As far as is known, the continent Tellius and the other landmasses which once accompanied it occupy a single Fire Emblem series story universe, with no known tie to any other (with the exception of Priam's existence in Awakening, although the nature of this development is unknown). An official timeline of the history of Tellius was provided by the official Japanese Fire Emblem World website, and the bulk of the information listed here comes from there. Everything else is inferences from the relevant games, Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance and Radiant Dawn.
Tellius uses an unnamed in-universe calendar which uses the reformation of Begnion into an empire its central epoch, with the years counted relative to the empire's foundation in year 0.
• Ashunera emerges from the primordial sea and creates the lands of the world, as well as the plants and animals which inhabit it.
• After a millennium, animals evolve into the Zunanma, the first people.
• Wars erupt among various Zunanma clans. Ashunera separates the Zunanma into laguz and beorc in a failed attempt to stop the warring.
• Ashunera's emotions run wild and she sinks the world in an immense deluge, killing countless beorc and laguz. After the flood, the only known landmass to not be submerged is Tellius.
• Ashunera casts away her emotions to prevent further disasters, creating Ashera and Yune.
• Ashera chooses three champions - the beorc Altina, the lion laguz Soan, and the dragon laguz Dheginsea - to defeat Yune.
• The heron laguz Lehran seals Yune in a medallion.
• Altina, one of the Three Heroes who defeated the Dark God, became the first Queen of Begnion.
• Altina's granddaughter Yoram predicted the arrival of a great famine, and her prediction was confirmed. Yoram was known and worshipped as the apostle: the one who could converse with the goddess.
• In the name of the Goddess's chosen, the Apostle, the senate declared that all the regions outside of Goldoa were to be ruled by Begnion. The Begnion theocracy and empire was established, with the apostle as its empress. The first empress was Altina's descendant, Apostle Meshua.
• The discrimination against the laguz greatly increased over the years, and the laguz's hatred of beorc rule reached its peak.
• The independent Kingdom of Goldoa continually protested to the senate about the treatment of the laguz, but to no avail. Within Begnion there appeared a beorc movement to remove the power and property of laguz.
• The senate, stating themselves as perfect beings who were closest to the Goddess since ancient times, declared that the Zunanma were "humans" and that they, themselves, were also "humans". Very quickly this inspiring name spread across the whole of Begnion and was eventually officially accepted. In comparison to themselves, the laguz were seen to be closer to the beasts and were referred to as "sub-humans".
• In order to find new lands, the laguz steadily started leaving Begnion. Many of the beast tribe headed to the distant forests of Gallia, and some of the bird tribe escaped to the unknown southern islands.
• The senate sent soldiers to diminish the power of the beasts who had escaped to Gallia. However, the beasts used the forest terrain to their advantage and engaged in guerrilla warfare, leading to a fierce battle with the Begnion soldiers.
• Solhaut of the lion clan was pushed to become the leader of Gallia's beast tribe and, with the support of Goldoa, Gallia was established.
360 • Encouraged by the formation of Gallia, the birds who had escaped to the southern islands began to call their comrades that remained in Begnion to escape. The bird tribes slowly began to gather at the island known as Phoenicis, and their independence steadily rose.
• Worried about the current state of affairs, Begnion sent more soldiers on an expedition to Gallia. However, before the beasts' guerilla tactics, the battle was indecisive just like before.
• Taking advantage of the confusion caused by war, the birds push the hawk Horus to become their king and, at the island of Phoenicis, established their own country.
• The Begnion senate divided into two. Led by the powerful senator Caradock, the side that wished to find peace with the laguz became independent. At Crimea they formed their own country, and made peace with Gallia. At the same time they began to make up with their motherland, Begnion.
395 • Begnion and Gallia signed a peace treaty.
400 • The Kingdom of Crimea, Kingdom of Gallia and Kingdom of Phoenicis were officially recognised as countries.
• At the same time, within Begnion, the voices of those who wish to re-evaluate the position of laguz began to steadily rise.
• The view of beorc and laguz equality increases in popularity, leading to the loss of power of those who back the sub-human view. Led by the senator Hengist they left for independence and established their own country at Daein.
• Daein requested for Begnion's aid to invade Gallia, but Begnion refused. Daein also requested of Crimea, but was refused as well.
• Realising that they could not defeat Gallia by themselves, Daein invaded their neighbour Crimea instead. However, due to Crimea's strong resistance, the war was indecisive. The war continued for 5 long years, before both countries decided to avoid destroying one another, and so ended the war.
• Because of differences within the bird tribes, the Ravens left Phoenicis. At the nearby island of Kilvas they established their own country.
425 • Feeling that their dominance has started to fade, the Begnion Empire, using the Goddess's name, sent troops to begin an invasion to restore their dominance of the continent. The invasion started with new powers Daein and Kilvas.
428 • Kilvas refused Phoenicis' reinforcements and surrendered to Begnion. Also the Daein troops, concentrated at the capital of Nevassa, continued the resistance.
• Believing Begnion's dominance over the continent would not bode well, Crimea decided to ally with Daein, and declared war against Begnion. Begnion's battle with Crimea and Daein erupted. Although Begnion's might was unshaken, but due to the involvement of the Laguz of Gallia, Phoenicis and Kilvas, the war was prolonged and continued for numerous decades.
• The citizens of Serenes protested against Begnion's war, which was done in name of the goddess. Because they doubted the existence of the apostle, they ended up angering the senate and became at opposing sides with them. Finally, the citizens of Serenes established their own independent country, although the battle of the validity of the apostle never ended.
• The war entered a seemingly neverending state. Begnion, worried about their great losses, finally decided to find a way to stop the war. In the end, by the intervention of Goldoa, peace talks were held within the Sarasa region of Goldoa. Begnion signed a treaty of peace, with the conditions that they had to return their conquered lands to Daein and Kilvas and recognise them as official countries.
595 • Apostle Misaha became the 36th empress of Begnion.
• Attacking the senate who were slow to act with regards to laguz slavery, Apostle Misaha declared the Laguz Emancipation Act. The apostle's voice was powerful. The senate could no longer ignore the cries of the country and ordered the release of all the laguz slaves.
625 • Apostle Misaha was assassinated. The senate declared this to be the doing of the Serenes citizens who doubted the existence of the apostle.
• The furious Begnion citizens ravaged the Serenes Forest and the Kingdom of Serenes fell in a few days.
626 • Within Daein, various mysterious changes occurred. General Gawain of the Four Riders mysteriously vanished, along with his fiancée. A plague gripped Daein, resulting in countless deaths, including deaths of the king and almost all of the royal family.
• To avenge the Serenes Massacre, Phoenicis began pillaging nearby Begnion ships. Also Kilvas took advantage of the situation and pillaged relentlessly. Within Begnion, awareness of the the bird tribes' actions steadily rose.
627 • Ashnard, the sole survivor of the Daein royal family, became the 13th king of Daein.
• The holy dracoknights of Begnion, led by Shiharam, deserted for Daein. King Ashnard awarded the title of Palace Knights to Shiharam and his men.
640 • Apostle Sanaki Kirsch Altina became the 37th Empress of Begnion, the youngest in history. Duke Sephiran of Persis, as the prime minister and leader of the senate, became her aide.
• Daein commences an invasion of Crimea which ends with its quick conquest. The sole survivor of the royal family is Princess Elincia, who is found by the Greil Mercenaries and enters their custody.
• Greil of the Greil Mercenaries is slain by the Black Knight. His son, Ike's, is left with the sword Ragnell from the battle.
• Ike and Elincia flee Crimea by sea to petition Begnion for military aid.
• Working with the Begnion army, Ike leads an invasion of Daein and seizes the capital.
646 (spring) • The Mad King's War ends with General Ike's defeat of Ashnard at Melior. Crimea is restored and Elincia is crowned queen.
• Crimea cedes control of the defeated Daein to Begnion, which establishes an occupational garrison to govern it.
Between 646 and 648 • The Dawn Brigade is founded by Nolan and Micaiah in Nevassa, in response to the Begnion occupation's atrocities across Daein.
648 (early summer) • The Dawn Brigade leaves Nevassa and travels to the Grann Desert, where they unite with Prince Pelleas's fledgling army.
• The Daein Liberation Army, with Micaiah as its general, defeats the Begnion occupation under Jarod and restores Daein. King Pelleas takes the throne.
648 (rest of the year) • In Crimea, Queen Elincia narrowly averts a civil war with the assistance of Ike and the Greil Mercenaries.
• The Laguz Alliance is formed between Gallia, Kilvas, Phoenicis and the Greil Mercenaries, and declares war on Begnion for its role in the Serenes Massacre. Daein enters the war on Begnion's side.
• At Castle Nox, the war reaches its peak in a battle between Daein and the Greil Mercenaries. Yune is freed from the medallion by Micaiah. Ashera judges the world and turns almost everybody to stone.
• Under Yune's guidance, Ike, Micaiah and Elincia lead an assault on the Tower of Guidance, ultimately defeating Ashera. Yune reverses the judgement upon the world.
After 648 • Pelleas relinquishes the Daein throne, and Micaiah takes his place as Daein's queen.
• The bird tribes are united into a single nation in Serenes, with the hawk Tibarn as king.
• Ike departs from Tellius and is never seen there again.
Millennia later • Ashera and Yune reform into Ashunera once more. A war is once again about to break out in Tellius.
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As you'll likely recall, last weekend I ran every single block in Ditmas Park. I'm nothing if not prepared, of course, so I spent a bit of time figuring out how best to do this.
When I looked at the map, I figured it would probably be around 10 miles. No sweat; I was looking to do at least 16, and getting to and from the area would require at least 4-5 more. Any remaining mileage could be made up.
Ditmas Park is about as grid-ified as you'll get in Brooklyn, with no real angular avenues like Flatbush, to the east. As the neighborhood expands slightly from Foster Avenue up to Beverley Road, it adds a north-south Road (Stratford) and a few small connectors (Lewis Place, Matthew Court, Slocum Place). These would throw a kink into my planning.
I figured the easiest way to cover the ground would be a zigzag pattern: north, east, south, east, left, right, left, right, B, A, start. I'd also have to run the border of the neighborhood.
Then back and forth and repeat until done. Without duplicating routes in the neighborhood, this is the best I could do.
Two mathematical problems came to mind. First, the Königsberg Bridge Problem: how do you cross each of these seven bridges exactly once?
In short, to craft a once-and-exactly-once route, we can have no more than two nodes with an odd "degree" – that is, an odd number of edges connecting to it. Here, all four nodes have odd degree: A has degree 5, while B, C, and D have degree 3.
By restricting my route to just the neighborhood proper, I introduce a huge number of odd-degree nodes: basically, anything along the border, and a few other spots. That means I'll have to duplicate several stretches.
You have a chess queen, a piece that can move an unlimited number of squares in any one direction in a single turn. How do you get the queen to cross or land on all of the squares in this 3×3 area in just four moves?
Give this one a try. Bet you can't get it to work.
This one's a dirty trick, I admit. The answer is to move her outside the 3×3 grid, into adjoining (but hidden) territory.
I briefly considered extending my tour one block in every direction so as not to repeat myself. But unlike the queen, this would require real energy – not just an extension of the same move. Scrapped.
Perhaps one of my mathematician friends can find the optimal route.
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Speaking of the Königsberg Bridge Problem, Euler came up during the TD 168 reveal, which you didn't enter though you may have followed it. Apparently nothing is off-limits on those quizzes.


