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Inside the Dell PC Restore Partition
An Exploration by Dan Goodell
Introduction Backup Image DSR Booting DOS-Type DSR PE-Type DSR Troubleshooting Appendixes
Disclaimer: I am not associated with Dell Computer Corp. in any way, except as an end user. The information presented here does not represent official information from Dell or Dell representatives. This is just some conclusions from personal exploration of the restore partition shipped on several recent Dell desktop and laptop computers. This information is provided as-is, so interested others may look over my shoulder at what I've found with these particular machines. Though it may apply generally to many new Dell computers, the reader should take that into consideration.
Many years ago, Dell started shipping computers with a small Dell Utility partition hidden at the front of the hard disk, followed by the main (Windows operating system) partition. Beginning around July 2004, select Dell computers in the Dimension and Inspiron model lines began shipping with a third partition hidden at the end of the hard disk. This third partition contains the "Dell PC Restore by Symantec" utility--colloquially referred to as DSR ("Dell System Restore"). This is a utility that can be used to return a computer to its "as shipped" state, with the XP operating system restored to the condition it was in when the user first unpacked the computer from the box. Pressing the right keys when the computer is starting up will boot this DSR partition.
WARNING: The details that follow require an above-average understanding of the technical topics involved. If you do not understand the material presented here, either find a technically-knowledgable friend or do not attempt to repair your system yourself. Improper changes can render all data on your hard disk inaccessible!
What This Document Is NOT About
This is not a "modding" webpage. It is certainly possible to modify or customize the DSR partition, or update the on-disk Ghost image with a new, customized image, but that is beyond the scope of what this webpage is about. It's possible to have too much information, so to avoid confusing readers the content of this page is intentionally limited to providing information about what Dell has done--how the DSR system works and how to fix it if it breaks.
This document does not cover Dell MediaDirect. It is about PC-Restore. MediaDirect is discussed here only to the extent of its impact on the PC-Restore system.
This document covers only computers that originally shipped with Microsoft XP. Dell computers that shipped with Microsoft VISTA do not use this type of DSR system.
DSR Versions
There are two basic types of the DSR partition, differing in the operating system to which they boot. Early types of the DSR partition boot to DOS, a 16-bit operating system. The later type boots a WinPE 32-bit operating system.
All DSR versions use the FAT32 file system, so the operating system booted has to be FAT32-aware. The earliest versions of the DSR partition booted to MS-DOS 7.1 (the version of DOS from Windows 98). Later, Dell began using DRMK, their own variation of DOS. These are 16-bit operating systems.
(Note to reader: DRMK apparantly stands for "Dell Real-Mode Kernel". The purpose of DRMK may be to avoid paying licensing fees to Microsoft, not to add extra DOS functions.)
When Dell began shipping computers with Ghost 10 preloaded, the DSR partition was changed to WinPE, a 32-bit operating system.
(Note to reader: PE, or "Preinstallation Environment", is what you boot to if you boot from a Windows 2000 or XP installation CD.)
The Backup Image
The majority of the space in the DSR partition is occupied by a backup image. This section explains what an image is.
Symantec Ghost 10
In early 2006 Dell began shipping computers with a time-limited trial version of Symantec Ghost 10. This section describes the effect this change has on the DSR feature.
How the DSR Partition Boots
Both DSR types boot by using MBR boot code customized by Dell. This Dell MBR does not affect the boot process when booting the Windows partition or the Utility partition--indeed, no special MBR is needed to boot either of those. However, the DSR partition cannot be booted without this new MBR.
Inside the DOS-Type DSR Partition
The DOS version of a DSR partition serves one purpose: to wipe the XP partition and replace it with a copy of the original, "as-shipped" contents of the XP partition. This section discusses how it works.
Inside the PE-Type DSR Partition
A WinPE version of the DSR partition serves multiple purposes. These multiple purposes are available from a "Symantec/Dell Recovery Environment" (SRE) menu. This section discusses the SRE in further detail.
Troubleshooting the Restore Process
The Dell-specific Ctrl+F11 process is supposed to completely automate the restoration process, returning the hard disk to the state it was in when Dell shipped the computer. However, overwriting the MBR by using a boot manager, using the commands "fixmbr" or "fdisk /mbr", installing from a Windows installation CD, and assorted other tasks a user might do will inadvertantly break Ctrl+F11, rendering the system unable to boot the DSR partition. Furthermore, changing the partitioning by adding, deleting, or resizing partitions will cause DSRcheck to fail, so even if Ctrl+F11 works, the restore process will abort without attempting to restore the Ghost image.
This section explains how to fix the Ctrl+F11 and DSR process following repartitioning or OS reinstallation.
Appendix: Understanding the Dell MediaDirect Partition
Some Dell notebook computers include a special Dell MediaDirect feature. MediaDirect enables you to watch DVD movies, slideshows, or listen to music without having to boot the complete XP operating system. MediaDirect is installed in a special partition on the hard disk, but is hidden so you cannot see it when XP is booted normally. When the computer is off, pressing the MediaDirect button will boot the MediaDirect partition instead of XP.
Appendix: What About Microsoft Vista?
Dell computers originally shipped with Vista preinstalled do not use the DSR system described in this document. This section contains some general notes, but since this document is about the DSR system, a detailed discussion of Vista systems is outside the scope of this webpage.
Appendix: The Dell Utility Partition
(Note to reader: the Dell Utility partition is a separate, independent partition, but is required for proper functioning of the PC-Restore partition.)
In my analysis of the Dell Utility partition, I noted that there was a great deal of flexibility permitted regarding that partition--it does not need a special MBR, does not need to be the first partition on the disk, does not need to be listed first in the partition table, and can tolerate different partition sizes and different operating systems. The inclusion of a PC Restore partition, however, places restrictions on the location and contents of the Utility partition.
Appendix: Additional Reading
Dell document: PC Restore for Windows XP
Dell document: What Can Cause the Dell PC Restore by Symantec Image to be Unusable?
Dell document: Why am I unable to perform a PC Restore on my Dell XPS gaming system?
User forum: New ghost image for Dell System Restore
Comments: Read comments from some of Dsrfix's users
author: Dan Goodell
last revised: 03/14/2009

