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SHRI. ISHWAR CHANDRA VIDYASAGAR
Jharkhand has the rare privilege that Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar the father figure of Bengali Script and Bengali language choose Karmatand to live last 18 years of his life. 'Nandan Kanan', was the name of his abode at Karmatanr(now in Jamtara district).
He not only lived with santhals at Karmatand, but tried to up lift their social structure. He started the first formal school for santhal girls, possibly the first girl's school of our country. He opened a free Homeopathy clinic to provide some medical care to these unprivileged tribal people. He also tried to educate the adults of the Tribal population. He was worshipped like God by tribal population.
Vidyasagar was a well-known writer, intellectual and above all a staunch follower of humanity. He brought a revolution in the education system of Bengal. Vidyasagar refined the Bengali language and made it accessible to the common strata of the society. The title 'Vidyasagar' (ocean of knowledge) was given to him due to his vast knowledge in almost all the subjects. Poet Michael Madhusudan Dutta while writing about Ishwar Chandra said: "The genius and wisdom of an ancient sage, the energy of an Englishman and the heart of a Bengali mother".
Life and Education
Ishwar Chandra Bandopadhyaya was born on Monday the 26th of September 1820 (12 Aswin Bengali Year 1227) in a village called Veersingha of the then Hoogley (now part of Midnapore) district of West Bengal. Vidyasagar spent his childhood in extreme poverty. But poverty did not touch his soul, nor could it deter him from his chosen path of achieving his life's goals. His father Thakurdas Bandyopadhyay and mother Bhagavati Devi were very religious persons.
Ishwar Chandra was a brilliant student. His quest for knowledge was so intense that he used to study on street light as it was not possible for him to afford a gas lamp at home.
In the year 1839, Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar successfully cleared his Law examination. In 1841, at the age of twenty one years, Ishwar Chandra joined the Fort William College as a head of the Sanskrit department.
Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar initiated the concept of widow remarriage and raised concern for the abolition of child-marriage and polygamy. He also opened the doors of the colleges and other educational institutions to lower caste students, which was earlier reserved only for the Brahmins. For his immense generosity and kind-heartedness, people started addressing him as "Dayar Sagar" (ocean of kindness).
There are very few living Bengali soul on this planet today who has not heard of Vidyasagar or has not commenced the process of education with his first book of alphabet (Part I and Part II) called Varna Porichoy first published in 1855. His pioneering works like, laying the foundation stone of Bengali prose and translation of the Sanskrit masterpieces to Bengali – shall remain as the fitting monument of human endeavour in the quest for and spread of knowledge. Tagore revered him as 'the father of modern Bengali prose'.
To prove, his compassion for widows he married his own son off to a widow. On 26th July 1856 the 'widow marriage' was legalized by the then Government.
He lived as a modest man but his work of charity was that of a king. He preferred plain dress made from home spun cotton – as his mother used to make his dresses when she was alive. Vidyasagar was a lonely tall tree in the bush around him. Disaffected with petty-mindedness and confronted with selfish behavior he severed connection with his family and lived with tribal people in the last 18 years of his life.
Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar passed away on 29 July, 1891 at the age of 70 years. After his death Rabindranath Tagore said, "One wonders how God, in the process of producing forty million Bengalis, produced a man!"
After his death the Nandan Kanan, the abode of Vidyasagar was sold by his son to Mallick family of Kolkata. Before Nandan Kanan could be dismantled Bengali Association Bihar on 29 March 1974 purchased it by money collected by house to house contribution of one rupee each. The Girls School has been restarted, named after Vidyasagar. The Free Homeopathic Clinic is serving local population. The house of Vidyasagar has been maintained in the original shape. The most prized property is the 141 year old 'Palanquin' used by Vidyasagar himself.

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A method designed to investigate, on a fundamental level, the origin of relative stability of molecular systems using BeII complexes with nitrilotriacetic acid (NTA) and nitrilotri-3-propionic acid (NTPA) is described. It makes use of the primary and molecular fragment energy terms as defined in the IQA/F (Interacting Quantum Atoms/Fragments) framework. An extensive classical-type investigation, focused on single descriptors (bond length, density at critical point, the size of metal ion or coordination ring, interaction energy between BeII and a donor atom, etc.) showed that it is not possible to explain the experimental trend. The proposed methodology is fundamentally different in that it accounts for the total energy contributions coming from all atoms of selected molecular fragments, and monitors changes in defined energy terms (e.g., fragment deformation, inter- and intra-fragment interaction) on complex formation. By decomposing combined energy terms we identified the origin of relative stability of BeII(NTA) and BeII(NTPA) complexes. We found that the sum of coordination bonds' strength, as measured by interaction energies between BeII ion and donor atoms, favours BeII(NTA) but the binding energy of BeII ion to the entire ligand correlates well with experimental trend. Surprisingly, the origin of BeII(NTPA) being more stable is due to less severe repulsive interactions with the backbone of NTPA (C and H-atoms). This general purpose protocol can be employed not only to investigate the origin of relative stability of any molecular system (e.g., metal complexes) but, in principle, can be used as a predictive tool for, e.g., explaining reaction mechanism.


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United States Mint 2005-2008 American Legacy Collections
November 24, 2012 By Michael Zielinski 1 Comment
In 2005, the United States Mint revived the concept of offering a specially packaged numismatic product which combined the coins from the annual proof set with one or more of the year's commemoratives. The previous offering had been referred to as the Prestige Proof Set and had been issued from 1983 to 1997. The new offering was called the American Legacy Collection and would only be offered for four years from 2005 to 2008 before the product was discontinued.
Within initial promotional literature, the US Mint announced the upcoming American Legacy Collection as "reminiscent of the United States Mint's Prestige Set issued in year's past" with a limit of "up to 100,000 units." The product would contain proof versions of all of the 2005-dated circulating coinage, which included the Lincoln Cent, two Westward Journey Jefferson Nickels, Roosevelt Dime, Kennedy Half Dollar, Sacagawea Dollar, and five State Quarters. The product would also contain proof versions of the 2005 John Marshall Silver Dollar and 2005 Marine Corps Silver Dollar.
The coins were packaged within a large fold out case that could be arranged to stand upright for display. The size of the packaging was rather large for the number of coins contained. With the display closed for storage, it measured 10.5 inches by 9.5 inches by 1.5 inches, or about the size of a text book.
The 2005 American Legacy Collection was priced at $135 per set. This cost was higher than the prices for the separate annual proof set ($22.95) and the cost of the two proof silver dollars ($39.00 each at regular pricing or $35.00 each during the introductory period). The product limit was 50,000 units and final sales were recorded for 49,000 sets.
The following year, the set was offered once again, containing the nine coins from the annul proof set, as well as the proof versions of the 2006 Benjamin Franklin Silver Dollar (Scientist) and the 2006 Old San Francisco Mint Silver Dollar. A full sell out was achieved for the product limit of 50,000 units.
The 2007 American Legacy Collection saw an expansion in size due to the greater number of coins included in the annual proof set. The proof versions of circulating coins now consisted of the cent, nickel, dime, five quarters, half dollar, Sacagawea Dollar, and four Presidential Dollars. The two commemorative coins included for this year were the 2007 Little Rock Central High School Desegregation Silver Dollar and the 2007 Jamestown 400th Anniversary Silver Dollar. Despite the extra coins, the set remained at the same price level of $135.
The expanded number of coins made the physical size of the set even larger. When closed for storage, the dimensions were now 12.5 inches by 9.5 inches by 1.5 inches. Sales fared more poorly this year, reaching 27,023 out of the maximum of 50,000 units.
Representing the final release for this product type, the 2008 American Legacy Set was available for sale for the brief period from October 27, 2008 until December 12, 2008, which was the cut off date for sales of the commemorative coin included. Each set contained proof versions of the 2008-dated circulating coins, along with the proof version of the 2008 Bald Eagle Silver Dollar. Since only one commemorative coin was included, the price for the collection was reduced to $100. This still represented a cost that was $29.10 higher than purchasing the annual proof set and individual commemorative coin.
Sales for this final set ended at their lowest level for the product type at 21,194 out of the maximum of 50,000 units.
Filed Under: Coin Articles, Featured Articles, United States Mint, US Coins, US Mint Products of the Past
Interesting material, thank you. Some of these sets were advertised with a certificate of authenticity. When they were packaged, where was the COA? If I remember correctly they were tucked behind something…


