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INTAD students and grads hone skills for international workplace
As part of her doctoral research, Ariel Rivers studied insect and spider communities in low-input cropping systems in Mexico. She said the International Agriculture and Development dual-degree program provided her with networking opportunities and challenged her to grow as a professional.
Image: Courtesy of Ariel Rivers
Sara LaJeunesse
Agriculture is a human endeavor that is practiced in every corner of the world. That's why consideration of human behavior in an international context is necessary to gain a complete picture of agricultural problems.
According to Deanna Behring, director of international programs in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences, the International Agriculture and Development (INTAD) dual-title degree program does just that.
"The program provides students with international perspectives and expertise to strengthen their primary graduate degree in agricultural sciences," she said. "It positions them to become better competitors for career opportunities working with international organizations, universities and research institutes, and international corporations."
Anna Testen, a 2012 graduate with a master's degree in plant pathology and in international agriculture and development, is already becoming a successful scientist with a global research agenda, thanks, in part, to the INTAD program. Now in the final phase of her doctoral program at Ohio State University, Testen investigates methods of improving soil and plant health for tomato farmers in the Morogoro Region of Tanzania.
"Tomato is a key vegetable cash crop in Tanzania and provides a source of income and nutrients to smallholder farmers and their communities," said Testen. "Diseases, a lack of improved varieties, and poor soil health and soil management practices limit yields of this crop in Tanzania to far less than the world average. We work directly with farmers to address these constraints, which can help improve the sustainability and profitability of tomato production."
Testen, who recently was awarded a Presidential Fellowship by the Ohio State University Graduate School, said the INTAD program at Penn State has played an important role in preparing her for a career in international agricultural development by providing her with a framework and skillset for working in international agricultural development.
"INTAD allowed me to 'get my feet wet' in social science techniques that are essential in agricultural development," she said. "The social science experiences provided by INTAD complement the laboratory and field research techniques I've acquired in my graduate programs in plant pathology."
Testen added that the INTAD courses she took, especially International Agricultural Development in Sub-Saharan Africa and Program Design and Delivery, gave her specific knowledge and skills that she has applied in her doctoral program. In addition, INTAD provided her with funding to attend the Borlaug Dialogue during the World Food Prize in Des Moines, Iowa.
"During this meeting, I learned about research and development programs that directly influence my research today," she said. "My experiences with the INTAD program have been key to my success in my master's work in Bolivia and Ecuador and in my doctoral work in Tanzania."
Paige Castellanos, who recently received a doctorate in rural sociology and in International Agriculture and Development, credits her professional success to her participation in the INTAD program.
IMAGE: Courtesy of Paige Castellanos
Paige Castellanos, who recently received a doctorate in rural sociology and INTAD, also credits her professional success to her participation in the INTAD program. "The program allowed me to study different agricultural and development strategies within the global context," she said. "This is helping me to be a better contributor to my research team."
Castellanos, who received the 2015 Penn State Alumni Association Dissertation Award and the 2014 W. LaMarr Kopp International Achievement Award, will be working as a postdoctoral scholar at Penn State on a USAID-funded project titled "Women in Agriculture Network: Honduras." The project examines how women and other marginalized groups in Honduras can improve their living conditions by participating in the horticultural value chain — the process of adding value to horticultural products, such as fruits or vegetables.
"Accessing the horticulture value chain can help women to improve their income, living conditions and household nutrition," said Castellanos. "I also will contribute to the development of a gender certificate program housed at Penn State that provides training in the specific area of gender in agriculture and development. While I was an INTAD student, I developed course curriculum and gained valuable teaching experience. This will help me create a strong certificate program in the area of gender and agriculture."
Entomology doctoral students Loren Rivera-Vega and Ariel Rivers also feel that the INTAD program has complemented their research.
"Through the INTAD program, I have seen not only what happens with our research in the lab and field, but also what impacts it might have on farmers themselves," said Rivera-Vega, a fourth-year student. "Also, I have made connections inside and outside of Penn State that have broadened my capabilities as a scientist."
Rivera-Vega studies plant-insect interactions, focusing specifically on how crop plants can recognize pest insects and activate defenses against them, as well as how some insects have developed strategies to avoid this recognition.
Ariel Rivers, who recently defended her dissertation in entomology, also investigates insects, focusing on the effects of agricultural management — such as the timing and types of practices farmers use in their fields — on insect and spider communities. For her graduate research, Rivers worked in two systems: an organic agriculture system in Pennsylvania and a low-input system in central Mexico.
"Regardless of where farmers are located, knowing which insects and spiders are on their farms is important for understanding how to conduct agriculture without relying heavily on chemical insecticides," she said.
Rivers, a Borlaug Fellow, said the INTAD program has provided her with rewarding camaraderie and networking opportunities but, most importantly, has challenged her to grow as a professional.
"To be a part of the INTAD program, one has to be very dedicated, focused, patient and creative," said Rivers, who was named a Science Policy Fellow by the Entomological Society of America in 2014. "Having the opportunity to practice, and improve upon, these qualities has been invaluable during my Ph.D. program."
Rivers soon will start a job at CIMMYT, the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center, located in Mexico.
Sarah Eissler is just beginning her doctoral program in rural sociology and INTAD after completing a master's degree in the same two programs in December. Her dissertation research focuses on how climate change is affecting rural communities, especially those members of communities who rely on smallholder farming activities, such as coffee and cocoa farmers. Specifically, she aims to understand how men and women in Indonesia differ in their ability to adapt to climate change.
"Through the INTAD coursework and community, I work with graduate students from different fields," said Eissler, who recently received an award from the U.S. Borlaug Fellows in Global Food Security program, which supports American graduate students' research in the context of food security and agricultural research. "We each have specific backgrounds but overlap in our interest to tackle challenges in international agriculture and development.
"I find these experiences have been helpful in building teamwork skills, especially with interdisciplinary teams. In addition, through the program I have been able to gain significant amounts of international experience and learn from leaders in the field."
Gary Felton, professor and head of the Department of Entomology, agrees that the INTAD program gives students an opportunity to hone their skills and prepare for a career in a global workplace. "One of the greatest challenges in graduate education today is the apparent glut of Ph.D. students compared to the number of academic jobs that are becoming available," he said.
"I see the INTAD program as an excellent way to add value to the doctoral degree in entomology. We are seeing INTAD as not only a very effective tool in recruiting graduate students but also as an excellent program for providing students the practical education to pursue 'nontraditional' careers, both domestically and internationally."
Entomology doctoral candidate Loren Rivera-Vega says the INTAD program has helped her to see not only what happens in the lab and field, but also the potential positive impacts research could have on farmers.
IMAGE: Courtesy of Loren Rivera-Vega
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@property BOOL stretchy;
@property NSLayoutPriority oldHorzHuggingPri;
@property NSLayoutPriority oldVertHuggingPri;
@property (strong) NSLayoutConstraint *baseline;
@property (strong) NSLayoutConstraint *leading;
@property (strong) NSLayoutConstraint *top;
@property (strong) NSLayoutConstraint *trailing;
@property (strong) NSLayoutConstraint *bottom;
- (id)initWithLabel:(NSTextField *)l;
- (void)onDestroy;
- (NSView *)view;
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@interface formView : NSView {
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	NSMutableArray *children;
	int padded;

	NSLayoutConstraint *first;
	NSMutableArray *inBetweens;
	NSLayoutConstraint *last;
	NSMutableArray *widths;
	NSMutableArray *leadings;
	NSMutableArray *middles;
	NSMutableArray *trailings;
}
- (id)initWithF:(uiForm *)ff;
- (void)onDestroy;
- (void)removeOurConstraints;
- (void)syncEnableStates:(int)enabled;
- (CGFloat)paddingAmount;
- (void)establishOurConstraints;
- (void)append:(NSString *)label c:(uiControl *)c stretchy:(int)stretchy;
- (void)delete:(int)n;
- (int)isPadded;
- (void)setPadded:(int)p;
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};

@implementation formChild

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{
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	if (self) {
		self.label = l;
		[self.label setTranslatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints:NO];
		[self.label setContentHuggingPriority:NSLayoutPriorityRequired forOrientation:NSLayoutConstraintOrientationHorizontal];
		[self.label setContentHuggingPriority:NSLayoutPriorityRequired forOrientation:NSLayoutConstraintOrientationVertical];
		[self.label setContentCompressionResistancePriority:NSLayoutPriorityRequired forOrientation:NSLayoutConstraintOrientationHorizontal];
		[self.label setContentCompressionResistancePriority:NSLayoutPriorityRequired forOrientation:NSLayoutConstraintOrientationVertical];
		[self addSubview:self.label];

		self.leading = mkConstraint(self.label, NSLayoutAttributeLeading,
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		[self addConstraint:self.leading];
		self.top = mkConstraint(self.label, NSLayoutAttributeTop,
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			1, 0,
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		[self addConstraint:self.top];
		self.trailing = mkConstraint(self.label, NSLayoutAttributeTrailing,
			NSLayoutRelationEqual,
			self, NSLayoutAttributeTrailing,
			1, 0,
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		[self addConstraint:self.trailing];
		self.bottom = mkConstraint(self.label, NSLayoutAttributeBottom,
			NSLayoutRelationEqual,
			self, NSLayoutAttributeBottom,
			1, 0,
			@"uiForm label bottom");
		[self addConstraint:self.bottom];
	}
	return self;
}

- (void)onDestroy
{
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	self.trailing = nil;
	[self removeConstraint:self.top];
	self.top = nil;
	[self removeConstraint:self.bottom];
	self.bottom = nil;

	[self.label removeFromSuperview];
	self.label = nil;
}

- (NSView *)view
{
	return (NSView *) uiControlHandle(self.c);
}

@end

@implementation formView

- (id)initWithF:(uiForm *)ff
{
	self = [super initWithFrame:NSZeroRect];
	if (self != nil) {
		self->f = ff;
		self->padded = 0;
		self->children = [NSMutableArray new];

		self->inBetweens = [NSMutableArray new];
		self->widths = [NSMutableArray new];
		self->leadings = [NSMutableArray new];
		self->middles = [NSMutableArray new];
		self->trailings = [NSMutableArray new];
	}
	return self;
}

