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November 30, 20213:10 PM UTCLast Updated ago
Ballet NFTs starring Russian dancer Osipova offered for auction
LONDON, Nov 29 (Reuters) - Auction house Bonhams said on Monday it was selling the world's first non-fungible tokens (NFTs) for ballet, with Russian dancer Natalia Osipova in the starring role.
The NFTs feature three video performances by Osipova, principal dancer at London's Royal Ballet. Two are from the classic "Giselle", while the third is from "Left behind", a contemporary dance she has performed with her partner Jason Kittelberger.
Osipova and her partner wanted to use some of the funds to set up a ballet company, Bonhams head of digital art, Nima Sagharchi, said during a preview of the works.
"Performing artists up till now have had no way to sell ownership in their performances," he said. "NFTs afford them that opportunity."
They also want to create platform would give more grassroots performers access to NFT technology, Sagharchi added.
"I really hope that we can create an art platform because dance is always left behind," Osipova, who has most recently danced in "Giselle" at London's Royal Opera House, told Reuters.
Natalia Osipova performs a divert from "Dying Swan" as part of "The Royal Ballet: Live, Within the Golden Hour", a live streamed performance at the Royal Opera House, amidst the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, London, Britain, November 12, 2020. REUTERS/Toby Melville/File Photo
The market for NFTs - niche crypto assets which are blockchain-based records of ownership of a digital item such as an image or a video - has been surging, though sceptics have warned of a bubble.
Successful buyers will have full licence of the works.
The collection, called "Natalia Osipova: Triptych" will be offered at Bonhams' "Encore! Modern Art on Stage" auction, with bidding open from Monday until Dec. 10.
"Giselle, The entrance of Act II" and "Giselle, Solo of Act II", both shot this month, are seen fetching between 8,000 pounds and 12,000 pounds each ($10,635 - $15,953). Video of the 2019 live performance in Mexico of "Left behind" has a price estimate of 30,000 pounds - 50,000 pounds.
The NFTs are being offered alongside paintings, prints, manuscripts and costume designs among other items for theatre, ballet, dance, music and circus.
($1 = 0.7522 pounds)
Reporting by Ben Makori; Writing by Marie-Louise Gumuchian; Editing by Andrew Heavens


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require_once 'Zend/Gdata/Docs.php';
require_once 'Zend/Http/Client.php';
require_once 'Zend/Gdata/ClientLogin.php';

/**
 * @category   Zend
 * @package    Zend_Gdata_Docs
 * @subpackage UnitTests
 * @copyright  Copyright (c) 2005-2015 Zend Technologies USA Inc. (http://www.zend.com)
 * @license    http://framework.zend.com/license/new-bsd     New BSD License
 * @group      Zend_Gdata
 * @group      Zend_Gdata_Docs
 */
class Zend_Gdata_DocsOnlineTest extends PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase
{

    public function setUp()
    {
        $user = constant('TESTS_ZEND_GDATA_CLIENTLOGIN_EMAIL');
        $pass = constant('TESTS_ZEND_GDATA_CLIENTLOGIN_PASSWORD');
        $this->docTitle = constant('TESTS_ZEND_GDATA_DOCS_DOCUMENTTITLE');
        $service = Zend_Gdata_Docs::AUTH_SERVICE_NAME;
        $client = Zend_Gdata_ClientLogin::getHttpClient($user, $pass, $service);
        $this->gdata = new Zend_Gdata_Docs($client);
    }

    public function testGetSpreadsheetFeed()
    {
        $feed = $this->gdata->getDocumentListFeed();
        $this->assertTrue($feed instanceof Zend_Gdata_Docs_DocumentListFeed);
        foreach ($feed->entries as $entry) {
            $this->assertTrue($entry instanceof Zend_Gdata_Docs_DocumentListEntry);
            $this->assertTrue($entry->getHttpClient() == $feed->getHttpClient());
        }

        $query = new Zend_Gdata_Docs_Query();
        $feed = $this->gdata->getDocumentListFeed($query);
        $this->assertTrue($feed instanceof Zend_Gdata_Docs_DocumentListFeed);
        foreach ($feed->entries as $entry) {
            $this->assertTrue($entry instanceof Zend_Gdata_Docs_DocumentListEntry);
            $this->assertTrue($entry->getHttpClient() == $feed->getHttpClient());
        }

        $uri = $query->getQueryUrl();
        $feed = $this->gdata->getDocumentListFeed($uri);
        $this->assertTrue($feed instanceof Zend_Gdata_Docs_DocumentListFeed);
        foreach ($feed->entries as $entry) {
            $this->assertTrue($entry instanceof Zend_Gdata_Docs_DocumentListEntry);
            $this->assertTrue($entry->getHttpClient() == $feed->getHttpClient());
        }
    }

    public function testQueryForTitle()
    {
        $query = new Zend_Gdata_Docs_Query();
        $query->title = $this->docTitle;
        $feed = $this->gdata->getDocumentListFeed($query);
        $this->assertTrue(strpos(strtolower($feed->entries[0]->title), strtolower($this->docTitle)) !== FALSE);
    }

    public function testGetDocumentListEntry()
    {
        $query = new Zend_Gdata_Docs_Query();
        $feed = $this->gdata->getDocumentListFeed($query);
        $selfLinkHref = $feed->entries[0]->getSelfLink()->href;
        $entry = $this->gdata->getDocumentListEntry($selfLinkHref);
        $this->assertTrue($entry instanceof Zend_Gdata_Docs_DocumentListEntry);
    }

    public function testUploadFindAndDelete()
    {
        $documentTitle = 'spreadsheet_upload_test.csv';
        $newDocumentEntry = $this->gdata->uploadFile(
            'Zend/Gdata/_files/DocsTest.csv', $documentTitle,
            $this->gdata->lookupMimeType('CSV'),
            Zend_Gdata_Docs::DOCUMENTS_LIST_FEED_URI);
        $this->assertTrue($newDocumentEntry->title->text === $documentTitle);

        // Get the newly created document.
        // First extract the document's ID key from the Atom id.
        $idParts = explode('/', $newDocumentEntry->id->text);
        $keyParts = explode('%3A', end($idParts));
        $documentFromGetDoc = $this->gdata->getDoc($keyParts[1], $keyParts[0]);
        $this->assertTrue($documentFromGetDoc->title->text === $documentTitle);
        if ($keyParts[0] == 'document') {
            $documentFromGetDocument = $this->gdata->getDocument($keyParts[1]);
            $this->assertTrue(
                $documentFromGetDocument->title->text === $documentTitle);
        }
        if ($keyParts[0] == 'spreadsheet') {
            $documentFromGetSpreadsheet = $this->gdata->getSpreadsheet(
                $keyParts[1]);
            $this->assertTrue(
                $documentFromGetSpreadsheet->title->text === $documentTitle);
        }
        if ($keyParts[0] == 'presentation') {
            $documentFromGetPresentation = $this->gdata->getPresentation(
                $keyParts[1]);
            $this->assertTrue(
                $documentFromGetPresentation->title->text === $documentTitle);
        }

        // Cleanup and remove the new document.
        $newDocumentEntry->delete();
    }

