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Lowell Narcisse announces transfer to Nicholls
by: Richie Mills
UTSA quarterback Lowell Narcisse runs to the line of scrimmage during an NCAA football game against Army on Saturday, Oct. 17, 2020, in San Antonio, Texas. (AP Photo/Darren Abate)
THIBODAUX, La. — The Nicholls Colonels football program received big news Friday with former St. James QB Nowell Narcisse announcing that he will be transferring there.
The announcement was made on Twitter:
i told em it was my turn, i'm guessing that the time's here! pic.twitter.com/AAno0wzv5y
— Lowell Narcisse Jr. (@L_Narcisse2) January 7, 2022
Narcisse spent the last two years at the University of Texas-San Antonio after signing with LSU out of high school as a four-star quarterback in 2016.
He played in 11 games as a sophomore and started 7 for the UTSA Roadrunners in 2019.
In 2020 he was sidelined with a season-ending injury, only appearing in 4 games.
He spent the 2021 season rehabbing from his injury.
While at UTSA, Narcisse threw for over 1,600 yards and 11 touchdowns while rushing for 600 and 4 more touchdowns.
The news comes the same day reports surface that Lindsey Scott Jr. has entered his name into the transfer portal.
Nicholls QB Lindsey Scott, who played at LSU and Missouri before transferring to Nicholls, has entered the transfer portal, @on3sports has learned.
Threw for 2,083 yards and 16 TDs at Nicholls this season. Also ran for 990 yards and nine TDs.https://t.co/OrLVImTgI6
— Matt Zenitz (@mzenitz) January 7, 2022
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Q: Mathematica - DSolve spits out #1 in output I'm not quite certain how to go about interpreting this.
I'm solving a fairly large system of differential equations, DSolve sometimes spits out a list of replacement rules that include terms that have a #1 . I know that #1 is a placeholder for an argument, but I just have no clue where it comes from.
If I have a system of equations similar to
eqs = {
x1'[t] = a1*x1[t] + b1*y1[t]
x2'[t] = a2*x2[t] + b2*y2[t]
...
y1'[t] = c1*y1[t] + d1*x1[t]
y2'[t] = c2*y2[t] + d2*x2[t]}

DSolve[eqs,vars,t] spits out something like
x1 -> e^(-ta1)
x2 -> e^(-t)RootSum[a1a2+a3b4#1 + a3a1b2#1]
...

Obviously a little more complicated but you get the point.
Nothing in the documentation hints as to why this is occurring, And it only happens under certain permuations of parameters (e.g. when I play around with parameters in the original system it either works or doesn't)

A: This RootSum may be generated by Integrate, which is used by DSolve internally, like so:
In[511]:= Integrate[1/(1 + x + x^2 + x^3 + x^4), x]

Out[511]= RootSum[1 + #1 + #1^2 + #1^3 + #1^4 &,
 Log[x - #1]/(1 + 2 #1 + 3 #1^2 + 4 #1^3) &]

It represents a symbolic expression that is the Sum[ Log[x-t]/(1+2*t+3 t^2+4 t^3), {t, {"roots of 1+t+t^2+t^3+t^4"}] (caution, invalid syntax intentional). You can recover the expected normal form using Normal:
In[512]:= Normal[%]

Out[512]=
Log[(-1)^(1/5) + x]/(1 - 2 (-1)^(1/5) + 3 (-1)^(2/5) - 4 (-1)^(3/5)) +
  Log[-(-1)^(2/5) + x]/(
 1 - 4 (-1)^(1/5) + 2 (-1)^(2/5) + 3 (-1)^(4/5)) +
 Log[(-1)^(3/5) + x]/(
 1 - 3 (-1)^(1/5) - 2 (-1)^(3/5) + 4 (-1)^(4/5)) +
 Log[-(-1)^(4/5) + x]/(1 + 4 (-1)^(2/5) - 3 (-1)^(3/5) + 2 (-1)^(4/5))

Or using the Sum directly:
In[513]:= Sum[
 Log[x - t]/(1 + 2*t + 3 t^2 + 4 t^3), {t,
  t /. {ToRules[Roots[1 + t + t^2 + t^3 + t^4 == 0, t]]}}]

Out[513]=
Log[(-1)^(1/5) + x]/(1 - 2 (-1)^(1/5) + 3 (-1)^(2/5) - 4 (-1)^(3/5)) +
  Log[-(-1)^(2/5) + x]/(
 1 - 4 (-1)^(1/5) + 2 (-1)^(2/5) + 3 (-1)^(4/5)) +
 Log[(-1)^(3/5) + x]/(
 1 - 3 (-1)^(1/5) - 2 (-1)^(3/5) + 4 (-1)^(4/5)) +
 Log[-(-1)^(4/5) + x]/(1 + 4 (-1)^(2/5) - 3 (-1)^(3/5) + 2 (-1)^(4/5))

