"Frat Girl" is a debut novel from Kiley Roache, an 18 year old blogger and editor with the Huffington Post. Kiley has also been a reporter for the Chicago Tribune while she was a high school student, and also wrote for The Doings, a Sun Times Media Paper. She also attends Stanford University.
With a list of achievements like this, it makes me feel like I haven't done very much with my life! After hearing all of Roache's successes, I had high hopes for her debut novel "Frat Girl". This would be my first contemporary novel with feminism as it's main theme. I was a little skeptical before reading the book, mostly due to the fact that I don't know much about Feminism. I only know what I see in the media, and on twitter, and although I do believe in lots of points within Feminism, I know that I only know surface details about the history and don't have much involvement with campaigning.
As it turns out, I was right about not knowing much about feminism, and this book definitely taught me a thing or two. I also got to experience the Frat and Sorority system that is present in American Universities.
This review is part of the "Frat Girl" blog tour. I was sent a paperback copy of the book (by the publisher) in exchange for this post. All opinions are my own, and do not reflect those of the publisher, or anyone who works within the publishing house.
For Cassandra Davis, the F-word is fraternity – specifically Delta Tau Chi. Accused of sexist behaviour, they have one year to clean up their act.
With one shot at a scholarship to attend the university of her dreams, Cassie pitches a research project – to pledge Delta Tau Chi and provide proof of their misogynistic behaviour. After all, they're frat boys. Exposing them should be a piece of cake.
But the boys of Delta Tau Chi are nothing like she expected and soon, with her heart and future tangled in the web of her own making, Cassie realises that the F-word might not be as simple as she thought after all.
After reading the blurb for this book, I thought that it would be something that I would enjoy reading, and a nice quick read too. I usually find that YA Contemporary books are a nice easy read with relatable characters. As contemporary novels are set in our own world, it is easier to relate to the settings and surroundings of the characters, as they are placed in the "Real World". I have always been a bit fascinated with the American University system, as we don't have Frats and Sororities over here in the UK. I always find myself watching, and enjoying films that are based around universities and the greek system. Films like "Legally Blonde" and "The House Bunny" have introduced me to the Greek system, but they have all seemed a bit stereotypical and focusing on how the girls need to be pretty to be noticed.
In lots of films with sororities, the focus is on make overs for girls, and having to look pretty and feminine. Even in Legally Blonde, we start off with the girls being shown as over feminine and looks being more important than brains. As the film progresses we see "duller" girls not getting the same amount of opportunities as those that look nice, and this is often mirrored in real life. The concept of a girl going into the Frat house to prove that there is misogynistic behaviour is a great premise, but for me I was left a little bit disappointed.
Frat Girl is written extremely well, and there was plenty of information about feminism throughout the novel. I did feel that sometimes it went into a bit too much detail and I found myself getting a little bit bored, and feeling like I was being preached to. However, it was refreshing to see that someone was standing up for themselves and making a stand about something they strongly believed in.
The main thing that disappointed me, and something that I do really dislike in both films and novels, is the feeling of insta-love or the hint of romance straight away. At the beginning of the novel, Cassie meets a boy on the way to her first visit to the Frat house. She is immediately attracted to him, and this is fine, but the book instantly started talking about this attraction and I instantly began rolling my eyes. It reminded me of the film "Never Been Kissed" where she goes undercover at a high school and has to lie to everyone about who she really is, and how she is studying the high school experience. I would have liked it to focus more on the Frat house first, with a guy coming along a bit later. It instantly felt like the romance was the main focus, as opposed to the book being about Cassie going undercover. As the novel progressed, I did grow to like some of the other characters in the book, but romance right at the beginning of a novel just isn't for me.
Something that I did like about the start of the book, was when Cassie met her room mate and found out that she was on the opposite side of the spectrum when it came to feminism. She thought that being a feminist was negative, and didn't want to be seen as having anything to do with it. She wanted Cassie to steer clear of showing that she was a feminist, and this mirrors a lot of opinions that are around at the moment, and have been around for a very long time. Many women are still afraid to show how they feel, or are stuck in the stereotypical view of a woman.
I am glad that I gave this book a go, and I do see this working well as a film or a short series. I can see how people may relate to seeing a physical representation of the themes in the book. As someone who has not been to an American University, and someone who is now past that stage of life, I think that lots of it was lost on me. I can see the 18-25 age range really enjoying this novel.
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Theater Review: 'Creating Claire'
Simon Saltzman
Playwright Joe DiPietro has approached the controversial subject of creationism versus evolution in his engrossing and provocative play "Creating Claire," now having its world premiere at the George Street Playhouse. The inevitable conflict between science and religion, the narrow bridge between rational thinking and irrational behavior, are considered within a dramatic context that is certainly intended to instigate some heated debates. DiPietro stated in a recent feature story (U.S. 1, May 12, "When Science and Religion Collide") that he was inspired to write the play after reading a newspaper story about a group of religious fanatics who went to an "Evolution of Life" tour during which they grilled the guide with questions the guide was not prepared to answer.
One character in DiPietro's play is prepared to answer the questions. She is Victoria Halstead (Lynn Cohen), the head of a science museum in upstate New York. Cohen gives a stunningly persuasive performance as the aggressively intellectual core of "Creating Claire."
Under David Saint's responsive direction, this purposefully discursive play is also a complex consideration of how the parents of an autistic child confront that challenge and at the same time face the irreversible evolution of their relationship. This is heady material, but DiPietro has a good grip on the spiritual, emotional, and psychological factors that determine our choices and beliefs. As it is revealed, many people are, indeed, prompted by their own personal needs as they are by a fervent desire to either enlighten or influence others. A good portion of the play is comprised of polemical confrontations. And that is not necessarily a detriment, but rather a keen device that poses opposing positions with formidable impact.
It comes as a considerable shock to Victoria when she hears that Claire Buchanan (Barbara Walsh), one of the part-time docents and her close friend, has been straying from the prescribed lecture. Without question, Claire's digressions are of a religious/philosophical nature and have no place in an institution devoted strictly to science and particularly to Darwin's theory/explanation of the origin of the universe. Claire's unprecedented statements are a blow to Victoria. The break-up of their friendship is especially difficult for Victoria, as seen in the light of the impending death of her partner-in-life.
It's wonderful to see Cohen, who was last seen at George Street in "Do I Hear a Waltz" and more recently in New York in Tina Howe's "Chasing Manet," all fired up with ferocity and with heartfelt conviction, take on someone who would choose to compromise the standards of the museum and the standards and beliefs by which she lives.
Claire, a former teacher and proclaimed agnostic, has elected to stay home with Abigail (Celia Keenan-Bolger) her 16-year-old seriously autistic daughter. It is clear that Abigail is not demonstrating any signs of improvement, a fact that Claire chooses to ignore.
Keenan-Bolger, who was a Tony nominee for "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee," is playing the role she originated when "Creating Claire" was workshopped last summer at the Cape Cod Theater Project in Falmouth, Massachusetts. Her astounding performance, an awesome mix of obsessive-compulsive behavior and motor-mouthed repetitiveness, is also charged with a desperation and poignancy that come to the fore in her Facebook chat-room search for someone to love.
Walsh's performance is notable for the way she cloaks Claire's feelings of failure in denial. We can begin to suspect how Claire's desperation for answers prompts her toward a kind of religiosity that she had previously found incompatible. It should be noted that Walsh, who was lauded for "Falsettos" and more recently in the John Doyle production of "Company," stepped into the role of Claire during rehearsals when originally cast Sandy Duncan became ill.
Michael Countryman is affecting as Claire's husband, Reggie, a high school history teacher and a confirmed atheist who is initially dumbfounded not only by Claire's actions but also as it is suddenly impacting their 21-year marriage. Countryman has many fine moments as Reggie, but none sadder than watching him see the woman he fell in love with and is still in love with move on with apparently no regrets.
If Claire seems driven to infiltrate the museum's strictly science policy, she seems to have no feeling or sensitivity toward those whose lives she has irresponsibly decided to sacrifice in the wake of her mission. There are glimmers in "Creating Claire" of Rachel Crother's (1937) "Susan and God" (there was a fine revival by the Mint Theater in 2006), in which a woman seeks refuge in religion in order to avoid dealing with issues with her husband and daughter.
What is it that has provoked Claire to suddenly introduce the "intelligent design" theory at the museum? How consumed and motivated is Claire by this revelatory thinking that she sues the museum so that she can say that an "intelligent designer" could be at the back of the big bang? DiPietro is an intelligent and excellent writer and subtly provides hints as to why Claire is willing to sacrifice her marriage and a long-standing friendship. We can see in Walsh's face the glazed sweetness and becalmed serenity that has become Claire's evolved state of being. Whether we determine this to be a pathological escape route or not we do see at one point from Claire's perspective Abigail as a functioning teenager.
Claire and Reggie's home and the museum have been simply but artfully created by set designer Michael Anania and highlighted for the scenes in the museum by a huge panel upon which are projections and film showing the birth of the universe and other scientific phenomenon and data. Joe Saint was the designer for the expert let-there-be-light department.
It is the nature of people to be affected and persuaded as much by what is delusion and by what is real. What is most important, and at the heart of play, is whether we think that Claire should be free to alter the agenda and the mission of an institution strictly devoted and dedicated to substantiated facts. But what kind of victory is it when you can say that you have gained your faith, but lost your family and your best friend in the process?
DiPietro is hot at the moment, with his musical "Memphis" poised to win the Tony for Best New Musical. But he is also has a history with George Street, where his musical "The Toxic Avenger" had its debut last season. "Creating Claire" is clearly not nearly as toxic, even as it considers the potential contamination of science by religion.
"Creating Claire," through Sunday, June 6, George Street Playhouse, 9 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick. $31.50 to $71.50. 732-246-7717.
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Q: Can I install Windows 7 on my Seagate Expansion (External) Harddisk? Well, as you guys must be aware that harddisk prices are at peak these days and I don't want to buy a new harddisk at such an high price, so I am having Seagate Expansion 2TB harddisk, any ideas if i can install my windows 7 on that harddisk?
If yes then please tell me some advantages and disadvantages of doing that too.

