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module Cycle
  module Utility
    class << self
      def number_of_cores
        case RbConfig::CONFIG['host_os']
        when /darwin9/
          `hwprefs cpu_count`.to_i
        when /darwin/
          ((`which hwprefs` != '') ? `hwprefs thread_count` : `sysctl -n hw.ncpu`).to_i
        when /linux/
          `cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep processor | wc -l`.to_i
        when /freebsd/
          `sysctl -n hw.ncpu`.to_i
        end
      end
    end
  end
end

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GCAP Asia is made up of 11 national coalitions and Social Justice Task Force on DWD (SJTF), which is convened by Asia Dalit Rights Forum (ADRF). Post-Agenda 2030 activities have focused GCAP Asia´s constituents on spreading awareness, capacity building, review & the implementations of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through national processes. In 2016 GCAP Bangladesh, GCAP India (2017 and 2020), GCAP Nepal (2017 and 2020), GCAP Japan (in 2017 and in 2021) and GCAP Pakistan (in 2019) implemented CSO "shadow" reports on SDGs, in response to the Voluntary National Reviews (VNRs) by state governments. National coalitions in GCAP Asia have organised mass actions during the Global Week of Action surrounding the anniversary of the SDGs on 25 September for several years.
In 2021 "Vaccine Inequality" in the region has become a central focus and most tangible measure of inequalities in the region and within countries. GCAP Asia is playing a leading role as part of the People's Vaccine Alliance (PVA) Asia chapter demanding a free and universal Covid vaccine.
Use the map to explore or scroll down to view the coalitions in a grid.
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Asia Regional People's Assembly issues Charter of Demands
Download the charter here On 22 September 2021, as part of the Global People's Assembly, the Asia Regional People's Assembly issued the following Asia People's Charter of Demands. The Charter…
Statement of Solidarity for the People of Afghanistan
Français ci-dessous| Español abajo Credit: Instagram, Afghani artist Shamsia Hassani @shamsiahassani We, the members of civil society, are shocked at the pace at which the Taliban took over all…
Leave No Woman Behind – Indigenous Woman in Asia
The Indigenous Woman in Asia is a comprehensive investigation of not only the direct causes of the pandemic, such as linguistic barriers to inform indigenous communities, land grabbing and gender-based…
HLPF Side Event: Inclusive Engagement of Civil Society in the VNR and Follow-up Processes in the UNECE Region in the Decade of Action
Tuesday, 13 July 7:30 – 09:00 New York 11:30 – 13:00 GMT Please register here. Organizers: ECE-RCEM with SDG Watch Europe, GCAP and WMG for ECE Region The majority of UN Economic Commission…
GCAP organised webinar on People's Vaccine
GCAP organised this webinar on 25 May 2021 with more than 100 participants from 40 countries with esteemed keynote speaker Professor Jayati Ghosh from the University of Massachusetts "If the…
Sign Petition to Government of Japan to Support the Waiver of Intellectual Property Rights related to COVID-19
SIGN the Petition here. Read and download the full letter here. It has been more than a year since the WHO declaration of the COVID-19 Pandemic. Many efforts have been…
GCAP joins alliance to demand a People´s Vaccine
Read the Peoples' Vaccine Alliance-Asia charter & the open letter to government here. By GCAP Asia Coordinator Pradeep Baisakh The Peoples Vaccine Alliance (PVA) in Asia is calling on Japan,…
GCAP Asia: Release Aung San Suu Kyi Immediately and Restore Democracy in Myanmar
GCAP Asia strongly condemns the military coup in Myanmar seizing power after ousting and detaining Aung San Suu Kyi and other democratically elected leaders. Officials, journalists, activists and monks have…
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Workshop on Faces of Inequality and Civic Space in the Asia-Pacific Region in times of Covid-19
Download the PP presentation of the workshop here. The NGO Constituency of Asia Pacific Regional CSO Engagement Mechanism (APRCEM) organized a workshop on 'Inequality, COVID-19 and Civic Space' on November 27, 2020. The objective was to…
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Ceres Geology
Hungry4info
Dec 6 2017, 11:45 AM
Describing what are obviously craters as "small conical hills" ... maybe this paper is a better fit for viXra.org instead.
-- Hungry4info (Sirius_Alpha)
DFortes
From: London, U.K.
QUOTE (antipode @ Dec 6 2017, 06:31 AM)
https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1712/1712.01320.pdf
I get that its a preprint archive and all that, but....sheesh
This is great - perhaps one of the most endearingly mis-guided and unintentionally hilarious things I've seen in a while.
It actually has the line, "Those beauties are really in the eyes of a beholder." on page 4. Figure 39 nearly made me spit coffee over my keyboard.
But if you think that garbage only appears in arXiv, try this paper of dubious statistical quality, which I have to assume was peer reviewed by an actual human being...
I don't follow the earth and planetary subject area, but the main physics/astro/cosmo areas are extremely well controlled and a paper like this would not get through.
This author hasn't appeared on the arxiv before so would've needed endorsement, which I think is more or less automatic if you have an email address from a known institution. His email address is from the Nauchno-Issledovatel'skiy Fiziko-Khimicheskiy Institut Im. L. Ya. Karpova so that may have let him in easily. But that's a chemistry institute so it's unclear if he has any planetary science training.
The postings are also supposed to be moderated and he's clearly slipped through that net.
Gladstoner
Well that was painful.
angel1801
I very rarely post anything here apart from me giving valuable money to keep this wonderful site alive and running.
Even former editors of peer reviewed journals have said that up to 40% of all stuff that appears in peer reviewed journals are either of very poor poor quality or even worse a lot of the medical science stuff that appears cannot be re-produced by future research or was constructed is such a way to make the re-production of prior results all but impossible.
I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that I have set before thee life and death, the blessing and the curse; therefore choose life, that thou mayest live, thou and thy seed.
- Opening line from episode 13 of "Cosmos"
QUOTE (fredk @ Dec 7 2017, 01:01 AM)
I pointed this out and they agreed it was missed by the area moderators. The preprint has been bumped down from astro-ph.EP to the scrapheap - physics.gen-ph.
atomoid
Joined: 15-March 05
From: Santa Cruz, CA
hilariously painful indeed! gave up trying to find a timestamp of April 1st, but seems like too much effort went into it to just be a joke..
had the same reaction to figure 39, it perfectly sums up the paper in its own succinct meme...
Explorer1
From: Ontario
Newly published results showing quite a bit of activity on Ceres as it nears perihelion (next month). More ice in shadowed areas, and detection of calcium carbonate on Ahuna Mons: https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=7081
nprev
Joined: 8-December 05
From: Los Angeles
Have to wonder if this is partially endogenic, though I can't think of a mechanism unless Ceres is somehow unusually rich in core radioactives. However, since these phenomena appear to coincide with perihelion, a more pertinent question is why Ceres looks so much like a rather ordinary rocky small body dominated by cratering given how fast-acting some of these processes may be.
Volatile deposits may be isolated and widely dispersed, the regolith may vary substantially in thickness, the thermal properties of surface and near-surface materials may vary, all or none of the above. A great many possibilities and questions spring to mind; be fun to see how the pros weigh in.
A few will take this knowledge and use this power of a dream realized as a force for change, an impetus for further discovery to make less ancient dreams real.
JRehling
On Ahuna Mons, I wonder how intricate the dynamics of downslope mass movement might be. It seems to have been most recently "groomed" by downslope movement, which could mean one single 360° event or a few, or a more or less ongoing process. Perhaps impacts/quakes trigger new flows. And then what is exposed to the surface could be overturned depending on the structural mechanics, and what we see in vis/IR spectroscopy may be a superficial covering that isn't representative of the rest of the structure. This wouldn't require active endogenous geology, if impacts are triggering avalanches, though it doesn't exclude active geology, either.
antipode
Aug 5 2018, 05:30 AM
Joined: 1-October 06
A Possible Brine Reservoir Beneath Occator Crater: Thermal and Compositional Evolution and Formation of the Cerealia Dome and Vinalia Faculae
[Abstract]
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/artic...019103517306371
Ahuna Mons aka the Lonely Mountain is a plume-driven mud volcano.(three articles linked)


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Former Senate Leader Harry Reid dies at 82
Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid delivers a speech at the YearlyKos convention in Las Vegas on June 10, 2006. Reid, the former Senate majority leader and Nevada's longest-serving member of Congress, has died. He was 82. (Jae C. Hong/AP
Harry Reid has died. The former Senate Majority Leader oversaw the passage of the Affordable Care Act and was a crucial legislative partner to former President Barack Obama.
Jon Ralston of the Nevada Independent talks about Reid's role in the state and on the national stage.
Joe Hernandez
Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker's comments came just hours after the FBI identified the alleged hostage taker at a synagogue in Colleyville, Texas as Malik Faisal Akram, a 44-year-old British man.
Jay Reeves | Associated Press
A new effort to preserve historic Black churches in the United States has received a $20 million donation that will go to help congregations.
Betty White and 'The Golden Girls' groundbreaking impact on the LGBTQ community
When Colorado Public Radio reporter Vic Vela found out he was HIV+ in the 1990s, he found comfort in an episode of "The Golden Girls" that helped him deal with his diagnosis.


