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French police will be given pay rises after their so-called Blue Vest protests followed the Yellow Vest anti-government movement.
The accord was announced by unions last night, after two days of talks with President Emmanuel Macron's government and a strike which saw police stations close down except for emergency duties.
Police have complained of exhausting hours of patrols and chronic under-investment in equipment which have stretched departments to breaking point.
A group of police officers organized plans on social networks for a Thursday night demonstration in front of a station on Paris' Champs-Elysees Avenue. At that spot, police and gendarmes have confronted protesters with tear gas, water cannons and armored vehicles on multiple Saturdays since last month.
About 80 people wearing police arm bands, some emergency workers and others gathered for the peaceful demonstration to show they are still angry. Some sported yellow vests in solidarity with the anti-government protesters.
'We don't have the means to be everywhere at the same time … We have to make a choice and that's not normal,' Guillaume Lebeau, vice president of a group called Mobilization of Angry Police, said.
Last month an officer who led an 'angry police movement', which emerged after the 2016 firebombing of a squad car with two officers inside, was found dead at her home in a suspected suicide.
Unions blame difficult working conditions for a suicide rate among police that is 36 percent higher than for the general population, according to a Senate report. More than 30 police officers have taken their own lives in 2018, many of them with their service revolvers.
The rate is higher among gendarmes, who unlike police are part of the military. In the last known suicide, a gendarme took his life in November in the garden of the prime minister's office.
The Senate report published in July on how to overcome the 'malaise' makes clear that the daily routine of a police officer can mean contending with dilapidated equipment, rundown cars, filthy stations and an out-of-touch management.
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Freshwater management faces significant reform regardless of who wins September's general election.
The Labour and Green Parties would campaign on policies tightening the granting of resource consents for activities such as dairying.
Labour also promised to charge "a resource rental for large water take for irrigation at a fair and affordable price".
Also in the wings, Environment Minister Nick Smith said a technical paper on options for allocating and pricing water was due in December and would have to be addressed by the incoming government. . .
A bid to produce the world's healthiest red meat is proving a hit for a group of South Island high country farmers.
Their unique Te Mana lamb was launched onto the market this winter, to be served up at top restaurants both here and in Hong Kong.
Life on the farm's been a lot tougher in recent years for the country's sheep, as the growth of dairying pushes them higher into the hills.
Geneticist Aimee Charteris has spent the past decade on a project to create a new breed of sheep. . .
Julia Aspinall is an animal-breeding specialist.
Passionate about her work and the sheep industry, this year she was nominated for the Beef and Lamb New Zealand Significant Contribution to the New Zealand Sheep Industry Award for the first time.
She was announced as a finalist earlier this month, alongside retired Havelock North Romney breeder Tony Parker and Parnassus Perendale breeder Tim Anderson.
"I was pretty stoked [to find out I was a finalist,]" she said.
Originally from Mt Aspiring Station in Wanaka, Ms Aspinall has always had a love of the sheep industry. . .
When Balfour farmer Jonny Elder signed up for the Rabobank farm managers programme last year, the timing was perfect.
Designed for emerging farmers, the programme focused on the development of business management skills, with an emphasis on strategic planning, leadership and self-awareness.
Mr Elder and his wife, Michelle, farm a 460ha sheep and beef property in Northern Southland, where they run ewes, fatten lambs and trade a mix of beef calves and Friesian bulls.
When he went on the course, the couple had just finished their first year farming on their own account — having previously farmed with Mr Elder's father and brother — and they were ready to put into action their own ideas and visions. . .
The biosecurity system is creaking and won't be sustainable in five years, Ministry for Primary Industries readiness and response director Geoff Gwyn says.
Biosecurity had some big challenges that needed to be addressed collectively, he told farmers at the Federated Farmers arable industry conference.
"To put it bluntly, our system is creaking.
"Biosecurity is working but the model that is there is not sustainable for five years' time.
"Leave it to the Crown solely and it ain't going to work. We have got to do it together," Gwyn said.
And while tourism was great for the country it created greater risk. . .
Fieldays at Mystery Creek in mid-June showcased New Zealand innovation, interaction and, in some cases, simply imagination.
When the imagination was backed with evidence, facts and data, it transformed to a goal.
That was the case for the KPMG Agribusiness Agenda released on the first day of the Fieldays.
Titled 'A Recipe for Action', the 2017 Agenda said "NZ's future is as an artisan, niche producer of premium quality, safe and sustainable food and beverages, fibre and timber products". . .
The food industry is one of the fastest changing in the world so producing food to feed it will no longer be business as usual, technology futurist Rosie Bosworth says.
The Future Advantage consultant and communicator told more than 200 farmers at Beef + Lamb New Zealand's FarmSmart event in Christchurch that while not much had changed in the way food had been produced for the past 10,000 years, it was changing now.
Technology and science were creating change beyond business as usual.
"We are amidst an era of exponential change with new business models evolving, accelerating and converging at breakneck speeds." . .
Southern harness racing breeders will have free access to the bloodlines of one of the area's most recent pacing stars next breeding season.
Two-time Southland horse of the year Franco Ledger, by Falcon Seelster, will stand his first season at stud at Macca Lodge in northern Southland this spring, with a zero service fee.
The horse's former trainer, Hamish Hunter, and co-owners the What Ever Syndicate, were keen to give the horse an opportunity at stud, so they persuaded Macca Lodge to take the horse, proprietor Brent McIntyre said. . .
Our free trade prospects have been a victim of Brexit and the US Presidential election. New Zealand must be careful not to be caught in the crossfire of any ensuing trade war, Dr William Rolleston says.
Rolleston, the President of Federated Farmers, told its National Council in Wellington today that there were opportunities in disruption but our officials would need to play their cards with skill and tact.
"If there is any area of government which needs investment priority right now, it is our trade division," he said. . .
Stock prices were higher than normal today at a special sheep and cattle sale near Oamaru, bringing a big smile to the face of a four-year-old girl suffering from cerebral palsy.
Charlee McLachlan is used to being around farm animals but the special stock sale raised money to help her undergo lifechanging surgery in the United States, which will go some way towards alleviating her cerebral palsy.
"They go into her spine, they take a bit of her vertebrae out to pull out the spinal cord, and then put electrodes on her legs," her mother, Anna McLachlan, told Newshub. . .
The proposed 12-nation Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) is now well and truly dead. The question is where do we go from here?
We are hearing talk from various sources about possibilities for a 'TPP minus Mr Trump's USA'. But that too is highly unlikely to happen. Getting Japan, in particular, to agree to something without the USA being involved is wishful thinking. And simply waiting for another four years and hoping the USA might came back into negotiations is also likely to prove wishful. Both major American political parties know that supporting a new version of the TPP is a sure way to lose the next presidential election in 2020. . .
The 2016-17 season average lamb price is shaping up to be a bit over $5 per kg, economists predict.
While that was not quite as low as previously thought, it was still below its five-year average, BNZ's latest Rural Wrap said.
Lamb prices have lifted some 15% in the UK over the past six months but the plunge in the British pound following the Brexit vote had "offset all of that and then some", creating very challenging conditions for New Zealand exporters.
Chinese demand indicators have been positive and fewer New Zealand and Australian lambs had added some support to prices.
BNZ economist Doug Steel said the bank's best guess was that this season's lamb numbers were similar to, although probably marginally lower than initial industry estimates, perhaps about 23.5million. . .
Federated Farmers has been concerned for some time at the reduction in herd owning sharemilking opportunities and possible impact on the industry's future sustainability.
We encourage and support the development of new business concepts that will potentially make sharemilking more attractive and resilient as an industry.
The development of the variable rate payment option for herd owning sharemilkers has some merit, with Federated Farmers party to discussions relating to this option over the past year. . .
Oklahoma farmer Carl Barnes decided to reconnect with his Native American heritage, so he began a hunt for old, native varieties of corn. He uncovered a brilliant strain of corn now called Glass Gem Cornthat looks almost too good to eat. These all-natural corn ears are riots of color, and are also a testament to the beauty we stand to lose as biodiversity vanishes.
Through his quest to reconnect to his roots, Barnes isolated several traditional strains of seeds that fell to the wayside when his ancestors traveled to what's now Oklahoma in the 1800s. Through years of selective growing, Barnes grew corn that looks bejeweled, creating a colorful celebration of native heirloom varieties of corn. . .
It's true of any marketing and distribution strategy, but China's size and comparatively underdeveloped cold chain make this factor even more important for the successful development of agricultural business there.
With all export markets it is important for companies to analyse and select the preferred product type and form, business segment, geographic target area, and method of reaching the identified market. Market access and tariffs are other important considerations. When an export destination has been selected, a scattergun approach almost certainly won't work, while a too narrowly defined market may be equally unsuccessful. . .
For the last 2 years I've been working full time to set up an experimental prototype dairy system. The plan has always been to "pave the way"so other people, like me can go farming even if they don't have any land or very much money.
I believe it was Peter Brock who said "Bite off more than you can chew and then chew like crazy".
That describes my last two years quite accurately.
Without going into all the details, I've learnt a lot over the last two years and now it's time to crank things up and get this show on the road for real. . .
A forestry company has taken on the job of rebuilding stocks of freshwater crayfish in the South.
The unusual combination came about as a way of finding other uses for the forests' emergency fire ponds.
The freshwater crayfish known as koura are listed as a threatened species by the Department of Conservation. Now they're getting a boost, thanks to an unusual project by forestry company Ernslaw One.
It came up with the idea of farming koura in their fire ponds, as a way of bringing in extra income between harvests. . .
New Zealand forestry has gone from a bad performer to being one of the best, and John Stulen says this is because of the new innovations in steep slope harvesting.
In recent years, New Zealand forestry has faced massive hurdles in safety, especially on steep slopes. Too many accidents occurred because workers were facing too many risks in the workplace – it had to stop. However, leaders in the forest industry have stepped up to the challenge, hugely reducing the number of serious accidents.
"It's no coincidence that forest workplaces have become safer," says John Stulen, co-organizer of the Steep Slope Logging Conference. He says a completely new generation of hi-tech steep slope harvesters has made the forest workplace much safer for everyone working at the felling face. . .