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Foreign Human Rights-Based Tort Claims Clear Last Jurisdictional Hurdles in Canadian Courts: Introducing "Transnational Torts"
Post author:H. Scott Fairley
On 21 November, the British Columbia Court of Appeal issued voluminous reasons for judgment in Araya v. Nevsun Resources Ltd.[2017] BCCA 401,upholding the decision of the trial court below, [2016] BCSC 1856, that it had jurisdiction to entertain tort claims by foreign nationals – based on alleged violations of international legal norms — with respect to alleged injuries inflicted in a foreign jurisdiction, not in Canada. At the outset of her reasons for judgment, Newbury J.A. posed the following "overarching question" relating to the jurisdiction of Canadian courts I such cases:
[W]hether Canadian courts, which have thus far not grappled with the development of what is now called 'transnational law', might also begin to participate in the change described; or whether we are to remain on the traditional path of judicial abstention from the adjudication of matters touching on the conduct of foreign states in their own territories – even where that conduct consists of violations of peremptory norms of international law, or jus cogens.
The unambiguous answer of this unanimous panel of the BCCA rang out in the affirmative that it was time for Canadian courts to so engage.
To be sure, there was a strong Canadian connection prompting the plaintiffs' claim at first instance. The defendant was a Canadian mining company with a 60% interest in a joint venture with the Government of Eritrea, a 40% shareholder, to develop a gold mine in that country through a chain of subsidiaries. The case concerns the alleged use of slave labour supplied by the Eritrean government and military to build out the mining site and related infrastructure.
The Nevsun case joins two other similar cases involving alleged human rights violations that are also cleared for trial on the merits, both arising from the alleged actions of Canadian subsidiaries against indigenous groups in Guatemala: Choc v. Hudbay Minerals inc. [2013] ONSC 1414; and Garcia v. Tahoe Resources Inc., [2017] BCCA 39, reversing previous stay granted on basis of forum non conveniens, [2015] BCSC 2045.
Why is this new kind of case emerging in Canada and why now? One major reason is that Canada is a party to all major United Nations human rights conventions that are in large part declaratory of customary law norms which the Supreme Court has clearly said are part of Canadian common law, giving rise to their invocation in private law suits: Hape v. The Queen, [2007] 2 S.C.R. 282 (maj. Reasons per Lebel JSCC).
Another potential reason is that this evolution of Canadian law and new receptivity by Canadian courts have occurred on the heels of the U.S. Supreme Court generally discouraging similar law suits previously entertained by U.S. Federal courts pursuant to the Alien Tort Statute, an originally obscure and forgotten statute of the first United States Congress in 1789, giving those courts jurisdiction to adjudicate tort actions by aliens for alleged violations of international law or treaties to which the United States is a party. There is no statutory equivalent to The ATS in Canada, but it appears that in the wake of the Hape decision, such statutory authorization is unnecessary. U.K. courts are taking a similar view, as noted by Madam Justice Newbury in Nevsun, who began her reasons for judgment by citing the observations of Lord Justice Lloyd Jones in Belhaj v. Straw, [2014] EWCA Civ. 1394, that "a fundamental change has occurred within public international law. The traditional view of public international law as a system of law merely regulating the conduct of states among themselves on the international place has long been discarded. In its place has emerged a system which includes the regulation of human rights by international law, a system of which individuals are rightly considered to be subjects…."
The serious allegations in all the three Canadian cases now going to trial remain to be proven in Court. However, they illuminate escalating domestic legal liabilities fueled by public international law norms for Canadian companies operating in host states that are "soft" jurisdictions or even rogue states measured against prohibitive rules of international customary human rights law. And that is a third factor fueling this new branch of Canadian common law requiring a much greater understanding of international law for the purposes of both bringing and defending such cases. They are no accident and more will follow as a result of the concentration of the global mining industry within the reach of Canadian courts. Canada is host to the head offices of fully half of the world's mining companies, many of which are engaged in mining projects abroad. Many of these projects in turn are situated in volatile host states with unpredictable legal regimes that operate to create or contribute to the causes of action that occur there instead of providing any kind of meaningful forum for resolving them. In the result, it appears that, increasingly, foreign plaintiffs from these jurisdictions will seek justice from Canadian judges sitting in Canadian courts.
Read the Araya v. Nevsun Resources Ltd.[2017] BCCA 401 case here.
H. Scott Fairley
Scott Fairley is a senior lawyer, advocate and counsel in the field of recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments and arbitral awards and has spoken and published widely on these subjects, both in Canada and abroad.
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Description: Just start a new empty level, turn show flag "mesh edges" on, and start playing with BSP brushs. Add a couple of brushes, move them around, and eventually you will see the model geometry goes haywire (you might have to overlap some brushes to trigger). Creating a static mesh from one brush seems will result in an updating and fixing of all other brushes (sometimes), but it does yield a proper static mesh (most of the time). I would like this to be fixed because I am trying to define my own C++ brush builders (ie the TorusBuilder brush below).
Could you be more specific in your description of what you mean by 'haywire'?
Yes, look more closely at the first image. There are edges on the brush that shouldn't be there. The second image shows how the extra edges disappear once I convert the brush to a static mesh. My custom torus brush better illustrates the issue but I just want to know why the engines default brush has these extra edges, or at least appears to.


