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IBM Sales Manual (US) - Document 7249 - GUEST IBM Sales Manual (US) - Document 7249
Overview 7249 IBM ThinkPad Power Series 850, RS/6000 Notebook 860
Document's Table of Contents:
IBM U.S. Product Life Cycle Dates
Model Summary Matrix
Model Conversions
Marketing   Service      Replaced
Type Model Announced   Available   Withdrawn   Discontinued    By
7249-851   1996/02/20  1996/04/15  1996/11/08  2001/12/31   7249-860
7249-860   1996/10/08  1996/11/08  1998/01/30  2001/12/31      None
The IBM* RS/6000* Notebook is a PowerPC*-based mobile system that provides world-class workstation performance for many popular or mission critical applications that you can now use in a mobile environment.
Model Abstract 7249-851
(For IBM US, No Longer Available as of November 8, 1996)
The IBM 7249 ThinkPad Power Series 850 includes a PowerPC 603e 100MHz microprocessor, 32MB of standard memory, expandable up to 96MB, 10.4-inch (maximum viewable area when measured diagonally) color display -- active matrix Thin Film Transistor (TFT) with 800x600 resolution, a G10 graphics with motion adapter, built-in stereo speakers and microphone, user-removable, large capacity hard disks -- 810MB or 1.2GB, integrated CD-ROM drive (2X), PCMCIA expansion slots (two Type I/II or one Type III), and 84-, 85-, or 89-key keyboard with an integrated TrackPoint III. The 850 system also supports multi-tasking capability and a choice of high-performance 32-bit operating systems: IBM AIX Version 4.1.4 for Clients, Windows NT** Workstation 3.51 (PowerPC Edition), or Solaris** Desktop 2.5.1 (PowerPC Edition).
(For IBM US, No Longer Available as of January 30, 1998)
The RS/6000 Notebook 860 combines desktop workstation performance, graphics capabilities, network connectivity, and industry common I/O ports to enable powerful solutions for the mobile environment. It is powered by a 166MHz PowerPC 603e* microprocessor and features 256KB of L2 cache, 32MB of system memory (expandable to 96MB) and hard disk drive capability up to 2GB. A large, 12.1-inch (maximum viewable area measured diagonally) active-matrix TFT color display offers brilliant color in 1024 x 768 resolution. An external monitor for up to 1280 x 1024 resolution can also be connected. The Model 860 features a built-in GT20 graphics adapter for graphics power, featuring video input capability, with motion video capture and playback.
Effective April 18, 1997, this RS/6000 system will have a 1-2 user, full function AIX* Version 4 package included at no additional charge. See AIX Program Number 5765-C34 for additional details.
Extraordinary workstation-class notebook system - Combines PowerPC technology, AIX, IBM's award winning UNIX** operating system, and 3D graphics capability in a mobile environment.
Maximum performance in a minimum footprint - The 166MHz PowerPC 603e microprocessor delivers in a notebook package similar integer and floating point performance usually found in a desktop system.
Outstanding expansion - Memory can expand from 32MB to 96MB and internal disk storage can expand from 1.2GB to 2.0GB.
Wide range of applications - The Notebook 860 runs a multitude of solutions, including personal productivity applications, complex scientific graphics applications and commercial databases.
Exceptional graphics - The 12.1-inch TFT display, with brilliant color and 1024 x 768 resolution, supports graphical presentations in a mobile environment.
Networking and connectivity - With Ethernet**, Token Ring, serial, parallel, SCSI-2, video-in and 28.8 fax/modem (available in selected countries only) ports, you are ready to communicate, access data, or print reports with an optional printer.
Memory  Base  Max.                     Graphics
Model   Processor    Bus    Mem.  Mem.   HDD   Display     Adapter
-----  -----------  ------  ----  ----  -----  --------  ------------
851   603e 100MHz  64-bit  32MB  96MB  810MB  800x600   G10 w/Motion
860   603e 166MHz  64-bit  32MB  96MB  1.2GB  1024x768  GT20
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This refers to a procedure, to which all economically, ecologically and toxicologically sustainable methods are applied, in order to keep the extent of damage to a minimum and beneath the economic damage threshold.
Integrated Viticulture is a method of working toward the profitable production of qualitatively high value grapes, wine and other grape products. Protection of human health as well as conservation of the basis for production and the environment stand at the forefront of Integrated Viticulture. Through the general overview of the vineyard as an agro-ecosystem, all means of cultivation were taken into account. Three quarters of Austrian vineyard land is cultivated according to the principles of Integrated Production.
Vineyard, © Austrian Wine / Wine Committee Weinviertel, Robert Herbst
Integrated production is an outgrowth of 'integrated crop protection'. The growing use of pesticides led to increasing difficulties in the 1980s. Side effects of pesticides/herbicides on the ecology were carefully examined with scientifically exact methodology, and as a result evaluated in terms of potential damage to useful organisms. Ecologically harmful and potentially damaging materials and preparations – including those potentially harmful to the user spreading these preparations in the vineyard – were limited in use (beyond a certain amount deemed permissible) or forbidden altogether. Over the course of the year, the soil – as in other methods of production – is to be planted with greenery or covered with other organic material.
Permitted herbicides for maintenance of the soil may only be applied in strip-form among the stake rows. Selective use of modern herbicides should not contaminate the soils over the longer term. This was not true of the herbicides formerly used, which are today forbidden. Only those materials expressly permitted in Integrated Viticulture for combatting disease and pests may be utilised. All materials, fecundating or therapeutic, listed under the biological production method may also be used.
Wine production is governed by the Austrian Wine Law. Products made through this method of viticulture can be designated and described as 'wine made from grapes produced via Integrated Viticulture'.
Utilising a practical combination of crop care measure and crop protection treatments will mean that, after a certain threshold of damage has been crossed, a lower level of CO2 emissions will also be achieved because of the reduces number of passes made by tractors through the vineyards.
Integrated Pest Management, © Österreichischer Weinbauverband
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Hurricane Florence alters Lees-McRae schedules
Written by Staff Reports
BANNER ELK, N.C. – With Hurricane Florence set to make landfall in the Carolinas within the next few days, the Lees-McRae College athletic department announced several schedule changes for this weekend that affect multiple programs.
Friday's and Saturday's women's volleyball matches against Mount Olive and Belmont Abbey have been postponed. The contest versus Mount Olive will now be played on October 12 at 7 p.m., while LMC's match vs. Belmont Abbey will now be on October 2 at 7 p.m. With those changes, the match originally scheduled for October 12 against King University will be played on a soon to be determined date.
The men's and women's soccer matches against Chowan on Saturday have been postponed as well. Neither match has a make-up date as of yet.
The men's and women's cross country teams' races at the Lenoir-Rhyne Cross Country Invitational have been moved up one day to Thursday at 6 p.m. in Newton, N.C.
Be sure to follow www.lmcbobcats.com and the different Lees-McRae Athletics social media accounts to keep up to date with all of the schedule changes throughout the academic year.
For more information of Lees-McRae Athletics, follow us on our social media sites on Twitter (@LMCBobcats), Facebook (Lees-McRae Athletics) and on Instagram (leesmcraeathletics)


