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Better prepared for calamities with the Pandemic & Disaster Preparedness Center
Erasmus MC and Delft University of Technology are creating a Pandemic & Disaster Preparedness Center (PDPC). This innovation and knowledge center will bring together renowned scientists with expertise on pandemic threats and climate-related calamities to establish an ambitious agenda for the future.
The plans for a Pandemic & Disaster Preparedness Center are based on the wishes of Prof. Marjon Koopmans, who hopes that the current level of vigilance does not weaken once the pandemic is under control.
"Everyone is now aware of the huge impact a global pandemic can have on all aspects of society. That's why now is the time to persevere and press ahead. During a consultation with fellow scientists at Delft University of Technology, it emerged that there are significant parallels with research on disasters, a field in which Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) is specialized", according to Koopmans. In addition, PDPC will also cooperate and further consolidate the existing collaboration, for example with the Netherlands Center for One Health (NCOH) and the Municipal Health Services Rotterdam – fieldlab.
The idea is being developed by a group of enthusiastic experts, together with Geert Vink, director of Erasmus MC's Research Development Office, and Anouschka Versleijen, head of Funding NL at the TU Delft Valorization Center.
TU Delft and Erasmus MC, together with Erasmus University Rotterdam, are affiliated in a fusion of expertise: the Convergence. For more than a year now, this partnership has fused the medical expertise of Erasmus MC with the technological expertise of TU Delft and the sociological knowledge of Erasmus University Rotterdam.
The Pandemic & Disaster Preparedness Center falls under the umbrella of the Convergence. Fifty engineers, physicians, and scientists from the participating institutions are already affiliated with the PDPC. The municipality of Rotterdam supports the initiative wholeheartedly.
Lessons for the future
The current pandemic is providing a wealth of information and lessons for the future. The Pandemic & Disaster Preparedness Center is of the opinion that we must and can be better prepared. "The lightning speed with which the new vaccine types were developed was possible thanks to years of investments in fundamental knowledge", says Koopmans. "Those kinds of investments are also necessary as we look to the future: what other virus threats are out there? How can they be recognized? What makes viruses transmissible? Can we predict outbreaks and pandemics? Can we develop vaccines for whole groups of viruses?"
"Winston Churchill zei na de Tweede Wereldoorlog: Never waste a good crisis"
- Greet Vink
Scientists have also learned from previous types of disasters, such as flooding, heat waves, and periods of extreme drought. Society has already benefited from many of these lessons, including through the construction of the Delta Works following the North Sea Flood of 1953.
"By bringing together all the expertise and information in a kind of reservoir of data, we can start to simulate disaster scenarios, revealing weak areas in the system. You can then work with urban planners, architects, landscape developers, behavioral scientists, and citizens to come up with solutions to these weaknesses", adds Greet Vink.
Incidents such as flooding or pandemics always set off a cascade of consequences, she continues. "By gathering and correlating scientific data, you can identify certain adverse effects, the pressure points. The data makes it clear that the COVID pandemic not only makes people ill, but is also causing the entire healthcare system to grind to a halt. This has led to various collaborative initiatives being started during the pandemic between researchers of TU Delft and Erasmus MC. We must use these times of hardship to amass knowledge that can be used for improving preparation, or in medical terms: to predict and prevent."
The Pandemic & Disaster Preparedness Center (PDPC) is working on interesting test projects. An example is the project by Bas Jonkman (TU Delft), an expert in flooding and the effects of flooding. "We are simulating storms and other disasters in this test project to reveal bottlenecks such as stagnant water, which is a source of infectious diseases", illustrates Jonkman.
"But we are also identifying blockages of bridges and tunnels, and we are looking at the effects of traffic flows and effects on people's behavior. By sharing expertise, we can also highlight the effects on healthcare.
We are also using these insights into logistics in experiments to reopen social traffic safely during this pandemic. All the data can then also be used to develop training sessions. The data can also be shared with policymakers to answer the question: what are we going to do to prepare ourselves?
Early in December, Marion Koopmans and her colleagues realized that science-based preparedness in the area of outbreaks and climate disasters has not been previously covered. And: it would be a real shame if the current lessons learned and vigilance shown were to fade away again after the pandemic.
"At the end of World War II, Winston Churchill said: Never waste a good crisis", Greet Vink mentions. "Marion Koopmans has now added: Sustain technology and boost creativity, invest in your future breakthroughs, and do it together."
In other words: turn the 'never again' sentiment into actions and remain actively engaged in preparing for new disasters, for one thing is sure, warn Koopmans, Versleijen, and Vink: "With the major changes taking place all over the world, including climate change, at the back of our minds, the question is not whether we will be confronted with new disasters, but when.
The city of Rotterdam will serve as a living field lab for the PDPC. "Rotterdam is located in a river delta. It has a huge port with lots of traffic, and a very diverse population. Moreover, it has many high rise buildings and a high concentration of concrete", outlines Vink. This means there is a high risk of damaging heat waves, excessive rainfall, as well as hotspots for infectious diseases. This is why the municipality of Rotterdam is so positive about the PDPC."
Experts now know that abundant water and water storage, for example, is a potential risk factor for the outbreak of infectious diseases. "Stagnant water contains harmful microorganisms and is a breeding place for mosquitoes, which are becoming more harmful as a result of global warming. Tiger mosquitoes, for example, are being spotted in the Netherlands with greater frequency."
All of these factors make Rotterdam an excellent place to serve as a living laboratory. "Researchers from Erasmus MC and TU Delft, along with physicians from the Rotterdam-Rijnmond Municipal Health Service (GGD) are already working closely together to gain a better understanding of the spread and control of COVID-19 in the region, using innovative techniques such as risk-based testing, sewage testing, and behavioral science research", illustrates Koopmans.
Mobility labs
Furthermore, all researchers will soon be able to make use of the facilities of the Convergence institutes. Vink says: "Erasmus MC has the Skillslab and the Core Facilities, TU Delft has a whole range of labs focusing on artificial intelligence, water, mobility and more."
Vink emphasizes that, in time, researchers from other institutions will also be able to join with related research proposals. "But we wanted to start quickly, so we made a flying start with Erasmus MC and TU Delft researchers. I have never before seen such an eager response to a call to join forces in a center. We made the announcement shortly before Christmas. More than 50 researchers and clinicians have now already committed themselves. And they all have the same conviction: we never want to experience this again."
The Pandemic & Disaster Preparedness Center will be based at Delft University of Technology and Erasmus MC. Eventually, a joint location will be sought for the Convergence, where the PDPC can also perform its work. The PDPC will of course also work closely with the Netherlands Centre for One Health, where a multitude of institutes already conduct multidisciplinary research on outbreaks of infectious diseases, and where Marion Koopmans plays an important role.
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ELEANOR RAY is an artist who lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
JOHN ZURIER
By Eleanor Ray
John Zurier's work has been moving toward a sturdier sense of individuality, complicating his frequent categorization as a monochromatic painter. The works in his current show—the Berkeley-based artist's fourth at Peter Blum—assert themselves as a cast of characters.
MERNET LARSEN Things People Do
Mernet Larsen's Things People Do range from the mundane to the quixotic, forming an unlikely index of human activity: reading, sitting, spearfishing, falling, operating a chainsaw.
AD REINHARDT: Blue Paintings
Ad Reinhardt is known as an artist of extremes. While committed to abstract painting that became infamous for its austerity, he also had an expansive curiosity about art and the world. He was a vocal critic of the art market and his peers, as well as a proselytizer of art and architecture from disparate regions and periods, which he obsessively photographed for slide lectures.

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A new approach for studying microbial genes, developed at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), will provide insight into how ecosystems respond to changes in the environment and climate.
Scientists at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Drexel University and their partners have discovered a way to improve the energy density of promising energy-storage materials, conductive two-dimensional ceramics called MXenes.
Argonne scientists have introduced a set of 3D-printed columns that can control the "swimming" motion of bacteria, which could lead to the development of new applications in microrobotics and biomedicine.
Well known for her unique retrievals of cloud properties, a veteran scientist investigates the mystery of secondary ice production Christine Chiu of Colorado State University investigates clouds. She calls them "complicated 3D objects that evolve fast." She studies clouds from below and on all sides with scanning cloud radars and from above with satellite data.
This year millions of students across America will make the leap from the world of study to the world of work. To help sustain and encourage students along their journey, and better prepare them for the scientific challenges that lie ahead, the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory provides educational opportunities to students across all stages of the pipeline. Argonne offers these opportunities, which ultimately enhance U.S. prosperity, in collaboration with other national laboratories, the University of Chicago, and schools around Chicago and the nation.
The laser-plasma experiments, conducted at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), are pushing toward more compact and affordable types of particle acceleration to power exotic, high-energy machines – like X-ray free-electron lasers and particle colliders – that could enable researchers to see more clearly at the scale of molecules, atoms, and even subatomic particles.