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Robert "Bob" Young of Bath died peacefully on August 3rd surrounded by his children and granddaughter Jody Hume. Bob was well known for enjoying a good laugh and a good cigar, and he made friends wherever he went. Bob grew up in Geneseo, New York working on his family farm. He held several jobs throughout his life including: as a soda jerk; an Airman First Class in the U.S. Air Force; livestock, car carrier and freight truck driver; Transport Supervisor for B.R. Dewitt, during the building of the New York State Thruway; real estate agent; Owner of the Hall Equipment John Deer dealership; and Co-Owner of Young Potato Equipment, with his son Scott (Jane) Young. He was fond of saying that he loved what he did, so he never thought of it as work. Bob was a lifelong member of the Bath American Legion and a long-time member of the Avoca United Methodist Church. He is survived by his son Steven (Roxanne) Young of Salisbury, North Carolina; his daughter Roberta "Bobbie" (Doug) Dillon of Canandaigua; his beloved stepchildren Alan (Linda) Sampson of Victor, Pamela Sampson of Shortsville, Debbie (Ron) Rossolo of Victor, and Jack Sampson of Shortsville; his 13 grandchildren; and numerous great and great-great grandchildren. He was predeceased by his wife, Vera Young; his son, Scott Young; and daughter, Susan Young; all of whom he looked forward to joining after his passing. In lieu of flowers, please pour yourself a Scotch, smoke a cigar if you've got one and send donations to the Finger Lakes SPCA, 72 Cameron Street, Bath, NY 14810 in honor of Bob's love of animals. Family and Friends are invited to vistation at Fagan's Funeral Home of Bath, NY on Saturday, August 7, 2021 from 11:00-1:00pm with Services to follow at 1:00pm. Burial will be in Nondaga Cemetery.
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At Milford's Board of Education meeting on March 16, Mr. Paul Daniels was hired as the Director of Secondary Curriculum and Instruction for Milford Schools. Mr. Daniels has worked in education for 14 years, seven as a teacher and seven as an administrator.
The District is pleased to announce that Milford High School is now using the Raptor Visitor Management System to enhance campus safety for students and faculty. The Raptor system will better allow us to track visitors and volunteers in our schools and provide us with a safer environment for our students and staff. In the upcoming months, the Raptor system will be implemented in all of our schools.