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Q: Xamarin 2.0 Iphone resource prefix I have installed Xamarin 2.0 and i can now starte the iphone simulator from visual studio. I have added another Iphone resource prefix to my project Resources;images
When i run the app from Visual studio the resources in the images folder is not included in the app. If i run it from Xamarin studio on the mac, it all works fine.
Any suggestions on how to fix this ?

A: This appears to be a bug in the Xamarin.iOS addin for VS. I filed it.

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Salah beats De Bruyne to win PFA player of the year award
LONDON Apr 24, 2018 - 12:00 am GMT+3
Liverpool player Mohamed Salah poses with the PFA Player Of The Year Trophy.
by Associated Press Apr 24, 2018 12:00 am
Mohamed Salah has been voted player of the year by his fellow professionals in English football in recognition of an incredible scoring return to the Premier League with Liverpool. The Egypt forward collected the Professional Footballers' Association award at a ceremony in London on Sunday, two days before Liverpool's Champions League semifinal first leg against Roma. It is a reunion with the Italian club he left in the offseason for 42 million euros (then $47 million). The hefty fee appeared to be a gamble for Liverpool but now represents a real bargain. The former Chelsea player has scored 41 goals in 46 appearances in all competitions for Liverpool - enabling him to beat Manchester City midfielder Kevin De Bruyne in second place to the PFA award. Tottenham striker Harry Kane was third.
"It's a big honor," Salah said. "I've worked hard and I'm very happy to win it."
Salah is preparing to lead Egypt into its first World Cup in 28 years and he is the first player from the North African nation to win English football's top individual prize.
"Hopefully I'm not the last one," he said. "I'm very proud to win and I've worked very hard."
Salah's impact has been more remarkable given his underwhelming 2014-15 season at Chelsea before being offloaded by then-manager Jose Mourinho. He went on loan to Fiorentina in early 2015 and Roma in 2016, and then on a permanent basis to Roma in August 2016. Scoring 15 goals and setting up 11 more for Roma convinced Liverpool to bring Salah back to a second spell in England. His goal at West Bromwich Albion on Saturday was his 31st in the league this season, tying the scoring record in a 38-game campaign held by Cristiano Ronaldo, Alan Shearer and Luis Suarez. Suarez was the last Liverpool player to be crowned player of the year by the PFA in 2014 before moving to Barcelona. It's a sign of his remarkable impact that Salah secured the award with third-place Liverpool and that none of Manchester City's newly crowned champions won the accolade. But City winger Leroy Sane was voted PFA young player of the year. The PFA women's player award went to Chelsea forward Fran Kirby, while Lauren Hemp of Bristol City secured the young player prize.
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On May 24, 2018, First Call presented to the joint public meeting of the Mayors' Council on Regional Transportation and TransLink's Board of Directors. First Call's comments added to those from a delegation of speakers including the Single Mothers' Alliance of BC and the TripEd Campaign.
The provincial government should work with local governments and transit authorities to develop a plan that will provide free public transit for minors (ages 0-18) and free or reduced-fee transit access for low income families.
look at the potential negative implications of distance-pricing on low income households.
We need a fair transit fare structure to ensure no low-income parent, child or youth misses a doctor's appointment, a day at school or a visit to the community centre because public transportation is unaffordable.
Dylan Cohen, Youth Organizer, held a two-day training with alumni of care and OrganizeBC to discuss strategy, lobbying, tactics, and some creative organizing principles. The workshop, titled Winning Change from the Government, hosted over 20 youth. Participants left the workshop feeling energized by the momentum created and will put their learnings into action through the Youth Advocacy Team and other advocacy opportunities.
Our May Coalition meeting featured an informative presentation on the Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity (SOGI)-inclusive education initiative for school communities by Jenn Mezei, President of the BC Confederation of Parent Advisory Councils and Joan Merrifield, Social Justice Division at the BC Teachers' Federation.
At our bi-monthly Early Childhood Development Roundtable meeting on May 30th, participants discussed various campaigns and updates. The group recommended First Call write a response to Adrian Dix, Minister of Health, on the topic of outdoor play space regulations. We also discussed how federal and provincial budgets will impact the Early Years, and announced an upcoming contract on an Early Years Public Awareness Campaign.
Everyone here at First Call would like to extend a warm note of appreciation to John Greschner who has been an active member of our Steering Committee for the past 2 years. We appreciate John for bringing his knowledge and perspective to the meetings, and for his continual support of First Call's work. John has recently accepted a position as BC's Deputy Ombudsperson, and we wish him all the best for this new chapter.
Adrienne Montani, Provincial Coordinator, spoke at the $10aDay Child Care Plan celebration event at Fairmont Hotel to a roomful of people who have been involved in the $10aDay campaign. She shared appreciation to all those who have supported and led the campaign over the past many years, and pledged First Call's continued support for the campaign for a public system of high quality, affordable, accessible child care.
Dylan Cohen, Youth Organizer, held a Youth Advocacy Team meeting to form an action plan using the skills developed during the Winning Change from the Government training. He also participates in the BC Coalition to End Youth Homelessness, which held a meeting at the end of May with numerous Ministry staff to bring attention to the coalition's concerns and needs. The coalition will continue to work throughout the summer.
We worked hard this past month to raise child, youth and family poverty issues through the provincial government's Poverty Reduction Strategy Advisory Forum and direct communication with government, including sharing our updated research report comparing child benefits across provinces.


Northamptonshire and Gloucestershire were frustrated by the weather on the third day of the Specsavers County Championship Second Division match at Bristol.
Heavy overnight rain left the outfield sodden and put paid to any prospect of play during the morning. Conditions improved somewhat in the afternoon and umpires Mike Burns and Paul Pollard staged three inspections between the scheduled lunch and tea intervals.
Although the ground-staff removed the covers and carried out a thorough mopping up operation, the umpires, concerned by a wet patch on the square, opted to abandon play for the day at 3.40pm.
Play is scheduled to resume at 10:30am on Friday morning, with Northamptonshire looking to capitalise on a 48-run lead from the first innings.


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Q: Why is my single line input only partially read by the loop? First I get the input for the switch in a character 'geotype'
char geotype;
cin>>geotype;

Then I get the number of points followed by the individual coordinates with a for loop.
This is the problematic part if my code :
int i;
double xp[n], yp[n];

switch(geotype):
{
     .
     .
     .

     case 'P':

        cin>>n;

        for(i=0; i<n; ++i)
        {
            cin >> xp[i] >> yp[i];
            cout << "i = " << i <<" ";
            cout <<"xp = " << xp[i] <<" yp = "<< yp[i]<<endl;
        }

        .
        .
        .

        break;
    .
    .
    .
}

My input is :
P 2 3 -2 -1 4

My output is :
i = 0 xp = -2 yp = -2
i = 1 xp = 4 yp = 4

Why are 3 & -1 skipped?
Also, how are -2 & 4 duplicated since they are occurring only once in the input.
Thanks in advance !

A: I guess this is the error:
double xp[n], yp[n];

So your n is possibly 0 at this moment, and you create arrays of zero size. Since they have size zero, the location of yp = xp + 0 = xp. So yp and xp point to the same location. Since there is no bound checking, you are writing outside of bounds, and xp[i] has the same location as yp[i].
The solution is
int* xp, *yp;
// When handling P
xp = new int[n];
yp = new int[n];

Or better use vectors.


