Applicants for admission to the PhD program in English are required to take the general test and the written test of the Graduate Record Examination. Each applicant must submit a sample of his or her critical writing (normally an essay of some 20 pages written for a course, or a portion of a master's thesis) and must normally have a GPA of 3.5 or better for his or her master's courses or equivalent graduate work. Application materials should be received by December 20 to ensure full consideration for admission for the following fall term; applications received after December 20 will be reviewed for admission, but they may not meet the deadlines for fellowship or assistantship consideration.
The PhD in English requires 48 hours of coursework, 24 of which must be at the 600 level. All courses are repeatable for credit if/when the instructor or topic changes. Students will also complete 24 dissertation hours and 4 hours of the teaching practicum EN 533/534 (for teaching assistants). Students may transfer up to 18 credit hours of coursework from a prior graduate degree. No more than 15 transferred hours may be at the 500 level. Only credit earned during the six-year period preceding admission to the doctoral program may be considered for transfer. If a student's master's degree is more than six years old at admission, that student may have to complete up to 18 additional hours of coursework. (See the Transfer of Credit section for doctoral degrees under Degree Requirements in this catalog.) Doctoral students whose work at the master's level does not meet the course distribution requirements of the department's MA program (see Requirements for the MA Degree in English) will be required to complete those distribution requirements with courses taken toward the PhD. To be admitted formally to candidacy for the PhD degree, all students must receive a pass in EN 637 Workshop In Academic Writing, which will be taken typically in the final year of coursework.
Student must demonstrate reading knowledge of one foreign language.
The language used to satisfy the MA language requirement—whether gained here or at another school—can satisfy the language required for the PhD program. Students who are not native speakers of English may use their native language as the required language.
The purpose of the written preliminary exam is to demonstrate competence in the student's area of specialization. The exam will be of four hours in duration in the field or genre of the dissertation. The examination committee will consist of three faculty members from the English department chosen by the student for their expertise in the field. Under the direction of her or his preliminary examination committee chair, who will likely also serve as dissertation director, and subject to the approval of the full exam committee, 1) the examinee will be responsible for constructing and demonstrating mastery of a reading list of primary and secondary texts in the appropriate subfield; and 2) the examinee will write approximately twelve questions, from which the committee will choose a subset (usually no less than two and no more than four) to be revealed to and answered by the examinee during the four-hour examination period. Exams will be closed book and closed note. Once the exam is completed, the student's committee will read all responses, discuss them, and then, on the basis of consensus when possible and the basis of a majority that must include the chair if consensus is unreachable, assign the examinee a final grade of Distinction, Pass, or Fail. Students who fail the written preliminary examination may take it a second time. Students who fail the examination a second time will not be allowed to continue doctoral work.
The conference concerning the dissertation prospectus will be a one-hour discussion between the student and his or her dissertation committee. Generally, that committee will be composed of the dissertation director, plus three other graduate faculty members from the department and one graduate faculty member from outside the department. The conference will focus on both the soundness of the prospectus and the student's readiness to undertake the research and writing of the dissertation. The purpose of the conference is to help the student begin the writing of the dissertation, to identify areas of potential difficulty, and to prepare the student for the project that lies ahead.
Once the written preliminary examination has been passed and the dissertation prospectus conference completed, the student and his or her dissertation committee must complete an application to candidacy and submit it to the Graduate School. The graduate studies director will notify the Graduate School that the written preliminary examination has been passed and the dissertation prospectus conference completed.
Once the prospectus conference is completed, then the student may proceed to the dissertation. The dissertation defense consists of an oral defense of the dissertation before four English department graduate faculty members (including the director) and an external graduate faculty member. Normally, the members of this committee are those faculty members who formed the dissertation prospectus conference committee. They will be appointed by the director of graduate studies in consultation with the student, who will have a clear understanding with the faculty members involved of whether they will be able to read the dissertation and conduct the final oral examination during summer months or during sabbatical leave if necessary. Faculty members have the prerogative to serve on a committee when they are not teaching; it is the student's responsibility to schedule investigation, writing, and examination in time periods acceptable to members of the committee. All five members of the dissertation committee must have time to read and analyze the dissertation before the oral examination on the dissertation. Final approval of the dissertation must be received at least six weeks before graduation.
Teaching experience. All candidates for the PhD degree are required to have college or university teaching experience in English composition or literature before they graduate. Teaching assistants must complete the summer practicum before their first semester of service and enroll in EN 533 Practicum Tchg College English and EN 534 Practicum Tchg College English during their first year of teaching service.
The CRES PhD Specialization requires 48 hours of coursework, 24 dissertation hours, 4 hours of teaching practicum (for teaching assistants), and successful completion of the written and oral components of the CRES exam. Students who have prior graduate degrees or coursework may transfer up to 18 hours.
Students who have a teaching assistantship will take EN 533 Practicum Tchg College English and EN 534 Practicum Tchg College English.
A doctoral student wishing to write a dissertation in CRES must pass both the written and oral components of the preliminary examination. The written preliminary examination for candidates in CRES will be four hours in duration and will require candidates to respond to two of four topics prepared according to the guidelines available in the office of the CRES director.
If the candidate passes the written preliminary examination, the CRES faculty will conduct an oral examination of the candidate at the first convenient opportunity for both the candidate and the faculty. For the oral examination, the candidate will be responsible for material from all four topics—the two not covered on the written examinations as well as the two that were. Candidates intending to write a dissertation in composition studies must pass the oral examination. Students who fail the written preliminary examination may take it a second time. Students who fail the examination a second time will not be allowed to finish doctoral work.
CRES students who have passed the preliminary examination are free to form a dissertation committee consisting of a director from the CRES faculty, three other faculty members of the English department, and a faculty member from outside the department. The candidate's dissertation prospectus must be approved by his or her dissertation committee and then defended in an oral examination conducted by this same committee. (For more information, see the description for the dissertation and prospectus under the general PhD requirements above).


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Accidentally Vegan: Organic Samosa Triangles by the Fillo Factory!
This week's Accidentally Vegan feature is Samosas from The Fillo Factory! The "buttery" flavor, the flaky pastry crust, and the spicy organic veggies… mmmmm…. I'm in heaven just thinking about them! They look delicious (and fancy), but they are a snap to prepare. Although it will look like you worked all afternoon with a rolling pin, you really just need to bake them in the oven and serve. Smile.


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Q: how to call a function after 6 digit entered in input box angularjs i am using angular.
i have a input box after entered 6 digit i have to click the button.
<input type="tel" ng-model="loginData.otp" id="otp1" placeholder="OTP" >
        </label>
        <label class="item">
         <button class="button button-block button-positive" id="otplogin" type="submit">Login</button>

  </label>

i have a input box after entering 6 digit i need to click the button.
how can i call function after entering 6 digit.so that i no need to click the button?

A: You can use the ng-change attribute, something like ng-change="inputChanged()". In your controller you have
$scope.inputChanged = function() {
    // Check value of $scope.loginData.otp here, example:
    if(!$scope.loginData.otp || $scope.loginData.otp.length < 5) {
        return;
    }
    // then you continue with your processing
};

Check the documentation for more:
https://docs.angularjs.org/api/ng/directive/ngChange
Update:
The currently accepted answer uses $watch. You should try to minimize using $watch in controllers (just in directives whenever possible, an example of why).
In this question you say you are interested in the value change due to user entry, so, I think it makes sense to use the view's change directive, as it's a user change event.

A: You can also use $scope.$watch to watch the length of the input.
function TodoCtrl($scope){
    $scope.loginData = { otp: '' };

    $scope.$watch('loginData.otp.length', function(newValue, oldValue){
        if(newValue == 6){
             alert('Process to next level');
             // put your function here
        }
    });
}

Check out my answer in http://jsfiddle.net/Zing87/po9rxsLs/1/

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Q: Vertex- and edge-connectivity of complete bipartite graph but one edge missing I have to determine a vertex- and edge-connectivity of complete bipartite graph but one edge missing. I don't know how to do this, but this is what I have so far. I think it's completly wrong.
I know that $\kappa(G)\le\lambda(G)\le \delta(G)$. In fully connected bipartite graph $K_{m,n}$, minimal degree is equal to $min(m,n)$. That means, in my graph, minimal degree is equal to $min(m-1,n-1)$. What should I do now? I think that $\lambda(G)=min(m-1,n-1)$ too, because I have to remove $min(m-1,n-1)$ edges to disconnect a vertex with minimal degree... But what about vertex-connectivity?

