Martin Kierszenbaum started taking piano lessons at age 8. By the time he was 10, he had written his first song. At 16, Kierszenbaum was a member of several bands in Michigan. In order to get their names on marquees, there were club owners who had to be convinced, door deals that needed to be secured, and grass roots publicity campaigns that begged to be organized. Those tasks, more or less by default, fell upon his shoulders.
And just like that—with the simple realization that he had a natural knack for business and a natural knack for music—Martin Kierszenbaum had added a "plus one" to the earliest form of his otherwise strictly musical résumé. Now 43 years old and head of A&R for Interscope, he is also president of his own imprint, Cherrytree Records.
Kierszenbaum's made more than good on his business savvy: He has played a large part in the careers of Lady Gaga, Sting, Feist, Keane, and a host of other chart-topping acts. However, unlike many of his counterparts, he has managed to continue in the vein that first piqued his interest in music: the creation of it.
The dual role that he has developed—that of shepherd of the performing arts as well as contributor to it—is one that was carefully created over time.
In fact, Kierszenbaum has contributed to some of the biggest pop hits in recent memory, co-writing chart-topping titles like Lady Gaga's "Eh Eh (Nothing Else I Can Say)," as well as t.a.T.u's "All the Things She Said." The attentiveness to creative nuances that he learned as a young writer has helped Kierszenbaum quickly rise through the ranks of the often-rocky A&R world, and likewise, his innate understanding of business has helped him cultivate his creative contributions.
With careers made and lost on songwriting selections, the role of a writer is a demanding job on its own. In Kierszenbaum's world, those demands intermingle with the pressures created by the business of music. It's a balancing act. With ease and poise, he lives in both spheres, stressing that a regimented approach is the best recipe for both aural and commercial success.
The evolution of Martin Kierszenbaum continues, just as he continues to help the next generation of creative geniuses reach their own pinnacles of success. He remains expertly perched on top of his musically-charged fence. Unlike the moral of most such analogies, however, he could easily fall to one side or the other and remain completely successful. It's unlikely that should happen, of course. Martin Kierszenbaum has made his mark with an artistic sensibility that continually complements his business acumen. And vice versa.


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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation Chairman John Thune (R-S.D.), Commerce Subcommittee on Surface Transportation and Merchant Marine Infrastructure, Safety, and Security Chairman Deb Fischer (R-Neb.), Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Subcommittee on Employment and Workplace Safety Chairman Johnny Isakson (R-Ga.), House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Chairman Bill Shuster (R-Penn.), Transportation Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Chairman Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.), House Education and Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (R-Minn.), and Education and Workforce Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions Chairman Phil Roe, M.D. (R-Tenn.) have sent a letter to President Barack Obama urging action on the unnecessary gridlock of goods at 29 West Coast shipping ports.
The effect of the delay on American consumers, shippers, and our economy grows each day. It is estimated that the ongoing delays will cost billions of dollars in higher transportation costs, increased storage fees, and food spoilage along with the costs of shippers' damaged relationships with both domestic suppliers and international customers. A February 10, 2015, hearing held by the Senate Commerce Committee also focused on the lingering consequences of the slowdown.
We write today to urge you to act quickly to ensure our nation's ports remain open to commerce. The ongoing labor dispute at our West Coast ports has disrupted our nation's transportation network, supply chain, and, most significantly, our broader economy.
Unfortunately, the dispute has already had a substantial negative impact on the movement of goods throughout the nation, and the effects continue to grow as each day passes without a resolution. As an increasing number of ships idle offshore, waiting to be loaded and unloaded, consumers and businesses across the country face empty shelves, agricultural producers lose access to international markets, and manufacturers struggle to find needed inputs.
These import and export delays have significant negative economic impacts and lingering consequences. The very real costs of delay include spoilage, especially of agricultural products, missed scheduled ports of call, higher transportation costs, or increased storage fees. In addition, shippers with goods to export have missed deadlines and been forced to pay late-delivery penalties. This dispute has damaged American suppliers' relationships with their domestic and international customers, some of whom have started to turn to competing suppliers in other nations.
The U.S. transportation network serves the American economy by moving goods in a cost-effective and competitive manner to global marketplaces. For the transportation network to work properly and serve our nation's shippers and consumers, our ports must function efficiently and reliably. This message was underscored at a subcommittee hearing held by the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation on February 10, 2015.
We fear this ongoing dispute will develop into a permanent loss of American jobs. While we appreciate you dispatching the Secretary of Labor to meet with both sides, should there not be resolution by March 2, 2015, two months after the federal mediator was appointed, we hope we can count on your commitment to keep America's ports open and operating efficiently by exercising additional leadership to resolve the situation.


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Cerro Negro est une ville brésilienne de l'intérieur de l'État de Santa Catarina.

Géographie
Cerro Negro se situe par une latitude de  sud et par une longitude de  ouest, à une altitude de 996 mètres. Sa population était de  habitants au recensement de 2010. La municipalité s'étend sur .

Elle fait partie de la microrégion de Campos de Lages, dans la mésoregion Serrana de Santa Catarina.

Villes voisines
Cerro Negro est voisine des municipalités (municípios) suivantes :
 Anita Garibaldi
 Abdon Batista
 São José do Cerrito
 Campo Belo do Sul
 Vacaria dans l'État du Rio Grande do Sul
 Esmeralda dans l'État du Rio Grande do Sul

Liens externes
  Site officiel de la municipalité
  Cerro Negro sur le site officiel de l'État de Santa Catarina
  Données sur Cerro Negro sur le site de la fédération des municipalités de Santa Catarina
  Données statistiques et économiques sur Cerro Negro - Cidades@IBGE

Notes et références

Municipalité dans la microrégion de Campos de Lages

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The Pathfinder series of VOX amplifiers represents truly outstanding value for money yet captures the very essence and personality of the legend that is VOX. The look and feel of the Pathfinder is inescapably VOX, possessing all of the style of its bigger family members. Small yet perfectly formed, these amps are ideal for practice and recording.
Those instantly recognizable, warm British sounds you've come to expect from VOX are alive and well in the compact, 10-Watt Pathfinder 10 combo - plus a high gain capability that's thoroughly modern!
Want to practice late at night without disturbing your neighbors? No problem! Just plug your headphones into the Headphone/Line Out jack and away you go - your sleeping neighbors won't hear a thing because using this jack automatically mutes the amp's speaker! This jack also doubles as a specially filtered Line Out which is perfect for recording your amp without having to worry about setting up any pesky microphones. The Pathfinder 10 also features controls for Gain, Treble, Bass and Volume plus a Clean/Overdrive switch.


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On August 20, 2016, a mass killing occurred in Citronelle, Alabama, resulting in the deaths of five people, including a woman who was five months pregnant. They were killed in the early morning in a private residence in a rural area west of the city. It was owned by a brother of Laneta Lester, who had sought refuge there. She and her brother's infant were abducted and taken to Leakesville, Mississippi, by her estranged boyfriend, Derrick Dearman. He released her that day. Lester returned with the infant to Citronelle. She notified police of the killings. Investigators described this mass killing as the worst in Mobile County's history. The house burned down a couple of weeks after the crime.

Dearman was considered a suspect. He was arrested after he turned himself in at the Greene County, Mississippi police station. He was extradited to Alabama, where he was charged with six counts of capital murder (including the fetus, under Alabama law) and two counts of abduction. Initially he pleaded not guilty to the charges. In September 2018 he pleaded guilty to the capital murder charges. He still had to face a jury trial, which convicted him of the murders and kidnappings, and sentenced him to death. The court upheld the sentence.

Killings
In the early morning of August 20, 2016, a male assailant entered a residence in the 1700 block of Jim Platt Road about 4 a.m., in a rural area west of Citronelle. He killed five persons who were sleeping, including two married couples, one including a woman who was five months pregnant. He used a variety of weapons, including an axe and guns. He kidnapped Laneta Lester, his estranged girlfriend, and an infant of her brother and his wife; he took them with him to his father's house in Leakesville, Mississippi, about 30 miles to the west. He later released them.

Lester returned to Citronelle with the infant, where she went to the police department and notified authorities about the killings. She said she had been abducted by her estranged boyfriend, Derrick Dearman, and that he had killed the people at the house. The police found the five bodies at the crime scene. They said it would take time to process the crime scene. Initial reports said Lester had escaped from Dearman, but she and the infant were reportedly released by him.

Investigators said that residents had made a 9-1-1 call from the house about 1 a.m., several hours before the killings, and reported that Derrick Dearman was on the property. Officers responded to the house, but found no evidence of him on the wooded grounds and left. Investigators initially believed the attacker had used an ax and several firearms that were in the house in the attack, and that the killings were committed in the process of an attempted burglary or abduction. Police found two firearms and a "bladed weapon" at the house. The attack was described as the worst mass killing in the history of Mobile County.

