In my last post, we reviewed the challenges experienced by a project manager who saw an opportunity to improve the organization's performance and took it, without official support. He launched a project to reduce the costs and time required to test the functionality for the consumer electronics device he and his team were supporting. It was a learning experience.
In this post, instead of the usual case, with the help of Ruby Tomar, we'll look at a most informative book, the insights the author gleans about how to implement sustainable change and how you can leverage the Project Pre-Check building blocks or build your own to deliver your own sustainable change.
The book is The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right by Atul Gawande. He is a MacArthur Fellow, a general and endocrine surgeon at the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, a staff writer for The New Yorker, and an associate professor at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard School of Public Health. He also leads the World Health Organization's Safe Surgery Saves Lives program.
Dr. Gawande poses a question many of us have asked over the years – how do seemingly intelligent, knowledgeable, talented and motivated individuals and groups manage to get so many things wrong. In his book, Dr. Gawande refers to the work of two philosophers, Samuel Gorovitz and Alasdair MacIntyre, in search of answers. They suggested a couple of reasons for failure. One is ignorance, where we don't have the necessary knowledge and skills to do the job. The second is ineptitude, where we do have the knowledge and skills required but fail to apply it correctly. How do we fix that?
The challenges Dr. Gawande faces are similar to the challenges we face managing business and technology change. The best practices he uncovers and the lessons he learns are also applicable to our program, project and change management efforts. Dr Gawande reveals the power of a seemingly simple tool, the checklist, to improve performance, reduce costs, increase returns and save lives in a wide array of endeavours including surgery, emergency room settings, construction, natural disasters, restaurants, finance, investing and many other circumstances.
We have borrowed extensively from Dr. Gawande's book, extracting directly and paraphrasing liberally to give you a sense of the challenges his team faced and the amazing results they achieved. We thank him for his amazing achievements, terrific insights and generous support.
The World Health Organization (WHO) contacted Dr. Gawande in 2006 to help them develop a global program to reduce the risks of surgery. "Officials were picking up indications that the volume of surgery was increasing worldwide and that a significant portion of the care was so unsafe as to be a public danger. Worldwide, at least seven million people a year are left disabled and at least one million dead—a level of harm that approaches that of malaria, tuberculosis, and other traditional public health concerns." Dr. Gawande accepted the challenge.
The Columbus Children's Hospital had developed a checklist to reduce surgical infections. After three months, 89 percent of appendicitis patients got the right antibiotic at the right time. After ten months, 100 percent did. The checklist had become habitual.
A Johns Hopkins pancreatic surgeon showed an eighteen-item checklist that he'd tested with eleven surgeons for five months at his hospital. Likewise, a group of Kaiser Hospitals in Southern California had studied a thirty-item "surgery preflight checklist".
University of Toronto had completed a feasibility trial using a much broader, twenty-one-item surgical checklist. Their checklist had staff verbally confirm with one another that antibiotics had been given, that blood was available if required, that critical scans and test results needed for the operation were on hand, that any special instruments required were ready, and so on.
The checklist also included what they called a "team briefing." The team members were supposed to stop and take a moment simply to talk with one another before proceeding—about how long the surgeon expected the operation to take, how much blood loss everyone should be prepared for, whether the patient had any risks or concerns the team should know about.
These checklists not only helped ensure essential tasks were completed consistently, they helped build teams capable of responding to the unexpected. At Johns Hopkins, after three months use, the number of team members reporting that they "functioned as a well-coordinated team" leapt from 68 percent to 92 percent. At the Kaiser hospitals, after six months and thirty-five hundred operations, the staff's average rating of the teamwork climate improved from good to outstanding. Employee satisfaction rose 19 percent. The rate of OR nurse turnover—the proportion leaving their jobs each year—dropped from 23 percent to 7 percent. And the checklist appeared to have caught numerous near errors.
Dr. Gawande and his colleagues were convinced. Further testing was warranted.
At the end of the Geneva conference, the participants agreed that a safe surgery checklist was worth testing on a larger scale. The focus was to introduce a practice to significantly reduce surgical risks globally.
A working group was formed. They took the different checklists that had been tried and condensed them into a single one. They added any other checks they could think of that might make a difference in care. They incorporated the communication checks in which everyone in the operating room ensures that they know one another's names and roles and has a chance to weigh in on critical plans and concerns.
They set up a proper pilot study of the safe surgery checklist in a range of hospitals around the world.
When Dr. Gawande returned to Boston, he told the nurses and anesthesiologists what he'd learned in Geneva. His team agreed to try it out.
It didn't work out very well. On the first attempt, there was confusion about how the checklist should be administered. It was supposed to be a verbal checklist, a team checklist. Some of the checks were ambiguous. The checklist was too long. It was unclear. Everyone was frustrated, even the patient. By the end of the day, they had stopped using it. Dr. Gawande states "Forget making this work around the world. It wasn't even working in one operating room."
So Dr. Gawande went back to the drawing board. He consulted with the experts at Boeing, which has decades of experience developing checklists to address emergency, life and death situations that are trusted and used religiously by pilots world-wide. He also reviewed the experiences, practices and applicability of checklists at a major construction firm, a successful high end restaurant, the experiences, good and bad, from Hurricane Katrina, and checklist use in finance and the investment world. In every case, good checklists, used as an integral part of the organizations' operations, made a significant, positive contribution.
Dr. Gawande returned to Boston. He and his team applied what he had learned in his research. They made the checklist clearer. They made it faster. They clarified responsibilities. They tested it in a simulation rather than a real surgery. Then they tested it in real life situations one case at a time, in different locations around the world. After each test, they assessed how well the checklist performed and revised it accordingly until they had a checklist that seemed to do the job. The final WHO safe surgery checklist spelled out nineteen checks in all.
The safe surgery checklist on patient care in its final form was tested in eight hospitals around the world. They collected data on the surgical care in up to four operating rooms at each facility for about three months before the checklist went into effect.
In early 2008, the pilot hospitals began implementing the two-minute, nineteen-step surgery checklist. The hospital leaders committed to introducing the concept systematically. They made presentations to all affected personnel. The WHO team supplied the hospitals with their failure data from previous sampling so the staff could see what they were trying to address. They also provided PowerPoint slides and YouTube videos, one demonstrating "How to Use the Safe Surgery Checklist" and one entitled "How Not to Use the Safe Surgery Checklist," showing how easy it is to screw everything up.
With these kinds of fundamental improvements in patient outcomes, one would think that hospitals and surgeons world-wide would be falling over themselves to adopt the WHO checklist. Unfortunately, that was not the case. As DR Gawande commented "We were thrown out of operating rooms all over the world." Unfortunately, resistance to change is a universal phenomenon. But Dr. Gawande's team persisted.
Not bad for a little nineteen point checklist and some brave checklist champions who weathered their colleagues' slings and arrows to save thousands of lives. A paradigm shift perhaps?
Dr. Gawande and his WHO team did an amazing job of covering the change management landscape. So how can you leverage these insights and reap the successes that the WHO team achieved on your projects?
Project Pre-Check is an example of a practice for guiding business and technology change that addresses the key components of the WHO effort: a stakeholder model to ensure the right players are engaged and responsibilities are clear, a comprehensive, 125 point best practice based checklist (the Decision Framework) and a five stage process to guide the decision-makers from inception to value realization. Here's Ruby's assessment of Project Pre-Check relative to the fifteen best practices WHO leveraged on their project.
1. Burning platform: they had the insight and foresight to identify the growing surgical risks.
2. Goals: they had the audacity to establish and share a common goal.
3. Affordability: they knew how much they could afford to spend to solve the problem. As the WHO official told Dr. Gawande at the start of the project "Oh, there's no real money".
4. Champions: they recruited project champions starting with Dr. Gawande. What a great champion he turned out to be.
5. Sponsors: the WHO team ensured that every hospital involved in the project had a local sponsor to shepherd the change, establish priorities, align accountabilities and demand or coax changes in behaviours.
6. Targets: they identified and engaged the affected targets whose behaviours needed to change for the project to be successful.
7. Team: they built a team to build local teams.
8. Think big, do small: they thought globally but acted locally, a surgery, a hospital at a time.
9. Best Practices: they searched for and applied best practices.
11. Communication: they reported their findings, before and after.
12. Prototype and pilot: they tested their checklists offline, piloted their designs, learned from their experiences and tested and piloted again until they were satisfied.
13. Local control: they adapted their solutions to suit the needs of each country, hospital and team.
14. Success breeds success: they used their successes to convert the doubters and bring on more champions.
15. Smart: they used checklists.
Tell the world about your successes!
The Project Pre-Check checklists are downloadable at no cost at projectprecheck.com.
We talked about two sources of failure up front – ignorance and ineptitude. Checklists can address both. They can help stakeholders identify what they don't know, and get assistance. They can ensure that what is known and pertinent to the change in question is identified and applied appropriately. Use Project Pre-Check's three building blocks right up front to conquer both failure factors. Or build your own. But please, USE A CHECKLIST!
And remember, if you have a project experience, either good or bad, past or present, that you'd like to share with others and have examined through the Project Pre-Check lens, send me the details. Thanks.
Drew Davison is a former system development executive, the owner and principal consultant at Davison Consulting and a senior consultant at The Manta Group. He is the developer of Project Pre-Check, an innovative framework for launching projects and guiding successful project delivery, the author of Project Pre-Check - The Stakeholder Practice for Successful Business and Technology Change and Project Pre-Check FastPath - The Project Manager's Guide to Stakeholder Management. He works with organizations that are undergoing major business and technology change to implement the empowered stakeholder groups critical to project success. Drew can be reached at drew.davison@projectprecheck.com.


