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Higher education group QS has released its annual guide to the best universities in the world, including breakdowns for the leading institutions by subject.
The QS World University Rankings 2018 cover 48 individual subject types, judging each school across a range criteria including academic reputation, research citations per paper, productivity and impact of published work, and reputation among employers.
For business and management studies, the United States dominates the top 10, with Harvard University ranking first overall. And using the employer reputation criteria within its world rankings by subject, QS has also listed the business schools most popular with employers.
Harvard ranks highest
Harvard University again comes out on top, achieving a maximum score of 100. According to QS, 89% of the class of 2017 accepted an employment offer within three months of graduating, with a median base salary of $135,000. Graduates took jobs in industries such as consulting, financial services, technology, healthcare and manufacturing.
The University of Cambridge and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) rank joint-second, both scoring 96.1.
QS said Cambridge, which ranked 7th in the overall business and management studies list, scored highly because it was active in encouraging and enabling entrepreneurship from its students, with close ties to the Cambridge Cluster - an area home to several high-tech software, electronics and biotechnology businesses.
MIT alumni, meanwhile, have founded more than 650 companies, which QS says contributes to its impressive employer reputation score. MIT was ranked by QS as the fourth best business school overall.
Asian institutions impress employers
The top 10 for employer reputation is not merely a reshuffle of the overall list, however.
Harvard achieved a maximum score in the employer reputation category
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The National University of Singapore, for example, which ranks 15th overall, is 10th in the employer reputation list, scoring 88.5.
Perhaps more impressively, Peking University, which ranked 28th overall, is ninth for employer reputation, scoring 89.7.
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The top 10 for employer reputation also includes the University of Oxford (4th), INSEAD (5th), Stanford University (6th), London Business School (7th), and the University of Melbourne (8th)
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Das Ledra Palace Hotel () ist ein Hotelgebäude in Nikosia auf Zypern. Bis zur türkischen Invasion 1974 galt es als luxuriösestes Hotel der Insel, seitdem nutzt es die Friedenstruppe der Vereinten Nationen in Zypern (kurz UNFICYP) als Hauptquartier.

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Der Architekt Benzion Ginsberg (in engl. Quellen Benjamin Günsberg) errichtete insgesamt vier Gebäude auf Zypern, das Forest Park Hotel und das Hahollades House in Larnaka, das Haus Nr. 311 in der October 28th Street und das Ledra Palace Hotel, ab 1949 an der damaligen King Edward VII Street (später Markos Drakos Avenue). Formal greift es einerseits Formen zyprischer Gotik auf, andererseits finden sich auch venezianische Formen in der Fassade.

Es gehörte neben dem Hilton Nikosia und dem Forest Park Hotel in Larnaka zu jenen drei Hotels, die 1966 als erste einen Swimmingpool auf Zypern installierten. Zu den Gästen des Hotels zählten Richard Burton und Elizabeth Taylor.

Von 1967 bis 1968 wurde es renoviert und erweitert. 1974 musste es schließen, nachdem die Vereinten Nationen das Grundstück des Hotels zu einem Teil der Pufferzone erklärt hatten. Die Vereinten Nationen richteten in dem Gebäude ihr Hauptquartier ein. Das Gebäude weist mittlerweile erheblichen Renovierungsstau auf. Im April 2019 zogen die Friedenstruppen der UNFICYP in neue Gebäude gegenüber dem Hotel um.

Bekannt wurde das Gebäude als Treffpunkt der Anführer der griechischen und türkischen Volksgruppe.