Victims and perpetrator

Victims
The deceased victims shared the house where the homicides took place. It was owned by Lester's married brother, Joseph Adam Turner, who lived there with his wife. Lester was said to have gone there seeking refuge from her ex-boyfriend, Derrick Dearman, who lived in Mississippi. Lester's brother Joseph and his wife were both among the homicide victims. The other three adult victims sharing the house included another married couple, of which the woman was five months pregnant.

The victims were named as:

Joseph Adam Turner, 26, Lester's brother
Shannon Melissa Randall, 35, Turner's wife
Robert Lee Brown, 26
Justin Kaleb Reed, 23
Chelsea Marie Reed, 22, Justin's wife, who was five months pregnant

Perpetrator
After Lester had notified police, a suspect, identified as 27-year-old Derrick Dearman, turned himself in to police in his hometown of Leakesville, Mississippi, located about  to the west of Citronelle. He reportedly surrendered after his father convinced him to do so. Dearman was the estranged boyfriend of Laneta Lester. She had left him due to an allegedly abusive relationship and gone to Citronelle to her brother's house, seeking shelter with him. The former wife of Dearman described him as having "a temper, especially when he doesn't get his way". He had two children from his marriage. In Mississippi, he had accumulated an extensive criminal record.

Alabama quickly extradited Dearman to Citronelle under charges associated with the killings.

Legal proceedings
On August 22, Dearman was extradited to Mobile, Alabama, to face trial. While being escorted to an administrative building, he reportedly said, "Don't do drugs", apologized, and said he turned himself in after realizing what he had done. He later apologized to Lester by name and described the victims as friends. The following day, he said he was on methamphetamine at the time of the killings, and blamed the killings on the influence of the drug.

On August 31, 2016, Dearman was charged with six counts of capital murder (one charge for Chelsea Reed's fetus, under Alabama's fetal homicide law) and two counts of abduction. He pleaded not guilty to all of the counts. It was classified as capital murder first, because it was associated with attempted burglary, and secondly, because two or more persons were killed in commission of the same crime.

A couple of weeks after the murders, the Turner house burned down.

Dearman was assigned two court-appointed defense attorneys. In mid-August 2017, Circuit Judge Rick Stout, at the request of the state, ordered Dearman to receive a mental evaluation, to be completed by the state of Alabama. It was intended to cover three topics: Dearman's competency to stand trial, his mental capacity at the time of the crimes, and his intelligence quotient (IQ). Around this time, one of his attorneys resigned from the case. Dearman objected to having his IQ and competency tested, as he had not made a plea related to either. He tried to establish limits to such testing, but the court denied the motion. The judge was to receive the results of the testing and review them before sharing with the prosecutor and defense.

In September 2018, Dearman pleaded guilty to the charges of capital murder and kidnapping. Under Alabama law, because of the capital murder charges, he was still subject to a jury trial, with the potential of receiving a death sentence. He had fired his two court-appointed attorneys before entering his plea. The judge ruled that he was fit to stand trial.

At the jury trial, Dearman was found guilty on the six capital murder charges and first-degree kidnapping counts, and the jury approved the death sentence. This was affirmed by the court on October 12, 2018, and Dearman was sentenced to death for these murders.

References

2016 mass shootings in the United States
2016 murders in the United States
Attacks in the United States in 2016
Deaths by firearm in Alabama
Citronelle
Mass shootings in Alabama
Mass shootings in the United States


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Q: Can a regression formula be Y=A - BX I'm new to statistics and I ran into this question, what I know is $Y=A + BX$ but in the question the value of $B$ is negative, is it normal for the $B$ value to be negative?
Here is the question, you don't have to answer it, I just added as a reference.
Estimate the value of $Y$ when $X = 30$ for the following regression equation:
$Y = 6.2 - 1.4 X$.

A: $B = -1.4$ for you: $Y = 6.2 + (-1.4)X$. What this means is that same as if it were $+1.4$: that for every one-unit change in $X$, there is a $B$-unit change in $Y$. In this particular case, the change is that, for every one-unit change in $X$, $Y$ decreases by $1.4$ units.
$B<0$ is certainly acceptable. Consider a relationship like expected snowfall tomorrow as $Y$ and today's temperature as $X$.

A: Yes you can have negative weights. The simplest example of when this would happen is when you have a factor that has a negative correlation to the output Y. This would imply for every X unit increase, there should be a corresponding B * X decrease in Y. In your example, for every unit increase of X, Y should decrease by a factor of 1.4

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Operator Families
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.. module:: pyrseas.dbobject.operfamily

The :mod:`operfamily` module defines two classes: class
:class:`OperatorFamily` derived from :class:`DbSchemaObject` and class
:class:`OperatorFamilyDict` derived from :class:`DbObjectDict`.

Operator Family
---------------

:class:`OperatorFamily` is derived from :class:`DbSchemaObject` and
represents a `Postgres operator family
<https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/sql-createopfamily.html>`_,
a grouping of related operator classes.

.. autoclass:: OperatorFamily

.. automethod:: OperatorFamily.extern_key

.. automethod:: OperatorFamily.identifier

.. automethod:: OperatorFamily.create

Operator Family Dictionary
--------------------------

:class:`OperatorFamilyDict` is derived from
:class:`~pyrseas.dbobject.DbObjectDict`. It is a dictionary that
represents the collection of operator families in a database.

.. autoclass:: OperatorFamilyDict

.. automethod:: OperatorFamilyDict.from_map

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A Gift of Monotheists?
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In 1804 Raja Ram Mohan Roy wrote Tuhfat-ul-Muwahhidin (A Gift to Monotheists) in Persian with an introduction in Arabic. Raja Ram Mohan Roy wrote 'Gift to Monotheists' in which he put forward the Idea that people must worship a single God.
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In 1809, Raja Ram Mohan Roy wrote 'Gift to Monotheists' in which he put forward the Idea that people must worship a single God
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The Scots singer said women in their 60s can 'still thrive, be full of life and have fun'.
Annie Lennox has said women "don't have to become invisible" as they get older, a month after celebrating her 64th birthday.
The Scots singer, who continues to perform and record, said women in their 60s can "still thrive, be full of life and have fun".
The former Eurythmics vocalist told Good Housekeeping magazine she wanted to convince people that women her age still have much to give.
She said: "I want people to realise that women of my age don't have to become invisible. We can still thrive, be full of life and have fun. And we have so much to offer, after all."
Lennox is an ambassador for Oxfam, a vocal critic of US President Donald Trump, and was involved in leading the 2018 March4Women event in London.
She said she was happy that the word "feminism" was no longer taboo. However, she said she now wanted the term "Global Feminism" to enter mainstream language.
She added: "My current focus is to bring the term Global Feminism into the zeitgeist. I'm so happy we can use the 'F' word now and talk comfortably about being feminists.
"Not so long ago, you couldn't even get the word 'feminist' published as people felt uncomfortable with it. But the word has come out of the shadows and everyone seems to be using it. Terminology is incredibly important.
"Global Feminism absolutely includes and welcomes men. We need men who are proud to identify with this issue. We are not criticising men per se, we are criticising negative and abusing behaviours.
"At the end of the day, Global Feminism is about the fundamental human rights of girls and women. Why should we continue to tolerate disrespect, abuse and disempowerment?"
Read the full interview in the March issue of Good Housekeeping, on sale January 30.


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Kenny Hasbrouck, né le  à Washington DC, est un joueur américain de basket-ball.

Liens externes

Références

Naissance à Washington (district de Columbia)
Naissance en août 1986
Joueur américain de basket-ball
Joueur de basket-ball des Saints de Siena
Joueur des Vipers de Rio Grande Valley
Joueur du Heat de Miami
Joueur du CB Lucentum Alicante
Joueur de l'EWE Baskets Oldenburg
Joueur du Mersin Büyükşehir Belediyesi Spor Kulübü
Joueur de la Virtus Bologne
Joueur du Pallacanestro Ferrara 2011
Joueur du Pallacanestro Cantù
Joueur de l'Unione Cestistica Casalpusterlengo
Joueur de l'Aurora Basket Jesi
Joueur du Fortitudo Bologna
Joueur de Scaligera Basket Vérone


