Silverdale pitcher Landon Franklin delivers to the plate.
Silverdale shortstop Creighton Johnson sets to throw to first base.
Seahawks' left fielder cade Delashmitt hauls in a long fly ball for the out.
Silverdale's Creighton Johnson winds up for a throw from shortstop.
McMinn Central starter Elijah Reno goes through his windup before firing to the plate.
Silverdale's Sawyer Junkins (32) slides safely back into first as McMinn Central first baseman Dakoda Evans takes the throw.
Silverdale left fielder Cade Delashmitt leaps high in an attempt to grab a homerun.
McMinn Central's Brody Cardin heads to second as he rounds out a homerun trot.
McMinn's Nathan Moss makes contact for a hit.
McMinn Central catcher Brody Cardin, left, and battery mate Elijah Reno confer on the mound.
Silverdale's Turner Junkins breaks for first after laying down a perfect bunt.
McMinn shortstop Dalton Tiberio makes a sliding attempt at a ground ball.
Silverdale's first year head coach Jon Massey surveys the action on the field. Massey has the Seahawks out to a fast 5-0 start.
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"Wild Iris is a natural collaboration between the flute, courtesy of Steve Kujala and the Celtic harp of Kim Robertson. These instruments have tremendous range and versatility. Their natural timbres create deep atmospheres. Robertson's style, usually more subdued, is quite aggressive and quite appealing on this CD. Unencumbered by accompaniment and production concerns, she lets it fly and it soars. Kujala's flute is the perfect companion for her deep sonority. This is an exciting performance. It will appeal to fans of Susan Craig Winsberg, Lisa Lynne, Loreena McKennitt, and Patricia Spero." ~ Jim Brenholts, All Music Guide
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Combining the authentic traditions of the Celtic Harp with a dynamic flair for world rhythms and on-the-edge improvisation, Kim Robertson has stretched the boundaries of the harp. This daring redefinition of harp music is at its most vibrant in her concert appearances. Remarking on her greatest love, live performance, she says, "That's where the magic is...between the audience and the performer...that's when I truly express myself. Without that experience, I don't think I could make meaningful recordings. Not only can I see how people are responding, but I take more chances playing live."
Kim Robertson's repertoire includes timeless Celtic melodies, classical, Renaissance and medieval works, and original compositions which, since the release of her 1991 album, Angels in Disguise, also feature her beautiful lyrics and vocals.
Born and raised in Wisconsin, Kim Robertson began studying piano at age eight, continuing on into college as a piano major. I was in Kim Robertson's senior year of high school that Kim first began to learn the pedal or orchestral harp. "I was never a very good pedal harp student since I was not interested in a symphonic career. I found it fascinating only as a sideline."
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In the mid-70's, Kim Robertson discovered the Celtic harp. This quickly evolved into a profound love for the instrument and set her upon the original path of exploration for which she is renowned. In 1979, she moved to the California coast where she was approached by Invincible Music.
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Kim Robertson's love affair with Celtic music has blossomed into a highly visible performing, recording, and teaching career. Her work encompasses 18 recording projects including Tender Shepherd, Love Song to a Planet, and her 1993 appearance on the Sugo harp anthology Harvest Moon. Kim Robertson has published nine volumes of harp arrangements and two instructional videos and pursues an international itinerary of concerts, workshops, and retreats. Through the prism of the Celtic harp, one of the world's oldest and most loved instruments, Kim Robertson has found and focused her artistic vision to create an intimate and universal chamber music of the heart.