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Christ, have mercy. Christ, have mercy on us.
Jesus, hear us. Jesus, graciously hear us.
Lamb of God, who take away the sins of the world. Graciously hear us, O Lord.
Lamb of God, who take away the sins of the world, And made us, for our God, a kingdom.
Let us pray. Almighty and eternal God, you have appointed your only-begotten Son the Redeemer of the world, and willed to be appeased by his Blood. Grant we beg of you, that we may worthily adore this price of our salvation, and through its power be safeguarded from the evils of the present life, so that we may rejoice in its fruits forever in heaven. Through the same Christ our Lord.


blind men and elephant fish 맹인들과 코끼리 물고기: Is Germany a democracy?
Europe is in a financial mess. The Greeks are bankrupt and are looking to the rest of Europe to bail them out. Europe relies on Germany in this regard. According to this article, however, 86% of Germans don't want to bail out the Greeks. And yet Angela Merkel has said that Germany is committed to being part of the bailout. I have no idea whether or not a Greek bailout is a good idea, but when 86% of your people don't want to do something how as a democracy can you defend doing it?


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Home News Battery Tech
Top BMW Engineer Thinks Li-Ion Batteries Have "Peaked"
Solid-state batteries will likely be the next big thing.
Dec 05, 2022 at 10:22am ET
By: Patrick George
The next generation of BMW electric vehicles promises up to 620 miles of range, 30 percent quicker charging, and a cheaper production process that cuts significantly down on carbon emissions – all with lithium-ion EV batteries like the rest of the automotive industry.
One of BMW's own top battery engineers thinks those days could be numbered, and that without adding something "game-changing" to the mix like silicon, we may be close to the limits of what they can currently do. But he believes lithium-ion batteries will remain the industry standard on a wide scale for many years to come.
"From an energy density point of view, I would say that we're facing the optimum lithium-ion cell chemistry in an industrialized application" for large markets, said Simon Erhard, the head of energy, performance, and lifetime for BMW's forthcoming Gen6 batteries. "I think it's peaked."
Erhard believes the "next big thing" in battery development is likely solid-state batteries. He said BMW's recently opened Cell Manufacturing Competence Center in Munich is researching and developing this technology, as it works with top academic talent in Europe to build an almost mini-Silicon Valley-like network around battery development.
Additionally, BMW, along with Ford, is one of two primary investors in Colorado-based Solid Power, which aims to be the first company to commercialize this technology – meaning the first solid-state batteries in a production automotive application could be in Fords or BMWs. Many other automakers are working on this technology as well, including General Motors, Honda, Volkswagen, Hyundai, and Toyota.
In the coming years, BMW will undertake its biggest electric push yet, with a range of new models on a dedicated EV platform powered by its sixth-generation batteries that use cylindrical cells and are produced in an assortment of factories worldwide. But these Gen6 batteries will use lithium-ion cells, and BMW doesn't see that changing anytime very soon.
Solid-state batteries are a long-promised but long-delayed technology that could bring significantly greater energy density to a smaller package than lithium-ion batteries, meaning cars could potentially be built with less weight and less of a battery footprint taking up space in the chassis or battery.
In short, they use a solid material as an electrolyte inside the battery cell, not a liquid one like conventional lithium-ion batteries. Other perceived benefits include shorter charging times, better reliability, and perhaps most importantly, greater safety – solid-state cells are far less flammable than current offerings, so no more devastating, headline-making EV fires. Solid-state batteries also use lithium metal at the anode instead of heavier carbon graphite.
With such benefits, solid-state batteries are sometimes described as the "Holy Grail," but the quest to secure them has proved equally challenging. They have seen delays for years now, but still up there with flying cars in always being "just a few years away."
Erhard said some of the delays across the industry were due to the fact that lithium-ion hadn't reached its full potential yet, although they do believe that is now the case with the Gen6 batteries. Indeed, much of the R&D work in the auto industry has been around perfecting and scaling lithium-ion batteries.
Erhard said that while there are always various changes engineers can make to current lithium-ion batteries to impact range, chemistry, and longevity, it's getting more difficult to scale such improvements – which is what carmakers like BMW need to cost-effectively reach their aggressive EV sales and decarbonization goals.
"If you want to have a well-balanced system being brought to market on a big scale, I think it's peaking right now," Erhard said.
Erhard said that right now, for the BMWs on the road and the forthcoming "Neue Klasse" EVs, the automaker is still focused on lithium-ion batteries. But he imagines that could change in the coming decade.
"Let's say 10 years, roughly, it's all solid-state batteries," Erhard said. "But nowadays, and let's say within the next three to five to eight years, we're going to rely on the lithium-ion battery technology. And then, let's say from 2030, there will be, from our perspective, an operational all-solid-state battery."
Whether that means a demonstration prototype of some sort or wider-scale production is unclear right now, Erhard said. "To have solid-state industrialized and ready for a big market application, that will take its time," he said.
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Priced at US$199, the Acer CB3-531 is a Chromebook at offers a 15.6″ display and offers up to 1.5 hours of battery life. The LED-backlit TFT LCD display features 1366×768 HD resolution and uses Acer's ComfyView anti-glare technology, and the Chromebook itself is powered by an Intel Celeron N2830 dual-core processor with Intel HD graphics and 16GM eMMC storage and 2GB RAM.
The Acer Chromebook 15 C910 takes the Chromebook concept to another level by offering models with either Intel Core i3 or i5 processor, as well as two Celeron-based offerings, backed Intel HD or Indel HD5500 graphics. Standard on each model is 4GB of SDRAM and both 16GB and 32GB SSD storage options are available. Core i-models start at US$449. The display is 15.6″ Full HD.
Acer's new Aspire E Series notebooks come in a variety of colours with 14″, 16.6″ and 17.3″ display options. A new textile pattern on the cover and underside was made using a new manufacturing process that involved the 3D scanning of fabric samples that are replicated into moulds and finished with laser engraving. Inside is the latest Intel procesors, Nvidia or AMD graphics and up to 16GB of RAM and 2TB of storage.
The Acer V 15 features an aluminum top cover imprinted with Acer's nano-imprint technology for a textured metallic finish. It boasts a backlit keyboard and is powered by 5th generation Intel Core processors and Nvidia GeForce 940M graphics. It comes with up to 16GB RAM and either a 2TB hard drive or 1TB solid state hybrid drive, as well as Dolby Digital Plus sound and a DCD-RW drive with M-Disc support.
Acer's ES series includes five models ranging from 11.6″ to 17.6″ displays with a number of colours to choose from. Designed for affordability for laptop users with a need to use their devices for both work and play, both Intel Pentium and Celeron models are available with up top 8GB RAM and 1 TB hard drive — a DVD-RW drive is optional. Pricing starts at US$229 for the 11″ model.
Acer describes its R 11 as a compact convertible notebook. It features an 11.6″ display with a 360-degree hinge to convert between four modes, and boasts up to eight hours of battery life. The HD touch screen uses Zero Air Gap technology and Corning Gorilla Glass. It's powered by an Intel Pentium processor and Intel HD Graphics, with up to 8GB RAM and a 1 1TB hard drive. Pricing starts at US$249.
Acer's Switch 10 E uses a new Acer Snap Hinge that boasts a guiding plane design for smoother switching between modes, and a low centre of gravity for more comfortable typing. The 30Wh battery offers up to 12 hours of battery life, and the HD 1280×800 resolution display supports 10-finger multitouch. It's powered by an Intel Atom quad core processor and 2GB RAM, and is priced starting at US$279.
The Switch 10 convertible from Acer features a Full HD 1920×1200 display with a white Gorilla Glass 3 back cover, paired with a silver gray keyboard dock. An optional Acer Active Pen is also available, and the Switch 10 supports passive and active pen input without requiring a digitizer. A 22Whr battery provides up to seven hours of video playback, and it's powered by an Intel Atom quad core processor and 2GB RAM. Pricing starts at US$399.
The Iconia One 8 tablet uses Acer Precision Plus technology for a more accurate touch and writing experience, and the 8″ HD display features 1280×800 resolution with Zero Air Gap and IPS technology. It features an Intel Atom quad core processor and 16GB or 32GB of internal storage and runs Android 5.0 Lolipop. Weighing in at 355 grams, it's priced starting at US$149.
Acer's Iconia Tab 10 is targeted at the education market, and features a durable design with a 10″ Full HD Gorilla Glass 4 display with Acer Precision Plus for an improved touch interface. It has integrated NFC setup and sharing capabilities so teachers can set up a classroom of tablets by just tapping them together. The Tab 10 boasts up to 7.5 hours of battery life to make it through the school day, and is powered by an Intel quad core processor with 2GB RAM and 16GB, 32GB or 64GB storage.