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Hi all! I'm a relativly new cigar smoker, and I just had a few questions for everyone... I'd like to start by saying I am 19, and have been smoking for a little over a year and a half. I started out smoking Swisher Sweets every so often as a joke with my friends, and I will concide that media (movies, games, etc) were an influencing factor. When my friends and I started smoking, we did it for the novalty rather than enjoyment. We moved from the Sweets to Philies and White Owls.
And then I tried an Acid cigar with my friends... We loved them, and the 'dizzy' feeling they gave us. The armoa was also plesent for a change!
First off, (1) when and what did you all start smoking? (2) When did you start to develope more of a palet for the more sutble hints of nuts and leathery tastes? Do, or did, any of you smoke cigerettes (I can't stand them, personally)?
Also, there is a local smoke shop and quiet a few headshops around that sell cigars. They have pretty nice envoirnments to smoke in (I live in NH, its pretty damn cold in winter, so smoking outside can be unpleasent sometimes).
(3) I was wondering, how do you more experienced smokers feel about younger smokers such as myself and my group of friends? We feel unwelcome sometimes, because of our age and lack of experience among long-time smokers and affectionados, sort of out of place.
I think many of you would be surprised by the number of new and younger smokers out there, partically around New England, it seems.
Thanks for your time, I'm sure I'll have more questions, but I'd like to hold off and wait for some responses.
Welcome! I am going to be 60 this year and have been smoking cigars for a long time and I would have no problem smoking with someone younger because that is what we are all about on these forums. However, there are many cigar snobs out there and snobs in general, that is their problem not yours. Developing a taste for cigars takes time and you have to recognize that some are better than others (has something to do with the amount of taste buds on your tongue). There is a lot of info on the internet that can help you become better at learning how to improve your tasting ability. Go slow and listen to some of the experts on these forums, listen to podcasts and smoke along with them. Kuzi16 and Chrisginter are two of our better reviewers (imho) so try and smoke the cigars they do and see if you get what they get out of a cigar.
1) im 27 ive been smoking cigars for about 2 - 3 years. I used to bring cigars backpacking with my friends... kinda went from there. i never knew what i was getting into but im glad i did.
2) almost immedialty. but i am the exception to the rule. Food is my life. i love taste and i have an (i think) overly developed palate. First it was food, then it was beer, then wine, then cigars. I used to smoke cigerettes, but not anymore. I think it was heath that said it at one point-- cigerettes are an "abomination of tobacco"
3) ill smoke with anyone. Its a reason to smoke a cigar. I like to smoke the same cigar as another person at the same time so i can compare notes in "real time"
i have somewhere on my computer a post from another forum about Developing your palate. If i have time later ill post it. its not too in depth, but it has some good ideas. Maybe ill expand on it with what ive learned since i posted that over a year ago.
Welcome to the party! 1. I think I started smoking cigars.. hmm don't really know, probly around 18. I too started smoking swishers and black and milds, and the occasional backwoods. 2. I didn't develop a decent pallet for a long time as I would smoke infrequently till about 2004 or 5. At which time I had discovered the wonderful people at cigar.com and the associated cigar forum at the time. Since then my pallet has become more and more refined, and I still have a long way to go. Discerning the subtleties of beer is also a great way to increase your pallet. I smoked cigarettes socially at parties and during long study sessions, decided to stop doing that when I realised I had started craving them all the time. 3. I got no problem with you youngins, me being a ripe old 28 and all. Just don't drink all my beer!! I think a lot of people tend to snub their nose at younger enthusiasts because its rare to find a young person that takes, well, any thing seriously.. rofl.
Hang out awhile - you will find you have learned more about cigars & the world there of than many people that have smoked for years.
Here (online) you'll find people very interested in everything to do with cigars, but even more so the quality of people & the friendships that have come from here are amazing.
As for who I will smoke with - anyone I can sit a talk with for an hour & not get bored.
Welcome to the club. There is a lot of great peple and information here. I am still learning and have been smoking for almost 2 years. Yeah I have my favorits but there is always something new to try. So I recomend to try every thing at least once. Maybe even keep nots for future buys.
Awesome answers from everybody! More than I could have hoped for! I'm glad the community here is very welcoming. I'll be sure to direct some of my friends here; we've all made many purchases at cigar.com but this is the first time we've been around the forums.
Glad to be here, and thanks for the fast answers and the helpful link!
This is my first post on Cigar.com since I just found out about it a few months ago. I noticed that one of your questions was unanswered, so heres my answer. Im 26 and started smoking cigars about 3 or 4 years ago. My first cigar was a CAO Gold that my now father in law had given me and I smoked while drinking a Corona. It was incredible, and been hooked ever since. CAO is still my favorite brand but I have moved onto the CX2. Ive smoked alot of different cigars over the last few years, some good some bad, but my favorite is a CX2 with a ice cold Corona. Hope that helps, try it sometime.
Sorry I forgot to mention no lime in the Corona.
That's pretty funny; I was about to buy a CAO gold the other day, but went with a Romeo y Juliet instead. I don't regret the choice, but I'll be sure to pick up a CAO gold someday soon.
Thanks for the answer, I'm certainly looking for a few new 'creamy' cigars to try, as I've been smoking mostly full bodied cigars recently.
If you are looking for a good "creamy" cigar and havent already had one, I reccomend the Padron 3000. In my opinion its a great cigar for the price, great "bang for the buck" if you ask me.
Hey Bobby.....welcome to the community. To start with, I used to be one (with my buddies) that would pick up a cigar (or a reasonable facimile), fire it up and puff the heck out of it with little regard for the enjoyment. Well, that was then. I really started learning (still learning) how to smoke and how to enjoy a cigar about 2 years ago. I had to go to Jamaica on business for about 6 weeks. Some of my associates enjoyed the leaf and after dinner we would sit back enjoying a cocktail and a cigar. They kind of took me under their wing and pointed me in the right direction to what has been an enjoyable journey. What a great experience. I started developing my palate almost immediately. I would read reviews about a cigar, try that cigar to see if I could discern these flavors. I also would try a cigar, write down my notes (so my expectations wouldn't be skewed) on what I tasted then compared it with reviews. Some flavors matched, some didn't. Sometimes I would describe flavors not in the review and that was cool too. As you know people tastes will differ. As far as cigarettes go, I was a smoker for 33 years. The key word in that phrase is "was". I smoked my last cigarette on Jan 9th of this year at 4:50 AM. YEA!!!! As far as age goes I really don't care how old or young a person is. I have enjoyed a smoke with people of all ages at my local B & M and had a great time. All that I care is that a person doesn't act like the north end of a southbound dog. Let's just have a good time. The last 2 years have been great. I've met a lot of good people, people that I wouldn't have met if it wasn't for the leaf. Enjoy, have a good time, and again welcome.
as for you being 19 years old, that makes 2 of us! I have been part of the Cigar.com forums for about 6 minutes and counting. I am still getting the hang of how the system works around here, evidently there is a new format.
