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Kolla Overview
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The Kolla project is a member of the OpenStack `Big Tent
Governance <http://governance.openstack.org/reference/projects/index.html>`__.
Kolla's mission statement is:

::

    Kolla provides production-ready containers and deployment tools for
    operating OpenStack clouds.

Kolla provides `Docker <http://docker.com/>`__ containers and
`Ansible <http://ansible.com/>`__ playbooks to meet Kolla's mission.
Kolla is highly opinionated out of the box, but allows for complete
customization. This permits operators with little experience to deploy
OpenStack quickly and as experience grows modify the OpenStack
configuration to suit the operator's exact requirements.

Getting Started
===============

Please get started by reading the `Developer
Quickstart <https://github.com/stackforge/kolla/blob/master/docs/dev-quickstart.rst>`__
followed by the `Ansible Deployment
Guide <https://github.com/stackforge/kolla/blob/master/docs/ansible-deployment.rst>`__.

Docker Images
-------------

The `Docker images <https://docs.docker.com/userguide/dockerimages/>`__
are built by the Kolla project maintainers. A detailed process for
contributing to the images can be found in the `image building
guide <https://github.com/stackforge/kolla/blob/master/docs/image-building.md>`__.
Images reside in the Docker Hub `Kollaglue
repo <https://registry.hub.docker.com/repos/kollaglue/>`__.

The Kolla developers build images in the kollaglue namespace for the
following services for every tagged release and implement Ansible
deployment for them:

-  Ceilometer
-  Cinder
-  Glance
-  Haproxy
-  Heat
-  Horizon
-  Keepalived
-  Keystone
-  Mariadb + galera
-  Mongodb
-  Neutron (linuxbridge or neutron)
-  Nova
-  Openvswitch
-  Rabbitmq

::

    $ sudo docker search kollaglue

A list of the upstream built docker images will be shown.

Directories
===========

-  ansible - Contains Anible playbooks to deploy Kolla in Docker
   containers.
-  compose - Contains the docker-compose files serving as a compose
   reference. Note compose support is removed from Kolla. These are for
   community members which want to use Kolla container content without
   Ansible.
-  demos - Contains a few demos to use with Kolla.
-  devenv - Contains an OpenStack-Heat based development environment.
-  docker - Contains a normal Dockerfile based set of artifacts for
   building docker. This is planned for removal when docker\_templates
   is completed.
-  docs - Contains documentation.
-  etc - Contains a reference etc directory structure which requires
   configuration of a small number of configuration variables to achieve
   a working All-in-One (AIO) deployment.
-  docker\_templates - Contains jinja2 templates for the docker build
   system.
-  tools - Contains tools for interacting with Kolla.
-  specs - Contains the Kolla communities key arguments about
   architectural shifts in the code base.
-  tests - Contains functional testing tools.
-  vagrant - Contains a vagrant VirtualBox-based development
   environment.

Getting Involved
================

Need a feature? Find a bug? Let us know! Contributions are much
appreciated and should follow the standard `Gerrit
workflow <https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Gerrit_Workflow>`__.

-  We communicate using the #kolla irc channel.
-  File bugs, blueprints, track releases, etc on
   `Launchpad <https://launchpad.net/kolla>`__.
-  Attend weekly
   `meetings <https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Meetings/Kolla>`__.
-  Contribute `code <https://github.com/stackforge/kolla>`__

Contributors
============

Check out who's `contributing
code <http://stackalytics.com/?module=kolla-group&metric=commits>`__ and
`contributing
reviews <http://stackalytics.com/?module=kolla-group&metric=marks>`__.

