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Nov. 28, 2020, 10:03 a.m. EST
The surprising lesson Black Friday and Cyber Monday can teach stock-market investors
Too many overreact to the data, good or bad
S&P Retail Select Index (SPSIRE)
By Mark Hulbert, MarketWatch
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — You learn nothing from the initial reports on how retailers fared on Black Friday and Cyber Monday.
Maybe even less than nothing.
This would be useful advice in any year, but it is especially so this year, given how the COVID-19 pandemic has upended many traditional assumptions about the economy in general and the stock market in particular. This year more than ever, therefore, don't bother taking time away from your Thanksgiving celebrations to see how the sales are going.
I reached these provocative conclusions upon analyzing how the stock market in the past has reacted to those initial sales reports. I discovered a strong inverse correlation between its immediate reaction and how it performs after Thanksgiving through the end of the year. That's why I say that the initial reports may be worth even less than nothing.
Last year was a good case in point. The S&P Retail Select Index /zigman2/quotes/210598198/delayed XX:SPSIRE -2.33% fell 0.9% on Black Friday, and an additional 1.1% on Cyber Monday — suggesting that investors were disappointed with the initial reports on how retailers fared on those two days. And yet after Cyber Monday through the end of 2019, this index gained 4.4%. The S&P 500 index /zigman2/quotes/210599714/realtime SPX -0.72% did nearly as well, gaining 3.8%.
Nor was last year a fluke. Looking at all years since 1999, when this index was created, there has been a strong inverse relationship between its immediate post-Thanksgiving performance and its return until the end of the year. You can see it in this chart:
As a check on this result, since this index has only existed since 1999, I repeated the same analysis with the Dow Jones Industrial Average /zigman2/quotes/210598065/realtime DJIA -0.57% . I focused on all years since 1952, since Wikipedia reports that beginning in that year, "the day after Thanksgiving has been regarded as the beginning of the United States Christmas shopping season." Once again there was an inverse correlation between immediate post-Thanksgiving performance and subsequent return through the end of the year.
Why would this pattern exist?
I can only speculate as to why this pattern would exist, but my hunch is that it's due to the all-too-human tendency to overreact. For example, we enter the Christmas shopping season with great hope and anticipation, creating unrealistic expectations for retail sales on Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales. We then overreact on the downside when those sales fail to live up to expectations, creating the preconditions for a bounceback from then through year's end as the holiday spirit returns.
In any case, there is evidence that the holiday spirit affects investor behavior. The stock market timers my firm tracks are more optimistic in December, on average, than they are in any other month. Consider first the average recommended equity exposure level among several dozen short-term market timers my firm tracks. (This average is what's reported in the Hulbert Stock Newsletter Sentiment Index, or HSNSI.) Over the last two decades, the HSNSI on average has been 32% higher in December than in the other 11 months.
This contrast is even starker among short-term stock market timers who focus on the Nasdaq market in particular (as presented by the Hulbert Nasdaq Newsletter Sentiment Index, or HNNSI). This index on average is 63% higher in December than in the other 11 months.
It's not a fluke that this optimism comes in December, according to a study that appeared several years ago in the Review of Finance. The study, entitled " Are Monthly Seasonals Real? A Three Century Perspective ," was conducted by Ben Jacobsen, a finance professor at Tilburg University in the Netherlands, and Cherry Zhang, a finance professor at Nottingham University Business School China.
The researchers found that year-end seasonal patterns in the U.K. stock market changed at the very the time that Christmas in that country became a public holiday (around 1835). They detected the same change in the U.S. stock market around 1870, which is when Christmas became a public holiday in the U.S.
Regardless of the explanation, the implication is the same: Unless you're a contrarian, ignore all the initial reports about how the holiday shopping season is shaping up. My advice: Focus your energies instead on what is truly meaningful.
Mark Hulbert is a regular contributor to MarketWatch. His Hulbert Ratings tracks investment newsletters that pay a flat fee to be audited. He can be reached at mark@hulbertratings.com.
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Q: Mapping of virtual keycode to unicode influenced by writing to std::cout? I am running into an odd issue which I don't really know how to troubleshoot. I am writing code in C++ which is supposed to trigger events when keys are pressed. I can detect keypress and release fine, using GetAsyncKeystate, but I cannot reliably convert the detected keystates into unicode. (note that I am using Qt, but that shouldn't really matter)
My press / release detection:
// This function is called in a loop
void KeyboardApi::Check()
{
    bool stat = false;
    for (int i = 7; i < 255; i++) { // 0 undefined, 3 VK_CANCEL can be ignored, 1 2 4 5 6 mouse keys, these are ignored
        stat = ((GetAsyncKeyState(i) & 0x8000) != 0);

        if (this->first_time) { // To prevent reporting keypresses upon initialization
            this->first_time = false;
            this->keystate[i] = stat;
            continue;
        }

        if (stat != this->keystate[i]) {
            this->keystate[i] = stat;

            if (i == VK_SHIFT)
                this->shift = stat;
            else if (i == VK_CONTROL)
                this->ctrl = stat;
            else if (i == VK_MENU)
                this->alt = stat;

            HKL locale = GetKeyboardLayout(GetCurrentThreadId());

            // ---!! If this portion is commented, the code does not work correctly.
            //       if this portion is *not* commented, the code works fine...
            /*
            std::wcout << "args for keycode_to_unicode:" << std::endl
                       << "  keycode: " << i << std::endl
                       << "  locale: " << locale << std::endl
                       << "  shift: " << this->shift << std::endl;
            */
            // ---!!

            QString key_string = keycode_to_unicode(i, locale, this->shift);

            if (stat)
                std::wcout << "Key pressed:  " << i <<  " unicode: " << key_string.toStdWString() << std::endl;
        }
    }
}

And the keycode_to_unicode function:
QString keycode_to_unicode(unsigned int key, HKL keyboardLayoutHandle, bool shiftPressed)
{
    int scanCodeEx = MapVirtualKeyExW(key, MAPVK_VK_TO_VSC_EX, keyboardLayoutHandle);

    if (scanCodeEx > 0) {
        unsigned char lpKeyState[256];

        if (shiftPressed) {
            lpKeyState[VK_SHIFT] = 0x80;
            lpKeyState[VK_LSHIFT] = 0x80;
        }

        wchar_t buffer[5];

        int rc = ToUnicodeEx(key, scanCodeEx, lpKeyState, buffer, 5, 0, keyboardLayoutHandle);

        if (rc > 0) {
            return QString::fromWCharArray(buffer);
        } else {
            // It's a dead key; let's flush out whats stored in the keyboard state.
            rc = ToUnicodeEx(key, scanCodeEx, lpKeyState, buffer, 5, 0, keyboardLayoutHandle);
            return QString();
        }
    }

    return QString();
}

So the odd thing is that KeyboardApi::Check() works fine when I have the debug output there, but when I don't have it the conversion to unicode goes wrong. For example, when I press the 'A' key the first time, 'a' is outputted. The second time, 'β', 'β', etc.
EDIT:
You may ask yourself why I am not using Qt's build-in onKeyPress... This is because my code is injected into other processes, thus I cannot use this approach.

A: It turned out to be an issue with keycode_to_unicode!
In my code, I had:
unsigned char lpKeyState[256];

Which means the array is not initialized; its contents could be anything. Replacing it with:
unsigned char lpKeyState[256] = {0};

Fixed the issue of odd input. It turned out I also had some other issues (specifically with dead-keys). I altered my code a bit and am now able to properly detect dead-keys when they are pressed, though I have not succeeded yet in combining the dead-keys with follow-up characters to detect characters with accents. For the sake of completeness, here follows the modified code:
Note: it does not take into account capslock.
QString KeyboardApi::keycode_to_unicode(unsigned int key, HKL keyboardLayoutHandle, bool shiftPressed, bool ctrlPressed, bool altPressed, bool capslock)
{
    int scanCodeEx = MapVirtualKeyExW(key, MAPVK_VK_TO_VSC_EX, keyboardLayoutHandle);

    if (scanCodeEx <= 0)
        return QString();

    unsigned char lpKeyState[256] = {0};

    if (shiftPressed) {
        lpKeyState[VK_SHIFT] = 0x80;
        lpKeyState[VK_LSHIFT] = 0x80;
    }

    if (ctrlPressed)
        lpKeyState[VK_CONTROL] = 0x80;

    if (altPressed)
        lpKeyState[VK_MENU] = 0x80;

    if (capslock)
        lpKeyState[VK_CAPITAL] = 0x01;

    wchar_t buffer[5];

    ToUnicodeEx(key, scanCodeEx, lpKeyState, buffer, 5, 0, keyboardLayoutHandle);

