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Астраханското ханство e татарска държава, възникнала след разпадането на Златната орда и просъществува през 16 век в земите на Долното Поволжие. Столица на ханството е град Аждархан (срещан и като Хаджи-Тархан), разполагал се е на десния бряг на Волга, на 12 км от съвременния град Астрахан.

Основателят на самостоятелното Астраханско ханство е Махмуд, бивш хан на Голямата орда. След като губи борбата за власт от своя брат Ахмат, около 1460 г., идва в Астрахан, където създава независима държава. Пълна самостоятелност Астраханското ханство получава едва в началото на 16 век, след окончателния разгром на Голямата орда от Кримското ханство през 1502 година. Дотогава владетелите на Астраханското ханство, въпреки че се ползвали с известно самоуправление, са васални поданици на Голямата орда.

Астраханските ханове принадлежат към рода на Джучи, и са потомци на Тукай Тимур, по-малкия брат на Бату хан. От последния, той получава удел (област), в който влизали полуостров Мангишлак, Прикаспийската низина и земите на аланите в Северен Кавказ. Вероятно потомците на Тукай Тимур и след това продължили да контролират тези земи, а по-късно заели престола в Кримското, Казанско, Астраханско, Бухарско и Касимовското ханство.

През 1556 г. Астраханското ханство е завоювано и присъединено към Руската държава. Последният хан, Дервиш Али бяга в Азов при османците.

Вижте също
 Астраханска шапка
 Казанско ханство
 Кримско ханство
 Сибирско ханство

История на Русия
Исторически държави в Европа
Златна орда
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Edmund Rice
Organization: 19th Massachusetts Infantry
Entered Service: Boston, Mass.
Birth: Brighton, Mass.
Date Medal Issued: 6 October 1891.
Conspicuous bravery on the third day of the battle on the countercharge against Pickett's division where he fell severely wounded within the enemy's lines.
"The conspicuous gallantry of Major Edmund Rice, of the 19th. Mass. Vols. Infantry, at the third day's battle of Gettysburg, where he was severely wounded, did more than the single exertion of any other officer on our side to retrieve the day after the battle had been virtually won by the Confederates, who had broken our lines, and were cheering and swinging their hats on our captured guns. After the line was broken, the 19th dashed in and placed themselves in the rear of the break, and for twelve minutes received the enemy's fire, at a distance of less than fifteen paces. In that time one man in every two of the whole regiment, and seven fell over, including Rice, who was shot in front of his men with his foot on the body of a fallen Confederate, he being at that moment the officer fighting nearest to the enemy in our whole line. He fought till he fell; his men fought till they fell. He held Pickett's heavy column in check with the single thin line of his regiment, till reinforcements came from right and left..."
"Rice's regiment lost three-fourths of its force in that awful struggle, but its victorious remnants brought off the field the captured battleflags of the 14th, 19th, 53rd and 57th Virginia Regiments. When Webb's Brigade broke, the writer, recognizing fully the crisis of the moment, listened impatiently for the expected order to meet it, but except Rice's cry to follow him, heard no such order, and believes that none other was given."
(from War Department Records related to the Award, according to Nitch1)
1 Nitch, Steven, Brigadier General Edmund Rice, Published c. 1999, first accessed 01 January 2000, <http://www.angelfire.com/ma/edmundrice/ERhome4.html> [AotW citation 462]

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Чамыши — деревня в Моргаушском районе Чувашской Республики. Входит в состав Орининского сельского поселения.

География
Находится в северо-западной части Чувашии, на расстоянии приблизительно 4 км на север по прямой от районного центра села Моргауши.

История
Известна с 1795 года как выселок села Архангельское (Малая Аринина), ныне Оринино с 25 дворами. В 1858 году учтено 170 жителей, в 1906 — 52 двора и 242 жителя, в 1926 — 54 двора и 261 житель, в 1939 — 248 жителей, в 1979 — 239. В 2002 году было 63 двора, в 2010 — 63 домохозяйства. В 1931 году был образован колхоз «Красная звезда», в 2010 действовал СПК «Оринино».

Население
Постоянное население составляло 210 человек (чуваши 100 %) в 2002 году, 199 — в 2010.

Примечания

Населённые пункты Моргаушского района


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...while I was getting my hair cut yesterday: "My mom got breast implants when I was two and it was all downhill for my family from there."

