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namespace render
{
    technique::technique (gpu_program::ptr renderingProgram) : _gpuProgram (renderingProgram)
    {
        _cacheUniformsLocations();
    }

    void technique::transformNotNeeded()
    {
        _withoutTransform = true;
    }

    void technique::_cacheUniformsLocations()
    {
        if (!_withoutTransform)
        {
            _mvpMatrix_UniformId       = _gpuProgram->uniformLocation ("uMatTransform");
            _worldMatrix_UniformId     = _gpuProgram->uniformLocation ("uMatWorldTransform", true);
            _worldViewMatrix_UniformId = _gpuProgram->uniformLocation ("uMatWorldViewTransform", true);
        }

        _viewPos_UniformId = _gpuProgram->uniformLocation ("uViewPos", true);
    }

    void technique::setup (graphics_renderer &renderer) const
    {
        _gpuProgram->use();

        const math3d::object2screen_transform_d &trans = renderer.state().object2ScreenTransform();

        if (gpu_program::isValidUniformLocation (_mvpMatrix_UniformId))
            _gpuProgram->setUniform (_mvpMatrix_UniformId, trans.asMatrix().convertType<float>());

        if (gpu_program::isValidUniformLocation (_worldMatrix_UniformId))
            _gpuProgram->setUniform (_worldMatrix_UniformId, trans.worldTransform().asMatrix().convertType<float>());

        if (gpu_program::isValidUniformLocation (_worldViewMatrix_UniformId))
            _gpuProgram->setUniform (_worldViewMatrix_UniformId, trans.worldCamTransformMatrix().convertType<float>());

        if (gpu_program::isValidUniformLocation (_viewPos_UniformId))
            _gpuProgram->setUniform (_viewPos_UniformId,
                                     renderer.state().activeCamera()->transform().ttranslation().convertType<float>());
    }

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    void material::setup (graphics_renderer &renderer) const
    {
        _technique->setup (renderer);

        for (auto param : _scalarParams)
        {
            uniform_info<float> &uniInfo = param.second;
            if (!uniInfo.needsUpdate)  continue;
            uniInfo.needsUpdate = false;

            if (gpu_program::isValidUniformLocation (uniInfo.uniformId))
                _technique->gpuProgram()->setUniform (uniInfo.uniformId, uniInfo.value);
        }

        for (auto param : _vec3Params)
        {
            uniform_info<vector3_f> &uniInfo = param.second;
            if (!uniInfo.needsUpdate)  continue;
            uniInfo.needsUpdate = false;

            if (gpu_program::isValidUniformLocation (uniInfo.uniformId))
                _technique->gpuProgram()->setUniform (uniInfo.uniformId, uniInfo.value);
        }

        for (auto param : _vec2Params)
        {
            uniform_info<vector2_f> &uniInfo = param.second;
            if (!uniInfo.needsUpdate)  continue;
            uniInfo.needsUpdate = false;

            if (gpu_program::isValidUniformLocation (uniInfo.uniformId))
                _technique->gpuProgram()->setUniform (uniInfo.uniformId, uniInfo.value);
        }

        for (auto param : _mat4Params)
        {
            auto &uniInfo = param.second;
            if (!uniInfo.needsUpdate)  continue;
            uniInfo.needsUpdate = false;

            if (gpu_program::isValidUniformLocation (uniInfo.uniformId))
                _technique->gpuProgram()->setUniform (uniInfo.uniformId, uniInfo.value);
        }

        unsigned i = 0;
        for (auto nextTexture : _textures)
        {
            uniform_info<texture::ptr> &uniInfo = nextTexture.second;
            if (!uniInfo.needsUpdate)  continue;
            uniInfo.needsUpdate = false;

            if (gpu_program::isValidUniformLocation (uniInfo.uniformId))
            {
                glActiveTexture (GL_TEXTURE0 + i);
                texture::invalidateBinding();

                uniInfo.value->use();
                _technique->gpuProgram()->setUniformSampler (uniInfo.uniformId, i);
            }

            ++i;
        }
    }

    void material::set (const string &name, texture::ptr txt)
    {
        auto existingIt = _textures.find (name);

        if (existingIt != _textures.end())
        {
            auto &uniformInfo = existingIt->second;
            uniformInfo.value = txt;
            uniformInfo.needsUpdate = true;
        }

        else
        {
            gpu_program::uniform_id uniformId = _technique->gpuProgram()->uniformLocation (name, true);
            _textures[name] = { txt, uniformId, true };
        }
    }

    void material::set (const string &name, float param)
    {
        auto existingIt = _scalarParams.find (name);

        if (existingIt != _scalarParams.end())
        {
            auto &uniformInfo = existingIt->second;

            if (uniformInfo.value != param)
            {
                uniformInfo.value = param;
                uniformInfo.needsUpdate = true;
            }
        }

        else
        {
            gpu_program::uniform_id uniformId = _technique->gpuProgram()->uniformLocation (name, true);
            _scalarParams[name] = { param, uniformId, true };
        }
    }

    void material::set (const string &name, const math3d::vector3_f &param)
    {
        auto existingIt = _vec3Params.find (name);

        if (existingIt != _vec3Params.end())
        {
            auto &uniformInfo = existingIt->second;

            if (uniformInfo.value != param)
            {
                uniformInfo.value = param;
                uniformInfo.needsUpdate = true;
            }
        }

        else
        {
            gpu_program::uniform_id uniformId = _technique->gpuProgram()->uniformLocation (name, true);
            _vec3Params[name] = { param, uniformId, true };
        }
    }

    void material::set (const string &name, const math3d::vector2_f &param)
    {
        auto existingIt = _vec2Params.find (name);

        if (existingIt != _vec2Params.end())
        {
            auto &uniformInfo = existingIt->second;

            if (uniformInfo.value != param)
            {
                uniformInfo.value = param;
                uniformInfo.needsUpdate = true;
            }
        }

        else
        {
            gpu_program::uniform_id uniformId = _technique->gpuProgram()->uniformLocation (name, true);
            _vec2Params[name] = { param, uniformId, true };
        }
    }

    void material::set (const string &name, const math3d::matrix_4x4_f &param)
    {
        auto existingIt = _mat4Params.find (name);

        if (existingIt != _mat4Params.end())
        {
            auto &uniformInfo = existingIt->second;
            uniformInfo.value = param;
            uniformInfo.needsUpdate = true;
        }

        else
        {
            gpu_program::uniform_id uniformId = _technique->gpuProgram()->uniformLocation (name, true);
            _mat4Params[name] = { param, uniformId, true };
        }
    }
}

