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In geometry, the elongated bicupolae are two infinite sets of polyhedra, constructed by adjoining two n-gonal cupolas to an n-gonal prism. They have 2n triangles, 4n squares, and 2 n-gon. The ortho forms have the cupola aligned, while gyro forms are counter aligned.

See also
 Bicupola
 Elongated cupola
 Gyroelongated bicupola

References
Norman W. Johnson, "Convex Solids with Regular Faces", Canadian Journal of Mathematics, 18, 1966, pages 169–200. Contains the original enumeration of the 92 solids and the conjecture that there are no others.
  The first proof that there are only 92 Johnson solids.

Polyhedra

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Adam Guzuev
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Adam Guzuev was born in Chechnya in 1970. He comes from a family of theater celebrities. His uncle, who was killed during a firefight in the Chechen war, was chairman of the Chechen broadcasting committee. After studying philology, Guzuev worked as a director and scriptwriter for Chechen state television, wrote pieces for the State Theater in Grozny and poems that were published in Chechen literary magazines. Because of his films about war crimes committed during the Chechen conflict, he faced immense pressure in his homeland. He could not be published and was forced to go into hiding in Chechnya, until he could assume his fellowship. In November 2010, Adam Guzuev came to Germany and was a grant recipient of the PEN Writers in Exile Program till October 2013. During this time, he wrote screenplays, poems and stories working to fulfill his dream of one day seeing his own movie make it to the Berlinale Film Festival. Adam Guzuev continues to live in Berlin. In 2017, a text by Guzuev will be publish in the German PEN anthology Zuflucht in Deutschland. Texte verfolgter Autoren (S. Fischer).

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Q: How to pass a variable value to another server using ssh #!/bin/ksh

CTN=1
ssh -q user@host 'exec bash -s' << 'ENDSSH'
cd abc/def
./scriptname \$CTN
ENDSSH

exit;

However in the remote server, value of variable CTN is not getting passed.
Please help.

A: It should be:
CTN=1
ssh -q user@host 'exec bash -s' << ENDSSH
cd abc/def
./scriptname "$CTN"
ENDSSH

Since you want $CTN to expanded locally you must not escape the $ and must not put ENDSSH between single quotes.

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Google product management exec Punit Soni is joining the Indian e-commerce company Flipkart as its chief product officer.
Soni worked at Google for the past eight years, helping develop products like Google News, Books, Google Plus — and, as the VP of product management at Motorola while Google owned it, three phones: the MotoX, Moto G, and Moto E.
Soni decided to join Flipkart after a trip to India — he felt the startup "stood out as the single biggest platform of change in the new internet economy," he said in a Google Plus post.
In his new role, he'll be spearheading Flipkart's product strategy, design, and marketing, and moving to India for the position.
Flipkart currently has 33,000 employees and 10 million daily visits, and is one of Amazon's biggest competitors in India. The company's founders actually both worked at Amazon before ditching in 2007 to start their own new company with a very similar business model.
The startup took off and Flipkart is now India's largest online marketplace in terms of sales.
Amazon, meanwhile, didn't enter India until 2012 with the price-comparison site Junglee (which it had acquired way back in the late 90s). It opened its official India website in June 2013. Almost exactly a year later, Flipkart raised a mammoth $1 billion funding round. Exactly one day later, Amazon said it planned to pour $2 billion into its Indian operations.
In Amazon's Q4 earnings call, CFO Tom Szkutak said the company was "very excited about India" and it will be one of its big focuses for international growth.
As I explored ideas across sectors and across different life stages of companies, I flew down to India to personally see the change spreading across the country at the intersection of a mobile revolution spearheaded by phones like Moto G, and hundreds of entrepreneurs reinventing every aspect of life out there. Flipkart stood out as the single biggest platform of change in the new internet economy. The energy in Bangalore feels like the Valley and Flipkart with a footprint of millions is at the forefront. It is the opportunity to create the biggest impact and made sense after the amazing journey at Google. My goal and mandate will be to help build the world's best product company with a global ambition. Over time, we will build programs to attract the best talent to Bangalore and also establish a significant presence back home in the Valley. The overwhelming scope of the task feels like the right next step in my journey, and its success will depend on a lot of things including your support.


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Sophie Howe, Future Generations Commissioner for Wales
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Wales: Doing today what the world will do tomorrow
Sophie Howe is the world's only Future Generations Commissioner. It's her job to help us leave behind a better Wales (and world) for our children and all the generations to come. It's a radical change of thinking that affects every decision we make in Wales.
An interview with Sophie Howe, Future Generations Commissioner for Wales
In 2015 Wales passed a new law, The Well-being of Future Generations Act, that has caught the imagination of countries across the world.
It offers a huge opportunity for us to make a long-lasting, positive change to the way we do… well, everything.
We hope that what Wales is doing today the world will do tomorrow."
We're the only country in the world to have legislated to protect the interests of future generations, and we're the only country to have appointed somebody independent to oversee this.
And that's my job. At the moment, I'm the only Future Generations Commissioner in the world, but I hope that many more countries will follow our lead.
Wales has a template to share with the rest of the world. The UN has now announced its support for a Special Envoy for Future Generations, a Futures Summit in 2023 and a UN Declaration for Future Generations. Across the world, our systems of government, politics and economics have tended to act in the short term.
But in Wales we are trying to change that. Our government and all our main public institutions need to demonstrate how they are acting for the long term, and how the decisions they take don't harm the interests of those yet to be born.
This calls for a new way of thinking of what 'success' means. For too long, governments have tested their success on the measures of economic growth, but in Wales our measures of success are around our seven well-being goals.
Make well-being your metrics. Test everything you do across the four pillars of well-being: social, economic, environmental and cultural.
Perhaps the most important aspect of these well-being goals is that they recognise everything is interconnected. We will not have a prosperous Wales if we do not tackle our climate and nature emergencies. There are no jobs on a dead planet. And we won't have a healthier Wales if we don't have people working in decent jobs — not jobs that are bad for their health, or that don't pay a decent wage.
Smarter Wales: Cymru Glyfrach – Cyd Ynni case study
It also means looking beyond our own borders.
We are determined not just to be global consumers but to be global citizens. That's why we have set ambitious climate change targets for decarbonisation. We are absolutely determined that we will be at the forefront of this low-carbon revolution. And it's why we have a Wales for Africa programme.
As a mother of five, I am absolutely passionate about ensuring that we've got a planet to leave behind for future generations: a world where they can thrive rather than just survive.
Everyone must play their part: individuals, organisations and companies.
It will take forward-thinking nations like Wales with big ideas to be taken up by other parts of the world. That's my job as a mum, and that's my job as Future Generations Commissioner.
And that should be all of our jobs.
Plant! A tree is planted in Wales & Uganda for every child born or adopted in Wales @sizeofwales #AfricaDay https://t.co/gF04bIuAsU pic.twitter.com/polkJxQhJC
— This is Cymru Wales (@walesdotcom) May 25, 2017
Our seven well-being goals
The Well-being of Future Generations Act set out seven clear goals. And because everything's connected, our public bodies must work to achieve all of them.
A prosperous Wales.
A resilient Wales.
A more equal Wales.
A healthier Wales.
A Wales of cohesive communities.
A Wales of thriving culture and vibrant Welsh language.
A globally responsible Wales.
Find out more: futuregenerations.wales
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Sporting success brings us together
Learn about Wales' sporting success and discover what makes Welsh sport so special to endurance athlete and broadcaster Lowri Morgan.
The race to zero waste
Putting environment and sustainability at the top of the Welsh agenda.
Turning heritage on its head
Transforming an old slate quarry into the home of the world's fastest zip line.
Heart of the nation
Former National Poet Ifor ap Glyn explains how language is at the heart of Welsh daily life.