}

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EPA to add hazardous sites to National Priorities List.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is adding hazardous waste sites to the Superfund program's National Priorities List (NPL).
Superfund, which Congress established in 1980, investigates and cleans up the nation's most complex, uncontrolled or abandoned hazardous waste sites and converts them into community resources.
The Superfund program is a cornerstone of the work the EPA performs for citizens and communities across the country.
The Superfund law directs EPA to update the NPL annually. Only sites added to the NPL are eligible to receive federal funding for long-term permanent cleanup.
EPA adds sites to the NPL when mismanagement of contamination threatens human health and the environment. EPA typically initiates Superfund involvement at a site because states, tribes or citizens ask for the agency's help. The agency may also find contamination during its own investigations.
Superfund addresses both older and newer sites. At least four of the sites EPA is adding or proposing were in operation within the last two decades. The sites listed today have contamination from a variety of sources, including manufacturing, wood treatment and aircraft maintenance.
Superfund sites can threaten the health of entire communities. Some groups of people, such as children, pregnant women and the elderly, may be at particular risk. Superfund cleans up or isolates contamination, keeping it away from people and the environment.
Superfund cleanups benefit the health of those who live on or near Superfund sites. Academic research has shown these cleanups reduce birth defects close to a site by as much as 25 percent. Similarly, cleanups involving lead-contaminated soil have contributed to documented reductions in children's blood-lead levels.
When EPA cleans up a site or a portion of a site, the site is available for beneficial uses. More than 850 Superfund sites nationwide have some type of actual or planned reuse underway.
Cleanups also increase tax revenue and create jobs during and after cleanup. EPA reviewed 458 Superfund sites supporting use or reuse activities. The agency found at the end of fiscal year 2016 that these sites had approximately 4,700 businesses with 131,000 employees and annual sales of more than $34 billion.
Today's NPL update follows the announcement of the Superfund Task Force recommendations to improve the Superfund program.
On July 25, 2017 Administrator Pruitt accepted recommendations from the EPA task force established on May 22, 2017 to revitalize the Superfund program.


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Q: Unwanted line break in align I have a formular in an align-environment, where I provide one manual line break, but it gets rendered with another line break after the one I added myself:

Code is as follows:
\documentclass[a4paper, ngerman]{article}

\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{amsmath, dsfont}

\newcommand{\RR}{\mathds{R}}

\begin{document}

\section*{1.1}
\begin{align*}
  B = \big\{ &\Vec{a} + \Vec{b} \in \RR^3 : \Vec{a} = (1, 0, z) \textrm{, mit} -1.5 \leq z \leq 1 \textrm{ } \wedge \\
  &\Vec{b} = (x, y, 0) \textrm{, mit } x, y \in \\R \wedge ||\Vec{b}|| \leq 2 \big\}
\end{align*}

\end{document}

Why is this additional second line break automatically added and how can I get rid of it?

A: I am not a math person, but the \\R is causing the line break. Were you trying to use \RR?
So the new code will be:
\documentclass[a4paper, ngerman]{article}

\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{amsmath, dsfont}

\newcommand{\RR}{\mathds{R}}

\begin{document}

\section*{1.1}
\begin{align*}
  B = \big\{ &\Vec{a} + \Vec{b} \in \RR^3 : \Vec{a} = (1, 0, z) \textrm{, mit} -1.5 \leq z \leq 1 \textrm{ } \wedge \\
  &\Vec{b} = (x, y, 0) \textrm{, mit } x, y \in \RR %Change here
   \wedge ||\Vec{b}|| \leq 2 \big\}
\end{align*}

\end{document}

The corresponding output will be:

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Food (Amendment No. 2) Regulations 2019
Published in Subsidiary Legislation Supplement
1 Citation and commencement
2 Amendment of regulation 252
Published in Subsidiary Legislation Supplement on 30 Aug 2019
No. S 580
Sale of Food Act
(CHAPTER 283)
In exercise of the powers conferred by section 56(1) of the Sale of Food Act, the Minister for the Environment and Water Resources makes the following Regulations:
Citation and commencement
1. These Regulations are the Food (Amendment No. 2) Regulations 2019 and come into operation on 1 September 2019.
Amendment of regulation 252
2. Regulation 252 of the Food Regulations (Rg 1) is amended by inserting, immediately after paragraph (6), the following paragraph:
"(7) In the case of infant formula that is sold or to be sold as infant formula which is lactose free, low lactose or words of similar import, the total lactose content must not be greater than 10 mg per 100 kcal.".
3. Regulation 254 of the Food Regulations is amended —
(a) by inserting, immediately after sub‑paragraph (a) of paragraph (2), the following sub‑paragraph:
"(aa) a warning statement about the health hazards of improper use, preparation or storage of infant formula;";
(b) by deleting the word "and" at the end of paragraph (2)(e);
(c) by deleting the full‑stop at the end of sub‑paragraph (f) of paragraph (2) and substituting the word "; and", and by inserting immediately thereafter the following sub‑paragraph:
"(g) prominently displayed statements, starting with the words "IMPORTANT NOTICE" or words of similar import, to ensure that a consumer understands that —
(i) breast milk is best for infants; and
(ii) the infant formula should be used on the advice of a doctor or healthcare practitioner."; and
(d) by inserting, immediately after paragraph (2), the following paragraphs:
"(3) Without limiting paragraph (2), the label on a package of any infant formula for infants, or an advertisement about any infant formula for infants, must not (and without affecting regulations 8A, 9, 9A, 9B, 11 and 12) contain —
(a) a claim which states, suggests or implies that the infant formula or a component, ingredient, constituent or other feature of the infant formula, has, or may have, a health effect;
(b) a claim which directly or indirectly compares the infant formula, or a component, ingredient, constituent or other feature of the infant formula, to breast milk;
(c) any of the following prohibited matter:
(i) a pictorial, graphic or symbolic representation of an infant or infants (whether or not accompanied by text);
(ii) a pictorial, graphic or symbolic representation of a pregnant woman or nursing woman (whether or not accompanied by text);
(iii) a word like "humanised" or "maternalised", or words of similar import;
(iv) a claim which directly or indirectly idealises the use or effect of the infant formula;
Example of idealisation claims
A representation which suggests or implies that the use or consumption of the infant milk formula results in exaggerated health or other effect.
(d) a claim which states, suggests or implies the energy, carbohydrate and other nutritive property of any ingredient of the infant formula which is not mentioned in regulation 252(5) and (6), except to the extent permitted by paragraph (4) or (5);
Examples of prohibited text claims
(a) "Contains vitamin D".
(b) "Contains essential nutrients".
(c) "Added with vitamins and minerals".
(d) "Enriched with iron".
(e) where the infant formula contains any ingredient mentioned in regulation 252(5) or (6), a claim which states, suggests or implies that the infant formula is enriched or fortified, or is an excellent source of these ingredients;
(a) "Excellent source of DHA".
(b) "25% higher in DHA".
(c) "High in nucleotides".
(d) "Enriched with nucleotides".
(4) A label on any package of any infant formula, or an advertisement about any infant formula, may contain a claim which states, suggests or implies the presence of hydrolysed milk protein or whey protein in the infant formula.
(5) Without limiting paragraph (2), the label on a package of any infant formula which is sold or to be sold as lactose free or low lactose must (and without affecting regulations 8A, 9, 9A, 9B, 11 and 12) include —
(a) the words "lactose free" or "low lactose", or words of similar import;
(b) a statement within the nutrition information panel on the label, specifying the exact amount of lactose in the infant formula; and
(c) the words "Not suitable for infants with galactosaemia" in the same font and size as, and in close proximity to, the words mentioned in sub‑paragraph (a), if the infant formula is manufactured from protein sources other than soya protein isolates.
(6) In paragraphs (3) and (4) —
"claim" means any message or representation, and includes a pictorial, graphic or symbolic representation;
"health effect" means an effect on the human body, including an effect on one or more of the following:
(a) growth and development;
(b) physical performance;
(c) mental performance;
(d) a biochemical process or outcome;
(e) a physiological process or outcome;
(f) a functional process or outcome;
"pictorial representation" includes a graphic representation and an anthropomorphic or humanlike depiction.".
[G.N. Nos. S 515/2006; S 195/2011; S 175/2012; S 444/2012; S 493/2013; S 816/2014; S 49/2016; S 152/2017; S 302/2017; S 146/2018; S 59/2019]
Made on 27 August 2019.
ALBERT CHUA
Permanent Secretary,
Ministry of the Environment and
Water Resources,
[MEWR C030/01/114; AG/LEGIS/SL/283/2015/1 Vol. 4]
(To be presented to Parliament under section 56(4) of the Sale of Food Act).

