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Bidding Goodbye to a Chaotic and Illuminating Year
By Natalie De Rosa
Like any good, cheesy romance film, I stumbled across the news section of The Amherst Student by chance. At the introduction meeting I attended during the very first week of classes my first year, I was intent on writing opinion articles — a testament to the lofty goals I set at the start of my college career, naive enough to believe I had thoughts important enough to share with the world on a weekly basis. Something inexplicable shifted in me, however, when then-news editors Shawna Chen '20 and Emma Swislow '20 began pitching the importance of reliable, accessible reporting. By the end of that intro meeting, I had signed up as a news reporter and thought, "What did I just get myself into?"
I didn't know it at the time, but what I did get myself into was a nearly four-year long, deep infatuation with The Student and its work. There were a million reasons to quit this job from the get-go. Few people's ideal Tuesday night is spent in a dark basement with only one half-sunk window, catching typos in an article you've already read 50 times over, with no end to the evening in sight. For many Amherst students, choosing to write as an extracurricular activity seems maddeningly unfathomable when our classes already require us to write so much. So it's no surprise that whenever I complain about a stressful interview, an article gone awry or how little sleep I get because of The Student, people always question why I keep putting myself through this. I often ask myself the same thing when the going gets tough (most frequently in class on Wednesday mornings, after having gotten only three hours of sleep working on the paper the night before). But there's something about The Student that's hard to shake once you've gotten a taste of it.
Whenever I forget why I do The Student, our college community always reminds me of this work's importance. During my sophomore year, for example, I spent a whole Saturday talking to first-generation, low-income students about their experiences at Amherst in the wake of the college admissions scandal, then the next whole Sunday transcribing those interviews at Share Coffee. Anyone who's ever transcribed an interview before knows that it's a painstakingly tedious task, but the dread of playing back hour-long audio clips in 30-second increments dissipated when hearing the sense of urgency inflected in my interviewees' voices as they called for better admissions and inclusion practices. Or take last year's affordable housing controversy. For the first time in my news-writing career, I overheard people talking in Val about something I wrote and saw people mobilize en masse in response to something The Student published. Many of us, myself included, often feel as though we're screaming into the void about the things Amherst could do better, or the ways we feel isolated by the institution. There is still so much work to do, but seeing The Student elevate otherwise unheard voices and effect meaningful change drives me to keep pushing forward.
So when Shawna and Emma asked me to take up the post of editor-in-chief last summer, along with Olivia Gieger '21, I couldn't say no. The decision wasn't an easy one: accepting the role meant turning down a semester abroad. Everyone in my life — my friends, family, professors and even summer co-interns — saw the choice as a no-brainer. Who would choose a tiny student newspaper over four months of prancing around Europe? Choosing the editor-in-chief position over studying abroad didn't seem rational to anyone around me, but when was doing The Student ever rational? As the saying goes, love works in mysterious ways, and the connection I felt to both the paper and to the college community felt inseverable, even if I couldn't always deduce why. That next spring, Olivia and I traded our suitcases for The Student's Morrow Dormitory office and got to work.
I can't write about my time as editor-in-chief without alluding to the pandemic. When I stepped into this role in January, the atmosphere of the paper — and our campus — was deceivingly vibrant. In the first weeks of the spring semester, I remember jumping from panel to panel at Lit Fest, gawking at some of my literary heroes and scribbling notes for our staff writers covering the event. I remember sipping on maple lattes and gushing over the Oscars at Esselon Cafe with Olivia, Emma and Shawna during our celebratory transition-of-power brunch. And I remember coffee shop hopping in Northampton with friends as we tried to sugarcoat the imminent midterms doom with overpriced, watered-down pour-overs. Within six weeks of the semester's start, however, these memories simply became just that: vignettes of a past out of arms' reach. On the day after President Biddy Martin's announcement that the college would close for the remainder of the semester, The Student's staff found ourselves sitting on the floor of our Morrow office for our last in-person print night to date, silently and sorrowfully eating the Iya sushi we bought to numb our new reality.
