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An Ode to Facebook
By Guest Blogger, Annice Moses
Someone I know used to say whenever her phone rang, "Who could it be? All my friends are here!" That's how I feel when I receive a new friend request on Facebook. Facebook has changed my life. When I go to my list of friends, I feel surrounded by my life— past and present. I resisted joining for many years. When friends told me— I would love it, had to get on it, and that everyone's doing it— I felt like I was being peer pressured into some kind of strange cyber-cult society. I claimed computer ineptitude. I said I was too old. I said I didn't have time. The truth was, I really didn't understand it. So one day, I don't remember why, after tons of nudging, I did it. I joined the wacky family of Facebook.
Things started slowly. But I was so honored to be found. The poor folks who found me in the beginning would write deep thoughts such as, "Hi! How are you? :)" And I would respond with paragraphs chronicling my life from birth up until that moment they wrote on my wall. Then folks just started coming out of the woodwork. The popular kid with the foot high Afro from grade school. People from my beloved YMCA swim team. Old roommates. Ex boyfriends. Old crushes. People who remembered me from a terrible sunburn I got on an 8th grade school trip to Florida. Boys I played spin the bottle with. Beloved neighborhood friends that moved away when I was too young to know how to stay in touch. Kids I had mentored as teens who were now married— with kids! I started obsessing before bed about who I was going to "discover" the next morning. Occasionally I would slip out of bed in the middle of the night to see who I could find. And more importantly, to see who had found me.
In the beginning, it was all kinds of fun, but it was driving my husband absolutely mad. He has said, on more than one occasion, that he is a Facebook widower. I think the worst part for him used to be the nights when I was so wound up by a "finding" that I would wax on and on about so-and-so who I had never mentioned in all the years of our married life together, but now we just HAD to have them over for dinner. I loved the memories that came pouring out of something so simple as seeing an old photo posted of me wearing a "Jungle Fever" t-shirt with bad hair and unkempt eyebrows. Ah. Those were the days!
When I was in college, I had many good friends. But there were two women who were my "besties." I lived in the Midwest and they both lived on the East Coast. I graduated before both of them, but we visited, called, and wrote to one another often. I started dating my husband and as time went on, my two girlfriends and I grew apart. But still, I loved them and wanted to honor our friendship by having them stand up in my wedding. At the last minute, they canceled. More than 11 years went by without my speaking to them. It haunted me. I had come up with many theories and explanations. I had come up with the "If I ever see them again, this is what I'm going to say" speech. And then, two years ago, I saw I had a friend request.
There, silently, sat a picture of my old friend, now in L.A., requesting I accept her friendship. I did. Breathlessly. Right after that, I looked up my other beloved friend and saw that her current city was none other than Chicago, IL. I sent her a message and a friendship request. She and I met for a tearful lunch where I met her beautiful son and we made amends. Not that long after, I flew out to L.A. for a tearful dinner, my first martini ever, and an explanation that helped to heal an old, deep wound.
My college reunion is coming up. There is no way I would have ever even remotely considered attending if not for these two Facebook connections. You'd think after marriage, two dogs, and four kids that the heart gets tougher. You don't give the old hurts a second thought. You don't look back. And maybe, for some, that's true. But for me, Facebook has given me the opportunity to both look backwards and surge forward. And for that, I am very grateful.
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Issue 2018 — June/July
Coal Mining Under Trump
Kevin Ridder | June 7, 2018 | No Comments
On June 1, President Donald Trump ordered Secretary of Energy Rick Perry to stop coal and nuclear plants from closing, citing national security and grid reliability. A draft White House memo with a plan to bail out those plants by forcing grid operators to purchase coal and nuclear power for two years was released the same day.
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In a statement, PJM-Interconnection — which manages much of the Eastern electric grid — said, "Any federal intervention in the market to order customers to buy electricity from specific power plants would be damaging to the markets and therefore costly to consumers."
Mary Anne Hitt, director of the environmental group Sierra Club's Beyond Coal campaign, decried the announcement in a statement.
"This is an outrageous ploy to force American taxpayers to bail out coal and nuclear executives who have made bad decisions by investing in dirty and dangerous energy resources," the statement read.
Dozens of coal plants were shuttered in 2017, according to Forbes, and Mother Jones stated that "at least 14 coal-fired plants are scheduled to close" in 2018.
In January, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission denied the Trump administration's proposed subsidies for coal and nuclear power plants. Policy firms Energy Innovation Group and Climate Policy Initiative projected the subsidies could cost taxpayers as much as $11.8 billion a year.
Trump has promised to bring a resurgence to the coal industry. But while preliminary numbers show a slight bump in Central Appalachian coal jobs to date, not much has changed nationally.
Preliminary employment numbers for the first quarter of 2018 show an 11.4 percent increase in Central Appalachian coal jobs since 2016, or 1,824 jobs. This is less than half of the region's employment numbers from 2011, when coal jobs entered a six-year freefall. Overall, from 1984 to 2017, Central Appalachian coal jobs declined by over 77 percent, according to data from the U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration.
Nationwide, coal production increased by 6 percent in 2017, but coal jobs only grew by 2 percent, or 918 jobs. Preliminary numbers for the first quarter of 2018 show a loss of 700 jobs, nearly back to the low nationwide levels of 2016.
This mismatch between production and employment gains can be attributed to widespread automation in the industry, especially at large western surface mines that provide nearly half the country's coal.
Coal consumption in the United States has dropped roughly 2 percent from 2016 levels, according to estimates from the Rhodium Group, an independent research organization — but the report shows that production of coal used for steelmaking rose in 2017 due to an increase in exports.
According to the U.S. Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Kentucky and Virginia all experienced increases in new mining permits issued between July 2016 and June 2017 compared to new permits issued in the previous fiscal year.
However, this doesn't necessarily mean more mining. Even though these states had more new permits, the acreage covered by them is nearly 45 percent less than the previous year's new permits.
On the policy front, the Trump administration has repealed several coal-related regulations meant to protect communities and the environment. In February 2017, Congress overturned the Stream Protection Rule, a rule passed late in 2016 and backed by nonprofit organization Appalachian Voices, the publisher of this newspaper. The rule was projected to protect or restore an estimated 6,000 miles of streams and 52,000 acres of forest over 20 years.
In January 2018, The New York Times exposed Trump's close ties to the coal industry when it published an "action plan" the CEO of Murray Energy Corp. sent the administration in March 2017 outlining policy goals for Trump's first year.
Robert Murray's plan included repealing the Obama administration's Clean Power Plan, which was projected to reduce power plant carbon pollution by 32 percent below 2005 levels by 2030. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt proposed repealing the plan in October.
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La conception de sûreté ou conception sécuritaire ou conception défensive est un principe de conception prenant en considération, dès les premières phases de la planification, le plus grand nombre possible de contingences prévisibles.  On désigne également ce concept par ergonomie de sécurité.

Ce principe, qui découle de la loi de Murphy, est souvent appliqué dans de nombreux domaines (aérospatiale, conception de jouets pour enfants, industrie automobile, génie logiciel et même politique (séparation des pouvoirs)), sous différentes appellations.

Elle est un des aspects du concept plus général de 'gestion des risques' et peut également être prise en compte dans l'application du 'principe de précaution' dans le domaine industriel.

Principe
L'anticipation des mauvaises utilisations possibles d'un produit permet de prévoir des contraintes physiques et ergonomiques qui en empêchent l'utilisation inadéquate et qui minimisent les impacts négatifs d'un tel usage.  La conception de sûreté préconise de concevoir les objets pour qu'ils présentent la plus faible probabilité de mauvaise utilisation, par exemple en leur adjoignant un détrompeur ou une sécurité à l'utilisation.

La conception de sûreté n'est ni plus ni moins qu'une application concrète du principe de précaution.

Illustrations
Par exemple, s'il est important qu'un connecteur soit inséré dans une prise selon une certaine orientation, une conception de sûreté du connecteur et de la prise rendent physiquement impossible d'insérer incorrectement le connecteur.  Les prises électriques (pour les appareils fonctionnant en courant continu) sont généralement conçues de cette façon afin d'empêcher l'inversion accidentelle des conducteurs lors du branchement. (les piles rectangulaires de 9V DC sont équipées de contacts qui empêchent tout branchement inverse).

Autre exemple, les disquettes  (5″¼) carrées avaient été prévues pour être insérées recto ou verso mais toujours selon la même orientation ; lorsqu'elles étaient insérées en sens inverse, elles pouvaient être détruites.  À l'inverse, la conception des disquettes  (3″½) a suivi une conception défensive ; munies d'un détrompeur, elles ne peuvent généralement être insérées que dans un unique sens.

Les prises USB (sauf l'USB-C dont la connectique interne tient compte du fait que le câble peut être introduit recto ou verso) et HDMI ont une forme qui empêche de les introduire autrement que dans le bon sens.

Certains interrupteurs et boutons utilisés dans le cockpit d'un avion ont un cache ou des protections qui empêchent de les actionner involontairement.

