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Leah Swann
the ragnor trilogy
teaching notes for Irina The Wolf Queen
VATE article
Melbourne...
This indigo city which is not grey,
is not a thing but a situation
or atmosphere or layers of living,
beginning with the earth that hoards the bones,
artefacts and lost words of ancient folk
who are not my ancestors and to whom
I wish to pay my respects, for over
their unknowable songs, their past of togetherness, all one-ness, we laid
our history of separate histories;
single doorways, gates and grates and ghettoes
of unique belief, of language, even
our forensic presence – footprints, fragments
of hair, skin that falls into the ever-
transmuting light, which is not grey but the
shimmering colour of a dove's wing (think
of the NGV, its moat and water-
wall, the stone like fresh-cut lead,
that stuff has crystals in it you know -- it's not grey but
indigo.) We plait ourselves into this
place which offers itself, clean of account -
we each know our discrete moment walking
the swirling corridor of Collins Street
in that renowned wind, past 101 and
churches with dusty hides like elephants.
This indigo city which lies beneath
skies of milk or cobalt or Prussian blue or
oppressive thunderclouds, such unspent force;
elsewhere El Greco painted skies like ours.
This theatre of breath and cloud is not
grey, which has neither black's eternal might
Nor the polar finality of white
and is indeterminate, is nothing;
nothing will come of nothing: speak again.
Smog and sunlight, air the hue of opals,
veils of light shuffling through our laneways like
a deck of cards, this 'devil's colour' stands
alone, until it reveals its secret
on the ubiquitous necks of pigeons;
indigo forfeits itself from alone
to all one-one iridescence in the sun.
First published in Reflecting on Melbourne, Poetica Christie Press
The Easter Hare
This is a story I wrote many Easters ago which was later published in my short story collection Bearings. Recently someone got in touch to say they read it every Easter which was lovely to hear ... thought I'd post it today.
Ben Okri and The Uses of Enchantment
The article I wrote on Ben Okri found a home in Meanjin, one of our oldest literary magazines, and always interesting. Read it here:
Pick up a copy of the autumn edition as it is full of good things, as ever, including pieces by Katharine Murphy, Frank Moorhouse and the late John Clarke. He is so missed.
Do we lose or gain when an anonymous author is exposed?
Unveiling Elena Ferrante
World famous author Elena Ferrante was not on my radar until an editor put The Days of Abandonment into my hands and said:
"No-one knows who she is. Except her publisher."
At home I opened Ferrante's novel and was swept up in the story of Olga, and a voice that I had never before encountered in literature, not like this, not so pure, nor raw, nor so comprehensive. From its pages unspooled a kind of female darkness, a rage, startling in its consistency and in its near-flawless execution. And though I'd never read anything quite like it, the voice was familiar; it was the voice of friends weeping in cafes; of wives screaming in helpless fury at philandering husbands, the hurt and outrage of a woman passed over and sinking into invisibility. Olga's emotions are so extreme they teeter on madness and they're laced with poison too - the vengefulness of the woman scorned. That phrase is of course familiar; we all know that there's something true about it, but it's another thing to see it fully realised on the page, page after page, till you find yourself hoping that Olga can pull herself together.
I saw immediately how anonymity might make such writing possible, indeed, might even be its foundation stone. It is, as Virginia Woolf said, a refuge for female writers:
"Anonymity runs in their blood. The desire to be veiled
possesses them."
Ferrante's stayed anonymous for seven novels, including the bestselling Neapolitan quartet, and has managed to avoid the personal aspect of marketing that most creators have to participate in, for worse or better. A recent article by Konrad Marshall in The Age's Good Weekend touched on my own ambivalence about this:
"Today we are all brands. We define our philosophy by what we retweet. We refine our image with the perfect selfie…We curate our reality through the comments, shares and likes we bestow on Facebook..."
All this endless, self-conscious curating! Self-consciousness - and its close friend, self-censorship, and its flip side, self-doubt - these can so easily block creativity. We are not brands, though our works might be. Branding is a shortcut between reader and writer, between audience and artist, part of the public transaction; one has to switch gears cleanly between one and the other. But sometimes it's not quite possible. Author Nikki Gemmell found she could not write her 2003 novel, The Bride Stripped Bare, until she permitted herself to publish anonymously. She'd read Woolf's statement that for most of history "Anonymous was a woman."
"And with that simple sentence, my recalcitrant novel was unlocked."
(She was unmasked before her book even went to print, to her great distress.)
Elena Ferrante told her publishers at the start of her career that if books had something to say, they would sooner or later find readers:
"I very much love those mysterious volumes, both ancient and modern that have no definite author but have had and continue to have an intense life of their own."
Twenty years later Ferrante remained, till last week, a celebrated writer who'd managed to keep her veil, engaging with her readers purely through her art as Saul Bellow and many others also have preferred or would prefer, if they had the choice. Yes! What luxury, what joy, to communicate purely through an artistic language of one's own devising! And while as a reader I'm fascinated by biography, it seems to me as a writer that to communicate only through art should be possible. And so I felt, as did many, protective of her secrecy.
Years ago, I drew a simple cartoon: an angel, labelled 'Art' stood in the path of a huge truck labelled 'Commerce,' and I thought of it last week when I read that Graeme Simsion, author of The Rosie Project, had been warned that his new novel might damage the Rosie brand. What? A writer has success and then is stranded in the straitjacket of his brand? Are we losing sight of what art is?
To behold a free woman who uses a veil at will is powerful experience, according to Clarissa Pinkola Estés, author of Women Who Run With Wolves. Estés describes seeing, when she was eight, her cousin preparing for her wedding. When she put on the veil, she became remote, immortal:
"She was only of herself, contained and powerful, and just out of reach in a right way."
This was part of Ferrante's achievement. But Ferrante, it would seem, is no longer out of reach.
Investigative journalist Claudio Gatti claimed last week that Elena Ferrante was an Italian translator, based mostly on financial evidence. Citing Ferrante's quote that she would use lies 'to shield my person' when necessary, Gatti claims that the author has:
"in a way relinquished her right to disappear behind her books and let them live and grow while their author remained unknown."
There was a mystery, said Gatti, and he went after it. And perhaps this is what's so objectionable about the whole affair. A journalist is hunting and uncovering one kind of truth, while a novelist may be working to reveal something more ephemeral. In this particular case, the journalist has destroyed the protective condition the novelist finds necessary explore these emotional truths. Milan Kundera writes in The Art of the Novel that novels are a form of inquiry into different aspects of existence; such as the tedium of everyday life in Flaubert's Madame Bovary. But maybe this kind of novelistic intelligence is less graspable in our cultural landscape, as Kundera suggests:
"Every novel says to the reader: "Things are not as simple as you think." That is the novel's eternal truth, but it grows steadily harder to hear amid the din of easy, quick answers that come faster than the question and block it off. In the spirit of our time, it's either Anna or Karenin who is right, and the ancient wisdom of Cervantes, telling us about the difficulty of knowing and the elusiveness of truth, seems cumbersome and useless."
Pseudonyms are fragile, (and sometimes constructed to deceive, as in our own history of Helen Darville, Wanda Koolmatrie, Elizabeth Durack and the infamous Ern Malley hoax) and so maybe Ferrante's unmasking was inevitable. Our age doesn't permit mysteries. If anyone veils anything, it's ripped off. Half the time it's ourselves , giving up our details to corporations for delicious new apps, posting our own images, obeying magazine articles urging us to turn ourselves into brands. In France, burqas are literally banned. There's a rumour that Pokemon Go is really about mapping every last secret space on the planet. And when it comes to artists, one of our central preoccupations seems to be matching the biography to the work. Ah yes, we say, this author writes about poverty so beautifully because she grew up with a single mother. And so on. We seek evidence for brilliance in the material realm, in facts, rather than in the imagination.
But what has transpired this week is that many readers, and other writers, are just as invested in her anonymity as Ferrante herself. It was part of her contract with the world.
Ferrante was that rarest of things; a celebrated artist who was anonymous. The tearing away of her veil is not just a loss for her, but for all creators everywhere.
Behind the scenes of the book trailer...
Making the book trailer for Irina: The Trilogy
It was early spring 2015 when we made our way into the forest to film a book trailer to promote Irina: The Trilogy, a golden book that contains all three adventures. It was exciting to be heading towards our deep forest location with a crew, an actor, and a 'wolf.' We'd see what Irina could look like on screen -- a dream realised. The tall trees glittered with bits of shining sunlight.
Brigita was playing the role of Irina. In our makeshift outdoors change-room she put on a simple white dress and a crown of fern fronds, and became: Irina The Wolf Queen. And I felt that thrill of delight when something comes together, and looks right. This was magic.
I'd wanted to make a book trailer that would invite people to see into Ragnor's enchantments and battles; a world that has its roots re-wilding, inspired by the archetypal wisdom of fairytales.
But who could make a trailer that would suggest this world? I approached some film-maker friends, Annika Glac and Marcus Struzina of Glass Kingdom Films, who made the feature films Belladonna, and Bunny (glasskingdom.com.au) When they said they could do it on our budget, I was so excited! They understood the aesthetic -- not too pretty, not too Disney, but rough and beautiful and natural. This is how we once lived and how part of us yearns to live still.
We gathered the elements. A real wolf was out of the question. Could we splice in some footage from somewhere? Hire someone's husky? A white wolf would be good…
And then we learned that a friend had a stunning white dog who had been rescued, called Apollo. On the day of the shoot, we had to keep Apollo on a lead as he loves to run through the forest, and does not always come back! On the day, he seemed to accept his role by Brigita's side, and he brought his wonderful, canine presence to the final film.
We had chosen costumes from Rose Chong's in Fitzroy, and we made a wild crown. We found a magnificent tree to serve as a backdrop, and on our way we passed a patch of blue flowers so beautiful that Annika insisted we add an extra shot to our planned series.
We had our main shot in front of the tree; another where Irina wears a royal cloak, the romantic field of blue flowers, and an image of the cell where Irina is trapped at the beginning of Irina and The Lost Book: Marcus had the inspired thought of shooting it after dusk, next to a small stone wall, lit from above.
And what about the score? The amazingly talented Marcus and Annika composed something of their own, using bagpipes, which I loved for its evocation of an archaic, rustic atmosphere.
My heartfelt thanks goes to Brigita, who plays Irina The Wolf Queen, to Adam -- and his dog, Apollo, for standing in as one of the wolves of Ragnor; to Annika and Marcus for inspiration, understanding and hours of work and their nephew Gulliver; to my friends Tony and Julia, son Amos and husband John, who carried heavy equipment in and out of the forest, and made 'wind' by using reflectors as great fans when the wind machine broke down!
Watch the trailer: irinathetrilogy
A Valentine's Day gift to you: a free story from Best Australian Love Stories
The story behind the story...
Late summer, 2014, I wandered into an antique shop and came out with a handful of postcards, some of them over one hundred years old. I was intrigued by the muted palettes, their dry texture and faintly bookish smell, and the scratchy copperplate handwriting on the reverse of the cards, often with no message, just a name, as though the postcard said it all. The images were pretty and sweet and kitsch, and strangely appealing. Ephemeral relics of a different people, a different sensibility, a different world. I spread them out on my desk, wondering why I'd bought them.
A week later, I heard there was a call-out for submissions for a new anthology of love stories by the Melbourne publishing house, Inkerman and Blunt. And a character presented herself: a woman called Mallory who buys vintage postcards for her boyfriend for Valentine's day, but really, they are for her, because she's longing for something, she doesn't know quite what it is -- she's in her thirties with a child and she's never been 'in love' before, in that mad and powerful way that sometimes grips us so intensely it seems to wipe out every other thought and feeling. And then a man she knows slightly takes her hand to demonstrate an old folk dance, and it happens, only she is committed elsewhere....
As a Valentine's Day present, you can read the story below.
You can buy a copy of Australian Love Stories at a reduced Valentine's Day price: here
New Review for 'The World to Come'
''The World to Come, edited by Patrick West and Om Prakash Dwivedi, is a collection of 21 short stories written by authors from across the globe. It features a diverse set of themes that range from love to the apocalypse. The stories are incredibly creative and thought-provoking, and offer a glimpse into people's differing perspectives on what the future holds for the human race.''
Read the rest of this review: here
Watch the trailer: here
Buy the book: here
Paper? Cloth? A fancy box? A short fiction on making boxes...
The First Fold
When the decahedral box defeats me, I look through the box-making instruction book for something easier. I'd planned to make this decahedral box for my geometry tutor, to reflect our multiple dimensions. I'd fill it with chocolates, to thank him for mysterious words like vertex. Using models made from dowel, he pulls triangles from squares and reflects squares into triangles. I could kiss his feet from awe. You don't obey these strange compulsions. Resisting impulse is what makes us or unmakes us, depending on your philosophy.
Pinwheels are lovely for storing teabags. Use Japanese rice papers; gold cranes on aqua lakes, a repeat of violet fans on a translucent parchment ground, red dragons, that sort of thing.
Try for a smooth curved line when making cylindrical boxes for bottles and neckties, and remember to push the end of the pleats into the first fold. (Ah, the first fold. The first container is the womb, where we make our first folds. The second container is the life. We make our lives outside the womb. We enfold ourselves like babushka dolls. We enfold. And we unfold. And then we fold up, into the final box known as the coffin.)
The paper blossom is suitable for presenting candy. The folds make an eight pointed star and look like a celestial diagram. Fold forward along broken lines. Suck slender straws of striped sweetness straight from the blossom.
A book-style box has many uses. Choose vintage orange, put lettering in a sixties font, or move on to making steampunk boxes from leather and brass. Design your own book covers! The artist still matters!
None of my boxes will ever be finished because my folded curves are inexact, and unrepeatable. I lack patience, I am sanguine, I am as rubbish at making paper boxes as I am at learning geometry.
Containment, boundary, structure, shape: these make something out of tangible and intangible things. I also want to say, who cares about the packaging? It's what's inside that counts.
Competition Winner Announced!
Congratulations to Charlotte!
Charlotte got all the quiz questions right, and made her Dad send them in just in time for the deadline... well done Charlotte, and I hope you enjoy the art work by xoum's talented cover designer, Roy Chen! I think it's a beautiful image of Irina and Durrell embarking on an adventure, riding through the snow on their way to the Crystal Sea....
"Irina's elation grew. She embraced her father, said goodbye, then climbed onto Durrell's back and pushed her gloved hands into his fur. Astride the mighty wolf, she gave King Harmon such a radiant smile that he had to smile in return. Irina put her head down and the pair sped off, leaving tracks in the white snow, Amicus flying high above."
 p 67 Irina and The White Wolf.
When the wise woman shows up...
--- Raizel ---
I remember vividly writing about Irina's first encounter with Raizel, the old wise-woman of the South. As in many fairytales, the crone is there at the beginning, when Irina is a baby... but I really felt Raizel's power when Irina meets her in the forest. Running through my mind was the word 'interest' -- Raizel has a deep and profound interest in Irina. The wolf-girl is being looked on by wise and ancient eyes, and she is both warmed by it, and in awe of it. To hold the interest of someone older, who poseses a profound intelligence, can be quite an experience:
"There, behind the hare, was an old crone. Her skin was as withered as a
fallen apple...and she wore a floor length wrap made of furs, and held a basket of stones over one arm. Her eyes were partly obscured by the folds of her eyelids, and they gleamed darkly, like wet stones in a river.
The crone was studying Irina with such concentration that it seemed to pour from her in waves, wrapping Irina warmly and firmly. Irina had never seen the woman before, and yet she felt she had always known her.
Instinctively, barely conscious of what she was doing, Irina knelt."
p118, Irina The Wolf Queen.
Have you ever had this kind of experience, this feeling of interest from an older person, a teacher, a mentor, or grandparent perhaps, someone who helped you grow into who you are?
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Hanoi, June 28 (VNA) – Deputy Prime Minister Pham Binh Minh has urged ministries, agencies and localities to promptly complete specific organisational plans for major activities for APEC which is to be hosted by Vietnam in 2017.
The official made the request at the fifth session of the National Committee for APEC 2017 in Hanoi on June 28 to review preparations over the first half and set forth tasks for the remaining months of this year.
Vietnam will officially assume the APEC host, once it has passed from Peru in the next 6 months, Deputy PM Minh, who chairs the committee, noted, requesting greater efforts in preparations.
The effective coordination between ministries and agencies, and localities is the key to ensuring the progress and quality of the work across many fields, the Deputy PM stressed.
The first job is to identify major jobs to do and problems hindering the preparation work in order to have timely countermeasures, he said.
With nearly 200 activities to be organised across the country, APEC 2017 will be the important multi-lateral external event to affirm the Party and State policy on promoting international integration and multilateral external relations, contributing to elevating Vietnam's position in the world arena in the new situation.
APEC 2017 will also offer an opportunity for Vietnam to enhance its economic, trade and investment ties with APEC member economies and promote the country's image.
Established in November 1989, APEC now comprises 21 economies, representing around 39 percent of the world's population, 57 percent of total global GDP and 47 percent of international trade.
Vietnam joined the forum in November 1998 and successfully hosted the 2006 APEC and the 6th APEC Human Resources Development Ministerial Meeting in 2014.
The National Committee was set up in mid-2015 and consists of five sub-committees in charge of content, logistics, health and security, communications and protocol preparations for APEC 2017.


