Transition between Year Groups (Year R to 1, Year 1 to 2).
At Hatch Warren Infant School we all work together to ensure that the transition to the next year group is a smooth and enjoyable process. To help with transition we keep children in the same classes throughout Infant school so they have already established firm friendships groups. During the summer term teachers will ensure the children are informed of new routines and are aware of the new expectations for the year group they are moving up to.
Staff meeting – teachers/support staff meet to discuss the children as part of transfer.
Play times and lunch times – All children in the school interact at lunch times, giving them time to get to know other pupils and all the staff.
Teacher visits – All teachers will have the opportunity to visit the children in their own classes. This helps the teachers to see how the children work in a familiar setting and allows the children to familiarise themselves with their new class teacher.
Class swap sessions – The children visit their new teacher in their new classroom and environment for a whole morning and afternoon to get used to the routines of coming in in the morning and going home at the end of the school day.
Parent meetings at beginning and end of class swap sessions – During an open afternoon in the summer term parents will have the opportunity to meet their child's new teacher and to ask any questions or discuss any worries they may have.


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Q: How to make a function to listen to more than one event in a view? I am having a function like below.
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But now i want the same function to get executed on focusOut. Currently i am doing like following. Calling the above function from focusOut()
focusOut: function(event){
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But is it possible to add in on only may be like following
saveData: function(event){
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A: Use Ember.aliasMethod.
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Archival Dialogues: Reading the Black Star Collection installation view (work by artist Vid Ingelevics pictured), 2012 © Clifton Li, Ryerson Image Centre
The Ryerson Image Centre announces its grand opening exhibition Archival Dialogues: Reading the Black Star Collection
The Ryerson Image Centre, Toronto's newest cultural destination, will open its doors on Saturday, September 29, 2012 with a spectacular exhibition that features never before-seen works by eight of Canada's leading artists.
Archival Dialogues: Reading the Black Star Collection focuses on the Black Star Collection of approximately 292,000 historic black and white photojournalistic prints, as seen through the eyes of internationally-renowned Canadian contemporary artists Stephen Andrews, Christina Battle, Marie-Helene Cousineau, Stan Douglas, Vera Frenkel, Vid Ingelevics, David Rokeby and Michael Snow.
"This exhibition, featuring multiple artists who provide a brave new perspective on the classic photography of the Black Star Collection, is a tremendous way to open the Ryerson Image Centre - a great new cultural destination in the city of Toronto," said Sheldon Levy, President of Ryerson University. "As one of the top facilities in the world for the study, research and exhibition of photography and related media, the Ryerson Image Centre will benefit our students, faculty, and researchers - both here and around the world, and it will be a great asset to our city, province and country."
"We are honoured to be launching our new Centre with a multi-disciplinary exhibition featuring eight of Canada's leading artists, who have created revelatory new work based on their engagement with Ryerson University's prestigious Black Star Collection," said Doina Popescu, Director of the Ryerson Image Centre. "It has been a deep pleasure to curate Archival Dialogues together with independent curator, thinker and writer in the field of contemporary art, Peggy Gale."
The photojournalistic press prints of the Black Star Collection at Ryerson University portray the personalities, events and conflicts of the 20th century. The Collection is home to iconic images that were placed in major news publications such as Life magazine, Look, The Saturday Evening Post and many others. The eight artists featured in Archival Dialogues: Reading the Black Star Collection are breathing new life into these images from contemporary points of view that have grown out of their respective art practices.
In Archival Dialogues: Reading the Black Star Collection:
Stephen Andrews breathes movement back into selected stills, exploring the cracks in the realism of photojournalism and cine?ma ve?rite?, as well as reportage and fiction.
Christina Battle's multi-media project examines photographs of disastrous events across several decades to take us into the uncanny realm of science fiction.
Marie-Helene Cousineau gives memory and history a new life in an installation inspired by portraits and snapshots found in the Black Star Collection, which were taken in Baker Lake during the 1960s.
Stan Douglas' photographs in Archival Dialogues were chosen for their sophisticated relationship to an aesthetic that would ultimately be eclipsed in photojournalism, and for their connection to the Black Star Collection in particular.
Vera Frenkel's video-photo-text installation, The Blue Train, centers on a key phase of the journey of escape taken by the artist's mother at the outbreak of World War II via a combination of stills, drawings and video that trace the journey through the minds of passengers with whom the experience was shared.
Vid Ingelevics' Conditional Report examines the contradictions inherent in the archiving process that the Black Star Collection at Ryerson University is subject to.
David Rokeby's installation, presented on the Salah Bachir New Media Wall in the gallery's entrance colonnade, separates the mechanism of seeing from the habit of seeing, as he reconstructs the way the fovea (the small central part of the eye which can see detail) passes over the image like a searchlight cutting through a murk of blurry forms.
Michael Snow's new installation TAUT utilizes some of the extraordinary Black Star Collection crowd photographs in a video projected on classroom chairs, tables, lectern and green board covered in white paper, creating a three-dimensional white screen for the two-dimensional images of three-dimensional events and places.
Reflecting on their respective processes of working with the Black Star Collection, each of the contributors to Archival Dialogues has also produced six artist pages for the catalogue.
Archival Dialogues: Reading the Black Star Collection is made possible through the generous support of the Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Cultural Attractions Fund, Ontario Arts Council, Toronto Arts Council, Ryerson University, the Goethe-Institut Toronto, The Howard and Carole Tanenbaum Family Charitable Foundation, and The Paul J. Ruhnke Memorial Fund.

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I hate the modern day juice box! It's like handing your kid a grenade filled with cranapple cocktail. No matter what you do, the juice ends up everywhere but the kid's mouth.
On the flight back from New York last weekend, Gus was eating a Happy Meal, when carefully, oh so carefully, I handed him the accompanying juice box saying, "Just don't squee---"
As a testament to how unhinged I can get with respect to the juice box, Gus was like, "It's okay! I'm not that wet! I'm not that thirsty! I just wanted one sip anyway! It will dry! It won't stain! It's no big deal!" And then he handed me a McNugget laced with Xanax.
I'm just kidding. It wasn't that bad. He didn't have to hide the Xanax in a McNugget. I took it willingly.
But, holy nuts, the juice box.
My friend Molly, who is no stranger to juice box rage, told me there's a special holder you can buy that keeps your kid from squeezing the juice box like that. But if I have to remember to carry a special holder, just in case a juice box opportunity arises, would it not then be just as easy to carry, say, a cup?