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Zoya the Queen has been for a while watching this boy in the under-world, he for now can't walk, since he's been injured in a car accident; broken legs and some ripped ligaments. And so the wheel chair has been a must till he recovers.
But what triggered Zoya to watch the boy was the fact that the boy has siblings and relatives, and parents. He's got a normal family, and everyone in that family thought they were an awesome family, with great bonds and truly connected to each other. But As soon as the boy sat in his wheel chair things showed themselves differently. Only a few cared, and some tried to and others never bothered, It did hurt the boy and others around who engaged themselves in his situation. So why didn't the rest bother? Because they have been busy with their own lives, have been selfish, underestimated his medical condition. and have been striving to achieve their materialistic goals in life, not keeping in mind that priorities change and shuffle according to life events and circumstances.
It surprised the Queen to see how his friends, besides the family members who actually cared, have been showing more concern than some family members.
The Queen thought it's somehow wrong, and sickening. It's not the way things should be like! And she decided to take action: they say blood is thicker than water! But life down there is kind of messed up and doesn't always show that blood is thicker. Accordingly she mixed the blood with more water for some relatives, while she gave the friends who cared more blood than water, to keep the bond even stronger and tighter. Thinking if some don't care then they don't deserve the blood connection and all the sacred things related to it.
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A cycle of crime films in expressionist style, shot in the United States from the 1930s to the 1950s. The large number of Jewish émigrés among the directors of film noir is striking. Their affinity to gloomy, social-critical material goes back to Weimar cinema (Metropolis), and was further intensified by National Socialism and its consequences. With its expressionist aesthetics and high artistic ambition, film noir represented a counterpart to commercial Hollywood productions.Film noir – French for "black film" (in the sense of dark, somber) is derived from th…
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Media representation of a Jewish immigrant family in the radio serial The Rise of the Goldbergs and attained greater popularity from 1949 on as a television sitcom. With its stories of integration and social ascent, The Goldbergs accompanied two generations of Jewish immigrants on their way in American society. The series struck a chord with a widespread public that favored "ethnically" themed entertainment up until the mid-1950s. The Goldbergs, a Jewish immigrant family, were in the limelight of the radio program between 1929 and 1945 and the television…
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Over & Willingham IDB – Next Meeting 2/04/2023
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Over & Willingham IDB – Meeting date: 27/04/2021
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Messrs Brian Burling and Leslie Cook were re-appointed Chairman and Vice-Chairman respectively.
Mr Hilton Law, (Hanson UK) was co-opted to membership of the Board following the resignation of Mr Mark Page
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The Chairman welcomed Mr Mark Page (Hanson UK) and Mr Harry Garner who were both attending their first meeting of the Board.
The Chairman welcomed Councillor Bill Handley (local authority appointee) and Mr Jack Smith who were both attending their first meeting of the Board.
Mr Mark Page, (Hanson UK) was co-opted to membership of the Board following the resignation of Mr Keith Bird.
Mr Brian Burling was re-appointed Chairman. Mr Leslie Cook was appointed Vice-Chairman.


