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Ashton Kutcher Explains His Son Dimitri's Name—and Why Wyatt Might "Kill" Her Brother
by Zach Johnson | Mon., May. 1, 2017 4:40 AM
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When Ashton Kutcher last appeared on The Ellen DeGeneres Show in May 2016, he was keeping a secret: Mila Kunis was pregnant with their second child. At the time, he did his best to keep quiet as he and Dax Shepard joined Kunis and Kristen Bell for a game of "Never Have I Ever." As Ashton said on Monday's show, Mila feared she might blurt out the news on TV. "She was at that mark of right before you could tell people, but she was worried people were going to know. I was like, 'No one's going to know.' But then you said something, and she thought that you knew, but you didn't know," he tells host Ellen DeGeneres. "I was afraid I was going to come out here and spill the beans—because I have a tendency to do that. It got disconcerting."
The couple welcomed their son, Dimitri Portwood Kutcher, on Nov. 30 at 1:21 a.m. in L.A. "That's a great name," DeGeneres said, "because everybody names their kids the same thing."
Ashton, who initially wanted to name his son Hawkeye, said Mila suggested the name. "We're on our way to date night, and Mila turns to me and she goes, 'So, I think Donald Trump is going to become the President, and I think our baby's name is Dimitri.' I was like, 'Donald Trump's not going to win the...'" he said. "And then I forgot about the name thing because I was like, 'Why do you think Donald Trump is going to win?' I'm telling you, she called it! It's not even a joke."
Mila suggested the name—and predicted Donald's win—"probably two months out."
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"Two weeks later," the 39- year-old Ranch actor said, "I got home from work, and for some reason the name just stuck in my head. I was like, 'I think Dimitri is the name of the baby.' And she was like, 'I know, right?' 'Yeah, that's it!' So, that's it. And then Trump became President. Everything Mila says is right! She's my wife, so that's just what it is. Everything she says is right."
Thankfully, the couple's 2-year-old daughter Wyatt Kutcher isn't "jealous" of her sibling. "Wyatt thinks the baby is her baby, and at some point I'm going to have to explain to her it's not really her baby. I don't know how I'm going to do that. She loves the baby so much," Ashton gushed. "It's like Of Mice and Men. She's like, 'I love you and hold you and squeeze you and name you George.' I'm afraid she's like Lenny, like, 'You're going to squeeze the baby's head off, honey!'"
As for Dimitri, Ashton said, "He loves everyone. Anyone comes near him and he's like, 'Hi!'"
"But when Wyatt comes near him...he's like Kung Fu Panda when she comes near. He's afraid she's going to kill him," the father of two said in jest. "I went through a phase where I had to keep Wyatt alive, and then I went through a phase where I had to keep her from killing herself, and now I'm going through a phase where I have to keep her from killing the other baby."
"She loves this baby—maybe more than me," Ashton added. "It's, like, borderline."
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Pittsburgh District Office
1000 Liberty Avenue
Mr. Ernest Anderson, Financial Secretary
Communications Workers AFL-CIO
Local 88643
102 Miller Rd.
Sarver, PA 16055
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Dear Mr. Anderson:
This office has recently completed an audit of CWA Local 88643 under the Compliance Audit Program (CAP) to determine your organization's compliance with the provisions of the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959 (LMRDA). As discussed during the exit interview with you and President George Latta on June 5, 2009, the following problems were disclosed during the CAP. The matters listed below are not an exhaustive list of all possible problem areas since the audit conducted was limited in scope.
The audit of Local 88643's 2008 records revealed the following recordkeeping violations:
Local 88643 did not retain adequate documentation for reimbursed expenses incurred by Financial Secretary Ernest Anderson totaling at least $8.40. For example, Financial Secretary Anderson lost a postage receipt for a book of stamps for which he was reimbursed.
As previously noted above, labor organizations must retain original receipts, bills, and vouchers for all disbursements. The president and treasurer (or corresponding principal officers) of your union, who are required to sign your union's LM report, are responsible for properly maintaining union records.
2.	Meal Expenses
Local 88643 did not require officers and employees to submit itemized receipts for meal expenses totaling at least $1,690. The union must maintain itemized receipts provided by restaurants to officers and employees. These itemized receipts are necessary to determine if such disbursements are for union business purposes and to sufficiently fulfill the recordkeeping requirement of LMRDA Section 206.
Local 88643 records of meal expenses did not always include written explanations of union business conducted or the names and titles of the persons incurring the restaurant charges. For example, President Latta incurred approximately $1,476 in reimbursed meal expenses in which he failed to provide an explanation of the union business conducted and the names and titles of persons attending the meal. Union records of meal expenses must include written explanations of the union business conducted and the full names and titles of all persons who incurred the restaurant charges. Also, the records retained must identify the names of the restaurants where the officers or employees incurred meal expenses.
3.	Failure to Record Receipts
Local 88643 did not record in its receipts records some dues checkoff checks electronically deposited to the local's bank totaling at least $2,223. For example, Local 88643 failed to record direct deposits received on February 20, 2008, May 30, 2008, and September 26, 2008. Union receipts records must include an adequate identification of all money the union receives. The records should show the date and amount received, and the source of the money.
Entries in Local 88643's check register failed to note the date the union received electronic dues deposits. Union receipts records must show the date of receipt. The date of receipt is required to verify, explain, or clarify amounts required to be reported in Statement B (Receipts and Disbursements) of the LM-3. The LM-3 instructions for Statement B state that the labor organization must record receipts when it actually receives money and disbursements when it actually pays out money. Failure to record the date money was received could result in the union reporting some receipts for a different year than when it actually received them.
Based on your assurance that Local 88643 will retain adequate documentation in the future, OLMS will take no further enforcement action at this time regarding the above violations.
The audit disclosed a violation of LMRDA Section 201(b), which requires labor organizations to file annual financial reports accurately disclosing their financial condition and operations. The Labor Organization Annual Report Form LM-3 filed by Local 88643 for fiscal year ending September 30, 2008, was deficient in the following areas:
1.	Disbursements to Officers
Local 88643 did not include some reimbursements to officers totaling at least $291 in the amounts reported Item 24 (All Officers and Disbursements to Officers). It appears the union erroneously reported these payments in Item 54.
The union must report most direct disbursements to Local 88643 officers and some indirect disbursements made on behalf of its officers in Item 24. A "direct disbursement" to an officer is a payment made to an officer in the form of cash, property, goods, services, or other things of value. See the instructions for Item 24 for a discussion of certain direct disbursements to officers that do not have to be reported in Item 24. An "indirect disbursement" to an officer is a payment to another party (including a credit card company) for cash, property, goods, services, or other things of value received by or on behalf of an officer. However, indirect disbursements for temporary lodging (such as a union check issued to a hotel) or for transportation by a public carrier (such as an airline) for an officer traveling on union business should be reported in Item 48 (Office and Administrative Expense).
2.	Failure to File Bylaws
The audit disclosed a violation of LMRDA Section 201(a), which requires that a union submit a copy of its revised constitution and bylaws with its LM report when it makes changes to its constitution or bylaws. Local 88643 amended its constitution and bylaws in 1996, but did not file a copy with its LM report for that year.
Local 88643 has now filed a copy of its constitution and bylaws.
I am not requiring that Local 88643 file an amended LM report for 2008 to correct the deficient items, but Local 88643 has agreed to properly report the deficient items on all future reports it files with OLMS.
1.	Use of Signature Stamp
During the audit, you advised that it is Local 88643's practice to sign all union checks using your and President Latta's signature stamps. Article V, Sections 2 and 4 of Local 88643's bylaws requires that checks be signed by the president and financial secretary-treasurer. The two signature requirement is an effective internal control of union funds. Its purpose is to attest to the authenticity of a completed document already signed. However, the use of a signature stamp does not attest to the authenticity of the completed check, and negates the purpose of the two signature requirement. OLMS recommends that Local 88643 review these procedures to improve internal control of union funds.
2.	Signing Blank Checks
During the audit, you advised that you occasionally sign blank checks. Your union's bylaws require that all checks be signed by the president and financial secretary-treasurer. The two signature requirement is an effective internal control of union funds. Its purpose is to attest to the authenticity of a completed document already signed. However, signing a blank check in advance does not attest to the authenticity of a completed check, and negates the purpose of the two signature requirement. OLMS recommends that Local 88643 review these procedures to improve internal control of union funds.
I want to extend my personal appreciation to CWA Local 88643 for the cooperation and courtesy extended during this compliance audit. I strongly recommend that you make sure this letter and the compliance assistance materials provided to you are passed on to future officers. If we can provide any additional assistance, please do not hesitate to call.
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August 2nd, 2015:
Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement Must Protect Nations' Right to Enact Measures to Reduce Tobacco Use
http://www.asiantribune.com/node/87558
By Manjari Peiris
The negotiations of Trans-Pacific Partnerships (TPP) are in the final stages this week in Maui – the tobacco industry and its political allies have stepped up their fight against any safeguard for tobacco control measures by claiming it would harm tobacco farmers.
It is a shame that tobacco companies are hiding behind tobacco growers to disguise their own wrongful and abusive behavior, states Matthew L. Myers, President, Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids.
The proposed TPP provision is focused on preventing tobacco manufacturers' abuse of the international trade system. It addresses the actions of cigarette manufacturers and not growers, and would not impact trade of tobacco leaf, in any way.
The United States and the 11 other countries involved must ensure that the final agreement protects the right of participating nations to adopt public health measures to reduce tobacco use and prevents tobacco companies from using the TPP to attack such measures.
Since the tobacco industry behave in abusive manner using trade and investment agreements to challenge tobacco control measures around the world, it is absolutely necessary that the TPP include this safeguard.
Tobacco products are the only consumer products that kill when used as intended. Currently tobacco kills about six million people each year in the world. It is projected to kill one billion people in this century, if not governments implement effective tobacco control policies. There is a global compromise that nations must act to reduce tobacco use as demonstrated by an international public health treaty – The Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) of the World Health Organization. Up to now 180 countries and the European Union have ratified this treaty.
The TPP must protect public health measures relating to tobacco from being challenged under the agreement, specifically under a legal mechanism called investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) that allows foreign companies to sue governments in international trade tribunals.
The tobacco industry has filed or threatened to file costly trade lawsuits, with the aim of defeating effective tobacco control measures or intimidating government into inaction. These cases undermine the sovereignty of nations and their right to protect the health of their citizens.
Australia and Uruguay are currently battling such lawsuits, and other countries have faced or been threatened with them. The tobacco industry's behavior is a real and direct threat to public health around the world, and it must be stopped.
The Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids has joined dozens of public health groups in the U.S. and worldwide, as well as many members of Congress, in urging that tobacco control measures be protected under the Trans-Pacific Partnership. The United States and other countries involved must act to protect children and health around the world rather than the interests of the tobacco industry.
– Asian Tribune
Farmers rejoice over bringing down GHW to 50 percent
http://www.brecorder.com/agriculture-a-allied/183/1213450/
On Friday the federal government has agreed with the tobacco industry that the size of pictorial warning on cigarette packets should be increased to 50% from the current 40% and after two years a survey will be conducted to assess if increasing the size of the warning indeed made smokers quit smoking cigarettes, or they have started smoking smuggled cigarettes.
This decision is highly welcomed by the farmers association. "We are grateful to Finance Minister Ishaq Dar, Health Minister Saira Afzal Tarar and the Members of the Inter-Ministerial Committee for withdrawing the 85% GHW SRO which had raised concerns in the farmers community because of its negative impact on the local tobacco industry including 75000 tobacco farmers whose livelihoods were at stake," said Rustam Khan Swati- President Anjuman Kashtkara and Tobacco Hazara Division.
He specially thanked Ishaq Dar for sharing the concerns of the poor tobacco farmers by timely intervening in the matter and forming an Inter-Ministerial Committee to assess the impact of the 85% GHW on cigarette packs. He further stated, "It is of great satisfaction that policymakers have considered and acknowledged legitimate request of the tobacco farmers to secure their future due to the excessive regulatory order which was bound to hit the local industry while paving way for illicit smuggled cigarettes with no health warnings".
Swati also thanked Chairman PTB Faridullah Khan for providing support to tobacco farmers in difficult times. He expressed hope that in the future government will consult farmers before issuing any excessive regulatory order aimed at harming thousands of tobacco farmers in that process.-PR
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An appeal to replace the church at Mapoon which was burned in 1963 has been launched. Rohan Salmond writes.
A new appeal to rebuild the church at Mapoon has been authorised by the 14th Assembly.
Mapoon, on Cape York in far north Queensland was originally a Presbyterian mission. Bauxite was discovered in Mapoon during the 1950s, making the area of great interest to mining companies. With cooperation of the church, the Queensland Government cut services to Mapoon, closing the community.
In November 1963 the government forcibly removed the remaining residents from their homes and the church building was burned to discourage people from returning.
Mapoon resident Marda Pitt was elated at the decision to rebuild.
"You don't know how much it means for my community at this time," she said.
Uniting Church president Stuart McMillan reiterated the apology made by the Uniting Church president in 1990.
"Sir Ronald Wilson made an apology for the destruction of the church and for not being as outspoken as we should have been. There was an appeal in 2001 to raise funds to rebuild and we are relaunching that today," said Stuart.
The Uniting Church Assembly also resolved to work with the Uniting Aboriginal and Islander Christian Congress (UAICC) on a compensation claim to the Queensland Government and the relevant mining companies.
Donations to the Mapoon Church Appeal can be made by direct deposit.
Please reference your deposit with "Mapoon" to make it easier to identify. Donations are not tax deductible.