- (void)onDestroy
{
	formChild *fc;

	[self removeOurConstraints];
	[self->inBetweens release];
	[self->widths release];
	[self->leadings release];
	[self->middles release];
	[self->trailings release];

	for (fc in self->children) {
		[self removeConstraint:fc.baseline];
		fc.baseline = nil;
		uiControlSetParent(fc.c, NULL);
		uiDarwinControlSetSuperview(uiDarwinControl(fc.c), nil);
		uiControlDestroy(fc.c);
		[fc onDestroy];
		[fc removeFromSuperview];
	}
	[self->children release];
}

- (void)removeOurConstraints
{
	if (self->first != nil) {
		[self removeConstraint:self->first];
		[self->first release];
		self->first = nil;
	}
	if ([self->inBetweens count] != 0) {
		[self removeConstraints:self->inBetweens];
		[self->inBetweens removeAllObjects];
	}
	if (self->last != nil) {
		[self removeConstraint:self->last];
		[self->last release];
		self->last = nil;
	}
	if ([self->widths count] != 0) {
		[self removeConstraints:self->widths];
		[self->widths removeAllObjects];
	}
	if ([self->leadings count] != 0) {
		[self removeConstraints:self->leadings];
		[self->leadings removeAllObjects];
	}
	if ([self->middles count] != 0) {
		[self removeConstraints:self->middles];
		[self->middles removeAllObjects];
	}
	if ([self->trailings count] != 0) {
		[self removeConstraints:self->trailings];
		[self->trailings removeAllObjects];
	}
}

- (void)syncEnableStates:(int)enabled
{
	formChild *fc;

	for (fc in self->children)
		uiDarwinControlSyncEnableState(uiDarwinControl(fc.c), enabled);
}

- (CGFloat)paddingAmount
{
	if (!self->padded)
		return 0.0;
	return uiDarwinPaddingAmount(NULL);
}

- (void)establishOurConstraints
{
	formChild *fc;
	CGFloat padding;
	NSView *prev, *prevlabel;
	NSLayoutConstraint *c;

	[self removeOurConstraints];
	if ([self->children count] == 0)
		return;
	padding = [self paddingAmount];

	// first arrange the children vertically and make them the same width
	prev = nil;
	for (fc in self->children) {
		[fc setHidden:!uiControlVisible(fc.c)];
		if (!uiControlVisible(fc.c))
			continue;
		if (prev == nil) {			// first view
			self->first = mkConstraint(self, NSLayoutAttributeTop,
				NSLayoutRelationEqual,
				[fc view], NSLayoutAttributeTop,
				1, 0,
				@"uiForm first vertical constraint");
			[self addConstraint:self->first];
			[self->first retain];
			prev = [fc view];
			prevlabel = fc;
			continue;
		}
		// not the first; link it
		c = mkConstraint(prev, NSLayoutAttributeBottom,
			NSLayoutRelationEqual,
			[fc view], NSLayoutAttributeTop,
			1, -padding,
			@"uiForm in-between vertical constraint");
		[self addConstraint:c];
		[self->inBetweens addObject:c];
		// and make the same width
		c = mkConstraint(prev, NSLayoutAttributeWidth,
			NSLayoutRelationEqual,
			[fc view], NSLayoutAttributeWidth,
			1, 0,
			@"uiForm control width constraint");
		[self addConstraint:c];
		[self->widths addObject:c];
		c = mkConstraint(prevlabel, NSLayoutAttributeWidth,
			NSLayoutRelationEqual,
			fc, NSLayoutAttributeWidth,
			1, 0,
			@"uiForm label lwidth constraint");
		[self addConstraint:c];
		[self->widths addObject:c];
		prev = [fc view];
		prevlabel = fc;
	}
	if (prev == nil)		// all hidden; act as if nothing there
		return;
	self->last = mkConstraint(prev, NSLayoutAttributeBottom,
		NSLayoutRelationEqual,
		self, NSLayoutAttributeBottom,
		1, 0,
		@"uiForm last vertical constraint");
	[self addConstraint:self->last];
	[self->last retain];

	// now arrange the controls horizontally
	for (fc in self->children) {
		if (!uiControlVisible(fc.c))
			continue;
		c = mkConstraint(self, NSLayoutAttributeLeading,
			NSLayoutRelationEqual,
			fc, NSLayoutAttributeLeading,
			1, 0,
			@"uiForm leading constraint");
		[self addConstraint:c];
		[self->leadings addObject:c];
		// coerce the control to be as wide as possible
		// see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/37710892/in-auto-layout-i-set-up-labels-that-shouldnt-grow-horizontally-and-controls-th
		c = mkConstraint(self, NSLayoutAttributeLeading,
			NSLayoutRelationEqual,
			[fc view], NSLayoutAttributeLeading,
			1, 0,
			@"uiForm leading constraint");
		[c setPriority:NSLayoutPriorityDefaultHigh];
		[self addConstraint:c];
		[self->leadings addObject:c];
		c = mkConstraint(fc, NSLayoutAttributeTrailing,
			NSLayoutRelationEqual,
			[fc view], NSLayoutAttributeLeading,
			1, -padding,
			@"uiForm middle constraint");
		[self addConstraint:c];
		[self->middles addObject:c];
		c = mkConstraint([fc view], NSLayoutAttributeTrailing,
			NSLayoutRelationEqual,
			self, NSLayoutAttributeTrailing,
			1, 0,
			@"uiForm trailing constraint");
		[self addConstraint:c];
		[self->trailings addObject:c];
		// TODO
		c = mkConstraint(fc, NSLayoutAttributeBottom,
			NSLayoutRelationLessThanOrEqual,
			self, NSLayoutAttributeBottom,
			1, 0,
			@"TODO");
		[self addConstraint:c];
		[self->trailings addObject:c];
	}

	// and make all stretchy controls have the same height
	prev = nil;
	for (fc in self->children) {
		if (!uiControlVisible(fc.c))
			continue;
		if (!fc.stretchy)
			continue;
		if (prev == nil) {
			prev = [fc view];
			continue;
		}
		c = mkConstraint([fc view], NSLayoutAttributeHeight,
			NSLayoutRelationEqual,
			prev, NSLayoutAttributeHeight,
			1, 0,
			@"uiForm stretchy constraint");
		[self addConstraint:c];
		// TODO make a dedicated array for this
		[self->leadings addObject:c];
	}

	// we don't arrange the labels vertically; that's done when we add the control since those constraints don't need to change (they just need to be at their baseline)
}

- (void)append:(NSString *)label c:(uiControl *)c stretchy:(int)stretchy
{
	formChild *fc;
	NSLayoutPriority priority;
	NSLayoutAttribute attribute;
	int oldnStretchy;

	fc = [[formChild alloc] initWithLabel:newLabel(label)];
	fc.c = c;
	fc.stretchy = stretchy;
	fc.oldHorzHuggingPri = uiDarwinControlHuggingPriority(uiDarwinControl(fc.c), NSLayoutConstraintOrientationHorizontal);
	fc.oldVertHuggingPri = uiDarwinControlHuggingPriority(uiDarwinControl(fc.c), NSLayoutConstraintOrientationVertical);
	[fc setTranslatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints:NO];
	[self addSubview:fc];

	uiControlSetParent(fc.c, uiControl(self->f));
	uiDarwinControlSetSuperview(uiDarwinControl(fc.c), self);
	uiDarwinControlSyncEnableState(uiDarwinControl(fc.c), uiControlEnabledToUser(uiControl(self->f)));

	// if a control is stretchy, it should not hug vertically
	// otherwise, it should *forcibly* hug
	if (fc.stretchy)
		priority = NSLayoutPriorityDefaultLow;
	else
		// LONGTERM will default high work?
		priority = NSLayoutPriorityRequired;
	uiDarwinControlSetHuggingPriority(uiDarwinControl(fc.c), priority, NSLayoutConstraintOrientationVertical);
	// make sure controls don't hug their horizontal direction so they fill the width of the view
	uiDarwinControlSetHuggingPriority(uiDarwinControl(fc.c), NSLayoutPriorityDefaultLow, NSLayoutConstraintOrientationHorizontal);

	// and constrain the baselines to position the label vertically
	// if the view is a scroll view, align tops, not baselines
	// this is what Interface Builder does
	attribute = NSLayoutAttributeBaseline;
	if ([[fc view] isKindOfClass:[NSScrollView class]])
		attribute = NSLayoutAttributeTop;
	fc.baseline = mkConstraint(fc.label, attribute,
		NSLayoutRelationEqual,
		[fc view], attribute,
		1, 0,
		@"uiForm baseline constraint");
	[self addConstraint:fc.baseline];

	oldnStretchy = [self nStretchy];
	[self->children addObject:fc];

	[self establishOurConstraints];
	if (fc.stretchy)
		if (oldnStretchy == 0)
			uiDarwinNotifyEdgeHuggingChanged(uiDarwinControl(self->f));

	[fc release];		// we don't need the initial reference now
}

- (void)delete:(int)n
{
	formChild *fc;
	int stretchy;

	fc = (formChild *) [self->children objectAtIndex:n];
	stretchy = fc.stretchy;

	uiControlSetParent(fc.c, NULL);
	uiDarwinControlSetSuperview(uiDarwinControl(fc.c), nil);

	uiDarwinControlSetHuggingPriority(uiDarwinControl(fc.c), fc.oldHorzHuggingPri, NSLayoutConstraintOrientationHorizontal);
	uiDarwinControlSetHuggingPriority(uiDarwinControl(fc.c), fc.oldVertHuggingPri, NSLayoutConstraintOrientationVertical);

	[fc onDestroy];
	[self->children removeObjectAtIndex:n];

