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David Adjaye's cantilevered chairs establish a play between propping and balancing, so that they are simultaneously functional and sculptural.
The collection consists of two cantilevered side chairs, a club chair, an ottoman, a side table and the magnificent Washington Corona limited-edition bronze monumental coffee table
The cast aluminum chair, available with a copper finish ( above) , is the collection's signature piece. "In a way it's an exo-skeleton," Adjaye says. "It's an armature that gives you comfort."
"Even the 'classics' are true to their own time—this is what gives them an enduring quality and an integrity that withstands fashion. I simply tried to respond honestly to a moment in time and by doing this, I hope the chairs will have a relevance well into the future. This is my interpretation of 'contemporary.'" … David Adjaye
For Adjaye, designing is about "trying to find specific conditions and to amplify them and to make them aesthetic, to make them visual, to make them potential for being part of our world is what I'm super interested in."
The Washington Collection for Knoll, David Adjaye's first collection of furniture, transforms his architectural and sculptural vision into accessible objects for the home and office.
Washington Skin™ is a colorful solid, while its inverted counterpoint, Washington Skeleton™, is reduced to a fine geometric lattice sharing the same envelope.
Adjaye explains that when Knoll design director Benjamin Pardo approached him about designing a chair, he was hesitant having never designed furniture before.
"He [Pardo] said, 'Look, don't worry about making a chair. Just make a series of studies of things that stimulate you and then we'll got through a process and see from there what can be produced.'
andrew kogan (l) , benjamin pardo ( m) with david adjaye (r) and his Washington seating and table collections
Commenting on Adjaye's work, Knoll design director Benjamin Pardo said, "David is doing really innovative and important architectural projects, and what really interested us was to see that work on an entirely new scale."
Adjaye said that the opportunity to work with Knoll seemed like a dream. "Knoll is, in my business, a giant," he said
David Adjaye said …. "Knoll approaches furniture as making connections between people and how they work and live their daily lives. This project has been an exhilarating and collaborative experience – an unexpected balancing act between the design and engineering processes. My original idea of what this furniture should be was continuously refined and transformed throughout."
Features of the Washington Skeleton Chair
Suitable for outdoor use
Available with outdoor powder coat paint or copper plating
Copper plating will patina over time
Seat and legs are constructed of die-cast aluminum
Legs connect to seat with mortise and tenon joint
Designer's signature and the Knoll Studio logo are located under the seat
Nylon glides included
Sustainable Design and Environmental Certification
Features of the Washington Skin Chair
Available in seven UV-stable colors
Injection-molded, glass-reinforced nylon
Shell and legs are cast in three parts and are connected using mortise and tenon joinery and stainless steel fasteners
The unique prop-leg design is reinforced internally with a cast aluminum brace that is over-molded with nylon
Features integral glides that elevate and protect the leg profile
Washington Corona Table
The Washington Corona™ Coffee Table is a sculptural translation of David Adjaye's design for The Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Adjaye's limited edition cast bronze coffee table reflects this cross-over. It reflects Adjaye's architectural and sculptural vision on a new scale
The sculptural table with a clear glass top is constructed from four cast bronze panels, and four connecting plates. The rough hewn exterior contrasts the highly reflective, hand polished interior surface.
To mark Knoll's 75th anniversary the bronze coffee table is limited to an edition of 75 @ $ USD 50,000 each
"This is a very, very different thing from just making objects," Adjaye says.
Adjaye designed the coffee table to "have a visual power. The form actually helps us to make the structure," he says.
Comparing the difference between designing buildings and furniture, Adjaye said: "Architecture is specific to a location and you know where it is and what it's doing. Your furniture can be anywhere. It's actually used by everyone. They touch it every day, they sit on it, they don't think about it. It's just their background. And there's something very powerful about that and very rewarding."
David Adjaye and the Washington Collection for Knoll
David Adjaye with Knoll design director Benjamin Pardo
KNOLL: Could you sum up the Washington Collection for Knoll™ in a few sentences?
DAVID ADJAYE: The Washington Collection is an investigation into form, materials, balance and weight. I wanted to create furniture that is both playful and beautiful – appearing light yet also expressing monumentality.
Have you ever designed any furniture before? How did you approach the earliest phases of design?
I work at many different scales, with products and furniture sometimes providing a testing ground for the architecture. I have designed bespoke furniture – such as a concrete, integrated sofa for one of my clients, the Monoforms range and exterior seating at Waddesdon Manor – as well as products – including a range of vases for Gaia & Gino and door furniture for IZE. What is entirely new, however, is to have designed an entire collection and this has been extremely exciting. I have enjoyed the collaboration with Knoll – the sense of joint purpose and the creative dialogue with the technical team.
What surprised you about the experience of working with Knoll?
Sometimes what you think will work as the final product becomes an investigation – a kind of experiment. You know instantly that it ultimately won't work, but it is part of the story and I have a real delight in the samples, the mock-ups and the sketches. It is an amazing luxury to be able to manipulate and sculpt – at full scale – as you go along. This is something you can't do with buildings.
To what extent were you involved in the production, prototyping, color selection process?
We were totally involved! It was very exciting to see the full scale models and to experiment with feasibility as well as the aesthetic or intellectual dimension. We were also involved in the colour palette – the possibilities and the limitations – and we thought through very carefully how the furniture would be seen in different environments.
One could argue that furniture is at least temporarily without place, without context, without geography; did this influence your approach to the designs?
I would disagree. There is always a context – but it is a shifting context. For me, the context was the work I am currently doing in Washington – the connections are not linear – but there is a narrative about skin, form and structure that is manifested in the collection. It has been very important to respond faithfully to this moment, this current focus in my career. I strongly believe that architecture or design should have integrity within the context of its own time. This is what gives it an enduring relevance. I delight in the idea that once the collection is in production, it will re-emerge in many different contexts and take on a whole new language. This is hugely exciting – although not entirely different to the way that buildings are part of the shifting urban landscape, for example.
Describe your first encounter with Knoll.
In school – during the history of furniture lessons.
Do you have a favorite Knoll product?
Mies van der Rohe's iconic Barcelona day bed.
Do you sketch?
Yes, all the time.
Your first "design memory"?
I lived in a number of African cities when I was growing up – and the idea of the modern city is a powerful memory. My father's career in the civil service meant that we were usually posted in the emerging cities, the new cities that were being reinvented after independence. So for me, the continent of Africa is a group of rising metropolitan, Modernist cities. I thought that's how all cities looked until I came to Europe!
Your favorite public space?
Luis Barragán's Torres de Satélite in Mexico – a series of monumental sculptures – a moving composition that has established a strong resonance with urbanity and materiality in the city.
Best city for design?
"Best" and "worst" is not a relevant way of thinking about cities in terms of design. Cities are about the way people do things.
Best museum for design?
Mies van der Rohe's Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin – a highpoint of 20th Century architecture and engineering, representing a moment when modernity successfully conceptualised the relationship between inside and outside and created a highly symbolic space.
Some of your favorite buildings?
I am inspired by a number of buildings as well as the ideas of particular artists and architects. I admire the work of the late Egyptian architect, Hassan Fathy for example, who pioneered an architecture that responded very directly to climate, local materials and place.
Have you any interesting upcoming projects to share?
My first tower in China, a concept store in Nigeria, a silk weaving facility in India, a slavery museum in Ghana, a fashion hub in London…
A book to recommend?
Style in the Technical and Tectonic Arts; or, Practical Aesthetics by Gottfried Semper. It is an important manifesto on the root nature of architectural fabric and provides a formative discourse about the evolution of architecture.
Adjaye collection launch at knoll's new york showroom
About David Adjaye
David Adjaye OBE is recognized as a leading architect of his generation.
David was born in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania ( Ghanian parents) in 1966 and who moved to Britain as a child
His influences range from contemporary art, music and science to African art forms and the civic life of cities.
In 1994 he set up his first office, where his ingenious use of materials and his sculptural ability established him as an architect with an artist's sensibility and vision.
Established in June 2000, Adjaye Associates is widely recognized as one of the leading architects of his generation.