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Exclusive: Why businesses should be transparent about data collection
Jacques-Pierre (Jp) Dumas
Recently IT Brief had the opportunity to get in touch with Steve Singer, Talend A/NZ Country Manager to talk about the ethics of data collection.
Can you tell me a bit more about the power of data and how it impacts businesses?
Data and analytics are at the heart of every modern digital business today, with the market winners and losers being decided based upon which IT organisations put more of the right data to work for the business, faster.
According to IDC (IDC's paper, Data Age 2025), data creation will reach a total of 163 zettabytes (one trillion gigabytes) by the year 2025, a ten-fold increase. IoT will contribute to a big proportion of this.
In addition, advances in machine learning, data science, and computing power can turn these vast amounts of data into value-creating insights.
Some of the organisations which use data to truly impact their businesses include Air France KLM which is delivering millions of unique customer experiences. Domino's is also delivering better pizzas and better customer experiences across 85,000 touchpoints.
They are able to know every member of the household and, recommend, via their mobile device, the perfect pizza or drink to order.
But the best analytics are worth nothing with bad data: 47% of newly-created data records have a minimum of one critical error and only 3% of companies' data meets basic quality standards (Harvard Business Review Sept 2017).
Can you tell me a bit more about the ethics of data collection, particularly in regards to companies like Facebook and Google who use that data for targeted advertising?
The goal should be around data transparency and using data for a common interest (secure user consent based on providing them with a clear purpose for data collection).
For example, a person might be happy that a smartwatch captures things like their heartbeat and physical location and are happy to share that information in order to gain fitness insights. However, they likely wouldn't be ok with that same information being shared with a health insurer or shoe store without their explicit consent.
A "privacy by design" model needs to be adopted. In practice, it implies there are privacy settings that can be easily modified by the consumer, giving them the control over their data.
Let's switch gear and talk about quantum computing for a minute, what is driving the development of this technology?
Quantum computing could lead to significant advances in numerous fields, from chemistry and materials science to nuclear physics and machine learning. It could advance life science research and find cures for diseases that can't be cured today.
Quantum computing helps solve big data problems at big scale. It promises exponential growth in processing power and could tackle problems that our computers today can't solve.
Cloud-based quantum computing (self-service quantum computing in the cloud) can provide access to quantum power to more people (who can't afford to invest in quantum computers/hardware) and will help democratise greatly this new innovation.
In addition, serverless access to quantum computing could help organisations benefit from the innovation at a fraction of the cost
What are the ethics and merits of this technology?
As with any innovation like Big Data and Artificial Intelligence, let's hope people will use it for the greater good.
Although it is still not clear what the full extent of the power of quantum computers might be, there are some very particular examples of quantum algorithms that can largely outperform their classical counterparts.
One of the most widely used cryptography systems is the RSA public key cryptosystem, which is used to encrypt emails, bank transactions and credit cards numbers via the internet.
The security of the messages encoded via this encryption method relies on the fact that factorising a large number is an extremely difficult task to accomplish using everyday computers.
This means that given a sufficiently large quantum computer (i.e., with enough qubits), you could easily break the RSA public key cryptosystem and decipher the contents of its message.
On the other hand, quantum computers will also help encrypt in a more secure way all the sensitive information we have today and improve people's lives by advancing research.
How can business best derive value from their data?
If you want to run a company that is data-driven, you need great data about your business in the first place. Most great data will already exist in a business, it just has to be found.
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Rose Pak stands greets supporters during an event celebrating her arrival from China at San Francisco International Airport Monday, May 23, 2016. (Jessica Christian/S.F. Examiner)
Chinatown leader Rose Pak, a 'champion for everyone,' dies
Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez
Sep. 19, 2016 12:00 a.m.
Longtime Chinatown community leader Rose Pak, whose influence shaped San Francisco politics for decades, died of natural causes Sunday morning at her home. She was 68.
Stretching back to the first days of San Francisco, few politicos have been as impactful as Pak, said many politicians after her death.
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Though she never held political office, her legacy is one of numerous wins for the community at large, they said, and especially for the nation's oldest Chinatown –– and the tens of thousands who call it home.
On Sunday morning, Supervisor Aaron Peskin and community organizer David Ho — both longtime friends of Pak — were among the first to arrive at her apartment at Stockton and Jackson streets.
Former Mayor Willie Brown arrived in jeans and a vest, uncharacteristically out of his myriad Wilkes Bashford suits. Peskin put an arm around him and led him upstairs to Pak's home. By early afternoon, San Francisco Police Department officers stood guard outside her home, and a San Francisco Medical Examiner's Office truck was parked just outside her stoop.
"It's no secret Rose has not been well over the last couple of years," Gordon Chin, a longtime friend of Pak's and a founder of the Chinatown Community Development Center, told the San Francisco Examiner outside her home. "We're all shocked and heartbroken."
Pak was born in the Henan Province of China China and later fled to Hong Kong, where she grew up. She earned a Master's in journalism at Columbia University, according to China Daily, and worked as a San Francisco Chronicle reporter in the 1970s.
Later, Pak grew into a community organizer for Chinatown. In that role, news reports have referred to as a "power broker," but Pak hated the title, and said it stemmed from racism.
Her numerous accomplishments include raising money to rebuild the San Francisco Chinese Hospital in Chinatown, which was established in 1925, and brokering a deal after the teardown of the Embarcadero Freeway for The City to build Muni's Central Subway in Chinatown, which is now under construction and slated to open in 2019.
Pak's way was to "champion for everyone," said Malcolm Yeung, deputy director of CCDC, for which Pak also consulted.
"Her wisdom guided everyone," he said, "from senators and mayors to the most blue class of workers."
Pak was famous as a political kingmaker, and notably kick-started the "Run, Ed, Run" campaign to urge now-Mayor Ed Lee to first jump into the political fray, a historic first.
"It took us 160 years for Chinese-Americans to elect the first Chinese-American mayor," Pak told the Examiner months ago. She described it as one of her proudest accomplishments.
Pak was known for her biting wit and searing takedowns of her political enemies, often delivered with a strong sense of fun.
As Lee put it, she swore like a sailor, and was tough as nails.
"She took more joy then I think she was actually entitled to," said Brown, a longtime friend of Pak.
Pak struggled with an ailing kidney in her final years, and returned in May from a monthslong trip to China where she received a kidney transplant.
In true bombastic Pak style, her first public words upon landing were a warning to her political enemies:
"I dedicate the next five years to taking care of each one of you!" she said.
She recently poked fun at herself on the cover of San Francisco Magazine by posing with a cigar in hand. Before her death, she explained to the Examiner that she smoked a stogie in the Board of Supervisors chambers decades ago to protest the tobacco industry.
Somehow, she said, the image of Pak with a cigar in hand stuck as a local urban legend –– despite the fact that she didn't smoke, nor did she drink alcohol.
One of her favorite places to roast politicians in San Francisco was the annual Chinese New Year Parade, which she organized. She would sit in the bleachers and anyone within earshot would hear her opinions –– positive or not –– loud and clear.
Longtime media impresario and political watcher Lee Houskeeper said Pak's power was unique in San Francisco, and never stemmed from personal gain. No one, Houskeeper said, could rally as many people in San Francisco for a political cause as Pak.
She was also a ton of fun, he said.
"Boy, the way she'd rule the roost over the Chinese New Year Parade. If she didn't like you you'd be the last car and you'd be sharing it with somebody. If she liked you, you'd be walking in front."
Brown recalled her barbs towards him fondly.
"In the process of being the auctioneer at the golf tournament done every year to raise money for the Chinese Hospital," he said, "Rose would not hesitate to interrupt me and to tell me how inept I was about trying to get $25,000 out of someone I knew who didn't have 25 cents!"
Brown spoke to the Examiner while standing outside that same hospital which Pak raised funding to save. He said Pak's death is "a great, great loss."
"She cared about people. She cared about the whole city," he said. "I don't think I know of anyone else that we've lost in this city who was as singley important as Rose."
And true to that sentiment, up until the end she had a hand on the till of city politics.
The night before her death, she dined at 5A5 Steak Lounge on Jackson Street with Board of Education commissioner Sandra Lee Fewer, who is also a District 1 supervisor candidate, and a close circle of friends.
"Rose was very lively, she was telling a lot of stories about her life. It was a lovely evening," Fewer said.
Pak ate a ribeye steak, and Fewer said Pak had packed up the leftovers for breakfast.
According to Fewer, at dinner Pak told the tale of her push to build a parking lot on Vallejo Street years ago, which led to a clash with Peskin. Eventually, Pak and Peskin mended fences to ally against Peskin's opponent, candidate Julie Christensen, in last November's election.
It was one of many tales she shared of a storied life filled with friends who became foes, foes who became friends, pitched political fights and more, all in the name of defending her community.
Pak's last night was spent laughing, Fewer said, reflecting on a life well lived.
City Hall will fly its flags at half-staff and be lit in white light in Pak's honor. Pak's funeral will tentatively be held Saturday morning at Old St. Mary's Cathedral on California Street.
S.F. Examiner staff writer Jonah Owen Lamb contributed to this report.
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NDB Cluster tables are normally stored completely in memory rather than on disk (this is why we refer to NDB Cluster as an in-memory database). However, some NDB Cluster data can be stored on disk; see Section 21.5.13, "NDB Cluster Disk Data Tables", for more information.
For a brief introduction to the relationships between nodes, node groups, replicas, and partitions in NDB Cluster, see Section 21.1.2, "NDB Cluster Nodes, Node Groups, Replicas, and Partitions".
The Memcache API for NDB Cluster, implemented as the loadable ndbmemcache storage engine for memcached version 1.6 and later, can be used to provide a persistent NDB Cluster data store, accessed using the memcache protocol.
The standard memcached caching engine is included in the NDB Cluster 7.5 distribution. Each memcached server has direct access to data stored in NDB Cluster, but is also able to cache data locally and to serve (some) requests from this local cache.
Management clients. These clients connect to the management server and provide commands for starting and stopping nodes gracefully, starting and stopping message tracing (debug versions only), showing node versions and status, starting and stopping backups, and so on. An example of this type of program is the ndb_mgm management client supplied with NDB Cluster (see Section 21.4.5, "ndb_mgm — The NDB Cluster Management Client"). Such applications can be written using the MGM API, a C-language API that communicates directly with one or more NDB Cluster management servers. For more information, see The MGM API.
Oracle also makes available MySQL Cluster Manager, which provides an advanced command-line interface simplifying many complex NDB Cluster management tasks, such restarting an NDB Cluster with a large number of nodes. The MySQL Cluster Manager client also supports commands for getting and setting the values of most node configuration parameters as well as mysqld server options and variables relating to NDB Cluster. See MySQL™ Cluster Manager 1.4.7 User Manual, for more information.
Local Checkpoint (LCP): This is a checkpoint that is specific to a single node; however, LCPs take place for all nodes in the cluster more or less concurrently. An LCP usually occurs every few minutes; the precise interval varies, and depends upon the amount of data stored by the node, the level of cluster activity, and other factors.
Prior to NDB 7.6.4, an LCP involved saving all of a node's data to disk. NDB 7.6.4 introduces support for partial LCPs, which can significantly improve recovery time under some conditions. See Section 21.1.4.2, "What is New in NDB Cluster 7.6", for more information, as well as the descriptions of the EnablePartialLcp and RecoveryWork configuration parameters which enable partial LCPs and control the amount of storage they use.


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Domonkos Herboly
He was born on 5 August 1976 in Budapest as the second son of a family of musicians. His father earned a living as a music teacher and trumpet player and his mother worked as a French interpreter and translator. He started playing the piano at the age of 8, and switched to the double bass at the age of 14.
He obtained his baccalaureate at the Szent István Király Secondary School of Musical Arts, which was supplemented two years later by a vocational baccalaureate in double bass. He was subsequently admitted to the Teacher Training Institute of the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest. In the year 2000, he obtained a degree in double bass pedagogy and chamber music. Between 1996 and 2000 he played the double bass in the following orchestras: the Óbuda Danubia Orchestra, the Budafok Dohnányi Ernő Symphonic Orchestra, orchestras of the Szent István Király School of Music and Secondary School of Musical Arts, the MÁV Symphonic Orchestra and the Hungarian Radio Symphonic Orchestra.
He looked for new career directions, and in the year 2000 he applied for a postgraduate course offered by the Manager Training Institute of the Budapest University of Economics and State Administration (now called: Corvinus University), where he obtained a Masters in Business Administration in 2006.
From 2001 to 2004 he worked as Assistant to the Financial Director of Hungarofest National Event Management Ltd. Then from 2004 to 2005 he was employed as Financial Director of the newly established Hungarian Cultural Institute in Brussels. Between 2006 and 2010 he was the Director of the Debrecen Philharmonic Orchestra and Kodály Choir. Between 2010 and 2017 he worked as the Financial Director of Örkény István Theatre.
He was appointed acting Director General of the HNP Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra, Choir and Music Library on 16 March 2017 and he has been Director General since 1 January 2018.
Married with three daughters.


