In Italy there has been a strong debate about the faculty of medicine over the last few years: students asking for more places and a different admission exam, the government that has to control the public deficit and citizens demanding more from an efficient health system. Now, the government wants to modify the recruiting system for medical students: will it win the challenge?
The Italian Minister of Education wants to change the admission rules to the faculty of medicine in order to tackle some problems, such as the high number of old doctors, the unfair admission method and the population getting older, without forgetting the high public debt (130% of the GDP).
First of all, let's have a look at the distribution of the physicians by age (figure 1.1 and 1.2): from 2000 to 2012, the percentage of physicians who were under 30, between 45-54 and over 65 years old diminished a little, whereas there was a strong decrease of those who were between 35-44 (-18.68%) and a risky increase of those who were 55-64 (+31.98%).
The aging can be problematic if the number of graduates is lower than doctors going to retirement, as the number of physicians will decrease in the future. This phenomenon can be explained by the low level of new graduates in medicine (figure 2): from 25.28 graduated students per 100.000 people in 1980 to 11.51 in 2000. Over the last decade, this figure has been stable, even though it has diminished a little, reaching 11.14 medical graduates per 100.000 people in 2012. In absolute values, this means that in 1980, 14,264 students managed to graduate, whereas in 2000 and 2012 respectively only 6,552 and 6,631 students succeeded.
A future challenge that the national health system will have to consider is the aging of the population: in 2013, 21.40% of the Italian population were over 65 and 6.40% over 80. In 2050, this figures will raise significantly, as over 65 will represent 34% of the population and the over 80 14%. An older population means that Italy will have to increase its healthcare budget, also hiring new medical workers.
Over the last few years, the different governments tried to reduce or to control the public expenditure, hitting also the education and in particular the faculty of medicine. The Italian State has to bear every year about € 1.5 billion to finance the studies in medicine. This means that the State spends € 248.000 .000 for the first six-year-education, as the cost per capita is € 24.800 per year and the students are about 10.000 each year. Then, for the whole specialization the State spends € 128.000 for each student.
To solve this financial problem, in Italy there is a low closed number of admission and in the last years a cutting of the scholarships for the specializing students. The immediate effects are the aging of the physicians, the risk that the new doctors will be less than those going to retirement and the escape of students abroad to do the specialization.
This last problem is quite interesting as the state finances the first six years of training and then, reducing the scholarships, induces students to finish their studies abroad and likely to work there. The result is that Italy finances the medical formation for foreign health systems. Hence, is it a really efficient way to cut expenditure or would increasing the scholarships be a better solution in financial terms?
Over the last few months, the Italian Minister of Education has been trying to change the system of medicine faculty. She proposed to adopt the so called French system: free access to the faculty and selection at the end of the first year based on the marks. Then, in this project a common first year between medicine and other similar faculties, such as pharmacy and biology, is provided. However, this idea has been criticized by students to not be realistic, impartial and a solution for other problems.
First, if government does not have enough money to finance scholarships, how is it possible to create new spaces for all new students? Or new places? Only to give you an idea, 10,000 students pass the admission test that is tried by 60,000 each year. This also implies 50,000 students not passing the first year would lose an year, so time and money.
Another problem is that without a national test, the selection could not be impartial as based on the marks of professors who could help someone in some cases, above all, if we consider that most of the exams are oral. Then, the study programs are different among the Italian universities, creating in this way an heterogeneous context.
Concerning the admission exam, in Italy it has always been criticized for its structure. Above all, there are questions about general culture such as: put in order the following mounts in order of height. Is it a fundamental question that a doctor is supposed to answer? So, a good idea would be to test basic scientific knowledge or psycho-attitudes.
Another way to reduce costs for the public system would be reducing the length of studies and increasing the number of hours in practical training (teaching hospitals), conforming to the European system. This would allow students enrolled in the final part of their studies to work in the hospitals. In this way, they would be more productive and make more experience in their fields.
Then, the decrease of the scholarships for the specialization is a really big issue, as students are forced to go abroad to study. However, the most important problem is the limited number of places for the specialization that forces students to go abroad or to wait for at least one year. Note that a graduate student can work only as a volunteer or in other fields, as the pharmaceutical, but he/she will never be hired without a specialization in the hospitals. This means that continuing the studies is a compulsory choice in this case.
In conclusion, Italy has the opportunity to not destroy an efficient health system thanks to a better formation system. Hence, it would be great rethinking about the number of places and scholarships, the inefficient allocation of resources and the unfair selection system. Hopefully, the change will be more respectful about public spending, families' students taxes and the right to have an efficient health system. A special thanks for their suggestions to my friends Francesco, Marta and Roberta, students of medicine.


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The occupier of the premises is liable for the rates, or if the property is unoccupied at the making of the rate, the owner is liable. If you are buying or leasing a premises you should ensure that the rates due have been paid.


Jazz Cello/Bass Wizard Junior 2 is a continuation of Jazz Cello Wizard Junior (Mel Bay, 2002) and is designed for upper middle school and high school string students. JCWjr 2 uses the same basic approach as JCWjr; students learn mainly through imitation, the same way we learn to speak our native tongue. It also introduces very easy optional chord theory but only AFTER the student has experienced improvising with chords aurally. The books come in three versions: violin, viola, and cello/bass. Designed to be used together in studio and classroom situations. This volume introduces three basic concepts that are prerequisites to advanced jazz improvising: solo development, modes, and inner melodies - the single most potent technique to get students to improvise on advanced progressions immediately.
•Any student or teacher will learn to improvise independent of background.
•Provides all the instructions and verbiage a newcomer to jazz will need to learn or teach from the method.
•Includes swing, Latin, and blues styles incorporated into the lessons.
•The five lessons are carefully sequenced to introduce key components of improvisation.
•Four performance-quality pieces are included in a format that can be used with three cellos or basses, in a string orchestra or any other combination of string instruments (if used together with the other versions of the series).
•Includes a CD with sample solos and exercises in addition to full rhythm section accompaniment tracks to the performance pieces.
Advanced: How did we find the inner melody?