	[self establishOurConstraints];
	if (stretchy)
		if ([self nStretchy] == 0)
			uiDarwinNotifyEdgeHuggingChanged(uiDarwinControl(self->f));
}

- (int)isPadded
{
	return self->padded;
}

- (void)setPadded:(int)p
{
	CGFloat padding;
	NSLayoutConstraint *c;

	self->padded = p;
	padding = [self paddingAmount];
	for (c in self->inBetweens)
		[c setConstant:-padding];
	for (c in self->middles)
		[c setConstant:-padding];
}

- (BOOL)hugsTrailing
{
	return YES;			// always hug trailing
}

- (BOOL)hugsBottom
{
	// only hug if we have stretchy
	return [self nStretchy] != 0;
}

- (int)nStretchy
{
	formChild *fc;
	int n;

	n = 0;
	for (fc in self->children) {
		if (!uiControlVisible(fc.c))
			continue;
		if (fc.stretchy)
			n++;
	}
	return n;
}

@end

static void uiFormDestroy(uiControl *c)
{
	uiForm *f = uiForm(c);

	[f->view onDestroy];
	[f->view release];
	uiFreeControl(uiControl(f));
}

uiDarwinControlDefaultHandle(uiForm, view)
uiDarwinControlDefaultParent(uiForm, view)
uiDarwinControlDefaultSetParent(uiForm, view)
uiDarwinControlDefaultToplevel(uiForm, view)
uiDarwinControlDefaultVisible(uiForm, view)
uiDarwinControlDefaultShow(uiForm, view)
uiDarwinControlDefaultHide(uiForm, view)
uiDarwinControlDefaultEnabled(uiForm, view)
uiDarwinControlDefaultEnable(uiForm, view)
uiDarwinControlDefaultDisable(uiForm, view)

static void uiFormSyncEnableState(uiDarwinControl *c, int enabled)
{
	uiForm *f = uiForm(c);

	if (uiDarwinShouldStopSyncEnableState(uiDarwinControl(f), enabled))
		return;
	[f->view syncEnableStates:enabled];
}

uiDarwinControlDefaultSetSuperview(uiForm, view)

static BOOL uiFormHugsTrailingEdge(uiDarwinControl *c)
{
	uiForm *f = uiForm(c);

	return [f->view hugsTrailing];
}

static BOOL uiFormHugsBottom(uiDarwinControl *c)
{
	uiForm *f = uiForm(c);

	return [f->view hugsBottom];
}

static void uiFormChildEdgeHuggingChanged(uiDarwinControl *c)
{
	uiForm *f = uiForm(c);

	[f->view establishOurConstraints];
}

uiDarwinControlDefaultHuggingPriority(uiForm, view)
uiDarwinControlDefaultSetHuggingPriority(uiForm, view)

static void uiFormChildVisibilityChanged(uiDarwinControl *c)
{
	uiForm *f = uiForm(c);

	[f->view establishOurConstraints];
}

void uiFormAppend(uiForm *f, const char *label, uiControl *c, int stretchy)
{
	// LONGTERM on other platforms
	// or at leat allow this and implicitly turn it into a spacer
	if (c == NULL)
		userbug("You cannot add NULL to a uiForm.");
	[f->view append:toNSString(label) c:c stretchy:stretchy];
}

void uiFormDelete(uiForm *f, int n)
{
	[f->view delete:n];
}

int uiFormPadded(uiForm *f)
{
	return [f->view isPadded];
}

void uiFormSetPadded(uiForm *f, int padded)
{
	[f->view setPadded:padded];
}

uiForm *uiNewForm(void)
{
	uiForm *f;

	uiDarwinNewControl(uiForm, f);

	f->view = [[formView alloc] initWithF:f];