Un taille-haie doit généralement être tenu avec les 2 mains pour pouvoir fonctionner et beaucoup d'outillages électro-portatifs nécessitent d'enfoncer un bouton latéral avant de pouvoir enfoncer la détente et démarrer l'appareil (tronçonneuses et tondeuses électriques... )

Origine
La loi de Murphy, énoncé à demi humoristique de la nécessité de la conception de sûreté, est à l'origine de ce concept de .  La première formalisation de ce concept daterait des environs de 1948, au cours d'une étude des effets de la décélération sur les êtres humains à la base Edwards de l'US Air Force, en Californie.

Voir aussi
 Sûreté de fonctionnement
 Arbre de défaillance
 Analyse des modes de défaillance, de leurs effets et de leur criticité
 Détrompeur

Références

Conception
Sûreté
Ingénierie
Sûreté de fonctionnement

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La coupe du monde de tir à l'arc en salle de 2013 est la troisième édition annuelle de la coupe du monde en salle organisée par la World Archery Federation (WA). Elle regroupe des compétitions individuelles dans les catégories d'arc classique et arc à poulies.

Calendrier

Format de compétition
Trois compétitions de qualification ont lieu entre  et  pour chacune des catégories et les meilleurs archers sont qualifiés pour les finales en février à Las Vegas. Toutes les épreuves se déroulent en intérieur avec des cibles se situant à .

La première étape des qualifications se déroule à Singapour du 8 au , les archers seront classés selon leur classement final.
La deuxième étape des qualifications se déroule à Nîmes du 18 au , les archers seront classés selon leur classement final.
La troisième étape des qualifications se déroule à Las Vegas du 8 au .

Les 16 premiers archers de chaque catégorie suivant leur total de points, seront qualifiés pour la finale à Las Vegas le  au soir.

Résultats
Au , voici le classement pour chaque catégories :

