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Council still planning to hold local elections in May despite Covid fears
Swindon council still planning to hold local elections in May despite Covid fears
Swindon's local elections were postponed last year – and there are reports the same could happen in 2021 Picture: STUART HARRISON
Local elections scheduled for May should go ahead, Swindon Borough Council has said.
The Times reported on Monday that the government is working on a plan to delay the spring polls by anything between one and four months.
Swindon's local elections in 2020 were postponed because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Borough council, parish seats and Angus Macpherson's Police and Crime Commissioner role are scheduled to be up for grabs in less than four months' time.
A council spokesman said: "We have been in regular contact with the government about the arrangements for this year's local elections and, at this time, the guidance we have received is they will go ahead as planned on May 6.
"We will continue to liaise closely with the government as it is important the local elections are carried out as safely as possible.
"Measures will be in place to ensure polling stations are safe for voters, and voters without a postal vote can apply now to give the council plenty of time to process applications."
Elections are run by Swindon Borough Council, with chief executive officer Susie Kemp also acting as returning officer.
Council leader David Renard said: "The Conservative group is keen to see the outstanding elections held as soon as possible as long as they can be held safely and fairly, which is ultimately a decision for government in consultation with the returning officers.
"In Swindon we currently have one vacancy on the borough council; some councillors who were intending to not seek re-election last May but have continued to serve and some who were last elected in 2016 and who want the opportunity to renew their democratic mandate.
"There are also outstanding elections for the Police and Crime Commissioner and parish councils which need to be held.
"It is important that any vacancies can be filled, or democratic mandates renewed as soon as practicable."
Labour group leader Jim Grant added: "What's important whether the elections go ahead or are postponed is that the decision is made sooner rather than later so that everyone is completely aware of what's happening are as soon as possible.
"We are relying on the vaccination rollout. If it can be done completely successfully and quickly then elections will be sooner.
"It's a matter for the Cabinet Office to decide in the end, but we need a decision early."
There are only 56 councillors in the 57-seat council.
When Labour councillor for Rodbourne Cheney Des Moffatt died in November 2019 it was decided to leave the post vacant until the following May.
At least three councillors, Vera Tomlinson (Conservatives, St Andrew), Bob Wright (Labour, Central) and Fay Howard (Labour, Liden, Elden and Park South), all intended to step down last May.
And so did Wiltshire PCC Mr Macpherson after eight years in the job.
As he approached the ninth anniversary of his election, he said: " "I am aware of speculation that the May elections might need to be postponed but I want to reassure the public that I will continue in my post as Police and Crime Commissioner until such time as the elections can happen safely and my successor elected.
"As I said last year when the elections were postponed for twelve months, public safety is paramount, and nothing should compromise this.
"The role of PCCs in representing the public and bringing together our partner agencies remains crucial.
"It is also vitally important that I ensure the Chief Constable has what he needs to continue to deliver an effective and efficient service to our communities.
"I would urge everyone to continue to adhere to the government restrictions – stay home, protect the NHS and save lives."
Find out how to apply at www.electoralcommission.org.uk/voter


WestJet unveiled a new perk this week that will leave its members (and their friends and family) smiling. The day after Calgary-based WestJet celebrated its 20th birthday, the airline also announced that WestJet RBC World Elite MasterCard customers can now redeem their WestJet companion voucher for travel anywhere in the WestJet network, including Mexico, the Caribbean, Hawaii and Europe. In addition, the first checked bag at no charge benefit has also been extended to include the entire network.
Already a hidden gem amongst the rewards community, the WestJet RBC World Elite MasterCard now offers unrestricted access to the WestJet network without requiring a minimum annual card spend or high annual fees.
The WestJet companion voucher is part of the welcome bonus and annual renewal award available to new and existing WestJet RBC World Elite MasterCard holders. This offer allows the primary cardholder to take a companion on a round trip on the same itinerary for $99 in Canada and the U.S., $299 for sun destinations including Hawaii, Mexico and the Caribbean, or $399 for trips to the U.K. and Ireland. Flights are subject to taxes, fees and charges on any WestJet-marketed and operated flight anywhere in the WestJet network.
I spoke with Sol Zia, manager of rewards at WestJet, about these changes. He said the company undertook a large scale research study of WestJet rewards members and non-cardholders to understand the barriers and pain points from the rewards program.
"The number one complaint about the program was the restricted companion voucher," said Zia in a phone interview.
Previous to this enhancement, cardholders received an annual round-trip companion flight for $99 (plus fees and taxes) on a WestJet marketed and operated flight in Canada and the continental U.S. (excluding Hawaii and Puerto Rico).
Zia also said that many people who haven't considered the WestJet RBC World Elite MasterCard may be underestimating the benefit of the companion flight and free checked bag for up to eight people in your party.
New cardholders get a welcome bonus of $250 WestJet dollars as well as an annual round-trip companion flight voucher starting at $99 (plus fees and taxes) after your first purchase.
Earn 1.5% back in WestJet dollars on every purchase you make.
Earn 2% back in WestJet dollars when you purchase WestJet flights or WestJet Vacations packages.
Get your first checked bag free on all WestJet flights.
Redeem any amount of WestJet dollars, at any time. One WestJet dollar earned is worth one Canadian dollar when redeemed for travel with WestJet or WestJet Vacations.
Travel whenever you want with no blackout periods or seat restrictions, and no advance booking requirements.
Use your WestJet dollars just like cash towards all or part of your next WestJet flight or WestJet Vacations package.
The card comes with a $99 annual fee and, since it's a World Elite MasterCard, you'll need a minimum $70,000 annual income (or $120,000 household income) to qualify. Additional cards are $49 per year.
I know many people like yourself, retired, good credit rating and all and do not earn 70 K household income – who does when retired? Not many ! When applying, you just have to be somewhat 'innovative' when reporting the income. Do not get the additional card for a spouse, no real benefit at all. We have two WJ-RBC cards, one in each name and are getting two companion flights a year.


