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Het wereldkampioenschap curling voor mannen 2012 werd van 31 maart tot en met 8 april 2012 gehouden in het Zwitserse Bazel. Canada verdedigde met succes zijn titel en werd zo voor de 34ste keer wereldkampioen.

Overzicht
Het was de 54ste editie van het wereldkampioenschap voor mannen, en de zevende die in Zwitserland werd georganiseerd. Naast gastland Zwitserland, dat automatisch mocht deelnemen, kwalificeerden ook de andere landen uit de top zeven van het voorbije Europees kampioenschap zich rechtstreeks voor het wereldkampioenschap. Frankrijk, dat achtste was geworden, moest in een duel met Rusland, dat de B-divisie van het EK had gewonnen, uitmaken welk van de twee landen als achtste en laatste Europese land naar Bazel mocht. Uiteindelijk won Frankrijk dit voorrecht. Voor de Amerikaanse zone waren er twee tickets weggelegd. Aangezien enkel Canada en de Verenigde Staten zich inschreven, mochten zij zonder kwalificatietoernooi automatisch aantreden op het wereldkampioenschap. Voor de Pacifisch-Aziatische zone kwalificeerde de top twee van het voorbije Pacifisch-Aziatisch kampioenschap zich voor het wereldkampioenschap, zijnde China en Nieuw-Zeeland.

De eindzege ging uiteindelijk naar Canada, dat in de finale Schotland versloeg met 8-7. Het was de 34ste titel voor Canada in de geschiedenis van het wereldkampioenschap. In de kleine finale was Zweden te sterk voor Noorwegen.

Groepsfase

Tiebreak
Vrijdag 6 april 2012, 14:00 uur

Play-offs
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 Halve finale Zaterdag 7 april 2012, 20:00 uur Derde plaats Zondag 8 april 2012, 11:00 uur Finale Zondag 8 april 2012, 16:00 uur''