    QString ret = QString::fromWCharArray(buffer);
    ret.truncate(1);

    return ret;
}

Qt::Key KeyboardApi::unicode_to_qtkey(QString key)
{
    unsigned int code = key[0].unicode();
    if (key[0].unicode() >= 'a' && key[0].unicode() <= 'z') {
        code = key[0].unicode() - 'a' + Qt::Key_A;
    }

    return (Qt::Key)code;
}

void KeyboardApi::Check()
{
    bool init = this->first_time;

    if (this->first_time)
        this->first_time = false;

    bool stat = false;
    for (int i = 7; i < 255; i++) { // yes, 255 is NOT valid! // 0 undefined, 3 VK_CANCEL can be ignored, 1 2 4 5 6 mouse keys
        stat = ((GetAsyncKeyState(i) & 0x8000) != 0);

        if (stat == this->keystate[i])
            continue;

        this->keystate[i] = stat;

        if (i == VK_SHIFT)
            this->shift = stat;
        else if (i == VK_CONTROL)
            this->ctrl = stat;
        else if (i == VK_MENU)
            this->alt = stat;
        else if (i == VK_CAPITAL)
            this->capslock = stat;

        HKL locale = GetKeyboardLayout(GetCurrentThreadId());

        QString key_string = keycode_to_unicode(i, locale, this->shift, this->ctrl, this->alt, false);

        // See qkeymapper_win.cpp for the table used to convert windows virtual key codes to Qt::Key
        Qt::Key key = key_string.isEmpty() ? (Qt::Key)win_vk_to_qt_key[i] : unicode_to_qtkey(key_string);

        if (init || i == VK_SHIFT || i == VK_CONTROL || i == VK_MENU)
            continue;

        if (stat) {
            emit this->OnKeyDown(this, QKeyEvent(QEvent::KeyPress, key, mods, key_string));
        } else
            emit this->OnKeyUp(this, QKeyEvent(QEvent::KeyPress, key, mods, key_string));
    }
}

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In order to become the Republican party's 2016 presidential nominee, hopefuls need to win the support of a majority of the 2,472 delegates to the GOP National Convention. The Democratic nominee will need to win a majority of the 4,765 delegates to the Democratic National Convention. The total number of delegates includes those who are pledged and unpledged. Each state party determines how each of type of delegate is allocated within the state. In cases where states use local caucuses or primaries to elect delegates to a state or congressional district convention, the AP projects how many delegates each candidate will be awarded. The AP interviews unpledged delegates to learn their preferences, which are also reflected in the delegate totals.


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Police Service Commission explains sack of 95 reinstated workers
By Karls Tsokar, Abuja
Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris
The leadership of the Police Service Commission (PSC) has explained why it sacked the reinstated 95 workers of the commission. Their sacking was done, despite the ruling of the National Industrial Court, which ordered that they be reinstated.
The commission's Assistant Director of Press, Ikechukwu Ani, explained that the employment of the sacked workers did not follow due process, hence the board in its wisdom resolved that they be relieved of their duties.
He said: "The matter was resolved amicably by the management of the PSC, the affected workers and their lawyers, that the procedure leading to their employment, as in any service of the Federal Government was irregular and could not be sustained."
The workers had instituted a suit against the commission headed by Mr. Mike Okiro, for refusing to pay them on the grounds that their appointment did not conform to the civil service rules and regulations and the provisions therein.
They were employed at the end of Parry Osayande's tenure, before Okiro took over as the head of the PSC. The workers' employments were later confirmed even though there was neither a formal advertisement for vacancies, budgetary provision, nor a waiver as required by law.
The PSC further explained that the letters relieving them of their duties was issued on March 30, 2017, by the Director Admin/Finance, Emmanuel Ibe, on behalf of the Permanent Secretary.
He said: "The termination of their appointment was in accordance with the provisions of the Public Service Rules 020801." He said in accordance with the rules, "all their monetary entitlements from the period of engagement up to April 30,2017 had been duly computed and forwarded to the budget office of the federation for payment."
But Justice E.D. Isele, in his ruling of October 18, 2016, had described the refusal of the commission to pay the workers their salaries and allowances as illegal.
He stated that it was a violation of the provision of Section 10(3)(b) of the Police Service Commission Act, 2001, Rules 040102 and 130105 of the Public Service Rules and the Police Service conditions of service paragraphs 4.1(c) and 4-2(e).
The judgment had also directed the commission to pay the aggrieved workers all their entitlements, including their salaries arrears. Ani explained that the judgment was obeyed, adding however, that the rules and regulations that stipulated the procedure for employment into the public service were clear.
He added that under the circumstance, their continued stay in the service was a violation of the rules. The lawyers to the sacked workers have threatened to return to court.
Ikechukwu AniMike OkiroNational Industrial CourtPolice Service Commission

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namespace dslam {
    class ICPLocalization: public BaseLocalization{

        public:
            ICPLocalization();
            virtual ~ICPLocalization(){};
            virtual void configure(Configuration&);
            virtual void visualize(ros::Publisher&){};
        protected:
            virtual bool __match(const void (*)(std::vector<Line>&, pcl::PointCloud<pcl::PointXYZ>&));

        private:
            void alignLastFeature(pcl::PointCloud<pcl::PointXYZ>&);
    };

    class ICPLocalization1: public BaseLocalization{

        public:
            ICPLocalization1();
            virtual ~ICPLocalization1(){};
            virtual void configure(Configuration&);
            virtual void visualize(ros::Publisher&){};
        protected:
            virtual bool __match(const void (*)(std::vector<Line>&, pcl::PointCloud<pcl::PointXYZ>&));

        private:
            void alignLastFeature(pcl::PointCloud<pcl::PointXYZ>&);
    };
}

#endif

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public class FunctionTest
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Duck Kite.Jackite Mallard Hen Duck. Jackite began in 1988 and still operates today as a small family owned company. Marguerite Stankus has designed these unique Bird Kites / Windsocks that truly depicts a Bird in flight. They beat their wings, bank on the air emulating a real bird. Made of durable Tyvek. Fly one from your flag pole and people will think you really do have a Bird on a string. All Birds are assembled just complete three simple steps and its ready to fly.
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Unsane - B-
Quick Hit: Mesmerizing and convincing at times, this thriller also lacks something.
To shoot an entire film on an I-phone is impressive. To do that in a way that convinces a studio and a production company to pick it up and put it in theaters is even more impressive. Steven Soderbergh accomplished that task with Unsane, a thriller about a woman who finds herself in a mental hospital against her will.
Sawyer Valentini (Claire Foy) goes to see a therapist because she sometimes has thoughts about hurting herself. She is sent for an evaluation and then suddenly she is surrendering her phone and being asked to turn in her clothes. They then tell her that she is being kept for a short period of time for observation. She wants to be let go, but she signed the forms. Then she ends up violent with an orderly and doctor decides she maybe needs to stay a little longer. It turns out (through conversation) that this is a common place insurance scam mental hospitals run. Who better to take advantage of than those that no one believes right?
Mental health is a fragile topic in movies. Sometimes (and too often) it's played for laughs like in K-Pax and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Other times, there is a graphic destruction of mental health as someone kills or begins to kill, like My Friend Dahmer or American Psycho. And sometimes, a filmmaker somehow toes the line between the two. That's the best way that I can describe the mental health that is shown in Unsane. The fellow inmates range from violent to overtly sexual, but for the most part, everyone seems like they're real people. Foy goes a long way to sell the concept, rarely ever leaving the center of the screen.
The conflict in the story is driven not just by her situation, but also from a past stalker, who has resurfaced in her life, now as an orderly at the hospital that she is interred at. The movie might stretch out a bit too long whether Sawyer is crazy or not, but the best parts in the movie come during the interactions between her and David. And don't be fooled – there's quite a bit of payoff for those that will wait until the end.
The biggest issue is probably the pacing. Unsane knows where it's going, but it takes a long time to get there. The film only runs about 98 minutes, so it's not the runtime that is the culprit here. The structure of the film is just that there are long periods where not a lot happens as you have to waffle between crazy or not. I enjoyed the film, but it could have been cleaned up. I think some of these pacing issues came from the ambitious I-Phone choice, because it makes it seem so much more real than a normal film often seems. I'm giving it a "B-" and a round of applause for being daring.
For more on this film, check out IMDB.
"All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy"
-Jack Torrance (Shining)


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Q: Issue when clicking on the table of contents of some sections The table of contents of my document indicates the right page of each section but when I click in the first four appendices I do not get into the correct page.
It only happens with 4 sections (A.1,A.2,A.3 and A.4) of the Appendix chapter. The code defining the Appendix chapter is the following:
   \titleformat{\chapter}[block]
  {\normalfont\huge\bfseries}{\thechapter.}{1em}{\Huge}
\titlespacing*{\chapter}{0pt}{-19pt}{0pt}
\appendix
\chapter{Appendix}
\clearpage
 \section{Assessment of water resources in endorheic basins}
  %\input{Appendixx/AppendixTable1}
  \clearpage
   \section{RS applications for the assessment of water resources in endorheic basins}
  %\input{Appendixx/AppendixTable3}
  \clearpage
 \section{Placement of ROIs within the DP system}
  %\input{Appendixx/Appendix A}
    \clearpage
 \section{Water mask extracted from the MNDWI}
  %\input{Appendixx/Appendix B}
    \clearpage
 \section{Estimated precipitation (CHIRPS) versus reference precipitation (rain-gauge)}
  %\input{Appendixx/Appendix C}
    \clearpage
 \section{Temporal evolution of annual precipitation of rain-gauge (black line) and CHIRPS (blue line)}
  %\input{Appendixx/Appendix D}
  \clearpage