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It important to emphasise that you must be fully committed to making significant lifestyle changes in order to be this successful. It is not something that we "do to you" but rather you must be prepared to change not only the way you eat but the way you think about eating.
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G is for Gillian Parke!
My husband bought me Gillian Parke's vessel for Christmas few years ago and then her work landed on the cover of Ceramics Monthly. When he saw her pot on the cover he was so proud of himself! Todd gets me nice pots for gifts, but he was vey happy with this one. I do I love her work. Her pots remind me of lot of the pots I saw in Japan, with the feldspar inclusions.
My son and I went out on a cold and windy day to find a place to photograph the G entry, Vander has gone with me on most of these adventures. We tried several spots before we found the right photograph that was going to work for her beautiful pot.
G is for Gail Kendall.
I got these two of Gail Kendall's pieces when years ago, I took a workshop with her at Anderson Ranch Arts Center. I love the fact that she is a complete hand builder!
I was trying to figure out what would be a great shot for Gail's olive dish and it dawned on me it looked like a submarine, then I had to convince Vander to stay still for the shot, always a hard feat.
G is for Jim Gottuso.
Jim Gottuso's tumbler I bought for my husband because he always complains that cups and mugs are not made for his hands. He always looks for the biggest handle, even if it out of proportion and looks a bit odd. When I saw this tumbler I thought finally a cup that Todd can use that will fit his hand!
Check out Jim's interview, he was one of the first artist's interviews on my blog.
If you're interested here are the other posts from The ABC's of Ceramics.
A – B – C – D – E –E - F!
Or just click on the link on the right hand side under categories.
Here is the family with our new drinking ware . (Vander had to have a little help with his cheers.) We are taking them out for our first drive. The tumbler in my hand is made by Brooke Noble. It is sporting a beautiful woodpecker. On the other side, it says "PECKER", which just cracks me up. The pottery pils ner is made by Jim Gottuso of Sofia's Dad's Pots. The other side of it has a hand imprinted on to it, for better gripping power, after a few. And last cup is a Diego cup of Go Diego Go fame. Brooke's tumbler followed me home from NCECA, Jim's pilsner came to us via the mail from Jim's Esty shop, and Van picked out his Diego cup from the Tar – zhary boutique. As I opened the box that had Jim's cup, I found a cute little surprise from Jim's assistant, the amazing Sofia (aka "the bug"), she slipped in a little tile that she made.
I recently found out Jim Gottuso and I have something in common, we both make extremely time consuming pots. Jim's pots are absolutely beautiful. Jim's pots they have a mysterious quality to them, they look like they are written in an ancient language. If you have the time visiting Jim's blog is wonderful glimpse into his art and daily thoughts, his blog's has quickly become one of my favorites.
I'm 51 and I grew up in central NY state, moved to Kentucky for college and after graduate school moved back to Kentucky and have remained here ever since. I have a 5 year old daughter that keeps me and her Mom on our toes and completely entertained. I have a clay studio that is in our house proper that I enlarged a couple years ago. I love all kinds of music and like to listen while I work. I am a devotee of the observance of the irony that surrounds us every day.
I'm not quite sure. I went to college to have an adventure (it was very much an adventure) and picked the art major on a whim. I loved clay from my first ceramics class forward and somewhere in there someone convinced me that it was a legitimate career path. I ended up going to college(s) for 9 years straight full time and got an MFA in sculpture. I think I was postponing the real life that awaited me afterward. I met lifelong friends in school and moved to Louisville to live near one of them. I tried to get a job as an artist or within the field but it was impossible and the economic reality that I had delayed so effectively during school hit me head on. My friend an I started a 3D computer graphics animation company in 1986 and my rationale was that since I was modeling 3 dimensional objects that this was somehow related to sculpture. I quit to freelance graphic design and build furniture. Ten years after the first business, we started another business doing internet development. During this long stretch of years, I kept thinking that I was going to get back into clay and at one time had even bought an old kiln that sat in my basement for years. In 2004, it was becoming clear that I would have to leave the internet business and right around the time it was winding down, I found out I was going to be a dad. I knew at that time that if I didn't embrace clay as my career then, that it would most likely never happen so I bit the bullet and here I am 5 years later with a fledgling clay career and a beautiful family. I am certain that this decision is the best work decision that I've ever made.
Although I do not consciously think about inspiration when I work, I did spent quite a few college years parsing what I like and don't like. I'm in awe of the beauty of the natural world and on some level I believe that the clay itself is inspiring. I worked with many other materials as a sculptor and woodworker and clay is so incredibly versatile. It is and has been all around us forever running the continuum from absolutely necessary, functional and useful to completely ornamental and functionless… from space shuttle tiles, to adobe dwellings, to Ming vases.
What do you create? Where do you get your inspiration for your ceramics?
I make functional and decorative porcelain pots. I love making bowls more than most forms and haven't figured out why I go back to it so often. I fire to cone 6 in an electric kiln currently. A good friend of mine is a collector and connoisseur of antique Chinese (and other Asian) ceramics and I have traveled to visit him at least once a year for at least 20 years. His house has a large collection of beautiful ceramics dating back to the 10th century. He has Ming Dynasty pieces and blue and white and blanc de chine and on and on. It's not that I was totally unaware of this magnificent history early on (although my academic knowledge of it is minuscule compared to his) but visiting him so often not only allowed me to listen to his expertise but more importantly allowed me to fondle the museum-quality pieces that we all are generally not allowed to fondle. It's not necessarily that antique Chinese ceramics is where the inspiration comes from but more what they (and others) represent. To think that someone 1000 years ago had solved so beautifully the challenges of form, surface, composition, design, function, etc. that all of us potters are attempting to solve everyday is quite an inspiration to me. The surface decoration of my pots is relatively ornate and I guess my inspiration for this comes from painting and drawing or more specifically I am in love with what a pencil or brush does when it hits paper or canvas or some other surface. I have always loved abstract expressionism as a movement and I love painters that tend to be all about mark making… Cy Twombly, Matta, Mark Tobey and Kandinsky to name a few. Clay allows me to add a 3 dimensional permanence to rather expressive brush marks.
Well, I'm only in about 5 years so the words still out. I have my work in some galleries and that has been effective and I'm hoping it will continue to be even more effective. A year ago I decided to augment this with online social networking as a way to get my work seen by more individuals. Although I originally thought of the online and offline avenues as separate, it is becoming clear that if one is open to both, they will definitely dovetail. My blog is http://jimgottuso.wordpress.com and I'm on Etsy, Facebook and Twitter also. So if the effectiveness is measured in sales, it's too early to tell and if it's measured in how many people are exposed to the work, I have no idea because I do know about how many people have seen the work online but I have no idea how many people have seen the work in the galleries and if the gallery has an active website that muddles it even more… so how's that for not answering the question?
What is the most important thing you'd like people to know and understand about your work?
Our lifestyle keeps me motivated. By that I mean a combination of things that makes up the way our life as a family is, the most important being the amount of time I get to spend with my daughter. I have the specter of my previous jobs as a constant reminder of the type of work I do not want to do. Combine that with my current job description (making pots) and that's it. It's like that bumper sticker that says, "a bad day fishing beats a good day at work". Just change it to "a bad day working as a potter beats… (x) fill in the blank with any other job.
How do you manage being an Father and artist?
I don't really manage it very effectively. My daughter trumps everything with me. I've managed to include her in many of my activities and it's becoming easier as she gets older. She starts school this autumn so I imagine my amount of hours in the studio will increase a bit. Mom's schedule for the last 2 years has allowed me way more time than I had for the first 3 years of my daughter's life. I spend every weekend solo with my daughter and I do not even attempt to get any work done and I have Mon. – Fri. for clay which is just like a real schedule. The only difference is that I have a little tornado in the house the entire time and I am incapable of ignoring her.
If I try to think of an individual that inspires me, I usually just come away with musicians. There's too many to name so maybe the answer might just be music. I am so utterly envious of that world that musicians live in where they communicate to us and to one another using sounds and not words. Writing runs a close second.
Are you a full-time artist? How did you become one?
As I mentioned above, I am a full-time artist if you count a Mon. – Fri. job as full-time and I'm becoming more full time all the time and I'm hoping that when the little one starts school in the fall that I become an full time artist with overtime. I became one slowly over a period of years. When our child was born I probably worked 3 – 3 1/2 days a week and they usually weren't consecutive days and they were never the same days of the week.
I go into the studio and try to keep what I'm going to do relatively undefined. For instance, today I'm gonna throw or today I'm gonna throw some big bowls. I have and do work toward events and have had commissions but mostly I try not to impose anything that would impede the natural flow of things. Just sit at the wheel and allow what comes to come. I believe that all of us potters know that on some level if it's not going to happen on a particular day, it's not going to happen. This doesn't mean that there aren't times that I have to force things but it's usually counterproductive so I try to keep aware of that. I have tried over the years to use a sketchbook to work through ideas but have to admit that although I love the romantic notion of having and keeping a sketchbook (probably why I keep trying), that I work through the ideas with the clay in front of me, just reacting to what's just happened.
Thanks Jim, for your words of wisdom!


