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Q: how to optimize this code with unrolling factor 3? void randomImprovedfunction(double a[], double p[], long n)
2 {
3      long i;
4      double last_v, v;
5      last_v = p[0] = a[0];
6      for (i=1; i<n; i++) {
7          v = last_v + a[i];
8          p[i] = v ;
9         last_v = v;
10     }
11
12     return ;
13 }

I have this function. as an exercise, i am told that it can be optimized using an unrolling factor of 3 and changing only lines 7-9. However, I am really lost on how this would be done.
Could someone show it to me?
Thank you! any help is appreciated :)

A: Your main goal with unrolling is to make it easier for the CPU instruction pipeline to process instructions. Multiple instructions can be in process at the same time, and various factors can interrupt the smooth flow. Eg, data dependencies: if a later instruction needs to load data and that data is being changed by earlier instructions, the later instruction has to wait at its load stage until the earlier instructions have saved that data.
That is called a pipeline stall.
See comments for why data dependency is the main bottleneck in this example.
The textbook example given in the Question seems to be mainly an exercise to get familiarity with manually unrolling loops and is not intended to investigate any performance issues.
Your first draft for the unrolling code looks like this, but you will get unwanted cases
for (i=1; i < n; i+=3) {
    v = last_v + a[i];
    p[i] = v ;
    last_v = v;
    v = last_v + a[i+1];
    p[i+1] = v ;
    last_v = v;
    v = last_v + a[i+2];
    p[i+2] = v ;
    last_v = v;
}

Unwanted cases - note that the last index you want to process is (n-1)

n
Unwanted cases

5
Array indexes 1,2,3 then 4,5,6 => the unrolled code processes 2 unwanted cases, index 5 and 6

6
Array indexes 1,2,3 then 4,5,6 => the unrolled code processes 1 unwanted case, index 6

7
Array indexes 1,2,3 then 4,5,6 => no unwanted cases

See also Handling unrolled loop remainder
So, eliminate the last loop if there are any unwanted cases and you will then have
// `nn` is the adjusted loop limit to avoid an extra loop with unwanted cases
int nn = n;
if ( (n-1)%3 != 0 ) nn = n - 3;

for (i=1; i < nn; i+=3) {
    v = last_v + a[i];
    p[i] = v ;
    last_v = v;
    v = last_v + a[i+1];
    p[i+1] = v ;
    last_v = v;
    v = last_v + a[i+2];
    p[i+2] = v ;
    last_v = v;
}

At this point we need to handle the remaining/missing cases:

n
nn
values of iterator i

5
2
1,4 => final i = n - 1

6
3
1,4 => final i = n - 2

7
7
1,4,7 => final i = n

If i = n - 1, you have 1 missing case, ie index n-1
If i = n - 2, you have 2 missing cases, ie index n-2 and n-1
If i = n, you're done
if ( i == n - 1 ) { // 1 missing case
    v = last_v + a[n-1]
    p[n-1] = v;
}
if ( i == n - 2 ) { // 2 missing cases
    v = last_v + a[n-2]
    p[n-2] = v;
    last_v = v;
    v = last_v + a[n-1]
    p[n-1] = v;
}


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Based on the the date, exact time and geographical location of a person's birth, we can determine what characteristics, talents, challenges and gifts one has in this life. We can see the trends in the life which can help in career choices, life choices, etc.
We begin with the natal chart as listed above but bring the chart up to the present or to a date of your selection (Progressed) to see how you have grown and where you are at this moment. The natal chart characteristics never leave, but they do evolve. While looking at the natal chart and the progressed chart, we also look at where the planets actually are in the heavens at the moment (Transits) to see what effects they are having on you now and also to forecast what is coming up for you; when would be the best time to make certain changes in your life, to make a move, go on a trip, etc. Or to prepare for difficulties that might be coming.
With the date, exact time and geographical location of a baby's birth, we can see what characteristics, talents, challenges and gifts the child has in this life. Understanding the natural tendencies of the child can help parents to guide and help the child in achieving the best of all possible life experiences. A Baby Chart is a wonderful gift to the parents of a newborn and to the child (or to yourself and your child). For ease in referencing the information provided in this reading, it can be recorded on a flash drive or written out in presentation form and contains the child's printed chart.
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The Akashic Recordis the record of your soul through its various incarnations, experiences, karmic challenges and soul connections. The information that comes forward can support you in your life right now, help you to heal the past and help you into your future. This reading can answer why certain events keep recurring, why you have the same problem over and over with others, why someone in your life is particularly bothersome or particularly special. This is a very spiritual experience, an actual reading of your soul.
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require 'test_helper'

class StaticPagesControllerTest < ActionController::TestCase
  test "should get home" do
    get :home
    assert_response :success
    assert_select "title", "ShadowGuild"
  end

  test "should get help" do
    get :help
    assert_response :success
    assert_select "title", "Help | ShadowGuild"
  end

  test "should get about" do
    get :about
    assert_response :success
    assert_select "title", "About | ShadowGuild"
  end

  test "should get contact" do
    get :contact
    assert_response :success
    assert_select "title", "Contact | ShadowGuild"
  end
end

