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Azure Power, a solar power producer in India, has announced that it has started the construction of its 100MW solar power plant in Andhra Pradesh. The Company has secured land and financing for this project. The project was auctioned by NTPC, Government of India's largest power utility, designated under National Solar Mission for a total capacity of 1000 MW of solar power projects at Kurnool Ultra Mega Solar Park. The solar park is being developed by Solar Park Implementation Agency (SPIA), Andhra Pradesh Solar Power Corporation Limited (APSPCL).
The tariff on the project will be INR 5.12/ kWh (US $0.077) and the company will supply power to NTPC for a duration of 25 years. The project is expected to get commissioned by second quarter 2017.
Speaking on this occasion, Inderpreet Wadhwa, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Azure Power said, "We have over 200MW portfolio with proven track record of operating solar power projects in Andhra Pradesh. With the commencement of the construction of this 100 MW project, we are delighted to make contribution towards realization of our Hon'ble Prime Minister's commitment towards clean and green energy, through solar power generation. Our sincere gratitude to NTPC and the State of Andhra Pradesh, for all the cooperation and support extended."
Azure has a portfolio of over 1000 MW with an excellent record in setting up and operating solar power plants, be it utility scale or commercial rooftop projects. The company has a vast experience of delivering solar power projects, from the construction of India's first private utility scale solar PV power plant in 2009 to the implementation of the first MW scale rooftop under the smart city initiative in 2013 to the largest solar plant (100 MW) under India's National Solar Mission (NSM) policy in Jodhpur, Rajasthan.
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The #IEEEGameSIG Classic Games Showcase open to submissions on April 29, 2019.
The submission period ends at midnight Pacific Time on May 05, 2019.
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Between 30 and 50 teams will submit a video promoting their game this year. Consider your video as a "movie trailer" or "marketing pitch". Your video will be individually reviewed by a group of industry and academic personnel. They will rank each submission based on their perceptions of the potential game play experience and marketability of the product as shown in the video. They will also evaluate the conformity of the design to the one-page PDF document.
Only the ten highest-ranking submissions will be accepted for the final round of the competition. Your video needs to be engaging. It needs to clearly explain the strengths of the design and why it will appeal to your target audience.
It is expected that teams will modify their games after submitting a video, but only one video may be submitted. Judges will not see the videos. They will make their final judgments based on the live demos given during the event.
IT'S ALL ABOUT THE POTENTIAL FUN AND MARKETABILITY OF YOUR GAME. MAKE US WANT TO RUSH OUT AND BUY IT.
The video should be 3 to 5 minutes long.
It should demonstrate the game play experience.
The video and/or YouTube page should make clear the name of the game.
Video introduction, narration, and "talking heads" are permitted, but should not be at the expense of demonstrating game play.
List of team members and their colleges or universities, with contact emails.
Target platform and target audience.
Brief list of key features and game objective(s).
One or more examples of game art.
One faculty member name and email address and primary school affiliation.
Web link for YouTube video (further information about game, game download, development team, etc. may be added to YouTube video page).
The game must reasonably be expected to receive a rating of either "E" or "T" from the Entertainment Software Rating Board [ESRB], based on ESRB's criteria as of the announcement date of this showcase.
If you are sending more than one submission form, you may ZIP them up together.
The ten finalists will present their work to the live audience on the day of the event.
Finalists must provide five images of your game, including one of your game logo, in 1920x1080 resolution, for display on the monitors in the auditorium. You can email these images to the same email address used for submitting your PDF document. Images are due one week prior to the event.
Presenters should be prepared to connect their machines (via HDMI) to the video projector and are expected to test their setups prior to the event. The room will open two hours prior to the event for this purpose. Please arrive early and allow time for troubleshooting. If you are unable to connect a machine and demonstrate your game at the event, your team will be disqualified.
A panel of judges from the industry will view all of the presentations and select the winners.
Following the event, any teams that submitted qualified entries are invited to demonstrate their games at the event reception (space is limited, so please let us know if you plan to do so).