A combination of rare conditions has tormented sheep farmers Hamish, Annabel, Alastair and Sue Craw on their Banks Peninsula farm Longridge Agriculture Ltd for the past 10 years.
Since 2004, the Craws have been dealing with a range of animal health issues that have yet to be explained. To start with, their sheep were wasting away with an extreme case of wearing teeth. In 2013 an extremely rare calcium deficiency was causing their lambs' legs to fracture, and in 2015 milk fever issues also arose in their ewes.
Alastair Craw says in the beginning the situation was having a significant economic impact on the business, with the more productive animals faring the worst. . .
This year will be Ravensdown's 30th year sponsoring the FMG Young Farmer of the Year. To celebrate the farmer owned cooperative is launching a national t-shirt competition.
Greg Campbell, Ravensdown Chief Executive says the key to any long standing sponsorship or business relationship is a mutual respect and interest.
"We're thrilled to be celebrating such a big milestone with Young Farmers. We've been right behind them for such a long time because we believe in supporting the next generation of farmers who are the future of our industry." . .
One of the leading ladies of New Zealand wine, Jane Hunter says her Hunter's winery is seeing a new generation of winemakers step up and take on key roles as Hunter's approaches 30 years.
She says Hunter's produces about 100,000 cases and export to 23 countries and this is her 29th year in the role of owner and managing director of Hunter's.
"Things have certainly changed in Marlborough since I arrived here in 1983 to take up the role of Viticulturist for Montana Wines. . .
The Canterbury Regional Council is promoting changes to give growers and Meridian Energy, which runs the Waitaki hydro-power scheme, certainty of water supply.
But a Waitaki River users group says a deal to drop the river's minimum flow would badly harm an already sick river.
The plan includes a cut to the minimum flow by a third during a dry spell. . . .
A ban on the finning of all shark species within New Zealand waters will take effect from 1 October this year, Conservation Minister Dr Nick Smith and Primary Industries Minister Nathan Guy announced today.
"Implementing this ban has happened much faster than originally proposed. It reinforces New Zealand's strong international reputation for sustainability and protecting our natural environment," Dr Smith says.
The Ministers released a revised National Plan of Action for the Conservation and Management of Sharks (NPOA-Sharks) earlier this year, which included a commitment to phase in the ban on shark finning in New Zealand by October 2016 at the latest. A first tranche of shark species was to be covered by the ban from 1 October 2014, a second tranche from 1 October 2015, and only the highly migratory blue sharks was to be left until 1 October 2016. . . .
Last year's botulism scare has prompted the creation of a new working group in the dairy processing sector.
It was one of the recommendations of the independent Government inquiry into the whey protein concentrate contamination, which sent shock waves through New Zealand's dairy industry.
The inquiry highlighted a shortage of experienced people with processing expertise and so the group has been set up to fix that.
The working group will be chaired by Northland dairy farmer and former Fonterra board director, Greg Gent, who said it was an exciting project. . .
A New Zealand-designed software system designed to predict and tackle mouse outbreaks is being trialled in Australia.
MouseAlert is an interactive website which uses mapping technology to enable arable crop growers to record and view mouse activity in their local area in real time.
Landcare Research has been providing the expertise on building this information into computer models which can then forecast plagues of mice. . .
Federated Farmers is pleased to see stabilisation in the latest benchmark GlobalDairyTrade (GDT) online auction result but warns price volatility will likely continue until well into the last quarter.
"It is great to see GDT average still in the US$3,000 a metric ton range but that slight 0.6 percent fall means we are on exactly US$3,000," says Andrew Hoggard, Federated Farmers Vice-Chairperson.
"It seems to underscore how similar this season is to 2012/13. At a similar point two seasons ago, the average winning price was just US$54 more except it had come up from the high 2,000's.
"But before anyone traipses back to the beginning of the year to make a more dramatic story, any price before 1 June is completely irrelevant when you are talking about this 2014/15 season. . .
The economic growth of China over the past four years has resulted in huge demand for New Zealand dairy and meat products; lifted our terms of trade to historical highs and provided a major fillip to agriculture and the wider NZ economy.
However the somewhat dramatic slide in global dairy prices since their peak in midFebruary has the appearance of China exiting the market causing demand to stall.
It has prompted several commentators to ponder whether exciting market growth has become market over-reliance.
At MyFarm we see 'China growth' as a major boost to farming industry returns – one that will have a profound affect for the next two decades. . .
TV shopping shows and infomercials have become a popular way of selling everything from exercise equipment to kitchen and beauty accessories. But one New Zealand company has struck gold in China with a very surprising product – packaged meat.
It's home shopping as most Kiwis will be familiar with, but the Chinese shopping show is selling something a little unusual – prime cuts of New Zealand beef and lamb.
Most of us Kiwis, we'd never think about buying our lamb or beef on a TV shopping channel," says Silver Fern Farms head of sales Grant Howie. "But in a 30-minute slot earlier this year, we sold 12.5 tonnes of our beef." . . .
Plan changes to enable three new salmon farms in the Marlborough Sounds were signed off today by Conservation Minister Dr Nick Smith at a function at the Marlborough District Council with Mayor Alistair Sowman and representatives from NZ King Salmon.
"These three new salmon farms at Waitata and Richmond in Pelorus Sound and Ngamahau in Tory Chanel are hugely important to Nelson and Marlborough's aquaculture industry and wider economy. They will enable NZ King Salmon to grow its products from the current 6000 tonnes per year to 9000 tonnes per year in 2015 and 13,000 tonnes per year by 2033. These new farms will grow our GDP by $120 million per year, our exports by $50 million and employment by 150 new jobs," Dr Smith says.
"I am well satisfied that our region can maintain the conservation and recreation benefits of Marlborough Sounds while enabling the growth of the aquaculture industry. These three farms will take up only about five hectares of surface water space out of a total area of over 100,000 hectares in the Sounds, or less than 0.01 per cent." . .
Point scoring in the media will not make our forests safer places to work, says the Forest Owners Association.
"The unions are claiming credit for a sudden reduction in the fatality and serious accident rate and Worksafe NZ is slamming us for a lack of safety leadership. These comments are unbalanced and unhelpful," says association president Paul Nicholls.
"Political posturing and blaming others won't save workers lives. To transform the industry's safety culture, participants will need to acknowledge their past shortcomings and to share experiences and knowledge. They are less likely to be open to this if they are being publicly pilloried." . .
The sweeping reforms to the ways water is managed, as recommended by the Land and Water Forum two years ago, are now beginning to be implemented. The final shape and rate of reform will be very dependent on what government is elected in a few weeks. Therefore this is a particularly apt event looking at policy reforms that could reshape the way we manage and think about water.
"Implementing Reform" is the theme of the Water NZ annual conference being held at Hamilton's Claudelands convention centre in the final week of the election campaign – 17 – 19 September.
Water reforms already implemented in Australia will be discussed in the first two sessions of the conference starting at 9.40 am on Wednesday 17. . .
A team of 50 Southlanders have what some carnivores might see as the perfect job.
They're the taste testing panel for meat company Alliance, charged with ensuring the company's export lamb, beef and venison is gourmet quality.
There's not a lot of conversation around the table. The diners are too busy eating prime cuts of lamb, cooked to perfection by an award-winning chef. It's their job, making in-depth evaluations of meat.
"You smell it for the aroma, then you bite into it for the texture and succulence, then last of all the flavour," says veteran meat taste tester Sonja Lindsay. . .
The Government will invest $21 million over a maximum of seven years to support research that will benefit two of New Zealand's primary industries Science and Innovation Minister Steven Joyce announced today.
A $16 million investment over seven years will be made in the Pastoral Greenhouse Gas Research Consortium and a $5 million investment over a maximum of seven years will be made in Seafood Innovations Limited.
"Science and innovation are major drivers of economic growth and international competitiveness. These investments will help improve the performance of two key parts of our primary industries, and as a result the New Zealand economy will benefit," Mr Joyce says.
The Pastoral Greenhouse Gas Research Consortium — a partnership between AgResearch, DairyNZ, Beef+Lamb NZ, Fonterra, Landcorp Ltd and DeerResearch — will develop new technologies that farmers can use to reduce greenhouse gas emissions without loss of productivity. . .
A decision about whether or not to sign up to the dairy sector's new water accord has divided Otago regional councillors.
The council, along with others nationally, has been asked to sign up to the accord as a "friend" but the implications of this worried some councillors, while others were concerned not signing would alienate the dairy sector.
Councillors voted three times before a final decision was made to sign the document – although not all were happy. . .
Winton dairy veterinarian and mastitis consultant Kath Taylor is among six finalists in the 2013 Dairy Women of the Year Award.
She has been a dairy vet for 19 years, graduating from Massey University in 1994 and working in mixed practice in Taranaki for the next seven years before moving to Southland in 2001. She works for VetSouth Ltd in Winton, leading the milk-quality team. . .
Four shearers are sitting it out in Southland in the countdown to a World Record shearing challenge in which they could shear as many as 3100 lambs between them on Tuesday.
Contractor and event organiser Brendon Potae says he's given the quartet the weekend off after three hard weeks preparing for the Heiniger Four-stand Crossbred Lambs Eight-Hour World Record, to be shorn at Centre Hill Station, near Mossburn.
"I've told them to go fishing, sightseeing," he said today as he and others from a support crew expected to swell to almost 70 people put finishing touches to the shed where about 250 people are expected to watch the event inside, with others watching on CCTV in marquees nearby. . .
Tractors, motorbikes, farm machinery and dancing girls will all be on display at the Southfuels Farmarama at Lawrence on February 7 and 8.
The biennial event will be held at the Lawrence gymkhana grounds, opening to the public at 11am on the Thursday and 9am on the Friday. . .
Auckland-based agri-tech company Tru-Test Group has today announced the acquisition of Dairy Technology Services from NDA. The move is the second such deal completed by Tru-Test Group in recent months, following its purchase of Radian Technologies (MilkHub) in December.
Dairy Technology Services (DTS) is the leading provider of milk storage and cooling systems in the New Zealand dairy industry. It employs 80 staff in its manufacturing facility in Taranaki and its nationwide sales, installation, repairs and maintenance and customer service operation based in Hamilton.
The deal reflects NDA's desire to focus on its engineering activities in the dairy processing and transport, chemicals and refining, wine and resources industries. . .
Day 1 of New Zealand Bloodstock's two-day Festival Sale was highlighted by a new top price for this session with the Swiss Ace colt at Lot 1149 fetching $125,000.
From the Hussonet mare Eclaircissement, Lot 1149 from Westbury Stud was purchased by Rogerson Bloodstock for $125,000.
Having a previous affiliation with the family, Rogerson was prepared to go beyond his budget to secure the colt out of a half-sister to multiple stakeswinner Illuminates (Strategic). . . .