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Myanmar to open its doors to foreign insurers
Currently, three Japanese firms allowed to operate only in special economic zone on outskirts of Yangon, commercial capital
Myanmar is ready to grant license to foreign insurance firms to operate in the country, said a government official on Sunday.
Myanmar began to decentralizate the insurance market in 2013 when state-owned Myanma Insurance, the only insurer for decades, licensed 12 local private companies to operate under an array of restrictions.
Director General of the Financial Regulatory Department (FRD) operating under the Ministry of Planning and Finance told Anadolu Agency that the government would lift the restrictions on local firms and grant licenses to foreign firms soon.
"The union government has already approved the liberalization plan draft by IBRB," said Thant Zin, referring to Insurance Business Regulatory Board in which his department acts as secretary.
He said a selection committee led by the deputy finance minister was also established to start working on granting license to some of the 24 foreign firms, which have opened representative offices in Myanmar.
"The restriction on local firms will also be lifted eventually," he informed.
"This will happen within this fiscal year," he said.
A report published by the American Chamber of Commerce in July warned of slow development and instability of the Myanmar market due to several factors such as product restrictions, shortage of experienced professionals and IT system.
"These numerous systemic weaknesses leave the entire system vulnerable to collapse," the report said.
The U.S. business body noted that allowing foreign firms to enter the market would help bring in much-needed capitalization and experience to the Myanmar market.
Currently, three Japanese companies are allowed to operate only in Thilawa Special Economic Zone on outskirts of Yangon, the commercial capital of Myanmar.


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World's largest sculpture comprising 45 endangered species coming to Gardens by the Bay in May 2023
To raise awareness about wildlife extinction.
Gawain Pek | October 21, 2022, 11:36 AM
Youth for Change Conference 2022: Peace Talks
17 December 2022 - 18 December 2022
Republic Polytechnic
From May 18, 2023, visitors to Gardens by the Bay will be greeted by a 192m long bronze sculpture featuring the world's most endangered species.
It is part of the "Love the Last March" exhibition by artists Gillie and Marc, meant to raise awareness on the rate of wildlife extinction.
The sculpture itself is designed to mimic "a march of wildlife".
The sculpture will feature 45 endangered species lined up one after another.
Included in the line-up are a Giant mountain gorilla, African elephant, Bengal tiger and Giant Pacific octopus.
Here's a sneak peak of the sculpture's concept:
Image via Gillie and Marc.
During the exhibition, visitors can interact with the sculpture by scanning a QR code as they walk past each animal to learn about its behaviour, diet, and why the species is threatened.
To bring the animals to life, download an app through which a 3D animation of each animal will be played.
Visitors can also support the works of WWF-Singapore by making donations through a link that will be made available during the exhibition.
The sculpture will be located near the Flower Dome at Gardens by the Bay, stretching along the perimeters of Dragonfly Lake.
The exhibition at Gardens by the Bay will run for a year, ending on May 18, 2024.
Rising extinction rates
A 2022 WWF report found that the average population of wildlife has fallen by 69 per cent since 1970.
It also stated that unless we limit global temperature rise to 1.5oC, climate change is likely to be the dominant cause of biodiversity lost.
Speaking on their inspiration, the artists shared that they wanted to show the scale of the issue of wildlife extinction.
"Love the Last March" is part of the artists' broader "Love the Last" campaign, in which they create and exhibit sculptures of endangered wildlife species.
The campaign is described as "a social movement driven by public art to raise awareness, funds and support for some of the world's most endangered species".
"We hope that with the addition of augmented reality, people will become even more inspired to march alongside the animals, joining the movement to protect the world's precious creatures," Gillie said.
The artists pointed out that Singapore itself, as the chosen host of the artwork, is a highlight of the exhibition.
The country's blend of nature and diversity amidst an urban city shows that it is "possible to live with rather than against nature," the artists explained.
Who are Gillie and Marc?
Gillie and Marc are British and Australian artists whose portfolios feature an extensive selection of wildlife-themed sculptures.
The duo's work has been featured in public spaces globally, from New York City to Shanghai.
One of their works include a sculpture called 'The Last Three', crafted in the likeness of the last Northern white rhinoceros.
Calling themselves "eco-warriors", Gillie and Marc use their art pieces to communicate pressing biodiversity issues.
According to their website, the pair have so far "raised hundreds of thousands in donations" for wildlife charities and causes through the Love the Last project.
They are currently based in both Sydney and London.
Top image via Gillie and Marc, Unsplash
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Volume 52 | Number 1 | February 2017
Using Instrumental Variables in Comparative Effectiveness Research
Follow Your Heart: Survival Chances and Costs after Heart Attacks—An Instrumental Variable Approach
Alice Sanwald Ph.D., Thomas Schober Ph.D.
Impacts of Geographic Distance on Peritoneal Dialysis Utilization: Refining Models of Treatment Selection
Virginia Wang Ph.D., Matthew L. Maciejewski Ph.D., Cynthia J. Coffman Ph.D., Linda L. Sanders M.P.H, Shoou‐Yih Daniel Lee Ph.D., Richard Hirth Ph.D, Joseph Messana M.D.
Provider Experience and the Comparative Safety of Laparoscopic and Open Colectomy
Kyle H. Sheetz M.D., M.S., Edward C. Norton Ph.D., John D. Birkmeyer M.D., Justin B. Dimick M.D., M.P.H.
Cost and Resource Use
Estimating Surgical Procedure Times Using Anesthesia Billing Data and Operating Room Records
Lane F. Burgette Ph.D., Andrew W. Mulcahy Ph.D., Ateev Mehrotra M.D.,M.P.H., Teague Ruder M.A., Barbara O. Wynn M.A.
Cost Variation in Diabetes Care across Dutch Care Groups?
Sigrid M. Mohnen Ph.D., Claudia C. Molema M.Sc., Wouter Steenbeek Ph.D., Michael J. Berg Ph.D., Simone R. Bruin Ph.D., Caroline A. Baan Ph.D., Jeroen N. Struijs Ph.D.
Identifying Older Adults with Serious Illness: A Critical Step toward Improving the Value of Health Care
Amy S. Kelley M.D., M.S.H.S., Kenneth E. Covinsky M.D., M.P.H., Rebecca J. Gorges M.A., Karen McKendrick M.A., Evan Bollens‐Lund M.A., R. Sean Morrison M.D., Christine S. Ritchie M.D., M.S.P.H.
Potentially Avoidable Hospitalizations among People at Different Activity of Daily Living Limitation Stages
Sophia Miryam Schüssler‐Fiorenza Rose M.D., Ph.D., Margaret G. Stineman M.D., Qiang Pan M.A., Hillary Bogner M.D., Jibby E. Kurichi M.P.H., Joel E. Streim M.D., Dawei Xie Ph.D.
Policies to Promote Prevention
Effects of State Cervical Cancer Insurance Mandates on Pap Test Rates
Marianne P. Bitler Ph.D., Christopher S. Carpenter Ph.D.
Impact of State Public Health Spending on Disease Incidence in the United States from 1980 to 2009
Reetu Verma M.P.H., Samantha Clark M.H.S., Jonathon Leider Ph.D., David Bishai Ph.D.
Screening Mammography for Free: Impact of Eliminating Cost Sharing on Cancer Screening Rates
Anupam B. Jena M.D., Ph.D., Jie Huang Ph.D., Bruce Fireman M.A., Vicki Fung Ph.D., Scott Gazelle M.D., M.P.H., Ph.D., Mary Beth Landrum Ph.D., Michael Chernew Ph.D., Joseph P. Newhouse Ph.D., John Hsu M.D., M.B.A.
Advice to Quit Smoking and Ratings of Health Care among Medicare Beneficiaries Aged 65+
Eleanor Winpenny Ph.D., Marc N. Elliott, Ann Haas M.S.,M.P.H, Amelia M. Haviland Ph.D., Nate Orr M.A., William G. Shadel Ph.D., Sai Ma Ph.D., Mark W. Friedberg M.D.,M.P.P., Paul D. Cleary Ph.D.
Access and Disparities
Understanding Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Postsurgical Complications Occurring in U.S. Hospitals
Whitney P. Witt Ph.D., M.P.H., Rosanna M. Coffey Ph.D., Lorena Lopez‐Gonzalez Ph.D., Marguerite L. Barrett M.S., Brian J. Moore Ph.D., Roxanne M. Andrews Ph.D., Raynard E. Washington Ph.D., M.P.H.
Physician and Practice‐Level Drivers and Disparities around Meaningful Use Progress
Dawn Heisey‐Grove M.P.H., Jennifer A. King Ph.D.
Care Coordination and Teamwork
Has Interprofessional Education Changed Learning Preferences? A National Perspective
T. Michael Kashner Ph.D., J.D., Debbie L. Hettler O.D., M.P.H., F.A.A.O., Robert A. Zeiss Ph.D. (retired), David C. Aron M.D., M.S., David S. Bernett B.A., Judy L. Brannen M.D., M.B.A., John M. Byrne D.O., Grant W. Cannon M.D., Barbara K. Chang M.D., M.A. (retired), Mary B. Dougherty Ph.D., M.B.A., Stuart C. Gilman M.D., M.P.H., Gloria J. Holland Ph.D. (retired), Catherine P. Kaminetzky M.D., M.P.H., Annie B. Wicker B.S., Sheri A. Keitz M.D., Ph.D.
Physician Engagement Strategies in Care Coordination: Findings from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' Health Care Innovation Awards Program
Megan Skillman M.P.A., Caitlin Cross‐Barnet Ph.D., Rachel Friedman Singer Ph.D., M.P.H., M.P.A., Sarah Ruiz Ph.D., Christina Rotondo B.A., Roy Ahn Sc.D., Lynne Page Snyder Ph.D., M.P.H., Erin M. Colligan Ph.D., Katherine Giuriceo Ph.D., Adil Moiduddin M.P.P.
Clarifying the Predictive Value of Family‐Centered Care and Shared Decision Making for Pediatric Healthcare Outcomes Using the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey
Olivia J. Lindly M.P.H., Katharine E. Zuckerman M.D., M.P.H., Kamila B. Mistry Ph.D., M.P.H.