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Recruits hail from France, the United Kingdom, Belgium, Germany, Holland, Australia, Indonesia, the United States, and many other places. Many have come to fight, and many intend to die. Peter R. Online recruitment has also widened the demographics of the jihadist community, by allowing conservative Muslim women—physically isolated in their homes—to reach out to recruiters, radicalize, and arrange passage to Syria.
Through its appeals to both genders, the Islamic State hopes to build a complete society. For three years he was a televangelist on Iqraa TV in Cairo, but he left after the station objected to his frequent calls to establish a caliphate. Now he preaches on Facebook and Twitter.
Cerantonio—a big, friendly man with a bookish demeanor—told me he blanches at beheading videos. He hates seeing the violence, even though supporters of the Islamic State are required to endorse it. He speaks out, controversially among jihadists, against suicide bombing, on the grounds that God forbids suicide; he differs from the Islamic State on a few other points as well. He has the kind of unkempt facial hair one sees on certain overgrown fans of The Lord of the Rings , and his obsession with Islamic apocalypticism felt familiar.
He is stuck in Melbourne, where he is well known to the local constabulary. If Cerantonio were caught facilitating the movement of individuals to the Islamic State, he would be imprisoned. Cerantonio grew up there in a half-Irish, half-Calabrian family. On a typical street one can find African restaurants, Vietnamese shops, and young Arabs walking around in the Salafi uniform of scraggly beard, long shirt, and trousers ending halfway down the calves. Cerantonio explained the joy he felt when Baghdadi was declared the caliph on June 29—and the sudden, magnetic attraction that Mesopotamia began to exert on him and his friends.
The last caliphate was the Ottoman empire, which reached its peak in the 16th century and then experienced a long decline, until the founder of the Republic of Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, euthanized it in Baghdadi spoke at length of the importance of the caliphate in his Mosul sermon.
He said that to revive the institution of the caliphate—which had not functioned except in name for about 1, years—was a communal obligation. Unlike bin Laden, and unlike those false caliphs of the Ottoman empire, he is Qurayshi. The caliphate, Cerantonio told me, is not just a political entity but also a vehicle for salvation. They are neither obviously saved nor definitively condemned.
Similarly, Cerantonio said, the Muslim who acknowledges one omnipotent god and prays, but who dies without pledging himself to a valid caliph and incurring the obligations of that oath, has failed to live a fully Islamic life. I pointed out that this means the vast majority of Muslims in history, and all who passed away between and , died a death of disbelief. Cerantonio nodded gravely. This last criterion, Cerantonio said, is the hardest to fulfill, and requires that the caliph have territory in which he can enforce Islamic law.
He and others spoke quietly to those in power and told them that further delay would be sinful. They prepared a letter to various powerful members of ISIS , airing their displeasure at the failure to appoint a caliph, but were pacified by Adnani, the spokesman, who let them in on a secret—that a caliphate had already been declared, long before the public announcement.
They had their legitimate caliph, and at that point there was only one option. Jürgen Todenhöfer, a German author and former politician who visited the Islamic State in December, reported the arrival of fighters at one Turkish-border recruitment station in just two days. His report, among others, suggests a still-steady inflow of foreigners, ready to give up everything at home for a shot at paradise in the worst place on Earth.
In London, a week before my meal with Cerantonio, I met with three ex-members of a banned Islamist group called Al Muhajiroun The Emigrants : Anjem Choudary, Abu Baraa, and Abdul Muhid. They all expressed desire to emigrate to the Islamic State, as many of their colleagues already had, but the authorities had confiscated their passports. Like Cerantonio, they regarded the caliphate as the only righteous government on Earth, though none would confess having pledged allegiance.
He frequently appears on cable news, as one of the few people producers can book who will defend the Islamic State vociferously, until his mike is cut. He has a reputation in the United Kingdom as a loathsome blowhard, but he and his disciples sincerely believe in the Islamic State and, on matters of doctrine, speak in its voice. Choudary and the others feature prominently in the Twitter feeds of Islamic State residents, and Abu Baraa maintains a YouTube channel to answer questions about Sharia.
Since September, authorities have been investigating the three men on suspicion of supporting terrorism. Because of this investigation, they had to meet me separately: communication among them would have violated the terms of their bail. But speaking with them felt like speaking with the same person wearing different masks.
Choudary met me in a candy shop in the East London suburb of Ilford. He was dressed smartly, in a crisp blue tunic reaching nearly to his ankles, and sipped a Red Bull while we talked. But create a caliphate, and this law, along with a huge body of other jurisprudence, suddenly awakens.
In theory, all Muslims are obliged to immigrate to the territory where the caliph is applying these laws. On the day I met Choudary, Abu Rumaysah tweeted out a picture of himself with a Kalashnikov in one arm and his newborn son in the other. Hashtag: GenerationKhilafah. The caliph is required to implement Sharia. Any deviation will compel those who have pledged allegiance to inform the caliph in private of his error and, in extreme cases, to excommunicate and replace him if he persists. In return, the caliph commands obedience—and those who persist in supporting non-Muslim governments, after being duly warned and educated about their sin, are considered apostates.
Abdul Muhid, 32, continued along these lines. He was dressed in mujahideen chic when I met him at a local restaurant: scruffy beard, Afghan cap, and a wallet outside of his clothes, attached with what looked like a shoulder holster. When we sat down, he was eager to discuss welfare. The Islamic State may have medieval-style punishments for moral crimes lashes for boozing or fornication, stoning for adultery , but its social-welfare program is, at least in some aspects, progressive to a degree that would please an MSNBC pundit.
Health care, he said, is free. All Muslims acknowledge that God is the only one who knows the future. But they also agree that he has offered us a peek at it, in the Koran and in narrations of the Prophet. It is in this casting that the Islamic State is most boldly distinctive from its predecessors, and clearest in the religious nature of its mission. In broad strokes, al-Qaeda acts like an underground political movement, with worldly goals in sight at all times—the expulsion of non-Muslims from the Arabian peninsula, the abolishment of the state of Israel, the end of support for dictatorships in Muslim lands.
The Islamic State has its share of worldly concerns including, in the places it controls, collecting garbage and keeping the water running , but the End of Days is a leitmotif of its propaganda.
Bin Laden rarely mentioned the apocalypse, and when he did, he seemed to presume that he would be long dead when the glorious moment of divine comeuppance finally arrived. During the last years of the U. They were anticipating, within a year, the arrival of the Mahdi—a messianic figure destined to lead the Muslims to victory before the end of the world.
For certain true believers—the kind who long for epic good-versus-evil battles—visions of apocalyptic bloodbaths fulfill a deep psychological need. Of the Islamic State supporters I met, Musa Cerantonio, the Australian, expressed the deepest interest in the apocalypse and how the remaining days of the Islamic State—and the world—might look. Parts of that prediction are original to him, and do not yet have the status of doctrine.
The Islamic State has attached great importance to the Syrian city of Dabiq, near Aleppo. It is here, the Prophet reportedly said, that the armies of Rome will set up their camp. Now that it has taken Dabiq, the Islamic State awaits the arrival of an enemy army there, whose defeat will initiate the countdown to the apocalypse. During fighting in Iraq in December, after mujahideen perhaps inaccurately reported having seen American soldiers in battle, Islamic State Twitter accounts erupted in spasms of pleasure, like overenthusiastic hosts or hostesses upon the arrival of the first guests at a party.
The Prophetic narration that foretells the Dabiq battle refers to the enemy as Rome. But Cerantonio makes a case that Rome meant the Eastern Roman empire, which had its capital in what is now Istanbul. We should think of Rome as the Republic of Turkey—the same republic that ended the last self-identified caliphate, 90 years ago.