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Steven Mannell
Participates in 2 items
Steven Mannell, NSAA, FRAIC, is founding Director of Dalhousie University's international award-winning College of Sustainability, and led the College from 2008 to 2020. He is a practicing architect and Professor of Architecture. His research includes waterworks architecture and engineering, the conservation of modern built heritage, lightweight construction techniques, and the late 20th century emergence of "ecological" architecture. He is curator and author of Atlantic Modern: The Architecture of the Atlantic Provinces 1950-2000 (2001) and Living Lightly on the Earth: Building an Ark for Prince Edward Island 1974-76 (2016). His recent chapter "Environmental Architecture" (in Lam & Livesay, Canadian Modern Architecture, 2019) examines the origins, development, and potentials of sustainable built environments in Canada. He is currently expanding this study with a focus on the intersections of design and social movements.
Sessions in which Steven Mannell participates
Ephemeral Sites of Critical Anti-modernism: Exploring the Tangible and Intangible Cultural Heritage of Experimental 1970s Eco-social Communities
Heritage Changes the Local SocietiesIntangible HeritageArtsArchitecture and Urbanism
Heritage changes the local societiesheritage and mobilityPost-colonial heritageGlobal vs local
16.00 Modernism and Anti-modernism in 1970s "Green" Architecture: The Case of the Ark for Prince Edward Island
Participant Steven Mannell (Dalhousie University) |
15:30 - 16:00 | 30 minutes Part of: Ephemeral Sites of Critical Anti-modernism: Exploring the Tangible and Intangible Cultural Heritage of Experimental 1970s Eco-social Communities
Sessions in which Steven Mannell attends
Film Series: De engel van Doel
Concordia, LB Building - LB 125
11.30 Revitalizing Feasts: Gastronomic Heritage as a Global Agent of Change
Participant Jonathan B. Mabry (Historic Preservation Office, City of Tucson) | Participant Teresita Majewski (Statistical Research, Inc.) | Participant Michael Di Giovine (West Chester University) |
9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Food as Heritage: Uses and Consequences of Food as an Object of Cultural Value
12.00 Tuning into Canada's Radio Heritage
Participant Michael Windover (Carleton University) | Participant Hilary Grant (Carleton University) |
9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Flexible Scales and Relational Territoriality in the Meaning-Making of Cultural Heritage
09.30 Conceiving the "Deep City": The Teaching of Aldo Rossi
Participant David Malaud (Laboratoire de l'école d'architecture de Versailles) |
9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Urban Heritage: Critical Theoretical and Methodological Perspectives I
14.00 The Museum of Immigration and Diversity at 19 Princelet Street in Spitalfields: Multi-Vocality in the Interpretation of the Migration Experience and Heritage
Participant Andrea Delaplace (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne) |
9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Are Contemporary Processes of Migration Changing the Authorised Heritage Discourse?
09.30 Memorializing Bell Island Mining Mobilities
Participant Sharon Roseman (Memorial University of Newfoundland) |
9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Labour, Mobility and Heritage
11.00 Locals, Incomers, Tourists and Gold Diggers: Space, Politics, and the "Dark Heritage" Legacy of the Second World War in Finnish Lapland
Participant Suzie Thomas (University of Helsinki) |
09.00 Labour Mobility in Newfoundland's Forest Industry, 1909-1929
Participant Dustin Valen (McGill University) |
14.30 The Highland House Site: Archaeological Pasts, Present and Future on Barbuda, West Indies
Participant Allison Bain (CELAT, Université Laval) | Participant Perdikaris, Sophia (CUNY Brooklyn College, USA and Barbuda Research Centre) |
9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Case Studies in Archaeology I
11.00 "You Can't Move History: You Can Secure the Future": Young People, Activism and the Indivisible Nature of Intangible and Tangible Heritage
Participant Rebecca Madgin (University of Glasgow) |
9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Activism, Civil Society and Heritage
11.30 Acting on the Body: Heritage as a Governing Strategy for Disciplining the Female Body in Twentieth-Century Iceland
Participant Ólafur Rastrick (University of Iceland) |
10.00 Heritage vs Property: Contrasting Regimes and Rationalities in the Patrimonial Field
Participant Valdimar Tr. Hafstein (University of Iceland) |
Small (ERA Architects Inc.)
Co-Construction and Community Based HeritageArchitecture and UrbanismPublic event
Philip Evans
ERA Architects
Jessica Mace
Engaging Authenticity
Changes in Heritage (New Manifestations)Notions of HeritagePublic event
Changes in heritageNew manifestations of heritageNotions of heritage
Keynote: Il n'est de patrimoine qu'au futur...| Only in the future will it be heritage... (Xavier Greffe)
Xavier Greffe
University paris I
Professeur de sciences é...
Luc-Normand Tellier
Professeur émérite
Film Series Celebration : Sugar Shack Event
Autour de Concordia. Au cœur du Golden Square Mile : explorations de luttes patrimoniales | Around Concordia. In the Heart of Golden Square Mile: Explorations of Heritage Struggles
Concordia, Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Integrated Complex Building (EV) - EV Atrium (meeting point)
7:30 - 8:45 | 1 hour 15 minutes
09.00 The Pedagogical Benefits of Critical Heritage Studies: Helping Students to Reveal and Engage with the Complexities of Deindustrialization and Urban Change (Baltimore, USA)
Participant Michelle L. Stefano (University of Maryland, American Studies, United States) |
9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Connecting to the Critical Heritage Studies Movement in the Americas: Theoretical and Practical Considerations, Case Studies, and Dialogue
09.10 "Home is the Streets": Collaborative Cultural Heritage Work with Contemporary Homeless People and its Function as Advocacy
Participant Rachael Kiddey (Independent Social Research Foundation) |
9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: "For People Then and for People Now": Approaches to Heritage and Shared Authority
10.00 All the Fun of the Fairground: Challenges Representing the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Scotland's Travelling Showpeople
Participant t s Beall (University of Glasgow and The Riverside Museum, Glasgow Museums) |
9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Representing Intangible Heritage of Post-Industrial Waterfront Zones: Politics of Seeing, Ways of Noticing
13.30 Behind the Wall: Fort St. Louis and the Colonial Legacy at Kahnawake Kanienke'ha:ka Territory
Participant Wahsontiio Cross (Carleton University) |
9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: What does Photography Preserve? Reification and Ruin in the Photographic Heritage of a Place Called Montreal
11.00 A Critical Eye in the Mirror: Building a North American Research Agenda on the Preservation of Intangible Heritage within Library and Information Science
Participant Jerome McDonough (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) |
11.40 Expo 67, Revisited and Recycled
Participant Johanne Sloan (Concordia University) |
11.00 Hydro-Quebec and the Cultural Legacies of the "Quiet Revolution": On Photography and the Restoration of Jean-Paul Mousseau's Lumière et mouvement dans la couleur (1962–2002)
Participant Nicola Pezolet (Concordia University) |
14.00 Sustainable Urban Heritage Conservation and Research by Indicators: For an Open Approach to Discourse Analysis. The Case of the Historic District of Quebec City
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14.00 Negotiating Aestheticized Urban Space: What About the Modernist Mass Housing Project Sitting in Montreal's Quartier des Spectacles?
Participant Guillaume Ethier (Université du Québec à Montréal (UQÀM)) |
9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Qu'est-ce que l'art contemporain fait au patrimoine ?
12:00 The House of the Dawn: The Chalke Gate in Istanbul Interpreted as Absent Heritage
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09.30 The "Pop-Up Parliament" Designed by Cedric Price: The Architectural Project as an Imaginary Transformation
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9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: Co-Production in Heritage: Towards New Imaginaries. Part II. Co-Production, Conservation and Memory; Co-Production and the Professional Imaginary
09.30 The Limits of the Frontier: Historic Sites and Sustainability in Western Canada
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"Heritage" Constructions and Indigeneity: Considering Indigenous Cultural Centre Design in Canada
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Q: how can I slow down pasting text into a serial terminal? I'm working on a raspberry pi, and trying to paste some text files into a command-line text editor nano... but the text ends up corrupted on the remote end (partial/incomplete text).
I can only guess the paste function of my PC (xubuntu 16.04) is pushing the data too fast (the serial baud is 115200).
Can I slow down the paste function somehow?

A: I found that screen has a slowpaste function!
https://gist.github.com/jandahl/8436cd6a99d56efd9ff4

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*install screen

*make a .screenrc file if you don't have one:

startup_message off

hardstatus alwayslastline
hardstatus string '%{= kG}[ %{G}%H %{g}][%= %{= kw}%?%-Lw%?%{r}(%{W}%n*%f%t%?(%u)%?%{r})%{w}%?%+Lw%?%?%= %{g}][%{B} %m-%d %{W}%c %{g}]'

defslowpaste 20 ## It is the value to the left that is the central one for your happiness

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*if you already have a .screenrc then just add the last line:
defslowpaste 20

*start screen with the appropriate serial port (raspberry pi, first gen, defaults to 115200 baud):
screen /dev/ttyUSB3 115200

*Have fun!

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I can only guess the paste function of my PC (xubuntu 16.04) is pushing the data too fast (the serial baud is 115200).