Eindstand

Externe links
Officiële website Bazel 2012

Wereldkampioenschap curling
Curling in 2012
Curling
Sportevenement in Bazel

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Exploring speculative approaches to digital education futures – book launch event. Centre for Research in Digital Education, 1 December 2022.
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Theorising Digital Engagement with Cultural Heritage. UNA Europa Doctoral Programme in Cultural Heritage, Founding Theories seminar. 14 June 2022
Telling Surveillance Stories in the Digital University. National Association for Data Protection Officers (NADPO) Webinar, with Anna Wilson. 24 May 2022.
Data stories: speculative methods for researching digital surveillance in higher education. Networked Learning 2022, with Anna Wilson. 17 May 2022
Contact works in multiple ways: online learning communities in higher education. Invited talk, Unidistance, Brig, Switzerland. 27 April 2022.
Speculative approaches, cultures of surveillance, and digital futures in higher education. Invited lecture, Learning (in) Digital Media lecture series, Media for Co-operation centre, University of Siegen, Germany. 13 January 2022.
Telling data stories in the digital university. Invited talk, The Digitisation of Higher Education: New Information Flows, Power Asymmetries and Implications for Surveillance and Privacy seminar. Centre for Research into Information, Surveillance and Privacy (CRISP). 6 October 2021. with Anna Wilson.
Speculation & Education Panel, PRIMER21 Global conference, 8 July 2021. Link to recording of the panel.
Invited conversation, Future Trends Forum. The Manifesto for Teaching Online. June 2021. with Siân Bayne.
What is 'distance', anyway? (Still) teaching online in pandemic times. Invited seminar, University of East Anglia Education webinar series, 15 February 2021.
The manifesto for teaching online. Invited session at the Teaching Online & Hybrid Conversation Series, Middlebury College, US. 9 February 2021.
The Future of Teaching Online. Tuesday Club, an informal, trans-disciplinary community that identifies and monitors the future of geopolitical trends. With Sian Bayne. London/online, January 2021.
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Telling Data Stories: a tool for thinking about higher education, surveillance & ethics. ALT Online Winter Conference, 15 December 2020. With Anna Wilson.
"Online courses are prone to cultures of surveillance. Visibility is a pedagogical and ethical issue". Manifesto for Teaching Online Book Launch 1: Recoding. 16 September 2020.
"Digitised heritage, online audiences and shifting relations of trust". Association of Critical Heritage Studies Conference, 29 August 2020. (with Eleanor Capaldi, Melissa Terras, Christopher Ganley and Mairi Lafferty)
"Education for an uncertain world – introducing 'wicked curricula' and 'not-yetness'". Edinburgh Learning and Teaching Conference, June 2020. With Velda McCune.
"What's the future like? Speculative Methods in Networked Learning". Networked Learning 2020, online, May 2020. With George Veletsianos.
Digital futures for cultural engagement. Saturday 7 March 2020, Custom Lane, Leith. Creative Informatics Labs #11.
"Surveillance culture and its impact on relationships in higher education". Controversies In The Data Society Seminar Series. Edinburgh Futures Institute, 7 February 2020. https://efi.ed.ac.uk/events/controversies-in-the-data-society-seminar-series-the-surveillance-university/
"Joining the dots… Education futures for Scotland". Workshop, Firestarter Festival, 3 February 2020. (with Helena Good, Paul Gorman and Valerie Jackman and Karen Lawson).
Working with Values: Digital Leadership & skills in cultural heritage settings. Invited input, UK-US Collaboration for Digital Scholarship in Cultural Institutions. National Museum of African American History and Culture, Smithsonian, US. 18 September 2019.
"Space, time, affect, politics: the pleasures and tensions of teaching online". Invited lecture, Queens University Belfast, 5 June 2019.
Engaging Futures for Digital Cultural Heritage, at Engaging with Digital Cultural Heritage – an agenda for Scotland. Engine Shed, Stirling, 4 April 2019. (with Melissa Terras)
Speculative method in digital education research. Invited talk at the University of Goettingen, 11 December 2018.
Assessment in a digital age: Rethinking multimodal artefacts in higher education. University of Edinburgh Learning and Teaching Conference, 20 June 2018.
Duty to Care and Duty to Share: Institutional Tensions around Digital Open Access and Public Art Collections. Invited talk, Exploring Digital Public Spaces workshop, IASH, University of Edinburgh. 1 June 2018.
Surveillance, (dis)trust and teaching with plagiarism detection technology. Networked Learning 2018, Zagreb, 15 May 2018. (with Hamish Macleod)
Digital Collections, Open Data And The Boundaries Of Openness: A Case Study From The National Galleries Of Scotland. Museums and the Web conference, Vancouver, 21 April 2018. https://mw18.mwconf.org/proposal/digital-collections-open-data-and-the-boundaries-of-openness-a-case-study-from-the-national-galleries-of-scotland/ (with Ashley Beamer & Christopher Ganley)
Digital Education & WordPress – the first 10 years (archive of presentation here). PressEd conference (on Twitter), 29 March 2018. (with Anne-Marie Scott).
Surveillance culture and its impact on student-teacher relationships in higher education. Invited seminar at the Centre for Research in Learning and Innovation, University of Sydney. 20 March 2018.
Inventive methods and digital cultural heritage research. Researching Digital Cultural Heritage conference, Manchester, 1 December 2017.
Surveillance, (dis)trust and teaching with technology. invited seminar at the School of Education, University of Strathclyde. 18 October 2017.
Critical perspectives on mobilities, mobile technology, and heritage futures. (with Michael Sean Gallagher). Heritage Studies: Critical Approaches and New Directions. British Academy, London, 5 October 2017.
Education, automation and algorithms: introducing the manifesto for teaching online. invited seminar at the Centre for Computing Education Research, Edinburgh Napier University, 13 September 2017.
Learning with Digital Provocations. Keynote, Digital Day of Ideas, University of Edinburgh. 17 May 2017. Notes from the talk.
Time, space, bots, MOOCs & distance as a positive principle: introducing the manifesto for teaching online. Invited talk at Liverpool Hope University, 23 March 2017.
Contesting unbundling: Not-yetness and the digital university. Amy Collier & Jen Ross. Educational Futures and Fractures, University of Strathclyde, 24th February 2017
invited panellist, Working with Cultural Partners Learning Lunch, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Edinburgh. 22 February 2017.
We are the campus: contact, space and making teaching online 'the privileged mode'. Invited talk at the Manchester Institute of Education, University of Manchester, 26 January 2017
Invited artcasting talk at Collider: Galleries on the Move. Design Informatics, University of Edinburgh, 14 October 2016
Invited seminar: Artcasting: digital & mobile cultural heritage evaluation. Australian National Maritime Museum, 6 September 2016.
Invited seminar: Speculative method in digital education research. Centre for Research on Learning and Innovation. University of Sydney, 24 August 2016.
Casting a line: hospitality, trajectory and artcasting in ARTIST ROOMS co-production. What Does Heritage Change? Association of Critical Heritage Studies, Montreal. 4-7 June 2016.
Manifesto Redux: making a teaching philosophy from networked learning research. Networked Learning 2016. 9-11 May 2016. (with Sian Bayne)
'Hospitality at a distance': supervisory practices and student experiences of supervision in online Masters dissertations. Networked Learning 2016. 9-11 May 2016. (with Phil Sheail)
Artcasting – reflections on a new approach to understanding engagement with art, Scottish Network on Digital Cultural Resources Evaluation. 31 March 2016.
Lightning talk: Artcasting. Digital Cultural Heritage Research Network Workshop 1, University of Edinburgh. 29 January 2016.
Campus imaginaries and dissertations at a distance (with Phil Sheail). Society for Research into Higher Education Conference, Wales, 9-11 December 2015.
For whom, for what? Not-yetness and challenging the "stuff" of open education (with Amy Collier). OpenEd15, Vancouver, Canada, 20 November 2015.
Keynote: Reshaping subjects: digital education practices and possibilities. e.Scape conference, Concordia University, Canada. 14 October 2015. News item about the event.
Making Citizenship and the 'Maker Movement'. Mobile Makers Forum, Canberra, 30-1 July 2015. http://mobilemakers.com.au. Recording of the talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XKiU-AsFdg
Artcasting and ARTIST ROOMS on Tour: Using mobilities-informed methods to support new approaches to arts evaluation (with Claire Sowton, Jeremy Knox and Chris Speed). Cultural Heritage Communities: Technologies and Challenges Workshop, Communities and Technologies 2015. 28 June 2015, Ireland.
Invited seminar – Online distance learning as the privileged mode: excellence in digital education. Stanford University, USA, 1 June 2015.
Interviewee, MeetEducation Podcast, 2 April 2015. http://meeteducationproject.com/2015/04/02/jen-ross/
Plenary – Many ways to get it right: reflections on 'best practice' and digital education research. The National Seminar Series: Building an evidence base for enhanced digital pedagogy for online learning. University of Limerick, Ireland, 17 February 2015.
Exploring design-led digital education research: developing 'artcasting' to support new approaches to arts evaluation. Digital Cultures and Education (DiCE) seminar series, University of Edinburgh, 31 October 2014.
Teacherbot: Can Robot Teachers Do It Better? Siân Bayne, Jeremy Knox and Jen Ross. Cabaret of Dangerous Ideas, Explorathon 2014 (European Researchers' Night). Cabaret Voltaire, Edinburgh, 27 September 2014.
'Perspectives on a massive phenomenon: developing, teaching and researching MOOCs'. Invited seminar at Developing online learning: from e-Learning to MOOCs, Queen's University Belfast, 14 May 2014
Mess in Online Education: How it is, how it should be. Amy Collier (Stanford University) and Jen Ross (University of Edinburgh). Plenary session, Emerging Technologies for Online Learning, Sloan-C. Dallas, USA, 11 April 2014.
Disrupting the illusion of sameness: the importance of making place visible in online learning. Philippa Sheail and Jen Ross. The Spaces of Networked Learning Symposium, Networked Learning 2014, 7-9 April 2014, Edinburgh.
The Pedagogy of the MOOC: the UK view. From OERs to MOOCS: Exploring the MOOC phenomenon and its relation to open educational resources and practice in enhancing learning and teaching. Changing the Learning Landscape series: University of Leeds, 31 March 2014. http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/events/detail/2014/31_march_MOOC_CLL
'Content is just something to talk about': designing for active online learning. Invited talk, Gallery Education: Developing Digital Resources. ARTIST ROOMS and Engage Scotland, 25 March 2014, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art.
Introducing MOOCs. Jen Ross and Jeremy Knox. Invited talk and workshop at the University of Stavanger, Norway, February 2014.
Year of the MOOC?: what do Massive Open Online Courses have to offer the cultural heritage sector? Sian Bayne and Jen Ross. Invited talk, MOOCs in Cultural Heritage Education, Edinburgh, 24 February 2014
The experience of making and teaching a MOOC: challenges, surprises and delights from E-learning and Digital Cultures. Norwegian National Conference on MOOCs. University of Oslo, 10 September 2013.
Strategies for online and blended learning. EFMD Masters Conference 2013: Masters Programmes – Challenges and Solutions. Dusseldorf, 2-4 December 2013.
Ross, J., Knox, J., and Bayne, S. (2013) Approaching virtual ethnography. Invited workshop, Scottish Graduate School Summer School. Stirling, 18 June 2013.
Ross, J. (2013) Making distance visible: orbits of nearness in an online distance learning programme. Technologies of work and learning: (In)visibilities Symposium. "'The visible and invisible in work and learning": 8th International Conference on Researching Work and Learning. University of Stirling, 19-22 June 2013.
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Ross, J. (2012) Digital Learning Spaces: lessons from the MSc in Digital Education at the University of Edinburgh. Invited talk & workshop, Seattle Pacific University, Seattle, USA, 15-16 April 2013.
Bayne, S. and Ross, J. (2012). Leaky boundaries: learning and engagement with ARTIST ROOMS. ARTIST ROOMS Research Forum No.1. Edinburgh, 13 December 2012.
Bayne, S., Gallagher, M., Lamb, J., Ross, J, O'Shea, C and Macleod, H. 'Campus envy' and being 'at' University: the geographies of education on the internet. Association of Internet Researchers 13, Salford UK, 19-21 October 2012.
making manifest(o): crowdsourcing a statement of values for teaching with emerging technologies. Unconference workshop, Emerging Technologies for Online Teaching, Las Vegas, 25-27 July 2012.
Discipline in professional reflective practices. ProPEL 2012: Professions and Professional Learning in Troubling Times: Emerging Practices and Transgressive Knowledges. Stirling, 9-11 May 2012.
The spectacle and the placeholder: digital futures for reflective practices in higher education. Networked Learning 2012. Maastricht, 2-4 April 2012.
"Fakers, fools and narcissists: How cultural narratives of blogging affect online reflective practices". Invited talk, IT Futures 2011: Social media in academia: A tweet too far? 13 December 2011, University of Edinburgh.
Russo, A and Ross, J. Partnerships and Collaborations: Future Networks of Exchange for Museums. 24 October 2011. ICTOP Annual Conference– Toronto, Canada. October 24-27, 2011
Ross, J, Bayne, S, O'Shea, C. "Introducing a manifesto for teaching online". Invited talk, E-learning @ Edinburgh. 1 April 2011, University of Edinburgh.
Bayne, S and Ross, J. "It's Alive!: Digital Literacy Events in (and out of) context". Invited talk, Literacy in the Digital University, ESRC seminar series. 14-15 October 2010, Open University, Milton Keynes.
Bayne, S and Ross, J. "Posthuman academic identities in digital environments". Academic Identities for the 21st Century. 16-18 June 2010. University of Strathclyde, Glasgow.
Bayne, S and Ross, J. "Museum education for the 21st century: online learning and social media". Museum Studies in the XXIst century: issues of studies and teaching. 19-21 May 2010, St Petersburg, Russia.
"Just what is being reflected in online reflection?: new literacies for new media practices". Networked Learning, 3-4 May 2010, Aalborg, Denmark.
Williamson, Z., and Ross, J. "Reading Screens: a critical visual analysis". Networked Learning, 3-4 May 2010, Aalborg, Denmark.
Bayne, S and Ross, J. "Buckle your seatbelt Dorothy": digital writing and new assessment practices. Invited talk, Literacy in the Digital University, ESRC seminar series. 1 March 2010, Glasgow Caledonian University.
"Reflective practices as masks: thinking about online reflection in higher education". Invited talk, University of Glasgow Learning and Teaching Centre seminar series, 13 January 2010, Glasgow.
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"Personal, professional and academic voices in online reflection: new literacies for new media practices". Invited talk in the research students session of the ESRC-funded Literacy in the Digital University seminar: The relation of new media practices to traditional literacy practices in the academy and the professions. University of Edinburgh, 16 October 2009.
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"Reach, relevance, relationship and recontextualisation: the 4 Rs of inclusive online museum learning". International Conference on the Inclusive Museum, 8-11 June 2008, National Museum of Ethnology, Leiden.
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How Much Should a Pastor Tell His Wife? - Am I Called?
Home Leadership How Much Should a Pastor Tell His Wife?
The question demonstrates her love for you, but it also betrays an important reality. Once your wife has perceived your burden, she picks up your burden. Except she's uninformed, which can add pounds of anxiety to the load she bears.
What ground rules matter most in knowing what to share? Here are six I've identified through a few decades of trial and (mostly) error.
When a church hires a pastor or appoints elders, the church pretty much gets a twofer—the leader, and the unpaid consultant to whom he is married. The question is not whether they will talk; the question is whether their talk will be governed by wisdom, discretion, and appropriate confidentiality.
Early in ministry Kimm and I talked, oh boy did we talk! Church problems were an entrée we shared at breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Other pastors on our team had the same practice, so we began discussing some questions. What is our understanding of the role of a pastor's/elder's wife in our church—a full-access partner in ministry, or a wife/mother who flourishes more with less? What passages speak specifically to what we might say to our spouse about people's struggles? Has our understanding of this ground rule been adequately conveyed to the church? These deliberations cut a clearer path for a couple to walk when discussing delicate church matters.
How we talk about our pressures reveals our heart. For some leaders, their marriage is a venting chamber where every fear, offense, and trouble echoes back to their spouse. Recently, a pastor told me, "During my first few years of ministry, over-sharing was my only mode of communication." When I asked why, he said, "Problems exposed the junk in my own heart, and I felt like I needed to unload elsewhere." But something bad happened. He noticed his wife's taste for ministry was growing sour. When he sought counsel and prayed, the pastor recognized he was actually poisoning his wife. By venting his unbelief and craving her sympathy, his wife became a pacifier, not a counselor.
Few things say more about the health of our heart than how we report things when we're frustrated. Can we convey the necessary information without sprinklings of our own cynical commentary? Do we protect the motives of those involved when we report to others on the meetings? Are we seeking help to examine our heart? As my pastor-friend discovered, when it comes to discerning what to share with your wife, the heart matters.
Did you know the law makes a claim on how we handle the information we hear as leaders? There are a few necessary questions that may help clarify our data-handling: Did I come by the information that I could share with my wife indirectly, or in my role as a counselor? If the latter, is the information protected for me (by penitent privilege) in a manner it would not be for her? Are there any mandatory-reporting requirements that already determine the path for my reporting? No pastor wants to complicate his marriage by naïvely loading legal burdens on it.
Wise elder bodies consider the complexity and liabilities of confidentiality and seek to arm their leaders with rules for engaging others. Laws are a help, but pastors can rarely find their notes from the one church-law class in seminary (and if you're as far removed from your seminary experience as I am, you know the laws have probably changed anyway). Once again, questions are the first step: What is the general policy for the elders on confidentiality? How does the confidentiality policy apply to elders' wives? What would be acceptable information to share and what would be considered off limits, and how is that determination made? Can elders gain permission for the wife to be included on details from counseling cases or elders' meetings?
Discretion is a beautiful word, but it's pretty subjective. Moving laws towards specific policies and converting cultural assumptions into written guidelines helps define how discretion gets particularized in each local church.
Personal and spiritual maturity gauges whether a wife has the spiritual health and gospel clarity to find God's activity in complexity, or when the curtain of brokenness is pulled back on the church. A mature wife will not be easily unsettled or quickly affronted when discovering, like day-old fish, sin stinks—particularly in the household of God. She can bear the weight of confidentiality without indiscrete leaks or evenings lost in a forest of anxiety. Love your wife by knowing her and what she's wired to handle.
If you want to calculate maturity, measure what happens when a wife's character meets the demands of confidentiality. It's a critical dial on the dashboard of disclosure.
Distinct from maturity is temptation—the vulnerable points of my wife's soul. Does she compartmentalize well, or is she susceptible to fear? Is she prone to instinctive and vocal self-righteousness when struggles and sin surface? Is my wife tempted toward gossip or repeating matters (Prov. 17:9)?
Temptations can be reduced by wise words. Zack Eswine recommends the practice of "general venting." It starts with a leader telling his wife there's something on his mind: "If I seem stressed, it's not you!" Then, offer a general category for the situation: "I have a critic on my mind, and it hurts," or "There's a couple who's struggling, and I'm concerned." Finally, give an invitation to intimacy: "The details won't be helpful, but would you mind if we prayed together?" This approach allows confidentiality to be upheld without the wife feeling excluded.
As you can tell, finding the intersection where healthy burden-bearing meets prudent discretion is no easy journey. Ground rules help, but for couples trying to find their path, nothing replaces wisdom. So let's end remembering this potent promise: "If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him" (James 1:5).