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Northern Hemisphere had its warmest summer ever, NOAA says
By Peter Martinez
September 14, 2020 / 9:31 PM / CBS News
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The Northern Hemisphere had its hottest summer on record in 2020, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Monday. Scientists from NOAA also said that 2020 is likely to be one of the five warmest years on record, and that last month was the second-warmest August on record.
Data showed the three-month season from June to August broke the record previously held by 2019 and 2016, which were tied for hottest in the Northern Hemisphere. Globally, NOAA said that the land and ocean temperature for June to August 2020 was the third highest in their 141-year history of record keeping.
NOAA said the 10 warmest Augusts have all occurred since 1998 and the five warmest Augusts have occurred since 2015. North America had its warmest August on record, with a temperature departure from average of +2.74 degrees Fahrenheit, according to NOAA. The Southern Hemisphere's land and ocean temperatures also saw an increase from its August average, making it the sixth highest on record.
NOAA data showed the most notable temperature departures from average during August 2020 were present across parts of the western contiguous U.S., north-central Russia, southeastern China, Western Australia, the North Pacific Ocean, the Bering Sea and parts of the eastern Antarctic, where temperatures were at least 2.7 degrees above average.
This summer saw a sweltering heat wave hit the West. Death Valley reached the highest temperature ever reliably measured on Earth: 130 degrees Fahrenheit. It wasn't long after that when Woodland Hills in southern California set a record temperature of 121 degrees in early September, the "highest official temperature ever recorded in L.A. County," according to the National Weather Service. The previous record was 119, which was set in 2006.
August was a particularly brutal month, CBS News meteorologist and climate specialist Jeff Berardelli previously reported. The ratio of record high temperatures to record low temperatures was 12 to 1.
Although heat waves are caused by a combination of natural cycles amplified by global warming, Berardelli said, a recent study from Columbia University found that the human component is in the process of overtaking natural forces. The study shows that during this decade, the 2020s, human-caused climate change will become the "main driver" of heat waves in the western U.S. — the first region of the country for this to happen.
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Peter Martinez
Peter is a writer and CBSNews.com homepage editor based in Southern California. Contact him at peter.martinez@cbsnews.com and read more of his stories here.
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Australia's Justice System
Topics: CrimeJusticeJuvenile JusticeJuvenile Justice SystemLawMandatory SentencingPoliticsRobberySocial Issues
Australia let us all rejoice, for we are not all young and free. There is a human rights crisis in Australia. The overrepresentation of Indigenous peoples in Australia's prisons remains one of the most significant social justice and human rights issues facing Australia as a nation. Despite making up 2.3 percent of the general population, one out of four prisoners are Indigenous. Growing evidence shows that the significant increase in Indigenous incarceration rates does not necessarily reflect an increase in the number of crimes committed by Indigenous people, but rather the way that Australia's legal system responds to crime.
"Australia's Justice System"
Systemic racism, targeted law enforcement policies and heavy-handed sentencing practices in Australia have a disproportionate and discriminatory impact on Indigenous peoples. Australia has a long history of failing to reduce rates of Indigenous incarceration. In response to the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody in 1991, Australian State and Territory governments committed to working together to reduce the unacceptably high rates of Indigenous prisoners.
Nearly three decades later, Indigenous incarceration rates have almost doubled. Indigenous women are incarcerated at a higher rate than ever before, one in thirteen Indigenous men are imprisoned, and as a country Australia has become one criticised for being 'better at keeping Aboriginal people in jail than school.' Spending time behind bars in a cell should not be normalised for any population and it is distressing that prison has become a normal 'cycle' of life for Indigenous Australians. While there is no silver bullet solution to this issue, the first step will require a conscious departure from failed policies of the past.
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A review of the existing literature suggests that Australia's criminal justice system discriminates against Indigenous people. Systemic racism in policing has been instrumental in contributing to an increase in the amount of Indigenous people being charged, sentenced and incarcerated. Police are less likely to caution Indigenous Australians and more likely to refer them directly into the court system. In addition to being 27 times more likely (78 per 1000) to be apprehended by police for assault offences when compared to non-Indigenous people (2.9 per 1000), Indigenous people are more likely to be imprisoned when compared to non-Indigenous people. Indigenous people receive criminal records at a much earlier age and are 16 times more likely to die whilst incarcerated. Police officers must refrain from engaging in racist and degrading behaviour towards Indigenous people, this may be achieved through educating and raising awareness of Indigenous culture and history through cultural competency training. Alternatively, perhaps the implementation of stricter penalties for police officers who engage in degrading behaviour should be considered. Either way, minimising the systematic bias in Australia's criminal justice system, which contributes to the increased number of Indigenous people charged, sentenced and then incarcerated, will require leadership and initiative from those at the front line.
The criminalisation of social and health issues has also been instrumental in the rising rates of Indigenous prisoners. Indigenous Australians are the most disadvantaged group in Australia. The infant mortality rate for Indigenous children is double that for non-Indigenous children. Indigenous people are four times more likely to be hospitalised for illness, six times more likely to be victims of homicide, and the unemployment rate for Indigenous Australians is approximately five times the rate for non-Indigenous Australians. Despite comprising just 2.3 % of Australia's entire population, 50 percent of Australian suicides are by Indigenous persons. Drug and alcohol abuse, poverty, mental illness and unemployment are all common risk factors of Indigenous offending. These risk factors, which are also closely correlated with the ongoing effects of colonisation and intergenerational trauma, often motivate the commission of crimes such as theft, robbery and violence. Reaffirmed by the high rate of Indigenous recidivism, adopting an incarceration approach and harshly penalising offences that are motivated primarily by social and health issues will inevitably lead to higher rates of incarceration in Indigenous populations.
Other sentencing practices like mandatory minimum sentences (MMS) also pose significant barriers in reducing the rates of Indigenous incarceration. MMS, in which the law sets a minimum or fixed penalty for a particular offence, has an adverse and 'draconian' impact on Indigenous Australians. This is clearly reflected by the 223% increase in the number of Indigenous women incarcerated in the NT during the first year of operation of these laws. The operation of section 401 of the Western Australian Criminal Code provides an insight into the discriminatory effect that MMS has on Indigenous Australians. This section requires a Magistrate to impose a minimum one-year imprisonment for youth offenders who have been convicted of three counts of home burglary. An Indigenous juvenile, who by fact of his Aboriginality is 14 times more likely to be homeless, must be imprisoned for 12 months if he enters three houses in the same night to find food and water. Prescribing MMS to crimes that are more likely to be committed by those who suffer disadvantage at a significantly higher rate is an effective method for incarcerating those who often feel 'compelled [and have] no choice but to commit crimes.'
To have any real prospect of reducing Indigenous incarceration, Australia needs to evolve from an incarceration-based approach to a more holistic method. MMS regimes, which are both discriminatory and financially draining, should be abolished and instead, finances should be invested into measures that address the drivers of offending. Justice reinvestment for example, diverts funds to 'community based programs and services that address the underlying causes of crime.' This approach, which is based on notions of healing, empowerment and community, focuses on placing funds into education and preventative programs, and invests money into housing and health. To ensure the success of future efforts aimed at improving Indigenous incarceration rates, it is critical that Indigenous peoples are given the opportunity to direct us towards a future where Indigenous people are not fifteen times more likely than non-Indigenous people to be incarcerated. Indigenous people must be given the chance to take control of matters that affect their families, their friends and their lives. It is time for our nation to stop incarcerating our most vulnerable and instead take responsibility in promoting healing, strength and reconciliation.
When the Royal Commission released its final report almost three decades ago, Australia made a commitment to reducing the rates of Indigenous incarceration. Shamefully, the rates of Indigenous incarceration are higher than ever before. If reconciliation is ever to become a reality, progress needs to be made to ensure that racial discrimination and systemic bias is addressed throughout all stages of the criminal justice system. Policy attitudes towards Indigenous peoples require urgent change and sentencing practices that discriminatively impact Indigenous people need to be reviewed, immediately. Most importantly, we must support and empower Indigenous people. We must get out of their way and let them direct our nation to finding the most effective solutions to this complex problem. We must respectfully listen to their voices, implement their ideas and willingly act on their advice. By doing this, Australia has a tangible opportunity to contribute positively to reduce the rates of Indigenous incarceration and pave a clear path to reconciliation, both of which are well overdue.
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FintechOS Founders Selected as the First Romanians to Join Endeavor's Global Network
Co-founders Teodor Blidarus and Sergiu Negut are now part of the organization's high-impact worldwide community of 2,000+ entrepreneurs
Bucharest, May 21st 2021 –The bank and insurance technology company, FintechOS was selected as the first company founded in Romania to join Endeavor, the leading global community supporting high-impact entrepreneurs. Co-founders Teodor Blidarus and Sergiu Negut participated in Endeavor's selection process and were unanimously chosen to join the network at the 15th virtual International Selection Panel (vISP) held May 17-19, 2021.
After successfully raising one of the largest Series B funding rounds in Europe this year, FintechOS joins the exclusive roster of over 2,000 high growth entrepreneurs from nearly 40 markets, generating combined revenues of over 28 billion USD, creating 4 million jobs, and raising more than 4 billion USD in capital in 2020. With support from EBRD, Dedeman, and Globalworth, Endeavor Romania launched less than four months ago to elevate and support scaling entrepreneurs in the region. The office provides Romanian entrepreneurs a unique network of trust for founders to dream big, scale up, and pay it forward to the next generation of entrepreneurs. The Endeavor Romania board includes UiPath, Autonom, Vivre, Banca Transilvania, Arobs and RTPR.