Other Islamic State sources suggest that Rome might mean any infidel army, and the Americans will do nicely. After its battle in Dabiq, Cerantonio said, the caliphate will expand and sack Istanbul. Some believe it will then cover the entire Earth, but Cerantonio suggested its tide may never reach beyond the Bosporus.
Just as Dajjal prepares to finish them off, Jesus—the second-most-revered prophet in Islam—will return to Earth, spear Dajjal, and lead the Muslims to victory. But he is hopeful. The Islamic State has its best and worst days ahead of it.
Osama bin Laden was seldom predictable. He ended his first television interview cryptically. In London, Choudary and his students provided detailed descriptions of how the Islamic State must conduct its foreign policy, now that it is a caliphate.
But the waging of war to expand the caliphate is an essential duty of the caliph. Choudary took pains to present the laws of war under which the Islamic State operates as policies of mercy rather than of brutality. He told me the state has an obligation to terrorize its enemies—a holy order to scare the shit out of them with beheadings and crucifixions and enslavement of women and children, because doing so hastens victory and avoids prolonged conflict.
If the caliph consents to a longer-term peace or permanent border, he will be in error. Temporary peace treaties are renewable, but may not be applied to all enemies at once: the caliph must wage jihad at least once a year.
He may not rest, or he will fall into a state of sin. One comparison to the Islamic State is the Khmer Rouge, which killed about a third of the population of Cambodia. Even to hasten the arrival of a caliphate by democratic means—for example by voting for political candidates who favor a caliphate—is shirk. For the Islamic State, that recognition is ideological suicide. Other Islamist groups, such as the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas, have succumbed to the blandishments of democracy and the potential for an invitation to the community of nations, complete with a UN seat.
Negotiation and accommodation have worked, at times, for the Taliban as well. To the Islamic State these are not options, but acts of apostasy.
The United States and its allies have reacted to the Islamic State belatedly and in an apparent daze. Our failure to appreciate the split between the Islamic State and al-Qaeda, and the essential differences between the two, has led to dangerous decisions. Last fall, to take one example, the U. The plan facilitated—indeed, required—the interaction of some of the founding figures of the Islamic State and al-Qaeda, and could hardly have looked more hastily improvised.
Maqdisi had already called for the state to extend mercy to Alan Henning, the British cabbie who had entered Syria to deliver aid to children. In December, The Guardian reported that the U. Maqdisi was living freely in Jordan, but had been banned from communicating with terrorists abroad, and was being monitored closely.
After Jordan granted the United States permission to reintroduce Maqdisi to Binali, Maqdisi bought a phone with American money and was allowed to correspond merrily with his former student for a few days, before the Jordanian government stopped the chats and used them as a pretext to jail Maqdisi.
Multiple attempts to elicit comment from the FBI were unsuccessful. Chastened by our earlier indifference, we are now meeting the Islamic State via Kurdish and Iraqi proxy on the battlefield, and with regular air assaults. Some observers have called for escalation, including several predictable voices from the interventionist right Max Boot, Frederick Kagan , who have urged the deployment of tens of thousands of American soldiers.
The Islamic State cannot. If it loses its grip on its territory in Syria and Iraq, it will cease to be a caliphate. Caliphates cannot exist as underground movements, because territorial authority is a requirement: take away its command of territory, and all those oaths of allegiance are no longer binding.
Former pledges could of course continue to attack the West and behead their enemies, as freelancers. But the propaganda value of the caliphate would disappear, and with it the supposed religious duty to immigrate and serve it. If the state musters at Dabiq in full force, only to be routed, it might never recover.
And yet the risks of escalation are enormous. The biggest proponent of an American invasion is the Islamic State itself.
The provocative videos, in which a black-hooded executioner addresses President Obama by name, are clearly made to draw America into the fight. Yet another invasion and occupation would confirm that suspicion, and bolster recruitment. Add the incompetence of our previous efforts as occupiers, and we have reason for reluctance.
The rise of ISIS , after all, happened only because our previous occupation created space for Zarqawi and his followers. Who knows the consequences of another botched job? Given everything we know about the Islamic State, continuing to slowly bleed it, through air strikes and proxy warfare, appears the best of bad military options. Neither the Kurds nor the Shia will ever subdue and control the whole Sunni heartland of Syria and Iraq—they are hated there, and have no appetite for such an adventure anyway.
But they can keep the Islamic State from fulfilling its duty to expand. And with every month that it fails to expand, it resembles less the conquering state of the Prophet Muhammad than yet another Middle Eastern government failing to bring prosperity to its people. But its threat to the United States is smaller than its all too frequent conflation with al-Qaeda would suggest. It sees enemies everywhere around it, and while its leadership wishes ill on the United States, the application of Sharia in the caliphate and the expansion to contiguous lands are paramount.
The foreign fighters and their wives and children have been traveling to the caliphate on one-way tickets: they want to live under true Sharia, and many want martyrdom. Doctrine, recall, requires believers to reside in the caliphate if it is at all possible for them to do so. This would be an eccentric act for someone intending to return to blow himself up in line at the Louvre or to hold another chocolate shop hostage in Sydney.
But most of the attackers have been frustrated amateurs, unable to immigrate to the caliphate because of confiscated passports or other problems. During his visit to Mosul in December, Jürgen Todenhöfer interviewed a portly German jihadist and asked whether any of his comrades had returned to Europe to carry out attacks.
The jihadist seemed to regard returnees not as soldiers but as dropouts. Properly contained, the Islamic State is likely to be its own undoing. No country is its ally, and its ideology ensures that this will remain the case. The land it controls, while expansive, is mostly uninhabited and poor. And as more reports of misery within it leak out, radical Islamist movements elsewhere will be discredited: No one has tried harder to implement strict Sharia by violence.
This is what it looks like. But we should watch carefully for a rapprochement. Muslims can say that slavery is not legitimate now , and that crucifixion is wrong at this historical juncture. Many say precisely this. But they cannot condemn slavery or crucifixion outright without contradicting the Koran and the example of the Prophet. That really would be an act of apostasy.
Musa Cerantonio and the Salafis I met in London are unstumpable: no question I posed left them stuttering. They lectured me garrulously and, if one accepts their premises, convincingly. To call them un-Islamic appears, to me, to invite them into an argument that they would win. If they had been froth-spewing maniacs, I might be able to predict that their movement would burn out as the psychopaths detonated themselves or became drone-splats, one by one.
But these men spoke with an academic precision that put me in mind of a good graduate seminar. I even enjoyed their company, and that frightened me as much as anything else. Non-muslims cannot tell Muslims how to practice their religion properly.
What is the Islamic State? Where did it come from, and what are its intentions? The simplicity of these questions can be deceiving, and few Western leaders seem to know the answers. In December, The New York Times published confidential comments by Major General Michael K. The group seized Mosul, Iraq, last June, and already rules an area larger than the United Kingdom. Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has been its leader since May , but until last summer, his most recent known appearance on film was a grainy mug shot from a stay in U.
captivity at Camp Bucca during the occupation of Iraq. Then, on July 5 of last year, he stepped into the pulpit of the Great Mosque of al-Nuri in Mosul, to deliver a Ramadan sermon as the first caliph in generations—upgrading his resolution from grainy to high-definition, and his position from hunted guerrilla to commander of all Muslims. The inflow of jihadists that followed, from around the world, was unprecedented in its pace and volume, and is continuing.
