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New Faculty Appointments for Three Black Scholars
Filed in Appointments, Faculty on February 6, 2015
Michael Carbin was hired as an assistant professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He will being teaching in January 2016.
Carbin is a Ph.D. candidate at MIT and is working at Microsoft Research in Redmond, Washington. He earned his bachelor's degree at Stanford University and holds a master's degree from MIT.
Constance Iloh was hired as an assistant professor of higher education at the School of Education of the University of California, Irvine. She is currently completing work on a Ph.D. at the Rossier School of Education of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles and will take on her new faculty role on July 1.
Iloh is a graduate of the University of Maryland at College Park, where she majored in psychology. She holds a master's degree in business management from Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
Nana Amoah was promoted to associate professor of accounting at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia. According to the Ph.D. Project, Dr. Amoah is one of only 104 Black men teaching accounting at U.S. business schools.
Dr. Amoah holds an MBA from Howard University and a Ph.D. in business from Morgan State University in Baltimore.
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Mega gallery and report: the 46th edition of the AvD Oldtimer Grand Prix
Submitted by Marcel Hundscheid on August 22, 2018
Sit back and relax with our report from the 46th edition of the AvD Oldtimer Grand Prix, brought to you by Marcel Hundscheid of Speed-O-Graphica and featuring almost anything on wheels between a touring car and a Formula 1 car. Over the weekend of the 10th to 12th of August, the 46th edition of the AvD Oldtimer Grand Prix was held at the Nürburgring. Nearly 51000 spectators found their way to the legendary track in the beautiful Eifel region to enjoy the antics of 15 different fields on the Grand Prix track.
In terms of highlights, the Formula 1 cars from the Cosworth era, 1967 to 1983, were scheduled for the 46th edition. Another highlight was the competition for two-seat GTs and sports cars on Saturday evening. For the first time at the event, this weekend also featured two series for modern racing cars – the Porsche Carrera Cup and the Ferrari FCD Racing Series.
As usual, we focus in this article on the historic races and a number of special cars that were on display during the weekend.
New in the extensive program for the Oldtimer Grand Prix were the prototypes and GTs of the Masters Endurance Legends, featuring two 40-minute races on Saturday and Sunday. In this new championship, hosted and organized by the British Masters Historic Racing organization, a Lola Aston-Martin DBR1-2, Lola B12/60 LMP1, Audi R8 LMP1, Saleen S-7R and an Aston Martin DBR9 were present, amongst many others.
One of the favorites of the audience was the Zakspeed Ford Capri Turbo which, with Peter Mücke behind the wheel, scored two crushing victories.
The public were ecstatic to see the touring cars from the Tourenwagen Classics, originating from the DTM, ITC and STW. Particularly the participation of the Alfa Romeo 155 V6 TI, BMW M3 E30 and Mercedes-Benz 190 Evo II, who together temporarily brought the public back to the 1980s and 1990s.
The extensive program also consisted of cars from the FIA Masters Sports Car Championship, FIA Lurani Trophy, Historic Grand Prix Cars, Formula 3 from 1964 – 1984, AvD Touring Car- and GT-Trophy, Touring Car Revival and the Vintage Sports Car Trophy.
This Opel Astra ST with chassis number MSD-TA-008 was built by Motor Sport Developments for the 1994 South African Touring Car Championship. In that year the car was driven by South African Michael Briggs.
Later, chassis MSD-TA-008 was shared between Briggs and touring car legend John Cleland from the UK for the International Touring Car Challenge. After participating in Slovenia and Poland the car went to Germany in 2001. From 2015 it was bought by its current owner Steffan Irmler.
Pictured here is Kremer Porsche 935 K3 with chassis number 000 00011 in the magnificent bright orange Jägermeister-livery.
British racing driver John Fitzpatrick bought the car back in 1981 and raced it successfully in the American IMSA championship. Besides this the car appeared in different international events such as the German DRM championship, the 1980 24 Hours of Le Mans as well as the 1981 and 1982 24 Hours of Daytona, the 12 Hours of Sebring and several more events in the US.
