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Indian Jewish Fiction in English
by Café Dissensus on December 31, 2014
By Anna Guttman
While it is true that since 1947, Indian Jews have departed the subcontinent in significant numbers for Israel, the United States, Canada, Australia, and Great Britain, the reasons for this population decline, however, have been contentious. The works of literature – including fiction, drama, poetry and literature for young adults – that have emerged from the Indian Jewish community tell many and complicated stories about the community – and its shrinkage. Most contemporary Indian Jewish fiction has emerged from Western India's historic Bene Israel community. While the Bene Israel has experienced the most dramatic population drop of any of India's Jewish communities (from roughly 20 000 individuals in 1948 to less than 5000 today), it remains India's most vibrant and best organized, both in the subcontinent and outside.
The first work of fiction written in English by a member of India's Jewish community was Meera Mahadevan's book Shulamith (1975). Born Miriam Jacob, Mahadevan originally wrote the novel in Hindi; it was entitled Apna Ghar. In its original title, Shulamith forecasts the narrative's central question: where is the home of the Bene Israel Jews? As the novel opens (the year is 1955), Michael, the husband of the eponymous character, has just departed for Israel. His wife has refused to accompany him. Shulamith's insistence on remaining in India rests on three principles: her personal obligations to the extended family (she is repeatedly compared to the peepal tree that shelters their home), her belief that the Bene Israel have been treated with tolerance and are, therefore, part of the Indian fabric, and the fact that her family has already been displaced from Karachi during partition and should not therefore be uprooted again.
But Shulamith seems to be fighting a losing battle. Her son Uriel also moves to Israel at the end of the novel. Shulamith is, by then, resigned and neither blesses him nor objects, but hastily arranges his wedding with Simha, his Jewish girlfriend. The couple settles in Israel and locates Michael, whom Uriel prompts to return to India. Michael comes back changed, freer in his affection to Shulamith than in the past, and more certain of his own Indianness. Unfortunately, Shulamith dies on the day of his return; Michael is so engrossed in narrating the pros and cons of Israeli life that he doesn't even notice her passing. Though the novel concludes with an affirmation of Indianness, it seems that little has been gained by Shulamith's loyalty.
Sophie Judah's collection of interrelated short stories, Dropped from Heaven (2007), is perhaps even more pessimistic about the possibility of maintaining Jewish communities in India. Set in the fictional town of Jwalanagar, and spanning the period from 1890 to 2004, Dropped from Heaven was written in Israel, where the author has resided since 1972. The final story of the collection, "The Funeral," recounts the visit of Joseph Naor to the hometown he left at the age of ten to make aliyah. He learns that a single Jewish inhabitant, Eliza Samuel, remains in the town and is dying. Joseph is instructed to visit her as "[s]he will be glad to see a Jewish face at her deathbed" (227). As a fellow Jew from the same town, Eliza, extracts a promise from Joseph to properly dispose of her body upon her death. This promise turns out to be very difficult to fulfill. The regional Jewish population is so depleted that Joseph is unable to gather a minyan, the quorum of ten Jewish adults required to say the prayer for the dead. The funeral is "a sad, cut-to-pieces affair" (239). There is no one to sit shiva (the traditional week of mourning). Joseph decides to depart the town, for to him "it is all dead" (240).
The prolific Bene Israel writer Esther David (author of The Book of Esther and By the Sabarmati, among others) tells a story with many similarities in Book of Rachel (2006). The eponymous Rachel's children and grandchildren all live in Israel – she is the last remaining Jew in the town of Danda, and the caretaker of the local synagogue. Rachel herself refuses to emigrate, but she does not oppose her children's decisions to live in Israel. Rachel views the village inhabitants as her family and they, in turn "appreciated the fact that … she spoke Marathi with the right intonations, just like them, and also knew all the Maharashtrian customs, so much so that often they introduced her to their relatives as a Konkanasth Brahmin" (5). Rachel's experiences as a Jew in India are therefore characterized by tolerance – but that tolerance is tied to the misrecognition, and even erasure, of her Jewish identity by those closest to her.
When Mordecai, a member of the synagogue board, attempts to sell the building for commercial use, Rachel is spurred into action. When the synagogue committee arrives at Rachel's home for a meeting with her, her daughter (who has flown in from Israel), Judah (a Bombay-based lawyer), and the would-be purchasers, there is an open confrontation. Mordecai defends his motivations, asserting: "'All my life I have selflessly worked for the good of the community.' Rachel smiled. 'What community? Where is it? I assume that is the very reason you have sold our house of prayer, isn't it?'" (166). Rachel must affirm the community's nonexistence in order to claim the right to preserve the very structure that symbolizes it. In her own way, like Mordecai, Rachel agrees to the community's dissolution. The sale is ultimately stymied; instead, the synagogue will be converted into a museum documenting and displaying artifacts of Jewish life on the Konkan coast. This is a victory of sorts, but one confirms the disappearance of Jewish life as such, which can now only be memorialized.
Esther David's most recent novel, Shalom India Housing Society (2007), depicts an Ahmedabad where the Jewish community has come together in a single housing development. In the opening short story, the narrator explains that
[u]ntil now, the new tenants of Shalom India Housing Society had celebrated Passover at the synagogue with the entire community. But at the time of this, their first Passover after the riots, there was still tension in the walled city. … A man had been stabbed in broad daylight at the crossroads … every stabbing in the city made the Jews feel afraid and insecure. It was in this tense atmosphere that the Jewish families of Ahmedabad decided to celebrate Passover on their own, within their own homes (9).
The book puts the lie to the myth that India's Jews are unaffected by communalism, as demonstrated from the fragmentation and the loss of communal ritual that is its premise. Characters leave for Pakistan or Israel; their descendants live in Canada and Great Britain. It is impossible to find Jewish tenants for all the apartments in the housing society; at times it is difficult to find any tenants at all. Several characters marry outside the community and struggle to find a place for themselves either in India or outside, though converts and those who marry non-Jews are still embraced by their families and immediate community. Israel and India in particular offer conflicting pulls.
Hadassah, the subject of the last story and ostensible narrator of the text, is explicitly positioned as the stand-in for Esther David. She has lived in both Israel and Europe, and her "Jewishness is abstract, something which was there and not there," learned by "spinning tales about the Bene Israel Jews of India" (211). The text concludes by noting that the other Bene Israel Jews, though confused and uncomfortable around Hadassah "were heartened by the mere fact that she had booked her own funeral space, six feet by six, at the new Jewish cemetery … by paying an advance of rupees five hundred only" (212). It is therefore her inevitable death that solidifies Hadassah's identification with the Bene Israel community. The text offers an ironic hope for Jewish survival via its final appeal to the reader to consider the merits of the new cemetery.
It may seem paradoxical that as the Bene Israel population in India itself has declined, the literary output – and its complexity – has only increased. The last few years have also seen a flurry of literary activity in other Indian Jewish communities. Jael Silliman's The Man with Many Hats (2013) is the first novel to emerge from the Baghdadi Jewish community, centered in Calcutta. It touches on many familiar themes – disintegration of the Jewish community, intermarriage, outmigration to India and the United States – but refuses to be defined by loss. The final chapter, aptly titled "Home to stay at last," depicts the main protagonist Rachel, and her mother, Sarah, reuniting in Calcutta in the home they once shared with Rachel's magnetic but abusive father, Morris. It is Morris who is "the man with many hats" and his legacy, like that of the Baghdadi Jews is multiple and sometimes contradictory. The novel's final words, "To Life!" serve as a powerful reaffirmation of the place of Jewish stories in India and in Indian literature – past and present.
Dr. Anna Guttman is Associate Professor of Postcolonial Literature at Lakehead University, Canada. She is the co-editor of The Global Literary Field and author of The Nation of India in Contemporary Indian Literature and Writing Indians and Jews: Metaphorics of Jewishness in South Asian Literature.
For more stories, read Café Dissensus Everyday, the blog of Café Dissensus Magazine.
Tags: Baghdadi Jews, Bene Ephraim, Bene Israel, Bene Menashe, Cochin Jews, Indian Jews
From: Issue 12/The Indian Jewry
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Q: Difference between XML and HTML I know it's a very generic question but still i didn't get any proper answer for this question on internet.
**Difference between XML and HTML**

any help!!!