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Abstract: Students' engagement in learning is affected by the learning environment including assigned activities and tasks, ways to provide instructions, and assessment practices. It is implied that lecturers affect students' interpretation task (for better or worse) in what way they organize their learning.The present study aimed to analyze the influence of students' task interpretation on their learning outcomes. It was an experimental type of research with pretest and posttest control group design. The research subjects were 64 students of the Dressmaking Study Programof the Home Economics Department of Faculty of Engineering, of UniversitasNegeri Surabaya (UNESA). They were taking Family Welfare Studies course. They were divided into an experimental class (29 students) and control group (35 students). The experimental class was given task-analysis sheet prior to pre-test, while the control class was not. Another similar treatment for both groups was guided group discussions with Student Activity Sheet (MFI), and posttest. The technique for data collection was tests.The data analysis used N-Gain and t-test. The result showed that: (1) The mean of N-Gain of the control class was .44 (medium category) and the mean of the experimental class was .73 (high category); (2) the result of t-test showed that with significance level of .05, the obtained value was .019. It means that there was a difference in the learning outcomes of the experimental and the control groups. In conclusion, the students' task interpretation affects their learning outcomes.
In order to achieve a successful learning, each student must have a consistent approach (work habit) to complete academic tasks (Butler & Cartier, 2004), including the students' ability to interpret the demands of work to be accomplished. Therefore the task interpretation is crucial in determining the learning success. It is necessary to study what a lecturercan do to improve the task interpretation effectively.
In class, lecturers construct learning environments where students work. For instance, they choose instructional methods (e.g. lectures, small group discussions); objectives, forms and components of learning activities; and evaluation practices (which is the standard for evaluating the task). In a learning environment, lecturers have the potential to affect the formation of knowledge and competences of students. The learning environment formsthe students' approach to learning. This will ultimately affect their learning (Entwistle&Tait, 1995).
When creating a learning environment, a lecturer conceptualizes and arranges academic tasks (academic work). As part of this process, he or she designs activities for students with the goal of fostering a particular academic work habit and learning outcomes.
The term "activity" generally refers to a task assigned by a lecturer. The term "task" refers to a specific and more coherent activity and internally requiring some other learning activities (such as reading, writing, learning, and problem solving).
Students' interpretation of assigned tasks describes their work habits. It is of importance as a basis of success in accomplishing the task. Some researchers define "engagement" as a very meaningful and thoughtful approach to complete a task (Paris & Paris, 2001). Referring to the model of metacognition and self-regulation (Butler &Winne, 1995; Zimmerman &Schunk, 2001), students engagement is defined as a student activity, coordinating reflective learning process (i.e. self-regulation) in improving the knowledge of metacognitive and beliefs of motivation in the context of academic tasks. Thus, student involvement is associated with self-regulation in the activities, because it lies in the context of learning (Zimmerman &Schunk, 2001). In connection with this definition, engagement in the task can be divided into two recursive phases: task interpretation (carefully defining the requirements of a specific task), planning (setting a destination, selecting approaches to manage tasks), implementation (implementing the chosen strategy), monitoring (continuously tracking the progress associated with the destination), and evaluation (generating feedbacks about things that have already occurred).
Explaining student engagement requires an analysis of the quality of their participation in that phase (Butler &Winne, 1995). It is because students gain experience through tasks, work repeatedly through these phases. By doing so, they begin to develop the work habits which they adopt whenever they are faced with academic work.
Task interpretation is very important for learners' success in their performance. Butler (1998) stated that "efficient learners are aware of the task requirements and direct their learning activities accordingly".During the first phase of engagement, namely the taskinterpretation, they interpret the requirements of a given task. Then, they self-regulate all future learning activities based on their interpretation of the demands of the task (Butler &Winne, 1995). The interpretation serves to direct duties (e.g. purpose for which they have set in advance), the strategy they choose and apply, and criteria for the assessment of their performance during the monitoring and self-evaluation.
In other words, if the interpretation of the task is missing or wrong, the learning will not succeed. A student can work diligently and hard, but their efforts would not be productive to focus on the learning objectives in question. Thereforethe task successful interpretation will lead to engagement focused on the tasks and ultimately affect the students' success.Therefore, to be successful, the students must have an approach to academic work including their attention on the task interpretation.
As previously mentioned, the students' engagement in learning is influenced by the learning environment, including the activities and tasks assigned, how the instructions provided, and assessment practices. It is implied that the lecturer can affect the students' task interpretationin the way they organize the learning environment.
Family Welfare Studies is a compulsory course for the students majoring in Home Economics Education, including those of Dressmaking Study Program. This course is provided at the beginning of the semester (1st semester). The purpose of this course includes: 1) the students understand the basic concepts of Family Welfare Science and its scope; and 2) the students master the Family Welfare Studies as the basis for the development of the Home Economics Education, as well as mastery of the welfare of the family, family life and their relation to the state life. The course materials are comprised of Family Welfare Science, Home Economics, education, family welfare (PKK), family life as part of science, theoretical perspectives on the family, the nature of the family, management of family resources as a system, the definition and scope of family resources, the concept of decision-making in the family, the allocation of time and housework, family financial management, gender roles, family welfare, and research methods in the family.
In this study, the role of gender was selected as a topic to be studied, because the topic was considered to be quite interesting and constituted many ill-defined problems. Practicing problem solving skills requires those ill-defined problems. The students' activities of creative and critical thinking can take place. The task analysis, pretest, posttest, and student activity sheets were developed to guide the activities.
The problems of this research raised are: 1) How are the students' learning outcomes; and 2) Does the students' task interpretation influence their learning outcomes?
The present study was a quasi-experimental research with a pretest-posttest control group design. The students' task interpretation was the independent variable and the students' learning outcomes was the dependent variable. The subjects were the students of Dressmaking Study Program who were taking the Family Welfare Studies course. They were divided into the experimental group (B Class) consisting of 29 students and the control class (A Class) totaling 35 students. The students in the experimental class were given a sheet of task-analysis prior to the pretest, while the control class was not given the task-analysis sheet before the pretest. The similar treatmentsfor both groups were the pretest, guided group discussions with Student Activity Sheet (MFI), and the post-test. To gather the data, tests were used.
(1) If <g> ≥.7, it is categorized as 'high gain'.
(2) If 0.7><g> ≥ .3, it is categorized as 'fair/medium gain'.
(3) If <g> .3, it is categorized as 'low gain'.
Before conducting the study, the researchers administered a pretest to determine the students' initial ability. The pretest results can be seen in Table 1 as follows.
Based on the pretest results of the students in the control class, the class obtained the highest score of 58, the lowest score of 16, the average score of 40.74 with a standard deviation of 10.82, the median of 44, and the modus of 45.
From the results of the pretest of the experimental class, the scores earned included the highest scoreof 55, the lowest score of 26, the average score of 47.10 with a standard deviation of 5.63, the median of 48 and the modus of 48.
After the implementation of learning activities and the administration ofthe Student Worksheet and tests, the evaluation was performed to determine the students' learning outcomes in the form of post-test. The posttest results can be seen in Table 2 below.
From Table 2, the results of the posttests showed that the control class obtained the highest score of 78, the lowest score of 53, the average score (mean) of 66.8 with a standard deviation of 2.11, the median of 86, and the modus of 86.
Whereas the posttest results of the experimental class showed that they obtained the highest score of 87, the lowest score of 77, the average score (mean) of 85.5 with a standard deviation of 6.15, the median of 67, and the modus of 62.
The improvement of the students' learning outcomes in the control class can be seen from the N-gain average score of 0.44 (included in the medium category); whereas the one of the experimental class was 0.73 (included in the high category). Table 3 below reveals the results of N-gain scores.
Table 3 reveals that there are 10.34% or 3 students included in the low category, 13.79% or 4 students included in the medium category, and 75.86% or 22 students in the high category. This shows the significant increase in the students' learning results after having been given the task analysis.
The data analysis concerning the students' learning outcomes by using the t-test is presented in Table 4.
Table 4 shows that the obtained results of the analysis was the Sig. (2-tailed) of 0.019 <0.05. On the basis for a decision in an independent sample t-test, it can be concluded that H0 was rejected and H1 was accepted. It means that there is influence of the students' task interpretation on the students' learning outcomes.
The task analysis is believed to lead the student to understand and resolve the tasks. From time to time and through studies at schools, the researchers describe how the students developedtheir knowledge of the academic context on which they base their approach to the academic work.As a part the students' built student knowledge, the students develop metacognitive knowledge (i. e. the knowledge of knowledge), that influence their approach to academic tasks.
At the beginning of the definition of metacognition, Flavel (1987) defined the three types of metacognitive knowledge, the person variable, task, and strategy, which affects the students' approach to academic work. The person variable reflects the students' knowledge about themselves as learners and others, and about learning the strategies in general. The strategy variable reflectsthe students' knowledge about how, when, and where the specific learning strategies should be used. The task variable reflects the "students' understanding about relationships between characteristics and associated processing task demands" (Butler, 1998, p. 280). Flavel found that person, strategy, and task variables interact to shape how students are involved in the assigned tasks. The students build metacognitive knowledge all the time, from their continuous experience with academic work (Paris, Byrnes, & Paris, 2001). They juxtapose the metacognitive knowledge when performing the self-regulating in the context of any particular task (Zimmerman &Schunk, 2001).
In order to succeed in learning, the learners must know more than just the purposes of tasks. They also need to understand how the academic tasks are accomplished.
The students' task interpretation of the students lead their planning, (e. g. purpose for which they created), the strategy they choose and how they are applied, and the criteria for the assessment of their performance during the monitoring and self-evaluation. Thus, if the interpretation of the assignment is missing or incorrect, the learning will fail. A student can work diligently and hard, but their efforts would not be productive to focus on the learning objectives intended. Thus, the interpretation of a successful assignment is the basis for a focused engagement in the tasks and they will finally achieve the successful learning at schools. Therefore, to be successful, the students must adopt an approach to academic work which is usually included their attention to the task interpretation.
Based on the previous data analysis, some conclusions can be drawn as follows: 1) The mean N-Gain of the control class was .44 (medium category), and the mean of the experimental class was .73 (high category); 2) The result of t-test showed that with a significance level of .05, the obtained value was .019, which means that there is a difference between the learning outcomes of the experimental and the control groups. It therefore can be concluded that the students' task interpretation affects their learning results.
The suggestions that can be raised include the need to apply the task interpretation in giving each task to the students. The task Interpretation helps the students understand the task, plan to complete the task, and ultimately help them achieve the best academic achievements.
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PepsiCo working to meet sustainability goals
Frank Esposito
Senior Staff Reporter
Plastics News Staff
PepsiCo's premium water brand Lifewtr will be packaged in 100 percent recycled PET in the U.S.
Food and beverage giant PepsiCo Inc. is moving toward its goal of having all of its plastics packaging recyclable, compostable or biodegradable by 2025.
"We envision a world where plastics never become waste," Rob Cotton, food packaging R&D director, said during the recent 2020 Global Plastics Summit.
PepsiCo also wants to increase its use of recycled content in plastics packaging by 25 percent. Cotton described the firm's approach as "reduce, recycle and reinvent."
PepsiCo is designing 100 percent recyclable packaging and is investing in recycling infrastructure and consumer education. The firm also is working with renewable bioplastics.
Another PepsiCo development is a third-generation compostable bag that uses polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) bioplastic. Cotton said the firm is using PHA because it will biodegrade in more environments than polylactic acid (PLA), another bioplastic.
"We want to design packaging to fit into recycling infrastructure," he added. "Right now, there's very little flexible packaging recycling going on in the world.
"The public wants us to face the problem and not make it someone else's problem," he said.
Other plastics-related PepsiCo actions announced late last year include:
• PepsiCo's premium water brand Lifewtr will be packaged in 100 percent recycled PET in the U.S.
• In select locations across Latin America and Asia, brands like Pepsi and 7UP will be offered to consumers in refillable plastic and glass bottles.
• In Western Europe, Tropicana juices have been relaunched using 50 percent recycled PET bottles.
PepsiCo posted sales of more than $67 billion in 2019. Its global food and beverage portfolio includes Frito-Lay, Gatorade, Pepsi-Cola, Quaker and Tropicana. PepsiCo's product mix includes 23 brands that generate more than $1 billion each in estimated annual retail sales.
Plastics M&A market cools; higher interest rates blamed
Materials deals take slower pace in second half of 2022
EPS maker NexKemia boosts access to recycled PS with acquisition
China-owned parent company of GD Medical Inc. is buying Trademark Plastics for $42M


