I shot high resolution photos of our "black mac" SE/1891T for the producers of Watchmen and their model shop made a duplicate, in black, for the protagonists desk. I toured the set in Vancouver about 15 months ago (December 2007) with my brother Eric, it was a great gift back for supporting the film (no photos allowed on the set). Glad to see it is finally out!
As featured in in Wired News and again on April 22nd! Black Mac manufacturer found! Candes Systems of Harleysville PA.
This very odd MacIntosh is a fine specimen of a Tempest shielded (hence the "T" in the model number 1891T) MacIntosh SE 30 computer made by Candes Systems of Harleyville PA.
Made of metal (the case) and with a handle to be more easily carried (we suspect by an officer or other operative) the interior of this Mac was designed to foil any snoops.
Perhaps the most striking feature of the "Black Mac" is the flop down front, revealing an opening for a removable hard drive (Syquest drive we are told).
This cover is in turn studded with copper coils indicative of the famous "tempest" shielding used by government agencies and others to prohibit electromagnetic impulses from exiting a device and to thereby be detected. You would be surprised how much can be sensed from a distance from common devices (the LEDs in your router, they produce a discharge that can be read from some distance by sensitive devices).
Around the back is this weird bulge serving what purpose we do not know. The faceplate is missing. There is a label naming the manufacturer of this case. We have been assured by Apple folks that based on the properly designated model number on the front that this is a "real" MacIntosh model.
So did this "black Mac" fight Star Wars for Ronald Regan back in '87-88? Anybody out there have any more information about this rare and precious piece of MacIntosh history? Please, please contact us!


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High School Diplomas for Veterans
Printable Veterans Application for Graduation
Thousands of young men and women across the country left high school and the comforts of home and hearth to serve gallantly in the armed forces during World War II, Korean Conflict, and the Vietnam era. Their sacrifice ensured our freedom, built our country into a superpower, and shaped the entire course of history throughout the world. After the war, many of these veterans were not able to finish high school for various reasons, but led productive lives and built our communities over a lifetime.
Georgia Education Codes (O.C.G.A. § 20-2-69 and O.C.G.A. § 20-2-70), provide for each local board of education to issue a high school diploma to certain veterans. Each local board of education shall issue high school diplomas to veterans who failed to receive diplomas due to an interruption of their education by service in World War II, the Korean Conflict, or the Vietnam Conflict.
Left high school prior to graduation to enlist in the armed forces of the United States;
Been honorably discharged;
To be eligible, the World War II veteran must have:
attended a high school in Irwin County between the years of 1937 and 1946 with graduation class years of 1941-1950;
served in WWII between September 16, 1940, and December 31, 1946
To be eligible, the Korean Conflict veteran must have:
served in Korean Conflict between June 25, 1950 and January 31, 1955
To be eligible, the Vietnam era veteran must have:
served in the Vietnam era between August 5, 1964 and May 7, 1975
What documentation of required to prove eligibility?
DD Form 214 OR
A Certificate of Service OR
A letter from a recognized veterans agency affirming such service
How do you apply for a diploma?
Interested veterans should contact the Irwin County High School Counseling Office to complete a diploma application.
Required documentation must be provided.
Candidates possessing a high school equivalency diploma are also eligible.
Irwin County High School Counseling Office
149 Chieftain Circle
Ocilla, Georgia 31774
Scott Haskins, Principal
Candice Cobb, Curriculum Director
Ocilla, GA 31774
229/468-9423 (fax)
229/468-8492 (records fax)
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The 1-877-SAY-STOP toll- free hotline was created by the Georgia Department of Education. Students can anonymously report anyone who has a weapon, has threatened to bring a weapon to school, or has violated any other school safety rules. The hotline hours are Monday-Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.; after 5 p.m. all calls will be forwarded to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. Callers will not be asked to reveal their identities. Make the call; you can make a difference!
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Le Pavé de Roubaix of Parijs-Roubaix voor junioren is een eendaagse wielerwedstrijd voor junioren (17-18 jaar) die sinds 2003 elk voorjaar wordt verreden in het noorden van Frankrijk.

In 2003 werd de wedstrijd opgericht door de Vélo-Club de Roubaix-Lille Métropole en maakte deel uit van de Franse nationale wielerkalender in de categorie 1.14. In 2005 werd de wedstrijd geïntegreerd in de internationale wielerkalender in de categorie 1.8. Door een akkoord met de Amaury Sport Organisation (ASO) mag ook de naam Parijs-Roubaix voor deze wedstrijd gebruikt worden. Sinds 2008 maakt de wedstrijd deel uit van de UCI Juniors Nations' Cup.

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The Acta Group Wins "Supply Chains Award" at the 2017 Chemicals Northwest Awards
The Acta Group (Acta®), a global scientific and business consulting firm offering a full range of support services for the process of obtaining approvals to market industrial chemicals, biocides, and chemical products, with offices in Washington, D.C., Beijing, China, and Manchester, UK, has been named winner of the Chemicals Northwest 2017 "Supply Chains Award." Chemicals Northwest Awards are presented in ten categories, all of which recognize excellence in the chemical and chemical service sector in the Northwest of England, the UK's chemical industry hub.
Acta's work finding pathways of Registration, Evaluation, Authorization and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH) compliance for challenging chemical approval matters earned the firm the 2017 "Supply Chain Award," specifically for assisting a multinational company in managing comprehensively the complexities associated with substance manufacturing and importing obligations under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), REACH, and Korea's Act for the Registration and Evaluation of Chemicals (K-REACH). The nature of the substance, data sharing, a complex supply chain, and confidential business information (CBI) interplayed to present a challenging situation that required immense regulatory, scientific, and technical knowledge and experience. Acta was able to develop and provide to its client testing plans to prepare high quality data for multijurisdictional compliance. Acta's regulatory and scientific teams were well-suited to evaluate these data in the context of the three relevant regulatory schemes and ensure successful, robust, and scientifically sound submissions. Acta EU's comprehensive practical understanding of REACH and Acta's strategic partnerships in Asia played a pivotal role in the success of the project.
The seventh Chemicals Northwest Awards dinner took place on March 30, 2017, at the Crowne Plaza Liverpool City Centre hotel, Liverpool, England, and was hosted by BBC TV broadcaster Dianne Oxberry. Acta's Amy C. Jackson and Louise C. Boardall accepted the award on behalf of their colleagues worldwide. The sponsor of the 2017 "Supply Chains Award" was the Chemical Industries Association. Chemicals Northwest is an industry-led chemical cluster support organization affiliated with the Chemical Industries Association.


Arkansas's distinctive form of Medicaid expansion has been precarious since its creation in 2013 by a bipartisan coalition. Again and again, first when initially rolled out as the "private option" while Mike Beebe was governor, and even after being rebranded and revised as Arkansas Works by Governor Hutchinson, the program has been on life support. There are signs, however, that Medicaid expansion may now be a permanent fixture in the Arkansas policy environment.
This week, Talk Business & Politics-Hendrix College released results of a survey of the voters most likely to participate in the May Republican primary. The survey revealed a comfortable lead for Hutchinson in his race for renomination over populist outsider Jan Morgan and also showed Arkansas's GOP electorate to be an emphatically conservative one on issues like guns, abortion and taxes. The most interesting result, however, was a shift in the GOP electorate in attitudes about Medicaid expansion in the state.
Throughout the six-plus years of debate over Medicaid expansion, Arkansas's Republican voters have shown persistent dubiousness about the program. The wording of questions about Medicaid expansion in the Talk Business & Politics-Hendrix College surveys have varied a bit since 2012, but — until the most recent survey — consistently more GOP respondents have opposed rather than supported the concept. In 2012, as debate over Medicaid expansion began, 64 percent of GOP respondents opposed the notion of Medicaid expansion with only 21 percent supportive. During the debate on reauthorization of the program in Beebe's last fiscal session in the spring of 2014, GOP voters still opposed the program by a healthy 54 percent to 23 percent margin. Two years later, with Governor Hutchinson having become a strong supporter of the program rebranded and somewhat restructured as Arkansas Works, Republicans were split with 34 percent in opposition, 32 percent favoring, and the final third unsure about their views.
While originally a thoroughly bipartisan endeavor, the law's survival of it has been based on unwavering support among Democrats, along with enough Republican support to eke out the necessary legislative supermajorities to keep it in place. And over the course of its five-year history, more moderate Republican legislators and legislative candidates have lost GOP primaries because of their support for the program.
But in 2018, with the program now including a work requirement (and a pending but not yet approved request to the federal government to reduce the top tier of income eligibility), the program appears to have genuinely bipartisan public support. A strong plurality of GOP voters now support the program rebranded and redesigned in the Hutchinson era. Republican adherents favor the program by a 45.5 percent to 21.5 percent margin. While plurality support is shown across most all subgroups of GOP voters, support is highest among the oldest and youngest age groups, among the best and least educated voters, among more secular voters, and among Second District voters (48 percent of Central Arkansas GOP voters support the program). There is also a gender gap on the program — while a similar percentage of men and women support the program, opposition to the program is 10 points higher among men.
The alterations to Arkansas Works that have helped build support among Republicans do not come without costs — participation rates are estimated to drop by about 63,000 Arkansans (from a peak nearing 300,000), a deeply worrisome change. Still, tens of thousands of Arkansans who would have lacked health coverage before the program came into existence will remain covered by health insurance. Rural hospitals previously in dire straits because of uncompensated care remain open. The survival of Arkansas Works marks a clear example of pragmatic policymaking in a progressive direction. Moreover, if Medicaid expansion is to ever come to some of the more conservative states such as Texas and Florida that have not yet expanded coverage, it is likely to look something like the Arkansas private option model.
In 2014, Mike Ross, the Democratic candidate for governor, made protecting Medicaid expansion a centerpiece issue in his campaign, arguing that Hutchinson — who lacked a clear stance on the topic during the general election campaign — would fail to protect the program. As it turns out, it is a conservative Republican who has helped to ensure the program's longevity.