A: Assuming you the ability to boot from a USB, you can install windows 7 on there, and it will run. It will also have very slow I/O than and internal hard drive would.
You will probably want to find a better way to do this, but it can work in a pinch.

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First, I'm on gentoo, using Twisted 2.4.0 and lore 0.2.0.
Lore's latex output fails on <span class="index" ... lines.
I was trying to generate a latex version of "How to Think Like a Computer Scientist", and got the traceback at the bottom of this description. It looks like the visitNOde_span_index function is missing a spitter object creation line. I checked over the whole file, and I don't see a IndexLatexSpitter, similar to FootnoteLatexSpitter. I'm not sure of the lore format, but I hacked together a bit from the chap01.lore file that illustrates the problem.
File "/usr/bin/lore", line 21, in ?
test.lore (1.3 KB) - added by DavidBlewett 13 years ago.
Small test file that illustrates the span index error.
Thanks for the example, it made tracking down the failure and writing the unit test very easy.
Fixed and ready for review in lore-latex-index-2134.
This might be related to your introduction of minidom. For example, for the last error, I see that the first argument to replaceChild (as a method of a minidom node) is a microdom node.
Reverted to microdom. Ugg. I'll try minidom in another five years, I guess. Tests all pass for me now.
Tests pass for me, too, now. Glad you removed the * imports. Please merge.
Add test coverage for emitting latex for a span with an index class and fix that feature as well.