In[514]:= % - %% // FullSimplify

Out[514]= 0

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FAMILY LAW /
Legal Consequences of Marriage: Conjugal Rights and Remedies
06 Dec, 2015 FAMILY LAW 0
Other Legal Consequences of Marriage: Conjugal Rights and Remedies
In 1857, as we shall see, the Matrimonial Causes Act established a procedure whereby the Court for Divorce and Matrimonial Causes could grant divorce decrees, thereby terminating the parties' marital status, and permitting them to remarry. Divorce came to dominate the Court's caseload;1 but the Court was concerned not only with divorce but also with the other 'matrimonial causes' (nullity of marriage, restitution of conjugal rights, judicial separation, and jactitation of marriage) previously dealt with in the Ecclesiastical Courts.2 In addition, the 1857 Act gave the Court for Divorce and Matrimonial Causes3 power to award a husband damages against the man with whom his wife had committed adultery; and statute4 gave the Court power to make orders for the protection of the wife's property.
Notwithstanding the dominance of divorce, these other 'matrimonial causes' should not be overlooked. The law of nullity has been dealt with elsewhere in this book.5 Petitions for jactitation of marriage—seeking a decree of perpetual silence against a person falsely boasting that he or she is married to the petitioner—became so rare that no more than a footnote explanation is (p.143) required.6 But the remedies of restitution, separation, and damages for adultery have considerable conceptual importance: they all reflect the fact that in 1857 marriage was still seen as a legal relationship which gave rise to legally enforceable rights and duties. In the latter part of the twentieth century this approach increasingly seemed outdated; and the legislative response betokens a changed view of the relationship between the family and the law. Less summary treatment of restitution, separation and damages for adultery therefore seems appropriate.
Enforcing the obligation to live together: restitution of conjugal rights
The Ecclesiastical Courts had been concerned to enforce the obligations of matrimony, which included the duty of husband and wife to 'live together after God's ordinance'.7 This they did by making decrees directing the husband8 to take his wife home 'and receive her as his wife'.9 Originally the pastoral role of the church was emphasised: excommunication was the ultimate sanction for failure to comply with such an order. But in 1813 the Ecclesiastical Courts Act substituted committal to prison for excommunication as the ultimate sanction, and occasionally men and women were imprisoned for disobedience to such an order.10 In 1857 the newly established Court for Divorce and Matrimonial Causes11 inherited this jurisdiction from the Ecclesiastical Court;12 and each (p.144) year, the Divorce Court made a handful of decrees.13 It seems reasonable to suppose that few petitioners believed they could in this way actually compel an errant spouse to return and that they were motivated more by the prospect of the Court exercising its power14 to make 'such order for the payment by the husband of alimony to the wife' as it thought just.15 But in 1882 Mrs Georgina Weldon16 earned her place in the history of law reform:
Mrs Weldon, acting in person, petitioned for Restitution of Conjugal Rights. Her husband at first resisted her claim on the ground that she had committed adultery; but this defence was eventually dropped. The court accordingly granted Mrs Weldon the decree to which she was entitled.17 The husband—a figure of some prominence in London society18—accepted his obligation to support her: he made monthly payments of £500 (perhaps £30,000 in year 2000 values), rented Acton House in Acton Middlesex (at the time a no doubt agreeable West London village) for her to live in, and engaged two servants to attend on her. But, not unreasonably19 believing that 'living together again could only entail certain misery on both of us', he rejected her entreaties20 that they should (p.145) once again live together under the same roof. Mrs Weldon then applied to the court for a writ of attachment committing the husband to prison for disobedience to the court order. The President of the Probate Divorce and Admiralty Division of the High Court21 accepted her argument that a man was legally bound to live with his wife and that his marital obligations were not satisfied by providing a house, servants and financial support for her. The President held that he had no alternative but to issue the writ for the husband's imprisonment although he made it clear that he felt such a sanction inappropriate.22
The Government responds: imprisonment not to be used to enforce obligation to live together
The government reacted swiftly.23 The Matrimonial Causes Act 1884 was passed through both Houses of Parliament without debate or even an explanatory Government statement and received the Royal Assent on 14 August 1884. The Act abolished the sanction of imprisonment for failure to comply with a restitution decree, and substituted a power for the court to make financial orders.24 Mr Weldon was thus spared the necessity of leaving the country to save himself from imprisonment;25 but for the history of the divorce law the most important feature of the Act was that it gave the wife the right immediately to petition for divorce if her husband had not only committed adultery but also failed to comply with a restitution decree.26 In this way the 'Weldon Relief Act' (as it was apparently called)27 enabled women to circumvent the policy of the Matrimonial Causes Act 1857 Act28 and get a speedy divorce against husbands who had done no more than set up house with another woman.
(p.146) In fact, it seems to have taken a surprisingly long time29 for solicitors30 to appreciate this, but by 1912 the Gorrell Royal Commission acknowledged that the device of obtaining a Restitution decree had become 'an understood means of enabling a woman to obtain a divorce on the grounds of her husband's adultery alone', and that the decree had become in those circumstances 'something of a sham'.31
Enforcing a restitution decree by self-help: the courts respond
The 1884 Act thus gave effect to the policy that it was oppressive and unnecessary32 to imprison those who preferred to live apart from their spouses. But the extent to which the courts were prepared to recognise the existence of legally enforceable 'rights' in the family context remained unclear. Only a few years later, a sensational case illustrated the difficulty:
In R v. Jackson33 a husband applied for and obtained a decree for restitution against his newly married wife, and set about enforcing it. Assisted by two young men (one a solicitor's articled clerk) he seized her as she was leaving church in the Lancashire town of Clitheroe and forced her into a carriage, claiming to have used no more force than was absolutely necessary to separate her from the sister he believed to be responsible for what had happened. Mrs Jackson was kept in the husband's house in Blackburn in charge of her sister and a nurse and she was visited by a doctor. The husband claimed that he showed her every kindness and consideration and that she had the free run of the house, (p.147) 'doing just as she pleased, save leaving the house'; and that he 'had offered several times to take her for a drive, but she had declined to go'. The wife's relatives instituted habeas corpus proceedings; and the Court of Appeal34 rejected the husband's argument that a husband had the right to enforce the 'general dominion' he had over his wife35 by imprisoning her if she refused him the conjugal rights to which a court had declared him entitled. Lord Esher MR36 regarded the 1884 Act as the 'strongest possible evidence to shew that the legislature had no idea that a power would remain in the husband to imprison the wife for himself, not least because to accept this view would result in his being allowed to act37 as party judge and executioner.38
The Jackson decision was at the time unpopular in some quarters,39 and it was certainly widely misunderstood.40 But it is a landmark in family law: the decision recognises that the 'rights' which exist between husband and wife are of a different order than (say) the rights of the parties to a commercial contract. But the question of 'how different' remained difficult.
The lingering death of Restitution of Conjugal Rights
The Matrimonial Causes Act 1923 enabled a wife to divorce her husband on the ground of his adultery; and it was no longer necessary for a wife to seek a decree of restitution (no doubt devoutly hoping that it would not be obeyed)41 to free herself of her marriage to an adulterous husband. Until 1950, a wife might be advised to seek a restitution decree because the court would then be able to (p.148) make a maintenance order in her favour;42but the Matrimonial Causes Act 195043 gave her the right to seek a maintenance order simply on the ground of the husband's wilful neglect to provide reasonable maintenance for her or the children. After that, it was not easy to see what useful purpose a restitution decree could serve;44 and the 1956 Morton Report accepted that there were no steps which the court could take 'to enforce its order that conjugal rights be rendered' and accepted that the order was in fact rarely obeyed.45 But the conservatively minded Commission declined to recommend abolition.46 Unhappily, case law was to show that, even in the second half of the twentieth century, by no means everyone appreciated the limited effect of the decree:47
In Nanda v. Nanda,48 a couple married in their native India and lived together there for a few weeks before the husband left to pursue his profession as a dental surgeon in England. Shortly after arriving here he began living with another woman and had children by her. Mrs Nanda then came to England, obtained a decree of restitution of conjugal rights and sought to enforce it by her own means, which included turning up at the husband's home and surgery, insulting his partner, and eventually moving into the house. It was held that the husband was entitled to an order restraining his wife from even visiting the house. History does not record Mrs Nanda's reaction to this refusal to give effect to what she could reasonably (but erroneously) regard as her legal rights. As the Judge remarked, anyone might misunderstand the form and effect of a decree of restitution of conjugal rights and it was all the more likely that a woman brought up in India would have been misled.
This case (like R v. Jackson) provides a convincing demonstration of the way in which the retention of legal forms dating from an earlier age may be mis-understood (p.149) by those not professionally trained in the law's arcane mysteries. Only in 1970 was the right to seek a decree for restitution of conjugal rights abolished49 after a Law Commission report50 had convincingly demonstrated that retention would serve no useful purpose.
The decree of judicial separation: court-ordered separation?
The Matrimonial Causes Act 1857 gave the Court power to grant decrees of judicial separation. But this was more a change of vocabulary, done 'for the sake of simplicity, and to mark it the more clearly from proper divorce',51 than substance. The Act provided that the grounds on which the decree could be granted were to be the same as those in the Ecclesiastical Courts for a decree of divorce a mensa et thoro,52 and that a judicial separation should have 'the same force and the same consequence as a divorce a mensa et thoro'.53 Not until 1937 did legislation spell out in English that the effect of a decree was to make it 'no longer obligatory for the petitioner to cohabit with the respondent.54 Only in 196955 was the reference to the grounds for making a decree of divorce a mensa et thoro before 1857 finally removed from the legislation. In some respects, however, the 1857 Act did improve the position of the wife who obtained a decree: the Court could (unlike the Ecclesiastical Court)56 make orders for the custody, maintenance and education of the children;57 the Court had more extensive powers in relation to the award of alimony58 than had the Ecclesiastical Court, whilst the Act59 gave the judicially separated wife the legal status of a feme sole in respect of after acquired property and and also gave her capacity to sue in contract and tort.60
A judicial separation was in some ways the counterpart of the decree for restitution of conjugal rights, and the name was equally misleading. For a judicial (p.150) separation decree did not order the parties to separate; it merely terminated the legal duty to live together and in effect put a stamp of legal approval on the ending of any factual relationship between husband and wife.
Cruelty was long the ground most often relied on by petitioners,61 but the Ecclesiastical Courts had been reluctant to countenance separation, and since the end of the eighteenth century,62 had consistently held that the courts should interpret cruelty narrowly and that the duty of the court was to apply an 'extremely strict' criterion.63 Marriage was a lifelong obligation, for better or worse; and only behaviour which showed 'an absolute impossibility that the duties of the married life could be discharged' was to be sufficient ground for giving the parties the legal right to live separate and apart:
'Mere austerity of temper, petulance of manners, rudeness of language, a want of civil accommodation, even occasional sallies of passion, if they do not threaten bodily harm, do not amount to legal cruelty: they are high moral offences in the marriage-state undoubtedly … but still they are not that cruelty against which the law can relieve. Under such misconduct … the suffering party must bear in some degree the consequences of an injudicious connection; must subdue by decent resistance or by prudent conciliation.'64
The effect of this policy can be illustrated by decided cases which give some indication of what marriage meant in Victorian England:
In Smallwood v. Smallwood65 the husband, suspecting his wife had committed adultery, seized her by the throat, shook her and threw her to the ground. But no marks were left on her body. The Court rejected her petition: one violent act committed under excitement did not justify a finding that she could not safely live with her husband.
However, the test produced rather different results where the husband was the victim of an assault by his wife:
In Forth v. Forth66 the wife threw a pie and a bowl of milk at the husband, scratched his face, and constantly abused him and did things she knew would (p.151) annoy him. The Court held he was entitled to a decree because he might, in defending himself, be tempted to retaliate. A man had to put up with the illhumour of the woman he had married, but the moment she stepped beyond that mark and lifted her hand to her husband and subjected him to violence the court would accept that cohabitation was impossible.
In 1869, however, the Court did accept that wife abuse could be moral as well as physical:
In Kelly v. Kelly67 the husband, a clergyman, became convinced that his wife was plotting and conspiring against him. He refused to sit next to her at meals, insisted on occupying a separate bedroom, and forbade her to visit the poor. The wife became ill, losing her sense of taste and smell. Her doctor advised her to leave home to prevent a further deterioration in her health. The court held that the husband's abuse had broken her health and that the law could properly allow her to live apart from him. The Full Court rejected the husband's appeal against the trial judge's decision to grant Mrs Kelly a decree of Judicial Separation.
And in the course of the twentieth century there developed a much less demanding approach to what spouses could be expected to tolerate.68
However, the main significance of the history of judicial separation is that it constitutes the counterpart of the history of divorce. Critics claimed that a judicial separation was 'in fact, a permanent divorce, though an imperfect one';69 and in 1912 the Royal Commission on Divorce and Matrimonial Causes chaired by Lord Gorell70 reported that judicial separation
'places the parties in a position in which, while remained married, they are subjected to enforced celibacy. Such separation … [is] productive of immorality, and misery to the parties, both the innocent and the guilty, and detrimental to the interests of the children'.71
Those who took this view naturally favoured extending the grounds for divorce so as to allow the parties to remarry. At the very least, they favoured restricting the courts' power to grant judicial separation in cases in which it was clear that (p.152) the marriage had irretrievably broken down. Thus, the Gorell Report72favoured giving the court power, on application by the respondent, to grant a divorce instead of a judicial separation; but 40 years later the Morton Report regarded the fact that this would mean granting divorces against an applicant who had committed no recognised matrimonial offence as a conclusive objection to the proposal.73 The Morton Report recognised that judicial separation could impose 'undue hardship'74 but nevertheless believed it 'necessary' to retain it75
'In order to provide relief, where sufficient and appropriate grounds exist, for those who have religious or conscientious objections to divorce. We also consider it desirable that a remedy should be available for an injured spouse which, at the same time, keeps open the door for the possibility of subsequent reconciliation'.
Only the enactment of the Divorce Reform Act 1969 resolved the conflict of values:76 thereafter either party to a marriage, whether 'guilty' or 'innocent', could be confident that sooner or later he would be able successfully to petition for divorce; and judicial separation was retained primarily as a remedy in cases in which neither spouse wanted to divorce but did wish to have the legal effects of separation (for example, in relation to the upbringing of children and financial matters) formalised and in those few cases where divorce was not immediately available.77
Two further points need to be made. First, as we have seen, a judicial separation decree is an order that the petitioner and respondent be no longer obliged to cohabit, rather than an order that the respondent cease to live with the petitioner.78 It followed that the courts would not necessarily exclude the respondent from the matrimonial home; and it was not until the last quarter of the twentieth century that the legal system, against the background of increasing concern about the extent of domestic violence, finally recognised that effective remedies had to be found in legislation specifically directed at molestation and harassment79 rather than in any increased recourse to judicial separation (p.153) and that appropriate police and social work provision was necessary if these remedies were to be effective.
For many years only a small number of separation decrees were made: at the beginning of World War II there were under 30 a year, and thereafter for many years the number was well below a hundred each year. But there was a dramatic increase in the late 1970s.80 It is not easy to explain this, but it seems that the desire to obtain orders from the divorce court on financial matters and child upbringing was a powerful influence.81
Compensation for interference with marital relationships: damages for adultery
At common law, a cuckolded husband was entitled to claim damages in an action for so-called criminal conversation. By 1857 this form of action had become discredited.82 But there remained a feeling that sanctions of some kind should be imposed upon adulterers;83 and the Government accepted amendments84 to its Divorce Bill. The Matrimonial Causes Act 1857 abolished the (p.154) right to sue for criminal conversation;85 and provided86 instead that a husband could claim a sum of money from any person who had committed adultery with his wife and that such claims were to be heard87 and tried on the same principles that had governed criminal conversation actions in the common law courts.88 The Act also gave the court89 specific power to order a guilty co-respondent90 to pay the whole or any part of the costs91 of the proceedings.
(p.155)
Ground for Divorce under the Matrimonial Causes Act 1937
the Magistrates' Courts and the State
Breakdown as the Ground for Divorce: The Divorce Reform Act 1969
Couples: The Legal Consequences of the Ending of the Relationship
Campaign for Reform of the Victorian Divorce Law
Marriage by Judicial Divorce under the Matrimonial Causes Act 1857
Family and the Law: Reform of the English Family Justice System Towards the End of the Twentieth Century
and Children: Legal Authority in the Family 1
Legal Consequences of Marriage: Property Regimes
State, Parent and Child: (3) Child Care Legislation at a Time of Transition, 1969–1989
Breakdown: The Financial Consequences
State, Parent and Child: (1) Before the Welfare State
Ending of Relationships by Death: The Financial Consequences
Legal Status: Legitimate or Illegitimate?
Tags: Stephen Cretney-Family Law in the Twentieth Century_ A History-Oxford University Press (2003)

