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Mercedes-Benz EQB 2021-
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Electromobility in a family package: the new EQB at a glance
Room for seven
As a seven-seater (optional), the new EQB offers space for many family constellations and a wide variety of transport needs. This gives it an exceptional position among electric cars. The two seats in the third row can be used by people up to 1.65 metres tall, and child seats can also be fitted there.
Compact on the outside, spacious on the inside
The new EQB (length/width/height: 4684/1834[1]/1667[2] millimetres) offers a generous amount of space and a maximum boot capacity of 1710 litres2 thanks to having the long wheelbase of the GLB (2829 millimetres). The inclination of the backrests in the second row can be adjusted in several stages as standard, and this row features longitudinally adjustment of 140 millimetres as an option.
Third all-electric launch in 2021
While the first EQA 250 (NEDC combined electrical consumption: 15.7 kWh/100 km; combined CO2 emissions: 0 g/km)[3] roll into European dealerships and the EQS, the purpose-designed, fully electric member of the new S-Class family, is being presented, the China-specific version of the new EQB will be making its debut in Shanghai. It will be produced in Beijing and comes to market in China later this year. The European version will also be launched in 2021, and in the USA the EQB will arrive in 2022. The electrical consumption of the EQB 350 4MATIC in Europe, NEDC3: combined electrical consumption: 16.2 kWh/100 km; combined CO2 emissions: 0 g/km, range 478 km; WLTP[4]: combined electrical consumption: 19.2-18.1 kWh/100 km; combined CO2 emissions: 0 g/km, range 419 km.
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The compact class becomes increasingly electric
The EQB will be the first all-electric production vehicle from the Hungarian plant in Kecskemét. So far, the CLA and CLA Shooting Brake plug-in hybrid models have come off the production line there. The A-Class with plug-in hybrid drive will also be produced in Kecskemét in future – in addition to the German Mercedes-Benz plant in Rastatt, where the EQA is built.
Customers have the choice
The EQB range will include several models with front-wheel and all-wheel drive, various power ratings – some of which will exceed 200 kW – plus batteries with usable capacities starting from 66.5 kWh. A particularly long-range version is also planned.
Electro design aesthetics
The EQB interprets Mercedes-EQ's Progressive Luxury in an edgy and characterful way. It features the typical Mercedes-EQ black panel grille with central star. A further distinctive design feature of the all-electric world of Mercedes-EQ vehicles is the continuous light strip at front and rear.
Navigation with Electric Intelligence
The standard Navigation with Electric Intelligence contributes to the effortless handling of the EQB in everyday life. It calculates the fastest route to the destination, taking into account maximum charging power and the duration of possible charging stops. In addition, the Navigation with Electric Intelligence ensures that the high-voltage battery is brought to an optimal charging temperature before a planned charging stop, as needed.
Green power as standard
By means of high-quality certificates of origin, Mercedes-Benz guarantees that energy from renewable energy sources is fed into the grid for charging current sourced via Mercedes me Charge. With Mercedes me Charge, customers can charge at over 200,000 public charging stations across Europe.
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Edmund F. Stecklein, 80, of Monticello, Iowa passed away from complications of Alzheimer's disease on Tuesday, November 29, 2022, at the University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics in Iowa City, Iowa.
Visitation will be held from 8:30 – 10:45 am at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Monticello where a Mass of Christian Burial will commence at 11 am on Friday, December 16, 2022. Live stream https://www.facebook.com/KramerFuneral
Edmund Francis Stecklein was born on October 8, 1942. He was the tenth child of Edmund R. Stecklein and Martina M. (Kurt) Stecklein. Ed attended St. Mary's High School and played basketball and baseball for the school's teams. After his high school graduation in 1961, Ed became a certified electrician and worked for Franklin Equipment in Monticello. During that time, he played first base for the Cascade Reds town baseball team. He later moved to Durant, Iowa, where he serviced milk machines. In the late 1960s he returned to Cascade to become a feed salesman for Moorman's Feed Company, where he served farm families from Jones County. On December 30, 1972, he married Shirley K. DeShaw, originally of Hopkinton, Iowa, at St. Mary's Church in Cascade, Iowa. The couple were together fifty years and were preparing to celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary at the time of his death. During the 1970s, Ed served as the coach of the Office Playgirls softball team, with Shirley playing first base. The couple were joined by a son, Jason J. Stecklein, and a daughter, Heather J. Stecklein. The family took road trip vacations together every summer. Ed traveled to 47 American states and visited Canada and Europe multiple times. Ed's second career was as a correctional officer at the Iowa Men's Reformatory/Anamosa State Penitentiary. After 27 years in that position, he retired in 2008 to spend more time with his granddaughters. During his retirement, Ed and Shirley enjoyed traveling to visit their granddaughters and participating in group bus trips throughout the Midwest. Ed was well-known as a sports fan who faithfully watched Monticello Panthers, Iowa Hawkeyes, Indianapolis Colts, and Chicago White Sox games. His sports knowledge was extensive, and he frequently won the weekly sports prediction brackets in the Monticello Express. Ed also enjoyed time outdoors, including wildlife watching, hunting, fishing, foraging, and tending to the trees and gardens he planted on his property.
He is survived by his wife Shirley Stecklein of Monticello; his son, Jason Stecklein of Dubuque; his daughter, Heather (Geoff Osterhaus) Stecklein of Menomonie, WI; and his granddaughters, Jordan Lester (Matt) Rogalski of Chicago, IL, Mia Osterhaus of Menomonie, WI, and Ella Stecklein of Menomonie, WI. He is also survived by his sisters, Shirley Hoffmann of Cascade and Judi (Al) Westhoff of Portland, OR; a brother, Rollie (Theresa) Stecklein of Cascade; numerous in-laws including Jim Goblirsch of Sleepy Eye, MN, Marian Stecklein of Bellevue and Barbara Stecklein of Cascade; and many nieces, nephews, and friends.
Ed was preceded in death by his parents; his sisters Mary Eileen Stecklein, Madonna (Bill Otting and Roger Tucker) Otting Tucker, Marina (Elmer) Lehmann, and Jane Goblirsch; his brothers, Clem Stecklein and Lloyd Stecklein; and numerous in-laws including Gene Hoffmann.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations be made to Sacred Heart Elementary School in Monticello, Iowa.
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We have been passed information to advise that the revision of NICE Guidelines for Improving Supportive and Palliative Care in Adults is under way and the scoping process has recommended that Complementary Therapy Services (CT) are removed from the guidelines. The rationale and implications for removing CT do not appear to have been given.
CT is given by hundreds of volunteers and some paid staff, who are practitioners of a number of different therapy practices, including reflexology, aromatherapy or massage, acupuncture, healing and Reiki, Tai Chi and others.
There is an emerging, though as yet small, body of evidence regarding how these practices support patients, their carer's and bereaved families cope with the myriad stresses and strains an illness, such as cancer or motor neurone disease, place on them. Indeed, we looked at this very area in our 2015 Balens CPD Training Event.
At Balens we know that many of our clients volunteer in their local NHS providers including hospitals and hospices, with patients and families finding it supportive. If NICE withdraws its support for CT, this may have implications for future funding of CT in establishments that receive NHS funding for palliative care, and may also result in CT being removed from other NICE guidelines.
Comments are invited during the consultation period which runs from 31/12/15 and ends 29/01/16, less than 2 weeks away. This does not give a great deal of time for feedback.
2.0 Read the Consultation Documents - Draft Scope.
Areas from the published guideline that will be removed - Complementary therapy services - can be found on line 109. We have registered Balens as a stakeholder and are happy for you to use our name on the comments form, should you choose to comment. The form can be down loaded under Section 3.0 - Make your Comments from the above link.
Please note: If you wish to comment on the removal of Complementary Therapy Services, this is noted on page 5, line 109 of the Consultation Document. These details will need to be noted on the comments form.
Alternatively, if you are part of an Association you may choose to forward this e-mail to them, and encourage them to register also as a stakeholder prior to completing the comments form. Please also feel free to forward this e-mail onto anyone whom you feel would be interested, and others, such as local hospices or NHS trusts, local or national media etc. should you feel so inspired. Thank you in advance for your support.