In District 14, Commissioner Jeff Joines didn't seek re-election, and three candidates – Bob Clarke, Tommy Jones and Michael Ramsey – qualified to run for the seat. Jones didn't submit answers to the questionnaire.
Clarke is married to his wife, Cheryl, and they have two children and two grandchildren. He has a bachelor's degree in commercial printing and owned a small printing company he retired. He's currently a substitute teacher who works mostly in special education.
Ramsey was married to Susan Carol Ramsey 38 years ago, and they have three adult children. He holds an associate's degree in applied science computers, attended FAA Academy in Oklahoma City and is a certified professional air traffic controller, quality assurance specialist and facility instructor. He served in the U.S. Marine Corps and was honorably discharged in 1977, worked as a contractor at Wright Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio until 1985. He was hired as an air traffic controller and attended training at the FAA Academy in 1985. He has worked and been certified as a professional controller for more than 29 years for the FAA in Indianapolis, Traverse City, Michigan, Fort Wayne, Indiana, Nashville and Huntsville Alabama, where he retired in 2009. After his retirement from the FAA, he's worked as an air traffic controller and holds international ICAO certifications in Afghanistan, northeast Africa, Ascension Islands and south Atlanta. He retired for good in November after working another year in Kandahar, Afghanistan.
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Clarke:Better schools and teachers, a more diverse learning program and to end Common Core.
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By C.B. Hanley
1217: Commoner-turned-earl's-man Edwin Weaver has returned to Conisbrough Castle after his blood-soaked adventure in Lincoln. Now carrying a dagger for protection, he has no chance to rest, for preparations are already underway for a noble wedding. But his weapon will be little help against the armed band of outlaws terrorising the area. When the household marshal is murdered under the earl's own roof, and Edwin is asked to resolve the situation before the wedding plans can be jeopardised. Edwin is convinced that there is more to his death than meets the eye and, as he digs deeper, he realises that the killer's true target might be someone much closer to home. The third book in C.B. Hanley's popular Mediaeval Mystery series, following The Bloody City.
By the Edge of the Sword
The Anchoress of Chesterfield
Cast the First Stone
The Story of the Fens
Give Up the Dead
The Cardinal's Court
Murder at the Bayswater Bicycle Club
The Holywell Dead
The Year of the Gun
A History of Louth
A True and Faithful Brother
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Modern Crimes
The Little Book of Lincolnshire
Brother's Blood
The Circle of Sappho
Death in Bayswater


For around 4/5 years I have been the proud owner of a Canon Ixus 30. A small and versatile pocket digital camera. But I missed a lot being able to tweak some settings, having manual focus, aperture and exposition controls is fantastic. Moreover, it shoots in RAW.
Using it is quite easy if you have used a previous Canon model and if you have ever touched a digital reflex. It has a control rim around the lens, which (in some modes) can be used to control several adjustments: manual focus, focal distance, manual zoom, white balance and ISO speed. If you set the camera in Auto, it will work almost exactly as the Ixus 30 did.
In manual mode it is really fun to use. The lens ring controls focus, and the back control ring can be used to adjust aperture and shutter speed. Moreover, you can use a programmable buton to do whatever you want. For instance, to adjust ISO speed, or white balance.
It is a wonderful camera, and after reading this review, I was completely decided to buy it... And did it that same afternoon. You can check more reviews and buy it in Amazon (affiliate link).
The only thing I did not like about the camera is the security wrist strap that came in the box, and changed it for the one of my Ixus. The problem? It didn't have a strap length adjuster! What security comes from attaching it to your wrist without a strap?


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Odontopodisma rubripes é uma espécie de insecto da família Acrididae.

É endémica de Hungria.

Referências
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Tech companies are racing to sell dashboard-mounted cameras as part of electronic logging devices, yet another tool in an arsenal that Silicon Valley firms say will improve safety and shipment tracking while decreasing liability for trucking companies.
Video technology seems an odd fit given the solitude and independence of the trucker, putting a potential Big Brother on the dash. It was a concern raised by drivers to some firms, but once the technology exonerates drivers in accidents and fender benders, the concerns melt away and the drivers embrace it, according to one trucking firm official.


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Ellen Van Dijk Wins Final Stage of Lotto Thüringen!
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The Lotto Thüringen Ladies Tour wrapped up on Sunday with an Individual Time Trial Stage that saw Team Sunweb's Ellen van Dijk go fastest on the short course. The win brought the tally to three wins for the team during the 7-day stage race and six top-three finishes, good enough to claim the overall in the team classification. After another second place finish on Friday's stage 5...
Ellen Van Dijk won the final Time Trial stage of the Lotto Thüringen Ladies Tour by two seconds and finished second overall in the general classification for the 7-day stage race. Photo by Sean Robinson/Velofocus.com
The Lotto Thüringen Ladies Tour wrapped up on Sunday with an Individual Time Trial Stage that saw Team Sunweb's Ellen van Dijk go fastest on the short course. The win brought the tally to three wins for the team during the 7-day stage race and six top-three finishes, good enough to claim the overall in the team classification.
After another second place finish on Friday's stage 5 and a fifth place on stage 6, van Dijk had moved into the runner-up position for the overall general classification win. Coryn Rivera had fallen back to fourth place. Heading into the final stage, van Dijk sat just seven seconds off of the leader's jersey.
Racers set off on the time trial from the start/finish in Schmölln, climbing just 200m over the 18.7km course. The flat course suited the Team Sunweb women, with five team members finishing in the top 10 and van Dijk taking the win by two seconds. In the end, van Dijk's strong performance could not change the outcome of the GC and she finished second overall, with Lucinda Brand and Rivera rounding out the top four slots.
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Q: How to get a Type.Name that includes generic parameters? new List<int>().GetType().Name is List`1. How do I get a name more like List<int> (not List<T>)?

A: One way would be using new List<int>().GetType().ToString(), which returns System.Collections.Generic.List`1[System.Int32].
Or you could write yourself a small helper method along the lines of:
string GetShortName(Type type)
{
    string result = type.Name;
    if (type.IsGenericType)
    {
        // remove genric indication (e.g. `1)
        result = result.Substring(0, result.LastIndexOf('`'));

        result = string.Format(
            "{0}<{1}>",
            result,
            string.Join(", ",
                        type.GetGenericArguments().Select(t => GetShortName(t))));
    }

    return result;
}

which outputs strings like:
List<Int32>
List<T>
Dictionary<List<Double>, Int32>
Tuple<T1, T2, T3, T4>

Note that for nested types, this would return only the innermost name.

A: String.Format("{0}<{1}>",GetType().Name, typeof(T).Name)

Edit: es pointed out in the comment, this is usefull inside a generic class, f.e. to distinct individual generic type arguments for overloads of lets say ToString(). Most the time, there is no point in querying the {0} first argument above, since it does not change in the same class. So one could just as well use:
String.Format("List<{0}>", typeof(T).Name)

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"Джанго Зе" е българска поп-рок група, издавана от Старс Рекърдс. Популярно тяхно парче е "Луди жаби". Членовете на групата са от Варна, но по това време живеят в София. Джанго Зе гостуват при Слави в Шоуто на Слави през 2002. Печелят 3-то място на фестивала "Златния ключ". Групата се разпада, след като вокалистът Мирослав Атанасов заминава за Лондон. През 2010 година групата се събира отново. Бандата взима участие същата година на фестивала Spirit of Burgas и изнася концерти из страната. "Джанго Зе" има записани нови парчета и през 2011 година се очаква групата да издаде албум.