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William C. Campbell, Ph.D., shared the 2015 Prize for discoveries related to avermectin, which in turn led to a treatment for river blindness. Here's how Dr. Campbell, fellow Merck researcher Dr. Mohammed Aziz and other Merck colleagues helped change the world for the better.
When Merck scientist William Campbell and Japanese microbiologist, Satoshi Omura, collaborated on a microbe screening program more than 30 years ago, they could not have predicted that their discoveries would one day help protect the eyesight of millions in Latin America, Africa and Yemen – nor that their efforts would garner them the world's highest recognition of scientific achievement. But on October 5, 2015, the Nobel Assembly announced that Drs. Campbell and Omura were jointly awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their discovery of avermectin, an antiparasitic agent from which ivermectin is derived. Ivermectin is known as MECTIZAN outside the United States. A third recipient, Youyou Tu of China, was recognized for her work leading to the discovery of the antimalarial agent artemisinin.
In the 1970's Dr. Campbell was a parasitologist at Merck Research Laboratories in Rahway, N.J., where he led what he once recalled was a "complicated and unglamorous search" to find a new treatment for parasites in animals. His team finally found what it was looking for in soil sample No. OS3153 from Dr. Omura's team in Japan. The discovery of avermectin was a major milestone in the treatment of parasitic disease.
Further research in the mid-to-late 1970s by Dr. Campbell and his colleagues at Merck led to the development of ivermectin and the discovery that it was effective against river blindness in humans.
Onchocerciasis, more commonly known as "river blindness," is a debilitating disease endemic to parts of Africa, Latin America and Yemen. It is transmitted through the bite of black flies and can cause intense itching, disfiguring dermatitis, eye lesions and, eventually, blindness.
Following the breakthrough lab work by Dr. Campbell, another Merck researcher, the late Dr. Mohammed Aziz, championed the clinical development of ivermectin. Clinical trials in Africa sponsored by Merck and the World Health Organization (WHO) and spearheaded by Dr. Aziz confirmed the effectiveness of ivermectin as a treatment for river blindness.
In 1987, Merck's then CEO Dr. P. Roy Vagelos announced, in an unprecedented act of global healthcare leadership, that Merck would donate ivermectin – as much as needed for as long as needed – with the goal to help eliminate river blindness. Merck recognized in order to reach this goal, many organizations with unique skills would need to work together as a team. As a result, Merck created the Mectizan Donation Program (MDP). Operating from the Atlanta-based Task Force for Global Health, the MDP coordinates activities between Merck, WHO, the World Bank and a range of public and private stakeholders.
In 1998, Merck expanded its commitment from the Mectizan Donation Program to include donating ivermectin for another disease, lymphatic filariasis (LF), also known as elephantiasis, in African countries and Yemen where it co-exists with river blindness. For LF, ivermectin is administered with albendazole, a drug donated by GSK.
Today, the Mectizan Donation Program is the longest-running disease-specific drug donation program and public-private partnership of its kind. It reaches more than 250 million people in the affected areas annually, with more than 2 billion treatments donated since 1987.
Both river blindness and lymphatic filariasis on are the WHO's list of neglected tropical diseases targeted for elimination globally. Several countries in Africa are making significant progress towards eliminating both diseases. In Latin America,three countries - Colombia, Ecuador and Mexico - have already received WHO verification of river blindness elimination. And, Togo becomes the first country in Africa recognized by WHO to have eliminated lymphatic filariasis (LF) as a public health problem.
"The importance of ivermectin for improving the health and wellbeing of millions of individuals with river blindness and lymphatic filariasis, primarily in the poorest regions of the world, is immeasurable. Treatment is so successful that these diseases are on the verge of eradication, which would be a major feat in the medical history of humankind," the Nobel Assembly stated.


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Trailer for cannibal movie Raw might make you skip lunch
By Clark Collis Updated January 12, 2017 at 11:43 PM EST
We don't want to say too much about the Raw (out March 10) — but if you're in the mood for a strange and highly memorable horror movie, then this cannibalistically-inclined debut from writer-director Julia Ducournau has all the right, ahem, ingredients.
The Toronto Festival-screened film stars Garance Marillier as a 16-year-old vegetarian named Justine, who experiences a decadent, merciless, and dangerously seductive world while attending veterinary school. Desperate to fit in, she strays from her family principles and eats raw meat for the first time. It is a decision with terrible and unexpected consequences as Justine's true self begins to emerge.
Watch the new trailer for Raw, above.


CT: New Directions, 1942. The first edition of this biography that was part of New Directions' Makers of Modern Literature series. Dustwrapper by Lustig maintains the $1.50 price. 169 pp. .. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good +/Very Good +. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall.
NY: Milbank Mem. Fund, 1930. Bound in blue cloth, stamped in gold. A 230 pp. book on Doctor Welch. Glowing reviews! The "Library" Edition. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good +/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.
Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1938. Bound in dark blue cloth, stamped in gold in matching blue and gold dust jacket that has a picture of the king on the front panel. A tight, clean copy of the first edition (stated) of this biography 257 pp. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good ++/Very Good +.
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NY: Privately Printed, 1935. Bound in maroon cloth, stamped in gold. Tight, clean copy of this Biography of the Senior Howard by his son. 134 pp. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good ++/No Jacket.
NY: Roy, 1957. Bound in red boards, stamped in gold in a great dust jacket that depicts hustlers on the street in Soho. A young doctor's tales of doctoring pimps, prostitutes, card-sharps and con-men in London in the 40's and 50's. 211 pp.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good +.
Munich: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 2001. Bound in red boards, stamped in white in illustrated matching dust jacket. This is the first German edition of this work on the author. 207 pp. Text in German. Tight, clean copy. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.
CA: Sherbourne Press, 1965. Bound in red cloth with embossed design to front panel and gold lettering to spine; has black & white photos of subject and his comrads in middle of volume. Shows light foxing to side page edges and is in otherwise near-fine condtion. Dustjacket shows slight scuffing to spine ends and light yellowing to rear flap fold. 283 pgs. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/VG++.
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1919. Bound in blue cloth, stamped in gold. top edge gilt. A 425 pp. book on the early life of Riley. Some offsetting to endsheets. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good +/No Jacket.
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1922. Bound in blue cloth, stamped in gold. top edge gilt. A 427 pp. book on the later life of Riley. Some offsetting to endsheets. Type on spine is readable -- but a bit faded. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good +/No Jacket.
Indiana: Old Swimmin' Hole Press, 1949. Bound in dark green cloth, stamped in gold in illustrated white dust jacket that has held up well with juat a hint of scuffing. The Centennial Edition. Signed by author on the front free endpaper. Scarce in this protected condition and signed. 224 pp. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good +.
NJ: Rutgers, 1950. Bound in black cloth, stamped in silver. Three marks to front endpaper, but a tight, clean copy. The author J.C. Furnas' copy with his blindstamp to half-title page. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket.
Philadelphia: International Printing Co., 1949. Bound in rose colored cloth, stamped in gold. Inscribed and signed by the author (full page w/decorations). 270 pp. or reminisces by the Philadelphia author. . First Ediiton. Hard Cover. Very Good +/No Jacket.
NY: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1968. Dustwrapper a bit of scuffing to spine ends of dustwrapper, but overall, a crisp, clean copy of the scarce first edition of the author's fifth book. A book that contains character studies of Thomas Hoving, Euell Gibbons, Robert Twynam, Temple Fielding and M.I.T. Fellows in Africa.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good ++/Very Good ++.


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El Papiol este o localitate în Spania în comunitatea Catalonia în provincia Barcelona. În 2006 avea o populație de 3.733 locuitori cu o suprafață de 9 km2.