Grigoryan founded the "3rd Floor" art group (1987-1994).
He is currently a member of AICA-Armenia.
"Armenie contemporaine: une actualite de l'art video", Lyon Museum of Contemporary Art.
"d'Armenie", Center for Contemporary Art Quimper.
Art Caucasus Tbilisi-Georgia Akanat art gallery represent its collection.
Step Between Transforming and Forming, Painter's House, Yerevan , Armenia.
"Body: New Figurative Art in Armenia".Painter's House, Yerevan , Armenia.


I am profoundly excited about the prospect i have encountered of entering into shadow work at last. I encountered this term a while ago through a seeker friend and i find it interesting now that i guess i kind of ignored it, but more recently i have also encountered some powerful practices that can take us into our shadow safely, and out the other side into light.
I am now cautiously beginning to research psychology in my haphazard way, and i am newly curious about how i can take such intellectual understanding into meditation in the hope that i can more directly experience these psychological phenomena described by the likes of Jung and Freud.
because it seems clear to me now that only the light of awareness can displace the shadow.
Wow, just writing this brings to my eyes those tears of opening to the divine, those tears that mingle sadness with joy and come from the feeling you're on the right track, yeah!


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Patience pays dividends, Kasumi Ishikawa ever more secure
Ever more confident against the defensive art, Japan's Kasumi Ishikawa won the Women's Singles title at the Seamaster 2018 ITTF World Tour Platinum German Open in Bremen on the afternoon of Sunday 25th March.
The no.2 seed, she overcame the backspin skills of Suh Hyowon, the no.14 seed in what was a very different contest the one and only other occasion when the two had met in an ITTF World Tour Women's Singles final.
Kasumi Ishikawa, totally focused (Photo: Rémy Gros)
by Ian Marshall, ITTF Publications Editor
Memorably, in 2013 in Korea, they had contested the title decider, in a dramatic seven games encounter Suh Hyowon had won by the minimal two point margin; on the next occasion when they met, the 2014 Asian Games, the decision had also gone the way of the Korean but ever since that encounter, six in a row, Kasumi Ishikawa had prevailed.
In Bremen, Kasumi Ishikawa increased the series of wins to seven; she prevailed in five games (11-9, 10-12, 11-6, 11-7, 11-6).
Cautious, Kasumi Ishikawa won the first game after Suh Hyowon had saved one game point at 10-8; it appeared that Kasumi Ishikawa would extend the advantage. In the second game, as in the first, she led 10-8 but then promptly lost the next four points.
More than in the past Suh Hyowon changed from defence to attack, it posed problems for Kasumi Ishikawa; once Suh Hyowon was back from the table in backspin mode, Kasumi Ishikawa was comfortable.
Stung by the second game reverse, Kasumi Ishikawa dominated the third, gaining success on her third game point. Now more assured and above all more patient than at the end of the second game, she established an early lead in the fourth game but then lost four points in a row to reduce the advantage to two points at 9-7. Prudently, Kasumi Ishikawa called "Time Out"; the break worked she clinched the next two points.
Kasumi Ishikawa was now in control, she moved ahead 8-5 in the fifth game, Suh Hyowon called "Time Out"; it was a desperate move. At 10-5 Kasumi Ishikawa held five match points, at the second attempt she converted.
Thus it was more success for Kasumi Ishikawa in the country where last year, partnering Maharu Yoshimura, she had won the Mixed Doubles title in Düsseldorf at the Liebherr 2017 World Championships.
Furthermore, she became the third Japanese player to win the Women's Singles title at an ITTF World Tour tournament in Germany; likewise in Bremen, Sayaka Hirano had won in 2009, Mima Ito in 2015.
"Germany is also a lucky place for me, because I won the Mixed Doubles at the World Championships here last year. Thanks to the fans here for cheering for me." Kasumi Ishikawa
Including the engagement five years ago in Korea, it was for Kasumi Ishikawa her 13th ITTF World Tour Women's Singles final, her eighth win but her first appearance in such a final in Germany.
Meanwhile, for Suh Hyowon it was her fifth overall excursion to the title deciding round, her second defeat and déjà vu; the one other occasion was in 2014 when in Magdeburg she had been beaten in the final by Germany's Shan Xiaona.
"I'm a little disappointed losing the final, but Ishikawa played really well, so I'm fine." Suh Hyowon
In Bremen it was same again, just one step short.
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Spy Photos: 2023 BMW 3 Series
September 27th, 2021 by Bailey Miller
Whenever a new BMW is inching closer, fans of the Bavarian marque are worried about the styling changes as the latest designs haven't exactly been well-received by the audience. Thankfully, it looks as though the German luxury brand will be playing it safe with the mid-cycle revision for the non-M3 3 Series Sedan. A…
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Spy Photos: 2022 BMW Alpina B4 Gran Coupe
August 26th, 2021 by Bailey Miller
New spy shots show an obviously uprated 4 Series Gran Coupé being tested on public roads, lending credence to earlier claims that Buchloe's next unveiling will be a four-door proposition, rather than based on the two-door 4 Series coupé. The tip came from an unidentified source on the popular Bimmerpost forum who claimed to…
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World Premiere: The all New 2022 BMW 2 Series
July 28th, 2021 by Bailey Miller
All new for 2022, the BMW 2 Series Coupe is only the second generation of 2 Series but actually the latest in a long line of small, two-door, four-seat, small-engine, everyday sports cars from BMW. The BMW 1600, back in the original Neue Klasse, was one of the cars that really got BMW started…
2022 BMW M4 Competition Convertible World Premiere!
May 26th, 2021 by Bailey Miller
The 2022 BMW M4 lineup will include this convertible with all-wheel drive, which will be available in the U.S. this fall. It will be available only in Competition trim and, with 503 horsepower, offers 59 hp more than previous Competition models The 2022 M4 Competition Convertible xDrive will start just under $88,000. BMW…
SPIED: The BMW X8 Hybrid Seen Driving Laps Around The Nürburgring Track!
If you had told M Division engineers back in the '90s that the larger BMW Group would eventually give it full reign to develop its own car, from the ground up, but it had to be an SUV, they'd have laughed at you. Anyway, the point is that the idea of BMW M's first-ever bespoke…
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2022 BMW i4 Revealed
April 28th, 2021 by Bailey Miller
The 2022 BMW i4 EV will have a 300-mile range and up to 530 horsepower.The vehicle, along with the electric 2022 iX SUV, will be out early next year.Both vehicles are part of the BMW Group's plan to have 50 percent of its global sales be electric by 2025. During its annual BMW Group conference,…
Meet our New Service Manager: Walter Modeen Jr!
March 29th, 2021 by Bailey Miller
We would like to introduce the newest member of our BMW of Ridgefield family, Walter Modeen! As a Service Manager, his responsibilities focus on the needs of our clients while ensuring a high level of customer satisfaction. Walter, who is married with two children , says he jumped at the opportunity to join BMW of…
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2020 BMW 745e Plug-in Hybrid 7 Series: FULL Review and Tour
January 28th, 2021 by Bailey Miller
The 745e xDrive uses BMW's new 45e powertrain which will make its way across the lineup from the 5 series, 7 series and even into the SUV's. It combines a 3.0L Turbo straight 6 with an electric motor to make 394HP and 442 lb-ft of torque capable of 0-60 in just 4.7sec. It's 12kWh battery…
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Peak Performance – The First Ever BMW M5 CS
Introducing the fastest, most powerful street-legal BMW ever. Awe-inspiring acceleration and horsepower, weight-saving engineering, and exclusive style make the M5 CS an uncontested leader. UNRIVALED PERFORMANCE, PERFECTLY MASTERED There's no mistaking the power of this status symbol. With tremendous horsepower and shattering acceleration, the First-Ever BMW M5 CS is optimized for the…
On the Run With RVNAHealth
December 28th, 2020 by Bailey Miller
On the Run with RVNAhealth RVNAhealth Rehabilitation & Wellness Center offers detailed Running Assessments and Gait Analysis with sports physical therapist, Kate Campbell, DPT RVNAhealth is pleased to offer detailed Running Assessments to help new and veteran runners stay healthy and active in their sport. "Because running is a highly repetitive motion and an impact…
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Albion bows out of D-III Women's Lacrosse Championship
Catholic (16-4) 15 4 19
Albion (14-5) 3 2 5
G: 5 Players (#3, #10, #14, #16, #17) - 1
A: 3 Players (#10, #16, #17) - 1
Sv: Alexis Robinson - 15
GB: 3 Players (#10, #16, #33) - 3
A: Molly Kelly - 3
Sv: Nanci Hernandez - 4
GB: Julia Clementi - 5
ALLIANCE, Ohio – Albion College had not seen an opponent with the talent of Catholic University until the teams met Saturday in the first round of the NCAA Division III Women's Lacrosse Championship.
Catholic defeated Albion, 19-5, as the Britons finished the season with a 14-5 record and a Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association Tournament championship.
Goalkeeper Alexis Robinson, the Rookie of the Year in the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association, made several impressive saves in the first half, and Jenina Villabroza did likewise in the second half, but the pressure Catholic displayed on the ride was just as impressive as Albion had trouble advancing the ball to the attacking end of the field.
Robinson stopped half of the shots she faced, making 15 saves. Villabroza was credited with stopping seven of the 11 shots she faced.
Still Albion made the most of its offensive opportunities. Chrystelle Lopez, Darcy Muns, Destiny Okon, Carly Schwarz, and Abby Sheklow scored goals for the Britons.
Lopez, an all-MIAA second team pick in the midfield, finished her first season at the collegiate level with 46 goals. That's the ninth-most in a season at Albion.
Muns, a two-time all-MIAA pick, scored 45 goals on the season to sit 10th on Albion's single-season list.
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Joe and Julie Serra have given a $5 million leadership gift to launch a fundraising initiative to make two dreams a reality at Albion College. The first is a newly expanded fitness and student activity facility at the site of the current Dow Recreation and Wellness Center. The second is a new or renovated competition facility for the volleyball, men's basketball and women's basketball that currently call Kresge Gymnasium home.
The College is continuing to raise funds in support of both projects. To learn more, call 517/629-0446 or email advancement@albion.edu.