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module Mongo
  class Pool
    PING_ATTEMPTS  = 6
    MAX_PING_TIME  = 1_000_000

    attr_accessor :host, :port, :address,
      :size, :timeout, :safe, :checked_out, :connection

    # Create a new pool of connections.
    def initialize(connection, host, port, opts={})
      @connection  = connection

      @host, @port = host, port

      # A Mongo::Node object.
      @node = opts[:node]

      # The string address
      @address = "#{@host}:#{@port}"

      # Pool size and timeout.
      @size      = opts[:size] || 10000
      @timeout   = opts[:timeout]   || 5.0

      # Mutex for synchronizing pool access
      @connection_mutex = Mutex.new

      # Condition variable for signal and wait
      @queue = ConditionVariable.new

      # Operations to perform on a socket
      @socket_ops = Hash.new { |h, k| h[k] = [] }

      @sockets      = []
      @pids         = {}
      @checked_out  = []
      @threads      = {}
      @ping_time    = nil
      @last_ping    = nil
      @closed       = false
      @last_pruning = Time.now
    end

    # Close this pool.
    #
    # @option opts [Boolean] :soft (false) If true,
    #   close only those sockets that are not checked out.
    def close(opts={})
      @connection_mutex.synchronize do
        if opts[:soft]
          sockets_to_close = @sockets - @checked_out
        else
          sockets_to_close = @sockets
        end
        sockets_to_close.each do |sock|
          begin
            sock.close unless sock.closed?
          rescue IOError => ex
            warn "IOError when attempting to close socket connected to #{@host}:#{@port}: #{ex.inspect}"
          end
        end
        @sockets.clear
        @pids.clear
        @checked_out.clear
        @closed = true
      end
    end

    def closed?
      @closed
    end

    def inspect
      "#<Mongo::Pool:0x#{self.object_id.to_s(16)} @host=#{@host} @port=#{port} " +
        "@ping_time=#{@ping_time} #{@checked_out.size}/#{@size} sockets available.>"
    end

    def host_string
      "#{@host}:#{@port}"
    end

    def host_port
      [@host, @port]
    end

    # Refresh ping time only if we haven't
    # checked within the last five minutes.
    def ping_time
      if !@last_ping
        @last_ping = Time.now
        @ping_time = refresh_ping_time
      elsif Time.now - @last_ping > 300
        @last_ping = Time.now
        @ping_time = refresh_ping_time
      else
        @ping_time
      end
    end

    # Return the time it takes on average
    # to do a round-trip against this node.
    def refresh_ping_time
      trials = []
      PING_ATTEMPTS.times do
        t1 = Time.now
        if !self.ping
          return MAX_PING_TIME
        end
        trials << (Time.now - t1) * 1000
      end

      trials.sort!

      # Delete shortest and longest times
      trials.delete_at(trials.length-1)
      trials.delete_at(0)

      total = 0.0
      trials.each { |t| total += t }

      (total / trials.length).ceil
    end

    def ping
      begin
        return self.connection['admin'].command({:ping => 1}, :socket => @node.socket)
      rescue OperationFailure, SocketError, SystemCallError, IOError => ex
        return false
      end
    end

    # Return a socket to the pool.
    def checkin(socket)
      @connection_mutex.synchronize do
        if @checked_out.delete(socket)
          @queue.signal
        else
          return false
        end
      end
      true
    end

    # Adds a new socket to the pool and checks it out.
    #
    # This method is called exclusively from #checkout;
    # therefore, it runs within a mutex.
    def checkout_new_socket
      begin
        socket = self.connection.socket_class.new(@host, @port)
        socket.setsockopt(Socket::IPPROTO_TCP, Socket::TCP_NODELAY, 1)
      rescue => ex
        socket.close if socket
        raise ConnectionFailure, "Failed to connect to host #{@host} and port #{@port}: #{ex}"
        @node.close if @node
      end

      # If any saved authentications exist, we want to apply those
      # when creating new sockets.
      @connection.apply_saved_authentication(:socket => socket)

      @sockets << socket
      @pids[socket] = Process.pid
      @checked_out << socket
      @threads[socket] = Thread.current.object_id
      socket
    end

    # If a user calls DB#authenticate, and several sockets exist,
    # then we need a way to apply the authentication on each socket.
    # So we store the apply_authentication method, and this will be
    # applied right before the next use of each socket.
    def authenticate_existing
      @connection_mutex.synchronize do
        @sockets.each do |socket|
          @socket_ops[socket] << Proc.new do
            @connection.apply_saved_authentication(:socket => socket)
          end
        end
      end
    end

    # Store the logout op for each existing socket to be applied before
    # the next use of each socket.
    def logout_existing(db)
      @connection_mutex.synchronize do
        @sockets.each do |socket|
          @socket_ops[socket] << Proc.new do
            @connection.db(db).issue_logout(:socket => socket)
          end
        end
      end
    end

    # Checks out the first available socket from the pool.
    #
    # If the pid has changed, remove the socket and check out
    # new one.
    #
    # This method is called exclusively from #checkout;
    # therefore, it runs within a mutex.
    def checkout_existing_socket
      socket = (@sockets - @checked_out).first
      if @pids[socket] != Process.pid
         @pids[socket] = nil
         @sockets.delete(socket)
         socket.close if socket
         checkout_new_socket
      else
        @checked_out << socket
        @threads[socket] = Thread.current.object_id
        socket
      end
    end

    # If we have more sockets than the soft limit specified
    # by the max pool size, then we should prune those
    # extraneous sockets.
    #
    # Note: this must be called from within a mutex.
    def prune
      idle_sockets = @sockets - @checked_out
      idle_sockets.each do |socket|
        socket.close unless socket.closed?
        @sockets.delete(socket)
      end
    end

    # Check out an existing socket or create a new socket if the maximum
    # pool size has not been exceeded. Otherwise, wait for the next
    # available socket.
    def checkout
      @connection.connect if !@connection.connected?
      start_time = Time.now
      loop do
        if (Time.now - start_time) > @timeout
            raise ConnectionTimeoutError, "could not obtain connection within " +
              "#{@timeout} seconds. The max pool size is currently #{@size}; " +
              "consider increasing the pool size or timeout."
        end

        @connection_mutex.synchronize do
          if @sockets.size > @size * 1.5
            prune
          end

          socket = if @checked_out.size < @sockets.size
                     checkout_existing_socket
                   else
                     checkout_new_socket
                   end

          if socket
            # This calls all procs, in order, scoped to existing sockets.
            # At the moment, we use this to lazily authenticate and
            # logout existing socket connections.
            @socket_ops[socket].reject! do |op|
              op.call
            end

            return socket
          else
            # Otherwise, wait
            @queue.wait(@connection_mutex)
          end
        end
      end
    end
  end
end


Summary: A parody of "The Raven' since who doesn't want Andy to be visited by a ghost when he's yodeling at midnight?
Michael and his musings on... er... pop culture.
Summary: Jim and Pam go to register wedding gifts.
Either Cupid blows at archery, or it's fate that Michael's sitting in a dingy restaurant staring at raw fish slapped on a wooden plank.
Summary: 55 words of Kandy!
What does it mean when you have to resort to similes?
When he saw the strap of her polka dot swimsuit peeking out from under her white tank top, he knew. He knew it was her.
Set during Beach Games, but almost all of it is a flashback.
Which genes happen to be the most dominant of the bunch?
While Dwight was an efficient worker, it wasn't easy for him to keep track of fatherly things. For example, the daily post and his daughter, both of which were currently missing.
Andy and Kelly decide to celebrate Christmas in a way that's very... far out. Kandy!
55 words of Kandy on an airplane.
The first time Andy sees 'A Christmas Story' and his thoughts on it.
Summary: Andy gets interviewed for the Finer Things Club.
When Jim and Pam to try to sneak out for a day by telling Michael they have a dentist appointment, the result is as painful as puling teeth. Accompanied by Dwight, they set off for a memorable appointment, featuring Novacain, drills, a naughty hygienist, and an even naughtier dentist.
Jim decides to clue Pam in on what's 'normal'.
Parody of 'The Raven'. Angela is missing her cat, when someone comes a scratching, scratching at her kitchen door. Fun Run Spoilers.
Summary: The dictionary definiton of a Jim.
Summary: Pam finds Jim's high school Career Survey and discovers some very strange things.
Summary: Spoilers through Dunder Mifflin Infinity. Dwight kills something of importance to Angela. Again.
After a scare, Jim ends up in the hospital. Fortunately, pranks always make the day a little bit brighter. Spoilers for 'The Job'.
"No. You don't." Jim looked bemused.


