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Yet another questionable election
Ducsu polls did nothing to reinstill our faith in electoral system
Was the long wait of almost three decades for the Dhaka University Central Students' Union (Ducsu) election to be held worth it? The kind of election we witnessed yesterday for Ducsu posts is deeply disturbing. Sadly, the election was marred by many irregularities.
The Ducsu election was an opportunity to restore, if not the people's faith, at least the students' faith in the electoral system in this country. In the background of the national and mayoral elections, there are deep-seated reservations about the way elections have been held and the direction in which democracy is headed. In fact, the mayoral election was virtually boycotted by the voters and the upazila election didn't fare much better. However, in spite of the many violations of electoral laws, we were still nurturing some hope for Ducsu, and expecting a contested election where the general students would be allowed to exercise their democratic rights.
It is a pity that Dhaka University—which has a unique history of its own unmatched by that of any other educational institution in the country, if not the region—could not conduct an untainted election. Kuwait Maitree hall found stamped ballot paper and Rokeya Hall students found proof of hidden stash of ballots. These restricted materials are supposed to be kept in a secure manner, but were not. This certainly indicates a serious lacuna in the system which the DU authorities should answer instead of hiding behind the oft-repeated catchphrase of "isolated incidents". There are also allegations of creating fake, long queues to obstruct the voting process.
Nobody can deny that the Ducsu election was riddled with irregularities. The question is: Why was it allowed to happen? Have irregularities become part and parcel of elections in this country?
Following the Ducsu election that ended with protests on campus, there will obviously be claims and counter-claims. But those notwithstanding, one can clearly see a pattern of impeding voters from exercising their right to suffrage. Even during Pakistan rule, under martial law rule, DU students exercised their right to choose, unhindered. What we saw yesterday will only result in further loss of credibility in the electoral system both at home and abroad. And what message does this send to the young people of this country? How are they supposed to learn about the importance of democratic principles when student bodies are usurped by certain quarters and educational institutions fail to ensure a system so that students' aspirations are reflected and their right to vote is protected?
Ducsu election
Ducsu polls
Why blame the observers?
The burden of having eyes in a campus of the blind
Death of the Ducsu Dream?
I am happy as well as sad: Nur
What students saw and what they were told to believe
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One in six don't get enough to eat!
Now, lead-laden milk!
Preventable deaths and injuries at rail crossings
Transport owners dictating terms


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Scientists will test the muscle health of astronauts on the International Space Station.
Scientists at the University of Southampton will carry out the first study of the effects of space flight on human muscle tone, thanks to a grant from the UK Space Agency.
Maria Stokes, Professor of Musculoskeletal Rehabilitation at the University of Southampton, has been awarded £191,892 for her team's part in an international project to monitor the muscle health of astronauts on long-duration missions on the International Space Station (ISS).
The loss of skeletal muscle mass and strength is a well-known side-effect of space travel. The project findings will not only help astronauts on future space missions deal with this, but will also benefit people on Earth by feeding back into research around muscle-wasting conditions.
Understanding more about what happens to muscles when they are not used will give insights to help find the most effective ways of reducing and reversing the effects of disuse in astronauts or pathology in patients.
The tone of a resting human muscle is affected by tissue called fascia, as well as the tissue within the muscle itself, and together these shape the human resting muscle tone (HRMT) system.
This project will be the first time that the HRMT system and the effects of weightlessness (termed microgravity) have been studied in space.
The biomechanical properties of ISS crew members' muscles will be monitored before, during and after flight through non-invasive, objective measurement using two different technologies.
Ultrasound images will be used to measure muscle thickness to see how this changes over the entire duration of the mission, from start to end. Meanwhile, a recently developed device called the MyotonPRO offers a hand-held, user-friendly and non-invasive method to measure key biomechanical parameters, e.g. tone and stiffness, of the superficial skeletal muscles, tendons and other soft biological tissues.
Professor Stokes said: "We are delighted with this award from the UK Space Agency, which gives a unique opportunity to monitor astronauts and learn more about the changes that happen to their muscles during and after spaceflight.
Funding for the Southampton work – part of an international project led by Professor Dieter Blottner, of the Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin – is part of more than £500,000 awarded to three projects based at British universities, announced by the UK Space Agency today [Wednesday 8 November].
The funding, from the Agency's Microgravity Science Programme, will assist scientists who have upcoming experiments in European Space Agency microgravity facilities, including the ISS, parabolic flights and bedrest studies.
Libby Jackson, Human Spaceflight and Microgravity Programme Manager at the UK Space Agency, commented: "We are delighted to be supporting the growing microgravity science community in this research. These exciting experiments will further our understanding of how the human body copes with the challenging environment of living and working in space, which in turn will help humans to carry out more research in space."


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Julie Su Named to California Cabinet
Former Fellow Julie Su ('94) has been appointed to serve as secretary of the California Labor and Workforce Development Agency by Gov. Gavin Newsom. The appointment was covered by the Los Angeles Times ("Newsom Announces Top Labor, Business Liaisons as He Prepares to Take Office," Jan. 4) and Politico ("Gavin's Inaugural Message: 'A California for All,'" Jan. 7), among others.

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October 25, 2017 Emily V.
On the weekends my outfits tend to reach two extremes. I either dress like I could be homeless or I'm dressed up. So I try to find a happy medium for the daytime that mixes comfort and style while leaving the heels and over-sized grandpa sweaters at home. That's where having a go-to relaxed blazer and cute shoes are key. It's a bit shameful how many times I've worn this exact t-shirt and jeans combo - it's pretty casual and typically it sits on the top of my laundry pile. When I need to run out for a quick errand I throw it on. So since it was freshly washed I figured I'd take this combo out for something other than a trip to good o'l Target.
I opted to add my favorite boyfriend style blazer. If you don't have one I suggest adding one to your closet. It's a great layering piece and perfect for making a basic look more polished. Case in point, this outfit. This blazer is over five years old and I plan on wearing it until the threads start coming apart. I knew that the husband and I would be out and about enjoying the weekend weather so wearing comfortable shoes were a given. I've really been loving slip-on sneakers lately; they are kind of like the athletic version of sandals. Just a quick slip on the foot and you're out the door. Perfect for a lot of walking but also stylish.


