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Here are three excerpts from my three science-fiction novels, all (as of 11/25/2017) unpublished. NOTE: Both of the first two excerpts were once a part of the novels, but have since been removed. I decided they were not essential to the story, so I placed them here. The third, from Warrior, was never a part of the novel, and so is not truly an "excerpt," but I wrote it to complete the picture, as it were. All three do give you a taste of my writing style and a little bit of the plot line. The overall series title is The Anthanian Imperative Trilogy, and concerns the people of the planet Anthanos, a desert planet whose sun is in the early stages of becoming a red giant. They have to get off and find another planet to colonize before the increasing heat makes it impossible to live on their home planet much longer. The trilogy deals with their trials and difficulties in their quest. The first comes from Explorer, the first of the series. In this excerpt, Lilea, the main character, is lying in bed, trying to get to sleep.
Even by the time she reached her fifth birthday, Lilea had never been outside Kalarias, her hometown. What little she knew of the sterile desert that made up the Lifezone of her planet, or of the searing heat on the hot side, or the vast ice fields on the cold side came exclusively from images on the Information Services video and the few conversations she'd had with her teachers in preschool. So when her parents took her on a trip from Kalarias to visit her mother's family in their ancestral home of Bes, a city of one million inhabitants 8,300 anthans away, it was a major event, a trip she eagerly anticipated. They boarded the Mag-Lev train on 431.222, and off it went, zipping smoothly and quietly over the surface of the Lifezone at 280 anthans per sub. But even at such an innocent age with only a tiny knowledge base on which to build permanent memories, she was struck by the absolute barrenness of the landscape outside the window of that speeding train.
At first it was like a great sand pile, beckoning her to come and play in its golden-brown drifts. Yet, the constancy of the parched, sterile wilderness, the unvarying, immutable, almost eternal expanse of sand raised suspicions in her mind. This was not like the city with its buildings and streets and houses, even parks with all the potted plants that required watering every other T-sector. There was nothing outside that train window–nothing at all.
She filed the images in her long-term memory, carefully preserving them to be recalled later. As she began school, she listened as her teachers explained the history of her planet, about the early vegetation, the expanding sun, the slowing of the planet's rotation, and the sterile sand that made up the surface of the planet. As she grew older, she learned how to make enough sense of what she'd seen and heard to be able to formulate questions to which answers could be given.
She grew fascinated by what she learned about the prehistoric days of Anthanos, especially the anthanians who lived during the Vegetative Eras, and she read voraciously on her personal notebook all the publications she could find about those aboriginal beings. She could trace her decision to become an anthropologist to that early reading.
Then, in 458, when Spaceflight Command said they were looking for anthropologists to undergo spaceflight training to look for intelligent life on other planets, she decided to join, just as her new husband Bent had done four years earlier, because SpaceComm needed geologists, too.
Now here she was, right in the middle of it. She'd been picked for the Gold Team, and that made her proudest of anything she'd ever done. Soon they'd blast off for another planet, a planet ouside her own solar system, taking her and nine others, including the love of her life, Bent, cute Bent, the guy with the olive-brown skin and curly, dark brown hair and rich, sienna eyes that always seemed to have a twinkle in them, and the cute smile and the small pot belly, but the exercise of training for the voyage and landing will take that pot belly right off, she figured, and . . . then she slowly became aware of Bent's voice penetrating a drowsy haze.
"C'mon, sleepyhead, time to get up." A gentle hand joggled her shoulder. "We've got to be at SpaceComm headquarters at 687.1.0."
The second excerpt comes from Traveler, the second book of the trilogy. This excerpt focuses on the backstory of a secondary character, Mlada.
The knock at the thin, wooden door of the house of the Lontor family was unexpected–yet in many ways it was not. It was a brutal knock, not the gentle tap that might be expected from a good friend coming over for an evening visit. The light had almost faded from the sky, and the darkness–as pervasive a darkness as could be found on any planet–had settled over the little house on the outskirts of the town where the young Mlada and her family lived. The cool air of the evening edged between some of the boards of the house, forcing the residents to start a fire in the cast iron stove that sat in one corner of the living room. At five years old, Mlada played on the floor at her parent's feet with her favorite dolls. When the knock came, she stopped her play immediately and gripped tightly one of the dolls with both hands. Her mother and father stiffened visibly, and her mother raised a hand to her mouth to stifle a gasp.
"Mlada!" her mother whispered hoarsely. "You know what to do. Go to your special place. Now!"
"But mother–"
"Do as your mother says," her father warned, his voice strict, but not harsh.
"It's the Talatan Guards, isn't it?" Mlada's older brother Tlan said.
"Hush," their mother said. "Mlada, run."
Mlada knew what to do. She gathered her dolls and dropped them into the small satchel her parents had provided. She removed her shoes so her feet would not make a sound on the bare floor and scampered toward the rear of the house. She ran past the kitchen and bathroom, through her parent's room. She headed into the small bedroom she shared with her brother–little more than a small storage room off her parent's room–and tiptoed across the floor, reaching her bed just as her father opened the front door to the Guards.
Mlada fell to the floor and froze, not wanting to make a sound while the Guards were in the house.
"You were late in opening the door," the Captain of the Guards said. Mlada could hear his dark, booming voice from her place on the floor in the bedroom. "You are required to open the door in twenty seconds or less."
Mlada crawled under the bed from the foot, past the boxes of her brother's clothes her parents stored there, and with her fingertips carefully pried open the narrow trapdoor lying beneath the bed. The old metal hinges that held the door creaked with a tiny mouse-like squeak and she stopped, holding the door in one place for a second, then she slowly pressed the door open slightly more, hesitating briefly at each creak. She held it open with her left hand while she dropped the satchel in, then she herself slipped into the recess between the door and the floor joists onto the small rug that gave her the slightest cushion against the wood panel on which she lay. She kept the door cracked open only the tiniest amount so she could hear, ready to drop the door completely closed should the Guards enter the room.
"I am terribly sorry," her father said. "We were in the back room. It will not happen again."
"I am giving your house twenty marks," the Captain said. "It happened once two weeks ago. I am very concerned about this house. We have heard that you are keeping a young girl here. Is that true?"
