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The connectivity within department is extended through CAT5/CAT6 UTP cabling, while connectivity across building is established through OFC backbone. Core switch at the computer centre provides high speed switching required across campus network. Switch in the department/office/building is used to provide wired connectivity to class rooms/faculty rooms/labs, V R Nanjangud, director, Computer Centre, Mangalore University said.
Currently, internet access is made available to all users only through wired Ethernet outlets. Hence even the laptops need to be connected to the outlet in order to access the internet services. Wired outlets, though very useful, are location dependent and involve connecting a patch chord between the device and outlet. There are many occasions which call for location independent internet access without the hassle of using the patch chord.
This is all the more important as most of the students/research scholars/other stake holders have smart devices which can be used to share information on the move. Thus there is a need to provide Wi-Fi connectivity access across the campus to enhance the quality of academic and other interactions. The new WiFi system will enable university to provide any time any where access to Internet on the campus, Nanjangud said.
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MBES GCD Help > Conceptual Reference Pages >
2 Concepts
2.1 Data Collection Basics
2.2 Varying Beam Footprints
2.3 ***Future Survey Planning Tools - Beam Angle Equation Solver***
3.1 Relevant Literature
This section covers the basics of how surveys are performed with MBES. Beam footprint and parameters influencing their variation are detailed, understanding these concepts paves the way for planning surveys that reduce the uncertainty of surveyed points.
ET-AL Recommendations to IPC
IPC procedures for acquisition of MBES are consistent with industry standards and have been shown to produce high quality and consistent survey data. It is recommended that IPC and its MBES contractors continue to uphold these practices, and include TPU (total predicted uncertainty) with their point clouds for potential inclusion in surface error modelling.
Data Collection Basics
MBES units are mounted to a vessel and use sound navigation and ranging (SONAR) to measure range distance and angle to the bed of a water-body. When combined with inertial navigation systems, precise positioning and orientation can be measured, which allow the estimation of bed elevations for every return. Ranging measurements are collected by creating sound waves and measuring the time it takes them to return to the MBES. By the time the sound wave reaches the water-body floor it has expanded resulting in the beam reporting an elevation for a region of the water-body floor, not a single point. The area providing an elevation measurement for an individual sonar beam is known as the beam-footprint. In MBES, multiple beams are transmitted simultaneously, which create a swath shaped region providing near complete coverage of the water body floor. A basic depiction of this process for one beam is shown in Figure 1.
Figure 1 - Data Collection with Multi-beam SONAR
Basic data collection of an MBES. The MBES produces a sound wave which upon striking the river bottom a portion of the sound wave reflects back to the MBES producing a depth measurement.
Varying Beam Footprints
Swath data collection creates non-uniform beam footprints resulting in a non-uniform sampling resolution. The across-track and along-track sampling resolutions are a function of distance from the boat or depth, angle of incidence, beam width, and slope of surface(International Hydrographic Bureau 2005, Diaz 2000). In general as beam angle or depth increase the size of the footprint increases resulting in a decreased sampling resolution. Slope of the surface being surveyed has a varying effect which is dependent upon the difference between the specific beam angle and the slope of the surface. The effect of beam angle at different depths for the RESON SeaBat 8101 is shown in Figure 2. For the idealized case of a flat bed, figure 2 reveals that a larger range of footprints exists as depth increases.
Figure 2 - Varying Footprint Resolutions
Change in beam footprint by beam at different depths of the total beam footprint. The colored regions designate beam angles producing a footprint less than 2 sq. ft. (green), slightly greater above 2 sq. ft. (yellow), and over 1.5 sq. ft. above 2 sq. ft.
The concept of a beam footprint that varies in size is essential to understanding how uncertainty can be introduced into a surveyed point. When a beam footprint is large it has the potential to cover a large range of elevation values within the footprint, but will only return one representative value (see Quantifying Uncertainty for more info on this topic). By understanding the relationships between beam angle, depth, and slope of surface, surveys can be planned which reduce the footprint size and will reduce uncertainty introduced during data acquisition.
***Future Survey Planning Tools - Beam Angle Equation Solver***
Given that the solution for beam footprint is a trigonometry function of depth, beam angle, beam width, and slope of surface this equation can be solved using GIS if the user provides a depth raster and slope raster (would need to have previously surveyed the site). These rasters would be used as input to the tool and the equation would be solved to minimize the beam angle (or a range as their generally is not one solution) on a cell by cell basis to create a 'best beam angle' survey map to guide the MBES operator's tracklines and survey strategy.
Relevant Literature
International Hydrographic Bureau.(2005). "Manual on Hydrography:Publication M-13". 1st Edition May 2005.
Diaz J.V.M. (2000) "Analysis of mulitbeam sonar data for the characterization of seafloor habitats". Master of Engineering, University of New Brunswick.

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Divine Canine (also known as "Divine Canine: With the Monks of New Skete") is a television series on Animal Planet. The show premiered on April 16, 2007.

The show examines the Monks of New Skete, an order of Orthodox Christian monks who train dogs. The monks, located in upstate New York, are known for their ability to train dysfunctional dogs as well as being breeders of German Shepherd puppies.

The show was produced by RIVR Media. Animal Planet ordered sixteen half-hour shows for the initial run.

