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Maturin Ballou
The New Eldorado. A Summer Journey to Alaska
Maturin Ballou.
They are firm believers in signs and omens. When Rev. Mr. Willard and wife first came to the Chilcat country the winter was one of deep snows and stormy weather. The natives said that the weather-gods were angry at the new ways of the missionaries. A child had been buried instead of burned on the funeral pyre in accordance with their customs. The mother of the child became alarmed and felt that her life was in jeopardy for permitting her child to be buried, so she kindled a fire over the grave in order to appease the gods and bring fair weather. At school the children had played new games and mocked wild geese. So the girls of the Sitka Training School brought on a very cold spell of weather by playing a game called "cat's-back," and which caused a commotion at the native village. A white man out with some natives picked up some large clam-shells on the beach to bring home with him; the natives remonstrated with him, saying that "a big storm may overtake us, our canoe might capsize, and all be drowned the next time we go on the water."
In tempestuous weather the native propitiates the spirit of the storm by leaving a portion of tobacco in the rock-caves alongshore, but in calm weather he smokes the weed himself. It was noticed, however, that the aboriginal Alaskans were little given to the use of tobacco, less, indeed, than any semi-civilized race whom the writer has ever visited.
Governor Swineford, in his annual report to the department at Washington, dated 1886, says: "I have no reason to change or modify the estimate I had formed on very short acquaintance of the character of the native Alaskans. They are a very superior race intellectually as compared with the people generally known as North American Indians, and are as a rule industrious and provident, being wholly self-sustaining. They are shrewd and natural-born traders. Some are good carpenters, others are skillful workers in wood and metals. Not a few among them speak the English language, and some of the young men and women have learned to read and write, and nearly all are anxious for the education of their children."
Our government should act upon this hint and freely establish the means of education among the Alaskans. True, it is systematically engaged in promoting the cause in various ways, though not very energetically, Congress having voted forty-five thousand dollars to be expended for the purpose during the year 1889. "School-houses are the republican line of fortifications," said Horace Mann. "Among those best known," says Dr. Sheldon Jackson, speaking of the native tribes, "the highest ambition is to build American homes, possess American furniture, dress in American clothes, adopt the American style of living, and be American citizens. They ask no special favors from the American government, no annuities or help, but simply to be treated as other citizens, protected by the laws and courts, and in common with all others furnished with schools for their children." It was made the duty of the Secretary of the Interior, by the act providing a civil government for Alaska, to make needful and proper provision for the education of all children of school age without reference to race or color, and all true friends of progress and humanity will urge the matter until a common school is established in every native tribe and settlement having a sufficient number of children.
We were told that there is good hunting inland a short distance from Fort Wrangel; winter, however, is the only season when this can be successfully pursued near to the coast in the wild districts.
The marshy "tundra" is then frozen and covered with snow, making it possible to cross. This is the period of the year also when the natives of the interior prosecute their most successful trapping and hunting, coming down to the coast by the river in the summer to sell their pelts and to purchase stores of the white traders. The Russians have long since taught the aborigines to depend much upon tea, but they care very little for coffee. Rifles are greatly prized by them, and though they are contraband nearly every Indian manages to possess one and knows how to use it most effectually. They are very economical of ammunition, and never throw away a shot by carelessness.
The pestiferous and ubiquitous mosquito is not absent from these high latitudes. They are very troublesome during the short summer season in northern Alaska as well as among the islands of the Alexander Archipelago. Strange that so frail an insect should have reached as far north as man has penetrated. Even while climbing the frosty glaciers the excursionist will find both hands required to prevent their biting his face from forehead to chin. If they are a persistent pest in equatorial latitudes, they are ten times more venomous and voracious in these regions during certain seasons. The author has experienced this fact also in Norway at even a much higher latitude than he visited in the western hemisphere. The bites of these mosquitoes fortunately, like all flesh wounds in this northern region, heal quickly, venomous as they are, owing to the liberally ozonized condition of the atmosphere as well as the absence of disease germs and organic dust.
It is said that when the otter hunters or others among the aborigines get wounded in any way, their treatment is simple and efficacious, and however severe the wound may be, it is nearly always quickly healed. The victim of the accident puts himself uncomplainingly on starvation diet, living upon an astonishingly small amount of food for a couple of weeks, and the cure follows rapidly.
Frederick Schwatka, in his excellent book entitled "Along Alaska's Great River," tells how the mosquitoes conquer and absolutely destroy the bears, and it seems that the native dogs are sometimes overcome by them in some exposed districts of the Yukon valley. The great brown bear, having exhausted the roots and berries on one mountain side, cross the valley to another range, or rather makes the attempt to do so, but is not always successful. Covered by a heavy coat of hair on his body, his eyes, nose, and ears are the only vulnerable points of attack for the mosquitoes, and hereon they congregate, surrounding the bear's head in clouds. As he reaches a swampy spot they increase in vigor and numbers, until the animal's forepaws become so occupied in striving to keep them off that he cannot walk. Then Bruin becomes enraged, and, bear-like, rises on his hind legs to fight. It is a mere question of time after this stage is reached until the bear's eyes become so swollen from the innumerable bites that he cannot see, and in a blind condition he wanders helplessly about until he gets mired and starves to death. The cinnamon and black bears are most common, the grizzly being less frequently met with. The great white polar bears are not found south of Behring Strait, though they are numerous on the borders of the Arctic Ocean.
At every landing made by the steamer on our meandering course among the islands Indians come to the wharves to offer their curios or home-made articles, only valuable as souvenirs of the visit. As they mass themselves here and there, either on the shore or the ship's deck, they form picturesque groups, made up of bucks, squaws, and papooses, presenting charming bits of color, while they amuse the stranger by their peculiar physiognomy and manners. During the excursion season they must reap quite a harvest by the sale of baskets and various domestic trinkets.
After leaving Fort Wrangel we are soon in the wild, picturesque, and sinuous narrows which bear the same name. The water is shallow; here and there are many dangerous rocks in the channels. Inlets or fjords are often passed, so quiet and inviting in their appearance as to tempt the traveler to diverge from the usual route. Some of these marine nooks are deep enough to float the largest ship, yet far down through the clear water one can see gardens of zo?phytes invaded by myriads of curiously shaped fish, large and small. The bottom of these waters, like the land and sea of Alaska, teems with animal life. A few hours' dredging would supply the most enthusiastic naturalist with ample material for a year's study. In the many stops of the steamer to take or deliver freight, brief boat excursions can be enjoyed. On one of these occasions we saw the first live octopus, or devil-fish, with two of its fatal arms encircling a small fish, which, after squeezing out its life, the octopus would devour. The one which was seen on this occasion was not very large, the rounded body being, perhaps, eighteen or twenty inches across, but its vicious looking tentacles, six in number, two of which securely clasped its victim, were each three times that length. The large eyes seemed out of proportion to the animal's size, and were placed on one side like those of the flounder.
The Patterson glacier is the first of the many which come into view on this part of the voyage, but they multiply rapidly as we steam northward. It is vast in proportions, though partly hidden behind the moraine which it has raised. Three or four miles back from its front rises a wall of solid ice nearly a thousand feet in height. The whole was rendered marvelously beautiful, lighted up as we saw it by bright noonday sunshine, which brought out its frosty and opaline colors of white, scarlet, and blue, in brilliant array. Little has been written about the Patterson glacier, but it is one of the most remarkable in size and other characteristics in all Alaska. Vessels from San Francisco have taken whole cargoes of ice from these Alaskan glaciers and transported the same for use in California. There seems to be no reason why the gathering of such a supply should not be both possible and profitable, though ice can now be so easily manufactured by artificial means.
The fact that these glaciers are slowly decreasing in size leads to the conclusion that the extreme Arctic temperature in the north is slowly growing to be less intense. Intelligent captains of whaleships have made careful observations to a like effect. It was once tropical in the Yukon valley, – of that there is evidence enough; who can say that it may not again be so a few thousand years hence?
Norwegian Scenery. – Lonely Navigation. – The Marvels of Takou Inlet. – Hundreds of Icebergs. – Home of the Frost King. – More Gold Deposits. – Snowstorm among the Peaks. – Juneau the Metropolis of Alaska. – Auk and Takou Indians. – Manners and Customs. – Spartan Habits. – Disposal of Widows. – Duels. – Sacrificing Slaves. – Hideous Customs still prevail.