The practice has gained international renown with work in Europe, North America, the Middle East, Asia and Africa, distinguished by its insightful cultural engagement and the transformative civic qualities of its buildings. Projects range in scale from private houses, exhibition design and temporary pavilions to major arts centres, civic buildings and masterplans.
Completed buildings include two community libraries in Washington DC, the Moscow School of Management, the Nobel Peace Centre in Oslo (in the shell of a disused railway station (completed in 2005), the Museum of Contemporary Art in Denver (2007) and two Idea Stores in London.
the Museum of Contemporary Art in Denver
He exhibited at the 2005 Venice Biennale in collaboration with artist Olafur Eliasson, was shortlisted for the Stirling Prize for his work on the Whitechapel Idea Store in 2006 ( pioneering a new approach to the provision of information services ), and received the title of OBE (Order of the British Empire) from the Queen in 2007 for his service to British architecture.
Later projects in London included the Stephen Lawrence Centre, with teaching and community spaces (2007), Rivington Place, an exhibition venue and resource centre (2007), and the Bernie Grant Centre for the performing arts (2007).
In the United States Adjaye was the designer of two public libraries in Washington DC (2012), as well as of several innovative residential projects.
In 2009 a team led by Adjaye was selected to design the new Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture on the National Mall in Washington DC. The museum is currently under construction is scheduled to open in 2015.
Adjaye Associates now have offices in London, Berlin, New York and Accra, and are working on projects in Europe, North America, Asia and Africa.
Adjaye frequently collaborates with contemporary artists on art and installation projects.
Examples include The upper room, with thirteen paintings by Chris Ofili (2002), Within reach, a second installation with Ofili in the British pavilion at the Venice Biennale (2003), and the Thyssen-Bornemisza Art for the 21st Century Pavilion that was designed to show a projection work by Olafur Eliasson, Your black horizon, at the 2005 Venice Biennale. (The upper room is now in the permanent collection of Tate Britain.)
sunken house, london
Adjaye has taught at the Royal College of Art, where he had previously studied, and at the Architectural Association School in London, and has held distinguished visiting professorships at the universities of Pennsylvania, Harvard and Princeton.
He co-presented two six-part series of DreamSpaces, on modern architecture (BBC television, 2002 and 2003), and interviewed the eminent architects Oscar Niemeyer and Charles Correa (BBC radio, 2004 and 2005).
In June 2005 he presented the BBC documentary film Building Africa: The architecture of a continent.
The material from Adjaye's ten-year study of the capital cities of Africa was shown in Urban Africa, an exhibition at the Design Museum, London (2010) and published as African Metropolitan Architecture (New York, 2011, and as Adjaye Africa Architecture, London, 2011).
He was the artistic director of GEO-graphics: A map of art practices in Africa, past and present, a major exhibition at the Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels (2010).
The last exhibition of his architectural work, David Adjaye: Output, was held at Gallery MA, Tokyo (2010)
The new documentary " This Building will Sign For Us" by Oliver Hardt portrays David Adjaye and explores his design for the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) in Washington D.C..
The museum is currently under construction is scheduled to open in 2015.
The film focuses on the question of how Adjaye deals with the challenge of building one of the most important buildings in African American history.
What role does "African" play in the idea of "African American?"
And in what form are historical, social and aesthetic considerations manifested in his design for the museum?
The 30 minutes documentary by Oliver Hardt portrays the British-Ghanaian star architect David Adjaye and explores his design for the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington D.C.
In this ad For Dunhill, the artist explains a bit about his profession.
"The funny thing about architecture is that the drawings are done by computer and are really precise, but the actual buildings are still made by hand. Because of that, they're always a little wonky. Architects are always striving for perfection—we're obsessed with it and that's what drives us.
But, in the end, a builder might have had a really terrible morning and isn't focused properly, and so the floor gets put down badly. There is always a humanizing of these ideas of perfection. We aren't building with robots yet and, actually, it's the little human errors—the imperfections—that make things interesting…"
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David Adjaye for Knoll Textiles @ Neocon 2015
KnollTextiles' Adjaye Collection is a highly anticipated collaboration between David Adjaye and KnollTextiles Creative Director Dorothy Cosonas, a meeting of African aesthetics with the language of modern fabrics.
After collaborating with Knoll on furniture in the past few years, Adjaye brings his many years of travels across the whole African continent into colourful, textural fabrics both woven and digitally printed, comprising of two wall coverings, two draperies and four upholstery patterns.
David Adjaye at Knoll @ Salone Milan 2014
Renowned design and furniture company, Knoll presents a fresh display of classic and new residential designs at its Downtown Milan permanent showroom for the Salone 2014.
Knoll's design classics have always been a pivotal part of the brand's success.and since the company remains committed to high quality and timeless, yet innovative design,it makes sense to put a fresh spin on some of Knoll's most revered pieces.
I see that Knoll is not an abstract brand but a collection of people with a shared optimism about the power of design.
- David Adjaye -
Knoll Outdoor Collection Classics
"Our legacy is the product and product culture that we leave behind.
What we have done at Knoll with the products which we inherited and what we have done to create new things to move the company forward, we have done to honour and preserve the Knoll legacy."
Knoll completes the Platner Collection
Two new additions to the classic Platner collection were introduced by Knoll at Milan's Salone 2012.
Originally designed in 1966 by Warren Platner, the "highly anticipated" Easy Chair and Ottoman are made of finely-finished steel rods (available in nickel or bronze) teamed with a variety of upholstery.
Knoll – Jehs + Laub collection
Inspired by traditional quilting, the Jehs+Laub Collection offers a tactile dialogue between functional form and sculptural shape.
Capo by Doshi Levien @ Milan Design Week 2011
The first collaboration between Doshi Levien and Cappellini gave rise to Capo, an armchair with a slender…
Ron Arad "In Reverse" @ Holon Design Museum
"The main subject is the shift in my personal career from physical manipulation of materials to digital – from mallets to pixels" …. "Normally you manipulate materials to make them functional. Here I did the opposite – took a functional object and made it delightfully useless." .. Ron Arad
Nendo – A Breeze of Light @ Salone Milan 2019
In collaboration with Daikin, the air conditioner manufacturer, this project by Nendo, was based on the concept of 'invisible air' and aims to provide visitors with a unique spatial experience that offers an opportunity to 'experience in sight what we can only feel in real life.'
This installation evoked the sensation of a comfortable breeze by the movement of light and shadows, not actual air.
(In)Visible Design @ salone milan 2013
In a world overpopulated by signs, products, images and experiences can a threshold of the invisible still exist ? And above all, what happens when design faces the imperceptible, the complex, the infinitely large/small, the counter-intuitive?
The (In)visibile Design exhibition investigates these potential new scenarios through 26 projects by international designers and artists engaged in studying the frontiers of the invisible.
Swarovski Crystal Palace 2010 – update
Salone Milan 2010 – SaloneSatellite Awards
The SaloneSatellite is synonymous with young creativity. Indeed, its founding in 1998 was a declaration of faith on the part of Cosmit in the creative power of young designers. Many of the prototypes presented in past editions of the Satellite have gone into production, and many of the participants – more than 6,000 designers and 191 schools – have become important names in the 'star system', from Matali Crasset, Patrick Jouin and Harri Koskinen to Front, Xavier Lust, Satyendra Pakhalé and Paolo Ulian.
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On being a father; My son's first birthday.
Over a year ago, I wrote about myself and my wife expecting our first child. Here you can read about our first visit to the doctor and The beginning.
Between that time till now, I have not been opportune to write on being a father. There are some updates though. I am now father to a wonderful son. In a few weeks time he will be celebrating his first birthday.
Its amazing the journey so far. I have witnessed so many things and it has made me a better person. I must confess though, Parenthood is underrated. I have seen my son grow from a day old and it has been an exhilarating experience.
Preparations are on for his big day. I don't intend for it to be too flashy or noisy but who knows what his mother has planned? Regardless though, I will be a proud dad that day when my son celebrates his birthday. I will be proud of the individual he is becoming. I am and will be proud of his mother for the wonderful work she is doing.
Cue the drum now as he clocks one. A wonder for me and reminder I am getting old. But enough about me. This article is about him and as such must be focused on him.
Dear Son, you are going to be a year old and you have the world before you. There are some who would say make haste while the sun shines, but dear son, do not worry about haste just yet, for now, live son and enjoy life. You have the world at your feet dear son, scratch that, the world is at our feet son, and as you mature and develop, you will realize just as I have come to. Loads of love from Dad on your birthday.