@garbados Heeeellllllllllllll no. 1.) There are way too many management types in the world who want to treat programmers as factory workers, this would only exacerbate that problem. 2.) Too many programmers harbour ideas of being on the other side of the table at some point in there career that they wouldn't join for fear of damaging their future prospects (e.g. VCs won't fund companies founded by former union members). Better idea: programmers need to form more worker's co-operatives.
@garbados You've missed my point somewhat. It's not the motivations of VCs, it's the programmers that I'm citing as the problem in your plan. Many of them (for whatever reason) see themselves as on the side of capital. Because of this I don't think you can get the critical mass for a union to work. That is unless you're planning on going down the "join the union or we'll break your legs" route.
sorry for the flippancy, it's just "union" can refer to so many different kinds of trade and labor organizations while your critique aimed squarely at a very specific form. this happens once or twice whenever i bring up unions so i'm not always inclined to engage the critique.
@garbados That's fine. Not sure about where you are from, but here in the UK the union movement at large have done a good job of promoting that specific form as what a union is (not to mention that specific form is what a union is defined as legally). If what you are saying is that programmers need to collectively negotiate with their employers, yeah sure, I could see that as useful. There is just a lot of baggage that comes from that form of unionisation that I would not welcome.
i'm in the US where even saying "union" can get you fired. being that our craft is international, we will ultimately need international forms of collectivization in order to demand and establish the high technical and ethical standards that public infrastructure requires.