Before reaching Juneau we explored Takou Inlet, where there are two large glaciers, one with a moraine before its foot, the other reaching the deep water with its face, so as to discharge icebergs constantly. The bay was well filled with these, some of which were larger than our steamer (the Corona), and all were of such intense blue, mingled with dazzling white, as to recall the effect realized in the Blue Grotto of Capri. This berg-producing glacier was corrugated upon its surface in a remarkable manner, being utterly impassable to human feet. It was nearly a mile in width and its length indefinite; we doubt if it has ever been explored. A thousand ice and snow fed streams poured into the bay from the surrounding mountains, which completely walled in the broad sheet of water, so sprinkled with ice-sculpture in all manner of shapes. The ceaseless music of falling water was the only noise which broke the silence of the scene. A cavalcade of fleecy clouds, kindly forgetting to precipitate themselves in form of rain, floated over our heads, producing delicate lights and shades, with creeping shadows upon the surrounding mountains. The steamer's abrupt whistle was echoed with mocking hoarseness from the surrounding cliffs, causing the myriads of white-winged wild fowl to rise from the icebergs until the air was filled with them like snowflakes. How wonderful it was! A broad clear flood of sunshine enveloped the whole; everything seemed so serene, so grand, the sky so blue, and the angels so near. It was all as magnificent as a gorgeous dream, to the thoughtful observer a living poem. Close in to the precipitous cliffs of the myrtle-green hills were inky shadows, which formed the requisite contrast to the crystal clearness of the surroundings. For thousands of years this glacial action has been going on, the story of the earth is so old; but its beauty is ever young, its loveliness eternal.
On our way up Gastineau Channel – the tide-waters of which have a rise and fall of sixteen feet – we have presented to us veritable Norwegian scenery, under a pale amethyst sky fringed at the horizon with orange and crimson; now gliding close to precipitous cliffs enlivened by silvery streams leaping down their sides, and now passing the mouths of inlets winding among abrupt mountains leading no one knows whither, for there are no maps or charts of these lateral channels. The Indian canoes may have occasionally penetrated them, but never the keel of the white man. On the left stand the tall peaks of Douglas Island, and on the right the jagged Alps of the mainland, both rising to a height of a thousand feet or more, on the continent side backed by elevations still more lofty. The Takou River flows into the sea and gives its name to the neighborhood. Here the Hudson Bay Fur Company established and maintained a trading-post for several years. All this region is famous for its game, such as deer, bears, caribou, wolves, foxes, martens, and minks, together with the abounding big-horn sheep. In place of wool these latter have a coat somewhat like the red deer, and except in the size of their horns they resemble our domestic sheep. We are told that this district is also rich in gold placer mines, and according to Professor Muir it must eventually yield extremely profitable results to intelligent mining enterprise. In many localities the placers have paid for years, though worked by the most simple means. The experience of California will undoubtedly be repeated in Alaska; the great aggregate of gold which was realized there will be duplicated here. After due thought and personal observation relative to the subject, we are willing to stand or fall upon the correctness of this prediction. The result may not come in the next year, or that following, but it will come in the near future. Mining north of 54° 40? is only in its infancy; its growth has been far more rapid, however, than it was at the south, both because of the richness of the mines, and because the business of mining is, and will continue to be, done more intelligently.
Just before reaching Juneau a singular phenomenon attracted our attention; it was a furious snowstorm among the mountain peaks, while all about us was quite calm and pleasant. The thick clouds of snow were driven hither and thither, from one pinnacle to another, writhing and twisting like a cyclone or water-spout at sea. It was a curious contrast, the storm raging in those far upper currents, while we enjoyed a gracious wealth of sunshine in a temperature of 65° Fah.
Juneau, located one hundred and fifty miles southeast of Sitka, and about three hundred north of Fort Wrangel, is already a considerable mining centre, with a population of about four thousand, situated not far from Takou district, and is the depot for the rich quartz and placer mines which are located in the region back of it. The site of the town is picturesque, being at the base of an abrupt mountain cliff which is decked with sparkling cascades. We were told that there is a rise and fall of twenty-four feet in the tide at the wharf of Juneau, but think perhaps eighteen feet would be nearer correct. The winter population is swelled by the influx of miners when the placers are not worked owing to snow and ice. Truth compels us to say that the residents here, of both sexes, are far from being of a desirable class. The Indians of this vicinity are of the Auk and Takou tribes; good traders and good hunters, but enemies of each other, though not given to open hostility. The native women, as if not content with the natural ugliness which has been liberally bestowed upon them by Providence, besmear their faces with a compound of seal-oil and lampblack, but for what possible reason, except that it is aboriginal Alaska fashion, one cannot divine. It is said that this is a sort of mourning for departed relations or friends; but the hilarity of those thus marked was anything but an indication of sorrow. We can well remember Yokohama wives, with blackened teeth and shaved eyebrows, who looked, if possible, a degree worse than these Alaskan women. In the latter case, however, the wives confessedly sought to make themselves hideous to prevent jealousy on the part of their husbands; but the native women here do not assign any plausible reason for smooching themselves in this offensive manner. When their faces are washed, a circumstance of rare occurrence, they are as white as the average of white people who are exposed to an out-of-door life. It is not the practice of the aborigines of either sex to wash themselves with water. They are sometimes seen to besmear their faces and hands with oil, which they carefully wipe off with a wisp of dry grass, or other substitute for the towel of civilization. The effect is to make the features shine like varnished mahogany; but as to cleanliness obtained by such a process, that does not follow.
If it were possible to discover a soap mine here there might be some hopes of introducing among the natives that condition which common acceptation places next to godliness. A traveling companion remarked that although milk and honey could not be said to flow in this neighborhood, oil does.
Many of the women, like those of the South Sea and the Malacca Straits, wear nose rings and glittering bracelets, while they go about with bare legs and feet. The author has seen all sorts of rude decorations employed by savage races, but never one which seemed quite so ridiculous or so deforming as the plug which many of these women of Alaska wear thrust through their under lips. The plug causes them to drool incessantly through the artificial aperture, though it is partially stopped by a piece of bone, ivory, or wood, formed like a large cuff-button, with a flat-spread portion inside to keep it in position. This practice is commenced in youth, the plug being increased in size as the wearer advances in age, so that when she becomes aged her lower lip is shockingly deformed. It is gratifying to be able to say that this custom is becoming less and less in use among the rising generation, and the same may be said as to tattooing the chin and cheeks. The hands and feet of the women are so small as to be noticeable in that respect.
The girls and boys endure great physical neglect in their youth, so that only the strongest are able to survive their childhood. It was surprising to see children of tender age of both sexes clothed only in a single cotton shirt, reaching to their knees, bare-legged, bare-footed, and bare-headed, yet apparently quite comfortable, while our woolen clothes and waterproofs were to us indispensable. We were told that in infancy these children are dipped every morning into the sea, without regard to the temperature, or season of the year, commencing the operation when they are four weeks old. This heroic, Spartan treatment of the bath will probably harden, if it does not kill, but undoubtedly the latter result is the more likely of the two. The adults of some of the tribes break holes in the ice in midwinter, and bathe with marvelous fortitude, not for purposes of cleanliness, but declaring that it makes them "brave and strong, able to resist the cold, and to live long." The next hour, however, they may be found sitting on their hams as close to the fire in the middle of their unventilated cabins as they can get, closely wrapped in blankets, head and all. The prevalence among them of rheumatism and consumption shows that Nature cannot be outraged with impunity even by half-civilized Alaskans.
The natives do not seem to know anything about medicine, but when seriously ill they call in their shaman or medicine-man, and submit to his wild and senseless incantations, a process which would drive a civilized patient distracted. Fifty years ago an epidemic of small-pox swept away one third of the population of this part of the North Pacific coast, besides which, from various causes, the number in the several tribes is steadily decreasing. Vaccination having been introduced, a second visit of the dreaded disease just mentioned was accompanied with a very much smaller fatality. A scourge known as black measles is a frequent visitor among the youthful Alaskans, and is quite as fatal as small-pox.
Strong efforts are made by our government officials to keep intoxicating liquors out of the Territory, and the law makes them strictly contraband, but it is no more difficult or impossible to smuggle in Alaska than it is in New York or Boston. There are plenty of irresponsible whites ready to make money out of the aborigines. Rum is the native's bane, its effect upon him being singularly fatal; it maddens him, even slight intoxication means to him delirium and all its consequences, wild brutality and utter demoralization. Molasses is sold freely to them, and the Indians have learned how to distill rum from it, so that they secretly produce a vile and potent intoxicant, in spite of all prohibition.
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Q: Adding multiple times integer to the middle of the list I want to add c times b integer to middle of the list.
Here my code:
listA.insert(int(len(listA)/2),b*c)
print("Your New List: ", listA)