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Drilling of wells in Region Nine to commence on October 4
Sep 12, 2018 News 0
Brazilian officials during the reconnaissance work earlier this year in Region 9.
The Government of Guyana, in collaboration with the Government of Brazil, is set to commence drilling eight wells in eight villages in the Upper Takutu-Upper Essequibo (Region Nine) from October 4, 2018.
The drilling follows ten days of reconnaissance, which was conducted in March of this year. The wells are expected to assist in the storage of water for the dry season (El Niño).
Yesterday, stakeholders met at the Civil Defence Commission (CDC) for the second working group meeting.
That meeting was attended by Director General of the organisation (CDC), Lieutenant Colonel Kester Craig, Brazilian Military Attaché to Guyana, Colonel Deni Da Silva and stakeholders from the Ministries of Communities, Public Health, Foreign Affairs and Agriculture as well the Guyana Defence Force (GDF), Department of Citizenship, Guyana Police Force (GPF), Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA), Hydro-meteorological Office and Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI).
According to Colonel Deni Da Silva, the equipment and support vehicles are expected to arrive in Guyana on October 1, 2018 while drilling will commence on October 4, 2018. It is the intention of the Brazilian team to have the wells handed over to the Guyanese authorities on November 28, 2018.
Already, the Ministry of Public Infrastructure, with approval from the Cabinet, has commenced road works to facilitate the smooth transportation of the vehicles and equipment from Brazil through Lethem to the targeted communities.
During the drilling phase, the Brazilian Army will be working closely with the GDF. This collaboration will see the drilling of artesian wells in the villages of Aishalton, Chukrikednau, Shea, Maruranawa, Awaruwaunau, Karaudanawa, Achiwib and Bashraidrun. The aim of this process is to develop the capacity of GDF'S Engineering Corps to drill future artesian wells and to respond to future water shortages caused by extensive droughts.
In an invited comment, Colonel Craig said that the drilling of the wells is an important part of disaster response and preparedness, particularly during the El Niño season.
"As we know, [the] Rupununi is susceptible to droughts and floods so we want to remove that uncertainty and have a system under which the communities could be supplied with fresh water continuously during the year.
"Mainly in Region Nine, the residents use hand dug wells and you find that a couple weeks into the dry season, there is no water for them to use. Those wells are usually about 20 metres but these that will be dug later in the year will be to a depth of 100 metres. It is all part of us responding to the drought situation during the dry season in the region," he said.
This project follows President David Granger's State visit to Brazil in December 2017, where the Complementary Agreement to the Basic Agreement on Technical Cooperation between the Government of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana and the Federative Republic of Brazil for the Implementation of the Project Technologies to Reduce the Effects of the Drought in Region Nine was inked.
The Complementary Agreement states that the Government of Brazil shall undertake to "promote the transfer of Brazilian knowledge and experience related to mitigation of the effects of drought; provide the means for implementation of activities foreseen in the Project, send consultants and experts to implement activities to be carried out in Guyana, support the development of the Guyanese technical team's capacity to drill artesian wells and monitor and evaluate Project implementation."
Meanwhile, the Government of Guyana, as prescribed in the Agreement, shall undertake to "take responsibility for the maintenance of the artesian wells that will be drilled during the practical operations on the ground; appoint a technical team to monitor and participate in activities to be implemented, provide the technical team sent by the Government of Federative Republic of Brazil with the logistical support required to implement activities of their responsibility and to take measures to ensure that activities implemented by professionals sent by the Brazilian Government will be continued by professionals from the Guyanese implementing institution."
The drilling of the wells also coincides with the 50th anniversary of bilateral ties between Guyana and Brazil.


For the first time in the history of the Baird Holm Labor Law Forum, a selection of the presentations are now available for you to rent and view online. The webinar content includes information about labor, employment and benefits law as presented to an audience of more than 800 professionals on Thursday, May 5, 2016, at the 28th annual Baird Holm Labor Law Forum.
The areas of law covered by these webinars change rapidly. We caution you that the information presented in these webinars is intended as general information only and should not be construed as legal advice as to any particular matter. CLE credit is not available for these webinars.
The U.S. Department of Labor has issued its Final Rule related to the White Collar Overtime Exemptions. In addition to increasing the minimum salary level to qualify for exemption status to $47,476 per year for most occupations, the Final Rule (amongst other provisions) also details how employers may be able to incorporate non-discretionary bonuses and incentive payments into that amount. This webinar will walk employers through the Final Rule, and provide insight on the short-term and long-term effects of the new provisions. Through scenarios and other practical illustrations, this session will also explore the options available to employers to lawfully reduce their overtime compensation exposure.
With Congress and the administration in gridlock during an election year, the President is likely to increase the pace of executive orders and administrative rulemaking. Nevertheless, courts have issued important setbacks to the administration's agenda. This session will explore the likely focus of federal and state regulatory agencies, trends that have the greatest impact on the workplace, and what employers must do to protect themselves.
The most common employment law mistakes are those which employers are unaware of until it is too late. This presentation includes chilling examples of how major liability sometimes results without employers even realizing there is a problem. The discussion also includes the best strategies for avoiding these types of disasters.
Federal agencies (most notably the IRS) and the courts have continued to provide new guidance on a myriad of issues affecting employee benefits. This session will discuss significant regulatory and case law developments in employee benefits law, including those regarding the Affordable Care Act, the IRS's rules for amending Section 401(k) safe harbor plans, and subrogation rights under ERISA after the Supreme Court's decision in Montanile v. Board of Trustees.
The U.S. Supreme Court issued several important decisions impacting employers, as did other federal and state courts. This popular session will cover these decisions as well as other significant court decisions affecting employers.
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Today's Sportstat: December 31, 2019
By Jerry Tapp on December 31, 2019
PACKERSTATS-Game #16-2019 season
Here are some of the numbers that helped define the Packers 23-20 road win over the Detroit Lions on Sunday, December 29.
The Packers defeated the Lions twice in 2019 (23-22 on October 14 in Green Bay and Sunday's game), both games ending with a Mason Crosby field goal as time expired. Both were come-from-behind victories, meaning the Packers did not lead at any point in the game except for the final play. That's 120 minutes played against the Lions in 2019 without ever leading in the game… but two victories!
Green Bay went 5-0 in December. It was only the second time in team history that they won five games in one month. They also did it in October of 1961.
The Pack went 6-0 against NFC North opponents this season, the first time since they went 6-0 against the NFC North in 2011.
Green Bay went 6-2 in road games this season, the best road record since they went 7-1 in 2011.
Green Bay during the 2019 regular season was…
… 12-1 when they scored 20 or more points in a game
… 4-0 when they scored 28 or more points in a game
… 13-0 when they allowed 24 points or less in a game
… 0-3 when they allowed 25 or more points in a game
… 10-2 in Sunday games
… 1-1 in Thursday games
… 2-0 in Monday games
… 4-2 in night games (started after 6pm)
… 2-1 in mid-afternoon games (started at 3:25pm)
… 7-0 in noon games
… 8-1 in one-score games (games decided by eight points or less)
The Packers went 12-8 against the Lions in games this decade. They were 7-3 in games at home, 5-5 in games in Detroit.
The Packers were 13-9 (.591) in December road games this decade.
Since 2000, the Packers are 15-5 (.750) in the last game of the season (Game #16). That is tied for the second-best record in the NFL; the Pittsburgh Steelers were 17-3 in the 16th game of the year since 2000. Green Bay was tied with Indianapolis for the second spot.
Aaron Jones ended the year with 1,084 yards rushing, the first 1,000-yard rusher for the Pack since Eddie Lacy in 2014. He became the 10th player in Packers history to have a 1,000-yard rushing season.
Jones also ended the year with 1,558 total yards from scrimmage (he had 474 yards receiving on the season). He became the eighth Packer to reach 1,500 yards from scrimmage in a single season. Ahman Green holds the Packers record for most yards from scrimmage with 2,250 in 2003.
The Pack was held scoreless in the first quarter with the Lions taking a 7-0 lead after the first quarter. Green Bay is 26-37 (.413) since 2000 in road games when they do not score in the first quarter.
Green Bay was behind 17-3 at half. This was only their third win in 18 tries since 2000 when they were behind by 14 or more points on the road at halftime in a game.
Davante Adams caught a TD pass in the game. It was the 44th career TD for Adams. Of his 44 career TDs, 32 have come in Packers victories.
Blake Martinez had a sack and an interception in the game. He was the second player this season to have a sack and interception in the same game. Adrian Amos had a sack and pick in the December 8th win over Washington.
Allen Lazard had a TD reception in the contest, his third this season. Green Bay won each of the three games when Lazard had a TD reception.
Mason Crosby made three-of-four field goal attempts in the game. Green Bay is 35-8-1 (.807) in games when Crosby makes three or more field goals in a game. He tallied 11 points in the game; the Pack is 36-3-1 (.913) in games when Crosby has 11 or more points.
The Packers scored 13 points in the fourth quarter and have now won six straight when they tally 13 or more points in the fourth quarter. They are 47-17-1 (.731) since 2000 in games when they score 13 or more points in the fourth quarter. They are 24-5 (.828) since 2000 when they score 13 or more points in the fourth quarter in an away game.
Aaron Jones ran the ball 25 times for 100 yards. It was his fifth 100-yard rushing game of the year. The Packers won each of those five games. He was one of nine NFL runners to have five or more 100-yard rushing games in the league this season.
Aaron Rodgers attempted 55 passes in the game, tied for the third most he has attempted in a regular season game in his career. He completed 27 of 55 passes, a 49.1 completion percentage. It was only the eighth time in 181 regular season games that Rodgers completed less than 50% of his passes in a game.
The Pack racked up 432 total yards in the game. Since 2010, the team is 26-3-1 (.883) in games when they tally 430 or more total yards in a contest.
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Puerto Madryn (in Welsh, Porth Madryn) is a city in the province of Chubut in Argentine Patagonia. It is bathed by the blue waters of the Nuevo Gulf and it lies on the cliffs shaped by a small plateau that features an impressive perspective of the Atlantic Ocean. Founded in 1865 with the arrival of 150 Welsh immigrants, Puerto Madryn was named after Sir Love Jones Parry, Baronet of Madryn and one of the best-known dwellers of this city in the Welsh country.
The whale season is one of the attractions that have made this city famous worldwide. From June to December, various populations of southern right whales reach these shores.
Visitors may watch them both on board the boats leaving from Puerto Piramides, from some natural viewpoints and almost all the beaches bordering the city. Due to the great deal of SCUBA divers from all round the world that choose to visit this city, Puerto Madryn has created countless artificial reefs in the last few years to be used in the traditional first-time dive. No wonder this city is known all throughout the country as the Diving Capital of Argentina.
Sea Animal Watching: The Atlantic coast offers a prefect environment for the watching of whales, orcas, birds, sea lions, and elephant seals
Adventure Tourism: If you are a trek enthusiast, you should go to Lago Puelo and Los Alerces National Parks. Carrileufu and Corcovado Rivers are wonderful scenarios for the practice of rafting. In Puerto Madryn, you can practice scuba diving.
Sport Fishing: Deep-sea fishing in the shores of the Argentine Sea
Welsh Tea and Traditional Confectionery: Gaiman and Trevelin are typical Welsh villages, where you can taste Welsh tea, traditional marmalades and confectionery.
Province Chubut
Distance from Buenos Aires 1382 km.
Flight time from Buenos Aires 2h. to Trelew + 1h. by bus
GDS Code PMY
In winter, excursions for whale watching, dolphins, Commerson´s dolphins, penguins, elephant seals and birds among others.
During the summer, the beaches are very crowded, where in addition to sunbathing and water sports such as kayaking, canoeing, windsurfing, kitesurfing and motosky among others. Along them, there are beaches with restaurant and coffee shops which are open all year round.
The San Jose and Nuevo Gulfs are visited mainly for "submarine baptisms." Puerto Madryn is named "Diving Capital of." Its waters are crystal clear and calm, allowing light penetration to 70 m deep.
For the spring cruise Luis Piedrabuena pass are destined for southern Argentina and even Chile. Also the city has a bus terminal that receives long-distance transport linking Puerto Madryn with the rest of Argentina, and the airport El Tehuelche, which has several weekly flights from several Argentine cities.
The city of Puerto Madryn offers multiple accommodations and hotels of all categories and with a variety of services, both as a destination for relaxing and business conventions.
Regional Wildlife
Puerto Madryn received between June and December to the southern right whale returning to the area each year to mate and procreate. In addition to cormorants, gulls, terns, sea lions and Magellanic penguins Spheniscus magellanicus to migrate because they do not tolerate the cold Antarctic winter.From the central pier Comandante Luis Piedrabuena can be seen with the naked eye type piebald dolphin dolphins, sea lions and even the southern right whale.
On the outskirts of town you can also see guanacos, rheas (Patagonian rhea), huge variety of birds that live near the coast, also called Patagonian hare and martinetas maras (Patagonian bird) and other species.
ARGENTINA TOP DESTINATIONS
CULTURE, TANGO, NIGHTLIFE AND PASSION
ONE OF THE NATURAL WONDERS OF THE WORLD
WHERE THE WINE IS MADE AND THE SUN ALWAYS SHINES
THE GATEWAY TO THE GLACIERS
ON SEVEN COLOURS OF THE EARTH
LAKES, ADVENTURES AND MOUNTAINS
END OF THE WORLD, BEGINNING OF EVERYTHING
ARGENTINEAN CAPITAL OF TREKKING
GETTING TO KNOW THE DOMAINS OF GAUCHO
THE GREAT MARSHLANDS OF ARGENTINA
LAND OF LAKES AND TREES