That assumption is wrong. The terminal driver will always write through the data from its output queue with the configured baud rate, and a write(2) to the terminal will either return a short count, or block if there's no more space in the output queue (or instead of blocking, will return -1 and set errno to EAGAIN if the terminal is set in non-blocking mode). The serial driver will not "adapt" the baud rate to how much data it has to push through.
You can easily test that if you have two machines which can be connected via a serial line (or you could connect the same machine to itself, eg. 2 USB->serial adapters, two serial ports connected via a null-modem cable, etc).
Eg. if /dev/ttyUSB0 on machine A is connected to /dev/ttyUSB1 on machine B:
On machine A:
# stty -F /dev/ttyUSB0 speed 50 raw; cat /dev/ttyUSB0

On machine B:
stty -F /dev/ttyUSB1 speed 50 raw opost onlcr; cat >/dev/ttyUSB1
<paste>

Now, paste some large text in the command line on machine B, and see it nicely trickle down at the speed of ~5 characters per second on machine A.
The real problem is with brogrammers which ignore the exit status of write(2) or assume that while it can return an error, it will never a return a count less than required. The solution is to fix or stop using their junk, not to use band-aids which are neither reliable nor very effective.
Also, if the cable/connections are bad/noisy, you will have to lower the baud rate, otherwise the data will turn into binary junk, and some serial-adapters may lock hard and have to be reset.
The baud rate should also be lowered if one of the devices is not able to cope with its nominal baud rate, and doesn't support any kind of hardware or software flow control (xon/xoff).


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My personal blog is so much easier. I just throw up a picture of my 2 year old and the hits skyrocket! Not that I'm actually all that interested in being read… but in case someone is reading, and would like to be less bored… here's your chance to tell me!
Of course, a few days AFTER I post my pictures of who I think could play the characters in my book, inspiration strikes!
looks far more like the Kamarie I've always pictured than Bonnie Wright.
For one thing, she wouldn't have to dye her hair. And for another, even after being in Pirates, she's still kind of a no-name, she hasn't been in much at all. And, she's got a pretty cool Spanish accent.
Now, she's about 5 years older than Skandar Keynes… but I think she looks younger than she is, and it wouldn't be hard to make Skandar look a little older.
What do y'all think? Bonnie or Astrid?
Dylanna was harder, because I wanted someone who has a semi-ageless look, but who could conceivably be around King Arnaud's age as well. I really liked Elisabeth Shue in "Dreamer" and the role of Zara is somewhat similar to the role she plays in that movie.
The four wizardesses were hard, because I want them to look as though they could be sisters, and yet they have to be fairly different as well. I've only seen Kate Magowan in "Stardust," where she plays a fairly minor role, but she definitely has the right look.
Ok, honestly, this is mostly because I really like Stana Katic. However, I think she has the right look for Leila, and she could easily be related to the other wizardesses.
She's always been hard for me to picture in any actress, but after seeing Pirates of the Caribbean 4, I realized that Astrid Berges-Frisbey looks almost exactly the way I've always pictured Kamarie!
I'm still not sure about this one, but I love Skandar Keynes He has experience in a fantasy-esque role, and he has the right look.
I've looked at a few different options for Yole, but I think Freddie Highmore works the best. He looks younger than Kamarie and Oraeyn, but still old enough that you could believe he could fend for himself on the streets (and possibly end up being a lost dragon).
Much more of a secondary character, but as King Seamas' closest adviser and friend, I needed someone with presence, and with the "look" of the Dark Country. And besides, what's a good fantasy movie without Karl Urban in it?
As soon as he was mentioned I realized he was perfect. I had thought about James Marsters as well, but I like Paul Bettany better for the role… as I know he can do serious as well as silly.
This one took me a while, but inspiration hit the other night and I realized that Steve Bacic is the perfect Seamas. You can almost believe that he could have been a good guy had circumstances been different… in fact, you probably want him to be a good guy… which makes his journey to the "dark side" all the more tragic. And even better, you can believe he is related to the actor I've picked for Brant.


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E-commerce store on Drupal that was rebuilt on WordPress.
They forgot to turn off "disallow search engines" on new site after migration.
Turned it on again and traffic went back up.
Bought a thin content AdSense site, made some quick SEO and ad placement changes.
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It got penalized and now makes just a few dollars a month.
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Geologists reveal ancient connection between England and France
by University of Plymouth
This graphic shows how the ancient land masses of Laurentia, Avalonia and Armorica would have collided to create the countries of England, Scotland and Wales. Credit: University of Plymouth
The British mainland was formed from the collision of not two, but three ancient continental land masses, according to new research.
Scientists have for centuries believed that England, Wales and Scotland were created by the merger of Avalonia and Laurentia more than 400 million years ago.
However, geologists based at the University of Plymouth now believe that a third land mass—Armorica—was also involved in the process.
The findings are published in Nature Communications and follow an extensive study of mineral properties at exposed rock features across Devon and Cornwall.
They reveal a clear boundary running across the two counties, with areas north of it sharing their geological roots with the rest of England and Wales but everything south being geologically linked to France and mainland Europe.
Among other things, scientists believe the research explains the abundance of tin and tungsten in the far South West of England—metals also found in Brittany and other areas of mainland Europe, but not so evident in the rest of the UK.
The research's lead author, Lecturer in Igneous Petrology Dr. Arjan Dijkstra, said: "This is a completely new way of thinking about how Britain was formed. It has always been presumed that the border of Avalonia and Armorica was beneath what would seem to be the natural boundary of the English Channel. But our findings suggest that although there is no physical line on the surface, there is a clear geological boundary which separates Cornwall and south Devon from the rest of the UK."
This animation explains new research from the University of Plymouth into how three ancient land masses collided to form the British Isles. Credit: University of Plymouth
For the research, Dr. Dijkstra and Masters student Callum Hatch (now working at the Natural History Museum) visited 22 sites in Devon and Cornwall that were left exposed following geological events, such as underground volcanic eruptions. These took place around 300 million years ago and brought magma from depths of 100 km to the Earth's surface.
They took rock samples from each site, subjecting them to detailed chemical analysis in the lab using X-ray fluorescence (XRF) spectrometry.
The samples were also then dissolved in acid in order to conduct a more intensive isotopic analysis, with scientists examining the levels of two elements—strontium and neodymium—to understand the full history of the rocks.
Dr Arjan Dijkstra subjected samples to detailed chemical analysis using X-ray fluorescence (XRF) spectrometry, and by dissolving them in acid conduct a more intensive isotopic analysis. Credit: University of Plymouth
These findings were then compared with previous studies elsewhere in the UK and mainland Europe, with the results showing the clear boundary running from the Exe estuary in the East to Camelford in the west.
"We always knew that around 10,000 years ago you would have been able to walk from England to France," Dr. Dijkstra added. "But our findings show that millions of years before that, the bonds between the two countries would have been even stronger. It explains the immense mineral wealth of South West England, which had previously been something of a mystery, and provides a fascinating new insight into the geological history of the UK."
Who do you think you really are? The first fine-scale genetic map of the British Isles
More information: Arjan H. Dijkstra et al, Mapping a hidden terrane boundary in the mantle lithosphere with lamprophyres, Nature Communications (2018). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-06253-7
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Citation: Geologists reveal ancient connection between England and France (2018, September 14) retrieved 16 July 2019 from https://phys.org/news/2018-09-geologists-reveal-ancient-england-france.html
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katesisco
That explains Camelot.
thetentman
"That explains Camelot." Tis a silly place.
Anonym642864
During the formation of North Atlantic ocean at 40 crores years ago England scotland and Ireland separated from present France.
rrwillsj
As separated as conjoined twins.
"Back and Forth It Goes! And where it stops? Nobody knows!"
TheGhostofOtto1923
Legends of Armorica gave rise to the establishment of America, the ancient lost continent born anew.
Long live Armorica! Home of Atlantis GA
Oh man, otto! You are going to give heart palpitations to the Santorini Board of Tourism and Thera Chamber of Commerce.
However, you exposing yourself as a theosophist certainly explains a lot of the babbling nonsense you post.
Osiris1
MAGA must be from Amorica.......amoral moron?


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Q: Помогите с алгоритмом - нужно собрать пазл Имеется пазл 5 * 5, составленный из квадратов. Каждая сторона квадрата - число. Сторона, которая является краем имеет значение 0. Данные представлены в виде листа:
[[0,[10, 18, 2, 0]], [1,[1, 15, 11, 6]] ... [2,[5, 0, 11, 6]], [3,[11, 13, 0, 9]]]

Предполагаю, что должна быть рекурсия. Может начать с угла и строить дальше по двум сторонам методом случайного подбора, пока не получится? Но решение выглядит громоздким.
Примерно такой пазл должен получиться (прошу прощения за каракули):


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"Once again we find the Patrick Administration making costly decisions with their hearts and not their heads. In this instance, they have taken the turn down the road of legalized extortion.
The staggering cost of electricity in Massachusetts already suppresses economic growth. Strong-arming NSTAR to purchase Cape Wind as a condition of the company's merger with Northeast Utilities will ultimately increase electricity costs and hurt Massachusetts' ratepayers, businesses, and municipalities. We must put an end to closed door negotiations and sweetheart deals that have a significant impact on the wallets of the residents of the Bay State.
The Legislature continues to ignore a Republican-led proposal to bring transparency to long-term renewable energy contracts with public utilities. House Bill 3767, which has yet to receive a hearing and languishes in the Joint Committee on Telecommunications and Energy, not only requires competitive solicitation of long-term contracts, but would ensure that the Department of Public Utilities only approves contracts that are cost-effective for the Commonwealth's ratepayers.