When I change (b*c) to ([b]*c) it works but I will convert it integer later. Therefore, it must be formal form like [1,2,3,4,5] not [1,2,[3],4,5]. If we say listA = [1,2,3,4,5] and let's suppose b = 2 and c = 3 I need to have [1,2,2,2,2,3,4,5]. Also, I don't have permission to use loop.

A: Use list slicing:
lst = [1,2,3]
middle = len(lst) // 2
lst[middle:middle] = [2] * 10

Output:
[1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 3]

A: b * c will return an integer value. So that will not work.
You can use array slice and concat to do this.
listA = listA[0 : len(listA)//2] + [2] * 3 + listA[len(listA)//2 : len(listA)]

Edit:
As per the OPs comment, this array needs to be converted to a single integer. It can be done as follows:
result = int("".join([str(number) for number in listA]))

If I put it all together
listA = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
listA = listA[0 : len(listA)//2] + [2] * 3 + listA[len(listA)//2 : len(listA)]
print(listA)
result = int("".join([str(number) for number in listA]))
print(result)

Following is the output:
[1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 3, 4, 5]
12222345

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Review | Street Fighter V: Champion Edition
It's been four years since the original release of Street Fighter V, a game where we once said it would be better when it was more complete. When it was originally announced, it was said that you would never have to buy another version of the game. Capcom has kept this promise, even after 2018's release of the Arcade Edition. Now, after completing a third season, Capcom has released Street Fighter V: Champion Edition, making the definitive version of Street Fighter V. Available as a standalone game or as an upgrade, is it worth taking the plunge on this complete version?
Fighting Street
Street Fighter V released with a pretty solid foundation, even if the game was originally lacking in content. Starting with just 16 characters, simple character stories and an online focused multiplayer, it left a lot to be desired. Now, after several updates, there's a ton of content to check out. There are now 40 characters, 34 stages, a cinematic story mode, and an arcade mode that pays homage to older titles. It may have taken three seasons worth of content, but we finally got here.
Even with all the new content, it wasn't enough to change the game. That's where the balance and gameplay changes come in. The game introduced the V-System, which gave us V-Skills, V-Triggers, and V-Reversals. These abilities were at the very core of the game, and they were what set it apart from previous entries in the series. Eventually, we were given a second V-Trigger for each character, allowing for new spins on the existing roster. Now, with Street Fighter V: Champion Edition, Capcom has added a second V-Skill for each fighter. This allows for more variety than ever before, which helps when going up against opponents online. Before, you were stuck with whatever character you chose with no options to change. Now, players can make last minute alterations to adapt to a situation. What's great is that this part is actually free.
With deeper fighting mechanics, this opens the floodgate for a much richer experience. Though it's not new to Street Fighter V: Champion Edition, the game has several popular modes. The cinematic story, "A Shadow Falls," was added for free shortly after the original launch. While it's a bit cheesy, it's the first time a Street Fighter game has taken this approach to a narrative. Arcade Edition also added the long-awaited arcade mode, which gave fans the option to choose their arcade experience based on different Street Fighter titles. We even have Fighting Chance and Extra Battle to unlock new event costumes and other content. Street Fighter V is not the same game we once knew four years ago.
The World Warriors
As mentioned before, Street Fighter V: Champion Edition now boasts a 40 character roster. While there are some fighters still left out, this is perhaps the most diverse roster we've had in a Street Fighter game. We have the original eight world warriors from Street Fighter II, as well as multiple fighters from Street Fighter III, IV, and Alpha. There's even a decent selection of Final Fight characters that have never appeared in a Street Fighter game before. We even have every major boss character in the series thanks to Seth's inclusion.
Each fighter comes with their own unique V-Skills, V-Triggers, and V-Reversal. They also have a character specific story, that while simple, does delve more into their background a bit. Some of these stories create more questions than answers, and it's unfortunate that we only get a small taste here. With characters of all types available, it's easy for any Street Fighter fan to find a favorite. Perhaps you like the familiar feeling of Ryu, or maybe the mobility of Rashid? Maybe Abigail is more your style, taking his brutish style and delivering powerful blows to your opponents. Even the newly released Seth has a unique quality in taking his opponents moves.
As mentioned before, this roster is incredibly diverse. No fighters will play alike, even if they share some similarities. Even characters like Ryu and Ken are vastly different now, thanks to their V-Skills and V-Triggers. We even have a lot of newer fighters in the Street Fighter universe. Many are extensions of other fighters, like Sean's sister Laura or Rose's apprentice Menat. We even have Zeku, who Capcom fans will recognize the Strider Hiryu influence. While there can always be more room for new fighters, this roster does feel sufficient now.
Smoking Sexy Style
Another added bonus to Street Fighter V: Champion Edition is the inclusion of over 200 costumes. Each fighter comes with multiple costumes, some calling back to original appearances, and others set to various themes. There's even some costumes based on characters from other Capcom franchises like Resident Evil or Devil May Cry. Sadly, this package doesn't include the Fighting Chance costumes, which are earned by using Fight Money or Fortune Tickets. It also doesn't include the CPT and promotional costumes for Red Bull. With this version available now, Fight Money sort of loses a lot of its use, as there isn't much left to purchase with it.
While it's great to have these costumes included, it does come with a drawback. Since a lot of these costumes were previously available, fans that may have had the game since launch may have already purchased one or more of these costumes. Unlike the characters, which are available for purchase with Fight Money, the costumes were only available for purchase with real money. For $25, a player can upgrade their copy of Street Fighter V to the Champion Edition and unlock all the content. Sadly, this doesn't change the fact that a player may have already paid three times that for some of the content included here.
These costumes being included is great for newcomers, and it's even fine for players that have bought the base game and nothing else. For anyone else who has invested in the game at any point, it sort of voids out all those previous transactions. At $30, Street Fighter V: Champion Edition is a massive package that is well worth the price of admission. For only $5 less, anyone updating their base game might feel a little conned. It's a tough call, but luckily, players would only have to use Fight Money to purchase characters like Seth.
The online multiplayer has been a big focus of Street Fighter V since the beginning. Players could play against others on PC or PlayStation 4 using crossplay, and now they can even train together. Unfortunately, lately fans have been complaining more and more about the netcode of the game. There has been a lingering issue where one player would have massive lag while the other would have a seamless experience. Luckily, the developers are addressing this in an update coming next week.
The online mode offers lobbies for casual matches, but the true competition lies in ranked mode. Players will climb up the ranks as they fight through various tiers of rankings. I myself haven't gone any higher than Silver ranking, but I continue to try and never let it get me down. While not a new addition to Champion Edition, players can now also create their own dojo. When joining the Capcom Fighters Network, players can join a dojo and customize a community maintained stage. It's a neat little feature, though it's ultimately just for aesthetics.
As for all the other notable features in the game, Street Fighter V has finally become a complete package. Competitive players can go into the training mode, or even watch replays and monitor frame data. They can experiment with combos themselves, or even utilize various tutorials provided in the game. With 40 different characters to explore, and a lot of variety with the V-System, fans can fight the way they want. Street Fighter V: Champion Edition is truly the definitive Street Fighter V experience. After four years, the game is finally at the level that fans have come to expect from this series. As a package deal, the game is a great value. Buying it as an upgrade though may not be as rewarding.
Final Score: 8.5 out of 10
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Mizen Head to Malin head (and back!) in an Electric car, in less than 24 hours !
Our challenge ? Driving from Mizen Head to Malin head and back in less than 24 hours in an Electric car on the 14-15th November. A total distance of over 1300km.
Why ? We want to promote Electric Vehicle (EV) driving/ownership in Ireland, and show that you can drive long distances in an EV.
Who are we ? Jan-Bart Spang and Guillaume Seguin, committee members of the Irish EV Owners Association. We both have EVs; Jan-Bart a Renault Zoé and Guillaume a Nissan Leaf. As well as driving them daily, we also have experience on long trips as we have both carried out international trips in our electric cars.
EVs are suitable to most drivers … they just don't know they are! Most common preconceptions or concerns are lack of range, and charging network availability. We would like to show that an EV can easily be driven around the country, in a timely manner.
We will drive a Renault Zoé, from Mizen Head to Malin Head through the east and back through the west coast. We will show that the charging network works along motorways but also on N roads and in the west. We will invite anyone who is curious of EV technology and ownership to meet up at our "Chat and Charge" impromptus, while the car is charging.