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Succession is a TV series created by Jesse Armstrong and is premiered on HBO. The two seasons of the series were loved and liked by everyone and also go many positive ratings. The fans and the makers were desperately looking forward for the third season of the show. Let us know more about the third season of the show.
The lead cast of the show is definitely expected to return. This includes Brian Cox (Logan), Jeremy Strong (Kendall), Sarah Snook (Shiv), Kieran Culkin (Roman), Alan Ruck (Connor), Matthew Macfadyen (Tom) and Nicholas Braun (Greg). Other than these other cast includes J Smith Cameron (Gerri), Justine Lupe (Willa), Dagmara Domińczyk (Karolina), and Arian Moayed (Stewy).
The finale of the last season was very exciting and like any good series, it left the viewers with many unanswered questions and a bit of suspense.
S4 is expected to follow the plot of the team and Kendall exposing Logan. Roman's increase might also be followed along with it. The next part is also expected to show few real-life issues currently going on, including the COVID pandemic and the political issues in America. However, we have to wait for the release to know more about the next season.
The series is known to release each of its seasons during the summertime (more specifically the vacation time). The third season was expected to start its production by April, this year. However, many actors weren't able to assemble for the shooting due to the pandemic and lockdown. This caused a delay in the release of the third season, and nothing can be said until the situation gets normal.
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AionGuard [X360 PS3 – Cancelled]
AionGuard is a cancelled action / strategy game that was in development from 2008 to 2010 by Avalanche Studios and it would have been published by EIDOS for the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3. In AionGuard players would have followed an army of elite soldiers, tasked with capturing fixed areas of land which are occupied by numerous mythical and magical creatures.
Originally the gameplay was supposed to take place during the World War I era, however, the theme did not fit the publishers' line up and was changed to that of a science fiction setting, and subsequently to a fantasy setting when the science fiction theme conflicted with another game in Eidos' portfolio. In february 2010, Avalanche Studios announced that the game was officially cancelled, as we can read at Scrowl. The team was then able to move their time and resources to finish Just Cause 2.
Avalanche Studios later bought the rights to AionGuard back from Eidos and they hope to work on it again in the future.
Some more info on the game can be found at Edge Magazine website:
"We've had it with this standardisation of fantasy – it's not exciting any more, it's deteriorated into trivial re-hashings of the same old things." But 'fantasy' doesn't tell the whole story of AionGuard. This world is a melting-pot of science-fiction, steampunk, technology, fascism, mystery and games from the excellent Panzer Dragoon Orta to the failed experiment of Lair. If this is fantasy, it's a gloriously broad strata. […]
"Let's say you fly in over a new region – the commander of the army might contact you and give you a number of recon missions," offers Nedfors. "That's what the military is interested in in a new area. Then it's all about exploration for the player. You can travel with different attitudes – flying in on a big beast will probably see you getting attacked, but you can be a bit quieter about it." What if you've already seen that area on your travels without being contacted? "You've still done that piece of the game, so you get all the benefits from it," says Nedfors. […]
The scale of the game changes seamlessly – the same size of figure on the screen is now looking over a world that stretches endlessly, populated by an advancing army of 4,000 tiny soldiers. These 4,000 warriors are running on a 360 debug unit, not a PC, thanks to AI scaling. The larger groups of enemies have a group AI that becomes individual once you begin interacting with it.
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Learning to Manage the Fringe
Texas GOP gubernatorial candidate Debra Medina speaks with the press after an interview with Glenn Beck. (YouTube)
Texas GOP gubernatorial candidate Debra Medina speaks with the press after her interview with Glenn Beck. (YouTube)
The annual Conservative Political Action Conference kicks off in Washington today, and one would-be conservative star — Debra Medina — won't be missed.
In late January, polls showed Medina's campaign for governor of Texas surging from single digits — the usual terrain of first-time candidates given to talk of "revolution" and nullifying federal laws — into the low twenties. That was enough support to force a run-off, and enough to turn the media's attention to the latest story of surprising Tea Party success. Then, on February 11, Glenn Beck booked her on his radio show and asked whether a nasty rumor was true. Did she "believe the government was in any way involved with the bringing down of the World Trade Centers on 9/11?"
[GOP1]Medina didn't say no. "I don't have all of the evidence, there, Glenn," she said, stumbling a bit over her words. "And I think the American people have not seen all of the evidence there. So I have not taken a position on that."
A groan went up across the conservative blogosphere. When Medina backpedaled by pointing out that Americans also had questions about President Barack Obama's citizenship, a louder groan went up. Erick Erickson, the influential editor of RedState.com — a website that regularly features guest posts from Republican politicians — announced that the site, which had always banned 9/11 conspiracy theories, was also banning "birthers."
"If you think 9/11 was an inside job," wrote Erickson, "or you really want to debate whether or not Barack Obama is an American citizen eligible to be President, RedState is not a place for you."
One Tea Party activist who watched this unfold with dismay was Judson Phillips. Days before the Medina meltdown, he wrapped up the first National Tea Party Convention in front of dozens of TV cameras and 200 reporters. He'd announced the formation of a new Tea Party-driven PAC and introduced the press to Tea Party-affiliated congressional candidates.
"What Medina did," Phillips mused this week to TWI, "that might have been the classic self-inflicted wound. It's clear that she may have been a good candidate someday, and it's clear that she wasn't ready for prime time."
When he ran the National Tea Party Convention, Phillips got a sense of how fringe beliefs and fringe activists could harm the movement. Handled correctly, they didn't have to do much damage at all. On its first night, former congressman Tom Tancredo used his time at the podium to call the president "Barack Hussein Obama" and say his election could have been prevented by voter "literacy tests." On its second night, WorldNetDaily Editor-in-Chief Joseph Farah spent roughly 10 minutes of a 40-minute speech musing about President Obama's citizenship. Those stories got mainstream media coverage, and Phillips fielded questions on them, but the stories didn't outlast the showy closing speech by Sarah Palin.
"For better or worse," Phillips told TWI, "America's got a really short attention span. If you go past a few days, people forget about it. Basically, if you don't want to be taken down, you have to stay on message, and you have to ignore what the media is doing."
Phillips's experience wasn't unqiue. Conservative activists and Republican politicians have, thus far in the Obama presidency, largely been able to escape the negative attention generated by the movement's fringes. A February 11 ABC News/Washington Post poll found 35 percent of Americans holding favorable views of the Tea Party movement to 40 percent who hold negative views — negative overall, but better than the ratings for Congress. And that same poll found voters splitting evenly, 46 percent to 46 percent, on whether they wanted the Democrats or the Republicans to win control of Congress in the midterm elections. Despite the increased visibility and power of out-of-the-mainstream activists and rhetoric, the party itself is on steadier footing.
All of this is on the minds of conservatives and liberals alike today as they arrive for CPAC, the traditional gathering of conservatives that brings presidential hopefuls, young activists, and power players to a D.C. hotel. In the run-up to the convention, CPAC Director Lisa De Pasquale announced that a panel on Obama's citizenship had been ruled out and took the side of GOProud, a gay Republican group, in a dispute with religious conservatives — the leader of the group, Jimmy LaSalvia, is now slated to appear on a Saturday technology panel.
At the same time, CPAC has accepted the sponsorship of the John Birch Society — a far-right group famously exiled from the conservative movement by William F. Buckley. And some figures in the "birther" movement will be making appearances at the conference. Gary Kreep, a lawyer who represents fringe presidential candidate Alan Keyes in a suit demanding Obama's birth certificate, will appear on a panel titled "Saving Freedom and Due Process from An Oppressive Justice Department," alongside Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli. Hi-Caliber, a Republican rapper who dropped a verse about Obama's citizenship at the 9/12 march on Washington, will appear at party hosted by XPAC2010, a series of religious conservative events happening alongside CPAC.
The toxic fringe issues that convinced activists to distance themselves from Medina won't be the only controversial elements of the movement coming into the CPAC spotlight. While at past conferences Rep. Ron Paul (R-Tex.)'s brand of anti-Federal Reserve, strict constructionist conservative has gotten a polite reception, this year representatives from his Campaign for Liberty are co-sponsoring multiple panels. The Tea Party movement, blasted by Democratic leaders and liberal activists for the extremism that surfaces at some rallies, is an even greater presence.
Liberals are primed to find and publicize every CPAC flirtation with fringe politics. TalkingPointsMemo has assigned three reporters to cover the event and Faiz Shakir, the editor of ThinkProgress, told TWI that some number of staffers will attend the convention with video cameras. In the run-up, other liberal-leaning news organizations have run stories on the sensational themes of CPAC panels and a Nancy Pelosi pinata that will be beaten up at an off-site party. But conservatives, who have grown used to having to explain the actions of fringe activists, have seen that coverage of CPAC before. But if the recent past is prologue, making hay out of the fringe elements that will walk the halls, and the event stage, with possible 2012 GOP candidates, won't do lasting damage.
"Everybody talks about William F. Buckley repudiating the Birchers," said J.P. Freire, an editor at the Washington Examiner who was the 2009 CPAC Journalist of the Year. "That's fine. That's supposed to happen. But he didn't spend the rest of his career belaboring the point. When you want to ostracize the fringe, you do not clamp down on it. You ignore it."
When Freire received his award last year, he had just come from speaking at one of the first-ever Tea Party protests, a rally of around 100 people in Lafayette Square. One year of aggressive and mocking media coverage of that movement, he said, had revealed that the only people damaged by fringe behavior were the offenders themselves — not the conservative movement.
"This is out of Saul Alinsky," said Freire, suggesting that it was a distraction that wasn't selling given the grievances that mainstream activists had with Democratic policies. "You're trying to marginalize the critics, but you're not addressing their concerns."
Conservatives have become aware that fringe issues can trip them up. J.D. Hayworth, a former congressman from Arizona who's challenging Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) in the primary, has stumbled in interviews when asked about the president's citizenship. On Monday, Republican congressional candidate Sean Duffy told TWI that he's asked "the birther question" from time to time, but he quickly dismisses it and moves on, as he does when asked if he supports plans to nullify or abolish social insurance.
"There are people on the fringe of everything," said Terry Jeffrey, the editor of CNSNews.com, who is moderating a panel on "Saving Freedom from The Enemies of Our Values" at CPAC. "I just don't think that the average person identifies some nut, somewhere, with what conservatism is all about. The bigger problem is that the president needs to answer for some of the people at the White House, and the crazy things they've said."
Liberal watchdogs and bloggers aren't changing their plans. Last year, ThinkProgress correspondents got multiple Republicans on video commenting on Rush Limbaugh's remark that he wanted the president to "fail." This year, they're going to be demanding accountability again, even if conservatives figure they can police their own fringes and ignore the blowback.
"I'm not trying to shoot for the stars," said Faiz Shakir, the editor of ThinkProgress. "All I want is a record. It shouldn't be possible for people to duck into a conference, espouse hate-filled rhetoric, and duck out without a trace."
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Pennsylvania, US Posts: 51,044 OS: Windows 7, XP-Pro, Vista, Linux My System The fact that you can't ping screams firewall configuration issue. See here for more details. My surmise is that on a new install, the NetWorker client processes generate a new 'certificate' or 'identity'. Example in this case: nsrdeletepeer faero Where "nsrdeletepeer" is the script and "faero" is (of course) the client.
For the IP change of a client, the NSR Peer Information on the NetWorker Server and Storage Node would need to be deleted for the clientStop/Start the NetWorker Services or reboot.Here Preston says: March 10, 2009 at 9:59 am I'm glad it helped, thanks for the feedback. Run the following command on the NetWorker server, logging the putty terminal output to a file: nsradmin . Finally, Run Auto Discovery. A map of the infrastructure should build in the Networker GUI Ensure vc, proxy and networker servers all have network comms and can resolve each others names.
That's Basics – Fixing "NSR Peer information" errors. NDMP connections starting OK.3. Re: Name is not a valid hostname jonatanblue Nov 6, 2012 10:57 PM (in response to Harry Bremer) I got the same error. Preston says: October 21, 2009 at 7:18 am Happy to have been of help.
I could access the host and see the tree of files to choose to backup, but then it would complain it wasn't a valid hostname.This error was preposterous since it had Driven by search engine referrals we have a return to the top of the "Basics - Fixing NSR Peer information errors". Enter the Data Domain OST username and password Browse and Select Create a New Folder in sequence, e.g. Ray said 2009-10-21 at 07:12 That did it!
The Vista computer can access the router and it can see the other computers in the DHCP clients table, but it can't ping them. RE: client `localhost.localdomain' is not properly configured hjagpal (MIS) (OP) 10 Nov 08 19:43 I added [email protected]_name in the remote access list but got the same error. Forums Blogs Tech OnTap Newsletter Register · Sign In · Help Products and Solutions FAS, ONTAP and OnCommand Backup and Restore E-Series, SANtricity and Related Plug-ins Virtualization and Cloud Network Storage Are you connecting to the client processes on the backup server?
Why the flag? If the NIC teaming configuration is set to "Load Balancing", or any other mode that combines the multiple NICs into a single virtual interface, then the NDMP connection will be problematic Please type your message and try again. 5 Replies Latest reply: Nov 7, 2012 12:24 PM by Ahmed Bahaa Name is not a valid hostname Harry Bremer Nov 6, 2009 User Name Remember Me?
Redirected Client Recovery using the command line of the backup server. Then, look for the NSR peer information for the server and delete it. when i then on the backupserver in nsradmin enter 'delete type: NSR peer information; name:server-2-b-backupped' i get the message no resource to delete! Network connections are fine: nslookup, rpcinfo and ping from both sides (client and server) work well.Now we cannot backup this client.
Reasons such as off-topic, duplicates, flames, illegal, vulgar, or students posting their homework. As this new information conflicts with existing information the backup server has on the client, that's what triggers the error. Alternatively you may also want to update any information stored in /nsr/res/servers on the client if the backup server hostname has changed (bearing in mind if you do so it requires By joining you are opting in to receive e-mail.