Capital, Christian courage, Local economy, Reformed faith?
God has blessed my wife, Jeannette, and me with four children, the last of which is 12. He was born "a late surprise," arriving in the depth of a humiliation imposed on me by state government in a tussle over driver license application forms and social security numbers.
He's just about to start home education lessons, probably this week. All his life he's been taught apart from the state factory school and mass "educational" systems.
My goals for the lad are like those I had for his brothers and sister. The eldest sibling is a young woman enjoying an art residency in the Netherlands that ends this week. The other two are brothers, one a teenage Marine recruit at Parris Island, S.C., the other a local university student specializing in computer network security.
It occurs to me that I have lost my personal connection with the boy at home. I want to figure out why, and how to restore it. I have been doing my dad tasks without considering the personal nature of fathering. This loss of connection is perhaps enhanced by what Jeannette identifies as my idealism. She made these points in a conversation this Lord's Day morning before the sun had even suggested itself through a treeline east of our hilltop residence.
To get to my problem as a dad, it may be helpful to consider my idealism. I desire my children to love God with all their hearts, souls and minds, and their neighbors as themselves. I want them to exalt their creator, know His ways, favor His truths, be willing to suffer for His people and for God's glory. To this end I am a practicing Christian. We worship at God's house on the first day of the week. I have catechized the children and had the youngest memorize Christ's parables. Among the four, memory work has been routine, but uneven.
Perhaps most consistently I lead family worship every day. All their lives the children have heard their dad read scripture, ask a question or two, make a brief analysis, and direct everyone present in prayer.
Lessons at home bring innumerable spiritual advantages to children. Education is a religious enterprise because it is always about causes and effects. If God is creator, He is the first cause, and every area of study, whether science or history, should account for God's work among mankind and among the aspects of physical creation.
The ideal is that my children become free people, true Christians, entrepreneurs, skeptics of popular opinion and establishment practice and people who will alter the currents of culture (or have children who do). I have reared my four to defy the common way and to build for themselves lives that reflect God's truth in their areas of labor and influence. I desire them to defy convention, as I have, to be within the system of commerce and government in this American state, and yet to be apart from it — to be in it, but not of it. I worked 24 years as an editor at a daily newspaper, utterly conventional in my daily output for its masters, but I was also investigating legal liberty and was involved in litigation with state government that changed a state law in favor of religious liberty. Outward compliance, in a sense, with quiet counter-revolutionary activity in the courts. As God ordained, I lost my case in court, but won the war and glorified and enjoyed God.
I want to rear my children so that they love and respect their parents, are friends with their mother and me, and that they be willing to care for parents when there is but a decrepit survivor. I would like at least one of my children to take an interest in my life of journalism and be an heir in a media property in which he has learned that trade.
My work as editor and talk show host fill the cup of my idealism to overflowing. Local economy and free markets are the lens through which I report on the world, and by which I yearn for a more prosperous and freer Chattanooga. My job as editor and writer, and my calling as espousing God's goodness and liberty coincide. Most gratifying.
My fault is that I have not been connecting to the boy at home. I grind out family worship. I grind out French lessons. I pursue a review of the Westminster shorter catechism whose 107 questions he had memorized (but has forgotten). I grind out attendance at Trail Life USA meetings and events, and dutifully play the part of the dad. I make a comment on a headline at table, and grind out an analysis as part of light conversation.
For their whole lives my children have heard my arguments about the sovereignty of God, sovereign grace, "free government," constitutional law, free markets, the war of the state against family and church. They have heard about honest money, free enterprise, the need to resist and defy lawless magistrates and kings and to defy temptations of the flesh.
But do they believe these arguments and suggestions?
Does the boy at home understand what a treasure he has in his dad, who has explained to him many of the ideas developed in your presence as reader? How many boys have the benefit of a dad who can explain why there is no compulsory driver license statute or no liability for anyone to file any form that effectively waives constitutional rights?
Well, perhaps there be few boys with the advantage of my son, the 12-year-old.
But it doesn't matter how right I am, how wise I may be to a reader or a radio show listener, if I don't impart grains of truth and the wisdom of my struggles.
Jeannette says I cannot win my children to my arguments for liberty and prosperity if I don't first win my children to myself.
Somehow, with God's grace, I must connect with the boy. It's giving time, quality time. But more importantly, it's giving quantity time. It's being unguarded, open, ready, and being able to just sit quietly without having to fill the time with a useful discussion about stock market collapses, paper money or the role of plunge protection teams serving "the good people" and their cronies. I have to realize that sometimes ordinary life has its place, and there's no high ideal in view, no hot topic at hand. It's not needful for me to give a lecture on why profit is necessary in the free market or why Alexander Hamilton, the man on the face of F$10 bill whose name adorns the Tennessee county of my birth, had a misplaced faith in man and was wrong about the federal constitution.
Maybe I should listen more and teach less. Maybe I should ask questions more and make fewer statements. Perhaps I need to appear less that I have answers, and more than I have questions and doubts about how the real world works. This way, the boy soon to turn 13 will have a dad with whom he can relate, and who is more like him.