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A distance education librarian or distance learning librarian is a specialized academic librarian whose primary duties involve serving the information needs of distance education students, faculty, and staff. This position typically involves coordinating the duties of many librarians and library staff to ensure adequate access to library resources for those who enroll in and teach distance education courses.

History

Recognizing that distance education offerings were growing in post-secondary educational institutions, the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) published "Guidelines for Distance Learning Libraries in 2000". These guidelines asserted that, "members of the distance learning community are entitled to library resources equivalent to those provided for students and faculty in traditional campus settings". July 1, 2008, the ACRL Board of Directors approved the "Standards for Distance Learning Library Services".

The Standards are divided into two parts. Part I, Foundations, provides an executive summary of the Access Entitlement Principle, outlines the parameters by which the Standards will serve as a living document, offers definitions of terms associated with both distance education and academic librarianship, and formalizes the Standards' philosophy as "A Bill of Rights for the Distance Learning Community". Part II, Specific Requirements, dictates the fiscal responsibilities, personnel, library education, management, facilities and equipment, resources, services, and documentation necessary for each institution to provide equivalent services to distance education students and faculty.

Traditionally, academic librarians provide reference services to students, faculty, and staff; support curriculum and instruction through collection building and management of information resources; and provide bibliographic support and instruction to increase information literacy among patrons. Most institutions were already providing support to distance education students, faculty, and staff. The ACRL's "Standards for Distance Learning Library Services" made it necessary to formalize the function, roles, and duties of academic librarians who support distance education students and led to the creation of the job title distance education librarian.

Roles and duties
Distance education (DE) librarians work to ensure that distance education students and faculty have the same access as on-campus students to essential services including: reference assistance, library materials, bibliographic instruction, interlibrary loan and document delivery, and access to reserve materials. There are duties specific to DE Librarians as well. Distance education (DE) librarians serve as primary contacts at the library for distance education students and faculty. DE librarians may provide technical support or reference service over the phone, using instant messaging, replying to emails and reference service request forms, or through videoconferencing
. DE librarians also design, maintain, and assess library DE web-pages and user interfaces. DE websites generally provide general information to DE students such as how to obtain a library card, and hours of operation for reference services. DE librarians also create specialized online tutorials covering topics such as information literacy education and using of remotely accessible library databases. DE librarians also assist faculty with designing course-specific web-pages and provide copyright advisement.

The ACRL acknowledges that distance education library service delivery methods will vary from institution to institution, but should be developed using the same professional standards and guidelines used by other academic libraries.

References

External links
"Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education". Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL), American Library Association, 2000.
"Guidelines for Behavioral Performance of Reference and Information Service Providers". Reference and User Services Association (RUSA), American Library Association, 2004.
"Guidelines for Implementing and Maintaining Virtual Reference Services". Reference and User Services Association (RUSA), American Library Association, 2004.
 "Professional Competencies for Reference and User Services Librarians". Reference and User Services Association (RUSA), American Library Association, 2003.

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What started as a joke turned into a fundraiser to honor his late father
TMSG: Man uses Facebook joke to help others
"If I get a thousand likes and a thousand comments, I'll put peanut butter on my head," Cody Wilburn said.
Wilburn says it start out as a joke, but his Peanut Butter Challenge had purpose and meaning.
"I lost my father in 2017 to Glioblastoma brain cancer," he said.
It was Wilburn's way of honoring his father Coy, a peanut farmer in Western Oklahoma. They were exceptionally close — only 16 years apart.
Wilburn says he'll always remember what his father taught him.
"Hard work, perseverance. [It] doesn't matter if it's cold outside or if it's hot outside. There's still work to be done," he said.
So, he did just that, working to tell the world about the cancer that took his father. Bringing awareness by doing strange feats of strength like lunging to the top of Oklahoma's Mount Scott live on Facebook as 70,000 people, including his father, watched.
But it's his Peanut Butter Challenge that he's most proud of. Wilburn asked friends and family to donate the price of one jar of peanut better. All the money went to the National Brain Tumor Society.
"And if everyone donated $5.44, then we could make a difference in 2020," he said.
Donate they did! The challenge was on with Wilburn's wife and four-year-old daughter heaping on four pounds of the creamy concoction.
"It felt really like something that shouldn't be there," Wilburn said. "It was really thick and really heavy. It was humid that day. So, the peanut butter was essentially melting off my head."
In true Wilburn fashion, they styled a little humor into the video.
"We were hoping to do a few hairstyles, but it was melting at a fast rate. So, we actually only got one, but it turned out," he said.
Wilburn says not even a power washer could remove this tribute to his father and his peanut farmer roots.
"My hair was still oily for a couple of days," he said.
Now that Coy is gone, Wilburn is dedicating his life to helping find a cure. And by altering the old Oklahoma saying "Cowboy Up" into "Coy Up" in honor of his father. He's hoping to help find a cure for Glioblastoma.
"It's got less than a 3% survival rate, there's no cure for it, and in the medical community it's known as the medical terminator," Wilburn said.
Wilburn also lunged the Golden Gate Bridge to bring even more awareness. It too him five hours and one minute to go across and back. But this time, his father was watching from above.
If you know someone making a difference in the community, then send an email to mike.brooks@kjrh.com.