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Anarchist Voices: An Oral History of Anarchism in America
Anarchy! An Anthology of Emma Goldman's Mother Earth
Arguments for the 4-Hour Day
The Autobiography of Osugi Sakae
Bakunin on the Capitalist System
The Blast!
Castoriadis: A Society Adrift
The CNT in the Spanish Revolution, vol. 1
The Cuban Revolution
Direct Action & Sabotage: Three Classic IWW Pamphlets
Emma Goldman: Documentary History
Emma Goldman: Revolution as a Way of Life
For Workers' Power
Freedom and Authority
Freedom Fighters: Anarchist Intellectuals, Workers and Soldiers in Portugal's History
Heretics & Hellraisers: Women Contributors to The Masses, 1911-1917
Immigrants, Unions and the New U.S. Labor Market
Indignant Heart: A Black Worker's Journal
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Book Review: Looking Forward
Posted on August 1, 2012 by Jon Bekken
Looking Forward: Participatory Economic for the Twenty First Century by Michael Albert and Robin Hahnel. Boston, South End Press, 1991
Review by Jeff Stein [Published in Libertarian Labor Review No. 12]
The economy in the Soviet Union is a mess and always has been," say Marxist theorists Michael Albert and Robin Hahnel. The problem isn't with having a planned economy, but a matter of who is doing the planning. In the Soviet Union, economic planning was exclusively a power of an elite class of "coordinators" [i.e. the Communist bureaucrats]. Thus it should have come as no surprise whose interest the Soviet economy served. Instead of "coordinatorism" the authors propose a rough model of a system of economic planning in which all workers and consumers would have a voice.
The model proposed by the authors is based upon a sort of democratic bargaining in which yearly production proposals made by workplace councils are compared to yearly consumption request made by consumer councils. A series of "facilitation boards" tabulate all the proposals and revises the "prices" of goods and services in terms of additional labor required to meet consumer demands. Goods and services, for which supply is not expected to meet demands, go up in price and vice versa. The councils then revise their previous proposals based upon the new prices. This continues for several rounds or "iteration" of planning proposals until at some point an exact match is made between projected yearly production and consumption. In order to encourage a convergence towards a final plan, councils are limited by how much they can alter a previous proposal in the next round. Proposals leading in direction of convergence can be changed up to 50%. Proposals leading away from an agreement can only be changed by 25%.
To make sure that everyone benefits equally from their economic model, Albert and Hahnel propose that every worker receive an equal share of consumption and be required to work an equal number of hours. In the former case, this can be modified somewhat by local consumer councils, based upon individual needs. A local consumer council can decide to increase or decrease the share of individual members; as long as the council's total consumption stays the same. In the case of the latter, the requirement to work an equal number of hours is accompanied by the requirement that the overall quality of working conditions also be equal for all workers. Thus every worker is required to have a "balanced job complex", made up of an average amount of pleasant tasks and drudgery.
The idea of "balanced job complexes" comes from the traditional socialist rejection of the capitalist division of labor, which condemns most individuals to a life of dull, repetitive, often dangerous hand labor, in order to free up a minority for the more creative and artistic work. Unlike some socialists (principally other Marxists) who merely propose to ameliorate the bad side effects of the division of labor by complex wage schemes, etc., Albert and Hahnel insist on doing away with the division of labor entirely. They argue that the quality of work assignments determines the amount of power an individual worker has within the economy. People with more interesting and enjoyable jobs have more control. As the authors put it, "Classlessness and real rather than formal workplace democracy require that each worker has a job complex composed of comparably fulfilling responsibilities.the half dozen or so tasks that I regularly do must be roughly as empowering as the half dozen or so tasks that you regularly do if we are to participate as equals in council decision making." (p.19, my emphasis)
I am sure many will find Looking Forward a thought-provoking read. However I am not so sure how useful a guide it is towards creating a self-managed social economy. The general idea of allowing everyone to take part in the planning process is good, although I don't agree on their specific suggestions for how to implement it. I also think their suggestion for making economic planning into a sort of bargaining process through several sessions or "iterations" could be useful. However in many ways I thought their system to be far less decentralized and "participatory" than they claim it to be. The authors tend to be somewhat vague about the role of the government in enforcing their system. For instance what about a workplace council which finds the final plan so intolerable that they refuse to go along with it? Can they negotiate their own separate agreement, or will some higher authority lock them out of their facilities, cut their rations, or worse? The authors say nothing about the right to strike, not to mention the right of voluntary association, the basis of federalism.
The authors, being Marxists, still tend to be complacent about the potential for authoritarian abuses in their model. Their economic organization requires a large number of "facilitation boards": CFCBs . "Collective Consumption Facilitation Boards," CFBs . "Consumption Facilitation Boards", EFBs . "Employment Facilitation Boards," HFBs . "Housing Facilitation Boards," IFBs . "Iteration Facilitation Boards," PFBs . "Production Facilitation Boards," and UFBs . "Updating Facilitation Boards." Supposedly the facilitators have no power other than collecting information and communicating it back to society via computer networks. But there is a tremendous amount of power involved in the control of information and its flow, particularly when this information is presented as being "objective and unbiased" (even more so when it is presented as computer data . about which the authors suggest "computers never lie"). Albert and Hahnel argue that such power would not be abused since the facilitator would (theoretically) be limited to the same consumption levels as everyone else and would therefore have nothing to gain by cooking the data. The authors somehow can not envision any other reason for distorting data other than direct economic benefit, such as ideological bias or pursuit of political objectives.
It is not hard to imagine a "facilitatorism" developing if these boards do not have sufficient safeguards placed upon them. It is somewhat disturbing that Albert and Hahnel seem reluctant to insist upon even the most elementary safeguards, such as limiting the terms of board members, since [as they say] this might interfere with the need for "expertise" at facilitation. This is even more surprising considering that they see expertise in every other job as being so unnecessary that it doesn't interfere with their "job complex" work rotation scheme at all. Apparently anybody can fly a passenger airline jet but it takes a special breed to "facilitate" society.
Even supposing the facilitator had to be changed once and a while (every four years?), however, "job complexing" would not necessarily end the division of labor. The point of doing away with divided labor is to help workers control their own work, to understand the full implications of their efforts by allowing them to play a role in the design of their products and organize their own jobs as they see fit. Thus the artificial separation between hand work and brain work, labor and management, is abolished. Albert and Hahnel, however, have devised more of a socialist job enrichment scheme in which workers would be required to move between several workplaces each week, doing one task here, one task there, as though the sum total of all these fragmented experiences would give them a sense of control over the entire economy. Spending a few hours each week picking apples will not give a construction worker a better understanding of either agriculture or the construction industry. Nor would it necessarily give farm workers more control of their industry. The influx of thousands of part-time workers with no particular knowledge of or interest in the industry, could make matters worse on the job if the part-timers had an equal vote in workplace matters and were played off against the regular workforce.
The division of labor is not negated by forcing workers to frequently change jobs. Instead of empowering workers, such a scheme could make them even more dependent on the few within industry who "facilitate" all the job rating and the rotation of work assignments. Proudhon made this point in reference to similar suggestions by utopian socialists, "As if to change ten, fifteen, twenty times a day from one kind of divided labor to another was to make labor synthetic.Even if such industrial vaulting was practicable . and it may be asserted in advance that it would disappear in the presence of making laborers responsible and therefore their functions personal . it would not change at all the physical, moral, and intellectual condition of the laborer; the dissipation would only be a surer guarantee of his incapacity and, consequently, his dependence." (System of Economic Contradictions, Tucker, trans., p.186)
Job complexing could certainly work at the workplace level and may be desirable, but making it a strict requirement for shuffling workers between industries is incompatible with self-management. Albert and Hahnel have the relationship between power and desirable work reversed. People do not lack power at their workplaces because they do the lousy jobs; rather they do the lousy jobs because they lack power. It is far more important to discuss the distribution of decision-making within workplaces and industry, than to try to formulate an elaborate job-sharing scheme which should be left up to the workers themselves. Formal democracy hat hides an informal class system is a valid concern, but I suspect that wherever this exists it may have more to do with a minority having a monopoly on information and education and a "good ol' boy" political network, than with the absence of a system for rating every job for some abstract enjoyment level.
Another problem with the Albert-Hahnel model is its use of the labor theory of value as a means for determining individual consumption levels. The authors are correct in making the simple observation that if society as a whole wants to consume more, that at any given technological level, some people will have to work more. It only seems fair that those who wish to do the extra consuming should have to do the extra working. A problem comes in determining exactly how much each individual's labor is worth when production is a complex and interdependent social undertaking. Albert and Hahnel get around this problem with their "job complexing". In theory, every hour of labor is equal to some average because every worker works at the same average level of intensity under the same average working conditions. (This certainly makes things easier for the statisticians.)
Yet even if it were possible to balance all jobs in society according to some average level (and ignoring the huge bureaucracy this might require), Albert and Hahnel sacrifice the most valid application of the labor theory of value, its connection to technological change, while they retain the theory's negative side effect, its neglect of ecological devastation. One might say, they have kept the bath water and thrown out the baby.
Let's take a look at the "baby", the labor theory of value and its connection to technological change. If you wish to make goods and services more plentiful, you must economize and reduce the amount of labor required to reduce them. According to the Albert-Hahnel model, workers at workplaces who adopt more efficient labor-saving technologies would be "rewarded" by being forced to work the hours they saved at less desirable jobs in other industries. Although it is true that this is no worse than under capitalism where labor-saving technology "rewards" workers with unemployment and subsequent loss of income, the point is that under the Albert-Hahnel model workers would be reluctant to adopt new technology since they would not benefit directly. Under a socialist system it would seem that the best reward for improving productivity would be to allow workers to decrease their work hours with no loss of income.
Albert and Hahnel would probably argue that their system would still reward labor saving efforts by giving a collective benefit to all workers. If workplace A, for instance, cuts its labor needs by say five hours a week per worker, then all workers throughout society would experience some small fraction of that reduction spread out proportionally. So even though the workers at workplace A might have to work part of the time elsewhere, instead of the five hours, it might be only 4 hours and 45 minutes at the other job. Even supposing that is sufficient incentive to keep technological progress going, there still remains the problem of using labor time as a method of pricing commodities and services.
One of the criticisms used by the Marxists against any sort of market system for determining prices has been that the "law of supply and demand" creates"commodity fetishism". Consumers only concerned with getting the most commodities for the lowest price, ignore the labor involved and that lowest price often is accompanied by maximum labor exploitation. Although a pricing system based on labor time, may make this more apparent to consumers, the labor theory of value ignores the ecological costs of goods: energy, raw materials, wastes generated, natural habitats destroyed, etc. These costs can't be measured in labor units. Thus instead of "commodity fetishism", Albert and Hahnel would create a "labor fetish".
For an example of how their use of the labor theory of value ignores ecological costs, let's use one of their own examples. In the chapter on "Participatory Allocation", Albert and Hahnel pose the problem of an increased demand for milk. "Sometimes, however, changes will not balance so that the net increase, say, in milk demand must be communicated to milk producers, who then either produce more . by increasing work intensity, hours worked by each employee, or adding personnel . or refuse to increase production.' (p.80) Clearly, the assumption is that increased production only requires additional human labor. But how about the cattle that actually produce this milk? How about the extra land that must be set aside to feed the cattle, perhaps wilderness and wetlands destroyed? How about the degraded water supply from the animal wastes in the run-off from feed lots or pastures? These ecological consequences can't be factored into a labor pricing system, and therefore would not show up on the computer terminals of consumers voting on the yearly economic plan.
Looking Forward has been accused by more orthodox Marxists of being an anarcho-syndicalist inspired proposal. Unfortunately this is not so. Although the authors clearly would like to give local economic bodies some autonomy, there still lingers a central plan and a state authority in the background (one the authors claim will wither away as their system has less "need" for it). Some rather ambiguous remarks made towards that end about Cuba suggest that the authors haven't strayed too far from the Marxist fold. At best the Albert-Hahnel model could be described as "central-planning by referendum".
While terms like "councils" and "federations" and anarchist quotes litter the text, there is no clear understanding of these demonstrated by the authors. Looking Forward is a utopian Marxist proposal with little anarchism in it.
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Lasting poetry can be lived with over years, it does not tire, but on each rereading, reveals new depths. The number of poets, living and dead, about whom this can be said, is not large. It would include Peter Dale and now in Edge to Edge we have a wide-ranging selection of his finest work.
for children scared of the dark.
and all the birds are flown.
Hunched shadows black the wall.
was there no one else to take?
no supple girl for you to break?
But you must take my dolphin man?
no sinewed arm for you to fray?