Being a journalist is always hard, but it's especially challenging in our current moment. In a year clouded by immeasurable loss and suffering, tuning into what's happening on our campus and in the world at all times is emotionally exhausting (imagine doomscrolling on Twitter, but as a job). Pair that with writing, editing, keeping up with finances, checking in on the paper's digital platforms, emailing back and forth with students, administrators and everyone in between, running The Student over the past year has felt like an impossible task. Oftentimes, we've had to let important stories fall through the cracks. There are times when we overlooked a crucial detail, or missed a key source. On weeks with an overload of news and a scarcity of writers, taking up one story meant passing up on an equally pertinent one. My tenure as editor-in-chief wasn't perfect, and sometimes I wish I could go back in time to rewrite a certain article or make a different decision. It's a gut-wrenching reality to come to terms with, but one that is felt so profoundly because of the great responsibility The Student has to our community.
Meanwhile, understanding the gravity of the responsibility I have as editor-in-chief has made our accomplishments that much sweeter. It's an indescribable feeling, knowing how much a story means to someone, that their experiences feel seen and heard for the first time. The influx of emails The Student has gotten in the past months from readers sharing their personal stories with us and engaging with the week's articles have been overwhelming, and they're always a pleasure to read (I'm exceptionally bad at email, but I want to take this space to say: thank you, thank you, thank you). Perhaps it's because we're all craving some semblance of human connection during these trying times, but I like to think that The Student has served as a way to engage in our community at a time when it has felt fractured. Sometimes that involves exposing wounds in hopes of collective healing; other times it means celebrating where celebration is due. I've been inspired by the #IntegrateAmherst series, which ran in the paper last spring and brought about meaningful change in driving the college's Anti-Racism Plan, and encouraged by the multitudes of students, faculty and staff who shared stories of their Covid-semesters — the good, the bad and the ugly — for our articles. The bravery and vulnerability it takes to publicly speak out is not lost on me, and I thank everyone who has ever been interviewed by The Student for trusting us with your stories. It's been an honor to facilitate our campus' conversations.
Lastly, I haven't felt the social loss Covid has brought in any aspect of my life as strongly as I have with The Student. Though it is an absolute luxury to work on the paper from my bed, I would give anything for 5 a.m. nights in the office if it meant seeing our staff face-to-face. I miss racing to finish articles before Safe Ride's 2 a.m. closing to evade the long walk back to my Seligman dorm room (and failing 99 percent of the time). I miss taking Schwemm's orders for everyone, which usually consisted of fries with an ungodly amount of cajun seasoning and Oreo milkshakes. I miss Ryan Yu '22 playing his harmonica and all of us laughing or groaning, depending on what point of the night it was, and Shawna assigning everyone their Myers Briggs personality type for the hundredth time. I've laughed the hardest I've ever had in The Student's office, having worked with some of the most eccentric, fun-loving people on this campus. It's these moments that made spending eight-plus hours in Morrow basement every Tuesday worth it.
With that out of the way, I have some acknowledgments to make.
Emma and Shawna, thank you for teaching me everything I know about journalism, for trusting me enough to take me on as managing news editor and editor-in-chief, for believing in me when I do not believe in myself (which is often) and for answering my frantic texts to this day even with full-time, real-world journalism and editing jobs under your belts.
Ryan and Zach Jonas '22, I could not carry the news section for two years on my own — we've built a team. Thank you for tolerating me when I'm picky with line edits or curt on suggestions. I haven't repaid you both enough for the weight you've carried over the years.
Dylan Momplaisir '21 is an extraordinary web designer whose knowledge and good-humored spirit has kept The Student running. Because of Dylan, we've moved from a janky website with broken links and a 2000s style layout to something far more functional and always improving. Next time you're reading an article on our website, know that Dylan is the reason why our reporting is accessible to you.
Every editor I've worked with this year, both old and new, have shaped me in more ways than they know, and they all deserved to be recognized: Becca Picciotto '22, Scott Brasesco '22, Lauren Kisare '22, Theo Hamilton '22, Arielle Kirven '21, Jack Dove '23, Ethan Samuels '23, Anna Smith '22, Julia Shea '21, Emmy Sohn '22, Sophie Wolmer '22, Jae Yun Ham '22, Camilo Toruno '21, Seoyeon Kim '21, Henry Newton '21 and Connor Haugh '21.
Becca and Ryan, who will take the helm starting next semester, will be excellent editors-in-chief. I have no doubt that, under them, this paper will flourish into something greater than I can even imagine.
Olivia is the greatest partner anyone could ever ask for. Thank you for being level-headed when I'm spiraling, sharing my guilty pleasure love of Taylor Swift and being the OG to my NDR. Working on The Student is such a particular experience that very few people fully understand and appreciate, but Olivia gets it. I'm so proud of the paper we've built this year — I couldn't have done it without you.
Finally, thanks to all of you — everyone who's read or engaged with our work, even in the slightest capacity. This paper would not exist without our community; you are the reason we spend those late nights working to make sure everything is right. You are what makes all that effort worth it. I feel indebted to each and every one of you.