A: No XML did not replace HTML, Both HTML and XML are different.
HTML is used for viewing data in proper format, like how it should look and what styling and color should be their (using CSS)
where as xml is used to carry data.
in very simple example you are using stackoverflow and you are seeing the view and you have put on the question.
what happened on backend?
You put on the question, that is stored on the database of this website.
now next time you login you find the same question here.
Actually main  thing is REST Service is bringing back the data in xml format and that data is being displayed with the help of HTML

A: Some people originally hoped that XML would replace HTML: that instead of generic tags like <p> and <b>, people would use semantically-meaningful tags like <price> and <quantity>, and use a stylesheet to describe the formatting. But it didn't work out that way. Instead, HTML moved incrementally in the same direction, by deprecating the "pure formatting" tags like <font>, using <div class='x'> where XML would use <x>, and moving more and more of the formatting into CSS. Of course, many people still generate HTML from XML, because CSS still has its limitations. So one could say that most of the aims of XML were achieved, but with less disruption to existing syntax.

A: XML and HTML are different languages. They belong to the family of markup languages, but they are different. They may look same on the first sight, but they are not. Also their purpose is different. XML is defined to represent a data structure, while HTML represents a presentation layer. There is a mixture of HTML and XML, called XHTML and this is basically HTML expressed in HTML.
see more here:
http://courses.cs.vt.edu/~cs1204/XML/htmlVxml.html
http://www.differencebetween.info/difference-between-html-and-xml
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XHTML

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BARNES & NOBLES
76 HOURS:
The Invasion of Tarawa
by Eric Hammel & John E. Lane
On the morning of Saturday, November 20, 1943, the U.S. 2d Marine Division undertook the first modern amphibious assault against a well-defended beachhead. The objective was tiny Betio Island in Tarawa Atoll. The result was an immortal story of tragedy and near defeat turned around into an epic of victory and indomitable human spirit.
Although the admirals commanding the Tarawa invasion fleet had assured the Marines that Betio would be pounded to coral dust by a massive naval and air bombardment—the largest of its kind ever seen to that time—the first waves of Marines found the Japanese defenses intact and manned by determined foes. Within minutes of the start of the head-on assault, the American battle plan was a shambles and scores of Marines had been killed or wounded. The assault virtually stopped at the water's edge, its momentum halted before many Marines ever dismounted from the amphibian tractors that had carried them to the deadly, fire-swept beach. Follow-up waves of Marines suffered grievous casualties when they were forced to wade more than 500 yards through fire-swept, knee-deep water because tidal conditions had been miscalculated by the invasion's planners.
Follow the bloody battle for Betio in graphic detail as heroic American fighting men advance every life-threatening step across the tiny island in the face of what many historians agree was the best and most concentrated defenses manned by the bravest and most competent Japanese defenders American troops encountered in the entire Pacific War.
76 Hours, available via the Amazon.com Kindle Bookshelf, is the original text-only version of the pictorial history Bloody Tarawa.

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Q: Dockerfile for tesseract 4.0 I am trying to create a Dockerfile for tesseract-ocr version 4.0.
Following are the contents of the Docker file.
FROM ubuntu:16.04
ENV DEBIAN_FRONTEND noninteractive
RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y software-properties-
  common && add-apt-repository -y ppa:alex-p/tesseract-ocr
RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y tesseract-ocr

FROM python:3.6-alpine
ADD . /App
WORKDIR /App
COPY requirements.txt ./
COPY . .
RUN pip install --no-cache-dir -r requirements.txt

I am able to build the Docker image, but when I spin a container and try to run a tesseract command, I get

"tesseract" not found

A: The solution was to upgrade to Ubuntu 18.04:
FROM ubuntu:18.04
RUN apt-get update \
    && apt-get install tesseract-ocr -y \
    python3 \
    #python-setuptools \
    python3-pip \
    && apt-get clean \
    && apt-get autoremove

ADD . /home/App
WORKDIR /home/App
COPY requirements.txt ./
COPY . .

RUN pip3 install -r requirements.txt

VOLUME ["/data"]
EXPOSE 5000 5000
CMD ["python3","OCRRun.py"]


This tutorial shows how to configure a MySQL 5 cluster with three nodes: two storage nodes and one management node. This cluster is load-balanced by a high-availability load balancer that in fact has two nodes that use the Ultra Monkey package which provides heartbeat (for checking if the other node is still alive) and ldirectord (to split up the requests to the nodes of the MySQL cluster).
In addition to that we need a virtual IP address : 192.168.0.105. It will be assigned to the MySQL cluster by the load balancer so that applications have a single IP address to access the cluster.
Although we want to have two MySQL cluster nodes in our MySQL cluster, we still need a third node, the MySQL cluster management server, for mainly one reason: if one of the two MySQL cluster nodes fails, and the management server is not running, then the data on the two cluster nodes will become inconsistent ("split brain"). We also need it for configuring the MySQL cluster.
As the MySQL cluster management server does not use many resources, and the system would just sit there doing nothing, we can put our first load balancer on the same machine, which saves us one machine, so we end up with four machines.
Please replace the IP addresses in the file appropriately.
If you see that your nodes are connected, then everything's ok!
to leave the ndb_mgm client console.
So both MySQL cluster nodes alwas have the same data!
until all ndbd processes are gone.
You see, sql1.example.com is not connected anymore.
Our MySQL cluster is finished now, and you could start using it now. However, we don't have a single IP address that we can use to access the cluster, which means you must configure your applications in a way that a part of it uses the MySQL cluster node 1 (sql1.example.com), and the rest uses the other node (sql2.example.com). Of course, all your applications could just use one node, but what's the point then in having a cluster if you do not split up the load between the cluster nodes? Another problem is, what happens if one of the cluster nodes fails? Then the applications that use this cluster node cannot work anymore.
The solution is to have a load balancer in front of the MySQL cluster which (as its name suggests) balances the load between the MySQL cluster nodes. The load blanacer configures a virtual IP address that is shared between the cluster nodes, and all your applications use this virtual IP address to access the cluster. If one of the nodes fails, then your applications will still work, because the load balancer redirects the requests to the working node.
Now in this scenario the load balancer becomes the bottleneck. What happens if the load balancer fails? Therefore we will configure two load balancers (loadb1.example.com and loadb2.example.com) in an active/passive setup, which means we have one active load balancer, and the other one is a hot-standby and becomes active if the active one fails. Both load balancers use heartbeat to check if the other load balancer is still alive, and both load balancers also use ldirectord, the actual load balancer the splits up the load onto the cluster nodes. heartbeat and ldirectord are provided by the Ultra Monkey package that we will install.
It is important that loadb1.example.com and loadb2.example.com have support for IPVS (IP Virtual Server) in their kernels. IPVS implements transport-layer load balancing inside the Linux kernel.
Other than that, you don't have to change anything in the file.
You must list one of the load balancer node names (here: loadb1) and list the virtual IP address (192.168.0.105) together with the correct netmask (24) and broadcast address (192.168.0.255). If you are unsure about the correct settings, http://www.subnetmask.info/ might help you.
Please fill in the correct virtual IP address (192.168.0.105) and the correct IP addresses of your MySQL cluster nodes (192.168.0.101 and 192.168.0.102). 3306 is the port that MySQL runs on by default. We also specify a MySQL user (ldirector) and password (ldirectorpassword), a database (ldirectordb) and an SQL query. ldirectord uses this information to make test requests to the MySQL cluster nodes to check if they are still available. We are going to create the ldirector database with the ldirector user in the next step.
You can now switch off one of the MySQL cluster nodes for test purposes; you should then still be able to connect to the MySQL database.
So if you have a database that is 1 GB of size, you would need 1.1 GB RAM on each node!
- The cluster management node listens on port 1186, and anyone can connect. So that's definitely not secure, and therefore you should run your cluster in an isolated private network!
Submitted by lionel (not registered) on Mon, 2009-04-13 15:24.
Submitted by d60eba (registered user) on Thu, 2008-01-10 12:11.
This is a great tutorial - I used it to set everything up myself. However, I found a few details lacking about what was going on behind the scenes, and also how to recover after a server crash. Anyway, I've written everything up here: http://aciddrop.com/2008/01/10/step-by-step-how-to-setup-mysql-database-replication/ It's for MySQL 5.0 on Centos 4, but is good for other distros. (I've credited you with a link at the bottom).
Submitted by taikonautzero (registered user) on Mon, 2006-12-18 13:57.
When locking the tables with FLUSH TABLES WITH READ LOCK; do not quit the mysql shell else you will lose the lock, use another shell to do the db dump instead.
Submitted by Anonymous (not registered) on Tue, 2006-01-17 00:29.
Submitted by Anonymous (not registered) on Fri, 2006-02-03 23:39.
When copying everything, including the mysql database on Debian, you will screw up the password for the debian-sys-main account. Just grab the password on your master server from /etc/mysql/debian.cnf and put this password in the same file on your new slave.
Submitted by Valery (not registered) on Thu, 2008-12-11 09:28.
Submitted by Jason (not registered) on Fri, 2008-11-21 15:42.
in the mysql command line does the same. so only setting the my.cnf and restarting mysql does the trick.
Submitted by xabin (registered user) on Wed, 2008-03-12 19:25.
Submitted by nephish (registered user) on Wed, 2007-05-02 00:00.
if you start mysql with /etc/init.d/mysql restart, you cannot just put the lines above for the my.cnf file anywhere in the file for the slave.
they must be in the [mysqld] block.
took me two hours to figgure that one out.
Submitted by Anonymous (not registered) on Tue, 2006-06-06 11:00.
keep in mind this note on replication (found on mysql doc site), I lost 2 days trying to understand why my DBs where not replicating!
query like: "update in dbname.foobar set foo=1"
Submitted by Anonymous (not registered) on Mon, 2006-01-16 19:02.
Now go ahead and set your root password, create your databases, etc. Everything done on the master will replicate faithfully over to the slave.
Submitted by Anonymous (not registered) on Mon, 2006-01-16 17:26.