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Article 3: No torture, inhuman or degrading treatment
Posted by Sabina Frediani on 16 September 2011
In this latest entry in our blog series explaining the small bundle of rights and freedoms contained in the Human Rights Act, and debunking the misunderstandings around it, we're turning our attentions to Article 3: no torture, inhuman or degrading treatment.
No torture is one of the most important provisions in the Act. Unsurprisingly it's also an absolute right – under no circumstances is it ever justifiable to torture someone.
"Torture" means cruel acts used to deliberately cause serious suffering. Treatment is considered "inhuman" when it causes severe physical or mental suffering. And "degrading treatment" means actions that humiliate a person beyond the norm expected from punishment.
The UK has several obligations under Article 3. Some are negative (stopping authorities from doing certain things) and some are positive (requiring the State to take certain action).
The most obvious obligation prevents State officials from torturing anyone. This applies anywhere under UK jurisdiction, which can include places outside this country. Article 3 also makes clear our courts must not admit evidence obtained through torture – even if it wasn't actually committed by UK authorities. Another requirement means the Government cannot deport someone to another country where they face a real risk of torture. Article 3 also demands an official investigation if there are credible allegations of serious ill-treatment by public officials. Finally, authorities are required to take steps to prevent torture – including protecting vulnerable groups from it.
It's not difficult to see why such a right exists and why it's so important. Following the horrors of the Second World War with images of Holocaust survivors and Prisoners of War fresh in minds, the international community understandably made certain an absolute ban on torture was central to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. But in the UK Article 3 has been used to protect the rights of many different groups of people, including prisoners in Northern Ireland subjected to degrading interrogation techniques such as stress positions, hooding and sleep and food deprivation. Children seriously neglected by their parents after social services refused to act have also been protected by Article 3, as have elderly residents kept in dirty, unsanitary conditions in nursing homes and disabled people treated inhumanely by their carers.
Recently Article 3 has again proved significant during the ill-judged and misnamed "War on Terror". Under the Article, countries also must not condone or become complicit in torture. But our Government has repeatedly attempted to sidestep, ignore and undermine its obligations. We have seen evidence of UK involvement in the CIA's post 9/11 programme of extraordinary rendition – the transfer of detainees to foreign countries for interrogation where they face a real risk of torture – and in 2009 the Government admitted to misleading Parliament over the practice.
All of which helped inspire Liberty's No Torture No Compromise campaign, which continues to challenge the Government's attempts to water down the vital protection that Article 3 provides.
WATCH OUR COMMON VALUES VIDEO: Janis Sharp talks about how Article 3 of the Human Rights Act helped prevent the extradition of her son Gary McKinnon
WATCH OUR COMMON VALUES VIDEO: Former British Army lieutenant colonel Nicholas Mercer talks about how the Human Rights Act has helped to protect prisoners of war
WATCH OUR COMMON VALUES VIDEO: Janet Alder, whose brother Christopher died in police custody, talks about the importance of the Human Rights Act in fighting injustice
For more information on the "right to life", visit our Article 3 page on the Liberty website;
For more information on Liberty's torture campaign visit the No Torture No Compromise homepage;
Respond here to the Government's Commission on whether we need a British Bill of Rights - and tell them that we've already got one called the Human Rights Act.
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West Hartford is fortunate to have a wonderful mix of private and public educational institutions. West Hartford Public Schools has two high schools, three middle schools and 11 elementary schools. There are eight higher learning centers, 17 private and parochial elementary through high schools, and 31 preschool and daycare facilities.
Connecticut Magazine ranked West Hartford Public Schools first among all the cities and towns in Connecticut and for its population class (50,000+), and second overall. West Hartford was ranked in the top 10 for lowest crime, quantity of leisure and cultural offerings, and strength of its economy. The magazine uses hard data that run the gamut from the local library budget to the median price of a house, the number of historic sites, student test scores, the number of high school graduates who attend college, the ratio of students per computer and the per-capita municipal debt to compile its rankings.
Town Council and Board of Education members have made a long-term commitment educationally and financially to have the best schools in Connecticut. All around town improvements and additions to our public schools are being made to meet the growing enrollment.
New buildings are also being erected on our college campuses for housing, sports facilities and academic learning centers, all in an effort to attract the best and brightest throughout the state, country and the world.