Inputs (Appendix A, B, C and D) are figures which have exactly the same code in the .txt file:
\begin{figure}[h!]
\centering
\includegraphics[width=1\linewidth]%{figures/prueba_biasStaations.jpg}
\label{fig:biasStaations}
\end{figure}

The only difference between appendices is the .jpg file. However, only Appendix A.5 (Appendix C) and A.6 (Appendix D) are correctly linked with their page.
This is the main.txt:
\documentclass[a4paper,12pt,twoside,fleqn]{report}
\usepackage[left=2cm,right=2cm,top=2cm,bottom=3cm]{geometry}
\usepackage{epigraph}
\usepackage{titlesec}
\usepackage{tocbibind}
\usepackage[toc,page]{appendix}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{titlesec}
\titlespacing\section{0pt}{12pt plus 4pt minus 2pt}{0pt plus 2pt minus 2pt}
\titlespacing\subsection{0pt}{12pt plus 4pt minus 2pt}{0pt plus 2pt minus 2pt}
\titlespacing\subsubsection{0pt}{12pt plus 4pt minus 2pt}{0pt plus 2pt minus 2pt}
\usepackage[hyphens]{url}% breks long URL.
\usepackage[bookmarksopen,colorlinks=false,breaklinks=true,bookmarksdepth=2]{hyperref}
\usepackage{float}
\floatstyle{plaintop}
\restylefloat{table}
\usepackage{placeins}
\usepackage{enumerate}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[hang,small,bf]{caption}
\captionsetup{font=footnotesize, labelfont=bf}
\setlength{\captionmargin}{20pt}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{gensymb}
\usepackage{adjustbox}

%%% Bibliography%%%%%
\usepackage[style=authoryear,
    backend=bibtex,
    sortcites=ynt,
uniquename=init,
natbib=true,
    maxbibnames=15,
    maxcitenames=2,
    dashed=false] {biblatex}

%\addbibresource{bibliography.bib}
%\input{thesis.preamble}

\begin{document}

\title{\LARGE {\bf Mapping historical hydrological changes in the Lake Poopó catchment, Bolivia, with remote sensing}
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}

\author{Juan Torres-Batlló}
\submitdate{June 2020}

\normallinespacing

\body
%\input{background/Chapter 2}

%\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Bibliography}

%\printbibliography

%\input{Appendices2}

\end{document}

The first 4 appendices [A.1 (Table1),A.2 (Table2), A.3 (A) and A.4 (B) are not well referenced]. The 2 last appendices [A.5(D) and A.6 (C)] are well referenced and when I click on them in the TOC the hyperlink brings me to the correct page. However, with the 2 first appendices when I click on them in the TOC the link does not bring me to the correct page.

Is there any issue with the code?


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Q: Maximum Browser Width and Height On Page Load Ive Googled and stackoverflowed since earlier on today and i just cant find a solution. I'm looking for a way using JQuery/JS to open up a webpage ive created with a maximized window. So on the page loading whichever browser the user is using, my webpage will be displayed as though the user has hit the maximise button on their browser, but automatically on load.
I need to make an interactive website which is best displayed maximised, any ideas? Btw im very new to building websites so any solution JS fiddle based or properly explained would be so much appreciated.
THANKS :)

A: For security reasons, JavaScript cannot change the window's size (including minimizing or maximizing it).
You can, however, open a new window set to a certain size - but not automatically - only in response to user interaction, like a click on the page (again, for security reasons).
I don't know what your site's content is - but if it isn't flexible enough to fit different screen sizes (like a game, maybe?) then your best bet from a user experience perspective may be to just put some text up somewhere on the page that says something like "Site best viewed in fullscreen". Or, if it is something like a game, maybe a nice big button on the homepage that says "Launch Game"?
Your best bet, however, is to have your content fit any screen size/shape. This is often called things like "responsive webdesign", and there's tons of info out there on how to design a website responsively, as well as how to implement said design.
Good luck!

A: window.innerHeight and window.innerWidth
http://www.w3schools.com/jsref/prop_win_innerheight.asp


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JOCO Dining: 1889 Pizza Napoletana adds note of sophistication of revamped NorthWood center
I'm sorry that it's taken me nearly a year to find my way into the artfully-appointed 1889 Pizza Napoletana, the stylish pizzeria created by Kelli and Jason Kolich in Kansas City, Kansas. The venue is located in the NorthWood Shopping Center, the once-dowdy shopping strip that formerly housed a Maj-R Thrift and Discount Store and the eccentric Chin...
Lidia's Kansas City launches its first children's menu
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A foundation of cooperation between Italy and the United States
On this very day 100 years ago, the United States made the grave decision to enter a conflict that had brought devastation to Europe for the previous three years. Among the many Americans who joined the front lines was a young reporter from The Kansas City Star: Ernest Hemingway. In 1918, Hemingway was wounded on the battlefields of Italy, an exper...
Italian Consul General Visits POMPEII: The Exhibition 100,000th Guest is Welcomed
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Italy-U.S. Cross-border opportunities
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Italian cookie & pastry shop coming to the River Market
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I've found myself with an opportunity to sample a variety of worship service.
Some things are "different", other things, well, just make me laugh (in a good way).
Ultimately, it simply gives me a chance to see worship in a new way. Which is an unexpected gift in this season of life.


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India plans Two Hypersonic BrahMos-2K version of the cruise missile
Published September 1, 2020 | By admin
SOURCE: IDRW NEWS NETWORK
The BrahMos Aerospace joint venture Russian NPO Mashinostroyenia has revealed new plans to develop the next generation of BrahMos-2K which will supersede current BrahMos Supersonic cruise missiles with better speed and range. BrahMos-2K will be developed in Two stages it means it will have tow versions to start with. In the first stage, Mach 5 capable BrahMos-2K will be developed by 2024 and in the Second Stage, a Mach 7 Capable BrahMos-2K will be developed by 2027 onwards.
The Second stage liquid-fueled, air-breathing ramjet engine is used to sustain Mach 3 speed in the Cruise phase after first stage solid Propellant booster separation which is used for launch and then attain Mach 1 speed. According to informed sources close to idrw.org, BrahMos Aerospace plans to upgrade the Second stage liquid-fueled, air-breathing ramjet engine for Mach 5 capable performance in the cruise phase for which it already has Transfer of Technology from Russia.
BrahMos Aerospace already carried out a series of lab tests at the speed of Mach 6.5 as informed to idrw.org but speed might be curtailed just above Mach 5 which Technically makes it a Hypersonic Cruise missile when it is ready for testing in 2024. Mach 7 capable BrahMos-2K likely will feature a new scramjet engine in which India is negotiating with Russia. An Export scramjet engine derivative might come from what has been used on the Russian 3M22 Zircon a scramjet-powered maneuvering anti-ship hypersonic cruise missile currently in testing by Russia.
The new scramjet engine will have Mach 7 speed which can be further upgraded till Mach 9. BrahMos-2K is expected to have a 500km range in Low-level Profile and will have a range of 800km in a High-level Profile. Indian Tri-Service will not be replacing BrahMos with BrahMos-2K nor it will be procured at the same levels due to the expected high price of the missile system but it will be seen as a welcome boost in the Offensive cruise missile technology for the country.
BrahMos-2K will be available for Frontline Warships and in Land-Based Truck-mounted Variants for both Land and Anti-Ship Target Profiles but Air-Launched variant like BrahMos-A might not happen due to weight concerns but instead BrahMos Aerospace will be developing a BrahMos-NG (Next Generation ) Mach 3 Capable Air-Launched Cruise missile which will be smaller and lighter than BrahMos-A and will be made available for all fighter jets operated by IAF and unlike BrahMos-A will not be limited to specially modified Sukhoi-30MKI fleet.
BrahMos Aerospace plans to increase the range of current generation BrahMos to 800 km. BrahMos already has demonstrated a new improved range of from 290 km in recent tests but the ultimate goal is to achieve an 800km range by end of this year without sacrificing on speed.
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Milan will be playing in three competitions next season: Serie A, Coppa Italia and in the early stages of the Europa league, where they will hope to go as long as possible.
The Rossoneri will be looking to have as much depth to their bench as possible if they want to be successful next season in all competitions.
Added depth to the midfield would also be pivotal in dealing with injuries and fatigue from playing so frequently and key in advancing to later stages in those competitions and finishing higher up in the table.
At only 19 years old, Manuel Locatelli has played in over 25 matches this season for Vincenzo Montella's side and has stated he has immense ambitions for his future with the club and wants to bring Milan back into serious competition.
According to La Gazzetta dello Sport, Locatelli is likely to remain at Milan next season for the aforementioned reasons, avoiding a loan spell away from the club this summer.


