Policy A ......to cover Act liability.
Policy B ......to cover both own damage losses and Act liability.
Section I of Standard form of Private Car Policy ( B ) or Motor Cycle/Scooter Policy covers against loss or damage to the insured vehicle and/or its accessories whilst thereon.
) Damage to property other than property belonging to the insured or held in trust or in the custody or control of the insured. Limits of Liability is Rs.6000/- in respect of any one claim or series of claims arising out of one event but Tariff however provides for increased limits up to unlimited liability for TP ( Third Party ) property damage, at an additional premium.
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Any accidental loss or damage suffered whilst the insured or any person driving with the knowledge and consent of the insured is under the influence of intoxicating liquor or drugs.
cost of part/s and allied labour , failure of which led any accident.
Vehicles plying outside the Geographical Area claim out of any contractual liability, vehicles being used otherwise than in accordance with the limitations as to use, being driven by any person other than a driver as stated in the Drivers Clause, nuclear risks, liability directly or indirectly arising from nuclear weapons material are the general exceptions.
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Q: How can we handle the Java ConcurrentModificationException using try-catch? I am trying to handle the java ConcurrentModificationException exception using try-catch block but still I am getting the same error when compiling the code.
import java.util.*;
public class failFast{
    public static void main(String[] args){
        Map<Integer,String> map = new HashMap<>();
        map.put(100,"Melani");
        map.put(101,"Harshika");
        map.put(102,"Nimna");

        Iterator itr = map.keySet().iterator();

        while(itr.hasNext()){
            System.out.println(itr.next());

            try{
                map.put(103,"Nirmani");
            }
            catch(Exception e){
                System.out.println("Exception is thrown "+e);
            }

        }

Exception in thread "main" java.util.ConcurrentModificationException
        at java.util.HashMap$HashIterator.nextNode(Unknown Source)
        at java.util.HashMap$KeyIterator.next(Unknown Source)
        at failFast.main(failFast.java:12)

A: I don't now exactly what you are trying to achive (your code doesn't make much sense for me). Basically you can't change a Map or an other Collection while iterating over it. The only way to change the underlying structure is with the actual Iterator but this is very limited. To catch the ConcurrentModificationException makes not much sense because with your code it will always be thrown, so the catch-block would be your normal code flow, which is really not good.
Possibility 1: Copy keySet to an other collection and iterate over this one
import java.util.*;
public class FailFast{
    public static void main(String[] args){
        Map<Integer,String> map = new HashMap<>();
        map.put(100,"Melani");
        map.put(101,"Harshika");
        map.put(102,"Nimna");

        // Copy keySet to an other collection and iterate over this one
        Iterator itr = new ArrayList(map.keySet()).iterator();
        while(itr.hasNext()){
            System.out.println(itr.next());
            map.put(103,"Nirmani");
        }

Possibility 2: Collect all the changes and apply them after the loop (this is what I would do)
import java.util.*;
public class FailFast{
    public static void main(String[] args){
        Map<Integer,String> map = new HashMap<>();
        map.put(100,"Melani");
        map.put(101,"Harshika");
        map.put(102,"Nimna");

        Iterator itr = map.keySet().iterator();

        Map<Integer,String> changes = new HashMap<>();
        while(itr.hasNext()){
            System.out.println(itr.next());
            changes.put(103,"Nirmani");
        }
        map.putAll(changes);

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"Bruddah Norm," Hawai'i Music Award winner for "Best Reggae Album," and "Male Vocalist of the Year," storms the islands once again with "Stay With Me."
Full of the kind of music that put Norm at the top of island music charts, "Stay With Me" has 14 tracks including 10 new originals by Norm and the Neos Productions' team.
"Stay With Me" blends roots, lovers rock and dance hall with Polynesian rhythms and island R&B, and tops it all off with one of the most expressive, soulful voices in the islands - the big, handsome guy with the gorgeous smile - Norm!
In the rock steady "We Are Hawaiians," Norm sings about his musical roots. Phat Polynesian harmonies flow throughout "True Warrior," Norm's tribute to the courageous men in his life.
Those who appreciate the way Norm's lyrics relate so well to women (what other guy sings about taking a women shopping like Norm does in "Groove Witcha"?) will love the title track, "Stay With Me," "My Only Love" and the tender acoustic ballad, "Happy Birthday, Darling.." Few will be able to resist Norm as he pours his heart out in "My Love Is Gone," a sassy, soulful R&B original.
From new music to his classic "Hawaiian Born," the recent hit, "Groove Witcha," and the ever popular "Party," it's all here, and it's all good. "Stay With Me" is solid Norm!


The American Academy of Sanitarians (AAS) had its beginning in November 1956, when the Sanitarians Joint Council (SJC) held an organizational meeting at the American Public Health Association (APHA) Convention in Atlantic City, New Jersey. The professionals who made up the SJC were representatives from three associations whose membership embraced the majority of sanitarians in the country. These organizations were: American Public Health Association (APHA), the International Association of Milk, Food and Environmental Sanitarians (IAMFES); later called the International Association for Food Protection (IAFP), and, the National Association of Sanitarians (NAS); that became the National Environmental Health Association (NEHA).
Read more about the History of the American Academy of Sanitarians.
View the History of the Sanitarian Profession by Robert W. Powitz.