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Turkey launches assault on Syrian Kurds
09 Oct 2019 / 22:19 H.
Turkish army soldiers drive towards the border with Syria near Akcakale in Sanliurfa province on October 8, 2019. — AFP
RAS AL-AIN: Turkey launched an assault on Kurdish positions in northern Syria on Wednesday with air strikes and explosions reported near the border.
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced the start of the attack on Twitter, labelling it 'Operation Peace Spring'.
Moments later, a cloud of white smoke rose over the Ras al-Ain border area, an AFP correspondent said, adding that warplanes could be seen flying overhead.
"Our mission is to prevent the creation of a terror corridor across our southern border, and to bring peace to the area," Erdogan wrote, adding that the operation would target Kurdish militants and the Islamic State group (IS).
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based war monitor, reported that Turkish air strikes had hit the Ras al-Ain area.
Turkey's Anadolu news agency reported shelling of Kurdish militant positions in the border town of Tal Abyad.
Syria's Kurds called up civilians on Wednesday to defend against the assault, while President Donald Trump insisted the United States had not abandoned its Kurdish allies who were a crucial ally against IS.
Trump was widely seen as giving a green light at the weekend, ordering the pullback of US troops from the Turkey-Syrian border which had served as a buffer.
Russian President Vladimir Putin urged Erdogan to "think carefully" before any offensive in a phone call.
But Ankara says the assault is necessary to curb the power of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) due to their ties with Kurdish insurgents inside Turkey.
Turkey also wants a 'safe zone' on the Syrian side of the border where it could send back some of the 3.6 million refugees it hosts from the eight-year civil war.
'General mobilisation'
Kurds have been girding for combat as Turkey sent a large convoy of troops and vehicles to the border area overnight.
"We announce three days of general mobilisation in northern and eastern Syria," Kurdish authorities in northern Syria said, urging all civilians to "head to the border with Turkey ... to resist during this delicate historical moment".
They said they would hold their erstwhile US ally and the whole international community responsible for any "humanitarian catastrophe" that unfolds.
The Kurds say Ankara's real goal is to dilute their demographic dominance of the northeast with an influx of mostly Sunni Arab refugees from other parts of the country now living in southwestern Turkey.
In Ras al-Ain, Kurdish-led security forces set up new checkpoints and stockpiled tyres to set alight to blur the vision of Turkish military pilots, an AFP correspondent reported.
Ras al-Ain was one of the places from which US troops withdrew on Monday.
Kurdish authorities in the town called for protesters to gather at the border later on Wednesday and hoisted flags on tents.
"We will not leave this land," said Kawa Sleem, a 32-year-old Ras al-Ain resident.
"War has been chasing us for years, and everyday Erdogan threatens us with a new attack," he added, pledging to defend the area with "all means available."
Ras al-Ain is one of the first areas on which Ankara's planned offensive is expected to focus. Like Tal Abyad, further west, its population is mainly Arab.
Kurdish forces have dug trenches and tunnels in both areas, covering streets with metal canopies to block the cameras of Turkish drones.
'Massive opposition'
The Kurdish-led SDF took heavy losses in the US-backed campaign against the Islamic State group in Syria which they led to its successful conclusion in March.
Trump has faced a barrage of criticism, including from close allies in Washington, for appearing to leave US allies to their fate.
Senior Republican senator Lindsey Graham addressed a tweet to the Turkish government saying, "You do NOT have a green light to enter into northern Syria.
"There is massive bipartisan opposition in Congress, which you should see as a red line you should not cross."
There has also been a chorus of international concern, including from US allies.
French President Emmanuel Macron is "very worried" about the planned Turkish operation, an aide told AFP on Wednesday.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that Iraqi Kurdish leaders he met earlier this week had voiced deep concern about the risks of the mixed signals from Trump.
"They are extremely alarmed that such a lightweight treatment of this extremely delicate subject could ignite the entire region," Lavrov said.
Since 2015, Russia has been the main military backer of the Syrian government, which has seized on the policy shift from Trump to try to persuade the Kurds to accept the restoration of central government control.
The Kurds called on Moscow on Wednesday to facilitate dialogue with Damascus.
They have warned that a Turkish offensive would reverse the military gains achieved against IS and allow the jihadist group's surviving leaders to come out of hiding.
While a Kurdish-led operation earlier this year saw the end of IS's territorial caliphate, the organisation is not dead and sleeper cells have been active in several parts of Syria and Iraq.
IS claimed an overnight suicide attack by two of its fighters in its former Syria stronghold of Raqa.
Turkey said it would not allow a resurgence of IS, but called on European countries to repatriate jihadist prisoners being held in Kurdish detention centres. — AFP