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Flag carrier Philippine Airlines is allowing passengers to use the internet for free for 30 minutes or 15 MB on its flights and to surf longer for the rest of the trip at 50 percent off, as part of improving its service. File
PAL offers WiFi subscription plans to passenger
Louella Desiderio (The Philippine Star) - August 20, 2017 - 4:00pm
MANILA, Philippines - Flag carrier Philippine Airlines (PAL) is allowing passengers to use the internet for free for 30 minutes or 15 MB on its flights and to surf longer for the rest of the trip at 50 percent off, as part of improving its service.
In a statement, PAL said it has come up with a WiFi subscription plan to suit the different needs of passengers.
The basic WiFi plans start at $5 for 35 MB, while the $20 plan for 150 MB is for those who need more usage.
"We continuously work towards addressing our passengers' needs and have also come up with more affordable renewal price plans, and soon, access to hi-speed internet even while flying at 30,000 feet. This latest offering, which enables customers to stay connected inflight, is the airline's way of demonstrating its 'heartfelt' service philosophy," PAL president and chief operating officer Jaime Bautista said.
He said PAL's free WiFi offer was very well received when it was first launched for a limited period.
PAL's move to offer the WiFi service at reduced prices is in line with its goal of becoming a five-star full service national carrier.
At present, PAL has a three-star rating from Skytrax, an aviation consultancy based in the United Kingdom.
PAL is hopeful it would get a four-star rating from Skytrax following the audit within the year.
Given increasing competition in the airline industry, PAL is working on improving its offering to become the preferred carrier of passengers.
As of the first semester, PAL's parent firm PAL Holdings Inc. incurred a net loss of P1.66 billion, a reversal from the P4.61 billion net income reported in the same period last year.
Revenues, however, went up 17.7 percent to P67.8 billion as of the end of June this year.
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The Independent Municipal and Allied Trade (IMATU) is dismayed to learn of an altercation between protesters and police that landed some IMATU members in hospital and others needing treatment for shock.
"Members from our Matlosana Branch reported a very disturbing incident that took place at the municipal offices this morning. From what we understand protesters stormed the building just before 9am. Municipal employees realised that something was wrong when scuffles broke out between protesters and security guards inside the building. The violence intensified when the police arrived on the scene shortly thereafter. I believe rubber bullets were fired and because protesters had breached the building's security some of our members were caught up in the altercations between protesters and police. I have confirmation that members had to be taken to hospital and numerous employees treated for shock," stated IMATU North West Regional Manager, Paul Greyling.
This incident is one of many examples highlighting the escalation of violent protests around South Africa. IMATU shop stewards confirmed that their members are routinely threatened and intimidated while trying to perform their duties. Municipal meetings have been disrupted, buildings occupied and municipal officials taken hostage. As recently as two weeks ago external parties disrupted a scheduled local labour forum meeting in Matlosana, demanding recognition and making proceedings impossible to run.
While the motivation behind this morning's protest still needs to be clarified, IMATU shop stewards believe the grievances relate to corruption, lack of resources, broader service delivery needs and job vacancies.
"Municipalities are responsible for providing the community with basic services however, a number of these services fall outside the scope of local government or require collaborative efforts across all three tiers of government. It is becoming more common for protesters to direct their frustration at municipal buildings and infrastructure to express their dissatisfaction, irrespective of the origin of the problem or whether this falls under the ambit of the municipality in question," explained Greyling.
IMATU calls on the Matlosana Municipal Mayor to immediately address this situation and ensure that its members are provided with a safe and secure working environment. "IMATU will be requesting an urgent meeting with the Office of the Municipal Mayor in order to establish a satisfactory way forward that ensures the safety of our members. Members cannot return to a volatile work place where their safety is not guaranteed," concluded Greyling.
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Colin Dwyer covers breaking news for NPR. He reports on a wide array of subjects — from politics in Latin America and the Middle East, to the latest developments in sports and scientific research.
Colin began his work with NPR on the Arts Desk, where he reviewed books and produced stories on arts and culture, then went on to write a daily roundup of news in literature and the publishing industry for the Two-Way blog — named Book News, naturally.
Later, as a producer for the Digital News desk, he wrote and edited feature news coverage, curated NPR's home page and managed its social media accounts. During his time on the desk, he co-created NPR's live headline contest "Head to Head," with Camila Domonoske, and won the American Copy Editors Society's annual headline-writing prize in 2015.
These days, as a reporter for the News Desk, he writes for NPR.org, reports for the network's on-air newsmagazines, and regularly hosts NPR's daily Facebook Live segment, "Newstime." He has covered hurricanes, international elections and unfortunate marathon mishaps, among many other stories. He also had some things to say about shoes once on Invisibilia.
Colin graduated from Georgetown University with a master's degree in English literature.
Trump Administration Threatens California Over Mandate That Insurers Cover Abortion
By Colin Dwyer • 18 hours ago
Just hours before President Trump addressed thousands of anti-abortion rights activists at the annual March for Life in Washington, D.C., his administration has given its attendees reason to cheer.
Africa's Richest Woman Now Formally A Suspect In Angolan Corruption Probe
By Colin Dwyer • Jan 23, 2020
Isabel dos Santos, the billionaire former first daughter of Angola who is said to be one of Africa's wealthiest people, has been accused of rampant financial misconduct in order to line her own pockets.
The allegations, announced Wednesday by Angola's top prosecutor, come just days after a major media investigation released more than 700,000 documents related to dos Santos' business empire — and the questionable conduct that built it — in what has become known as the Luanda Leaks.
The Harvey Weinstein Trial: A Brief Timeline Of How We Got Here
Editor's note: This report includes descriptions of sexual assault.
This was never inevitable.
For much of Harvey Weinstein's career, dark rumors of sexual assault and harassment tailed the Hollywood megaproducer. But they were rarely spoken with much volume. Only in recent years did the allegations gather the heft and momentum that culminated in this: a teeming courtroom in Manhattan where, in a matter of weeks, a judge might send Weinstein to prison for the rest of his life.
Titanic Wreckage Now Protected Under U.S.-U.K. Deal That Was Nearly Sunk
More than a century after the RMS Titanic sank to the bottom of the sea — and nearly a quarter-century after its memory was dredged up for a Hollywood blockbuster — the U.S. and U.K. have implemented a formal agreement on how to safeguard and manage the ill-fated steamship's remains.
Former Interpol President Sentenced To Prison In China For Corruption
The former president of Interpol has been sentenced to more than a decade in prison. Meng Hongwei, the first Chinese national to assume the presidency of the France-based international law enforcement organization, received his 13 1/2-year sentence for corruption Tuesday in a Chinese courtroom.