Nowadays the car is back were it was originally based, in Cologne Germany at the Kremer garage, and is driven by Kremer Racing's manager Eberhard Baunach. Chassis 000 00011 is rarely seen outside Germany, but is a regular guest at the Oldtimer Grand Prix.
Former Formula 1 driver Arturo Merzario founded his own Formula 1 team back in the late '70s and even managed to race his own car on a very small budget. Merzario participated in some 85 grands prix, and will always be remembered for rescuing Niki Lauda during his severe crash at the Nürburgring back in 1976.
Merzario drove F1 cars for Ferrari, Williams and March but as he couldn't find a team for the 1977 season, he decided to buy a March customer chassis. The season turned out in a disaster and Merzario announced that he was going to race his own F1 car from 1978.
Giorgio Piola designed the Merzario A1, a car that was unreliable. In 1979 the A3/01 pictured above appeared on the scene. The car was powered by a 3.0 liter Cosworth DFV engine, but was too heavy and its handling capabilities suffered.
The former FIA Group 5 created a number of special cars, such as the Ford Zakspeed Capri. Ford Germany, based in Cologne, teamed up with Zakspeed to eventually produce the Ford Zakspeed Capri using a turbocharged four-cylinder engine with a displacement of 1.4 litre.
German Hans Heyer debuted the Capri back in 1978. Although the season started with engine failures Heyer scored nine victories out of fourteen races. Later the engine displacement was extended to just over 1.5-litre and finally into 1.7 litre giving the Capri 495 bhp. Some cars even managed to produce 600 bhp.
Zakspeed built six chassis including ZAK-GSC-002/80 from 1980 pictured above. Klaus Ludwig drove this car during the 1980 and 1981 seasons. Nowadays the car is owned by Mücke Motorsport from Germany and successfully raced in the German DRM Revival.
Results Avd Oldtimer Grand Prix Nürburgring 2018
FIA Masters Historic F1 Championship race 1
1) Nick Padmore, Williams FW07/C
2) Martin Stretton, Tyrrell 012, + 15.204
3) Christophe D'Ansembourg, Williams FW07/C, + 28.189
1) Martin Stretton, Tyrrell 012
2) Christophe D'Ansembourg, Williams FW07/C, + 2.257
3) Nick Padmore, Williams FW07/C, + 2.587
FIA Lurani Trophy race 1
1) Mark Shaw, Brabham BT6
2) Bruno Weibel, Lotus 22, + 15.498
3) Richard Smeeton, Wainer 63, + 18.594
2) Bruno Weibel, Lotus 22, + 0.204
3) Bruno Ferrari, Branca FJ, + 16.690
FIA Masters Historic Sports Car Championship
1) Leo Voyazides – Simon Hadfield, Lola T70 Mk.IIIB
2) Michael Gans, Lola T290, + 12.327
3) Jason Wright, Lola T70 Mk.IIIB, + 28.335
DRM Revival race 1
1) Peter Mücke, Ford Capri Zakspeed Turbo
2) Michael Kammermann, BMW M1 Procar, + 49.754
3) Achim Heinrich, BMW M1 Procar, + 1:06.429
3) Urs Beck, Porsche 935 K3, + 13.855
Two seat sports cars & GTs 1960-1961 race 1
1) Ulrich Schumacher – Marco Werner, Maserati Tipo 63
2) Michael Gans, Lotus 15, + 31.612
3) Markus Jörg, Lotus 11, + 1:01.314
3) Simon Hadfield – Wolfgang Friedrichs, Aston Martin DB4 GT, + 33.437
Historic Grand Prix Cars race 1
1) Peter Horsman, Lotus 18/21
2) Williams Nuthall, Cooper T53, + 0.271
3) Rod Jolley, Cooper T45/51, + 28.248
2) Rod Jolley, Cooper T45/51, + 4.799
3) Joaquin Folch-Rusinol, Lotus 16 365, + 45.439
AvD Touringcar & GT Trophy race
1) Sebastian Glaser, Ford Escort RS1600 BDA
2) Alexander Furiani, Alfa Romeo Giulia Sprint GTA, + 44.893
3) Markus Niestrath, Alfa Romeo 1750 GTAm, + 1:20.019
Formula 3 1964 – 1984 race 1
1) Christian Olsen, Martin Mk.39/Alfa Romeo
2) Thomas Warken, Ralt RT3/84/Alfa Romeo, + 0.935
3) Robert Moores, Chevron B38/Toyota, + 13.042
3) Frederic Rouviers, Martini Mk.31/Toyota, + 8.733
Gentlemen Drivers GTs up to 1965
1) Leo Voyazides – Simon Hadfield, Cobra Daytona Coupe
2) Michael Gans – Andy Wolfe, AC Cobra, + 0.422
3) Nicolai Kjaergaard, Lotus Elan, + 10.164
Tourenwagen Classics
1) Stefan Rupp, Alfa Romeo 155 V6 TI
2) Thorsten Stadler, Mercedes AMG C Coupe, + 26.498
3) Alexander Schmidt, Renault Laguna, + 1:26.999
Masters Endurance Legends race 1
1) Steve Tandy, Lola B12/60
2) Alex Kapadia – James Hanson, Oreca 03 LMP2, + 30.977
3) Christophe D'Ansembourg – Herve Regout, Lola Aston-Martin DBR1-2, + 37.964
1) Christophe D'Ansembourg, Lola Aston-Martin DBR1-2
2) Steve Tandy, Lola B12/60, + 2.842
3) Alex Kapadia – James Hanson, Oreca 03 LMP2, + 1:05.499
Besides the races mentioned above the programme featured regularity tests from the Vintage Sports Car Trophy, the Tourenwagen Revival and rally cars from Slowly Sideways. The 47th edition of the AvD Oldtimer Grand Prix will take place at the beginning of August 2019.