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Published by Motto Books, Berlin
Dani Gal, An Elaborate Gesture of Pastness, Motto Books, 2021 (cover) © The Artist, MB, BMP
"Dani Gal's films occupy a borderland where fiction and historical reconstruction mingle and where the past bears disturbing messages for the present. Focused on a series of events unfolding at the margins of our usual narratives of the Holocaust, Gal's work challenges what we thought we know about the genocide and its legacies. In the gray zones Gal reconstructs, we find unexpected exchanges between victims and perpetrators and between the histories of Europe and Israel/Palestine. This book offers a rich and powerful introduction to Dani Gal's uncanny and unsettling vision."
– Michael Rothberg, Professor of English and Comparative Literature and Chair in Holocaust Studies UCLA, Los Angeles; Author of 'The Implicated Subject: Beyond Victims and Perpetrators' (2019) & 'Multidirectional Memory: Remembering the Holocaust in the Age of Decolonization' (2009).
Dani Gal, An Elaborate Gesture of Pastness, Motto Books, 2021 | cover © Artist, Motto Books, BMP
The publication contextualises Gal's film trilogy within the fields of memory politics, remembrance culture, Holocaust studies, decolonialism as well as film and art history.
New texts by Sa'ed Atshan, Noit Banai, Sabeth Buchmann, Burcu Dogramaci, and Dani Gal revolve around ethical, moral, historical and aesthetic dilemmas. Accompanied by visual and literary materials from Gal's extensive research practice, the publication raises questions about cinema as an instrument for the production and reproduction of the real: dialogic versus fixed notions of history, unsettling empathy, historical trauma and the possibility of forgiveness in the context of German, Jewish and Palestinian histories.
Authors: Sa'ed Atshan, Noit Banai, Sabeth Buchmann, Burcu Dogramaci, Dani Gal
Editors: Dani Gal, Mika Hayashi Ebbesen
Publisher: Motto Books, Berlin
Producer: Blood Mountain Projects, Vienna
Graphic Designer: Olga Prader
English | 128 Pages | 17 x 24 cm |Softcover | ISBN: 9782940672219
Price: €19.00 + p.p.
Produced by Jade Niklai on behalf of Blood Mountain Projects.
Supported BMKOES, Ernst & Olga Gubler-Hablützel Stiftung, Nationalfonds and Zukunftsfonds
About the Trilogy
Night and Fog (22 mins, 2011) is a re-enactment of the night of 31 May 1962, based on an interview Gal made with Michael Goldman-Gilad, a Holocaust survivor and Israeli police officer, who had undertaken the secret mission of scattering the ashes of Adolf Eichmann into the international waters of the Mediterranean Sea after he was captured in Argentina and brought to trial and executed in Israel.
Dani Gal, Nights and Fog, 2011 (22 mins), still © The Artist
As from Afar (26 mins, 2013) is a fictionalised account of a meeting between Simon Wiesenthal, a Jewish Holocaust survivor who dedicated his life to bring Nazi criminals to justice, and Albert Speer, the chief architect of the Third Reich, using the letters they exchanged throughout the 1970s as a basis for the dialogue.
Dani Gal, As from Afar, 2013 (26 mins), still © The Artist
White City (25 mins, 2018) revolves around the complex character of Arthur Ruppin, a German Jew and one of the founders of the Zionist Settlement who promoted co-existence with the Palestinians before the establishment of the State of Israel. The film traces his visit to the Weissenhof Estate in Stuttgart, and his 1933 meeting with Hans F. K. Günther, the leading German eugenicist of the time who became a major influence on National Socialist race theory.
Dani Gal, White City, 2018 (28 mins), still © The Artist
Vienna Wiesental Institute, Vienna
This was a live-stream event with limited live audience.
Please view the recording below.
Dani Gal in conversation with art historian and book contributor Prof. Sabeth Buchmann and museum director Dr Hanno Loewy. Chaired by Prof. Dr. Éva Kovács with readings by actor and performer, Alexander Fennon.
Event Partners: Vienna Wiesenthal Institute, Singer Bookshop and Institute for Art Theory and Cultural Studies at Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna.
Event Supporters: BMKOES, Bundesministerium Bildung und Forschung and Stadt Wien.
Noit Banai
Associate Programmes:
Dani Gal: Three Works for Piano


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Georges Marie Martin Cottier, O.P. (Carouge, Ginebra, Suïssa, 25 d'abril de 1922-31 de març de 2016), va ser un cardenal suís, teòleg emèrit de la Casa Pontifícia.

Va ingressar en l'orde dels dominics el 1945 i va ser ordenat sacerdot el 2 de juliol de 1951. Era llicenciat en Estudis clàssics i en Filosofia, i doctor en Teologia.

El 1962 va començar a ensenyar en la Facultat de Lletres de Ginebra. El 1973 va estar al capdavant d'alguns cursos en la Universitat de Friburg. Va ser professor visitant en la Universitat de Mont-real, la Universitat de l'Institut Catòlic de París, la Universitat Catòlica del Sagrat Cor de Milà i la Universitat de Pàdua.

Va participar com a expert en el Concili Vaticà II i va ser consultor del llavors Consell per al Diàleg amb els no creients, actual Consell Pontifici per al Diàleg Interreligiós, participant en col·loquis de tot el món.

El 1986 va ser nomenat membre de la Comissió Teològica Internacional i secretari el 1989.

El 1990, va ser nomenat teòleg de la Casa Pontifícia.

També va ser president de la Comissió històric-teològica del comitè organitzador del Gran Jubileu de l'Any 2000. Era director de la revista teològica Nova et Vetera (Ginebra), fundada pel cardenal Journet.

Preconitzat cardenal, va ser triat per al bisbat titular de Tulia, amb el títol personal d'Arquebisbe, el 7 d'octubre de 2003 i consagrat el 20 d'octubre.

Va ser teòleg emèrit de la Casa Pontifícia des de desembre de 2005.

Va ser creat i proclamat cardenal per Joan Pau II en el Consistori del 21 d'octubre de 2003, de la Diaconia de Santi Domenico e Sisto (Sants Domènec i Sixt).

La seva investigació científica es va centrar en qüestions sobre els límits entre la filosofia i la teologia, la filosofia de la religió i la història de la filosofia. El cardenal Cottier era acadèmic honorari de l'Acadèmia Pontifícia de les Ciències, entre d'altres.

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Entre les seves obres editades en castellà es troben:

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 Holy See Press Office. Cardinal Georges Marie Martin Cottier

Cardenals creats per Joan Pau II
Cardenals dominics
Cardenals suïssos
Catolicisme a Suïssa
Frares dominics
Membres del Consell Pontifici per al Diàleg Interreligiós
Participants al Concili Vaticà II
Persones del cantó de Ginebra
Teòlegs del segle XXI
Teòlegs dominics
Teòlegs suïssos
Teòlegs tomistes
Alumnes de la Universitat de Ginebra
Alumnes de la Universitat de Friburg
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Conrad's Secret Agent: On terrorism and politics
Joseph Conrad's haunting novel, The Secret Agent, written in early twentieth century is one of the front runners of spy novels. Probably it was the first time that politics and terrorism makes a major appearance in this genre. Even for Conrad, this was a first. More than suspense or thrills, the novel concentrates on the psychology and motives of perpetrators and those involved in the story with varying degrees of guilt.
Courtesy: fantasticfiction.co.uk
This is the story of Verlock, who is a shop keeper, a family man and a secret agent for a foreign country, settled in London. He is a mole in the group of anarchists, interacting and spying on them. One day his boss calls him to office and gives him a mission- to commit a terrorist act on a building of Science so that people will think this is the work of anarchists and they will lose their public support. This mission creates ripples in the life of every one connected - Verlock, his family, anarchists, politicians, police officers, thus starting off a cycle of events getting more and more complicated by the plotting and sub plotting by all involved, to manipulate events to their personal benefit.
Major themes of the novel are terrorism and anarchism, which is pretty much contemporary even after a hundred years. But if you closely look, the novel implies the hands of external forces in such events. In the novel anarchists does not do any big crime and most of them, except the character Professor, (whom I suspect is a wise but psycho kind of guy) does not have the will power or guts to carry out any atrocity. But it is the people in high positions, who manipulates middle men like Verlock, for whom the job of secret agent is a mode to sustain his life, an employment, and makes them commit things they will never do or even think to do in their right minds.
The novel is superbly written with some wonderful characters, but a bit depressing, unevenly paced and much dark. So be prepared if you plan to read it...
By night in Chile...
Meeting of East and West
Regeneration of action stars
The 39 Steps (a play): Hilarious Hitchcock..
Camus' Outsider: Brutally Honest.