I've posted a couple of variants on meringues, but these were our prettiest yet, deserving of their own post. Plus, these meringue cookies make for a quick and easy gluten-free, dairy-free Passover dessert, requiring no special equipment or ingredients — pretty much just eggs, sugar and a mixer.
When I first started this blog in 2010, I posted a recipe for chocolate-chip and double chocolate meringues, with a really ugly photo, before I learned that you never, ever want to use a flash for food photography. And I also previously posted a recipe for cute ghost meringues for Halloween.
Meringues are true sugar cookies because the main ingredient is, well, sugar. My youngest daughter is crazy for them.
Using a mixer, beat egg whites on high speed until foamy. Add cream of tartar and salt, and beat until stiff. Gradually add sugar and continue beating. Beat in vanilla extract.
Put a large star tip on a disposable pastry bag. Fill the bag with the meringue mixture and twist the top to close. Pipe the meringues onto the lined baking sheet.
Bake for one hour. Allow meringues to cool and store in an airtight container.
This custardy corn pudding is gluten-free and dairy-free, a perfect Thanksgiving side.
I am continually impressed by the wealth of content at the Joy of Kosher site. So when they asked me to develop a corn pudding recipe for Thanksgiving and Hanukkah, I was thrilled. I wanted to make a creamy corn pudding that was dairy-free, as well as gluten-free, so it could be served with a kosher Thanksgiving dinner.
The eggs give the pudding a light, soufflé-like consistency, studded with nuggets of golden corn. It may seem fussy to bake the pudding in a water bath, but I tried this recipe both with and without a water bath. I found that using a water bath (baking the dish set in a larger pan surrounded by hot water) is the way to go. It insulates the soufflé, cooks it evenly and gently, and prevents it from falling and deflating.
On this Thanksgiving, that's something to be thankful for.
You can find my full corn pudding post on the Joy of Kosher site, along with the accompanying recipe.
Thanksgivukkah corn pancakes, topped with sour cream, black beans and cilantro.
Because of a rare quirk in the calendars, this year Thanksgiving and Hanukkah overlap, giving rise to the once-in-a-lifetime holiday of "Thanksgivukkah." The unusual occurrence has inspired riffs on the holiday like "menurkeys" (turkey-shaped menorahs), funny T-shirts (a turkey holding a sign that says, "Eat latkes"), pithy sayings ("Gobble tov!") and of course fun food combos (latkes with cranberry applesauce and pecan pie rugelach).
Thanksgivukkah — now that's meshugenah!
Not only is Thanksgivukkah fun to say, it's fun to celebrate, as well. There is something to be said for enjoying both holidays with family and friends, honoring liberty and latkes at the same time. (Disclaimer, it may be more fun for me, because I am not hosting it at my house. Thanks, Josh and Jonna!) And with Hanukkah out of the way early, I'm looking forward to taking December easy, relaxing while others are stressing out about shopping, and— best of all — avoiding stores with cloying Christmas songs on a continuous loop.
Consider getting into the Thanksgivukkah spirit with meals that combine some traditions of each holiday. While nothing will take the place of potato latkes, try mixing it up with these gluten-free Thanksgivukkah corn pancakes. The corn pancakes are cooked in a little bit of oil, recalling the oil in the Hanukkah story, yet feature the Thanksgiving staple of corn.
Topped with sour cream and black beans — or for a non-dairy option, a mix of black beans, corn and salsa — the festive pancakes can be served as appetizers before a Thanksgivukkah meal, or for a Hanukkah lunch or brunch.
Let us know what you are doing to celebrate Thanksgivukkah by leaving a comment.
Today, a fall rainfall brought down a cascade of leaves from the maple tree in front of our house. In shades of gold, bronze, ocher and amber, the leaves fell, thickly carpeting the sidewalk. In weather like this, I crave the comfort of a warm bowl of soup. And what better soup than a perennial fall favorite: butternut squash soup, made gluten-free and dairy-free.
For a while, I was turned off by butternut squash soup, with its one-note sweet taste and pablum texture. But that's certainly not the case with this complex honey-roasted butternut squash soup, laced with the smoky spice of chipotle chile pepper and the slightly exotic taste of cumin.
What's even better is that this butternut squash soup is gluten-free, dairy-free and vegetarian, making it well-suited for a variety of people (except for my kids; shall I admit that they don't like this grown-up soup?). For a vegan version, use maple syrup instead of honey.
Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Line a large rimmed baking sheet with aluminum foil, and spray the aluminum foil with cooking oil. Place butternut squash, carrots and red onion on the baking sheet, and toss with honey, olive oil, cumin, chipotle chile pepper and salt until well coated. Bake for 40 minutes or until vegetables are tender when pierced with a fork.
Place roasted vegetables in a large soup pot and add vegetable broth. Bring broth to a boil, reduce heat to low, cover and simmer for 15 minutes.
In batches, carefully pour soup into a blender and puree until smooth. Do not fill blender to the top, and hold down the lid with a kitchen towel to prevent spattering. Transfer blended soup back to pot and heat before serving.
Following is a collection of root vegetable recipes from The Kosher Connection link-up. Please note that not all the recipes in the collection are gluten-free.


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Thomas grabs US Open lead as Reed, McIlroy lurk, Tiger fades
World number three Thomas, the 2017 PGA Championship winner, fired a five-under-par 65 at Winged Foot to edge ahead of fellow American Reed, the 2018 Masters champion, at the famed Mamaroneck, New York, layout.
Justin Thomas. Picture: AFP
Justine Thomas
Rory Mcllroy
AFP | 488 days ago
NEW YORK - Justin Thomas closed with a 25-foot birdie putt to grab the early clubhouse lead over ace-firing Patrick Reed with Rory McIlroy two adrift in Thursday's opening round of the 120th US Open.
"This is one of the better rounds I've had tee to green. I was very proud of my patience," Thomas said. "I got off to a good start."
Reed blasted a hole-in-one at the 165-yard par-3 seventh and ran off three birdies in four holes on the back nine to share the lead until the amazing finish by Thomas.
"I was just trying to hit myself a solid iron shot," Reed said of his ace. "I took a little off it, 90%, and one-hopped it in."
There were no spectators to applaud either of their amazing shots as a coronavirus pandemic precaution, the deadly virus having delayed the event from its usual June date.
Fourth-ranked McIlroy, playing his first major round since becoming a father with the birth of daughter Poppy two weeks ago, shot 67 to stand third, the four-time major winner making three of his four birdies on par-3 holes.
"Got off to a really nice start. Hit the ball very well, kept it in play," McIlroy said. "I sort of walked off the green a little disappointed but if someone had given me a 67 at the start of the day I'd have taken it."
Top-ranked Dustin Johnson and second-ranked Jon Rahm teed off to start their first round as the leaders finished.
Tiger Woods, a 15-time major winner chasing a fourth US Open title at age 44, grinded all day but closed bogey-double bogey to stand on 73.
Woods made six bogeys, five birdies and the double. He birdied three in a row from the ninth through 11th holes only to close with three bogeys and a double in the last six holes.
"I needed to finish off the round better, and I didn't," Woods said. "I made a few putts the middle part of the round. Seemed like I wasn't getting anything out of my round early on, and it flipped, and unfortunately I just didn't finish off the way I needed to."
'A SCRAMBLE OUT THERE'
Thomas, who fired the lowest US Open round ever at Winged Foot, dropped his approach to 2.5 feet at the first for birdie, took a bogey at the par-3 third after finding sand off the tee, then birdied the par-4 sixth after putting his approach inside eight feet.
Thomas ran off three birdies in a row starting at the par-5 ninth, where his approach landed inside six feet. He birdied the par-3 10th from 10 feet and the par-4 11th from nine feet, then parred his way along until his outstanding final putt.
After his ace, Reed added birdies at the par-5 12th, on a 10-foot putt, and the par-3 13th, dropping his approach to three feet, then made a nine-foot birdie putt at 15. He clung to second by blasting out of dense rough to two feet at 16 to save par.
"It definitely was a scramble out there," Reed said. "What kept me in it was the short game and when I got out of position, getting back into position.
"When you get lies that look good here they can still be bad. You had to limit the mistakes. The only way you can do that is by chipping and putting."
Sharing fourth in the clubhouse were Americans Harris English, Jason Kokrak and Brendon Todd on 68 with 21-year-old compatriot Davis Thompson on 69. The University of Georgia senior got in the field as the world's fourth-ranked amateur player.
"I can compete with the best," said Thompson, whose dad serves as caddie. "I had a rough finish but everyone is going to make bogeys out here... I came here to compete. I didn't come here to be a tourist."
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ACA International, the Association of Credit and Collection Professionals, released a white paper, Unintended Consequences of an Outdated Statute: How the TCPA Fails to Keep Pace with Shifting Consumer Trends, which examines how the Telephone Consumer Protection Act's (TCPA) antiquated understanding of technology results in some consumers receiving a disproportionate number of telephone calls while others are almost entirely excluded from receiving legitimate business communications. The paper also updates TCPA litigation statistics.
Indeed, data from the National Center for Health Statistics indicated that as of December 2016 a majority of American homes (50.8 percent) were wireless-only. This means that a majority of American households now have no landline in the home and exclusively use wireless communication devices. There are also significant generational differences in those homes that are wireless-only relative to those that still have a landline. For example, 72.7 percent of 25-29 year-olds live in a wireless-only household. However, only 23.5 percent of consumers over the age of 65 live in a wireless-only household.
Additionally, 76.5 percent of individuals aged 65 and over live in households with a landline. Because of these dramatic differences in wireless-only households across age groups, attempted compliance with the Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) broad interpretations of the TCPA will likely result in certain consumers receiving a disproportionate number of business-related phone calls while other segments of the consumer population are almost entirely excluded. Specifically, if a company only calls consumers who possess a landline telephone in an effort to minimize potential TCPA liability, they are more likely to contact consumers 65 years of age or older.
As noted in an earlier white paper, The Imperative to Modernize the TCPA: Why an Outdated Law Hurts Consumers and Encourages Abusive Lawsuits, ACA found that TCPA litigation has become something of a cottage industry, with attorneys' fees for a TCPA class action settlement averaging $2.4 million in 2014. Furthermore, TCPA litigation has consistently increased year-after-year. Data from 2015 showed that TCPA lawsuits increased 948 percent between 2010 and 2015.
In ACA's new white paper, data from 2016 shows an even more dramatic increase in TCPA litigation. Between 2010 and 2016 there was a 1,273 percent increase in litigants; between 2015 and 2016 alone the total number of litigants increased 32 percent.
In light of these findings, ACA argues that modernization of the TCPA will ensure consumers are not deprived of normal, expected and desired information; will provide clarity for businesses to engage in targeted, beneficial communication with specific consumers; and free the courts to attend to the needs of real victims of harassment and abuse.
ACA International's research initiative aims to collect more original data about the credit and collection industry. The goal of this exclusive research and analysis is to continue to quantify the ways that debt collectors help consumers and the overall economy.