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Back to school time means getting back into regular routines with homework, sports, clubs, sleep schedules and more. Just as important is your child's routine visit to his or her pediatrician, at which time, immunization schedules and the need for a flu shot can be discussed. Along with monitoring overall health and wellness, this routine appointment can serve as a preventative tool in helping to combat conditions such as obesity, heart disease and even cancer.
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And because more children are surviving their cancer, there is a need to focus on these youngsters as they head into adulthood. At Rutgers Cancer Institute, the Long-term, Information, Treatment effects and Evaluation (LITE) Program addresses treatment late effects and provides these teens and young adults with support, education, and intervention. But because the risk of a second cancer is high in this age group, this population too needs to continue with a regular check-up with their health professional throughout their life – a good habit to establish no matter your age or health status.
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Further Optimizing the PTP 700 MLOS radio for Battlefield Operations
ROLLING MEADOWS, IL, June 14, 2018 — Cambium Networks™, a leading global provider of wireless broadband solutions, today announced that its PTP 700 microwave line of sight (MLoS) solution, as well as associated antennas and accessories, is now available in mil-spec desert tan and olive drab green and muted metal hardware. Already theatre-tested and proven, the PTP 700 is a reliable, high-performance MLoS radio for garrison, hostile border, sovereign infrastructure, and battlefield operations. The new rugged mil-spec coating and muted metal hardware complete an already military-optimized commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) value for U.S. DoD and NATO defense agencies alike.
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Once again, a Kurdish ally of the United States has no idea where it stands with Washington. Since 2014, the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) has received arms and military advice from the United States, and proved instrumental in the campaign against the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq. But with the Trump administration signaling its intention to pull U.S. troops out of Syria, the YPG suddenly faces an uncertain future. Hedging its bets, the YPG has twice sent a delegation to Damascus over the past month to start negotiations over a possible transition in northeast Syria. But the regime, on the verge of victory in Syria's seven-year civil war, has proven inflexible.
Bashar al-Assad, the president of Syria, has repeatedly announced his intention to reclaim "every inch" of Syrian territory. That includes the zone controlled by the YPG, an area that also comprises the majority-Kurdish region the Kurds call Rojava. The question is how and when he will attempt to do so. The answer depends, in part, on what role Russia and the United States will play in managing the future of northeast Syria; both have a stake in the outcome, and could conceivably find common ground on the Kurdish question.
Syrian Kurds are discovering that their vital role in the fight against isis may not have secured Washington's help in their struggle against their other enemies. As a stateless people sandwiched between Syria and Turkey, two countries bent on keeping them down, they must rely on external backers such as the United States to give them a margin of freedom and autonomy. But the United States is a fickle friend indeed.
Last year, Iraqi Kurds had a foretaste of what can happen when you misread or ignore Washington's strategic interests. Iraq's Kurdish region held an independence referendum, hoping to gain leverage in negotiations with Baghdad about an eventual separation. The Trump administration warnedthem not to proceed, citing poor timing, as the fight against isis was still ongoing. The administration then did nothing when Baghdad imposed heavy sanctions on the region and forcibly took disputed territories back from Kurdish control. The Iraqi Kurdish leaders learned that a global power won't rush to their aid if they threaten its interests: in this case, protecting the fight against isis and preserving a unified Iraq as a bulwark against Iranian influence.
Today, the YPG faces a similar predicament. It is a Syrian affiliate of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), which has fought an insurgency against the Turkish state since the 1980s; Turkey, the United States, and the European Union have designated the PKK a terrorist organization. Despite the YPG's shared genealogy with the PKK, Washington supported the group because of its battlefield prowess. As it beat back isis, the YPG took control of additional non-Kurdish territory in Syria, including the mostly Arab cities of Manbij and Raqqa.
But with the Assad regime resurgent, all those gains could be reversed. Aided by control of the skies over much of Syria and its veto power in the United Nations Security Council, as well as ground forces supplied by Iran and its allied militias, Assad's forces have taken back rebel-held territory over the past two years. They hope to finish the job in the coming months, and are primed to move on Idlib, the final rebel holdout. Soon after that, the regime will tell the YPG to give up the area it surrendered to the group in 2012. (It did so in order to free its own forces to fight off the popular uprising further south.) Assad needs the YPG-held region's vast wheat fields and oil fields—Syria's largest—to rebuild.
Turkey, too, has an important stake: It does not want the YPG, and by extension the PKK, running a Kurdish enclave in Syria directly on its border. In February, Turkish forces invaded the Kurdish district of Afrin in northwest Syria, wresting it from the YPG as Russia and the United States stood by. The group now fears that the story will play out again in Syria's northeast, not in the least because Turkey has said it wants to drive them out.