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When are the application deadlines?
For Ph.D. students:
Applications received by December 15th are given full consideration for admission and for most fellowships and assistantships. The one exception to "most" is the new (2017) Graduate School Dean's Distinguished Fellowship Program, for doctoral applicants "demonstrating the highest academic caliber, who are U.S. citizens or permanent residents, and who will contribute to diversity in graduate education at the institution." Applicants who meet the eligibility requirements for that particular fellowship are encouraged to discuss the opportunity with a faculty member or the Director of Graduate Studies, and to submit application materials by Nov. 1. The Graduate School begins considering nominations on Dec. 1, before our regular Dec. 15 application deadline.
For Master's students:
There is no deadline for admissions into the master's program. We use a rolling admissions process. However, it is suggested that students should apply at least eight weeks prior to the start of the semester they wish to attend. Completed applications will be reviewed as they are received.
When are admission decisions reached?
For Master's applicants, we will e-mail admission decisions approximately two weeks after the completed application is reviewed by appropriate faculty.
For Ph.D. students, admission decisions will be e-mailed one month after closing dates. Note that admission decisions and decisions for funding are separate. Funding decisions typically take place in April for the following academic year.
How many applicants do you expect to admit into the C&I Graduate Programs?
On average, 35 master's and 15-25 doctoral students are admitted each year.
Do you accept GRE or MAT scores?
We accept the GRE (Graduate Record Exam) or the MAT (Miller Analogies Test) for Master's and Doctoral students. Graduate Record Examination (GRE General Test) scores are preferred for Ph.D. applicants. Students applying for scholarships must submit GRE scores. Only scores from the past five years are acceptable.
All test scores should be sent directly to Graduate Enrollment Services (GES). GRE scores should be submitted electronically.
MAT scores are only available in hard copy, so those scores should be sent by postal mail directly from Pearson to Penn State. IELTS and MAT scores should be mailed to:
Graduate Enrollment Services
114 Kern Building
For GRE Scores, Penn State's Institution code is 2660.
Students wishing to send MAT scores should select "Penn State University" or use code 2609.
How can I find out more information about international student admissions?
To learn more about the immigration process, international student organizations, and other issues related to international admissions, please visit the University Office of Global Programs.
Must I take the TOEFL?
The language of instruction at Penn State is English. International applicants must take and submit scores for the TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language) or the IELTS (International English Language Testing System), with the exceptions noted below. The minimum acceptable score for the TOEFL is 550 for the paper-based test, 213 for the computer-based test, or a total score of 80 with a 19 on the speaking section for the internet-based test. TOEFL computer-based (CBT) scores and TOEFL paper-based (PBT) scores will be valid for two years after the date of test. International applicants are exempt from the TOEFL/IELTS requirement who have received a baccalaureate or a master's degree from a college/university/institution in any of the following: Australia, Belize, British Caribbean and British West Indies, Canada (except Quebec), England, Guyana, Republic of Ireland, Liberia, New Zealand, Northern Ireland, Scotland, the United States and Wales.
Penn State's Institution Code is 2660.
Can I be admitted provisionally?
Students can be admitted provisionally at the discretion of the emphasis area faculty. Conditions to be met for full admission will be listed in a decision letter. Ph.D. students must complete the conditions before taking the candidacy examination. Master's students have one semester to complete provisional admission requirements.
Can I apply for financial aid and student financial awards?
A limited number of Graduate Assistantships are available to incoming Ph.D. students. Assistantships include a tuition waiver, a student health plan, and a stipend for living expenses in return for research, teaching, or supervision work for the Department. Be certain to mark the appropriate box on the C I application form.
Scholarships and fellowships are also available for Master's and Doctoral students through the College and University. Be certain to mark the appropriate box on the C I application form.
For more information on financial aid, go to:
Office of Student Aid
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How do I begin the application process?
Please upload the following to the Online Graduate School Application;
Non-refundable application fee, payable by credit card online or by check or money order payable to The Pennsylvania State University;
Two current letters of recommendation;
Current résumé or curriculum vitae;
Statement of your goals/objectives;
Official GRE (Graduate Record Exam-General Test) score report or MAT (Miller Analogies Test) score report. GRE preferred for doctoral applicants. Penn State Institution code for GRE is 2660 and Institution code for MAT is 2609.
Two official transcripts in sealed envelopes from all post-secondary schools attended. (Penn State graduates do not need to submit official transcripts.);
A written review (approximately 300 words for master's or 500 words for doctoral applicants) of a pertinent article or report published in a recent professional journal of your choice that deals with a contemporary educational issue. Please include a complete citation of the article selected and limit your summary of the article to one paragraph. Department faculty are most interested in your analysis of and professional response to the argument presented in the article. Upload a photocopy of the journal article to your graduate application.
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This complete meal is quick to put together and will provide a great tasting, one-pot supper meal.
Peel sweet potatoes. Cut in half and then into cubes approximately 2 inches (5 cm) each. Add to the bottom of the crock of slow cooker.
Slice mushrooms, dice onions and mince garlic. Scatter over chicken and sweet potatoes.
Pour over white wine and sprinkle with dried rosemary, salt and pepper.
Cover and cook on LOW 6-8 hours (HIGH 3-4 hours). Thirty minutes before completion scatter over frozen green peas. Cover and continue cooking.
To serve, place chicken and sweet potatoes on a platter. Scatter with chopped parsley. Pour juices into a dish and serve on the side as au jus.
If you use boneless chicken thighs there will be a shorter cooking time.


Anyone got any good techniques for controlling your breathing.
On the other hand, whilst on the range you relax breath slow but you still get a tiny amount of movement.
Obviously fitness will help, nerves will factor, (if doing your level 1 or proving you can hit a target to a guilly for example).
I find "dry fire" practice is the best training. Firstly, it gets you used to your trigger pull and secondly do it whilst balancing a 2 pence piece flat across the end of your barrel - if you can pull the trigger without the coin falling off time and time again you will gain bags of confidence for the field.
P.S. do i need to stress the importance of making sure you do not have a round up the spout - i think not!!
1) Don't try to hold the sights on target - you won't - they just wobble.
Breath out fully, breath in - the sights move up and down the target, then breath out squeezing the trigger as the sights become aligned about half way through your breathing out. And make sure you follow through.
Have a look at www.rifleshootermag.com - in techniques there is a good explanation of this.
And practice - dry firing at home - 20 shots a day will soon see you right.
Also when stalking take it slowly and steady and try not to get out of breath. If you can compose yourself before the final stalk in soi much the better.
I would agree with the breathing technique as described by Heym SR20, practice of course but try to relax. I have found that over concentrating can be just as bad as not concentrating.
As you have indicted getting fitter would help, I run with my local hill running club and although I do not necessarily advocate this for everybody (how an enthusiastic a stalker are you?) I can never honestly say that I have never been too out of breath to take a shot, this is despite the fact that once I am in "dead" ground I have been known to run while stalking deer.
The benefits in being physically fit bring benefits to your whole life, not only in the stalking field.
I have to say I had trouble controlling my breathing between the 27th and 31st December (few weeks back).
I had a Spanish professional hunter and his girl friend over as clients for a Chinese Water Deer and Muntjac. Very nice people, only he could not speak a word of english, but the lady could. So she became the interpreter. Not easy to describe which Chink to take whilst laying in a field in the middle of these two people.
Mr and Mrs B will know who I am talking about.
you can take it easy for the day........now really,......i insist!!
I think it`s always going to be a little bit harder to control your breathing when you have spent x amount of time getting close to the deer.
Just think about it, you have spotted a roe/red or whatever at the other side of a valley or it has just walked around the edge of the forest onto more open ground, you`re thinking, how can i get to it without being seen, which way is the wind direction going? is it going to be safe when i get there? etc, etc.
After all this has gone through you`re mind and you get to within range, the last thing you want to do is balls the shot up with a miss or even worse, lame it. May be it`s just me, and it dosen`t hurt to try, but with the best will in the world, no amount of practice with your breathing can prepare you for the shot at a deer as each one is different.
With quick shooting your breathing isn`t in the equation.
I am afraid you may have to undergo rigorous training first though, and of course I would need written and signed consent from your wife.
In the show biz we use breathing techniques, breath deeply in through the nose, and then slowly out through the mouth. It does work, I use the same technique when coaching batsmen at the crease when facing fast bowling.


Ernest Davis, Ethical guidelines for a superintelligence, Artificial Intelligence, Volume 220, March 2015, Pages 121-124, ISSN 0004-3702, DOI: 10.1016/j.artint.2014.12.003.
Nick Bostrom, in his new book SuperIntelligence, argues that the creation of an artificial intelligence with human-level intelligence will be followed fairly soon by the existence of an almost omnipotent superintelligence, with consequences that may well be disastrous for humanity. He considers that it is therefore a top priority for mankind to figure out how to imbue such a superintelligence with a sense of morality; however, he considers that this task is very difficult. I discuss a number of flaws in his analysis, particularly the viewpoint that implementing ethical behavior is an especially difficult problem in AI research.
Autonomous learning has been a promising direction in control and robotics for more than a decade since data-driven learning allows to reduce the amount of engineering knowledge, which is otherwise required. However, autonomous reinforcement learning (RL) approaches typically require many interactions with the system to learn controllers, which is a practical limitation in real systems, such as robots, where many interactions can be impractical and time consuming. To address this problem, current learning approaches typically require task-specific knowledge in form of expert demonstrations, realistic simulators, pre-shaped policies, or specific knowledge about the underlying dynamics. In this paper, we follow a different approach and speed up learning by extracting more information from data. In particular, we learn a probabilistic, non-parametric Gaussian process transition model of the system. By explicitly incorporating model uncertainty into long-term planning and controller learning our approach reduces the effects of model errors, a key problem in model-based learning. Compared to state-of-the art RL our model-based policy search method achieves an unprecedented speed of learning. We demonstrate its applicability to autonomous learning in real robot and control tasks.
Making intelligent decisions from incomplete information is critical in many applications: for example, robots must choose actions based on imperfect sensors, and speech-based interfaces must infer a user\u2019s needs from noisy microphone inputs. What makes these tasks hard is that often we do not have a natural representation with which to model the domain and use for choosing actions; we must learn about the domain\u2019s properties while simultaneously performing the task. Learning a representation also involves trade-offs between modeling the data that we have seen previously and being able to make predictions about new data. This article explores learning representations of stochastic systems using Bayesian nonparametric statistics. Bayesian nonparametric methods allow the sophistication of a representation to scale gracefully with the complexity in the data. Our main contribution is a careful empirical evaluation of how representations learned using Bayesian nonparametric methods compare to other standard learning approaches, especially in support of planning and control. We show that the Bayesian aspects of the methods result in achieving state-of-the-art performance in decision making with relatively few samples, while the nonparametric aspects often result in fewer computations. These results hold across a variety of different techniques for choosing actions given a representation.
The distribution of a time reference has long been a significant research topic in measurement and different solutions have been proposed over the years. In this context, the design of servo clocks plays an important role to get better performances by smoothing the influence of noise sources affecting a synchronization system. A servo clock is asked to provide an adaptive and conservative measure of the time distance between the local clock and the time reference by minimizing, if possible, the energy consumption. In this paper, we propose a servo clock based on an efficient implementation of the Kalman filter (KF), called in the following event-based KF that allows to overcome drawbacks of existing KF-based servo clocks with furthermore a significant reduction of the computational cost. An in-depth analysis of the synchronization uncertainty has been reported to completely characterize the proposed solution; and finally, some guidelines on how to correctly initialize the KF are provided.
A protocol for distributed estimation of discrete distributions is proposed. Each agent begins with a single sample from the distribution, and the goal is to learn the empirical distribution of the samples. The protocol is based on a simple message-passing model motivated by communication in social networks. Agents sample a message randomly from their current estimates of the distribution, resulting in a protocol with quantized messages. Using tools from stochastic approximation, the algorithm is shown to converge almost surely. Examples illustrate three regimes with different consensus phenomena. Simulations demonstrate this convergence and give some insight into the effect of network topology.
Inferring the most probable explanation to a set of variables, given a partial observation of the remaining variables, is one of the canonical computational problems in Bayesian networks, with widespread applications in AI and beyond. This problem, known as MAP, is computationally intractable (NP-hard) and remains so even when only an approximate solution is sought. We propose a heuristic formulation of the MAP problem, denoted as Inference to the Most Frugal Explanation (MFE), based on the observation that many intermediate variables (that are neither observed nor to be explained) are irrelevant with respect to the outcome of the explanatory process. An explanation based on few samples (often even a singleton sample) from these irrelevant variables is typically almost as good as an explanation based on (the computationally costly) marginalization over these variables. We show that while MFE is computationally intractable in general (as is MAP), it can be tractably approximated under plausible situational constraints, and its inferences are fairly robust with respect to which intermediate variables are considered to be relevant.
Thomas T. Hills, Peter M. Todd, David Lazer, A. David Redish, Iain D. Couzin, the Cognitive Search Research Group, Exploration versus exploitation in space, mind, and society, Trends in Cognitive Sciences, Volume 19, Issue 1, January 2015, Pages 46-54, ISSN 1364-6613, DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2014.10.004.
Search is a ubiquitous property of life. Although diverse domains have worked on search problems largely in isolation, recent trends across disciplines indicate that the formal properties of these problems share similar structures and, often, similar solutions. Moreover, internal search (e.g., memory search) shows similar characteristics to external search (e.g., spatial foraging), including shared neural mechanisms consistent with a common evolutionary origin across species. Search problems and their solutions also scale from individuals to societies, underlying and constraining problem solving, memory, information search, and scientific and cultural innovation. In summary, search represents a core feature of cognition, with a vast influence on its evolution and processes across contexts and requiring input from multiple domains to understand its implications and scope.
Human performance on perceptual classification tasks approaches that of an ideal observer, but economic decisions are often inconsistent and intransitive, with preferences reversing according to the local context. We discuss the view that suboptimal choices may result from the efficient coding of decision-relevant information, a strategy that allows expected inputs to be processed with higher gain than unexpected inputs. Efficient coding leads to \u2018robust\u2019 decisions that depart from optimality but maximise the information transmitted by a limited-capacity system in a rapidly-changing world. We review recent work showing that when perceptual environments are variable or volatile, perceptual decisions exhibit the same suboptimal context-dependence as economic choices, and we propose a general computational framework that accounts for findings across the two domains.