Notes et références

Annexes

Articles connexes
 Coupe du monde de tir à l'arc en salle
 Tir à l'arc

Liens externes
 Site de la World Archery Federation

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Événement sportif international en France
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EUTELSAT THIRD QUARTER AND NINE MONTH 2014-2015 REVENUES
Press release • May 12, 2015 17:47 CEST
In line with objectives
Third quarter revenues of €368 million up 4.5% like-for-like[1]
Nine month revenues of €1,090 million up 4.4% like-for-like1
Growing backlog of €6.4 billion, 4.6 years of revenues
Full-year and three-year financial targets confirmed
Paris, 12 May 2015 – Eutelsat Communications (ISIN: FR0010221234 - Euronext Paris: ETL) today reported revenues for the third quarter and nine months ended 31 March 2015.
Reminder: Third quarter and nine month 2013-14 revenues have been restated. Please refer to table in the appendix.
Three months to 31 March 2015
In € millions Q3 2013-14 reported Q3 2013-14 Restated Q3 2014-15 Actual change Change at constant currency
Video Applications 219.7 214.7 225.3 +4.9% +3.3%
Data Services 54.1 50.6 58.1 +14.7% +4.8%
Value-Added Services 20.5 20.5 23.4 +14.0% +13.4%
Government Services 40.2 44.0 49.5 +12.5% -0.5%
Other revenues 7.8 7.8 11.4 ns ns
Sub-total 342.3 337.7 367.7 +8.9% +4.5%
Non-recurring revenues - - - - -
Total 342.3 337.7 367.7 +8.9% +4.5%
EUR/USD exchange rate 1.368
Nine months to 31 March 2015
In € millions
9m 2013-14 reported 9m 2013-14 restated 9m 2014-15 Actual change Change at constant currency
Data Services 137.9 156.7 165.5 +5.6% +1.3%
Government Services 113.8 131.4 141.7 +7.8% +1.8%
Other revenues 23.6 22.4 30.8 ns ns
Sub-total 989.3 1 024.8 1 090.5 +6.4% +4.4%
Non-recurring revenues 0.5 0.5 - ns ns
Total 989.8 1 025.3 1 090.5 +6.4% +4.4%
Commenting on the Third Quarter, Michel de Rosen, Chairman and CEO, said: "Eutelsat's third quarter revenues were in line with objectives, with like-for-like growth of 4.5%. With growth of 4.4% for the first nine months, we are on track to deliver on our full-year objective. This quarter saw the refinancing of part of our debt, which will lead to lower interest charges. It was also marked by the successful launch of EUTELSAT 115 West B, the first commercial fully-electric satellite, which will bring new capacity to our Americas footprint."
Total revenues for the nine-month period ending 31 March 2015 stood at €1,090.5 million, up 4.4% on a pro-forma basis at constant currency and excluding non-recurring revenues. The appreciation of the dollar relative to the euro added two points to top-line growth, particularly represented in Government Services and to a lesser extent in Data Services.
Third quarter revenues stood at €367.7 million, up 4.5% on a pro-forma basis at constant currency and excluding non-recurring revenues. The impact of the appreciation of the dollar was even more marked during the period, adding 4.4 points to top-line growth.
The quarter saw the successful launch of EUTELSAT 115 West B, the first commercial all-electric satellite. The Group also concluded the early refinancing of an €800 million bank term loan which will extend its debt maturity and reduce financial charges by circa €15 million[2] before tax on an annualised basis.
In the context of the current economic environment in Russia, Eutelsat entered into discussions with its Russian clients with the aim of alleviating some contract terms. These discussions have been partially completed. The impact on third quarter revenues was of around 1 million euros. For fiscal year 2014-2015, the impact is estimated at less than five million euros. For FY 2015-16, the additional impact is estimated in the region of 12 to 15 million euros.
THIRD QUARTER REVENUE ANALYSIS[3] BY APPLICATION
VIDEO APPLICATIONS (63% of revenues)
Third quarter revenues from Video Applications were up 3.3% like-for-like to €225.3 million. This mainly reflected the entry into service of the Express-AT1 satellite in May 2014, the good performance of Eutelsat Americas and higher revenues at 28° East in Europe, 7/8° West in the Middle East and North Africa and 16° East in Sub-Saharan Africa and Central Europe. These more than offset lower revenues at the HOT BIRD position following the non-renewal of contracts with some service providers in the first half.
Recent contracts include the long-term extension of capacity agreements on EUTELSAT 16A with United Group, the leading TV and broadband service provider in South Eastern Europe, additional capacity booked by Azam TV at 7° East for its pay-TV operations in East Africa, and a new contract with Strong Media for broadcasting in West Africa from 16° East. Televisa Networks also renewed and increased capacity on satellites commercialised by Eutelsat Americas.
At 31 March 2015, the total number of channels broadcast by Eutelsat satellites stood at 5,747, up 10.3% year-on-year. HDTV penetration continued to increase, representing 11.7% of channels compared to 10.0% a year earlier. A total of 672 channels were broadcast in high definition across Eutelsat's fleet at the end of the third quarter, up from 522 a year earlier.
DATA SERVICES (16% of revenues)
Data Services third quarter revenues stood at €58.1 million, up 4.8% year-on-year on a like-for-like basis. Growth was driven by Latin America thanks to both regular capacity and the HTS payload on EUTELSAT 3B used to provide broadband services in Brazil, and by the ramp-up of regular capacity on EUTELSAT 3B in other regions. As in previous quarters, the data environment remains challenging in EMEA.
On a quarterly sequential basis, the underlying trend continues to show signs of stability.
VALUE-ADDED SERVICES (7% of revenues)
Value-Added Services third quarter revenues amounted to €23.4 million, up 13.4% year-on-year.Uptake on KA-SAT continued, with 180,000 broadband terminals activated at 31 March 2015, up from 140,000 a year earlier. The slower quarter-on-quarter growth of the customer base mainly reflects the loading of certain beams covering France, Ireland and the UK.
The sequential decline in third quarter revenues reflected a negative one-off in the maritime mobility business.
GOVERNMENT SERVICES (14% of revenues)
Third quarter revenues from Government Services stood at €49.5 million, down 0.5% on a like-for-like basis. They benefited from the full-quarter effect of the contract signed last year with the Afghan ministry of Telecommunications for capacity on EUTELSAT 48D as well as the good performance of Eutelsat Americas. However, new contracts failed to offset the impact of non-renewals in the last 12 months.
The outcome of third quarter 2014-2015 contract renewals with the US administration was comparable to that of the first half at circa 90%. However, competitive pressure resulting from the impact of troop withdrawals and ongoing budgetary constraints is strong, and visibility is limited. The outcomes of recent contract renewals should therefore not be extrapolated for future renewals.
OTHER AND NON-RECURRING REVENUES
Other revenues[4]amounted to €11.4 million in the third quarter compared with €7.8 million last year and notably included revenues related to the agreements with SES at 28.5° East.
There were no non-recurring revenues in the third quarter.
OPERATIONAL AND LEASED TRANSPONDERS
The number of operational transponders at 31 March 2015 was up by 58 year-on-year to 1,035, reflecting mainly the entry into service of Express-AT1, Express-AT2 and EUTELSAT 3B. The fill rate stood at 76.6% compared to 77.0% a year earlier.
The slight increase of fill rate compared to the end of December 2014 reflected mainly the ramp-up of new capacity on
EUTELSAT 3B.
31 December 2014 31 March 2015
Number of operational transponders[5] 977 1,033 1,035
Number of leased transponders[6] 752 788 793
Fill rate 77.0% 76.3% 76.6%
Note: KA-SAT's 82 spot beams as well as EUTELSAT 3B's 5 Ka-band spot beams are considered transponder equivalents. KA-SAT's fill rate is considered to be at 100% when 70% of the capacity is taken up.
The order backlog[7] stood at €6.4 billion at 31 March 2015, up by 11% year-on-year. It was equivalent to 4.6 times 2013-2014 revenues. Video Applications represented 84% of the backlog.
The backlog increased by 5% compared with end-December. The integration of the renewal for capacity by nc+ at the HOT BIRD position and the extension of agreements with United Group at 16° East more than offset backlog consumption.
31 March 2014 31 December 2014 31 March 2015
Value of contracts (in billions of euros) 5.8 6.1 6.4
In years of annual revenues based on last fiscal year 4.2 4.4[8] 4.68
Share of Video Applications 87% 84% 84%
OUTLOOKBased on the performance of the first nine months, Eutelsat remains on track to meet its full year objective of growth of around 4% at constant currency, excluding non-recurring revenues and on a pro-forma basis[9]. The EBITDA margin remains targeted at above 76.5%.
Our objective of average revenue growth of above 5% for the two year period from July 2015 to June 2017 is also confirmed, subject to the final outcome of Russian contract renegotiations, no significant deterioration in government services and adherence to our nominal deployment plan. Growth over this period will however be back-end loaded, as fiscal year 2015-2016 will reflect the launch delay of EUTELSAT 9B as well as the impact of Russian renegotiations.
All other targets published in July 2014 are also confirmed.
FLEET DEPLOYMENT PROGRAMME
EUTELSAT 16B was de-orbited in February 2015.
On 1 March 2015, EUTELSAT 115 West B was launched by a Falcon 9 rocket operated by SpaceX. Currently in the in-orbit raising phase, it is expected to enter into service in the fourth quarter of calendar year 2015 and will extend reach of the Americas to markets in Alaska and Canada. Several transponders have already been pre-commercialised, notably to Hunter Communications Canada.
In May 2015, Eutelsat concluded a lease at 53° East for five transponders on RSCC's Express-AM6 satellite to replace the existing lease for 12 transponders on SESAT 2 covering Europe, MENA and Central Asia. This capacity is operated under the name EUTELSAT 53A.
The upcoming launch schedule is indicated below. Compared to the update given on 12 February 2015, the launch of EUTELSAT 9B is now expected in the third quarter of calendar year 2015 (versus second or third quarter previously).
Estimated launch schedule
Satellite1 Orbital position Estimated launch
(calendar year) Main applications Main geographic coverage Transponders
EUTELSAT 9B 9° East Q3 2015 Video Europe 50 Ku
EUTELSAT 8 West B 7°/8° West Q3 2015 Video, Data Middle East, Africa, South America 40 Ku / 10 C
EUTELSAT 36C(2) 36° East Q4 2015 Video, Data, Broadband Russia, Sub-Saharan Africa Up to 52 Ku / 18 Ka-band spotbeams
EUTELSAT 117 West B 116.8 ° West Q4 2015 Video, Data, Government Services Latin America 40 Ku
EUTELSAT 65 West A 65° West Q2 2016 Video, Data, Broadband Latin America 24 Ku, 10 C, up to 24 Ka-band spotbeams
EUTELSAT 172B 172° East H1 2017 Data, Government Services, Mobility Asia-Pacific 36 Ku (regular), 14 C, 11 Ku-band HTS spotbeams
1 Chemical propulsion satellites generally enter into service 1 to 2 months after launch. Of the electric propulsion satellites, EUTELSAT 117 West B will take 7-9 months after launch to enter into service, and EUTELSAT 172B circa 4 months. 2 Partnership with RSCC
Third quarter 2014-2015 revenues conference call
A conference call will be held on Tuesday, 12 May 2015 at 6:30pm CET / 5.30pm GMT / 12:30 EST
To connect to the call, please use the following numbers:
France: +33 (0)1 76 77 22 23
UK: +44(0) 20 3427 1913
Access code: 1518696#
Instant replay number will be available from 12 May, 08.30 to May 18, midnight CET:
UK: + 44 (0) 20 3427 0598
United States: + 1 347 366 9565
The financial calendar below is provided for information purposes only. It is subject to change and will be regularly updated.
-30 July 2015: Full year 2014-2015 earnings
APPENDICESQuarterly reported revenues by business application
3 months ended
In millions of euros 31/12/2013 31/03/2014 30/06/2014 30/09/2014 31/12/2014 31/03/2015
reported reported reported reported reported reported
Video Applications 213.5 220.3 226.4 227.6 224.8 225.3
Data Services 40.6 52.5 53.4 51.2 56.2 58.1
Value-Added Services 20.1 20.5 25.0 26.3 25.1 23.4
Government Services 36.7 41.1 43.1 44.5 47.7 49.5
Other revenues 12.8 7.8 10.3 8.0 11.4 11.4
Sub-total 323.7 342.3 358.2 357.6 365.3 367.7
Non-recurring revenues 0.2 - - - - -
Total 323.9 342.3 358.2 357.6 365.3 367.7
Quarterly restated revenues by business application
As of first quarter 2014-2015, published revenues take account of changes in perimeter (acquisition of Satmex, disposal of KabelKiosk) as well as several reclassifications between the various applications in order to better reflect the final usage of the capacity.
The table below shows restated revenues using the same basis as financial year 2014-2015:
restated restated restated reported reported reported
The forward-looking statements included herein are for illustrative purposes only and are based on management's current views and assumptions. Such forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks. For illustrative purposes only, such risks include but are not limited to: postponement of any ground or in-orbit investments and launches including but not limited to delays of future launches of satellites; impact of financial crisis on customers and suppliers; trends in Fixed Satellite Services markets; development of Digital Terrestrial Television and High Definition television; development of satellite broadband services; Eutelsat Communications' ability to develop and market Value-Added Services and meet market demand; the effects of competing technologies developed and expected intense competition generally in its main markets; profitability of its expansion strategy; partial or total loss of a satellite at launch or in-orbit; supply conditions of satellites and launch systems; satellite or third-party launch failures affecting launch schedules of future satellites; litigation; ability to establish and maintain strategic relationships in its major businesses; and the effect of future acquisitions and investments.
Eutelsat Communications expressly disclaims any obligation or undertaking to update or revise any projections, forecasts or estimates contained in this presentation to reflect any change in events, conditions, assumptions or circumstances on which any such statements are based, unless so required by applicable law.
[1]At constant currency and perimeter, excluding non-recurring revenues.
[2]Excluding arrangement fees and hedging instruments
[3]i) Unless otherwise stated, all revenue growth rates are expressed in comparison with restated figures for the third quarter of the previous fiscal year ended 31 March 2014, are at constant currency and exclude non-recurring revenues. Please refer to the appendix for more detail; ii) the share of each application as a percentage of total revenues is calculated excluding "other revenues" and "non-recurring revenues".
[4]Other revenues include mainly compensation paid on the settlement of business-related litigation, the financing of certain research programmes by the European Union and other organisations, the recognition of EUR/USD foreign exchange gains/losses, the provision of various services or consulting/engineering fees as well as termination fees.
[5]Number of transponders on satellites in stable orbit, back-up capacity excluded.
[6]Number of transponders leased on satellites in stable orbit.
[7]The backlog represents future revenues from capacity lease agreements and can include contracts for satellites under procurement.
[8]Based on proforma revenues for fiscal year 2013-2014.
[9]Based on pro-forma revenues of €1,377 million excluding non-recurring revenues for FY 2013-2014 (see note in the appendix for more details).
About Eutelsat Communications
Established in 1977, Eutelsat Communications (Euronext Paris: ETL, ISIN code: FR0010221234) is one of the world's leading and most experienced operators of communications satellites. The company provides capacity on 34 satellites to clients that include broadcasters and broadcasting associations, pay-TV operators, video, data and Internet service providers, enterprises and government agencies.
Eutelsat's satellites provide ubiquitous coverage of Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia-Pacific and the Americas, enabling video, data, broadband and government communications to be established irrespective of a user's location.
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Q: DX10 Terrain Normals I'm generating terrain using perlin noise and then computing normals using:
    D3DXVECTOR3 v0 = aoVertices[auiIndices[i]].Position;
    D3DXVECTOR3 v1 = aoVertices[auiIndices[i + 1]].Position;
    D3DXVECTOR3 v2 = aoVertices[auiIndices[i + 2]].Position;
    D3DXVECTOR3 v3 = aoVertices[auiIndices[i + 3]].Position;
    D3DXVECTOR3 v4 = aoVertices[auiIndices[i + 4]].Position;
    D3DXVECTOR3 v5 = aoVertices[auiIndices[i + 5]].Position;