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Status of salvinia in Tasmania
Salvinia is a declared weed in Tasmania under the Tasmanian Weed Management Act 1999. The importation, sale and distribution of salvinia are prohibited in Tasmania.
The legal responsibilities of landholders and other stakeholders in dealing with salvinia are laid out in the Salvinia Weed Management Plan.
What does salvinia look like?
Salvinia is a free-floating aquatic herb. The leaf size varies depending the density of plants, ranging from 0.5 to 3 cm long. The leaves are covered in small water-repelling hairs that also provide buoyancy. The leaf margins are darker coloured. The roots are fine divided modified leaves. The spore sacs which develop among the roots resemble bunches of grapes. Dense mats of salvinia can completely cover the water surface.
Fertile spores have never been found and all spread is by vegetative means. The early juvenile form of the plant is the invasive form. Spread occurs when plant fragments are moved in flood waters. Salvinia is also spread via the ornamental plant trade.
Image top: Salvinia, © Barry Rice.
Image above L-R: Salvinia in waterway; Salvinia leaves and spore sacs, © CDFA.
Impacts of salvinia
Salvinia is a serious weed of irrigation channels, natural waterways and wetlands.
Where does salvinia occur
Salvinia is a native of South America. Salvinia has naturalised in New South Wales, Queensland, the Northern Territory and Western Australia.
Salvinia has not naturalised in Tasmania.
If you locate salvinia anywhere in Tasmania, or if you find a plant that you think could be salvinia, immediately contact Biosecurity Tasmania on 03 6165 3777 to report this weed.
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America on Trial, via Khalid Sheikh Mohammed
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Maui Time | November 19, 2009
One of my favorite books is by a conservative. Every American should read Stephen L. Carter's 1996 primer on ethics, Integrity. Carter writes that integrity requires doing the right thing, "even at personal cost." In the world of politics, the example of Al Gore's father comes to my mind: a senator from Tennessee, Al Gore, Sr. openly opposed segregation and the Vietnam War even though he knew his outspokenness would cause him to lose his 1970 reelection campaign.
Faced with the choice between integrity and expediency, Republicans are taking the low road. Principles? Only when they're convenient. Never mind the Constitution, the Geneva Conventions or common decency -- on the question of what to do about POWs rotting away at Guantanamo Bay concentration camp, right-wingers' concerns are purely practical.
We are talking, of course, about Attorney General Eric Holder's decision to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in federal court in Manhattan, within walking distance of the World Trade Center Memorial Hole, which marks America's resilience.
Note: I don't refer to Mohammed as "9/11 mastermind." Unlike most Americans, I don't believe that something is true just because the government says it. Until a jury and the media examine the facts, we have no idea whether Mohammed is guilty of anything. As far as we know, he could be nothing more than a poster child for Pakistani bed-head. Moreover, my distrust multiplies in direct proportion to the number times a suspect has been waterboarded (in Mohammed's case, at least 183).
Anyway, it's interesting to watch "law and order" conservatives like Rudy Giuliani talk away basic legal rights like habeas corpus. "[Mohammad] should be tried in a military tribunal," Giuliani says, "He is a war criminal. This is an act of war." No, Mr. Mayor, he's not. And this is no war. Had an actual war been declared, a nation-state would have attacked us. 9/11 was a criminal act, and a terrible one: mass murder, air piracy and property damage. Until Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is tried and convicted in a court of law, however he is an alleged criminal, innocent until proven guilty. Where'd this Giuliani guy go to law school, Wal-Mart?
Among Giuliani's other worries: "security concerns." "Just wait and see how much New York City spends on this in order to protect him," he warns. While we're at it, think of how much money the government could save by eliminating the criminal justice system! Why not just let the cops shoot anyone they want?
The attorney general's decision should be commended. He was correct to act independently, without consulting with Obama. It is a long overdue course correction for a government still careening down the road to moral illegitimacy. Still, Holder's pseudo-conservative critics -- wouldn't a real conservative favor strict adherence to the law, practical concerns like the cost of security be damned? -- have good reasons to worry about how the trial will unfold, if and when it actually comes to pass.
For example, Republican Rep. Pete Hoekstra of Michigan fears accused terrorists will exploit their trials. He worries they will "disrupt it and make it a circus and allow them to use it as a platform to push their ideology." Well, yeah. In political proceedings, the defendants always try to put the state on trial. Unfortunately, the military, CIA and Bush Administration made that outcome inevitable by refusing to treat 9/11 as a crime. Mohammed and his comrades ought to have been turned over to The Hague, where the dull murmur of transcription machines has a way of sucking all the drama out of the most political of trials.
John "Torture Memo" Yoo frets in The Wall Street Journal that "KSM and his co-defendants will enjoy the benefits and rights that the Constitution accords to citizens and resident aliens -- including the right to demand that the government produce in open court all of the information that it has on them, and how it got it." Though self-serving, it's an excellent point. The whole sordid story of America's post-9/11 torture program will be internationally televised.
At Mohammed's trial the whole world will hear how U.S. soldiers and intelligence agents stabbed, suffocated and sodomized detainees, including kids, most of whom were later determined to be innocent and set free. So much for the Obama effect; traveling overseas is going to suck for Americans from now on.
The government could have avoided this unpleasantness by, oh, not torturing. And, when we citizens heard and read and watched reports that our government was torturing, we could have racked up some integrity points by taking to the streets by the million to demand that it stop. But we had football and Battlestar Galactica and reality shows to watch instead. Oh, well.
Now it's time for America to take its lumps. Even if that means putting KSM on a plane back to Pakistan and watching him arriving home to a hero's welcome, that's too bad. Release is how a judge and jury typically treats a man who has been tortured while awaiting custody.
What does Stephen L. Carter think about this? I don't know, but I'd like to think that (as a conservative) he would agree with me. Integrity requires one to accept responsibility for one's actions.
Ted Rall is the author, with Pablo G. Callejo, of the new graphic memoir "The Year of Loving Dangerously." He is also the author of the 2002 graphic travelogue "To Afghanistan and Back."
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Amazing Space: Simple, Sophisticated Boy's Room Design by Blye Faust
We're always on the hunt for kids' room designs that don't scream "Kiddie!" So when we came across this fun, contemporary little boy's room designed by Blye Faust of ByBlye Interiors, we were instantly smitten with its balance of fun and function, and its upscale mix of streamlined furniture and eclectic accessories.
That mix harks back to Blye's own varied background—she earned a JD from UCLA, and wound up in Los Angeles as a film and television producer and an attorney. After she and her husband moved to the Bay Area and had two sons of their own, she knew she needed to find a better balance between her the hectic entertainment industry and something she could do in San Francisco. With her lifelong love of interior design—she remembers constantly rearranging the furniture in her parents' house as a teen—and wide-ranging knowledge of design styles from her many global travels, Blye struck out on her own as a designer. "The marriage between both fields has actually been incredibly seamless in that they are both really a way for me to continue telling stories," she says.
For this boy's room, the story was clear from the outset: Blye and the homeowners wanted a space that felt cheerful yet sophisticated, and that incorporated little homages to their interests: San Francisco, music, reading, travel, and baseball. Blye started with neutral walls, and painted the trim in the same color in a gloss finish for a bit of contrast and a more contemporary feel. She then added subtle pattern by covering the floor in a nearly wall-to-wall cotton area rug in an indigo herringbone weave.
The furniture had to be comfortable yet practical—how adorable are those pint-size Panton chairs? —and offer a variety of lounging, reading, and playing spaces. The round and oval raffia baskets are an eclectic touch that lend the room a bit of earthiness, and make the perfect storage bins for corralling toys and accessories. And speaking of toys, we're pretty sure we need one of those fire-engine-red, mini suspension bridges, even if the package says it's meant for ages "3 and up" (we qualify as "up," right?).
Blye, who considers the DPages, Elle Décor, and "anything done by Pierre Yovanovitch or Jean Louis Deniot" as her go-to sources of inspiration, offers these guidelines for anyone putting together a kid's room: "It should be personal, be able to grow over time with its occupant, and should be able to withstand a beating! I don't think I fully appreciated how important it was to design for durability before I became a mom, but I definitely learned the hard way on that front, and it's now fully ingrained in my design philosophy." She also loves that wallpaper is back, and encourages clients to try them in a kids' room. "They sky's the limit when you get to push the envelope with colors and patterns like you can with the little ones," she says.
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God and His Girlfriend, by Priyank
Name of the book: God & His Girlfriend
Author: Priyank
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3. Kapil Awasthi
Have you ever met a pretty girl in a suspicious condition with blood stained hands lying in a hotel room where you are staying in?
Can a love story see its acceptance in the Indian society when the boy is from slums and the girl is born in a rich family?
How many of you have met those girls who were molested by their known ones when they had not even crossed the age of 14? Isn't forced and unwilling sex after marriage similar to a rape?
Whether the prayers offered in love strong enough to bring back someone's lost beloved from PoK?
How many of you know a person whose deeds are completely ideal, something which only a God can do?
Whether religion, caste or community should really be a parameter in deciding the hierarchy and dominance of people living in this world?
God and his girl-friend is a mercurial story about two youngsters, from entirely different backgrounds who strive hard against their comfort to live with their passion. A boy from the slums and a girl from a rich lavishing family set out on an embarking journey to touch the moon. This takes them through many tests, eventually tying them up in love, followed by an unforgettable service to the nation as true stalwart patriots.
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'The HINDU' calls Priyank's books, which has stories inspired from real life to be perfect in portraying the power of love.
Bollywood film maker Imtiyaz Ali conveyed his words to Priyank at a literary event in Delhi that he could see Priyank emerging out as a potential story writer from his city Jamshedpur.
Priyank is an author, a start up lover cum aspiring entrepreneur, a story teller and a motivational speaker. He is a gold medal winner in creative writing at the National level. He was named as the Best Debut Author of 2014 by Aagman Literary Organization, a Delhi based literary and cultural house for his novel " I am dead but my heart beats. "
He completed his Engineering from BIT Sindri, Dhanbad in 2015. He has delivered story telling sessions and motivational talks across many organizations in a short span of one and half year. He is the founder of Embellish India, a start-up he kicked off while in college. Currently, he works for a Delhi based funded start up after resigning from his first MNC job at TCS.
Born in Amethi (Uttar Pradesh) on 29th October, in a Maithil Brahmin family and brought up in Ghatsila (a small town near Steel city Jamshedpur in Jharkhand), Priyank's dream is to bring changes in the country and make it a better place to live in. Writing was never his passion nor his goal. It happened to him by chance, by destiny, in an attempt to fulfill someone's dream. He loves cricket, travelling, sleeping and trying out new delicacies.
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Rowling rebukes anti-free speech left
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Gary McGath May 17, 2016 at 7:10 am
When J. K. Rowling mentioned a petition to ban Donald Trump from the UK, the audience at the PEN Literary Gala applauded. But unlike much of the left, she knows that taking away freedom of speech threatens everyone, including her, and she rebuked the people who clapped.
"Just a moment: Now, I find almost everything that Mr. Trump says objectionable. I consider him offensive and bigoted. But he has my full support to come to my country and be offensive and bigoted there. His freedom to speak protects my freedom to call him a bigot."
The people who applauded were doubtless the same ones who objected to PEN's free speech award to Charlie Hebdo. While they're not likely to be convinced by any argument, she may have gotten others to think about the danger in today's spreading hostility to free speech. That's what counts.