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'Wanna Nut!' CAROLINE FRASER, Caroline Fraser is the author of "God's Perfect Child: Living and Dying in the Christian Science Church."
L.a Confidential EUGEN WEBER, Eugen Weber, a contributing writer to Book Review, is the author, most recently, of "Apocalypses."
Before His Visit, Clinton Rethinking U.S.-India Relations Selig S. Harrison, Selig S. Harrison, a senior fellow of the Century Foundation and a senior scholar of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, is the author of "India: The Most Dangerous Decades."
Unreasonableness and the Black Profile By David Dante Troutt, David Dante Troutt, a law professor at Rutgers Law School, is the author of "The Monkey Suit: Short Fiction on African Americans and Justice."
True Reform May Depend on the 'Greedy' Lawyers Joseph D. McNamara, Joseph D. McNamara is the retired police chief of San Jose and a research fellow at the Hoover Institution. His forthcoming book is "Gangster Cops: The Hidden Cost of America's War on Drugs."
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On Friday, September 11th, a group of Todd & Sargent, Inc. employees volunteered for the United Way of Story County Day of Caring. Day of Caring is held annually, typically the Friday after Labor Day.
Our group was paired with UWSC partner agency Good Neighbor Emergency Assistance. We worked on installing new signage in front of the building as well as washing interior and exterior office windows.
It was a beautiful day in Story County! Over 600 volunteers participated in Day of Caring, completing 55 projects at 33 different agencies and totaling more that 2,300 volunteer hours.
We enjoyed the afternoon volunteering at Good Neighbor and plan to assist again in the future. You can view photos of volunteers at various Day of Caring projects here.


For many people, spring marks the start of the worst time of the year – hay fever season. Violent sneezing, a running or blocked nose, and reddened and watery eyes are the typical symptoms of hay fever. Hay fever is an allergic inflammation of the nasal airways that causes itching, swelling, mucus production, hives and rashes. Seasonal airborne irritants such as grass, tree, and flower pollens cause the allergic reaction.
Some people do get hay fever into the autumn months, although this is rare and usually caused by weeds such as nettles, late flowering plants and mould spores. Those substances responsible for triggering an allergy reach the body through the air breathed, foods eaten, or by direct contact with the skin, and then cause a reaction within the body's own immune system. Allergic rhinitis, or perennial rhinitis, is the name given to similar symptoms that occur all year round and are caused by other irritants, including dust mites and animal dander. Natural combination remedies act on hay fever by correcting the imbalance in the body and enhancing the body's own powers of resistance.


Malaysia is one of the most sought-after tourist destinations in the world. Traveling to Malaysia is on the bucket list of most of the travel enthusiasts. Being a rising economic center, attracting tourists and businessmen from different corners of the world, Malaysia is rapidly becoming one of the most famous travel destinations in the world. Behind the enviable economic reputation and dynamic cities, Malaysia is also a relaxing tropical paradise offering great options for spending the vacation luxuriously. Malaysia is a perfect mix of all the necessary components that individuals must be searching for as a tourist including perfect weather, beaches, inviting people, and great food all around.
If the guests are looking forward to visiting Malaysia and they have budget issues, then 2 star hotels in Malaysia will serve the purpose. The 2-star hotels in Malaysia are top-class and are known for rendering bespoke guest experiences to the tourists from all over. Most of the famous 2-star hotels in Malaysia are located near the airport to ensure the ease of access to & from the airport. Some of the basic amenities offered at these hotels include free wifi, free parking space, laundry service at an additional cost, tour desk, on-site ATM and also ticket service.
The guests at 2 star hotels in Malaysia can experience some highly specialized services including bespoke hospitality services, amazing views, proximity to the beaches, and so on. even at affordable prices, these hotels offer experiences that will surely make one feel pampered. Some of these hotels offer massage services by availing which travelers can get sheer relaxation. Apart from this, these hotels also provide their guests with city tours. The gardens feature at these hotels allow travelers to spend some relaxing time amidst greenery and fresh air. Other than this, the babysitting services offered at 2 star hotels in Malaysia will let travelers enjoy their vacation much more.
At 2 star hotels in Malaysia, travelers can take advantage of a wide range of facilities. The famous hotels including the Dream Hotel, Petaling Street Hotel Chinatown, Seven Nite Inn, etc., are known for providing the guests with a plethora of opportunities to enjoy and relax in the serene atmosphere of the hotel and resorts. Right from exclusive seasonal experiences to guided tours, in-house bar facility, laundry services, dry cleaning services, and special events, these hotels offer a truly divine stay for all the travelers. They can also avail ticket service and but tickets of many tourist attractions and live shows. Other than this, each room at these hotels have all the basic amenities that one might need while the stay.
If the guests are looking forward to enjoying fine dining experiences, they can look forward to the restaurants at 2 star hotels in Malaysia. At some of the famous restaurants including Dining in the Dark, and Passage Thru India, Fuego, and so more are some of the most popular names when it comes to ensuring a great dining experience when in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. In addition to these restaurants, the tourists can also enjoy great delectable food items and drinks at the respective 2-star hotels in Malaysia that are known for providing world-class cuisines to the guests from all over. After a tiring day exploring the city, the travelers can return to the hotel to experience ultimate drinks from different corners of the world.
What are the best areas in Kuala Lumpur to stay in during a vacation?
Some of the best areas to stay in at Kuala Lumpur include the Bukit Bintang, KL Tower, Kuala Lumpur City Center, and others wherein the travelers can find the best 2-star hotels in the city.
There are only some hotels which have an on-site restaurant. Travelers can check the same with the hotel staff prior to booking.
Are laundry services offered at 2 star hotels in Malaysia?
What are some of the best 2 star hotels in Malaysia?
The guests can consider making bookings at some of the best 2-star hotels in Malaysia including Petaling Street Hotel Chinatown, Dream Hotel, De Uptown Hotel, and others.
Do hotels in Malaysia offer transport facilities?
Most of the high-end hotels in Malaysia are known for offering exclusive transportation services to the guests.
Staying at some of the top 2 star hotels in Malaysia can deliver an unparalleled experience when it comes to enjoying the true joys of life. The guests staying at these hotels offer all the standard amenities for guests to enjoy a comfortable stay. Facilities such as free wifi, free parking, tour desk, 24-hour front desk, on-site ATM, luggage storage and ironing service are likely to make one's stay delightful. The stall at these hotels are extremely welcoming and aim at delivering an unrivaled experience to the guests from all over the world.


The National Broadband Network (NBN) is a massive technology upgrade to our existing telecommunications infrastructure. NBN Co, the company in charge of setting up the network, are busy rolling out the fibre-optic-based network across Australia. Exciting!
What to know more about the NBN? Check out the 'What is NBN?' page over on the Optus website!
I'm keen beans to connect - how do I find out if it's available to me?
So, you're in the know about the NBN and now you're ready to jump on board - awesome! How do you check if it's available at your location?
Checking the availability of NBN at your locatoin is easy! Simply head to the Optus NBN Rollout Map, pop in your address and you'll be told right away if it's available to you.
The NBN isn't available to me yet - what now!?
Phwah, don't freak out just yet! The NBN is a massive project and it'll take time to roll out across Australia. The awesome thing is that you can register your interest and Optus will get in touch with you when it's available at your specified location.
To register for updates, simply head to the NBN Interest Registration Page and fill out your details!


Gravity, also called gravitation, in mechanics, the universal force of attraction acting between all matter. It is by far the weakest known force in nature and thus plays no role in determining the internal properties of everyday matter.
By Kristen Zimmer. It�s like there�s gravity among us, like she�s the one factor anchoring me to the realm, holding me from floating off into the higher stratosphere and being misplaced in area.


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Stegocephalus är ett släkte av kräftdjur som beskrevs av Henrik Nikolai Krøyer 1842. Stegocephalus ingår i familjen Stegocephalidae.