The door for the Eastern Conference playoff spots has already been closed and we now know the eight teams that will be squaring it out in the postseason games for a chance to play in Eastern Conference Championship game. Fortunately or unfortunately, only the top two seeds (No. 1 Cleveland and No. 2 Toronto) and the final two seeds (No. 7 Indiana and No. 8 Detroit) have been locked up, meaning we will have to wait until the end of Wednesday's regular-season finale matchups to know how the No. 3 to No. 8 seeds will figure out. One of these crucial Wednesday NBA betting games with mega playoff implications will be the clash between the Boston Celtics and Miami Heat, currently placed third and fifth, respectively, in the conference standings. The Heat have an opportunity to stay put at No. 3 or drop as low as No. 5 in the East while the Celtics can climb as high as No. 4 or drop to No. 6, depending on the outcomes of Wednesday's games. For the Heat, there is even more at stake for them in the NBA online betting lines, as they could clinch the Southeast divisional title with a win over Boston (plus a loss for Atlanta in its Wednesday road season-finale at Washington). Essentially, that's the reason the Celtics @ Heat matchup is circled as arguably the most important game in the Eastern Conference this Wednesday. A quick guide on how to watch and bet on this game is briefly detailed for you below.
Having won four of their last five overall games, including Tuesday's 99-93 road win over Detroit, the Heat will come into this game fancying their chances of recording another road victory, one that would give them an outright fifth Southeast title in the last six year. Key to a victory will be Miami's defense that has held four of its last five opponents to 99-or-fewer points (the exception being the 112-109 road loss at Orlando). This means that Hassan Whiteside and Goran Dragic—minus the tooth he lost yesterday against the Pistons—will need to be in their best element, with Dwayne Wade and Co. also doing their thing in the offense.
With back-to-back losses against Atlanta (on the road) and Charlotte (at home) in their last two games, the Celtics have quickly moved from a potential No. 3 seed to a middle-table team in the East. And with just one game to go, the Celtics cannot afford any more losses, especially if they are to clinch homecourt advantage for the first round of the playoffs. The good news for Coach Brad Stevens'squad is that Boston has been superb at home recently. Put into perspective, Monday's loss to Charlotte was just Boston's third defeat in the team's last 21 contests at the TD Garden. Against a Miami team whose road win over Detroit was just the Heat's second win in six road contests, Isaiah Thomas (Boston's leading scorer and assister) and his Green and White Army are guaranteed to be a tough test. A strong Boston performance should especially be encouraged by the fact that the Celtics have won their two meetings against Miami this season, emerging victorious in both games by double-digits (101-89, 105-95).
Although the Celtics haven't swept a regular-season series from the Heat since winning three games in the 2009-10 season; things look gloomy for Miami in this game, owing to their concerning road record in recent games and the way Boston has dominated them so far this season. But then again, Miami is hell-bent on wanting to win the Southeast divisional title and if it can give another solid performance like the one we saw yesterday at Detroit, then maybe the Celtics could be found wanting, as was exhibited in Boston's home game against Charlotte on Monday. All in all, I am leaning on Boston to close the season in style with a home win, though Miami will most-likely keep this game close using its improved offense that has been hitting the 100-point scoring mark quite frequently since the start of March 2016.


Campus librarians have been meeting with the UC to negotiate salaries, housing benefits, academic freedom and professional development funding, among other articles within their contracts. Currently, campus librarians are working out of contract.
Librarians are currently asking the UC for a $3,500 salary increase across the board, with a 5 percent increase the second year, then a 5 percent increase in the third and a 6 percent increase in the fourth year in a four-year contract.
Currently, academic freedom is also not outlined in contracts for UC librarians. According to Kendra K. Levine, a campus librarian at the campus Institute of Transportation Studies, academic freedom is the ability of academics to research and collect texts that may be controversial without repercussions from their employers.
Along with salary increases, librarians want the UC to increase professional development funding in order to enable librarians to attend conferences and develop research and presentation skills, according to David Eifler, a campus environmental design librarian. He added that librarians want the housing benefits that faculty receive.
According to Levine, despite having multiple degrees, librarians have given testimonials during negotiations with the UC about living in studio apartments, living with roommates, liquidating their savings and selling their homes just to continue to work in the campus libraries.
According to UC spokesperson Danielle Smith, the UC is offering "proposals that are very favorable to UC librarians" and wants to reach an agreement as soon as possible.