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Anglo Irish Bank
Anglo Irish Bank scandal: 'we are offended' says German politician
Angela Merkel's ally reacts to taped phone calls of Irish bank executives laughing about German largesse
Henry McDonald
Wed 26 Jun 2013 12.39 EDT First published on Wed 26 Jun 2013 12.39 EDT
Anglo Irish Bank headquarters at St Stephen's Green, Dublin. Photograph: Niall Carson/PA
The fallout from the Anglo Irish Bank tapes with executives singing "Deutschland über Alles" while joking about German money rescuing the financial institution has provoked disgust in the country, a senior ally of chancellor Angela Merkel has said.
Michael Fuchs, deputy leader of Merkel's Christian Democratic Union party in the Bundestag, described the recordings as "unbearable".
In a series of phone calls senior bankers at the toxic, debt-ridden bank laugh about German largesse on the night the Irish government rescued Anglo Irish Bank from collapse with large injections of cash from European partners including Germany.
The outrage in Germany is deeply embarrassing for the current Fine Gael-Labour coalition in Dublin as the government seeks to reduce the Republic's debt burden to the EU, the European Central Bank and the IMF.
Fuchs told RTE radio on Wednesday: "We are offended. If you have a feeding hand you shouldn't bite into it."
He added "it's really dangerous" language as German politicians are trying to convince local taxpayers to support European countries, such as Ireland. "It's absolutely unbearable that somebody is talking like this."
In one conversation – taped just two days after 30 September 2008 bank guarantee – Anglo Irish Bank's disgraced former CEO David Drumm giggles while his colleague John Bowe recites lines from "Deutschland über alles".
Bowe accepted in a statement that the language used in the taped recordings of internal bank conversations "was imprudent and inappropriate".
The behaviour of the Anglo Irish executives has turned them into national hate figures in the Republic and now, it appears, also in the country which has supplied most of Europe's money to prop up not only the Irish banking system but also the entire state.
As Anglo Irish Bank moved towards the fiscal abyss, Drumm is heard joking, "another day, another billion", referring to the flight of deposits out of the doomed bank before the bank guarantee in September 2008. At the time the outflow was running at over €1bn (£847m) a day.
Meanwhile Irish prime minister Enda Kenny has said he may have to seek a referendum asking the Irish people for greater government powers to investigate the banking crash that almost bankrupted Ireland.
Speaking in the Dail the taoiseach said he was considering a second referendum that would grant the state more power to hold searching inquiries.
The tapes appear to confirm that Anglo Irish bankers hoodwinked the then Fianna Fáil-led government back in 2008 with a vastly underestimated price for the bank rescue. John Bowe, then the bank's director of capital markets, is heard on the tapes explaining where got the figure of €7bn needed to save Anglo Irish from oblivion.
He quips that he picked the figure "out of my arse". In fact, Anglo Irish Bank's rescue cost the Irish and European taxpayers, particularly the Germans, €30bn.
Enda Kenny
Ireland bailout
Anglo Irish Bank scandal 'damages democracy', Angela Merkel says
German chancellor delivers a strong condemnation of the revelations that the Irish bank's executives mocked the country's role in Anglo's bailout
Anglo Irish Bank revelations go from bad to worse
Anglo Irish Bank tapes: executives mock Germans amid bailout
Ireland's rage over Anglo-Irish rescue revelations is justified – Enda Kenny
Irish PM Enda Kenny attacks bankers - video


Running a business takes a lot of skill and determination. It takes the right tools too, and without those tools no matter how much skill and determination you might have, running your business is going to be more difficult than it needs to be. In some cases, it will even be impossible. Now imagine if all of those tools were on one device that meant you could run your business successfully from anywhere at any time, giving you not only more freedom but more control.
The good news is, this device already exists – it is your smartphone. It is completely possible to run a business solely from a smartphone as long as you have the right apps and tech to do so. This means you can always be responsive to customers, you can network on the go, and you can get more done in general. It's fast,and in some cases, it can even be free depending on which apps you use. Here is how to go about it.
The first thing to do if you want to run your business from your phone is to buy a phone solely for that purpose. If you have just one smartphone that you use for both personal and business use, you might have problems when it comes to security. You might also never be able to have any form of 'downtime' which can cause stress. A separate work phone can also mean that you are less distracted – if someone texts you about a personal matter, or you have your personal social media feeds setup on the same phone as your business ones, you can easily post the wrong thing in the wrong place, potentially causing embarrassment and loss of reputation.
When you have a smartphone, you have all manner of communication avenues open to you, all from one device. This means that you can contact customers, respond to queries, answer questions on social media and, of course, you can take phone calls to. You'll never be out of contact when you are using your smartphone to run your business unless you want or need to be. At the end of your working day, whenever that might be, you can set up an out of office reply on your texts and emails, and a special message on your voicemails, so that customers know you will get back to them as soon as possible. This way you won't have to be working 24 hours a day, but your customers will know that you aren't ignoring them either.
Make marketing a much easier job by using your smartphone to do it. The right marketing campaign is the key to the success of any business, so it is essential that you do it. It can feel daunting to start with, but if you concentrate on marketing through your smartphone, it will be much easier. Social media is the best way to start. Every business needs a social media account, or perhaps more than one. Which platform you use (either Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, or any others that are available) will depend on which ones your target market is more likely to use, and once you have determined this through accurate market research, you can create your account.
Make sure that you update your social media with interesting, informative posts at least once a day for the best impact. More is even better, but remember the more you post,the more responses you will have, and that will take up some of your time. Doing it all from your smartphone, however, will make it easy to do.
Marketing material is also important. This means items such as flyers and business cards, or promotional items like pens and magnets. These can be great for handing out to people who might want to use your services, or for giving to customers once they have bought from you. Find the right website,and you can design any of these items from your smartphone, and place the order too.
Far fewer people are carrying cash around with them these days, and it is likely that whoever you sell to will want to pay by plastic. Thanks to advances in technology, you can take these card payments through your smartphone. This means you don't have to lease a potentially expensive merchant terminal, and you can take your smartphone payment device with you wherever you go, so you can take payments even when you're not in your office or store.
Take your time to research which payment app is going to work best for your business. It is likely that you will need to pay a percentage of each transaction, so bear this in mind and make sure it is all accounted for in your costs.
The one potential issue about using your smartphone to run your business is that it may not be completely secure (especially if you are using just one phone for your business and personal lives). This can put some customers off, as they may be worried that their personal data is not as safe as it would be if you were using more conventional methods such as a laptop to run your business.
Using the cloud to store all the sensitive information that you gather, and where you can keep all documents and contracts in one safe place, means that you can guarantee that security. Speak to an expert about which cloud strategy you need and you will find that you really do only need your smartphone for absolutely everything in your business. You can find more info about this here.
If you do like to use your laptop or desktop computer at times, and then want to switch to your smartphone when you leave the office and visit customers, or even when want to be able to be reached at home, then create a remote desktop on your phone. This way, you can mirror what is happening on your laptop and move from one device to another without losing data. You can start an email on your laptop and finish it on your smartphone, for example. Or you can create a spreadsheet on your smartphone and populate the fields on your desktop.


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import os
from azure.identity import AzureAuthorityHosts, DefaultAzureCredential

class KeyVaultBase:
    credential_type = DefaultAzureCredential
    host_alias_map = {
        "AzureChinaCloud": (AzureAuthorityHosts.AZURE_CHINA, "2016-10-01"),
        "AzureGermanCloud": (AzureAuthorityHosts.AZURE_GERMANY, "2016-10-01"),
        "AzureUSGovernment": (AzureAuthorityHosts.AZURE_GOVERNMENT, "2016-10-01"),
        "AzureCloud": (AzureAuthorityHosts.AZURE_PUBLIC_CLOUD, "7.1"),
    }

    def get_client_args(self, authority_host_alias=None):
        alias = authority_host_alias or os.environ.get("AZURE_CLOUD", "AzureCloud")
        authority_host, api_version = self.host_alias_map[alias]
        credential = self.credential_type(authority=authority_host)
        return {"api_version": api_version, "credential": credential, "vault_url": os.environ["AZURE_PROJECT_URL"]}