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North American Deserts: Facts On The Four Major Deserts Of North America
Facts on North American deserts, and the animals and plants that call the deserts of North America their home.
North American Deserts
North American Desert Locations
Great Basin Desert
Chihuahuan Desert
North American Desert Climate
North American Desert Plants
Great Basin Desert Plants
Mojave Desert Plants
Sonoran Desert Plants
Chihuahuan Desert Plants
North American Desert Animals
North American Desert Biodiversity
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The Mojave Desert, one of the four major deserts on North America
There are four major North American deserts: the Great Basin Desert, Mojave Desert, Sonoran Desert and Chihuahuan Desert. All are located in the southwest of North America and correspond, roughly, with the geological region known as the Basin and Range Province.
The Basin and Range Province is a vast area that consists of approximately 100 parallel mountain ranges, orientated north to south, and the flat, desert areas (basins) in between them. The mountains were formed about 30 million years ago, when the earth's crust was gradually heated and stretched, cracking along hundreds of fault lines.
Over time, land on one side of each fault line has risen to form mountains, while land on the other side has sunk and formed basins.
These mountain ranges, along with the Rocky Mountains to the east, form a rain shadow over the basins of the Basin and Range Province; as moisture-bearing clouds pass over the mountains they drop their water on the higher ground, leaving the land in-between with very little precipitation.
This is the backdrop against which life exists in these unique deserts of North America.
The Great Basin Desert is the largest of the North American deserts, covering about 200,000 square miles (520,000 km2).
The desert encompasses most of the state of Nevada and also covers parts of Utah, California, and Idaho. It is bordered in the south by the Mojave Desert.
The Great Basin Desert is North America's northernmost desert, and the one with the highest elevation. It contains numerous mountain peaks that are higher than 9,800 feet (3,000 m), and even the valleys between ranges, known as basins, are mostly above 3,900 ft (1,200 m).
The desert's height above sea level and northerly location make it the coldest of the four main North American deserts; of the three deserts, it is the only one to be defined as a cold desert, rather than a hot desert.
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A yucca plant growing in the Mojave Desert.
The Mojave Desert is North America's driest and smallest desert. It covers an area of approximately 48,000 square miles (124,000 km2). It is located mostly within southern Nevada and south-eastern California. To its north lies the Great Basin Desert, and to the south lies the Sonoran Desert.
The Mojave shows the typical geological arrangement of parallel mountain ranges and valleys, and is mostly higher than 2,000 feet (610 m) above sea level.
Interestingly, one of the valleys found in the Mojave, Death Valley, is the lowest place in North America, being 280 ft (85 m) below sea level. Death Valley is one of the hottest places on earth.
Saguaro cactus and brittlebush growing in the Sonoran Desert
South of the Mojave Desert, and hugging the shores of the Gulf of California, lies the Sonoran Desert. This desert stretches eastwards across California into southern Arizona and southwards into Mexico. It covers about 100,000 square mi (260,000 km2) and lies mostly below 2,000 ft (610 m) in altitude.
Like the Mojave Desert, the Sonoran Desert is a product of the range and basin disturbance that affected the south-western regions of North America some 30 million years ago. It is home to the Salton Sea, a large, saline lake that lies in one such desert basin.
The Sonoran Desert is also home to the only active dune field, or erg, in North America. Here, one can find rolling dunes of sand that are reminiscent of Africa's Sahara Desert.
Photo: Adbar (Cropped / resized by ActiveWild.com) / CC BY-SA
Lying to the east of the Sonoran Desert, the Chihuahuan Desert is almost the size of the Great Basin Desert, and is the most easterly and southerly of the North American deserts. It covers parts of New Mexico, Arizona, and Texas in the United States, and extends southwards into Mexico.
The Chihuahuan Desert lies in a rain shadow caused by the presence of the Sierra Madre Occidental, and the Sierra Madre Oriental ranges. Due to its slightly higher overall elevation than the Sonoran Desert, the Chihuahuan Desert has a milder climate, although is still very arid.
All the North American deserts experience extreme variations in temperature, which is a typical feature of deserts worldwide. A desert's dry air and cloudless skies allow intense warming during the daytime, then allow the same heat to escape during the night.
Going from north to south, the four North American deserts show a trend of increasing average annual temperature. The Great Basin Desert is a cold desert; it is furthest from the equator and has the highest average altitude. Its winters are characterised by snow and ice, and its summers are very short. Its annual average temperature is 49 °F (9 °C).
Moving southwards, the deserts get closer to the equator and have lower average altitudes. They are classified as hot deserts, with the average annual temperature in the Chihuahuan Desert being 24 °C (75 °F).
In all four North American deserts, there is a large difference between winter and summer temperatures. Winters bring snow to the high peaks, whereas summers are scorching hot.
In addition, on any one day, there is a large variation in temperature between the cold mountain peaks and the warm valleys. The extreme temperature gradients give rise to strong winds, which make these deserts even more inhospitable.
Deserts by definition receive very little precipitation. In the case of the North American deserts this is due to the mountain ranges that prevent moist air from rolling in.
The mean annual rainfall on the four deserts is lowest in the north (6 – 12 in, or 150 – 300 mm, in the Great Basin Desert), and highest in the south (12 – 20 in, or 300 – 500 mm, in parts of the Sonoran Desert.
In the Great Basin Desert, most of the precipitation occurs as snowfall, and the tops of the mountains may actually be quite moist at times.
Melt water draining from the mountains collects in the basins, forming shallow, temporary lakes. With nowhere to drain into, the water in these lakes eventually evaporates, leaving saline (salty) soil behind.
Salt lakes are typical in the basins of all four major North American deserts, the most famous being the Great Salt Lake in the state of Utah.
It is not only the quantity of rain that is important in a desert, but also its timing. In the Great Basin and Mojave Deserts, rain falls mostly in the winter months, and the plants have their growing season in spring.
The Chihuahuan Desert is in a summer rainfall area, and the Sonoran Desert has the benefit of rain in winter and in summer. This bimodal pattern of rainfall allows the plants to grow in both spring and summer.
Barrel cactus in the Sonoran Desert.
Vegetation in the North American deserts is typically very sparse. The plants have to survive extreme temperatures, as well as aridity, and they are not able to grow fast. In addition, the desert soils are often salty, low in nutrients and almost completely lacking in humus (organic matter).
Despite these harsh conditions, the deserts support an array of fascinating plant species, many of which have remarkable adaptations for growing in desert regions.
Many desert plants, including most cacti, are succulent, storing water in their leaves or stems. Some desert plants have shallow roots designed to collect every drop of surface moisture, while others have deep roots that tap in to underground water sources.
Annual plants spend most of their lives as seeds in the soil, only bursting into life after rain has fallen. It is these plants that coat the desert with spectacular flowers at certain times of the year.
The range and basin topography provides many different habitats and, as a consequence, there is a relatively high species diversity in all these deserts.
Interestingly, each of the four deserts has unique plant species, that are characteristic and, in some cases, found nowhere else on earth.
Of the four deserts, the Great Basin has the lowest diversity of plant species. It is characterised by shrubby sagebrush and saltbushes, as well as grasses, in the valleys; these are salt tolerant species that can survive the saline soil conditions.
In fact, parts of this desert are sometimes described as 'sagebrush seas' because of the dominance of this blue-grey plant. These tough plants produce seeds that are eaten by rodents and insects, and form the basis of many food chains.
Conditions in the Mojave Desert are hotter, and plants are adapted to this. Cactus plants are common, with their stems modified to store water and do the work of leaves (photosynthesise), while their leaves are modified into nasty spikes to keep herbivores at bay. In addition, the creosote bush and Joshua tree are characteristic; Joshua trees occur nowhere else on earth. Annuals are also present and can provide colourful displays of flowers after the rains.
Plant biodiversity is highest in the Sonoran Desert, associated with the occurrence of two rainy seasons. Low trees and bushes, such as creosote bushes and mesquite, are common, along with the amazing ocotillo, which only produces leaves once rain has fallen. But it is in the cactus department that the Sonoran plants excel. The giant saguaro cactus can stand 40 ft (12 m) tall and live for 150 years. It occurs nowhere else in the world.
The Chihuahuan Desert is also home to many fascinating cactus species, including some that are found nowhere else. In addition, creosote bush, ocotillo, yukkas and agaves characterise this desert.
The Gila monster is a lizard found in the Sonoran Desert
Many hundreds of different animal species make their homes in the North American deserts. Because of the aridity, all the animal inhabitants have to get their water from their food; what water there is, is often salty and unsuitable for drinking.
The stems and leaves of succulent plants provide water and food for many insects and these, in turn, support insectivorous birds, bats and lizards, such as chuckwallas.
Small rodents, for example kangaroo rats and ground squirrels, are able to make water from the seeds they eat, and excrete very little water in their waste.
Desert birds must also get moisture from the spiders, insects, fruits and seeds that they eat, although they can fly to water sources if necessary.
For most of the animals though, avoiding the extreme temperatures is a more serious problem.
Rodents, foxes and skunks all forage at night and spend the day asleep underground.
Most desert reptiles, for example the Gila monster, and all the amphibians, are also nocturnal in order to avoid the heat. In addition, they hibernate in underground burrows during the seasons when temperatures are too extreme.
Jackrabbits have enormous ears that contain many blood vessels – heat lost through the ears helps to cool the rabbit. A similar adaptation is seen in the kit fox.
The smaller mammals are preyed upon by coyotes, bobcats, snakes and owls, most of which also have to be active at night in order to catch their prey.
There are a few large mammal species, that also live in these deserts: bighorn sheep inhabit the rocky mountain sides in the Mojave and Sonoran Deserts, while pronghorn antelope follow migration paths that take them into the deserts after rains have brought about the growth of annual plants.
Even mountain lions make their homes in the harsh mountain ranges of the North American deserts.
Scientists working in the Sonoran Desert have recorded 350 species of birds, 20 species of amphibians, over 100 reptile species, and 30 different types of fish.
They have also listed over 1,000 species of bees and 2,000 species of plants.
This is an amazing array of biodiversity considering the inhospitable conditions in the desert. It is clear that the North American deserts offer suitable ecological niches to a large variety of living creatures, just as long as they are adapted to deal with the conditions of extreme heat, cold and aridity.
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Q: Why is my CASE expression non-deterministic? I am trying to create a persisted computed column using CASE expression:
ALTER TABLE dbo.Calendar ADD PreviousDate AS
case WHEN [Date]>'20100101' THEN  [Date]
    ELSE NULL
    END PERSISTED