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Pandemic: CA pauses multimillion-dollar testing expansion
A coronavirus anti-body testing station in Palo Alto run by Stanford University. (Photo: Sundry Photography, via Shutterstock)
by ANGELA HART and RACHEL BLUTH, California HealthLine posted 07.01.2020
In April, Gov. Gavin Newsom launched a multimillion-dollar state initiative to bring COVID-19 testing to the people and places with the least access: rural towns and disadvantaged inner-city neighborhoods.
California is now halting its expansion, citing costs, even as the state is getting walloped by record-setting spikes in new infections and double-digit increases in hospitalizations.
"We really need help with testing access if we're going to reach our Latino residents and places like East Palo Alto." — Justin Mates
The state will no longer fund new testing sites despite pleas from counties for additional assistance — and it has closed some locations and moved them elsewhere. It also has threatened to pull testing out of underused sites, according to nearly two dozen interviews with county public health officials.
While it's early, some winners and losers have emerged: El Dorado County, east of Sacramento, lost its testing site in the town of Shingle Springs in June because it couldn't fill enough appointment slots, while Fresno County gained a site that had been pulled from elsewhere, said its health officer, Dr. Rais Vohra.
Yet San Mateo County has asked state officials three times for a second state-funded testing venue to address testing gaps in Black and farmworker neighborhoods, but has been "told no, repeatedly," said Justin Mates, deputy county manager. So the county transformed its sole state site into a roving testing unit.
"Equity is certainly a concern for us," Mates said. "We really need help with testing access if we're going to reach our Latino residents and places like East Palo Alto," a diverse city whose population is mainly Latino, African American and Asian/Pacific Islander.
Newsom himself has voiced concern about the price tag, given "unprecedented" budget shortfalls.
California has committed up to $132 million in contracts with two private COVID-19 testing companies, Verily Life Sciences and OptumServe, to offer free coronavirus tests at more than 100 sites that the Newsom administration has identified as "testing deserts." The expansion has dramatically increased the state's overall testing numbers, which swelled from 16,000 tests per day in April to 105,000 on Monday.
Testing is also available at county-funded locations, private pharmacies, hospitals and community clinics.
State Health and Human Services Secretary Mark Ghaly confirmed that the state is pulling sites out of counties that aren't generating high enough numbers and cutting off funding for new locations.
"With every asset and resource — especially when it's scarce — you want it to go to places where it's most needed," Ghaly said. "It wouldn't be prudent or wise to maintain spending in a place where resources aren't being used."
Newsom himself has voiced concern about the price tag, given "unprecedented" budget shortfalls. "There is a big cost associated with testing," he said in late June.
A Newsom administration official confirmed the state wants to see counties fill at least 80% of testing slots at each location. And if testing drops below 50% for a few days or longer, counties are warned the sites could be transferred elsewhere.
Contra Costa County saw its testing numbers drop in June and was at risk of losing a state-funded site until it proved it could keep appointments near 80% of capacity.
Counties argue there's a public health benefit to keeping underperforming locations open — simply to ensure that testing is available to rural and disenfranchised communities. Across the state, they are fighting to save state-funded sites even as they are being overwhelmed by rising coronavirus cases linked largely to social gatherings.
"It's how we are able to quickly identify where the virus is and if there are hot spots," said Dr. Olivia Kasirye, health officer for Sacramento County, where holiday celebrations and booze-fueled gatherings among family and friends are sending infection rates soaring.
Contra Costa County saw its testing numbers drop in June and was at risk of losing a state-funded site until it proved it could keep appointments near 80% of capacity, said its health officer, Dr. Chris Farnitano.
Riverside County was warned June 16 that a state-funded site north of Temecula would be "moved to another county" if it didn't get its testing above 50%, according to an email from the state's testing taskforce. The state told Mendocino County it could lose its state-funded site, the only free testing available within a two-hour drive for some rural residents, if it didn't push numbers up.
Alameda County grew so frustrated with state requirements that it undertook a testing expansion of its own.
"We realized we couldn't depend on the state, especially to reach our vulnerable communities," said Dr. Jocelyn Freeman Garrick, an emergency room doctor at Highland Hospital in Oakland, who is leading the county's testing task force.
State officials declined to say how many counties have lost sites, but as new infections have soared, testing numbers are starting to pick back up.
El Dorado County, which lost its site, so far has maintained a relatively low count of COVID-19 cases. It can't afford to replace the site but will "make do," said county spokesperson Carla Hass.
Ghaly said the state is working with counties in danger of losing sites to give them a chance to fill testing slots. State officials declined to say how many counties have lost sites, but as new infections have soared, testing numbers are starting to pick back up. The list of counties at risk of losing a site has dwindled from around a dozen in early June to a few last week.
Public health experts say focusing so intently on testing numbers, and not on adequately testing in Black and Latino neighborhoods, risks abandoning communities that already face immense barriers to health care like racism and poverty.
"If you ignore these communities, then we'll keep seeing the kinds of surges that we're seeing now," said Dr. Tony Iton, formerly the top health official for Alameda County and now a senior vice president of the California Endowment, which is working with counties to expand testing in underserved neighborhoods.
"We can have all the tests we want, but if people are afraid to come and get tested, it's not going to be of any benefit." — Marty Fenstersheib
Entrenched socioeconomic barriers also make it difficult to get, and keep, testing numbers up. For instance, people who want to be tested at state sites often need Internet access and an email address. Most are drive-thru, requiring access to a vehicle.
Many low-income people can't meet those requirements, and undocumented immigrants fear that providing personal information to obtain a test could expose them to immigration officials, said Dr. Marty Fenstersheib, a former health officer of Santa Clara County who is leading its testing program.
"We can have all the tests we want, but if people are afraid to come and get tested, it's not going to be of any benefit," he said.
State contracts funding the testing sites were extended this month but are set to expire Aug. 31, and administration officials have not told counties whether the state will continue funding them after that, said Mimi Hall, president of the County Health Executives Association of California and director of public health for Santa Cruz County.
Counties can't afford to keep the sites running, said Hall, who is on the state's testing task force.
"It's hard to plan when we don't know how long we'll be able to keep them," Hall said.
Editor's Note: This story appeared on California HealthLine, which is published by Kaiser Health News and is a service of the California Health Care Foundation.