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The Price of Human Rights Work
briantronic Clinton Fellowship 5
When you work in human rights, you see a lot of sad faces. A ten-year-old girl describing when she was raped. A father explaining that his son was murdered. A torture victim detailing sadistic acts meted out by police. I've learned to expect the sadness, and I try not to let it break my heart every time. But there are certain people I don't expect to cry. Like my fire-spitting boss, who has been chased by police, charged with false criminal cases, and threatened with death for his activism. He is the picture of courage. But at the recent staff meeting, his eyes got soft and his voice quivered.
My boss, Henri Tiphagne, spitting fire.
We all knew the meeting was going to be a tough one. The Indian Government has decided that People's Watch needs to be shut down, apparently in retaliation for its outspoken criticism. The proverbial last straw came in 2011, when People's Watch embarrassed India in the international arena by sharply (and accurately) criticizing India's National Human Rights Commission, nearly getting its accreditation demoted from "A-status" to "B."
As a result, the government is no longer content to just raid the office or file baseless criminal cases against my boss. Knowing that People's Watch receives the majority of its funding from abroad, the Ministry of Home Affairs suspended our registration under the Foreign Contribution Registration Act (FCRA) and froze all our bank accounts containing foreign funds. At the time of the staff meeting, the staff hadn't been paid in eight months and we were equally behind on the office rent. The meeting was convened to discuss what further cuts would be necessary.
The news was worse than expected—electricity rationing (many would have to work from home), staff layoffs (even the people that had been coming in without pay), and selling off certain property (including vehicles). Most poignantly, the Rehabilitation Center for Torture Victims, which has functioned as a safe house since 1997, would have to be closed. This refuge, where victims had rebuilt their lives and raised their children, would have to be shut down. The warrior shed a tear.
A sanctuary for victims, now closed.
I could talk at length about how People's Watch has continued to fight, has continued its advocacy, even in these difficult times, but there is a larger story here. Well, a larger question really—will the Indian government allow activists to do their work, or will it protect and shield the abusers? Will the government provide remedies for victims of discrimination and police torture, or will it shut down organizations fighting for such remedies? It's probably too early to tell for sure, but I don't like the answer I see unfolding around me.
Will People's Watch survive? I don't know. This is the worst crisis the organization has faced. But it's not yet time to give up. Crises require strong leadership, and People's Watch has Henri Tiphagne. If anyone can weather this storm, it's him.
briantronic
For as long he can remember, Brian has wanted to make the world a better place. This led him to become a Math teacher, a yoga teacher, and a Peace Corps Volunteer. While teaching Math and Physics at a small village high school in rural Kenya, he picked up Swahili, started a chess club, and discovered his true passion‰ÛÓhuman rights and international development. Upon returning to the U.S., Brian pursued a law degree and spent three years studying international law and human rights. Having seen the power of education to transform lives, he also raised money to send his former Kenyan students to college. Since graduating from Penn Law School in 2010, Brian has been clerking in the Superior Court of Vermont, researching legal issues for judges in the Criminal, Civil, and Family Courts. He is excited to work in the field of human rights in India, a country that has long fascinated him.
Tags: american india foundation, Brian Tronic, Human Rights, india, Madurai, People's Watch, Tamil Nadu, William Clinton Fellowship for Service
5 thoughts on "The Price of Human Rights Work"
Brian, excellent article! I'm sorry to hear that this is happening, but thank you for raising awareness about this issue. And, thanks for all of your hard work!
mathi vanan says:
What one may expect from GOI other than this? However, Henri is a man to take care of all challenges.
Pranav says:
Brain- I'm keeping People's Watch in my hopes and prayers. Sad that politics would prevent an organization that is doing such important work.
nirmal das mankar says:
Reapected Henri sir ji,
Jay-Bhim!
i like it & i am very-very happy , i was 70 day's ex. inren (DHRM PWTN madurai )
this social institute madurai raely its actual social work in dalit's Human Right.
& Woman's Right & Henri ji you are great indian .
Nirmal das mankar
DA-3 NCDHR Bhopal
Madhya-pradesh
i like it & i am very-very happy , i was 70 day's ex. intern (DHRM PWTN madurai )