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T&F Championships. A big thanks to the organising group, officials and volunteers who delivered a very enjoyable day, the event results are available here. Points scoring to determine the placings in the respective age groups is ongoing and will be published when competed and scrutinised.


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Cause of Action - Claim for Repair & Business Interruption - Collisions - Summary Trial
Graymar Equipment (2008) Inc. v. Cosco Pacific Shipping Ltd., 2018 FC 974
In Collisions and Ships, Discovery on October 2, 2018 (Updated October 02, 2018 )
Précis: The Federal Court ordered the defendant to pay damages arising from a collision between their moving container ship and a stationary scow.
Collisions - Jet ski - Liable for damages - Rental
Lever v. Mehr and Qaderi
In Collisions and Ships on September 25, 2018 (Updated November 17, 2018 )
Précis: The Ontario Superior Court of Justice awarded judgment for damages arising from negligent operation of two jet skis rented from the plaintiff.
Collisions - Pleasure Craft
Turcotte v. Dufour, 2015 QCCA 1914
In Collisions and Ships on November 11, 2015 (Updated April 03, 2017 )
Précis: Where two vessels were proceeding on parallel courses at speed and one vessel suddenly veers sharply putting itself in front of the other, the turning vessel is 100% liable for the resulting collision.
Collisions - Criminal Negligence - Offences
R v. Reinbrecht, 2015 BCSC 1960
In Offences in a Marine Context on October 27, 2015 (Updated November 22, 2015 )
Précis: The accused was found guilty of criminal negligence
Collisions - Cutting of Submarine Cable - Insurance - Liability - Limitation - Meaning of "Such Loss" - Wilful Misconduct
Peracomo Inc. v. Telus Communications, 2012 FCA 199, 2014 SCC 29
In Collisions and Ships on April 23, 2014 (Updated June 03, 2015 )
Précis: The Supreme Court of Canada overturned a decision of the Federal Court of Appeal in which a vessel operator was held to be disentitled to the benefit of limitation of liability. The Supreme Court of Canada held that limitation of liability was available to the operator who had intentionally cut a submarine cable. However, the operator's conduct did constitute "wilful misconduct" within the meaning of the Marine Insurance Act and, as a consequence, the loss was excluded from the insurance coverage.
- Liability of Ship Owner if Pilot not licensed - Collisions - Pilotage - Whether pilot with expired certificate is a licensed pilot
Westshore Terminals Limited v. Leo Ocean S.A. (The Cape Apricot), 2014 FC 132
In Collisions and Ships on February 6, 2014 (Updated June 03, 2015 )
Précis: The Federal Court held that a pilot whose certificate of competency issued under the Canada Shipping Act, 2001 had expired was nevertheless a "licensed pilot" within the meaning of the Pilotage Act with the result that the pilot was entitled to limit his liability and the ship owner was liable for his negligence.
Collisions - Limitation of Liability - Tug and Tow - Vicarious Liability of Vessel for Damage caused by Tug
Grieg Shipping A/S v. Fortune Marine Ltd. (The Dubai Fortune), 2012 FC 1110, 2013 FCA 218
In Tug and Tow on September 16, 2013 (Updated January 29, 2014 )
Précis: The Federal Court of Appeal confirmed the trial judgment that, in the circumstances, the vessel was not vicariously liable for the negligent acts of the master of the tug.
Apportionment - Collisions - Vessel Engaged in Fishing
Hogan v. Buote, 2012 PESC 10
In Collisions and Ships on March 7, 2012 (Updated July 11, 2012 )
Précis: Liability for a collision was apportioned 75% to the give way vessel and 25% to the other vessel.
Collisions - Interest - Limitation of Liability - Passengers - Pleasure Craft
Buckley v. Buhlman, 2012 FCA 9
In Collisions and Ships on January 11, 2012 (Updated July 11, 2012 )
Précis: The Federal Court of Appeal upheld a decision of the Federal Court wherein it was determined that the limits of liability under the MLA applicable to "passengers" apply only to persons on board the ship seeking to limit liability.
Collisions - Hurricane - Inevitable Accident
Wolverine Motor Works Shipyard LLC v. Canadian Naval Memorial Trust, 2011 NSSC 308
In Collisions and Ships on July 29, 2011 (Updated July 11, 2012 )
In this case the defendant's steel hulled vessel broke loose from its moorings and struck and sank the plaintiff's sail boat which was moored alongside. The incident occurred as Hurricane Juan was pounding the Nova Scotia coast. The plaintiff alleged the defendant was negligent. The court, however, found that the defendant was aware of the approaching hurricane and prepared for …


When you think of a Home Equity Line of Credit (HELOC), home renovation projects are probably what immediately comes to mind. But a HELOC can be used for so much more than just home improvements. If you're a homeowner looking to make a any kind of purchase, or are just looking for the peace of mind of having an emergency fund, the equity in your home might be a great resource to expand your budget and maximize your options.
Your home equity is is the portion of your property that you "own". To calculate how much equity you have, subtract your outstanding mortgage loan balance from the property's market value. Home equity can increase over time if the property value increases or the loan balance is paid down. For example, if your home was purchased for $200,000 and you've paid $50,000 toward that amount you have $50,000 worth of equity in your home. Now, let's use the same scenario, but the value of your house has increased to $250,000. Your equity would now equal $100,000.
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If you have children heading off to college or if you are considering going back to school, a home equity line of credit can help you manage the high-interest costs. You can borrow money through your HELOC to make tuition payments and pay the debt off over the set repayment period for your line of credit.
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Holiday shopping is approaching fast, and if you haven't been saving throughout the year you may find yourself strapped for cash after your big shopping trip. Last year, Americans racked up more than $1,000 each in holiday debt, and over half of holiday debt holders use a credit card to finance those expenses. Rather than using a credit card, which can often have higher interest rates, a HELOC can help fund those seasonal and family expenses.
If you're a homeowner, you know that related costs can appear out of nowhere. If your furnace goes out, or if you find your roof leaking, you'll need fast cash to do the repairs. Saving thousands of dollars could take years, but a HELOC can be a nice fund for emergencies like these, or others.


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Q: Altering the size of an existing array with a method If a method is passed a reference to an array, is there any way to alter the size of that array so that the array reference that was passed in will refer to the new, larger array?
I don't entirely understand the question. I think it means that I will ultimately have to create a new string in the method that replaces the old one.
Any Help will be appreciated. This is my code thus far:
import java.util.Arrays;

public class ASize {
    static int num[] = {32, 34, 45, 64};
    public static void main(String[] args){

        alterThatSize(num);
            System.out.println(Arrays.toString(num));
    }

    public static void alterThatSize(int bre[]){
        for(int i = 0; i < 8; i++){
        bre[i] = 1 + i;
        }

        }

}

A: It's not possible to do this because of two reasons. First, Java arrays have fixed length which cannot be changed since array is created. Second, Java is pass-by-value language, so you cannot replace the passed reference with the reference to the new array. Usually such task is solved by using the return value:
static int[] expandArray(int[] arr, int newSize) {
    int[] newArr = new int[newSize];
    System.arraycopy(arr, 0, newArr, 0, arr.length);
    return newArr;
}