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Why going online for a free COVID-19 test falls short
By Stuart N. Brotman, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
After rejecting a plan for sending a free, at-home COVID-19 testing kit to all Americans, President Joe Biden has responded with something more modest in the face of the rapidly-spreading Omicron variant. Americans are able to request online, from a newly developed federal government website, a free COVID-19 test to be mailed to them.
Metro Creative
Posted Wednesday, January 12, 2022 2:08 pm
After rejecting a plan for sending a free, at-home COVID-19 testing kit to all Americans, President Joe Biden has responded with something more modest in the face of the rapidly-spreading Omicron variant.
Americans are able to request online, from a newly developed federal government website, a free COVID-19 test to be mailed to them.
So far, 500 million tests have been allocated for this program, which may or may not be sufficient based on how many requests are made, or whether the number of tests per individual is limited. How quickly these orders will be processed also remains uncertain.
Separate from these concerns is another looming problem that this plan does not seem to address — namely, that those who are online to request a COVID-19 test may not be as many as imagined.
Numerous analysts have pointed out the persistent digital divide we face — namely, that at least 20 million American households currently lack broadband internet access. Less publicized is the portion of our population that already has residential broadband capability, but believes there is no value in connecting.
It may be shocking to realize that 7% of U.S. adults, according to the Pew Research Center, do not use the internet at all. This figure has been relatively static for more than four years.
That's because there continues to be a drop-off in those 65 and older who never go online — 25% of them in the latest Pew Center survey. That age group also is at the highest medical risk for contracting COVID-19, and would benefit greatly by receiving a home COVID-19 test, along with vital health and safety information on a 24/7 basis.
Other demographic analyses highlight disparities between internet users and nonusers based on education, household income, and community type; various factors clearly are at play regarding why this problem exists.
In the longer term, especially in pandemic times, there should be a continuing focus on developing practical ways to reduce the percentage of nationwide internet nonusers as soon as possible.
Clearly, we need to have a broader population base who can take advantage of the internet's public health information and communications capabilities, especially those with the greatest health vulnerabilities.
More immediately, before the new home test-kit distribution plan rolls out in the coming weeks, it needs to offer a broader range of ordering capabilities. Landline and mobile phones are a more widespread way for Americans to make a request.
Having the option of logging in or dialing in will be the next best thing to using the most ubiquitous communications medium — the U.S. Postal Service — to deliver these kits to everyone without requiring a prior request. The pandemic affects all Americans, and we need to pursue a testing regimen that is both free and as widely accessible as possible.
Editor's note: Stuart N. Brotman is a distinguished professor of journalism and electronic media at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and the author of the forthcoming book, "The First Amendment Lives On." He wrote this for InsideSources.com.
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I've since noticed that the BAM file was created with GATK version 2.4-9-g532efad. So the 'current' and 'latest' software filing system in place here appears to have failed. I can confirm that GATK v3.2-2 DepthOfCoverage tool generates the above program record group id error. I'll chase the administrators down to ensure the latest GATK version is installed and start from scratch.
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January 15th was the 10th anniversary of Gates Trustworthy computing memo. We thought it would be interesting to ask a few Veracode employees what they were doing on that day 10 years ago. This is the second post on this topic. Yesterday's post is here. Some of the answers are really funny! Can you guess who had blue hair in 2002? Captain @stake Steve Roge was selling manual code reviews to Fidelity for $150 per hour and every consultant who worked on the project hated him because they didn't want to sit in a cube with a pencil reviewing code line by line. Steve believes this was the shift when folks like Fidelity started to look for automated solutions because they wanted to go deeper and broader on their application inventory and knew angry consultants wouldn't scale. Chris Eng was a security consultant at @stake, delivering web application penetration tests and product security assessments for large enterprises and ISVs. On the date in question, he was pen testing a network appliance, poking around at WebSphere bugs, and gearing up for a product assessment at Macromedia (now Adobe). The interesting thing about that assessment was that we were testing against a beta version of the product. So while many companies were still doing all their security testing post-release -– or not at all -– Macromedia already understood the value of pushing security further back into the SDLC. This was pretty rare at the time. Tim Jarrett. On January 15, 2002, I was in business school and had just accepted a job offer from Microsoft. At the time it was a very different company--hip deep in the fallout from the antitrust suit and the consent decree; having just launched Windows XP; figuring out where it was going on the web (remember Passport)? And the taking of a deep breath that the Trustworthy Computing memo signaled was the biggest sign that things were different at Microsoft. And yet not. It's important to remember that a big part of the context of TWC was the launch of .NET and the services around it (remember Passport)? Microsoft was positioning Passport (fka Hailstorm) as the solution for the Privacy component of their Availability, Security, Privacy triad, so TWC was at least partly a positioning memo for that new technology. And it's pretty clear that they hadn't thought through all the implications of the stance they were taking: witness BillG's declaration that "Visual Studio .NET is the first multi-language tool that is optimized for the creation of secure code". While .NET may have eliminated or mitigated the security issues related to memory management that Microsoft was drowning in at the time, it didn't do anything fundamentally different with respect to web vulnerabilities like cross-site scripting or SQL injection. But there was one thing about the TWC memo that was different and new and that did signal a significant shift at Microsoft: Gates' assertion that "when we face a choice between adding features and resolving security issues, we need to choose security." As an emerging product manager, that was an important principle for me to absorb--security needs to be considered as a requirement alongside user facing features and needs to be prioritized accordingly. It's a lesson that the rest of the industry is still learning. Tyler Shields had left a dot com startup in the fall of 2001 and was in transition to a consulting career with @stake on January 15, 2002. On the specific date that the memo was released, Tyler was employed by a large national security consulting firm and was embedded within the United States Postal Service. Tyler was conducting incident response and forensics engagements on one of the worlds largest networks. Incident response was a mix of constant preparation and occasional frantic engagements. It felt way too responsive. The Trustworthy Computing Memo motivated Tyler to begin a transition, from incident response and forensics, to application security related research. In Tyler's eyes, it was becoming clear that secure code was going to be the key to a secure future. At the end of the day, exploits, flaws, vulnerabilities, and security issues generally trace back to an error in code. Attacking the root cause of the problem would provide the most return on the security problem that was rapidly developing. Tyler joined @stake in the fall of 2002 and helped them become the premier application consulting company of the 2000s. Mark Kriegsman. By January 2002, I had sold my Internet startup (Clearway Technologies), and I was looking around for what I thought the Next Big Thing would be. Within a couple of months, I would join Christien at @stake, shaping and building "SAF", which would it turn become Veracode's flagship offering in static binary testing. Given the successes of the last ten years, I'd say "AppSec" was indeed the Next Big Thing! Christien Rioux was working at @stake, starting the CVS repository for the reboot of the 'undeveloper studio' project that he had been working on for two full years already that came to be known as 'SAF', the 'Software Analysis Framework'. Christien was just given clearance by the CEO to hire his first two developers, Mark Kriegsman and Dan Garcia, both of whom have remained either fully or partly employed by Veracode ten years later. Christien had hair and it was blue! Where were you 10 years ago? We'd love to hear your stories - add them to the comments section.


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Dash for iOS makes a comeback on App Store
In October 2016, Dash was pulled out from App Store by Apple upon receiving several reports on review manipulation. In the upcoming 5-6 weeks or so, there was this constant battle of words between its developer, Bogdan Popescu, and Apple. Though they tried to sort out the differences yet the app stayed off from the store.
The developer stated that the account associated with the app on App Store has been mishandled by a third-party. And then Apple presented its evidence and it seemed that Dash might not make a come back at all.
From October 2016 to May 2017, there have been many other developers that have put different versions of Dash. These versions slightly differ from the original version of Dash.
Dash is back
After almost 7 months, Popescu recently announced on his official blog that Dash is back on App Store. According to him, there have been various manipulated versions and hence, there was a dire need for an official version. So, to add Dash back to App Store, he created a personal developer account which was duly accepted by Apple. According to him,
"Quite a few "developers" have even added it to the App Store themselves, violating the GNU GPL license in the process. Apple has been very responsive in removing these apps, but the developers kept adding it back in different shapes and forms and I gave up on filling the same copyright claim forms over and over.
I've made a personal developer account which Apple accepted and the review for Dash for iOS went through without any issues. I hope this will somewhat stave off the pirated copies of Dash from appearing on the App Store. We'll see."
Popescu has also stated that Dash for Mac will be available directly through his website. It would not be available on App Store for Mac.
To our readers those who don't know what is Dash, it is a really useful app. According to the official blog, it provides instant search and access to any API documentation you need. There are around 150+ API documentations available.
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Very appropriate with your subject matter. Must be great to travel the world and meet the people that read your blog.
Hope you catch up with some of them and have a great time!