Feceof: Idlea! What's someone like you doing here? No one's in the cafe, dear. Why is an activist such as you here of all places, drinking coffee and biding your time? Do you not have people to follow you? Hundreds of trails of footsteps to go behind your path? What travesty has happened? How is it that the leader is here but the supporters are gone?
Idlea: Honestly, Feceof, I do not know. I sincerely wish as much as you that they either be in this cafe or with me. But they are neither.
Feceof: Indeed. Why are they not with you, but not with me either? It intrigues the mind.
Idlea: Simple. Times have changed, Feceof. The windowpanes of the city buildings have not met starlight in recent years. People are governed neither by themselves nor by the governance. They are governed by desire, senseless desire; desire that wishes to overrule the self, desire that wishes to overwhelm the idealistic, desire that wishes to seep one's life eternally into mindlessness. They are people, Feceof, they are. But they are mere human puppets, slave to obedience rather than to passion and compassion. Just as they have no will to follow me, they have no reason to be here.
Feceof: Alas, what is it that has caused such a gigantic change?
Idlea: It is their society. Look at their adults. They live in a world of mere needs and wants, nothing more. What they need they take, and what they want they earn. There is zero tolerance for the unexpected, be it good or bad - they do not want to be hindered nor overly reliant. Their next 5 minutes are planned out to the minutest detail, and any speck of dust that dare get in their way get nothing less than the coldest shoulder. They have no need for this cafe anymore, Feceof - this cafe is for people to chance upon, for people to relax, for people to appreciate the trivialities of life. Just as they are too preoccupied with the next detail to come here, they are too centered in themselves to listen to the speeches of anyone else, not even me.
Feceof: Is that not just the adults? I do not see how those whose lives are not centered around cash can live so similarly.
Idlea: Just look at them, Feceof! They aren't even grown up to be individuals! Look at that, every single bit of that child belongs to the institution! Clothes! Badges! Accessories! Socks! Stationery! Even 'fashionable things' like wristbands come from the institution! Look at that group of people walking outside. What are they doing? They're not talking to each other. No, Feceof, those aren't leisure books. That's not intellectual pursuit. That's the exact same book every other person has. And that's no bible either - it gives twenty questions for each answer they have. Look at that. Would a child who is ripped of individuality grow up to be an individual in the future? No. He will grow up to be a group. One in the generation of youth that will grow up the same way as the present has. One that doesn't need me, nor you.
Feceof: Isn't that too extreme a view, Idlea?
Feceof: Certainly. Perhaps I am past my time, but you can still be followed by the youth. There will eternally be those who seek you, Idlea, just as there will eternally be regulars in this place. It is tough, but you have to persevere. There are those who still laugh, those who still feel annoyance, those who still want to go against the flow. They need you - no, you need them, Idlea. And when you do so, they will have hope. They will fight hard to survive as themselves. They will have others following in their footsteps. And when they tire out, I will be here to serve them the best drink they'll ever have. I need you, Idlea. And more importantly, you need them. Now go.


Well, here we go...youngish!! slim, attractive, nice personality, caring and most of all loyal. pretty looks are good but I am also looking for inner beauty. good heart.... jai dii..
Keep fit, boxing, martial arts, sight seeing, touring, fishing, nice food, nice wine, travel. Art, photography.
i am a Gentleman.. I look for respect and I respect others. I am a kind, thoughtful and considerate person, and a loving family man.


A host of Enron executives such as Jeffrey Skilling, Kenneth Lay, Andrew Fastow, and Michael Kopper, are refusing to testify before Congress, and taking no shame in their bald-faced lies to the American public.
In case you have not seen any footage on television or their pictures in the papers, these hearings have been a parade of arrogant, smirking, wealthy, over-privileged white boys who are an enormous threat to national security.
Which brings me to my idea. Let's pack them up, blindfold them, tie their feet and wrists, and ship them out to Guantanamo Bay, our current resort for terrorists and suspected malevolents. Let's keep them there, without access to family or legal counsel, until they*re ready to talk.
A violation of their human rights? Nonsense. These men are dangerous. They have been highly trained for this sort of combat.
No, they did not crash airplanes into the World Trade Center or the Pentagon. However, their destruction is equally as historic, and the shredded lives left in their wake are equally as significant.
Mr. Skilling, Mr. Lay, Mr. Fastow, and the others in their den of thieves are financial terrorists whose motives are morally reprehensible.
They have ruined people, collapsed futures and devastated loyal employees. They lie, cheat and steal, and they do so with a fierce sense of entitlement. Even now, as the story leaks out bit by horrific bit, the boys who got rich during this disaster shrug with superior indifference, and claim no wrongdoing. Comfortable in denial, they trust that their powerful friends (i.e. President Bush, Vice President Cheney, Attorney General Ashcroft) will protect them. The White House may feign surprise and outrage in public, but make no mistake about which side they support.
The General Accounting Office has had to resort to suing our good Vice President for information about his meetings with Enron. Mr. Cheney is adamant that his meetings were private, and that the White House must "preserve the principle of obtaining unvarnished advice from any source."
Private? The Bush Administration cares nothing about privacy, just ask John Ashcroft. He has gloried in using the worst terrorist event in history to chip away our rights with a confident smile and cold assurance that this is all for our own good. The Bush Administration has decided that privacy can be effectively compromised in the name of national security.
Oh, to be president and empowered to murmur "do as I say, not as I do...."
Here's what the Vice President really means when he talks about preserving principles and unvarnished advice: When a big campaign contributor wants to speak to the White House, we're all ears. We welcome their input because they pay for it.
Here's what President Bush really means when he talks about executive privilege: Don't question me.
Here's what Mr. Skilling really means when he says that to his knowledge, his company was always in "strong financial condition:" I never thought I'd get caught.
The Bush Administration needs to come down hard on this kind of corporate crime, and they're not off to a very good start.
So let's round 'em up like a good old fashioned Texas rodeo. We*ll put Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld in charge of getting them to Cuba and gently coaxing them into telling Congress everything that they know. The lies, the fraud, the insider trading... with a clever lawyer, this behavior could be construed as treason, could it not? Taliban soldiers and Al Queda fighters would make fine bedfellows for the likes of these men.
We'd then have to decide, of course, - Does the Geneva Convention apply?