    D3DXVECTOR3 vNormal;
    D3DXVECTOR3 vCross;
    D3DXVec3Cross(&vCross, &D3DXVECTOR3(v2 - v0), &D3DXVECTOR3(v1 - v0));
    D3DXVec3Normalize(&vNormal, &vCross);

    aoVertices[auiIndices[i]].Normal = D3DXVECTOR3(vNormal);
    aoVertices[auiIndices[i + 1]].Normal = D3DXVECTOR3(vNormal);
    aoVertices[auiIndices[i + 2]].Normal = D3DXVECTOR3(vNormal);

    D3DXVec3Cross(&vCross, &D3DXVECTOR3(v5 - v3), &D3DXVECTOR3(v4 - v3));
    D3DXVec3Normalize(&vNormal, &vCross);

    aoVertices[auiIndices[i + 3]].Normal = D3DXVECTOR3(vNormal);
    aoVertices[auiIndices[i + 4]].Normal = D3DXVECTOR3(vNormal);
    aoVertices[auiIndices[i + 5]].Normal = D3DXVECTOR3(vNormal);

However this is causing grid lines to appear between grid squares.
Any ideas what the problem is?
Example:

A: I don't know much about DX10 but I recently did this in OpenGL, it looks like you're doing your normals on a per triangle basis which will give you flat shading, so what you see is probably correct.
If you wish to calculate your normals per vertex use something like:
((x+1) - (X-1)) X ((Y+1) - (Y-1))
where X is the vertex in the X direction on the grid and Y in the Y direction.

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Official news has come out of Google's Webmaster Central Blog that may be shocking to some, but to others it is no surprise and a direct reflection of where the web is going. The news on how Goolge will crawl websites is to better serve the user and users should get the most relevant and timely results, no matter if the information lives on mobile-friendly web pages or apps.
So starting April 21st, 2015 Google will be expanding their use of mobile-friendliness as a ranking signal. This change will effect mobile-users and most importantly, websites and companies that are not offering a responsive website experience. If your website is not mobile-friendly expect for your search rankings to start drastically dropping regardless of ad spend as the the mobile-friendliness signal will also expand to their AdWords and AdSense platforms.
To see if your website is mobile-friendly, Google has created a tool for you to easily test your website that can be found here.
If your website does not pass the test refer to Google's Mobile Device Guide and reach out to Mitosis to get your website ready for the change…the clock's ticking.


Our list of the best things to do in Goodland, Kansas, features the top 2 nearby activities — including 0 great attractions with user approval ratings of 90% or more!
Goodland, KS has a variety of great sights and experiences nearby. Top categories include: Museums & Galleries, Outdoor Places, Sights & Landmarks, and Entertainment & Shows.
The Giant van Gogh Painting is a reproduction of the painter's 3 Sunflowers in a Vase and at its highest point it has 112 feet.
The High Plains Museum was opened in 1960 and has a collection of over 8,000 items, depicting the heritage of the area. It also organizes events and programs, such as the HPM Scavenger Hunt.
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Squatter, Bank of America Battle for $2.5M Mansion
Bank of America is taking a Florida man to court after he attempted to use an antiquated state law to legally take possession of a $2.5 million mansion that is currently owned by the bank.
Andre "Loki" Barbosa has lived in a five-bedroom Boca Raton, Fla., waterside property since July, and police have reportedly been unable to remove him.
The Brazilian national, 23, who reportedly refers to himself as "Loki Boy," cites Florida's "adverse possession" law, in which a party may acquire title from another by openly occupying their land and paying real property tax for at least seven years.
The house is listed as being owned by Bank of America as of July 2012, and that an adverse possession was filed in July. After Bank of America foreclosed on the property last year, the Palm Beach County Property Appraiser's Office was notified that Barbosa would be moving in, according to the South Florida Sun-Sentinel.
The Sun-Sentinel reported that he posted a notice in the front window of the house naming him as a "living beneficiary to the Divine Estate being superior of commerce and usury."
On Facebook, a man named Andre Barbosa calls the property "Templo de Kamisamar."
After Barbosa gained national attention for his brazen attempt, Bank of America filed an injunction on Jan. 23 to evict Barbosa and eight unidentified occupants.
In the civil complaint, Bank of America said Barbosa and other tenants "unlawfully entered the property" and "refused to permit the Plaintiff agents entry, use, and possession of its property." In addition to eviction, Bank of America is asking for $15,000 in damages to be paid to cover attorney's expenses.
Police were called Dec. 26 to the home but did not remove Barbosa, according to the Sentinel. Barbosa reportedly presented authorities with the adverse possession paperwork at the time.
Mark Potok, a senior fellow at the Southern Povery Law Center, says police officers may be disinclined to take action even if they are presented with paperwork that is invalid.
"A police officer walks up to someone who is claiming a house now belongs to him, without any basis at all, is handed a big sheaf of documents, which are incomprehensible," Potok said. "I think very often the officers ultimately feel that they're forced to go back to headquarters and try to figure out what's going on before they can actually toss someone in the slammer."
A neighbor of the Boca property, who asked not be named, told ABCNews.com that he entered the empty home just before Christmas to find four people inside, one of whom said the group is establishing an embassy for their mission, and that families would be moving in and out of the property. Barbosa was also among them.
The neighbor said he believes that Barbosa is a "patsy."
"This young guy is caught up in this thing," the neighbor said. "I think it's going on on a bigger scale."
Barbosa could not be reached for comment.
The neighbor said that although the lights have been turned on at the house, the water has not, adding that this makes it clear it is not a permanent residence. The neighbor also said the form posted in the window is "total gibberish," which indicated that the house is an embassy, and that those who enter must present two forms of identification, and respect the rights of its indigenous people.
"I think it's a group of people that see an opportunity to get some money from the bank," the neighbor said. "If they're going to hold the house ransom, then the bank is going to have to go through an eviction process.
"They're taking advantage of banks, where the right hand doesn't know where the left hand is," the neighbor said. "They can't clap."
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package com.ycsoft.business.dao.prod;

import java.util.List;

import org.springframework.stereotype.Component;

import com.ycsoft.beans.prod.PProdUserRes;
import com.ycsoft.daos.abstracts.BaseEntityDao;

/**
 * PProdUserResDao -> P_PROD_USER_RES table's operator
 */
@Component
public class PProdUserResDao extends BaseEntityDao<PProdUserRes> {

	/**
	 * default empty constructor
	 */
	public PProdUserResDao() {}

	public List<PProdUserRes> queryByCountyId(String countyId) throws Exception{
		String sql="select a.*,b.rule_str rule_id_text from p_prod_user_res a, t_rule_define b " +
				" where a.county_id=? and a.rule_id=b.rule_id(+)";
		return this.findList(sql, countyId);

	}

}

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Q: Python-Requests how does verify parameter work? SSL Certificates I know in python-requests you can send your certificate via verify parameter.
Something like this:
url = requests.get('someurl', verify='certifacate.pem')

So I understand TLS handshake protocol does follow:
The 'client hello' message
The client initiates the handshake by sending a "hello" message to the server. The message will include which TLS version the client supports, the cipher suites supported, and a string of random bytes known as the "client random.

Then we have the server hello message that lets client know what cipher suite to use.
The 'server hello' message: In reply to the client hello message, the server sends a message containing the server's SSL certificate, the server's chosen cipher suite, and the "server random," another random string of bytes that's generated by the server.

In my code using wireshark I've identified that server requests TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384
server hello screenshot
I am confused, what are we sending in .certificate.pem file
From my understanding premaster secret it when the client sends one more random string of bytes, the "premaster secret." The premaster secret is encrypted with the public key and can only be decrypted with the private key by the server. (The client gets the public key from the server's SSL certificate.)
and as for session keys it is when both client and server generate session keys from the client random, the server random, and the premaster secret. They should arrive at the same results.
is it the premaster secret, or is it the session keys that we are sending as certificate.pem in verify parameter with request?
Do we generate these by using crypto algorithm since server is requesting TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 - we could replicate the output using the same algorithm using crypto library and pass it into requests? Is this the purpose of verify parameter?
The site I am currently trying to reach has SSL Certificates etc and it only accepts certain client certificate. I am trying to understand if verify is the correct parameter I should be using.