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Refrigeration of electrical equipment
A typical application of fluid simulation is modelling the cooling of electrical (e.g. pumps) or electronic (computer clusters) equipment. This type of equipment can suffer damage or malfunction (decrease in efficiency) when temperatures are not much higher than ambient temperature (for example, above 40ºC).
For this reason, a good cooling system design is necessary to guarantee that the equipment does not reach the maximum limit temperatures and, in addition, optimizes the energy consumption. For these reasons, fluid simulation (CFD) is applied to this type of problem regularly.
In this post, we describe the application of fluid simulation (CFD) to the building where the Almudévar reservoir pumping station pumps are housed. The pump station consists of 7 pumps (one of them will generally not be active). The heat released by the pump speed drives is considerable (more than 100 kW per pump). In addition, depending on the day and time the pumping is carried out (for example, a summer day at 2:00 p.m.), the heat received by the building from the environment is considerable. Considering these heat sources and that the maximum air temperature in the building should not exceed 40ºC, a cooling system is necessary.
The designed system consists of air inlets located just in front of the pump speed drives and a set of fans situated in the opposite wall. The fans create an adequate airflow to cool the areas near the pumps without reaching the maximum temperature set.
nablaDot, using fluid simulation techniques, has supported the design of the cooling system for the pumps. In the following video, you can see the air temperature evolution in two transverse planes of the pumping station.
The following video shows the evolution of the air temperature in a horizontal plane (at the level of the air inlets) and a vertical plane located between the air inlets and the pump speed drives.
Fluid simulation provides valuable and detailed information to achieve a suitable design of the cooling systems of electrical and electronic equipment. A bad design can lead to operational problems and material damage with considerable economic costs.
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Step 1 Put oven rack in middle position and preheat oven to 350°F. Butter and flour tart pan, knocking out excess flour.
Step 2 Stir together all crust ingredients in a bowl with a fork until combined well, then press mixture with your fingers and the back of a spoon evenly and firmly onto bottom and up side of tart pan.
Step 3 Bake crust until a shade darker, 8 to 10 minutes, then transfer to a rack and cool to room temperature, about 30 minutes.
Step 4 While crust cools, whisk together sour cream, brown sugar, chiles, and zest in a small bowl until sugar is dissolved.
Step 5 Beat cream cheese in a bowl with an electric mixer until smooth, then add sour cream mixture and beat until combined well.
Step 6 Prepare grill for cooking. If using a charcoal grill, open vents on bottom of grill, then light charcoal.
Step 7 Charcoal fire is medium-hot when you can hold your hand 5 inches above rack for 3 to 4 seconds. If using a gas grill, preheat burners on high, covered, 10 minutes, then reduce heat to moderately high.
Step 8 While coals are lighting, put pineapple quarters on a cutting board, long cut sides down, and cut lengthwise into slices slightly less than 1/4 inch thick with an adjustable-blade slicer or a knife (use caution; peeled pineapple is extremely slippery).
Step 9 Grill pineapple in 2 batches, covered only if using a gas grill, on lightly oiled grill rack, turning over once with tongs, until tender, about 5 minutes total.
Step 10 (If pineapple sticks to rack, use a metal spatula to loosen before turning.) Transfer to a platter and cool to room temperature, about 15 minutes.
Step 11 Spread filling in tart shell, then press raspberries into cream. Gently push up bottom of pan to loosen pan bottom (with crust) from side of pan, then carefully lift out tart and transfer to a work surface.
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Step 14 Melt jelly with water in a small saucepan over moderate heat, stirring until smooth, then brush glaze onto pineapple with pastry brush.


The Romans have long been held up as one of the first 'civilised' societies, and yet in fact they were capable of immense cruelty. Not only that, but they made the killing of humans into a sport. The spoiled emperors were the perpetrators (and sometimes the victims) of some imaginative murders. DANGEROUS DAYS IN THE ROMAN EMPIRE will include some of the violent ways to visit the Elysian Fields (i.e. death) including: animal attack in the Coliseum; being thrown from the Tarpeian Rock – 370 deserters in 214 AD alone (or if the emperor didn't like your poetry); by volcanic eruption from Vesuvius; by kicking (Nero's fatal quarrel with the Empress Poppea); from poison mushrooms (Claudius); by great fires; torturous tarring; flogging to death; boiling lead (the invention of 'kind' Emperor Constantine); or being skinned alive by invading barbarians.
DANGEROUS DAYS IN THE ROMAN EMPIRE looks at the back-story leading up to the victims' deaths, and in doing so gives the general reader a concise history of a frequently misunderstood era.