Half of the people who have signed up for Obamacare in 17 states have not activated their health insurance plans by making their first premium payment, a trend that threatens to further embarrass and frustrate President Barack Obama and the highly unpopular Obamacare program.
Health insurance plans purchased through Obamacare only kick in once a customer pays their first month's premium. On Monday, the Wall Street Journal reported that "only about half of enrollees billed for plans offered by more than 100 insurers in 17 states had paid their first month's premium," according to Benaissance chief strategy officer Mark Waterstraat, whose firm serves as a third-party billing company for insurers. Another insurer, Scott & White Health Plan, told the Journal that only 35% of its enrollees have paid for the plans they applied for.
The Obama administration remains far behind its 7 million enrollment target but has recently celebrated what it calls two million Obamacare "enrollments." Yet that figure merely reflects the number of applications submitted, not the number of paying customers who have turned on their plans by actually paying for coverage. Whether insurers in the other 33 states are experiencing nonpayment rates in the 35% to 50% range is presently unknown. If those rates extended nationally, they would mean the Obama administration's claim that it has enrolled two million people in Obamacare would plunge to just 700,000 to one million.
"There is also a lot of worrying going on over people making payments," industry consultant Robert Laszewski told ProPublica.
Experts say that first-time insurance buyers may not fully understand the duties and responsibilities that come with ownership. A recent study published in the Journal of Health Economics found that only 14% of individuals who have health coverage could correctly answer all four of four basic questions about health insurance, including understanding what a "deductible" and "copay" mean. If comprehension levels are that low for those who already have insurance, analysts worry what that might mean for first-time insurance purchasers, especially for a program as complex as Obamacare.
Persistence of the Obamacare nonpayment trend would pose serious challenges for the Obama administration's ability to hit its goal of seven million paying customers by the end of March.
According to the latest CNN poll, support for Obamacare is now at a record low 35%.


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Q: How to diagnose multiple Linux system failures? I am having several major problems with my Linux machine: Kubuntu 13.10 (recent clean installl), MSI m'board  (AMD Phenom II X3 720; 8Gig RAM), NVidia GeForce GT 630 video card (using kernel module 319.60). The motherborad was recently replaced roughly 3 months ago -- a local 'repair' shop fried the original motherboard while 'diagnosing' what turned out to be a software problem. CPU, RAM, and video card all tested good, so they went into the new m'board.
Problems started about 6-8 weeks ago, with only small, occasional issues, each of which I started off trying to resolve individually.

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*Occasionally, application windows hang, and all that is displayed is a flat, grey screen: all window decorations gone. I worked around this problem by turning off the kwin desktop effects, when I saw a message flash by as follows:
kwin desktop effects restarted... due to graphics reset

*tar backups have failed to complete the last three weeks: first a "crc verify error", then a hung system, and finally a hung gzip.

*Numerous dmesg messages like: "BUG: CPU#2: Soft lockup in tar". After researching this problem, I'm not sure this is a bug at all... just heavy tar/gzip CPU usage?

*Google Chrome randomly and frequently crashing tabs with an "Aw, Snap" message. Google Enterprise team suggested a V8 engine error, but also hinted at hardware issues.
I'm trying to get a handle on what's going wrong and what to do to diagnose and resolve the problems. I'm guessing hardware? And if so, which component is most likely to be causing the problem and how do I isolate that? I'm going to be running a memtest86+, based on another post here.

A: Intermittent problems like these are hard to diagnose, but it does smell like a hardware problem.
memtest86+ is a good idea.  Also, are you monitoring your CPU and other mainboard temperatures?  I believe that overheating can cause intermittent glitches like the ones you're seeing.  When your mainboard was replaced, the heatsink may not have been reconnected well to the CPU (or chipset).  A cheap thing to try would be to replace the thermal interface layer between the CPU and heatsink.
If that doesn't work, then you're probably going to have to start swapping out hardware components to rule each one out.  Start with the video card if you have a spare, but it sounds as though you may have failures in multiple systems, which suggests a bad mainboard.  Sorry.

A: Bad memory! All these symptoms were apparently caused by bad memory. Memtest86+ reported errors in 5 locations (8Gigs, 2x4). Replaced with new memory, Memtest86+ ran clean for two full passes. Now running for over 12 hours and no Chrome problems, tar backup ran just fine and verified.
What I learned: Multiple symptoms? Test memory.

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Joey - Reception - Spotted helping to keep school tidy by Miss Hill.
Johnny - Year One - Spotted lining up beautifully by Mrs. Fairhurst.
Jayden - Year One - Answering a question helpfully by Mrs Chenery.
Alex - Year Three - Spotted listening well by Miss Boyce.
Lucas M - Year Four - Spotted doing great come and see work by Mr. Worthington.
Yurena - Year Five - Working tirelessly to improve her English by Mrs Collings.
Gracie - Year Five - Fantastic effort in reading by Miss Alison.
Lily B - Reception - Spotted doing some good tidying by Miss Hill.
Millie - Reception - Spotted doing some good tidying by Miss Hill.
Devon - Year One - Spotted doing well when adding on ten by Mrs. Fairhurst.
James - Year Two - Helping to tidy and having good manners by Mrs. Holding.
Grace - Year Three - For reading quietly by Miss Beasley.
Anthony O - Year Three - For reading quietly by Miss Boyce.
Ruby G - Year Five - For writing a good mothers day poem by Miss Alison.
Catherine - Year Six- Spotted doing some lovely writing by Mrs. Devaney.
Archie - Reception - Spotted working hard on handwriting by Mrs. Doherty.
Ella - Year One - Spotted being lovely and caring during lent by Mrs. Fairhurst.
Maddy - Year One - Spotted giving super answers in Science by Mrs. Fairhurst.
Lexi May - Year Three - Spotted being helpful by Miss Boyce.
Amelia - Year Six - Spotted doing fantastic Maths work by Mrs. Devaney.
Jacob I - Reception - Jacob was spotted trying really hard and behaving well by Mrs. Doherty.
Kaleb - Reception - Kaleb was spotted working hard on his handwriting by Miss Fletcher.
Alex B - Year One - Alex was spotted doing some superb Maths work by Mrs. Fairhurst.
Madison - Year One- Madison was spotted doing super phonics work by Mrs. Fairhurst.
Alex - Year Three - Alex was spotted doing some super handwriting by Miss Boyce.
Anthony - Year Three - Anthony was spotted using lovely manners by Miss Beesley.
Oscar - Year Six - Oscar was spotted helping the young children play games by Mrs. Devaney.
Daisy - Year Six - Daisy was spotted being a superstar during the Fantastic Book Award Session by Mrs. Smith.


