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Our America
Published in El Partido Liberal (Mexico City), March 5, 1892
Whatever is left of that sleepy hometown in America must awaken
The prideful villager thinks his hometown contains the whole world, and as long as he can stay on as mayor or humiliate the rival who stole his sweetheart or watch his nest egg accumulating in its strongbox he believes the universe to be in good order, unaware of the giants in seven-league boots who can crush him underfoot or the battling comets in the heavens that go through the air devouring the sleeping worlds. Whatever is left of that sleepy hometown in America must awaken. These are not times for going to bed in a sleeping cap, but rather, like Juan de Castellanos' men, with our weapons for a pillow, weapons of the mind, which vanquish all others. Trenches of ideas are worth more than trenches of stone.
A cloud of ideas is a thing no armored prow can smash though. A vital idea set ablaze before the world at the right moment can, like the mystic banner of the last judgment, stop a fleet of battleships. Hometowns that are still strangers to one another must hurry to become acquainted, like men who are about to do battle together. Those who shake their fists at each other like jealous brothers quarreling over a piece of land or the owner of a small house who envies the man with a better one must join hands and interlace them until their two hands are as one. Those who, shielded by a criminal tradition, mutilate, with swords smeared in the same blood that flows though their own veins, the land of a conquered brother whose punishment far exceeds his crimes, must return that land to their brother if they do not wish to be known as a nation of plunderers. The honorable man does not collect his debts of honor in money, at so much per slap. We can no longer be a nation of fluttering leaves, spending our lives in the air, our treetop crowned in flowers, humming or creaking, caressed by the caprices of sunlight or thrashed and felled by tempests. The trees must form ranks to block the seven-league giant! It is the hour of reckoning and of marching in unison, and we must move in lines as compact as the veins of silver that lie at the roots of the Andes.
Only runts whose growth was stunted will lack the necessary valor, for those who have no faith in their land are like men born prematurely. Having no valor themselves, they deny that other men do. Their puny arms, with bracelets and painted nails, the arms of Madrid or of Paris, cannot manage the lofty tree and so they say the tree cannot be climbed. We must load up the ships with these termites who gnaw away at the core of the patria that has nurtured them; if they are Parisians or Madrileños then let them stroll to the Prado by lamplight or go to Tortoni's for an ice. These sons of carpenters who are ashamed that their father was a carpenter! These men born in America who are ashamed of the mother that raised them because she wears an Indian apron, these delinquents who disown their sick mother and leave her alone in her sickbed! Which one is truly a man, he who stays with his mother to nurse her though her illness, or he who forces her to work somewhere out of sight, and lives off her sustenance in corrupted lands, with a worm for his insignia, cursing the bosom that bore him, sporting a sign that says "traitor" on the back of his paper dress-coat? These sons of our America, which must save herself through her Indians, and which is going from less to more, who desert her and take up arms in the armies of North America, which drowns its own Indians in blood and going from more to less! These delicate creatures who are men but do not want to do men's work! Did Washington, who made that land for them, go and live with the English during the years when he saw the English marching against his own land? These incroyables who drag their honor across foreign soil, like the incroyables of the French Revolution, dancing, smacking their lips, and deliberately slurring their words!
And in what patria can a man take greater pride than in our long-suffering republics of America, erected among mute masses of Indians upon the bloodied arms of no more than a hundred apostles, to the sound of the book doing battle against the monk's tall candle? Never before have such advanced and consolidated nations been created from such disparate factors in less historical time. The haughty man thinks that because he wields a quick pen or a vivid phrase the earth was made to be his pedestal, and accuses his nature republic or irredeemable incompetence because its virgin jungles do not continually provide him with the means of going about the world a famous plutocrat, driving Persian ponies and spilling champagne. The incapacity lies not in the emerging country, which demands forms that are appropriate to it and a grandeur that is useful, but in the leaders who try to rule unique nations of a singular and violent composition, with laws inherited from four centuries of free practice in the United States and nineteen centuries of monarchy in France. A gaucho's pony cannot be stopped in midbolt by one of Alexander Hamilton's laws. The sluggish blood of the Indian race cannot be quickened by a phrase from Sieyes. To govern well, one must attend closely to the reality of the place that is governed. In America, the good ruler does not need to know how the German or Frenchman is governed, but what elements his own country is composed of and how he can marshal them so as to reach, by means and institutions born from the country itself, the desirable state in which every man knows himself and is active, and all men enjoy the abundance that Nature, for the good of all, has bestowed on the country they make fruitful by their labor and defend with their lives. The government must be born from the country. The spirit of the government must be the spirit of the country. The form of the government must be in harmony with the country's natural constitution. The government is no more than an equilibrium among the country's natural elements.
In America the natural man has triumphed over the imported book. Natural men have triumphed over an artificial intelligentsia. The native mestizo has triumphed over the alien, pure-blooded criollo. The battle is not between civilization and barbarity, but between false erudition and nature. The natural man is good, and esteems and rewards a superior intelligence as long as that intelligence does not use his submission against him or offend him by ignoring him-for that the natural man deems unforgivable, and he is prepared to use force to regain the respect of anyone who wounds his sensibilities or harms his interests. The tyrants of America have come to power by acquiescing to these scorned natural elements and have fallen as soon as they betrayed them. The republics have purged the former tyrannies of their inability to know the true elements of the country, derive the form of government from them, and govern along with them. Governor, in a new country, means Creator.
Our own Greece is preferable to the Greece that is not ours; we need it more. Statesmen who arise from the nation must replace statesmen who are alien to it.
In countries composed of educated and uneducated sectors, the uneducated will govern by their habit of attacking and resolving their doubts with their fists, unless the educated learn the art of governing. The uneducated masses are lazy and timid about matters of the intellect and want to be well-governed, but if the government injures them they shake it off and govern themselves. How can our governors emerge from the universities when there is not a university in America that teaches the most basic element of the art of governing, which is the analysis of all that is unique to the peoples of America? Our youth go out into the world wearing Yankee- or French-colored glasses and aspire to rule by guesswork a country they do not know. Those unacquainted with the rudiments of politics should not be allowed to embark on a career in politics. The literary prizes must not go to the best ode, but to the best study of the political factors in the student's country. In the newspapers, lecture halls, and academies, the study of the country's real factors must be carried forward. Simply knowing those factors without blindfolds or circumlocutions is enough-for anyone who deliberately or unknowingly sets aside a part of the truth will ultimately fail because of the truth he was lacking, which expands when neglected and brings down whatever is built without it. Solving the problem after knowing its elements is easier than solving it without knowing them. The natural man, strong and indignant, comes and overthrows the authority that is accumulated from books because it is not administered in keeping with the manifest needs of the country. To know is to solve. To know the country and govern it in accordance with that knowledge is the only way of freeing it from tyranny. The European university must yield to the American university. The history of America from the Incas to the present must be taught in its smallest detail, even if the Greek Archons go untaught. Our own Greece is preferable to the Greece that is not ours; we need it more. Statesmen who arise from the nation must replace statesmen who are alien to it. Let the world be grafted onto our republics, but we must be the trunk. And let the vanquished pedant hold his tongue, for their is no patria in which a man can take greater pride than in our long-suffering American republics.
Our feet upon a rosary, our heads white, and our bodies a motley of Indian and criollo we boldly entered the community of nations. Bearing the standard of the Virgin, we went out to conquer our liberty. A priest, a few lieutenants, and a woman built a republic in Mexico upon the shoulders of the Indians. A Spanish cleric, under cover of his priestly cape, taught French liberty to a handful of magnificent students who chose a Spanish general to lead central America against Spain. Still accustomed to monarchy, and with the sun on their chests, the Venezuelans in the north and the Argentines in the south set out to construct nations. When the two heroes clashed and their continent was about to be rocked, one of them, and not the lesser one, turned back. But heroism is less glorious in peacetime than in war, and thus rarer, and it is easier for a man to die with honor than to think in an orderly way. Exalted and unanimous sentiments are more readily governed than the diverging, arrogant, alien, and ambitious ideas that emerge when the battle is over. The powers that were swept up in the epic struggle, along with the feline wariness of the species and the sheer weight of reality, undermined the edifice that had raised the flags of nations sustained by wise governance in the continual practice of reason and freedom over the crude and singular regions of our mestizo America with its towns of bare legs and Parisian dress-coats. The colonial hierarchy resisted the republic's democracy, and the capital city, wearing its elegant cravat, left the countryside, in its horsehide boots, waiting at the door; the redeemers born from books did not understand that a revolution that had triumphed when the soul of the earth was unleashed by a savior's voice had to govern with the soul of the earth and not against or without it. And for all these reasons, America began enduring and still endures the weary task of reconciling the discordant and hostile elements it inherited from its perverse, despotic colonizer with the imported forms and ideas that have, in their lack of local reality, delayed the advent of a logical form of government. The continent, deformed by three centuries of a rule that denied man the right to exercise his reason, embarked-overlooking or refusing to listen to the ignorant masses that had helped it redeem itself-upon a government based on reason, the reason of all directed toward the things that are of concern to all, and not the university-taught reason of the few imposed upon the rustic reason of others. The problem of independence was not the change in form, but the change in spirit.
Common cause had to be made with the oppressed in order to consolidate a system that was opposed to the interests and governmental habits of the oppressors. The tiger, frightened away b the flash of gunfire, creeps back in the night to find his prey. He will die with flames shooting form his eyes, his claws unsheathed, but now his step is inaudible for he comes on velvet paws. When the prey awakens, the tiger is upon him. The colony lives on in the republic, but our America is saving itself from its grave blunders-the arrogance of the capital cities, the blind triumph of the scorned campesinos, the excessive importation of foreign ideas and formulas, the wicked and impolitic disdain for the native race-through the superior virtue, confirmed by necessary bloodshed, of the republic that struggles against the colony. The tiger waits behind every tree, crouches in every corner. He will die, his claws unsheathed, flames sho0ting form his eyes.
But "these countries will be saved," in the words of the Argentine Rivadivia, who erred on the side of urbanity during crude times; the machete is sill-suited to a silken scabbard, nor can the spear be abandoned in a country won by the spear, for it becomes enraged and stands in the doorway of Iturbide's Congress demanding that "the fair-skinned man be made emperor." These countries will be saved because , with the genius of moderation that now seems, by nature's serene harmony, to prevail in the continent of light, and the influence of the critical reading that has, in Europe, replaced the fumbling ideas about phalansteries in which the previous generation was steeped, the real man is being born to America, in these real times.
What a vision we were: the chest of an athlete, the hands of a dandy, and the forehead of a child. We were a whole fancy dress ball, in English trousers, a Parisian waistcoat, a North American overcoat, and a Spanish bullfighter's hat. The Indian circled about us, mute, and went to the mountaintop to christen his children. The black, pursued from afar, alone and unknown, sang his heart's music in the night, between waves and wild beasts. The campesinos, the men of the land, the creators, rose up in blind indignation against the disdainful city, their own creation. We wore epaulets and judge's robes, in countries that came into the world wearing rope sandals and Indian headbands. The wise thing would have been to pair, with charitable hearts and the audacity of our founders, the Indian headband and the judicial robe, to undam the Indian, make a place for the able black, and tailor liberty to the bodies of those who rose up and triumphed in its name. What we had was the judge, the general, the man of letters, and the cleric. Our angelic youth, as if struggling from the arms of an octopus, cast their heads into the heavens and fell back with sterile glory, crowned with clouds. The natural people, driven by instinct, blind with triumph, overwhelmed their gilded rulers. No Yankee or European book could furnish the key to the Hispanoamerican enigma. So the people tried hatred instead, and our countries amounted to less and less each year. Weary of useless hatred, of the struggle of book against sword, reason against the monk's taper, city against countryside, the impossible empire of the quarreling urban castes against the tempestuous or inert natural nation, we are beginning, almost unknowingly, to try love. The nations arise and salute one another. "What are we like?" they ask, and begin telling each other what they are like. When a problem arises in Cojimar they no longer seek the solution in Danzig. The frock-coats are still French, but the thinking begins to be American. The young men of America are rolling up their sleeves and plunging their hands into the dough, and making it rise with the leavening of their sweat. They understand that there is too much imitation, and that salvation lies in creating. Create is this generation's password. Make wine from plantains; it may be sour, but it is our wine! It is now understood that a country's form of government must adapt to its natural elements, that absolute ideas, in order not to collapse over an error of form, must be expressed in relative forms; that liberty, on order to be viable, must be sincere and full, that if the republic does not open its arms to all and include all in its progress, it dies. The tiger inside came in through the gap, and so will the tiger outside. The general holds the cavalry's speed to the pace of the infantry, for it he leaves the infantry far behind, the enemy will surround the cavalry. Politics is strategy. Nations must continually criticize themselves, for criticism is health, but with a single heart and a single mind. Lower yourselves to the unfortunate and raise them up in your arms! Let the heart's fires unfreeze all that is motionless in America, and let the country's natural blood surge and throb through its veins! Standing tall, the workmen's eyes full of joy, the new men of America are saluting each other from one country to another. Natural statesmen are emerging from the direct study of nature; they read in order to apply what they read, not copy it. Economists are studying problems at their origins. Orators are becoming more temperate. Dramatists are putting native characters onstage. Academies are discussing practical subjects. Poetry is snipping off its wild, Zorilla-esque mane and hanging up its gaudy waistcoat on the glorious tree. Prose, polished and gleaming, is replete with ideas. The rulers of Indian republics are learning Indian languages.
America is saving herself from all her dangers. Over some republics the octopus sleeps still, but by the law of equilibrium, other republics are running into the sea to recover the lost centuries with mad and sublime swiftness. Others, forgetting that Juárez traveled in a coach drawn by mules, hitch their coach to the wind and take a soap bubble for coachman-and poisonous luxury, enemy of liberty, corrupts the frivolous and opens the door to foreigners. The virile character of others is being perfected by the epic spirit of a threatened independence. And others, in rapacious wars against their neighbors, are nurturing an unruly soldier caste that may devour them. But our America may also face another danger, which comes not form within but from the differing origins, methods, and interests of the containment's two factions. The hour is near when she will be approached by an enterprising and forceful nation that will demand intimate relations with her, though it does not know her and disdains her. And virile nations self-made by the rifle and the law love other virile nations, and love only them. The hour of unbridled passion and ambition from which North America may escape by the ascendancy of the purest element in its blood-or into which its vengeful and sordid masses, its tradition of conquest, and the self-interest of a cunning leader could plunge it-is not yet so close, even to the most apprehensive eye, that there is no time for it to be confronted and averted by the manifestation of a discreet and unswerving pride, for its dignity as a republic, in the eyes of the watchful nations of the Universe, places upon North America a brake that our America must not remove by puerile provocation, ostentatious arrogance, or patricidal discord. Therefore the urgent duty of our America is to show herself as she is, one in soul and intent, rapidly overcoming the crushing weight of her past and stained only by the fertile blood shed by hands that do battle against ruins and by veins that were punctured by our former masters. The disdain of the formidable neighbor who does not know her is our America's greatest danger, and it is urgent-for the day of the visit is near-that her neighbor come to know her, and quickly, so that he will not disdain her. Out of ignorance, he may perhaps begin to covet her. But when he knows her, eh will remove his hands from her in respect. One must have faith in the best in man and distrust the worst. One must give the best every opportunity, so that the worst will be laid bare and overcome. If not, the worst will prevail. Nations should have one special pillory for those who incite them to futile hatreds, and another for those who do not tell them the truth until it is too late.
There is no racial hatred, because there are no races.
There is no racial hatred, because there are no races. Sickly, lamp-lit minds string together and rewarm the library-shelf races that the honest traveler and the cordial observer seek in vain in the justice of nature, where the universal identity of man leaps forth in victorious love and turbulent appetite. The soul, equal and eternal, emanates from bodies that are diverse in form and color. Anyone who promotes and disseminates opposition or hatred among races is committing a sin against humanity. But within that jumble of peoples which lives in close proximity to our peoples, certain peculiar and dynamic characteristics are condensed-ideas and habits of expansion, acquisition, vanity, and greed-that could, in a period of internal disorder or precipitation of a people's cumulative character, cease to be latent national preoccupations and become a serious threat to the neighboring, isolated and weak lands that the strong country declares to be perishable and inferior. To think is to serve. We must not, out of a villager's antipathy, impute some lethal congenital wickedness to the continent's light-skinned nation simply because it does not speak our language or share our view of what home life should be or resemble us in its political failings, which are different from ours, or because it does not think highly of quick-tempered, swarthy men or look with charity, from its still uncertain eminence, upon those less favored by history who, in heroic stages, are climbing the road that republics travel. But neither should we seek to conceal the obvious facts of the problem, which can, for the peace of the centuries, be resolved by timely study and the urgent, wordless union of the continental soul. For the unanimous hymn is already ringing forth, and the present generation is bearing industrious America along the road sanctioned by our sublime forefathers. From the Rio bravo to the Straits of Magellan, the Great Cemi, seated on a condor's back, has scattered the seeds of the new America across the romantic nations of the continent and the suffering islands of the sea!