People are out and about and relaxing in the great outdoors. Block parties, group activities and outings to the beach, come to mind. each are all in order. Think what a day it will be if you and your neighbors set up your grills in the middle of the street and set out lounge chairs and tables with condiments and all the fixings for great sandwiches, and to top it all off set up a station to mix margaritas, lite wine mixes, beer , tea and fruit drinks for the kids. You can also set up board games by the curb or in the street away from the grills, get a game of dodge ball going! So many outdoor activities come to mind. I'm sure you have ideas of your own. Don't stop there though, carry the festivities into the night. String up fairy lights in the trees and bushes, set up your cd player and play some soft jazz. You can also have a movie night! Many possibilities. A very excellent way to get to know your neighbors and together plan fun ways to enjoy the Summer months. These bonds will last all year long.
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Let's prepare ballot cards.. list names that were nominated and what category.. give out to your guests so they can fill in their predictions.. set aside serve drinks and flavored popcorn... set up a table with simple dips and finger food. To make it all look elegant tie a black ribbon tie around tall glasses and use paper ware with gold borders and gold plastic ware. Hang gold stars over the food table and some large stars on the floor from entering the door. You may mix gold and silver or just gold. Add stirrers that spell "Hollywood" and banners to hang around the room. You can find great stuff at the $1.00 store or .99 cent store. Also Wal-Mart or Target. Pass out the ballot cards and your guests can make their votes and have a fun night giving out guest goodie bags to carry home use small muslin bags add gold star pens and chocolate and peanut candies, or fruity candies or cupcakes you prepared. So many ideas you can choose from. You can spend more at Party City and get scene starters for your walls and Oscars made out of cardboard. Garland and many other decorations. It's up to you and spending a little or a lot your night will be exciting and fun. Send out invitations, ask your guests to dress up and walk on the walk of stars or the red carpet. YES! You can have one, check Wal-Mart or Target for the wide felt you can cover your carpet or floor with. Have a great Oscar Night!!
IT'S TIME TO WAKE UP THE COMMUNITY!!
Start with something fun and get everyone involved. Ask your neighbors to participate in a Talent Show! Children and Adults. Afterwards having a Taco and burrito feast. You may post flyers asking for interested parties to audition and pick a committee to help choose participants. Your community members can pick the winners by applauding the most. The event can be held in your community center or outside if weather permits. Hold this event on the week end and asking those who can bring a dish that can be used to make tacos and burritos plus the garnishments. Or take up a collection and select a team that will put the items together and lay out on a long table. Allow people to add what they want to their treat. Buying water and juice no sodas, not healthy. A couple of you from the community can start this off. Once you do an event it becomes easier and more people will want to get involved. Don't get cold feet, talking to people is not hard. Be to the point but courteous, be understanding if someone says no. You may explain how this type of activity can bring your community together. I will post more ideas of fun stuff bringing your community together. Also you can call your local radio station and ask that they announce your event. There is weekly announcements of neighborhood activities, in most cities. Normally there is no cost for this service. Invite your councilman or woman, even the Mayor. Call his office, extend an invitation. Take plenty of pictures so they can be posted for all to see. ENJOY!
It's getting warmer and time to come out and get to know your neighbors. Start a group of people that would like to play soccer or basketball, even dominos or chess. Post flyers for your interests around your neighborhood and the flyers should contain your phone number and times available for these activities. Most importantly where you will meet. Ask if the interested parties have equipment or games for what is chosen also. This is an easy step to get your community together. There are plenty of ideas to come, so please check here for more!