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Schwartz Semerdjian Cauley & Moot is pleased to announce that it has acquired Small & Schena LLP, and that attorneys William F. Small and John A. Schena will be joining the firm as partners effective January 2, 2019. With a focus on business litigation, employment law, intellectual property and related practice areas, Small and Schena will add nearly two decades of combined litigation experience in state and federal courts throughout California to Schwartz Semerdjian's extensive roster of expertise.
"We couldn't be more excited about Will and John joining our firm," said Managing Partner Ross Schwartz. "John actually started his career with our firm in 2009 as a law clerk. When he left to join Will in 2014, we continued to work with both of them and are thrilled that things have come full circle and they are joining Schwartz Semerdjian. They are both exceptional attorneys and great people, and will make a welcome addition to our team."
Schwartz Semerdjian will continue its extensive practice in civil trial and appellate practice in state and federal courts, with an emphasis in business and commercial litigation, employment litigation and labor counseling, construction litigation, personal injury, wrongful death, product liability, officers and directors liability, professional liability, insurance defense, intellectual property, including trademark and copyright, and unfair competition litigation.
William F. Small - Prior to joining Schwartz Semerdjian, William Small was a partner in his own law practice, Small & Schena LLP, and before that served as senior counsel at the San Diego office of Gordon & Rees. His practice focuses on business and employment litigation as well as professional liability and defamation litigation. William also advises clients on legal issues ranging from contracts to compliance with employment laws - with the goal of avoiding litigation.
William is active in the San Diego legal community, serving as Chair of the San Diego County Bar Association's Civil Litigation Executive Committee in 2016 and 2017. Some of his recent accolades include being named a San Diego County Top Attorney in Corporate Litigation in 2015 by the San Diego Daily Transcript, Best of the Bar in 2015 and 2016 by the San Diego Business Journaland a Rising Star in 2017 by Super Lawyers.
William obtained his Bachelors from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and graduated from the University of North Carolina School of Law. He and his family reside in the Point Loma neighborhood of San Diego.
John A. Schena - John Schena founded Small & Schena LLP with William Small in 2014. John is a litigator focusing on the resolution of business disputes, with an emphasis on fiduciary duty, contract, privacy law, commercial torts, trade secret, trademark, and copyright matters. He has successfully prosecuted and defended actions to final judgment on behalf of both public and private entities, as well as individuals, throughout California. He has extensive experience with bench and jury trials, as well as arbitration and administrative law proceedings.
John has dedicated pro bono hours to the formation and assistance of many local nonprofits, including sitting on the board of directors of CompassionIt and Bosh Bosh. A frequent contributor to Trial Bar News, the monthly periodical of the Consumer Attorneys of San Diego, John has written articles regarding identification of misappropriated trade secrets in litigation, managing the costs of discovery, the scope of the attorney-client privilege, and effective summary judgment practice. Some of his recent accolades include being named a Rising Star in 2016, 2017, and 2018 by Super Lawyers, being recognized as a Super Lawyer in 2019, and being named to the Best of the Bar 2015 and 2017 by the San Diego Business Journal.
John obtained his Bachelors from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and graduated from the University of San Diego School of Law. He, his fiancé, and sonlive in the San Diego neighborhood of South Park.
About Schwartz Semerdjian
Schwartz Semerdjian specializes in business counseling and transactional services in corporate and entity formation, real estate, business sales and acquisitions, employment, landlord/tenant, commercial, licensor/licensee, and probate, trusts and estate planning.
Partner John Moot argues before the California Supreme Court. The case involves a civil anti-corruption suit he filed on behalf of a school district against contractors who obtained a lucrative contract to manage school construction bonds by wining and dining and giving elaborate gifts to board members. After the Supreme Court accepted the case for review and briefs were filed, Mr. Moot obtained a $7.5 million-dollar settlement for the school district. Even though the money has been paid and the settlement is final, the Supreme Court felt one of the legal issues in the case was so important it will still hear and decide if criminal grand jury testimony and the factual basis for criminal guilty pleas are admissible in a civil proceeding.
Honored with recognition from the leading survey of lawyers worldwide, Schwartz Semerdjian Cauley & Moot LLP has been named a top tier law firm in two practice areas for the ninth annual U.S. News and World Report and Best Lawyers "Best Law Firms" rankings. Well-known for its work on large, complex matters where an entire business may be at risk, Schwartz Semerdjian was chosen as an exceptional firm in San Diego for tort and labor and employment litigation.
Schwartz Semerdjian is proud to announce that firm partner Sierra Spitzer has been elected as the 2019 Vice Chair of the Labor & Employment Law Section of the San Diego County Bar Association. Congratulations, Sierra!
Partner Dick Semerdjian will present to members of the Associated Subcontractors Alliance a workshop on "Sexual Harassment in the Workplace." Remember, California companies with 50 employees or more are required by law to provide 2 hours of sexual harassment training to supervisors, and all attendees tomorrow will receive a written proof of completion. Regardless of a company's size, it is more important than ever for employers to educate personnel about work place conduct and sexual harassment.
Partner Sierra Spitzer was a guest attorney speaker at the SDHR Forum Meeting providing a presentation on the upswing in PAGA litigation. Click here for the presentation handout re California Labor Code's Private Attorneys General Act of 2004 ("PAGA").
Schwartz Semerdjian is proud to announce a recent victory in the appellate court for client Ace Parking Management, Inc. in Los Angeles. Ace Parking was sued by a former model after she was injured walking under a parking gate arm. Schwartz Semerdjian partners Dick Semerdjian and Sierra Spitzer worked diligently on the case, and hope the ruling discourages future frivolous law suits against long-time client Ace Parking. The decision was featured in Law360, click here for the full article. Congratulations to our team for their expert counsel!
Schwartz Semerdjian partner Dick Semerdjian has been selected by his peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America© (2019 Edition) in the fields of Labor & Employment and Personal Injury. This is the 10th straight year that Dick has been selected for this honor. Congratulations, Dick!
Schwartz Semerdjian partner John Moot was presented with a City of Chula Vista proclamation from Mayor Mary Casillas Salas. The proclamation, on the 20th anniversary of the Sleep Train Amphitheater, honors John for his vision because he was on the Chula Vista City Council when the project was approved in 1998. It was the first project of its kind in San Diego County. Congratulations, John!
Schwartz Semerdjian attorney Mark Bale was recently selected as the Athletic Committee Chair for the Foundation of La Jolla High School. Mark serves on the board of directors of the Foundation of LJHS which was established to enhance the overall educational experience of LJHS students by raising, managing and disbursing funds to support academic, athletic and other needs of the school for which funding is not available. Congratulations, Mark!
Schwartz Semerdjian attorney Kristen Bush has been admitted into the TIPS Leadership Academy for 2018-2019. Kristen will be part of the 25-member class selected by the Leadership Academy Task Force of the Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Section ("TIPS") of the American Bar Association. The Leadership Academy begins with the TIPS Fall Meeting in October 2018. Congratulations, Kristen!
Schwartz Semerdjian will host the 2018 Spring Planning Meeting of the American Bar Association Standing Committee on the American Judicial System. Welcome to San Diego! Partner Dick Semerdjian is Co-Chair of the State Courts subsection of the ABA Standing Committee on the American Judicial System.
Schwartz Semerdjian partner Dick Semerdjian will participate as an instructor at the 2018 Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Section/American Board of Trial Advocates (TIPS/ABOTA) National Trial Academy at The National Judicial College in Reno, Nevada, hosted by the American Bar Association.
Schwartz Semerdjian partner Sarah Evans will participate as a judge for the McLennon Honors Moot Court Competition hosted by the USD School of Law and the Appellate Moot Court Board. The McLennon Tournament provides USD law students the opportunity to hone their oral argument skills and master new areas of the law. This type of competition provides future lawyers with the practice and experience needed to develop effective oral advocacy skills.
Senator Ben Hueso honored Sarah Brite Evans as the 40th Senate District's Woman of the Year at a luncheon and Senate floor ceremony at the State Capitol today. According to Senator Hueso, "Sarah is a true asset to our district. She moves seamlessly between her professional role as one of San Diego Business Journal's 'Best of the Bar', to her civic responsibilities, where she serves as Chair of the Board of Management for the Border View YMCA. Please join me in thanking Sarah for all that she has done, and continues to do, to strengthen our community." Congratulations, Sarah!
Partners Ross Schwartz and Dick Semerdjian will be co-guest lecturers at the University of San Diego School of Law Negotiations Class on February 15. Ross will be addressing the topic of business and transactional negotiations from the perspective of a practicing business attorney while Dick will be focusing on the topic of the techniques required to effectively and ethically negotiate the settlement of lawsuits from the perspective of a trial attorney.
A firm must have a lawyer listed in The Best Lawyers in America, which recognizes the top four percent of practicing attorneys in the U.S., to be eligible for a ranking. Founding Partner Dick Semerdjian was named in the 2018 edition of The Best Lawyers in America©.
On February 7, 2018, the Associated Subcontractors Alliance will host their Annual Construction Law Update, an information packed review of new and noteworthy employment and labor laws and regulations that affect those in the construction industry. Schwartz Semerdjian attorneys Kevin Cauley, Sierra Spitzer and Kristen Bush will present on various topics, including prevailing wage, AB 1701, worksite immigration, enforcement and protections, paid family leave benefits, public work procurement methods, public and private work contracts, attorney's fee recovery, licensing, indemnification, as well as recent court decisions including the prevailing party's entitlement to attorney's fees, promissory estoppel in public and private contracts, indemnification, and public contract bidding issues. Click here for the event flyer. Registration can be completed online at the ASA website.
Schwartz Semerdjian partner and former Chula Vista Councilman, John Moot, was recently quoted on Chula Vista's bid to be a potential site for Amazon's new corporate headquarters. Even if Chula Vista is not selected, as Mr. Moot points, the site is an incredible certainty for a high tech hub in the San Diego region. Click here to view the Voice of San Diego article.