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Twisted Twigs On Gnarled Branches: One year anniversary!!
One year ago today, I brought Twisted Twigs on Gnarled Branches Genealogy to Facebook. I have had so much fun! I have met some amazing people, enjoyed sharing my adventure while researching my own family history, and adored reading all the comments left.
As genealogists, we know that life can be short. Researching genealogy has been a passion of mine for decades. I remember sitting in one of my 8 am Medical Technology classes one year ago. I feverishly wrote an email, before class started, to a newly discovered distant cousin who's family though my 2nd Great Grandmother died as a baby. My professor came over and mentioned that he had the same look in his eyes when he started his Medical Technology classes. Something clicked. While I enjoy studying medicine and hoped to become a physician, I would most likely be preoccupied with thoughts of probate records to obtain and cemeteries I had yet to visit. I walked out of that class and never looked back. I am currently applying to Wayne State University to receive a Master in Library and Information Science degree and hope to become a certified genealogist in the next year.
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Welcome to GeneaBloggers! It is great that you have found your true passion. Keep striving until you get all you want. Good Luck!
Deidre, congratulations on your one year anniversary on Facebook. Looks like you've developed quite a community there!
I found your blog today, thanks to a mention on GeneaBloggers. Looking forward to reading more on your blog as well as your Facebook page!
Thank you Jacqi for the kind comments and for checking out my Facebook page :) I'm learning blogging slowly but surely.
Congrats on your one year anniversary on Facebook. I love your posts there!
And welcome to the GeneaBloggers community!
Thanks Jana. I appreciate it. I'm still a bit awe-struck about how quickly my page grew.
Congrats, Deidre! You bring so much fun to the world of research.
Deidre, I found your blog on Genealogy Canada, and just signed up to follow your facebook page. It takes a brave person to change a career plan like you did, but kudos for doing it. I remember many days when I snuck in research while at work. It's much better full-time. Congratulations on your anniversary.