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Q: J2ObjC with source jar file I need to translate itext source jar to objective c using J2ObjC.
I use the Xcode Build rules at here .
But when I add this script
"${J2OBJC_HOME}/j2objc" --build-closure -d ${DERIVED_FILES_DIR} -sourcepath "${PROJECT_DIR}/" --no-package-directories "${PROJECT_DIR}/Classes/Othello/Engine/itext-2.1.7-sources.jar" ${INPUT_FILE_PATH};

I get build errors

This project was built and run successfully without my script.
Please help me
Thanks

A: Try removing the last ${INPUT_FILE_PATH}. j2objc's flags are modeled after javac's (to support build tools), so any argument after the last flag is treated as a source file. Since the sources jar holds all the source files, the ${INPUT_FILE_PATH} tells the compiler to compile a directory, which it can't do.

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Aquatic Invasive Species: European Water Chestnut
Photo by Leslie J. Mehrhoff, University of Connecticut, Bugwood.org
European Water Chestnut (Trapa natans) is a floating aquatic annual which is native to Europe, Asia, and tropical Africa. It was introduced to North America as a garden specimen. The plant can grow up to sixteen feet and forms thick mats. It causes damage to aquatic environments by shading out native plants, and decreasing the level of oxygen in water. The quickly spreading plant also makes boating, fishing, and swimming difficult because of the overgrowth of the plant's vegetation in waterways.
The plant has leathery, glossy, triangular leaves (5 cm wide) that have toothed margins. The leaves form a radiating pattern or rosette that is up to 30 cm in diameter. The undersides of the leaves are covered with soft hairs. Spongy inflated bladders on the leaf stems help the plant float on the water's surface. Below the waterline the plant has feathery leaves along its stalk. A distinctive trait of this plant is its woody nutlets with four sharp barbs which can get caught on recreational gear, clothing, or exposed flesh. They can also potentially be carried by wildlife. These nutlets can produce up to 20 new rosettes, which in turn can produce up to 20 new nutlets. The seed is viable for up to 12 years.
You Can Stop the Spread of Invasive Plants. Always Clean, Drain, and Dry Your Boat, Paddle Gear, and Footwear.
Clean all plant stems and fragments and mud from boats and trailers before leaving your lake or river and dispose of them in an aquatic invasive species disposal station if one is available.
Empty all water from your gear well before moving to a new body of water.
Dispose of leftover bait in the trash, not in the water.
Clean out waders and wading boots before moving to a new body of water.
Dry your boat and gear thoroughly between waterbodies by towel drying or drying in the sun for at least 5 days.
Report European Water Chestnut with http://www.nyimapinvasives.org/. You can help ADK (Adirondack Mountain Club) survey ponds and lakes for aquatic invasive species such as Yellow Floating Heart, European frog-bit and European Water Chestnut. For more information on the Backcountry Water Monitors Project and upcoming workshops and outings visit www.ADK.org.
Sources and Field Guide Pages for Download
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http://www.mainevlmp.org/mciap/herbarium/WaterChestnut.php
http://www.invadingspecies.com/invaders/plants-aquatic/european-water-chestnut/
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Will inserts help my arch pain?
My daughter runs cross country and track in high school. She complains of aching feet. She has been told before that she has falling arches. Will inserts in her shoes fix the problem, if she will wear them all the time? It's summer time, and she likes to wear flip-flops. My guess is that flip-flops don't help.
Flat feet can cause foot fatigue and/or pain. Shoes with a good arch support can be helpful – most good tennis shoes and running shoes have these. You are correct that flip flops and walking barefoot don't provide any arch support.


Where does the time go? It seems like only yesterday that Raymond, Keith and I were standing in a tiny, raw space watching Kevin Ryan talk about his vision for Service Brewing Co. A few short years later, Service is thriving in a large, sleek, modern location near the iconic Savannah River and celebrating its success with a third anniversary ale.
Service is very different now than how Kevin originally pitched it to us, but the realized business is one that he and all of his employees can be proud of. One of those employees is our own Keith Dion who serves as cellarman. When brainstorming ideas for the brewery's latest anniversary release, SBC 3, Keith described one of his favorite desserts. That passionate introduction was the creative spark behind SBC 3 which was unveiled at the brewery's anniversary party and is now available in a 750ml bottle at retail locations.
SBC 3 is a wheatwine Ale coming in at 9.2 percent alcohol by volume. The beer is brewed with Savannah Bee Co. honey, vanilla bean and milk sugar. The beer is noted with a "DOB" of July, 2017 and was reviewed in mid-August, 2017.
It should be noted upfront that I am highly partial to wheatwines and could not be more excited to see this style interpreted by the talented team at Service. Also of note, this is not the first wheatwine Service has brewed, but it is the first to go out beyond the brewery.
The bottle's label is identical to Service Brewing's previous anniversary ales, SBC 0, SBC 1 and SBC 2. It is a bold label with a black background marking a riveted shield, detailed in white and silver with the most obvious entity being the anniversary year numeral. The major difference here is of course the stenciled number on the front (a large '3') and the beer's title and description.
SBC 3 pours a medium caramel color with an off-white head. Held up to the light, the color does brighten to a slightly amber golden brown with moderate cloudiness.
There is a slight alcohol burn on the nose, followed by a bright, creamy sugary sweetness. Imagine if a candy store secretly smuggled a few drops of Schnapps inside its taffy. It's delightful and slightly naughty. If Service ever wants to go into the candle making business, I'll be the first customer in line.
The sugar comes through the aroma onto the taste. It's a high note, lofty and not terribly rich but still intense and…assuring. There's an odd comfort to drinking this beer and the concept of a dessert plate is a strong metaphor. While not billed as a tiramisu beer, that's the impact. It has a milky-cream element, but it's kicked back by the sugar and a soft, angel food cake-like malt. The sweetness is in no way cloying. Instead, it's honest and natural.
As the beer finishes, there's a small hint of bitterness from the hops, but hops aren't what bring you to a wheatwine. For me, wheatwines are all about the sweetness interplaying with the alcohol. Caramel, toffee, a dash of tropical fruit all come together to support the alcohol bite into a nice, bright, surprising and highly drinkable beer.
The mouthfeel is one of my favorite pieces of SBC 3. This beer is a perfect in-between. It's not thin and not thick. Somehow it's creamy without being chewy. This is where you want a wheatwine to be. It coats but doesn't stick. There's enough to savor without being overwhelmed and it leaves you wanting more.
Have I effused enough praise yet? SBC 3 is a fantastic offering from Service Brewing Co. If you like your beers sweet and intense but bereft of any artificial twang, this is a must-buy. My only gripe is that this is a one-off. I just hope they've squirreled enough away for a keg to be brought out at the release party for SBC 4.