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Though it took a lot of people by surprise, the overall feeling on Scott Forstall leaving Apple is mostly positive. The long-time SVP has been painted as extremely difficult to work with, and the leading advocate for the controversial skeuomorphic elements in iOS.
Forstall's duties will be split up among several executives, with all Human Interface stuff, for both hardware and software, now rolling up to Jony Ives. A lot of folks think Ive's talent for aesthetics will transfer over to software and give iOS a much needed makeover.
But are rich Corinthian leathers and dark linen backgrounds Apple's biggest problems in software?
Kontra, veteran designer and author of counternotions says no. In a blog post that started making the rounds yesterday, Kontra explains why Jony Ive might not be the iOS savior that everyone is hoping for, because for starters, its worst problems aren't UI-related.
Of course, there's a lot more to Kontra's piece. And the entire thing is worth reading. But this really summed it up for me. As successful as it has been for Apple, iOS is inherently broken in many areas. There are still several major features that are either missing or subpar.
Like why is it so hard to transfer files and documents from one iOS device to another, or to a Mac? And why is it that it still takes several taps to access settings like WiFi, Bluetooth, and screen brightness — things that all have a substantial impact on a device's battery life?
Obviously, this list of problems could go on forever. And I'm sure everyone's would be a bit different. But the point is, Apple's biggest problem in software goes far deeper than skeuomorphism. It goes all the way down to functionality — heck, just look at iOS 6 Maps and Siri.
Maybe Mr. Ive will make iOS look [feel?] better, but for a guy with little background in software development, I doubt he'll be able to do much for the OS's bigger problems. Luckily, other Apple leaders like Craig Federighi, SVP of software, and Mr. Fixit Eddie Cue are on it.


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Marilyn vos Savant is a writer and member of Mensa.
When Seymour Skinner welcomed Lisa to Mensa he told her that she would join such Mensa luminaries as Marilyn vos Savant, Geena Davis, and Mel Lazarus, each of whom stands at the top of their respective fields. Professor Frink then pointed Mel Lazarus out as an exception.
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Ep. #510 featuring Peter Taunton
Peter Taunton is a pioneer in the fitness industry. In 2003, he had a vision for Snap Fitness: to create an affordable, 24-7, results-driven gym differentiated from the impersonal, expensive big-box experience. Today there are Snap Fitness franchises in 2,500 locations in 26 countries. And Taunton, CEO of Lift Brands, didn't stop there.
Taunton is an expert at understanding consumer desires and fulfilling them. In recent years, he has acquired and founded several brands to round out the consumer-fitness experience: 9Round, Farrell's, YogaFit, STEELE Fitness, Fitness On Demand. Together with the Snap Fitness brand they comprise the world's largest wellness franchise organization, serving 165 million workouts and counting.
Taunton, who prior to founding Snap Fitness owned nine America's Fitness Centers, has designed a franchise-development operation that is the envy of the industry. He leads with infectious enthusiasm, which attracts prospective owners from all over the world. He provides them affordable financing, world-class support and an easy turnkey process. Most importantly he teaches them his own management philosophy, "Success is 10 percent what happens to you and 90 percent how you react to it."
Taunton's accomplishments have been well-recognized by the business community. In 2010, he was named an Ernst and Young "Entrepreneur of the Year." His companies have also been featured for six years running in such prestigious industry lists as Entrepreneur 500, Inc 5000, Top Global and Franchise 500.
For Taunton, it comes down to one word: passion. He has it, he teaches it, and the results speak for themselves. Even as his operations expand, he remains ever-committed to providing owners and members with the tools and programs they need to reach life-changing goals. Today I have over 6000 locations across three wellness brands in 28 countries.
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Cape League Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony a Big Hit at Chatham Bars Inn
Hall of Fame Inductees and Committee at Chatham Bars Inn ceremony / photo by Dr. Pamela Stiefvater
Article By: Jim Higgins
CHATHAM, Mass. - The Cape Cod Baseball League welcomed its 15th class at the picturesque Chatham Bars Inn, Saturday, November 15th.
The festivities, set against a postcard-perfect day, were highlighted by U.S. Congressman Bill Keating's presentation of a Special Congressional Certificate of Recognition to each member of the 2014 class. Keating's recognition was the first of its kind for the storied league considered the premier venue for top college players in the country.
Scott Wahle, former news and sports reporter for WBZ-TV in Boston, served as master of ceremonies for the 14th time and guided the program flawlessly. As is his custom, Scott led the audience in singing of the National Anthem and then it was on to the inductees.
Batting first was 1968 alum Phil Corddry representing the Orleans Cardinals. His daughter, Alex, currently a sports reporter with Channel 7 in Boston, delivered an inspirational speech that highlighted "while diamonds are a girl's best friend, my Dad gave us Baseball Diamonds." Alex concluded that while her Dad was a CCBL Hall of Famer, he will "always be a Hall of Fame Dad!"
Following Corddry, was University of Tampa graduate Eric Beattie, who was presented by his dad, Randy. Fighting back tears, Beattie graciously accepted his honor and amused the crowd with a story of how ill-prepared he was for the weather that greeted him during his stay on the Cape during the summer of 2003. Beattie compiled the second lowest ERA in league history at 0.39, trailing only Hall of Famer Eric Milton at 0.21.
Errol Hicks graciously accepted the award presented to his dad, Donald Hicks, Sr. who passed away earlier this year before he was able to learn of his induction. A native of the Mashpee Wampanoag tribe and former captain of the Mashpee Fire Department, Hicks, Sr. was fondly remembered as a nonpareil pitcher who won all four games in the 1948 Cape League championship, including both ends of a double-header. As Errol said, "I know my Dad waited a long time for this moment and I'm sure he is up there playing a game right now!"
Harvey Shapiro, long time manager in the Cape League with Falmouth and recently the Bourne Braves, presented standout hurler Bob St. Pierre of University of Richmond. Once considered a middle of the rotation pitcher, this talented right-hander, playing on a team that included future Hall of Famer and California Angels standout, Darrin Erstad, St. Pierre compiled an impressive 9-1 record, winning Outstanding Pitcher of the Year award. Celebrating his sixth wedding anniversary Saturday, St. Pierre duly noted the role his wife has played in his life since his playing career ended and finished his speech saying, "the Cape League will always have special place in his heart."
Current major leaguer with the Oakland A's and former Hyannis Met's star, Sam Fuld, a native of Durham, NH was the day's last recipient. Presented by his former house mother, Allison McNaughton, Fuld acknowledged the community involvement that "makes the league so great." Fuld, who also played for Team USA during his college career, went on to say that his Cape League experience made him"feel like a professional" and prepared him for the rigors of playing every day as a professional ball player. Playing in the majors since 2007 with a variety of teams, Fuld complemented the Chatham Bars Inn on its wonderful venue and indicated he couldn't wait to come back.
Earlier in the program, long time and retired GM of the Y-D Red Sox, Jim Martin, won the prestigious Fred Ebbett Lifetime Achievement Award and current CCBL Director of Public Relations and Broadcasting, John W. Garner was awarded the Richard "Dick" Sullivan Executive of the Year Award.