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New research article reveals harmful exposure to lead in four avian scavengers in Switzerland
(C) Hansruedi Weyrich
A new research article published in the Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology (see below) has revealed that substantial proportions of four species of avian scavengers found in Switzerland had elevated levels of lead in their body tissues, most likely due to ingestion of fragments of lead ammunition.
Study on lead levels
The researchers measured lead concentrations in liver and bone samples taken from the two main alpine avian scavengers, the golden eagle and bearded vulture, throughout the Swiss Alps and two avian scavengers from the Swiss lowlands, the red kite and the common raven. The samples were taken from a total of 127 bird carcasses including 67 golden eagles, 5 bearded vultures, 45 red kites and 10 common ravens. Five golden eagles and one bearded vulture showed signs of having been illegally shot (i.e. the presence of encapsulated lead pellets found in the body), while collision with power lines or other cables was the one of the most common causes of death alongside injuries sustained during territorial fights, predation or other causes.
Increased lead levels in Alpine avian scavengers
Three of the five bearded vultures had bone lead concentrations indicative of background exposure (i.e. < 10 μg/g) and two had bone lead concentrations that correspond to abnormally high exposure compatible with severe clinical poisoning (i.e. > 20 μg/g). Fourteen of the 46 golden eagles had lead concentrations compatible with lethal lead poisoning, while samples from only one of the red kites and none from the ravens reached lethal levels. However, samples from eight red kites and four out of ten ravens had lead levels indicative of subclinical to clinical poisoning (10-20 μg/g).
The study revealed that avian scavengers in the Alps generally have higher bone lead concentrations than lowland species, with levels in golden eagles and bearded vultures from the Swiss Alps being very high compared with data from studies conducted in other areas. For example, two of the five bearded vultures had very high bone lead concentrations (58.90 μg/g and 100.04 μg/g) compared to a previous study in the Alps which found that only three (20%) bearded vulture samples had concentrations higher than 6.75 μg/g, and another study from the Pyrenees which found only 1 out of 43 individuals with bone lead concentrations indicative of chronic poisoning (>20 μg/g). The authors therefore suggest that scavengers in the Swiss Alps are more heavily exposed to lead compared with other areas and raise concerns about the general health of the avian scavenger community in Switzerland, including in the lowlands where there was evidence for frequent exposure above background levels.
X-ray of bearded vulture with lead bullets
Impacting bearded vultures
The authors highlighted the particular susceptibility of bearded vultures to lead poisoning and its role as a leading cause of mortality. Bearded vultures are likely to retain lead particles in their stomachs for longer periods than other raptors because their main diet of bones requires longer digestion times, and their highly acidic digestive system also causes efficient dissolution and absorption of lead particles into the body tissues, increasing the risk of lead poisoning. Elevated levels of lead can affect flight heights and movement rates in birds, possibly increasing the risk of collisions and reducing foraging efficiency, as well as longer term impacts on physiology and reproduction rates.
Consequently the authors emphasize the importance of lead poisoning as a serious threat to the bearded vulture population and encourage the rapid uptake of lead-free ammunition for hunting, either voluntarily or through enforced legislation, to relieve these important avian scavengers from the lethal and sublethal effects of lead exposure.
Protecting bearded vultures
Lead poisoning was recognised as an important issue in the Vulture Multi-species Action Plan, a global plan for the conservation of 15 species of vultures, co-developed by the Vulture Conservation Foundation which called for the phasing out of its use.
Across Europe there have been several initiatives to reduce the use of lead ammunition and promote lead-free hunting practices. In the Italian Alps the use of lead ammunition has been banned in the Stelvio National Park and Sondrio Province. At Hohe Tauern National Park in Austria, in the Pyrenees, and as part of our GypConnect and GypHelp LIFE conservation projects, at the Cévennes National Park in the French Massif Central, and in Haute-Savoie, pilot projects where hunters try non-lead ammunition are being carried out, and in two areas of Maestrazgo which has just began a bearded vulture reintroduction project the Generalitat Valenciana has banned the use of lead ammunition.
We here at the Vulture Conservation Foundation unreservedly supports the promotion of the use of lead-free ammunition for hunting purposes and this article adds to the growing body of evidence to support immediate action against the dangerous effects of lead poisoning on vultures and other scavengers.
Acute and Chronic Lead Exposure in Four Avian Scavenger Species in Switzerland
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Free WiFi brought to you by the CBD's CCTV system.
You can already get it on buses in Alice Springs, and now you can access free WiFi in the Todd Mall.
Tourism NT says the free WiFi network will use the optic fibre already installed for the CCTV system.
NT Police only need two of the six cables installed to run CCTV, the WiFi network will take up two cables, leaving two vacant.
The $85,000 price tag includes two years worth of operational costs and will be taken from the existing Tourism NT budget.
Alice Springs Mayor Damien Ryan says the Council will chip in $15,000 dollars to help pay for half of those running costs.
"It will be great for our visitors, but it will also be great for our locals and I think on market days it will be a boom," he says.
The service is anchored in the Tourism NT's new headquarters and five access points will be placed on light poles up and down the mall.
Mary-Anne is visiting from Rockhampton and says free internet would be a plus for grey nomads passing through.
"(I would use it) for catching up with family at home and letting them see some of the great photos that we've taken in the spectacular part of Australia," she says.
Click on the audio to hear what Todd Mall patrons think of the free WiFi.


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University of Utah - 11.8 MW Corporate PPA deal
UNIVERSITY OF UTAH TO SUPPLY 50 PERCENT OF ITS ELECTRICITY FROM CARBON-FREE, RENEWABLE SOLAR AND GEOTHERMAL ENERGY SOURCES, RISES TO THE TOP OF NATIONAL RANKINGS
The University of Utah plans to reduce its total carbon emissions by 25 percent through an agreement to source 50 percent of its electricity from carbon-free solar and geothermal energy sources. The university's agreement is the largest long-term green power contract of any U.S. university, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Green Power Partnership rankings.
Cyrq Energy, a Utah company based in Salt Lake City, and Berkshire Hathaway Energy Renewables (BHER) will provide 20 megawatts of geothermal energy and 10 megawatts of solar energy to the university for the next 25 years. Rocky Mountain Power will facilitate the purchase and delivery of this energy to the university through one of its innovative green tariffs, which allows Rocky Mountain Power's customers access to renewable energy. All agreements will be reviewed by the Public Service Commission.
"We are very pleased to have this opportunity to bring more renewable resources to the grid in Utah and are truly grateful for the shared efforts of our partners, Cyrq, BHER and Rocky Mountain Power," said Amy Wildermuth, chief sustainability officer. "Not only are geothermal and solar energy key components in the diverse array of energy sources in our state, the university has substantial and continuing research efforts in both areas. To be part of a project like this demonstrates the practicality and affordability of these carbon-free energy sources, which we hope can serve as a model for others."
In 2008, the university signed the American College and University Presidents' Climate Commitment, dedicating the U to carbon neutrality by 2050. In addition to this purchase, the university will continue to advance a multi-layered carbon-neutrality strategy, including energy efficiency measures and on-site energy creation like rooftop solar and solar parking canopies.
A study is underway to determine what percentage of the university's energy demand could be produced on campus, and where those projects might be located. In addition to working on university emissions, the U has also helped to spur the local renewable energy market through U Community Solar, an innovative group purchasing program.
About sustainability at the University of Utah
The University of Utah is committed to integrating sustainability across all areas of the institution, including academics, operations and administration and to serving as a model for what is possible in sustainability. The Sustainability Office supports sustainability efforts of all kinds and works to better streamline initiatives and collaboration across campus.
Source: Unews
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/film review/ Finding Neverland
Finding Neverland tells the story of how Peter Pan was made. Or sort of.
It revolves around the life of J.M. Barrie at his utmost lack of creativity when everything he creates seems dull or being blasted out by both critics and audience. His marriage does not even help to inspire him, until one day when performs his 'ritual', i.e. walking his dog to a park, he stumbles into a woman and her four children who are not like any other uptight families of early 20th century in London, they freely express themselves despite the ailing health of the mother. Yet, the adventure that Barrie and this family share together prove to be an oasis in the desert for Barrie, so much so that he decides to create the magical works of Peter Pan, and his own relieving presence in the family gradually ascends into being a father-like figure of those four children.
What a straight-forward narrative drama, you may think. A typical family drama that only suits for lazy Sunday watching pleasure of made-for-television movie, you may presume.
Whereas this movie may fall deeply to the stated categories above, the fact that it soars high above any other currently released film prove that to make a good-feel film, it takes putting a lot of efforts in how much you rely yourself on the story and how much you inject your own emotional thoughts and beliefs to the whole process of filmmaking. As making comparison should not be allowed in reviewing a work of creative process, I can't help scratching my head to notice that this beautiful piece of imaginative tale told in imaginary narrative is made under the direction of one man responsible for the grim and bleak of Monster's Ball, i.e. Marc Forster himself.
Unlike Wes Craven that once gone too far outselling his soul when he made Music of the Heart, this time Marc succeeds in dwelling himself as a man with a lot of pure hearts and innocent views on the magical world of fairy tale, so much so the extent that the whimsical theme in this film can be smoothly translated into visually breathtaking images that at times can be both real and dreamy.
You will agree with the statement above once you get to the scene when Kate Winslet's character at her worst health-condition is taken to her small garden that transcends into a journey of her lifetime. Or just wait until the very last scene when all you can think of is the gradual process of questioning your own eyes: What was it that I just saw for the past 100 minutes or so? Is this a true story? Is this a true fairy tale?
Who knows? I don't and I doubt you will do. How can we spare a time to think of that when you are fully transported to a dreamland like this? Where you can indulge your senses to Jan A.P. Kaczmarek's beautifully composed score that marks one of the rare cinematic moments in which music scores do enhance and heightened emotional values in watching a film. Where Johnny Depp gives an understated performance as JM Barrie that, despite being overtly praised recently, is a fine example of acting skills resulted from psychological approach that instead of merely being the character, Depp chose to be interpreting the character in the most logical sense suitable to the story. Thoughtful without necessarily falling into pretentious seriousness, seeing Depp as Barrie gives a sense of approachability value that audience can directly relate themselves to him.
Yet, in terms of acting-class performance, I would give my high credits to Kate Winslet, Freddie Highmore and Julie Christie. Reliable in making her characters she played on the screens distinctive enough to stand apart from the rest of the cast, this time Winslet is given a role of Sofia, a mother-of-four who holds up on her own, a character that may seem to be destined as an embedded supporting character, yet Winslet injects a strong dose of wits and confidence that makes Sofia a strong one and essential enough in determining the plotline, as her character slowly embodies the whole mood of the story. In the same understated kind of performance as what Depp gives to the film, so is Winslet's turn with more subdued execution due to the nature of the character's own destiny.
Whoever is Freddie Highmore? I can't give you any satisfying answer as IMDB or whatever movie resource would provide you with one, yet what I can say about this boy wizard is that he does not only steal the scenes wherever he is in, but he completely hijacks them with his bravura performance as Peter, the rebellious among Winslet's boys here, in such an applaudable turn that we would not be able to catch a glimpse of fact that he has to stand on his own along heavyweights like Depp, Winslet and of course, the evergreen beauty of Julie Christie.
Christie, who deals with her past-stardom era by making turns in numerous smaller roles, again proves us that she is way beyond the word 'capable' in giving a certain height and credibility to whatever roles assigned to her. As a mother of Sofia who never approves and gives a chance for Sofia to live on her own, the role of this kind may be played with nothing but merely smirk or usual highbrows, but this time, Christie imbues a certain determination that in the end, we sympathize with her character instead of dishing out hers.
Watching Finding Neverland is indeed finding our own self in the world of bewilderment and fantasy because if you believe in awaking your childhood sense, you will say: I do! I do!
Posted by nauvalyazid on 02/07/2005 in English, Film