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From The Militant, Vol. V No. 29, 19 July 1941, p. 5.
The Courier and the Negro March
Without any question the biggest news of the first week of the month, so far as the struggle for Negro rights is concerned, was the bureaucratic cancellation of the March on Washington at the time that the eyes and hopes of all advanced Negro workers were turned in the direction of the scheduled March.
And still the Pittsburgh Courier found room on its front page for only a couple of inches of reading matter on the March. And its lead – and it really splashed and splurged on it – was a long denunciation of Walter White and the N.A.A.C.P. for being responsible for the postponement of a hearing to be held by a Senate Committee on discrimination against Negroes in the war industries.
The Courier's handling of these questions was neither accidental nor the result of slovenly journalism. Rather, it was a brazen attempt on the part of the editors to cover up the shabby role they had played against the March. By attracting attention to a secondary matter of extremely little importance, they hoped we'd forget how they behaved about the March. It was an attempt by a paper with a "militant" reputation to hide its own bankruptcy. Negroes must understand this if they are to avoid mistakes in the future. They must understand not only Randolph's treachery in calling off the March, but also the treachery of the only paper which had dared to oppose the March.
The reason that the Courier did not attack Randolph was that in calling off the March Randolph had only done what the Courier had urged and advised from the beginning. The Courier therefore could not expose Randolph's miserable policies without at the same time exposing its own.
The Courier's Substitute for the March
The Courier had opposed "the crack-pot proposal," as it called the March, because "Led by the Pittsburgh Courier ... colored people have so flooded their Congressmen, Senators and the President with protests that not a single official in Washington is unaware of the evil. Can a parade tell them anything they do not already know?" It had its own methods for defeating Jim Crowism, claimed the Courier. "The most effective way of influencing Congress and the Administration is by personal letters and telegrams from individuals, societies, church congregations, clubs and fraternities; by memorials and resolutions sent to both Houses, and by intelligent personal representations."
The few weeks before the scheduled date of the March blew all this sky high.
The mere threat of a March did more than the thousands of telegrams, letters, postcards, memorials, resolutions, phone-calls, intelligent personal representations, wishful thinking, prayer and even the "political pressure" on Roosevelt practiced last year when the Courier supported Willkie.
For the first time Roosevelt began to show some interest in the question. Of course that interest was not based on a desire to do anything concrete and fundamental about Jim Crowism. It took the threat of the March to get him to admit that there was a problem. He did not do more than pay lip-service to it, and he was helped in getting away with this by the willingness of the leaders of the March to avoid him any embarrassment. Even so, still far more was accomplished by the March threat than by the Courier's "most effective way."
Now let us consider the subterfuge resorted to by the Courier to cover up its tracks.
The NAACP, the Courier, and many other Negro groups have for some time been demanding a Congressional investigation of discrimination. Congress avoided adoption of Resolution 75 setting up a special committee for the purpose and instead turned the matter over to the Truman Committee, which was busy investigating other matters and which would have little time for study of Negro discrimination. Truman announced that it would be a long time before his committee would even get around to the matter.
But suddenly, as part of Roosevelt's moves to call off the March, the Truman Committee announced that it would open a three-day session on the matter on June 30, the day before the March was to take place. The purpose for this hurried move was undoubtedly correctly explained by the NAACP, namely, so that when the March took place, it could be said, "What are you Negroes kicking about? We are holding hearings right now!"
The NAACP then asked for a postponement of 30 days, citing many reasons, some correct, some very weak. Immediately a number of other big shot Negroes, like the publicity-loving demagogue Edgar Brown, who were very eager to get their names in the paper, by one way or another, got very excited at this "betrayal."
The Courier felt that it had an issue and it blew the balloon as big as it could. Let us show how easy it is to prick it.
Let us remind the Courier:
"Led by The Pittsburgh Courier ... colored people have so flooded their Congressmen, Senators and the President with protests that not a single official in Washington is unaware of the evil. Can a parade tell them anything they do not already know?"
If a parade cannot tell them anything they do not already know, what can another futile, three day Senate committee gab fest tell them? No, the Courier cannot escape the consequences of its vacillating policies. It cannot conceal the fact that for its own selfish, craven reasons it gave aid and comfort to Jim Crow at a time that the Negro masses were preparing to strike it a powerful blow.