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CENTRESTAGE is an international fashion trade show organised annually by the Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC).

History
The Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC) first launched CENTRESTAGE in 2016 as a new promotion and launch platform for international  Asian fashion brands and designs.

The fourth edition of the fashion trade show was staged from 4 to 7 September 2019 at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre. The 2019 show attracted some 240 fashion brands from 23 countries and regions, and attracted close to 7,000 buyers from 74 countries and regions. Many other fashion events were held during the trade show, including runway shows, designer sharing sessions, industry seminars and networking events.

Purpose
CENTRESTAGE is organised to promote fashion designers' collection and brands from around the world.

See also
 Hong Kong Trade Development Council
 Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre

References

Fashion events in China
Trade fairs in Hong Kong


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Reform leader Richard Tice to run for byelection after James Brokenshire death
Posted on October 30, 2021 October 30, 2021 Author Carrie R. Landa	Comment(0)
Richard Tice, the leader of the Reform Party, has announced that he will run in the Old Bexley and Sidcup byelections, as he attacks the "consocialism" of Boris Johnson's Conservative Party.
Formerly known as the Brexit Party, Mr Tice's party has advocated lower taxes, campaigned against what it calls "awakened nonsense" and protested against the "erosion" of civil liberties during coronavirus blockages.
The by-election was called after the death of James Brokenshire, a former Tory cabinet minister who died of lung cancer earlier this month at the age of 53.
Mr Brokenshire had been a Member of Parliament for Old Bexley and Sidcup since 2010 and won the last seat with almost 19,000 votes ahead of his Labor rival – a sizable majority.
The South East London constituency has also fired a Tory MP since its inception in 1983 and was previously owned by former Prime Minister Ted Heath.
Despite the Conservatives' clear lead in the constituency, Mr Tice told the The telegraph of the day he wanted to send a "powerful message to Boris Johnson" about the impact of his government's decision to raise taxes.
Mr Tice, who replaced Nigel Farage at the helm earlier in 2021, argued that the election of a Reform MP, who did not send a MP back to the House of Commons, including under the title of Brexit Party would be a "massive awakening".
"While it is awful that this election is taking place, I stand to ensure that a choice is given to the people of Bexley and Sidcup," Mr Tice said.
"The call for reform to voters in this traditionally conservative seat is to use this moment to send a powerful message to Boris Johnson and his cabinet. Here, voters did not expect the Prime Minister to come up with Consocialism, a heavily taxed and highly regulated nurturing state.
"We now have the highest overall taxes in 70 years and the lowest medium-term growth forecasts in 60 years. This means authoritative checks and saving long waiting lists.
"This means much higher energy costs even as you approach the mountain foothills at net zero cost."
The process of selecting the Conservative candidate to challenge the by-election after Mr Brokenshire's death is still ongoing, but Labor has already selected Daniel Francis – a Bexley adviser and former leader of the Labor group on the council.
In a video message, Mr. Francis, who lives in the constituency, said he would work "tirelessly" for the community if elected.
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Why the NZGovernment needs to get on with the job of suicide prevention
A lot of people have asked me why it did not participate in the New Zealand Government's Mental Health and Addictions Inquiry and it is a very legitimate question to ask. Several years ago when the National Party was in Government I spent a lot of time meeting with Ministry of Health Officials, service providers and politicians to put forward a comprehensive plan on where I thought change was needed in order to bring the rate of suicide in New Zealand down. Those views, and that plan, came from two areas. The first was as a result of my own experience as a Director of the Board of Suicide Prevention Australia, Chair of Australia's National Coalition for Suicide Prevention, someone with my own lived experience and someone who has been immersed in the sector for the last decade. The second were the hundreds and thousands of New Zealanders I had met throughout 2016 and 2017 as I made my way around the country – listening to their stories and how suicide had impacted them. On another front I had sat in a number of forums to do with suicide prevention and mental health both as a talker and a listener (mostly listening). Above all else it is what I saw and heard first hand thanks to Mike King as I joined him on his journey.
In 2016 I became ever more critical of the Ministry of Health who appeared to be frustrating change and who presided over a very broken mental health model. The now infamous interview with Dr John Crawshaw, Director of Mental Health Services at the Ministry of Health, summed it up – he could not even remember, when asked, what the suicide rate was. Between that and the absence of any coherent and evaluated suicide prevention strategy the scene was set for action. But; for those in power and decision making roles there would be no action. In November of 2016 I met with then Minister of Health Jonathan Coleman and put it to him the that suicide rate was on the increase and something needed to be done urgently. I listed a series of things that could turn the tide but all the while the meeting was again frustrated by the continued interference of Dr Crawshaw. When I said the suicide rate had gone up I was corrected that so too had the population and by weight of numbers it had averaged out. In disbelief I said that "what you are trying to tell me is that one plus one no longer equals one." It was obvious to me, in the meeting, that Dr Crawshaw had lied to the Minister about the level of engagement he had with me and after a while I asked all of those present to leave so that myself and the Minister could talk one on one. Yes; it is not a myth. I really did kick the officials and my own side out of the Ministers office and in doing so went toe to toe. I again reiterated to Coleman what needed to be considered and I left with the belief that he had heard me. I was wrong. Even though Dr Crawshaw told the Minister and I that we would meet again soon we never did – and to this day no meeting has taken place.
Ahead of the General Election I met with a number of politicians and their staffers – pushing the action plan for reform. With New Zealand First I felt we had made real progress as I did with Te Ururoa Flavell, the then co-leader of the Maori Party. Over on the Labour side I prosecuted the argument with former Health Minister Annette King, Clare Curran, Damian O'Connor and others. I was hopeful that if there was a change in Government action would be taken to address the ever increasing tide of suicide. So; what were the key points of the plan? Pretty straightforward:
Reform and review of the current Mental Health Act to ensure it was fit for purpose for todays New Zealand
The establishment of a stand alone Mental Health Commissioner – not as a commissioning agency but as a person who could sit a top the sector and provider co-ordination, develop strategies and work on an interagency and community basis
Reform of Coronial legislation to ensure it was culturally appropriate and understandable to all New Zealanders
The development of a national workforce plan to meet demand on service providers – as we campaigned to say its okay to reach out for help we needed to ensure there was supply of workforce to meet the demand
Consolidation and focus on a coordinated campaign for suicide prevention and mental health help seeking instead of multiple campaigns
The development of a new five year strategy for suicide prevention
The development of an evaluation framework to ensure that programs were not only fit for purpose depending on need and location but were measured against outcomes. Instead of being audited to ensure finds were expended for the intended purpose, that the intended purpose had achieved an outcome
A review of the District Health model and the role of hospitals when it came to admissions, care and post discharge
A dedicated suicide prevention plan and strategy for youth
A dedicated suicide prevention plan and strategy for Maori
A dedicated suicide prevention plan for white males between the ages of 24 and 65
All of these things needed to be done before the questions of investment and more money was on the table. My reasoning then, as it is now, was that just throwing more money into something before we knew what needed to be done and how it should be done was the wrong thing to do.
When the new Government came to power I was extremely hopeful. Many hundreds and thousands of New Zealanders were. As the months wore on people were waiting for action and they believed it came in the form of the Mental Health and Addictions Inquiry. For my part I met with the new Health Minister, David Clark, and his officials with insights into what was beginning to shape in other jurisdictions. As the Inquiry went on they received thousands of submissions both on paper and in person – momentum, or so many believed, was building.
But then something quite remarkable happened, without a large number of people and organisations knowing, the Ministry of Health, led by Dr Crawshaw, formed a leadership group of more than twenty organisations to prepare a response to the Inquiry when the report was handed in and the recommendations made. It would be more than a month after that group first met that the Inquiries report would be handed to the Minister and the Minister would indicate that he would not be releasing the report until the end of the year and any Government responses would not happen for another up to six months. He said this was because the report was detailed and needed to be cross checked with first to ensure no sensitive information was released by mistake and that it took time to develop responses to recommendations.
Here is the thing – on average nearly two New Zealanders take their lives every day. Based on the suicide rate of 2017 a further 334 New Zealanders would have taken their lives and an estimated 6680 would have made an attempt before the Government responses. Its already been more than a year since the Government has been in power, its been more than two years since the last national suicide prevention strategy was replaced and it will be years still until any recommendations begin to take hold.
This come back to why I didn't participate in the Inquiry – because we didn't need to have an Inquiry to know what needed to be done. We have wasted two years of talk, two of years of political game playing, two years of an inept and useless Ministry of Health, a profoundly frustrating period of leadership from Dr John Crawshaw and the stupidity of inaction. In actual fact this is not a failure of this current Government wanting to honestly do something – more so the point must be made that the previous Government let us get to this point through doing nothing and that is the risk the Ardern Government now finds in its court. To delay, to hinder and not to act will be a foley of their own making.
The first thing that should be done now is to establish the independent Office of a National Health Commissioner and entrust the recommendations to them for implementation. As I have said time and time again to allow the foxes to being charge of the chook house would be a mistake and it would disrespect those who have passed and those who are left behind trying to make it sense of it all.
New Zealanders deserve better than this. Those who have died by suicide deserve better than this. Their whanau and loved ones, mates and communities deserve better than this.
*numbers quoted in this article are estimates based on average rates of suicide as published by the New Zealand Chief Coroner
About the author: Matthew Tukaki is the Chairman of the National Maori Authority, Chairman of the Tamaki District of New Zealand Maori Council and Chairman of Suicide Prevention Australia.