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Rachel's Kids—Giving Back to Cornwall, Ontario's Children
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Originally, Rachel's Kids was developed to help the children and people of Sri Lanka, who were devastated by a 9.1-9.3 undersea earthquake and tsunami. It was one of the largest amounts of casualties for an earthquake, ranking in the top 10 in history. Dr. Navaneelan arranged a charity auction and garden party in her own backyard to raise both money and awareness of this tragedy and others. Being a native Sri Lankan herself, this was a cause very dear to Dr. Navaneelan's heart.
Rachel's Kids is now a thriving organization, dedicated to giving back to children who may be orphaned by tragedy, who have no medical benefits or legacy from their parents to take over. Thanks to the efforts of the Cornwall community, the garden party has now become an annual event, with half the contributions being made to local charities, mainly to benefit children in the community, and the remainder going towards projects initiated overseas.
In addition to the garden party, Rachel's Kids also hosts an Annual Have a Heart Gala, the Sponsor A Child Program, and most recently a New York City Bus Tour. Over the years, Rachel's Kids and the efforts of Dr. Navaneelan have had no shortage of success; also helping to renovate the Cornwall Community Hospital's pediatric ward (with phase 2 in preparation for this project). The 8th annual garden party, held in 2012, raised over $100,000 in funds to help the children. Since 2009, Rachel's Kids has also partnered with Mt. Carmel and other churches in Sri Lanka to create the Foster Parents Plan, with children of Buddhist, Hindu, and Christian descent. Through this program, children get bicycles, school kits, and of course, the gift of a shelter.
Through the efforts, contributions, and love of many, Rachel's Kids has planted a seed of hope in the heart of Sri Lanka's children, and helps sustain the lives of this beautiful island nation.
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Thank you for the Smoothie Handbook. You have a great little website that is full of information. I just wanted you to know I appreciate your effort very much.
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It's another story, but a Russian Botanist by the name of Dr. Gregory Levin collected 1174 varieties of pomegranates and the United States ended up with the best out of all of them when the Soviet Union collapsed.
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"Dr. Nay" Renee N. White, Ed.D.
During these unfortunate times of racial turbulence and the unveiling of devastating societal inequities, such as economic, educational and health disparities, young people require social-emotional guidance to cognitively process what is unraveling around them in their community, country and world. More than ever, it is crucial that young adults of color are provided with the encouragement to understand their individual cultural being, and to facilitate their thinking processes about their stance on social justice issues like Black Lives and school violence. As an African American woman, mother of two successful adult sons, and college professor with 30+ years of experience as a literacy and cultural diversity educator, it is my responsibility to serve as a role model and mentor for young people.
Sistah Girl: Step into Your Greatness is written in a unique approach that fuses my three roles into a meaningful, entertaining, and educational experience for young ladies of color. Through my thought-provoking poetry, I aim to reinforce my teen readers' self-confidence, explore their culture, and empower them to address the injustices that they are passionate as budding social activists. To enhance comprehension, I have incorporated literacy strategies, such as journaling after each poem and end-of-chapter graphic organizers to encourage readers to make intrinsic connections and examine their authentic ideas about real-life topics. Also, inspirational quotes of renown women of color are integrated to further emphasize these relevant concepts.
"Dr. Nay" Renee M. White is a motivational poet and a full professor at St. Joseph's University in New York. Dr. Nay has taught teacher education for over twenty-five years, specializing in literacy and cultural diversity. Prior, she was an elementary teacher and reading specialist.
Dr. Nay earned her doctoral degree in Educational Leadership at the University of Virginia. She acquired her master's degree in Reading Specialist from CUNY-Brooklyn College, and a bachelor's degree in Elementary Education from New York University.
She is an avid proponent of equity and equality. Her previous book publication, "Embrace Your Power" advocates women's empowerment.
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Deconstructing 'Vikings': Ragnar Lothbrok (and family)
22nd July 2018 by Bjørn Larssen·2 Comments
(History, Research, Vikings)
This post contains spoilers for seasons 1-4 of 'Vikings'. You've been warned.
I've been a big fan of the 'Vikings' series, and in particular of Travis Fimmel's character, since the first episode. I spent a while grinding my teeth at inaccuracies until I had to remind myself that Þórr, according to Marvel and Hollywood, is a clean-shaven blondie who wears a costume with six nipple shields. Later on I acquired 'The World of Vikings' by Justin Pollard and Michael Hirst (the series' producer). The book shows very clearly that Hirst is not only well educated in the Viking history, but also has enough wits to understand that sometimes history doesn't make very exciting TV. After reading the book, which by the way I wholeheartedly recommend, I forgave the inaccuracies. Especially as knowing history spoils the pleasure of watching, and any departures from facts – of "facts" – provides extra excitement.
You've probably read one of the "10 Facts About Ragnar Lothbrok That Will Change Your Life Forever" articles on the Internet. My take on this is a bit longer, features less illustrations, and also is more accurate – if you find any mistakes in this post, please point them out for me to fix.
I want to steal his entire wardrobe. If such shocking theft ever happens, I was joking and you can't prove anything.
Let's start with the big one. When was Ragnar born? Ha. Gotcha. There is no proof whatsoever that Ragnar existed at all. In 1979, Hilda Ellis Davidson wrote:
Certain scholars in recent years have come to accept at least part of Ragnar's story as based on historical fact.
Note the careful wording of 'certain scholars' and 'at least part'.
In 2003, Katherine Holman disagreed:
Although his sons are historical figures, there is no evidence that Ragnar himself ever lived, and he seems to be an amalgam of several different historical figures and pure literary invention.
Holman's view seems to be the most accurate, at least with the knowledge we possess today. It's also very Ragnar, so to say, to not even exist, yet have many sons whose existence is proven beyond all doubts.
Lagertha
Lagertha (Katheryn Winnick) on a bad hair day
Ragnar's first wife was a shieldmaiden named Lagertha (Old Norse: Hlaðgerðr). She wasn't a delicate flower. Saxo Grammaticus:
Ladgerda, a skilled Amazon, who, though a maiden, had the courage of a man, and fought in front among the bravest with her hair loose over her shoulders. All-marvelled at her matchless deeds, for her locks flying down her back betrayed that she was a woman.
(Yes. Saxo was sexist. I hope this isn't surprising. In his defence, he died approximately 800 years ago.)
Lagertha wasn't particularly into Ragnar, even though he hadn't begun to wear his hairy breeches (see below) yet. As he courted her, impressed by her courage in battle, Lagertha gracefully invited him over for tea and light refreshments. Her idea of hospitality involved setting a bear and a great hound upon him. Ragnar killed both beasts, which impressed Lagertha so greatly they ended up with three children: son called Fridleif Ragnarsson, and two daughters whose names have not been recorded. None of those three children are mentioned in the TV series.
Lagertha did not bear him a son called Björn. While Lagertha existed as a historical figure, most of the stories surrounding her are considered to be Saxo Grammaticus's inventions. Saxo, of course, did not approve of the idea that a woman does anything else than giving birth, cooking, and crying as her husband goes away to war, therefore Lagertha served him as an example of how horrible heathens must have been. Ragnar divorced her later in order to marry Þóra Borgarhjǫrtr (not pictured on TV).
Lothbrok = Hairy breeches
The story behind the name 'Lothbrok' is a variation on Polish and Russian folk stories. (Aside: Vikings spent surprising amounts of time in Poland and Russia.) The origin of the name comes from Ragnar's desire to marry Þóra. Her doting dad, Herrauðr, presented her with a small lindworm (according to Wikipedia – "wingless serpentine monster"). This struck me as a somewhat odd gift, especially when the lindworm grew uncontrollably, eventually trapping poor Þóra in her dwelling. Herrauðr promised her hand in marriage to the man who would slay the serpent. The sources do not mention what Herrauðr would have done if the beast was slain by a woman, but a man who literally surrounds his daughter with something that serves as giant phallic symbol probably never spent too much time thinking of shieldmaidens and Valkyries. In the story, Ragnar put on trousers made of fur, then covered himself with tar in order to kill a snake. The snake must have been somewhat bewildered by the sight of tar-smeared Travis Fimmel, yet the trousers proved to be great defense against snake venom. Ragnar, in his excitement, decided those pants were suitable for all occasions and made a habit of wearing them. I suppose, however, that Þóra was happy enough to be able to go for a nice, serpent-free stroll and allowed her husband to continue donning such a handy protective garment. Unfortunately, once Þóra gave Ragnar two songs, Eiríkr and Agnar, she died of illness.
You will note none of the people mentioned in the passage above appear in the TV series either, and if I remember correctly neither do his hairy breeches. As a side note, none of his wives changed their surnames to "Lothbrok" for the simple reason that it wasn't his surname, but a nickname.
Lagertha didn't get over Ragnar all that fast, which was very helpful when he fought a civil war in Denmark. At the time she was the queen of Norway and sent over 120 ships to help her ex. Upon her return home, she killed her husband and became the ruler of Norway. This was pictured in 'Vikings'. I think it's safe to say Lagertha did not have much luck in love. What Saxo had to say about this was quite predictable: she "usurped the whole of his [her husband's] name and sovereignty; for this most presumptuous dame thought it pleasanter to rule without her husband than to share the throne with him". How presumptuous of the dame!
Aslaug (Alyssa Sutherland) looking awesome and magical – like always.
The third wife of Ragnar was Aslaug, daughter of legendary Sigurd, slayer of a dragon, and shieldmaiden Brynhildr. None of her parents is considered to be a real historical figure, as the slaying of the dragon might have already suggested. There was no exciting rivalry between her and Lagertha, since Lagertha was busy killing her husband and ruling Norway. But there's more to Aslaug's story.
Her foster father, Heimer, was concerned about the girl's safety. He decided to make a harp, inside which he hid the little Aslaug. It is hard for me to understand why he thought a harp would be the best place to hide a child, but I suppose a piano would have been even harder to carry around. Upon their arrival in Norway Heimer stayed over for the night in the house of peasants Áke and Grima. Grima, who was certain the harp must have been filled with valuables – after all, what warrior would feel like carrying a harp around – made her husband kill Heimer. Grima must have been quite disappointed to find a girl instead of gold and jewels, nevertheless they renamed her Kráka (Crow) and raised as their own.
Kráka, who was a beautiful lady, didn't quite fit in the household, therefore Grima decided she needed to be rubbed in tar and dressed in a long hood at all times. Upon meeting Kráka Ragnar immediately 1) fell in love (he had experience with tar, which might have helped), and 2) decided to marry her. However, fickle as he was, he decided to marry Ingeborg, a daughter of a viceroy named Eysteinn Beli. Very unimpressed by his undecisiveness, well-informed Kráka decided to share the information about her noble origins with Ragnar. It is not known how she knew she was a noblewoman, but possibly the harp contained her birth certificate as well. Eysteinn, understandably, was not impressed by this change of mind. He died at the hands of…
Ragnar's sons
Four out of many sons of Ragnar (from left: David Lindström as Sigurd, Alex Høgh Andersen as Ivar The Boneless, Jordan Patrick Smith as Ubbe, Marco Ilsø as Hvitserk)
Speaking of sons, Aslaug and Ragnar had five: Ivar the Boneless; Björn Ironside; Hvitserk; Rognvald; and Sigurd Snake-in-the-Eye. Sigurd was born with the image of Ouroboros (or perhaps the Midgard Serpent) in his eye due to Ragnar's impatience to consummate the marriage despite Aslaug's insistence to wait a bit longer. Aslaug prophecied the mark in Sigurd's eye. She also prophecied that Ragnar's invasion of England wouldn't go well due to the fact his fleet was in bad shape, and she was right. Ever so careful Aslaug provided her husband with a magical shirt, which would prevent him from snake venom. Somehow, the shirt was removed after Ragnar was cast into the snake pit, and only then did he die. I assume his breeches were too worn out at this point for him to continue wearing them. Big mistake. Huge.
King Aelle looking sepulchral (Ivan Kaye)
As I mentioned, it is not known whether Ragnar actually existed at all, was an amalgam of stories of multiple other warriors, or simply a mythological figure. The confusion is aided further by the multiple stories describing his death. As we've seen on TV, King Ælla decided to throw him into a snake pit, but according to sources Ælla did so not knowing he was dealing with Ragnar Lothbrok himself. Ragnar must have felt rather aloof, refusing to inform Ælla about his credentials even as he was already in the snake pit. This clashes with the much less romantic version of the story, according to which Ragnar died of illness in France. He did, however, kill a lot of Franks first.
To sum things up:
– 'Vikings' TV series skips one wife. I'll admit Lagertha and Aslaug are quite a handful without Thóra's help.
– None of the children he had with Thóra and Lagertha are featured in the TV series.
– Björn Ironside was the son of Aslaug, same as all the other ones featured in the TV series. The departure from sources was necessary to create a very exciting conflict between him and (TV) Aslaug's sons.
– While it is accepted that Ragnar's sons existed, there is a theory (see Ben Waggoner's book) that multiple warriors called themselves "Ragnar's sons" in order to scare their opponents or make themselves look more important.
– As shown on TV, Ragnar demanded that Aslaug shows up in his camp "neither dressed nor undressed, neither fasting nor eating, and neither alone nor in company", which strikes me as rather demanding seeing as he wanted to marry her, not the other way round. Honestly, Ragnar? Your way of dealing with the ladies should not be an example to any of the people reading this post. Actually, your habit of killing tons of people wherever you go shouldn't either.
Travis Fimmel, who has no business looking THAT good
I can also exclusively reveal that Rollo, Ragnar's brother in the TV series, never actually met Ragnar, not to mention the fact they were not related. More on Rollo soon, because any excuse is good to post photos of pre-awful-haircut-and-handlebar-moustache photos of Clive Standen.
All photos used are promotional materials for the 'Vikings' TV series, property of History Channel.
Subscribe to my newsletter and receive a free e-book (released March 17 with the next newsletter) – Vikings: from history to History, featuring rewritten and greatly expanded versions of the posts from the Deconstructing 'Vikings' series. The book includes chapters on Ragnar Lothbrok, Lagertha, Áslaug, Björn Ironside, Ivar the Boneless, Ivar's brothers, Flóki, Harald Fairhair and Halfdan the Black, and Athelstan.
Deconstructing 'Vikings': Rollo
Deconstructing 'Vikings': Flóki
Deconstructing 'Vikings': Harald Fairhair and Halfdan the Black
Photos: promotional materials of History Channel
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6th December 2018 at 4:05 pm
Congratulations on writing such a popular post. I just read your tweet about it. It's so cool when posts take off like this!
How violent has this show been so far? It sound excellent. Some violence is okay, but I can't watch really gory/violent shows like Game of Thrones or The Walking Dead.
Bjørn Larssen says:
7th December 2018 at 11:04 am
I have to admit it's quite violent. The first season features graphic rape scenes – those were later removed, I'm pretty sure History noticed the viewers didn't exactly enjoy them. I never saw "The Walking Dead", but I would say the amount of violence here is similar to "Game of Thrones". Sorry!
I noticed I have a massive problem with any violence involving guns, shooting, basically anything "modern", but if there are axes, swords, and bows I'm all like "yeah give me those close-ups". One of my mind's many quirks.