Състав
Първият състав на групата, е:
 Мирослав Атанасов (китара, вокали)
 Мирослав Данов (бас, вокали)
 Георги Варамезов (ударни)

Съставът понастоящем, с който групата записва новите си песни, е:
 Мирослав Атанасов (китара, вокали)
 Иво Николов (бас, вокали)
 Пламен Пеев (ударни)
 Галин Атанасов (клавишни, акордеон, вокали)

Дискография
 Луди жаби (2000)
 Джанго Зе (2001)

Външни препратки
 Джанго Зе "Двама" – видеоклип
 Интервю с Мирослав Атанасов – Морски (екс Джанго Зе) на Автора.ком
 Джанго Зе – албум

Източници

Български поп групи
Български рок групи
Музикални групи във Варна
Основани в България през 1999 година


The purpose of this group is to have one place to discuss using Twitter as a library tool.
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I am very pleased to be joining this discussion about Twitter as a tool in libraries. I actually have an interesting opportunity because I am working as a remote intern for Credo Reference this summer and my main focus is their Libraries Thriving community (http://www.librariesthriving.org)...which, obviously is not a physical library but is related to the library community. I recently started working on the social networking aspects of marketing the community and I just started using Twitter (@libsthriving) for this purpose. While the Facebook group and the LinkedIn group are interesting experiences for me as well, it's a little different with Twitter since I don't have a personal Twitter account and am therefore less than experienced with the tool. I'm finding that I've amassed followers by following others and I'm trying to create interesting little tweets to attract people to the Libraries Thriving community but I'm not sure how it's going. If you have any feedback on successful use of Twitter in this situation then please share and I am going to make use of all the advice that has been shared before I joined this group!
Library of Congress acquisition of the tweet archive got me thinking about cataloguing/classifying tweets and linking from library catalogues to tweet archives. I just wrote a short blog post about it.
Right now I am making lists of libraries per couuntry. Does anyone know if there are already groups made on twitter with an overview of all libraries per country?
Thx for the feedback. The few times I've tweeted about things digital (and not revolving around our library) I've gotten mixed responses from staff. Will keep experimenting.
My feeling is that you don't want students to follow you - which implies one way communication. What you have to do is start conversations. Social networking is a way to communicate differently. If you simply have press releases, or even (what you think) are interesting little tidbits, a few geeks will follow you, and the rest will ignore you. You have to determine how can you make your Twitter account a point of contact that offers something that students can't get by phone, email or in person.
I work in an academic library--how to get students to discover/follow us?


Oliver dedicated an extended segment in June to criticizing the coal industry, with a focus on Murray, including his frequent criticisms of former President Obama's "evil agenda," his lawsuits challenging regulations and his closeness with President Trump.
You can watch the John Oliver segment here.
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai received the Charlton Heston Courage Under Fire award at the Conservative Political Action Conference on Friday for his efforts to repeal the Obama-era net neutrality rules.
National Rifle Association Second Vice President Carolyn Meadows told Pai his award, which is sponsored by the organization, is a "Kentucky handmade long gun" that will be housed at the NRA's museum with a plaque until he can receive it.
To determine the states with the most gun violence, 24/7 Wall St. examined 2016 firearm-related deaths data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. We also considered violent crime rates from the Federal Bureau of Investigation's 2016 Uniform Crime Report. From the U.S. Census Bureau we reviewed poverty rates by state for 2016. Information on firearm policies for each state are from the National Rifle Association's Institute for Legislative Action.
West Virginia at 17.5 was 12th.
The similarities of states with the highest firearm-related death rates can also be telling. For example, the states with the highest gun death rates are often the states with relatively loose gun restrictions.


As Victoria rowers at the Elk Lake facility look towards the enhancement of the current boathouse, it is interesting to pause and look back at where we've come from as a major sport in the Victoria area. Of particular interest is the series of other venues used by Victoria's rowing family in years gone by.
Rowing became established as a natural pastime as early as 1865 in Victoria because of the Royal Navy Base in Esquimalt. Many of the settlers who flooded into Victoria at the time of the Fraser Gold Rush in 1858 were Englishmen. Rowing had been a favourite pastime in Britain where the Royal Henley Regatta had been established 20 years earlier.
Racers between naval officers and the civilian amateur oarsmen of Victoria were a natural outcome. Races on the Gorge and the Inner Harbour attracted hundreds of spectators. These rowing events were as much social gatherings as sporting events in the 1800s.
The first rowing club of Victoria was constituted in 1865 and was confusingly enough dubbed "The Vancouver Rowing Club". It had a remarkable membership count of 75. However, the rowing club to withstand the test of time was the James Bay Athletic Association formed in 1886. In 1891, after a five year stint in an old fire hall, JBAA built a new clubhouse on the Inner Harbour at the foot of Menzies Street.
Rowing moved into the 20th century and continued to exist in Victoria in one form or another. In 1927, after years of offers and threats from Canadian Pacific Railway, which owned the property and dock next to the James Bay clubhouse on the Inner Harbour, JBAA finally sold the property to the CPR in exchange for some property on the Gorge. The new property, with several acres of water frontage, allowed for a gym, a recreational hall, tennis courts, a bowling green and a boathouse. Belonging to the club on the Gorge was a status symbol and most members were prominent locals. However, when the depression struck, it gradually took its toll on the club, and in 1938 the clubhouse was sold and became a beer parlour. The JBAA moved to Roberts Street in Esquimalt.
World War II hit, and when James Bay oar men returned from the war in 1945, it was only to discover that their Roberts Street Clubhouse was now inhabited by Sea Cadets. The rowing executive sold the upstairs portion of the clubhouse to the Sea Cadets and was given a 99 year lease on the basement where the shells would be kept.
Club morale dropped, there were problems between the executive and the oarsmen. In 1952, the James Bay oarsmen left and moved their headquarters to the northwest corner of Elk Lake where they took out a 99 year lease with Victoria. They built a wooden shack to house the shells through donations of volunteer labour and supplies.
The new rowing club called itself the Victoria City Rowing Club and changed its colours from the blue and white of James Bay to green and white, the official colours of Victoria. The University of Victoria got its start in rowing when gold medal Olympian, Lorne Loomer, became UVic's first rowing coach. Loomer put the UVic boys on the same intensive program he had been on under UBC/VRC coach Frank Read, and within two years, UVic defeated the powerhouse UBC.
In 1986, the boathouse operation was moved from the northwest corner of the lake to its current location, and provides a base of operation for the Canadian National Team, the University of Victoria, Victoria City Rowing Club, and the Greater Victoria Youth Rowing Society.
Currently the building houses over 437 boat seats and is home to some 1470 resident rowers most of whom are included in the 4800, or more, regatta participants who use the facility annually. Over the past 20 years, since the present building was constructed, the sport of rowing has grown in popularity, especially amongst the National Team, High School, Youth Learn-to-Row and the Community Corporate Challenge programs, and the boathouse is feeling the growing pains, it was clear that additional boat storage space would soon required.
Two conceptual plans and two studies later, a final version, aimed at providing better facilities for our existing users, and their equipment, was developed and presented at a Public Meeting in 2006. The Capital Regional District and Saanich approvals followed and initial work on Phases 1 and 2 commenced late in 2009.
With the recent completion of Phase 3 in the summer of 2011, the renewal project surpassed all original expectations, thanks to the extreme generosity of many rowers, their families, other supporters and a dedicated fund-raising committee. These donations enabled VRS to provide the required matching funding for the greatly appreciated Federal Government assistance, made available through the Recreational Infrastructure Canada Program. The Province of BC also made a significant contribution.
Phase 4, an addition to the project made possible by a generous grant from the Greater Victoria Savings Credit Union, is providing a sectional drive-on safety boat storage dock, which will double as boat-holder platforms during regattas. This innovative concept was successfully tested last summer during the RCA Canadian Masters Championship Regatta.
Donations to the on-going VRS fundraising campaign for creation of a Legacy Fund would be very much appreciated.