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February 11th, 2021: "Libya, a Way Forward Beyond Competing Interests"
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Libya, a Way Forward Beyond Competing Interests
Nine years after the overthrow and killing of Libyan Strongman Muammar Qaddafi, two competing sides struggle in a bloody civil war to control Libya–each backed and armed by powerful regional actors who have staked out vital energy interests for oil and gas in Libya and the adjoining Mediterranean Sea. Turkey supports the UN-backed Government of National Accord with arms and mercenaries; while Russia and the UAE militarily support Khalifa Haftar's Libyan Arab Armed Forces; a host of other regional countries are closely watching and monitoring this brewing conflict. What are the geopolitical interests at stake? Which nations stand to gain from this conflict? and what is the way forward for the Libyan people?
A free webinar with Amb. Peter William Bodde
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Peter William Bodde, a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, class of Minister-Counselor, was confirmed by the Senate as the U.S. Ambassador to Libya, serving from 2016 to 2019. He also served as U.S. Ambassador to Nepal from 2012 to September 2015. As such, he received the Secretary's Distinguished Service Award for his work promoting democracy, protecting U.S. citizens, and helping lead the international response to the April 2015 earthquake in Nepal.
Ambassador Bodde is a strong leader who fosters productive interagency cooperation while maintaining high staff morale. His skills proved invaluable in leading the USG response to the Nepal earthquake. His extensive experience in nascent democracies, especially in South Asia, made him well qualified to serve as the U.S. Ambassador to Libya. He is particularly well regarded for his extraordinary efforts in mentoring his younger colleagues across interagency lines.
Ambassador Bodde previously served as Assistant Chief of Mission for Assistance Transition at U.S. Embassy Baghdad, Iraq (2010-2012) and as Ambassador to Malawi at U.S. Embassy Lilongwe (2008-2010). He also served as Deputy Chief of Mission at both U.S. Embassy Islamabad, Pakistan (2006-2008) and at U.S. Embassy Kathmandu, Nepal (1994-1997), as well as Principal Officer at the U.S Consulate General in Frankfurt, Germany (2002-2006). Prior to that, he served as Director of the Department's Office of Management Policy (2000-2002), and as Administrative Counselor at U.S. Embassy New Delhi, India (1997-2000). Ambassador Bodde also served as Administrative Officer at both U.S. Embassy Copenhagen, Denmark (1990-1994) and at U.S. Embassy Sofia, Bulgaria (1988-1990). His early assignments in the Foreign Service included serving as Special Assistant in the Department's Bureaus of Diplomatic Security and Administration, as Budget and Fiscal Officer, U.S. Embassy Kathmandu, and as Consular Officer, U.S. Embassy Georgetown, Guyana. Before the Foreign Service, he worked for the U.S. International Trade Commission in Washington, D.C.
Ambassador Bodde earned a B.A. from the University of Maryland in 1976. He has won numerous Department performance awards. He speaks German, Bulgarian, and Nepali.
Jeanine Jackson is a retired Senior Foreign Service Officer and a retired Colonel of the U.S. Army Reserve. She was appointed as U.S. Ambassador to Malawi in 2011 where she led a $250 million development, governance and security assistance program. As U.S. Ambassador to Burkina Faso from 2006-2009 she improved military cooperation and increased infrastructure and development assistance. She also served as a diplomat in Switzerland, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, Hong Kong, Kenya, Afghanistan and Iraq.
Ambassador Jackson has been a key player in activities related to creating, adapting, rebuilding and reopening U.S. Embassies: As Post Management Officer for the Soviet Union at the time of its dissolution, she managed from Washington and on the ground the establishment of U.S. Embassies in the 13 new countries left in its wake. In Afghanistan in 2001, Ambassador Jackson led the team that reopened the U.S. Embassy and then returned to Kabul in 2002 and served as the Embassy's Management Counselor until 2003. From Kabul she went to Washington where she was the Department of State's Management Coordinator responsible for the Inter-Agency effort to reestablish the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad. And as the U.S. military reduced its presence in Iraq in 2010-11, she spearheaded a multi-agency task force that planned and executed transition of support for the U.S. Embassy from Defense to State Department responsibility for which she received the Secretary's Distinguished Honor Award.
In Hong Kong she established programs to protect the interests of U.S. Government civilian, military, and local employees at the time of the British Colony's reversion to Chinese sovereignty. In Kenya following the Al Qaeda bombing, she served General Services Officer of the largest Embassy in Africa and was key to reestablishing its operations and infrastructure.
Prior to entering the Foreign Service, Ambassador Jackson worked in Saigon as a civil service employee in the Office of the U.S. Defense Attaché and then served 10 years as an active duty Army officer, primarily in Germany and Korea. She continued her military service for an additional 20 years as a reservist while pursuing her Foreign Service career.
Ambassador Jackson earned a Bachelor's Degree in Art Education from Hastings College, Nebraska followed by a Master's Degree in Business Administration. She met her husband Mark when they were both Army Lieutenants serving in Germany. He is a retired colonel of the U.S. Army Reserve and is also a retired member of the Senior Foreign Service. Enamored of Africa's cultures, they have independently traveled more than 30,000 miles on the continent.
Since retirement, Ambassador Jackson has served as a trainer for the Army's Mission Command Training Program, providing General Officers, staff and troops the tools and understanding to work effectively with the U.S. Government interagency, international organizations, and multinational allies. Girls education in Africa, music and travel are her other primary avocations. She was born and raised in Sheridan, WY where she and Mark spend summers.
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Here is a newsflash. The IRS isn't that bright. But there is a problem. I think they are cooking up a scheme that they think is going to increase tax revenue, but in reality is going to cost all of us more money without benefiting the tax coffers at all.
Its long been known that there is a certain contingency at the IRS and within Congress that wants to remove the tax-exception for municipal bonds. I've heard it time and time again from various sources. IRS hates munis. Here is their thinking. Municipal bonds are purchased mostly by the rich, who currently pay a 35% marginal tax rate. If there were no tax-exemption for municipals, the rich would be buying some other kind of bond, say a corporate bond, and paying 35% taxes on the income. So from the Federal government's perspective, they are missing out on 35% in taxes.
This 35% is basically a subsidy to state and local governments as well as many non-profits, particularly hospitals and colleges/universities. These issuers enjoy a lower interest rate on bond issues because the rich desire tax-exempt income. Let's put some numbers on this.
According to SIFMA, there are $2,726.8 billion in Municipal bonds outstanding. According to Merrill Lynch's Master Index, the average muni coupon is 4.69%. The Treasury department seems to think that if there were no tax exemption on munis, the average coupon would be 4.69%/0.65 (0.65 being the inverse of the 35% tax rate), or 7.22%. They would then tax you on the 7.22% coupon, adding up to $69 billion per year in tax revenue. Or so they seem to think. More on this in a moment.
Enter the Build America Bonds program. Under this program, municipalities can issue bonds with a taxable interest rate and receive a 35% subsidy on the rate. So for example, one of the first large BAB deal was for the University of Virginia. It sold with a coupon of 6.2% on a $250 million deal. Thus the Federal government will be writing a check to UVA for $5,425,000 every year until this thing matures in 2039.
The Treasury department seems to this this is no blood, because UVA was effectively getting a 35% subsidy anyway. Why not just pay them in cash? Ostensibly, the purpose of the BAB program was to open up demand for municipal securities beyond traditional buyers. If you remember back when the BAB program was enacted (February 17) the municipal bond market was in shambles. Demand from retail buyers, either direct or through mutual funds was non-existent. $14 billion had been withdrawn from muni mutual funds during the 4th quarter. The BAB program was supposed to help by enticing non-tax paying buyers, particularly pension funds and foreign banks, to buy muni bonds. That part of the program has worked brilliantly. BABs have become very popular among institutional investors. It has also constricted tax-exempt supply, which is a big part of why municipal bonds are so expensive currently.
But is there scum and villainy at play here? Are there those who want to see the BAB program made permanent and the tax-preference for municipals eliminated? Let's go back to the assumptions made by those who want to see munis die.
First there is an assumption that all municipal bond buyers are in the 35% tax bracket. But that is obviously false for a number of reasons. First, only about 1% of filers (or about 1 million returns) pay the maximum rate. Probably not enough to soak up the entire muni market. Its common for wealthy individuals who are no longer actively working to have very little traditional income, thus a relatively low tax rate. In fact, my wealthiest client has been stuck in AMT for several years. Some municipals are held by for-profit corporations, but this is overwhelmingly insurance companies who don't necessarily pay the maximum rate either. Insurance companies have notoriously variable tax rates, as they go through periods of higher or lower claims.
Evidence from trading history also suggests the marginal buyer of munis was at less than the 35% bracket. Here is a chart of the Muni/Treasury ratio since 2001.
But even there, the ratio is usually in the mid-upper 70's. Only during a handful of periods (mostly when corporates got very tight, not when there was any change in tax policy) did that ratio fall into the low 70's.
So I think we can kill the first part of the theory, that the Treasury is suffering 35% in forgone tax revenue. Its probably more like 30%, somewhere between the 35% bracket and the 28% bracket. This is driven home all the more by fact that Build America Bonds are currently making up half of total municipal bond issuance. Currently municipalities can choose whether to sell bonds under BABs or to sell in the traditional tax-exempt market. As it is, almost all bonds issued longer than 15 years are going BABs. Why? Because the interest savings by going to the tax-exempt market is smaller than 35%. So municipalities are taking their 35% from the Feds!
Here is the first instance where I'll say this program is costing tax payers. If we want to subsidize local governments, its cheaper to just allow them to sell tax-exempt debt. Paying this direct subsidy is clearly costing federal tax payers.
Now let's say the conspiracy theorists are right, and the Treasury really wants to extend to BABs program permanently and eliminate the tax-exempt market. We've already seen that the 35% subsidy costs the Federal government. What about local governments? We all pay some sort of taxes to both the Feds and the locals. Does it really matter if we pay somewhat more to the Feds and somewhat less to our state/county/city/etc? It does if the municipality also winds up paying more!
If there were no municipal bond market, how would retail investors invest in the bond market? As any one who deals with individual investors knows, the answer is they will go where the yield is. Where will the yield be? Not in munis. It will be in corporate bonds, preferred stock, high-yield funds, etc.
Who will buy the municipals then? The same people who are buying the BABs! BABs have found ready buyers among those who traditionally had bought high-quality long-term corporate bonds. Once upon a time, these were buyers of AAA-rated names like AIG (AIG) and General Electric (GE). Obviously what was once thought of as a very safe, "sleep at night" bond is no longer considered as such. Many of those buyers have moved on to the BABs market, where you feel like you can sleep at night buying the State of Utah or the University of Texas bonds. You also have big mutual funds buying, figuring BABs are a good alternative to Treasuries for their long-term bond exposure.
On the surface this seems like no big deal. Municipalities sell the same bonds just to a different set of buyers. What's the difference?
It probably is no different if you are the University of Texas selling $300 million in bonds. Institutional buyers like that they can buy as much size as they want. But what if you are the City of Mos Eisley Speeder Parking Revenue Authority who wants to sell $10 million? Deals of that size happen all the time in tax-exempts. In the classic municipal market that was no problem because munis are often sold $20,000 at a time anyway. Retail buyers don't care about deal size. They care about name recognition. So the Mos Eisley Parking Authority sells bonds to the rich moisture farmers in the area who feel like they know and understand the parking revenues in Mos Eisley.
The big mutual funds, pensions, insurance companies, etc., don't "know" Mos Eisley. The only way they will bother to take a look at a smaller deal is if it offers much higher yields than similar (larger) deals. And if you are some lower-rated small issuer, like a hospital or private college, forget it. As an institutional buyer myself, if I'm going to really have to dig into a institution's financials and track it closely from quarter to quarter, like I would a Baa-rated hospital, I better be able to get large size to make it worth my while. So the local hospital who wants to sell $20 million in bonds to build an addition isn't going to attract institutional buyers at all, virtually at any price.
In the traditional tax-exempt market, a strong AA-rated revenue issuer, even if it were a small deal, would classically only be 10-15bps cheap to a state GO. If retail investors were taken out of the muni market and replaced by institutional investors, that gap is probably 50-75bps. Like I said, institutional buyers would have to be paid substantially to buy the small issue.
So let's do the comparison. On 9/16 the State of Utah just sold a 10-year BABs with a spread of 70bps vs. the 10-year Treasury. That came out to a 4.15% coupon. Thus the Federal government will be paying Utah 145bps of subsidy for a "net coupon" to the state of 2.70%. Conveniently, on the same day Utah also sold 9-year tax-exempt bonds at a yield of 2.68%. There is about 17bps in spread between 9-year and 10-year munis right now, so we can guess had Utah sold 10-year tax-exempts the yield would have been around 2.85%. 15bps of savings to the state by going with the BABs program.
Now let's take a high quality but small issuer who has to sell bonds 75bps wider than the state of Utah. Had they sold on the same day as Utah they would have had a spread of 145bps for a coupon of 4.90%. The subsidy would be 171bps for a net coupon of 3.18%. So earlier I assumed that same issuer could normally come in the tax-exempt market 15bps wider than Utah, or 3.00%. So if the tax-exemption were taken away and thus retail weren't around to buy up smaller deals, the smaller issuer would pay 18bps in higher interest that it would otherwise.
Now let's think about the wealth transfer here. Small issuer pays more in interest. Federal government pays small issuer, but not enough to make up for the extra interest cost. Federal tax payers pay more. Local government pays more in aggregate, which of course eventually hits local tax payers. Who wins in all this?