Season one episodes along with original air dates:

4/16/2007: Un-Spoiling Stella
4/30/2007: Hoisting Hugo
4/30/2007: Teaching Tessie
5/7/2007: Heeling Holly
5/28/2007: Harnessing Harley
6/4/2007:  Calming Chico
6/15/2007: Balancing Boomer
6/22/2007: Semi-Sweet Puppy

Reception
Common Sense Media rated the show 3 out of 5 stars.

References

External links
 - Forbes article on new Animal Planet shows

Animal Planet original programming
2007 American television series debuts
2007 American television series endings
Television shows about dogs

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Natalie Geisenberger, Felix Loch slide back into luge in different comebacks
By Nick ZaccardiJan 28, 2021, 7:23 AM EST
Natalie Geisenberger and Felix Loch, Bavarian lugers who have known each other for 22 years, spent nearly half of that span excelling at the highest level of the sport. But last season, the Germans vanished altogether from the top of podiums.
Geisenberger, the 2014 and 2018 Olympic champion, announced one month before the 2019-20 campaign that she was pregnant with her first child and missed the entire season.
Loch, the 2010 and 2014 Olympic champion, did compete. But he struggled, failing to win a single World Cup or world championships race for the first time since 2007.
This season's world championships, the most prestigious event leading up to the Olympics in 13 months, start Friday in Königssee, Germany (TV schedule here).
The prevailing storyline: Geisenberger and Loch are back atop the world of luge.
Geisenberger just about picked up where she left off after having son Leo in May.
She finished second in the first eight races of the season, conjuring Serena Williams, who came back from childbirth to finish runner-up in four tennis majors. Then Geisenberger won the two most recent full, two-run World Cups leading into worlds, eclipsing 50 career victories.
"If you told me that in the summer, that I would not win, but win so many medals, to get second every time, for me, I would take that," Geisenberger said last week. "I was really satisfied with my second places, but to read, 'She was just second place,' It was so negative. That was not so great for me. … I'm happy that topic is over."
At Königssee, the longtime home track for Geisenberger and Loch, she can win a fifth world title in the traditional, two-run event, tying longtime rival (and retired) countrywoman Tatjana Hüfner's female record.
Starting when she was 19 in 2008, Geisenberger made the singles podium in all but one of her 12 Olympic and world championships starts. This season, she has traveled with Leo and excelled despite missing three months of her typical preseason training due to childbirth.
"It's a big challenge," coming back, she said, "but of course the other years before were also not so easy. I can't compare [to past years] because the situation is completely different now."
Count Loch as at least mildly surprised with Geisenberger's seamless return.
"In October, when we start sliding … I was thinking she needs one month, two months to come back on the sled to slide like one or two years ago," he said. "When I see Natalie sliding, I said, OK, she [looked like she] was always sliding, [like] she had no one-year break."
Loch joked with her about all the runner-up finishes into mid-January. ("He was joking about that. Not me," Geisenberger noted, chiming in as Loch spoke in a joint interview.)
Loch had reason to be in such a light mood — he swept all eight two-run World Cup events so far this season.
"I know every time I can be fast, but the last two years, sometimes only one run was good, the second run was bad," Loch said. "No two runs worked together, or only in the training was good. But I didn't forget about how to compete in the luge. I was always in a better situation than other guys think about. I was relaxed, and I know I can slide, and now everybody, I would say, can say I didn't forget about how to do it."
In 2018, Loch appeared destined for a third straight Olympic title to match childhood idol and coach Georg Hackl's luge record. He led through three of four runs. In the finale, he made a mistake midway down the track, hit the wall and finished fifth. His father, Norbert, also the German head coach, consoled him on the ice as the medalists celebrated just feet away.
Loch remembered his dad saying a German equivalent of "s— happens."
"At home your son [then-1-year-old Lorence], and your wife [Lisa] is waiting for you," Norbert told him. "Next year it will be gone."
Loch notched one World Cup race victory in 2018-19, his lowest output in nine years, but more than salvaged the year by winning his sixth singles world championships title, tying Italian Armin Zöggeler's record.
There was no silver lining to the 2019-20 season: no wins, just two podiums, seventh in the season standings and ninth and 13th in two events at the world championships.
Asked about Loch's talent, Geisenberger pointed at her bicep and then her head in saying, "He's strong here and here."
"He thinks about the sled the whole time," she said.
Loch went back to work last summer. With Hackl, they made small changes to his sled, which he cited as the primary reason for the revival.
"Only an expert can see the difference," he said, adding that he hasn't felt this comfortable in seven years. "At the moment, I have a perfect sled."
If Geisenberger and Loch carry over this season's success into the Beijing Games, they can tie the Winter Olympic record for golds in one individual event. It's currently shared by many athletes, including Hackl and fellow legends Sonja Henie, Bonnie Blair, Shaun White and Ole Einar Bjørndalen.
Then the questions will start about 2026, when the Winter Olympics will be in Central Europe for the first time in their careers, in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, just four hours south of their shared home track of Königssee.
Neither Geisenberger nor Loch said they plan to stop sliding after 2022. In 2014, two men in their 40s earned luge medals. German Sylke Otto won the 2006 Olympic women's title at 36.
"Three years ago, I said I will stop finally after 2018," the 32-year-old Geisenberger said, "and here I am."
Loch, a 31-year-old who plans to take it year-by-year after Beijing, dreams of friends and family watching him in Cortina.
"That would be a really cool end of my career, maybe," he said, "but never say never."
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Elden Ring can work on the Steam Bridge, so bring it here already, Valve
Leave a Comment / Technology / By ragheb
Although the Steam Deck is available in other countries, with gameplay available all over the internet, Australians still have to wait a bit before the console drops.
Does it offer a great gaming experience, though? Some of us need confirmation beyond the hype: proof that it can play games well, beyond the B-roll of hand models from Valve playing on the Switch-like device. .
Well let's focus on steam bridge gameplay in this article, including specs, gameplay footage from sources other than Valve, and what you can expect from the Steam Deck console (and what's unreasonable to expect).
To start, here's Valve's video on the Steam Deck.
Steam deck game
With the Steam Deck out in the wild, we're spoiled for choice when it comes to gameplay.
Although we haven't gotten to grips with Valve's handheld yet, our colleague in the US has. It's a excerpt from his review:
Valve is racing to fix bugs, add features, and improve the performance of its software before the Steam Deck lands in customers' hands. Even today, after weeks of updates, the software remains a work in progress. You should be somewhat relieved to know that things are moving in the right direction. I'm a fan of the overall SteamOS interface.
To give you a good idea of what to expect, TheRelaxingEnd produced an overview of Steam Deck gameplay, including on-screen performance stats. We think its content preview does a pretty good job of showcasing the device. Below we will be linking to different parts of the same video, including Cyberpunk 2077 playability, Grand Theft Auto V playability and Ring of Elden gameplay on the Steam Deck.
Ring of Elden
Valve is verifying games for the Deck. If you want to know which games are currently optimized for the Steam Deck, we have a running list of what you can expect to play this way.
The Steam Deck is capable of a wide range of gameplay, including handheld, TV/monitor gameplay, cloud gaming with cloud save, and gaming on a microSD card. That being said, even though the gameplay looks quite impressive, be aware that cloud gaming is quite difficult to achieve in Australia. Expect uncomfortable lag if you choose to play cloud games, even if it's available. Cloud gaming aside, this is an impressive piece of kit.
Additionally, Steam Deck beta participants recently got customizable refresh rate support, including a choice of refresh rate between 40hz and 60hz. Valve maintains an ongoing Steam Deck update and news hub here.
Steam Deck Specifications
Of course, Steam Deck gameplay is nothing without the specs. Split between three models (64GB, 256GB, and 512GB), the Steam Deck offers portable gameplay equivalent to that of a low-end gaming PC, backed by Valve's SteamOS Linux operating system with a layer of built-in Windows compatibility (allowing games optimized for Windows to work on it).
If you're looking for specs, you can expect an AMD Zen 2 processor, 8 RDNA 2 CPUs for the GPU, 16GB DDR5 RAM, a 7-inch display with 1280 x 800 dimensions, a USB charging port- C and a 40 Whr battery, able to play on a handheld and on a TV/monitor, like a Switch (except without the need for a docking station).
If you want to compare it to a gaming PC, it's a little hard to say right now which is the better comparison, but as PCMag reported, Valve reckons it's pretty close to a mini PC you can buy on Amazon, which features an AMD Ryzen 7 3750H CPU, Radeon RX Vega 10 GPU, and 16GB of DDR4 RAM.
Steam Deck release date
Although the Steam Deck is available in other markets, there is no Australian release date yet, but you can try ordering one if you want to do witchcraft.
This article has been updated since it was first published.
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Governance's role in future proofing sustainability development
Dr Glenn Frommer and Theodora Thunder, Principals, The Sustainability Partnership, offer advice on how governance can play a central role in shaping organisational sustainability.
