B-3 organ and Byron Landham is on drums. These fellow Philadelphian's are the perfect companions to the respective styles of Larry and Bootsie.
Bootsie Barnes has been a part of Philadelphia jazz legacy. He's performed with just about every jazz organist including Don Patterson, Shirley Scott, Trudy Pitts, Bill Doggett, Jack McDuff, Jimmy Smith, Charles Earland, Jimmy McGriff, and Papa and Joey DeFrancesco. He's also shared the stage or recorded with: McCoy Tyner, Benny Golson, Lee Morgan, the Heath Brothers, Stan Getz, Philly Joe Jones and countless other Philadelphia jazz masters who are bound together by the same thread. These giants played in their own way, without concern for style or labels. They had an attitude; an intention to their playing that gave the music a feeling, a rhythm, a deep pocket.
Bootsie Barnes credits his musical family as the spark that began his life in music. His father was an accomplished trumpet player and his cousin, Jimmy Hamilton was a member of Duke Ellington's band for nearly three decades. "Palling around with my stablemates, Tootie Heath, Lee Morgan, Lex Humphries" as he tells it, Barnes began on piano and drums. At age nineteen he was given a saxophone by his grandmother and "knew he had found his niche." Over the course of his decades long career, Barnes has performed and toured with Philly Joe Jones, Jimmy Smith, Trudy Pitts and countless others, with five recordings under his own name and dozens as a sideman.
Mostly self-taught, Larry McKenna was deeply inspired by his older brother's LP collection. It was a side of Jazz at The Philharmonic 1947 featuring Illinois Jacquet and Flip Fillips that opened his ears to jazz. "When I heard that I immediately said: "That's what I want to play, the saxophone," McKenna recalls. Completing high school, McKenna worked around Philadelphia and along the East Coast until the age of twenty-one, when his first big break came with Woody Herman's Big Band. McKenna has played and recorded with Clark Terry, Frank Sinatra, Rosemary Clooney, Tony Bennett, and countless others. He has four recordings under his own name, with extensive credits as a sideman. Larry's writing and arranging skills are further showcased by the Larry McKenna Jazz Orchestra, a 17-piece band dedicated to presenting Larry's original compositions and arrangements.


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Q: Solving a complex trigonometric problem My question says to find all solutions to $\sin(2z)=5$, I am given that
\begin{equation*}
\text{Equation 1:}\,\,\,\cosh^{-1}5=\frac{1}{2}\ln(5+2\sqrt{6})=-\frac{1}{2}\ln(5-2\sqrt6)
\end{equation*}
and I should solve the equation by using the result
\begin{equation*}
\text{Equation 2:}\,\,\,\sin^{-1}=-i\log[iz+(1-z^2)^{\frac{1}{2}}]
\end{equation*}
I've tried playing around with these equations, and the fact that
$\sin (z)=\sin (x)\cosh (y)+i\cos (x)\sinh(y)$
But I can't figure out how to find $z$ in this question

A: I'll skip a few "but why?" details you should make sure you can work out yourself.  Write $z=x+iy$ with $x,\,y\in\Bbb R$ so $\cos2x\sinh2y=0$, but $\sinh2y\ne0$ because $2z\notin\Bbb R$, so $\cos2x=0$. Hence $\cosh2y=5,\,\sin2x=1$.