A: No, the "verify" argument has nothing to do with client-side certificates. It's your root certificate which can be used to verify the authenticity of the server-side certificate. If you don't want to verify it, you can use on your own risk verify=False .
For client-side certificates, you need to use the "cert" argument: https://requests.readthedocs.io/en/master/user/advanced/#client-side-certificates . Example:
requests.get('https://example.org', cert=('/path/client.cert', '/path/client.key'))


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Institute of Software Engineering and Theoretical Computer ScienceDatabase Systems and Information Management Group
DIMA and DFKI Researchers@VLDB 2018
© VLDB 2018
© DIMA
In August 2018, several members of the DIMA research group and some former researchers of our group attended the 44th International Conference on Very Large Data-bases (VLDB) in Rio de Janeiro. The ACM VLDB conference is one of the leading international database conferences. In total we had 7 contributions in the conference itself as well as in related workshops.
The DIMA researchers mentioned some program topics as their personal highlights:
Blockchain Tutorial by UC-Santa Barbara, a tutorial which pointed out chances, risks, pro's, and con's of this technology. A tutorial made by people who has no stake in any blockchain technology.
Time Series Tutorial
ADMS Keynotes: Quantum Computing and SIMD
Industry Talk: Machine Learning for Online Advertising (Google)
Amazon Time Series Tutorial (https://lovvge.github.io/Forecasting-Tutorial-VLDB-2018)
... and gave a list of recommended reads:
Moment-based Quantile Sketches for Efficient High Cardinality Aggregate Queries
Improved Selectivity Estimation by Combining Knowledge from Sampling and Synopses
Join Query Optimization Techniques for Complex Event Processing Applications (Ilya Kolchinsky and Assaf Schuster; Technion, Israel Institute of Technology)
On Optimizing Operator Fusion Plans for Large-scale Machine Learning in SystemML, Boehm, M., Reinwald, B., Hutchison, D., Sen, P., Evfimievski, A. V., & Pansare, N.
Filter Before you Parse: Faster Analytics on Raw Data with Sparser, Palkar, S., Abuzaid, F., Bailis, P., & Zaharia, M.
Our Contributions to the conference
» » BlockJoin: Efficient Matrix Partitioning Through Joins, Andreas Kunft, Asterios Katsifodimos, Sebastian Schelter, Tilmann Rabl, Volker Markl.
Abstract: Linear algebra operations are at the core of many Machine Learning (ML) programs. At the same time, a considerable amount of the effort for solving data analytics problems is spent in data preparation. As a result, end-to-end ML pipelines often consist of (i) relational operators used for joining the input data, (ii) user defined functions used for feature extraction and vectorization, and (iii) linear algebra operators used for model training and cross-validation. Often, these pipelines need to scale out to large datasets. As a result, pipelines combining both kinds of operators require rather expensive changes to the physical representation, in particular re-partitioning steps. We present BlockJoin, a distributed join algorithm which directly produces block-partitioned results. To minimize shuffling costs, BlockJoin applies database techniques known from columnar processing, such as index-joins and late materialization, in the context of parallel dataflow engines.
Download Poster | Link to the paper
» » Estimating Join Selectivities using Bandwidth-Optimized Kernel Density Models, Martin Kiefer, Max Heiml, Sebastian Breß, Volker Markl.
Abstract: Accurately predicting the cardinality of intermediate plan operations is an essential part of any modern relational query optimizer. The accuracy of said estimates has a strong and direct impact on the quality of the generated plans, and incorrect estimates can have a negative impact on query performance. One of the biggest challenges in this field is to predict the result size of join operations. In this paper, we extend a bandwidth-optimized KDE models to estimate the result size of single and multiple joins. In particular, we propose two approaches: (1) Building a KDE model from a sample drawn from the join result. (2) Efficiently combining the information from base table KDE models.
Link to the paper
» » Generating Custom Code for Efficient Query Code Execution on Heterogeneuos Processors, Sebastian Breß, Bastian Köcher, Henning Funke, Steffen Zeuch, Tilmann Rabl, Volker Markl.
Abstract: Accurately predicting the cardinality of intermediate plan operations is an essential part of any modern relational query optimizer. The accuracy of said estimates has a strong and direct impact on the quality of the generated plans, and incorrect estimates can have a negative impact on query performance. One of the biggest challenges in this field is to predict the result size of join operations. Kernel Density Estimation (KDE) is a statistical method to estimate multivariate probability distributions from a data sample. Previously, we introduced
a modern, self-tuning selectivity estimator for range scans based on KDE that outperforms state-of-the-art multidimensional histograms and is efficient to evaluate on graphics cards. In this paper, we extend these bandwidth-optimized KDE models to estimate the result size of single and multiple joins. In particular, we propose two approaches: (1) Building a KDE model from a sample drawn from the join result. (2) Efficiently combining the information from base table KDE models. We evaluated our KDE-based join estimators on a variety of synthetic and real-world datasets, demonstrating that they are superior to state-of-the art join estimators based on sketching or sampling.
Workshop TPCTC
Christoph Boden presented the two contributions to the Tenth TPC Technology Conference on Performance Evaluation & Benchmarking (TPCTC 2018):
»» Benchmarking Distributed Data Processing Systems for Machine Learning Workloads, Christoph Boden, Tilmann Rabl, Sebastian Schelter, and Volker Markl.
Abstract: Distributed data processing systems have been widely adopted to robustly scale out computations on massive data sets to many compute nodes in recent years. These systems are also popular choices to scale out the training of machine learning models. However, there is a lack of benchmarks to assess how effciently data processing systems actually perform at executing machine learning algorithms at scale. In this this paper, we share our experience in evaluating novel data processing systems and present a core set of experiments of a benchmark for distributed data processing systems for machine learning workloads, a rationale for their necessity as well as an experimental evaluation.
»» PolyBench: The first benchmark for polystores, Jeyhun Karimov, Tilmann Rabl, Volker Markl.
Abstract: Modern business intelligence requires data processing not only across a huge variety of domains but also across different paradigms, such as relational, stream, and graph models. This variety is a challenge for existing systems that typically only support a single or few different data models. Polystores were proposed as a solution for this challenge and received wide attention both in academia and in industry. The goal of this work is to develop the first benchmark for polystores.
Panel Workshop BIRTE
© Jonas Traub
»» Are we making any attempts towards solving the hardest problems in stream processing today?
Jonas Traub was one of the panel speakers at the International Workshop on Real-Time Business Intelligence and Analytics (BIRTE).
Most of today's Internet applications are data-centric and generate vast amounts of data that needs to be processed and analyzed for detailed reporting, enhancing user experience and increasing monetization. Streaming data processing systems must be designed based on a varying set of requirements. The list of requirements can be categorized based on different properties of such systems:
1. Consistency: Does every record in the input (or equivalently an input event) need to be committed exactly-once or at-least-once or at-most-once to the output? Is the event committed atomically or eventually to all outputs?
2. Scale: How many events per second can the system process? Tens of events per second? Or Thousands? Millions? Billions or even more? Does the system auto-scale to a new workload?
3. Failure Resilience: What kind of failures is the system resilient to? Machine-level or partial datacenter-level or entire datacenter-level? Is it enough to ensure that the data processing system itself is failure-resistant? Does the output need to be stored in globally consistent way? Is the system resilient to a bug in input data, a bug in user's business logic, etc?
4. Latency: How long does it take every event from the time it is generated to the time it is committed? Milliseconds or seconds or minutes or hours or days? Should we target SLOs for median latencies or 90th percentile or higher tail latencies?
5. Expressiveness: What kind of operations can the user express in the system? From simple stateless operations (e.g. filter) to complex joins or stateful operations (e.g. HAVING clause in SQL)? How flexible is the system to add more input sources and output sinks?
6. Cost: This includes not only hardware cost (CPU, RAM, Disk, network, etc) but also engineering design complexity, cost of production support to run as a service and providing SLOs for latency / completeness, etc. From a pure business perspective, all this cost needs to be justified by the value the end user gets.
7. Service: Does the system run as a service for the users? Multi-tenant? What kind of isolation (e.g. performance, security, etc) is provided amongst users? How is business logic isolated from infrastructure? How easy is it for users to modify business logic in a self-service way?
Lots of systems provide a lambda architecture: Use stream processing for best-effort (approximate) analysis, and use batch processing (e.g. daily) for strong consistency, high reliability, etc. This represents an easy way out. But is it the right thing to do?
Which of these pillars matters for which applications? Can we build a system that provides all these properties? What are the tradeoffs?