This NWO funded (free competition humanities) project examines the role of Roman non-urban settlements in the formative phase of the Roman Empire. Both ancient and modern viewers have portrayed Roman colonies as key factors in the spread of the urban model and, typically, these new foundations are sharply contrasted with the non-urban settlement organisation that prevailed in the conquered native areas. The evidential basis for this view is, however, notoriously limited for the Mid-Republican period, the key phase of Roman expansion in Italy. The project therefore aims to systematically compare early colonial settlement organization with the situation in contemporary non-colonial control areas. In particular, it further explores non-urban settlements, which as recent epigraphic and archaeological work suggests, may have played a considerable role in early Roman expansion.
Using intensive field survey, remote sensing and geophysical analysis, the aim is to provide a comparable dataset and to test a new conception of early Roman colonization that is not based on the urban model, but on a distinct "multiplecore" settlement organization and institutional configuration. Such a model could shed a different light on the traditional notion of Roman colonies as key factors in the urbanization and "romanization" of the conquered territories. In particular, it would presuppose different mechanisms of cultural change by fragmenting the traditional monolithic city-state model and decentering urban centers as the only loci of societal and cultural development.
The project empirically investigates the archaeology of two colonial territories, and compares them systematically with patterns of settlement in two equivalent landscapes that were not colonized (see map below).
systems, and allows testing the conventional theory that presumes substantial differences between these two systems.
Also, we aim to examine which types of landscapes are most affected by colonization. The distinct landscape characteristics of the research areas (1 and 2 in the mountains on the one hand and 3 and 4 in the Lucanian-Daunian plain), combined with a detailed landscape reconstruction should allow this comparison.
The second level consists of intra-site fieldwork in selected sites, geared to better understand the development and structure of nucleated rural sites.
understanding of the black gloss ceramic typochronology in both research areas, and as part of the project specialists work on establishing and refining local frameworks on the basis of both existing and new datasets.
The LERC research area with the territories of the colonies of Aesernia (1) and Venusia (3) and the non-colonized control areas (2 and 4).


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Remember as a kid, going to the library and getting a book on tape? The book and cassette were in a sturdy plastic bag hanging on a carousel or rack? Well the days of cassettes are long gone BUT all is not lost. Your child can still enjoy the independence of "listening" and "reading" during quiet time. This work is for readers and nonreaders alike.
We accidentally stumbled across this work, when my Son wanted to read "Polar Express" for the millionth time last week. I conveniently ignored the CD accompaniment for various reasons. However, when my son asked to listen to the CD I said, "sure why not". What a treat! We both enjoyed listening to the story with engaging sound effects. The third time we listened (yes 3 times in a row) I told my son what word to listen for at the end of each page. I told him, " when you hear this word _____, turn the page". Fourth time through, (I wish I was lying) he used his headphones and shouted at me to tell him what words to listen for so he could turn the page.
Since this #followthechild moment, I have downloaded a few more audiobooks that we can listen to together. Since it is Black History month, I chose a few books by Ezra Jack Keats, featuring our beloved "Peter" ( Snowy Day anyone, watch in on Amazon Prime! It's so good).
This is a no cost activity, all you need is access to a library. I had never downloaded a book from the library before, but let me tell you it is super easy. This new way of listening revolutionized our story time. What a great way to exercise our sense of hearing. Try it for yourself and let me know what you think.


Snuffly pigs, fluffy ducklings, braying donkeys, naughty goats who eat everything you put in-front of them…including the sleeve of your favourite jacket! But who doesn't love a trip to the farm and aren't we lucky that London has got so many wonderful and free city farms to offer?
One of the largest city farms, Mudchute is set in 32 acres of countryside but right in the heart of East London – impressive hey?! Well there's more, they've currently got over 100 animals and fowl in residence, including cows, several varieties of pig, sheep and goats, donkeys, llamas, geese and the ever-popular Pets Corner, where you have the opportunity to cuddle little furry creatures such as rabbits and guinea pigs. As well as their domestic livestock, it's also a great place to explore and learn about plants and wildlife. Plus with their Rural Arts Centre facility, there's also the opportunity to take a peek at the farm's resident potter, blacksmith and woodworker in their studios.
At the Mudchute Kitchen, visitors can enjoy home-cooked breakfasts and brunches, as well as cakes and sandwiches. Mudchute Farm also offer After School and Holiday Clubs for kids on weekdays which are £12.50 and £24.50 per child respectively. You can find out more here.
Check out Mudchute's Upcoming Events here.
Nestled in the East End, Stepney City Farm is a working farm that has always got plenty of things going on… On the last Saturday of the month they run a Family Farm Club from 1-4pm, where families can drop-in for free nature and gardening activities, arts and crafts and play!
The farm is home to a number of different farm animals including sheep, pigs, goats, chickens, geese, donkeys and small animals too. Visitors can buy feed for some of the animals and poultry for £1, which always goes down a treat with the kids!
Stepney City Farm's cafe is a great little retreat which serves up the farm's best seasonal produce. You can then pick up some of their wonderful homegrown produce to take home with you in the Farm Shop afterwards.
The best way to get there is by a short walk from Stepney Green Underground or Limehouse DLR station.
Born in 1976, Vauxhall City Farm has been a favourite among locals for decades. Whether its for riding lessons or to say hello to Tom, Ben & Jerry the Alpacas, Jenny & Edward the pigs, Waffle the Goose, the cheeky Golden Guernsey goats, Stinker & Jemima the Ferrets or a selection of sheep, guinea pigs and aviary birds to name a few…This is a great place to take the kids – particularly small ones as it is not a big farm, which makes it easy and quick to get around (if needed). They often have events and activities for families taking place in the holidays and children can also feed, hold and pet some of the animals with a small donation to the farm. There's also a small duck pond – who doesn't love a duck pond?!
There is a sweet little cafe onsite called The Old Dairy Cafe which serves good value, wholesome meals to keep rumbly bellies at bay, plus all profits go towards running the farm. The cafe follows the same opening hours as the farm which are: Tuesday – Sunday 10:30am – 4pm.
By public transport: The farm is a short walk from Vauxhall underground, train or bus stations.
By car: There is on-street, metered parking nearby. Note the farm is inside the congestion zone.
The farm is fully wheelchair accessible.
This is probably one of the best city farms in terms of the activities and workshops it offers for families and children. From free to around £4 per child, children can get involved in a whole host of activities, from gardening to pottery, pony rides to baking!
Like Vauxhall City Farm, Kentish Town City Farm is set on a four-acre site and is therefore small and easy to get around with little ones. Although it may not have as many animals as some of the other city farms, you can still expect to see ducks, chickens, sheep, goats, a pig, a cow and its three horses named Jester, Champion and Murphy! The farm runs a fully BHS (British Horse Society) and RDA (Riding for the Disabled Association) approved riding program and has a fully floodlit outdoor arena. It is open daily from 9am – 5pm and also offers children's parties, with a party room that can hold up to 25 children.
After an hour or so of wandering around the farm and saying 'hello' to the animals, you're then only a short 10-15 minute walk away from Parliament Hill with its lido and playground, plus plenty of great places to take the kids for a quick bite to eat.
By public transport: Head to Kentish Town on the Northern Line or Gospel Oak on the Overground, Kentish Town on the Thameslink rail service or buses C11, No. 24 & 46, No. 134, 214 & C2 also stop nearby.
By car: Free parking on Grafton Road after 11am (Monday – Friday) and all day at the weekend. There is also Pay & Display parking on Queen's Crescent and Vicarage Road on busier days.
Note Thursday & Saturday are market days, so the area may well be busier at these times.
If you've got kids who just love animals, why not check out some other places you could go and you may also find some helpful ticket savings.