"No," Mlada heard her mother reply. "We have only the boy Tlan. Here he is. He is our only child. That is the regulation. We have complied."
"But we have reports from several people that they have seen a small girl in the vicinity of your house. Do you deny it?"
"Yes, we deny it."
"Then how do you explain this?"
Mlada was aware of a sudden quietness that developed in the front room, and the lack of conversation seemed only to magnify the clomp of heavy boots as several of the Guards left the front room and began searching the house. It wasn't an exhaustive search; they poked their noses into the various rooms, pausing at the door to the bedroom where Mlada lay hidden, but only to turn on the light. They did not enter or search the room. Mlada silently dropped the trapdoor completely shut and listened for the footsteps as the Guards withdrew.
Mlada learned later that the Captain had shown her parents a photograph of a small girl in the back yard of her house, and the girl was her, but her parents denied it, saying it was the daughter of a friend, not Mlada at all. Only a friend who had come over to visit.
At first it'd all been a game. Her parents showed her the trapdoor hidden under the bed and taught her how to use it, quietly and surreptitiously, repeating the drill over and over until she could enter with her playmate dolls within a minute or so, and stay until her mother or father called her to come out. Each time she stayed quiet and hidden, repetition after repetition, through drills and the real thing, waiting patiently to come out, staying quiet, breathing slowly and calmly to avoid detection by the Talatan Guards.
But by her fifth year, she knew it was no longer a game, that she was expected to hide and stay hidden for an hour if necessary, and that it would happen over and over, almost every other week, or even every week, or several times a week, until other arrangements could be made. And she lived like this with her family year after year, hiding from the Guards when they came to the house to search for her because she was the second child, and two children in one family were forbidden on her planet.
It scared her, too. She was too young to understand the real reason for hiding like this, but she knew it was serious, and she began to be scared more and more often. She hated the little recess, the terrifying closeness of the opening, the musty smell of the floorboards that lay over her less than a handbreadth from her face, the darkness that left her unable to see. She could run her hands over the little valise that contained her beloved dolls, but she couldn't play with them, only touch, and she wanted so very much to pull them out and hold them close to her, but her parents said no, and she complied. Her heart would pound, tears would stream down her face, and she would emerge when her parents called, crying and scared even more than when she went in because she knew she would have to go back again, soon.
Eventually, she grew too big to fit comfortably in the little recess hollowed out among the floor joists, and other arrangements were made.
This third "excerpt" comes from the third novel of the series, Warrior, and concerns a young girl who will eventually become one of the main characters. This scene takes place immediately before a major turning point in the novel.
It had become just too much. Several times a day, the repeated penetration by a male organ much too large for her barely mature, delicate female opening. Every day it went on, with only a few moments between to recover and clean for the next. As though she was expected to act like a machine that could take this kind of abuse regularly and without complaint. They did allow her a short respite a few times a day to use the bathroom, but always under supervision lest she try to jump out the window. She was at least allowed to take her meals unsupervised in her room because the window there had been sealed shut.
She'd been here about twenty days, sold by her adoptive parents, brought from another planet, and sold to some strange-looking characters. She didn't know what the strangers had in mind for her, but after the assaults started, from the first or second day she thought about getting out. At only nine years old–nine years by her planet's time, she didn't know how old she would be by this planet's timekeeping system–she wasn't sure how to go about it. They watched her almost all the time. Someone was in her room most of the time, either her owner or one of his minions, or one of the customers. Running out the front door was certainly out of the question.
She knew only that the house was surrounded by heavy forest–she could see it out the window in her room. Escape into that would be unthinkable. She'd get lost, and if she got on the road that ran in front of the house, she'd likely be found and returned. She didn't know where on this planet she was. She didn't know where to go.
They called her names. At least that's what she thought they were doing. She'd been on this planet such a short time she hadn't picked up the language will enough to communicate. "Ugly" seemed to be the most common word they used. The customers made ugly faces at her when they first saw her, so it stuck in her mind that's what the word meant.
On about the twentieth day she'd had enough. Well, she'd had enough on the first or second day, but by the twentieth she realized she had to do something to make the abuse stop. She had nothing to lose. It was just too painful, too degrading, too humiliating. She'd rather take her chances with whatever consequences her owners could dish out than continue. This wasn't a spur-of-the-moment decision. She made it consciously, precisely to get them to stop inviting all these men to her room. To stop the attacks and abuse. She was resolved. She had to do it–there would be no more. She lashed out. Her foot caught the next visitor in his most delicate spot and he yelled out and spit up and unleashed a stream of words and epithets she hadn't expected, a vile stream she'd remember for the rest of her life. The man doubled over and tumbled off the bed, holding himself. Someone rushed into the room, someone she didn't recognize because it happened so quickly. When he realized what had happened, his face turned livid–she'd always thought it funny that these white, pasty-faced individuals could turn so red almost at the turn of a switch–and all she saw was his fist as it hurtled toward her face. She screamed and he bellowed at her, and she shrank up toward the top of her bed. But before she could do or say anything more, he unleashed several more blows and she felt the searing pain in her jaw and ribcage. More men entered her room and more blows followed, though she was becoming insensitive to all the jabs and jolts. They didn't register as painful anymore. They felt more like a long series of slaps, or taps. Just before she passed out, she was aware of falling off the bed onto the worn, scratchy rug beside her bed, and of being rolled up into the rug.
When she woke, she smelled antiseptic and the lights were bright in the room, so she closed her eyes. She concentrated on the low whir of air being recirculated. That was funny, because she'd heard that noise before only on the spaceship that brought her to this planet, and she didn't think she'd ever hear anything like it again. Someone–a female voice–spoke softly to her in a language she didn't recognize, and the pain in her face and chest seemed magically to go away.