No matter the air temperature or fan speed, there's some bad smell coming from the vents whenever I have my heater on. It kind of smells like burning plastic, but not that bad, and I haven't seen any indication of melting or burning anywhere else, but I haven't looked deep and thoroughly yet. I'm guessing it's just the air filter that needs replacing, but might it be the heating element or something?
Always start simple and the air filter is simple.
There's a fun video to show how bad they can get, even in a well maintained car. He has another one where he pulls out half a sweater's worth of fuzz from under the hood as well.
@chrishnaw , Christian, Ford Escape mildew/musty smell from vents would be common sign of moisture/debri/dust build up in lower HVAC duct work, uasually caused when the drain tube for AC plugs. If the heater core is leaking coolant and you put it on defrost you will notice the windshield gets a film/residue over it or you will notice the coolant dripping from the heater/HVAC box/ductwork, etc. onto the carpet, you can have the cooling system pressure teted to verify leak or not. A burning smell could be a sign of faulty heater resistor, wire/plug melting, or the blower motor burning out and should be checked sooner then later.1st Link below will show how to access the wires and resistor to the heater motor. 2nd link will show cabin filter replacement. Good luck.
You know what I don't like about Ford. It's their insulator, it's emitting a foul smell. Go ahead take a piece and sniff it. It is located under the carpet flooring, it is also inside the door casings. The solution for this is to have your dashboard pulled down, remove all the insulators from Ford and replace it all with a different brand of thermal insulator. After this have your interior detailed.
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Los Punks: We Are All We Have, Director Angela Boatwright
http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/683/FS-5-27-16-Boatwright-Los%20Punks.mp3
In the high energy, Slamdance favorite, Los Punks: We Are All We Have the underground punk rock backyard scene in Los Angeles pops off the screen. Punk rock is thriving in the backyards of South Central and East Los Angeles. A cobbled-together family of predominantly Latino teens and young adults comprise the scene: bands, fans, production, marketing, and security interwoven into a sub-culture of thrash and noise and pits. The sense of belonging is palpable, emotional bonds fostered among good families and those broken, poverty and wealth, adolescence and maturity, with the music emanating a magnetic chorus for all to sing together. Los Punks: We Are All We Have is a documentary feature film honestly and sincerely portraying this vibrant, "DIY" community. Photographer and filmmaker, Director Angela Boatwright talks about her experiences and impressions of a thriving, vibrant underground music scene that is hiding in plain sight.
For news and updates go to: lospunksfilm.com
Los Punks: We Are All We Have will be released on iTunes on Friday, May 27.
"A bracing look at a thriving underground of punk bands and backyard-party concerts."
– Dennis Harvey, Variety
"A phenomenon that demands respect whether you like the music or not."
– John DeFore, The Hollywood Reporter
"Superbly crafted. Every aspect of the film plays together like a symphony." – Joshua Brusting, CriterionCast
"The best film of Slamdance 2016 that I've seen is Angela Boatwright's 'Los Punks: We Are All We Have'" – Brian Tallerico, RogerEbert.com
One of TwitchFilm.com's Top Picks of Slamdance
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Birds are some of the most amazing species of animals, having an extraordinary beauty and the admirable ability to fly. We have gathered for you a few amazingly beautiful wallpapers with birds of all shapes and sizes. There are swans, parrots, pigeons, ducks, owls, storks, paradise birds, exotic birds and many other species in our selection of wallpapers, in different sceneries, either flying or resting, feeding their young or playing. You can download our HD birds wallpapers in different resolution, according to your desired device.