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Acquisitions of the month: August 2016
Pietre dure cabinets (c. 1625), probably to the designs of the influential Regency designer, Charles Heathcote Tatham. © Sotheby's London
Our round-up of the best works of art to enter public collections recently
Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts
The Worcester Art Museum has acquired The Pregnant Woman (1931) by the German artist Otto Dix and two paintings by the Belgian artist Philippe-Jacques Van Brée. Dix's painting makes a significant addition to the museum's 20th-century collection, while The Studio of the Flower Painter Van Daël at the Sorbonne (1816) by Van Brée, and a smaller replica made in the same year, are historically important for what they reveal about the role of women artists in the first half of the 19th century – the painting captures a studio scene in which all the artists are women. The museum hopes to set Van Brée's against works by women artists already held in the collection.
Bavarian State Painting Collections and the State Graphics Collection, Munich
Fifty-eight works by artists including Eugène Delacroix, Joseph Beuys, Cy Twombly, George Baselitz and Piet Mondrian have entered the Bavarian State Painting Collections and the State Graphics Collection in Munich. The gift was made by the Art Mentor Foundation Lucerne, which had in turn received the works from the private collection of Christof and Ursula Engelhorn. The foundation has also facilitated the collection's acquisition of Dan Flavin's Untitled (to you, Heiner, with admiration and affection) (1973).
Tate Britain, London
Tate Britain has been allocated a full-length portrait by Sir Joshua Reynolds of the 5th Earl of Carlisle (1769) through the Acceptance in Lieu Scheme. For the last 200 years, the portrait has hung in Castle Howard and it will remain on public display there before travelling across the country, including to Tate Britain. Reynolds made the painting at the height of his powers when he had just been elected the first President of the Royal Academy.
Portrait of Frederick Howard, 5th Earl of Carlisle (1748–1825) (1769), Joshua Reynolds.
MOCA Jacksonville, Florida
Museum trustee Maria Cox has donated 50 works of art to the Museum of Contemporary Art, Jacksonville. Throughout their marriage, she and her late husband, Donald, accumulated an impressive collection of modern and contemporary art, including works by Joan Mitchell, Philip Guston, Joel Shapiro, Frank Stella, Keith Haring, Malcolm Morley and Jasper Johns. Maria Cox's gift will join a donation of 48 works made by Cox in 2004. Together the collection includes work by 60 artists previously unrepresented in the museum's permanent collection. It is hoped that this acquisition will not only strengthen the MOCA's collection but also boost its outreach and education efforts. Cox has also pledged to support research, conservation, access and the future growth of the collection by creating The Donald and Maria Cox Fund.
Corpse and Mirror (1976), Jasper Johns. © Jasper Johns/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY. Co-published by the artist and Simca studio.
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
The Fitzwilliam Museum has successfully raised the £1.2 million needed to keep a pair of pietre dure Roman cabinets in the UK. Dating from around 1625, the cabinets are exceptional examples of 17th-century Italian furniture, and are among the most significant of their type left in the country. The cabinets had been in the private collection at Castle Howard, Yorkshire, but were sold last summer at Sotheby's, London, to a foreign buyer for £1.2 million. The historic and cultural value of the cabinets persuaded culture minister Ed Vaizey to place a temporary export bar on the cabinets. The National Heritage Memorial Fund gave a grant of £700,000 in order to save them for the nation, while the Art Fund contributed £200,000. Additional support came from several benefactors, including the Pilgrim Trust.
Pietre dure cabinets (c. 1625), probably to the designs of the influential Regency designer, Charles Heathcote Tatham.
The Broad, Los Angeles
The Broad Museum has made 29 new additions to the collection in its inaugural year, it announced late last month. In acquiring works by Cindy Sherman, John Baldessari, Sherrie Levine and Ericka Beckman, the museum has expanded its collection of the 1980s 'Pictures Generation' artists. Over a third of the new works are by Los Angeles artists, including Oscar Murillo, Tauba Auerbach and Jonas Wood. The purchase of five Cindy Sherman pieces brings The Broad's holdings of her works to 129, making it the largest such group in the world.
Film Frame from 'You The Better' (1983/2015), Ericka Beckman. © Ericka Beckman. Courtesy Mary Boone Gallery, New York
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Two important and vastly different acquisitions were announced by the V&A this August. The first was a rare ceramic bowl by Hans Coper (1920–81), one of the most influential post-war artist-potters. Made in London in around 1955, the bowl reveals Coper's interest in both modern painting and ancient art. A temporary export bar was placed in the bowl in 2015, and it was bought for the museum in memory of the journalist Annabel Freyberg through the support of her friends, with the remaining contributions coming from the V&A.
The V&A has also acquired the Tommy Cooper Collection, which documents the life and legacy of the beloved British comedian. It will join the museum's other collections devoted to comedians including Ronnie Barker, Tony Hancock, Dame Edna Everage, and Morecambe and Wise. The acquisition comprises 116 boxes of archive material and 24 props and posters.
Tommy Cooper's 'gag file'. © The Tommy Cooper Estate
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
The collector Barbara Levy Kipper has donated a rare Nepalese ritual crown to the Met. Dating from the late 13th or 14th century, such crowns are worn by Nepalese priests who perform Vajrayana Buddhist ceremonies. The crown will enhance the Met's South Asian art collection and will be central to their Nepalese art holdings.
Vajracarya's Ritual Crown (Early Malla period, 13th century), Nepal, Kathmandu Valley.
Royal Museums Greenwich, London
A public appeal by the Art Fund and the Royal Museums Greenwich has succeeded in raising the £10.3 million needed to bring the Armada Portrait of Elizabeth I into public ownership for the first time. A grant of £7.4 million from the Heritage Lottery Fund plus contributions made by the Linbury Trust, the Garfield Weston Foundation and the Headley Trust helped raise the funds, but a significant amount also came from public support: 8,000 individual donations totalled £1.5 million. The painting captures the spirit of the English Renaissance and is one of the most famous images in British history. It will hang in the Queen's House, which was built on the site of Greenwich Palace, the birthplace of the Queen herself.
The Armada Portrait of Elizabeth I (c.1590) English School. The Art Fund
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
The archive of the Famous Photographers School has entered the Yale University Art Gallery. The school was founded in 1961 in Westport, Connecticut as an offshoot of the Famous Artists School. This new acquisition offers an insight into the history of American photography, as well as the techniques and ideals of 10 'famous photographers', including Richard Avedon, Alfred Eisenstaedt, Phillippe Halsman and Irving Penn. Several individual donors and acquisition funds made the purchase possible.
Famous Photographers School Faculty Portrait (1964), Irving Penn
Acquisitions of the month: July 2016
Several US museums make major acquisitions this month, while the Bowes Museum gains a rare Dieric Bouts the Elder painting
Acquisitions of the Month: June 2016
Both the Courtauld and the Menil Collection acquire important works by Jasper Johns, while SFMOMA bolsters its already impressive photography collection
Acquisitions of the Month: May 2016
May's acquisitions include rare signed etchings by Picasso and photography by the Victorian pioneer Oscar Gustav Rejlander