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Newtown's three-day music and arts festival, the King Street Carnival, is the latest victim of the Omicron outbreak sweeping New South Wales. This marked the second time the festival has faced a delay, with organisers saying on Instagram "we don't feel that now is the right time to be bringing large crowds into the local community." […]
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The Chocolate Roster coming to New Theatre
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The Park coming to New Theatre
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New Theatre Announces 2022 Season
New Theatre is thrilled to bring a new initiative to Sydney stages in 2022 entitled, Brand New - a season of Australian plays. The season will consist of the World Premieres of The Park by Simon Thomson and The Chocolate Roster by Brooke Robinson. Each play will have a short season of one week, with six performances, beginning January […]
The Annandale illustrator bringing the Sydney 'fantasy' to life
By DANIEL LO SURDO Lew Keilar first settled in Sydney at The Abbey, Annandale, finding work and residency as a housekeeper. Over three decades on, the illustrator, now a bonafide Annandale local, is showcasing his version of Sydney to the buying public. "It's a bit of a homage and a bit of a fantasy in […]
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REVIEW: 'Wil & Grace' at FringeHQ Newtown
It was great to see the FringeHQ Newtown open its first show after the lockdown lifted. Directed by Erica Lovell and produced for independent theatre company Rogue Projects by Talia Meyerowitz-Katz, Wil and Grace is a fluffy piece of theatre by Madeleine Withington (who also plays Grace), that will appeal to the youth of this fair […]
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Sequel to industrial action as Better Read Than Dead management delay delivering on EBA
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By EVA BAXTER Stanmore-Damun Ward includes Camperdown, Newtown, Stanmore, Enmore, Petersham and Lewisham and is currently represented on Inner West Council by Labor councillor Anna York, Greens councillor Louise Steer and Independent Pauline Lockie. Lockie is the only councillor bidding for re-election. Pauline Lockie Lockie told the Independent that despite the difficulty of campaigning as […]
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WestConnex activist to Deputy Mayor: Pauline Lockie hopes her road through Inner West Council continues
By EVA BAXTER Independent Deputy Mayor of Inner West Council Pauline Lockie never planned on becoming a political representative. As her first term on council comes to an end and she campaigns for re-election for Damun/Stanmore ward, she told the Independent it's the work of local government that makes life in the inner city great. […]
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A coalition led by Harvard's Strategic Training Initiative for the Prevention of Eating Disorders (STRIPED) is asking the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) to monitor eating disorders as a part of national disease surveillance efforts. Bryn Austin, professor in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences and director of STRIPED, explains why this is critical for the treatment and prevention of eating disorders.
What are eating disorders and how many Americans are affected by them?
I think there are misperceptions about who is affected. When people think of eating disorders, they're often imagining what they see in the popular press. So, the images of a Hollywood starlet who's extremely emaciated, that's the kind of image that gets put out there about eating disorders. But the reality is that eating disorders affect millions of people from all walks of life. They affect men and women, people of all gender identities, all race and ethnicity groups, all income groups, and people across the country.
Eating disorders include anorexia nervosa, which is the one people most often think of, but also include bulimia nervosa and binge eating disorder, which is by far the most common, affecting somewhere close to 4% of the U.S. population. We know that around 30 million Americans will be affected by eating disorders in their lifetime and probably double or triple that are affected by what we might call sub-clinical eating disorders, which doesn't mean they're not potentially just as harmful, but they just may not reach all the criteria to get a psychiatric diagnosis.
What we're concerned about from a health perspective is that eating disorders can affect all systems of the body. One of the longer-term effects includes bone loss–when the hormonal system is disrupted, which can happen either from extreme weight loss or from the weight cycling or purging that can be part of an eating disorder, bone does not grow in a healthy way. During the teen years that can mean a lifelong risk of osteoporosis and potentially fractures down the road. There's also risk of fertility loss, gastrointestinal issues, and dental problems because of the effects of purging on enamel and tooth erosion. And there is a particularly high mortality rate among teenagers. For example, a 15-year-old with an eating disorder, particularly anorexia nervosa, has 10 times the risk of dying in her teen years compared to another teen who doesn't have an eating disorder.
Why isn't the CDC tracking eating disorders? What is your coalition asking the agency to do?
The CDC had been tracking eating disorder symptoms on the Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System Survey, which is conducted every two years in high schools in many states across the country. And they had been doing that for more than a decade. Then in 2015, they dropped that surveillance.
The CDC already has a dozen or more standard tracking system surveys out in the field, so we are asking them to include questions about eating disorders in these surveys. It could be very easy to include a few more questions, for example, to identify the symptoms of unhealthy weight control that might be signs of eating disorder symptoms or to identify abuse of weight control products or steroids, which are often connected to body image concerns in boys and men.
The next step will be to sit down with the CDC and staff at the National Center for Health Statistics to talk about how measures of eating disorders can be added into surveys and how the questions should be worded.
The CDC's failure to track eating disorders really gets back to stereotypes about eating disorders and the widespread misconception that they are not a public health issue. In fact, most public health schools do not offer any education about eating disorders, which perpetuates the ignorance in the field. For all of the great work that the CDC does, it t does not seem to be aware of what it's missing by failing to monitor eating disorders in the U.S. population. We're hoping with advocacy and education – and a little help from members of Congress—we can fix this.
How would tracking eating disorders contribute to treatment and prevention?
We need to detect people's symptoms early so we can get them into care. Currently, only a third of people in the U.S. with an eating disorder ever receive treatment. And many clinicians don't receive training in early detection, so they aren't equipped to refer people to treatment. Eating disorders are treatable. We've got good treatments in place for most people, if we can get them access to health care and overcome the barriers of stigma and affordability.
The CDC's national data collection is also important because it allows us to monitor what's happening in communities across the country. It allows us to see if prevention efforts might be successful in one area of the country versus another. It also allows us to see if new epidemics of disorders are emerging or if certain population groups are more affected. For example, from the research we have today, there is reason to think that there is increasing risk among boys. We have good reason to think that there are higher rates of eating disorder symptoms among boys of color compared to whites. We're starting to see data that veterans have much higher rates of eating disorder symptoms than had ever been recognized before. But we need data from the CDC to be able to identify when we're doing something right and when we need to mount a public health response.


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Clark leaves door open to Emirates A330neo deal
By Max Kingsley-Jones2019-11-19T07:27:00+00:00
There could still be a slot for the Airbus A330neo in Emirates' fleet plan but the focus in the near term is on the A350-900, the airline's president Tim Clark tells FlightGlobal.
He also sees a possibility of revisiting the A350-1000, having previously cancelled an order for the variant.
Emirates announced its order for 50 A350-900s at the Dubai air show on 18 November. Emirates chairman Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum explained that the deal replaced its earlier tentative plan for 30 A350s and 40 A330neos.
Speaking to FlightGlobal at the Dubai air show today, Clark said he thought the A330neo was "a great aeroplane. But when all the planners got involved they thought the A350-900 would be a better bet than the A330-900. What I said was: 'We leave it in the mix and see how that will work for us [in the future].'"
Commenting on Emirates' decision to remove the A330neo from yesterday's announcement, Airbus chief executive Guillaume Faury said: "Emirates has decided to come to terms with a firm contract for 50 A350s. They don't say what's going to happen on the A330… We see for the future."
Clark confirms that the A330neo remains a potential future candidate for Emirates: "We're taking the A350 but that doesn't mean we're knocking out the A330neo. So perhaps in 2023/24 it may enter the mix again, by which time Rolls will have matured the engine and hopefully it will be concern-free."
He adds: "That 20 [orders] are still out there. That could be [Boeing] 787s, could be A330neos, could be A350-1000s."
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Boris fails to show
Boris Johnson is running from an interview with Andrew Neil on BBC. He also strangely avoided an interview on Channel 4, the climate debate, and is also declining interviews on ITV.
The truth is, we are not seeing that much of Boris Johnson. He prefers the set-piece photo opportunity, spending more time talking to infants than to voters. On several occasions when he has met voters, they have taken him to task over the Tory record in government.
It is little wonder he is avoiding debate.
In Andrew Neil's interview with Nigel Farage, the point was rightly made by Farage that Boris Johnson's Brexit 'deal' was not being debated in the election. Indeed, although Boris likes the slogan 'getting Brexit done', he avoids talking about his deal.
There are good reasons for this. It is a bad deal. He knows it, and Farage tells him it is. It is a bad deal whether you want to remain in the EU or leave it. It is yet another issue about which Boris Johnson would wish to avoid scrutiny, particularly from the forensic master, Andrew Neil.
So Johnson is running scared and he fails to show. A sheep in a field has got more chance of getting answers from him, than any political journalist.
Now, the focus is turning on whether or not the UK will leave without a deal. Boris Johnson's 'oven-ready' deal seems suddenly to be half-baked. It always was. Furthermore, Boris doesn't really understand it himself - another reason to avoid forensic scrutiny.
Focus on a trade deal with the EU, now reminds voters that Brexit won't be done that easily. What kind of relationship do we want with the EU?
Businesses will want one a similar to the one we currently have. Much of our manufacturing output depends on supply chains in the EU. For these to suddenly add cost to production would affect their competitiveness, and ultimately put jobs at risk.
Brexit isn't 'oven-ready'. Britain certainly isn't ready.
This is why Corbyn's position looks increasingly credible. To renegotiate a customs union and access to the single market, and then to put such a deal back to the people.
Corbyn has faced the media. Boris has ducked it. Corbyn's interviews have been challenging and difficult, but he presented himself well. Boris has failed to show.
Voters should take account of that when it comes to the question of who they trust.
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Culture of viruses in the diagnosis of viral infections is still considered the reference standard for cultivable viruses. Cultivating viruses is still useful in some circumstances, e.g. for infections that are not characteristic of a single virus, and is still considered the most sensitive and specific methodology. The scheme however also provides for those laboratories carrying immunofluorescence or molecular techniques.
Results are entered online via the UK NEQAS secure website. The distribution is open for four weeks. Intended results are usually uploaded the day after closing date. Late results are not accepted after intended results are uploaded.


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\section{Introduction}

The ATLAS trigger~\cite{hlt_tdr} is based on three levels of event selection:
Level-1 (L1), which is based on hardware and Level-2 (L2) and Event Filter (EF)
(collectively referred as the High Level Trigger or HLT) which are based on
software algorithms analyzing the data on large computing farms.
The three levels of the ATLAS trigger system must reduce the output event
storage rate to $\sim$200~Hz from an initial LHC bunch-crossing rate of
40~MHz. Large reduction against QCD processes is needed while maintaining
high efficiency for low-cross-section physics processes including searches
for new physics~\cite{physics_tdr,detector_paper}.

Installation and commissioning of the LHC and ATLAS are currently going on
and the LHC beam operation is expected to start in summer 2008.
The commissioning of the ATLAS detector will begin with single-beam
operation and then with colliding beams at low luminosity with only
a few bunches, but quickly ramp up towards the LHC design luminosity.
During the commissioning phase and in early physics runs, therefore, it is
necessary to prepare appropriate triggers at each stage, in order to
collect useful data for understanding of the ATLAS detector, the
performance of the reconstruction software and the trigger selections.