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Born on 10th January 1984 to French parents in Auroville, Tamil Nadu, Kalki Koechlin is an Indian actor, writer, and director. She has appeared majorly in Bollywood films and has also received a National Award for Margarita with a Straw (2014). Koechlin is famous for doing roles portraying strong women characters which resist the conventional Indian norms and practices. She debuted in Bollywood with Anurag Kashyap's critically acclaimed film Dev D (2009). For this film, Kalki won her first Filmfare Award in the category of Best Supporting Actress.
Kalki Koechlin is also actively involved with various humanitarian causes like women's rights and gender equality. She regularly participates in various social campaigns to promote education for children living in rural India.
Kalki Koechlin's father Joel Koechlin moved to India from France and married her mother Francoise Armandie who he met at the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in Auroville. Koechlin's ancestor Maurice Koechlin was the chief engineer in the construction of Eiffel Tower and Statue of Liberty. Her parents divorced when she was just 15. While she continued living with her mother, her father remarried and shifted to Bangalore. She has a paternal half-brother from her father's consequent marriage and a maternal half-brother from her mother's previous marriage.
Koechlin completed her schooling from Hebron School in Ooty and then studied drama and theater in Goldsmiths, University of London, where she also worked with a theater company called Theater of Relativity for two years. She later decided to move to Mumbai to try her luck in Bollywood.
Koechlin married filmmaker Anurag Kashyap in a private ceremony on 30th April 2011 in Ooty. Both starting dating each other during the shoot of Dev.D. In 2013, the two of them issued a joint statement announcing their separation and in 2015 filed for a divorce by mutual consent. Since then Kalki Koechlin has been very low key about her personal life and just prefers to keep the focus on her work.
After coming back from London, Kalki Koechlin moved to Mumbai to pursue her dream of acting. She did several modeling assignments before being shortlisted for the role of Leni in Dev.D, a modern interpretation of Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay's 1917 Bengali novel Devdas. Her role was inspired by Chandramukhi, a prostitute who falls in love with the alcoholic, Dev, played by Abhay Deol. Directed by Anurag Kashyap, the movie opened to really positive reviews and Koechlin's performance received much appreciation and accolades. For this film, she went on to win her first Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actress. In 2010, she starred alongside Ranvir Shorey, Mohit Ahlawat and Ravi Kishan in a black comedy The Film Emotional Atyachar. The movie failed at the box office and was critically proclaimed average.
In 2011, Kalki Koechlin had 4 releases and the year proved to be a very fruitful one for her. Her first release was a crime thriller Shaitan directed by Bejoy Nambiar. Although commercially unsuccessful, the film received positive reviews critically. Raja Sen of rediff.com called Koechlin's performance in the movie "an increasingly striking one". She then did a supporting role in Zoya Akhtar's Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara with an ensemble cast that also included Abhay Deol, Hrithik Roshan, Farhan Akhtar and Katrina Kaif in crucial roles. The film was a huge success and Kalki aced it as the insecure South Bombay girl. About her role in the movie, Taran Adarsh of Bollywood Hungama said: " Kalki infuses life into the character, fitting into the conceived character accurately." Her next film was Anurag Kashyap's The Girl In Yellow Boots, which she also co-wrote. Shot in just 13 days, the film also starred Naseeruddin Shah. It opened to amazing reviews and was screened at Toronto International Film Festival. Koechlin's last released film in 2011 was My Friend Pinto, where she played the role of a young, aspiring dancer. The film bombed at the box office and received average reviews from the critics..
Kalki Koechlin's next film was Dibakar Banerjee's Shanghai in the year 2012. She played the role of a political activist who is out to avenge her professor's attack. The movie was a commercial flop but was critically well received. She then starred in Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani with Deepika Padukone, Ranbir Kapoor, and Aditya Roy Kapur. Koechlin played the role of Aditi, a fun, and quirky tomboy. This romantic-comedy established her versatility in the industry and her comic timing was lauded by critics and audiences alike.
In 2014, Koechlin did a cameo in Happy Ending, co-starring Saif Ali Khan and Ileana D'Cruz. The film received a lot of flak for its predictable storyline and failed to leave any impact. Kalki then appeared in Shonali Bose's movie, Margarita with a Straw in which she plays the role of a young woman with cerebral palsy. It's touted as her career best performance till date for which she won the Jury Award at the 63rd National Film Awards for this film. In 2016, Kalki starred along with the veteran actor Naseeruddin Shah in Waiting. Directed by Anu Menon, this drama film opened to highly positive reviews.
Apart from doing films, Koechlin also co-starred in Y-Film's mini web series Man's World with Parineeti Chopra, Richa Chadda, and Bhumi Pednekar.
Theater Career
Koechlin believes that there is nothing like performing for a live audience. She has done various plays like Trivial Disasters, The Real Inspector Hound, and Rajat Kapoor's Hamlet, The Clown Prince. She also has her own theater company called Little Productions and made her directorial debut on stage with Living Room. As of 2019, Kalki is associated with Gully Boy.
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Kalki Koechlin, who is currently pregnant, is planning to go for a water birth in Goa. Kalki was also born from the same process.
Kalki`s great grandfather, Maurice Koechlin, was the chief engineer of Eiffel Tower.
Anurag Kashyap has done a cameo in the movie Dev D. He is one of Chanda`s clients whose coat Kalki removes during the song `Paayalia`.
Kalki Koechlin is fluent in French, English, Tamil, and Hindi
During her struggling days in Mumbai, Koechlin appeared in various teleshopping ads.
Had Kalki Koechlin not been an actor, she would have been a criminal psychologist.
Social and Humanitarian Work
Kalki Koechlin is actively involved in many social causes. She has been especially vocal about her stance on women empowerment and women's rights in India. A regular participant in women related campaigns, she once recited a powerful monolog called An Intense Piece about the Truths of Womanhood on International Women's Day at the India Today Conclave. Apart from this, she is also passionately involved with the issues of child rights and education for children in rural areas.
Being the youth icon for many, Kalki Koechlin is the brand ambassador of several brands like Coca-Cola, Olay, Vogue, Micromax, Titan, and AOC International.
Gossip & Controversy
According to gossip mills, Kalki Koechlin's and Anurag Kashyap's marriage ended because he was attracted to Huma Qureshi but the two ladies vehemently denied this rumor and also worked with each other in Ek Thi Daayan.
"It's not my job to keep myself in the news. My job is to keep performing. If I spend time promoting myself or being concerned about my image, I wouldn't have the energy to do the work that I'm doing. I love what I do and I'm good at it too."
"It's all a part of this world where we're all kind of mixing a lot, and… in that way we're all a bit confused about who we are, where we belong, where's home, and … who is important to us…"
"Dear men, dear powerful men, I know you care about women. I know you care about her, I know you want her to feel like a princess, to put her up on a pedestal, to make her a goddess and give her a special day – International Women's Day. You want to carry her so she can't walk, hold her so she can't be free, tells her so she can't know any differently, but no, that does not work equality."
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I can eat this satisfying dish any day of the week anytime of the year. And so we do. The creaminess of the beans highlights the subtle crunchiness of the sausage and shrimp and the smoky paprika rounds out the party. Speaking of shrimp, I am prompted to go on a not-so-gentle diatribe here. Shrimp, and all fish, vary in quality. The best shrimp (and fish) will always be wild-caught and preferably from our waters. If the only shrimp I can find is farm-raised, I will put off cooking this dish to another night. Farm-raised fish is yucky in so many ways, not the least of which is their lack of flavor and, often, their iodine-y sting to the palate.
Put the shrimp in a bowl with some of the garlic (a half-teaspoon or so), 1 tablespoon of the olive oil. Lightly crush the oregano between your fingers and sprinkle it onto the mixture. Season with salt and pepper and toss to coat the shrimp.
At my house, we dust the top of the beans with a flurry of Parmesan before serving and make sure we have lots of crusty bread on hand for dipping.


