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I asked my Lords and Masters of my Records about the upcoming "Event" I heard so much about on the internet. What is the nature of this "Event," what can we expect here on this planet to experience and when will it happen? What it is your referring to as the Event is multiple "Events" should we say. This wave of energy, coming for the cosmic Sun (central sun) moving through the portal of your present sun is an event in the sense that it has been many thousands of years since this happened to Earth/Gaia and it is time for her ascension along with man – it comes with great anticipation for those who are aware of it coming, for it brings great upliftment, consciousness raising and light. There is nothing to fear for those on the earthly third dimensional plane – for it will not be painful but a high frequency light that will fill the body and soul and consciousness with a much needed upgrade. Those who have been "service to others" will be able to hold more light and able to calibrate the vibrations in such a way to utilize it to help themselves and others that are not as easily assimilating this light. Be of no fear, those who have a hard time with this light will be taken to healing domes to recalibrate and work through the transformative energies that may bring them great discomfort at first as they are not used to this high vibration. Those of higher vibration who are healers will be working with these beings so they may assimilate this new energy and come back to live in it. Those of a lower vibration who may be more "service to self" may have to leave the earth altogether as their vibration doesn't match and they cannot exist in this higher frequency. They will either transition or be moved off world. There is nothing but loving energies here with help from all over with benevolent beings. The nature of the Event is pure love and hope for the future of a new earth being born by those who co-create with a benevolent heart. This is an ongoing influx of energies that will ramp up and become more intense, bringing mankind into a higher and higher state of consciousness. It is the beginning of a great new world. Have no fear. Rejoice. This is what you have been waiting for. Most importantly is to stay calm and know you manifest more quickly now in this higher frequency – be of a high benevolent mind with visualizations of a peaceful and harmonious world and so it is. The rolling waves of energy has already started – as we do not have your sense of time, from our vantage point, outside of time – past, present and future are now. But to put it in perspective as close as we can, the waves will continue for many more years to the culmination of the new earth. Expect a strong wave in the beginning of 2018 of your time cycle to get it really going. Be like a child – enjoy the ride – the wild adventure of a new life!

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Home » Arby's meats in Egypt Arby's meats in Egypt The chain will open 50 restaurants in the country starting in early 2018. ATLANTA – Arby's Restaurant Group Inc. will soon be adding another country to its list of international locations. The chain announced a development agreement Dec. 12 with Vantage Egypt for Tourism and Entertainment (Vantage Egypt) to build 50 new Arby's restaurants in Egypt. The new restaurants will begin opening in 2018. "I am very happy about working with a great, successful brand like Arby's," said Mohamed Halawa, owner of Vantage Egypt. "We are very determined to make Arby's one of the most successful restaurant concepts in the Egyptian Market." This agreement will add more Arby's to the region. The brand is also opening new restaurants in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia through its franchisee, Kharafi Global. "We are excited to welcome Vantage Egypt in to the Arby's family and look forward to working with them," said Paul Brown, CEO of ARG. "They are experienced restaurant operators who will do a fantastic job expanding our brand throughout Egypt." Headquartered in Atlanta, Arby's has more than 3,300 restaurants in seven countries. Vantage Egypt for Tourism and Entertainment was founded in 2006 and owns and operates several restaurant concepts and international brands in Egypt including Papa John's Pizza. Sales Channels Foodservice Papa John's to add more stores in Egypt Arby's expanding deep in the heart of Texas Arby's shows uptick of growth in 2015 Advances in Kill Floor Technology European Veal: A Trusted Tradition

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A total of eight people were charged with looting after the Oroville evacuation. Beebe, a Gridley resident, is the first to get a life sentence. Two cases are still pending. He said Beebe has struggled with methamphetamine addiction "since he was a juvenile." He was accused of taking about $2,000 worth of jewelry, clothing and electronics from a home in Gridley during the two-day evacuation. Officials ordered the evacuation after dam officials feared the structure's emergency spillway would fail, unleashing a "wall of water" on downstream communities. Phase 2 of the Oroville Dam emergency spillway repair continues, and some wildlife came to check out the progress.

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Overview | Curriculum | Concentrations Admissions | Alumni Impact | Affordability Practical and ministry focused, Fuller's MA in Theology and Ministry (MATM) offers an experiential program designed to train leaders for positions inside and outside of the church. A newly redesigned curriculum starts students out with a series of foundational courses, providing a knowledge base on which to build as they progress through the program. Additionally, courses that draw from Fuller's School of Psychology & Marriage and Family Therapy offer MATM students a more holistic understanding of ministry, while five unique concentrations help focus each student's studies on their chosen context. The MATM degree combines spiritual and vocational formation with rigorous academic coursework, and culminates in a supervised apprenticeship so you can integrate your learning in a real-world ministry context. The MATM is also fully available in Spanish. Focused Training Quarter System Study with faculty like these: Vince Bantu ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF CHURCH HISTORY AND BLACK CHURCH STUDIES Kara Powell EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE FULLER YOUTH INSTITUTE AND PROFESSOR OF YOUTH AND FAMILY MINISTRY Scott Cormode HUGH DE PREE PROFESSOR OF LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT Explore other members of our renowned School of Mission and Theology faculty. View SMT Faculty Request More Information About the MA in Theology and Ministry I'm interested in taking the MATM Fully Online Primarily online with some coursework on a campus Undecided Please select... Winter 2023 Spring 2023 Summer 2023 Fall 2023 Beyond Fall 2023 I'm interested in focusing my MATM studies on: Asian American Ministry Concentration Black Church Studies Concentration Ecclesial Leadership Concentration Intercultural and Urban Ministry Concentration Youth, Family, and Culture Concentration My campus of choice for limited face-to-face courses Pasadena Texas (Houston) [U.S. citizens or Permanent Residents only] Announcing the Redesigned MA in Theology and Ministry Fuller Seminary is pleased to announce a new curriculum for the MA in Theology and Ministry (MATM) degree in the School of Mission and Theology. Prompted by the guiding values of Fuller's strategic plan, FULLER NEXT, the MATM program has been rebuilt to maximize students' training and formation as leaders for a new era in… Expand Your Ministry Effectiveness Be equipped with biblical and contextual insights to discuss real-world ministry concerns. Learn to think theologically and practically through a guided curriculum focused on ministry fundamentals and spiritual formation. Meet the demands of your context and your calling with excellence. Apply learned ministry skills, with structured theological reflection, to develop and lead a passion project through a thoughtfully supervised apprenticeship. Coursework includes: Biblical studies and exegesis Theological studies—including systematic theology and church history Ministry – including leadership and communication Studying cultural contexts General electives Degree Outline New MATM Concentrations Designed for Your Unique Calling Students in Fuller's MATM program may choose from five concentrations to focus their studies on the context to which they feel called: Intercultural and Urban Ministry; Youth, Family, and Culture; Ecclesial Leadership; Black Church Studies; or Asian American Ministry. Questions about the MATM concentrations? Email us at [email protected]. Asian American Ministry Expand The Asian American Ministry concentration is designed for students desiring to minister as Asian Americans, in Asian American contexts, or to Asian Americans. Students will develop a sophisticated practical understanding of racial history, cultural engagement, and contextual theology. By choosing this concentration, students will learn from world-class faculty practitioners as they prepare to lead in a variety of vocational settings including ethnic-specific or multiracial churches or ministries. Sample courses include Asian American Identity and Ministry, Integral Evangelism, and Asian American Theologies. Black Church Studies Expand The Black Church Studies concentration equips the next generation of leaders in the Black church and community. Black students will have the opportunity to build community around concepts that are immediately applicable to their contexts and are centered on many of their own experiences and narratives. By choosing this concentration, students will learn from world-class faculty practitioners as they prepare for vocational leadership in a variety of settings from the context and perspective of the Black church and community. Sample courses include Introduction to Black Theology, Witness and Justice, and Race, Religion, and Theology in America. Ecclesial Leadership Expand The Ecclesial Leadership concentration is ideal for students seeking focused training in critical leadership skills, preparing them to think theologically and lead effectively in an ever-changing world. By choosing this concentration, students will learn from world-class faculty practitioners as they prepare for roles as pastors, parachurch ministry leaders, and organizational leaders. Sample courses include Leadership and Diversity: Gender, Cultures, and Ethnicity, Leadership for Transformation, and Value-Based Leadership in the New Testament. Intercultural and Urban Ministry Expand For missionaries, urban church planters, people engaged with cross-cultural evangelism and/or urban projects, and those with a passion for social transformation as part of integral mission, Fuller's Intercultural and Urban Ministry concentration provides students with the chance to further develop their skills to serve or continue to serve in intercultural contexts. Learn from world-class faculty like Professors Dr. Salvatierra, Dr. Radcliffe, Dr. Garcia-Johnson and more. Fuller's School of Psychology & Marriage and Family Therapy offers students unparalleled opportunities to integrate psychology into their studies, including the chance to learn from faculty who are experts in trauma. Fuller's Centro Latino, Center for Asian American Theology and Ministry, Korean Studies Center, Chinese Studies Center, and William E. Pannell Center for Black Church Studies also provide students with resources and community to further support their studies. Sample courses include Introduction to Transforming the City, Organizing Urban Communities for Transformation, and Globalization, Poverty, and Christian Mission. Youth, Family, and Culture Expand The Youth, Family, and Culture concentration in the MATM program prepares students to be better youth ministry pastors/ministers/directors. This concentration is for youth ministry-oriented students who love and desire to advocate for diverse young people, have experience but want to be more prepared and more effective, and/or are drawn to a variety of powerful paths that serve young people (including church, parachurch, counseling, education, social services, community development). Fuller and the Fuller Youth Institute's commitment to learning, resourcing, and networking has placed us as one (if not the) most significant schools dedicated to youth and young adult ministry. Our work regularly taps into the expertise of Fuller's School of Psychology & Marriage and Family Therapy and the School of Mission and Theology faculty. Those who seek to develop their skills and knowledge in youth and young adult ministry look to Fuller and the Fuller Youth Institute. Students in this concentration will benefit from a supportive community, training to handle ministry in an ever-changing world, and preparation for youth ministry and beyond. Sample courses include Youth, Gender, Race, and Culture; Childhood in Global Perspective: Foundations for Mission with Children at Risk; Youth, Learning, and Digital Culture. Finish Your MATM at a Faster Pace with the In-Service Pathway Are you already working in a church or ministry? Your practical experience is a valuable asset to your education. The new In-Service Pathway allows MATM students serving in ministry at least 20 hours per week to earn credit through Apprenticeship courses.* Integrate your studies in the learning laboratory of your current ministry and finish your MATM at a faster pace with this degree pathway. Each Apprenticeship course is enhanced by FULLER Equip modules, which are created by Fuller experts to help you hone your skills in your ministry context. Formation group leaders guide thoughtful theological reflection, so you have the chance to share what you are learning with other ministry leaders in your program. *Earn up to 20 quarter units through 5 Apprenticeship courses (one per quarter), making up 25 percent of the MATM degree units. "Fuller offered me a broader worldview, fostered my faith, and immersed me in an exceptional program with noteworthy Hispanic and non-Hispanic professors and fellow students." – Norma Galvan (MATM '14) Prospective MATM students should have a bachelor's degree from an accredited institution and submit an application for admission with the required documentation. Find out more with the Admission Requirements button below. MATM Admission Requirements Special Student Status If you don't hold an accredited bachelor's degree but do have substantial ministry experience, you may be eligible to apply to the MA in Theology and Ministry as a Special Student. Where Were You? An Exploration of the Presence of God Discover how MATM alumna Dannielle Carr makes an impact with her degree through creative writing as she shared her experience wrestling with her husband's cancer diagnosis. Almost all Fuller students are eligible for some kind of financial aid. New Student Scholarships vary by program and quarter. Contact your Admissions Counselor for more information about scholarships you may qualify for. U.S. Citizens and Permanent Residents may also apply for U.S. federal aid and work-study. President's Leadership Scholarship The President's Leadership Scholarship is a competitive scholarship offering recipients $2,700 in scholarship support per term. In concert with a program-specific scholarship, the President's Leadership Scholarship provides approximately 75 percent tuition support or more for select Master of Divinity (MDiv) and MA in Theology and Ministry (MATM) students who take at least two courses per quarter. (MDiv) Forms students holistically for agile, biblically grounded leadership in the church, the academy, or the marketplace. (MAT) One of our most flexible degrees, allowing students to dive deeper into a specific area of interest as well as preparing them for advanced theological study if they wish. Master of Arts in Intercultural Studies (MAICS) Applies insights from the study of mission to real-world ministry concerns, offering opportunities for deeper reflection to both seasoned and newer cross-cultural professionals. Get to know your admissions counselor I started at Fuller in 2016 as a student, and began working as an Admissions Counselor in 2019. I am encouraged and energized by the passion shared by my applicants! I love and am humbled by getting to be a small part of an applicants journey into seminary to further their education and goals! I love being active in the sun! Fitness activities I enjoy include running to the beach, playing beach volleyball, movement/lifting classes, of course, at the beach, swimming class…in a pool. Can you tell I love the beach?

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2 killed, leading Arab-Israeli lawmaker injured in Negev clashes over home demolitions JERUSALEM (JTA) — An Israeli policeman and a Bedouin Israeli were killed in an unauthorized Bedouin village during clashes between Israeli forces demolishing several homes and residents. Arab-Israeli lawmaker Ayman Odeh, who heads the Arab Joint List, also was injured in the head and back by sponge-tipped bullets fired by Israeli forces on Wednesday morning in Umm al-Hiran. Eight homes were demolished by the afternoon. Police officer Erez Levy, 34, was killed when a car driven by a local Bedouin schoolteacher struck a group of security forces at the site of the demolitions. Some news reports said that the home of the driver, Yacoub Abu al Kiyan, 50, was among those demolished. His relatives told Israeli and Arab media that al Kiyan was shot while driving to work, which caused him to lose control of the car and speed up, crashing into the officers. Aerial Israeli police footage of the incident appears to show the car moving slowly when police open fire. Israeli police and lawmakers called the incident a car-ramming attack. כוחות הביטחון הגיעו הבוקר לכפר אום אלחיראן שבנגב לפעילות אכיפת חוק. עם הגעתם הגיח רכב של תושב האזור ושעט לעבר הלוחמים בכוונה לבצע פיגוע — משטרת ישראל (@IL_police) January 18, 2017 "This is the second ramming attack in as many days," Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a statement following the incident. "We are fighting this murderous phenomenon, which has struck both Israel and the world. The State of Israel is, above all, a nation of law in which there will be equal enforcement. Not only will this incident not deter us, it will strengthen us. It will strengthen our determination to enforce the law everywhere." Netanyahu called on lawmakers to cool their rhetoric and reminded Israelis that the Bedouin are part of Israeli society. "I ask everyone, especially members of the Knesset, to be responsible, to stop fanning emotions and inciting toward violence. The Bedouin public is part of us; we want to integrate it into Israeli society and not radicalize it and push it away from the center of our life experience. The police are operating on the ground with authority and nobody has the right to interfere with their mission," he said. Odeh said in a statement after leaving the hospital that Netanyahu backtracked on an agreement related to the home demolitions that would have prevented the violence. "Let me be clear: It was possible to prevent the spilling of blood," he said in a statement distributed in English. "We were in negotiations until late into the night. I took part in the negotiations. We almost closed it. We reached a compromise that the residents of Umm al-Hiran accepted. But Prime Minister Netanyahu, who has already painted the Arab population as Public Enemy No. 1, decided himself to cruelly destroy a whole village, to kick and punch children, women, and men." Odeh called for the establishment of a special committee to investigate the events of the last several days. Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan accused Odeh of incitement. A Jewish town is slated to be built on the village's land, with the 1,000 residents of the unrecognized village moving to Hura, one of several recognized Bedouin villages built by Israel in the Negev. Israel's Supreme Court in 2015 ruled that the land belongs to the state and upheld the decision to destroy the illegally built homes in an appeal brought by residents.

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iOS App Uses AR to Teach Kids How to Read With Confidence and Tackles Bullies in Space by xradmin · August 17, 2019 Following the success of the Pokémon Go craze, developers began to see AR in a totally different light and as a potential game-changer when it comes to content delivery. What we have been seeing in the past few years is a ramping up of effort in AR development with studios coming up with increasingly useful AR apps that could be put into more practical uses beyond the gimmicks. Beyond gaming, entertainment and retail applications, augmented reality is also being used as a storytelling medium. One of the coolest AR storytelling apps to have emerged recently is Wonderscope which was launched last November on iOS. This augmented reality storytelling app for Apple devices has incorporated a new interactive experience to its library of immersive and educational stories. The app gets kids who are aged between 6 and 8 to enjoy reading aloud. Wonderscope Clio Wonderscope has just added its fourth story, known as Clio's Cosmic Quest, to its library of immersive educational experiences. This experience involves helping an animated particle of stardust to stand up to a bully and then later on learn to understand and befriend them. It has a space theme but it is geared at helping kids learn how to handle bullying and to read with confidence. Clio's Cosmic Quest will take young readers on a space voyage with a cute purple particle (that has to grapple with some bully in her nebula) and a long the way, the kids will learn about the stars, the solar system and the supernova. Apart from Clio's Cosmic Quest, there are three other stories on Wonderscope which are based on known tales like Alice in Wonderland, Goldilocks and the Three Bears and the Little Red Riding Hood. The developer Within's modern retake on these stories is such that it is able to tackle the topics and issues that today's kids can relate to. There is, for example, a STEM twist to the Red Riding Hood story where the user will help Red in building a gardening drone. Clio's Cosmic Quest, on the other hand is an original story but one that utilizes new technology that enables the developers to create and deliver a fully immersive content. It taps into Apple's ARKit to craft the characters and puts them inside space that will envelope the entire room instead of just the tabletop. The experience will also provide safeguards for borders so that kids don't run into walls or objects. This makes it safe for them to explore the experience within a room without incurring any injuries as you won't be around at all times to ensure the safety of your kids after you have handed them your iPad. Clio's Cosmic Quest Each of the stories will run for approximately 10 minutes based on the responsiveness of the user and many caretakers are unlikely to stick around until the experience has run its course. Within describes Wonderscope as a "screen positive experience" that gets your kids moving around, playing and talking rather than simply sitting and tapping on a couch somewhere or in the corner of a room. The user will meet a digital character that will appear in a virtual environment in front of the device's camera. As the plot unfolds, words begin to appear on the bottom of the screen and the user has to read them out aloud correctly to advance in the gameplay. Whenever the user speaks, the text appearing on the screen will be highlighted in green and it will subsequently fade once the user is done (speaking). The characters that appear in the virtual environment will then react to what the user is saying. They will even make eye contact with the player. This combination of voice recognition and augmented reality will create a more engaging experience, in contrast to the typical passive media consumption that users get with 2D content delivery. Clio becomes a star According to Wonderscope creator Within, some parents have reported that the app helped their autistic kids to learn to read, a rather unexpected and very positive effect. Clio has excellent quality production, storytelling and animation. Both the sound and visual effects are engaging and crisp. However, a test done by Engadget found the voice recognition system a little "lenient" as words were highlighted and the user taken to the next story even where they misspoke. Within co-founder Chris Milk has admitted as much stating that his team didn't particularly focus on accuracy and that Clio is not a substitute for Siri or Google Assistant. Rather, with Wonderscope, the system already knows what the user wants to say and there is a word that it will be listening for. The lenience in voice recognition will also give a pass to kids with a lisp in their voices or those with speech impediment, thereby helping build their confidence, too. The Wonderscope app is freely available on any ARKit-compatible device that runs an iOS 11 or newer. The introductory story will be available for free but the other tales will each go for $4.99. Clio's Cosmic Quest is already available at $4.99. Beyond the fun AR effects, the app can also help if you have a kid that is struggling to read as it helps in instilling the confidence as they learn about space, science while also learning how to stand up to bullies. Wonderscope was one of the first companies to immerse itself in storytelling in augmented reality. Its buzzy technology will overlay the digital images onto the physical real world around the user. For the past few years, augmented reality has been known for fun and gimmicks in the minds of the average consumer but we are slowly entering a phase where augmented reality will have a more utilitarian value, being incorporated into everyday uses that consumers will find practical, even indispensable. https://virtualrealitytimes.com/2019/08/16/ios-app-uses-ar-to-teach-kids-how-to-read-with-confidence-and-tackles-bullies-in-space/https://www.xrcentral.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/ios-app-uses-ar-to-teach-kids-how-to-read-with-confidence-and-tackles-bullies-in-space-14.jpghttps://virtualrealitytimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Clio-becomes-a-star-150×90.jpg 2019-08-16T23:39:27+00:00 Sam OchanjiAugmented RealityTechnologyFollowing the success of the Pokémon Go craze, developers began to see AR in a totally different light and as a potential game-changer when it comes to content delivery. What we have been seeing in the past few years is a ramping up of effort in AR development with…Sam OchanjiSam Ochanjisochanji@yahoo.comAdministratorVirtual Reality Times Tags: Augmented RealityTechnology Next story Angry Birds: Nearly A Decade Of Family Gaming Fun – VR, AR, And Beyond Previous story Doghead Simulations CEO Turns VR Social Platform Into His Own Personal Gym Swinging Puzzler Yupitergrad Physical Edition Confirmed for PlayStation VR Preview: Wolfenstein: Cyberpilot – Nazi Stomping Mayhem It's Time To Develop A Consent Framework For Virtual Beings

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The Quality Assurance & Accreditation Unit (QAAU) was established in 2007. The focus of this unit is threefold; firstly to monitor the implementation the University's framework for quality management to ensure continuous quality enhancement for both Administrative and Academic sectors. Secondly, to ensure that the University meets the expectations of national regulatory bodies which are the Higher Education Council (HEC) and the Bahrain Education and Training Quality Authority (BQA). Thirdly, to support the International Accreditation endeavours of the University.

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You want to find the perfect gift for the triathlete in your life but when they start using 'tri-speak' you start to think….'maybe a sweater instead'. To make matters worse, you walk into the store to find that there actually are 13 different types of goggles and you have no idea which one should go into the stocking. Triathlon comes with a lot of equipment and with that, strong preferences on the type of equipment an athlete wants. Shopping can be overwhelming. Later this week, we'll publish our gift guide full of ideas for everything from stocking stuffers to the one big gift under the tree but today we wanted to help you know how to choose that perfect gift. You do anything from filling a stocking full of training essentials for under $30 to getting your athlete the bike of his/her dreams. The great thing about triathlon is that there is always something that the athlete needs or wants at any price point. Know exactly what you want to spend before you get started. A lot of gear comes down to personal preference and fit. For example, we only sell 4 brands of helmets in the store but within those, you will find a dozen different styles and price points. Most of the time, it comes down to the athlete's preference. For the athlete, one brand may just 'feel' better on his/her head than another. On all3sports.com, your athlete can create a 'wish list'. This will give you the exact item and size that he or she prefers. Browse items and add them to the wishlist! Just like that, you have a shopping list! We have everything that is available online at the store. You can either have it shipped to you or pick it up at the store. If you prefer to pick something up at Podium, just give us a call and we'll have it transferred. Is something not available in the right size? Give us a call and we'll see if we can order it for you! We know that some people just really love the element of surprise. You want to get the perfect gift without your loved one knowing that you're on the hunt for it. Here are a few ways to shop in stealth mode. Go through their gear! Typically once athletes find a brand they like, they typically stick with it. You can find brands, sizes, and more by snooping through their bags. Ask their friends. Triathletes talk a lot about their equipment and it's likely that the friends they train with will know every detail from nutrition to saddle preference! If your athlete shops at Podium or all3sports, we keep a record of their purchases. We can help you with sizing and brands. And if all else fails, we offer gift cards!

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James Spence FRSE FRCSEd (1812-1882) was a Scottish surgeon. He served as President of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh 1867/68. Life He was born on 31 March 1812 at 12 South Bridge in Edinburgh, the son of James Spence, a perfumer, and his third wife. He was educated at a boarding-school in Galashiels and afterwards at the Royal High School, Edinburgh. He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh, but left to be apprenticed to Messrs. Scott & Orr, a firm of Edinburgh chemists, at 100 South Bridge. He managed, however, to complete his medical education in the Edinburgh Extramural School of Medicine and in 1832 received the diploma of Licentiate of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. On qualifying he made two voyages to Calcutta in 1833 as surgeon to an East Indiaman, but returned to Edinburgh to teach anatomy for 7 years as the university demonstrator under Professor Alexander Monro tertius. He then joined the extramural school of anatomy to act as demonstrator where he took part in the lecture-room course of demonstrations on regional anatomy, as well as in the dissecting-room teaching. He left the dissecting-room in 1846 to give lectures on surgery. In 1849, on becoming a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, he lectured systematically on surgery, first at number one Surgeons' Square and then at the Extramural School of Medicine at Surgeons' Hall. He became assistant surgeon at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary in 1850, full surgeon in 1854 and clinical lecturer in 1856. As professor of surgery, he was surgeon at the Infirmary until his death. In 1869 Byrom Bramwell served under Spence as his house surgeon at the Infirmary. In 1864, he was given the chair of systematic surgery as Professor of Surgical Science at Edinburgh University in place of Prof James Miller In 1865 he was appointed Surgeon in Ordinary to Queen Victoria in Scotland and in 1867 was elected President of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh for 2 years. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1866 his proposer being Sir David Brewster. He died at home, 21 Ainslie Place on the Moray Estate in western Edinburgh on 6 June 1882. He was buried in the Grange Cemetery, Edinburgh. The graves lies in the main south-west section facing onto the south path. His wife and children lie with him. Publications He published Lectures on Surgery in 1871. Family In 1847 married Margaret Fair (1825-1905), the daughter of Thomas Fair of Buenos Aires, joint founder of St John's Anglican Church in that city, with whom he had six sons and three daughters. These included John George Spence (1854-1870), Helen Mary Spence (died an infant), Margaret Sarah Spence (d.1927), Thomas Fair Hetherington Spence, a physician (1851-1928), James Edward Kendall Spence (died at sea 1893), and Hamilton Robert Spence (d.1936). Scientific recognition The Tail of Spence, an extension of the tissue of the breast that extends into the axilla, is named after him. Artistic recognition He was photographed by Hill & Adamson around 1850. See also List of people educated at the Royal High School Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh References 1812 births 1882 deaths Scottish surgeons Medical doctors from Edinburgh People educated at the Royal High School, Edinburgh Alumni of the University of Edinburgh Academics of the University of Edinburgh Scottish medical writers Presidents of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh

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Q: Does Janusgraph support Blob datatype? I am using janusgraph over cassandra and elastic search. In cassadra blob datatype is supported for saving files. My question: Is it supported in janusgraph to handle and save files as blob and can any one give me a java example or api to do so? A: JanusGraph supports the following data types: * *Byte *Short *Integer *Long *Float *Double *String *Geoshape *Date *Instant *UUID Unfortunately, BLOB is not one of them. One thing to keep in mind, is that property storage inside of JanusGraph can be tricky. For instance, properties on edges are stored on both vertices, which means they are stored twice. Long story short, you should try to keep your property values as small as possible; and BLOBs work against that principle. And FWIW, storing large files as BLOBs isn't a good idea in Cassandra, either. The better option, is to store a link to the file and have your application look it up separately.

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Helen Zele, 100, passed away peacefully Feb. 5, 2019, at Fairview Commons in Great Barrington. She was born April 8, 1918, in Torrington, Connecticut, to Marcus and Antoinette Horansky. She moved to Great Barrington in June 1952 and worked for many years at Friendly's Restaurant, the Cricket Restaurant and Kmart. Sharp and witty, she was a voracious reader, a quick solver of challenging crossword puzzles, and the family's reigning "Jeopardy!" champion. She enjoyed sitting on her front porch on summer evenings taking visitors, especially her grandchildren and great-grandchildren. On those same evenings, she loved hearing the latest good jokes, including the salty ones. She will be remembered for being tough as nails, fiercely independent and unboundedly generous. It was her generosity that started the many success stories in the large family for which she was matriarch. Helen is survived by daughter Joanne Mallory and husband John of Great Barrington; son Mark Zele of Florida; grandchildren Mark Guidi, Julie Steuernagle, Claudine Mallory, Jeffrey Zele, Mark Zele, Daniel Zele and Matthew Zele; 11 great-grandchildren: Hannah, Allison, Emily, Georgette, Amber, Zachary, Emily Zele, Gabriel, Mackenzie, Sydney and Shiloh; sister in-law Muriel Horanski of Virginia; and many nieces and nephews. She was predeceased by her husband, Mark Zele; daughter Darlene Guidi; and granddaughter Nicole Guidi Brown. In keeping with Helen's wishes, the family will have a private burial in the spring. There will be no calling hours. Memorial contributions may be made to HospiceCare in the Berkshires or Southern Berkshire Elderly Transportation in care of the BIRCHES-ROY FUNERAL HOME, 33 South St., Great Barrington, MA 01230. Condolences may be made through birchesroyfuneralservices.com.

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TRAVEL HISTORIAN CRUISING THE PAST Travel and Social History HOW WE'RE SUPPORTED Five reasons to watch the Cold War thriller The Man Between starring James Mason Sail again aboard the Delta Line ships around South America in this great video. What books were passengers reading on the RMS Titanic? 35 years ago the Pacific Princess docked at her new home port of San Diego Did the sinking of the RMS Titanic create the Federal Reserve? 2019 QUEEN ELIZABETH'S CHRISTMAS message and the 1957 first televised speech. California's famous all-Pullman SP streamliner LARK served San Francisco and Los Angeles Home > CRUISING THE PAST > She came in on the glamorous SUPER CHIEF… The train of the stars! Arriving in Pasadena. She came in on the glamorous SUPER CHIEF… The train of the stars! Posted by: Michael L. Grace January 13, 2018 A movie star arrives in Pasadena from the East Coast aboard the Santa Fe Extra Fare All-Pullman Super Chief in the 1950s. She came on the Super Chief national magazine advertisement. The Super Chief… The Santa Fe Station in Pasadena is now La Grande Orange Café. The orignal Santa Fe Station in Pasadena. The Santa Fe Station in Pasadena was home to the Super Chief, the Chief, El Capitan, and other major streamliners. The Super Chief leaving Pasadena in the early 1940s. The Metro Gold Line Del Mar Station was originally the Santa Fe Depot of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway. (Left) The original Pasadena Santa Fe Depot. (Right) The La Grande Orange Cafe. Santa Fe Chief passes Los Angeles streetcar just south of the Pasadena Station. The Santa Fe Railway's Mission Revival-style passenger station on Raymond Ave. in Pasadena, CA, opened in 1935. Passengers boarding in Pasadena could enjoy a Champagne Dinner aboard the Super Chief. Here is the menu from the late 1960s. Santa Fe Streamliner ready to leave Pasadena for Chicago. Pasadena, rather than Los Angeles, was the Santa Fe hub for the Los Angeles basin. The timetables called Pasadena the "gateway" to Hollywood, Beverly Hills, Santa Monica and the San Fernando Valley. The station during the 1960s. Local Pasadena boys watch the arrival in Pasadena of the premiere run of the Super Chief in the late 1930s. For the many film stars who came west to California and the coast, the majority took the Santa Fe and studio publicity men and reporters greeted them in Pasadena. Gloria Swanson (Sunset Boulevard) starred in a late 50s film featuring the Super Chief. In the film, they get off the train in Pasadena. The stars would get off in Pasadena. They avoided going to downtown Los Angeles and could motor to the West Side and the San Fernando Valley. Late 1960s shots of a Santa Fe streamliner ready to depart Pasadena. Night shot of the El Capitan/Super Chief in Pasadena. In 1936, Walt Disney and his wife, after sailing trans-Atlantic on the Italian Lines REX, and a cross-country train trip got off the Santa Fe train at the Pasadena station and were rushed by autograph seekers. Passengers waiting for the train in Pasadena during the late 1950s. This is a Santa Fe business car. Officials and executives from the Santa Fe in Los Angeles would occupy the car for the Rose Parade. The car would be parked at the crossing on Colorado Blvd and the guests of Santa Fe watched the parade from the rear platform. Santa Fe's SUPER CHIEF was one of the most famous trains in the world and served Pasadena until 1971. Amtrak train in the 1980s arriving in Pasadena from Chicago. Today, the station is a restaurant and stop on the Los Angeles Gold Line. ABOUT THE SUPER CHIEF… Cruising The Past welcomes you aboard the legendary Santa Fe Super Chief – the train of the stars. Extra Fare – All Pullman Streamliner. One reason that the Santa Fe became such a famous railroad was because of its flagship passenger train, the Super Chief (and, the railroad also claimed the most streamliners in operation at one time). The train quickly eclipsed its rivals (including its own cousin, the Chief) as the premier train to the Southwest and became so popular that it was the transportation choice of many Hollywood celebrities from the late 1930s through the 1960s. It was also the Super Chief that inspired Santa Fe's classic "Warbonnet" livery that is arguably the most beautiful paint scheme ever to be applied to a passenger train. Today, the Super Chief carriers on under the Amtrak banner although its one-of-a-kind paint scheme and interior designs are relegated to history. Interestingly, the Super Chief came about because of necessity. With the Union Pacific having launched its new streamlined City of Los Angeles in 1936 the Santa Fe needed to launch its own competing premier train between Los Angeles and Chicago. Having a direct route to the two cities (unlike the UP which had to hand off the train to the Southern Pacific to reach Los Angeles and Chicago & North Western to reach Chicago) gave the Santa Fe a distinct advantage although its first version of the Super Chief, while well planned, was not really up to par with the City of Los Angeles in that it was not streamlined and used standard heavyweight equipment. Knowing it needed something better the Santa Fe with the help of the Budd Company, introduced the all-new streamlined Super Chief in May of 1937. What resulted was a passenger train unrivaled in style, design, and luxury. Super Chief Pullman Drawing Room – By day and by night. Part of the train's phenomenal success was its appeal and character. In designing the new Super Chief the Santa Fe wanted not only a contemporary passenger train but also one that reflected the railroad's long-held relationship with Native American's of the Southwest. To style, the new Super Chief the train had an entire staff of designers, which quickly set to work bringing the soon-to-be legend to life. Industrial designer Sterling McDonald created the train's classic interior Indian designs and themes. Whenever possible McDonald used authentic Native American (many of which depicted the Navajo) colors (such as turquoise and copper), patterns, and even authentic murals and paintings in the train. He used a combination of rare and exotic woods like ebony, teak, satinwood, bubinga, maccassar, and ribbon primavera for trim through the train giving the Super Chief an added touch of one-of-a-kind elegance. Everything inside the train exuded the Native American culture and way of life. However, the Super Chief's livery also conveyed this, if not to an even greater degree. The train's now-classic "Warbonnet" paint scheme was actually designed by General Motors' artist Leland Knickerbocker. Knickbocker's livery featured gleaming stainless steel with the front half of the locomotive painted in red crimson, wrapping around the cab and trailing off along the bottom of the car body with a Native American-inspired design (a design that would go on to distinguish the Santa Fe) used on the front of the nose with "Santa Fe" flanking the center. For trim golden yellow and black was used. As Knickerbocker put it the design was meant to convey an Indian head with trailing feathers of a warbonnet (thus where the livery derived its now-famous name). The locomotive that powered this new train was General Motor's EMD EA model, a streamlined and completely self-contained diesel locomotive that handsomely matched the new Budd-built cars (themselves clad entirely in stainless steel giving the train a gleaming, "new" look). For the most part, the Super Chief remained quite popular through the 1950s. In 1951 it was re-equipped for the final time featuring the Pleasure Dome lounge that included dome viewing, a cocktail lounge, and the famed Turquoise Room used for dinner parties. However, none of the upgraded equipment matched the exquisite beauty of the original Super Chief cars. As the 1960s dawned, and as with the passenger rail industry itself, the Santa Fe found its fleet likewise in decline as passengers took to their private automobiles or the skies for faster and more convenient modes of transportation. However, unlike most other railroads which let their service slip and trains run down, the Super Chief remained an on-time, clean and regal operation right up until the end when Amtrak took over most intercity passenger rail operations in the spring of 1971. While the Santa Fe, perhaps reluctantly, handed over its illustrious flagship to Amtrak at least the railroad could take comfort in knowing that the Super Chief, while nothing near as plush as when it was privately operated, was one of the routes retained by the national carrier and continues to be operated to this day as one of Amtrak's most esteemed trains (although it is now known as the Southwest Chief). Rare 16mm color film – from the late 1930s or early 1940s – of Santa Fe steam train arriving in Pasadena. The film is primitive but quick views of the platform at Pasadena Santa Fe Station, a Pullman porter, and passengers. Michael L. 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In this week's Hidden Wealth Review, I teach how you can increase your retirement income by up to 40% (or more). What I have discovered recently is that many people are not controlling their retirement tax "controllables" and they're not taking care of the predictables. Whether you're transitioning to or through retirement, you can significantly improve your retirement income if you control the controlables. The Motley Fool had an interesting article this week about the one retirement expense that can catch you off guard. The article was talking about the cost of taxes. Although people tend to ignore this cost, taxes are a big expense in retirement. We have discovered that taxes are often the largest retirement expense, particularly for those who have done a really good job in saving for retirement. Taxes on Retirement Account Income (from IRAs & 401(k)s. These are taxed at the highest rate but, you can avoid them altogether. Taxes on Social Security Income. These taxes are usually caused by retirement account income. So, if you control for area number one, you also can control area number two. Taxes on Investment Income. We can show you how to have tax-free growth and distributions from your investment income without having to pay capital gains (which increase taxes on Social Security). Learn to control the controllables. Let me teach you how to become a tax-free retiree by eliminating taxes on your RMDs, your Social Security and your investment income. Register for this coming Tuesday's no-cost, no-obligation Retirement Protection Webinar. To register go to www.RetirementProtected.com, enter the required information and submit your registration. Once you submit your information, you will receive an email containing a personal link to join Tuesday's event. Spouses are encouraged to attend this event together.

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NEW YORK (AP) _ One scribbled line of John F. Kennedy's ``Ask not ...″ inaugural address and nine photocopied pages of the speech sold for $40,250 Wednesday as a two-day JFK memorabilia auction that had alarmed Kennedy's children began. Before the bidding opened, the collector selling most of the 500 or so items reached an agreement with Caroline Kennedy and John F. Kennedy Jr. to return some of their father's more ``intensely personal″ items. Among the items Robert L. White agreed to turn over were two of their father's handwritten journals and a clock the president kept in the Oval Office. As part of the agreement, the Kennedy children surrendered all claims to ownership of the other auction items, including the watch Kennedy was wearing on the day he was assassinated, and the briefcase he carried with him on that trip to Dallas _ both of which his children had asked for. White was offering the briefcase for sale. He no longer owns the watch, which was being offered by an unknown seller. Tom McNaught, a spokesman for the Kennedy Library in Boston, said the returned items would be given to the library. The Kennedys did not immediately return messages. The bidding Wednesday afternoon at Manhattan's Seventh Regiment Armory failed to excite the kind of frenzy seen during the 1996 sale of items from the estate of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. Only about one-quarter of the seats were filled with 150 bidders. A number of expected big-ticket items were removed from sale after bidders failed to meet the minimum price set by Guernsey's. A 22-foot sloop sailed by Kennedy, the Flash II, was removed from sale after the highest bid, $800,000, did not meet the minimum, which one of the owners said was in the seven figures. Bidding on the Cartier watch worn by Kennedy when he was killed reached $750,000 twice and bidding had to be restarted after a phone bidder was disconnected. But the offers apparently fell short of the minimum and the watch was removed from sale. Also removed was a paperweight commemorating the Cuban missile crisis that Kennedy had presented to his secretary, Evelyn Norton Lincoln. It had been pegged for a minimum $100,000 bid. The ``Honey Fitz,″ an 88-ton motorized yacht built in 1931, was named by Kennedy for his maternal grandfather and used during his administration as the presidential yacht, sold for more than $5.9 million. Items handwritten or signed by Kennedy attracted the most interest, including the single sheet of yellow legal paper on which he scribbled one line from his Jan. 17, 1961 inaugural address: ``An inaugural is a beginning and an end _″. The speech package had been expected to bring $4,000 to $6,000. A signed Bell System telephone credit card in Kennedy's name from 1961 sold for $12,650 _ below the presale estimate of $16,000 to $18,000, but well above the $1,035 paid for an unsigned 1959 membership card to the American Irish Historical Society. ``That really shows the value of a signature,″ said Larry Rosenbaum of EAC Gallery, an upstate New York business dealing in autographs and documents. Evelyn Norton Lincoln, who was the president's secretary, bequeathed White a trove of Kennedy's personal items when she died in 1995. The Kennedy children have said they felt betrayed by Mrs. Lincoln. ``The number of items she took for herself, and the intensely personal character of many of them, is overwhelming,″ the Kennedys said. Earlier this week, White agreed to remove 21 items after negotiating with the National Archives. Among the items were a White House writing desk and notes Kennedy made before a 1961 meeting with Nikita Khrushchev. Two years ago, in a sale at Sotheby's to benefit the Kennedy family, bidders paid out $34.5 million on 5,000 items from the estate of Mrs. Onassis.