Coming into a massive game at home against then seventh-ranked Concordia, the Gees needed a statement win to prove they deserve a place among the nation's elite.
The stat sheet was packed for the Garnet and Grey after they peppered the struggling Sherbrooke from the opening whistle. The Vert et Or came into the match with a 1-0 record after a win over the Bishop's Gaiters, a team that hasn't won a game since October 2009.
Multiple current and former U of O athletes scorned the idea of having a relaxing summer, instead choosing to take an opportunity to represent Canada on the world's stage.
Having ended their first appearance at nationals just shy of a medal is a victory in itself for the steadily improving Gees team, and surely next year's season will be one to watch.
The fifth-ranked Gee-Gees won their way to the Réseau du sport étudiant du Québec (RSEQ) finals Oct. 23, where they faced the eighth-ranked Concordia University Stingers.
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Thank you very much for giving me this opportunity to address this august gathering of the representatives of the people of Mozambique.
I bring you greetings from your brothers and sisters in South Africa. In a real sense, we can say without any fear of contradiction that we are, in many ways, one people. Long before the colonial borders were arbitrarily imposed on us, we shared common history, traditions, cultures and languages.
As we know, the first recorded contact between whites and blacks in southern Africa happened on the 11th January 1498 when Vasco da Gama anchored his ships up the coast off a small river identified as Inharrime, south of Cape Corrientes.
This was after Vasco da Gama and his crew had attempted to sail further north and their ships battled against the strong Agulhas current until they found themselves, on Christmas Day, at the point at which they had passed before. They named the green, hilly shoreline, Natal. With further attempts they anchored at Inharrime and found such friendly people that they named the place Terra da Boa Gente, the Land of Good People.
Today we are happy to be amongst boa gente. In fact, we will all agree that there are very few Africans, across the entire continent, who are themselves not boa gente.
I am recalling this story of the boa gente, to indicate that these good people of Africa, who comprise many nations, speak many related languages, displayed to the strangers who appeared at their shores the spirit of ubuntu, which is the spirit of kindness, selflessness, solidarity, service to the people and innate humanism.
This ubuntu was again demonstrated when in 1647, the Haerlem, the ship that belonged to the Dutch East Indian Company, was forced ashore by some sudden gale force winds near Table Bay.
Having been treated with the same kindness displayed by the people of Inharrime towards Vasco da Gama almost two centuries earlier, the sailors of Haerlem, whose stay was the longest in the Cape, upon their return to Holland, presented a memorandum suggesting that the company should establish a permanent settlement in the Cape.
The historian Noel Mostert, in his book the Frontiers says that the sailors of Haerlem advised their superiors that when establishing the settlement, the settlers should reciprocate the ubuntu of the Khoi and the San with kindness.
However, the commander appointed by the Dutch East India Company to establish the settlement, Jan van Riebeeck, disagreed with the advice given to the company.
Jan van Riebeeck expressed an opinion that was to inform the attitude of many of the settlers towards the black people.
Van Riebeeck held a racist view that the Khoi and the San people, who populated the southern tip of the Cape, "were not to be trusted, (they) being a brutal gang, living without any conscience".(Frontiers, p 106).
The Portuguese, the Dutch, the French, the Belgian and the British settlers who colonized most of our countries on the continent, shared van Riebeeck prejudice of black people, and proceeded from a gross and intemperate collective judgment that led to centuries of racial oppression, repression and abuse that is amongst the worst in the history of our world.
The San and the Khoi people were subjected to such systematic and horrendous brutality that they were almost exterminated.
The people of Mozambique and South Africa, together with our brothers and sisters in the rest of the continent have been victims of many brutalities, including a slave trade that uprooted millions of our people and dumped them into foreign lands. In that process, millions more perished before they could arrive at their forced destination.
" Demographers have estimated that by the end of the 15th century, about 47 million people were living in Africa. The population was growing very slowly but should have reached 100 million by 1850. In fact, it was half that – about 50 million. What happened? The other 50 million were lost to foreign exploitation.
There is no doubt that the effects of this far-reaching annihilation of half of the African population are still being felt even today.
Even when slavery was abolished, our continent became the treasure trove of the European countries that divided the continent amongst themselves and treated our countries as their foreign provinces.
Accordingly, as we are gathered here today, we are bonded not just by the fact that we share the same landmass, have identical traditions, cultures and languages, important as these are; but we are also unified by a painful experience that has robbed us of our ability to nurture our talents and exploit to the fullest our technological advances that propelled the ancient Kingdoms of Mapungubwe in the northern part of South Africa, Mwene Mutapa corrupted by the Europeans to Monomotapa, the Great Zimbabwe and countless others.
Yet, despite the brutal and brutish interruption by the settlers, the fact that today we meet at this Assembly of an independent and free Republic of Mozambique, chosen by the people of this country, means that we are ready and prepared to reclaim for ourselves and the generations to come, Terra da Boa Gente – the Land of Good People.
This is possible in large measure, because the people of Mozambique and other African patriots have long arrived at a common determination that, Mozambique and the rest of the continent cannot enjoy freedom while their brothers and sisters live under the joke of apartheid. Hence, the enormous sacrifices made by the heroic people of this country to ensure that we, in South Africa, also become free.
Once more, on behalf of the South African people, I would like to pass our sincere gratitude to the people of Mozambique for having stood shoulder to shoulder with us until we attained our freedom.
Again, precisely because of this common determination that our destinies are bound together, since we attained our freedom, South Africa and Mozambique have entered into numerous agreements to promote the economic development of our peoples.
These agreements are the foundation for joint action so that together we work for the reconstruction and development of our countries and give our people the opportunity and possibility to embark on individual and collective advancement and development.
Our close bilateral relations are characterized by on-going interactions at the Presidential, Ministerial, Parliamentary and official levels. The Joint Permanent Commission for Co-operation (JPCC), which was established in 1994, held its second successful meeting last year December in Pretoria and there are more than 20 Bilateral Agreements that have either been entered into or are currently been negotiated.
Some of these agreements cover such important areas as Fisheries, Agricultural Development, Maputo Harbour, Natural Gas Trade, Demining, the Maputo Development Corridor and Joint Water Commission.
I know that the cry of a sick child in South Africa touches the hearts of the people of Mozambique just as the hunger pangs of a Mozambiquan child affect the people of South Africa.
We therefore face a common challenge of ensuring that we attain, as speedily as possible and within the constrains of our resources, the development and prosperity not only of our two countries but also of many of our sister countries on the continent.
With regard to our bilateral relations, our joint efforts to attract investment to Mozambique has seen South Africa becoming the largest foreign investor in this country, with R25 billion invested by the South African businesses and parastatals.
We are proud that through the leadership of President Chissano and his government, we have managed to attract mega projects like Mozal and Sasol as well as about 220 large, medium and small enterprises.
The Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA) and the Industrial Development Corporation, (IDC), have made the largest investments on the continent here in Mozambique.
We are happy that South Africa's leading black businessmen and women have engaged their counterparts in Mozambique through the Black Economic Empowerment Circle.
Indeed, we have to ensure that as we revive and develop our economies, bringing them into the age of information and communication technology, we also build strong and viable indigenous businessmen and women, who will inspire our people and demonstrate that as Africans, we are capable of meeting each and every challenge posed by the demands of the modern world.
We are proud that our close working relations have made it possible to complete a major project such as the Maputo Corridor. Through the Maputo Corridor, we have learned valuable lessons that will help us as we continue with our common task of development of our countries and in our assessment of the implementation of the Bilateral Agreement on Road Transport for Goods and Passengers.
Further, as part of our efforts to manage more efficiently and effectively the transport of goods and people between our countries, the Caminhos de Ferro de Mozambique (CFM), is about to enter into an agreement with their South African counterpart, Spoornet, to co-manage the railway line between Witbank in South Africa and Resano Garcia here in Mozambique.
One of the critical areas of our co-operation is in the energy sector. We will continue our engagements on the best possible options for the full utilization of Cahora Bassa and hopefully ensure that we arrive at an agreement that benefits mainly the people of Mozambique.
Tomorrow we will, with President Chissano, launch the Sasol Gas pipeline in Temane. This is a very important development for both our countries, as this pipeline, which will be more than 900 kilometers long, will create much-needed jobs in Mozambique and supply markets in South Africa.
We should also move with the necessary speed to conclude the agreement on some of the important Tourism Corridors, especially the Transfrontier Parks of Gaza/Kruger/Gonarezhou which will create one of the largest game parks in the world.
Undoubtedly, the economic benefits to Mozambique, Zimbabwe and South Africa, out of the envisaged unified park, are enormous.
Honourable Members, I think we will all agree that it is fitting to use the hallowed halls of this Assembly to thank the men and women in the police services of our two countries, for the sterling work they have and continue to do, to search, confiscate and destroy illegal weapons.
Through Operation Rachel, our joint police services have since 1995, destroyed more than 1000 tons of small arms as well as landmines and other unexploded devices.
More effort and assistance from our governments, the business people, our people and communities will ensure that together we defeat these crime syndicates that engage in illicit arms smuggling, money laundering and motor vehicle theft and in the process killing and injuring many innocent and law-abiding citizens. Some of our brave policemen and women have also fallen victim to the cowardly acts of these criminals.
As part of this war against crime, we should increase the capacity at our border posts and ensure that corrupt officials who take bribes so that criminals can have a safe passage through our borders, are identified and dealt with accordingly.
Our two countries have established an important precedent in the process of ensuring that erstwhile antagonists are able to negotiate a settlement that put the interests of ordinary people first.
I am sure that we will agree that this path that we have chosen, is a correct one and should never be forsaken. As we rebuilt our countries and forever seeking the best possible ways of bringing about an enduring stability and peace, we will occasionally encounter problems that may momentarily upset our balance in our march to a better and prosperous future.
In such circumstances, as the descendents of the ancestors whose innate humanism earned our shores the Land of Good People, we should not lose our focus and our collective vision of ensuring that our people are given the opportunity to live in peace, stability and harmony.
Further, although our democracies are still young, given our divided and violent past, we have managed to overcome what some considered insurmountable obstacles.
We therefore have a heavy responsibility to ensure that our democratic processes are not derailed, that the normal political contestations do not loom larger than our common quest for a strong democracy, lasting peace, durable process of development and an enduring stability.
It is in this context that President Chissano is amongst the leading lights on our continent to ensure that through the programme that we, Africans, have produced, we radically change our continent from a place characterized by conflicts, poverty and underdevelopment, to a home of stability, prosperity and development.
Through the New Partnership for Africa's Development (Nepad), we are charting a new path for the regeneration of our continent and ensure that we harness our skills, expertise, talents, resources and natural riches to bring a better life to all Africans.
As you are aware, in July we will launch the African Union (AU), which will replace the Organisation of the African Unity (OAU). The African Union has been structured in a manner that will be better suited for the challenges that we face, of bringing about peace and stability on the continent, ensuring a culture of human rights and giving the necessary impetus to the development programmes of Nepad.
We therefore need the active participation and solid support of this important Assembly on both the Nepad process and the work within the African Union, so that the leadership represented here is able to give all of us the required advice and guidance.
As part of this work, you may also be aware that we are engaged in important processes of assisting and supporting efforts towards stability and peace in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Burundi as well as giving support to reconciliation programmes of the people of Zimbabwe.
In all these and many other challenges, we will not succeed if we don't have the solid backing of this leadership as well as the entire mass of the people of Mozambique.
I am however confident that when we engage in these important efforts, of bringing about peace, stability, democracy and development to our continent, we will do so with the knowledge that we have unqualified support from the Assembly of the Republic of Mozambique and the good people of this land.
Statement of the Thabo Mbeki Foundation on the passing of away of Comrade Mendi Msimang.