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Syed Mushtaq Ali T20 Trophy 2021: Analysis
Latest News December 22, 2020 by admin
The pandemic has wrought its fair share of damage on the international cricket arena. It would therefore be quite the deal if the domestic tournaments in the country would be held without being delayed. As far as the male domestic tournaments go, the Ranji Trophy and the Syed Mushtaq Ali t20 trophy are the only two tournaments which for the time being shall be held in the country.
The BCCI has released the tentative schedule for Syed Mushtaq Ali t20 to be held from January 10th to January 31st. Therefore, across seven secure venues in bio-secure bubbles created specifically for the purpose. As per the mail from Jay Shah, secretary of BCCI, which has been sent to all the teams the tournament shall kickstart the domestic season.
However, there is still no concise consensus on when the Ranji Trophy shall be held. Since the tournament is a T20 tournament, it would be a big deal for young players to make an impression for the sponsors before this year's IPL.
Structure Of T20 Tournament
As mentioned above, the tournament shall be held in six venues namely—Kolkata, Indore, Ahmedabad, Vadodara, Chennai, Mumbai and Bengaluru. There shall be periodic assessment of the players and there shall be multiple COVID tests conducted before each round starts.
The knock-out matches including the quarterfinals shall be held at Ahmedabad where all the teams would have to undergo a fresh round of tests before they are sent to play. Therefore, the grouping of the teams and their venues have been synchronised to ensure minimum travel thereby reducing the chances of infection.
Syed Mushtaq Ali T20 Teams
The teams participating in the Syed Mushtaq Ali T20 tournament have been grouped into six categories. These are as follows:
(Location: Bengaluru ) Elite A: Karnataka, Punjab, Jammu and Kashmir, Tripura and Railways
Elite B (Location: Kolkata): Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Odisha, Assam, Jharkhand and Hyderabad
(Location: Vadodara) Elite C: Maharashtra, Himachal Pradesh, Gujarat, Chattisgarh, Baroda, and Uttarakhand
Elite D (Location: Goa): Saurashtra, Rajasthan, Services, Vidarbha, Goa and Madhya Pradesh
(Location: Mumbai) Elite E: Delhi, Haryana, Mumbai, Andhra Pradesh, Puducherry, and Kerala
Plate (Location: Chennai): Meghalaya, Nagaland, Mizoram, Chandigarh, Bihar, Sikkim, Manipur and Arunachal Pradesh
Therefore, As per the structure, the top two teams from each of these groups shall qualify for the knockouts. Hence they shall be pitted against each other for the Syed Mushtaq Ali T20 title. As things stand, Karnataka is going to go into the tournament as the defending champions. They have won the previous edition of the tournament led by Manish Pandey. The team would be looking to defend their title against the onslaught of teams going into the tournament.
The reason for the Syed Mushtaq Ali T20 Trophy being the first domestic tournament for the 2020-2021 season can easily be realised in the fact that the IPL which would be scheduled to kick off a couple of months later.
With this season being touted as one of the more major ones with approximately 9 or 10 teams competing for the title. It is of no surprise that the domestic T20 tournament is being held first. Given the overwhelming popularity that the IPL enjoys. It could be a win-win circumstance for both the sponsors and the domestic players.
Sponsors could identify new players and place bids for them. Also, the domestic players who are largely unrecognized could get a platform for fame, money, and glory. Hence, the downside could be the potential truncation of other domestic tournaments as there would be only a place for one more domestic tournament on the cards and there would be quite a few tournaments to conduct.
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package com.wrmsr.wava.core.unit;

import com.google.common.collect.ImmutableMap;
import com.google.common.collect.ImmutableSet;
import com.google.common.collect.Sets;
import com.wrmsr.wava.core.type.Name;
import com.wrmsr.wava.core.type.Signature;

import javax.annotation.concurrent.Immutable;

import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.Objects;
import java.util.Set;

import static com.google.common.base.Preconditions.checkArgument;
import static com.wrmsr.wava.util.collect.MoreCollectors.toImmutableMap;
import static java.util.Objects.requireNonNull;
import static java.util.function.Function.identity;

@Immutable
public final class Module
{
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    private final Memory memory;
    private final Table table;
    private final Set<Signature> declaredSignatures;
    private final Map<Name, Import> imports;
    private final Map<Name, Export> exports;
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    public Module(
            Name name,
            Memory memory,
            Table table,
            Set<Signature> declaredSignatures,
            Map<Name, Import> imports,
            Map<Name, Export> exports,
            Map<Name, Function> functions)
    {
        this.name = requireNonNull(name);
        this.memory = requireNonNull(memory);
        this.table = table;
        this.declaredSignatures = ImmutableSet.copyOf(declaredSignatures);
        this.imports = ImmutableMap.copyOf(imports);
        this.exports = ImmutableMap.copyOf(exports);
        this.functions = ImmutableMap.copyOf(functions);
        checkArgument(Sets.intersection(imports.keySet(), functions.keySet()).isEmpty());
        checkArgument(imports.entrySet().stream().allMatch(e -> e.getKey().equals(e.getValue().getName())));
        checkArgument(exports.entrySet().stream().allMatch(e -> e.getKey().equals(e.getValue().getName())));
        checkArgument(functions.entrySet().stream().allMatch(e -> e.getKey().equals(e.getValue().getName())));
    }

    public Module(
            Name name,
            Memory memory,
            Table table,
            List<Signature> declaredSignatures,
            List<Import> imports,
            List<Export> exports,
            List<Function> functions)
    {
        this(
                name,
                memory,
                table,
                ImmutableSet.copyOf(declaredSignatures),
                imports.stream().collect(toImmutableMap(Import::getName, identity())),
                exports.stream().collect(toImmutableMap(Export::getName, identity())),
                functions.stream().collect(toImmutableMap(Function::getName, identity())));
    }

    @Override
    public boolean equals(Object o)
    {
        if (this == o) {
            return true;
        }
        if (o == null || getClass() != o.getClass()) {
            return false;
        }
        Module module = (Module) o;
        return Objects.equals(name, module.name) &&
                Objects.equals(memory, module.memory) &&
                Objects.equals(table, module.table) &&
                Objects.equals(declaredSignatures, module.declaredSignatures) &&
                Objects.equals(imports, module.imports) &&
                Objects.equals(exports, module.exports) &&
                Objects.equals(functions, module.functions);
    }

    @Override
    public int hashCode()
    {
        return Objects.hash(name, memory, table, declaredSignatures, imports, exports, functions);
    }

    public Name getName()
    {
        return name;
    }

    public Memory getMemory()
    {
        return memory;
    }

    public Set<Signature> getDeclaredSignatures()
    {
        return declaredSignatures;
    }

    public Map<Name, Import> getImports()
    {
        return imports;
    }

    public Map<Name, Export> getExports()
    {
        return exports;
    }

    public Map<Name, Function> getFunctions()
    {
        return functions;
    }

    public Table getTable()
    {
        return table;
    }

    public Map<Name, Signature> getTargetSignatures()
    {
        ImmutableMap.Builder<Name, Signature> builder = ImmutableMap.builder();
        for (Import i : imports.values()) {
            builder.put(i.getName(), i.getSignature());
        }
        for (Function f : functions.values()) {
            builder.put(f.getName(), f.getSignature());
        }
        return builder.build();
    }
}

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L'héliport d'Aappilattoq  est un héliport reliant le village d'Aappilattoq, dans la municipalité de Qaasuitsup dans le nord-ouest du Groenland. Il est desservi par la compagnie Air Greenland.