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10 Tips to Glow this Summer without Exposing Your Skin to Sun Damage
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Dr. Robyn Gmyrek, dermatologist and director of the Skin and Laser Center at NewYork–Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center, says there is no such thing as a safe tan, any tan is a result of DNA damage.
Dr. Gmyrek recommends the following guidelines to protect yourself from the harmful effects of the sun:
Use sunscreen labeled SPF30 or higher and that is labeled Broad Spectrum
Apply sunscreen generously to your entire body 30 minutes before going outside and after swimming or sweating
SPF–rated clothing offers protection from the sun and the freedom of not having to reapply sunscreen in the covered areas
Reapply sunscreen every two to four hours
Just one blistering sunburn can increase your risk of skin cancer
Use sunscreen labeled "broad spectrum" that has both UVA– and UVB–absorbing/blocking ingredients
Seek the shade, wear hats and sunglasses, and use umbrellas when appropriate
Use tanning creams instead of tanning beds to get a safe summer glow
Most sun damage occurs in the teenage years
Developing freckles may be a sign of sustained sun damage. They generally develop in sun–exposed areas such as the face, chest and arms
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Last Saturday was a big day for us at Minchinhampton Academy. It was the launch of our school book A Portal Through Time and wasn't it a day to remember. The village became an art gallery, displaying art for every child in the school, the streets were taken over by stalls and games, with a BBQ and bar under the market house. We were all entertained by country dancing and singing as we eagerly awaited the big launch time of 3pm.
John Dougherty, our patron of reading arrived in style, clutching the first box of books followed by a pig on a motorbike!
A fantastic afternoon was had by all. A huge thank you to everyone that helped out on the day.
Song of Tom Long from Rob (& kids) Vids on Vimeo.
The launch of the book the children have written with John Dougherty – A Portal Through Time.
There will be a street party in the town centre by the Market House (look out for signs re road closures) with food, drink, music, face painting, book stall, country dancing, bungee run, bouncy castle, history quiz and more…. Plus Nicky Price from Radio Gloucestershire will be there recording for her afternoon show.
The book, of course, will be on sale too!
The festivities start at 12:30pm, with the book launched at 3pm. It finishes at 4:30pm, but Henry's has a late licence that evening so people can stay around.
Four-leafed clover…the story's nearly over!
He worked hard, pulling together all the strands from our chapters into his final scene. The last chapter hasn't been presented to the school yet…it's going to remain secret until the final day when the book is launched….Isabelle H says, "Even WE don't know the ending yet!
The book, along with the illustrations, were delivered to the publishers (The History Press in Brimscombe) last week. The publishers were very excited to receive the manuscript and they have praised us for the very high quality of the work.
Author Mrs HodgesPosted on 2nd March 2017 Tags Assembly, John Dougherty, Tom PercivalLeave a comment on Four-leafed clover…the story's nearly over!
Here is an interview with Lorraine who kindly came into our school to help us in our News Reporters' Committee. By Martha and Amelia.
Q: Lorraine, why did you want to get involved in the book project?
Q: How do you spread the news?
Q: Why is it so important to get the word out there?
It was great to meet Lorraine and hear about her important role in the project.
So close to finishing our story!
….excitement flows through the building as the classes now one by one are completing and editing their chapters! The children are asking so many questions about the other chapters…it's sooo hard to keep it all a secret!
The process of creating artwork for the illustrations, and for the Art Exhibition next June, has begun, as evidenced by glue, paint, collage, ink, pastels, charcoal…..you name it, is spread all around the school!
This is such an exciting time for us all as we get it all ready to send to the publishers! Well done everyone!
Author Mrs HodgesPosted on 2nd December 2016 Tags Book ProjectLeave a comment on So close to finishing our story!
A Victorian Tea party in Teal!
Teal class have been learning all about the history of our school and how it was set up in the Victorian era (on the current site). They learned about how the village had a tea party to celebrate its opening. So Teal class, liking parties, decided to re-enact this and held a Victorian tea party all of their own.
They then celebrated by having their class photograph taken, dressed as Victorian children with the Headmaster's House in the background, just as the old Victorian class photographs were taken.
Author Mrs HodgesPosted on 2nd December 2016 Tags Book Project, Teal class, VictoriansLeave a comment on A Victorian Tea party in Teal!
(Written by Royal Class members of the News Reporters Committee).
Stand and Deliver in Sapphire!
We've had a fantastic time getting in to the role of a highwayman. We've made masks, which we have worn during our writing and we've even written a song. Perhaps we will even hold up Mr Moss!
…your money or your life!
(Written by Sapphire Class in News Reporters Committee).
Author Mrs HodgesPosted on 23rd November 2016 23rd November 2016 Tags Highwayman, SapphireLeave a comment on Stand and Deliver in Sapphire!
(Written by members of Cobalt Class in News Reporters Committee).
Our class have been writing our chapter, set in the Tudor period. We went on a walk around Minch to find Tudor houses. Fortunately, we were invited into one by the current resident! On the outside we saw how they had carved Tudor Roses, and we learnt about witches marks. We also had local historian Di Wall, visit us to talk to us about how the Tudors lived. We learned so much and it has inspired our writing.
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Please don't state the cliched "because they were abuse victims, too". But really, why do some parents abuse their children and adult children?? do some people just not have the motherly or fatherly instinct?? Is it jealousy ? they never had the ideal childhood and they don't want their kids to either??
There are tons of reasons people abusive their children. Usually they themselves were abused as a child (I know you don't want to hear that), they could be mentally ill, they could just be mean people, there could be drugs or alcohol abuse, they may resent ever having children, there are many reasons and each situation is different.
What you don't want to hear is probably the case most times....maybe they've never had a good influence in their lives, maybe they've never learned how to be a good parent, like brokencrayola said "there are many reasons and each situation is different".
The standards for 'Abuse' as a term amount to dramatically different things across different people and cultures.
Some people are easily frustrated, have a low threshold for anger and no ability to stop themselves before acting out. It is a mental defect.
If you have never had children you couldn't possibly know how moments of frustration and anger can build up and suddenly bloom, and how parenting can bring out powerful feelings of inadequacy and failure. The vast majority if parents, because they are intelligent, mature and mentally sound, can step back, control themselves and stay rational and focused on the big picture. Those that can't or won't (for whatever reason...psychological damage from past abuse, intoxication, mental illness) are the ones who lash out and hurt their kids.
My parents used to be foster parents for abused kids. In my experience, the biological parents simply don't care. The parents only care about smoking, getting drunk, and getting laid. The kids are just a byproduct of doing that without BC. Schools in my area have a program for giving breakfast to poor kids. It's not really that the parents can't afford food (breakfast food is cheap and they have food stamps), it's that they won't bother to wake up on time to feed the kid before school.
Various reasons we may not like to think about!
I think jealousy is a part of it too. Also control, which is quite the same.
Any reasonably intelligent person would want their children to do better than themselves and their own parents, or even just to be happy with themselves, but there are some parents who don't want their kids to "show them up" or embarrass them. And just as "abuse" can mean different things to different people, "embarrassment" can mean different things to different people. It's a teenager-y thing to say but I really do think some parents want their kids to be just like they were, and/or impress their peers. I think some parents surpress their kids when they think they are "helping" them--you hear a lot about that financially but it's much, much worse when it's emotionally.
I think people's own children can bring out the parts of themselves that they didn't want the world to see, or can very blantantly demonstrate the mistakes they've made (or so they may see), and parents might use abusive tactics to keep those bad parts hidden from everyone else. Even if the "mistakes" are not really that bad, if the parents hate it in themselves, they'll hate it in their children too and they will probably do to the kids' minds what they do their own.
Yet another possibility is that the parents may just be defective, deadbeat, losers, abusers, etc. who need to take out their frustrations on someone, and who better than their own family? They may need to put on a show to keep jobs, friends and reputations but they can completely be themselves with their children. Their children have to love them no matter what--they would be the last to turn on them, most likely. Even if their children don't love them, what would they lose? To some people money and image come first and they couldn't care less about family and love.
I think control is a big issue in any kind of abuse.
My opinion, at this point, is that I reminded him of my mom who he married but soon came to despise (marriage wasn't his thing but that's another story).
I have several siblings but I was the child he chose to abuse (no sexual abuse).
I have posted once before about this but my dad "broke" me at a very early age and it continued until the last beating.
When you are broken as a toddler, and continue to be broken by a parent, I think one is irreparably broken. When one is beaten physically, emotionally, spiritually and mentally starting at such a young age and it continues for years there is no way to really fix it. Broken is broken.