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The Creativity Movement: Chronology of Crime
Since its founding in 1973 as Church of the Creator, the group now known as the Creativity Movement has been associated with violent criminal activity ranging from hate crimes to acts of terrorism. Here are some selected criminal incidents from the past 15 years. From 1996 to 2002, it was called the World Church of the Creator. Following its loss in a trademark infringement lawsuit in 2002, it has been known as the Creativity Movement.
August 6, 2004, Pennsylvania - Hardy Lloyd, of Pittsburgh, a former local leader of the Creativity Movement, was arrested on homicide charges in connection with the August 3, 2004, shooting death of Lori Fann, his girlfriend.
April 26, 2004, Illinois - Matthew Hale, the leader of the Creativity Movement, was convicted of soliciting the murder of U.S. District Judge Joan Lefkow after she ordered him to change the name of his group and take other compliance measures as part of a trademark lawsuit lost by Hale and his group. Hale was also found guilty of obstructing justice.
March 1, 2004, Nevada - Anthony Prentice was convicted of first-degree murder for killing and mutilating a Las Vegas driving instructor in 2002. During his trial, Prentice testified about his hate for minorities and his involvement with the World Church of the Creator. Prentice was sentenced to life without parole.
March 13, 2003, Massachusetts - Erica Chase was sentenced to four years and nine months in prison for her role in a conspiracy to blow up Jewish and African-American landmarks in 2001 in order to start a race war. Chase, a member of the World Church of the Creator, was convicted along with her boyfriend, Leo Felton, 32, a member of the White Order of Thule, who was sentenced in December 2002 to nearly 22 years in prison.
August 2002, Australia - Patrick O'Sullivan of Victoria, the Australian leader of the World Church of the Creator, was convicted of assaulting and stabbing in 1999 a former supporter who had criticized him.
July 8, 2002, Massachusetts - Tony Menear, Massachusetts leader of World Church of the Creator, returned to prison for violating his parole, which stemmed from an earlier armed robbery conviction. According to officials, Menear failed to refrain from associating with people with criminal records.
April 29, 2002, Indiana - White supremacist Trevor D. Thompson pleaded guilty to attempted murder in Marion County for shooting an African-American teenager in Indianapolis in the summer of 2001. According to police, Thompson was angry that two black men had criticized his many white supremacist tattoos, and he shot a 13-year-old girl who happened to be walking down the street. Thompson, who admitted to being involved with the Nazi Low Riders and the World Church of the Creator, was sentenced to 30 years in prison.
December 11, 2001, Connecticut - Charles Cornelius of New Haven was arrested after police found a cache of weapons and hate literature from the World Church of the Creator in the house where he lived with his parents. Police seized several AR-15 assault weapons, a shotgun, 25 hand grenades, 300 pounds of ammonium nitrate and hundreds of rounds of ammunition. According to police, Cornelius also used the identity of a dead Pennsylvania resident to buy an illegal sniper rifle. Cornelius later pleaded guilty, in 2004, to federal charges of identity theft and unlawfully transporting firearms across state lines, and to state charges of attempting to manufacture a bomb and possession of an assault weapon.
July 3, 2001, California - In Sacramento, Joshua Mark Gilmore, a member of a white power street gang and the World Church of the Creator, was found guilty on five charges, including attempted murder, for assaults on two people mistaken as members of an anti-racist skinhead group in 1997. He was sentenced to life in prison.
March 13, 2001, New York - Bruce Silvernail, of Plymouth, Connecticut, pleaded guilty to a federal gun possession charge related to a traffic stop 30 miles north of Albany, New York, in August 2000. Police in found a shotgun, automatic rifle, revolver and ammunition in his car. Silvernail, a convicted felon, is not allowed to own or possess firearms. Police also found books, business cards, and videos from the white supremacist World Church of the Creator in Silvernail's car.
March 10, 2000, Florida - World Church of the Creator member Ray Leone was sentenced to six years and member Angela King sentenced to 18 months for their role in the 1998 beating of a Jewish owner of a video store in Hollywood, Florida, patterned after incidents in the white supremacist novel The Turner Diaries. Earlier, in March 1999, member Donald Hansard, Jr., received a four and a half year sentence for his role in the robbery and beating. A fourth member, Dawn Witherspoon, received a thirteen month sentence. The perpetrators, who all pled guilty, had discussed sending some of the proceeds of their robbery to World Church of the Creator headquarters in Illinois.
November 19, 1999, Florida - Former Florida leader of the World Church of the Creator Jules Fettu was sentenced to five years in prison for attacking a Cuban-American man and his son outside a rock concert in 1997. The two had refused to accept racist fliers that Fettu and other members were passing out. Member Ray Leone received a nearly eight-year sentence in July 1999 for aggravated battery as a hate crime for his role in the attack. The group's local "security director," Guy Lombardi, received a sentence of four years of probation for threatening a member who spoke to police.
October 4, 1999, Florida - World Church of the Creator member Jody Lee Mathis of Ft. Lauderdale pleaded guilty to federal charges of selling a stolen shotgun. Mathis was the seventh local member of the organization to be found guilty of a variety of crimes ranging from armed robbery to assault to witness tampering. All but one reached plea deals.
July 4, 1999, Illinois, Indiana - White supremacist Benjamin Smith, a devoted follower of the World Church of the Creator, embarked upon a shocking killing spree. Smith killed two people and wounded seven others—including Jews and other all ethnic or religious minorities in Chicago, Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, and Bloomington, Indiana—before killing himself as police closed in on him. Smith's rampage was triggered by the denial of a law license to the group's leader Matt Hale by the Illinois state bar.
September 28, 1994, Washington - Tacoma resident Wayne Paul Wooten, Jr. was sentenced to nearly five years in prison for helping to bomb a Seattle gay bar in 1993, as well as for other explosives and weapons charges. Wooten, a member of the Church of the Creator, pleaded guilty in February 1994. Also arrested at the time were Jeremiah Gordon Knesal and Mark Kowalski. Kowalski was later sentenced to nearly 12 years in prison for bombing an NAACP office, while Knesal was sentenced to six and one-half years in prison.
February 1, 1994, California - Jill Marie Scarborough was sentenced to one year of probation for possessing an unregistered sawed-off shotgun. Scarborough and her boyfriend, Geremy C. Von Rineman, a member of the Church of the Creator, were among a number of skinheads arrested in southern California as the result of a 1993 investigation. Von Rineman earlier pleaded guilty to a felony weapons violation and was sentenced to a supervised 18-month diversion program as an alternative to prison.
January 4, 1994, Maryland - Charles Edward Altvater, leader of the Church of the Creator in Baltimore, pleaded guilty to bombing a police officer's house and another officer's patrol car in 1992 after police towed his car away. Altvater was sentenced to 25 year in prison.
May 17, 1993, Canada - Richard Manley, 26, pleaded guilty to illegally possessing weapons in Toronto. Although Manley denied during the trial that he was a member of the Church of the Creator, he admitted attending their meetings, and video footage played at his trial showed him holding the Creativity flag and standing at attention while the group's leader delivered a speech. He was found with 13 firearms, including an Uzi, and a thousand rounds of ammunition.
August 12, 1992, Florida - George Loeb, a leader in the Church of the Creator, was sentenced to life in prison for the killing an African-American sailor who had just returned to Jacksonville, Florida, from the Gulf War. Loeb shot Harold Mansfield, 22, in Jacksonville after a traffic altercation on May 17, 1991, and the state argued that his writings proved premeditation. This incident sparked a civil lawsuit against the Church of the Creator and its founder, Ben Klassen, which seemed to have played a role in Klassen's 1993 suicide.
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A group of Loyola students showcased Quinlan on an international stage as they advanced to the final round of the 2015 APICS International Student Case Competition in Las Vegas.
APICS, or the American Production and Inventory Control Society, sponsors the annual student case competition to test classroom knowledge against real-world inventory management situations. Adding to the realism, representatives from the company featured in the case competition were on hand to serve as judges.
To advance to the international round, colleges and universities first competed at the regional level. And in a school first, Quinlan won the Great Lakes regional competition, placing first out of 25 teams. Competing teams were from Indiana University, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and the University of Michigan-Dearborn, among others.
and Jing Zhao. Associate Professor Maciek Nowak served as the team adviser.
He also credited Nowak with being a great advisor and mentor to the team.
"His support and guidance was invaluable, and all of us are so grateful to him for giving us this opportunity and helping us represent Loyola at such great events," Bachour said.
But Nowak said it also helped that the students were "really engaged." Even if they couldn't prepare for the case competition in the traditional sense, he said they were interested in what they were doing and ready to go when it came time to compete. While other teams took time for nice dinners, the Quinlan students buckled down and worked through the night.
At the international level, the competition changed formats, tasking the team with using a new simulation software—Fresh Connection. Bachour said the software allows one to see the dynamics between every part of supply chain and how components interact with each other.
Nowak said the team will be ready to return next year for a win.