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Getting media exposure in top-tier publications is exciting, but how you leverage that exposure is what will really pay off for your brand. Your PR team — be it a single person or an entire agency — and the publication itself can only move the needle so much when it comes to leveraging publicity. Having a plan in place for spreading the word will not only get you more publicity, but it also helps to reinforce to the media that the world cares about what you're doing.
1. Give your media exposure a boost.
Turning your employees into social media advocates is one way to amplify your company's voice in an otherwise noisy world. But don't stop there. If you're struggling to grow your following, tapping into your team's personal networks can dramatically increase your company's total following.
The more people you get talking about you or your company on social media, the further and wider that message will go organically. Every platform — be it Google or Facebook or Instagram — has its own algorithms that keep track of what links are being clicked, which ones are being shared to determine what is relevant and what type of content it should show similar audiences.
Let's say you're a small company with a total of 5,000 followers across Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn. And let's say you've got a team of 25 employees who have their own networks of 250 followers each. That's another 6,250 people who have the potential to see the content and decide to follow your company.
The bottom line is — the more it's shared, the more the public pays attention, and those algorithms play an integral role in how often your content will appear. Also, it's good merit for the writer or journalist who took the time to cover your story, as metrics matter to each platform. The number of times articles get shared is just one of the metrics editors use to evaluate writers.
2. Your sphere of influence is personal.
Sending a personalized message to your sphere of influence can go a long way. Reach out to people in your tribe and ask them to share the article — and be sure to do the same for them. Building a powerful tribe of associates who all support and share each others' wins is not only great to exposure, but it also feels great to know you have a group of people cheering you on.
It's tempting to send a generic message to all of your contacts, but remember — there's an actual person receiving your message. Taking a few minutes to craft individual messages to the people you believe will be most likely to share the content makes all the difference in the response you'll get. However, most business owners are incredibly busy and crafting a dozen or more individual messages might not be realistic. Another option might be to ask your network who would want to participate in sharing each others' wins, create some basic guidelines, and once a week, everyone can share each other's content.
3. Build a Twitter chat around the topic.
Schedule a Twitter chat where people in your company talk about the article and its content. Do it shortly after the article publishes while it's still hot on the publication's website, but give yourself a bit of lead time to build buzz for the chat and increase attendance and participation. Have a conversation about the article/topic in the same way you would offline, but instead, you talk to each other on twitter. You can even do this if you're in the same room.
Use relevant hashtags, and tag other people or companies you'd like to have chime in on the conversion. Ideally, those should be your target customers. If you're a small company, don't let this deter you. It's possible to do the same with friends and family, and your PR agency can also help.
4. Pay to promote the article across social media.
All major social media platforms have the option to run paid ads to target your ideal customer. Choose the platforms where you think most of your audience is spending their time, and build small-scale ad campaigns to advertise your article to them. Start small, and make adjustments as you go. For instance, run two different versions of the ad, featuring the same image and different copy — or different images with the same copy — to learn what your audience responds to the best. You'll be surprised how far even a $20 budget will get you.
Most competitive agencies invest in comprehensive analytics software that monitors your brand against competitors in real-time. Understanding the impact of your PR results is vital for your bottom line and to quantify your return on investment.
Your competitor may be leading the way in overall media mentions, but if those media mentions are echoing into a black hole, you've still got a competitive advantage. Your brand may not be winning out over the competition in terms of mentions but could still be owning the conversation around topics important to your target audience — especially ones that drive new business.
6. Be hands-on with PR.
With the right strategy and team in place, your efforts will produce results. Your PR agency will open the door to the media world and partnerships, but no one knows your industry or brand better than you do. If you're hands-on with your PR effort, you'll be setting yourself and your agency up for success.