Our ignorance of the Islamic State is in some ways understandable: It is a hermit kingdom; few have gone there and returned. Baghdadi has spoken on camera only once. We can gather that their state rejects peace as a matter of principle; that it hungers for genocide; that its religious views make it constitutionally incapable of certain types of change, even if that change might ensure its survival; and that it considers itself a harbinger of—and headline player in—the imminent end of the world.
The Islamic State, also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham ISIS , follows a distinctive variety of Islam whose beliefs about the path to the Day of Judgment matter to its strategy, and can help the West know its enemy and predict its behavior. Its rise to power is less like the triumph of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt a group whose leaders the Islamic State considers apostates than like the realization of a dystopian alternate reality in which David Koresh or Jim Jones survived to wield absolute power over not just a few hundred people, but some 8 million.
We have misunderstood the nature of the Islamic State in at least two ways. First, we tend to see jihadism as monolithic, and to apply the logic of al-Qaeda to an organization that has decisively eclipsed it. Bin Laden viewed his terrorism as a prologue to a caliphate he did not expect to see in his lifetime. His organization was flexible, operating as a geographically diffuse network of autonomous cells.
The Islamic State, by contrast, requires territory to remain legitimate, and a top-down structure to rule it. Its bureaucracy is divided into civil and military arms, and its territory into provinces. Peter Bergen, who produced the first interview with bin Laden in , titled his first book Holy War, Inc. in part to acknowledge bin Laden as a creature of the modern secular world.
Bin Laden corporatized terror and franchised it out. He requested specific political concessions, such as the withdrawal of U. forces from Saudi Arabia.
His foot soldiers navigated the modern world confidently. There is a temptation to rehearse this observation—that jihadists are modern secular people, with modern political concerns, wearing medieval religious disguise—and make it fit the Islamic State.
In fact, much of what the group does looks nonsensical except in light of a sincere, carefully considered commitment to returning civilization to a seventh-century legal environment, and ultimately to bringing about the apocalypse.
They often speak in codes and allusions that sound odd or old-fashioned to non-Muslims, but refer to specific traditions and texts of early Islam. But Adnani was not merely talking trash. His speech was laced with theological and legal discussion, and his exhortation to attack crops directly echoed orders from Muhammad to leave well water and crops alone—unless the armies of Islam were in a defensive position, in which case Muslims in the lands of kuffar , or infidels, should be unmerciful, and poison away.
The reality is that the Islamic State is Islamic. Very Islamic. Yes, it has attracted psychopaths and adventure seekers, drawn largely from the disaffected populations of the Middle East and Europe. But the religion preached by its most ardent followers derives from coherent and even learned interpretations of Islam.
Muslims can reject the Islamic State; nearly all do. In November, the Islamic State released an infomercial-like video tracing its origins to bin Laden. Zawahiri has not pledged allegiance to Baghdadi, and he is increasingly hated by his fellow jihadists.
His isolation is not helped by his lack of charisma; in videos he comes across as squinty and annoyed. But the split between al-Qaeda and the Islamic State has been long in the making, and begins to explain, at least in part, the outsize bloodlust of the latter.
On most matters of doctrine, Maqdisi and the Islamic State agree. In time, though, Zarqawi surpassed his mentor in fanaticism, and eventually earned his rebuke. In Islam, the practice of takfir , or excommunication, is theologically perilous. The punishment for apostasy is death. And yet Zarqawi heedlessly expanded the range of behavior that could make Muslims infidels. Denying the holiness of the Koran or the prophecies of Muhammad is straightforward apostasy.
But Zarqawi and the state he spawned take the position that many other acts can remove a Muslim from Islam.
Being a Shiite, as most Iraqi Arabs are, meets the standard as well, because the Islamic State regards Shiism as innovation, and to innovate on the Koran is to deny its initial perfection. The Islamic State claims that common Shiite practices, such as worship at the graves of imams and public self-flagellation, have no basis in the Koran or in the example of the Prophet. That means roughly million Shia are marked for death. So too are the heads of state of every Muslim country, who have elevated man-made law above Sharia by running for office or enforcing laws not made by God.
Following takfiri doctrine, the Islamic State is committed to purifying the world by killing vast numbers of people. The lack of objective reporting from its territory makes the true extent of the slaughter unknowable, but social-media posts from the region suggest that individual executions happen more or less continually, and mass executions every few weeks. Exempted from automatic execution, it appears, are Christians who do not resist their new government.
Baghdadi permits them to live, as long as they pay a special tax, known as the jizya , and acknowledge their subjugation. The Koranic authority for this practice is not in dispute. Centuries have passed since the wars of religion ceased in Europe, and since men stopped dying in large numbers because of arcane theological disputes. Hence, perhaps, the incredulity and denial with which Westerners have greeted news of the theology and practices of the Islamic State. Many refuse to believe that this group is as devout as it claims to be, or as backward-looking or apocalyptic as its actions and statements suggest.
Their skepticism is comprehensible. Look instead, these scholars urged, to the conditions in which these ideologies arose—the bad governance, the shifting social mores, the humiliation of living in lands valued only for their oil. Without acknowledgment of these factors, no explanation of the rise of the Islamic State could be complete.
Many mainstream Muslim organizations have gone so far as to say the Islamic State is, in fact, un-Islamic. It is, of course, reassuring to know that the vast majority of Muslims have zero interest in replacing Hollywood movies with public executions as evening entertainment. Of partial Lebanese descent, Haykel grew up in Lebanon and the United States, and when he talks through his Mephistophelian goatee, there is a hint of an unplaceable foreign accent.
According to Haykel, the ranks of the Islamic State are deeply infused with religious vigor. Koranic quotations are ubiquitous. This behavior includes a number of practices that modern Muslims tend to prefer not to acknowledge as integral to their sacred texts. The Koran specifies crucifixion as one of the only punishments permitted for enemies of Islam.
Leaders of the Islamic State have taken emulation of Muhammad as strict duty, and have revived traditions that have been dormant for hundreds of years. They conquered most of what is now Saudi Arabia, and their strict practices survive in a diluted version of Sharia there.
If al-Qaeda wanted to revive slavery, it never said so. And why would it? Silence on slavery probably reflected strategic thinking, with public sympathies in mind: when the Islamic State began enslaving people, even some of its supporters balked. Nonetheless, the caliphate has continued to embrace slavery and crucifixion without apology. A study group of Islamic State scholars had convened, on government orders, to resolve this issue. Tens of thousands of foreign Muslims are thought to have immigrated to the Islamic State.
Recruits hail from France, the United Kingdom, Belgium, Germany, Holland, Australia, Indonesia, the United States, and many other places. Many have come to fight, and many intend to die. Peter R. Online recruitment has also widened the demographics of the jihadist community, by allowing conservative Muslim women—physically isolated in their homes—to reach out to recruiters, radicalize, and arrange passage to Syria. Through its appeals to both genders, the Islamic State hopes to build a complete society.
For three years he was a televangelist on Iqraa TV in Cairo, but he left after the station objected to his frequent calls to establish a caliphate. Now he preaches on Facebook and Twitter. Cerantonio—a big, friendly man with a bookish demeanor—told me he blanches at beheading videos. He hates seeing the violence, even though supporters of the Islamic State are required to endorse it. He speaks out, controversially among jihadists, against suicide bombing, on the grounds that God forbids suicide; he differs from the Islamic State on a few other points as well.