In light of the nice comments on my previous post on this topic I'm going to share how I'm doing this now, it's a little easier to manage for me, at least and may be for others.
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ie7.css is longer (surprise!) but has the same PIE.htc section as above.
I find this easier to get my head around, plus it cleans up functions.php and loads IE stylesheets the proper way.
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You're very welcome – it's sometimes tricky to figure out how to do this kind of thing in WordPress.
For some reason I only get the pie.htc to work on my wordpress home page. When I go to the other pages no pie.htc??
If I go into the wordpress dashboard and assign a different page as my home page, say the about page, the pie.htc works great on that page but not on the home page.
I have tried everything that this article suggests with no luck. Any suggestions?


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Q: How to include  in a Cocoa project I'm having trouble getting xcode to find a particular header file, namely cstring.
My project compiled properly until I added a new library. The library, oscpack, consists of .h and .cpp files. I copied these into my project. Some of these files include cstring. Now when I try to compile I get this error:
Lexical or Preprocessor Issue
(...)/xcode4/osc/OscOutboundPacketStream.h:40:10: 'cstring' file not found

I'm new to C++ and I'm still a bit mystified regarding header file locations.  Does anyone know where to find cstring on my system, and how I should tell xcode to look for it there?
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I ran sudo find . -name "*cstring*"and located the header file. It's here:
/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.8.sdk/usr/include/c++/4.2.1/cstring

Now how do I tell XCode to search there?
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I tried adding $(SDKROOT)/usr/include/c++/4.2.1 to my Header Search Paths. I entered a world of pain. Dozens of compiler errors were thrown, starting with these.
/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.8.sdk/usr/include/c++/4.2.1/bits/c++config.h
/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.8.sdk/usr/include/c++/4.2.1/bits/c++config.h:153:1: Unknown type name 'namespace'
/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.8.sdk/usr/include/c++/4.2.1/bits/c++config.h:153:1: Expected ';' after top level declarator

A: <cstring> is a C++ header. Is the problem that you're building the file that includes it as C or Objective-C and not as C++ or Objective-C++?
oscpack describes itself as a C++ library, so you'll need to be using C++ anywhere you include its headers.