Filming on West Center Street?
Does anyone know what film is being done on West Center Street near the South Chestnut intersection? Noticed a film crew there for several days now and was wondering what film they were working on if anyone knows. Thanks!
Richie Cabo Designs and Builds New Sustainable O2 Compost System For The NYC Parks Dept.
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"The Mystery of The Magical Cucumber Tree" & "9/11 Survivor Tree" In One Book!
This September 2011 there will be Tri City book signing tour of New York City,Newburgh and Beacon for the release of "The Mystery of the Magical Cucumber Tree" which will be available at Amazon.com through thier Create Space Publishing. The book will also be available on Kindle.Look for the details they will be anounced very soon!
Beacon Flea Market this Sunday!
Hard to believe, but it will be a lot cooler on Sunday! Come and visit early to beat the heat and unearth that treasure!
Still accepting vendor sign-ups for this Sunday - if you feel inclined - throw some boxes into the car and just come on down on Sunday morning - a walk-in space is only $20 - Beacon residents it's $15!
Does anyone know of any good natural swim spots that are NOT in the Hudson and are free? My wife and I just moved to Beacon a couple of years ago and don't know the area too well.
The comment made about the Yankee Clipper is so not true. I don't believe a single word of that nonsense.The Diner has great food, a good staff, and above all it's owners are equally wonderful. It sounds like you had a bad day.
Can anyone recommend the best local dentist? Many thanks for any and all tips!
Just past this rack of womens winter vests at Mountain Tops for 50% off. Check it out!
Puerto Rico is back! We just roasted our first batch from a new supplier in PR and its amazing. It has all the great characteristics that we look for - Rich, Sweet & Smooth with a real nice kick to it. So if your personal jet is still in the shop & you can't make it to the islands this weekend just stop by 504 Main, where you will experience a trip in every drip of our fresh roasted kafe.
Beacon Flea Market - Be a vendor!!
We are looking for vendors to sign up for this Sunday or upcoming Sunday's.
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Bradley Daley
Bradley Daley has won critical and popular praise for some of opera's most expansive tenor roles – Siegfried, Der Kaiser, Otello, Florestan, Canio, Don José and Erik. Also celebrated have been his interpretations of Mao Tse-tung in Nixon in China and the tenor solos in The Dream of Gerontius.
2022 began with a critically acclaimed Siegmund Die Walküre (click here for reviews) with Melbourne Opera, his debut with Longborough Festival Opera, United Kingdom singing the title role in Siegfried to great critical acclaim, and his concert performance singing Siegfried with Melbourne Opera. In 2023 he will sing both Siegfrieds with Melbourne Opera in their long awaited Ring Cycle, and returns to Longborough to sing in Götterdämmerung…he sings the complete Ring there in 2024.
Die Walküre, Richard Wagner | Melbourne Opera | February 2022
In Australia Bradley has been performing major principal roles with Opera Australia – Curley in Of Mice and Men (Green Room Award), Don José in Carmen, Siegmund in Der Ring des Nibelungen; Opera Queensland – Florestan in Fidelio, Rodolfo in La bohème, Dick Johnson in La fanciulla del West; State Opera of South Australia – title role in Otello, Narraboth in Salome, Canio in Pagliacci; Victorian Opera – Mao Tse-tung in Nixon in China (Green Room Award), Erik in Der fliegende Holländer, Walther in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg for the State Opera of South Australia (semi staged Act3 only) and Bob Boles in Peter Grimes for the Brisbane Festival.
Most recently in Germany Bradley has made his debut in the role of Siegfried, Der Ring des Nibelungen for Opera Kiel. In 2018 Bradley returned to the role of Siegfried, this time in Götterdämmerung, culminating in his first complete Ring cycle of this land mark role. In 2019 he made another German debut with the role of Der Kaiser in Strauss's Die Frau ohne Schatten followed by more Siegfried's in another complete Ring cycle for Opera Kiel.
Bradley has been involved in two world premières: he created the role of Staff Officer in English National Opera's The Silver Tassie by Mark Anthony Turnage and the role of Gunther in The Triumph of Spirit over Matter for Muziektheatre Transparent, Belgium.
After making his debut with the English National Opera as Rodolfo in La bohème, Bradley has worked with Opera North, Welsh National Opera, English National Opera, Holland Park Opera, Co-Opera Ireland and performed regularly with Muziektheatre Transparent in Belgium, Compagnia d'Opera Italiana di Milano, Opera Nomade in Paris; in 2005, he was invited to give the first performance of a Western opera at the Hanoi Opera House. Concert appearances have included Festival Hall, the Barbican, Brangwyn Hall in Wales, Großes Festspielhaus Salzburg, Melbourne Town Hall and the concert halls of both the Queensland Arts Centre and the Sydney Opera House.
Concert performances have included Rachmaninoff's The Bells, Dvoràk's Stabat Mater, Verdi's Requiem, Puccini's Messa di Gloria, Beethoven's Symphony No. 9, Die erste Walpurgisnacht for the Prague Music Festival, Messiah with the Britten Sinfonia at Snape Maltings and Elgar's The Kingdom and The Dream of Gerontius at Melbourne Town Hall.
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Sweet Home Alabama – Part 2
Sweet Home Alabama Part 2 – Jennifer Hua
This is a continuation of our experience sending our daughter to the US for a school year. You can read part one here.
There were still many niggling details left to take care of before Katie left for Alabama. We informed her orthodontist in the spring that she was leaving for a year and the doctor decided to remove her braces in July, just before she left for the US, and then put them back on when she returned.
Another issue we had to deal with was Katie's airplane ticket. We were advised to buy a changeable roundtrip ticket. Because we purchased the ticket in April, the computer system was unable to program a return date for beyond March of the following year. So, I had to remember to change her return flight a year later so that she could fly back in July, and for a fee, of course. We were then only limited in that she had to fly back within 365 days of her original flight over to the US.
We also researched temporary travel insurance for her, but it was hard to tell into which category she fell, since she wasn't a college student, or an adult. We really couldn't see a suitable policy for her situation. Luckily, one unexpected benefit of having signed over guardianship to our daughter's host family was that she then qualified to be covered under their employer-sponsored family medical insurance, so they simply added her to their policy!
In the spring we discovered another quirk of the guardianship issue, due to a lack of communication with Katie's host parents. Since I had dropped her off at the family's in late July, I blithely claimed her as a tax dependent on our tax return for that year, thinking that she'd spent the better half of the year with us. However, over in Alabama, her host parents were told by their accountant that since they had acquired parental rights in mid-June, they should claim her as their dependent. Needless to say, they were a bit taken aback to receive a letter from the IRS stating that someone else was claiming her! As it didn't change our taxation at all, I amended our return, attaching a copy of the court papers. And, we agreed that they would also claim her for the following year. I feel very grateful that we had such a good relationship with this family that this could be dealt with without it turning into a big issue. We never bothered to rescind the guardianship order, figuring that Katie would soon be turning 18 and make it a moot point.
Katie had a fantastic year in the US. School, as you might imagine, was a piece of cake, compared to her rigorous French lycée, even given the language issue in the beginning (her English was good, but not yet fluent.) She played her clarinet in the marching band, and was even elected prom queen in the spring! Her family took her camping and boating, and on trips to Civil Rights era sites, Charleston, SC, and NYC. She learned to play the guitar, and came home with the most charming Southern drawl.
Towards the end of her stay, she began to apprehend her return to the French school system. The anglais bilingue office at the lycée had advised us to consider having her stay in the US for two years, so as to establish residency for Alabama's state universities. We thought about it, but weren't ready to make that step yet. Because her American cousins and many of her kayaking friends in Alabama were being schooled at home or online, Katie approached us with her idea of doing online school (CNED) after she returned to France. She wanted more time to spend with her grandparents, do volunteer work, and enjoy life at her pace. We discussed it and got advice from various people, but ultimately decided it was not a good idea, much to her disappointment.
The return to her French lycée was extremely difficult. She landed in 1ѐre S, in a class of 44 students, most of whom she didn't know since they were a year behind her. It took quite a few months before she felt she fit in socially. By Terminale, she had built up a group of friends, but was still suffering academically. She had been a stellar student up through 2nde, but forgot much of her science and math while in the US, and struggled to keep up; the long school days and uncertainty of her future studies made for one confused teenager. Luckily, her teachers worked closely with us.
A few years later, we had the great pleasure to welcome her two American host sisters during the Toussaint vacation and show them the sights in Paris and in the French countryside. I won't forget driving through one picturesque village in the Vexin on the way to Giverny and being asked if people actually lived there! The three girls even bought a drawn portrait of themselves together at Place du Tertre in Montmartre– real sisters! We feel extremely grateful that this family has become true friends of ours.
I hope this may answer any questions you may have regarding logistics involved in sending your child to live in the US. If you choose not to go with an exchange program, for school enrollment it is likely that your only options will be to transfer guardianship, like we did, or enroll in a private school. And, I can't over-emphasize getting in writing the conditions for re-enrollment upon return to France; I know of families that were refused re-enrollment in their zoned school because of overcrowding, and the fact that their child had temporarily left the system. Despite the rough times since our daughter's return, she doesn't regret one minute having gone for a homestay; it is still by far the best way to experience the American culture.
About Jennifer Hua
Jennifer is a stay at home mom to four wonderful children, all now young adults, two of whom were born in France. She also volunteers with AAWE on the Board of Directors – Executive Committee as our Treasurer.
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Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) – Part 1
Getting Permission to Change Schools Part 1
An Overview of the French Education System
Encouraging Bilingualism in Children
Reading With Your Children in English (or any other language)
Here at AAWE, we are bursting with pride (like new parents!) to launch the new 9th edition of our famous AAWE Guide to Education in France.
We've been publishing this baby since 1986 – and each updated edition is like our firstborn's arrival all over again!
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2012 NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Round of 64 Day 1 Evening
I used to sing it a capella.
So the Huskies are a 9 seed and it's better than they deserve. Calhoun is very ill and they're facing 2 years of sanctions. And they're leaving the Big East because a mediocre Throwball team is considered more important than an Arena filling Hoopies program.
Thanks for nothing UConn.
Did I mention defending National Champions?
UConn Husky, symbol of might to the foe.
Fight, fight Connecticut, It's vict'ry, Let's go. (go. go. go)
Connecticut UConn Husky,
Do it again for the White and Blue
So go--go--go Connecticut, Connecticut U.
C-O-N-N-E-C-T-I-C-U-T
Connecticut, Conneticut Husky, Connecticut Husky
Connecticut C-O-N-N-U!
Time Network Seed Team Record Seed Team Record Region
6:30 pm TBS 1 Kentucky 32-2 16 Western Kentucky 16-18 South
7 pm CBS 5 Wichita State 27-5 12 VCU 28-6 South
7 pm TNT 7 Gonzaga 25-6 10 West Virginia 19-13 East
7:30 pm True 3 Baylor 27-7 14 South Dakota State 27-7 South
9:30 pm TBS 8 Iowa State 22-10 9 Connecticut 20-13 South
9:30 pm CBS 4 Indiana 25-8 13 New Mexico State 26-9 South
9:30 pm TNT 2 Ohio State 27-7 15 Loyola Maryland 24-8 East
10 pm True 6 UNLV 26-8 11 Colorado 23-11 South
This schedule looks impossible to me but I have 2 sources.
Tags: 2012 NCAA Men's Basketball Championship, ek Holiday, NCAA Men's Basketball Championship
Goldman Sachs "Old Days" Not So Rosy Either
A Goldman Sachs executive resigned in a lengthly and scathing op-ed in the New York Times. Greg Smith worked at Goldman Sachs for 12 years, rising to executive director and head of the firm's United States equity derivatives business in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. His latter shreds Goldman Sachs policies and employees:
To put the problem in the simplest terms, the interests of the client continue to be sidelined in the way the firm operates and thinks about making money. Goldman Sachs is one of the world's largest and most important investment banks and it is too integral to global finance to continue to act this way. The firm has veered so far from the place I joined right out of college that I can no longer in good conscience say that I identify with what it stands for […]
How did we get here? The firm changed the way it thought about leadership. Leadership used to be about ideas, setting an example and doing the right thing. Today, if you make enough money for the firm (and are not currently an ax murderer) you will be promoted into a position of influence.
What are three quick ways to become a leader? a) Execute on the firm's "axes," which is Goldman-speak for persuading your clients to invest in the stocks or other products that we are trying to get rid of because they are not seen as having a lot of potential profit. b) "Hunt Elephants." In English: get your clients – some of whom are sophisticated, and some of whom aren't – to trade whatever will bring the biggest profit to Goldman. Call me old-fashioned, but I don't like selling my clients a product that is wrong for them. c) Find yourself sitting in a seat where your job is to trade any illiquid, opaque product with a three-letter acronym.
Smith lays the blame for this climate of greed at the feet Goldman's CRO, Lloyd Blankfein and the company's president, Gary Cohn.:
When the history books are written about Goldman Sachs, they may reflect that the current chief executive officer, Lloyd C. Blankfein, and the president, Gary D. Cohn, lost hold of the firm's culture on their watch. I truly believe that this decline in the firm's moral fiber represents the single most serious threat to its long-run survival.
Matt Taibbi at Rolling Stone asks, like Forbes, should clients fire Goldman:
Banking, and finance, is a business that has to be first and foremost about trust. The reason you're paying your broker/money manager such exorbitant sums is because that's the value of integrity and honesty: You're paying for the comfort of knowing he has your best interests at heart.
But what we've found out in the last years is that these Too-Big-To-Fail megabanks like Goldman no longer see the margin in being truly trustworthy. The game now is about getting paid as much as possible and as quickly as possible, and if your client doesn't like the way you managed his money, well, fuck him – let him try to find someone else on the market to deal him straight.
These guys have lost the fear of going out of business, because they can't go out of business. After all, our government won't let them. Beyond the bailouts, they're all subsisting daily on massive loads of free cash from the Fed. No one can touch them, and sadly, most of the biggest institutional clients see getting clipped for a few points by Goldman or Chase as the cost of doing business.
Speaking at the Atlantic Economy Summet in Washington, DC, former Federal Reserve Chairman, Paul Volker, said that Smith's letter proves the need for the his rule
"[Trading] is a business that leads to a lot of conflicts of interest. You're promised compensation when you're doing well, and that's very attractive to young people. All these firms can attract the best of American graduates, whether they're philosophy majors or financial engineers, it didn't make any difference," Volcker said.
"A lot of that talent was siphoned off onto Wall Street. But now we have the question of how much of that activity is really constructive, in terms of improving productivity in the GDP," Volcker said. "These were brilliant years for Wall Street by one perspective, but were they brilliant years for the economy? There's no evidence of that. The rate of economic growth did not pick up, the rate of productivity did not pick up, the average household had no increase in their income over this period, or virtually no increase."