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Unifying control of every onboard signal. Dramatically improve cargo handling management.
Musasino's Smart Network platform optimizes cargo handling support, based on our signal processing technology. There are several stages to providing that platform.
After a 'cable-saving design', 'unifying signals on a shipboard LAN',and 'database creation', ultimately a 'solution tailored to the situation' is provided.
All necessary modules and applications are produced in-house by Musasino. Over 60 years of history in the marine industry will merge with advanced technology to propose solutions tailored to each customer's needs.
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Case study of a PCTC's control equipment and ventilation
Cables reduced from 400 to 8!
The core module was produced in-house, and then installed in the ventilation maker's panel. By controlling the ventilation through our panel and module, we were able to reduce the number of cables required from 400 to just eight. This was a huge reduction in wiring.
This reduction of wiring increased the area available for cargo and reduced costs.
The weight of the ship is also lighter as a result. Reducing the amount of space needed for the cables brought a number of benefits, including increased cargo space, improved fuel efficiency with a lighter hull, and reduced costs for procurement and electrical work.
Unification of Signals in Hazardous Area & Reduced Cabling
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There are already a lot of commercial ships with onboard LAN's, but there are not a lot of ships that have intercommunication between ship equipment. This is no different from having individual closed networks before shipboard LAN's were introduced. Musasino builds open networks according to a customer's requirements, bringing in equipment signals mainly from the engine room and cargo control room to be displayed at various locations on the ship via LAN.
Musasino's LAN interface and digitize analog signals from various equipment onboard.
The system digitizes signals that need computerto be connected to the LAN, and then consolidates the information on the LAN.
STEP.3 Database Creation
Musasino's systems include a computer with a built-in database function as standard. As a result, data from equipment connected to the Musasino system is accumulated in the database, and required data can be uploaded on and off the ship via the shipboard LAN, telephone, or satellite connections.
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Musasino proposes solutions tailored to our customers' needs, taking advantage of the benefits in the previous steps and our extensive experience in the marine equipment industry. For example, information from measurement instruments can be displayed, and equipment controlled, from a crew member's cabin on a smart phone or tablet, with the data stored in a database on the ship or downloaded to an onshore office. By incorporating signals from all of the equipment onboard, unique applications combining marine equipment can be created.
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Comprehensive Equipment Management Device information is imported to the LAN via our interface, and then can be transmitted to operators onshore.
Cargo Handling / Equipment Status History Management Shipboard cargo handling equipment information, such as liquid level, is stored in a database, and historical information can browsed onshore.
Remote Maintenance Remotely monitor equipment conditions from shore, and determine maintenance approaches when an issue arises.
Monitor for Hull Abnormalities Monitor conditions of rotating equipment(like motors) with a vibration sensor, and detect hull abnormalities in advance.
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<TITLE>Submit Man Page</TITLE><LINK REV="MADE" HREF="mailto:min@columbia.edu">

Submit Man Page

Name

submit - electronic submission of homework files

Synopsis

~cs4118/bin/submit -h

~cs4118/bin/submit [-a assignment_number] [forced_files ...]