A: Without loss of generality, assume that $m \le n$. And we'd like to show that the vertex-connectivity $\kappa(G) = m-1$, where $G$ is the complete bipartite graph on $m + n$ vertices with one edged, say $(a,b)$, removed.
It is enough to show that removing $m-2$ vertices cannot make $G$ disconnected. Suppose the left and the right partite set are of size $m, n$ respectively. After removing $m-2$ vertices from $G$, we get a complete bipartite graph with at most one edge removed. Suppose the partite sets are $A$ and $B$ of the resulting graph. We also know that $|A|, |B| \ge 2$.
Take any two vertices $u$ from $A$ and $v$ from $B$. As $|A|, |B| \ge 2$, we can find $u'\in A\setminus \{a\}$, and $v'\in B\setminus \{b\}$. Thus $u\sim v'\sim u' \sim v$, and so $A$ and $B$ are connected.


Google is adding a new feature to its search engine that will likely please Android developers – Google will now recommend that you install apps straight from search.
However this wasn't really helpful if the users didn't have the app installed, so instead Google will now prompt users to install apps that contain the content they're looking for, taking them to the Google Play Store when they click.
Once installed, the app will take you immediately to the relevant article or content.
The company also notes that with this addition, App Indexing will be used to help rank search results on Android, regardless of whether the app is installed.
The change is rolling out to Android users this week.


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This two-day course provides a foundation for developing and running state-and-transition simulation models of landscape change using the free ST-Sim software. The course covers state-and-transition simulation modeling concepts, how to use ST-Sim to create models of landscape change and terrestrial carbon dynamics, and how to run the models and interpret the results. Examples of state-and-transition simulation models in a range of ecosystems will be presented, including models of both vegetation dynamics and land use/land cover change. Additional course details.
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INDONESIAN COAL PRICE REFERENCE IS GOING UP AGAIN
COALspot.com: According to latest ministerial decree No. 1857 K/30/MEM/2018 dated 4 June 2018, the Indonesian Coal Price Reference (HBA) up 7.91 per cent in June 2018 compared to May HBA.
The benchmark price of Indonesian thermal coal has increased US$ 7.08 per ton month on month to $ 96.61 per ton for June 2018 delivery for exports as well domestic end-users except Indonesian power producers. The Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources Republic Indonesia had declared June HBA at US$ 96.61 per ton for 6322 GAR power plant coal by issuing a ministerial decree 1857 K/30/MEM/2018 dated 4 June 2018.
The Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources Republic Indonesia has increased the monthly Indonesian thermal coal price reference for June 2018 delivery meantime, the June 2018 HBA was 28.03 higher the comparable period in 2017.
Indonesia has capped the price of thermal coal for domestic power stations at $70 per ton (basis 6322 GAR Coal) if HBA is equal to or higher than US$ 70 per ton until December 2019 form 12 March 2018, in new rule was issued on 9 March 2018 (MEMR Ministerial decree 1395K/30/MEM/2018) and 1410 K/30/MEM/2018 dated 12 March 2018. However the HBA drops below $70 per ton, the domestic thermal coal price for power stations will revert to HBA. This special price for power plants is applicable for maximum100 million tons of coal per year.
US$ 70 price is based on coal as the same specification as in the Indonesian Coal Benchmark Price (HBA). Domestic Power producers used to buy 4200 to 5000 GAR coal where's US$ 70 per ton was based on 6322 GAR coal.
An increase or decrease in four international coal indices such as Indonesia Coal Index (ICI), Platts-5900, Newcastle Export Index (NEX) and Global coal Newcastle Index (GCNC) will cause an increase or decrease in Indonesian coal price reference every month, as HBA is linked to those international coal indices. The ministerial decree No. 1857 K/30/MEM/2018 dated 4 June 2018 has not given any details about formation of HPB.
The coal price reference in Indonesia was established to fulfil the requirement of mining Law 04/2009 and ministerial decree No.17/2010. In addition to that, it aims to increase government revenue from royalties from coal producers.
The declared Indonesia thermal coal reference price (or called HBA) for February 2016 was the lowest in 114 months or since launching of HBA by the government of Indonesia. The royalties and taxes will be calculated based on this declared HPB. Interestingly, the highest monthly average price occurred in February 2011, while the lowest coal price also occurred in February 2016. The June 2018, HBA is 89.73% higher than the February 2016 price and 23.96% lower than the February 2011 price.
Indonesian coal benchmark price for June 2018 was calculated based on calorific value of 6,322 kcal/kg (GAR), stated to be using a formula based on the May 2018 index average of ICI-1 (Indonesia Coal Index) 25%, Platts-5900 25%, NEX (Newcastle Export Index) 25%, and GC (globalCoal Index) 25% and its was calculated considering coal with GCV (GAR) 6,322 kcal/kg, Total Moisture (arb) 8.00%, Total Sulphur 0.8% (arb), Ash Content 15 % (arb) and delivery free on Board (FOB) Vessel basis and apply to spot contract, delivery between 1 – 30 June 2018 or until publish a new HBA.
The highest benchmark price was declared by the Ministry of Energy & Mineral Resources of Indonesia in February 2011, and this month's declared price is around US$ 30.44 a ton or 23.96% lower compared to Feb' 11 benchmark price. In the meantime, this month's declared price was around US$ 45.69 a ton or 89.73% higher compared to Feb' 16 benchmark price, which was the lowest price ever declared by DGoMC.
The government of Indonesia was publishing a monthly coal price reference (HBA & HPB) since February 2009 to be used by coal producers for all spot and term contracts.
However, the official implementation of HBA was commenced since September 2011 and according to government regulation, the coal benchmark price must be used by the holders of production operation IUPs, special production operation IUP's, and CCoWs as a reference in determining the coal selling price for a particular period.
The declared HBA in this month is valid for the spot price (loading on or before 30 June 2018 or until issuing new HBA), while (as per previous HBA note) as for term price (up to 12 months' supply), the average reference price (HPB) of the previous three months will be used to determine the selling price. (50 per cent of latest month's HPB (this month) 30% one-month prior HPB and 20% of two-month prior HPB).
The government used to declare the price marker for eight brands of Indonesia's coal, which were most commonly traded in the market. Those eight brands act as the benchmark and used to calculate other 69 coal types with a quality similar to the coal price markers. However this time, the government was issued price for HBA and no HPB prices was published.
COALspot.com, has utilized its own calculator which was developed based on HBA/HPB formula and terms and condition declared by DGoMC to calculate HPB prices for eight major brands and for other types of coals. The government has stopped declaring formulas or methodologies that used to calculate either HBA or HPB. COALspot.com now publishing HPB and other coal prices based on US$ 94.75 as well as US$ 70.00 for the 6322 GAR coal.
Click here for details of Indonesian coal price reference since January 2009.(cs).
COALspot.com makes no warranties, express or implied, as to the accuracy adequacy or completeness of the information and assumes no liability in connection with any party use of it. The information contained within the website of COALspot.com is intended for informational purposes only and is not intended as professional counsel and should not be used as such.
COALspot.com will endeavor to update information where appropriate but is under no obligation to do so. All third party users of this website and or data produced or published by the COALspot.com do so at their own risk.
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Q: Accessing Results tool in progress? We have installed results tool in our existing progress installation.
Does results tool allow only one user to log in?
I use the following command to access Results tool
mresults dbname

If I'm logged in then the other user is not able to log in to results tool. He gets the following error:
License not available  for this product.