This is why the YPG has looked to Assad for a way out. A compromise on a postwar arrangement for the Kurdish region might be possible. Such a deal could include a certain degree of Kurdish autonomy and the sharing of oil wealth. Yet there's still considerable daylight between the YPG and the Assad regime. While Damascus may prove flexible on matters concerning Kurdish culture and language, it rejects the full autonomy sought by the YPG—especially where its security forces are concerned. YPG leaders have told the International Crisis Group that they would consider handing over civil administration of the areas they govern to Assad, and could even be convinced to formally integrate their fighters into the regime's security architecture. But they would insist that the YPG police the Kurdish-majority areas. The Assad regime does not appear to be in a hurry to reach a solution: It has time (and Russia and Iran) on its side.
This is where the Trump administration could play an important role, should it choose to. It still has some 2,000 military personnel on the ground in northeast Syria, a legacy of the not-yet-finished fight against isis. While President Donald Trump said in March that he wants all U.S. troops out of Syria, his senior foreign-policy advisers view a continued U.S. military presence as both a potential block to perceived Iranian expansionism and as leverage to shape a political transition in Damascus. A precipitous, unconditional U.S. withdrawal would set the stage for escalating conflict among competing forces in Syria's northeast. It could even leave the terrain open for isis to resurface.
Things need not go this way. The United States could use its presence to provide its Kurdish allies with time, space, and security to reach an arrangement with Damascus on key questions of control and governance—one that is also acceptable to Ankara. For the YPG, this would be the best possible outcome under the current circumstances.
This article was originally published in The Atlantic.
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Does My Site Need to Be Mobile Responsive?
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Does My Site Need to Be Mobile Responsive? – 5 Billion People to Use Mobile Phones by 2017… So, yes.
Remember your first cell phone? Remember how cool it was to be connected all the time? "You'll never guess where I'm calling you from…. MY CAR! Can you even believe it??" You might have even had one of those boss Motorolas with the carrying case. Then you probably upped your game and went all Zack Morris on your friends, making calls wherever you were like it was no big deal. You baller, you.
It means you need to make sure that when people find you using their mobile devices, your website is 100% optimized for mobile viewing. With the rise of mobile advertising and more people being glued to their devices to make purchases, the more important it will be to make sure your site is easy to navigate and read when they find you.
We mentioned the rising number of mobile phone users, but to truly understand the weight of it, check out the following graphic.
It's estimated that by 2017, there will be over 5 billion people using mobile phones. And, as you know, mobile phones are so much more than just calling devices. With the rapid progression of mobile devices in just 7 years since the iPhone was introduced, smartphones and tablets have become not just a new way to do business, they have become a new way of life. Sure, you can still make calls and send the ever-important text message to your friends and family, but when was the last time you saw one of these devices being used for solely those purposes? It's few and far between.
Everywhere you turn these days people are taking selfies to post to Instagram, snapping shots of their food for Facebook posts, and Tindring like it's time to repopulate the Earth.
One of the most crucial activities these mobile users are partaking in is shopping and viewing the web from their mobile devices. It should be noted that there is still only a small percentage of mobile users using their devices for shopping-only means. However, given the projected number of users by 2017, it's highly likely more and more e-commerce will take place on mobile. (Trust us.) And if your business's website isn't optimized for mobile and, in turn, the way people are now and will continue to get and process information, you will be at high risk of losing audience. Even further, you might not even be able to gain a new audience. Who knows how long it will be until the era of the laptop is over and everything goes pretty much mobile?
Boom. Done. But it's imperative to act fast. 2015 will be here in the blink of an eye, and the next year will feel like a whirlwind. Before you know it, here's 2017 and 5 billion people trying to find your website on their mobile devices. But you're not optimized so it's not going to happen.
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How To Write Internal Audit ISO 9001 Nonconformity When A Procedure Is Not Followed
Posted by Christopher Paris | Mar 6, 2019 | Guidance Document
One of the most common internal audit nonconformities is related to discovering that employees are not following a published procedure, or that the procedure no longer matches current practice. What's astonishing is that while ISO 9001 and AS9100 require you to write procedures where you deem them necessary, there's never been a clause that tells anyone to follow those procedures! As a result, auditors often struggle with how to write a nonconformity, understanding that all such NCs must be grounded on a clause in the particular standard.
So how do you write up a finding in such a case?
(Quick aside: I realize that you're auditing not only to ISO or AS, but also to your own procedures. Yes, you can write the finding up against the paragraph or section of your procedure, but my view is that this is insufficient. You should also tie back to an ISO 9001 requirement. Some will disagree, and there's no universal agreement on this point, so you can choose what you'd like to do. This is just best practice, however.)