MSDN clearly says that CASE is deterministic, here
However, I am getting an error:

Msg 4936, Level 16, State 1, Line 1
  Computed column 'PreviousDate' in
  table 'Calendar' cannot be persisted
  because the column is
  non-deterministic.

Of course, i can create a scalar UDF and explicitly declare it as deterministic, but is there a simpler way around this? I am already in the middle of getting the latest service pack. Thanks.

A: Apparently it is very picky about data types. Try doing this:
ALTER TABLE dbo.Calendar ADD PreviousDate AS
case WHEN [Date ]> Convert(DateTime, '20100101', 101) THEN  [Date]
    ELSE Convert(DateTime, NULL, 101)
    END PERSISTED

A: You need to CONVERT '20100101' with a style.

Source or target type is datetime or
  smalldatetime, the other source or
  target type is a character string, and
  a nondeterministic style is specified.

So, try this:
...WHEN [Date] > CONVERT(datetime, '20100101', 112)....

Date parsing from string can be unreliable as I've answered before (mostly in comments)
Edit:
I wouldn't say it's a bug, but SQL Server asking for 100% clarification. yyyymmdd is not ISO and SQL Server parsing yyyy-mm-dd is unreliable (see my answer link)

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Cycle de conférence organisé par Ramses² - Réseau d'excellence des centres de recherche en sciences humaines sur la Méditerranée et réalisé à partir de la Bibliotheca Alexandrina.
ينظم مركز دراسات البحر المتوسط التابع لمكتبة الإسكندرية سلسلة من المحاضرات تضم خبراء منطقة البحر المتوسط تحت عنوان "فكر في البحر المتوسط"، منطقة البحر المتوسط بين الثقافات.
Thinking the Mediterranean" is a cycle of seven lectures which will start in May 2006 and continue till September 2007 organized by the Alexandrian and Mediterranean Research center (AlexMed) at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina. The event aims at organizing vibrant discussions focused on the Mediterranean legacy and its strength as a melting pot zone of exchanges and cultural interaction.
The lectures will cover a number of vital issues including: the Mediterranean - a strategic question; the Mediterranean among cultures; cities of the Mediterranean, the Mediterranean - a religious space, etc. In order to foster high quality discussion, the lectures will host prominent scholars and writers of the region. In this context, AlexMed aims at reviving the Alexandrian natural role for dialogue among cultures through the city's spirit of diversity, tolerance and cooperation in the Mediterranean.
The Mediterranean and the Greek Entrepreneurs as Traders, XVIII–XIX c.


Blackberry hasn't officially confirmed any upcoming successor of last year's KeyOne, but some reports revealed the names – Blackberry Athena, Luna, and Uni, which are the codenames for this year's Blackberry smartphones. Today, the renders of the Blackberry Athena (probably Blackberry KeyTwo or KeyOne 2) have leaked that show the design from the rear as well as the front. The design of the phone is going to remain almost the same as last year's KeyOne with some significant differences.
One of the first things that you are going to notice after seeing the renders is that dual camera setup on the rear. It is the first time we have a dual camera setup on any Blackberry smartphone. The iconic QWERTY keypad is still there and seems like Blackberry doesn't want to move away from a design element that gave its phones a unique identity. An absence of the fingerprint reader on the side or the rear means that it is still under the space bar.
The display is not that big, due to the existence of a QWERTY keypad below it. The overall build is similar to last year's KeyOne with a rear panel having the same textured finish as the KeyOne. The frame is metal that goes all around the phone. There is an extra button on the side, between the volume rockers and the textured powered button. There is no information if this is for a dedicated AI assistant or any other thing.
As previously reported by Crackberry, the Blackberry KeyTwo (ATHENA) is powered by the Snapdragon 660 processor and has 6/8GB RAM along with 64GB ROM. The launch is expected to happen this month. Nothing else is known about the phone yet so stay tuned for more details.


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Tyler Martineau/Lingle Guide Fort Laramie Councilwoman Laura Curtsinger, Mayor Joyce Evans, and Councilwoman Kelly Loveland discuss the fire department's request to get a first responder rescue rig after the town received funds from the United States Department of Agriculture.
By: Tyler Martineau - Updated: 3 months ago
Posted Oct 15, 2021
FORT LARAMIE – The Fort Laramie Town Council met for its monthly meeting on Oct. 13.
Clerk and Treasurer Kim Craft discussed COVID funding the town received from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the opportunity to use it for the fire department. The initial plan was to get an ambulance with the funds, but Fire Chief Pete Howes said they had less of a need for it in comparison to other vehicles.
"After talking to [Howes] it was understood that the fire department definitely needs a first responder rescue rig, and it would fall into that COVID money," Craft said.
According to Craft, the council did not need to approve it, and a bid was submitted for the grant on Tuesday.
Mayor Joyce Evans said the funds are a match grant so they will need to find a funder to match 25% of the grant. Evans added the enhanced rescue rig will be beneficial to Fort Laramie and the entire area around the town in which the fire department serves.
The council also discussed the personnel policy manual and voted to approve the new changes. One of the biggest issues is one section of the manual states an employee who is absent without approved leave for three consecutive working days is considered to have resigned while another section states two consecutive days. The council agreed to go with three days.
An addition was also made to include Columbus Day/Indigenous Peoples' Day to the list of holidays when the town hall will be closed.
"I'm not sure why Columbus Day or Indigenous Peoples' Day… was not listed but it wasn't, and with the council's approval we'd like to add that day," Evans said.
Evans also said she wanted the manual to be approved as soon as possible because they have been essentially operating without one.
"The one we have is a mess right now," Evans said. "It's not very clear and hard to use.
The council approved the changes to the manual with the contingency of the attorney's approval after his review of it.
In other action items, the council approved the officers of the fire department. Evans said in a previous meeting the council acknowledged the officers but did not officially approve them.
The council also approved Patricia Franklin's open container permit for a baby shower, and Debra Albert's building permit for a privacy fence and additions to the mud room.
Fire Chief Howes gave an update on the fire department. Howes said they had one fire call for 10 hours and one ambulance call for four hours. There were also two meetings for 16 and a quarter hours.
Craft said the town hall will be handing out bags of candy for students on Friday, Oct. 29.
Tona Mendoza with Pine Ridge Property Owners Association (PRPOA) asked the council if they could have their physical address be the Fort Laramie Community Center. Mendoza said they only need to store their filing cabinet in the community center because they currently move from house to house. According to the club's bylaws, a physical address must be established in the county. Mendoza said they have board meetings and annual meetings in the community center already and would like to have their files stored there as well.
Evans asked if they often received junk mail, because she was concerned of the town hall staff being flooded with unwanted mail. Mendoza said it is very rare since they have a separate mailing address but agreed to have a dropbox or cubby available for the town hall to put their mail into.
The council approved to negotiate a lease with PRPOA and will allow the filing cabinet to be stored in the large conference room.
The council also discussed a situation in which a family left town with an outstanding water bill of around $1,000. Evans said they received a check, but it bounced. The house is now up for sale and the council plans to put a lien on the house. Councilwoman Kelly Loveland said a lien is the best possible course of action for the town.
The council will reconvene on Oct. 18 for a work session to discuss peak usage with the Wyoming Municipal Power Agency. Evans said the discussion will center around what residents need to do to keep electricity bills from rising.
The next town council meeting will be Nov. 10 at 7 p.m. at the Fort Laramie Community Center.
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The American Bar Association's (ABA's) Model Rule 6.1 recommends legal professionals give free legal services to the indigent. Attorneys from large firms, small firms, and solo practices devote their time to legal aid services. During these 50 (or more) hours, these lawyers of their services and accept clients who are unable to hire a legal professional.
The lawyers provide clients with the same duty of diligence as their paying clients. The attorneys use their experience to help clients with their legal issue. Some of the areas of law are criminal law, family law, and bankruptcy law.
An ABA study indicates that 40 percent of low and moderate income individuals have legal issues each year. But only 20 percent of poor people get help with their legal problems. Attorney work can be a rewarding experience for the attorney and client. But a case may take many hours of the attorney's time. The legal professional may struggle to find time for cases. Plus, many law firms may not have the staff or funding for Attorney work.
If you are trying to find legal aid organizations, there are some services that may be able to help you. There are certain qualifications that you will need to meet for these services. These organizations accept cases such as landlord-tenant issues, social security matters, and unemployment benefits.
You can also find free legal help at many law school legal clinics. Law students provide the services under the supervision of a clinical professor. The areas of law include elder law, family law, healthcare law, and landlord-tenant problems. The law students do research, draft legal documents, perform client interviews, and prepare clients for court.
You may have a legal issue, but you cannot afford a legal professional. A lawyer may be able to handle your case. There are some law firms and nonprofit organizations that offer this service.