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Going to the gym is always a struggle. You may have planned it as your resolution for the new year only to promptly fail within a few weeks. You are not alone. The University of Scranton revealed that just 8% of Americans manage to achieve their goals.
Nevertheless, good friends can make all the difference when it comes to getting fit and healthy. This article will go into some of the key reasons why good friends make improving health and fitness easier.
Most people find the guiding hand of a good friend to be essential in their quest to keep up their health and fitness regimes. If you have someone banging on the door at six in the morning demanding you join them for a morning run, you are more likely to leap out of bed instead of giving it five more minutes.
The help of a good friend on a physical level is always going to make it more likely that you will achieve your goals.
A high-stress lifestyle actively works against you. Studies have shown that it slows down your metabolism and reduces your ability to burn fat. Good friends reduce your general stress levels because when you are spending time with them you are enjoying yourself.
Friends who do nothing but complain about absolutely everything tend to rub off on those around them. That means you are going to feel negative about everything as well.
More stress makes it harder to get out of bed in the morning. It makes it harder to resist temptation. It makes everything more of a grind.
Friends are a vital tool when it comes to resisting temptation. That extra piece of chocolate and another glass of wine can mean the difference between losing ten pounds in a month and losing nothing.
If your friends also have bad habits and have no desire to change, they are more likely to impact on your behaviors. If everyone is eating pizza, then it's unlikely you will have the willpower to sit and eat a salad, or decline a slice of pizza.
Now put yourself in another scenario where you are having dinner with your gym buddies. They are going to want to eat healthy food as much as you. If everyone is having a salad, what do you think you are going to have?
You are not only resisting temptation you are taking temptation out of the equation entirely. In addition, it's all down to having the right friends around you.
A little friendly competition goes a long way to pushing yourself to the next level. If you have trouble running an extra mile, the help of a friend cheering you on and challenging you to do better can enable you to overcome that obstacle.
The right friends don't drag you down they naturally push you forward. Additionally, this can make all the difference in your bid to become fit and healthy.
Everyone learns from those around them. If you have friends who are only concerned with who put what on Facebook, you are not going to advance your knowledge at all. But if you are friends with fit and healthy people, or those who are already fit and healthy, you are going to have that knowledge to improve yourself.
It's why entrepreneurs tend to surround themselves with people more successful than them. They know that they are going to benefit from the tips and tricks they pick up simply by being in the presence of these people.
Learn together and you will achieve more together.
But finding the right friends is never easy. It takes time to build solid friendships and disconnect yourself from toxic ones. Discovering the right people requires you to take yourself out of your comfort zone. Start hanging out in new places and you'll connect with a whole new group of people.
As you can see, improving your health and fitness can happen simply by associating yourself with the right people. If you are willing to go out of your way to find these people, you can move on to bigger and better things.
But it all starts with you. It's down to you to make the big changes in your life. Do you have the willpower to start making positive alterations to your lifestyle right now?