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Samsung Galaxy Grand Prime S920C is a 5-inch smartphone from Samsung Electronics. It runs Android 5.1.1 Lollipop out of the box and is powered by a 1.2Ghz quad-core processor. It is a CDMA phone activated on Verizon network, so before ordering one, be sure to check that you have Verizon network coverage in your home area. The Samsung Galaxy Grand Prime S920C boasts some of the best features likely to be found on high-end phones and I think you will love it. Personally, I liked the wide-angle front camera on the device - a feature not likely to be found on phones within the low-end range. Here's my hands-on review of the Galaxy Grand Prime S920C.
You can order for your Samsung Galaxy Grand Prime S920C from Straight Talk. When you open your package, you should expect to find the following; the phone, Battery, Wall Charger, standard USB cable, a pair of stereo headsets, service guide and other user manuals. Setting up the phone is a quick process which takes about 10 minutes. If you are switching from another phone, Samsung has made the switch automated by providing software to handle the process. Using the Samsung Smart Switch, you can transfer contacts, text messages, and media from your old smartphone to your new Galaxy Grand Prime.
Samsung never disappoints with their designs, especially if the device being launched falls in the Galaxy Line of phones. The Samsung Galaxy Grand Prime S920C boasts a sophisticated and sleek design with elegant curves and a brushed metallic bezel. With a very slim frame that fits perfectly in your palm, operating the phone on the go is effortless.
The exterior layout is pretty typical. We have the power button on the right edge while the volume rockers are located on the left edge of the device. Coming to the upper edge, we have the headphone jack and a noise cancellation mic. The bottom edge holds the micro-USB charging port as well as your microphone.
Coming to the front, we have the 5-inch TFT display. A thin bezel surrounds it. The front-facing camera sits on the upper right side of the screen. At the bottom, just below the screen, we have the three navigation buttons; the recent apps button sits on the left, the home button in the middle and the back button on the right.
It has a plastic back cover which holds the back camera, a LED flash, and your main speaker. Popping off the back reveals the battery, and SIM and microSD slots. The battery is removable.
One of the impressive features on the Samsung Galaxy Grand Prime S920C is the camera. On the back, we have an 8MP camera, and the front-facing camera is 5MP. However, the back camera defaults to 6MP, so you have to go into settings and adjust to 8MP to enjoy the full resolution. Both cameras performed exceptionally for me. The higher resolutions for both the front and back camera brings out clarity and sharpness in photos. The camera has autofocus to bring out the subject against a blurred background.
Shooting modes on the camera include Auto, Selfie, Wide Selfie, Beauty Face, Panorama, Continuous shot, night, and animated GIF. Taking a selfie using rear camera is supported by the Rear-cam Selfie mode which lets the camera detect and focus your face automatically. The HDR mode is available for capturing photos with vibrant colors and reproduce details even in bright and dark areas.
I noticed the camera captures great photos in default mode, but still, if you would like to experiment with the camera, you can adjust different settings like ISO, white balance, geotagging, video size and more.
The camera captures videos at 30fps with a quality of 1080p. Shooting videos with such quality puts the Galaxy Grand Prime head to head with the high-end smartphones in the market.
Overall video and image quality are exceptional for a phone in this price range. It was amazing to notice that Samsung didn't refrain from giving the Samsung Galaxy Grand Prime S920C similar camera experience as that found in high-end phones. This budget smartphone promises decent photos.
While most phones in this price range have 4 or 4.5-inch screens, the Samsung Galaxy Grand Prime S920C brings you a wider viewing angle with the 5-inch display and a better screen resolution of 960x540 pixels. The display brings photos to life with credible details and vibrant color that appeals to the eye.
I also noticed the screen to be very responsive even to the slightest touch. In fact, there's no lag when scrolling through different screens, and I think that's a great thing.
Now coming to the brightness; I can say it is at a decent level. Viewing angles are great while indoors. While outdoors in bright sunlight, the screen comes up slightly dim and you might struggle a bit when viewing the screen from angles.
I did find video quality and gaming experience to be good on the 5-inch display. The screen responds considerably well when it comes to zooming in and out of videos. I liked the display, as it brought me more value for the money.
The Samsung Galaxy Grand Prime S920C gives you an internal storage of 8GB which is quite typical for entry-level devices. I have probably filled mine with so many apps already. One thing Samsung did great on this device is a provision for an external microSD card slot which can accommodate a memory card with a capacity of up to 64GB. The microSD card is not included in the box, but storage is relatively affordable, and you can order from your nearest electronic store anytime. Still, the internal storage is pretty large if you only need the necessary apps on your phone. The external SD card is needed for videos and bigger game applications.
Battery capacity is incredible. It's not every day you find a 2600mAh on a phone within this price range. With the Samsung Galaxy Grand Prime S920C, you don't have to worry about carrying your charger to work. Samsung rates the battery life at 25 hours Talk time and 18 days standby. It can hold 11 hours of video play and up to 80 hours of audio play. In my daily usage, the phone could last up to 10 hours on normal usage, and up to 6 hours when gaming or using heavy data apps like live map navigation and video streaming. For normal usage, you are looking at a full work day without having to recharge. Given that I consider battery life when making a new phone purchase, the Samsung Galaxy Grand Prime S920C brought me more value than I expected.
The Samsung Galaxy Grand Prime S920C comes running the Touch Wiz UI on top of Android 5.1.1 Lollipop. Touch Wiz is the same UI used in high-end Samsung phones, only that it's scaled down a bit to be accommodated by the processor and memory of the Samsung Galaxy Grand Prime S920C. All the same, you get almost a similar UI experience as that of high-end devices.
Now coming to the hardware resources; the phone ships with a powerful Qualcomm Snapdragon 410 quad-core processor based on 64-bit architecture running at 1.2GHz. Accompanying this processor is 1GB of RAM and Adreno 306 GPU. These resources are equipped to handle all the stuff an entry-level can be subjected to without lagging. Navigating on Android 5.1.1 Lollipop generates smooth animations which are well experienced on the Galaxy Grand Prime S920C, thanks to the powerful resources.
I found internet connectivity to be impressive. Data transfer is super-fast since it's 4G LTE enabled. When browsing on Google Chrome, page load and rendering were pretty fast with a few tabs open which is ideal for an entry-level phone. Navigating using live Google Maps is also an amazing experience. The Maps application loads location data in an instant and it's also very responsive on zooming in and out.
The phone navigation buttons include a recent apps button which brings in an element of multitasking. I found this button very useful when switching between my recently launched apps without going through the app drawer every time. It saves time, for example, if you are copying text from a browser into your messaging applications. Too many apps running in the background, puts a constraint on the memory leading to some sluggishness. The recent apps button gives you an option to free up the memory.
The device includes common connectivity features like Wi-Fi and of course Bluetooth 4.1. Sensors enabled on the device include proximity and accelerometer. For Navigation and location services it has GPS. I was also impressed to realize the device has support for NFC (Near Field Communication). With NFC you can use features like Android Pay and make quick payments straight from your device.
8MP back camera. 5MP front camera.
Battery Capacity: 2600mAh. Talk time up to 25 hours. Standby time up to 18 days.
Internal Storage 8 GB. Supports microSD card up to 64GB.
Dimensions: 5.70''(H) x 2.83''(W) x 0.34''(D) inches.
Processor: Qualcomm Snapdragon 1.2 GHz Quad-core processor.
NFC (Near Field Communication) enabled.