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OCAST OKs 7 Intern Partnerships
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: November 20, 2013
FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT: Steve Paris
OCAST 405-319-8405
Seven Research and Development Intern Partnerships Tuesday were approved for funding at a total of $320,780 by the Oklahoma Center for the Advancement of Science and Technology (OCAST). Awards approved this week support undergraduate student internships in biotechnology, cyber security, climate, energy and aerospace. Awards are for up to two-year internships.
The program helps Oklahoma small businesses locate hard-to-find technology-trained employees. OCAST pays one-half the cost for an undergraduate intern to work in a research and development setting.
OCAST's program is designed to assist technology-based job creation. It combines university faculty oversight with financial support and business mentoring from the private sector. Some of the college students who participate in the program eventually become employees of the businesses that sponsor them.
Most recent program awards follow:
Oklahoma City – Tom Jobe of SensiQ Technologies Inc. of Oklahoma City will oversee three interns who will work in a research project involving development of a new, label-free biosensor platform for biomolecular interaction analysis. The findings are expected to have specific applications in areas of drug discovery and drug screening. The focus will be in three disciplines: biochemistry, biomedical engineering and electrical/software engineering. Title: Label-free Platform for Drug Discovery Research and Development. Total funding: $59,400
Oklahoma City – Professor Fabiola Janiak-Spens will work with five interns on various projects with multiple Oklahoma firms. Five biology companies and one university research laboratory in central Oklahoma are partners in the project. At Analytical Research Laboratories, the intern will participate in evaluating currently available pharmaceutical products with regard to purity and stability. Interns working at DNA Solutions will help develop genetic testing systems for white-tailed deer and cattle. At Great Plains Microbiology, interns will research high-throughput screening methods for determining food safety. SolidTech Animal Health will work with interns challenged to help in research efforts of immuno therapeutics for preventing cattle diseases. Interns at Cytovance will contribute to the transfer of a biopharmaceutical manufacturing process from Cytovance's lab into a full-scale manufacturing facility. Title: Internships for Biotechnology Program Students. Total funding: $27,360
Tulsa – Jerald Dawkins of True Digital Security of Tulsa will direct two interns in a project designed to manage the "Big Data Problem." The challenge involves large volumes of complex data that, due to its complexity, overwhelms the existing ability to manage the data. The application targets advanced persistent threats and the need to develop new framework that will make the cyber security issue manageable. Title: Critical Infrastructure Cyber Security Information Sharing. Total funding: $60,000
Tulsa – Surendra Singh of the University of Tulsa will direct two students at MIRATECH. The Tulsa firm is working on development and validation of rapid aging and deactivation test cycles for catalyst concept screening, enhancement of control systems using advanced sensors and emission solutions for bi-fuel engine retrofit kits. Title: Design and Development of Emission Solutions. Total funding: $60,000
Stillwater – Lloyd Salsman of Frontier Electronic Systems Corp. will direct the effort of one intern in commercializing nanobattery technology. Findings are expected to determine appropriate manufacturing equipment needed to develop and refine manufacturing processes. Title: Evaluation/Analysis Intern Supporting Lithium Battery Manufacturer – 2. Total funding: $22,331
Tulsa – Ranji Vaidyanathan of Oklahoma State University will direct two interns who will work with CleanNG LLC in developing non-cylindrical composite vessels so that storage tanks can replace existing gas tanks using software specifically designed for such parts. The research will have an impact on improving compressed natural gas tanks for vehicles. Title: RDIP: Interns for Adsorbed Natural Gas Composite Tanks. Total funding: $31,689
Tulsa – Surendra Singh of the University of Tulsa will oversee two students at Spirit Aviation where they will review acquisition costs of aircraft components and develop engineering solutions. Such solutions will involve the use of alternate materials, new manufacturing processes and innovative design changes. Both students in concert with Spirit Aviation research mentors will be involved in engineering design, specifications, development, testing and manufacturing phases. Title: Design and Development of Aircraft Components. Total funding: $60,000

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Real Madrid ready to sell Raphael Varane to Manchester United on one condition
in News, Transfers
Raphael Varane is a target for Mancehster United(Photo by Diego Souto/Quality Sport Images/Getty Images)
Real Madrid defender Raphael Varane must inform the club of his decision to leave the Bernabeu before the Spanish giants open negotiations with Manchester United for the Frenchman.
The centre-back has less than 18 months to run on his contract with Zinedine Zidane's side and though Real are keen to keep Varane, they will not let him enter the last season of his contract without extending his deal.
The Spaniards are under huge financial pressure and they cannot afford to lose Varane on the cheap in 2022, so they have therefore decided to cash in this summer if he makes it clear that he will not sign a new deal.
Varane is believed to be keen to experience life away from the Bernabeu and AS say he must inform the board of his decision before the transfer window opens so that they club can prepare for negotiations with United.
United missed out on Varane in 2012 when Real used Zidane to persuade the defender to reject a move to Old Trafford.
Varane could fetch around £75m for Real (Photo by Alejandro Rios/DeFodi Images via Getty Images)
However, the Frenchman has long been thought of as the perfect signing to strengthen the club's defence and Ed Woodward privately admitted in years gone by that the club would be willing to break their transfer record to sign Varane.
Real therefore face the prospect of losing Varane and Sergio Ramos in the same summer but they are aware that Varane's decision does not hinge on his salary and they therefore think there's little they can do to persuade him to stay if he decides he wants to experience a new club.
United were interested in signing Dayot Upamecano but the Frenchman chose Bayern Munich and Varane would represent a more experienced arrival.
Ole Gunnar Solskjaer is likely to use nearly three-quarters of his budget on signing a defender, while he hopes to boost his funds by selling the likes of Phil Jones, Jesse Lingard and Diogo Dalot.
United are on course to finish in the top four and should they manage to do so, it will be first time since Sir Alex Ferguson's retirement that the club have managed consecutive qualifications for the Champions League.
Celtic vs Rangers Old Firm derby clash at 'very real' risk of being called off
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You are here: Home / News Reports / Teenage girl 'raped by a gang of Asian men during two-year ordeal was finally treated as a victim when her boyfriend phoned TV news studio after she saw report on Rotherham abuse scandal'
Teenage girl 'raped by a gang of Asian men during two-year ordeal was finally treated as a victim when her boyfriend phoned TV news studio after she saw report on Rotherham abuse scandal'
This is precisely why it's so important that these trials and convictions get maximum media coverage. When something has been covered up for over 40 years, the only way that past victims will come forward is when justice is seen to be done. In the years from 2006 onwards West Yorkshire Police had deliberately shut down their unit investigating grooming crimes.
A 16-year-old girl was raped by a gang of Asian men who were finally arrested when her partner phoned a TV news studio after she watched a report on sex abuse, a court heard today.
The girl, who was allegedly abused over a two-year period, asked her partner to call the BBC Look North studio in Yorkshire after viewing their piece which related to the Rotherham sex abuse scandal.
She was a resident of a care home after having a turbulent upbringing when the alleged sexual abuse started, Bradford Crown Court was told.
A jury was told that the girl later ran away from the home with a friend and a bottle of vodka and the pair headed towards the city centre.
The prosecution allege one of the men approached two girls in a car and offered to take them to buy a lighter in 2008, just months after they had both been placed into the care home.
In the months that followed, the girls were subjected to a range of sexual abuse at the hands of the ten men through a variety of different methods 'to satisfy their sexual desires', the court was told.
The men subsequently arrested deny a total of 25 charges including rape and sexual assault against the same alleged victim over the period of July 2009 to July 2011.
One of the group, Basharat Khaliq, 37, also allegedly raped a friend of the main victim, who the whole gang are accused of sexually abusing.
The four counts of rape against Khaliq relate to the first alleged victim between May 2008 and September 2009 while the remaining 21 counts against the other men relate to the second girl between July 2009 and July 2011.
He told the first girl a series of lies including lying about a scar on his abdomen, telling her it was a stab wound when in fact it was a surgery scar, the court was told.
The girl told police his behaviour towards her was 'unsettling' and 'aggressive' and Khaliq had told her he loved her when she was aged 14.
She told police he would visit her all the time and told her 'sex would make them feel closer'.
One of the charges of rape against him refers to a situation where the girl, who would call the defendant 'Bash', was allegedly raped in the front seat of a car.
The court heard how workers at the care home - where both girls lived - had concerns about where they were when they would repeatedly run away - but because it was not a restrictive unit they had no power to stop the teens.
Both girls who had been approached by Khaliq in 2008 were allegedly left on Baildon Moor by the defendant in 2009.
The prosecution said 'a male was contacted by [the victim] who collected her'. This defendant was Saeed Akhtar, known as 'Sid', the prosecution allege.
The property in which much of the abuse is alleged to have taken place is the house in which he lived.
The court was told the second victim was passed between men and repeatedly told she was in a relationship with them in order to cover the abuse.
The prosecutor said the girl was 'cynically manipulated' by the defendants, who each visited the house during 'parties' which involved drugs and alcohol.
On one occasion, the prosecutor detailed how the victim had taken 22 lines of cocaine in a single night and once addicted to the drug 'was easy to control'.
Concluding her opening, prosecutor, Kama Melly QC said: 'Girls in care don't always see the exploitation and manipulation but that does not mean the exploitation was not occurring.
'These girls were sadly ripe and vulnerable to manipulation. This manipulation meant when the time came for the defendants to fulfill his sexual desires he was often able with very little or no resistance. It is not believed they were consenting.'
Ms Melly also described how police had spoken to one of the victims after her number was found on a piece of paper during Operation Kellerabbey.
The original operation investigated sexual exploitation in Keighley, West Yorkshire.
She said: 'When girls or suspects were found police were given the task of finding them. On July 13 [the victim's] phone number cropped up.
'Her phone number was found on a piece of paper and police contacted her.
'[The victim] could not give relevant information to the operation; however, she explained her own experience of growing up.
'She told them she had been given alcohol and drugs and had become an addict. She said she was pleased to see they were investigating.'
The prosecutor described how nothing was done by police until years later when the victim rang the television studio.
She said: 'By then there was much more coverage of Rotherham. [The victim] had watched and seen news reports knowing what had happened to her.
'Frustrated at the lack of coverage... her partner contacted Look North, telling them the abuse was 'much wider than Rotherham'.'
Look North gave the name of the girl to police safeguarding after they were contacted.
Police then began an investigation and ten men were arrested and charged with sexual offences against her.
Khaliq, 37, of Bradford, denies one charge of assault by penetration against the first alleged victim and five charges of rape against a second woman.
Saeed Akhtar, 54, of Bradford, denies two charges of causing or inciting child prostitution and one charge of rape.
Naveed Akhtar, 42, and Izar Hussain, 31, both of Bradford, deny three charges of rape, with Hussain also denying an additional allegation of attempted rape.
Mohammed Usman, 30, of Bradford, and Kieran Harris, 27, of Dewsbury, both pleaded not guilty to two charges of rape.
Yasar Majid, 36, of Milton Keynes, denies a single charge of rape, and Fahim Iqbal, 26, of no fixed abode, pleaded not guilty to aiding and abetting rape.
Zeeshan Ali, 31, of Bradford, denies a single charge of sexual assault.
Parvaze Ahmed, 35, of Bradford, denies three charges of rape.
The trial continues.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5441729/Teenage-girl-raped-gang-Asian-men.html
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Turkish op in Afrin leaves 'grim tally' of children killed, 'fleeing families' in Syria – UNICEF
A child protests against the Turkish military campaign in the Kurdish Syrian enclave of Afrin in Berlin on January 26, 2018 © John Macdougall © AFP
The number of children killed in Syria has risen dramatically over the past two weeks, according to UNICEF's envoy in the country, who said youngsters have been hardest hit.
"The grim tally of children killed in Syria in the past two weeks has increased daily as violence escalates in several areas across the country," Fran Equiza, UNICEF Representative in Syria, said in a statement titled "Is the world becoming numb to the killing of children?" on Friday.
'Is the world becoming numb to the killing of children in #Syria?'A question we never thought we would have to ask.@franequiza on #ChildrenUnderAttack: https://t.co/suFiH4HD0kpic.twitter.com/MjmvVwTfNh
— UNICEF (@UNICEF) January 26, 2018
According to Equiza, UNICEF received reports about at least 11 children killed in the Afrin area in northern Syria. The official didn't specify when or how exactly the children were killed or who was behind the violence. However, Kurdish-dominated Afrin was the exact area where Turkey launched its operation 'Olive Branch' on January 20.
Since the launch of the operation in Afrin, the Kurds say the campaign had claimed innocent lives. Ankara, however, maintains there have been no civilian casualties. According to the latest numbers from Turkey, more than 340 members of "terrorist groups" have been neutralized as the operation marks one week.
We received reports, and this heartbreaking photo, of a 2-year-old boy fatally wounded when a mortar hit a kindergarten in #Aleppo#Syria. 150 other children were safely evacuated by teachers. Schools are NOT targets! Children MUST be protected #ChildrenUnderAttackpic.twitter.com/EmS48qTXq6
— Fran Equiza (@franequiza) January 16, 2018
"In Afrin, families are fleeing to other areas within the district, seeking protection in camps already crowded with over 125,000 previously displaced people, living in shockingly difficult conditions and exposed to harsh winter weather," Equiza noted.
Syrian Kurds seek Damascus' protection as Turkey's Erdogan vows to return Afrin to 'owners'
According to the UNICEF official, families are "confined to the basements of their buildings" due to intense violence outside. "Wars have laws and these laws are being broken every single day in Syria," he wrote in an emotional appeal, adding that all conflicting parties should provide safe passage for civilians who want to leave the affected area.
Yet almost seven years into the conflict in Syria, children still continue to be the hardest hit by "unprecedented destruction, displacement and death," according to Equiza. "They have lost lives, homes and childhoods. Enough is enough," he added.
According to the UN, more than 13 million people are in need of humanitarian assistance. More than half the country's basic infrastructure has been damaged or destroyed.
2 killed, 11 injured as rockets from Syria hit mosque & house in Turkish border town
Trump urges Erdogan to 'exercise caution' & avoid targeting US forces in Syria