Parents pay for Junior selection?
The ECF receives no Government support and has limited sponsorship. Membership fees pay for the Office and the international teams, there isn't much left over to subsidise educational trips.
In fact there's now quite a number of people being remunerated for junior training. If the ECF needs additional funding, which it does, it could do worse than seeking a slice of the action. Federations organising international junior events already treat it as a money making enterprise, those Federations sending players could also try to cash in.
I am not at all sure how the ECF can charge or claim money from others for junior coaching. I think developing players is a good thing and if memory serves some local clubs have used juniors coached elsewhere without a development fee being attached.
I am not at all sure how the ECF can charge or claim money from others for junior coaching.
It can aim to make a profit out of organising squads to participate in international events, rather than subsidising them by not charging for the expenses incurred by the Office in administering such trips. Equally squads are accompanied by coaches arranged and paid for by the ECF. Does it pass on these costs as incurred or aim to take a profit margin by facilitating them?
...which can be hedged at current rates, nice little arbitrage.
To be clear, the ECF isn't aiming to make a profit off sending juniors to trips. It should be equally clear that parents have to fund the trips for themselves; the money doesn't come out of ECF income.
The difficulty that we have is that we receive the money in GBP and pay FIDE/ECU/the local organisers in EUR. In the event that the pound crashes after Brexit, then it's a problem if we have to pay more EUR than we collected in GBP. We have to build in a bit of a safety margin even for normal currency fluctuations. If a surplus is made from the trips due to currency fluctuations, then this will be re-invested in the Bursary Fund, a Fund which is made available to help people who can't afford to go on trips. This seems to be the best pragmatic solution to me.
The difficulty that we have is that we receive the money in GBP and pay FIDE/ECU/the local organisers in EUR. In the event that the pound crashes after Brexit, then it's a problem if we have to pay more EUR than we collected in GBP. We have to build in a bit of a safety margin even for normal currency fluctuations.
Surely, opening a Euro bank account and paying the money received in pounds into it as soon as it is received is not difficult.
It's not clear to me how that solves the problem. If people have a month to pay an invoice in pounds, you'll still get people paying different amounts of Euros over the course of a month. So you still have to factor that in to the exchange rate.
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I think developing junior players is a good thing and consistent with ECF objectives. I want teams to be given reasonable assistance in achieving their potential at such events and as I'd hope chess were accessible to as many as possible I would be wary of imposing further financial burdens. As I think we've discussed before most clubs including your own set lower fees for juniors - this is regarded as a good thing, and profits us as a chess community in more ways than can be measured in financial terms.
I wonder if it would be a worthwhile idea for the ECF to approach Nigel Short and suggest a proper overhaul of the current conditions set for European and World level junior events. Having done a couple of these trips now it seems to be that the events are modelled to be a money making venture for the local chess federations. One example that stands out is that children and parents are forced to pay through the nose for the events set accommodation, and strictly don't have any options to shop around and take cheaper alternatives. At present the average cost for one player and one accompanying parent is probably not far off £4000, when you factor in all the associated costs. I think for a lot of families with talented players the current costs involved make these type of trips quite unrealistic, or perhaps at best a one off type experience.
European events are not really his ambit, but from FIDE's perspective, they are already committed to doing something about the "official hotel" issue. They demonstrated this in St. Petersburg by providing hotels that were available if people wanted them, but they were not mandatory.
I hope FIDE do something about it, but they're not the ones in a position of power at the moment; organisations bid to host them, and based on what I saw in Batumi, the bids are often uncontested. Where bids are contested, there's usually horse-trading before in advance so there ends up only being one genuine bid for each of the tournaments. So work needs to be done if FIDE are going to move in the direction we'd all like to see, but it hasn't been done yet. So I guess it's watch this space.
At present the average cost for one player and one accompanying parent is probably not far off £4000, when you factor in all the associated costs.
Is there still a requirement for the organisers to offer one free place per Federation? That would increase the price for additional players if the organiser needed to balance their books. The ECF follows a policy of adding up the total costs and dividing by the number of participants, so it spreads any subsidy from free entry and accommodation over the whole squad.


We are back to the battle of graphics processing units vs field-programmable gate array (FPGA) with NVIDIA in the centre of attention. This time, there's more at stake than just FPGA power efficiency factor as compared to GPUs cost efficient advantage. The recent tech boom with cloud computing, image processing, robotics, deep learning and big data workloads have necessitated a shift towards GPUs.
But that doesn't rule out FPGAs which are designed to perform fixed-point operations with a close-to-hardware programming approach. GPUs on the other hand, are optimised for parallel processing of floating-point operations using thousands of small cores, according to this whitepaper. FPGAs also score over GPUs in terms of interface flexibility, improved by the integration of programmable logic with CPUs and standard peripherals. They also provides huge processing capabilities with a great power efficiency. But when it comes to cost efficiency, GPUs are winning the battle in development and software acceleration while FPGAs require a team of design engineers. Another thing to be considered is that, today many algorithms are designed directly for GPUs, and FPGA developers are difficult and expensive to hire.
Is FPGA Suitable For Self Driving Technology?
This is not the age-old comparison between GPU vs FPGA which is not the crux of the matter. FPGAs which can perform a range of logical functions simultaneously are being considered unsuitable for emerging technologies such as self-driving cars or deep learning applications. At the recently-concluded GPU Technology Conference in March, NVIDIA top brass Jensen Huang declared that FPGA is not the right answer for autonomous tech development.
According to Huang, FPGA was more suited for prototyping and wouldn't lead to desirable results. With leading tech giants like Intel, Qualcomm, Nvidia and Google plowing in millions of dollars in self-driving technology and AI chips, it is evident that chipmakers would want to design a chip for autonomous driving technology.
Today, thanks to its immense popularity and cost-efficiency, GPU has emerged as the dominant chip architecture for autonomous technology and Nvidia has intensified the battle by increasing the computing speed 10 times and reducing the power consumption 16 times. They have further strengthened their position in the automotive market with partnerships with Audi, ZF and Zenrin and are building an AI-driven big data system.
The chip market is dominated by players like Intel, AMD, Google, Altera and Cambricon among others, but Nvidia is the market leader. Besides GPU, CPU and FPGA, ASIC is another mainstream chip that is fast becoming the industry standard for self-driving technology. One of the key advantages of ASIC chips is that they are best suited for computing and power consumption. In the near future, industry analysts believe research and development of all AI chips will gain traction as autonomous technology and certain use cases would drive specialised AI chips.
Until autonomous cars reach the stage of mass production, various chip architectures are possible. For example, Chinese startup Horizon Robotics, leader in embedded AI released an AI processor named Journey 1.0 for smart driving, and another one called Sunrise 1.0 for smart cameras. Now, in an automotive setting the two chips work together and the Chinese startup which got its latest funding from Intel Capital claims Journey 1.0 has a detection accuracy of more than 99 percent for vehicles, pedestrians, lane lines and traffic signs.
Qualcomm is not a small player but the chipmaker doesn't want to be left behind in driving autonomous technology forward. The leading chipmaker of choice for smartphones, the American semiconductor player launched Drive Data platform, dubbed a variant of Snapdragon processor in 2016. As part of its automotive transition, the Drive Data platform builds on Qualcomm's Snapdragon 820 Automotive processor and delivers the next level of intelligence and unprecedented mobile connectivity for autonomous driving. And in order to dominate the market like Nvidia and Intel, Qualcomm is providing a full platform that brings together all the key capabilities such as HD Mapping and machine intelligence for safe navigation.
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I know it's about time for a dire goodbye.
is the universe hinting, I should just let you fly?
you want to be free!
to pretend to be in love, just you and me!
I'm not worried of having nothing left.
is all I have craved!
I wont ask you for any respite.
where we pretend to be in love, I'll hold you tight!
before our love faces the inevitable abduction.
How can my soul recover from this humongous debt?
once you said, "Great is our love, it's our fate."
"I've million stars in my arms, you're still lonely."
that will last till eternity!
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Ryan Murphy is 17 and a senior at Maine South High School in Park Ridge, Illinois. He is a violin student of Almita Vamos, Roland Vamos, and Marko Dreher and is a merit scholarship student at the Academy of the Music Institute of Chicago. Recently, Ryan won the Arthur D. Montzka Young Artists Competition and soloed with the Kishwaukee Symphony Orchestra playing the first movement of the Sibelius Violin Concerto. Ryan was the grand prize winner of the Olympic Finals of the Granquist Music Competition, and also a first place winner of the Oak Park/River Forest Symphony Orchestra competition, and soloed with that orchestra, playing the first movement of the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto. Ryan won the North Suburban Symphony Orchestra competition and soloed with that orchestra playing the first movement of Lalo's Symphonie Espagnole.
He won a first prize in the junior division of the Walgreens National Concerto Competition, second place in the senior division, and first place in the Music Teachers' National Association Illinois Junior Strings Competition. Ryan has also been a finalist in the Skokie Valley Symphony Orchestra Young Artist Competition. Ryan has performed solo works at various venues including the Chicago Cultural Center, the Art Institute of Chicago, and Nichols Hall. This year, Ryan was selected to participate in the Lennox International Young Artists Competition and the Corpus Christi International Competition for Strings, and was an alternate for the Stulberg International String Competition. Ryan was also invited to play a recital in the Steinway Young Artists concert series this year. Ryan has performed in masterclasses for musicians such as Ilya Kaler, Yo Yo Ma, Alice Schoenfeld, and members of the Avalon and Vermeer quartets.
As a chamber musician, Ryan's groups have won the Rembrandt Chamber Music Competition, the Society of American Musicians chamber music competition, the Chicago National Chamber Music Competition, and have been semifinalists at the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition. Ryan has performed with his chamber group on NPR's "From the Top", three times on WFMT's "Introductions", in the Harris Theatre, the Chicago Cultural Center, Nichols Hall, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Houston Grand Opera House.
During summers, Ryan has studied as a merit scholarship student at the Meadowmount School of Music in New York and the Green Mountain Chamber Music Festival in Vermont. He has also studied at the Okemo Young Artists Program in Vermont.