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As I recall, when Toyota Motor Corporation passed General Motors in sales to take the crown as the world's largest automaker – a spot that General Motors had held on to for nearly three quarters of a century – in 2008, many analysts and pundits suspected Toyota would hold onto its spot for many years.
After all, they argued, General Motors was nearly bankrupt, posting its last profit in 2004. Toyota had produced hit after hit and introduced the first commercially successful hybrid model in its Prius model. Nothing it seemed, would stop the company. Not even the spate of recalls on multiple models for unintended acceleration.
Fast forward two and a half years, and not only has General Motors deposed Toyota from its top sales perch and regained the global sales crown, but as an added insult, Toyota now finds itself in third place.
Volkswagen, which has set as its corporate goal to become the largest automobile manufacturer in the world, has slid into the second spot, nipping closely at General Motors heels.
Part of Toyota's fall to third place relates directly from the earthquake and resulting tsunami that struck Japan in March of this year. We believe the troubles at Toyota and even Honda go much deeper than being related to the earthquake. And for its part, Toyota is pushing to make up for lost production.
I'm of the opinion that the real race is just getting started, and these three corporations will be trading spots for years, until one of them can put significant distance between the other two rivals. And the only dog we have in this fight is that we hope the competition will lead to better, safer and more affordable cars.
I can't wait to see sorts of models and technological advances they come up with.