Use it like this:
num = expandArray(num, newSize);

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Open Access was designed to reduce the cost of publication and to allow free access to scientific achievements for the global readership. Although Open Access is not a publishing model without any costs, it does however compete on many levels with the traditional method of publishing, which has simply become too expensive. This situation was brought to light in the announcement made last year by Harvard University that it cannot afford subscriptions any more.
The debate on the costs generated by the traditional publishing model flared up again. Although this topic is not entirely new, it has been revisited however once again in the aftermath of the tragic death of Aaron Swartz.
Harvard announced that it cannot afford journal prices charged by publishers and wants scientists to make their work available for everyone and not hide it behind pay-walls. The University of Harvard is hardly penniless. On the contrary, it is one of the richest, most affluent universities in the world. And if Harvard says that it cannot afford something, then what is the situation of less well-placed institutions?
How much does an access to scientific journals cost? The amount is staggering – $ 3.5 million per year! As stated, the cost of access to the online version of journals increased by 145% over the year, and some subscriptions cost Harvard as much as $ 40,000 per annum.
Of course, Harvard is not the only university that cannot handle subscription costs. If the wealthiest university in the world has a problem with publishers' fees, what about the smaller players? For example, a college in New York – SUNY Potsdam, recently decided to cancel subscriptions to journals published by the American Chemical Society. Cancellations of subscriptions are becoming more common, but it is only part of the whole story; some universities, small and large, simply cannot afford subscriptions to any journals, and thus do not provide their faculty and students access to the latest achievements in science.
The current, "traditional" publishing model could become, in fact, art for art's sake. If no one can afford it to take up subscriptions, scientists, who publish their research in this model will not be able to reach anyone at all, save their immediate colleagues. The flow of scientific information and innovation will be restricted to a narrow inner circle.
Open Access, with all its shortcomings, is a way by which authors can reach a wide readership. This is also a way for the majority of small and medium-sized universities to access scientific information and to connect with the flow of knowledge. It is also probably the only opportunity for those who are not part of the academic world, to access scientific knowledge. Of course, the full transition to Open Access is still in its early stages and is rather slow, but in the end it can deliver substantial benefits to all involved.


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public enum SimplifiedRouteKind
{
    MANUAL(0), AUTO(1);

    private final int code;