He has the kind of unkempt facial hair one sees on certain overgrown fans of The Lord of the Rings , and his obsession with Islamic apocalypticism felt familiar. He is stuck in Melbourne, where he is well known to the local constabulary. If Cerantonio were caught facilitating the movement of individuals to the Islamic State, he would be imprisoned. Cerantonio grew up there in a half-Irish, half-Calabrian family. On a typical street one can find African restaurants, Vietnamese shops, and young Arabs walking around in the Salafi uniform of scraggly beard, long shirt, and trousers ending halfway down the calves.
Cerantonio explained the joy he felt when Baghdadi was declared the caliph on June 29—and the sudden, magnetic attraction that Mesopotamia began to exert on him and his friends.
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LCFF: APPLES-TO-APPLES COMPARISON OF BROWN'S FUNDING FORMULA
By John Fensterwald, Ed Source Today - http://bit.ly/XHnP1x
April 10th, 2013 :: Twenty-two of the 50 largest districts in the state would receive more money under Gov. Jerry Brown's proposed K-12 funding formula when it's fully funded, potentially in seven years, while 28 districts would do better if additional money were simply divvied up under the current system, with no reforms, according to data provided this week by the state Department of Finance. Of course, glaring problems with the current system would also persist if nothing were done.
Here is a sample of how much the largest 50 districts currently receive in per student revenue (column E), how they'd fare under the Local Control Funding Formula when fully funded (column F) and under the status quo (column G). The difference is column H; positive numbers indicated districts would do better without reforms, negative numbers they'd do better under the LCFF. Districts with high concentrations of low-income and English learners (columns C and D) would get more money under the governor's plan. Source: Department of Finance. ●●smf: The LCFF would apply to all 1000+ school districts in the state – plus approximately 1000 charter schools. How the LCFF effects all the students in all schools – not just the 50 largest districts - must be taken in consideration!
Legislators had been waiting for that piece of information – a comparison of how the state's approximately 2,000 districts and charter schools would fare under Brown's proposed Local Control Funding Formula versus how they'd do under the status quo – in order to evaluate Brown's plan for remaking the way K-12 schools are financed. (As it has done before, Finance did not release a spreadsheet with data that could be reworked, but rather provided an unwieldy 52-page PDF document.)
The new figures may reinforce the calls for changes to Brown's formula, specifically to raise the base level of per-student funding for all districts, and to make technical fixes. But they also support the principles behind the reforms: the need for uniformity, rationality and fairness in funding.
"We need the information to make an honest comparison," said Assemblymember Susan Bonilla, D-Concord, who, as chair of the Assembly Budget Committee's education subcommittee, sought the district breakdowns. "The Legislature will have the opportunity to take the information and come forward with a complementary or alternative proposal into the next level of negotiation" with the Brown administration, she said.
Because Brown is proposing to channel significantly more money to districts with large numbers of low-income students and English learners, he is intending that districts with high-needs students would do relatively better under a new formula. He also wants to fix historical anomalies and inequities in which districts with similar students have been funded at sometimes vastly different amounts.
The problem was that the Department of Finance had previously released figures comparing only what districts received in 2011-12, the base year, and what they'd get under the Local Control Funding Formula in 2019-20. Since the Department is predicting that Proposition 30 and a rebounding economy would pump $15.5 billion in new money – about 30 percent more – into the system during that time, the rising tide tended to make all boats look like yachts.
Under the plan, no district would receive less than they get now. Brown promises to repay most of the 22 percent in cuts all districts had experienced since 2007-08. On top of a newly restored base level of funding for all children, he would add a supplement for English learners and low-income students and a bonus amount to districts with the highest concentrations of high-needs children. In total, most districts would get, on average, $2,000 to $3,000 or more per child than now, amounting to increases of 30 to even 50 percent.
Comparing full funding under the Local Control Funding Formula with full funding in 2019-20 under the status quo offers a different perspective. The magnitude of the difference between reform and doing nothing shrinks. That's because even under the current system, some "categorical" programs, like the billion dollar Economic Impact Aid, already go only to high-needs students. By status quo, the Department of Finance assumed that all districts would regain money lost in cuts to their base revenue limits, plus missed cost-of-living adjustments. Whatever was left over from the projected new money, about $7 billion, theoretically would be distributed equally per child, with nothing extra for needy kids.
Under the comparison, Santa Ana Unified, one of the biggest beneficiaries, with 78 percent low-income students and 53 percent English learners, would get an extra $1,668, or 16 percent per student more, under the Local Control Funding Formula, bringing it to $11,804. Fresno Unified, another historically underfunded district, would get $11,636: $1,306 more per child – 13 percent – than under the status quo.
At the other end are districts like San Ramon Valley Unified in Contra Costa County, with only 2.5 percent low-income students and 4.6 percent English learners. Already one of the lowest state funded district per capita, at $5,987 per student, it would get $8,317 under the fully funded Local Control Funding Formula. While that is $2,330 more, it is nonetheless $1,420, or 14.5 percent less per student, than it would get under a fully funded status quo. Despite Brown's promise to restore all cuts to the base revenue amount districts received before the recession, districts like San Ramon complain that they still won't get back to their full spending power of five years ago, when they also had categorical funding for textbooks, counselors and teacher training. Bob Blattner, a Sacramento-based education consultant, estimates that as many as one-quarter of the state's districts may not have funding restored to the full 2007-08 levels, based a slightly different analysis done by the state Department of Education.
Brown's formula does not include federal spending, locally raised dollars through parcel taxes and district foundations, and it excludes some significant programs, such as special education.
An analysis by the Public Policy Institute of California pointed out that districts with largely disadvantaged students generally do fare better than wealthier districts under the current system of categorical programs, but there are large disparities based on outdated, inconsistently applied formulas.
An example is Long Beach and nearby Los Angeles Unified, each with similar students (about 70 percent low-income, slightly more English learners in Los Angeles). Yet Los Angeles Unified currently receives $1,273 more per student than Long Beach, primarily because it receives $800 per student in desegregation money that most districts don't get. The gap wouldn't close, but would narrow under the Local Control Funding Formula, with Long Beach getting $1,070 more per student than it would get without funding reform; Los Angeles Unified, while keeping its desegregation dollars, would get less than half of that increase.
Department of Finance's district by district breakdown of full funding of the Local Control Funding Formula, in spreadsheet form, February 2013;
Updated Department of Finance's district breakdowns comparing fully funded LCFF in 2019-20 with status quo funding, April 2013;
Updated Department of Finance's revenue projections for the 50 largest districts comparing fully funded LCFF in 2019-20 with status quo funding, April 2013;
California School District Revenue and Student Poverty: Moving Toward a Weighted Pupil Funding Formula, analysis of Brown's proposed LCFF and the current funding system by Public Policy Institute of California, February 2013.
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Maritza Bravo-Mejía (Lima, Perú, 1957) es una pedagoga, escritora y conferencista internacional de diversos temas, tanto culinarios como de desarrollo empresarial, trabaja desde hace más de 30 años en la labor educativa en el Perú junto al chef Guido Gallia.