Description

submit looks for submittable files in the current working
directory and recursively searches thorugh all directories within that
directory, ignoring all binary and potential backup files.  Upon
confirmation from the user, submit copies, archives and
compresses files, and stores them privately in the class account (~cs4118).
Mail confirming the files submitted is sent to the user.

If you resubmit an assignment, your old assignment is moved to a backup
location.  If you resubmit more than once, only your last two submissions
will be kept.  You will be asked whether you really want to resubmit your
assignment.

A number (1-9) can be used with the -a option to specify a
particular homework which is being submitted.

forced_files are forced into submission even if they would
ordinarily be ignored.

Usually the user will not need to specify forced_files or
assignment_number.  The submit program will submit the current
due assignment if the -a is not specified.

Options

 -h

 Help option.  Shows options for the program.  Does NOT perform
a submission.

 -a

 Submit a certain assignment, other than the one currently due.

Notes

It is generally a good idea to create a separate subdirectory for each
of your homeworks.  In these homework directories will be any makefiles,
READMEs, C sources files header files and sample executions.  To submit
these files just run submit from within the corresponding
homework directory.

Return Values

Upon successful submission, the user is notified, via email, of the
successfully submitted files.  Upon failure, the user is instructed to
notify the submit administrator of the error codes.

Files

~cs4118/bin/submit

~cs4118/bin/.submit

~cs4118/public_html/submit.html

~cs4118/lib/submission.log.?

Example

Warnings

Be sure to be on a machine on the CUNIX cluster.

Because of incredible loads on the CUNIX cluster close to
submission times, you should leave yourself ample (+30 minutes) time to submit
your assignments.  The running time of the program should be less than 1 minute
for normal-sized submissions.

Deadlines are enforced by the submission program, and timing is
enforced by the CUNIX cluster machines' clock.  Not by your
watch, or cs cluster machines.

All submissions are logged.

Credits

Coded by Min-Yen Kan(min@columbia.edu) in
perl.  Credits to Reggie Delbrune and Sam Fenster for the
original C version of the program from cs3139.

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Home » Governor Dennis Daugaard
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32nd Governor of South Dakota
Birth: June 11, 1953, Sioux Falls, South Dakota
Governor Dennis Daugaard served as the thirty-second Governor of South Dakota from 2011-19.
Daugaard was born on June 11, 1953. He grew up between Dell Rapids and Garretson on his family's farm, which his grandparents purchased in 1911 after they emigrated from Denmark. Daugaard's parents, Raymond and Florence, were both born deaf, making sign language the principal means of communication for his family.
Daugaard attended a one-room country school and graduated from Dell Rapids High School in 1971. He worked his way through USD – washing dishes, welding, and painting water towers – and graduated in 1975 with a B.S. in government. Daugaard then earned his law degree in 1978 from Northwestern University in Chicago, and worked in Chicago for three years.
Daugaard moved back to South Dakota in 1981 to marry his high school girlfriend, Linda Schmidt. Two years later, they purchased the Daugaard family farmsite where, over the next year, they built their own home. Their children Laura, Sara, and Chris were the fourth generation of Daugaards to live on the family farm.
After working for nine years in banking, Daugaard in 1990 joined Children's Home Society of South Dakota, first working for eleven years as development director for the foundation, and then for seven years as executive director. Daugaard became involved in politics in 1996 when he was elected to the first of three terms in the State Senate. He was elected lieutenant governor in 2002, serving for eight years with Governor Mike Rounds.
Daugaard ran for governor in 2010, winning a five-way Republican primary with more than fifty percent of the vote, and winning the general election that fall on a ticket with former House Speaker Matt Michels of Yankton. In 2014, the Daugaard/Michels ticket was reelected by the largest margin in state history.
Days after taking office, Daugaard proposed a state budget that eliminated a $127 million structural deficit, without raising taxes. That same year, Daugaard led emergency flood protection efforts to avoid catastrophic flooding along the Missouri River after the Corps of Engineers announced record-breaking water releases from Missouri River dams.
As Governor, Daugaard prioritized sound stewardship of the state's resources, including increased funding for highway construction, prudent management of the state pension plan, and maintenance and preservation of state buildings. Under his leadership, South Dakota was named "Best Run State in America" and obtained the highest bond rating of AAA from all three rating agencies.
Daugaard supported task force recommendations to increase teacher pay, raise the sales tax, lower property taxes, and reform the school funding formula. As a result, South Dakota's average teacher pay rose from last in the nation for the first time in thirty years. Daugaard also joined with the Chief Justice and legislative leaders to propose bipartisan reforms in both the state's adult and juvenile criminal justice systems.
In 2016, Daugaard signed legislation asserting the state's ability to tax remote, online sellers. This led to a favorable ruling from the United States Supreme Court, ending a twenty-year effort by states to achieve sales tax fairness.
Daugaard left office in early 2019, retiring to his home near Dell Rapids.
Daugaard was honored in 2019 by the Trail of Governors with a life-size bronze statue by sculptor James Michael Maher. Daugaard's hand is outstretched, making the American Sign Language sign for "I love you." In his other hand, Daugaard holds a shovel, evoking his enthusiasm for tree-planting and his commitment to maintenance and repair. That hand is also pinching a penny, a reference to his well-known frugality. The sculpture was placed north of the Governor's Mansion on Governor's Drive, near the eastern shore of Capitol Lake.


You experience his interest in life & people.
come into contact with music and dance at an early age.
after his school education an apprenticeship at BABCOCK BORSIG.
more & more began to develop.
He stopped his apprenticeship, to concentrate solely on dance.