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The Assessment Report was finalized in June, 2011, and was approved by the Ontario Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change in October, 2011. It was used to support the development of the Cataraqui Source Protection Plan.
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The new Lenovo Ideapad is Amazon's most popular laptop — and it's only $384 (that's 60% off)
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The 3.0GHz Intel Core i3 processor means the IdeaPad 3 can pull a lot of power when it needs it, especially for more work-intensive projects like a large Excel spreadsheet. It can also be boosted up to 4.1GHz, which puts it on par with a lot of gaming machines. The 8GB of RAM lets you take full advantage of resource-hungry applications like Google Suites while also maintaining a solid level of speed and performance for day-to-day tasks.
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THE Regional Trial Court (RTC) has dismissed a petition for injunction filed by Cebu City ex-mayor Tomas Osmeña against the Carbon development project, but the former official said he will refile the case.Osmeña filed in December 2020 the petition for judicial review and temporary restraining order against the Carbon market modernization developer, Megawide Construction Corp. (MCC), and the Cebu City Government, stressing that the project is "anti-poor."He also asked the court for prohibition an
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Unit London – Heesoo Kim: Normal Life
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Unit London – Matthew Stone: Virtual Paintings
(9 August – 10 September, 2022) Heesoo Kim's first solo exhibition with Unit London explores our shared contemporary experience through portraiture. In what the artist defines as an "expression of the mundane", Normal Life is an accumulation of everyday observations. Surrounded by a society that constantly grapples for recognition and success, Kim's body of work subtly engages with the mild sense of insecurity that is engendered by an achievement driven world.
(9 August – 10 September, 2022) Matthew Stone's debut solo exhibition with Unit London incorporates AI into his unique process for the first time. Virtual Paintings features a series of works on linen, 3D printed sculpture and hand-made wooden furniture. Using repeating imagery across these varying forms, Virtual Paintings charts a network of constellations all united by Stone's unmistakable and poetic visual language.
Unit London – Kristof Santy: La Grande Bouffe
(5 July – 6 August, 2022) La Grande Bouffe (The Big Feast), draws its name from the satirical 1970s French cult film (d. by Marco Ferreri). The exhibition iconises the simple things in life while celebrating the ubiquitous act of cooking. "My work is made of snapshots from everyday life, bringing commonplace objects to life. Painting these elements is a way to make them iconic." – Kristof Santy
Unit London – Sign Systems
(6 July – 6 August, 2022) Sign Systems explores the intersection between text and image in contemporary art. Deriving its name from the field of semiotics, which studies the concept of representation and the creation of meaning, the exhibition draws on the relationship between verbal and visual language.
Featuring: Allison Reimus, Anna Liber Lewis, Ed Ruscha, Hank Willis Thomas, Jenny Holzer, John Giorno, Kay Rosen, Lisa Anne Auerbach, Marcel van Eeden, Mukesh Shah, Sam Durant.
Unit London – Thrush Holmes: What's it all for?
(31 May – 2 July, 2022) Thrush Holmes' first solo exhibition with Unit London, What's it all for?, presents the artist's continuing drive to push the limits of a familiar yet specific motif. Engaging with the art historical legacy of still life, Holmes' works explore the many permutations that can be found within a single subject. The exhibition unfolds as the latest chapter of the artist's oeuvre, unveiling the next step in the longer story of a wider process.
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Oedignatha procerula est une espèce d'araignées aranéomorphes de la famille des Liocranidae.

Distribution
Cette espèce est endémique d'Inde.

Description
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Publication originale
 Simon, 1897 : Matériaux pour servir à la faune arachnologique de l'Asie méridionale. V. Arachnides recueillis à Dehra-Dun (N. W. Prov.) et dans le Dekkan par M. A. Smythies. Mémoires de la Société zoologique de France, ,  (texte intégral).