We have a vast collection of print resources about photography, including rare books, journals, exhibition catalogs, auction catalogs and ephemera. Scholars, authors, museum professionals, artists, and students are invited to use these for research projects focusing on photography as well as cultural studies, environmental history, history of optics, music, and many other areas. The bulk of CCP's books are now accessible for browsing in the Volkerding Study Center.
Our book collection can be used in-house through the Laura Volkerding Study Center by making an appointment in advance, or by visiting during walk-in hours on Fridays. If you would like assistance with a research project, please make an appointment with the librarian. Please note that drop-in hours are only available for those interested in looking at the book collection; advance appointments are still needed to access archival, oral history, and fine print materials.
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Q: validate field at run time on field change I need to know if the phone to register already exists in the bank before clicking Save or Update.
I need to check this restriction when changing the field.
In other words, when leaving the Celular field, if it exists in the bank, it will already notify me.
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PUBLISHED: July 23, 2009 at 12:00 am | UPDATED: August 29, 2017 at 1:10 am
SAN BERNARDINO – A high percentage of children living on the Westside have been diagnosed with asthma, according to the results of a community health needs study released this week.
The study, conducted by the Boys and Girls Club of San Bernardino, assessed incidents of asthma, juvenile diabetes and obesity among children, primarily those up to age 5, living in 13 areas on the Westside.
"I think it is alarming from the standpoint that the numbers are higher than other parts of San Bernardino County and so highly concentrated in this area," Walter Hawkins, a club board member, said at a news conference where the findings were discussed.
According to the study's findings, the prevalence of asthma among children under age 6 on the Westside was 14 percent, which exceeds the 9.7 percent of children with asthma in the state as of July, 2008.
The largest percentage of children with juvenile diabetes was south of BaseLine and north of 9th Street. In that area, 5 percent of the parents interviewed said their children had diabetes.
The largest percentage of obesity was in the neighborhood east of Mount Vernon Avenue and south of BaseLine. Five percent of children there were obese, according to their parents.
After seeing several members of a local drill team using inhalers after participating in a parade in January, A. Majadi, chief professional officer for the Boys and Girls Club, came up with the idea for the study.
Subsequently, staff from the organization visited 2,700 homes in the target areas to find out how many children were obese or suffered from juvenile diabetes or asthma.
In the study, funded by First 5 San Bernardino as part of its emerging needs investment initiative, families were also asked if they had any kind of medical coverage. Forty percent of families did have coverage. Ten percent did not.
As a result of the findings, the club, school districts and community-based agencies need to brainstorm to come up with solutions, said Hawkins.
Some of the recommendations so far are the need for a comprehensive childhood asthma program that includes lifestyle changes, prevention and early community involvement.
In regard to childhood obesity, the goal is to develop and support more after-school and early education programs that support children eating better and exercising more.
Suggestions from the Diabetes Coalition of California to deal with juvenile diabetes include improving access to health care and increasing prevention and early detection.
"It is important for the local community to take on this work along with churches, school districts and legislators, and we are here to help you," said Dr. Dev GnanaDev, medical director at Arrowhead Regional Medical Center in Colton, who attended the news conference.
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Young author from Laurelton is just 8 years old, but he's already published 2 books
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Chae Blount, left, with his mother Dianna outside the Laurelton library.
By Gina Conteh
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At just 8 years old, Chae Blount of Laurelton collected the lessons he's learned from life and published two guidebooks for kids just like him.
Chae developed advanced reading skills at a very young age, according to his mother, Dianna Blount. She said that he started reading at just 9 months old. Dianna knew her son was special after participating in a spelling bee at only 3 years old.
"The previous school he attended was apprehensive because they thought he was too young," Dianna Blount said. "The other kids were like 5 or 6 … but he made it to like the fourth round."
Dianna believed Chae was persistent on writing a book because he was merely dreaming of his future. To spark his creativity, she tasked him with coming up with the title for his future book in a journal. Chae's mother was amazed to read a manuscript listing ways to be a great older sibling. He created a guide based off of Dianna's lessons after the arrival of Chae's baby brother.
Dianna took their home project to be edited by his aunt, who was also surprised with the quality of Chae's work. Two days later, Chae's first book, entitled "Chae's Guidebook: How to be the best big brother or sister you can be," was published.
To Chae, his love for writing is pretty simple: "My favorite thing about writing is that you can write … and I wanted to make books so I could inspire people around the world."
Chae gained immense support from family members, his community and his school, P.S./I.S. 208 in Glen Oaks, after getting published, according to his mother. Dianna Blount says his family members all insisted on paying for their signed copies of Chae's first book.
His first reading party and book signing on March 4 at the Laurelton Library drew an audience of 60 people.
Chae's school arranged a book signing for Chae at their Parent-Teacher night on March 16. He received two citations from Councilman I. Daneek Miller and Assemblywoman Alicia Hyndman, as well as a certificate of achievement from Senator Leroy Comrie.
Chae's next book, called "Chae's Guidebook: How to save at a young age," is already in the works and contains what he's learned about saving money after opening his first-ever bank account for his book's profits.
Next month, Chae will be traveling to the island nation of Jamaica to host a book signing at a primary school and plans to donate 30 of his books to their library.
If you would like to see Chae Blount in Queens, his second reading party and book signing will be held at Laurelton Library on Saturday, June 17, from noon to 4 p.m.
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Diabetes Mellitus. In: King MW. King M.W. Ed. Michael W. King.eds. Integrative Medical Biochemistry Examination and Board Review New York, NY: McGraw-Hill; . http://accesspharmacy.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?bookid=1699&sectionid=113100653. Accessed April 25, 2019.
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As a hypothetical approach to treating the hyperglycemia associated with Type 2 diabetes, a drug firm proposes to develop an inhibitor of liver glycogen phosphorylase. What is the biochemical rationale for this approach to inducing hypoglycemia?
Answer C: During early fasting, as the level of glucose in the blood falls, the pancreas releases glucagon into the circulation to counter this drop. The major site of glucagon action is the liver. There it induces the activity of the glycogen phosphorylase leading to an increase in glucose release from glycogen stores. Thus, an inhibition of glycogen phsphorylase would limit the ability of the liver to provide glucose to the blood. Negatively affecting the activity of glycogen phosphorylase would not significantly affect the rate of hepatic fatty acid oxidation, skeletal muscle glucose usage, nor hepatic gluconeogenesis.
In Type 1 diabetes there is an associated hyperlipidemia. The best explanation for this is that the level of an enzyme important for fat homeostasis is reduced. Which of the following is this enzyme?
Answer E: One of the effects of insulin is to increase the level of lipoprotein lipase (LPL) expression in endothelial cells. The lack of normal levels of circulating insulin in Type 1 diabetics results in impaired regulation of LPL levels. Reduced LPL contributes to the hyperlipidemia associated with T1D.
Obesity, genetic profile, and aging all contribute to the development of Type 2 diabetes. Of the following, which is the most important additive factor for these 3 conditions in the development of Type 2 diabetes?