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QUEBEC; Spending; Hey! Big spenders!
CAPITAL EXPENDITURESWell at first glance it is a little hard to tell by this year's survey that there are still big spenders out there. The total spending reported for pollution control, mill producti…
Well at first glance it is a little hard to tell by this year's survey that there are still big spenders out there. The total spending reported for pollution control, mill production and energy conservation is, at just under $935 million, less than half the $1.896 billion reported in last year's enquiry. Likewise, the $426 million to be spent in 1999 is only 49% of the $871 million spent in 1998.
Consider, however, fewer companies have sent in their numbers. Last year 31 companies were listed in our survey. Only 24 companies completed the survey in 1999. Despite their participation in last year's survey Abitibi-Consolidated, Georgia Pacific and Donohue all declined participation in this year's survey. Western Pulp, also a participant last year, was unable to provide the information in time for publication. Produit Desbiens stated that it would "not be valid" for our purposes, as the mill "will be closed at the end of 1999, and will produce only a few months this year." Also missing are Bowater, which took over Avenor, Fletcher Challenge Canada, Fraser, Crown Packaging, Northwood, Sonoco, Stora-Enso, and Pacifica Papers.
Of the three categories surveyed mill production facilities has remained the consistent leader in expenditures. Collectively companies will spend $858 million upgrading mill production facilities; 46% of these expenditures will be made in 1999. Total spending last year to upgrade facilities was reported at $1.57 billion with $702 million allocated for 1998.
Reported pollution control spending is down $157 million to $73 million. The 1999 allotment of $27.1 million is only 27% of the $93 million reported for 1998. Likewise, a downward trend is noted in energy conservation spending, with a total $3.66 million earmarked, with $2.79 million to be spent this year. Last year energy conservation projects cost the companies $100 million with $75 million to be spent in 1998.
Last year 22 mills at 18 different companies listed energy conservation projects, including larger projects such as the $27 million biomass boiler at Spruce Falls, and an $11-million boiler upgrade at Malette's Smooth Rock Falls, ON, mill. This year energy projects were much smaller in scope — the largest being a $1.1 million ultrafiltration project at Norampac, Trenton, ON. Tembec's Specialty Cellulose division will spend $1 million on steam control, hot water and condensate recovery improvements.
A big spender in last year's survey, Alliance tops the list this year with expenditures of $245.9 million. The company is spending $240 million to modernize its PM 4 at the Donnacona, QC mill. Papier Masson, spending a total $154.2 million, has earmarked $150 million of that to a new thermomechanical pulp line with Sunds Defibrator refiners to replace an existing stone groundwood and high yield sulphite pulp mill. Domtar will spend $134.5 million on various projects. P&PC
BACK TO THE CLASSROOM
PAPIER MASSON takes a bold step into the future


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Oct. 7, 2019, 11:52 p.m. EDT
Asian markets gain ahead of U.S.-China trade talks
Nikkei posts strong gain as mainland China markets reopen after weeklong holiday; HKEX drops $37 billion bid to buy LSE
By Marketwatch and Associated Press
Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Ltd. dropped its bid to buy the London Stock Exchange on Tuesday.
Asian markets gained in early trading Tuesday amid hopes that progress can be made at U.S.-China trade talks later this week.
China confirmed that its top trade negotiator, Vice Premier Liu He, would lead its delegation in Washington for high-level talks starting Thursday. China has reportedly taken some issues that the U.S. views as points of contention off the negotiating table, however.
President Donald Trump on Monday said there was a "good possibility" of reaching a deal with China to end the yearlong tariff war, though he added he would not be satisfied with a partial deal.
Meanwhile, the U.S. blacklisted a group of Chinese artificial-intelligence companies that it said was making technology that the Chinese government was using to repress its Muslim minority.
The U.S. on Monday also signed a limited trade deal with Japan, giving U.S. farmers benefits they lost when Trump pulled the U.S. out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership in 2017.
Japan's Nikkei (NIKKEI:JP:NIK) rose 1.1% and Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index (HONG:HK:HSI) gained 1% as it reopened after a holiday Monday. Mainland China's markets reopened after a weeklong holiday, with the Shanghai Composite (SHG:CN:SHCOMP) up 0.8% and the Shenzhen Composite (SHENHZEN:CN:399106) up 1%. South Korea's Kospi (KOREA:KR:180721) gained 1% and benchmark indexes in Taiwan (TAIWAN:TW:Y9999) , Singapore (SES:SG:STI) and Indonesia (INDONESIA:ID:JAKIDX) advanced. Australia's S&P/ASX 200 (S&P:AU:XJO) rose 0.4%.
Shares of Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Ltd. (HKG:HK:388) jumped after the company announced it was dropping its $37 billion bid to buy the London Stock Exchange, after the two companies' boards were "unable to engage." The LSE had previously rejected HKEX's bid, which turned hostile.
Among individual stocks, Japan Steel Works (TKS:JP:5631) gained in Tokyo trading, along with Fast Retailing (TKS:JP:9983) and Toyota (TKS:JP:7203) . In Hong Kong, Volvo parent Geely Automobile (HKG:HK:175) , PetroChina (HKG:HK:857) and property developer Country Garden (HKG:HK:2007) rose. Samsung (KRX:KR:005930) gained in South Korea after warning of a sharp drop in quarterly operating profit, though it said its chip sales could start recovering after the new year. Mining giant Rio Tinto (ASX:AU:RIO) was up in Australia.
"Having sold off through late September, this positioning ahead of the trade talks suggests that the market is not entirely pessimistic towards the outcome," said Jingyi Pan, market strategist for IG in Singapore.
On Wall Street, the market extended its losing streak into a fourth week on Monday.
The market is coming off a three-week skid following a mostly discouraging batch of economic data that stoked investors' worries that a slowdown in U.S. economic growth could worsen.
The combination of uncertainty over the costly trade war between the U.S. and China and the impeachment inquiry unfolding in Washington is likely to continue to drag on the economy and weigh on markets.
The S&P 500 (S&P:SPX) fell 13.22 points, or 0.4%, at 2,938.79. The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DOW:DJIA) slid 95.70 points, or 0.4%, to 26,478.02. The Nasdaq (AMERICAN:COMP) dropped 26.18 points, or 0.3%, to 7,956.29.
Benchmark crude oil added 32 cents to $53.07 a barrel. It fell 6 cents to $52.75 a barrel on Monday. Brent crude oil , the international standard, rose 35 cents to $58.70 a barrel.
The dollar (XTUP:USDJPY) rose to 107.32 Japanese yen from 106.84 yen on Monday.


KTVQ will unveil its top stories of 2018 over the next week, and begins Monday with a Billings West sophomore who doesn't know how to quit.
Welcoming the latest additions to the Montana State University Billings men's soccer program on Tuesday, head coach Alex Balog announced the signing of four high-school players for the 2019-20 campaign.
Missoula Hellgate senior Katharine Berkoff re-affirmed her status as one of the top prep swimmers in the nation this weekend with three event wins at the Speedo Junior West Nationals.


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The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering began its journey in September 2001 at CUI campuses of Islamabad, Abbottabad and Wah, and has made big strides in its brief span of existence. The peer-departments at CUI Lahore, Attock, which were established in 2002 and 2007 respectively, offer congenial environment for studying various disciplines of Electrical Engineering. Our curriculum is unique in that it enables students to learn techniques required to solve complex engineering problems and at the same time equips them with managerial and professional skills.
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering is situated in the Academic Block-1 of CUI's new chak-shahzad campus and is currently headed by Prof. Dr. M. Junaid Mughal
"To be recognized globally as one of the leading departments of engineering education"
"To prepare competent electrical and computer engineering graduates conscious of professional ethical and social responsibilities for productive engineering careers in industry, academia, and research both locally and abroad"
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering was initially established as the Computer Engineering Department at the Johar campus, Islamabad in year 1999. Along with hiring faculty renowned for its expertise in research and application of technology, we established state-of-art laboratories equipped with latest and highly sophisticated equipment where students spend time to innovate and engineer basic as well novel ideas to supplement the theoretical course work.
Initially Microprocessor Lab, Electronics Lab and Computer Science Labs were established to meet needs of our students. Later in 2002, the Very-Large-Scale-Integration (VLSI) Lab was also established to further enhance the working and learning opportunities for our students. With the availability of latest facilities along with the efforts of our competent faculty and staff, we were able to gain recognition from HEC within a year.
Following the accomplishments of Computer Engineering program, CU took a lead and became one of the premier institutions to launch Telecom Engineering program in the region. With the inclusion of Telecom Engineering program, the initially established Computer Engineering Department was transformed into the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering .
Recently the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering was shifted to the Permanent campus, Chak Shahzad, Islamabad, where we have established nine new labs with latest cutting edge technology and equipment. These new labs are an added addition to our intellectual armament. Moreover, with a whole building block at our disposal, we are now better able to design an environment particularly suited to technological learning.
Our department started with a humble intake of 31 students but with our main focus and effort to meet the growing demands of industry and emphasis on the quality of education and skill, Computer Engineering, as a result was granted HEC's recognition in August 2000 and PEC's recognition in 2003. With the introduction of Telecom Engineering program, we were able to satisfy the demand of the robust Telecom industry in Pakistan. Our Telecom degree is also HEC and PEC recognized.