Papa's camp, aka Camp Whiskey Jack, originally built around 1905 and acquired by the Potvins in 1944, sits on a couple of 40s (40-acre parcels) in the middle of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Every year since my dad was a kid, the men of the family have headed to camp for Opening Day of Deer Hunting Season (a holiday in the U.P.), and the women joined the following week for the days surrounding Thanksgiving. My parents continued this tradition with us, and have gathered at camp every year since, sometimes with kids, sometimes with other family and friends.
When we found out my brother Marcel (Cel) would be making the trip for a week at deer camp, my sister Lynette (Net) encouraged us to join in, so I booked a last-minute trip for myself and Stephen and Avian, who hadn't been to camp for Thanksgiving since they were 3.
With a lot of people in cramped quarters, my dad keeps it very neat and orderly with his "Camp Rules" – there's a certain place for everything, and a system for doing it all. And he's not afraid to tell you if you forget. I appreciate the Rules; without them, it would be a challenge to keep the place clean and tidy with 10+ people hanging out at any given time.
The camp has no electricity, running water, or other modern amenities, and so, life there is a unique experience. The everyday pace slows way down.
Doing dishes is kind of a big deal… but we have a good system.
A woodstove is used to heat the camp when the days or nights are extra cold, but if it's above 30 outside, the wood-burning cooking stove is sufficient to keep the place warm. My grandparents got the cooking stove when it was brand-new, and my dad has kept it in immaculate condition (there are at least 10 associated Rules that go along with the stove).
There are endless miles of dirt roads for hiking, running, or biking, and a lot of land for hunting or exploring around the camp. Before a run, I like to get a good fire going in the sauna, think about it almost the entire time I'm out, and then reap the rewards at the finish. Inside the camp you can usually find someone to play cribbage with, share a beer, look at old books or yearbooks (we have a collection from the 1970s-on), crochet, nap, or just stare out the window into the woods.
This Thanksgiving, our crew consisted of my parents, my sister, my kids, and our Aunt Maureen and Uncle George.
After a delicious breakfast of Swedish pancakes (with homemade maple syrup of course), my mom and sister began the preparations for the traditional Thanksgiving feast of turkey, cranberries, stuffing, mashed potatoes, and gravy, all of which would be prepared from scratch (my sister's influence) on the antique stove.
My mom and sister work hard all day preparing the meal, and in keeping with tradition, my dad arrives after hunting to pretend he cooked the turkey himself.
After the ceremonious carving of the turkey, we gather around the table to say a prayer and share what we are thankful for, and then enjoy the feast.
After dinner, the kids and Papa left to hunt and the grownups did the dishes, which took a good hour.
More hiking, saunas, a few glasses of wine and the sun finally set on our beautiful Thanksgiving day.
important tip- cel claims whomever uses kerosene lantern should close globe after lighting it. As result suit accumulates above on ceiling. it is a job to clean up.
On the upside the dossier is awesome!
as part of Chat & Chew we were at Whiskey Jack for lunch as in years past and knew of the upcoming house full as well as the opening day co-ed celebration.


So, MissLucifer and CurlyAdi, both have pointed out that there are a few grammar and translation mistakes in the few starting chapters (owing to the fact that I had just started translating at that time), and truthfully, I would have gone and corrected them myself, but due to time constraints and work load, I am unable to do so.
As such I have delegated this job to the two of them along with a few of my friends from the translating community, they will be going over all the previous chapters thoroughly, grammar and translation wise, to keep it accurate and as close to the original as possible.
If there are any translation changes, the same would be conveyed to you all in the chapter post or a separate post. So please, stay tuned.


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Robert "Barão" Triffin (5 de outubro de 1911 - 23 de fevereiro de 1993) foi um economista belga-americano mais conhecido por sua crítica ao sistema de Bretton Woods de taxas de câmbio fixas. Sua crítica ficou conhecida mais tarde como o dilema de Triffin.

Vida
Depois de concluir seus estudos de graduação na Universidade Católica de Lovaina, Triffin, um belga francófono, foi para os Estados Unidos e recebeu seu PhD pela Universidade Harvard em 1938, onde lecionou de 1939 a 1942. Ele ocupou cargos no Sistema da Reserva Federal dos EUA (1942–1946), no Fundo Monetário Internacional (1946–1948) e na Organização para a Cooperação Econômica Europeia (1948–1951), agora a OCDE. Em 1951, ele se tornou professor de economia na Universidade Yale, onde também atuou como mestre do Berkeley College de 1969 a 1977.

Triffin tornou-se cidadão americano em 1942. Ele recuperou sua cidadania belga em 1977 e voltou a residir na Europa. Lá, ele foi um grande defensor da integração europeia e ajudou a desenvolver o Sistema Monetário Europeu e apoiou o conceito de um banco central, que se desenvolveu como o Banco Central Europeu.

Crítica a Bretton Woods
Em 1959, Triffin testemunhou perante o Congresso dos Estados Unidos e alertou sobre graves falhas no sistema de Bretton Woods. Sua teoria se baseava na observação do excesso de dólares, ou o acúmulo do dólar americano fora dos EUA. Sob o sistema de Bretton Woods, os EUA prometeram converter dólares em ouro, mas no início dos anos 1960, o excesso fez com que mais dólares estivessem disponíveis fora dos EUA do que ouro em seu Tesouro.

Na era pós-guerra, os EUA tiveram que incorrer em déficits na conta corrente do balanço de pagamentos para fornecer ao mundo reservas em dólares que mantivessem a liquidez para seu aumento de riqueza.

No entanto, os déficits contínuos na conta corrente do balanço de pagamentos resultaram em um estoque cada vez maior de dólares mantidos no exterior, corroendo a confiança na crença de que o dólar permaneceria conversível em ouro à taxa de paridade de Bretton Woods de 35 dólares por onça.

Triffin previu que o sistema não seria capaz de manter a liquidez e a confiança, teoria que mais tarde seria conhecida como o dilema de Triffin. Sua ideia foi amplamente ignorada até 1971, quando sua hipótese se tornou realidade, forçando o presidente dos Estados Unidos, Richard Nixon, a interromper a conversibilidade do dólar dos Estados Unidos em ouro, iniciativa conhecida coloquialmente como o Choque Nixon, o que efetivamente encerrou o sistema de Bretton Woods.

Bibliografia
 Monopolistic Competition and General Equilibrium Theory, 1940.
 "National central banking and the international economy", 1947, Board of Governors, Federal Reserve System.
 Europe and the Money Muddle, 1957.
 Gold and the Dollar Crisis: The future of convertibility, 1960.
 Statistics of Sources and Uses of Finance, 1948-1958, with Stuvel et al., 1960.
 "Intégration économique européenne et politique monetaire", 1960, Revue Econ Politique
 The Evolution of the International Monetary System: historical appraisal and future perspectives, 1964.
 The World Money Maze: National currencies in international payments, 1966.
 Our International Monetary System: Yesterday, today and tomorrow, 1968.
 "The Thrust of History in International Monetary Reform", 1969, Foreign Affairs
 "The Use of SDR Finance for Collectively Agreed Purposes", BNLQR
 "The international role and fate of the dollar", 1978, Foreign Affairs
 "The European Monetary System: Tombstone or cornerstone?", in: The international monetary system: forty years after Bretton Woods. Proceedings of a conference held at Bretton Woods, N.H., May 1984, 1984
 "The future of the European Monetary System and the ECU", 1984, CEPS Papers
 " The international accounts of the United States and their impact upon the rest of the world", 1985, BNLQR
 "Une Banque Monétaire Européenne avec des fonctions de banque centrale", 1986, Répères, Bulletin Économique et Financier
 "L'avenir du système monétaire et financier international : gestion de crises chroniques ou réformes fondamentales?", 1986, Répères, Bulletin Économique et Financier
 "The IMS (International Monetary System ... or Scandal?) and the EMS (European Monetary System)", 1987, BNLQR
 "The European Monetary System in the World Economy", 1989, Rivista di politica economica
 "L'interdépendance du politique et de l'économique dans le scandale monétaire mondial : diagnostic et prescription", 1989, Répères, Bulletin Économique et Financier
 "The International Monetary System : 1949-1989", 1990, ECU Newsletter Torino.

Honras
 Grau honorário, Universidade de Pavia, 1991.

Ligações externas
 Artigos de Robert Triffin (MS 874). Manuscritos e Arquivos, Biblioteca da Universidade de Yale.
 "Triffin, Robert." Livro do ano da Britannica, 1994. Encyclopædia Britannica Online. 6 de abril de 2006 < http://search.eb.com/eb/article-9113363 >.

 Os papéis pessoais de Robert Triffinpodem ser consultados no Arquivo Histórico da União Europeia em Florença, Itália

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