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The Retired SIG met on the fourth Thursday of April at 1:00 PM at the Pi Office. Eleven Pi members came together to learn about and discuss eMail Clents. Bob lead the group and provided a one page handout with a few key definitions and a link to a MacNotables podcast on the same subject. Bob discussed the definitions and gave an abbreviated review of the MacNotables podcast.
There were a lot of questions, as usual, as well as a good comparative discussion about Eudora versus Apple Mail. We really got into some good detail on these eMail Clients and with the aid of an overhead projector, Bob was able to provide "live" demonstrations of some of the issues being discusssed.
The SIG is still getting it's feet on the ground and the hosts are learning as they go. Overall the attendees have provided positive feedback with the informal presentations to date. We are looking forward to coverage of more topics of interest. Any ideas can be forwarded to Len or Bob at their email addresses as list below.


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The mission of Fraternity and Sorority Life (FSL) is to enhance the quality of student life at American University by empowering members of the community through advising with a developmental approach, educating with a purpose, collaborating with stakeholders, promoting academic success, empowering civic engagement and social justice, advocating for healthy lifestyles, creating lifelong connections, and advancing values-based leadership.
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An underground group is a formerly recognized student organization or group that has lost or been denied university registration or recognition as a consequence of violating the Student Conduct Code and/or other university policy. Providing assistance to or in any way perpetuating the misconduct of an Underground Group is a violation of the Student Conduct Code and may led to expulsion from the university.
The university encourages you to be particularly aware of an underground group known as Epsilon Iota or EI. Participating in activities or events sponsored by this group may expose you to serious risk of potential harm and removal from the university. If you are interested in joining the FSL community, please look at the recognized groups noted on this site.
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American University Fraternity & Sorority Life (AU FSL) established a delayed membership process to better meet the needs of the AU community and FSL members. For students to be eligible, they must meet the following requirements:
Be enrolled as a full-time matriculated undergraduate student;
Be in Good Disciplinary Standing with AU;
Earned a minimum of 12 credit hours at AU, after high school graduation;
Advanced Placement (AP), International Baccalaureate (IB), or Dual-Enrollment credits do not qualify as acceptable credits;
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About Dr. Alan Freeman
Dr. Alan Freeman ("Alan") is president and chief executive officer at Affinia Healthcare in St. Louis, a community health center (CHC) that serves tens of thousands of medical, dental and behavioral health patients annually. He is in his 13th year in this capacity. Among the 29 CHCs in Missouri, Affinia Healthcare serves the largest number of uninsured and low income residents.
Dr. Freeman's professional experience spans thirty-six years, including senior executive roles in three hospitals and two community health centers (CHCs) in Missouri. Previously, he served as CEO at Cass Medical Center in Harrisonville from 1996 to 2002. From 2002-2006, he was CEO at Missouri Highlands Health Care, a CHC that serves seven counties in a southern region of the state.
For five months in 2013, Alan was privileged to serve as Director of the Missouri Department of Social Services, in the cabinet of Governor Jeremiah "Jay" Nixon. Upon his decision to resign and return to the field of health care leadership, he was invited to continue as chief executive at Affinia Healthcare.
In 2018, Alan earned a Doctorate in Management Degree from Webster University's Walker School of Business and Technology. He holds a master's in business administration with a concentration in health services management from Webster University. He completed his bachelor's degree in management and a minor in music at Southwest Missouri State University, and an associate of arts degree at the Mineral Area College. He was the recipient of Webster University's Distinguished Alumni Award in 2017. Dr. Freeman is a Fellow in the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE). He received the Missouri ACHE Regent's Early Career Healthcare Award in 1999 and the Regent's Senior-Level Healthcare Award in 2017; the MPCA's Samuel U. Rodger's Achievement Award in 2017; and NACHC's Grassroots Advocacy Award in 2018.
Among his professional commitments, Dr. Freeman serves on the boards of the Missouri Primary Care Association; St. Louis Regional Health Commission; Missouri Community Health Access, LLC; Home State Health Plan; Missouri Community Health Foundation; and the Community Health Employee Benefits Association. He is a member of ACHE's Chief Executive Officers Committee. He is a former member and chair of the Editorial Board of the Healthcare Executive, a bi-monthly national magazine of the American College of Healthcare Executives, and a former member and chair of ACHE's Health Administration Press Management Series Editorial Board.
Dr. Freeman is actively engaged in activities that benefit others and the community. Serving as an adjunct full professor in the Walker School at Webster University, he has taught two or more courses each year since 2009. He is also actively involved in Christian music, a lifelong passion. To acknowledge his accomplishments and contributions, the Mid America Gospel Music Association (MAGMA) honored him with its Lifetime Achievement Award in 2015.
Putting all else in perspective, Alan is first and foremost a family man. He and his wife DeeAnna live in O'Fallon, Missouri. Their children are Jarrod and Amanda. Their grandchildren are Grayson and Riley.
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Carnival Row Co-Creator Travis Beacham Exclusive Interview
By Abbie Bernstein On April 4, 2020 In People of Interest No Comments
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: "CARNIVAL ROW" CO-CREATOR TRAVIS BEACHAM
By Abbie Bernstein
Amazon Prime's series CARNIVAL ROW debuted its first season August 30, 2019, and has already been renewed for a second. In CARNIVAL ROW, a war of acquisition between rival human nations in the Faerie homeland has caused Faeries to flee for safety to the human realm of the Burgue, which resembles Victorian England. Here, Fae are treated as second-class citizens. "Carnival Row" is the name given to the Fae district within the Burge.
Among the refugees is the Faerie warrior/smuggler Vignette Stonemoss, played by Cara Delevingne. During the war, Vignette and human Burgue soldier Rycroft "Philo" Philostrate were lovers. Now Philo is a detective with the Burgue police and Vignette warily reconnects with him as he investigates a string of murders of Fae folk.
Travis Beacham, whose writing credits include the remake of CLASH OF THE TITANS and collaborating with Guillermo Del Toro on PACIFIC RIM, originally began work on CARNIVAL ROW as a feature screenplay. Beacham's fellow CARNIVAL ROW executive producer Rene Echevarria is credited as co-creator on the Amazon series version.
At a Q&A session held by Amazon for the Summer 2019 Television Critics Association press tour, and then in a follow-up private conversation, Beacham discusses CARNIVAL ROW.
"Í wrote it sixteen or seventeen years ago," Beacham explains, "and for a good chunk of that, I had totally given up on it. Because it was so big, and it wasn't based on anything, and the way the feature world was moving, it really didn't seem like something that could ever get made. I got asked about it in meetings a lot. 'What's going on with CARNIVAL ROW?' It really broke my heart to be like, 'Oh, I don't know what's going on with it.' But deep down inside, I'm like, 'That's never getting made.' So to be in Prague [where Season 1 was shot] and standing on the back lot and to literally be standing on Carnival Row and seeing these people in costumes, I still haven't quite processed it. But it's very surreal."
However, CARNIVAL ROW remained in Beacham's heart and mind. "For awhile, I did this thing where, when I didn't have anything to write, I would work on these short stories that took place in the universe. I had this idea of, you could see different points in time in the history of the city. In the back of my mind, I thought if I ever wanted to get this jump-started again, that was a good way to do it, as a graphic novel, or as a book. But even without that consideration or that calculation, I was always sort of tinkering with it, and tinkering with the world, even just to keep the writing."