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Charles Manson: Coming Down Fast
Hodder Paperbacks
Autobiography: general, True crime, Prose: non-fiction
Paperback Jun 1, 2010 | 9780340977033 | RRP $24.99 Buy Now
e-Book Oct 1, 2009 | 9781848943285 | RRP $12.99 Buy Now
Forty years after the Manson Family murders, this is the definitive account of the crimes that shocked the world.
In the summer of 1969, a set of grisly murders shocked the population of Los Angeles and the rest of the US. Seven people lay senselessly butchered, among them actress Sharon Tait, the beautiful young wife of Roman Polanski, just a month away from the birth of their first child. Thin strands of evidence pointed to a hippyish cult set up in an abandoned ranch on the outskirts of Los Angeles, and its delusional, Messianic leader, Charles Manson.
Little was known about this would-be rock star and his peculiar family of young acolytes. It was only later, after the sensational court case that ended with six of the cult members being sentenced to death, that the full, horrifying story would emerge: one in which drugs, sex, murder, mind-control, the Beatles, the Beach Boys, the Mafia, and even the President of America all played their part.
Collecting testimony from previous members of the Manson family alongside new evidence linking a cult member to a murder in London, and including never-before-published crime scene photographs, COMING DOWN FAST charts Manson s terrifying rise from petty-criminal drifter to one of the most recognisable icons in criminal history, and explores the long reach of his crimes that to this day, so vex and shock the public imagination.
Praise for Charles Manson: Coming Down Fast
Simon Wells does a good job of wrapping all the facts together, debunking some of the myths and in a non-hysterical style, telling the gruesome story that enthralls 40 years on. The book conjures the feeling of the innocence of the 60s being blown away. - Manchester Evening News
Coming Down Fast is a sprawling, fast-paced account of Manson's life. . . (and) describes Manson's disrupted life in telling detail. - The Times
The real reason for reading this unexpectedly fascinating book is for the overview on the whole Manson saga, reverberating from President Nixon downwards. - Daily Mail