The first time I saw the tree, it was in the spring. I was here, at Bon Secours Retreat and Conference Center, Marriottsville, MD, in May of last year for our first Residency. In between the breaks of our very intense learning about contemplative prayer and leading groups and retreats, I would wander the grounds, reveling in the abundance of blooms. So much was flowering at that time: dogwoods and daffodils, azaleas and crocus. There were colors and blossoms everywhere I looked. The abundance filled me with awe at God's creativity in living Technicolor.
I don't know why I fell in love with this particular tree. Perhaps it was the way the branches leaned out over the water, as if wanting to go for a swim. Maybe it was the little birdhouse hung on the lowest branch. Whatever the reason, I was drawn to this tree, and experienced several poignant moments meditating on its beauty.
Now it is winter. Late winter, to be sure, but still winter, as proven by last night's snowstorm. We awoke this morning to the quiet beauty of new fallen snow. And I was called to explore! I had brought most of my snow gear from Flagstaff in the hopes that I would actually need it, and so I plunged into the crisp morning, reveling in the stillness. As I came around the lake, I recognized my tree, still standing proudly, with branches arched out over the small lake. And even though the landscape was void of color – covered entirely in white – the beauty took my breath away.
The branches were bare of leaves and gently balanced the snowfall as gift and treasure. The buds that were just beginning to form spoke to me of the promise of spring, suspended in the reality of this last storm of the season (some would hope.) And in that suspension, there is the hope of transformation. Spring is promised, but not yet present. And yet the tree waits, heavy with the burden of reality while also pregnant with possibility.
Here is abundant life – that trees and bushes and creatures and all of us are held in that waiting time. That while we long for the transformation to come, we are supported and nurtured and guided by the Eternal Love that birthed all of creation. And so no matter what season of living you are experiencing – growth, death, birth, waiting – know that you are held by the One who holds all of creation in love. And in that certainty, you can live out your abundant life!