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Q: DNS.EXE allocates 5000+ ports immediately This command clears all open UDP ports by DNS.EXE
net stop dns

After restarting the DNS service, DNS.EXE allocates 5000+ ports.
net start dns

It doesn't consume extensive memory or cpu. However I noticed/alarmed many http/smtp/pop3 connection problems to the server because of timeouts. I just examined and found tons of open ports by DNS.EXE. Currports displays UDP local ports from 50000 to 56000, local addresses are :: and remote addresses are empty. Last lines of netstat - a command are below:
UDP    [::]:55976             *:*
UDP    [::]:55977             *:*
UDP    [::]:55978             *:*
UDP    [::]:55979             *:*
UDP    [::]:55980             *:*
UDP    [::]:55981             *:*
UDP    [::]:55982             *:*

I didn't notice these ports before, so I don't know for sure it is ok or not. What do you think? I did restart the server and monitoring/alert mails are NOT continuing.

A: This is a well-known side effect of the hotfix distributed to address MS08-037, since the hotfix is intended to decrease the predictability of ports used for DNS responses.
You can restrict the amount of ports used by defining a lower Socket Pool Size, as described in this article:
Using dnscmd.exe

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*Open an elevated Command Prompt (Run as Administrator...)

*Issue dnscmd /Config /SocketPoolSize <value> where <value> is a number between 0 and 10000

Using regedit.exe

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*Open regedit.exe and expand the HKLM hive

*Navigate to SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\DNS\Parameters

*If not already present, create a new DWORD value named SocketPoolSize

*Set a decimal value between 0 and 10000

*Restart the DNS Server service: net stop dns && net start dns
Be aware that setting the value too low, effectively defeats the purpose of MS08-037
If you're on Windows Server 2008 R2 and just want to make sure that a number of individual UDP endpoints are not used by DNS, you can also specify a list of port ranges to be excluded from use by DNS:
dnscmd /Config /SocketPoolExcludedPortRanges <start>-<end>


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Local trains vital to boost urban economics
KARACHI: Importance of local trains cannot be denied in boosting urban economies and social development, and in all developed the developing countries saving Pakistan there is not a single mega city that is without urban rail-based public transport system.
Tony Judt, a professor at New York University, writes more than any other technical design or social institution, the railway stands for modernity. No competing form of transport, no subsequent technological innovation, no other industry has wrought or facilitated change on the scale that has been brought about by the invention and adoption of the railway.
Railway tracks were purpose-built: nothing else could run on them—and trains could run on nothing else. And because they could only be routed and constructed at certain gradients, on limited curves, and unimpeded by interference from obstacles like forests, boulders, crops, and cows, railways demanded—and were everywhere accorded—powers and authority over men and nature alike: rights of way, of property, of possession, and of destruction that were (and remain) wholly unprecedented in peacetime. Communities that accommodated themselves to the railway typically prospered. Towns and villages that made a show of opposition either lost the struggle; or else, if they succeeded in preventing or postponing a line, a bridge, or a station in their midst, got left behind: expenditure, travelers, goods, and markets all bypassed them and went elsewhere.
The cost of oil—effectively stagnant from the 1950s through the 1990s (allowing for crisis-driven fluctuations)—is now steadily rising and unlikely ever to fall back to the level at which unrestricted car travel becomes economically viable again. The logic of the suburb, incontrovertible with oil at $1 a gallon, is thus placed in question. Air travel, unavoidable for long-haul journeys, is now inconvenient and expensive over medium distances: and in Western Europe and Japan the train is both a pleasanter and a faster alternative. The environmental advantages of the modern train are now very considerable, both technically and politically. An electrically powered rail system, like its companion light-rail or tram system within cities, can run on any convertible fuel source whether conventional or innovative, from nuclear power to solar power. For the foreseeable future this gives it a unique advantage over every other form of powered transportation.
If we lose the railways we shall not just have lost a valuable practical asset whose replacement or recovery would be intolerably expensive. We shall have acknowledged that we have forgotten how to live collectively. The implications of such a loss would far transcend the demise of one system of transport among others. It would mean we had done with modern life.
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Better breeds for more milk: African dairy genetics gains bulls and cows exhibition
ILRI Programs
https://news.ilri.org/2019/06/18/better-breeds-for-more-milk-%e2%80%8bafrican-da…
Role of African Dairy Genetics Gains platform (Artwork/ILRI: Eric Ouma, Ekta Patel)
Today, thirty-five farmers and over fifty representatives from the Tanzanian government including Hon. Luhaga Mpina, Minister of Livestock and Fisheries, Tanzania, and Dr. Eligy Mussa Shirima, Director General of the Tanzania Livestock Research Institute (TALIRI), Tanzanian government and dairy industry leaders, representatives from neighboring African nations and international organizations, gather at the Nane Nane exhibition center for the very first public presentation of the country's top dairy bulls and cows.
Tanzania has one of the largest livestock populations in Africa and according to the National Bureau of Statistics and the Tanzanian livestock master plan, the country has over 30 million cattle. Total annual milk production is estimated at 2.4 billion liters. An average crossbred cow yields approximately 1,400 liters of milk per lactation whereas as purebred yield approximately 400 liters per lactation. The animals were selected for their high productivity traits after screening thousands of bulls and cows in the country as part of the African Dairy Genetic Gains (ADGG) program. The bulls are being made available to farmers and private sector industries for purchasing and breeding.
An award for the top bulls was given, to partake in the National Artificial Insemination Center (NAIC) and provide opportunities for dairy farmers to take up the best seed for their cows through artificial insemination. Improved genetics of cows, combined with appropriate herd management and feeding practices, can contribute to higher productivity in the country's dairy industry.
The African Dairy Genetics Gains (ADGG) program, funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, is focused on developing partnerships on dairy cattle farmers in Tanzania to overcome challenges and improve dairy production in the country. The program is led by the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) and its partners the Tanzanian Livestock Research Institute (TALIRI), Tanzanian Ministry of Livestock and other local government agencies, Green Dreams TECH Ltd, the Public-Private-Partnership for Artificial Insemination Delivery (PAID) program supported by Land O'Lakes International Development and an array of other international and local organizations.
Dairy farmer, Lukas Mwambona, who lives in Usongwe, Tanzania, explains how he has benefitted from the ADGG platform. After registering himself and the cow on this platform, he began to receive informative messages on improving cattle health. Watch more about his experience here
Read more about the ADGG work here
Building capacity of African researchers in genomics to play key role in boosting productivity of livestock systems
Group photo of students and tutors at the livestock genomics workshop at ILRI, Ethiopia (photo credit: Erik Bongcam/SLU). Written by Ekta Patel and Paul Karaimu The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) and the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) recently trained African...
Africa's animal genetic resources – the wealth within
Ankole cattle from southwestern Uganda (photo credit: ILRI/Stevie Mann). Today, more than a hundred key partners in African livestock development, including African ministers, senior policymakers and other dignitaries, have gathered in Nairobi, Kenya, to launch new and notable products that improve...
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Building the business case for smallholder poultry development (part 2): Imagining 'ACGG+'
In the course of 2018, the African Chicken Genetic Gains (ACGG) project team held an important meeting in Arusha, Tanzania (May 23-24) in order to capture the 'business case' for smallholder poultry development at large, building upon key lessons from ACGG so far, and looking into options for a...
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Pigs, people, pathogens: Health and multispecies relations in central Uganda
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Improving village chicken protection to elevate the livelihoods of poor people in Ethiopia
Chickens are the only affordable livestock for the poor and improving their production level can improve the livelihood of the village farmers, and thus serve as a stepping stone out of extreme poverty. Production levels of indigenous chicken can be improved by organised breeding A participatory...
Breeding strategies for conservation and sustainable use of livestock genetic resources in Sub-Saharan Africa