They figured out time travel already? It's only been a couple hundred milliniums!
But the guy with the mosquito cane said there was candy!
Is this a weird car or a (shivering) real dinosaur!!!
HEY!!! (ROAR) YOU CANNOT DO THAT!!!
With a crunchy outside and a soft inside, helmeted humans make the PERFECT appetizer. Write that down, kids.
HEY! I want that pizza!
I'll get a human and a car for lunch.
Rawr!!! What, did I scare you?
YOU HAVN'T SEEN THE… AA!
The highway gets scarier every Day!
Have you seen my family?
do I look real to you ?
roar! oh, dang it he didn't notice me.
Wanna be my Snack… I mean friend?
Save me dude. I am being dino-napped.
I promise. I just want to sniff you.
HEY PEEPS LETS DO LUNCH JUST KIDDING NO SERIOUSLY……..
why are there more of those humans? well its beter than Jurassic world at least .
This photo was taken moments before disaster.
Pedro I want my alfalfa.
Hey humans wheres da pancake!


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WRDS-SSRN Innovation Award™ Presented to the KAIST at AACSB Conference in Korea2017-11-09Hit:4423
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Wharton Research Data Services (WRDS), the leading data research platform and business intelligence tool for corporate, academic and government institutions worldwide, is pleased to announce the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) as the winner of the WRDS-SSRN Innovation Award™ for the Asia Pacific region. The award, created by a unique collaboration with SSRN, the world's leading preprint server and working paper repository, and its parent company Elsevier, a global information analytics company specializing in science and health, honors emerging business school that produce exceptional research.
Robert Zarazowski, Managing Director of WRDS, and Gregg Gordon, Managing Director of SSRN presented the award to Inmoo Lee, Head of School of Management Engineering at KAIST College of Business during the Luncheon at the AACSB Asia Pacific Conference in South Korea.
The WRDS-SSRN Innovation Award is intended to elevate the visibility of pioneering research across a broad range of financial and economic topics. Three winners are selected annually from across North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific regions based on their ability to demonstrate innovation and research excellence. Winners will receive a monetary prize and media promotion. To learn more, go to http://www.whartonwrds.com/about/our-impact
"It is wonderful to present the WRDS-SSRN Innovation Award to Inmoo Lee at KAIST College of Business," said Robert Zarazowski, Managing Director of WRDS. "WRDS is delighted to recognize and support the outstanding work taking place at the Institute, and its commitment to growth and innovation in business education."
"On behalf of the leadership and researchers at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), we are very pleased to receive the WRDS-SSRN Innovation Award," said Inmoo Lee, of KAIST. "KAIST College of Business focuses on academic excellence and innovative research activities. This initiative is also integrated into the curriculum. KAIST College of Business has provided unique and creative education programs such as the Social Entrepreneurship MBA and the MS in Green Business and Policy program. Moreover, KAIST was listed as the 6th most innovative university in the world by the Thomson Reuters this year. We are honored to be recognized by WRDS and SSRN."
Gregg Gordon, Managing Director of SSRN, added: "Congratulations to KAIST College of Business on winning this WRDS-SSRN Innovation Award. We are pleased to be able to offer business education programs greater visibility and opportunities to showcase their important work through this award and the WRDS Research Paper Series, a new, searchable platform on SSRN."
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Q: How to ignore signal for first 50 seconds? void signal_handler(int signo)
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    struct sigaction act;

    if ((sigaction(signo, NULL, &act) == -1) || (act.sa_handler != SIG_IGN))
    {
        alarm(50);
    }

}

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{
    sigaction(SIGINT,signal_handler);
    sigaction(SIGALAM,signal_handler);
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    while (1)
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}

I want to ignore Ctrl + C signal for first 50 seconds. I tried it with alarm but its not ignoring the signals.

A: These are the steps you need to follow to acheive your ends:

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*Set SIGINT to SIG_IGN when main starts.

*Then set SIGALARM to call a different handler (after 50 seconds).

*In that handler, change SIGINT so that it now points to the actual handler.

This should ignore SIGINT interrupts for the first fifty seconds or so, then act on them afterwards.

Here's a complete program that shows this in action. It basically performs the steps detailed above but with slight modifications for a test program:

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*Start ignoring INT.

*Set ALRM to activate after ten seconds.

*Start generating INT signals every second for twenty seconds.

*When alarm activated, stop ignoring INT.

The program is:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <time.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <signal.h>

static time_t base, now; // Used for tracking time.

// Signal handlers.

void int_handler(int unused) {
    // Just log the event.

    printf("  - Handling INT at t=%ld\n", now - base);
}

void alarm_handler(int unused) {
    // Change SIGINT handler from ignore to actual.

    struct sigaction actn;
    actn.sa_flags = 0;
    actn.sa_handler = int_handler;
    sigaction(SIGINT, &actn, NULL);
}

int main(void)
{
    base = time(0);

    struct sigaction actn;

    // Initially ignore INT.

    actn.sa_flags = 0;
    actn.sa_handler = SIG_IGN;
    sigaction(SIGINT, &actn, NULL);

    // Set ALRM so that it enables INT handling, then start timer.

    actn.sa_flags = 0;
    actn.sa_handler = alarm_handler;
    sigaction(SIGALRM, &actn, NULL);
    alarm(10);

    // Just loop, generating one INT per second.

    for (int i = 0; i < 20; ++i)
    {
        now = time(0);
        printf("Generating INT at t=%ld\n", now - base);
        raise(SIGINT);
        sleep(1);
    }

    return 0;
}

Here's the output on my box so you can see it in action, ignoring INT signals for the first ten seconds, then acting on them:
Generating INT at t=0
Generating INT at t=1
Generating INT at t=2
Generating INT at t=3
Generating INT at t=4
Generating INT at t=5
Generating INT at t=6
Generating INT at t=7
Generating INT at t=8
Generating INT at t=9
Generating INT at t=10
  - Handling INT at t=10
Generating INT at t=11
  - Handling INT at t=11
Generating INT at t=12
  - Handling INT at t=12
Generating INT at t=13
  - Handling INT at t=13
Generating INT at t=14
  - Handling INT at t=14
Generating INT at t=15
  - Handling INT at t=15
Generating INT at t=16
  - Handling INT at t=16
Generating INT at t=17
  - Handling INT at t=17
Generating INT at t=18
  - Handling INT at t=18
Generating INT at t=19
  - Handling INT at t=19

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Rampur Kalan is a village in the Morena district, Madhya Pradesh located along the banks of Kwari River in India. The village is below the Bundelkand region, 72 kilometers from Morena, India. The region predominantly speaks the local dialect "Khadi Boli" and Hindi. The nearest airport is Gwalior and the nearest railway station is Sabalgarh.

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Kambito primary school is a public level mixed primary school offering an education system and located at Mbololo in Taita Taveta county. It is a day only school, owned by a religious organization, attended by 895 pupils.
Teach, play, organize games, repair and build classrooms, painting, planting trees and landscaping, constructing the gabions to avoid soil erosion.
Volunteers will facilitate in educational activities with young children in the host community to promote culture. Twice a week volunteers will be planting trees in local schools, community centres: planting is always done as a team effort together with school children or other community members.