Preparedness must be of equal in importance in your business as other elements that keep you running. Luck is not a strategic plan.
How do you know what information is real and what is not during a crisis? From a rumor vs. fact perspective, the Web makes it easy to access information, but it's not all reliable, especially in a crisis situation. There is less and less vetting in the Social Media world. Only the minority is getting their information from the government – leading to confusion in response.
One solution – buy a weather radio that will give you early warning of disaster striking in Community – however, you must have it on in your home and in your office. If you lose power in your house or office, it will set back the way you live 80 years. Having a durable weather radio will keep you informed – without that information, you are operating off of rumors.
All handheld devices (like phones, iPhones, etc.) can be programmed to get automatic updates from the government to get early warnings and breaking news. Set those up in advance so you aren't caught scrambling when seconds matter.
On the Schipul team, Emergency response is first under the Communications department and under Operations department second. By planning ahead, many issues that will arise are Communication-based and you can easily take care of this with preparatory remarks, sample press releases and other material. Be sure your managers have all of their direct reports programmed in their phone – text messages are the only thing that will work, most likely.
You and your employees must practice and actually physically go through the motions to be sure that your corporate communications will work. Have an evacuation policy and collection of complete contact information for key personnel in accessible areas.
Create appropriate check lists NOW that will help you ensure all of your contacts, vendors and physical assets will all be taken care of and accounted for. Do you have special needs employees? Where will your employees go when they leave town? Also, technology has made great strides since Y2K, but you must continue to stay smart. Backup servers – are they in the same power grid your office?
Don't plan on being a victim, plan on being a survivor. You do this by planning ahead, acting ahead and acting as pro-actively as possible with your Community's best interest at heart.
What are your triggers? Police notification, receive phone call, advised by television. However, at the end of the day the decision to evacuate is up to you. If you wait until the rest of your Community gets word to evacuate, you will be stuck in gridlock which can be potentially deadly.
Shelter-in-place if the event is in your immediate vicinity, if your area is safe or if there are specific storm conditions present. Be aware of your surroundings and act accordingly. Also must judge your evacuation plan according to your family, if you have elderly or very young family members that means you need to just get out before the area has a mass exodus.
Your business needs to not only plan on when to leave, but when and how to return to help others get their businesses up and running.
Firestorm founders Harry Rhulen and Jim Satterfield wrote Disaster Ready People for a Disaster Ready America specifically to address this need, and the book has become a cornerstone of many personal and corporate preparedness programs. "Remember: you are your own first responder," the book reminds readers as it guides them through a comprehensive program of readiness.
Encourage your friends in government to develop plans to take care of the elderly, disabled and poor. They will be the hardest hit in times of major disaster, they will be less likely to be able to afford to prepare. Is your business in a poor area? Check on your neighborhood before you leave and take them with you. Be aware of the human toll (not just financial impact) of a disaster.
Technology is important, but be aware of the human factor. Does your emergency response team have someone that panics easily, lives far away? Take them off the team and focus on your real disaster assets.
Look at your employees – what are your work from home/wherever options? Have an employee with young children that will evacuate quickly? Perhaps they are perfect to get out of town and set up operations elsewhere. Must plan for this prior to the event.
When you dial up a number for a phone call, cell carriers can only handle 2/3 of calls. Texts take up MUCH less bandwidth. Rely only on texts and be aware that some employees and contacts may have to use other numbers if their phones die.
Every crisis is a human crisis. The responsibility rests with you, not the local or federal government. Make a difference in your employees' lives and in your area.
Tremendous write-up. You've captured all of the key points discussed yesterday.
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comment With your own audio-guide, you can explore the most famous cathedral in the world at your own pace.
Audio guided tour of St. Peter's Basilica, enabling you to explire the Basilica at your own pace.
Discover the attractions of Rome from the top of an open-top bus on a 24 or 48-hour hop-on, hop-off bus tour. Your ticket includes admission and an audio guide to St Peter's Basilica in the Vatican allowing you to explore the most famous cathedral in the world.
A hop-on, hop-off bus tour is one of the easiest ways of exploring the incredible city of Rome and an excellent way of get your bearings.
All the stops are situated best to the best known and best loved monuments and landmarks ensuring you do not miss any of the key sights. You can hop-on and off the sightseeing buses as many times as you like for the duration of your ticket giving you the flexibility to explore, sightsee and visit attractions.
Included in your ticket is an audio guided tour of St. Peter's Basilica, enabling you to explore the Basilica at your own pace.
From the Trevi fountain to the Colosseum, Rome's abundant sights rival those of any other city on the planet, in terms of their beauty, historical importance and ability to simply take your breath away. Whether your interests lie in antiquity, architecture, cuisine, culture, religion, shopping or sport, Rome has something to suit all tastes. Stroll through the Pantheon, marvel at Michelangelo's Piazza del Campidoglio and admire the Swiss Guardsmen of Vatican City.
Try a 'proper' spaghetti alla Carbonara near the Spanish Steps or sit back with a coffee and people-watch in Piazza Navona. Alternatively, if you fancy a break from Rome sightseeing, act like a local and take in a Lazio or Roma match at the Olympic Stadium.
There are two different routes availble on the hop-on, hop-off bus.
Departure Location: You can board the bus at any one of the 9 stops around the city or any of the City Sightseeing shops.
Departs: The Rome Hop-on/Hop-off Double Decker Bus Tour runs daily. St Peter's Basilica is open every day except Sundays and religious holidays.
Start Times: The first bus departs from Via Marsala at 9.00am. Buses run every 20 minutes until 5.00pm from October - March and 7.30pm April - September. Your audio guide for St Peter's Basilica can be used any time between 9.30am and 3.00pm (1.00pm to 3.00pm on Wednesdays).
You will be issued with an open-dated ticket voucher which can be redeemed at anytime on your visit to Rome. This can be exchanged at one the CitySightseeing Visitor Centres (addresses listed on the voucher) or when boarding the City Sightseeing Bus for the first time. We recommend exchanging your voucher at a Visitor Centre so they agent can take you through how the ticket works and answer any questions you may have.
Upon redemption you will receive your 24 or 48 hour Hop-on Hop-off Bus ticket and instructions for your audio guide visit to St. Peter's Basilica.
The audio guide for St. Peter's Basilica can only be used between 9.30am and 3.00pm (1.00pm to 3.00pm on Wednesdays).
Entrance into St. Peter's Basilica is subject to a strict dress code. Shoulders and knees must be covered. No low-cut or sleeveless tops or shorts. Clients that do not adhere to the dress code will not be permitted to enter St. Peter's Basilica.
Photo ID may be required to enter St. Peter's Basilica.
Where are the City Sightseeing Visitor Centers located?
You can redeem your voucher when boarding a bus or at a City Sightseeing Visitor Center. Attraction Tickets Direct recommends using a Visitor Centre so an agent can guide you through the pass and answer any questions you have.
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The 'Hop On Hop Off' formula allows passengers to get on and off the bus at their own leisure, whenever and wherever they want at any stop along the route.
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The ticket becomes valid immediately after your voucher has been redeemed.
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Home/Business/TCS Board To Consider Share Buyback On February 20
TCS Board To Consider Share Buyback On February 20
insidetrack IndiaFebruary 16, 2017
Tata Consultancy Services or TCS, India's biggest outsourcer, today announced that its board will meet on February 20 to discuss a share buyback. Big Indian IT companies have huge cash piles on their balance sheets. TCS, for example, has over Rs. 43,000 crore on its books. "The Board of Directors will consider a proposal for buyback of equity shares of the company at its meeting to be held on February 20, 2017," TCS said in a statement to the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) today. As growth rates come down and share prices suffer, many analysts have said that IT companies should use the cash pile to buy back shares, which will help prop up their share prices.
A share buyback program is a way to return money to shareholders. The company buys back its own shares from the market, usually because the management thinks the shares are undervalued.
"Nearly all IT companies are sitting on excess capital that is diluting return ratios and has corresponding impact on valuations. A sizable cash balance and an operating engine churning consistent and strong free cash present a strong case for Tier-1 ITs to pursue a consistent share buyback program," Kotak Institutional Equities said in a recent note.
The announcement from TCS comes in the wake of rival Cognizant's board earlier this month approving a plan to return $3.4 billion to shareholders over the next two years through a combination of share repurchases and dividends.
Infosys, which also has over Rs. 35,000 crore on its books, has also faced pressure for share buybacks. Former top executives of Infosys V Balakrishnan and TV Mohandas Pai have urged the Bengaluru-based IT major to go for a share buyback. "All over the world, for listed companies when growth slows down and there is too much cash, shareholders will ask what are they doing with the cash…about capital allocations. Most Boards around the world will respond with a buyback to show confidence in the company and stabilise the stock price," Mr Pai said.
Mr Pai, along with former colleague Mr Balakrishnan, had sought a $1.8-billion share buyback in 2014 just as CEO Vishal Sikka was taking over.
Shares of many Indian IT companies are struggling amid slower growth and concerns over tightening of H-1B visa regime by the new Trump administration. Analysts have welcomed Tata Consultancy Services' move to discuss share buyback and say that if the company's board approves a big buyback, it will increase pressure on other top IT firms to announce similar moves. Sarabjit Kour Nangra of Angel Broking told NDTV Profit that even in these tough times, top Indian IT companies are generating good amounts of profit and buybacks will be a "comforting factor" for investors.
TCS shares rose over 1 per cent to Rs. 2,443 while Infosys rose 1.6 per cent to Rs. 998. Manav Chopra, head technical analyst at Monarch Networth Capital, said TCS shares look good from a short-term perspective and the stock could head to Rs. 2,550 levels.
Independent market analyst Lancelot D'Cunha, who has a positive stance on IT stocks, said that most of the negatives are priced in and investors could accumulate them, including TCS and Infosys, at lower levels.
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Q: Apply event listener to an editable polygon How to add a event listener to a google maps editable Polygon when the user changes its boundary?
I tried the code below. Here is a Fiddle example
google.maps.event.addListener(PolygonPath, 'drag', function(e) {

        window.alert("Hi");

});

This is what I want:

code snippet (from linked fiddle):

html,
body {
  height: 100%;
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0;
}
#map {
  height: 100%;
}

A: You need to add the event listener to the Polygon's path:
google.maps.event.addListener(PolygonPath.getPath(), 'insert_at', function(evt) {
  document.getElementById('info').innerHTML = PolygonPath.getPath().getAt(evt).toUrlValue(6);
});

There are three interesting events on an MVCArray (as they apply to a Polygon path):

*

*insert_at - add a vertex

*remove_at - delete a vertex

*set_at - change a vertex

code snippet implementing insert_at and set_at listeners on the Polygon path:

html,
body {
  height: 100%;
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0;
}
#map {
  height: 100%;
}


Chicago, IL–(ENEWSPF)– Robert D. Grant, Special Agent-in-Charge of the Chicago office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) was joined today by Thomas P. Brady, Inspector-in-Charge of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service in Chicago, in announcing the arrest of a Streamwood, Illinois man on federal fraud charges. AHMET M. KESKES, age 38, of 105 Black Hill Drive in Streamwood, was arrested yesterday afternoon, without incident, by FBI Special Agents and U.S. Postal Inspectors. KESKES was taken into custody at 1542 Burgundy Parkway in the Northwest suburb, which is the location of his Internet-based business, Asena Corporation.
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Drake Group Calls for Congress to Enact College Athlete Protections: A Legislative Proposal
By admin / Featured, Position Paper
On August 3, 2020, U.S. Senators Cory Booker, Richard Blumenthal, Christopher Murphy, Kirsten Gillibrand, Ron Wyden, Mazie Hirono, and Kamala Harris issued a "College Athletes Bill of Rights" statement that sought to advance justice and opportunity for college athletes and promised future legislation to realize their position. On August 13, they were joined by Senators […]
College Sports' Bait and Switch
By admin / Editorials Opinion
By Dr. Gerald Gurney and Dr. Richard M. Southall Originally published August 9, 2012 Last month, the NCAA announced its latest team Academic Progress Rate (APR) scores, highlighting the institutions whose four-year averages fell below the 900 threshold score. Among the offending teams was notably the University of Connecticut, which will be ineligible for the […]
Professors Must Speak Out: Colleges Can No Longer Afford Athletics as Usual
By Dr. Gerald Gurney and Jerome C. Weber Originally published April 5, 2010 Basketball fans will focus tonight on the National Collegiate Athletic Association's men's championship game, but amid the excitement of such competition, attention must be paid to how big-time college sports still operate in ways counter to higher education's aims. Although the NCAA […]
Stop Lowering the Bar for College Athletes
By Dr. Gerald Gurney Originally published April 10, 2011 For nearly 50 years, the NCAA has debated its minimum academic requirements for first-year students who hope to compete in big-time college sports. In its various attempts to ensure an acceptable level of precollegiate learning and skill competencies, the NCAA has vacillated between lowering and raising […]
Academic Fraud, Athletes and Faculty Responsibility
By Dr. Gerald Gurney and Mary Willingham Originally published July 18, 2014 The National Collegiate Athletic Association rarely admits to the need to revisit an infractions case, and particularly one that strikes at the core of academic integrity issues. So when the NCAA announced an unusual and embarrassing return to the University of North Carolina […]
The NCAA's Miraculous Graduation Rate!
By Dr. Allen Sack and Dr. Gerald Gurney Originally published May 6, 2019 During the weeks-long buildup to college football's biggest bowl games last December, it was hard not to notice that many of the teams ranked in the Associated Press Top 25 were having a lot more success on the gridiron than their players […]
Reflections, 2016-19: A Sequel to an Odyssey of Reform Initiatives, 1986-2015.
Reflections, 2016-19: A Sequel to an Odyssey of Reform Initiatives, 1986-2015. Dr. Frank Splitt, Longtime Drake Group Member and Recipient of the Robert Maynard Hutchins Award, has posted a sequel to his 1986-2015 Odyssey of Reform Initiatives. A prolific and nationally respected voice advocating for intercollegiate athletics reform, this new collection of writings continues to […]
Guidelines for Academic Integrity in Athletics
By admin / Position Paper
Recent academic scandals related to the intercollegiate athletics programs at a number of the nation's most prestigious institutions of higher education reveal the absence of policy and practice that would ensure the primacy of academic study and the maintenance of academic integrity by institutions of higher education. The Drake Group believes that each of the […]
Why the NCAA Academic Progress Rate (APR) and the Graduation Success Rate (GSR) should be Abandoned and Replaced with More Effective Academic Metrics
The Drake Group released a position statement that is highly critical of the NCAA's Division I Academic Metrics. Drake Group President Gerald Gurney argues that "Academic integrity in intercollegiate athletics requires a system of checks and balances, transparent academic metrics and safeguards that ensure that learning occurs, not just that athletic eligibility is maintained."
The Drake Group Calls Upon NCAA, Its Member Institutions And Higher Education Regional Accreditation Agencies To Fulfill Athlete Academic Protection Responsibilities
There is a current debate concerning the responsibility of the NCAA to afford college athletes protections against academic fraud and misconduct, as has occurred recently at the University of North Carolina, Auburn University, Syracuse University and other institutions of higher education. The NCAA reported in early 2015 that it had 20 academic misconduct cases currently […]