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Lebanon requesting 1,000 HELLFIRE missiles
NewsMissiles & Bombs
The State Department has made a determination approving a possible Foreign Military Sale to Lebanon for AGM-114 Hellfire II missiles and associated equipment, parts and logistical support for an estimated cost of $146 million. The Defense Security Cooperation Agency delivered the required certification notifying Congress of this possible sale today.
The Government of Lebanon has requested possible sale of 1,000 AGM-114 Hellfire II missiles, containers, repair and return, spare and repair parts, support equipment, publications and technical documentation, personnel training and training equipment, U.S. Government and contractor logistics and technical support services, and other related elements of logistics and program support. The estimated cost is $146 million.
This proposed sale will enhance the foreign policy and national security of the United States by helping to improve the security of a strategic partner. This proposed sale directly supports the Government of Lebanon and serves the interests of the people of Lebanon and the United States.
The proposed sale will improve Lebanon's capability to meet current and future threats. Lebanon will use the enhanced capability to strengthen its homeland defense and to replenish existing stock levels. Lebanon will have no difficulty absorbing these Hellfire missiles into its armed forces.
The proposed sale of this equipment and support will not alter the basic military balance in the region.
The prime contractor will be Lockheed Martin Missile and Fire Control in Dallas, Texas. There are no known offset agreements proposed in connection with this potential sale.
Implementation of this proposed sale will not require any additional U.S. Government or contractor representatives to Lebanon.
There will be no adverse impact on U.S. defense readiness as a result of this proposed sale.
This notice of a potential sale is required by law and does not mean the sale has been concluded.
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MSU Stays Unbeaten Despite Purdue Final Drive
The No. 2 Michigan State Spartans escaped with a win over the Purdue Boilmakers 24-21, improving their record to 5-0 on the year. Michigan State is now 1-0 in Big Ten play and celebrated the 100th Homecoming Game in East Lansing in dramatic fashion.
The Spartans started fast scoring 14 points off turnovers and taking a 21-0 lead into halftime. However, the second half seemed to last for eternity to Spartan fans.
[su_pullquote align="right"]"Terrible weather conditions, and a nearly empty crowd added to the eerie feeling throughout Spartan Stadium."[/su_pullquote]Trailing big, the Boilermakers were able to start their engines on the ground after miscues from the Spartan special teams. Purdue running back Markell Jones scored twice to close in within three points. Terrible weather conditions, and a nearly empty crowd added to the eerie feeling throughout Spartan Stadium.
Purdue closed in on the upset but failed to convert on a fourth down, giving all Michigan State fans a chance to catch their breath.
"The bottom line is do you win, or do you lose," head coach Mark Dantonio said. "That's the bottom line – just win. We are going to get the best shot from everyone."
"There's no such thing as a perfect football game," Quarterback Connor Cook said. "There's always going to be bad plays, but it's how you respond."
Cook went 13-for-19 for 139 yards and one touchdown in the win.
"We have to capitalize in the redzone," Cook said. "If we did that, I don't think we would be as worried as we were."
Spartan running back LJ Scott set the tone early imposing his will on the Purdue defense. By the end of the day, the true freshman rushed for 146 yards and scampered in for two touchdowns.
Scott's effort sealed his first 100-yard performance of his collegiate career.
Despite the second half scare, the Spartans defense forced three turnovers, two of which turned into Spartan touchdowns.
Multiple storylines developed from the game, however the senior under center notching his 28th victory might have been the biggest.
Cook is now the all-time wins leader in Spartans history surpassing Kirk Cousins.
"It's a team sport," Cook said. "It's a team game. It's not all about me."
"I would like to congratulate Connor on winning his 28th game and becoming the all-time leader in wins at Michigan State," Dantonio said. "It's a great accomplishment, but at the same time it's a program accomplishment as well.
"Quarterbacks play to win. They don't play for statistics. They play to win."
Needless to say, Cook has done a lot of winning during his time at Michigan State.
The Spartans travel to Piscataway, New Jersey to face the Rutgers Scarlet Knights (2-2) next weekend.
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Q: Reshaping Pandas DataFrame I have the following DataFrame
           A
0  2012-01-13 10:00:06
1  2012-01-13 11:09:04
2  2012-01-13 12:07:05
3  2012-01-13 13:03:04
4  2012-01-16 10:00:10
5  2012-01-16 11:09:04
6  2012-01-16 12:01:05
7  2012-01-16 13:09:04
8  2012-01-17 10:01:04
9  2012-01-17 11:05:06
10 2012-01-17 12:01:05
11 2012-01-17 13:04:04

where the index is 0,1,..etc
Is there a way to transpose data based on the day? for example the new DataFrame should look like:
          A                     B                   C                   D
0   2012-01-13 10:00    2012-01-13 11:09    2012-01-13 12:07    2012-01-13 13:03
1   2012-01-16 10:00    2012-01-16 11:09    2012-01-16 12:01    2012-01-16 13:09
2   2012-01-17 10:01    2012-01-17 11:05    2012-01-17 12:01    2012-01-17 13:04

A: I think you need create column of days by dt.day, then create groups by cumcount, use pivot with reset_index. Last assign new column names:
#if dtype of column is not datetime
df.A = pd.to_datetime(df.A)

df['day'] = df.A.dt.day
df['groups'] = df.groupby('day').cumcount()

df = df.pivot(index='day', columns='groups', values='A').reset_index(drop=True)
df.columns = list('ABCD')
print (df)
                    A                   B                   C  \
0 2012-01-13 10:00:06 2012-01-13 11:09:04 2012-01-13 12:07:05
1 2012-01-16 10:00:10 2012-01-16 11:09:04 2012-01-16 12:01:05
2 2012-01-17 10:01:04 2012-01-17 11:05:06 2012-01-17 12:01:05