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How do you say then in French?
The word then has various translations in French, depending on how it is used. We'll look at the main possibilities here, and how to choose between them. This section is split into two pages:
on this page, we look at then when it indicates the next in time or a sequence;
on the next page, we look at then when it means something closer to therefore, so, in that case;
the next page also looks at the slightly unusual case of phrases such as the then prime minister.
then meaning and next
With the meaning of and next the usual French translation is puis. Note that, just as English then, puis can be used to introduce something that is next in sequence even if there isn't really a literal notion of time involved (see the second of these two sentences):
j'ai fait mes devoirs puis j'ai regardé la télé
I did my homework then I watched TV
j'ai une soeur, Sonia, (et) puis il y a mon frère...
I have a sister, Sonia, (and) then there's my brother...
Note that puis is generally only used to "join sentences together" in this way. So for example, you can't put puis at the end of a sentence. And it doesn't make sense to say qu'est qu'il a fait puis? for "what did he do then?".
then meaning after that, subsequently
The French word ensuite can often translate then. Unlike puis, ensuite can be placed inside or at the end of a sentence. In fact, if it's not in one of these positions, it tends to require the support of another word such as et (and) to "join" the two sentences together:
qu'est-ce qu'il a fait ensuite?
what did he do then? (="next")
j'ai fait mes devoirs et je suis sorti ensuite avec des amis or:
j'ai fait mes devoirs et je suis sorti avec des amis ensuite or:
j'ai fait mes devoirs et ensuite je suis sorti avec des amis
I did my homework then went out with some friends
(A bit more technically, we could say that ensuite is an adverb, whereas puis is a conjunction.)
Unlike puis, French speakers don't tend to use ensuite where there isn't literally a notion of time involved. Searching the Internet, for example, we find far more examples of puis il y a (which would tend not to imply a "sequence in time") then ensuite il y a.
then meaning at that time
French doesn't have a single word to cover this meaning of then. Instead, a more specific expression is used in French such as à cette heure-là (=at that time of the day), à ce moment-là (=at that moment), à l'époque (=during that period, at that stage of our life etc):
J'arriverai à quatre heures. Tu peux venir me chercher à cette heure-là?
I'll be arriving at 4 o'clock. Can you pick me up then?
Aujourd'hui on préfère la campagne, mais à l'époque on vivait en ville.
Nowadays we prefer the countryside, but then we were living in town.
In some cases, then covers both the meaning of "at that moment" and "next", "subsequently". In such cases, either type of translation (using puis/et ensuite or using et à ce moment-là) is generally possible:
On arrivera à Paris et puis/à ce moment-là on décidera ce qu'on va faire
We'll get to Paris and then we'll decide what we're going to do.
Use of alors to mean "then in the past", "at that period of history"
In what we might call "history book style", alors is sometimes used to mean then when it denotes a time or period in the past. With this meaning, alors tends to be placed just after the verb:
nous avions alors beaucoup de contacts
then, we had many contacts
la ville était alors un petit village
the town was then a small village
Next: then meaning so, therefore
On the next page, we look at how to how to translate then meaning so, therefore.


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From learning the ropes to holding the fort: An apprentice success story.
Following Joe's recent 'A day in the life of an apprentice', we thought we'd write an update on how far Joe has come along in the world of IT with us here at JamCrackers.
We wanted to highlight how apprenticeships can successfully work, for both the apprentice as well as the impact and change a reliable apprentice can have on your business.
A young and shy looking 16 year old chap by the name of Joe approached us. Joe had just finished his exams at Vandyke School and was looking for work experience to learn the ropes within the IT sector.
It's safe to say that we liked Joe on sight and snapped him up immediately!
Joe immediately showed promise and motivation by studying all aspects of computer hardware and regularly observing Richard (Director) with all computer repairs and remote jobs within the office.
Later that year we entered and won The Dunstable and Houghton Regis New Business of the Year Award. We were very proud to share the experience with our new recruit Joe.
Joe started his apprenticeship course at Central Bedfordshire College in January 2016 and embarked on a 2 year IT course with the aim to eventually gain his Level 3 diploma, in *Professional Competence for IT and Telecoms Professionals.
*This work-based qualification is aimed at learners who are working, or want to work, in the IT and telecommunications industry. It could lead to employment as a business analyst, computer games designer or technical support person, computer hardware engineer or service technician, internet professional, telecommunications technician, IT product developer, IT technical sales specialist or IT trainer.
Joe continued to study hard throughout the year, but while his knowledge of computer hardware and was expanding, we noticed that he was ill at ease with dealing with clients, both face to face and on the telephone. We therefore decided to help boost his confidence with some telephone training. Before long, the very shy and unsure Joe had gained confidence and was dealing with customers over the telephone on a daily basis.
We relocated from Grovesbury Road to North Street, Leighton Buzzard and we again (crossed our fingers) and entered the Dunstable and Houghton Regis Awards. We went on to win the Customer Care Excellence Award and Business of the Year.
Joe won his first Highly Commended Apprentice of the Year. A very proud moment for all of us at JamCrackers and for Joe and his family.
By 2017, Joe's confidence had dramatically grown and he was now dealing face to face with clients and reps. He also had started on more complex IT repairs, remote jobs and server installations with JamCrackers. Joe's passionate attitude towards work and his interest and knowledge in the world of IT support, was really starting to shine through. Joe had finally found both his voice and confidence and wasn't afraid to use them!
Joe's work ethic was rewarded in November 2017 when we entered him for the Apprentice of the Year award at the prestigious Dunstable and Houghton Regis - Business and Community Awards and he went on to win!
Joe completed and passed his course and officially left college in January 2018. Joe was then promoted from apprentice to IT Engineer.
Joe went on to pass his driving test in May 2018 and has since been on a several business related visits.
Joe now handles remote support and holds the fort within the office on daily basis. He has grown with JamCrackers and his quest for knowledge and customer satisfaction are still a top priority for him. We receive an abundance of positive feedback on a regular basis regarding Joe's IT services, his great personality and kind mannerisms. We could not be more proud of how far Joe has come along in such a short space of time.
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Congratulations on your amazing journey Joe.
Everyone here at JamCrackers UK are very proud of you.
Here's to the next 3 years!
This is my first blog (please be kind). I thought I'd share my learnt knowledge of what a day in the life of an IT apprentice REALLY is like. Buckle up apprentice friends!
I start every morning with the frustrating task of opening the shop. Whilst very secure, our electric shutter really does like to move a leisurely pace, even more so when it's pelting with rain, like this morning. (I swear it does it on purpose to mock me).
I finally get into the office, around 9.00am, make myself and the boss (if he's in …) a cuppa.
(Rule one of apprentice life, if you want to avoid sarky comments such as these classics 'has the fuse gone again in that kettle' or 'is that the kettel I hear boiling' from the boss, always be one step ahead and make him/her a cuppa to shut em up!).
So, not only have I braved the elements, won the battle with mocking shutter this morning, but I've also managed to keep the boss happy (go me!).
I have a great routine that I stick to and I would personally recommend to other apprentices to have a routine/check list to help you manage your time efficiently throughout the day.
First on my morning hit list is to check and prioritise all the outstanding calls I need to make, and to check work emails.
After my routine checks are done, I then head over to our work station (this is all of 3 ft way from my desk –it's an exhausting journey!). This is where we keep the commercial pending repairs. Part of my job is to ensure that all devices are professionally logged and that repairs are diagnosed, and customers are updated on the repair progress.
Throughout this process, we receive quite calls from our existing clients with a variety of requests, mainly ones asking for password resets, new user setups etc.
All this works takes me though to lunchtime. My lunch break is 1 hour and usually I spend that time (obviously eating) … but also catching up with all the football news, mainly Manchester United news, because let's face it, they are the best team in the Premier League. My news perusal doesn't go down well with the boss who is unfortunately a Spurs Fan. Poor man.
The remainder of the working day goes by quite fast, I have a steady number of calls, walk in clients and repairs to get along with. I also have the lovely tasks for giving the kitchen a quick once over, washing up the tea cups and generally keeping the office space tidy and risk free.
So all in all, being an apprentice isn't that bad – please don't believe the horror stories that all apprentices are taken advantage of. The worst thing that's happened to me was the humiliation of being the back end of one of the bosses pranks – oh yes, I was told (and believed) that I had to use a 'left handed screwdriver' (ratchet screwdriver) for a job when I first started. That was a frustrating and long afternoon!
Mind you, I have it good authority that the boss fell for the 'tartan paint' prank by his bosses when he was my age (apparently he was gone for over an hour trying to locate the illusive paint!)– who's the fool now!?
I'll save our new member of the humiliation of being the back end of one of the bosses pranks – Left handed screwdriver – ratchet screwdriver, plus side I now know what a ratchet is.