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NYT's Manohla Dargis Offers More Summer Movie Bummer: 'Wide Diversity Gap Among 2014's Top-Grossing Films.'
By Clay Waters | August 6, 2015 11:03 PM EDT
Thursday's New York Times delivered yet another summer-movie bummer from Manohla Dargis, the paper's most doctrinaire liberal movie critic, eclipsing even left-wing Stephen Holden. Dargis, previously stuck on counting the number of women in movies, is expanding her film interests to include counting old people, gays, and minorities. It's a non-stop thrill ride: "Report Finds Wide Diversity Gap Among 2014's Top-Grossing Films."
The print headline was spunkier, if even more politicized: "Young, White and Male? The Role Is Yours."
The numbers are stunning: From 2007 through 2014, women made up only 30.2 percent of all speaking or named characters in the 100 top-grossing fictional films released in the United States. That's bad enough to repeat: For every 2.3 male characters who say "Dude," there is just one woman saying, "Hello?!"
That is one of the findings in a study, "Inequality in 700 Popular Films," being released on Wednesday, that looks at gender, race, ethnicity and what one of the report's researchers, Stacy L. Smith, describes as an "epidemic" when it comes to lack of diversity. The report was produced by the Media, Diversity & Social Change Initiative at the University of Southern California's Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism.
Dargis did a deep dive into the "misrepresentation" in the movies:
The movies are white: 73.1 percent of all the speaking or named characters in the top 100 movies were white.
The movies are straight: Only 19 total characters were lesbian, gay or bisexual -- none were transgender.
The movies are young: Only 19.9 percent of female characters were 40 to 64 years old.
The movies are male: Only 1.9 percent of the movies were directed by women.
Dargis actually encouraged the force of law to help rectify the situation in Hollywood, presumably to forcibly insert more women and minority characters into movie scripts.
The "Inequality" report comes at a time of increasing criticism about the industry's on-screen and off-screen practices, giving further empirical support to what has become a steady stream of righteous complaint. In May, the American Civil Liberties Union sent letters to state and federal agencies seeking an investigation of the hiring practices of the major Hollywood studios, networks and talent agencies. That same month, Senator Barbara Boxer, Democrat of California, and four other female senators sent a letter to the major studios asking them to respond to an earlier Annenberg/University of Southern California study that found that only 4.1 percent of top-grossing films over the last decade had female directors.
Dargis predictably praised Every Single Word, a website whose owner, Dylan Marron finds it worth his precious time on earth to clip the amount of non-white characters in things like the "Lord of the Rings" movies, a medieval fantasy series set in an imaginary world.
....moviegoers are doing their activist part, as exemplified by Every Single Word, a Tumblr by Dylan Marron that uses videos to underline the (often few) words spoken by nonwhite movie characters. What Every Single Word underscores is that the roles often available to nonwhite performers -- think of the ubiquitous black friend, the Latina waitress and the Asian storekeeper -- are often little more than casting tokenism....
The question now for anyone who loves movies is obvious: What next?
Stop reading Manohla Dargis?
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Clay Waters was director of Times Watch, a former project of the Media Research Center.


On November 5th, 2015, Bento Rodrigues, Brazil, was inundated in toxic sludge after a mine dam burst. See here for the full story as well as some ground level photos showing the magnitude of the disaster. More here, including a video.
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The area near the dam.
Over 40 km downstream the town of Barra Longa was affected too.
Wikipedia has a satellite image of the mouth of the river showing the mud reaching the Atlantic Ocean and here is a video showing it from ground level.
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Former cricketer Adam Gilchrist with his Jaguar F-Pace. Stefan Gosatti
Adam Gilchrist now lives life at F-Pace
by Craig Duff
23rd Aug 2017 5:01 AM
AS A kid, Adam Gilchrist had his parents drop him off a block away from school to avoid the embarrassment of being seen in an orange Volkswagen Kombi.
Now the former Australian skipper and wicketkeeper-batsman is in the process of restoring his own Kombi van to tote his family on weekends away.
"Back then being seen in a Kombi wasn't cool," Gilchrist recalls.
The Kombi will do only occasional duties, given Gilchrist has a Jaguar F-Pace as his regular wheels and the family appreciates the convenience features of the wagon-styled SUV.
"The seat heaters are the first things the kids hit when they get in the car," he says.
"Then my eldest will be hooked up to the Bluetooth and playing music before we're out of the drive."
A 1973 Kombi.
It's a far cry from Gilchrist's first car, a blue Ford Telstar he dubbed "Eddie the Eagle" because of the eagle stickers on the front quarter panels.
The purchase came soon after British ski-jumper Michael "Eddie the Eagle" Edwards shot to fame by finishing last in his event in the 1988 Winter Olympics.
"I borrowed $3000 from my grandfather Frank to buy Eddie," Gilchrist says.
"Once a week I'd go around and pay him back. He even had a book to write the instalments - and the interest - in.
"The only problem I had with Eddie was when he broke down in the Blue Mountains ... it cost me about half of the (purchase) price to have him fixed."
A Ford Telstar.
The Telstar was sold when Gilchrist moved from New South Wales to Western Australia to pursue a Sheffield Shield berth and he's had a succession of sponsored cars since then, culminating in the Jaguar.
"I've done a bit with Tata (Jaguar Land Rover's parent company) in India," he says of his half-dozen seasons in the Indian Premier League.
"I've known (JLR managing director) Matt Wiesner since he worked at VW Group (a former sponsor that provided him with an Audi A5 coupe).
"JLR actually offered me an F-Type but it's a bit hard to get the kids in the back, given there's no back seat.
"I did a drive day at Eastern Creek in an F-Type SVR and that was incredible.
"Cars for me are normally a way to get from point to point but when you have the good fortune to drive some of these cars it does make it fun."
The 2014 Audi A5 Coupe,
That need to get from point to point for cricket matches meant Gilchrist collected his L-plates as soon as he was eligible but he failed his first P-plate test.
"I wasn't too upset: 18 out of 20 people failed that day, so I think the assessor might have got out of bed on the wrong side," he says.
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using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;

public class MoveSidesProcessor : MonoBehaviour
{
	GameModel gameModel;
	MoveProcessor moveProcessor;

	void Start()
	{
		moveProcessor = gameObject.GetComponent<MoveProcessor>();
		gameModel = GameObject.FindObjectOfType<GameModel>();
	}

	public bool MoveAllofOneSide(Sides side)
	{
		return true;
	}

	public void MoveUp(GameObject[,] brickArray)
	{
		// This takes the entire BrickArray and goes column by column moving every block that is in the side up to the top of its column.