Using current corporate governance practices, we build supervisory systems that ensure compliance with regulatory issues and internal policies. However, with growing investor and stakeholder pressure to commit to sustainability, how would one need to evolve governance practices to be future proof? That is, how can governance manage such issues as stakeholder engagement and the co-generation
of value, which are the hallmark practices for sustainability development? Compliance becomes a moot point at this level of management.
In shaping this future-proof scenario, governance has the opportunity to take a strategic role. It is through the ability to establish strong policies and practices that governance can embed sustainability aspirations and create the structured follow-through to create the business case for sustainability development.
Optimising the governance role in sustainability development
From the governance perspective, sustainability development broadly follows two pathways – internal compliance and external socio-economic pressures on management. Internal compliance focuses principally on regulatory issues and the strategies that oversee the rigours of operating efficiency, transparency, ethics and defined roles and responsibilities. Socio-economic pressures commonly encompass management issues that are beyond compliance – such as stakeholder expectations; the social, economic and environmental (SEE) context of operations; growth opportunities; and, the voluntary alignment with industry norms. For sustainability to develop, these pathways must be recognised and managed as two sides of the same coin.
With internal compliance, governance serves as the codifier-in-chief, translating the corporate vision and goals into policy and practice. It keeps the vision and goals alive through the establishment, supervision and monitoring of the tools and processes that control risks, brings order and efficiencies to operations and stabilises growth. It oversees the framework for corporate behaviour at all levels, including regulatory compliance, ethics, product responsibility, reporting and communications. This traditional role relies on the competencies and skill sets used for compliance-based/business systems governance.
When managing business risks posed by socio-economic (non-financial) issues, the dynamics of an organisation's social systems come into play, often with the need to develop internal competencies (think qualitative) further for effective management. This starts with retooling the purpose and procedures for stakeholder engagement. Engagement practices, for example, should be planned and proactive. Constructive engagement can be used to map stakeholders and their interests into a formal hierarchy of influence on the business. This mapping serves as an essential tool to the enterprise risk management strategy and is critical to identifying and prioritising risks.
As a simple means to illustrate the two pathways' influence on sustainability development, we identify their driving presence in commonly recognised core practices of leading sustainable organisations.
Long-term thinking and goals orientated (internal compliance)
Long-term thinking is reflected in the corporate sustainability vision that assumes the aspirations of business continuity and goals over time. The board entrusts this to management, which is tasked with developing the appropriate business strategy to execute aspirations. This positions the strategy along a multi-year trajectory and ensures that policies and system markers (or targets) that measure progress are in place and that they maintain purpose and relevance.
Active and organic risk management (internal compliance)
Active risk management stewards sustainability development in similar ways to the development of the business strategy. The internal directive from senior management establishes the risk appetite with governance acting as supervisor of the risk management process. Further, governance has the obligation to keep senior management apprised of efficacy and any potential impact to ensure timely mitigating actions.
However, with the proliferation of non-financial risks, the ground rules are shifting, leading to a volatility that affects the entire ecosystem of risk and the bandwidth of mitigation management. With non-financial risk issues (often resulting from socio-economic pressures) in the mix, tools such as scenario planning and proactive stakeholder engagement add to the understanding and prioritisation of risk and its potential consequences. Thus, risk management, while an internal issue, necessarily takes into account the added dynamics and pressures of the external environment and society.
Resilience to the SEE context (socio-economic)
SEE context is time and event sensitive and generally reflects external socio-economic pressures. Similar to risk management analysis, context is unique to the company's purpose, its stakeholders and its operating footprint. Notably, context includes externalities such as geopolitical events, climate change impact, social disruptions, technology innovation and activities that depend on external supply chains and resources. Resiliency to context is the timely and continuous ability to observe, analyse and leverage such events to manage the potential consequences/opportunities generated as well as any potentially unforeseen events that may arise.
The concept of context is also pivotal to the understanding of materiality in risk exposure and the development of mitigating actions. Customers, for example, are increasingly aware and vocal about the quality and safety of products and services. As well, global supply chains are under increasing public scrutiny for their use of natural resources and human rights violations (for example, conflict materials). And, climate change should, if not already, assume a major position on the risk radar for its increasing impact on supply chains and the potential of damaged, redundant or stranded assets.
Engaged and inclusive (socio-economic)
Stakeholder engagement relies heavily on a company's social systems for management and execution. Stakeholders are a valuable source of information and insight into corporate performance and expectations. They influence risk and reputation management strategies, shape product/services development and delivery, and, ultimately, can lead to competitive advantage opportunities.
Stakeholder engagement requires resilience and agility in social system competencies to be effective in the operating environment. Engagement today is propelled into hyper-drive by the power of social media, societal expectations to share value and the increased regulatory and investor scrutiny across national boundaries. With the appropriate tools, governance can foster the development of needed internal competencies to manage such demands and work with a more challenging and inclusive universe of stakeholders and their influence.
Ethical and accountable (socio-economic)
Visible ethical behaviours that link organisational purpose to action promote trust and engender a strong corporate reputation. Accountability assigns these behaviours to management and commits to transparency of actions. Best practice companies manage such behaviours through specific and strong internal ethical codes underpinned by a defined accountability structure, populated by tactical committees and groups and supervised at the very top levels of management. The culture of ethics and accountability starts and ends at the board level with governance being the conduit for policy and procedure.
When strategising the future proof, one must realise that evolving the governance framework is a 'marathon, not a sprint' and requires patience and diligence. The following points provide some guidance as to where and how to take step changes in governance to assume its central role in future proofing organisational sustainability.
Secure the active commitment and direction from the board and senior management to establish clear goals and parameters for sustainability development. Follow this with a relevant company policy.
Make sustainability fundamental to the business case. Develop efforts that integrate and add value to the business strategy. Ensure that policy implementation is included in committee terms of reference, job description and employee training.
Establish a material risk assessment protocol that encompasses the SEE context and ranks risk as a collective reflection of this as well as the material company and stakeholder interests. Allocate capital to risk treatment and its management and implement and make visible the risk appetite.
Establish a stakeholder engagement policy and platform that is resilient, respectful and productive in purpose. Similar to managing accountability, engagement operates under a strong structure of defined responsibilities and reporting. Notably, the most effective engagement programmes are developed to include the SEE context and with the view to achieve the sustainability goals established by the board.
Enhance governance to identify and guide internal competencies development so that sustainability practices at the operating level are productive and relevant. Clearly articulated goals, lines of responsibility and metrics are essential to this process.
And lastly, take steps to embed sustainability as the corporate culture through active engagement, training and collaboration. A hierarchy of management accountability measured through science-based targets presents a structured model to embed such a culture. Existing programmes such as safety, energy and supplier management can be modified to this end with lines of reporting under the governance purview. Achievement of targets should be tied to individual/committee performance reviews and compensation.
Overall, it is clear that combining the internal compliance and socio-economic pathways into a formalised framework and system for management provides optimal governance capabilities. In the current climate of sustainability expectations and reporting, the visibility of such a governance structure enhances trust, reputation and, importantly, investor interest.
Dr Glenn Frommer and Theodora Thunder, Principals
The Sustainability Partnership
The Sustainability Partnership advises companies on the end-to-end management of ESG issues and their reporting. Materiality assessments, reporting strategy and fulfilment and the comparative analysis of industry and peer ESG performance are amongst the services provided. For further information contact: Thunder@streeter.com.hk.