#265 "American War of Independence Special"
American War of Independence theme, we present an overview of the action.
If Greene and Cornwallis are the stars of the southern campaign, then Tarleton and Morgan would be the supporting actors that helped make their performances legendary. We examine the roles played by the two generals and present a scenario for a clash of the two forces.
Descriptions and painted examples of what both sets of protagonists wore during the southern campaign in the AWI.
At this year's Historicon show Joe Moore put on a refight of one of the critical battles in the American Revolution's Southern theater - Guilford Courthouse. We were glad to ask Joe to tell us more about the whole experience.
Battle of the Capes, and the following siege and capture of Yorktown. This article features wargames scenarios for actions during these world shaping events.
Some suggestions for your AWI game play.
Exploring the idea, and problems, of using heavy artillery on the WWI tabletop.
Last month we discussed how to employ reconnaissance forces in Flames of War, this month we put those rules and tactics into practice in a scenario and game report which sees the British 2nd Household Cavalry regiment clash with a German force defending a vital river crossing.
Our 'how to' modeling series continues with a step-by-step guide to constructing a range of different bridge types.
This month sees the release of Black Powder, the new 'age of the musket' rule book by Warlord Games. We chat with games designer and Games Workshop rules supremo Rick Priestley about the game's ethos and mechanics.
By way of showcasing the rules, and as an excuse to display a great Peninsular War game, we present this extract from the new Black Powder rule book.
Plus a visit to the Festival of History in the UK and our monthly roundup of News and Reviews.


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            public string Id { get; set; }
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Unseam'd Shakespeare Company is a professional theatre company located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.  Founded in 1993, the theatre's mission is to "rediscover and reinvent classic and classically inspired plays for modern audiences and present these plays in artistically ambitious and innovative productions."  A member of the Shakespeare Theatre Association of America, the company has produced classic works by Shakespeare, Ibsen, and Brecht, as well as contemporary plays inspired by classic works such as Paula Vogel's Desdemona, A Play about a Handkerchief.  Some of these contemporary plays have included premiere productions by Pittsburgh playwrights, such as Amy Hartman's Mad Honey, Anya Martin's Teatro Latino de Pittsburgh, and Wali Jamal's Braddock '76.  The company has received praise from local publications such as Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, City Paper, and Pittsburgh Magazine and has received recognition for their own productions as well as productions in conjunction with the Pittsburgh New Works Festival. The company has also received national and international attention, having been featured in the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and the National Performing Arts Conference.