Looking for a new school can be a daunting task for parents, so a visit can help them see the school in action, as well as giving a chance to meet students, teachers, and officials in the school community. Several international schools in the city are opening their doors again to prospective families who are looking for an affordable yet quality school for the next academic year. For more information about these schools, we've included their School Choice Guide profiles, as well as a curated list of everything that's happening at their compounds.
Take a look at the campus and meet Beijing International Bilingual Academy's (BIBA) teachers, principals, parents, and students. Learn all about the school's international and bilingual education, and how they help students in becoming internationally-minded bilingual ambassadors. Free admission but RSVP required. 8.30am-noon.
Dulwich College Beijing (DCB) invites prospective families with children aged 1 to 6 to visit the school's newly constructed and refurbished Early Years facilities, and find out about the school's philosophy. Visitors will be able to meet the school staff and hear about how the school teaches in both English and Mandarin, as well as discover how DCB children take responsibility, learn about the importance of good speaking and listening skills at a young age, and more. Kindly note that students wishing to enroll in the College must hold a foreign passport and a valid work (Z) dependent Chinese visa. Those who are unsure about eligibility to attend an international school should speak with the Admissions team in advance. Free but RSVP required (scan the QR code to register). 9.30-11.30am.
Address (Legend Garden Campus): 89 Capital Airport Road, Shunyi District. 顺义区首 都机场路89号丽京花园7区.
Get the opportunity to see the changes taking place across Yew Chung International School of Beijing at their open day and visit the school's newly renovated Learning Communities. As well as school tours, academic staff will hold information sessions on YCIS Beijing's approaches to teaching, designed to prepare students for the changes and challenges of their generation. Free. 9-11am.
The British School of Beijing (BSB) Shunyi invites prospective parents to come and see the school in action. Visitors will be able to tour around the school's Primary, German Primary, and Secondary classrooms and are invited to talk to the teachers and learn about the enhanced English National Curriculum and IB Diploma Programme. Free but RSVP required (register here). 9-11am.
The British School of Beijing, Sanlitun (BSB Sanlitun) looks forward to welcoming prospective parents to their new Li Building for Early Years and Primary children. Principal John Brett, Head of Primary Phase Zoe Hubbard, and Head of Early Years Kirsten Harding will be present to discuss with families the curriculum that BSB Sanlitun employs, while the Admissions team give them a tour of the school. Children can enjoy the outdoor play area in the company of their parents. Light refreshments will be available for children and parents/carers. Note: Open to prospective parents, foreign passport holders only. Free but RSVP required. 10am-noon.
Address: San and Li Building: 5 Xiliujie, Sanlitun Road, Chaoyang District. 朝阳区三里屯路西六街5号.
Western Academy of Beijing's (WAB's) Open House Series was designed specifically for parents interested in exploring their educational programs and community. Parents will have the chance to meet the teachers and administrators, enter classrooms, ask questions, and learn about the school's International Baccalaureate PYP program. Free. 8.30am-noon.
Prospective Early Years parents will have an opportunity to tour Harrow Beijing's facilities, meet educators, and learn about the Harrow approach to pedagogy. Places are limited so please be sure to reserve a space as soon as possible. Free admission but RSVP required (register here). 8.30-11.30am.
International School of Beijing (ISB) invites prospective parents and students of middle school (Grades 6-8) and high school (Grades 9-12) to come and learn about ISB's curriculum and teaching practices. Meet Head of School Patrick Hurworth, learn more about their high school and college guidance programs, and hear first-hand accounts from their student panel. An in-depth presentation from their middle school principal will follow the high school program. Families will also have the opportunity to tour the campus following each divisional discussion. Free admission but RSVP required. 8.45am-noon.
Adults. 3e International School invites parents to experience the school's bilingual dual immersion Elementary program. They can tour the campus and get an overview of the Grades 1-6 bilingual program and curriculum. Free. 9.30-11.30am.


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Genealogies of Knowledge I: Translating Political and Scientific Thought across Time and Space
23/11/2016 Mona Baker Events, Project News
7-9 December 2017 1st Call for Papers The production and circulation of knowledge across temporal and cultural spaces is a well-established research theme among classicists and historians of political thought, ideas, science and medicine, but recent developments have opened up new perspectives on this area of study. The study of social knowledge flows has advanced our understanding of these
Congratulations to Luis Pérez-González
02/06/2016 Mona Baker Project News
The Genealogies of Knowledge team is pleased to announce that one of its key members, Co-Investigator Luis Pérez-González, has been promoted to a Chair in Translation Studies at the University of Manchester, in recognition of his achievements in the field.Professor Pérez-González is a translation studies scholar with extensive experience in corpus-driven research and the study of citizen media and activism in the digital culture.
The Toledo Translation Fund: Call for Donations
03/05/2016 Mona Baker Other News
By Rosie Warren / 15 January 2016 The Toledo Translation Fund was established to support the translation into English of major works in the humanities and social sciences, from a wide range of world languages and cultures. Named after the twelfth- and thirteenth-century Toledo School of Translators—whose translations of philosophical and scientific treatises from Arabic, Greek and Hebrew paved the way for the Renaissance—Toledo Translation
Democracy Emerges from the Spaces In Between
30/04/2016 Mona Baker Resources
David Graeber There Never Was a West Or, Democracy Emerges From the Spaces In Between Part I: On the Incoherence Of the Notion of the "Western Tradition" Parenthetical Note: On the Slipperiness of the Western Eye World-Systems Reconfigured Part II: Democracy Was Not Invented Part III: On the Emergence of the "Democratic Ideal" Part IV: Recuperation The "Influence Debate" Traditions
Translation and Time
28/04/2016 Mona Baker Events
EXPLORING THE TEMPORAL DIMENSION OF CROSS-CULTURAL TRANSFER Department of Translation, The Chinese University of Hong Kong CALL FOR PAPERS / PANELS Largely overshadowed by the metaphor of space, the relation between translation and time/temporality remains surprisingly untheorized and understudied. Except for some isolated references (Cronin 2003; Baker 2006; Bassnett 2013), there has been no sustained engagement with the issue, let
Translation and Religion, 1-3 September 2016
Call for papers: Translation and Religion: Interrogating Concepts, Methods and Practices 1-3 September 2016 University of Edinburgh, 1-3 September 2016 Abstract Submissions Deadline: April 15, 2016 What is the relationship between 'translation' and 'religion'? While all 'religions' travel and engage in translation of one kind or another, what gets translated? How do the different components of what is currently understood
Arabic and Persian Medical Books and Manuscripts
This digitized collection of selected volumes of medical books and manuscripts, dating from 1300 to 1921, is drawn from the Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library. This collection reflects the Arabic and Persian intellectual efforts that translated, augmented, and transmitted Greek and Roman medical knowledge to Western societies during the Renaissance. It includes iconic works by authors such as Avicenna and