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Satphones, Syria, and Surveillance
Commentary by Jillian C. York and Trevor Timm
Yesterday morning, journalist Marie Colvin of the Sunday Times of London was killed, along with French photographer Rémi Ochlik, in the beseiged city of Homs, Syria, where more than 400 people have been reported dead in recent weeks.
Disturbingly, the Telegraph, the Toronto Globe and Mail, and the Associated Press all reported that Colvin and Ochlik were likely deliberately killed by the Syrian army and their location may have been tracked down through their satellite phones.
On Monday night, Colvin appeared on CNN, telling Anderson Cooper that "the Syrian army is shelling a city of cold, starving civilians." Responding to Syrian president Bashar Al Assad's statement that he was not targeting civilians in the barrage of rocketfire raining on Homs, Colvin accused the regime of "murder" and said: "There are no military targets here…It's a complete and utter lie that they are only going after terrorists." A few hours later, she was dead.
The Telegraph quoted Jean-Pierre Perrin, a journalist for the Paris-based Liberation newspaper who was with Colvin in Homs last week, as saying: "The Syrian army issued orders to 'kill any journalist that set foot on Syrian soil'" and that the Syrian authorities were likely watching the CNN broadcast. The Telegraph then described how "[r]eporters working in Homs, which has been under siege since February 4, had become concerned in recent days that Syrian forces had 'locked on' to their satellite phone signals and attacked the buildings from which they were coming" (emphasis ours).
At this point, we don't know how Colvin and Ochlik were located, but based on the various reports, it is possible that they were located using surveillance technology that tracked their satellite phones.
There are a few different ways by which satellite phones can be tracked. The first—and easiest for a government actor—would be to simply ask or pressure a company to hand over user data. This is not beyond the realm of possibility (readers might recall an incident in which Yahoo handed over information about a Chinese dissident to his government, resulting in a ten year prison term), but is just one of several methods.
Satellite phones can also be tracked by technical means and there is ample technology already on the market for doing so. For example, this portable Thuraya monitoring system by Polish company TS2, which also counts several US government agencies as clients; these systems for monitoring Thuraya and Iridium phones, created by Singaporean company Toplink Pacific; or this satellite phone tracking technology from UK based Delma MMS.
Authorities can find the position of a satellite phone using manual triangulation, but in order to track a phone in this manner, the individual would need to be relatively close by. Nowadays, however, most satellite phones utilize GPS, making them even easier to track using products widely available on the market such as those mentioned above. Some of these products allow not only for GPS tracking, but also for interception of voice and text communications and other information.
Security researcher and Tor developer Jacob Appelbaum says that satellite communications systems do not respect user location privacy needs, and aside from surveillance without the cooperation of a satellite phone provider, "such a company may betray a user's location on purpose or by accident." Research published last year by the German Horst-Goertz Institute for IT Security, found that satellite phones use weak cryptographic ciphers that could easily be broken by sophisticated attacks. The research identified serious security flaws in the encrpytion systems used by the two competing satellite phone standards, GMR-1 and GMR-2.1
Appelbaum added via email:
Satellite phone systems and satellite networks are unsafe to use if location privacy or privacy for the content of communications is desired. These phone protocols are intentionally insecure and tracking people is sometimes considered a feature. Some high security users are given special access that merely send the spot beam ID, rather than the full GPS into space and thus to the satellite network. This privacy option should be available to everyone today without any action on their part - it would partially improve the location privacy needs of users. Sadly, direction finding would be entirely unaffected. Also sadly, it will not make the communications secure but it would probably save lives. It's too bad that journalists have had to die for this discussion to happen.
A Growing Problem
The news of this potentially deliberate attack on journalists, possibly using surveillance gear sold to them by Western companies, follows a report by CNN on Sunday which claimed that dozens of opposition activists in Syria have found their computers infected with malware that can spy on their every move. The virus, according to CNN, "passes information it robs from computers to a server at a government-owned telecommunications company." And just today, the New Scientist quoted several Syrian activists fearful of the regime's technological capabilities.
Earlier this week, EFF profiled Italian mass surveillance company Area SpA, which in 2011 was rushing to install mass surveillance gear for Syrian intelligence agents just as the Syrian government was ramping up its violent crackdown on peaceful democratic protesters. As Bloomberg originally reported, Area SpA was to install "monitoring centers" that would give the Syrian government the ability "to intercept, scan and catalog virtually every e-mail that flows through the country" as well as "follow targets on flat-screen workstations that display communications and Web use in near-real time alongside graphics that map citizens' networks of electronic contacts." After a barrage of media attention and local protests at its Italian headquarters, Area SpA announced in late November that it would not complete the project as planned.
Previously, Syria was found to be using technology made by US company Blue Coat Systems to censor and surveil Internet users, despite initial denials from the company.
Colvin has put a human face on a problem that has plagued citizens of the Middle East for years now: surveillance equipment being used by despotic governments to track down journalists and activists, provided to them by Western technology companies. Now it's possible this equipment directly led the murder of an American journalist. The White House acknowledged Colvin's death, saying, "It's a reminder of the incredible risks that journalists take...in order to bring the truth about what's happening in a country like Syria to those of us at home and in countries around the world." It is time the President and Congress get serious about stopping these companies from selling this dangerous technology to authoritarian government who violate human rights.
To that end, EFF has proposed a "know your customer" framework, based on already existing legal frameworks in the U.S. and E.U. that can be implemented without significant overhead cost to government or businesses. Simply put, companies selling surveillance technologies to governments or government providers need to affirmatively investigate and "know their customer" before and during a sale. EFF has already detailed extensive framework for such regulations including questions, definitions, and procedures for how to accomplish it.
1. Benedikt Driessen et al., Don't Trust Satellite Phones: A Security Analysis of Two Satphone Standards, Horst-Goertz Institute for IT Security, http://gmr.crypto.rub.de/
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Deeplinks Blog by rainey Reitman | January 4, 2021
EFF Statement on British Court's Rejection of Trump Administration's Extradition Request for Wikileaks' Julian Assange
Today, a British judge denied the Trump Administration's extradition request for Wikileaks Editor Julian Assange, who is facing charges in the United States under the Espionage Act and the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. The judge largely confirmed the charges against him, but ultimately determined that the United...
Deeplinks Blog by Joe Mullin | December 28, 2020
In 2020, Congress Threatened Our Speech and Security With the "EARN IT" Act
One nice thing about democracy is that—at least in theory—we don't need permission to speak freely and privately. We don't have to prove that our speech meets the government's criteria, online or offline. We don't have to "earn" our rights to free speech or privacy.Times have changed. Today, some U.S....
Deeplinks Blog by Jillian C. York | December 28, 2020
What Comes Next for the Santa Clara Principles: 2020 in Review
For many years, we have urged platforms to operate with more transparency—both to the public and to their users—and to ensure that the people who use their services have the ability to appeal wrongful content moderation decisions. As such, in conjunction with several other organizations and academic experts, we launched...
Deeplinks Blog by Christoph Schmon, Cory Doctorow | December 26, 2020
EU and the Digital Services Act: 2020 Year in Review
While 2019 saw the EU ramming through a disastrous Internet copyright rule that continues to reverberate through legal and policy circles, 2020 was a very different story as the EU introduced the Digital Services Act (DSA), the most significant reform of Europe's platform legislation the EU has...
How We Saved .ORG: 2020 in Review
If you come at the nonprofit sector, you'd best not miss.Nonprofits and NGOs around the world were stunned last November when the Internet Society (ISOC) announced that it had agreed to sell the Public Interest Registry—the organization that manages the .ORG top-level domain (TLD)—to private equity firm Ethos Capital....
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The U.S. Government Is Targeting Cryptocurrency to Expand the Reach of Its Financial Surveillance
One of the most important aspects of cryptocurrencies from a civil liberties perspective is that they can provide privacy protections for their users. But EFF is concerned that the U.S. government has been increasingly taking steps to undermine the anonymity of cryptocurrency transactions and importing the widespread financial surveillance of...
Deeplinks Blog by Jason Kelley | December 17, 2020
A Decade After the Arab Spring, Platforms Have Turned Their Backs on Critical Voices in the Middle East and North Africa
Many in the U.S. have spent 2020 debating the problems of content moderation on social media platforms, misinformation and disinformation, and the perceived censorship of political views. But globally, this issue has been in the spotlight for a decade. This year is the tenth anniversary of what became known as...
Deeplinks Blog by Christoph Schmon, Karen Gullo | December 15, 2020
European Commission's Proposed Digital Services Act Got Several Things Right, But Improvements Are Necessary to Put Users in Control
The European Commission is set to release today a draft of the Digital Services Act, the most significant reform of European Internet regulations in two decades. The proposal, which will modernize the backbone of the EU's Internet legislation—the e-Commerce Directive—sets out new responsibilities and rules for how Facebook, Amazon,...