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Aappilattoq

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While exploring yesterday, I discovered a blog entry about what is generally termed eSafety, a subject I've been meaning to blog about. The editorial slant was not victim-oriented, but rather led with the potentially undesirable consequences of using the Internet in terms of privacy. In particular, it referenced MMS sexting by minors and the potential longevity of the personal consequences. The phrase that caught my attention was "permanent and public". That is, everything and anything that one puts out into the aether (mobile or Net) may be, or become, permanent and public. For me, the key challenge is – if you'll excuse the semantics – not so much eSafety as eSense; that is, an understanding of how to use technology in such a way as to avoid undesirable consequences, most of which have little to do with safety in the traditionally understood sense of the word.This is a subject that interests me because I believe that technology has a central role to play in facilitating learning and that means introducing young people to technology in an authentic but responsible manner. For simplicity, we can talk about three broad stages: primary (to age 11), secondary (11 to 18) and tertiary (18+). These stages broadly align with the same categories in the UK school system. I think there's justifiable clarity about a zero tolerance approach to inappropriate content and contact in the primary stage. Equally, I think it's clear that individuals over the age of eighteen take full responsibility for their actions.
In my opinion, full regulation during this transitional period is unjustifiable, both in a purist educational sense, and in terms of schools' more general social responsibilities. With regard to the former, schools must prepare young people for a digital world through engagement with the full Internet experience and all that it brings. This means a 21st Century digital curriculum that embraces technology and the experiences it facilitates across all subjects and stages. With regard to the latter, young people must be allowed to learn how to self-regulate their behaviour in the digital world as they would in any other environment.
The reason for the obsessive semantics is that this differentiation demands a strategic differentiation rather than a homogeneous approach. The protocol that describes a school's response to eLegality issues such as data protection, freedom of speech, privacy, plagiarism and copyright is unambiguous. A breach of these protocols by any member of a school, staff and students alike, would carry appropriate consequences.
The eSafety protocol would reflect the more generally understood meaning of the word as intended by such organisations as the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre. It is focused on preventing young people from placing themselves in potentially harmful situations or indeed causing harm to others through their actions, for example by cyber-bullying. The key word in this context is "harm". There is a process of education involved in recognising potentially harmful situations but it is quite clear-cut and well suited to being addressed through a protocol or code and delivered as a discrete eSafety module.
This leaves eSense as the purer educational strand of the three. I define eSense as learning how to make good judgements about the use of technology, fully cognisant of the consequences of one's actions. In other words, the pursuit of self-regulation. It's a set of skills that takes time to learn and although may be summarised in a protocol, is actually the substance of a 21st Century digital curriculum that is threaded through all subjects and stages. It also embraces a more values-oriented element in terms of acceptable behaviour. For example, young people generally know it's not OK to text while the teacher is talking but the broader principle is: we demonstrate respect for educators by giving them our full attention when they request it. It doesn't matter whether the distraction was a mobile phone or a magazine, it was a breach of a core organisational value.
An important consequence of a more granular and differentiated approach is that risks and consequences are more clearly defined and placed in perspective. There is risk in every action and it is the responsibility of leaders to put in place protection proportionate to the risk. I take the safety of young people very seriously, especially as a parent of a 14 year old daughter. However, I also know that the statistical risk of her coming to harm as a result of her behaviour online is a fraction of the risk I allow her to take when she rides her bicycle on the road. As a parent I must balance the risk with the rewards. This is the very same judgement education leaders must make and, in my view, a lack of understanding is leading to a significant over-reaction to the potential risk, the consequence of which diminishes the educational experience.
In developing differentiated, granular and clear protocols, schools support learned self-regulation, thereby managing the transition through the secondary stage in a constructive and progressive manner. Understanding the nature of the digital environment through feedback of this sort is also more likely to lead to the generalisation of appropriate behaviour beyond the school gates in partnership with parents. For example, part of eSense is the recognition that the fingerprint we create in the digital world through our behaviour is very persistent. Ask Eric Schmidt about his Google fingerprint! Even he couldn't get Google to erase his tracks. "Public and permanent".
Well, seeing as we're talking about technology, you won't be surprised to learn that there're a variety of audit systems available which can record both Internet and local network activity down to individual users and devices. These systems often integrate a rules-based alerting system that will ensure there is timely feedback of inappropriate behaviour. Most young people quickly learn to modify their behaviour through consistent and rational feedback. As with most systems of this type, there is an initial investment of time to re-set expectations, but the reward is well worth the investment.
So rather than ban the technology, why not embrace it using learned self-regulation as the core approach?Take the opportunity to thread an eSense strand through your existing curriculum, focusing on using technology to enrich and extend the entire learning experience. Use this as the basis for creating a 21st Century digital curriculum.
This entry was posted in eSafety, eSense, Internet, mobile on January 2, 2012 by Phil Dawson.
We must therefore maximise freedom.
The way to maximise freedom is to maximise choice.
But more choice means higher expectations.
Higher expectations mean more disappointment.
Ergo, more choice leads to less happiness.
In other words, life was simple when there was only one type of TV. We bought a cathode ray TV and that was it. Now we have a choice between plasma, LCD and LED! OK, so we plump for plasma because of its faster image response time (so say better for watching sport). But ringing in our ears is the counter argument: but the picture isn't as bright… Perhaps I should have bought an LED TV? And having seen the LED TV in the store, when I get home and I'm not watching sport? Well, the image just isn't as bright is it? I'm disappointed. The choice that was supposed to fulfil my every consumer need has in fact left me disappointed because of what I didn't choose! And that's if I didn't fall into consumer paralysis through the sheer overwhelming breadth of choice.
Now, here's where it gets relevant. If there's one tool that could have exacerbated this problem beyond all recognition in the last two decades, surely it's the Internet? The proliferation of shared 'stuff' is simply staggering. No infographic is really going to help me here. It reminds me of a quote from Douglas Adams: "Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the drug store, but that's just peanuts to space." Substitute 'Internet' for 'space' and you'll get where we're coming from. If more choice leads to less happiness then the Internet must be the single greatest cause of depression in all history. Is that how it feels?
Because as the number of choices we have to make increases, the relative investment we attribute to each micro-choice decreases. If we're not attributing high value to choices because of their sheer volume, then we're less likely to suffer as a consequence of them.
Because the crowd power of the Internet further dilutes the potential negative impact of wide choice by reassuring us that somebody else has and will always make the same choice. We're not alone.
It's the second of these two points that I think really holds the key and represents important value for the education community to grasp. The way in which human beings cope with complexity is through reliance on social structures, not by developing highly tuned skills in the field if information filtering and critical analysis. There's no harm in teaching young people these skills but they depend on a single point of failure – the individual. But the power of a best friend's interpretation? Or 50 friends? Or 50,000 acquaintances? The power of a crowd dialogue? As unfathomably vast as the Internet (or possibly the universe).The point I'm trying to make is that the emerging social structures in the Internet are an extension of our essence as learning beings. We intuitively grasp that our social structures extend and enhance our senses, the capacity of our brains, more effectively than any individually learnt skill or fact. The Internet is a tool that offers us a vast expansion of our social capacity and therefore enormous opportunities for relevant and engaging learning (personalised if you must), both informal and formal. Of course it can be frivolous too. Nothing wrong with a little bit of 'frivolous' from time to time. But it can also be serious and formal if those words offer some comfort. The challenge to educators and education systems is to embrace social learning and collaboration through the Internet, not eschew it.
This entry was posted in choice, Internet, social on December 12, 2011 by Phil Dawson.


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Share this Story: U.S. judge rejects Bayer's $2 bln deal to resolve future Roundup lawsuits
U.S. judge rejects Bayer's $2 bln deal to resolve future Roundup lawsuits
Tom Hals
A U.S. judge rejected Bayer's $2 billion class action proposal to resolve future lawsuits alleging its Roundup weedkiller causes cancer, according to a court filing on Wednesday.
Bayer has committed up to $9.6 billion to resolve some 125,000 existing claims linking Roundup to non-Hodgkin lymphoma, a type of blood cancer. The proposed class action settlement was aimed at claims by people who have been exposed to the weedkiller and who become sick in the future.
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Bayer has said that decades of studies have shown that Roundup and its main active ingredient glyphosate are safe for humans.
U.S. District Court Judge Vince Chhabria in San Francisco called parts of Bayer's proposal "clearly unreasonable" in a six-page order denying the request to approve the plan. (Reporting by Tom Hals in Wilmington, Delaware)


statements contrary to the rules of the party.
This is contained in a statement by MMD Provincial Vice Secretary, Jailas Simunyola, to ZANIS in Mungwi today.
adding that he had instead gone ahead and breached the order.
him to discuss issues concerning the 2011 elections.
since he falls under the arm pit of the district.


Heather attended an interesting and very relevant panel discussion at Sheffield Doc Fest this year: "Times Up: The Industry Response to Bullying & Harassment". Directors UK, led the panel to explore the new initiatives that are aiming to bring about much-needed change, and listen to additional ideas from the audience for creating the safest work environments.
Directors UK have launched a Bullying and Harassment handbook for Screen Directors, which they've kindly made free to download from their website. The content could apply to most people within the film and television industry, we hope that you find it useful.
5 short films illustrating harassment.