Amateur Nikon: Take the "One Lens Challenge"!
Take the "One Lens Challenge"!
Let's try something special today! As you might remember from previous posts, I personally prefer to use prime (fixed focal length) lenses. Although the zooms are more flexible in terms of focal length, they lose in every other aspect. Primes have better image quality, they are smaller, lighter, cheaper, and their maximum aperture is larger.
There is also another reason I prefer primes, however. Focal length is not meant as a...foot substitute. In other words, you're not supposed to zoom in or out instead of walking toward or away from your subject. By doing that, you're changing the perspective - it's an entirely different photo! Zoom in and out has become the lazy man's/woman's habit. In addition, when you have to think of all that, you begin to lose sense of composition and framing - something that, especially for beginners, can be devastating.
I've often taken on professional assignments armed with a humble 50mm lens.
Learn to see the world as if you always do so through a viewfinder.
And this is easier to achieve if you are used to specific focal lengths.
I challenge you to use one and one focal length only for a period of a week. If you have a prime, use only that. If you don't have a prime, choose one focal length of your zoom and use only that focal length. No cheating!
At the end of the week, go over the photos you took. Like them? Dislike them? Ask yourself why (in either case). More importantly, reflect on how the process of not being able to change lenses (or focal length) affected your choice of tripping the shutter or not.
There's a finite number of way you can frame this photo. Considering limitations in space (i.e. working distance), it's a rather limited zone between ~ 35mm-105mm. This one was taken with a 50mm lens, if I remember well.
Let me use as an example a discussion I had recently with a fellow photographer. He said, rather tongue-in-cheek though not entirely, "we have exposure bracketing and white balance bracketing, the next step is focus and focal length bracketing".
His words made me realize, how funny (and utterly insane) our photography would become if you could press the shutter button and have 7 different photos, ranging from 18mm to 200mm with 5 steps in between.
As I mentioned in the caption of the photo above, there's in fact a finite number of ways you can frame a photo in a way that is compositionally meaningful. Of course, to counter the argument I just made, unorthodox approaches sometimes can reveal something truly unique. But this is more the exception than the rule, and you need to be pretty experienced to achieve this - let's face it, not your average 18-300 superzoom user.
So yeah, why don't you try it out for a week and see how it goes? You might discover something about your photography you didn't know!


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Complaint Alleges Landlord Initiative "Misleads" Voters and Amounts to "Sneaky Repeal" of Tenant Protections
Posted on April 9, 2018 Author onesanmateoCategories News, News You Can Use, UncategorizedTags California Apartment Association, deceptive petition, election misconduct, Landlord Profit Protection Act, Measure V, Mountain View, rent stabilization, renters' rights, tenants' protections
Residents defend recently enacted rent stabilization protections, urge voters not to sign "Landlord Profit Protection Act"
Mountain View, CA—Today 18 residents of Mountain View filed a complaint with the City Attorney alleging that a recently proposed landlord initiative is rife with misleading statements and inaccuracies. The complaint demands that the City Attorney reject the proposed initiative unless the landlord campaign corrects the falsehoods.
"They lost the election less than two years ago, and this is nothing more than an attempt at a sneaky repeal of the voters' decision to protect the diversity of Mountain View."
"We know that the landlord lobby will stop at nothing to protect their profits, including by lying to voters," said Trevoli Welsh, one of the signatories of the complaint. "Our rent stabilization program is fully funded by a nominal fee on landlords and is actually expected to come in underbudget this year. Yet the landlord campaign is based on using fear-mongering about the alleged cost of the program, when the truth is that it protects over 30,000 residents at no cost to taxpayers. That's a bargain price to ensure that teachers, nurses, first responders and our neighbors can afford to stay in our community and thrive."
In November 2016, Mountain View voters approved Measure V, instituting one of the first new rent stabilization programs in California in over 30 years. Over 15,000 households in Mountain View have since enjoyed protections against massive rent hikes and no-cause evictions. The complaint was filed in response to an initiative submitted by landlords that seeks to upend those new protections.
"Let's be clear, this initiative is the landlords' attempt to kill tenant protections in Mountain View," said Kara Sanchez, another of the signatories of the complaint. "They lost the election less than two years ago, and this is nothing more than an attempt at a sneaky repeal of the voters' decision to protect the diversity of Mountain View."
Depending on the outcome of the complaint, the next step for the landlord initiative is to gather the signatures necessary to qualify for the ballot.
Landlord campaigns to overturn rent control have faced widespread allegations of misconduct during signature gathering campaigns across the state in recent years. Signature-gathering drives backed by landlord trade groups like the California Apartment Association have been criticized for employing paid signature-gatherers who have misrepresented petitions in order to obtain signatures in Richmond, Santa Rosa, Pacifica, and Alameda. Just last month, the District Attorney of San Mateo County filed twenty-one felony charges against signature gatherers financed by the California Apartment Association for forging signatures in a Pacifica anti-rent control campaign.
"We want to spread the word to voters about the truth of this initiative," said Heather Phipps, another person who signed the complaint. "We urge voters not to sign this 'Landlord Profit Protection Act.' Our new tenant protections are an important part of the puzzle in addressing the housing crisis in Mountain View. The landlord initiative is an attack on the people who help make our town strong, it's an attack on Mountain View as a Human Rights City. Don't sign the landlord petition!"
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Аймак (,  ; ; «плем'я») — плем'я в монголів; в давнину група споріднених сімей, які вважають, що походять від одного предка і кочують на одній території. Як показують генетичні дослідження подібні групи насправді зазвичай не маюють спільного предка. Легендарний пращур це спосіб надати групі звичне та легітимне пояснення єдності. Пізніше, словом аймак називали велике феодальне володіння, ханство. В період маньчжурського панування (1691-1911) владу монгольських ханів в аймаках була фактично ліквідовано й передано маньжурським урядовцям — амбаням.