		// First

		int brickArrayWidth = brickArray.GetUpperBound(0) + 1;
		int brickArrayHeight = brickArray.GetUpperBound(1) + 1;

		int newX = 0;
		int newY = brickArrayHeight - 1;

		for(int x = 0; x < brickArrayWidth; x++)
		{

			for(int y = brickArrayHeight - 1; y >= 0; y--)
			{
				if(brickArray[x,y] == null)
				{

				}
				// Need to add in a check to see which side the brick is on
				else if(brickArray[x,y] != null)
				{
					Debug.Log(brickArray[x,y].ToString());
					brickArray[x,y].GetComponent<BrickComponent>().Location = new Vector2((float)newX, (float)newY);
					newY--;
				}

			}
			newY = brickArrayHeight - 1;
			newX++;
		}
		moveProcessor.UpdateBrickArray();
	}

	// Write a general move command that uses only the directions

	public void Move(GameObject[,] brickArray, MoveDirection moveDir)
	{
		// Settings to figure out which way it is going

		int brickArrayWidth = brickArray.GetUpperBound(0) + 1;
		int brickArrayHeight = brickArray.GetUpperBound(1) + 1;
		int newX;
		int newY;
		int xModifier = 0;
		int yModifier = 0;
		int startX = 0;
		int startY = 0;
		bool movingUpAndDown = false;

		newX = startX;
		newY = startY;

		if(moveDir == MoveDirection.Up)
		{
			// This should all be done by column

			newY = brickArrayHeight - 1;
			newX = 0;
			// Set up here which sides will be affected
			for(int x = 0; x < brickArrayWidth; x++)
			{
				for(int y = brickArrayHeight - 1; y >= 0; y--)
				{
					if(brickArray[x,y] == null || brickArray[x, y] == gameModel.CurrentActiveBrick)
					{

					}
					else if(brickArray[x,y] != null)
					{
						BrickComponent brickComponet = brickArray[x, y].GetComponent<BrickComponent>();
						if(brickComponet.Side == Sides.Top || brickComponet.Side == Sides.Bottom)
						{
						}
						else if(brickComponet.Side == Sides.Left || brickComponet.Side == Sides.Right)
						{
							gameModel.MoveBrick(brickArray[x,y], moveDir, false);
						}

						newY -= 1;
					}
				}
				newY = brickArrayHeight - 1;
				newX += 1;
			}
		}
		else if(moveDir == MoveDirection.Down)
		{
			newY = 0;
			newX = 0;
			// Set up here which sides will be affected
			for(int x = 0; x < brickArrayWidth; x++)
			{
				for(int y = 0; y < brickArrayHeight; y++)
				{
					if(brickArray[x,y] == null || brickArray[x, y] == gameModel.CurrentActiveBrick)
					{

					}
					else if(brickArray[x,y] != null)
					{
						BrickComponent brickComponet = brickArray[x, y].GetComponent<BrickComponent>();
						if(brickComponet.Side == Sides.Top || brickComponet.Side == Sides.Bottom)
						{

						}
						else if(brickComponet.Side == Sides.Left || brickComponet.Side == Sides.Right)
						{
							gameModel.MoveBrick(brickArray[x,y], moveDir, false);
						}

						newY += 1;
					}
				}
				newY = 0;
				newX += 1;
			}
		}
		else if(moveDir == MoveDirection.Left)
		{
			newX = 0;
			newY = brickArrayHeight - 1;
			// Set up here which sides will be affected
			for(int y = brickArrayHeight - 1; y >= 0; y--)
			{
				for(int x = 0; x < brickArrayWidth; x++)
				{
					if(brickArray[x,y] == null || brickArray[x, y] == gameModel.CurrentActiveBrick)
					{

					}
					else if(brickArray[x,y] != null)
					{
						BrickComponent brickComponet = brickArray[x, y].GetComponent<BrickComponent>();
						if(brickComponet.Side == Sides.Left || brickComponet.Side == Sides.Right)
						{

						}
						else if(brickComponet.Side == Sides.Top || brickComponet.Side == Sides.Bottom)
						{
							gameModel.MoveBrick(brickArray[x,y], moveDir, false);
						}

						newX += 1;
					}
				}
				newX = 0;
				newY -= 1;
			}
		}
		else if(moveDir == MoveDirection.Right)
		{
			newX = brickArrayWidth - 1;
			newY = brickArrayHeight - 1;
			// Set up here which sides will be affected
			for(int y = brickArrayHeight - 1; y >= 0; y--)
			{
				for(int x = brickArrayWidth - 1; x >= 0; x--)
				{
					if(brickArray[x,y] == null || brickArray[x, y] == gameModel.CurrentActiveBrick)
					{

					}
					else if(brickArray[x,y] != null)
					{
						BrickComponent brickComponet = brickArray[x, y].GetComponent<BrickComponent>();
						if(brickComponet.Side == Sides.Left || brickComponet.Side == Sides.Right)
						{

						}
						else if(brickComponet.Side == Sides.Top || brickComponet.Side == Sides.Bottom)
						{
							gameModel.MoveBrick(brickArray[x,y], moveDir, false);

						}

						newX -= 1;
					}
				}
				newX = brickArrayWidth - 1;
				newY -= 1;
			}
		}
		moveProcessor.UpdateBrickArray();
	}
}