Experience the Shaddock Homes Workmanship and quality difference at Lexington Country, an exclusive Gated community in Frisco. This thoughtful floor plan is highly livable, yet perfect for entertaining. You'll love the elegant curved staircase and the high ceilings in the casual dining and family room. A wall of sliding doors, corner fireplace, and views to the game room above will "wow" your guests. Chef's kitchen features double ovens, 5-burner gas cooktop, ample white cabinets, specialty drawers, and a huge pantry! Master retreat and a guest room are conveniently located on the 1st level. Upstairs you'll enjoy endless hours of family time in the game room and media room. Generously sized bedrooms and the addition of a powder bath will be appreciated. Luxurious finishes include gorgeous nail-down wood flooring, quartz countertops, French doors at the study, exquisite tile work, and a mahogany/glass front door-just to name a few. Upgraded security and media package. Impressive exterior with a full 3-car garage!


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First Freedom Deniers
by Bill Saunders
The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom ("USCIRF"), established by the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998 ("IRFA"), issued a press release today. It took to task the State Department, which, under President Bush and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, had failed to release publicly its 2008 list of countries of "particular concern," that is, countries where the denial of religious freedom is particularly severe. Such a list is required yearly under IRFA; however, it took an official inquiry from USCIRF to get the 2008 list released by the State Department ("DOS").
The USCIRF issues its own yearly list of offenders.
The two lists are substantially the same, though the USCIRF's list includes four countries that the DOS list does not.
One constant between the two lists, however, is China.
This is no surprise. Reports of the last several weeks, for example, have recounted increased oppression in Tibet in connection with the anniversary of the invasion by China of that land.
China had a great opportunity to improve its public image by changing the facts on the ground in connection with the 2008 Olympics. As we noted at the time, the sad fact was that repression of religious believers of all stripes, including Protestant and Catholic Christians, actually increased during the year-long run-up to the Olympics, despite promises by China that it would do the opposite.
Tomorrow, March 27, China will inaugurate a new holiday, "Serf Liberation Day." China claims the life of ordinary Tibetans has improved greatly since they intervened 50 years ago. However, this claim shows China continues to miss the point. Whether or not ordinary life has improved is beside the point. Religious freedom is a fundamental human right, secured in America, of course, under the First Amendment. It is not up to China to tell the people of Tibet what to believe.


The VISION Group E-House is a modular electrical room and caters to the needs of applications in substations and industrial plants and offer reduced delivery times and elimination of field work. Besides being delivered turnkey (factory tested), the E-House integrates the functionalities of control, monitoring and data acquisition substation.
You can integrate VISION E-House the control room and battery room. The first can be separated or not the panels room with operator stations / maintenance, rack and TA, PLCs, etc., allowing operation in stand-alone basis.
Normally the E-House comes with QDMT, MV / LV transformer, low voltage switchboard, MCCs, PLC, internal and external lighting distribution board, uninterruptible voltage system, transformers and lighting tools, HVAC systems and emergency (detection, alarm and fire Fighting).
Supervision of protection relays, transformers, circuit breakers, disconnectors and battery bank.
Variety of protocols – IEC 61850, DNP3.0 IEC-60870-103.
Possibility of using the IEC61850 Process Bus and all its benefits.


This article presents a sequence of learning activities that lead to using the area model of multiplication to understand the distributive property (DP). The connection between area and multiplication is an important one, both for algebraic thinking and for geometry, as indicated in two of the critical areas for the third grade in the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics: (1) Students develop an understanding of the meanings of multiplication and division of whole numbers through activities and problems involving equal-size groups, arrays, and area models; and (2) Students recognize area as an attribute of two-dimensional regions....By decomposing rectangles into rectangular arrays of squares, students connect area to multiplication. This article explains the DP for teacher reference, then describes the five steps of pre-K to grade 3 learning progression necessary in understanding multiplication,. The five steps are: (1) Decomposing small numbers; (2) Fluent mental addition of a one- and a two-digit number; (3) Connecting area and addition; (4) Connecting area and multiplication; and (5) Use the area model and the DP to make connections between multiplication problems. The article then presents five corresponding learning activities that illustrate the steps of the learning progression through games and drawing activities to build and deepen understanding.


With under a month to go before Nolan's new movie arrives in theaters, here are the bullet points every fan must know before going in.
Christopher Nolan is set to return to theaters July 21 with his highly anticipated WWII blockbuster "Dunkirk," and anticipation is reaching a fever pitch with under a month to go. The movie, which recounts the Dunkirk evacuation, stars Tom Hardy, Fionn Whitehead, Cillian Murphy and Kenneth Branagh, among others.
Nolan is a filmmaker well known for his secrecy regarding new projects, and while we still don't know a lot about "Dunkirk," the director has teased the movie a bunch in interviews over the last several months.
IndieWire has rounded up all the most important, need-to-know facts about "Dunkirk" below. Make sure you know these 9 things before buying your ticket to Nolan's latest summer blockbuster.
Warner Brothers has confirmed that "Dunkirk" will only run one hour and 47 minutes, including end credits, making the WWII epic the shortest movie of Nolan's career since his feature debut, "The Following" (one hour and nine minutes). Only two other Nolan movies have run under two hours: "Memento" (one hour and 53 minutes) and "Insomnia" (one hour and 58 minutes).
All of the director's big Hollywood blockbusters have clocked in over the 120 minute mark. His last outing, the space odyssey "Interstellar," was his longest movie ever at two hours and 49 minutes. Each film in "The Dark Knight" trilogy ran over two hours and 20 minutes, while "Inception" clocked in at two hours and 28 minutes.
Length has never been an issue when it comes to Nolan and the box office, though the shorter "Dunkirk" runtime suggests a much tighter narrative, despite what could be a very sprawling setting.
Despite the movie's WWII setting — the Dunkirk evacuation took place during the Battle of France — Nolan has gone on record multiple times declaring that "Dunkirk" is not a war film, but rather a suspense movie.
The film has received a PG-13 rating from the MPAA, which threw a curveball to some fans hoping a Nolan war film would be earn an R rating. Nolan's focus on suspense over bloodshed is no doubt the reason why.
It wouldn't be a Christopher Nolan movie without an ambitious leap of storytelling, so here is where things get very, very Nolan. When the director announced he was making a WWII feature, most fans were left wondering what Nolan was going to bring to the war genre, and he teased his narrative risk with Premiere magazine back in February.
What Nolan is essentially telling us is that the story threads of "Dunkirk" don't all match up on the same time frame. So how exactly is he planning to tell three different stories that take place over different durations of time?
Expect a lot of the success of "Dunkirk" to be riding on just how exactly Nolan cracked the time challenges facing the narrative.


Originally from Lac-Saint-Jean, Québec, Sophie Lavoie was first introduced to the world of music when learning classical piano as a child. Soon, she became interested in the traditional music of Québec and began her ongoing trad apprenticeship by listening to legendary fiddlers from her own region of the province, such as the renowned Louis Pitou Boudreault, arguably one of Québec's greatest and most prolific players and composers.
In 2004, she completed studies in classical music with a Bachelors degree in piano in the University of Montréal. With two other musicians, she created the band "L'attisée" and began developing a succesful career as a player of traditional Québécois music. From 2005 to 2008, Sophie performed with L'Attisée all over Québec as well as in Ireland, recording the eponymous album which was nominated in 2011 as Album Traditional of The Year at ADISQ (Québec "Grammys").
In 2008, she began playing with piper Fiachra O'Regan as the duo Sophie & Fiachra. The duo recorded three albums : Sophie & Fiachra (2010), Rewind (2014) and Un Canadien errant (2016). Sophie regularly plays and performs with veteren musicians André Marchand and Claude Méthé (fiddle) and is already introducing her own young children to their powerful musical heritage.
Sophie is currently researching fiddle styles of her native region Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean for a project funded by the Québec Arts Council, as well as composing traditionally-rooted music and songs as part of a project funded by the Canada Council for the Arts. A true "bon vivant", her positive energy and brilliant style bring out the best in all who play with her.
Australia Australian Celtic Festival, Fairbridge Festival, National folk Festival, National Celtic Festival, St-Alban Folk Festival Belgium Festival Les Anthinoises, Festival Folk Musiques et traditions, Acoustic Picnis Festival Canada Milrace Folk Festival, Celtic Fest Vancouver, Festival de violon traditionnel de Sutton, Les Fêtes de la Nouvelle-France, Festival Mémoire et racines, FTMS, Festival Ès Trad, La Grande Virée, Festival les grandes veillées de La Baie India Springfest, Alchiringa Festival Ireland Sea Week Festival, Clifden Arts Week, Bog Week Festival, Clifden Trad Fest, Roudnstone Summer Fest Israel Jacob's Ladder Festival UK Gower folk Festival, Folk on the Lawn, Llangollen International Festival Spain Festival Interceltico de Avilés, Festival Interceltico d'Occidente Italy Ireland in Festa New Zealand Ceaol Aneas Irish Music Festival.