A: Query/Results for Unix does support multi-user support for the database.
Check that you really have started a multi-user server and aren't just accessing the db file directly.
Also there could be a licensing limitation - have you installed all licenses?
Run this command to list all licenses:
showcfg


ADULARESCENCE: An optical phenomenon applied to orthoclase or adulria feldspar that exhibits a floating, billowy, white or bluish light effect.
AGGREGATE: Crystalline aggregate made up of many particles, each of an individual crystal too small to be seen by the unaided eye.
BIREFRINGENCE: The strength of double refraction measured by taking the difference between the high and low refractive indices of a doubly refractive gemstone.
CRYPTOCRYSTALLINE: A stone having a crystalline structure so finely fused together that no distinct crystals are recognizable under a microscope, such as cryptocrystalline quartz agate or jadeite jade. As distinct from a transparent single unit crystal like diamond or ruby.
CRYSTAL SYSTEM: One of the six groups of crystal patterns in which minerals and other crystalline solids occur. They are : cubic, tetragonal, hexagonal, orthorhombic, monoclinic and triclinic.
CUBIC: Highly symmetrical crystal system with three equal crystallographic axes at right angles.
DICHROISM: The property of doubly refractive colored gemstones of transmitting two different colors in two different directions caused by their unequal absorption of the two portions of a doubly refracted beam of light.
DISPERSION: The property of a transparent gemstone to separate white light into its component colors.
DOUBLE REFRACTION: The property of separating a single ray of light into two.
FLUORESCENCE: The emission of visible light by a gem when exposed to ultra-violet or X-radiation.
HEXAGONAL: A crystal system having three equal axes at 60 degrees and a fourth axes perpendicular to the other three and unequal in length.
INCLUSION: Any internal foreign body or imperfection in a gem.
JYOTISH-ACARYA: A master-teacher of Vedic sidereal astrology.
KAVACHA: A shield, amulet or talisman.
KETU: The Moon's descending (South) node.
MANTRA: A combination of transcendental (Sanskrit) sound vibrations with the power to deliver the mind from material limitations.
MATRIX: The rock in which a mineral is contained.
MOHS SCALE: The most commonly used scale of relative hardness of minerals with numbers from one to ten assigned to ten minerals of increasing hardness from talc to diamond.
MONOCLINIC: A crystal system with two axes unequal in length at right angles to one another and a third axes of unequal length which is not at right angles to the plane of the other two.
NAKSATRA: Moon constellation (There are 27 constellations).
OPTIC CHARACTER: The nature of a gem as either uniaxial (singly refractive) or biaxial (doubly refractive).
ORIENT: The iridescent luster of a pearl.
ORTHORHOMBIC: A crystal system with three axes of unequal length, each perpendicular to the plane of the other two axes.
PLEOCHROISM: The property of most doubly refractive colored gemstones of exhibiting either two or more different colors when observed through a dichroscope in transmitted light.
RAHU: The Moon's ascending (North) node.
REFRACTIVE INDEX: A measure of the amount a light ray is bent as it enters or leaves a gemstone.
SINGLE REFRACTION: When a light ray enters either an isometric or amorphous gem substance, it remains intact and is refracted in the normal manner as a singly ray.
SPECIFIC GRAVITY: The ratio of the weight of a gemstone to that of an equal volume of water at 4 degrees centigrade.
STOTRAM: A Sanskrit prayer and invocation.
TETRAGONAL: A crystal system with two axes equal in length and at right angles with a third axes at right angles to the first two.
TRICHROISM: The property of most doubly refractive, colored gemstones belonging to the orthorhombic, monoclinic, and triclinic crystal systems, of transmitting three different colors in three different directions when observed through a dichroscope in transmitted light.
TRICLINIC: The least symmetrical crystal system with three axes, no two of which are of equal length and no two of which are perpendicular to one another.
M.N. Dutt (translator). Garuda Puranam. The Chowkhamba Sanskrit Series Office, Varanasi-1, India. 1968.
M.N. Dutt (translator). Agni Puranam. The Chowkhamba Sanskrit Series Office, Varanasi-1, India. 1967.
(Thai translation by late Horacharn Thep Sarikabutr). Jataka Parijata, compiled by Sri Vaidyanatha Dikshitar, (Thai publishing information available on request).
Radhakrishna Parasara. Ratna-vijnana. The Chowkhamba Vidyabhawan, Varanasi, U.P., India. 1972.
Prof. Dr. A. K. Bhattacharya. Gem Therapy. Firma KLM Pvt. Ltd., 257- B.B. Ganguly Street, Calcutta - 12. India. 1971.
P. N. Scherman. Gems and Their Occult Powers. Scherman, 68/6 Kidwai Nagar, Ext. - 1, Kanpur, India. 1979.
N. N. Saha. Precious Stones That Heal. Allied Publishers Pvt., Ltd., 13/14 Asaf Ali Road, New Delhi 110002, India. 1980.
Raj Roop Tank. Indian Gemology. Dulichand Kirtichand Tank, Johari Bazaar, Jaipur 302003, India. 1971.
Richard T. Liddicoat, Jr. Handbook of Gem Identification. G.I.A., 1660 Stewart Street, Santa Monica, Calif. 90406, U.S.A. 1981.
Tom Hopke. How to Read Your Horoscope. The Vedic Cultural Assn., 51 Coelho Way, Honolulu, Hawaii 95817, U.S.A. 1988.
Richard S. Brown. Handbook of Planetary Gemology. Mckinney Intl., P.O. Box 98842, T.S.T., Hong Kong. 1982 & 1988.
G. F. Kunz. The Curious Lore of Precious Stones. Dover Publications, Inc., 180 Varick St., New York 10014. 1971.
Ancient Astrological Gemstones & Talismans index, Astral Gemstone Talismans main directory.


As a student at Georgetown University, Aimée Mullins became the first amputee in history to compete in the NCAA and was the first person ever to be outfitted with woven carbon-fiber sprinting prostheses. She then went on to set World Records in the 100-meter, the 200-meter, and the long jump. In 1998 she launched her career as a fashion model for Alexander McQueen, and, more recently, served as a Global Brand Ambassador for L'Oreal Paris. She made her acting debut in 2003 and has built a career in film and television, acting alongside John Malkovich, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Ellen Burstyn, Paul Giamatti, and Elle Fanning, to name a few. She currently stars in the Emmy award-winning Netflix original series Stranger Things and in 2017 became one of the youngest inductees to the National Women's Hall of Fame. Please welcome athlete, actor, and advocate Aimée Mullins.
She delights in the sharing what she has learned to help others shatter perceived limitations and reinvent themselves. In a warm, engaging and approachable style, Aimée offers insightful, actionable and powerful guidance to audiences worldwide.
Aimée is currently on the hugely successful, Emmy-nominated Netflix series Stranger Things, which is now the most-searched for title in Netflix history. 8.2 million people watched the entire series in the first sixteen days. In 2019, she stars in FX's new series, Devs, set in Silicon Valley.
Aimée set her sights on becoming the fastest woman in the world on prosthetic legs, and began to wonder why legs made for sprinting wouldn't be modeled on those of the fastest land animal, rather than just those of a human. Working in collaboration with a cutting-edge biomedical engineer and a visionary prosthetist she went on to set World Records in the 100 meter, the 200 meter, and the long jump, outfitted with woven carbon-fiber prostheses that were modeled after the hind legs of a cheetah.
Aimée serves on the boards of various non-profit organizations, most notably the Women's Sports Foundation, founded by Billie Jean King, of which Aimée was elected President from 2007 to 2009. Aimée also had four years as Vice-President for the nation's oldest non-profit employment service for persons with disabilities, 'Just One Break'. She was the first woman on the board since the organization was founded in 1947 by Eleanor Roosevelt. As Secretary of State in 2012, Hillary Clinton appointed her to the State Department's 'Council to Empower Women and Girls Through Sports'.
Her likeness has been immortalized in exhibits at institutions such as the Smithsonian, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the NCAA Hall of Fame, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Tate Modern, the Track and Field Hall of Fame, and the Women's Museum, where she is honored for her contribution to sport among the "Greatest American Women of the 20th Century." In 2017, the National Women's Hall of Fame inducted Aimée, making her one of the youngest honorees ever to receive this distinction. In 2018, she received an Honorary Doctorate from Northeastern University and delivered their commencement speech which garnered a standing ovation from the audience of 22,000.
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Aimée's presentation is a full 60 minutes in length. For a more unique experience, Aimée is often hosted for interactive, hour-long Q&A sessions with a moderator and the audience, especially when audiences include children or are open/promoted to the public. Audiences truly enjoy the opportunity to engage in a free-ranging question and answer session, drawn from their own lives and challenges, and Aimée enjoys the dynamic, highly personalized format. The result is the creation of a truly one-of-a-kind experience.
Aimée's core topic is Embracing Adversity as described below.
As the pace of business accelerates and established industries spin-off, evolve or die, executives face a world far more complex than that of even a decade ago. Competition, technology, paradigm shifts and globalization make "business as usual" more like "crisis as usual." As organizations face these challenges, leaders must continually decide how to respond. Turning away is not an option… so how can challenges be addressed in new ways? How can adverse conditions be viewed with curiosity and wonder? Is it possible for your business to thrive when your industry overall is in survival mode?
Aimée Mullins will share how she has chosen to answer these questions and how every individual can adopt the mindset that adversity and change are not to be dreaded, but actually welcomed as exciting parts of today's "new normal." From this vantage point, Aimée will share how she creates her path to success by taking the audience on a journey through some of the critical decision points she faced in her life — a life that has seen experiences at the Pentagon, the Olympics, in business, acting, modeling and as the President of the Women's Sports Foundation. Most importantly, through Aimée's experiences, listeners will see their personal and professional challenges through a powerful new lens and learn to respond to them in even more authentic, effective and meaningful ways.
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As a student at Georgetown University, she became the first amputee in history to compete in the NCAA and was the first person ever to be outfitted with woven carbon-fiber sprinting prostheses. She then went on to set World Records in the 100 meter, the 200 meter, and the long jump. In 1998, she made her debut as a fashion model for Alexander McQueen, and became a Global Brand Ambassador for L'Oréal Paris. She made her acting debut in 2003 and has built a career in film and television, acting alongside such notables as John Malkovich, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Ellen Burstyn, Paul Giamatti, and Elle Fanning. Aimée has spoken multiple times at the world-famous TED conference, is a TED All-Star and her footage has been viewed more than 7 million times. Please join me in welcoming: Athlete, model, actor, and advocate, Aimée Mullins.
Racing on Carbon Fiber Legs: How Abled Should We Be?
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High Resolution version of this photo is available – please send an email to amy@newleafspeakers.com to request permission to use.
Aimee was a muse (and friend) of legendary designer (Lee) Alexander McQueen and did an iconic runway show with him wearing a leather corset, lace skirt and carved ash legs. The outfit now resides in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Savage Beauty exhibit in New York City. One of our video samples show this show- Aimee appears at the beginning and the very end – at the 18 minute mark.
Aimee's preferred format for speaking is the On-Stage Fireside Chat – where she and the moderator have a one of a kind, wide-ranging conversation on a variety of topics.
Aimee was a Global Brand Ambassador for L'Oreal Paris.
Aimee was raised in Allentown Pennsylvania.
Aimee was photographed with dear friend and renown designer Olivier Theyskens for Vogue Germany – Olivier also made Aimee's wedding dress.
When Aimee had her first big payday, she celebrated by treating herself to some vintage cuffs with shooting stars inlaid on them.
Aimee's birthday is July 20th.
The folding ruler symbolizes Aimee's ability to change her height, at will, depending on which pair of prosthetic legs she wears.
The iconic photo of Aimee sprinting down the beach in her prosthetic sprinting legs and a bikini was taken by famed photographer Howard Schatz.