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Zu93, "Mirror Emperor"
Sunday, 29 July 2018 00:00	Anthony D'Amico	Reviews	- Albums and Singles
The inimitable David Tibet returns to House of Mythology for a second inspired collaboration, this time teaming up with shape-shifting Italian ensemble Zu. Unlike his more spacey and indulgent union with Youth, however, Mirror Emperor feels very much like a Current 93 album. That similarity is not due to any lack of vision on Zu's part though, as this album is very much driven by a David Tibet in peak wild-eyed, apocalyptic prophet form: Mirror Emperor is essentially a fiery, hallucinatory, and poetic tour de force that drags Zu down a deep rabbit hole in the UnWorld on the other side of the mirror. As such, Mirror Emperor is a dazzling and compelling album primarily because Tibet had a vivid vision that he breathlessly shares with an incandescent passion. The music is often quite good as well, of course, but Mirror Emperor is more of a lysergic epic poem than a collection of discrete songs. That is just fine by me, as few things are more captivating than pure, undiluted Tibet with a microphone and some strong feelings to share.
House of Mythology
David Tibet and Zu first met in Rome about seven years ago, but Massimo Pupillo has been a lifelong Current 93 fan, which seems to have made him an especially sensitive and thoughtful collaborator. I suppose it could be said that Mirror Emperor falls roughly in the same aesthetic territory as Myrninerest or classic Cashmore-era Current 93, as Zu largely devote themselves to ringing arpeggios, strummed acoustic guitars, and moaning cellos. Mirror Emperor sounds like something other than folk though, more closely resembling some kind of timeless and dreamlike chamber music. More importantly, Zu tend to wisely cede the foreground to Tibet, as he is a force of nature here and they mostly just needed to avoid stepping on his toes or breaking that otherworldly spell in order to create a great album (simply give Tibet a pen, step aside, and watch the fireworks). That said, Zu were not at all timid or one-dimensional–they were just very tactful about picking their shots and choosing when to allow their hallucinatory reverie to erupt into something more forceful. The most prominent Zu eruption comes quite early with "Confirm The Mirror Emperor," which resembles a sludgy and Sabbath-inspired metal groove that has been sucked dry by a vampire, leaving only a thick and sinuous bass line. That absence of distorted guitars leaves plenty of space for interesting activity in the periphery though and Zu made the most of it, embellishing the piece with woozily swooning slide guitar, shuddering cellos, and something resembling erratic, cascading autoharp ripples. Zu also take center stage in more subtle fashion on "The Heart of The Mirror Emperor," weaving a simmering and throbbing soundscape of electronics and tape loops. Eventually, the piece boils into a crescendo of quavering washes of distorted chords, yet it is otherwise one of the most tender and quietly beautiful pieces on the entire album. Notably, there is also a brief, brooding interlude of murky ambiance sans Tibet near the end of the album, but Zu are largely absent as well, as the piece is essentially just a brief glimpse into the howling void.
Most of the strongest pieces unexpectedly come near the end of the album. The first is the languorously lovely "(The Absence of the Mirror Emperor)," which wonderfully recaptures the magic of All The Pretty Horses-era Current 93. A lot of that success is probably because it is one of the few pieces on the album that feels like an actual song, as Tibet's near-spoken-word delivery crosses the line into fleeting and beautiful snatches of melody. Zu's accompaniment is especially inspired as well, as the strummed acoustic guitars are gorgeously embellished with a delicately ringing harmonic motif and quivering, hauntingly lovely snatches of cello. It also features the best closing line since Tibet dropped a "Sincerely, L. Cohen" on the Myrninerest album (this time, it is a snarled "Hey, was that the apocalypse?"). The following "Before the Mirror Emperor" is another highlight, as Tibet sings a tender and lilting melody over a sublimely beautiful backdrop of chiming arpeggios, groaning strings, spectral drones, and buried field recordings. Elsewhere, the brief and hopeful "The Imp Trip of the Mirror Emperor" is similarly lovely, as Tibet sings a languorous melody over a dreamy web of rippling and quivering arpeggios. It is noteworthy that most of the best songs seem to have a hopefulness and innocence to them, as Mirror Emperor's premise seems to be a fundamental dark one. The album is considerably more complex and deliciously ambiguous than the broad outlines of its dark fable suggest, however, as the arc flows seamlessly and assuredly through passages of light, shadow, density, and delicacy. It never gets dark enough to be truly harrowing, yet it does achieve a sublime transcendence at points. No darkness is ever complete enough to fully smother beauty and wonder, even though it sometimes feels otherwise.
It is redundant at this point to observe that David Tibet is a iconic and oracular artist, though it is sometimes easy to take him for granted, as he has been releasing brilliant albums for decades. However, a bold vision and near-Biblical intensity alone do not always translate into immortal work, as the metaphorical stars still need to be perfectly aligned for a fresh masterpiece to be birthed. Happily, those maddeningly unpredictable and obstinate stars were quite close to their marks when Tibet and Zu came together, as this album is one of the most focused, consistent, and vividly evocative releases from Tibet in years. In fact, I suspect I will be finding hidden depths and meanings in it for months to come (especially once I splurge on the vinyl to get my hands on a lyric sheet). To borrow Tibet's own parlance, I am ecstatically OverMoon to announce that Mirror Emperor is an especially powerful Channeling. This is truly something deeper and more profound than a mere album–this is a vividly constructed world and mythology that mirrors our own, but shimmers with ageless dark magic and layers of sublime mystery. Years from now (if people still read), I truly believe David Tibet will be justifiably regarded as the reawakening of the lost visionary poet tradition. If he is not the modern day heir to Blake and his progeny, there simply isn't one.
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Q: Возможно ли загрузить файл на localhost в FastAPI? В документации FastAPI есть пример:
from fastapi import FastAPI, File, UploadFile

app = FastAPI()

@app.post("/files/")
async def create_file(file: bytes = File(...)):
    return {"file_size": len(file)}

@app.post("/uploadfile/")
async def create_upload_file(file: UploadFile):
    return {"filename": file.filename}

Хотелось бы загруженный файл сохранить на localhost и иметь к нему доступ по url. Возможно ли это и как это сделать? В сети есть примеры различных манипуляций с файлом через shutil, но этот модуль, как я понимаю, предназначен только для работы с локальными файлами.

A: FastAPI сохраняет файл на диск во временный каталог. После его нужно переместить в папку со статикой.
Через copyfileobj более универсально, но тут файл будет записан на диск 2 раза
# file: UploadFile
with open('путь/к/статике/' + filename, "wb") as wf:
     shutil.copyfileobj(file.file, wf)
     file.file.close() # удалаяет временный

Если временный каталог на том же диске что и хранилище файлов, то можно быстро продублировать через os.link
Для того чтоб файлы стали доступны для скачивания нужно добавить ссылку
app.mount('/uploads', StaticFiles(directory="путь/к/статике/"), name="uploads")

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Abraham Baldwin   a Georgiai Egyetem alapítója, az amerikai alkotmány egyik aláírója, Georgia kongresszusi képviselője, az USA szenátora Georgia állam képviseletében 1799 és 1807 között.

Élete
Baldwin a connecticuti Guilfordban született. Tizenöt éves korában a család New Havenbe költözött. Itt járt egyetemre is, a Yale College-ba (mai nevén Yale University). Az egyetem elvégzése után teológiát tanult, és 1775-ben lelkésszé avatták. 1777-től 1783-ig tábori lelkészként szolgált az amerikai függetlenségi háborúban (a felkelők oldalán). A háború alatt jogot tanult, és 1783-ban ügyvédi vizsgát tett és jogi pályára lépett.

1784-ben Georgiába költözött, ahol a következő évben az állami törvényhozás tagja lett. Az ő tervei alapján létesült a Georgiai Egyetem, amelynek  1786-tól 1801-ig elnöke (rektora) volt.

1785-ben a Kontinentális Kongresszus tagja lett, és részt vett a philadelphiai alkotmányozó nemzetgyűlésen is. Egyike az Alkotmány eredeti aláíróinak.

Amikor az alkotmányt ratifikálták és megalakult az Amerikai Egyesült Államok Kongresszusa, Baldwin 1789-től 1799-ig a képviselőházban, 1799-től 1807-ben bekövetkezett haláláig pedig a szenátusban szolgált.