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In some ways, the indifferent shoulder this mother received jogs my memory of one thing I heard at a nationwide convention for dad bloggers a pair months in the past. A male Fb executive stated he was routinely shut out of alternatives for leadership roles in volunteering at his youngsters' personal San Francisco school as a result of he was a working dad – and not part of a long-time period moms' college volunteer coterie.


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Council to close nurseries in city to protect families
Brighton council to shut nurseries in city to protect families
By Harry Bullmore @HarryBullmore Reporter
Councillor Hannah Clare, chairwoman of the children, young people and skills committee, announced that all Brighton and Hove City Council-run nurseries will shut from tomorrow
ALL council-run nurseries in Brighton will be closed from tomorrow, it has been announced.
Brighton and Hove City Council issued a statement this afternoon, two days into a third national lockdown, saying its sites will be shut from tomorrow.
The sites will still be open to vulnerable children and those whose parents are key workers.
"The decision has been made to better protect staff, families and children and is consistent with the measures implemented by government for all schools," a council spokesman said.
"We are seeing a rapid increase of Covid-19 cases across the city and a decision to close our nurseries has been taken to help reduce the spread of the disease.
"We are very conscious of the impact of this decision, particularly for our most disadvantaged children and we are working to prioritise as many places as possible for these children.
"We are committed to the full reopening of our nurseries as soon as possible.
"Private and voluntary providers must make their own decisions about staying open to all children, based on their own current and robust risk assessments."
The move from the council comes in spite of government rules stating that "early years settings (including nurseries and childminders) remain open".
This comes days after Brighton and Hove City Council set a precedent by advising schools in the city to move to remote learning.
Boris Johnson appeared on the BBC Andrew Marr show over the weekend to insist that schools were "safe" and education was "a priority".
However, within the national lockdown measures the Prime Minister announced on Monday, the government ordered all schools to move to remote learning just one day after the start of the spring term.
Now Brighton and Hove City Council has again contradicted government advice by closing its nurseries.
READ MORE: Boris Johnson says schools are safe as council advises sites to move online
Councillor Hannah Clare, chairwoman of the children, young people and skills committee, said: "We understand the concerns of our staff regarding the rising infection rates in the city.
"As a result, we have, as a temporary measure, decided to move our council-run nurseries to be only open to vulnerable children and the children of key workers.
"No one wants to be in a position where our nurseries aren't fully open. However, to make our community safe, we have taken action.
READ MORE: What you can and can't do under new lockdown restrictions
"Private and voluntary providers can make their own decisions. We know that some in the city have already taken a similar position. However this comes at a financial cost to those providers.
"As a result, Councillor John Allcock (opposition spokesman for the children, young people and skills committee) and I have written to Government to urge them to compensate early years providers, similar to how they did last year."
Brighton and Hove City Council Labour Councillor John Allcock
Cllr Allcock said the measure had been put in place to "keep everybody safe" and he "hopes the government responds positively to our joint request to support early years providers who make a vital contribution to the education and wellbeing of children".
The GMB union has now called on the government to follow suit and shut nurseries and pre-schools "to save lives as the pandemic reaches a new crisis point".
National officer Stuart Fegan said: "From the very beginning of the pandemic, ministers have neglected the early years sector - missing it from government communications, excluding it from financial support and from the provision of home testing kits.
"Brighton and Hove City Council has shown real leadership and taken a decision the government should already have made to protect people.
"But it shouldn't have been left to councils to step in to address the government's failure here.
"There is no scientific evidence to support the continued opening of nurseries. It is purely a political decision, made by ministers who are failing to take their responsibility to staff, families and the wider community seriously enough.
"They've left nursery staff, childminders and nannies worrying for their safety and sown fear and confusion among parents.
"It's time for the government to step in and correct this dangerous mistake by closing all nursery and pre-school provision to all but key workers and vulnerable children, in line with school closures."