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Q: Is there any opensourse set of components or some framework for creating Flex mxml graphs (Node-based UIs)? Is there any opensourse, free set of components for creating Flex mxml graphs?
like aviary Peacock style ones

(source: peacockwiki at sites.google.com)
with at least Drag, drop, and connect generators
so each graph element could have

(source: peacockwiki at sites.google.com)
or something like that.
Framework should be opensource (like GPL, LGPL etc)
BTW: I found one wary bacic made by Erno Aapa with Degrafa but I would really love to see something much more Flex 4 - mxml oriented and frienfdly.
So blog articles, Google code projects, anything - please help

A: I don't have a specific answer for you; but just some places to go look.
Have you looked at the Advanced Charting and Visualization package from Adobe? They are part of the open source SDK with the release of Flex 4.
You already mentioned Degra.  I understood that Degrafa stands for Declarative Graphics.  I'm surprised you'd say it is not MXML friendly.
Have you looked at Axiss?  It is another project out there, and I believe it relies heavily on Degrafa.
You said open source, but didn't say free.  So, I believe source code is available if you purchase a license to iLog.  I'm not sure about FusionCharts, but I've heard very positive things about it from other Flex Developers.

A: Moccasin and Flex Wires combined should get you most of the way there.


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František Lízna (11 July 1941 – 4 March 2021) was a Czech Jesuit priest.

Biography
He was born in a Moravian town Jevíčko to Ukrainian mother and Czech father. He was a recipient of the Order of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk.

He died on 4 March 2021 due to COVID-19 during the COVID-19 pandemic in the Czech Republic in Olomouc hospital.

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1941 births
2021 deaths
Czech Jesuits
Czech people of Ukrainian descent
Recipients of the Order of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk
Charter 77 signatories
People from Jevíčko
Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in the Czech Republic

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These are a quality pair of flip flops. They are very comfortable and in fact I ordered a second pair!
The most comfortable flip flop I have owned! The top flip flop is better than the slim as far as comfort.


Catalyst Beauty, which has worked in the beauty industry and been a silent partner with multiple beauty brands during the last 12 years, is now offering a service that allows small brands to focus more on sales and marketing. In addition to developing new products and managing the production process, Catalyst now offers supply chain management.
To succeed in today's competitive marketplace, in addition to financing, new brands need a clearly defined raison d'etre, a clear point of difference, viable profit margins, products that deliver on their promise, and a distribution model coupled with an actionable media plan, including a dynamic social media campaign. Catalyst's experienced team of project managers supports new brands through every phase of the process with a detailed timeline, a network of proven suppliers, and now, cloud-based software that enables clients to track every aspect of their project—finances, timelines, inventory and sales.


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Sheldon Sylvester Whitacre
Monday, April 12th, 1943 - Saturday, October 22nd, 2022
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Sheldon Sylvester Whitacre, 79, of Oakland, MD, passed away on Saturday, October 22, 2022, at Oakland Nursing & Rehabilitation Center, Oakland.
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Born April 12, 1943, in Swallow Falls, MD, he was the son of the late, Joseph Sylvester and Evelyn Janet (Sines) Whitacre. He was also preceded in death by a son, Kenneth Ray Whitacre, a brother, Robert Whitacre and two sisters, Delores Proulx and Helen Sines.
Sheldon retired from Garrett County Roads Department, after 36 years of employment. He was a member of Pine Grove Church, Oakland Elks Lodge #2481 and the Deer Park Sportsman Club. Sheldon enjoyed the outdoors, hunting and fishing.
He is survived by his wife of 58 years, Nadean Louise (Lewis) Whitacre; two sons, Matthew Sheldon Whitacre and Jeremy Allen Whitacre, both of Oakland; a daughter, Diane Michelle Welch and husband, Darrell, Oakland; a sister, Sandy Jamison, Oakland; two granddaughters, Katie and Michelle; three great-grandchildren, Kennedy, Ivy and Carter.
Friends will be received at Newman Funeral Homes, P.A., 1100 Memorial Dr., Oakland, MD 21550, on Wednesday from 4:00 – 7:00 p.m.. Services will be conducted at Pine Grove Church, 5792 Oakland Sang Run Rd., Oakland, MD 21550, on Thursday, October 27, 2022, at 11:00 a.m. with Pastor Carl Fike officiating. Friends will be received one hour prior to services. Interment will be in Garrett County Memorial Gardens, Oakland.
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New Toy: Cat tunnel. They seem to like it. They use it to travel between the dining room and the living room. They tried fighting in it but found it too confining.
New Bed: The boys had been fighting over the one and only cat bed we had (even though they could both fit if they tried) so we went to Bosley's and paid 40 bucks for a nice, plush, comfy new bed. They sniffed it when we first brought it in and have ignored it ever since.
New Foot Stool: This was NOT purchased for the cats. It was supposed to be mine but the boys have taken to napping on it. What can I say. They are just as spoiled as our dear, sweet Angel was.
All good tips for me, as I am looking forward to fostering two wee kitten siblings, which I plan to adopt, as I will fall in love with them and be unable to give them up.
I love the tube and it's potential for kitty fun. They are adorable. I just bought Jose a new, heavy sweater for our walks. It is too hot for now so I haven't tried it on him.
Maybe act like that's YOUR new cat bed for yarn or something and then maybe it will be more popular.
I like that tunnel, but how is his tail sticking out in the middle? Are there holes in the sides?
There is just one big hole in the top but they keep rolling it over when they walk through.


See Southern Wyoming's wild horses is on this unforgettable scenic drive around Pilot Butte. With the breathtaking high-desert landscape as your backdrop, go off-road and witness these majestic wildlife in their natural habitat, as well as other critters like desert elk, rabbits, coyotes, hawks and eagles.
Few scenic byways in North America will give you such a detailed image of the pure and untamed Wild West.
Route: From Rock Springs, take I-80 to the Elk Street exit (104) and go north. Travel 14 miles and go left on CR 4-14 (Fourteen Mile Road), go 2.5 miles and take a left on CR-53. Follow CR-53 21.5 miles to Green River. To access the route from Green River, exit I-80 at Flaming Gorge Way and turn on Wild Horse Canyon Road.