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Lyme disease is one of the most common tick-transmitted diseases in the world. It is caused by a spirochete (bacteria) species of the Borrelia burgdorferi group. Dominant clinical feature in dogs is recurrent lameness due to inflammation of the joints. There may also be a lack of appetite and depression. More serious complications include damage to the kidney, and rarely heart or nervous system disease.
Kidney disease appears to be more prevalent in Labrador retrievers, golden retrievers, and Bernese Mountain dogs. Experimentally, young dogs appear to be more susceptible to Lyme disease than adult dogs. Transmission of the disease has been reported in dogs throughout the United States and Europe, but is most prevalent in the upper Midwestern states, the Atlantic seaboard, and the Pacific coastal states.
Many dogs with Lyme disease have recurrent lameness of the limbs due to inflammation of the joints. Others, meanwhile, may develop acute lameness, which lasts for only three to four days but recurs days to weeks later, with lameness in the same leg, or in other legs. Better known as "shifting-leg lameness," this condition is characterized by lameness in one leg, with a return to normal function, and another leg is then involved; one or more joints may be swollen and warm; a pain response is elicited by feeling the joint; responds well to antibiotic treatment.
Some dogs may also develop kidney problems. If left untreated, it may lead to glomerulonephritis, which causes inflammation and accompanying dysfunction of the kidney's glomeruli (essentially, a blood filter). Eventually, total kidney failure sets in and the dog begins to exhibit such signs as vomiting, diarrhea, lack of appetite, weight loss, increased urination and thirst, fluid buildup in the abdomen and fluid buildup in the tissues, especially the legs and under the skin.
Other symptoms associated with Lyme disease include:
Stiff walk with an arched back
Sensitive to touch
Fever, lack of appetite, and depression may accompany inflammation of the joints
Superficial lymph nodes close to the site of the infecting tick bite may be swollen
Heart abnormalities are reported, but rare; they include complete heart block
Nervous system complications (rare)
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Turkish Forum English
World Turkish Coalition
Category: EU Members
European Council decided to open accession negotiations with Turkey on 17 Dec. 2004
US policy in Syria aims to cause further chaos in EU
The US recent claims to withdraw its troops from the North-Eastern provinces of Syria and the official vows of pausing collaboration with Syrian Kurds are widely regarded as an effort of Washington to build closer relations with Ankara. However, while pursuing this policy, the Pentagon and the CIA continue expanding communication channels with Syrian Kurds in case if Ankara's political compass is navigated towards Russia rather than the US after Turkey elections in June 2018.
The United States has also encouraged its partners, members of the Anti-Terrorism Coalition to send more of their troops to the so-called Syrian Kurdistan, a territory located north-east of the Euphrates. As a result, Germany and France, along with increasing numbers of their military troops in this region, have also been given authority to provide support to Kurdish military troops in Syria. Given how sensitive the Kurdish issue is for Iraq, Iran, Turkey and Syria this will, beyond any doubts, cause further tension between the EU and the Middle Eastern countries and will let the US avoid any possible accusations of the international law violations amid the Syria war.
With ambitious plans in Syria that included the stabilization of the country, getting rid of Bashar al-Assad, knocking out Iranian influence, fighting ISIS and becoming a hero who brought an end to the seven-year Syrian war the US did not seem (and perhaps still does not seem) to care that its new policy might cause much bigger conflicts in the region and go far beyond defeating ISIS only. Similar to the EU migration crisis, the US acts as an invisible mediator while the EU takes all the fire. This time, Washington's goals of aggravating the further conflict between the EU countries and the Middle East are rather economical: Washington tries to undermine the EU investment opportunities and provoke further financial crisis in Europe.
EU's bitter lessons
The European Union continues to struggle with its economic and migration crises. The huge debt, obsolete political and economic regulations and inability to manage its migration policy are important alerts for the EU indicating the Brussels's need to change its compass, says Pino Arlacchi, Member of the European Parliament.
By pursuing the US political course in the Syria war, the EU did not get any visible profit. Instead, it was left alone to cope with the increasing flows of illegal migrants posing safety threats for the EU citizens.
Indeed, The Syrian scenario is very much alike to the one in Afghanistan in 1979. When the Soviet army entered in 1979 trying to set up a friendly government in the country and altering the Cold War balances in the region, The United States, Saudi Arabia, and other countries started arming the anticommunist Afghan militia groups. The country was flooded with weapons while most of those weapons were in hands of Taliban. Shortly after that the US became the number one enemy for Afghanistan, says Arlacchi.
During the Syria war, the US have once again learned the bitter lesson as they did in Afghanistan. However, the Syrian opposition is so diverse and uncontrolled that its arming could have much tragic consequences. This is why the US used Saudi Arabia and Qatar as a sort of a liaison to keep the balance in the region. But we also saw the conflict between Saudi Arabia and Qatar that split the countries apart. Obviously, the strategic alliance of Iran, Russia and Turkey has played a crucial role in the Syria war. All the countries could be able to gain the trust from both people and decision-making powers in the region. At the same time the US along with the EU received little credibility from the Syrian government.
Moreover, the EU is swamped with its internal issues that it faces the risk of splitting apart. Ironically it may be, but with integrity being its main value, The European Union is falling apart today. A huge debt of Greece, Ireland, Portugal, Cyprus and other EU's members and their inability to repay it explains the attempts of those countries to boycott the Brussels's regulations.
According to Arlacchi, the world is changing its compass and the EU has to adapt to it. The West is losing its role of the world economic and political dictator due to its huge debt and ineffective policy. Instead, China and Eurasia are on the rise today.
Boxing Preview: Brook vs Spence
This Saturday 27th of May sees Kell Brook defend his IBF Welterweight title against the undefeated prospect Errol spence Jr. The hotly anticipated bout, which will take place in Bramall Lane, Sheffield, England is expected to attract one of the biggest crowds for a fight this year.
Following the results of the weigh-in, it is clear that these fighters mean business. With a mere few hours to go until the fight takes place, it will be interesting to see who comes out Victorious, will the belt change hands or will the special one retain his title?
Pedophile Cover-up: Did Hampstead Police, Social Services, Courts brainwash whistleblower kids?
Pedophile Cover-up: Hampstead Police, Social Services, Courts brainwash whistleblower kids, send mother & legal helper into exile, protect Satanist abuser father
VANCOUVER, BC – According to news inside out, in an interview from Germany with Sabine Kurjo McNeil, the "McKenzie Friend"[1] or legal helper to Ella, the mother of two Whistleblower children, Gabriel an 8 year old boy and Alisa his 9 year old sister, whose video documenting a sustained pedophile ritual sexual abuse abuse at the hands of their father and at the Christ Church Primary School they attended in Hampstead UK, NewsInsideOut.com has learned the following developments, evidence of a deep and powerful cover-up of sexual crimes toward children from deep within the UK Police and Social Services structure. NZ Justice Lowell Goddard, newly in charge of the UK Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse, has been notified of this case and has not responded as of this writing.[2]
Gabriel and Alisa, the Whistleblower children have been placed in State Social Services care two hours away from London in Kent, UK and after a number of days of sustained brainwashing by representatives of Social Services have been forced to renounce their allegations of ritual sexual abuse by their father and by staff of the Christ Church Primary School they attended in Hampstead UK;
Ella, the children's mother suffered an illegal home invasion by 10 police without a warrant. Fortunately, the mother's barrister was present who demanded a warrant and the illegal home invasion could not proceed. Under threat of immediate arrest by UK police intent on continuing a cover-up of child sexual abuse networks of the father and of widespread sexual abuse at the school, the child's mother fled into exile in Europe.
McKenzie Friend legal helper Sabine Kurjo McNeil was forced into exile in Germany after being threatened with malicious prosecution for posting the videos of the Whistleblower children online. It was as a result of the posting of the children's whistleblowing videos that the attempts by all UK police, social services, school staff and courts to date to cover this matter up have failed, as an international outcry on the Internet and social media has arisen.
No criminal investigation has been launched against the children's father, despite the clear testimony of the children and the children's mother. The father is a reported member of a ritual child abuse and perhaps child sacrifice network.
No criminal investigation has been launched against the Christ Church Primary School in Hampstead UK despite the children's clear testimony, and the testimony of other parents, such as the following report from a parent at the school: "everything is completely true i am from the local Hampstead area and my children used to attend christ church primary, they would often come home telling me about weird encounters such as specific kids getting taken out of class by the head mistress katy forsdyke for no apparent, and how the staff touch the kids and manipulate them, I was first approached to join the cult in an after school meeting and when declined I was subtly told that if I told anyone about it then there would be severe consequences on my behalf.
Vicar: Revd Paul Conrad,10 Cannon Place, London, NW3 1EJ. Tel: 020 7435 6784. Email [email protected], he seems like a lovely guy when you meet him, would never of guessed he holds several secret rooms in the church to carry out untold practices.
47 Hollycroft avenue nw3 is the current address of these kids father, i know him personally, he is a very successful and very wealthy man, hence why he has allot of higher member of authorities working with him to brush under the carpet
Details of school: Christchurch Hill, London NW3 1JH 020 7435 1361, there are several teachers with heavy involvement, but the headteacher is the main instigator of these horrendous acts in school. my child has also told me the school are often setting up any sort of pointless after school class and extra curriculum activity as an excuse to get their hands and do awfull things to these poor children, its only a selected amount of kids undergoing it, because he parents have to be in on it too and the parents who decline get threatened if they tell.
Book Prospectus
The Nazis' Gifts to Turkish Higher Education and Inadvertently to Us All: Modernization of Turkish universities (1933-1945) and its impact on present science and culture.
Arnold Reisman
<[email protected]>
Reichstag burning!
Gates to Istanbul University
Some 15 years later
This is a tale of individuals caught at the crossroads and in the cross-fires of history. Their native lands were in the throes of discarding them. Their lives were saved because an alien country was discarding a societal culture inherited from the Ottomans. Turkey recognized the need to modernize its society while Germany and Austria were literally throwing babies and much more, out with the bath water. The Nazis came to power. Many of these intellectuals were Jewish.
The book documents a bit of history that is dimly lit and largely unknown. In the 1930s the new republic of Turkey badly needed western intellectual know-how to create a modern system of higher education and to modernize practice in various professions. In the west Fascism was rising. Much of the intellectual capital in German speaking countries involved individuals unacceptable to the new ideology and those for whom the ideology was unacceptable. Most had no other emigration options. For those who did, professional employment was not guaranteed. Turkey extended invitations to these desperate souls. For certain chits, the German Reich allowed the emigrations to take place. Germany needed Turkey's neutrality to keep the Bosporus and Dardanelles open to its navy and shipping at all times – including war times. Throughout WWII the pressure was high to have these expatriates returned to the Reich along with all Turkish Jews. Turkey never caved in.
The system of higher education inherited by the Republic of Turkey in 1923, consisted of a few hundred Ottoman vintage (Islamic) madrasas, a fledgling university called the Dar-ül Fünun, and three military academies, one of which was expanded into a civil engineering school around 1909. With secularization enshrined in its constitution, the new government recognized a need for modernization/westernization throughout Turkish society and established a number of policies to bring this about. Indigenous personnel to do this were not to be had. Starting in 1933 and running through WWII, Turkey provided safe-haven for many intellectuals and professionals for whom the Nazis had other plans.
This book discusses the impact of these émigré professors, on Turkey's higher education in the sciences, professions, and humanities, and also on its public health, library, legal, engineering, and administrative practices. The multi-faceted legacy of this impact on present Turkish society with all its richness is documented if but in part. Some of the socio-economic reasons for Turkey's not taking full advantage of the second and third generation progenies of its modern higher educational system, and the ensuing "brain drain," are analyzed. Lastly, the book briefly addresses the impact on American science and higher education of the Turkish-saved professors, many of whom subsequently re-emigrated to the US.
Acknowledgments: The author is grateful to an old and dear friend Aysu Oral, for her knowledge of Turkish history, language, and culture, which greatly contributed to finding, abstracting, and translating much text from Turkish language documents; to graduate students, Ismail Capar and Emel Aktas who provided some of the Turkish material; the troika of Eugen Merzbacher, distinguished physics Professor Emeritus, University of North Carolina, Matthias Neumark of Charlottesville, VA, and Andrew Schwartz of Acton Mass., both retired businessmen who provided many insights because they were there at the time, were not too young to understand events nor too old to recall and retell their stories; to Rita and Marek Glaser of Tel Aviv, Israel, also old and dear friends, for searching archival information and contacting Holocaust survivors for personal experiences that are relevant. Clearly, a number of scholars, archivists, and institutions have provided much of the information contained herein. Among these are Anthony Tedeschi and Becky Cape, Head of Reference and Public Services, The Lilly Library, Indiana University; Samira Teuteberg, AHRB Resource Officer, Centre for German-Jewish Studies; University of Sussex; Dr Norman H. Reid, Head of Special Collections, University of St Andrews Library, Scotland and to J. J. O'Connor and E. F. Robertson , Department of Mathematics and Statistics of the same university; Andrea B. Goldstein, Reference Archivist, Harvard; Viola Voss, Archivist, Leo Baeck Institute, New York; Ralph Jaeckel and staff of the von Grunebaum Center for Near East Studies, UCLA; Chris Petersen, the Ava Helen and Linus Pauling Papers, Valley Library, Oregon State University; Stephen Feinstein, University of Minnesota; Rainer Marutzky, Braunschweig Institute for Wood Research; Dr. Klaus Kallmann, New York Natural History Museum (Ret); Prof. Dr. Johannes Horst Schröder, Institut fur Biologie, Munich (Ret); Meg Rich, Archivist and Daniel J. Linke, University Archivist and Curator of Public Policy Papers, Seeley G. Mudd, Manuscript Library, Princeton University; Marcia Tucker, Historical Studies-Social Science Library, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton; Ken Rose, Assistant Director, Rockefeller Archive Center; Paul G. Anderson, Archivist, Becker Medical Library, Washington University in St. Louis; Julia Gardner, Reference/Instruction Librarian, Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library; Virginia G. Saha, Director, Cleveland Health Sciences Library; Nejat Akar MD, Professor of Pediatric Molecular Genetics, Ankara University, Faculty of Medicine; Professor Arin Namal, University Istanbul Medical Faculty Department of Medical Ethics and Medical History; Kyna Hamill, Tisch Library Archives, and Amy E. Lavertu, Information Services Librarian, Hirsh Health Sciences Library at Tufts University; Historian Tuvia Friling of Ben Gurion University, Beer Sheva, Israel, an expert on Jewish issues in the Balkans and Turkey during the relevant period; Daniel Rooney, Archivist, National [US] Archives and Records Administration; and especially to Ron Coleman, Reference Librarian, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, who went beyond the call of duty in providing references and did so in a most timely fashion.
Key words: Turkey; History; History of science and technology; Development; Technology Transfer; Educational Policy; Government Policy; Higher education; Nazi persecution; Nazism; Holocaust; Shoah; Migration; Diaspora; Exile.
Arnold Reisman received his BS, MS, and Ph.D. degrees in engineering from UCLA. He is a registered Professional Engineer in California, Wisconsin, and Ohio and has published over 200 refereed papers and 14 books. After 27 years as Professor of Operations Research at Case Western Reserve University, he chose early retirement in 1994. During 1999-2003 he was Visiting Scholar in Turkey at both Sabanci University, and the Istanbul Technical University. His current research interests are; technology transfer; epistemology of knowledge generation; meta research; and most recently, the history of German speaking exiled professors starting 1933 and their impact on science in general and Turkish universities in particular. He is also actively pursuing his life long interest in sculpting. He is listed in Who's Who in America, Who's Who in the World, American Men and Women of Science, and Two Thousand Notable Americans and is a Fellow of the American Association for Advancement of Science.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS (TENTATIVE)
The Builders
Architecture and City Planning
The Preservators
Library Science and librarianship
Orientology
Botany and zoology
The Social Reformers
Biology, Chemistry, and Biochemistry
Mathematics and Engineering Science
Philosophy and Science
University histories
Problems the emigres encountered
Correspondence and memoirs
Legacy left behind
Selected biographies of first-generation Turkish elite educated by the émigré professors.
Selected biographies of second-generation Turkish elite educated by the émigré professors.
First generation: Turkish elite educated by the émigré professors.
Surviving spouses
Turkey's post-war policies and practices: Effects limiting the legacy's
impact potential.
After their re-emigration, Turkey-saved professors' impact on:
American science and higher education
German science and higher education
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Have Google's self-driving cars ever gotten a ticket?
Nope. Google's Self-Driving Cars Have Never Gotten a Ticket @ The Atlantic. Selected quotes…
"We have not cited any Google self-driving cars," Sergeant Saul Jaeger, the press information officer at the Mountain View Police Department, told me. They hadn't pulled one over and let the vehicle go, either, to Jaeger's knowledge.
Google confirmed that they none of their cars had ever been ticketed in Mountain View or elsewhere.
"What we've been saying to the folks in the DMV, even in public session, for unmanned vehicles, we think the ticket should go to the company. Because the decisions are not being made by the individual," said Ron Medford, safety director for Google's self-driving car program, and the former deputy administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
"A person, if it is defined as a human person and not a corporation, that's what we're really wondering about," Medford said. "Even in this definition… does a person mean a human individual or can it mean something more? It would seem to me that in the future it might mean something different."
The DMV's Soublet responded: "Well, right, if you look at the common definitions that are in the vehicle code, a person includes a corporation and a partnership and other forms of entities. So when we think of a vehicle being operated, is it that inclusive? Is the operator that person, that could be a corporation?"
Because robotics companies need corporate persons to accept the legal responsibility for the work algorithms do.
They told us the future would be weird.
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Q: How to load Image data from s3 bucket to sagemaker notebook? I just started to use aws sagemaker. I tried to import images from my s3 bucket to sagemaker notebook. But I can't import images to the notebook. my image location is s3://my_bucket/train how can I import the train folder from the given path to my sagemaker notebook. I've gone through some of  the solution in here and the solutions are for CSV file. All the images in my S3 bucket are in .jpeg format.