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She graduated from Lynn University in South Florida with a Bachelor of Science degree in clinical psychology. She received her master's in mental health counseling from St. Thomas University in North Miami Beach, Florida.
Today, Kathleen resides in the Austin area with her three beautiful children. She is dedicated to providing a safe environment for children who have been abused and neglected. She is committed to working in partnership with families and the community to strengthen and heal from within.
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Aghoresvara Temple
July 15, 2011 by Raggi Mudde
District: Shimoga
Town: Ikkeri
Temple: Aghoresvara temple
Ikkeri was the capital of Keladi Nayakas, a dynasty founded at Keladi in 1499. The name 'Ikkeri' in Kannada means two streets. The Nayakas of Ikkeri ruled from 1540 to 1763. This town is located in Shimoga district of Karnataka.
Aghoresvara Temple – History
The temple was constructed in the 15th century with a blend of Hoysalas, Vijayanagara and Chola style of architecture. The temple tower is a standing example of the in-between style. In an account by Italian traveler Peitro della Valle, he describes a temple festival during his visit in the Keladi Nayakas period. The festival involved women dancing to the beats of Dandiya or Kolu sticks. The only reminder to the Nayakas era is this temple dedicated to Aghoresvara. History says that this temple was ransacked by Tipu Sultan during an invasion on Nayakas of Ikkeri.
Aghoresvara Temple- Architecture
The temple is a blend of Hoysala and Dravida style. This symmetrical temple was built by Vengayya without too much decoration. This large temple is constructed facing north and has lofty roof and doorways ornamented in the east, north and west directions. The north doorway is the best constructed one with two elephants on either side of it. Its Muka Mandapa is constructed with black basalt stone and consists of 6 pillars. The temple has a magnificent entrance to the Garbhagriha, which has a giant pedestal occupying around three-fourth of the entire area. This pedestal has around 32 seated female figures. Its stone ceiling has geometrical patterns inscribed on it.
There are a number of carvings and sculptures found on the temple walls such as figurines, old Kannada manuscript, sculpted elephants and erotica among others. There are some stone pillars depicting a mythological animal being ridden by a human. While the sculptures on the outside are constructed in Hoysala style, the Vijayanagara style of building is found in its interior.
Aghoresvara Temple – Religious Significance
The Aghoresvara temple has Lord Shiva as its presiding deity. The word 'Aghoresvara' means "The lord of 14th night of the darker half of the month of Bhadrapada", this is to honor the good deeds performed by Lord Shiva in protecting the universe.
The central shrine is dedicated to Aghoresvara temple while the shrines next to it are dedicated to Ganesha and Subramanya. The same compound houses a shrine dedicated to Goddess Parvathi/Akhilandeswari, consort of Lord Shiva. The vehicle of Lord Shiva, Nandi is housed in an open mandapa made of stone. This sculpture is huge and is made of white spar.
How to Get to Aghoresvara temple
Ikkeri is located 93 km from Shimoga and three kilometer from Sagar. The town is well connected by road; you can hire auto rickshaws from Sagar to Ikkeri and back. Buses are also available till Sagar. The other places you can visit after coming to Ikkeri are Keladi, Ikkeri Fort, Jog Falls, Gudavi Bird Sanctuary, Varadahalli and Varadamoola. The town is surrounded by rainforest covered hills and ponds with lilies making it a place definitely to be visited by a nature lover. The right time to visit is just after the rains, anytime between September and January.
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Daily small mentoring business tip - You will fail!
Here's a business truth. In the lifetime of your business you will fail at something important. This could be hiring the wrong person. Choosing the wrong direction. Trusting a client who rips you off. Or just trusting your own judgement. And your failure will cost you money. You cannot be in business and get it right every time. The odds are against you. What makes or breaks a business owner's success is their ability to cope with failure… to keep the self flagellation to a minimum and the learning to the maximum. The lesson for today is embrace your mistakes, learn from your failures and know that you are a good business person if you are not afraid to get it wrong.. sometimes.
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Business owners sometimes require complex advice that includes the participation of their tax, investment and insurance advisors. We work with those advisors to develop a comprehensive plan to provide for succession.
The distribution of a deceased's assets in accordance with their will commonly requires a grant of probate from the court. Probate is the court-supervised process by which an executor is appointed to carry out the wishes of the deceased and to legally deal with their assets. Our professionals at Thomas Butler LLP help executors efficiently obtain probate and carry out their duties in distributing estate assets.
A consultation with a lawyer is a prudent first step to discover and act upon your legal options for your will or the estate of a loved one. Personal service and relationship building with clients are among the hallmarks of our firm. We believe in being available for clients to answer questions and provide advice as needed. As your law firm, you can feel comfortable knowing the advice you receive is given with your best interests in mind.
A will can provide a number of benefits no matter what your stage of life. If you are a couple just starting out, what's most important to you is likely your under age children. Your will is where you appoint guardians for those children and set up a trust fund (which can include your life insurance) for their care and education.
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At the same time we discuss your will, we can address any questions you might have about your future health care. In British Columbia, options range from living wills to advance care directives to representation agreements.
Each individual can grant another person (an "attorney") the legal authority to make financial and legal decisions on behalf of that individual. This authority is established by a document called a power of attorney. Powers of attorney do not deal with an individual's health care. See the reference to future health care in Wills above.
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Family assets, not connected to a business, are also candidates for estate planning. The family home can be passed on to the next generation outside of the context of a will, if the circumstances warrant doing so.