Halála és emlékezete
Baldwin 1807. március 4-én, 52 éves korában hunyt el. Még abban a hónapban a Savannah Republican és a Savannah Evening Ledger újranyomtatott egy gyászjelentést, amelyet először egy washingtoni újságban tettek közzé: "Az ő ötlete volt a Georgiai Egyetem, ő készítette el az alapító okiratot, és végtelen munkával és türelemmel, mindenféle előítéletet legyőzve és minden akadályt elhárítva, ő győzte meg a közgyűlést, hogy fogadja azt el." Földi maradványait a washingtoni Rock Creek temetőben temették el.

Az Egyesült Államok postaszolgálata 7 centes "Nagy Amerikaiak" sorozatú bélyeget készített a tiszteletére;.

Baldwinról helyeket és intézményeket neveztek el, többek között:
 Baldwin megye Alabamában és Georgiában;.
 Abraham Baldwin Mezőgazdasági Főiskola a georgiai Tiftonban;
 Abraham Baldwin Middle School a Connecticut állambeli Guilfordban;
 Baldwin utcák a wisconsini Madisonban és a georgiai Athensben;
 A University of Georgia az alapító atya tiszteletére Baldwin-szobrot állított a történelmi North Campus quadon.

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Halála és emlékezete:

Források

További információk

Kapcsolódó szócikkek
 Az Amerikai Egyesült Államok korábbi szenátorainak listája

Georgia állam szenátorai
1754-ben született személyek
1807-ben elhunyt személyek
Bottal létrehozott amerikai szenátor cikkek
Az amerikai Demokrata-Republikánus Párt szenátorai
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The Congress-led UPA government in February 2010 signed a contract with helicopter maker AgustaWestland, a UK-based company.
The deal was to buy 12 AW101 helicopters for the Indian Air Force for Rs 3,600 crore.
In 2014, the UPA government cancelled the deal with the company on grounds that the integrity of the pact was violated.
British national Christian Michel James, one of the three middlemen wanted in the Rs 3,600 crore AgustaWestland VVIP chopper deal case, was brought to India on Tuesday, making it the country's first successful extradition case.
Michel, 54, was on Wednesday remanded to five days CBI custody by a Delhi court. Also, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) is all set to grill Michel over the purported creation of "shell firms" in India and abroad by him and others to launder bribe money.
What is the VVIP chopper deal case?
The Congress-led UPA government in February 2010 signed a contract with helicopter maker AgustaWestland, a UK-based company. The deal was to buy 12 AW101 helicopters for the Indian Air Force (IAF) for Rs 3,600 crore.
The choppers were specifically for flying the President of India, the Prime Minister and top bureaucrats those who require tight security, among other VVIPs.
Italy-based Finmeccanica is the holding company of AgustaWestland. In February 2013, the Italian police arrested Agusta Westland CEO Bruno Spagnolini and Guiseppe Orsi, chairman of Finmeccanica, on charges of paying bribes to win the VVIP chopper deal with the Indian Air Force.
Prosecutors accused chief executive and chairman Giuseppe Orsi in the arrest warrant of paying bribes to intermediaries, Indian officials, to secure the sale of 12 helicopters in a 560 million euro ($749 million) deal when he was head of the group's AgustaWestland unit.
On January 1, 2014, India scrapped the contract with AgustaWestland for supplying 12 AW-101 VVIP choppers to the IAF over an alleged breach of contractual obligations and charges of paying kickbacks to the tune of Rs 423 crore by it for securing the deal.
However, the role of the then prime minister Manmohan Singh, former defence minister AK Antony and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi was put to question.
According to Indian investigative agencies, Michel had received at least Rs 235 crore for ensuring that the chopper contract went to AgustaWestland. He was a frequent visitor to India, having undertaken 300 trips to the country between 1997 and 2013.
The ED investigation found that remittances made by Michel through his Dubai-based firm Global Services to a media firm he floated in Delhi, along with two Indians, were made from the funds which he got from AgustaWestland through "criminal activity" and corruption being done in the chopper deal that led to the subsequent generation of proceeds of crime.
In its chargesheet, the CBI had named former Indian Air Force chief SP Tyagi, his cousin Sanjeev Tyagi alias Julie, the then IAF Vice Chief JS Gujral and advocate Gautam Khaitan as the four Indians involved in the scam.
The chargesheet mentioned Khaitan as the "brain" behind the deal.


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Q: Prevent Simultaneous click on same button in multiuser environment I have a button. And people can access that button from their system. What I want is: suppose 2 people click on same button at the same time only 1 should be able to access the content which is loaded after button is clicked.
But now what happens is if 2 users click the same button at the same time, both have the access to the page which is loaded after button click.
I want only one person to have access to that button even if 2 are clicking it simultaneously.

A: Despite all the negative comments, there is a very valid reason and answer to this question; however, it will typically involve adding a server side script and database such as PHP/mySQL or ASP.NET/SQL to handle this behavior.
Your button will need to post to your server side script which will flip a variable in your database to say that the page is in use.  Then when the next request is received, the script will read that variable and perform the exception which is to not deliver the content.  Because of the way data threading works, the server will always pick one to run first, then the other, even if both requests are received on the same clock cycle; so, you will never have them both open the page.


After the district court conducted a claim construction hearing (but before it issued an order), the district court stayed the litigation between Finjan and Symantec pending a decision by the PTAB regarding whether to institute an inter partes review ("IPR") over the asserted patents. When the district court lifted the stay and issued a new scheduling order, Symantec filed a motion seeking additional claim construction briefing another hearing.
Second, since the Markman hearing in this case, Plaintiff appears to have represented in other litigation regarding this patent that the claim limitation "before a web server makes the Downloadable available to web clients" can be met even where the claim inspector links the Downloadable after web clients are able to access the Downloadable. See Straka Decl., Ex. 4 at 10 (Plaintiff's brief filed on March 31, 2016 in Finjan v. Proofpoint) (stating that the accused product "receives web content . . . from a web server, inspects the content, [and] generates a security profile," which is only then "linked to the analyzed content"). In contrast, Defendant argues that the plain language of the claim, the specification, and the prosecution history demonstrate that linking must occur before web clients can access the Downloadable. See Dkt. No. 135 at 5-9.


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Home > CULTURE > OTAKU > Buying Cool Japanese Video Games Just Became Easier!
Buying Cool Japanese Video Games Just Became Easier!
Do you love shopping online at Amazon Japan? There is a big chance that your answer is 'yes', as it offers vast selections of items that attract many Japan enthusiasts. Many gamers, however, found that Amazon Japan does not really cater to their needs because of its shipping policy, which restricts video games from being shipped to other countries. But there is good news for them: Amazon Japan recently changed its policy, and now allows shipping of video games to other countries!
The successful branding of Amazon has made it one of the top choices for consumers around the world to shop online. Amazon is so successful that it has actually become the biggest online retailer in the United Sates. Especially for English-speaking customers, other e-shops may seem unfamiliar and hard to use because of language barriers. Thus, people from other countries have been using Amazon Japan for various purposes such as buying comics, food, J-pop CDs, and whatnot, that are delivered to their doorstep straight from Japan.
However, due to unknown reasons, Amazon used to not allow shipping of video games to addresses outside Japan. This used to be a huge letdown for many video game lovers, as many Japanese video game titles are amongst the most creative and iconic available in the world!
Only From Amazon Japan
All that is about to change, as Amazon Japan suddenly changed its stance, and will allow shipping of video games to other countries! However, one thing needs to be kept in mind: this change only applies to video games which are sold by Amazon Japan itself, so it does not apply to other sellers using Amazon for their activities as they are a separate entity from Amazon Japan.
Despite this, fans are happy that they can finally buy some video games from Amazon Japan at last! Moreover, the change may encourage sellers to extend their delivery service for customers outside Japan in the future. To purchase from Amazon Japan, buyers would need to have an Amazon Japan account, which is separate from the accounts of Amazon sites of other countries.
Now customers can shop online for video games from Japan at their own convenience! The familiar structure of Amazon makes it easy to navigate Amazon Japan, even if one does not understand much Japanese. In recent years, the Japanese video games industry has been criticized for being insular (kept within Japan). This move by Amazon can hopefully change that and encourage more video game fans overseas to join in on the fun that is the world of Japanese games!
You can click here for a more detailed explanation on how to buy Japanese games from Amazon Japan.
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Aljona Apina (; eigentlich ; geboren 23. August 1964 in Saratow, Sowjetunion) ist eine russische Sängerin, Komponistin und Schauspielerin. Sie wurde bekannt als Sängerin der Gruppe Kombinazija, welche sie 1991 verließ um eine erfolgreiche Solokarriere zu starten. Sie besitzt den Titel verdienter Künstler der Russischen Föderation.