So I haven't been going at full force with prepping for Maker Faire like I was with shows last year, and part of that is because I'm trying to divide my time between other things (like socializing and playing games) so I'm not working 24/7 and burnout before the year is over.
But I do have a lot of new products (mainly print items) that will be new this year for shows compared to last year.
I do need to stock up on giant plush donuts, though, so I need to make a bunch in the next week and a half, and that's what I'll be spending some time one if I'm near my sewing machine.


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Q: How do i refer to the $(this) element insidea $.post I have this code
    $.post("recommend.php",{"jid":jid,"vid":vid,"eid":eid},function(data){
        if(data=="1")
            {
                $(this).text("Recommended");

            }
            else
                {
                    $(thelink).text("Recommend");
                }
    });

the post is executed properly but the text on the link is NOT changing though data is equal to 1. Any help...

A: this refers to the current context. In your AJAX callback it is different from the one of your calling function.
However, you can simply preserve it by using var $this = $(this); and then use $this inside the callback instead of $(this);
var $this = $(this);
$.post("recommend.php", {
    "jid": jid,
    "vid": vid,
    "eid": eid
}, function (data) {
    if (data == "1") {
        $this.text("Recommended");
    } else {
        $(thelink).text("Recommend");
    }
});

Of course another name would work, too. For example to preserve a plain this lots of people use self or that.
Another solution would be using $.ajax({ context: this, ...... })); to keep the same context inside the callback (if unspecified, this points to the options object passed to $.ajax())

A: Set it to a variable before calling $.post
var that = $(this);
$.post(..., function() {
    that.myFunction();
}

A: By default, this inside an AJAX callback is the jqXHR object for the request.
You should either cache the reference to the link (as you appear to have done with thelink) or use the context option to $.ajax:
$.ajax({
    url: "recommend.php",
    type: 'POST',
    data: {
        "jid": jid,
        "vid": vid,
        "eid": eid
    },
    context: this,
    success: function (data) {
        if (data == "1") {
            $(this).text("Recommended");

        } else {
            $(thelink).text("Recommend");
        }
    }
});

The context option sets the context for the callback functions -- i.e. it defines this within them. By setting it to the outer value of this (the reference to the link), you can access the link with $(this) within the callback.

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Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni commonly known as Michelangelo, was an Italian Renaissance painter, sculptor, architect, poet and engineer. Despite making few forays beyond the arts, his versatility in the disciplines he took up was of such a high order that he is often considered a contender for the title of the archetypal Renaissance man, along with his rival and fellow Italian Leonardo Da Vinci.
Michelangelo's output in every field during his long life was prodigious; when the sheer volume of correspondence, sketches and reminiscences that survive is also taken into account, he is the best-documented artist of the 16th century. Two of his best-known works, the Piet� and the David, were sculpted in his late twenties to early thirties. Despite his low opinion of painting, Michelangelo also created two of the most influential fresco paintings in the history of Western art: the scenes from Genesis on the ceiling and The Last Judgement on the altar wall of the Sistine Chapel in Rome. Later in life he designed the dome of St Peter's Basilica in the same city and revolutionised classical architecture with his invention of the giant order of pilasters.
Uniquely for a Renaissance artist, two biographies were published of Michelangelo during his own lifetime. One of them, by Giorgio Vasari, proposed that he was the pinnacle of all artistic achievement since the beginning of the Renaissance, a viewpoint that continued to have currency in art history for centuries. In his lifetime he was also often called Il Divino ("the divine one"), an appropriate sobriquet given his intense spirituality. One of the qualities most admired by his contemporaries was his terribilit�, a sense of awe-inspiring grandeur, and it was the attempts of subsequent artists to imitate Michelangelo's impassioned and highly personal style that resulted in the next major movement in Western art after the High Renaissance, Mannerism.


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Et græsk kors er et kors hvor armene er lige lange. Det græske kors forekommer blandt andet i Grækenlands og Schweiz' flag.

Heraldiske kors

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Фрэнк Уилфред Джордан (6 октября 1881 — 12 января 1941) — британский физик. В 1918 году вместе с Уильямом Генри Экклзом изобрел триггер (флип-флоп), который затем стал основой электронной памяти компьютеров. О жизни Джордана известно немногое.

Биография
Родился в Кентербери в Кенте в семье Эдварда Джеймса Джордана и Элизы Эдит Кинг. Учился в школе для мальчиков в родном городе. В 1899—1904 был студентом Королевского научного колледжа. Женился на Фанни Бентли Вуд, работавшей флористом. В 1912 году читал лекции по физике. В декабре 1916 был записан солдатом, в 1918 — «электриком», хотя не совсем ясно, что это означает. Скончался в Глостершире в возрасте 59 лет.

Публикации
 F.W. Jordan (1907) "An instrument for measuring the strength of an intense horizontal confined magnetic field, " Proceedings of the Physical Society of London, vol. 21, pages 922—925.
 F. W. Jordan (1912) "An improved Joule radiometer and its applications, " Proceedings of the Physical Society of London, vol. 25, pages 66-73.
 F. W. Jordan (1913) "A new type of thermogalvanometer, " Proceedings of the Physical Society of London, vol. 26, pages 165—171.
 F. W. Jordan (1914) "Some novel laboratory experiments, " Proceedings of the Physical Society of London, vol. 27, pages 461—476.
 W H Eccles and F W Jordan (1918) "A small direct-current motor using thermionic tubes instead of sliding contacts, " Proceedings of the Physical Society of London, vol. 31, pages 151—153.
 W. H. Eccles and F. W. Jordan (19 September 1919) "A trigger relay utilizing three-electrode thermionic vacuum tubes, " The Electrician, vol. 83, page 298. Reprinted in: Radio Review, vol. 1, no. 3, pages 143—146 (December 1919).
 W. H. Eccles and F. W. Jordan (1919) "A method of using two triode valves in parallel for generating oscillations, " The Electrician, vol. 8, no. 3, page 299.
 W. H. Eccles and F. W. Jordan (1919) "Sustaining the vibration of a tuning fork by a triode valve, " The Electrician, vol. 8, no. 2, page 704.
 F. W. Jordan (1919) "A method of measuring the amplification of a radio-frequency amplifier, " Proceedings of the Physical Society of London, vol. 32, pages 105—115.
 W. H. Eccles and F. W. Jordan (1920) "A method of amplifying electrical variations of low frequency, " The Electrician, vol. 8, no. 5, page 176.

Патенты
 Frank Wilfred Jordan, «Improvements relating to radiometers, thermogalvanometers, and the like» British patent number: GB 191226631 (filed: 1912; published: 20 November 1913).
 William Henry Eccles and Frank Wilfred Jordan, «Improved method of generating electric oscillations» British patent number: GB 149018 (filed: 20 March 1918; published: 12 August 1920).
 William Henry Eccles and Frank Wilfred Jordan, «Improvements in applications of thermionic valves to production of alternating currents and relaying» British patent number: GB 155854 (filed: 17 April 1918; published: 6 January 1921).
 William Henry Eccles and Frank Wilfred Jordan, «Improvements in ionic relays» British patent numbers: GB 148582 (filed: 21 June 1918; published: 5 August 1920) and GB 149702 (field 21 June 1918; published: 26 August 1920).

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Физики Великобритании
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Q: Executing a char or string in Forth as though it was a word Let's say I have s" Hello" stored somewhere. and I've also defined : Hello something ;. Is there a way to execute the string as though it was the word?
I've read the documentation, but I cannot find any relevant functionality. It might be obvious, but alas I cannot work it out.

A: NB: EVALUATE interprets (translates) a string. It means that in compilation state your "Hello" will be compiled. E.g.:
: foo s" hello" evaluate ;
: [foo] foo ; immediate

: hello ." something" ;
: bar [foo] ; \ "hello" will be compiled into bar

bar \ will execute hello

Another way is to use SEARCH-WORDLIST or FIND-NAME words, e.g.:
s" hello" find-name dup ?nf name> execute

Where
find-name ( c-addr u -- nt|0 ) \ returns a name token nt or 0
?nf ( nt|0 -- ) \ throws an exception on zero, i.e. not found
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The most important ingredient at the cook-off is the chili contestant. We appreciate the time, money and effort that go into your team's chili and would like to express our appreciation. If you need anything, please let us know and we will try to accommodate you. The number of chili teams is limited to the first 24 teams from whom we receive the completed entry form.
1) Each team can have up to 4 members; free admission will be provided for listed team members only. Coolers are permitted for teams only. Teams provide their own tent cover, tables and chairs, unless prior arrangements have been made. Teams provide their own heating unit, cooking utensils, and ingredients. Water is available. Electricity is limited and requires prior arrangement. There will be a designated area for trash. Please leave your area clean.
Drop-off and set-up begins at 7:00 AM the day of the event or can be arranged for the night before.
Cooking areas must be completely set up by 10:30 AM the day of the event.
All vehicles must be removed from the event area by 10:00 AM. No entrant vehicles will be permitted back in the cooking area until after the event ends at 5:00 PM Teams will be notified of any changes as they occur or by contacting the committee member in charge of teams on the morning of the Cook-off. It is then that teams will receive their credentials, supplies – including a judging cup, tour the site and ask any questions.
2) Sample cups, bowls, napkins, and spoons will be provided to dispense samples to the crowd. A container will be provided for the judging sample.
3) Please keep your area clean and safe at all times. Have fun - decorate your tent and immediate area! There will be a trophy for the Best Chili Spot, decided by popular vote.
4) All teams are required to cook a minimum of 5 gallons of chili. This will include amounts for judging and the samples for the public.
Chili can consist of any kind of meat, beans, vegetables or combinations thereof, if you call it Chili, we will call it Chili, however no wild game or ROAD KILL WILL BE ALLOWED.
Judges reserve the right to ask a contestant eat their own chili.
Ingredients may be pre-cut, precooked or prepared prior to the event, chili can be totally prepared to be reheated.
5) Chili must be ready & presented to judging staff in supplied containers at 11:00 sharp – no exceptions. The samples are chili only – no garnishments, décor, and only in the containers provided. Your sample will be kept hot for the judges. Samples are blind-judged and there is no admission to the judging area except by committee members. Judges will vote for the winning chili based in part on the following criteria: flavor, consistency, appearance, aroma and balance of heat. The judges' decisions are final. There will also be a People's Choice Award, judged by the public.
All entrants will be solely responsible to meet all Virginia Health Department requirements and to abide by the laws of Virginia.All entrants are asked to see that visitors are orderly and keep the peace and to report any visitors misbehaving to designated Security volunteers.The "committee" may make additional regulations or revisions at any time.