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Trump travel ban: Thousands of 'desperate' families remain separated
In the ban's first year, just 6 percent of those who applied for waivers to enter the U.S. were approved, according to new State Department data.
"People have forgotten that the Muslim ban is actually fully 100 percent in effect right now," a civil rights attorney said. Drew Angerer / Getty Images file
April 7, 2019, 11:47 AM UTC
By Farnoush Amiri
Najib Adi has been having trouble sleeping.
Adi, who immigrated to the United States in 2002 and is a U.S. citizen, is worried about his mother, Mona Nasri, 72, who is desperate to flee her home in Damascus and join him in the U.S.
The Syrian capital has seen bombings and chemical attacks since the country's deadly civil war began in 2012. After nearby explosions, the exterior of Nasri's home is crumbling, while electricity, drinking water and propane are in short supply. She suffers from anxiety and arthritis, but it's hard to get treatment because many doctors have fled.
"Damascus is hell on earth," said Adi, 46, who owns a dental practice in Virginia. "I need to get my mother out of there."
With Adi's help, Nasri petitioned for a U.S. visa. But first she needs a waiver, because Syria is one of the countries targeted by President Donald Trump's travel ban, the others being Libya, Iran, Somalia, Yemen and North Korea, plus some people associated with the government in Venezuela.
Najib Adi and Mona Nasri, parting ways at Queen Alia International Airport in Amman, Jordan.Courtesy of Najib Adi
Nasri has heard nothing since she requested the waiver more than 15 months ago and is losing hope of ever making it to the U.S.
The mother and son are among thousands of people who have been kept apart from relatives in the U.S. since Trump introduced the travel ban days after his inauguration, initially targeting only Muslim-majority countries.
Out of nearly 38,000 visa applications from the targeted countries that the State Department reviewed in the first 11 months the ban was in effect, only 6 percent received a waiver, according to Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., a critic of the ban, who released the figures to NBC News on Thursday after receiving them from the agency.
The State Department has not said how many people, like Nasri, are still waiting for a decision. The announcement of the travel ban in January 2017 drew thousands of protesters to the country's airports, and the subsequent legal fight over the ban drew headlines, but the fallout from the policy has largely unfolded out of view.
Those who have been denied or are still waiting include husbands seeking to join their wives in the U.S., fathers who have missed their children's births, and international students who have been accepted to American universities. Some say they feel forgotten amid the focus on the immigration crisis at the southern border.
"I think the genius of the administration's different iterations of the ban moved the fight from the airports in the U.S. to far, far away in consulates abroad where nobody sees them on a day-to-day basis," said Sirine Shebaya, an attorney for Muslim Advocates, a civil rights group in Washington and the lead litigator on a class-action lawsuit against the ban.
Shebaya added, "People have forgotten that the Muslim ban is actually fully 100 percent in effect right now."
The lawsuit alleges that the process of applying for waivers is a "sham" and violates the rights of applicants. People are being denied waivers at consulates in the affected countries without ever being told what information they need to submit in order to be considered, Shebaya said.
A State Department spokesperson said the agency does not comment on pending litigation. The next hearing in the lawsuit is scheduled for April 11.
The Trump administration has defended the travel ban as essential to national security and has pointed to the visa waiver process to show that it is still possible for some people from the targeted countries to enter the U.S.
The Supreme Court upheld the ban in June 2018, based partly on the administration's visa waiver process.
The waiver system is meant to issue exceptions based on three broad considerations: whether denying entry to an applicant would cause undue hardship; whether the applicant represents a security threat; and whether entry would be in the national interest.
But in practice, nationals from the countries affected told NBC News that they are being denied even though they meet the criteria, or their visa applications have been stalled for so long that it amounts to a denial.
"The Administration repeatedly swore to the Supreme Court and the American people that this was not a de-facto Muslim ban and that there was a clear waiver process to ensure fairness," Van Hollen said in a statement. "That couldn't be further from reality."
Adi, one of the 34 plaintiffs in the lawsuit, petitioned for a family-based immigrant visa for his mother in February 2017. The petition was approved and her interview was scheduled for that December at the U.S. embassy in Amman, Jordan, since passports and visas to the U.S. are not issued in Syria.
Adi traveled to Jordan to accompany Nasri to the interview and said the officials asked no questions that would determine her eligibility for a waiver under the guidelines set by the administration.
Since then, Adi said officers at the embassy have repeatedly told him that his mother's application is still being processed.
"I'm desperate at this point," Adi said. "What evil have we committed to deserve this?"
Less than 2,700 waivers have been granted, according to the most recent number released by a State Department official. Some of them are in dire situations that caught the attention of advocates and the media, including a Yemeni woman whose 2-year-old son needed treatment for a deadly brain condition; an 10-year-old Yemeni girl with cerebral palsy who couldn't get medical care in her home country; and an Iranian man who was a bone marrow transplant match for his ill brother.
Shebaya noted that these "extreme" cases of people with urgent medical needs are the only ones she has seen receive waivers.
Others have had to wait.
Sudi Wardere and her husband, Bashir Tahlil, with their son. Courtesy of Sudi Wardere
Sudi Wardere, 29, who is Somali-American, said her biggest concern is making sure her husband doesn't miss the birth of their child, again.
A Washington state resident, Wardere has been living apart from her Somali husband, Bashir Tahlil, 38, for more than two-and-a-half years. Wardere, who works as a child care provider, gave birth to their first child in May 2017, while Tahlil was thousands of miles away in South Africa, waiting for his visa to be approved.
"The last time I saw him was when I went to introduce him to our son for the first time in October," Wardere said.
Tahlil had his visa interviews early last year in South Africa and requested a waiver to the travel ban shortly afterward. He's now been waiting more than a year.
Wardere said that all they can do now is hope.
"It has been so many years," she said. "Now I'm five months pregnant and can't help but think that I am lying to myself to believe he will get to be here for the birth."
Farnoush Amiri
Farnoush Amiri writes for NBC News.


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Modular Boiler & Domestic Hot Water Heater Upgrade: System Analysis and Design
Country Club Gardens, West Babylon, NY
This 25-year-old residential building complex had issues meeting heating demands in winter, had fuel costs that were 30% higher than similar residential buildings, and substandard breeching height. MEP was called in to analyze and design a better heating and water system to meet the needs of the building.
MEP recommended new boiler, pump and water systems to to ensure the system worked even during the coldest times, improve overall performance and save money during low demand.
Facility Description
Country Club Gardens is a residential building complex composed of fifteen two-story buildings. The complex accommodates 236 families or approximately 590 residents. Combined gross area of the buildings is approximately 198,800 s.f. The facility is approximately 25 years of age and all of the heating and domestic hot water systems are original to the building. Each building is currently served by one 700 MBH heating boiler, one 400 MBH domestic water heater, and two DHW storage tanks, all located in the basement.
Project Origin and Goals
The heating and domestic water equipment was at the end of their expected service life. However, fuel efficiency, redundancy, and existing distribution problems were the driving force of this project. Most of the buildings were not able to meet heating demand during a design winter day at the extreme ends and fuel costs were 30% higher to other similar residential buildings. It was reported that boilers shut off during high demand periods. And in addition to the aforementioned issues, each building has substandard breeching height and renovating each breeching and chimney would be cost prohibitive.
MEP was subcontracted by an engineering firm to analyze, conceptualize a solution and design all of the heating and domestic water needs for the entire complex.
In order to meet the clients projected construction schedule, MEP was allocated two weeks to complete 100% design development documents.
Site Findings and Solutions
Boiler — Heating load calculations carried out by MEP indicated that the original equipment capacity was adequate. A modular boiler arrangement of three 300 MBH boilers were proposed, each capable of carrying 40% of the building's heating and domestic water heating requirements. This modular layout would facilitate 80% capacity while one boiler is off-line for maintenance or repair. Furthermore, this arrangement would not require the relocation of the existing breeching in fourteen out of the fifteen buildings.
The source of the problem causing boilers to shut off was identified to be combustion and dilution opening related. Our field investigation revealed that the building was originally designed as a combination indoor/outdoor system or one which draws combustion and dilution air from within the basement and has minimal openings to the exterior. However, this original design was compromised when the boiler area was compartmentalized from the remainder of the basement, leaving virtually no means for combustion or dilution air. MEP designed an "outdoor air" ducted system or one which draws all air from the outside.
Hydronics — In order to address existing hating problems MEP surveyed the heating water supply and return piping to calculate hydraulic pressure losses. Each apartment's finned tube radiation system was field verified in order to validate suitable capacity. Our calculations indicated that the existing pumps were undersized in both volume flow and pressure.
The existing heating piping system consisted of one constant speed pump and a 2-way (open/closed) valve for each apartment. This system is simple and satisfactory for buildings of this size and existing pump characteristics. On the contrary, this system is not recommended with the proposed larger pumps due to water hammer and noise. MEP designed two pumps arranged in parallel to provide means for backup equipment, each sized to handle 50% of the total flow requirements. The proposed system runs one pump continuously and turns the second pump on when needed to maintain proper flow during peak demand. This design kept a simple maintenance concept, provided proper performance and offered means to save energy during low demand periods.
Fuel Gas — The fuel gas piping distribution and sizes within each building is different although most of the buildings are of similar size and shape. Furthermore, some buildings are equipped with commercial fuel gas dryers. MEP surveyed all buildings and conducted pressure loss calculations to maximize boiler capacities.
Domestic Hot Water — The existing basis of design was modified from a direct water heater and storage tank arrangement to an indirect heater and storage tank arrangement. This piping and equipment arrangement allowed to reused the existing storage tanks (recently replaced), provided hot water generation backup, and has means to isolate storage tanks during low demand seasons to reduce energy losses.
MEP completed the design and specifications within schedule and the client approved the proposed design in the first submission.