A: you could use s3fs to easily access your bucket as well as an image file in it.
from PIL import Image
import s3fs

fs = s3fs.S3FileSystem()

# To List 5 files in your accessible bucket
fs.ls('s3://bucket-name/data/')[:5]

# open it directly
with fs.open(f's3://bucket-name/data/image.png') as f:
    display(Image.open(f))

A: You don't have to download images from S3 bucket to local SageMaker instance for training the model. If you are trying to pull them for data exploration/analysis you can use aws cli from your SageMaker notebook. You can use following command to download a sample image. This will copy sample.jpg to images directory in your pwd.
aws s3 cp s3://my_bucket/train/sample.jpg ./images/sample.jpg
Try looking at amazon-sagemaker-examples repo to learn how to work with image formats on SageMaker.

A: Which SageMaker sample notebook(s) are you trying to use?
If your input data is in S3 bucket, you don't have to download it to your SageMaker notebook instance. This example shows that data is uploaded to S3 bucket: https://github.com/awslabs/amazon-sagemaker-examples/blob/master/introduction_to_amazon_algorithms/imageclassification_caltech/Image-classification-fulltraining.ipynb
For training purposes, you can configure s3_train to your input data bucket.
And here's an inference on the image input format for the built-in image classification.

A: The snippet of code below will help you load your image folder from your s3 bucket to your SageMaker instance;

import boto3
from botocore.exceptions import ClientError # Not necessary

# Remember to enter the cirrect bucket region below
s3 = boto3.resource('s3', region_name='us-west-2')
# Replace the place holder with your correct bucket name
bucket = s3.Bucket('my_bucket')
for my_bucket_object in bucket.objects.all():
    key = my_bucket_object.key
    print(key)
    if not os.path.exists(os.path.dirname(key)):
        os.makedirs(os.path.dirname(key))

# The following is basically for exception handling and not necessary to include
    try:
        bucket.download_file(key, key)
    except ClientError as e:
        if e.response['Error']['Code'] == "404":
            print("No object with this key.")
        else:
            raise

Alternatively, you can also try running the following script from your Sagemaker notebook cell;
!aws s3 cp s3://$my_bucket//train/images train/images/ --recursive

The solution is from this website.
Documentation on using cp.