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HomeApps
The Earth by (Tinybop, Inc.) is an interactive model that lets kids study and observe the geological forces that change planet Earth. Learn about planet Earth (volcanos, earthquakes, erosion and more!). The Earth app is available for download in the iOS App Store and Google Play Store. Ages 4+
Everything Machine
Everything Machine (by Tinybop, Inc.) is an app that allows users to make different types of machines, objects and instruments using a simple visual programming language. Overall this is a great interactive app that is a creative playground. The app is available in the iOS App Store. Ages 4+
Explore and learn anatomy. The Human Body (by Tinybop, Inc.) is an interactive model of the human body. The app allows users to explore eight of the human body's systems. The app is available on iOS devices and can be found in the iOS App Store Ages 4+
The Robot Factory
The Robot Factory (by Tinybop, Inc.) is an app that allows users to build and test robots. There aren't really any exact instructions provided on how to build your robot, however this allows your creativity to soar free! The Robot Factory app is available in the iOS App Store. Ages 4+
Simple Machines (by Tinybop, Inc.) is an educational app that teaches users the basic concepts of physics. The app allows users to learn how objects react to force by using simple machines (simple tools). Kids will enjoy exploring the different tools and learning about physics. The app is available on iOS devices and can be found in the iOS App Store. Ages 4+
Skyscrapers (by Tinybop, Inc.) is an interactive app that allows users to explore and discover the characteristics of skyscrapers. In the app, users can explore the form and structure of skyscrapers. The app is available for download in the iOS App Store and in the Google Play Store. Ages 4+
The Weather (by Tinybop, Inc.) is an interactive app that lets you experiment and play with the weather. The app allows users to explore an open environment and switch between scenes related to the sun, air and water. The app is available on iOS devices and can be found in the iOS App Store and the Google Play Store. Ages 4+