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3.3.2 - Damage control
Transpiration operates by suction, but leaves are especially liable to damage by grazing, mechanical forces, and extreme negative pressures in the xylem water column due to high rates of transpiration. Leaf vessels therefore need special protection against air embolisms spreading in the vessel network that would block liquid flow. This is achieved at all points in the leaf distal to the node (i.e. petiole, large veins, small veins) by the vessels being very short. That is, files of vessel elements joined to make a single pipe with a terminal end-wall are much shorter in the leaf than in the rest of the plant. Water flows through vessel end-walls with little extra resistance, but an air–water interface cannot be pulled through an end-wall or pit membrane because the pores are so small. The force needed to curve the interface into a meniscus small enough to pass through the end-wall is similar to that generated by evaporation from wet cell walls (Section 3.1.3). From equation (4), (DP = 0.15/r) we see that a pressure of roughly 0.3/d (MPa) is required to pull the interface through a hole of diameter d (µm). While 0.1 MPa can pull an interface through a 3 µm hole, 6 MPa is required to pull air through a 0.05 µm hole. Suctions of 6 MPa are not known to occur in transpiring plants, and cell walls have pores much smaller than 0.05 µm - in the order of 0.003 µm. So an embolism formed from cavitating water fills one vessel but does not spread beyond it.
The length of xylem vessels is demonstrated by allowing a leaf to transpire in a fine colloidal suspension that cannot pass end-walls. Latex paint, diluted 100 times with water and allowed to settle for a week or two, provides such a suspension. Leaves that have drawn up this suspension for an hour or so during transpiration can be cleared by dissolving out the chlorophyll and soaking in lactic acid. Progress of the paint is then readily seen (Figure 3.28). Very few vessels exceed 1 cm in length.
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Figure 3.28 Cleared whole mount of a wheat leaf demonstrating the frequent occurrence of end-walls in leaf vessels. The leaf was fed an emulsion of green latex paint in the transpiration fluid from a cut surface 6.5 mm to the right of the picture. At the right side of the picture, two vessels in the central large vein are carrying paint. Halfway across the picture (at arrowhead) the upper vessel is blocked by an end-wall through which the paint particles could not pass, although water continued to flow. The paint in the lower vessel continued for another 3 mm beyond the left of the picture, where an end-wall in that vessel limited its further progress. Note that paint has not passed out of the large vein into transverse veins where water flowed because pit membranes (Section 3.2) filtered out paint particles. Bright-field optics. Scale bar, 100 µm. (Photograph courtesy M. McCully and M. Canny)
‹ 3.3.1 - Vein architecture of conifers and angiosperms up 3.3.3 - Water extraction from the xylem ›
3.3.1 - Vein architecture of conifers and angiosperms
3.3.3 - Water extraction from the xylem
3.3.4 - Solute extraction from the xylem


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is a 1971 Japanese historical drama film directed by Masahiro Shinoda, based on the novel of the same name by Shūsaku Endō. It stars Tetsurō Tamba, Mako, Eiji Okada, and Shima Iwashita alongside English actors David Lampson and Don Kenny. Endo co-wrote the screenplay with Masahiro Shinoda. Most of the film's dialogue is in Japanese, though it has short sequences in English. It was entered Un Certain Regard into the 1972 Cannes Film Festival, and won four Mainichi Film Awards including Best Film and Best Director.

The film's themes analyze the conflict of human nature versus divine requirements and their compatibility, life's purpose, the interplay of emotional needs, suffering, and contentment. The storytelling device the film uses is circumstantial and depicts the struggles of life, allegorical presentation, and Christian theology. It is the first of three movie adaptations of the novel, succeeded by the Portuguese Os Olhos da Ásia in 1996 and the 2016 American film of the same name.

Plot
In the 17th century, two Portuguese Jesuit priests, Rodrigo and Garrpe, travel to Japan to proselytize, where Christianity is officially banned. They also search for their mentor, Ferreira, with whom they lost contact five years prior and presume is imprisoned. Rodrigo is patronizing and Garrpe is cautious. The two priests are overwhelmed with the welcome they receive in Japan, but occasionally wish for some comfort food from home.