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Contact Brooke's Office Delegate Lierman's Scholarship In Annapolis « Local Advocacy Healthy, Thriving Neighborhoods » Brooke and her husband Eben are committed to raising their family in Baltimore and sending their son to Baltimore City public schools (Teddy will enroll in Kindergarten at Hampstead Hill Academy in fall 2018!). Brooke understands the challenges that Baltimore parents face and believes that safe, quality public schools are the foundation for attracting and keeping families in the City. Brooke is dedicated to making sure that every public school in the district has the highest quality teachers and principals, and provides a safe learning environment for every student. As a member of the Appropriations Committee, Brooke has been a leader on funding for City Schools from the first day of her term in 2015. She led passage of a bill to provide free public transit to City students on MTA busses, and was part of a small team that worked to ensure that the State would help City Schools dig out of a large deficit in the 2017 session. During the 2018 session, she is again part of a core group working to ensure that the state provides adequate capital resources to City schools to provide high quality learning environments for all kids. Brooke also regularly communicates with the principals and teachers in her district. For instance, Brooke partnered with the principal at Maree Farring Elementary/Middle School in Brooklyn to advocate for additional space for students in this overcrowded and growing school. She worked with North Avenue and the Department of Housing and Community Development to help secure funding for the purchase of the building next to the school to be renovated and used as additional classroom and community space. But for her efforts, this opportunity would have been lost. Across the district, Locust Point parents and residents reached out to Brooke in summer 2015 about their desire for a new library at FSK Elementary/Middle School in Locust Point. Brooke worked to ensure that QZAB funding from the federal government was secured by the state and targeted at FSK so that the school could capitalize on a grant program with the Weinberg Foundation to build new libraries. She joined students and parents at the ribbon cutting of this new, beautiful library in October 2017. Brooke also understands the challenges that parents face in securing high-quality, affordable child care. She will continue working with parents, regulators, and City officials to (1) increase Child Care Subsidy payments for working families (currently many Maryland families are on a waiting list to receive help), and (2) identify and eliminate barriers to starting new child care facilities in Baltimore and around the State. Creating high-quality child-care provides jobs, starts our children on a solid path from their first days, and enables parents to return to the workforce confident that their children are being cared for. It must be a priority for Maryland, and Brooke will fight to keep attention focused on this critical need. Healthy, Thriving Neighborhoods Brooke has led on bills to support our neighborhoods and supported our park system by… Brooke understands the challenges that Baltimore parents face and believes that safe, quality public schools… In District 46, our neighborhoods are home to a variety of small businesses – from… When a constituent or City leader needs help with MTA, they call Brooke and she… Criminal Justice Reform & Violence Reduction The level of crime in Baltimore City, including in neighborhoods from Brooklyn to Bayview to… The first bill that Brooke successfully shepherded through the General Assembly closed an egregious loophole… Brooke is an environmental champion in the House of Delegates and was the only Delegate… Friends & Neighbors, It's hard for me to believe it has been this long, but… 495/270 P3 Program: BPW Should Vote No On June 5, 2019, the Board of Public Works will review and have the opportunity… info@brookelierman.com Brooke Lierman for Delegate Brooke Lierman is a Democratic state delegate representing District 46 in the Maryland General Assembly. She was elected in 2014 and lives in Baltimore City with her husband and two children. Authorized by Brooke Lierman for Delegate; Chairman, Dan Tracy; Treasurer, Sophia Silbergeld

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Trump Factor Steers Foreign Students Away from U.S. Colleges, Putting at Risk Schools' Annual $32 Billion in Foreign Revenue Reactions to the election of Donald Trump to the U.S. presidency (photo: Getty Images) By Nida Najar and Stephanie Saul, New York Times NEW DELHI — At a college fair Wednesday at the Le Méridien hotel here, 20 U.S. universities made their pitches to aspiring students, many of whom had long hoped to study in the United States. But as the students checked out presentations from colleges ranging from the State University of New York at Binghamton to Abilene Christian University in Texas, several expressed concerns about going to America under a Donald Trump administration. "It's the main topic of conversation among my friends," said Palak Gera, 21, who is applying to graduate programs in pharmaceutical science in North Carolina, Illinois and North Dakota. "They don't want to apply to the U.S. under Trump." Aman Kumar, 18, who is looking at universities in California, said, "In his campaign, he's discriminating against Muslim and other brown and black people," adding, "I'm thinking of applying to Canada." This year, the number of international students in U.S. colleges surpassed 1 million for the first time, bringing more than $32 billion a year into the economy and infusions of money to financially struggling colleges. College admissions officials in the United States caution that it is too early to draw firm conclusions about overseas applications, because deadlines for applications are generally in January and February. But they are worried that Trump's election as president could portend a decline in international candidates. Canadian universities have already detected a postelection surge in interest from overseas. "We have seen an increase in applications from the U.S. and from international students in the last week," Jocelyne Younan, the director of global undergraduate recruitment at McGill University in Montreal, wrote in an email. "We've also seen an increase in students inquiring about McGill on social media." Traffic on a University of Toronto website for international applicants surged the day after the election, officials there said — and most of it came from Americans. "Visits to our recruitment website from the U.S. are typically around 1,000 a day," said Ted Sargent, the university's vice president, international. "On Nov. 9, that spiked to 10,000." On the same day, there was an increase in visitors from Britain and India, Sargent said. "Our positive message as a university, but also as a city and a country, definitely is about openness to people from around the world and a real inclusiveness," he said. A disruption in the flow of international students could be particularly worrisome for universities who balance their books with income from international students, who generally pay higher tuition. At Indiana State University, 1,000 of the 13,500 students are foreign, including many Saudis who transferred this year from Idaho State, and officials are concerned, said Santhana Naidu, an associate vice president for communications and marketing. "We have already received inquiries from prospective students who are in the applicant pool," Naidu said. "They're asking, 'Is it safe for me to come there?' and generally getting the lay of the land." Naidu will be among officials meeting this week in Terre Haute at the university to determine what they can do to assuage fears. Scott Manning, the director of global programs at Susquehanna University, a liberal arts college in Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania, said he had heard before the election that two prospective students from China were waiting until after the vote to submit visa documents necessary to attend Susquehanna. "They were kind of spooked about threats Trump made about the South China Sea, back and forth with Japan about some uninhabited islands, and trade issues in general," Manning said. The students, who were considering an English-language program beginning in January as a precursor to fall enrollment, have still not submitted their documents, he said. Officials at Ohio State University said it was too early to tell whether the election result would affect international applications, adding that there had been an increase so far this year, although most were received before Election Day. International study has historically been affected by social forces. Attacks on Indian students in Australia in 2009 and 2010 were believed to be part of the reason for a sharp drop-off in applications from India. International education experts first raised concerns in May about the election of Trump, when a study was presented at a meeting of NAFSA: Association of International Educators indicating that a Trump presidency could dissuade international students from coming to the United States. The study, by Intead and FPP EDU Media, two companies specializing in international student recruitment for colleges, found that 60 percent of international prospective students would be less likely to attend a college in the United States if Trump were elected. "We were really surprised, if not shocked, by the results," said Benjamin Waxman, the chief executive of Intead. More recently, international education experts who have been on the ground in China and India — the two biggest feeder countries to U.S. colleges — also say they are seeing postelection jitters. Andrew Chen, the chief development officer at WholeRen, an international education consulting company in Pittsburgh, returned to the United States this week from China, where he said colleges in other countries were trying to capitalize on fears over Trump. "Many organizations and programs are starting to use this to promote education in the U.K., Australia and Singapore," Chen said. "These competitors paint the U.S. as not safe. Now, with Trump, they're saying it's going to be unfriendly." But Chen said he believed the fears of international students were unfounded. "He doesn't like refugees from the Middle East, and he said for all Muslims he wanted to do a background check," Chen said. "And also people from Mexico. He doesn't like those people." Chen added, "But I don't think he ever said he doesn't like international students who pay tuition to study in the U.S." Rahul Choudaha, an international education consultant in New Jersey, has been traveling for the past week in India, where he said there was a palpable worry among students and their parents. "They are not seeing the United States as a safe destination," said Choudaha, a founder of interEdge, a company that helps international students. "They're changing the destination to Australia or Singapore." "It's an anti-immigrant tone," he added. "Just stylistically, he seems be a very different person than people thought would be taking leadership in America." As she prepared her applications to prestigious U.S. universities, Naina Lavakare, a senior at the British School in New Delhi, developed a Plan B. "It was a family joke," said Lavakare's mother, Jyoti Pande. "You can apply anywhere you want. However, if it's Trump in the White House, we're not sure we want to send you to the U.S." Lavakare, 17, has adjusted her college aspirations. While she still has several U.S. colleges on her list — in New York, California and Rhode Island — she dropped universities in "red states" to focus on colleges in Britain and Canada, her mother said, because she was concerned about Trump's anti-immigrant talk. Lavakare and her friends, Pande said, "view Trump as a bigot and a misogynist." She added, "I think that is what is freaking them out more than anything else." Rise of Trump Elicits Shock, Outrage and Panic across Europe (by Dan Bilefsky, New York Times) British Lawmakers Debate Pros and Cons of Banning Trump from Britain (by Kylie MacLellan, Reuters)

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What is the significance of the title of the story Where Are You Going Where have you been? The allusion parallels Connie's decision to sacrifice herself so that Arnold Friend will not harm her family. The title also points to the strained relationship between Connie and her parents, who nag her about her behavior but do not question her actions. What is the role of identity in Where Are You Going Where have you been? Identity in "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" acts to separate Connie from her family emotionally and then physically as Arnold Friend misrepresents his own identity to her. Is Where Are You Going Where have you been an allegory? "[The] story is clearly an allegory of the fatal attractions of death (or the devil)," Oates explains. "An innocent young girl is seduced by way of her own vanity; she mistakes death for erotic romance of a particularly American/trashy sort" (source). What is the significance of the expression man the flying saucers on Arnold friend's car? She complains that the color of the car is so bright that it hurts her eyes, and she is puzzled by the phrase "Man the flying saucers" on the front fender, which was an expression that her peers used to use but that has fallen out of fashion. Where Are You Going Where have you been feminist allegory? The short story "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" by Joyce Carol Oates can be interpreted from a feminist perspective. There are many parts of the story that seem to symbolize the oppression of women. The story symbolizes the exploitation of women by men, and how women allow themselves to be controlled. Where Are You Going Where Have You Been metaphor? In "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been" the home represents the world of family and tradition. When Arnold Friend is threatening to collapse Connie's home, he is threatening her childhood world. Where Are You Going Where have you been theme analysis? The main themes of "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" are appearance versus reality, the embodiment of evil, and self-sacrifice. Appearance vs. reality: Both Connie and Arnold have two-sided natures, presenting an appealing self when necessary and withholding another. Where Are You Going Where have you been irony? The dramatic irony of "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" conveys the tone of warning about temptation. Connie's situation is that she does not feel appreciated at home and uses her looks and actions to get attention and appreciation from boys even if it is short-term. Why is Where Are You Going Where have you been dedicated to Bob Dylan? Oates said that she dedicated the story to Bob Dylan because she was inspired to write it after listening to his song "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue". The story was originally named "Death and the Maiden". December 18, 2021 by Matthew KayleePosted in Assignment writing tips What is the 3 aspects of human development? Is 11th class marks important? Which phrase best describes what keeps the Washwoman going despite her age and illness? December 19, 2021 When should a person with dementia go into a care home? December 19, 2021 Is UCF a 2 or 4 year institution? December 19, 2021

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Home News In the Next Year More Money for Hospitals and Medicines In the Next Year More Money for Hospitals and Medicines The Health Insurance Fund of the Republika Srpska has planned KM 566.68 million for financing health care in 2020, which is about 11.7 million more than the end of the year, and the most money, about 266 million, will be allocated to hospitals. This was shown by the financial plan of the Health Insurance Fund for the next year, which was also adopted by the Government of Srpska, according to which total revenues with receipts are planned in the amount of KM 755.620 million and are by 7.53% higher than the financial plan from this year. More than 80 percent of the total budget of the fund will be earmarked for health care financing, with the bulk of those funds going to hospitals, or about KM 10.5 million more than this year's plan. In addition, a higher amount is also planned for prescription drugs, at 3.13 percent. – The fund's commitment is to preserve the health system, inter alia by introducing and financing new medicines and providing financial support to hospitals, especially when it comes to introducing new treatment procedures. Over the past three years, more funds have been allocated for hospital healthcare – the Fund explained. The fund, they stressed, has in the past three years reduced the prices of certain health services, such as hemodialysis, which has resulted in lower costs for this type of health care. – In 2020, about 34.1 million KM is planned for this type of health care, which is 3.32 percent less than the plan from this year – they said in the fund. Siniša Maksimović, acting director of Bijeljina Hospital Sveti Vračevi, said that more money would mean a lot for this health care facility next year. – All hospitals in Srpska have similar problems, any money is welcome – Maksimović said. The news that more money will be earmarked for hospital health care next year also pleased the director of the Zvornik hospital, Ivan Popović, who explains that hospitals receive money from the fund based on the number of surgeries and examinations. – I am pleased that the fund has recognized that hospitals carry a heavy burden of healthcare. As the cost of health care work went up, it was realistic to expect that there would be an increase in contracts for both hospitals and health centers – Popović said. The financial plan for 2020 is based, according to the Health Fund, on the assessment of the funds needed for the health system to function, as well as the expected costs. – Initiatives for additional sources of funding have not yet come to fruition, so the health system remains the sole source of health insurance contributions. For this reason, we again appeal to the public to support us in the fight to secure additional funds – they said in the fund. They added that in the countries of the region, as well as in the EU, supplementary sources account for about 20 percent of the total income of compulsory health insurance, and the most represented source is precisely the additional taxation of products harmful to health. Previous articleIn 2019 KM 1,610,000.00 Was Earmarked for Interest Subsidies on Housing Loans Next articleOpposition Rally and Counter-Rally "for Republika Srpska" Held in Banja Luka Last Night