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Got Shoes?
A word from Phyllis Nichols, Knoxville Area Urban League President and CEO
For most of us, we've never had to think about having decent shoes or school supplies. No big deal. They were simply there. But for kids who don't have them, it's a big deal!
Last week, I talked about my love of reading and how important it is that parents read to their kids. Research shows that reading aloud to children – especially from birth through age five – plays a key role in a child's emerging literacy and preparation for success in school.
While I'm guessing that no Education Association or Literacy Foundation has researched the importance of a new pair of shoes to success in school, here at the Urban League we do a little "research" of our own every August with our Shoes for School event.
Shoes for School, a mammoth undertaking that gets bigger each year, provides new shoes and school supplies to about 1,000 area kids who are most in need. It's a carnival-like atmosphere that includes about 35 booth sponsors and hundreds of volunteers who provide games, food and school supplies to the kids. The crowning prize of the day is a new box of shoes ordered especially for each child. I'll never tire of seeing the look of delight on the kids' faces when they tear into their box and retrieve their prized pair of shoes.
Why are shoes important? If you have to ask, you've never sat at a desk with your feet tucked far beneath your seat so that no one would notice your worn-out, paltry, little shoes.
A few years ago we got a call from a mother whose son had lost his shoes at the event. She said the poor kid hadn't stopped crying since he realized his shoes were gone. Fortunately, we found the shoes. The surprising thing about this story isn't that a boy lost his shoes and he was sad about it. It's that the "boy" was 11 or 12-years old, not six or seven like we expected. Like I said, new shoes are a big deal.
I realize we're not changing the world by giving kids in need new shoes and school supplies, but I like to think we're making a small change in our part of the world. By arming these kids with shoes and school supplies, we're helping them feel more confident and comfortable with their peers, which is a critical piece of the puzzle.
We're in the process of signing up corporate booth sponsors, and we still have room for a few more. Participation includes setting up a booth or a tent, providing an activity, a game or something to engage the kids, and giving away school supplies as their reward. This is an excellent opportunity to get your employees/associates/members working on a one-day community service project. Let me know if you'd like more details.
We also need your financial support. Through a special corporate partnership, we're able to purchase shoes for the amazingly low price of $10 each. Every $10 you donate means another happy child will start the school year "on the right foot."
Take a quick look at last year's video for more details.
Tags:education, knoxville, school, shoes, volunteering