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MOJ on Sports: 23 seasons in the CFL, including 11 seasons with the BC Lions
On this edition of 'MOJ on Sports', Bob Marjanovich chats with field goal kicker, Paul McCallum.
Nicknamed 'Clutch', McCallum is the Lions all-time leader with a field goal percentage of 85.9 and is second to Lui Passaglia in total points (1,506), successful field goals (348), punting yards (37,912) and kickoff yards (28,700). He earned CFL All-Star selections in 2010 and 2011.
McCallum was also named Most Valuable Canadian of the 94th Grey Cup.
In the championship season of 2011, McCallum set a new CFL record with 30 consecutive field goals made, beating Dave Ridgway's old mark of 28, and kicked three field goals in the 34-23 Grey Cup win over Winnipeg at BC Place.
Prior to his pro football career, McCallum went to school at Queen Elizabeth Secondary in the 1980s and played for the Surrey Rams junior team.
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ESA Science & Technology - Stellar groups and strings in the Milky Way – edge-on view
Stellar groups and strings in the Milky Way – edge-on view
Stellar groups and strings in the Milky Way – edge-on view
Depicts: Clusters and co-moving groups of stars within 3000 light-years from the Sun
Copyright: Courtesy of M. Kounkel & K. Covey (2019)
This diagram shows a face-on/edge-on view of stellar 'families' – clusters (dots) and co-moving groups (thick lines) of stars – within about 3000 light-years from the Sun, which is located at the centre of the image. The diagram is based on data from the second data release of ESA's Gaia mission.
Each family is identified with a different colour and comprises a population of stars that formed at the same time. Purple hues represent the oldest stellar populations, which formed around 1 billion years ago; blue and green hues represent intermediate ages, with stars that formed hundreds of millions of years ago; orange and red hues show the youngest stellar populations, which formed less than a hundred million years ago.
Thin lines show the predicted velocities of each group of stars over the next 5 million years, based on Gaia's measurements. The lack of structures at the centre is an artefact of the method used to trace individual populations, not due to a physical bubble.
A recent study using data from Gaia's second data release uncovered nearly 2000 previously unidentified clusters and co-moving groups of stars and determined the ages for hundreds of thousands of stars, making it possible to track stellar 'siblings' and uncover their surprising arrangements. The study revealed that the most massive among these familial groups of stars may keep moving together through the galaxy in long, string-like configurations for billions of years after their birth.
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Gaia tracing starry strings in the Milky Way
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Traits Of Andrew Jackson
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BRAINS AND BRAWN: RUGGED NEW LAND ROVER DEFENDER SHOWCASES WORLD-FIRST DUAL eSIM CONNECTIVITY AT CES 2020
Capable and connected New Land Rover Defender 90 and 110 attend CES 2020, the world's largest consumer electronics show
Twin LTE modem connectivity: New Defender features world-first dual-modem, dual eSIM design for enhanced connectivity and functionality. Powered by two Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ 820Am Automotive Platforms, each with an integrated Snapdragon X12 modem*
21st century Defender: With two LTE modems, Defender can download Software-Over-The-Air (SOTA) updates on the move without interruption and while using apps through its state-of-the-art Pivi Pro infotainment
Tech show: Defender 110 and 90 will feature at CES 2020 in Las Vegas from 7-10 January, in the Qualcomm (LVCC, North Hall, 5606) and BlackBerry (LVCC, North Hall 7515) booths
Remote connectivity: New 4x4 features 16 electronic modules that can be updated anywhere in the world, and uses cloud-based technology from CloudCar to provide personalisation, content and services
Advanced assistance: Comprehensive range of Advanced Driver Assistance Systems developed with Bosch includes a 3D Surround Camera system that operates as a mobile scout for the driver
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Tuesday 7 January 2020, Dubai, UAE – The Land Rover Defender family will showcase its 21st century dual-eSIM connectivity at CES 2020 in Las Vegas, the world's largest consumer electronics show.
New Defender is the first vehicle with two embedded LTE modems for enhanced connectivity, while Jaguar Land Rover's new Pivi Pro touchscreen infotainment has an industry-leading design and shares electronic hardware with the latest smartphones.
The fast-responding and intuitive Pivi Pro system allows customers to make full use of New Defender's Software-Over-The-Air (SOTA) technology, without compromising its ability to connect to apps on the move. With its own designated LTE modem and eSIM, the SOTA technology can operate in the background, without affecting the day-to-day connectivity provided by the separate modem and eSIM in the infotainment module.
The always-on and always-connected Pivi Pro set-up sits at the heart of New Defender's cabin and its 10-inch high-resolution touchscreen allows customers to control all aspects of the vehicle using the same processing hardware as the latest smartphones. In addition, customers can connect two mobile devices to the infotainment head unit at once using Bluetooth, so the driver and passenger can enjoy hands-free functionality concurrently without the need to swap connections.
Peter Virk, Director of Connected Car and Future Technology, Jaguar Land Rover, said: "With one LTE modem and eSIM dedicated to the Software-Over-The-Air (SOTA) technology and the same set-up looking after apps, New Defender has the digital capacity to keep customers connected, updated and entertained at all times anywhere in the world. You could liken the design to a brain, with each half enjoying its own connection for unrivalled and uninterrupted service. Like the brain, one side of the system looks after logical functions, like SOTA, while the other takes care of more creative tasks."
Pivi Pro has its own battery, so the system is always on and able to respond immediately on start-up. As a result, the navigation is ready to accept new destinations the moment the driver sits in the vehicle, with no delay. Customers can also download updates, so the system is always using the latest software – including navigation mapping data – without the need to visit retailers for updates to be installed.
Land Rover has also confirmed the first New Defenders will feature more SOTA capability than originally projected. At its Frankfurt Motor Show launch in September, Land Rover announced that 14 individual electronic control modules would be able to receive remote updates, but the first production vehicles will feature 16 control units capable of receiving SOTA updates. Land Rover engineers estimate that in-dealer software updates will be a thing of the past for Defender customers before the end of 2021 as additional SOTA modules come online, rising from the current 16 to more than 45.
Land Rover will showcase its advanced Pivi Pro technology at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, with the New Defender 110 and 90 taking pride of place on the Qualcomm (LVCC, North Hall, 5606) and BlackBerry (LVCC, North Hall 7515) stands respectively.
Qualcomm Technologies
Powering the Defender's Pivi Pro infotainment** and Vehicle Domain Controller are two high-performance Qualcomm® Snapdragon 820Am Automotive Platforms, each with an integrated Snapdragon® X12 LTE modem. The Snapdragon 820Am Automotive Platform delivers unprecedented performance and technology integration designed to support highly advanced telematics, infotainment and digital clusters. It delivers rich, immersive and seamless connected in-vehicle experiences, while making next-generation vehicles more connected, smart and contextually aware.
With its power-efficient CPU cores, stunning and state-of-the-art GPU performance, integrated machine learning and powerful video processing capabilities, the Snapdragon 820Am Automotive Platform is designed to provide unmatched connected in-car experiences, including responsive interfaces, immersive 4K graphics, high-definition media streaming, and immersive audio.
Two X12 LTE modems provide parallel high-bandwidth downlink and uplink connectivity across multiple networks, ultra-fast connectivity and lower latency for secure, reliable communications. Additionally, the X12 LTE modem features an integrated global navigation satellite system (GNSS) and automotive dead reckoning, increasing the vehicle's capability to accurately keep track of its location and position.
BlackBerry QNX
The Defender is the first Land Rover to include a domain controller that consolidates a number of Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) and driver convenience functions built on top of the QNX Hypervisor, providing the kind of in-car experience drivers want, with the security, safety and reliability they need. Consolidating more systems onto fewer ECUs is integral to the future of automotive electrical design and will be the model for Land Rover's next-generation vehicle architecture.
Within New Defender, the Blackberry QNX operating system helps deliver a smartphone-like experience for Pivi Pro infotainment users. The technology also powers the operating system for the latest generation TFT Interactive Driver Display, which can be configured by the driver to show vehicle instrumentation, navigation instructions and mapping information or a combination of the two.
Certified to the highest level of ISO 26262 – ASIL D, the QNX operating system provides the ultimate peace of mind to Defender drivers. The first ASIL D-certified QNX Hypervisor for Safety ensures the multiple Operating Systems (OS) powering the safety-critical factors (e.g. body domain control) are isolated from non-safety critical systems (e.g. infotainment). This is critical to ensuring that compromised systems, or those requiring updates, won't impact driving functions.
As a leader in safety-certified, secure and reliable embedded software, BlackBerry QNX technology is embedded in more than 150 million vehicles on the road today and used by top automakers for their advanced driver assistance, digital instrument clusters, connectivity modules, hands-free, and infotainment systems.
Jaguar Land Rover is the first global car maker to use CloudCar's latest cloud-based services platform. Working with the world-leading developer of connected driver experiences brings new levels of customer convenience to the Pivi Pro infotainment fitted to New Defender.
New Defender is the first vehicle to make use of the latest-generation technology, marking the next step in Jaguar Land Rover's ongoing partnership with CloudCar, which dates back to 2017.
Land Rover is on the road to a connected and autonomous future and New Defender features a raft of safety-boosting technologies developed with Bosch to enhance the driving experience.
Alongside the latest Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS), which include Adaptive Cruise Control and Blind Spot Assist, Bosch has supported the development of Land Rover's innovative 3D Surround Camera System, which gives drivers a unique view of the vehicle's immediate perimeter using fourwide-angle HD cameras, each providing a 190-degree field-of-view.
Connected using a 3Gbit/s video backbone and fused with 14 ultrasonic sensors, the clever technology gives drivers a choice of vantage points including a top-down plan view and seamless perspective view. It even performs as a virtual scout, allowing drivers to pan around the vehicle on screen for the ultimate Command Driving Position on and off-road.
Land Rover and Bosch have a relationship that stretches back decades and has pioneered numerous propulsion and motion control features that will go on to become the industry standard, including ClearSight Ground View, Land Rover's Wade Sensing technology and Advanced Tow Assist features – all are enabled by the Bosch driver assistance platform.
To configure and order your New Defender 110 online, click here: https://www.landrover-me.com/en/defender/index.html
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** Only available in GCC markets