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Distributed agent-based traffic simulations
Mastio, Matthieu, Zargayouna, Mahdi, Scemama, Gerard and Rana, Omer 2018. Distributed agent-based traffic simulations. IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Magazine 10 (1) , pp. 145-156. 10.1109/MITS.2017.2776162
Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/MITS.2017.2776162
Modeling and simulation play an important role in transportation networks analysis. With the widespread of personalized real-time information sources, it is relevant for the simulation model to be individual-centered. The agent-based simulation is the most promising paradigm in this context. However, representing the movements of realistic numbers of travelers within reasonable execution times requires significant computational resources. It also requires relevant methods, architectures and algorithms that respect the characteristics of transportation networks. In this paper, we tackle the problem of using high-performance computing for agent-based traffic simulations. To do so, we define two generic agent-based simulation models, representing the existing sequential agent-based traffic simulations. The first model is macroscopic, in which travelers do not interact directly and use a fundamental diagram of traffic flow to continuously compute their speeds. The second model is microscopic, in which travelers interact with their neighbors to adapt their speeds to their surrounding environment. We define patterns to distribute these simulations in a high-performance environment. The first distributes agents equally between available computation units. The second pattern splits the environment over the different units. We finally propose a diffusive method to dynamically balance the load between units during execution. The results show that agent-based distribution is more efficient with macroscopic simulations, with a speedup of 6 compared to the sequential version, while environmentbased distribution is more efficient with microscopic simulations, with a speedup of 14. Our diffusive load-balancing algorithm improves further the performance of the environment based approach by 150%.
Computer Science & Informatics
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Rilmac has grown from humble beginnings in 1957 to become a market leader of Asbestos Services, Fabrication, Insulation and Scaffolding. Our plotted history demonstrates how the Rilmac Group of Companies has evolved over the last 59 years.
The History of Rilmac: Rilmac has grown from humble beginnings of three men and a van in 1957 to become a market leader of Asbestos Services, Fabrication, Insulation and Scaffolding.