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Machine learning allows computational systems to adaptively improve their performance with experience accumulated from the data observed. This course introduces the basics of learning theories, the design and analysis of learning algorithms, and some applications of machine learning.
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Low college hockey attendance raises concern | The Daily Gazette
Low college hockey attendance raises concern
Sub-part college hockey attendance is a reason for concern at the Times Union Center.
Times Union Center general manager Bob Belber loves having college hockey events in his building, but he would like to see more people in the seats.
Attendance for last weekend's ECAC Hockey tournament final four and this weekend's NCAA hockey tournament East Regional wasn't good. The total attendance for the ECACH tournament was 9,925, including 4,851 for the championship game between Harvard and Princeton.
Friday's East Regional semifinals session drew 4,175, including 135 suite tickets. Saturday's championship game, between Michigan and Clarkson, two teams with great fan bases, attracted 4,301.
The last time the East Regionals were here two years ago, the announced attendance for the two sessions was 9,532. Those games were played on a Saturday and Sunday, compared to this year's Friday-Saturday setup.
Belber said the numbers for the 2006 weekend, which featured Harvard, Maine, Michigan State and New Hampshire, were actually lower.
"The total number, including suites, was 4,443 for the first session," Belber said prior to Saturday's game. "The second session, when everything was done, was 3,848. That went down last time because of the teams and fan bases that were left."
Having Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Union playing in the tourneys certainly would help attendance. But Belber would also like to involve the area's youth and high school hockey programs, and have them play some games on the TU Center ice. The ECACH already has a youth tournament during its championships.
One aspect Belber plans to discuss with the NCAA is the ticket policy. He doesn't believe fans should be forced to buy all-session passes, especially if their team is eliminated in the semifinals.
The costs for this weekend's games at the TU Center were $82 for adults and $76 for students for all-sessions passes. Single-session passes were $46 for adults, and $44 for students.
"The problem is, without the consolation game [which the ECACH has], there's absolutely no incentive for fan in Clarkson or any other home base to buy an all-session ticket and, if your team loses, find a way to resell the ticket themselves, they don't want to have to do that," Belber said. "They'd rather drive down, buy the one session. If they win, they buy the second session. If they lose, they go home."
ALL-TOURNEY TEAM
Michigan placed four players on the all-regional team.
The Wolverines had forwards Kevin Porter, who was also named most outstanding player, and Chad Kolarik, defenseman Mark Mitera and goalie Billy Sauer.
Clarkson had two players made the team, forward Shea Guthrie and defenseman Grant Clitsome.
BREAKS JINX
Michigan coach Red Berenson finally had success in the TU Center.
In three previous trips to the building, Berenson's Wolverines went 1-3. Two of those losses were in the Frozen Four semifinals