At each trigger level, several selection logics can be implemented, where
the final decision is taken as the OR of all logics. The entire configuration
of the selection criteria used at the three levels is called the
trigger menu.
The trigger menu must be defined taking into account the availability
of detector sub-systems at each phase of the commissioning,
the efficiency of selecting signal events and the output rate at each level.
Currently, several trigger menus for the startup and early physics runs
have been developed and the performance was studied with Monte Carlo (MC)
simulation.

\section{The ATLAS trigger system}
The ATLAS trigger consists of three levels (L1, L2 and EF) and
selects events of physics interest. The event rate must be reduced
from the initial bunch-crossing rate of 40~MHz
to 75~kHz, 1~kHz and 200~Hz after L1, L2 and EF, respectively

The level-1 trigger is a hardware trigger using data from the calorimeters and
muon trigger chambers. The L1 calorimeter trigger is capable of triggering
on different types of objects: electromagnetic clusters (EM), hadronic clusters
(TAU), jets (JET), forward jets (FJ), missing transverse energy (XE),
total transverse energy sum (TE) and total jet transverse energy sum (JE).
The L1 central trigger processor (CTP) receives the multiplicities of
localized objects above programmable thresholds (e.g. EM clusters with $E_T$
greater than 20~GeV) found by the calorimeter and muon sub-systems,
as well as threshold information for the global quantities (XE, TE and JE).
The CTP makes a decision
based on multiplicities of various thresholds.

While the threshold values
and the logic used in the CTP are configurable, the number of different
thresholds for each type of object and the number of independent
trigger logics (trigger item) are fixed by the hardware design.
In particular, the maximum number of trigger items is 256.

The level-2 trigger is a software-based trigger running on $\sim$500
computing nodes with quad-core dual CPU on each node.
The L2 system receives the results of the L1 trigger
items and information on Regions of Interest (RoI) where L1 observed
interesting objects. Execution of L2 algorithms is controlled by
the HLT Steering software
which runs the algorithm for each RoI. Algorithms then request data
from the detector readout system belonging to the RoI and process
data in this RoI. This reduces the time spent on the data transfer and the
data processing, allowing the execution time per event to be below 40~ms.
The EF execution is also controlled by the HLT Steering.
At EF, algorithms similar to the ones in the offline reconstruction are run.
Since EF algorithms run after the event building, full event data are
available.

Events are written out into one or several Streams depending on the EF
chains that were passed.
The data streaming allows one to reprocess events separately
for each stream. This would be useful, for example, if new calibration
constants for the muon spectrometer become available,
one can reprocess events in the muon stream first without
processing events triggered only by the jet trigger.
The ATLAS experiment has adopted the inclusive streaming model,
i.e. an event passing several EF chains may be directed to several streams.
This makes the system simpler at the analysis stage since all events
passing the same trigger are contained in the same stream.
However, this results in duplicating event data,
so the overlap between streams must be kept as low as possible.

It is planned to have five to ten physics streams.
In addition to physics streams,
there are two special types of streams. One is the express stream which
will be used for prompt reconstruction with a short delay after
the data-taking.
The primary purpose of the express stream is monitoring and debuging before
the bulk reconstruction, therefore events in the express stream consist of
a sample of high-purity signal events from the physics streams.
The other type of stream is the calibration stream which contains events
triggered by calibration triggers used to collect a large data sample
for detector calibrations.
Events which caused errors during online running, e.g. time-outs, crashes etc.
are sent to the debug stream to be investigated further.

\section{Trigger menu for early running}

\subsection{Strategy of the trigger menu commissioning}
At the beginning of LHC beam commissioning, the luminosity is expected to
be very low ($L<10^{31}$~cm$^{-2}$s$^{-1}$) with only a few bunches in the
LHC ring.
During the low-luminosity running, rates of physics process are rather
low and emphasis will be put on commissioning the trigger system and
understanding the trigger performance for higher luminosities.

We plan to start with a simple menu to first trigger on filled bunches
using the beam pick-up system (BPTX) and Minimum Bias Trigger Scintillators
(MBTS). Data collected by such triggers can be used to adjust the timing
of various detector system with respect to the LHC bunch-crossing.
Once the timing-in of the sub-systems has been done, the standard L1 trigger
can be turned on at low thresholds, but initially running the HLT
in pass-through mode which means that HLT algorithms are run, but not used
to make the trigger decision.
These data can be used to commission the HLT selection.

\subsection{Trigger menu for L=$10^{31}$~cm$^{-2}$s$^{-1}$}

\begin{table}[htbp]
  \begin{center}
    \begin{tabular}{l|c|c}
      \hline
      Signature & Lowest L1 threshold (GeV) & Lowest unprescaled L1 threshold (GeV) \\
      \hline
      Muon & 4 & 4 \\
      EM cluster & 3 & 7 \\
      TAU (hadronic cluster) & 6 & 40 \\
      Jet & 10 & 120 \\
      $\mbox{\ensuremath{\, \slash\kern-.6emE_{T}}}$ & 15 & 70 \\
      $\Sigma E_T$ & 150 & 650 \\
      $\Sigma E_T^{jet}$ & 120 & 340 \\
      \hline
    \end{tabular}
    \caption{Lowest L1 $E_T$ thresholds used in the menu at the luminosity of
      $10^{31}$~cm$^{-2}$s$^{-1}$.}
    \label{tab:thresholds}
  \end{center}
\end{table}

\begin{figure}[htbp]
  \begin{center}
    \includegraphics[width=0.6\linewidth]{figures/jet_rate_spectrum.eps}
    \caption{Jet rate spectrum as a function of $E_{T}$.}
    \label{fig:jet_rates}
  \end{center}
\end{figure}

For early physics runs, several trigger menus for various luminosities
are being prepared. In the startup phase, the  luminosity is expected to be
much lower than the LHC design luminosity ($10^{34}$~cm$^{-2}$s$^{-1}$).
We have prepared a comprehensive menu to be used at a luminosity of
$10^{31}$~cm$^{-2}$s$^{-1}$, which includes about 130 L1 items
and $\sim 180$ L2 and EF chains.
At this luminosity, the physics emphasis is to trigger on Standard Model
processes such as QCD jets, $B$-physics and $W$/$Z$ events and
for use in understanding the detector and reconstruction
performance.
For the trigger itself, data collected at low luminosity should allow studies
of the trigger selection algorithms and the optimization of the trigger
for higher luminosities.

\begin{figure}[htbp]
  \begin{center}
    \includegraphics[width=0.6\linewidth]{figures/L31_rates_color.eps}
    \caption{EF output rates for each stream.}
    \label{fig:L31_rates}
  \end{center}
\end{figure}

At $10^{31}$~cm$^{-2}$s$^{-1}$, rates are comparatively modest,
so low thresholds and loose selections can be used at L1, and the HLT can be
run in pass-through mode for most physics processes.

Table~\ref{tab:thresholds} shows the lowest thresholds used for each L1
object type with and without prescales.
At L1, all muon thresholds can be run unprescaled.
They are used for single and multi-muon triggers,
and also for $B$-physics triggers at the HLT.
The lowest thresholds for unprescaled L1 items for EM and TAU cluster triggers
are 7 and 40~GeV, respectively, which run without any isolation criteria.
The EM object triggers are used for electron and photon triggers at the HLT.
The TAU trigger is used to trigger on the hadronic $\tau$ decay from
$Z$, $W$ and top.
Eight L1 jet thresholds and corresponding prescales are chosen to give
an approximately flat trigger rate across the jet $E_T$ spectrum up to
$E_T>100$~GeV, beyond which no prescaling is applied.
The jet triggers are run in pass-through mode at the HLT at this luminosity.
The samples selected by jet triggers are used for QCD background studies
for many channels. Figure~\ref{fig:jet_rates} shows the flat
jet $E_T$ spectrum as selected by the trigger. The total transverse energy and
$\mbox{\ensuremath{\, \slash\kern-.6emE_{T}}}$ triggers are not expected to be crucial for the early running,
but are included in the menu to test the performance.

Although many triggers can be run with low thresholds without prescales,
triggers with higher thresholds, which can be used at the design luminosity,
are also included in the menu for test purpose.

\begin{table}[htbp]
  \begin{center}
    \begin{tabular}{l|c|c}
      \hline
      Stream & Total rate (Hz) & Unique rate (Hz) \\
      \hline
      egamma & 55 & 48 \\
      muon & 35 & 29 \\
      jetTauEtmiss & 104 & 89 \\
      minbias & 10 & 10 \\
      \hline
      express & 18 & 0 \\
      calibration & 15 & 13\\
      \hline
    \end{tabular}
  \end{center}
  \caption{Total and unique rates for a selected raw data stream
    configuration.}
  \label{tab:streams}
\end{table}

In addition to single object triggers, there are a number of combined
triggers requiring more than one type of signature, for example,
$\tau+\mbox{\ensuremath{\, \slash\kern-.6emE_{T}}}$, $\tau+e$, etc.
Combined triggers have low rates at the luminosity of
$10^{31}$~cm$^{-2}$s$^{-1}$, but will become essential at higher luminosity.