"The entrepreneurs selected at the 15th vISP are a true testament to Endeavor's founding belief that high-impact founders are innovating and scaling up all around the world," said Endeavor Co-founder and CEO Linda Rottenberg. "Thank you to members of Endeavor's global network who donated their time and expertise as panelists, and congratulations to the newest Endeavor Entrepreneurs!"
FintechOS was established in 2017, after Teodor and Sergiu saw the potential of a product-led growth business that delivered digital transformation for the financial sector. The company combines three software trends; end-to-end digital financial services, a data-driven platform, and a self-service, no code interaction – enabling financial institutions and insurance providers to rapidly build and deploy modern, personalized, data-driven products and improved customer journeys, irrespective of their legacy infrastructure. With Teodor overseeing the go-to-market and product strategy and Sergiu covering strategy, people and culture, as well as international expansion, FintechOS now operates in more than 20 markets, servicing over 40 clients with assets under management north of 100 billion USD.
"As the world of financial services continues to become more competitive, banks, financial services and insurance companies start to prioritise customer experience in order to retain them. Moreover, in the age of fintech and Big Tech, building personalised journeys will keep these institutions relevant in the competition with their agile fintech counterparts. This is where FintechOS comes in – we bridge the gap between legacy and future-forward approaches – with end-to-end solutions, automated processes, and personalised offerings, keeping customers at the core. Being selected as part of Endeavor is a motivation for us to work even harder on our mission and we are very excited to be part of this incredible network of entrepreneurs and be part of this unique pool of knowledge and talent." – declared Teo Blidarus, CEO and co-founder FintechOS.
"We thank the Endeavor team for the trust – this serves as proof that we are right in our mission to support access to essential financial services worldwide. Our unique approach to financial technology is designed to overcome many of the barriers service providers face in serving those financially excluded. Also, this is a major step towards giving broader recognition and global visibility to businesses originating from Romania and an encouragement for every Romanian entrepreneur with global ambitions" – added Sergiu Negut, CSO and co-founder.
Endeavor's vISP is the final phase of a multi-step rigorous selection process, where candidates pitch their companies to top international business leaders and investors from the Endeavor network, making those obtaining a unanimous vote officially Endeavor Entrepreneurs. Once selected into the network by a team of global panelists, entrepreneurs gain access to a wide array of services, including access to talent, capital, and international markets, and an exclusive network that will enable them to scale their businesses and multiply their impact.
"For the Romanian entrepreneurial ecosystem, the selection of FintechOS in the Endeavor Network is a confirmation of the value and the huge development potential of Romanian companies in a truly global setting. We are eager to discover together other innovative companies and other entrepreneurs as focused and enthusiastic as Teodor and Sergiu and enhance their development with the help of Endeavor", said Marius Stefan, the Chairman of Endeavor Romania's board.
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Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics
"The time is coming, however, when people will be astonished that mankind needed so long a time to regard thoughtless injury to life as incompatible with ethics."Albert Schweitzer, Dale Lecturer at Mansfield College, Oxford, 1923.
Director's 2007 publications
The following are the Director's publications during 2007:
Creatures of the Same God: Explorations in Animal Theology (Winchester: Winchester University Press), pp. 209 + xxv (hbk), ISBN 978-1906113001. More details here.
Articles in Journals
'Jesus and Animals in Christian Apocryphal Literature', Modern Believing, Vol. 48, No. 1, January 2007, pp. 48-59.
'Évangile animal' [French], Cahiers antispécistes, No. 28, May 2007, pp. 5-27.
'Evangelho animal' [Portuguese] Cahiers antispécistes, No. 28, May 2007.
'Why Animal Suffering Matters Morally', Colloquium: The Australian and New Zealand Theological Review, Vol. 39, No. 2, November 2007, pp. 139-170.
'Cas de Conscience', Aequo Animo, No. 7, July 2007, pp. 5-6.
'Religion and Human-Animal Bonds' in Marc Bekoff (ed), Encyclopaedia of Animal-Human Relations, Vol. 3 (Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 2007), pp. 586-590.
Articles in newspapers/magazines
'First hit the pets, then the people', Church Times, 17 August 2007, p. 11.
'Listen to the voice of the people', The Times, No. 69171, 17 November, 2007, p. 83.
'Re-Thinking Christianity' by Keith Ward, Times Higher Educational Supplement, No. 1,796, 1 June, 2007, p. 25.
Animals and Oxford
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Religion and Animals Project
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I don't consider myself to be a minimalist. But when it comes to my personal productivity, I definitely have minimalist tendencies. I align tasks with my time in a way that allows me to move forward with as little friction as possible. I put templates and frameworks in place that reduce decision fatigue so I can leverage every moment of my time. I am very deliberate with the tools I use—both digital and analog—so I know what to use and when to use it.
Being minimalist isn't about having less to do. It's about having less stuff in my way so I can do more of those things better.
What works for me won't always work for you (which is why I developed TimeCrafting so that you don't need to adhere to all aspects of it for you to be using the methodology), but I'm certain you'll find some of the things I mention in this piece helpful. I encourage you to give any or all of these a try so you can find out what does.
Each of these components includes strategies that you can integrate into your approach, no matter how many you choose to adopt. Let's look at each of these components individually.
One of the simplest ways I manage to keep a minimal setup for my productivity is by aligning my tasks to time slots. I do this in various ways through "time theming." For example, if I'm trying to align tasks up for a long-term project, I'll use a Monthly Theme to accomplish that.
Over the course of a month, I'll give emphasis to a specific project. Whenever I do this, I know I have a greater chance of completing the project at hand. Sometimes the Monthly Theme isn't about finishing a project; it may be about giving it focus. For example, I will conduct workshops and speaking engagements beyond the month of February. When I give that area my attention for the month it allows me to make great progress. After February, I'll shift focus to another finite or ongoing project and let the workshop/speaking area fade into the background. I encourage you to give theming your months a try so you can see how they align common tasks, which can help you finish projects and achieve goals.
There are other forms of time theming that you can use to align your tasks. Daily Themes allow you to align your tasks to a specific day (or set of days). Horizontal Themes align specific times of day across multiple days–either consecutively or interspersed. Weekly Sprints allow you to focus your tasks on a project or goal over the course of a week rather than a month.
How I tackle a task varies depending on a variety of factors. Sometimes it's based on the Daily Theme, meaning I'll work on tasks that are aligned with whatever that day's theme is. For example, I started writing this piece on Friday. Friday is my Deep Work Day so the task "Review Drafts for blog post ideas" is aligned with deep work and therefore is aligned to Fridays. So I can work by task according to their theme.
Sometimes looking at the theme doesn't work. Maybe I'm tired or traveling (like I am now). Maybe there's more urgency to the task so it can't wait until the next instance of its Daily Theme. This is where working by mode, project, or even schedule comes into play. The concept of capturing via The MAPS Mentality helps in these cases because the action (A) can be worked on based on mode (M), project(P), or schedule (S). That's why when I capture tasks on paper or digital I keep that mentality in mind. Every action requires a mode. If I want to have a bridge for these tasks – another way of approaching them – then I can look at what project they belong to or when they are scheduled and work on them in that fashion.
When you are able to bridge tasks across multiple ways of working on them, then you lower your chances of getting stuck and remove friction and decision fatigue. If you can't work by schedule, then work by mode or project. Can't work by project? Work by mode or schedule. Not feeling mode-based work today? Work by project or schedule.
This minimalist productivity workflow creates constraints as opposed to restraints. There's always a way out or through. That's because there's always a bridge for you to take.
Don't like Heinz? You're not buying ketchup at Costco then. Don't use a lot of ketchup? Costco's selections are not for you.
Costco's lack of choice makes it easier for you to make a choice.
The same can be said for a minimalist productivity workflow. If you focus on creating alignment and ways to bridge then you make it easier to choose not only when things should be done but also whether or not they should be done at all.
Sunday is when I start my week, and I've designated it as my Planning Day. I'm currently traveling, so my usual routine is going to be disrupted. So when I looked at my tasks for Sunday I was able to decide what needed my attention. I aligned some tasks with their respective Daily Themes but also attached modes to each of them that ensured I saw them from another angle this week. That way if I decide not to do them on those days I can tackle them when I'm in their respective mode.
Knowing I was traveling this week and having this framework in place also allowed me to be proactive and limit the number of tasks I need to do this week so I can focus my attention on what I want to do this week (my intentions). Going into today I can review my task list and know that I've aligned my tasks in multiple ways. That I've created bridges that prevent any tasks from falling through the cracks and made choosing what to do when much simpler.
Setting up this kind of workflow isn't something that takes hold overnight. You need to foster it and stick with it while it becomes second nature. It can be too easy to drag tasks to the next calendar day – which can misalign them – rather than slow down and be mindful of what the best day for them should be. Instead of figuring out the different ways we can approach our to do list, we can get tunnel vision and limit how much we can accomplish as a result. When we don't create "focus filters" we can wind up creating paradoxes of choice, which slows down what we can do in a given day, week, month, or more.
Being productive is about doing the right things more often. One of the simplest ways you can accomplish this is by creating a framework that only puts in front of you what you must work on in a desired timeframe. So even though you may have a lot to do over an extended period of time, you can set things up so you view what you need and want to do over an intended period of time.
And that will give you the maximum chance of getting the right things done.