In this post we will see how to create reusable components using the Interface Builder: we will design our component (drag and drop of components , layout constraints, etc) as if we were working in a Storyboard, save the result as a .XIB file, and see how we can reuse our component in different Storyboards (or even in other .XIB files).
By default Alamofire treats any completed request as successful: as long as it can connect to server, and the server responds, it will consider that everything is OK. This means you will be getting a .Success even on this situations when the HTTP status code returned on those calls corresponds to some 4xx HTTP error code.
In this post we will see how to install Swift, the programing language created by Apple, on Linux, concretely in Debian's currently stable release(named Jessie).


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DIRECTIONS: North of Burlington, Mi. 4 Miles on 11 Mile Road to K- Drive South then West 1 1/4 Miles to 10 Mile road then South 3/4 Mile to Farm (Calhoun County).
NOTE: Few Tractors Running, Many are complete, some are parts only. There will likely be some surprises as we unearth these items. Many pallets of parts & Misc. will be selling in 2 Rings.


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Joan Didion: Let me tell you, she was gold
Joan Didion, who died today in New York at the age of 87, was a writer all her life. Her work, whether fiction or journalism, was clear-sighted, precise and perceptive, and always peppered with her signature bone-dry wit. "Had I been blessed with even limited access to my own mind there would have been no reason to write," she explained in her 1976 essay "Why I Write". "I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear."
Born on 5 December 1934 in Sacramento, California, Didion was just five years old when she wrote her first story, at her mother's encouragement. As a teenager she obsessively typed out the works of Ernest Hemingway, learning the rhythm and simplicity of clear, declarative writing. At 21, while studying for a degree in English at Berkeley, she wrote an essay about the San Francisco architect William Wilson Wurster and entered it into a competition sponsored by Vogue. She won first place, and her prize was a job as a research assistant at the magazine and the start of a new life in New York.
Didion spent seven years at Vogue, working her way up to the position of associate feature editor, but found herself homesick for California. In 1963, she published her first novel, Run, River, which centres on the lives of the great-grandchildren of California's pioneers. Looking back at the novel later, in her 2003 essay collection Where I Was From, Didion saw the book as a work of false nostalgia, portraying an idyllic version of California that may never have existed.
Her friend John Gregory Dunne, a fellow writer, helped her edit the book and they married a year later. After returning to California, the couple made their living writing magazine articles, but by 1967 the social upheaval in the state and the country at large had made the then 32-year-old Didion doubt herself. When The Saturday Evening Post dispatched her to report on the Summer of Love in San Francisco, she went, she later wrote, "because I had not been able to work in some months, had been paralysed by the conviction that writing was an irrelevant act, that the world as I had understood it no longer existed. If I was to work again at all, it would be necessary for me to come to terms with disorder."
It was disorder she found and chronicled in San Francisco, in stark contrast to the utopian image presented by those involved in the counterculture. In one of the most startling moments in her essay "Slouching Towards Bethlehem", which gave its title to a 1968 collection of her magazine work, she encounters a five-year-old girl named Susan who is tripping on LSD provided by her parents. She recalled this seemingly shocking moment in the 2017 documentary Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold, directed by her nephew Griffin Dunne. "Let me tell you, it was gold," Didion told Dunne with delight. "You live for moments like that, if you're doing a piece. Good or bad."
This restrained detachment, coupled with a piercing gaze that refused to look away, defined Didion's style. She retained that same sense of cool scrunity even when turning her gaze on herself. In the title essay of her 1979 collection The White Album, Didion documents her own nervous breakdown a decade earlier. She writes of undergoing a psychiatric evaluation, after which she was diagnosed as having had an attack of vertigo and nausea. "By way of comment," she wrote, "I offer only that an attack of vertigo and nausea does not now seem to me an inappropriate response to the summer of 1968."
During the Seventies, Didion wrote and published several more novels, including 1970's Play It As It Lays, a spare, elegant tale about a woman confined to a psychiatric hospital. When the book was adapted into a film in 1972, Didion and Dunne themselves wrote the screenplay. The couple ended up among the most highly paid screenwriters in Hollywood, and their work included the 1976 adaptation of A Star Is Born with Barbra Streisand and Kris Kristofferson, and 1981's True Confessions, based on Dunne's own Los Angeles-set crime novel.
On 30 December 2003, while their adopted daughter Quintana Roo Dunne was in a coma, Dunne had a heart attack at the dinner table and died. Less than a year later, on 4 October 2004, Didion sat down to write about navigating grief while dealing with her daughter's severe illness. 88 days later she emerged with The Year of Magical Thinking, still regarded as one of the essential works about grief and mourning. "A single person is missing for you, and the whole world is empty," she wrote. The book was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize and won the 2005 National Book Award for Nonfiction. On 26 August 2005, while promoting her book in New York, Didion learned that her daughter had died of acute pancreatitis. Again, rather than turning her gaze away, Didion wrote candidly about this experience in her 2011 work Blue Nights.
Throughout her life, Didion drew powerful narratives out of the chaos and disorder of American culture. She understood the power that stories have, not just to tell us about our lives, but to shape them. As she wrote in the opening paragraph of "The White Album": "We tell ourselves stories in order to live … We look for the sermon in the suicide, for the social or moral lesson in the murder of five. We interpret what we see, select the most workable of the multiple choices. We live entirely … by the imposition of a narrative line upon disparate images, by the 'ideas' with which we have learned to freeze the shifting phantasmagoria – which is our actual experience."
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Local Katie Reeder shared some great family activities going on this fall in Alpharetta, GA, an upscale community 22 miles north of Atlanta.
Old Milton Country Fair: Celebrate the history and heritage of the community at a good old-fashioned country fair. Barbecue and blue grass music, old-time carnival games, heritage and country crafts and demonstrations, pony and train rides, historic exhibits, classic cars, storytelling and more! Named a "Top 20 Event in the Southeast" by the Southeast Tourism Society. Milton Center at Log Cabin. Saturday and Sunday, September 12-13; 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Ironkids Triathlon: The IronKids National Event Series was started in 1985 and has seen more than 40,000 participants in its history. The series is a swim, bike, run competition for ages 6-15. Distances vary with age. There will also be fun activities for families. Wills Park. Saturday and Sunday, September 12 – 13.
Alpharetta FunFest & Classic Car Show: Much more than a car show, the FunFest has something for the entire family. The Kids' Zone includes a petting zoo, arts and crafts area, rides and games. Enjoy entertainment throughout the day and evening. Free admission; located at North Point Mall (home to the Southeast's only American Girl Boutique and Bistro) and North Point Center East. Saturday, September 19; 11 a.m. – 6 p.m.
Crossroads in Crabapple Antique and Arts Festival: 50 American Country Antique Dealers and 50 juried local artists are featured at this one day only annual show in Historic Crabapple. Food vendors, children's activities and roaming musicians. Downtown Crabapple. Saturday, October 3; 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Looking for some outdoor fun? Why not geocache to discover the thousands of caches hidden throughout the city? Be sure to make time for the 13 hiking trails within a 20-mile radius of Alpharetta and don't forget to stop by the Downtown Alpharetta Welcome Center where you can pick up complimentary brochures for the city's two arboretums and History Walk – all of which make for great self-guided walking tours.
They're so excited about your arrival, they'll even help you pack by giving away a five-piece luggage set to one lucky winner. Register to win at www.awesomealpharetta.com or stop by the Downtown Alpharetta Welcome Center located on Main Street and pick up an entry form, maps, brochures, a visitor's guide, and calendar of events. The contest runs from September – October, with the winning entry drawn on November 1, 2009. Plus, everyone who stops by the Welcome Center during September and October will receive a complimentary goody bag!
For more information call the Alpharetta CVB toll-free (800) 294-0923, locally (678) 297-0102; or visit. www.awesomealpharetta.com.
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package fi.uta.fsd.metkaSearch.directory;

import fi.uta.fsd.Logger;
import fi.uta.fsd.metkaSearch.IndexWriterFactory;
import org.apache.lucene.index.DirectoryReader;
import org.apache.lucene.index.IndexReader;
import org.apache.lucene.index.IndexWriter;
import org.apache.lucene.store.AlreadyClosedException;
import org.apache.lucene.store.Directory;
import org.apache.lucene.store.FSDirectory;
import org.apache.lucene.store.RAMDirectory;
import org.springframework.util.StringUtils;

import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;

public class DirectoryInformation {

    /**
     * Functions as an identifier for DirectoryInformation.
     * Follows simple rules:
     *   [location]:config/language
     *   for example ME:WIKIPEDIA/FI means the directory points to a finnish version of wikipedia index in memory
     *   if language is an empty string then it's disregarded as a path part.
     */
    private final DirectoryManager.DirectoryPath path;

    private final Directory directory;

    private final boolean exists;

    private final boolean writable;