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\section{Experimental} \subsection{Supplementary information on methods and materials} All experiments reported here used flagella-null cells of \textit{Bacillus subtilis} (NCIB 3610 hag::tet, a gift from Roberto Kolter). Flagellaless cells were preferred because their inability to swim largely avoids contamination of inlets loaded with fresh growth medium in the microfluidic devices, and removes motility as a secondary contribution to biofilm spreading, as in earlier work \cite{Seminara12}. For each experiment, \textit{Bacillus subtilis} cells were streaked from $-80^\circ$C freezer stocks onto $1.5\%$ agar LB plates and incubated at $37^\circ$C for $12$ hours. Cells from a single colony were then inoculated in LB Broth (Lennox) at $37^\circ$C for $3$ hours to obtain cells in the exponential growth phase. These were centrifuged at $2600$ rpm for $6$ minutes and re-suspended with fresh minimal salts glycerol glutamate (MSgg), the standard biofilm growth medium for \textit{B. subtilis} \cite{Seminara12}. This MSgg medium contained $5$ mM potassium phosphate buffer (pH $7.0$), $100\,$mM MOPS buffer (pH $7.0$), $2\,$mM MgCl$_{2}$, $700 \mu\,$M CaCl$_{2}$, $50 \mu\,$M MnCl$_{2}$, $100\,\mu$M FeCl$_{3}$, $1 \, \mu$M ZnCl$_{2}$, $2 \, \mu$M thiamine HCl, $0.5\%$ (v/v) glycerol and $0.5\%$ (w/v) monosodium glutamate. Cells were then loaded at the center of Y04-D plates linked to the CellASIC ONIX microfluidic platform (EMD Millipore), and were incubated at $30$ $^\circ$C for the duration of each experiment. In this setup, they were confined between a rigid surface (glass) and an elastic sheet (PDMS, $114 \, \mu$m thick), a distance $6$ $\mu$m apart. In all experiments we flowed fresh MSgg medium via one inlet, using a pump pressure of $1$ psi, corresponding to a mean flow rate of ~$16 \, \mu$ms$^{-1}$ in the growth chamber \cite{Martinez-Corral19,Liu15,Humphries17}. The subsequent growth of these submerged biofilms was then followed over time with a Zeiss Axio Observer Z1 microscope, connected to a Yokogawa Spinning Disk Confocal CSU and controlled by Zen Blue software. A Zeiss $10\times/0.3$ M27 Plan-Apochromat objective lens was used to acquire bright-field images at a rate of 1 frame per minute. These images were analyzed using both the open source image processing package Fiji \cite{Schindelin12} and several custom MATLAB scripts utilizing MATLAB's Image Processing Toolbox. In particular, a Sobel edge detector was used to locate the biofilm edge. The experimental biofilms were often frilly with long thin strands of matrix polymer protruding from the biofilm edge. Hence, 2D gaussian filtering using the MATLAB inbuilt function imgaussfilt was used to neglect these strands when identifying where the interface is. In order to fit a circle to the extracted interface a least-squares fit was implemented. \subsection{Raw experimental data} Figure \ref{fig:1suppmat} gives the corresponding raw data for the experiment given in the montage plot of Figure 3(a) of the main text, showing how in Figure \ref{fig:1suppmat}(a) the scaled biofilm radius $\mathcal{R}$ and in Figure \ref{fig:1suppmat}(b) $\sigma_b$, a measure of the circularity of the biofilm edge, vary with time, where $\sigma_b$ satisfies \begin{equation} \sigma_b = \text{std}\left( \boldsymbol{r_b} - \mathcal{R} \right) / \mathcal{R}. \end{equation} Here, $\boldsymbol{r_b}$ is a vector giving the scaled distance of the points on the biofilm edge from the center of the biofilm. As a biofilm grows, it becomes more circular (after an initial increase due to growth around an obstacle $\sigma_b$ decreases monotonically) but with frillier edges. Furthermore, as shown in the montage plot, interference fringes (Newton rings) are used to gain a qualitative understanding of how the upper PDMS sheet deforms. In particular, the fringes are circular, implying that the sheet deforms asymmetrically and thus evolves consistently with one of the key assumptions of the theoretical model, namely that $h = h(r,t)$ is independent of $\theta$. \begin{figure}[t] \centering \includegraphics[clip, width=\columnwidth]{Fortune_etal_SM_figure1.pdf} \caption{Raw data showing for a particular experiment how the scaled biofilm radius $\mathcal{R}$ (a) and the relative deviation of the biofilm interface from a least-squares fitted circle $\sigma_b$ (b) vary as functions of time. } \label{fig:1suppmat} \end{figure} \subsection{Fitting Procedure} \label{fittingprocedure} Numerical solutions of (\ref{eq:Rgoverningequation}) predict the evolution of $\mathcal{R}$ as a function of dimensionless time $\tau$, with a single fitted parameter $\Xi$. To convert back to real time, the biofilm growth timescale $\tau_0 = g^{-1}$ has to be determined. This was found through an iterative procedure, utilising all three experimental datasets to obtain a series of increasingly accurate estimates for $g$, $\{ g_1, \, g_2, \, \cdots \}$, using the recursion relation that $g_{n+1}$ is the $g$ that minimises \begin{equation} \sum_i \left\{\underset{j}{\mathrm{avg}}\left(\left[\mathcal{R}_e(t_j)-\mathcal{R}_{\Xi_i}\left( g t_j \right) \right]^2 \right)\right\}_i, \end{equation} where $i$ iterates over all datasets and $j$ over all points within the experimental dataset $\mathcal{R}_e(t_j) = R_e(t_j)/R_e(0)$ enumerated by $i$. $\mathcal{R}_{\tilde{\Xi}}(\tilde{\tau})$ is the solution to (\ref{eq:Rgoverningequation}) that is numerically computed for $\tau = \tilde{\tau}$ and $\Xi = \tilde{\Xi}$. $\Xi_i$ is the value of $\Xi$ that for the data set enumerated by $i$ minimises the objective function \begin{equation} \underset{j}{\mathrm{avg}}\left(\left[\mathcal{R}_e(t_j)-\mathcal{R}_{\Xi}\left( g_n t_j \right) \right]^2 \right). \end{equation} Here, all minimizations were performed using the MATLAB inbuilt function fminbnd \cite{Brent73}. This resulted in fitted values for the biofilm growth time scale of $g = 0.8574$ and for $\Xi$ of $1.7352$, $1.6702$ and $1.3358$ for the three different experiments. \section{Full Poroelastic Framework} Below, we denote the region which the biofilm occupies ($r \leq R$) the inner region and the region outside of the biofilm ($r \geq R$) the outer region. \subsection{Inner Dimensional Vertical Boundary Conditions} Since horizontal motion of the upper PDMS sheet can be neglected, imposing no-slip boundary conditions at both the lower and upper boundaries yields \begin{subequations} \begin{equation} w_f = w_s = u_s = \zeta = \xi = 0 \text{ at } z = 0, \label{eq:bc1a} \end{equation} \begin{equation} u_s = u_f = 0 \, , \, w_f = w_s = \frac{\partial H}{\partial t} \text{ at } z = H. \label{eq:bc1b} \end{equation} \label{eq:bc1} \end{subequations} Vertically integrating (3a) using these boundary conditions and (1) gives the continuity equation for vertically averaged biomass \begin{equation} \frac{\partial}{\partial t} \left( h \langle \phi \rangle \right) + \frac{1}{r}\frac{\partial}{\partial r} \left( r h \langle \phi \rangle \langle u_s \rangle \right) = g h \langle \phi \rangle. \label{eq:governcontinuity} \end{equation} Applying global biomass conservation, the biomass volume $V = 2\pi\int^R_0 r h\langle\phi\rangle dr$ satisfies $\partial V/\partial t = gV$. Expanding this out using the continuity equation (\ref{eq:governcontinuity}), (1) and the boundary conditions in (\ref{eq:bc1}) gives \begin{equation} \frac{\partial R}{\partial t} = \frac{\langle \phi u_s \rangle}{\langle \phi \rangle}\Big{|}_{R} = \langle u_s \rangle \Big{|}_{R}. \label{eq:bc2} \end{equation} Modelling the upper sheet as a thin elastic beam, the pressure difference across the sheet is \begin{equation} [\Delta \tilde{p}]^+_- = B \nabla^4 h - \gamma \nabla^2 h. \label{eq:bc3} \end{equation} Balancing normal stress at the interface between the biofilm and the sheet yields \begin{eqnarray} B\nabla^4 h - \gamma \nabla^2 h &=& \tilde{p} \big{|}_{h} - \left(K + 4G/3 \right)\frac{\partial \zeta}{\partial z} \Big{|}_{h} \nonumber \\ &-& (K - 2G/3)\frac{1}{r}\frac{\partial}{\partial r}(r \xi) \Big{|}_{h}\Longrightarrow \nonumber \end{eqnarray} \begin{eqnarray} p \big{|}_{h} &=& B\nabla^4 h - \gamma \nabla^2 h + \left(K + 4G/3 \right)\frac{\partial \zeta}{\partial z} \Big{|}_{h} \nonumber \\ &+& \frac{K - 2G/3)}{r}\frac{\partial}{\partial r}(r \xi) \Big{|}_{h} - \frac{\Pi_{\text{os}} \phi^3}{(1-\phi)^3} \Bigg{|}_{h}, \label{eq:bc4} \end{eqnarray} where $\Pi_{\text{os}} = k_B T \beta^3 / 3\nu_0$. \subsection{Dimensionless shallow-layer scalings} We scale radial and vertical lengths with the initial radius $R_0 = R(t = 0)$ and height $H_0 = h(r = 0, t = 0)$ of the biofilm respectively i.e $\{ r, \, R \} \sim R_0$ and $\{ z, \, h \} \sim H_0$. Since the characteristic time scale for the system is that for biofilm growth, we scale $t \sim 1/g$. Utilizing 3) and (\ref{eq:bc2}), we find $\{ u_f, \, u_s \} \sim U_s = g R_0$ and $\{ w_f, \, w_s \} \sim g H_0$. Since $\boldsymbol{u_s}$ is defined as the material derivative of $\boldsymbol{\xi}$, we have $\xi \sim R_0$ and $\zeta \sim H_0$. By definition $\kappa \sim \kappa_0$. Finally, a leading order contribution to the pressure comes from the vertical confinement, i.e. (\ref{eq:bc4}) implies $p \sim P_0 = B H_0 / R_0^4$. We denote the dimensionless form of a function $f$ by $f^{*}$ and set for clarity \begin{equation} \rho = r^{*} = \frac{r}{R(0)}, \ {\cal H} = h^{*} = \frac{h(r,t)}{h(0,0)},\nonumber \end{equation} \begin{equation} \tau = \tau^{*} = g t, \ {\mathcal{R}} = R^{*} = \frac{R(t)}{R(0)}, \ \mathcal{P} = p^{*} = \frac{p}{P_0}. \nonumber \end{equation} \subsection{Inner Governing Equations} Using these scalings and setting $\epsilon = H_0/R_0$, the system of equations (3)-(9) becomes \begin{subequations} \begin{equation} \frac{\partial \phi}{\partial \tau} + \frac{\partial}{\partial z^{*}}\left( \phi w_s^{*} \right) + \frac{1}{\rho}\frac{\partial}{\partial \rho}\left( \rho \phi u_s^{*} \right) = \phi, \label{eq:nondimengovern1} \end{equation} \begin{eqnarray} -\frac{\partial \phi}{\partial t} &+& \frac{\partial}{\partial z^{*}}\left( (1 - \phi)w^{*}_f \right) \nonumber \\ &+& \frac{1}{\rho}\frac{\partial}{\partial \rho}\left( \rho (1 - \phi) u^{*}_{f} \right) = -\phi, \label{eq:nondimengovern2} \end{eqnarray} \begin{equation} u_s = \frac{\rho}{\mathcal{R}}\frac{\partial \mathcal{R}}{\partial \tau}\frac{6z^{*}(\mathcal{H} - z^{*})}{\mathcal{H}^2}, \label{eq:nondimengovern3} \end{equation} \begin{equation} W_{1} \left(w^{*}_f - w^{*}_s \right) = -\frac{\kappa^{*}}{(1 - \phi)} \frac{\partial \mathcal{P}}{\partial z^{*}}, \label{eq:nondimengovern4} \end{equation} \begin{equation} \frac{\partial \mathcal{P}}{\partial \rho} = \chi\frac{\partial^2 \xi^{*}}{\partial {z^{*}}^2} + \mathcal{O}\left(\chi \epsilon^2 \right), \label{eq:nondimengovern5} \end{equation} \begin{eqnarray} \left(\frac{1}{W_1}\frac{\partial \mathcal{P}}{\partial z^{*}}\right) = P_1\Bigg{(} \frac{\partial^2 \zeta^{*}}{\partial {z^{*}}^2} &+& \frac{\tilde{K}}{\rho}\frac{\partial}{\partial \rho}\left( \rho \frac{\partial \xi^{*}}{\partial z^{*}} \right) \nonumber \\ &+& \mathcal{O}\left( \epsilon^2 \right) \Bigg{)}, \label{eq:nondimengovern6} \end{eqnarray} \label{eq:nondimengovern} \end{subequations} \noindent together with the continuity equation for vertically averaged biomass \begin{equation} \frac{\partial}{\partial \tau}\left( \mathcal{H}\varphi \right) + \frac{1}{\rho}\frac{\partial}{\partial \rho}\left( \rho \mathcal{H}\varphi v_s \right) = \mathcal{H}\varphi, \label{eq:nondimengovern7} \end{equation} and corresponding vertical boundary conditions \begin{subequations} \begin{equation} w^{*}_f = w^{*}_s = u^{*}_s = \zeta^{*} = \xi^{*} = 0 \text{ at } z^* = 0, \label{eq:nondimenbc1} \end{equation} \begin{equation} u^{*}_s = u^{*}_f = 0 \, , \, w^{*}_f = w^{*}_s = \frac{\partial {\cal H}}{\partial t} \text{ at } z^* = {\cal H}. \label{eq:nondimenbc2} \end{equation} \begin{align} &\mathcal{P}\big{|}_{z^* = \mathcal{H}} = \nabla^4 \mathcal{H} - \gamma^{*}\nabla^2 \mathcal{H} - \Pi_{\text{os}}^{*} \frac{\phi^3}{(1 - \phi)^3}\Bigg{|}_{\mathcal{H}} \nonumber \\ &+ P_s \Bigg{(} \frac{\partial \zeta^{*}}{\partial z^{*}}\Big{|}_{\mathcal{H}} + \frac{1}{\rho}\left(\frac{K - 2G/3}{K + 4G/3}\right)\frac{\partial}{\partial \rho}\left( \rho \xi^{*} \right)\Big{|}_{\mathcal{H}} \Bigg{)}, \label{eq:nondimenbc3} \end{align} \label{eq:nondimenbc} \end{subequations} \noindent where $\boldsymbol{u_s^{*}} = (u_s, \, w_s)$ can be expressed as the material derivative of $\boldsymbol{\xi^{*}} = (\xi, \, \zeta)$ using \begin{subequations} \begin{equation} w_s^{*} = \frac{\partial \zeta}{\partial \tau} + w_s^{*} \frac{\partial \zeta^{*}}{\partial z^{*}} + u_s^{*} \frac{\partial \zeta^{*}}{\partial \rho}, \label{eq:nondimengovern8} \end{equation} \begin{equation} u_s^{*} = \frac{\partial \xi^{*}}{\partial \tau} + w_s^{*} \frac{\partial \xi^{*}}{\partial z^{*}} + u_s^{*} \frac{\partial \xi^{*}}{\partial \rho}, \label{eq:nondimengovern9} \end{equation} \end{subequations} \noindent while $\{ \tilde{K}, \, W_1, \, \chi, \, P_1, \, \Pi_{\text{os}}^{*}, \, \gamma^{*}, \, P_s \}$ are non-dimensional constants that satisfy \begin{subequations} \begin{equation} \tilde{K} = \frac{K + G/3}{K + 4G/3}, \quad W_1 = \frac{\mu_f g H_0^2}{\kappa_0 P_0}, \quad \chi = \frac{G}{\epsilon^2 P_0}, \end{equation} \begin{equation} \quad P_1 = \frac{\kappa_0 \left( K + 4G/3 \right)}{\mu_f g H_0^2}, \, \Pi_{\text{os}}^{*} = \frac{R_0^4 \, \Pi_{\text{os}}}{B H_0}, \end{equation} \begin{equation} \gamma^{*} = \frac{\gamma R_0^2}{B}, \, P_s = \frac{R_0^4 \left( K + 4G/3 \right)}{B H_0}. \end{equation} \label{eq:nondimensionalconstants} \end{subequations} \noindent Here, $\{ W_1, \, \chi, \, P_1 \}$ are dimensionless measures of the ability of flow to generate a vertical pressure gradient and the relative strength of the pressure gradients compared to elastic stresses in the horizontal and vertical respectively. $\gamma^{*}$ and $\Pi_{\text{os}}^{*}$ are the non-dimensional surface tension and osmotic pressure scaling groups. Finally, $P_s$ measures the relative strength of the elastic stresses from the biofilm and the PDMS sheet at the upper interface. \subsection{Order of Magnitude Estimates for Parameters} \label{orderofmagnitudeestimates} In a typical experiment, the biofilm initially has height $H_0 \sim 10^{-5}\si{\metre}$ and radius $R_0 \sim 10^{-4}\si{\metre}$. We assume that the dynamic viscosity of the nutrient rich liquid phase can be approximated by that of water, $\mu_f \sim 7.98 \times 10^{-4}\si{\pascal\second }$. From Seminara $\textit{et al.}$, an order of magnitude estimate for the biofilm growth rate $g$ is $g^{-1} \sim \SI{2.3}{\hour}$ \cite{Seminara12}. Furthermore, the characteristic biofilm permeability scale $\kappa_0 \sim \xi^2_0$ where the biofilm mesh length scale $\xi_{\infty} \sim \SI{50}{\nano\metre}$ i.e. $\kappa_0 \sim 2.5 \times 10^{-15}\si{\metre^2}$ Picioreanu $\textit{et al.}$ estimated the mechanical properties of a range of different biofilms cultivated from activated sludge supernatant using optical coherence tomography, obtaining an effective Poisson ratio $\nu_b = 0.4$ and Young's modulus in the range $70 - \SI{700}{\Pa}$ \cite{Picioreanu18}. Assuming isotropy, we can thus estimate $K$ and $G$ as being in the range $K = E_b/3(1 - 2\nu_b) \sim 117 - \SI{1170}{\Pa}$ and $G = E_b/2(1 + 2 \nu_b) \sim 19.4 - \SI{194}{\Pa}$ respectively. The PDMS sheet has thickness $d \sim 10^{-4}\si{\metre}$, Poisson's ratio $\nu \sim 0.5$ and Young's modulus $E \sim 1.9 \times 10^{6} \, \si{\pascal}$ (a value of $55$ measured using a type A durometer). The matrix solid fraction $\beta$ and the volume occupied by one monomer of extracellular matrix varies considerably, depending on a range of factors such as the species of bacteria and the nutrient concentration. Aiming to show that the osmotic pressure contribution can be neglected, we consider uppper and lower bounds for $\beta$ and $\nu_0$ respectively i.e. $\beta = \mathcal{O}(1)$ and $\nu_0 \sim 10^{-24} \si{\metre^3}$. Finally, we estimate the surface tension between the biofilm and the sheet using that between water and PDMS ($\gamma \sim 4\times 10^{-2}\si{\newton\metre^{-2}}$) \cite{Ismail09}. Hence, estimating values for the non-dimensional parameters $\{ \epsilon, \, W_1, \, \chi, \, P_1, \, \gamma^{*}, \, \Pi_{\text{os}}^{*}, \, P_{s}, \, \epsilon_{\text{outer}} \}$ gives \begin{subequations} \begin{equation} \epsilon = \frac{H_0}{R_0} \sim 10^{-1} \ll 1, \label{eq:epsilonestimate} \end{equation} \begin{eqnarray} W_1 &=& \frac{12\mu_f g H_0 R_0 (1 - \nu^2)}{\kappa_0 E} \nonumber \\ &\sim& 1.83 \times 10^{-7} \ll 1, \label{eq:W1estimate} \end{eqnarray} \begin{eqnarray} \chi &=& \frac{12 G (1 - \nu^2)}{\epsilon^3 E}\left( \frac{R_0}{d} \right)^3 \nonumber \\ &\sim& 9.19\times\{ 10^{-2} - 10^{-1} \}, \label{eq:chiestimate} \end{eqnarray} \begin{equation} P_1 = \frac{\kappa_0 (K + 4G/3)}{\mu_f g H_0^2} \sim 3.71 \times \{ 10^{4} - 10^{5} \} \gg 1, \label{eq:P1estimate} \end{equation} \begin{equation} \gamma^{*} = \frac{12 \gamma (1 - \nu^2)}{E d}\left( \frac{R_0}{d} \right)^2 \sim 2.25 \times 10^{-3} \ll 1, \label{eq:gammaestimate} \end{equation} \begin{eqnarray} \Pi_{\text{os}} &=& \frac{4 k_{B} T (1 - \nu^2) \beta^3 }{ \epsilon \nu_0 E }\left( \frac{R_0}{d} \right)^3 \nonumber \\ &\sim& 6.60 \times 10^{-2} \ll 1, \label{eq:Piosestimate} \end{eqnarray} \begin{eqnarray} P_s &=& \frac{12\left( 1 - \nu^2 \right) \left( K + 4G/3 \right)}{\epsilon E}\left( \frac{R_0}{d} \right)^3 \nonumber \\ &\sim& 6.77 \times \{ 10^{-3} - 10^{-2} \} \ll 1, \label{eq:Psestimate} \end{eqnarray} \begin{eqnarray} \epsilon_{\text{outer}} &=& \frac{144 g \mu_f \left( 1 - \nu^2 \right)}{\epsilon^3 E}\left( \frac{R_0}{d} \right)^3 \nonumber \\ &\sim& 5.48 \times 10^{-9} \ll 1. \label{eq:epsilonouterestimate} \end{eqnarray} \end{subequations} \subsection{Stiff Elastic Confinement} Hence, under experimental conditions, we see that the upper elastic sheet is sufficiently stiff that $\{ W_1, \, \gamma^{*}, \, \Pi^{*}_{\text{os}}, \, P_s \} \ll 1$ i.e. the dominant contribution to the pressure arises from the upper confinement. $P_1 \gg 1$ means that elastic stresses dominate the vertical pressure gradient. In general, $\chi = \mathcal{O}(1)$. Hence, the systems of governing equations given in $(\ref{eq:nondimengovern}) - (\ref{eq:nondimenbc})$ reduces to \begin{subequations} \begin{equation} \frac{\partial^2 \xi^{*}}{\partial {z^{*}}^2} = \frac{1}{\chi}\frac{\partial \mathcal{P}}{\partial \rho}, \label{eq:stiffgoverning1} \end{equation} \begin{equation} \frac{\partial^2 \zeta^{*}}{\partial {z^{*}}^2} = -\frac{\tilde{K}}{\rho}\frac{\partial}{\partial \rho}\left( \rho \frac{\partial \xi^{*}}{\partial z^{*}} \right), \label{eq:stiffgoverning2} \end{equation} \begin{equation} \frac{6\rho}{\mathcal{R}}\frac{\partial \mathcal{R}}{\partial \tau} \frac{z^{*}(\mathcal{H} - z^{*})}{{\mathcal{H}}^2}\left( \left( 1 - \frac{\partial \zeta^{*}}{\partial z^{*}} \right)\left( 1 - \frac{\partial \xi^{*}}{\partial \rho} \right) - \frac{\partial \xi^{*}}{\partial z^{*}}\frac{\partial \zeta^{*}}{\partial \rho} \right) \nonumber \end{equation} \begin{equation} = \frac{\partial \xi^{*} }{\partial z^{*}}\frac{\partial \zeta^{*}}{\partial \tau} + \frac{\partial \xi^{*}}{\partial \tau}\left( 1 - \frac{\partial \zeta^{*}}{\partial z^{*}} \right), \label{eq:stiffgoverning3} \end{equation} \end{subequations} with corresponding boundary conditions \begin{subequations} \begin{equation} \left[\frac{\partial \xi^{*}}{\partial \tau} \right]_{z^{*} = 0} = 0, \label{eq:stiffbc1} \end{equation} \begin{equation} \left[ \frac{\partial \xi^{*}}{\partial \tau} + \frac{\partial \mathcal{H}}{\partial \tau}\frac{\partial \xi^{*}}{\partial z^{*}} \right]_{z^{*} = \mathcal{H}} = 0, \label{eq:stiffbc2} \end{equation} \begin{equation} \left[\frac{\partial \zeta^{*}}{\partial \tau} \right]_{z^{*} = 0} = 0, \label{eq:stiffbc3} \end{equation} \begin{equation} \left[ \frac{\partial \zeta^{*}}{\partial \tau} + \frac{\partial \mathcal{H}}{\partial \tau}\frac{\partial \zeta^{*}}{\partial z^{*}} \right]_{z^{*} = \mathcal{H}} = \frac{\partial \mathcal{H}}{\partial \tau}. \label{eq:stiffbc4} \end{equation} \end{subequations} where \begin{equation} \mathcal{P} = \nabla^4 \mathcal{H}. \label{eq:stiffpressure} \end{equation} Since $\mathcal{P}$ is independent of $z^{*}$, integrating (\ref{eq:stiffgoverning1}) twice with respect to $z^{*}$ yields the functional form for $\xi^{*}$ \begin{equation} \xi = b_0 + b_1 z^{*} + b_2 {z^{*}}^2, \label{eq:xifunctionalform} \end{equation} where $\{ b_i = b_i(\rho,\tau) : i \in [ 0, \, 1, \, 2 ] \}$ are independent of $z^{*}$ and $b_2$ satisfies \begin{subequations} \begin{equation} b_2 = \frac{1}{2\chi} \frac{\partial \mathcal{P}}{\partial \rho} = \frac{1}{2 \chi} \frac{\partial}{\partial \rho}\left( \nabla^4 \mathcal{H} \right). \label{eq:defb2} \end{equation} (\ref{eq:stiffbc1}) and (\ref{eq:stiffbc2}) simplify respectively to give \begin{equation} \frac{\partial b_0}{\partial \tau} = 0 \Longrightarrow b_0 = b_0(\rho). \label{eq:defb0} \end{equation} \begin{equation} \frac{\partial}{\partial \tau}\left( \mathcal{H} b_1 + \mathcal{H}^2 b_2 \right) = 0 \Longrightarrow b_1 = \frac{B}{\mathcal{H}} - \mathcal{H}b_2, \label{eq:defb1} \end{equation} \end{subequations} where $B = B(\rho)$ is independent of $\tau$ and $z^{*}$. Hence, (\ref{eq:stiffgoverning2}) becomes \begin{eqnarray} \frac{\partial^2 \zeta^{*}}{\partial {z^{*}}^2} &=& -\frac{\tilde{K}}{\rho}\frac{\partial}{\partial \rho}\left( \rho \frac{\partial \xi^{*}}{\partial z^{*}} \right) \nonumber \\ &=& -\frac{\tilde{K}}{\rho}\frac{\partial}{\partial \rho}\left( \frac{\rho B}{\mathcal{H}} + \rho b_2 (2z^{*} - \mathcal{H}) \right) \end{eqnarray} Integrating this twice with respect to $z^{*}$ yields the functional form for $\zeta^*$, \begin{equation} \zeta^{*} = a_0 + a_1 z^{*} + a_2 {z^{*}}^2 + a_3 {z^{*}}^3, \label{eq:zetafunctionalform} \end{equation} where $\{ a_i = a_i(\rho,\tau) : i \in [ 0, \, 1, \, 2, \, 3 ] \}$ are independent of $z^{*}$ and $a_2$ and $a_3$ satisfy \begin{subequations} \begin{equation} a_2 = \frac{\tilde{K}}{2\rho}\frac{\partial}{\partial \rho} \left( \rho \mathcal{H} b_2 - \frac{\rho B}{\mathcal{H}} \right), \label{eq:defa2} \end{equation} \begin{equation} a_3 = -\frac{\tilde{K}}{3\rho}\frac{\partial}{\partial \rho}\left( \rho b_2 \right). \label{eq:defa3} \end{equation} (\ref{eq:stiffbc3}) and (\ref{eq:stiffbc4}) simplify respectively to give \begin{equation} \frac{\partial a_0}{\partial \tau} = 0 \Longrightarrow a_0 = a_0(\rho). \label{eq:defa0} \end{equation} \begin{equation} \frac{\partial}{\partial \tau}\left( \mathcal{H} a_1 + \mathcal{H}^2 a_2 + \mathcal{H}^3 a_3 \right) = \frac{\partial \mathcal{H}}{\partial \tau} \Longrightarrow \nonumber \end{equation} \begin{equation} a_1 = 1 + \frac{A}{\mathcal{H}} - \mathcal{H}a_2 - \mathcal{H}^2a_3, \label{eq:defa1} \end{equation} where $A = A(\rho)$ is independent of $\tau$ and $z^{*}$. \end{subequations} Substituting (\ref{eq:xifunctionalform}) and (\ref{eq:zetafunctionalform}) into (\ref{eq:stiffgoverning3}) and equating the various powers of $z^{*}$ gives the following set of six coupled equations for the variables $a_j$ and $b_k$ where $j \in [0, \, 1, \, 2, \, 3]$ and $k \in [0, \, 1, \, 2]$ \begin{subequations} \begin{equation} \frac{\partial b_1}{\partial \tau} + b_1 \frac{\partial a_1}{\partial \tau} - a_1 \frac{\partial b_1}{\partial \tau} = \nonumber \end{equation} \begin{equation} \frac{6\rho}{\mathcal{R}\mathcal{H}} \frac{\partial \mathcal{R}}{\partial \tau} \left( \left(1 - a_1 \right)\left( 1 - \frac{\partial b_0}{\partial \rho}\right) - b_1 \frac{\partial a_0}{\partial \rho} \right), \end{equation} \begin{equation} (1 - a_1)\frac{\partial b_2}{\partial \tau} - 2 a_2 \frac{\partial b_1}{\partial \tau} + 2 b_2 \frac{\partial a_1}{\partial \tau} + b_1 \frac{\partial a_2}{\partial \tau} \nonumber \end{equation} \begin{equation} = -\frac{6\rho}{\mathcal{R}\mathcal{H}^2} \frac{\partial \mathcal{R}}{\partial \tau} \left( \left(1 - a_1 \right)\left( 1 - \frac{\partial b_0}{\partial \rho}\right) - b_1 \frac{\partial a_0}{\partial \rho} \right) \nonumber \end{equation} \begin{eqnarray} + \frac{6\rho}{\mathcal{R}\mathcal{H}} \frac{\partial \mathcal{R}}{\partial \tau} \Bigg{(} &-&2a_2 \left( 1 - \frac{\partial b_0}{\partial \rho}\right) - \frac{\partial b_1}{\partial \rho}\left( 1 - a_1 \right) \nonumber \\ &-& 2b_2 \frac{\partial a_0}{\partial \rho} - b_1 \frac{\partial a_1}{\partial \rho} \Bigg{)}, \end{eqnarray} \begin{equation} b_1\frac{\partial a_3}{\partial \tau} + 2 b_2 \frac{\partial a_2}{\partial \tau} - 2 a_2 \frac{\partial b_2}{\partial \tau} - 3 a_3 \frac{\partial b_1}{\partial \tau} \nonumber \end{equation} \begin{eqnarray} = -\frac{6\rho}{\mathcal{R}\mathcal{H}^2} \frac{\partial \mathcal{R}}{\partial \tau} \Bigg{(} &-&2a_2\left( 1 - \frac{\partial b_0}{\partial \rho}\right) - \frac{\partial b_1}{\partial \rho}\left( 1 - a_1 \right) \nonumber \\ &-& 2b_2 \frac{\partial a_0}{\partial \rho} - b_1 \frac{\partial a_1}{\partial \rho} \Bigg{)} \nonumber \end{eqnarray} \begin{eqnarray} + \frac{6\rho}{\mathcal{R}\mathcal{H}} \frac{\partial \mathcal{R}}{\partial \tau} \Bigg{(} &-&3a_3\left( 1 - \frac{\partial b_0}{\partial \rho}\right) + 2 a_2 \frac{\partial b_1}{\partial \rho} - (1 - a_1)\frac{\partial b_2}{\partial \rho} \nonumber \\ &-& b_1 \frac{\partial a_2}{\partial \rho} - 2b_2 \frac{\partial a_1}{\partial \rho} \Bigg{)}, \end{eqnarray} \begin{equation} 2 b_2 \frac{\partial a_3}{\partial \tau} - 3 a_3 \frac{\partial b_2}{\partial \tau} \nonumber \end{equation} \begin{eqnarray} = -\frac{6 \rho}{\mathcal{R}\mathcal{H}^2}\frac{\partial \mathcal{R}}{\partial \tau}\Bigg{(} &-& 3 a_3 \left( 1 - \frac{\partial b_0}{\partial \rho} \right) + 2 a_2 \frac{\partial b_1}{\partial \rho} \nonumber \\ &-& (1 - a_1)\frac{\partial b_2}{\partial \rho} - b_1 \frac{\partial a_2}{\partial \rho} \nonumber \\ &-& 2b_2 \frac{\partial a_1}{\partial r} \Bigg{)}, \end{eqnarray} \begin{equation} 2a_2 \frac{\partial b_2}{\partial \rho} + 3 a_3 \frac{\partial b_1}{\partial \rho} - b_1 \frac{\partial a_3}{\partial \rho} - 2 b_2 \frac{\partial a_2}{\partial \rho} = 0, \end{equation} \begin{equation} 3 a_3 \frac{\partial b_2}{\partial \rho} - 2 b_2 \frac{\partial a_3}{\partial \rho} = 0. \end{equation} \end{subequations} In particular, equating co-efficients of ${z^{*}}^6$ gives \begin{equation} 3 a_3 \frac{\partial b_2}{\partial \rho} = 2 b_2 \frac{\partial a_3}{\partial \rho}. \end{equation} We then have three possible cases: \begin{enumerate} \item Mode zero, $b_2 = 0 \Longrightarrow a_3 = 0$, \item Mode one, $b_2 \neq 0$ but $a_3 = 0$, \item Mode two, $b_2 \neq 0$ and $a_3 \neq 0$. \end{enumerate} \subsubsection{Mode zero} When $b_2 = 0$, $\mathcal{H}$ satisfies the differential equation \begin{equation} \frac{\partial \mathcal{P}}{\partial \rho} = 0\frac{\partial}{\partial \rho}\left( \nabla^4 \mathcal{H} \right) = 0, \end{equation} which has the general solution \begin{eqnarray} \mathcal{H} &=& A_{00} + A_{01} \, \rho^2 + A_{02} \, \rho^4 \nonumber \\ &+& A_{03} \, \log{\rho} + A_{04} \, \rho^2 \log{\rho}. \end{eqnarray} Note that this mode is dominant in the limit $\chi \ll 1$. \subsubsection{Mode one} When $a_3 = 0$, $\mathcal{H}$ satisfies the differential equation \begin{equation} \frac{\partial}{\partial \rho}\left( r b_2 \right) = 0 \Longrightarrow b_2 = \frac{32}{\chi}\frac{A_{15}}{\rho} = \frac{1}{2\chi}\frac{\partial}{\partial \rho}\left( \nabla^4 \mathcal{H} \right) \Longrightarrow \nonumber \end{equation} \begin{equation} \frac{\partial}{\partial \rho}\left( \nabla^4 \mathcal{H} \right) = \frac{64 A_{15} }{\rho}, \end{equation} which has the general solution \begin{eqnarray} \mathcal{H} &=& A_{10} + A_{11} \, \rho^2 + A_{12} \, \rho^4 + A_{13} \, \log{\rho} \nonumber \\ &+& A_{14} \, \rho^2 \log{\rho} + A_{15} \, \rho^4 \log{\rho}. \end{eqnarray} \subsubsection{Mode two} When both $b_2$ and $a_3$ $\neq 0$, $b_2$ satisfies the differential equation \begin{equation} \frac{\partial}{\partial \rho}\left( \frac{b_2^3}{a_3^2} \right) = 0 \Longrightarrow b_2^3 = -\frac{9 A_{25}}{2 \chi \rho^2} \left( \frac{\partial}{\partial \rho} \left(\rho b_2 \right) \right)^2. \end{equation} Employing the substitution $\tilde{b} = - \rho b_2$, this differential equation becomes separable and can be integrated to give \begin{equation} \int \tilde{b}^{3/2} d\tilde{b} = \int \sqrt{\frac{2 \chi}{9 \rho A_{25}}} \, d\rho \Longrightarrow \end{equation} \begin{equation} \tilde{b} = \frac{9 A_{25}}{2 \chi \rho} \Longrightarrow b_2 = -\frac{9 A_{25}}{2 \chi \rho^2}. \end{equation} Hence, $\mathcal{H}$ satisfies the differential equation \begin{equation} \frac{\partial}{\partial \rho} \left( \nabla^4 \mathcal{H} \right) = - \frac{9 A_{25}}{\rho^2}, \end{equation} which has the general solution \begin{eqnarray} \mathcal{H} &=& A_{20} + A_{21} \, \rho^2 + A_{22} \, \rho^4 + A_{23} \, \log{\rho} \nonumber \\ &+& A_{24} \, \rho^2 \log{\rho} + A_{25} \, \rho^3. \end{eqnarray} \subsection{Horizontal Boundary Conditions} \label{horizontalbc} Define the inverse function of $\mathcal{R}(\tau)$, $\tau_1(\rho)$, as satisfying \begin{equation} \tau_1(\rho) = \left\{ \begin{array} {ll} \tau : \rho = \mathcal{R}(\tau) & \mbox{ when } \rho > \mathcal{R}(0) = 1,\\ 0 & \mbox{otherwise}. \\ \end{array}. \right. \\ \end{equation} Hence, constraining the pressure of the solid phase $(\sigma^{*}_l)_{z^{*}z^{*}}$ to be constant at the biofilm interface yields \begin{equation} \frac{\partial \zeta^{*}}{\partial z^{*}} + \frac{\tilde{K}}{\rho}\frac{\partial}{\partial \rho} \left( \rho \xi^{*} \right) = C_0 \Longrightarrow \nonumber \\ \end{equation} \begin{equation} (a_1 - 1) + \frac{\tilde{K}}{\rho}\frac{\partial}{\partial \rho}\left( \rho b_0 \right) = C_0, \label{eq:pressurecondition1} \end{equation} at $\tau = \tau_1(\rho)$, where $C_0$ is a constant which is set from the initial pressure difference at $\tau = 0$ across the edge of the biofilm. From symmetry, ${\cal H}$ and ${\mathcal{P}}$ are even in $\rho$ at $\rho = 0$, i.e. \begin{equation} \frac{\partial {\cal H}}{\partial \rho}(0,\tau) = \frac{\partial {\mathcal{P}}}{\partial \rho}(0,\tau) = 0. \label{eq:centrebc} \end{equation} We assume that the biofilm grows uniformly at the interface, namely the vertically averaged biomass volume fraction $\varphi$ satisfies \begin{subequations} \begin{equation} \varphi (\rho,\tau_1) = \varphi_{\infty}, \label{eq:phibc1} \end{equation} \begin{equation} \frac{\partial \varphi}{\partial \tau}(\rho,\tau_1) = 0, \label{eq:phibc2} \end{equation} \end{subequations} where $\varphi_{\infty}$ is a constant. \subsection{Outer Governing equations} When $\rho > {\mathcal{R}}$, we have a lubrication flow of a single phase Newtonian fluid with viscosity $\mu_f$. Hence, the vertically averaged fluid velocity $\langle u^{*} \rangle$ satisfies \begin{equation} \langle u^{*} \rangle =-\frac{{\cal H}^2}{\epsilon_{\text{outer}}} \frac{\partial}{\partial \rho}\left( B \nabla^4 {\cal H} \right), \end{equation} leading to the continuity equation \begin{equation} \epsilon_{\text{outer}} \frac{\partial {\cal H}}{\partial t} = \frac{1}{\rho}\frac{\partial}{\partial \rho}\left ( \rho {\cal H}^3 \frac{\partial}{\partial \rho}(B \nabla^4 {\cal H}) \right), \label{eq:fullcontinuityoutside} \end{equation} where the nondimensional constant $\epsilon_{\text{outer}}$ satisfies \begin{equation} \epsilon_{\text{outer}} = \frac{12 g \mu_f}{\epsilon^2 P_0}. \end{equation} From above, under experimental conditions, $\epsilon_{\text{outer}} \ll 1$. Hence, for $\rho \ll \epsilon_{\text{outer}}^{-1/6}$ and $\{ \tau, \, \mathcal{H} \} = \mathcal{O}(1)$, (\ref{eq:fullcontinuityoutside}) becomes \begin{equation} \frac{1}{\rho}\frac{\partial}{\partial \rho}\left ( \rho {\cal H}^3 \frac{\partial}{\partial \rho}(B \nabla^4 {\cal H}) \right) = 0. \label{eq:reducedcontinuityoutside} \end{equation} \subsection{Outer Boundary Conditions} In practice, the PDMS sheet has a finite radial extent at $\rho = \mathcal{R}_{\text{outer}} = R_{\text{outer}}/R(0)$ where $1 \ll \mathcal{R}_{\text{outer}} \ll \epsilon_{\text{outer}}^{-1/6}$. There are two possible kinds of boundary conditions that could be imposed here. If the sheet is clamped, namely fixed height and zero first derivative of height, we have \begin{subequations} \begin{equation} {\cal H}\left( \mathcal{R}_{\text{outer}},\tau \right) = {\cal H}_{\infty}, \end{equation} \begin{equation} \frac{\partial {\cal H}}{\partial \rho}\left(\mathcal{R}_{\text{outer}},\tau \right) = 0, \end{equation} \label{eq:clampedbc} \end{subequations} \noindent where ${\cal H}_{\infty} = h_{\infty}/H_0$ is a constant. Alternatively, if the sheet is not clamped, we impose free-beam conditions at $\rho = \mathcal{R}_{\text{outer}}$, namely \begin{subequations} \begin{equation} \frac{\partial^2 {\cal H}}{\partial \rho^2}\left(\mathcal{R}_{\text{outer}},\tau \right) = 0. \end{equation} \begin{equation} \frac{\partial^3 {\cal H}}{\partial \rho^3}\left(\mathcal{R}_{\text{outer}},\tau \right) = 0. \end{equation} \label{eq:notclampedbc} \end{subequations} \subsection{Interface Matching Conditions} A fluid flux balance at the biofilm edge yields \begin{equation} \left( \langle (1 - \phi)u^{*}_f \rangle + \varphi \frac{\partial \mathcal{R}}{\partial \tau} \right)\Bigg{|}_{\rho = \mathcal{R}^{-}} = \langle u^{*} \rangle \Big{|}_{\rho = \mathcal{R}^{+}}. \end{equation} At leading order in $\epsilon_{\text{outer}}$, this simplifies to \begin{equation} \frac{\partial}{\partial \rho}\left( \nabla^4 {\cal H} \right)\Bigg{|}_{\rho = {\mathcal{R}}^{+}} = 0. \label{eq:fluidfluxmatchingcondition} \end{equation} This requires that across $\rho = \mathcal{R}$, fourth and lower derivatives of ${\cal H}$ are continuous. \section{Simplification from a two to a one phase system} In the above, we have written down a set of governing equations for the full two-phase system, considering both the inner and the outer regions, with corresponding boundary conditions at $\rho = 0, \mathcal{R}$ and $\mathcal{R}_{\text{outer}}$. Working in the limit that $\mathcal{R}_{\text{outer}} \gg 1$, here we simplify our framework to just considering a single phase system, namely the inner region, together with boundary conditions at $\rho = 0$ and $\mathcal{R}$. Utilising the general form of the solution for ${\cal H}$ in the outer region, we achieve this by re-writing the far field boundary conditions at $\rho = \mathcal{R}_{\text{outer}}$ (expressed in terms of derivatives of ${\cal H}$ at $\rho = \mathcal{R}_{\text{outer}}$) in terms of derivatives of ${\cal H}$ at $\rho = \mathcal{R}$, noting that these derivatives are continuous across the biofilm interface. \subsection{Matching Machinery} Integrating (\ref{eq:reducedcontinuityoutside}), using the boundary condition given in (\ref{eq:fluidfluxmatchingcondition}), the general solution for ${\cal H}$ in the outer region is \begin{equation} {\cal H} = A_0 + A_1 \rho^2 + A_2 \rho^4 + A_3 \log{\rho} + A_4 \rho^2 \log{\rho}. \label{eq:outersolution} \end{equation} Defining vectors containing the constants of integration, the derivatives of ${\cal H}$ at the interface and the derivatives of ${\cal H}$ at the radial extent of the sheet, $\boldsymbol{A}_{\text{outer}}$, $\boldsymbol{{\cal H}}_{\text{interface}}$ and $\boldsymbol{{\cal H}}_{\text{outer}}$ respectively, as satisfying \begin{subequations} \begin{equation} \boldsymbol{A}_{\text{outer}}= [A_0, \, A_1, \, A_2, \, A_3, \, A_4]^T, \end{equation} \begin{eqnarray} \boldsymbol{{\cal H}}_{\text{interface}} = [&&{\cal H}_0, \, {\cal H}_1, \, {\cal H}_2, \, {\cal H}_3, \, {\cal H}_4]^T \nonumber \\ =\Big{[}&&{\cal H}(\mathcal{R},\tau), \, \frac{\partial {\cal H}}{\partial \rho}(\mathcal{R},\tau), \, \frac{\partial^2 {\cal H}}{\partial \rho^2}(\mathcal{R},\tau), \nonumber \\ && \frac{\partial^3 {\cal H}}{\partial \rho^3}(\mathcal{R},\tau), \, \frac{\partial^4 {\cal H}}{\partial \rho^4}(\mathcal{R},\tau) \Big{]}^T, \end{eqnarray} \begin{eqnarray} \boldsymbol{{\cal H}}_{\text{outer}} = \Big{[}&&{\cal H}(\mathcal{R}_{\text{outer}},\tau), \, \frac{\partial {\cal H}}{\partial \rho}(\mathcal{R}_{\text{outer}},\tau), \, \frac{\partial^2 {\cal H}}{\partial \rho^2}(\mathcal{R}_{\text{outer}},\tau), \nonumber \\ && \frac{\partial^3 {\cal H}}{\partial \rho^3}(\mathcal{R}_{\text{outer}},\tau), \, \frac{\partial^4 {\cal H}}{\partial \rho^4}(\mathcal{R}_{\text{outer}},\tau) \Big{]}^T, \end{eqnarray} \end{subequations} we can express $\boldsymbol{{\cal H}}_{\text{outer}}$ in terms of $\boldsymbol{{\cal H}}_{\text{interface}}$ using (\ref{eq:outersolution}): \begin{equation} \boldsymbol{H}_{\text{interface}} = \boldsymbol{\mathcal{M}}(\mathcal{R})\boldsymbol{A} \Longrightarrow \nonumber \end{equation} \begin{equation} \boldsymbol{A} = [\boldsymbol{\mathcal{M}}(\mathcal{R})]^{-1}\boldsymbol{H}_{\text{interface}} \Longrightarrow \nonumber \end{equation} \begin{equation} \boldsymbol{{\cal H}}_{\text{outer}} = \boldsymbol{\mathcal{M}}(\mathcal{R}_{\text{outer}})[\boldsymbol{\mathcal{M}}(\mathcal{R})]^{-1}\boldsymbol{H}_{\text{interface}}, \label{eq:matchingmachinery} \end{equation} where \begin{equation} \boldsymbol{M_1}(x) = \left( \begin{array}{ccccc} 1 & x^2 & x^4 & \log{x} & x^2 \log{x} \\ 0 & 2x & 4x^3 & 1/x & x + 2x \log{x} \\ 0 & 2 & 12 x^2 & -1/x^2 & 2\log{x} + 3 \\ 0 & 0 & 24x & 2/x^3 & 2/x \\ 0 & 0 & 24 & -6/x^4 & -2/x^2 \end{array} \right). \end{equation} \subsection{Re-writing the Far-field Clamped Boundary Conditions} Using (\ref{eq:matchingmachinery}), the boundary conditions at $\rho = \mathcal{R}_{outer}$ given in (\ref{eq:clampedbc}) can be written in the form \begin{subequations} \begin{eqnarray} &&\frac{\mathcal{R}_{outer}^4}{64}\left( {\cal H}_4 + \frac{2 {\cal H}_3}{\mathcal{R}} - \frac{ {\cal H}_2}{\mathcal{R}^2} + \frac{{\cal H}_1}{\mathcal{R}^3} \right) \nonumber \\ &-&\frac{\mathcal{R}^2 \mathcal{R}^2_{\text{outer}}}{8}\log{\left( \frac{\mathcal{R}_{\text{outer}}}{\mathcal{R}} \right)}\left( {\cal H}_4 - \frac{3 {\cal H}_2}{\mathcal{R}^2} + \frac{3 {\cal H}_1}{\mathcal{R}^3} \right) \nonumber \\ &=& \mathcal{O}\left( {\cal H}_0\left(\frac{\mathcal{R}_{\text{outer}}}{\mathcal{R}}\right)^2 \right), \end{eqnarray} and \begin{eqnarray} &-&\frac{\mathcal{R}^2 \mathcal{R}^2_{\text{outer}}}{8}\log{\left( \frac{\mathcal{R}_{\text{outer}}}{\mathcal{R}} \right)}\left( {\cal H}_4 - \frac{3 {\cal H}_2}{\mathcal{R}^2} + \frac{3 {\cal H}_1}{\mathcal{R}^3} \right) \nonumber \\ &=& \mathcal{O}\left( {\cal H}_0\left(\frac{\mathcal{R}_{\text{outer}}}{\mathcal{R}}\right)^2 \right). \end{eqnarray} These two conditions rearrange to give \begin{equation} {\cal H}_4 - \frac{3 {\cal H}_2}{\mathcal{R}^2} + \frac{3 {\cal H}_1}{\mathcal{R}^3} = \mathcal{O}\left( \frac{{\cal H}_0}{\mathcal{R}^4 \log{\left(\mathcal{R}_{\text{outer}}/\mathcal{R}\right) }} \right), \end{equation} \begin{equation} {\cal H}_4 + \frac{2 {\cal H}_3}{\mathcal{R}} - \frac{ {\cal H}_2}{\mathcal{R}^2} + \frac{{\cal H}_1}{\mathcal{R}^3} = \mathcal{O}\left( \frac{{\cal H}_0}{\mathcal{R}^2\mathcal{R}_{\text{outer}}^2} \right). \end{equation} Moving back to tensorial notation, we see that to leading order in $\mathcal{R}_{\text{outer}}$ the far field boundary conditions can be rewritten as the zero pressure condition \begin{equation} \nabla^4 {\cal H}(\mathcal{R},\tau) = 0 + \mathcal{O}\left( \frac{{\cal H}_0}{\mathcal{R}^2\mathcal{R}_{\text{outer}}^2} \right), \label{eq:clampedfarfieldbc1} \end{equation} together with the force free condition \begin{equation} \frac{\partial}{\partial \rho}\left( \nabla^2 {\cal H}(\mathcal{R},\tau)\right) = 0 + \mathcal{O}\left( \frac{{\cal H}_0}{\mathcal{R}^4 \log{\left(\mathcal{R}_{\text{outer}}/\mathcal{R}\right) }} \right). \label{eq:clampedfarfieldbc2} \end{equation} \end{subequations} \subsection{Re-writing the Far-field Free Beam Boundary Conditions} In the same way, using (\ref{eq:matchingmachinery}), the boundary conditions at $\rho = \mathcal{R}_{outer}$ given in (\ref{eq:notclampedbc}) can be written in the form \begin{subequations} \begin{eqnarray} &&\frac{3\mathcal{R}_{outer}^4}{16}\left( {\cal H}_4 + \frac{2 {\cal H}_3}{\mathcal{R}} - \frac{ {\cal H}_2}{\mathcal{R}^2} + \frac{{\cal H}_1}{\mathcal{R}^3} \right) \nonumber \\ &-&\frac{\mathcal{R}^2 \mathcal{R}^2_{\text{outer}}}{4}\log{\left( \frac{\mathcal{R}_{\text{outer}}}{\mathcal{R}} \right)}\left( {\cal H}_4 - \frac{3 {\cal H}_2}{\mathcal{R}^2} + \frac{3 {\cal H}_1}{\mathcal{R}^3} \right) \nonumber \\ &=& \mathcal{O}\left( {\cal H}_0\left(\frac{\mathcal{R}_{\text{outer}}}{\mathcal{R}}\right)^2 \right), \end{eqnarray} and \begin{eqnarray} &-& 4\mathcal{R}^2 \mathcal{R}^2_{\text{outer}}\log{\left( \frac{\mathcal{R}_{\text{outer}}}{\mathcal{R}} \right)}\left( {\cal H}_4 - \frac{3 {\cal H}_2}{\mathcal{R}^2} + \frac{3 {\cal H}_1}{\mathcal{R}^3} \right) \nonumber \\ &=& \mathcal{O}\left( {\cal H}_0\left(\frac{\mathcal{R}_{\text{outer}}}{\mathcal{R}}\right)^2 \right). \end{eqnarray} These two conditions rearrange to give \begin{equation} {\cal H}_4 - \frac{3 {\cal H}_2}{\mathcal{R}^2} + \frac{3 {\cal H}_1}{\mathcal{R}^3} = \mathcal{O}\left( \frac{{\cal H}_0}{\mathcal{R}^4 \log{\left(\mathcal{R}_{\text{outer}}/\mathcal{R}\right) }} \right), \end{equation} \begin{equation} {\cal H}_4 + \frac{2 {\cal H}_3}{\mathcal{R}} - \frac{ {\cal H}_2}{\mathcal{R}^2} + \frac{{\cal H}_1}{\mathcal{R}^3} = \mathcal{O}\left( \frac{{\cal H}_0}{\mathcal{R}^2\mathcal{R}_{\text{outer}}^2} \right). \end{equation} Moving back to tensorial notation, we see that to leading order in $\mathcal{R}_{\text{outer}}$ the far field boundary conditions can be rewritten as the zero pressure condition \begin{equation} \nabla^4 {\cal H}(\mathcal{R},\tau) = 0 + \mathcal{O}\left( \frac{{\cal H}_0}{\mathcal{R}^2\mathcal{R}_{\text{outer}}^2} \right), \label{eq:notclampedfarfieldbc1} \end{equation} together with the force free condition \begin{equation} \frac{\partial}{\partial \rho}\left( \nabla^2 {\cal H}(\mathcal{R},\tau)\right) = 0 + \mathcal{O}\left( \frac{{\cal H}_0}{\mathcal{R}^4 \log{\left(\mathcal{R}_{\text{outer}}/\mathcal{R}\right) }} \right). \label{eq:notclampedfarfieldbc2} \end{equation} \end{subequations} Noting that (\ref{eq:clampedfarfieldbc1}), (\ref{eq:clampedfarfieldbc2}) and (\ref{eq:notclampedfarfieldbc1}), (\ref{eq:notclampedfarfieldbc2}) are identical, we see that both set of boundary conditions at $\rho = \mathcal{R}_{\text{outer}}$, when rewritten in terms of derivatives of ${\cal H}$ at $\rho = \mathcal{R}$, give at leading order in $\mathcal{R}_{\text{outer}}$ the same conditions for ${\cal H}$. \section{Mode Zero Similarity Solution} \label{modezerosimilaritysolution} To make further analytic progress, we look for a similarity solution in the mode zero case i.e. \begin{equation} b_2 = 0 \Longrightarrow \frac{\partial}{\partial \rho}\left( \nabla^4 \mathcal{H} \right) = 0 \Longrightarrow \nonumber \end{equation} \begin{equation} \mathcal{H} = F\left(A - \left(\frac{\rho}{\mathcal{R}}\right)^2\right), \end{equation} where we have utilised the horizontal boundary conditions for $\mathcal{H}$, $A$ is a constant and $F = F(\tau)$ is independent of $\rho$. Evaluating (\ref{eq:nondimengovern7}) at $\rho = \mathcal{R}$ then gives \begin{equation} \frac{\partial \mathcal{H}}{\partial \tau}(\mathcal{R},\tau) + \frac{1}{\mathcal{R}}\frac{\partial}{\partial \rho}\left( \rho \mathcal{H}v_s \right) \Big{|}_{\mathcal{R}} = \mathcal{H}(\mathcal{R},\tau) \Longrightarrow \nonumber \end{equation} \begin{equation} (A - 1)\left[ \frac{\partial F}{\partial \tau} + \frac{2 F}{\mathcal{R}}\frac{\partial \mathcal{R}}{\partial \tau} - F \right] = 0 \Longrightarrow F = \frac{F_0 e^{\tau}}{\mathcal{R}^2}. \end{equation} Applying the initial condition ${\cal H}_0(\rho = 0, \tau = 0) = 1$ and defining the incline ratio $m_0$, a measure of the initial flatness of the biofilm, as satisfying \begin{equation} m_0 = \frac{h(r = R(0),t = 0)}{h(r = 0,t = 0)} = {\cal H}(\rho = 1, \tau = 0), \end{equation} we find $F_0 = 1 - m_0$ and $A = 1/(1 - m_0)$ i.e. \begin{equation} \mathcal{H} = \frac{e^{\tau}}{\mathcal{R}^2}\left( 1 - (1 - m_0)\left( \frac{\rho}{\mathcal{R}} \right)^2\right). \end{equation} Defining $f = f(\rho, \, \tau) = \mathcal{H} \varphi e^{\tau}$, the continuity equation (\ref{eq:nondimengovern7}) becomes \begin{equation} \frac{\partial f}{\partial \tau} = - \left( \frac{1}{\mathcal{R}}\frac{\partial \mathcal{R}}{\partial \tau} \right)\frac{1}{\rho}\frac{\partial}{\partial \rho}\left( \rho^2 f \right). \end{equation} Looking for a similarity solution of the form $f = f_1(\mathcal{R})f_2(\eta)$ where $\eta = \rho / \mathcal{R}$, this simplifies to give \begin{equation} \frac{\partial f_1}{\partial \mathcal{R}} = -\frac{2 f_1}{\mathcal{R}} \Longrightarrow f_1 = \frac{1}{\mathcal{R}^2} \Longrightarrow \varphi = \varphi_0(\eta), \end{equation} Here $\varphi_0(\rho) = \varphi(\rho,\tau = 0)$ is set from the initial conditions ($\varphi_0$ must satisfy the properties $\varphi = \phi_{\infty}$ and $\partial \varphi / \partial \rho = 0$ at $\tau = 0$). Finally, we seek an analytical solution for $\boldsymbol{\xi^{*}} = (\xi^*, \, \zeta^{*})$ with minimal $z^{*}$ dependence. Setting $a_2 = 0$, (\ref{eq:xifunctionalform}) and (\ref{eq:zetafunctionalform}) simplify to become \begin{equation} \zeta^{*} = a_0 + z^{*} \left( 1 + \frac{A}{\mathcal{H}} \right), \quad \xi^{*} = b_0 + \frac{B z^{*}}{\mathcal{H}}, \end{equation} where $\{ a_0, \, b_0, \, A, \, B \}$ are all independent of $\tau$. (\ref{eq:stiffgoverning1}) is automatically satisfied. (\ref{eq:stiffgoverning2}) and (\ref{eq:stiffgoverning3}) reduce to \begin{equation} \frac{\partial}{\partial \rho}\left( \frac{\rho B}{\mathcal{H}} \right) = 0 \Longrightarrow \frac{\rho B(\rho)}{F(\tau)\left( A - \left(\rho / \mathcal{R} \right)^2 \right)} \Longrightarrow B = 0. \end{equation} \begin{equation} \frac{6 \rho}{\mathcal{R} \mathcal{H}} \frac{\partial \mathcal{R}}{\partial \tau} \left( -\frac{A}{\mathcal{H}}\left( 1 - \frac{\partial b_0}{\partial \rho} \right) \right) = 0 \Longrightarrow \end{equation} \begin{equation} \frac{\partial b_0}{\partial \rho} = 1 \Longrightarrow b_0 = \xi_0 + \rho, \end{equation} where $\xi_0$ is a constant set from the initial conditions. Finally, we set for simplicity $A$ to a constant $\zeta_0$. Hence, the stress boundary condition (\ref{eq:pressurecondition}1) simplifies to become \begin{equation} \frac{\zeta_0}{\mathcal{H}} + \frac{\tilde{K}}{\rho}\frac{\partial}{\partial \rho}\left( B_0 \rho + \rho^2 \right) = C_0 \text{ at } \rho = \mathcal{R}. \end{equation} Applying the initial condition $\mathcal{R}(0) = 1$, we recover the cubic equation which describes the evolution of $\mathcal{R}$ \begin{equation} e^{-\tau} \mathcal{R}^3 + \mathcal{R} \left( \Xi - 1 \right) - \Xi = 0, \label{eq:Rgoverningequation1} \end{equation} Here, the non-dimensional evolution constant $\Xi$ is \begin{equation} \Xi = \frac{\tilde{K}\xi_0 m_0}{\zeta_0}, \end{equation} and is thus is determined from the initial conditions as the product of the incline ratio and a ratio between horizontal and vertical stresses. Now, Cardano's formula for depressed cubic equations states that for the equation \begin{equation} x^3 + p x + q = 0, \end{equation} where $p$ and $q$ are real, if $\Lambda(p,q) = 4 p^3 + 27 q^2 > 0$ then the equation has the single real root \begin{align} x &= \left( -\frac{q}{2} + \sqrt{\frac{q^2}{4} + \frac{p^3}{27} } \right)^{1/3} \nonumber \\ &+ \left( -\frac{q}{2} - \sqrt{\frac{q^2}{4} + \frac{p^3}{27} } \right)^{1/3}, \end{align} with the other two roots being complex conjugates. If $\Lambda < 0$ there are three real roots but they can not be represented by an algebraic expression involving only real numbers. This was called by Cardano the \textit{casus irreducibilis} (Latin for `the irreducible case'). For (\ref{eq:Rgoverningequation1}), we have \begin{subequations} \begin{align} p &= e^{\tau}(\Xi - 1), \\ q &= - e^{\tau}\Xi, \\ \Lambda &= e^{2\tau} \left( 4 e^{\tau} \left( \Xi - 1 \right)^3 + 27 \Xi^2 \right). \end{align} \end{subequations} Hence, $\Lambda < 0$ when $\Xi < 1$ and $\tau$ satisfies \begin{equation} \tau > \tau_{\text{crit}} = \log{\left( \frac{27 \Xi^2}{4(1 - \Xi)^3} \right)}. \end{equation} Thus, for general $\Xi$ and $\tau$, (\ref{eq:Rgoverningequation1}) does not admit an analytical solution. Instead, this cubic equation is solved numerically using the MATLAB inbuilt function fzero \cite{Brent73}. Since cubic equations have up to three real roots, we select the correct root by locating the root that is closest to the value for $\mathcal{R}$ found at the previous time step, noting that by definition $\mathcal{R}(\tau = 0) = 1$. \section{Newtonian Model} Here, for comparison, we analyze the corresponding mathematical model in which, as in Seminara et. al. \cite{Seminara12}, the intrinsic elasticity of the biofilm extracellular matrix is neglected. In this case, a solution with power law growth tending to a maximum finite biofilm radius is not supported, demonstrating that matrix elasticity is essential to capture the behavior we have observed experimentally. \subsection{Dimensionless shallow-layer scalings} In the same way as for the poroelastic model, we scale radial and vertical lengths with the initial radius $R_0 = R(t = 0)$ and height $H_0 = h(r = 0, t = 0)$ of the biofilm, respectively, permeability with the characteristic permeability scale $\kappa_0$, pressure with the vertical confinement pressure scale and time with thath for biofilm growth i.e. $\{ r, R \} \sim R_0$, $\{ z, h \} \sim H_0$, $\kappa \sim \kappa_0$, $p \sim P_0 = B H_0 / R_0^4$ and $t \sim 1/g$. Hence, we find $\{ u_f, u_s \} \sim g R_0$ and $\{ w_f, w_s \} \sim g H_0$. Similarly, we denote the dimensionless form of a function $f$ by $f^{*}$ and set for clarity \begin{equation} \rho = r^{*} = \frac{r}{R(0)}, \ {\cal H} = h^{*} = \frac{h(r,t)}{h(0,0)}, \ \tau = \tau^{*} = g t, \nonumber \end{equation} \begin{equation} {\mathcal{R}} = R^{*} = \frac{R(t)}{R(0)}, \ \mathcal{P} = p^{*} = \frac{p}{P_0}. \nonumber \end{equation} As above, we assume that the biomass volume fraction $\phi$ is independent of $z^{*}$, \begin{equation} \frac{\partial \phi}{\partial z^{*}} = 0. \label{eq:newtonianzindependentvolumefraction} \end{equation} In nondimensional form, the governing equations for this system become \begin{subequations} \begin{equation} \frac{\partial \phi}{\partial \tau} + \frac{1}{\rho}\frac{\partial}{\partial \rho}(\rho \phi u^{*}_s) + \frac{\partial}{\partial z^{*}}(\phi w_s^{*}) = \phi, \label{eq:newtoniangoverning1} \end{equation} \begin{equation} -\frac{\partial \phi}{\partial \tau} + \frac{1}{\rho}\frac{\partial}{\partial \rho}(\rho(1-\phi)u^{*}_f) + \frac{\partial}{\partial z^{*}}((1-\phi)w^{*}_f) = -\phi, \label{eq:newtoniangoverning2} \end{equation} \begin{equation} u_s^{*} - u_f^{*} = \frac{\epsilon^2}{W_1}\frac{\kappa^*}{1 - \phi}\frac{\partial \mathcal{P}}{\partial \rho}, \label{eq:newtoniangoverning3} \end{equation} \begin{equation} w_s^{*} - w_f^{*} = \frac{1}{W_1}\frac{\kappa^{*}}{1-\phi}\frac{\partial \mathcal{P}}{\partial z^{*}}, \label{eq:newtoniangoverning4} \end{equation} \begin{eqnarray} \frac{\epsilon^2}{W_1} \frac{\partial \mathcal{P}}{\partial \rho} = &\mu& \Bigg{(} \frac{\partial^2 u_s^{*}}{\partial {z^{*}}^2} \nonumber \\ &+& \left( \frac{H_0}{R_0} \right)^2\frac{1}{\rho}\frac{\partial}{\partial \rho}\left( \rho \frac{\partial u_s^{*}}{\partial \rho} \right)\Bigg{)}, \label{eq:newtoniangoverning5} \end{eqnarray} \begin{eqnarray} \frac{1}{W_1}\frac{\partial \mathcal{P}}{\partial z^{*}} = &\mu& \Bigg{(}\frac{\partial^2 w_s^{*}}{\partial {z^{*}}^2} \nonumber \\ &+& \left( \frac{H_0}{R_0} \right)^2\frac{1}{\rho}\frac{\partial}{\partial \rho}\left( \rho \frac{\partial w_s^{*}}{\partial \rho} \right)\Bigg{)}, \label{eq:newtoniangoverning6} \end{eqnarray} \end{subequations} where the non-dimensional constants $\{ \mu, \, W_1 \}$ satisfy \begin{equation} \mu = \frac{\kappa_0}{H_0^2}\frac{\mu_s}{\mu_f}, \quad W_1 = \frac{\mu_f g H_0^2}{\kappa_0 P_0}. \label{eq:viscosityscalinggroup} \end{equation} Here $W_1$, defined in (\ref{eq:nondimensionalconstants}), is a dimensionless measure of the ability of flow to generate a vertical pressure gradient, $\mu$ is the non-dimensional biofilm viscosity scaling group and $\mu_s$ is the dimensional Newtonian viscosity of the biofilm solid phase. Utilising the typical experimental values for the scalings together with $\mu_s \sim 10^2 \, \si{\pascal\second }$ we see that $ \{ W_1, \, \epsilon^{-2}W_1 \} \ll 1$ while $\mu \approx 2.8 = \mathcal{O}(1)$. \subsection{Vertical boundary conditions} As before, imposing no-slip boundary conditions at both the lower and upper boundaries gives \begin{subequations} \begin{equation} w_f^{*} = w_s^{*} = u_s^{*} \text{ at } z^{*} = 0, \label{eq:newtonianbc1} \end{equation} \begin{equation} u_s^{*} = u_f^{*} = 0 \, , \, w_f^{*} = w_s^{*} = \frac{\partial {\cal H}}{\partial t} \text{ at } z^{*} = {\cal H}. \label{eq:newtonianbc2} \end{equation} Balancing normal stress at the biofilm sheet interface gives \begin{equation} {\mathcal{P}}\Big{|}_{z^{*} = {\cal H}} = {\mathcal{P}}_0 + \nabla^4 {\cal H} + 2\mu W_1\frac{\partial w_s^{*}}{\partial z^{*}}\Big{|}_{z^{*} = {\cal H}} \label{eq:newtonianpressurecondition} \end{equation} \end{subequations} where ${\mathcal{P}}_0$ is a constant reference pressure. Working at leading order in $W_1$, combining (\ref{eq:newtoniangoverning4}) and (\ref{eq:newtonianpressurecondition}) gives \begin{subequations} \begin{equation} \frac{\partial \mathcal{P}}{\partial z^{*}} = 0 + \mathcal{O}\left( W_1 \right) \Longrightarrow \mathcal{P} = {\mathcal{P}}_0 + \nabla^4 {\cal H} + \mathcal{O}\left( W_1 \right). \end{equation} Hence, applying (\ref{eq:newtoniangoverning3}) gives the differential equation for $\mathcal{H}$ \begin{equation} \frac{\partial}{\partial \rho}\left( \nabla^4 \mathcal{H} \right) = 0 + \mathcal{O}(\epsilon^{-2} W_1). \label{eq:newtonianheighcondition} \end{equation} Similarly, combining ((\ref{eq:newtoniangoverning4}) and (\ref{eq:newtoniangoverning6})) and ((\ref{eq:newtoniangoverning4}) and (\ref{eq:newtoniangoverning6})) yields respectively \begin{equation} u_s^{*} - u_f^{*} = \mu \frac{\kappa^{*}}{1 - \phi}\frac{\partial^2 u_s^{*}}{\partial {z^{*}}^2} + \mathcal{O}\left( \epsilon^2 \right), \end{equation} \begin{equation} w_s^{*} - w_f^{*} = \mu \frac{\kappa^{*}}{1 - \phi}\frac{\partial^2 w_s^{*}}{\partial {z^{*}}^2} + \mathcal{O}\left( \epsilon^2 \right). \end{equation} Finally, integrating (\ref{eq:newtoniangoverning5}) using the boundary conditions given in (\ref{eq:newtonianbc1}) and (\ref{eq:newtonianbc2}) gives \begin{equation} u_s^{*} = -\frac{z^{*}({\cal H}-z^{*})}{2\mu}\left( \frac{\epsilon^2}{W_1} \frac{\partial {\mathcal{P}}}{\partial \rho}\right) + \mathcal{O}(\epsilon^2). \label{eq:newtonianus} \end{equation} \end{subequations} \subsection{Vertically averaged governing equations} We denote vertically averaged quantities by triangular brackets, namely for an arbitrary function $f$ we define $\langle f \rangle = {\cal H}^{-1}\int^{\cal H}_{0} f \, dz^{*}$, and for clarity set \begin{equation} \varphi = \langle \phi \rangle, \ k = \langle \kappa \rangle, \ v_s = \langle u_s \rangle = -\frac{\mathcal{H}^2}{12\mu}\left( \frac{\epsilon^2}{W_1}\frac{\partial \mathcal{P}}{\partial \rho} \right) + \mathcal{O}(\epsilon^2). \nonumber \end{equation} Integrating (\ref{eq:newtoniangoverning1}) in the $z^{*}$ direction yields \begin{equation} \frac{\partial}{\partial \tau}(\varphi {\cal H}) + \frac{1}{\rho}\frac{\partial}{\partial \rho}\left(\rho \langle\phi u_s^{*} \rangle {\cal H} \right) = \varphi{\cal H}. \label{eq:newtonianfullgoverning1} \end{equation} Similarly, integrating (\ref{eq:newtoniangoverning1})+(\ref{eq:newtoniangoverning2}) in the $z^{*}$ direction gives the continuity equation \begin{eqnarray} \frac{\partial {\cal H}}{\partial \tau} &=& \frac{1}{\rho}\frac{\partial}{\partial \rho}\left( \rho{\cal H} \left( \frac{k \epsilon^2}{W_1} \frac{\partial \mathcal{P}}{\partial \rho} - v_s \right) \right) \nonumber \\ &=& \frac{1}{\rho}\frac{\partial}{\partial \rho}\left( \rho {\cal H} \left( k + \frac{{\cal H}^2}{12 \mu} \right) \left( \frac{\epsilon^2}{W_1}\frac{\partial}{\partial \rho}\left( \nabla^4 {\cal H} \right) \right) \right) \nonumber \\ &+& \mathcal{O}(\epsilon^2) \label{eq:newtonianfullgoverning2} \end{eqnarray} \subsection{Vertically averaged boundary conditions} \label{newtonianhorizontalbc} As in the poroelastic model, we have the boundary conditions \begin{subequations} \begin{equation} \frac{\partial {\cal H}}{\partial \rho} = \frac{\partial {\mathcal P}}{\partial \rho} = 0 \mbox{ at } \rho = 0, \label{eq:newtonianfullbc1} \end{equation} \begin{equation} \nabla^4 \mathcal{H} = \mathcal{R}^3\frac{\partial^3 {\cal H}}{\partial \rho^3} + \mathcal{R}\frac{\partial^2 {\cal H}}{\partial \rho^2} - \frac{\partial {\cal H}}{\partial \rho} = 0 \mbox{ at } \rho = \mathcal{R}, \label{eq:newtonianfullbc2} \end{equation} \begin{equation} \varphi = \varphi_{\infty} \mbox{ at } \rho = \mathcal{R}, \label{eq:newtonianfullbc3} \end{equation} \begin{equation} \frac{\partial \varphi}{\partial \tau} = 0 \mbox{ at } \rho = \mathcal{R}. \label{eq:newtonianfullbc4} \end{equation} \end{subequations} Similarly, polymer volume conservation yields the evolution condition \begin{equation} \frac{\partial \mathcal{R}}{\partial t} = \frac{\langle \phi \, u_s^{*} \rangle }{\phi_{\infty}} = v_s \mbox{ at } \rho = \mathcal{R}(t). \label{eq:newtonianfullbc5} \end{equation} As above, (\ref{eq:newtonianheighcondition}) together with the boundary conditions in (\ref{eq:newtonianfullbc2}) admits the similarity solution \begin{equation} \mathcal{H} = F_0 + F_1 \rho^2, \end{equation} where $F_0 = F_0(\tau)$ and $F_1 = F_1(\tau)$ are independent of $\rho$. Integrating (\ref{eq:newtonianfullgoverning2}) with respect to $\rho$ then gives \begin{equation} \frac{\rho^2}{2}\frac{\partial F_0}{\partial \tau} + \frac{\rho^4}{4}\frac{\partial F_1}{\partial \tau} = -\frac{12 \rho \mu}{\mathcal{H}}\left( k + \frac{\mathcal{H}^2}{12 \mu} \right) \Longrightarrow \nonumber \end{equation} \begin{equation} v_s = - \frac{\mathcal{H}}{\rho \left( 12 \mu k + \mathcal{H}^2 \right)}\left( \frac{\rho^2}{2}\frac{\partial F_0}{\partial \tau} + \frac{\rho^4}{4}\frac{\partial F_1}{\partial \tau} \right). \label{eq:newtonianreducedvs} \end{equation} Here, we have used (\ref{eq:newtonianfullbc1}) to set the integration constant to 0. In general, one can not make further analytic progress. \subsection{Finite radius solution} Experimentally, we see that the radius of the biofilm tends to a finite value i.e. the system supports a biofilm with constant radius $\mathcal{R} = \mathcal{R}_{\infty}$. In this case, (\ref{eq:newtonianfullbc5}) simplifies to give \begin{equation} v_s\big{|}_{\mathcal{R}_{\infty}} = 0 \Longrightarrow \frac{\partial F_0}{\partial \tau} + \frac{\mathcal{R}_{\infty}^2}{2}\frac{\partial F_1}{\partial \tau} = 0 \Longrightarrow \nonumber \end{equation} \begin{equation} F_0 = C_1 - \frac{\mathcal{R}_{\infty}^2 F_1}{2}, \end{equation} where $C_1$ is a constant. Since $\mathcal{H} > 0 \, \forall \rho \in [0, \mathcal{R}_{\infty}]$, evaluating $\mathcal{H}$ at $\rho = 0$ and $\rho = \mathcal{R}_{\infty}$ gives \begin{equation} \mathcal{H} = C_1 + F_1 \left( \rho^2 - \frac{\mathcal{R}_{\infty}^2}{2} \right) \Longrightarrow \nonumber \end{equation} \begin{equation} \left\{ \mathcal{H}\big{|}_{0} = C_1 - \frac{F_1 \mathcal{R}_{\infty}^2}{2}, \, \mathcal{H}\big{|}_{\mathcal{R}_{\infty}} = C_1 + \frac{F_1 \mathcal{R}_{\infty}^2}{2} \right\}, \end{equation} namely $C_1$ is positive with the lower bound $C_1 > \mathcal{R}_{\infty}^2|F_1|/2$. Similarly, differentiating (\ref{eq:newtonianreducedvs}) with respect to $\rho$ at $\rho = \mathcal{R}_{\infty}$ gives \begin{eqnarray} \frac{\partial v_s}{\partial \rho}\Big{|}_{\mathcal{R}_{\infty}} &=& -\frac{\mathcal{H}}{12 \mu k + \mathcal{H}^2}\left( \frac{\partial F_0}{\partial \tau} + \rho^2 \frac{\partial F_1}{\partial \tau} \right) \nonumber \\ &=& -\frac{\mathcal{H}\mathcal{R}_{\infty}^2}{2 \left( \mathcal{H}^2 + 12 \mu k \right)}\frac{\partial F_1}{\partial \tau}. \end{eqnarray} Hence, evaluating (\ref{eq:newtonianfullgoverning1}) at $\rho = \mathcal{R}$, utilising the boundary conditions given above gives \begin{equation} \frac{\partial \mathcal{H}}{\partial \tau}\Bigg{|}_{\mathcal{R}_{\infty}} + \left( \mathcal{H}\frac{\partial v_s}{\partial \rho} \right) \Bigg{|}_{\mathcal{R}_{\infty}} = \mathcal{H}\Big{|}_{\mathcal{R}_{\infty}} \Longrightarrow \nonumber \end{equation} \begin{equation} C_2 \frac{\partial F_1}{\partial \tau} = (F_1 + C_3)\left(C_2 + (F_1 + C_3)^2 \right) \Longrightarrow \nonumber \end{equation} \begin{eqnarray} \tau &=& \int \frac{C_2}{(F_1 + C_3)\left(C_2 + (F_1 + C_3)^2 \right)} \, dF_1 \nonumber \\ &=& \int \frac{1}{F_1 + C_3} - \frac{(F_1 + C_3)}{C_2 + (F_1 + C_3)^2} \, dF_1 \nonumber \\ &=& \ln{(F_1 + C_3)} - \frac{1}{2}\ln{\left( C_2 + (F_1 + C_3)^2 \right)} - \frac{1}{2}\ln{(\tilde{C})} \nonumber \\ &=& \frac{1}{2}\ln{\left( \frac{(F_1 + C_3)^2}{\tilde{C} \left(C_2 + (F_1 + C_3)^2\right)} \right)} \Longrightarrow \nonumber \end{eqnarray} \begin{equation} (F_1 + C_3)^2 = \frac{\tilde{C}C_2 e^{2\tau}}{1 - \tilde{C}e^{2\tau}}, \label{eq:newtonianfailedsolution} \end{equation} where $\tilde{C}$ is a constant of integration and the positive constants $C_2$ and $C_3$ satisfy \begin{equation} C_2 = \frac{48 \mu}{\mathcal{R}_{\infty}^4}k(\varphi_{\infty}), \quad C_3 = \frac{2 C_1}{\mathcal{R}_{\infty}^2}. \end{equation} Since the right hand side of (\ref{eq:newtonianfailedsolution}) is non-negative for all $\tau$, $\tilde{C} = 0$ and thus $F_1 = - C_3$. However, this then gives $\mathcal{H} = 0$ at $\rho = \mathcal{R}_{\infty}$ which is a contradiction. Hence, the Newtonian model does not support a constant radius solution and thus does not agree with experiments.