Історія
Аймак — адміністративно-територіальна одиниця племінного походження у монголів і спроріднених із ними народів.

 Цінська імперія
 У XV — XIX ст. Внутрішня Монголія поділялася на 4 аймаки, за титулами ханів: Тушетський, Сайн-Нойонський, Дзасагтський, Сеценський.
 Райони проживання калмиків поділялися на аймаки.* КНР
 Внутрішня Монголія поділяється на 3 аймаки (盟; провінції)

 Монголія
 Аймаки Монголії

 Російська імперія
 Територія Калмицького ханства поділялася на улуси (провінції), аймаки (повіти-роди) і хотони (волості-родини). Аймаки керувалися намісниками.
 У XVIII ст. райони проживання башкирів поділялися на аймаки.

СРСР
 У 1923 — 1977 роках Бурято-Монгольська АРСР поділялася на аймаки (райони).
 1927—1934:
 Агінський (центр — село Агинское)
 Аларський (центр — село Кутулик)
 Баргузинський (центр — посёлок Баргузин)
 Баунтовський (центр — заимка Баунт)
 Боханський (центр — улус Бохан)
 Верхньоудінський (центр — город Верхньоудинск)
 Єравнинський (центр — село Сосновка)
 Закаменський (центр — село Цакир)
 Кабанський (центр — село Кабанск)
 Мухоршибірський (центр — село Мухоршибір)
 Північно-Байкальський (центр — село Душкачан)
 Селенгінський (центр — село Селендума)
 Троїцкосавський (центр — город Троїцкосавськ)
 Тункинський (центр — село Кирен)
 Хоринський (центр — село Додо-Анінск)
 Ехіріт-Булагатський (центр — село Усть-Орда)
 1935—1936: додано 5 нових аймаків
 Бічурський (центр — село Бічура)
 Джидинський (центр — село Петропавлівка)
 Заиграевський (центр — село Унегетей)
 Ольхонський
 Улан-Ононський (центр — село Дульдурга)
 1937—1953: додано 7 нових аймаків
 Байкало-Кударинський (центр — село Байкало-Кудара)
 Кіжингінський (центр — село Кіжинга)
 Кударинський (центр — село Кудара)
 Курумканський (центр — село Курумкан)
 Окинський (центр — село Орлик)
 Прибайкальський (центр — село Турунтаево)
 Торейський (центр — село Торей)
 у 1922 — 1963 роках Гірсько-Алтайська АО поділялася на аймаки (райони).

Сучасні
 Російська Федерація
 Республіка Алтай поділяється на аймаки (райони; аймак).
 Республіка Бурятія поділяється на аймаки (райони; аймаг).
 Республіка Мордовія поділяється на аймаки (райони; аймак).
 Республіка Хакасія поділяється на аймаки (райони; аймах).

 Киргизстан
 айылный аймак — адміністративна одиниця ІІІ рівня.

Примітки

Джерела
 Советская историческая энциклопедия, Москва, 1961.

Історія Монголії

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It seems odd that in his political attempt to favour locals vs second home buyers and first-time buyers vs buy-to-let landlords, the Chancellor thinks that difference in value the parties represent a mere 3%, the extra amount of SDLT due to be levied from April on second homes and BTL landlords. Restricting the supply of property into the PRS, the biggest rental sector, risks limiting choice. Breaks for build-to-let by larger investors and a smart new way of managing assured short hold tenancies are what are required, not yet more suppression of demand.This all seems to work well on the continent and for many ownership is an unrealistsic, and sometimes not the best, solution to their housing needs. Again, supply is the key.
The London Help to Buy will go somewhat to help satisfy the huge supply of new homes coming up in the capital so was a welcome addition as is the relaxation of Shared Ownership rules. For many having a safe newly built home makes sense and in an sector likely to be seeing some oversupply over the next three years or so, and given developers have to sell at a price without any discretionary luxury open to second hand sellers, there may be some reasonable deals around to use this new facility.
It is a shame though to have seen the Chancellor yet again using SDLT as a battering ram. It seems to have become the property equivalent of using drones....remote and blunt. Every rise in it causes a little bit of the market to die.


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HomeEthiopian NewsEthiopia-born novelist to speak Saturday
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Ethiopia-born novelist to speak Saturday
By Josh Cooper
One of the country's rising literary stars is coming to Jackson Hole.
Fiction author, professor and MacArthur fellow Dinaw Mengestu will be speaking at 7 p.m. Saturday at the Teton County Library's Ordway Auditorium as part of the library's "Writers in the Library" series. The event is free and open to the public.
Dinaw Mengestu poses for a portrait on Monday, September 17, 2012 at Georgetown University in Washington, DC.
Mengestu was born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, but his family left the country amid war when he was 2. They moved to Peoria, Ill., and then to Oak Park Ill., when he was 9. He earned a bachelor's degree in English from Georgetown University and a master's degree in fiction from Columbia University. He is Lannan Chair of Poetics at Georgetown University and is the University of Wyoming's current Eminent Writer in Residence.
His first book, "The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears," was published in 2007. His second, called "How to Read the Air," was published in 2010. His latest effort, "All Our Names," was released earlier this year.
He has recieved numerous awards, including a Los Angeles Times Book Prize in 2008, a "20 Under 40" award from The New Yorker in 2010. and a MacArthur Foundation fellowship in 2012. Read more …
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When in Hawaii during our recent 2013 travels, we met an old man making fermented Hua'Ai Wai (fruit water/juice). He made it fresh every night with raw fruit juices and chunks of fruit to sell in the morning and throughout the day. His most popular flavor was Wai hua ái liliko í-'alani-kuawa, or passion-orange-guava flavor. The locals were buying him out every day!
had already seen in our lab!
Common water kefir grains are easy to find in the USA, these grains will ferment many types of fruit juice, either raw or pasteurized. Traditional the Hawaiian grains are cultured on fresh raw fruits that grow on the islands. They are different in that they work better on a pure juice/fruit diet vs. a water kefir grain recipe with sugar and dried fruits.
See the description under traditional water grains for benefits and probiotic content.
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Q: Import n'th data from a file and do calculation on it I want to import a n'th data from a data file and then do some calculation on it.
Here is may sample code:
ss = Import["myfile.data", {"Words", 3}]
gg = ss + 1

And its out put:
0.73
1 + "0.73"

It doesn't evaluate 1+0.73

A: You've Imported as "Words", which returns strings. You can use ToExpression to convert them (if you trust the input not to contain malicious input), or ImportString["123.5", "Real32"]. Alternatively you may look up SemanticImport instead of Import, or exploiting more of the structure of the data file, you could use something that is not "Words".