The work of the Coexistence Trust was delivered by an experienced team of individuals all committed to fostering better relations between Muslim and Jewish communities in the UK. Our thanks for their hard work and dedication to an important cause. Our thanks also to former members of the Coexistence Trust team including Samuel Klein, Zahra Vajli, Maria Werdine, Harry Bonnell, Lynn Harr and Maja Schwoerer.
The team was supported by a Trustee Board of accomplished public figures chaired by Lord Mitchell and its patron was HRH Prince El Hassan bin Talal of Jordan.


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RIAA Believes MP3s Are A Crime: Why This Matters – Updated
Author: Ryan SingelRyan Singel
In the confusion following the Washington Post's RIAA story, and its subsequent "correction," journalists and advocacy groups alike are missing an important fact: the RIAA has repeatedly taken the position that ripping MP3s from CDs you own is illegal, and it's using that argument to harm consumers.
Journalists, policy watchers and even copyright experts who fail to understand this risk helping the RIAA's ongoing crusade to cripple technology.
For those who still maintain the RIAA does not believe that MP3s are a crime, here are two very clear pieces of evidence:
In the first ever trial of a person accused of sharing copyrighted music files over a peer-to-peer network, a Sony executive described ripping songs as stealing. Then the RIAA's lawyer grilled Thomas on the stand about whether or not she'd gotten permission before making personal copies of her music. (THREAT LEVEL's David Kravets covered the trial gavel-to-gavel.)
Every three years, the Librarian of Congress decides what exceptions will be made to a federal law that makes it illegal to defeat copyright locks. That law is the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. In 2006, a number of exemptions were proposed.
The RIAA, among others, opposed these exceptions. In a February 2, 2006 letter (.pdf) to the Copyright office, the group wrote that ripping MP3s from CDs – also known as device shifting – was not covered by Fair Use and thus was infringing. They also said that making a back-up copy of a CD was also infringing.
The Register [of Copyrights] was right in 2003 to be "skeptical" of the merits of any fair use analysis that asserts that space-shifting or format-shifting is a noninfringing use. ... This is particularly the case in today's market, where inexpensive legitimate digital copies of most types of works are readily available, and increasingly can be obtained through online download services. Where a market is functioning to serve the demand otherwise being fulfilled by unauthorized copying, the likelihood that the unauthorized copying is fair use is diminished.
In such a market, the inconvenience that faces consumers of works tethered to specific devices is far outweighed by the threat to the enjoyment of copyright posed by illegal digital distribution facing copyright owners. As the Register stated in 2003, "[c]rtainly, where the unauthorized] online distribution of works is a potential concern, space-shifting will be incompatible with fair use." [...]
The submission asserts in its third example, "device and format shifting," that such activities "are unquestionably fair uses" of lawfully purchased CDs, (C6 at 8); but among those questioning this conclusion is the Register, who noted in 2003 that "proponents have not established that space-shifting or platform-shifting is a noninfringing use." 2003 Rec. at 139.
Similarly, creating a back-up copy of a music CD is not a non-infringing use.
I don't know how clearer it needs to be to journalists, copyright lawyers and D.C. policy groups like CDT. The RIAA thinks that ripping CDs is illegal.
The RIAA believes that if you want to listen to copyrighted music you bought on CD on your digital music player, you should go to Amazon or iTunes and buy a digital copy there. Anything else is infringement in their eyes – even if they have no way of catching you do it.
Take that stance from the filing and look closely at what the RIAA says on its website about ripping MP3s:
There's no legal "right" to copy the copyrighted music on a CD onto a CD-R. However, burning a copy of CD onto a CD-R, or transferring a copy onto your computer hard drive or your portable music player, won't usually raise concerns so long as:
The copy is made from an authorized original CD that you legitimately own
The copy is just for your personal use. It's not a personal use – in fact, it's illegal – to give away the copy or lend it to others for copying.
Taken apart, what does it mean? Ripping MP3s is unauthorized. Under copyright law, anything unauthorized is infringing, unless the Fair Use doctrine defends the action as "non-infringing." But the RIAA doesn't believe that Fair Use covers MP3 ripping. So when they say unauthorized, they mean "infringing." But that infringement won't "usually" bother them until you start distributing.
But once they go after you for distributing, they are going to also go after you for copying. They did it to Jammie Thomas. They are and will do it in the Arizona case, where when asked by a court if a file sharer who ripped MP3s had "illegal copies," the RIAA told the court that Jeffrey Howell had unauthorized copies on his computer.
For clear propaganda reasons, the music industry won't publicly say it considers ripping MP3s to be copyright infringement.
They did say it in Jammie Thomas's recent trial, but when called on that testimony in a public forum, RIAA president Cary Sherman conveniently says the Sony executive "misspoke." By that point the $222,000 damage had been done and Sherman was free to say anything he wanted on NPR.
The RIAA sued the first MP3 player, it sued XM radio for making a device that let users record broadcasts – again a legally recognized fair use – and it forced the crippling of DAT audio recorders. The RIAA is also hard at work putting small web radio stations out of business with usurious royalty rate increases.
The RIAA is now working with the nation's ISPs to find ways to snoop on Americans' internet communications to find copyright infringement. That sets up a perfect situation for the RIAA to send automated letters demanding a $5,000 pre-lawsuit payment because you emailed an MP3 to your fiance – a song which you legally bought on CD. Hell, it could go after you for ripping a CD at home and then e-mailing it to a personal account in order to listen to it at work. From a network perspective, it all looks like infringement.
And yet, instead of pouring heat on the RIAA to clarify its legal stance, bloggers and journalists are filling in the gaps left by the RIAA's silence on its position with generous suppositions on what the RIAA's muddled public pronouncements mean and examining how it is legally clever of them.
That's dangerous. The RIAA doesn't believe Americans have any right – or Fair Use legal defense – to play copyrighted material on the device and in the format of their choosing.