I have been a cigar smoker for one year give or take a few months. My father started smoking cigars ( again) a few years back and I would always take a few puffs and eventually have my own with him. He started out strictly Macanudo, so I didnt have much of a choice there. He then started Baccarat and got me hooked on those, then I got my boss hooked. But I think I'm ready for something slightly stronger and less sweet. I started buying Swishers on my own when I was 18, later smoking hecho a mano cigars rather than "hecho la machine-a". I found out fast that you cant go back to anything sold at the gas stations after having premium cigars. Some new found favs. include La Gloria Cubana, Teamo, Cuban Sandwich ( these are Nicaraguan), and La Paloma VRC.
Other than a few odd smokes here and there, I have not had a diverse variety yet. I plan to branch out this summer and try many new brands; I cant enjoy >anything< out in the Minnesota cold.
Just got done reading Donny's post in this thread, and thats already more than what I have been doing. I try to make mental note but I have a feeling that will only work for so long. I have made two orders with Cigar.com so far, my latest one included some of the house blends, the blue label was very relaxing, have yet to try the red and cuban label.....not to go off topic.
I dont know how much time I will have to view the forum but I have a feeling I will be spending late hours on here reading.
Welcome Chainer! I am also a relative new comer to the cigar smoking scene. I really started smoking cigars when I took a trip to canada when I was 19 to enjoy the world beer festival. By 19 I had already discovered a taste for fine beer and drink and was offered a cuban cigar from my buddies father. All politics aside, the cigar was fantastic and I was instantly hooked. I smoked those cigars every chance I could. Now at 22 I realized that through some articles that cuban cigars arent the only good cigars and when I typed in cigar on 'google' it brought me here. I quickly purchased a humidor and a few samplers and the rest is history. I now note and log every cigar I smoke and try to identify all the flavors that I can. Cigar smoking came easy to me because of my love for great beer and scotch but I know that I still have much to learn. I will smoke cigars with anyone and is often times, I feel, a great conversation starter and comraderie between people. But I would say I cant beat smoking a cigar with my best friends father while watching a Blue Jays game.
I know what you mea by sometimes feeling "out of place" i too am new to cigars I've just turned 19 and have only been smoking for 8 or so months now. Most of the time other smokers are very conversable, but other times i have run into a few that look at me as if im not worthy of a good cigar like a Gurkah or Padron and i should be smoking cheap gas station smokes. All in all though ive been lucky the owner/operator of my local shop is very helpful and more than willing to give me advice and suggestions on some of his favorites. btw, i live in Washington and dont have the luxury of smoking inside so most of my time is spent at the golf course.
what part of washington? Im in lynnwood.
Hello. I consider myself a newcomer too since I only started enjoying cigars again about 3 months ago. I used to smoke with my roomate a few years back and would enjoy a good cigar after a night out. My palate wasn't too developed then though. Actually it still isn't but it's getting better. Of course part of what started me then was because I was kinda into the compact car show thing and one of my forum friends was sponsored by CAO and would get some freebies from time to time. Now I actually concern myself with flavors and how it smokes. I started keeping a log right away but my reviews are lacking. I'm sure they will get better as I learn what type of stuff to look for and such. Most of my smoking is done with friends anywhere from the age of 22 to around 50. I will smoke with anyone as long as there is good conversation. Unfortunately, a lot of the younger crowd doesn't take anything too seriously and gives the others a bad rep. I need to find a good place to enjoy a smoke when I get back to the states other than my back porch so that I can share the experience with other cigar enthusiasts. BTW, I'll be 38 on the 22nd of this month.
These are some great posts in response to your questions. I've enjoyed reading them so much I'm compelled to reply as well.
My first cigar was a Royal Jamaican about 30 years ago (I'm 47 now). I enjoyed it but wasn't very educated in the finer points of what makes cigar smoking so great. I really didn't develop a true appreciation until about 10 years ago and started to read and learn about what goes in to blending tobaccos to create different flavors and strengths. I drifted toward brands like Montecristo, Macanudo, Fuente, etc. All pretty much coming from Dominican Republic. Good cigars for sure but my tastes have changed dramatically over the past 2 or 3 years. I was on vacation in Jamaica and had my first experience with a Cuban cigar a couple years ago. It was a San Cristobal. It just blew me away. I'd never tasted that peppery flavor before in any of the cigars I smoked. So now days that's what I look for most of the time. My taste has developed an appreciation for medium to full bodied cigars with lots of spice. It's no surprise just about anything Don Peppin Garcia blends is a favorite of mine. I'm excited to try some from the new kid, AJ Fernandez, which I just ordered and am eagerly awaiting delivery. I also enjoy these spicey devils with a good single malt scotch or big red wine. Pure heaven!
As far as your age I could care less. The fact you are this young and developing a true appreciation for cigar smoking says to me you're ahead of most your age. Certainly your well ahead of where I was at when I was 19. Then again I didn't have the Internet and a tremendous resource of knowledge at my disposal.
I definitely fall into the cigar newbie category, as I only had my first cigar a whopping 5 months ago. I was on a short 3-day cruise to Mexico ( left Los Angeles port in San Pedro to Ensenada and back) and one of my priorities was to make sure and have a cigar as I was determined to live the good life on my short vacation. Anyhow long story short, that was the beginning of it. I was so taken with the whole experience that I had to know more about the mystique surrounding cigars, and that's where Cigar.com comes into the picture. With such great resources as Cigar.com and the myriad other websites around, it is no great feat for even a newcomer such as myself to gain a foothold and figure out what is what, and the rest will come with time.
I think the only comment I have about the age factor is that typically people view younger people (like 25 and younger) as less experienced and perhaps therefore incapable of enjoying some of the finer things. But I don't agree with that since I'm 23 and I feel as though I can appreciate the experience one gets when spending some time with a good smoke, granted I may lack the life experience of some older folks, but that all comes with time and I see no need to wait until I'm older to have slightly more refined tastes when I've got a fairly good idea of what I like now. So yeah, age doesn't matter to me as long as a person appreciates the cigar and the experience that come with it.
I'm 32 and started smoking VERY casually (one smoke every few months) years ago for celebratory reasons or at certain social and family functions. I, too started on swisher sweets but after having a camancho and Romeo y Julieta at a wedding, I really became intersted in the finer cigars. Cigars are much like wine, so when I got deeper into the finer cigars I was not able to go back to machine made smokes. Some people have no idea how complex cigars and cigar smoking can be. Simple questions like, "How can you stand to inhale with no filter?" I shake my head and explain that there are very few similarities between smoking cigars and smoking cigarettes. I'm still a very casual smoker (about one or two a week) but I always look forward to sitting down and unwinding with a great creamy smoke.