See also
 Theatre in Pittsburgh

References

Theatre companies in Pittsburgh

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With rapidly growing interconnected collections of cultural materials, we need new approaches to information organization. We propose that schematic models which describe the content of documents rather than descriptions about the documents are the key for this new generation of descriptive systems. We explore process-oriented models implemented with linguistic frames as an approach to organizing a collection of rich content such as descriptions of history. We show how linguistic frames can implement the state-change model and how those frames might be applied to the organization of content such as history texts and complex materials such as historical newspapers. We focus on verb frames because we base our approach on state changes in entities which are described with verbs. We propose that systems of information organization for rich content such as historical texts be based on a "fabric" of entities and events. For instance, we describe incorporating into the fabric complex entities such as those with multiple parts. We also describe disaggregating complex events with sequences of related events which we call flows, as well as propose a flexible approach to grouping events and a schematic description of people including their mental states. Our approach is a companion to the original content and explicitly allows for versioning, metadata, and hierarchies of entity classes, as well as partonomies, functionality and instances. In a subsequent paper, we extend the fabric to use discourse elements to describe the relationships among events.
Information organization has traditionally been concerned with document-level description. With burgeoning amounts of rich content now available, we need better support for direct access to that content. We propose that schematic models which describe the content of documents rather than descriptions about the documents are the key for this new generation of descriptive systems. We call this a model-oriented approach [1, 2, 3], because we propose that events be modeled as inter-related threads.
Only relatively recently have attempts been made to describe events systematically. Yet events are integral to software engineering which uses formalisms such as state-machines, Petri Nets, state charts, transition networks, and programming languages. Events have also played a growing role in formal approaches to narrative (e.g., [7, 16]), in document preservation metadata (e.g., ), in linguistics (e.g., ), and in cognitive science (e.g., ). Some formal models for events are beginning to be applied to the study of history; these include text processing of historical newspapers , models for interactive timelines , analysis of named events [21, 22], and specification of events using semantic web notation [18, 23].
 applied our qualitative process model for entities and events  to the description of scientific research reports. That model defined an event as the state of one entity causing a state-change in one or more other entities. The original definition has been expanded to cases when processes create or destroy entities . While events may be included in ontologies, such static descriptions are limited compared to connected events in a threaded narrative or events in an executable script.
While traditional timelines present separate events without context or inter-connection, we have developed timelines which tell a story or provide an explanation for how the events are related. Some of this work was based on models of plots in narratives (e.g., [2, 16]).  developed an interactive narrative timeline to present an overview of several explanations for the outbreak of the American Civil War. The interface supports the presentation and browsing of several different causal threads (Figure 1).
Figure 1. In the interactive timeline from , the user is given a guided tour though several explanations of the causes of the American Civil War as threads through a set of events (highlighted). Text in the boxes on the right describes the events and the thread which connects them.
In addition,  discussed how the state-change approach to causal attributions of  might be used in narratives, with a mostly hard-wired representation of events. A schematic representation will enhance the ability to interact with and extend the descriptions of historical events. In addition, the schematic representations could incorporate different perspectives and would allow transitions among them. They would also provide links to supporting evidence for perspectives and allow personalization of explanations and narrative presentations (see ).
In this paper, we show how linguistic frames can implement the state-change model and how those frames might be applied to the organization of content such as history texts and complex materials such as historical newspapers. Linguistic frames are structures which bring together the related aspects of a concept. The theory of Frame Semantics  proposes that meaning is constructed by the activation of and interconnection of frames. According to this theory, Frames are typically activated by linguistic units. Thus, the verb "to give" activates the "giving" frame. Several linguistic units may activate the same frame; "to donate" would also activate the "giving" frame. Once the frame has been activated, a person knows to expect to find core frame elements: a donor, a recipient, and a theme (i.e., something being transferred between them). In addition, there may be non-core elements such as the purpose or place of the action. The frame elements are, roughly, semantic roles with the frame unifying them. Semantic roles have been recognized as fundamental to information science (e.g., ). In order to explore the theory of frame semantics, a large collection of frames and associated linguistic units was developed in the FrameNet project . The frames were constructed by examining examples in a variety of texts for elements which were consistently associated with a frame. These accompanying elements were then clustered into semantic roles.
We propose that systems of information organization for rich content such as historical texts be based on a "fabric" of entities and events. In developing the entity-event fabric, we explore the use of verb frames from the FrameNet project. Thus, we envision an incremental development in which the fabric initially is used for relatively simple applications (e.g., Figure 1) and its scope is gradually extended. As described in , this fabric would also be extended with discourse elements. Eventually, the schematic environments could be used for interactive text generation such as question answering systems, tutoring systems, and conversational historical agents (see ). This work in indexing historical texts stems from previous work on text mining historical newspapers and on designing new types of timelines (see Figure 1). This work also complements our research on conceptual modeling of scientific research reports [3, 5] even though historical texts are much less structured than scientific research reports.
Section 2 of this paper describes the use of FrameNet for coding texts. Section 3 considers complex entities. Section 4 examines several types of hooks into the fabric. Section 5 discusses next generation information organization. Section 6 is the conclusion.
In the current FrameNet corpus, about 10,000 lexical units are mapped to about 1,100 frames.2 The frames could be used to enhance tagging history corpora and we discuss some of the possibilities here. Schematic modeling explicates relationships that may be difficult to extract on the fly from unstructured texts.
President Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation and freed the slaves.
The core frame has core elements: Agent, Theme, and Confinement. Thus the freeing_from_confinement frame links the Agent [Emancipation Proclamation], the Theme [the slaves], and the Location of Confinement [slavery]. The statement declares that there is a change in the slaves' state of confinement.
A Signatory [Lincoln] signs an Agreement [Emancipation Proclamation], thereby taking on a commitment encoded in the Agreement [emancipation].
The sign_agreement frame would be linked to the freeing_from_confinement frame through the latter's non-core frame element Means. Further, we could link to the physical pen and inkwell used for the signing directly by way of the non-core Instrument frame element for the sign_agreement frame (see Figure 1 in ). We can also note that Lincoln did not himself take on the commitment encoded in the agreement but did that in his role as President.
Refinements in the FrameNet frames may be needed in some instances to describe events adequately. For instance, the freeing_from_confinement frame seems to contemplate freeing from a physical location and may be too concrete for the act of freeing from the institution of slavery. Similarly, the Emancipation Proclamation is not an agreement.
Entities are objects, locations, or concepts. The entities associated with historical events are complex and are generally richer than those usually considered in thesauri and classification systems. In our approach entities are associated with specific attributes. Our entities are somewhat related to frames and schemas from artificial intelligence or structured objects and classes from object-oriented programming languages. However, we emphasize the development of standardized templates for those schemas. Our approach emphasizes descriptors and qualitative states for attributes because those are well suited for mapping verbal descriptions in natural language which are essentially categories. Many verbs describe state changes in attributes and in contexts. Moreover, verbs help to define the attributes of entities which are recognized by speakers of a language. Those attributes are captured as semantic roles in the FrameNet frames.
With the wide range of entities in historical materials, we cast a big net and allow many gradations such as different religious groups or different geographic areas. In some cases, these entities are formally recognized; in other cases, they are ad hoc. The latter may include sets of largely independent-but-related entities that can also be treated as single complex entities.
An automobile is a complex entity. It has attributes as a whole but is composed of parts that are themselves entities. Similarly, an organism is a complex entity (see ). The components need to be modeled along with their relationship to the whole. Parts are often identified based on belonging to subsystems and serving specific functions. The "part-of" relationships form partonomies. Moreover, in complex entities, there may be several layers. A state change in one of the low-level components many affect the entire entity. For example, a mutation in DNA may produce illness in an entire organism. Despite the complexity, there need to be standard and extensible ways of describing the relationships. This is beginning to be done for biological systems . While the interactions among components can be very complex, people tend to use relatively simple qualitative models in analyzing phenomena .
Complex entities may also evolve in stages across time. Some stages, such as those in an insect's lifespan, are highly predictable and readily treated as states. In other cases, the stages might be roles a person takes on at different times. Stages of some entities, such as political movements (called "trends" in ), are less predictable and less structured.
Following [3, 8], an event can be viewed as a state change triggered by the state of another entity. In this view, a simple causal relationship is integral to the event. Such events are the atomic level of our approach. We adopt the term "flow" for a set of events which are related and follow one another (cf. ). They can be modeled with formalisms such as state machines, Petri nets, programs, flow-charts, workflows, and activity diagrams. Connected threads or scripts of events are familiar from cognitive psychology, and may also be used to model flows. High-level descriptions can usually be broken down into lower level, more detailed flows. For instance, a statement that one army conquered another might be broken out into the flow of how the one army landed, attacked, and defeated the other. There are different types of flows. They may follow a single prescribed sequence, they may also have branching points, or they may be relatively ad hoc collections of events. Many complex activities combine all of these. For instance, a court trial has a strict overall structure but parameters such as the number of witnesses called may vary and the statements of the witnesses may be unpredictable.
We envision a fabric of interconnected entities and events. Initially, the entities and events in the fabric would be drawn from a limited number of sources but eventually they could come from many sources and be interwoven. The events would be interconnected at several levels. For instance, we might say that Hannibal attacked Rome and might also go into detail about those attacks. It is impossible to specify all the events in history and there will therefore be gaps in the fabric, but there is generally coherence in historical texts. To capture that coherence, we extend the fabric with discourse elements in . Events and flows in texts are connected by discourse elements. For instance, the events in Figure 1 are connected by causal threads. In other cases, events are interlinked and interwoven with explanations which provide elaboration and clarification — context — to the event descriptions.