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America's love affair with guns is only getting stronger.
New federal data shows that there are 422.9 million firearms in circulation, or about 1.2 guns for every person in the country.
What's more, despite years of criticism of modern "assault-style" rifles such as the AR-15 and AK-47, there are a record 17.7 million in private hands, proving that it is the most popular gun around.
And last year alone, the arms industry produced 8.1 billion rounds of ammunition.
The figures are from the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives and were crunched by the National Shooting Sports Foundation, the gun industry trade group.
"These figures show the industry that America has a strong desire to continue to purchase firearms for lawful purposes," said Joe Bartozzi, president of the NSSF, in a statement releasing the group's new report.
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"The modern sporting rifle continues to be the most popular centerfire rifle sold in America today and is clearly a commonly owned firearm with more than 17 million in legal private ownership today. The continued popularity of handguns demonstrates a strong interest by Americans to protect themselves and their homes and to participate in the recreational shooting sports," he said.
Gun shops contacted by Secrets said that they are seeing more and more purchases of semiautomatic weapons such as handguns and AR-15s due to the criticism of those guns by 2020 Democratic presidential candidates.
"Sales have definitely been brisk, especially of small, concealable handguns. We also saw a spike in sales of tactical rifles like AR-15s and AK-47s, for which I think we can confidently thank Beto O'Rourke," said Justin Anderson, the marketing director for Hyatt Guns in Charlotte, North Carolina, one of the country's biggest retailers.
During his short presidential campaign, O'Rourke called for a ban on the rifles.
Other details from the NSSF report, shared with Secrets:
Of all rifles produced in 2017, 54% were modern sporting rifles.
In 2017, 7,901,218 total firearms were produced and imported. Of those, 4,411,923 were pistols and revolvers, 2,821,945 were rifles, and 667,350 were shotguns.
An interim 2018 estimate showed 7,660,772 total firearms were produced and imported. Of those, 4,277,971 were pistols and revolvers, 2,846,757 were rifles, and 535,994 were shotguns.
Firearms-ammunition manufacturing accounted for nearly 12,000 employees producing more than $4.1 billion in goods shipped in 2017.
An estimated 8.1 billion rounds, of all calibers and gauges, were produced in 2018 for the U.S. market.
Author: Paul Bedard
Source: Washington Examiner: ATF: 423M guns in America, 1.2 per person, 8.1B rounds of ammunition a year
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Having a baby changes everything, for everyone – including the family dog.
As children come into our lives there are myriad changes in how we spend our time, how much time we have, how our homes are organized – just for starters! This piece is intended as a broad overview of things to consider before your baby is due and right after your baby arrives. While your dog may have spent time with babies, there are big differences in bringing a newborn home and then having a child in your home 24/7 – for all of you.
Preparing the dog before the baby's arrival helps to increase safety and helps reduce our stress overall. Even the most easygoing dogs and their owners benefit from pre-baby preparation.
1. Your dog's basic manners: Do these need to be improved?
Even the most obedient dogs could use a brush up to ensure they respond to cues like Sit; Down; Wait; Go to your place; Leave it; Off (get off of the furniture when asked).
Can you cue your dog to Sit if you're sitting on the sofa?
How far away from your dog can you be to have the dog respond to you?
2. Your dog's daily life: Try mixing up your pet's routine, as it will likely be a challenge to follow the dog's regular schedule once the baby comes. And, while it may be harder for you than your dog, giving him a bit less attention in the months leading up to your new addition's arrival can help prepare him for the inevitable drop in attention later.
3. Separation: Can the dog be comfortably away from you or separated from you behind a gate or in a crate? Has your dog spent a very long time sitting right next to or on top of you? Teach the dog to relax behind a gate, in another room, on a mat at your feet or further away from you. One reason for this: If you're walking to try to soothe a fussy baby, an anxious dog underfoot may contribute to your anxiety in addition to providing a potential tripping hazard.
4. Stressors: What worries your dog?
How do you know when your dog is stressed? What does s/he look like? What does your dog do?
Is your dog sensitive to loud noises? Fast movements? Changes in the environment?
Just a little education and knowledge of dog body language goes a very long way. Take time to learn or identify how your dog expresses discomfort and annoyance before you have a baby moving toward a worried dog.
If you have a dog who exhibits fear or aggression toward people, particularly toward children before your baby arrives, it is critical to contact a qualified trainer who can help evaluate the situation and develop a training plan designed to keep everyone safe, while working to minimize the dog's anxiety.
5. How does your dog get your attention? Barking? Pawing? Stealing items and running off with them? Do these behaviors increase if you ignore them? Think about what may happen if you're trying to get the baby to sleep or trying to feed the baby. A common complaint from new parents about their dogs after they've brought the baby home is that the dog is inappropriately seeking attention. How do you redirect your dog to do something else (rather than barking, pawing, etc)? Can you do this now?
Will the dog be permitted in the nursery? If so – what would you like them to do when they are in there with you? Dogs should NOT have access to a nursery when you are not there with them: will you need to install a gate or door latch to make sure a closed door remains closed?
If the dog has been sharing your bed or bedroom, will this need to change as you anticipate being up during the night with a newborn? If you need to change the dog's sleeping arrangements, where will you move the dog?
If sitting on the floor with your dog signals an opportunity for roughhousing or more active play – consider if this will be safe when you're on the floor for "tummy time" with the baby. What would you like your dog to do, where would you like them to be?
Please don't assume that your dog will adjust once baby comes home or assume that you'll work on things once the baby comes home – Polish up manners now. Start to make any needed changes as soon as you can. Practice. Be patient. Contact a qualified trainer if you need support in addressing the items above.
Who can I depend on to care for my dog for 3-5 days? Does the dog know this person and are they comfortable with them?
If someone is coming to stay with my dog at my home, do I have a plan for how I contact them, have I remembered to give that person a key to the house? If I have an alarm system, have I remembered to give that person the code?
If my dog needs to stay somewhere other than my home, where will he or she go? How will the dog get there?
How might my dog handle being away from me? Will s/he need special treats, longer walks, extra attention from someone she trusts? – if your dog is spending time away from your home, pack a "go bag' for the dog in addition to your own bag to go to the hospital/labor and delivery center.
Homecomings with baby should be calm, quiet, and controlled.
There is no need for a formal introduction or physical contact between dog and baby. When Mom and baby come home for the first time, the dog may be most excited to see Mom and may be curious about the baby (or not). Bringing home the baby is very exciting for us, but it doesn't have to be an exciting event for the dog. In the event that the dog is anxious, or parents are concerned – meetings can wait – for a few days or even a few weeks.
Mom should greet the dog first without without the baby.
The baby, in a carrier, should be up on a table top or counter, away from the dog or held by another adult – not placed on the floor or on furniture where the dog may be able to access the baby. If the dog is curious about the baby, parents may want to let them "meet" in a very limited and controlled manner by allowing the dog to sniff the baby's feet – but only under direct adult supervision (with an adult holding the baby in the adult's lap) If there are concerns about the dog jumping up, consider putting the dog on a leash or having the dog drag a leash which can be picked up or stepped on if the dog is overenthusiastic. Again, sniffing the baby's feet is a responsible safety precaution. All dogs have teeth – we want to keep those teeth away from baby's face and head. If your dog is choosing not to interact with your baby, the dog is very likely anxious and worried. Forcing interaction won't build trust and may result in unwanted interaction (growling, snapping, lunging from the dog). There's no need to rush any introductions. Be aware of typical baby behaviors and elements (crying, high-pitched noises, babbling, new smells!) and note how your dog may be responding to you and your baby in the early days and weeks.
Please note that newborns, awake or asleep, may be at risk for serious bites from dogs where the dog's behavior resembles predation.
Should you note ANY of these, do not allow your dog access to your baby – immediately seek help from a qualified trainer and contact your veterinarian.
A lack of supervision, absent supervision, or reactive supervision are the most common mistakes families make. But what does supervision mean?
Learning to read dog body language is a critical part of supervision. We can't "supervise" what we can't identify or see. We also have to be "present". We live in a world full of distractions with electronic gadgets and media; if we're engrossed in reading, focused on a TVshow or looking at our phones, it's easy to lose track of things. Parenting tiny humans is also exhausting. Lack of sleep can negatively impact our ability to provide proper supervision.
If we put the baby down for a nap: where is the dog?
Is the baby's sleep environment accessible to the dog?
If we need to take a shower, go to use the bathroom ourselves, or we've walked out to the kitchen for something to drink: where is the baby and where is the dog?
Employing a management strategy such as separating the dog behind a baby gate or in a crate becomes very important. This becomes even more important as your baby is more mobile and can move toward your dog and into the dog's personal space. If you have to leave the room, even just to go to the bathroom, separate dog and baby with a physical barrier. You should also be sure to stress to babysitters and other caregivers that they must have the same diligence about not leaving baby and dog alone together. Ever.
Your dog should NEVER have access to your baby without full, awake, adult supervision.
This chart from Family Paws Parent Education identifies five types of supervision. Use Proactive and Active Supervision with kids and dogs – planning and preparing, full awake adult supervision for safety.
Many people spend time focusing on baby's arrival, but the most stressful time for many families is typically during the time when your baby is 3- 6 months old and can begin to reach into the dog's space. Dogs who seem comfortable with a newborn, can quickly become concerned as baby becomes more mobile – and this often means before the baby is crawling or walking.
The baby's new mobility may make the dog nervous as baby moves and interacts with the dog in new ways. The uncoordinated movements of a new walker are often worrisome for the most patient of dogs.
Keep in mind that if you have an issue in your home, meaning that you are concerned for your child's safety, we strongly suggest that you contact a qualified trainer who uses dog-friendly, positive reinforcement approaches. A qualified trainer can help evaluate the situation and develop a training plan designed to keep everyone safe. Please research any professional who enters your home.
There are big differences between having a pet and parenting with a pet. There can be challenges in the process. Be patient with yourself and your dog.
Your relationship with your dog will change after baby arrives. There will likely be missteps and bumps in the road. The good news is that there are many resources available today that look at preparing and helping the family dog to successfully live with kids. Several of these are shared below.
and works with a variety community agencies to educate families and promote injury prevention. Cathy shares her home with her husband of 30+ years and 2 silly Labrador Retrievers.


Renowned Australian artist William Yang traces the labyrinthine web of his family history in this adaptation of his iconic live performance piece. William was born and raised in North Queensland, his grandparents having migrated from China to the Top End during the 1880s gold rush. Yet it was not until mid-life that he claimed his Chinese heritage, which had hitherto been lost to him by his complete assimilation into the Australian way of life. William's transatlantic exploration of his genealogy unites him with scores of relatives from all walks of life, some rich, but most ordinary folk with menial jobs, and most cannot speak a word of Chinese. A visual feast, Blood Links examines how the Chinese diaspora establish roots in foreign soil, and how over the generations, through intermarriage, blood is mixed; yet the intricate bonds of family remain.


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The team offers support in self-assessment, observation, advice, practical strategies, training and demonstration of inclusive practice.
Support is offered to head teachers, SEN Governors, SEN Coordinators / Inclusion Managers, school staff, children, their parents/carers.
CPD is offered to individual schools, Multi Academy Trusts and Learning Communities across all Rotherham schools. Charges apply and include costs of planning, resources and organisation of training and targeted interventions.
In addition to the packages of support specified below, ACT is able to tailor support to meet the particular requirements of individual schools. (Option E allows you to specify the hours of support which would most effectively meet your school's needs).
Termly support contracts will be matched to individual school need, based on the menu of activities listed above.
Please use Option 6 if support packages A-E do not match your school's needs.
Please specify on your Buy Back form the number of hours support required for the coming year. This will be charged at £57 per hour. Should you choose to buy further hours through the school year in addition to options 1 to 6 above, these will be charged at £62 per hour.