A working group "Bastau" was created under the project of the Family Courts initiated by the Zhambyl regional court.
Heads of akimat offices, non-governmental organizations and law enforcement agencies, which are members of the working group, are planning to implement a number of measures to strengthen the institution of the family. It is, of course, improving family relationships, reducing family-household disputes and domestic violence.
Such support is voluntary upon the consent of those in need of such assistance.
With the support of the family, the Child Protection Working Group arranges activities for counseling on couples who want to get married on the basis of the Civilian Guidance Committee. They also provide assistance in dealing with family issues, peacefully resolving conflicts.
For those who want to participate in the family, including children's issues, there are "Open Days". In this regard, there are lectures on professional counseling, about family life values, proper parental responsibilities, guardianship and guardianship, and the formation of minor children behavior. In addition, there is free psychological assistance, and steps are being taken to reconcile married couples who decide to divorce.
Judge of the regional court, Gulnara Asylbek, told about them and said that they would not be limited to solving them in the family and marriage disputes. They interact with the working group, improve family relationships, take measures to preserve the family and reconcile the parties.


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England Grab 90 Points After Series Win Against South Africa
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Jumpin' Jellyfish is een paratower in de attractieparken Disney California Adventure Park en Tokyo DisneySea.

Jumpin' Jellyfish bestaat uit twee torens. Elke toren bezit zes voertuigen waarin elk plaats is voor twee personen. De torens hebben een hoogte van 18,2 m. Bezoekers komen niet verder dan 12,2 m hoogte. Een ritje in de Jumpin' Jellyfish duurt circa 90 s.

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Disney California Adventure Park
Deze versie is geopend op 8 februari 2001 en was daarmee de eerste van alle versies in de Disney-parken. Jumpin' Jellyfish staat in het themagebied Pixar Pier.

Tokyo DisneySea
Deze versie is geopend op 4 september 2001 en staat in het themagebied Mermaid Lagoon. Hij is een stuk kleiner dan de andere versie, om de attractie in het indoorgedeelte te kunnen laten passen.

Paratower
Attractie in Disney California Adventure Park
Attractie in Tokyo DisneySea
Disney-attractie
Attractie van Intamin AG

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A vision for a new kind of public school in America
In 1987 an educator frustrated with American school reform challenged Outward Bound to get more involved in the debate about the direction of public education. He thought American schools could learn from Outward Bound's focus on experiential learning and on teaching skills like resilience and collaboration.
Into the woods: Two principals explain what students learn by getting out of the classroom
One of the features of education at many Expeditionary Learning schools is an Outward Bound trip. See photos of one of these trips and read an interview with two principals about why they send their students outside and how it relates to what they're trying to do in the classroom.
Kurt Hahn and the roots of Expeditionary Learning
Early in his life, Kurt Hahn had a vision of the kind of school he wanted to create, and it was nothing like the school he went to. It would be a school designed to help kids discover their interests and passions, not just prepare them for tests. And it would be a school devoted to character development.
Inside Expeditionary Learning at the Springfield Renaissance School
There's a lot of talk these days about the importance of traits like grit, curiosity, and self-discipline -- so-called "non-cognitive skills." How can schools teach those skills? Correspondent Emily Hanford explores the approach to character development at one school in Massachusetts.
Rethinking teacher preparation
In the United States, teaching isn't treated as a profession that requires extensive training like law or medicine. Teaching is seen as something you can figure out on your own, if you have a natural gift for it. But looking for gifted people won't work to fill the nation's classrooms with teachers who know what they're doing.
An American way of teaching
In 1993, a group of researchers set out to do something that had never been done before. They would hire a videographer to travel across the United States and record a random sample of eighth-grade math classes. What they found revealed a lot about American teaching.
Thinking about math from someone else's perspective
"What you do when you're teaching is you think about other people's thinking. You don't think about your own thinking; you think what other people think. That's really hard." -Deborah Ball
A different approach to teacher learning: Lesson study
In the United States, we tend to think that improving education is about improving teachers - recruiting better ones, firing bad ones. But the Japanese think about improving teaching. It's a very different idea.
From the Archives: Early Lessons
Head Start got its start 50 years ago. Our documentary, "Early Lessons," by Emily Hanford, profiles the program that inspired the creation of Head Start.
What can Japan teach us about teaching?
Coming up this fall we'll be releasing a documentary about teacher preparation - how people learn to become teachers and how they get better once they're in the classroom. This week: how do Japanese teachers learn to improve on the job?
What It Takes: Chasing Graduation at High-Poverty High Schools
The nation's high school graduation rate is at an all-time high, but high-poverty schools face a stubborn challenge. Schools in Miami and Pasadena are trying to do things differently.
Spare the Rod
A get-tough attitude prevailed among educators in the 1980s and 1990s, but research shows that zero-tolerance policies don't make schools safer and lead to disproportionate discipline for students of color.
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The Manufacturing Technologies Association is a trade association for companies working in the engineering-based manufacturing sector. Many of its members are involved in the construction and supply of manufacturing technology; items such as machine tools, cutting tools, metrology (measuring) equipment and CAD/CAM software. Other members deploy these technologies, and some are involved in providing services to the industry.
MACH is run for the industry, by the industry. As Organisers, the Manufacturing Technologies Association employs key staff who are directly involved in delivering a high quality, relevant exhibition. To support this team, the Association runs an Exhibition Committee that oversees all major decisions relating to the exhibition.
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Games for a New Climate: An International Collaboration in Research and Design
Is play an effective vehicle for preparing for climate change? Can games be part of long-term strategies for better organizing volunteer-driven organizations? Do academic-driven research methods lead to field-ready tools? Over the last four years, Parsons The New School for Design's PETLab has collaborated with the American Red Cross and the Red Cross/Red Crescent Climate Centre to explore these and other questions. Games for a New Climate has produced games with ambitious goals: prepare communities at risk due to changes in the local climate; assist the Red Cross staff in training its volunteers; and help individuals and communities better forecast and plan for potential problems, including the implications of climate change on public health. John Sharp, PETLab's co-director, will discuss the games the project has produced, the methodologies used for developing the games, and the successes and shortcomings of the project thus far.
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Northwestern leads the West Division with a 5-0 Big Ten record, followed by Wisconsin at 2-1, Iowa at 3-2 and Purdue at 2-2. The Wildcats can clinch at least a share of the West Division title and a Big Ten Football Championship Game berth this weekend with a win against Michigan State and a Wisconsin loss to Minnesota.
• Ohio State stands atop the East Division standings with a 4-0 record, with Indiana close behind at 4-1 and Maryland in third at 2-1 in conference play. The Buckeyes visit Illinois this weekend, while the Hoosiers host the Terrapins.
• Northwestern is 5-0 overall for the first time since 2015 and 5-0 in Big Ten play for the first time since 1996. Freshman safety Brandon Joseph added to his Big Ten-leading total with another two-interception effort in Saturday's victory against Wisconsin. Joseph led the secondary with seven tackles, including four solo stops. His five interceptions are two more than anyone else in the Big Ten and he leads the nation in interceptions per game (1.0).
• Ohio State ran for 307 yards and threw for 300 in a 42-35 victory against Indiana on Saturday. This marks just the second time since 2000 that Ohio State had at least 300 yards in each category in a conference game. Master Teague had a career-high 169 yards and his second multi-touchdown game of the season, scoring in all four games in 2020.
• The Buckeyes' Garrett Wilson reached the end zone twice for the first time in his career and became the second Ohio State player to have 100 receiving yards in four straight games, joining Cris Carter. It is the third time since 2000 that Ohio State had over 600 yards against a ranked team.
• The Buckeyes beat Indiana for the 26th straight time on Saturday, extending the longest win streak by one Big Ten team versus another in conference history. They also extended their overall home win streak to 23 games and their 21-game conference home win streak is the second-longest in Big Ten history.
• Indiana's Ty Fryfogle hauled in seven passes for 218 yards and three touchdowns against Ohio State to become the first receiver in Big Ten history to record back-to-back 200-yard games. His 218 yards were the third-highest total ever by a Buckeyes' opponent and the most by a Hoosier in the history of the series, which dates back to 1901. The senior wide receiver scored from 63, 56 and 33 yards out to become the first Hoosier since James Hardy in 2007 to record a pair of 50-yard touchdowns in a single game.
• Illinois racked up 490 yards of total offense in a 41-23 win over Nebraska in Lincoln on Saturday, while the defense forced five turnovers in the win. The Illini victory marks the first in Lincoln since 1924.
• Illinois ran for 285 yards in the win while scoring four touchdowns on the ground. Illini running backs Mike Epstein and Chase Brown both surpassed 100 yards rushing for the second consecutive week. Epstein tied his career high, rushing for 113 yards and a touchdown and marking his fourth consecutive game with a score.
• Iowa's 41-21 victory over Penn State in Beaver Stadium on Saturday marked head coach Kirk Ferentz's 100th Big Ten win, making him the fourth coach to achieve the milestone along with Ohio State's Woody Hayes (153 wins), Michigan's Bo Schembechler (143) and Chicago's Amos Alonzo Stagg (115).
• On Oct. 23, the Big Ten Conference announced the launch of the 'United As One' social justice campaign. 'United As One' is among several conference-wide Equality Coalition initiatives dedicated to constructively and collectively recognizing and eliminating racism and hate in our society by creating resources for inclusion, empowerment and accountability.
• The Big Ten Conference established the Equality Coalition in 2020 with 227 members including presidents and chancellors, directors of athletics, coaches, student-athletes, conference and school administrators, alumni, families and friends representing all 14 institutions.