We need a flexible approach to grouping events. The specification of scenarios is a particularly important type of grouping in our model. A scenario is a set of inter-related entities and events. Grouping by scenario keeps all of the relevant components connected. It is related to the notion of a narrative (see ) but narratives are focused on presentations while scenarios are part of the fabric and may be considered a source from which the narratives are drawn.
Scenarios can be largely independent from other parts of fabric. We may have a good understanding of the synchronization of events grouped in a scenario but not much about how that set of events relates to the broader fabric. As a stand-alone unit, the events in the scenario could be executed in order with the entities acquiring the successive states. Moreover, some entities are highly transient thus, they may be defined just within the scope of the scenario or situation.
People are entities in our framework; they are extremely complex (see Section 3). Our descriptive requirements are far beyond anything offered by current standards such as FOAF. In this section we describe some possible approaches for developing structured descriptions of people. Similar complex descriptions will also be needed for other very complex entities such as organizations and institutions.
Biologically, people can be described as organisms with partonomies and stages of development (see Section 3). For describing typical states and behaviors, we might adopt Maslow's hierarchy of needs (see ). This could describe attributes such as hunger which motivate behaviors and other types of physical states such as diseases.
We have a rich language for describing mental activities and internal events such as emotions, expectations, opinions, beliefs, goals, intentions, and strategies. Emotions are readily described with states and potentially other mental activities can be described with states as well. A "goal" is the ambition to place one or more entities into specific states. Goals are accomplished through plans. In some cases, the plan may be very specific or it may simply be a strategy which evolves and adapts according to conditions. As such, the plan can be modeled as a flow with decision points.
Mental events have triggered much of history but are primarily internal and subjective. Higher-level psychological needs and dynamics are even more controversial. Nonetheless we can adopt a descriptive system so long as we document its use and are consistent in our application.
Because individuals engage in a changing set of social relationships in their interaction with other people, we also need flexible mechanisms for defining those relationships. For instance, couples may act as a single composite entity in some situations the individuals which compose the couple may act separately in other situations.
Eventually, we might also model knowledge, social norms, cultural standards and folk psychologies. For effective information organization, we might share some structures adopted by the user modeling community.
While traditional information organization has been oriented to indexing information resources, there is an increasing need to support direct interaction with full text and other types of rich content. Our approach could be considered as a type of semantic markup (e.g., ). However, our approach is better considered as a companion to the original content rather than as markup with its limitations. For instance, our approach explicitly allows for versioning.
Our approach may usefully be deployed on a small scale in ad hoc situations. This approach can be extended to cover large collections of rich content although the sheer scale of that task makes it challenging. One advantage compared to some previous projects is that we are primarily focused on description rather than inference. With inference, small errors can be easily amplified.
By employing the semantic structures of natural language such as those captured by FrameNet as the basis for information organization we accept that language changes and the concepts people use are malleable. While it is possible to employ frames as a fixed dictionary of definitions, the FrameNet frames are actually a snapshot of how people use language. Those definitions can evolve. Ideally, we would track and be able to explain the changes.
All components of the discourse model should have associated metadata. The components need many of the same elements that documents do. Those elements would likely resemble Dublin Core with elements such as creator (i.e., who authored the component) and date of creation. Further, there should be values for beginning and end times of state changes although in some cases those may be uncertain or relative to other events. Different versions of events need to be kept distinct. We need to note the author and endorsers of each version. And, we should include a record describing the evidence for the version (see ). Finally, there should be links to descriptive standards which are used such as for the collection of frames, directories and catalogs of entity instances, and classification systems for entity classes.
We envision that entities would be organized by classification systems. While FrameNet incorporates clustering of noun frames, at this point classification systems are better developed. Classification systems use "type-of" or "kind-of" hierarchies and they typically provide inheritance of attributes across levels of abstraction. Because the content we are considering is so varied, there would not be a single overarching classification system but a family of classification frameworks. These might be related to Raganathan's faceted classifications  4 though broader and deeper than anything currently implemented.
Complex entities can also be subdivided into parts. Sometimes these would be physical parts and sometimes they are sub-assemblies each with a specific function. Partonomies are important for all types of complex systems whether they are mechanical systems such as automobiles or social systems such as organizations. The importance of partonomies for describing biological systems is increasingly recognized . They are integral to all types of system analysis. Moreover, partonomies are interrelated with class hierarchies; for example, some parts are shared across trucks, cars, and bicycles while others are not.
Functionality describes how a part of a system contributes to the entire system. Functionality is a type of normative expectation for the contexts of use of an entity (i.e., the verbs and entities associated with an entity). For example, social organizations have parts, often related to functionality. The utility of understanding functionality is illustrated by the Australian "series" system for archives which organizes materials by functionality . An extended process-oriented information organization model might link verbs to entities in a way similar to the way that methods are associated with entity classes in object-oriented programming languages.
Classification systems and partonomies generally describe entities in the abstract. We also need systems for describing entity instances which fill specific positions, slots, or roles. For example, for a full understanding of Lincoln signing the Emancipation Proclamation, it is necessary to know that Lincoln was President and what some of the powers of a President are.  developed a directory for the structure of the top-layers of the US federal government and for office-holders at positions with the government across several years. While people may fail to follow organizational structures and rules, it is still useful to know the normative expectations.
Many types of instance information are needed to model the wide range of interrelated topics covered in a daily newspaper. We call organized presentation of such material directories, catalogs, gazetteers, or almanacs. There are already many sets of instance records such as genealogical, military and government records, as well as meteorological, sports, and financial databases but they need to be unified and cross-referenced. This could probably be done with template-enhanced RDF and could include typical processes associated with the fields of the templates. For instance, members of an organization are expected to perform certain activities based on their roles.
There has been relatively little investigation of systematic approaches to the organization of and interaction with digital collections of historical materials. As increasing amounts of rich content are becoming available there is a critical need to develop better ways to organize and support access to that content. Having large amounts of historical data available will allow the study of history to focus more on local communities and a broader range of individuals. We have proposed a new approach to the organization of such information based on schematic modeling of entities and events. We have drawn on software engineering, system dynamics, cognitive science, and linguistics as inspirations for modeling. Specifically, we have proposed that events serve as the underlying fabric for history descriptions and that a systematic structural description will provide more clarity than traditional text descriptions. We envision a progression of increasingly ambitious applications of the fabric. The initial versions would map simple secondary texts into graphical displays such as shown earlier in Figure 1. Later steps would coordinate several texts and, ultimately, readers and authors might engage directly with the fabric. In  we describe discourse structures which may help to support such applications.
1 The semantic roles of verb frames can be applied to the state-change model of [4, 9]. The verb defines the dimensions associated with the state change. "To be born" or "to die" describe state changes in the dimension of being alive.
2 FrameNet also includes features such as inheritance of some frames by others and attributes of frame elements such as semantic typing which may be useful but we do not consider using them in this proposal.
3 We can view science as an approach to finding good sets of entities and frames which apply across specified situations.
4 Raganathan identified five top-level dimensions: personality, matter, energy, space, time (PMEST).
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 Allen, R.B., 2013, Rich Linking in a Digital Library of Full-Text Scientific Research Reports. Research Data Symposium, Columbia University.
 Boguraev, B., Munoz. R., & Pustejovsky, J. 2006, ARTE: Annotating and Reasoning about Time and Events, COLING/ACL Workshop, Sydney, Australia.
 Elson, D.K., 2012, Modeling Narrative Discourse. Ph.D. Thesis. Department of Computer Science, Columbia University, NY.
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 Hurley, C., 1994, The Australian ('Series') System: An Exposition, in S. McKemmish and M. Piggott (eds.), The Records Continuum: Ian Maclean and Australian Archives First Fifty Years, Clayton, 150-172.
 Khoo, C., & Na, J.C., 2006, Semantic Relations in Information Science. Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST), 40, 157-228.
 Lagoze, C., & Hunter, J., 2001, ABC Ontology and Model, International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications (DC-2001).
 Meister, J.C., Crowd Sourcing "True Meaning": A Collaborative Markup Approach to Textual Interpretation. In: M. Deegan & W. McCarty (eds.), Collaborative Research in the Digital Humanities. Ashgate, Surrey, UK.
 Narayanan, S., Baker, C., Fillmore, C., & Petruck, M., 2002, FrameNet Meets the Semantic Web: A DAML+OIL Representation of FrameNet, Language Resources for the Semantic Web, AAAI 2002, Edmonton.
 Raganathan, S.R. (ed.), Colon Classification (6th Edition), Ess Ess Publications, Delhi, India.
 Ruppenhofer, J., Ellsworth, M., Petruck, M.R.L., Johnson, C.R., & Scheffczyk, J. 2010, FrameNet II: Extended Theory and Practice.
 Shaw, R., 2010, Events and Periods as Concepts for Organizing Historical Knowledge, PhD Thesis, University of California, Berkeley.
 Shaw, R., 2012, Contours of the Past: Computationally Exploring Civil Rights Histories, Digital Humanities Conference (abstract only).
 Shipley, T. F., & Zacks, J. M. (eds.), 2008, Understanding Events: From Perception to Action. Oxford University Press, New York.
Robert (Bob) B. Allen is now a Visiting Foreign Research Scholar at the University of Tsukuba, Japan. In the past several years, his research has emphasized specification and interaction with narrative chains such as those from stories, from scientific explanations, and from narrative history. Dr. Allen has been Program Chair or General Chair of several major conferences. He was Editor in Chief of the ACM Transactions on Information Systems for 10 years and Chair of the Publications Board of the ACM. He was a Visiting Professorial Fellow at Victoria University of Wellington and he has worked at the iSchools at Drexel and the University of Maryland. Earlier, he was Senior Scientist in the Information Science Research Group at Bellcore and was a Member of Technical Staff in Research at Bell Laboratories. He received his PhD in Social and Cognitive Experimental Psychology from UCSD.