Volcker noted that commercial banks hold the money of average Americans, and are insured by the federal government. "Should the government be subsidizing or protecting institutions that…are essentially engaged in speculative activities, often at the expense of customer relations?"
Yves Smith at naked capitalism, who also has been at the Atlantic conference weighed in that those good old days of the '90's weren't as "rosy" as Smith remembers:
Earth to Greg: the old days were not quite as rosy as you suggest, but it is true that Goldman once cared about the value of its franchise, and that constrained its behavior. So it was "long term greedy," eager to grab any profit opportunity but concerned about its reputation. I knew someone who was senior in what Goldman called human capital management, and even though, in classic old Goldman style, he was loath to say anything bad about anyone, he was clearly disgusted of Lloyd Blankfein and the crew that took over leadership after Hank Paulson, John Thain and John Thornton departed. Before the firm before had gone to some lengths to preserve its culture and was thoughtful about how to operate the firm. One head of a well respected investment bank told me in the mid 1990s: "It isn't that Goldman has better people. All the top firms have good people. It's that they make the effort to manage themselves better than anyone else." That apparently went out the window when Blankfein came in. My contact said all his cohort cared about was how much money they could make in the current year.
Wall St. responded defensively calling Smith a "small timer" having a "midlife crisis". That "crisis" so far has lost Goldman $2.5 billion in its market value:
The shares dropped 3.4 percent in New York trading yesterday, the third-biggest decline in the 81-company Standard & Poor's 500 Financials Index, after London-based Greg Smith made the accusations in a New York Times op-ed piece.
Stephen Colbert "disapproves" of Greg Smith, after all Lloyd Blankfeid said Goldman was just doing "God's work."
Tags: Banking, Economy, Goldman Sachs, Greg Smith, Politics, TMC Politics, Yves Smith
President Obama's happy numbers and the reality-based community
by joe shikspack
A few days ago the BLS released some new employment numbers and as soon as they were released, the spinning began. Bloomberg reported that the new numbers augured well for President Obama's re-election:
A surge in new jobs last month that held the U.S. unemployment rate to 8.3 percent highlights a strengthening economy that bolsters President Barack Obama as he approaches the November election .
The jobs report "is another plus for the president," said Stu Rothenberg, editor of the nonpartisan Rothenberg Political Report in Washington.
"These numbers suggest the economy is moving in the right direction," he said. "It's likely to make people more optimistic, and that's always, always good for an incumbent president."
Amidst all of the spinning, the reality-based community ought to be asking itself, "do these numbers really mean anything?"
Tags: Economy, President Obama, social security, Stimulus, U3, U6, unemployment
2012 NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Round of 64 Day 1 Afternoon
It blows my mind that Syracuse is a #1 seed. They're not that good. Oh well, Beoheim will find a way to screw it up from the foul line just like he always does. 7 footer Fab Melo will not be playing AND they have the coveted trueTV spot. Go Orange.
Last Night's Results–
Result Seed Team Record Seed Team Record Region
71-59 16 * Vermont 24-11 16 Lamar 23-12 Mid West
65-54 12 * South Florida 21-13 12 California 24-10 Mid West
Round of 64 Day 1, Afternoon–
Noon CBS 6 Murray State 30-1 11 Colorado State 20-11 West
12:30 pm True 8 Kansas State 21-10 9 Southern Miss 25-8 East
1:30 pm TBS 4 Louisville 26-9 13 Davidson 25-7 West
2 pm TNT 4 Wisconsin 24-9 13 Montana 12-16 East
2:30 pm CBS 3 Marquette 25-7 14 BYU 26-8 West
3 pm True 1 Syracuse 31-2 16 UNC Asheville 24-9 East
4 pm TBS 5 New Mexico 27-6 12 Long Beach St. 25-8 West
4:30 pm TNT 5 Vanderbilt 24-10 12 Harvard 26-4 East
A better fight song–
I know it's very bad form to quote one's own reviews, but I would like to mention something that The New York Times said about me a year ago which I've always treasured — they said:
Mr. Lehrer's muse is not fettered by such inhibiting factors as taste.
Now we come to that peculiar bit of americana known as the football fight song. I was reminded not too long ago, upon returning from my lesson with the scrabble pro at the Harvard Club in Boston, in the days of my undergraduacy long ago when there used to be these very long Saturday afternoons in the fall with nothing to do — the library was closed — just waiting around for the cocktail parties to begin. and on occasions like that, some of us used to wander over to the… I believe it was called the stadium, to see if anything might be going on over there. and one did come to realize that the football fight songs that one hears in comparable stadia have a tendency to be somewhat uncouth, and even violent, and that it would be refreshing, to say the least, to find one that was a bit more genteel. And here it is, dedicated to my own alma mater, and called Fight Fiercely, Harvard.
Fight fiercely, Harvard, fight, fight, fight! Demonstrate to them our skill.
Albeit they possess the might, nonetheless we have the will.
How we shall celebrate our victory, We shall invite the whole team up for tea (how jolly!)
Hurl that spheroid down the field, and fight, fight, fight!
Fight fiercely, Harvard, fight, fight, fight! Impress them with our prowess, do!
Oh, fellows, do not let the Crimson down, Be of stout heart and true.
Come on, chaps, fight for Harvard's glorious name, Won't it be peachy if we win the game? (oh, goody!)
Let's try not to injure them, but fight, fight, fight! (let's not be rough though)
And do fight fiercely! Fight, fight, fight!
A better fight song-
Robert Reich: The Widening Wealth Divide, and Why We Need a Surtax on the Super Wealthy
Let Santorum and Romney duke it out for who will cut taxes on the wealthy the most and shred the public services everyone else depends on.
The rest of us ought to be having a serious discussion about a wealth tax. Because if you really want to know what's happening to the American economy you need to look at household wealth – not just incomes.
The Fed just reported that household wealth increased from October through December. That's the first gain in three quarters.
Good news? Take closer look. The entire gain came from increases in stock prices. Those increases in stock values more than made up for continued losses in home values.
Paul Krugman: The Republican Party's Long Decline Leads to Irrationality
The economist Brad DeLong notes that the Republican Party we now see in the primaries has been building for a couple of decades: "I went to Washington in 1993 to work for what we called Lloyd Bentsen's Treasury as part of the sane technocratic bipartisan center," Mr. DeLong wrote in a blog post on Feb 28. "And it took me only two months – two months! – to conclude that America's best hope for sane technocratic governance required the elimination of the Republican Party from our political system as rapidly as possible … Nothing since has led me to question or change that belief – only to strengthen it."
I can't help thinking of my own decade-plus in the journalistic trenches. Early on in my tenure at The New York Times, I felt I had no choice but to point out the inconvenient truth that the official line of the commentariat was all wrong. George W. Bush was not a nice, blunt, honest guy who happened to be a conservative; he was a serial liar pursuing a hard-line agenda, who, among other things, deliberately misled the United States into war.
Gail Collins: The Senate Overachieves
Good news, frustrated American citizens! Congress is not a clogged up, hidebound legislative slug after all.
Bills were flying through the Senate on Wednesday like great flocks of geese soaring into the turbines of a passenger jet.
First, the senators passed legislation that would keep all the federally financed highway programs from coming to a screeching halt when money runs out at the end of this month. (Completely unnecessary disaster averted!)
Then, the party leaders came to an agreement on easing a bottleneck of uncontroversial judicial nominations. (People with no enemies cleared for hiring!)
Jeremy Scahill: Why Is President Obama Keeping a Journalist in Prison in Yemen?
On February 2, 2011, President Obama called Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh. The two discussed counterterrorism cooperation and the battle against Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. At the end of the call, according to a White House read-out, Obama "expressed concern" over the release of a man named Abdulelah Haider Shaye, whom Obama said "had been sentenced to five years in prison for his association with AQAP." It turned out that Shaye had not yet been released at the time of the call, but Saleh did have a pardon for him prepared and was ready to sign it. It would not have been unusual for the White House to express concern about Yemen's allowing AQAP suspects to go free. Suspicious prison breaks of Islamist militants in Yemen had been a regular occurrence over the past decade, and Saleh has been known to exploit the threat of terrorism to leverage counterterrorism dollars from the United States. But this case was different. Abdulelah Haider Shaye is not an Islamist militant or an Al Qaeda operative. He is a journalist. [..]
For many journalists in Yemen, the publicly available "facts" about how Shaye was "assisting" AQAP indicate that simply interviewing Al Qaeda-associated figures, or reporting on civilian deaths caused by US strikes, is a crime in the view of the US government. "I think the worst thing about the whole case is that not only is an independent journalist being held in proxy detention by the US," says Craig, "but that they've successfully put paid to other Yemeni journalists investigating air strikes against civilians and, most importantly, holding their own government to account. Shaye did both of those things." She adds: "With the huge increase in government air strikes and US drone attacks recently, Yemen needs journalists like Shaye to report on what's really going on."
Mark Weisbot: America's Subversion of Haiti's Democracy Continues
When the "international community" blames Haiti for its political troubles, the underlying concept is usually that Haitians are not ready for democracy. But it is Washington that is not ready for democracy in Haiti.
Haitians have been ready for democracy for many decades. They were ready when they got massacred at polling stations, trying to vote in 1987, after the fall of the murderous Duvalier dictatorship. They were ready again in 1990, when they voted by a two-thirds majority for the leftist Catholic priest Jean-Bertrand Aristide, only to see him overthrown seven months later in a military coup. The coup was later found to have been organized by people paid by the United States Central Intelligence Agency.
Theresa Brown: Hospitals Aren't Hotels
YOU should never do this procedure without pain medicine," the senior surgeon told a resident. "This is one of the most painful things we do."
She wasn't scolding, just firm, and she was telling the truth. The patient needed pleurodesis, a treatment that involves abrading the lining of the lungs in an attempt to stop fluid from collecting there. A tube inserted between the two layers of protective lung tissue drains the liquid, and then an irritant is slowly injected back into the tube. The tissue becomes inflamed and sticks together, the idea being that fluid cannot accumulate where there's no space.
I have watched patients go through pleurodesis, and even with pain medication, they suffer. We injure them in this controlled, short-term way to prevent long-term recurrence of a much more serious problem: fluid around the lungs makes it very hard to breathe.
On This Day In History March 15
March 15 is the 74th day of the year (75th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 291 days remaining until the end of the year.
In the Roman calendar, March 15 was known as the Ides of March.
On this day in 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson addressed a joint session of Congress to urge the passage of legislation guaranteeing voting rights for all.
Using the phrase "we shall overcome," borrowed from African-American leaders struggling for equal rights, Johnson declared that "every American citizen must have an equal right to vote." Johnson reminded the nation that the Fifteenth Amendment, which was passed after the Civil War, gave all citizens the right to vote regardless of race or color. But states had defied the Constitution and erected barriers. Discrimination had taken the form of literacy, knowledge or character tests administered solely to African-Americans to keep them from registering to vote.
"Their cause must be our cause too," Johnson said. "Because it is not just Negroes, but really it is all of us, who must overcome the crippling legacy of bigotry and injustice. And we shall overcome."
The speech was delivered eight days after racial violence erupted in Selma, Alabama. Civil rights leader Rev. Martin Luther King and over 500 supporters were attacked while planning a march to Montgomery to register African-Americans to vote. The police violence that erupted resulted in the death of a King supporter, a white Unitarian Minister from Boston named James J. Reeb. Television news coverage of the event galvanized voting rights supporters in Congress.
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 (42 U.S.C. §§ 1973 – 1973aa-6 is a landmark piece of national legislation in the United States that outlawed discriminatory voting practices that had been responsible for the widespread disenfranchisement of African Americans in the U.S.
Echoing the language of the 15th Amendment, the Act prohibits states from imposing any "voting qualification or prerequisite to voting, or standard, practice, or procedure … to deny or abridge the right of any citizen of the United States to vote on account of race or color." Specifically, Congress intended the Act to outlaw the practice of requiring otherwise qualified voters to pass literacy tests in order to register to vote, a principal means by which Southern states had prevented African-Americans from exercising the franchise The Act was signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson, a Democrat, who had earlier signed the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law.
The Act established extensive federal oversight of elections administration, providing that states with a history of discriminatory voting practices (so-called "covered jurisdictions") could not implement any change affecting voting without first obtaining the approval of the Department of Justice, a process known as preclearance. These enforcement provisions applied to states and political subdivisions (mostly in the South) that had used a "device" to limit voting and in which less than 50 percent of the population was registered to vote in 1964. The Act has been renewed and amended by Congress four times, the most recent being a 25-year extension signed into law by President George W. Bush in 2006.
The Act is widely considered a landmark in civil-rights legislation, though some of its provisions have sparked political controversy. During the debate over the 2006 extension, some Republican members of Congress objected to renewing the preclearance requirement (the Act's primary enforcement provision), arguing that it represents an overreach of federal power and places unwarranted bureaucratic demands on Southern states that have long since abandoned the discriminatory practices the Act was meant to eradicate. Conservative legislators also opposed requiring states with large Spanish-speaking populations to provide bilingual ballots. Congress nonetheless voted to extend the Act for twenty-five years with its original enforcement provisions left intact.
My Little Town 20120314: The Halls
by Translator, aka Dr. David W. Smith
Those of you that read this regular series know that I am from Hackett, Arkansas, just a mile or so from the Oklahoma border, and just about 10 miles south of the Arkansas River. It was a rural sort of place that did not particularly appreciate education, and just zoom onto my previous posts to understand a bit about it.
When I was a lad there were two general stores in town, the one that Gene and Katy Pittman ran and the one up the street that Mr. and Mrs. Rutledge owned. Gene and Katy had the smaller one, and it was literally a mom and pop outfit. The Rutledge's store was quite a bit larger and had a greater variety of things, like clothes, than the other one.
The Rutledges employed Mr. Hall as a butcher. Mr. Hall was at the time around 60 or so. They lived only a few blocks from my grandmum, and Mrs. Hall was the classic stay at home spouse, but she did teach piano lessons in her home. They were really nice people, and Mr. Hall was into radio in a big way. I was also interested in radio, so we would sit in his shop and he would show me how to repair them. He did that as a sideline business and he also collected antique radios.
Tags: Arkansas, Arkansas History, Hackett, Learning, Mr. and Mr. Hall, My Little Town, Personal Storytellers, Teaching, Translator