Hey guys and welcome to our new Blog Section: Cooking with Esther and Sofia. We just moved in our new flat together and decided to let you be part of our daily cooking adventure! So if we experiment on something new, you´ll be the first to see and redo it. We hope you guys like it! Let us know, if we inspired you to get out of your comfort zone and made you try something new. So let´s get it started!
Today we did 3 types of cookies: vegan and chocolate cookies and vanilla-flavored crescent cookies. You`ll love them!
Mix all the ingredients together, form the cookies, put it in the oven at 180-200 degrees and leave it there for 10 til 15 minutes. When they get a touch of brown, they are ready and the only thing missing is some sugar at the top. It is as simple as that!
Our first step now is to cut the dates in small pieces, pulp the banana and mix this two ingredients, until you get a more or less homogenous mass. Small pieces are not a problem. Add the almonds and oak flakes, knead all the ingredients until you get a smooth dough. Prepare the oven (180 / 10-15 minutes), form small, flat balls and they are ready for the heat. Enjoy!


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Q: For symmetric stable distributions, why is $\alpha \le 2$? I'm preparing a lecture on stable distributions, and I'm trying to find a simple explanation of the following fact.
Suppose we are trying to come up with stable distributions.  From the definition, it's clear that a distribution is stable iff its characteristic function $\phi$  satisfies $\phi(t)^n = e^{i t b_n} \phi(a_n t)$.  The normal distribution, with chf $\phi(t) = e^{-t^2/2}$ clearly satisfies this with $b_n = 0$, $a_n = \sqrt{n}$.  This suggests that we look for distributions with chfs of the form $\phi(t) = e^{-c |t|^\alpha}$.  For $0 \le \alpha \le 2$, this is indeed a chf, and there is a nice proof in Durrett's book, constructing it as a weak limit using Lévy's continuity theorem.  But:

For $\alpha > 2$,  is there a simple reason why $\phi(t) = e^{-c |t|^\alpha}$ cannot be a chf?

Breiman's Probability proves a general formula for the chf of a stable distribution, using a representation formula for infinitely divisible distributions, but it's  more work  than I want to do for this.

A: If $\phi$ is a characteristic function, then,  for every real values of $s$ and $t$, $K(t,s)\geqslant0$ where $K(t,s)$ is the determinant
$$
K(t,s)=\det\begin{pmatrix}\phi(0) & \phi(t) & \phi(t+s) \\ \phi(-t) & \phi(0) & \phi(s) \\ \phi(-t-s) & \phi(-s) & \phi(0)\end{pmatrix}.
$$
Using $\phi_\alpha(t)=\mathrm e^{-c|t|^\alpha}$ for every $t$, one gets, for every fixed $x$, $K_\alpha(t,xt)=c^2|t|^{2\alpha}k_\alpha(x)+o(|t|^{2\alpha})$ when $t\to0$, with
$$
k_\alpha(x)=2x^\alpha(1+x)^\alpha+2x^\alpha+2(1+x)^\alpha−x^{2\alpha}−(1+x)^{2\alpha}−1.
$$
If $\alpha>2$, $k_\alpha(x)=−\alpha^2x^2+o(x^2)$ when $x\to0$ hence $k_\alpha(x)<0$ for some values of $x$ and $K_\alpha(t,tx)<0$ for some (small) values of $t$ and $x$. This proves that $\phi_\alpha$ is not a characteristic function.
First edit To prove that the condition that $K$ is nonnegative is necessary for $\phi$ to be a characteristic function, consider more generally the matrix $M=(M_{k,\ell})$ where $M_{k,\ell}=\mathrm E(\mathrm e^{\mathrm i(t_k-t_\ell)X})$ for some given real numbers $(t_k)$. Then, for every complex valued vector $v=(v_k)$,
$$
v^*Mv=\sum\limits_{k,\ell}M_{k,\ell}v_k\bar v_\ell=\mathrm E\left(\sum\limits_{k,\ell}Z_k\bar Z_\ell v_k\bar v_\ell\right)=\mathrm E\left(\left|\sum\limits_{k}Z_kv_k\right|^2\right),
$$
with $Z_k=\mathrm e^{\mathrm it_kX}$, hence $v^*Mv\ge0$ for every $v$. This means that $M$ represents a nonnegative form, and in particular, $\det M\geqslant0$.
Second edit Here is an alternative proof. I seem to remember that the second moment of $X$ with characteristic function $\phi$, be it finite or not, is
$$
\mathrm E(X^2)=\lim\limits_{t\to0}\ t^{-2}(2-\mathrm E(\mathrm e^{\mathrm itX})-\mathrm E(\mathrm e^{-\mathrm itX})).
$$
Assuming $\phi_\alpha$ is the characteristic function of $X_\alpha$ and using $\phi_\alpha(t)=1-c|t|^\alpha+o(|t|^\alpha)$ when $t\to0$, one gets $\mathrm E(X_\alpha^2)=0$ when $\alpha>2$, which is absurd.