Figure~\ref{fig:L31_rates} shows a summary of the EF output rates
for different groups of triggers, estimated by running the trigger on
7 million simulated minimum-bias events. Grouping of triggers
is done in such a way that the ``Electron'' group consists of
all single-electron and multi-electron
triggers. Combined signatures like $e+\mu$ are assigned to the
``Other topological'' group.
The rate of each group accounts for the overlap between individual
trigger chains belonging to the group. The cummulative rates account for
the overlap between the trigger groups.
The total output rate of the EF is about 200~Hz, compatible with the
target output rate. The L1 and L2 rates are estimated to be about
12~kHz and 620~Hz, respectively.

A possible streaming configuration at a luminosity of
$10^{31}$~cm$^{-2}$s$^{-1}$ is four physics streams: electrons and photons,
muons, minimum-bias triggers and jet/$\tau$/$\mbox{\ensuremath{\, \slash\kern-.6emE_{T}}}$ triggers.
The stream names indicate the type of trigger signatures
they contain. The streaming configuration is defined to have approximately the
same proportion of events in each stream and
keep the total overlap to less than 10~\%.
The total and unique rates for this streaming configuration are shown
in Table~\ref{tab:streams}. The overlap between muon triggers and $B$-physics
triggers is about 15~\%, so these have to be merged into one stream.
The same applies to the overlap between jet triggers and $\tau$/$\mbox{\ensuremath{\, \slash\kern-.6emE_{T}}}$
triggers. The final optimization of the streaming configuration must be
done by analyzing the overlaps with real data.

\subsection{Evolution to higher luminosities}
As the luminosity increases, it becomes necessary to use higher thresholds
and tighter selections, and also to turn on HLT selections.
Already at a luminosity of $10^{33}$~cm$^{-2}$s$^{-1}$, rates from
interesting physics events such as $W$ and $Z$ production become significant,
and the use of isolation criteria and $\mbox{\ensuremath{\, \slash\kern-.6emE_{T}}}$ triggers become important.
Many prescaled triggers with loose selections and pass-through triggers
are included in the menu to study the performance of tighter selections
and to optimize the menu for higher luminosities. The optimization must
be done by investigating the trigger performance on real data.

\section{Conclusion}

Several trigger menus for different phase of the commissioning and
the early running of the ALTAS experiment are being developed. Initially,
the commissioning of the trigger system will be done using the BPTX
and MBTS as inputs to the L1 trigger. This allows one to adjust the timing
of various sub-systems of the ATLAS detector and to commission other L1
triggers.
At low luminosity, e.g. $10^{31}$~cm$^{-2}$s$^{-1}$, it is possible to
use low thresholds and to use only the L1 trigger to select events.
This allows one to study the
performance of higher-threshold triggers and to optimize the HLT selections
with real data, which is crucial for optimizing the trigger menu as
the luminosity increases.
The trigger menu for the luminosity of $10^{31}$~cm$^{-2}$s$^{-1}$ has been
developed and studied in detail using simulated minimum-bias events.
Thresholds, prescales and streaming configurations have been optimized
after a few iterations to meet the restriction of 200~Hz output.
For the menu at higher luminosites, triggers with higher thresholds
and combined signatures will be used for the main physics selections.
The initial running will allow further optimization of the trigger
menu and reliable extrapolation to higher luminosities.

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Figure Review: Mechamusume vol. 1
April 23rd 2006 at 2:06 PM, by Shingo
There was a giant sucking sound when Konami's Mechamusume trading figures were first released last March, and almost before they hit store shelves the entire production run was gone – drawn into the ether of private collections or the gaping maw of greedy auctioneers. HD resisted the draw of double-priced resellers for thirteen months, and the wait was worth it: we now present Mechamusume Volume One, for your viewing pleasure.
Original Design: Shimada Fumikane (島田フミカネ)
Sculptor: Vice (バイス)
Scale: Non (10-13 cm tall)
Material: PVC, etc.
Release Date: March 25th, 2005 (April 20th, 2006 reissue)
Production: Konami
Price: 6,090 JPY (box of 10, tax included)
Current Availability: Out of Stock
Valentine Tank (Royal British Army)
P-60 Fighter
(Soviet Air Force, based on the P-39)
Shinden Interceptor (Imperial Japanese Navy)
Shinden Interceptor (alternate coloring)
Ms-462 Fighter (French Air Force)
Ms-462 Fighter (alternate coloring)
Third Assault Armored Infantry Support Tank, G-type (German Army)
Third Assault Armored Infantry Support Tank, G-type (alternate coloring)
Final Verdict: 9/10
After longingly eying this collection for the past year in overpriced reseller's shops there's not much I can say now except BANZAI. Moe is at its best when it's at its most juxtapositional, and while I could rant on and on about the cultural and artistic significance of pairing cute girls with weapons of war, I'll set the topic aside and leave it at this: Shimada Fumikane knows what he's doing, the sculptors at Vice know what they're doing, and Konami's production team was more than able to pull off a polished product here that will be the pride of any collector. Here's hoping HLJ and other vendors recieve enough stock for these to propagate at retail cost to those who want them.
Note: I don't know my WWII-era military vehicles, and neither does Shimada, apparently – I scoured the 'net for a Russian P-60 to no avail, there is no French MS-462, and the Panzer is a shot in the dark. If any military otaku out there would care to enlighten me on these discrepancies it would be much appreciated. Edit: according to the character notes written by Shimada some of these aren't meant as direct takeoffs of the original vehicles, and are merely inspired by them – hence the fictional model numbers. Still, I'm not confident that I've picked the closest matches and would appreciate correction if they're off the mark.
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9 Responses to "Figure Review: Mechamusume vol. 1"
loplop April 23rd, 2006 at 2:47 pm
>> Shingo, I believe that the P-60 was a derivative of the Bell P-39 "Airacobra" that was built in the US and shipped to the Soviets as part of Lend-Lease during WWII. . . .
Shingo April 23rd, 2006 at 3:29 pm
>>loplop
Thanks, I'll fix the reference accordingly.
Mike April 23rd, 2006 at 6:12 pm
Shingo:
Of the three aircraft represented by the figures, only the Shinden is based on anything even remotely approaching accuracy.
The REAL P-60 was built by Curtiss, and was a seriously ugly upgraded version of the Curtiss P-40. It could have been mistaken for a very fat P-47 (it had the same engine), but it looked nothing like a Bell P-39, or the P-39's younger bigger brother, the Bell P-63, both of which had mid-ship mounted in-line engines, and were provided to the Russians under the Lend-Lease program in WW II.
The real P-60 incorporated a laminar flow wing, and at various stages of development, was to include either the British Merlin engine, an experimental inverted-vee Continental engine of 1600 hp, a turbo-supercharged Allison V-1710 engine, or an experimental Chrysler XIV-2220 sixteen cylinder engine. In it's final iteration, a Pratt & Whitney R-2800 radial engine was employed. Performance was good, but not as good as the P-47 and P-51 which were already in production.
The sole surviving P-60, an XP-60E, was heavily modified to race in the 1947 Thompsony Trophy race with a total of 10 feet clipped from the wings, and it's R-2800 engine hopped up to deliver 2440 hp. On a test flight, the tail surfaces failed, and the pilot had to bail out. The aircraft was completely destroyed.
The MS (Morane-Saulnier) 463 is probably a take-off on the MS-406, the last production fighter produced by M-S before the Germans invaded. Morane-Saulnier did develop an aircraft called the MS-450 which was supposed to replace the MS-406, but it never made it into production in France. It was produced under license in Switzerland as the D-3802.
>>Mike
Wow. Thanks for the explanation, that's an amazing amount of detail. I shouldn't have assumed that the designer was going for faithful replication of existing planes – these sculpts are pretty disfigured, by necessity, after all. I think I'll leave the links as they are unless you have an alternate suggestion, your comment is an excellent resource for anyone wanting to know more.
Port	April 24th, 2006 at 5:40 am
I'm guessing the "Third Assault Armored Infantry Support Tank, G-type" is meant to be the StuG IIIg. This was taken from wikipedia:
"* StuG III Ausf. G (Sd.Kfz 142/1; 1942-45, 7,893 produced)
The final, and by far the most common, of the StuG series. The G-series StuG used the hull of the Panzer III Ausf. M and, after 1944, a second machine gun. Later versions were fitted with the Saukopf (Ger. pig's head) gun mantlet, which was more effective than the original box metal structure at deflecting shots."
Her gun does not have the "Saukopf gun mantlet" mentioned in the description, but it matches up well with the earlier one.
LiK April 24th, 2006 at 7:34 am
nice review, i got these when they were originally released. they are sweet.
Chikushou	April 24th, 2006 at 10:22 am
Wow. I regret missing out on these.
Shingo April 24th, 2006 at 11:35 am
>>Port
Thanks for the info. I'll update the post to suit…
>>LiK
Truth. I got word of them a day or two after they were released last year, and by that time it was too late. Way, way too late. :(
>>Chikushou
Some online stores still have them in stock, it seems (HobbyNet among them). If you really want the set it's probably still available without costing an arm and a leg.
Sanity_X	May 7th, 2006 at 3:02 am
I just got myself a set of these great Mechamusume today and they're great! Great finishing (well, with the occasional warp here and there) and superb attention to detail. Only gripe I can find in the set is the lack of proper designations for the vehicles they represented. (Well, it IS in japanese, so I guess that's as proper as it gets for someone who doesn't know how to read it~) Well, I don't think I'm 100% accurate, but this is what I think they are~
1. MkIII Valentine
2. Yak-3
3. Shinden J7W1 (the alternate colour being the jet engine version that was supposed to be the Shinden Kai. It scared me a little when I came home with a Shinden with no propellers!!)
4. MS-406 (or some equivalent. MS-462 just comes up with no results at all…)
5. StuG IIIg