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Reaction Kinetics of MoCo/Al2O3-Meso-ZSM-5 Catalyst for Ultra-Deep Hydrodesulfurization of Diesel Fuel
Liu Li
Yang Chengmin Min
Duan Weiyu
Sun Jin
Yao Yunhai
Li Shicai
Guo Rong
Dalian Research Institute of Petroleum and Petrochemicals, SINOPEC, Dalian, China
10.22078/jpst.2020.4060.1647
Series of Mo-Co type catalysts were supported on Al2O3, Al2O3-meso-ZSM-5-Al2O3-typical-ZSM-5 and tested in the hydrodesulfurization (HDS) of straight-run diesel feedstocks. The materials were characterized by N2 physisorption, X-ray diffraction, scanning electron microscopy, NH3 adsorption and temperature-programmed desorption, and Py-adsorbed IR spectra. The dynamics of the main steps in the HDS reaction were calculated, and seven lumped kinetic equations were established containing reaction pathways of hydrogenation (HYD), direct desulfurization (DDS) and alkyl transfer on the catalyst. The Levenberg-Marquardt (LM) algorithm method was used then to solve the resulting differential equations. The results showed that the HDS activity of C12-ZSM5 was highest because it had large VP and DP, and moderate acid content, which could improve the alkyl transfer activity and the macromolecular sulfide diffusion. By increasing the operating temperatures, the sulfur removal through the alkyl transfer route on C12-ZSM5 catalyst significantly increased, and the removal of sulfur content through alkyl transfer at 400 °C and 4.0 MPa or 6.0 MPa was 86 or 88%, respectively. Furthermore, the increase of sulfur removal confirmed that the alkyl transfer route was dominant at a deep HDS level at a high operating temperature.
Mo-Co Type Catalyst
ZSM Zeolite
Hydrodesulfurization
Kagami N, Vogelaar B M, Langeveld A D (2005)Reaction pathways on NiMo/Al2O3 catalysts for hydrodesulfurization of diesel fuel, Applied Catalysis A, 93:11-23.##
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The factor 16 arises from the fact that all quantities are COMPLEX*16.
Once again all quantities are COMPLEX*16.
Try to reduce the memory requirements by reducing the corresponding parameters. See section 10 for a discussion on the minimal requirement of these parameters.