We went on to talk about such topics as: (a) incidents involving gases; (b) incidents involving liquids and (c) incidents involving explosions. Now we need to address an important safety aspect that may apply when servicing vacuum equipment – confined spaces.
In simplest terms, a confined space is one in which there is only one way in and one way out. Thinking about most single chamber vacuum furnaces – either horizontal (Fig 1) or vertical (Fig. 2), this definition applies. As such, there are a number of rules, procedures, and training that must be followed, some of which will be briefly discussed below. Appropriate signage (Fig. 3) should also be provided.
"Entry" – the action by which a person passes through an opening into a confined space. Entry includes ensuing work activities (e.g., maintenance activities) in that space and is considered to have occurred as soon as any part of the entrant's body breaks the plane of an opening into the space.
"Entry permit" – the written or printed document that is provided by the employer to the employee allowing entry into a permitted confined space. The entry to a permitted space is witnessed by members of the plant safety team who are required to be in attendance.
"Authorized entrant" – an employee who is authorized by the employer to enter a permitted space. This authorization is typically granted only after some form of training on the hazards or potential hazards associated with the space involved. The space should have been tested to ensure proper air quality (see below) and the individual entering the space should have an oxygen monitoring device.
"Attendant" – an individual stationed outside a confined entry space or one or more permitted spaces and who monitors the authorized entrants and who performs all attendant's duties assigned in the employer's permit space program. NOTE: It is not the responsibility of the attendant to enter the space to assist an entrant experiencing difficulties in that space.
"Rescue service" – the personnel designated to rescue employees from a confined or permit confined space.
A space in which there can be an atmospheric condition brought about by inadvertently introduced life-threatening gas (e.g. nitrogen, argon, acetylene, etc.) into the area that is immediately dangerous to life or health.
A space in which there can be the removal of oxygen from the space brought about by inadvertent activation of the vacuum pump(s) and that is immediately dangerous to life or health.
The potential for the presence of flammable gases, vapors, mists or other airborne contaminants, which can combust or exceed the lower flammable limit (LFL).
Before an employee enters a confined space, the internal atmosphere shall be tested, with a calibrated direct-reading instrument, for oxygen content, for flammable gases and vapors, and for potential toxic air contaminants, in that order. Any employee who enters the space, or that employee's authorized representative, shall be provided an opportunity to observe the pre-entry testing performed for each of these conditions.
A generic procedure for individuals working within areas designated as confined spaces will follow. The reader is directed to procedures outlined in applicable Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) standards and State Office of Risk Management (SORM) guidelines for safe work practices, which supersedes the generic information contained here. See the partial list of other applicable documents below. The primary purpose of these procedures is to provide generic information to help ensure that individuals are protected from injury or death associated with working within designated confined spaces.
The Facilities Coordinator or his designate in combination with the plant safety committee must determine if work in the confined space is necessary after reviewing and evaluating options.
If confined space work is authorized by the Facilities Coordinator or his designate, a written Confined Space Entry Log and Debriefing Documentation must be maintained.
The authorized entrant must conduct an initial atmospheric test using a device for that purpose prior to entering the confined space. Adequate ventilation of the confined space must also be confirmed. The authorized entrant must ensure that atmospheric oxygen content is between 19.5% to 23.5% oxygen and that the LEL (lower explosive limit) is 0%. Otherwise, entry will not be permitted unless and until the condition changes or proper protective equipment is used to safely enter.
The authorized entrant must be equipped with the proper protective equipment, if required, ensure that it is functional and is used during the entry.
While the authorized entrant is in the confined space, a standby attendant must remain outside of the confined space entry location at all times.
The authorized entrant must have a means of regularly (at least every 10 minutes) communicating with the standby attendant when in the confined space area. Communication by cell phone, radio, or verbal contact is acceptable. The purpose is to access the condition of the individual in the confined space.
The standby attendant will contact 911 – Emergency Service Personnel and follow all additional plant rules and regulations should a rescue situation occur. The standby attendant must never enter the confined space for rescue or other reasons. The purpose for this is that the same hazard that affected the authorized entrant may overcome the standby attendant as well.
If rescue services are required, the standby attendant should next contact the Facilities Coordinator. The Facilities Coordinator should notify the Facilities Director, the Safety & Risk Manager and the plant safety committee members.
Annually, the Facilities Coordinator and other supervisory staff who may instruct employees to enter confined spaces and any employee who may be required to work within a confined space must participate in training and basic knowledge testing of confined space procedures. Initial and refresher training is to be provided so that employees will have an understanding of the procedures to be followed as well as the understanding, knowledge, and skills to perform confined space entry work safely.
Training is the responsibility of the Facilities Coordinator. For confined space entry training requirements, refer to OSHA standards and SORM guidelines. Annual training can be done by computer-based interactive CD-ROM's which include course testing and record-keeping documentation.
Training and basic knowledge testing documentation will be maintained by the Facilities Coordinator for audit and institutional compliance review purposes, for a minimum of three years following the close of the active fiscal year. Training records will include each employee's name, the signatures or initials of the trainers, and the dates of training.
The meter used to conduct the atmospheric testing and the LEL testing should be calibrated annually or per manufacturer's guidelines and per applicable industry standards. Employees conducting the testing should have initial training and annual refresher training on the proper use of the meter.
Facilities Services will maintain a written Confined Space Entry Log and Debriefing Documentation of all confined space activities including contractor confined space entry.
The Confined Space Entry Log will include the following information as a minimum: The reason for entry, building or plant area location, standby attendant name, Authorizing Supervisor signature, authorized entrant's name and signature, date of entry, time in and time out. A debriefing document will ask each authorized entrant specific questions related to his/her activities in the confined space entry.
Inform the contractor that the workplace contains confined space entry and that entry is allowed only through compliance with confined space entry program meeting OSHA standards.
Apprise the contractor of the elements, including the hazards identified and the Company's experience with the confined space entry.
Apprise the contractor of any precautions or procedures that the Company has implemented for the protection of employees in or near the confined space entry where contractor personnel will be working.
Coordinate entry operations with the contractor by verifying that the contractor employees have been properly trained, authorizing the entry, providing the entry log and debriefing documentation, testing the internal atmosphere and ensuring the entry is performed safely.
In addition to complying with the confined space entry requirements that apply to all employers, each contractor who is retained to perform confined space entry operations shall comply with applicable Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) standards specifically 29 CFR Part 1910 – Permit-Required Confined Spaces, Section 1910.146 (c) (9) (i, ii, iii).
The Facilities Coordinator shall review annually this procedure and recommend any changes to the Safety & Risk Manager and plant safety committee. Changes may result from OSHA standards or SORM guideline changes or changes in company practices.
Our intent was to introduce this important subject to the reader who is encouraged to seek additional information and training before making decisions as to whether to participate in activities involved with confined entry spaces.


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Q: Does big and nef imply projectivity? Suppose that we have a compact Kaehler manifold $X$ with big and nef canonical class $c_1(K_{X})$, does it imply that $X$ is projective? By the base point free theorem, big and nef implies semi ample but it is for projective algebraic manifolds. So it seems to suggest that big and nef does not necessarily imply projectivity. But I have seen in literature that people claim that big and nef does imply projectivity.

A: If $X$ has a big line bundle $L$ then for an appropriate natural number $m$, sections of $L^m$ define a meromorphic map $\varphi: X \dashrightarrow \mathbf P^N$ which is bimeromorphic onto its image. Therefore $X$ is bimeromorphic to the projective variety $\overline{\varphi(X)}$, hence it is Moishezon. But Moishezon plus Kähler equals projective.