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Abuja Electricity Workers Halt Strike
The National Union of Electricity Employees (NUEE) suspends its strike in Abuja after the federal government intervened in its dispute with the Abuja Electricity Distribution Company, AEDC.
The suspension of the industrial action came after a meeting between NUEE and government officials as contained in a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) jointly signed by both parties.
The union had embarked on an industrial action, shutting down operations of Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC), on Monday.
The union accused the company of not remitting the pension contributions of its members for 20 months.
The Transmission Company of Nigeria said the evacuation of bulk power from electricity substations was disrupted after a shutdown of the facilities of AEDC by the company's workers' union.
The strike led to power outages in areas under the AEDC franchise including Abuja, Nasarawa, Kogi, Parts of Edo, Niger and Kaduna.
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NUEE and the federal government reached a compromise at a meeting later on Monday.
The meeting was brokered by the Minister of State for Power, Goddy Agba.
"As at the end of an expansive meeting between the leadership of NUEE and relevant government institutions in the power sector over the industrial action which affected the Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC) franchise area regarding the unresolved dispute with the management of AEDC over unpaid entitlements it was agreed as follows:
"Government intervened with the firm arrangement to ensure the payment of the outstanding entitlement of AEDC staff within 21 days counting from the day of the signing of the MoU.
"Based on the foregoing, the industrial action is suspended," the document read.
The federal government officials that signed the document are the director-general of Bureau for Public Enterprises, Alex Okoh; chairman of the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC), Sanusi Garba; the Minister of State for Power, Goddy Jeddy Agba, and Alex Olebe represented the Ministry of labour.
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Территория памятника природы занимает 162—164, 184—187, 204—207 лесоустроительные кварталы, а также 14 и 15 выделы квартала 166, 32 выдел квартала 167, 1 выдел квартала 188, 1 и 3 выделы квартала 189, 1 выдел квартала 190 Варваринского лесничества Ярковского лесхоза (лесоустройство 2002—2003 годов).
Северная граница. Начинается в точке 1 в северо-западном углу квартала 162 и идет на восток по северным сторонам кварталов 162—164 до северо-восточного угла квартала 164, затем поворачивает на юг и идет по восточной стороне квартала 164 до его юго-восточного угла. Далее поворачивает на восток и продолжается по северной стороне кварталов 186 и 187 до выдела 15 квартала 166, далее проходит по западной, северной и северо-восточной сторонам выдела 14 квартала 166, затем — по северной стороне выдела 15 квартала 166 и северной и северо-восточной стороне выдела 32 квартала 167. Заканчивается в точке 2.
Восточная граница. Начинается в точке 2 и идет по юго-восточной стороне выдела 32 квартала 167, затем по южной стороне выдела 1 квартала 190, выделов 3 и 1 квартала 189, юго-восточной стороне выдела 1 квартала 188 и выходит на восточную сторону квартала 187. Далее поворачивает на юг и идет по восточной стороне кварталов 187 и 207 до юго-восточного угла квартала 207 (точка 3).
Южная граница. Начинается в точке 3 и идет на запад по южной стороне кварталов 207, 206, 205, 204 и заканчивается в юго-западном углу квартала 204 в точке 4.
Западная граница. Начинается в точке 4 и идет в северном направлении по западной стороне кварталов 204 и 184 до озера Бол. Суглукуль, затем продолжается по южной окраине озера Бол. Суглукуль выходит к юго-западному углу квартала 162. Далее поворачивает на север и проходит по западной стороне квартала 162 до точки 1.

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When did oral history begin?
June 9, 2020 By Author Blog
1 When did oral history begin?
2 Who is the founder of oral history?
3 How reliable is oral history?
4 How important is oral history?
5 What is the importance of oral history?
6 What is a disadvantage of oral history?
Thus, historians generally consider oral history as beginning with the work of Allan Nevins at Columbia University in the 1940s. Nevins was the first to initiate a systematic and disciplined effort to record on tape, preserve, and make available for future research recollections deemed of historical significance.
Who is the founder of oral history?
Allan Nevins
The modern concept of oral history was developed in the 1940s by Allan Nevins and his associates at Columbia University.
Is oral history a form of history?
What is Oral History? Oral history is a method of conducting historical research through recorded interviews between a narrator with personal experience of historically significant events and a well-informed interviewer, with the goal of adding to the historical record.
What is an oral history project?
Oral history is a technique for generating and preserving original, historically interesting information – primary source material – from personal recollections through planned recorded interviews. This method of interviewing is used to preserve the voices, memories and perspectives of people in history.
How reliable is oral history?
Some genealogists and historians have discredited the use of oral history, believing documents provide a more reliable picture of what really happened in the past. Oral history as a source, however, is no less reliable than any document we might consult.
How important is oral history?
Oral history enables people to share their stories in their own words, with their own voices, through their own understanding of what hap- pened and why. With careful attention to preserving our sound recordings, the voices of our narrators will endure to speak for them when they are gone.
What are the disadvantages of oral history?
One of which is an individual recalling a false memory. In some cases when events took plave more than forty years ago, the individual could have trouble remembering the exact details of their experience. Another disadvantage is the recollection being only one persons point of view.
What are examples of oral history?
Examples of Oral History
After the Day of Infamy: "Man-on-the-Street" Interviews Following the Attack on Pearl Harbor.
Black Oral History Collection.
Civil Rights History Project at the Library of Congress.
Civil Rights in Mississippi Digital Archives.
What is the importance of oral history?
What is a disadvantage of oral history?
What makes history valid?
Historical validity is based in the historian's interpretation of extant written texts through the application of tools and methods developed by professional historians and by interpreting the texts in relation to other texts. Therefore, historians speak of historical validity rather than historical truth.
What is the most important element of oral history?
Four key elements of oral history work are preparation, interviewing, preservation, and access. Oral historians should give careful consideration to each at the start of any oral history project, regardless of whether it is comprised of one or many interviews.
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CHICAGO (AP) — The Latest on immigration enforcement sweeps (all times local): 1:50 p.m. A dozen churches in the Los Angeles area have declared themselves sanctuaries for migrant families as the Trump administration's immigration crackdown is scheduled to begin. Guillermo Torres, with Clergy and...
Kaohsiung city mayor Han Kuo-yu raises hands during a media conference after winning the candidacy of the opposition of the Nationalist Party (KMT) for the upcoming presidential elections at the party headquarters, Monday, July 15, 2019, in Taipei, Taiwan. (AP Photo/Chiang Ying-ying)
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TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan's main opposition party picked a pro-China populist mayor Monday as its candidate for the 2020 presidential race against an incumbent who often bashes Beijing. The Nationalist Party said Han Kuo-yu had won the presidential primary after opinion poll results gave him a...
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NEW YORK (AP) — New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio says he's getting reports that a nationwide crackdown on immigrants facing deportation is already underway in his city. The sweeps were expected to start Sunday, but de Blasio tweeted on Saturday that the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency...
A man stands in floodwaters at Don'z On the Lake as Tropical Storm Barry's winds push water over the Lake Pontchartrain seawall Saturday, July 13, 2019. (David Grunfeld/The Advocate via AP)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The Latest on Barry (all times local): ___ 11:40 p.m. Authorities are trying to rescue a family of five who are trapped by high water in a south Louisiana home. KTBS-TV reports that the family was trapped Saturday night in the town of Franklin. The Shreveport television station...
Puerto Rico governor Ricardo Rossello holds a press conference, almost two days after federal authorities arrested the island's former secretary of education and five other people on charges of steering federal money to unqualified, politically connected contractors, in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Thursday, July 11, 2019. At the time of the arrests, Rossello was in the middle of a family vacation in France, which he canceled to travel back to the Island. U.S. Attorney for Puerto Rico Rosa Emilia Rodríguez said Gov. Ricardo Rossello was not involved in the investigation. (AP Photo/Carlos Giusti)
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From starting out in the Fremantle markets to a beautiful studio in North Fremantle, Natalie Rolt is a household name. The unique studio combines stunning made to order garments, beautiful hire pieces, spray tans, makeup, hair and lashes. Making it a 'one stop shop'. Natalie Rolt is a destination that can assist you from head-to-toe with their style consultants available to offer their recommendations of sizing, design selection as well as styling tips and tricks.
"The studio itself is a stunning light and bright open space that screams 'Instagram me'."
Customers are able to try on all the current designs and hire collection in addition to viewing the wide range of colours and fabrics for selection. You may catch a glimpse of the production room in action - as all of their garments are made on site!
I was luckily enough to get the chance to interview Natalie about all things Natalie Rolt.
Where did the inspiration come from for the new base range collection?
We are constantly pairing our more 'formal' items with relaxed pieces so that they are more versatile, this sparked us to make our own version of 'basic' pieces that still hold a relaxed luxury on their own, so I guess the inspiration came from myself and my team how we style our pieces and the functionality in our everyday lives.
From the looks of your Instagram the studio is constantly busy how do you manage to schedule everything in?
Organisation, Planning, Scheduling and Communication are all key!
We are a collaborative studio so there are various businesses running under the Natalie Rolt banner. One helpful tool, is the "I-Calander" which keeps us all linked and aware of each other's schedules and what's on, we also have weekly meetings.
I'm lucky that we are a really close knit team who support each other in all the events we do!
Natalie Rolt is a one stop shop for custom made garments, hair, makeup, tans, jewellery and eyelashes can you tell me more about this and the people involved?
We love creating a hub for women alike to come in and experience all we have to offer!
We currently have our Beauty Specialist Whitney Andrews who is our in-house Make-up Artist also offering tans and eyelash services.
Jammie-Lee our in-house Hair Stylist covers everything from colour and cut to styling.
We are the only company in Perth that has a collaborative space in which all the garments are made right here! We can't wait to keep growing in other areas, stay tuned!
You recently did some amazing photo shoots in Bali what sort of preparation is involved for an international shoot like that?
You can only plan and prepare some things to a certain degree, sometimes you just need to dive in head first and trust your instincts. Be a bit spontaneous and watch the magic happen.
This is essentially what happened with our quick Bali trip, the opportunity arises, the stars aligned and you just have to jump on board and we knew it was the right thing to do when we started shooting, the outcome was amazing!
What do you see in the future for Natalie Rolt?
As long as we are always moving onwards and upwards, the sky is the limit. Keep watching!