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At Fancy Farm, Rocky Adkins looked like a Kentucky governor candidate
By Advocate-Messenger
Published 6:05 am Tuesday, August 14, 2018
By AL CROSS
FANCY FARM — Rocky Adkins didn't make a speech at the Fancy Farm Picnic, because he's not a statewide official or candidate. But he leads the Democrats in the state House, and he's running a campaign for governor that hit second gear on picnic weekend.
At a breakfast, a lunch, two dinners and in between, Adkins said he was campaigning to win back the House majority his party lost in a big way in 2016. But it's a hand-in-glove campaign: As he travels the state talking with Democrats about state issues and giving speeches to show his mettle, Adkins is doing pretty much the same things he will be doing as a candidate for governor.
"I feel like for the first time in many years I've got the wind at my back instead of a hurricane in my face," Adkins told union members at the annual labor lunch in Paducah. "That hurricane has switched direction because of the bad policies in Frankfort, Kentucky: the war on working families, the war on public education, the war on health care, and a tax package that raised taxes on 95 percent of Kentuckians while giving a tax break to the top 5 percent."
He won't have to change a word when he becomes a candidate. And he's apparently settled on a running mate for lieutenant governor – Stephanie Horne, who owns a Louisville title company and is the wife of Andrew Horne, who lost to John Yarmuth in the 2006 3rd Congressional District primary. She reportedly shook every hand she could at the breakfast before the picnic.
Picking a Louisville running mate should open some doors, minds and checkbooks in the city to an Appalachian ("from the left-hand fork of Middle Fork in Elliott County," Adkins likes to say) who is still a little rough around the edges – like Paul Patton of Pikeville, who chose Steve Henry to run with him in the 1995 campaign that sent them to Frankfort.
In the past, Adkins was notoriously verbose, as if speaking a lot made up for not speaking well. He is much improved. He keeps speeches to reasonable lengths, and I heard only one subject-verb disagreement, a pretty common one: "Matt Bevin, that Capitol building in Frankfort, Kentucky, don't belong to you. It belongs to the people of the Commonwealth of Kentucky."
At the labor lunch, Adkins prowled the stage, and ultimately the tables, like a revival preacher. A former point guard for Morehead State University, he's big, tall and rangy, and dominates a room more than Attorney General Andy Beshear (the only announced candidate), Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes or former state auditor Adam Edelen.
Beshear, son of former Gov. Steve Beshear, is joined at the hip with much of the Kentucky Education Association, which had a major presence at the picnic and other events, boosting his relatively bland speeches. But teachers in the area are keeping their minds open, said longtime KEA stalwart Merryman Kemp of Paducah.
Kemp said after Adkins' speech at the labor lunch, "The preacher type can win easier than Steve and Jane's son. I love him; I love Steve and Jane, but … it's who I think can win."
After Saturday's picnic, I asked Adkins to make a case for himself. He cited his 31 years in the House, his private-sector experience (mainly coal) and said, "I think people believe that they want a governor they can approach, they can talk to, that they can actually communicate with, that cares about them."
But running statewide is a big leap for someone with a constituency of 40,000 people. Andy Beshear has run statewide once. Alison Lundergan Grimes has won two races for secretary of state and lost a U.S. Senate race to Mitch McConnell. But somewhat like Adkins, she has said races for 2019 should wait until after those of 2018.
Grimes, who is expecting her first child in December, is a lawyer and could run for attorney general. But her rhetoric at the picnic and its preliminaries sounded mostly gubernatorial, and her pointed barbs seemed designed to attract attention and send the message: "Don't forget about me."
We won't. In a region where President Donald Trump remains popular, Grimes went after him at the labor lunch: "When he's not in bed with Russia, he's in bed with Stormy Daniels." She said Bevin, who passed up the picnic, was "still having a sleepover with the Koch brothers," and "We thought he's the reason God created the middle finger." (She had plenty more zingers, but you've probably read them.)
Now that we're past Fancy Farm, the rhetoric may cool a bit. But the governor's race is on.
Al Cross is director of the Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues and associate professor in the University of Kentucky School of Journalism and Media. His opinions are his own, not UK's. This column originally appeared in the Courier-Journal.
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The first mission of the Congregation of Holy Cross outside of France was in Algeria in Africa (1840). That mission was closed in 1873, yet in 1957 the Congregation returned to the continent when three brothers from the United States arrived in December to Ghana to assume the administration of St. John's Secondary School in Sekondi.
Then in 1962, four brothers were sent to Liberia to administer St. Patrick's High School in Monrovia. The Congregation served in Liberia until 1996.
Also in 1962, just five years after arriving in Ghana, the Congregation opened a formation program connected with St. John's School to train young Africans to become Holy Cross brothers. The first postulants to the Congregation were accepted at that time. Nine years later, in 1971, Br. Joseph Tsiquaye, C.S.C., became the first Ghanaian to profess Final Vows in the Congregation.
Today there are 34 finally professed Ghanaians in Holy Cross, and several of them have already risen to leadership positions in the Congregation.
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The mainstay of our ministries has been the witness and commitment of religious men faithfully living our charism to serve not as individuals, but as a brotherhood. We hope to continue "to be a sign in an alienated world: men who have, for love of their Lord, become closest neighbors, trustworthy friends, brothers." – Br. Joseph Tsiquaye, C.S.C. Read more ...
In 1965, the Archbishop of Cape Coast invited the Congregation to work at St. Augustine's College, the oldest Catholic secondary school in the country. This began a flurry of expansion in the Congregation's educational work in Ghana. Holy Cross also sent brothers to St. Augustine's Training College in Bogoso (1969) and St. Theresa's Minor Seminary in Amisano (1970). Then in 1982, the Congregation opened Holy Cross Skills Training Center in Anaji-Takoradi to train young men in trade skills such as carpentry, masonry, and auto mechanics.
Although Holy Cross engages in other pastoral ministry in Ghana, education continues as the focus of the Congregation's principal service to the local Church. In this vein, the Congregation inaugurated the Holy Cross Continuing Formation Center 1992. Housed at the Congregation's Ghanaian headquarters in Brafoyaw, the center provides programs, retreats, and trainings on leadership and spirituality for lay leaders in the Church.
The work of the Congregation of Holy Cross in Ghana is conducted by the District of West Africa (Cape Coast, Ghana).
For a listing of the Congregation's schools, parishes, and other apostolic works in Ghana, check out the ministries page.


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Some more details have popped up about the ASUS 11-inch Chromebook and we're inching ever closer to its release. According to the source who was able to get a hold of one before launch, they describe the Chromebook as being surprisingly light and an easy fit in the hand, which tells us that it's easy to carry around without fear of dropping it. Unless you have freakishly small hands, then maybe you should double palm it. All jokes aside, hearing that it's light and that you can fit it one hand easily is a plus in our book. The ASUS C200 is the smaller model of two that are to be released in the near future, with rumors that we'll see the 11-inch model sometime next month. Who knows, maybe we'll see both. The C200 has a screen size officially of 11.6-inches, and has a slightly smaller keyboard than standard size.
The Chromebook was also ran through some performance tests to see just how well it would perform when compared to other recent models like the HP 11 and the Toshiba 13. Between those two it seems to have fallen squarely in the middle, which isn't bad by any means at all. Official scores received by all of those Chromebooks when using the Google Octane Utility were 10,400 for the Toshiba, 7,387 for the ASUS C200, and 5,300 for the ARM based Hp 11. When you stack it up it doesn't really look too bad, although we're hoping for a little more performance out of the C200's larger counterpart, the 13-inch C300 Chromebook that should be getting a release in the near future as well.
What is probably the most notable piece of information about its hands on time, is the battery life that seems to be getting all sorts of praise. The team at Promevo was able to use it through most of the day without having to keep it plugged in. As they state, they used it literally the entire day with battery power alone, and still had some juice left when the day was done. Impressive. The official full set of specs is as follows: 10-hour battery life, 11.6-inch screen with 1366—768 resolution, Intel N2830 Celeron CPU clocked at 2.16 GHz, 2GB RAM, Intel HD Graphics, 16 GB Solid State Drive, 1 USB 3.0 port and 1 USB 2.0 port, memory card slot, and of course an HDMI output. Overall it seems like a compelling choice for what you get, especially when you look at the price tag and the battery life, and compare it to other Chromebooks at the same cost or less. The ASUS C200 is going to cost $249.99, but we think we'll hold out on a decision till we see what the C300 will cost.