There are two ways to address this. Your desired method may depend on how you want to track nonconformities later. Obviously, auditing practices (and standards such as ISO 19011) dictate you ground your finding on an exact requirement, meaning a clause in the ISO 9001 or AS9100 standard. But beyond that, some companies do trend analysis over long periods of time, to see which clauses give them the most grief, and result in the most findings. If you don't assign the right clause, you can't do this tracking; you also haven't grounded your finding on an actual requirement.
The first method is to write the finding up against the clause that is closest to that under which the particular procedure falls. For example, if you find the Purchasing staff are not following their procedure, you'd write it up under 8.4, the clause for purchasing requirements. This is a good practice in that later it allows better reporting on trends, enabling you to identify, perhaps, that the purchasing clause is giving you the most grief.
But it wouldn't really be accurate. A strict reading of the three sub-clauses in 8.4 finds that nowhere does it even require a Purchasing procedure, much less that employees follow it. so you'd only be filing it there to help trend reporting later, not because "failure to follow a purchasing procedure" was a requirement in that section of the standard.
Next, some procedures you might include in your QMS won't have an ISO 9001 clause applicable to them at all; perhaps something related to personal protective equipment, or sales goals, or shipping (yes, believe it or not, there's no shipping clause in ISO 9001 or AS9100.)
So a better practice is to assign all such findings to a single clause in the standard that represents the best — f not perfect — place to write it: 8.1.
Specifically 8.1. bullet point (e)(1) reads:
The organizaton shall plan, implement and control the processes needed to meet the requirements for the provision of products and services…by: (e) determining, maintaining and retaining documented information to the extent necessary (1) to have confidence that the processes have been carried out as planned."
It's not perfect, but it's close. This is because the latter part of the requirement requires that you develop the procedures ("documented information"), and the first part of the requirement requires that these procedures then be "implemented." Yes, it's another Yoda sentence, in that it makes more sense if you read it predicate-first.
The only problem here is the requirement's physical location within the standard: by appearing in Clause 8, this implies the requirement is only related to manufacturing or service execution. One could argue that it doesn't really apply, then, to procedures written under the other clauses, such as 4, 5, 6, 7, 9 or 10. But if you squint, you can justify that it works nevertheless, and it's a minor quibble.
Ideally, the TC 176 gurus should have added two tiny words to clause 4.4.2, as follows (added words are emphasized):
4.4.2 To the extent necessary, the organization shall (a) maintain and implement documented information to support the operation of its processes
But they never thought of that, and TC 176 doesn't allow smart people to join their ranks, so we're stuck with a standard that says you have to have procedures, but not necessarily follow them.
And so we return to 8.1(e)(1), which is our best place to write this finding.
I have, however, seen clever audit trend analysis systems that provide for tracking a "primary" clause that has been violated, as well as a "contributing" clause. In such cases, you might assign 8.1.(e)(1) as the primary, and 8.4.1 as the secondary (if the issue is related to Purchasing, for example.) Then you can track both for trends.
The failure of third-party CB auditors to do this, by the way, is an easy way to have their nonconformities thrown out. Unable to find where to write such findings, CB auditors are forced to invent requirements out of the blue. For example, a recent audit report I read said, "clause 4.1 requires a context of the organization procedure, and the employees were not following it" We had the nonconformity thrown out because, no, clause 4.1 doesn't require a procedure. If he had written it under 8.1(e)(1), we'd have a harder time fighting it.
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The 90s kids have started getting married! Where did that time go? I've never been to so many weddings in one year…and it's not even over yet!
So, what better theme for a wedding than a throwback to their childhoods. From countless episodes of Friends to the Pokemon takeover, the 90s really did keep our toes tapping.
Slip dresses were HUGE in the 90s and have had a massive resurgence in recent years. Why not choose a slip style wedding dress like this one for instant Kate Moss cool.
Establish your theme from the start with these neat little floppy disk invites that are bound to fill them with nostalgia!
The candy cart has become quite popular in 2017, so why not theme it with some of your old favourites – white mice, rainbow drops, chalky lollies…20p Freddos…those were the days!
Show your guests your sense of fun with a cake like this playful design from Euthymia Cakes. What could be more 90's than Sonic The Hedgehog and My Little Pony?
If your feet get tired after spending the day in heels why not slip in a pair of totally 90s jelly sandals so you're ready to dance the night away- comfy and definitely bride-worthy when they're made with silver glitter!
We actually attended a wedding recently that used this idea and it was spectacular. The polaroid camera has made a 90s comeback – finally! You can either ask your guests to stick the pics in a book, or peg them up on a line so everyone can see their fantastic selfie-action in full swing.
These 90s classics are the ULTIMATE party starters. If you don't remember the moves to Tragedy, don't panic – there's always someone who knows!