    SimplifiedRouteKind(int code)
    {
        this.code = code;
    }
}

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Red Mercury: Hoax or Nuclear Nightmare?
Sunday Times, October 18, 1992
To many Western scientists, it is a hoax on the grandest scale – yet on the world's black markets, flooded with the Soviet Union's cold war detritus, it is known to have fetched up to £1m a pint.
There is growing evidence that countries such as Iraq and Libya, desperate for their own nuclear weapons, believe in it and will go to almost any lengths to acquire it.
"Red mercury" is a hangover from the Soviet empire, a substance which, according to some experts, is a potential source of cheap nuclear weapons. The substance, a compound of mercury and antimony oxides, has been seized by customs all over Europe en route from Russian laboratories. But none of the potentially lethal material that has been analysed in the West has been proved to have nuclear-explosive properties.
According to experts in Russia, red mercury is the crucial ingredient of a new type of atom bomb. To those who believe in it, it is one of the most sinister and dangerous materials ever developed, a substance that could transform the regimes of Saddam or Gaddafi into nuclear powers overnight. It is supposedly easier to manufacture than the complex types of device deployed by the West, and has the added advantage that it is more compact.
Evgeny Korolev, a politician in Ekaterinburg, central Russia, which is a centre of the traffic, claims, "With red mercury, Saddam Hussein can make a bomb the size of a grenade that could blow a ship out of the sea."
But according to the leading nuclear weapons authorities in Britain and the United States, it is a harmless substance that has emigrated from the Russian laboratories into the hands of clear black marketeers who sell it to gullible terrorist nations.
In American nuclear circles, not a soul can be found to vouch for the stuff. An article in a US Department of Energy newsletter, entitled "Red mercury: caveat emptor", began: "Take a bogus material, give it an enigmatic name, exaggerate its physical properties and intended uses, mix in some human greed and intrigue and voila: one half baked scam."
American nuclear experts claim to have known about red mercury since the 1970s.
"I remember being told there were lost bottles of red mercury nearly 20 years ago, "says one scientist in the energy department. "The French were also supposed to be making red mercury and I actually visited the company that claimed to be making it, but they never showed me a sample."
An American nuclear expert, speaking off the record says he has tested samples of the material. "So far it has always ended up being mercuric oxide or something like that."
In any case, adds the scientist, "there is just no need for the stuff". Nato already possesses nuclear artillery shells and there are small handy-sized nuclear mines.
"These days accuracy of delivery, not size, is important in nuclear weapons," says one defence expert.
BUT are the experts right? Despite the doubts and open scepticism, the trade in red mercury goes on and countries with relatively sophisticated nuclear programmes (such as Iraq and Libya) fight to get hold of it. There is also some evidence that the Russians may have made considerable technical developments which the West does not fully understand, or if it does, prefers to play down.
Dr Frank Barnaby, a noted British nuclear weapons expert, once believed in the hoax theory but has changed his mind. "I now accept it may be possible to construct a nuclear weapon with this material," he says. "Statements by officials that dismiss this possibility either mean they are woefully ignorant about red mercury or they are lying to cover up a grave threat to the world."
Ramaz Tadeyev is scientific director of Alkor Technologies, a flourishing company in St Petersburg that says it has developed the technology to make liquid red mercury. "It can be used to make a nuclear weapon," he said categorically. "That is why the prices are so high."
Oleg Sadykov, president of Promecology, a large Russian company based in Yekaterinburg and Moscow with official permission to sell red mercury, is equally certain about the potentially lethal nature of red mercury. "The black market in red mercury for nuclear weapons is a threat to all countries and Russia cannot stop it alone. The West needs to get organised."
A Russian newspaper has also reported that Valentin Stepankov, the Russian attorney-general, recently met a group of Russian deputies who were concerned about the traffic in red mercury. Stepankov was reported to have told them: "The problem is serious, requiring a full scale investigation."
What is Red Mercury?
So what exactly is red mercury? According to Scientists in Russia who claim to be familiar with its chemical properties, it combines two important functions in a nuclear weapon by acting as a conventional explosive and a powerful source of neutrons.
In a normal atom bomb, explosives such as TNT are used to produce a powerful implosive force on a ball of plutonium, crushing it so that it becomes an unstable critical mass. An electronic gun mechanism then fires a burst of high-energy neutrons into the plutonium, initiating a fission chain reaction and releasing hughes amounts of energy.
In its basic form red mercury is a powder, but it can be converted into a liquid by pressure and radiation. It then acquires explosive properties and can affect atoms of a variety of elements called actinides that are powerful neutron emitters, substituting for the TNT and the neutron gun and making bomb design much simpler.
This technology, involving a liquid explosive, is apparently unknown in the West, but a scientific paper published in 1968 by Du Pont, the American chemical company which makes explosives for the US nuclear weapons programme, mentions the synthesis of a chemical with the same formula as red mercury.
The compound was made in Du Pot laboratories and added to the international chemical register, where it is still listed as number 20720-76-7. No documentation exists to explain its possible uses and the company was not prepared to comment.
The evidence of the flourishing black market for red mercury is also baffling if the material really is a hoax.
Samples have been confiscated in countries as diverse as Ethiopia, North Korea and South Africa. In almost every instance, the original source of supply has been found to be military plants in Russia.
Bulgarian police have seized beer bottled size flasks of red mercury bearing Soviet military symbols. Last April Ukrainian police announced they had arrested thieves near the border trying to smuggle out 180kg of red mercury – officially described as a "strategic material used to build nuclear weapons." In Poland, 8kg of red mercury was found in a Lada car belonging to four Russians.
The official view in Germany, as in the United States and Britain, is that red mercury is a fraud, but police say they have details of 100 deals or attempted deals in the first six months of this year.
It is, however, in Italy – an apparent transit route for the red mercury trade – where the authorities have taken the problem most seriously. Romano Dolce, a judge in the lakeside town of Como, has spearheaded an investigation that has led to the arrest of more than a dozen traffickers.
"All I know is that countries like Libya, Iraq and Iran are buying this material in regular quantities for large sums of money," he told The Sunday Times. Dolce is also convinced that terrorist states have hired Russian technical experts to begin their own weapons manufacturing programme using red mercury.
Although the International Atomic Energy Authority thinks that red mercury has no nuclear applications, it has revealed that boxes of paperwork on red mercury were found when United Nations nuclear inspection teams raided a building in Baghdad earlier this year.
Apart from a flourishing black market, there is also evidence that officially sanctioned supplies of the chemical are leaving Russia. A list of such transactions, compiled for Russian deputies in Moscow by their civil servants, records more than 30 separate applications for permission to sell consignments of the chemical. Companies in Germany, Britain, the United States, Liechtenstein, Hungary and several Russian regions are mentioned, but it has proved almost impossible to trace them.