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The Future Is Female: Four Watches for Women Who Love Haute Horlogerie
What do women want when it comes to watches? It's a complicated question because not everyone needs the same thing: some ladies prefer diamonds, others like small lightweight timepieces. And the market certainly offers plenty blinged up, scaled-down models with quartz movements.
But for women watch obsessives who value the inner beauty of the mechanism as much as they do the outside appearances, the pickings are much slimmer. Sure one can always borrow or buy a complicated men's watch (note the current trend for so-called "boyfriend watches") but brands are recognizing that more and more women clients are getting into high end mechanical watches, and are sensitive to the fact that a boyfriend alone can't meet all of their time telling needs.
The Status Symbol: Breguet's Tradition Dame
Women were the first to wear wrist watches. Breguet, for example, introduced the Reine de Naples in 1810. What's changed recently, however, is the demand for more complicated ladies' watches.
Breguet Tradition Dame 7038
In the last three to four years, says Breguet's CEO Marc A. Hayek, the segment of ladies' watches within the company has increased from 20 percent of the overall sales to 35 percent today. Part of that jump is coming from a growing acceptance and even demand for mechanical movements in women's watches.
"We had seen before in many markets where we had customers who said, 'I love the watch, but I would like a quartz," says Hayek, "China was actually the country where they said the opposite: "I like the watch, but it needs to be mechanical."
Breguet Tradition Dame 7038 caseback
Women are now more active and visible as men in business, sports, and society as men. They have the buying power to invest in a $10,000 plus timepiece, they want it to have the power that that watch can project. And Breguet's Tradition Dame is a watch that will make people lean in and take notice of that status. Introduced at Baselworld 2017, it is the first ladies watch in the Tradition collection, with a 37mm rose gold case decorated with diamonds and an engine turned mother of pearl dial. That dial is cut away so you can admire the mechanism of the 38 jewels, self-winding movement with retrograde seconds.
By Women for Women: Audemars Piguet's Frosted Royal Oak
Of course women know what women want. Which is why we are so excited by Audemars Piguet's Frosted Royal Oak. This gorgeous watch, launched at the very end of 2016, is a reinvention of watch designer Jacqueline Dimier's first Royal Oak for women, introduced in 1976. That model was ground-breaking for its time because there were not a lot of sporty watches for women at the time.
As the women's Royal Oak celebrates its 40th anniversary, Audemars Piguet unveils the Royal Oak Frosted Gold © Audemars Piguet
We spoke to Chadi Gruber, AP's Head of Product Development, about why it was important to inject a feminine sensibility into one of the most iconic watches in the world. Gruber says that part of it is due to changing tastes — for example, throwback timepieces are a big trend for both men and women. This new model, created in collaboration with Florentine jewelry designer, Carolina Bucci, updates the classic Royal Oak with a Florentine finish (a texture created by hammering the surface with a tiny hammer) rather than diamonds to create a sparkling but not too girly effect.
The new Royal Oak Frosted Gold in collaboration with jewellery designer Carolina Bucci
Sometimes one has to make concessions between size and performance. "The 33mm is powered by a quartz movement in order to keep harmonious proportions between the thickness and the size of the case," says Gruber. But if you are spending over $50,000 on a watch, snobs like us also want something beautiful beneath the surface. The 37mm is a nice size and is powered by APs trusty automatic caliber 3120.
"Audemars Piguet regularly expands the women's collections with new models every year, and will continue to do so," he adds, "The collaboration with Carolina Bucci is not over so keep your eyes open in 2018."
A Tribute to Herstory: Bremont Solo-32 AJ and Bremont Solo-32 LC
When they launched their first pilot watches in 2002, British watchmakers Bremont had no plans to make women's watches. Says co-founder Nick English, "We are predominately a male brand but we found out that quite a few women have our watches."
Bremont Solo-32 LC rose gold
For the most part, says English, "women were just as happy to wear a 43 mm watch but others were telling us " we love your watches but do you have anything smaller?" Always willing to rise to a challenge, English and his brother Giles tried to work out how to make a smaller watch that had the same integrity as the rest of the Bremont collections "There are a lot of jewelry brands," says English. "So we were not trying to do a fashion watch. We wanted to do a practical watch that women can really use. But it still had to look great."
The solution was to not overthink things. To get the watch size to 32 mm, Bremont simply made the watch faces narrower and the cases thinner to make the silhouette smaller. There are also only two watches in the women's collection: The Bremont Solo-32 AJ and Bremont Solo-32 LC. While neither are super tricked out with complications, these both feature slightly modified versions of Bremont's chronometer-rated BE-36AE automatic movement with 40-hour power reserve.
Bremont Solo-32 LC rose gold caseback
By the way, the Englishes are noted aviation buffs and the watches are named after two of their childhood heroes: Amy Johnson, who flew her DH-60 Gypsy Moth from England to Australia in 1930. and Lettice Curtis, a WWII pilot.
Equal Time: Oris Artelier Grande Lune
For men and women alike, at the high end of horology, watch snobs want the same thing: mechanical movements. Which is one reason that Oris is a favorite amongst the cognoscenti: The Swiss brand only produces wind ups.
We talked to Rolf Studer, joint Executive Officer for Oris, about the way both genders value the watchmaker's art. "Wearing a mechanical watch is an expression of your style," says Studer. "In fact, the first thing I noticed about my wife was the vintage Breitling she was wearing."
Oris Artelier Grande Lune Date © Oris
Studer also notes the current craze for heritage watches. "Women watch buyers want something genuine, things that feel authentic," he says. "For someone with these values a real watch is a mechanical watch."
If you visit Oris' website, you'll see that they don't distinguish between men's and ladies' collections. Still, says Studer, "a lot of women do see a distinction between gents' and ladies' watches." A favorite complication amongst the female clientele is the classic moon phase such as Oris' 36 mm Artelier Grande Lune. Another Baselworld 2017 introduction, this classic watch also holds the distinction of having a moon phase indicator that turns in the correct direction.
The Oris Artelier Grande Lune Date set with 72 brilliant-cut diamonds into the bezel © Oris
Studer says that he sees brands continuing to carve out a niche for female collectors. "More complications will be seen," he says, adding that Oris is working with materials to create mechanical watches that feel lighter and movements that work in smaller cases."
"Women want classic horology," says Studer. "Exciting things are coming up."


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'Guess Who's Coming to Dinner' at Curtain Call's Dressing Room Theatre in Stamford
By Linda Tuccio-Koonz
Published 12:00 am EDT, Saturday, September 2, 2017
"Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" will be on stage at Curtain Call's Dressing Room Theatre in Stamford, Thursday, Sept. 7, through Sunday, Sept. 24. In rehearsal are Lesli Allen, left, Luke Lynch, Nikki Neurohr, Kevin Thompson, George Croom and Toni Parker. less
"Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" will be on stage at Curtain Call's Dressing Room Theatre in Stamford, Thursday, Sept. 7, through Sunday, Sept. 24. In rehearsal are Lesli Allen, left, Luke Lynch, Nikki ... more
Photo: Debra Lee Failla / Contributed Photo
"Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" is a poignant, funny drama that explores subjects from race and fear to cultural beliefs.
And in light of recent protests, the show — based on a 1967 film — remains timely.
"Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" tells of a young interracial couple that wants to marry. The Academy Award-winning movie opened just six months after the United States Supreme Court ended all race-based restrictions on marriage. (It's been just about 50 years since that ruling.)
This hit film was adapted for the stage by Todd Kreidler, who wanted to talk about the attitudes of 1967, but with a 21st century approach. "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" will be on stage at Curtain Call's Dressing Room Theatre in Stamford, Thursday, Sept. 7, through Sunday, Sept. 24.
The show "explores a progressive couple's proud liberal sensibilities as they are put to the test when their daughter arrives home bursting with excitement and with an unexpected fiancé," according to a press release.
Generations and races clash, but the play also delivers "passionate moments of acceptance and the idea that when it comes to matters of the heart, true love is colorblind."
Curtain Call is the first theater in Connecticut to present Kreidler's stage adaptation of the movie. The show will be directed by Debra Lee Failla, and takes place in a Black Box, cabaret-style auditorium where seating is at tables and chairs. Doors open one hour before show time, so attendees can take advantage of the "Bring Your Own Everything" format (drinks, snacks, full meals, etc...).
The Dressing Theatre, 1349 Newfield Ave. Stamford. Thursday, Sept. 7-Sunday, Sept. 24. Thursday, Friday, Saturday 8 p.m.; Sunday 2 p.m. $32, $25 seniors, $16 up to age 21. Thursdays all seats $25. Discounted Flex Passes reduce prices by up to 30 percent. 203-461-6358.