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It's like Bollywood will never learn to correct its mistakes. This movie is a half-witted heist film with the backdrop of the Emergency (1975). Milan Luthria's 'chor-police' story takes place almost entirely in Rajasthan and it's by far one of the worse movies of the year. Ajay Devgn and Emraan Hashmi's pairing is utmost tragic. The only character worth watching was Sanjay Mishra. It would have probably been a greater joy to watch, if the whole movie was based on his character. Story, direction, acting and even sheer logic gets chucked out of the window, never to be found.
When a beautiful princess named Geetanjali (D'Cruz) appoints her bodyguard (Devgn) to retrieve her treasure from the hands of the miscellaneous police officers and army men including hunky but tightlipped Vidyut Jammwal, things go south (for the movie). Emraan Hashmi and the rest of the team then fall in place for the heist. A masala guilty pleasure entertainer is expected to have a weak plot and 'seeti-maar' dialogues, but who can ignore ingrained misogyny in every scene. In a year packed with insanely strong female led performances and characters, we get a movie with female leads that are merely 'decorative' in the movie. Esha Gupta's character has little to no backstory and she doesn't provide anything cohesive that pushes the plot forward. It's like the filmmakers just decided that they needed another pretty face. Geetanjali seems like a strong character but her motives were childish and illogical. She serves for no more than a damsel in distress that strokes the Indian male ego. The twists in the movie can be seen from miles away. By the time you get to the twist, you can't help but laugh at the absolute absurdity of it.
Sure, the crowd applauded at the entrance of suave Ajay Devgn and whistled during the Sunny Leone item song, but that's about it. The only character that tries to redeem this joke of a movie is Sanjay Mishra's character (there's literally nothing else). He was the only one who cracked me up after long stretches of dullness. Unfortunately, his presence is not enough. The masala movie formula is dying with audiences constantly raising the bar for good cinema. During the finale, which includes a CGI sandstorm, a Mexican standoff and a bad fight sequence, the movie is lost.
After spending a tiresome amount of time waiting for something to happen in the movie, I'm just glad Vidyut Jammwal kept his shirt on. The un-linear timeline that we see in most heist films only serves as a backfire for this movie. Plot holes were evident and in a desperate struggle to join the dots the filmmakers end the film with the easiest way out- by mother nature's intervention (sandstorm). Never in the movie were the actual stakes or danger felt. Hopefully the age-old masala movie hoax will die with this unfortunate film.


Denise Kaigler is the Senior Vice President and ChiefCommunications Officer of Reebok International Ltd, making her thehighest-ranking African-American at Reebok, and marking the firsttime an African-American, and a woman, has held such a position inthe corporation.
In her new position, Kaigler serves as Reebok's top communicationsstrategist and executive management communications counselor. Sheis also the primary press spokesperson for the entire company.
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In November 2002, Kaigler assumed the job of Talent Relations for the Reebok Brand. With that title, shewas in charge of overseeing the company's relationship with musiccelebrities, managing press tours, events and media interviews withsome of the world's most successful entertainers. Kaigler held thatposition until this recent promotion.
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Dream Books II is the second volume of Chihoi's Dream Book back in 2013. Chihoi says he won't buy any more books about books. But as he draws those covers of his dream books, it's like he has already read them. Those books that he collects, and those that he cannot afford, and those that he don't want to lend to friends, and those that are classics to him, he portraits them one by one as if you can have them. Dream Books II still looks thin and light as before, but its soul is heavy indeed.


A customer who was interested in PrinterLogic once asked us if our enterprise print management solution had been duly tested in virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) environments. Of course, we told him. In fact, PrinterLogic's on-premise software solution can integrate seamlessly with your existing environment, allowing you to solve longstanding VDI printing problems and truly perfect your VDI printing. "Perfect my VDI printing?" he joked. "I'd be happy just to get VDI printing to work like it should half the time!"
He went on to recount a number of VDI printing problems, such as VDI printing being slow, and his frustration with common VDI printing solutions that seemed to increase the complexity of print management without actually remedying the situation. It's a tale of woe we've heard countless times from customers who love the benefits of VDI environments but can't quite dial in their VDI printing.
are not unique to any one environment, unfortunately, and they often call for multiple VDI printing solutions or a single solution that that fails to deliver on all but a few counts. PrinterLogic's next-generation approach to print management addresses VDI printing problems at their root, providing you with centralized administration, improved driver management, ultra-reliable deployments that don't depend on group policy objects (GPOs) or scripts, and drastically reduced print-related WAN traffic.
In both Citrix and VMware environments, PrinterLogic enables you to take advantage of location-based printing (also known as proximity printing). This means that you can dynamically deploy specific printers and drivers to your end users according to parameters such as Active Directory (AD) user, group, organizational unit (OU), IP address range, or even MAC addresses. Unlike lesser VDI printing solutions, PrinterLogic's dynamic and automated deployments are easy to set up, easy to manage, and can be counted on to get the right printer to the right end users every time. And because PrinterLogic doesn't rely on complex GPOs or scripts, you can choose to provision printers after a user initiates a session to speed up login times.
If your end users once found VDI printing slow, that will change with PrinterLogic. By establishing direct IP connections between endpoint devices, our unique VDI printing solution makes it possible for their print jobs to avoid the time-consuming and potentially interrupted back-and-forth trip to the central server. Furthermore, PrinterLogic's self-service portal enables end users to identify and install nearby printers on their own with a single click. In practical terms, that means if an end user hasn't already been added to an automated deployment pool, he or she can easily install a printer without having to call the service desk.
Suffice it to say that VDI printing problems don't necessarily come with the virtual territory, as many organizations assume. You can perfect your VDI printing, and you don't need to invest in a whole plethora of VDI printing solutions to do it. PrinterLogic's enterprise print management solution is the only one you'll need to bring rock-solid, easily managed printing to any VDI environment.


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Chad: Capture the Capital, Win a Prize
October 26, 2006: The government fears that another column of rebels are rolling towards the capital (in western Chad) from the Sudan border (in eastern Chad.) Same thing happened last April, but government troops managed to kill, capture or scatter the several hundred armed rebels that reached the capital.
The government is confident that it can halt another rebel run for the capital, mainly because it has help from France, which has stationed several warplanes at the capital airport. One of those aircraft, an Atlantique 2 naval reconnaissance aircraft, recently had a portable anti-aircraft missile fired at it in eastern Chad. The Atlantique was able to detect and avoid the missile, but such a weapon indicates that the rebels are probably being supplied by Sudan. The government has been saying this for months, but Sudan is already defying most of the world, over the government attacks on non-Arab tribes in Darfur (the government is dominated by Arab Sudanese). So it doesn't really matter that the world now knows, with a little more conviction, that the Sudanese government is trying to install a more amenable faction in the Chadian capital.
It's all about the oil money. With the oil fields now producing, gaining control of the government is now more than just stealing foreign aid and development loan money. Chad's population is divided into dozens of tribes, most of them speaking different languages. This mélange of cultures never really got along together, and it took European colonial officials to hammer together the country, now known as Chad, a century ago. But it's not really a country. It's a bunch of groups contending for the prize, the right to call itself the government of Chad, and access to whatever is in the treasury.