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Carved out of Bihar in 2000, after years of agitation by its largely adivasi population, Jharkhand yields almost forty percent of India's minerals, but suffers from extreme poverty, lawlessness and Naxalite (Maoist guerrilla) activity, and is rarely visited by tourists. Although the area around the capital, Ranchi, and the main tourist attraction, Palamau (Betla) National Park, are now safe to visit, it's vital to check the security situation before venturing out of those areas, and you should avoid travelling at night by road anywhere in the state.
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Jharkhand's capital, Ranchi was Bihar's summer capital under the colonial regime, and must be the most laidback state capital in the country. Its main hub is Firayalal Chowk, two kilometres north of the train station, a busy road junction now renamed Albert Ekka Chowk after a hero of the 1971 Indo-Pakistani War whose statue now stands in the middle of it. Ranchi's top shopping and commercial thoroughfare, Main Road (officially Mahatma Gandhi Marg), runs north and south from here, crossing the rail line some 500m west of the station. Ranchi itself isn't exactly thick with sights, but there are a couple of places worth seeing within easy striking distance.
Jagganathpur Temple
Like its more famous counterpart in Puri, the Jagganathpur Temple is dedicated to the triad of Jagganath, Balabhadra and Subhadra, and like the one in Puri, it has a Rath Yatra festival in June or July in which their images are hauled out on chariots, attracting thousands of devotees. Built on a hilltop and originally dating from 1691, the temple even looks like a smaller version of the one in Puri, with a 30-metre-high daul (main tower). Unlike the one in Puri, however, non-Hindus are allowed to go inside.
Palamau (Betla) National Park
In a remote corner of Jharkhand, the beautiful sal forests of the Palamau National Park cover around eight hundred square kilometres of hilly terrain. Although part of Project Tiger, Palamau has been hard hit by drought, and at the time of writing, there were no tigers or leopards. If lucky, you may still see elephants, nilgai (antelope), gaur (bison) and wild boar. The park is open all year, but October to April is the best time to visit, although it can be rather chilly then, especially in the morning. Most visitors take a jeep safari to explore the park. However, make sure you check the situation before you visit — in recent years, Palamau has seen movements of local guerrillas who spill in from the troubled north-eastern forests of bordering Chhattisgarh, and the park can sometimes be closed to tourists.
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Q: Convert Projection Matrix to Realworld Matrix I'm using the following code to get the projection matrix from ARCore.
Frame.CameraImage.GetCameraProjectionMatrix(m_Camera.nearClipPlane, m_Camera.farClipPlane);

I would like to convert the Projection Matrix to World Matrix from the perspective of our eye. In other words, I'm trying to transform the ProjectionMatrix to that of the real world Matrix. Is there any possible solution for the same?

A: var camera = GetComponent<Camera>();
camera.projectionMatrix = Frame.CameraImage.GetCameraProjectionMatrix(camera.nearClipPlane, camera.farClipPlane);
var worldMatrix = camera.cameraToWorldMatrix;

worldMatrix is what you want I think.


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Q: Help deriving simple linear regression formulas I'm reading the Wikipedia article Simple Linear Regression .  In the article they write a function to be minimized by choosing $\alpha$ and $\beta$:
$$Q(\alpha,\beta) = \sum_{i=0}^{n} (y_i - \alpha - \beta x_i)^2$$
They show equations for $\alpha$ and $\beta$ to minimize the function.  But, they don't show the derivation. Thus, I am trying to work through it, but I'm having difficulty....
To find $\alpha$ I'm letting $\frac{\partial Q}{\partial\alpha}=0$ and solving for $\alpha$. Similarly, to find $\beta$ I'm letting $\frac{\partial Q}{\partial\beta}=0$ and solving for $\beta$.  However, I'm finding that in both cases I'm getting the equation $\hat \alpha = \bar y - \hat \beta \bar x$.  This equation does relate $\alpha$ and $\beta$, but doesn't help you find $\beta$.
What approach could I take to find $\beta$?  I wonder I'm doing the derivative with respect to $\beta$ wrong, but I don't know.
p.s. What is distinction between bars and hats in the article?  I see both of them and think "average".

A: One defines $\bar y = (y_1+\cdots+y_n)/n$ and similarly with $x$.  The bar means the average of the $n$ observations.
Notice that you don't have $n$ different observed values of $\alpha$ or $\beta$ --- in fact you don't have any observed values of those at all.  The idea is that $\{(x_i,y_i):i=1,\ldots,n\}$ is a sample of size $n$ taken from a large population, and $\alpha$ and $\beta$ are in effect properties of that population, whereas $\hat\alpha$ and $\hat\beta$ are estimates of $\alpha$ and $\beta$ based on the observed sample of $n$ data points.  If you toss the $n$ observed individuals back into the population and stir it up and take another random sample of size $n$, then the values of $\hat\alpha$ and $\hat\beta$ change, but the (unobservable) values of $\alpha$ and $\beta$ remain the same.  Another use of the hat notation is when one writes
$$
\hat y_i = \hat\alpha+\hat\beta x_i.
$$
Notice that $\hat y_i$ has a "hat" and $x_i$ does not.  The number $\hat y_i$ is the $i$th "fitted value".  It is an estimate of the average $y$-value among members of the population for which the $x$-value is $x_i$.  The difference $\hat\varepsilon_i=y_i-\hat y_i$ is the $i$th residual, also equal to $y_i-(\hat\alpha+\hat\beta x_i)$, not to be confused with the $i$th error $\varepsilon_i=y_i-(\alpha+\beta x_i)$.  The residuals are observable; the errors are not.  The residuals must satisfy the two constraints $\sum_{i=1}^n \hat\varepsilon_i=0$ and $\sum_{i=1}^n \hat\varepsilon_i x_i=0$; the errors are subject to no such constraints.  That there are two such linear constraints is why one says there are $n-2$ degrees of freedom for error.
I don't use derivatives to find $\hat\beta$ and $\hat\alpha$; instead I talk about matrices and orthogonal projections.  But let's see if I can do it using derivatives:
$$
\begin{align}
\frac{\partial Q}{\partial\alpha} & = -2\sum_{i=0}^{n} (y_i - \alpha - \beta x_i) =0 \tag1 \\[10pt]
\frac{\partial Q}{\partial\beta} & = -2\sum_{i=0}^{n} (y_i - \alpha - \beta x_i)x_i = 0 \tag2
\end{align}
$$
From $(1)$ we conclude that
$$
\alpha = \bar y - \beta \bar x. \tag 3
$$
Thus the least-squares line must pass through the "point of averages" $(\bar x,\bar y)$, which is just the average of the observed data points $(x_i,y_i),\ i=1,\ldots,n$.
Now substitute $(3)$ for $\alpha$ in the $(2)$:
$$
\sum_{i=1}^n (y_i - (\bar y - \beta \bar x) -\beta x_i)x_i,
$$
or:
$$
\sum_{i=1}^n ((y_i-\bar y) -\beta(x_i-\bar x))x_i=0
$$
$$
\beta = \frac{\sum_{i=1}^n (y_i-\bar y)x_i }{\sum_{i=1}^n (x_i-\bar x)x_i}.
$$
That that is the same as
$$
\beta = \frac{\sum_{i=1}^n (y_i-\bar y)(x_i-\bar x) }{\sum_{i=1}^n (x_i-\bar x)(x_i-\bar x)}
$$
I leave as an exercise in algebra for the moment, but I'll post more on it if you have questions about that.