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Managing the risk with a noise assessment
As a safety manager, your job is to protect your employees from harmful noise levels in the work environment. Your first step is to identify whether there is a problem or not, and whether recommended noise levels specified in the Regulations have been breached. Often, common sense observations will suffice. But, if a hearing risk is identified, your line of defence going forward is to conduct a noise assessment.
Here we list 5 basic steps for you to follow.
1. Simple observation: Do you have a noise problem at work?
The noise is noticeable but does not interfere with normal conversation
Workers have to shout to be heard by colleagues if they are more than 1m apart
Workers use noisy power tools or machinery for more than half an hour a day
Do workers tense up when the noise starts?
Do they relax when the noise stops. Do they walk away?
Have workers reported headaches, loss of hearing or stress after leaving work?
If you have answered 'yes' against any of the above, you need to investigate further and test your working environment for dangerous noise levels with professional measurement equipment.
2. Noise assessment: Measure sound levels
Noise is measured using a sound level meter which reads sound pressure levels in dB(A) and the dB Peak sound pressure which is the highest noise level reached by the sound. There are three types of noise meters available for this type of job – Sound pressure level (SPL) or basic, integrating averaging sound level meters and personal sound exposure meters or noise dosemeters. Basic sound level meters tend to cost less and are best used when the noise levels are continuous at a near constant value. Integrating sound level meters provide an average (continuous equivalent noise level or LAeq) over a particular period of time which is important when there are wide variations in sound levels. Finally personal sound exposure meters are in effect integrating sound level meters designed in such a way that they can capture daily personal noise exposure of a worker (Lep,d) measured over the working day. Noise dosemeters are worn on the body or fixed to a hard hat next to the ear.
3. Noise assessment: Noise action levels
This is something that we mention often in this blog. In the UK, the Control of Noise at Work Regulations (2005) places a duty on employers to reduce the risk from harmful noise to the lowest level reasonably practicable. The UK regulations derive from the EU legislation Directive 2003/10/EC – Physical Agents – noise. Therefore it is applicable to all member states. Outside the EU, similar control levels are in place. You should research your own legislation if you are not sure.
For further guidance on noise assessment and surveys, you may want to consult the HSE website.
4. Noise assessments: Best practice
Take measurements at arm's length at working stations of employees closest to the source of noise. The microphone should be held where the workers' ears are typically found.
Undertake measurements for as long a period as possible especially if there is a variation in noise levels
Make a reliable estimate of your employees' exposures, and compare the exposure with the exposure action values and limit values. Record the LAeq and dB(C) Peak value
Specify which sound level meter/sound exposure meter was used and the date of its last calibration
State how many employees are using the equipment, usage and other work duties
State the condition of the machine and its maintenance history
Indicate the work being done on the equipment at the time of the assessment
Include a plan of the work area showing the location of the machine being assessed
Include other noise sources that may be relevant
Add recommendations for future actions
5. Review the situation
Finally, we recommend that you continuously review your risk assessment if circumstances in your workplace change and affect noise exposures.
We hope this article has given you a broad overview of what is involved in workplace noise assessments. This is a quick summary, of course, and the work involved will necessitate a high level of detail to act as a reference.
For more information on how to manage noise risk at work, the Control of Noise at Work Regulations (2005) and noise-induced hearing loss, have a look at the following:
For detailed information and specifications on our range of noise measurement products to help you conduct your noise risk assessment, please contact us or ring us on 01723 518011 to talk to one of our advisors.
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If you would like to discuss conducting your own noise assessment surveys with our noise measurement equipment, contact us today!


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Measure Title: RELATING TO RETIREMENT.
Report Title: Retirement; Pension; Judges; Employees' Retirement System
Description: Provides that a member of the employees' retirement system who first earned credited service as a judge after June 30, 2016, and has at least twelve years of credited service and attained the normal retirement age, or has at least twenty-five years of credited service and has attained age fifty-five are eligible to receive pension after retirement. Reduces the retirement allowance for a member who first earned credited service as a judge after June 30, 2016, to two per cent of the member's average final compensation, reduced for each month the member's age at the date of retirement is below the normal retirement age. Defines "normal retirement age".
Current Referral: LAB, JUD, FIN
Introducer(s): SOUKI (Introduced by request of another party)
1/22/2016 H Pending introduction.
1/25/2016 H Introduced and Pass First Reading.
1/27/2016 H Referred to LAB, JUD, FIN, referral sheet 2
1/29/2016 H Bill scheduled to be heard by LAB on Tuesday, 02-02-16 9:30AM in House conference room 309.
2/2/2016 H The committee(s) on LAB recommend(s) that the measure be deferred.
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Home»Uncategorized»High kicks and Brazilian songs: lecture center Capoeria class
High kicks and Brazilian songs: lecture center Capoeria class
Christopher Moller 2018-12-09
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Members demonstrate their moves in 2015. Credit: Paul Miller, UAlbany Photos
Last month on my way back to my dorm, I saw six to 10 students sitting in a circle, doing stretches. I wondered what exercise they could be doing, after a long day of school work, no less. When I dropped in on the class and asked what they were doing, I found out it was stretches for a martial art that I have never heard of before called capoeira.
As a result, I sat in on that and another capoeira class on November 13, in the Lecture Center. I observed approximately six to ten students performing stretches, calisthenics, and various footwork and kicking maneuvers, some with less complexity than others.This all occurred within an environment filled with music and tradition consistent with capoeira.
In these classes, students sat in a "roda," Portuguese for "circle," and listened to Portuguese music produced by a berimbau, an archery bow-shaped instrument with a gourd on it. Then, they performed their moves.
Students new to the club practiced "ginga," stepping forward and backwards with both legs alternatively. More advanced students learned other kicks and acrobatic movements, such as "negativa," getting into a low position, with one leg forward, the other leg supporting one's body to "refuse" being attacked.
Capoeira is a Brazilian martial art that originated from African slaves in the 16th to the 19th centuries. When slaves worked on Portuguese plantations in Brazil, they disguised martial arts as "folk" dances. This was to prepare for eventual revolts against slavery and to maintain their culture.
However, that wasn't all capoeira eventually became. According to instructor Nick Moskwa, capoeira developed into various styles over time, allowing it to be preserved. In the early 1900s, Mestre Bimba opened a studio and taught capoeira regional. Regional is a form of capoeira that has fast, athletic play, in contrast to the original capoeira derived from the African slaves of the past. Capoeira continued to keep on kicking when Mestre Pastinha taught capoeira Angola, another form of the martial art that kept many of capoeira's traditions, such as students participating in closer spaces with one another.
At this Albany club, it wasn't just the instructors who emitted passion for this near four to five hundred-year-old martial art. Two students named Amy and Soundarya commented exercise was their motive for attending the capoeira class.
Even though the students present may have enjoyed the capoeira classes, prospective students who may not due to the classes' duration between six and eight p.m. on Tuesday nights. However, they can participate in it at any time on Tuesdays between the two-hour time slot, if they choose to do so. For example, Soundarya's "first class" was on November 13th.
"Capoeira Mata Um", one of the songs sung by the group, is translatable into "capoeira kills one." Perhaps capoeira might be able to kill people's fear and uncertainty about any recreational activity not as well known to the UAlbany community as football or frisbee.
If anyone desires to join or observe the capoeira group, the classes congregate in the Lecture Center next to Argo Tea Café between 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Tuesdays.
Christopher Moller
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using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.IO;
using System.Linq;
using System.Runtime.InteropServices;

internal static class IOInputs
{
    public static bool SupportsSettingCreationTime { get { return RuntimeInformation.IsOSPlatform(OSPlatform.Windows); } }
    public static bool SupportsGettingCreationTime { get { return RuntimeInformation.IsOSPlatform(OSPlatform.Windows) | RuntimeInformation.IsOSPlatform(OSPlatform.OSX); } }

    // Max path length (minus trailing \0). Unix values vary system to system; just using really long values here likely to be more than on the average system.
    public static readonly int MaxPath = RuntimeInformation.IsOSPlatform(OSPlatform.Windows) ? 259 : 10000;

    // Windows specific, this is the maximum length that can be passed using extended syntax. Does not include the trailing \0.
    public static readonly int MaxExtendedPath = short.MaxValue - 1;

    // Same as MaxPath on Unix
    public static readonly int MaxLongPath = RuntimeInformation.IsOSPlatform(OSPlatform.Windows) ? MaxExtendedPath : MaxPath;

    // Windows specific, this is the maximum length that can be passed to APIs taking directory names, such as Directory.CreateDirectory & Directory.Move.
    // Does not include the trailing \0.
    // We now do the appropriate wrapping to allow creating longer directories. Like MaxPath, this is a legacy restriction.
    public static readonly int MaxDirectory = 247;

    public const int MaxComponent = 255;

    public const string ExtendedPrefix = @"\\?\";
    public const string ExtendedUncPrefix = @"\\?\UNC\";

    public static IEnumerable<string> GetValidPathComponentNames()
    {
        yield return Path.GetRandomFileName();
        yield return "!@#$%^&";
        yield return "\x65e5\x672c\x8a9e";
        yield return "A";
        yield return " A";
        yield return "  A";
        yield return "FileName";
        yield return "FileName.txt";
        yield return " FileName";
        yield return " FileName.txt";
        yield return "  FileName";
        yield return "  FileName.txt";
        yield return "This is a valid component name";
        yield return "This is a valid component name.txt";
        yield return "V1.0.0.0000";
    }