In doing research for the world of CARNIVAL ROW, Beacham continues, "One of the things that really interested me is, when I was in college and writing it there, there were a bunch of influences just swirling around. I was reading about Celtic mythology. And one of the things that really fascinated me was this discovering of the Fae folk and faeries, not as Tinkerbell, but as these dark, mysterious earthy presences in mythology and lore that I didn't really feel like I'd seen. It was interesting to play in that sandbox. Going back not even to old fantasy, but to before fantasy, to folklore and the original inspiration for all that stuff."
How much of the mythology has Beacham revised for the purposes of CARNIVAL ROW? For example, there's a human reference in the opening episode to "Unseelie" as being a Fae term for something unpleasant, rather than a nod to the fabled Unseelie Court. "It's more of an Easter egg," Beacham reports. "It's funny, in developing the season, the season roughly follows the events of the feature in a tweaked kind of way, but I try to pay homage to it here and there. But there are a lot of subterranean battles and whatever. I will say in the seasons going forward, we're trying to explore the depth and gravity of the magic in the world. We try to keep magic relatively rare in order to give it that presence when it's onscreen, then you really feel like something exceptional is happening, rather than waving a wand every third second. So we're trying to create a slow burn magic story that will play out across multiple seasons that sort of flirts with those same ideas."
When designing the world of CARNIVAL ROW, Beacham says he felt he had to nail down its geography. "One of the lessons I learned early on, when I was first writing it in my dorm room at film school, I'd get to a scene, and I would have to stop for thirty minutes at the slug line, the heading of the scene. I would be like, 'Where does the scene take place? What's the name of this street?' And I got so frustrated with it that, after awhile, I just paused writing and drew a map on the wall of my dorm room, and named all the streets, named all the buildings I could think of, just so that I could reference it, because I think when you're writing something that takes place in the real world, the advantage of that is, you have a real world. That there is a New York, and you don't have to explain New York to anyone. To create a world with the same kind of depth, you have to create way more than is going to be on screen, because that informs the confidence with which you write it and you create it, and the audience can sense that confidence."
That confidence has extended to everyone involved with CARNIVAL ROW, Beacham adds. "You'll have designers and cast come up to you with ideas. And you'll be like, 'Oh, that's great,' because they'll ask you about, 'When a character says this, what did they mean? And are we ever going to see that?' And you like, 'Oh, I wasn't planning on it, but we should see that. Because it's part of having to create this world in a convincing way. You have to build around the corners. And the great thing about having a TV show is, now you get to go around those corners and see what's behind them. So in blocking out Season 2, we're expanding. We're going to Croatia, in addition to Prague, so it's like already the world is getting bigger."
Both the Burgue and the Fae realm are creations of Beacham's imagination. Which of the two was the greater challenge? "The Faerie world was a little more challenging, because there was nothing to draw from. For instance, when we're looking at the human world, I've got these books of Victorian slang and that kind of thing that I can look at, but when we're talking about the Faerie world, having to make up so much of the terminology and so much of the culture, so it's more challenging, but also a little bit more fun."
Beacham thinks that fantasy can get a bad rap from people who don't really know it. "There's this notion floating around out there that genre stuff, that sci-fi and fantasy, is escapist at its core. And I think we've been taught to think that by generations of essentially toy commercials. But if you look at the real history of the genre – with STAR TREK and THE TWILIGHT ZONE on television, even with the literary tradition, going back to WAR OF THE WORLDS – it's always held a mirror to the real world. It's always been rooted in the real world and been saving something about the real world. I think when people say 'escapist,' it's fundamentally a transporting genre, it takes you somewhere. But in taking you somewhere, it shows you where you came from in a new light."
There are unavoidable real-world parallels in a story about people running from conflict in their homeland to a country that helped cause the conflict in the first place, but whose denizens look down on and fear the refugees. "When I was first writing CARNIVAL ROW," Beacham explains, "it was a little more about race than immigration when I first wrote it. In developing it, it has become more explicitly about, 'They're from over there, and they're coming over here.' It's still very racial. In looking at it, it's like part of that was growing up in the South and how that's always sort of an issue there. But also, I think I was thinking about the world of Charles Dickens, in the soup of influences. I really liked how he put a lens on a whole society, and dealing with issues, he never dealt with it as a polemic. He always dealt with it as a character study. It's like, in looking at this character from here, and this character from here, and all these worlds, and how they interconnect. I thought that was such an interesting structure, and really wanted to explore it in a fantasy context. But as far as class divisions and racial divisions and all that, it's really always been a part of it, and I wish I could be more pointed about where it came from, but I can't remember."
Can Faeries "pass" as human by concealing their wings, or other means? "We do deal with that," Beacham reveals. "In creating their look, at first, it was a bit of a controversy, because when we were creating the fauns, obviously, they have horns, and they're not going to be able to walk into a human part of town very easily. But we kept saying, 'Shouldn't there be something exceptional about the Fae, other than their wings?' But then we realized, 'Oh, this might be an opportunity for something.' So it does play into the narrative a little bit, that idea."
Most Fae, though, are proud of their heritage. "I think a lot of the other choices that we would make is, not only in the prosthetics, but in their style and the way they carry themselves, that you could tell them apart," Beacham relates. "So for the most part, in the first season, all the Fae women have short hair, whereas the human women have long hair, and the human men have shorter hair, and the Fae men have longer hair, so it's kind of flopped on what the human standards are. Also, the people in the Burgue would have a radar for that kind of thing in a way that we don't. I think it's interesting, filming in central Europe, with all these countries sort of crammed together, immediately, somebody [local] would be like, 'Oh, yeah, that person over there is Bulgarian or whatever,' and [as an American] you're like, 'I don't know what you're talking about'."
In creating Vignette Stonemoss, Beacham says, he wasn't thinking about how to cast the role. "When I write characters, I just let them talk to me and who they become. I think by the time that I was done with it, looking back on the feature scripts, I was thinking Keira Knightley or somebody like that. But in the course of the writing of it, there wasn't really anyone that came to mind. And even when we were casting for the show, the casting director is asking for guidance, and it's like, "Bring us as many different sorts of people as you can think of."
As an executive producer, Beacham was in on the casting process and saw Delevingne's audition for Vignette. "She did a really incredible audition; she did about three of them, actually. She auditioned once in London, and once in L.A., and the scenes that we put out for that character were very challenging scenes on purpose. And she just hit it out of the ballpark, and that's her."
There are a number of scenes of Fae/human lovemaking, which have the couple borne aloft by the Fae's beating wings. This brings stunt work and special effects into what is already a delicate on-set situation. "It's a bit challenging," Beacham acknowledges, "but one of the things I really like about our season is that, when [the actors] get into it, when they sign their contracts, there's no nudity clause in the contract, they sign it, it's for each individual case. So any time we're about to do a love scene, the actors get to talk about what they're comfortable with, and what they're not comfortable with. So that does take a bit of what would otherwise be a very sort of challenging thing about it, that takes a bit of the heat off, because already they've talked about choreographing it in a way where it's more of kind of an action scene than it is an intimate moment."