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Southern Utah back to school guide: Everything you need to know before school starts
Terell Wilkins
As we hit the dog days of Summer in August and the weather turns from scorching to just plain hot, the time for students across Southern Utah to head back to school is upon us.
With new schools and hundreds of new students, a lot has changed since May when the previous school year ended.
The clock is counting down and with less than a week until the school year officially begins in Washington County and Iron County on Aug. 12, here is what both parents and students need to know before the doors open.
What supplies will students need?
For every student, no matter the grade, there are a number of things they will need before the first day of school.
Notebooks, pens, pencils and a backpack are the essentials, but what else should students in Southern Utah bring with them to school this year?
According to Washington County Communications Director Steve Dunham, school supplies should mainly consist of those essentials and a few more writing utensils.
"Colored pencils and highlighters are always a positive thing to have going in no matter what grade," Dunham said. "Dry erase markers and sharpies are another thing that may not be used as much but are definitely a positive and important to have handy. Typically, multiple folders and/or binders are also good for every student to have as well."
While there is no comprehensive list for what each grade should bring to the first day of school, most teachers will individually provide a list of materials needed for their class.
For parents still searching for an inventory of supplies, they can go to www.school-supply-list.com/states/utah/ for a general list of the what their student will need, with the lists broken down by school.
What's new this school year?
In the few months that school has been out of session, a few changes have taken place county-wide.
Washington County has two new schools in Crimson Cliffs High School and Washington Fields Intermediate School, both of which are located in St. George.
The main updates to existing schools have been made for security. New security doors will be installed in all elementary schools in the district and an emphasis has been placed on mitigating incidents to keep all students in Southern Utah safe.
"We always encourage parents and commuters to just be patient on the first week of school; take a little extra time and be extra safe in school zones," Dunham said. "There are a lot more kids out on the street so please be safe. We definitely do not want to have any accidents the first day of school so that's a big encouragement from us."
More:Security doors to be installed at all Washington County schools
What are the important dates to know?
One of the most important nights of the year for parents, back to school night, is already here, but there are more important dates are soon to follow.
Washington County recently released their back to school night schedule and with different dates for each school. Parents can check out the schedule online at washk12.org.
August 12 or 19
This date is obviously important as it marks the first day of school for students across Southern Utah.
All traditional school activities will commence from this date for every student except kindergartners.
A kindergartner assessment will be held from Aug. 12-15 before they officially begin their school year the following Monday on Aug. 19.
The first week will also be light for elementary students as there will be an elementary assessment from Aug. 12-15 meaning their opening week will be minimum school days before starting full school days on Friday, Aug. 16.
The first holiday of the school year, Labor Day on Sept. 2, will see schools closed for students in both Washington and Iron counties.
More:Iron County School District official to step down, take job in northern Utah
Sept. 9 will be the first Professional Learning Community, or PLC, Collaboration Day of the year.
PLCs are groups of educators that meets regularly to share expertise and works together to improve teaching skills and the academic performance of students.
There are four of these collaborative days and they are spread out across the WCSD calendar, Sept. 9 being the first.
Each of these days will be a minimum school day for students across the school district.
For more important dates, the WCSD district calendar is also available online at washk12.org through the rest of the school year.
Follow reporter Terell Wilkins on Twitter, @SpeedyVeritas, call him at 252-367-8463 or email him at twilkins@thespectrum.com.


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A walk across the rooftops, Hobart in Tasmania
Graham Reid | Jul 26, 2020 | 1 min read
For reasons which were never clear or explained, in 1989 the Rolling Stones included this interesting piece of rock exotica on their Steel Wheels album, which was otherwise business as usual in the riffery stakes (the most memorable track which appeared in subsequent concerts was Mixed Emotions).
The album wasn't too bad at all actually (a considerable improvement over its predecessor Dirty Work) and was the last that bassist Bill Wyman would be on. He quit three years later -- which just shows you how long between albums they were taking.
Still, there had been internal divisions, and they were embarking on those record-breaking stadium tours so . . .
But Continental Drift was an interesting oddity and you had to wonder the motivation behind it: Jagger has never seemed a man prone to sentiment, but it was 20 years since Brian Jones had traipsed off to North Africa to record the Master Musicians of Jajouka, a group of village musicians whose art was handed down generation-by-generation.
And for the Stones -- Jagger and Richards were patching up a severe falling out which had lasted years -- to use Jajouka musicians for this track seemed . . . .
What? An acknowledgement of shared history and the tragedy surrounding Jones? Maybe just a digression? A compromise on Jagger's part to Richards who was vaguely interested in this sound?
However you cut it, Continental Drift stands as an unusual but rewarding piece in the Rolling Stones' long catalogue which by this time (and subsequently) had been reduced to guitar riffs, nods to reggae and New York dance, looks back to old soul and borrowing liberally from their own archetypes.
An odd but interesting one, and a sound they had never touched previously, or since.
For more one-offs, oddities or songs with an interesting backstory see From the Vaults.
Relic - Nov 1, 2010
Good gardening Graham, stick the fork in with a twist and see what wriggles into view. The Stones probably won't make Womad but they could have. Did the Moroccans try Jack Daniels one wonders.
Blair - Nov 1, 2010
Yes I think it may have been a combination of the 25 anniversary thing (remember "25 x 5"?) and Jagger's desire that after "WWIII" when they fell out, the resulting reunion would produce something "different rather than repeat" (paraphrasing a Jagger interview I had from an Australian music show at the time) I notice Matt Clifford is in the video - he continues to be a shadowy collaborator for Jagger till this day - kind of contemporary presence - he was likely to have been influential in all this too.
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The Kensington Colleges development – home to almost 1000 students – has won a number of industry awards, including the 2014 National Architecture Awards.
Facilities Management is undertaking a major upgrade of light fittings to help reduce UNSW's electricity consumption.
Did you know that UNSW staff can take advantage of our novated leasing arrangements to finance the purchase of a second-hand car?
If you drive to the Kensington campus and have trouble finding a parking space, try the Barker Street Parking Station (N18).
Facilities Management has launched a new approach to managing rats and other vermin on campus. FM is working closely with food retailers and our pest control contractor (Ecolab) to improve waste storage and collection, plus deploy humane baiting programs to keep the numbers under control.
If you're in the market for a new or used car, why not investigate a novated lease? UNSW offers salary sacrificing arrangements for car leasing with LeasePlan. You can talk to a LeasePlan representative on campus to find out more and ask all your questions.
UNSW has won an Award for Excellence as an organisation that has provided sustained leadership in the implementation and use of facilities management technologies. Congratulations to FM staff Sam Costello and Dinesh Paikeday, who won a Distinguished User Award for the rollout of Archibus at UNSW. Archibus can be used to manage buildings, assets, projects, maintenance and repair services.