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Absolutely Free: Interface
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Absolutely Free - Interface (Boiled Records): Absolutely Free was created from the ashes of much-respected Toronto experimental post-rock combo DD/MM/YYYY, and it made the Polaris Music Prize shortlist with its self-titled debut album.
A sophomore album, Aftertouch, will finally come out on Sept. 24, and Interface is the second excerpt to surface. In a press release, singer Matt King explains "it was written as a pseudo-love song that interludes between two versions of self. Interface recalls an adolescent summer where I spent every waking hour on early web-based chat programs, instead of going outside. Typical coming-of-age feelings of loss and confusion were further conflated by prioritizing an emerging potential of a new virtual identity more 'real' than a physical self."
Layered vocals and atmospheric synths help create a widescreen psychedelic aural landscape, and the cut is boosted by the eyeball-grabbing visual work of Australian artist Benjamin Portas in the accompanying video.
Absolutely Free features the core trio of Matt King (vocals/multi-instrumentalist), Michael Claxton (bass/synth), and Moshe Fisher-Rozenberg (drums/synth), while the upcoming album was produced by Jorge Elbrecht, who has worked with No Joy, Gang Gang Dance, Japanese Breakfast, and his own bands Lansing-Dreiden and Violens.
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Personnel Administrator of Massachusetts v. Feeney, 442 U.S. 256 (1979), was a case heard by the Supreme Court of the United States. The decision upheld the constitutionality of a state law, giving hiring preference to veterans over nonveterans.

The law was challenged as violating the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution by a woman, who argued that the law discriminated on the basis of sex because so few women were veterans.

Background
A federal district court had struck down the law as unconstitutional based on its discriminatory impact: "The District Court found that the absolute preference afforded by Massachusetts to veterans has a devastating impact upon the employment opportunities of women. Although it found that the goals of the preference were worthy and legitimate and that the legislation had not been enacted for the purpose of discriminating against women, the court reasoned that its exclusionary impact upon women was nonetheless so severe as to require the State to further its goals through a more limited form of preference."

"Upon remand, the District Court... concluded that a veterans' hiring preference is inherently nonneutral because it favors a class from which women have traditionally been excluded...."

Decision
Justice Potter Stewart wrote for the majority, joined by Chief Justice Warren Burger and Justices Byron White, Harry Blackmun, William Rehnquist, and John Paul Stevens. The Court declared the law was constitutional, pointing out the law's gender-neutral language, "legitimate and worthy purposes," and legislative history. Stewart recognized the need for intermediate scrutiny in gender-based discrimination cases: "any state law overtly or covertly designed to prefer males over females in public employment would require an exceedingly persuasive justification to withstand a constitutional challenge under the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment." He also recognized that "when a neutral law has a disparate impact upon a group that has historically been the victim of discrimination, an unconstitutional purpose may still be at work."

The Court cited Arlington Heights v. Metropolitan Housing Corp. to apply a heightened form of review, a two-part test: "When a statute gender-neutral on its face is challenged on the ground that its effects upon women are disproportionably adverse, a twofold inquiry is thus appropriate. The first question is whether the statutory classification is indeed neutral in the sense that it is not gender-based. If the classification itself, covert or overt, is not based upon gender, the second question is whether the adverse effect reflects invidious gender-based discrimination... [which is] 'the condition that offends the Constitution.'"