How arced versus how standalone are the eight episodes of CARNIVAL ROW's first season? "The individual stories have their own sorts of conclusions by the end of the season," Beacham replies. "But yes, we do the thing where it's like you spend the first half of the last episode wrapping things up, and then the second half setting things up [for the next season]."
Finally, what would Beacham most like people to know about CARNIVAL ROW? "That it's big, that it's really big. It's really unlike I think anything I've ever seen. Obviously, we're really grateful for GAME OF THRONES opening the door for fantasy on TV. This, I think, is very, very different. And that's what I can't wait for people to see."
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I've made it my business to study one of my favorite writers of short stories, the incomparable Alice Munro. Rather than just sink into the stories with simple enjoyment, I've tried to examine them and wonder what makes them work. After all, Munro's writing is not the flashiest or the most innovative; the events of her stories are often quiet; and the emotional drama going on is subtle. So why am I so utterly engrossed and delighted by her storytelling?
Munro has a number of cards in her hand, but one thing I've noticed again and again is that she is willing to make her character do the thing that we normally wouldn't do. She often sets up situations in which a character comes right up to the edge of an uncomfortable moment. They are the kinds of events we do encounter in our own lives — whether to accept a marriage proposal, choosing to stay in school, choosing to parent or not, whether to be kind or not, whether to keep a secret or not. But whereas in real life, many of us would do the polite thing, the discrete thing, the prudent thing, and move on, Munro is willing to push her character into the discomfort. She has her character blurt out the thing no one will say, or get in the car with the stranger, or get off the train instead of riding on the way she is supposed to. These dangerous, uncomfortable choices are the stuff of great drama and riveting fiction.
So today, look back through your story and make sure you aren't missing any opportunities for your character to take the risky choice. I think of this as my "touch the bear" advice ever since I wrote a story myself involving a character encountering a bear. In my first draft, I had the character look at the bear in the road, reflect a little on his relationship with his mother, and then move on. But in draft two, I suddenly realized that that wasn't enough: I had to make my character go up and touch the bear. The bear was representing his longing for a powerful mother relationship in his life, and whereas I knew it was irrational and foolish to try to touch a wild animal, my character wasn't me. He had to go up and touch that bear.
So what bear will you make your characters touch today?
Today's editing tip is a low-key one, in honor of it being a weekend, but it will still keep you thinking about your story and others in a new way. Sometimes we need to shake up our reading habits in order to edit better; the largest barrier to being smart editors of our own work is the blindness that sets in when it comes to reading our own sentences. We lose the forest for the trees, and we also start tolerating so-so sentences just because we've seen them again and again.
Today, read through your story with all the new changes you've made — but read it with a ruler underneath each line. This is what people used to do to read small type, and in fact it's a trick I learned from reading A Prayer for Owen Meany. In that novel, a character seems to have a version of ADD or dyslexia and finds it hard to read because his eyes and his attention keep jumping all over the page. He devises a piece of paper with a rectangle cut out of it and reads that way, only able to look at one sentence or even just one phrase at a time.
As soon as I read about this, I was struck by it as a potentially useful technique not just for the ADD-afflicted among us, but for anyone who wants to increase her reading focus. It will force you to examine your own writing one sentence at a time. Does it sing? Does it feel clear, focused and forceful? Does one sentence follow naturally from the previous one?
Take it easy today, editors — but read thoughtfully, and you'll be ready for some tougher editing challenges in the next week!
Joyce Carol Oates said once that she doesn't know what the first page of a novel should be until she has written the last page. Since she's Joyce Carol Oates, the period between those two events is probably on the order of weeks, but the lesson stands for the rest of us: we often need to write to the end of a story before we truly discover what that story is about.
It might not be until we reach the climax that we realize what the climax should be, and we might not discover that the story is really all about the sister relationship rather than the romantic one (like Frozen!) until we've gotten to the end. Once you HAVE gotten to the end of a draft, though, it's time to look back and actually do some hard thinking about what tensions and characters really floated to the top, regardless of what you originally intended.
This happens to me all the time: I'll set out with teeth gritted, telling myself I'm writing a story about a husband and wife; but by the end, I realize I've been writing about the wife's past, not really about her current relationship. Surprises like this can come along even in concrete plot points: Flannery O'Connor wrote about one story that she didn't know a wayward Bible salesman was going to steal a woman's artificial leg until he up and did.
But here's a great pleasure of the editing process: now that you know what the story is really about, you can go back and plant some seeds to make it look like you were planning that all along. We often marvel at the cunning ways writers foreshadow or show themes or threads all along, but guess what: many of those have been planted retroactively.
It's fun! Go ahead and re-visit that late night conversation, and throw in some flirtation now that you know they're secretly in love. Add flower imagery to the first paragraph now that you know someone will be killed for her rare and priceless orchid collection. Show themes of growing up, now that you know the story is about growing up. This is one of my favorite editing tricks because it's one of those things that looks hard, but is actually easy.
Did you ever read The Lupin Lady when you were a kid? It's a delightful picture book about a woman who wants to spread beauty in the world, so she spends years merrily galavanting about her town, dropping lupin seeds wherever she goes. Years later, the town is a riot of beautiful purple flowers. So today, become the Lupin Lady — prance merrily through your story and plant seeds so that the climax and ending will feel natural and inevitable.
Sometimes I tell my students that writing a novel — or a good story, for that matter — is like baking a cake. The thing about cake is that it is a very rich and delicious material, but very soft and fragile. Cupcakes or simple layer cakes are all well and good. But once you start getting into advanced cake-making — a wedding cake, some elaborate cake sculpture — you discover that cake alone will not work. The cake is so soft that if you stack too much of it, it will begin to collapse under its own weight. You have to start putting in wooden struts or PVC pipe to hold up the cake; otherwise, it's like an animal with no internal skeleton. There's a reason insects and other creatures with exoskeletons have to stay fairly small.
So today, we're going to examine the internal structure of your story, and make sure it has a sturdy enough inner construction. First, take a look at your hard copy, preferably two-up to a page so you can wrap your head around the thing more easily. Then notice what internal structure it seems to have. Are there short sections, each one at a different time of day? Is there a repeating theme or motif of time or space? Are we contained within a single or a single week or a single year? Is every section building to the winning shot of the big game, or are we alternating between his and hers versions of events?
Try to pin down the structure you had in mind. If it's a first draft, chances are you will have a vague and fuzzy sense of internal structure, but you won't have applied it consistently throughout. I remember one story I wrote about a high school writing teacher; I had the thought that it would be cool to start some sections with imagined writing prompts, but I didn't follow through, throwing them in haphazardly instead. Just by applying the writing prompts consistently in the story, my piece suddenly felt organized; it felt like it had meaning and purpose as a document.
Is there a central structure you can wedge in there to hold your story up? What if it was in the form of an interview, or letters, or as a statement to a judge? What if we re-visited the same couple every two years? What if…? You'll have to figure out what structure suits the story you're trying to tell. But if you do use something, you'll notice that your ideas will seem more focused. The scenes you've pulled together will be united and driving toward a common goal.