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Q: (python GUI)I think This is an efficient code, but there has a grammatical error I wrote a program that moves the hexagon shape by the number of times.
There is an error on Line 8, but I'm asking you if there are any errors on the other line,
import time
from tkinter import*
tk = Tk()
canvas=Canvas(tk, width=1000, height=1000, background="black")
canvas.pack()
canvas.create_polygon(300,200,300,250,340,225,fill="yellow")

def TKUptake(CanvasMove(x),CanvasMove(y),CanvasMove(z)):
for x in range(0, 20):
    canvas.move(CanvasMove(x),CanvasMove(y),CanvasMove(z))
    tk.update()
    time.sleep(0.03)

k = int(input("input value"))
for q in range(0,k):
   TKUptake(1,5,5)
   TKUptake(1,5,5)
   TKUptake(1,-5,5)
   TKUptake(1,-5,0)
   TKUptake(0,-5,-5)
   TKUptake(0,5,-5)

A: line number 8 has indentation error, fix it by using the following
def TKUptake(CanvasMove(x),CanvasMove(y),CanvasMove(z)):
    for x in range(0, 20):
        canvas.move(CanvasMove(x),CanvasMove(y),CanvasMove(z))
        tk.update()
        time.sleep(0.03)


The world is becoming less stable and the ability coordinate production networks is increasingly important. To improve coordination within networks it is necessary to describe the relationship between the ability of the units in the network to adopt to changes and the aibility of the network as a whole. The purpose of this paper is to develop the concept of production network flexibility, i.e. the ability of the production network to adapt to changes. The concept is based on existing descriptions of manufacturing and supply chain flexibility and applied to a single case study of a production transfer from Holland to Sweden. The paper widens the concept of flexibility by linking manufacturing and supply chain flexibility of single units to the ability of a production network to adapt to changes. By this it contributes to the question of how to accomplish coordination within a production network on an operational level.