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City of London Mile 2016
The third Amba Hotels City of London Mile took place on 19 June 2016, with more than 2800 runners taking part in 16 races ranging from family waves to elite men's and women's fields. The free event is organised with the fine The Running Works shop, and takes in an iconic route starting by St Pauls Cathedral and running round the Bank of England before finishing on Cheapside.
The race organisers had listened to feedback from last year and made some improvements on what was already a good event. The start, for instance, had been moved on to a wider section of road to avoid the early congestion some found last year.
It was my second year of taking part, and in fact only my second mile race, and I was pleased enough to take 14 seconds of last year's time and finish with a PB of 5:42. Top 20 Power of 10/Run Britain for my age for the distance on road, I'll take it! At the front of the field, Australian Rio hopeful Luke Matthews set a course record to win in 4.03 (full results here)
well this might be the first and last time I make top 20 in GB rankings (for age), so you'll just have to forgive me for posting
I strongly recommend taking part next year if you get the chance - registration usually opens in February. Nice technical t-shirt too (not included in the free registration)
See also: City of London Mile 2015
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Labels: City of London Mile, Mile
Ireland 1 Italy 0... 1994
Ireland 1 Italy 0... no not last night, in June 1994 I was in Paros, Greece watching the same result in a bar - celebrations all round after Ray Houghton's 11th minute goal. With no England, Scotland, Wales or NI in the World Cup, Jack Charlton's Ireland were the team of choice even for many Brits. I went so far as to have a Jack Charlton 'Tiocfaidh ar la' t-shirt from my then local, the George Canning in Brixton (now Hootananny) - probably a little over enthusiastic! I might add that while my mum was born a Kelly, my Irish ancestors on her side of the family left County Cork for the Forest of Dean in the 19th century so I could not really claim to be entitled to support the team, but as a third claim for me after England or Scotland (who I could represent in sports if I was any good) I felt it was OK.
Loughinisland Massacre 1994
On what was a night of joyous celebrations for Ireland supporters around the world there was also an infamous massacre. At the Heights Bar in Loughinisland, County Down, people were watching the match on TV when Ulster Volunteer Force gunmen walked in and opened fire with assault rifles, killing six people. The dead were Adrian Rogan (34), Malcolm Jenkinson (52), Barney Greene (87), Daniel McCreanor (59), Patrick O'Hare (35) and Eamon Byrne (39) - pictured below. A report published by the Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland earlier this month concluded that there had been collusion between police officers and the killers.
There were many terrible killings on all sides during that period, but the slaughter of people just enjoying a football match in a bar has not been forgotten. When Ireland played Italy at Euro 2012, 18 years to the day since the massacre, Ireland players wore black armbands. And on the night of this week's Ireland v Italy match, relatives gathered once again in the Heights Bar.
Labels: 1994, football, Ireland, Italy, Loughinisland, World Cup
Muhammad Ali: I am the Greatest at O2
'I'm so fast, man,
I can run through a hurricane and don't get wet'
I've been meaning to go to the Muhammad Ali 'I am the Greatest' exhibition at the 02 in London since it opened, finally getting round to it in the week after he died which obviously made it very poignant.
Essentially its an exhibition that seeks to tell the story of his life through artifacts from his boxing career. Some of them are directly associated with Ali and his immediate entourage - such as gloves worn in his famous 1966 fight with Henry Cooper. Others are from the period, such as posters and magazine covers. There's also film footage with lots of Ali interviews as well as fight footage of course. It doesn't neglect his political activism either, with a room covering his refusal to fight in the Vietnam War. This act led to him being banned from boxing for three years at the height of his career - in turn it could be argued that this led to an increased risk to his health as he later fought longer than might have been good for him - though the evidence of a link between boxing and the Parkinson's disease that disabled and ultimately killed him is contentious.
Some of the photos of Ali running I have featured here before are included, as well as interview filmed with him while going for a run.
Posters from the 1974 Ali vs. Foreman 'rumble in the jungle':
1960 Rome Olympics memorabilia, including torches and participation medals:
'Float like a Butterfly, Sting like a Bee' jacket made by Everlast:
Ali vs. Superman:
Ali as Saint Sebastian:
Ali lights the flame at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta:
Inevitable photo in front of posters/covers wall:
Labels: 1960 Olympics, boxing, Muhammad Ali
How to get in the football team - just run!
The more I have got into running the more I have come to appreciate its critical role in so many other sports. In some ways it is the ur-sport, the original contest that underlies all the rest. Humans have always run, and the game of who can run furthest or fastest must have existed long before most other sports were codified. More than that the ability to run fast, and sustain that speed over a long game (even if only in short bursts) is a key skill in everything from football to tennis: the ability to run after a ball or away from an opponent. In cricket points are even labelled 'runs' and a 'home run' is a high point of baseball. That is one of the reasons why many suspect that doping is probably as widespread in some of these sports as in track & field, it just hasn't been tested for so extensively.
Anyway in 'A Death in the Family' by Karl Ove Knausgaard, the first volume of his epic fictionalised autobiography 'My Struggle', the Norwegian author recalls how his recognition of all this helped him impress his school football coach and get promoted to the senior team:
'Many people could not understand why I was playing with them. I was no good, after all. There were at least six, perhaps even seven or eight players in the junior team who were better than me... I understood why...
All that autumn I had run a lot and was in such good shape that I had been selected to represent the school in the 1500 meters even though I had never done any track or field events before. So when it was my turn to train with the seniors on the snow-covered shale pitch near Kjota, I knew I had to run. It was my only chance. I ran and ran. In every sprint up the pitch I came first. I gave everything I had every time. When we started to play it was the same: I ran and ran, ran for everything all the time. I ran like someone possessed, and after three sessions of that I knew that I was promoted and I was not surprised. But the others in the junior team were. Whenever I failed to control the ball, whenever I made a bad pass, they let me know, what the hell are you doing in the seniors? Why did they pick you?
I knew why, it because I ran. You just had to run'.
More running related literature:
Jack Kerouac running down a mountain
'These forms who hasten by' - runners on the Pilgrims Way, 1920s
'You just had to run' - Karl Ove Knausgaard
Morrissey - List of the Lost
Burns Night Running Thoughts
Running in the Railway Children
A Midsummer Night's Running
Running to Paradise - W B Yeats
The Sky of a Saturday Morning - John Updike
The Road is a Strange Country - Rebecca Solnit
The Runner - W H Auden
Once a Runner - John L Parker jr
Louisa May Alcott - 'A Joy to Run'
Labels: football, Knausgaard, Norway, running literature
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The groundbreaking event will take place on Makuhari Beach, a prime location just minutes away from downtown Tokyo during Japan's Golden Week holiday. Fans can sign up for ticket and lineup information which will be announced in the coming weeks on http://electriczoo.jp/.
Electric Zoo presented its first international show in May 2014, a two-day event in Mexico City that drew tens of thousands of fans along with top DJs from around the world to the capital city.
Last month, festival organizers announced Electric Zoo will be coming back to New York City for its seventh annual installment on September 4-6, 2015. In a creative partnership with electronic music experience pioneer ID&T, Electric Zoo: Transformed will reimagine and reenergize the festival like never before, creating an atmosphere that truly thrills the senses.