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Radio Amateur's Sub-9 kHz VLF Signal Detected Across the Atlantic
TAGS: digital signal processing, khz, transmit frequency
How low can you go? A signal on 8.971 kHz has spanned the Atlantic, from North Carolina to the UK. Running on the order of 150 µW effective radiated power, very low frequency (VLF) experimenter Dex McIntyre, W4DEX, transmitted signals on June 2 and 3 that were detected by Paul Nicholson, an SWL in the UK. Earlier this year, Nicholson detected McIntyre's WH2XBA/4 Experimental Service VLF signal on 29.501 kHz. McIntyre needed no FCC license to transmit on 8.971 kHz, since the Commission has not designated any allocations below 9 kHz — dubbed "the Dreamers' Band."
"I'll probably make more transmissions on 8.9 kHz when there is no chance of thunderstorms," McIntyre told ARRL this week. "Then, maybe sliding down in frequency to see how low I can go for Paul to detect the signal."
Right now, McIntyre said his priority is to complete a transverter for the other end of the spectrum — 5.7 GHz. He's also working on a second 24 GHz system as a loaner, "so I'll have someone to work," he noted. "Sure is lonely here above UHF."
Nicholson used sophisticated digital signal processing (DSP) software to detect McIntyre's transmission. The distance was approximately 6194 km (approximately 3840 mi). Nicholson was able to detect the VLF signal during both daylight and nighttime paths.
On June 1 and into June 2, McIntyre transmitted a steady, GPS-locked carrier at 8.971.000 kHz. Between 0000 and 0600 UTC, Nicholson measured a carrier at that frequency in Todmorden, UK. He combined the electrical and magnetic field receiver outputs to produce a unidirectional antenna response.
"This brought the signal up to a significant level," Nicholson reported. "The signal bearing was roughly west. W4DEX is bearing 285° from here. The S/N is max on a bearing of 315°, which puts the prevailing southwesterly background nearer to the side of the antenna response. This gave the signal a respectable 12.5 dB S/N in a 46 µHz bandwidth." Nicholson said McIntyre's carrier also was visible during a daylight path in a 23 µHz bandwidth.
Just to confirm that Nicholson was actually detecting McIntyre's signal, the two experimenters conducted a blind confirmation test. McIntyre changed his transmit frequency slightly, and Nicholson was also able to detect that signal at 8.971.100 kHz at the same strength. An e-mail response from McIntyre confirmed 8.971.1 kHz as the new frequency.
Is a two-way sub-9 kHz contact in the offing? "A two-way, transatlantic contact would be a hundred times more amazing than just a simple signal detection," McIntyre said. "I seriously doubt I will ever have that receive capability. But not long ago I seriously doubted I would be the first to receive a transatlantic or New Zealand 137 kHz transmission. Going down in frequency has been as much fun as going higher. It's all RF."
McIntyre expressed his appreciation to Nicholson, "who was convinced this could be done with so little radiated power and for his continuous prodding to give it a try." He also credited Nicholson's "amazing weak-signal software.
McIntyre's transmitter consisted of a Hewlett Packard HP 3586B selective level meter with tracking generator. The low-level generator output is amplified by a Wandel & Golterman A-160 level regulator, which feeds a Hafler P3000 stereo audio amplifier, which has been bridge connected for mono output. In this configuration, the P3000 is capable of putting out 400 W of audio into an 8 W load. McIntyre said the same generator and amplifier have been used on 137, 74, and 29 kHz experiments.
His antenna is essentially the same one he uses for 160 meters and for other LF experiments. For this experiment, however, it was equipped with a gigantic base-loading coil, which contains nearly a mile of wire. "The vertical wire is spaced 1.5 meters from the tower, hanging from an insulator 29 meters above ground," McIntyre explained. "Top hat consists of about 170 meters of #18 Copperweld. Most of the top hat wires run about 7 to 20 meters over the top of a combination of oak and pine trees. Total antenna capacitance is close to 1200 pF."
McIntyre also thanked Jay Rusgrove, W1VD, and John Andrews, W1TAG, for their technical advice, Markus Vester, DF6NM, for technical advice "and additional prodding," Mal Hamilton, G3KEV, for coming up with the term "Dreamers' Band," and Stefan Schaefer, DK7FC, for "proving dreams can come true."
He also expressed gratitude to Warren Ziegler, K2ORS, for the opportunity to experiment on 29 and 74 kHz, "and all the other VLF experimenters who posted their results on the RSGB LF Group and the Yahoo Sub 9kHz Amateur Radio group.
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You've seen these; it's exactly what the name says—a compound word with all of its constituent parts linked with hyphens to form a single adjective. For example, in the phrase a weak-legged chair, weak-legged is a hyphenated compound adjective. The hyphen is used to show that the words weak and legged are acting as one unit. This unit modifies the word chair. Simple enough, right?
But are you sure that you always know when you need to hyphenate? Weak-legged chair may seem obvious enough but what if the phrase in question is a weakly creaking chair? Or what if the chair is weak legged?
To hyphenate or not to hyphenate—that is the question. The answer? It just depends.
One thing hyphenation depends on is your country of origin. As the gulf widened between American and British English, so did the hyphenation gap. British English tends toward a more heavily hyphenated style, while American English is a little more loose. And it just gets looser with time.
Although the rage for hyphenation cooled off somewhat in the middle of the 19th century, compound adjectives were still hyphenated. A 1908 book titled English Grammar by Knut Gjerset gave the following rule without exception: "When two or more words are joined together to form a compound word hyphens (-) are placed between them." Other grammar books from around the same era chose the same approach.
Dehyphenation didn't begin in earnest until much later. Perhaps the seeds had already been sown by Sir Winston Churchill's time, for he regarded the hyphen as "a blemish to be avoided, whenever possible." Those in advertising and packaging tended to agree. The advent of the Internet saw a further decline in hyphen usage, and now with the birth of eBooks, even hyphenating the ends of lines is impractical, and therefore likely to go the way of the dinosaur.
Good riddance, right? Not so fast! Until someone comes up with a better idea, hyphenating some words is still unavoidable. To borrow a popular example, it makes a big difference whether we're talking about a man eating shark or a man-eating shark.
So far so good. Now on to the exceptions.
We'll take a closer look at each exception in turn.
It was so large a house that she did not like to go nearer till she had nibbled some more of the left-hand bit of mushroom, and raised herself to about two feet high.
Use a hyphen when you write about the left-hand side of the street or the left-hand bit of mushroom or left-hand something else. In other words, if it is an adjective (a describing word), hyphenate it. If it is just your left hand or my left hand, do not hyphenate it. Write in your own words this adjective rule for hyphenating.
No one makes things more simple and clear than Ruth Beechick!
Not so clear, and certainly not simple — and a clue as to why this article exists.
Brief and interesting look at our historical use of hyphens.
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Cheri Fisher Schmidt posted a message.
I haven't officially been assigned to the decorating committee yet, but I'm taking it anyway. I will not be sharing the "theme" for this years 45th Reunion because I want to hear any other ideas from you'all.
Here's the catch I need about 6 or so crafty folks that would like to join me. We don't like to spend a lot on the decorations so homemade or recycle is welcome! Some projects may be small enough to bring with you if your coming from out of town. Others we will probably need "locals". I'm in Hollister and I still consider myself "local".
One more thing, you will be needed on the day of the reunion for a few hours before we start to help setup the decorations.
So if this sounds like fun (think float decorating), please reply and I will contact you personally to schedule a conference call with the committee and get started!!!
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Anywho, hope everyone received the Save The Date email sent out on 11/24. If not, update your contact info and profile to get all the latest info and let us know what you have been up to since our last reunion!
Hope to see everyone soon and look for regular update emails and our website as details gel.
Hey there - Sandi, Dena and I will be staking out a picnic area at Lover's Point for the 2018 Feast of Lanterns on Saturday, July 28th. We will be there early and stay through the fireworks. We are bbq hotdogs, chips and drinks. Come on down and join us! Kids, grandkids, dogs on leashes, invited. Hopefully the fog will disappear for the day and we will get to see the fireworks!
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Peggy A. Light Knorr posted a message on Cheri Fisher's Profile.
I'm just throwing this out there... Anyone up for a picnic this summer? Maybe Indian Village or somewhere??? I do believe Saddle Mountain Ranch is still open? I belive Tom Shymankski has a band, potlunk, invite another class or two?? Seems like 5 years is getting too long to go anymore.
Depending on the response, I will send out a survey and see who what you want to do, when and who wants to help with planning.
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Happy Birthday Linda! Hope you are having a great day!
Prayers for Lori McKinney Pappageorgas' daughter Melissa and Family.