Dirigió y fundó junto al chef Guido Gallia la cuna jardín Fantasía del Niño Jesús (1985). Años más tarde, fundó y dirigió el colegio particular Gonzalo Bravo-Mejía durante la década de los 90's del siglo XX.

Literatura gastronómica infantil

En su ocupación como escritora, Maritza obtuvo en febrero del 2005 el Premio Gourmand World Cookbook Awards, llevando a su país el primer lugar en la categoría Mejor Libro de Literatura Infantil en Latinoamérica, con su libro "Cuentos para la Hora de Comer", y tres meses más tarde fue declarado ganador a nivel mundial en dicha categoría, recibiendo el reconocimiento en Malasia y siendo invitada a exponer estos temas en eventos organizados por la Biblioteca Nacional del Perú.

Desempeño profesional

Tuvo a su cargo el segmento de cocina en el programa Creciendo con tu Bebé de Proctel&Gamble en el año 2006. Ese mismo año publicó su segundo libro "Hola soy tu Angel de la Guarda".

Actualmente dirige el Centro de I+D (Investigación y Desarrollo) de la Corporación D'Gallia con temas de estudio como el rescate, revaloración y difusión de las cocinas regionales peruanas. Se desempeña también como Directora General del Instituto D'Gallia.

D'Gallia

Su vocación por la educación la motivó a crear un centro de estudios en su país en 1997, con una inversión de 150 dólares aperturó un pequeño taller de cocina, compuesto por un espejo, una cocina casera y 15 bancos de madera para sus primeros estudiantes. Al año siguiente un segundo ambiente fue habilitado. Para 1999 decide trasladar el colegio a un grupo de padres de familia y dedicarse a la formación de cocineros. En el 2006 inauguraron una nueva sede.

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Sonoran Schools is proud to announce its participation in a new, statewide joint STEM education initiative. Our Sonoran Science Academy and Paragon Science Academy schools will team with Intel, Arizona SciTech, Arizona Science Center and the Maricopa Education Service Agency to create a STEM School Community of Practice with a kickoff meeting on May 4.
A Community of Practice is based upon a business strategy in which diverse stakeholders come together to share information, build relationships and design innovative solutions to problems and challenges.
Sonoran Schools joins 57 other forward-thinking, creative schools to advance the education Arizona's youths in the areas of science, technology, engineering and math. Our participating school teams will include community and business members, school leadership, teachers and students. A primary goal for the first year is to develop supportive resources for all schools, share best practices and discuss processes and systems for advancing STEM programs.
For more information about the AZ STEM School Community of Practice visit http://www.azstemcop.org.


Like most writers, I'm a fan of my local library. It's a great place for quiet research, leisure reading, and serendipitous discovery. But over the years, I've learned ways to use the library that aren't as well-known, and I'd like to share them here.
Libraries are always in search of programming. But as you may have learned, a program described as "So-and-so will read from his new book" doesn't always draw a crowd. I always search for a topic of broader interest than my own writing. As a historical novelist, I draw from whatever era my current book is about for topics of interest to the audience in that city or region. But even non-historical novelists can find a speaking topic with a little ingenuity. Is your main character a concert pianist? Talk about "The Four Most Famous Concerts in Literature." Setting the story in the Mississippi Delta? Tell the patrons about the Great Flood of 1927.
Prepare a brief news release about your talk, with an opening paragraph you can switch out for the particulars of time and place. In PR, they call these an "eighty-percenter"—the release is eighty percent done in advance, with only a couple of sentences that need to be written to localize. For extra brownie points, prepare three releases, one to be sent out three weeks in advance, one for two weeks in advance, and one for a week in advance. State press associations will typically have a directory of media you can use to find e-mail addresses for news releases.
Most towns of any size will have a community radio station that specializes in local news and conversation. Like libraries, these stations also have a constant demand for programming, and they often respond well to author contacts when there's an event coming up at their local library. But they usually schedule their guests long in advance, so contact them as soon as you know the date of your event. Anything less than a month ahead of time is unlikely to produce a positive response.
Don't just tell the librarian where to find reviews, publicity information, and photos on your web site; send them the material. They're much more likely to put together a good poster or web event notice if they have the promotional items already in hand.
Perhaps the best use I've ever made of libraries, though, is developing a partnership with them. My home state has both a statewide humanities council and a state arts council, both of which maintain a speakers' and performers' bureau. The humanities council, in particular, has advantages for a writer. Once my talk is registered with the council, any nonprofit organization in the state can book it for a minimal fee (libraries get an even more special rate). In turn, the humanities council pays me an honorarium plus travel expenses. So I no longer have to rely on book sales to offset the cost of travel to an out-of-area library. As a result, I've been able to give presentations at many rural libraries across the state, which are always grateful for the opportunity to have an author speak. It's the proverbial win-win.
Check to see if your state has statewide or regional arts and humanities organizations. These groups are marvelous ways to promote your own work and to join in the cultural life of your region.
And one final note: whenever I visit a library, I always take a signed copy of my latest book to donate, and I send a thank-you note (the old-fashioned way) when I get home. And I've never been turned down for a repeat visit.
This is a terrific summary of William Faulkner's advice to writing students at various times during his period as writer-in-residence at the University of Virginia in 1957 and 1958.
I agree with every single one of his recommendations! Now to put them into practice….


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Q: An approximate definition of optimal state trajectory of a discrete time system Hi I'm a freshman in optimal control area. Recently when I was doing some research work I came to the following thing.
Consider a discrete time system $x(k+1)=Ax(k)+Bu(k)$. Starting from $x(0)=x_0$, to stabilize it optimally to the origin we have very standard result. But in my research work I found a trajectory $\tilde{x}(k+1)=A\tilde{x}(k)+B\tilde{u}(k),~k=0,1,\ldots$ like this: starting from $\tilde{x}(0)=x_0$, the trajectory $\tilde{x}(k)$ also goes to the origin and for a given positive integer $N$ and for any time instant $k$, $\tilde{x}(k+1),\ldots,\tilde{x}(k+N-1)$ forms the optimal trajectory from $\tilde{x}(k)$ to $\tilde{x}(k+N)$. In words, any part with length $N$ of this trajectory $\tilde{x}(k),~k=0,1,\ldots$ is optimal though over the infinite horizon it may not be the optimal.
My question is: is there any existing concept or definition in optimal control theory have discussed such a trajectory?

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Choosing a care facility for your Loved Ones' "Home Away From Home" is a difficult decision. Luther Manor's goal is to fulfill not only each resident's physical, mental, and emotional needs, but social and spiritual as well.
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In 1967 Reverend Ralph A. Plautz, Pastor of St. John's Lutheran Church in Hannibal MO was dismayed at the conditions that existed in nursing homes serving many of the people in his congregation. From his efforts, and a committee from St. John's, the idea expanded to six other Lutheran congregations in northeast Missouri. Interested persons from these congregations formed a non-profit organization and Luther Manor Association became a reality. In Early 1969 the Luther Manor Association purchased a tract of land from St. John's Lutheran Church of Hannibal. Board Members were appointed to represent the six congregations. The facility was opened on June 1, 1972.
We continue Reverend Plautz and the original founders' vision of "Caring and Sharing" today with the highest quality care in the most home-like environment possible. Luther Manor is located off of Highway 61 North in Hannibal Missouri in a comfortable, park-like, country setting. We provide a family atmosphere and care for your loved one with dignity, respect, and compassion. Please call to schedule a tour to see for yourself!
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Q: Allocating memory for 64 8-byte blocks How do I allocate memory for 64 8-byte blocks?
I've tried reading on uint64, but I'm not sure where to start.