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import iot.jcypher.domainquery.internal.QueryRecorder;
import iot.jcypher.query.values.functions.FUNCTION;
import iot.jcypher.query.values.operators.OPERATOR;

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		QueryRecorder.recordInvocationConditional(this, "pow", ret, QueryRecorder.placeHolder(exponent));
		return ret;
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		return ret;
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		MathFunctions ret = new MathFunctions(this);
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		return ret;
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The growing worldwide electrical energy demand has enabled Groupe SICAME to expand rapidly since its creation in France over 50 years ago. This growth was achieved internally and through acquisitions progressively according it an international dimension. Today, the Group operates in 23 countries and its products are distributed in 120 countries. The Groupe remains clearly orientated towards products and services linked to the transport and distribution of electricity as well as to systems, safety equipment and associated tools Thanks to this strategy, it is currently the largest independent entity in its sector of activity. The Group is made up of companies that each work in close association with their customers in their respective markets, but that nevertheless pool their financial resources, their computing capacities and their expertise in terms of products and procedures. Its subsidiary companies are renowned for their innovative capacities, the quality of their products and the complete service that they offer their customers.
CATU was created in 1919 and, since the beginning; it has dedicated its activity to the manufacture of material and equipment for electricity networks and installations. Since 1936, CATU's activity has been concentrated on equipment for personal protection against electrical hazards and accordingly, has now more than 60 years experience in this field. At present, CATU Safety Equipment, including all the range of short-circuiting and earthing systems, the DETEXTM voltage detectors and testers, the live working tools and the individual equipment for linesmen, is used by the Main Power Utilities, Electrical Contractors, Large Industries and Railways in about 100 countries spread over the 5 continents.
In 1991 Groupe Sicame purchased Hepworth Electrical Developments extending their product portfolio to now include access to LV and HV overhead line products for both distribution and transmission lines. The Company name then changed to the now familiar Sicame Electrical Developments (SED). The Company continually strives to improve performance and is committed to sustainable development through a proactive approach to quality, environmental protection, social responsibility and strong economic progress.
+ Engineering and laboratory services + Hot dip galvanization for third party.
Dervaux manufacture Transmission and Distribution equipment. DERVAUX S.A. was founded in 1828 and grew on both local and export markets. The company is based in Chambon Feugerolles, near St Etienne (France), on 15,000 m² premises, where it designs, develops and produces complete ranges of accessories for high voltage networks. DERVAUX S.A. has built up a strong position in the transmission line sectors through the quality of its products and reputed R&D capacities (vibration, connection, etc.). Customised solutionsThe engineering and technical teams at DERVAUX S.A. have acquired international expertise in customised studies for line or station configuration, which means that they can deal competently with technical constraints.All the solutions are assessed and qualified in the laboratory of the company that conducts the mechanical, electrical and vibration trials.
Began its activity with the manufacturing of hot sticks in 1974. In the subsequent years, it incorporated line groundings equipment, voltage detectors, electrical equipment, isolants and hot line tools. LIAT is at present the leader in the local market, supplying the great majority of generating and transportation companies, energy distributors as well as electrical co-operatives, contractors and industries. During the 90s decade, LIAT intensified its export profile and consolidated its presence in the American continent. In the present century LIAT is beginning to solidify its presence in the European and African markets.
Start-up in industrial operations can be traced back to the year 1968. The company has achieved its current loading position in this market segment complying satisfactorily with the requirements in the field of equipments, devices and accessories for LV and MV electric power distribution networks. Cavanna provide products and technical advice and information for Electric Power Providers in Argentina and other parts of the world, developing a broad spectrum of responses ranging from product engineering to assessment for the setup of distribution networks.
Manufacturers of electrical safety equipment. Professionals founded FESP in 1994 with more than 40 years experience in working at heights and electrical safety. FESP has been part of Groupe Sicame since 2004 and markets products in Brazil and South AmericaIt is located in the city of Guarulhos, in the state of Sao Paulo. FESP has a surface area of 6,000 square metres and employs 130 people. Our company manufactures and sells products on the local market and exports products compliant with ASTM and CE standards.
Was created in 1980 on the idea of a Global Approach to Lightning. In 1994 FRANKLIN FRANCE became the leader in the French lightning protection market and became a part of the Sicame Group.
Paul Höhne, a wax merchant from Hamburg, founded the Höhne Company. After completing his training with the Hamburg company C.W. Röper and working for the "Lüneburg Wachsbleiche" he was soon promoted from a company secretary to a director at Carl Cordes AG in Magdeburg. Paul Höhne then took up the challenge of setting up a department for compounds in Coswig-Anhalt. He was so successful that he decided to found his own company producing bitumen-based hot pouring compounds. So in 1932 the company "Paul Höhne" was founded in Coswig-Anhalt in co-operation with Carl Cordes AG. Under Dipl.-Ing. Werner Ditrich as Managing Director the company Köttgen Kabelgarnituren GmbH was founded in Bergisch-Gladbach as a subsidiary of Höhne GmbH in 1995. Köttgen Kabelgarnituren GmbH took over the "energy" part of the business of the former Köttgen GmbH. This enhanced the competence especially in the range of 10-36kV and earth cable connections. In 2002 Höhne was integrated in the Groupe Sicame. Sicame is a group of international companies with excellent connections to electricity suppliers worldwide. By this we found the ideal partner to further extent the international expansion.
Founded in 1981, MECATRACTION quickly grew both in the domestic market and export-markets. We are based in Pompadour, France, in premises of more than 8100 m2. MECATRACTION designs, develops and produces a complete range of components for industrial electrical connections. Our subsidiaries, CEGERS OUTILLAGE and ALCO MECA, add an extensive range of tools and accessories. MECATRACTION is a subsidiary of the Sicame group. The Sicame group specializes in accessories for the transport and the transmission of electrical power. Throughout Europe and worldwide MECATRACTION is present in many countries: + Germany, with its subsidiary MECATRACTION GmbH + Belgium, United Kingdom, Spain, Portugal, Italy and in other countries around the world through the international subsidiaries of the Sicame group.
TYKOFLEX AB is an engineering company in Tyresö, outside Stockholm, Sweden. They are a manufacturing company with in-house design and development expertise. Their main product areas are joint closures for optical fibre cables, quick couplings for pipes and hoses, irrigation and sprinkling systems for agriculture and the forest products industry as well as liquid-cooled plates for electronic devices. In addition to a wide range of standard products, they also offer customized solutions.


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Trump expected to issue around 100 pardons and commutations today. Biden and Harris celebrate MLK, prep for first days in office. Voting rights legislation in Congress could expand access to voting, reduce partisan gerrymandering.
NC Cities Fight for Public Transit, Despite Pandemic Setbacks
Baltimore Transit Cuts Fight Linked to Montgomery Bus Boycott
D.C. Transit System Cuts Seen as Catastrophic for Climate, Workers
Budget Woes from COVID Expected, But Road Maintenance Resumes
Energy Industry Needs on the Agenda as 2015 Session Begins
PHOTO: The 64th Legislative Assembly begins Tuesday in Bismarck, and oil and gas issues within the energy industry will be among those high on the docket. Photo credit: Lindsey G/Flickr.
BISMARCK, N.D. - The gavel comes down to open the 2015 North Dakota Legislature Tuesday, and among the issues lawmakers will be asked to address this session are infrastructure improvements for oil and gas extraction.
The EmPower North Dakota Commission is recommending about $1 billion in funding over the next two years. Mike Fladeland, manager of energy business development with the North Dakota Department of Commerce, says that funding includes bridges, rail, oil and gas pipelines and electricity transmission lines.
"And then, of course, highway improvements," he says. "Everything from 'four-laning' Highway 85 to the turnabouts around communities like Watford City and Alexander and so on."
The number of bills and resolutions pre-filed by North Dakota lawmakers, agencies and committees for the 64th Legislative Assembly is at nearly 300. While not a record, the number is far higher than recent sessions.
In addition to infrastructure improvements, Fladeland says the EmPower Commission also made recommendations in areas such as workforce, research and development, energy growth incentives and the regulatory environment.
"The EmPower Commission brings forward recommendations to the Energy Development and Transmission Committee," says Fladeland. "Then they turn them into legislation through their process, if they approve."
John Michaelson, Public News Service - ND


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Петилия-Поликастро () — коммуна в Италии, располагается в регионе Калабрия, подчиняется административному центру Кротоне.

Население составляет 9535 человек (на 2001 г.), плотность населения составляет 99,5 чел./км². Занимает площадь 96 км². Почтовый индекс — 88837. Телефонный код — 0962.

Покровителем коммуны почитается святой Себастьян, празднование совершается 20 января.

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Watch full movie online El Bulli: Cooking in Progress (2011) in HD quality. Movie El Bulli: Cooking in Progress (2011) was released in September 15, 2011 in genre Documentary. Movie El Bulli: Cooking in Progress (2011) is movie directed by Gereon Wetzel. and starring by Ferran Adrià. Movie El Bulli: Cooking in Progress (2011) tell story about For six months of the year, renowned Spanish chef Ferran Adria closes his restaurant El Bulli -- repeatedly voted the world's best -- and works with his culinary team to prepare the menu for the next season. An elegant, detailed study of food as avant-garde art, EL BULLI: COOKING IN PROGRESS is a rare inside look at some of the world's most innovative and exciting cooking; as Adria himself puts it, "the more bewilderment, the better!"


New joint venture SGTWO will offer a new suite of online services to improve the digital offer for general contractors, builders and architects.
Aachen, Germany, 08 April 2019. Today Saint-Gobain Germany and RIB Software SE announced the formation of a new joint venture SGTWO. For RIB, the 100% subsidiary YTWO will act as shareholder of the new company.
SGTWO, a public company under the laws of Germany (Aktiengesellschaft), combines Saint-Gobain's rich competence in innovative building solutions with RIB's 5D BIM and AI technologies. The objective of the joint venture is to improve the way of modular building and planning in an enhanced 5D BIM solution. The new company will be headquartered in Düsseldorf, Germany.
The joint venture with RIB is a next important step of the new digital strategy of Saint-Gobain. With SGTWO Saint-Gobain, one of the world's largest producers of building materials, and RIB, a leading provider of 5D BIM technology to the construction and real estate industries, are increasing the efficiency of planning by creating a more realistic and better presentation of the building than in a classic BIM model. In addition to optimized planning, the benefit in controlling the execution is the constant, prompt comparison of target and actual values.
"With RIB, we have found an extremely strong and experienced partner for our strategy to put digital at the heart of our business. With SGTWO, we are creating a new planning experience for our customers using latest technological advances, such as BIM and AI. We are very pleased to launch this new and exciting business as reference for our ongoing Growth strategy", said Raimund Heinl, CEO of Saint-Gobain Germany and Austria.
"In our mission to digitalize the construction industry's ecosystem, we have found in Saint-Gobain a like-minded partner, with an unmatched history of growth, innovation and success in building materials. Saint-Gobain and RIB share a commitment to make construction more efficient, more sustainable and more productive. We are extremely proud to be forming this new venture with Saint-Gobain", said Tom Wolf, CEO of RIB Software SE.
Saint-Gobain is present in 67 countries with more than 180 000 employees. Saint-Gobain designs, manufactures and distributes materials and solutions which are key ingredients in the wellbeing of each of us and the future of all. They can be found everywhere in our living places and our daily life: in buildings, transportation, infrastructure and in many industrial applications. They provide comfort, performance and safety while addressing the challenges of sustainable construction, resource efficiency and climate change.