They travel to the village of Kichijiro, the man who smuggled them into Japan from China. Returning, they hear the officials have arrived to capture the priests. After many of the hidden believers are taken prisoner, the two priests decide to leave but they become separated. Kichijiro finds Rodrigo and joins with him; he confesses to Rodrigo he is a weak person and his family was slaughtered for being Christians. Nagasaki Magistrate Inoue's men capture Rodrigo and throw 300 pieces of silver at Kichijiro (reminiscent of Judas Iscariot). He later gives away the money to a prostitute for emotional support.

Inoue's men imprison Rodrigo and put him on trial. Later, he and other prisoners in the cell are shown Inoue's men punishing a Christian Samurai family where in the end the wife Kiku recants her faith and her husband is dragged away to be executed. Kichijiro, who is troubled, sneaks into the holding cell, asks Rodrigo to forgive him. He says he betrayed Rodrigo because everyone shamed him for recanting his faith and despises anyone who reminds him of it.

Inoue, with the interpreter, invites Rodrigo for a talk in private. Inoue says the Church is unwanted in Japan. He compares Christianity to a concubine who makes trouble for a man's conscience (Japan). Rodrigo says truth of the Church is universal and as the happiness between a man and woman is disturbed, the State disturbs the Church through persecution for not becoming fruitful. Each accuses the other of being ignorant of the other side of the subject. Inoue concludes that he doesn't think Christianity is bad, but he has to forbid it.

Later Rodrigo is taken to the seaside and sees Garrpe, who has been taken prisoner,  along with his Japanese companions. The interpreter tells Rodrigo that Magistrate Inoue wants Rodrigo to witness Garrpe apostatizing his faith and, if he doesn't, all the hidden Christian farmers will be immediately hunted down. While Garrpe's companions are drowned one by one, Garrpe unties his bonds in an attempt to save them. He swims near to the boat where his companions were thrown into the sea, but the soldiers dissuade him with spears which leads to his death. Later, Rodrigo is taken to a Buddhist temple to visit Lord Chuan Sawano. Sawano turns out to be Ferreira, who has apostatized and is working under Inoue as an astronomy scholar, also helping to expose errors and inconsistencies in Bible and Christian teachings. Rodrigo is upset by this revelation; nonetheless, Sawano asks Rodrigo to renounce his faith. Rodrigo rejects the idea. Sawano says he preached in Japan for 20 years, and he knows this is not a land where Christianity can be rooted but a terrifying swamp where seedlings can rot and die and the inculturation of Christianity is the worst.  Rodrigo rejects all these claims and censures him by saying that this wouldn't be the attitude of St. Francis Xavier.

The interpreter takes Rodrigo back to his prison, and he is hung upside down in a pit with a small incision at the back of his ear for the blood to drip slowly. After a short time in a lot of pain, he is taken back to the prison, where he meets Sawano again. When Rodrigo asks about the snoring sound he hears, Sawano says it's not snoring but the whimpering of three Christian believers who have been hung upside down for the past six hours. Sawano says he was in the same cell where Rodrigo is now and was hung for two days and there were five men who were hung in the pit, and he can still hear their voices. Sawano tells the real reason he renounced his faith was not because of the torture, but the absence of God in others' suffering. Rodrigo replies those who are in suffering will receive eternal happiness for their pain. Sawano tells him not to deceive himself, and says if Rodrigo renounces his faith now for the sake of love as Christ would do, those men hung in the pits will be freed and receive immediate care.

The interpreter comes with a fumi-e and encourages Rodrigo to step on it, as it's a mere formality. Sawano supports him by relating it to be a supreme act of love that Christ would have done for his fellow men and chants silently. Rodrigo steps on the fumi-e and a rooster crows twice (reminiscent of Saint Peter's denial). Later, a complacent Rodrigo is shown helping Nagasaki magistrates to identify forbidden Christian objects. Rodrigo is asked to comment on a cup and he says it's not a chalice because the stem would have been longer. The magistrates are impressed with it and give him Kiku as his wife; from that day forward, he is given her dead husband's name Sanemon Okada as Ferreira was given the title of Lord Sawano. A happy Kichijiro is shown sweeping the surroundings.

Cast
 David Lampson as Sebastian Rodrigo
 Don Kenny as Francisco Garrpe
 Tetsurō Tamba as Cristóvão Ferreira
 Mako Iwamatsu as Kichijiro
 Rokko Toura as The Interpreter
 Eiji Okada as Inoue
 Yoshi Katō as Old Man
 Noboru Matsuhashi as Mokichi
 Shima Iwashita as Kiku
 Yûsuke Takita as Ichizo

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1971 drama films
1970s historical drama films
Japanese historical drama films
1970s Japanese-language films
Films about Catholic priests
Films about Christianity
Films based on Japanese novels
Films based on works by Shūsaku Endō
Films directed by Masahiro Shinoda
Films set in the 1630s
Films set in the 1640s
Films set in feudal Japan
Catholic Church in Japan
Persecution of Christians
Society of Jesus
Toho films
1970s English-language films
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Getting feedback, or constructive critique, from others is an important part of growing as a writer.
When I was a teen poet, many moons ago, I could never conceive of editing a poem. Each piece of work poured out of me complete and correct and to change it was tantamount to erasing part of my soul. A little dramatic, but, I was a teenager. Even if I was offered feedback, I would use it to create another poem entirely; not a bad thing, as the beta version could often be a springboard for a better poem, or it could stand on its own over time, and I had both, side by side to consider.
As I grew older, though, I learned to loosen my attachment to my work in order to improve it. I can sometimes edit obsessively (although more so with longer works of prose) but I have often looked to other writers I trust to give me an honest assessment of my work. I have learned that raw and refined both have their value, and some works can blend the two seamlessly, once we know where the rough edges can be smoothed, and the flat bits can be given texture.
As I have said elsewhere, though, asking for and receiving feedback is a vulnerable act, especially for the novice writer, or one who lacks confidence in their efforts. This is when some writers turn to the support of a writer's group.
When you are considering bringing a piece of work to a Writer's Circle, it is important to prepare. Choosing your work carefully, and making it easy for others to offer you critique will help the process go more smoothly. For Poetas Sin Fronteras, these are our feedback guidelines. Note that we try to make it as painless as possible for our writers to get the feedback they need.
Bring a piece of writing that is rough or a work-in-progress. If you feel a piece is already finished, you may not be open to feedback, so bringing it to Writer's Circle is a waste of time.
If you can, provide a basic translation or synopsis in the other language. (We can also help with that.) It does not have to be in poetic form.
If you can, bring a copy of the poem for everyone in the group. That way, they can also offer additional suggestions, or simple mechanical/spelling or word choice feedback.
You may also send a copy to the facilitators and/or members of the group electronically.
You may read your work out loud, or have another person read it for you. You can also submit it for Writer's Circle anonymously through the facilitator/s, who will read it for you.
We all like to assume that others know how to behave, but it is important for any group to have norms, or agreed upon standards of conduct, so that problems don't arise out of misunderstandings.
Show Respect. Being in the hot seat is hard, even for experienced writers. Offhand comments, side conversations, or obvious disengagement is rude and discouraging.
Give 100%. Even if you are not giving or receiving feedback, you might learn something, or get ideas by just listening. Listening actively is also polite and shows respect for the writer. Even if you do not understand the language fully, listen for the rhythm and any vocabulary you recognize. Understanding of the content will be made clearer in discussion. Active listening and light note taking is encouraged. If you don't wish to participate, feel free to skip this portion of the meetup.
Have a Growth Mindset. We are ALL here to learn and grow. Even established writers use feedback to develop. Feedback helps us think more deeply about our writing, as well as to develop and polish our craft.
Assume the Best. We are here to help one another. We should assume that everyone is here to encourage us to become better. However, especially with differences in language, things may come out awkwardly. Do your best to clarify before becoming upset. That said, people who engage in non-constructive or hurtful behavior will be asked to leave.
In a writer's group, knowledge of how to give, receive, and ask for feedback is important. Knowing how to give feedback constructively, and with empathy for another's vulnerability is important, as is the knowledge of how to ask for the kind of critique you want, and the grace to receive it well. I have gathered and put together some guidelines for critique that might be able to help on the following pages.