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Despite what might appear to be an obvious legal position, the question is often asked as to whether, despite those laws, it is permissible to 'smack' a child.
The move in Wales follows similar developments in Scotland last October, which resulted in the children's commissioners of Scotland, England, Wales and Northern Ireland calling for a ban on smacking children.
Attitudes to parenting practices have also changed. While physically punishing children was accepted as normal practice in previous generations, research shows parents today are increasingly using positive approaches which are proven to be more effective, while feeling less comfortable about using physical punishment. In 1998, for example, 88% of British adults agreed that "it is sometimes necessary to smack a naughty child" while in 2015 only 24% of parents in Wales supported this statement.
The law allows an assault on a child provided that it constitutes 'reasonable punishment'.
Section 58 Children Act 2004 states however that this defence cannot apply to the more serious charges of violence such as assault occasioning actual bodily harm, or above.
This case established in law reasonable punishment as a defence for those parents, carers or other responsible adults – such as teachers – who were charged with the criminal offence of assault on children.
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Wenda Clenaghen was a student at the LSE during the radical period of 1968. Here she recalls the involvement of the young Chris Harman in events, from the anti-war movement to the streets of Paris.
Chris was a familiar figure, along with Richard Kuper, Steve Jefferys and David Adelstein, on the London School of Economics Old Theatre stage. He was the most shambolic of the four. With wild curly black hair and a strange stuttering style of speaking, that often matched his movements, he was convincing to the uninitiated of which I was one.
His speeches had a combination of intellectual depth, a call to action and sincerity. The International Socialists' (IS) slogan of "Neither Washington nor Moscow" was particularly attractive.
1968 was the crescendo of two years of intense militant activity at the LSE disputing the appointment of Walter Adams as the new director. Adams was at the time principal of Salisbury University in Southern Rhodesia under Ian Smith's white minority rule.
Basker Vashee, a close comrade, had spent time in jail under the white regime for supporting the Zimbabwe African People's Union independence struggle on that very campus before being deported to Britain.
Labour prime minister Harold Wilson had been ineffectual in preventing Smith's Unilateral Declaration of Independence in 1965. Hundreds of Labour students who hitherto had been hopeful started to turn towards an alternative view of society. Marxism in the form of the International Socialists, of whom Chris was a leading member, attracted them.
In the LSE the Socialist Society's paper pushed the boundaries worthy of its title.
It was easy to condemn US imperialism in Vietnam. Its machinery of indiscriminate destruction was so vast, it was bound to mobilise thousands of young people willing to throw themselves against the police at the US embassy in Grosvenor Square.
Chris was always there, at the front, grasping a bundle of Socialist Workers for sale.
The apex of the events of those years was May 1968 in Paris. We were all astounded and inspired. The revolution was coming. Busloads of comrades travelled there at the height of the street fighting, debates and strikes.
For some reason Chris and I couldn't get to Paris until the end of May. Due to poverty we had to hitch. It was hard. Chris was a big, gangling, black-haired guy and not attractive to pick up. We tried having him hide in the bushes and leap out when a car stopped for me, but they usually sped away when they saw him.
We had to spend the night in the foundations of a half-built house. But we made it to Paris the next day. Trotskyist comrades put us up. Chris knew lots of them.
The state had retaken the Paris streets but gaggles of citizens held intense debates at every street corner. Green buses of riot police, "les flicks", swayed around every corner. Torn-up paving stones scattered the streets.
The universities were packed with militants discussing the way forward. Sadly, my French couldn't follow the debates. Chris's did…I think.
We had to come home and set off with our thumbs again. Amazingly, we were picked up by a handsome 40-something Englishman in a flash Mercedes.
In the front seat (women were always in the back in those days) he questioned Chris intensively about the May events. Nodding all the time he seemed captivated by his answers. Chris could, unknowingly, captivate complete strangers. He had no guile and never patronised.
We expected to be dumped at Calais but instead the car diverted to a small airfield whereupon the Mercedes drove straight into an ancient small carrier plane, no doubt a veteran of the Second World War. Was this guy a spy? Was he James Bond? Hilarious.
We were ushered up to a sort of gallery and strapped in. The plane roared over the Channel, which could be seen through cracks in the battered fuselage. Chris was scared stiff; it was the first time he'd flown.
We landed in Lydd and quite quickly got a lorry ride to London. The driver was an Enoch Powell fan. We attempted to disabuse him of this opinion, which must have worked a bit because he didn't dump us.
The Prague Spring coincided with the Paris events and Chris became a major contributor to the debate, outlining IS support for the uprising in the context of state capitalism and Stalinism. He later wrote important books on Eastern Europe.
After my final exams I immediately left, minus Chris, to hitch through the US to Mexico where an LSE comrade put us up. Rolando said I could get a job in a hotel but it was not to be. A revolt against the cost of the Olympic Games and a clamp down on university free speech led to a massive demonstration of 30,000, faced with the usual police brutality. We were warned that we were being targeted as "foreign agitators" and had to flee Mexico City.
A year later the Rolling Stones were to give a free concert at Hyde Park. Comrades, including John Rose and Basker, took up a position on a grassy knoll about 30 yards from the stage. After Alexis Korner's support set the Stones came on and started strutting their stuff. I thought Jagger looked ridiculous in his white, muslin skirted outfit resembling a Greek palace guard, but then I was a Beatles fan.
One song in and Chris turns up. He demands that we decamp to a nearby Palestine Liberation Organisation meeting. I agreed to go. The others didn't. There were only about 12 Palestinians at that meeting but, as usual, Chris gave his heartfelt contribution to acclaim, which I greatly admired.
I could just about hear the acclamations to the Stones in the distance. Little did I know that we had deserted probably the most famous love and peace gig in pop history. That was Chris's deep commitment and mine also.
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