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Holochain Analysis 2: Architecture, Technical Specification, Prototyping of hApps
Nov 13, 2018, 6:46AM
Blockchain Technology 8 min, 27 sec READ
by Martin Banov
Part two in a three-part Holochain series provides an analysis of the technical architecture of hApps and discusses how to build them.
In part one of this three-part series, we looked at the philosophy and guiding principles behind Holochain and Ceptr. In this second article, we will look at the more technical details, outlining the structure, architecture, and existing prototypes of hApps (Holochain apps).
Structure of a hApp
Distributed Hash Table mapping
First, here is a look at the key features of a hApp:
The DNA file (usually a JSON, Javascript Object Notation) is the hApp's backbone, containing the storage/business logic (but not the front-end UI logic or connection to the outside world). The DNA receives agent actions (through the mediation of the zome functions, which are exposed to the UI and are called via AJAX or WebSockets), transforms the actions into chain entries, validates other people's chain entries, and communicates node-to-node.
Zomes are modular units defining functions (presently in Javascript and available in Rust, with more options introduced further along development), stored in sub-directories within the DNA folder. Zomes can be structured any way it makes sense to those writing them, but are usually expected to take one argument - either a string or JSON object. The chain entries created by zome functions can be shared publicly into the DHT or committed privately. The zome functions can also be internal helper functions or callable by the UI.
The biggest difference between zome functions and smart contracts is that everyone can call a smart contract, but with Holochain only an agent can call a zome function because that function is manipulating their personal state (their source chain). In other words, zomes are agent-centric.
In a countersigning situation (e.g., transactions) it's likely that one will validate the counterparty's chain and vice versa, i.e. mutually audit each other's recorded histories according to the hApp validation rules defined in the DNA. Then when both publish the same transactions, their peers validate their chain entries using the same rules. This validation could grow to be incredibly complex, because as one develops a history of transactions, his history is linked to the history of his counterparties, which is linked to the history of their counterparties, forming a massive DAG resembling the roots of an old tree or a large mycelium colony. So, in practice, most transactional hApps will likely validate the running balance of each counterparty and trust that the greater network of transactions has already been validated by a sufficient number of peers. The components that make up a hApp are:
A source chain is an agent's personal ledger of 'things that happened' (whatever that means for the app they're using -- transactions, sensor/temperature readings, messages, etc). It's a hashchain (just like Git trees and blockchains), so any modification to old data breaks the chain and gets noticed. The source chain contains private entries and entries meant to be publicly shared.
The DHT in a Holochain app is a Kademlia-like DHT. (Each app -- and each fork of each app -- has its own DHT.) The difference between it and a typical DHT is that nodes that receive the data also validate it against their own copy of the app's shared validation rules (the DNA). The things that live in the DHT are:
The DNA of the app
Each agent's public key
The headers of each chain entry from each agent's source chain (the header contains the typical previous/current hash like in any hash chain in addition to the agent's signature and a local timestamp)
The data for all public chain entries
Links, a special type of chain entry that points a known piece of data to an unknown piece of data in the DHT-sphere, with a string tag. DHTs constitute a huge universe and a link doesn't actually connect two addresses, but is more like a "pointer" or a "vector" - pointing in the general direction of a target address. For bi-directional connection, two links are necessary.
Warrants, a piece of evidence against a bad actor, signed by the validating agent who discovered it.
Importantly, Distributed Hash Tables as such are already sharded without introducing any unnecessary complexity and friction. Each hApp with its individual DHT (or fork thereof), following its defined validation rules and the agents using it (thereby in the process storing the records relevant to them) can be said to constitute a shard and different hApps can be bridged by agents running both hApps and translating between the contextual circumstances of the two.
When searching for some value, the algorithm needs to know the associated key and explores the network in several steps. Each step will find nodes that are closer to the key until the contacted node returns the value or no more closer nodes are found. This is very efficient: like many other DHTs, Kademlia contacts only O(log(n)) nodes during the search out of a total of n nodes in the system.
Further advantages are found particularly in the decentralized structure, which increases the resistance against a denial-of-service attack. Even if a whole set of nodes is flooded, this will have limited effect on network availability, since the network will recover itself by knitting the network around these "holes".
Source: Wikipedia entry on Kademlia.
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Another detail that should be pointed out is the formal difference between decentralized and distributed applications. A decentralized app (dApp) runs on a decentralized blockchain (Ethereum), while a distributed app would run locally on one's personal device and offer peer-to-peer connections. Another way of looking at distributed hApps is as scripts that hook into distributed databases, compiling data.
A walkthrough demonstrating the process of building a hApp. A more recent tutorial video intended for developers has been made and will soon be made available.
Tools Provided
Holochain is built specifically for general dApp development, so it's designed to be as accessible as possible. One can build Holochain dApps and proofs-of-concept in just a few hours.
There is still work to be done and kinks to iron out in the p2p networking protocol, so dApps aren't fully ready to be deployed in production, but between the CLI and scaffolding tool, one has everything needed to begin prototyping dApps available. There is also no need to learn any weird, domain-specific languages as Holochain will support anything that compiles into WebAssembly (validation code is written in JavaScript in the Go version and Rust in the latest release).
The Holochain core libraries and command-line tools implementing the Holochain core functionality were recently rewritten in Rust (from the previous Go build, which will no longer be maintained) so as to enable it to be compiled in WebAssembly, allowing light clients to run in the browser (necessary for the Holo hosting app). The developer preview of the Rust rewrite is found at the Github repository here (with pre-built binaries available for download here).
The available documentation referring to the Go prototype will be replaced by the documentation for the new release in the coming months, the work in progress sections of which are available here.
The latest release packs all functionality in a single executable (hc), which is used to initialize apps, start agent nodes, generate zomes, package hApps into compact hcpkg files and start web servers for serving Holochain applications. Additionally, holosqape and hcshell are Holochain app containers (GUI and CLI respectively) - a new entity introduced with the latest release that knits together all Holochain apps and data into an integrated whole with a cohesive interface. Different containers serve different purposes. Holosqape is a GUI container that allows one to install and run any hApp easily. Holochain-cmd is a command-line container that activates, builds, and tests applications and is used to build zome code into a package.
HDK Rust (Holochain Developer Kit) is a library and syntax for writing Zome code in Rust consistent with the WebAssembly (WASM) runtime environment. Any language that compiles to WASM and can serialize/de-serialize JSON data can be available as an option for writing hApps (with a similar Javascript HDK under development).
$ ./hc
hc 0.0.1
Holochain Core Dev Team <devcore@holochain.org>
A command line for Holochain
SUBCOMMANDS:
agent       Starts a Holochain node as an agent
generate    Generates a new zome and scaffolds the given capabilities
help        Prints this message or the help of the given subcommand(s)
init        Initializes a new Holochain app at the given directory
package     Builds the current Holochain app into a .hcpkg file
test        Runs tests written in the test folder
unpack      Unpacks a Holochain bundle into it's original file system structure
web         Starts a web server for the current Holochain app
Scaffolding Tool
Holochain scaffolding tool for generating DNA files and schemas.
A web interface scaffolding tool for generating a DNA file is provided here. Within it one defines the basic parameters of a hApp's backbone, such as name and description of the hApp, zome modules (the data stored and tracked by a zome and the functions which can be called in that zome's API) within it and export/download the basic DNA template either as an JSON or YAML.
Part one of our series on the philosophy behind Holochain and Ceptr can be found here.
A useful glossary of Holochain terms and definitions is found here.
A list of available working hApps is available here. Examples include a distributed Twitter clone (Clutter), a Holochain implementation of the Ethereum DAO, a distributed notary system and public key infrastructure (DPKI), a vault for managing how other apps access one's personal information, etc.
The Mattermost Holochain and Ceptr community chat can be logged into here.
The developer documentation (not including the Rust rewrite) is hosted here.
The Github repository - here.
Ceptr official site, blog and included video material and lectures - here.
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For October 1, 2008: Over 400 teacher-tested economic lessons are available for immediate use in the classroom at EconEdLink, from the National Council on Economic Education. Each of the lessons includes a teacher's version as well as a student's version and is designed to be delivered in a variety of formats and classroom settings. There are also data links with current economic information that can be used in conjunction with many of the lessons.


Are you disillusioned? Did you aim high and miss the mark?
When I read today's reading, it was about Jeremiah recounting how God told him to go to the potter's house.
Indeed the Lord speaks through the daily events in my life, showing me how some of my efforts are useless, whereas those I find meaningless are what He values more.
How is it that I judge differently than the Lord? Could it be that my heart and mind are still not aligned and not united with His will, even as I thought it was?
Indeed my heart and mind are still far from what the Lord's intent. And like the potter in the potter's house, He continues to mold me and make me as He desires to the degree that I allow myself to be molded.
May the Lord never grow tired on working on me.
Lord, You are the potter, I am the clay. Mold me, make me as Your heart desires. May I come out beautiful and remarkable at the end of the day. In Jesus' Name, I pray. Amen.


all with the kiosk tool. I thought configurations weren't overwritten?
I checked, but I just see a long list of packages unpacked, installed, configured or half-configured.
Ralf - we have a teacher work day today. When the kids come back on Monday I'll take a couple of screenshots to show you.