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Mamuthones
Fear On The Corner
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"The songs deal with fear. Fear of the present, of human situations, fear of the new political situation, fear of political decisions being taken from other people's fear, but also fear of relationship breakdown, fear of being alone or fear of being together with the wrong people, fear of not finding "a place in the world", personal fear and obsession, fear of fear itself".
So reckons Alessio Gastaldello, founder member of Mamuthones, who may have originally taken their name from the death-masks used in rituals in their native Sardinia, and initially emerged from the Italian occult psychedelic movement alongside the likes of Father Murphy, Mai Mai Mai and their labelmates Lay Llamas. Yet now, in the wake of their Rocket Recordings debut album "Fear On The Corner" the band find themselves undergoing a metamorphosis from mystical and ceremonial realms into a direct connection with the everyday, the personal and the political.
This vibrant reinvention also sees Mamuthones transcending their roots in Italian prog and soundtrack work, as a steady diet of krautrock and disco has succeeded in shifting their modus operandi firmly in the direction of a distinctly New York-based headspace - a realm of mirrorballs and black-clad basements both. Manifesting an anything-goes sphere of influence whilst tightening up their songwriting from the jam-based explorations of yore, the band have thus created a kaleidoscopic collision of groove-based intrigue and cerebral invention - as adept with infectious hooks as incendiary wig-outs.
As Alessio tells it, the band's set at Liverpool International Festival Of Psychedelia marked the end of a chapter, and the arrival of new drummer Andrea Davì marking a move into a more groove-based. eclectic style that finds its metier in the realm of two albums which are paid direct homage in the record's very title - the bleak and kinetic "Fear Of Music" by Talking Heads and the iconoclastic, heat-haze repetition of Miles Davis' "On The Corner". Charging a propulsive rhythmic drive with a tightness of songwriting that might bring LCD Soundsystem to mind for many, tracks like the cyclical pulse and absurdist poetry of opener "Cars", the kraut-tinged vortex of the title track and the insidiously catchy floor-filler-in-waiting "Alone" are as rich in maverick spirit as they are sonic invention.
This is principally an aural landscape whereby the eclectic mischief of ZE Records, the sonic brinksmanship of "Tago Mago" era Can and the dub-tinged grooves of UK turn-of-the-'80s post-punk can happily form communion in a post-2AM reverie. Yet the band's ritualistic beginnings are more than apparent in the closing "Here We Are", in which a twilit tapestry of drone, Latin percussion, mantric recitations and vocal exorcisms builds to a demonic conclusion.
"It is a big dance party for very sad events" clarifies Alessio, on the disparity between the serious nature of this record's subject matter and its distinctly hedonistic atmosphere. "We are a kind of Titanic orchestra playing and dancing while the ship goes down. The party must go on".