We are a technology firm with passionate and imaginative individuals that are dedicated finding simple and elegant solutions to complex problems. We work with an exciting mix of national and international companies and also build, support, and market a fast-growing SAAS product used by well-known brands across the country. Our clients constantly rely on us to deliver innovative and effective solutions within the online and interactive space.
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I have RR cable internet that is connected my new Motorola SB5120 Cable Modem. That is connected to my Linksys Router, then goes to my PC running XP. That is working fine.
I've tried several Linux distros installed on my Acer Travelmate 2441 Laptop, with no luck.
The distros either see the laptop either or not. That is the problem.
I'm very new to setting up Linux for internet connection, so set-by-step instructions would be very helpful. I do not want to dual-boot my laptop.
I would also be open to any other distros that will work immediately after install. A few years back I tried a distro that worked flawless, but I can't remember it's name.
To make the modem work can I direct you to the instructions in this thread.
As for making your laptop work fully under Linux, we will need to know what is actually wrong. Laptops can be a bit tricky depending on the hardware but if you can tell us where you are having trouble we will help with whatever distribution you want to try.
does the internet work when connected directly to the modem as the topic of your post seems to indicate a problem with linux and your router which would be odd. More likely you just can't get on the internet.
we will help with whatever distribution you want to try.
I try to go online, but I get the message "Server not found, blah, blah".
So far I tried rebooting my laptop, modem, and router. All with no luck.
I'm using FreeSpire. All the posts I've seen/read so far didn't quite help me.
They mostly got me cunfused.
likely you just can't get on the internet.
No it doesn't. Yes, I can't get online using my laptop that is running Freespire.
looks like your hardware is detected.
A stupid fix solved the problem. I swaped the ethernet cable for a shorter one, now it works.
Thanks to all the helped me in my search for the solution.
If you can help me get around the short ethernet cable, that would be great. What is the longest ethernet cable I can use?


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> done soon, we might back out the snapcraft SRU in xenial-updates.
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those source packages before reimporting.
publishes since the mass reimport.
approximate the disk usage as the phasing increases.
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Netflix's Colin Kaepernick Scripted Series Casts Jaden Michael as Former NFL Star and Activist
Colin in Black & White will star Jaden Michael as Colin Kaepernick during the athlete and activist's high school years
By Eric Todisco
Colin Kaepernick, Jaden Michael
| Credit: Courtesy of Netflix
Netflix's Colin Kaepernick scripted series has found its star.
The streaming service announced Tuesday that actor Jaden Michael has been cast as the 32-year-old former NFL quarterback and activist during his high school years in Colin in Black & White, created by Kaepernick and Emmy-winning filmmaker Ava DuVernay.
Michael, 17, has previously appeared in Todd Haynes' drama Wonderstruck, Baz Lurhmann's The Get Down, and indie film Custody. Most recently, he starred in Lorne Michaels' comedy, Vampires vs. The Bronx.
Michael Starrbury is executive producing and writing for Colin in Black & White, alongside DuVernay, 47, and Kaepernick, 32, who will also be the narrator.
The six-episode series was conceived in 2019 and its script was finished this year. According to Netflix, the series will explore Kaepernick's years as a Black teen growing up with a white adoptive family and how it informed the person he is today.
Starrbury and DuVernay last worked together on Netflix's limited series When They See Us, which received 16 Emmy nominations and was recently honored with a Peabody Award.
Ava DuVernay, Colin Kaepernick
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RELATED: Netflix Announces New Series on Colin Kaepernick's High School Years with Creator Ava DuVernay
Kaepernick famously began the #TakeAKnee movement in 2016 when he kneeled during the national anthem as a quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers to call attention to the issues of racial inequality. The demonstrations made him the target of critics who thought kneeling during the anthem was intended to be disrespectful toward the flag and troops. (In fact, it was a former Green Beret who advised Kaepernick to kneel instead of remaining seated during the protests.)
The #TakeAKnee movement attracted renewed attention in May after the death of George Floyd, a Black man who died after a white Minneapolis police officer forcibly placed his knee on his neck for nearly nine minutes during an arrest.
After opting out of his contract with the 49ers in 2017, Kaepernick has not played in an NFL game since.
RELATED: Colin Kaepernick Announces He Is Releasing a Memoir — 'I Want to Tell the Story of My Evolution'
"With his act of protest, Colin Kaepernick ignited a national conversation about race and justice with far-reaching consequences for football, culture and for him, personally," DuVernay said in a statement in June. "Colin's story has much to say about identity, sports and the enduring spirit of protest and resilience. I couldn't be happier than to tell this story with the team at Netflix."
A release date for Colin in Black & White has yet to be announced.


Endurance training for triathlon should not include a bout with Chronic Adrenal Fatigue. Don't let it sneak up on you!
Exactly 35 days before Hawaii Ironman, I awoke on a Sunday morning and I felt as if I was going to die. I had never even heard of Chronic Adrenal Fatigue. But it quietly stalked me and struck me down.
Go to bed exhausted and awaken after 90 minutes or so, unable to fall back to sleep.
Incessantly thinking about training and racing.
Impatient with those around you.
Consecutive days where you feel no passion or joy for training.
Nagging pains or injuries that do not subside.
Because Hawaii Ironman loomed over me like a giant, it was easy to ignore these symptoms. I was fueled by elation and ambition – I was gonna be an Ironman! On that Sunday morning, I was suddenly so weak. I didn't want to get out of bed. I was afraid of how my body might respond.
I was afraid of collapsing and dying. Triathlon training – beginner or elite – should not break anyone down to the point of Chronic Adrenal Fatigue!
Something in my body had "snapped". I knew it was my endocrine system – I had damaged my body's hormonal balance. Suddenly, I was an expert on Chronic Adrenal Fatigue. I laid in my bed on that Sunday morning and I cried. Suddenly, I was 85 years old. For the first time in my life, I realized I was not immortal.
On one side of the wire: Recover enough to stay alive and make the starting line.
On the other side: Train enough so that I might still make the finish line.
This was not healthy training for triathlon. It was daunting, terrifying and tenuous. I had never been on a "high wire" before! The grim reaper quietly leaned over my shoulder every moment of those 35 days, just waiting to see if I failed to balance on that high wire. I would wake up at night and hear him breathing slow and quiet right there by my pillow. Chronic Adrenal Fatigue had given him a "front row seat".
I kept that vow: I wrote and published "Zendurance, A Spiritual Fitness Guide for Endurance Athletes" as a guide to help us transform endurance training for triathlon into a healthy life practice that makes us happier and more functional as human beings.
Training for a triathlon, it takes a healthy loving family and friends to develop and train a healthy human being into a glorious endurance athlete. Please, don't lose sight of this!
At age 42, I completed that first Ironman... and two more in the two years after that. However, after 13 years of living in Kona, it was clear I had to leave. I had a mission – to support athletes like you in your pursuit of excellence – in life as well as sport.
What could replace my love for Kona as a world-class athlete's paradise?
Ironically, it turned out to be a pursuit of cycling technique through indoor cycling on a stationary trainer in the winter sports capital of the world – Lake Placid, NY!
from: "Training for Triathlon: Chronic Adrenal Fatigue"


Microsoft's Student Advantage Program provides free downloads of the full version of Microsoft Office (Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, OneNote, Publisher, Access, etc.) for all St. Lucie County students, in District operated schools, for use on their personal and mobile devices.
Download and activation requires a student network username and password which is provided to all actively enrolled students.
3) The password is the same one students use at school to log in the network.
Charter schools are not covered under the St. Lucie County Public Schools license agreement and would need to negotiate licensing directly with Microsoft.