Seoul-based Samsung Electronics announced on Wednesday, March 28, it plans to double the production capacity of NAND flash memory circuits by investing $7 billion dollars in a semiconductor plant in Shaanxi Province, China, according to Nikkei Asian Review.
The production of chips that mainly store images and text on electronic devices such as smartphones, will increase in numbers in an attempt to showcase Samsung's commitment to China, the largest importer of South Korean semiconductor products.
The Korean electronics titan, that owns its own private army, plans to spend the $7 billion over the next three years in order to raise production capacity at the Chinese plant to a scale equivalent to more than 200,000 units of 300-mm silicon wafers, which is double the current scale.
The new production line is expected to manufacture cutting-edge, three-dimensional flash memory chips, which have significantly higher data capacity than existing products.
The latest investment puts Samsung's total investment in the plant to over $18.8 billion, including the approximately $12.7 billion required to build the first production line.
Kim Ki-nam, president, and CEO of Samsung Electronics' device solutions division said the company will deliver top-notch semiconductor products to customers.


Rustic mudroom is usually attach to the back of the entrance to a house, according to the website Keitel and provides space for those who walk in to strip dirty clothes. In a time characterized by horse drawn plows where these spaces were also usually accompanied by a water pump like washing. In 2010, the term "mudroom" may refer to a local, space or even the hall where family members often go in and out of the home.
Remove everything in mudroom from their shelves, drawers or current places. This will create a bullet of working. Sort items by type. For example, place adult rocks in one high and child's rocks in another, place adult shoes in one high and children's shoes in another etc. evaluate what you actually use. If your children have grown out of some posts, place them in a donation high. If someone in the family has not won a pair of shoes in two years, donate them.
Restrict items in mudroom those centered on access and ending homes. For example, sports equipment, laundry supplies and cleaning equipment should be located elsewhere according to Keitel, unless a closet big enough to accommodate them separately is present. Skylights, umbrella stands and scraper clay should be kept there.
Walk into the bare mudroom from the outside. Evaluate what you would like to see. Do you prefer umbrella stands to the right or left of the door? Would you rather take your coat or shoes first? According to Keitel, each mudroom should at least have a place to hang jackets, take off shoes and let umbrellas drip, a mirror with a shelf to release keys and small items, and a mud scraper. Place out furniture in the order you prefer these are brought into the home performing their cleaning tasks. For example, if you prefer wet umbrellas hanging for drying first, place umbrella stands nearest the door.
If you prefer the next one, put on their robes, place a coat hanger, tripod or on the wall hooks a couple of steps outside the umbrella stand, but before the area is designated to take off the shoes. If children are often at home, hooks place fur and other items that they need at their level. Evaluate what furniture or shelves you may need to buy or build. If you do not have an unlisted seat designed for storage, consider building or buying one. (They are useful for storing items in and the most logical place to take off the shoes.) Consider vertical shelves, as they are space savers.