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Joshua 24:1
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1 Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem and summoned the elders, the heads, the judges, and the officers of Israel. And they presented themselves before God. (Jos 23:2; Jos 24:25; Jos 24:32; 1Sa 10:19)
(Jos 23:2; Jos 24:25; Jos 24:32; 1Sa 10:19)
1 Then Joshua assembled all the tribes of Israel at Shechem. He summoned the elders, leaders, judges and officials of Israel, and they presented themselves before God.
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1 Joshua gathered all Israel's tribes together at Shechem. He sent for the elders, leaders, judges and officials of Israel. They came and stood there in the sight of God.
1 And Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem, and called for the elders of Israel, and for their heads, and for their judges, and for their officers; and they presented themselves before God.
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AUDIO-TECHNICA SPECTRAPULSE® CHOSEN FOR REMODELED MAIN BOARDROOM FOR A HIGH PROFILE MENLO PARK, CALIFORNIA-BASED VENTURE CAPITAL GROUP
— Audio-Technica's award-winning SpectraPulse® products use Ultra Wideband (UWB) Technology to deliver teleconference audio with ultimate security and no interference —
Stow, OH 12-03-2008 – Audio-Technica announces that its award-winning SpectraPulse® technology has been selected for the newly-remodeled boardroom for a high-profile Menlo Park, California-based venture capital group. California corporate system integrator Anderson Audio Visual chose SpectraPulse to provide clear, secure wireless audio for the boardroom's teleconferencing system. A completely new application of Ultra Wideband (UWB) technology, SpectraPulse bypasses the increasingly congested RF environment to deliver clear, intelligible, secure audio without the performance and setup issues associated with conventional wireless systems.
"In boardroom settings, clients often have problems with group conference calls, in which the parties on both ends of the call have difficulty hearing the audio," said Andrew Hancox, Anderson Audio Visual representative. "So we had to design a system that would help them make the calls more effective. In addition, security was a concern, as these calls are often confidential and they need to be certain that no one else has access to the frequency, and also that no other devices can interfere with the clear signal. Additionally, milling their existing boardroom table to accommodate wired microphones was not an option, because it has moving panels on the top that need to be operational. We decided on SpectraPulse not only because it provides remarkably clear audio, and the system is easy to set up and stow, but also because A-T's use of Ultra Wideband technology more than meets the users' security needs."
When in use, the system consists of seven Audio-Technica mtu101 Microphone Transmitter Units (in a boundary mic design), which can be easily removed from the conference table and placed in the cei007 Charger Encryption Interface, located in a nearby credenza. These mics operate in conjunction with the drm141 Digital Receiver Module, which is mounted in the ceiling and is connected via Category 5 (Cat 5 cable) to the aci707 Audio Control Interface, which permanently resides in an equipment closet adjacent to the conference room. Other products are integrated into the system and all are controlled via an AMX Touch Panel, which is used for phone dialing and settings. The aci707 connects via a RS-232 cable for control of its encryption settings.
"The client is thrilled with it," stated Hancox. "It was a bit of a change for them, but after their first call they were very happy. The reports from the far end were that people could hear them much better and it made the calls more effective, obviously making the project a unanimous success."
To demonstrate the system's immunity to outside signals, Anderson Audio Visual representatives tested it with a number of PDAs and wireless handheld devices in use, which routinely cause interference with non-SpectraPulse systems. Hancox stated, "Key personnel at the end user were very impressed. We had several BlackBerry®-type devices in there, and the system was absolutely impervious to the tick."
For more information on SpectraPulse, in addition to Audio-Technica's entire line of acclaimed microphones and related products, please visit www.audio-technica.com.
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To evaluate the actual incidence of global left ventricular hypokinesia in septic shock.
All mechanically ventilated patients treated for an episode of septic shock in our unit were studied by transesophageal echocardiography, at least once a day, during the first 3 days of hemodynamic support. In patients who recovered, echocardiography was repeated after weaning from vasoactive agents. Main measurements were obtained from the software of the apparatus. Global left ventricular hypokinesia was defined as a left ventricular ejection fraction of <45%.
During a 3-yr period (January 2004 through December 2006), 67 patients free from previous cardiac disease, and who survived for >48 hrs, were repeatedly studied. Global left ventricular hypokinesia was observed in 26 of these 67 patients at admission (primary hypokinesia) and in 14 after 24 or 48 hrs of hemodynamic support by norepinephrine (secondary hypokinesia), leading to an overall hypokinesia rate of 60%. Left ventricular hypokinesia was partially corrected by dobutamine, added to a reduced dosage of norepinephrine, or by epinephrine. This reversible acute left ventricular dysfunction was not associated with a worse prognosis.
Global left ventricular hypokinesia is very frequent in adult septic shock and could be unmasked, in some patients, by norepinephrine treatment. Left ventricular hypokinesia is usually corrected by addition of an inotropic agent to the hemodynamic support.