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Home to Fire Mountain, the sandy beaches and warm days welcome visitors to the odd looking landscape of Lanzarote. This small Spanish island is just off the north western coast of Africa. The volcanic nature of the island and crater formations leave little place for leafy green vegetation.
The few that manage to thrive on this moonlike surface are, for the most part, rare. However, they have managed to foster a golf course on the island. The blend of volcanic formation, sunny beaches and clear waters make for an enchanting vacation.
Of course the volcanoes are a large part of the attraction on Lanzarote. Timanfaya National Park is a must and there are several caves to see, including the worlds longest volcanic tunnel, Los Verdes. Formed over 3,000 years ago, this tunnel delights travellers from everywhere. Don't worry, the tunnel is well lit. Careful attention to the island's delicate environment has paid off as tourists flock to this most original spot.
The traditional architecture of hotels and various structures blends well with this backdrop of volcanoes and stark landscape. Many boat trips are available to explore around the island.
Teguise, the capital of Lanzarote, is an appealing town with a great Sunday market. For a spectacular view of the ocean and smaller nearby islands, make you way to Mirador del Rio towards the north.
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Earth generates its own solar wind
Wednesday, 3 July 2013 Stuart Gary
Cluster mission discovers Earth generates its own mini-version of a solar wind (Source: NASA/GSFC)
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Earthly source Scientists have discovered that Earth produces its own version of the solar wind - a finding that confirms a 20-year-old theory.
The study in the European Geosciences Union journal Annales Geophysicae, has found a 'plasmaspheric wind' of ionised particles flowing from inside Earth's atmosphere into the outer magnetosphere.
In 1992, researchers predicted the existence of a wind caused by an imbalance between the various forces which govern plasma motion. But this is the first actual direct detection of such a wind.
"It was definitely one of the nicest surprises I've ever had," says the study's author, Dr Iannis Dandouras of the Research Institute in Astrophysics and Planetology in Toulouse, France.
Dandouras identified the newly discovered wind in data collected by the European Space Agency Cluster mission which was launched in the year 2000.
Cluster is a constellation of four satellites flying in formation and studying the interaction between Earth's magnetosphere, and the Sun's solar wind.
The magnetosphere is generated by Earth's magnetic field, forming a bubble and helping shield the planet from solar wind radiation.
Dandouras found plasmaspheric winds are continuously flowing from the upper atmosphere into the magnetosphere.
In the process, they migrate through the plasmasphere, an equatorial doughnut-shaped reservoir of cold, dense, charged particles which encircles the Earth inside the magnetosphere.
Dandouras estimates the winds are pushing almost 90 tonnes of plasma daily at speeds of over 5000 kilometres per hour.
According to Dandouras, plasmaspheric wind material plays a crucial role in governing the dynamics of the Earth's radiation belts, which effect satellites and astronauts travelling through them.
He says similar winds should exist on other planets and bodies that rotate quickly, and have both an atmosphere and magnetic field.
Furthering knowledge
Discovery of the plasmaspheric wind helps us understand how the Earth's magnetic field interacts with the solar wind, says Dr David Neudegg from the Bureau of Meteorology's Ionospheric Prediction Service, which monitors space weather.
"[The discovery] shows how interconnected different layers of the atmosphere are in protecting Earth from solar wind," says Neudegg.
"It demonstrates how particles can travel from the ionosphere into the plasmasphere, and this wind they've just discovered and measured, takes it further out."
Neudegg, who was involved in the early phase of the Cluster program, says it's good to see another result coming from the mission.
"Cluster has made several serendipitous discoveries, this is another unexpected bonus."
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Introduction – A Modest Historical Accounting of Kimble Glass Company and Owens-Illinois, Inc.
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Colonel (a title given him by US President Warren Harding in the early 1920's) Evan Ewan Kimble (born 1868-OCT-18 died at his home in April of 1956 — Buried at the Siloam Cemetery in Vineland, NY – Cumberland County was the fourth of five sons born to William and Deborah (nee Ewan) Kimble), of Tuckahoe near Vineland, New Jersey. The colonel was apprenticed to the Whitall Tatum glass factory in Millville, NJ and was later manager in the Sheldon Glass Company of Gas City, Indiana. In 1902, he founded the Kimble Glass Company (KGC) in Chicago by buying up the lamp-blowing department of Sheldon. Kimble started to specialize in the manufacture of graduated vials for scientific use and gradually moved operations to Vineland, NJ by buying up several companies in the area. In 1914, Col. Kimble also made his residence in Vineland to be close to the blossoming factory.
KGC was a pioneer in the mass production of laboratory vials by developing a process for the automatic glass-blowing of the tubes. Throughout the 1920s and 1930s, KGC continued to innovate in the field of laboratory glassware introducing the Kimax brand (similar to Pyrex) as well as other well known brands such as "Neutraglas", "EXAX" and "Normax".
Excerpted from the biography of Col. Evan E. Kimble in William S. Myers (Ed.), Prominent Families of New Jersey, pp. 22-24.
Colonel Kimble was also a Freemason.
Colonel Kimble died at his home in 1956 and was interred in a beautiful mausoleum.
In about 1946, the KBC company was acquired by Owens-Illinois, Inc.
Owens-Illinois Inc.'s origins began with a partnership of Edward Drummond Libbey (of Libbey Glass Company fame) and Michael Owens (pictured on the left and an employee there since August of 1888) on 1895-DEC-17 to form the Toledo Glass Company. Mr. Owens, in concert with William Emil Bock, created the first automated bottle-making machine in 1902. On September 3rd, 1903, The Owens Bottle Machine Company opened its doors for business and quickly became a market leader with the automated bottle machine called 'Machine A'.
Mr. Owens died 1923-DEC-27 but not before leaving the company as a world leader in glassware production. The company was even cited earlier in 1913 by the National Child Labor Committee for having done more to eliminate child labor than had been achieved heretofore by any legislative efforts. In 1929, the Owens Bottle Company acquired the assets of the Illinois Glass Company and renamed itself the Owens-Illinois Glass Company, the largest glass company in the world at that time.
With the KBC acquisition of 1946, Owens-Illinois would begin production of TV picture tubes. In 1954, the company's corporate name become Owens-Illinois, Inc. The company would go through further mergers and acquisitions processes in the 1950's – 1970's including the acquisition Gerresheimer Glas AG in 1959 and the Lily-Tulip corporation in 1968. In 1982, Owens-Illinois acquired the Kontes Glass Company. In 1993, Kimble/Kontes became a joint-venture between Owens-Illinois and the Gerresheimer Glas GmbH of Dusseldorf, the latter owning 51% of the shares. In 1997, Gerresheimer acquired the remaining 49%. The name of the company was subsequently changed to Gerresheimer AG in 2007.
By 2017, KGC had gone through additional various acquisitions and mergers. In 2016, the Duran group had acquired the Kimble Chase Group. In 2017, The Duran group was globally aligned under the DWK Life Sciences under the new brand name of DURAN, WHEATON, and KIMBLE. DWK Life Sciences is located in Millville, NJ.
Today (as of 2019), Owens-Illinois, Inc. remains a global market leader in glassware production. From their website – "O-I glass is made in more than 20 countries around the globe. We create innovative, distinctive and beautiful glass packaging that builds brands and drives consumer intrigue."
Don Herbert Kemske or known popularly as Don Herbert – Mr. Wizard (born 1917-JUL-10 in Waconia, MN and died 2007-JUN-12 at his home in Bell Canyon), CA was a very well-known television personality due primarily to his numerous educational TV programs geared toward children spanning from 1951 to 1990. "He was the creator and host of Watch Mr. Wizard (1951–1965), Mr. Wizard (1971–1972), Mr. Wizard's World (1983–1990), and other educational television programs for children devoted to science and technology. He also produced many short video programs about science and authored several popular books about science for children."
"The Mr. Wizard show, broadcast live, was carefully scripted, meticulously researched, and smooth-flowing. Each week, Mr. Wizard—described by Marcel LaFollette (Smithsonian researcher and historian) as a "nonthreatening, easygoing, intelligent man with a smiling face" in shirtsleeves and tie (and the occasional lab coat)—carefully guided his youthful assistants through simple experiments. Using ordinary household items such as eggs, balloons, milk bottles, coffee cans, and knitting needles, Herbert explained larger scientific principles like gravity, magnetism, and oxidation. Although seemingly complex, the experiments actually were simple enough to be re-created by his young viewers in the classroom or at home."
The above biographical material is quoted from the Mr. Wizard Papers, Archives Center, National Museum of American History. Craig Orr, archivist and Alison Oswald, archivist. Copyright 2015.
A YouTube collection of Mr. Wizard episode extracts start off with a bang!
How did Kimble Products through Owens-Illinois become involved with creating the Mr. Wizard's Experiments product lines, something quite outside their stated area of business? It was because Owens-Illinois had a Toys and Games Group within their corporate structure, as evidenced by the letter from 1973 shown below. The opportunity to acquire the Lectron System assets and add the Electronics topic to the Mr. Wizard's Experiments product lines made good business sense.
We know, with a high degree of certainty, that Owens-Illinois acquired all of the Lectron System assets from Raytheon sometime in late 1972 to early 1973. I was fortunate to acquire a letter (see below) from November 6th, 1973 confirming this transaction. The reader will note that the Macalster Scientific Company had originally been a part of the Raytheon Education Company during Raytheon's Lectron System product era (1967 – 1972). Raytheon also owned D. C. Heath and Company (a publishing concern located in Lexington, MA) from 1966 to 1995. This company was then sold to Houghton Mifflin, another publishing company due to Raytheon exiting the text book business sector that year.
Kimble Products (a division of Owens-Illinois) subsequently created a Mr. Wizard brand initially representing 4 different products which explored 4 topics of general science: Chemistry (1970 – there were 3 models produced varying in components, chemicals and amount of experiments), Ecology (1971), Crystal Growing (1972), and Electronics (1972 – there were three models produced for this science topic as well).
A fifth, Mystery Garden, was added shortly thereafter in 1973.
The graphic below showing the original 4 product lines is from the December, 1972 issue of Boy's Life.
A close-up of the four initial product lines:
As mentioned previously, Kimble Products produced three models of the Mr. Wizard's Experiments in Electronics. The Electronics (I) (1972), the Electronics II (1973), and the Electronics III (1974).
The Raytheon Series 1 cardboard packaging was used for the Mr. Wizard Electronics model. The packaging was changed thereafter (for Models II and III).