The Court reversed the District Court after determining that there was no discriminatory purpose at work behind the law: "The appellee... has simply failed to demonstrate that the law in any way reflects a purpose to discriminate on the basis of sex."

Dissent
Justice Thurgood Marshall dissented, joined by Justice William J. Brennan, Jr.  Marshall saw the law as unconstitutional based on implied motivation from its discriminatory impact. "Where there is 'proof that a discriminatory purpose has been a motivating factor in the decision, . . . judicial deference is no longer justified.'" Marshall further states that "[t]o discern the purposes underlying facially neutral policies, this Court has therefore considered the degree, inevitability, and foreseeability of any disproportionate impact, as well as the alternatives reasonably available."

"In the instant case, the impact of the Massachusetts statute on women is undisputed. Any veteran with a passing grade on the civil service exam must be placed ahead of a nonveteran, regardless of their respective scores. The District Court found that, as a practical matter, this preference supplants test results as the determinant of upper level civil service appointments. Because less than 2% of the women in Massachusetts are veterans, the absolute preference formula has rendered desirable state civil service employment an almost exclusively male prerogative." Marshall pointed out the practical result of the preference law: "In practice, this exemption, coupled with the absolute preference for veterans, has created a gender-based civil service hierarchy, with women occupying low-grade clerical and secretarial jobs and men holding more responsible and remunerative positions."

Justice Marshall's dissent called for shifting the burden of proof from the individual to the state: "Where the foreseeable impact of a facially neutral policy is so disproportionate, the burden should rest on the State to establish that sex-based considerations played no part in the choice of the particular legislative scheme."

See also
Gender equality
List of gender equality lawsuits
List of United States Supreme Court cases by the Burger Court
List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 442

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External links

United States Supreme Court cases
United States equal protection case law
1979 in United States case law
Gender discrimination lawsuits
United States public employment case law
United States Supreme Court cases of the Burger Court
History of women in Massachusetts


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Il Cantone di Lusigny-sur-Barse era una divisione amministrativa dell'Arrondissement di Troyes.

A seguito della riforma approvata con decreto del 21 febbraio 2014, che ha avuto attuazione dopo le elezioni dipartimentali del 2015, è stato soppresso.

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What happens when my caregiver is sick?
One of the reasons to use a quality home care agency is that they are assisting you in managing your care or care for a loved one. When a caregiver has an emergency or is sick and cannot be at their assigned shift the agency will staff the shift with a replacement caregiver capable of meeting current needs. Every effort is made to provide a good match between client and caregiver even on a replacement caregiver. A quality agency is available 24-hours a day in case of emergencies just like this.
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Yale defenseman Rob O'Gara soon to be signed to the Boston Bruins
More youth on the blueline from the NCAA coming to the Bruins system.
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As the Frozen Four comes closer, more and more junior/senior prospects from the NCAA's unlucky teams that have been knocked out of the tournament begin signing with the teams that drafted them.
One such player is Yale senior Rob O'Gara.
No more worries- star Yale D Rob O'Gara is expected to sign with the Boston Bruins soon. No word on whether AHL-bound or details- stay tuned
— Kirk Luedeke (@kluedeke29) March 28, 2016
O'Gara has played all four years at Yale, and hasn't necessarily been lighting the rich kids league ECAC up, but that isn't necessarily his job. His job is to defend, and apparently he's done his job admirably. It's tragic that it had to end in Dartmouth knocking his college career to the curb, but he's moving on to bigger and better things as a Boston Bruin!
Here are his stats from his time at Yale:
Between him, Carlo, Zboril, and Gryzlyck, there's a lot to look forward to here on the Boston Blueline in the future.
Recap: Sloppy play dooms B's in 3-2 loss to Tampa Bay Not the cleanest effort.