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(only use the equipment in a clean environment).
environment with respect to the following precautions.
LEDs and by switching relay outputs of two relays.
indicate locally a wireless call.
a call will be generated or forwarded.
will be activated to close a monitored door.
20 wireless transmitters can be programmed.
Calls are indicated by the red LED and Relay 1.
battery-low indication indicated by the red LED, but only by Relay 2.
to interrupt a monitoring loop.
receiving a signal from a MIYS37L transmitter.
signal is indicated by the red LED and Relay 2.
closer to the LE10 Radio Receiver.
the transmitter that is activated.
battery-low signal is indicated by the red LED.
The LE10 Radio Receiver is carefully packed for transportation.
equipment, do not try to install the LE10 Radio Receiver.
Contact immediately your local representative.
Receiver on the working space.
fixings (2 screws and 2 screw anchors) and this user manual.
not been damaged during transportation.
Receiver will be in standby mode.
information about the power supply.
inside the cable channels on the bottom.
that you can see the Bosch logo and the two LEDs.
hand and slide it towards you.
the 5-digits micro switch S3.
Factory setting is all switches set to off.
Example: In mode 8, the green LED will blink 8 times.
desired time. See Section 4.1 Connecting ports, page 11.
Both relays will not be activated in the programming mode.
matched. You can program up to 20 transmitters.
Press button T1 for min. 1 second and max. 3 seconds.
The green LED stays permanently on.
The red LED blinks slowly for maximum 30 seconds.
This indication confirms that the transmitter is programmed.
blinks fast for 6 seconds after activating the transmitter.
button T1 between 1 and 3 seconds.
You can repeat the sequence with another transmitter.
Per sequence only one transmitter can be deleted.
Press button T1 for min. 5 seconds and max. 10 seconds.
The red LED stays off and then blinks for 30 seconds.
repeat the sequence with another transmitter.
This indication confirms that all transmitters are then deleted.
Radio Receiver will jump out of the programming mode.
Transmitter with Locating function, in modes 3 or 4.
Wristband Transmitter with Locating function.
Press button T1 min. 1 second and max. 3 seconds.
The red LED blinks slow for max. 30 seconds.
to match, before the end of the 30 seconds.
LED blink alternating quick for 6 seconds.
Wristband Transmitter is matched in the LE10 Radio Receiver.
modes 6 or 7 (Open Receiver).
indication after power on, page 12.
The red LED blinks 3 times every 10 seconds.
The red LED stays permanently off.
The red LED lights up permanently for 10 seconds.
Relay 1 switches on for 10 seconds.
10 seconds, the alarm will be retriggered for 10 seconds.
replaced and the transmitter is activated again.
In normal mode 2, the red LED is deactivated regarding batterylow indication and will not blink every 10 seconds.
The red LED lights up permanently for 7 seconds.
Relay 1 switches on for 7 seconds.
1 second after Relay 1, Relay 2 switches on for 3 seconds.
permanently red for 5 seconds.
Relay 1 and Relay 2 behave as above.
The red LED lights up permanently for 30 seconds.
Relay 1 stays off for 30 seconds.
Relay 2 switches on for 25 seconds.
During these 30 seconds, all radio reception is fully blocked.
monitored area without generating an accompany signal.
The red LED lights up permanently.
Relay 1 switches off for 30 seconds.
Relay 2 stays on for another 25 seconds.
area without generating an accompany signal.
There is no change of the LEDs and the relays.
The red LED lights up for 2 seconds.
Relay 1 switches on for 2 seconds.
In mode 4, there is no battery-low indication.
The red LED lights up.
The red LED turns off.
has been already switched on by a transmitter.
Section 6.2.1 Activation of a transmitter in normal mode, page 16.
The red LED lights up for 10 seconds.
Relay 2 switches on for 2 seconds.
In these modes 6 and 7, there is no battery-low indication.
The red LED blinks every 10 seconds.
Relay 2 switches on, until the battery is changed.
off if a daily message or a transmitter activation is detected.
In Normal mode 2, the red LED is deactivated regarding batterylow indication and will not show any indication.
The red LED is already blinking every 10 seconds.
If you disconnect and reconnect the power supply, the batterylow indication will be reset as well.
Programming and deleting of transmitters is done as in Mode 1.
The red LED is off.
Relay 1 is switched off.
Relay 2 is switched off.
The red LED turns on for 2 seconds.
Relay 1 is switched on for 2 seconds.
the green button of the MIYN46 transmitter is pressed.
transmitter stops the sequence and starts its own sequence.
triggered only with the daily message.
The red LED blinks 1 second on, 1 second off, 1 second on.


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This statistic shows the number of candidates who took a higher level exam in Scotland in 2018. English was the most popular choice with 36.2 thousand candidates, this was followed by Mathematics and History at 18.8 thousand and 10.3 thousand respectively.
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Q: Remote Control for audio doesn't work after I managed to play audio in background with MPMoviePlayerController and tried to make it receive remote controls. But when I click on the Play/Pause button there's no reaction and the audio keeps on playing.
Then I tried to show if there's a log-output but there's no output.
Here's my Code:
   -(void)viewDidAppear:(BOOL)animated{
...
       [[UIApplication sharedApplication] beginReceivingRemoteControlEvents];
        [self becomeFirstResponder];
    }

    - (void)viewWillDisappear:(BOOL)animated {
        [super viewWillDisappear:animated];
        [[UIApplication sharedApplication] endReceivingRemoteControlEvents];
        [self resignFirstResponder];
    }

    - (void)remoteControlReceivedWithEvent:(UIEvent *)event {
        NSLog(@"remoteControlReceivedWithEvent: %@", event);
        if (event.type==UIEventTypeRemoteControl) {
            if (event.subtype==UIEventSubtypeRemoteControlPlay) {
                NSLog(@"Play");
            } else if (event.subtype==UIEventSubtypeRemoteControlPause) {
                NSLog(@"Pause");
            } else if (event.subtype==UIEventSubtypeRemoteControlTogglePlayPause) {
                NSLog(@"Play Pause");
            }
        }
    }

Thanks for your effort in advanced.

A: It looks like your view controller isn't in the responder chain.
That might be due to [self resignFirstResponder] in viewWillDisappear and/or another ViewController is in the front.
To make sure you receive these events you can implement a UIApplication subclass which will be able to receive the events always. So it doesn't matter which ViewController is visible.
The UIApplication is always in the end of the responder chain.
Create a subclass for UIApplication (MyUIApplication) and implements the following UIResponder methods:
- (void)remoteControlReceivedWithEvent: (UIEvent *) receivedEvent {
    ...
}

- (BOOL)canBecomeFirstResponder {
  return YES;
}

In main.m use the following to initiate the app (replace MyUIApplication and AppDelegate with your classes names):
@autoreleasepool {
      return UIApplicationMain(argc, argv, NSStringFromClass([MyUIApplication class]), NSStringFromClass([AppDelegate class]));
}


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На северо-западе — хутор Красный Ключ.

На северо-востоке — балка Сухая Падина.

Расстояние до краевого центра: 104 км.

Расстояние до районного центра: 15 км.

История
На 1 марта 1966 года хутор Гремучий входил в состав Красноключевского сельсовета с центром в хуторе Алтухов.

До 1 мая 2017 года входил в состав территории сельского поселения Красноключевский сельсовет Благодарненского района Ставропольского края.

Население

По данным переписи 2002 года в национальной структуре населения преобладают русские (76 %).

Кладбища
В 150 м к югу от хутора расположено открытое кладбище площадью 10000 м².