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\set ECHO all
--
-- Test explicit subtransactions
--

-- Test table to see if transactions get properly rolled back

CREATE TABLE subtransaction_tbl (
    i integer
);

-- Explicit case for Python <2.6

CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION subtransaction_test(what_error text) RETURNS text
AS $$
import sys
subxact = plpy.subtransaction()
subxact.__enter__()
exc = True
try:
    try:
        plpy.execute("INSERT INTO subtransaction_tbl VALUES (1)")
        plpy.execute("INSERT INTO subtransaction_tbl VALUES (2)")
        if what_error == "SPI":
            plpy.execute("INSERT INTO subtransaction_tbl VALUES ('oops')")
        elif what_error == "Python":
            plpy.attribute_error
    except:
        exc = False
        subxact.__exit__(*sys.exc_info())
        raise
finally:
    if exc:
        subxact.__exit__(None, None, None)
$$ LANGUAGE plpythonu;

SELECT subtransaction_test(NULL);
SELECT * FROM subtransaction_tbl order by i;
TRUNCATE subtransaction_tbl;
SELECT subtransaction_test('SPI');
SELECT * FROM subtransaction_tbl order by i;
TRUNCATE subtransaction_tbl;
SELECT subtransaction_test('Python');
SELECT * FROM subtransaction_tbl order by i;
TRUNCATE subtransaction_tbl;

-- Context manager case for Python >=2.6

CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION subtransaction_ctx_test(what_error text) RETURNS text
AS $$
with plpy.subtransaction():
    plpy.execute("INSERT INTO subtransaction_tbl VALUES (1)")
    plpy.execute("INSERT INTO subtransaction_tbl VALUES (2)")
    if what_error == "SPI":
        plpy.execute("INSERT INTO subtransaction_tbl VALUES ('oops')")
    elif what_error == "Python":
        plpy.attribute_error
$$ LANGUAGE plpythonu;

SELECT subtransaction_ctx_test(NULL);
SELECT * FROM subtransaction_tbl order by i;
TRUNCATE subtransaction_tbl;
SELECT subtransaction_ctx_test('SPI');
SELECT * FROM subtransaction_tbl order by i;
TRUNCATE subtransaction_tbl;
SELECT subtransaction_ctx_test('Python');
SELECT * FROM subtransaction_tbl order by i;
TRUNCATE subtransaction_tbl;

-- Nested subtransactions

-- CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION subtransaction_nested_test(swallow boolean) RETURNS text
-- AS $$
-- plpy.execute("INSERT INTO subtransaction_tbl VALUES (1)")
-- with plpy.subtransaction():
--    plpy.execute("INSERT INTO subtransaction_tbl VALUES (2)")
--    try:
--        with plpy.subtransaction():
--            plpy.execute("INSERT INTO subtransaction_tbl VALUES (3)")
--            plpy.execute("error")
--    except plpy.SPIError, e:
--        if not swallow:
--            raise
--        plpy.notice("Swallowed %r" % e)
--return "ok"
--$$ LANGUAGE plpythonu;

--SELECT subtransaction_nested_test('f');
--SELECT * FROM subtransaction_tbl;
--TRUNCATE subtransaction_tbl;

--SELECT subtransaction_nested_test('t');
--SELECT * FROM subtransaction_tbl;
--TRUNCATE subtransaction_tbl;

-- Nested subtransactions that recursively call code dealing with
-- subtransactions

--CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION subtransaction_deeply_nested_test() RETURNS text
--AS $$
--plpy.execute("INSERT INTO subtransaction_tbl VALUES (1)")
--with plpy.subtransaction():
--    plpy.execute("INSERT INTO subtransaction_tbl VALUES (2)")
--    plpy.execute("SELECT subtransaction_nested_test('t')")
--return "ok"
--$$ LANGUAGE plpythonu;

--SELECT subtransaction_deeply_nested_test();
--SELECT * FROM subtransaction_tbl;
--TRUNCATE subtransaction_tbl;

-- Error conditions from not opening/closing subtransactions

CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION subtransaction_exit_without_enter() RETURNS void
AS $$
plpy.subtransaction().__exit__(None, None, None)
$$ LANGUAGE plpythonu;

CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION subtransaction_enter_without_exit() RETURNS void
AS $$
plpy.subtransaction().__enter__()
$$ LANGUAGE plpythonu;

CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION subtransaction_exit_twice() RETURNS void
AS $$
plpy.subtransaction().__enter__()
plpy.subtransaction().__exit__(None, None, None)
plpy.subtransaction().__exit__(None, None, None)
$$ LANGUAGE plpythonu;

CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION subtransaction_enter_twice() RETURNS void
AS $$
plpy.subtransaction().__enter__()
plpy.subtransaction().__enter__()
$$ LANGUAGE plpythonu;

CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION subtransaction_exit_same_subtransaction_twice() RETURNS void
AS $$
s = plpy.subtransaction()
s.__enter__()
s.__exit__(None, None, None)
s.__exit__(None, None, None)
$$ LANGUAGE plpythonu;

CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION subtransaction_enter_same_subtransaction_twice() RETURNS void
AS $$
s = plpy.subtransaction()
s.__enter__()
s.__enter__()
s.__exit__(None, None, None)
$$ LANGUAGE plpythonu;

-- No warnings here, as the subtransaction gets indeed closed
CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION subtransaction_enter_subtransaction_in_with() RETURNS void
AS $$
with plpy.subtransaction() as s:
    s.__enter__()
$$ LANGUAGE plpythonu;

CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION subtransaction_exit_subtransaction_in_with() RETURNS void
AS $$
with plpy.subtransaction() as s:
    s.__exit__(None, None, None)
$$ LANGUAGE plpythonu;

SELECT subtransaction_exit_without_enter();
SELECT subtransaction_enter_without_exit();
SELECT subtransaction_exit_twice();
SELECT subtransaction_enter_twice();
SELECT subtransaction_exit_same_subtransaction_twice();
SELECT subtransaction_enter_same_subtransaction_twice();
SELECT subtransaction_enter_subtransaction_in_with();
SELECT subtransaction_exit_subtransaction_in_with();

-- Make sure we don't get a "current transaction is aborted" error
SELECT 1 as test;

-- Mix explicit subtransactions and normal SPI calls

--CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION subtransaction_mix_explicit_and_implicit() RETURNS void
--AS $$
--p = plpy.prepare("INSERT INTO subtransaction_tbl VALUES ($1)", ["integer"])
--try:
--    with plpy.subtransaction():
--        plpy.execute("INSERT INTO subtransaction_tbl VALUES (1)")
--        plpy.execute(p, [2])
--        plpy.execute(p, ["wrong"])
--except plpy.SPIError:
--    plpy.warning("Caught a SPI error from an explicit subtransaction")

--try:
--    plpy.execute("INSERT INTO subtransaction_tbl VALUES (1)")
--    plpy.execute(p, [2])
--    plpy.execute(p, ["wrong"])
--except plpy.SPIError:
--    plpy.warning("Caught a SPI error")
--$$ LANGUAGE plpythonu;

--SELECT subtransaction_mix_explicit_and_implicit();
--SELECT * FROM subtransaction_tbl;
--TRUNCATE subtransaction_tbl;

-- Alternative method names for Python <2.6

CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION subtransaction_alternative_names() RETURNS void
AS $$
s = plpy.subtransaction()
s.enter()
s.exit(None, None, None)
$$ LANGUAGE plpythonu;

SELECT subtransaction_alternative_names();

-- try/catch inside a subtransaction block

CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION try_catch_inside_subtransaction() RETURNS void
AS $$
with plpy.subtransaction():
     plpy.execute("INSERT INTO subtransaction_tbl VALUES (1)")
     try:
         plpy.execute("INSERT INTO subtransaction_tbl VALUES ('a')")
     except plpy.SPIError:
         plpy.notice("caught")
$$ LANGUAGE plpythonu;