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Tropical Cyclone Marcia: Central Queensland towns devastated as storm tracks across state
Posted Fri 20 Feb 2015 at 6:08am Friday 20 Feb 2015 at 6:08am Fri 20 Feb 2015 at 6:08am , updated Fri 20 Feb 2015 at 2:13pm Friday 20 Feb 2015 at 2:13pm Fri 20 Feb 2015 at 2:13pm
People are beginning to clean up after Tropical Cyclone Marcia near Yeppoon. (AAP//Karin Calvert)
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Cyclone Marcia is leaving a trail of destruction along central Queensland as it slowly tracks south over land.
Marcia, only the sixth recorded category five cyclone Australia has seen, luckily made landfall in the largely uninhabited Shoalwater Bay on Friday morning.
It "grazed" the regional town of Yeppoon and maintained a lot of its force to directly hit the city of Rockhampton as a category three.
Townships have been extensively damaged; roofs ripped off homes, trees uprooted, and lives shaken up, with about 50,000 homes across the Capricorn Coast without power.
At 11:00pm AEST on Friday the Bureau of Meteorology said the cyclone was "barely holding onto a category one status".
Hundreds of families have taken refuge in cyclone shelters, many built to withstand category five disasters.
As some towns exhaled after the disaster today, many more were still in the firing line throughout Friday night.
Emergency links
BoM weather warnings for Queensland
Queensland State Emergency Service
ABC Emergency Coverage
The Callide dam's automatic gates opened late on Friday and "a massive amount of water" was heading towards Jambin, Banana Shire Mayor Ron Carige said.
Cr Carige told people in low lying areas to evacuate to the school.
"This has just come on all of a sudden," he said.
"The Kroombit Dam is also going a metre over, and that is going to join up with the Callide and they both go towards Jambin.
"The gates have opened automatically and we have a wall of water two metres higher than the 2013 flood going into the Callide and that has got to come out over the spillway, so that water is now heading towards Jambin.
"We are asking everyone on the Callide to evacuate as soon as they can. Take bedding take some food and enough to last for a few days."
Marcia was downgraded to a category one about 8:00pm AEST on Friday and was due to hit Biloela, the town's first cyclone in 42 years.
The system was expected to track towards Monto and Mundubbera overnight and was expected to peter out by morning.
Despite packing gusts of over 200 kilometres there has been no loss of life throughout the disaster, but there has been a few near misses.
Two staff members of the Yeppoon Hotel had to be rescued from an elevator when power was cut.
Fay Brewer and Vikki Smith were stuck for about half an hour before several men used a car jack to wedge open the doors.
In Rockhampton, gusts pummelled local man Phil Tout's home, wrenching off his roof and flinging it into the sky.
Support beams started crashing down.
"I got belted across the head and back with bits of timber and Christ knows what else," Mr Tout said.
"I was out to it for a couple of minutes."
A house decimated by Tropical Cyclone Marcia in the Queensland coastal town of Yeppoon on February 20, 2015. (ABC News: Marlina Whop)
Many more Queenslanders would have gone through the same ordeal but it could take days to fully understand how many homes were destroyed.
Two Defence Force planes will help assess the damage on Saturday and 500 Ergon technicians will work to restore power.
Rockhampton city centre after the cyclone. (ABC News: William Rollo)
Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk wanted people in Rockhampton and Yeppoon to stay indoors as much as possible, as live power lines were down.
The priority on Friday night was Biloela, which has a population of about 6,000.
Overall, Ms Palaszczuk said Queensland had pulled through relatively well and all effort would be put into the clean up.
"People need to be a little bit patient," she said.
"I know they've been through a harrowing ordeal.
"We're very lucky, we're very fortunate, we've had no reports of serious injuries."
Posted 20 Feb 2015 20 Feb 2015 Fri 20 Feb 2015 at 6:08am , updated 20 Feb 2015 20 Feb 2015 Fri 20 Feb 2015 at 2:13pm
As it happened: Cyclone Marcia weakens after battering Queensland coast
Two men found safe after boat sinks off Fraser Island
Yeppoon resident tells of 'daunting' situation as cyclone approaches
Turtle eggs relocated ahead of Tropical Cyclone Marcia
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Accyclovir didnt work for me, tried it for months. I soak a cotton ball in rubbing alcohol and apply it liberally to the affected area. 60 — a single tube lasts for a couple of years. I went through a lot of cotton buds, as I did not "double dip"! Not much works for me as I only have a hr or two before it starts coming up and generally by the time I get my hands on the anti viral drugs the horse has bolted. I hold the cotton ball in place until it starts to sting a little, maybe even a lot.
What we offer With an ever-expanding portfolio of products in a diverse range of categories – including dermatology, neurology, and cardiology – we are proud to bring to Canadians high quality products that benefit their well being. I used to get cold sores 2-3 times a year, but since taking the pills, I've only had one very minor outbreak in the past 2 years. I too was plagued with cold sores from the time I could crawl. Remember to develop these wonderful healing medicines the drug company must do research and clinical trials. I had my Dr prescribed the cream as I ran out of the generic from Mexico.
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When that happens, I can count on my acyclovir! The answer to that question leads down the rabbit hole of U. They said that's just how much it costs. So, one CANNOT use acylovir with the idea that they are the same.
Thankfully my aunty introduced me to betadine and it would always prevent them from breaking out. I don't get the tingle either. Better than genital herpes though I'd say. Both Zovirax cream and Zovirax ointment have the same amount of the same active ingredient, acyclovir.
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Fortunately, the outbursts have decreased during the years, but i noticed that they used to reapear after i go to the dentist. He is now required to wax his face and exfoliate with a floor sander. Hi I've gotten cold sores ever since I was a little kid. 2g tube that can last forever.
It seems very few places even carry the brand name Zovirax anymore because the generic is so widely available, and so CHEAP! I got my first cold sore when I was 8 years old, right in the corner of my mouth. When the sores are fully scabbed they are not contagious, its only the liquid inside the sores that is contagious. As soon as it healed, I often was "blessed" with a second one. It gets to the point where I can't go into work because I constantly need to keep reapplying and if I'm at work I feel like I'm not doing the best job with tackling it. I also use Hand sanitizer on my cold sore.
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However, I stand by the fact that drying out the cold-sore is the best way to go. I've tried just about every trick in the book ointments, medicine, ice, witch hazel, lysine. What country did impetigo come from? Is there anything more annoying than a cold sore? I can commiserate with all of you. L'agence ADK-Kasting dispose d'une base de données de près de 3000 comédiens belges et internationaux, professionnels ou non.
However, if the lesions are inside of your mouth and on your tongue, then they are not cold sores. How is impetigo treated in alternative medicine? I tried Zorvirax early on and had no luck with it. Most people are infected with HSV-1 as a child, through shared food or drink with a contagious carrier.
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Also take vitamin A, C and E along with calcium, even camomile pills and drink Black tea or grey tea. Because viruses love to attack when you are weak, the HSV-1 waits until your immune system is suffering, and then works its evil, painful magic on your face. I supplement Lysine for muscle building purposes and have noticed no benefit for the prevention or treatment of cold sores. If a study appears that proves it is effective in preventing or treating cold sores, I will promote the heck out of it.
Anyway, personally I agree with you, if lysine was a miracle cure then drug companies would have synthesized a replicant by now. The ICD-9 code for mild impetigo is 684. And you don't need a prescription at all. I know a few people who swear by L-Lysine as well, but I can't recommend it without there being any independent medical proof that it works.
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If you want to find out just go get blood work done. Just to be a little different I get them on my left ear. Another suggestion: take Advil to reduce the swelling of the lip. I say it's a placebo, he swears he no linger gets seasonal allergies. When you get a cold sore, don't share cups, glasses, forks, plates, chopsticks, food, anything with anyone else. Your body is essentially a walking, breathing, loving feeling pharmacy capable of producing a cornucopia of drugs on the fly.
This is a joke — I never go outside. I started taking Multi vitamins and extra Vitamin C for an exercise program I was on and after a while I noticed I wasn't getting any cold sores any more. Hi there, i do believe you can impetigo in your eye. I didn't catch it in time to get medication on it. Lysin helps get rid of it and arginine feeds it. This specification includes a detailed description of an information model for structured product labeling documents as well as the XML representation of that model.
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If I catch it early, my cold sore can be gone in three days. Andrea – I appreciate your need for proven facts. When your body is in a raised pH state your immune system finds it far more difficult to create antibodies which will fight off viruses and bacteria which it is normally able to keep a handle on.
Stay strong I feel your pain! If you find another I would love to know, since preventative methods are better than treating after the outbreak? Mälardalens Högskola finns på Facebook och där kan ni ställa frågor och få ett snabbt svar. John Nelson, a Kaiser spokesman, declined to discuss specifics of Makichuk's experience for privacy reasons.