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Sain Remains The local blues legend looks back on 40 years in St. Louis By J. Konkel on Wed, Jul 3, 2002 at 4:00 am Oliver Sain B.B.'s Jazz, Blues & Soups Plays every Thursday During the 1950s and '60s, when cities such as Memphis, Chicago and Detroit were turning the music world on its ear, St. Louis quietly emerged as a satellite location for the revolution. Homegrown talents Chuck Berry, Fontella Bass and Bennie Smith joined forces with newcomers Ike Turner, Little Milton Campbell, Johnnie Johnson and Albert King. In early 1959, multi-instrumentalist Oliver Sain joined their ranks and quickly established himself as a leader of the city's exploding music scene. To this day, he remains in St. Louis and has emerged as the torchbearer for the city's black music scene. Others have come and gone, retired and died. But through it all, Sain remains. Like so many of his peers, Sain grew up in and around the Delta region of rural Mississippi. As a teenager, he served as drummer in a band with his stepfather, famed Delta blues pianist Willie Love. The band also featured the legendary Sonny Boy Williamson on harmonica and vocals. Today, Sain looks back on his stepfather's music with respect and admiration. At the time, however, he was less enthusiastic. "Willie had some great songs, and they're great to me now more than they were then," he says. "Because I was young then and he was my stepdaddy, I didn't pay that much attention to him. But today, man, that stuff is awesome." Sain also worked with the likes of Howlin' Wolf, but it was his experiences with musicians his own age that most excited him. By the late '40s, he'd formed his own band with vocalist Little Junior Parker and guitarist Matt "Guitar" Murphy. Sain recruited the latter from Howlin' Wolf's band. The notoriously feisty Wolf was not amused. "He stayed mad at me for a long time after that," Sain recalls with a laugh. "It's funny now. It wasn't quite as funny then." By the early '50s, Sain was living with his mother and stepfather in Greenville, Mississippi. It was there that Sain met singer and guitarist Little Milton. It also was there that he first picked up a saxophone. Soon he was back to working with Love, Williamson and Wolf -- but this time as a horn player. By the mid-1950s, Sain found himself in Chicago, where he again hooked up with Howlin' Wolf and, eventually, the great Elmore James. Chicago offered plenty of work for Sain, and his connection with Wolf led to some national tours, including one that culminated at the Apollo in Harlem. But Chicago didn't captivate Sain in the way that it had so many other blues musicians. "It was cool, but it wasn't my favorite place," he says, "so when I got the opportunity to get the hell out of there, I did." The opportunity finally arrived in 1959. "When I came to St. Louis, I planned to stay a weekend," Sain admits, "but I've been here for more than 40 years." The impetus for his trip to the city was a gig with longtime pal Little Milton Campbell. Sain was shocked by St. Louis' raucous nightlife. As a boy, he'd lived for a period in St. Louis and hadn't enjoyed the experience. "Oh, I hated this place then," he says with a laugh. "It was gloomy and dark and smoky. I was from the South. I was used to bright sunshine and warmth." As a young man, Sain's priorities were different. He saw in St. Louis opportunity -- and plenty of it. "St. Louis was jumping then, man," Sain says. "Little Milton, Ike Turner and a couple of other people had changed the scene here." Social clubs and big bands were out; hard-driving R&B outfits were in. Sain's weekend gig stretched into two weekends, then a month. Almost immediately he took on the role of bandleader for Campbell's group, one of the hottest groups in a city filled with legendary acts such as Ike Turner, Albert King and Chuck Berry. The appeal of Little Milton's band, says Sain, was its members' ability to keep up with current musical trends. "The other guys who were here already and played guitar, played the blues, they would only do old stuff," Sain explains. "But Milton came in doing stuff off the radio. We were like a jukebox band, and we played whatever was popular." Campbell and Sain, however, were not content merely to ape the music of other groups. Soon they were writing their own material. Sain's first songwriting effort, "Same Old Blues," was recorded by Campbell and released on the locally owned Bobbin Records label in 1959. The song didn't do much, but it wasn't long before Sain and Campbell started seeing chart success. In early 1962, "So Mean to Me," a song co-written by Sain, stormed up the R&B charts to the lofty position of number fourteen. But it wasn't until 1965 that Sain penned what is probably his greatest contribution to the lexicon of R&B music: "Don't Mess Up a Good Thing" was recorded as a duet by St. Louisans Fontella Bass and Bobby McClure. The song was a massive hit, and Sain has been reaping the benefits ever since. "When the first royalty check came in, man, all of those zeroes, I couldn't believe it," Sain says. He recalls waking up in the middle of the night after receiving the check just to make sure the comma was where he thought it was. Sain used the money from that check to build Archway Studios on Natural Bridge in North St. Louis. "We've been here 37 years," Sain says proudly, "and we're still going strong." Sain went on to write songs for the likes of Etta James, Irma Thomas, and Ike and Tina Turner. In the early '70s, Sain penned Ann Peebles' first hit for Hi Records, "Walk Away." By the time he signed a solo contract to A-Bet Records in the mid-'70s, Sain was no stranger to success but had never scored a hit under his own name. That changed with a series of funk and disco tracks that made Sain a sudden dance-floor favorite. Since then, chart success has eluded Sain, but he's hardly been dormant. A fixture on the local live scene, Sain continues to play local clubs and corporate events. He's toured Europe several times and recently recorded a new album on his own Vanessa Records label. "Oh, we're still busy," Sain says, "but we could always be busier. Everything's slower since September 11, particularly the corporate gigs, but we do all right." Royalties help during leaner times. Recently, royalty money has come from unexpected places. In 1997, P-Diddy (then known as Puff Daddy) used a sample from "On the Hill," one of Sain's A-Bet recordings, to form the backbone of "Young G's." The song appeared on the multiplatinum album No Way Out. "I made a lot of money on that. The album sold eight million copies," Sain says. "That's why we call the building we live in "the house that Puffy built." The building, which is connected to Sain's studio, also houses the salon owned and operated by Sain's new bride, Ruby. They paid for the salon and its equipment with cash from the Puffy royalties. Sain bought his car that way, too. Sain and Ruby married in February after a long acquaintance and a two-year courtship. "I figured it was about time," Sain remarks with a smile. "This is my third marriage. It'll be my last." All in all, it's been a good year for Sain, despite the dark shadow of cancer, which he's battled for several years. In 1997, the disease led to the removal of his bladder. Eventually the cancer went into remission, only to return a year later. Now it rests in Sain's bones, and he doesn't expect it to go away again. Nevertheless, Sain claims, he's feeling fine. "I joke with my doctor. I say that I'm the only person I know who feels great all day every day and is still dying," he says. "I don't have a pain in the world." Despite his health issues, Sain remains focused on his music career. "Man, I just want to keep playing and recording as long as I can, which I hope will be a long while," he says. "Hell, that's all I know how to do." Featured Stories, Oliver Sain, Little Milton Campbell, Scroll to read more Music News & Interviews articles (1) Beatle Bob Says His Concert Streak Is Coming to an End After 27-Year Run St. Louis Rappers DOUG Inspired by Cherokee Jam Sessions — and The Hangover RIP Blake Fowler, Beloved St. Louis Bassist By David Von Nordheim Former MTV VJ Spills Tea About the Early Days at the Iconic Music Channel By Steve Leftridge

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Crystal Palace Basketball Club war ein Basketballverein aus dem Londoner Stadtteil Crystal Palace in England, der 1973 aus einer Kooperation einer Basketballmannschaft aus dem London Borough of Sutton mit dem Fußballverein Crystal Palace F.C. entstand. Der Fusionsverein, der die dominierenden Mannschaften im englischen Basketball in den 1970er und frühen 1980er Jahren stellte, gilt als einer der Pioniere im englischen Basketball, die auch in europäischen Vereinswettbewerben für erste Aufmerksamkeit sorgten. Er bestand mit wechselndem Erfolg bis 1998 fort, bis man sich mit dem damals führenden Londoner Verein London Towers in der British Basketball League (BBL) vereinigte. Geschichte Erfolgreicher Start (1973 bis 1978) Der Verein aus dem Stadtbezirk Sutton hatte 1971 und 1973 die Endspiele im Pokalwettbewerb National Cup erreicht und jeweils verloren. Anschließend kooperierte man mit dem namensgebenden Fußballverein Crystal Palace und trat zunächst unter dem Sutton & Crystal Palace an, wobei man im Crystal Palace National Sports Centre als Heimspielstätte spielte. Das 1964 erbaute Crystal Palace Centre war auch von 1965 bis 1974 Austragungsort der Endspiele im National Cup, der eigentlichen Meisterschaft im englischen Basketball bis 1979. In der ersten Spielzeit der Kooperation gewann man nicht nur den Pokalwettbewerb, sondern auch den ersten Platz in der ein Jahr zuvor eingeführten Division One der "National Basketball League" (NBL). Im europäischen Vereinswettbewerb Korać-Cup 1973/74 schied man jedoch bereits in der ersten Vorrunde aus, wobei man das Heimspiel gegen den belgischen Club aus Brügge gewinnen konnte. Anschließend trat man nach dem Pokalgewinn auch als eine der ersten englischen Mannschaften im Europapokal der Landesmeister an, verlor aber beide Spiele in der ersten Qualifikationsrunde gegen den niederländischen Vertreter aus Rotterdam deutlich. Nachdem man im Jahr 1975 in Meisterschaft und Pokal jeweils Zweiter wurde und die Titel nicht verteidigen konnte, gewann man als Crystal Palace beide Wettbewerbe als Double dreimal hintereinander von 1976 bis 1978. Ein erster Achtungserfolg auf internationaler Ebene war der zweite Platz in der Gruppenphase des Landesmeister-Europapokals zu Beginn der Saison 1976/77, als man im direkten Vergleich den Schweizer Meister Federale Lugano hinter sich lassen konnte. Allein der dominierende spanische Meister und vormalige Vizeeuropapokalsieger Real Madrid konnte sich als Gruppensieger für die Viertelfinal-Runde qualifizieren. In den folgenden beiden Europapokalwettbewerben der Landesmeister blieb man jedoch wieder sieglos. Achtungserfolge im Europapokal (1978 bis 1983) In der Saison 1978/79 hatte man in Liga und Pokal als Zweiter jeweils den Doncaster Panthers den Vortritt lassen müssen. Diese nahmen jedoch nicht am Europapokal teil und so konnte Crystal Palace im Landesmeisterwettbewerb 1979/80 erneut antreten. Für die Spielzeit 1979/80 verpflichtete man unter anderem den US-Amerikaner Alton Byrd, der in seiner Collegekarriere an der Columbia University mit seiner Körpergröße von etwa 1,70 m den "Frances Pomeroy Naismith Award" für den besten Collegespieler mit einer Körpergröße von weniger als 1,83 m erhalten hatte. Byrd, der später naturalisiert und englischer Nationalspieler wurde, hatte nach einer Fußverletzung nicht die Aufnahme in die amerikanische Profiliga NBA geschafft und spielte die folgenden drei Spielzeiten für Crystal Palace. In der Gruppenphase des Europapokals traf man wiederum auf Real Madrid, das überlegen den ersten Platz belegte und später seinen siebten Europapokaltitel gewann. Bis auf die beiden Spiele gegen Real um die beiden Starspieler Wayne Brabender und Walter Szczerbiak gewann man jedoch die restlichen vier Gruppenspiele, darunter beide Spiele gegen den deutschen Meister TuS 04 Leverkusen. In den nationalen Wettbewerben schaffte man 1980 erneut das Double. 1981 konnte man nur den Titel im National Cup verteidigen und verlor die Meisterschaft in der Liga gegen die Birmingham Bullets. Im Europapokal reichte es zu je einem Heimsieg über den französischen Meister aus Tours und den griechischen Meister Panathinaikos Athen. In der Endabrechnung der Gruppe bedeutete dies aber nur den letzten Platz in der Vierer-Gruppe, die der spätere Europapokalsieger Maccabi Tel Aviv gewann. In den Spielzeiten 1981/82 und 1982/83 gewann man erneut die Meisterschaft in der nationalen Liga. Im Europapokal der Pokalsieger 1981/82 gewann man unter anderem gegen den Schweizer Vertreter BBC Nyon und zog in die Viertelfinal-Gruppenphase ein, wo jedoch in einer Vierer-Gruppe mit dem späteren Titelträger KK Cibona in sechs Spielen nur noch ein Sieg gelang. In der Saison 1982/83 nahm dann wieder am Pokal der Landesmeister teil, der diesmal ohne Gruppenphase in der ersten Runde ausgespielt wurde. In der ersten Runde schlug man den deutschen Meister BSC Saturn Köln in beiden Spielen jeweils mit einem Punkt und konnte im Viertelfinale Real Madrid zuhause mit acht Punkten Unterschied erstmals bezwingen. Im Rückspiel in Madrid verlor man jedoch mit 30 Punkten Unterschied (81:111) und verpasste damit die Teilnahme an der Finalrunde um den Titel. Niedergang bis zum Rücktritt aus der BBL (1983 bis 1989) In der Saison 1983/84 nahm man anstatt des Landesmeister-Europapokals am Korać-Cup 1983/84 teil. Nach dem Achtungserfolg auf europäischer Ebene im Vorjahr blieb man hier jedoch in der Gruppenphase der 16 besten Mannschaften sieglos. In der nationalen Liga reichte es noch zur Vizemeisterschaft 1984 hinter den Solent Stars. Mit Steve Bucknall schaffte es ein Spieler von Crystal Palace an die University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill und später in die NBA. Die erfolgreichsten Zeiten von Crystal Palace BC waren jedoch just in dem Moment vorbei, als 1987 mit der British Basketball League (BBL) eine geschlossene Profiliga im Vereinigten Königreich eingeführt wurde. Zwar war man noch Gründungsmitglied der BBL in der Saison 1987/88, aber es reichte nur zu zwei Saisonsiegen in 28 Spielen und dem letzten Tabellenplatz unter 15 Mannschaften in der Abschlusstabelle. In der bereits um vier Mannschaften geschrumpften zweiten Saison gelangen erneut nur zu zwei Saisonsiege in 20 Spielen, was wiederum den letzten Tabellenplatz bedeutete. Anschließend zog man sich ebenfalls aus der BBL zurück, während die Liga mit den London Docklands eine neue Franchise aus London aufnahmen, die später unter dem Namen London Towers zu den erfolgreichsten Mannschaften der 1990er Jahre in der BBL gehören sollten. Kurzes Comeback bis zur Fusion mit den Towers (1989 bis 1996) Nach der Rückkehr in die Division One, die nun nicht mehr die höchste Spielklasse darstellt, stabilisierte man sich sportlich und erreichte 1993 einen dritten Platz in der Liga. 1994 kehrte Alton Byrd, der am Ende seiner Spielerkarriere 1991 und 1992 als bislang einziger Spieler zweimal hintereinander die Auszeichnung als "Most Valuable Player" (MVP) der BBL gewann, als Trainer und Miteigentümer zu Crystal Palace zurück und konnte den Verein neu beleben. 1995 und 1996 gewann man wieder die Meisterschaft in dieser Spielklasse. Im National Cup 1995/96 schlug man zwei Mannschaften der BBL und zog bis ins Halbfinale ein, wo man dem Titelverteidiger Sheffield Sharks unterlag. Dies war zugleich die vorerst erfolgreichste Spielzeit der London Towers, die bis auf die Meisterschafts-Play-offs alle anderen Wettbewerbe der BBL gewannen. Crystal Palace suchte erneut erfolgreich um Aufnahme in die BBL nach, belegte aber in der ersten Saison nach Rückkehr 1997 nach fünf Saisonsiegen nur den vorletzten Tabellenplatz, während die Towers nun auch erstmals die Play-offs der BBL gewannen. Byrd verließ den Verein und wechselte später ins Management des NBA-Klubs Sacramento Kings. 1998 belegten die Crystal Palace in der letzten Spielzeit ihrer Eigenständigkeit weit abgeschlagen von den Play-off-Plätzen den drittletzten Tabellenplatz unter 13 Mannschaften. Anschließend fusionierten sie die Reste des Vereins mit dem Lokalrivalen London Towers, der nun neben der Wembley Arena auch das National Sports Centre in Crystal Palace als Heimspielstätte nutzte. Die Towers wollten zwei Jahre später an erfolgreiche Europapokalzeiten von Crystal Palace anknüpfen und nahm an den Wettbewerben der neu gegründeten EuroLeague teil. In übergreifend 24 Gruppenspielen in den ersten beiden Austragungen der EuroLeague reichte es jedoch nur zu einem Sieg in der EuroLeague 2000/01 gegen die Opel Skyliners Frankfurt, die die offenbar traditionelle Schwäche deutscher Mannschaften gegen Londoner Vereine zunächst fortführten. Bei der folgenden EuroLeague 2001/02 reichte es dann jedoch zu zwei Siegen der Skyliners gegen die nunmehr deutlich unterlegenen und insgesamt sieglosen Towers, die vier Jahre später 2006 selbst ihren Spielbetrieb in der BBL einstellten. Nachfolge Während in Sutton die Basketballmannschaft Pumas ab 1999 einige Jahre bis 2004 erfolgreich in der Division One mitspielen konnte, gab es ab 2009 eine Amateurmannschaft, die dem Namen nach die Tradition des Crystal Palace BC fortsetzte. Das Crystal Palace National Sports Centre war in der Saison 2012/13 Austragungsort der Heimspiele der BBL-Franchise London Lions, die aus Milton Keynes kommend ihre Heimspiele künftig in der Copper Box austragen werden. Weblinks Crystal Palace London basketball - team details, stats, news, roster – Historisches Profil auf den Webseiten von Eurobasket.com () England Basketball: Senior Men - Cup Competitions – Übersicht über Pokalgewinner auf den Webseiten des englischen Verbandes (englisch) England Basketball: Senior Men - League – Übersicht über Spielzeiten der nationalen englischen Ligen (englisch) Einzelnachweise Englischer Basketballverein Ehemaliger Basketballverein Ehemaliger Sportverein (London) Gegründet 1973

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Morning, I'm a little later than planned today as I needed to tidy up before I could even begin to make anything. You think I would learn to tidy as I go! I'm not really a fan of tattered lace dies, bit too frilly for me, but when I saw this panoramic skylines I knew I needed the houses! I think I'll carry on with a lazy crafting day.. hope you all have a fab Easter Sunday! What a clever idea to flip the sketch. I love the night scene you've created on this gorgeous card. Thanks so much for joining us at Freshly Made Sketches. What a fun and wonderfully creative use of the sketch! LOVE your skyline! Thank you for playing along with at Freshly Made Sketches. Such an amazing card, Jen! I love how you flipped it; it works perfectly! Thanks for joining us at Freshly Made Sketches. Jen, this card is fantastic. I LOVE the way you upended the sketch and created that beautiful night sky. TThe stitching on the half circle adds so much interest and the twine on top of the twill is the perfect touch! Love this card! So beautiful!

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YES!! My daughter is getting married this Sunday! I know that it is in my best interest to assure the "Bride to be" is pleased, with the "Mother of the bride's outfit"!! Yesterday, I tried on a variety of outfits, took photos and sent them to my daughter. Fifteen plus clicks and at least 8 outfits later, we had it narrowed down to black dress slacks, knee length, Olive green sweater, that I can wear with my black ankle boots or a lovely, calf length black dress. YES! Black, NO LONGER TABOO, can be a very classy look at weddings. I tried pairing mine with a variety of colored lightweight, waist length, long sleeved, cardigans and colorful scarves. This event is casual, so I need to be careful not to overdress! I am no Fashionista, but love that by simply changing your scarf, one can change the overall look and feel of an outfit. In the middle of the clicks I sent this one to daughter, how could I resist? tee hee! Now, to find a place to get my hair done. Remember, I am the "new kid" in town, so I asked some of the cashiers at the local Food Lion, grocery store in Statesville. SUPER, excited for the wedding, they were eager to help. Off I went with groceries in hand and a couple of salon options. Fingers crossed I pick the right one! Another 2 weeks and I should have wifi again… Missing all of you!! Photography compliments and copyrighted by K of theblackwallblog. 🤣 love the photo with making faces!! Well done!

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YellowBuzz and HzCollective Present: Taqwacore Fusion in Charlottesville 8/12 Taqwacore Fusion feat. The Kominas + Sarmust + Prop Anon + Oblisk + Jdavyd Williams and the Basement Bhaktis presented by HzCollective + Yellowbuzz Wednesday 8/12/2009 Doors @ 7:30pm | Show @ 8pm The Bridge PAI [thebridgepai.com] 209 Monticello RD, Charlottesville, VA. 22902 $5 Suggested Donation South Asian Punks THE KOMINAS (Boston) and SARMUST (DC) are embarking west on a three week tour to bring decimation along the I-80 interstate. Also joining them will be Prop Anon, whose undefeated free styles occupy a grey area between rap, and punk rock. They plan to raze venues through New York, Cleveland, Chicago, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Utah, Nevada, California, Texas, Misissippi, up through to Virginia, Philly, and finally to New York and New England. These will be the first performances west of Chicago - concerts that have been highly anticipated since the last tour in 2007 was profiled in the Rolling Stone, Newsweek, and Maximum Rock N Roll. Garnering praise from media has been easy for the groups, who were quickly lauded for "giving disenfranchised young Muslims a voice" (The Guardian, UK), though such press is misleading. For these hooligans, the only intention is to destroy. This is not your grandfather's 1977, or your crusty uncle's 1982. These groups are here to tell you what time it is, whether they have to bum rush the show - or not. The Kominas were formed in the summer of 2005, and have released 2 demos and one full length since, titled Wild Nights in Guantanamo Bay - which made a Boston Globe top ten list in 2008 by reviewer Siddartha Mitter. Smoked with acrid sarcasm on tracks such as Sharia Law in the USA, Suicide Bomb the Gap, and Wal Qaeda Superstore - conservative blogs quickly labled them a 'Jihadi rap group'. This is inacurate because the Kominas unload ammunition much faster than any Taliban. Like an unmanned predator drone, the group is known for providing quick blasts of bhangra infused hardcore and rap to incur maximum colateral damage. Since 2005, the band has performed with legends such as 45Grave (LA), The Genders (Tel Aviv), Riz MC (London) and M-Team (NYC). Sarmust is a twisted splicing of anarchist sufism and indie-punk, masterminded by award winning sitar player Omar Waqar. A longtime stalwart of the DC hardcore scene, his music has become the bridge between dischord and simple harmony. The band Omar took on tour with him in 2007, Diacritical, was recorded and co-produced by Don Z at inner ear studios, where legendary records by Bad Brains, Q and Not U and Fugazi were cut. Determined to disembowel Ravi Shankar with a chipped cooking spoon, Omar Waqar's take on sufism is unapologetic - the name Sarmust is taken from a famous Sindhi saint whose condemnations of the clergy lead to his decapitation. Waqar has taken Sarmust's death on like a debt that needs to be paid in blood, and probably his own. Propaganda Anonymous (Prop Anon) is a Situationist art experiment embodied as a B-Boy philosopher and media theorist submerged within the underground Hip-Hop scene of NYC. Rocking spots harder than semtex since 2002, Prop Anon released his first EP 'Todo Corazon' to underground acclaim. This EP is currently available for free download on his website Propanon.com. Prop is releasing his first full-length album "Squat the Condos" this summer, and is pushing the envelope of sound into a fresh genre of Hip-Hop and Post Punk. Prop also writers a column about "Hip-Hop, Punk Rock and Consciousness" for the widely read webzine Realitysandwich.com. Band Sites: The Kominas (Boston): http://myspace.com/thekominas Sarmust (DC): http://myspace.com/sarmust | http://suchrecords.com Prop Anons (New York): http://www.myspace.com/propagandaanonymous Oblisk (Detroit): http://www.myspace.com/oblisk Jdavyd Williams and the Basement Bhaktis (Charlottesville): http://jdavydwilliams.com/live/ | http://www.myspace.com/jdavydwilliams Kominas, Sarmust on Current TV: http://current.com/items/90212670_the-kominas-taqwa-core-and-south-asian-punk.htm Kominas, Sarmast/Such Records on MS NBC: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22425001/vp/30965845#30965845 The Taqwacores, The Kominas, and Mike Knight on NPR: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=107010536 Facebook Event: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=102442527297 This event is presented by YellowBuzz and HzCollective. Please REPOST! Labels: charlottesville, taqwacore, upcoming events, virginia Poster Done! Taqwacore Fusion on 8/12 in Cville Media Reflexivity: Kominas Reading about The Komin... Memories from the Fourth: The Kominas Collaborate ... YellowBuzz Returns + Pictures of Renminbi in Charl... YellowBuzz and HzCollective Present: Taqwacore Fus... Kite Operations: Music for AAIFF Trailer Video Alert: Taqwatour 2007-2009 Hiep Le and Trang Vo Visit Summer Course on Global...

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This is where I use Doreen Virtue Archangel Raphael Healing Cards to provide you with insight into how you can improve your health. These cards and messages will help in providing you with ideas that may help to improve your health, (You must visit a medical professional as this is NOT a Diagnostic). Below there is more information about the Archangel Raphael. Archangel Raphael brings God's healing light to Earth. He once told me in a meditation that rather than healing, his role consists of revealing the true healed bodies that God created for all of us. To Raphael, everyone is already healthy in spiritual truth. When you ask Raphael to heal a condition, often the cure manifests instantly. The archangel was just waiting for you to give him permission to conduct his healing work.Sometimes people feel a gentle buzzing energy as Raphael is healing them, or they see green lights. But for others, Raphael's healing is very subtle.Raphael can help you reduce or eliminate pain stemming from short-term and chronic conditions. Again, it's a result of your asking for his help. In this way, you signal your permission for him to intervene.