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Creates multiple radial fractures extending up to 10 feet from the wellbore with the use of progressively burning Kraken propellant boosters.
Removes skin and cleans up the wellbore damaged by perforators, drilling fines, cement, mud cake, etc.
Prepares well for hydraulic fracturing by breaking down formation first with the Kraken.
Treating pressures are often dramatically reduced, flow rates improved, and the effects of tortuosity minimized.
Improves effectiveness of acidizing by fracturing first with the Kraken.
The Kraken perforating system is compatible with shaped charges that create a 0.42-inch entrance hole or larger.
Standard shot density of 4 shots per foot. Customized shot density from 1-4 shots per foot available upon request.
Standard shot phasing is 60 degrees. Shot phasing can be customized upon request.
Compatible with simultaneous or select fire systems.
Conveyance: Wireline, Pump Down, TCP, Coil Tubing, Tractor.


Maya Pindyck is a poet and visual artist. Her first collection of poetry, Friend Among Stones, won the Many Voices Project Award from New Rivers Press, and her chapbook, Locket, Master, received a Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship. She is the recipient of grants and awards from the Historic House Trust of New York City's Contemporary Art Partnerships Program, the Abortion Conversation Project, Squaw Valley Writers, and the Vermont Studio Center. Currently a doctoral candidate at Columbia University's Teachers College, she lives in Brooklyn. For more information, go to www.mayapindyck.com.


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In order to facilitate our customers further improved performance on their polymer based applications, Carbodeon is now expanding its uDiamond® product line with a new, highly zeta positive amine-terminated nanodiamond powder uDiamond® Amine P. Compared to our previous offering, this patent protected powder grade exhibits over three time higher degree of amine-termination and is essentially free of carboxylic acid functions.
Surface homogeneity and high charge ease its dispersion into parent polymer matrix but facilitate also interfacial bonding between spherical nanodiamond particles and applied polymer. Said interfacial action can be reached either through electrostatic interaction or direct covalent bonding.
This patented product is well suited as an additive in a range of polymer compounds and coatings addressing end product wear, friction and thermal properties but also a wide range of other applications. The sought improvements are often times available with 0.1 wt.% or lower loadings, making their use easy and cost efficient at the same.
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Inside the bottle: Collet's Valmur is a true Grand Cru in every sense. It is nesteled high up on the slope and facing slightly northwest. It has everything that it needs: Portlandian stone, Kimmeridgian stone, marne, clay and a cold edge from the height and aspect. The wine has lines of complexity that are adorned with minerality and nuance. It is impossible to mistake this wine as anything but a Grand Cru Chablis because of its sheer mid and back-palate weight and finish. Its dynamic mineral impressions shine with the clarity of a perfectly cut jewel. Sadly, the Collet's own only half of a hectare and the quantities are very limited.
Terroir: Valmur is a curious terroir. It runs the length of the Grand Cru slope from top to bottom but about halfway up the hill it makes for two completely different aspects for the vines; one facing southwest and one facing northwest. The Collet's parcel sits on the Northwest face, an asset regarding climate change and warmer vintages.
The soils follow suit with the rest of the Grand Crus with a dominant portion of Portlandian scree within eyesight as well as Kimmeridgian stones in the mix. The topsoils are generally quite deep on the hill, which give it the girth and richness that can be pretty easy to pick out in a blind tasting once you figure out your have Chablis in your glass. The older vines are able to reach the Kimmeridgian mother rock that sits deeply below, which could, in theory, encourage wines made from younger vines to lead with pure energy and less complexity.


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Q: How to make /fill and /setblock output not show up in the chat? When using /fill or /setblock commands to place a redstone block, the message "Successfully filled 1 block" appears in the chat. I would like to prevent this message from appearing.
I tried /gamerule commandBlockOutput false but it does not work. Is there a fix?
If it matters, I am playing on a server.

A: Wrong Gamerule
You should be running the command:
/gamerule sendCommandFeedback false

Also
You can also run:
/gamerule commandBlockOutput false

to make command block commands not appear in chat.


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Dogs have been man's best friend for 40,000 years: Humans tamed canine ancestors centuries earlier than first thought
Experts analysed the genome of an ancient and extinct Taimyr wolf
Bone fragment from husky ancestor was dated to 35,000 years ago
Animal represents the most recent common ancestor of modern canines
Could have been man's best friend between 27,000 and 40,000 years ago
By Sarah Griffiths for MailOnline and Ben Spencer for the Daily Mail
It was thought humans first tamed the ancestors of domestic dogs in the Ice Age, between 10,000 and 20,000 years ago.
But a new study has found our canine sidekicks have been our best friend for much longer.
A team of Swedish scientists discovered a divergence in the species may have occurred up to 40,000 years ago based on the genetic analysis of an ancient wolf bone.
A study claims dogs have been man's best friend since between 27,000 and 40,000 years ago. They made the claim after studying the genome of an ancient and extinct Taimyr wolf. The animal's jawbone is shown
To early humans, the first domesticated wolves were hunting companions, fighting animals and beasts of burden.
As they bred the animals, selecting those that best met their needs, the domestic and wild breeds diverged, and the animals' genetic code became less and less similar.
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Experts previously believed this divergence happened in the Mesolithic era - at a time when humans were transforming from hunters into farmers.
But the new of research suggests the first domestic dogs may have dated back more than 20,000 years earlier, during the Late Stone Age.
They say the Taimyr wolf represents the most recent common ancestor of modern wolves and dogs. The fragment of rib bone used for DNA analysis is shown
It was previously thought humans first tamed the ancestors of domestic dogs in the Ice Age, leading the dogs to become increasingly tame over time. A stock image is shown
THE DAZZLING DIVERSITY OF DOGS
Every breed of dog is a member of exactly the same species - Canis lupus familiaris, regardless of its coat, shape or size.
While some variation between breeds has occurred naturally, most obvious differences are the direct result of human breeding.
Many dogs are bred for their aesthetic qualities but in the past there were more practical motivations behind such intervention.
Lots of dogs were raised to be the best possible hunters, such as the dachshund, which was bred to get in to badgers' setts with their low, narrow entrances - hence its name, which means 'badger dog' in German.
One possible reason dogs are so easily adaptable is because changing their genetic code is relatively simple compared to many other species.
In human genes, for example, nearly every characteristic is governed by a complex network of genes, which work in combination to display certain outcomes.
But with dogs, many quite drastic changes, such as fur type and ear shape, are controlled by a single genetic variation.
In fact, a huge research project called CanMap determined that every single biological difference affecting dogs' appearance is controlled by one of around 50 gene variations.
This simplicity is partly a result of the human activity which has tinkered with canine biology for thousands of years, and has therefore picked out the characteristics most easily changed by simple genes.
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Scientists from Swedish Museum of Natural History analysed the DNA of a canine bone discovered in the Taimyr Peninsula, Siberia.
They believe the bone, which has been radiocarbon dated to 35,000 years ago, belonged to a domesticated wolf - in effect one of the early dogs.
Given the divergence between its DNA and wild wolves, they estimate its earliest domesticated ancestors could have lived 5,000 years before.
And they say the animal represents the most recent common ancestor of modern wolves and dogs and could have been man's best friend between 27,000 and 40,000 years ago.
Study author Love Dalén, whose research is published in the journal Current Biology, said: 'Dogs may have been domesticated much earlier than is generally believed.
'The only other explanation is that there was a major divergence between two wolf populations at that time, and one of these populations subsequently gave rise to all modern wolves.'
But he said this second explanation less likely, since it would require that the second wolf population subsequently became extinct in the wild.
Co-author Pontus Skoglund, of Harvard Medical School in the US, added: 'It is still possible that a population of wolves remained relatively untamed but tracked human groups to a large degree, for a long time.'
The researchers made these discoveries based on a small piece of bone picked up during an expedition to the Taimyr Peninsula.
When they radiocarbon dated the bone, they realised it was a 35,000 years old.
The DNA evidence showed that modern-day Siberian Huskies and Greenland sled dogs share an unusually large number of genes with the ancient Taimyr wolf.
Dr Skoglund said: 'The power of DNA can provide direct evidence that a Siberian Husky you see walking down the street shares ancestry with a wolf that roamed Northern Siberia 35,000 years ago.
'To put that in perspective, this wolf lived just a few thousand years after Neanderthals disappeared from Europe and modern humans started populating Europe and Asia.'
The DNA evidence, published in Current Biology, also showed that modern-day Siberian Huskies (stock image) and Greenland sled dogs share an unusually large number of genes with the ancient Taimyr wolf
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Ivanka Trump wasn't interested in maternity leave until her employees pushed for it
By A.P. Joyce
Ivanka Trump has tried to burnish her credentials with women by pushing to make paid maternity leave a priority for her father's White House.
But according to a new report, the first daughter hasn't always been the biggest supporter of paid leave.
In a new New York Times profile of the president's eldest daughter, reporters interviewed several former employees at Trump's fashion company. One former executive, Marissa Kraxberger, recalled a conversation she had with Trump when being offered a job in 2013. She was pregnant at the time and asked Trump about her company's maternity leave policy.
"Well, we don't have maternity leave policy here," Trump reportedly told Kraxberger. "I went back to work one week after having my child, so that's just not something I'm used to."
Kraxberger told the Times that she and others at the company had to push Trump to start offering paid maternity leave. Abigail Klem, the company's current president, tried to explain away the incident telling the Times that the company was still new when the issue first arose.
Donald Trump addresses Congress in Februrary. Jim Lo Scalzo/AP
During a joint address to congress earlier this year, Trump called for policies to "ensure new parents that they have paid family leave." The president was reportedly pushed by his daughter to adopt the policy.
But many have pointed out that Trump's maternity leave plan discriminates against low-income parents and unmarried mothers. Though the details of the plan are unclear, it appears that the latest iteration of the policy articulated by the White House would exclude single mothers from eligibility and offer only partial pay, making it harder for low-income Americans to make use of the plan.
While the eldest Trump daughter is supposedly the chief advocate for this policy within the White House, she may have to set those duties aside temporarily. On Tuesday she released her new book, aptly titled Women who Work, and while she can't officially promote it for ethics reasons, she's certainly making herself more available to the press.