The city of Latrobe has only one school where public administration faculty can find employment. The trends in Latrobe's public administration academic community can be evaluated by looking at the statistics and graphs below, which includes public administration training at the public administration bachelors degree level.
Of the 22,030 public administration professionals employed in Pennsylvania, 4,250 work in Latrobe. Between 2006 and 2010, the number of public administration professionals in Latrobe has grown by 65%. As the employment for public administration professionals in Latrobe has increased, overall employment in Latrobe has also increased.
As the number of public administration professionals in Latrobe has grown, salaries for public administration professionals have also increased. In 2010 an average salary of $91,075 per year was earned by public administration professionals in Latrobe. The average salary for public administration professionals in Latrobe was $72,568 per year, four years earlier in 2006. This growth is faster than the salary trend for all careers in Latrobe.
Latrobe public administration professionals earn a median yearly salary of $79,675. The 10% of public administration professionals in the lowest pay bracket earn less than $43,588 per year, while those in the highest pay bracket earn approximately 141% higher salaries.
On average public administration professional salaries in Latrobe are higher than salaries earned by their professional counterparts in related professions.
Many of Latrobe's public administration professionals are graduates of the only accredited public administration school in the city.
There is one degree and certificate program in public administration offered by Latrobe's public administration school.
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Originally from Paris, Texas, I moved to Lewisville in 2009 when I began my career in insurance. I like the small-town feel of Lewisville while having all the big city amenities nearby. In my spare time, I like reading, fitness, cooking and spending time at home with my fur babies. I look forward to going to the beach for vacation every year. I usually vacation at South Padre Island, but my favorite destination is the beach at Playa del Carmen in Mexico. I hope to travel more internationally in the future, especially Spain, Greece or anywhere tropical.
I have lived in Corinth since 2014. I love my neighborhood because even though we are part of the metroplex, our neighborhood definitely has a small-town feel. I am a cancer survivor and help others going through cancer through a Facebook support group called Jenni's Rack Pack. I also volunteer for Dallas Area Habitat for Humanity. Outside of work and my volunteer efforts, I spend time with my family and friends. My kids keep me busy with sports and other activities.
I have lived in the Lewisville area since 2013. I like Lewisville because I can get to everything I want or need in just a few minutes without the craziness of a big city. I enjoy spending time with my family -- my significant other, three boys, a dog and a cat. Baseball takes up a good amount of our time. But, when we are not at the ball fields, we like going to the lake, bowling and watching movies.
A 25-yard field goal at halftime of a Texas Christian University football game earned one fortunate fan $1,000 and two tickets to an upcoming game, as part of Allstate's Field Goal Net Program. The successful kick also means Allstate will donate $1,000 to the school's general scholarship fund. I was on the field for the entire event and had the pleasure of congratulating the winner. Great job!
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Babylon Health hit by major data breach Special
By Tim Sandle Jun 23, 2020 in Technology
Digital health provider Babylon Health acknowledged that its video appointment application, aimed at general practitioners, suffered a data breach. The issue raises some concerns for telehealth.
According to the BBC, the health provider was alerted to the data loss following a user discovering he had been given access to various video recordings relating to patients consultations delivered by other medics.
Looking into the issue for Digital Journal is James Carder, CSO and VP of LogRhythm Labs.
Carder begins by looking at business model of new health providers and the type of data they process: "Emerging healthtech startups must ensure that data protection is of the utmost priority, especially when sensitive patient data is collected, recorded and stored."
He adds that: "The healthcare sector's access to vast, valuable data types are a key target for various intelligent threat actors. Unfortunately, Babylon Health made a software error that allowed others to access intimate conversations and information on patients' health. This data breach showcases how a basic lapse in security can compromise patient care, patient safety and trust, and sensitive clinical data."
Carder is also concerned that the type of error is unknown, which means preventative measures for other companies become more challenging to implement: "Babylon Health has yet to disclose exactly what this software error was. The breach could have been due to a lack of segregation between patients, the improper use of a shared repository, or a basic web application security flaw allowing users to access each other's data. Furthermore, to truly know the extent of this breach, more information as to why and how only three users were given access to the recordings should be uncovered."
Carder moves on to the general issue of the digital transformation of healthcare and the resultant implications for cybersecurity. Here Carder notes: "Technology is more integral to healthcare than ever before as more and more organizations leverage digital transformation and adopt web-enabled applications, especially amid the coronavirus crisis. For example, Medicare has now allowed the use of telehealth to all enrollees, and the U.S. federal government has now allowed doctors to treat Medicare patients virtually across state lines."
With telemedicine, Carder says: that "Protecting data is now more complex than ever. It is crucial that healthtech companies, such as Babylon Health, gain full visibility into their software infrastructure and source code so that lapses in security can rapidly be detected before patient care is at risk. Even though Babylon Health stated that a user found the exposed vulnerability, it is highly likely that cybercriminals, who are scouring the internet for vulnerable web applications to exploit and steal information, have already noticed and taken advantage."
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Time to Rethink Program Carriage Regulation
By Kyle McSlarrow | Jul 16, 2012
The government does not — and cannot — tell the Washington Post what columns to carry, or what sections of the paper to put them in, or what days of the week to run them. It doesn't tell Amazon what books to sell, or to recommend to its customers. It doesn't dictate what films Netflix licenses, or features. It doesn't specify which TV shows should be available on Hulu and which should be on Hulu Plus.
So, it's fair to ask: what role, if any, should the government play in determining which networks a cable operator carries, what tiers they should be placed on, what channel numbers they should be assigned, and how much cable operators (and their customers) should pay for those channels?
Twenty years ago, before the first DBS satellites (DirecTV and Dish) were launched, and before telephone companies (like AT&T and Verizon) were allowed to provide video, Congress passed a statute that gave the FCC a limited role in overseeing program carriage decisions of cable operators. The basic rules were simple: pay TV distributors can't demand equity or exclusivity in exchange for carriage, nor can they discriminate on the basis of ownership in a manner that unreasonably prevents an unaffiliated programmer from competing fairly. One of the keys to the limited oversight authorized by Congress was the prohibition of discriminatory treatment — not differential treatment.
These rules have been on the books for two decades, and cable companies comply with them. But in recent years there have been efforts to expand the government's role in overseeing our program carriage decisions. Our view is that the government's role should be shrinking, not expanding, in light of the robust competition that is now pervasive in the video marketplace. An expanded government role could adversely affect our ability to continue to provide our customers with an attractive array of video programming packages, tailored for different households' differing interests and budgets. And it would impermissibly expand the government's role beyond Congress's intent and infringe our First Amendment rights.
These concerns intensified late last year when an FCC administrative law judge ("ALJ") found in a preliminary decision that, as compared to our owned sports channels, Golf Channel and NBC Sports Network, we had discriminated against Tennis Channel, which we currently distribute in our Sports Entertainment package, consistent with our long-standing contract with the Tennis Channel. He made this finding in the face of uncontroverted evidence that we distribute the Tennis Channel better than most other large cable companies, and that all major multi-channel video distributors (including DirecTV and DISH, the Tennis Channel's two largest owners) carry Golf and NBC Sports Network more broadly than Tennis Channel. In short, the ALJ appears to have impermissibly conflated the concepts of discrimination and differential treatment. He effectively ordered that we move the Tennis Channel off the sports tier and put it on our Digital Starter line-up, and also required that we provide it with "equitable" channel placement vis-á-vis Golf Channel and NBC Sports Network.
We're hopeful that the newly reconstituted FCC will reject that decision. To rule otherwise would cause major increases in our costs, impede our efforts to keep consumer prices reasonable, and require tiering and channel changes that will cause disruption and confusion for consumers.
We're proud to offer our customers lots of choices — with multiple networks to watch within any given tier, but also with multiple optional tiers and premium channels for those who want them. Even after Comcast's acquisition of NBCUniversal, six of every seven channels we carry are unaffiliated. We believe we serve our customers best by carrying certain channels for which demand is limited in optional packages that are readily available at a modest additional cost.
Though undoubtedly well-intentioned, the ALJ's ruling was a breathtaking regulatory overreach. If endorsed by the full FCC, the ALJ's ruling would drive up costs for everyone, even though the appeal of Tennis Channel programming is limited. (Tennis fans who do not desire to purchase Tennis Channel's niche coverage of the sport already enjoy abundant coverage of every major tennis event on other channels.) The ALJ's ruling was the first time that anyone in government had ever ordered a cable company to carry a particular cable network on a particular tier. The full FCC has already acknowledged — as has the Tennis Channel — that this ruling was unprecedented.
There are a number of reasons why we believe this decision should be overturned. The ALJ's ruling (as well as a procedural ruling by the FCC's Media Bureau) was infected by severe factual and legal errors and ignored numerous marketplace realities.
As a matter of contract, Comcast carries the Tennis Channel precisely as it asked — and agreed — to be carried.
As a matter of fact, our carrying the Tennis Channel on the sports tier is not a product of affiliation-based discrimination but a prudent exercise of our contract rights. Other major multi-channel video distributors have made similar carriage decisions, and six of the top 20 largest video distributors refuse to carry Tennis Channel at all. And, while it's true that we distribute Golf Channel and NBC Sports Network to more customers than we do Tennis Channel, that's also true of virtually every major distributor in the marketplace, even including the satellite companies that hold major equity interests in Tennis Channel.
As a matter of law, the preliminary rulings violated FCC rules, the Communications Act, and the U.S. Constitution. Under FCC rules, the statute of limitations prevents Tennis Channel from bringing a claim based on carriage that it admits is consistent with a contract that is more than one year old. Under the program carriage statute, Tennis Channel cannot possibly prove that it is being unreasonably prevented from competing fairly when it is available to virtually all of Comcast's customers and is also available on the platforms of many other cable companies as well as DirecTV and Dish (both of which are substantial owners of the Tennis Channel). Nor does the statute allow for a finding of discrimination absent evidence of intentional affiliation-based bias; a violation that cannot be found where, as here, a distributor declined a network's proposal that would entail massive additional costs but no corresponding benefits. Under the U.S. Constitution, cable operators are entitled to freedom of speech and of the press and, just like a newspaper, bookstore, or website, cannot properly be told what content to carry or how it should be packaged.
As a matter of policy, there's no current justification for heavy-handed government regulation and second-guessing of the video marketplace, where competition is robust, marketplace negotiations work, and consumers have abundant choices. Nor is there any reason for government actions that reward regulatory gamesmanship — like enabling a so-called "independent" network backed by wealthy financiers (and Comcast's two biggest competitors) to raise consumer bills across America and then cash out with a valuation benefit of hundreds of millions of dollars created by inappropriate government intervention and built on the backs of consumers.
Late last year, President Obama received long, sustained, and bipartisan applause when he proclaimed in an address to a joint session of Congress that "We should have no more regulation than the health, safety and security of the American people require. Every rule should meet that common-sense test." Consistent with this message, leading legislators, like House Commerce Committee Chairman Upton and House Communications Subcommittee Chairman Walden, have strongly encouraged the FCC to eliminate unnecessary regulations and let the marketplace work.
The ALJ's ruling is simply out of step with these sentiments. With its unjustified finding of discrimination and intrusive and potentially costly remedy, it extended regulation where it has never gone before — and well beyond congressional intent. The Commission's forthcoming Tennis Channel ruling gives the agency a perfect opportunity to correct this error. And, if the agency heeds the procompetitive and deregulatory guidance provided by the President and by Congress, the next logical step would be to terminate the rulemaking that proposes to expand government regulation even further in this area and instead focus the agency's resources on eliminating outdated rules.