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The most common oral disease for pregnant women is gingivitis. This buildup of plaque that causes inflammation of the gums should be treated with a professional cleaning in addition to proper tooth-brushing and flossing. If left untreated, bacteria from excessive gingivitis can travel to the uterus and possibly trigger the production of certain chemicals suspected to induce premature labor.
If you're planning on becoming pregnant or suspect that you are pregnant, you should see your dentist. He or she will assess your oral condition and map out a proper, safe dental plan for the rest of your pregnancy.


You already have it decided, you are going to take some time to travel and know the world and you are planning a backpacking trip that can become an unforgettable life experience … Good for you, but before you embark on an adventure there are a series of tips prepare your trip.
If you are not sure where to go, Australia is one of the main destinations of many backpackers, for its combination of cities, surfing, scenery and excellent facilities for low budget travelers. The trick is to use Australia and its strong currency in our favor. Go to Australia, get a job and save for the rest of the trip to other countries.
For many backpackers, an organized bus trip is a wonderful introduction to budget travel and can be a good option to convince parents of the safety of traveling. It is one of the basic tips for prepare your trip.
Do not leave home without him, but you have to be smart about it. Prepare a generic curriculum and send it by email to our own address so you can print it once in the destination country. We should not underestimate the value of going for door-to-door work. Employers like the initiative and we will have more chances to show them what we value on site than from home. It is one of the best basic tips for prepare your trip.
Nightlife is the biggest unforeseen expense of a sabbatical year. Although 10 euros does not seem like an excessive expense when we go out one night in our city, in more than six months of travel we will have spent about 2000, more than on the plane ticket, the insurance, and the accommodation. Decidedly, there are better ways to use the money that has cost us so much to earn.
This point is applicable to any traveler. First of all, when in doubt, ask: nobody will call attention to us for taking a photo or entering a temple if we have previously asked for permission. Second, modesty is the best policy. Even in our place of origin, we can be denied entrance to a monastery or church if we go in shorts and t-shirt with handles. Finally, and most importantly, follow the example of the local population at all times.
Electronic devices and sabbaticals are not good companions. Nothing can ruin our great adventure more than losing the iPad when falling from a canoe in Madagascar. Nowadays we can find bars with Internet everywhere, and to maintain contact is enough with an old mobile in which to insert a local SIM card.
The health preparations "have to start eight weeks before traveling". Going to a specialized clinic is a good idea, but vaccines and travel medications are not cheap. Do not forget the basics: headaches and colds may appear during the trip as they do at home, so we must plan accordingly.
Without questioning the importance of having travel insurance, it is important to carefully choose the policy. We must hire an insurance policy that is specifically designed for trips of more than 90 days and ensure that it covers medical expenses, legal costs and the loss of personal items or money, especially if we are traveling outside of Europe. It is important tips for prepare your trip.
Japan is a land of opportunity for anyone who decides to take a sabbatical year. There are some excellent offers of travel and accommodation, as the country seeks to recover visitors after the earthquake last March.
The preload purse cards are becoming the traveler's best friend. We have to pay a fee to get one but, once loaded with cash, they offer maximum security. In case of theft or loss, for about 10 euros we provide another with the funds we had. In addition, we will obtain more advantageous currency exchange rates and lower commissions for withdrawing money. The Caxton FX Global Traveler card (caxtonfx.com) is ideal if you are traveling to many different countries and can recharge online, by phone or by SMS.
On the way, you can make friends for a lifetime. Many of them will be traveling, like us. However, the best moments will be spent on dealing with the local population.
It is usual to feel nostalgic on long trips. when we no longer have the courage to continue, maybe a couple of nights of flashpacking will give us back the desire for adventure. The companions who have stayed at home imagine us in an exotic place and they die of jealousy. Remember that also in moments of weakness.
The tickets to travel the world continue to have an excellent price and often offer a flexibility that has disappeared on most of the plane tickets we use to go on vacation. We may not need one, but: it is possible to get round trips with stops in Asia, New Zealand and Australia for less than 1,200 euros; and for a few more euros you can also add North America. South America, will increase the price. If you are looking to escape the crowds, it is best to head south: only 3% of the tickets to travel the world go through Africa.
There are 3 airline alliances that offer the possibility of buying tickets to go around the world: One World, Sky Team and Star Alliance. They all have a route planner that identifies the best connections between two geographical points and calculates the total price of the ticket, including taxes.
If we want to save on everything (from food to travel insurance) and, in addition, have the opportunity to live an experience similar to that of a sabbatical year but fitting it in the summer holidays before going to university, there are organizations that offer A lot of shorter trips to committed travelers, many of which combine adventure and professional work.
There are a lot of projects and organizations to take a sabbatical year. Year Out Group brings together more than 35 of them and offers suggestions and planning tips. All organizations adhere to a letter and a code of practice. It is important tips for prepare your trip.


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* Eberhard von Claer (General) (1856–1945), deutscher General
 Eberhard von Claer (Politiker) (1923–2013), deutscher Politiker (CDU)