So a couple of weekends ago I wound up feeling like a real doofus. Regular listeners may recall one of Weekender's picks in early February was the Flynt Flossy/Turquoise Jeep show at Reggie's Rock Club in the South Loop. Well, late that very same Saturday night, I decided all spur of the moment to go.
Here was my thinking: Yes, it's Saturday. And sure, the Jeep's mighty popular. But Reggie's is huge! And in Chicago, a city where diverse entertainments are almost as plentiful as parking meters? My impulse for hip-hop would not be denied. Right? Right?!
Wrong. Dead, dead wrong. Show was so sold out. The duo managing the list looked at me and my friend like we were nuts, thinking we could just waltz on in the place (don't they know I like to dance?). Then, adding insult to injury, we had to RETURN the wrist bands allowing us to get our drink on, which had only taken 10 minutes to get in the first place! What, no mementos? Note to management: From my admittedly limited P.O.V., it might be more efficient - or at least humane - to flip that order of business.
But really I have no one to blame but myself. I got blindsided by something I well know to be a fact of life around this city: You gotta plan ahead. Stuff sells out. This is a reality Weekender (and Vocalo.org) producer Adam Peindl and I face every week. We'll find something we think sounds great, but by the time we're actually putting together the segment, there are no tickets to be had.
That's the case with the City Life Supplement, a fun new radio show taking place this Saturday at Transistor, a truly creative space. So I thought I'd use this space to give you fair warning - if you think the show sounds cool, then make reservations now for their March (or later) date!
I have a theory that Chicago's sold-out scenario has been ratcheting up a bit of late - more on that in a future episode. In the meantime, here's a novel way to guarantee you'll get into a show - be a part of it.
Yet another early warning for ya! More immediate-to-hand entertainment options are below - enjoy!
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I'll always condemn injustice
On November 12, Professor Steven Salaita agreed to a settlement with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) in the amount of $875,000 ($275,000 will go to his lawyers). Salaita was wrongly terminated by UIUC last summer because of his tweets condemning Israel's barbaric bombing of Gaza. Combined with what the university spent on its own legal fees, it cost UIUC more than $2 million to deal with the fallout from its violation of Salaita's academic freedom.
After Salaita was fired last summer, the Palestine solidarity movement rallied to his defense. The settlement represents a partial victory, because though the monetary sum is large, the agreement doesn't reinstate Salaita. In this article first published at TheNation.com, Salaita explains that though he has a settlement with UIUC, he does not feel settled.
I HAVE settled my lawsuit with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). This declaration of fact supposedly ends a story with the tidiness to which storytelling in a linear society aspires. The most interesting stories are never tidy, though. And nothing untidy ever ends.
All public controversies involve vocabularies rich with violent but unacknowledged connotation. My case began with the repetition of termination and now concludes with the terminal noun settlement. Both words are legalistic, but have special resonance in the field of American Indian Studies, the location of my hiring and firing. The United States federal government carried out a policy of termination in the mid-20th century intended to dissolve Native nations into the mass of Americana. And termination, of course, speaks coldly but clearly to the horrors of genocide.
Settlement initiated those horrors and describes the conditions of indigenous life in today's North America, where Canada and the United States continue to occupy native land. It's also the main caption of the so-called Israel-Palestine conflict. Israeli settlers, of both the past and present, initiate the violence that produced the anguish that begat my angry tweets. We cannot speak of a settlement in my case until the geographies of my termination have been decolonized.
Steven Salaita speaking at Northwestern University (Jeffrey Putney)
UIUC eagerly pursues its removal from the ignominy of AAUP censure. Lawyers collect their fees. Courts address different controversies. Neoconservatives invent other bogeymen. Zionists track their next target. The Salaita affair becomes a cautionary tale, the tellers' politics dictating the nature of their appeals to caution.
It's settled, then. Only it's not.
MY ATTITUDE from the onset has been singular: personal remedy, however it might be defined (and its definition has never been stable), is largely meaningless if the conditions that produced my firing remain intact, at UIUC and elsewhere. We cannot say that academe is now less corporatized or repressive. The imbroglios at Yale and the University of Missouri illustrate that racism and tone-deaf leaders are still a problem on campus.
I can ruminate so easily--almost unconsciously, really--about the business-as-usual pursuit of new academic scandals because repression is a normal feature of higher education, often originating off campus but validated by brand-conscious apparatchiks occupying presidential suites. The months following my termination saw the attempted undoing of numerous professors by the culture warriors of Fox News vintage. Saida Grundy. Zandria Robinson. Deepa Kumar. Divya Nair. All women. All ethnic minorities.
I don't lightly emphasize what today's denizens of post-racial bliss consider to be superfluous (and unspeakable) categories. I name these professors as women and ethnic minorities because those claiming either identity are most likely to inspire wrath by speaking inappropriately--that is, by unspeaking U.S. exceptionalism. Each woman produced a forthright critique of structural racism, a double violation of dominant academic etiquette. Forthrightness is only welcome when it reinforces racist structures.
Israel occupies imaginative in addition to physical geographies. Zionism therefore reproduces with great efficiency the cultures of recrimination in North America. It is necessary to connect this Zionist presence with the suppression of all radical ideas.
Palestinian human-rights activism, which often challenges Zionism, is firmly located in spaces of the political left, particularly among minority communities. Support for Israel, in contrast, exists in sites of authority, often an omnipresent but invisible accoutrement to swivel chairs, mineral water, and mahogany tables.
It's not merely ideological Zionism that leads upper administration to support Israel--or, to be more precise, to entertain and normalize Zionist activism. Palestine solidarity represents democratization, grassroots organizing, anti-racism and decolonization; it's deeply involved in ethnic studies and other subversive fields. An upper administrator needn't be amenable to West Bank settlement to understand the value of Zionism in his line of work.
Zionism is part and parcel of unilateral administrative power. It lends itself to top-down decision-making, to suppression of anti-neoliberal activism, to restrictions on speech, to colonial governance, to corporatization and counterrevolution--in other words, Zionism behaves in universities precisely as it does in various geopolitical systems.
SETTLEMENT OF my lawsuit has the potential to act as a diversion from the core issues underlying my firing and the subsequent responses. In this moment especially, with justice activism affecting campuses across the country, it would be a shame to overlook the interconnectivity of these burgeoning movements.
We can claim meaningful victory against UIUC. The most decisive of those victories is the knowledge that upper administrators will think twice--and ideally not at all--about wrecking academic freedom and faculty governance by kowtowing to Zionist hysteria. Let us not enjoy this crucial victory, though, but accelerate the enjoyment by recreating it elsewhere. UIUC's behavior is symbolic of administrative culture in nearly all universities in the United States.
Of special interest is the profound contempt of university managers toward employees and certain students (i.e., those who can't, or won't, function as passive emissaries of administrative interests). The administrative and donor classes are incapable of real empathy; they instead treat money as an anthropomorphic symbol and view humankind as a volatile commodity. Once we are cognizant of this reality, their seemingly inane and inhumane decisions make perfect sense.
We are not, in other words, dealing with irrationality, but with people who rationally pursue coldhearted pragmatism. Dehumanization is a corollary of that pursuit. Changing the behavior of individual managers isn't a useful goal. If the job relies at least to some degree on preserving structural power, then even decent individuals performing the work have no real latitude. We are thus responsible for ending the systematic problems of academe. We do that by upending the systems that require racism and repression in order to function.
We can claim meaningful victory against UIUC: upper administrators will think twice about wrecking academic freedom and faculty governance by kowtowing to Zionist hysteria.
Much has been said about me and UIUC, the majority of it useless. Almost without fail, though, commentators ignore the war crimes that inspired my infamous tweets.