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Q: OutOfMemory error for OpsCenter agent We met OpsCenter agent out of memory issue before and increased -Xmx in datastax-agent-env.sh to 2048M according to Datastax doc.
It has been running well for past few month, recently two agents has out of memory issue again, during running cleanup outdated backup files.
Could we increase -Xmx again? Maybe change it to 3072M?
Thanks

A: A 2GB heap for an OpsCenter agent is already double the default (1024 MB) and is pretty large. In older versions of OpsCenter, agents were configured with only a 128 MB heap (OPSC-12313).
Yes, you can increase the heap size provided there is sufficient available RAM left on the nodes but this is not going to solve the underlying problem -- you're just hiding in temporarily.
Without knowing anything about your cluster, my best guess is that there are either (a) too many keyspaces, (b) too many tables, or (c) both.
My recommendation is that you analyse the heap dump to determine the root cause so you can fix it for good. If you're not sure how to do that or need assistance then log a support ticket. Cheers!


Sunday School is presently operating on demand only and is for young people up to the age of twenty. We will happily accommodate visits with a little advance notice.
The First Lessons – The Basics: Students of all ages are taught the Ten Commandments, the Lord's Prayer and its spiritual interpretation by Mary Baker Eddy, and the Sermon on the Mount.
Classes are adapted to each individual student, teacher, and group. Some classes include more emphasis on study, others are more discussion oriented. Some may address specific challenges that students are confronting, others may include videos, music, storytelling or games.
Can I ask any question I want in class?
Definitely, and about anything! One of the most important parts about Sunday School is to find answers together. That's why you'll hear your teachers asking thought-provoking questions – so that the class can search together for spiritual explanations that are practical and understandable.
What happens in Sunday School aside from classes?
First, the superintendent calls everyone together to start Sunday School. Then there's singing and a chance to focus as a group on the theme of the week's Bible Lesson. Everyone is invited to read together, pray together silently, and then say the Lord's Prayer out loud.
Next, students are divided into classes—which may happen in various ways depending on the needs of the students. Class time is spent differently in every class and on every Sunday. Teachers come prepared, but are flexible and adjust to the needs of students each week. It's a time for questions, answers, study, learning, practice, and healing.
When class time is over, everyone gathers together again for another hymn and the Scientific Statement of Being from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy. That's the end of Sunday School class, but many teachers and students are in touch with one another during the week.
For additional Sunday School information, please click here.


This fine detached family house is not all it appears to be at a glance - behind has been built an excellent extension that enlarges the ground floor and first floor accommodation significantly.
Accommodation is arranged over 3 floors and comprises entrance hall with WC & stairs, sitting room at the front of the property, extended L-shaped open plan kitchen/dining room with twin French door access to the garden, separate utility room with garage access and door to a covered area outside, 5 bedrooms over the first and second floors with dressing area and en-suite to bed 1, a 4 piece family bathroom and a top floor WC.
The property retains its integral garage with personnel door into the house and benefits from gas central heating and PVCu double glazing.
To the outside of the property there is an open lawned front garden, double width driveway and enclosed rear garden of fair size.
Grove School, Tesco Express, other shops, Wiltshire College and Clarendon School are all within gentle strolling distance of the property as is Southwick Country Park, making this the ideal family home.


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Food for thought, courtesy of my brother.
Last night I flopped down and almost immediately had vivid, color-saturated dreams involving longboards with laminated wood decks and a Parallax Hydra 32360 (yes, that exact board; I have no idea why), woke up feeling absolutely terrible, rested a little more and then went in to work.
A conversation with David last night, towards the tail end of the hackathon, is burnt into my brain. I don't know what it means yet.
"It's human nature. Most people want power."
"I don't want it. I'm trying to avoid it."
"That I run the hell away from power?"
"That you give it to others."
Went on a manic rush yesterday to hand off as many responsibilities as I could muster. I am not bringing my computer to LA, nor am I bringing a book. Blank notebook, pens. Clothing and toiletries, wallet, cell phone and camera + chargers, backpack. That's all. Maybe not even the camera.
Today: Blazing through repairs during a workshop, reflashing 50 XOs for a testbed; physical work feels good, and gives my overtaxed brain something to cling to, focus on.
I have no patience for meetings that don't fully engage all of their participants at any given time. Presentations, too. That's probably why I run hackathons and brainstorm sessions and open spaces and avoid talking at people when I can. Given this, I would love the challenge of teaching a class or workshop or giving a speech to a crowd of over 300 people. How to do?