A: Lemma. If $X$ is a random variable such that $\mathbb E\cos(Xt)=1+o(t^2)$ as $t\to 0$, then $X=0$ a.e.
Proof. Observe that $\lim_{n\to\infty}2n^2\bigl(1-\cos\frac{x}{n}\bigr)=x^2$ for all real $x$. Thus by Fatou's lemma,
$$
\mathbb EX^2\leq \liminf_{n\to\infty}\ 2n^2\bigl(1-\mathbb E\cos\frac{x}{n}\bigr)=0.
$$
Corollary. There does not exist a random variable $X$, an $\alpha>2$, and a constant $c>0$ such that
$
\mathbb Ee^{iXt}=e^{-c|t|^{\alpha}}$ for all $t\in\mathbb R$.
Proof.
Suppose such a random variable existed. Then
$$
\mathbb E\cos(Xt)=\Re\bigl(\mathbb Ee^{iXt}\bigr)=1+O(|t|^{\alpha})=1+o(t^2)
$$ as $t\to 0$. Applying the lemma yields $X=0$ a.e., contradicting the hypothesis.


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Black Like Me
Preface October 28, 1959 October 29, 1959 October 30, 1959 November 1, 1959 November 2, 1959 November 6, 1959 November 7, 1959 November 8, 1959 November 10-12, 1959 November 14-15, 1959 November 16, 1959 November 19, 1959 November 21, 1959 November 24, 1959 November 25, 1959 November 27, 1959 November 28, 1959 November 29, 1959 December 1, 1959 December 2, 1959 December 4-7, 1959 December 9-14, 1959 December 15, 1959 January 2, 1960 February 26 – March 14, 1960 March 17 – 23, 1960 April 1, 1960 April 2, 1960 April 7 – 11, 1960 June 19 – August 14, 1960 August 17, 1960
All Themes Appearance, Identity, and Bigotry Unity, Division, and Communication Implicit Bias and Systemic Racism Fear and Violence
All Characters John Howard Griffin George Levitan Adelle Jackson P.D. East Cristophe Bill Williams Sterling Williams The Dermatologist Mack Parker Griffin's Host The Café Owner Billie East The Boy Who Helps Griffin Clean
All Symbols The Mirror
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Appearance, Identity, and Bigotry
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Sepia magazine assigns Griffin to write stories about Atlanta, pairing him with the photographer Don Rutledge. However, because Rutledge won't arrive for several days, Griffin visits a nearby Trappist monastery, where he basks in a feeling of equality and peace. Despite this respite from the constant racial tensions, though, he screams himself awake one night after having his recurring nightmare about white people closing in on him.
By this point in Black Like Me, Griffin has finished the majority of his experiment. However, it's clear that the emotional effects of his experience as a dark-skinned man are too strong to simply disappear. Indeed, even in the tranquil atmosphere of the Trappist monastery, he can't get over the feeling of constant terror to which he's become so accustomed.


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Q: Move view along svg bounding box in android scrollview I have an svg file in my assets folder, is there a way for me to to access or create a bounding box along its path so that a imageview can only move within the bounds of it?
My use case: I have a scrollview which will contain these svg paths, each linked at ends, ie. where one ends another begins up to the top of the scrollview. I want to center my imageview within the svg's path so that the imageview's Y position is centered and follows the user scroll but its x position follows the svg path and stays within the limits of the svg's path's stroke width as it changes through the scroll, up to the limit of the svg path.
I know there have been some libraries that parse paths, but the svg's that I'm working with are all relative to each other within a bound larger than the screen, essentially the size of the scrollview which is why I've had a hard time putting the components together.
I'm pretty new in working with coordinates to any help would appreciated.
I'm attaching a pic to hopefully make the question clearer.