Apologies if these have been answered before. I'm really pulling my hair out trying to figure out how to send an email via JBPM.
--> I want to send an email here - when JBPM transitions process to this node.
1. How do I achieve the above ? I gather there are 3-4 ways, but I would appreciate it if someone can tell me the correct way. I've only worked on JBPM for 3 days.
2. Where do I specify the mail server, user id, password - this is where I've hit the roadblock. I know the file is jbpm.cfg.xml. But what are the variable I need to specify. Or do I need to use mail-service.xml of JBOSS AS ?
The documentation is just not helpful.
My question is - how do I configure the mail server when using JBPM. I've done this using mail-service.xml for JBossAS. That takes the user id and password. Will JBPM use that configured java:/Mail jndi ?
3 of the first 5 links lead you to an answer.
Regarding the last question: I think that was already answered in my previous post but I'll repeat myself: No.
Last two entries are optional.
I would have liked to authenticate with the mail server using but there's no indication in the JBPM docs that it accepts user id and password. Some links seem to show that there is a userid and password variable .
Can anybody tell me how to send mail using authentication user mail id & password??


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Bruce Norris's Pulitzer Prize winner Clybourne Park opens tonight at Heartland Theatre with a 7:30 pm pay-what-you-can preview. Performances continue tomorrow through Saturday, February 27, with a panel "response" scheduled for after the matinee on Sunday the 21st. Check out all the dates and times of performances here.
Heartland Artistic Director Rhys Lovell directs Clybourne Park, a 2010 play that spins off from Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun, a groundbreaking play from 1959. In the earlier play, we meet members of the Younger family, struggling to make ends meet and dreaming of something better than where they live on Chicago's South Side. The Younger matriarch decides to spend a $10,000 inheritance on a house in the fictional Clybourne Park area, an all-white neighborhood where the Youngers are not really welcome. The action of A Raisin in the Sun shows us the conflict inside a black family where different people see their place in society and how to challenge that in very different ways.
Norris looks at the other side of the equation, focusing on the house Mama Younger wants to buy and the couple selling it. In 1959, Bev and Russ Stoller are still grieving the loss of their son and they see selling the house as a way to make a fresh start. Their neighbors try to convince them not to sell, with Karl, the only crossover character from Raisin in the Sun, and a local pastor named Jim arguing that property values will decline as soon as the Youngers move in. The Stollers' domestic help, Francine and Albert, are caught in the middle of the tension, along with Betsy, Karl's wife.
When we flip the script to 2009, Clybourne Park is an all-black neighborhood, but white people are moving back in and gentrifying the place. The actors who played Karl and Betsy are now would-be home buyers Steve and Lindsey, who want to remodel the modest house into something a lot bigger and spiffier. Their plans would mean razing the house, which doesn't sit well with Lena and Kevin, African-Americans who grew up here and want to preserve the history and character of the neighborhood.
Clybourne Park's spark as well as its challenge is that 50-year leap in time between Act I and Act II. Lovell's cast includes Tim Wyman and Kristi Zimmerman-Weiher as Russ and Bev in Act I and Dan, a worker on the renovation project, and Kathy, a lawyer trying to stave off legal objections to it, in Act II. John Fischer and Michelle Woody are Karl and Betsy and then Steve and Lindsey, flipping from the white preservation side to eager renovators; Anastasia Ferguson and Elante Richardson are Francine and Albert, who just want to do their jobs and not get involved in the dispute in 1959, but stand completely on the side of hanging on to their culture and their neighborhood as Lena and Kevin in 2009; and John Bowen plays Jim, the clergyman asked to try to convince the Stollers not to sell to black people, and then Tom, a lawyer hired by Lena and Kevin to stop the gentrification. Joshua McCauley plays Kenneth, a young man who functions as a blast from the past.
If that seems complicated, it really isn't the way it all plays out. Norris's script is especially insightful when it comes to the shifting alliances that unite its characters and the growing tensions that divide them. The humor in the piece is also a strength, making everybody seem that much more real.
After tonight's pay-what-you-can preview, Clybourne Park is scheduled for evening performances at 7:30 pm on February 12 and 13, 18, 19 and 20, and 25, 26 and 27, with a Sunday matinee at 2:30 pm on the 21st.
For more information on all things Clybourne Park at Heartland, follow this link. Rehearsal pictures and more current info have been posted on Heartland's Facebook page here.


I'm happy to announce that the new edition of High Stakes is in its final editing and proofing stage, and should be available by the end of this month - February 2016.
Thank you to everyone who has hung in there despite many setbacks.
Status updates to follow soon!


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Q: Different ways to declare Enum datatype in Julia-Lang Is using @enum the only way to declare Julia Enum datatype? If so why?