Currently I recognize what you are telling on your own … I would really like to camp, it looks enjoyable however I have no suggestion exactly how to camp, what to bring or what to anticipate. There are a couple of things that you truly need to establish prior to you can figure out what you need to do to prepare for your outdoor camping trip. Answering the adhering to fundamental concerns will certainly assist you to discovering your ground.
What sort of camping have you chosen to do? Did you want to Motor Home camp? Camper/Trailer camp? Camping tent camp? Backpack/Hike camp? Canoe/kayak camp?
Determining the kind of outdoor camping you intend to do can assist you in what kind of devices and experience is needed. As an example, you would certainly require a vastly different kind of devices for Recreational Vehicle camping versus treking outdoor camping.
Recreational Vehicle Camping (or mobile home camping) is most like living in your home since you bring a supplied vehicle that you primarily reside in with you. You can make your Motor Home equally as comfy as you such as. Everything that you need from residence can most likely be brought with you in your Recreational Vehicle.
All you actually require to think about are what foods and also personal things you would like to equip it with. This type of camping is normally for individuals that do not like to "harsh it" but likewise might such as to be social considering that sometimes Recreational Vehicle are parked relatively near each various other or in comparable sections. Though there are some regular upkeep items with Motor homes, you essentially park them and also stay in them.
Camper or Trailer outdoor camping is simply a step a lot more sturdy than Motor Home outdoor camping. Many times campers or trailers do not have showers or bathrooms, unlike many Motor homes. Depending upon the camper or trailer, a refrigerator might not be included either.
Generally, camper or trailer outdoor camping is extra for individuals that do not like to rest on the ground or fret about serious weather condition however still wish to get out there.
Tent camping is generally a lot more for people who would like to "rough it." Tent camping requires you to consider every one of your standard needs in advance (food, health, washroom needs, shelter, seeing at night, heat). There are really varying levels of tent outdoor camping too.
Some individuals like to bring a camping tent and also buy every one of their needs while others like to camp in more remote locations away from individuals. Packing for a tent outdoor camping trip can be time consuming due to the fact that you have to think of everything you could require. If you're planning to save while you're travelling, read this article to learn helpful tips.
Backpacking or Hiking camping is a little bit much more for the knowledgeable campers. Consider it … whatever you assume you are mosting likely to require you need to have the ability to strap to your back and bring it for quite a range. You need to have the ability to load well and also pack light!
Canoe/kayak camping is just like hiking camping in regards to packing but you have to add another element. You need to see to it that whatever is waterproof. Canoe/kayak camping would be for the more experienced camper and also certainly, for individuals who recognize exactly how to canoe and/or kayak.
Motor Home Camping – Look Around and also research before you decide on a Recreational Vehicle for purchase. Talk to individuals that already possess them and also inquire what they such as and don't such as about their particular model. Most likely to Motor Home car dealerships and go through a bunch of them. Perhaps, go as far as renting a Recreational Vehicle on a tiny trip to see what you do or do not like about RV outdoor camping.
Camper/Trailer Camping – Due to the fact that there may not be facilities like a fridge, more setup and forethought is required. You most likely will have to buy a cooler or two to keep your food as well as drinks chilled. Also, you may have to think of generators if you wish to run electric products. Though you may have beds in the camper you might need to place bed linens in.
Outdoor Tents Outdoor Camping – Think of the type of tent camping you wish to do. Does my camping tent need to be light-weight? Waterproof? Wind tough? What dimension outdoor tents do I need (family members dimension or simply for me)? What surface will I be camping on? A good outdoor camping tent can make all the distinction on your journey.
Backpacking/Hiking Outdoor Camping – Search for lightweight supplies, as you have to carry them all. Tools research right into lighter weight strong hiking backpacks is an excellent concept. Constantly check ahead of time if the area you desire to trek and also camp allows individuals to do so.
Take notice of "no trespassing" indicators as well as note them. Examine your climate! You need to understand what equipment to load for the weather condition. It is also advised that you camp with a pal. In case something should take place, there must be someone who can go get aid.
Canoe/kayak Outdoor camping – It may be suggested to take some canoe or kayak lessons (and also swimming lessons) prior to trying an outdoor camping journey by doing this. Possibly you might wish to rent a canoe or kayak to ensure you like the task prior to diving in.
Where have you determined to go camping? Are you going to be camping in the Desert? Coastline? Forest/woods?
This is an extremely essential concern to respond to in order to find out your main needs. You would certainly prepare extremely in a different way for desert camping than you would for camping in the forest.
In Desert camping temperature levels can have severe ranges from the warm of the day to the cold of the night. The largest hazards (most of the year) in the desert are the sunlight and dehydration. It is extremely vital to shield yourself with sun block and drink plenty of water. Because of the completely dry air you are not knowledgeable about how much you are sweating due to the fact that it vaporizes so quickly off your skin.
Beach camping is very good however you should plan for it. Because of the nature of sand it is challenging to weigh things down with normal camping tent stakes. There are tent risks that are much longer for this specific function. You also must be gotten ready for the possibility that sand can get involved in everything.
Relying on just how deep in the sand you would love to go you must think about the vehicle you are utilizing to get there. Once again, with the nature of sand it may be challenging to dig yourself back out. You might want to bring a shovel or arbitrary item of timber.
Forest/woods are generally fantastic for shelter from rainstorms and also sun. They are also fantastic for hammocks however you have to understand attacking insects as well as certain scratchy plants. Bug spray would certainly be a big suggestion for camping in the woods.
When or what time of the year are you going outdoor camping?
Determining what type of climate you are mosting likely to need to take care of while camping is crucial. Personally, I think this is one of the most crucial information required to intend an appropriate outdoor camping trip. Of course if you have a Recreational Vehicle, this information possibly does not help you because you aren't subjected to the aspects.
Chillier weather condition camping certainly requires warmer clothing but you might wish to take into consideration a warmer camping resting bag despite what method of shelter you are making use of.
Wetter weather condition outdoor camping indicates that your surface may be harder to deal with. If you are tent outdoor camping, it would certainly be advised to lay a tarpaulin under your outdoor tents, search for slightly higher ground to pitch your tent and also constantly use your rain flys.
In hotter climate constantly ensure to maintain on your own moistened. If you bring your water with you, bring lots. If you are hiking camping, you may want to consider a water therapy or a camping water filter.
Congratulations on taking your primary step towards camping by addressing these preliminary questions. You are currently on your way to planning for an outdoor camping trip customized even more to your specific needs and wishes.


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José Mendonça Bezerra Filho  (Recife, ) é um administrador e político brasileiro filiado ao União Brasil (UNIÃO). Foi ministro da Educação durante o governo Michel Temer. Por Pernambuco, foi governador, deputado federal durante três mandatos e deputado estadual em duas ocasiões.

Consultor na área de educação e gestão pública, atualmente é consultor da Fundação Lemann e da Unesco.

Família e educação
Nasceu no Recife e passou a infância e a adolescência entre a capital e Belo Jardim, terra natal de seus pais e município onde iniciou a carreira política. Filho de Estefânia Maria Nazaré de Moura Bezerra e do ex-deputado federal José Mendonça Bezerra, falecido em 2011, é o segundo filho de uma família de seis irmãos. É Casado com Taciana Vilaça Mendonça, filha do ex-ministro Marcos Vilaça, com quem tem 3 filhos, José, Ilanna e Vinícius.

Estudou na Escola Parque, considerada uma instituição de formação de esquerda. Formou-se em Administração de Empresas pela Universidade de Pernambuco e fez o curso de Gestão Pública pela Kennedy School, Escola de Governo da Universidade de Harvard (EUA).

Carreira política
Tem experiência em diversos cargos e funções públicas, tanto no Poder Legislativo, como no Executivo. Foi deputado estadual, secretário de Estado, secretário de Estado, vice-governador do Estado de Pernambuco nas duas gestões do governador Jarbas Vasconcelos (1999-2003/ 2003-2006), governador, deputado federal por três mandatos e ministro da Educação.

Deputado estadual
Começou a vida pública aos 20 anos filiando-se ao PFL e sendo eleito o deputado estadual mais novo nas eleições de 1986. Foi Deputado Constituinte e contribuiu para a elaboração da Constituição de Pernambuco, em 1989.

Secretário de Agricultura

Como secretário de Agricultura, no Governo de Joaquim Francisco (1991/1995), criou o Programa Água Para Todos para construção de adutoras no Estado e o "Terra e Comida", um programa de reforma agrária feito pelo Governo do Estado com a distribuição de 13.000 títulos de terra para agricultores da zona canavieira em troca de dívida de usineiros.

Deputado federal
Como deputado federal foi reconhecido pela Revista Veja e pelo DIAP como um dos parlamentares mais atuantes do País. Foi autor do projeto que prorrogou o prazo dos benefícios da Lei de Informática até 2029;
Coordenador do Comitê Pró impeachment, Mendonça Filho teve atuação destacada no processo que levou ao impeachment da então presidente Dilma Rousseff.

Em março de 1995, Mendonça Filho foi admitido pelo presidente Fernando Henrique Cardoso à Ordem do Mérito Militar no grau de Comendador especial.

Na Câmara dos Deputados, participou de várias comissões, destacando-se como presidente da Comissão Especial de Reforma Política e Eleitoral. O seu mandato ficou marcado pela emenda constitucional que recebeu seu nome e permitiu a reeleição para presidente, governadores e prefeitos. O que ocasionou a reeleição de FHC e do vice Marco Maciel, aliados de Mendonça. Em 1998, disputou o governo de Pernambuco como vice na chapa encabeçada por Jarbas Vasconcelos (PMDB).

Vice-governador

Assumiu como vice-governador em janeiro de 1999, ao lado do governador Jarbas Vasconcelos. Foi o principal executivo do Governo Jarbas/Mendonça tendo coordenado a atração de investimentos como a Refinaria Abreu e Lima, o Estaleiro Atlântico Sul, a ampliação e consolidação do Porto de Suape, programas como Águas de Pernambuco, Estradas para o Desenvolvimento, a implantação dos Centros de Ensino Experimental (Escolas em Tempo Integral) e do Porto Digital. Foi secretário-executivo do Pacto 21, um conselho formado por empresários, intelectuais e universidades para discutir projetos estruturadores para impulsionar o desenvolvimento econômico e social de Pernambuco. Coordenou o  processo de privatização da CELPE, iniciado ainda no governo de Miguel Arraes, em que o então Governador Eduardo Campos era o Secretário da Fazenda.

Governador
Em abril de 2006 assumiu o Governo de Pernambuco em substituição a Jarbas Vasconcelos, que deixou o cargo para disputar uma vaga de senador da República. Entre os projetos criados na gestão Mendonça Filho estão o Universidade Democrática, que garantiu gratuitamente o acesso de jovens da rede pública estadual  à Universidade de Pernambuco, o Jovem Campeão, com construção de quadras poliesportivas nas escolas da rede estadual e o Ação Integrada pela Segurança, para promover a juventude, estimular a cidadania e aumentar a segurança no Estado com um conjunto de ações de prevenção e repressão policial.