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Including the counties of Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara and Ventura all within the State of California. (Territory re-aligned October, 1973.)
Neighboring Districts: Arizona, Central California, Pacific, Pacific Southwest, Southern Nevada
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AAU Tip-Off Classic (1/29/2021)
AAU Tip-Off Classic
AAU Gladiator Games - South Florida Session (2/5/2021)
AAU Gladiator Games - South Florida Session
Date(s): Feb 6-7, 2021
Florida Gold Coast AAU Basketball Shootout (2/5/2021)
Florida Gold Coast AAU Basketball Shootout
Type: Tournament Series
Jax Magic Tip-Off Classic (2/11/2021)
Jax Magic Tip-Off Classic
Date(s): Feb 12-14, 2021
THE BIG SOUTH AAU INVITATIONAL (2/11/2021)
THE BIG SOUTH AAU INVITATIONAL
SAAU Boys District/State Championships (2/12/2021)
SAAU Boys District/State Championships
Type: District Championship
Date(s): Feb 13, 2021 - Jun 28, 2021
FL Flight Elite Valentine's Day AAU Super Regional (2/12/2021)
FL Flight Elite Valentine's Day AAU Super Regional
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MSF Winter Classic (2/19/2021)
MSF Winter Classic
Date(s): Feb 20, 2021
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Serosoft Solutions Pvt. Ltd. organized an Industrial Visit for the Department of Information Technology at Acropolis Institute of Technology and Research Indore on 11 Aug2018. The intent of the Industrial visit was to bridge the gap between Theoretical training and Practical learning in a real-life environment. Serosoft has been helping young, passionate Engineering Students to get a real-life experience about Corporate Culture and working of a Product based Company by embracing them for such Industrial Visits and will continue the same in future too. It is a part of "Serosoft for Good" initiative so as to provide an enriching experience to the young budding minds. Moreover, with this, Serosoft aids the Students to get a wonderful exposure upon the few traits which they can inculcate for getting corporate ready. This can boost the confidence level and make them well prepared for their professional stint. These kinds of gratuitous sessions are conducted by Serosoft periodically.
The visit commenced with a presentation on "Working Process of Software Industry" delivered by the Product Expert Ms. Tina Gupta, and various lifecycle of a Software product. Post presentation students visited different departments right from the Marketing- "The Dealmakers" (who help in the Pre Sales and the Pre Sales activities), Implementation – "The execution experts" (who implement the Product at the client side by doing the "As is" and "To be" analysis) , Product (who conceptualize the product) Development (who work on the client and Server end and develop the functionality), Quality Assurance (who help in delivering the perfect quality product to client by find bugs)and Support (who provide continuous Functional Support to the clients by solving their queries). This visit was very helpful for students to gain an insight on how an IT industry operates. The students got an opportunity to meet with the Industry experts and learned their protocols. Students very well comprehended about the skills an IT industry requires.
Any college looking for any such sessions and great learnings can contact us. We will be pleased to help the upcoming generation to nurture their mind the right way for their bright future. We are a product-based IT company with a vision of transforming the whole education system into an automatic system which will create a big difference in the development of the country. We are here to move forward with all the smartest way possible.


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Marie Osmond, member of the one of the biggest show business families the world has ever seen; The Osmonds, is a multi-talented personality who has gained immense popularity and a very large around of dedicated followers all across the globe with her vast array of talents. In today's world, being good at one thing is simply not enough considering the fact that there are millions of others competing against you in the same field. For one person to succeed in today's ultra-competitive environment, therefore, they need to be exquisite in more than their own field of interest. Many of today's famous personalities are doing just that. If a singer finds himself limited to the amount of success he can achieve as an artist, he or she would try a career in acting or something else that interests them. Doing more than one thing is a fairly simple and easy task as it requires nothing more than fulfilling the requirement of the task. Being good at those tasks, however, is a completely different story and that is precisely what Marie Osmond has been successfully doing over her long and illustrious career. Her popularity is so immense that getting Marie Osmond Tickets is quite an achievement for her fans considering the pace at which her tickets seem to sell out every single time.
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If the lack of Windows Media Player (WMP) in the previously leaked Windows 8 Enterprise N x64 ISO held you back from using the image for installing Windows 8, an original Microsoft ISO for 64-bit Windows 8 Enterprise edition (without N, indicating full version) has leaked.
W.Z.T released the English x64 version of Windows 8 Enterprise edition ISO, which does not have the WMP stripped away. With WMP, the Metro Video and Music apps should work properly. The ISO is from VL (volume licensing) channel, and no product key is required to install the OS. And best of all, the ISO is said to be the original Microsoft image, untouched and unmodified.
Download 64-bit Windows 8 Enterprise RTM via torrent with the name of MICROSOFT.WINDOWS.8.ENTERPRISE.RTM.X64.VOLUME.ENGLISH.DVD-WZT (link removed).


As long as politicians and the media continue to seek capitulation, declaring winners and losers, the present impasse will remain.
What concerns me is that now is precisely the wrong time to gloat and celebrate political victors and losers. The focus must be exclusively on all the federal workers and their families who suffered economic and emotional hardship for over a month, not to mention the negative ripple effect this had on all Americans. More importantly, we should focus on how to avoid repeating this paralyzing predicament in the future.
Sadly, yet not surprisingly, the responses to President Trump's decision and speech were also predictable, echoing the narrative that public policy decisions are more about political gains and losses rather than what is in the best interest of the country.
For example, it was tactically inappropriate and rhetorically counterproductive to proclaim the President is "backing down," "caving," "got rolled" by Speaker Nancy Pelosi, "walled in," "blinks," replacing George H. W. Bush as the "biggest wimp," descriptions used by a frog chorus of both conservative and liberal politicians, media outlets and political pundits.
As someone who has spent more than 40 years studying political communication and argumentation, I contend instead we must embrace the notion of compromise—something my students learn rests at the core of genuine democratic deliberation. One of the lessons of our nation's history is that compromise requires both sides to find ways to help the opposition extricate themselves from blame and save face. Without that, stalemate is inevitable, especially in view of our current heated and divided political climate.
Yes, it is true that what transpired last week and the 35 days prior cost Donald Trump politically. His approval ratings, public support for the wall, and who Americans assign blame for the shutdown document this convincingly. And, yes, it can be argued persuasively that the President's decision to reopen the government merely resolved a crisis he created and one that could have been avoided weeks prior.
However, these partisan claims—no matter how accurate—miss the point and signal more crises to come.
The question is—and always has been: How does our country move forward in a productive manner allowing an escape hatch from the all-or-nothing attitude perpetuating political polarization and stalemate? The obvious answer is that our political officials must engage in genuine compromise. That, in turn, can occur only when Democrats and Republicans eschew a zero sum rhetorical mindset and employ discourse giving both sides of the political aisle an exit strategy permitting them to save face and to assure their constituents something was gained from the deliberation. After all, compromise is a give and take process.
But as long as politicians and the media continue to seek capitulation, declaring winners and losers, the present impasse will remain. What this will mean is at the end of the 21- day temporary opening of government we again will be plunged into a crisis—and all Americans will suffer.
Having said that, I remain optimistic. As a scholar of political history and rhetoric, I believe there is good reason for hope. Despite their undeniable partisan motivations, I contend that most politicians are extremely unhappy with the current state of affairs, share with government officials who served before them a desire to do what is best for the nation, and therefore will find a way to transcend gamesmanship. Passing comprehensive immigration reform and border security legislation that President Trump will sign is just one way this might happen.
I hope my optimism is not overstated.