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Five-year-old rape victim critical, accused at large
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Candle, bottle poked into rape victim's genitals: Doctors
A 200 ml bottle and pieces of candle were inserted into the private parts of the five-year-old rape victim, a doctor said Friday, adding that he had "never seen such a case". »
Protests near hospital as five-year-old battles for life
New Delhi: Shame and outrage returned to Delhi once again as gory details emerged of the rape of a five-year-old, who was kidnapped, starved and brutally tortured for two days. The victim was battling for life Friday even as police hunted for the 25-year-old accused.
As news of the brutality on the girl came out, angry protesters massed at the hospital where she was warded since Wednesday morning after her family rescued her from the house of her abductor in Gandhi Nagar in east Delhi.
When the traumatized girl was Friday evening shifted to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) for better medical attention, demonstrators gathered and shouted slogans against the police and demanded death for the accused.
The alleged rapist, Manoj, a labourer, lived in the same building as the victim's family. Police said the accused had come to stay in the building 10 days ago and was on the run.
The rape - and the street protests - brought back horrific memories of the Dec 16, 2012 gangrape of a 23-year-old trainee physiotherapist, who later died in a Singapore hospital where she had been airlifted for specialised treatment. Delhi, described as India's "rape capital" has seen over 390 rapes cases in three months as compared to 152 cases in the corresponding period last year.
As details came out, a deeply disturbed Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said the "shameful incident" has "once again reiterated the need for society to look deep within and work to root out the evil of rape and other such crimes from our midst."
A doctor said he and his colleagues had never seen such a brutal rape. They said a bottle and pieces of candle were found thrust into the private parts of the girl.
"We found a 200 ml bottle and two or three pieces of candle inserted into her private parts. This is the first time I have seen such barbarism," said R.K. Bansal, medical superintendent, Swami Dayanand Hospital.
"There were injuries on her lips, cheeks, arms and anus area, and bruise marks on her neck, suggesting that attempts were made to strangle her. The blood pressure was way below normal," the doctor said.
The girl also had fever when she was admitted - and was in severe trauma. Doctors at AIIMS said the girl is "in a stable condition".
Anger against Delhi Police mounted after the girl's father, a mason, said they failed to even register his complaint when his daughter went missing.
"We went to police to register a FIR (First Information Report) but they refused. They never tried to find her, and instead drove us away," said the distraught man.
He said when the family finally found the girl Wednesday morning after hearing her screams, policemen offered the family Rs. 2,000 to keep mum.
"The police told us not to highlight the issue in the media and gave us Rs.2,000 as 'kharcha-pani'," said the father, adding the police told them to "thank god that his daughter was alive".
Angry protesters - including neighbours and activists of Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) - soon gathered near Swami Dayanand Hospital in east Delhi.
They raised slogans against Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit and the Delhi Police, demanding the immediate arrest of the accused.
East Delhi MP Sandeep Dikshit, the son of the chief minister, Delhi Health Minister A.K. Walia and Delhi Family Welfare and Education Minister Kiran Walia were heckled when they came to meet the victim's family.
Some protesters entered the hospital premises and had a tiff with police officers.
An assistant commissioner of police was suspended for slapping a 17-year-old girl demonstrator at the hospital.
As television channels flashed the incident, Bani Singh Ahlawat, posted at Khajuri Khas in east Delhi, was suspended for slapping Beenu Rawat, a Class 12 student, a police officer told IANS.
Even the prime minister described it as "unacceptable treatment meted out by police officers to some women protesting against this incident."
He spoke to the Delhi Lieutenant Governor Tejinder Singh to take "strictest possible action" against the erring officers.
The rape victim was abducted Monday and kept hostage in a flat owned by Manoj, said to be in his 30s.
He lived on the ground floor of the building in Gandhi Nagar in which the victim's family also stayed, police said.
Police teams had been sent to Muzaffarpur in Bihar, from where the accused hailed.
People also expressed outrage on social media.
BJP leader Sushma Swaraj said on twitter: "I am terribly shocked to know about the details of the rape of five-year-old child in Delhi. I had thought that after Damini (Delhi gang rape victim) case thinking will change. Unfortunately, the situation has worsened."
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Qaarsut – "naked mountain"/"rock surfaces" – is located on the north side of the Nuussuaq peninsula some 25 km northwest of Uummannaq Island and has a view of the island.
Most of the population are fishermen and hunters. The Greenlandic name means "the naked mountain" and refers to the settlement's location at the foot of the almost 2,000-metre high Qilertinnguit mountain.
The settlement was granted status as trading station around 1870, and Greenland's first coal mine was in operation in Qaarsut from 1778 to 1924.
As a minimum, the current level of service and housing is to be maintained, depending on the development within the offshore industry and the area's role as a potential supplementary supply base. The goal is also to continue to develop fishing and tourism in the settlement, strengthening the trades, e.g., by realising a trading facility and varied production and by enabling cruisers to call on the port. The dressmaking business and community assembly facilities should also be improved. Furthermore, the wish to relocate the power plant and the interest in sustainable energy should be looked into.
Qaarsut's current population numbers 161 persons (February 2013). The settlement population grew steadily from 1980 to 2000, from 198 to 241 persons. Since then, the population has decreased, e.g. due to migration to neighbouring settlements and major towns. In the future, the population is expected to stabilise, and perhaps even increase, as the area is developed as a supplementary supply base for the offshore industry. Consequently, the planning period will primarily call for replacement buildings in connection with development.
Uummannaq's settlements include a total of 509 homes (2010 figures). In 2013, the settlements numbered 359 households and a total of 972 inhabitants. This corresponds to an average household size of 2.7 persons, which is higher than in the town of Uummannaq (2.2). The homes in Qaarsut are all detached single-family houses of poor maintenance standard. In the town plan, the remaining capacity is estimated at 50 homes.
Qaarsut's port and industry area extends along the coast, the primary production buildings being located towards the north and dinghy places towards the south. One of the main trades is Greenland halibut fishing and roe processing. Fish is traded in Uummannaq. Furthermore, seals are caught, and the meat and skin processed. The settlement is also visited by tourists who pop by as part of their stay in Uummannaq or trip to the dwelling by Qilakitsoq.
The new port and industry area north of the airport is unbuilt. The area can be used for a wide range of industrial activities, including offshore-related trade.
The majority of jobs in the settlement are related to fishing, sealing, whaling and the airport, but the municipal private service functions such as the shop, the school chapel, the service house etc. also generate jobs. Since 2010, the settlements of Uummannaq have seen a slight decrease in the employment rate.
In the town plan, the remaining capacity for industry and port facilities is around 82,000 m2.
Qaarsut's airport – Uummannaq Airport in Qaarsuarsuit – opened in 1999. Its primary function is to operate passenger transport to Uummannaq. From the airport, which is located some two kilometres west of the settlement, it takes around ten minutes to fly to Uummannaq by helicopter, and the airport also has flight connections to Ilulissat and Upernavik. The southwestern part of the settlement features a private helistop. Other transport is by sea with small boats, and by dog sledge, snowmobile and car across the sea ice.
The roads in the settlement are limited and are more like paths, and they mainly run from north to south. There is also Lufthavnsvejen, which runs along the coastline towards the north up to the airport and a large industrial area just north of the airport facilities.
The overall technical operation of the settlement is handled by Nukissiorfiit. The water supply is based on surface water, partly from a creek south of the settlement (in the summer), and partly from a water catchment area (in the winter). Heating is provided by independent oil burners, and the power is generated by a diesel-powered power plant located in the middle of the settlement. The settlement is unsewered, and night-soil collection services have no established facilities, so drums are emptied into a watercourse feeding into the sea. Waste and metal scrap etc. are deposited at the dump, which is located northwest of the settlement.
In the port area and the public area by the school area, you find tank installations and telephone pole, respectively. Telecommunications is handled by TELE Greenland A/S.
Services include a shop, a nursing station, service centre, community workshop and a KNI shop. Child care consists of family day care.
The settlement includes a school chapel (Atuarfik Kaali), which numbers around 28 pupils from forms 1 through 9.
The oldest buildings in the settlement are near the port area and include the following preservation-worthy buildings: A workshop from 1927 (B-63), a warehouse from 1920 (B-67), a warehouse from 1932 (B-69), and the settlement manager's house from 1928 (B-71). The cemetery lies east of the settlement. The new industrial area north of the airport also includes a number of registered, protected ancient monuments and ruins.
Few kilometres east of Qaarsut lies the Inuit dwelling of Qilakitsoq, where a remarkable discovery was made in 1972: Eight mummified bodies from the Thule culture. The mummies are on display at the National Museum in Nuuk and provide key insight into the Inuit culture 500 years ago. The dwelling is a popular tourist site.
The cultural and leisure activities are centred on the school chapel and the village hall. There is also a soccer field in the southern part of the settlement.