SELECT try_catch_inside_subtransaction();
SELECT * FROM subtransaction_tbl order by i;
TRUNCATE subtransaction_tbl;

--ALTER TABLE subtransaction_tbl ADD PRIMARY KEY (i);

--CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION pk_violation_inside_subtransaction() RETURNS void
--AS $$
--with plpy.subtransaction():
--     plpy.execute("INSERT INTO subtransaction_tbl VALUES (1)")
--     try:
--         plpy.execute("INSERT INTO subtransaction_tbl VALUES (1)")
--     except plpy.SPIError:
--         plpy.notice("caught")
--$$ LANGUAGE plpythonu;

--SELECT pk_violation_inside_subtransaction();
--SELECT * FROM subtransaction_tbl;

DROP TABLE subtransaction_tbl;

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Burger Shop - cocktails and dishes in the other version of the Android interesting fun accordance manufacture of food enjoyed by millions of fans on the computer / Mac and the internet. After the receipt of a set of special plans according to Burger Shop you organize an extraordinary adaptation for the manufacture of food and uncover restaurant. Your target? Prepares delicious food and give their own customers, as soon as you will extract the truth of the mysterious plans.
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Advisors & Strategic Alliances - Economic Transformations Group, Inc.
The following leaders in the field of regional economic development act in a senior capacity on special assignments, and serve as strategic advisers for content and direction of ETG activities.
Robert Breault, Chairman of the Board, Breault Research Organization; Co-Chairman, Arizona Optics Industry Cluster, Tucson, Arizona.
Alan Hald, Founder, MicroAge Computers; Chairman, Arizona-Governor's Strategic Planning for Economic Development, Tempe, Arizona.
Saad Kettani, Chairman, WAFACORP (WAFABANK Group and WAFA Insurance); President, Morocco Council for Private Sector Development; President, Le Maroc Competitif, Vice-Chairman, Confederation General des Enterpreneurs Maroc (CGEM), Casablanca, Morocco.
Antonio Sanchez, President, Business Council for Investment and Development of Southeast Mexico (CEIDES), former President of COPARMEX, Mexican Business Leaders Council, Mexico City, Mexico.
Alonso Ramos, President, Desarrollo Economico, Chihuahua, Mexico.
To meet the demanding and rapidly changing needs of our clients, ETG recognizes the need to maintain a network of allied organizations. The other firms have either served as subcontractors in the past or represent strong interpersonal alliances which broaden our ability to market and implement projects in a variety of settings.


An invisible, focusable region that can direct focus to other UIView objects.
Gets or sets a Boolean value that controls whether non view areas can become focused.
Releases the resources used by the UIFocusGuide object.


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Politics / Science & Technology / Tricky News / Tricky Viral
UK Penalize Facebook with £500,000 For Failing To Protect Its User Data
Facebook is penalizing with £500,000 by the Office of Information Commissioner. It is in arouse of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, after letting third-party developers access user data. In addition to this, the customer's sufficient permission is not mentioning which results in the UK penalize Facebook.
The ICO declaration on Thursday (25th October) upholds its first decision in July. The charge, which represents a drop in the ocean for the corporation that brought in $40.7 billion (£31.5 billion) in global profits in the year 2017, was the utmost available to the watchdog under old data security legislation.
Facebook fined £500,000 for Cambridge Analytica scandal. The fine is the maximum allowed under the old data protection rules that applied before #GDPR took effect in May. https://t.co/2AWhBPQaJb
— Richard Bell (@securityspeak) October 25, 2018
Trump Plans to Cancel 31-Year-Old Nuclear Weapons Treaty
The ICO found that the private data of at least 1 million Facebook users of UK was among collected information. This misuse of data is the primary concern in such a situation. It also claimed that Facebook could have faced a considerably higher fine of up to £1.2 billion. If the fine can work under the new dictatorial system.
The analysis found that the company failed to keep the delicate information of its user's protection. They are failing to make appropriate checks on developers using its raised area.
These failures intended one developer, Aleksandr Kogan, was able to influence 300,000 users of Facebook. He asks them to install a persona testing application that fed back the Facebook data of both customers. The data includes their friends, enabling him to gather the profiles of up to 87 million users of Facebook. The data at risk is global without their consent.
A division of the data was later bestowing with other organizations. Especially with SCL Group, the holding company of Cambridge Analytica. They are occupying in running target Facebook advertisements in US political disputes. However, it collapses previously this year following a sequence of reports by the viewers.
The analysis also says, based on information as per Facebook, it did not, at this time have any facts. The facts that the British Facebook users' social media data is now communal with Cambridge Analytica.
ICO Information Commissioner's views on the issue;
On the other hand, the information commissioner said that in any possibility the lack of controls on the data of UK is putting people was "serious threat." The misuse of data for political protest or campaigning would be common scenario., even if this did not indeed take place.
"Even after the mishandling of the information was founded in the year of December 2015, Facebook did not do as much as necessary to ensure those who continued to grip it had taken sufficient and timely remedial action, including crossing out," said the report of ICO. "In the case of SCL Group, the company did not dangle the corporation from its platform until the year 2018."
The charge is likely to feed into the ever-increasing consent in Westminster. The statement says that some form of strong latest regulation is essential to control major IT companies. This occurs with the administration likely to propose new legislation in the upcoming months.
Elizabeth Denham, the Information Commissioner, also came forward. She said "We believe these breaches to be so severe we imposed the highest penalty under the earlier legislation. The charge would certainly have been considerably higher beneath the GDPR. One of our major motivations for taking constraint action is to make a significant change in how organizations handle the personal data of people."
UK information Commissioner Elizabeth Denham has been announced as the new chair of the International Conference for Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners. https://t.co/gAWPZmRTOR pic.twitter.com/UYPY1OLEEC
— ICO (@ICOnews) October 23, 2018
'EU Will Be Ready For': Politician of Germany Calls For Brexit Referendum Second Time
Will Facebook Appeal The Verdict?
Facebook, which has the authority to appeal the verdict, said: "We are presently reviewing the decision of ICO. While we courteously disagree with some of their conclusions, we have said before that we should have done more to examine claims about Cambridge Analytica and taken action in the year 2015. We are obliged that the ICO has approved our full cooperation during their analysis, and have also confirmed they have found no proof to suggest the data of the Facebook user of UK was shared with Cambridge Analytica."
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Triphala ❤ Aralu (අරළු) • Bulu (බුළු) • Nelli (නෙල්ලි)
Literally meaning "three fruits", Thriphala is a traditional Ayurvedic herbal formulation consisting of three fruits native to the Indian subcontinent: Nelli (Phyllanthus emblica), Bulu (Terminalia bellirica) and Aralu (Terminalia chebula). It is recommended to consume one to two tablets at a time after meals for better results.
Benefits of Triphala
Assists natural internal cleansing.
Gently maintains regularity.
Nourishes and rejuvenates the tissues.
Supports healthy digestion and absorption.
Natural antioxidant.
Neutralizes abdominal acidity.
Triphala is most commonly known for its use as a gentle bowel tonic, being helpful in digestion, and supporting regular bowel movements. The combination of the three fruits has a synergistic effect to bolster many other systems as well. In addition to the GI tract, Ayurveda uses triphala to support healthy respiratory, cardiovascular, urinary, reproductive, and nervous systems. Triphala has also been shown to be a powerful antioxidant, protecting cells from the damaging effects of free radicals.The three fruits involved in making triphala are also known for their individual effects as below.
Nelli (Phyllanthus emblica) - Has a cooling effect that manages pitta, supporting the natural functions of the liver and the immune system.
Bulu (Terminalia bellirica) - Is particularly good for kapha, supporting the respiratory system as well as kapha accumulations in all systems.
Aralu (Terminalia chebula) - Though having a heating nature, it is still good for all three doshas (vata, pitta, and kapha). Is known for its "scraping" effect, which removes toxins and helps maintain healthy levels of weight.
"Triphala" A Comprehensive Ayurvedic Review
Use of "Triphala" in Medicine Review, 2017
Clinical Study of "Triphala" – A Well Known Phytomedicine from India
【LK94008698: Triphala. Text by Lakpura™. Images by Google, copyright(s) reserved by original authors.】