Ministro da Educação
A gestão de Mendonça Filho à frente do Ministério da Educação promoveu um conjunto de mudanças estruturais visando dar um salto de qualidade na educação  nos próximos anos, como a reforma do ensino médio, e a homologação da primeira Base Nacional Comum Curricular da educação básica no País. Quando assumiu o MEC, em maio de 2016, o diagnóstico dos especialistas e os indicadores de ensino nacionais como o IDEB e ANA e internacionais como o PISA mostravam uma realidade dura. Os principais gargalos na educação eram alfabetização inadequada, a aprendizagem ruim de nossos jovens e as dificuldades na formação do professor. Mendonça lançou várias ações para enfrentar essa realidade como a política nacional de alfabetização, a política nacional de escolas em tempo integral, a reforma do ensino médio, a política de formação de professores, que teve como carro chefe o programa residência pedagógica. Sua gestão foi marcada por polêmicas como a audiência concedida ao ex-ator pornô Alexandre Frota e a tentativa de censura à disciplina do professor Luis Felipe Miguel intitulada "O golpe de 2016 e o futuro da democracia no Brasil". Ele também juntamente com o CFM,  suspendeu a criação de curso de medicina no Brasil por 5 anos, por mais que o Brasil tenha um dos menores índices mundiais de médicos para sua população, mal distribuidos "A taxa das 27 capitais é de 5,07 médicos por mil habitantes. No Interior do País, esse índice é 1,28, ou seja, 3,9 vezes menor", gerando preços exorbitantes em custo deste curso nas faculdades , dados conflitantes do IBGE, entre outras consequências:

Assumiu a presidência pro tempore do setor educacional do Mercosul (jun a dez 2017), durante a 50ª Reunião de Ministros de Educação do Mercosul (RME), em Buenos Aires, em junho de 2017. O Brasil assumiu o posto – que estava com os argentinos – sugerindo a implementação de um sistema comum de avaliação de indicadores de qualidade para a educação básica. Deixou o ministério em 6 de abril de 2018.

Candidaturas
Disputou a reeleição em 2006 pelo cargo de governador, vencendo o primeiro turno com quase 40% dos votos, porém, perde o 2 turno com a união dos opositores.

Candidatou-se a prefeitura do Recife na eleição municipal de 2008, obtendo o segundo lugar, voltou a ser candidato na eleição municipal de 2012, obtendo o quarto lugar.

Nas eleições de 2018, após ter sido cotado como possível candidato a vice na chapa de Geraldo Alckmin para a Presidência da República, foi um dos candidatos ao Senado Federal por Pernambuco, pela coligação oposicionista. Após uma campanha acirrada em que chegou a aparecer como um dos favoritos em pesquisas, ficou em terceiro lugar na disputa com 19,58%, sendo derrotado por Humberto Costa e Jarbas Vasconcelos, ambos eleitos na ocasião.

Nas eleições municipais de 2020, Mendonça Filho foi candidato a prefeito da coligação "Recife acima de tudo" (PSDB/PTB/PL/DEM), com Priscila Krause como vice. Dentre as principais doações para sua campanha, o Diretório Nacional do Democratas enviou mais de 3,8 milhões de reais e o empresário Salim Mattar Júnior doou 200 mil reais. Ao final, o candidato recebeu 25,11% dos votos válidos no primeiro turno e, em razão de uma diferença inferior a 23 mil votos, não conseguiu ficar entre os dois mais votados (João Campos e Marília Arraes).

Premiações
 Educador do Ano 2016, Academia Brasileira de Educação (ABE);
 Personalidade da Gestão Pública de 2018, 17º Fórum Empresarial LIDE;
 Direitos Humanos 2018, Ministério dos Direitos Humanos.

Livros
 Reeleição: aprimorando o sistema presidencial brasileiro. Brasília. Senado Federal, 1998

Ligações externas
 A página oficial de Mendonça Filho
 Biografia na página do governo de Pernambuco
 Dados do Deputado - Câmara dos Deputados

Naturais do Recife
Brasileiros de ascendência portuguesa
Alunos da Universidade de Pernambuco
Alunos da Universidade Harvard
Deputados estaduais de Pernambuco
Deputados federais do Brasil por Pernambuco
Governadores de Pernambuco
Ministros do Governo Michel Temer
Ministros da Educação do Brasil
Membros do Democratas (Brasil)
Membros do União Brasil
Vice-governadores de Pernambuco
Família Mendonça
Jose Mendonca Filho

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CO-OP / Algorithm Developer(Spring/Summer 2022)
The Surveillance Systems Group (https://www.ll.mit.edu/r-d/air-traffic-control/surveillance-systems) conducts research on integrated sensing and decision support architecture to support safe and efficient air and surface transportation. We are the world expert in airborne collision avoidance systems for manned aircraft (https://www.ll.mit.edu/r-d/projects/airborne-collision-avoidance-system-x) and are currently leading efforts to develop systems to support integration of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) and Urban Mobility platforms into the US National Airspace System. Integrating UAS into the airspace is a national priority and a key research area for the group. We recently received R&D 100 awards in 2016 and 2017 (https://www.rd100conference.com/awards/winners-finalists/6466/acas-xu/) for developments in detect and avoid systems. Advances in autonomy and decision support will bring forth unprecedented changes to safety and efficiency for both air and surface transportation. To support these efforts we apply a broad base of analysis, modeling, optimization and machine learning to develop sensing architectures and decision support tools to ensure safe and efficient operation of autonomous systems.
We are looking for a Spring/Summer CO-OP with an interest in applied engineering, modeling and simulation and algorithm development to support the development of UAS Detect and Avoid systems that may incorporate radar and optical sensors and cooperative surveillance such as beacon surveillance and Automatic Dependent Surveillance - Broadcast (ADS-B). Example problem areas include analysis and algorithm development for surveillance and tracking algorithms, collision avoidance logic, and evaulating system performance for aircraft separation and unmanned aircraft system (UAS) collision avoidance applications. Activities will include algorithm development and assessment, modeling, simulation and data analysis. Additional responsibilities may include participation in test planning and flight test operations, as well analysis and presentation of data collected during field tests. The selected intern will be asked to carry out these tasks under the mentor-ship and supervision of a member of the Lincoln Laboratory staff. At the end of this time period, the student will be expected to present the results of his/her work.
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Artist Profiles | Visual Arts
Elisa Gomez, Immersed in Color
By Jesslyn Low on November 29, 2022 • ( Leave a comment )
Elisa Gomez at work in her studio (courtesy the artist)
Explosive colors surround Elisa Gomez. From blues so deep they almost look black to rich yellows and bright scarlet reds. Gomez's works reach out, inviting their viewers to step closer and take in the stirring colors, compositions, and textures found on their canvases.
Like her works, Gomez's life is full of color and zeal. She grew up in Salt Lake City, but after high school left for Las Vegas — a perfect location for her aspirations in hospitality management. But she quickly realized she was wildly unhappy working down this path and switched her degree to painting. She moved back to Utah, where at the University of Utah's art program she was told that most of her former work wouldn't count and she would have to start from scratch. Although this was discouraging, Gomez quickly realized that starting at the beginning was just what she needed.
It was in her first year at the U of U that Gomez found her passion for
abstract art. The first abstract piece she saw was a Rothko, in San Francisco. Gomez says she was "shooketh." "Nothing had ever moved me like that." For Gomez, abstraction took the power of feelings and put them into a visual space. "It just makes sense to my brain. It's how I can best express myself; portraits, still-lifes, and landscapes just don't do anything for me to create them. I saw abstraction and once I started doing it I just had to keep doing it."
Elisa Gomez, "Terrain VII," 2022, oil, acrylic, oil pastel on canvas, 44 x 54 in.
After earning her BFA, Gomez moved to Austin, where she stayed for seven years and had some of her first shows before she decided to embrace the van life. As a vagabond, Gomez pushed herself outside of her comfort zone and discovered a world rich in color and texture. She was hiking with her canvases, painting on the ground, stapling her canvas between trees, painting with her hands, and soaking in the inspiration of the world around her. While traveling in the van she fell in love with the textures and deep green colors of moss, the bright fiery yellows of aspen trees, and the dark blood-red dahlia she saw around her. Gomez says the the color of those dahlias "slapped me across the face."
Gomez's passion for nature and the abstract flow through each phase of her art process. She allows her inspirations to soak into her memory and then organically express themselves when she begins painting. "I never know what something is going to look like. I just see where the shapes and colors go." While Gomez does paint on smaller canvases she prefers a canvas that is her size or bigger. She says there is a physical and performative aspect to her work that can't happen when painting on a small canvas. Gomez also has a love for music and say's that music often drives the gesture and fluidity of her works. She enjoys a large range of musical genres, from cumbia to classical. She listens as she paints, dancing on her milk cartons. She throws, smooshes, smears and grabs paint, constructing her work in a kind of gestural dance between canvas and artist. The organic and emotive nature of Gomez's art process results in strong, stirring works whose colors and compositions speak to the feelings of one soul.
Installation view of Gomez' recent exhibition at Finch Lane Gallery, Salt Lake City (photo by Jesslyn Low)
Gomez takes her time finishing her pieces. Once she feels happy with a work she takes a few days and then returns to the work to see if she still feels like it is truly done. To achieve the textures and colors found her in works, she layers multiple different mediums on her canvases. While there is a certain depth to her work she avoids creating so much depth that the work feels like a place in space. While oil paints are generally her favorite medium, she also loves the roughness of oil pastels. They leave texture and allow the canvas to be seen through the color, interrupting the space. She also likes the thinness of pencil lines and the textures that can be achieved with acrylics. Some of Gomez's works feature drips of paint that race and run down the face of the canvas. To achieve these drips she either mixes oil and Turpenoid in a squirt bottle or just uses oil paints that she knows are runnier. She has also found that mixing oil paint with quick-dry gives it extra texture. In an effort to dry her paintings quicker she sets up heaters and has found that when you really heat up the quick dry fast that it shrivels and adds little touches of texture on the canvas. Gomez calls these "happy accidents."
Gomez loves that abstraction allows everybody to get different things from her work. So much depends on where a person is in life and what associations they might hold with different colors. Elisa Gomez hopes that when viewers see her works that they will "feel anything that is unexpected to them. … It's great when people feel something they weren't planning on." Her works are emotive, full of passion, lively, and inviting. They reach out, creating a space for any viewer to have a revelatory experience. Although she no longer lives in her van and works out of a studio, she still spends a lot of time outside, trail running and hiking with her dog. She yearns for the time when she was painting between trees or on the soft grass and still often takes her sketchbook or canvas paper outside seeking inspiration. Her passion for and inspiration from nature exudes from her work, touching the emotions of those who view her life-filled canvases.
Elisa Gomez, "Terrain VIII"
You can view more of the artist's work at elisagomezart.com.
Jesslyn Low
Jesslyn Low graduated with her Bachelors at Utah State University where she studied Art History with a minor in Women and Gender Studies. After graduating she moved to Scotland where she attended the University of Edinburgh and received her Masters in Modern and Contemporary Art: History, Curating and Criticism.
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'It's Just Mind Boggling': Burglars Ransack Carson Barbershop Day After Thanksgiving
Filed Under:Carson, Carson news
CARSON (CBSLA) — Burglars broke into a longtime barbershop in Carson on Black Friday and cleaned it out of more than $20,000 worth of equipment.
No arrests have been made yet in the break-in at Our People Barber Shop, 940 E. Dominguez St., which has been in the community for more than two decades.
"I came in, I almost fell, because I couldn't believe what they had done to the place," said Aundra Davis, who works at the barbershop.
The two intruders had broke through a plate glass window in the back of the shop to get in. Owner Tracy Prince says the two men were likely looking for the ATM machine, but it was empty. Instead, they took about $20,000 in equipment.
"As soon as I opened up the door, I seen the whole place ransacked," Prince said. The shop was left in shambles, with discarded items scattered on the floors and counters and drawers left ajar.
"To have somebody come in and do that to us, it's just mind boggling," Davis said.
The sheriff's department have only a vague description of the men, who were both seen wearing their hoods up as they walked through the shop in surveillance video.
The shop has started a GoFundMe page to help its barbers replace the equipment that was stolen.