Workshop #2 Stack the Deck : Game On!
So, the solution most innovation consultancies put forward to organizations already coping with the wide ranging effects of failure, is to tell their employees that they need to fail more. Say what?
You don't want to fail fast, you want to learn fast.
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That's where the Experiment Canvas™ comes in. In this workshop we'll teach you how to get better at prototyping and testing and learning and succeeding using the Experiment Canvas™.
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The Pioneer Woman may have traded in black heels for tractor wheels, moving from the city to the country, but that doesn't mean her life's slowed down — especially not in recent years. In addition to running the website that made her a household name, designing a cookware line for Walmart, opening a restaurant/general store in Pawhuska, managing a ranch, starring in a Food Network show (phew— out of breath yet?), and launching a magazine, PW's releasing a new cookbook this fall.
The new cookbook's called Come And Get It, featuring recipes for people who don't have time to spend hours over the stove. So basically, PW — a.k.a. Ree Drummond — is taking inspiration from her own life on this one. Drummond posted a teaser on her blog, promising that the book will contain several new, never-posted-before dishes, so this won't just be a rehash of her greatest hits.
Every section of the book is devoted to making dinner in a flash, with chapters on sheet pan dinners, meals under 30 minutes, and meals under 20 minutes. One of her biggest time-saving hacks involves busting out that suburban dinner staple, the slow cooker. In her post, Drummond says there will be plenty of appetizers and dinners all using the set-it-and-forget-it gadget, including a recipe for her restaurant, The Mercantile's, famous queso.
That recipe should be one to check out; Pioneer Woman's been on a mission to create the best cheese sauce at home after falling in love with one restaurant's version while visiting her daughter in college almost two years ago.
"It's a drive-thru joint called Fuego, and I think they put something illegal in it, because I can't figure it out," Drummond told us in late 2015. "You buy it by the pint, and I've eaten it hot, I've eaten it cool, I've cut it into slices and examined it, trying to figure out the recipe. It's the best queso I've ever had."
Drummond also teased a salmon and kale sheet pan dinner, huevos rancheros, all kinds of crostini, and what appeared to be meatloaf cupcakes.
The cookbook doesn't hit stores until Oct. 24, but less than 24 hours after Drummond posted her teaser, the book skyrocketed to the No. 2 post in Amazon's Movers And Shakers category for books (just behind Dr. Travis Stork's The Lose Your Belly Diet). You can preorder a copy here.


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Auburn Lorenzo Pridemore (June 27, 1837 –  May 17, 1900) was a nineteenth-century Virginia lawyer who served in the Virginia Senate and in the United States House of Representatives representing Virginia's 9th congressional district.

Early and family life
Born in Scott County, Virginia on June 27, 1837 to mountain farmer Daniel Pridemore and his wife Mary Ann Ingram, Pridemore had an older brother Hiram Demothensese Pridemore (1833-1892) and a sister Sarah Eleanor Pridemore (1842-1859). Despite his brother's classical name, he assisted on the family farm and received a limited education as a child.

He married Caladonia Justine Hill (daughter of a land agent in Jonesville) on February 24, 1869, but she died giving birth to their daughter Mary Ingram Pridemore Sewell (1869-1931). He lived with his in-laws, then married Lucy E. Crockett on June 27, 1875, who gave birth to Hiram Hagan Pridemore (1876-1926).

Confederate military service
During the Civil War, Pridemore raised a company of volunteer infantry for the Pound Gap battalion of the Confederate Army and was commissioned as its captain on October 17, 1861. In June, 1862 he received a promotion to major. Following a reorganization after the Battle of the Cumberland Gap, his unit was reconstituted as Company S of the 64th Virginia Mounted Infantry under Colonel Campbell Slemp and Pridemore became a lieutenant colonel on December 14, 1862.  He was promoted to full colonel on February 5, 1864 and commanded the 64th Virginia Cavalry until the end of the war.

Political career
Elected to the Virginia House of Delegates in 1865, his Confederate record under Congressional Reconstruction prevented him from taking a seat. Pridemore studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1867. He began his legal practice in Jonesville, the Lee County seat.

Voters elected Pridemore to the Virginia Senate in 1871, and he served until 1875. He succeeded George H. Kendrick and was succeeded by his former subordinate CSA Captain Henry C. Slemp, who ran as a Readjuster. The district boundaries were changed from the 1871 session, with Pridemore's native Scott County removed and added to Russell County, where John H.A. Smith was elected.

Lee County voters again elected Pridemore, as a Democrat to the United States House of Representatives in 1876, where he replaced William Terry and he was re-elected once, serving from 1877 to 1879. He was defeated for re-election in 1878 and replaced by fellow ex-Confederate James Buchanan Richmond, his former subordinate. Afterwards, Pridemore continued his legal practice in Jonesville until his death there.

Death and legacy
Pridemore was interred in Hill Cemetery in Jonesville.

Pridemore named the unincorporated community of Ben Hur, Virginia after the novel Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ by Lew Wallace.

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Barco ist ein Ort und eine ehemalige Gemeinde (Freguesia) im portugiesischen Kreis Covilhã. Die Gemeinde hatte 465 Einwohner (Stand 30. Juni 2011).

Am 29. September 2013 wurden die Gemeinden Barco und Coutada zur neuen Gemeinde União das Freguesias de Barco e Coutada zusammengeschlossen. Barco ist Sitz dieser neu gebildeten Gemeinde.

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Ehemalige Freguesia in Portugal
Geographie (Covilhã)


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A classic Wine Country restaurant located on a heritage property, Brix Napa Valley has long been a local favorite. Originally opened in March of 1996, and surrounded by the Kelleher Family Vineyard, Brix Napa Valley has been creating farm-to-table cuisine for more than two decades, while welcoming Napa Valley locals and travelers with the Kelleher family's warmth and hospitality.
The Brix Napa Valley estate is located in the heart of Wine Country, just north of downtown Yountville, and offers a complete dining experience that indulges all of the senses. This 16-acre culinary destination includes 25 long-established, raised gardening beds and orchards that produce fresh ingredients for the kitchen year-round – plus a 10-acre Cabernet Sauvignon vineyard in the famed Oakville appellation. The Kelleher family purchased the former Grape Vine Inn in the mid-1990s and created Brix Napa Valley in 1996, while dedicating themselves to planting and cultivating the gardens, orchard and vineyard. Kelleher family patriarch, Don Kelleher, named the restaurant after "brix," the crucial measurement of sugar levels in grapes just before harvest.
The experience of the 16-acre Brix Napa Valley estate includes the opportunity to stroll through the gardens that surround an expansive lawn; indoor and outdoor dining with spectacular views of the estate gardens, Kelleher Family Vineyard and the Mayacamas Mountains; a welcoming dining room and lively central bar; and intimate, private spaces for special events and weddings for parties ranging in size from two to hundreds of guests. For fans of Kelleher Family wines, Brix proprietor and vintner, Valerie Kelleher Herzog, hosts tastings by appointment, paired with lunch in her family's vineyard, just outside the restaurant.
Brix Napa Valley is located at 7377 St. Helena Highway, just north of the town of Yountville on Highway 29. Reservations can be made by calling 707-944-2749, or by visiting www.brix.com. Brix Napa Valley welcomes guests Monday through Saturday from 11:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. for lunch and dinner, and on Sunday from 10:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. for brunch, followed by dinner from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. Special events can be booked by contacting Matt Guyot at 707-944-2547 or matt@brix.com. Tastings of Kelleher Family wines can be booked by visiting www.KelleherWines.com, by emailingwine@kelleher.com or by calling 866-531-2580.