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Loop Industries announces independent review confirming effectiveness of patented technology
December 16, 2020 | Recycling technology | Loop Industries | Terrebonne | Canada
Independent testing by respected third-party research center confirms that Loop's Gen II depolymerization technology is effective at producing pure monomers - Loop Industries ("Loop" or "the Company"), an innovator in sustainable plastics technology, released the report of an independent verification of Loop's patented Gen II depolymerization technology, which allows waste polyethylene terephthalate ("PET") plastic and polyester fiber to be recycled into virgin-quality PET resin made from 100% recycled content. This verification was conducted by Kemitek, a not-for-profit College Centre for Technology Transfer specialized in the fields of green chemistry and chemical process scale-up.
Effectiveness of Patented Technology Producing Pure Monomers
Loop commissioned Kemitek to validate its technology, which turns waste PET plastic and polyester fiber feedstock into its primary building blocks, or monomers: dimethyl terephthalate ("DMT") and monoethylene glycol ("MEG"), which meet established purity criteria for producing virgin-quality PET.
Kemitek established a rigorous and independent methodology for this verification:
The Kemitek team was on site at Loop's Terrebonne, Quebec facilities for 16 days to verify each step of Loop's technology at Mini-Pilot (25 L reactor) and Pilot scales (6000 L reactor) from feedstock (post-consumer waste PET plastic) to final purified monomers (DMT and MEG).
Kemitek received the feedstock directly from Loop's supplier at their facilities. They then dried, sampled, sealed and shipped the waste plastic feedstock to Loop. The feedstock was also sent to an external laboratory by Kemitek for analysis and characterization.
Once on site, the Kemitek team took possession of the feedstock, controlled and secured the entire process to ensure the chain of custody at all times via human supervision and numbered lockouts and seals on the equipment.
Throughout the process, the Kemitek team took samples at key steps for subsequent analysis to confirm there was no tampering by Loop's team.
The final purified monomers were secured by Kemitek and sent for analysis to certified external laboratories (ISO 17025). These analyses confirm the purity of the resulting monomers.
The feedstock used throughout the verification consisted of pallets of post-consumer waste PET plastic. In appearance, it was a mix of clear, gray and colored flakes and fines with a PET content varying between 86% and 95%, as determined by a Loop-conducted analysis. Feedstock contaminants identified by external laboratories mandated by Kemitek include printed film, silicone elastomer and polystyrene.
The final report issued by Kemitek, which will be filed today as an exhibit to Loop's Form 8-K, draws the below conclusions:
"The Kemitek team was able to understand, witness and verify the execution of Loop's Gen II polyethylene terephthalate (PET) depolymerization technology from feedstock to monomers. While the verification was not intended to certify the yields or economic viability of the technology, as these were out of the scope of our mandate, our observations confirmed the production of significant quantities of dimethyl terephthalate (DMT) and monoethylene glycol (MEG) from a post-consumer waste PET feedstock at both mini-pilot and pilot scales.
Characterization of the finished products also confirmed that the quality of the primary PET plastic building blocks meet Loop's specifications for the production of PET resin and polyester fiber, achieving DMT purity ranging from 99.7% to 100.1% (w/w) and MEG purity ranging from 98.2% to 98.9% (w/w). The useful monomer content for the MEG product is greater than 99.0% (w/w). This is calculated by adding the secondary PET plastic building blocks present in the final MEG product: Dimethyl isophthalate (DMI), Dimethyl Terephthalate (DMT), Diethylene Glycol (DEG), Bis-(2-Hydroxyethyl)terephthalate (BHET), 1-(2-hydroxyethyl)4-methylterephthalate (MHET) and 1-(2-hydroxyethyl)4-methylisophthalate (MHEI). It is reasonable to expect these molecules to be integrated into the final polymer chains of the PET resin and polyester fiber.
Kemitek's findings through this verification allow us to attest to the capacity of Loop's technology to produce pure monomers within their specifications. Kemitek conducted this verification in an independent manner using rigorous methodology and we ensured process integrity during the three-week testing period via surveillance, sampling and seals."
With the levels of purity confirmed by Kemitek's verification, Loop reiterates that its technology can produce monomers of sufficient purity to create PET plastic and polyester fiber that is 100% recycled and equivalent to virgin PET made from fossil fuels, consistent with previous polymerization trials and testing evaluations by clients and industrial companies.
"Loop Industries enlisted our services to conduct a scientific verification of its Gen II PET depolymerization technology from feedstock to monomers," said Alain Tremblay, M.Sc., Scientific Director at Kemitek and lead of the verification project. "Our findings through this verification allow us to attest to the capacity of Loop's technology to produce pure monomers within their specifications. Kemitek conducted this verification in an independent manner using rigorous methodology and we ensured process integrity during the three-week testing period via surveillance, sampling and seals."
A seasoned and published polymer researcher, professor Jérôme Claverie, Ph.D., from Université de Sherbrooke in Quebec, Canada acted as external scientific expert by observing key parts of the verification and its findings. Dr. Claverie was not compensated in any way by Loop for his participation as an independent expert. As a leading, highly published researcher and the holder of the Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) in Chemistry of Advanced Organic and Hybrid Materials, Dr. Claverie concurred with the conclusion put forward by Kemitek's verification, saying: "After meeting with Loop's team of researchers and engineers, reviewing all of their patents, and observing their technology at mini-pilot and pilot scales, I have absolutely no doubts that the patented PET recycling technology leads to high-purity monomers suitable for repolymerization into virgin-quality PET. Loop's team did not reinvent the fundamental, well-established chemistry underlying depolymerization. However, they optimized a version of this process that provides the ability to effectively depolymerize waste PET plastic at a high purity at below 90-degree temperature, which sets their technology apart."
Loop has received from the European Chemicals Agency ("ECHA") a confirmation of registration for its MEG on November 17, 2020, and for its DMT on December 7, 2020. The registration under the Registration, Evaluation, Authorization and Restriction of Chemicals ("REACH") Regulation (EC 1907/2006) confirms that Loop's monomers are of a purity equal to what is currently recognized within Europe and entitles Loop to manufacture/import the monomers into Europe. It should be noted that MEG and DMT are on the positive list for plastic materials, which means that the two monomers can be used as food-contact materials.
In addition, as previously disclosed, Loop is in possession of a legal opinion confirming that its depolymerization technology meets U.S. Food and Drug Administration ("FDA") requirements to produce suitably pure MEG and DMT for use in food-grade packaging. The Company has filed for a No Objection Letter ("NOL") from the FDA, which will validate the legal opinion obtained thus far.
It should be noted that the levels of monomer purity confirmed by Kemitek's verification are in line with the data submitted for the REACH registration of Loop's DMT and MEG monomers and the FDA NOL.
"The results of Kemitek's verification reconfirm Loop's belief that we are well positioned to have a transformative impact on the reduction of global plastic waste," concluded Loop Founder and CEO Daniel Solomita. "I wish to sincerely thank the entire Loop team for their dedicated work and ongoing support for the Company, as we move forward with our plans to bring our technology to commercial scale."
www.loopindustries.com
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The Parama rthasa ra, or `Essence of Ultimate Reality', is a work of the Kashmirian polymath Abhinavagupta (tenth-eleventh centuries). It is a brief treatise in which the author outlines the doctrine of which he is a notable exponent, namely nondualistic S aivism, which he designates in his works as the Trika, or `Triad' of three principles: S iva, S akti and the embodied soul (nara). The main interest of the Parama rthasa ra is not only that it serves as an introduction to the established doctrine of a tradition, but also advances the notion of jiv anmukti, `liberation in this life', as its core theme. Further, it does not confine itself to an exposition of the doctrine as such but at times hints at a second sense lying beneath the evident sense, namely esoteric techniques and practices that are at the heart of the philosophical discourse. Its commentator, Yogara ja (eleventh century), excels in detecting and clarifying those various levels of meaning. An Introduction to Tantric Philosophy presents, along with a critically revised Sanskrit text, the first annotated English translation of both Abhinavagupta's Parama rthasa ra and Yogara ja's commentary. This book will be of interest to Indologists, as well as to specialists and students of Religion, Tantric studies and Philosophy.
Lyne Bansat-Boudon is Professor in the Section des sciences religieuses at the E cole Pratique des Hautes E tudes (EPHE) in Paris, and an Honorary Senior Member of the Institut Universitaire de France (IUF). Her main fields of research are Sanskrit Literature and Poetics, Aesthetics and the S aiva tradition. She published in 1992 Poetique du theatre indien. Lectures du Natyacastra, and, in 2006, as the chief editor of the volume and a translator, Theatre de l'Inde ancienne, Gallimard (Bibliotheque de la Pleiade).Kamaleshadatta Tripathi is Emeritus Professor at the Benares Hindu University, India, where he was Dean of the Faculty of Sanskrit Learning and Theology and Head of the Department of Religious and Agamic Studies. For several years he also was the director of the Kalidasa Akademi in Ujjain. His research interests include Agamic Philosophy, Hindu Theology, Philosophy of Grammar, Sanskrit Literature, Poetics and Aesthetics.
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Biography: Lyne Bansat-Boudon is Professor in the Section des sciences religieuses at the E cole Pratique des Hautes E tudes (EPHE) in Paris, and an Honorary Senior Member of the Institut Universitaire de France (IUF). Her main fields of research are Sanskrit Literature and Poetics, Aesthetics and the S aiva tradition. She published in 1992 Poetique du theatre indien. Lectures du Natyacastra, and, in 2006, as the chief editor of the volume and a translator, Theatre de l'Inde ancienne, Gallimard (Bibliotheque de la Pleiade).Kamaleshadatta Tripathi is Emeritus Professor at the Benares Hindu University, India, where he was Dean of the Faculty of Sanskrit Learning and Theology and Head of the Department of Religious and Agamic Studies. For several years he also was the director of the Kalidasa Akademi in Ujjain. His research interests include Agamic Philosophy, Hindu Theology, Philosophy of Grammar, Sanskrit Literature, Poetics and Aesthetics.
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Q: Error during the kernel booting After kernel update I've got a problem with booting linux, does anyone know how to fix this problem ?? I am pretty sure that everything was OK during kernel compilation.
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A: This is most likely due to your new kernel not having a driver for your file system. Details on your disk/controller along with your .config would help us determine whether this is the case.
It could also be initramfs thinking that devtmpfs is available when it is not. If this is the case, add CONFIG_DEVTMPFS=y to your .config

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Why Does Broilers Grow So Fast?
Why do commercial meat chickens grow their table weight in just 7-10 weeks while backyard chickens takes much more longer to achieve that weight? Do they use some growth hormones or steroid for broilers? Between the two which one is more nutritious?
The main thing that differentiates broilers and other birds is breed. Broilers were bred to grow fast. Take it this way. Some goats are good in producing meat while the diary breeds are good milk producers. So it's all about the breed. Another thing is the feed. Their feedis high in protein and well balanced. No growth hormones or steriod are used.
Broiler is more nutritious than backyard/local chickens. Generally, he younger the animal the more nutritious it is. A 6 week old broiler is more nutritious than a 10 week old broiler. You can now see why white men prefer meat from young animals.
Seems like you know everything. THANKS.