	return f;
}

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Local LV Products Stott, Nelson, Potential First Round Picks In MLB Draft
Kevin Fiddler
One cut his teeth in 2016 playing shortstop for Desert Oasis High School's baseball team, the recent 2019 state champions. The other cut his winning a state championship playing shortstop for the 2016 Basic High School baseball team. For locals Bryson Stott and Ryne Nelson, tonight's MLB Draft could be a special night for both if their names are called in the first round.
The pair, who just finished their third years playing collegiately, competed in town together as high schoolers and, now, could be linked permanently in the deep annals of Southern Nevada Baseball lore, although not as shortstops (Nelson has moved to the mound). Stott, who has been dominating with UNLV, is projected as a top-15 pick while Nelson's (Oregon) projections are hovering around late first round and early second round.
Over the years, Southern Nevada has produced plenty of talent. The list is a who's who of old school like Hall of Famer and former Cy Young award-winner Greg Maddux, former ALCS MVP Marty Barrett, Mike Morgan and Tyler Houston, and new school, like National League MVPs Bryce Harper and Kris Bryant, long ball specialist Joey Gallo, Cubs reliever Brandon Kintzler, and plenty more.
For Stott, the buzz has only increased after another dominating season with UNLV this past spring. At 6-foot-3 and 200 pounds, Stott hit .356 with 10 home runs, 36 RBI and a 1.085 OPS. He also had 16 more walks (55) than strikeouts (39). The former D.O. Diamondback was named All-America Third Team last year as a sophomore and was the Tony Gwynn Co-Player of the Year this year in the Mountain West Conference.
"He is often compared to Brandon Crawford (more for his build and bat; he's not that level of defender), and fits the various tendencies of new GM Farhan Zaidi and new scouting director Michael Holmes," FanGraphs says about Stott.
Stott, who hits from the left side, is currently Baseball America's No. 10 ranked draft prospect and has plenty of scouts drooling at the chance to snag him if he falls. Many believe it would be a shocker if he's available once the draft hits its midway point. With the current trend of teams drafting mature hitters over high school projects, Stotts seems a perfect fit for a team like the Twins, Giants, Blue Jays, Phillies, Mets or — if Lady Luck would have it — the Angels.
"He's going to get stronger as he matures and develops," UNLV coach Stan Stolte told the Las Vegas Review-Journal. "He'll steal some bases and probably at the professional level do everything above average."
Nelson is a different beast altogether. A former shortstop with Basic High School, Oregon recruited Nelson as an athlete. While he pitched at the high school level, he was arguably Basic's best all-around player and was the centerpiece of a dominating era for Henderson's oldest high school.
Once he got to Oregon, that all changed. Nelson struggled as a two-way player before focusing on his mound game on the bump. At 6-foot-3 with an effortless delivery, Nelson struggled at the plate his freshman year but showed his potential as a dominating mound presence thanks to 37 strikeouts in 23 1/3 innings.
Nelson finally transitioned into becoming a pitcher-only, with the results continuing to showcase his ability to miss barrels and get outs at a high level. One of his biggest moment came against in-state rival Oregon State. The righty came in to face this year's projected first overall pick, Adley Rutschman, striking out the highly-coveted standout with a 100 mph fastball to strand the bases loaded and get the save.
The Preseason All-American finished the 2019 season 3-4 with a 3.86 ERA, striking out 104 in 65 innings pitched. He allowed 41 walks with a 1.55 WHIP. His velocity is what has scouts coveting the Vegas product as he has — according to multiple reports — hit triple digits on the radar more than once. His makeup also is a selling point and his injury history is in his past with nothing truly problematic for teams looking for a strong arm and plenty of upside.
"He is a very unselfish player and great team guy," Oregon head coach George Horton said. "I would have liked to see his junior year unscathed, health wise, and then with a complete pitching staff, he probably could have pitched where he belonged."
While Nelson is projected to be sit on the fringe of the first round, the compensatory picks and the second round, chances are, his name will be called tonight. As teams load up on mature bats, the bottom half of tonight's draft projects to have a plethora of potential arms available, Nelson being one of them.
if Nelson does go in the first round tonight, it'll be to one of the better franchises in the game today, which would be a great spot for the long-bodied fireballer to open his career. While he isn't Major League ready yet, his growth should happen fast thanks to his maturity and velocity.
However the draft plays out, southern Nevada will have plenty of representation in the later rounds. The talent pool includes College of Southern Nevada's nationally ranked squad and Stolte's MWC runner-up ball club. It also includes more than a handful of former local high school products who played collegiately elsewhere, like Arizona's Nick Quintana, and some current HS grads like Desert Oasis' pitchers Aaron Roberts and D.J. Jefferson.
But, with all the depth of talent Vegas and beyond (Las Vegas has never had two local high school products taken in the same draft), the first two local names that will be called will more certainly be Stott and Nelson. If the two are taken in the first round, it'll mark the first time two Las Vegas products were taken in the first round (non-compensatory) of the MLB Draft in the same year since 2011, when former Spring Valley High School and Oregon Duck lefty Tyler Anderson and Sierra Vista shortstop Jake Hager both went together.
The MLB Draft begins Monday, June 3, and will span 40 rounds over three days.
2001-Present Day First Round MLB Draft Picks from Las Vegas
Phil Bickford (CSN, 18th overall, San Francisco Giants, 2015); Erick Fedde (Las Vegas HS/UNLV, 18th overall, Washington Nationals, 2014); Kris Bryant (Bonanza HS/University of San Diego, 2nd overall, Chicago Cubs, 2013); Tyler Anderson, Spring Valley HS/Oregon, 20th overall, Colorado Rockies, 2011); Jake Hager (Sierra Vista HS, 32nd overall, Tampa Bay Rays, 2011); Bryce Harper (Las Vegas HS/CSN, 1st overall, Washington Nationals, 2010).
1990-2000 First Round MLB Draft Picks from Las Vegas
David Krynzel (Green Valley HS, 11th overall, Milwaukee Brewers, 2000); Chad Hermansen (Green Valley HS, 10th overall, Pittsburgh Pirates; 1995).
Pre-1990 First Round MLB Draft Picks from Las Vegas
Donovan Osborne (UNLV, 13th overall, St. Louis Cardinals, 1990); Tyler Houston (Valley HS, 2nd overall, Atlanta Braves, 1989); Danny Opperman (Valley HS, 8th overall, Los Angeles Dodgers, 1987); Matt Williams (UNLV, 3rd overall, San Francisco Giants, 1986); Marty Barrett (Rancho HS/Arizona State, 1st overall, Boston Red Sox, 1979); Mike Morgan (Valley HS, 4th overall, Oakland A's, 1978).
How to watch the 2019 MLB Draft
Date: Monday, June 3; Time: 7 p.m. ET; TV: MLB Network; Streaming: MLB.com; Picks: 1-78 (Rounds: 1st, Supplemental 1st, Competitive Balance A, 2nd, Competitive Balance B, Supplemental 2nd)
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Discharge to release "Protest and Survive – The Anthology" on February 21st 2020
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Celebrating 40 years since the release of their debut single "Realities of War" in 1980, British hardcore punk band Discharge are surviving pioneers of the subgenre they invented; D-beat. Having had a worldwide influence on both extreme metal and punk with their uncompromising, raw sound over the last 40 years, Discharge's political message is now relevant more than ever. Still performing globally in clubs and at festivals, the quintet are heralded as one of the godfathers of the political and anarcho punk scenes.
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Peter And The Test Tube Babies to release new studio album "Fuctifano" on March 6th 2020
UK punk legends Peter And The Test Tube Babies are back with their latest and greatest set of recordings "Fuctifano"!
Today the band unveiled their first single "Facebook Loser" from the album, which will be released on March 6th, 2020, via Arising Empire!
Watch the music video for the brand new single "Facebook Loser" below.
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M.O.D. Classic releases new single "The Thrash King"
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M.O.D. Classic have released a new single after more than 30 years titled "The Thrash King". The song is available for free here. Listen to the new track below.
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Cro-Mags release new music video for "No One's Victim"
New York's hardcore punk legends Cro-Mags have released an official live video for the track "No One's Victim", which is taken from the 7" single they released this summer called, "Don't Give In". Watch the new video below.
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Stepson sign to SharpTone Records and release music video for new single "The Entire History of You"
SharpTone Records is proud to announce the signing of rising post-hardcore / punk outfit Stepson! The band have also released a music video for brand new single "The Entire History of You" ahead of the tour supporting Ocean Sleeper.
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MF Ruckus release official video for new single "Making a Killing/You Only Live Forever"
The Mystic Fraternity of MF Ruckus finally deliver the long awaited sequel to "The Front Lines of Good Times Chapter 1" and it is a 2-4-1 special on their extra potent Rock/Metal mixture.
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Grammy® Award-nominated activists Fever 333 have shared a new standalone single "Kingdom". Available now on all streaming platforms including Spotify and Apple Music, "Kingdom" made its debut last night on BBC Radio 1's Rock Show with Daniel P Carter.
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Child Bite to release new studio album "Blow off the Omens" on November 22nd 2019
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"Blow off the Omens", the long-awaited fifth full-length from Detroit punk/metal mutants Child Bite, begins with this question aimed at those who pursue happiness in the infinite bowels of the black mirror (Spoiler Alert; it's all fake and we're all fucked).
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With their brand new album, "Bluten", which is out now on Napalm Records, German-based 8kids not only succeed to combine post-hardcore with indie-rock and pop elements in perfection, but explore the depths of our society with a clear message and to open ears, minds and eyes. The band just released a new music clip to the high voltage song "WTF", using their voice to stand up against fascism, intolerance and hate in within this world. Watch 8kids' new video below.
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Europe's biggest crossover band, Rise Of The Northstar, have released the official live video for their hit single "Here Comes the Boom".
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LONDON, Apr 16: British Prime Minister Theresa May and French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday faced anger from lawmakers for conducting air strikes with the United States in Syria in their first major military action since coming to power, reports AFP. May was due to address MPs after proceeding with the joint strikes without prior parliamentary approval -- a sensitive subject in Britain where memories of participation in the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 are still raw. Jeremy Corbyn, leader of the main opposition Labour Party, has said the strikes were "legally questionable" and called for new legislation to stop governments launching military action without lawmakers' backing in most circumstances. "I believe that parliament should have been consulted and voted on the matter. The UK prime minister is accountable to parliament, not to the whims of a US president," he wrote in a weekend letter to May. Stop the War, a coalition once chaired by Corbyn, is holding a demonstration outside parliament later on Monday. The group said the strikes "will have done nothing to end the war" and "risked dramatically widening" the conflict. The leaders of the opposition Scottish National Party and Liberal Democrats have also criticised May and there is the possibility of a vote in parliament later Monday that could embarrass the prime minister if she loses. In France, Macron has faced similar criticism for attacking Syria without consulting the legislature but defended the move as well as his constitutional powers in a TV interview on Sunday. "This mandate is given democratically to the president by the people in the presidential election," he said. Macron also said he had convinced US President Donald Trump to stay engaged in Syria "for the long-term". Macron has been criticised from both right and left. National Front leader Marine Le Pen has accused Macron of failing to show any evidence on the use of chemical weapons by the Syrian regime to justify the strikes. Jean-Luc Melenchon, head of the hard-left France Unbowed party, has also condemned the strikes, while the leader of the centre-right Republicans party, Laurent Wauquiez, said he "did not believe in punitive strikes". But at a press conference in Paris on Monday, Macron said that France had acted with "international legitimacy". He argued the operation was legitimate despite not being sanctioned by the UN since under a 2013 UN resolution Syria was supposed to destroy its chemical weapons arsenal. "'Humanitarian' intervention - Ahead of May's speech in parliament, Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson on Monday said the strikes were "right for the UK and right for the world" ahead of talks with EU foreign ministers. "It was the world saying that we have had enough of the use of chemical weapons, the erosion of that taboo that has been in place for 100 years has gone too far under (Syrian President) Bashar al-Assad," he said. But a poll showed scant public support for the move. The poll by Survation for the Mail on Sunday showed 36 percent in favour of Britain's participation in the air strikes, 40 percent against and the remainder undecided. Out of the 2,060 respondents in the survey, 54 percent also agreed with the statement that May "should have held a parliamentary debate and vote before intervening militarily in Syria". In her speech in parliament, May will stress that Britain acted for humanitarian reasons and with wide international backing. "We cannot wait to alleviate further humanitarian suffering caused by chemical weapons attacks," she will say, according to extracts from the speech released by her office. "It is in our national interest to prevent the further use of chemical weapons in Syria -- and to uphold and defend the global consensus that these weapons should not be used," she is expected to say.


One of the biggest mistakes IT can make it to think "If we build it, they will come". This holds true, especially in a platform modernization initiative. The future state architecture must provide technological capabilities that tightly align with business initiatives and strategic direction. In order to accomplish this, you must incorporate the organizations strategic objectives. The resulting IT architecture roadmap must be meticulously planned, managed and implemented. The implementation will be driven by which project being implemented will allow the build out of a component of the future state architecture. This can be accomplished through the use of an architecture framework such as The Open Group Architecture Framework, or TOGAF.
Platform Modernization help organizations realize new efficiencies resulting in increased productivity and realized cost savings. Platform Modernization aims to retain and extend the value of the legacy investment through migration to newer, more cost-effective platforms.
The decision to modernize must be carefully examined to ensure the cost does not outweigh the overall benefit. The journey is taken over time by incrementally modernizing components of the IT landscape.
The first step in the journey is to gather and validate high level business requirements. The two main categories include current and aspirational state requirements. The goal is to determine how the enterprise needs to operate to achieve the business goals and responds to the strategic drivers. I will not get into details of requirements gathering, except to say that the business' strategic drivers and future state vision must be used to tease out what capabilities will be needed to satisfy the future state requirements.
The next step is to compile an Architecture Vision. The objective of the Architecture Vision is to develop a high-level aspirational architecture of the capabilities and business value to be delivered as a result of the proposed platform modernization. The Architecture Vision should include business process models / use case models, data and application models. As you can imagine, the business requirements (current & future) are the key input to this phase.
After the Architecture Vision is complete you can start compiling the Technical Architecture. The Technical Architecture is where the typical technical architecture components such as hardware, software and communications technology are designed. It is a good practice to ensure there is a mapping of each business capability back to the related architecture component.
Once the future state Technical Architecture is design established, you then embark on implementing the architecture. This is done through the identification of opportunities and solutions which describes the process of identifying major implementation projects, and grouping them into work packages that deliver the Target Architecture a piece at a time. Keep in mind that there may be a series of prerequisites associated with delivering the individual architecture components. Once this is done, you can embark on Migration planning. Migration planning could be thought of as your roadmap. It describes the development of a detailed Implementation and Migration Plan that addresses how to move from the Baseline architecture to the Target Architecture.
While on the journey from Baseline to Target Architecture, you must adhere to some form of Implementation governance and Architecture change management. Implementation governance provides architectural oversight of the implementation. This is typically done through the use of an Architecture Change Board. Individual projects must present their designs to the board to ensure they are in alignment with the enterprise objectives in the Future State Architecture. Architecture change management must also be followed. This establishes procedures for managing change to the new architecture. Although you have a Future State Architecture, things may change over time and this change must be managed appropriately.
The important takeaway here is that the business' strategic drivers and future state vision must be used to tease out what capabilities will be used to satisfy the future state architecture requirements. Technological capabilities must tightly align with business initiatives and strategic direction. The steps briefly described above are part of the TOGAF Architecture Development Methodology(ADM). For a more in depth look into the ADM, feel free to research this on your own, and possibly strive for certification. Although "If you build it they will come" usually does not work; "If you build it with business goals in mind they will come" most certainly will.