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Geezer Politics
Thoughts, Facts, Commentary and Knowledge…
Politics and the Church – Extrication for the Shoal Waters [Part 24]
12Jan 2017 8 Jul 2018
Within today's schooling system, probably the most beneficial would be a system of school vouchers. Such a policy would have a number of benefits:
It would restore much more parental influence in the training of children, a policy that would be consistent with Biblical teaching.
It would establish healthy competition in the educational system.
It would allow parents to send children to schools that supported their own moral and behavioral values.
Children would be better educated…According to Greg Forster, a research fellow at the Friedman Foundation for Education Choice, every empirical study conducted in Milwaukee, Florida, Ohio, Texas, Maine, and Vermont showed that where vouchers were available, these programs improved public schools [Greg Forster, Ph.D., "A Win-Win Solution: The Empirical Evidence on How Vouchers Affect Public Schools", School Choice Issues In Depth, January 2009, pgs. 16-21].
Who makes up the group that most opposes school vouchers? Well, it's the National Education Association (NEA), the largest teachers' union. They so vehemently oppose even small, localized experiments in using vouchers because they know that privately run schools will do a much better job of educating children if only they can compete on an equal basis for the tax dollars that support public schools [Ibid].
A common objection to the use of school vouchers is that parents will use them to send children to church-related schools and thus the government will be supporting training in a certain religion. What a 'lame' objection. This objection is not persuasive because:
It is not the government that is supporting such church-related schools, but the parents of the children, because they are making the choice of where to send them.
Another objection is a gross misunderstanding of the First Amendment. This amendment was only intended to prohibit the governmental establishment of one certain church or religion as the official state church. It was never intended to prevent all government support for everything that is done by the church.
The goal of civil government with regard to education should be to produce educated citizens for the next generation. If that is being done through a voucher system, then the government's goal is being accomplished. The goal of the government should not be to prevent children from obtaining education in a school that also teaches religious values. Think of it…how good it would be if students not only received an education they could use but were also well versed in discipline and in Biblical principles on how to treat each other?
It would seem that a primary barrier to a good education in the United States is the NEA and its massive political influence. This organization spent massive amounts to defeat a state-wide referendum in Utah for school vouchers ["Utah Voters Defeat Measure to Create U.S. First State-Wide Voucher Program", Associated Press, Nov 7, 2007]. The city of Washington, DC, established a very successful voucher program. With Congress as the governing authority for the District, when the Democratic majority took control of both the Senate and the House in January 2009, funding for DC's voucher program was cut off. Even the Democratic mayor protested but to no avail. Many Democratic members of Congress and President Obama chose to send their own children to private vice public schools, but would would not allow this choice for poor parents in that same district.
Failure in the education system is a national tragedy of immense proportions. Lack of educational skills perpetuates a permanent economic "underclass" in our society. The responsibility for this tragedy lies squarely with the failed public school system and the NEA that uses its monopoly power to prevent real school choice. Throwing more money at a failed system will not fix the problem. Because of the NEA's strangle hold on the school system, poor teachers cannot be fired and the best teachers cannot be given enough incentives to excel or to stay in teaching as a career. The job of unions is to protect the interests of teachers. The job of schools is to educate the students. Many well-meaning reformers fail to understand the difference between the two objectives. What's good for the unions is not necessarily what is good for the students. Tenured teachers who can't teach, can't control a class, and behave in manifestly unacceptable ways are in the system as long as they want to stay, with rare exceptions [Abigail Therstrom and Stephen Therstrom, No Excuses,: Closing the Racial Gap in Learning, New York: Simon & Schuster, 2003, pgs. 11-15]. In many states and cities teachers have to pay dues to the NEA, even if they don't join. For example, in Bedford, Ohio, teachers have to pay $713 yearly to the union, regardless of membership [Robert Nozar, "Teachers contract approved", The Bedford (OH) Sun, Sept 25, 2008]. The NEA has never endorsed a Republican candidate but in 2009 endorsed 'same-sex marriage'. Children from inner-city schools in particular do poorly in academic achievement trapping generation after generation in poverty, with low job skills and little ability to advance. By the twelfth grade, on average, black students are four years behind those who are white or Asian. Hispanics don't do much better.
Why does the NEA oppose such a system that would bring benefit to the children of the nation and thus to the nation as a whole? It is another case of a few people benefiting…the teachers who are part of the NEA…, while the costs are being borne by the many…the entire population of the nation. This situation will leave our nation…the 'ship of state'…in an ever worsening situation, while those who are responsible for the welfare of the citizens…the crew…are busy lining up a 'life jacket' and a seat in the 'life boat' should things not work out. The Bible gives parents the responsibility to raise and educate their children thus the education system is a proper subject to be addressed from the pulpit. Once again, politics and the pulpit must work in conjunction or the church will have to accept partial responsibility for national failure.
Next week we will take a look at immigration policies. All of us are decedents of immigrants. We are a nation of immigrants. But the motives for coming to this nation must be considered before our generosity becomes our failure.
– Bob Munsey
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The Hypocrisy of Politics in the Church
A Detour Down an Estuary Condition of the Christian Church Establishing a Position Extrication from the Shoal Waters God Jesus the Church Religion & Society Recovery From the Shoal Waters Restoring the Government Reversing Course...Avoiding the Shoal Waters Safe Harbor Restoring the Church The Church v. the Angel of Light The Hypocrisy of Politics in the Church The Politics of God Where's The Church Where to Now?


At Vernissage, Armenia's iconic outdoor market, you can find everything from kitschy souvenirs targeted towards Armenian Diasporans, who visit the country in droves for summer holidays, to handmade khachkars (stone rocks), ceramics and Soviet-era posters, badges and even passports.
A French term used to describe a preview of an art exhibition, Vernissage has been a Yerevan staple since the 80s and runs behind the main Republic Square on Saturdays and Sundays.
This mobile phone photo essay, which combines the iPhone along with PicPlz mobile photo sharing software takes you through a taste of Armenia's eclectic flea market.


Extensis has announced it will release a free Suitcase plug-in for Adobe Illustrator that automatically activates fonts used in Illustrator documents. The plug-in ensures that any time an Illustrator file is opened, the exact fonts used in the file are automatically activated. The announcement was made today at the MacWorld Conference & Expo, being held at the Jacob J. Javits Center in New York City.
The plug-in will be free-of-charge to registered Suitcase 10 users, and will be available in August through the Extensis web site at www.extensis.com.
"Automatic font activation is extremely useful to creative professionals," said Michael Wong, Suitcase product manager. "But whatis really important to Illustrator users is to make sure that the same font gets activated every time they open a file. By incorporating Appleis FontSync technology into this plug-in, Extensis equips Illustrator users with a font management solution that ensures the correct font will be activated every time."
You can find more information on the new Suitcase plug-in at the Extensis Web site.


Edward Burtynsky is a Canadian photographer whose work documents the impact of industry on the environment. Most of his work is quite large, high resolution prints taken with a large-format camera that capture bleak but visually rich vistas of industrial wastelands – sometimes the aftereffects, sometimes ongoing industrial sites. He's quite celebrated – he has received the Order of Canada among other awards and was the subject of an award-winning feature-length documentary, Manufactured Landscapes (2006). I saw a selection of his work in 2004 at the Musée d'art Contemporain in Montreal, and was quite simply awestruck.
The beauty of his works is the first thing that strikes you as you meander through the galleries. He works in medium-to-large formats: 30″ x 40″ or 40″ x 50″ prints that sit proud on a wall. They are powerful in a way akin to the early natural landscapes of Carleton Watkins or Eadweard Muybridge, who in the mid- to late-19th century strove to honour the majesty of nature through their photographs, choosing viewpoints that purposefully dwarfed man under the immensity of rolling mountains and the like in the forefront. Burtynsky's scenes are similarly awing for the sheer size of the objects or locations he photographs; his images of comparatively diminutive trains cutting across vertiginous, humongous precipices in Ontario or of miniature workers taking apart giant defunct ships in Bangladesh demonstrate the smallness of the human race.
One main and essential difference, though, is that the very subject of these works is the fact that man has seized power over these places. None of the locations he chooses as subjects are so-called pure, unadulterated nature; they are all areas particularly dominated by people purposefully striving toward economic gain. The striking vibrancy of the fluorescent orange nickel streams left over by a mine in Sudbury, Ontario, exist as photographed because they were extracted and left there by man. The mesmerizing geometric patterns made by the striations in the earth's marble shield in Italy exist because man has cut through it that way to sell it in portions. The giant tire mountains of California, or the crushed metal compounds, exist because of what man has made, used and disposed of from the oil he's sucked out of the earth or the metal he's pillaged from its soil.
I think the pieces that struck me the most were the tailings of a nickel mine in Sudbury. These pieces are so unlike what we expect to see on this planet that they almost read as abstract colour fields.
The stark contrast of the swaths of reddish orange in that black deathscape are only plausible because you know these are photographs. This not to downplay the impact of more recognizable scenes like the tire dumps, abandoned quarries, or salvage yards – if anything, they serve to heighten the horror of these scenes of devastation that most of us sort of realize are going on all the time all over the world but we carefully file away with other unpleasant realities.
A quite extensive selection of Burtynsky's work including photographs of salvage yards, oil spills, dumps, tailings, quarries, and much more can be seen on his site. If you are even fleetingly concerned about humanity's impact upon the natural environment you really must make the time and take a look. Whether Burtynsky's ouevre is a cautionary tale for future generations or a document of our planet's destruction remains to be seen.
I think men were condemned to die under the rubble they created .Sometimes these creations are ugly.vested interests give a damn for the sake of their immediate gains.
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I dance nihon buyou and some of the songs in my notebook are not translated properly. I know rough meaning,but as I speak basic Japanese and my teacher speaks basic English, getting a proper translation these lyrics deserve is challenging. I know that some of you are fluent in Japanese and able to understand even poetic texts. I'd be really grateful for help with a couple of short songs. Sadly, I only have romaji transcription.
Re: Buyou songs - help with translation?
For Kotobuki, there's lots of variations with that name but I can tell you that tsuru (crane) and kame (tortoise) as well as matsu (pine) and take (bamboo) are common imagery in celebratory songs.


Have two teams line up facing each other, forming a chain by holding hands. Flip a coin. Heads goes first (team one). Team one decides who from the other team they want to call over, and shouts, "red rover, red rover, send (name) on over!" The chosen player then runs toward the other team, trying to break through the clasped hands of two teammates. If they don't, they have to join that team. But if they do, they get to bring back with them one of the two people from the broken link!