                    D
0 2012-01-13 13:03:04
1 2012-01-16 13:09:04
2 2012-01-17 13:04:04


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Joe Scarborough Wrong On Hillary Clinton's Emails And Federal Regulations
Research ››› July 8, 2015 1:33 PM EDT ››› ALEXANDREA BOGUHN
MSNBC's Joe Scarborough falsely claimed that Hillary Clinton violated federal regulations through her use of email as secretary of state. But contrary to Scarborough's claim, Clinton complied with the relevent regulations by retaining and preserving her emails and turning them over to the State Department in 2014.
Hillary Clinton On Use Of Private Emails: "Everything I Did Was Permitted By Law And Regulation"
Clinton Says Her Email Use At State Department Was "Permitted By Law And Regulation." During an interview on the July 7 edition of CNN's The Situation Room, network Senior Congressional Correspondent Brianna Keilar questioned Hillary Clinton about her email usage during her tenure at the State Department. When asked about deleting emails, Clinton explained that everything she had done regarding her email practices while secretary of state "was permitted by law and regulation," and that "previous secretaries of state have said they did the same thing":
KEILAR: One of the issues that has eroded some trust that we've seen is the issue of your email practices while you were secretary of state. I think there's a lot of people who don't understand what your thought process was on that.
Can you tell me the story of how you decided to delete 33,000 emails and how that deletion was executed?
CLINTON: Well, let's start from the beginning. Everything I did was permitted. There was no law. There was no regulation. There was nothing that did not give me the full authority to decide how I was going to communicate. Previous secretaries of state have said they did the same thing. And people across the government knew that I used one device. Maybe it was because I am not the most technically capable person and wanted to make it as easy as possible.
KEILAR: But you said they -- that they did the same thing, that they used a personal server and...
CLINTON: Well, personal e-mail...
KEILAR: ... a subpoena deleted emails from them?
CLINTON: You know, you're starting with so many assumptions that are -- I've never had a subpoena. There is -- again, let's take a deep breath here. Everything I did was permitted by law and regulation. I had one device. When I mailed anybody in the government, it would go into the government system. Now I didn't have to turn over anything. I chose to turn over 55,000 pages, because I wanted to go above and beyond what was expected of me because I knew the vast majority of everything that was official already was in the State Department system. [CNN, The Situation Room, 7/7/15]
Joe Scarborough: Clinton's Comments On Email Use "Just Not True"
Scarborough: "You Can Go Down The List" Of Clinton's Comments On Her Emails, But They're "Just Not True." Responding to Clinton's statements on her email use in a series of segments on the July 8 edition of MSNBC's Morning Joe, host Joe Scarborough claimed that Clinton's explanations were "just not true." Falsely claiming that President Obama had signed regulations on email use while Clinton was still at the State Department, Scarborough asserted that her practices were not permitted and that it was inaccurate for Clinton to site other former secretaries of state in her defense since the policies didn't exist while they were in office:
SCARBOROUGH: I've always said I like Hillary. But, it would take three hours to unwind everything she said there and point out that, well, it's just not true. It's not true that everything she did was acceptable under regulations. It's not true that she only had one device and you can go down the list. I guess we're going to have to listen to it again and write it down again. She said it well. She seemed to be very confident when she was saying it. But it just -- it's just not true.
SCARBOROUGH: Let's look at the screen. What she's saying, and a lot of things she's saying are just not true. I don't say that with any malice. I'm just, factually speaking, if you talk to the Obama administration and you look at what's below your head right now and "everything I did was permitted"? No, it wasn't. The Obama administration will tell you off camera, off record, that what she did was not permitted. The Obama administration will tell you they put in regulations in 2009 that required Hillary Clinton to store all of her e-mails, not just e-mails that she sent selectively to people inside the State Department or the government inside the State Department. But all e-mails. You also can look at the fact that she had the server in Chappaqua. That wasn't permitted. The fact that she destroyed her server and didn't turn it over. That causes numbers of problems.
HAROLD FORD JR.: How do you reconcile the fact that we had former secretaries of state from different administration say they also had..
KATTY KAY: They had separate devices. They didn't have separate servers, because back in that time you wouldn't have separate servers.
SCARBOROUGH: They always bring up Colin Powell. Colin Powell didn't work for Barack Obama in 2009 when Obama said 'this is the way we're going to keep our government transparent. This is the way we're going to make sure that people can have access to the documents that we move around this administration when they search for them in freedom of information acts.' That's why they passed the regulation in 2009 saying if you work for an agency, all of your e-mails, not just the e-mails you send to the agency, all of your e-mails have to be stored there. She did not do it. Everything she did was not permitted. [MSNBC, Morning Joe, 7/8/15]
Clinton's Emails Were Retained And Provided In Compliance With 2009 Regulation
NYT: Agencies Were Not Required To Preserve Emails Rapidly Until After Clinton Left Office. In a March 13 article, The New York Times explained that while Clinton was at the State Department regulations only required "those messages at some point to be provided to the government," without requiring them to be preserved in real time:
While many agencies' current practice is to print and file emails deemed worthy of saving, an Obama administration directive in 2012 mandates that agencies must devise a system for retaining and preserving email records electronically by the end of 2016.
Mr. Obama signed legislation late last year requiring government officials who use personal email addresses for official business to bring those records into the government within 20 days. Before that, the National Archives and Records Administration simply required those messages at some point to be provided to the government.
"The wiggle room for Mrs. Clinton is that those policies didn't come into play until after she was gone" from the State Department in early 2013, said Thomas S. Blanton, the director of the National Security Archive at George Washington University, an independent, nongovernmental organization focused on transparency. [The New York Times, 3/13/15]
Clinton Preserved And Submitted Emails In Line With 2009 Regulation And Department Process Of Updating Records At The Time. In the daily press briefing, State Department deputy spokesperson Marie Harf explained that Clinton turned over 55,000 pages of documents as part of the State Department's "process of updating our records management" and emphasized that Clinton is the only former secretary of state to have done so. From Harf's briefing:
HARF: When in the process of updating our records management - this is something that's sort of ongoing given technology and the changes - we reached out to all of the former secretaries of state to ask them to provide any records they had. Secretary Clinton sent back 55,000 pages of documents to the State Department very shortly after we sent the letter to her. She was the only former Secretary of State who sent documents back in to this request. These 55,000 pages covered her time, the breadth of her time at the State Department. [State Department Daily Press Briefing, 3/3/15]
State Department Reportedly Had 90 Percent Of The Emails Already. A Clinton aide told The Daily Beast that "9 out of 10 emails that she sent over the course of her tenure went to the State Department," so that "State had it in their servers already." The aide further said that the 55,000 pages of emails already in State's possession represent the entirety of Clinton's work-related email sent during her tenure. [The Daily Beast, 3/3/15]
The 2014 Law Requiring Immediate Retention Of Private Emails Was Not Changed Until After Clinton Left The State Department
President Obama Signed Update To Federal Records Act In 2014. The Presidential and Federal Records Act Amendments of 2014 became law on November 26, 2014. [Congress.gov, accessed 3/3/15]
National Archives Official: 2014 Federal Records Law Clarified How Private Email Should Be Handled. Among the "major points" in the 2014 law highlighted by the National Archives was: "Clarifying the responsibilities of Federal government officials when using non-government email systems." [Records Express, National Archives, 12/2/14]
2014 Federal Records Law Marked "The First Significant Changes To The Federal Records Act Of 1950." According to the National Archives, the 2014 law marked "the first significant changes to the Federal Records Act of 1950." [Records Express, National Archives, 12/2/14]
White House: Obama Signed Law "Clarifying The Guidelines" For Federal Records After Clinton Left Office. Asked about Clinton's emails during the daily press briefing, White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest explained that it was after the federal records law was clarified last year -- 18 months after Clinton left office -- that the State Department began its process of updating its records. From Earnest's press briefing:
EARNEST: In fact, the President signed into law a bill at the end of last year clarifying the guidelines for how those personal emails can be properly stored and maintained. This is part of why the State Department has asked all of the previous Secretaries of State who have used any email as they were conducting official U.S. business to send their emails to the State Department so they could be properly preserved and maintained. [White House Press Briefing, 3/3/15]
Law Signed "Two Years After Clinton Stepped Down." Criticizing the Times article's insinuation that Clinton violated the law, Daily Banter contributor Bob Cesca pointed out: "The article doesn't say which federal regulation, though. Why? Perhaps because the federal regulations went into effect in late November, 2014 when President Obama signed H.R. 1233, modernizing the Federal Records Act of 1950 to include electronic communications. It was signed two years after Clinton stepped down." [The Daily Banter, 3/3/15]
Rep. Cummings: Even The 2014 Bill "Would Continue To Allow Employees To Use Their Personal Email Account For Official Business." Contrary to claims that Hillary Clinton violated the law by using personal email account while serving as Secretary of State, even a 2014 law that strengthened oversight of the use of personal email by government officials -- passed after Hillary Clinton had left the State Department -- still permitted government officials to use personal email. During a House speech discussing the bill, Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) said:
CUMMINGS: The bill also includes language based on an amendment that Darryl Issa proposed during the committee markup of the bill to address the use of personal email by the federal employees; and that amendment makes the bill even better. This bill will continue to allow employees to use their personal email account for official business when necessary, but it would require employees to copy their official email account or forward their email to their official account. [Cummings floor statement on Presidential Records Act, 11/12/14, via YouTube]
Politico: New Law "Made Clear" Personal Emails On Official Business Must Be Preserved. Reporting on President Obama signing the bill in November 2014, Politico reported: "The law also includes a provision sought by Republicans making clear that emails government employees send on private accounts about government business must be incorporated into official records systems." [Politico, 11/26/14]
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California and Florida Took Vastly Different Approaches to Handling Virus
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Students line up for screening questions and temperature checks as they returned to Thousand Oaks High School for in-person learning on March 8 for the first time this school year. AL SEIB/LOS ANGELES TIMES/TNS
BY RONG-GONG LIN II AND SOUMYA KARLAMANGLA LOS ANGELES TIMES/TNS – (Source: www.flcourier.com) – A year into the pandemic, California and Florida have become common points of contrast as Americans grapple with the horrific human and economic tolls of trying to control COVID-19.
Though the states took wildly different approaches to the pandemic, their rates of death from COVID-19 differ as much as one might expect. Out of 50 states, Florida's and California's cumulative COVID-19 death rates rank 25th and 29th, respectively, with Florida's 11% higher.
With so much debate over the two states' strategies and results, we dove into the numbers.
Here's what we found.
Students line up for screening questions and temperature checks as they returned to Thousand Oaks High School for in-person learning on March 8 for the first time this school year.
CALI VS. FLORIDA
If California had Florida's COVID-19 death rate, roughly 6,000 more Californians would be dead. And if Florida had California's death rate, roughly 3,000 fewer Floridians would be dead from COVID-19.