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"White Teeth"
my take: Every so often while reading I had to look back to the publishing date to double check that this was written before 9/11. Although this took me waaaaay too long to read (thusly ruining my book schedule), I found White Teeth enormously engaging and eerily relevant to today's immigration and terrorist situation.
Archie Jones and Samad Iqbal meet during WWII fighting for the British and bond over a horrific incident. Their friendship lasts through the decades and is a stage for Ms. Smith to interject nearly every subject known to humankind: culture, religion, race, marriage, poverty, immigration, colonialism, intellect, siblings, twins, parenting, politics, nationalism, identity and more! Seriously, this is nearly as all-inclusive as Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk. The narrative jumps from past to present and throws a wide net to catch a crazy cast of characters, and, with a bit of wrangling, ties all the disparate bits and bobs into the final scene.
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"The principles of Christianity and Sod's Law (also known as Murphy's Law) are the same: Everything happens to me, for me. So if a man drops a piece of toast and it lands butter-side down, this unlucky event is interpreted as being proof of an essential truth about bad luck: that the toast fell as it did just to prove to you, Mr. Unlucky, that there is a defining force in the universe and it is bad luck. It's not random. It could never have fallen on the right side, so the argument goes, because that's Sod's Law. In short, Sod's Law happens to you to prove to you that there is Sod's Law, Yet, unlike gravity, it is a law that does not exist whatever happens: when the toast lands on the right side, Sod's Law mysteriously disappears. Likewise, when Clara fell, knocking the teeth out of the top of her mouth, while Ryan stood up without a scratch, Ryan knew it was because God had chosen Ryan as one of the saved and Clara as one of the unsaved. not because one was wearing a helmet and the other wasn't. And had it happened the other way round, had gravity reclaimed Ryan's teeth and sent them rolling down Primrose Hill like tiny enamel snowballs, well . . . you can bet your life that God, in Ryan's mind, would have done a vanishing act." p. 37
Witty, sarcastic, prophetic, instructive, surprising, White Teeth has it all going on.
my source: prepping for The Festival of Faith and Writing: My mother read this years ago and doesn't remember liking it; I read On Beauty years ago and don't remember especially liking that. We're each reading the other to be ready to hear Ms. Smith speak at FF&W at Calvin College in April. And liking our new selections. Go. Figure.
my verdict: good, thought-provoking read
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Romney's Illogical "Corporations Are People" Stance
By Tom Rollins
Of all the staggering revelations to come out of the Republican leadership race — like Sarah Palin's alleged drug use and Rick Perry's rather confusing stance on the Middle East — one of the more amazing was former Massachusettes Governor Mitt Romney's remarks on corporations several weeks ago.
His claim that "corporations are people" might be worrying, but is echoed in the U.S. Constitution itself. The Fourteenth Amendment legally enshrines corporations as human beings, eligible to the same rights and protections as citizens.
So-called "corporate personhood" protects corporations on the grounds that "no State can deprive any person of life, liberty, or property without due process of law." It was originally introduced to protect African-Americans after the Civil War, but generations of corporate lawyers have flipped the coin.
Standing knee-up on a hay bale like John Wayne, cast as a Goldman Sachs trader, Romney was responding to hecklers' demands to increase progressive taxation on the rich, at the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines. But he was also regurgitating over a century of legal history. "Corporations are people, my friend," he said. "Everything corporations earn ultimately goes to people. Where do you think it goes?"
The logic that leads Romney to this conclusion is far from polished. Hypothetically speaking, if my shoe made money and that revenue came back to me, would that make my shoe a person? This is what Romney appears to be arguing. If a shoe is a person, then is a government a person too?
Perhaps Romney is portraying corporations as squeaky-clean arbiters in by-the-people, for-the-people exchanges of power and finance? Wrong again. Corporations are legally accountable to their stockholders, not the public.
It is estimated that offshore corporate tax havens cost the U.S. at least $100 billion every year. Citizens for Tax Justice (CTJ) has also demonstrated how 12 of the U.S.'s largest companies engage in tax fraud. And it's the taxpayer that suffers. In a list including Dupont, General Electric, Boeing, and Verizon Communications, Exxon Mobil paid the highest tax at 14.2% - 20.8% below the statutory tax rate.
If these corporations were people, they would be criminals.
What Romney should have said was: "Corporations are abstract 'persons' according to constitutional law, my friend. Everything corporations earn, bamboozle, and conceal ultimately goes to a minority of very rich people. Where do you think it should go?" It doesn't quite have the same ring to it.
When Romney says he believes in America, he's not wrong. The governor is simply legitimising a century-old constitutional loophole on the campaign trail. Romney is a product of an age where politicians are businessmen first, and statesmen second — or third.
Recently, a trader from Goldman Sachs chillingly told BBC News: "Governments don't rule the world. Goldman Sachs rules the world." And yesterday, it was revealed over half of the UK Conservative Party's post-election bankrolls come from the City (Britain's Wall Street), the largest percentage from hedge funds.
It is one thing to pretend a corporation is human, but another to portray it as a good, honest human. The fallout from the 2008 Great Recession was proof enough of what corporatism is capable of. We should be making the right reforms to make sure it will never happen again.
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1. Record GSB Vol. 1 Pt. 1 General Report for the Years 1972-74, by Mesbauddin Ahmed, 1975
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2. Record GSB Vol. 1 Pt. 2 Quaternary Geomorphic Evolution of the Brahmanbaria - Noakhali area, Comilla and Noakhali District, Bangladesh, by M. Abu Bakr, 1977
3. Record GSB Vol. 1 Pt. 3 Seismic Refraction Investigation in Nawabganj – Badarganj Area, Rangpur District, Bangladesh, by Mohammad Ali and S.M. Nazrul Islam, 1978
4. Record GSB Vol. 2 Pt. 2 Geology of the Southern Part of Sylhet District, Bangladesh, by Q.M. Arifur Rahman, 1979
5. Record GSB Vol. 2 Pt. 3 Geology of the Northern Part of Chittagong District, Bangladesh, by M. Mominullah, 1978
6. Record GSB Vol. 2 Pt. 4 Geology of the Eastern and the North-Eastern Part of Sadar Sub-division, Sylhet District, Bangladesh, by M. Maroof Khan, 1978
7. Record GSB Vol. 2 Pt. 5 Stratigraphy and Petrology of Tipam Sandstone in Bangladesh, by Kamaluddin Bhuiyan and M. Mominullah, 1978
8. Record GSB Vol. 3 Pt. 1 Slope Instability and Construction Damage at Mercantile Marine Academy, Chittagong District, Bangladesh, by K.M. Shahidul Hasan, 1981
9. Record GSB Vol. 3 Pt. 2 Black Clay Deposit of Mirpur Area, Dhaka District, Bangladesh, by M. Nazrul Islam, 1985
10. Record GSB Vol. 3 Pt. 3 Geology of the Chandraghona-Kaptai Area, Rangamati District, Bangladesh, by Q.M. Arifur Rahman, M.Z. Mohiuddin and Md. Hasan, 1985
11. Record GSB Vol. 3 Pt. 4 Glass Sand Deposit of the Balijuri Area, Sherpur District, Bangladesh, by M. Mahtabul Islam, 1985
12. Record GSB Vol. 3 Pt. 5 Geology of Rawangchari-Ruma Area, Bandarban District, Bangladesh, by M.K. Alam and A.A. Quraishi, 1985
13. Record GSB Vol. 4 Pt. 1 Limestone Deposits of Lalghat, Sunamganj District, Bangladesh, by Anisur Rahman and M. Nazrul Islam, 1985
14. Record GSB Vol. 4 Pt. 2 Limestone Deposits of Bhangerghat, Sunamganj District, Bangladesh, by Anisur Rahman and M. Nazrul Islam, 1985
15. Record GSB Vol. 4 Pt. 3 White Clay (Kaolin) Deposits of Bijaipur Area, Netrakona District, Bangladesh, by M. Nazrul Islam, 1985
16. Record GSB Vol. 4 Pt. 4 Subsurface Geology of the Limestone Deposits of Jaypurhat Area, Jaypurhat District, Bangladesh, by M.A. Zaher, M.K. Alam, Q.M. Arifur Rahman, and S.I. Chowdhury, 1986