Israel's destruction of Gaza remains imprinted on my memory, contextualized by the cruelty that came before and continues today: women carrying possessions in bedsheets no longer fitted for home; fathers holding doll babies in front of little corpses, begging children to wake up and play with their favorite toys; skin flaked off like filo dough from chemical weapons, leaving only a thin layer of sticky red flesh to protect muscle and bone; mangled steel wires emerging from concrete rubble, no longer hiding within the structures they hold; abandoned stone foundations across the Israeli countryside, decorating the foliage planted to cultivate their disappearance; unarmed teenagers confronting an army cosseted by industrial power; long queues creeping toward checkpoints, what Epcot Center might resemble if it offered an exhibit on military occupation.
PALESTINE SOLIDARITY isn't a slogan. Black Lives Matter isn't a hashtag. Unionization isn't a catchphrase. Idle No More isn't a trend. These phenomena, disparate and inconsistent and mercurial, respond to very real traumas. Upper administrators and the well-heeled commentariat rarely engage those traumas, preferring to conceptualize activism as a hermetic failure of civility, instead. Yet if we examine the brutality inspiring the movements that threaten campus stability, we don't have to like those movements to understand their necessity.
The brutality of state violence, after all, isn't distinct from academic recrimination. We see their correlation in the way advocates of Palestinian human rights have been treated for decades in academe. Punishment for condemning Israel is meant to be lifelong.
For the past 14 months, a small army of Zionist operatives pored over everything I've ever written, questioned the integrity of the search that led to my hire, challenged the validity of American Indian Studies, distorted conventional understanding of academic freedom, and even dug into my family history, all in the service of further damaging my reputation. Many Zionists detest the mere idea of a critic of Israel earning a living.
This diligence is concordant to the colonization they embrace. Of course they deliver lifetime punishments. Their worldview is dominated by the permanence of the histories from which they benefit. Colonization is irreversible. The United States, then, can never rightly be considered Indian Country because the American state-building project is both manifest and linear. The same logic prevails with Israel. No room exists for the possibility of repossession or redress. It is in this context that the punishment for acts of decolonization must be permanent. The colonizer cannot abide a world in which his authority is less than categorical.
This obstinacy informs a specific iteration of power on campus, one in which hostility toward Palestine enacts neoliberal structures of repression. Shared governance and dissentient speech are anathema to the economies of today's corporate university. On campus, as in Palestine, Zionism has proved itself incompatible with democracy.
NOW IT is said to be finished. I'm eager to inhabit new spaces. It was often tiresome being the object of debates that are invariably vicious. I hope the students and faculty at UIUC end up with administrators that share their vision of a world-class university. Either way, I will be forever indebted to them for the compassion they embody. The same is true of anybody who embraces the incalculable value of education.
I condemn injustice. I will always do that, no matter my state of employment.
Pursuing a lawsuit can be exceptionally difficult. It requires lots of time and energy. People in public litigation become emblematic of larger issues, but I've learned to search the story for human beings entombed beneath the symbolism. They have families to consider. They might deal with crippling guilt or feel trapped by shocking incapacity. Or they could be overjoyed. The point is that we don't know, so it's a bad idea to render people metonymical of issues we can engage without inventing avatars.
I hate to think of life as existing in chapters--it's too regimented for my taste--but moments definitely arise where things feel different. This is one such moment. Having lived in Beirut for over two months, I already experience a sense of tranquility and stability that sharply contrasts the previous year.
I take my son to the playground almost daily, chatting with fellow parents to the beautiful ambiance of youthful mirth. I take long walks on the Corniche with my wife. I enjoy the ubiquitous sight and sound of the Mediterranean. I teach. I attend talks and meetings. I sit office hours. I do lunch. I grade papers. It's all possible because I stay in the same damn place for more than two days rather than deriving income as a public speaker.
No significant interval passes that I don't think of the people whose suffering galvanized the incivility that upended so many. I condemn injustice. I will always do that, no matter my state of employment.
So, yes, in a sense I and UIUC have reached a settlement. But I end devoted to the same goal I had when I started: not to settle anything, but to unsettle everything that determines the nature of this world.
First published at TheNation.com.
Eric Ruder
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"What is that?" - Encouragement Café - November 7, 2014
"What is that?"
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Today's Special is: Understanding Must Come First
Carefully prepared just for you by your friend, Jill Beran
Humility is the fear of the LORD; its wages are riches and honor and life.
Proverbs 22:4 NIV
"What is that?" said my son to my daughter. She had created another project and yet again he was not sure what it was. She went on to explain and then he proceeded to use it for what she intended.
As I watched this exchange of words, I was reminded that we won't know how to use something until we understand what it is. This took me back to words a friend shared with me months ago; she simply said,
Jill, humble yourself so that…
Her words had my attention… I knew the why of humility, but I was challenged to dig deeper into the what. I understood the basics - humility means putting others first like Jesus did. He came to serve and I'm called to do the same. But it seemed there was more than the worldly definition I'd always lived with.
This desire to better understand humility led me to today's key verse where I found a new definition of humility – it is the fear of the Lord.
Friend, let me ask you, "What does it mean to fear the Lord?" I believe it includes respect and reverence for God. It means having the right attitude towards Him and the right response to Him.
Humility is not just making ourselves lower than the people around us, but keeping God at the top. When you and I humble ourselves, we recognize our sin (Romans 3:23) and understand our limits, but friend we must also embrace who God says we are, believe His words more than our own thoughts and use the gifts He's given.
1 Peter 4:10 NIV has encouraged and challenged me all at the same time. Listen to these words,
Each of you should use whatever gift you have received to serve others, as faithful stewards of God's grace in its various forms.
For years, I thought humility was all about stepping back, working behind the scenes and doing the job nobody wants to do, which it is. But friend, I've been learning humility is also about stepping out, working up front and doing the job God calls us to do.
My son couldn't fully use my daughter's creation until he understood what it was and the same is true for us when it comes to humility. We will never fully live it out until we completely grasp what it is.
Friend, today I encourage you to take some time and pray about humility and what that looks like in your life. As you do think about these things -
Does your humility reflect a fear of the Lord?
Do you understand the Biblical meaning of humility?
Do you need to humble yourself in order to live out a command of Christ?
Are you humbling walking in obedience and doing what God has called you to?
In humility, do you live out your identity that comes from Christ?
Dear Heavenly Father, Thank You the example of humility You give us in Your Son and through Scripture. Help us dig into Your Word so we get a better understanding of what humility is and then give us the desire to live with hearts that are humble and fear You.
© 2014 by Jill Beran. All rights reserved.
Originally published Friday, 07 November 2014.
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Louise Lawler: WHY PICTURES NOW at The Museum of Modern Art, through July 30, 2017
"For the past forty years, Louise Lawler's witty and slyly feminist work has raised questions about the cultural circumstances that support art's production, circulation, and presentation. Lawler emerged in the 1970s as part of the Pictures Generation—a loosely knit group of artists who used media tactics to critically examine the functions and codes of representation—when she began taking pictures of other artists' works displayed in private collections, museums, galleries, storage spaces, and auction houses, subtly commenting on the sociological use and value of art.
An integral aspect of Lawler's artistic process is her continuous re-presentation, reframing, or restaging of her work; she revisits her own pictures by transferring them to different formats—from photographs to paperweights, tracings, and works called "adjusted to fit" (images stretched or expanded to fit the location of their display). In 2017, at a moment when the subject of truth and fake news came to the forefront of national discourse, the artist tweaked one of these adjusted-to-fit works in reaction to today's shifted reality by adding a twisting effect to make Pollyanna (adjusted to fit, distorted for the times).