For every million residents of California, 1,385 Californians have died of COVID-19. But for every million residents of Florida, 1,538 Floridians have died of COVID-19.
And for every million Californian residents, there have been about 91,000 confirmed coronavirus cases; for every million Floridian residents, there have been about 94,000 cases. The closer gap between these two numbers suggests that fewer sick people in Florida were tested for the virus or that patients who tested positive were more likely to die, perhaps because of their age or lower survival rates.
SUMMER SURGE
California and Florida had comparable death rates during the spring wave. The governors of both states issued stay-at-home orders.
But when the summer surge hit, California again implemented business closures rules, shutting down indoor dining at restaurants and indoor gyms across wide swaths of the state. Florida did not.
While California staved off its worst surge until the winter, Florida was hit especially hard in the summer compared to other states, and deaths skyrocketed.
Though treatments for COVID-19 improved in the latter half of 2020 and improved survival rates, the intense midyear surge meant that those severely sick over the summer were less likely to benefit from enhanced medical knowledge.
"Florida paid the price of a very heavy death rate early on. California, by having delayed their onset of their worst surge, these patients were able to be treated in a more effective way, resulting in higher survival rates," UCLA epidemiologist Dr. Robert Kim-Farley said.
CALIFORNIA DEATHS
California's worst phase of the pandemic came in the autumn and winter, and the Golden State too experienced one of the nation's worst surges. In late January, California had the worst death rate in the nation over a weekly period.
California experienced a great deal of pandemic fatigue in late 2020, and once-effective rules became less so. The dramatic spread of the virus in L.A. County hit at the heart of the region's vulnerability — big pockets of poverty, crowded housing conditions, and a large working-class population who had to leave home to work.
A number of epidemiologists in California generally credit the state's stay-at-home order in the late fall and winter for preventing the surge in disease from becoming even worse.
SPACE SAVES FLORIDA
About 55% of California residents live in counties with a high "social vulnerability" score — a measure of how severely a disease outbreak might affect a region — while only a quarter of Floridians do.
California's rate of overcrowding in homes, a metric linked to coronavirus spread, is also more than double Florida's.
The dry air in California may also be a challenge, especially compared with humid Florida. Researchers are still learning about how climate affects the coronavirus, but some studies suggest that when the air is humid, virus droplets fall to the ground faster so that people are less likely to become infected.
BUDGET OUTLOOK
California's unemployment level in December was 9.3%, while Florida's was 5.1%.
Florida economy — such as theme parks and tourism — have reopened even as California's has faltered, given mandatory closures that were in place for many months.
But California's state budget outlook is surprisingly robust. While unemployment rose sharply through much of 2020, millions of middle-class and high-wage workers were able to keep their jobs and work from home. Tax collections also rose after a strong stock market boosted capital gains earned by the state's wealthiest taxpayers.
While California is forecasting a state budget windfall, Florida is grappling with a state budget shortfall.
In Florida, public schools have been open since August, with parents given the option of sending their kids to school or keeping them home for remote learning during the pandemic.
In California, schools are beginning to reopen as coronavirus case levels fall and teachers receive vaccines, yet the majority of students remain in distance
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The Core Curriculum
Extended Electives
Pastoral Systems
"The curriculum provides uncompromising academic challenge alongside a rich cultural experience", Alice Hudson, Executive Headteacher.
Our overall approach to the curriculum is described in the Twyford Trust's Curriculum Policy.
William Perkin CofE High School places a high premium on academic success and takes an intelligent approach to achievement. Core, English Baccalaureate subjects (English, Maths, Science, Languages, History, Geography and RE) are all taught formally as separate subject specialisms. These subjects require high levels of concentration, therefore they are taught in the morning to achieve the best learning discipline. These lessons are 50 minutes long.
Students are taught in sets for these subjects according to their ability and to the progress they make. Students who do particularly well in languages will have a chance to take a second language from Year 8. Languages is the school's second specialism and, together with Science, will encourage students to cultivate the 'intelligent engagement with the wider world' which is a key focus for the school. In the upper school, we offer a GCSE syllabus for all subjects.
In order to ensure we achieve consistency of approach we have identified 8 Intellectual Disciplines which run across all Core Subjects in addition to the Assessment Objectives and content of the subject itself. The William Perkin intellectual disciplines are to:
Read critically
Write cogently
Explore analytically
Discern logical patterns
Form coherent arguments
Apply systems
Memorise accurately
Listen intently
To find out more about each subject area please click here.
The Creativity & Curiosity Curriculum
William Perkin operates an afternoon enrichment curriculum that allows students to develop their creative skills and follow their particular aptitudes in five different areas. These are Music, Art, Sport, Computing and Applied Science. We have named this The Creativity and Curiosity Curriculum.
This curriculum is designed to:
Ensure the curriculum is broad and balanced
Develop wider thinking skills and creative applications (also embedded in the core curriculum)
Develop intellectual confidence, investigation and risk taking
Provide students with the opportunity to develop work based, applied learning skills.
The Creativity and Curiosity Curriculum runs during the 'Core Elective', 100-minute, afternoon lessons. These longer sessions allow students to fully immerse themselves in practical subjects.
An Extended Elective Programme takes place after school from 4.00pm to 5.30pm every day and includes a range of activities and clubs linked to the academic core subjects and the five Core Elective areas.
To view an example Extended Elective timetable, please click here.
A Community which Cares
The pastoral system at William Perkin CofE High School places students in form groups which is their home community. Each tutor group has a form tutor who will stay with them all the way through the school. They also have a Head of Year and a Head of Key Stage who guide the year group through the new challenges of each school year and whose job it is to ensure that every student does well. Our pastoral teams pride themselves on knowing their students well as individuals and caring for their progress. Students are also strongly encouraged to take responsibility for each other.
Responsible behaviour within the school community also shapes our relationship with the wider community. William Perkin was a Christian who used the wealth which he built up to fund philanthropic projects locally. Our understanding of our relationship with the wider community is informed by the parable of the 'sheep and the goats' within its message of social responsibility. William Perkin High School is committed to being a community school and we hope to form links with local community groups with whom we can have a regular relationship.
The William Perkin ethic is to be enterprising. We give students the opportunity, within class and through extra-curricular programmes, to take the initiative just as the school namesake did in setting up his own dye-works in North Greenford and later in sponsoring community projects. The story which we utilise to exemplify our attitude to enterprise is the Parable of the Stewards. A spirit of enterprise will become very important to our students as they move into upper school and think about their own future pathways. Programmes of speakers from industry and Higher Education encourage students to think about the direction they would like to take and the initiatives they may want to develop to ensure they are well positioned for future success. All students will undertake work experience in Year 10 and will be expected to consider work placements after GCSE.
Engagement & Celebration
The Twyford Trust ethic is one of high engagement. Our Trust motto is 'I have come that you should have life and life in all its fullness' (John 10:10). Our school day is a very full one and also includes after-school clubs as part of the extended elective programme. Successful students learn to make very productive use of their time and seize every opportunity to develop themselves fully. From Year 7, students learn that to be fully engaged is how to get more out of life. Heads of Year take the lead in ensuring that all students engage with the wider life of the school as well as making very good progress academically. Each half-term ends with a celebration assembly – but achievements are also given a high profile through weekly Head of Year Assemblies. Termly Celebration of Learning events are also organised for parents to engage with student successes.
Students at William Perkin CofE High School all belong to a House in order to foster a sense of wider belonging within the school and ensures that students work together to build a community which cares.
The William Perkin House System focuses on our Science Specialism where each house is named after a famous scientist:
Students are encouraged through conduct points and inter-house competitions to serve their immediate community: their house. A clear system of positive and negative conduct points helps staff reinforce expectations for good conduct. There is a series of house competitions in sport, music and curriculum areas to develop a positive sense of competitive collaboration. Points gained by individuals are also points gained for the house.
Each house undertakes fundraising for its own named charity through 'enterprise days' where students are expected to work together in a business-like way on projects to promote the work of its charity and to fundraise. The house charities are:
Watt - UK Youth
Pascal - Separated Child
Einstein - Medicins San Frontiers
Rutherford - Mind
Kelvin - Water Aid
Isambard - Anaphylaxis Campaign UK
Newton - Macmillan
Independent learning will be critical to the success of your child at GCSE and A-Level. It is our philosophy to develop the required skills within each subject as soon as students join the school. From day 1 of Year 7 there is a 15-minute lesson preparation task set in each lesson – that means 5 'lesson preps' are set per day.
Longer pieces of assessed homework in the form of essays, projects, assessments and presentations are also set fortnightly. The combination of lesson preparation tasks, to be completed each evening, and longer more developed pieces of work will ensure your child develops the independent learning habits required to succeed as they develop academically. Each core subject will outline a series of tasks to be completed independently of school. These will be called Level 4 Tasks and are designed to stretch students and encourage curiosity within each subject.
We have developed a Virtual Learning Environment called Copia, which allows students to access work electronically and support their independent learning at home. The same system also allows parents to look at their child's grades and attendance and conduct records.
Individual Knowledge of Your Child
Each child is known as an academic individual through careful diagnostic testing, which takes place as part of their induction to the school. Using this information, we set challenging targets that are effectively communicated and then evaluated at key points in the year. A well-constructed whole school assessment system allows students to take control of their learning and make personal assessments of their progress. More detailed information related to subject-specific assessments will become available for parents on Copia.
Effective Communication with Parents
Communication is integral to the success of any school. Parents will receive Termly Grade Reports that provide information on effort and achievement in all subjects and at the end of the year a full report will be produced. Parents are expected to attend all Information Evenings and Parent Consultation Evenings, including an annual formal Parents Evening.
Each week parents should review and sign their child's planner which will contain key information relating to that week. Personal communication with your child's Tutor and Head of Year will be vital in supporting your child. To support this process there will be a Target Setting Meeting in September between student, parent and tutor.
The best information will always be gained via one-to-one contact with teachers so parents are warmly encouraged to be in contact with the school more regularly if there are any concerns.
For Key Stage 3 there are two formal exam weeks - one in December and the other in June - which assess topics to date in the core subjects (English, Maths, Science, Languages and Humanities).
For Key Stage 4, students will follow a GCSE pathway in all subject areas.