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The Paris homestretch: Optimism at the COP21 indaba
"If you want to go swiftly, go alone. If you want to go far, go together."
— African proverb
On Thursday night in Paris, countries were still choosing distance over speed, carefully drawing together the elements of a balanced global climate agreement.
Thursday was a pivotal moment in the negotiations.
It started with bleary-eyed ministers and delegates wandering out into a cold, foggy dawn Thursday, acknowledging that consensus had strengthened in some ways, though it remained fragile in several others.
Building from an effort to focus minds and political will at midnight Wednesday, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius personally chaired one main 'indaba' on the critical issues of differentiation, support and ambition. An indaba is a traditional Zulu gathering of elders that seeks creative, common solutions. First popularized at COP17, they were used to break deadlocks in Durban, opening fundamental compromises that have become the foundation for any momentum seen at COP21.
At the heart of these negotiations is the question of whether there is a sufficiently robust and interlocking system of guarantees that confirms that all countries are on the same trajectory toward a common, low-carbon future. Essentially, that we are together in the same canoe, all paddling in the same direction.
With grand statements last week, leaders from 150 countries certainly suggested it was not only possible but essential to protect future generations. As if conditioned for failure, chronically skeptical voices in the halls today began to suggest that the speeches were only political rhetoric and an agreement would again be elusive.
However, surprising both delegates and observers, Minister Fabius released a largely 'clean' text tonight, reflecting the priorities of the parties. Based on the Wednesday all-nighter, careful re-drafting and extensive shuttle diplomacy, the text showed concessions in key areas. Over 24 hours, the French enlisted both those in the rooms at Le Bourget and leaders in national capitals to strategically keep the negotiations on track, ensuring political landing room for a deal. Canada and other countries joined the 'high ambition coalition' through the day, adding further momentum.
Most significantly, the new draft text includes references to limiting temperature rise to "well below 2 degrees Celsius" as well as "pursuing efforts to limit increase to 1.5 degrees." This recognizes the urgency of the threat passionately expressed by small-island and vulnerable states. The current text also acknowledges that global 'peaking' of emissions likely will take some time and proposes that countries reach "emissions neutrality in the second half of the century." This point may prove to be controversial for some.
The flexibility on the temperature goal allowed developed players to get stronger language on how countries – rich, poor and emerging economies – will file, transparently report and increase their mitigation contributions every five years. Proposed adaptation language is similarly strong. If agreed on, this could deliver unprecedented universal and shared participation in reducing global GHG emissions beyond 2030, placing all the world's nations in the same buoyant canoe.
On climate financing, detail has been added that suggests "short-term, collective and quantified goals" for contributions from developed countries and developing countries "in a position to do so." The commitment to $100B in global investments, starting in 2020, will aid the transition to step-changes in poor nations' energy, transportation and infrastructure systems, further supported by technology transfer and capacity building.
On differentiation, the draft text appears to recognize the different timetables and capacities that developing countries face in managing the compound challenges of economic growth, access to energy and poverty alleviation. Some countries, such as Malaysia, may still want more.
In releasing the draft Thursday evening, Minister Fabius announced that negotiators would again meet through the night in indaba format, stating that more middle ground was needed and cautioning negotiators not to let "the perfect be the enemy of the good."
There are many nuances yet to be addressed and these final steps are the most delicate, requiring trust and strength of character from all. The French have built a reservoir of good will but the mantra of the multilateral diplomat bears repeating one more time – "nothing is agreed until everything is agreed." Outside in the halls, some observer organizations are encouraged, others are pressuring delegations to seek changes, claiming that what's offered is a already a failure.
Whatever is negotiated here, each national government will have to carry any deal home to its own people. Knowing that all politics is local, some leaders will want to know if the deal is enough; others will ask if it gives up too much. If nations are to do what it takes here in Paris to travel far, we all must be prepared to pull together at home, in the interests of a larger intergenerational goal. That means more than addressing climate change; it means human change, too.
Velma McColl, a principal at Earnscliffe Strategy Group, has spent the last 20 years working in politics, communications and public policy. She has advised leaders in government, industry and the non-profit sector and specializes in finding opportunities at the intersection of energy, environment and the economy.
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Red Dog Reading Series, Tuesday Nights @ 7 p.m.
By Caitlin McDonough on February 16, 2021 • ( 1 Comment )
Written by Alaina Dopico
Groundhog Day has come and gone, and the prediction was glum. More slush, more chill, more reasons to stay inside on Tuesday night, turn on a pot of warm cider, and Zoom into Red Dog, Carlow's poetry reading series.
Red Dog began in 2006 and was originally called The Hungry Sphinx. Kayla Sargeson was the first emcee and remained until she graduated. 15 years later, another former emcee, Halsey Hyer, and the current emcee, Cheyenne Matthews, were both readers of the Red Dog reading on Feb. 9.
The evening – a team-up with The Critical Point, the student-run literary and arts journal at Carlow University since 1988 – brought together awardees from the journal's annual awards. Awarded works of poetry, critical writing, and fiction were all featured at the reading.
Featured readers and their awarded works:
The Critical Point Award in Art: Emily Armstrong's "Nina Singing Sugar in My Bowl"
The Critical Point Award in Creative Writing: Cheyenne Matthews' "Black Blood, Blue Lights"
Honorable Mention: Ashley Anderson's "The stars made me forget I was human"
Honorable Mention: Halsey Hyer's "Train Wakes Me Up Every Hour with Dreams of You"
The Critical Point Award in Critical Writing: Caitlin McDonough's "The Petrarchan Lover in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, or What You Will"
Honorable Mention: Angel Barker's "The Expectations of Complacency"
Jane Candia Coleman Award in Fiction: Madeline Longmore's "Clara Rose"
Marilyn P. Donnelly Award in Poetry: Cheyenne Matthews' "Drowning"
1st Honorable Mention in Poetry: Cameron Short's "Fog seen from the Allegheny Jail"
2nd Honorable Mention in Poetry: Hope Mercer's "Mom's boyfriend guilty on all counts"
The Critical Point Red Dog Reading from Feb. 9 via Facebook
Jan Beatty, faculty advisor for Red Dog said, "Our mission has been to combine writers from the academy and the community, with emerging and well-known writers." Red Dog's 2021 inaugural event hosted Michael Lockett and Sara McNally. Lockett has his MFA and has been published in the Northern Appalachian Review. McNally has a chapbook forthcoming from Seven Kitchens Press. Red Dog is successful in their mission to provide a group of writers ranging from fresh-faced to seasoned, often calling back alumni to inspire current student writers. Their reading on Feb. 16 features Doralee Brooks and Diane Kerr.
The Critical Point journal is accepting submissions from undergraduate students at Carlow for the 2021 edition until Feb. 19 at midnight. Submissions should be sent to critical_point@carlow.edu. For more information on how and what to submit, follow The Critical Point on Facebook and Instagram.
Click to read the 2020 Critical Point publication online
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Edward Prendick in The Island of Dr. Moreau
By H. G. Wells
Edward Prendick
Captain Everyman
Let's get the basics out of the way, shall we? Prendick is the narrator and protagonist of The Island of Dr. Moreau. This dear British chap comes from the upper-middle class of Victorian society and is well educated if somewhat stiff. So, he's the character designed for the reader to relate to the most. Well, the Victorian reader at any rate.
But even for us modern readers, Prendick's terror becomes our horror; his struggles our struggles. As a result, we learn a lot about Prendick—not from what he says, but from what he does and how he relates to the other characters.
All right. Now that the basics are checked off our list, let's get into the nitty gritty of Prendick's character.
The Love Boat (of Death)
We first meet Prendick aboard a small dinghy, The Old Man and the Sea style. He has two other guys with him, Hemlar and an unnamed sailor. The three are adrift with limited supplies and even less hope of rescue. When their supplies finally get low, Helmar "[gives] voice to the thing we all had in mind" (1.4).
Prendick initially refuses, but he fears the other guys will gang up on him, so he eventually agrees. Straws are drawn, and when the sailor decides losing isn't for him, he attacks Hemlar. Both men plummet to their death into the icy Pacific abyss, leaving Prendick laughing at their fate.
Yikes. While perhaps not the most cheerful of beginnings, the opening scene tells us a lot about Prendick. For starters, he is quite the gentlemanly gentleman. Even though we all know he is talking about cannibalism in the quote above, his civilized mindset refuses to give name to such a ghastly concept. He's also the last to give into to the idea, and he doesn't join in the fight with the others either.
All this wouldn't make Prendick a model gentleman in-and-of itself. It's cannibalism after all, not exactly good eats. But we shouldn't forget this entire scene all takes place in a wee-tiny boat lost in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Prendick keeps it together when the other two—one a professional sailor, mind—freak out. This is a testament to Prendick's strength and belief in the rules of civilization. Of course, this is just the beginning, and that laughter is a hint of what is to come….
Neighbor Problems
Prendick has an interesting relationship with the Beast Folk, and by interesting, we mean he changes his mind more often than our grandmas picking out curtains.
Take the Leopard Man. At first, he finds Leopard Man interesting, a mystery to solve Scooby-Doo style. Of course, that's before the Leopard Man chases him through the forest and tries to kill him. Then he gets a little peeved at the guy.
When Moreau and the Beast Folk actively hunt the Leopard Man, Prendick has another change of heart. After Leopard Man's death, Prendick understands that the Beast Folk "[stumble] in the shackles of humanity, [live] in a fear that never died, fretted by a law they could not understand" (16.90). Clearly, he pities them and their fate. But turn the page to the next chapter, and there's Prendick saying he wants "to get away from these horrible caricatures of my Maker's image, back to the sweet and wholesome intercourse of men" (17.1). Come on, man, get off the fence and chose a side already.
Prendick's back and forth relationship with the Beast Folk helps establish the theme of the novel: you can't separate the humanity from the beast nor the beastly from the human. When Prendick is able to recognize the humanity in the Beast Folk, so are we. When Prendick sees the beasts in his fellow Londoners, so do we.
Paging Dr. Moreau
Prendick and Dr. Moreau have a lot in common. Both have studied biology. Both see vivisection as a legitimate way of increasing scientific knowledge. But the two don't really see eye-to-eye on much else. It might have something do with the fact that Moreau's creations have tried to kill Prendick from time to time, but there's more to it than that.
Moreau seems to thrive on the soulless regularity of the universe. He is interested not in the silly little concerns of us humans or the wants and needs of the animals around us, but in the grander laws of science. Actually make that 'Laws of Science'! He sees earth as nothing more than "cosmic dust" (14.23). Earthly concerns like pain and pleasure are tiny, meaningless parts of the universal mechanism. Why shouldn't he be able to do he wants on his even tinier island? After all, he's getting at some deep insights here. Let's not put him on any ethics boards, shall we?
Prendick sympathizes a little with Moreau's scientific ambition, but not with Moreau's giddy joy of a vivisectionist in a pet shop. He is disgusted by Moreau's blind irresponsibility and carelessness; disgusted by the fact that Moreau throws 'the Things' out "to live a year or so, to struggle and blunder and suffer, and at last to die painfully" (16.91). In Moreau's actions, Prendick loses "faith in the sanity of the world" (16.92). Commonsense beliefs about what's right or wrong are completely abandoned on this island.
Instead of such a kind and benevolent force, Prendick sees "a vast pitiless Mechanism, seem[ing] to cut and shape the fabric of existence" (16.92). For Prendick, the world that Moreau has created on the island is the empty and meaningless one of a machine—a machine in which we all are just cogs… Pretty grim stuff.
But Moreau does influence Prendick. At the novel's end, Prendick takes to studying chemistry and astronomy in the English countryside. Perhaps he is trying to unlearn the lessons Moreau taught him and to rediscover the meaning of the universe he lost faith in on that island.
Montgomery is Prendick's best friend. The bromance starts off strong on the Ipecacuanha, but then begins to cool once they actually get to the island. What happens? What did Montgomery say or do to push Prendick away like he did? Let's get gossipy and find out.
Well, the biggest problem is that Montgomery just spends too much time with his other friends, the Beast Folk. (Although his trusty friend booze is second only to these folks.) See, for Prendick, the Beast Folk represent everything that's wrong with the island. And as long as Montgomery is thick as thieves with the Beast Folk, he's tainted by them in Prendick's eyes. Toward the end of the book, Prendick even says he can't rely on Montgomery since "he was in truth half akin to these Beast Folk, unfitted for human kindred" (19.23). And that kindred includes Prendick himself.
Of course, Prendick discovers at the end that it's not only Montgomery who, amongst humans, is "half akin to these Beast Folk" (1923). Unfortunately, by then, it's too late to reconcile with his dear, dead BFF.
Society and Class
Man & the Natural World
Primitivity
Dr. Moreau
M'Ling
Beast Folk
Religious Allegory
Societal Allegory
Booker's Seven Basic Plots Analysis
Three-Act Plot Analysis