Now the smartphones which we in our daily life are much more capable than we think. The smartphones of today's time can do the job that the previous generation PCs can't. One of those work is video editing which was done by good computers in previous times. If you do not have a laptop now and want to edit videos on your smartphone then you will need a video editor app. There are plenty of video editor apps available on play store but each one of them has their own specialties and drawbacks.
We at TechYorker are regularly trying video editor apps from a while now and Today we are going to suggest you 5 best Android video Editor apps in 2019 to complete all the video editing on the Go. Let's jump into the list.
First Video Editor App in the list is the Kinemaster – Pro Video Editor. The is a really awesome app when it comes to pro video editing in android devices. The app is filled with almost all the pro feature which a video editor requires in video editing.
The app supports multiple layers of video, images, and text, as well as precise cutting and trimming, multi-track audio, precise volume envelope control, color LUT filters, 3D transitions, and much more. You can download more effects, royalty free music, overlays, stickers and more from the KineMaster Asset Store. The app is available in trial mode if you want to use it for free and will provide you a watermark of KineMaster. To remove the watermark you need to buy it.
Download: KineMaster – Pro Video Editor.
The second place in the list has been filled by the Power Director – Video Editor App, Best Video Maker. This is another full features video editor app for your android device. The app is a full featured editing app which is going to help you a lot in video editing on android with the support for multiple tracks in the timeline, voice-overs, chroma key, etc.
The Power Director app has photo and video editor for quick editing, various video effects including chroma key, in-built video and photo collage maker, movie maker with the support for music and voice-overs, Video exporting at 1080p and 4K resolution. The app is available for free trial and will leave a watermark in the final video and the trial app gives the facility to export just upto 720p resolution. To have full features you have to purchase it.
Download: PowerDirector – Video Editor App, Best Video Maker.
If you guys are finding for a simpler video editor with just a little bit of customization options to do a simple video editing for free then the Adobe Premiere Clip is a great option for you. The app has been by Adobe itself and gives you a really simple environment for editing videos on your android device.
The feature of the app includes automatic video creation by which you can set your images to the beat of the music or you can manually trim and cut the videos as per your desire with its inbuilt editor. The app also provides you the facility to insert lightings and colours in the clips and photos and also provides stock musics to add in the video or can add your own music too. Adobe Premiere Clip also gives the facility to sync the project from the Premiere Clip to the Adobe Premiere Pro.
Another simple video editor for making awesome simply edited videos is the Filmore Go – Free Video Editor. Filmora Go is a pretty powerful video editor application, which will not stamp a watermark or place a time limit on your clip. With FilmoraGo, making video with music and effects, FilmoraGo helps you make funny videos and relive your memories anywhere. And your amazing video could be easily shared to your friends on Youtube, Instagram, Facebook, WhatsAPP etc.
Filmora Go is a simple video editor which provides you fully featured video studio with in-built stylish themes, add music in the videos from Filmora Go's library of licensed songs or you can add from your device too. Video editing includes reverse play, Trim by Duration, Slow/Fast motion editor, Duplicate, Mute, Rotate, Delete.
Download: Filmora Go – Free Video Editor.
If you are in this video editing business you sure have heard the name of Action Camera maker Go Pro. Qwik app is a totally free video editor by Go Pro. This is a very simple video editor with an easy to use interface. If you want to edit on the go this app is for you. Talking about the features of Qwik. You can add up to 75 photos and small video clips from anywhere you want your gallery, Google Photos or Dropbox. It supports importing footage from Your Go Pro camera. After adding all the footage you want to edit the start editing process by using given themes. It has 23 themes with transitions and graphics to choose and you can customize font and graphics of themes.
Other editing options like reorder video clips, trimming unwanted shots, and rotating footage and photos are given. completing all the editing things you can add any music you want. Qwik provides a collection of hundred plus free music to use in your video. After adding music complete editing process by exporting that video to your smartphone in Full HD or HD resolution. You can even share edited video directly to your social media profiles. In my recommendation, Qwik is one of the best free video editors available on the play store. It has over 50 Million installs and developers are still kind enough by not offering any ads in it.
So This is our list of 5 best android video editor apps in 2019. There are many other editors available on play store but we can not include all of them in a list of 5. If you want to try some more there are video editor apps like VideoShow, Viva Video and Inshort you can try them as well. If you find this post useful then bookmark our blog and keep visiting TechYorker for all things tech. Thanks For Reading.