Boris Yeltsin, the Russian president, Yegor Gaidar, the acting Russian premier, and Victor Mikhailov, the minister for atomic energy, are also listed as having granted permission.
EXPERTS at Los Alamos National Laboratory, the American nuclear weapons research centre, remain unimpressed. In a paper on the subject, the laboratory said recently: "Careful consideration of the claimed physical properties of the alleged material have led to the conclusion that red mercury does not exist."
A similar point of view was expressed by Tom Blankenship, an official at the US department of Energy's office of threat assessment. Blankenship monitors stories about the red mercury trade and believes them to be hoaxes.
However, he added: "I don't discount that a version of red mercury has some military use, but I don't believe it is important and I am not sure what it is."
Britain's weapons design laboratory at Aldermaston, Berkshire, and the Foreign Office have also expressed scepticism, and British Customs said they had never encountered any samples.
However, Barnaby is not the only independent expert who has doubts about this weight of official denial. John Large, who acts as an adviser on nuclear matters to Greenpeace, accompanied a reporter from The Sunday Times to Ekaterinburg and met a number of experts familiar with the red mercury.
"At first I was completely sceptical. But the more information I have seen makes me doubt this theory. The whole matter needs to be taken quite seriously. "
Dr John Hassard, a lecturer in nuclear physics at Imperial College and an expert in nuclear weapons proliferation, said he also once believed it was a scam. But he added: "I am no longer of that conviction. Clearly there are still doubts but the claims being made from red mercury are not absurd, and it is now imperative that a proper official investigation is conducted into what The Sunday Times has found."
Dolce says he has failed to get co-ordinated international action and is scathing about the lack of help he has had from other countries and from his own secret service.
"Privately they take a great interest in this traffic, but give me no back-up at all. At the moment the black market is flourishing unhindered."
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DRIVER NEWS: James Pull finishes season on a high with a flawless win in F4 British Championship
4 OCTOBER, 2016 – James Pull finished the season on a high with a brilliant win in the F4 British Championship at the weekend.
The 16-year-old Carlin racer ensured he left his mark on the competition in the final round at Brands Hatch GP, signing off with a win before following it up with seventh and fourth place finishes.
It was enough to see him finish fourth in the standings after playing his part in an exciting, close-fought title race which went down to the final weekend.
The ADD Motorsports driver is now looking forward to the next challenge in his highly-anticipated racing career.
He said: "I gave it my all, but even after winning the first race, other results meant there were not enough points left available for me to win the championship.
"To have been in the title fight all season and challenging for the title going into the final set of races was really exciting and I've been consistently among the podiums and wins which has been a great experience.
"I'm happy to finish in fourth and was delighted to be the one to get the points to bring home the Teams Cup for Carlin."
Pull was fast in practice and in extremely difficult, wet conditions during qualifying, put on another pacey show to finish third – just half a tenth off pole. After a competitor was penalised for an infringement, he moved up to second.
In wet conditions, James got off to a brilliant start in the first race, getting in front of the leader going into Druids.
Not even the introduction of the safety car could slow him down, with a perfect re-start soon seeing him get a decent gap again and going onto win in style.
English driver Pull, born in Singapore, now living in Herts, managed to move up a position to sixth in the second race, but with the car unable to reach its full potential, he had to settle for seventh at the end.
The final race saw Pull start in third but drop down a place and despite his best efforts, he was unable to close the gap again for the rest of the race.
Pull finished just nine points behind third place with 291 points after some exciting battles that saw him fighting for the title until the very end.
The racer is now exploring his options for next season as he bids to continue on his exciting driving career.
He added: "It was great to win on such a prestigious track and end on such a positive note.
"I'd like to thank my parents for all their support and thank all the guys at Carlin for being such a great team. Also a special thank you to Fraser Sheader and Mark Berryman from ADD Motorsports, as well as to John Malvern and his team at PAP for the hard work from all of them. They have all been awesome this year.
"This season's been a great learning curve and I've got some amazing racing experience and wins under my belt.
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Our curriculum is designed so that the students learn Hebrew through Bible, Prayers, Holidays, Jewish Ethics, and Jewish History.
Our classrooms are multi-age, with older students acting as mentors and role models for the younger students.
Our students study Hebrew reading in the traditional "chevrute" or partnered style or study. They are paired with other students of the same ability level and progress as quickly as they are comfortable.
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Our commitment to experiential learning places our focus on the student as an individual rather team as a member of a 'grade' or 'class'. Every Jew is a complex blend of talents, abilities, interest, and challenges. By getting to know each student, we are able to place students in learning partnerships, comprised of students, teachers, which are best suited to nurture their potential.
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This past week I had a conversation with a group of teachers. They were discussing the stresses of the profession. We all know there are plenty. One teacher made a comment that stuck with me. In dealing with the stresses of our profession, or any profession for that matter, it's the little things that can pull you through. A simple thank you, a note on your desk saying you are doing a good job, or a surprise cookie in your box or delivered to your door can make all the difference in the world. Too often these days society thinks the only thing people appreciate are big rewards…money, time, awards. In truth many "little things" will be appreciated more than one big reward. A personal touch to a simple gesture goes a long way.
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The Secret – Rhonda Byrne
The Secret is a self-help book written in 2006 by Rhonda Byrne that is based on the Law of Attraction theory that describes how thoughts can affect our lives in a variety of situations.
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The Secret is from a Self Help book. This literary genre is the one that brings together those works that are intended to take the reader by the hand while working to achieve the goals you want to achieve. This type of literature has been seen since ancient times when authors began to try to explain about personal well-being and the impact that this type of thinking has on goal achievement.
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The title of The Secret is intended to make the reader understand that there is important information that has been kept away from public knowledge and that can change your life once you know it. The concept of this book is to give the reader the secret of how to achieve everything that arises using the power of the mind and positive thinking.
Book summary and synopsis