Dr. Vogel earned a Bachelor of Science in Biological Sciences with a concentration in Cellular and Molecular Biology and a Master of Science in Biological Sciences from Binghamton University. She earned a doctorate in Genetics from North Carolina State University where she used prairie voles as a model system for spectrum disorders, such as autism. Her research included aspects of behavior, genetics, and neurobiology, centering around the vasopressin 1a receptor in the ventral pallidum and retrosplenial cortex. While a graduate student, she mentored graduate and undergraduate students while overseeing the laboratory's animals. She was also very involved in outreach with the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences and the Genetics Graduate Student Association. From there, she took a post-doctoral position at Cornell University to focus on reproductive genetics of putative coding genes. She has published her research in multiple peer-reviewed scientific journals and presented at several national meetings. Dr. Vogel chose the NBBTP Fellowship to supplement her background with animal research with further biosafety training to pursue her biosafety career goals.
Dr. DeMers earned her Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from University of California, Davis and her doctorate in Cell and Molecular Biology with an emphasis in Microbiology from the University of Nevada, Reno. As a doctoral student, her research focused on the development of an antibody-based rapid diagnostic for Ebola virus and characterization of the capsular polysaccharide of Burkholderia pseudomallei as a diagnostic biomarker of melioidosis. During her graduate work, she engaged in multiple leadership roles by mentoring undergraduate and graduate student researchers. Dr. DeMers continued as a postdoctoral scholar at the University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine and focused on biomarker discovery for early diagnosis of Bacillus anthracis, Burkholderia pseudomallei, and Francisella tularensis. Dr. DeMers has presented her research at several national and international scientific meetings and published in peer-reviewed scientific journals. Dr. DeMers aims to combine her research background with further biosafety training and education to promote innovative problem solving in response to global biosafety issues.
Dr. Shenge earned his Bachelor of Agriculture degree from Ahmadu Bello University, Nigeria and his doctorate in Molecular Plant Pathology from the Sokoine University of Agriculture in Tanzania on a German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) scholarship. During his doctorate research, he focused on resistance mechanisms in tomato to bacterial spot (Xanthomonas axonopodis (syn. campestris) pv. vesicatoria) and bacterial speck (Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato), pathogen-host interactions in the pathosystems, and epidemiology of the tomato diseases in Tanzania. Dr. Shenge's interest in understanding the intersection of food safety, agriculture, and public health led him to pursue a Master of Public Health degree at the University of Arizona, with a focus on Applied Epidemiology. During his MPH studies, he interned with the Office of Border Health in the Arizona Department of Health, where he developed a database of mosquito-borne diseases in the US-Mexico Border region and analyzed and interpreted data on knowledge, attitudes, and practices of border communities regarding mosquito-borne diseases. Dr. Shenge has held multiple prestigious positions with Ahmadu Bello University, The Ohio State University, and USDA Agricultural Research Service. Dr. Shenge is interested in combining his biosafety training with his knowledge of molecular plant pathology, food safety, and public health to create safe environments for research with infectious agents.
Jennifer Diethelm earned her Bachelor of Science in Biology from Allegheny College during which time she coordinated disease ecology research and completed an undergraduate thesis on the treatment of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis infected amphibians. She also had the privilege of presenting these findings at the Penn State Behrend-Sigma Xi Undergraduate Research Conference. Diethelm then earned her Master's in Public Health from the University of California Davis where she researched pesticide efficacy among native mosquito species at the Sacramento-Yolo Mosquito and Vector Control District for her graduate thesis. The research contributed real -time data on resistance and susceptibility of native mosquito species as part of the county-wide integrated pest management program. Pursuing a long-time commitment to One Health, the collaborative effort to integrate the knowledge of numerous professions to find new and holistic approaches to complex issues impacting global health, she volunteered to help establish the One Health Bat Rabies Education Team. Jennifer chose the NBBTP Fellowship training to combine her passions for public health and safe research in pursuit of her biosafety career goals.
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The Black Paintings https://www.brutalresonance.com/review/necro-facility-the-black-paintings/ EBM, Industrial Necro Facility Patrik Lindström It's very impressive that you in the year 2005 still are able to create something as genuine, Canadian and old-school EBM which had its time back in the end of the 80's and the beginning of the 90's. Further more the impressive points reach its top limit when the two of the most active band members had barely left kindergarten during that period. The album 'The Black Paintings' is the most Skinny Puppy you could be and still not call it a rip-off. There's allot of similarities when you take a look at the musical part even though you get the feeling that there's much more evolved technique behind the producing and mastering. Further than that you find the same kind of cynical and cryptic lyrics and the writer of the lyrics, Henrik Bäckström, have managed to play with the words very well. My favourite tracks on this album is "Downstairs", "Methane View", "Ifrit" and "Nursed", but there's some more highlights on this album than the tracks I mentioned. Don't miss this bands performance at this year SAMA festival, this summers festivals and their next release in the future. I predict a bright future for this band and hopefully they will be our new band of pride we Swedes could enjoy to have within our borders. This review was written 2005 and initially published on Neurozine.com January 1, 2005 https://www.brutalresonance.com/review/necro-facility-the-black-paintings/ 450
Necro Facility - The Black Paintings
Released 2005 by Progress Productions
EBM, Industrial
It's very impressive that you in the year 2005 still are able to create something as genuine, Canadian and old-school EBM which had its time back in the end of the 80's and the beginning of the 90's. Further more the impressive points reach its top limit when the two of the most active band members had barely left kindergarten during that period.
The album 'The Black Paintings' is the most Skinny Puppy you could be and still not call it a rip-off. There's allot of similarities when you take a look at the musical part even though you get the feeling that there's much more evolved technique behind the producing and mastering. Further than that you find the same kind of cynical and cryptic lyrics and the writer of the lyrics, Henrik Bäckström, have managed to play with the words very well.
My favourite tracks on this album is "Downstairs", "Methane View", "Ifrit" and "Nursed", but there's some more highlights on this album than the tracks I mentioned. Don't miss this bands performance at this year SAMA festival, this summers festivals and their next release in the future. I predict a bright future for this band and hopefully they will be our new band of pride we Swedes could enjoy to have within our borders.
This review was written 2005 and initially published on Neurozine.com
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Brachycentrus solomoni är en nattsländeart som beskrevs av Oliver S. Flint Jr. 1984. Brachycentrus solomoni ingår i släktet Brachycentrus och familjen bäcknattsländor. Inga underarter finns listade i Catalogue of Life.