Bekannte Stücke ihrer Solokarriere sind zum Beispiel Lokha (), Elektrichka () und Semechek stakan ().

Diskographie

Kombinazija

Solo

Alben
 1992 – «Улица любви»
 1993 – «Танцевать до утра»
 1994 – «Пляжный сезон»
 1995 – «Лимита»
 1995 – «Пропащая душа»
 1996 – «Соперница»
 1997 – «Объяснение в любви»
 1998 – «Люби как я»
 1999 – «Тополя»
 2001 – «О судьбе и о себе»
 2003 – «Пойдём со мной»
 2007 – «Самолёт на Москву»
 2010 – «Ещё раз про любовь»
 2014 – «Мелодия»
 2018 – «Давай так»

Einzelnachweise

Musiker (Russland)
Verdienter Künstler der Russischen Föderation
Russe
Sowjetbürger
Geboren 1964
Frau


On December 12, 2006, the Kentucky Department of Revenue ("Revenue") filed with the Franklin Circuit Court ("Court") a report concerning the status of refund claims and protests of assessments resulting from the Court's holding in Illinois Tool Works v. Revenue Cabinet, 00-CI-00623 (Ky. Cir. Ct., Dec. 5, 2002). Illinois Tool Works held that Kentucky's corporate license scheme was unconstitutional on Commerce Clause grounds, because it granted a tax benefit to corporations domiciled in Kentucky, but denied the benefit to corporations domiciled in other states. In the Illinois Tool Worksdecision, the Court directed Revenue to file quarterly status reports concerning refunds and assessments related to the Illinois Tool Works case.
Revenue's quarterly status report indicated that as of December 12, 2006 it had received a total of 377 corporation license tax refund claims totaling $23,524,436. Of that amount, Revenue had approved $11,556,342 in refunds. Revenue indicated in its report that it is currently reviewing refund claims in the amount of $1,463,385, and that it had denied all other pending refund claims because the claims.
Further, Revenue's report indicated that taxpayers have protested 84 corporation license tax assessments based on the unconstitutionality of KRS 136.071. Of those assessments, Revenue indicated that it has abated 71 assessments totaling $4,472,898 because the taxpayers qualified for the corporation license tax benefit set forth in KRS 136.071, although they were not domiciled in Kentucky, but were domiciled in other states. Revenue further indicated that it is currently reviewing the remainder of the pending assessments in order to determine whether those assessments should be abated because they satisfy the requirements of KRS 136.071 (other than being domiciled outside Kentucky).


My spin numbers with a 65 gram evenflow x stiff shaft with the new ts3 at dicks sporting goods had my spin numbers nothing less than 5500rpm and as high as 8750rpm. Maybe my swing is too steep? Maybe dicks launch monitor is trash?
How can I reduce my spin numbers without adjusting the club? Launch angle at about 10-14 degrees with a 8.5 degree head. Clubhead speed at 115 average and smash factor consistent at 1.37-1.48.
I would first look at strike, low in the face could be jumping the spin rate up. Then I would suggest learning about Spin loft and how to control dynamic loft.
There are some great golf vloggers that talk about dynamic loft and how to control it.
I would suggest finding another place other than Dicks Sporting Goods if you want to see your launch monitor numbers. I am not sure you would be hitting it that far with that much spin. Something is not right there.
I have a club head speed of 95, launch of 11.5 and 2400 spin with 240 carry and 261 total. This was at a shop that uses Trackman. With a miss hit I get up to 3000+spin and I drop down to a 220yd carry or less. 4000+ spin would definitely be less than 200yd carry for me. Spin really kills the ball. Those spin numbers are closer to 5 Iron for 5500spin and an 8 or 9 iron for 8750 spin.


The film is about little children who stumble upon deadly terrorists while they are playing. Jay a teenage music lover who is their acquaintance is the only person they trust. So with his help and with their shear strength, passion and courage they are able to get the criminals arrested along with ammunition, bombs etc. In doing so, They rise much above their level in saving their town as well as thousands of people from a deadly disaster.


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Il Kumlbúa þáttr (italiano: Racconto dell'abitante del cairn) è un þáttr, cioè un racconto islandese medievale, ambientato alla fine del XII secolo o all'inizio del XIII. Fu scritto tra il 1390 e il 1425. Ricopiato dal manoscritto originale Vatnshyrna da Árni Magnússon prima dell'incendio di Copenaghen del 1728, il testo è conservato in forma frammentaria nel manoscritto AM 564a 4to. È uno dei pochi þættir che non sono compresi nelle raccolte Flateyjarbók e Morkinskinna e per l'argomento del sogno è simile al Bergbúa þáttr e al Draumr Þórsteins Síðuhallssonar.

Opera
Gli eventi sono ambientati a Hamarland, nel Breiðafjörður, tra le odierne Reykhólar e Staður. Si racconta la storia di Þorsteinn Þorvarðsson, cognato dell'abate Þorfinn di Bakk, che di ritorno da una messa cammina su un tumulo e trova una spada. Dopo essere tornato a casa, Þorsteinn va a letto e in sogno gli appare l'abitante del tumulo (kumlbúi). Questi, brandendo un'ascia, chiede a Þorsteinn di restituirgli la spada. La moglie di Þorsteinn, Helga, lo risveglia e gli chiede preoccupata come mai stia dormendo così male. Lui però non risponde e torna a dormire, e il fantasma torna a parlargli, declamando dei versi poetici di minaccia. Tuttavia Þorsteinn gli risponde con versi più efficaci costringendo il fantasma a lasciarlo in pace. Il giorno dopo Þorsteinn ritorna al tumulo ma non lo trova. Tornato a casa, racconta alla moglie e ad altre persone la sua storia.

Note

Bibliografia
 Marvin Taylor, The tale of the cairn-dweller, in Viðar Hreinsson, Complete sagas of Icelanders, including 49 tales, Volume 2, 1997
 Guðni Jónsson, Kumlbúa þáttr, in Islendinga sögur, IV, Breiðfirðinga sögur.