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Q: What is the computational cost of reduced row echelon and finding the null space? I'm taking computational linear algebra, and haven't been able to find too much information about the computational cost (in terms of m=rows and n=cols) of these two routines:
Reduced Row Echelon Form on a Matrix A
Finding the null space of Matrix A
Any help would be great!
Thanks!

A: Usually one does not fine the exact null space of a matrix A.  I don't know of an algorithm that actually computes the reduced row echelon form of a matrix.
Rather, there is something like an "approximate" null space to a matrix.  The approximate null space I'm talking about is the set of singular vectors corresponding to small singular values.
The computational cost of finding the approximate null space depends on how stable you want your method to be.  Three commonly used techniques are LU decomposition, QR decomposition, and Singular Value Decomposition (SVD).  LU decomposition is the fastest method, but it's the most unstable.  Then QR decomposition.  SVD is the most stable but the slowest method.

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possible. I can't tell you how much pizza we ate...for almost every single meal!
comparison to what I had in New York.
it comes to the dough? The taste, thickness, doughy-ness, etc?
I didn't get a chance to take a picture when it first came out because the guy who came out with the pizza was so quick and started to serve it for us. First of all, I will say, the service was very good, Marcus our waiter was great. Polite and attentive.
We had a small group eating so we just ordered one large pie. Pepperoni on the whole and half with mushrooms and onions. Normally, when I check out a pizzeria, I always get a plain cheese so that I can really taste the sauce and dough...and get a true sense of the texture of the dough/crust.
Marcus had come over after we had gotten our pizza and told us that he had told them to hold our pizza since we were still working on our salad. Our pizza wasn't super hot. The flavor of the pizza and sauce were nice, the little stubby rounds of pepperoni were tasty. I think all of us love seeing the string of cheese trail from our mouth to the slice as we take that first bite. But the cheese was a little tough, like it had melted and cooled down too much and then became chewy. That was a bit of a let down. Ok...so maybe it doesn't have to leave a trail...but to be chewy...that's a big no no for me.
The crust was a bit too doughy for me, as if it wasn't cooked long enough and sadly, a bit soggy and was wet on the bottom too. I wish that the pizza was cooked a tad longer.
I know, it sounds like the pizza wasn't the best...and truly, it wasn't. And to be super honest...even though it had these issues, BUT...I will give them the benefit of the doubt in this one instance and say that they did hold the pizza and did not serve it straight out of the oven. I would like to go back again and get just a plain cheese pizza and ask them to stretch it out a tad thinner or else cook it a bit longer to get that crust fully cooked. I know that the potential is there so. I was watching all the other pizzas come out and they all had just a bit more color to them and looked like they had a bit of crunch to it. Can you tell that I am really trying to be positive and hopeful about this place? I've heard other friends say that they had the pizza at the Eastern location and that it was great. Maybe I need to take a drive across town to compare. Whatever the case...I hope that my next experience, and yes, there will be one...is much better.
I wish this review could've revealed the best pizza in Vegas, but in comparison to what we had in New York, it fell short. But I do believe it has the potential! Hey...I didn't even ask our waiter if they ship the dough or the water our from NY. You know how important that is!
Anyhow...I will return...I can't help it...I gotta see if they can live up to the standards and reputation they created in NY...or as my friend Heather told me...Hoboken, NJ. I'm rooting for them!! Because I want some awesome pies damn it!
And if they don't...I am still searching and hoping that someone will bring the perfect pie to Vegas. Is it possible?
the last time I had Grimaldi's I was at the table closest to the oven. When the pie came up, it was so hot some of the cheese still bubbled.
I think even the best of pies (Mozza, Olio, Vito's, etc.) can't be left to cool. That's just too bad as Grimaldi's the closest LA has to a NY charcoal fired pizza.
I was actually just about to write up another post about my visit back to Grimaldi's and you'll be happy to know that the pizza was really excellent and was brought out right away... hot, bubbling cheese.
I know I have somewhere to go when I'm here in Vegas for great pizza.