Political and anti-war themes interlink throughout Lawler's practice, as is particularly evident in the rich selection of ephemera shown here. Her long history of collaboration and conversation with other artists is also woven into the exhibition: included are Cameron Rowland's wooden benches, New York State Unified Court System; a "paper stack" work by Felix Gonzalez-Torres featuring a photograph by Lawler; and projects with Allan McCollum, Lawrence Weiner, and others. Her sound installation Birdcalls—for which she turned the names of lionized male artists into bird-like chirps, thus playfully asserting her resistance to the authoritative and patronymic proper name—is installed in the Museum's Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden. Lawler's attentiveness to artistic contexts and processes of reception generates situations with the potential to transform viewers and subtly reshape institutions from within." — Introductory Wall Text
Louise Lawler. Why Pictures Now. 1981. Gelatin silver print, 3 x 6" (7.6 x 15.2 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Acquired with support from Nathalie and Jean-Daniel Cohen in honor of Roxana Marcoci. © 2017 Louise Lawler
Louise Lawler. (Roy Lichtenstein and Other Artists) Black. 1982. Silver dye bleach print, 28 ½ x 37 ¼" (72.4 x 94.6 cm). Courtesy the artist and Metro Pictures. © 2017 Louise Lawler
Louise Lawler. (Andy Warhol and Other Artists) Tulip. 1982. Silver dye bleach print, 38 ½ x 60 ½" (97.8 x 153.7 cm). Courtesy the artist and Metro Pictures. © 2017 Louise Lawler
Louise Lawler. Sentimental. 1999/2000. Silver dye bleach print, 40 ¾ x 46 ¾" (103.5 x 118.7 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Promised gift of Glenn and Amanda Fuhrman. © 2017 Louise Lawler
Installation view of Louise Lawler: WHY PICTURES NOW. © 2017 The Museum of Modern Art. Photo: Martin Seck
Louise Lawler. Does Andy Warhol Make You Cry? 1988. Silver dye bleach print with text on Plexiglass wall label, Image (shown): 27 ¼ x 39" (69.2 x 99.1 cm); Label: 4 3/8 x 6 3/8 in. (11.1 x 16.2 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of Gabriella de Ferrari in honor of Karen Davidson. © 2017 Louise Lawler
Louise Lawler. Life After 1945 (Faces ). 2006/2007. Silver dye bleach print, 40 x 33 ¼" (101.6 x 84.5 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Promised gift of Glenn and Amanda Fuhrman. © 2017 Louise Lawler
Louise Lawler. Big (adjusted to fit). 2002/2003/2016. Dimensions variable. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Acquired through the generosity of The Modern Women's Fund and The Contemporary Arts Council. © 2017 Louise Lawler
Louise Lawler. Pollock and Tureen (traced). 1984/2013. Dimensions variable. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Endowment for Prints © 2017 Louise Lawler
Louise Lawler. Salon Hodler (traced). 1992/1993/2013. Dimensions variable. Courtesy the artist and Metro Pictures. © 2017 Louise Lawler
Louise Lawler. Why Pictures Now (traced). 1981/2013. Dimensions variable. Courtesy the artist and Metro Pictures. © 2017 Louise Lawler
WHY PICTURES NOW is organized by Roxana Marcoci, Senior Curator, with Kelly Sidley, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Photography.
Images courtesy The Museum of Modern Art.
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Relationships are fundamental to our health and wellbeing. We cannot flourish as individuals and communities without them. In fact, they are as vital as better-established lifestyle factors, such as eating well, exercising more and stopping smoking.
The Mental Health Foundation is the UK's leading mental health and learning disability charity providing information, carrying out research, campaigning and working to improve services for anyone affected by mental health problems. We are supporting the Mental Health Foundation in asking everyone to go the extra mile in prioritising their relationships. We are calling on people to make a relationship resolution: to assess how much time we actively commit to building and maintaining good relationships, and to ask whether we can invest more in being present with and listening to friends, family and colleagues.
Regular participation in sport and physical activity has shown to have significant benefits on our health. Run England recognises the contribution that running can play in supporting wellbeing and mental health and is encouraging clubs and groups to get involved to promote their activities as a way to foster good relationships and improve mental and physical well-being.
Once again we are encouraging everyone to 'run and talk'. So prioritise a relationship and grab a friend, family member or colleague and get out for a run with them! Tell us about it and encourage others to get out running and talking using #runandtalk.
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Supreme Court Rules Six Year Statute of Limitations...
Supreme Court Rules Six Year Statute of Limitations Applies to More ERISA Lawsuits
Time to Read: 4 minutes Practices: Executive Compensation & Employee Benefits, Benefits Consulting Group, Litigation, ERISA
On February 26, 2020, the United States Supreme Court issued a decision in the closely watched Intel Corp. Investment Policy Committee et al. v. Sulyma case, making it more difficult for employers to seek early dismissal of class actions brought by participants in their retirement plans by narrowing the circumstances where a shorter three-year statute of limitations will apply instead of the standard six-year period. The decision may add further momentum to the ongoing wave of fiduciary breach class actions that have already resulted in hundreds of millions of dollars in settlements from plan sponsors. The decision is also noteworthy because it will allow the lower courts to assess the underlying question of whether Intel acted prudently when it decided to include alternative investments (such as hedge funds and private equity funds) in its plans.
The Court unanimously held disclosures provided to retirement plan participants are not enough to establish "actual knowledge," triggering the three-year statute of limitations, unless defendants can also show that plaintiffs actually received and read the disclosures.
Under Section 1113(2) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), plaintiffs alleging a fiduciary breach by their retirement plan sponsor have six years to bring a claim unless the defendant can demonstrate that the plaintiff had "actual knowledge" of the breach or violation, in which case that time is cut in half to three years.
In Intel, the plaintiff, a former employee at Intel, sued the administrators of Intel's retirement plans, alleging that they had breached their fiduciary duties by over investing in certain alternative assets (such as hedge funds and private equity) that underperformed other options on a fee-adjusted basis. Intel countered that, because Sulyma had received plan disclosures more than three years prior to bringing the suit regarding the plan's investments, his action should have been barred under the shorter, three-year limitations period. However, Sulyma testified that he did not remember reading any of the disclosures, and had thus been unaware that his money was invested in the alternative assets that were underperforming. The District Court granted summary judgment to the defendants. But the Ninth Circuit reversed, reasoning that Sulyma's testimony created a factual dispute about when he gained "actual knowledge" of the investments at issue.
At the Supreme Court, Intel argued that workers possess "actual knowledge"—a term that is not defined in the statute—from the time they are given financial disclosure documents that contain the relevant information, whether or not they actually read those documents. The Court unanimously rejected Intel's argument and instead relied on a plain meaning interpretation of "actual knowledge," holding that, "to have 'actual knowledge' of a piece of information, one must in fact be aware of it." The Court reasoned that in contrast to other sections of ERISA that apply a constructive knowledge standard for the triggering of the limitations period (e.g., "the earliest date on which the plaintiff acquired or should have acquired actual knowledge"), Congress refrained from such terminology when drafting Section 1113(2). Accordingly, the Court held, Section 1113(2) requires more than mere disclosure alone.
The Court was careful to note that nothing in its decision should be read to foreclose any of the "usual ways" defendants might prove "actual knowledge," including through inferences and circumstantial evidence (such as electronic evidence that a plaintiff had accessed and downloaded disclosure documents). Moreover, the Court added, plaintiffs cannot avoid gaining "actual knowledge" through willful blindness, and whenever a plaintiff's denial of knowledge is "blatantly contradicted by the record," district courts need not accept that version of the facts when ruling on a motion for summary judgment. What constitutes willful blindness in this context, particularly where the plaintiff received disclosures but failed to read them, will likely be fertile grounds for future litigation. Employers and recordkeepers will need to make decisions about how they will document that plan participants have reviewed disclosure, including whether to require some action to acknowledge the disclosure was read and understood.
Now that the Supreme Court has rendered its decision in Intel, the case will proceed on the merits in the District Court. The case will be important for employers to continue to watch, because the underlying question of whether a retirement plan sponsor can be held liable for breach of fiduciary duty for including alternative investment strategies like hedge funds or private equity funds in a plan's investment menu may now be litigated for the first time. Moreover, the Intel decision may usher in a new wave of class action suits in jurisdictions that had previously followed a more sponsor-friendly concept of "actual knowledge," particularly in the Second, Third, Fifth, Seventh and Eleventh Circuits.
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Q: Rendezvous ADA - how it works I'm trying to understand how the R-V in ADA works:
server (pseudo)code:
task test is
  entry put (num: in integer);
  entry get (num: out integer);
end test;