WACO, TX — Asian-Americans are stereotyped as "cold but competent" — and more competent than blacks and Latinos — by young white students at elite colleges, according to a Baylor University study.
For decades, media have put forth Asian-Americans as a prime example of non-white people who are upwardly mobile because of characteristics that supposedly are less evident in other racial minorities, researchers say. They wanted to determine whether people commonly believe that.
Those perceptions are important because they may affect voting behavior or how people behave in their jobs, he said.
Data for the study came from the National Longitudinal Survey of Freshmen, a large panel survey of 898 participants from 27 prestigious universities across the country.
Respondents were asked to rate their opinions of Asian-Americans, African-Americans and Latino Americans separately on a scale of 1 to 10, with 10 being "strongly agree." The perceptions were based on three characteristics: competence, intelligence and perseverance.
Participants who rated Asian-Americans as more intelligent, hard-working and perseverant than blacks and Latinos were more likely to agree with such statements as "Blacks need to work harder to move up" and similar statements about Latinos.
"That kind of statement is about whether responsibility for racial differences in upward mobility is a result of natural tendencies — as opposed to structural inequities in educational opportunity, access to good health care, jobs and other areas," Park said.
An unexpected finding was that students in elite colleges — presumably from families that are well-to-do and relatively educated — might be expected to think more critically about society, including considering such factors as education and socioeconomics rather than solely individual tendencies, Park said.
Co-researchers were Brandon C. Martinez, an assistant professor of sociology at Providence College; Ryon J. Cobb, a National Institutes on Aging postdoctoral scholar at the University of Southern California's Multidisciplinary Research Training in Gerontology Program and the Davis School of Gerontology; Julie J. Park, an assistant professor of education at the University of Maryland; and Erica Ryu Wong, an independent scholar in the Washington, DC, area.
The College of Arts & Sciences is Baylor University's oldest and largest academic division, consisting of 25 academic departments and 13 academic centers and institutes. The more than 5,000 courses taught in the College span topics from art and theatre to religion, philosophy, sociology and the natural sciences. Faculty conduct research around the world, and research on the undergraduate and graduate level is prevalent throughout all disciplines. Visit www.baylor.edu/artsandsciences.


As part of its outreach effort to the community, the Las Virgenes Unified School District will continue sponsoring bi-monthly Superintendent's Forums open to the community. The sessions are unstructured and allow community members to raise issues and ask questions of district senior management. The meetings will be held at school sites to afford community members the opportunity to visit their neighborhood schools and have a window into the community's outstanding school system.
The evenings will be hosted by Donald Zimring, Superintendent for the District, and will rotate between the east and west sides of the district to afford a maximum opportunity for public participation.
The meetings will take place on Monday evenings and will begin at 7:30 p.m. and end by 9:00 p.m.
For further information, please contact the School District at (818) 878-5225.


The Procedure Committee has decided to look at the procedures and practices of the House relating to private Member's bills, in the light of the work undertaken by the predecessor Committee in the 2013-14 Session.
This short inquiry will review the package of proposals adopted by the predecessor Committee in 2014, with a view to making recommendations for the present House to consider. The legislative process for bills introduced on Fridays by backbench Members successful in the ballot will be the primary focus, but the Committee will also review the use of presentation Bills and Bills introduced under the 'ten-minute rule' (Standing Order No. 23).
· Whether the present procedures provide for an adequate balance between the right of a backbench Member to secure progress for a bill which has support in the House and the rights of individual Members to block the passage of legislation with which they disagree.
· Whether it is appropriate for Ministers to use the existing procedures of the House to prevent the progress of bills which have support in the House.
· Whether the present powers of the Chair to impose time limits on speeches in the interests of the progress of business should be used in respect of private Members' bills.
· Whether the existing ballot arrangements which give certain Members the opportunity to sponsor bills at Second Reading and beyond are appropriate.
· Whether private Members' bills should continue to be considered on certain Fridays, and, if not, what other arrangements might be made for consideration of such bills on the floor of the House or elsewhere.
· How the practice on moving motions 'That the House sit in private' (invariably used tactically on sitting Fridays) should be reformed.
The Committee invites short written submissions (no more than 3,000 words) addressing one or more of the issues above. The deadline for receipt of submissions is Friday 19 February 2016.
The Committee will also seek to take oral evidence on these issues from present and former members of the House and other interested parties.
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Went with my good lady and stood 30 ft mesmorised by the ability of Bury engineers to restore in fantastic power and majesty – The Flying Scotsman. Think I know where you would have rather been!!


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Tale of Samurai Cooking - A True Love Story, A
Yume Pictures
It's a little known fact that though all samurai carry swords, some of them hang them up when they get to work and serve their lords with meat cleavers and skewers in the relative safety of the kitchen rather than the noisy chaos of a battlefield. Of course, a retainer's job is to serve the lord in whatever capacity is expected of him, though some maybe happier with their dictated fates than others. In A Tale of Samurai Cooking - A True Love Story, it's not only a conventional romantic tale between two initially mismatched people that the title alludes to, but also how one may fall in love with a path in life that was once deeply resented.
Back in feudal Japan, Haru (Aya Ueto) is an orphaned maid servant to a prominent samurai house. She was briefly married, but embarrassingly enough was "sent back" because her new husband and his family found her far too headstrong for their household. The daughter of a pair of restaurateurs, Haru has a keen sense of cooking of her own which sees her catch the attention of a visiting famous cook, Dennai Funaki (Toshiyuki Nishida), when she is the only person able to guess the real ingredients in his "mock crane" dish. Instantly smitten, Dennai makes her a proposal - albeit one for his son who is set to take over the family business but has no real aptitude for cooking. Yasunobu (Kengo Kora) is his second son whose fate was sealed on the death of his elder brother and though he would rather be a more conventional kind of samurai, he is the only heir to this kitchen empire. Can Haru's cooking skills raise a fire in Yasunobu's heart for his unwanted destiny or will they both be subjected to a lifetime of cold dinners?
A Tale of Samurai Cooking is definitely much more "period drama" than "samurai movie" though it does share a little of the historical intrigue of your typical "jidai geki". Set in the Edo period of feudal Japan, there are plenty of sudden reversals of fate where one house jumps ahead of another which then falls out of favour, sometimes with tragic consequences. However, though those these events inform the drama they are really just the backdrop to the true story of the very grown-up (though extremely chaste and innocent - this is U rated movie!) slow-burning love story between Haru and Yasunobu. Though it's a very charming and old fashioned sort of romance, it's also true that Kengo Kora and Aya Ueto don't have a tremendous amount of chemistry and their love story is pretty subtle and one-sided until very late into the film. Of course, the audience knows how this sort of film has to end, but the film does rather rely on this fact.
Yasunobu is at heart a kind man undergoing very difficult circumstances. Having had to let go of the life he wanted that was so nearly his following the death of his older brother, it isn't a surprise that he's generally sullen and extremely resentful that his father has arranged this marriage for him with a slighter older woman who's already been married once before, not to mention the fact that it's all because she's better than he is at this thing he's now supposed to do for the rest of his life. Yasunobu doesn't even like cooking; he thinks it's "woman's work" and had devoted his life to the art of the sword. Luckily, Haru's perspicacity extends beyond her palate and she's quickly figured out what's going on with Yasunobu so she can turn him into the ace cook his father needs him to be. Haru's influence opens up his wilfully closed eyes to the rewards of both good women and good cookery, which is part way to saying that food cooked with love can heal a broken heart but it's equal parts changing times and a young man growing up.
As films about food go, A Tale of Samurai Cooking certainly has a fair few mouth watering dishes on display but perhaps lacks the hearty fare of something like the comparatively more sensual, though equally comic, Tampopo. In truth, its overwhelming quality is a kind of inoffensive niceness and perhaps for some tastes could have done with a little more spice, though like the best Japanese cuisine offers its own rewards precisely because of its subtlety. It's a perfectly nice light meal, but you'll probably wishing you'd gone for something more substantial come bedtime.
A Tale of Samurai Cooking - A True Love Story is on limited theatrical release in the UK right now and will open in Dublin from 9th January before receiving DVD release from Yume Pictures in 2015.
A pleasant if insubstantial period drama, A Tale of Samurai Cooking is a fluffy afternoon treat.