Are you a Money Mule?
Most people think they are too smart to become a victim of a scam, never mind become a money mule for a criminal. But it is happening on a regular basis and you need to know what to watch for to make sure that it never happens to you.
Usually the money mule scam involves the criminals posting an online job advertisement, often for a position such as "shipping manager" or "financial manager", claiming that no special knowledge or skills are necessary…just that you need to have a bank account. This should be a big red flag right there for the job applicant, as they are about to be turned into a money mule.
If the applicant decides to work for the fake company, they might even be asked to sign official looking documents, as the scammers want to make it seem like a legitimate business. What happens next is that the money mules are then asked to deposit money into their own account. These funds have been illegally obtained, and then the money mules are asked to wire the money to someone else, minus a commission payment for themselves. They are illegally transferring stolen money.
Seems like an easy way to make a bit of money, right? Wrong. The commission that the money mules received as payment for their "work" will be recovered by police who will no doubt find the money mules, as they are always the easiest part of this criminal investigation to track down. While the criminals who have orchestrated the scam remain safely hidden behind the money mule, usually in a different country, the money mules bank account will be closed and they will have a difficult time getting a new one opened after their part in the criminal activity.
It is important, even when you are looking for a job, to be wary of offers from companies from out of the country as it is difficult to verify that they are exactly who they say they are. Becoming a money mule is not the way to go.
It is important to always remember…if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.


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Here at 3YO we subscribe to the philosophy of "for real or not at all". In other words when you are inspired by some great idea, opportunity or goal then you should commit to whatever it takes to see the idea through.
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So how many calories in Jack Daniels are there, you ask? Lets take a look.
Jack Daniels has 66 calories per ounce. The average shot is 1.5 ounces. That means a shot of Jack Daniels whiskey has 99 calories in it. Thats quite a lot given the small serving size of just 1.5 ounces. Jack Daniels is commonly mixed with cola. One 12 ounce can of Coke has 145 calories in it. Combine that with 99 calories from a shot and youre looking at a staggering 244 calories!
If you want to enjoy a Jack and Coke without totally blowing your weight loss efforts then consider using Diet Cola and just a one ounce shot. That keeps the total number of calories at just 66. Quite a bit less than the 244. Alcohol can be consumed as part of a healthy diet. Many studies, including one done by Harvard University, even show that small amounts of alcohol on a regular basis are good for you because they reduce the risk of cancer. Health experts recommend people trying to lose weight to limit their alcohol to no more than two drinks per week. Why? Because alcohol has empty calories in it that provide no nutrition that add up fast.
Just make sure to limit your consumption and mix the drink with low calorie options.


Medical shift scheduling is stressful. Without a process in place, it can be a magnet for frustration and feeling overwhelmed. Morale and efficiency take a hit, from the healthcare personnel on down to the scheduler who has to deal with the confusion.
It doesn't have to be like that, though. Medical scheduling software can streamline the actual process for delivering a schedule. But first the scheduler needs to develop a method for handling the entire procedure.
When utilizing medical scheduling software, here are five tips that will help you put together a workable system for your healthcare facility, whether it is for overall physician scheduling or emergency medicine scheduling.
#1. Suit the person to the job. When personnel get routed to departments and positions that they are not suited to, either by preference or because of their training and skills, productivity and morale can plummet. Even worse, patients may not get the level of care they need and deserve.
Be clear about the skills, training, certifications and talents of each person on your staff list. Learn what each person does best and input that data into your scheduling software. Customizing your schedules through medical scheduling software to reflect the preferences and abilities of your staff will make a big difference.
#2. Set up a reliable communication system. Make it easy for staff to let you know when they are available, and more importantly, when they aren't. Illness happens, people need emergency time off, and vacations occur throughout the year.
The sooner you know about it, the easier it will be to produce a new schedule that takes this information into consideration. Even the best scheduling software is only as good as the information you feed into it.
#3. Make your schedule easy to find. Put it up on the company website. Email it to each person, or at least send a reminder when the new schedule is up. It is easy for them to get busy and forget to check it.
#4. Keep your staff list is up to date. Have a system in place so that you are immediately informed when people leave or are not available for extended periods. Make sure you are notified right away of new hires.
Your staff list should include names, addresses, contact information, training, skills, preferences, overtime restrictions, certifications, and whether they are part-time or full-time.
#5. Always have a Plan B. If someone doesn't show up—and even in the best run facilities it will happen—the people affected need to know what to do right away. Design your schedule with an emergency backup already in place.
Put together an availability chart, accessible at any time by the people who need it. Make sure the rules affecting shift trades and absences are posted where everyone can see them.
Your shift scheduling software makes life incomprehensibly easier when compared to manually figuring out who should be where at what time. But you still need to have a system for scheduling in place. This requires research and great communication with staff. It is well worth the time and effort involved. Frustration levels will drop and productivity will skyrocket.


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Q: Query com ordenação condicional no MySQL Tenho uma tabela chamada comentarios, formada pelas colunas: id, descricao, criado_em e comentario_pai, como é possível ver na foto.

Preciso criar uma query, na qual sejam impressas as respostas depois do seu comentário (comentario_pai), exemplo:

*

*Comentario 1

*Resposta 1

*Resposta 3

*Comentario 2

*Resposta 2

Tentei construir algumas querys utilizando o order by, porém não obtive sucesso.

A: O problema é o nulo no campo comentario_pai.
Uma das formas de resolver é usando o COALESCE:
 select * from `comentarios` order by coalesce(comentario_pai, id);

Veja o funcionamento no sql Fiddle

COALESCE é uma função que que faz parte da especificação SQL-92. Todos os motores de banco de dados que respeitam essa especifição suportam essa função.
O que COALESCE faz?
Retorna o primeiro elemento não Nulo da lista passada como argumento da função. Se todos os elementos são Nulos então o resultado é Nulo.
Exemplo:
Select coalesce(campo1,campo2,'N.D.')

Se campo1 é não Nulo retorne o campo1, se não, avalie o conteúdo do campo2.
Se campo2 é não Nulo retorne o campo2, se não, retorne 'N.D.'.
Aqui está a estrutura interna da funçao coalesce:
COALESCE(value1, value2, value3, ...)

equivale à:
CASE WHEN value1 IS NOT NULL THEN value1
     WHEN value2 IS NOT NULL THEN value2
     WHEN value3 IS NOT NULL THEN value3
     ...
     END

A: Crie um campo que tenha sempre o valor principal. Como no exemplo abaixo e ordene por ele.
Select *,
     CASE WHEN comentario_pai is null THEN id
     ELSE comentario_pai END Ordem
FROM Comentarios
Order By
     CASE WHEN comentario_pai is null THEN id
     ELSE comentario_pai END