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I am receiving a disability pension from the Fund. Will my pension be reduced?
No. Under MPRA, if you are receiving a disability pension from the Fund you are protected from benefit reductions.
I was receiving a disability pension from the Fund, but I converted my disability pension to a non-disability pension. Will my pension be reduced?
No. If you were previously receiving a disability pension from the Fund, but subsequently converted to a non-disability pension upon reaching normal retirement age, your benefit will not be reduced.
I am receiving a normal pension, but could now qualify for a disability pension. Can I convert my normal pension to a disability pension?
The Fund's rules do not permit you to switch from a normal pension to a disability pension.
I am disabled and receiving Social Security disability benefits, but am not receiving a disability pension from the Fund. Will my pension be reduced?
Yes. MPRA does not apply the disability-based protection to Social Security disability benefits. If you are receiving a disability benefit from the Social Security Administration, you will be subject to benefit reductions unless you are also receiving a disability pension from Fund.
Do the benefit reductions called for in the PPP apply to participants whose benefits are subject to a QDRO?
Yes, the benefit reductions called for under the PPP will apply to participants and the ex-spouses (or "Alternate Payees") under a QDRO subject to MPRA's limitations and the terms of the QDRO in place.
How are the reductions calculated when the pension is subject to a QDRO?
The application of benefit reductions between the participant and the alternate payee depends on the type of QDRO and how it is split. There are QDROs where the alternate payee receives what is known as a "separate interest," which separates the benefit into two pieces and allows the alternate payee to select a retirement date different from the participant. In these situations, the participant's benefit is determined using the participant's age as of July 31, 2017, and uses his or her retirement date and form of benefit (for example, Joint and Survivor 75% option) to determine the amount of the reduction. The alternate payee's benefit is determined using his or her age as of July 31, 2017, and uses their retirement date and form of benefit to determine the amount of the reduction. Another type of QDRO is the "shared payment." In these situations, the retirement date is controlled by the participant.
QDROs can use either a "percentage" or the "fixed amount" method of determining the payment to the alternate payee. If the QDRO specifies a percentage, then the reduction applies according to the percentage in the QDRO. If the QDRO specifies that the alternate payee is to receive a fixed amount, then Fund is required to comply with the existing court order and pay the fixed amount to the alternate payee—if the amount of the overall benefit is sufficient. If more than the fixed amount remains after the PPP benefit reductions, then the participant receives the remainder. If less than the fixed amount remains, then the alternate payee's benefit is reduced to that amount—and the participant receives nothing. The result flows from the way that the court order is drafted.
Will there be any adjustments to the Fund's post-retirement employment rules in light of the PPP? And if so, how will the rules be modified?
Yes. Recognizing the hardship that these benefit reductions will likely have on Retirees, the Trustees have modified the post-retirement employment rules to make it easier to return to work without the penalty of a pension suspension. This change is effective September 1, 2016.
Effective September 1, 2016, a participant who has not attained Normal Retirement Age will be allowed to return to (bargaining or non-bargaining unit) work in any trade, craft or industry covered by the Fund and in the Fund's geographic location as long as he or she works less than 1,000 hours in a year.
However, a participant who has not attained Normal Retirement Age is still not entitled to a benefit, to the extent such benefit accrues on or after January 1, 2000, for any month in which he is employed (in bargaining or non-bargaining work) by an employer that competes with a contributing employer to the Fund.
Effective September 1, 2016, a participant who has attained Normal Retirement Age will be allowed to return to work in any trade, craft or industry covered by the Fund, work in a trade or craft where he or she worked as an Active Participant in the Fund, or work in the Fund's geographic location as long as he or she works less than 1,000 hours in a year.
The Fund's other post-retirement employment rules not modified above remain effective. This change in the Post-Retirement Employment Rules will be automatically repealed in the event the PPP does not go into effect.
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Lothian Centre for Inclusive Living (LCIL) are running a series of workshops to support people who are new to, or considering, employing Personal Assistants.
The workshops are aimed at disabled people, older people, people with long term conditions, or carers who are thinking about or employing Personal Assistants (PAs). These free bite-sized information sessions are a chance to increase your confidence and skills, and get to grips with what you need to do as a PA employer.
The next one is on Tuesday 31st October.
For more information visit the LCIL website.


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Q: Split align over pages in ConTeXt Consider the following code example:
\setuppapersize[A8,landscape][A8,landscape]
\starttext
\startformula
    \startalign
        \NC 1 \NC= 1\NR
        \NC 2 \NC= 1\NR
        \NC 3 \NC= 1\NR
        \NC 4 \NC= 1\NR
        \NC 5 \NC= 1\NR
        \NC 6 \NC= 1\NR
        \NC 7 \NC= 1\NR
        \NC 8 \NC= 1\NR
    \stopalign
\stopformula
\stoptext

Coming from a LaTeX background I would expect align to break over pages and this myway article from 2006 tells me

Somewhere between March and Arpril, \startalign lost the ability to break equations across pages. Hopefully, it will be added back soon.

So basically it is intended to have page breaks, isn't it? Question: How to enable them for align?

A: I'm not sure about the change in functionality, but I found a reference to \startsplitformula in the math manual, page 61. The following seems to work (whereas a normal \startformula doesn't):
\setuppapersize[A8,landscape][A8,landscape]
\starttext
  \startsplitformula
    \startmathalignment
        \NC 1 \NC= 1\NR
        \NC 2 \NC= 1\NR
        \NC 3 \NC= 1\NR
        \NC 4 \NC= 1\NR
        \NC 5 \NC= 1\NR
        \NC 6 \NC= 1\NR
        \NC 7 \NC= 1\NR
        \NC 8 \NC= 1\NR
    \stopmathalignment
  \stopsplitformula
\stoptext

It should be noted that the manual also refers to this approach as "experimental".


We are located at Suite 4, Level 1, Casey Corporate Centre, 58-60 Victor Crescent, Narre Warren, Victoria, Australia. Full contact details can be found on our contact page here.
Yes. There is parking available on the street and we are in a first floor commercial suite with plenty of light and room.
Are you a "One man band"?
No. We started out that way 20 years ago but since then have grown and added staff. We are now in a spacious first floor office and do up to 100 projects a year.
We offer two ways for you to use our services. For smaller projects, or where you don't know exactly what you want, we offer hourly rate services. This gives you the flexibility to have access to our team for just the things you want them to do and also to get assistance to define the product and the technical requirements so that we can provide you with an estimate for the whole project. We also offer fixed price development contracts where you can know what your project cost will be. This is very important if you have a very tight budget or the business case for the product shows that you can't afford for the development cost to exceed a certain amount. The rules for fixed price are fairly simple: fixed price for fixed deliverables. So we need to know exactly what your requirements are to offer this. We can start with an hourly rate to help you work out the details to the point where we can then move to fixed price. Hourly rate projects are charged as we go, usually fortnightly. Fixed price projects have a 40% up front payment for the first phase and then we invoice as we complete each phase.
Our preferred payment method is EFT. We do accept cash and cheques.
How do you approach Intellectual Property?
Our approach to Intellectual Property, or IP, is very simple. You own what you pay for. We never trap you into paying for us to develop something then keep the IP rights. We do know other businesses that do this but this is not how we operate. If you want to be sure, we will even give you a letter once final payment is made stating that it is 100% yours.
If I'm not a manufacturer, can you also get the product made for me?
Yes, we can. We work for a wide range of clients including local electronics manufacturers and can manage some or all of the process of getting your product made for you. But we aren't trying to be a replacement for local manufacturers. We aim to increase Australian Electronics Manufacturing as much as we can so we will select the best local supplier for you and either introduce you or manage the process for you. The choice is up to you.
What is your primary service?
Our primary services are Electronics Design and Embedded Software development. This is the design of the electronics, layout of the Printed Circuit Boards (PCBs) and the Embedded Software that runs on the PCB. Our primary focus is on the circuit board that lives under the covers of a modern product and gives it the smarts it needs to work the way it should. Although we can also provide manufacturing services this is usually for products we design, and never in order to cut another local manufacturer out of the loop.
We don't create Mobile Phone and iOS Apps ourselves. We have a supplier who does and we can introduce you or handle the management of the process for you.
What about Internet software, websites and web APIs?
We design embedded systems that talk to web APIs and can build websites and transact with them. We have suppliers who can provide more sophisticated websites and active server driven systems and we can introduce you or manage the process for you.
Do you also design the case and mechanical parts?
If it is a simple project or can use an off the shelf enclosure then we handle that ourselves. For more complex projects we work with specialist Mechanical Engineering companies to handle that part of the project. We also do work for Industrial Design and Mechanical Engineering companies as well as using them as suppliers.
It depends on the size of the project. We use both Gantt charts and spreadsheets for progress reporting and a web based project management tool that allows clients to also be able to log in and check out project progress for themselves. The primary intent is not to add unnecessary cost to smaller projects while providing a comprehensive reporting and tracking ability for larger ones. We also find that weekly or fortnightly project meetings with our clients help to ensure they understand exactly where we are at and what is happening next.
How do you ensure the design really works?
We do this in several ways. For the electronics, we use simulation and calculation prior to committing to a PCB Design and then we build it and test it. The exact set of tests to do depend on the design and we can simulate a wide range of fault conditions including automotive load dumps and overvoltage transients. For software, we use industry standard methods such as design reviews, code reviews, unit tests, code metrics analysis and static analysis. Although these are industry standard, in our experience very few software development providers actually do them. All the indicators are that this saves both time and development cost. And this is also one of the reasons we can often deliver Embedded Software projects faster and bug free. We also use full system mocks for some projects. This has several benefits for larger projects including the ability to test software before you even have hardware, it gives the clients the chance to use the product in a virtual world and get it refined before delivery and even allows them to permit their clients and end users provide input early in the development cycle. A couple of our national awards were awarded for how we go about this.
How do you document your software?
Our preferred method is to use Doxygen which allows us to build a hyperlink navigation site for the project. This documents not only every data element and function but also their call sequences and relationships. And it costs our clients a lot less than more traditional methods such as Microsoft Word documents. It supports diagrams showing state machine sequences and it also means you can get up to date documentation every time a new version of the code is released.
Do you use Revision Control?
Revision Control is an essential tool for modern software development. We use our own internal system and if you have your own system that can be accessed from our office we will also use that.
Do you work with RF?
Yes, we do work with Radio Frequency Communications. And especially for the commonly available low power RF standards such as 802.11 and WiFi, 802.15.4, Bluetooth, Bluetooth Low Energy and a host of other more proprietary standards. We have won an Electronics News Future Award for Networking and Communications for our work in replacing wires with RF communications in sports timing systems.
Do you work with GSM?
We do work with the mobile phone network. Several recent projects included GSM reporting of telemetry from remote solar powered sensor systems back to web API based back ends.
Can you do industrial grade design work for products that have to be really robust?
Do you offer any form of warranty?
Yes we do. For fixed price projects we offer a design warranty. So if anything about the design needs to be rectified and it was something we should have done differently, we fix it at our expense. In practice this is never an issue because we set out to get it right in the first place.
Do you design power supplies?
We design a wide range of power supplies including: Linear, Switch Mode Power Supplies (SMPS), capacitive dropper, mains based, battery based, automotive, low power, high power.
We have worked in both active and passive Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) including 125KHz, 13.56MHz, 433MHz, MiFare, DES Fire, HID Proxcard II, HID iClass and Protrac iD Active RFID.
Do you design motor controllers or inverters?
Yes. We can work with all types of motors including: Stepper Motor Micro-stepped Stepper Motor DC Brushless DC (BLDC) AC shaded pole and variable reluctance AC 3 Phase We have worked on inverters from 10W up to 22KW in size.
Have you ever designed products that are sold in Europe or the USA?
Yes. We are familiar with international product compliance requirements including CE, FCC, UL, CSA, VDE, TUV and local standards such as C-Tick and A-Tick.
Do you also do EMC and safety compliance testing?
We use certified compliance test laboratories to provide officially recognised test reports. We design products that will pass test and can assist with every part of this process.
How do you manufacture if you are in an office?
We are a manufacturer in the same sense that car assemblers are manufacturers. We have many suppliers to draw on and get as much of the manufacturing done by suppliers with our office providing final assembly, programming, test and calibration services. We can be cost effective doing this because all the equipment required to design a product can also be used to test it. We also supply production Automated Test Equipment for our manufacturing customers and can do the same for ourselves. In fact, we were finalists in 2014 at National Manufacturing Week for the Technology Application of the Year for our production test technology.