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Iveta Poloková (born 17 August 1970) is a Czech gymnast. She competed at the 1988 Summer Olympics and the 1992 Summer Olympics.

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Opinion & Analysis: Which arguments against wind power should be taken seriously?
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The proposed wind farm off of Cape Cod could progress, now that U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar has said he'll call a meeting between "key parties" next week. Salazar hopes to wrap up the issue within the next two months, Beth Daley reported for The Boston Globe.
Salazar's announcement came shortly after an apparent "setback"—the National Park Service's decision to include the Nantucket Sound on the National Register of Historic Places, which would prevent construction projects. Native American tribes have claimed the Sound is part of their culture and history. Those in favor of the wind farm contend that tribes spoke out due to a partnership with the Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound, the project's "main opposition group." The tribes have denied such claims.
In 2006, Op-ed columnist Anne Applebaum addressed opposition to Cape Wind, the proposed offshore wind farm, led by "a coalition of anti-wind groups and summer homeowners, among them the Kennedy family." The group claimed a wind farm would ruin the view and devalue real estate, and that energy companies would be cashing in on the project. But Applebaum questions whether the group's arguments "reflect a deeper American malady": an opposition to building anything.
A similar issue arose in 2005, when Michigan Wind Energy and Mackinaw Power revealed plans to construct "Michigan's largest wind-energy project," complete with nearly 300-foot-tall pinwheels "across the county," Time Magazine reported. In this case, some residents opposed the project due to property value concerns but others, such as orchard owner and lifelong Oceana County resident Ron Longcore, were in favor.
Longcore planned to "lease a sliver of his land" to Michigan Wind Energy for turbines, and put the money toward orchard taxes and insurance, Time reported. It is now common practice in the U.S. and Europe for farmers and ranchers to "earn extra income by leasing out their land for turbines," sometimes setting up battles with homeowners determined to maintain real estate values.
Reaction to wind farms is not always so dramatic, however. According to studies in the U.S. and Europe, many people are not opposed to wind farms being built near their neighborhoods. Moreover, their reasoning seems practical: They hope wind farms will improve the local economy and the environment.
Scotland newspaper The Herald reported similar public mentality regarding wind farms in December 2005. Research at the time revealed that a "vast majority of people living near windfarms are supportive of them," and that "a 'vocal minority' is drowning out the 'silent and contented majority'" that appreciated wind farms. The research was based on a survey of 300 people residing "within six miles of a windfarm," and was carried out by Dr. Charles Warren of Scotland's St. Andrews University.
Stanley Fish, an author and professor, tackled the subject of wind farms in an editorial for The New York Times in August 2007. Fish discusses efforts by himself and fellow residents of Andes, the small New York town where he has a summer home, to block construction of a wind farm there.
Fish concedes that the town is made up of "liberals" that "are all soldiers in Al Gore's army," and questions the motives of wind companies. They "may advertise themselves as environmentalists, but they are really developers," he writes. The column drew several interesting comments from readers, including some debate over the influence of "well-off communities" on wind farm construction.
FindingDulcinea's Web Guide to Wind Power provides historical background on wind power and wind farms, including information about the economics of wind power and policies that help encourage wind power development.
The Union of Concerned Scientists provides a comprehensive lesson on "How Wind Energy Works," including historical information, the "Variability of Wind Power" and wind turbine mechanics. The future of the industry is also discussed, including the impacts of the recession and expectations for increased capacity.


Kaskaskia College is committed to serving area veterans and provides a one-stop shop for their students who have served our nation.
In-district tuition is offered to all veterans or military students attending as well as for their spouses or children using veteran educational benefits.
"The College was chosen by the state of Illinois to evaluate veteran's military transcripts so they can receive credit towards their degree, specifically those enrolled in criminal justice. KC recently completed this project and submitted their articulation to the Illinois Community College Board, says Carrie Hancock, Coordinator of Veterans' Services.
This shows the commitment by the college to give credit to those service members that have already had the training and/or education. This also assists them in saving benefits for their future education endeavors. KC has continued this practice with its other certificates and degree programs.
Every year in November Kaskaskia College hosts an Enduring Freedom Celebration in honor of Veterans Day. The program consists of a keynote speaker or a panel of veteran or active military discussing their military careers. It also features Kaskaskia's music programs with the singing of the military service songs and playing of Taps. A flag ceremony is held where the flag is dedicated to a member of the Kaskaskia College community that shows true patriotism. Also featured that day are over 1,000 flags displayed in the yard outside the HB building along with yellow ribbons to welcome those attending the celebration.
Kaskaskia College has also established the KC Veteran and Military Family Student Center located on the main campus. The center is a space for veterans, military students and their families to build camaraderie and support as they transition from the military to civilian life. The space will feature a study area as well as an area for fellowship. Peer tutoring and mentoring programs will also take place in the center.
For more information on Kaskaskia College's Veterans Services, please contact Carrie Hancock, Coordinator of Veterans' Services and Financial Aid Advisor, at chancock@kaskaskia.edu or 618-545-3075.


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This last week we had a fiesta potluck at our residence here in Japan. After looking at the list of what everyone else was bringing I decided to contribute a dessert, Mexican Wedding Cakes. I'm not entirely sure if these cookies are actually of Mexican origin but they are a tasty cookie I grew up on since they are a staple in my mom's Christmas cookies.
Preheat the oven to 275'F and either line a baking sheet with parchment paper, silicon baking mat, or lightly spray with cooking spray.
Cream the butter and sugar until smooth. Beat in the vanilla and then gradually add the flour. Mix in nuts with spoon or spatula. With a tablespoon sized cookie scoop (or table spoon) that has been dipped in flour scoop out dough and roll into ball before placing onto prepared cookie sheet. Place cookies an inch apart. Bake for 40 minutes. When cool enough to handle but still warm (you want them more warm than cool) pick off cookie sheet and roll in powdered sugar then place on a wire cooling rack.