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Prince Philip designs his own funeral car
The ceremonial royal funeral will take place on Saturday
April 10, 2021 - 17:04 BST Sharnaz Shahid Prince Philip designs his own funeral car with Land Rover. The ceremonial royal funeral will take place on Saturday
Following the news of the Duke of Edinburgh's death on Friday, it has now been confirmed that his funeral will take place on Saturday, April 17.
Buckingham Palace have also announced that the late royal's coffin will be carried in a specially-modified Land Rover, which Prince Philip had a hand in the design of.
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The commissioned Land Rover is part of the original plans as approved by the Duke. The funeral will be a ceremonial royal funeral will be held at St George's Chapel in Windsor at 3pm on Saturday 17 April.
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In compliance with coronavirus restrictions, there will be no public access and no procession will take place outside the grounds of the castle.
The funeral will be broadcast on the BBC, and there will be a minute's silence held. The occasion will celebrate Philip's life and service. There will also be a national mourning period until Saturday, while the royal family will have two weeks of mourning.
Buckingham Palace said Prince Philip died at Windsor Castle on Friday, two months before his 100th birthday, leaving the Queen and the royal family "mourning his loss".
The late royal designed his own funeral car with Land Rover
The late royal loved travelling in Land Rovers. In 2019, he made headlines after he suffered a crash in his black Freelander near his Sandringham Estate.
SEE: Prince Philip's most memorable quotes and one-liners
After the news of his death was confirmed, a spokesperson at Jaguar Land Rover issued a statement, which read: "At Jaguar Land Rover, we are deeply saddened by the passing of His Royal Highness The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.
"Our thoughts and condolences are with Her Majesty The Queen and the Royal Family at this time. His Royal Highness devoted his life to public service and made a significant contribution to British manufacturing, engineering and design."
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Nucleus CMS is a flexible and easy to use open source content management system, aka blog management software written in PHP and uses MySQL database backend for storing data.
Nucleus CMS is a flexible and easy to use open source content management system, aka blog management software written in PHP and uses MySQL database backend for storing data. It offers a system that is easy to install, but still offers maximum flexibility. (PHP4/MySQL).
It allow you to easily maintain your own multiple weblogs on your own server and lets writers do what they are best at: writing items or articles, without having to worry about formatting and markup.
easy to take backup or restore database contents.


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Keyword: fourth session
New rules for Party members set up to enhance Party discipline
On behalf of the Party Central Committee, Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong has signed off Regulation No. 37-QD/TW on the "things that Party members must not do".
NA Standing Committee wraps up fourth session
The National Assembly Standing Committee (NASC) wrapped up its fourth session in Hanoi on October 14 under the chair of NA Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue.
NA Standing Committee discusses 2021-2025 economic restructuring plan
The National Assembly Standing Committee gave opinions on the economic restructuring plan for the 2021-2025 period during its ongoing fourth session in Hanoi on October 12.
Legislators debate draft resolutions on development of Hai Phong, Nghe An, Thua Thien-Hue
The 15th National Assembly (NA) Standing Committee on October 11 gave opinions on the draft resolutions on piloting a number of specific mechanisms and policies for development of Hai Phong city and Nghe An and Thua Thien-Hue provinces as part of its ongoing fourth session.
NA Standing Committee discuss public opinions
The National Assembly (NA) Standing Committee on October 11 looked into opinions that the public submitted to the upcoming second session of the 15th parliament, together with some other issues.
NA Standing Committee's fourth session opens
The 15th National Assembly (NA) Standing Committee convened its fourth session in Hanoi on October 11, under the chair of NA Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue.
NA Standing Committee's 4th session to open on October 11
The fourth session of the National Assembly (NA) Standing Committee will be held in Hanoi from October 11 – 14, according to the office of the NA.
Last working day of Party Central Committee's fourth session
The Party Central Committee sat for the fourth and last working day of their fourth session on October 7.
Party Central Committee's fourth session focuses on Party building, rectification
The fourth session of the 13th Party Central Committee will focus on sketching out policies, targets, tasks and solutions to strengthen Party building and rectification, stop and drive back the degradation in political ideology, morality and lifestyle as well as signs of...
Seminar talks theoretical, practical issues in Party building
The Party Central Committee's Theoretical Council held a seminar on June 23 to look into some theoretical and practical issues related to the continued enhancement of Party building and rectification work.
NA Standing Committee mulls over law, ordinance building programme
The National Assembly Standing Committee looked at the proposed law and ordinance building programme for 2022 and adjustments to the 2021 programme during its 57th meeting in Hanoi on June 14.
Extra efforts needed to ensure absolute safety for upcoming elections
The Ministry of Public Security has been implementing plans and measures to ensure absolute safety and order for the elections of deputies to the 15th National Assembly and the all-level People's Councils in the 2021-2026 tenure, which are scheduled to take place on May 23.
Top legislator chairs National Election Council's 4th sitting
Preparations for the upcoming elections of deputies to the 15th National Assembly (NA) and People's Councils at all levels for the 2021-2026 have been made in line with law and on schedule, with no problems affecting the elections, NA Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan told the...
Foreign Ministry spokesperson highlights Vietnam's stance on int'l issues
Foreign Ministry spokesperson Le Thi Thu Hang talked about Vietnam's viewpoints on several international issues which are drawing public concerns at the ministry's regular press conference on March 11.