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1-meter Composite Mosaic of the Sidescan Sonar Survey National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) H11045 in west-central Long Island Sound off Bridgeport, Connecticut in Geographic (H11045_GEO1M_WGS84_INV.TIF)
The U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection, has produced detailed geologic maps of the sea floor in Long Island Sound, a major East Coast estuary surrounded by the most densely populated region of the United States. These studies have built upon cooperative research with the State of Connecticut that was initiated in 1982. The current phase of this research program is directed toward studies of sea-floor sediment distribution, processes that control sediment distribution, nearshore environmental concerns, and the relation of benthic community structures to the sea-floor geology. Anthropogenic wastes, toxic chemicals, and changes in land-use patterns resulting from residential, commercial, and recreational development have stressed the environment of the Sound, causing degradation and potential loss of benthic habitats (Koppelman and others, 1976; Long Island Sound Study, 1994). Detailed maps of the sea floor are needed to help evaluate the extent of adverse impacts and to help manage resources wisely in the future. Therefore, in a continuing effort to better understand Long Island Sound, we have constructed and interpreted sidescan sonar mosaics (complete-coverage acoustic images of the sea floor) within specific areas of special interest. The mosaic presented herein covers a 190.3 km square area of the sea floor in the West-Central Basin of Long Island Sound. The mosaics and their interpretations serve many purposes, including: (1) defining the geological variability of the sea floor, which is one of the primary controls of benthic habitat diversity; (2) improving our understanding of the processes that control the distribution and transport of bottom sediments and the distribution of benthic habitats and associated infaunal community structures; and (3) providing a detailed framework for future research, monitoring, and management activities. The sidescan sonar mosaics also serve as base maps for subsequent sedimentological, geochemical, and biological observations, because precise information on environmental setting is important for selection of sampling sites and for accurate interpretation of point measurements.
U.S. Geological Survey, and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association, 2005, 1-meter Composite Mosaic of the Sidescan Sonar Survey National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) H11045 in west-central Long Island Sound off Bridgeport, Connecticut in Geographic (H11045_GEO1M_WGS84_INV.TIF): Open-File Report 2005-1162, U.S. Geological Survey, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, Woods Hole, MA.
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Beaulieu, E., Poppe, L.J., Paskevich, V.F., Doran, E.F., Chauveau, B.E., Crocker, J.M., Beaver, A.L., and Schattgen, P.T., 2005, Sidescan Sonar Imagery and Surficial Geologic Interpretation of the Sea Floor off Bridgeport, Connecticut: Open-File Report 2005-1162, U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, VA.
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This georeferenced image is a component of the Long Island Sound GIS database and contains the completed sidescan sonar mosaic for the study area off Bridgeport, Connecticut. These data are intended for science researchers, students, policy makers, and the general public. The data can be used with geographic information systems (GIS) software to display geologic and oceanographic information.
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The sidescan sonar imagery contained in this report was produced from data collected during 2004 as part of NOAA survey H11045 aboard the NOAA Ship RUDE. The data for these surveys were acquired in XTF (extended Triton data format) using a Klein 5500 sidescan sonar towfish set to sweep 100 m to either side of the ship's track. The Klein 5500 tow fish emits two 50°-wide beams tilted down 20° from horizontal, and transmits at 100 kHz. The sidescan sonar were digitally recorded in XTF format using an ISIS data acquisition software package. Once digitally recorded, the XTF data were processed using CARIS SIPS. The sidescan sonar data were multiplexed and filtered to convert the data into the desired processing format and to remove speckle noise and corrected for slant-range distortions. The mosaic include the following standards: 1 meter resolution, image 'shine through', and auto contrast adjustment. The final image was projected in Universal Transverse Mercator to maintain the aspect ratio. Person who carried out this activity:
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Frankfurt/Main (epd). In their New Year addresses, the two German mainline churches encouraged people to have confidence, to trust in God and to seek a new departure for society. We can always start over again and change the present, claimed Nikolaus Schneider, Chair of the Council of the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD). We do not need to be satisfied with everyday routine and the world as it is, he stressed. Schneider represents almost 24 million Protestants.
Archbishop Robert Zollitsch, Chair of the German Catholic Bishops' Conference, remarked that, despite their cares, people in Germany had every reason to be grateful for peace, freedom and security. "We can be grateful that Europe has not fallen apart, despite all the criticism and difficulties in the financial market crisis," he underlined on New Year's Eve in Freiburg Cathedral. Zollitsch represents 24.5 million Catholics.
In his New Year's Day sermon in Berlin Cathedral, Schneider encouraged his hearers not to fear the transience of life. It is finitude, in fact, that makes human happiness and human life on earth so precious, in his view. Everyone has had experiences of how things come to an end, are destroyed and lost forever. Nevertheless the turn of the year is a good opportunity to "look back in gratitude and look forward in confidence".
Bishop Jochen Bohl of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Saxony challenged his hearers not just to live in the here and now. The "boundless sovereign debt" at the expense of future generations was evidence of the irresponsibility of our current life style, stated the deputy EKD Council Chair on New Year's Day in Dresden's Church of Our Lady (Frauenkirche). "Acquiring affluence based on credit remains an illusion, and there is no such thing as limitless growth," he stressed, warning against "irresponsibly forgetting the future".
Bishop Heinrich Bedford-Strohm of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria came out against pessimism and fear of the future. The euro crisis had instilled in Germans a quasi collective fear of loss, he noted in his New Year's Day sermon in Munich. However, we often forget "how rich we are as a country". Consequently, he underlined Germany's ability to show solidarity and assist others.
The increasing social division is jeopardizing social peace, according to Berlin's Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki. "There are some winners but a growing host of losers," he said in his New Year's Eve sermon in Berlin's St Hedwig's Cathedral. "The gap between poor and rich is expanding and society could break apart one day," the cardinal warned, with reference to the social protests in several European crisis states.
The German-speaking churches in Europe have placed 2013 under a text from the New Testament: "For here we have no lasting city, but we are looking for the city that is to come" (Hebrews 13:14). In the view of Hanover's Lutheran Bishop Ralf Meister, the biblical watchword for the New Year gives "orientation in the babble of voices of our age" and reminds people to remain seekers.
Hamburg's Bishop Kirsten Fehrs encouraged Christians to have more trust in God. God's friendliness reaches out into the darker sides of life, she said in her New Year sermon in St. Michael's, Hamburg's main church. Christians should not be content with the status quo, she emphasized.