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British heavy metal legends SAXON have released the official music video for the song "Predator". The track, which is taken from the band's latest album, "Thunderbolt", features a guest appearance by AMON AMARTH frontman Johan Hegg.
SAXON singer Biff Byford commented: "Great fun doing the new video for 'Predator'. Big thanks to Johan for doing his thing on vocals with me… And much thanks to Steph Byford for making the video. Hope you like it"
Byford told Songfacts about "Predator": "It's basically about the animals that are on top of the food chain, like a lion or a tiger, or a crocodile or a shark. A couple of people thought it was about the film 'Predator', but it's not. It's about whatever's at the top of the food chain in that particular environment."
Regarding the collaboration with Hegg, Byford told Yesterdaze News: "[AMON AMARTH] are good friends of ours. We like the band. We met them when they first started touring way back, several years ago. We like the Viking rock. We feel like we're brothers-in-arms there. They're obviously a younger band than we are, but they grew up with SAXON in Sweden in the '80s, so they're big fans of SAXON, and we're big fans of theirs.
"When I wanted to do a lower voice on that song, I thought of Johan straight away. He was my first choice, and he did such a fantastic job. It sounds great. It's a little bit radical for us, but I don't like being predictable. I like taking a few chances with things like that, see if the fans like it."
A special tour edition of "Thunderbolt" was released on September 7. It features live recordings of "Thunderbolt" and "Nosferatu (The Vampire's Waltz)" recorded in Frankfurt and Los Angeles on the 2018 "Thunderbolt" world tour. The CD format also contains a 10″ x 10″ poster with photos of the band while on tour.
"Thunderbolt" was released in February via Militia Guard (Silver Lining Music). The follow-up to 2015's "Battering Ram" was once again helmed by producer Andy Sneap, who has previously worked with JUDAS PRIEST, MEGADETH, ACCEPT and TESTAMENT, among others. The disc features original artwork by longtime SAXON collaborator Paul Raymond Gregory.
Like "Battering Ram", SAXON's new effort features Byford alongside Paul Quinn and Doug Scarratt on guitar, Nibbs Carter on bass and Nigel Glockler on drums.
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NATIONAL ROAD TRAFFIC ACT 93 OF 1996
[ASSENTED TO 12 NOVEMBER 1996] [DATE OF COMMENCEMENT: 1 AUGUST 2000]
as amended by National Road Traffic Amendment Act 8 of 1998
National Road Traffic Amendment Act 21 of 1999
FITNESS OF DRIVERS (ss 8-36)
15 Disqualification from obtaining or holding learner's or driving licence
(1) A person shall be disqualified from obtaining or holding a learner's or driving licence-
(a) if he or she-
(i) in the case of any licence for a motor cycle, motor tricycle or motor quadrucycle having an engine with a cylinder capacity not exceeding 125 cubic centimetres or which is propelled by electrical power or which is a vehicle as contemplated in paragraph (b) of the definition of 'motor vehicle', is under the age of l6 years;
(ii) in the case of a learner's licence for a light motor vehicle, being a motor vehicle not of a class referred to in subparagraph (i) and the tare of which does not exceed 3 500 kilograms or, where such motor vehicle is-
(aa) a bus or goods vehicle, the gross vehicle mass of which does not exceed 3 500 kilograms;
(bb) an articulated motor vehicle, the gross combination mass of which does not exceed 3 500 kilograms, is under the age of 17 years; or
(iii) in the case of any other licence, is under the age of 18 years;
(b) during any period in respect of which he or she has been declared by a competent court or authority to be disqualified from obtaining or holding a licence to drive a motor vehicle, while such disqualification remains in force;
(c) where a licence to drive a motor vehicle held by him or her has been suspended by a competent court or authority, while such suspension remains in force;
(d) where a licence to drive a motor vehicle held by him or her has been cancelled by a competent court or authority, for such period as he or she may not apply for a licence;
(e) if such licence relates to a class of motor vehicle which he or she may already drive under a licence held by him or her;
(f) if he or she is suffering from one of the following diseases or disabilities:
(i) Uncontrolled epilepsy;
(ii) sudden attacks of disabling giddiness or fainting due to hypertension or any other cause;
(iii) any form of mental illness to such an extent that it is necessary that he or she be detained, supervised, controlled and treated as a patient in terms of the Mental Health Act, 1973 (Act 18 of 1973);
(iv) any condition causing muscular incoordination;
(v) uncontrolled diabetes mellitus;
(vi) defective vision ascertained in accordance with a prescribed standard;
(vii) any other disease or physical defect which is likely to render him or her incapable of effectively driving and controlling a motor vehicle of the class to which such licence relates without endangering the safety of the public: Provided that deafness shall not of itself be deemed to be such a defect;
(g) if he or she is addicted to the use of any drug having a narcotic effect or the excessive use of intoxicating liquor; or
(h) in such other circumstance as may be prescribed, either generally or in respect of a particular class of learner's or driving licence.
(2) The MEC concerned may, if he or she deems it expedient and on such conditions as he or she may deem fit, declare that any person shall no longer be subject to any disqualification, suspension or cancellation by a competent authority referred to in subsection (1) (b), (c) or (d), respectively: Provided that in the case of any cancellation such declaration shall be subject to section 25 (9).
[NB: Sub-s. (2) has been amended by s. 10 of the National Road Traffic Amendment Act 21 of 1999, a provision which will be put into operation by proclamation. See PENDLEX.]
16 Failure to disclose disqualification in respect of licence authorising driving of motor vehicle prohibited
(1) No person shall, when applying for a learner's or driving licence, wilfully fail to disclose any disqualification to which he or she is subject in terms of section 15.
(2) Any person who-
(a) is the holder of a licence authorising the driving of a motor vehicle in terms of this Chapter; and
(b) becomes aware thereof that he or she is disqualified from holding such licence, shall, within a period of 21 days after having so become aware of the disqualification, submit the licence or, in the case where it is contained in an identity document, that document to the MEC of the province concerned.
[NB: Sub-s. (2) has been amended by s. 11 (a) of the National Road Traffic Amendment Act 21 of 1999, a provision which will be put into operation by proclamation. See PENDLEX.]
(3) When a licence is submitted in terms of subsection (2) the MEC shall cancel it and if the licence was issued in a prescribed territory he or she shall notify the authority which issued it of the cancellation: Provided that if the MEC is satisfied that the holder thereof is competent to drive the c lass of motor vehicle concerned with the aid of glasses, an artificial limb or any other physical aid, the MEC shall, in the case where the licence-
(a) is contained in an identity document-
(i) not cancel the licence, but endorse the licence accordingly and such endorsement shall be a condition subject to which the licence is held;
(ii) return the identity document to the holder thereof; or
(b) is not contained in an identity document, issue or authorise the issue of a new licence in the prescribed manner reflecting the conditions on which it is issued.
[NB: Sub-s. (3) has been amended by s. 11 (b) of the National Road Traffic Amendment Act 21 of 1999, a provision which will be put into operation by proclamation. See PENDLEX.]


In the summer of '67, when Sgt. Pepper ruled the land and light pop songs like "Windy" and "Pleasant Valley Sunday" were high on the charts, a song came out of the South the like of which had never been heard. Murky and mysterious, prompting far more questions than it answered, "Ode to Billie Joe" cast a spell over America, and Bobbie Gentry (who turns 72 today) was thrust into the spotlight to say what she knew about the unknowable song she'd written and sung.


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Cristiada (tytuł ang. For Greater Glory) – film historyczny produkcji meksykańskiej, w reżyserii Deana Wrighta, na podstawie scenariusza Michaela Love, oparty na historycznych wydarzeniach wybuchu i przebiegu powstania Cristero.

W filmie wystąpili m.in. Andy García, Eva Longoria, Oscar Isaac, Peter O'Toole, Eduardo Verástegui oraz Bruce Greenwood. Był to reżyserski debiut Deana Wrighta, specjalisty od efektów specjalnych m.in. w filmach "Titanic", "Władca Pierścieni: Dwie wieże" (2002) czy "Władca Pierścieni: Powrót króla" (2003).

Obsada
 Andy García – generał Enrique Gorostieta
 Eva Longoria – jego żona Tulita Gorostieta
 Mauricio Kuri – Józef Sánchez del Río
 Peter O'Toole – ksiądz Christopher (Cristobal Magallanes)
 Oscar Isaac – Victoriano "Czternastka" Ramírez, dowódca cristeros
 Santiago Cabrera – ksiądz Vega, dowódca cristeros
 Israel Islas – adiutant gen. Gorostiety
 Eduardo Verástegui – bł. Józef Anaklet González Flores
 Rubén Blades – prezydent Plutarco Elías Calles
 Nestor Carbonell – burmistrz Rafael Picazo
 Erando González – kapitan żandarmerii La Guada
 Ulises Nieto – Lorenzo, przyjaciel Józefa del Rio
 Adrian Alonso – Lalo, współtowarzysz walki
 Catalina Sandino Moreno – Adriana
 Bruce Greenwood – ambasador USA Dwight Morrow
 Bruce McGill – prezydent USA Calvin Coolidge
 Joaquín Garrido – minister Amaro
 Ignacio Guadalupe – biskup Pascual Díaz
 Karyme Lozano – doña María del Río, matka Józefa
 Andrés Montiel – Florentino Vargas
 Alma Martinez – señora Vargas

Premiera
Premiera odbyła się 20 kwietnia 2012 w Meksyku, gdzie film spotkał się z gorącym przyjęciem, plasując się na pierwszym miejscu pod względem wpływów brutto ze sprzedaży biletów, a na drugim pod względem wpływów całkowitych, ustępując jedynie filmowi Titanic 3D.

W Stanach Zjednoczonych film wszedł na ekrany 1 czerwca 2012, natomiast polską premierę miał 7 kwietnia 2013.

Zobacz też
 Cristiada, czyli meksykańskie powstanie Cristeros (1926-1929)
 Bł. Józef Anaklet González Flores – beatyfikowany przez papieża Benedykta XVI, w grupie trzynastu męczenników meksykańskich, w dniu 20 listopada 2005 roku.