Berni and Phil chat about perceived tragedies and train wrecks after a medical emergency took their intended guest off the calendar last-minute before recording episode 6. Ironically, this episode went LIVE shortly after tornadoes devastated Oklahoma killing 24 people (10 of them children) and destroyed thousands of homes. It seemed only fitting to talk about deviating from the plan and preparing for change.
Phil turns 40 this year and Berni compliments his great skin.
Berni and Phil each typically finalize their talking points and presentation slides just days before delivering speeches to allow for unanticipated changes.
On breaking through barriers with clients: People think that if they plan, it should work. Even if there are clear signs that say "detour," some of us do not accept there's another way. Part of it is how we are raised to see only black-and-white. Part of it is our own ignorance. Perhaps what has worked is the only thing we know. At the same token, we might be afraid to try what has habitually not worked for us. We hold on to any security we have. Honestly, there are so many people who are resistant to change. Once we can help them understand they're just resistant to changing, we can help them see there is a connection to what they're already doing and then help them break it down into manageable steps.
What about you? What do you do when your plans don't work?
Berni and Phil talk about times in their lives, past and present, when they've each been gripped with fear and had to "break through road blocks." As you know, The Shut Up Show is recorded LIVE, unrehearsed, and delivered as raw and real talk. That's the beauty of this show. So, pardon the technical issues. We know it can be annoying when you just want to get to the good stuff. No worries! We've highlighted a ton of golden nuggets for you below.
Phil's first book, 10 Ways to Make it Great, helped launch his speaking career and inspired his then-wife to ask for a divorce.
Berni soft launched a blog to benefit parent alienation awareness and in less than 2 weeks she was invited to join the charity's social media committee because of the impact of her writing.


Picture at top is Ken Knapp enjoying the Hudson River near Tarrytown, New York. He was a former Paymaster of the New York Central.
He started with the railroad when the employees were paid in cash and a pay car visited all the Central's locations. He worked with William Ingraham, John L. Burdett. and Hy Taylor.
He moved to Albany for one year, but the station did not have adequate room for the payroll department, so he went to Utica for the rest of his career. When the railroad began paying by check instead of cash, he oversaw the first computer bought by the New York Central. It took up almost a whole floor in Utica's Union Station.
A feature article on his career and his retirement appeared in the July/August issue of HEADLIGHT – the New York Central magazine. I remember meeting Norman Stone, the editor of the magazine, when the article was written. He even included a picture of my dog (with my grandfather).
In his 47-year career, he worked many years on a pay car. These cars lasted through the 1920's. At one time, the Central had five pay cars on the road. Each car had two payroll clerks and a railroad police detective. A typical car had an office, berths, a stateroom and facilities for meal preparation. Several times the pay car had several million dollars on board in a safe and in "strong boxes" hidden under the berths (but still only one detective). During World War I when the railroads were nationalized, the pay cars were under control of the Secretary of the Treasury, William McAdoo. In this period, payroll for other railroads were sometimes carried: for instance, Delaware & Hudson payroll was carried from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York to Albany (other times this was sent in leather pouches by registered mail… I still have some of the mail tags addressed to New York State Bank).
He was born in 1890 and died in 1974.
This tag was on canvas money bags which were shipped from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York in the Equitable Building to the New York State National Bank in Albany, New York. This money was destined for the account of the New York Central Rail Road.
During the First World War, all railroads in the United States were seized by the Government, which created the United States Railroad Administration. This shipment occured in March, 1918.
At Albany, the money was transferred to a New York Central "Pay Car" which roamed the system paying the employees in cash. Pay cars (at this time, the Central operated five) were manned by two paymasters and a railroad detective.
The "Fed" is no longer in the Equitable Building, the New York State National Bank no longer exists, the New York Central Railroad merged into Penn Central, which folded into Conrail, then was carved up by CSX and NS. Railroad workers now get paid by Direct Deposit.


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US: Russia Blamed for Each and Every Thing That Goes Wrong
Alex Gorka
Russia has once again been accused of being behind the hackers who have penetrated several mostly unnamed Washington-based think tanks.
Cybersecurity company CrowdStrike blamed a group called COZY BEAR, or APT29, allegedly linked to the DNC hack, for breaking into the Washington-based think tanks' servers.
The operation targeted «fewer than five organizations and 10 staffers researching Russia».
CrowdStrike affirms, the «Russian group» has targeted think tanks in the past and has also gained access to unclassified networks at the White House, State Department and US Joint Chiefs of Staff.
The Defense One publication says many of the victims were former government officials that still advise the government. The mission was to look at their communications. The hackers lured victims to sending open messages by using fake emails from known think tanks and geopolitical consultancy groups.
Cyber vulnerabilities have become something of a crisis in the US government. Even America's top cyber snooping organization, the National Security Agency, is in the midst of a hacking scandal in which it appears some of its top secret code was leaked or stolen. Every day US media outlets run stories about the «threat» and Russian interlopers supposedly invading US databases.
The new accusations come as United States security officials express concerns over the possibility of Russia allegedly attempting to influence the US elections via targeted cyberattacks, indicating that a cyberwar may indeed be brewing.
About 20,000 DNC emails were made public by WikiLeaks on July 22, revealing a close working relationship between the Democratic Party and some mainstream media figures, as well as collusion with the Hillary Clinton campaign to sideline Bernie Sanders, another presidential candidate running on the Democratic ticket at the time. The DNC said Russia was behind the hack and the leaks in an attempt to back Donald Trump, the Republican nominee. The US media outlets picked up the story to raise ballyhoo with «all signs point to Russia» spooks. Back then, the researchers at CrowdStrike concluded the breach was the work of two Russian intelligence agencies, or people working for or with them, possibly to disrupt the 2016 US presidential campaign.
Seasoned experts believe the allegations about Russia having anything to do with the DNC leaks do not hold water. According to a report prepared by cyber-security expert Jeffrey Carr, there is no way CrowdStrike (or anybody else) could definitively point to Russian «state actors» as the culprits in this or any other case because the procedure used is unreliable.
Tracing technical analysis of code and the utilized software cannot identify hackers. Even if Russian characters are discovered, it does not mean the Russian government has anything to do with it. «Just because you find an AK-47 at a crime scene doesn't mean a Russian pulled the trigger», says J.J. Thompson, chief executive of Rook Security, an Indianapolis-based firm.
The analysis prepared by cyber companies is based on assumptions that cannot be objectively verified. The expert says they deliberately exclude evidence that does not support the judgment that the Russian government is not responsible for illegal activities.
Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder said that «there is no proof whatsoever» that Russian intelligence sources are responsible for hacking thousands of Democratic National Committee emails.
Edward Snowden, an expert in the field, who is well aware of the evidence-gathering capabilities of the US government, believes that if Russian intelligence did hack the DNC, the NSA would know for sure and make the information public.
Another former insider with knowledge of American and Russian intelligence capabilities, Michael McFaul, the US ambassador to Russia from 2012 to 2014, agreed that it should be possible for the US to present proof if Russia was, in fact, responsible for the attack.
William Binney, the NSA executive who created the agency's mass surveillance program for digital information, also questioned the allegations of Russia's involvement.
According to him, the probability was that an insider provided the DNC data.
Similarly, former NSA employee, producer for ABC's World News Tonight, James Bamford notes: «If Russia had stolen the hacking tools, it would be senseless to publicize the theft, let alone put them up for sale. It would be like a safecracker stealing the combination to a bank vault and putting it on Facebook. Once revealed, companies and governments would patch their firewalls, just as the bank would change its combination».
According to an anonymous source cited by Motherboard on-line magazine, «We are 99.9 percent sure that Russia has nothing to do with this and even though all this speculation is more sensational in the media, the insider theory should not be dismissed».
«We think it is the most plausible», the source added.
Another former NSA source, who was contacted independently and spoke on condition of anonymity, said that «it's plausible» that the leakers are actually a disgruntled insider, claiming that it's easier to walk out of the NSA with a USB drive or a CD than hack its servers.
The «hate Russia» campaign seems to have picked up speed. For instance, US political elite goes as far as to blame Russia for Brexit.
With all the scandals and questionable deals involving it, the Clinton Foundation has also happened to be an alleged victim of Russia's activities. As Bloomberg put it, «If the Democrats can show the hidden hand of Russian intelligence agencies, they believe that voter outrage will probably outweigh any embarrassing revelations».
The same evidence-free rationale is utilized to validate the claim that Russia is to blame for hacking into the think tanks. With all the ballyhoo raised by US media, not a shred of evidence has been produced so far to support the allegations. But with so many media outlets reporting by and large the same concocted conspiracy stories, fiction turns into something many people take for granted. Reporters rely on insinuations such as a widespread agreement among cybersecurity experts and professionals that Russia is somehow responsible. That's what propaganda campaigns are about.
It brings to mind the story about multiple «sources» who assured us that Saddam Hussein had «weapons of mass destruction» to make the United States breach international law and plunge itself into a never ending conflict with a huge death toll and a cost exceeding $2 trillion – the burden for the American taxpayers to shoulder. Looks like some people never learn.
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Janine Lockhart, financial planner and analyst in the Office of Academic Affairs, finds the best options for meeting the demands of Wesleyan's five-year financial plans.
Q: Janine, so you're the financial planner and analyst in the Office of Academic Affairs.
A: Yes, although I usually am introduced as the budget person since that's a more familiar concept for most people.
Q: When did you come here?
A: I came to Wesleyan and this position in July 2004. Several others held the position before me, including Sun Chyung, with whom I work closely in her current capacity as the budget director for Wesleyan.
Q: Explain what your role is as a financial planner? What budgets do you monitor?
A: I oversee the annual operating budget for Academic Affairs, which amounts to $65 million and consists of funding for more than 50 departments and programs.
Q: What does the analyst part of your job consist of?
A: Although I don't really think of them separately, as an analyst I look at the potential impact of various planning options, policy changes or funding changes, as well as monitor the outcome of the plans that are implemented.
Q: What are typical questions or problems people would come to you with?
A: I provide support for a variety of issues –everything from how to use various components of the financial/reporting systems to which account/object code should be used for a particular expenditure to finding funding for unanticipated needs.
Q: What are some of the big challenges in your job right now?
A: Right now, it's the challenge of finding the best options for meeting the demands of Wesleyan's five-year financial plans.
Q: Who are the key people you work with in Academic Affairs?
A: I work closely with everyone in Academic Affairs, as well as a number of people in Financial Affairs and Information Technology Services on a regular basis.
Q: What were you doing before you came to Wesleyan?
A: I've worked primarily in higher education and the arts, most recently as the budget officer at a medical school in Ohio.
A: I grew up in East Liverpool, Ohio, a small town where the Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia borders meet, which was once the pottery capital of the world. I lived throughout northeastern Ohio until I moved to Connecticut last year.
Q: Where did you attend college and what did you major in?
A: I have a bachelor's degree in French horn performance from the Dana School of Music at Youngstown State University in Ohio. I've also completed graduate coursework in arts administration.
A: I love to read, go to the movies, and keep up with the crazy antics of my family. I've served as a volunteer for various arts organizations and feel fortunate to have played a very small role in helping out at Green Street Arts Center since coming to Wesleyan.