who are lack of English until they learn English. The book is the first one which was prepared with these contents in Turkey.
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The genesis of Shrooms is in the idea of an "all-sided" loft building in a particular New York neighborhood - East New York - characterized by extensive abandonment and vacant land, much of it city-owned. Looking at the empty lots not as blight but as a community resource, we hoped that a growing garland of Shrooms might have a ripple effect in greening the neighborhood. In addition, we thought of the loft-type as a crucial proto-public space. Not a space with a fixed or predetermined set of uses but a kind of resource out of which innumerable private possibilities might be drawn. This is important: we too much think of public and private as an absolute division rather than as a mutually reinforcing gradient. Rejecting the modernist notion (via Marx) of public space as disembodied and universal, Shrooms is an investigation of the reciprocities of public and private rather than an essay in their disjunction. As an urban proposition, Shrooms seeks to establish a new pattern of movement through the neighborhood, a greenway which operates not as a replacement for the street grid but as a supplement to it. Flowing through the middle of the large blocks, it occupies the spaces of abandonment as they are found. These public greenways lead to the "green-rooms" at the core of each structure. These green rooms extend the tendrils of circulation of the greenways, blossoms which act as distributors for the loft spaces which surround them, and which provide appropriable areas for various collective and semi-private uses. The system of green and publically aggrandizable spaces emerges on the roofs of the Shrooms as a linked system of gardens, a vertical displacement of the ground plane, a return to collective use.
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The men's 4 × 100 metres relay event at the 1997 Summer Universiade was held at the Stadio Cibali in Catania, Italy, on 30 and 31 August.

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Theatre executive Julian Bird praises 'resilience' of sector as he is made OBE
Alex Green, PA Acting Deputy Entertainment Editor
30 December 2022, 5:30 pm ·3-min read
Julian Bird, the former chief executive of the Society of London Theatre (Solt) and UK Theatre, has praised the "remarkable resilience" of the sector after being made an OBE in the New Year Honours.
Bird, 48, stood down from the role this year after delaying his exit in response to the coronavirus pandemic's impact on the industry.
A former chief operating officer at the Tate galleries, Bird joined Solt in November 2010 and helped transform the annual Olivier Awards as executive producer.
Julian Bird worked with Sir Sam Mendes, above, during the pandemic (PA)
He also campaigned for financial support from the Government during Covid-19 – before the launch of the £1.57 billion Culture Recovery Fund (CRF).
Bird, who features on the annual list for his services to theatre, dedicated the honour to the "many, many people" who contributed to the success of the sector in the past few years.
He told the PA news agency: "It was a time of enormous change – change in society, change in the way the industry looked at itself and who it employed and engaged and, of course, with some huge and very dramatic events that happened during that period, with a pandemic that I don't think anyone could have possibly foreseen stretching the industry to its very breaking point.
"But the remarkable hindsight is how resilient the theatre industry was and how it came together, and how we were able to make a cohesive argument to the Government for the support that we eventually received in the form of the CRF."
Praising those who worked to protect the theatre industry during the pandemic, Bird added: "Theatre productions happen through creativity and collaboration and both of those two things shone through over the last two or three years.
"I'm very honoured to get the OBE but it isn't just mine.
"Many, many people contributed to all that success and it's that collaboration and that creativity that stands front and centre."
Bird helped Sir Sam Mendes, the acclaimed director of films such as Skyfall and 1917 and plays including The Lehman Trilogy and The Ferryman, spearhead a fund for freelance theatre workers which raised millions during the pandemic.
Earlier this year, he founded Green Room Ents with producer and theatre owner Nica Burns and they have since put on productions on Cunard ships, with plans for further projects in Washington DC and London.
Bird warned that despite "some temporary relief" from the Government, energy prices are going to become a "real challenge" for the industry in the coming months.
He added: "And of course the cost of living. But the good news is it appears to have been a successful Christmas season so far. Theatre has shown how resilient it is.
"The theatre industry, if you look back over the last three years, it showed how remarkably resilient it is, with all the blows that have been thrown at it.
"I'm sure theatre will continue to change and adapt but that doesn't mean it isn't going to be difficult."
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A study at the University of Milan showed that cannabidiol (CBD), a relatively non-psychoactive constituent of cannabis, can prevent damage caused by lack of oxygen to the brain.
The study, published in the July issue of the journal Neuroscience, involved suffocating gerbils for 10 minutes, thereby inducing brain damage from lack of oxygen. Different amounts of CBD were then given to the gerbils five minutes after they were allowed to breathe again. The greater the amount of CBD given, the better the eventual recovery of the tortured gerbils.


The Galway Music Centre is located at St Mary's College, Galway. Its facilities are used by member organisations at various times throughout the year, and provide facilities for administration and group meetings.
Galway Youth Orchestra, Maoin Cheoil na Gaillimhe, Music for Galway and the Galway Music Residency are also based here.