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Adaro Energy is a play on rapidly increasing demand for coal in Indonesia.
Energy and commodity stocks around the world have lagged behind in the bull market because of oversupply or weak demand.
Some investors, including Rob Young of Icon Funds, know just where to look.
The Icon Natural Resources Fund ICBMX, +0.32% established in 1997, was named a 2018 Lipper Fund Award Winner for the three-year period ended Nov. 30, 2017. The mutual fund invests globally in natural resources and commodity producers and suppliers.
In an interview, Young explained the fund's strategy of selecting companies that appear undervalued based on a proprietary "earnings discount growth model," as well as other factors, including revisions of earnings estimates and improvements in credit quality.
Icon Advisors is based in Greenwood Village, Colo., and has about $2 billion in assets under management. The Icon Natural Resources Fund has $89 million in assets.
Young emphasized timing of stock purchases. "We find companies that not only have value, but it is their time to have market leadership," he said.
That is enabling Lee & Man to raise prices, which Young expects to lift the company's shares.
Another industry where Young sees significant opportunities is Indonesian coal. He said about 40 million people there (12% of the country's population) lack electricity service, and more than half of the new power plants planned by the government will be fueled by coal. Adaro Energy ADRO, -0.77% and Indo Tambangraya Megah ITMG, -1.62% are in the fund's top 10 holdings.
As of Jan. 31, 53% of the fund was invested in shares of basic materials companies, with 8% in consumer cyclical companies and 39% in energy exploration, production and service companies, according to Morningstar. The geographic breakdown was 44% North America, 5% South America, 26% Europe and 25% Greater Asia. About 67% of the fund was invested in developed markets, with the rest in emerging markets.
The fund has fared as well, or better, than the two MSCI indexes over longer periods. But when discussing the S&P 1500, Young acknowledged that a natural resources fund will be "challenged in a variety of ways" when compared with a broad index during a period of weak commodity prices.
The fund's class A shares have a 5.75% sales charge and the class A and Class C shares have deferred sales charges of 1% on certain redemptions made within one year. Sales charges can be reduced for larger investment amounts or depending on the relationship between your broker or investment adviser with Icon Funds.
The possible sales charges and redemption charges, along with the differing expenses and waivers, make for a complicated decision and underline the importance of having all the information and discussing them in detail with your broker or adviser.