Even the internal packaging securing the blocks remained the same, at least for the model I.
The instruction manuals were newly written however. The manuals can be found on the Kimble documentation page.
The three models had similar experiment counts to their Raytheon counterparts. Numerous blocks were omitted however across all three models including both the 680 Kohm biased transistor and the speaker block! Oddly, the Model II had more blocks and variety of experiments than the Model III.
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Unfortunately, I have not been able to authoritatively discover what happened to the Mr. Wizard's Experiments product lines. Even the Smithsonian Museum's guide to the Mr. Wizard Papers (authored by Ms. Alison Oswald) is silent on this issue although the actual papers beyond the summary index may be helpful in later research efforts. It would seem that the Mr. Wizard Experiments product lines were discontinued by late 1974 or 1975.
UPDATE (2019-OCT-12):
In October of 2019, I saw an eBay auction featuring a Raytheon Series One upgraded with the Supplementary Manual No. 1. Looking at the photos, I could tell that this unit was incomplete and contained a hodge podge of parts including 3 earphone blocks and 2 battery blocks. Obviously, at least one additional unit had been combined within the unit up for auction.
Why did I purchase this item? In the photos of the auction I observed a cover for a manual that I had never seen before entitled "Fun With Electronics – Electrolab". Suitably curious, I purchased the unit immediately.
I received the unit from the Oregon seller within a week of the auction conclusion and imagine my surprise to find that this mysterious manual was published by Owens-Illinois in 1974! And lo and behold, it turned out to be a 65 experiment manual for the Lectron System with a presentation format based on the Mr. Wizard's Experiments in Electronics.
Interestingly, this manual also had the largest experiment count over the three individual Mr. Wizard model manuals.
This particular manual was likely (speculation on my part) created to be a part of the last vestiges of the Raytheon Lectron System assets Owens-Illinois possessed from their original Raytheon acquisitions back in 1972. Given that the manual was not branded with the Mr. Wizard name and appeared in the same year of the Mr. Wizard's Experiments in Electronic III model, this is my working hypothesis (for now!).
Lectroneers may examine the manual for further edification.
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Hugh Vinton Harvey, Jr., 91, of Coral Springs, Florida passed away on Sunday. Born in North Syracuse to the late Hugh V. and Leona M. (Webster) Harvey, Sr., he was a Village resident until 2013. He graduated from North Syracuse High School in 1948 and Niagara University in 1952. In his younger years, he worked with family at the Harvey Brother's Quality Food Store and was an advertising sales agent for the Scotsman Pennysaver until retirement. He was a distributor for the evening Herald Journal, managing 400 paperboys. Hugh was a member of Bishop Curley Council and Jeremiah McCarthy Assembly, Knights of Columbus and a communicant of St. Rose of Lima Church, North Syracuse. For 33 years, he was treasurer of the North Syracuse Cemetery Association and served as a Village of North Syracuse trustee. Predeceased his son, Mark, on June 10, 2018 and his wife of 54 years, the former Francine Longwinter on October 12, 2005, Hugh is survived by a son, Scott F. (Joan) Harvey; daughter-in-law, Alexandra Harvey; granddaughter, Kelsey Harvey; a brother, John (Alice) Harvey; a niece and two nephews. Calling hours from 9 am will precede services at 10:30 am on Saturday, January 30th at Fergerson Funeral Home, 215 South Main Street, North Syracuse followed by burial in North Syracuse Cemetery. Donations may be made to NAVAC, PO Box 215, North Syracuse, 13212-0215 http://www.navac.org/help.html
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19-508b. Financial reports to school districts; copies to state board of education. Whenever the board of education of any school district shall withdraw any moneys from the funds of the school district which are in the care, custody and control of the county treasurer, or whenever the county treasurer shall pay any such moneys to a school district, the county treasurer shall prepare and transmit with such moneys an itemized statement showing the source of all funds included in the withdrawal or payment. Within thirty (30) days after the end of the fiscal year of each school district, the county treasurer shall prepare and transmit to the board of education of every school district, any part of the territory of which is located in the county, a report listing the amounts withdrawn by or paid to such school district during the fiscal year, itemized according to the source of moneys distributed. A copy of every such report shall be transmitted to the state board of education within thirty (30) days after the end of each such fiscal year. All reports and statements made in compliance with this section shall be on forms prepared and furnished by the state board of education for the purpose.
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Emily Carr University Presents Honorary Doctorates to Esteemed Art and Design Leaders: Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun Lets'lo:tseltun and Terry Irwin
by Emily Carr University, April 24, 2019
Vancouver, BC – Two internationally revered leaders in North America's art and design community will be recognized for their inimitable contributions to the fields of contemporary art and transition design by Emily Carr University this spring. Contemporary Canadian artist of Coast Salish and Okanagan descent and ECU alum Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun Lets'lo:tseltun and Head of the School of Design at Carnegie Mellon University Terry Irwin will be awarded with Honorary Doctorates at ECU's convocation ceremony on May 4, 2019 at 1pm. In addition, Vancouver Island artist/activist and ECU alum Marianne Nicolson will receive ECU's Emily Award, which honours outstanding achievements by university alumni.
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"It is our great honour and privilege at Emily Carr University to publicly recognize the immense contributions to the fields of contemporary art and design made by these three individuals as dynamic artists, innovative designers, and compelling advocates," says Gillian Siddall, ECU's President and Vice-Chancellor. "As provocative leaders in their respective fields, Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun Lets'lo:tseltun, Terry Irwin, and Marianne Nicolson embody the spirit and purpose of Emily Carr University — making a bold and lasting impact on creative practice and cultural engagement, thereby inspiring and informing the facilitation of future thought leaders and change makers."
Lauded for artistic works that are at once challenging, political, confrontational, and playful, Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun Lets'lo:tseltun will be presented with an Honorary Doctor of Letters for his artistic creations, activism, and unique and persistent voice for change. A painter, sculptor, virtual reality and performance artist, Yuxweluptun Lets'lo:tseltunhas spent the past three decades exploring issues of colonization, politics, and the environment.
He graduated from Emily Carr University in 1983 with an honours degree in painting and uses surrealism, formline, ovoid forms and neon-bright colours to compel viewers to examine issues through a different lens. Yuxweluptun Lets'lo:tseltun'swork has been displayed in many international group and solo exhibitions, including the National Gallery of Canada. In 2016, Vancouver's Museum of Anthropology presented Unceded Territories, a hugely successful retrospective exhibition spanning his expansive 30-year art career.
A highly accomplished designer, professor, and faculty head at Pittsburgh's Carnegie Mellon University, artistic innovator Terry Irwin will be presented with an Honorary Doctor of Letters for her considerable and influential contributions to the field of design education. With a design background in corporate identity and branding, Irwin has been teaching at the university level since 1986, with faculty positions at numerous esteemed design institutions in the United States and Scotland. In 1992, she became a partner and creative director with international design firm MetaDesign, one of the leading design firms in the world. Toward the end of her time at MetaDesign, she began to see links between the things she was designing and many of the larger problems in the world, which prompted her to shift her career trajectory entirely, in 2001.
Undertaking a Master's Degree in Holistic Science at Schumacher College, an international centre for ecological studies, her approach to thinking about and teaching design fundamentally shifted, leading to her current position at Carnegie Mellon, where she led a three-and-a-half-year process with faculty to place design for society and the environment at the heart of all curricula. She is now on the leading edge of Transition Design, an exciting and impactful new area of design study, practice and research that argues for societal transition toward more sustainable futures, calling upon the need for openness, mindfulness and collaboration in design.
A 1996 Emily Carr University graduate and member of the Kwakwaka'wakw First Nations, Vancouver Island-based artist and advocate Marianne Nicolson will be presented with the Emily Award, an annual honour to acknowledge outstanding achievements by distinguished university alumni. An internationally exhibited artist and outspoken advocate for Indigenous land rights, Nicolson explores traditional Northwest Coast artistic expressions through contemporary media. Her multi-disciplinary practice encompasses photography, painting, carving, video, installation, writing and speaking.
Exhibited in the 17th Biennale of Sydney, Australia, Vancouver Art Gallery, the National Museum of the American Indian in New York, Nuit Blanche in Toronto, and many others, many of Nicolson's works are monumental in size and scope. Her public artworks are currently on display around the world, in the Vancouver International Airport, the Canadian Embassy in Amman, Jordan and the Canadian Embassy in Paris, France.
In celebration of ECU's 2019 graduating students, members of the public are invited to experience The Show at Emily Carr at ECU (520 E 1st Ave), on from May 4-19, 2019 from 10am to 8pm on weekdays and from 10am to 6pm on Saturdays and Sundays. The Show features artworks by more than 300 graduating Design, Visual Arts and Media Arts students, and installations will be exhibited throughout the entirety of ECU's campus, offering unprecedented access to the building's interior spaces. Free to the public, the art show features several ancillary events, including:
Friday, May 3 from 5pm to 10pm
Premiere Screening of Graduate Films
2pm to 5:30pm — Film + Screen Arts graduates
7pm to 10pm — 2D + Experimental Animation and 3D Computer Animation graduates
Best of Animation + Film/Video Showcase + Reception
Wednesday, May 8 from 6pm to 9pm
For a full listing of all ECU events and artists, visit ecuad.ca
About Emily Carr University of Art and Design (ecuad.ca)
Emily Carr University of Art + Design is a world leader in education and research. Encouraging experimentation at the intersections of art, design, media and technology, Emily Carr merges studio practice, research and critical theory in an interdisciplinary and collaborative environment. Founded in Vancouver in 1925 and situated on traditional, unceded Coast Salish territory, the university has nearly 2,000 students enrolled in graduate and undergraduate programs, and thousands more taking workshops, certificate programs and individual courses. Their faculty and alumni are internationally recognized as award-winning creators and thought leaders who have significant impact on both the cultural sector and the economy.