17. Record GSB Vol. 4 Pt. 5 Glass Sand Deposits of the Chuddagram Area, Comilla District, Bangladesh, by M. Nazrul Islam, 1986
18. Record GSB Vol. 5 Pt. 1 Stratigraphic Lexicon of Bangladesh, compiled by Mujibur Rahman Khan and M. Mominullah, 1988
19. Record GSB Vol. 5 Pt. 2 Geology of Madhyapara Area, Dinajpur District, Bangladesh, by Anisur Rahman, 1987
20. Record GSB Vol. 5 Pt. 3 Geology of Madhupur Tract and its Adjoining Areas in Bangladesh, by Md. Khurshid Alam, 1988
21. Record GSB Vol. 5 Pt. 4 Gravel Deposits of Bholaganj and its Adjoining Areas, Sylhet District, Bangladesh, by Anisur Rahman and Abdullah Manwar, 1988
22. Record GSB Vol. 5 Pt. 5 Petrography of the Sand Samples of the Brahmaputra-Jamuna River Bars, by Moonira Akhter Chowdhury, 1989
23. Record GSB Vol. 6 Pt. 1 Geological Map and Report of the Western Part of Rajshahi District, Bangladesh, by Md. Anwarul Huq, John W. Whitney, Sujit Kumar Das, and Reshad Md. Ekram Ali, 1991
24. Record GSB Vol. 6 Pt. 2 Geology of Panchagarh District, Rajshahi Division, Bangladesh, by Sirajul Islam Khan, Van S. Williams, Sujit Kumar Das and Khondoker Zia Hassan, 1990
25. Record GSB Vol. 6 Pt. 3 Electrical Resistivity Survey of Locate Shallow Basement Features in Phulbari Area, Dinajpur District, Bangladesh, by Idris Miah and Md. Noor Alam, 1991
26. Record GSB Vol. 6 Pt. 4 Geology of Haluaghat-Dhobaura Area, Mymensingh and Netrakona District, Bangladesh, by M. Nazrul Islam and A.K.M. Khorshed Alam, 1992
27. Record GSB Vol. 6 Pt. 5 Geology Khalaspir Coal Basin, Pirganj, Rangpur, Bangladesh, by Md. Nazrul Islam, Md. Nehal Uddin, Syed Ali Resan, Md. Sultan-Ul-Islam and Md. Wazed Ali, 1992
28. Record GSB Vol. 7 Pt. 2 Palynology of Girujan Clay, St. Martin's Island, Cox's Bazar District, Bangladesh, by Afia Akhter, 1992
29. Record GSB Vol. 7 Pt. 3 Gravity and Magnetic Investigations in the Badarganj-Nawabganj-Hilli and Adjoining Areas, Rangpur and Dinajpur Districts, Bangladesh, by M.A. Rahman, N.A. Chowdhury, M.N. Hasan, Idris Miah, and M.N. Alam, 1994
30. Record GSB Vol. 7 Pt. 4 Geology of Satkania-Dulahazara Area, Chittagong and Cox's Bazar Districts, Bangladesh, by Mujibur Rahman Khan and others, 1998
31. Record GSB Vol. 7 Pt. 5 Results of Petrographic Studies and Chemical Analyses of the Crystalline Drill Cores from the Barapukuria Area, Parbatipur Thana, Dinajpur District, Bangladesh, by Md. Munir Hussain and Gary C. Curtin, 1995
32. Record GSB Vol. 8 Pt. 1 Geology and Coal Deposit of Barapukuria Basin, Dinajpur District, Bangladesh, by M. Abu Bakr and others, 1996
33. Record GSB Vol. 8 Pt. 2 Geology of the Hatiya Island, Noakhali District, Bangladesh, by Pradip Kumar Sen Gupta and Sirajur Rahman Khan, 1996
34. Record GSB Vol. 8 Pt. 3 Subsurface Geology and Prospect of Mineral Resources in the Patnitola Area, Naogaon District, Bangladesh, by Abdullah Manwar and Md. Khurshid Alam, 1998
35. Record GSB Vol. 8 Pt. 4 Subsurface Geology of Dariapur Area, Gaibandha, Bangladesh, by Q.M. Arifur Rahman, Pradip Kumar Sen Gupta and Md. Nehal Uddin, 1997
36. Record GSB Vol. 8 Pt. 5 Regional Gravity and Magnetic Survey of the Mitapukur-Madarpur Area, Rangpur District, Bangladesh, by Mohammad Nurul Hasan and Md. Momin Kamaluddin, 1998
37. Record GSB Vol. 9 Pt. 1 Detailed Gravity and Magnetic Profiling Surveys over Barapukuria Coal Basin Area, Dinajpur District, Bangladesh, by Idris Miah and Md. Noor Alam, 1996
38. Record GSB Vol. 9 Pt. 2 Seismic Refraction Survey in Phulbari-Barapukuria Area, Dinajpur District, Bangladesh, by M. Noor Islam and K.M. Shamsul Arefin, 1995
39. Record GSB Vol. 9 Pt. 3 Geology of the Southern Parts of Khulna and Bagherhat Districts, Bangladesh, by Md. Anwarul Azeem and Md. Khalequzzaman, 1994
40. Record GSB Vol. 9 Pt. 4 Investigation for Volcanic Ash in Tanor and Godagari Upazilas, Rajshahi District and its Possible Correlation With other Areas, by Sohail Kabir, 2001
41. Record GSB Vol. 9 Pt. 5 Regional Gravity and Magnetic Investigations in Pirganj-Khalaspir and Adjoining Areas of Rangpur District, Bangladesh, by Idris Miah and Muhammad Arifuzzaman, 1997
42. Record GSB Vol. 10 Pt. 1 Digital Processing and interpretation of Gravity and Magnetic data Rangpur-Dinajpur area, Bangladesh, by M.A. Rahman, Idris Miah and H.R. Blank, 2000
43. Record GSB Vol. 10 Pt. 2 Geology of the Southern Part of Habiganj District, Bangladesh, by Md. Anwarul Huq, Md. Khairul Islam, Mahmud Hasan and John W. Whitney, 2003
44. Record GSB Vol. 10 Pt. 3 Geology of Barguna District of Bangladesh, by Sirajur Rahman Khan, 2003
45. Record GSB Vol. 10 Pt. 4 Stratigraphic Section, Bandarban area, Bandarban District, Bangladesh, by Mujibur Rahman Khan and Md. Nehal Uddin, 2003
46. Record GSB Vol. 10 Pt. 5 Petrographic study of some core samples of basement rocks collected from different drill holes of Northern part of Bangladesh, by Pradip Kumar Sen Gupta, Asma Huque and Salma Akhter, 2004
47. Record GSB Vol. 11 Pt. 1 Geology of the Munshigonj Upazila, Munshigonj District, Bangladesh, by Abu Md. Nur Alam, Sohail Kabir & Md. Enamul Haque Khondker, 2004
48. Record GSB Vol. 11 Pt. 2 Abrasive sands of Panchagarh, Northern parts of Thakurgaon and Nilphamari Districts, Bangladesh, by K.S.A. Harun & Afroja Perveen, 2004
49. Record GSB Vol. 11 Pt. 5 Geology of Parts of Tangail and Mymensingh Districts, Bangladesh, by A.K.M. Khorshed Alam, Donald A. Coates, Kamrul Hasan Mannan, Delwar Ahmed and Saidul Hossain, 2008
50. Record GSB Vol. 12 Pt. 1 Geology of the Northern Part of Habiganj, Bangladesh; by Md. Anwarul Huq
51. Record GSB Vol. 12 Pt. 4 Seismic Reflection Survey for the Delineation of Subsurface Geology in the Khalaspir Coal Basin of Pirganj Upazila, Rangpur District, Bangladesh; by- Mohammad Nurul Hasan, K.M. Samsul Arefin & Momin Kamal Uddin. 2014
52. Record GSB Vol. 13 Pt. 1 Seismic Refraction Survey for the Delineation of Subsurface Geology in Bara Shibpur and Surrounding Areas of Naogaon and Joypurhat Districts, Bangladesh; by K.M. Shamsul Arefin & S.M. Jubaidur Rahman
53. Record GSB Vol. 13 Pt. 2 Seismic Refraction Investigation for the Delineation of Subsurface Geology Including Coal in Dangapara-Dighipara Area of Dinajpur District, Bangladesh; by Idris Miah and Muhammad Arifuzzaman
54. Record GSB Vol. 13 Pt. 3 Electrical Resistivity Survey in Mangalbari-Bara Shibpur and Adjoining Areas of Naogaon and Joypurhat Districts, Bangladesh; by Muhammad Arifuzzaman and Nizamuddin Ahmed.
55. Record GSB Vol. 13 Pt. 4 Geological Report of Puthia, Charghat and Bagha Upazila, Rajshahi District, Bangladesh; by Md. Anwarul Huq
56. Record GSB Vol. 13 Pt. 5 Geology of Dighipara Coal Basin, Nawabganj Upazila, Dinajpur District, Bangladesh; by Md. Nehal Uddin, Moin Uddin Ahmed, Md. Ali Akbar & others.
57. Record GSB Vol. 14 Pt. 1 Geological Report on Identification and Distribution of the Valuable Minerals in Jamuna-Brahmaputra River Sands; by Md. Khairul Islam, Md. Ali Akbar, Md. Jahangir Alam & Md. Mazedul Islam.
58. Record GSB Vol. 14 Pt. 2 Geology of Kalai and Khetlal Upazilas of Joypurhat District, Bangladesh; by Sirajul Islam Khan, Fuaduzzaman Khan, Mahmud Hasan and Kamrul Ahsan.
59. Record GSB Vol. 14 Pt. 3 Study of Economic Minerals in the Padma River Sand and Detection of Bank Erosional Sites with its Causes from Chapainawabganj District to Mouth of the Gorai River, Kushtia District, Bangladesh; by Md. Nehal Uddin, Mohammad Anisur Rahman, Mohammad Arifuzzaman, Md. Abu Sayem & S.M. Ashraful Abedin Asha.
60. Record GSB Vol. 14 Pt. 4 Geological Report on Cox's Bazar-Teknaf Coastal Area, Bangladesh; By- Kamrul Ahsan, Md. Ahosan Habib, Mohammad Feruj Alam & Others. 2017
61. Record GSB Vol. 14 Pt. 5 Determination of Pollutants of Textile Wast Water in and around Dhaka Export Processing Zone (DEPZ) Savar, Dhaka.
62. Record GSB Vol. 15 Pt. 1 Quaternary Geology of Bhola District, Bangladesh; By Kamrul Ahsan, Md. Ahosan Habib & Mohammad Feruj Alam. 2019
63. Record GSB Vol. 15 Pt. 3 Determination of Iodine Content in Water and Soil of Gaibandha Sadar, Saghata and Phulchhari Upazilla in Gaibandha District; By Begum Shakera, Most. Ferdowshi Begum & Md. Reazul Islam. 2014
64. Record GSB Vol. 15 Pt. 4 Interpretation of Geophysical Logs of Borehole CSE-18 & CSE-20 in the Barapukuria Coal Mine Area of Parbatipur Upazila, Dinajpur District, Bangladesh: By K.M. Shamsul Arefin, Md. Ershadul Haque, Md. Shahjahan, Md. Selim Reza & Mohammad Zohir Uddin. 2018
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namespace Pobl\Bongo;