A: This should be very simple. Either run:
void *foo = malloc(64 * 8);

or, if you want type safety:
#if (CHAR_BIT != 8) #error Weird broken system, give up... #endif
uint64_t *foo = malloc(sizeof(uint64_t[64]));

A: In c, malloc allocates the number of bytes specified, so if you want to allocate 64 8 bytes blocks then you must allocate malloc(64*8). Don't forget to free them.
If you are not going to allocate them dinamically you can just declare an array. In c there's a type that have 64 bits (8 bytes) named uint64_t, so you can declare an array of 64 elements of 8 bytes this way: uint64_t blocks[64].
As a reply of a question in your comments, declaring a variable will make it valid inside his scope. So if you declare the array globally, it will be valid until the program closes. And if you declare it inside an if condition (for example), it will be valid only inside the conditional. Read this to understand better how it works: https://www.clear.rice.edu/elec201/ictutorial/tut2-4.html
If you allocate a piece of memory will malloc, it's direction must be saved in a variable so you can access it later, and here applies the same scope rules, but don't forget to free the memory before losing the direction pointer or you will have a memory leak.
If you don't have much experience I don't recommend using malloc.

A: You can do this just using malloc:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <stdint.h>

int main()
{
    void* ptr = malloc(sizeof(uint64_t) * 64);
    printf("Allocated memory begins at %p", ptr);
}


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IT Firms Bet Big on Digital Transformation Business
Divya Makhija 2 months ago
The digital transformation story has been in vogue for quite some time now. Enterprises began moving this story from one of customer focus to something much more deeper that impacts the core of a business. In other words, there is a marked shift in the manner that organizations and solution providers are perceiving this journey from technology-enablement to technology as core.
And mirroring this trend, IT solution providers too are shifting the focus from merely tweaking the customer-facing applications or the front-end of the organization to the more crucial core business processes that takes technology right up to and beyond the back-end and into the very foundations upon which the organization is built.
The Digital Beyond Digital
As Wipro Managing Director and CEO Abidali Neemuchwala says in this interview published by the Economic Times, "Digital is becoming default now…. And Digital is very close to business transformation." And according to him, Wipro is shifting from going merely after digital to getting involved in how the enterprise interacts with and builds relationships with stakeholders across the business firmament.
"We are getting some very good success over there (in this domain) as we retrained our sales organizations and improved our stake-holder coverage. This is an important trend as we transform into a truly digital provider," Neemuchwala says, with the emphasis being on what exactly a digital provider's role is in the current scenario.
Interestingly, a shift is also being witnessed from customer-facing solutions to core business processes leading to increased digital deal sizes. A report published in the Hindu BusinessLine points to the highly profitable Q2 for TCS and Infosys, both reporting robust total contract values as being the highest over different periods of time, both attributing it to digital transformation initiatives.
The above article quotes Sanjeev Hota, Head of Research at Sharekhan by BNP Paribas to suggest that TCS made early investments in digital transformation and participated in their customers' transformation journey in right earnest. Infosys too tasted success due to the incremental investments they made on people and digital capabilities over the past 12-18 months. The article goes on to quote an analyst at Emkay Global Financial Services to state that digital spending was now mainstream as global corporates were investing on transform both their their mid-offices and back-offices.
The Mid-size Advantage
In fact, even mid-tier IT companies seem to be raking in the moolah. While the big guns have been witnessing growth in the high single-digits over the past few quarters, the mid-sized IT companies such as L&T Infotech and Hexaware Technologies are reporting double-digit growth. Of course, there is the mathematical side to it as the mid-size firms pale significantly to their big brothers when it comes to overall revenues, which reflects in higher percentages of growth.
Srikrishna, CEO of Hexaware Technologies told the Economic Times recently that in order to be a partner in the digital transformation stories, it is insufficient to transform only the front-end. One needs to reach back and the beyond to transform the core. The company had acquired Mobiquity earlier this year to strengthen their digital offerings in the Cloud and the customer experience management space, a move that gave them 19 more deals with a ticket size of between USD 1-5 million in a single quarter as compared to a year ago.
The story is similar for Zensar, which receives more than half of its revenues from the digital business. The company CEO Sandeep Kishore is quoted in the same article suggesting that enterprise deal size were going up as clients brought multiple disparate systems on to the digital platform as digital transformation moved beyond sales into finance, HR and other operations.
As a result the very scale of digital business has expanded with multiple layers and more contracts building up as enterprises realize the value of transforming the entire business, instead of merely sticking with the sales or marketing part of it. In other words, customer focus has acquired a new meaning that includes internal customers as much as the external ones. The story is much the same with other mid-size companies such as NIIT Tech and L&T Infotech.
In fact, L&T Infotech CEO Sanjay Jalona was optimistic while announcing the company's Q2 results last month about the fast-growing digital services across all verticals. "We won three large deals in this quarter, all of them from new clients, aggregating total contract value of about $100 million."
While there is no doubt that digital transformation has shifted from the surface to the core of businesses, there is a big challenge out there – seamless implementation. While enterprises are taking initiatives in this direction, the journey continues to be bumpy, especially when they are not planned to the minutest of details.
The cost of processes breaking and needing repeated fixes needs to be underscored time and again which is why the role of the right kind of subject matter experts becomes mission critical. Deal sizes may be going up, but there is margin pressure on enterprises as they need to ramp up faster on the quality of workforce entrusted with the task of transforming enterprises.
As Jon Payne says in this article published on IT Pro, the journey of digital transformation can be successful only if and when everyone in the boardroom engages in the journey in some way. The CEO takes the lead and urges everyone else to walk on their respective paths to a common goal.
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InnoTrans is the leading international trade fair for transport technology and took place from 20th – 23rd September in Berlin. Sub-divided into the five fair segments Railway Technology, Railway Infrastructure, Public Transport, Interiors and Tunnel Construction, InnoTrans occupied all 41 halls available at Berlin Exhibition Grounds. The InnoTrans Convention, the event's top-level supporting programme, complemented the trade fair.
Overall 2.995 exhibitors and 144.470 visitors participated at the exhibition and 3A Composites GmbH was also among the exhibitors and presented as the market-leading supplier of composite material, alongside the world-famous products ALUCORE® and ALUCOBOND®, moreover the innovative lightweight foamboard KAPA®tech. KAPA®tech features the pioneering composition of PUR foam and aluminium skins that combines light weight with rigidity.
A real-faith lightweight air-conditioning duct made of KAPA®tech served as a further eyecatcher, which was presented in cooperation with Westaflex Industries. Thanks to the certification DIN 6701-2, ALUCORE® and ALUCOBOND® are especially suitable for gluing of railway vehicles and their parts (Class A2).
Furthermore the product portfolio has, since April 2015, been extended by Polycasa with a wide choice of plastic sheets, made of a variety of materials: polyester, polystyrene, polycarbonate, SAN and cast acrylic.