Is your car or truck hesitating or experiencing a rough idle? It might be time for a fuel injection service. Everyone wants to get the most power and use out of their vehicle for as long as possible. Fuel injection servicing is one way to help auto owners reap the benefits of maintaining their car or truck. This is part of a well rounded maintenance plan for your vehicle. If it is neglected these build ups can rob your vehicle of performance, and if left untreated, these build ups can lead to costly repairs.
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Film producer, wife of late Kannada actor Rajkumar, Parvathamma, no more
Published May 31, 2017, 9:30 am IST
Updated May 31, 2017, 11:53 am IST
She was hospitalised on May 14 and has been on ventilation since.
Parvathamma Rajkumar
Mumbai: A renowned film producer and wife of legendary actor Rajkumar, Parvathamma Rajkumar, died at 4:40 am today. The 78 YO was undergoing treatment for renal problems and difficulty in breathing at MS Ramaiah Hospital.
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Parvathamma Rajkumar body is now at her son Ragavendra Rajkumar's residence and will be shifted to Poorn Grounds for people to pay their last respects. Friends and colleagues from the film industry have expressed their grief over the news of her demise.
Just like her deceased husband, Parvathamma Rajkumar had also donated her eyes.
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This famous, award-winning spelling program by Beverly L. Adams-Gordon just became better. Now featuring 21st century technology, it still teaches solid back-to-basic spelling skills.
Since 1994, Spelling Power has given home educators the perfect way to teach comprehensive spelling skills to their whole family.
Your students will use this research proven program to master the 5,000 most frequently used words. These words are divided into 11 levels based on their usage. Each level of Spelling Power's unique word list is then further organized by phonetic principles and spelling rules.
Additional words that your students needs to master are taken from your student's own writing errors and added to your Spelling Power program using the provided resources. Your students continue to study each of these words until they have spelled them correctly at least once. Then Spelling Power's spiral curriculum approach of repeated, spaced review assures your students will master every word they study. And your students will master them!
Spelling Power's six levels of built-in review guarantees that every word taught will be mastered.
Multi-sensory study steps, inductive learning activities, interesting skill-building activities and games, and the incorporation of spelling into the rest of your curriculum are integral aspects of Adams-Gordon's Spelling Power program. Everything you need to teach each of your students spelling skills to the college level is contained in this one easy-to-use, step-by-step curriculum package. You'll even find everything you need to know to teach them proofreading and dictionary skills.
-- a 21st Century tool that makes spelling drill fun and trackable.
Even if you are new to teaching, you'll find that Spelling Power's all new, easy-to-understand Quick Start Steps and the included Quick Start DVD Seminar will help you give each of your students Spelling Power in just 15 minutes per day!
As with previous editions, Canadian/British spellings are included in both the Flow-Word-Lists and the Searchable Word List to make it easier for non-American spellers to use. These alternate spellings appear in brackets behind the American spellings in the Flow-Word Lists (for example: color [colour]). In the Searchable List, the words appear in the correct alphabetical sequence, with a reference to the alternate spelling. This allows individual teachers to decide which spelling convention to teach.
For one low price you get the Spelling Power teacher's manual, the Teacher's Resource CD-ROM, and the Quick Start DVD Seminar. This one curriculum package is all you need to meet your entire family's spelling instructional needs for a lifetime. Don't be fooled by imitators… your family deserves the original "big Orange" Spelling Power program written for home educators by a home educator.
Spelling was the "Achilles heel" of our homeschooling program. It was the area where we let up our guard and fell behind. We were so interested in those subjects that were so full of interesting content that we ceased to be diligent in teaching spelling past the sixth grade.
When they were younger, they did well on their spelling tests, but they did not remember the words well enough to apply them to their creative writing assignments because the other spelling curricula did not teach spelling according to a phonetic plan. Remember, Phonics isn't enough. In addition to Phonics, your children need Spelling!
As we evaluated our sons creative writing assignments, we became painfully aware of this oversight on our part. At that point in time, our oldest son was past the sixth grade and we needed to find a spelling program that would work well for older children as well as the little ones. Also, remember, when kids use the computer, even though the "spell check" program is a really cool utility, it can turn them into "lazy spellers" and actually keep them from learning how to spell.
That's when we found SPELLING POWER--the one program that will work for all ages of children from the second grade through high school. Its the ONLY PROGRAM YOU'LL EVER NEED TO BUY FOR ALL OF YOUR CHILDREN FOR ALL OF THE YEARS OF THEIR EDUCATION.
Spelling Power takes the 5,000 most commonly used words in the English Language and divides them into 11 levels of frequency of use, then each level is divided into 47 possible groups based on Phonetic principles or spelling "rules".
When you begin, you give your children a series of placement tests that will determine their current level of proficiency and start them off at just the right place. That means that each child begins exactly where he is academically -- your second grader will not necessarily be working on a "second" grade list. Instead, he begins with the words he does not know.
This really is a big plus for the "natural spellers," because they dont have to study words they already know. It is the only way to go with the non-visual learners (great readers who just can't spell -- despite excellent phonics training), because it allows them to begin with words they will actually use, giving them instant improvement in their writing ability.
Each list has about ten to forty words to master. And, there's a review test every fifth list. The review test is the first of the six levels of built-in review the Spelling Power program provides. This repetition is what assures every word is indeed learned and added to your child's written vocabulary.
Each Spelling Power daily session takes about 15 minutes for your child (only 5 minutes of that requires direct teacher involvement). First you will pre-test your child from the organized word lists, then your child will study the words he misspells, and finally he will be engaged in a fun, effective learning activity to drill the spelling word or emphasize a spelling principle.
They will say the word, spell the word aloud. They will write the word on paper and visualize the spelling in their minds with their eyes closed. They will use the words in sentences. (I wish I had known this method when I was a kid learning to spell.) Because they are only studying the words they missed (2 to 3 words at a time) it only takes about another five minutes to study the words. After studying each missed word the child completes a fun activity.
Generally, each list will take about one week. If you will be faithful to devote only fifteen minutes a day to SPELLING POWER, you will see your children become excellent spellers.
Your student will do his work on forms provided in the manual, which you can duplicate, if you wish. However, it will be much easier if you will use SPELLING POWER Student Record Books which are availabe for a very nominal cost.
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There are games, puzzles, and writing project assignments for children of all ages.
Each five to ten minute project is on an index card which is color coded according to ability level. There are hundreds of individual projects which have been designed for you in the Teachers Manual, greatly reducing your lesson planning time. You can use these cards during SPELLING POWERs five minute "activity time."
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Maybe you have the 3rd Edition and you want to continue to use it. Maybe you purchased one used from a friend, but you would like someone to explain to you how to use it.
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The woman across the table from me showed no sign of panic or rush. She took an uncompetitive bite of her Harrods Danish pastry -- a late and leisurely breakfast, apparently. You wouldn't think this was the first day of the Harrods Winter Sale. But then (as it turned out), this person was an old hand.
I didn't tell the woman with the Danish that this was my first Harrods Winter Sale: Journalists have their secrets. Besides, I'm no killjoy, even though the joys of sales make me skeptical. It seems you either are, or you are not, a sales enthusiast. Certain kinds of shoppers breathe a sigh of relief when February and normality return. To us, sales are occasions when coyote coats and grand pianos are reduced in price from the ridiculous all the way down to the absurd; occasions when people spend far more money than they intend under the blissful delusion that they are saving it; hectic, undignified occasions of tooth-and-claw. But here, on the first day of Harrods Sale 1982, I was beginning to wonder.
Sales in Britain are seasonal. They happen in January and July. (A few stickers cling to windows into late February, but not many.) Of all the sales, the one at Harrods gets top billing. The figures indicate its phenomenal success , though an explanation of its mystique is harder to pinpoint. This year on the first day, (STR)6.25 million pounds was taken in.
''We were very pleased,'' says Jenny Turton, Harrods press officer. In January 1981 the figure had been just over (STR)5 million. On that one day the Knightsbridge store had been overrun with an estimated 300,000 customers who were provided with 21/2 million green and gold Harrods bags, 2,500 meals, attended by 2,000 extra staff, and leaving, to be cleared up after their departure, 13 tons of rubbish.
The atmosphere is certainly palpable. Early on the day the excitement mounts as the assistants (and the press) pour by a side entrance into the store, and the public queues at the 10 main doors lengthen. Some diehards have ensconced themselves in sleeping bags. Are they prepared to sleep in the snow for 20 percent off videos and gas cookers? Or are they after something unique and dramatic like the Emanuel Ball Gown halved from (STR)1,845 to (STR)922? (No sign , however, of the Princess of Wales today.) Surely they can't be after the caviar at 25 percent off.
At 9 there is a countdown synchronized by radio, and the dam of security guards is breached. Up the new escalators, up the stairs, up the lifts, marches a wave of determined humanity (by no means all female), eyes glinting, muscles tensed.
With difficulty I managed to shadow one woman on her complex speed-of-light route to ''Windsmoor Hats and Bridal Room.'' (What she was after, once arrived, was unclear; perhaps she was here for the chase rather than the quarry.) We rushed relentlessly through Housecoats and Leisurewear, swiftly skirting Nighties, into Younger Set and Dress Circle, edged round the International Room, with ''This Season's Courreges REDUCED.'' (In the Ladies Fashions, where the store makes impressive and often last-minute cuts, temporary communal dressing rooms are constructed. If customers don't watch out, they have been known to lose the very clothes they left home in, because some other bargain-hunter has bought them as ''special offers.'') We chopped and charged through a number of other sections of this enormous shop, seemed to lose ourselves for a few moments in European Daywear, found ourselves again in the region of Knitted Hats, and eventually arrived exhausted at our destination.
Breathlessly not wanting to miss anything, I ran down to the special area set aside for the china and glass sale. Plenty of buying fervor here, even though several of the staff were muttering that it was much quieter than last year. The quietness seemed rather relative to me, but apparently it was caused by the snow and a new attempt to spread the load by opening the sale on two days, a Friday and Saturday, instead of just the traditional Saturday. By the end of the morning, however, most of the world seemed to be converging on Harrods anyway, and a great proportion of them on China and Glass.
This part of the sale is as dramatic as any, with eager customers piling Minton tea sets and Royal Worcester ovenware, Crown Staffordshire plates and Thomas Webb crystal, into supermarket baskets and then retiring to a corner to count their grabbings. It is no secret that the merchandise in this part of the sale is ''brought in;'' there are no comparison prices here, as in fashion, linen, or furniture. It is the suppliers, not the store itself, who cut their margin of profit, and they do so willingly because the volume of goods to be sold so quickly is so large. The first three days are all that matter to them.
Courtiers, a company that imports tableware, sold all of its (STR)40,000 worth of cut glass and china in that time. ''Very satisfactory,'' comments John Gooding, Courtiers managing director. ''This sale is really a very sophisticated marketplace,'' he adds. ''Harrods was the first to offer 'good things at good value' in its sale - not just things that are discontinued.
Consumer laws are strict in this country. An imperfect item is labeled as such. Stores are very careful to be correct in their labeling. ''Reductions'' must be ''genuine.'' An item must have been for sale in a shop at its higher price for 28 days before it can be advertised as ''reduced.
I asked if he felt British shops would continue to extend the length of their seasonal sales. What began as the one-day clearance sale at the ends of January and July each year (the ''Bright and White Sales'' of linen originated the whole idea) have now become, in large city stores, three-week winter and two-week summer ones.
At John Wilson's in Glasgow the winter sale now lasts from mid-December to mid-February - two months. ''I don't see them getting much longer than that,'' Mr. Wilson says. Jenny Turton agrees: ''I can't imagine Harrods exploiting the sale any more than it is doing.
Harrods, of course, is far from being the only store to have a spectacular winter sale. Selfridges, Peter Jones, Liberty's, Heals, D.H. Evans, John Lewis, Simpsons, and Swan & Edgar join the list. This year Swan & Edgar's sale was, sadly, its closing sale. The cost of modernizing the building overlooking Piccadilly Circus proved too great.
But most of the sales are far from morose. From large prestigious department stores down to the dry cleaners on the corner (offering half-price zippers throughout January), from frenzied last-day-of-the-sale bonanzas, when even sale prices are halved, at Bentalls or Dickins & Jones, down to ''ALL PRICES SLASHED'' at the electrical goods emporium in the side street, and down again to such unlikely events as sales at charity and reject shops (is no one immune?), the whole country seems plastered with incredible, unbeatable value. Clearly the seasonal sale is popular and successful business.
So what have you bought?'' asked the woman with the Danish, eyeing the clutch of Harrods bags I thought I had hidden under my chair.
''Same to you. Find some good ties.'' Ah -- well, I thought -- maybe sales aren't so bad after all. . . .
Just then an Arab took her place at the table. He spoke no English. But as he carefully took a test bite of a Harrods biscuit he smiled knowingly at me and held up a bulging plastic bag, green with gold lettering.