01 Night accommodation in Lachen.
After breakfast start for an excursion Tsomgo Lake (12,400 ft.) & Baba Mandir (13,200 ft.) which is 55 kms one way from Gangtok city. Overnight stay at Gangtok. (In case of Land slide or any other reason Tsomgo Lake is closed we will provided alternate sightseeing).


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Q: Windows Indexing Service Query Returns 0 Results On Windows Server 2003, I have an Ektron installation (asp.net CMS) that utilizes Windows Indexing service for its searches. Normally this works great, but for some reason the Windows Indexing Service is returning 0 results for a query where I KNOW there should be results for. I am doing the query through the Computer Management tool in the Indexing Service area.
Does anyone know what the first steps are for troubleshooting an issue like this? THere are plenty of files in this directory but it's not returning any results.

A: I've seen lots of times when the index service is up and running, but not actually doing anything.  A restart of the indexing service usually gets it going again.

A: Sorry if this doesn't cover it, but I am just going from the information you have given.
Have you checked the properties of the indexing object you are searching on to make sure the folder with the content in it, is in the indexing objects database / scope?
Also - the stupid answer - is indexing service running?


PORT ELIZABETH, March 7 – Nelson Mandela University (NMU) students blocked the entrances at the South and North Campus on Thursday, the second day of a protest mainly over funding and registration.
The students are angry that some of them have been barred from registering over non-payment of fees, even though the government has pledged free tertiary education for learners from poor households.
The NMU said lectures on Thursday were postponed until further notice, urging students and staff to continue with their work off campus.
University spokesperson Zandile Mbabela said the institution would enforce an existing interdict against protesting students disrupting activities on campus.
Mbabela said physical disruptions would not be tolerated and NMU had a duty to protect the rights of staff, students and all other stakeholders.
"The interdict is aimed at protecting the rights of all university stakeholders – those who wish to access the university to work and pursue their studies as well as those wishing to exercise their right to protest in accordance with the conditions stipulated," she said.
Mbabela said a working group had been established last year comprising university management and student leaders with the aim of pre-empting perennial start-of-the-year challenges and putting measures in place to mitigate them as far as possible.
She said regular meetings of the working group had been taking place, with the most recent held on Tuesday.
"No issues were raised at this meeting that students believed were not being dealt with, and there were no issues raised that could have resulted in an interruption of university operations and academic activities," said Mbabela, adding that it was therefore surprising that students would block campus entrances.


After giving West an opportunity to promote his re-election platform, Luntz turned to an African American woman on his panel. She said West has sounded "divisive" and "closed minded." She identified herself as a conservative Democrat.
Luntz did not reveal the make up this panel (which seemed to change for each candidate) but it clearly skewed conservative.
Most of the other (mostly white and probably Republican) panelists couldn't say enough good things about West. "Every time I see you on television, you're just so honest and up front and I really respect that," one said. There didn't seem to be a liberal in the bunch.
But the African American woman stuck to her guns. She noted that West's comments had been directed to a different "demographic" and that he had characterized black Democrats as "sheep… blinded by one party." She was obviously referring to some previous comments by West depicting black Democrats as slaves on a plantation.
Luntz also made an obvious attempt to discredit her as some kind of liberal ideologue by demanding to know which Republican presidential candidate she had ever voted for, after she said she had voted for Democrats and Republicans. I've got to give this lady props for holding her ground. She said she had never voted for a Republican presidential candidate but other Republican candidates. It was Luntz who had taken her statement and distorted it by suggestion.
As a gay man, how does Luntz justify his loyalty to the republic party?
Another farcical focus group. The results are always predictable and predetermined. About a real as professional wrestling.
Please don't be overly inflammatory.
Luntz is paid by Nixon-trainee Roger Ailes, and West is nothing but a house slave to Master Ailes.
The only thing that is divisive is the Republican Party. They are fractured beyond repair.


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Q: $AB_1$, $AB_2$, $AB_3$ are the altitude, angle bisector, median from vertex $A$ of $\triangle ABC$; arrange lengths $BB_i$ in ascending order
Consider an acute angled triangle $\triangle ABC$ such that $AB\lt AC$.

If from $A$ altitude $AB_1$ is drawn, internal angle bisector $AB_2$ is drawn, and median $AB_3$ is drawn.
Arrange the lengths $BB_1$, $BB_2$ and $BB_3$ in ascending order.

My try: I started with an Isosceles Triangle $\triangle ABD$ with $AB=AD$.

Now, for $\triangle ABD$, $AB_1$ is altitude, angle bisector, and median.
In figure $2$
Let $\angle BAB_1=\theta=\angle B_1AD$
let $\angle DAC=2 \beta$
So $\angle BAC=2(\theta+\beta)$
If we construct $AB_2$ asinternal angle bisector of $\angle BAC$, Then each half angle is :
$$\angle BAB_2=B_2AC=\theta+\beta \gt \theta$$
$\implies$
$$\angle BAB_2 \gt \angle BAB_1$$
hence the point $B_2$ should be to right side of the point $B_1$
Hence $$BB_1 \lt BB_2$$
But can I have a clue to compare $BB_2$ and $BB_3$?

A: $BB_2:B_2C = AB:AC < 1$ so $BB_2 < BC/2 = BB_3$.

A: We can perceive $ABC$ as a half of a parallelogram $ABDC$ with diagonals $AC, BD.$
Consider a rhombus $ABD'C'$ where $C'\in BC$ and $AD',BC'$ are diagonals. Denote $B_1', B_2', B_3'$ the points considered in the question and related to this rhombus.
Diagonals in a rhombus are perpendicular, are angle bisectors of the rhombus, and meet in their common midpoint (as it is for arbitrary parallelogram). Hence the points $B_1', B_2', B_3'$ coincide.

Move $C'$ along $BC$ towards $C$  keeping a parallelogram with the sides $AB\;\text{and}\; AC.$  Clearly, $B_1'$ will not move while $B_2'$ and $B_3'$ do.
Return to the notation $C,B_1,B_2,B_3.$
The angle $\angle AB_3C$ becomes obtuse, while $\angle BB_3C$ is acute. Consequently, $\angle BAB_3 < \angle B_3AC.$ Since $AB_2$ is the angle bisector, $B_2$ lies on $BB_3.$