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Supplier of the Week: Benchmark
By Eleanor on 9.11.2016
Benchmark is our Supplier of the Week, 7 – 13 November.
Set up with the intention of creating a craft-based workshop that could provide customers with quality and value, the Benchmark team have worked on perfecting this over the years. To this date the company has a strong view towards sustainability, both in terms of materials and production, as well as supporting apprentices and fostering young talent.
We spoke with the team to find out more.
What's the story behind Benchmark?
Sean Sutcliffe and Terence Conran founded Benchmark in 1984 with a dream of creating a craft based workshop that produced furniture on a scale that would provide customers with high quality, beautifully designed furniture made in a responsible way and at a reasonable price. Now one of the leading and most technically advanced furniture makers in the UK, we make and sell our own furniture collection as well as working with many of the world's top architects and designers on bespoke projects fitting and furnishing offices, hotels, bars, restaurants and public buildings.
We are a team of craftspeople who care deeply about what we design and make. As with all craft made pieces, the love of our craftsmen is imbued in the pieces we make, which is what makes them so unique and desirable.
How are your products made?
All of our furniture is handmade by craftsmen using the highest quality materials from wood and specialist metals such as pewter, zinc and copper, through to glass, stone and upholstery. Because we take the raw timber in at one end and turns out a finished piece of furniture at the other end we are in control of every single step of the process which means that we can ensure that your furniture is made exactly to your requirements and meets our high quality expectations.
How does sustainability feature in your designs and production?
Sustainability is at the heart of our business and we are proud to be twice winners of the Queen's Award for Enterprise in Sustainable Development. Thirty years ago we took a stance on tropical timbers and endangered species but it is not just about materials sourcing or energy conservation. It is about everything we do and we continually make every effort to develop our business in a responsible and sustainable way. That includes making furniture that has lasting value that will be kept and passed on to future generations.
The Oscar Outdoor Bench uses carefully selected oak
What does a typical day look like for the Benchmark team?
With over one hundred projects being worked on at any one time, there isn't a typical day! Every day is different which makes it a really interesting place to work.
From bespoke to original designs, this Hampshire County House uses the Jack Dining Table and the Marylebone Chair
What projects have your designs been used in recently?
We are currently working on bespoke projects for the new Design Museum which opens later this month and auditorium seating for Worcester College in Oxford. Some of our most recent projects for our furniture collection include the new Rick Stein restaurant in Marlborough; several private residences including holiday homes in St Tropez and Devon; and a boutique hotel in Oxford.
The Rick Stein restaurant in Marlborough features customisations of the Barnabas Table
The Alvis Chair and Nelson Side Table work perfectly in this St Tropez holiday home
Benchmark created a bespoke size of their Victoria Dining Table for this Devon holiday home
The Old Bank Hotel in Oxford also commissioned bespoke versions of the Barnabas Side Table
You work closely with apprentices and have also been highly commended as an employer of the year. Why is fostering young talent an important part of your process?
Apprenticeships simply make sense. They're good for our business – we get the right skills and a great attitude from our apprentices and in return we nurture young talent and aim to provide them with a fabulous career. Former apprentices make up more than half our workforce and fill some of the most senior positions in the company. When we look at the new apprentices in our workshop today we are looking at the future of our business. Our apprenticeship programme really is the cornerstone of our business and it always will be.
What's next on the horizon for Benchmark?
We are developing some really interesting and beautiful pieces to add to our furniture collection which we hope to launch in Spring 2017.
We are also hosting one of our Toolbox Talks early next year, 22/02/2017, in collaboration with eporta and Solomon & Wu at our workshop in Berkshire. Click here for more information.
To open a trade account with Benchmark and start ordering from them directly, click through to their catalogue.
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Council meeting summary July 1, 2019
For more information and appendices for each item, view the Council Meeting Agenda.
The below summary is unconfirmed until the Minutes of the July 1 Meeting are accepted by Council.
1. Opening Prayer & Original Custodians Statement
2. Apologies
Cr. Hulin – Leave of Absence
3. Confirmation of Minutes
Council confirmed the Minutes of the Ordinary Meeting of Council held on June 3 and the Minutes of the Special Meeting of Council held on June 24, 2019 (6-0).
4. Declaration by Councillors and Officers of any Conflict of Interest in any Item on the Agenda
Cr Herbert declared a Conflict of Interest in Item 5.4.
5.1 Great South Coast Regional AFL, Cricket and Netball Strategy
The Great South Coast Local Government Authorities, State and Regional sporting associations partnered to undertake a project to support the future development, governance and growth of the three sports in the region over the next fifteen years.
The draft Strategy was made available for public comment from October 2018 to February 2019 and a moderate level of feedback was received from ten respondents, including six clubs.
Amendments to the final Strategy were made in response to the feedback including increasing its term (from ten to fifteen years).
Local feedback acknowledged and generally supported the draft Strategy.
An estimated $77.4 million worth of investment across the region has been identified to address existing facility gaps, meet agreed facility standards and improve facility capacity. This includes 18 Warrnambool facilities with an estimated of $16.8 million worth of investment.
Key considerations from the Strategy for Warrnambool include redevelopment of Reid Oval, provision of female friendly facilities, facility renewal, improved regional collaboration and alignment to the Active Warrnambool Strategy.
Council supported the following recommendations (6-0):
That Council receives the Great South Coast Regional AFL, Cricket and Netball Strategy.
5.2 Active Warrnambool Strategy Draft Final Report
The Warrnambool Recreation Plan 2007-17 has concluded.
Council received funding from Sport and Recreation Victoria to undertake a new sport, recreation and physical activity strategy for Warrnambool.
The Strategy was developed by a combination of in-house work and consultants and overseen by a Project Control Group.
Development of the new Strategy was underpinned by a significant level of community engagement.
The draft final report for the Strategy – titled Active Warrnambool - has been completed incorporating 23 objectives and 72 actions.
It is recommended that Council receives the draft final report from the Active Warrnambool Strategy, and approves its release for public comment.
That Council receives the draft final report from the Active Warrnambool Strategy, and approves its release for public comment as outlined in the report below.
5.3 Great Ocean Road Regional Tourism Ltd
In 2013 Warrnambool City Council ('Council') supported the establishment of the Great
Ocean Road Regional Tourism Board (GORRTB). GORRTB was established to lead the development, marketing, advocacy and management of tourism for the Great Ocean Road region. It takes in the geographical area from Torquay to the South Australian border, including the local government areas of Surf Coast, Colac Otway, Corangamite, Warrnambool, Moyne, and Glenelg.
Regional Tourism Boards are now in place across other regions of Victoria – Grampians, Murray, Alpine and High Country, Gippsland, and Daylesford-Macedon.
The Great Ocean Road region attracts in excess of 6 million visitors per annum comprising 5.2 million Domestic visitors and 959,000 International visitors. Visitor growth continues to track ahead of projection with visitation and visitors nights forecast to increase by a third by 2027.
The GORRT Strategic Plan 2019-2022 (attached) details key achievements over the past five years, visitation data and the key strategic priorities to be implemented over the next three years.
The existing three year Funding Agreement between GORRT Ltd and Council ends 30 June 2019. GORRTB are seeking Council's commitment to a further three year funding commitment. The proposed Memorandum of Understanding between GORRT Limited and the six municipalities is attached.
Previous Local Government Partner contributions to GORRT have been based on historical budgeted contributions to the previous regional tourism associations Geelong Otway Tourism and Shipwreck Coast Tourism.
In a move towards establishing an equity based model GORRTB explored a number of funding allocation methods such as population, visitor numbers, overnight visitors, tourism employment, Gross Regional Product and Council Budgets.
There is no agreed and consistent formula for determining Local Government funding of Regional Tourism Boards across Victoria and all methodologies result in increases and decreases in funding contributions for each Local Government partner dependent on which method is applied.
GORRTB have proposed a methodology for Local Government financial contributions based on population. The impact for Warrnambool City Council is a reduction in financial support to GORRT from $180,000 per annum to $149,555 per annum. Warrnambool City Council's financial contribution remains the largest amongst the six Local Government partners.
Council supported the following amended recommendation (6-0):
That Council
Renew its financial support for Great Ocean Road Regional Tourism Limited with a contribution of $149,555 (excl GST) in the 2019/20 Financial Year; and
Write to the GORRT Board requesting a further review of the methodology that determines Local
5.4 East of Aberline Growth Area
Cr Neoh was elected Acting Chair (5-0) while Cr Herbert left the chamber.
Council is currently partnering with the Victorian Planning Authority on the East of Aberline
Precinct Structure Plan (PSP) in Warrnambool;
The current stage of the PSP is nearing completion and current funding is due to expire;
So that Council and the VPA may continue with the East of Aberline PSP project, the VPA have outlined an option for Council to request the Minister for Planning to appoint the VPA as Planning Authority for the implementation of the PSP;
Implementation of the Growth Area Precinct Structure Plan includes:
- development of a Development Contributions Plan;
- completion of the back ground technical reports;
- finalisation of the Precinct Structure Plan;
- preparation of planning scheme amendment documentation – this includes rezoning, and embedding the aspirations of the structure plan into the planning scheme;
- planning panel representation, legal advice and peer review of documentation, expert witnesses at panel;
The VPA will aim to unlock the statutory process associated with planning scheme
amendments through expertise and direction from the Minister for Planning;
It is estimated that the next stage in this growth area planning will cost approximately $500,000;
A funding application has been submitted to the VPA for the next stage of work.
That Council:
Resolve to seek support from the Minister for Planning to appoint the Victorian Planning Authority as Planning Authority for completion of the East of Aberline Precinct Structure Plan; and
Request the Minister for Planning to allocate appropriate funding to the Victorian Planning Authority for the completion of the project.
5.5 Itinerant Trading Policy Post Consultation
The Itinerant Trading Policy (the Policy) is founded on the principal that where organisations or individuals use public land to generate a profit, like fixed traders, they should contribute to infrastructure and service provision.
There is no current Council Policy to set out Councils approach to applications to use public land for commercial purposes, nor is there a consistent fee structure to cover Councils costs to oversee and administer itinerant trading activities.
The amended Itinerant trading Policy 2019 with track changes showing the amendments (refer Attachment 1).
The Policy has been developed to provide business opportunities and to activate areas where people congregate.
The Policy is intended to provide a framework for certainty and direction for the community and Council staff in assessing applications, to ensure they are assessed equitably and do not adversely impact on the character and amenity of the area.
The Policy does not apply to footpath trading, promotional activities, free community services, registered charity fundraising, individual market stall holders who operate as part of an approved market or activities which are covered by a Council lease or license.
The draft Policy was advertised for public comment from February 7th until March 22nd, 2019 with a total of 264 submissions received from the community during the consultation process.
Any fees collected through itinerant trading charges will be used to offset the costs of maintaining the areas used for itinerant trading, including but not limited to, excess waste and litter removal, administration, on ground inspections required by Council staff to ensure permit conditions/licenses are being adhered to and for Local Laws Officers attendance at certain times.
Council supported the following recommendation (6-0):
1. Notes the revised Itinerant Trading Policy and submissions arising from community feedback.
2. Adopts the revised Policy.
5.6 Warrnambool Art Gallery HVAC Renewal
Council has sought tenders for Contract 2019035 Design and Construct a Replacement
HVAC System for Warrnambool Art Gallery.
A single tender was received and following some clarifications and negotiations a final contract sum was determined.
The proposed system will operate within The American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) recommendations for air quality to an AA+ class of control within the limitations of the existing building.
In addition to upgrade of all 4 HVAC units, the project scope includes controlled access to a compliant plant room in the ceiling space, installation of a thermal break at the workshop roller door and installation of an air curtain in-lieu of an airlock.
An air curtain has been tendered in-lieu of an airlock at the front entry at the request of Gallery management under the understanding that it will provide improved thermal control, accepting that fluctuations and gradients will exceed maximum requirements for key controlled spaces.
The proposed chiller is not a stock item in Australia, availability will be 12 – 15 weeks from order.
1. Accept the tender submission for Tender 2019035 Design and Construct a
Replacement HVAC System for Warrnambool Art Gallery from West Fridge Pty Ltd for no more than $531,015.00 (ex. GST).
2. Authorise the CEO to sign and seal the contract documents.
5.7 Joint Reseal Contract
Both Corangamite Shire Council (CSC) and Warrnambool City Council (Council) have programs to undertake bitumen sealing works each year, as part of our road asset management plans and annual road maintenance activities.
Both CSC and Council's programs contain very similar scopes and are typically undertaken by specialist contractors. Accordingly, a collaborative approach to the procurement of these works provides a greater opportunity to achieve efficiencies through an 'economy of scale'.
Council resolved on 2 July 2018 to enter into its 4th Infrastructure Contributions Agreement for 2018/2019 Bitumen sealing works with Corangamite Shire Council.
CSC entered into a contract with Inroads Pty Ltd on behalf of Warrnambool City Council to deliver sealing works for the 2018/2019 season.
It is proposed that a Bitumen Sealing Works Agreement is made with Corangamite Shire Council, for the management and delivery of the 2019/2020 and 2020/2021 Bitumen Sealing Program. A two-year contract is preferred as it will encourage more competition in the tender due to increased size, as well as a better contractor relationship and security.
The total expenditure expected under the two-year resealling contract to Council is approximately $1.5 million.
1. That Warrnambool City Council enters into a Joint Infrastructure Agreement with
Corangamite Shire Council for the 2019/2020 & 2020/2021 bitumen sealing works.
2. That Corangamite Shire Council is appointed as an agent of Warrnambool City Council for the purpose of tendering the works under the 2019/2020 & 2020/2021 agreement.
3. That the Chief Executive Officer is delegated authority to sign and seal (execute) documents for the 2019/2020 and 2020/2021 bitumen sealing Joint infrastructure Agreement.
4. That the Chief Executive Officer is delegated authority to accept or reject the tender recommendations from Corangamite Shire Council for bitumen sealing works.
5.8 Assembly of Councillors Reports
Section 80A(2) of the Local Government Act 1989 requires the record of an Assembly of
Councillors be reported to the next practicable Ordinary Meeting of Council.
The records of the following Assembly of Councillors is enclosed:
- Tuesday 11 June 2019
- Thursday 20 June 2019
- Monday 24 June 2019
Council received the report (6-0).
5.9 Mayoral & Chief Executive Council Activities – Summary Report