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On Behalf of Law Office of Kevin L. Beard, P.A. | Dec 9, 2021 | Child Custody |
Shared parenting refers to an arrangement in which you and your former spouse divide the responsibilities for your children equally even after your divorce. You are both involved in any legal decision-making for your children, and the children spend nearly equal amounts of time with each parent.
According to the Children's Rights Council, Maryland law allows for a shared custody agreement if it is in the children's interests. However, the state does not require shared parenting.
What is a shared parenting presumption?
According to STAT News, multiple studies over several decades have affirmed that shared parenting is almost always the most desirable arrangement for children when their parents get a divorce. However, only a few states have adopted laws that would create a legal assumption that equal joint custody is in the children's interests. If you lived in one of these states and you did not believe that shared parenting was best for your children, you would have to present evidence to that effect. In Maryland, though, equal shared custody is not the default arrangement.
What does it mean that Maryland does not have a shared parenting presumption?
The fact that the law does not presume that shared parenting is in your children's interest does not mean that you and your spouse cannot have joint custody. Instead, it means that either or both of you must provide evidence to the court showing that equal joint custody is best for your children.
The children's interest is always the guiding principle behind custody decisions. However, the court may not agree with you about which arrangement would benefit the children most.


PORT HOPE—Buying or selling a house is stressful during the best of times, in the best of places.
What she didn't know was that there was low-level radioactive waste all over her house, which would thwart its sale. She also didn't know that a federal program to compensate homeowners suffering the stigma of being part of the biggest radioactive waste cleanup in Canadian history would deem her ineligible.
"It's been a nightmare," says Ball, sitting on the couch in her three-bedroom Harcourt St. home, a 10-minute walk from the town's charming downtown, with her beagle mix Lucy perched next to her.
The unique program, known as PVP, was introduced in 2001, when Ottawa decided to clean up the town. Homeowners who sell for considerably less than the appraised value can get the difference from the government.
But some residents, victims of the town's peculiar atomic history, say they're not being given access because they don't fit the highly specific criteria.
The Port Hope Area Initiative (PHAI), the federal agency in charge of the big cleanup, says the rules were decided a decade ago in a signed agreement between the federal government and the municipality of Port Hope. Politicians, including Mayor Linda Thompson, are toeing the line, saying the process is still unfolding.
The result, on the eve of the cleanup, has been a year's worth of angry emails and acrimonious meetings between homeowners and PHAI, on top of the rancour that has enveloped the town over differing views on the contamination and its solution.
The cleanup will entail digging out more than 1.2 million cubic metres of soil. It will last a decade, and cost at least $260 million. The waste will be trucked to a storage mound south of Highway 401, where it will be sealed up for centuries.
While some residents have been asking for years for an extensive health study, the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission says there is no danger to health in Port Hope. It all tends to make home buyers leery.
When Ball moved to Port Hope about three years ago, she bought the Harcourt St. house for $196,000 — not knowing, she says, about the radioactivity on her property.
Earlier this year, she decided to move back to Toronto and listed it at $219,000. That's when, following disclosure rules, she and her realtor discovered radioactivity present in the basement, the garage, laundry room and on the porch.
The practice in Port Hope is for realtors to contact the low-level radioactive waste office when a house is listed and ask for its status. A letter is sent out listing its history, which they are required to show to prospective buyers.
Ball took the findings to that office and was told remediation work would be done, for free, by August. But PHAI turned her down for the PVP program, saying she wasn't eligible.
Mark Giles, of PHAI, explained that PVP doesn't compensate people with low-level radioactive waste in their houses. It only covers properties that will be directly affected by the large-scale, long-term cleanup process, close to the dumpsite or along the route trucks will take to get there.
Giles says the program has worked well. Since 2001, 40 claims have been processed, with 29 approved for payment and 11 denied. Those who won their claim got an average of $50,000, from a total payout so far of $1.45 million.
Giles says he doesn't know how many homeowners were told not to bother applying because they're not eligible. He won't comment on specific cases, for privacy reasons.
But Steven Stefanski says he was eligible and got burned anyway.
In March 2010, the retired teacher sold his Ward St. home for $295,000, but the deal fell through because one of the buyers lost his job. In poor health, Stefanski had been advised to move to Toronto to be close to major hospitals. Unable to find another buyer, he sold it to his brother for $225,000.
Stefanski, who consulted with PVP staff, says his house was appraised by a PHAI appointee at only $240,000. That was $5,000 less than a 2004 appraisal conducted by another company approved by PVP staff, he says.
Stefanksi, who is seeking $70,000 — the difference between what his brother paid and the original offer — was unsuccessful in making his case through a mediator, and is now seeking arbitration.
He says he was never told about an "arm's-length" clause that bans homeowners from selling to relatives and filing a claim under PVP.
While he fires off one email after another — to MPs, MPPs, the mayor, PHAI and the minister of natural resources — his lawyer, John Morand, delves into the legal quagmire.
The Port Hope-based lawyer came out of retirement to help a half-dozen clients, including Ball and Stefanski, who have been turned down by PHAI.
A man of few words but many emails, he vows to pursue the issue till there's some resolution.
For her part, Mayor Thompson says her office has tried to help people with concerns about the PVP, and the municipality has worked with PHAI to address realtors' concerns.
Port Hope, quaint, prettier and cheaper than neighbouring Cobourg, was once considered a retirement destination. It may still be, but Katarina Eikland, Stefanski's onetime realtor, says the lingering stigma makes older buyers think twice.
Months can go by before anyone even checks out an available property. It takes six to eight months, even a couple of years, to sell.
Gord See, president of the Northumberland Hills Association of Realtors, wrote in an email that realtors are committed to helping clients understand the cleanup project, its effects, and eligibility concerns about PVP.


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There is a saying credited to our Mother Angela: " I wish I could multiply myself a thousand times…" We think we may know now how she felt. There are so many places where the Mother Angela Clinic is being invited to respond to the medical needs of the poor in the Diocese of Jacmel, especially those who live in the mountains. On Saturday, April 30, the Mother Angela Clinic team made its way to Decouze. Father Lesley, the new pastor at St. Michael's in our area, asked if our clinic could come at least once a month to visit his eight chapels. We met with the chapel leaders to talk about the spirit and legacy of Mother Angela, the clinic, and the community's health needs. The journey through the mountain is beautiful, but the roads are not easy to travel.


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Westmont Magazine Telescopes Put a Focus on the Sciences
Westmont's new observatory provides a fitting home for the Keck Telescope, which Professor Michael Sommermann demonstrates to Chris Morse '10.
For more than 50 years, Westmont has provided a window into the heavens through its exceptional telescopes and astronomy program. The powerful Keck Telescope has replaced older instruments, and the campus boasts a beautiful new observatory. Today, Westmont is better equipped than ever to conduct astronomical research and to invite students and local residents to view the night sky through the lens of a telescope.
Professor Emeritus Paul Wilt has written about the origins of Westmont's observatory. Peter Stoner, a visionary professor, helped build the first facility and acquire its telescopes. After teaching for more than 40 years at Pasadena High School and Pasadena City College, Stoner came out of retirement to provide critical leadership in the sciences at Westmont and chaired the division of natural sciences from 1953-57. Recognizing the great need for well-trained scientists and engineers in the midst of the Cold War, he developed a 3-2 pre-engineering program. Stoner was deeply committed to the integral relationship between science and faith. When the Citadel staff dedicated the 1957 yearbook to Stoner, they noted his "high standards of character and academic excellence" and his "inspiring vision of the Westmont of tomorrow."
Stoner directed the observatory at Pasadena City College and developed a friendship with George Carroll, chief instrument engineer of Lockheed Aircraft Corp. and a prominent amateur astronomer. Carroll had served as president of the Los Angeles Astronomical Society and the Association of Amateur Astronomers and belonged to the British Astronomical Society, the Association of the Lunar and Planetary Observers, and the Astronomical Society of the Pacific.
Carroll also knew Ruth Kerr, Westmont's principal founder, because they attended the same church. In a 1954 letter, Mrs. Kerr told Westmont President Roger Voskuyl that Carroll spoke to her at a church social and offered to build a large telescope for Westmont if the college would construct a building for it. Westmont accepted this gift, and Carroll completed two telescopes. The observatory built to house the instruments was named for Carroll and included a classroom and laboratory, a dark room, an office, storage space, restrooms, and two domes for the telescopes. The building was dedicated in June 1957, and the college presented a key to Carroll.
The 16-inch reflecting telescope was equipped for photographic, spectographical and micrometer work. The six-inch refracting telescope had a synchronous electric clock drive and could be taken outdoors and mounted on a tripod.
In 1963, Carroll constructed a better-known telescope for the Stony Ridge Observatory in California's San Gabriel Mountains using Westmont's as a prototype. Lockheed used this instrument to survey the moon for Apollo landing sites.
Westmont installed the 24-inch reflector Keck Telescope, an F/8 Cassegrain instrument with Ritchey-Chretien optics, in 2007. The instrument gathers twice the amount of light with nearly twice the resolving power of Carroll's telescope. It has captured spectacular images of the universe, such as supernova SN2008an and the volatile comet 17P/Holmes. The new observatory has a control center for the instruments and a place to view images. Carroll and Stoner would both feel right at home there.