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Uneasy calm at NFF over Nike deal
By Ezeocha Nzeh, Abuja
There seems to be an uneasy calm within the rank and file of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) following reports that the board may have been compromised in its recent kit deal with sports wear outfit, Nike.
Flying eagles
…Marketing dept describes $750.000 kit transaction as slavery
The NFF board announced last week that it has secured a five-year kit contract with Nike worth $750, 000 for all the national teams. But the deal has attracted so many reactions, with the NFF marketing department describing it as slavery and the worst deal the federation has entered into since its inception in 1945.
The department regretted that the NFF board in its discussions with Nike failed to follow the earlier established contact, which it argued, would have placed the federation on a better deal with the kit manufacturing firm.
The Guardian gathered that the NFF marketing department had earlier commenced discussions with Nike before the coming of the new board where an agreement was reached between the two parties to meet and discuss the NFF proposals, following the withdrawal of Adidas from its contract with the federation.
Confirming the development, a marketing department source at the NFF said the department was surprised that the Amaju Pinnick led board refused to carry it along in the discussions with Nike, even when it was clear before them that a link had been established before they assumed office on September 30, 2014.
The source regretted that the board in its desperation failed to study the past deal with Adidas, which, he noted, should have been improved upon to ensure that Nigeria got a better deal with Nike, adding that rather than secure a better deal for the country, the NFF board enslaved the national teams in a deal where Nike's responsibly was to provide only jerseys for Nigerian teams to advertise it without any form of retainership.
"When we got the Adidas deal, we did not qualify for the Germany 2006 World Cup. In the South Africa 2010 World Cup when the Super Eagles crashed out in the first round, Adidas still maintain its contractual obligation with us but it was based on the personal relationship we have with the kit company. We had already packaged a very robust renewal proposal for Adidas after the 2014 World Cup, but the kit company later pulled out of the deal for many reasons.
"We exploited other avenues to sign another kit sponsor. On September 11, 2014, even before the new board took over, the marketing department had initiated a proposal to Nike through their representative, Tina Saliminien. The bill we gave to Nike was $12.5 million as retainership fee based on global perspective of what they are giving other countries.
In the concluding part of the proposal, we noted: "In view of the above, we will like to propose the terms of engagements as follows. A retainership fee of $12.5 million per annum for a minimum term of six years with 20 per cent increment per annum subject to terms and conditions to be stipulated in the contract agreement.
Royalty on sales of replica have 20 per cent proceed subject to a guaranteed minimum $750 per annum. That is royalty but the qualification bonus will be discussed when we get to the negotiation table," he said.
According to the source, Nike replied through its representative, Tina Saliminien, noting: "Thank you for considering Nike as supplier for your Nigerian national teams, we have looked at your offer and discussed it internally but unfortunately I have to inform you that your request is far away from what we are able to pay on an African national team unless you are able to dramatically come down with your financial request. We will not be able to attempt to make any offer."
He noted that Nike in its reply had already indicated its interest in the deal but insisted that it must be given opportunity to negotiate, wondering how the board could sign a deal for only provision of kits when it was notified of the discussions so far with Nike.
"All these moves in September 11, 2014 were done when this current board has not come on board. But when the board resumed, they felt that some people were not in their good books and those they considered enemies must go to be able to hijack the Nike deal.
They did it without minding those who laid the foundation. They sidelined some people who have high bargaining strength with Nike and signed a contract that made the federation look as a very cheap commodity. The federation signed a slave contract with Nike that has no monetary attachment.
"The $750.000 mentioned in the contract was the value of the kits. What the Nike contract means is that it will produce jersey for the Nigeria national teams to wear and advertise the company. It is obvious that the contract is not in the best interest of the country".
Saraki, the 8th Assembly and perception challenge
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'Not a time to demonise Obasanjo'
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The missing state cabinets
The Nigerian constitution does not stipulate for how long a president or a state governor could run the affairs of the country or the state alone, all alone, without constituting his cabinet. It must be taken that the framers of the constitution left this to individual discretions..
'Why food should become human right in Nigeria's constitution'
Prof. Gbolagade Babalola Ayoola is a Professor of Agricultural Economics and Policy, founder/president of Farm and Infrastructures Foundation and promoter of the Right to Food Bill at the National Assembly.
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Buhari's 5th anniversary, apologies and impunity culture
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Q: How to release bundled software with different licenses? Recently, I was in a situation where I wanted to release a simple piece of JavaScript software under an open source license.
However, I withdrew from it because the software contained several open source components that were released under different licenses.
Under what license should the bundled software be released (given that various third party components are mixed into the software at code level)?

A: If parts of the bundle are under licenses that don't allow sublicensing (which is true for the majority of licenses), then you can't distribute that bundle under a single license.
The best option in that case is to explicitly state that different parts of the software are distributed under different licenses and to clearly indicate which parts fall under which license (down to identifying individual function if needed).
This can also be used if a single file contains parts that are under different licenses.
This is under the assumption that the licenses are compatible with each other and that you are thus allowed to distribute the software and that the bundle form one piece of software (it is not just a convenient collection of independent pieces of software).
If you have a bundle of independent pieces of software, then that bundle is not considered a work under copyright law and thus doesn't have a copyright of its own.

A: It depends on the license.
There are licenses like MIT or BSD, which allow you to include them in software licensed under different terms as long as you just include their copyright message somewhere where the user can read it.
On the other hand, there are licenses like the GPL which make it impossible to use a library for a software not also licensed under GPL.
Somewhere in between is the LGPL which you can use in a non-GPL project, but only as long as the library itself isn't changed and remains under GPL.
For more details, refer to the exact license terms of the libraries you are using.

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Marcus Porcius CATO; (234-149 b. c.), Roman statesman, also known as Cato the Elder or Cato the Censor, who made important military, political, and literary contributions to Rome. Born in Tusculum of a plebeian family, he went to Rome and sought public office at the request of his patrician neighbor and future patron, L. Valerius Flaccus, who had been greatly impressed by Cato's many abilities and moral character.
Cato was elected quaestor for 204 and went to Sicily. Subsequently, he was elected plebeian aedile (199) and then praetor (198). He held the consulship in 195. In 184, Cato was elected . censor, sharing the office with Valerius Flaccus.
Cato fought in the Second Punic War (218— 201), and he later volunteered for service in the First Syrian War (192-189). He was instru-mental in defeating the fprces of Antiochus III at Thermopylae in 191, when the Roman force turned the pass and defeated the enemy.
Cato's Traditionalism.;Cato was an intensely na-tionalistic, proud Roman who distrusted things Greek and hated the lıucury-loving attitude that was taking över Roman life. In 195 he opposed the repeal of the wartime law (Lex Oppia), which rationed possession of silver plate and jewelry, and as censor he taxed heavily the dress and ornaments of women of fashion, as well as vehicles and slaves. He humiliated enemies by removing them from the Senate on moral grounds. Cato also attacked the Scipionic circle and its adherents, who were most responsible for the Hellenization of Roman character. He attacked his former commander in the Syrian War, M. Acilius Glabrio, friend of the Scipios, for mis-appropriation of funds, costing Glabrio the censorship he sought (189). Cato then brought a similar charge against Lucius Scipio, brother of Scipio Africanus. The latter countered by de-fiantly tearing up the account books and as-serting his and his brother's proper behavior (187). Cato pressed on during his censorship: Lucius was oıdy saved from a prison term by a tribune's veto; and Africanus, accused of treason-able deaüngs with Antiochus, freed himself of the charge, but in doing so lost influence, then retired in disgust from the city, and died within the year (184).
Cato was the most successful, influential spokesman for the archconservative and nationalistic element in Rome, but in his fight against foreign ideas and influences, he waged a losing battle. Romans were greatly impressed by the highly sophisticated Eastern peoples, especially the Greeks, and the upper classes increasingly grafted onto Roman culture the manners and customs as well as the leaming of these peoples.
Works.; In his literary pursuits Cato was equally hostile to Hellenism and what he considered the moral degradation of his day. He is regarded as the father of Latin prose because, contrary to earlier practice, he wrote in Latin instead of Greek and made it fashionable. His Origines, in 7 books, was designed to cover the history of ali Latin cities, including Rome, beginning with the time of the kings. Cato's work exalts the aristocracy, shows an obvious antidemocratic bias, and emphasizes the virtues of traditional Roman character. He was determined to show that Rome's heritage was as illustrious as that of the Greeks and that the Romans did more with their heritage. Of Cato's speeches, fragments of about 80 of the original, 150 have survived. For the edification of his eldest son, Cato wrote an encyclopedia, which included essays on agriculture, medicine, rhetoric, military science, and law. Cato's only extant work is De agricultura (Conceming Agriculture), which, written in his archaic ana simple style, indicates many old Roman customs and superstitions and insists upon the value of hard work and the ancient virtues.
Cato and Carthage. Cato is perhaps best remembered for his oppositîon to the Carthaginians. After the defeat of Hannibal in 202 he carefully watched the developments in Carthage and was quick to support its Af rican foes. Sent as a member of a senatorial commission to Carthage in 153, he was alarmed at the recovery of the city, which, although militarily no longer a rival of Rome, was rapidly becoming a threat economically. Hereafter, Cato, when speaking upon any subiect whatsoever, ended his speech by saying, 'In my opinion Carthage ought to be destroyed." Ironically, he supported Scipio Aemilianus' command in the third Punic W ar (149-146), though Aemilianus belonged by adoption to the Scipio family that Cato had prosecuted. Cato did not live to see the city razed.