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Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology
Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) located at the heart of dhaka city, is the oldest and foremost public university in the country to provide teaching and degree on higher technical and engineering education. The university initially started as 'Dhaka Survey School' at Nalgola in 1876 to produce surveyors for the government of Bengal in British India. In 1905 nawab ahsanullah provided the financial support for the overall development of school.
In course of time, the school grew in size and was renamed as the Ahsanullah Engineering School, which offered three-year diploma courses in several engineering subjects.
Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Dhaka
In 1948, the school was upgraded to Ahsanullah Engineering College and became part of the Faculty of Engineering of the university of dhaka. It began offering four-year bachelor degrees in civil, electrical and mechanical engineering. In 1962, the college was upgraded to a university. The new university was given the name the East Pakistan University of Engineering and Technology. Dr. M A Rashid was appointed its first Vice-Chancellor. Immediately after the war of liberation in 1971, it was renamed as the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology.
At present, the academic activities of the university include offering four-year undergraduate degrees in Civil Engineering, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Metallurgical and Material Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering, Industrial and Production Engineering, Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering, Urban and Regional Planning, and a five-year undergraduate degree Course in Architecture. Most departments now have Masters and PhD programmes. In addition, the BUET undertakes research on its own as well as under sponsorship by organisations like the United Nations, Commonwealth Foundation, Association of Commonwealth Universities and the University Grants Commission of Bangladesh.
The university has sixteen departments. It has several research institutes and centres, including the Institute of Flood Control and Drainage Research (IFCDR), Institute of Appropriate Technology (IAT), Centre for Energy Studies (CES), Computer Centre, Directorate of Continuing Education, and Centre for Environmental and Resource Management. The university has several large workshops namely carpentry, foundry, sheet metal, instrument, automobile and machine shops, which support and facilitate research and undergraduate project work. Students' housing and teachers' residences are all located within the university campus. There are eight halls of residence for students, including one for female students.
The total post of teachers in the university is 425. Every year about 75 of them, on an average, stay abroad on leave pursuing higher studies. The administrative staff includes 153 officers and 850 support services personnel.
The central library of BUET has a floor space of 22,600sft. and has a collection of 118,000 number of journals and 9,950 volumes of books. Currently, it subscribes 152 journals. The BUET Computer centre plays an important role in the university's teaching and research activities. It also provides useful services in data processing and in designing software packages for various sectors.
The Athletic Club of BUET provides excellent facilities to students for physical fitness and arranges annual meet. The university has a modern auditorium complex comprising a 1000-seat main hall, a centre for students and teachers and a 250-seat seminar room. The university awards different types of scholarships, namely stipends, teaching assistantships and fellowships to its students, as well as to the teachers. The university has a Publication-Cum-Information Bureau under the Directorate of Advisory, Extension and Research Services. The bureau is responsible for all kinds of publications of the university including research journals, proceedings of seminars, workshops and conferences, and academic bulletins. [Maksud Helali]
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Q: The sorter.setRowFilter method does not work properly     MyPanel HDSPanel = new MyPanel();
    myTableHeader = new String[] {"A1", "A2", "T1", "T2", "T3", "T4", "T5", "T6", "T7", "T8"};
    HDSPanel.addPanel(tabbedPane, "My First Table","HDS Table", myTableHeader);