The self-help book The Secret refers to the "Law of Attraction", a popularized pseudoscientific theory that the human process of ideation has a direct influence on the results of encounters and events in the world. In his book, Byrne applies this theory to different aspects of life, clarifying how he thinks it forms a program to tackle any problem.
The ideas behind the book, as well as the book itself, have been labeled as pseudoscience by members of the scientific community, within the genres of popular philosophy of the New Age and New Thought, which began in the early 20th century .
Byrne explains the Law of Attraction. Put colloquially as the similar attracts the similar, it states that our thoughts directly create our lives because the thoughts are embedded in the "energy" that constitutes the universe.
The rest of the book constitutes Byrne's personal elaboration on the "secret."
Occasionally he refers to quotes from scientists and naturalists such as Albert Einstein, Carl Jung, and Ralph Waldo Emerson to support his thesis. Byrne begins his argument from the axiom that everything in and around us is made of energy, down to the level of the atom. Therefore, energy is the basic building block of everything we see and experience.
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Next, Byrne claims that the energy is vibrational and travels at different frequencies. In this way, our thoughts are magnetic, attracting and repelling different frequencies. When we have a thought, it is transmitted from us to the surrounding universe. Byrne likens it to the transmission tower, which sends and receives radio frequencies that carry information with which it builds more complex things.
Byrne claims that similar frequencies attract each other, while people and events that vibrate similarly to us naturally become magnetized to us. She argues that it is as simple, neutral, and predictable as Isaac Newton's law of gravity, regardless of whether the individual knows or believes in its existence.
Byrne provides examples of categories of thought to which secrecy applies. The first two are good and bad thoughts. Although the Law of Attraction does not discriminate between good and bad thoughts and does not care if we want something or not, it propagates the waves that we emit, thus attracting the objects of desire.
Byrne claims that most people think primarily of denials of their wishes; For example, someone who wants to be rich thinks about the difficult situation of being poor or middle class. Instead, he argues that people should think about what they want, triggering a positive feedback loop.
Byrne discusses the categories of conscious and subconscious thinking, borrowing from Freud's system of organization of the human mind. Notice that the Law of Attraction is effective not only for conscious thought, but also for the unconscious. For example, if we want to be rich, we could say that we want a lot of money, but we harbor reservations or subconscious doubts. The universe also takes these energies into account, reporting its result.
Byrne cites a study whose findings seem to show that the average person has about 60,000 different thoughts per day, most of which are involuntary. All of these thoughts make a lot of issues to work with when we try to be aware of the energy we are emitting. Once we get our thoughts back, Byrne argues, we get a tool that accelerates progress toward our objects of desire.
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Byrne concludes his analysis of the applications of the Law of Attraction by giving examples of how to attract desired relationships with others. First, she asserts that we must live ourselves. Most people are conditioned to put self-love at the bottom of the wish list, mentally highlighting thoughts that emit negative energy. A distinctive feature of loving yourself is treating yourself the way you want to treat others.
Second, Byrne asserts that we must realize our love for each other, even for strangers. People who complain attract more and more negative energy, grouping them with other people who think negatively. Finally, Byrne urges his audience to make sure that his actions are consistent with his wishes. If we act as if we already have what we want, we will gradually realize that ideal without needing to worry or despair.
Although Byrne's book is far from scientific, making illogical leaps about the nature of the mind that are inconsistent with many contemporary ideas gleaned from solid evidence, it presents a compelling argument that resembles the karmic system of eastern religions. Reapplying the idea of karmic energy to the fluid, chaotic, and modern world, he presents a rule book by which he hopes his audience will learn to live.
The book has had the support of important personalities from around the world that include the American businesswoman Oprah Winfrey, however, it has also had a significant number of detractors. These mainly claim that the book focuses too much on the acquisition of material things, which somehow contradicts the origins of the Law of Attraction.
"There is no desperate situation. All the circumstances of your life can change! "
"You become what you think about the most… But you also attract what you think about the most. "
"The truth is that the universe has been responding to you all your life, but you cannot receive the answers unless you are awake."
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Platero and I - Juan Ramón Jiménez
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deGrom K's 13, Mets Open Series With Win
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Jacob deGrom's MLB postseason debut couldn't have gone much better. The 27-year-old flame thrower outpitched three-time Cy Young Award winner Clayton Kershaw, striking out 13 Dodgers over seven shutout innings as the New York Mets grabbed Game 1 of the NLDS by a 3-1 final in Los Angeles Friday night.
And, all within in that same performance, deGrom set the Mets' record for K's by pitcher making his first playoff start, and tied Tom Seaver for the franchise record for strikeouts in a playoff outing of any kind.
For his part, Kershaw had a great stuff himself, striking out eleven Mets. But, Daniel Murphy turned around a Kershaw pitch in the fourth for a solo-homer. Then, the Mets were able to manufacture two more runs, capped by a two-out, two-RBI single from David Wright in the seventh off reliever Pedro Baez. Both of those runs, though, were charged to Kershaw (0-1), whose postseason struggles continue. For such an accomplished lefty, he's now 1-6 with 4.99 ERA in the playoffs, compared to his career regular season mark of 114-56, 2.43.
Jeurys Familia picked up his first playoff save, getting the final out of the eighth and working a 1-2-3 ninth.
The Mets send rookie Noah Syndergaard (9-7, 3.24) to the mound in Game 2 on Sunday night, while the Dodgers counter with Zack Greinke (19-3, 1.66). First pitch is set for 9:07 p.m. on TBS.
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Kinfonet Quote of the Day: If you consider that the cause is different from the effect, then you accept the time-interval for modification.
If you consider that the cause is different from the effect, then you accept the time-interval for modification. That means you can modify the effect during this time-interval; this implies growth or progress in time towards a state already projected by you. This is really false because the acorn contains the oak tree and it cannot grow into anything else. When you thus realise that cause and effect are the same, there is no time at all; and when you also realise that any action on the part of the actor will be only in time, you will cease to think in terms of time. Therefore the actor cannot do anything but remain still and silent in a state of alertness. Any discipline that the actor chooses to impose upon himself is really a response to a challenge made by a temptation or a desire, whether verbal or painful. All discipline is therefore a process of isolation. For instance, to resist greed, you discipline against greed by erecting a wall of non-greed. When discipline is a means of resistance, you are using time as a means of modification or resistance and therefore time becomes important. Discipline, being then a process of conditioning in time, causes sorrow.