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Located directly below Legends makes it ideal for events requiring two separate function rooms for one occasion, for instance, a drinks reception can be hosted in one suite followed by a dinner/dance in the second suite.
The Sir Bobby Robson Suite and Legends combined are ideal for exhibitions and product launches in addition to dinner and large conferences.


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Q: Does this make sense? I want to ask this:
What is that all civil engineers do understand that all software engineering better understand also?
My question to you is if the following sentence makes any sense:

What is that all civil engineers do understand that all software
  engineers might as well do?

Or:

What is that all civil engineers do understand that all software
  engineers might do as well?

Or are both wrong and sounding weird?
thanks in advance
Edited to add more clarity:
Sorry, I'm not an english native speaker, so I make a lot of confusion.
Basically, what I want to say:

What Software Engineers can learn from Civil Engineers.

But I want to use the format:

What is that all civil engineers do understand that all software
  engineers might do as well?

Maybe is, in the end, would better for me to keep it simpler by just saying:

What Software Engineers can learn from Civil Engineers.

A: I had a different understanding of your question to Brad — where I think the idea that you are getting at is more around how civil engineers conduct themselves professionally, rather than an understanding of the discipline of civil engineering itself.
From discussions I've had previously, people sometimes raise the idea that software development is not "real engineering".
For example,

*

*in some countries, where the term "engineer" is a protected term by law. You need to be a member of a professional body to call yourself an engineer (similar to doctors, lawyers, accountants, etc.) which involves having a minimum qualification, whereas a lot of software developers are self taught.

*engineers (again, like other professional disciplines) are often held to professional standards by these bodies. For example, if they signed off on an unsafe bridge, they would liking loose their status. There is no similar system in place for software developers.

So coming back to your sentence:

What is that all civil engineers do understand that all software engineers might as well do?

A few points:

*

*You don't really need the first "do". It's not necessarily wrong but — "What is it that all civil engineers understand…" — reads more naturally to me

*"might as well" on its own is an idiom that means unenthuastically, so your sentence could get read in this way unintentionally. I think it would be more natural to say "might do as well" here.

*As discussed in the comments, I would prefer "should" here. 'Might' isn't incorrect, but it depends on how you're framing the position / question — "Should" implies more strongly that there are things to be learnt.

*I'd agree with Brad here that "what is is that all civil engineers understand" sounds like it's about their specific discipline. If that's your intent, that's perfectly fine. If you're thinking of what methods or disciplines they follow (e.g. 'thoroughness', 'professional responsibility', 'ethical standards' etc.) I would focus more on their practices rather than their understanding.
So I would suggest something like:

*

*What [practices/mindset/standards] do all civil engineers follow that software engineers should as well?

A: Edited question.
"What is it that civil engineers have a good understanding of, but that software engineers really need to learn also?
I will make a few assumptions, the problem that gives rise to this attempted statement is that the software is not correct or not sufficient for use in Civil Engineering applications.
However the edited Statement (question) has some problems. Civil engineers have a good understanding of Civil engineering because they need to have. But most software engineers do not have this understanding. However they may not need to know Civil Engineering, especially if they are writing software for games or putting men on Mars. Only software engineers writing software for Civil Engineering applications need this knowledge.
What is it that civil engineers have a good understanding of Now I am a little confused about this statement. I will presume your English is reasonable good and your are not using What is it, as Why. Therefore I will take the meaning as;
What (technical requirements, use of formulae and related specialised Knowledge) is needed
but that software engineers really need to learn also? This obviously means that software engineers need to know (some specialised things) to write Civil Engineering Software.
Therefore the statement is trying to say What (technical requirements, use of formulae and related specialised Knowledge) is it that software engineers need to to know to write Civil Engineering Software.
so to tidy this up, I would rewrite;
What "Specialised Knowledge" is required such that software engineers have a grounding in Civil Engineering sufficient for them to write adequate Software.

grounding noun a knowledge of the basic facts about a particular subject Cambridge English Dictionary

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Noah has worked with David Best for more than 15 years.
He enjoys creating art for people who don't expect it, and believes art has a more sentimental purpose when it is done for a community as a whole.
From building temples and his own art, Noah has found his purpose – he has also has come to learn people are a lot more alike than they think they are.
When Noah is not part of a temple build he is busy building something else.