It was years ago. I marched out the doors of a doctor's office and into the waiting room. My paperwork had finally come in, and the staff just needed my signature and final blood work. The clock was counting down to my return home, and there was a mixture of bitter-sweetness in my heart. I was receiving a medical discharge from the United States Marine Corps after a stress-fracture to my left hip ended the career I so desperately wanted to birth. It made me all knotted up inside, but I did what I was trained to do and stuffed those emotions down deep so that I did not lose my bearing. After all, I had to maintain the protocol of the training environment that the Marine Recruit Depot in San Diego strictly enforced, so there I marched out the door of the doctor's office and into the large room filled with rows and rows of chairs. The exit to the facility was not more than a quick jog from my position, and I proceeded straight for it with all the intensity I could muster. That is when it happened.
A recruit, not more than a few weeks into his training, was sitting in one of those chairs. Decked out in digital green and khaki suede boots, he sat rigidly in his chair at attention–hands placed neatly on his lap with fingers lying straight to his knees. His mouth was silent, but his eyes said it all. He made eye contact, or "eye-balled" me as the common term goes, and he was waiting for me to hurl insult after insult at him, as he had just violated a core rule of recruit training: never look anyone directly in the eye, always be stoic. I approached, making my way to him as I was leaving. My intent was to yell at him and make a grand show of his failure, but I saw his face change to a pale, white color as his eyes locked to mine in terror. It gave me pause. For a split second, I saw something I had not seen before. There was something behind those eyes that grieved me, something that touched off a sympathetic nerve. I looked around to see if there was anyone else about. There were none. I glanced to my left, and that's when I knew why he was there. In the moment that I crossed his path, close enough to speak, I said: "Keep your chin up, Son. Everything is going to be okay," and then I swiftly moved on out the door to my assignment in Support Battalion.
Two weeks later, a new batch of recruits had been marched to our doors. They were being processed out of the Corps as failures to adapt. My job was to process their gear and get them assigned to a rack until the paperwork was processed to send them home. I had each of these so-called young failures line up shoulder to shoulder at attention and lay out all their gear on the ground, so I could take inventory and get it sent back to Supply. There, it would be recycled into the next training company of recruits coming into the Depot. I went through the check list individually with each recruit, one after the other, presenting their gear in front of me. There were no words spoken outside of the task-at-hand, and no one was smiling or being casual. This was military business–serious, professional, disciplined. Even in the moment of being disconnected from service, there was still a training protocol to follow, and grace was not part of that regimented function.
As I went down the line, I finally came to a tall young man standing silently stoic in the group. His gear, like all the others lying neatly organized on the floor in front of him. I looked down at the checklist and surveyed the gear before calling it off with instructions for the young man to present each piece of gear to me as visual evidence for its existence, and then I heard his voice. The young man had asked me my name. I shot back at him with a piercing stare and asked, "What's it to you? Am I supposed to know you?" He paused a moment, and then told me his story.
Two weeks ago, he was in the Medical Center sitting in the waiting room. He had tried to fit into the Corps. He desperately wanted to be a Marine, much like a number of his family members back home, but he found himself struggling inside. Time and time again, he tried to talk to his Drill Instructors about the darkness that seemed to creep in heavier and heavier as the training days turned into weeks, but he felt as though they did not listen. He had become lost in the crack somewhere between the military's policy of appropriately addressing recruit personal problems, and the bureaucratic rigidity of military training protocol. Thus, deeper and deeper he went down the rabbit hole of losing himself. Only after a few repeated meetings with his Senior Drill Instructor did the young man make any headway in progressing to see a shrink about his problems, but by then it was too late. He had made up his mind that the men meant to train him did not seem to care. They only cared about the numbers. There were no words of encouragement behind closed doors, only the negative reinforcement often handed to recruits in the public sphere of their peers, and so he shut himself down because he saw no room for grace.
I don't remember the young man's face anymore. I never asked for his name. Looking back, though, we both found grace in an unexpected place. He got to go home, and I carry this memory now as an example that grace abounds even in failure and darkness. It's not just for the light of day.