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Thieves of Baghdad is a non-fictional account written by Col. Matthew Bogdanos about the quest to recover over a thousand lost artifacts from the National Museum of Iraq in Baghdad after the country's counter-invasion.

Themes

Story of tracking down stolen objects

Much of the book is an accounting of how his unit set up camp in the library of the Iraq museum in April 2003 and tried to recover lost artifacts. He developed relationships with museum staff, and, drawing on his knowledge of ancient civilizations, as well as his knowledge of police work, having been a criminal prosecutor in New York for many years, tells how he and the team were able to recover a huge amount of priceless antiquities which had been looted from the museum in the past days, and even years.

Analyze the idea that the US allowed museum looting while protecting the oil ministry

He goes into great detail about the theme that the US let the museum be looted while it protected the oil ministry... a version of events that was widely reported.

Bogdanos goes into great detail about why this story is not very accurate. First there are basic differences in the two sites. The oil ministry was a single building, which was bombed and had no occupants by the time US troops arrived.

The museum, on the other hand, was an  compound, full of various buildings,  full of Iraqi army troops, fortified with sniper and gun positions, when a small group of Americans was first sent to check it out. The only way to have 'protected' the museum at that point in time, initially, would have been to attack it, and drive out the Iraqi army .... destroying the museum in a horrific firefight. This is roughly Bogdanos' argument.

After this, there is a small window when the US failed to protect the museum, something he says was caused by planners not thinking that the museum would be looted. . . . they figured the looters would go after symbols of the Ba'ath party, like palaces.

But the US finally did get there... Bogdanos had managed to find a sympathetic person in the military brass, thanks in part to press coverage, who supported his mission, despite opposition from many people in the military, and eventually, also despite a lack of interest or caring on the part of many civilian bureaucrats, even from the UN.

Analyze the state of the global illegal antiquities trade

A great deal of the end of the book is spent discussing and analyzing the problems of stopping the illegal trade in antiquities. He talks about how the problem is not just smugglers, it goes into the dealers, the brokers, the buyers, the historians and professors who authenticate stolen antiquities for buyers, museum staffs, and even governments that look the other way, while collecting import tariffs.

Another problem is lack of support for law enforcement involvement in the problem. He points out that many governments have donated millions of dollars to the museum, but very little money has been given to the investigative work needed to track down and recover stolen antiquities that belong in the museum. Interpol, the FBI, and other agencies that could do the work have very few people assigned to the task, and those people have almost no budget to work with.

He talks about his efforts to 'bridge the gap' between law enforcement culture and academic culture, and some of his successes. He also lays out a plan for how he would reform the system... One part of his plan includes having a single binding agreement, somewhat like the ABA code, that standardizes what constitutes 'legal' provenance for antiquities, to be used amongst archaeologists, collectors, dealers, museums, academics, law enforcement, customs, etc.

Reviews and press
 "Marine Col. Matthew Bogdano's resume would put Indiana Jones to shame." – U.S. News & World Report

External links
After Words interview with Bogdanos on Thieves of Baghdad, April 8, 2006

2005 non-fiction books
Books about the 2003 invasion of Iraq
21st-century history books
Iraq War books
History books about the United States
History books about Iraq
American non-fiction books
Iraqi culture
21st century in Baghdad

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The tension was paying its toll in another way.
He shook the tension out of his shoulders.
As the weekend drew nearer, the tension grew.
All this tension was ruining the evening for both of them.
She couldn't tell, except that the tension in the room was increasing.


Video clip synopsis – Some people experience retiring like hitting a brick wall, finding it hard to live on such a dramatically reduced income. "Beehive" is a Seniors employment co-operative where pensioners can work to earn a few dollars without affecting their Social Security payments.
Broadband MP4 brickwall_bb.mp4 (6.6MB), suitable for iPods and computer downloads.
Pensioners Working Part-Time at a Co-Op is an excerpt from the film Hitting A Brick Wall (15 mins), an episode of the series Ageing in the New Age (7 × 15mins), produced in 1983.
Students have the opportunity to identify values that support social cohesion and consider the ways in which this can be undermined or strengthened by individual and collective action.
Students develop skills to become involved in or influence representative groups in the school or community.
Australia is an ageing society.
Australia's population is ageing and in international terms it is ageing relatively fast. Twenty years ago, 9% of the Australian population or 1.3 million people were aged 65 years and over. By 1996 this had increased to 12% of the population or 2.2 million people and by 2016 this is projected to increase to 16% of the population or 3.5 million people.
The internal age structure of the older population is also changing quite significantly. In 1976, one in six older people was aged 80 and over, by 1996 it was one in five and by 2016 it is expected to be one in four. In the next twenty years, the number of people in Australia aged 80 will grow by 63% from 486,200 in 1996 to 794,500 by 2016.
Work is an important part of adult life. When the eight hour working day was introduced, it stated that the day was divided up into eight hours work, eight hours rest and eight hours recreation. Many people either work more than eight hours and/or sleep less than eight hours. The eight hours that should be devoted to 'play' are often taken up with working, managing a household and caring for children, so that when they reach retirement, some people do not have the skills or networks to know how to 'play'.
For many people, their social network is based around work. When they retire that network is gone. They have no daily contact for social exchange and no prospect of future social functions. For people who have worked in a regular job for a number of years, maintaining a structure in their lives can be important. Volunteering work offers this structure and a way to feel that you are still a valued member of the community.
In this video clip, pensioners can work at a co-op without affecting their pension and at the same time this provides them with entertainment and activities.
1. Students carry out a survey in class of who is a 'volunteer', or who has a family member or friend who volunteers. Identify some local examples of voluntary activities. Discuss why people volunteer. Who benefits from volunteers? What qualities do people who vounteer need to have? Reflect what might happen in our community if we did not have volunteers. To what exetent can social cohesion or community values be strengthened by individual and/or collective community action?
2. Why might some 'senior citizens' consider volunteerism as a form of work that has real personal benefits for them? How important is work to our identity? Why is part-time work undertaken by young people a very important activity?
3. Using the video clip and other sources define 'co-operative' in the workplace context and explore what benefits a co-operative can bring to people in the workplace or in a community. How is the idea of a co-operative presented in this video clip?
4. Australia has an ageing society. In 1976, one in six older people was aged 80 and over, by 1996 it was one in five and by 2016 it is expected to be one in four. In the next twenty years, the number of people in Australia aged 80 will grow by 63% from 486,200 in 1996 to 794,500 by 2016. In small groups ask students to explore the social, economic and political ramifications of this shift in demographics in Australia. Ask students to reflect on how they feel, at this point in their life, about growing 'old'.