    // Since all search operations are performed as once per command operation we don't need to keep record of if index is dirty or not
    // since every search will reopen the index anyway
    /*private volatile boolean dirty = false;*/
    private volatile IndexWriter indexWriter;

    public DirectoryInformation(String indexBaseDirectory, DirectoryManager.DirectoryPath path, boolean writable) throws IOException {
        this.path = path;
        this.writable = writable;
        if(this.path == null) {
            throw new UnsupportedOperationException("Needs to have a path");
        }

        if(!StringUtils.hasText(indexBaseDirectory)) {
            throw new UnsupportedOperationException("Index base directory is an empty path");
        }

        File base = new File(indexBaseDirectory);
        if(!base.exists() || !base.isDirectory()) {
            throw new UnsupportedOperationException("Index base directory doesn't exist or is not a directory");
        }

        if(path.isUseRam()) {
            directory = new RAMDirectory();
            exists = true;
        } else {
            File fileDirectory = new File(indexBaseDirectory+path.getPath().substring(3));
            if(fileDirectory.exists() && !fileDirectory.isDirectory()) throw new IOException("Index directory is not a directory!");
            exists = fileDirectory.exists();
            if(writable) fileDirectory.setWritable(true);
            try {
                directory = FSDirectory.open(fileDirectory); // This should open MMapDirectory
            } catch(Exception e) {
                throw new IOException("Couldn't open new FSDirectory");
            }
        }
    }

    public DirectoryManager.DirectoryPath getPath() {
        return path;
    }

    public Directory getDirectory() {
        return directory;
    }

    public boolean exists() {
        return exists;
    }

    public void clearIndex() {
        if(indexWriter == null) {
            indexWriter = getIndexWriter();
        }

        try {
            indexWriter.deleteAll();
            indexWriter.commit();
        } catch(IOException ioe) {
            Logger.error(getClass(), "IOException while trying to clear all documents from index "+directory.toString(), ioe);
        }
    }

    public IndexWriter getIndexWriter() {
        if(!writable) {
            throw new UnsupportedOperationException("This DirectoryInformation is not writable, can't open index writer");
        }
        if(indexWriter == null) {
            // This can throw LockObtainFailedException if someone has abused the way
            // this code is supposed to be used. In that case we're pretty much out of luck with this
            // DirectoryInformation
            indexWriter = IndexWriterFactory.createIndexWriter(directory);
        }
        try {
            indexWriter.commit();
        } catch(AlreadyClosedException ace) {
            indexWriter = IndexWriterFactory.createIndexWriter(directory);
        } catch(IOException ioe) {
            Logger.error(getClass(), "IOException while performing test commit on index in directory " + directory.toString(), ioe);
            return null;
        }
        return indexWriter;
    }

    // TODO: Since IndexReader is thread safe it should be cached for use by multiple queries instead of providing a new reader per search
    // For now though this requires the least amount of work so it's sufficient at the moment.
    public IndexReader getIndexReader() throws IOException {
        return DirectoryReader.open(directory);
    }

    /*public IndexReader getNRTIndexReader(boolean applyDeletes) throws IOException {
        if(indexWriter == null) {
            getIndexWriter();
            //throw new UnsupportedOperationException("No index writer to create NRT reader from");
        }
        return DirectoryReader.open(indexWriter, applyDeletes);
    }*/

    @Override
    public boolean equals(Object o) {
        if (this == o) return true;
        if (o == null || getClass() != o.getClass()) return false;

        DirectoryInformation that = (DirectoryInformation) o;

        if (!path.equals(that.path)) return false;