Collegamenti esterni

Brevi storie degli Islandesi
Opere letterarie in norreno
Letteratura medievale
Letteratura islandese


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Veterans Day ceremonies: Tulipani will speak on Sunday
Nov. 9, 2018 Updated: June 18, 2019 8:43 a.m.
Julius Robert (Bob) Tulipani will speak at Veterans Day ceremonies Sunday at 11 a.m. by Lounsbury House.
Bob Tulipani, a U.S. Army veteran and retired teacher who led Ridgefield's American Legion Post 78 for 18 years, will be the featured speaker at Ridgefield's Veterans Day ceremonies Sunday, Nov. 11, at 11 a.m. at the Lounsbury House on Main Street.
"The American Legion along with the Veterans of Foreign Wars and the Marine Corps League Detachment will hold a ceremony to honor not only Ridgefield's veterans, but all of America's 21,800,000 veterans," said American Legion Commander George Besse.
The ceremony, which will mark the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I, will include patriotic songs sung by Evelyn Carr, with short readings by veterans and local officials. Cub Scout Pack 74 will assist in the ceremony by laying a wreath on the memorial monument, followed by Military Honors with the playing of Taps.
Afterwards, refreshments will be provided by the friends of the American Legion.
"All are invited to attend this ceremony as a tribute to our veterans for their service," Besse said.
Tulipani, the keynote speaker, is a Korean War era Army veteran and a lifelong Ridgefielder.
"Bob served as Commander of the American Legion Post 78, an organization of Veterans still serving America, a position he held for 18 years," Besse wrote of his predecessor.
Tulipani taught at Veterans Park Elementary School, just behind Lounsbury House, for 25 years, retiring in 1988. He taught mostly fourth grade, but he also taught a few years of sixth grade.
"I'm going to talk about how the American Legion got started," Tulipani said of the Veterans Day address he's working on. "I'm talking about how it got started back in 1919."
The national veterans organization was founded the year after the First World War ended, and the following year Ridgefield's American Legion Post 78 was formed, bearing the name of Everett Ray Seymour, the first Ridgefielder killed in World War I's combat.
"The Ridgefield American Legion started in 1920," Tulipani said. "There were about 21 men."
A Korean War veteran, Tulipani served in the Army's armored division as a section chief directing the crew of an 8-inch Howitzer in Germany where Americans faced Eastern Bloc forces led by the Soviet Union in a Cold War standoff.
Teaching, service
After his service, Tulipani attended Western Connecticut State College. He graduated with bachelor and master degrees in education.
"Not only has he served his country but his community as well," Besse said. "As a consummate volunteer, Bob has served Ridgefield in a myriad of roles."
Tulipani served on the board of directors of the Ridgefield Boys and Girls Club, was commissioner of Ridgefield Townies Basketball, coached St. Mary's softball and basketball teams. A charter member of the Ridgefield Old Timers Association, he received its Civic Award.
He served on the Parks and Recreation Commission, the Kiwanis Club board, chaired the Graveyard Committee and Ridgefield's 300th anniversary parade in 2008.
An Italian American Mutual Aid Society members for 71 years, Tulipani earned a place in the Red Cross's 27 gallon blood donors club. He's received many awards for volunteer service: Rotary Club Citizen of the Year, the Secretary of the State's Public Service award, Boys Club Dedication Award, Kiwanis Community Service Award, grand marshal of the Memorial Day Parade.
Tulipani gives credit for the American Legion's revival years back to another longtime Ridgefielder.
"Frank Lancaster got us together — they were having five or six guys going to meetings," he said.
After nearly two decades as Legion commander, Tulipani praises George Besse's leadership since he's stepped down.
"He's done a great job," Tulipani said.
The organization's activities range from supporting two American Legion baseball teams and a Cub Scout pack, to annually sending RHS juniors to Boys State and Girls State.
The Legion helps put holiday decorations on village lampposts, and for Memorial Day puts American flags along Main Street on veterans graves.
"Because of people supporting us, buying poppies from us, we're able to help some women vets over in the Bridgeport area," he added.
Tulipani admits to some disappointment in the level of public patriotism displayed these days.
"You should salute when the American flag passes by, or when they play the National Anthem, you should be standing at attention — and now you see very few people do it."
Nearly two decades ago, the Board of Education scheduled school on Veterans Day. Tulipani organized veterans' protests — the policy was changed.
That controversy prompted East Ridge Middle School teacher Mike Settani to invite veterans to a school assembly where students honored them.
"They gave speeches, sang songs. They gave them a medal. They called us heroes — a couple of guys were crying," Tulipani said. "After that, they gave us breakfast."
A similar program was started at Scotts Ridge Middle School.
"Now all the schools have a Veterans Day program, either the day before or the day after," Tulipani said.
And townspeople turn out for the Veterans Day ceremony at Lounsbury House — Sunday at 11 this year.
"I think we had a couple of hundred last year," Tulipani said. "But, for a town of 25,000…"


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Chamber award to honor memory of beloved teacher
By Lisa Tetrault-Zhenewsletter@seacoastonline.com
Mar 26, 2015 at 2:38 PM Mar 26, 2015 at 2:38 PM
EXETER – Ed Pease, a popular school teacher whose passing last year affected several communities, was known to many as a generous man. For that reason, the Exeter Area Chamber of Commerce set up an award in his honor, the Edward Pease Excellence in Education Award.
"We'd received an application for Ed for Citizen of the Year," said Lynn Dow, events marketing director for Exeter Area Chamber of Commerce. "He passed away suddenly, before the award was given out. We really felt he deserved to be honored for the awesome things he did for both (Stratham Cooperative Middle School) and for the community."
Dow pointed out that it is not certain that Pease would have won Citizen of the Year, only that he was a strong candidate. Prior to his sudden passing in 2014, he'd worked as a special education teacher for 17 years at SCMS. Prior to that, he worked for five years at Newmarket Junior/Senior High School.
Pease was nominated for the award by Dean Merrill, whose wife worked with him at SCMS for 15 years.
"Ed always had a smile on the face and could light up a room, meeting or event," said Merrill, president of Tobey & Merrill Insurance and a member of the Exeter chamber. "He was involved with helping students with school, outside activities, coaching, Festival of Trees at Christmas time, Kiwanis Builders Club and the American Legion in Newmarket.
"I knew that he did many things but I did not know how much he did to help people in the community. I found out more about the man when I received many letters of recommendation (for his award). I felt he was a great candidate and deserving of the award."
Another close friend and colleague said nobody is more deserving of this award.
"Ed was just the salt of the earth," said SCMS assistant principal Bill Perkins, who befriended Pease when they worked together in Newmarket. "He would do anything for anyone. I was pleased when the chamber people decided this was just too big for Citizen of the Year. They decided this needs to a perpetual award in his honor for his dedication."
Just over a year later and his loss is still felt by the community, according to Perkins.
"He was a very giving man," he said. "His passing has created a big void in a lot of people's lives. There are a lot of students who miss him every day."
Dow and the chamber staff reached out to superintendents and school principals in the 10 towns served by the chamber – Exeter, Brentwood, East Kingston, Epping, Kensington, Kingston, Newfields, Newmarket, Raymond and Stratham.
"We want them to submit teachers who they feel are deserving of this award," Dow said. "We are hoping to award it to someone who exemplifies Ed's skills and leadership within the community."
According to Dow, the chamber staff borrowed some criteria from the New Hampshire Teacher of the Year award when establishing the Pease award. Criteria for the Edward Pease award include being an engaging and inspiring students as well as colleagues and their community; exceptional educational talent as proven through student learning; being models of excellence in their profession; and making contributions to education that are noteworthy.
This is the second year of the award. Last year, it was given to Pease's family in his honor.
A committee of five people, including educators and colleagues of Pease, will select the winner. Dow is hoping to receive at least 10 applicants for the award. While parents are permitted to nominate a teacher, she anticipates most of the nominations will be from educators.
In addition to the application, two letters of recommendation need to be submitted. The award is supposed to be a surprise, so the chamber requests that people not notify those who they've nominated.
The winner will be announced at the Community Awards Dinner, to be held June 18 at the Portsmouth Harbor Events and Conference Center.
Deadline for entries is April 17. Anyone who needs an application or for more information, contact Dow at 772-2411 or lynn@exeterarea.org.
Merrill, who helped put together the award in honor of his friend, is pleased it's come to fruition.
"Ed loved working with students in teaching as well as all the extra curricular activities," Merrill said. "He was a true friend to everyone and has been solely missed."