Lucia studied Anthropology and trained as a midwife in Italy, where she worked in independent practice. In 2002 she moved to London to pursue a clinical academic career. She was involved in the setting up several innovative services such as caseloading and a freestanding midwifery unit. Lucia is passionate about implementing evidence into practice and supporting organisational cultural change. Lucia completed her PhD in 2017 and is now conducting her post-doc study funded via the National Institute for Health Research on how to scale up the use of midwifery units.
Lucia worked for the NHS for 13 years and is now based at City, University of London.
You can find out more about Lucia's work here.
Felipe is a consultant midwife in normality and public health at Barts Health NHS Trust. After graduating as a Nurse in Spain, Felipe moved to the UK and trained in Midwifery at City, University of London, gaining an MA in Public Health and Health Economics in 2013.
Felipe has worked in the NHS for more than 10 years: as a midwife at a Freestanding Birth Centre and intrapartum co-ordinator and lead for normality and triage. He has worked in research and training throughout this time, with a focus on midwifery units and enhancing midwifery skills.
Laura is a clinical academic midwife based in London. She works clinically as part of the core team of Carmen birth centre at St George's University Hospital and as research midwife at City University of London within the NIHR 'NICE Birthplace Action Study' on how to implement NICE guidelines on place of birth. Laura has been collaborating with MUNet since 2016 in many initiatives in UK and across Europe. She is also supporting the maternity team in her hometown in Italy to open their first alongside midwifery unit.
Ellen is a Clinical academic Midwife who joined the Midwifery Unit Network in 2017.
After she finished her Masters in Midwifery (MSc) at the University of Leuven (Belgium) Ellen moved to London to work as a midwife. She works in the St Mary's hospital Birth Centre, which is part of Imperial College NHS Trust. In February 2016, she was awarded with a Fellowship from Imperial College Healthcare Charity (ICHC). She is working collaboratively on an NIHR Knowledge Mobilisation research project with the title: 'NICE Birthplace Action' and is one of the co-authors of the Midwifery Unit Standards.
Chantelle has been a practising midwife since 2000, working in a variety of roles in the NHS, as an independent practitioner and as an academic midwife teacher. For the past 7 years, Chantelle has been a consultant midwife in normality, working in two large London teaching hospitals.
She has been privileged to witness childbirth in Ghana, Cambodia and Rwanda. These experiences have shown her the critical importance and impact of the birth environment and the role of a skilled and compassionate midwife. She is passionate about championing women's choices, voices and rights to enable them to aim for an optimal birthing experience.
Richard has a postgraduate degree in Economics and extensive business experience at Managing Director level of sizeable food manufacturing companies.
As a "community entrepreneur" in health service support, he was a founder director of the Birth Centre Network UK, campaigning for his local birth centre in Crowborough and for midwife-led care to be included in the National Service Framework.
He chairs the East Sussex Maternity Voices Partnership, is a Director of the CommunityHospital Association, a charity trustee for 20 years and FE College Governor for 5 years. In 2013 he was appointed MBE for services to midwifery and parents.
Tracey is Head of Midwifery at Warrington and Halton Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and has 25 years midwifery experience. She was awarded an MBE in 2018 for her contribution to midwifery, an Outstanding Contribution Award for Midwifery and Maternity Services in 2018 and became a Fellow of the RCM in 2017. Tracey gained her PhD in 2011.
Tracey has contributed to the development of a number of NICE guidelines, is a CQC Specialist Advisor and part of the BJM Editorial Board. She has developed care collaboratively in all settings, including supporting Yoana Stancheva and Ilona Neshkova to develop the first midwifery led practice and birth centre in Bulgaria.
Bisi is a qualified Nurse, Midwife, and Project Manager with nearly 10 years' experience within the NHS. She is also a mother to a beautiful baby girl which is her greatest achievement to date. She recently joined the MUNet team as the project manager for MU Academy. She is currently undertaking her Masters in Implementation and Improvement Science. Her passion is improving services within healthcare using improvement science methodologies.
Juliet is a maternity services researcher, facilitator and storyteller. She has worked on a number of studies of midwifery units, including her own doctoral research (2011), the Birthplace in England Research Programme and a follow-on study of Alongside Midwifery Units. Since 2016, Juliet has been a freelance research consultant, providing expert support to help others design, and explain, user-friendly, relevant research. Juliet brings together expertise in the organisation of maternity services with a passion for storytelling, to provide new and dynamic ways of approaching and understanding organisational problems.
Juliet's website is at www.julietrayment.co.uk.
Sheena is a practising midwife of 40 years, having worked in the NHS for most of that time. As well as being an international speaker, Sheena provides consultancy services to both NHS Trusts and to organisations globally; helping to support normal, physiological childbirth. Sheena and her midwife daughter Anna Byrom are the proud new owners of The Practising Midwife, and an exciting online platform All4Materity.com.
Sheena's midwifery memoirs, Catching Babies, is a Sunday Times bestseller, and her seminal book, The Roar Behind the Silence: why kindness, compassion and respect matter in maternity carejointly edited with Soo Downe, is being used as a resource to improve maternity care throughout the world.
Sheena was awarded an OBE in 2011 for services to midwifery, and was made an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Midwives in 2015. In 2016, Sheena received and Honorary Doctorate from Bournemouth University, and in 2017 she was made a Visiting Fellow at the same university. Her personal and midwifery related website is sheenabyrom.com.
Mary has been a maternity service user advocate since the 1980s. She has four, now adult, sons and three grandchildren. After working for NCT, the UK's pregnancy and parenthood charity, for many years, she is now a consultant health researcher, and public and patient involvement (PPI) lead for the CLAHRC maternity programme at King's College, London.
Mary has an MSc in Public Health: Health Services Research and works with Oxford University/NPEU, University College London, UCLAN, City University, NHS England, Positive Birth Movement and National Maternity Voices facilitating PPI in maternity services and research. Mary is the Executive Manager of MUNet.


Learn how life is changing for the people of Bhutan, the "Happiest Kingdom on Earth." Loss of their agrarian way of life, rapid urbanization, and exposure to the Internet and western values are leading to a loss of their Buddhist values and culture of compassion. These changes have given rise to increased rates of anxiety, depression, substance abuse and suicide. This land of Gross National Happiness, and the world's youngest democracy, is in danger of losing its soul. Led by Judi Durham, who travels to Bhutan to help the country develop mental health services, this workshop will also include images of this breathtakingly beautiful country.


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With Bowker's new 2013 Annual Report as a springboard, we look at surveys of the disrupted publishing world—Bowker Market Research is among the very best—and what some of its new data tells us, its superb introduction mentioning Robert Kennedy's use of the old Chinese saying, "May you live in interesting times" as a potent starter.