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UN rights chief blasts Israel for using 'unwarranted' force against Palestinians
Tuesday, 14 September 2021 6:20 AM [ Last Update: Tuesday, 14 September 2021 9:34 AM ]
Israeli police officers patrol the area near the site of an alleged stabbing attack, in Jerusalem al-Quds on September 13, 2021. (Photo by AFP)
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet has hit out at the Israeli regime for using "excessive or entirely unwarranted" force against Palestinian people in the occupied territories in violation of international rules.
In a verbal report at the 48th session of the Human Rights Council on Monday, Bachelet said that so far this year, 54 Palestinians, including 12 children, have been killed by Israeli forces in the West Bank -- more than double last year's figure.
More than 1,000 Palestinians have been injured by Israeli live ammunition during the same period.
"In the Occupied Palestinian Territory, I deplore continued and increasing instances of excessive or entirely unwarranted use of force against Palestinian civilians by Israeli Security Forces," she said.
The Israeli military frequently carries out wide-ranging arrest campaigns across the West Bank under the pretext of searching for "wanted" Palestinians.
The Tel Aviv regime has been repeatedly criticized for its extensive use of lethal force against and extrajudicial killing of Palestinians who do not pose an immediate threat to the occupation forces.
Bachelet's remarks came amid heightened tensions in the occupied lands following the stunning escape of six Palestinian prisoners from Israel's high-security Gilboa prison.
Four of the inmates were detained again by Israeli police over the weekend, but two remain at large.
Palestinians issue warning after Israel says 4 escaped prisoners arrested
The Islamic Jihad resistance movement and other Palestinian groups warn Israel against putting in danger the lives of prisoners detained after their escape earlier in the week.
The jailbreak has been hailed as a victory by Palestinians, while Israelis have decried it as a major security and intelligence failure.
Israeli media claimed on Monday that the regime's forces had foiled a major attack planned by Palestinian resistance groups in solidarity with the escaped prisoners.
They also reported that Israeli police were going on high alert fearing further violence over the Yom Kippur holiday, particularly in al-Quds.
Israel in 'a very sensitive situation'
Speaking to the Kan public broadcaster, Israel's public security minister Omer Barlev said, "I don't know if we are on the verge of an escalation. But we are definitely in a very sensitive period."
"Any incident could set off the entire area, so we are preparing for an escalation" in al-Quds, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, he said, stressing, however, that none of the sides had a real interest in "igniting this barrel of gunpowder."
Hamas attributed the recent surge in unrest to the prison escape.
"The escalation of stabbings in occupied al-Quds, the shootings, the increasing clashes of popular anger in the West Bank and the demonstrations in Gaza, come within the framework of the freedom uprising launched by our Palestinian people in solidarity with the heroic prisoners and confronting the arrogance of the occupation against them," said Abdelatif al-Qanou, a spokesman for the Gaza-based Hamas resistance movement.
"Sustaining the clash with the Zionist occupation and escalating the pace of operations by various means is the best option to confront the Zionist occupation."
In a statement carried by Turkey's Anadolu news agency, the Palestinian Prisoner Society (PPS) said that Israeli forces had beaten some 90 Palestinian inmates during the process of transferring them from Gilboa prison to nearby Shatta prison.
"The Zionist regime is preventing the release of any news from Gilboa prison, cutting the facility's communication lines," the statement added.
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We all know that our educational attainment is the foundation of future economic success. Yet we continue to teach using 19th century methods. Elizabeth Coleman, President of Bennington College, has been leading a revolutionary revamp of her college's curriculum, building it around finding solutions to real-world problems. She'll share her vision of how to revitalize higher education in America. Read more.
Many well meaning outsiders have prescriptions for how to change government, but real change starts with understanding how things actually happen in Washington. Deputy Chief Technology Officer for Open Government Beth Noveck will give us an eye-opening list of ten ways that outsiders can have an impact. And Deputy U.S. CTO, Andrew McLaughlin will discuss Carl.gov: One Year On. Read more.
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Jan 29 Why Republicans Are Freaking Out at Obama's Go-It-Alone Challenge
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The president's State of the Union address last night was nothing short of a masterpiece - inspiring, substantive, on the mark. While the pundits try to read tea-leaves about this being the president's attempt to hold the Senate or improve his own poll ratings though, to understand the true message behind the speech one needed do no tea-leave reading. One only needed to listen to the speech. The president was, at once, speaking to the American people and to Congress. He channeled the American people's frustration with Congress with a combative yet jovial tone: if Congress wants to be irrelevant, they could suit themselves.
Nowhere in his address was this more evident than when the president announced that he will sign an executive order raising the minimum wage paid to people working for federal contractors to $10.10 per hour. He is not king, and he cannot raise the minimum wage overall by the stroke of a pen, but he would use his executive power to make decisions on who the federal government does business with. Note the phrasing (from transcript):
In the coming weeks, I will issue an Executive Order requiring federal contractors to pay their federally-funded employees a fair wage of at least $10.10 an hour – because if you cook our troops' meals or wash their dishes, you shouldn't have to live in poverty.
Of course, to reach millions more, Congress needs to get on board. Today, the federal minimum wage is worth about twenty percent less than it was when Ronald Reagan first stood here. Tom Harkin and George Miller have a bill to fix that by lifting the minimum wage to $10.10. This will help families. It will give businesses customers with more money to spend. It doesn't involve any new bureaucratic program. So join the rest of the country. Say yes. Give America a raise.
The phrasing has transformed from the format of "Congress should do A, but if it doesn't, I will take action" to "I will do A, and if Congress wants to help, it should do more." The president is as fed up with Congress as are the rest of us, and his speech showed it.
This pattern was repeated throughout the speech: from voting rights to setting up MyRA (individual savings account backed by special bonds) and calling on Congress to follow it up by fixing the tax code, on educating the workforce and matching skills of workers to skills needed for work available, and connecting schools to broadband.
Some are calling this a reversal of tone from last year's call to action to Congress, but in truth, it is a follow-up. Last year, the president warned Congress that America couldn't wait around while Congress dragged its feet, and last night, the president announced the end of that waiting period. Last year, the president called for Congress to act, but said he would if it didn't. Congress failed to heed his warning, and now the president is acting.
To Republicans, anything the president does without allowing them to obstruct is, of course, part of a tyrannical monarchy destroying America. Also, Hitler. From Speaker Boehner flipping out at the president's mention of a pen and a phone to GOP members of Congress going completely bonkers over the president's use of executive power to sidestep their obstructionism, however, not all of it can be attributed to a few bad apples in the GOP running off their mouths.