Przypisy

Linki zewnętrzne

 AP article on the 2000 canonizations

 Zwiastun filmu fabularnego "Cristiada" (For Greater Glory)
 Oficjalna strona filmu "Cristiada"

Meksykańskie filmy historyczne
Meksykańskie filmy z 2012 roku


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A few thoughts on the ACC considering its own TV network
http://www.sportsbusinessdaily.com/Journal/Issues/2013/01/14/Colleges/ACC.aspx
* Wasserman Media Group is known in college sports circles. They represented conferences for the TV contract in the four team CFB playoff. Per the article, they were also brought in when the ACC renegotiated its deal after the additions of Pittsburgh & Syracuse.
* As noted in the SBJ article, Raycom pays ESPN for a set of ACC content. Some of it airs on over-the-air stations and the rest is placed on regional sports networks, many who are owned by FOX. This content is around 27 football games, 70 men's basketball games, 20 women's basketball games plus content from other sports. The count does not include the men's basketball tournament games that coexist with ESPN. I would expect the coexists to end if a separate channel gets off the ground.
This does not include any content that ESPN3 airs exclusively, which was around 60 men's basketball games and 18 more football games. So the content is available that they desire.
* The re-air rights is interesting. Either some schools have those rights in hand, the ACC does as a conference or it is negotiable with ESPN. Nearly half of the existing ACC schools (Florida St., Maryland, Virginia Tech, Georgia Tech, Clemson, Miami) have their football games replayed during the season on RSNs, most of those RSNs have the name "Comcast" in their full name.
Anyways, both the SEC and Big Ten now control their games by owning the copyright to the telecast (pay attention to the very end of a telecast, it may not say ESPN anymore). I know that ESPN has the copyright when I've see the final credits roll on their RSN telecasts. That should be easy for the ACC to negotiate, if they haven't already.
* Sports networks are now being targeted. Or to term it better, customers are now being targeted with the increasing number of sports networks. DirecTV is now asking new customers in areas with more than one RSN to pay a $3 sports surcharge. Most of the ACC footprint is covered by multiple RSNs. Add another RSN, who pays for it? I believe the SEC channel would be treated as an RSN and I think that's what DirecTV wants for the Pac-12. I can't see the ACC escaping that either. I also don't see DirecTV being the only one charging for sports content. They've opened the door. Others will walk through.
* In my opinion, the ACC is really late with this. They needed to get this off the ground before the SEC thought of it. With the addition of Louisville, there are now four states with both ACC & SEC schools (Kentucky, South Carolina, Florida, Georgia). In at least three of these states (SC might be the exception), the SEC fan base seems to outnumber the ACC fan base. There's already one state where the Big Ten Network would coexist with an ACC one if this ever came up (Pennsylvania) and New York City would also be targeted by the ACC.
If the content in the end belongs to ESPN and the article says ESPN is not enthused about this, it could have trouble getting off the ground.
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Site maintenance news
This will likely not affect 95% of you who do not look through the years 2005-2011 on the site, but I'm going to be doing some maintenance on these years to try to bring them up to the existing templates used on the '12 & '13 football seasons and the 2012-13 basketball season. That means prepping those seasons into database tables and using the existing programming structures used through most of the current athletic year.
(PS - If you really want to know about those programming structures, email me. It will bore 99% of you.)
I elected not to go with the archive format of 2000-04 because I had RSN affiliate information. However I don't intend to carry over affiliate lists, except for FSN national games, because many of those links are no longer valid due to site changes over on those sites, or in the case of sites like JP Sports, they don't exist anymore.
Football should be relatively easy. Basketball will be more daunting because of the sheer number of games. I started on 2005 last night and will probably take through the spring & summer to get everything converted over. This work is secondary to anything on the current year, so it wouldn't delay any TV or schedule information being done on the current or upcoming season.
Thanks for your patience and patronage.
MBK Conference & National TV Games
Was bored and decided to go through my MBK database to look over which conferences make it on TV the most in terms of the contracts they have. I included CBS, the ESPNs, NBC Sports Network, FSN and CBS Sports Network.
FSN was included because both the Pac-12 and C-USA consider the network as national TV, despite pockets of the country that do not receive it.
I may have missed some games that were "home" games for teams that were attached to exempt events, such as North Carolina playing a home game vs. Florida Atlantic under the Maui Invitational. Sometimes these games are attached to the event instead of the conference, so I've left them out.
These counts only include regular season games. No conference tournament games are being counted, so the Ivy League is on equal footing with others in the list. Conversely, we don't yet know what the BracketBuster matchups are, but I don't think they get counted into those conferences' contracts.
I tacked on ESPN3 exclusives on the side because of its availability in so many homes. For several conferences, ESPN3 is the only place to see regular season games. The ESPN3 list does not include games from the Big East, Big 12, ACC or SEC syndication packages that end up on ESPN3 in addition to being telecast regionally. I realize including ESPN3 is a slippery slope when there are some conferences like the Horizon League & Big West which shows many home games free of charge through their website when they aren't televised.
The two conferences missing from the list: Big Sky and Summit League. The Summit League repurposes many games produced by local carriers on FOX College Sports. The Big Sky schools tend to make their own deals. ROOT Sports holds rights on a regional level, but has not scheduled any telecasts yet for this season.
You can click on the image to view it in full size.
Some random MBK notes
* Thank you for being patient with the listings, particularly with RSNs. Some RSNs haven't been as forthcoming about their listings when replacing content due to lost NHL games. I admit I haven't been as diligent as in other years when its come to going back through the listings at times. Trying to keep a better handle on that as we enter conference play.
* It appears that FOX Sports Southwest is going to act as the SEC Network affiliate for men's basketball, at least in the Houston area. Other parts of Texas look like they'll be served by local stations. Some Saturdays in Houston will have 3-4 SEC games in a row with the afternoon syndication package, then 1-2 games that are sublicensed to FOX RSNs.
* Thanks to a follower who passed along a list of cable networks and the number of households those networks are in. Because of that list, I've moved NBC Sports Network up in several places ahead of ESPNU. It looks like this list is published once a year, so I'll check back before football season. to see where I should list networks like NBCSN and SPEED/FOX Sports One.
* I missed a memo somewhere regarding the Sacramento Kings telecasts moving off the main CSN California feed and over to a plus channel. This probably happened whenever the Sharks moved over to the network and I never caught it. I'll have to pay attention to it through the rest of the year.
* Just a random thought, but its probably a good thing that the Pac-12 TV contracts were structured the way they were where FOX had the football championship and ESPN had the men's basketball championship for 2012-13. FX probably could have picked up the three tournament games they would have to show nationally, but FX isn't showing any college basketball this year and is out of sight, out of mind when it comes to college sports at this point. FOX can ramp up FOX Sports One knowing that they'll have those three tournament games next year.
FOX might end up keeping the C-USA men's basketball championship next year too for FS1 instead of selling it to CBS. No disrespect to C-USA, but the conference is losing its bell cow in Memphis and its possible CBS will not have the interest in showing the game as they've had in previous years.
* California put out a release this week telling their fans that Pac-12 men's basketball games on FSN will not be available in the Bay Area, unless you subscribe to a sports package that include FOX College Sports or an out-of-market FSN affiliate. The Pac-12 didn't seem to be very happy about this and this will affect a pair of Stanford games too, including one Cal-Stanford matchup. FOX managed to clear many of their Big 12 and C-USA football games to independent station KICU. Not sure if FOX made an attempt to clear at least some portion of their CBK games in the Bay Area, but I'd be surprised if FOX doesn't try to move those regular season games to FS1 to alleviate this issue next season.
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Climate Swings of the Pleistocene in Australia
Over the last 2.6 million years the fluctuations of the climate have had a profound effect on the Australian continent, in particular on the surface water and the groundwater. The rivers of Australia, as well as the lakes and dunefields, have been greatly affected by the alternating nature of the climate over the last 300,000 years, swinging from dry periods to wet and back again. There were periods in the last 2 interglacials when fluvial conditions dominated that allowed large sand loads in rivers in the Simpson Desert, as well as southeast Australia. White describes the central Australian palaeochannels as 'highly competent sand-load rivers during the last interglacial'. 110,000 years ago was the peak of their fluvial activity, behind world temperature and sea level maxima by about 5,000-10,000 years.
Following this wet period, aridity spread towards the margins of the continent, the spread of aridity peaking at the last glacial maximum. Between about 55,000 and 35,000 BP a wet phase, that was less widespread, has been associated with high sea levels and activity of palaeochannels in southeastern Australia. The sedimentary record in rivers and lakes, and the time of dune formation, documents the spread of aridity from central Australia towards the coast across the continent.
The peak of river activity on the Riverine Plain occurred from about 90,000-85,000 BP. On the Nepean River, at Cranbrook Terrace, nearer the coast, river activity peaked at about 80,000 BP and the coastal rivers continued their high level of activity until about 70,000 BP.
In the Eyre Basin, dunes began to form about 95,000 BP during the last interglacial. Dunes began to form on the areas bordering streams and lakes of the Riverine Plain, that is about half way between the Centre and the coast, from about 70,000-50,000 BP. Dunes began forming in the Lake George Basin, close to the coast, and the Shoalhaven Basin, on the coast, during the last glacial maximum about 20,000 BP. According to White, at this time, the peak of the last glacial, it has been estimated that Australia received half the present rainfall and the winds were double their present strength, up to 80 % of the continent being covered by wind-blown sand. It was at this time that the dunefields reached their present state. Also at this time much of the Murray Basin was a salt-sand desert.
Over the last 10,000 years, the Holocene, there have been variations of temperature and sea level. At about 9,000 BP the temperatures were higher than at the present in Australia, and there was increased rainfall. The highest the sea levels reached in the Holocene was from about 7,500-6,000 BP. Since then the sea levels have been approximately stable, though the fact that some low-lying islands are shrinking, with the sea encroaching on villages that have existed on the coast for many years suggests things might be changing.
Mary E White, Running Down, Water in a Changing Land, Kangaroo Press, 2000