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J.S. Monroe
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Jon Stock, writing under the name J.S.Monroe, is the author of five psychological thrillers, including the international bestseller, Find Me. Under his own name, he has written five spy novels, one of which, Dead Spy Running, was optioned by Warner Bros. He is currently the Royal Literary Fund Writing Fellow at Mansfield College, Oxford. No Place to Hide, the new standalone J.S.Monroe thriller, will be published by Head of Zeus in April 2023. "Clever, convincing and wickedly twisty – highly recommended," according to Mick Herron. A standalone, contemporary thriller set in London, Wiltshire and Cornwall, it's a loose retelling of Dr Faustus. "Compelling, relentless and genuinely frightening," says Simon Russell Beale. The Man On Hackpen Hill, the third J.S.Monroe thriller to feature DI Silas Hart (head of Swindon CID) and DS Strover, was published in the UK by Head of Zeus in 2021. "Original and brilliantly plotted, with not so much a twist as a seismic shifting of the ground under your feet ... Amazing." – Rosamund Lupton. "Impeccably researched… An unusual mystery told with exceptional skill" – Daily Mail; "A kind of Wiltshire Da Vinci Code, with crop circles, mathematical equations and shadowy figures from Porton Down. A real page turner written with beguiling wit." – Tom Bradby. The Other you (2020), the second DI Hart thriller, was published to widespread critical acclaim. "I doubt many other psychological thrillers published this year will be as propulsive and fun" - Daily Telegraph; "A clever mash-up of psychological thriller and police procedural with a dash of sci-fi" - Daily Mail; "You won't be able to turn the pages fast enough" - Heat Magazine; "Brilliantly original and intriguing ... Kept me hooked, enthralled and guessing to the very end" - Peter James. His second J.S.Monroe thriller, Forget My Name (2018), was the first to feature DI Hart. (It was published as The Last Thing She Remembers in the US.) "An absorbing novel full of unexpected twists, topped by a savage climax" – The Times; "A book that will send thrills down your spine, even on the hottest beach" – Sunday Express. Find Me (2017), the first J.S.Monroe thriller, has sold more than 150,000 copies and been translated into 14 languages. "Intricately woven and heart-stoppingly believable, this has bestseller written all over it" – Clare Mackintosh; "The most ingenious thriller you will read his year. I couldn't put it down" –M.J.Arlidge. "Cunning, captivating and creepy – a beautifully written thriller with well-drawn characters and a twisting, gripping plot that will keep you guessing until the very last page" – JP Delaney. Jonathan Stewart, who co-wrote the screenplay for Devotion (2022), is currently developing it for TV. Dead Spy Running (HarperCollins, 2009), published in five languages, was followed by Games Traitors Play (2011) and Dirty Little Secret (2012). The movie rights to Dead Spy Running were acquired before publication by Warner Bros and the film was later in development with the director McG. Oscar-winner Stephen Gaghan (Syriana, Traffic) wrote the original script and Adam Wingard (Godzilla vs Kong) was at one point attached to direct. Jon is the author of two other spy thrillers: The Riot Act (Serpent's Tail, 1997), which was shortlisted for the Crime Writer's Association debut crime novel award, and The Cardamom Club (Blackamber/Arcadia, 2003). Both titles were republished in the UK as ebooks by Head of Zeus (The Cardamom Club as The India Spy). He has also written a spy novella, To Snare A Spy (2018), which was commissioned by the Nare Hotel in Cornwall and features a 15-year-old aspiring spy called Noah. After more than 25 years in journalism, including two stints as Weekend editor of the Telegraph, and working as a foreign correspondent in New Delhi, Jon became full-time author in 2015. He lives in Wiltshire with his wife, Hilary Stock, a fine art photographer, and is on the committee of Marlborough LitFest. J.S.Monroe/Jon Stock is represented by Will Francis at Janklow & Nesbit (rbalcombe@janklow.co.uk). Film rights are repped by Emily Hayward-Whitlock at The Artists Partnership (contact Rhiannon@theartistspartnership.co.uk).
The Last Thing She Remembers
By: J.S. Monroe
Narrated by: Henrietta Meire
She arrives at the train station only to realize her bag had been stolen - her passport, credit cards, laptop, house key now all gone. And even more disturbing, when she goes to report the incident, she can't recall her own name. All she has on her is a train ticket home....
good for an easy vacation read
By mama mandi on 08-02-21
4 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
By: J. S. Monroe
Narrated by: Katharine McEwan, Alex Wyndham, Derek Perkins
A sighting of a woman who supposedly died years ago sparks a desperate search for the truth in this breakout suspense thriller....
Narrated by: Avita Jay, Leighton Pugh, Daniel Coonan
Jarlath 'Jar' Costello's girlfriend, Rosa, committed suicide when they were both students at Cambridge....
The Other You
Kate used to be good at recognising people. But six months ago, a devastating car accident led to a brain injury. Now the woman who never forgot a face can barely recognise herself in the mirror....
The Man on Hackpen Hill
Narrated by: Fran Burgoyne, Malk Williams, Sam Stafford
It isn't unusual for crop circles to appear overnight on Hackpen Hill. In this part of Wiltshire, where golden wheat fields stretch for miles, the locals have gotten used to discovering strange mathematical patterns stamped into the earth. But this time, it's different....
Forget My Name
Narrated by: Olivia Mace
She arrived into Heathrow after a difficult week at work. Her bag had been stolen. Her whole life was in there - passport, wallet, house key. When she tried to report the theft, she couldn't remember her own name. All she knew was her own address....
Búscame
Narrated by: Johnny Pena
Hace cinco años, Rosa recorrió el muelle en plena noche, miró el agua oscura y turbulenta y saltó. Su muerte fue trágica pero no inesperada. ¿Fue realmente eso lo que sucedió? Su novio, Jar, ve a Rosa en todas partes. Entonces recibe un email. Búscame, Jar....
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The 5 Best Movie Theaters in Pittsburgh
A movie-going experience is about more than just the movie. PM Film Critic Sean Collier takes a break from movie reviews and shares the best spots for cocktails, classics and comfort.
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I don't just love movies; I love movie theaters.
I'll frequently fit in a movie on vacation, just to see what the theater looks like. I can name the multiplex or arthouse where I saw many of my favorite movies (I watched both halves of "Kill Bill" back-to-back at the Oaks) and even plenty of movies I hated (I walked out halfway through "Team America: World Police" at the bygone Cinema 6 in State College). I'm still sad about the demolition of the Northway Mall cinemas, with its incongruous, ancient-Egyptian wall art and bizarre tunnel of Christmas lights.
The cinema landscape in the Pittsburgh area is always in flux. The slow decline of neighborhood theaters began in the early '80s, as smaller multiplexes — the four-to-six screen theaters you used to find in most decent strip malls — began to dominate, only to eventually be vanquished themselves by gigantic mega-theaters with double-digit screen counts. Even now, those buildings are changing to remain competitive in a world with streaming options, adding food choices and seating that rivals first class on an international flight.
Fortunately, there are plenty of excellent theaters around. The following five choices are not only great all-around theaters, they each lead the pack by a different measure of success. Even if these theaters are a bit more out-of-the-way for you, it's worth driving the extra miles to see a new release or old favorite in style.
Best Programming — Row House Cinema
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Row House's weekly themes have been a long-awaited game changer for the film landscape in Pittsburgh. While other local theaters have shown repertory content (and even the larger multiplexes usually trot out a classic once per week), having a theater dedicated solely to a week full of, say, magical realism, or the works of David Lynch, or a celebration of witches (that one's upcoming: "Hocus Pocus," "The Craft," "The Witch" and "Suspiria," starting Oct. 12) is something Pittsburgh was lacking for … all of cinema history until Row House arrived in Lawrenceville. With periodic first-run content like global animation, new documentaries and locally made films, Row House's programming is the best in town by a wide margin.
Best Value — Penn Hills Cinema
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When smaller, affordable multiplexes started to vanish in the early 2000s, Penn Hills Cinema persisted. The four-screen, old-school movie theater has some of the best prices — for both tickets and snacks — in town. They supplant their already-low prices with special offers most nights of the week: BOGO popcorn and snacks on Wednesdays, $5 for a new-release ticket and a popcorn on Thursdays. If you miss the era when a trip to the movie theater put a much smaller dent in your wallet, skip the ever-increasing prices at the big houses and head to Penn Hills.
Best Picture and Sound — Cinemark Pittsburgh Mills
The Cinemark chain generally boasts top-notch presentation; any of its many regional outposts will show a crisp, vivid image, particularly if you pay the extra couple bucks for the chain's XD houses. The best everyday movie screen in the region, however, remains the IMAX theater at the Galleria at Pittsburgh Mills. If you're pumped for a new entry in the Marvel or Star Wars franchise, this is the place to go; it's also one of the only screens around where 3-D images actually pop the way they should. The rest of the theaters at the Mills aren't shabby, either, and it remains the only venue in town with D-Box motion seats. (One note: The Rangos Giant Cinema at the Carnegie Science Center is definitely a few notches above the Mills' IMAX screen, but they don't show feature presentations on a daily basis. If something you'd like to see in eye-popping glory is playing at the Science Center, make a point of going.)
Best Comfort — Century Square Luxury Cinemas
From the ashes of a longstanding second-run theater (another beloved institution now wholly absent from western Pennsylvania) rose this bastion of comfort in the wilds of West Mifflin: Century Square Luxury Cinemas. Other theaters have since added the sprawling, armchair-style recliners that the Luxury Cinemas introduced to the local market, but at no other theater is there so much space for each and every moviegoer to spread out. Add a decent selection of beer and wine at the snack bar, and this is the place to truly relax and watch a movie. Just don't nod off in your seat mid-film. I speak from experience.
Best Moviegoing Experience — The Manor Theater
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At a time when many of its peers (including the neighborhood counterpart on Forward Avenue) were closing up shop, the Manor remodeled and reinvented itself. Now, a trip to the Manor involves visiting one of the city's most vibrant neighborhoods, selecting from a wide variety of snacks — including healthy options you won't find at any other cinema in town — and ordering a movie-themed cocktail, then seeing an indie hit or thoughtful blockbuster among serious moviegoers. Historic, amenable and vibrant, the Manor is a perennial sure thing.
Honorable Mentions: Waterworks Cinemas; Regent Square Theater; Chartiers Valley Stadium 18; Dependable Drive-In; Tull Family Theater.
This article appears in the August 2018 issue of The Best Blog.
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Outlander: 10 Things In The Show That Only Make Sense If You Read The Books
by Heather Djunga
Action-packed and filled with dynamic human interactions, it is easy to overlook important details when scrutinizing the narrative of Outlander. More so when considering some details from the series of books on which the show is based have been deliberately left out. Fans of the books would have noticed the discrepancies between the book and the onscreen adaptation of the story.
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These fascinating titbits and details—which have been missed—add depth to the viewers' understanding of Outlander narrative. Here are just 10 of them, equipping Outlander fans to go back and check their favorite episodes to catch things they might have previously missed.
10 The stolen ring
Only book readers will know the true story behind the loss of Claire's prized wedding ring. In Drums of Autumn, the fourth book in the Outlander series, Stephen Bonnet attacks Jamie and Claire and the rest of their crew, stealing Claire's ring from Jamie.
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The book's version of the incident differs in that the ring is stolen from Frank, not Jamie. This decision was made by producers of the series to have the ring stolen from Jamie to make the theft more noticeable.
9 Frankly my dear…
While series' viewers can understand Claire's choice of Jamie over Frank, book readers will have an even better understanding of why Claire has made Frank her second choice. In the books, the character of Frank is far less likable. In the series, in season three, Frank's affair with Sandy is highlighted. But in the books, it would seem he has a succession of women keeping him entertained while still married to Claire. It's simply easier to like him—even if not all that much—in the series than in the books.
8 A love that knows no bounds
How far would you go for love? It would seem the love between Jamie and Claire has no bounds. It is revealed in the second book, Dragonfly in Amber, that Jamie and Claire found a special way to celebrate their love and remind each other that they were together, even when they weren't.
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They did this through physically engraving each other's initials into their hands. The onscreen series leaves this part out of the narrative. It is alleged it did appear in season three, however, it had to be edited out.
7 The ring in the spotlight
Claire's prized wedding ring has been the center of many narrative discussions and it's no wonder. In the books, the ring has been bought by Jamie for her and is described as, 'A Highland interlace patterns, the links engraved with tiny, stylized thistle blooms.' It's hard to picture such a ring! This might be one of the reasons why producers changed it for the television series. On screen, Jamie has a ring made for Claire using the key to his Lallybroch home. Terribly romantic!
6 The crucifix and the witch trial
Just when viewers thought the narrative couldn't possibly get any more romantic, in steps Jamie to the outdoors court arena of Claire's witch trial brandishing a crucifix – ready to save the day and his beloved Claire. The series shows Claire's saving from this witch trial slightly differently, however. In the television show, Jamie enters with a sword, just in time to save Claire from certain death. In the book, by placing the crucifix around Claire's neck, Jamie demonstrates to her onlookers that she can't possibly be a witch and saves her from execution.
5 Dreaded date revealed
In the books, there is an exact date in the obituary section of a newspaper, known to Bree, hinting at which Jamie and Claire will be killed in a fire at Fraser's Ridge. This date, 21 December, 1776, made it possible for them to foresee the tragedy and plan for it. In the show, however, the date in the newspaper clipping of the obituary has been smudged. This presents a dilemma for the couple who cannot tell when the dreaded fire will be.
4 The pearl necklace
In the wedding episode of the show, Jamie extends a beautiful gift to Claire–his mother's pearl necklace–after the exchange of their wedding vows and after the wedding night which seals their union.
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This is not so in the books, which sees Jamie give his wife-to-be the pearls before she has walked down the aisle. This giving of the family heirloom is nonetheless a special moment both on screen and in the book.
3 Laoghaire and the witch trial
The witch trial takes center stage in the story's narrative. However, only book readers will understand the shock Claire experiences when realizing Jamie has been married to Laoghaire, the one who put her through the traumatic with trial and her arch enemy.
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The traumatic trial is depicted in the first book and first season of the show. In the show, Laoghaire is the young girl whose advances are turned away by Jamie because of his love for Claire. She subsequently has a lot of anger towards him. Only the books mention an actual marriage to Laoghaire, which adds to the thrilling dynamics of the narrative.
2 The center stage reunion
While the reunion of Claire and Jamie, after 20 years apart, satisfied a deep longing in the series' viewers hearts and imaginations, let's face it, the book readers got to read about the reunion, and this experience was elaborated on in greater technicolor and with words and nuances the screen couldn't quite capture.
In such a scene, the book had the advantage in that it was able to shed light on details fans watching on screen might have missed. Still, these details didn't take away from viewers reveling in the special moment – Jamie and Claire in each other's arms again. There couldn't be a more special moment.
1 Out of the blizzard
Not everything can be fitted into an onscreen adaptation of a book. One such scene is when Claire braves an actual blizzard to save her beloved Jamie on Christmas Eve. This scene was cut from season four of the series and if book readers expected to see it, they might be left slightly disappointed.
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Who wouldn't want to see the leading lady face a storm for true love's sake? This section of narrative helped fans to see further than the domestic, passive Claire to a fiery woman whose heart and passions come first!
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DICTATOR'S TORTURE DEN
Saddam Hussein kept secret torture chamber in the basement of Iraqi mission in New York
Saddam's brutal henchmen would capture Iraqis living in the US for up to 15 days and torture them by pulling out their fingernails
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Updated: 5:21, 13 Oct 2016
SADDAM Hussein kept a secret torture chamber in the basement of the Iraqi mission in New York.
The tyrannical dictator ordered the installation of a "detention room" in the five story townhouse on Manhattan's Upper East Side.
The tyrannical dictator ordered the installation of a 'detention room' in New YorkCredit: AP:Associated Press
Saddam's brutal henchmen would capture Iraqis living in the US for up to 15 days and torture them by pulling out their fingernails.
If they did not cooperate they were executed and shipped back to Baghdad in Customs-exempt boxes.
According to two Iraqi officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity: "They just put (the body) in a diplomatic box and it can just be shipped. This is diplomatic – nobody has the authority to examine it or open it".
His brutal henchmen would capture Iraqis living in the US for up to 15 days and torture them by pulling out their fingernailsCredit: Getty Images
The Upper East Side is one of the wealthiest areas of Manhattan and the Iraqi Mission sits right across East 79th St from the home of the city's billionaire former Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
To keep the torture basement a secret Saddam's henchmen, known as the Mukhabarat blacked out a skylight in the roof of the building so that US Air Force satellites couldn't see in.
They also monitored US spies who were trying to monitor them using wiretap surveillance from a car parked across the street, the New York Post reported.
During the torture his goons used copper wire, rubber hoses and wooden planksCredit: Getty Images
The Mukhabarat waited for Iraqis living in America to come in for official business then brought them down to the basement to act as leverage to get their relatives back home to cooperate with the regime.
During the torture they used copper wire, rubber hoses and wooden planks. They would also beat the prisoners within an inch of their deaths.
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One official said: "It was a dark room. The doors were reinforced in a way that nobody could break in or out. You didn't need to soundproof it".
The other official said: "You're not going to hear someone screaming down there'.
The first room in the basement was the office for the agents, who carried 9mm pistols and had several Kalashnikov rifles on the premises.
The second room was the communications centre which had an encrypted system to send messages to Baghdad.
The torture chamber was in the third room which was being a huge metal door with steel bars across it.
The detention room was raided in 2003 by federal investigators following Saddam's fall from power in Iraq. They took away any evidence of wrongdoing but it was never made public until now.
Saddam was executed in 2006 after being found hiding in his underwear in a hole in the ground in Iraq.
The detention room in the Iraqi Mission was converted into a kitchenette during a £110,000 renovation in 2014.
Whilst he was in charge of Iraq, Saddam presided over mass killings of his own people, including by chemical weapons.
At least 200,000 people are said to have been killed or 'disappeared' by Saddam's Secret Police force but many more died as a result of his wars and brutality.