That belief has been and will continue to be a threat to innovation and new technology.
The failure to recognize that simple truth will blow back in the form of more draconian public policies and laws, as well as more crippled devices.
Update: Copyright expert and Google copyright counsel William Patry had the same idea and on Monday delved into the RIAA's previous statements to Congress on Fair Use. As for whether the RIAA believes in Fair Use, he writes:
[I]t appears the RIAA doesn't want to ever concede that personal use is lawful –
as compared to "usually won't raise concerns." What does that mean? If I ask a cop whether I can drive 35 miles per hour on a particular road with no speed sign, is it sufficient for him to say, "well that usually won't raise concerns."
The long post is well worth reading in its entirety, but he concludes with some wise counsel:
So here's a proposed solution: let's give honest people what they want, clear guidance; instead of wasting Congress's time on gluttonous issues like getting even greater statutory damage awards, why not spend that time drafting a personal use exemption – not fair use guidelines, but a real exemption. One that will exempt all home copying and use by individuals off of lawfully purchased copies, including space and format shifting, for noncommercial purposes. Such a law would earn copyright owners (and Congress) tremendous public applause, while those who are honest could forget about copyright law, finally. Those who are engaged in the truly problematic activities, like massive unauthorized distribution of works would be isolated, legally and in the public's eyes. What I think is unacceptable is the status quo, one that deliberately keeps things vague and that lumps honest people who want to engage in home, personal, noncommercial uses in with those who deserve to be called pirates.
RIAA Still Thinks MP3s Are a Crime, Despite Post's False Correction
War on File Sharer Following War on Terror
What It Looks Like Trying to Get A Straight Answer From the RIAA
RIAA's Sherman Speaks (Un)Believable 'Catch 22' – Update
Sony BMG Exec Tells Jury that Ripping a Single Song is Theft
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Bike Week L.A.: Downtown L.A. Ride kicks off tomorrow at 8 a.m.
by Fred Camino , May 18, 2010
Tomorrow, Wednesday May 19th, Metro and the L.A. Bicycle Coalition team up to host a ride through Downtown L.A. The ride starts near Union Station, the regional rail hub that links Metrolink, Amtrak, and Metro's Red, Purple and Gold Line to Downtown. From there riders will navigate Downtown's streets discovering [continue reading]
Welcome to Twitter Tuesday, a weekly feature here at The Source in which we'll round up the latest Metro related tweets in the Twitterverse. To follow Metro on Twitter just search for @MetroLosAngeles. We recommend adding the #MetroLosAngeles tag to your tweets to get our attention. I feel like renaming [continue reading]
Transportation headlines, Tuesday, May 18
Here's a look at some of the transportation headlines gathered by the Metro Library. The full list of headlines is posted on the library's blog. Don't forget you can also follow the Metro Library on Facebook and Twitter. Fixing public transit in L.A. requires both a carrot and a stick [continue reading]
A peek inside the Hollywood & Vine TOD courtesy of the Urban Land Institute
On May 5th the Urban Land Institute (ULI) of Los Angeles hosted a tour and case study of the recently completed Hollywood & Vine Transit Oriented Development (TOD) project. Put on by the Young Leaders Group, the self-proclaimed "younger, hipper" faction of ULI (so hip, in fact, that some of [continue reading]
Metro Mentions: Good Girl Dinette website
Metro Mentions is a feature on The Source where we highlight advertisements we've stumbled upon that include Metro access information. Why? In this car-culture town, when local businesses and community organizations voluntarily go out of their way to include transit information in their ads, it raises awareness and informs people [continue reading]
Transportation headlines, Friday, May 14
Here's a look at some of the transportation headlines gathered by the Metro Library. The full list of headlines is posted on the library's blog. Don't forget you can also follow the Metro Library on Facebook and Twitter. Fixes needed for L.A. public transit system (L.A. Times) Earlier this week [continue reading]
Go Metro Weekends, May 14th – May 16th
This weekend is packed with Metro accessible events – and a lot of them are FREE! There's free music in Downtown on Friday night, free food and Armenian cultural celebration in Pasadena on Saturday and a free tour of L.A. historical museums on Sunday. Have an event you'd like us [continue reading]
Weekend Destination Discount: Taste of the World Festival – Armenia
If you're looking for something cultural, cheap and tasty to do this weekend, check out this last minute Destination Discount for the Taste of the World Festival featuring the dance, food and artistry of Armenia. It's happening this Saturday May 15th (12 p.m. to 10 p.m.) and Sunday May 16th (12 [continue reading]
Reader email: color that Expo Line edition
For the last couple of weeks we've been running a poll asking our readers to choose a color name for the Expo Line. In addition to votes we've also received a lot of feedback in the form of reader email and comments left on the poll site. While Aqua is [continue reading]
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Yep!,...I can totally relate to every bit of that Chris.
yumensis.... "ugly Cal. kings" indeed..LOL!
similar to a genuine polyzona being looked at as just an "ugly" hondurensis!
Trouble is, not enough people know enough about any natural history or morphology of any of these snakes,.....just flashy colors and flashy names.
BTW, yes, a guy emailed me with a picture of a king he captured less than a mile from the Mexican Nogales border in Santa Cruz County Arizona that looked EXTEMELY similar to the one I have, but he no longer has it..LOL!. That thing would have been a perfect match.....oh well!..LOL!
I might have some luck at the Repticon show in Orlando this coming month where I was vending and picked this snake up, as two people I know there know more details about the W/C parents and several other pertinent details that might make it possible to get another animal from this same "Nogales" bloodline.
I have seen TONS of photos of splendida, and splendida intergrades from different places, but have only seen one or two that are almost identical to this one, only they were a tad darker is all. The Nogales king that guy emailed to me after seeing it posted on the "king" forum months ago was that extremely similar snake. This is why I have little doubt that this is EXACTLY where this snakes parent lineage originated. His Nogales animal was indeed a dead ringer for this one I have, only just SLIGHTLY more melanistic is all.