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Dunkin' Donuts beats on quarterly revenue and profit
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(Reuters) - Dunkin' Brands Group Inc reported better-than-expected quarterly revenue and profit, helped by a rise in royalties from franchisees and higher sales at company-operated restaurants.
Royalty and fees from franchisees of its Dunkin' Donuts restaurants and Baskin-Robbins ice cream shops rose 5.6 percent to $133.9 million, accounting for nearly two-thirds of its total revenue in the quarter.
Sales at company-operated restaurants rose 38.5 percent to $7.3 million.
Net income attributable to the company fell to $46.2 million, or 48 cents per share, in the third quarter ended Sept. 26 from $54.7 million, or 52 cents per share, a year earlier.
Revenue rose 9 percent to $209.8 million.
Analysts on average had expected earnings of 51 cents per share on revenue of $204.1 million, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S.
(Reporting by Sruthi Ramakrishnan in Bengaluru; Editing by Anil D'Silva)
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13 Modern Dining At Las Vegas World Market 2011 – I saw several large pieces, continuing the theme of my meal from the Las Vegas World Market that I needed to share with you. Some of the dining table and chairs is simple and clean, some Super innovative yet elegant, with very interesting decorative details.
Much of this set is quite affordable. In some cases, it may be advisable to add on top of glass to protect table surface. In some cases, opaque or patterned glass top others can view and add great protection. Oversize glass is also an option, which adds an area to eat and a good aesthetic statement.


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Q: Do I need external 2nd level cache for multiple NHibernate instances in Windows Azure? I am developing AMF Flash gateway on FlourineFx application for deployment on Windows Azure and I want to use Azure SQL.
I use NHibernate 2.1 + NHibernate.Linq 1.0 + FluentNHibernate 1.1
There will be two or more instances of this FlourineFx gateway and only 1 database.
I am planning on implementing memcached as 2nd level cache later (as Windows Azure WorkerRole), but is it necessary?
(I don't mind performance, but I do mind consistency)

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I don't know if 2nd level cache solves some transaction-related problems or just makes it faster

The main point of the L2 cache is to avoid database hits and I wouldn't say that the L2 cache solves transactions-related problems; It might just be involved (and thus make the whole process a bit more complicated), if fully transactional caches are supported by NHibernate.
Personally, I tend to limit the use of L2 caching to read-only (or mostly read) objects, that's where the L2 cache gives all its power. Caching read-write entities is trickier, especially in a clustered environment, and the cache provider must support the Cache Concurrency Strategy required by your application for a given entity (read-only, non-strict-read-write, read-write).
I'm not sure this really answers the question, but at least it might give you some hints.
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*17.2. The Second Level Cache

*Chapter 23, NHibernate.Caches

A: The cache won't help you with consistency. Of course it will help with performance, and you should use a distributed one, like memcached, if running multiple instances, as you correctly inferred.
That said, NHibernate does have features to help with consistency. Check:

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*10.4. Optimistic concurrency control

A: No, you don't.
But, how you guys helped me point to the right direction, it will help with performance.
So I will definitely run some instances of memcached and investigate concurrency control further.
Thanks.

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