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A: Suppose $ x_i = A^Ty_i$, we can get anything in $\mathbb{R}^n$ via this relation because $A$ is a bijection (because it is orthogonal, so the inverse is $A^T$).
So just plug $x_i = A^Ty_i$ into your norm, and you're done.


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2 Bay County football coaches resign
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PANAMA CITY — Two head football coaches in Bay County officially announced their resignations on Tuesday morning.
Jeff Lee, who had been the head football coach at North Bay Haven for three seasons, has resigned to immediately begin an administrative position at Bay Haven Middle School.
Lyle Messer, the head football coach at Bozeman, announced that he would be stepping down immediately at that school to pursue other opportunities.
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Q: Safe Delete/Update mode with DataGrip I was wondering if there is a Safe Delete/Update setting for Datagrip, just like Workbench. I tried to look in the documentation, online forums, etc... and could not find anything.
Thanks!

A: In DataGrip 2018.3 there will be a setting you need. It will prevent you from running these queries and also show you the warning beforehand.


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After A Century, Where is Constitutional Reform in Alabama?
Dec 2, 2013 | Blog, Newsletter
A persistent notion in Alabama appears to be, simply, if we just perform minor tune-ups on our archaic 112-year old Alabama State Constitution, all will be well. However, the 1901 State Constitution, a patently racist, anti-poor document conceived in the infamy of exclusion and perpetrated by the fraud of vote theft continues to negatively impact the quality of life for all of our families and communities throughout the state.
What vote theft? Speaking to calm the fear that Black voters would likely reject a state constitution that would permanently deny their right to vote, Cotton Tom Heflin said immediately prior to the vote, "We have an over patriotic set of managers (referring to white polling officials in the Black Belt), and probably all the Negroes will vote for the Constitution". Vote theft was so prevalent in sixteen counties of the Black Belt that they had more votes cast than there were voters. Without those stolen votes, the 1901 Constitution would not have passed.
Greater Birmingham Ministries cannot see how there can be meaningful, just and inclusive constitutional reform in Alabama without a broad coalition of persons and groups informed by common interests and motivated by shared hopes for a better Alabama. Alabama citizens, business communities, educators, civic groups, and our faith communities must all be effectively engaged. Since the late Bailey Thompson, an award-winning Alabama journalist, organized the constitutional reform takeoff rally in Tuscaloosa in April 2000, GBM has worked with others to deepen and broaden such a coalition of mutual interests. GBM has always gone where the rubber meets the road, where the hopes for a better life in Alabama for ordinary Alabamians can be channeled into informed and engaged civic participation sufficient to overcome the fears and divisions that has thwarted constitutional reform for more than a century.
Alabama's constitutional reform movement reached gridlock twice this decade over a "right" to a public education. Some influential Alabama conservatives mounted effective opposition in 2004 because, they said, the proposed amendment's wording would allow activist judges to cause taxes to be raised. Later, reform of the Education Article was blocked again in 2012 because many believed it would deny the right to an education.
After numerous meetings and back and forth dialogue, the Alabama Constitutional Revision Commission is trying again. However, recently the addition of the reactionary language, "nothing in this section shall create any judicially enforceable right or obligation," has brought significant constitutional reform to yet another impasse. When equitable and adequate education is not a right for all of the people, it can be treated as a privilege for some of the people. Alabama has been there and done that and as a result the state still suffers.
Alabama's 1901 constitution, by centralizing power in the legislature, distancing people from their own self-governance and confounding efforts to modernize it, leads to conditions where people do not want to even touch it, much less change it.
In 2019, we Alabamians will be celebrating our 200th anniversary as a state. Greater Birmingham Ministries will continue to work with others until women and men of all faiths, races and walks of life can find paths to adopt a new constitution for a new century that really values families, communities, public education, economic opportunity, civic participation and stewardship of our beautiful and diverse portion of God's creation.


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