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Kohl's tops earnings forecast
Rick Barrett
Saying that it's encouraged about sales trends headed toward Christmas, Kohl's Corp. on Thursday reported a 22% jump in profit for its recent fiscal quarter.
The Menomonee Falls-based retailer said it earned $146 million, or 83 cents per share, in the quarter ended Sept. 30, up from $120 million, or 83 cents per share, in the year-ago period.
Revenue fell 2.3% to $4.33 billion, but general costs fell 1.7% to $1.08 billion and merchandise costs fell 2.3% to $2.72 billion.
The results surpassed Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of 10 analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of 67 cents per share. Five analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $4.28 billion in revenue.
"We are pleased to see continued improvement in our sales trends. Our back-to-school season was strong, followed by a soft September and progressive improvement throughout October. We are encouraged by these trends as we enter the holiday season. Expenses were also well-controlled as substantially all teams outperformed their plans," Kevin Mansell, Kohl's chairman, president and CEO, said in a statement.
Post-election trauma may depress holiday shopping season
Kohl's and its competitors have faced a tougher market with more competition from online retailers.
In September, the company said it planned to open a fifth distribution center dedicated to online orders, located in Indiana. It already has centers in California, Ohio, Maryland and Texas.
Kohl's expects full-year earnings in the range of $3.80 to $4 per share. The company also declared a quarterly dividend of 50 cents per share.
Kohl's shares closed Thursday at $50.97, up $5.27. The stock has climbed roughly 4% in the last 12 months.


Deptford Goth is giving away his newest remix EP. It's got seven remixes of tracks from his most recent album, Life After Defo.
Soon after finishing up his US tour, Deptford Goth has released his new remix EP. You can stream it and download it for free below! It contains 7 remixes of songs from his Life After Defo album, including E.M.M.A., Fis, Jim E-Stack, and many more.


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Chapter 25 ~ Rosa Is Ready To Spill Her Guts About Joe's Dad
Ray Calabrese April 18, 2018 April 16, 2018 fiction, inspiration, love, resilience, writing
Father Tim pointed to the table motioning Joe and Sam to take a seat. Joe noticed two place settings already on and Sam sat on the table. One place setting was at the head of the table. The other was on the side in the middle of the table. Joe tapped Sam on the arm an moved his head toward to the side of the table with no place settings. Joe and Sam no sooner sat down when Rosa came with two more plates, napkins and silver ware and set them in front of them.
She stared at Joe for a moment, "Chu looks jus like him. Why you want find that …" She turned and went back to the stove.
Sam said, "The apple pie smells delicious. The whole house smells better than any restaurant I ever been in."
Rosa turned around and smiled, "You got to be a good man. Chu watch out for the guy next to you. The apple don't fall far the tree."
"Rosa," said Father Time.
"Lo Siento," said Rosa.
Father Tim said, "Rosa's story is important. We'll wait until after we eat, then we can talk. Where do you live, Joe?"
"I live in Columbus. That's where I've lived my whole life. My parents were killed in a car crash a little while back. I'm their only child. I was going through the their things when I found this letter …"
Father Tim held up his hand motioning Joe to stop, "So you're a Buckeye. You go to Ohio State?"
"I'm a Buckeye through and through."
"What about you, Sam? Are you from Ohio?" asked Father Tim.
"Hell no. Opps, excuse me. I better watch my tongue," a red faced Sam apologized.
"No need to apologize, Sam. I've heard worse and I've said worse. If that's the worse thing we ever do, we're in good shape when our time comes."
Sam said, "I'm not a Catholic, but I don't hold anything against you. In fact, I like what you said. Is that one of your church teachings?"
Father Tim laughed, "I rely on God's mercy and love. I make enough mistakes every day that I'd be lost if I didn't have a merciful God."
"You mind fist bumping me with that?" asked Sam extending his right arm with his fist closed. They fist bumped. Then Sam said, "When I was a kid I cut the grass at Saint Patricks in Terre Haute. I think the pastor hired me because I hung out with Teddy Cochran. Teddy was an altar boy."
"So, you're a Hoosier. Terre Haute was home of the legendary Larry Bird. He was some kind of special basketball player."
"You like basketball? Everybody in Indiana loves basketball. They ain't much for football."
"I went to college in Indiana," said Father Tim.
"You went to Purdue or IU?" asked Sam.
"No, I went to the small football university to the North, Notre Dame."
"You're one of those Fighting Irish?" exclaimed Sam.
"Through and through. I bleed green every fall during football season. This weekend they play Michigan State at home and I have tickets. I can't wait."
"Enough football talk. It's time to eat," said Rosa setting a platter of chicken fajitas with grilled onions and peppers on the center of the table. Then she placed two bowls of salsa, a bowl of sour cream, a plate of flour tortillas, and grated mozzarella cheese on the table.
Sam started to reach for a tortilla when Joe punched Sam's thigh. Sam brought his hand back and placed it on his lap.
Father Tim smiled and said, "We'll thank the Lord for our food. Bless us oh Lord and these thy gifts which we are about to receive from thy bounties through Christ our Lord, Amen. Bless Joe and Sam on their travels. Keep them safe. And, whatever Joe finds, let him find your peace above all else."
Joe fought back a growing lump in his throat, nodded and smiled at Father Tim.
Rosa said, "What chu all waiting for. Dig in. What chu don't eat, I gonna take to the women's shelter down the street. I always make five times more than Father Tim can eat."
Joe learned Rosa's parents immigrated from Monterrey, Mexico. She was born in the US two weeks after they crossed the Rio Grande some fifty years earlier. Her parents were migrant workers, campesinos, she called them and they worked the farms from the Rio Grande Valley up to the Canadian border every year. Father Tim said Rosa started working at rectory as the housekeeper about the same time he came twenty-five years ago.
Father Tim noticed Rosa hadn't eaten a bite. He said, "Rosa, you're not going to eat until you tell your story. Go ahead. Joe and Sam will listen while they eat."
"You betcha. I not gonna eat until I spill my guts."
Then Rosa told her story.
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