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1 - Introduction to Saturn in the 21st Century
By Kevin H. Baines, F. Michael Flasar, Norbert Krupp, Tom Stallard
Edited by Kevin H. Baines, University of Wisconsin, Madison, F. Michael Flasar, NASA-Goddard Space Flight Center, Norbert Krupp, Tom Stallard, University of Leicester
Book: Saturn in the 21st Century
Published online: 13 December 2018
Print publication: 06 December 2018, pp 1-4
Saturn in the 21st Century
Edited by Kevin H. Baines, F. Michael Flasar, Norbert Krupp, Tom Stallard
Print publication: 06 December 2018
The Cassini Orbiter mission, launched in 1997, has provided state-of-the-art information into the origins and workings of Saturn. Drawing from new discoveries and scientific insight from the mission, this book provides a detailed overview of the planet as revealed by Cassini. Chapters by eminent planetary scientists and researchers from across the world comprehensively review the current state of knowledge regarding Saturn's formation, interior, atmosphere, ionosphere, thermosphere and magnetosphere. Specialised chapters discuss the planet's seasonal variability; the circulation of strong zonal winds; the constantly changing polar aurorae; and the Great Storm of 2010–2011, the most powerful convective storm ever witnessed by humankind. Documenting the latest research on the planet, from its formation to how it operates today, this is an essential reference for graduate students, researchers and planetary scientists.
Print publication: 06 December 2018, pp 442-448
14 - The Future Exploration of Saturn
By Kevin H. Baines, Sushil K. Atreya, Frank Crary, Scott G. Edgington, Thomas K. Greathouse, Henrik Melin, Olivier Mousis, Glenn S. Orton, Thomas R. Spilker, Anthony Wesley
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Despite the lack of another Flagship-class mission such as Cassini–Huygens, prospects for the future exploration of Saturn are nevertheless encouraging. Both NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) are exploring the possibilities of focused interplanetary missions (1) to drop one or more in situ atmospheric entry probes into Saturn and (2) to explore the satellites Titan and Enceladus, which would provide opportunities for both in situ investigations of Saturn's magnetosphere and detailed remote-sensing observations of Saturn's atmosphere. Additionally, a new generation of powerful Earth-based and near-Earth telescopes with advanced instrumentation spanning the ultraviolet to the far-infrared promise to provide systematic observations of Saturn's seasonally changing composition and thermal structure, cloud structures and wind fields. Finally, new advances in amateur telescopic observations brought on largely by the availability of low-cost, powerful computers, low-noise, large-format cameras, and attendant sophisticated software promise to provide regular, longterm observations of Saturn in remarkable detail.
12 - Saturn's Polar Atmosphere
By Kunio M. Sayanagi, Kevin H. Baines, Ulyana Dyudina, Leigh N. Fletcher, Agustín Sánchez-Lavega, Robert A. West
This chapter reviews the state of our knowledge about Saturn's polar atmosphere that has been revealed through Earth- and space-based observation as well as theoretical and numerical modeling. In particular, the Cassini mission to Saturn, which has been in orbit around the ringed planet since 2004, has revolutionized our understanding of the planet. The current review updates a previous review by Del Genio et al. (2009), written after Cassini's primary mission phase that ended in 2008, by focusing on the north polar region of Saturn and comparing it to the southern high latitudes. Two prominent features in the northern high latitudes are the northern hexagon and the north polar vortex; we extensively review observational and theoretical investigations to date of both features. We also review the seasonal evolution of the polar regions using the observational data accumulated during the Cassini mission since 2004 (shortly after the northern winter solstice in 2002), through the equinox in 2009, and approaching the next solstice in 2017. We conclude the current review by listing unanswered questions and describing the observations of the polar regions planned for the Grand Finale phase of the Cassini mission between 2016 and 2017.
Print publication: 06 December 2018, pp xiii-xiv
Print publication: 06 December 2018, pp vii-viii
Print publication: 06 December 2018, pp ix-xii


SRINAGAR: At a time when the Indian army was expected to provide rescue to the flood victims in Kashmir Valley, it was public that provided saved lives of the paramilitary Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) Company stationed in the SPS Museum on Jhelum bund here.
The officials of the Company, who didn't want to be named, told Kashmir Reader that they took refuge in the new Museum building after water filled their barracks inside the complex. Subsequently, they said, they were provided food and safety by the locals only.
"In the chaos that followed the rapid flooding of the area, we could only carry our weapons to safety in the new complex, but the deluge hit our fuel as well as food supplies," said an official who is staying with his men in Anthropology section of the new complex.
The flood had affected all units of CRPF stationed at various spots in the area. The headquarters of the force at Wazir Bagh too was hit by the floods.
Seeing the better condition of the Company, the other units, deprived of any official help, also joined it in hope of survival.
"Some units had tried to get help from the army choppers flying over the area, but no one helped them. They later joined us in this makeshift camp," the official said.
"We waived at the chopper, but they did not pay attention to us," said a trooper from the nearby camp.


No program ever works 100 percent of the time, and the designers of the Java language knew this. The Java platform has built-in mechanisms for handling situations in which your code doesn't work exactly as planned.
An exception is an event that occurs during program execution that disrupts the normal flow of the program's instructions. Exception handling is an essential technique of Java programming. You wrap your code in a try block (which means "try this and let me know if it causes an exception") and use it to catch various types of exceptions.
To get started with exception handling, take a look at the code in Listing 1.
Listing 1. Do you see the error?
Fortunately, you can use try and catch blocks (along with a little help from finally) to catch the error.
Listing 2 shows the buggy code from Listing 1 cleaned up with the standard code blocks for exception handling: try, catch, and finally.
Together, the try, catch, and finally blocks form a net for catching exceptions. First, the try statement wraps code that might throw an exception. In that case, execution drops immediately to the catch block, or exception handler. When all the trying and catching is done, execution continues to the finally block, whether or not an exception occurred. When you catch an exception, you can try to recover gracefully from it, or you can exit the program (or method).
Checked exceptions are checked by the compiler (meaning the compiler makes sure that they get handled somewhere in your code). In general, these are direct subclasses of java.lang.Exception.
Unchecked exceptions (also called runtime exceptions) are not checked by the compiler. These are subclasses of java.lang.RuntimeException.
When a program causes an exception, you say that it throws the exception. A checked exception is declared to the compiler by any method with the throws keyword in its method signature. Next is a comma-separated list of exceptions that the method could potentially throw during its execution. If your code calls a method that specifies that it throws one or more types of exceptions, you must handle it somehow, or add a throws to your method signature to pass that exception type along.
When an exception occurs, the Java runtime searches for an exception handler somewhere up the stack. If it doesn't find one by the time it reaches the top of the stack, it halts the program abruptly, as you saw in Listing 1.
You can have multiple catch blocks, but they must be structured in a particular way. If any exceptions are subclasses of other exceptions, the child classes are placed ahead of the parent classes in the order of the catch blocks. Listing 3 shows an example of different exception types structured in their correct hierarchical sequence.
In this example, the FileNotFoundException is a child class of IOException, so it must be placed ahead of the IOException catch block. And IOException is a child class of Exception, so it must be placed ahead of the Exception catch block.
The code in Listing 3 must declare a variable to hold the bufferedReader reference, and then in the finally must close the BufferedReader.
Alternative, more-compact syntax (available as of JDK 7) automatically closes resources when the try block goes out of scope. Listing 4 shows this newer syntax.
Essentially, you assign resource variables after try inside parentheses, and when the try block goes out of scope, those resources are automatically closed. The resources must implement the java.lang.AutoCloseable interface; if you try to use this syntax on a resource class that doesn't, Eclipse warns you.
Which of these statements is true regarding exceptions?
An exception is an abnormal flow of execution in a Java program.
A checked exception is not checked by the compiler, so you must check for the exception yourself.
You must specify all runtime exceptions on your method signature by using the throws keyword.
The finally block executes every time, whether or not an exception was thrown.
A class used in a try-with-resources block must implement which of these interfaces?
An unchecked exception does not have to be specified to the compiler, and may be thrown at runtime.
Which of these Exception subclasses are unchecked exceptions? Use the resources in the "For further exploration" section, along with the JDK Javadoc, for help with your answer.
What special considerations must you use if a checked exception is thrown during the execution of a method you've written?
Ensure that the exception is declared using the throws keyword in your method's signature, or catch and handle the exception in your method.
None. Checked exceptions are only checked by the runtime, not the compiler.
Be sure to use a finally block in all affected code.
There's no such thing as a checked exception.
What tells the compiler that an exception is an unchecked exception?
There's no way for the compiler to know if an exception is unchecked, which makes exceptions such a difficult topic in Java.
An unchecked exception is a direct subclass of java.lang.Exception.
There's no such thing as an unchecked exception.
The compiler does not check for unchecked exceptions.
Answer: No. The code will not compile because the catch block for FileNotFoundException should be before the catch block for IOException, because FileNotFoundException is a subclass of IOException. Instead it is listed after, and the code will not compile.