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Mayor Rob Ford looks down field after weekend radio play
Mayor Rob Ford heads into work at Toronto City Hall following a dramatic weekend in which he apologized on the radio for 'mistakes' he's made and demanded that the city's police chief release an alleged drug video that he long said didn't exist.
Ford challenges police chief to release alleged drug video
CBC News · Posted: Nov 04, 2013 5:10 AM ET | Last Updated: November 4, 2013
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Mayor Rob Ford heads into work at Toronto City Hall on Monday morning following a dramatic weekend in which he apologized on the radio for "mistakes" he's made and demanded that the city's police chief release an alleged drug video that he long said didn't exist.
Last week, Toronto police Chief Bill Blair revealed investigators had seized electronic devices during a series of raids months ago and recently managed to restore a deleted video file, containing images of the mayor he said were "consistent" with widely-publicized reports.
The Toronto Star and the U.S. website Gawker had each reported in May that someone had been shopping a video that allegedly showed Ford using crack cocaine. The mayor denied both the video's existence and using crack cocaine.
On Sunday, Ford called upon the police chief to release the video so the public could see "whatever this video shows" and judge its meaning for themselves.
"I am asking you to release this video now," Ford said on his weekly radio show on Newstalk 1010.
But the police have said it is the courts that will decide if the video will be made public.
During Ford's two-hour Sunday afternoon show, the mayor also made vague apologies for his behaviour on selected occasions, including getting "hammered" at the Taste of the Danforth street festival and seeing things get "a little out of control" on St. Patrick's Day last year.
Ford answered calls on the radio show but ducked a direct question about whether he used drugs, as the reports about the video had previously alleged.
"I can't comment on a video I have not seen. I have asked Chief Blair to release this video immediately. I want to see it now," Ford said in response to a caller who asked the mayor "what drugs you've ingested through a glass pipe."
Ford was 'effective' on radio
Bob Reid of Veritas Communications believes the strategy the mayor employed on his weekend radio program largely worked.
"Based on the political calculus, I would say it was an effective day for him," Reid told CBC News in an interview.
Reid said Ford's radio remarks were aimed squarely at his supporters to assure them that while he is sorry for his mistakes, he is not giving up.
"It's standard political math. You've got your core supporters who you need to maintain at any cost; you've got those that you'll never win in a million years, so there's no sense losing sleep over them; and then there's the bunch in the middle who might come your way, who might not," said Reid.
"[Sunday] was all about the first group, the Ford Nation supporters, stopping the bleeding, making sure that nobody else leaves the tent and we'll worry about the swing-voters down the road, it's a year out to the election, there's lots of time for that."
On the weekend, Ford once again said his name will be the first registered name on the ballot for next year's municipal election. The mayor has said he expects the campaign will be "a bloodbath."
Since being elected as mayor three years ago, Ford, 44, has found himself struggling at times to lead council on key issues.
"Even before this latest raft of serious allegations came up, the mayor was very isolated on council, it was very difficult for him to move forward substantial pieces of policy that kind of came from his office," the CBC's Jamie Strashin said Sunday.
With the video-related cloud hanging over his head and increasing pressure to take a leave of absence, Strashin said the mayor may find it even more difficult to make things happen at city hall.
"He's virtually been told by everyone with the exception of his brother and a couple of other people that he needs to go away and get help, [but] he's rejected that," said Strashin, predicting that Ford will counter that pressure by continuing to focus on individual constituent matters, rather than big-picture issues.
"In terms of his ability to get things done on the policy front at city hall, I think that's going to be very, very difficult going forward," Strashin said.
Ford spent years working as a city councillor for a ward in Etobicoke, the Toronto suburb where he lives with his family, before he was elected mayor in 2010.
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Norway's 2020 gas maintenance outage seen lower than in 2019
Lefteris Karagiannopoulos
PMN Business
OSLO — Maintenance at Norway's natural gas fields and processing plants is scheduled to cut production capacity by some 5.35 billion cubic meters (bcm) in 2020, less than in 2019, according to a Reuters calculation based on data from system operator Gassco.
Following the release by Gassco of a series of maintenance schedules on Friday, as well as data published earlier, the expected scope of 2020 maintenance plans is now complete, the operator said.
The scope of outages announced for 2020 is some 1.65 bcm smaller than that of 2019, a year of high maintenance that was estimated to amount to about 7 bcm when Gassco released maintenance plans last year.
Norway is the second largest gas supplier to Europe after Russia and its exports are key to Britain's energy security, with outages in Norwegian fields and processing plants causing large price fluctuations across the North Sea.
Shortly after publishing its 2020 maintenance plans, Gassco also released an initial list of maintenance-related production outages for 2021, amounting to 3.12 bcm.
The number is expected to change by the end of next year however, when the operator is expected to give a more detailed estimate.
Norway's offshore pipeline system has a capacity of up to 120 billion cubic meters of gas per year, Gassco has previously said.
The scope of 2020 maintenance could still be subject to revisions at a later time, Gassco added.
The current 2020 plans show that production capacity at Norway's largest gas field Troll will be cut by some 2.3 bcm next year, which is lower than the 4.5 bcm expected for 2019.
Troll will see reduced production during May, June and September. Kollsnes, the country's largest processing plant and a major exporting facility for Britain, will also undergo maintenance, with production cuts seen from May to September.
In 2019, Norway's piped gas exports are set to decline for a second year in a row, after hitting a record 117.4 bcm in 2017. It has so far exported 80.8 bcm this year, 6.3 bcm short of the same time in 2018, a year when it sent abroad a total 114.2 bcm of gas. (Additional reporting by Nerijus Adomaitis, editing by Terje Solsvik and Emelia Sithole-Matarise)


EF 70-210mm F/4 Low Light Performance, Impressive Despite It's Old Age and Limitations.
Yesterday I had the opportunity to watch the Ringling Bros. Circus. I brought my Tamron 17-50mm F/2.8 VC, EF 85mm F/1.8 and my only telephoto the EF 70-210mm F/4 Macro. 90% of the time I was using the EF 70-210mm, the 85mm was sleeping in the bag all time.
I was impressed with the performance of the EF 70-210mm F/4, with it, I was able to take photos that wasn't just possible with the Tamron 17-50mm, because of the distance. All the photos on this post are of the 70-210mm and none of them were post processed, they came straight from the SD Card imported to my lightroom library and uploaded to flickr.
Despite it's old age (Manufactured 1985), some flaws and limitations (no is, slow) it was impressive. I must tell you, IS and a fast F/2.8 really makes a difference. My Tamron AF 17-50mm F/2.8 SP VC (Vibration Compensation) did an excellent job, but because of the limited focal length, I needed to use a Telephoto. I wish I have a Canon EF 70-200mm f/4 L IS USM Lens or a Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8L II IS . Maybe next time.
Most of the photos were taken with an ISO 400 to 800, Aperture of F/4, shutter speeds vary from 1/60 to 1/125.
You can get a Canon EF 70-200mm F/4 L IS USM from reputable stores like Adorama.Com and Amazon.Com .
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Home » News & Events » Lesley Litman Moderates Panel Discussion on "Israel in North American Jewish Day Schools"
Lesley Litman Moderates Panel Discussion on "Israel in North American Jewish Day Schools"
Lesley Litman, Coordinator, Executive M.A. Program in Jewish Education, HUC-JIR, moderated an "ELI on Air" panel discussion on "Israel in North American Jewish Day Schools" on May 29, 2014, with Alex Pomson, Senior Researcher at the Melton Centre for Jewish Education at the Hebrew University, and Jack Wertheimer, Joseph and Martha Mendelson Professor of American Jewish History at The Jewish Theological Seminary. During the "ELI on Air" conversation, Litman, Pomson, and Wertheimer took a deeper look at The AVI CHAI Foundation's recent report on Israel in North American Jewish Day Schools.
Litman stated, "The AVI CHAI Report provides significant insights into Israel education and points to multiple opportunities to strengthen this area in both Jewish day schools and the field of Jewish education as a whole. The Report deserves multiple read-throughs and today's "ELI on Air" conversation enabled participants to more fully plumb its implications for our work."
Lesley Litman is the Coordinator of the Executive M.A. Program in Jewish Education at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion and works with the Experiment in Congregational Education as the coordinator of its Boston-based initiative. She also consults to The iCenter in the area of curriculum design and professional development in Israel education. Lesley served as the Director of Congregational Learning at Temple Israel in Boston. Prior to her work at Temple Israel, she was the Regional Educator for the URJ and the URJ's national specialist in Hebrew and Day School education and served on the staff of Jewish Day Schools for the 21st Century, a project of the Rhea Hirsch School of Education. Lesley was a founding member of Kibbutz Yahel in the Arava where she was the first treasurer and headed up the kibbutz's search for an industrial project. She is a doctoral candidate in Jewish education at the Jewish Theological Seminary doing research looking at the connection between curriculum and innovation in congregational education.
Dr. Alex Pomson is a senior researcher at the Melton Centre for Jewish Education at the Hebrew University. He was founding head of Jewish studies at the King Solomon High School in London. He is co-author of Back to School: Jewish Day School as a Source of Meaning in the Lives of Adult Jews, and co-editor of Jewish Schools, Jewish Communities: a Reconsideration and of the soon to be published International Handbook of Jewish Education. He has just launched a longitudinal study funded by the Canadian government to study the transitions from Jewish elementary school to high school.
Dr. Jack Wertheimer is the Joseph and Martha Mendelson Professor of American Jewish History at The Jewish Theological Seminary. His area of specialization is modern Jewish history, with a particular focus on trends in the religious, educational, and organizational sectors of American Jewish life since World War II. From 1997 to 2007, Dr. Wertheimer served as provost, the chief academic officer of JTS. He also served as the founding director of the Joseph and Miriam Ratner Center for the Study of Conservative Judaism from 1987 to 2008. The Ratner Center preserves the records of the rabbis, synagogues, and organizations of the Conservative Movement and also promotes research on the history and contemporary state of Conservative Judaism.
ELI Talks are short video talks modeled on the popular TED Talks with the central themes of Jewish literacy; Jewish religious engagement; Jewish peoplehood, with Israel at the center; or any combination of those three, presented in light of their presenter's own professional work, personal experiences, or Jewish or secular texts. The speakers' passions result in engaging and inspired talks that teach something new and perhaps counterintuitive and are intended to develop a global discourse amongst Jews worldwide. The AVI CHAI Foundation began producing ELI Talks in 2012 at the North American Jewish Day School Conference. While initiated by the Foundation, ELI Talks are intended to be a product of those who create them, who share them, who converse around them, and who are inspired by them.