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Mortality and cancer morbidity after heavy occupational fluoride exposure
Author: Grandjean P, Juel K, Jensen OM.
Journal Name: American Journal of Epidemiology
Publish Date: January 1985
Volume/Page: 121(1):57-64.
Type: Human Study, Occupational
Categories: Cancer, Lung, Lung Cancer
A cohort of 431 male cryolite workers employed for at least six months between 1924 and 1961 was identified from personnel records at the Copenhagen cryolite factory. During this period, heavy fluoride exposure resulted in at least 74 cases of skeletal fluorosis. All workmen in the cohort were followed up in Denmark until July 1, 1981. During 1941-1981, 206 men died, while only 149.3 deaths were expected from national mortality statistics. Significant excesses were seen in the following causes of death: violent death and all cancers, in particular cancer of the respiratory system. When compared with specific mortality rates for the Copenhagen area, violent death (and suicide taken alone) remained in significant excess among employees hired before 1940. Cancer morbidity data for the 35-year period 1943-1977 showed 78 cases of malignant neoplasms in the cryolite workers against 53.2 expected for Denmark as a whole and 67.9 for Copenhagen. The excess was almost entirely due to an excess number of respiratory cancers. Cancer morbidity showed no apparent correlation with length of employment or time from first exposure. Because detailed information on predictors for respiratory cancer was unavailable, a possible residual effect of fluoride cannot be excluded. However, any major carcinogenic effect of heavy fluoride exposure would be very unlikely.
Fluoride in Drinking Water: A Scientific Review of EPA's Standards.
Excerpts: Summary Under the Safe Drinking Water Act, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is required to establish exposure standards for contaminants in public drinking-water systems that might cause any adverse effects on human health. These standards include the maximum contaminant level goal (MCLG), the maximum contaminant level (MCL), and the secondary
Cancer Risks in Aluminum Reduction Plant Workers: A Review.
Objective and Methods: This review examines epidemiological evidence relating to cancers in the primary aluminum industry where most of what is known relates to Söderberg operations or to mixed Söderberg/prebake operations. Results and Conclusions: Increased lung and bladder cancer risks have been reported in Söderberg workers from several countries, but not in all.
Cancer incidence and mortality in workers exposed to fluoride
BACKGROUND: Although a recent bioassay showed increased frequency of bone cancer in rats with high oral intake of fluoride, the data are reported as equivocal evidence of carcinogenicity. In humans, occupational fluoride exposure may cause skeletal fluorosis, and our earlier follow-up of fluoride-exposed workers showed increased incidence of respiratory cancers.
Fluoride Exposure Induces Inhibition of Sodium-and Potassium-Activated Adenosine Triphosphatase (Na+, K+-ATPase) Enzyme Activity: Molecular Mechanisms and Implications for Public Health.
In this study, several lines of evidence are provided to show that Na+ , K+ -ATPase activity exerts vital roles in normal brain development and function and that loss of enzyme activity is implicated in neurodevelopmental, neuropsychiatric and neurodegenerative disorders, as well as increased risk of cancer, metabolic, pulmonary and
Extended follow-up of cancer incidence in fluoride-exposed workers
Workers at the cryolite mill in Copenhagen, Denmark, are unique because of their exposure to high levels of fluoride dust and their virtual lack of exposure to other occupational toxicants or carcinogens (1,2). We previously reported the cancer morbidity from 1943 through 1987 for 422 male cryolite workers employed for
Fluoride's Mutagenicity: In vitro Studies
According to the National Toxicology Program, "the preponderance of evidence" from laboratory "in vitro" studies indicate that fluoride is a mutagenic compound. Many substances which are mutagens, are also carcinogens (i.e. they can cause cancer). As is typical for in vitro studies, the concentrations of fluoride that have generally been tested
Fluoride's Mutagenicity: In vivo Studies
Consistent with dozens of in vitro studies, a number of in vivo studies, in both humans and animals, have found evidence of fluoride-induced genetic damage. In particular, research on humans exposed to high levels of fluoride have found increased levels of "sister chromatid exchange" (SCE). As noted in one study: "In
Fluoride's Mutagenicity: The "Oral Health Research Institute's" Studies
Although many in vitro and in vivo studies have detected mutagenic effects from fluoride exposure, the Oral Health Research Institute at Indiana University's School of Dentistry has repeatedly failed to find any such effect in multiple studies on the subject.
Respiratory Risks from Occupational Fluoride Exposure
Starting in the 1930s, scientists have observed that workers exposed to airborne fluorides suffer from an elevated rate of respiratory disorders. For over 50 years, however, US government and industry scientists made repeated assurances that the allowable level of fluoride dusts and gases in industrial workplaces would not cause any
A Critique of Gelberg's Study on Fluoride/Osteosarcoma in New York
The case-control study by Gelberg, published first as a PhD dissertation and then later in two peer-reviewed journals, may represent the most substantive study on fluoride/osteosarcoma previous to Bassin's 2001 analysis. In assessing Gelberg's data, we were at first struck by the existence of several notable errors in both the thesis and papers. While these errors do raise questions about the study, our primary concern with Gelberg's work relates to the methods she used to analyze her data.


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Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine - Barts and The London
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Four QMUL researchers among the most influential one per cent in the world
Academics researching molecular biology and clinical medicine have been named on Thomson Reuter's Highly Cited Researchers 2015 list which recognises the top one per cent most cited papers published between 2003 and 2013
Professors Jack Cuzick, Patricia Munroe, Mark Caulfield and Panos Deloukas from QMUL's Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry all published papers that rank in the top one per cent in the world by citations for their field and publication earning them a spot of the prestigious Thomson Reuters list.
Cardiovascular researchers Professor Munroe, Professor Caulfield and Professor Deloukas were all recognised in the Molecular Biology and Genetics field and Professor Cuzick who researches cancer epidemiology and clinical trials was listed in the Clinical Medicine category.
Professor Mark Caulfield said: "It is a real honour to amongst the world's most highly cited researchers in genetics and great to be in the company of my research collaborators Patricia Munroe and Panos Deloukas."
Professor Patricia Munroe added: "I'm delighted to be on the list. This recognises my research and my colleagues' into genes and heart diseases."
The Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researchers list annually recognises the leading researchers around the world and focuses on mentions in other research of contemporary published between 2003 and 2013 rather than historical achievements. Papers are ranked against those published in the same field and in the same year so that new papers are not disadvantaged against those published in the past.
Professor Jack Cuzick said: "As our work is mostly collaborative, this is really recognition for the whole group of our collaborators, but I am delighted to receive this award on their behalf. This also is an important achievement in raising the profile of preventive medicine, which is where my efforts are focused."
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Head teachers' union to announce plans to reform school holidays and shorten summer break
The National Association of Head teachers believe shorter but more regular breaks could benefit both teachers and pupils
Jack Simpson
Head teachers from across the country are expected to announce plans to radically reform the structure of the British school holiday.
As part of their annual conference in Birmingham today, it is believed the National Association of Head Teachers will announce a plan to shorten the 6-week summer break and replace it with shorter but more frequent breaks throughout the school year.
The NAHT argue that more breaks could drastically reduce teacher exhaustion, improve the continuity of children's learning and stop parents having to pay extortionately high holiday prices during school holidays.
Currently, schools in Britain have three week-long half terms, two two-week holidays at Easter and Christmas and one long six-week holiday over July and August.
However, the NAHT want this to change by bringing in a four-week summer break and add an extra week of holiday in October and February.
Russell Hobb, the Secretary of the NAHT, questioned whether the current structure was healthy for the staff that worked in schools.
He said: "It seems like at the end of term everybody is ready to drop. Not reducing the amount of holiday but distributing it more evenly throughout the year might be one solution to that."
He also said that the union were worried about "learning loss" in students over the six-week break, after studies in America showed that longer breaks can have a major impact on students being able to retain what they have learnt during the previous school year.
Hobb also believes that by following a more European model of staggering holidays in different parts of the country could help parents by drastically reducing the prices of holidays for families.
At the moment, trips taken during school holidays can be as much as four times more expensive than if the holidays taken during term time and Hobb feels the staggering of holidays could be the solution.
He said: "You could have a staggering of holidays around the country. I believe Germany do something similar. So if different parts of the country within local authority boundaries or regional boundaries had slightly different holiday times I think that would ease the pressure on prices of holidays."
Nevertheless, it has not been met with unanimous support and it is believed that some NAHT members will oppose the plan and are willing to strike to ensure they hold onto their entitlement of a six-week summer holiday.
The calls come after both the Minister for Education, Michael Gove, and head of Ofsted, Michael Wilshaw, have both said publicly that they would like to see changes to the school calendar.
Last year, Gove said the six-week break was archaic and had been "designed for a time when Britain ran an agricultural economy."
While Wilshaw said in December that the summer break was "far too long."
Currently, it is only free schools and academies that can set their own hours and term times. However, this is hoping to be extended to those schools that come under the direction of local councils.
The proposal is part of a new education manifesto that the National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT) that could also see priority in admissions given to those on free school meals and a cap on teacher's working hours.
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