There is a very good reason why Republicans "mainstream" and otherwise are having a heart attack over this: with this attitude, the president has captured the rightful outrage the American people have against Congress. And because Congressional obstructionism is seen (correctly) as largely a Republican fault, it would spell trouble for them if the president is able to capitalize on that anger. Republicans are now painted into a dangerous corner with no good choices: they could (a) cooperate on sensible things with the president and be skinned alive by their base, (b) do nothing and prove the president right as he ramps up an election-year agenda of taking and publicizing his executive actions in contrast with Congress and explain to the American people why their lives can't be even better, or (c) do nothing and sue the administration to try to stop the executive actions.
Doing (c) may be the most disastrous of all the options above for the Republicans (which probably means that's what they are going to do). It will allow the president and the Democrats to cast Republicans as super-obstructionists who not only will not help but will try to stop someone who is trying to help. And as with most challenges to executive power, in the absence of being able to pass a law clearly forbidding a given executive action, the challenges will also fail in court.
This president has always preferred to work with Congress - not simply because he's a nice guy but because changes made with the approval of Congress are written into law and cannot be reversed by a future executive. But just as war is the last resort to threats to national security when diplomacy fails, executive actions going over the heads of Congress (to the extent allowable by law) even if it displeases Speaker Orange is the weapon when a sector of Congress constitutes a real threat to the improving the lives of the American people.
Still, not so long ago, Republicans weren't so averse to a powerful executive, even a unitary one. Is the reversal solely because a black Democrat now sits in the Oval Office? That's most of it. But there is another part to this equation. Demographic trends, mixed with the GOP's failure to make itself anything but hostile to women as well as minorities of all stripes, Republicans are afraid, if not convinced, that the White House - the executive - is out of their hands for the foreseeable future. Their stranglehold on power is the House, thanks to gerrymandering. And so, their only hope to obstruct progress is just that, obstruct.
After all, if I'm right and Republicans are convinced that they have lost the White House for the foreseeable future, then we're not just talking about President Obama. We're talking about a possible future President Clinton, or another Democrat who will use the roadmap laid out by this president to club a future possible Republican House over the head. It may be this precedence they are trying to stop more than any possible action President Obama might take.
But they have exactly zero leverage on either count. So they can keep freaking out. The president, and rest of us, have work to do.
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A midweek break from the mundane to focus on higher things.
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Did you ever wonder how those striking food images land in glossy magazines and inspire our imagination? The making of a food photograph is a journey into the world of creative excitement and it takes a team. Often there is a photographer, food and prop stylist, chef, Art director, post-production team, and more. It can take hours of selection, prep, tweaking, and shooting to capture the quintessential shot. Take a look at the video by the Chicago Tribune for a behind the scenes glimpse into the world of food photography.
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Want to take a great photo at home? The video below is a collaboration between Canon and YouTube food blogger Donal Skehan. They share a few tips to help you create "brilliant food images".
The photographer and food stylist aim to tell a visual story through food photography with the goal of triggering an emotional reaction. All the while hoping you will make, buy or eat the item featured. But all too often the perfect dish falls flat visually. What's the issue? Perhaps it is too perfect. Perfection is often a synonym for boring and in the images featured in the video below; it is the imperfection that captures our imagination. Look again and you'll find that imperfect is just another word for fantastic.
4. Trick or Treat: Is what you are seeing Haute Cuisine or Junk Food?
Parody Instagram account ChefJacquesLaMerde – a pseudonym for a chef familiar with New Nordic plating techniques – is having fun making junk food appear as fancy, high-end cuisine. The chef's tagline is "small portions | tweezered everything". The chef posted his first dish this February but has already amassed an impressive 85.5k followers.
Our favorite is the Jamaican Beef Patty. What's yours?
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One of the newest drool-worthy trends is food typography! Typography is the design and use of typefaces or letterform. Designers are using everything from coffee, tea, spices, grains, bacon and more to literally write messages with food. The result is a marriage of photography, design, art, food, and marketing into one beautiful food statement. Check out the video below! TAZO Chai from Danielle Evans on Vimeo.
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It goes without saying sales is one of the most important functions of your club. No one knows this better than Victor Poma, a Fitness 19 franchisee with 23 locations in California.
Here he shares insights into where his passion for sales stems from and his overall sales philosophy as a club operator.
CS: You said you instantly fell in love with the fitness industry and sales — what did you love about it specifically?
VP: I am such a big believer in the benefits of health and fitness. The fact I truly believed in what I was selling, combined with the highly competitive nature of our industry — I was hooked. I was able to help people with true preventative medicine, not just pumping them full of pills and never really solving the root cause of their ailments. We have such a unique opportunity to help people, and turn their lives around. I truly believe in the saying that the secret to living is giving, and we have a unique opportunity to give back and change people's lives every day. And to think we can make a living doing just that is pretty special.
CS: What attributed to your early success in sales?
VP: Since I was young, I have always been extremely competitive at anything I did. When it comes to selling fitness, it's something I believe in and feel passionate about, so sharing that with others is easy when it's coming from a truly authentic place. I believe you really have to love what you do in order to fully commit and give everything that will be required to succeed at a high level. You must commit to never getting out worked, to always be the first to arrive and the last to leave. To always be a student of the business, constantly learning, constantly getting better, and willing to sacrifice anything to succeed. It takes grit, tenacity, drive, discipline and flat out hard work.
CS: What is your sales philosophy or strategy for your Fitness 19 clubs?
This must be done first and it starts with them knowing we genuinely care and are here to help them. People are smart and don't care what you know, until they know you care. Furthermore, people want clarity, simplicity and certainty. These three desires are critical elements that can't be overlooked throughout any sales process. Our sales process is built off of this basic understanding.
CS: Do you have a specific sales mindset? What are your sales keys to success?
VP: I think it's important to shift your mindset from a tactics mindset whereas the purpose of a customer is to get a sale, to a strategy mindset where the purpose of a sale is to get a customer.
Lastly, once the member enrolls, we must deliver. The majority of revenue in any industry comes from referrals and the first step to getting more referrals is to deliver on expectation, or better yet — and what we strive to do — exceed expectation. To have others remark about you, you have to be remarkable.
At the end of the sales process, the true test as to how well you did is if the new member or prospect would invite you over for dinner that night. Did you connect with them on a deep enough level to create a lasting relationship whereas they know you genuinely care about them and are their biggest fan and support team as they embark upon their fitness journey?