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Locally, it looks like snow levels have stayed high thus far in the San Gabriel Mountains. Consequently Mountain High says they're closed and the Mt. Baldy Website is down. That makes it hard to predict what's going on at higher elevations, but even if heavy snow is falling above 9500', heavy rain has likely destroyed much of the existing snow at lower elevations.
The same can not be said of the Sierra. This looks like a storm for the books, with ESAC reporting several feet of dense snow has fallen throughout the Sierra in the last 18 hours—and another 2-3 on the way.
These giant snowfall totals in such a short time, coupled with extreme winds, make large, dangerous avalanches a virtual certainty in the backcountry. As ESAC forecaster Sue Burak says, "It really is foolish to think about skiing anywhere except Mammoth Mountain."


Make Father's Day The Holiday Of YOUR Dreams!
Happy Father's Day to you and/or any of the men in your life that you hold dear!
For Greg, and the rest of us Mulac Family Marketers, we just arrived in our motorhome to a beautiful new campground yesterday in Lodi, CA and watched the sunset last night as dusk fell over the awesome Delta.
… And today will will join our dear friends the Porters to celebrate Father's Day with them around a BBQ with some steaks and probably a little bit of marketing talk squeezed in for good measure!
But it wasn't always like this for us - and maybe today is not exactly what you want it to be for yourself either?
May and June thus far have been somewhat of a blur for the Mulac Family Marketers!
The only thing we can be sure of at this point is that we've had a tremendous amount of fun and some incredibly productive events, workshops and meetings with friends and marketers.
This includes a phenomenal 9 day trip to Hawaii and we squeezed fun into every bit of our stay there outside of 3 days of 12 hours of marketing training I filmed for Quantum University. When I got invited to film an extensive marketing course for the online university's Integrative Medicine professionals, I knew we just had to turn it into a vacation for the whole family and that is exactly what we did!
While in Oahu, we stayed at Hilton Hawaiian Village Resort - a destination in and of itself! I hear tell that many people go there and never even leave the property for their entire stay. But us Mulacs on the otherhand, traversed the entire island, from the infamous shrimp trucks (makes my mouth water just to type that!), to Haunauma Bay snorkeling, a rare whale siting (for this time of year), the blow hole, the surfers, an out of this world Luau at Paradise Cove, lei making, hula dancing, shave ice, a trip to the Honolulu Zoo, and yes… KILLER SUSHI!
You can see all the pictures here - or at least most of them!
We made the most of our 9 days for sure, and even amongst all the fun, it was still a "workation" that ended up paying for itself - the foundation of what we teach all of our coaching students as they pursue the lifestyle of their dreams.
The Quantum Marketing Training was 12 hours of pure no-nonsense content during which I laid out the entire blueprint for building a solid and profitable online web presence. And while the training was live via webinar, it is still possible to register for the training and take the course on your own time. Click Here for Details.
As to the other things we've got going on, I will endeavor to keep the posts moving and update you on the many other things we've got underway. There is a multitude of great opportunities for you coming in the months ahead, and I want to make sure you don't miss one moment of it!
Sitting here this morning, I'm reflecting on the extraordinary gift that motherhood means to me.
My thoughts move between the blessings that our own daughters, Marina and Morgan bring to our life daily; and then memories of my own dear departed mother warm my heart as I know her influence is the foundation of my existence.
We are constantly commended on the job we are doing raising our two delightful daughters, but the real praise goes to my own mother who taught me the virtues that we instill in our own children today.
> Do unto others as you would have them do unto you!
> It is better to give than to receive!
> Honesty is the best policy!
Whether toward ourselves or others - these are the values that "mom" taught us!
In our cluttered lives and business dealings though, it is these basics that are often the easiest to forget and in my humble opinion the division between success and failure.