        return true;
    }

    @Override
    public int hashCode() {
        return path.hashCode();
    }
}

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Monday 6th August, 2018
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Dick Cavett In The Digital Age
RIDGEFIELD, Conn. — Everyone wants to ask Dick Cavett the same question, and it is a question that he never wants to answer: Of all today's talk-show hosts, who is the "next Dick Cavett"?
"Well, that's an awkward subject matter for me, because I know all of them," Mr. Cavett, 81, said on a recent sunny Thursday afternoon at his sprawling country house in Connecticut. "I'm not addicted to talk shows. God knows, I've spent enough time on them."
As in Mr. Cavett's 1960s and '70s heyday, the country is in a period of turbulence, with racial tensions flaring, protests in the streets, and a fundamental ideological fissure. The hosts who have emphasized substance, who have "gone political," have been praised and nominated for Emmys.
But "the next Cavett"? Is such a thing possible?
For three decades, Mr. Cavett was the thinking person's Johnny Carson, embodiment of an East Coast sophisticate. He wore smart turtlenecks and double-breasted blazers, had more cultural references than a Google server and laced martini-dry witticisms into lengthy, probing talks with 20th-century luminaries including Bette Davis, James Baldwin, Mick Jagger and Jean-Luc Godard.
Read the rest of this article at: The New York Times
The Cognitive Biases Tricking Your Brain
I am staring at a photograph of myself that shows me 20 years older than I am now. I have not stepped into the twilight zone. Rather, I am trying to rid myself of some measure of my present bias, which is the tendency people have, when considering a trade-off between two future moments, to more heavily weight the one closer to the present. A great many academic studies have shown this bias—also known as hyperbolic discounting—to be robust and persistent.
Most of them have focused on money. When asked whether they would prefer to have, say, $150 today or $180 in one month, people tend to choose the $150. Giving up a 20 percent return on investment is a bad move—which is easy to recognize when the question is thrust away from the present. Asked whether they would take $150 a year from now or $180 in 13 months, people are overwhelmingly willing to wait an extra month for the extra $30.
Present bias shows up not just in experiments, of course, but in the real world. Especially in the United States, people egregiously undersave for retirement—even when they make enough money to not spend their whole paycheck on expenses, and even when they work for a company that will kick in additional funds to retirement plans when they contribute.
That state of affairs led a scholar named Hal Hershfield to play around with photographs. Hershfield is a marketing professor at UCLA whose research starts from the idea that people are "estranged" from their future self. As a result, he explained in a 2011 paper, "saving is like a choice between spending money today or giving it to a stranger years from now." The paper described an attempt by Hershfield and several colleagues to modify that state of mind in their students. They had the students observe, for a minute or so, virtual-reality avatars showing what they would look like at age 70. Then they asked the students what they would do if they unexpectedly came into $1,000. The students who had looked their older self in the eye said they would put an average of $172 into a retirement account. That's more than double the amount that would have been invested by members of the control group, who were willing to sock away an average of only $80.
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Three months before he died, I began to steal things from my father's house. I wandered around barefoot and slipped objects into my pockets. I took blush, toothpaste, two chipped finger bowls in celadon blue, a bottle of nail polish, a pair of worn patent-leather ballet slippers, and four faded white pillowcases the color of old teeth.
After stealing each item, I felt sated. I promised myself that this would be the last time. But soon the urge to take something else would arrive again like thirst.
I tiptoed into my father's room, careful to step over the creaky floorboard at the entrance. This room had been his study, when he could still climb the stairs, but he slept here now.
He was propped up in bed, wearing shorts. His legs were bare and thin as arms, bent up like a grasshopper's.
"Hey, Lis," he said.
Segyu Rinpoche stood beside him. He'd been around recently when I came to visit. A short Brazilian man with sparkling brown eyes, the Rinpoche was a Buddhist monk with a scratchy voice who wore brown robes over a round belly. We called him by his title. Near us, a black canvas bag of nutrients hummed with a motor and a pump, the tube disappearing somewhere under my father's sheets.
"It's a good idea to touch his feet," Rinpoche said, putting his hands around my father's foot on the bed. "Like this."
I didn't know if the foot touching was supposed to be for my father, or for me, or for both of us.
"Okay," I said, and took his other foot in its thick sock, even though it was strange, watching my father's face, because when he winced in pain or anger it looked similar to when he started to smile.
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Years ago in Yonsa, a small North Korean town near the Chinese border, residents gathered to watch a man die. Executioners tied him by his neck, chest, and waist to a log in the town square, then shot 90 bullets into him. When it was over, all that remained were two legs.
The man, an executive at a trading company, had been ratted out for illegally cutting down and selling trees to China. When the police came to his property, they found his ceiling papered with money and a getaway boat filled with wads of cash. Or so the story goes among locals.
*Names have been changed.
But it was what became of this man's daughter that haunted a 12-year-old Kim So Won*. The daughter was tall and beautiful and made small but daring fashion statements. "I remember she wore earrings and tight jeans," says So Won, "and she wore a tight red jacket" — none of which was officially allowed in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. Rumors circulated that the girl could jump incredible distances, that she could fly across a room. "She was a star."
Then one day, in 2007, not long after her father was publicly executed, the daughter vanished. No one ever saw or heard from her again. But So Won would always remember the earrings, the skinny jeans, the red jacket.
THE VIEW IN every direction from So Won's home in Yonsa was dominated by mountains dotted with potatoes in the autumn and strawberries in the spring. The range they called "the gasping mountain" barricaded Yonsa from the Tumen River; in some ways, it felt like a prison wall. Across that water was China and the rest of the world. Being so close to another life, in a way inland North Koreans were not, was the hardest part.
With two rooms and a plot of land for growing vegetables, the Kims' home was spacious by North Korean standards. So Won lived with her middle sister, So Yeon, who was three years older, along with their mother and father, an engineer who later became the town drunk. "It was such a waste for him to live in North Korea," So Won says. "He was always drinking to avoid reality."
The reality was that North Korea's system had long ago ceased to function: Its economy had stalled, its government was desperate, and its people were growing increasingly aware that their lives had changed for the worse. From 1945 — when the Korean Peninsula was split by the U.S. and the Soviet Union following the Japanese occupation — until the 1970s, North Korea was the richer of the two nations. The communist North enjoyed a better infrastructure and a stronger economy than the democratic South; some Koreans living abroad who had the choice of either country, including So Won's grandfather who'd moved to Japan, opted to claim citizenship in the North.
But over the following decades, life in North Korea shifted drastically. The fall of the Soviet Union led to the collapse of the economy. A series of floods and droughts culminated in the Great Famine, or "arduous march," as it was called, from 1994 to 1998. The famine — along with the regime's human rights abuses, mismanagement of foreign aid, and funneling of money toward its nuclear program — starved and killed 330,000 North Koreans, according to conservative estimates.
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The Art Of Stealing
Olga is on her own. Her son is in prison, being held on suspicion of having committed what they are calling on television 'the art theft of the century'. She knows that the accusation is correct. Along with friends, her son Radu stole seven valuable artworks from a museum in Rotterdam, loaded them into a car and drove them to Romania.
There, in Carcaliu, a remote village at the poor south-eastern tip of the country, Olga stands in front of the heating stove in the bathroom. A short while ago she lit the fire then stepped out into the biting cold, making her way to the small graveyard opposite her house where, in the dead of night, she dug up the paintings and brought them back inside.
Picasso, Gauguin, Matisse, Monet, Meijer de Haan and Freud. On television they are talking about a loot worth hundreds of millions of euros. The amount is not important to her. The pictures are evidence against her son and destroying the evidence seems like the only way she can help him.
The artworks go up like tindersticks.
Early in the morning of 16th October 2012, seven valuable artworks were stolen from the Kunsthal in Rotterdam. The theft was world news. But what first seemed like a sophisticated burglary by professionals, turned out to be the work of a few small-time Romanian criminals who had no idea what they were getting themselves into. They knew about house burglaries, not art, and they certainly didn't know about selling art.
This is the story of the Kunsthal robbery, based on the case files and conversations with those involved.
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The IMF emphasizes that the Dutch economy has been steaming in recent years, helped by domestic demand and exports. The labor market, tax policy and the booming housing market also played a role in growth, and the banking sector has also become financially healthier in recent years.
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A Eulogy for JUSTIFIED
April 15, 2015 Caleb 3 Comments
"Don't eulogize the past until the future gets its turn." – Boyd Crowder
Justified was always a tougher sell than it should have been. A US Marshall returning to a poor county in Kentucky to hand out his unique brand of justice sounds more like the premise of a TLC reality series than it does one of an acclaimed drama. The idea isn't one that jumps out at you in the way the plots of other well known critical darlings do. "Cancer-stricken teacher becomes meth kingpin," for example, grabbed you right away. So did "plane crash survivors find themselves stranded on mysterious island." It's not a stretch to say that most of the dramas you'd consider to be worthy are built around very unique, tightly drawn premises
But watching Justified wrap up its outstanding six-season run last night, I was struck by the thought that perhaps the conventional-sounding premise was always the point. Or at least part of it. The show, based on one of Elmore Leonard's short stories, used its locale much like other shows use a main character. The Harlan County of Justified is a quiet, rural town brimming with chaos and character just beneath the surface. It seems the kind of place you'd drive through on your way to somewhere better without giving much of a second thought, but beyond its folksy charms there is a complex community of families and gangs and factions all warring and jockeying for position and influence. Family ties run deep. Scores are settled decades later. Slights are never forgotten. Like Harlan County, Justified felt like a passing marker for many people on their way to something else*, but for those of us who stopped to look around, there was a drama unlike anything else built around a silver-tongued cowboy with a trigger finger.
* The term "underrated" gets tossed around enough to render it meaningless, but surely Justified's scant award recognition qualifies it for that designation.
Raylan Givens belongs in the hallowed halls of television's greatest characters, and Timothy Olyphant's portrayal is nothing short of brilliant: a pitch perfect blend of humor, vanity, and wit, all working together to mask a rebellious rage boiling underneath. Olyphant's Givens is cunning, brash, and cocksure, carrying himself with the kind of swagger typically associated with hitmen or mafia dons. He's got the kind of unflappable nerve that made Clint Eastwood's best antiheroes sizzle and effortlessly doles out the kind of charm that made John Wayne so loved. His gait somehow captures both the silky bravado of a pimp's strut and the hunched shoulders of a beaten man. He's a wholly unique take on the complexities of justice, and if that description verges on comic book cliché, it's only because he's a walking, jawing embodiment of the pulp heroism of Elmore Leonard's greatest works. Olyphant dons Givens's boots with glee and abandon, delivering the show's best lines – of which there are, honestly, just too many to count – with the confidence to convince you he wrote them himself.
That any show could develop a character this strong is amazing. That Graham Yost and his crew surrounded Givens with characters as complex and stirring as the rest of the cast is downright miraculous. Even the bit players here, like Jacob Pitts's Tim Gutterson and Garret Dillahunt's Ty Walker, were given scenes, episodes, and arcs that allowed them to stretch out and become integral parts of the show. Like a finely tuned roster on a championship team, Justified brought together a cast of actors who each knew their roles and were given opportunities to excel. For five years – even as they introduced and killed off "big bads" – the writers planted seeds, creating the kind of rich, vast ensemble that would make Matt Groening jealous. And the final season was their chance to show off, as they brought back beloved characters and tied up loose ends without anything feeling forced or out of the show's lane.
But in a cast as rich as Justified's, no character approached Raylan's depth like Walton Goggins's Boyd Crowder. Like The Walking Dead's Daryl Dixon, Crowder was originally an afterthought; meant simply to be the driving force behind the show's pilot (based on one of Leonard's short stories), Crowder wasn't built to last long. But the show struck gold in Goggins's otherworldly outlaw, catching lightning in a bottle with his peculiarities, his black hair jutting from his forehead like an electrocuted cartoon character, his proto-hipster attire blanketing his bony frame. Boyd shared a history with Raylan, and the two knew each other from days digging for coal and hope in a town of broken souls. For six seasons Boyd became Raylan's counterpart, his spiritual foil, his equal in wit (delivered with the cadence and verve of an old Southern preacher). And like Raylan, he was just as prone to violent outbursts, his emotional highs and lows accompanied by dead bodies and bullet holes.
Boyd was a man of extremes, though, and the character was most sympathetic when he embraced life. When he loved, his heart enveloped Ava, the woman of his dreams, and he burned with an unquenchable desire to please her. Despite a brutal history of violence, it was difficult not to empathize with him as he hatched doomed plan after doomed plan, all in a vain attempt to have his cake and eat it, too. Yost and his crew expertly played with expectations, whipping Boyd between each sides of the spectrum, pulling viewers to one side with Boyd just as they had settled on the other. The final season – and really the final episode – was the most extreme. Boyd became the worst monster he had ever been, consumed by a desire for vengeance. He fought Nazis, drug dealers, mafia men, and crooked cops, but in the end he was undone by the enemy he had created, the enemy he had become.
This made his final scenes so fitting. Giving Boyd the release of death, even a deserving one – one that he essentially begged for – would have been a disservice to the character. It would have also been a disservice to Raylan. Like the two leads in True Detective, Raylan and Boyd shared a relationship that would form the heart of the show, but their interplay was much more complex. As their stories unfolded and their paths crossed over and over again, the two sides of Harlan County stretched out before our eyes. For years the show's theme* whispered out, "You'll never leave Harlan alive." And for years, we wondered what it meant. Was this a premonition? Or were Harlan's ghosts merely telling their story? Raylan's conversation with his deceased father and Avery Markham's promise to Katherine Hale's cold body confirmed what we suspected all along. There are only two kinds of people here: the people who embrace the muck of Harlan, and the people dragged into it.
* The real one, that is. Not the opening country rap theme we all grew to begrudgingly accept.
When the theme played for the final time during the finale, it seemed like the time had come for Raylan to join the ghostly chorus, but a stroke of luck prevented a devastating finish. It always did with him. A bullet dodged, a death escaped. But in his eyes you could see something different, even as a last end escaped, untied. His time in Harlan was over; so too was ours.
Justified didn't owe us a thing, not after season two capped off one of the greatest years in television history, not after creating one of the richest ensembles ever. But it gave us a beautiful and moving finale anyway, and for fans of the show, everything came full circle in the closing moments, as Raylan and Boyd reunited years later for an emotional conversation through the fingerprint-smudged glass of a prison visitation room. In the end, the show's haunting theme proved true. Raylan moved away to be with his daughter and tried (and failed) to start a family. Boyd was left to serve out the rest of his days from behind a blanket of cold concrete. They both achieved some semblance of survival. They both left the war scathed and standing, but they'll never really leave Harlan alive. As long as blood moves through their veins, the crooked roots of that county and the history they shared in it will stretch across their memories, tangled reminders of joy and pain that run generations deep. If there's one thing to take away from the show, here is where we find it. Raylan needed to move away for a daughter. He had to talk one last time to Boyd to protect a son. In Harlan County, the good and bad die all the same. Blood is the only thing you can't take away.
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Chris Collins says:
Nice to see Justified get some of the love it deserves. I loved the finale. They found that tough balance that provides the audience with closure without tying the bow too perfectly to be believed.
E Woods says:
We just watched the finale. Justified had a fantastic run and left on a high note. Best series finale of all time. Love the writing and acting
Ron and Toni Timmons says:
We think "Justified" is the greatest TV show of all time. We also are great fans of "Longmire," but believe the actors in "Justified" to be unparalleled. The eulogy was magnificent and well deserved. We'd never heard of Timothy Olyphant or Walton Goggins before, but we will never forget them. Congratulations to all involved and R.I.P Elmore Leonard.