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106 Comic Book Movie Stars That Have Worked In Shreveport
Greg Atoms Published: September 23, 2021
Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images
Shreveport was once a magnet for major film productions. With more than 20 movies being filmed in the area that went onto make over $20 million at the box office.
A lot of that dried up when the state told the film industry to pack sand. But even if there's never another movie filmed in the Shreveport area, a lot of history has already been made here. When we explore that history through a particular lens, you can find some really interesting things.
We looked at all of the movies, shows, and other productions that have taken place in the Shreveport area, and cross-referenced them with all the comic book productions we could think of. A pretty impressive list started to form. Check it out here:
Comic Book Movie Stars Who Have Worked In Shreveport
We utilized IMDB's filming location database to help put this together. However there is one movie listed there that we didn't include. IMDB lists X-Men Origins: Wolverine on their Shreveport list, but we struggled to find citing for this. So we just left it off. Some of these stars weren't in comic book "movies" specifically.
But we counted the Netflix Marvel shows, and MCU Disney+ shows as well.
We also added in an odd option...pro wrestlers. Pro wrestling has been a big deal in the Shreveport area for a long time, so we're going to include the wrestlers who've worked in the Shreveport area, and went on to comic book movie fame.
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The goal of this lab is to get familiar importing existing packages/modules and to create and import your own modules.

**You should retype these exercises rather than cutting/pasting, which doesn't help you remember anything.**

## Importing standard packages

By now, you've probably seen lots of examples and have used `import` many times for various projects. Just for completeness, let's go through the basics.

In a file called `basics.py` import the `math`, `numpy`, and `pandas` packages with the following.

```python
import math
import numpy as np
import pandas as pd
```

Please note the standard aliases given for the second two packages; this is what you will see in all code examples and it's good to keep to the standard. The `as np` is an alias that we can use as a shorthand.

Let's verify that the import statements have worked:

```python
print(math.pi)
print(np.sum(np.array([1,2,3])))

df = pd.DataFrame([[100,'parrt'],[105,'tombu']],
                  columns=['ID','user'])
print(df)
```

The output you get should look like this:

```
$ python basics.py
3.141592653589793
6
    ID   user
0  100  parrt
1  105  tombu
```

Now, let's try out a variation on the import statement that imports a single variable instead of all variables. It allows us to directly reference `pi` instead of the package name prefix `math.pi`. In the same file or different file, execute this:

```python
from math import pi
print(pi)
```

## Importing our own module

To learn more about how modules work, let's create our own module. The good news is it's just another Python file. If we import it into another file it acts like a module rather than a script that we execute. As a general rule, modules that you import should not have a main program (code outside of functions). The only exception is when you need to create a variable that you want to be available to the file importing your module.

Create a file called `mymath.py` that will hold a variable and function definition mimicking standard math stuff:

```python
pi = 3.14159

def pow2(n):
    v = 1
    for i in range(n):
        v *= 2
    return v
```

Now, create a script called `usemymath.py` that will import that code and test it:

```python
from mymath import *

print(pi)
print(pow2(0))
print(pow2(10))
```

From the command line the output looks like this:

```bash
$ python usemymath.py
3.14159
1
1024
```

The whole point of this exercise is to learn that organizing related functions into modules that you can reuse makes you more productive. You can even publish these packages so that other people can use your code.

If you get stuck, you can check out the [solution](https://github.com/parrt/msds501/tree/master/labs/code/packages).


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è una serie shōnen manga scritta da Mikiya Mochizuki in 48 volumi e pubblicata tra il 1969-79.

La storia si basa sulla condizione esistente negli anni '60, ove il Giappone assieme a tutti gli altri paesi non-comunisti debbon affrontare le proteste studentesche e la corruzione politica dilagante, oltre alla rinascita e sviluppo economico seguente la fine della Seconda guerra mondiale.

Tra il 1972-73 ne è stato tratto un telefilm in 25 episodi, oltre a un OAV in 2 episodi nel 1994, una serie animata in 13 episodi nel 2002 ed infine un film live action nel 2011.

Trama
Sulla scia dell'aumento esponenziale e sempre più pericoloso per la pace sociale dato dalla criminalità e dal vero e proprio terrorismo, alla polizia nazionale giapponese non rimane altra scelta che quella di autorizzare la mobilitazione di una speciale unità anti-terrorismo composta da ex-detenuti in motocicletta: questi vanno dai semplici criminali ad individui ritrovatisi incarcerati a seguito di piccoli guai personali ed ex scagnozzi della yakuza.

Assieme si ritroveranno a combattere il crimine organizzato e io terroristi armati che attentano attualmente alla sicurezza dello stato.

Versioni animate
L'Oav è un adattamento della versione manga, mentre l'anime segue cronologicamente le vicende venute ad accadere nell'Oav.

Live Action
La versione dal vivo come telefilm trasmessa da Nippon Television, pur divenendo via via sempre più popolare tra i telespettatori, ha dovuto essere interrotta dopo 25 episodi a causa delle scene cruente e troppo violente che venivano mostrate.

Nel 2011 è uscito nelle sale un film che riprende la storia.

Cast
 Eita Nagayama - Dairoku Iba
 Kippei Shiina - Sekai
 Ryuhei Maruyama - Pyro
 Tsuyoshi Abe - Sox
 Takashi Ukaji - Oyabun
 Yusuke Hirayama - Hebopue
 Minoru Matsumoto - BBQ
 Kyōko Fukada - Yuki Honma
 Jun Kaname - Todo Masashi
 Yuika Motokariya - Kozue Iwashita
 Takeo Nakahara - Mamoru Narusawa
 Kōtarō Yoshida - Keigo Kiryu
 Kiichi Nakai - Masaru Kusanami

Collegamenti esterni

Shōnen
Film live action basati su anime e manga
Serie televisive basate su anime e manga