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Fly Through Frequency Tables!
How To Interpret Frequency Tables to Calculate the Mean
EdPlace's Year 9 home learning maths lesson: Finding Averages Using Frequency Tables
Year 9 students should be able to interpret appropriate tables charts and diagrams including frequency tables
Finding the Mean using a New Method!
Students will know from Key Stage 2 that finding the mean from a list of numbers consists of adding them all up and dividing by how many numbers are on the list. Frequency tables look more complicated – and many students find the topic confusing, however, to find the mean ultimately requires the exact same logic. We're going to look at how to find the mean from a frequency table in five simple steps. We're confident that if your child follows the 5 steps below, put together by our maths teachers, they'll feel confident when asked to:
1) Interpret a frequency table as a way of presenting a list of numbers
2) Calculate the mean using a frequency table, using the correct combination of multiplication, addition and division
3) Evaluate their answer to check if it fits the range of data
What Information do Frequency Tables Show?
The first thing we need to get to grips with is understanding what a frequency table actually shows. What is the purpose of a frequency table? What information does it express? Let's look at an example below:
The purpose of a frequency table is to summarise a list of numbers. So, this table shows the number of hours spent studying, and how many students study for that amount of time. In this case, our table summarises that we have three 1s, eight 2s, four 3s, and one 4. It could have been written as a list like this: 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 3, 3, 3, 3, 4. But obviously, a table is clearer and easier to digest!
Step 1 - Calculating the Mean Using Frequency Tables
As we know, to find the mean, we add all our numbers up and divide by how many numbers we have. Some exam questions have frequency tables that summarise hundreds - or even thousands - of numbers, so writing each number out as a list wouldn't be a good idea!
First, we multiply our two original rows together to create a new column that expresses: hours spent studying × the number of students who study for that number of hours.
Step 2 - Find the Total of the New Column
Next, we add up the new column.
Let's pause for a minute to understand why we have done this (many students do not realise how this leads to the mean). We mentioned earlier that the data in this table could have been written as 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 3, 3, 3, 3, 4. Now, look what happens if we add up this same list: 1+1+1+1+2+2+2+2+2+2+2+2+3+3+3+3+4 = 35!
It's important to understand that step 2 and step 3, gives us an enormous shortcut. They allow us to add up all the numbers from our list without needing to write them all out individually.
Step 3 - Add it All Together
Keeping in mind that the mean is just all the values added together and divided by the number of values, the only thing left to do is divide. However, often students fall at the last hurdle here and divide by the wrong thing! So let's look again at the table:
A common mistake is to look at the number of rows and say: "it adds up to 35 and there are 4 rows, so the mean is 35 ÷ 4". We must remember that we need to divide by how many pieces of data there are. In other words, the number we want is the total frequency. In this case, 3 + 8 + 4 + 1 = 16 (i.e. there were 16 students in this survey).
Below is the final table.
The final step is simply dividing the total of the data by the total frequency. 35 ÷ 16 = 2.1875 hours. The average student on this survey spends just over 2 hours studying (we are assuming this is per day!) It's normal to get a decimal as a mean. A good way of checking the answer is correct is to look at the range of data. In this example, it ranges from 1 hour to 4 hours, so the mean must be between those two numbers. If we had ended up with a mean greater than 4 or less than 1, then something must have gone wrong.
Step 4 - Putting it into Practice
Now, using the guide above, see if you can now find the mean using the frequency tables below.
(a) Find the average number of cups of tea that people drink.
(b) Find the average number of pets people have
(c) Find the average score in these exams (to the nearest whole number)
(d) Find the average points these sports teams scored (to the nearest whole number)
Why not test your understanding and see if you can tackle these activities?
All activities are created by teachers and automatically marked. Plus, with an EdPlace subscription, we can automatically progress your child at a level that's right for them. Sending you progress reports along the way so you can track and measure progress, together - brilliant!
Activity 1 - Mean, Median, Mode and Range
Activity 2 - Averages from Frequency Charts
Activity 3 - Finding the Mean from Frequency Tables
Activity 4 - Averages from Frequency Tables
Activity 5 - Averages from Grouped Data
Mean = 103 ÷ 50 = 2.06
Mean = 28 ÷ 20 = 1.4
Mean = 1220 ÷ 35 = 35 (nearest whole number)
Mean = 4460 ÷ 100 = 45 (nearest whole number)