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Q: updating a multidimensional array I need some help on how to update a multidimensional array in PHP.
I am using the following array to display a grid of images
Array
(
    [0] => Array
        (
            [1] => Array
                (
                    [Image] => 'Sample image'
                )
        )

With the keys 0 and 1 representing the Column and Row the image will be placed on. What i am trying to do is update the image portion of this array only, the idea is that the other two keys need to remain the same in order to keep the images in the right place. The new image data is stored in an image array like this:
// A sample image array
Array
(
    [0] => Array
        (
              [Image] => ' A new sample image'
        )

Any ideas on how to update the first array using the second?
Update:
Ok based on the comments and answers i realise i wasn't overly clear, and i apologise.
So to clarify and give some context, these arrays are being used to construct a grid of images.
The basic process of which is: Get data -> Generate array of Images from data -> generate random positions and have image data an element of that array, the final array is shown above. The problem with this, is that it means the positions of the images change on refresh, so to prevent this i came up with the idea of updating the final array image element with new data if the database changes.
For further clarification, currently the grid html is built like this:
 for ($r = 0; $r <= $gridRows; $r++)
    {
        $html .= "
";
        for ($c = 0; $c <= $gridCols; $c++)
        {

                    if(isset($grid[$r][$c]['Image']))
                    {
                        $image = $grid[$r][$c]['Image'];
                        $html .= "
$image";

                    }
                    else
                    {
                        $html .= "

";
                    }

        }
        $html .= '
';
    }

Any suggestions on how to improve this would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.

A: $array1[0][1]['image'] = $array2[0]['image'];

Although I don' think this what you are after. Also remember to quote your assoc. array index names unless they really are constants in which case use CAPS!

A: $firstarray[0][1] = $secondarray[0];


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Back to Europe
But only for a few days. We left Fés in Morocco yesterday around 1100 in the morning, bound for Tenerife-Norte (Los Rodeos) where we would have to pass immigration back into Spain. It was a long flight over the Atlantic ocean, and it took several hours before we first saw land again (Lanzarote).
We arrived at Tenerife at around 16.00 local time, knowing we had to leave for El Hierro as fast as we could, as the airport of El Hierro would close at 18.00.
But Murphy's law started to wag its tail. The first delay happened because of a royal visit – the son of the King of Spain came in with his Dassault Falcon, and that grounded us for a significant amount of time. Then, when we were allowed to leave for El Hierro, the cloud ceiling had dropped to below 500 feet. Because of that, ATC no longer allowed us to depart under VFR.
Our OPS-team back in the Netherlands quickly came in to help and prepared an IFR-flightplan which was approved and active within minutes, so off we went. We tried to enjoy the spectacular scenery of the Canary Islands during the sunset, while we flew to El Hierro as fast as our Piper would allow us to. We touched down at El Hierro at 17.58, just minutes before closing.
Now came the driving part, and that would prove to be more tricky than flying. We had to drive to our hotel, but because of the recent volcanic activity on the island many main roads were closed. We had to drive during the night, over small and curved mountain roads. Visibility gradually dropped to 50 meters or less. It took us two hours, before we arrived at the hotel.
Today we relaxed at our hotel, enjoyed the mild temperatures of 20+ Celcius and had some fantastic scubadiving experiences. We will upload some videos as soon as we can. So stay tuned!
Tomorrow we will head for Africa again: Atar, Mauritania. We'll be doing some trainspotting there!
The Fés Medina
We wanted to share some more information on our short stay in Fés, Morocco a few days ago. We visited the old Medina, the town center dating back to before medieval times. It is said not having changed a lot since then. At night, going in without a guide will get you lost within minutes because of the incredible darkness.
With daylight however, it is not much better. The system of small streets, lanes and alleys is insanely complicated, even for those with an extremely accurate sense of direction. So we took a guide, who led us through this fascinating first part of Africa!
We found a great, short youtube video for you about this fascinating city here!
First arrival in Africa
Yesterday we left Valencia for Fés in Morocco around 10AM in the morning. Our initial plan was to fly via Gibraltar. However headwinds made us change our minds, and we flew south, along the Spanish coast. We crossed the Mediterranean Sea from Almeriá straight to Morocco, flying at 1000 feet altitude. The sea was quite crowded with ships heading to or from the funnel that is Gibraltar. A spectacular sight!
We crossed the Moroccan coastline somewhere west of Nador, from where we overflew the spectacular Atlas mountain range. We arrived in Fés at about 16.00 hours, where we were welcomed graciously by a very kind customs official. We spend our evening enjoying everything the old Medina of this historic city has to offer with its food, culture and hospitality.
Today we will leave Africa again for a short while, flying from Fés to El Hierro via Tenerifé. We really look forward to do some scuba diving there!
Day 1: Valencia!
Today we departed for our ambitious journey from Teuge in the Netherlands. Families and friends had come out of their beds very early on this cold and wet sunday morning, to wave us goodbye.
We left EHTE around 0900 local time in the morning, flying to Béziers at the French Côte d'Azur. We left Béziers only an hour after arriving, to continue on our last leg of this long flying day: Valencia!
We arrived in Valencia shortly after 19.00 in the evening, and witnessed a spectacular sunset during our arrival. For now, it's off to bed early to prepare for tomorrow, when we start the next part of our next journey, flying to the Canary Islands via Gibraltar and Morocco! (You can follow our progress live here!)


HOT OFF THE PRESS! Attached is the schedule for our spring 2018 Zone II Flower Show entitled "Iconic Style - A Design Legacy". Show will be held at the Carriage Barn Arts Center in Waveny Park on Wednesday, June 13th and Thursday, June 14th, 2018. It is open to the public at no charge. As described in the schedule's introduction, "Iconic Style - A Design Legacy" celebrates New Canaan's distinctive architecture, landscape architecture and open spaces. Known for its charming colonials, grand estates, mid-century moderns, vast open spaces and formal gardens, there is certainly a varied and unique array of "Iconic Styles" in New Canaan.


If you're a car owner who has been dealing with a car that seems to need more in repair costs than the vehicle is worth, you may already be feeling pressure to get a new car. However, sometimes the decision isn't always that easy to make. It's not just a matter of how much you're spending per month on repairs. Here are three reasons why you may want to keep that repair-happy car instead of getting another one.
If you get a new car, even a new-to-you used car, you're going to need a down payment. The down payment could be much higher than the amount of money you're paying toward repairs each month. If you can't spare that much from your savings, getting a new car even after trading in your old one could cost too much. You could try to get a super-cheap car or ask for special no-money-down financing, but those could have side effects that make owning those cars just as costly as repairing your old one. For a new car, a no-money-down deal could make your monthly payments skyrocket past what you're paying for repairs on your old car. And if you buy a super-cheap car, like a very old used car, you could end up with the same repair issues or worse than what you have with your current car within a short time.
Would You Buy Used or New?
Speaking of problems with used cars, even if you could afford a down payment, you have to take a look at the repair records of the cars you're looking at. Even new cars can turn out to be lemons. A used car could, again, have hidden problems that your mechanic doesn't spot during the pre-purchase inspection, or it could develop serious problems shortly after you buy it. That could leave you right back where you started, only with a car where you don't have complete maintenance records. At least with your current car, you know exactly what's been done on it and what still needs to be done.
Are You Spending More Time at the Repair Shop Than on the Road?
It can be painful to have to shell out money for car repairs, especially if they seem to happen every month. If you're also spending a lot of time at the repair shop -- so much that you're missing work and having to rent cars to get anywhere -- then getting a new car may be best. But if the repairs are generally reasonable in terms of how long they take, and you're not spending your life at the repair shop, then the frequency of repair isn't such a black mark against keeping your current car.
If your car is experiencing repeated issues, talk to your repair shop, and to others in the area like Alaska Professional Auto, about the underlying causes. It could be that rebuilding your engine may eliminate the problems (as expensive as that might be, it could pay off in the long run). Or, maybe you need to find another repair shop to begin with. But start talking to the shops now so you can get your car into better shape.