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Immersed in Blu-ray: Into the Woods
In a musical mood? Check out Into the Woods, which arrived on Blu-ray this week (Disney Home Ent.), looking and sounding spectacular.
It took decades to bring Stephen Sondheim's beloved Into the Woods to the screen, and director Rob Marshall said he found the perfect post-9/11 metaphor: loss and comfort. He also struck the right balance between theatricality and naturalism for the subversive fairy tale deconstruction, combining pre-recording and live recording for the music. The key was choreographing this rite of passage as a big dance for Streep, Emily Blunt, James Corden, Anna Kendrick, Chris Pine, Johnny Depp, and company.
The first design inspiration for the ancient, majestic Woods was Angel Oaks in Georgia, which production designer Dennis Gassner found on Google. He showed Marshall Angel Oaks to get an idea of scale, size, and uniqueness. "We could never go there for obvious reasons but had to go on the search for what are basically the Woods and all the connecting tissue and the beginning of the story of the village and all of the characters," recalls Gassner (Spectre).
"We wanted to bring an earthy foundation and the Woods existed as a crumbling, ancient but timeless place," adds cinematographer Dion Beebe. "So we spent a lot of time finding the palette of that. and we plotted the Woods in three acts: The first act is a daytime Woods that looks mysterious but not foreboding in keeping with the aspirations of the characters; in the second act, we enter the Woods at night and there's more of a sense of foreboding as the characters attain their 'happily ever after'; then everything comes undone in the third act when the characters lose the path and the Woods become devastating and dark."
Of course, the costumes by Colleen Atwood were part of this fabric but with special requirements. Streep wanted a Blue Fairy vibe for her Witch's glam transformation (remember she voiced the Blue Fairy in AI), and Depp wanted to re-enact Tex Avery's iconic Big Bad Wolf with Zoot suit.
Some of the darker aspects, though, were toned down or removed, such as the death of Rapunzel (MacKenzie Mauzy), at Disney's behest. So Sondheim wrote a new song for Streep's Witch after Rapunzel runs away: "She'll Be Back." However, the song was eventually cut because it slowed the pace and raised too many questions.
But "She'll Be Back" is back as the highlight bonus feature.
Below are clips from a recent Sondheim tribute at 42West in New York City:
Posted on March 28, 2015 by Bill Desowitz	in Below the Line, Blu-ray, Cinematography, Clips, Costume, Home Entertainment, Movies, Music, Production Design, Sound, Tech, VFX, Virtual Production


I want to thank you for placing the easybackgroundcheck on-line.
I was suppose to call Posh Entertainment up to get my daughter's pictures taken this weekend and I was to pay $650 up-front fees for them. The cost included headshots, pictures, negatives, hair and makeup.
I was excited, but my daughter was feeling even better because this is her dream to one day be part of the entertainment world starting in print ads.
I logged one once again to look over Posh's ad on-line and saw the complaints. You can imagine how horrible I felt, yet I felt relieved knowing I was not going to allow them to take my money. I did not call Posh back, did not give them the credit card and did not do any more business with them.
If your info had not been posted I would have been another victim and other person taken for granted.
We have been [. . .]ed and we are trying to get our money back. Our son is [. . .] years old [very young] and we were approached by the "talent" scout at a playground.
We paid $450 to Posh Entertainment Group of Beverly Hills for a photo shoot just to find out that they wanted $680 more to make photo cards.
We don't have a contract or agreement. In fact most of the agreement was done over the phone. The only time I was actually in the office is to show my son to the "talent director," Duane (he doesn't have his last name on his business card).
He sent us to some photographer called Ming in downtown Los Angeles. There was also a "hair/makeup artist," but she couldn't do much for a [. . .]-year-old. The pictures he took were less than Sears quality. The lighting was very bad.
Duane took our credit card information over the phone right before the photo shoot. He made us believe before the photo shoot that $450 was our only expense and it will pay for itself once we get our first job.
A week later he called and told us that the pictures turned out great, but he needed $680 more to make the comp cards. That's when we knew we were taken.
I did a little research after that and I found out that toddlers up to 3 don't even have to have professional photos done because their look changes every 3 months.
They have an open house every Saturday to sucker more naive parents and I feel like I have to do something about it. It's not just the money! I thought that maybe you have something on them. After all, I found you on Google search by typing Posh Entertainment Group scam to find somebody with similar experience.
My friend recently met with an agency I believe is called Posh Modeling Agency based in Beverly Hills. Is this the same agency as Posh Entertainment Group? I'm concerned because I believe this agency is also pulling a [. . .] on her.
Please e-mail as soon as possible.
My name is [ . . .] [. . .] and I did not do a background check on a company called Posh Entertainment. They charged me five hundred dollars for pictures even though I already had pictures (but they said they weren't good enough).
I met with the photographer and he only charged me three hundred which included make-up. I was then charged for my zed cards, a book, and my pictures blown up.
In the end in one full year they sent me on one audition for girls [like her]. I was never called back again. That was my experience.
Do you know who owns Posh Entertainment? And their background? Do you know where Dana Dvorak used to work?
Dana used to work for John Robert Powers in Beverly Hills as a modeling teacher.
I saw you have already a complaint in, but I just wanted to also confirm, that Posh Entertainment Group called me and told me someone referred me and they do not stand as an agency; they just want to sell people pictures or whatever. People should be aware of this business practice and stay away from Posh and Dana.
My sister was recently approached at an open casting call for Pro Scouts. A lady told her, my nephews, and my daugther, that if they weren't picked by at this casting call to give her agency a call. The lady's name was Tracy and she took my sister's number.
Well, my daugther wasn't picked and the lady called my sister back the following day. So we were thinking about traveling back out to Beverly Hills for an interview.
Thankfully I saw your web site first. How dare these people hurt little children in this way. My poor daughter is now going to feel horrible.
I was suckered, and now I'm mad!
I was recommended to Posh by my cousin, who was sought out by Posh in a mall. Seeing as how I work in the film & tv biz, you would think I would have been smarter that this, but here is what happened (it's pretty straightforward).
We went in for an initial meeting with LaJoy. LaJoy interviewed us and our then [...]-month-old. She showed us pictures of other children on their roster and told us how one kid just made "$160,000" from an Old Navy job. Talk about dangling the carrot.
We got a call a few days later and were told that they don't take everyone, but they would love to work with our daughter, but she has to get photos done. We asked how much it would all be and they said only "$550."
My partner and I decided that that was a lot of money, but we looked at it as an investment in this new adventure. We have one income now, and since my partner is home with the baby, we knew she could be around to take her to auditions.
Fast foward to after the photo shoot . . . We get a call to come in to go over the photos.
I asked LaJoy if the $550 included the cost of prints as well.
She avoided giving me a straight answer and said, "Oh, we'll talk about that when you get here."
Basically, we ended spending up another $1,100! We just got swept up in the moment. We were led to believe that we needed these professional photos and portfolio books in order to get work.
I even asked what happens when the baby changes--which is what infants do--and was told that we wouldn't need to get new photos for at least a year. She looks totally different NOW, and it's only three months later.
We soon had another meeting with Dana and found out that Posh was not the agency, but Go Models & Talent was.
I asked Dana if this was a real "agency": "Are you an agent?"
Lies. We felt completely misled. In the interim I have spoken to several other agencies and managers. Not ONE of them ever asked for professional pictures. They were all appalled when they found out what we had done, and said all you need are new snapshots every three months because the babies change so much so often.
We now have representation with another company, a licensed agency.
I was told by a friend that one could dispute a credit card transaction for up to a year of the transaction date. We paid Posh back in [. . .] of 200[.].
I am so mad that I was led to believe we needed to get these photos done for my daughter. I am also so mad at myself, but I am willing to fight to get this money back.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated on this matter.
Posh Models is a total [. . .]! They give out cards in the mall, telling people that they are an agency. How freakin' original!
The girl that works there, Lajoy, has scammed sooooo many people.
They claim they are not an agency when you confront them; they say they are "model management" . . . that is sooooo old. They say they have a "booking department" that books jobs. They ARE an agency!
These companies think by saying they are a model management company, they can "skirt around" the laws governing talent agencies. I heard that the DA's office was going to nail them. Also, these companies, when quoting prices, never inform consumers of how much the Zed Cards will cost. That's basically Fraud.
How do I file a complaint with the DA? They took me for close $1,000.00 but worse was the heartbreak of my daughter. They called us asking for my daughter to come in for an interview. When I asked how they got her name and phone number they said that John Robert Powers referred her. When we got there the agent Chayanne [Cheyenne Crites] went on and on about how much my daughter would earn. Not could but would earn. They said she needed head shots and it would cost $550.00.
Since they went on and on how she would earn a minimum of $700 per shoot we went ahead with the head shots. Expecting to be sent to a professional studio we were sent to the photographer's apartment! All the photographer provided were negatives and we had to go and pay for the prints. Once we took the prints back we had to pay for her book and cards. Another $500.00.
After 3 months of continual calling on my part we got the book. What a joke. It is a pleather covered cardboard with plastic sleeves not worth $500. They then referred us to Go Talent. When we met her new agent Mary Jo she just didn't seen real interested in my daughter. Actually my daughter said she was afraid of her. We haven't heard from them to date. I am glad you are doing something to stop these [. . .] ers. I don't care about the money but the way they have hurt my daughter is unforgivable.
My friend and I got stopped in the mall by what we believed was a talent agent who saw our two girls.
A few days later, before our appointment, my friend's husband looked at the grade F from the Better Business Bureau and read some of the comments and became concerned.
I called them and the woman who answered admitted to just having a meeting concerning the Better Business Bureau's grade and offered for me to write down my questions and then call back.
I did that and called back and I spoke to another woman who wanted to know who I had the appointment with.
I told her I wasn't that good with names and forgot (since I had spoken to several different people).
She treated me like I was stupid because I didn't know who I had an appointment with. This treatment made me wonder if she was trying to get me on the defensive so that I'd be less inclined to question her business practices.
I asked her about the Better Business Bureau and she said that she is going to file a suit against them. That they just want $3,000.00 for them to join organizations to improve their reputation and she's not willing to do that.
I questioned this suit because the Better Business Bureau has a disclaimer stating that what they say may not in fact be an accurate representation of the company in question.
She said she was glad to hear that. She didn't know this and she's ready to sue them. I'm questioning who's stupid here.
"Can I ask you some questions?" I inquired.
"I don't have 20 minutes!" she snapped.
"Do you have five minutes?" I aksed, since a person in her office suggested I do this.
"I don't have the time," she answered.
This defensive attitude and treatment when I'd be a fool to not question her business after all I've read, makes me feel more certain that they have something to hide.
Another thing that did not sit well with me is the person I believed was a talent agent had originally said, "We do small things like JC Penney's and The Gap--nothing big, just for fun."
Then when another woman called to set an appointment, she mentioned television commercials, etc.
I got the feeling that they may work this way to pull parents into in slowly, string you along.
Can you explain why the Better Business Bureau says that you failed to respond to complaints and are not in compliance with law's licensing or registration requirements?
If we were interested in commercials and such, what is your success rate? Do you have any major clients?
On a website, a customer claimed to only receive a list of agencies and you recommended they send the photos to these agencies. Is this true?
I've heard that children don't need professional pictures for modeling until they are 5--is this true?
Just glad we looked into this, we wouldn't have been inclined to give $$ for photos and such, but this was a waste of our time.
The BBB says Posh owns Go Talent! "In one case, the company said that the customer was referred a licensed talent agent, Go Models. Go Models is another unlicensed agency owned by Dana Dvorak, the owner of this business." Looks like a referral scheme. Is that a racket??!! It could certainly explain why Go Models and Talent was not interested in your daughter; they already got your money and they can't book jobs, because they don't have a license. There's no more money to make from you, so they've lost interest?!