class CachableOdmCursor implements \Iterator
{

    /**
     * The Query that generated this cursor
     *
     * @var \Pobl\Bongo\Expression
     */
    protected $query;

    /**
     * Documents returned from query
     *
     * @var array containing instances of model
     */
    protected $documents;

    protected $position = 0;

    protected $modelClass;

    /**
     * OdmCursor constructor. The query and the
     * model should be provided
     *
     * @param $query Array (The query that "Generated" this cursor )
     * @param $model string
     * @return void
     */
    public function __construct(Expression $query, $model)
    {
        $this->query = $query;
        $this->modelClass = $model;
        $this->documents = $this->getOdmCursor()->toArray(false);
    }

    /**
     * Calls the MongoCursor method if it exists.
     * This makes possible to run methods like limit, skip,
     * orts, and others.
     *
     * @param $name string
     * @param $args array
     */
    public function __call($name, $args)
    {
        return call_user_func_array(array($this->getOdmCursor(), $name), $args);
    }

    /**
     * Returns the OdmCursor object that are going to be
     * generated by the $this->query
     *
     * @return OdmCursor
     */
    public function getOdmCursor()
    {
        /* @var $model \Pobl\Bongo\Model */
        $model = $this->modelClass;
        $OdmCursor = $model::where($model::query()->query($this->query));

        if ($this->position > 0) {
            $OdmCursor->skip($this->position);
        }

        return $OdmCursor;
    }

    /**
     * Returns the MongoCursor object
     *
     * @return \MongoCursor
     */
    public function getCursor()
    {
        return $this->getOdmCursor()->getCursor();
    }

    /**
     * Iterator interface rewind (used in foreach)
     *
     */
    function rewind()
    {
        $this->position = 0;
    }

    /**
     * Iterator interface current. Return a model object
     * with cursor document. (used in foreach)
     *
     * @return mixed
     */
    function current()
    {
        return $this->documents[$this->position];
    }

    /**
     * Convert the cursor instance to an array.
     *
     * @return array
     */
    public function toArray($documentsToArray = true, $limit = false)
    {
        if ($documentsToArray) {
            $result = array();

            foreach ($this as $document) {
                $result[] = $document->getAttributes();
            }
        } else {
            $result = $this->documents;
        }

        return $result;
    }

    /**
     * Returns the first element of the cursor
     *
     * @return mixed
     */
    public function first()
    {
        return $this->documents[0];
    }

    /**
     * Iterator key method (used in foreach)
     *
     */
    function key()
    {
        return $this->position;
    }

    /**
     * Iterator next method (used in foreach)
     *
     */
    function next()
    {
        ++$this->position;
    }

    /**
     * Iterator valid method (used in foreach)
     *
     */
    function valid()
    {
        return isset($this->documents[$this->position]);
    }

    function sort($fields)
    {
        return $this->getOdmCursor()->sort($fields);
    }

    /**
     * Convert the cursor to its string representation.
     *
     * @return string
     */
    public function __toString()
    {
        return $this->toJson();
    }

    /**
     * Convert the cursor to its JSON representation.
     *
     * @return string
     */
    public function toJson($options = 0)
    {
        $result = array();

        foreach ($this->documents as $document) {
            $result[] = $document->toJson($options);
        }

        $result = '[' . implode($result, ',') . ']';

        return $result;
    }

}


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On August 19th 1910, an assistant forest ranger named Edmund Pulaski emerged out of the smoked filled Bitterroot Mountains, that loomed over the town of Wallace, Idaho. For months himself and his crew has been fighting wild fires in the Bitterroot's but despite all of their efforts he was afraid that the town was going to burn.
Pulaski's worst fears came true the very next day when the town of Wallace went a blaze, people desperately scrammed to round up their belongings whilst women and children where put on the last train out of town. The roar of the wind and flames was overwhelming, the air so hot it was hard to breathe, it was the biggest wild fire to ever hit the Northern Rockies.
Coined "The Big Burn", the fire destroyed an area the size of Connecticut in a mere 36 hours, it was the first of its kind, killing 87 people, most of whom were firefighters.
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The Derby fire, in which six children died, was an attack on a family that shocked the country. The truth behind it is equally appalling. The fathe...
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Reactive Programming Architecture Across Platforms
One of the biggest benefits of Reactive Programming Architecture Across Platforms stands in allowing developers to improve availability and performance.
Reactive Relational Database Connectivity (R2DBC) is a type of specification designed to guide the integration of SQL databases using reactive drivers.
The goal of R2DBC is to produce a minimal SPI surface. By nature, R2DBC is fully reactive and aware of back pressure all the way down to the base layer (the database).
If you're looking to explore reactivity and understand how you can start using it, start by exploring how these popular platforms aid its implementation.
Benefits of Reactive Relational Databases
Reactive Relational Database Connectivity's intended use is as a driver for SPI to be consumed as part of client libraries, rather than to be used in application code directly.
The biggest benefits of reactive programming architecture lie in its ability to listen to the responses that asynchronous events, or data streams, put out.
That means a reactive pattern or reactive system allows developers to improve availability and performance.
Here's a look at the other benefits reactive relational databases bring to the table:
Less CPU and memory are required to process singular requests.
Response times can be significantly faster at high concurrency.
Throughput substantially improves at high concurrency.
You don't need a completely non-blocking stack to begin using R2DBC.
Ultimately, using a reactive relational database is a good idea—especially if you deal with high concurrency in your stack.
Otherwise, if you happen to be working with low concurrency, it may not bring you any substantial improvements.
This doesn't mean implementing it is a bad idea, especially if you have plans to scale in the near future, but it does mean that the changes may be less noticeable.
With these benefits and considerations in mind, let's dive into some popular platforms and how they're making reactive relational database implementation easy for companies of all sizes.
Hasura GraphQL
When developers come to understand the long list of well-documented benefits of reactive programming, the first question most ask is simple: Why aren't more people using the asynchronous model? In fact, why aren't they using it all of the time?
The answer: Asynchronous reactive programming is extremely difficult to achieve from an architectural standpoint. This is something Hasura's GraphQL platform has routinely acknowledged.
"Specifically, asynchronous requires an atomic and reliable eventing system which itself requires some kind of queue management. The events need to have reliable and flexible triggers and equally be able to listen to changes. The services consumed need to be idempotent and capable of handling events out-of-order," Hasura states.
Given Hasura's in-depth understanding of the event system and real-time API necessary to achieve reactive architecture, Hasura is the prime platform to explore it.
Out-of-the-box, Hasura gives teams access to all the tools they need to achieve asynchronous programming, complete with GraphQL as a real-time API solution.
PostGraphile Realtime
Another popular platform, PostGraphile provides its own answer to the reactive (or "real-time") programming conundrum.
Like Hasura, PostGraphile has created an out-of-the-box solution with the bare basics, allowing developers to customize and extend them as necessary.
"We provide the baseline subscriptions and live queries functionality in core, and the rest is achieved by adding and combining plugins - the official ones, ones made by the community, or ones you've developed in-house," PostGraphile explains.
With PostGraphile, your team will be able to combine the technologies that work best for the project at hand and enable you to achieve a reactive relational architecture, without worrying about creating all the nuts and bolts that form the foundation of it.
Yet another well-known platform, MongoDB, calls itself the most popular database for modern apps.
Fortunately, it's sticking to that moniker by continuously implementing additional features, such as reactive support.
If you're already using MongoDB, you'll be happy to learn that making the move to a reactive relational database may not be as difficult as you once thought.
MongoDB's official cloud service, known as Atlas, now provides GraphQL API automatically, enabling easy access to the real-time API technology that developers need to achieve reactive relational databases.
GraphQL is the same API that Hasura has made famous, and it's coming to a lot of platforms thanks to its features.
It's also worth exploring deeper when it comes to the MongoDB Reactive Streams Java Driver, which is the company's official solution for asynchronous stream processing in MongoDB that conforms to R2DBC standards by featuring non-blocking backpressure.
Of course, you'll need some developers standing by to help, as you will with any of these reactive solutions.
Even though these platforms offer what they call "out-of-the-box" solutions, they're far from drag-and-drop.
Developers will still need to dive into the code to create a working product and connect it all together.
Achieve Reactive Relational Programming
Asynchronous reactive relational programming offers unmatched benefits when it comes to availability and performance.
Until recently, though, achieving a truly asynchronous reactive model was more than difficult, even for some of the largest development teams.
Now, thanks to platforms like these implementing reactional support and even offering primitive foundations to build upon, achieving reactivity is becoming easier.
Are you interested in learning more about reactive programming and how it can improve your databases and applications?
Do you have questions about how reactive works or whether it's right for you?
Our team of professionals can provide the answer to those and a lot more of your questions.
Contact us to learn more about taking your databases into the future of performance.
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Morgan Stanley Sees Nigeria Bond Return After 2014 Exit
Written by Bloomberg Africa
By Paul Wallace | From Bloomberg News
Morgan Stanley, which sold all its naira government bonds last year, said it may start buying again in the second quarter if Nigeria devalues the currency and lifts foreign-exchange trading restrictions.
"We believe that Nigerian policy makers will allow for the necessary policy adjustments" after presidential elections on March 28, Jens Nystedt, portfolio manager and head of sovereign research at Morgan Stanley Investment Management's emerging markets debt team, said in an e-mailed response to questions on Wednesday. "There will likely be an attractive opportunity in Nigerian assets at some point during the second quarter."
Trading restrictions imposed by Nigeria's central bank to protect the naira, which has fallen 18 percent in the past six months, crushed liquidity and mostly kept the unit within a band of 198 to 200 per dollar since mid-February. The currency of Africa's biggest economy and oil producer rose 0.3 percent to 199.05 at 3:50 p.m. in Lagos. Non-deliverable forwards suggest it will weaken to 259 in a year and naira bonds are the second- worst emerging-market performers this year.
Morgan Stanley Investment Management, which oversees $400 billion of assets, joined other investors including Aberdeen Asset Management Plc in cutting holdings of naira bonds last year as collapsing oil prices battered the country. The postponement of the elections by six weeks last month amid worsening attacks in the northeast by Islamist group Boko Haram further dented confidence.
Right Scenario
"It would be unwise to go fully back to market weight or overweight" before the vote when the currency "hasn't fully adjusted," said Nystedt. "At current oil prices we still consider the naira overvalued. At this stage, foreign-exchange forwards are pricing in a scenario that looks to us about right."
JPMorgan Chase & Co. said on Jan. 16 it may remove Nigeria from its local-currency emerging-market government bond indexes tracked by more than $200 billion of funds after earlier central bank measures limited dealing in the naira and made it difficult for foreign investors to sell local bonds. New York-based JPMorgan will make its decision by mid-June and Morgan Stanley wants more clarity on Nigeria's inclusion in JPMorgan's GBI-EM indexes before it buys naira debt again, said Nystedt.
Foreign holdings of domestic government debt have fallen to 14 percent of the total from 27 percent since 2013, according to Standard Chartered Plc. Nigerian local sovereign bonds have lost 9.1 percent this year, the most among emerging markets after Brazil, according to Bloomberg indexes.
While Morgan Stanley expects Nigeria to be kept in the indexes, liquidity in the bond and foreign-exchange markets has been "much reduced," said Nystedt. "The risk is that there is a significant overhang in dollar demand once dollars are made more freely available."