A: ...and then there is the type abusing way of doing it; that I stumbled upon while thinking of types as names for sets:
typealias Sunday Val{:Sunday}
typealias Monday Val{:Monday}
typealias Tuesday Val{:Tuesday}
typealias Wednesday Val{:Wednesday}
typealias Thursday Val{:Thursday}
typealias Friday Val{:Friday}
typealias Saturday Val{:Saturday}

typealias Days Union{
    Type{Sunday},
    Type{Monday},
    Type{Tuesday},
    Type{Wednesday},
    Type{Thursday},
    Type{Friday},
    Type{Saturday}
}

function daynumber(d::Days)
    if d == Sunday return 0
    elseif d == Monday return 1
    elseif d == Tuesday return 2
    elseif d == Wednesday return 3
    elseif d == Thursday return 4
    elseif d == Friday return 5
    elseif d == Saturday return 6
    end
    -1
end

> daynumber(Friday)
  5
> daynumber(:Friday)
  > MethodError:`daynumber` has no method matching (::Symbol)

Note that the use of symbols is just a pretty bit of reflection, and is completely superfluous. You can put anything in there, and then recover it through type inspection
> x = Saturday.parameters[1]
  :Saturday
> typeof(x)
  Symbol
> eval(x) == Saturday
  true

I am pretty sure the documentation explicitly recommends against this. Nevertheless @code_warntype does not particularly balk at this construct.
In set theoretic terms, each day alias is a singleton type, and thus a name for a set of exactly one element. The "Union" of "Type"s is then the set theoretic union of single element sets, forming the enumerated finite set type.
...and yet more type mangling ways of doing enumeration
abstract Fruits{N} <: Enum
immutable Apples <: Fruits{1} end
immutable Oranges <: Fruits{2} end
immutable Bananas <: Fruits{3} end

fruitsalad{N}(x::Fruits{N}) = N

> anorange = Oranges()
> fruitsalad(anorange)
  2

Again @code_warntype does not seem to mind this at all. Finally one last technique that also provides a protected namespace for the enumeration
immutable Fruits{N} <: Enum
    apples::Fruits
    bananas::Fruits
    oranges::Fruits
    function Base.call(::Type{Fruits})
        new{"anything"}(
            Fruits{"crunchy"}(),
            Fruits{"mushy"}(),
            Fruits{"tangy"}()
        )
    end
    function Base.call{N}(::Type{Fruits{N}})
        if N != "crunchy" && N != "mushy" && N != "tangy"
            error("Invalid enumeration parameter")
        end
        new{N}()
    end
end

fruitsalad{N}(x::Fruits{N}) = N

> fruitsalad(Fruits().apples)
  "crunchy"

In this last example to access the convenience property that gives an instance of a specific fruit we had to first instantiate the general fruits type. In the parlance of object oriented design Julia has no sense of static properties of types. The properties of types are only available once an explicit instance of that type has been constructed. The thought being that anything that is statically available about a particular type should be represented in some form of method overloading.

A: It's the only (easy) way, yes. The answer, as often (or, rather, always) in Julia, can be found by looking at the source code.
This can be a bit scary at first, but you get used to it after a while!
Normally to create an object of a given type, you call the type's constructor.
So you might expect to be able to do
Enum(...)

and create an object of type Enum.
In this case, however, Enum is an abstract type, so you cannot do that.
What does @enum do, then? The example from the manual is
julia> @enum FRUIT apple=1 orange=2 kiwi=3

This actually creates a completely new type, called FRUIT, that is a subtype of Enum, and objects of that type called apple, orange and kiwi, which are converted to those numbers by calling Int(apple) etc. This is done by generating the Julia code to do so, inside the macro.
In principle, you could, yourself, do all the work that the macro does, but the macro is there to make our life easier!

Since Julia 0.7, enums can be defined using @enum macros as you mentioned but can also be used with a begin block:
julia> @enum Fruit begin
           apple = 1
           orange = 2
           kiwi = 3
       end

julia> Fruit
Enum Fruit:
apple = 1
orange = 2
kiwi = 3

julia> apple
apple::Fruit = 1

julia> orange
orange::Fruit = 2

julia> kiwi
kiwi::Fruit = 3

julia> Int(orange)
2

julia> string(orange)
"orange"

Enums can also be defined with this begin block without specifying values (in such a case values are starting with 0, not 1)
julia> @enum Fruit begin
           apple
           orange
           kiwi
       end

julia> Fruit
Enum Fruit:
apple = 0
orange = 1
kiwi = 2

A: You can use SuperEnum (author here) to do some cool stuff:
using Pkg
Pkg.add("https://github.com/kindlychung/SuperEnum.jl")
using SuperEnum

@se Vehical plane train car truck

julia> Vehical.VehicalEnum
Enum Main.Vehical.VehicalEnum:
plane = 0
train = 1
car = 2
truck = 3

julia> Vehical.car
car::VehicalEnum = 2

julia> @se Lang zh=>"中文"*"Chinese" en=>"English" ja=>"日本语"
Main.Lang

julia> string(Lang.zh)
"中文Chinese"

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Arundo es un género de plantas de la familia de las poáceas (anteriormente llamadas gramíneas).

Son gramíneas de cañas duras, generalmente huecas, por lo común son plantas muy altas, forman macollos densos, con tallos erectos y sin ramificación basal. La tribu Arundineae se caracteriza por ser plantas muy robustas mayores de 1,5 metros de altura, con cañas subleñosas y espiguillas con lemas o raquilla largamente velludas. Prefieren un suelo fértil, húmedo, en un lugar protegido de sol, de preferencia por el agua. Tolera un pH en el rango de 5,5 a 8,3. Pero también se desarrolla sin problemas en todo tipo de suelos, de arcillas pesadas a las arenas sueltas y de los suelos de grava. Este género contiene seis especies difundidas por todos los países cálidos: A. donax L., A. conspicua G.Forst., A. pliniana Turra, A. formosana Hack., A. fulvida Buchanan, A. richardi Endl.

Descripción
El género Arundo es la mayor de las gramíneas de la región mediterránea, crecen formando grupos apretados, forman densos cañaverales con abundantes hojas liniares dispuestas de forma conspicua en dos hileras a lo largo de los tallos a 3-6 m de altura, de vez en cuando a 10 m, con hojas de 30-60 cm de longitud y 3-6 cm de ancho, purpúreo-verdosas al principio y amarillas al madurar. Son plantas semejantes al Bambú, del que se diferencia porque de cada nudo sale una única hoja que envaina el tallo. Son plantas que poseen rizomas, el tallo se vuelve duro y leñoso al segundo año, y es entonces cuando florece, durante los meses de septiembre y octubre, su flor es una inflorescencia distribuida en una amplia estructura llamada panoja terminal muy plumosa y a menudo violácea, alta y muy decorativa. Tiene flores muy pequeñas y poco llamativas, estas se encuentran en la zona apical del tallo, la panoja está constituida por espiguillas con flores siempre perfectas, son plurifloras, con raquilla glabra articuladas por encima de las glumas y entre los antecios. Caracteres genéricos: Son plantas perennes, altas, con rizomas leñosos y gruesos. Caña hueca con innovaciones extravaginales. Lígula membranácea, muy pequeña. Hojas dísticas, lineales o lineal-lanceoladas, uniformemente distribuidas en el tallo el cual posee los internodios de igual lungitud. Glumas grandes, casi cubren los antecios, son de color amarillentas, persistentes, membranáceae, glabras, subiguales, lanceoladas, acuminadas en el ápice, 3-5 nervadas, casi igualando los atencios, de largo aproximado a la espiguilla. Lemma mambranácea, pilosa, 3-5 nervada, con el nervio medio prolongado en arista y también los nervios laterales, rara vez 2-fida, dorso cubierto en su mitad inferior con pelos largos y sedosos. Pálea pequeña, mucho menor que la lemma, hialina 2-nervadas. Androceo con tres estambres. La semilla es oblonga con punta, cuya base tiene una especie de vilano.