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Pete Cosey (né le  et mort le ) est un guitariste de jazz fusion américain.

Biographie

Il meurt le , à l'âge de 68 ans.

Discographie

En tant que leader ou coleader

Collaborations

Avec Miles Davis
1973 - The Complete Miles Davis at Montreux 1973-1991 : volume 1, Palais des congrès le , first & second set.
 1975: Agharta et Pangaea (1975)

Notes et références

Voir aussi

Articles connexes
 Miles Davis
 Jazz fusion

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Naissance en octobre 1943
Musicien de jazz fusion
Décès en mai 2012
Naissance à Chicago
Décès à Chicago
Décès à 68 ans

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'I know it's a nightmare': 'The dream is gone'
A year after her son, Jordan, was killed in a crash on Highway 101 in Northern California, Heather Breen has still not found a place to live.
"I still don't know where I'm going to live," she said.
The Breens' dream of moving to the US was shattered when their son was killed.
They were renting an apartment in San Francisco, but were moved to a cheaper property by a family friend.
After her son's death, Heather began to lose hope of finding a permanent home.
She now has nowhere to live, has no job and no friends, and is struggling with depression and post-traumatic stress disorder.
Her son's family, however, were able to secure a temporary home in Colorado.
Hannah Breen, Heather's daughter, said she was "shocked" to hear that her mother was not eligible for a temporary housing voucher.
"(The Bens) were just living the dream.
I mean, they knew they were going to come to the States, they were just so happy about it," she told ABC News.
As Heather was working to find a permanent new home, she decided to take her son to the doctor to get some testing done to see if he was still alive.
Heather said she believed her son was not at fault in the crash, but she said he was scared for his safety after watching a television report about the crash.
Dr Richard Risling, an emergency room doctor at the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center, told ABC that it is difficult to tell when a person is still alive because of how they feel.
"You can be really relaxed, but then if you start getting nervous, you're not sure if you're breathing or not," he said.
"It's really hard to tell if a person has died.
It's more likely that you have a pulse, and then you have to be careful because if you have an adrenaline surge, that could cause death."
After spending time in the ER, Heather said she received a diagnosis of a severe traumatic brain injury and had a blood test taken.
A month later, she received another MRI.
"The first scan showed that my brain was in a complete shock," she recalled.
But after another MRI showed the brain had recovered, Heather was told she was no longer in danger.
When Heather's husband found out she had been diagnosed with a mild traumatic brain injuries, he called a relative, who drove Heather to the hospital.
According to Heather, the relative told her that her husband's death had been a terrible accident.
Before Heather was able to leave, she was diagnosed with severe traumatic head injuries.
Even though she has a history of anxiety, she said she felt better when she went to the ER for a second opinion.
Despite being diagnosed with two head injuries, Heather has managed to find stable housing and was able apply for a housing voucher that would allow her to live in the US for three months.
She said the decision to move was not easy.
"I don't think it's easy to leave your job and go live in another country.
I'm not used to that.
It's a whole new world.
I didn't know what I was going to be doing," she explained."
We were very happy when we got our voucher and were able.
We just want to be able to stay in California.
We don't have much money, but we can stay here and we can afford to stay."
Despite all of the challenges, Heather and her husband have remained upbeat about their future.
In a statement, the Bens said they were still hopeful that Heather would be able find a new home soon.
"As we move on with our lives, we are committed to finding a new life for our son, and we will always remember him and his memory with all of our heart," they said.
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What does the Centralia graffiti graffiti graffiti mean?
Filed under: Centralia vandalism,pioneers,pennsylvania,roaders,stark carolina,pulaski-kansas source NFL.com title 'This is where we started': Penn State's Panthers open in primetime article Pittsburgh (AP) — The Pittsburgh Panthers opened their preseason opener with a bang.
The offense scored three touchdowns and the defense allowed just one rushing touchdown.
That is the kind of game Penn State fans have been waiting for all season long.
The Panthers won a wild-card game against Georgia Tech in the ACC title game and then knocked off No. 7 Virginia Tech 42-35 in a playoff game to win the Coastal Division.
But they'll get another shot in primtime Saturday against the New England Patriots.
And that's the kind the Panthers need to keep the pressure on and make it look easy.
The game starts at 1:05 p.m.
EDT and is scheduled to air on ESPN.
It's a game that should be exciting for the Panthers and for fans around the country.
"It's going to be great," quarterback Brett Hundley said.
"We'll be playing in front of a lot of fans.
We'll get the chance to play against the top teams in the country."
The Panthers (4-3) opened the preseason with a win over the No. 9 Virginia Tech Hokies.
The Hokies (5-1) had beaten the Panthers at home in their first preseason game since they went 9-1 in 2010.
They had played in three previous preseason games against the Panthers.
"I'm not going to lie," coach Mike London said.
He added, "This is what the preseason is about.
I thought we got our first win, we got the job done. "
The first time we played the Patriots, it was a great feeling.
I thought we got our first win, we got the job done.
But we just have to keep moving forward."
New England (4, 1-2) got off to a hot start.
They scored seven touchdowns and allowed just two rushing touchdowns.
They trailed 24-0 late in the first half, but then scored touchdowns of their own in the second half and led 23-0 after halftime.
That included an 83-yard touchdown pass from running back Shane Vereen to running back Christian Westerman.
The Patriots took over in the fourth quarter with a 7-yard score by running back C.J. Spiller.
He also scored on a 7.2-yard run.
But New England's defense held on and took a 31-30 lead.
It gave up 10 points in the final quarter.
"They played extremely well.
They were really aggressive," London said of the Patriots.
"You could see it with their energy and their energy.
They put pressure on us.
We couldn't stop them.
They played some great football."
The Patriots lead the all-time series, 7-3.
They haven't beaten the Pittsburgh Panthers since 2010.
It will be the third time in three years that the teams meet.
The first was a 38-28 win in 2005, when the Panthers led 13-0 early in the game.
The second was a 44-31 victory in 2006.
"Obviously, I know it's the season, and I think we all know what that means," coach Pat Narduzzi said.
New England, which lost to the Patriots in a wild card game last season, is coming off a 35-20 loss to the New York Jets.
The NFL is considering a rule change that would allow teams to start games earlier if they were losing or tied.
The league's decision on the issue is expected to come after the Panthers' game.
"If we're losing, we're not playing the way we want to play," Nardazzi said, "and that's what I'm going to try to control."
Pittsburgh has a chance to move ahead of the Pats.
The Steelers won at home for the second straight season last season.
They lost at home to Georgia Tech.
The Eagles were the team to beat them last season and the team that beat them in the season opener.
Philadelphia coach Mike Shanahan said his team is going to play hard.
"These guys, they've been through a lot.
They've been frustrated," Shanahan said.
The Pittsburgh defense held the Eagles to 28 points, but that was the second time in four games that the Panthers had at least 28 points.
The offensive line was a problem for the Eagles in the preseason.
"A lot of the time, you've got to give up a lot to get that number.
And sometimes they just have a great play and you just don't get it," Shanahan added.
"But the other times, I thought they were very solid.
They really came through.
We got a win, a win on the road"
This was a good win for us, obviously.
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Why The Million Dollar Highway Is So Great For Your Health
The millions of miles of highway along the Pacific Coast of America are all designed to keep our cars, trucks, and buses from getting wrecked.
But according to a new study from the University of Michigan, the highways are also full of deadly pollutants.
The study found that the pollution in the roads is far worse than the EPA's official estimate for it, which found that it is "at least twice as high as other types of emissions."
But the study found the pollution doesn't have to be so toxic for the roads to be dangerous.
For example, the study's authors say the pollution could cause a person to suffer from asthma, and in fact, that could actually increase the chances of asthma in the future.
"When it comes to chronic disease, we are not talking about an epidemic of asthma," said James K. Rieger, the lead author of the study and a research professor at the University's School of Engineering and Applied Science.
"We are talking about a population where asthma rates are higher than the national average."
This means that people who drive on highways, even if they aren't impaired by the pollution, will have a greater chance of developing the disease.
Rieners team found that people in a particular area of the country who live in the southwestern United States, for example, had the highest rate of chronic bronchitis.
But it also found that pollution from the highway caused the disease in people in other parts of the US, too.
For instance, the team found higher rates of chronic lung disease and respiratory cancer in the eastern states of Pennsylvania, Ohio, and New York than people in the southern states of Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, and Texas.
"Our findings indicate that these communities have an increased risk of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and asthma," Riegers team wrote in their report.
Riffing off of previous research, the researchers found that if the highway were to be shut down, people who live along the highway could also face greater health risks than those who live on the same highways.
"If we were to close down these [highway] corridors, we would have an adverse health impact on our communities," Riener said.
The researchers also found a correlation between higher pollution levels in the highway and the number of chronic diseases, including asthma, in those communities.
"The high pollution levels are a result of road construction and maintenance," Rieder said, adding that "these types of issues are not unique to the Pacific Northwest, but are associated with a variety of transportation issues."


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Q: Unable to import autoexplainer I am getting the below error while trying to import autoexplainer in azureml:
from azureml.train.automl.automlexplainer import explain_model

ModuleNotFoundError                       Traceback (most recent call last)
   in
  ----> 1 from azureml.train.automl.automlexplainer import retrieve_model_explanation
        2 from azureml.train.automl.automlexplainer import explain_model
        3
        4 shap_values, expected_values, overall_summary, overall_imp, per_class_summary, per_class_imp = explain_model(fitted_model, x_train, x_test)
        5 #Overall feature importance
  ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'azureml.train.automl.automlexplainer'

Any suggestions?

A: The package path has changed
It should be:-
from azureml.train.automl.runtime.automlexplainer import explain_model

A: What version of azureml-train-automl are you using? The recent versions of azureml-train-automl, explain_model() is available in the package  azureml.train.automl.runtime.automlexplainer.
Can you try  azureml.train.automl.runtime.automlexplainer import explain_model?

A: Using azureml.train.automl.runtime.automlexplainer worked for me.
Thanks!
The version for azureml-train-automl was 1.0.85

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a week later he went to a party with his bulbasaur and found a machine. a weird machine. it had a cool red button so he was stupid enough to press it. a blue orb exited the machine and casted itself on it. he awoke in a bed in this region.