    // These are the WhiteSpace characters we used to trim for paths:
    //
    //  (char)0x9,          // Horizontal tab     '\t'
    //  (char)0xA,          // Line feed          '\n'
    //  (char)0xB,          // Vertical tab       '\v'
    //  (char)0xC,          // Form feed          '\f'
    //  (char)0xD,          // Carriage return    '\r'
    //  (char)0x20,         // Space              ' '
    //  (char)0x85,         // Next line          '\u0085'
    //  (char)0xA0          // Non breaking space '\u00A0'

    public static IEnumerable<string> GetControlWhiteSpace()
    {
        yield return "\t";
        yield return "\t\t";
        yield return "\t\t\t";
        yield return "\n";
        yield return "\n\n";
        yield return "\n\n\n";
        yield return "\t\n";
        yield return "\t\n\t\n";
        yield return "\n\t\n";
        yield return "\n\t\n\t";
        // Add other control chars
        yield return "\v\f\r";
    }

    public static IEnumerable<string> GetSimpleWhiteSpace()
    {
        yield return " ";
        yield return "  ";
        yield return "   ";
        yield return "    ";
        yield return "     ";
    }

    /// <summary>
    /// Whitespace characters that arent in the traditional control set (e.g. less than 0x20)
    /// and aren't space (e.g. 0x20).
    /// </summary>
    public static IEnumerable<string> GetNonControlWhiteSpace()
    {
        yield return "\u0085"; // Next Line (.NET used to trim)
        yield return "\u00A0"; // Non breaking space (.NET used to trim)
        yield return "\u2028"; // Line separator
        yield return "\u2029"; // Paragraph separator
        yield return "\u2003"; // EM space
        yield return "\u2008"; // Punctuation space
    }

    /// <summary>
    /// Whitespace characters other than space (includes some Unicode whitespace characters we
    /// did not traditionally trim.
    /// </summary>
    public static IEnumerable<string> GetNonSpaceWhiteSpace()
    {
        return GetControlWhiteSpace().Concat(GetNonControlWhiteSpace());
    }

    /// <summary>
    /// This is the Whitespace we used to trim from paths
    /// </summary>
    public static IEnumerable<string> GetWhiteSpace()
    {
        return GetControlWhiteSpace().Concat(GetSimpleWhiteSpace());
    }

    public static IEnumerable<string> GetUncPathsWithoutShareName()
    {
        foreach (char slash in new[] { Path.AltDirectorySeparatorChar, Path.DirectorySeparatorChar })
        {
            if (!PlatformDetection.IsWindows && slash == '/') // Unc paths must start with '\' on Unix
            {
                continue;
            }
            string slashes = new string(slash, 2);
            yield return slashes;
            yield return slashes + " ";
            yield return slashes + new string(slash, 5);
            yield return slashes + "S";
            yield return slashes + "S ";
            yield return slashes + "LOCALHOST";
            yield return slashes + "LOCALHOST " + slash;
            yield return slashes + "LOCALHOST " + new string(slash, 2);
            yield return slashes + "LOCALHOST" + slash + " ";
            yield return slashes + "LOCALHOST" + slash + slash + " ";
        }
    }

    public static IEnumerable<string> GetPathsWithReservedDeviceNames()
    {
        string root = Path.GetPathRoot(Directory.GetCurrentDirectory());
        foreach (string deviceName in GetReservedDeviceNames())
        {
            yield return deviceName;
            yield return Path.Combine(root, deviceName);
            yield return Path.Combine(root, "Directory", deviceName);
            yield return Path.Combine(new string(Path.DirectorySeparatorChar, 2), "LOCALHOST", deviceName);
        }
    }

    public static IEnumerable<string> GetPathsWithAlternativeDataStreams()
    {
        yield return @"AA:";
        yield return @"AAA:";
        yield return @"AA:A";
        yield return @"AAA:A";
        yield return @"AA:AA";
        yield return @"AAA:AA";
        yield return @"AA:AAA";
        yield return @"AAA:AAA";
        yield return @"AA:FileName";
        yield return @"AAA:FileName";
        yield return @"AA:FileName.txt";
        yield return @"AAA:FileName.txt";
        yield return @"A:FileName.txt:";
        yield return @"AA:FileName.txt:AA";
        yield return @"AAA:FileName.txt:AAA";
        yield return @"C:\:";
        yield return @"C:\:FileName";
        yield return @"C:\:FileName.txt";
        yield return @"C:\fileName:";
        yield return @"C:\fileName:FileName.txt";
        yield return @"C:\fileName:FileName.txt:";
        yield return @"C:\fileName:FileName.txt:AA";
        yield return @"C:\fileName:FileName.txt:AAA";
        yield return @"ftp://fileName:FileName.txt:AAA";
    }

    public static IEnumerable<string> GetPathsWithComponentLongerThanMaxComponent()
    {
        // While paths themselves can be up to and including 32,000 characters, most volumes
        // limit each component of the path to a total of 255 characters.

        string component = new string('s', MaxComponent + 1);

        yield return string.Format(@"C:\{0}", component);
        yield return string.Format(@"C:\{0}\Filename.txt", component);
        yield return string.Format(@"C:\{0}\Filename.txt\", component);
        yield return string.Format(@"\\{0}\Share", component);
        yield return string.Format(@"\\LOCALHOST\{0}", component);
        yield return string.Format(@"\\LOCALHOST\{0}\FileName.txt", component);
        yield return string.Format(@"\\LOCALHOST\Share\{0}", component);
    }

    public static IEnumerable<string> GetPathsLongerThanMaxDirectory(string rootPath)
    {
        yield return GetLongPath(rootPath, MaxDirectory + 1);
        yield return GetLongPath(rootPath, MaxDirectory + 2);
        yield return GetLongPath(rootPath, MaxDirectory + 3);
    }

    public static IEnumerable<string> GetPathsLongerThanMaxPath(string rootPath, bool useExtendedSyntax = false)
    {
        yield return GetLongPath(rootPath, MaxPath + 1, useExtendedSyntax);
        yield return GetLongPath(rootPath, MaxPath + 2, useExtendedSyntax);
        yield return GetLongPath(rootPath, MaxPath + 3, useExtendedSyntax);
    }

    public static IEnumerable<string> GetPathsLongerThanMaxLongPath(string rootPath, bool useExtendedSyntax = false)
    {
        yield return GetLongPath(rootPath, MaxExtendedPath + 1, useExtendedSyntax);
        yield return GetLongPath(rootPath, MaxExtendedPath + 2, useExtendedSyntax);
    }

    private static string GetLongPath(string rootPath, int characterCount, bool extended = false)
    {
        return IOServices.GetPath(rootPath, characterCount, extended).FullPath;
    }

    public static IEnumerable<string> GetReservedDeviceNames()
    {   // See: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa365247.aspx
        yield return "CON";
        yield return "AUX";
        yield return "NUL";
        yield return "PRN";
        yield return "COM1";
        yield return "COM2";
        yield return "COM3";
        yield return "COM4";
        yield return "COM5";
        yield return "COM6";
        yield return "COM7";
        yield return "COM8";
        yield return "COM9";
        yield return "LPT1";
        yield return "LPT2";
        yield return "LPT3";
        yield return "LPT4";
        yield return "LPT5";
        yield return "LPT6";
        yield return "LPT7";
        yield return "LPT8";
        yield return "LPT9";
    }
}


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"I was honest with her."
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She flushed with angry color. How short that truce was! He expected her to play the role of the happy bride when he couldn't keep his insults to himself?
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Inez Renee Chapman Erickson Thornton, 99, died March 29, 2019 in Danville, KY. Inez was born March 4, 1920, in San Francisco, CA. She was the daughter of Gertrude and Paul Chapman and stepdaughter of Emil Erickson. Inez graduated from Lowell High School and San Francisco State University. After college she moved to central California where she married John James Thornton. Inez taught first and second grade for thirty years in the Delano, CA area and retired in 1973 to pursue her two passions—oil painting and golf. As a painter, she was accomplished in landscapes and florals. As a golfer, her fifteen holes-in-one and two eagles speak for themselves. Inez moved to Danville, KY in January 2005 after the death of her husband.
Survivors include her son Jeff Thornton (Karen) of Danville, KY; granddaughter Ashley Thornton of Lexington, KY; granddaughter Alyssa Thornton of Lexington, KY; great grandson Wendell Thornton; and sister Emmy Lou Handford of Sacramento, CA.
At the request of the deceased, no services will be held. Interment in BellevueCemetery, Danville will be private. Memorials can be made to the Community Arts Center of Danville, KY. Stith Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. "Remember me with smiles and laughter for that's how I'll remember you".