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songs about something
Rickie Lee Jones: Danny's All-Star Joint (1979)
A good song, from an excellent first album – the self titled Rickie Lee Jones – positioned at the crossroad between Jazz, Country, Blues and Pop. The same crossroad where Tom Waits was, at the beginning of his career. In fact the two were briefly associated: it's a sad story, that you can find on Jones' Wikipedia page. in fact, Jones and Waits were supposed to do a film soundtrack together (but then he did it with someone else – I told you it was a sad story).
When the Rickie Lee Jones LP came out in '79, it was instantly clear she was different: she had a unique style in writing and performing, very sophisticated yet immediate, infectious and fun. The videoclip (set in a bar, btw) for Chuck E.'s in love, the huge hit single from this album, instantly made me fall in love with her: she was great, fun and absolutely lovable.
The whole LP is outstanding, and there are a number of pretty songs like my favorite, Easy Money♾, or Danny's All-Star Joint (both tunes have a sort of Runyonesque flavor to it). Unfortunately, this is the only RLJ successful album. The following ones did ok, but she's never been as popular as in 1979/80. Very sad, but also somewhat to be expected: she makes it sound easy, but it is really pretty sophisticated music.
Rickie Lee Jones: Danny's all-star joint
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Dooley Wilson: As Time Goes By (1942)
One of Pop culture's most iconic bars is certainly Rick's Café Américain, Humprey Bogart's bar in the 1942 film Casablanca. There's a song that will be forever associated with Rick's Café, Herman Hupfeld's As Time Goes By. In the movie it's performed by actor (and singer) Dooley Wilson, who plays Sam, the bar's piano man. Originally written for the 1931 Broadway musical Everybody's welcome, it was a minor hit until it was featured in the movie.
There's an interesting story about this song. In the early versions☊ there was a spoken intro with a reference about Einstein's idea that time is the fourth dimension (see full lyrics). So the concept of the tune was to reflect on Einstein's theory of time: "You must remember this, a kiss is just a kiss, a sigh is just a sigh, the fundamental things apply, as time goes by." In the movie thou, the song begins with this verse, so the fourth dimension reference was lost. Of course the majority of subsequent versions began with the line "You must remember this". (A pity, although I'm not sure I could find three songs for a possible Songs about Advanced Physics issue).
The tune became immensely popular along with the movie. There are countless covers, most notably by Barbra Straisand☊ (1964), Jazz sax player Dexter Gordon☊ (1985), Bryan Ferry☊, who named a whole album of covers after this song in 1999, and the intense texicana ZZ Top cover☊, on their 2003 album Mescalero. But of course everyone's favorite is the movie version. So much so that it was re-released as a single☊ in 1977, "peaking at number 15 in the UK hit parade". Needless to say, someone actually opened a Rick's Café in Casablanca (in 2004), where the piano player plays "the inevitable As Time Goes By several times a night". Here it is, in glorious black and white, along with the most often misquoted line in the history of cinema: it's "Play it, Sam", and not "Play it again, Sam" (the title of a '72 Woody Allen film).
Donald Fagen: Good Stuff (2012)
Not exactly a song about a bar, Good Stuff mentions a few. Included in Sunken Condos, Fagen's fourth solo album (but his actual career is being half of Steely Dan, with Walter Becker), this tune is so slick it hurts. No wonder: Becker & Fagen's favorite sport, since they were young, is to hire stellar performers and produce the most exact grooves in the business, as they explain very well in this illuminating video♾. This millimetrically tailored embroidery of funk and coolness is no exception.
Good stuff tells, in first person, the story of a 1920s young mobster, smuggling alcohol and doing hits for a boss. The lyrics sound like Dashiel Hammett (or, again, Damon Runyon), the situations are right out of a James Cagney movie. The song is full of references, from the Ziegfeld Follies ("a series of elaborate theatrical productions on Broadway in New York City from 1907 through 1931") to the Speakeasies (illegal bars), and of course drugs: "I ankle downtown to a hot pass in the Tenderloin: need to kick that gong around." The Tenderloin district in New York was the place where opium dens where located. Kick the gong is a 1930s slang term, meaning to smoke opium. My favorite part is the song's unrepenting chorus: "There's a special satisfaction when a job comes off so right; better break out the good stuff, the boss wants to party all night." Very slick music, that makes you want to dance wearing expensive clothing.
Donald Fagen: Good Stuff
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Sediment grain size and surface textural observations of quartz grains in late quaternary lacustrine sediments from Schirmacher Oasis, East Antarctica: Paleoenvironmental significance
Anish Kumar Warrier, Hemant Pednekar, B. S. Mahesh, Rahul Mohan, Sahina Gazi
Department of Civil Engineering, Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal
In this study we report the sediment grain size parameters and surface textural observations (using scanning electron microscopy (SEM)) of quartz grains from sediments of Sandy Lake, Schirmacher Oasis, East Antarctica. The sediment core spans the last 43 cal ka B.P. The statistical parameters of grain size data (sorting, skewness, kurtosis, mean grain size, D10, D50, D90 and SPAN index) indicate that the sediments are primarily transported by melt-water streams and glaciers. However, during the last glacial period, sediments seem to be transported due to wind activity as evident by the good correlation between rounded quartz data and dust flux data from EPICA ice-core data. The mean grain size values are low during the last glacial period indicating colder climatic conditions and the values increase after the last glacial maximum suggesting an increase in the energy of the transporting medium, i.e., melt-water streams. The sediments are poorly sorted and finely skewed and show different modes of grain size distribution throughout the last 43 cal ka B.P. SEM studies of selected quartz grains and analyses of various surface textures indicate that glacigenic conditions must have prevailed at the time of their transport. Semi-quantitative analyses of mineral (quartz, feldspar, mica, garnet and rock fragments & other minerals) counts suggest a mixed population of minerals with quartz being the dominant mineral. Higher concentration of quartz grains over other minerals indicates that the sediments are compositionally mature. The study reveals the different types of physical weathering, erosive signatures, and chemical precipitation most of them characteristic of glacial environment which affected these quartz grains before final deposition as lake sediments. The palaeoclimatic signals obtained from this study show similarities with ice-core and lake sediment records from Schirmacher Oasis and other ice-free regions in East Antarctica.
Polar Science
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polar.2015.12.005
oases
lacustrine deposit
ice core
meltwater
glacial environment
precipitation (chemistry)
Earth and Planetary Sciences(all)
Warrier, A. K., Pednekar, H., Mahesh, B. S., Mohan, R., & Gazi, S. (2016). Sediment grain size and surface textural observations of quartz grains in late quaternary lacustrine sediments from Schirmacher Oasis, East Antarctica: Paleoenvironmental significance. Polar Science, 10(1), 89-100. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polar.2015.12.005
Warrier, Anish Kumar ; Pednekar, Hemant ; Mahesh, B. S. ; Mohan, Rahul ; Gazi, Sahina. / Sediment grain size and surface textural observations of quartz grains in late quaternary lacustrine sediments from Schirmacher Oasis, East Antarctica : Paleoenvironmental significance. In: Polar Science. 2016 ; Vol. 10, No. 1. pp. 89-100.
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abstract = "In this study we report the sediment grain size parameters and surface textural observations (using scanning electron microscopy (SEM)) of quartz grains from sediments of Sandy Lake, Schirmacher Oasis, East Antarctica. The sediment core spans the last 43 cal ka B.P. The statistical parameters of grain size data (sorting, skewness, kurtosis, mean grain size, D10, D50, D90 and SPAN index) indicate that the sediments are primarily transported by melt-water streams and glaciers. However, during the last glacial period, sediments seem to be transported due to wind activity as evident by the good correlation between rounded quartz data and dust flux data from EPICA ice-core data. The mean grain size values are low during the last glacial period indicating colder climatic conditions and the values increase after the last glacial maximum suggesting an increase in the energy of the transporting medium, i.e., melt-water streams. The sediments are poorly sorted and finely skewed and show different modes of grain size distribution throughout the last 43 cal ka B.P. SEM studies of selected quartz grains and analyses of various surface textures indicate that glacigenic conditions must have prevailed at the time of their transport. Semi-quantitative analyses of mineral (quartz, feldspar, mica, garnet and rock fragments & other minerals) counts suggest a mixed population of minerals with quartz being the dominant mineral. Higher concentration of quartz grains over other minerals indicates that the sediments are compositionally mature. The study reveals the different types of physical weathering, erosive signatures, and chemical precipitation most of them characteristic of glacial environment which affected these quartz grains before final deposition as lake sediments. The palaeoclimatic signals obtained from this study show similarities with ice-core and lake sediment records from Schirmacher Oasis and other ice-free regions in East Antarctica.",
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Warrier, AK, Pednekar, H, Mahesh, BS, Mohan, R & Gazi, S 2016, 'Sediment grain size and surface textural observations of quartz grains in late quaternary lacustrine sediments from Schirmacher Oasis, East Antarctica: Paleoenvironmental significance', Polar Science, vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 89-100. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polar.2015.12.005
Sediment grain size and surface textural observations of quartz grains in late quaternary lacustrine sediments from Schirmacher Oasis, East Antarctica : Paleoenvironmental significance. / Warrier, Anish Kumar; Pednekar, Hemant; Mahesh, B. S.; Mohan, Rahul; Gazi, Sahina.
In: Polar Science, Vol. 10, No. 1, 01.03.2016, p. 89-100.
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Warrier AK, Pednekar H, Mahesh BS, Mohan R, Gazi S. Sediment grain size and surface textural observations of quartz grains in late quaternary lacustrine sediments from Schirmacher Oasis, East Antarctica: Paleoenvironmental significance. Polar Science. 2016 Mar 1;10(1):89-100. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polar.2015.12.005
10.1016/j.polar.2015.12.005