Hábitat
Son hierbas perennes, es decir, que crece todos los años sin morir en el invierno. "Perenne de crecimiento de forma indefinida o por lo menos dos años o más.", no requieren volverse a sembrar cada año, perteneciente a la familia Poaceae, nativas de la región del Mediterráneo oriental hasta la India, China y Japón.Género con alrededor de 6 especies originarias del viejo mundo, es cultivada ahora en todo el mundo. Una especie fue introducida en América y se ha naturalizado, y se mantiene en los alrededores de viviendas y zonas de cultivos, incluso se siembra en parques y jardines. En el área mediterránea ocupa las riveras de acequias y canales entre los cultivos formando un gran seto de cañaveral, que ofrece cobijo a muchas especies de vertebrados y donde anidan y duermen las aves, por lo cual son especialmente considerados en algunas zonas y su corta o quema está restringida a periodos del año que no perjudiquen a la estación de cría. Vive en lugares húmedos y encharcados, en acequias y cursos de agua, creciendo en largas colonias. Distribución en Argentina: Buenos Aires, Catamarca, Chaco, Córdoba, Entre Ríos, Formosa, La Pampa, La Rioja, Mendoza, San Juan, Misiones y Salta. Distribución en Brasil: Rio Grande Do Sul. Distribución en Chile: Región I, Región II, Región III, Región IV, Región IX, Isla de Pascua, Región Metropolitana de Santiago. En el continente Africano no hay especies de importancia.

Propagación
Existen dos métodos principales de propagación: la división o la multiplicación a partir de semillas. La división debe emplearse en la propagación de todas las plantas que raramente florecen como por ejemplo algunas plantas no autóctonas que se encuentran con otro clima que no es el de su origen. La división también resulta útil para rejuvenecer hierbas maduras muy densas y desnudas en el centro. La división de una hierba puede resultar un proceso sencillo, siempre que se realice en el momento adecuado del año. En verano, las hierbas producen yemas de nuevo crecimiento, alguna de las cuales son bastante grandes, y que permanecen inactivas hasta la primavera siguiente. Por regla general, es preferible dividir las hierbas justo cuando las yemas empiezan a crecer, habitualmente a mediados de la primavera. Este hecho reviste una especial importancia ya que si se dividen en otras épocas del año, las posibilidades de éxito serán bastante escasas debido al riesgo de podredumbre o sequías. Otras hierbas cultivadas en suelos ligeros o en climas cálidos, pueden dividirse en otoño. Las raíces de Arundo son sensibles a la sequía, de manera que procure elegir un día fresco y nublado para realizar la división, con el fin de evitar que las raíces se sequen. La utilización de guantes gruesos resulta también una medida adecuada, ya que las hojas contienen sílice y son muy afiladas, este género cuenta con rizomas cortos y gruesos, con raíces en los extremos, que forma una apretada mata. A ser posible extraiga la mata entera y divida los rizamas en trozos, cada uno de ellos con varias yemas de crecimiento, procure no dañar ninguna raíz fibrosa y corte los tallos hasta 30 cm para reducir la pérdida de agua. Para realizar la división primero busque una mata periférica con tallos fuertes y brotes sanos. Cave una zanja, como mínimo de la profundidad de una pala, alrededor de estos para exponer las raíces, luego retire la tierra de alrededor para descubrir los rizomas que desde la parte externa se dirigen hacia la mata principal, luego divida la mata en trozos, cada uno de ellos con 2-4 yemas como mínimo, y recorte los rizomas, luego replantelos a la misma profundidad de antes, riegue y etiquete. Los trozos pequeños de rizomas que se han roto durante la división pueden cultivarse, siempre que cuenten con una yema sana, descarte aquellos con yemas estropeadas y cultive el resto en macetas, en un emplazamiento a salvo de las heladas o en lechos de crecimientos durante un año, antes de su plantación definitiva. Las semillas de este género son dispersadas por el viento. La propagación en los invernaderos se realiza entre los meses de febrero y abril. Las macetas deben contener unos 3 cm de agua para mantener el suelo húmedo hasta que la semilla germina. Por lo general, germina en 1 a 3 meses a 15 °C. Cuando estén suficientemente grandes para manipularse, se trasladan las plantas a macetas individuales continuando su crecimiento en el invernadero, por lo menos durante su primer invierno. Una vez que alcanzan los 20 cm o más de altura, pueden plantarse en sus posiciones permanentes a finales de primavera o comienzos de verano. Sin embargo, las plantas en el sur de California parece que rara vez florecen. Arundo no produce semillas viables en la mayoría de las zonas donde se ha introducido.

Problemática de su propagación
El Arundo, además de ser una planta con gran utilidad, es también considerada una hierba nociva en Texas, una plaga de plantas exóticas en California, una planta invasora en Hawái. Las principales áreas de infestación son los ríos inundables en el sur de California, como el río de Santa Clarita, arroyos a lo largo de la costa central, y el delta del Río Sacramento. Los problemas con Arundo son numerosos, es tan invasiva que puede llenar rápidamente los canales de los arroyos. Esto restringe el flujo del agua, y modifica la naturaleza del río. En los canales de riego, la maleza puede reducir el curso del agua a un goteo en unos pocos años. En las vías fluviales naturales, Arundo es un gran problema durante las inundaciones. Los matorrales muy densos retienen las aguas de drenaje rápidamente, causando que el agua retroceda e inunde las áreas cercanas. Si la inundación es lo suficientemente grande como para eliminar el Arundo, a menudo este se acumula bajo los puentes, en alcantarillas o en otras áreas restringidas, causando daños estructurales; a veces incluso llevando a la destrucción de estas estructuras por las aguas. Otra de las problemáticas que causa es la de peligro de incendios; incluso cuando está verde, Arundo es extremadamente inflamable. Cuando está presente, el fuego puede propagarse rápidamente, lo que puede arruinar completamente un ecosistema y empeorar el arrastre de sedimentos en las inundaciones del año siguiente. Los rizomas generalmente sobreviven a estos incendios, asegurando que las cañas vuelvan a crecer. El cañaveral es tan denso que algunos animales no viven en él. Suele ser empleado como dormidero por muchas aves. Sus raíces y tallos destruyen el hábitat de los peces. Dado que las raíces de Arundo son más superficiales que las de las plantas nativas, la erosión de un río infestado de Arundo puede aumentar. En las islas Canarias, estos densos cañaverales impiden la regeneración natural de las formaciones de sauces, (Salix canariensis), juncos (Juncus acutus y Scirpus holoschoenus), palmerales (Phoenix canariensis), lo que supuso una gran complicación en el gran incendio de Gran Canaria en 2007. Se cree que la falta de uso de esta planta desencadenó su transformación en un problema. En otros continentes como Australia del Sur, Arundo se ha cultivado con fines de bio-remediación para limpiar los afluentes industriales de las zonas contaminadas y también ha sido probada y demostrada su eficacia en la eliminación de la salinidad en los suelos, por lo que podría entonces ser utilizada para actividades agrícolas.