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"Why didn't you just leave"?
It's a question I've been asked at least 1,000 times and asked myself even more often. Several weeks ago, I shared my story of the crisis that has been my life. Still, over and over, I've been asked by family, friends, and even police officers "why don't you just leave". "There's so many resources out there to help" is usually the line that follows this incredulous question. As if leaving has never crossed your mind.
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Did you know that it takes the average woman seven attempts before she leaves a violent relationship for good?
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Amazon is expanding its cashierless convenience store concept Amazon Go. The e-commerce giant plans to open up to six more artificial intelligence–powered stores this year. Recode first reported the news Thursday.
Some of the new stores are likely to open in Seattle, where the first Amazon Go is based, and in Los Angeles, sources familiar with the matter told Recode. It's unclear if Amazon is considering other cities for the new stores.
According to the report, Amazon has held serious talks with real estate developer Rick Caruso about building a Go store in LA's the Grove, a 600,000-square-foot high-end shopping plaza.
"We don't comment on rumors or speculation," an Amazon spokesperson told BuzzFeed News.
After a highly publicized delay, Amazon's first Go store opened in January to much excitement.
The store doesn't have any cashiers. Instead, customers who have an Amazon login download the Amazon Go app and scan a QR code to go through a turnstile at the store.
Inside the store, a system of computer vision, AI, and other sensors detect each item shoppers take off (or place back on) shelves. Customers are billed once they leave the store. If they aren't satisfied with a purchase, shoppers can simply hit a "refund" button.
Amazon Go has been hailed as the store of the future. But it also has raised concerns about the tech giant building out physical shops that don't require many workers.
In the first Amazon Go store in Seattle, there are workers who prepare fresh food and meals in an open kitchen visible to shoppers. And there is a store greeter near the entrance and a worker who checks customer IDs near the beer and wine selection.
About 3.5 million people work as cashiers in gas stations, grocery stores, and other general merchandise stores, according to the Bureau of Labor.


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Marc Mifune (born in Rennes, France), whose stage name is Les Gordon, is a French electronic musician and songwriter.

Early life
Gordon went to the École des Beaux-Arts.  Originally from Rennes, he studied at the École Émile-Cohl in Lyon. His father is  Taiwanese and his stage name comes from the Scottish artist Douglas Gordon. He notably studied cello and guitar.

Career
Mifune began creating his first tracks under the pseudonym Morning Crash, when he began learning how to make computer-aided music. His current stage name, Les Gordon, is a reference to Douglas Gordon, videographer and visual artist; "Les" is an English name that references British artists such as Four Tet, Gold Panda, Mount Kimbie and many others.

Mifune has been an opening act for Stromae (Rencontres Trans Musicales of 2013), Madeon (Le Trianon) and Fauve (eighteen representations ).

He composed Saisons (2014), Les cheveux longs (2015) and Atlas (2016), along with a collaboration EP, Croquis n°1 (2015). and signed to the French label Kitsuné after leaving the label Allo Floride.

He has a band, which is called Singapour (2015), where Gordon is a producer and his friend Roman Oswald writes lyrics.

He is featured in several duos such as Mondrian with Roman Oswald and Leska with Douchka.

Nearly in 2018, Mifune was signed to French subdivision of Sony Music's record label Arista Records.

In the same year, he released his long-play album La. This album included song Flirting With June, that was used in Apple's September Event 2019 intro and advertisment Wonderful tools.

Albums
White Land (25 August 2013)
Diadème (3 March 2014)
Françoise // Brigitte (20 June 2014)
Atlas (11 December 2016)
La (29 June 2018)

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External links

French electronic musicians
Musicians from Rennes
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Kitsuné artists

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Marshawn Lynch has Seattle in a Beast Mode frenzy
Sporting Green // Scott Ostler
Scott Ostler Dec. 29, 2019 Updated: Dec. 29, 2019 2:52 p.m.
Seattle Seahawks running back Marshawn Lynch smiles during warmups at the NFL football team's practice facility Tuesday, Dec. 24, 2019, in Renton, Wash. When Lynch played his last game for the Seahawks in 2016, the idea of him ever wearing a Seahawks uniform again seemed preposterous. Yet, here are the Seahawks getting ready to have Lynch potentially play a major role Sunday against San Francisco with the NFC West title on the line. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)
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SEATTLE - For the final and most important game of the NFL regular season, 49ers vs. Seahawks, the Seahawks pulled out the most creative and eye-popping move of the NFL season. Or the most desperate.
The Seahawks didn't sign running back Marshawn Lynch because they needed a cheerleader, but that's what they got. This city is on fire with Beast Mode Mania. He last played here four seasons ago, and hasn't played anywhere in the last 14 months, but folks here have not forgotten their guy.
The feeling here seems to be that the beat-up Seahawks had little chance against the surging 49ers. . .Until last Monday, when news hit that Beast Mode was back.
My Lyft driver from the airport Saturday couldn't talk about anything but Lynch. I finally changed the subject to the weather. Rain expected.
"It will be wet, and Beast Mode loves the mud," the guy said.
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A Bay Area equivalent to the this mania would be if the Giants needed to win on the last day of the season to win the NL West and they brought back Timmy Lincecum to pitch. And then they brought Jeremy Affeldt out of retirement, too.
Because the Seahawks, along with exhuming Lynch, also signed free agent running back Robert "Turbo" Turbin last week. The Seahawks drafted Turbin in the fourth round in 2012 and he spent three seasons backing up Lynch, then got cut and bounced around to three other teams, and was out of football this season. Until now.
Lynch arrived in Seattle by time machine.
"He told me he feels like he's 16 years old," Lynch's agent, Doug Hendrickson told the Seattle media Friday. "He's having the time of his life."
And doing good business. News of Lynch's comeback sent sales of his Beast Mode apparel soaring. The special edition "Back in Action" and "Unfinished Business" t-shirts ($40) and hoodies ($70) were flying off the racks, ringing up $150,000 in business in the four days after the signing.
"It's fantastic," said Seahawks' fan Erin Matheson outside CenturyLink Field before the game. "It's a boost, like an adrenalin shot that he's going to give our team, which it needs."
Lynch's comeback was set in motion before this season started. According to Hendrickson, Seattle GM John Schnieder called him and said, "Hey, man, wouldn't it be cool if Marshawn came back at some point. Would he want to come back?"
They kept in touch. Then last Sunday, in a game against the Cardinals, the Seahawks lost running backs Chris Carson and C.J. Prosise to injuries. Earlier this month the Seahawks lost starting running back Rashaad Penny. Desperation.
That's when Schneider lit the Beast Mode light over Seattle, an SOS. Lynch, who was in Toronto, jumped. When Hendrickson phoned with the news, Lynch said, "Are you kidding me. Dude, I'm all in!"
It's weird. Absolutely nobody knows if Lynch will Beast-out for 200 yards, or trip over the chalk line during intros. Uncharted waters, but fun waters.
"Every once in a while, I've got to tell you, I'm chuckling about it," said Seahawks coach Pete Carroll Friday. "There he is. He's back with us. It's exciting, and I like it, too, just like the fans like it."
Scott Ostler is a San Francisco Chronicle columnist. Email: sostler@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @scottostler
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Scott Ostler has been a sports columnist at the San Francisco Chronicle since 1991. He has covered five Olympics for The Chronicle, as well as one soccer World Cup and numerous World Series, Super Bowls and NBA Finals.
Though he started in sports and is there now, Scott took a couple of side trips into the real world for The Chronicle. For three years he wrote a daily around-town column, and for one year, while still in sports, he wrote a weekly humorous commentary column.
He has authored several books and written for many national publications. Scott has been voted California Sportswriter of the Year 13 times, including six times while at The Chronicle. He moved to the Bay Area from Southern California, where he worked for the Los Angeles Times, the National Sports Daily and the Long Beach Press-Telegram.
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When the temperature sinks to minus 20, every man-made thing enduring the frigid cold protests. The garage door labors to rise and fall, as if it suffers aches and pains with every inch of movement. It loudly protests with a drawn out racket shouting its reluctance to the waking neighborhood.
Each sound is unnaturally loud in the cold, clear air where no bird sings at morning's light, and there is no pulsing chirp of a million insects to fill the night. Cold silence is the province of deep winter; until broken by the cold clamp on nature or our invention's resistance to its dominance.
Winter closes in as it wears on. It clothes us in layers against the cold, cocooning us away from the world. Snow accumulates and as it is does it creeps in against our pushing back, narrowing streets, long country driveways, decks and sidewalks. Our mindset too easily comes to wear the overclothed and closed in sense.
But there is optimism in February's lengthening days and warming sun and that varmint out in Pennsylvania seems to agree. Even if he had predicted six more weeks of winter we would say, "Bring it on." We would welcome winter ending in the middle of March.
And what does the groundhog know of global warming and polar vortices, El Nino and La Nina, or the North Pacific Oscillation?
Groundhog Day is an astronomically based holiday, Deanne Morrison of Minnesota Starwatch writes. "It's one of four 'cross-quarter days' celebrated by the ancient Celts midway between a solstice and an equinox. It was believed that if the day was sunny it augured continued cold and winter, but cloudy, shadowless days presaged spring rains.The Celts called the day Imbolc, meaning lamb's milk, because it fell at the start of lambing season." The Celts were living in England on the European continent at the time.
Native Americans knew and settlers knew something about the progress of winter illustrated in the naming of the moons. February's moon is known by a number of names including the Snow Moon and the Hunger Moon. February was a time of accumulating snow and deep drifts. It was a time when the game became more scare, predators more desperate and daring in their forays into farmyards. As the month wore on, it was also when the food stored up for the winter in the pantry began to show its depletion.
February's moon was also called the Bony Moon and Little Famine Moon, reflecting the growing thinness of food supplies. It was also known as the Trapper's Moon as during these coldest days of winter in a month closing out winter's coldest months, the fur on the beaver was thickest.
This February's full moon will be a super moon when it arrives Feb. 19 only seven hours after its lunar cycle around the Earth brings it closest to us. Of course, the early settlers of this land knew nothing of lunar cycles, but they did know the harsh realities of a cold winter.
As we observed earlier, our days are now getting longer and the sun has the strength even on cold days to warm surfaces and melt snow.
Since Dec. 21, the shortest day of the year, we have picked up 1 hour and 16 minutes of daylight. It is getting noticeably lighter in the morning and staying light longer into the late afternoon. During February we will pick up 1 hour and 18 minutes of light. February 1 the sun rose at 7:43 a.m. but by Feb. 28 it is rising 40 minutes earlier at 7:03. The sun set at 5:30 p.m. Feb. 1 and will set 38 minutes later at 6:08 p.m. Feb. 28.
This is the last month of meteorological winter. But seasons never let go easily and we know March can bring deep snows and frigid temperatures all the way up to the last day. Still, it's hard not to let the mind wander to warmer days.
And what is the end of winter? Is it the last snowfall? Is it the warmth that comes from the lengthening day that melts the snow and sends it running in sparkling rivulets down the city streets, or off blackening fields into drainage ditches? Is it the grass turning green as the snow fades away? On what night do we hear that first insect chirp, and what morning that first robin sing?