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package com.shinoow.abyssalcraft.common.items;

import java.util.List;

import net.minecraft.entity.player.EntityPlayer;
import net.minecraft.item.Item;
import net.minecraft.item.ItemStack;

import com.shinoow.abyssalcraft.AbyssalCraft;

import cpw.mods.fml.relauncher.Side;
import cpw.mods.fml.relauncher.SideOnly;

public class ItemCoraliumcluster extends Item {

	public final String gemName;

	public ItemCoraliumcluster(String par2Str) {
		super();
		gemName = par2Str;
		maxStackSize = 16;
		setCreativeTab(AbyssalCraft.tabItems);
	}

	@Override
	@SuppressWarnings({ "unchecked", "rawtypes" })
	@SideOnly(Side.CLIENT)
	/**
	 * allows items to add custom lines of information to the mouseover description
	 */
	public void addInformation(ItemStack par1ItemStack, EntityPlayer par2EntityPlayer, List par3List, boolean par4)
	{
		par3List.add(gemName + " Gems");
	}
}


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Beresjiet (Hebreeuws: בראשית, Engels: Beresheet) was 's werelds eerste met private middelen ontwikkelde maanlander. Het voertuig werd ontwikkeld door het Israëlische bedrijf SpaceIL en gebouwd door Israel Aerospace Industries. De naam Beresjiet is de Hebreeuwse naam voor het bijbelboek Genesis en betekent In het begin. Tot eind 2018 stond de maanlander bekend onder de werknaam Sparrow. Beresjiet werd op 22 februari 2019 om 1:45 UTC met een Falcon 9-raket gelanceerd vanaf Lanceercomplex 40 van het Cape Canaveral Air Force Station samen met de Indonesische communicatiesatelliet Nusantara Satu PSN-6 en een Amerikaanse experimentele militaire satelliet die de banen van alle satellieten die om de Aarde draaien in de gaten houdt. SpaceIL is de eerste van de deelnemers van de voormalige Google Lunar X Prize die tot een lancering komt. Op 11 april 2019 mislukte de landing. Israël is daarmee het zesde land ooit dat een voorwerp naar het Maanoppervlak stuurde en zou bij slagen het vierde land geworden zijn dat een zachte maanlanding had uitgevoerd.

Beresjiet 1 was een van de vier maanlanders die gepland stond om in 2019 op de Maan te landen. In januari landde de Chinese Chang'e 4 met succes op de achterkant van de Maan. De Indiase lander Vikram van de missie Chandrayaan-2 werd in 2019 gelanceerd (vlak voor de landing viel de communicatie met die lander uit). Ook het Amerikaanse commerciële Moon Express, dat eveneens aan de Google Lunar X Prize deelnam, hoopte een lander op de maan te zetten maar heeft anno juni 2020 nog geen maansonde gelanceerd.

Missie
Om bij de Maan te komen is het ruimtevaartuig van 1 bij 2,3 meter in een sterk excentrische ellipsbaan om de aarde gebracht (vergelijkbaar met een geostationaire overgangsbaan) die in de 40 dagen na de lancering steeds verder werd uitgerekt tot deze de baan van de maan kruiste. Toen Beresjiet langs de Maan vloog remde deze af waardoor hij in een excentrische baan om de Maan geraakte. Daarna werd de baan kleiner en circulair gemaakt door de remraketten enkele malen tijdens het pericynthion (nabijste punt bij de Maan) te activeren. 53 dagen na de lancering moest Beresjiet dan naar de Maan afdalen. De raketmotoren zouden Beresjiet afremmen en naar de juiste positie brengen. Vijf meter boven de landingsplaats had Beresjiet de motoren uit zullen schakelen om in vrije val op de maan te landen. Dit type vluchtprofiel kost veel minder energie dan een rechtstreekse vlucht naar de Maan in drie dagen. Hierdoor kon Beresjiet als secondaire vracht mee aan boord van een SpaceX Falcon 9 wat een stuk goedkoper is.

In de nacht van 25 op 26 februari 2019 (Israëlische tijd) werd de voorbereiding van een manoeuvre voortijdig door de boordcomputer afgebroken. De oorzaak werd onderzocht. Op 28 februari werd de manoeuvre met aangepaste parameters (i.v.m andere positie dan in originele plan) alsnog gemaakt.

Op 19 maart werd de laatste baanvergrotende manoeuvre gemaakt waarmee het apogeum op 420.000 kilometer van de Aarde is komen te liggen. Deze baan doorkruist de omloopbaan van de Maan. Op 4 april werd Beresjiet door de zwaartekracht van de Maan gevangen en geraakte de sonde in een baan om de Maan.

Op 11 april 2019 werden de landingsmanoeuvres gestart, maar door het uitvallen van de hoofdmotor en het uitvallen van de communicatie mislukte dit en stortte de lander neer op de maan.

Afmetingen en techniek
Het ruimtevaartuig mat 2 bij 1,5 meter en had een startmassa van 585 kg, waarvan ongeveer 435 kg hypergolische brandstof voor de raketmotoren. De gebruikte brandstof was hydrazine en de oxidator is distikstoftetraoxide. De hoofdmotor was in staat een stuwkracht van 445 newton te leveren. Beresjiet beschikte over acht standregelraketten. De vier landingspoten klapten kort na het ontkoppelen van de draagraket al uit.

Opvolgers
Op 13 april 2019 kondigde SpaceIL de bouw van Beresjiet 2.0 aan. Met die maanlander wilden ze hun missie alsnog voltooien. Op 25 juni 2019 werd gemeld dat de plannen waren veranderd en Beresjiet 2.0 geen maanlander zou zijn. SpaceIL tekende daarna een contract met Firefly Aerospace over het gebruik van de techniek van Beresjiet voor hun eigen lander die de naam Genesis zal dragen. In november 2021 werd duidelijk dat Beresjiet 2 toch een maanlander zal zijn; zelf twee stuks. Een Orbiter brengt de beide landers in een baan om de Maan. Deze landers zullen kleiner zijn dan Beresjiet 1

Trivia
 De tweede trap van de Falcon 9-raket die Beresjiet lanceerde keerde op 3 januari 2021 destructief terug in de atmosfeer.

Externe links
 Website van SpaceIL
 Uitleg van de vlucht op het YouTube-kanaal van SpaceIL
 Webcast van de lancering van SpaceX' Nusantara Satu-missie met aan boord Beresjiet op SpaceX' YouTube-kanaal.

Ruimtevaart naar de Maan
Commerciële ruimtevaart

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