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Alcanta International College (AIC) Offer scholarships to international students. 3 Range. 100% 50% And 30,000 Deadline to apply 17 Feb 2013 RMB.
Alcanta International College (AIC) is offering scholarships for international students to excel at AIC and beyond. Students who apply to any AIC programme as full-time international students are eligible to apply for these scholarships. All scholarships apply only to the tuition fee. Three types of scholarships are available namely academic scholarships, merit scholarships and financial scholarships which are valued up to 100% of the tuition fee, 50% of the tuition fee and 30,000 RMB respectively. Applications must be postmarked by April 17, 2013.
Study Subject(s): The scholarship is awarded to pursue courses available at Alcanta International College.
Course Level: This scholarship is available for pursuing IB Diploma Programme or Pre Diploma Programme at Alcanta International College.
Eligibility: Students who apply to any AIC programme as full-time international students are eligible to apply for these scholarships. Recipients of the Academic Scholarship must maintain an IB total predicted score of minimum 30 points in order to continue receiving the scholarship.
Scholarship Open for Students of Following Countries: The international students can apply for the scholarship.
Scholarship Description: In support of the AIC Mission, Vision and Goals, and to create educational opportunities at AIC for international students of exceptional ability and potential, AIC is excited to announce its International Students Scholarship Programme for the 2013- 2014 academic year,valued at 1,000,000 RMB. The goal of the AIC International Students Scholarship Programme is to support exceptionally talented students and challenge them to excel at AIC and beyond, as well as to make the IB Diploma Programme and AIC education accessible to all gifted international students interested in building their future at AIC. AIC provides three types of scholarships: Academic Scholarships-are awarded to students with excellent overall academic performance. Merit Scholarships-Merit Scholarships are awarded to students who demonstrate exceptional ability or talent in the following areas: Art, Science and Service & Leadership. Financial Scholarships-are awarded to provide financial support for students who may otherwise not be able to attend AIC. The Pre-IB program has been specifically designed to prepare students to meet the challenges of the rigorous IB Diploma Program. The IB Diploma Programme is a rigorous pre-university course of study that leads to examinations; it is designed for highly motivated secondary school students aged 16 to 19. The programme incorporates the best elements of national systems without being based on any one. The goal of the International Baccalaureate Organization ("IBO") is to provide students with the values and opportunities that will enable them to develop sound judgement, make wise choices, and respect others in the global community.
What does it cover? All scholarships apply only to the tuition fee. Recipients will be required to pay other fees such as boarding fee, meal fee, medical insurance costs and other expenses incurred for the programme that they are admitted to.
Selection Criteria: Academic Scholarships-are awarded to students with excellent overall academic performance. Merit Scholarships-Merit Scholarships are awarded to students who demonstrate exceptional ability or talent in the following areas: Art, Science and Service & Leadership. Financial Scholarships-are awarded to provide financial support for students who may otherwise not be able to attend AIC.
Notification: Applicants must be available for interviews within two weeks following the deadline. Only in special circumstances and at the discretion of the Principal, will late applications be considered. Applicants will be notified of the outcome of their application within two weeks after the interview.
How to Apply: To apply, please download and complete the International Students Scholarships Application Form and email or mail it together with your supporting documentation.
Scholarship Application Deadline: Applications must be postmarked by April 17, 2013.
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Charles Rottier, Non-Executive Chairman
Charles joined LogiCamms in September 2017, and has extensive management and project experience in local and international engineering, construction and maintenance services companies. He has managed successful businesses with operations in Australia, PNG, Asia, and the Americas. He is Chair of the Energy Pipelines Cooperative Research Centre, and has previously held the roles of CEO of ASX-listed Austin Engineering, and EGM Engineering and Construction for Transfield Services. Charles also has experience in mergers and acquisitions and in business turnarounds, and has held senior executive roles with responsibility for Corporate Strategy and Business Development.
Brian O'Sullivan (AM), Executive Director
As the former founder and Chairman of OSD, Brian has demonstrated expertise in the business of energy related developments, with a strong emphasis on oil and gas pipeline and facilities projects. He has over 30 years' experience in business management, project management and engineering, primarily direct design and construction experience with major pipelines and petrochemical facilities in Australia, PNG and South East Asia. Brian's key strengths include a strong technical knowledge and an in-depth understanding of commercial business activities. Brian has been a company director holding board positions for a range of entities, including Chairman of the Australian Muscular Dystrophy Foundation.
Linton Burns, Executive Director
Linton has over 25 years' commercial, financial business and management experience including leading corporate transactions such as mergers and acquisitions and IPO's. Prior to being appointed to his role with LogiCamms, Linton was Managing Director of OSD, and has held other CFO and COO positions with ASX and Nasdaq listed companies. Linton has a Bachelor of Accountancy and is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants Australia.
Phillip Campbell, Non-Executive Director
Phillip joined LogiCamms in October 2019 and is an experienced independent non-executive director on publicly listed and private company boards. In addition to his role with LogiCamms, he is currently the non-executive Chair of Fleetwood Corporation Limited (ASX:FWD) and a non-executive Chair of Vmoto Limited (ASX:VMT). His executive experience includes Managing Director and CEO roles in a range of national manufacturing and engineering businesses, and he has significant experience in business turnarounds then growing businesses to restore value. Phillip has a Bachelor of Electrical and Electronics Engineering from the University of Queensland and is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.
Matthew Morgan, Non-Executive Director
Matthew joined LogiCamms in October 2019 and is an experienced independent non-executive director on publicly listed and private company boards. In addition to his role with LogiCamms, he currently serves as a non-executive director and Chair of the Audit and Risk Committee for Total Brain (ASX:TTB) and Leaf Resources (ASX:LER). Matthew began his career as an Institutional Venture Capital fund manager with QIC Limited and brings significant commercial experience including M&A and capital raising to the LogiCamms Board. Matthew has a Bachelor of Commerce from Griffith University, a Bachelor of Applied Science and an MBA from Queensland University of Technology, and was Australia's first Kauffman Fellow.


The cities in India are complaining about water shortage not to mention many villages which lack safe drinking water. In the list of 122 countries rated on quality of portable water, India ranks a lowly 120.Although India has 4% of the world's water, studies show average availability is shrinking steadily. It is estimated that by 2020, India will become a water-stressed nation. Nearly 50% of villages still don't have any source of protected drinking water.
The ground reality is that of the 1.42 million villages in India, 1, 95,813 are affected by chemical contamination of water. The quality of ground water which accounts of more than 85% of domestic supply is a major problem in many areas as none of the rivers have water fit to drink.


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Metal train spikes on this track through Big Darby Creek Metro Park in central Ohio seem to be popping out, and not very safe for passing trains and the enormous amount of weight they carry. Does this kind of lack of maintenance lead to train crashes via track failure. Ohio had a super cold winter, did that pop these metal spikes out of the ground. This view is available at Darby Creek Drive, a short distance from Alkire Road. The train track is called Camp Chase and it crosses Darby Creek Drive. I confirmed that yes this track is still in use today. I keep replaying the images of train fires when trains tip over, oil and chemical spills�. Making calls on all this today. I was told they will send someone to check it on Friday. This image was taken on May 4, 2014. Art can change the world! I try to make mine useful.