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I see many differences between them. Meghan did help choose a teenage girl to give Harry heirs and interfere in the marriage.
Meghan was not in another person's marriage the whole time like Camilla was. Meghan did not pick out a teenage girl for Harry. Harry did not go for married women like Charles did. I don't see any similarities. Camilla giggled at the singers which was insulting. And she scarfs down food in front of cameras. Very coarse woman.
Let me get this straight. We talk H&M on the C&C thread and vice versa on the C&C thread now?
@Sandy this is in answer to your posting about cami on Murk's thread which YM warned we cannot do. So here it is in the right thread. Cami's ancestry is aristocratic, hence why she was in the circles to meet Charles in the first place. It is definitely on one side of her parents if not both. Look it up. Second, Charles was to marry a virgin. I was in England studying law when he started dating Di and I was told by many that he had a short list to pick from and he had to go that young (age 19) to get a virgin. So Cam would not have been allowed to marry him. And I remember a beautiful woman he was dating that he was serious about (I forgot her name) and her ex boyfriend came out in the papers claiming he would recommend her in bed to Charles or something like that and she was dropped quickly. Look that up in the old articles. Things were different for Andrew as Ferg had been living with a man and the next brother lived with his wife first. But Charles was different and times were different when he married. I don't think Cami is great, but had he been allowed to marry a woman who had a past or was presenting sleeping with him, he might have just married her to begin with in time. But it didn't look like she would be accepted and she wanted to be married. Thus she went with Parker Bowles. However, they still had the hots for each other obviously and eventually the affair went on until he married Di. He stopped for awhile but when things broke down, he rekindled it with Cami. And this is in an older biography I had read when he was still married but separated from Di. The bar was lowered in that he got to marry her eventually, and they did commit adultery. But she is from the right background short of being royal by birth, and true Di and the Queen mom had titles themselves. People loved DI so it will be hard to accept Cami. But one thing this couple has is staying power. But I don't think Cami set a lower bar other than a divorcee can marry into this family now. Her bloodline is superior to the newcomers. Should that matter? Probably not but then the divine right to rule is based on these pure bloodlines. Enough said by me on this. I really don't give a hoot about these two. Talk about a boring, unattractive couple.
Actually I don't think the paternal side of Cam's family was particularly aristo or even country gentry, though the family were upper middle class. Bruce Shand's background was a bit unusual. Camilla's mother Rosalind came from an aristocratic background though.
. Charles wasn't present at the PB wedding. He wrote mournful letters about her engagement. They did have a bit of a break when Cam had the PB children Tom and Laura but then were at it again a few years later, not stopping until supposedly, Charles was about to get serious about Diana. At least that has been the story pushed in recent years.
@Rosella Yes I remember now it was Cam's mom who was aristo and the story has been the same since Di and Charles first started with their problems. I remember reading in a bio that Cam was shocked after Charles' marriage that he was refusing her calls when he was giving his marriage a go. Davina Sheffield was the pretty one with the ex-boyfriend. I just re-read about them. She was set to be engaged to him an he besotted, she had past the suitability tests and background check (debutante) and was introduced to him by Princess Anne. Then the ex blows it for her. But she was so pretty, even prettier than Di. So Cami wasn't his only love pre-Di. She just had staying power. Wow, had he been allowed to marry Davina, how different things would have been. He may have stayed married to her...Oh who knows... the press will chase attractive women and good old reliable Cami is just not one of them.
When he was dating Davina, wasnt Charles seeing Camilla or Kanga?
Maybe, but his butler or guard had written a biography I had read and supposedly Charles was very into Davina when they were hot and heavy. But others have been around too. It is just she was so picture perfect naturally that it is hard to see him trot off with Kanga. But I don't know if they were sexually involved pre-marriage (even though she was no virgin according to the ex) and he may have needed release with Kanga and others. I don't know that answer. But, she was into charity work as well so she could have been a Di type as opposed to a Cami. If the virgin requirement was dropped, Di may have never happened. And as weird as it is, the world would be a different place.
There were rumors that Charles would pop the question after Davina passed the Balmoral test.But her ex ran to the media and said they had lived together. Davina was a Diana type and looked somewhat like her. Kanga was involved with Charles especially when Camilla was not available because of her two pregnancies by APB. I think Charles was very serious about Anna Wallace and she had experience. I don't think the virgin requirement was necessary really, things could have been spun and if the exes did not blab then Charles would have married a non virgin. One biographer claimed that Charles wanted Anna back after she dumped him. I don't think Charles would ever have married Camilla to be wife AND mother of his heirs.
I don't think that the problem was just that Camz wasn't a virgin (I do think that was on a whole a problem, the question is how big of a problem was that?), but the issue was that Camz supposedly really got around.. a lot.. I remember seeing in a docu that she was kinda passed around in a way and onto any guy who was "it" at whatever point. Apparently APB was the biggest catch (apart from Chuck) and that APB and she would both sleep around to make each other jealous.
So Camz non-virgin status was for sure a problem, but her passing around like the village bike was what was really the big no-go and made her totally unsuitable for the Winds.
i believe being a virgin was important. the spencers freaked out when there was a story she spent the night with charles and diana herself said it was when the press wanted tarnish her rep and her mother was worried.
Charles broke up with Davina I think he was the one to decide.
Camilla and Charles communicated by phone and he did not refuse her calls. Stephen Barry, Charles valet at the time, recalled Charles putting in calls to Camilla early in the marriage. He even called Camilla when he found out Diana was pregnant.
They did still see each other at the hunts.
I don't think Davina was prettier than Diana.
They are both very pretty women, but Di did have a bit of a big nose for her face, although it didn't deflect from her being a beautiful woman. Davina was just so model perfect looking. Anyway, this biographer did say that at some point Charles was refusing Cami's calls after he married. Didn't last long though. I thought Cami's children were attractive, but I haven't seen a photo in years. Don't know how the genes would have worked with her as his wife. Sometimes unattractive people have cute kids. Oh well it didn't happen that way.
called Camilla with the news when Diana became pregnant. Rather creepy. Camilla's children especially Tom are not all that attractive. Both have t heir father's droopy eyes. And Tom looks like Camilla in drag. I doubt Charles and Camilla would have even remotely "cute kids." I don't think Charles wanted to marry Camilla to have children with in the first place. He told his biographer he was too young to marry when he met Camilla and moved on.
Well I can't remember the book I read on this or the name of the author. So who knows. In all truth if he did refuse some calls it wasn't for that long obviously. Charles was very unhappy she married APB. So maybe he didn't want to marry young but if he committed to marry her later, she might have waited. I don't think she was fit at that time for sexual experienced reasons. Anyway, he did go onto others and nothing worked out for one reason or the other until they recruited poor DI for the job. Well I have to say this, I don't know how any of them stomached him in bed. He is geeky. When I was young, Andrew was the cute one and some thought would make a better king. Too bad he turned out so creepy in the end with his choice of company.
Even if Charles did not want to marry her then he still never told her they have a future together and to wait for him. He didn't. At the time she did want to marry APB and was said to have slept with Charles to make APB jealous (after APB slept with Princess Anne). Camilla was said to have lovers in addition to APB. Charles looks were geeky but on the inside his values and ethics were not what they should have been IMO. Once Camilla married APB he should have walked away and gotten a fresh start not returning to her bed while he was looking for a wife.
Charles told all to Dimbleby and he already bashed his parents but he never said they had "forbidden him" to marry Camilla. Charles and Charles alone said that he felt he was too young to marry when he met Camilla. He did not pursue her as marriage material or told him to wait for him. I don't think he wanted to marry Camilla so she could be his wife and mother of his heirs. I don't think he felt she was good enough for that. Charles really was interested in Anna Wallace and she was said to have had experience and I think if she had not ditched him, he would have proposed to her. There is such a thing as spin and if her exes agreed to keep quiet she would have been his bride. Camilla had started young and had more experience apparently than Anna. And Charles as Prince of Wales felt himself entitled to married mistresses so he could have his cake and eat it too.