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In what local authorities are describing as a first-time meteorological event, a tornado on Monday touched down in Georgia.
The Interfax news agency, quoting local officials, said the storm, which occurred in the Tsalendzikhsky and Zugdidsky districts, lasted about 15 minutes.
"Eyewitnesses said the sky suddenly darkened and a tornado funnel started breaking trees and lifting up roofs," a representative of the local administration said.
There were no reported injuries, but the tornado destroyed power lines and damaged over 100 houses.
Tornado claims 9 in U.S.


I cannot wait to get started on this list of books!
Hey, I didn't know that A Dog's Purpose was also a book! Ya learn something new every day. With all the drama surrounding the movie, maybe I'll just read the book considering I really wanted to see that.


WWD – The store is located on Via Gesù and is the first European unit for the company.
Although the street is also dubbed the Via dell'Uomo, or "men's street," Browne emphasized that the flagship also displays the brand's women's ready-to-wear, which is growing. "I love that it carries both," said the designer. Men's wear today represents two-thirds of sales.
Via Gesù is a few steps away from luxury shopping street Via Montenapoleone and is home to the Four Seasons Hotel and brands ranging from Caruso and Rubinacci to Brioni and Stefano Ricci. "I started from tailoring," said Browne, emphasizing the brand's fit with the street. The opening confirms a WWD report last month.
The Milan store is part of a new expansion strategy following Sandbridge Capital's acquisition of a majority stake in Thom Browne last May from Japan's Stripe International. Stripe retains a minority stake. Sandbridge's other investments include stakes in Derek Lam, Tamara Mellon, Farfetch, Rossignol, Topshop and Karl Lagerfeld.
Bazan said that in the first or second week of June, the company will open a shop in London, which will be located in Mayfair on Albemarle Street. These steps reflect the relevance of the European market, which accounts for 40 percent of sales. The company does not reveal its revenues.
In particular, Italy has a special meaning for Browne, who produces "almost everything" in the country, except for cashmere in Scotland and shoes in Northampton, observed Bazan. Browne also designs the Moncler Gamme Bleu line, which shows in Milan. Moncler chairman and chief executive officer Remo Ruffini was in the store on Thursday morning to congratulate Browne.
The designer shows his men's collections in Paris and his women's in New York, but he made his European debut in January 2009, presenting his fall collection at international men's wear trade show Pitti Uomo in Florence as its featured guest designer.
The brand is available at 30 multibrand stores in Italy.
Bazan said the company is expanding, leveraging "three pillars: the product has substance; consistency and clarity of the message." The executive explained that the group is "focusing on a direct-to-consumer formula," boosting the reach and breadth of its online store, which is directly managed, and its communication. Omnichannel is key, he said. To that end, the company is further building its team and Bazan revealed the appointment of Tori Vinton as vice president of global public relations; Kelly Connor as director of brand relations, and Matthew Foley as director of brand content. Tomaso Galli, while retaining his own independent business, has been tapped as senior vice president of marketing and communications.
Bazan noted that the furniture is also for sale, if a customer is keen to purchase a piece.
The brand is available at over 250 leading department store and specialty boutiques across 40 countries as well as online and through 19 directly operated flagships in New York, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Beijing and Seoul.