    MyPanel ISPanel = new MyPanel();
    myTableHeader = new String[] {"A1", "T1", "T2", "T3", "T4", , myTableHeader);
    ISPanel.addPanel(tabbedPane, "My Second Table","IS Table", myTableHeader);

  public void myFilter(String searchText, JTable mytable, int columnNumber) {
    model = mytable.getModel();
    final TableRowSorter<TableModel> sorter = new TableRowSorter<TableModel>(model);
    mytable.setRowSorter(sorter);
    if (searchText.length() == 0) {
        sorter.setRowFilter(null);

    } else {
        try {
            sorter.setRowFilter(RowFilter.regexFilter("(?i)" + searchText, columnNumber));

        } catch (PatternSyntaxException pse) {
            System.out.println("Bad regex pattern");
        }
    }

}

The above method is inside a class called MyPanel. I am running another method in the same class to add a panel to the existing TabbedPane. Thus, by creating MyPanel object, I get two panels in TabbedPane.
I am also creating a textfield. When there is a change in the text of the textfield, the rows in the table are filtered according to this change. So far everything works fine on the first panel.
However, in the second panel, sorter.setRowFilter(null) is running, but for example the sorter.setRowFilter("test") filter does not work and the table disappears. When I delete the text in the textfield, this table in the second panel comes back again.

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As of right now, James Gunn is persona non grata within Disney. That could all change, though. While Guardians of the Galaxy 3's future is still very much up in the air – and may not even include one of its stars in Dave Bautista's Drax – there has been some talk about Gunn returning to the MCU fold, but to direct a new Phase 4 movie.
THR is reporting that a pair of sources close to the situation remain hopeful of Gunn, who was fired after several controversial tweets re-surfaced, coming back to Marvel under a different guise, even if that means directing or producing a movie away from Guardians of the Galaxy.
The main takeaway from this is that Disney hasn't closed the door on Gunn just yet. One source explains that, "An end-all verdict hasn't been issued and conversations with Marvel are still ongoing," which sounds promising for anyone wishing to see the director return.
So, what could that all mean? For one thing, Gunn has made a name for himself solely within the cosmic confines of the MCU. Should Marvel want to go further in that spacefaring direction for Phase 4, they have a man ready, willing, and able – should the distance of both time and being away from a possibly toxic partnership with his baby of a franchise in the Guardians of the Galaxy – to step into the breach if required.
Time, as we all know, is a healer. This tidbit of news is offering our biggest glimpse yet at Disney not wanting to square away James Gunn entirely, even if we're entering a Gunn-less Guardians future - which can only be good news for everybody involved.


It seems the rivalry between Olajide 'KSI' Olatunji and Joe Weller isn't over yet, as their epic feud continued thanks to a hilarious video uploaded by KSI on Sunday, January 13.
While the pair have mostly refrained from commenting about each other since their boxing match back in February 2018, Olatunji reacted to a video that showed Weller in another fight, taking on F2 Freestylers' Jeremy Lynch in an incredibly slippy ring.
The video of KSI mocking Weller and Lynch for their contest prompted Joe to respond, and took the rivalry between the pair to funny new heights.
While claiming that KSI was still obsessed with him and was "petty", Weller stated that he was going to stoop to the same level - by playing an unreleased KSI track that the YouTuber had decided to not make public.
While Weller made fun of the pair for the song, dissecting the lyrics and criticizing them, KSI feels like his rival missed the point, explaining that the track was created as part of his parody rap group with Randolph back in 2013, and the songs were never meant to be taken seriously.
For those hoping for a rematch of their boxing fight, which KSI won by technical knockout in round 3, it seems you will likely be disappointed, as Olatunji is currently slated to face Logan Paul for a second time later in 2019.