Customization options that let you select any color.
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Create Tasks with Copy, Move, Paste operations.
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Export/Import all preferences, bookmarks, and customized skins.
Opening zip files in network storage.
Integrated with 19 cloud storage providers, in addition to clouds with webdav support like Yandex.ru, OwnCloud, 4Shared, MyDrive.ch, DriveHQ, CloudMe, CloudSafe.
Root access for advanced operations.
Built-in Image Viewer (with GIF animation support).
Woah! That was a whole lot to wade through, and there's more where that came from! To sum up, if you are in need of a one-stop-shop file explorer that isn't Root Browser, go ahead - visit the XDA Developer board (use the developer or download links below) and treat yourself to the free .apk! No, you won't find MiXplorer in Google Play for some reason, but how complicated is a manual .apk install anyway?
well, I'll take the "far away" part out. this app is moving to the right direction, looking forward to see more of it.
Mmmh, quite happy with "ES File Explorer" ..but will check it out!
yup Es File manager is simply the best casue of icon grid view..... and the ability to customize the viewer to match your style. why don't other devs get it, file explorers are better with icon grid , cause it's the way desktops work. It also has some great NAS features , works great for wireless sharing.
Yeah, the only thing I would love to have on ES FE is the dual windows with drag n' drop... it is something that my 9 YEARS OLD! Archos DVR had... and I loved that... ES is still very good for moving files around, by creating multiple windows and you can drag n' drop between them, but not on the same screen. Anyway I don't thing I will replace ES, I use the SD Card Analyst a lot... this one doesn't seem to have it.
Too bad it comes with Baidu spyware, just google it.
Should have included an optional dark theme in the apk package. To use a dark theme, one will now have to either make one with the included creator or download one manually online. IMHO, it's not well thought on, inclusion of a dark one will cater for most people's need, otherwise it's a pretty nice alternative to my preferred x-plore.
I use it. Has replaced my ES file Explorer. IT does everything that ES does, only neatly.
Great! Need to check it.
ES File Explorer is the best - even with 0 app on your phone/tablet you can use ES for light web browsing, music play, image view and basic editing, zip/unzip task. Install uninstall apps and things....a lot of things.
Wait, the app is good. But you need to install each and every skin you want?
It doesn't have recycle bin.
I've never had a need for recycle bin on phones but it'll surely be handy.
Using Solid Explorer Alpha which has everything I want (and more) including a nice MD interface. So not switching here.
Same here. Using Alpha. Love it.
FX File Explorer is better, a lot more material design, is free and also no ads. The only thing they sell is something called networks tools which is the cloud service access plus a couple of actual network access tools, if this is so important i think 2.99 it's not the much. I feel FX even better tha ES.
Me too. I prefer FX to this app.