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Members of Government State Secretaries Governments of the Republic of Slovenia Prime MinisterAbout the Government- Members of Government- State Secretaries- Ministries- Government Offices- GlossaryGovernments of the Republic of SloveniaProjectsSlovenia Weekly www.vlada.si / About the Government / Governments of the Republic of Slovenia / Government of the Republic of Slovenia (2013-2014) Government of the Republic of Slovenia (2013-2014) Government of the Republic of Slovenia from 20 March 2013 to 18 September 2014 Alenka Bratušek (photo: UKOM) Alenka Bratušek, M.Sc. Prime Minister – elected 27/2/2013 Website: http://www.nekdanji-pv.gov.si/2013-2014/en/ Office of the Prime Minister: Tamara Vonta, State Secretary- appointed 1/4/2013 Dušan Kumer, State Secretary - appointed 1/4/2013 Dušan Kričej, State Secretary- appointed 1/4/2013 Gašpar Gašpar Mišič, State Secretary - appointed 1/4/2013 – termination of function 22/8/2013 Jernej Pavlič, State Secretary- appointed 1/4/2013 Matija Sevšek, State Secretary- appointed 1/5/2013 Jože Sironič, State Secretary- appointed 1/5/2013 Boris Jesih, D. Sc., State Secretary- appointed 17/3/2014 Members of the Government: Uroš Čufer, D. Sc. - Minister Mateja Vraničar, MPA, State Secretary - appointed 25/3/2013 mag. Mitja Mavko, MA, State Secretary - appointed 15/4/2013 – dismissed 30/7/ 2014 Ministry of the Interior Gregor Virant, D. Sc. – Minister Renata Zatler, M. Sc., State Secretary – appointed 21/3/2013 – dismissed 31/7/2014 Boštjan Šefic, State Secretary – appointed 4/4/2013 Karl Viktor Erjavec – Minister Igor Senčar, M. Sc., State Secretary – appointed 21/3/2013 Božo Cerar, D. Sc., State Secretary – appointed 21/3/2013 – dismissed 2/9/2013 Bogdan Benko, State Secretary – appointed 3/9/2013 Senko Pličanič, D. Sc. - Minister Tina Brecelj, State Secretary – appointed 25/3/2013 Roman Jakič – Minister Zoran Klemenčič, State Secretary – appointed 29/3/2013 Ministry of Labour, Family, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities Anja Kopač Mrak, D. Sc. – Minister Dejan Levanič, State Secretary – appointed 1/4/2013 Martina Vuk, State Secretary – appointed 15/3/2014 Miloš Pavlica, State Secretary – appointed 4/11/2013, dismissed 14/3/ 2014 Ministry of Economic Development and Technology Metod Dragonja – Minister – appointed 24/2/2014 Uroš Čufer, D. Sc. – Acting Minister – from 11/12/2013 to 24/2/2014 Stanko Stepišnik, M. Sc. – Minister – appointed 20/3/2013 – termination of function 29/11/2013 Monika Kirbiš Rojs, M. Sc., State Secretary - appointed 25/3/2013 – dismissed 30/9/2013 Uroš Rožič, M. Sc., State Secretary - appointed 25/3/2013 – dismissed 31/5/2013 Andreja Kert, State Secretary - appointed 11/6/2013 - dismissed 28/2/2014 Janko Burgar, State Secretary - appointed 15/3/2014 Ministry of Agriculture and Environment Dejan Židan, M. Sc. – Minister Andreja Jerina, M. Sc., State Secretary - appointed 15/4/2013 – dismissed 3/8/2014 Tanja Strniša, M. Sc., State Secretary - appointed 22/3/2013 Ministry of Infrastructure and Spatial Planning Samo Omerzel - Minister - appointed 2/4/2013 Igor Maher – Minister – appointed 20/3/2013 – termination of function 2/4/2013 Bojan Babič, M. Sc., State Secretary - appointed 30/5/2013 Bojan Kumer, M. Sc., State Secretary - appointed 30/5/2013 – dismissed 31/7/2014 Ministry of Education, Science and Sports Jernej Pikalo, D. Sc. – Minister Aljuš Pertinač, State Secretary - appointed 25/3/2013 Mirko Pečarič, D. Sc., State Secretary - appointed 25/3/2013 Uroš Grilc, D. Sc. – Minister Aleš Črnič, D. Sc., State Secretary - appointed 25/3/2013 Alenka Bratušek, M. Sc. – Prime Minister and Acting Minister from 15/4/2014 Alenka Trop Skaza, M. D.– Minister – appointed 24/2/2014 – termination of function 3/4/2014 Karl Viktor Erjavec – Acting Minister from 11/12/2013 to 24/2/2014 Tomaž Gantar, M. D. – Minister – appointed 20/3/2013 – termination of function 29/11/2013 Brigita Čokl, State Secretary – appointed 21/3/2013 – termination of function 24/2/2014 Nina Pirnat, M. D., State Secretary – appointed 26/2/2014 Office of the Government of the Republic of Slovenia for Slovenes Abroad Gorazd Žmauc – Minister without Portfolio– appointed 24/2/2014 Tina Komel – Minister without Portfolio– appointed 20/3/2013 – termination of function 24/2/2014 Boris Jesih, D. Sc., State Secretary – appointed, 21/3/2013 - dismissed 4/3/2014 Brigita Čokl, State Secretary – appointed 5/3/2014 Andreja Kert, State Secretary – appointed 1/3/2014 Government of the Republic of Slovenia in the period: September 2014 - September 2018 March 2013 - September 2014 February 2012 - March 2013 November 2008 - February 2012 December 2004 - November 2008 December 2002 - December 2004 June 2000 - November 2000 February 1997 - June 2000 January 1993 - February 1997 April 1992 - January 1993 May 1990 - April 1992

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I am trying to wear all of my summer clothes before the fall comes ( I love fall), I am trying to pair my white pants as much as I can! Well I love how my look turn up to. I love looks wear I can be comfy like my crew blue sweater. Its a spring sweater very light and extremely comfortable. I can still bring this outfit to the early fall and just wear some closed wedges (less summery). Blue is a color to wear all year around which is great because I can transition this blue sweater and clutch for fall/ Winter.

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Voltage Regulator Module (VRM) Definition - What does Voltage Regulator Module (VRM) mean? A voltage regulator module is a basic converter that is used by low-voltage devices such as microprocessors to lower a voltage of +5V or +12V according to the specification of the system. In short, microchips with different voltage requirements can be mounted to the same motherboard using a voltage regulator module. A voltage regulator module is also known as a processor power module (PPM). Techopedia explains Voltage Regulator Module (VRM) A voltage regulator module is essentially an integrated circuit (IC) mounted on a motherboard that ensures each component gets its required voltage. It detects and accommodates the voltage requirements in the circuit, and hence it is an essential part of the motherboard of a CPU. Modern CPUs require lower core voltages, typically 1.5V. The exact voltage need is communicated to the VRM by the processor via voltage identification (VID). The VRM initially supplies a standard voltage to the device, which sends a specific VID logic as a reply. After reading the VID, the VRM becomes a voltage regulator, now knowing the voltage level to be supplied. Integrated Circuit (IC) Central Processing Unit (CPU) Clamping Voltage X Terminal Data Over Cable Service Interface Specification (DOCSIS) Universal Serial Bus (USB) Understanding Bits, Bytes and Their Multiples 5 Warning Signs of a Critical Equipment Failure Recycling Old Tech - It's the Law What is the difference between little endian and big endian data formats? How can a hard drive be erased securely? What is the difference between vMotion, VM migration and live migration? HardwareMicroprocessorsMotherboards Processor Power Module The Ultimate Guide to Applying AI in Business: Kali Linux - An Ethical Hacker's Cookbook, 2nd Edition ($44.99 Value) FREE for a Limited Time: iPhone Manager for Win/Mac ($67.95 Value) FREE for a Limited Time: [Free eBook] Introduction to Artificial Intelligence (a $14.95 Value): [Free Research Report] Data Center & Infrastructure Report: Outlook for 2020: Free Download: Machine Learning and Why It Matters: FREE DOWNLOAD: AI and ML in the Oil and Gas Industry: AI in the Insurance Industry: 26 Real-World Use Cases: FREE WEBINAR | Managing Multiple Database Roles: How Many Hats Do You Wear?:

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FUNDRAISER – JOB DESCRIPTION – There is funding for this to be a paid part-time post. To develop, implement and manage effective fundraising initiatives and activities to generate income to meet TTB's operational and project funding requirements. 1. Develop and implement TTB's fundraising strategy and annual work programme with clearly agreed priorities and targets. Fundraising targets to be agreed annually and reviewed quarterly in the light of annual operating and project budget requirements. 2. Compile and regularly review a detailed information base of prioritised funding and project requirements coupled to ongoing research of funding opportunities across a range of funding sectors. 3. In conjunction with the TTB Board of Directors/Working Group Convenors, devise funding proposals targeting a range of funding sectors aiming to secure financial support for TTB and itts projects. As part of this process, research new sources of funding, compiling information bases, analysing funding criteria and maximising opportunities to package TTB's funding requirements into attractive and successful proposals. 5. Research and develop strong relationships and build networks with a wide range of individuals and organisational contacts to ensure ongoing support to fulfil TTB's Strategic objectives and maximise funding eligibility. 6. Ensure and coordinate the fulfilment of funding obligations and, with the input and support of the TTB Board of Directors/Working Group Convenors, ensure all necessary submissions, reports, financial claims, PR and publicity requirements, acknowledgements and other agreed requirements are delivered upon to excellent standards and within deadlines. 7. Devise and implement strategies for attracting new members, supporters and donors, and retaining existing ones. 8. Compile fundraising reports to TTB Board of Directors'/Working Group Convenors' meetings as required. 9. Undertake other ad hoc duties and tasks as agreed with/requested by the Chair, Treasurer.

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Q: Prove that $L$ is the zero fucntion Let $L$ be a linear transformation $L:\mathbb{R^n} \to \mathbb{R^m}$. If $\lim_{\vec{x} \to {\vec{0}}} ||L(\vec {x})||/||\vec{x}||=0$ then $L$ is the zero constant I'm having trouble proving this result: I know that given $\epsilon > 0$ there exists $\delta_{\epsilon}> 0$ such that $||L(\vec {x})||<\epsilon||\vec{x}||$ But I don´t know how to follow from this point. I would really appreciate any hint or suggestion. A: Assume that there is $x \in \mathbb R^n$ such that $L(x) \ne 0$. Then we have that $x \ne 0$ and we can assume that $||x||=1$. Put $x_n = \frac{1}{n}x \quad (n \in \mathbb N).$ Then $x_n \to 0$, hence $\frac{||L(x_n)||}{||x_n||} \to 0$. But $\frac{||L(x_n)||}{||x_n||}=||L(x)|| \ne 0$ for all $n$, a contradiction. A: I will drop the arrows for simplicity. Fix and $x \neq 0$ and replace $x$ in the hypothesis by $tx$ ($t$ real) conclude that $\frac {\|L(tx)\|} {\|tx\|} \to 0$ as $t \to 0$. By linearity of $L$ and homogeinity of the norm this says $\frac {\|L(x)\|} {\|x\|} \to 0$. But the left side does not depend on $t$ so this means $\frac {\|L(x)\|} {\|x\|} =0$ which gives $Lx=0$..

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Siro Marcellini (born 16 September 1921) is an Italian director and screenwriter. Born in Genzano di Roma, Marcellini started his career as a theater director before moving to films, where he first worked as an assistant director. He directed eleven films between 1953 and 1970, also writing the screenplays for several of them. Selected filmography Devil's Cavaliers (1959) The Two Rivals (1960) The Secret Mark of D'Artagnan (1962) The Beast of Babylon Against the Son of Hercules (1964) Man of the Cursed Valley (1964) Lola Colt (1967) Gangster's Law (1969) References External links 1921 births Possibly living people People from Genzano di Roma 20th-century Italian people Italian film directors Italian theatre directors Italian screenwriters Italian male screenwriters

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With the growing concern for pollution, dwindling natural resources and dramatic climate change, we need to find other forms of energy sources to adapt to today's business and technology demands. Hitechled is determined to contribute to environment preservation by convincing businesses to switch and use solar & LED lighting technology, informing them on cost savings that best serve their return of investment; and has the smallest impact on the environment. Tawi-tawi consists of 307 islands in the southwestern part of the Philippines. A charming and majestic chain of islands straddling peacefully between Sulu Sea and Celebes Sea in the southwestern Philippines is the exotic Tawi-Tawi province. Here, you have hundreds of beautiful tropical islands and islets to choose from with unspoiled white-sandy beaches and serene landscapes. From sacred mountain and the rolling hills where the provincial capitol building is located to white-sandy beaches of hundreds of islets plus the gentle and so kind local people, Tawi-Tawi is truly a paradise. This is remote Island where grid power will cost quite a lot.However,there is good sunshine all the year round. Hitechled smart all in one solar LED light integrated the LED lamp,solar panel,high quality lithium Iron Phosphrate (LiFePO 4) battery and a smart controller in one compact body. No external wire;no need trenching job;Easy installation;auto turn on at dusk and turn off at dawn, no need daily management and maintenance. The governor of Philippines is very happy with Hitechled smart solar light. Hundreds of 30w HT-SS-6030 Smart All-in-one Solar Street Light are selected and installed in Tawi-Tawi Island,Philippines from 2016. There will be more HT-SS-6030 to be Installed in different locations in 2017. "Thanks for delivering so nice product to us!"said the governor,"Beside Tawi-Tawi project,we will have more Island install the smart solar lights." Mr. Edmund,the president of our Philippines partner response" Hitechled solar light quality is very good,and the service is very nice as well.We are very happy and confident to market Hitechled smart solar LED light in Philippines." Hitechled are proud to be part of the renewable clean technology that is bringing the promise of a healthier planet, as well as the possibility of growing our business that is sustainable.We will keep innovation and deliver the best products worldwide.

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UK Music calls on government for "restart date" for live music in 2021 The organisation published a new report today about restarting the industry safely. Image: Andy Gallagher / Alamy Stock UK Music has shared a new report that outlines its recommendations for restarting the UK's live music industry, once it is safe to do so, calling on the government to introduce various support measures for events and venues. The report follows England and Scotland's entry into a new lockdown period, set to last until the spring, raising more fears that 2021 will be the second year in a row without a summer festival season. UK Music's report outlines the cultural importance of live music, and what organisers, venues and the industry as a whole need as the pandemic's impact continues to grow. A notable measure the report calls for is COVID-19-specific cancellation insurance for music events, the lack of which UK Music said in a release alongside the new report "is the biggest barrier to major events happening in 2021." UK Music also noted that music will be a key factor in restarting the UK's economy in a post-COVID-19 landscape: "With its pre-Covid contribution to the UK economy of £5.8 billion, the music industry can play a leading role in galvanising the UK's post-pandemic recovery strategy when the time comes – but it needs time and support to prepare." Another key call made in the report is one for a concrete restart date. The uncertainty of what measures will be in place in the future is, unsurprisingly, one thing that stops organisers of large events from being able to plan across 2021. UK Music's CEO Jamie Njoku-Goodwin noted the hope that the beginning of the vaccine rollout: "There is an endpoint in sight. Government is rolling out the vaccine and is openly speculating about returning to normal by the spring – but there is a serious risk that even if this proves to be a reality, lack of notice and available insurance options will mean much of the 2021 summer music season can't go ahead. "With the right support the live music industry can be at the forefront of the post-pandemic recovery and play a key role in our country's economic and cultural revival – but there will need to be a concerted effort from industry and the Government together if we are to let the music play and save our summer." Jamie Njoku-Goodwin is also scheduled to give evidence to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee's inquiry into music festivals today, which will ask whether festivals can be viable this summer.

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A Young Audience… an Angry Old Man… and a Sad Outcome On Monday, Alex discussed a recent debate of socialism versus capitalism that he attended. Today, he's taking a deeper look at some of the socialist arguments and why they're not valid in today's market. In my last column, I reported on a debate I attended in New York City last week where two capitalists squared off against two socialists, including author and academic Richard D. Wolff, a committed Marxist. It was an Oxford-style debate. And the socialists won. That surprised me. Partly because socialism has been an abject failure everywhere it's been tried – ask any Cuban or Venezuelan – but also because Wolff made a slew of deeply confused arguments. For starters, he doesn't appreciate the difference between national governance and corporate governance. We live in a democracy, yes. Yet he's angry that business enterprises are "undemocratic." He told the audience at the outset… I'm the professor, so I'm going to begin with a little lesson… In every enterprise there is a king. The owner, the director, the board of directors, a tiny group of people who make the decisions about what to produce, how to produce, where to produce, and what to do with the profits, the profits everybody helped to produce. He thinks corporations must be restructured so that the employees run the business – not the owners (shareholders) or the professionals they hire to manage it. Wolff has no respect for basic property rights, the foundation of capitalism. Let's say you own a house and hire a team of workers to paint it. You'd be surprised if they painted it a color other than the one you chose, decided to apply just one coat instead of the two you requested or inexplicably left the chimney unpainted. You wouldn't allow them to make decisions like these because – after all – it's your home. Of course, even a socialist might concede that those are temporary workers, not full-time employees. But does that really change much? Imagine that you own the same home but employ a full-time housekeeper, gardener and nanny. Do these workers get to make the important decisions about how you run your home? Of course not, just as they wouldn't allow such a thing in their own homes. Wolff insists that workers today are nothing more than "serfs and slaves." Baloney. Employers – or at least the ones who stay in business – know they have to compete for capable employees. And employees are aware that if they don't like the pay, the benefits, the hours, the challenge or the opportunities for advancement – whether it's a business or a nonprofit – they can take their talents elsewhere. Where is the serfdom or slavery here? Shareholders are like homeowners. The only real difference is that the property is a business instead of a residence. Yes, employees should feel appreciated. They should feel like they are part of a team. But they shouldn't imagine they own the team. Wolff argued that the profits of a company should be shared with the employees. I agree, up to a point, as do most business owners. Successful companies routinely offer raises, bonuses, promotions, 401(k) matching and/or option compensation. But capitalism is a profit-and-loss system. If employees are entitled to the profits, they must also be responsible for any losses. (Because – let's face it – who would voluntarily take on a business partner who shares in the gains without taking any of the risks?) Most employees don't want to share in the losses, of course. And for good reason. Most companies fail eventually. Nearly 80% of new ones do in the first five years. Aside from property rights – and the issue of "fairness" in our profit-and-loss system – there is a matter of efficiency. Few effective organizations operate in a democratic fashion. Imagine a general ordering his men to take a hill, only to have his subordinate say, "Yeah, well I polled the men and they're against that. We're not doing it." I wouldn't bet on that army defeating the enemy. Or on a worker-operated business beating the competition. Yet these weren't Wolff's worst ideas. That evening he went on to blame capitalism for everything from American slavery to World Wars I and II. And, as I'll show in my next column, he was only just warming up…

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Braves sign Travis d'Arnaud to new two-year contract Credit: Curtis Compton / Curtis.Compton@ By Tim Tucker, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution The Braves secured their starting catcher through at least the 2023 season Friday, signing Travis d'Arnaud to a new two-year contract. D'Arnaud, who had been eligible to become a free agent after this season, got a $16 million deal that will pay him $8 million in both the 2022 and 2023 seasons. The contract also includes an $8 million club option for 2024 with no buyout. "It was a blessing to get reached out to and given the opportunity to come back," d'Arnaud said. "This team is built to win for the next couple of years -- even longer than that, actually -- and I'm just thankful to be a part of it. "I wanted to come back, regardless of if I made it to free agency or not. Just to get that out of the way is nice and refreshing. It's going to be fun. ... This place -- this city, this clubhouse -- has welcomed me with open arms since my first day here. Truthfully, I didn't want really want to go anywhere else." D'Arnaud, 32, won a Silver Slugger Award in his first season with the Braves in 2020, when he batted .321 with nine home runs and a .919 OPS in 44 games during the pandemic-shortened season. He was on the injured list from May 2 until Aug. 11 this season, missing 86 games with a torn thumb ligament that required surgery. He's hitting .223 with three homers and a .646 OPS in 28 games this season, including 5-for-21 since returning to the active roster last week. "We always had a desire to have Travis here beyond 2021," said Alex Anthopoulos, the Braves' president of baseball operations and general manager. "Him being on the IL, we needed to wait a little bit (to discuss a new contract), but it came together pretty fast here in the last 24 to 48 hours." D'Arnaud's absence for more than three months underscored his value to the Braves, who have used seven catchers this season. "Everybody that we brought in here, they've all done a good job, but ... a lot of times you don't realize what you have until you don't have it," manager Brian Snitker said. "It's been great to have him back, and it'll be really good going forward to have him in the mix." D'Arnaud's new contract matches the two-year, $16 million deal he signed with the Braves as a free agent in November 2019. He agreed to donate 1% of his earnings from the new contract to the Braves Foundation. D'Arnaud spent his first six MLB seasons with the Mets, often battling injuries. Before joining the Braves, he played with three teams in 2019: the Mets, Dodgers and Rays. He is a career .251/.312/.420 hitter with 75 homers in 572 games. Barring injury, re-signing him should stabilize the catching position for the Braves, who have highly regarded prospects William Contreras and Shea Langeliers in the minor leagues. "Contreras and Langeliers are exceptionally talented, and I think they're both going to be All-Stars at some point," Anthopoulos said. "But there's a lot more to the position than just being able to hit or throw guys out. ... This allows us to take our time with both guys." Said d'Arnaud: "Hopefully they both know they can reach out to me anytime with any question they have. Hopefully I can spread my knowledge and wisdom from what I've learned through failure in this game and through success in this game and make their transition easier." Anthopoulos stuck closely to his previous comments when asked, in light of the d'Arnaud signing, about a possible new contract for first baseman Freddie Freeman, who is eligible for free agency after this season. "Negotiations happen at their own pace and time. As long as things get done, you're happy," Anthopoulos said. "The goal is to sign him. He has been very clear his goal is to stay. Beyond that, we never discuss specifics on contracts and things like that, but ... you're starting from a very good foundation with both sides wanting that." Freeman, by the way, retweeted the Braves' announcement of the d'Arnaud signing Friday and added an applause emoji. Tim Tucker Tim Tucker, a long-time AJC sports reporter, often writes about the business side of the games. He also had stints as the AJC's Braves beat writer, UGA beat writer, sports notes columnist and executive sports editor. He was deputy managing editor of America's first all-sports newspaper, The National Sports Daily. Falcons hire Ryan Nielsen as defensive coordinator 18h ago Why Kareem Abdul-Jabbar remains a towering figure Credit: Hyosub.Shin@ajc.com Braves sign manager Brian Snitker through 2025 season Led by Mike Soroka and Ian Anderson, Braves have options for final rotation spot Astros hire Braves scouting director Dana Brown as general manager. How big is the loss?

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Printer Driver HP Photosmart C410b - On our practical exams for green problems, I necessary just one button press to cancel a print career, and printing stopped immediately, with no wasting any additional ink or paper. Printing a 12-page Word file in duplex mode took only about 2.five times provided that in simplex mode, at 4:17 compared with 1:42. The HP Photosmart C410b Premium Fax AIO is covered underneath HP's standard one-year guarantee. In case you have a dilemma that cannot be solved that has a telephone phone, HP will ship a replacement along with a return shipping label, with HP covering the cost of shipping each ways. In the long run, the HP Photosmart Premium Fax AIO offers a winning blend of reasonably quickly speed, high-quality output all round, plus a host of the two photocentric and office-centric options, all of which adds as much as producing it a straightforward select for Editors' Option. A sensible piece of industrial style and design, this is an evolution of recent HP styling. A neat Automatic Document Feeder (ADF) sits on prime of the fairly regular flatbed scanner. The user interface is nicely laid out and appears to float at an angle in front in the machine. There's rather a occupied set of controls, together with a complete amount pad for that machine's fax amenities, also as separate buttons for printing quick kinds, executing photo reprints in the flatbed and automated redeye elimination from troublesome portrait shots. A 60mm colour LCD show at the left-hand end of your panel hinges forward to your vertical, should really you'll need a different viewing angle. Set to the management panel's bottom lip is really a pull-down tab for your CD and DVD loading tray, for direct disc print. Towards the left of your user interface are 3 memory card slots as well as a PictBridge socket along with the 125-sheet principal paper tray includes a 20-sheet photograph paper tray set over it. This really is powered, so photograph blanks slide to the machine when you select to print pictures. At the back are sockets for USB and Ethernet connection, too as for cell phone line and phone handset, but there's also Wi-Fi and Bluetooth help. To setup a wireless link with an current network, you run the wireless network wizard from the user interface and enter your encryption key, just before picking out wireless connection during the set up computer software on your Computer or Mac and picking up the title of your device from a pop-up record. This total approach is often finished in the couple of minutes and also the wireless connection is then absolutely transparent. 0 Response to "Printer Driver HP Photosmart C410b"

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Discovery of thiophene inhibitors of polo-like kinase. The discovery and development of a series of thiophenes as potent and selective inhibitors of PLK is described. Identification and characterization of 2, a useful in vitro PLK inhibitor tool compound, is also presented.

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The dome housing the Great Lick Refractor stands tall under the nighttime sky. Jupiter close-up with its moon Io transiting -- Imaged with the 129 year old Great Lick Refractor at the Lick Observatory. WARNING: Due to the chromatic aberrations of the Great Lick Refractor combined with the enlargement of this image, please beware that it will print with a very "soft" focus, as you can see for yourself on the screen. The Ring Nebula is a planetary nebula in the constellation Lyra. The fate of our own solar system will result in a scene much like this -- with the Sun at the center, shedding its skin outwards, incinerating everything in its path. Messier 15 is a globular cluster in the constellation Pegasus. At an estimated 12 billion years old, it is one of the oldest clusters known. The Crab Nebula is the remnants of a supernova. While we weren't able to capture a pristine version of this object, we still felt it was good enough to add to the final results given that it was imaged using a 129 year old telescope. WARNING: This image will print "grainy," especially for any large prints. NGC 7331 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Pegasus. In this version, we sacrificed detail to reduce the noise. While we weren't able to capture a pristine version of this object, we still felt it was good enough to add to the final results given that it was imaged using a 129 year old telescope. WARNING: This image will print "grainy," especially for any large prints. NGC 7331 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Pegasus. In version 2, we boosted the signal to reveal more detail, which also increased the noise. While we weren't able to capture a pristine version of this object, we still felt it was good enough to add to the final results given that it was imaged using a 129 year old telescope. WARNING: This image will print "grainy," especially for any large prints.

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Blogmutt is at its heart a literary undertaking. Now we understand better than anyone, the posts we write for our business clients are not Hemingway, they aren't poignant or symbolic. They just paint a picture. The picture they paint is for two basic audiences. The first is the customer, or potential customer. People so often look at web pages just to make sure that a business is a functioning and vital. A current blog does just that. The second audience, of course, is Google. The thing is, you can't trick Google the way you could in the old days. What Google wants, say all the best experts, is for you to build a brand. For both of those audiences the way that a business can paint a picture is with words. I've been a fan of words for a long time. Before I was an entrepreneur, I was a writer. As a writer who started writing before the Internet really became useful, I started using dictionaries to help me in my writing. I got to really like them, and discovered that I liked having them around. So I started collecting them and before long I had dozens, and then hundreds. People looked at me oddly when I told them that their dictionary reflected poorly on them. I used to hang out at the only bar in Denver with no TV, and so we'd get into discussions which would lead invariably to fights over the meanings of words. The bar had a dictionary for just such occasions, but it was a crappy old "Websters" that just wasn't up to the task so I bought a second edition of the best dictionary for modern use in the United States, the American Heritage Dictionary. So when our new Head of Awesomeness suggested that we should do something useful and fun in our social media streams AND do something that takes advantage of our new office with windows that face Walnut in a popular part of downtown Boulder, we started bouncing around the idea of doing something like a Word of the Day feature. There's plenty of those, however, so I suggested that we take it up a notch, and do a Word of the Day from a Dictionary of the Day. I have plenty of dictionaries, and the dictionaries have plenty of words. Word Of the day from the dictionary OF the day, or WOOF! See that? A bit of doggy goodness thrown in there, no extra charge. But what a to use for our first word? And the first dictionary? The dictionary question was easy, my favorite: The American Heritage. It might have been the Oxford English Dictionary, the OED — I have the big one-volume version, the one that comes with a magnifying glass. But it's at home and I'm at the office so American Heritage it is. The aforementioned OED is often cited as one of the earliest examples of crowdsourcing. The way the OED works is that it has definitions, but then it also has citations of how words have appeared in literature going back as far as they could figure out. Doing that for thousands of words was a big task, so they asked for help from a crowd. There's a great book about all that, The Professor and the Madman. Chapter 4 of that book begins with the word sesquipedalian, which takes its roots from sesqui meaning "1.5" and ped meaning "foot" and so it means, literally, "having to do with things that are a foot and a half long." The usage dates, according to the OED, back to 1615 to mean long words. He thought fit by his variety, to make you knowne for a viperous Sesquipedalian in euery coast. No idea what that means but it sounds cool. Anyway, it was only by using a crowd of workers that the OED came together, and that — combined with the British Navy — is a big part of why English is as much of a universal language as we have. These usage notes can be fun. Talking about this in the office we corrected one Blogmutter who thought that inflammable meant "can not be burned." Here's the usage note in the printed dictionary, which is way better than the bland but clear one online now. For best effect, read this out loud, with emotion! Historically, flammable and inflammable mean the same thing. However, the presence of the prefix in— has misled many people into assuming that inflammable means "not flammable" or "noncombustible." In the circumstances, it is therefore advisable to use only flammable in context imparting warnings on product labels, where a misinterprtation might have more serious consequences for the reader than an etymological mistake would deserve. In other words… Dictionaries and clear writing can save lives! Our goal is to put one word on our new chalkboard every business day here at the Blogmutt World Headquarters, so you can walk by and soak them in. And if you don't happen to live or work in the town lovingly referred to as the People's Republic of Boulder, we'll take a picture and get the word up on all the social media spots you might expect. Our office is at 1023 Walnut Street. We hope you enjoy reading this as much as we expect to enjoy bringing it to you each day.

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Nunberg was one of Trump's aides from the early days of his presidential bid—back before it was a real campaign. Unsurprisingly, he was also an early victim of the campaign's revolving door: by 2015, he was out after a Business Insider article uncovered his old social-media posts, one of which referred to Rev. Al Sharpton's daughter as the "N" word. What put him in the news on Monday? Robert Mueller, who issued a subpoena to compel Nunberg to testify before a grand jury and hand over old e-mails for the Russia investigation. In response, Nunberg did what any reasonable person would do: he appeared on and called in to every cable-news show that would listen. For what it's worth, within less than 12 hours, Nunberg told the AP that he would probably testify. But throughout his monologue, which was taped before Nunberg made that probably wise decision, Colbert marveled at the former aide's fiery defiance—including the moment in which Nunberg said he had no idea why Trump "went around trying to hide" the fact he allegedly knew about Donald Trump Jr.'s meeting with a Russian lawyer in the Oval Office.

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Jahad Zamzam plastics industries affiliated with Jahad Esteghlal Institute, one of the biggest manufactures of polyethylene pipes and fitting products for water, gas supplies and sewer according to national, international and quality management standard system ISO 9001-2015, ISO 14001-2015, ISO 45001-2018 in Iran, well known in the world of plastics pipe production for its high quality and diversity of products. ZPI Co. established in 1983 currently and has a team of professional experts and equipped with quality control labs, partner with National Iranian Standards Organization and the ISO 17025 qualification certificate and the modern manufacturing machines to produce 35000 MT of various pipes and fittings in its factories in five different locations of Iran. The head office is in Tehran and the factories located in cities of Ahwaz, Iranshahr, Mashhad, Sanandaj and Zanjan. Zam zam Plastic Industries Co. is one of the biggest manufactures of polyethylene pipes and fitting products for water, gas supplies and sewer according to national, international and quality management standard system ISO 9001-2015, ISO 14001-2015, ISO 45001-2018 in Iran, well known in the world of plastics pipe production for its high quality and diversity of products. ZPI Co.

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Handcrafted from premium 16 gauge T-304 stainless steel, this spacious undermount sink suits any decor style, from the traditional to the modern kitchen. Left Basin Length : 14.90" Left Basin Width : 17" Left Basin Depth : 10" Right Basin Length : 14.90" Right Basin Width : 17" Right Basin Depth : 10" Special Features : Premium T-304 Stainless Steel Construction. Sound Insulated with Thick Rubber Dampening Pads & Stone Guard Undercoating. Channel Grooves Engineered for Optimal Drainage. 16-Gauge Steel for Added Durability. Handcrafted by Skilled Artisans. Commercial-Grade Satin Finish is Scratch and Stain-Resistant. Extra-Deep Double-Bowl Design w/ Gently Rounded Corners for Easy Maintenance. Standard 3.5" Drain Opening. All Mounting Hardware Included. Limited Lifetime Warranty. Certified and Listed by UPC, cUPC, IPC, ANSI, IAPMO, and SCC.

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Home Reviews Show Reviews Tori Kelly performed at the Paramount Theater on May 16, 2016 Tori Kelly performed at the Paramount Theater on May 16, 2016 Kirk Stauffer Tori Kelly performed at the Paramount Theater in Seattle, Washington Tori Kelly performed at the Paramount Theater in Seattle, WA on May 16, 2016 live performance photos Paramount Theater Seattle Live Music Seattle Music Venue Previous articlePremiere: Alyssa Trahan's new single, "Ain't Ever Goin' Back" Next articleJade Jackson performed at the Crocodile Café on July 14, 2017 http://www.KRStauffer.com Kirk Stauffer is a Seattle-based photographer who has two passions - live music and photography. Over 15 years ago he began to combine them and has covered 3000+ performances to date. His photos have been published commercially, featured in Rolling Stone magazine, and one found itself on the front cover of Pollstar magazine. Kirk has been a contributing photographer for Paste Magazine, LiveDaily, No Depression and Back Beat Seattle, and is a regular SXSW attendee. Elise Trouw performed at Barboza on January 29, 2023 Blair Howerton of Why Bonnie performed at Barboza on January 24, 2023 Casi Joy Releases New Single "Under The Hood"

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Can a Minimum-Wage Hike Really Motivate Voters? One of the president's agenda items on this is raising the minimum wage. President Obama backs a proposal from Democratic members of Congress to raise it to $10.10 per hour. On that front, fast-food workers around the country are walking out on the job and holding protests today, with one Detroit fast-food employee arguing his $7.40 per hour constituted "slave wages." Rallies and protests are scheduled in "more than 200" cities. That may sound like a lot, but there are more than 13,000 McDonald's restaurants in the United States alone. There were no protesters at the one on Duke Street in Alexandria closest to me this morning, and chances are, there won't be any protesters at the one nearest you, either. Also, Walmart, another corporation the Left sees as evil for paying insufficient wages, opened its first two stores in Washington, D.C., yesterday. The D.C. council had spent much of the year debating a law that would have required Walmart to pay $12.50 an hour in wages and benefits. The law would have applied to any "big box" store, but not to smaller businesses. The D.C. council instead decided to raise the minimum wage in the city to $11.50 by 2016. The wages did not discourage applicants, according to the company, stating they had 23,000 applications for about 800 jobs in the two stores. Raising the minimum wage always polls well, but it's not clear if this is an issue that really drives voters to the polls. Certainly, most shoppers tune out the complaints of low wages. The Walmart openings in D.C. were greeted with long lines of eager shoppers, and as noted, most McDonald's patrons will never encounter protests about the restaurant's wages. Does he look tragically underpaid to you?

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Chancellor Christ Learn more about UC Berkeley's 11th chancellor, Carol Tecla Christ. Campus Statements Here you'll find information about the organization, staffing, and history of the Office of the Chancellor. The Chancellor's Cabinet Contact the Office / Request Time Chancellor's Division Offices Learn about the offices that comprise the Chancellor's Division. Audit and Advisory Services Office of Ethics, Risk and Compliance Services Government and Community Relations Office of Legal Affairs Staff Ombuds Office Chancellor's Communications and Resource Center Current Job Searches Office Hours with Chancellor Christ Special task forces and committees are routinely commissioned to examine topics of concern to campus leadership. Berkeley/Cal Identity Task Force Chancellor's Independent Advisory Board on Police Accountability and Community Safety Gender Recognition and Lived Name Implementation Hispanic Serving Institution Task Force Administrative Committees Past Task Forces Campus stakeholders participated in a strategic planning process throughout 2018 to establish a framework that would help chart the best path forward for Berkeley. Structure and Timeline Clark Kerr Memorial Zellerbach Auditorium By Robert M. Berdahl Chancellor, Good afternoon. Welcome to this service, commemorating the remarkable life of Clark Kerr, Chancellor of the Berkeley campus from 1952 to 1958, President of the University of California from 1958 to 1967. For this University, and above all for this campus and several generations of its faculty and certainly for all of the chancellors and presidents who have succeeded him, the loss of Clark Kerr is the loss of a thoughtful counselor, gentle mentor, and kind friend. As the father of the modern University of California, he was, for all who love the University, a patriarchal figure, a reserved man whose love for the University was unreserved. To his last breath, he was, to use his famous phrase, "fired with enthusiasm," about the University. For a quiet pacifist from a Quaker college, who first came to California on a "peace caravan" in the 1930s, a man who never sought or enjoyed conflict, Kerr often found himself in the midst of conflict. First as a labor mediator, then as a University administrator, he retained the conviction that all problems have solutions, that all conflict can be resolved. In his oral history, he commented on his approach to conflict: "You have to have -- I don't know whether you want to say optimism or conviction, or a combination of the two. But you have to feel, Well, this is just another problem, and we can solve it." Kerr emerged to lead the Berkeley campus in one of the most conflict-ridden moments of American history. The period from 1952 through 1967 was a period marked by McCarthyism and anti-communist hysteria (of which he himself was a victim), the Cold War, the Civil Rights movement, the student revolt of the 1960s, and the anti-Vietnam War dissent. Never before or since have university presidents and chancellors faced such overwhelmingly difficult and unprecedented problems. Kerr always sought solutions based on principles. When he encountered criticism for lifting the speaker ban on campus, he responded: "The University is not engaged in making ideas safe for students. It is engaged in making students safe for ideas. Thus it permits the freest expression of views before students, trusting to their good sense in passing judgment on these views. Only in this way can it best serve American democracy." He was the staunchest advocate of free speech on the campus. Kerr was sometimes seen by students as cool, distant, a corporate executive of the multiversity. This is how he was often viewed during the FSM. And he was, for a public man, a very private person. Responding to the criticism, Kerr commented that university presidents tend to insulate themselves so "they don't bleed to death publicly," as he put it. He illustrated it with a story: The first year I was chancellor at Berkeley, in 1952, I thought it would be nice to have Christmas tree on campus. There never had been one. So I ordered a tree, and it was cut from way up Strawberry Canyon and brought down to the plaza in front of Dwinelle Hall. And an hour after it was decorated, a professor was at the faculty club carrying a bough and calling me a murderer. I was desecrating specimen trees and our beautiful Strawberry Canyon. I was a villain. So I didn't do anything about a Christmas tree the next year, and the Daily Californian called me a villain for breaking one of Berkeley's oldest, most honored traditions. The third year I thought I had the problem solved. I had a big evergreen near the plaza decorated. And the campus called it the Sophie Tucker tree, not the right shape at all. The fourth year, I found the answer. One of our alums owned lumber interests far away, and from then on, he donated a Christmas tree. The fact is, the author of the term "multiversity" cared a great deal about students, especially undergraduates. Of the many changes in the University which are associated with his tenure, one of which he was inordinately proud was his transformation of the Berkeley campus from the German model to the British model, as he refers to it in his memoirs. He made Berkeley into a residential campus in ways it had never been before. He led the construction of student facilities -- residence halls, dining halls, student service buildings, and recreational sports facilities. About his great achievement, the development of the Master Plan for higher education in California and the creation of the nine-campus system of the University of California, little needs to be said. It is an achievement that has never been duplicated in any state in the union. It could never be duplicated today even in California. But it became the gold standard for public higher education in America, the envy of the nation. Without Clark Kerr, it would never have happened. The question we all face today is: Can Clark Kerr's bold vision for the University of California and higher education in California be sustained? It is a question Kerr asked himself at the end of the first volume of his memoirs. He wrote: As goes education, so goes the future of the state of California. Has paradise already been lost or is it in the process of being lost? Paradise, for these purposes, is defined as the 1960 Master Plan for Higher Education in California and what it implied . . . . Peter Schrag . . . of . . . the "Sacramento Bee" has written that this was the great vision and that it has already been lost . . . . I respect his judgment. But I do not, as yet, concede his conclusion . . . . If paradise is really lost, will it ever be regained? As we remember Clark Kerr today, let us remember his legacy. But let us also remember that haunting question that he posed in the final years of his life about this University which he loved so dearly: "Has paradise already been lost or is it in the process of being lost?" Our memorial to this great man should be to see that his creation is sustained. We should resolve to do so, and in doing so, let us be "fired with enthusiasm." 200 California Hall # 1500 chancellor@berkeley.edu Communications & Public Affairs Office of Ethics, Risk & Compliance Services Government & Community Relations Staff Ombuds Office of Ethics, Risk, & Compliance Office for the Prevention of Harassment & Discrimination Berkeley Home Page Campus Administration Visiting Berkeley

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An interesting architect designed villa, with large thatched first floor verandah, just off the beach at Las Canas. The villa has 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, a kitchen, terraces and a ground floor area which is presently used as a workshop. The villa is nicely finished and is only a 1 minute walk from the beach. The villa is located in a quiet area and surrounded by a large garden, which offers considerable privacy. Las Canas is a sleepy little beach area that is just being discovered and has a small but growing ex-patriot community. Whilst the area remains tranquil, the International Airport in Puerto Plata is just a 40 min. drive away, making this villa perfect as a vacation getaway or permanent home. The photo opposite, taken from the thatched veranda (which is great for al-fresco dining), shows the front garden and the private driveway.