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Durham, New Hampshire
• Town Council
Katherine "Kitty" Marple, Chair
Charles "Dinny" Waters
Wayne Burton
Allan Howland
Andrew Corrow
Sally Tobias
Sally Needell
Carden Welsh
Charles "Chuck" Hotchkiss
• Town Administrator
Todd I. Selig
24.7 sq mi (64.1 km2)
2.4 sq mi (6.1 km2) 9.50%
50 ft (20 m)
691/sq mi (266.8/km2)
UTC-5 (EST)
UTC-4 (EDT)
GNIS feature ID
www.ci.durham.nh.us
Durham is a town in Strafford County, New Hampshire, United States. The population was 15,490 at the 2020 census,[2] up from 14,638 at the 2010 census.[3] Durham is home to the University of New Hampshire.
The primary settlement in the town, where 11,147 people resided at the 2020 census,[4] is defined by the U.S. Census Bureau as the Durham census-designated place (CDP) and includes the densely populated portion of the town centered on the intersection of New Hampshire Route 108 and Main Street, which includes the university that dominates the town.
General view of UNH in 1913
Durham sits beside Great Bay at the mouth of the Oyster River, an ideal location for people who lived close to the land, like the Western Abenaki and their ancestors who've lived in the region for an estimated 11,000 years.[5] The Shankhassick[6] (now Oyster) River provided shellfish and access to the north woods for hunting and trapping; the sea provided food and access to long-established trade routes between tribes both north and south; and the open meadows provided land easy to cultivate for crops. Wecannecohunt (or Wecohamet),[7] as the settlement was known until the English arrived, proved immediately attractive to them, too.[5]
The English first appropriated Abenaki land in 1622 when King James I granted two Englishmen "all that part or porcon of that country now commonly called New-England," including every island within 100 miles of the coast and "all the lands, soyle, grounds, havens, ports, rivers, mines, ... minerals, pearls and pretious stones, woods, queries, marshes waters, fishings, hunting, hawking, fowling, commodities and hereditaments whatsoever."[8] Ferdinando Gorges and John Mason agreed to split the vast tract along the Piscataqua River (still known by its Abenaki name pesgatak was, for "the water looks dark").[9] Gorges took the tract to the east and named it Maine. Mason took the land to west and named it New Hampshire.[10] The region was first named "N'dakinna".[11] It is the traditional ancestral homeland of the Abenaki, Pennacook and Wabanaki peoples.[12]
Colonists first arrived in Wecannecohunt in 1622, the year of the Gorges-Mason grant.[13] They spent their earliest years fishing, cutting, and trapping to sell salted fish, lumber, and fur to European markets. By 1633, colonists were spread along the tidal shores of the Oyster River, and by 1640, they were "in 'recognized possession' of lands up to the fall line."[14] Colonial Durham was first known as the Oyster River Plantation.[13] Had the colonists adopted the farming practices of those native to Wecannecohunt, they might have spared themselves sweat, bloodshed, and strife. The English always brought non-native livestock aboard their ships, "thousands of cattle, swine, sheep, and horses," requiring them to clear acres merely for pasture. Wecannecohunt's fields, carefully cultivated across centuries, were trampled and their crops destroyed. "The animals exacerbated a host of problems related to subsistence practices, land use, property rights and, ultimately, political authority." When violence between the colonized and the colonizers erupted, livestock were frequently killed. The Abenaki saw them as a direct threat to their food supply.[15]
During King William's War, on July 18, 1694, the English settlement was attacked in the Raid on Oyster River by French career soldier Claude-Sébastien de Villieu with about 250 Abenaki from Norridgewock under command of their sagamore Bomazeen (or Bomoseen). In all, 104 inhabitants were killed and 27 taken captive,[16] with half the dwellings, including the garrisons, pillaged and burned to the ground.
Oyster River was part of Dover throughout its first century.[13] The Plantation was granted rights as an independent parish in 1716 and incorporated as a township in 1732 when it was renamed Durham.[17] Rev. Hugh Adams claimed to have proposed the name "Durham" in an address to the General Assembly in 1738.[18][19] Two of the earliest settlers of Dover were William and Edward Hilton, the direct descendants of Sir William de Hilton, Lord of Hilton Castle in County Durham, England, but there is nothing to prove that Durham was named in their honor.
Benjamin Thompson, a descendant of an early settler, bequeathed his assets and family estate, Warner Farm, to the state for the establishment of an agricultural college.[20][21] Founded in 1866 in Hanover, the New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts moved to Durham in 1893 and became the University of New Hampshire in 1923. Thompson Hall, built in 1892 with an iconic clock tower, is named in his honor. Designed in the Romanesque Revival style by the Concord architectural firm of Dow & Randlett, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.[22]
On October 22, 1999, Durham was the site of a debate between Republican candidates in the 2000 Presidential Election. Future president George W. Bush was present, along with other notable Republicans of the era, such as John McCain, Alan Keyes, Steve Forbes, and Gary Bauer.[23] The debate became the subject of a skit on Saturday Night Live which featured Darrell Hammond playing then President Bill Clinton.[24]
In 2017, Durham became the first community in New Hampshire to recognize Indigenous Peoples' Day in place of Columbus Day.[25] In 2018, the Oyster River Cooperative School District, which includes Durham, Lee and Madbury, adopted Indigenous Peoples' Day on its school calendar.[26]
Over the years the people of Durham have created several libraries:
Durham Social Library (1815-1857): This library was incorporated by act of the New Hampshire Legislature in 1815. The library contained several hundred books and had a membership numbering nearly 50.
Durham Agricultural Library (1862-1881): Formed Feb. 3, 1862, with Benjamin Thompson as president, this library was small (approximately 72 books) and vocationally-based.
Durham Social Library (1881-1892): Organized March 9, 1881, the library had a membership of 80 and several hundred books. In 1883 the Richardson house was purchased to house the library. It eventually merged with the Durham Public Library.
Durham Public Library (1892-1906): Established in 1892 through the provisions of a New Hampshire state act, this was the town's first "public" library. It contained more than 3,500 books and eventually merged with the library of the New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts.
Library of the New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts (1893- ): Came to Durham with the arrival of the College in 1893. Initially, the College housed the library in a single room in Thompson Hall. In 1900 Hamilton Smith gave the University $10,000 to construct a library, another $20,000 was obtained from Andrew Carnegie. In 1907 – a year after the town and the college agreed to merge their collective library resources – the building (Hamilton Smith Hall) was completed.[27]
Dimond Library (1958): The construction of a new building on the University of New Hampshire's campus brought a new library into the modern age. Recognizable columns such as at the Hamilton Smith Hall were replace with bolder designs that allowed the library to look more towards the future for inspiration.
In March 1997 by a margin of 2-1, Durham voters passed a charter amendment to establish a Board of Trustees and allow plans for a new library to go forward. In July 1997 a temporary space was found for the new Public Library in a storefront between the dollar store and a pizzeria. Under the guidance of the Trustees and a newly formed Friends of the Library group, many volunteer townspeople come forward to sheetrock, paint, assemble shelves, and unpack and shelve 719 boxes of books. On July 21, 1997 a dedication ceremony was held for the new library, with Governor Jeanne Shaheen as the keynote speaker. It was the first new public library to be established in New Hampshire in almost a century. In July 2013 a new public library building was completed on Madbury Road.
A police force of some manner has served Durham since at least 1848.[28] Durham Police Department is made up of 20 full-time and part-time officers and provides service 24-hours a day.[29]
The Police Department's Adopt-A-Cop program was instituted in 1999 to improve relationships between University of New Hampshire fraternities. Each fraternity is assigned a police officer who attends house meetings and events and acts a liaison between the fraternity and the community.[30]
Fire department and EMS
The first fire department organization in Durham was organized in 1927 and the first salaried firefighter was employed in 1934.[31]
The Durham Fire Department is one of the few fire departments in the country that is funded by both a municipality and a university.[31]
In addition, McGregor Memorial EMS is a regional, non-profit organization delivering emergency medical services and education to the New Hampshire Seacoast area since 1968.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 24.7 square miles (64.1 km2), of which 22.4 square miles (58.0 km2) are land and 2.4 square miles (6.1 km2) are water, comprising 9.50% of the town.[1] The town is drained by the Oyster River. The highest point in Durham is Beech Hill, at 291 feet (89 m) above sea level, located on the town's northern border.[32] Durham lies fully within the Piscataqua River (coastal) watershed.[33]
Adjacent municipalities
Madbury, New Hampshire (north)
Dover, New Hampshire (northeast)
Newington, New Hampshire (east)
Newmarket, New Hampshire (south)
Lee, New Hampshire (west)
Amtrak's Downeaster train provides five round trips daily through Durham–UNH station, with service north to Portland, Freeport, and Brunswick, Maine, and south to Boston's North Station.
1800 1,126 −9.7%
1820 1,538 6.1%
1870 1,298 −15.4%
1880 962 −25.9%
1890 871 −9.5%
U.S. Decennial Census[2][34]
Hamilton Smith Hall c. 1920
The demographics of the town of Durham are strongly influenced by the presence of the campus of the University of New Hampshire. As of the census of 2010, there were 14,638 people, 2,960 households, and 1,544 families residing in the town. There were 3,092 housing units, of which 132, or 4.3%, were vacant. 7,266 town residents lived in group quarters such as dormitories, rather than in households. The racial makeup of the town was 93.8% white, 0.9% African American, 0.1% Native American, 3.2% Asian, 0.01% Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander, 0.4% some other race, and 1.6% from two or more races. 2.0% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.[35]
Of the 2,960 households, 23.0% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 45.8% were headed by married couples living together, 4.4% had a female householder with no husband present, and 47.8% were non-families. 25.2% of all households were made up of individuals, and 10.2% were someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.49, and the average family size was 2.94.[35]
In the town, 8.6% of the population were under the age of 18, 64.3% were from 18 to 24, 7.7% from 25 to 44, 12.5% from 45 to 64, and 6.9% were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 21.0 years. For every 100 females, there were 85.7 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 83.5 males.[35]
For the period 2011-2015, the estimated median annual income for a household was $71,190, and the median income for a family was $120,039. Male full-time workers had a median income of $72,197 versus $58,750 for females. The per capita income for the town was $22,650. 24.5% of the population and 1.4% of families were below the poverty line. 0.7% of the population under the age of 18 and 5.1% of those 65 or older were living in poverty.[36]
Sam Fuld
Jack Edwards (b. 1957),[37] play-by-play announcer for the Boston Bruins
Daniel Ford (b. 1931), writer
Sam Fuld (b. 1981), outfielder in Major League Baseball during 2007–2015, General Manager of the Philadelphia Phillies from 2020-present
Louise Janin (1893–1997), painter
Manuela Lutze (b. 1974), four-time Olympic rower, two-time Olympic gold medalist[citation needed]
Joyce Maynard (b. 1953), writer
Hercules Mooney (1715–1800), lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Revolutionary War
Don Murray (1924–2006), journalist
Deron Quint (b. 1976), defenseman with six NHL teams
Alexander Scammel (1747–1781), colonel of the 3rd New Hampshire Regiment
Daniel C. Stillson (1826–1899), inventor of the Stillson pipe wrench
Historical marker for Major General John Sullivan
John Sullivan (1740–1795), Revolutionary War general
Ben Sulsky (b. 1987), professional poker player
Benjamin Thompson (1806–1890), farmer, businessman and benefactor of U.N.H.
Durham Historic Association & Museum[38]
New Hampshire Historical Marker No. 8: Site of Piscataqua Bridge
New Hampshire Historical Marker No. 50: Oyster River Massacre
New Hampshire Historical Marker No. 89: Major General John Sullivan, 1740–1795
New Hampshire Historical Marker No. 154: Packer's Falls
Pettee Hall
Taylor Hall
Murkland Hall
Thompson Hall
Dimond Library
St. Thomas More Parish
Downtown at Madbury Road and Main Street
Babcock Hall
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New Hampshire Economic and Labor Market Information Bureau Profile
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Reading and Politics
I had always avoided reading Kipling until recently. His stories were for boys, I thought, his poems were brassy anthems to Victorian values, and, most off-putting, his ideology was an argument for empire. Calling him a "gutter patriot," and worse, Orwell said of him, "It is no use pretending that Kipling's view of life, as a whole, can be accepted or even forgiven by any civilised person." The judgment of critics and history seemed to have been pronounced. I felt no need to acquaint myself with Kipling.
Then, recently, it occurred to me that my objections were misplaced. I have long believed we, the United States, are an imperial power and have been one since we conquered the Philippines in 1899. (Arguably, our ideology of manifest destiny made us a land empire in the Bismarckian style from very early in our history, but I set aside that more disputable claim. Call it the Drang nach Westen and leave it in brackets.) At the very least, when we became a global maritime power in the late 19th century, we picked up many of the same imperial strands of foreign policy long held by Great Britain, including, most visibly, involvement in the Middle East. Might it not be helpful to understand how Kipling's letters cultivated Britain's imperial attitude, that we might find parallels in our own case?
The first thing I discovered is that Kipling's infamous "The White Man's Burden," which I had always just assumed was an idle piece of colonialist jingoism, was actually calculated propaganda—a direct appeal to America to take over Britain's role as the world's leading proponent of muscular Christianity. Kipling wrote "The White Man's Burden" in 1899 expressly for the consideration of U.S. political leaders as their forces were conquering the Philippines and Washington was eyeing the rest of the Pacific Rim for colonial prizes. "Go ahead," Kipling said, in so many words. Although it's hard to judge the political impact of his poem, there is no doubt of Kipling's intent: he openly abetted the original sin that ended our republic and turned it into an empire.
(It is worth recalling a homegrown, American reaction to the Philippine conquest and its sequel, the Spanish American War. Mark Twain, rather than cheering imperialism on, militated strongly against it, saying he never wished to see the American Eagle's talons sunk into a foreign nation. Twain clearly saw us surrendering something essentially American when we gained an empire—our belief in the imperative to live and let live.)
Today, we should take an unflinching look at the core myths of "The White Man's Burden." First is the idea that the imperial power conquers foreign lands for the good of the conquered. Try as the natives might have done, those "sullen peoples, half devil and half child," have just not been able to arrange a decent life for themselves. They keep bowing to a Big Man and penuriously trading cloths and fruits with one another rather than building parliaments and railroads. Please recall that, after briefly declaring our military aim in invading Iraq in 2003—keeping that African yellow cake out of al-Qaeda's hands—the talking heads of government spent months playing up, instead, our mission to make Iraq safe for democracy. The Babylonian natives were finally ready for political enlightenment, we deemed. As W himself put it, the blessings of liberty were a gift from God, to which all nations could attain. Our forces were doing the Lord's work, delivering freedom through the barrel of a gun. Kipling could not have hoped for a finer distillation of his words.
A side note: by clearing the tyrant Saddam away, we would open the local market to the riches of global trade. Bathed in new money, the savages would be diverted from tribal hatreds and violent rebellion: peace would descend. (See Naomi Klein's The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism for a lively study of this kind of project.)
A second myth is the thanklessness of the conquered. Silly things that they are, the natives cannot make out our benevolent wishes at the hot core of violent liberation. So the conquering hero must cultivate a serene ability to weather their slings and arrows. Kipling is, as usual, literal on this point. Although we
". . . seek another's profit
And work another's gain,"
This is what we can expect in return:
The blame of those ye better
The hate of those ye guard."
As propaganda, this sentiment is highly useful. It pre-fabricates a narrative to justify carrying on when the natives seem most violently to resist our good intentions. When, say, a U.S. president needs to calm the homefront and assure them their troops are doing the right thing despite rousing murderous opposition in some far-flung province, there is nothing quite so impressive as the solemn appeal to our selfless virtue. We are better than them.
And our essential goodness puts us on the right side of history, a very good place to be. The natives may rage against us today, but our sacrifices are made for an eternal principle, which will win out in the end, because it must.
And what, in the end, do we get for being in the right? The usual: terror and resistance. Kipling's brief lines on this subject are haunting. They sketch a scene that needs only a slight shift to prefigure the blast of a thousand IEDs in Iraq and Afghanistan. Kipling on the occupying soldier's lot:
To wait in heavy harness
Half devil and half child
In patience to abide
And check the show of pride.
The most obvious lesson to be learned from "The White Man's Burden," which Kipling takes no pains to disguise, is that empire does not pay. The imperial power is left exhausted, seeking a fresh ally to take up his fight. But whoever assumes the burden, Kipling warns, must do it for a higher cause.
If decline and fall is the inevitable fate of empire, might it not be instructive to view the subject from the perspective of high tide, just as the imperial power and glory start to fade? Kipling does just this in the beautiful "Recessional," a poem written to mark Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee in 1897. Rather than celebrating the high occasion, though, Kipling plays prophet and reminds the Britons that their empire is doomed if it does not remain rooted in Christian virtue—a flat contradiction if there ever was one.
Kipling's melding of muscular Christianity with adventurous militarism will feel familiar to almost all Americans today. Though written more than one hundred years ago, the first stanza of "Recessional" stirs the same pieties that today's Christian masses associate with our wars. (Do we not expect each president to kneel in prayer with a chaplain as part of the pre-game show?) Kipling strikes the religious tone:
God of our fathers, known of old,
Lord of our far-flung battle-line,
Beneath whose awful Hand we hold
Dominion over palm and pine—
Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet,
Lest we forget—lest we forget!
Beautiful as the words are, they tell an old, tedious story of national grandeur, of which it seems any reasonable people would have tired by now—that God is on our side. I would hope that fewer and fewer Americans can bring themselves to believe this myth, but those who do should ponder how closely their position lies to that of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps. Of all the labels it would seem sensible to drop, holy warrior stands out.
Just two stanzas later in "Recessional," Kipling officially kills the party mood by admitting as prosaically as a poet can that empires end in military defeat, and the present one can fare no differently:
Far-called, our navies melt away;
On dune and headland sinks the fire:
Lo, all our pomp of yesterday
Is one with Nineveh and Tyre!
Judge of the Nations, spare us yet,
The next stanza, though, provides the salve that all "real" winners eventually apply, the comfort of having played the better game even if the final score indicated a loss. We at least have law and decency on our side:
If, drunk with sight of power, we loose
Wild tongues that have not Thee in awe,
Such boastings as the Gentiles use,
Or lesser breeds without the Law—
So where does our public virtue, our need to do unrequited good come from? From our sturdy, Boy Scout values. (Scan P.G. Wodehouse, by the way, for Boy Scout characters, and just see if you can find a happy effect produced by their daily good turns. I absolutely loved being a Boy Scout, but I also know why Wodehouse turns to Baden-Powell's crew when he needs a child to poke his nose into grownups' business.)
In his deservedly famous poem "If," Kipling lays out the full slate of virtues called forth by the public spirit and the adventurous heart. Only four stanzas long, it is worth recalling in full:
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;
If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim;
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:
And never breathe a word about your loss;
Except the Will which says to them: 'Hold on!'
Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And—which is more—you'll be a Man, my son!
It doesn't require me to point out how salutary most of this is. Some of it is even sublime, especially the insight into the illusory nature of triumph and disaster. (No less a figure than Kafka heralds the abolition of difference between those two "impostors.") But "If" is, in the end, a speech to a boy, which locates the chief contests of life—racing, gambling, public speaking—in fields of action where men seek excellence. It would be stupid of me to say that other, neglected virtues must be femine specialties, but it is striking to note what is missing from "If"—instances of compassion, inclusion or tolerance, for example.
The most rewarding discovery I made in reading Kipling for his politics was that, not all his stories (or poems) are for boys. Kim, which has a reputation as a mere adventure tale, is actually a subtle study in cultural identity. The pull between Eastern and Western selves, which Kipling explores masterfully, with all due parallax, also lies at the dark heart of almost all of Orhan Pamuk's novels and some of Joseph Conrad's. The Light That Failed, although melodramatic, is another thoroughly grownup novel, dealing as it does with self-worth, romantic obsession and the enduring value of camaradery.
Despite inveighing so heavily against Kipling, Orwell ultimately gives him the credit that literary longevity commands. Kipling remains well known and higly quotable (if usually out of context). His poems are, according to Orwell, "vulgar thought vigorously expressed." In fact their durability may consist precisely in this formula. Who recalls George W. Bush's rather lame protest that he made war reluctantly because he was "a loving guy"? Who remembers "Bring it on"? I thought so.