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Q: My matlab code give me bad results - using the MARCOS algorithm I followed all the steps of the MARCOS (Measurement of alternatives and ranking according to Compromise solution) algorithm. I tried it and I follow the algorithm but always the code gave me the same results.
Everything is okay, the problem is FKm and FKp, always give the same values.
For example, let's try the alternatives are:
Networks:
 8    50     4   134    12    67
66    74     1    50    42    75
42    60    49   285     5    68
47    60    45    68     6    63
 8    50     4   145    17    61
61    83     1    44    11    63
48    60    59   288     4    75
45    60    21    95     4    33

and the weights:
 weights=   0.0360    0.1240    0.1040    0.3250    0.3070    0.1020

Code:
function Score =  MARCOS(Networks,Weights)
global CostperByte;
global Security;
global DataRate;
global PacketDelay;
global PacketJitter;
global PacketLoss;
%NumberOfNetworks;
CostperByte=1;
Security=2;
DataRate=3;
PacketDelay=4;
PacketJitter=5;
PacketLoss=6;

SIZE = size(Networks);
NumberOfNetworks = SIZE(1);
NumberOfCriteria = SIZE(2);

AAI=zeros(1,NumberOfCriteria);
AI= zeros(1,NumberOfCriteria);

 for j=1:NumberOfCriteria
    if ( (j==DataRate)  || (j==Security) ) % benifit
        AAI(1,j)= min (Networks(:,j));
        AI(1,j)=max (Networks(:,j));
    else
        AAI(1,j)=max (Networks(:,j));
        AI(1,j)=min(Networks(:,j));

    end
 end

Networks= [ AAI ; Networks ; AI];
SIZE = size(Networks);
NumberOfNetworks = SIZE(1);
NumberOfCriteria = SIZE(2);

Normalization=[];

 for i=1:NumberOfNetworks
    for j=1:NumberOfCriteria
     if ( (j==DataRate)  || (j==Security) )      %%%%%%% data rate, security, bandwidth
        Normalization(i,j) = ( Networks (i,j)) / AI(1,j)  ;

     else                                                            %%%%%%% jitter, delay,st,
        Normalization(i,j) = AI(1,j) / ( Networks (i,j));

     end
  end
 end

for i=1: NumberOfNetworks
  for j=1:  NumberOfCriteria
        W(i,j)=Normalization(i,j)*Weights(j);
  end
end

Saai= sum(W(1,:));
Sai= sum(W(NumberOfNetworks,:)) ;

W=W(2:NumberOfNetworks-1,:);
SIZE = size(W );
NumberOfNetworks = SIZE(1);
NumberOfCriteria = SIZE(2);

for i=1:NumberOfNetworks
    S(i) =sum( W(i,:));
end

for i = 1: NumberOfNetworks
Km(i) = S(i)/ Saai;

    Kp(i) = S(i) / Sai;
end

for i=1:NumberOfNetworks
FKm(i) = Kp(i)/( Kp(i)+Km(i));
FKm(i)
FKp(i) = Km(i)/( Kp(i)+Km(i));

end

for i=1:NumberOfNetworks
FK(i)= ( FKm(i) + (FKp(i)) ) /  (  1+ (   (1-FKp (i))/FKp(i)    ) + (    (1-FKm(i))/FKm(i)   )      ) ;
end

%%summation%%
Results=[];

for i=1:NumberOfNetworks
   Results= [Results; FK(i)  ];
end

Score= Results;
end```

**Tried the code above**

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In 1903, Batten described 3 children who had proximal muscle weakness from birth. Biopsy of their muscles showed evidence of chronic myopathy without distinguishing characteristics. In 1908, Howard coined the term congenital muscular dystrophy (CMD) when he described another infant with similar features. Ullrich first described the combination of joint hyperlaxity and proximal contractures in 1930 in the German literature; this was the first case of what is now known as Ullrich congenital muscular dystrophy.
In 1960, Fukuyama et al described a common congenital muscular dystrophy in Japan that always had features of muscular dystrophy and brain pathology.  Other diseases involving the muscle, eye, and brain were subsequently described: a Finnish variant (originally called muscle-eye-brain disease and Walker-Warburg syndrome. As has become clear with molecular genetics, all of these CMDs are likely caused by a similar molecular pathologic event, abnormal glycosylation of α-dystroglycan.
In general, CMDs are autosomal recessive diseases resulting in severe proximal weakness at birth (or within the first 12 mo of life) that is either slowly progressive or nonprogressive. Contractures are common, and CNS abnormalities can occur. Muscle biopsy shows signs of dystrophy, including a marked increase in endomysial and perimysial connective tissue; variability in fiber size with small, round fibers; immature muscle fibers; and (uncommonly) necrotic muscle fibers. No distinguishing features are present in muscle biopsy specimens, differentiating these disorders from the congenital myopathies.
Only the muscular dystrophies with known genetic mutations are discussed in more detail later in this article. Several rare forms of congenital muscular dystrophy are not discussed in this article because of the lack of precise molecular and/or genetic information. The diagnosis of congenital muscular dystrophy is now based on clinical findings, muscle biopsy results, and genetic information.
The pathophysiology of the congenital muscular dystrophies depends on the specific genetic defect for each of the dystrophies and is discussed with each of the congenital muscular dystrophies below.
Morbidity and mortality rates depend on the type of congenital muscular dystrophy.
The major causes of morbidity and mortality are related to respiratory insufficiency, bulbar and limb weakness, contractures, seizures, ocular pathology, and mental retardation and associated brain pathology.
Some children die in infancy, whereas others can live into adulthood with only minimal disability.
These autosomal recessive diseases affect both sexes equally.
Patients with congenital muscular dystrophy present at birth or within the first year of life.
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Berkowitz's program of research, at the broadest level, focuses on the intersection of criminal justice, psychology and law. Her particular research interests include: eyewitness memory, false memory, false confession, and the causes and consequences of wrongful convictions. In addition, Berkowitz serves as an expert witness and consultant in legal cases involving eyewitness memory and memory distortion. She has consulted in cases for both the prosecution/plaintiff and the defense in criminal and civil trials in state, federal, and military courts.