Jerold William Clark, a resident of Henryetta, passed away August 21, 2018 in Henryetta, OK at the age of 80. He was born Saturday, April 30, 1938 in California to Earl William Clark Jr. & Katherine Lucille (Skaggs).
He was preceded in death by his parents, his wife, Nancy Clark, and his daughter, Crystalyn Clark.
two great grandchildren, Andri McKnight and Caelen McKnight of Henryetta.
A memorial service will be held at Ft. Gibson National Cemetery in Ft. Gibson, Oklahoma at 2:00 pm, Friday, August 31, 2018. Services are under the direction of Integrity Funeral Service in Henryetta.


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Gaston Pereiro was the match-winner as Uruguay began their New Zealand 2015 campaign with a hard-fought 1-0 victory over Serbia to move joint-top of Group D. The outcome was harsh on the Europeans, who dominated much of this full-blooded encounter at Dunedin's Otago Stadium.
Most had expected Uruguay - finalists in 2013 - to boss this encounter and they did have the first of the game's clear-cut chances. With 17 minutes played, Facundo Castro looped over a right-footed cross that Pereiro rose to meet powerfully, forcing a smart save from keeper Predrag Rajkovic.
Serbia emerged as the assured side, though, and twice went close before the interval. First, Ivan Saponjic ran clean through only for a heavy touch to allow Gaston Guruceaga to save at his feet, and then Andrija Zivkovic cut in from the right to test the reflexes of Gaston Guruceaga.
Yet, having offered very little, it was Uruguay who took the lead 11 minutes into the second half. Castro was the goal's architect with a lovely, lofted outside-of-the-foot pass and star man Pereiro finished it off, prodding left-footed beyond the advancing Rajkovic.
Serbia piled on the pressure thereafter and came close on several occasions, most notably when Sergey Milinkovic smashed inches wide from a half-cleared corner. But the South Americans held out for a win that leaves them just one behind Mali on goal difference, and sees Serbia propping up the section with Mexico.


CLAYTON Villa under 15s reached the County Cup final with a convincing 4-0 win over 10-man Hindsford.
Clayton ended a scrappy first half with a 1-0 lead thanks to a well-taken goal from Chris Evans.
The second half was a different affair as Clayton upped their game and dominated.
Quick goals came from Isaac Amoah and Tom Fieldhouse.
Clayton continued to press forward and another good finish from Isaac Amoah ensured a win.
Clayton will meet Cadishead Sports in the final on 24 April at the Manchester County ground.


Director Alix Delaporte reunites her ensemble cast from Angèle et Tony (FFC 2012) for a new look at families at a crossroads. 13-year old Victor lives with his ailing mother in a trailer by the beach in the South of France. One day he wanders into the Montpellier Opera house and becomes transfixed by the music of Mahler's 6th Symphony; little do we know that he and the maestro conducting the orchestra have an important connection. From that point on, Victor will immerse himself in a musical and life-changing journey.


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Blue & Lonesome je studiové album anglické rockové skupiny The Rolling Stones. Vydáno bylo 2. prosince roku 2016 společností Polydor Records. Jde o první studiové album kapely po více než jedenácti letech: předchozí deska A Bigger Bang vyšla v září 2005. Album obsahuje celkem dvanáct coververzí bluesových písní z padesátých a šedesátých let. Kromě členů kapely se na albu podílel například kytarista Eric Clapton.

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 "Just Your Fool" (Little Walter)
 "Commit a Crime" (Chester Burnett)
 "Blue and Lonesome" (Little Walter)
 "All of Your Love" (Samuel Maghett)
 "I Gotta Go" (Little Walter)
 "Everybody Knows About My Good Thing" (Miles Grayson, Lermon Horton)
 "Ride 'Em On Down" (Eddie Taylor)
 "Hate to See You Go" (Little Walter)
 "Hoo Doo Blues" (Otis Hicks, Jerry West)
 "Little Rain" (Ewart Abner, Jimmy Reed)
 "Just Like I Treat You" (Willie Dixon)
 "I Can't Quit You Baby" (Willie Dixon)

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 The Rolling Stones
 Mick Jagger – zpěv, harmonika
 Keith Richards – kytara
 Ron Wood – kytara
 Charlie Watts – bicí

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 Eric Clapton – kytara
 Darryl Jones – baskytara
 Matt Clifford – klávesy
 Chuck Leavell – klávesy
 Jim Keltner – perkuse

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Fintech platform revenues derived from supporting the insurance industry will reach almost $235 billion globally by 2021, up 34% y-o-y from an estimated $175 billion this year, says a new study from Juniper Research.
The study, Fintech Futures: Market Disruption, Leading Innovators & Emerging Opportunities 2016-2021, forecasts that growth will be driven by a combination of factors including machine learning investments enabling insurance providers to personalize products, insurers deploying mobile apps to improve their customer experience, and investments in blockchain technologies to underpin smart contracts.
Juniper says the value chain in the insurance market is transforming rapidly, which will force traditional providers to improve their offerings and customer service to fend off the threat posed by fintech suppliers, particularly in the car insurance sector.
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