Julie Brownlie is Senior Lecturer in sociology at Edinburgh University where she researches sociological approaches to emotions and relationships.
Simon Anderson, who co-authored this guest blog, is an independent social research consultant and Honorary Fellow in the School of Social and Political Science at Edinburgh University.
Anyone over the age of 40 will remember the 'Love is…' cartoons that once festooned mugs, bumper stickers and greetings cards. Mushy and ubiquitous, they somehow cheapened the concept they set out to depict. Recently, we've seen a growing interest in the notion of kindness and its potential to counter some of the problems of loneliness, community breakdown and austerity. But is there a danger that here, too, we fail to move beyond the anecdotal or sentimental and that the concept dissolves into a nice-to-be-nice nothingness?
That would be a pity. We think that kindness has much to offer public policy and practice, and we welcome its inclusion as one of the core values at the centre of the new National Performance Framework for Scotland – but we believe, too, that it is a concept that needs critical examination and a social and radical framing. With that in mind, we offer the following comments about some of its often-unarticulated features.
Kindness may not always be completely unexpected, but it can't be demanded or mandated. If that happens, it tips into something else – into obligation, duty, care, and so on. Put another way, it can't be legislated for. We may be able to create the conditions for kindness, or at the very least avoid damaging them, but we can't force it into existence without undermining its essentially voluntaristic character. (The political theorist, Joan Tronto, makes a similar point about care: that it often seems to consist of something 'extra'). That is the basis of the challenge that kindness poses for institutions, policymakers and public service professionals.
We may not always be aware of it, but kindness matters. Like the roads we walk on and the electricity we use, small acts and relationships of everyday kindness are fundamental: they make possible other things. But while it has a taken-for-granted, background quality, like other infrastructures, the infrastructure of kindness needs to be sustained and maintained. If it is not, there are consequences for all of us – individually and collectively.
Despite the cultural trope of randomness, and the tendency to view kindness as a matter of individual choice, psychology or morality, kindness is deeply social. Our capacity to help and be helped in unobligated ways is enabled and constrained by the places, spaces and communities we live in, by our life stage and biographies and by our social networks, relationships and other resources. Generalised exhortations to 'be kind', or campaigns designed to encourage random acts of kindness, are inevitably limited in their effect because they ignore these realities. By contrast, approaches which recognise and aim to work with the grain of particular communities – reflecting the experiences, circumstances and preferences of those within them – are more likely to succeed.
Kindness is embedded in social context, but it also has to be worked out between particular people, in particular contexts and at particular moments in time. Indeed it is often mediated through 'things' such as food, or activities such as walking. That can make it problematic to think in terms of kind policies or organisations. They may help to foster kindness, but kindness itself has an inescapably relational quality. There are, then, important questions to be asked about if and how kindness can be 'scaled up' to organisational or national level.
Not necessarily in the sense we usually think about risk, but because it is revealing of how others see us or how we see ourselves. In negotiating acts and relationships of kindness – either offering or receiving them – we have to manage complex emotions relating to our anxieties about being perceived as weak or dependent; being a 'martyr' or a 'taker'; getting over-involved or obligated; being presumptuous or 'overstepping the mark'; taking advantage or being taken advantage of; setting up expectations, and so on. We need to take seriously this emotional and relational complexity – not assume that 'small acts' are also simple or easy ones – and work through how and why people might feel as they do about the prospect of connecting with, or helping, each other in specific circumstances, communities and contexts.
This links to another risk around kindness, not of the affective but of the political variety: that the pursuit or ideal of kindness comes to take the place of – or is not thought about alongside – other important collective values, such as fairness, justice or equality.
People love to tell stories about kindness (and perhaps almost as much about unkindness). Like any narratives, though, such stories about the places we live and the people we are (or claim to be), are more than just stories: they can constrain or enable particular kinds of behaviour at the level of the individual, the community or society as a whole. For example, regardless of the reality of life in different places, there is a permissive or restrictive quality to narratives of Glasgow being the 'friendly city', or other areas as 'snooty' or 'lacking in community'. The emerging narrative of Scotland as a 'kind nation', too, will have effects. Narratives of (un)kindness at all these different levels matter and deserve our attention, then, because the stories we choose to tell – or hear – can have powerful consequences.
In other words, kindness may happen or not, and it grows out of other things, in often unpredictable ways. What we do know is that it is fostered by social interaction, even of an apparently banal kind, such as small acts of acknowledgement and greeting. While there may be a place for initiatives that actively seek to promote such interaction (for example, the 'Happy to Chat' campaign growing out of the work of the Jo Cox Commission), it is equally if not more important to address the ways in which financial, architectural and planning decisions shape our built and social environment. They profoundly affect the opportunities we have for unstructured, incidental and possibly fleeting social interaction, as well as more sustained encounters in 'third places' such as libraries, community centres, pubs and cafés. If we want to address loneliness through kindness – and to have a kinder society more generally – we need to be thinking about the social consequences of all these decisions, from the implications of new-build housing estates in which people travel mainly by car, to the closure of leisure centre cafés at the weekends and the movement of department stores from town centres to out-of-town malls.
Perhaps because it is unobligated, an act of kindness can have an animating quality: it can 'spill over' and achieve more than the act itself, altering the way we feel about ourselves or about others. This almost atmospheric character, which is likely to prove resistant to quantification and key performance indicators, means that kindness can shape not just the relationship within which it is embedded but our wider social sensibility. That makes it a potentially very powerful social force.
The word kindness is derived from kin. 'Kinned-ness' is, then, about recognising what we share. However fleetingly, it turns 'others' into kin (or 'kin-like') and is the antithesis of the harsh discourses of othering that have come to dominate popular and political debate. There is a brilliantly-named charity in Glasgow called Refuweegee. In its own words, it welcomes refugees with Tunnock's Teacakes and apologies about the weather. And it defines a refuweegee as someone who upon arrival in Glasgow is embraced by the people of the city, to become a person considered to be local.
That is kindness (kinned-ness) in action, and is an undeniably radical endeavour. But it also reminds us that the reference in the National Performance Framework to treating 'all our people' with kindness has potential limits around it. Who exactly are 'our people' and how far are we willing, individually and collectively, to expand the boundaries of those we are willing to treat as kin? Do we include refugees and asylum seekers, prisoners, the poorest and the most marginalised? Do we really practise radical or difficult kindness and ensure that it is not disembedded from the realm of the social and the political?
We are used to thinking about kindness as a disposition, as a characteristic that some people just have. But actually it is a practice that involves relational and, ultimately, social and political choices about which and whose needs we decide to notice and respond to. And in turn, by treating kindness as a political issue, we challenge our understanding of what politics is and should be about.
If the inclusion of kindness in the Framework is to be more than warm words – the policy equivalent of a bumper sticker – the Scottish Government and the rest of us need to talk more about these questions. We need, in other words, to continue the difficult conversation about what 'Kindness (actually) is…'.
Between 2013 and 2015, Julie and Simon carried out a large-scale study of everyday help and support for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (the Liveable Lives project) and have subsequently published an article outlining the case for a sociological engagement with kindness ('Thinking Sociologically About Kindness', Sociology, 2018). They have been closely involved with the Carnegie UK Trust's work in this area and are members of KIN.


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Clooney aids Obama campaign with Geneva fundraiser
GENEVA (AP) -- President Barack Obama supporter George Clooney raised almost $15 million for the re-election campaign at the actor's Los Angeles home in May. For his second act, Clooney is set to arrive Monday in Geneva, a center for international organizations and business.
Organizers expect to pull in a more modest amount of about $500,000 from U.S. donors for Obama's campaign, with many flying in to Geneva from around the world.
Americans Abroad for Obama, the event's sponsor, says on its Web site that guests are paying $15,000 per person to dine with Clooney, $5,000 for a photo with him and $1,000 to attend a reception before the dinner. About 30 people are attending the dinner, with about 100 at the reception.
The event is co-hosted by Geneva-based American lawyer Charles C. Adams Jr. and Matthew Barzun, Obama's campaign finance chairman.


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Battered Caribbean prepares for hurricanes amid pandemic
by: DÁNICA COTO, Associated Press
An old military truck used during flooding sits parked at the Carlos Escobar Lopez vocational school which will be used as a shelter during this year's hurricane season in Loiza, Puerto Rico, Thursday, May 28, 2020. Caribbean islands have rarely been so vulnerable as an unusually active hurricane season threatens a region still recovering from recent storms as it fights a worsening drought and a pandemic that has drained budgets and muddled preparations. (AP Photo/Carlos Giusti)
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Hurricanes. Earthquakes. COVID-19.
Caribbean islands have rarely been so vulnerable as an unusually active hurricane season threatens a region still recovering from recent storms as it fights a worsening drought and a pandemic that has drained budgets and muddled preparations.
"It is crazy," said Iram Lewis, Bahamian minister for Disaster Preparedness, Management and Reconstruction. "No one could have imagined this."
An estimated three to six major hurricanes could form this year as part of a total of 13 to 19 named storms that are forecast for the June 1 to Nov. 30 season, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. An average season generates 12 named storms with 3 major hurricanes.
The dire forecast comes at a particularly trying time for the Caribbean. Thousands of people overall lost their homes in southern Puerto Rico because of recent strong earthquakes and in the northern Bahamas because of Hurricane Dorian, which hit September 2019 as a Category 5 storm, killing an estimated 70 people and leaving hundreds missing. Demolition on both islands hadn't even started in some areas when the pandemic hit and lockdowns ensued, causing billions of dollars in economic losses in one of the world's most tourism-dependent regions.
As a result, governments are struggling more than ever to prepare for a season that started early: Tropical Storm Arthur formed in mid-May and dropped rain on Dorian-battered islands in the Bahamas before heading out to sea.
The response to COVID-19 has dried up government funds and lockdowns have delayed hurricane preparations, especially the identification of sufficient shelters given the pandemic.
"It's a very complex landscape this year," said Elizabeth Riley, acting executive director for the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency.
In the Bahamas, the government will place families in classrooms instead of preparing large gymnasiums like they did with Hurricane Dorian, Lewis said. But that's not an option for some mayors in Puerto Rico, where dozens of schools in the island's southern region were permanently shuttered after a 6.4-magnitude quake and heavy aftershocks, with more than 70 families still staying in hotels as the search for housing continues.
"We definitely have additional challenges with all these simultaneous emergencies," said William Rodríguez, Puerto Rico's public housing administrator.
The shuttering of schools means less shelters at a time when more space is needed to avoid a possible second wave of coronavirus cases.
Santos Seda, mayor of the southern coastal town of Guánica, said the quakes damaged or destroyed six schools, leaving only one operational for a shelter if needed. In addition, more than 400 structures still have to be demolished, something that worries him greatly.
"If a hurricane comes, there's no doubt they can turn into projectiles," he said.
The U.S. territory has not released a final list of shelters, and there are still people living with blue tarps as roofs since Hurricane Maria hit in September 2017 as a Category 4 storm, said Ariadna Godreau, a human rights attorney and executive director of Ayuda Legal Puerto Rico.
The government estimated several months ago that more than 20,000 blue roofs remained across the island, but neither housing officials nor the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency could provide updated numbers.
Among those still waiting for their home to be repaired since Hurricane Maria is the mother of 63-year-old Maritza Santos. She said the wood-and-zinc roof blew away and that her elderly mother hasn't received any help to replace it. They live together now and worry about the upcoming hurricane season because Santos' home already flooded during Maria and her mother's home is unlivable.
"I can't talk about it because I get a knot in my throat," Santos said. "It hurts my soul to see my mother's home in that state."
Another problem Puerto Rico and some other islands are facing amid the pandemic as they try to finalize hurricane preparations is a growing drought. Officials in Puerto Rico have warned of possible rationing measures if sufficient rain doesn't fall, while the French Caribbean island of Guadeloupe recently imposed such measures and is distributing water to certain communities.
A cluster of thunderstorms that rolled past Puerto Rico on Thursday provided some relief, but it also reminded people of the vulnerability of the island's electrical grid that Hurricane Maria destroyed. More than 70,000 power outages were reported as a result of the heavy rains, and many wondered what would happen during a tropical storm, let alone a hurricane.
José Sepúlveda, director of transmission and distribution for Puerto Rico's Electric Power Authority, said reconstruction of the grid hasn't started, adding the process could take between 10 to 20 years. He acknowledged that frequent power outages are hitting the island and that the pandemic has delayed maintenance to the system that has not recovered from Maria even as a new hurricane season looms.
"There is a lot of hidden damage that hasn't come to light," he said.