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Over the past few months I have amassed a stack of newspaper articles about youth - not so much by design as by lack of cleanliness. Some of the saves, like the Jan. 16 New York Times Magazine feature, "Schools are not the Answer," were no-brainers. Any good youth advocate would frame the cover based on the title alone. Others, however, were less obvious:
"The Busing Stops Here: Two families, one school and the future of desegregation"" (Jan. 30, Washington Post Magazine), "Giving a Jump Start into Young Adulthood: After-school mentoring program targets girls from high-crime areas" (Jan. 12, Takoma Park Gazette, Maryland), "Third Grade: Dispatches from childhood's last frontier" (March 19, Washington Post Magazine), "Boot Camps: An Idea Whose Time Came and Went" (Jan. 2, New York Times), and "Getting Inside a Teen Brain" (Feb. 28, Newsweek).
This pile tells several important stories. First, mainstream media does cover youth issues. The coverage is not all negative: It reflects concern about young people's development and provides summaries of important debates about effective strategies. Second, schools get much deeper and more consistent coverage than non-school youth programs, which are more likely to be in feature sections and less likely to include interviews with experts or report on relevant trends, research or policies. Third, the media and (perhaps by extension) the public does seem to have an appreciation for the complexities and challenges of development. There are discussions about the impact of family and community, the importance of dance and sports, and the developmental shifts that occur as children mature.
But the coverage reveals some of this country's blind spots as well. "Schools are not the Answer" offers depressingly cumulative evidence of the limited ability of schools - even good schools - to compensate for the negative effects of family and community among the poor. The article is sobering. But the solutions offered are thin. It is not until page six of eight that a hint of intervention is offered in the form of a tale about Impact, a Head Start program that is "not so much a preschool as a multi-purpose social-service agency, offering year-round, all-day child care from birth, adult literacy programs, episodic health care... for pregnant teenagers." Impact succeeds, author James Traub suggests, because it "makes a far more ambitious attempt to offer itself as a kind of alternative community." The price is more than double that of a typical Head Start program. But it is an expense, Traub argues, that the U.S. should pay.
Impact sounds good. But toddlers grow up. What solutions are offered for school-age children and teens? If "ghetto children need an enveloping environment that is secure and nourishing, as the streets and often the home itself are not," and if "school is not enveloping enough," what is the solution? Here's where Traub veers from his otherwise straight arrow thinking. "There's a strong argument for universally available after-school activities. No less important would be the restoration of the web of church, community and police-sponsored programs."
That was it. No examples, no statistics, no promising interventions from the laboratories of the top universities. The challenge of creating enveloping environments for children and youth who must traverse the streets between family and school alone is brushed off in a few lines. The lessons and successes of those who work in communities to change the odds for older children and youth are not picked up on the radar screens of those looking for scalable solutions to poverty.
Youth Today (March 2000) made light of the creation of the new National Academy of Sciences Committee on Community-Level Youth Programming, suggesting that researchers have been slow to come to the realization that there is life (and impact) beyond schools. Slow or not, this is a committee whose work is desperately needed. Whatever the final assessment of the current status of community level programs for youth, young people will be better off if this august body succeeds in articulating, with some authority, the need for such programs' existence.
Pittman, Karen. "Reading Between the Lines." Youth Today, April 2000, p. 63.
©2000 Youth Today. Reprinted with permission from Youth Today. All rights reserved.
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Before Mariam was born, her parents came to CNEWA, looking for help. The mother was older, and it was clear she needed a Caesarean delivery. The CNEWA staff directed the family to the Italian Hospital, supported by CNEWA in Amman, and helped pay for the surgery.
The delivery went well, but the doctors discovered that Mariam has a small hole in her heart. She is being treated with drugs and, in time, it is hoped the hole will close and Mariam will have a long life.
This is her second visit to our CNEWA office. Mariam and her father stopped by for the distribution of the Christmas food tickets for Iraqi families.
She is healthy and gorgeous.
We're delighted to share that news with our readers — and grateful, as always, for the generosity of our CNEWA family that continues to make stories like this one possible.
A nun and patients pray during Mass in the St. Louis Hospital chapel in Jerusalem. Read about how this place has become An Oasis of Compassion in the September 2012 edition of ONE.
Among the skills children learn at the Assisi School is how to create jewelry with beads.
Kaleketty is a remote forest village in the diocese of Kanjirappally in Kerala. CNEWA stretched its hands to help 50 visually impaired children at a school for the blind run by the Congregation of Assisi Sisters of Mary Immaculate.
To help these children develop skills, the sisters conduct academic classes, and also give them training in music, dance, and physical education. They are also trained in rehab programs—making umbrellas, working with rattan and bamboo, or creating jewelry with beads.
CNEWA's support bought musical instruments, along with mosquito nets, mats, mattresses, medicine and day-to-day living items.
The Assisi Sisters of Mary immaculate (ASMI) which is a Franciscan Congregation of the Syro-Malabar Church, was established in 1949. The congregation was founded to radiate God's compassionate love to the most rejected of the society — including leprosy patients, the blind, and the mentally handicapped.
The Assisi School for the Blind is a residential school. They have 50 blind children this year studying in 10 grades. Up to grade 7, the students are taught in state syllabus with the help of Braille books. For higher secondary studies, the students stay in the school's hostel and go to another nearby facility. Proper training, knowledge and encouragement enable them to overcome their disabilities and exceed in life.
We sincerely thank our generous donors for supporting this project. You have not seen these young people, and they cannot see you, but they do visualize you with their hearts. Be assured, they pray for you!
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MARINA DEL REY, Calif. Witnesses say it looked like an explosion in the middle of the ocean. Within minutes fire crews raced to the burning boat floating three miles from the Marina Del Rey Harbor and put out the flames.
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The prevailing argument is that Microsoft, through these actions, is making the Xbox One less attractive – which is perhaps true for a very small subset of gamers. These are gamers who are able to afford the maintenance of a gaming PC, as well as a single console. That pushes out a large majority, with the idea of purchasing both consoles instead actually making even more sense. So in truth, how many people is it really negatively affecting? Well none really.
Microsoft isn't aiming to compete with itself here. They've long expressed interest in unifying their platforms under the Windows banner, and all it really does is give them more people to target with software sales – the bread and butter of this industry. In that space they're actually just increasing their potential revenue in ways that Nintendo and Sony can only dream of – because you can bet that if either could do the same at this point they probably would.
Having Xbox One exclusives come to PC isn't impacting the sales potential of the console, because it doesn't automatically mean everyone with an Xbox One can now afford a PC. If you're in that space, then great! You suddenly have more buying power in the games market. If not, then you simply go with the platform of your choice.
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Dana Stroul is a senior fellow in The Washington Institute's Beth and David Geduld Program on Arab Politics. She previously served for five years as a senior professional staff member on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, where she covered the Middle East, North Africa, and Turkey. In that capacity, she played a central role in the oversight of the State Department and the U.S. Agency for International Development, which included overseeing U.S. foreign assistance and weapons sales, as well as crafting relevant legislation.
Before working on Capitol Hill, Stroul served in the Middle East policy office of the Secretary of Defense. From 2008 to 2013, she focused on a range of topics including U.S.-Egypt relations, the U.S. military drawdown in Iraq, and a review of U.S. government policies and programs in the aftermath of the Arab Spring. In addition, Stroul also worked at the U.S. Embassy in Cairo on economic-political affairs, at the U.S. Institute of Peace on civilian-military relations in Iraq, and at the National Democratic Institute on Gulf Affairs.
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Always really liked BJM, indeed I recall watching Dig and realising that whatever about Anton Newcombes failings they seemed of a lesser degree than rivals The Dandy Warhols, though give them their due they can write a song.
But musically BJM has always been more or less dead centre in one part of my wheelhouse. The mix of psychedelia, post-punk, dance and subtle electronics is just about spot on. I think for a group that evolved out of something close to shoe gaze it is remarkable to see the journey they/he have/has taken. That said the most recent release Something Else is perhaps a bit too guitar oriented though last years Don't Get Lost was majestic (particularly the dance inflected numbers). There's a crossover for me in that 12 string guitarist Rick Maymi has worked with Steve Kilbey – together they produced the fairly great The Wilderness Years by David Neil, a sort of fictional band from the 70s or 80s.
As to the gig, which was at the Academy this week. This was straight up BJM, and again strongly guitar oriented, Newombe saying next to nothing, looping, occasionally wearing, otherwise fascinating, finished by a long long version of A Word which saw the roadies brought on to play guitar as well in a MBV stylee and then leave the stage along with everyone else. No encore, kind of detached. I've more to say but perhaps a This Weekend Might be no harm.
An interesting night out. Even if Joel Gion kept reminding me of the Gilmore Girls.