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Sunday Anchor: Inside the court, outside the law
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Jayant Sriram
Updated: October 11, 2015 00:46 IST
Courting controversy: Strikes called by lawyers are a fairly common occurence in India. Picture shows lawyers protesting in Jaipur in 2013 against a police lathi- charge on them. Photo: Rohit Jain Paras | Photo Credit: Rohit Jain Paras
No professional community organises protests and strikes as frequently as lawyers do, and the Bar Council of India and its State wings have been virtually powerless to stop them so far. Now, finally, the community seems to have crossed the invisible line, and it looks as if the higher courts are prepared to throw the book at them
On February 19, 2009 there was an appalling clash between lawyers and policemen inside the grounds of the Madras High Court, in which over 100 people were injured and a police station on the court premises was burnt to the ground. The incident followed two tumultuous weeks which had seen several hundred advocates of the Tamil Nadu court vocally sympathising with the cause of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and opposing the policies of the Sri Lankan government.
The incident caused something of a crisis for the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) government in power at the time, and the Supreme Court appointed a committee under Justice B.N. Srikrishna, a retired judge of the Supreme Court, to examine the incident. The Srikrishna Committee report came down heavily on the police for using excessive force on the protesting lawyers, but it also noted that it was the lawyers who had started the confrontation. This, Justice Srikrishna said, was in large part because of the 'soft pedalling' by high court judges when the lawyers' strikes and protests had first started.
"The incidents that transpired over the last month or so make it clear that the lawyers seemed to be under the impression that because they are officers of the court, they are immune from the process of law and that they could get away with any unlawful act without being answerable to the law enforcing agency," the report said.
In the report thereafter, Justice Srikrishna urged the Supreme Court to "take this opportunity to exercise its constitutional powers and lay down sufficient guidelines for the behaviour of the lawyers... as the bar councils have not been acting as an effective regulatory body of their professional conduct". The report also said it would be ideal if the Advocates Act was amended to ensure a better disciplinary mechanism for the profession of law.
Repeating history
Not much was made of the Srikrishna Committee report after 2009, but those observations seem almost prescient in the light of the events that have taken place in court over the last few weeks. On September 14, a group of lawyers entered the court of the Chief Justice of the Madras High Court holding placards and remained there for the whole day. They were demanding that Tamil be declared the official language of the court. Despite their presence in the court room, Chief Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul did his best to ignore them and ensure that the regular business of the court proceeded as usual. When the protesting lawyers refused to yield at the end of the day, they were arrested and remanded.
In all cases of protests, the advocates on strike have been censured by the courts and reports show that litigants are the biggest losers.
Another related protest also led to equally unedifying scenes. On June 8, the Madras High Court passed an order mandating the wearing of helmets by those who ride two-wheelers. A section of lawyers at the District Bar in Madurai, for reasons that are still unclear, decided to protest against the order. They took out processions, held meetings, and distributed pamphlets in which the judiciary was denounced and several allegations were made against sitting judges. In response to the inflammatory nature of some of these speeches, the Madras High Court invoked contempt proceedings against the president and secretary of the Madurai District Court Advocates Association. The hearing of the contempt application again witnessed a series of protests, with three busloads of advocates from Madurai entering the court campus and directing abuse against the judge hearing the case.
Having failed to draw the line on several earlier occasions, finally this time the judges of the Madras High Court acted swiftly — they realised that a line had been crossed. Altercations between the police and lawyers are regular occurrences, but such an open challenge to the authority of the court itself made it far more serious. The Chief Justice immediately ordered that the court campus should be secured with protection from the Central Industrial Security Force. The High Court also issued notices to the protesting bar associations, asking them why they should not vacate the premises allotted to them inside the High Court. This, along with the contempt notices issued to bar association leaders, constitutes the strongest action taken by the courts in years. The Bar Council of India also pitched in, suspending 15 advocates who had indulged in violence in the court premises. The important question, however, is if these measures are enough, and what can be done to effectively deal with the larger issue of frequent lawyer strikes.
Tamil Nadu, unfortunately, has a long history of lawyers going on strikes at the drop of a hat for various reasons. The losses, in terms of working days for courts already burdened with a high number of pending cases, have only compounded over the years. A report published in this newspaper in 2010 for instance ("Lawyers to abstain from courts opposing entry of foreign law firms" ) quotes official statistics for 2009 to show that lawyers in Chennai abstained from attending court proceedings for 32 days, those in Coimbatore for 56 days, and those in Madurai for 44 days.
On September 28 this year, the Lawyers Association of Madurai District Court, a body of senior advocates, appealed to their fellow lawyers to call off strikes because courts in Madurai had lost 70 working days this year alone.
Infamous case of Tamil Nadu
( Recommendation: The Madras High Court has suggested that BCI should stop the three-year law degree course and retain only the five-year degree to standardise the quality of education. File photo: shows law students at the fifth convocation of the National University of Advanced Legal Studies in Kochi. Photo: Thulasi Kakkat)
Why is Tamil Nadu notorious for lawyers going on strike? Senior lawyers in the State point out that part of the problem is mixing politics with law. The structure of the State's numerous bar associations often mirrors political structures, with representative groups from political parties such as the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam, DMK, Paattaali Makkal Katchi, and so on. Boycotts and strikes over various issues therefore become a competitive process to display political one-upmanship, with the causes taken up having little to do with the independence of the judiciary or the working conditions for lawyers, the real issues on which associations such as these could rally around.
In the past few months alone, protests have been called on issues as diverse as the ill-treatment of Tamil people in Sri Lanka and the ban on beef in Maharashtra to the under-representation of some communities in collegium appointments and helmets being made mandatory for two-wheeler riders.
The working of these various associations is also equally a cause for concern. "There is no democratic voting that goes on. If there is a meeting of the association and the leaders call for arranging a boycott, then other members have no choice but to follow the diktat because if they dissent, they will be shouted down," says Arun P., a Chennai-based advocate. In the so-called election of the leaders of these associations, huge sums of money are spent for what are seen as lucrative posts because of the power they wield.
Quality of lawyers
Underlying all this is a growing concern about the quality of lawyers now entering the profession and how standards of ethicality and integrity can be maintained. "It is almost as if the image of the lawyer in public perception has been split into two now," remarks a senior advocate. "On the one hand there are lawyers who take up causes for their clients, and on the other is a growing section that simply uses the position of being a lawyer to secure their demands in a completely unlawful manner."
Tamil Nadu is especially notorious for lawyers going on strike, as politics is often mixed with law, say senior advocates.
Given Tamil Nadu's long and complicated history with lawyers' strikes, the State is now undertaking some significant debates on the cleansing of the legal profession. On October 6, the Madras High directed the Union government to consider entrusting the functions of the Bar Council of India (BCI) to an expert committee headed by a retired Supreme Court judge. The BCI is currently the body entrusted with regulating the legal profession and to deal with lawyers who step out of line.
The court said this expert committee could consist of academics, legal luminaries, doctors, prominent social workers, and retired Indian Administrative Service officers and police officers; and shall be entrusted with the functions of the BCI permanently or till the Advocates Act is suitably amended so that the entry of criminal or extremist elements into the profession is barred. Besides the suggestion for a body of experts, the Madras High Court also suggested that the BCI should stop the three-year law degree course at the earliest and retain only the five-year degree to keep the degree on a par with other professional courses such as medicine and engineering.
These suggestions for quality control closely follow a speech given by the current chairman of the BCI, Manan Kumar Mishra, in Chennai, in which he stated that 30 per cent of the lawyers in the country hold fake degrees and that this was a major reason why strikes keep happening. The number of advocates in the country has been pegged at close to 1.7 million.
Other protests
The suggestion of the Madras High Court for an expert committee to replace the BCI could have important implications nationally. While Tamil Nadu may have always provided the most extreme examples of protest, strikes called by lawyers are a fairly common occurrence across the country.
"Of the 1.7 million-odd lawyers in India, over 30 per cent have fake degrees. "
— Manan Kumar Mishra, Chairman, Bar Council of India
In July this year, lawyers of Delhi's district courts began an indefinite strike against the delay in passage of an amended bill in Parliament on enhancement of pecuniary jurisdiction of trial courts. The Bill was supposed to reduce the workload of the Delhi High Court and transfer several cases to the lower courts. A parallel protest was held by the Delhi High Court Bsssar Association against the passage of the Bill and things reached such a stalemate that a non-profit organisation called Common Cause filed a Public Interest Litigation in the Delhi High Court calling for the strikes to end. Appearing on their behalf, advocate Prashant Bhushan asked the court to direct the BCI to incorporate appropriate rules that prohibited advocates from striking work in the Standards for Professional Conduct and Etiquette framed under the Advocates Act, 1961.
In June, lawyers in Pune went on strike demanding that a Bombay High Court bench be established there. That strike went on for over two weeks. Similar strikes over the setting up a of a high court bench have frequently taken place in western Uttar Pradesh as well. In July this year, thousands of lawyers in Bihar called a strike protesting over alleged corruption in the lower judiciary while in Rajasthan last year, advocates called a strike lasting about 68 days to press for a range of demands including a corruption-free judiciary, misuse of contempt provisions, disposal of pending cases against judges, probe into legal aid funds, and irregular judicial appointments.
Enforcing order
In all these cases, the advocates on strike have been censured by the courts and there are numerous reports of litigants being the biggest losers, as they have to contend with even further delay in the hearings of their cases. The reality is that no other professional community organises protests and strikes as frequently as lawyers do — and the Bar Council of India and its state wings have been virtually powerless to stop them.
The issue of whether lawyers can go on strike was addressed by the Supreme Court in Common Cause vs. Union of India in 2005. The Court held that it was unprofessional for a lawyer to strike, or boycott the court, that bar associations should not permit meetings calling for such strikes or boycotts, and such requisitions should be ignored. And that it is the duty of the State and National Bar Councils to take action against striking bar associations and sponsors of boycotts.
Last, it held that it is only in the rarest of rare cases that abstention from court is justified, such as dignity, integrity and independence of the Bar and Bench, and the importance of the matter would be decided by the judge heading the Court. If valid, the Court said a protest could be held, but for only one day.
This order has, of course, never been enforced in full spirit, either by the apex court or the Bar Council. The legal community has been given a long rope for too long, perhaps in recognition of the fact that strained relations between the bar and bench creates a difficult problem to deal with. It may now be time for a new outlook and tougher regulations.
Some major protests in Tamil Nadu
February 19, 2009: Several hundred advocates sympathise with the cause of the LTTE and clash with policemen inside the grounds of the Madras High Court. Over 100 people injured.
January 8, 2014: Demanding transparency in the appointment of new judges and recalling a list of 12 names sent to the Supreme Court, over 15,000 advocates of Madras High Court boycott court proceedings.
September 14, 2015: Lawyers with their families enter the court of the Chief Justice of the Madras High Court, demand that Tamil be declared as the official language of the court.
June and July 2015: Madras High Court makes wearing helmets compulsory in the State. Nearly 100 advocates are booked for taking out a two-wheeler rally without wearing headgear in protest against the order.
Some major protests across the country
2014: Advocates in Rajasthan call a strike that lasts for about 68 days to press for various issues including a corruption-free judiciary, irregular judicial appointments, and disposal of pending cases against judges.
June, 2015: Lawyers in Pune go on strike for two weeks demanding that a Bombay High Court bench be established there.
July, 2015: Lawyers of Delhi's district courts begin an indefinite strike against the delay in passage of an amended bill in Parliament on enhancement of pecuniary jurisdiction of trial courts. A parallel protest is held by the Delhi High Court Bar association against the passage of the Bill.
July, 2015: Thousands of lawyers in Bihar call a strike protesting over alleged corruption in the lower judiciary
(Email: jayant.sriram@thehindu.co.in)
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Q: How to configure nginx proxy to get only first the fastest response from the servers Exist some remote servers with same static files
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http://site2.com/image.png
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For example, all this servers are unreliable and can give response only after few seconds.
How can I configure my nginx proxy to get the first fastest response from only one of them?
I know about upstream module, but there are only consecutive requests examples.
Is there configuration to do it with parallel concurrent requests? Thanks.