Utilización
Se utilizan las hojas para la elaboración de cestería, tapetes y canceles.Se obtienen materiales para construcción ligera, utilizada como cortina rompevientos, y para la construcción de adobe techado. También posee propiedades medicinales, los principios activos que posee son: resinas, aceites esenciales, azúcares. Sales minerales:sílice, calcio, potasio. Trazas de alcaloides:bufotenidina, bufotenina, dihidrobufotenina, donaxina, donaraxina. Acción farmacológica: usada popularmente como diurético, "depurativa", galactófuga, antiinflamatoria, hemostática local. indicaciones: estados en los que se requiera un aumento de la diuresis: afecciones genitourinarias (cistitis, ureteritis, uretritis, pielonefritis, urolitiasis), hiperazotemia, hiperuricemia, hipertensión arterial, edemas, sobrepeso acompañado de retención de líquidos. Hipersecreción láctea. Contraindicaciones: Embarazo, lactancia (se le atribuye un efecto inhibidor de la lactancia), hipotensión arterial. No prescribir formas de dosificación con contenido alcohólico a niños menores de dos años ni a consultantes en proceso de deshabituación etílica. Efectos Secundarios: La planta fresca, por contacto con la piel húmeda y posterior exposición al sol, puede desencadenar fenómenos de fotosensibilidad. Precaución / Intoxicaciones: Los alcaloides indólicos curaremiméticos presentes en las flores (y en menor medida en el rizoma) son hipotensores y depresores de la respiración (Mulet, 1997). El uso de diuréticos en presencia de hipertensión o cardiopatías, solo debe hacerse por prescripción y bajo control médico, dada la posibilidad de aparición de una descompensación tensional o, si la eliminación de potasio es considerable, una potenciación del efecto de los cardiotónicos. En Oriente tiene gran importancia ya que fue muy utilizado para la elaboración de papel. Durante miles de años, la lengüeta de los instrumentos de viento se ha construido con una lámina delgada sacada de este tipo de caña, y muchos de esos instrumentos se construyen con el tallo hueco de la planta, hoy día se siguen construyendo con esta caña, este no es un caso muy frecuente, en el que la tecnología moderna ha sido incapaz de desarrollar un sustituto satisfactorio. La caña de este género se cultiva también como planta ornamental; debido a que crece rápidamente y forma masas compactas de rizomas gruesos, se utiliza para frenar la erosión de los suelos, fijar dunas y terrenos sueltos a lo largo de caminos y vías férreas. Por su gran velocidad de crecimiento está considerada fuente importante de celulosa y pasta de papel. Con los tallos entrelazados de la caña gigante se confeccionan unos paneles llamados cañizos que sirven para construir muros y techumbres que pueden enlucirse o cubrirse con mezcla (Las cañas gigantes forman parte del género Arundo, perteneciente a la especie Arundo donax). Es también utilizada como una forrajera auxiliar, y puede eliminarse por el pastoreo continuo. En huertas es frecuente su uso, empleándosela como reparo para otros cultivos; la caña sirve de sostén de diversas hortalizas y plantas volubles. De su polen se obtiene colorante amarillo. Posee altos rendimientos como fuente de biomasa para la producción de energía [7, 269]. Usos comestibles: las partes comestibles son: Las hojas y raíz. El rizoma se puede comer crudos o cocidos, también puede ser secado y molido en polvo para hacer pan, por lo general, mezcladas con harinas de cereales. También puede ser asado o hervido.

Cariología

El tamaño y el número de los cromosomas tiene gran importancia en la sistemática de las Gramíneas y, a partir del trabajo de conjunto de Avdulow (1931), casi todos los agrostólogos han tomado en cuenta estos caracteres para establecer los grandes grupos dentro de las gramíneas. Hay dos tipos extremos: el tipo festucoide con cromosomas grandes y número básico predominante x=7 y el tipo panicoide con cromosomas pequeños y números básicos predominantes x=9 y x=10. Tipo festucoide se encuentra en casi todas las tribus de la subfamilia Festucoidea, que posee cromosomas grandes y predomina el número básico x=7, desde luego con numerosas excepciones. La tribu Stipeae de esta subfamilia posee cromosomas pequeños y número básico x=9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 16 y 17. Las demás subfamilias presentan tipo panicoide, con cromosomas pequeños y predominio del número básico x=9, 10. En las Bambusóideas, Orizóideas y en la tribu Arundineae, los cromosomas son pequeños y el número básico x=7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14,etc. Las Panicóides siempre tienen cromosomas pequeños, con número básico predominantemente x=9 o 10, aunque existen especies con otros números básicos que varían desde 4 a 19.

Taxonomía
El género fue descrito por Carlos Linneo y publicado en  Species Plantarum 1: 81–82. 1753. La especie tipo es: Arundo donax L.
Etimología
Arundo: nombre genérico del latín que significa "caña".

Especies

 Arundo donax L.
 Arundo formosana Hack.
 Arundo indica Noronha, denominada en Colombia, Chile, Perú y Río de la Plata achira
 Arundo plinii Turra

Referencias

Bibliografía

 Davidse, G. 2003. Arundo. In Catalogue of New World Grasses (Poaceae): III. Subfamilies Panicoideae, Aristidoideae, Arundinoideae, and Danthonioideae. Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 46: 113–115.
 Davidse, G., M. Sousa Sánchez & A. O. Chater. (eds.) 1994. Alismataceae a Cyperaceae. Fl. Mesoamer. 6: i–xvi, 1–543.
 Espejo Serna, A., A. R. López-Ferrari & J. Valdés-Reyna. 2000. Poaceae. Monocot. Mexic. Sinopsis Floríst. 10: 7–236 [and index].
 Forzza, R. C. & et al. 2010. 2010 Lista de espécies Flora do Brasil. https://web.archive.org/web/20150906080403/http://floradobrasil.jbrj.gov.br/2010/.
 Idárraga-Piedrahíta, A., R. D. C. Ortiz, R. Callejas Posada & M. Merello. (eds.) 2011. Fl. Antioquia: Cat. 2: 9–939. Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín.
 Missouri Botanical Garden. MO Generic Names in Use
 Morales, J. F. 2003. Poaceae. En: Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica. Vol. 3. B.E. Hammel, M.H. Grayum, C. Herrera & N. Zamora (eds.). Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 93: 598–821.
 Nasir, E. & S. I. Ali (eds). 1980-2005. Fl. Pakistan Univ. of Karachi, Karachi.
 Pohl, R. W. 1994. 69. Arundo L. Fl. Mesoamer. 6: 252.

Enlaces externos

 Germplasm Resources Information Network: Arundo
 Erowid Arundo Donax vault

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President opens key congress by urging party to combat graft and narrow wealth gap.
But he warned that the biggest threat to China's stability was corruption, which he said could undermine the party's grip on power and would not be tolerated.
"Resolutely punishing and effectively preventing corruption bears on the popular support for the party and on its very survival, and is therefore a major political task the party must attend to at all times," he said.
Hu offered to enter into negotiations with Taiwan towards a peace agreement in an overture to the self-ruled island which China sees as a renegade province.
"We would like to make a solemn appeal: on the basis of the one-China principle let us discuss a formal end to the state of hostility between the two sides [and] reach a peace agreement," Hu said in a 58 page speech on Monday.
not threaten to take Taiwan back by force, but he warned the island against formally declaring independence.
"China's sovereignty and territorial integrity brook no division, and any matter in this regard must be decided by the entire Chinese people, including our Taiwan compatriots," he said.
"China will never allow anyone to separate Taiwan from the motherland in any name or by any means," he said in apparent reference to a plan by Chen Shui-bian, Taiwan's president, to hold a referendum on seeking UN membership under the name Taiwan.
Taiwan's government had previously sought membership under the name Republic of China.
Hu promised policies that would benefit the island and protect the huge investments by Taiwan firms in China. He also called for a resumption of direct trade, travel and mail links.
has claimed sovereignty over Taiwan as a province since their split in 1949 when the Communists won the civil war and the defeated Nationalists fled to the island.
Party, cautiously welcomed the overture.
"We would like to talk about everything. Our consistent position is to talk without any preconditions ... We want to wait to see more. [Hu's] actions speak louder than words," he told Reuters.
The 17th congress brings together more than 2,000 delegates from across China to evaluate the country's progress over the past five years and map out the road ahead.
It is expected to see several days of backroom political manoeuvring as Hu moves to stamp his authority on the party and cement his leadership of the country.
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In his address, Hu said China was at "a crucial stage" of reform and development, but that governing institutions needed to be more responsive to the country's changing needs.
Hu, who has cultivated a man of the people image, has frequently warned that in order to keep its grip on power, the Communist party must not be seen as detached from the concerns of ordinary Chinese.
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While China has changed immeasurably over almost three decades of economic reforms, the congress is a sign of what has not changed.
"We must uphold the party's role as the core of leadership in directing the overall situation," Hu said, signalling that while limited political reform would continue, the party had no intention of loosening its grip on power.
"In deepening political restructuring, we must keep to the correct political orientation," he added. In the run up to the congress, China's leaders have taken no chances of dissent upsetting the show.
Tight security has been put in place around the Great Hall and neighbouring Tiananmen Square, while in the online world, thousands of blogs and message boards have been shut down.
Dozens of activists are reported to have been arrested or put under surveillance.
The congress is expected to last about a week, although no formal closing date has been announced.