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Interesting Facts: At birth, kittens can not see or hear. They open their eyes in 7-10 days, and vision and hearing are developed in 2 weeks. They start to walk in 20 days. Horses are able to recognize themselves in the picture. Seeing the picture of fellow, the horse can "say hello" to him in a low neigh and sniffing. Interesting Facts: Dogs understand up to 250 words and gestures, count to five and can solve simple math problems. Intellectually, they are at the level of year-old children. Interesting Facts: Do you know what a cat needs a mustache? His mustache cats feel the weather and determine the permeability of the manhole. Dogs and cats have a range of interactions. The natural instincts of each species lead towards antagonistic interactions, though individual animals can have non-aggressive relationships with each other, particularly under conditions where humans have socialized non-aggressive behaviors. The tiger (Panthera tigris) is the largest cat species, most recognisable for their pattern of dark vertical stripes on reddish-orange fur with a lighter underside. The largest tigers have reached a total body length of up to 3.38 m (11.1 ft) over curves and have weighed up to 388.7 kg (857 lb) in the wild.

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Let there be no miracle! But I bury them all to treasure your capricious memoirs. But I kiss them all silent by wearing a feign delight. Unfathomable is the reason for this languishes. Vehemently accusing the foul being played in anguish. Only to find myself cut into two! All those times, I was left aghast. For all those sleepless nights drenched in bleak. relish it for some more. Solace to the spirit is that, lastly I have known….

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We invite motivated students from around the world to apply for the Master of Arts in History. Admission requirements may vary per specialisation, please visit the specialisation of your interest to find out more about the entry requirements. Do you have questions about your admission and application? Please contact the Student Affairs Office. Do you have questions about studying History at Leiden University? Contact our study advisor!

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A Spokane financial advisor represents a beneficial resource for Spokane residents. Citizens of Washington enjoy a high standard of living and Spokane is no exception. But finances can be fairly difficult for just about anyone, and it is not difficult to get in over your head when it comes to savings and investments. But there is plenty of help available to people in Spokane and with a bit of assistance, you can open new fiscal opportunities for yourself. But like many decisions, there are a lot of options for a Spokane financial advisor and many things to consider before making your choice. However, before hiring a financial advisor, take the time to think about areas of your finances that may need the most help. Savings and investments are two of the more common things that people tend to discuss with a Spokane financial advisor. The quality of both your savings and investments may help to determine your quality of life in later years. Following are a few of the types of finances that you may wish to think about before hiring a financial advisor. Buying a home may just be the biggest investment that you ever make. Due to the volatile housing market, it is never easy to be confident in your decision to buy a home. There are many different things to consider, and without a professional opinion, you may end up loosing a lot of money. A Spokane financial advisor will be able to help you locate possible real estate options in the Spokane area. They also will be able to analyze your budget so that you can make a wise home ownership decision. Buying the right property can greatly improve your chances of being financially successful. Another large investment that you may make is that of Washington life insurance. With life insurance you are going to be paying premiums so that your family will be protected should you pass away. A good life WA insurance policy will cover some of your final expenses and will help support your family for years after your death. Washington policies are diverse and sometimes confusing, and a good Spokane financial advisor will give you advice on what type of policy best fits you. While at times life insurance may seem unnecessary, you never know what may happen and life insurance can be a security blanket for your family. College savings are something that have become part of parenthood. College can be an expensive undertaking and it is not getting any cheaper. Most people will pay tens of thousands of dollars just to get one child through college. A college education fund is just another one of the many things that a Spokane financial advisor will help you establish. A qualified investment advisor will have the experience to know of funds and accounts that have the best rates to help you save and invest in your children's future. Retirement is probably the most significant savings that you will ever undertake. Hundreds of thousands of dollars generally need to go into the average retirement plan and that can be a very big feat to undertake. A Spokane financial advisor will be able to help you utilize your 401(k), IRA or Roth IRA in order to build your retirement as quickly as possible. Retirement planning does not need to be attempted alone and your financial professional can be a great help to you. Searching for a good local Spokane WA option is not hard and can be quickly accomplished right here. Spokane is a diverse place and there are plenty of different options when it comes to picking your financial advisor. It is important to find someone that is both certified and licensed to help you with your finances. There are many people that claim to be qualified to help you with your accounts that may actually not have the necessary experience. By only considering certified individuals, you will be getting the best help available. When deciding on whom to hire, you should also consider the area that the financial advisor works from. A Spokane financial advisor will know of local options that may only be available to Washington residents. This kind of local experience is valuable and will give you an edge when it comes to finding the best opportunities. Now that you have the tools you need to hire a Spokane financial advisor, you can take the nest step and pick one. You will be well on your way to better finances and a more comfortable lifestyle. With the help of a financial advisor, you will no longer need to worry about your accounts, investments and savings alone. And that peace of mind is priceless. At the present time, We do not have any Advisor serving the Spokane area.

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Karen Michel Seeking the Middle Way Before going to Bhutan, I read as much as possible about the country and talked to folks who'd been there. The published articles agreed on two things: tourism was limited to 6,000 people a year and the country was Shangri-La. The people who'd visited agreed on nothing: being a Western Buddhist was an advantage/would be ridiculed; everything was expensive/everything was reasonable; adjusting to the altitude was difficult/the altitude was no big deal; and it was inevitable that the cold would get to you/wearing layers made everything easy. Let me address the tourism assertion first: it's a myth, wrong, false. In fact, tourist arrivals have been as high as 9,000 people in a recent year, and Bhutan encourages people to come: you just have to write a letter to the Minister of Protocol asking permission, and stating why you want to go. And you have to wire $200/day for the duration of your expected stay. (The idea is that this will keep "the backpackers" out.) The letter, I would learn, is pro forma, getting a visa doesn't take long, and the $200/day covers your guide (mandatory), hotel, meals, permits (required for visiting monasteries and government compounds) and transportation, and is, therefore, not a bad deal at all. As for Bhutan being Shangri-La, well, too many places in that part of the world claim the title. If you ask me, Bhutan is quite amazing; I'll leave it at that. I prefer the notion that we all have our own vision and version of Shangri-La, whether influenced by James Michener or not. What did matter, after all, is that I am a practicing Buddhist, of the Kagyu branch of Tibetan Buddhism; so are the Bhutanese. My guide, Pema Tshering, made a point of telling people that I was a Buddhist: it made a difference to him, and to – it seemed – everyone I met. It meant, among other things, that I was open to a society based in Buddhist principls, a place where generosity was expected, moderation (the middle way) always a goal, loving kindness and compassion a way of life, and stupas, monks and monasteries everywhere. It meant, critically, that – by Bhutanese lights – I knew how to behave in both the secular and sacred realms. And so I was able to meet with high lamas, go into inner sanctums of monasteries, receive blessings, have discussions on the dharma. I had access to aspects of life that, I was told, were generally unavailable to tourists. was not really a tourist, of course, but a journalist. Yet I was traveling on a tourist visa. This made me nervous. Getting a journalist visa took much more time, and I didn't have but a few weeks between assignment and anticipated arrival. I figured that having a small tape recorder was less obvious than a video camera, but still I was concerned: Bhutan maintains a tight control over its internal and external image. So before I left I met with Gyaltshen Penjor, the First Secretary of the Mission of the Kingdom of Bhutan to the United Nations. He was friends with a friend of a friend, it turned out. And that, too, mattered. I told him that I was going to Bhutan both as an academic interested in issues of media and cultural change (which was true) and as a journalist. "Should I be worried about that?" I asked him. He responded by querying me about my Buddhist beliefs. Why was I a Buddhist? For how long? What did that mean for my life? My answers satisfied him: he said I'd be fine, that I should use his name as necessary during my travels, that he wanted me to meet his brothers and to spend time with his mother in her village home. After our meeting, I sent him an article I'd written several years before, "The Journalist in the Lotus," about reconciling the practices of journalism and Buddhism. He said he wanted to talk with me more about the dharma when I returned. During my too-brief stay in Bhutan, as I tried to understand the impact of recently-introduced media on a profoundly Buddhist culture, I thought often about the conflicting advice I'd been given by visitors, about the falsehoods in the (always gushy) Western press, and about how fortunate I was to have met Gyaltshen. I had a meal with members of his family in Thimphu, and spent an extraordinary afternoon with his mother in her village near Paro. What I experienced in those 10 days in Bhutan will take me years to unravel; I hope I'll be back before too long to add more to the skein. – Karen Michel Thanks to Valeria Vasilievski, Pema Tshering, Deki Wangmo, Gyaltshen Penjor, Bob Vye, Yeshey Dorji, Tshering Pema, and Hotel Dragon Roots. Themes: Economy, Culture Regions: Asia / Oceania Other Tags: development, Buddhism, Bhutan, Gross National Happiness

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Part of HuffPost Education. ©2021 Verizon Media. All rights reserved. John Thompson, Contributor Retired teacher and historian Why Can't School "Reformers" Listen to Education Experts? 11/03/2011 02:09 pm ET Updated Jan 03, 2012 This week's debate between Eric Hanushek and Diane Ravitch, exemplifies the tendency of true believers in data-driven policies to refuse to communicate with educators. Hanushek became so preoccupied with name-calling that he forgot that advocates of risky policy gambles have just as much of a burden of proof for their "reforms" as do advocates of more balanced policies. Based on statistical models, Hanushek argued that the "deselection" of ineffective teachers would be more beneficial than professional development to improve teacher quality. I don't necessarily disagree. Ravitch would concentrate on improving teacher education and retention. Neither would I disagree. But why would Hanushek not welcome a synthesis of his theories with Ravitch's realism? After all, Ravitch is one of our nation's premier scholars. As as one reviewer explained, "she's had to learn the hard way (how to develop) a healthy skepticism about silver-bullet notions of reform." Hanushek's calculations are based on correlations between test scores and future earning, not evidence of improved learning, which would be fine if he listened to the education experts about interpreting his numbers. To my knowledge, Ravitch has not tried to micromanage Hanushek's calculations of algorithms. The economist should welcome Ravitch's insights into how schools and systems actually function. In an initial post, Hanushek implied that he was willing to listen to explanations why it is a lousy idea to use experimental statistical models to fire teachers. He stated that it is not necessary to use test scores to identify the lowest performing teachers. In a followup post, he admitted that "other, unmeasured things beyond test scores are also important to students and to society." But, Hanushek claimed that there is "no reason" to believe that the teaching of those unmeasured skills would be hurt by the greater, high-stakes, measuring of the skills that can be quantified. Hanushek thus seems to deny Campbell's Law, "The more any quantitative social indicator is used for social decision-making, the more subject it will be to corruption pressures and the more apt it will be to distort and corrupt the social processes it is intended to monitor." Worse, Hanushek proclaimed that "there is no reason to believe that teachers at the bottom in terms of producing measured skills are anything but the bottom in producing useful unmeasured skills." No reason?!?!? Has the economist not read the overwhelming educational research that explains why it is more difficult to raise test scores in schools serving intense concentrations of generational poverty? In the follow-up piece, Hanushek condemned Ravitch's precise and balanced positions as "Red Herrings," "a red herring," "a red herring," " a red herring," "a red herring," "a red herring," "red herrings," and "red herrings." As he used that label eight times, Hanushek, complained that "Diane wants to introduce the idea that, while there are teachers who are harming kids, we should not deal with them because there might be some residual uncertainty about the very last teacher who is in this group." Actually Ravitch wrote, "Nobody disagrees that there are ineffective teachers and that, if they are unable to improve, they should be removed." The economist forgot that it is incumbent on him to provide a reason to believe that his theory would have positive real-world effects. Hanushek, for instance, has the burden of proof of showing that there are a long line of teachers who could step into the horrific conditions of our lowest-performing schools and somehow produce "average" scores. But instead, he argued that there is "no reason" to believe his experimental results were inaccurate. If the economist refuses to listen to social science, perhaps he should consider the laws of "rational expectations," and "supply and demand." Why would talented teachers take the risk of teaching in schools that are under the gun for low test score growth, with high levels of truancy, disorder, and violence, in the hope that those factors would not hinder their ability to meet test score targets? Two-way communication is essential because there is no way of determining whether a teacher's or a principal's failure to reach growth targets were due to the educator's weakness or due to dysfunctional policies imposed by their bosses. Administrators, alone, are last people who should be allowed to determine whether a failure to adequately increase student performance was the educator's fault, or whether it was due to management's mandates that produced extreme concentrations or more difficult-to-educate students, management's decision to starve alternative services so that it became impossible to enforce attendance and disciplinary policies, or the bosses' defensive tactic of mandating non-stop test prep. And that gets back to Hanushek's first logical mistake. Yes, there are reasons why the use of flawed test data to fire teachers at the bottom would undercut the effectiveness of the majority of teachers. To a bureaucrat with a hammer, every teacher can look like a nail. As long as management is evaluated by outcomes on primitive bubble-in tests, there will be pressures by administrators protecting their rear ends to mandate counter-productive rote instruction. Last week, another "reformer" wrote sarcastically about the 20,000 teachers who follow Diane Ravitch on twitter. Accountability hawks are making a mistake, however, in not recognizing Ravitch's following as a potentially great asset. We practitioners could be invaluable for theorists trying to make sense of our complex educational system. What we cannot do, however, is go along with the idea that simplistic, hypothetical models can drive the reform of our complex and diverse educational systems. Education Teachers Standardized Testing Teacher Quality Eric Hanushek

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Summary of the CIS workshop on the Draft Human DNA Profiling Bill 2012 Source: Lawrence OP on flickr On March 1st, 2013, the Centre for Internet and Society organized a workshop which analysed the April 2012 draft Human DNA Profiling Bill and its potential implications on human rights in India. This research was undertaken as part of the 'SAFEGUARDS' project that CIS is undertaking with Privacy International and IDRC. Think you control who has access to your DNA data? That might just be a myth of the past. Today, clearly things have changed, as draft Bills with the objective of creating state, regional, and national DNA databases in India have been leaked over the last years. Plans of profiling certain residents in India are being unravelled as, apparently, the new policy when collecting, handling, analysing, sharing and storing DNA data is that all personal information is welcome; the more, the merrier! Who is behind all of this? The Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics in India created the 2007 draft DNA Profiling Bill[1], with the aim of regulating the use of DNA for forensic and other purposes. In February 2012 another draft of the Bill was leaked which was created by the Department of Biotechnology. The most recent version of the Bill was drafted in April 2012 and seeks to create DNA databases at the state, regional and national level in India[2]. According to the latest 2012 draft Human DNA Profiling Bill, each DNA database will contain profiles of victims, offenders, suspects, missing persons and volunteers for the purpose of identification in criminal and civil proceedings. The Bill also establishes a process for certifying DNA laboratories, and a DNA Profiling Board for overseeing the carrying out of the Act. However, the 2012 draft Human DNA Profiling Bill lacks adequate safeguards and its various loopholes and overreaching provisions could create a potential for abuse. The creation of DNA databases is currently unregulated in India and although regulations should be enacted to prevent data breaches, the current Bill raises major concerns in regards to the collection, use, analysis and retention of DNA samples, DNA data and DNA profiles. In other words, the proposed DNA databases would not only be restricted to criminals… DNA databases...and Justice for All? Source: Libertas Academica on flickr During the workshop [3]on the 2012 draft Human DNA Profiling Bill, DNA[4] was defined as a material that determines a persons´ hereditary traits, whilst DNA profiling[5] was defined as the processing and analysis of unique sequences of parts of DNA. Thus the uniqueness of DNA data is clear and the implications that could potentially occur through its profiling could be tremendous. The 2007 DNA Profiling Bill has been amended, yet its current 2012 version appears not only to be more intrusive, but to also be extremely vague in terms of protecting data, whilst very deterministic in regards to the DNA Profiling Board´s power. A central question in the meeting was: Should DNA databases be created at all? The following concerns were raised and discussed during the workshop: ● The myth of the infallibility of DNA evidence The Innocence Project[6], which was presented at the workshop, appears to provide an appeal towards the storage of DNA samples and profiles, as it represents clients seeking post-conviction DNA testing to prove their innocence. According to statistics presented at the workshop, there have been 303 post-conviction exonerations in the United States, as a result of individuals proving their innocence through DNA testing. Though post-conviction exonerations can be useful, they cannot be the basis and main justification for creating DNA databases. Although DNA testing could enable post-conviction exonerations, errors in matching data remain a high probability and could result in innocent people being accused, arrested and prosecuted for crimes they did not commit. Thus, arguments towards the necessity and utility of the creation of DNA databases in India appear to be weak, especially since DNA evidence is not infallible[7]. False matches can occur based on the type of profiling system used, and errors can take place in the chain of custody of the DNA sample, all of which indicate the weakness of DNA evidence being used. DNA data only provides probabilities of potential matches between DNA profiles and the larger the amount of DNA data collected, the larger the probability of an error in matching profiles[8]. ● The non-criteria of DNA data collection How and when can DNA data be collected? The amended draft 2012 Bill remains extremely vague and broad. In particular, the Bill states that all offences under the Indian Penal Code and other laws, such as the Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act, 1956, are applicable instances of human DNA profiling. Section B(viii) of the Schedule states that human DNA profiling will be applicable for offences under ´any other law as may be specified by the regulations made by the Board´. This incredibly vague section empowers the DNA Profiling Board with the ultimate power to decide upon the offences under which DNA data will be collected. The issue is this: most laws have loopholes. A Bill which lists applicable instances of human DNA profiling, under the umbrella of a potentially indefinite number of laws, exposes individuals to the collection of their DNA data, which could lead to potential abuse. ● The DNA Profiling Board´s power The DNA Profiling Board has ´absolute´ power, especially according to the 2012 draft Human DNA Profiling Bill. Some of the Board´s functions include providing recommendations for provision of privacy protection laws, regulations and practices relating to access to, or use of, stored DNA samples or DNA analyses[9]. The Board is also required to advise on all ethical and human rights issues, as well as to take ´necessary steps´ to protect privacy. However, it remains unclear how a Board which lacks human rights expertise will carry out such tasks. No human rights experts Despite the various amendments[10] to the section on the composition of the Board, no privacy or human rights experts have been included. According to the Bill, the Board will be comprised of many molecular biologists and other scientists, while human rights experts have not been included to the list. This can potentially be problematic as a lack of expertise on privacy and human rights laws can lead to the regulation of DNA databases without taking civil liberties into consideration. Vague authorisation for communication of DNA profiles The Bill also empowers the Board to ´authorise procedures for communication of DNA profiles for civil proceedings and for crime investigation by law enforcement and other agencies´[11]. Although the 2007 Bill [12]restricted the Boards´ authorisation to crime investigation by law enforcement agencies, its 2012 amendment extends such authorisation to ´civil proceedings´ which can also be carried out by so-called ´other agencies´.[13] This amendment raises concerns, as the ´other agencies´ and the term ´civil proceedings´ remain vague. The Board is also authorised to ´assist law enforcement agencies in using DNA techniques to protect the public´[14]. Over the last years, laws are being enacted that enable law enforcement agencies to use technologies for surveillance purposes in the name of ´public security´, and the 2012 draft Bill is no exception. Many security measures have been applied to ´protect the public´, such as CCTV cameras and other technologies, but their actual contribution to public safety still remains a controversial debate[15]. DNA techniques which would effectively protect the public have not been adequately proven, thus it remains unclear how the Board would assist law enforcement agencies. Sharing data with international agencies…and regulating DNA laboratories In addition to the above, the Board would also encourage cooperation between Indian investigation agencies and international agencies[16]. This would potentially enable the sharing of DNA data between third parties and would enhance the probability of data being leaked to unauthorised third parties. The Board would also be authorised to regulate the standards, quality control and quality assurance obligations of the DNA laboratories[17]. The draft 2012 Bill ultimately gives monopolistic control to the DNA Profiling Board over all the procedures related to the handling of DNA data! ● The DNA Data Bank Manager According to the 2012 draft Human DNA Profiling Bill[18], it is the DNA Data Bank Manager who would carry out ´all operations of and concerning the National DNA Data Bank´. All such operations are not clearly specified. The powers and duties that the DNA Data Bank Manager would be expected to have are not specified in the Bill, which merely states that they would be specified by regulations made by the DNA Profiling Board. The Bill also empowers the Manager to determine appropriate instances for the communication of information[19]. In other words, law enforcement agencies and DNA laboratories can request the disclosure of information from the DNA Data Bank Manager, without prior authorisation. The DNA Data Bank Manager is empowered to decide the requested data. DNA access restrictions Are you a victim or a cleared suspect? You better be, if you want access to your data to be restricted! The 2012 draft Human DNA Profiling Bill [20]states that access to information will be restricted in cases when a DNA profile derives from a victim or a person who has been excluded as a suspect. The Bill is unclear as to how access to the data of non-victims or suspects is regulated. ● Availability of DNA profiles and DNA samples According to the amended draft 2012 Bill[21], DNA profiles and samples can be made available in criminal cases, judicial proceedings and for defence purposes among others. However, ´criminal cases´ are loosely defined and could enable the availability of DNA data in low profile cases. Furthermore, the availability of DNA data is also enabled for the ´creation and maintenance of a population statistics database´. This is controversial because it remains unclear how such a database would be used. ● Data destruction According to an amendment to section 37, DNA data will be kept on a ´permanent basis´ and the DNA Data Bank Manager will expunge a DNA profile only once the court has certified that an individual is no longer a suspect. This raises major concerns, as it does not clarify under what conditions individuals can have access to their data during its retention, nor does it give volunteers and missing persons the opportunity to have their data deleted from the data bank. Workshop conclusions Source: micahb37 on flickr The various loopholes in the Bill which can create a potential for abuse were discussed throughout the workshop, as well as various issues revolving around DNA data retention, as previously mentioned. During the workshop, some participants questioned the creation of DNA databases to begin with, while others argued that they are inevitable and that it is not a question of whether they should exist, but rather a question of how they should be regulated. All participants agreed upon the need for further safeguards to protect individuals´ right to privacy and other human rights. Further research on the necessity and utility of the creation of DNA databases in regards to human rights was recommended. In addition to all the above, the Ministry of Law and Justice was recommended to pilot the draft DNA Profiling Bill to ensure better provisions in regards to privacy and data protection. A debate on the use of DNA data in civil cases versus criminal cases was largely discussed in the workshop, with concerns raised in regards to DNA sampling being enabled in civil cases. The fact that the terms ´civil cases´ and ´criminal cases´ remain broad, vague and not legally-specified, raised huge concerns in the workshop as this could enable the misuse of DNA data by authorities. Thus, the members attending the workshop recommended the creation of two separate Bills regulating the use of DNA data: a DNA Profiling Bill for Criminal Investigation and a DNA Profiling Bill for Research. The creation of such Bills would restrict the access to, collection, analysis, sharing of and retention of DNA data to strictly criminal investigation and research purposes. However, even if separate Bills were created, who is to say that when implemented DNA in the database would not be abused? Criminal investigations can be loosely defined and research purposes can potentially cover anything and everything. So the question remains: [1] Draft DNA Profiling Bill 2007, http://dbtindia.nic.in/DNA_Bill.pdf [2] Human DNA Profiling Bill 2012: Working draft versión – 29th April 2012, [3] Centre for Internet and Society, Analyzing the Draft Human DNA Profiling Bill 2012, 25 February 2013, http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/events/analyzing-draft-human-dna-profiling-bill [4] Genetics Home Reference: Your Guide to Understanding Genetic Conditions, What is DNA?, http://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/handbook/basics/dna [5] Shanna Freeman, How DNA profiling Works, http://science.howstuffworks.com/dna-profiling.htm [6] Innocence Project, DNA exoneree case profiles, http://www.innocenceproject.org/know/ [7] Australian Law Reform Commission (ALRC), Essentially Yours: The Protection of Human Genetic Information in Australia (ALRC Report 96), ´Criminal Proceedings: Reliability of DNA evidence´, Chapter 44, http://www.alrc.gov.au/publications/44-criminal-proceedings/reliability-dna-evidence [9] Human DNA Profiling Bill 2012: Working draft version – 29th April 2012, Section 12(o, p, t), http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/draft-dna-profiling-bill-2012.pdf [10] Ibid: Section 4(q) [11] Ibid: Section 12(j) [12] Draft DNA Profiling Bill 2007, Section 13, http://dbtindia.nic.in/DNA_Bill.pdf [13] : Human DNA Profiling Bill 2012: Working draft version – 29th April 2012, Sections 12(j), http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/draft-dna-profiling-bill-2012.pdf [14] Ibid: Section 12(l) [15] Schneier, B.(2008), Schneier on Security, ´CCTV cameras´, http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/06/cctv_cameras.html [16] Human DNA Profiling Bill 2012: Working draft version – 29th April 2012, Sections 12(u) and 12(v), http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/draft-dna-profiling-bill-2012.pdf [17] Ibid: Section on the ´Standards, Quality Control and Quality Assurance Obligations of DNA Laboratories´ [18] Ibid: Section 33 Filed under: Workshop, Internet Governance, SAFEGUARDS The views and opinions expressed on this page are those of their individual authors. Unless the opposite is explicitly stated, or unless the opposite may be reasonably inferred, CIS does not subscribe to these views and opinions which belong to their individual authors. CIS does not accept any responsibility, legal or otherwise, for the views and opinions of these individual authors. For an official statement from CIS on a particular issue, please contact us directly. Workshop, Internet Governance, SAFEGUARDS Maria Xynou Maria is a Policy Associate on the Privacy Project at the CIS. She has previously interned with Privacy International and with the Parliament of Greece. Maria holds a Master of Science in Security Studies from the University College London (UCL). 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F1 Drivers Gearboxes are used in F1 cars in accordance with FIA specifications. Any device which can transfer torque from a slower to a faster rotating wheel is not allowed. Formula 1 » F1 Cars » Gearbox Gearboxes are the parts in car mechanism which transfer torque from the engine crankshaft to the drive shafts. All gearbox components in Formula 1 cars whose objective is for the transmission of power or mechanical selection of gears, bearings associated with these components and the casing in which they are housed are all included in the system. Parts of Gearbox System These parts are not part of the gearbox system and can be changed. However, if an FIA applied seal can be broken in this process, it must be done under FIA supervision. The parts include the clutch assembly and any shaft connecting the clutch to the crankshaft or first motion shaft of the gearbox, the clutch actuator and clutch release bearings, inboard driveshaft joints and seals, electrical sensors, actuators, servo valves, oil, oil pumps, oil filters, oil seals, oil coolers and parts associated with functioning of the sprung suspension attached to the gearbox casing. F1 regulations specify that no forward gear ratio pair may be less than 12mm wide when measured across the gear tooth. Each side of the gear teeth could be chamfered by a maximum of 10°. Excluding any integral shaft or collar the gear ratio pair should be less than 600g in weight. The gear ratios must be made of steel. Rules disallow continuously variable transmission systems to transfer the power of the engine. Transferring Torque As for the torque transfer systems, any system or device which can transfer or divert torque from a slower to a faster rotating wheel is disallowed. Devices capable of transferring torque between the principal axes of rotation of the two front wheels are also not permitted. Car Construction Survival Cell Formula 1 Championships Formula 1 Teams Formula 1 Race Formula 1 Legends Formula 1 Rules Women Athletics at Olympics Heptathlon Women's 10 KM Women's 100 Meter Women's 100 Meter Hurdles Women's 1500 Meter Women's 20 KM walk Women's 200 Meter Sprint Women's 3000 Meter Steeplechase Women's 4 x 100 Meter Relay Women's 80 Meter Hurdles Women's Discus Throw Women's Hammer Throw Women's High Jump Women's Javelin Throw Women's Long Jump Women's Marathon Women's Pole Vault Women's Shot Put Women's Triple Jump More @ Sporting99 Copyright © Sporting99.com

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GOP leaders are stuck trying to rein in Trump's excesses without alienating their own primary voters, who are largely standing by their president. Ross's Diner has been a Cartersville fixture since 1945. There are no tables (save for one or two outside), just two long counters with stools that hold a total of 30 people. On any given morning, a dozen or so are there at one time, eating breakfast, reading the newspaper, and chatting with each other about a variety of topics, including politics. Several said Trump hadn't been their first choice. Tony Favero and his wife Elizabeth, owners of two "Larry's Giant Subs" franchises in town, initially supported current Housing and Urban Development Secretary, Ben Carson. "We wanted somebody who was a real outsider." Both backed Trump in the general election, but at this point, Tony is handing Trump mediocre marks. "I would say a C. I'm disappointed he's focusing so much on Syria and North Korea instead of focusing on domestic issues, such as tax reform and repealing Obamacare." Elizabeth was more optimistic, but she also offered a mixed review. Although she believes Trump has achieved more than she thought possible, she also complained Trump is often immature, needing to dial back his impulsive behavior. Sharon Ross was another early Carson supporter. "He really had it together. His answers to debate questions were thoughtful." She appreciated Carson didn't have a political background. After he dropped out, she voted for Trump to oppose Hillary Clinton. Ross didn't have much to say about his performance so far; she's tuned out of the news entirely, she said. "It's only been four months. Come back and ask me in four years and I'll give my opinion on how he's doing." The word establishment never surfaced. People spoke only of political insiders and outsiders. "I was with him the moment he came down that escalator," Debra Cagle, a server at Ross's, said with a smile. Cagle, like the Faveros, wanted an outsider for president. "He can't be bought like those career politicians," she said. She dressed as Donald Trump for Halloween, and readily produces a photo to prove it. Thrilled with the nomination of Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court, Cagle said the biggest problem facing Donald Trump is the mainstream media. "I don't trust anything they report." She wasn't alone. Ken Wilbur of Powder Springs grew up on a farm near the Cobb County Airport. "I've worked to elect politicians from the local level to the federal level," said Ken Wilbur of Powder Springs. "I have no idea why people do it." He's appalled by what he sees as the media's unfair treatment of Trump's family. "If you went after my family, there'd be big trouble. I don't know why he wants that job. I sure wouldn't want it." "I wish they'd leave him alone, already," said Hugh Siniard. The 61-year-old had recently retired from a utility company after 40 years. He hadn't had a preference in the Republican primary; he'd been prepared to vote for anybody that was not Hillary Clinton. "I'm glad he's holding the liberal media in line," he said. But for all his discontent with the media, Siniard was still waiting to see Trump deliver on his campaign pledges. "I'm happy with Neil Gorsuch," he said, "but I want Trump to focus on what he promised, such as securing the border and putting people to work here in the United States." Siniard supports the construction of a border wall and Trump's infrastructure proposal. This is the predicament now facing conservatives and Republicans in Congress. Trump's supporters—their own primary voters—are standing by him. But while Trump supporters want him to focus on the big picture issues such as health care and tax reform, the president spends most of his time consumed with the kind of trivialities other presidents leave for spokespeople to handle. Trump still sees the presidency as a brand to sell, rather than a political office in which to shape an overall agenda for the country. Instead of talking about his tax reform plans when asked questions, the president is still reminding people he won the election. A 70-year-old man, who spent 50 years cultivating an image and personality, isn't going to adjust it, even while occupying the Oval Office. When Rod Rosenstein named Robert Mueller to as special counsel, the Trump administration released a brief, level-headed statement reiterating its belief no collusion between Trump's campaign and foreign entities existed and looked forward to the end of the investigation. The following morning, Trump took to Twitter, lashing out at the investigation, calling it the "single greatest witch hunt of a politician in history." He followed it up with another tweet, complaining about the lack of the appointment of a special counsel in the Obama administration. Jay Caruso is an editorial writer at The Dallas Morning News.

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Mormonism.ca The Nauvoo City Government - Temple And Other Buildings A tide of immigration having been turned toward the new settlement, the next thing in order was to procure for the city a legal organization. Several circumstances combined to place in the hands of the Mormon leaders a scheme of municipal government, along with an extensive plan for buildings, which gave them vast power without incurring the kind of financial rocks on which they were wrecked in Ohio. Dr. Galland* should probably be considered the inventor of the general scheme adopted at Nauvoo. He was at that time a resident of Cincinnati, but his intercourse with the Mormons had interested him in their beliefs, and some time in 1840 he addressed a letter to Elder R. B. Thompson, which gave the church leaders some important advice.** First warning them that to promulgate new doctrinal tenets will require not only tact and energy, but moral conduct and industry among their people, he confessed that he had not been able to discover why their religious views were not based on truth. "The project of establishing extraordinary religious doctrines being magnificent in its character," he went on to say, would require "preparations commensurate with the plan." Nauvoo being a suitable rallying-place, they would "want a temple that for size, proportions and style shall attract, surprise and dazzle all beholders"; something "unique externally, and in the interior peculiar, imposing and grand." The "clergymen" must be of the best as regards mental and vocal equipment, and there should be a choir such as "was never before organized." A college, too, would be of great value if funds for it could be collected. * "In the year 1834 one Dr. Galland was a candidate for the legislature in a district composed of Hancock, Adams, and Pike Counties. He resided in the county of Hancock, and, as he had in the early part of his life been a notorious horse thief and counterfeiter, belonging to the Massac gang, and was then no pretender to integrity, it was useless to deny the charge. In all his speeches he freely admitted the fact."--FORD's" "History of Illinois," p. 406. ** Times and Seasons, Vol. II, pp. 277-278. The letter is signed with eight asterisks Galland's usual signature to such communications. These suggestions were accepted by Smith, with some important additional details, and they found place in the longest of the "revelations" given out by him in Illinois (Sec. I 24), the one, previously quoted from, in which the Lord excused the failure to set up a Zion in Missouri. There seemed to be some hesitation about giving out this "revelation." It is dated after the meeting of the General Conference at Nauvoo which ordered the building of a church there, and it was not published in the Times and Seasons until the following June, and then not entire. The "revelation" shows how little effect adversity had had in modifying the prophet's egotism, his arrogance, or his aggressiveness. Starting out with, "Verily, thus with the Lord unto you, my servant Joseph Smith, I am well pleased with your offerings and acknowledgments," it calls on him to make proclamation to the kings of the world, the President of the United States, and the governors of the states concerning the Lord's will, "fearing them not, for they are as grass," and warning them of "a day of visitation if they reject my servants and my testimony." Various direct commands to leading members of the church follow. Galland here found himself in Smith's clutches, being directed to "put stock" into the boardinghouse to be built. The principal commands in this "revelation" directed the building of another "holy house," or Temple, and a boardinghouse. With regard to the Temple it was explained that the Lord would show Smith everything about it, including its site. All the Saints from afar were ordered to come to Nauvoo, "with all your gold, and your silver, and your precious stones, and with all your antiquities, . . . and bring the box tree, and the fir tree, and the pine tree, together with all the precious trees of the earth, and with iron, with copper, and with brass, and with zinc, and with all your most precious things of the earth." The boarding-house ordered built was to be called Nauvoo House, and was to be "a house that strangers may come from afar to lodge therein. . . a resting place for the weary traveler, that he may contemplate the glory of Zion." It was explained that a company must be formed, the members of which should pay not less than $50 a share for the stock, no subscriber to be allotted more than $1500 worth. This "revelation" further announced once more that Joseph was to be "a presiding elder over all my church, to be a translator, a revelator, a seer and a prophet," with Sidney Rigdon and William Law his counsellors, to constitute with him the First Presidency, and Brigham Young to be president over the twelve travelling council. Legislation was, of course, necessary to carry out the large schemes that the Mormon leaders had in mind; but this was secured at the state capital with a liberality that now seems amazing. This was due to the desire of the politicians of all parties to conciliate the Mormon vote, and to the good fortune of the Mormons in finding at the capital a very practical lobbyist to engineer their cause. This was a Dr. John C. Bennett, a man who seems to have been without any moral character, but who had filled positions of importance. Born in Massachusetts in 1804, he practised as a physician in Ohio, and later in Illinois, holding a professorship in Willoughby University, Ohio, and taking with him to Illinois testimonials as to his professional skill. In the latter state he showed a taste for military affairs, and after being elected brigadier general of the Invincible Dragoons, he was appointed quartermaster general of the state in 1840, and held that position at the state capital when the Mormons applied to the legislature for a charter for Nauvoo. With his assistance there was secured from the legislature an act incorporating the city of Nauvoo, the Nauvoo Legion, and the University of the City of Nauvoo. The powers granted to the city government thus established were extraordinary. A City Council was authorized, consisting of the mayor, four aldermen, and nine councillors, which was empowered to pass any ordinances, not in conflict with the federal and state constitutions, which it deemed necessary for the peace and order of the city. The mayor and aldermen were given all the power of justices of the peace, and they were to constitute the Municipal Court. The charter gave the mayor sole jurisdiction in all cases arising under the city ordinances, with a right of appeal to the Municipal Court. Further than this, the charter granted to the Municipal Court the right to issue writs of habeas corpus in all cases arising under the city ordinances. Thirty-six sections were required to define the legislative powers of the City Council. A more remarkable scheme of independent local government could not have been devised even by the leaders of this Mormon church, and the shortsightedness of the law makers in consenting to it seems nothing short of marvellous. Under it the mayor, who helped to make the local laws (as a member of the City Council), was intrusted with their enforcement, and he could, as the head of the Municipal Court, give them legal interpretation. Governor Ford afterward defined the system as "a government within a government; a legislature to pass ordinances at war with the laws of the state; courts to execute them with but little dependence upon the constitutional judiciary, and a military force at their own command." * * A bill repealing this charter was passed by the Illinois House on February 3, 1843, by a vote of fifty-eight to thirty-three, but failed in the Senate by a vote of sixteen ayes to seventeen nays. This military force, called the Nauvoo Legion, the City Council was authorized to organize from the inhabitants of the city who were subject to military duty. It was to be at the disposal of the mayor in executing city laws and ordinances, and of the governor of the state for the public defence. When organized, it embraced three classes of troops--flying artillery, lancers, and riflemen. Its independence of state control was provided for by a provision of law which allowed it to be governed by a court martial of its own officers. The view of its independence taken by,the Mormons may be seen in the following general order signed by Smith and Bennett in May, 1841, founded on an opinion by judge Stephen A. Douglas:-- "The officers and privates belonging to the Legion are exempt from all military duty not required by the legally constituted authorities thereof; they are therefore expressly inhibited from performing any military service not ordered by the general officers, or directed by the court martial."* * Times and Seasons, Vol. II, p. 417. Governor Ford commissioned Brigham Young to succeed Smith as lieutenant general of the Legion from August 31, 1844. To show the Mormon idea of authority, the following is quoted from Tullidge's "Life of Brigham Young," p. 30: "It is a singular fact that, after Washington, Joseph Smith was the first man in America who held the rank of lieutenant general, and that Brigham Young was the next. In reply to a comment by the author upon this fact Brigham Young said: 'I was never much of a military man. The commission has since been abrogated by the state of Illinois; but if Joseph had lived when the (Mexican] war broke out he would have become commander-in chief of the United States Armies.'" In other words, this city military company was entirely independent of even the governor of the state. Little wonder that the Presidency, writing about the new law to the Saints abroad, said, "'Tis all we ever claimed." In view of the experience of the Missourians with the Mormons as directed by Smith and Rigdon, it would be rash to say that they would have been tolerated as neighbors in Illinois under any circumstances, after their actual acquaintance had been made; but if the state of Illinois had deliberately intended to incite the Mormons to a reckless assertion of independence, nothing could have been planned that would have accomplished this more effectively than the passage of the charter of Nauvoo. What next followed remains an unexplained incident in Joseph Smith's career. Instead of taking the mayoralty himself, he allowed that office to be bestowed upon Bennett, Smith and Rigdon accepting places among the councillors, Bennett having taken up his residence in Nauvoo in September, 1840. His election as mayor took place in February, 1841. Bennet was also chosen major general of the Legion when that force was organized, was selected as the first chancellor of the new university, and was elected to the First Presidency of the church in the following April, to take the place of Sidney Rigdon during the incapacity of the latter from illness. Judge Stephen A. Douglas also appointed him a master in chancery. Bennett was introduced to the Mormon church at large in a letter signed by Smith, Rigdon, and brother Hyrum, dated January 15, 1841, as the first of the new acquisitions of influence. They stated that his sympathies with the Saints were aroused while they were still in Missouri, and that he then addressed them a letter offering them his assistance, and the church was assured that "he is a man of enterprise, extensive acquirements, and of independent mind, and is calculated to be a great blessing to our community." When his appointment as a master in chancery was criticised by some Illinois newspapers, the Mormons defended him earnestly, Sidney Rigdon (then attorney-at-law and postmaster at Nauvoo), in a letter dated April 23, 1842, said, "He is a physician of great celebrity, of great versatility of talent, of refined education and accomplished manners; discharges the duties of his respective offices with honor to himself and credit to the people." All this becomes of interest in the light of the abuse which the Mormons soon after poured out upon this man when he "betrayed" them. Bennett's inaugural address as mayor was radical in tone. He advised the Council to prohibit all dram shops, allowing no liquor to be sold in a quantity less than a quart. This suggestion was carried out in a city ordinance. He condemned the existing system of education, which gave children merely a smattering of everything, and made "every boarding school miss a Plato in petticoats, without an ounce of genuine knowledge," pleading for education "of a purely practical character." The Legion he considered a matter of immediate necessity, and he added, "The winged warrior of the air perches upon the pole of American liberty, and the beast that has the temerity to ruffle her feathers should be made to feel the power of her talons." Smith was commissioned lieutenant general of this Legion by Governor Carlin on February 3, 1841, and he and Bennett blossomed out at once as gorgeous commanders. An order was issued requiring all persons in the city, of military obligation, between the ages of eighteen and forty-five, to join the Legion, and on the occasion of the laying of the corner-stone of the Temple, on April 6, 1841, it comprised fourteen companies. An army officer passing through Nauvoo in September, 1842, expressed the opinion that the evolutions of the Legion would do honor to any militia in the United States, but he queried: "Why this exact discipline of the Mormon corps? Do they intend to conquer Missouri, Illinois, Mexico? Before many years this Legion will be twenty, perhaps fifty, thousand strong and still augmenting. A fearful host, filled with religious enthusiasm, and led on by ambitious and talented officers, what may not be effected by them? Perhaps the subversion of the constitution of the United States." * * Mackay's "The Mormons," p. 121. Contemporary accounts of the appearance of the Legion on the occasion of the laying of the Temple corner-stone indicate that the display was a big one for a frontier settlement. Smith says in his autobiography, "The appearance, order, and movements of the Legion were chaste, grand, imposing." The Times and Seasons, in its report of the day's doings, says that General Smith had a staff of four aides-de-camp and twelve guards, "nearly all in splendid uniforms. The several companies presented a beautiful and interesting spectacle, several of them being uniformed and equipped, while the rich and costly dresses of the officers would have become a Bonaparte or a Washington." Ladies on horseback were an added feature of the procession. The ceremonies attending the cornerstone laying attracted the people from all the outlying districts, and marked an epoch in the church's history in Illinois. The Temple at Nauvoo measured 83 by 128 feet on the ground, and was nearly 60 feet high, surmounted by a steeple which was planned to be more than 100 feet in height. The material was white limestone, which was found underlying the site of the city. The work of construction continued throughout the occupation of Nauvoo by the Mormons, the laying of the capstone not being accomplished until May 24, 1845, and the dedication taking place on May 1, 1846. The cost of the completed structure was estimated by the Mormons at $1,000,000.* Among the costly features were thirty stone pilasters, which cost $3000 each. * "The Temple is said to have cost, in labor and money, a million dollars. It may be possible, and it is very probable, that contributions to that amount were made to it, but that it cost that much to build it few will believe. Half that sum would be ample to build a much more costly edifice to-day, and in the three or four years in which it was being erected, labor was cheap and all the necessaries of life remarkably low."--GREGG'S "History of Hancock County," p. 367. The portico of the Temple was surrounded by these pilasters of polished stone, on the base of which was carved a new moon, the capital of each being a representation of the rising sun coming from under a cloud, supported by two hands holding a trumpet. Under the tower were the words, in golden letters: "The House of the Lord, built by the Church of Latter-Day Saints. Commenced April 6, 1841. Holiness to the Lord." The baptismal font measured twelve by sixteen feet, with a basin four feet deep. It was supported by twelve oxen "carved out of fine plank glued together," says Smith, "and copied after the most beautiful five-year-old steer that could be found." From the basement two stairways led to the main floor, around the sides of which were small rooms designed for various uses. In the large room on this floor were three pulpits and a place for the choir. The upper floor contained a large hall, and around this were twelve smaller rooms. The erection of this Temple was carried on without incurring such debts or entering upon such money-making schemes as caused disaster at Kirtland. Labor and material were secured by successful appeals to the Saints on the ground and throughout the world. Here the tithing system inaugurated in Missouri played an efficient part. A man from the neighboring country who took produce to Nauvoo for sale or barter said, "In the committee rooms they had almost every conceivable thing, from all kinds of implements and men and women's clothing, down to baby clothes and trinkets, which had been deposited by the owners as tithing or for the benefit of the Temple." * * Gregg's "History of Hancock County," p. 374 Nauvoo House, as planned, was to have a frontage of two hundred feet and a depth of forty feet, and to be three stories in height, with a basement. Its estimated cost was $100,000.* A detailed explanation of the uses of this house was thus given in a letter from the Twelve to the Saints abroad, dated November 15, 1841:-- * Times and Seasons, Vol. II, p. 369. "The time set to favor the Stakes of Zion is at hand, and soon the kings and the queens, the princes and the nobles, the rich and the honorable of the earth, will come up hither to visit the Temple of our God, and to inquire concerning this strange work; and as kings are to become nursing fathers, and queens nursing mothers in the habitation of the righteous, it is right to render honor to whom honor is due; and therefore expedient that such, as well as the Saints, should have a comfortable house for boarding and lodging when they come hither, and it is according to the revelations that such a house should be built. . . All are under equal obligations to do all in their power to complete the buildings by their faith and their prayers; with their thousands and their mites, their gold and their silver, their copper and their zinc, their goods and their labors." Nauvoo House was not finished during the Prophet's life, the appeals in its behalf failing to secure liberal contributions. It was completed in later years, and used as a hotel. Smith's residence in Nauvoo was a frame building called the Mansion House, not far from the river side. It was opened as a hotel on October 3, 1843, with considerable ceremony, one of the toasts responded to being as follows, "Resolved, that General Joseph Smith, whether we view him as a prophet at the head of the church, a general at the head of the Legion, a mayor at the head of the City Council, or a landlord at the head of the table, has few equals and no superiors." Another church building was the Hall of the Seventies, the upper story of which was used for the priesthood and the Council of Fifty. Galland's suggestion about a college received practical shape in the incorporation of a university, in whose board of regents the leading men of the church, including Galland himself, found places. The faculty consisted of James Keeley, a graduate of Trinity College, Dublin, as president; Orson Pratt as professor of mathematics and English literature; Orson Spencer, a graduate of Union College and the Baptist Theological Seminary in New York, as professor of languages; and Sidney Rigdon as professor of church history. The tuition fee was $5 per quarter. The Murder Of The Prophet - His Character The Peace Commission Home View on Full Site Email: Comment: Create EBook