Professor Scott is the Executive Director of the TJRyan Foundation which is sponsored by the Queensland branch of the Australian Labor Party and the Queensland Council of Unions.
Emeritus Professor Roger Scott holds a BA with first class honours in political science and ancient history and a Diploma of Public Administration from the University of Tasmania.. His academic career began in 1962 when he was appointed Rhodes Scholar at the University of Oxford. The fieldwork for his doctoral thesis on the development of trade unions in Uganda was completed while he was a Rockefeller Teaching Fellow at the University of East Africa, Kampala. From 1965-1977 he held teaching appointments at the University of Sydney, the Queen's University of Belfast, and the Canberra College of Advanced Education.
Over his long career, he has provided advice to overseas governments across a range of topics, starting with minimum wages in Uganda and including issues of public sector reform in Kazakhstan and Nepal and courses on development administration for students from Africa, Papua New Guinea and the Pacific.
In 1977 he was appointed J.D.Story Professor of Public Administration, University of Queensland. He was responsible for introducing the Master of Public Policy Course. He served as President of the Academic Board, 1986-1987.
In 1987 he became Principal of the Canberra CAE, then became Foundation Vice-Chancellor when the CCAE became the University of Canberra.
From 1990-1994 he served as Director General of Education, Queensland.
Since his retirement from full-time employment in 2001, he has held sessional and then honorary appointments at the University of Queensland in the School of Political Science and International Studies.
Between 2009 and 2013 he was Project Director on an oral history project "Queensland Speaks" in the Centre for the Government of Queensland within the School of History, Philosophy, Religion and Classics.
He has been a member or chair of several Quality Assessment Panels of the Queensland Office of Higher Education and a member of similar bodies in several states during the College of Advanced Education era. He also served on several Federal Government committees of enquiry into education, including management education (Ralph Committee), aboriginal education (Yunipingu Committee), and university management (Linke Committee).