In conjunction with AHMM Architects, Atelier Ten have been appointed by HB Reavis Group to develop the masterplan and building design for a speculative office and retail development in Bratislava.
Bordering Austria and Hungary, Bratislava in southwestern Slovakia is the only national capital that borders two independent countries. With "millennials" as target occupiers, the developments comprise six buildings in the first two development phases, one of which is a 30-storey tower. The brief asks for high sustainability certification including BREEAM Outstanding and potentially LEED Platinum and WELL Standard.


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Glory's road to finals
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History awaits Kenny Lowe's troops with four games remaining in the regular season.
Following a tough away trip to Melbourne in Round 23, Perth still has 12 points up for grabs as the finals race heats up.
Glory currently sits in 5th place, just one point behind Brisbane Roar (4th) and Melbourne City (3rd) who both have a game in hand.
Sixth-placed Wellington Phoenix is seven points adrift of Perth at the moment but the next four weeks will shape the top six, if not the top four.
Glory will face three of the top four teams in the run home, starting with an exciting blockbuster against top of the table Sydney FC in Round 24 at nib Stadium.
And the only remaining away fixture is the short trip across the Nullarbor to Coopers Stadium to face cellar-dwellers Adelaide United.
Glory then returns to host Brisbane and Melbourne City on Easter Sunday.
These two matches could be the most telling and defining games for a top-three finish and an all-important home final and an Asian Champions League berth.
"To have a final in Perth...I think we all know when our fans get behind us we're almost unstoppable," club stalwart Richard Garcia said recently.
Tickets to Glory's next home game against Sydney FC on March 26 can be purchased HERE
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Grand Final Gallery - Members and Fans in Focus
We've collated some of the best member and fan shots from the Hyundai A-League 2019 Grand Final when Optus Stadium was well and truly painted purple! #OneGlory
AQWA Action!
Some of the highlights from the early bird member renewals day at AQWA in Hillarys Boat Harbour. A big thank you to everyone who came along and made it an event to remember! #OneGlory
What a Night! A look back at our glamour clash with Chelsea
A record attendance for a football match in WA, the biggest crowd ever to watch Glory and a commendable performance against the EPL giants and FA Cup holders. Our clash with Chelsea at Optus Stadium truly was a night to remember! #OneGlory


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Smoke Farm School
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The Rubicon Foundation, a not-for-profit education foundation with IRS 501 (c) (3) status, was incorporated in 1992. The foundation was formed to attract a nucleus of people who recognize the need for a new educational experiment that can meet the special challenges and possibilities of the world in which we live. The Foundation draws its name from the river Rubicon in northern Italy , famously crossed by Julius Caesar in 49 B.C. The word rubicon has come to symbolize a crossing which commits a person irrevocably.
The Rubicon Foundation does not discriminate on the basis of gender, race, color, creed, national or ethnic origin, disability, or sexual orientation in the administration of its business, in its admissions to its programs, or in the development and implementation of its projects.
Owned and operated as a dairy by the Smoke family, the site was chosen because of its beauty, privacy, and proximity to Seattle.
The Rubicon Foundation is an experiment in community for Seattle artists, educators, performers, philosophers, activists, instigators and agitators. Foundation activities gather individuals and groups to create the intellectual, emotional, and physical space that can sustain and empower the creative minds who bring hope and vision to our community and contemporary culture.
The Smoke Farm Advisory Committee:
May Ackerman
Kate Fernandez
Joanna Greene
Craig Hollow
Katherine Howe
Mike Katell
Toby Keys
Azur Koteen
Andrew Marsters
Terrance McKittrick
Adam Nishimura
Linden Ontjes
Daniel Thornton
Zoe Scofield
Constance Sebastian
Erin Shafkind
Juniper Shuey
Stuart Smithers
Ken Williford
Jennifer Zeyl
The Rubicon Foundation Directors:
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Richard B Levenson, General Counsel
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Kromek chairman made an IOP Honorary Fellow
Congratulations to our chairman Sir Peter Williams who has been made an Honorary Fellow of the IOP for his outstanding contribution to business in physics-based technology commercialisation and to the field of physics education, and for his considerable services to the IOP. Sir Peter Williams has been chairman of Kromek Group plc since 2015, where his combination of scientific knowledge and boardroom experience makes him equally comfortable talking to people in R&D and fellow directors.
He has authored important reports on science education at school and university level and has held senior posts at the Engineering and Technology Board, the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council and the National Physical Laboratory. He has also been Master of St Catherine's College, Oxford and Chancellor of the University of Leicester, and was IOP President in 2000–02. In 2005 he received the IOP's Glazebrook Medal and Prize for outstanding contributions to leadership in a physics context.
What is the IOP
The Institute of Physics (IOP) is a leading scientific membership society working to advance physics for the benefit of all. They have a worldwide membership from enthusiastic amateurs to those at the top of their fields in academia, business, education and government. Their purpose is to gather, inspire, guide, represent and celebrate all who share a passion for physics. And, in their role as a charity, they ensure that physics delivers on its exceptional potential to benefit society. Alongside professional support for its members, they engage with policymakers and the public to increase awareness and understanding of the value that physics holds for all of us.
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CEO, Dr Arnab Basu, has been award by the Institute of Physics for his outstanding contribution to the field with an Honorary Fellowship
Kromek to attend the Counter Threat Symposium 2021
Kromek to attend the Counter Threat Symposium 2021, Farnborough, November 9-11 2021, and showcase its portable detection products.


The Bethlehem Office of Emergency Management provides information on many safety issues. A National Grid Guide to Natural Gas and Electric Outage Preparation and Safety has been posted on the office's web pages that proves to be helpful year round.
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EVMs in elections – safe or not?
The raging debate over whether EVMs are safe or not may one day be settled with a fool-proof VVPAT system. Or will it?
EVM controversy resurfaces : The EVM controversy re-emerged after the recent assembly election results (2017) in which the BJP secured huge majority in the bigger states like UP and Uttarakhand. The opposition parties alleged that the EVMs were tampered with in favour of the BJP. It's also a fact that the 2004, 2009 and many other elections were lost by the BJP when these EVMs were used. (though BJP had earlier raised objections)
Deep dive? You can read our full Bodhi on State of Indian economy and politics, here and many other Bodhi Saars of elections, here
ECI stands by the machines : The Election Commission of India (ECI) rejected the opposition's allegations saying that the Indian EVMs were not at all vulnerable to tampering and re-programming from an outside source, and that the Commission exercised all precautions to maintain the security of the machines.
Old and established : Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) have been used in India since 1998 & paper ballots have been done away with. EVMs make the entire election process very simple – just a click on the button, and are cost-effective. The use of EVMs has made the vote counting process much faster, delivering results within hours of the start of the counting process.
VVPAT arrives : As early as in 2009, senior BJP leader Shri L K Advani raised doubts about the security features of EVMs. Subramanian Swamy filed a petition in the Delhi High Court challenging the use of EVMs in its current form. The court, while saying that EVMs are not tamper-proof, did not issue any direction to the Election Commission.
VVPAT arrives : Swamy then approached the Supreme Court, which in October 2013, ruled that the Election Commission would use Voter-Verified Paper Audit Trails (VVPATs) linked to EVMs in a phased manner and their full implementation should be achieved by 2019.
The MP controversy : Even before the EVM controversy could die down, it was reignited after the Congress and the Aam Admi Party (AAP) raised the issue with the Election Commission after a machine used during a trial in Bhind, Madhya Pradesh allegedly dispensed VVPAT slips with BJP's poll symbol (in April 2017). The machine was reportedly earlier used in Kanpur in the recent assembly elections. Madhya Pradesh Chief Electoral Officer Saleena Singh, however, denied the reports on Voter-Verified Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) machine dispensing BJP slips.
Advanced M3 Version of VVPAT : In the wake of several political parties questioning whether EVMs are tamper-proof, the ECI now plans to introduce an advanced M3 version of EVM ahead of the 2019 General Elections. More than 9 lakh EVMs purchased before 2006 will be replaced and new voting machines used in the 2019 General Elections. These new machines stop working if they are tampered with. The new M3 EVMs will have a Public Key Interface (PKI)-based mutual authentication between various EVM units for identifying a genuine unit.
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