A: You are mistaken about the way nginx operates.
Requests are processed neither one after another nor simultaneously (which is impossible). nginx reacts on events corresponding to differents stages during requests processing, which kind of multiplexes them.
The upstream module (and its directive of the same name) you point to is the way to go, along with the proxy_pass directive.
The center of your focus might be the $upstream_response_time variable. As its name indicates, it stores response time of the upstream servers and might be dealt with to change the selection of the backend server nginx shall choose.
To do so, you can tweak your upstream servers group to add a weight to each server and different flags to impact the default round-robin mechanism.
You can then change weights according to the response times you collected by generating files you include in your upstream servers group configuration. Note that changing the configuration will need nginx to be reloaded.

A: This function exists in nginx commercial subscription least_time used upstream backend directive controls which of two response times is tracked: either the time to receive the response header (header) or the time to receive the full response (last_byte). you can read more about this here https://www.nginx.com/blog/choosing-nginx-plus-load-balancing-techniques/ example
upstream backend {
    least_time (header | last_byte);

    server web1;
    server web2;
    server web3;
}

server {
server_name www.example.com;

location / {
   proxy_pass http://backend;
    }
}

or you can use $upstream_queue_time that keeps time of request spent in the upstream queue Times of several responses are separated by commas and colons like addresses in the $upstream_addr variable. you can read more about this here http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_upstream_module.html#var_upstream_response_time
I am currently looking for same solution i found Nginx C module that expose Lua API to ngx_lua for Nginx upstreams you can read more here https://github.com/openresty/lua-upstream-nginx-module
if you found a beautiful solution please reply


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Senate panel tentatively votes to defund Abbott's pre-K program
The Senate Finance Committee gave initial approval to budget items that would cut $180 million from state-funded pre-K in favor of a $40 million public-private partnership.
by Aliyya Swaby March 15, 2017 7 PM
Gov. Greg Abbott signs HB4, which adds funding for pre-K, into law at the Anita Uphaus Early Childhood Center in Austin Texas May 28, 2015. Credit: Marjorie Kamys Cotera
Editor's note: Updated with comment from the governor's office.
The Senate Finance Committee tentatively decided to defund Gov. Greg Abbott's pre-kindergarten grant program, a month after the House filed a proposed budget doing the same.
The panel unanimously voted to approve a set of public education budget items Wednesday evening, cutting $180 million the Senate had allocated for pre-K funding in a January version of the budget. Instead, it voted to put $40 million into a separate partnership with nonprofits to support districts and charters implementing pre-K programs.
Abbott had been pushing the Legislature to double the $118 million from the previous biennium for his early education program, which set aside grant money for school districts with pre-K programs that met specific state standards. Those standards included using certain curricula, setting specific teacher-student ratios and pledging to report student progress to the Texas Education Agency.
The Senate's original proposed budget designated about $180 million for pre-K — $150 million for Abbott's grant program and $30 million in supplemental funding for all school districts. Abbott had asked for another $86 million for his grant program. The Senate Finance Committee voted 14-0 to include none.
The committee will next vote the budget out of committee, where it will then head to the full Senate.
According to the document detailing the budget items, the new partnership program would require the education commissioner to support schools providing pre-K and develop resources to enhance the quality of those programs. It would provide funding to districts through "competitive grants," allowing them to focus on engaging families and expanding access to students.
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The House base budget released in January did not include any funding for Abbott's program. Instead, it put $118 million in supplemental pre-K funding, which would be distributed to all districts and not require them to meet the same standards as Abbott's program. House legislators said putting money into supplemental pre-K funding would allow school districts more flexibility in spending the money.
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Bestselling novelist Cora Harrison's light historical romance in the form of a secret diary was inspired by real life events in the Austen family and will delight Jane Austen fans everywhere. When fifteen-year-old Jane Austen's shy cousin Jenny comes to stay, their evenings are a blur of beautiful dresses, balls, gossip and romance; their days are spend writing about them – Jenny in her diary, Jane in her witty first attempts at fiction. When Jenny falls utterly in love with a handsome naval officer who better to help her than Jane herself, already an expert in love and relationships?
This delightful, meticulously researched novel is followed by an afterward about the actual people and events on which the novel is based, including Jane Austen's disabled brother, George and the whirlwind courtship of Jane (Jenny) Cooper.
"A delicious combination of historical fact and fabulously crafted fiction. I fell in love. A rare gem in historical fiction." San Francisco Book Review
Alison Larkin is an actress, comedienne, bestselling novelist, and the award-winning narrator of over 200 audiobooks. Her autobiographical novel The English American won an AudioFile Earphones Award and joined President Obama and E.B. White on Audible's top ten list of Best Author-narrated audiobooks of all time. Her acclaimed 81-hour recording of The Complete Novels of Jane Austen begins with her Earphones Award-winning recording of Sense and Sensibility. She has also narrated many New York Times bestsellers.
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