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Q: Resizing the Root and Home directory I had partitioned Ubuntu during installation as; Root 70GB and Home 50GB. Now Root has free space of 60GB and Home is Full.
I would like to free some space say 20GB from Root and allocate it to Home. So finally expecting be like, Root with 50GB and Home with 70GB.
Note: It is a dual boot system with Windows 10 and Ubuntu

Since i am new to linux, i want to know,

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*Is it allowed to resize the Root and Home as i mentioned above

*Will it have any harmful effect

*If it is allowed, please tell me on how to do it

Thanks

A: You can indeed move and resize partitions. Whether you can preserve existing data depends on the current situation.
Reverting to just a / partition
If you are new with linux, I would recommend you to stick to the default, i.e., having a single system partition containing your /home folder. That could be very fast: you just delete the /home partition, and then expand the root partition to fill all the space (in the assumption that your / is to the left of your /home).

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*You will need to copy /home first to a removable medium that is formatted with a linux file system (ext4) such that file attributes and permissions are preserved in the copy. When done, copy the contents of that home back to the /home on the system partition

*While the system will startup when the /home partition is gone, you still would need to remove the line that contains /home in your system file /etc/fstab: that line causes the system to attempt mounting a partition that does not anymore exist.

Resizing the partitions
Alternatively, you could indeed decrease the size of the root partition (might be relatively slow because some data may need to be moved), then move the /home partition over to the left (will certainly be slow) and finally enlarge the /home partition (fast).
How to repartition
To repartition, you need to start up a live session (Installation DVD or USB), where you can load gparted for the partitioning. You apply changes in the graphical interface, then press the "Apply" button to carry out the change. I recommend here to proceed stepwise, i.e., do one change, hit apply and only continue if all goes well. Eventually, an error may pop up when you do the next step, and that them sometimes can be eliminated by shutting down and starting up another live session to continue.
Whatever you do, make sure you have a current backup of your user data on a removable medium anytime. If it is not you making a mistake, it is the hardware that can fail.


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