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WWDS X1 Wer weiß denn sowas? - Das 2. Spiel Schlag den Raab 2 Newsarchive Space adventure SPACE RIFT will be released for Virtual Reality in Summer 2016 bitComposer Interactive announces Vibrant Core's Virtual Reality game Space Rift Wednesday, May 18, 2016 - The action space adventure Space Rift is compatible for all PC Virtual Reality headsets, such as Oculus Rift and HTC Vive and others. Space Rift is one of the first science fiction space adventures developed specifically for Virtual Reality hardware. The new technology guarantees gamers a breathtaking playing feel. In Summer 2016, the Windows version of Space Rift will first be released for USD 19,99 RRP. Only a few weeks later a PlayStation 4 as well as an Android version will be available. Immersive gameplay and an epic story In the action-heavy space adventure Space Rift, the gamer takes full control over a veteran pilot's spaceship in the midst of an oppression-filled tyranny. After endless years of war, humankind was forced to emigrate to Mars and has been living under an enormous glass dome ever since. The organizations WEYSS and PANDORA have the monopoly on vital resources, such as water and oxygen, and force the rest of humankind to live a sorry existence in slavery. In Space Rift the gamer steps into the role of Casey Black, who is also struggling to survive. He unexpectedly joins a secret grouping and takes on the figth for the independence of humankind with the help of said group. Virtual Reality: science fiction closer than ever before In bitComposer Interactive's Space Rift, science fiction lovers get their money's worth. Gamers steer their spaceship through the galaxy and fly through space in their own VR cockpit with panoramic view. They collect valuable ressources to upgrade their space ship and use them later on in the dangerous battle against their enemies. Thanks to the VR technology the gamers do not only watch the fights, but find themselves right in the midst of the battle for the freedom of mankind. Outer space up close Space Rift was developed specifically for Virtual Reality headsets. The game impresses with intense, cinematic science fiction gaming fun and a diverse and profound story. Thanks to the new technology gamers experience breathtaking gameplay and immerse themselves completely in the game. Besides Oculus Rift and HTC Vive, Space Rift supports all popular Virtual Reality headsets. Come summer, Space Rift is available at a price of USD 19,99. Even gamers who don't have one of the necessary headsets for the virtual reality optimized game available, can play the game. For further information, go to the game's website: http://spacerift-thegame.com. About Vibrant Core Vibrant Core is an independent development studio based in Bonn. The young and highly motivated team specializes in realising outstanding PC and console games for the new technical possibilities arising from Virtual Reality. Vibrant Core is developing games optimized for Virtual Reality that are playable on all current systems with the available VR headsets. The developers are enthusiastic about the possibilities resulting from the new technology and want to take a leading role in the emerging marketplace of Virtual Reality games. 03/30/2017 Space Rift Rogue A.I. released for Gear VR 03/21/2017 Rayon Riddles - Rise of the Goblin King: Wacky action figure adventure released on PlayStation 4 today 11/15/2016 Space Rift – Episode 1: Now also available for PlayStation VR! 11/11/2016 Rayon Riddles - Rise of the Goblin King: Released for Windows Today 09/07/2016 Rayon Riddles - Rise of the Goblin King for Windows: Goblins vs. Orcs with funny gameplay and play-figure-look available at the end of September 08/16/2016 Space Rift - Episode 1: Demo for VR space adventure released 08/02/2016 Space Rift: VR Space Adventure Released for PC 06/21/2016 Space Rift: First Trailer for the VR Space Adventure Revealed 05/18/2016 Space adventure SPACE RIFT will be released for Virtual Reality in Summer 2016 05/17/2016 My Night Job's monster hunt now also available for PlayStation 4 04/21/2016 Award-winning arcade action that takes you right back to the 80s: My Night Job lures you in with classic gameplay. Now also available for Windows 04/14/2016 Sweet, but oh my: Wobbly Jungle will start testing your nerves on April 14th 10/02/2014 JET CAR STUNTS is now available on Xbox Live Arcade 05/01/2014 JET CAR STUNTS - Ready, Set, Go! 03/27/2014 JET CAR STUNTS – The track is the enemy

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Buy New SanDisk Extreme Pro 100MB/s Compact Flash 128GB Memory Card Malaysia At FotoZZoom! - The SanDisk Extreme PRO CompactFlash Memory Card is backed by a lifetime limited warranty. The SanDisk Extreme Pro CompactFlash Memory Card brings our fastest data speed and expansive capacities to your DSLR camera or HD camcorder. Equipped with SanDisk's latest memory technologies, this memory card is the professional's choice. With blazing up to 90MB/s**read/write speeds (16GB-64GB) and up to 100MB/s** (128GB) write speed, SanDisk Extreme Pro CompactFlash Memory Cards allow you to take full advantage of your DSLR camera or HD camcorder's exceptional continuous burst-mode shooting and Full HD** , cinema quality video capture. VPG** for flawless, cinema quality Full HD video capture, ideal for professional broadcasting.

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using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Linq; using System.Web; using System.Web.Mvc; namespace Zaggoware.BugTracker.Web.Controllers { using Zaggoware.BugTracker.Services; public class HomeController : BaseController { public HomeController(IUserService userService) : base(userService) { } public ActionResult Index() { return View(); } public ActionResult About() { ViewBag.Message = "Your application description page."; return View(); } public ActionResult Contact() { ViewBag.Message = "Your contact page."; return View(); } } }

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The Supreme Court Thursday fixed a February-end deadline for the search committee on Lokpal to recommend a panel of names for appointment of the country's first anti-graft ombudsman. The apex court had on January 4 directed the Centre to place on affidavit steps taken till date for Lokpal's appointment and expressed its displeasure over the tardy progress made in this regard. The Centre on September 27, 2018 had constituted an eight-member search committee headed by Justice Desai to recommend names to the selection panel for appointment of a Lokpal. Other members of the search committee are former chief of State Bank of India Arundhati Bhattacharya, Prasar Bharati chairperson A Surya Prakash, Indian Space Research Organisation head A S Kiran Kumar, former judge of Allahabad High Court Sakha Ram Singh Yadav, former Gujarat Police head Shabbirhusein S Khandwawala, retired IAS officer of Rajasthan cadre Lalit K Panwar, and former Solicitor General Ranjit Kumar.

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If you're into exploring snow sports or wintry outdoor adventures, you'll be familiar with the freezing cold discomfort that can be felt if snow, ice, rain or sleet manages to gather its way inside your clothing. Well, it's finally time to say goodbye to cold discomfort, and hello to true winter warmth! Thanks to our snow skirts and gaiters, you'll be exploring for hours. Both Snow Skirts and Gaiters are specific, intentionally designed elements of larger pieces of clothing, typically included in our Boarder Jackets, in order to complement the design and function of the jacket for winter sport protection further. Whilst our Free Country Boarder Jacket fundamentally maintains warmth whilst adventuring through snowy terrain and protects you from harsh wind, snow or slate, it is the inclusion of Snow Skirts and Gaiters that will take your protection durability to the next level. Within the jacket, the Snow Skirt is the waist band attached with a snap closure located inside the jacket at waist level. Through clasping the band together around the waist, the Snow Skirt helps to prevent snow from entering inside the jacket when exploring snowy surroundings. Snow Skirts are also made from elastic, so that it can be stretched and fitted to a variety of body types and underneath layering in order to maintain comfort whilst also enhancing performance. Gaiters serve a similar purpose within Free Country Boarder Jackets, and are also found in some snow pants as well. Just as with Snow Skirts, Gaiters are made from elastic, which similarly grips around the boots for pants, or wrists for jackets. An added emphasis on protection of the arms and legs increases the reliability and durability of Boarder Jackets and Snow pants, allowing you to play, perform and protect yourself for hours as you ski, board or climb through the wintry terrain! Thanks to Snow Skirts and Gaiters, the Boarder Jacket is elevated in its ability to keep you warm and protect temperature and performance from the elements – an especially crucial feature in such extreme climates – so you can go as long as you want, as fast as you want.

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Q: Sum some rows in Excel after connecting with MySQL I have connected MySQL to Excel and the selected table came successfully. I want to sum a column but the result shows 0: A: The numbers are coming in as text representations of numbers. The SUM function is returning zero because it is summing text, not true numbers. You will note the 'number's' left cell alignment. True numbers default to right alignment in Excel; text default to left alignment. Select the full column then quickly run Data ► Data Tools ► Text-to-Columns. Opt for 🔘 Fixed Width and click Finish. This should be sufficient to convert any text that can actually be a number into a true number. In VBA, you can quickly loop through each column in a data block and force the Range.TextToColumns method. Dim c As Long With Range("A1").CurrentRegion For c = 1 To .Columns.Count .Columns(c).NumberFormat = "General" .Columns(c).TextToColumns Destination:=.Columns(c), _ DataType:=xlFixedWidth, FieldInfo:=Array(0, 1) Next c End With Note that the .TextToColumns command will error if there is absolutely nothing in the column to process. Zero-length strings are sufficient to run the command and can be turned into truly blank cells using this same method.

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Each trip to Chengdu lived here! Too few parking spaces, waiting a long time to park the car. feel the price small expensive little expensive. Very good, clean, safe, and convenient transportation. Around many teahouses, restaurants as well as many flies, very well decorated slightly old, renovated. Warm room, beds comfortable, satisfactory health conditions. Facilities old ... have stayed several times. Domestic 5 star, over the old location, overall okay. Giving a bad review, this time! Good and easy, nice, often stay.

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Rajapaksa critics win control of Sri Lanka Parliament panel COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Lawmakers opposed to disputed Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa won control of a key committee setting Parliament's agenda during a vote Friday that dealt a severe blow to his leadership. Sri Lanka has been in a political crisis since Oct. 26 when the president abruptly fired Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe and appointed Rajapaksa. Both claim to be the legitimate officeholder, with Wickremesinghe saying he has majority support in Parliament and his firing was invalid. Last week, Speaker Karu Jayasuriya announced Sri Lanka had no prime minister or government after Parliament passed no-confidence motions against Rajapaksa. Both Sirisena and Rajapaksa have refused to accept the results of the motions, saying proper procedures were not followed. When Parliament was convened on Friday, Jayasuriya announced the members of the Parliament Selection Committee as seven Rajapaksa opponents and five supporters. Lawmakers backing Rajapaksa refused to accept the list, arguing that they run the government and therefore should have the majority on the committee according to parliamentary traditions. Opponents of Rajapaksa said they should control the committee because they have a majority in Parliament and they requested a vote. Before the vote was taken, Wimal Weerawansa, a lawmaker supporting Rajapaksa, accused Jayasuriya of violating the parliamentary traditions and being partial to Wickremesinghe. Jayasuriya was elected to Parliament from Wickremesinghe's United National Party "If you don't accept the prime minister and the Cabinet of ministers, we also don't accept you as the speaker of this Parliament," Weerawansa said, before walking out with others supporting Rajapaksa. A vote was then taken by name through the electronic voting system and the opposition secured the control of the committee with 121 voting for and none against. The results also showed that Rajapaksa does not hold a majority of the 225-member Parliament, which is a setback for his loyalists who had claimed they did. Friday's vote was peaceful compared to two earlier votes which were conducted amid severe disturbances. Parliament turned violent when the no-confidence motions were taken up last week, with rival lawmakers exchanging blows, while lawmakers supporting Rajapaksa threw books, chairs and chili powder mixed with water to try to block the proceedings. Jayasuriya resorted to voice votes. Rajapaksa rejected the results of the voice vote, saying important issues should not be decided by voice. He also insisted the speaker had no authority to remove him and said he is continuing to work as prime minister. Lawmakers opposed to Rajapaksa have said his government is illegal. Jehan Perera, head of the local analyst group National Peace Council, has said that the government appointed by the president cannot be considered legal because Sirisena did not seek a parliamentary vote when he dismissed Wickremesinghe. Keep up with the latest commentary and interviews from Tom Temin and the Federal Drive by subscribing to our newsletters. Rajapaksa is considered a hero by some in the ethnic Sinhalese majority for ending a long civil war by crushing ethnic Tamil Tiger rebels. However, his time in power was marred by allegations of wartime atrocities, corruption and nepotism. Tensions had been building between Sirisena and Wickremesinghe for some time, as the president did not approve of economic reforms introduced by the prime minister. Sirisena has also accused Wickremesinghe and another Cabinet member of plotting to assassinate him, a charge Wickremesinghe has repeatedly denied. Copyright © 2019 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This website is not intended for users located within the European Economic Area. Government News World News

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Call us at +1-877-867-0945 or Chat with Predixion expert now Have a question or want more information? Predixion Insight™ What's New in 4.5 Algorithm Support HLS Council Close To the Edge: How to Prepare for the Internet of Things Active Blog Predixion Team Big DataData MiningAnalytics Internet of ThingsIot It may be the biggest buzzword of 2015. The Internet of Things has been discussed in just about every type of popular media, and in the world of IT; it is projected to be one of the largest areas of new spending this year. Of course, machine to machine communication is nothing new. But the accelerated pace of innovation and development in big data and analytics software has opened up a new universe of possibilities for connected devices. And that's what makes the potential of IoT so exciting to so many people. But along with these new possibilities come a new set of challenges. The very nature of IoT is to monitor, upload and act upon data from what are often complex entities. Consider the examples of manufacturing and healthcare, in which a large number of sensors are continually uploading data that needs to be analyzed and acted upon to improve outcomes. Whether it's predicting equipment failure or hospital readmissions, there are multiple parameters of information that are being monitored and analyzed, data that changes every second or even multiple times a second. In order to successfully implement IoT initiatives, organizations need to be prepared to address three primary challenges: 1) The vast volumes of information that need to be uploaded from sensors to the central monitoring system. 2) The need to rapidly consume continually changing information in near real-time to gain an accurate understanding of what's happening in the moment. 3) The ability to not only understand historical data, but to anticipate and predict what will happen next to prevent or facilitate certain outcomes. 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Predixion is able to generate these analytical-based decisions and actions instantly in IoT devices, without the latency of uploading data to a cloud or a centralized processing environment. Pushing decision-making to the sensors in this way reduces the amount of data that has to be uploaded and relieves the pressure on server processing. For example, imagine a huge underground drill boring deep inside a mountain. In such an environment, there may be no Internet connection or enough time to analyze sensor data to predict that an equipment failure is about to occur. Predixion is able to embed the action to stop drilling before a failure occurs directly within the sensor. Preventative action is taken in near real-time. Predixion's patent-pending MLSM (Machine Learning Semantic Model) allows data scientists and subject matter experts to collaborate and rapidly create, adapt and improve predictive models for specific IoT applications. The MLSM streamlines and simplifies this process, eliminating the need to understand the inner workings of machine learning such as shaping, managing and transforming data. Predixion also allows developers to build predictive models with a variety of tools including analysis services from Microsoft, Mahout, and R. Predixion can also consume predictive models built on other platforms such as SAS and SPSS via the PMML (Predictive Model Markup Language). In order to serve the widest variety of IoT sensors, Predixion analytical packages can be wrapped into an OSGI (Open Service Gateway Initiative) bundle that runs on any device that supports Java. From beginning to end, Predixion offers a superior ability to create, collaborate, deploy and continually improve the predictive analytics that make IoT possible. It's the most direct path for organizations that need to overcome IoT challenges and push ever closer to the edge. 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JKCA row: Court confirms stay on elections A court in Jammu has confirmed stay on the elections held by the 'rebel' group of Jammu Kashmir Cricket Association, headed by sports minister Imran Ansari, on July 20. GK Editor 20 Sep, 2015, 3:11 am A court in Jammu has confirmed stay on the elections held by the 'rebel' group of Jammu Kashmir Cricket Association, headed by sports minister Imran Ansari, on July 20. Court of 3rd civil subordinate judge (excise magistrate) Jammu held that there is, prima facie, merit in the contention of JKCA chairman Arvinder Singh Micky, who had moved court with a plea that the ordinary general council meeting held on 26 June as well as a notification calling for working committee meeting on July 20 be declared as illegal and unconstitutional. "According to view of discussion made herein above, besides the mandate of law, the injunction deserves to the plaintiff, as such ex-parte interim is hereby made absolute till disposal of main suit", reads the order. Court, however, made it clear that any observations made while passing the order are purely tentative which shall not have any ill-effect on the merit of the case. The court had on July 20 stayed the JKCA executive committee's decision to remove Abdullah as the president of the association. Of the 64 club members of the JKCA, 42 voted in an election removing Abdullah from the top spot of the cricket body. Abdullah, who was re-elected as JKCA President for a three-year term in May 2014, extending his rein which began in 1980, dubbed Ansari's election as "illegal and unconstitutional", saying he still had nearly two years left in his tenure.

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The first time I went to view the Three Sisters, it was so foggy there was nothing to see. The second time around, 2 of the 3 sisters showed up. The third hid behind the fog. Epic fail. I comforted myself with photos and paintings of the breathtaking view the fogs on those 2 occasions conspired to deprive us. The rocky pinnacles of the Three Sisters. But nothing beats actually seeing this most majestic view of the mountains and the gorge. How Mother Nature carved out this landscape and came up with this creation credited to the winds and waters that touched the land — this scene beats any painting or postcard. A popular attraction and favorite day trip out of Sydney, we headed early to beat the "tourist bus crowd". Parked the car near Echo Point and walked towards the cliff barred by fences that failed to make our 2 little boys cautious and wary of the chasm just inches away. Mommy Reia and her boys. Mercifully, the adrenaline wore off. The interest over the cliffside views, the gorge, the canyons faded and it was time to go. At some point I wondered if these boys would have enjoyed more if we went bushwalking. On second thought, the walk would have tired them out and stressed me and their mom to the max. 🙂 Then hunger pangs set in. First to a Chocolate House, then off to Katoomba's quaint little town. Still no chain restos like McDonald's or Hungry Jack here, thank God. Just like how I remembered it. We went for a proper lunch in this new Korean restaurant where one of the boys practiced his skills with the chopsticks. Found some interesting shops too before we decided to drive around the town just to check out the once familiar corners. From here, we drove through lovely Leura and dropped in at Solitary Cafe. This was where we had our last glimpse of the rocky pinnacles of the Blue Mountains while sipping our black liquids and nibbling on some sweets. The only problem eating outdoors here is that your coffee soon turns cold. 😦 They should consider serving it in a thermo flask. Seriously. Last glimpse of the Blue Mountains.

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Epic Stories of Legendary Norse Gods Michael Ambrosinoon October 11, 2019 July 24, 2020 The Vikings are remembered for being some of the most powerful warriors in history who sailed the open sea to conquer new lands. They believed in gods and goddesses, all of which deeply influenced their lifestyle. For the Vikings, they were never forced to pray to any particular god or goddess. Most people would gravitate toward their favorite god and pray to the ones whose personalities resonated with them the most. Norse mythology is strange, to say the least, and it's full of interesting characters. The Vikingsnever wrote their history down, so the stories were passed along by word of mouth. So we may never know the original stories told of the Norse gods, but that won't stop us from learning about these fascinating tales of magic, power, and scandal… These Science Fiction Novels Got the Science Very, Very Wrong Science fiction author Ray Bradbury said, "Science fiction is the most important literature in the history of the world, because it's the… Top 10 Stories & Books by Stephen King Perhaps no single actor best symbolizes the American Western than John Wayne. According to the Internet Movie Database, the man…

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Mostly Sunny with a high near 62°F [17°C]. northwest wind to around 6 mph [10 kph], with wind gusts to near 7 mph [12 kph]. The dewpoint will be near 32°F [0°C] with a humidity of 42% and a barometric pressure around 30.15 in [1021 mb]. The UVI forecast is 7. Chance of precipitation is 9% with a qpf of 0.00 in [0.00 mm]. Mostly Clear with a low around 45°F [7°C]. northwest wind to around 6 mph [10 kph], with wind gusts to near 7 mph [11 kph]. The dewpoint will be near 38°F [3°C] with a humidity of 63% and a barometric pressure around 30.24 in [1024 mb]. Chance of precipitation is 9% with a qpf of 0.00 in [0.00 mm]. Mostly Sunny with a high near 67°F [20°C]. northwest wind to around 6 mph [10 kph], with wind gusts to near 9 mph [14 kph]. The dewpoint will be near 36°F [2°C] with a humidity of 35% and a barometric pressure around 30.24 in [1024 mb]. The UVI forecast is 8. Chance of precipitation is 9% with a qpf of 0.00 in [0.00 mm]. Mostly Clear with a low around 50°F [10°C]. West southwest wind to around 6 mph [10 kph], with wind gusts to near 12 mph [19 kph]. The dewpoint will be near 41°F [5°C] with a humidity of 55% and a barometric pressure around 30.18 in [1022 mb]. Chance of precipitation is 9% with a qpf of 0.00 in [0.00 mm]. Mostly Sunny with a high near 70°F [21°C]. North northwest wind to around 8 mph [13 kph], with wind gusts to near 12 mph [19 kph]. The dewpoint will be near 37°F [3°C] with a humidity of 41% and a barometric pressure around 30.15 in [1021 mb]. The UVI forecast is 8. Chance of precipitation is 9% with a qpf of 0.00 in [0.00 mm]. Partly Cloudy with a low around 52°F [11°C]. East wind to around 2 mph [3 kph], with wind gusts to near 3 mph [6 kph]. The dewpoint will be near 46°F [8°C] with a humidity of 59% and a barometric pressure around 30.09 in [1019 mb]. Chance of precipitation is 9% with a qpf of 0.00 in [0.00 mm]. Mostly Sunny with a high near 69°F [20°C]. North wind to around 4 mph [6 kph], with wind gusts to near 5 mph [8 kph]. The dewpoint will be near 44°F [6°C] with a humidity of 42% and a barometric pressure around 30.03 in [1017 mb]. The UVI forecast is 8. Chance of precipitation is 9% with a qpf of 0.01 in [0.17 mm]. Mostly Cloudy with Scattered Showers with a low around 55°F [13°C]. "NNE" wind to around 3 mph [5 kph], with wind gusts to near 6 mph [10 kph]. The dewpoint will be near 48°F [9°C] with a humidity of 72% and a barometric pressure around 30.00 in [1016 mb]. Chance of precipitation is 45% with a qpf of 0.36 in [9.19 mm]. Mostly Cloudy with Isolated Showers with a high near 70°F [21°C]. Northeast wind to around 8 mph [13 kph], with wind gusts to near 11 mph [18 kph]. The dewpoint will be near 49°F [9°C] with a humidity of 51% and a barometric pressure around 30.00 in [1016 mb]. The UVI forecast is 8. Chance of precipitation is 20% with a qpf of 0.12 in [3.05 mm]. Partly Cloudy with Isolated Showers with a low around 51°F [11°C]. Northeast wind to around 5 mph [9 kph], with wind gusts to near 10 mph [17 kph]. The dewpoint will be near 48°F [9°C] with a humidity of 78% and a barometric pressure around 30.00 in [1016 mb]. Chance of precipitation is 20% with a qpf of 0.21 in [5.34 mm]. Sunny with a high near 72°F [22°C]. East wind to around 4 mph [7 kph], with wind gusts to near 7 mph [12 kph]. The dewpoint will be near 45°F [7°C] with a humidity of 49% and a barometric pressure around 29.97 in [1015 mb]. The UVI forecast is 0. Chance of precipitation is 9% with a qpf of 0.00 in [0.00 mm]. Partly Cloudy with a low around 55°F [13°C]. Southwest wind to around 3 mph [5 kph], with wind gusts to near 6 mph [10 kph]. The dewpoint will be near 48°F [9°C] with a humidity of 64% and a barometric pressure around 29.97 in [1015 mb]. Chance of precipitation is 9% with a qpf of 0.00 in [0.00 mm]. Mostly Cloudy with a high near 74°F [23°C]. East wind to around 7 mph [12 kph], with wind gusts to near 11 mph [18 kph]. The dewpoint will be near 46°F [8°C] with a humidity of 44% and a barometric pressure around 29.91 in [1013 mb]. The UVI forecast is 0. Chance of precipitation is 9% with a qpf of 0.00 in [0.00 mm]. Cloudy with a low around 56°F [13°C]. West wind to around 7 mph [11 kph], with wind gusts to near 10 mph [16 kph]. The dewpoint will be near 45°F [7°C] with a humidity of 55% and a barometric pressure around 29.91 in [1013 mb]. Chance of precipitation is 9% with a qpf of 0.00 in [0.00 mm].

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Des Moines Apartments West Des Moines Apartments Urbandale Apartments Ankeny Apartments Waukee Apartments Ames Apartments Johnston Apartments Grimes Apartments Clive Apartments Altoona Apartments Polk City Apartments Windsor Heights Apartments Bondurant Apartments Boone Apartments Start your Norwalk apartment search! 691 Short-term Apartments for rent in Norwalk, IA Finding a short-term apartment in Norwalk takes some leg work to find the right location, price point, and lease terms. You may need to rent a short-term apartment due to a new j... Read Guide > Sherwood Glen 8825 Hickman Rd, Urbandale, IA 50322 Located just minutes from shopping and recreation centers, and 10 minutes from Downtown. On-site amenities include a pool and sundeck. Each apartment features large closets and a full kitchen package. Results within 5 miles of Norwalk TurtleCreek Apartments 225 Prairie View Dr, West Des Moines, IA 50266 Furnished units with walk-in closets, ceiling fans, and in-unit laundry. Amenities include a 24-hr gym, hot tub, and bike storage. Pet-friendly. Easy highway access, near Jordan Creek Town Center and minutes from downtown. Mansions at Jordan Creek 355 88th St, West Des Moines, IA 50266 A modern community located near the park and area schools. Tucked into a residential area. These homes are larger with ample storage and nine-foot ceilings. On-site pool, fire pit and gym. Pet-friendly. Bricks at Waukee East 1400 SE Bishop Drive, Waukee, IA 50263 Now Leasing The Bricks Waukee East apartment homes, a brand new way of thinking and style of living in Waukee, Iowa. The Bricks Waukee East homes offer a new way of living in Waukee, Iowa. The Bricks Waukee East features pet-friendly one and two-bedroom apartment homes crafted with the imaginative combination of modern interior finishes and a vintage brick exterior. BelleMeade Apartments 204 S 64th St, West Des Moines, IA 50266 Minutes from Jordan Creek Town Center. Updated interiors with walk-in closets and stainless steel appliances. Available furnished. Outstanding amenities include a dog park, 24-hour gym and a pool. Internet cafe and garage available. 210 Southwest 11th Street, Des Moines, IA 50309 Downtown Des Moines Welcome to LINC at Gray's Station, the beautiful apartment community in downtown Des Moines' newest neighborhood. Connected to everything the city has to offer, our 1-3 bedroom floor plans will make you feel right at home! 5Fifty5 555 Southwest 7th Street, Des Moines, IA 50309 When you live at 5Fifty5 Executive Townhomes, it is like bringing the energy of downtown right into your home. Step out onto your rooftop patio and you are overlooking the Raccoon River and have a front seat view of the fireworks over Principal Park after the Iowa Cubs finish one of their Friday night games. If that isn't enough to reel you in, easy access to the bike trails and our 9 foot ceilings will make these luxury rental townhomes a must-have for anyone wanting to live in a downtown Des Moines apartment. Prairie Winds 2207 E Park Ave, Des Moines, IA 50320 River Woods A beautiful community with a great management team, only minutes away from Downtown at a fraction of the price! Our 2 bedroom apartments feature walk-in closets, spacious living areas, in-home washer & dryer (select homes), a walkout patio or balcony & more. All of our apartment homes include free heat and Wi-Fi. Our location can't be beat as we are conveniently located on the South East side of Des Moines, within walking distance to River Hills Elementary School! Prairie Winds is the place you'll love to call home. *Prairie Winds participates in an affordable housing program. Household income & student status limitations apply. Please call for more details. Windsor Square by Broadmoor 900 65th St, Windsor Heights, IA 50324 Windsor Heights Tucked away in one of Des Moines' most attractive neighborhoods, Windsor Square by Broadmoor puts you just minutes to everything: Drake and Des Moines Universities, shopping, entertainment, restaurants and I-235. For successful professionals, on-the-go students and empty nesters alike, Windsor Square is the place to be. With a sparkling pool and clubhouse, spacious floor plans, super-sized closets and a washer and dryer in every apartment, Windsor Square offers all the amenities of home — and more — without the headaches of homeownership. And thanks to the big trees, shady sidewalks and surrounding parks, you can enjoy a real sense of community and privacy in your new neighborhood. 360 at Jordan West 360 Bridgewood Dr, West Des Moines, IA 50266 Limited-Time Special: Now pre-leasing our Studio, 1, 2, and 3-bedroom homes! Join our Priority List by January 31st and receive $150 off your first month's rent when you move in! *Details may apply, please contact us for more information. Meet one of West Des Moines' newest apartment communities — 360 at Jordan West — located next to Jordan Creek Town Center. Here, you can live, work and play in a community tailored to you. We offer studio, 1-bedroom, 1-bedroom with den, 2-bedroom and 3-bedroom apartments. Our community was designed around entertainment and connectivity so that you can live life fully here. Relax during a yoga class, take a dip in the hot tub or resort-style pool, hang out with friends in the party room, or grill up some burgers at our outdoor grills. Soak up the views of the greenspace, hop on the nearby trail, or walk over to Jordan Creek Town Center for some drinks and dinner with friends. In your apartment home, you'll enjoy granite countertops, undermount Results within 10 miles of Norwalk The Parker at Seventh 615 Park St, Des Moines, IA 50309 Downtown apartments with views of the Des Moines skyline. Stainless steel appliances, hardwood floors and microwaves. Cable television included. Community area with Wi-Fi. Close to public transportation. Ashford Ridge 3650 Patricia Dr, Urbandale, IA 50322 Come home to Ashford Ridge, an apartment community that offers affordable living in Urbandale, Iowa. Enjoy living in Central Iowa just minutes away from Des Moines. Head to our website to view our floor plans, photos, and amenities to see why Ashford Ridge is the perfect choice for you! Legacy Apartments 3610 Twana Dr, Des Moines, IA 50310 Lower Beaver Ingersoll Square 1900 High Street, Des Moines, IA 50309 Sherman Hill Rowat Lofts 601 E Vine Street, Des Moines, IA 50309 NEW EAST VILLAGE APARTMENTS! Housed on the former site of the Rowat Cut Stone and Marble Factory, Rowat Lofts celebrates the tradition and innovation unique to Des Moines' East Village. Here, ambitious trendsetters enjoy bright open-concept apartments. Modern-industrial common spaces include rooftop decks, a fitness center, and an outdoor courtyard. Rowat's central location offers walkable access to entertainment and nightlife, award-winning restaurants, and riverfront events. Come dwell on the edge at Rowat Lofts. Confluence on 3rd 103 SW 3rd St, Des Moines, IA 50309 Conveniently located next to Des Moines passenger depot. Luxurious resort-style community features 24-hour gym, car wash area, parking, and pool. Well-appointed units include dishwasher, garbage disposal, and hardwood floors. Sutton Hill 2100 King Ave, Des Moines, IA 50320 Sutton Hill has one- and two-bedroom apartment homes ready for you. Sutton Hill is located just south of downtown Des Moines and our spacious floor plans make our community unique from the rest. And we have a variety of amenities that set our community apart from the rest - you get access to our great community room, swimming pool, basketball court, tennis court, playground, and much more! 2301 Ingersoll Ave, Des Moines, IA 50312 Woodland Heights Community has bike storage, electric car charging, and outdoor pool. Apartments feature large closets, quartz countertops, and nine-foot ceilings. Close to the Raccoon River and Chamberlain Park. 200 Des Moines Street, Des Moines, IA 50309 Welcome to Velocity, our community of gorgeous apartments in the East Village neighborhood of Des Moines, IA. Between our studio, one-, two- and three-bedroom apartments, theres a floor plan tailored just for you. Weve designed our apartments with large windows - perfect for checking out the city views and letting in a plethora of natural light. 1260 34th Street #1101, Des Moines, IA 50311 The Drake Apartments is Des Moines, Iowa's choice for convenient living. We offer a wide choice of rental options including one, two, three and four bedroom floor plans. We even have individual rooms that can be leased separately in select four bedroom units. The Drake Apartments are conveniently located within walking distance to campus. Shopping and entertainment choices are nearby. We are close to interstates and located on a bus line. We have responsive on-site management and our own maintenance team. Our community has shared amenities like a community pool, sun deck and picnic area. The Drake offers secure package receiving and an on-site laundry. We have off-street parking and have optional garages available for covered parking or additional storage. Each apartment is cable-ready and comes with window coverings. We accept secure, online rent payments in a selection of payment option. We offer flexible leases, depending on circumstances, and encourage you to contact us with your questions. If you are interested in becoming a resident of The Drake Apartments, schedule a visit or fill out an application today. We look forward to assisting you in finding the right apartment for you. Watermark at Jordan Creek 6455 Galleria Dr, West Des Moines, IA 50266 Retail and entertainment are convenient to this community thanks to its proximity to Jordan Creek Town Center. Apartments have in-unit laundry and either a patio or balcony. There's an onsite pool, hot tub and gym. Park 88 595 88th Street, West Des Moines, IA 50266 Park88 is a new apartment and townhome community in West Des Moines offering luxury amenities with a relaxed vibe that will make you feel at home. We offer spacious floorplans to fit every stage of life from studio apartments, 1-3 bedroom apartments and 1-3 bedroom townhomes. Our community was designed with your lifestyle in mind. With spacious layouts and exceptional amenities, our apartments and townhomes will feel like coming home. Your time will feel more like your own with the convenience of our fitness center, dog park and nearby shopping and dining. And when it's time to unwind, our outdoor pool, playground, and bike-friendly trail system await. We're sure you'll never want to leave home, but when you do, Park88 is close to I-80, Waukee schools, and Jordan Creek Mall. Give our property manager a call to schedule a tour today and come home to Park88! R & T Lofts 717 Locust St, Des Moines, IA 50309 Loft-style apartments with 18- to 20-foot ceilings in historic Register and Tribune building. Walking distance to the Des Moines Civic Center or Iowa Events Center in Downtown Des Moines, with nearby public transit options. Sierra Pointe 7171 Woodland Ave, West Des Moines, IA 50266 Experience convenient community amenities on this pet-friendly property, including a heated saltwater pool, pet spa and heated underground parking. Features in-unit front loading washer and dryer and oversized windows. Close to I-80 and Peony Park. 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Norwalk started out as a log cabin built by Samuel Snyder in 1852. When it was incorporated in 1900, the town was exactly one square mile in size. Today the city has grown so that she shares borders with her neighboring cities of Cumming, Des Moines and West Des Moines and at the 2010 census reported a population of 8,945. See more What to keep in mind when looking for short-term apartments in Norwalk, IA Finding a short-term apartment in Norwalk takes some leg work to find the right location, price point, and lease terms. You may need to rent a short-term apartment due to a new job, a relationship change, or to explore a new city before committing to staying. Whatever the reason, short-term apartments can provide the flexibility that traditional leases don't.