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All the posts published.
Germany: DMK to sell ice cream plant to Schwarz Gruppe
DMK, the leading Germany dairy cooperative, has announced plans to sell its ice cream plant in Waldfeucht-Haaren, North Rhine-Westphalia to retail giant Schwarz Gruppe, which operates the Lidl and Kaufland businesses, for an undisclosed sum. Describing the move as being part of plans to "streamline its production network in the ice cream business unit", DMK said the transfer of the factory ownership, together with its 200 staff, would take place …
USA: Lidl considering Texas openings
Manufacture & Distribution, North America, Retail
Lidl, the German retail giant that is part of the Schwarz Group, is earmarking parts of the southern USA for its initial wave of stores in North America, according to a report in the Houston Business Journal. In addition to the eastern US, where Lidl has centred its planned foray into the US market, the discounter is now exploring the option of opening locations in the state of Texas although has not yet …
Australia: Schwarz Group considering opening Kaufland stores
Asia Pacific, Retail
Schwarz Group, the German retail giant behind the Lidl and Kaufland brands, is considering opening stores under the Kaufland brand in Australia, according to an article in N-tv.de. The supermarket group is currently conducting a feasibility study, "only after which a decision on a possible entry into the market will be made", N-tv.de reports, quoting the firm. Previous German media reports had suggested that the first Kaufland stores might open in …
Germany: Schwarz Gruppe reports double-digit sales growth
Schwarz Gruppe, which operates the supermarket chains Lidl and Kaufland, has finished the financial year with double-digit sales growth, Handelsblatt reports. Total income for the year ending February 2014 was €74 billion ($103 billion), an increase of 10% on FY 2013. A company spokesperson is reported as attributing the increase to growth in same-store store sales, with gains seen particularly in revenue from fresh bakery products. The sales growth reportedly …
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'Fowl play suspected on Irish day' was the CPH POST headline that greeted this mischievous front page pic about the ladies hat competition at Irish Day at the Races (photo: Peter Sims)
March 20th, 2017 11:06 am| by Ben Hamilton
Amid the merriment among revellers out celebrating St Patrick's Day last week on Friday, a more sombre mood took over as news began to filter through that the Irish community had lost one of its own.
Very few people knew that Jonathan 'Jonno' Farrelly, the landlord of the Irish Rover since its opening in 2004, had been battling cancer this past year, so it was a great shock to many to hear of his passing.
He was only 46 years old and had two young children aged 11 and 9.
Always a good sport, Jonno was at ease in every environment
Twenty odd years in the capital
Born in the Dublin suburban town of Lucan in December 1970, Jonno was one of the youngest of eight children.
He moved to Copenhagen in the 1990s, working first for the Shamrock Inn and then for the Dubliner on Strøget where he realised the potential for centrally-based Irish pubs.
In 2004, he decided to go it alone, convincing his backers there was more than enough room for another Irish pub on the city's main walking street, and he wasn't wrong.
READ MORE: End of an era at the Irish Rover, and the beginning of a new one
Infectious enthusiasm
During his time as a barman and then a landlord, Jonno's infectious enthusiasm brought joy and laughter to many people's lives.
He was hugely generous, and this was no more evident than at his famous 'Irish Day at the Races' events at Klampenborg Racetrack in early May.
They never failed to attract a big crowd, rain or shine, partly because he arranged free transport for many of the patrons, as well as entertainment for the children.
As a devoted family man, he was always keen to ensure his pubs offered a wholesome environment to families at Saturday and Sunday lunchtime, and also over Christmas – perhaps with a glint in his eye that if the children were happy, their parents can relax and drink more.
An undisputed showman
And he was also an undoubted showman, whether it was sharing banter with the punters on J-Dag or St Patrick's Day, brainstorming at a work meeting or orchestrating a photo shoot.
Eurovision winner Jonny Logan and some of the top snooker players in the world – Mark Selby and John Higgins – were among his guests, as was on one memorable occasion the former football hooligan Cass Pennant, who he invited to give a talk.
There was no limit to his entrepreneurial ambition, and back home in Ireland he had many other business interests, including a burgeoning shakes and juices business.
Jonno was always proud to welcome big brother Michael (left) to events like his Irish Day at the Races
Remembered with tears and smiles
"He always made people laugh – he was so liked in this city and in his hometown of Lucan," lamented Anthony Foster, the head chef at Rosie McGee's, who worked with Jonno for several years at the Dubliner.
"The whole city was in shock on Friday, and with tears and smiles we raised our glasses to him."
Also in contact with CPH POST to pay their condolences over the weekend were Kieran Cahill, his right-hand man at the Irish Rover for the last decade, Brian McKenna, the landlord of The Globe, Gus Brown, the landlord of the Dubliner, and Copenhagen Celtic, the international football club that Jonno was a generous sponsor of.
Cahill summed up so many people's shock when he said his former boss and friend's passing had left everyone "all in a heap".
Donations most welcome
His funeral is on Wednesday at St Mary's Church in Lucan, and while the Farrellys have stressed family flowers only, donations are most welcome to the Make a Wish Foundation.
One option could be to leave a contribution behind the bar at the Irish Rover, which recently relocated to a new venue on Strøget.
The pub and friends of Jonno are busy putting together plans for a memorial service, either later this month or in April.
Jonno's home from 2004 to January 2017
End of an era at the Irish Rover, and the beginning of a new one
It needn't be lonely this Christmas with no-one to hold
Leg-tied, legless, join the legends of the race!
Where to watch the Super Bowl
Festive feasting for those bereft of turkey and mince pies
The Irish: a nation of many identities
Inside this week | Fifteen years not out!
Rubbing the clover with the Irish Rover
Inside this week | We have standards!
Inside this week | Simply having a wonderful birthday time
Question 1: Which quiz? A, B, C or D
City centre brawl outside screening of hooligan film


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Gov't keen to ensure success of the Ghana Olympic Committee – Sports Minister
by Edwin Kwakofi
The Sports Minister, Mustapha Ussif says the government is determined to ensure the success of the Ghana Olympic Committee (GOC).
According to him, the downfall of the GOC would have adverse effects on the nation in terms of sports development and the country's reputation globally.
Speaking ay the General Assembly of the GOC on Monday, Mustapha Ussif insisted the state was committed to supporting the GOC fully in its endeavours, giving the crucial role it plays in the country's sports development agenda.
"I couldn't have been happier to be in the midst of sports stakeholders, especially as this General Assembly follows my assumption of office as the Minister for Youth and Sports. The GOC, being an important stakeholder and ally in the promotion and development of sports in the country, government is keen on seeing the progress of the GOC, as its success, or otherwise, will have a direct impact on our country's sports development vision and international image," Mustapha Ussif said.
He added that while past administrations have backed the GOC's efforts, the current government intended to enhance that relationship with the GOC even further, going forward.
"As the National Olympic Committee of Ghana, with the mandate to promote and facilitate our country's participation in the Olympic Games and other competitions such as the Commonwealth Games, government is even more determined for greater collaboration with the GOC and other Federations, to ensure the successful realisation of the objectives mentioned earlier," he said.
"Whatever we do as government, GOC, Associations or Federations, the ultimate objective for all of us, is to develop our sports and represent our dear country well at international competitions, especially the Olympics, Commonwealth and Africa Games."
Angel Di Maria and Marquinhos' families 'held hostage' during PSG game
Let's leave a lasting legacy when we host the 2023 African Games – Mustapha Ussif
Female Footballer of the Year winner to receive 10,000 Cedis at SWAG Awards
My fight with Alexis Roca will be 'a war' – George Ashie
Ghana's opponents in U-23 qualifier face possible disqualification – Reports
Newcastle United midfielder Joelinton fined £29k for drink-driving
Let's leave a lasting legacy when we host the 2023 African Games - Mustapha Ussif


Police taking 'aggressive' approach to 'disturbing' increase in burglaries.
Civil stand-by request results in a SC man facing four charges.
Gone, but fur-ever in the heart of the community, the Norwalk Police Department's K9 Obie died Feb. 2.
T-Mobile's theft of four iPhones involved possible identity theft.


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Q: How to derive moment of inertia? I am currently studying calculus and I am having a hard time understanding this. Here's what written in my textbook:
$$I_{disk}=\int_{0}^{R} r^2 dm=\int_{0}^{R} r^2\sigma2\pi r dr=\int_{0}^{R} r^2\frac{m}{\pi R^2}2\pi r dr=\frac{2m}{R^2}\int_{0}^{R} r^3 dr=\frac{2m}{R^2}[\frac{r^4}{4}]_{0}^{R}=\frac{2m}{R^2}\frac{R^4}{4}=\frac{1}{2}mR^2$$
Can somebody explain why we are integrating with respect to mass? What does σ mean? Where does it appear from?

A: Consider a small element of the body.The element should be so chosen that the perpendiculars from different points of the element to the given line differ only by infinitesimal amounts.Let its mass be $dm$ and its perpendicular distance from the given line be r.Evaluate the product $r^2dm$ and integrate it over the appropriate limits to cover the whole body.Thus,$I=\int r^2dm$ under proper limits.
We can call $r^2dm$ the moment of inertia of small element.Here since integration of $dm$ is dependent on the radius that if it was just a ring integration of $dm$ would be M which is the mass of the ring.
Here sigma is mass of the ring per unit area $$\frac{M}{Πr^2}$$

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