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The following material groups are available to choose from: Rear panel made of steel: M2; Rear panel made of LIGNOpal: L3.


Abstract : This paper tackles the problem of incremental and decremental learning of an evolving and customizable fuzzy inference system for classification. We explain the interest of integrating a forgetting capacity in such an evolving system to improve its performances in changing environment. In this paper, we describe two decremental learning strategies, to introduce a forgetting capacity in evolving fuzzy inference systems. Both techniques use a sliding window to introduce forgetting in the optimization process of fuzzy rules conclusions. The first approach is based on a downdating technique of least squares solutions for unlearning old data. The second integrates differed directional forgetting in the covariance matrices used in the recursive least square algorithm. These techniques are first evaluated on handwritten gesture recognition tasks in changing environments. They are also evaluated on some well-known classification benchmarks. In particular, it is shown that decremental learning allow to adapt to concept drifts. It is also demonstrated that decremental learning is necessary to maintain the system capacity of learning new classes over time, making decremental learning essential for the life-time use of an evolving and customizable classification system.


The game works perfectly in my Raspberry Pi 3B.
Running DOSBox 0.73 under Windows 7 Ultimate x64 with an Aero theme.
The game works very well as long as you keep it in the small dosbox window.
- (Using Aero) Alt-tab the dosbox to full screen and the game goes to CGA colors; switch back then again to full screen goes into 2x CGA colors.
- (Using Win Classic) Works well. Got to start in full screen mode and not alt-tab to a window; go back to full screen and again it go into CGA colors.
I cannot resize the dosbox window any larger/smaller; that would be nice to do because, the game plays perfect with all music and sound effects running in sync.
"All part 1-3 work great!" Johnny Dash said! All sound, music & voice are excellent as the old DOS. Still remember the 'haha' from the skeleton head?
I'd say the Monster Bash Shareware Demo is working perfectly in 0.63, myself. I don't have the registered version, but if it works any way like the Shareware version(v2.1), then that'd probably run perfectly, too.
4-bit Creative ADPCM decoding still not perfect.


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Exclusive: Grey's Beauty To Recur On Tree Hill
By Matt Webb Mitovich / January 12 2011, 1:45 PM PST
Apparently Leven Rambin's upcoming gig in the CSI: Miami lab won't be an extended one after all.
Instead, the sunny alum of shows such as Grey's Anatomy and Sarah Connor Chronicles has landed a recurring role on The CW's One Tree Hill, TVLine has learned exclusively.
Rambin's new character could echo her work on Grey's, where she hit the scene as Mark Sloan's unmarried and pregnant daughter, seeing as she'll play a young woman Brooke crosses paths with as she explores adoption options. But that's all I'm at liberty to reveal.
Well, that and the fact that Rambin will make her first OTH appearance in this season's 19th episode.
The CW's One Tree Hill airs Tuesdays at 8/7c.
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Israel condemned by Red Cross over wounded
The Red Cross has accused Israel of failing to help wounded people in Gaza after its rescuers found four small children huddling next to their dead mothers.
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said the Israeli military "failed to meet its obligation under international humanitarian law to care for and evacuate the wounded".
It said Israeli soldiers tried to force the rescuers to leave when they finally reached the grisly scene in Gaza City's shell-battered Zeitun neighbourhood on Wednesday, four days after safe-passage had been requested.
The delay in allowing access to rescuers was "unacceptable," the ICRC said.
The rescue team, which included members of the Palestinian Red Crescent Society, "found four small children next to their dead mothers in one of the houses. They were too weak to stand up on their own.
"One man was also found alive, too weak to stand up. In all there were at least 12 corpses lying on mattresses."
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Fifteen survivors, several of them wounded, were found in one house.
In another house, they found three corpses. "Israeli soldiers posted at a military position some 80 metres away from this house ordered the rescue team to leave the area which they refused to do," the ICRC said.
"This is a shocking incident," said Pierre Wettach, who heads the ICRC's delegation for Israel and the Palestinian territories. "The Israeli military must have been aware of the situation but did not assist the wounded. Neither did they make it possible for us or the Palestine Red Crescent to assist the wounded."
The rescuers evacuated 18 wounded and 12 others "who were extremely exhausted," the ICRC said, adding that it was informed there are more wounded sheltering in destroyed houses in the Zeitun.
The Israeli military did not address the specific claims, but insisted it works "in close co-operation with international aid organisations during the fighting so that civilians can be provided with assistance."
"Any serious allegations made against the IDF (Israeli military) conduct will need to be investigated properly, once such a complaint is received formally, within the constraints of the current military operation," it said.
It also stressed Israeli troops were involved in fighting Hamas, the Islamist rulers of Gaza, which it called a "terrorist organisation who have deliberately used Palestinian civilians as human shields."
Amnesty International has accused both Israeli soldiers and Palestinian fighters of using civilians as human shields.
"Israeli soldiers have entered and taken up positions in a number of Palestinian homes, forcing families to stay in a ground-floor room while they use the rest of their house as a military base and sniper position,"
the human rights group said in a statement.
Asked about the claim, an Israeli military spokesman said "the IDF does not comment on ongoing operations."
Humanitarian agencies and human rights groups have repeatedly urged Israel to allow safe passage to ambulances and allow civilians to seek refuge from the fighting.
Palestinian medics say that more than 700 people have been killed in the Israeli offensive, including 220 children, with a further 3,100 people wounded.


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Dejounte Murray was a complete non-factor in Monday's loss, playing only 13 minutes and finishing with four points and two steals.
The Spurs got nothing out of their backcourt, and Manu Ginobili (10 points, 23 minutes) was the only member of either the starting or reserve units to do anything worthwhile. While Murray wasn't good by any stretch of the imagination tonight, he seems likely to hold onto the starting job as the Spurs just don't have many viable alternatives. Their backcourt personnel either can't shoot or can't defend, and it's led to a 2-0 deficit in this series.


The Ballet Department has been working under the responsibility of Mrs. Chloi Menokou Stavrou with absolute success since 1994. Since then, the School has had many performances, presentations for support for public purposes and other activities through the collaboration of the Ballet, Modern and Contemporary Dance sections with the participation of all her students.
The Royal Academy of Dance, the world-renowned Ballet System, is also undergoing, as well as RAD examinations every year. Students of the school are distinguished and excel in examinations, auditions and ballet performances and are studying at famous professional schools abroad.
It reduces anxiety: It is a first-rate opportunity for relief from the pressure of the day through the creative activity of dance. Focusing on a ballet lesson with music, children's attention focuses on the proper execution of the steps. This helps to get rid of many thoughts and the stress of everyday life. The movement of the body with the relaxing sound of music is also a form of relaxation and exiting from the routine of everyday life.
Helps dancers get muscles and physical fitness: Ballet is a great way to get good physical fitness. If anything your baby will get from ballet is thanks to her movements and flexibility, since this is also the central philosophy of ballet. It also helps the body stand correctly in everyday life.
It's a good way to express your feelings: Ballet is an art through which dancers can externalize their emotions through expressions and cute moves. Skilful performance of dance steps under the sound of music is a way of emotional expression. Love is also developing for creation, elegance, and harmony.
It tones confidence: An important aspect of dance and generally artistic activities is the presentation in front of the audience. Dance in front of the audience, the ability to perform dance and graceful moves can help boost self-confidence and ability to achieve their goals. The more experience the dancers get on stage, the more self-confidence they get.
Offers flexibility and strength in the body: Classical dance is associated with increased strength and flexibility in the body. This is one of its biggest advantages.


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A Japanese island disappears
11 Nov, 2018 at 12:57 PM
In a rare nature's phenomenon, a Japanese island, Esanbe Hanakita Kojima, has disappeared one day without anyone noticing it. Experts say that the Esanbe Hanakita Kojima might have been eroded by wind and drift ice.
The uninhabited islet, called Esanbe Hanakita Kojima, is thought to have slipped beneath the waves, apparently unnoticed by residents living in Sarufutsu, a village on the northern tip of the main island of Hokkaido 500 metres away. Esanbe Hanakita Kojima lies west of the Northern Territories, which are at the centre of a long-running dispute between Japan and Russia, where they are known as the Kurils. The islands were seized from Japan by Soviet forces days after the end of the Pacific War.
Esanbe is one of 158 uninhabited islands that were given names by the Japanese government in 2014 in an effort to clarify its territorial reach and extend its exclusive economic zone.
Japan's outlying islands have taken on increasing significance amid territorial disputes with China over the Senkaku/Diaoyu islands in the East China Sea.
A Japan coastguard said that when the island was last surveyed in 1987 it protruded just 1.4 metres above the surface, leading experts to conclude that it had been eroded by wind and drift ice that form in the Sea of Okhotsk every winter.
The coastguard is to visit the area to determine the island's fate. If it confirms that it has indeed disappeared, Japan's EEZ will shrink, albeit by just half a kilometre.
Japan isn't the only country to have lost an island recently. A piece of the United States was wiped off the map after East Island, a remote spit in Hawaii, was washed away by Hurricane Walaka last month. UNI
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