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Car rentals from Alamo in Kosice were reviewed by 10+ customers with a rating of 7.7/10. The cheapest car from Alamo in Kosice is Skoda Citigo of Small, Compact, Mini car rental class. Its price is just $26.06 per day. Most of our customers usually book vehicles of Economy car rental class in Slovakia. The cheapest Economy car from Alamo in Kosice is presented by Skoda Fabia for $27.44 per day. The cheapest car rental in Kosice is Fiat Panda from Global-Rent-A-Car. Its price is only $16.58 per day. Global-Rent-A-Car was reviewed by 100+ customers with a rating average score of 8.5/10.

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CIRCLE OF FLIGHT RICHARD STOCKHAM Thorus, the vengeful, had determined his way. Aria, the healer, had determined her way. Which determined this classic meeting of the twain. It seemed they had argued for years as they were arguing tonight. The man paced back and forth chain-smoking cigarettes; the woman sat motionless, watching him. They glanced at their watches with fearful eyes. They heard, with acutely alert ears, the goings and comings of people in the hall; heard the shattering blast of rockets in the sky above the city. And they argued. "So you're going through with it tonight," he said heavily, "in your own way." "Perhaps I should stop you." He crushed out his cigarette. "If the police were to hear-" "No!" The word was thrown at him. "I know you don't mean that. But it's unworthy of you even to say it." She covered her face with nervous hands. "After all I am your wife." He stood over her, his lips tight. There was something of the fragile, finely made puppet about her, he thought, as though she had been refashioned a hundred times by some artisan seeking after perfect delicacy and precision. He softened momentarily. "Come with me then," he said. "Why? Why?" "Your way is wrong." "We're the last two leaders of the opposition alive." His voice came swiftly and low. "The authority's beaten us. Their setup for killing, imprisonment, bribery and blackmail functions too well. Our whole organization's been scattered like matchsticks. The police are closing in on us. We're finished here on earth. We'll be lucky if we're killed quickly." He waited a moment for his words to take effect. "We go along together that far." She stood, clasping her hands. "Of course. Of course." "Look. I know you've finished that damned contraption of yours that'll take you into the atoms. I know you've been working on it for years. But I've been working too. My ship's been ready to take off into super-space for two days. But I haven't gone. I've been waiting for you. To wait at a time like this is to ask for death or worse. Now I demand you give up this insane idea of going into the atoms. You've got to come with me." Vas a comprar el ebook "CIRCLE OF FLIGHT" deseas revisar tus datos de facturación

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My friends and I share where we are and we can all see each other on a map. I was always disappointed that there wasn't a Google Latitude app for the iPad once I got my iPad mini. I considered building one myself, but was busy with other projects. This means that after August 9, your Latitude friends list will be deleted and you'll lose the ability to share your location with them. There will also be some changes to Location Reporting and Location History, including changes to third-party applications that use Google Latitude. Please see our FAQs for more information. A hearty "screw you" for the people who really like the app and the developers who use it for all kinds of things. There is a more in-depth article over at readwrite.com about the politics behind this and all those effected. Update: It seems that if you go to Google+ and choose "Locations", you can see yourself and your friends who shared their location with you. I like having it in Maps more, but at least it is something.

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Hundred Word Reviews: Amon Amarth | 'Jomsviking' Few metal bands are as consistent(ly great) as Amon Amarth, and they're in fine form here. Vikings aren't known for sprinting, but over the last few records that's what AA's music has largely been doing – and for the better. As usual, the misses occur when AA stray beyond five minutes, the added length hindered by a lack of commitment. Additionally, a few questionable choices mar an otherwise solid effort: an appearance by Doro is awkwardly out-of-place, and the melody of "Raise Your Horns" is nursery rhyme-esque. A bit of editing and you've got one of the year's best metal releases. Author blueshirt12Posted on March 31, 2016 March 12, 2018 Categories Hundred Word ReviewTags Album Review, Amon Amarth, Jomsviking review Hundred Word Reviews: Brian Fallon | 'Painkillers' Painkillers finds Fallon trading the punk stylings of his main band for an attempt at a singer-songwriter record (read: an acoustic-based affair). Fallon does a little experimenting, too: "Long Drives" sports some country-rock flavor and "Mojo Hand" is a solid bar band impression. The anthemic nature of his writings remain, too – "Smoke" and "Nobody Wins" match the highs of his best sing-alongs. Lyrically, it's not as heavy as TGA's Get Hurt; however, Fallon still sings about the pain of lost love and past mistakes. Painkillers is gravelly-voiced jangle-pop that's polite, inoffensive, and without risk. On those terms, it's a success. Author blueshirt12Posted on March 14, 2016 March 12, 2018 Categories Hundred Word ReviewTags Album Review, Brian Fallon, Painkillers, The Gaslight Anthem Hundred Word Reviews: Kendrick Lamar | 'untitled unmastered.' Kendrick Lamar's glorified B-sides collection from the TPAB sessions. As a window into his creative process, it's infinitely fascinating. As anything else, not so much. The wonderfully broken jazz of Butterfly is on full-display here, allowing Lamar room to explore every possible mental alleyway. His trust in his listeners to follow him regardless of how weird he gets is his greatest strength and weakenss. The brevity here (34 minutes) is welcome, despite an aimless, eight-minute stitch-job. As both rapper and writer, he's the best alive. Still, as with TPAB, this demonstrates the difference between being an artist and making art. Author blueshirt12Posted on March 10, 2016 March 12, 2018 Categories Hundred Word ReviewTags Album Review, Kendrick Lamar, untitled unmastered February Music Round-up Rihanna | ANTI Finally, THE singles artist of the decade decides to make a listenable album start to finish. ANTI is as efficient as it is love-drunk in its songwriting. Sure, there aren't any monsters like "We Found Love" or "Umbrella", but they wouldn't fit here, anyway. This is personality as a compositional device – a hypnotic, no-fucks-given endeavor that largely avoids studio filler. Musically, it's her least-maximal, allowing her vocals to seethe, sway, slink, and swoon around the un-radio-friendly, hazy grime of the production. It's no accident that her best vocal performance is on her best album. Mind Enterprises | Idealist Debut from Italian-born EDM producer who loves the '80s. Compsitions are surprisingly mature given his young age. 21st Century dance music that's smart – whoever heard of such a thing? [You can read my full review here.] Collision | Satanic Surgery Standard crossover thrash (leaning towards punk) with Entombed's guitar tone and edge-of-sanity vocals – nothing special or overly original. That said, this record is a fucking lotta fun. And it's only 26 minutes, so it's over before you can hate it. Bonus points for the song titles: "Operation Meatcleaver", "All You Need is Hate", "Necromantic Love Affair", and "Touch Me, Jesus". Animal Collective | Painting With Ever OD'ed on Skittles? Imagine the colorful, most joyous moments of Merriweather Post Pavilion and multiply by a billion – that's Painting With. AC paints with pinballing colors packed so tightly together that superfluous "Wipeout" and Coke ad samples leaks out. Naturally, there's little, if any, room for subtlety; without it, these songs are children constantly yelling their parents' names simply for the the attention. It's all ADHD bright colors without requiring any real patience to abosrb the music – which is to say, the perfect album for the Spotify generation. Author blueshirt12Posted on March 2, 2016 March 2, 2016 Categories Monthly music round-upTags Album Review, Animal Collective, Collision, Mind Enterprises, Rihanna

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Microsourcing Philippines Inc. is looking for a passionate, self-motivated Senior Digital Marketing Specialist with an eye for detail to develop, implement, track and optimise our digital marketing campaigns across all digital channels, in line with company objectives. Your primary focus is planning and executing strong, innovative digital marketing campaigns using SEO, SEM, display advertising, email marketing, e-commerce and other techniques to grow awareness, grow brand advocacy, promote products and, ultimately, increase sales. In this role, you will be responsible for the creation of all digital content for all digital campaigns, across all digital platforms in-line with the marketing strategy, leveraging the brands style guides to produce engaging, exciting and relevant material. In addition, you will be responsible for our social media presence and managing our website, ensuring both platforms are always updated with relevant, engaging content, while always looking to improve the end-to-end customer experience.

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Ah, the good old days. The early '60s, when dinner for two at the best restaurant in the United States, Le Pavillon in New York City, was $50. You could roar through the streets on a '62 Ferrari 250 GTO that cost you less than $10,000. And you could open a little restaurant in Redondo Beach for $700, which is what Arthur Pesqueria did in 1960 when he started El Indio. Today, dinner for two at the best restaurants in the country will run about $400. That '62 Ferrari GTO has gone for over $10 million at auction. But not everything has gone haywire, because at El Indio you can still get a satisfying and filling meal for under $4. Pesqueria was only 24 when he opened his restaurant, but he had been plotting its premiere for years. The fire was kindled at age 12, when he started helping his mother make tamales. At 19, Pesqueria got a job at McDonnell Douglas, and when he was a few extra bucks ahead, he would buy pots and pans for the restaurant he had in mind. By the time he was 24, on the basis of that $700 investment, he was the owner of El Indio. It wasn't a smash success from the start. Pesqueria worked the restaurant alone from early morning till late at night, averaging $15 a day gross sales. But he stuck with it. "I loved the business," he says. "You've got to love what you do to do a real good job." His enthusiasm for his work slowly began to garner attention and the place began to thrive. The Mexican fare at El Indio is tailored for families who don't want fire in their mouths. If you're in search of a burning sensation, this isn't the place. However, the food is very popular. Even on weeknights, there is likely to be a full house enjoying the large and tasty dishes. One of the bestsellers is the chile colorado burrito ($3.45): big, tender chunks of pork mixed with bell peppers, onions and tomatoes, topped with cheese, guacamole and sour cream. Another is the roast beef taco ($1.50)--shredded beef and grated cheese filling a lightly fried corn tortilla. For those wanting to concoct their own Mexican dishes, the restaurant opens early to sell freshly ground masa for tamales, fresh corn tortillas and assorted chilies and sausages. El Indio is at 2523 Artesia Blvd. (310) 370-0038. Open Monday through Friday, 9 a.m to 9 p.m.; Saturday and Sunday, 8 a.m. to 9 p.m.

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The ARROW D-311 Low Friction Rapid Roll Door is designed for inside applications. Improves traffic and people flow with fast up to 2.0 metres per second opening speeds. 'Low Friction' technology combined with a frequency inverter driven motor – the ARROW D-311 LF Rapid Roll Door is your smooth operator.

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This year's First Responder Bowl which featured Boston College and the Boise State Broncos was called in the first quarter because of weather. BC was leading 7-0 with about five minutes left in the first quarter when lightning ended the game. There are currently no plans to make the game up, which was determined to be a no contest. The game was being played at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas, Texas. Boise State ended the 2018 season with a 10-3 record and a national ranking of 25th.

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July 2021 – 50 Years of Genuine Houserockin' Blues Various Artists 50 Years of Genuine Houserockin' Blues (Alligator Records) When Bruce Iglauer started Alligator records in a neighbourhood on the south side of Chicago back in 1970, little did he realize the giant impact his tiny label would have on the world of blues. In the years since, the label would release a compilation called Genuine Houserockin' Music every 5 years, that I would snap up as soon as I could get my hot little hands on it. It all started when Bruce used his savings to finance a recording by his favorite windy city blues band, Hound Dog Taylor & The Houserockers. It was that album that created the necessity of the label, so it is only fitting that the first cut on this 50th anniversary compilation is from that classic band. This new collection, 50 years in the making, is a powerful and lasting tribute to all the artists who have graced the label over the last five decades. But this collection is more than just a set of songs by various artists. It is a labour of love showcasing a who's who of blues, past, present and future. Many of the artists featured are gone now, lost to the mists of time, and yet their music lives on. Past legends like Koko Taylor, James Cotton, Big Walter Horton, Johnny Winter and Luther Allison all recorded under the Alligator banner and left a legacy of music unlike any other. It is only fitting that they are all part of this release, respect paid for music that shook the world. Present artists are well represented on this album with cuts from Marcia Ball, Tommy Castro & The Painkillers, Elvin Bishop & Charlie Musselwhite, Coco Montoya, Rick Estrin & The Nightcats, JJ Grey & Mofro and Tinsley Ellis. They are a telling line up of power players in modern blues, all of whom have been part of the Alligator family. The future is bright with artists like Christone "Kingfish" Ingram, Shemekia Copeland, Curtis Salgado, Selwyn Birchwood and Toronzo Cannon, all breaking new ground as part of the Alligator family. They are the vanguard, standing on the shoulders of giants, bringing the blues into the 21st century. If you are new to the blues, and are looking for a guide, a sign post to brilliant blues from the last 50 years, I highly recommend this collection. Bring it home, put it on the player, and let your soul run free through 50 years of Genuine Houserockin' Music. (Terry Parsons)

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Now, let's extend the Login verification scenario by parameterizing some steps. Objective: Run login verification scenario with multiple sets of usernames and passwords. Now, let's say we want to extend this action so that it works with any given pair of user name/password that we supply. We are talking Parameterization here! Open Login to QBank action either from global search or from the Navigator. In the Parameters tab, create 2 input parameters: User Name and Password. Click on the "+" icon and type parameter name "User Name". Take other settings on the defaults. You may get a Reference Confirmation dialog. Click on "Proceed". Now, let's replace hard-coded values for user name and password in the action logic with the parameters. Click on the value, john.todd in the statement. Now click the parameterization icon on the left side. Select "Action Parameter" and choose "User Name" Repeat the same by clicking the value of password in the second statement in the logic. Now, navigate to the Scenario you just created in the first example. Now that the Login to QBank step is parameterized, scenario needs to supply values for these parameters. You can setup multiple test cases, by providing one set of values in each test case. Click on the Test Cases tab. Now when you run this scenario, it gets executed twice - once for each test case!

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NHS Fife Research & Development Department and the University of St Andrews established Fife Community Advisory Council for Primary Care Research. We are looking for patients, service users and members of the public to be involved in health and social care research. There are many ways you can become involved in health research. You can be a participant in a research study or you could become part of the research team, advising on research questions, designing documents and even carrying out some of the research. Training, support and reimbursement will be provided. Contact School of Medicine Research Support.

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When Dilip Kumar Refused to Work With Saira Banu Indo-Asian News Service | June 13, 2014 20:19 IST (New Delhi) Saira Banu fell in love with Dilip Kumar after watching his 1952 film Aan. Dilip Kumar annoyed Saira Banu by refusing to work with her in films as he thought she was too young to pair with him on screen. It is one of the most enduring marriages in Bollywood but Dilip Kumar reveals that though aware of her 'crush' on him, he annoyed Saira Banu by refusing to work with her in films as he thought she was too young to pair with him on screen. The actress, who fell in love with Dilip Kumar after watching his 1952 film Aan, finally married the man of her dreams in 1966 when he was in his early 40s while she was 22. (Also read: At Dilip Kumar's Book Launch, a VIP Guest List from Bollywood) In his autobiography Dilip Kumar: The Substance And The Shadow, narrated by Udayatara Nayar, the screen icon, born in Peshawar (Pakistan) on 11 December 1922 and whose real name is Muhammed Yousuf Khan, reveals details about his courtship with Saira. "Ram Aur Shyam was very special for me in a personal way because I married Saira when the production of the film was nearing completion. Until then I was reluctant to even work with her for some reasons," Dilip Kumar, 91, says in the book. Saira, on her part, had already found a teacher to learn Urdu and Persian to impress Dilip Kumar. She had also got to know about his likes and dislikes. The actor was "pleasantly amused and delighted" but never gave any importance to "this crush directed at me". As a family well-wisher, he also advised Saira's mother to not let her work in films. She made her debut with 1961 hit Junglee opposite Shammi Kapoor. Saira had already worked with Dilip Kumar's contemporaries Raj Kapoor and Dev Anand but working with the actor was still a distant dream. (Also read: I saw my mother's beautiful traits in Nanda: Saira Banu) In fact, director Nag Reddy wanted to cast Saira in Ram Aur Shyam but Dilip Kumar stopped him from doing that. The role finally went to Mumtaz, who he thought was more suitable for the part, making Saira very angry. Dilip Kumar vividly recalls the day he fell in love with Saira during a party thrown to celebrate her birthday and the house warming of their new bungalow. "When I alighted from my car and entered the beautiful garden that leads to the house, I can still recall my eyes falling on Saira standing in the foyer of her new house looking breathtakingly beautiful in a brocade sari. I was taken aback, because she was no longer the young girl I consciously avoided working with because I thought she would look too young to be my heroine. "She had indeed grown to full womanhood and was in reality more beautiful than I thought she was. I simply stepped forward and shook her hand and for us time stood still. "For once, she let go of her annoyance with me and looked straight into my eyes and it did not take more than an instant for me to realize that she was the one Destiny had been knowingly reserving as my real-life partner while I was refusing to pair with her on screen!," Dilip Kumar recalls. dilip kumar junglee nag reddy raj kapoor ram aur shyam saira banu Anupam Kher Recalls His 'Iconic' Meeting With 'Legend Dilip Kumar' Mumtaz Is Healthy And Looking Beautiful As Always: Daughter Tanya After Actress' Death Hoax Iconic RK Studio Gets New Owner, Randhir Kapoor Says... Saira Banu 'Happy' As Padosan, Co-Starring Sunil Dutt, Enters IMDb's Top 100 Indian Films Ranbir Kapoor And Family Bid Bappa Adieu, Perhaps For Last Time Ganesh Chaturthi 2018: This May Be Bappa's Final Visit To RK Studio Everything About Sanju Was Shocking: Ranbir Kapoor Rishi Kapoor Fondly Remembers Father Raj Kapoor

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Quantcast launches Q for Publishers, empowering media owners to drive new revenue from their online audiences San Francisco, September 25, 2018 – Quantcast, which owns and operates the world's largest audience insights and measurement platform on the open internet, today announced, Q for Publishers, a new suite of products for media owners. The new tools enable publishers to identify new, more granular audiences across their properties while validating their audience composition faster than traditional measurement methods, driving increased advertising revenue in the process. Q for Publishers has already been rolled out by more than 25 media owners, including global brands such as Buzzfeed, and Forbes, as well as specialist destinations including Apartment Therapy. The launch builds on Quantcast's track record of delivering valuable products and services for publishers including its free Quantcast Measure product, which currently measures more than 100 million online destinations worldwide and helps publishers uncover new insights about their audience. The new Q for Publishers suite gives publishers access to more powerful tools for building sustainable ad-driven business models by responding to advertiser request for proposals (RFPs) more accurately and efficiently. Replacing traditional panel-based measurement tools, Q for Publishers offers fresh, accurate data on audiences that publishers will be able to use to win budget that has, in recent years, increasingly been shifting to social media and walled gardens. Key advantages of Q for Publishers Faster access to regularly updated demographic and behavioural audience insights More detailed direct audience measurement, down to the individual article, author or content topic level A single, easy-to-use interface that existing sales teams can use Reduces the time it takes to respond to a request for proposal (RFP) to hours instead of days Commenting on the launch, Sam Barnett, Quantcast's Chief Product Officer said, "Q for Publishers was developed to put more power back into the hands of the publisher by providing easy access to fresher and more accurate audience data. This new suite of powerful tools enables publishers to tap directly into Q, the world's largest AI-driven audience behavior platform, to drive more revenue. We're excited to work with more and more publishers to help maximize the value they're seeing from their audiences." Commenting on the new audience insights that can inform advertiser conversations, Chris Phillips, VP & General Manager, Growth Verticals, Apartment Therapy & Kitchn said, "Using Q for Publishers' Audience Planner application, we are able to see what content is most appealing to a specific segment of Apartment Therapy's audience. For example, Quantcast helped us discover which how-to projects are most interesting to people just before they move." For more information on the applications, click here. About Quantcast Quantcast owns and operates the world's largest audience insights and measurement platform on the open internet. Fueled by live data drawn from more than 100 million web and mobile destinations, Quantcast applies machine learning technology to help marketers, publishers, and agencies grow their brands by better understanding and predicting consumer interactions in real-time. Founded in 2006, Quantcast is headquartered in San Francisco and employs 700 employees in over 20 offices across 10 countries. Please contact press@quantcast.com

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Q: Conditional templates in AngularJs I have a login page, which is just a simple form in the center of the page with no header, footer or sidebar. My regular pages will have a sidebar, header and footer (these 3 are directives). I call all my templates in ng-view, depending on the routes. I want to place my directives outside ng-view since they'll be common across all the pages except login and I don't want them to be fetched on every URL change. How do I have a login page without the 3 directives? A: I dont know if I get what You really want to do, but i would suggest to use ng-if such ng-if may look look like this: <div ng-if="notLogin"> here is Your navbar contents. Directies, anything You need </div> and then in controller - $scope.notLogin = $location.path() !== "/login" If You have directives for footers, navbars etc, i think You can do that in directive controller and hide all content of directive there, so directive will be empty. You may also use global controller to do that job and wrap those directives in divs like in my example. Doing it in directives looks cleaner though. Hope its what You need. A: you can use ng-if to conditionally display/hide them on UI. Please note that ng-if is different than ng-switch. The ngIf directive removes or recreates a portion of the DOM tree based on an {expression}. If the expression assigned to ngIf evaluates to a false value then the element is removed from the DOM. More details - https://docs.angularjs.org/api/ng/directive/ngIf Qucik Steps - * *create a shell page and set the header, footer, sidebar and a view *use ng-if={{User.isLoggedin}} for header, footer, sidebar and login *set User.isLoggedin to false when user is not logged in *Set it to true once user loged in A: I created a small plunk to offer you a solution to your issue. this is the base of the solution: <ng-include src="appVm.templatetoShow"> </ng-include> in the Appcontroller : function AppController() { this.templatetoShow = 'login.html'; } I included a couple of templates that gets loaded when needed. After some rereading, I made a new plunk to show you how this can be done. The hiding part is simple, just add some CSS into the mix, and you won't see anything from your main page. Added some cloaking to prevent FOUC, and wrote a couple of lines to show an authentication system. I introduced an User service that you can inject wherever you need the users data. Is this more in what you wanted? A: Directives are shared across all views if you use the same controller however using different controllers is not adviced either. what makes you uncomfortable with that ? have a look at this post: https://stackoverflow.com/a/16213055/1218551 best wishes:)

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Overstock 1 day sale, two quilting tips! Two great deals so come for the deals and stay for a visit! Now for the second part of the quilting lesson… the friends I was visiting with at the FVQG show told me about a teacher who had taught a technique for free-motion quilting. That teacher selects her backing fabric based on it having an interesting design. She starts her quilting from the top of the quilt, outlining all the main motifs of the quilt. Once she has done that, she turns the quilt over and quilts from the back all the background areas (which she can tell from the outlining she's done). In all these background areas she quilts following the design of the backing fabric! Now how smart is that???!!! Please try it and tell me how you like it. Ok… short message this time… but I'm pretty proud I could do any message after 3 kids 8 - 6 - 4 for 5 days! Enjoy the rest of your summer!!!!

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Chelonistele is a genus of the orchid family consisting of 13 currently accepted species. It is native to Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines. The plant grows as an epiphytic or lithophytic orchid. The genus name of Anzia is named after Chelone (Greek mythology), a mountain nymph. The genus was circumscribed by Ernst Hugo Heinrich Pfitzer in Pflanzenr. (Engler) IV. 50 IIB (Heft 32) on page 136 in 1907. known species As accepted as by Plants of the World Online (about 14), Chelonistele amplissima (Ames & C.Schweinf.) Carr - Borneo Chelonistele brevilamellata (J.J.Sm.) Carr - Kalimantan Chelonistele dentifera de Vogel - Sarawak Chelonistele devogelii - Sarawak Chelonistele ingloria (J.J.Sm.) Carr - Borneo Chelonistele laetitia-reginae de Vogel - Sarawak Chelonistele lamellulifera - NW. Borneo Chelonistele lurida Pfitzer in H.G.A.Engler (ed.) - Borneo Chelonistele maximae-reginae - Sabah Chelonistele ramentacea J.J.Wood - Sarawak Chelonistele richardsii Carr - Sarawak, Brunei Chelonistele senagangensis J.J.Wood - Sabah Chelonistele sulphurea (Blume) Pfitzer in H.G.A.Engler (ed.) Chelonistele sulphurea var. crassifolia (Carr) de Vogel - Sabah Chelonistele sulphurea var. sulphurea - Borneo, Java, Malaysia, Sumatra, Philippines Chelonistele unguiculata Carr - Sarawak, Brunei References External links The Internet Orchid Species Photo Encyclopedia Arethuseae genera Epiphytic orchids

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If spontaneous() is true, the event originated outside the application. In this case, the user hid the window using the window manager controls, either by iconifying the window or by switching to another virtual desktop where the window is not visible. The window will become hidden but not withdrawn. If the window was iconified, QWidget::isMinimized() returns true.

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/yndd/ - Is something going to happen soon again? Is something going to happen soon again? I think it will be either new update either something we can't foresee. Or it will be nothing new, they're just trying to be edgy and cool. But I want to doubt that. Or this is due to weekly 50% off http://yume-nikki.com/#p1. But that's equally lame as nothing. I'm hoping for an update, though just-doing-it-to-look-cool is probably more likely. I bet that's for getting attention on weekly 50% off. They were spamming about this everyday on different languages (which may appear as "corrupted" and edgy too, I think). Maybe I'm just overthinking here. Or are they having 50% off because there will be some new content soon? I hope so… Otherwise I'll be disappointed more than I already am. Also the first tweet on OP's pic is Base64 code (I assume). I've tried to decode it but, man, jap characters encoding is killing me. Viral marketing is so obnoxious.

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As a digital analytics professional, you've probably been tasked with collecting business requirements for measuring a new website/app/feature/etc. This seems like a task that's easy enough, but all too often people get wrapped around the axle and fail to capture what's truly important from a business users' perspective. The result is typically a great deal of wasted time, frustrated business users, and a deep-seated distrust for analytics data. All of these problems can be avoided by following a few simple rules for collecting and validating business requirements. You've heard the saying from Albert Einstein…Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. Well, Einstein was ahead of his time when it comes to digital analytics. There is an understandable tendency to measure everything, but this certainly doesn't help when it comes to sifting through data to determine the effectiveness of your digital efforts. In many cases, less is more. Remember that collecting business requirements creates the foundation for developing KPIs to gauge effectiveness of your digital efforts. And, if you're reading my colleague Tim Wilson's blog, you know that the "K" in "KPI" is not for "1,000"! So, the first rule in gathering effective business requirements is sitting down with your business user counterparts and explaining to them that their new digital asset should be measured on the merits of what it's designed to accomplish with as few metrics as possible. In plain english, you should ask the question, What is this new thing of yours supposed to do? Once you have the answer to that question, you can start digging into the real meat of what's needed in terms of measuring its performance. Most business users don't want to spend hours analyzing and interpreting data, so this rule allows you to set the expectation that you can save them time and headaches by distilling the metrics down into the most salient measures. In my experience I've found that asking your stakeholders to do a little homework prior to meeting will help these conversations go much more smoothly. By prompting them with probing questions about which elements of their digital asset are critical and setting expectations about what digital analytics can do well, you will have a much more productive requirements gathering session. What data would you like to collect about your new website/app/feature/etc…? I don't know, what do you have? Well, we can collect anything you want, if you just tell me what it is that you want to know. Asking business users what they want to measure — or what data they need — is truly a difficult question to answer. As an analyst, you have to put yourself in their shoes and lead them into data collection conversation with some guidance. I recommend the approach of breaking your measurement requirements down into categories that can be addressed one at a time. In many cases, there will be different stakeholders who want to know different things about their digital asset and the category approach helps you to generate a comprehensive list of requirements while considering everyone's feedback. The table below illustrates a handful of requirement categories and corresponding questions that a business user might want to know. The exact categories and business questions will vary based on the digital asset you're measuring so be sure to customize the categories to take into consideration when you're measuring a mobile app, checkout feature, or entire website. My third rule for verifying requirements is often overlooked by analysts because it is both time consuming and labor intensive. But, if you do take the time to do this, you'll not only ensure that you have the right requirements, but that you may also save yourself a lot of work in the long run. Once you've solicited requirements from all stakeholders, go through the exercise of prioritizing and de-duping your list so that you can identify what's really important. Once you receive stakeholder approval for your list, you should then take the next step of providing an example of the reports that business users will receive once you're live with data collection. This helps because while you may have a solid understanding of how the data will be represented, you're typically working with users who aren't equipped to visualize the output of your requirements. As such, providing a mock-up of an analytics report that shows the key data points you will collect helps to validate that you've got the right information. Use this process to also ask stakeholders if they will be able to make decisions about their digital asset given the reports you're providing. If the answer is no, then you need to keep working on the requirements. By taking this extra step, you're not only ensuring that you understood the business requirements, but also providing the opportunity to refine your metrics to capture critical decision-making data. Not only will you impress your stakeholders with your proactive approach, but you'll also avoid having to go back and implement tracking on something that they may have overlooked during your discovery process. In summary, collecting business requirements for digital analytics is no easy task. It takes a process to illicit good information and it takes some analytical foresight to visualize the results. These are skills that take time to master, but once you get them right, you'll be on your way to providing the most useful and pertinent data to your business colleagues. If you'd like to learn more about gathering bulletproof business requirements, please send me an email. Or better yet, join me for a half-day workshop on Requirements Gathering the Demystified Way in Atlanta prior to Analytics Demystified's ACCELERATE conference, where I will go into detail about what it takes to gather requirements and teach you all the tips and tricks of the trade. This is certainly a pain I can relate too. I introduced a brief to assist with the framework but a certain level of education needs to take place with the business user in order for them to understand what is available. Then follows a "I'd like to know everything" statement, followed by my "what will you do with most of that data?". The more savvy the team members become, initially the more they want but eventually, the "want" turns to "need" and the process becomes more succinct and efficient. I have over supplied in the past, to create team engagement with analytics and educate, in order to achieve clearer briefs in the future, for the most part it works. I really enjoying the requirements gathering and often learn new aspects about the business whilst gathering info – it's great to talk to the teams, especially when it comes to adding extra value to conclusions. Some tips of improving the process would be fabulous and your workshops are of great interest, but I'm in the UK, are their web ex opportunities or plans for Uk workshops at all?

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Home > Topics > Apple > News > Apple May Be Developing Pocket-Size Mac Apple May Be Developing Pocket-Size Mac March 9, 2005 by Ed Hardy Reads (17,693) At least once a year a rumor circulates that Apple is going to release a new line of handhelds to replace the Newton. Despite the fact that these never pan out, the rumors keep coming. The latest comes from O'Grady's PowerPage, which says it has been leaked information on a secret Apple project to create a mini laptop. Supposedly, several prototype devices are being circulated within the company and have met with a positive response. No pictures are available, but O'Grady's PowerPage describes it as "an enlarged Motorola RAZR V3 mobile phone with a keyboard." It will reportedly have a touch screen and use Apple's Inkwell technology for handwriting recognition. There has been no word on what the screen resolution will be. Apple isn't going to use its old Newton operating system on this device. Instead it will run a stripped-down version of Mac OS X. Presumably this means it will be able to run all or most software written for Apple's laptops and desktop computers. It is not known when this device will be released. Apple's Newton line was some of the first handhelds, and the company's CEO John Sculley even coined the term "PDA". But the computer maker withdrew from the handheld market in 1998. Rumors persist that there will be a new line of handhelds to replace the Newton, even though Apple executives have said several times their company has no plans to re-enter this market. In June of last year, for example, CEO Steve Jobs told an audience at a trade show that Apple has no plans to release a handheld or smartphone. Thanks to Steven K. for the tip. Motorola Making RAZR Thin Pocket PC Steve Jobs Says There'll Be No Apple PDA

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Mississippi Medicaid work requirement: twisting arms or giving a leg-up? "If there's a program ... and it's ineffective, we shouldn't be pouring more state resources into it." Mississippi Medicaid work requirement: twisting arms or giving a leg-up? "If there's a program ... and it's ineffective, we shouldn't be pouring more state resources into it." Check out this story on clarionledger.com: https://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/politics/2018/04/12/mississippi-medicaid-work-requirement-twisting-arms-giving-leg-up/505755002/ Anna Wolfe, Clarion Ledger Published 2:18 p.m. CT April 12, 2018 | Updated 9:07 a.m. CT April 13, 2018 Crystal Springs resident Shan Copeland suffers from pseudotumor cerebri, a condition in which pressure inside the skull increases for no obvious reason. Copeland credits Medicaid with saving her life Wochit Crystal Springs resident Shandranekia Copeland wipes away a tear while talking about her children and being diagnosed with pseudotumor cerebri, a condition in which pressure inside the skull increases for no obvious reason. Copeland credits Medicaid with saving her life(Photo: Justin Sellers/The Clarion-Ledger) Officials expect 5,000 Mississippians, mostly low-income mothers, to fall off the Medicaid rolls every year for the next five years under the state's proposed job training program. The Mississippi Division of Medicaid applied for a federal waiver to implement a work requirement on over 50,000 low-income parents or caretakers on Medicaid, many of whom will be exempt from the requirement. The state is awaiting a decision from Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services on the proposal, first submitted in October. "This is an effort to give this small group of able-bodied adults some additional tools to assist them in their search for employment and self-sufficiency," said Medicaid spokesman Matt Westerfield. This population represents roughly 7 percent of all Mississippians on Medicaid, a program that provides health insurance to roughly one-fourth of the state, mostly children. The state's application is a work in progress, officials note, and does not include many details of the program, like how workforce development staff would seek out and connect with Medicaid beneficiaries. Researchers at Georgetown University, who released a report on the impact of Mississippi's proposal Tuesday, argue that many of the people who could become ineligible for Medicaid will be left with no health coverage. Many employers do not offer health insurance and a person with a full-time job at minimum wage would not make enough money to qualify for tax credits in the health insurance marketplace established by the Affordable Care Act. "The Medicaid program is not designed to ensure that beneficiaries have health coverage for the rest of their lives," Medicaid Director Drew Snyder told the Clarion Ledger Wednesday. Snyder said the Georgetown report served to support "their view that everyone needs to have health insurance. That is a different conversation than whether the Medicaid workforce training initiative will be beneficial to the beneficiaries and the state as a whole." The Georgetown report also highlighted that the work requirement proposal disproportionately affects African-American mothers, as 91 percent of the targeted population are mothers and 71 percent are African American. Those exempt from the work requirement include beneficiaries who have mental illness or physician restrictions, are in school or who care for someone who cannot take care of themselves — a small child or someone with medical issues, for example. Related: What would happen if we trusted each other? In Mississippi, able-bodied adult caretakers to qualify for Medicaid must make less than $384 a month for a family of three. Roy Mitchell, director of the Mississippi Health Advocacy Program, explained a catch-22 these beneficiaries will face if they try to meet the 20-hour-a-week work requirement. At minimum wage, a person working 20 hours a week would make $580, disqualifying him or her from Medicaid. "(Medicaid recipients) are not being forced to have a job 20 hours a week or be removed from the rolls," Snyder said. There are other ways to satisfy the job training requirement outlined in the application, including volunteer work, engaging with the Office of Employment Security or participating in alcohol or drug abuse treatment programs. "At times, it seems they (the Georgetown report authors) didn't read, or at least glossed over, the entire application," Snyder said. Snyder said the report's authors alluded that the program's goal is to "kick people off" the Medicaid rolls. "That's absolutely wrong." "The idea is they will eventually roll off and find employment. There could be other reasons why they're no longer in that category of eligibility," Snyder said. Mitchell argues that the application does not address other barriers to employment, like child care or transportation. "This proposal is not going to get us to people getting jobs," Mitchell said. More: Mississippi seeks OK for job training for some on Medicaid Mississippi a model Mississippi is considered the next state in the queue of those asking for a waiver to implement work requirements on Medicaid beneficiaries. The waivers have already been approved in three states — Kentucky, Indiana and Arkansas. But if successful, Mississippi could become the first state to impose a work requirement after also choosing not to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act to provide health insurance to people who make under 138 percent of the federal poverty line. To demonstrate that the program will not create additional expenses, the Division of Medicaid estimated the employment initiative will result in 5,000 fewer beneficiaries a year through 2023. The corresponding cost savings is between $23 million to $31 million each year. There's a rub about the number of Mississippians the program would impact and who could potentially lose Medicaid coverage, partly because the population of able-bodied adult caretakers on Medicaid has already been decreasing on its own. The state's application shows an estimated 58,995 in the work training population for 2019, which would decrease to 53,098 by 2020, 47,791 in 2021 and so on. But around 51,000 people actually fall into that eligibility category currently. "We are continuing to evaluate the application to ensure that the projections are reliable and that we will satisfy the budget neutrality requirements under federal law and regulations," Snyder said. Medicaid officials could not say Wednesday how many of the 5,000 people they calculated would fall off the rolls each year would become ineligible because they did not comply with the new work requirements or because they got a job, pushing their income above the threshold of eligibility. Changing health outcomes Mississippi's waiver application notes the state's poor health outcomes — the highest infant mortality rate and lowest life expectancy of any state. In initial stages of the waiver application, the division proposed to expand the transitional period an adult caretaker can remain covered by Medicaid after receiving a job from one year to two years. "DOM believes the increased length of eligibility is critical to assisting individuals participating in the program to achieving a successful completion and becoming independent of Medicaid. And, eventually move Mississippi's health status a little higher on the health ranking scale," the application reads. Snyder said Wednesday the request to expand that transitional eligibility, drafted before he took over the division, was not included in the final proposal. "Currently, up to twelve (12) months of transitional medical assistance (TMA) is offered to certain low-income families who would otherwise lose coverage because of changes in household income," Medicaid later said in a statement. "The Mississippi Medicaid Workforce Training Initiative would not reduce this benefit." Asked about the impact of not including that added protection alongside the work requirement, Snyder said, "they currently don't have that protection." Snyder did not explain how the potential for Mississippians becoming newly uninsured would improve health outcomes in the state. Feds do not recommend Work requirements aren't a new idea for the state. Mississippi imposed a similar work requirement on recipients of Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program in 2016, affecting roughly 50,000 Mississippians. At a March conference on poverty in Starkville, Nick Espinosa, U.S. Department of Agriculture SNAP Employment and Training senior program analyst, told the Clarion Ledger that the federal agency does not recommend states make employment mandatory for SNAP participants. That would allow a person receiving SNAP to keep their benefits even if they didn't participate in the workforce training programs. "Some states say, 'Well, you know, what's the good in that?' The way that we look at it is this way: We think you will get better successes if you concentrate on people that are willingly there to better themselves, as opposed to dragging people to (employment training) when they don't want to. We think it is probably a much better outcome in the end," Espinosa said. "The second is about resources. There's not a lot of money to go around." Even if USDA got support from every nonprofit possible, Espinosa said, the program could not support the full need of every person. "It is better to concentrate those resources on the population that is willing, they're trying," he said. Asked his thoughts on this argument, Snyder said, "I don't want to increase the size and scope of government programs, particularly programs that don't work." To which programs is he referring? "In general," he said. "If there's a program ... and it's ineffective, we shouldn't be pouring more state resources into it." Have your own health care story? We want to tell it. Contact Anna Wolfe at 601-961-7326 or awolfe@gannett.com. Follow her on Twitter. 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