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package dk.statsbiblioteket.medieplatform.newspaper.statistics.collector;

import dk.statsbiblioteket.medieplatform.autonomous.iterator.common.AttributeParsingEvent;
import dk.statsbiblioteket.medieplatform.autonomous.iterator.common.NodeEndParsingEvent;
import dk.statsbiblioteket.medieplatform.autonomous.iterator.statistics.SinkCollector;
import dk.statsbiblioteket.medieplatform.autonomous.iterator.statistics.StatisticCollector;
import dk.statsbiblioteket.medieplatform.autonomous.iterator.statistics.model.Statistics;
import dk.statsbiblioteket.medieplatform.autonomous.iterator.statistics.model.StatisticsKey;
import dk.statsbiblioteket.medieplatform.newspaper.statistics.FilmStatistics;

/**
 * Handles the collection of film level statistics.
 */
public class FilmCollector extends StatisticCollector {
    public static final String DATE_STAT_KEY = "Date";
    public static final String SECTIONS_STAT = "Sections";
    public static final String EDITION_DATE_STAT = "Edition-dates";
    public static final String AVISID_STAT = "AvisIDs";
    public static final String AVISID_STAT_KEY = "AvisID";
    private final FilmStatistics statistics = new FilmStatistics();
    private final Statistics editionDates = new Statistics();
    private final Statistics avisIDs = new Statistics();

    @Override
    protected StatisticCollector createChild(String eventName) {
        if (eventName.equals("UNMATCHED")) {
            return new UnmatchedCollector();
        } else if (eventName.equals("FILM-ISO-target")) {
            return new SinkCollector();
        } else {
            editionDates.addCount(new StatisticsKey(DATE_STAT_KEY,
                    getSimpleName(eventName).substring(0, eventName.lastIndexOf('-'))),
                    1L);
            return new EditionCollector();
        }
    }

    /**
     * @return A specialized FilmStatistics.
     *
     * @see dk.statsbiblioteket.medieplatform.newspaper.statistics.FilmStatistics
     */
    @Override
    public Statistics getStatistics() {
        return statistics;
    }

    @Override
    public void handleAttribute(AttributeParsingEvent event) {
        if(event.getName().endsWith("film.xml")) {
            addAvisIDStat(event);
        }
    }

    /**
     * Adds a custom edition date list to the statistics.
     */
    @Override
    public StatisticCollector handleNodeEnd(NodeEndParsingEvent event) {
        getStatistics().addSubstatistic(new StatisticsKey(EDITION_DATE_STAT), editionDates);
        getStatistics().addSubstatistic(new StatisticsKey(AVISID_STAT), avisIDs);
        return super.handleNodeEnd(event);
    }

    @Override
    protected String[] mandatoryCounts() {
        return new String[] {"Edition"};
    }

    private void addAvisIDStat(AttributeParsingEvent event) {
        String filmAttributeName = event.getName().substring(event.getName().lastIndexOf("/")+1);
        String avisID = filmAttributeName.split("-")[0];
        avisIDs.addCount(new StatisticsKey(AVISID_STAT_KEY, avisID), 1L);
    }
}


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MONCLAR, BENJAMIN
Belgacom Spirou Charleroi 5 Guard
Height: 1.93 Born: 3 May, 1988 Nationality: France
Totals 1 0 3:13 0 0/0 0/0 0/0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 -1
Averages 1 0 3:13 0 0% 0% 0% 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 -1
3 at Bilbao Basket 3:13 1 -1
1 Totals 3:13 0 0/0 0/0 0/0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 -1
Average 3:13 0 0% 0% 0% 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 -1
Index rating 0 Proximus Spirou Charleroi vs. Dinamo Banco di Sardegna Sassari 12/17/2013
Points 0 Proximus Spirou Charleroi vs. Dinamo Banco di Sardegna Sassari 12/17/2013
Offensive rebounds 0 Proximus Spirou Charleroi vs. Dinamo Banco di Sardegna Sassari 12/17/2013
Defensive rebounds 0 Proximus Spirou Charleroi vs. Dinamo Banco di Sardegna Sassari 12/17/2013
Total rebounds 0 Proximus Spirou Charleroi vs. Dinamo Banco di Sardegna Sassari 12/17/2013
Assists 0 Proximus Spirou Charleroi vs. Dinamo Banco di Sardegna Sassari 12/17/2013
Steals 0 Proximus Spirou Charleroi vs. Dinamo Banco di Sardegna Sassari 12/17/2013
Blocks 0 Proximus Spirou Charleroi vs. Dinamo Banco di Sardegna Sassari 12/17/2013
Minutes 3 RETAbet Bilbao Basket vs. Proximus Spirou Charleroi 10/29/2013
Grew up with JDA Dijon (France) juniors.
Made his debut with JDA Dijon during the 2008-09 season.
Signed for the 2011-12 season by Olympique Antibes.
Moved to Belgium for the 2013-14 season, signed by Spirou Charleroi.
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