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'I'm selling democracy': activists rally young people to vote in EU poll
From left to right, Udoka Maya Okonkwo, Aneel Idrem, Dolapo Okunuga, Syeda Tasmia-Tahia of UpRising. Photograph: Sarah Lee/The Guardian
With only a day to go before the deadline for registering to vote, efforts to encourage young voters are intensifying
by Jessica Elgot and Libby Brooks
Main image: From left to right, Udoka Maya Okonkwo, Aneel Idrem, Dolapo Okunuga, Syeda Tasmia-Tahia of UpRising. Photograph: Sarah Lee/The Guardian
Mon 6 Jun 2016 05.00 EDT Last modified on Wed 14 Feb 2018 11.10 EST
Between the Chrisp Street market street stalls piled high with plastic bowls of tomatoes and the rails of sequinned dresses, six activists are chasing after young shoppers, waving blue and yellow-starred leaflets.
"People always think I'm selling something," said Udoka Maya Okonkwo, a 19-year-old student, in her blackand pink slogan T-shirt. "I'm selling democracy, that's what I should say to them."
Okonkwo and her cohort are campaigners with the Tower Hamlets youth movement UpRising, and the looming deadline to register to vote in the 23 June referendum - which is midnight on 7 June - is much on their minds.
Engaging young voters is particularly important in the east London borough, given that it has the highest proportion of permanent young residents in the UK. More than a quarter of the population is aged between 21 and 30.
On the streets and in the polls, most young people are concerned about jobs. According to YouGov, 45% said employment was the key issue of the referendum, while only 8% of 18 to 24-year-olds said immigration was their main concern.
Do young people care about voting in the EU referendum?
Activists, however, are concerned younger voters will not turn out, despite the fact that they will arguably be most affected by the outcome. Almost 30% of under-25s are not registered to vote, making them half as likely to be on the electoral register as the population at large.
Dolapo Okunuga, 19, said: "I don't think most people realise how much of an impact this will have on our lives, that if you care about education, if you care about jobs then you should care about voting."
Okunuga, a politics student, said issues did not need to be infantilised to get young people to care about them. "Campaigns to engage young people, they have to be authentic, or it will just be ripped apart," she said. "We do actually care about the issues, it's just about the way you communicate them. Politicians often only want to engage with young people for show, so they can be like: 'here I am with a young person today'."
Engaging people can be tough. Syeda Tasmia-Tahia, a 21-year-old charity worker, asks one couple if they are registered and is immediately rebuffed. "There's no point in any of it," the man says as he brushes past.
She is undeterred, skipping towards a young mother with a baby, and switching to speak to her in Bengali as she stresses how close the registration deadline is. "I think the debate has been very polarised," Tahia said. "There'speople who are completely passionate about either side, nothing will change their minds. And then there's people who don't even know it is going on. When I was at school we had three days off while elections took place, but we didn't have a single lesson about the importance of voting. Something is going wrong there, I think."
The group sign up voters on the spot using their tablets or the users' own phones, or give them leaflets to show them how to register themselves. Okunuga has found a young couple who are not registered outside the market's corner cafe. Jamie Howard, 21, signs up on her tablet, saying he had not voted in the last election but that he wanted to have his say on the EU.
"My grandparents are voting to leave because of immigration. No offence, but this is about my future."
The discussion has animated him. "Now we've been talking about it, to be honest, I do think it is important," he said. "I actually do think we should come out. I think we'd be better off on our own."
UpRising now has its #Registertovote campaign running in several cities, wand aims to register 10,000 more young people by the 7 June deadline.
Young people are twice as likely to vote to remain in the EU, but under-25s are only half as likely to vote at all as over-65s. Of those who already registered, only 54% voted in the 2015 general election.
Students are a particular concern. Fifty-six percent are registered to vote at their term-time addresses, but by 23 June most will have left for their family homes, or be travelling or doing summer jobs. Polling day also coincides with Glastonbury festival, which will be attended by as many as 200,000 people, most of them aged 18 to 35.
Politicians, particularly those on the remain side, have been scrambling to engage younger voters and campaigns to to do so have stepped up a gear this week. Tinder, the dating app on which 85% of users are aged 18 to 34, is running Swipe the Vote, where users can chose whether statements about the EU are true or false. They are also offered a link to learn more about both sides and to register to vote. The taxi app Uber will also send its users pop-up adverts to encourage them to register.
The youth voter movements Bite the Ballot and Hope Not Hate are running a series of initiatives across the country, including registration drives, a leaders' live debate on Facebook and pop-up "democracy cafes" in Starbucks outlets.
Members of the youth movement UpRising encourage visitors to Chrisp Street market to register to vote. Photograph: Sarah Lee/The Guardian
One of the first of the "de-cafes" is in a very different part of Tower Hamlets, the shimmering glass Jubilee mall under the towers of Canary Wharf, where volunteers meet a group of around 20 young voters to discuss the EU over iced lattes. Asked to raise their hands to show which referendum issues were important to them, almost all cited jobs, travel and climate change, but none immigration.
Many said they felt a generational gap between their views and those of their grandparents. Lucy Giuliano, a 26-year-old communications officer, said she was concerned that the older generation would have a greater say because more turn out to vote. "My grandparents are voting to leave, even though I've tried to talk to them about it, because of immigration. No offence, but this is about my future."
Some of the group did express concerns about democracy in the EU, including Abi Micallef, a 23-year-old project manager, who said there was a perception that there was no way to vote out any of the major figures in power in Brussels.
Jobs were the key issue, she said. "But 'long term economic stability', that's not very sexy is it? It's not going to push young people into the polling booth."
East Renfrewshire: why do young voters turn out in Glasgow?
The surge in political engagement generated by the 2014 referendum campaign is strongly in evidence on a warm summer evening at a local council-led youth group in East Renfrewshire. A mixed suburban area with a strong Jewish community, it also has one of the highest voter turnouts in the UK, 81% at the last election compared with a national average of 66%.
Charlie Dexter, 18, said: "The second that someone says you have the chance to vote, you want to find out more. With the referendum it was so close that people kept getting told their vote really mattered."
This Westminster constituency, to the south of Glasgow, was previously held by former Scottish Labour leader Jim Murphy, whose defeat by the SNP in last May's general election was one of the most spectacular losses of the night.
The UK's youngest MP, Mhairi Black, who is 21 and the SNP's youth campaign coordinator, spent the spring encouraging teenagers to register to vote in the Scotland's parliamentary elections. She has now turned her attention to the EU referendum. "In the last few years Scotland has seen higher levels of political engagement than it's ever seen in its history, thanks to the independence referendum which was hugely engaging, particularly for young people," she said. "We need to see this level of engagement right across the UK."
The EU referendum, however, does not appear to be a talking point among younger residents in the way that the independence poll or even the recent election was. "I've literally not talked to any of my friends about this," said Elise Forsyth, 18, another member of the group. "There's a lot of coverage about it happening, but not a lot of facts. What I really need is basic information to really understand what the EU does. What does it do for my life?"