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As part of the extensive community engagement strategy, Council is hosting a series of activities including forums in Forbes and our villages, activities in our schools and discussions with external Government agencies.
There will also be group forums targeting key areas such as business, tourism, health, seniors, youth, our Aboriginal community and aged care. These forums start next Wednesday.
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The survey will be posted to every household in the Forbes Shire next week and residents can return it in the reply paid envelope provided or drop it into Council's administration office.


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Study says hydrogen can be a "vital" tool in the decarbonisation of energy systems
by Martin Banks 2 years ago Dec 17, 2020 0 Comments
There has never been a greater focus on the development of a clean hydrogen market.
However, the focus of policy to date has been directed towards increasing production using electricity generated by renewables, ignoring the potential role of other low-carbon power sources, notably nuclear power.
A new report by the New Nuclear Watch Institute analyses the potential of hydrogen as a decarbonising agent as well as the state of present-day policy. It notes the "valuable role" that nuclear-produced hydrogen can play in hastening the development of a widespread hydrogen deployment.
The major research, titled 'On the Role of Nuclear Power in the Development of a European Hydrogen Economy', concludes that using nuclear power to produce hydrogen has several advantages compared to using intermittent renewables.
The issue was also the subject of a webinar on 17 December organised by the NNWI.
One of the speakers for the virtual debate, Anton Moskvin, of Rosatom Overseas, outlined how his company is at the forefront of hydrogen development in Russia, pointing out that the Russian government had recently approved plans for the "large scale" scaling up of hydrogen production, including at nuclear plants.
Anton Moskvin
"Hydrogen," he said, "is important for us and the priority is to develop a set of different technologies for hydrogen production. But we need to develop better supply chains to make this happen."
While it will be difficult to produce large volumes of hydrogen energy using renewables it is "logical" to combine the advantages offered by nuclear energy with hydrogen and, he adds, "This can be done at a very competitive price."
"Both nuclear and hydrogen are part of our vision for a low carbon energy future so the two must work together and in parallel to make the sustainable world a reality.
"Nuclear can be one of the biggest players in a hydrogen economy and the European commission said recently that it sees nuclear as a low carbon source of energy so we need to develop this," he said.
Charles Hart,of the New Nuclear Watch Institute, said the development of a hydrogen market offers a "low carbon alternative," adding, "But for this to happen there needs to be a clear commitment from policymakers."
NNWI chairman Tim Yeo, who moderated the online discussion, said nuclear and hydrogen are mutually beneficial and he believes nuclear has "an essential role" to play, not least in mitigating the threat posed by climate change.
One reason, he says, why the Institute is campaigning for wider recognition of this role and for greater investment in nuclear capacity.
Kirsty Grogan
Another speaker, Kirsty Gogan, of TerraPraxis, called for a "new mind set in the nuclear sector" while Elina Teplinsky, of the Clean Air Task Force, spoke of the "potential for partnerships" in the "burgeoning hydrogen economy."
She warns, though, of "challenges and obstacles" to be overcome in making this a reality, with one of the biggest hurdles being transportation.
Here, a "significant" amount of investment is required, for example, in transporting hydrogen by trucks. Reducing production costs is another challenge, she warns.
"Nuclear offers an excellent option and I hope for greater growth in this area but we are still some way off that."
The report itself says that the land area required to produce hydrogen using nuclear power is considerably lower than that required by renewable energy sources, using a hypothetical example to demonstrate that an offshore wind farm would require 1,400 times as much land area to produce as much hydrogen as a traditional GW-scale nuclear power plant.
The Institute, in its lengthy report, also explores the possible future development of EU hydrogen policy, taking into consideration the European Commission's 'A Hydrogen Strategy for a Climate-Neutral Europe' published in July 2020.
The study highlights that the decision of the EU to set its long-term aim on purely 'renewable hydrogen' production, at the expense of other 'low-carbon' sources of production such as nuclear power, may also delay investment in the associated infrastructure required by a broad-based hydrogen economy.
The exhaustive study concludes that hydrogen can be a "vital" tool in the decarbonisation of energy systems and that nuclear-produced hydrogen would bring "multiple benefits" to the development of the European hydrogen system.
This is acknowledged by the French national hydrogen strategy, which sees a clear and valuable role for nuclear-produced hydrogen.
The global pandemic, states the study, provides a unique opportunity to use the spare capacity of nuclear power to produce hydrogen and accelerate the development of a European hydrogen economy.
Cristian Busoi
Reacting to the study, Cristian Busoi, the MEP who chairs the influential committee on industry, research and energy in the European Parliament, told this website, "Nuclear is clean and at the same time, it offers a continuous supply."
The EPP member went on, "With the aim to achieve our climate and energy goals and the security of the energy supply, nuclear has a great potential as an efficient source of energy in the clean energy mix."
The Romanian MEP said, "I welcome the study and its finding and I encourage the sector to further invest in research in order to boost technology innovation to drive down the overall costs. It is of a paramount importance to insure the affordability and economical viability of end users."
Yves Desbazeille, director general of FORATOM, the Brussels based body that represents the nuclear industry at EU level, also told EU Political Report, "The report proves what FORATOM has been highlighting in discussions with EU institutions for some time now.
Yves Desbazeille
"Nuclear is a very versatile and proven technology, providing low-carbon electricity that can be used for the production of clean hydrogen, which could be an important solution for hard to decarbonise sectors such as industry and transport. In order to produce affordable hydrogen, electrolysers will need to run constantly on low-carbon electricity.
"With nuclear complementing variable renewables (wind and solar) in supplying power for low-carbon hydrogen production, this will ensure a quasi-baseload electrolyser which will trigger decreasing production costs."
Desbazeille went on, "That is why, given the huge challenge which the European Union will face over the next 30 years, it is essential that EU policymakers do not focus only on variable renewables. Transforming our energy system is going to require all low-carbon solutions currently available."
The message, he says, is: "It is essential that the EU recognises all sources of low-carbon hydrogen, including nuclear."
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