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 Гасем Резаеї (1985) — іранський борець, олімпійський чемпіон
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Did Into You really flop though?
1. Did Into You really flop though?
It didn't really flop in my eyes tbh. It peaked at #13 and it has hella streams on Spotify and half a billion YouTube views. I feel like it's known as a flop because everyone wanted it to be #1 or top 5 but it missed the top ten. So, was it a flop or was it just moderately successful?
Into You was pretty big here tbh.
In comparison to My Everything's singles. It did flop, sadly.
Not every single that isn't top 10 is a flop tbh..
A.)Did it sell as much as previous singles?
No but it deserved so much better. That song was a bigger bop than focus, side to side, problem and other of her singles and the GP should have made it go to number 1. And that's the tea.
You mean one of the best summer songs of 2016?


The 800mm case has two handles for easy carrying. Although constructed like a pop-up case, the 800mm case is about half the size and much lighter and easier to manage. And because Curvorama is much more compact than a traditional pop-up a case half as big holds a display twice as large!
By adding a graphic wrap and a counter top the 800mm case can be converted to a useful counter. And the 800mm case has another trick up it's sleeve. Put two back to back and a double-size counter can be made.
The 600mm case is a padded, wheeled case with a telescopic luggage handle and shoulder straps like a ruck sack. Small enough to fly hand luggage on some airlines it holds the equivalent of a standard pop-up. It also has a useful "graphic window" so you can instantly see what is inside.
Like the 600mm case, the holdall is also made in super heavy duty nylon cloth. The holdall can be carried like a spurts bag or worn like a ruck sack.
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Established in Jan'1985 , ALAKNANDA VAULTS™ has successfully attained its ambitious goal of assuming the leadership in the physical security equipment business City of New Delhi - thanks to its Dynamic and market - oriented customer Service management. During its 29 years of existence , ALAKNANDA VAULTS succeeded in bringing out cutting edge technology , thus introducing a number of "FIRSTS" under its total concept approach in introducing new products for its imperative and trustworthy customers. ALAKNANDA VAULTS™ is the First ISO 9001:2008 Certified Company according to Quality Management System Standard (EQUALITAS-AUSTRALIA) & KVQA-Norway).
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Established in 1985 , ALAKNANDA VAULTS™ has successfully attained its ambitious goal of assuming the leadership in the physical security equipment business City of New Delhi - thanks to its Dynamic and market - oriented customer Service management. During its 27 years of existence , ALAKNANDA VAULTS succeeded in bringing out cutting edge technology , thus introducing a number of "FIRSTS" under its total concept approach in introducing new products for its imperative and trustworthy customers. ALAKNANDA VAULTS™ is the First ISO 9001:2008 Certified Company according to Quality Management System Standard (EQUALITAS-AUSTRALIA) & KVQA-Norway). The company started its operation in 1985 in Alaknanda with a mission to serve the priceless security related needs of its customers and provide them a peace of mind by keeping their valuables safe and secured. With nine years of trust worthy experience and a good customer response , the second branch was opened in 1994 to expand the operations to serve the ever-growing customer needs.
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You can choose the locker size that fits your requirement as every customer has a unique and specific requirement. Alaknanda Vaults has specially designed Locker in 10 different sizes to meet your specific requirement, a facility not available in places like banks etc. Alaknanda Vaults are totally air-conditioned and located in the heart of South Delhi and DLF Gurgaon. You have easy access to them any time you feel the need and are being managed by ex-banking professionals.
Customers visit their nearby branch of ALAKNANDA VAULTS™ and chooses the locker size that fits their requirement as every customer has a unique and specific requirement. ALAKNANDA VAULTS™ has specially designed lockers in 10 different sizes , 5 Type of Def. Safes, File Cabinet etc. to meet your specific requirement, a facility not available in places like banks etc. After choosing the locker, customer fills an agreement form which is between him and the company. The company takes the security amount from the customer in terms of money which is refundable at the time of surrender; "the security" is interest free. The customer pays the yearly rent from the date of issuing the locker in advance. The rent and the security amount depends upon the size of the locker he chooses. Customer can take locker in joint name where in any of the two can operate and surrender locker. If the customer does not want to give the security amount then he has to give rent minimum of five years which is not refundable. In the agreement form customer specifies the nominee i.e. the person who can operate and surrender the locker only if the customer gives the right to his nominee, this condition holds both for the single as well as the joint locker holders. The person selected by the customer to be the nominee should be eligible as mentioned in the agreement form only. Before surrendering the locker the customer has to give one month notice to the company for refund of security..


Dr. Kelvin Higa graduated from the prestigious Biomedical Sciences Program, a collaboration between the University of California Schools in Riverside and Los Angeles, in 1983. He completed his general surgical training in Fresno in 1988. He has served as Chief of Vascular Surgery the VA Medical Center, Chief of Surgery for Community Medical Centers and Saint Agnes Medical Center and is currently the CEO of ALSA Medical Group and Director of Minimally Invasive and Bariatric Surgery at Fresno Heart and Surgical Hospital.
As Professor of Surgery in the UCSF-Fresno Medical Education Program, Dr. Higa is involved in the training of surgical residents and fellows. In addition to hosting visiting professors and other surgeons throughout the world, he is often asked to lecture of perform live surgeries in the US and abroad. He has published many peer reviewed papers book chapters and serves on the editorial board of several journals. He has served as President of the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery (ASMBS) and the International Federation for Surgical Obesity and Metabolic Disorders (IFSO). He is recipient of the ASMBS Lifetime Achievement Award.


Join Chef Eric Teo as he shares in this short tutorial how to prepare healthy Stir Fry Hokkien Flat Noodles with Tangy Sauce using Kang Kang fresh noodles - with no preservatives added and no refrigeration needed!
Place all Tangy Sauce's ingredients into a blender and blend till smooth. Set aside.
Stir fry Chinese Leek in a frying pan over medium heat then add in Kang Kang Hokkien Flat Noodles and fry till fragrant.
Add in 5 tbsp of blended tangy sauce, Roast Duck Breast slices and Shitake Mushrooms.
Garnish with Red Chili to serve.