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Local progressive elected officials have decried the idea of turning an Orlando area Travelodge into a migrant detention center for illegal immigrant children.
By Jacob Engels
If you listen to almost any Democrat elected official, commentator, or progressive activist… we should be welcoming illegal immigrants with open arms into our nation with no thought given to the sovereignty of our America or our current financial constraints. A few weeks ago, news broke that Orlando was one of the places being considered by the Office of Refugee Resettlement for a new site geared towards housing illegal immigrant children, or those a claiming to be illegal immigrant children.
From Congress all the way down to the County Commission, area Democrats decried the idea of providing a safe and suitable place for illegal immigrant children, claiming it will create "unnecessary panic and concern in our community." How a fully functional budget motel with all the modern amenities you could hope for in a 1st world country would be a cause for "panic" or "concern" for illegal immigrant children is laughable to say the least. It is unclear where these illegal immigrants would be coming from, though it could theoretically house illegal immigrant children discovered to be entering Florida illegally through our port cities or by other means. Regardless, anyone housed there would be afforded accommodations leaps and bounds beyond those of the third and fourth world, from where they would presumably be fleeing.
Jerry Demings, Central Florida Democrats oppose federal detention center
Are Democrats alleging that it would improper to provide illegal immigrant children with a safe place to stay until they can be identified and processed? That seems to be entirely the opposite of what they have said they want for these children. Even if you believe the crazy conspiracy theories of "migrant death camps reminiscent of Nazi Germany," wouldn't a modern Travelodge in a major metropolitan city like Orlando be the best option for these illegal immigrant children?
America is for Americans and those who wish to come here legally. Follow the process and we welcome you with open arms, our love and acceptance knowing virtually no bounds. However, under President Donald Trump, Democrats have adopted the cause of vicious illegal immigrants who often use children for cover in their human trafficking and drug running operations infecting this nation. Trump has put his foot down, delivering on his promise to secure our borders through building a wall and increasing roundups of illegal immigrants already living within our nation, many who have long criminal histories of violent crime against our fellow Americans. On the other hand, Democrats have promised illegals free health care and even voting rights equal to those of upstanding and legal Americans in our nations elections process. Many Democrat elected officials have overseen the release of vast swaths of dangerous criminal illegals into our communities, where they have murdered and raped innocent Americans.
I am firmly ANTI-ILLEGAL and want the big, beautiful wall built A LOT quicker than the current pace. However, if Central Florida must make the sacrifice of housing these illegal immigrant children until they are processed and returned to the prospective nations, that is a sacrifice I am willing to make. It is a sacrifice that many Central Floridians will be apprehensive about making, but not for the reasons that local Democrats are claiming. We'd of course prefer that these illegal immigrants not be here in the first place and were under the care of their home nations, a point that State Representative Anthony Sabatini made in a statement to Fox35 regarding the proposed illegal immigrant detention center.
Some lawmakers, like Republican Anthony Sabatini, say these shelters are needed.
"I'd like to see the shelters built in the home countries where these children are coming from to try to stop the illegal immigration from occurring, but for the children that we have detained that we have here already, we need to make sure they're in a safe location," he said.
If this facility is allowed to move forward and is indeed opened, intensive security measures must be adopted to prevent an attack by the alt-left domestic terrorist group Antifa, which recently firebombed a similar migrant detention center in Tacoma, Washington. Antifa has routinely promised to shut down ICE facilities and border security measures through extremely violent means. This would put us at risk in Central Florida from these domestic terrorists and we must be certain that these elements are under control before agreeing to this facility. Furthermore, residents must also be allowed to evaluate and vote upon the viability of any illegal immigrant child who could potentially earn a release into our community.
With Orange County and the Orlando are already being home to a severe violent crime and drug epidemic, it is imperative that we do not allow people claiming to be harmless illegal immigrant children let loose on our streets, without a proper local review by residents who will be the most impacted by their presence.
Jacob Engels is an Orlando based journalist whose work has been featured and republished in news outlets around the globe including Politico, InfoWars, MSNBC, Orlando Sentinel, New York Times, Daily Mail UK, Associated Press, People Magazine, ABC, Fox News, and Australia's New Dawn Magazine and LauraLoomer.US. Mr. Engels focuses on stories that other news outlets neglect or willingly hide to curry favor among the political and business special interests in the state of Florida.
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Are you a multi-tasking writer?
Although I'm concentrating on my novel at the moment I'm thinking about two other projects in-between all the home-life.
I've started thinking about a research trip sometime in 2020 for the next novel in the queue, whilst a scene idea for another novel (further down the queue) popped into my mind while I was out in the sunshine.
Having got over the recent bug that stuffed up my sinuses and then moved to a bad cough, I've also been running errands for a close relative who's recovering from major surgery so I've not been at the work in progress as much as usual, so that's probably why my brain has allowed me to think about two of my other future projects.
I found this article, How Many Books Should You Write at Once? by author Debbie Young, interesting. There was such variation in the answers each writer gave her.
I am a slow writer, but Scrivener has definitely helped me make better progress now I'm used to it. I know where I'm going with the current rewriting and new scenes so I'm not stopping and starting when I'm writing, like I used to.
I've discovered I need to do this at the end of the writing day before the next new scene is written- which surprised me as I thought I had it worked out in my head already, but it does help.
So do you write more than one book at a time? Or a mix of books, short stories, articles or other writing?
If inspiration is coming your way, even if it's completely off target to the current project, then I would say run with it. Good luck with all that you are working on.
Thanks Bea. I'm aiming to have my current wip ready for the RNA's NWS critique by early August, mid August at the latest.
My current novel was one of those 'I need you to write this now' moments, taking over from my Dorset novel, now it's that one intruding at odd moments.
I'm currently writing two books and researching two more; I'm also working on various competition entries and have just signed up to a poetry project. I suspect I might be spreading myself too thinly.
Julia- wow, I'm impressed; my head would explode if I tried that at the moment!
Though I do do some research for other projects in-between working on the current novel and smaller items for the writers' club when needed.
I must admit it's easier to do lots of different things if I'm not concentrating on the novel.
I think I caught your bug! Just shrugging it off now.
I have several books on the go to some degree - several writing ones, several health ones - and I'm not sure from one day to the next which I'm going to open up and work on, assuming I have the time free from other commitments.
I like it that way for now, but not sure this is really sustainable .... !
If the way you're working still gets the writing done then it's okay. It's when you don't achieve a finished product at the end that change is needed.
I have several short stories plus longer stuff on the go It helps if I get stuck with one I can switch to another until inspration strikes.
Keith- that is the very useful aspect of writing short stories. Congratulations on your latest People's Friend successes.