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Good growth ahead for those doing good
by Duncan Goodwin, fund manager, Premier Global Growth Fund 4 Jun 2020
Premier Miton's Duncan Goodwin outlines investment prospects in companies which are tackling global challenges with technological innovation
There is an unprecedented focus from both consumers and politicians in solving major world problems, such as the impact our behaviour is having on the planet today and for future generations.
The increase in capital allocation towards – and the application of – new technologies designed to address these problems will offer new and exciting growth opportunities for companies. We see great investment prospects in companies which are tackling the global challenges ahead in new ways.
An example of "technology for good" is batteries for electric vehicles. Whilst this technology has been available for decades, the challenge has been how to manufacture these batteries cost effectively relative to internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles. It has only been in the last 10 years that enough capital has been provided by the auto industry to build manufacturing plants of sufficient scale to become cost competitive with ICEs.
A combination of Tesla with its vision for competitive mass-produced electric vehicles and government emissions regulation, including the "deiselgate" scandal, has been the catalyst for this seismic shift in the auto industry. As with all change, there will be winners and losers in the move to electric vehicles.
We see no reason for a slowdown in efforts to tackle climate change given the current focus on the covid-19 pandemic. If anything, the current situation places greater emphasis on the need to deal with global issues.
Under the broad climate change theme, in addition to the growth of electric vehicles, we also believe there are highly interesting developments in hydrogen technology. As the cost of solar and wind power generation continues to fall, excess power can be used to generate "clean hydrogen", an energy intensive process. Large-scale electrolysers are being developed to do this cost effectively by industrial gas companies such as Air Liquide and Linde.
At the other end of the value chain, fuel cell technology is also starting to move to commercial scale production by the likes of Ceres Power in the UK. The range of uses is broad and expanding. From range extenders in buses in China, to datacentres in US, the list of applications looking to transition to hydrogen power is growing, driven by both regulation and consumer preference. In addition, we see hydrogen as a means for industrial processes such as cement and steel production to reduce their carbon footprint. As with all nascent technology, the key will be getting sufficient scale to justify economic growth. However, with enough focus and capital being spent on development across a wide range of industries, we see a viable future for hydrogen over the longer term.
A more sustainable world is not solely about the environment. In the 'social' category of ESG, micro finance is an area where we see 'technology for good' creating attractive investment opportunities. With prospects of slower economic growth and lower for longer interest rates around the world, the outlook for the banking industry overall is tough. However, the underlying need for greater access to finance in developing markets – often termed micro finance – remains, and the covid-19 pandemic has actually accelerated the role of technology in meeting this need.
An example of this is HDFC bank, India's largest private sector bank, which has been a global pioneer in delivering simple accessible financial solutions domestically. The company launched its first real-time, online internet-banking platform in 1999 and a year later became the first Indian bank to introduce mobile banking, where customers could access basic financial products and services via an SMS. Fast forward to today and the lockdown in India has re-enforced the need for online and mobile banking.
Of course, many in India have no access to technology and so feet on the ground make a difference. HDFC has over 5000 banking outlets, 53% of which are in semi-urban and rural locations. In addition, the company has tied up with 100,000 Common Service Centres (CSC), access points for delivery of essential public utility services, social welfare schemes and healthcare services. This illustrates the strong alignment with HDFC and the Indian government at both the central and state levels to provide greater community access to products and services. The effect of this and other initiatives has been the growth in customers served from 30 million in 2014 to over 50 million in 2020. Technology has meant that growth has not been at the expense of margins, which have remained stable over the same period.
The world is changing fast, and it needs to. The most compelling prospects for long-term growth are companies which drive meaningful, positive change through technological innovation, thereby catering for society's changing needs. These will be best placed to attract capital allocation and, ultimately, generate growth. We are optimistic about the ability of industry to meet the environmental and societal challenges ahead and believe the risk reward of providing capital to help companies do so is as attractive as it has ever been.
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Q: Negation of regex for finding HTML tags and their content - java I'm doing a project at uni where I have to clean some HTML code with using regex (I know, not the best approach...)
Input of body:

This is heading 1

This is heading 2

This is heading 3

This is a paragraph.

This is another paragraph.

This is a link

Coffee

Tea

Milk

I get a list of allowed tags and I have to remove every other tag with it's content as well. for example {h3, p, ul}
First I strip all parameters (theyre not allowed), then I came up with this regex, that removes tags and content.
String regex = "(?i)<([h3|ul|p]+)>\\n?.*\\n?<\\/\\1>";

It works, but now I have to negate it and remove all tags and content except those given in...
I tried this, but doesn't work :
`...[?!h3|ul|p]...`

Desired outcome for this example:

This is heading 3

This is a paragraph.

This is another paragraph.

Don't really understand the Negative Lookahead and how to apply it to my problem, so I'll be thankful for any advice.

A: You might want to extract those which you want to be in your desired output. This expression might be a better choice to do so and it can be modified, if you wish:
(<(p|h3.*)>.*<\/(.*)>)|(<(ul.*)>[\s\S]*<\/(ul)>)

It has two groups, one for p and h3 and the other for ul, which you can wrap them to another capturing group:
((<(p|h3.*)>.*<\/(.*)>)|(<(ul.*)>[\s\S]*<\/(ul)>))

RegEx
If this wasn't your desired expression, you can modify/change your expressions in regex101.com.

RegEx Circuit
You can also visualize your expressions in jex.im:

Java Testing
import java.util.regex.Matcher;
import java.util.regex.Pattern;

final String regex = "((<(p|h3.*)>.*<\\/(.*)>)|(<(ul.*)>[\\s\\S]*<\\/(ul)>))";
final String string = "
This is heading 1
\n"
     + "
This is heading 2
\n"
     + "
This is heading 3
\n"
     + "
This is a paragraph.
\n"
     + "
This is another paragraph.
\n"
     + "This is a link\n"
     + "
\n"
     + "
Coffee
\n"
     + "
Tea
\n"
     + "
Milk
\n"
     + "
";

final Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile(regex, Pattern.MULTILINE);
final Matcher matcher = pattern.matcher(string);

while (matcher.find()) {
    System.out.println("Full match: " + matcher.group(0));
    for (int i = 1; i <= matcher.groupCount(); i++) {
        System.out.println("Group " + i + ": " + matcher.group(i));
    }
}

JavaScript Demo

const regex = /((<(p|h3.*)>.*<\/(.*)>)|(<(ul.*)>[\s\S]*<\/(ul)>))/gm;
const str = `
This is heading 1

This is heading 2

This is heading 3

This is a paragraph.

This is another paragraph.

This is a link

Coffee

Tea

Milk

`;
let m;

while ((m = regex.exec(str)) !== null) {
    // This is necessary to avoid infinite loops with zero-width matches
    if (m.index === regex.lastIndex) {
        regex.lastIndex++;
    }

    // The result can be accessed through the `m`-variable.
    m.forEach((match, groupIndex) => {
        console.log(`Found match, group ${groupIndex}: ${match}`);
    });
}

This expression might only capture your desired output. It does not follow a negation strategy.

A: The negative look ahead you are trying to use needs to be written as (?!(?:h3|ul|p)\b) which will not select either h3 or ul or p tag. Notice the use of word boundary \b after it so as to reject exact matches of those tags. And besides removing those tags, you will also have to remove the whitespaces left behind after removing those tags, hence overall the regex you need to use is this,
\h*<(?!(?:h3|ul|p)\b)([^>]+).*?>[\w\W]*?</\1>\s*

Regex Explanation:

*

*\h* - Matches zero or more horizontal whitespace (space and tabs and may be other that exists) before the tag

*< - Start of tag

*(?!(?:h3|ul|p)\b) - Negative lookahead to exactly reject h3 ul and p tags

*([^>]+) - Matches a tag name one or more characters and captures in group1 for back referencing it later. You can use something like \w+ or a character set with allowed characters to only match what you want.

*.*?> - Optionally match zero or more characters (basically attributes) followed by closing of start tag with >

*[\w\W]*? - Matches any character zero or more including newlines in non-greedy way

*</\1> - Matches the closing of tag where \1 represents what matched earlier as tag name

*\s* - Matches zero or more whitespace which basically consumes the empty space created by removal of tags

Regex Demo
Java Code demo,
String s = "
This is heading 1
\r\n" +
        "
This is heading 2
\r\n" +
        "
This is heading 3
\r\n" +
        "
This is a paragraph.
\r\n" +
        "
This is another paragraph.
\r\n" +
        "This is a link\r\n" +
        "
\r\n" +
        "
Coffee
\r\n" +
        "
Tea
\r\n" +
        "
Milk
\r\n" +
        "
";

System.out.println("Before:\n" + s);
System.out.println("\nAfter:\n" + s.replaceAll("\\h*<(?!(?:h3|ul|p)\\b)([^>]+).*?>[\\w\\W]*?</\\1>\\s*", ""));

Output,
Before:

This is heading 1

This is heading 2

This is heading 3

This is a paragraph.

This is another paragraph.

This is a link

Coffee

Tea

Milk

After:

This is heading 3

This is a paragraph.

This is another paragraph.


Shelton Ditch, which runs along the north side of Salem Health's main campus is looking very full after 18 straight days of rain.
In 2012, this creek flooded into the basement of Building C on our campus. That flood also damaged the Winter Street bridge, which is still in the process of being fixed (notice the construction equipment).
This afternoon the water flows increased dramatically, to the point that they are reaching the bottom of the bridge. We are preparing for this weekend's predicted rain by sandbagging and potentially closing the parking garage under Building C.
We expect that parking under Building C will likely be closed Monday morning, but will reopen as soon as possible. Stay tuned to our Facebook and Twitter for updates as they happen!


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