task body test is
  local_num: integer;
begin
  accept put (num: in integer) do
    local_num := num;
  end put;

  // some next processing of local_num, eg:
  local_num := local_num * 2;

  accept get (num: out integer) do
    num := local_num;
  end get;
end test;

and the client a server are communicating as following:
client (a)    | server (b)
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              |   // sleep
(call_entry)  |   // sleep
a.put(num)    |   // sleep
  // sleep    | (accept_entry)
  // sleep    | b.accept put(num)
  // sleep    | local_num := num;
  // sleep    | local_num := local_num * 2;
              |   ???   <--------------------- what is happening after that point?
(call_entry)  |   // sleep
a.get(num)    |   // sleep
  // sleep    | (accept_entry)
  // sleep    | b.accept get(num)

*

*Is it correct?

*Can you describe me how it continues?

*Who awakes the client to get the result? How the client know, that it can get the result?

update: (correct process?)
client        | server (test)
================================
test.put(num) |   // sleep      ----------> call entry
test.get(A)   | accept put(num) ----------> accept entry PUT (call entry GET to the QUEUE)
  // sleep    | local_num := num;
  // sleep    | local_num := local_num * 2;
test.get(A)   | accept get(A)   ----------> accept entry (removed from the QUEUE)
              |   // sleep

A: Ada Rendez-Vous are really simple, in fact you have a task test with 2 entries get and put. Once you run the program, the test task is started, so the local_num value is created (with no defined initial value) and the body is executed BUT the first statement is an accept so the task is waiting for an entry call.
procedure ... is

    task test is
       ...
    end test ;

    task body test is
       ...
    end test ;

    A : Integer ;

begin
    -- 1. The 'test' task is started here, waiting for a call to `put`
    -- 2. You call the 'put' entry, which mean that the current task (the main task)
    --    is stopped until the end of the entry call.
    test.put(33) ;
    -- 3. Here the entry 'put' is finished, so the 2 tasks are executing
    --    simultaneously
    -- 4. Here we call the 'get' entry, there is a non predictive behaviour:
    --    We do not know if the instruction local_num := local_num * 2; has
    --    been executed or not, so 2 case:
    --     - The instruction has been executed, so the 'test' task is waiting
    --       and directly accept the 'get' entry, while the main task wait
    --     - The instruction has not been executed, so the main 'task' wait
    --       until there is someone to accept is call
    --    What you're sure is that the entry 'get' won't be executed before
    --    the instruction, and that someone calling 'get' will have to wait
    --    until the 'test' task get to the 'accept get' instruction.
    test.get(A) ;
    -- 5. Here, the 'get' entry is finished, so you're sure that you have ended
    --    the 'test' task

end ... ;

In fact, when you call a entry like test.get, you loose the control until the test.get entry has been fully executed. If there is no task waiting for this entry, you will wait until a task request this entry.
procedure BadTask is

    -- Stupid task that will accept a 'put' entry and then a 'get' (only once)
    task T is
        entry get (A : out Integer);
        entry put (A : in Integer);
    end T ;

    task body T is
        LocalInteger : Integer := 0 ;
    begin
        accept put (A : in Integer) do
            LocalInteger := A ;
        end put ;
        accept get (A : ouInteger) do
            A := LocalInteger ;
        end get ;
    end T ;

    A : Integer ;
begin
    -- Here T is waiting for 'put'
    T.get (A) ;
    -- You will never get here and your program is blocked because the two tasks
    -- are waiting but no one can't get the control.
end BadTask ;

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The Laramie-Poudre Tunnel is an early transmountain tunnel in the U.S. state of Colorado. The tunnel transfers water from the west side of the Laramie River basin, which drains to the North Platte River, to the east side Cache la Poudre River basin that drains to the South Platte River. The tunnel is about  long with variable diameters with a minimum diameter of about . The diameter varied due to the different material mined through and the erosion of almost 90 years of water flow. It is located at about  elevation with about a 1.7 degree down slope. The Laramie River lies about  higher than the Cache La Poudre River at this location separated only by a mountain ridge. The Laramie-Poudre Tunnel is located about  west-northwest of Fort Collins, Colorado, about  south of the Wyoming border  and about  north of Rocky Mountain National Park. It was built between 1909 and 1911 for the Laramie-Poudre Reservoirs & Irrigation Co. to convey water from the Laramie River to the Poudre River for Front Range irrigation.  The tunnel was driven for the purpose of conveying through the divide 800 cu.ft of water per second.

"Work on the power-plant for operating the tunnel was begun Dec 1st 1909. The Hydro-electric power-plant was erected on the west bank of the Cache-la-Poudre, nearly opposite the eastern portal.  "Repauno 60-per cent. gelatine" was used along with German Insolid and Z.L. fuse were used for blasting, with exception where the granite was really hard and tough.  There were about 60 people employed with skills ranging from helpers, muckers, mechanics, stable-helpers, blacksmiths, book keeper and foremen. These were arranged in an 8-hr shift.

Court battles between Colorado and Wyoming over water rights prevented operation until 1914 (Case 1995).

As a result of the court battles the tunnel is restricted to a maximum of  of water from the Laramie river instead of its designed . Most of the flow occurs during the peak snow melt season of mid May to mid July. The Laramie-Poudre Tunnel typically transfers about 14,000 acre ft (17,300,000 cubic meters) from the Laramie River basin to the Cache La Poudre Basin. Agriculture users typically use about 450,000 acre ft and municipal users use a further 75,000 acre ft in the Cache La Poudre drainage basin.

In the spring of 2000 after almost 90 years of use, part of the tunnel collapsed, requiring extensive rebuilding of part of the tunnel. This rebuild cost $4,500,000 and took from November 2000 to May 16, 2001.

Greeley, Colorado partnered with North Weld County Water and the Fort Collins-Loveland Water District to purchase the Laramie Poudre Tunnel in 2006.

References

Tunnels in Colorado
Water tunnels in the United States
Irrigation projects
Irrigation in the United States
Tunnels completed in 1911
Transportation buildings and structures in Larimer County, Colorado
1911 establishments in Colorado


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Densham retiring, not Ferrari-bound – source
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