It is the culmination of the prayers of all those who have cried out to God for a new generation that will live out God's purpose and destiny in seeing the nations turn to Christ, through love and selfless living. ThePlan09 Conference will incorporate teaching, experiential learning, strategic prayer, and interaction with real-life missionaries to impart a heart of missions into the next generation of Malaysians. It is only one stop in the journey to discover the Heart of God and His Will corporately and individually as a nation and as a generation.
What is the purpose of ThePlan09?
a. To connect together those with same passions.
b. To issue a call to youths to take their place in the Kingdom/Great Commission.
who are already making effective impact for the Kingdom).
students) and the special mandate to reach the 'M' people.
(locally or even to the ends of the earth) or be a Sender of those who Go.
media, arts, entertainment, business, social concern, etc.).
What are the highlights of ThePlan09?
Is the conference only for those who have a missions call? I am not called to be a missionary, so the conference is not for me?
Not true. ThePlan09 is about unpacking missions out of the box. One will discover the changing face of missions and the most current trends around the globe. In this increasing connected and integrated world, a global citizen is needed to bring a different approach to the same eternal message of God's love. You'll make some amazing discoveries. You'll get to hear life stories and testimonies from professionals/missionaries who are serving on the field and are making effective impact where God has placed them.
Is ThePlan09 for me? Why the 16 - 25 age range?
You can say this Conference is for those who desire to make their lives count for eternity in this age. ThePlan09 Conference is designed for those within the 16-25 age bracket. However, if you are older than 25 but are keen on missional living, then this Conference is also for you.
What is the main language used in this conference?
The main language of this conference is English. However, those who need interpretation into BM or Chinese may indicate so on the registration forms.
Who are the partners of ThePlan09?
See under 'Partners' Link' for a list of up to date partners.
What is the relationship between MCGM and ThePlan09?
ThePlan09 is initiated by MCGM Youth Track and organized jointly with the partners listed under 'Partners' Link'.
An umbrella body that facilitates mission work in Malaysia.
A network and platform where leaders can share resources, experiences and information.
A potential "ONE STOP HUB' for churches & ministries in the area of missions in Malaysia.
Who forms the MCGM Youth Track?
Representatives from mission agencies, churches/youth ministries, networks/denominational bodies who are passionate to see God raise up the youth of this generation to transform communities and nations, especially the unreached peoples.
More about: MCGM Youth track seeks to inspire and be a catalyst, networking with local churches and ministries in raising up a new generation to make God famous among all peoples. The heartcry is to see a youth missions movement take place in Malaysia – a new generation committing to be Senders or Goers in fulfilling the Great Commission and mobilizing their peers to do the same.
How is MYPG linked to ThePlan09?
The Malaysian Youth Prayer Gathering is a loose connection of prayer groups (called 'Local Youth Prayer Gatherings') which are run by young people with the intention of mobilizing young people to pray for themselves, their country and the nations of the world. MYPG also hopes to mobilize more young people to give their lives for a full-time missional vocational calling. Since MYPG has direct connection with the vision of ThePlan09 Conference, MYPG aims to commit to raising prayer and partnering long-term for the follow-up of the conference.
How often will the conference be held?
This is the first Conference, the frequency will be decided by the core youth team of the emerging Malaysian Youth Missions Movement. In between conferences, there will be programs lined up. Kindly see PLANext section for more info.


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Gyorgy KOZSAK: "SAMBO Is an Intelligent Sport Where You Need to Use Your Head"
- I believe that in the decisive combat I could've performed better. Unfortunately, I suffered a minor injury. Yet I think that at the next tournament I will be able to prove myself properly.
- Hungarian athletes are not the most frequent participants of the finals at the major international SAMBO tournaments. How did you manage to reach the World Cup finals?
- First of all, it was a great deal of work. I had to try hard to achieve such a result.
- How long have you been engaged in SAMBO?
- I gave it a try for the first time just about six months ago. Earlier, I was engaged in kickboxing and judo. SAMBO as a sport is interesting to me because it has a lot of various technical elements. As to the philosophy of this martial art, SAMBO is an intelligent sport where you need to use your head. You can't win here only due to your superior physical shape.
- What is your goal in SAMBO?
- My nearest goal is to win a medal at the European Championships in May. I would love to do this for myself and for my country. And I'm not going to guess what will happen next. Of course, I would be fascinated to participate in the World SAMBO Championships.
- Which of your opponents do you regard as the strongest ones in SAMBO?
- Without doubt, the Russian athletes take the first place. Who else? It's hard for me to say, because the Kharlampiev Memorial was just my first major international SAMBO tournament. But it was in Moscow that I felt a huge difference between Russian sambists and representatives of all other countries with whom I had an opportunity to fight on the mat.


A new micrometer-wide thermometer has been developed by researchers at Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) and their collaborators to record small temperature changes.
This novel device is sensitive to heat produced by electron and optical beams and is capable of measuring small and quick temperature changes in real time. The thermometer can be used to inspect heat transport on the nano- and micro-scales, as well as in synchrotron radiation experiments and optical microscopy.
A device that can determine thermal behavior in real time and on the nanoscale is urgently required, because such a technology could possibly be applied in photo-thermal cancer treatment and also in advanced research on optical light harvesting and crystals, to name a few. In addition, there is a need for a nanoscale heat source and detector for upcoming development of advanced transistors that will be used for designing novel nanoscale devices.
A thermocouple is an example of an electrical device that contains two dissimilar electrical conductors, which form electrical junctions at varying temperatures. A temperature-dependent voltage is produced by a thermocouple which can be interpreted to determine temperature. Researchers at Tokyo Institute of Technology and their colleagues recently developed the micro-thermocouple, which is very important to researchers in many different fields.
This device features a nickel and gold thermocouple on a silicon nitride membrane and is miniaturized in such a way that the electrodes measure just 2.5 μm in width and the membrane measures only 30 nm in thickness. If such a system is to be used as a thermal characterization device, that is, a thermometer, it has to show responsiveness to temperature changes. The developed micro-thermocouple showed high sensitively to the heat produced by an electron beam and a laser. Most significantly, this thermocouple was used to measure small temperature changes for both types of heating.
The micro-thermocouple was prepared using an already developed miniaturization process, but important improvements were also made. In the proven technique, a cross pattern of metal stripes having widths of a few micrometers is produced to create a thermocouple. This technique was employed by the scientists at Tokyo Institute of Technology and their collaborators to produce a pattern on a nano-thin silicon nitride membrane, which not only improved the device sensitivity but also allowed it to respond faster. With this method, a thermometer that could measure small and rapid temperature changes was effectively created, with the measurements being carried out via the nano-thin silicon nitride membrane.
As described above, a nanoscale heat source, as well as a nanoscale detector, is required for a compact microscopy system. These requirements were effectively met by the team, who created a heat source with less than 1 μm diameter using the nano-thin membrane and a tightly focused electron or laser beam. Therefore, a nanoscale thermal microscopy system, together with the micro-thermocouple detector, was successfully realized. This system can be considered as a novel "toolbox" for studying heat transport behavior on the nano- and micro-scales, with many significant applications in a variety of fields.