3T's Aeronova LTD Stealth Handlebar flies under the radar in all the important categories: drag, weight, and looks. While the first two are important in a save-every-watt kind of way, we aren't ashamed to admit that we're equally as excited about the LTD Stealth's muted aesthetics. The silver accents on the normal Aeronova LTD may not be as flashy as the red Team issue kit ridden by the BMC Racing Team, but the Stealth model takes the murdered-out matte look to extreme levels.
Looks aside for now, the Aeronova LTD Stealth's low weight and aerodynamic considerations are also pretty damn extreme. The aerodynamic, NACA airfoil shape of the bar's tops are the same as those on the Team version ridden by BMC, but the LTD's higher modulus, unidirectional carbon fiber means it comes in even lighter, weighing a full 15 claimed grams less than the kit used by the likes of Gilbert and van Garderen. If you're looking to save even more grams by leaving the tops un-taped, channels for internal cable routing keep your cockpit tidy.
The drops describe the "ergo" shape of 3T's Compact design. Compared to the drops of 3T's more traditional Round curve, the Compact shape features a tighter reach and drop. This shape allows for the hoods to be positioned low and fast in order to accommodate the tendency for today's cyclists to spend most of their time there rather than in the drops. The Compact bars mean aggressive hoods don't come at the cost of the drops being out of reach, so you can still comfortably tuck on descents or long solo moves.


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Ben Craft By undefined, May 8, 2009 Chemical engineer by day, and home mixologist by night. Ben likes to craft new cocktails from all-natural ingredients and add modern tweaks to old classics. While growing up in Cleveland, Ben would tend bar for his family during the holidays, but after moving to Chicago in the 90's he spent most of his time appreciating fine wine, and the many craft beers on tap around the city. However, about four years ago while celebrating with friends at a roof top bar in downtown Chicago he ordered a Four Roses Small Batch Old Fashioned and was handed a rare perfect cocktail. The quest to recreate that libation has led to a new passion for the mixed drink, and he has been crafting cocktails for friends and family ever since.


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HiFiMAN Announces Lower Price for HE-300
HiFiMAN has announced that the HE-300 Headphone is now available at a lower price of $249. The HE-300 Headphone is now available at a lower price of $249. The HE-300 is a dynamic headphone that can be used with a conventional amplifier or portable audio device.
Published: November 28, 2011 ⋅ Updated: April 15, 2019
HiFiMAN has announced that the HE-300 Headphone is now available at a lower price of $249.
The HE-300 Headphone is now available at a lower price of $249.
The HE-300 is a dynamic headphone that can be used with a conventional amplifier or portable audio device.
The HE-300 features a lighter weight than typical full-size headphones, along with special, over-the-ear earpads and a flexible cable so that the HiFiMAN headphones can be enjoyed for hours on end.
"Though the HE-300 is our least expensive, full-size headphone, make no mistake, it is an excellent product outperforming headphones at two to three times its price," said Dr. Fang Bian, founder and president of HiFiMAN. "Yet despite its great sound, the HE-300's high sensitivity allows it to be used with everyday devices such as an iPod or iPhone."
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Contact the Office of Small Disadvantaged Business Utilization (OSDBU) of the agency you wish to do business with. The staff can provide you with a directory of agency buying locations and advise you on the types of goods and services that the agency regularly purchases. Many agencies promote outreach programs and offer "how to" publications that provide assistance in understanding their procurement programs.
Register in the Dynamic Small Business Source System, an SBA database of small business contractors and their areas of business. Agency contracting officers and prime contractors search the database to find small business sources and subcontractors. Firms can easily register from the SBA website.
Register in the US Department of Defense's Central Contractor Register (CCR) through the Internet.
Agency purchasing offices maintain source lists for the goods and services that they buy. Firms can be included on the agency's Solicitation Mailing List Application simply by completing a Standard Form 129 with the agency.
Wherever possible, arrange marketing visits to agency project and program personnel.
Provide catalogues and brochures to key personnel within the agencies.
Participate in agency market research by attending pre-solicitation conferences.
Many Federal agencies hold small business fairs that emphasize how to do business with the government and provide information regarding their program activities. Some have the added feature of making on-the-spot purchases from small business attendees.


What is your school doing to develop effective listening skills?
All of those are needed to understand and evaluate the enormous informational input our students receive daily.
Students don't speak very well. Class discussions, presentations, podcasts, videos, and digital storytelling suffer.
But standards include speaking. What is your school doing to address these standards?
There are no classes in teacher education programs about how to teach speaking skills. It is never a topic on any inservice days either.
You need help to develop oral communication skills.
Learn more about each book and buy them here.
Erik has a wealth of experience teaching students to be better oral communicators. Now he brings that experience to his work showing teachers how to develop well-spoken students. Practical, proven, and engaging lessons and activities are a trademark of Erik's products.
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All teachers, at all grade levels, in all subjects have speaking assignments for students, but many teachers believe they don't know how to teach speaking, and many even fear public speaking themselves. In his new book, Well Spoke n, veteran teacher and education consultant Erik Palmer shares the art of teaching speaking in any classroom. Teachers will find thoughtful and engaging strategies for integrating speaking skills throughout the curriculum. Palmer stresses the essential elements of all effective oral communication, including: Building a Speech: Audience, Content, Organization, Visual Aids, and Appearance Performing a Speech: Poise, Voice, Life, Eye Contact, Gestures, and Speed Evaluating a Speech: Creating Effective Rubrics, Guiding Students to Excellence Well Spoken contains a framework for understanding the skills involved in all effective oral communication, offers practical steps and lesson ideas that any teacher needs to successfully teach speaking in a variety of situations–from classroom discussions to formal presentations–and includes a set of tools for students — from how to grab the audience's attention to how to use emphatic hand gestures and adjust speed for effect.
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With the Common Core State Standards emphasizing listening and speaking across the curriculum, these long-neglected language arts are regaining a place in schools. For teachers, this means reexamining practices and rethinking expectations. How much do we know about teaching listening and speaking as the complex communication skills they are? How do we teach students to discuss appropriately, integrate and understand the mountains of information they receive, and express themselves clearly and effectively?