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I did simply the system but when i display, it show nothing. I want to display datas in mysql.. is there any error in my codes? I searched many answers but they did not satisfied me.. please anyone can say if I have any error or must I add any function between my codes ?

A: Because, I don't know what include('class/db.php'); contains. I used PDO connection to test your case:
require('fpdf.php');

function getConnection() {
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The only major change is the way the i loop over the pdo associative array. I am accessing the keys of each of the rows read from the db, so instead of
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I am accessing say the id
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Just back from Anglesey, where we stayed near Camaes Bay with our grandchildren. There's something magical about Anglesey: a strange, subtle and beautiful atmosphere that feels as if you've entered an enchanted Otherworld.
Much of the countryside looks dull from a car; but get out and walk a hundred yards and you're in fields and woods that seem out of another era. It's as if nothing has changed for centuries, and you can just step into it. I always find it very inspiring for poetry too.
Having meadows and seacliffs right next to each other is wonderful too. You go from sheets of bluebells and blossoming hawthorn thickets to sheer cliffs with lichen-covered rocks and clumps of seapinks, with a sheer drop to the sandy beach, in a mere footstep or two.
The cave mouth is the dark shape left of centre. The Dalai Lama, visiting a few years ago, said it was the most peaceful place on earth!
This time we stayed in an old house beside a church built in the mid-5th century. Just round the corner and down the cliff face was St Patrick's cave – where the saint is said to have taken refuge after shipwreck. It looked precarious but I soon found out that it was easy enough to climb down the cliff into the cave. A wonderful place to meditate! And, as local legend says women used to go to a sacred spirng there to wash their faces and become more beautiful, it seems likely that in preChristian times it was sacred to a Goddess – no doubt Bride, the Celtic Goddess of springs and wells. A magical place!