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using System;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using ThinMvvm.Infrastructure;

namespace ThinMvvm
{
    /// <summary>
    /// Base class for ViewModels.
    /// </summary>
    /// <typeparam name="TParameter">The navigation parameter type, or <see cref="NoParameter" /> if the ViewModel is parameterless.</typeparam>
    public abstract class ViewModel<TParameter> : ObservableObject, IViewModel
    {
        // COMPAT: Task.CompletedTask does not exist in Profile111
        private static readonly Task CompletedTask = Task.FromResult( 0 );

        private event EventHandler<EventArgs> _navigatedTo;
        private event EventHandler<EventArgs> _navigatedFrom;

        // TODO remove this in favor of dialogs
        /// <summary>
        /// Gets a value indicating whether the ViewModel should be kept into navigation history.
        /// </summary>
        /// <remarks>
        /// Most ViewModels should not be transient, as users expect normal navigation behavior.
        ///
        /// An example of a transient ViewModels is authentication to access a protected resource;
        /// if a guest user is on the main app page and opens a page that requires authentication,
        /// a login page should be shown. However, when the user navigates back from the protected
        /// page, they should be back in the main page, not in the login page.
        /// </remarks>
        protected virtual bool IsTransient
        {
            get { return false; }
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Initializes the ViewModel with the specified navigation argument.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="arg">The navigation argument.</param>
        public virtual void Initialize( TParameter arg )
        {
            // Nothing.
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Responds to a navigation to the ViewModel.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="navigationKind">The navigation kind.</param>
        /// <returns>A task that represents the navigation response operation.</returns>
        protected virtual Task OnNavigatedToAsync( NavigationKind navigationKind )
        {
            return CompletedTask;
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Responds to a navigation away from the ViewModel.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="navigationKind">The navigation kind.</param>
        /// <returns>A task that represents the navigation response operation.</returns>
        protected virtual Task OnNavigatedFromAsync( NavigationKind navigationKind )
        {
            return CompletedTask;
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Loads the ViewModel's state from the specified store.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="store">The store containing values set by this ViewModel last time <see cref="SaveState" /> was called.</param>
        /// <remarks>
        /// This method is called when the ViewModel needs to be inflated from previously stored data,
        /// for instance when navigating back to it if it had been tombstoned by the operating system.
        /// </remarks>
        public virtual void LoadState( IKeyValueStore store )
        {
            // Nothing.
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Saves the ViewModel's state to the specified store.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="store">The store, specific to this ViewModel.</param>
        /// <remarks>
        /// This method is called when the operating system tombstones the ViewModel,
        /// for instance because it needs to free memory.
        /// </remarks>
        public virtual void SaveState( IKeyValueStore store )
        {
            // Nothing.
        }

        // This is both a protected virtual property and explicitly implemented,
        // so that only subclasses can see it normally, e.g. not a designer when suggesting properties to bind.
        bool IViewModel.IsTransient => IsTransient;

        // No argument checking, it'd need reflection to tell whether 'null' is a valid value or not (null is SomeRefType == false)
        void IViewModel.Initialize( object arg )
        {
            Initialize( (TParameter) arg );
        }

        // The events and associated machinery are explicitly implemented,
        // both to guarantee that they will always be fired properly,
        // and to hide them from users since they're infrastructure details.

        event EventHandler<EventArgs> IViewModel.NavigatedTo
        {
            add { _navigatedTo += value; }
            remove { _navigatedTo -= value; }
        }

        event EventHandler<EventArgs> IViewModel.NavigatedFrom
        {
            add { _navigatedFrom += value; }
            remove { _navigatedFrom -= value; }
        }

        async Task IViewModel.OnNavigatedToAsync( NavigationKind navigationKind )
        {
            await OnNavigatedToAsync( navigationKind );
            _navigatedTo?.Invoke( this, EventArgs.Empty );
        }

        async Task IViewModel.OnNavigatedFromAsync( NavigationKind navigationKind )
        {
            await OnNavigatedFromAsync( navigationKind );
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Becoming Valley Forge
Revolutionary War Realness! Serving up interested information related to Becoming Valley Forge, a novel by Sheilah Vance, and The Philadelphia Campaign of the Revolutionary War. #revolutionarywarrealness
About Becoming Valley Forge
About Sheilah Vance
Resistance Is Patriotism on the Fourth of July – The Atlantic
July 4, 2019 Sheilah Vance
— Read on www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theatlantic.com/amp/article/593344/
Good article on the legacy of Independence Day, which I believe is resisting tyranny. The patriots resisted the foreign tyrant, King George. We must resist homegrown tyranny of all types, especially in our government. This Independence Day, I'm celebrating the real revolutionary values that led to the Declaration of Independence and to the Revolutionary War, where all types of people came together to fight for their freedom. I wrote about those people in my novel, Becoming Valley Forge.
New Becoming Valley Forge Podcast →
Day 7, Dec. 19, 1777 — Washington's Army marches out of Rebel Hill and Gulph Mills and on to Valley Forge
Day 6, Dec. 18, 1777 — George Washington's Army celebrates the new nation's first Thanksgiving at Rebel Hill and Gulph Mills and prepares to set up camp at Valley Forge
Day 5, Dec. 17, 1777 — Gen. Washington issues inspirational orders announcing the move to Valley Forge and prepares for nation's first Thanksgiving celebration on Rebel Hill and Gulph Mills
Day 4: Dec. 16, 1777 — Tents arrive and British soldiers captured at Gulph Mills
Day 3, Dec. 15, 1777 — The Continental Army settles down at Rebel Hill and Gulph Mills
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Noelle Finegan
Published: Wed 16 Mar 2011, 4:55 PM
Regina Doherty with Cllr Gerry O'Connor, who was co-opted to her Dunshaughlin area council seat.
New Summerhill and Dunshaughlin councillors for FG's two vacant seats
Fine Gael's two vacant seats on Meath County Council following the election of Regina Doherty and Ray Butler to Dail Eireann have been filled, with Gerry O'Connor being co-opted in the Dunshaughlin electoral area and Joe Fox in the Trim electoral area. The co-options were ratified at a special meeting of Meath County Council on Monday afternoon. At last week's selection convention for the Dunshaughlin electoral area, there was an angry reaction from party members when a directive was issued from party headquarters stating that the candidate must be from the Dunshaughlin branch area, which ruled out all candidates except O'Connor. The five nominations that went forward to the convention were Gerry O'Connor, former councillor John Fanning, Aislinn Bobbett, Ciaran Buckley and Pat Donnellan. The directive was not well received among party members present who were annoyed that they could not cast their vote and that this power was taken away from them. It is understood there were approximately 130 voting party members present on the night. Originally from Dublin, Cllr O'Connor has lived in Dunshaughlin since 1984 and is heavily involved in the local community. He was involved in the building of Dunshaughlin Community Centre and has been manager of the centre since 2006. Cllr O'Connor ran as a candidate for Fine Gael in the 2009 local elections where he was eliminated on the 12th count, finishing just six votes behind Cllr Maria Murphy, who was elected. He polled 1,050 first preference votes. Cllr O'Connor said he was there on the night to contest the convention along with four others but said he was disappointed not to get the opportunity to make his case and that the other candidates didn't get to make theirs. However, he said he understood stategically why the party had made the directive as there are already two councillors in the Ashbourne area, a councillor and TD in the Ratoath area, two councillors in Dunboyne but there was no representative for the Dunshaughlin, Dunsany or Culmullen area to represent 8,000 people. Cllr O'Connor said it had been a difficult night but he had got a lot of support from his own branch. He said he was "proud and delighted" to take up his seat in the chamber of Meath County Council at the meeting to ratify the two new councillors on Monday. At the selection convention for the Trim electoral area last week, Dunboyne-based auctioneer Joe Fox was co-opted to the seat vacated by Deputy Ray Butler. Two nominations were received - Joe Fox, who is from Summerhill, and Trim historian Noel French - and it is understood that just a handful of votes separated the two on the night. Cllr Fox said: "I am delighted to have been selected to represent the people of the Trim and surrounding areas on Meath County Council. It is a great honour to be proposed by Fine Gael for the position and then to be accepted by the Meath County Council elected representatives." He said that, in these tough economic times, his main priority will be to attract industry into Meath. "It should become the norm, as the economy recovers, that people can work and live in a sustainable way in our local communities. I will work with the two Fine Gael TDs for Meath West, Damien English and Ray Butler, and my colleague on Meath County Council, Cllr William Carey in the Trim Area, to achieve this," said Cllr Fox. Damien English outlined his support to the newly appointed councillor, saying: "Joe Fox is very well-suited to being a public representative. He will make a great public representative for the people of south Meath. "He is a family man, a businessperson, but equally as important, he is a community man. Joe has for years been in touch with me with the issues of the day for south Meath."
Division of constituency helps Fine Gael to second seat
Butler believes undergrounding EirGrid cables is best way to go
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'There's a lot of frustration, but people are very mannerly'