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Tenured Academic Vacancy (Baxter Fellow in Computer Science, Research-Focused), Medical Image Analysis and Artificial Intelligence
Opportunity for an exceptional early-career academic with a strong track record in medical image analysis and AI to join the Computer Vision & Image Processing (CVIP) group at the University of Dundee and an established interdisciplinary research community across the schools of Science and Engineering, Medicine and Life Sciences. CVIP specializes in medical image and data analysis with collaborative projects in ophthalmology (VAMPIRE), cardiology, neuroscience, microscopy, histopathology, dermatology, precision medicine for diabetes, and assistive technology.
The post has a limited Computing teaching load for the first two years; in years 3-5, it will continue to be research focussed but will include appropriate teaching responsibilities. Applicants with expertise and interests in Biomedical & Healthcare Applications of Image Analysis & Machine Learning are particularly encouraged to apply. For further details see the full advert at: https://tinyurl.com/ryvonlf
Closing date for applications: 10 February 2020. The interview and seminar will be held over two days on the 20th and 21st of February, 2020.
Informal enquiries can be made to Prof Stephen McKenna (s.j.zmckenna@dundee.ac.uk) or Prof Manuel Trucco (e.trucco@dundee.ac.uk).
Visiting as a Researcher
We are happy to consider hosting visiting researchers where there is strong alignment of research interests for collaboration.
Visitors are offered lab space, IT infrastructure, invitation to CVIP/VAMPIRE meetings and reading groups, meetings with group members, and practical assistance arranging travel and accommodation. Visitors are usually required to find their own funding for their visit and are encouraged to identify a contribution to overhead charges ('bench fees'). Visitors are typically engaged at a university as either a PhD student, research staff or faculty member.
If you are interested in visiting CVIP, email a CV and a short covering letter to the CVIP academic most closely aligned with your research interests.
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Conservative 'barbaric practices' bill panders to fear of immigrants: Walkom
By Thomas WalkomNational Affairs Columnist
Fri., Nov. 7, 2014timer3 min. read
Immigration Minister Chris Alexander's bizarre declaration of war against "barbaric cultural practices" is both deliberate and unnecessary.
It is deliberate in that it panders to those who fear that foreigners — particularly Muslims – threaten the fabric of Canadian society.
It is unnecessary in that most of the practices it hopes to curb, including polygamy and so-called honour killings, are already illegal in this country.
Indeed, the Conservative government's proposed Zero Tolerance for Barbaric Cultural Practices Act (yes, that is its formal name) is reminiscent of a bylaw banning polygamy and the stoning of women that was enacted in 2007 by the Quebec village of Hérouxville.
At the time, Hérouxville was not overrun by murderously polygamous immigrants. In fact, it contained no immigrants at all. The village council just wanted to make a point — about foreigners, immigrants and especially Muslims.
So, too, it seems, does Prime Minister Stephen Harper's federal Conservative government.
Bill S-7 does contain some reasonable elements.
One would explicitly outlaw forced marriages. Another would clarify the general provincial practice that sets 16 as the minimum age for marriage. A third would make it illegal to transport a child under 16 abroad for the purpose of marriage.
Had the government stopped there, Alexander's bill would be a reasonable attempt to protect children (mainly girls) from unwanted marriages.
But, for its own political purposes, the government didn't stop there. It couldn't resist playing the foreign barbarian card.
Polygamy, for instance, is already illegal in Canada. Governments have the power to arrest and charge polygamists. Yet as the long-running, Bountiful, B.C. polygamy saga shows, Canadian government have not been anxious to do so.
The alleged Bountiful polygamists, incidentally, are neither recent immigrants nor Muslim. They are Canadians who belong to a break-away Mormon sect.
But the new federal bill does not address the barbaric practices of established Canadian polygamists in B.C. Instead, it focuses solely on immigrants.
Announcing the bill in Toronto this week, Alexander claimed, without providing evidence, that there are "at least hundreds" of immigrants in Canada engaged in polygamy.
His bill would allow the government to deport those non-citizens it believes are practising or about to practise polygamy.
But it is the section dealing with honour killings that is the most curious. Bill S-7 would rewrite the Criminal Code to preclude a defendant in a murder trial from arguing that an insult to family honour provoked his action.
Such a clause might be necessary if Canada's courts were routinely soft on honour killers. But they aren't.
As justification for his bill, Alexander cited the case of Mohammad Shafia, an Afghan immigrant who, along with his wife and son, killed three of his daughters and the girls' stepmother.
What the minister didn't point out is that all three killers received the maximum sentence — life in prison.
"The apparent reason behind these cold-blooded, shameful murders was that the four completely innocent victims offended your completely twisted concept of honour . . . that has absolutely no placed in any civilized society," the judge said at sentencing.
Not much leniency there.
In another case cited by Alexander this week, it's hard to know what the judge will say. The alleged wife-killer has not yet gone to trial.
This inconvenient fact didn't stop the minister from publicly declaring the recent immigrant from Afghanistan guilty of an honour killing. (It's the second time this year that Alexander has preemptively convicted this particular man. The first was in a March speech for Toronto's Canadian Club).
It is true that Canada does not tolerate practices more common in other countries. Americans who want to come to Canada must give up their handguns. Chinese billionaires, if they wish to settle here, may have only one spouse apiece. Murdering wives and daughters — for any reason — is just not on.
But laws in these areas already exist. With the exceptions noted above, Alexander's bill does not add anything helpful. In the guise of protecting women it takes potshots at Muslim immigrants. Its motives are crassly political.
Thomas Walkom's column appears Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday.


Paddy Doyle held the longest time in an abdominal plank position with a 100-lb pack and is "The World Fitness Endurance Champion".
Paddy Doyle is 46 years old from Birmingham, UK.
Paddy Doyle is a British athlete known for his endurance of weight lifting and press-ups.
He was brought up in Birmingham by his Irish father a laborer, who insisted he helped him in this field in his younger years.
He was always interested in boxing and references his grandfather on his mother's side for his interest in this.
At seven years of age, Paddy took an interest in Martial Arts and soon become a Junior Judo Champion.
At the age of nine, Paddy pursued an uneven path by taking part in brawls and fights in his local pub and clubs, which resulted in Police action and he decided from that moment on he would turn his life around.
Paddy went on to become a member of the British Parachute Regiment.
Paddy Doyle from Birmingham has been featured in the 1990–2008 Guinness Book of World Records.
Paddy holds 23 separate current records.
His titles include the most one arm push-ups in one hour, the most competitive full contact rounds in boxing and other martial arts and most one arm push-ups in one hour.
Paddy was crowned 'The Worlds Fittest Man' in 2004.
Paddy is considered a professional multidisciplinary athlete.
Paddy represented his Battalion in the Army for cross county competitions and was awarded a champion recruit for outstanding fitness levels and determination.
Paddy has taken his achievements in his stride and considers attempting another record in the future.
Paddy lives with his wife and Rottweiler Dog and actively takes part in charity events, raising awareness and is an advocate for fitness.
In 2009, it determined Paddy Doyle as the "World's fitness Endurance Champion", beating previous champ Rob Powell, when he completed within 18 hours 56 minutes and 9 seconds 2 miles of swimming, 300000 pounds of weight lifts, 12 miles of running, 12 miles of running, 12 miles of walking (Carrying 25lb back pack), 110-mile of biking, 1250 push-ups, 3250 sit-ups, 1250 Jumping Jacks, 20 miles of rowing, 1250 standing hip flexors and 20 miles in a cross trainer.
With 100lb on his back, some of Paddy's highlights include the 10km, which he completed in one hour, 47 minutes and 37 seconds, beating the previous record by five minutes.
Paddy also completed the half marathon in three hours, 39 minutes and 46 seconds, beating the previous Guinness record by 27 minutes.


More than 1 in 10 children in the United States have ADHD.
New statistics from the Centers from Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) show that 11 percent of the children ages 4 to 17 in the US have been diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, or ADHD. This is up 41 percent since 2003, when 7.8 percent had the diagnosis.
Some of that increase is that we are more aware of ADHD and are therefore diagnosing it more. (We are also diagnosing it early; half are diagnosed by the time they are 6 years old.) But some of that increase is real.
The majority of the kids with ADHD (69 percent) are taking medications. While it's good that they are getting treatment, a study earlier this year showed that taking medications didn't necessarily help kids academically or any other way. Medications can help kids concentrate, but they can't pick what kids concentrate on. Behavioral therapy can make a difference, especially when kids get to learn the life skills they need to manage their ADHD, but not everybody gets therapy or life skills training.
And life skills are what they need, because ADHD is not just a condition of childhood. Another study published this year showed that it often persists into adulthood, and people who had ADHD as children were more likely to suffer from other problems such as alcohol or drug abuse, anxiety, depression or other mental health problems. They are also more likely to try to commit suicide.
I guess that's what's freaking me out about these statistics. This isn't just about a few more active and distracted kids who struggle in school and with friendships and with keeping out of trouble. This is about the adults those kids will grow into: adults who are likely to struggle in many ways too, and whose struggles are likely to affect those around them in just as many ways.
Because there is collateral damage when it comes to ADHD. I watch it play out in families, in the stress it puts on parents and marriages and siblings. It plays out in classrooms, too: these numbers translate into at least two kids with ADHD in every classroom, which can affect everyone's learning. It costs our health care and educational system millions of dollars. Adults with ADHD, besides possibly being perhaps not the best spouses, parents or employees, can end up needing real resources to help them, and those resources cost money too. The ripple effects of 11 percent of children having ADHD could be staggering.
More and more, it's becoming clear that ADHD is a public health problem--like obesity or heart disease or HIV. We will never succeed in tackling it if we don't start thinking of it that way, and give it real attention, thought and resources. But unlike with other public health problems, we don't really understand all its causes--or the best way to treat it. Which makes fighting it hard. It's not just a matter of eating healthy and getting exercise; ADHD is complex, and each person with it is different.
That's why I'm feeling so upset about this report. When it comes to most public health problems, I know what to say as a doctor, community member and mother. When it comes to ADHD, I don't. I can help individual patients and families, but I don't know how to even begin to make a dent in the overall problem.
That's what needs to change. We need to take this problem seriously, as seriously as we've taken cancer or asthma or influenza. This isn't a problem of a few badly-behaved kids; this is much bigger and more dangerous. We need to find better ways to prevent and treat it.
There are lives that need saving. Let's not wait any longer. Let's get started.