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Early 1990's, played bass and mandolin with the Dixie Chicks when they won the band contest at Telluride.
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13 May 2014, 10:11 a.m.
The world premiere of a new documentary about Roger Bannister's historic first sub-four-minute mile will form part of the official 60th anniversary celebrations at the Bupa Westminster Mile on Saturday 24 May.
The documentary has been made by US filmmakers Tom Ratcliffe, former international marathon runner and TV analyst, and Jeremy Mosher, television producer and university runner. It will be shown on the big screen in Green Park.
"Sixty years ago, wartime rationing was still in place, morale was low and Britain was struggling to emerge from the darkness of the war years," said Ratcliffe. "Then in 1953 came the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II on the same morning as the news broke that Edmund Hillary had conquered Everest. Against this backdrop, a young Oxford medical student made plans to become the first man to run a mile in less than four minutes, a feat long assumed to be physically impossible.
Sir Roger Bannister, patron of the event, will be present to watch the runners compete in 30 different races over the mile distance in the Royal Parks. At the close of entries, 5,869 runners had registered.
Six-time London Marathon champion David Weir aims to become the first wheelchair racer in history to break the three-minute barrier for the iconic distance.
Sir Roger will present the new Sir Roger Bannister Trophy to the winner of the senior men's race where Britain's most experienced international miler, Andrew Baddeley, will be the man to beat. Baddeley, an Olympic and World Championship finalist at 1500m, is a former winner of the Dream Mile at the Bislett Games in Oslo, where so many world records have been broken in the past. He faces Chris Warburton, who was third in the inaugural Bupa Westminster Mile in 2013, and James Shane who was fifth – two of the seven athletes from last year's top 10 who are competing again in 2014.
Diane Leather (now Charles), the first woman to run a sub-five-minute mile – also 60 years ago – will present the Diane Leather trophy to the winner of the senior women's race. This features a formidable line-up including World Championship 1500m medallist Lisa Dobriskey, who was runner-up last year; former world junior 1500m champion Steph Twell, fourth in 2013; former UK 1500m champion Charlene Thomas, who was fifth last year; and Julia Bleasdale, an Olympic finalist at 5000m and 10,000m in 2012.
Double Olympic and world champion Mo Farah will officially start the senior men's and women's races and later run alongside Britain's future stars in the Boys' U11 and U13 London Borough Challenge races at 14.05. Farah will be racing in earnest the next day as he goes for his sixth consecutive victory in the Bupa London 10,000.
The races will begin on The Mall in St James's Park and then follow the park's perimeter via Horse Guards Road and Birdcage Walk to finish on Spur Road in front of Buckingham Palace.
Weir's attempt to make wheelchair racing history in the mile is scheduled for 13:20.
It is the first part of a packed weekend of road running in the capital. The programme continues on Sunday morning (25 May) with the seventh edition of the Bupa London 10,000, starting at 10.00.


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Q: In topology: Is there a special terminology for a map that is "almost'' a homeomorphism? By "almost" I mean that it can be slightly perturbed within a given fixed compact domain to obtain a homeomorphism from that domain to its image.
To be more precise:
Let a compact topological space $U \subset \mathbb{R}^n$, and let a map $f:U\to M$ such that for any $\epsilon>0$ there exists homeomorphism $f_\epsilon:U\to V$ (continuous function with continuous inverse) between $U$ and $V$ for some $V\subset \mathbb{R}^n$ such that
$$
\|f(x)-f_\epsilon(x)\|_2<\epsilon \text{ for all } x \in U. \tag{1}
$$
Examples:

*

*a constant map from cube  $x \in [0,1]^3$ to $\mathbb{R}^3$, $f(x): x \mapsto (0,0,0)$ is almost homeomorphism on the cube. Indeed, for any $\epsilon$ one can introduce $f_\epsilon(x): x \mapsto  \frac{1}{2\sqrt{3}} \epsilon( x_1, x_2, x_3)$ which is a homeomorphism, and (1) is satisfied.

*a function from $\mathbb{R}\to \mathbb{R}$,  $f(x):x^2$ is not almost homeomorphism on $[-1, 1]$, since there is no inverse map for $x=0$.
In one dimension, I presume, a function is almost homeomorphism if and only if it is  monotonic, but I'm not familiar with the notion of monotonic in higher dimensions.

A: The term is "near homeomorphism".


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Q: Progress bar visibility not being set before code is executed I have a long running io process that I would like to be able to set a progress bar during to show that there is in fact a process running and the app isn't just frozen. The process copies over many music files, and can take upwards of a minute depending on how many are available.
The problem is, it seems to be executing the code before setting the progress bar visibility.
    public void makeAvailable() {
    mProgressBar.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
        File dir = new File(gMusic);
        String[] songNames = dir.list();
        File[] songs = dir.listFiles();
        for (int i=0; i<songs.length; i++) {
            File song = songs[i];
            String songName = songNames[i];
            String[] bits = songName.split("/");
            String songStripped = bits[bits.length-1];
            File output = new File(Constants.gMusicSniperDir + "music/" + songStripped);
            try {
                copyFile(song, output);
            } catch (IOException e) {
                // TODO Auto-generated catch block
                e.printStackTrace();
            }
        }
        mProgressBar.setVisibility(View.INVISIBLE);
}

As you see, it cycles through the directory and copies all the files over. When it runs, the only indication of anything happening is that the button that is tied to the process doesn't leave the "pressed" state - it stays highlighted blue.

A: It looks like you're doing all your work in the UI thread. You should do all the heavy work (listing the contents of the directory, and copying files) in a background thread, posting requests to the UI thread just to update the progress bar.
The ProgressBar documentation gives an example of this.
Note that this is just one example of a common theme: you shouldn't block the UI thread for any significant length of time, or your application will become unresponsive. See "Designing for Responsiveness" for more details.


WTI tumbled on Wednesday after China said that it will impose tariffs of 25% on USD 16bn worth of US imports, a retaliation to the US announcement on Tuesday that it will proceed with similar measures on the 23rd of August. Although crude oil will be exempted from China's list, several other oil products are still included. What's more, the slide may have been amplified by the less-than-expected decline in crude inventories reported by the US Energy Information Administration.
From a technical standpoint, the tumble brought the price below 66.30 for a while, to find fresh support near 65.80, before rebounding back above 66.30. The 66.30 barrier has been acting as the lower bound of a short-term sideways range that's been containing the price action since mid-July and thus, bearing in mind that the price recovered back within the range, we will stay sidelined for now.
We would like to see another attempt for a dip below the range's lower end, or even better yesterday's low of 65.80, before we start considering the likelihood for further declines. Such a dip is possible to open the way for our nest support territory of 64.25, defined by the lows of the 19th and 21st of June.
That said, WTI would still be trading above the long-term tentative uptrend line drawn from the low of the 21st of June 2017 and although the short-term picture would appear to be bearish, we would like to see a decisive close below that line and the 63.40 support level before we start examining the case of a longer-term trend reversal.
Indeed, taking into account the sanctions imposed to Iran by the US on Monday, there is a decent chance for any further declines in oil prices to stay limited on speculation of supply disruptions. Although this round of sanctions will not directly target Iranian oil exports, a second one, which will focus on Iran's oil industry, is planned for November. On top of that, using his twitter account, US President Trump said that "Anyone doing business with Iran will NOT be doing business with the United States", further adding to concerns over supply shortfalls.
Now if the bulls decide to take charge from current levels and not let WTI to exit the short-term range again, we may see a test near the 67.15 line soon, the break of which may target our next resistance of 68.10. Another break above 68.10 could open the way towards the 69.15 line or the upper bound of the aforementioned range, at around 69.90.