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var _ = require('underscore');
var argv = require('minimist')(process.argv.slice(2));

module.exports= _.extend(argv, {
    hostname:argv.procore ? 'ude' : 'localhost',
    port: argv.procore ? '5051' : '8080'
});


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Q: Loops and arrays in Java Here are the directions:
Implement the following method so that it prints all even-valued elements from the even-indexed rows of arr, and all odd-valued elements from the odd-indexed rows of arr.
Elements of the same row should appear on the same line, separated by a space. Elements of different rows should appear on different lines.
Example:
int[][] arr = {{1, 2, 3},
               {1, 2, 3}
               {4, 5, 6}};

printOddEvens(arr);

Should print:
2

1 3

4 6

This is what I have, way off, but in the right direction:
(I know the prints are wrong.)
public static void main(String[] args) {
    int arr[][] = {{1,2,3},{1,2,3},{4,5,6}};

    for (int i = 0; i < arr.length; i++) {
        for (int j = 0; j < arr[i].length; j++) {
            if (i % 2 == 0) {
                System.out.println(arr[i][j]);
            }
            if (!i % 2 == 0) {
                System.out.println(arr[i][j]);
            }
        }
    }
}

A: According to the code you posted, you already know how to loop over an array. Now investigate the array over which you are looping, and see what elements it contains. For example an
int[] array = new int[]{1,2,3}

obviously contains int's. So when I call array[0] I ask the array for its first element, and get an int.
Now investigate your array, see what elements it contains and what might be the problem with the line
int num = arr[i].charAt(i);

A: Other answers here are already addressing the sub-array question, so I'll leave that one be for now. Instead, I'll try to offer some advice on the even/odd checks.
Sometimes it helps to rephrase a question a bit. In this case, I think it'll be helpful if you think not in terms of "print even numbers if the outer loop's index is even, or print odd numbers if it's an odd," but rather, "print if the evenness of the inner number is the same as the evenness of the outer loop's index."
The reason this could be helpful is that it reduces nesting of ifs, which can be confusing to step through mentally. So, where you would have:
if outer is even
    if inner is even
        print
else // outer is odd
    if inner is odd
        print

You would instead have the simpler:
if outer-evenness equals inner-evenness
    print

You can see that this has 1/3rd as many ifs, and no nesting. Hopefully that will help you concentrate on the other aspects of the problem.

A: Given this is homework, you really need to work this out for yourself, however, here's some pointers for the sort of things you should be doing.
First think about the 2-dimensional array, it's basically a grid, which is perhaps clearer if it's written:
int[][] arr = {
  {1, 2, 3},
  {1, 2, 3}
  {4, 5, 6}
};

So you need to write a two loops, one the iterates through the rows and one that iterates through the values on each row.  Unlike most grids, in the case of a 2-dimensional array the coordinates are reversed, so to access the third value on the second row, the number 3, (and remembering Java uses a zero based index) you would need to write:
arr[1][2]

Where 1 refers to the row and 2 to the column.
Given this you should be able to write the loops needed to print out all the values in the array, giving you:
1 2 3
1 2 3
4 5 6

Once you have this the loops are done.
The next bit of the question requires you to determine whether a number is odd or even.  To do this in Java you use the modulo operator % so that i % 2 == 0 implies an even number and i % 2 != 0 implies an odd number.  I'd pop those operations in two methods boolean isEven(int i) and boolean isOdd(int i), then call those methods at the appropriate points within the loops to decide first, whether or not to switch to odd or even number printing mode and second, whether a number is odd or even and should be printed according to that mode.

A: You have to carefully think about the problem at hand. First of all, You have to get access to elements on each sub-array, which is not possible without visiting each of the sub-array. Right? Now, for each sub-array, you have to check its index is even or odd. If it is even you have to print even elements and if it is odd, you have to print odd elements. To access each element and check it, you have to go through the entire sub-array.
I think that now the problem is easily solvable, or at least you got an idea about how much loops you have to use, and what you have to do with each of them. Hope this helps :)

A: For go through each array individually, since is bidimensional you need two loops. For instance:
public static void main(String[] args) {
    int[][] a = {{1,2,3}, {2,5}};

    for (int i = 0; i < a.length; i++){
        for (int j = 0; j < a[i].length; j++){
            System.out.println(a[i][j]);
        }
    }
}

It prints out
1
2
3
2
5

A: Here is the solution:
public class ArrayFilter {

    private static int[][] arr = new int[][] { {1, 2, 3}, {1, 2, 3}, {4, 5, 6}};

    private static void printOddEvens(int[][] matrix) {
        for (int row = 0; row < matrix.length; row++) {
            for (int col = 0; col < matrix[row].length; col++) {
                // rowIndex + value is only even when both are odd or both are even
                // the modulo (%) operator returns the remainder of the division
                if ((row + matrix[row][col]) % 2 == 0) {
                    System.out.print(matrix[row][col] + " ");
                }
            }
            System.out.println();
        }
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        printOddEvens(arr);
    }
}

One less future competitor for my job I guess (-;


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Palmarès

Club

Competizioni nazionali

Emelec: 2001, 2002
El Nacional: 2005 (Clausura)

Standard Liegi: 2007-2008, 2008-2009

Standard Liegi: 2008

Collegamenti esterni

Calciatori della Nazionale ecuadoriana


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Nancy Pelosi Who?
Democrats deny being Democrats.
Updated Oct. 26, 2010 12:01 am ET
Nancy Pelosi said Monday that "we haven't really gotten the credit for what we have done," and the Speaker is right. However, it appears that her party will get that credit on November 2, which is why so many Democrats are now jumping the liberal ship, at least symbolically, to save their seats.
This phenomenon reached new heights over the weekend, with Mississippi Democrat Gene Taylor telling a local newspaper, the Sun-Herald, that he voted for John McCain in 2008. Mr. Taylor had heretofore kept that vote a secret, and perhaps it's only a coincidence that he rolled it out amid the re-election fight of his career. The 11-term Member added that he won't support Mrs. Pelosi for Speaker, another revelation considering his vote for her in 2009. "I'm very disappointed in how she's veered to the left," Mr. Taylor said, as if Mrs. Pelosi's ideological predispositions were ever hidden.
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