Day 7 – TAP is a second home!
When I am at TAPS I feel at home. I feel like there are other people just like me that I can completely relate to and talk with on the same level. There is a special commonality and comradery that I feel with my TAPS friends and I have developed some special friendships with them over the past two years. I really enjoy spending time with them and their spouses and have spent many wonderful evenings socializing and getting to know them better outside of TAPS as well.
I especially enjoy the many various activities that TAPS has to offer each week like our singing group, harmonica playing, group discussions, writing classes and performing. I really enjoyed the recent TAPS fundraiser where I was cheered on as I crossed the finish line~ that meant allot to me. Our trip to the Legislature this summer where we met our state representatives and lobbied for TAPS was a very memorable and fun time as well!
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CIAM classes for 2019 are filling very quickly so register early to reserve your place.
The afternoon class that is held every second Sunday afternoon is full.
A new morning class will start shortly every second Sunday – a few places are still available.
The Friday class is full.
Contact CIAM if you would like to be put on the waiting list or consider enrolling at Mt Colah.
Enrolments will commence in April 2019.


WordPress is the best blogging platform that people rely. We love WordPress because we can easily add tweaks to our blog through WordPress plugins. Sometime an unfamiliar blogger may be caught in problem like unable to install the WordPress plugin that he likes. The error usually looks like this.
So what could be the problem? Is it rectified by you? What could lead to such problem? The answers of my questions are explained below.
The problem is with the File Permissions of the particular file in your WordPress directory. So if are strucked in installing plugin in your WordPress directory then you rectify the mistake easily by yourself.
1. You need to go to root of your WordPress directory to public_html > wp-content > upgrade folder.
2. Delete and recreate the upgrade folder (its case-sensitive so be careful).
3. Change the file permissions to 777 or 776.
The above steps will make sure that you can easily upgrade or install plugins and you can easily install new plugins.


Hellblade (now Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice) has been on my radar since it was first announced. The upcoming adventure game is gorgeous, it's made by Ninja Theory, the creators of Enslaved: Odyssey to the West and DMC: Devil May Cry, and it stars a woman who appears to spend as much time coping with her own inner demons as she spends fighting any real monsters.
The Hellblade team has just released a new trailer that looks–and sounds–amazing. If you're comfortable with binaural audio, make sure to watch with headphones on.
Now, stay with me for a moment here, because yes, it does look a bit like Ninja Theory is using mental illness in a sensational and possibly even harmful way. The voices in Senua's head, the delusions she seems to be suffering–these are tropes that are usually pulled out as lazy shorthand for real experiences.
I'm willing to give Ninja Theory the benefit of the doubt, though. Last year, the team released a dev diary explaining the creative process that led them to Senua, and the care they're taking in their portrayal of her mental illness. It doesn't alleviate all my fears (there's only so far good intentions and research can get you), but it's full of reasons to hope that Hellblade will get it right–or at least make an interesting job of getting it wrong.


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Adept magii (ang. Magician: Apprentice) – pierwsza część Sagi o wojnie światów amerykańskiego pisarza Raymonda E. Feista. Poznajemy w niej losy dwóch chłopców Puga oraz Tomasa mieszkających w znajdującym się na rubieżach Królestwa Wysp mieście Crydee. Już niebawem trafią oni w wir wydarzeń nadchodzącej inwazji ze strony obcej cywilizacji, pragnącej podbić ziemie Midkemii. Bieg wydarzeń sprawia, iż nierozłączni dotąd przyjaciele będą zmuszeni samodzielnie zmierzyć się nie tylko z potężnym najeźdźcą, lecz także z własnymi słabościami.

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Nepotism and patronage in Salvadoran government
One of El Salvador's large periodicals, El Diario de Hoy (EDH) has been publishing a series of articles about nepotism in the country's Legislative Assembly. EDH reports that "The Legislative Assembly appears to be the ideal place to get a job for friends and for the members of the political party." Their reporting found that 1239 patronage job positions were under the control of the policial parties in the Legislative Assembly, more than the total of non-partisan jobs.
And many of these patronage jobs in the Legislative Assembly go to family members of the deputies:
There are cases of parents who have one, two or more children working in different dependencies of the Assembly. The most representative case is that of the wife of a deputy who has three brothers (a man and two women), a brother-in-law, a nephew, a daughter-in-law and the brother of one of his brothers-in-law on whose salaries the State disburses $ 16,300 per month. Their salaries range between $ 1,500 and $ 3,500.
According to EDH, persons holding these patronage jobs receive approximately $1.4 million per month in salaries, and when you add end of year bonuses, the annual outlay in these jobs controlled by the political parties approaches $20 million.
EDH also found that many of the jobholders do nothing, or only work on party activities, for their salaries. The examples included (a) a gynecologist with a full times practice, who has a full time position sponsored by a party in the Assembly for $500 per month; (b) a dentist with a full time practice in Morazan department, far away from the capital in El Salvador, with an administrative position in the Assembly for $700 per month; and (c) a lawyer with a job on the Assembly payroll as a motorist for $1000 per month.
One deputy owns a private school in the capital. He has two of the school employees on the payroll of the assembly. A third person who would eventually be hired by the same school has a high-paying job in the Assembly earning $3000 per month.
The paper's reporting also described the payments being received by Cristina Lopez. Lopez had been a deputy in the Legislative Assembly from the PCN party but lost in the 2018 elections. That did not keep her from receiving a salary, however. EDH's reporting showed that she has been living outside of the country in the United States for more than a year and still receiving a salary as an employee of the Assembly. For her part, Lopez took to Twitter, and did not deny that she had received a salary without coming to work, but said she was not the only person from PCN who was doing so.
In addition to the nepotism series in EDH, El Faro recently ran a story focused on Guillermo Gallegos, a leader of the GANA party. (GANA was the party on whose ticket Nayib Bukele ran for president). Gallegos is a deputy in the Legislative Assembly and former president of that body. El Faro found eleven different relatives of Gallegos are working working for the Legislative Assembly with salaries ranging between $600 and $3000 per month.
Conflicts of interest in hiring are not just found in the Legislative Assembly. The online periodical RevistaFactum ran a story this week about Nayib Bukele's appointment of businessman Salvador Gómez Góchez to the head of the government agency Promotor de Exportaciones e Inversiones de El Salvador (PROESA). Nayib Bukele and his wife are the godparents of one of Gómez Góchez's children. Gómez Góchez was also a major backer of Bukele in the Salvadoran diaspora, helping Bukele raise support and money in California. According to Factum, Gómez Góchez lacks the university degree required under the regulations of PROESA to be its president. At PROESA he is in charge of an agency providing financial incentives to businesses wanting to invest in the country.
His wife, Cristy Elizabeth Asencio de Gómez, was appointed by Bukele to lead a unit of the government with a $2 million budget called "Social Benefit" directed towards improving the quality of life for citizens of El Salvador. According to Factum, she is also the sister of Erick Vega, a businessman in Alba Petroleum, the Venezuela-linked firm which had loaned Bukele $1.9 million in 2013, and is currently being investigated for money laundering.
Nepotism and conflicts of interest in hiring also exist in other branches of the government of El Salvador. There have been allegations of nepotism in the court system, and the past human rights ombudsperson (PDDH) of El Salvador, Raquel Caballero de Guevara, was sanctioned for hiring and promoting two step-daughters within her office.
Stories about political patronage and nepotism are nothing new in El Salvador. And because "everybody's doing it," there seems to be little incentive or interest to actually clean up the practice. Offering government employment to friends and relatives after gaining power is endemic to El Salvador and contributes to a government where the best-connected, not the best-suited, get jobs. When people do not even show up to perform those jobs, that is corruption which should be prosecuted. Yet even if appointing a family member to perform a job is not illegal, it undermines the faith of citizens in their government. It's no wonder that the political parties and the Legislative Assembly have the lowest levels of trust in opinion polls.
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