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The last game in my board game review series is the latest one released, Founding Fathers . Like Campaign Manager 2008 and 1960: The Making of the President, this was designed by Christian Leonhard and Jason Matthews. It was released in the summer of 2010 and is produced by Jolly Roger Games. Unlike the other games in the series (the two listed above and Twilight Struggle), this one actually requires multiple players--it plays with 3 to 5 people.
Founding Fathers (FF) is a simulation of the drafting of the Constitution. Each player takes the role of a Planner--well-known names like Alexander Hamilton and more obscure ones like William Paterson. While players can choose different planners, there isn't really a difference between them beyond their home state. Players will use delegates and influence markers to enact the plan they want and get as much credit for the framing of the Constitution as they can.
The board is an abstracted version of the convention hall. There is the Assembly Room, where most of the action takes place; this is where different articles of the constitution are voted either up or down. There is a debate track, where different planners can hold debates about different issues. And there is a Committee Room, which more or less acts like a loser's room. The board also has different sections for different markers.
Each player can hold a hand of up to three delegates. Each delegate has a home state, a faction bias, and a special ability. On your turn you may do one of four things: vote on the current article, hold a debate, discard cards from your hand to draw new ones, and use a card's special ability. A player then chooses from the current pool of delegates to fill their hand. (A player can only choose from a selected pool of delegates, called the caucus, but the state is the only information listed on the back of each card. That way, each player knows what state they are selecting but not the faction bias or special ability.) Once a player has filled their hand, the caucus itself is also filled up to three. If a planner card comes up, it automatically goes to its owner--so if Hamilton is drawn, it goes straight to the player who is playing as Hamilton even if it's not their turn.
An example of three delegate cards. James Madison, in the middle, is a Planner.
At the beginning of the game, four of the twelve articles are automatically decided. Each article is either for or against two different biases: Small State vs. Large State and Federalist vs. Anti-Federalist. There are four turns in a game, so each turn two articles are resolved. Each article is going to be part of the Constitution no matter what players do; basically, each player is simply trying to flip the faction bias in their favor.
Most of the game will involve players voting for or against the proposed article. Players can do this simply by placing any number of delegates (and an Influence marker) from the same state (even just one) and placing it on either "yes" or "no." There are two main restrictions: first, a delegate cannot vote against their bias. So a Federalist delegate can't vote against a Federalist article. They can only vote for it; however, they are free to vote either direction on a small vs. large state issue. Secondly, you can't place delegates from a state if that state has already voted unless you put down more delegates than are already there. So if there are two delegates from Virginia voting Nay, you must place at least three Virginia delegates down to override it to change that state's vote to Yea. If a majority of the states vote one way or the other, it is immediately resolved and the turn is over.
If players aren't voting on the article, they can try and improve their positioning on the debate. A player may discard any number of delegates with the same faction bias--regardless of state--and move their marker up that many on the debate track for that bias. At the end of the turn, the player with the highest value in each debate track gets a token for that bias; this grants a bonus at the end of the game.
Each delegate has an event associated with it. These vary wildly, from simple victory point bonuses to game-changing alterations in the rules, such as holding extra cards or preventing other events.
Finally, if you just don't have any good options, you can discard your cards to pick up new ones.
Each player is also given influence markers. A player starts out with three, and can pick up more by playing Planner cards as events (along with a few other events). Influence markers allow you to do more things. They allow you to participate in the debates and they allow you to vote. You are not restricted in your actions due to a lack of influence markers, but if you take an action and don't have an influence marker, you have to take one from somewhere else. This means if you've spend a few turns building up your small-state histrionics to a modestly impressive level, but you want to vote Nay on an article and have no Influence markers, you'll have to sacrifice the influence marker from the debates and add it to your vote. Having more markers allows you to get more credit for things on the board.
When the votes are cast, each player gains one point for each delegate that has an influence marker on it that voted on the winning side. Delegates with an appropriate bias faction get an extra point. So if you have two Delaware delegates voting Nay on a Large State article and you have an Influence marker on that delegation, you get two points from that state. If either (or both) of those delegates have a Small State bias, they get an extra point for each. However, if you've moved your Influence marker away to do something else, you get no points from that state! (Even though you don't score, the votes still count.) You score for each state you have an Influence marker on.
Any influence markers on delegations that failed go straight to the Committee Room.
If the article passed, it goes straight to the Constitution. If it failed, flip it (reversing its bias in the process) and add it to the Constitution.
Then, the Committee Room is resolved. This is easy: the player who currently has the most influence markers here gets to choose whether the article in the Committee room gets to keep its current bias or if gets flipped. That player then removes all of their Influence markers, taking one point for each, and places the article in the Constitution.
After both articles are resolved, players get their debate tokens (as described above).
Two articles get resolved each turn: one in the Assembly Room and one in the Committee Room. After four rounds, all articles have been decided (eight for the four rounds, plus the four automatically resolved at the beginning of the game). The game ends. Players get a bonus based off of the debate track tokens they have collected as compared to the number of articles in the finished Constitution with that bias. The player with the most points wins.
Once players are familiar with the game, a four-player game takes perhaps an hour, maybe a little longer if the votes go back and forth a lot.
What I like about the game:
*It's fun! It's also very fast-paced. While there isn't much to do on a rival's turn, turns move pretty quick.
*The presentation of the game is wonderful. While the components look exactly as they should, all colonial and stuff, the instructions and each card is filled with real-life historical information. Not necessary, but it makes the game much more enjoyable.
*It is very well balanced, at least in the sense of what a player can do in a turn. While the voting in the Assembly Room is always going to be the most important, you never want to neglect the Debate Track, and you never want to pass up the opportunity to play a good event. You have to have your eyes on all parts of the board to play properly.
*While the Influence Marker mechanic seems clumsy at first, it also does a good job of forcing players to make hard decisions about what they are willing to sacrifice. It ends up being quite intuitive. While I wish there was a better way to gain markers--right now it's more or less random--it's not so bad as to be a huge issue.
*While the wide variety in the quality of events seems like it would be unbalancing, I don't really find that to be the case. Since most delegates are going to be spend on voting and debating anyway, you only play a select number of cards for events. Even then, no card is useless, so if you don't have may good options you can always do something.
What I don't like about the game:
*After playing the other three games in this series and their absolutely comprehensive theme-related gameplay, FF seems oddly mechanical. Despite the fact that the board presentation and cards have plenty of historical flavor and real-life biographies, I still feel like I'm simply trying to maximize points. I'm not sure why this is.
*For a game about voting, there's very little deal-making. No one can really offer another player anything beyond promises to vote, but there isn't much incentive to do so.
*Some parts of the game seem oddly unsatisfying. It seems like the Committee Room could have been infused with an additional layer of strategic decision-making, but instead is more or less automatically determined. I know there is a certain level of complexity that must be sacrificed, but it just seems like a game like this could have used it.
*One delegate--George Washington--is pretty rough. His special ability effectively ends the turn immediately. While there are a few cards to counter it and it's not without its drawbacks, it still feels like it gives a huge advantage to the player who draws him. This card probably needs to be reworked.
*For all of the emphasis on faction bias in the game, it has very little impact on a player's final score. Aside from the debate tokens, whether an article ends up being Federalist or Anti-Federalist doesn't matter; it just matters that you're on the winning side. And even the debate tokens aren't all that important; the difference between the first-place and last-place bias is three points. While many games are close and those three points might be crucial, it still seems like a lot of work for little benefit.
The drawbacks to the game, however, are dryly mechanical enough that they don't detract this from being a good game. I find this to be the weakest game of the series, but that doesn't mean it's a bad game. In fact, I think this is probably the best game to purchase first. It has more depth than CM08. I would peg it to be about equal in complexity as 1960, but slightly easier to play; unlike 1960, you don't really need to know all of the special abilities to play a good game. My grade: B-.
I'll compare and contrast the four games in this series in a later post.
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A resonance that has relatively high loss. An impedance plot will show a high dip at series resonance and low peak at parallel resonance, as compared to a strong resonance. Asymmetric resonances are generally weak.
If both a strong resonance and weak resonance are near the nominal operating frequency of the power supply, then the power supply will normally run at the strong resonance. However, the weak resonance may still influence the performance of the strong resonance.


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