This Saturday, Feb. 17, the Piedmont Patch Collaborative will host a free lecture in Chapel Hill, NC at 11:00 a.m. Although the warm temperatures have afflicted most of us with spring fever, the weather on Saturday will be an abrupt return to cold, damp conditions — ideal weather for sitting in a warm, dry spot to learn how you can invite native wildlife onto your property by adding native plants.
A hummingbird moth dining on whorled milkweed flowers.
I've been writing about the Piedmont Patch Collaborative for a few months now, most recently in the post previous to this one. We are trying to demonstrate to public and private property owners the benefits of creating patches of native plant sanctuaries wherever they can to help compensate for the devastating losses of native habitat brought about by the rampant urbanization of the Piedmont region. Because most everyone loves butterflies, birds, and flowers, we thought a talk on how to use flowers to attract and feed these native creatures would appeal to experienced, and we hope especially, new gardeners. In central NC, there is no one better qualified to teach about pollinators and pollinator gardens than Debbie Roos. We are delighted that she is the first speaker in our quarterly lecture series that is free and open to the public.
Carpenter bee on swamp milkweed flowers.
Since 1999, Debbie has been an Agriculture Agent for the Chatham County Center of North Carolina Cooperative Extension, where she is responsible for programming in the areas of commercial vegetable production, organic production, pollinator conservation, alternative agricultural enterprises, forestry, and beekeeping. Debbie is passionate about pollinator conservation and has planted demonstration habitats and developed resources to teach others about the importance of bees and other pollinators to our agriculture ecosystem. Visit her pollinator Web site here.
Common Buckeye enjoying ironweed flowers.
Despite predicted gloomy weather, we are hoping for a big turnout for Debbie's lecture. If you're planning on coming, please bring a friend, especially if your friend is new to the Piedmont region or new to gardening. Come learn about the power of flowers that feed and shelter insects and birds critical to the survival of our food crops and our native ecosystems. The middle of February is the perfect time to start thinking about adding a pollinator garden to your property. You won't be alone. The Piedmont Patch Collaborative Web site will offer a growing list of resources, including how-to articles and videos, an events calendar, recommended plant lists, and, of course, our quarterly lecture series. The site also lists all the details about Saturday's lecture, including the location in Chapel Hill, NC.
I have the honor of introducing Debbie before her talk. If you attend and have time, please introduce yourself to me after the lecture. I'm always happy to talk about Piedmont gardening.
Please come to Debbie Roos' lecture this Saturday!
The cold, icy winter has been remarkably busy for this Piedmont gardener. In past years, I've used such winters to catch up on my reading, plan the new growing season's vegetable garden, and perhaps do a bit of garden clean-up during "warm" spells. But this winter, the big dream I wrote about here a few months ago continues to occupy much of my time — along with a few other plant-related projects I'll share with you in another post soon.
The group I'm working with has changed its name slightly. We are no longer the Piedmont Patch Project; instead, we are the Piedmont Patch Collaborative (PPC). This change was needed, because we wanted to convey the essential collaborative nature of this endeavor. We continue to welcome new partner organizations and individuals, who are helping us to dream even bigger as they bring additional resources and expertise to our effort.
A new partner: New Hope Audubon Society — I am delighted to report that the chapter of the National Audubon Society local to my region has joined the Piedmont Patch Collaborative as an enthusiastic partner. This very active group brings enormous expertise to the PPC, especially with regard to the relationships between native birds and native plants. They actively promote ways to create bird-friendly habitat, even offering a certification program during which they will assess your property and offer suggestions to improve its bird habitat potential.
These are hands-on folks who have already committed to attending our quarterly talks and staffing a table where they can explain their organization and offer information on native birds and plants. They are planning to volunteer on our work days as we begin to add native plants to the landscape around The Episcopal Church of the Advocate, the PPC's first demonstration project. Most exciting of all, they offered to apply for a grant from the National Audubon Society to fund the acquisition of additional native plants for the site — plants we would be able to acquire and add this year! We'll know by the end of February if we win the grant; watch this space for updates.
Continuing help from a partner: North Carolina Botanical Garden — Thanks to the support of the Director, Damon Waitt, and the generosity of the Greenhouse and Nursery Manager, Matt Gocke, the PPC will be able to use an entire bench in the Garden's greenhouse to grow out plants for our big planting event scheduled for April. I was wondering how and where we were going to grow plants, so this kind offer is truly a boon from heaven.
Our first free and open-to-the-public quarterly talk on Feb. 17: Debbie Roos on Creating wildlife habitat with pollinator gardens — Debbie is a regionally recognized expert on native pollinators. The demonstration pollinator garden she designed and maintains at Chatham Mills in Chatham county, NC is visited by tour groups from throughout the region. The PPC is very excited that Debbie will be the first speaker in its quarterly series of talks on native plants and animals, because pollinator gardens are one of the fastest ways to improve the native habitat potential of any Piedmont landscape. I hope many people will spend an hour or so with us to hear Debbie's talk and enjoy her spectacular photographs. The talk will be on Saturday, Feb. 17 at 11:00 a.m. at the Episcopal Church of the Advocate, 8410 Merin Road, Chapel Hill, NC 27516. Please come, and bring a friend!
Coming soon: a controlled burn of the earthen dam — The earthen dam that contains a one-acre pond on The Advocate grounds is the focus of the majority of the early efforts of the PPC to enrich the landscape with native plants. Our goal is to replace the current mix of invading woody trees (bad for earthen dams), brambles, Japanese honeysuckle, and wildflowers with a mix of native grasses and wildflowers similar to those that naturally occur in Piedmont prairie environments. Ecologically, such environments were maintained by the application of fire, and conservation organizations today often use controlled burns to maintain the ecological integrity of such environments. Experts tell me that the earthen dam is an ideal site for a controlled burn, which should eradicate undesirable plants while not impacting native grasses and wildflowers adapted for those conditions. Our first controlled burn is being planned. Watch this space for updates on the burn and its results.
Coming soon: The PPC Web site — The group is making steady progress toward the implementation of a Web site that will describe its activities, and offer how-to articles and videos on how to create a Piedmont patch of native plants on landscapes of any size. I'll post an announcement everywhere when the new site is up and running.
Perhaps you can sense my enthusiasm for this project — a big dream becoming reality before my eyes, thanks to the collaboration of a growing number of groups and individuals who are embracing this vision of teaching southeastern Piedmont dwellers how to create wildlife sanctuaries with native plants, one patch of Piedmont at a time. I think the dream resonates widely, because it empowers us with a way to make a bona fide difference. By acting locally to deliberately create patches of native habitat on urban and suburban properties, we can significantly reduce the dramatic adverse effects on native pollinators and larger wildlife caused by the obliteration of fields and forests by urbanization.
Every new Piedmont patch will help bluebirds, warblers, woodpeckers, hawks, butterflies, solitary bees, honeybees, bumblebees, predatory wasps, praying mantises, salamanders, spiders, lizards, toads, snakes, rabbits, mice, foxes, deer — all the native components of the web of life that comprise a healthy Piedmont ecosystem. Does your home landscape feature a Piedmont patch? If not, please consider joining the PPC in making a direct, local impact on the future of the southeastern Piedmont region's native ecosystems.
You can have your own native Green Anoles like this one hunting for bugs on a Joe Pye Weed leaf in your very own Piedmont patch.
That's a tall order for a large, biologically diverse state like North Carolina, even if efforts were well-funded. As you might have guessed, they are not. Budgets are tight; staffing is equally tiny, which is why the Friends of Plant Conservation was founded to help support the efforts of the NC Plant Conservation Program any way it can.
Visit the links to their Web sites to learn all the details about what both organizations do. I have always been impressed by how much they continue to accomplish, and most especially by their unwavering enthusiasm for their work. These groups are attempting to create and maintain preserves that will protect healthy populations of plant species identified by experts as threatened or endangered. The locations of these preserves are not advertised, nor are they easily accessible by the public; these rare resources flourish best when undisturbed.
At their annual meetings, the Friends of Plant Conservation receive updates on the activities of their group and the NC Plant Conservation Program. This year, those updates were preceded by a lecture by Wesley Knapp, Western Region Ecologist/Botanist for the North Carolina Natural Heritage Program. This is the group in NC state government tasked with compiling and maintaining information on the status of rare species (flora and fauna) and natural communities in North Carolina. Their group identifies the most endangered plant species that the NC Plant Conservation Program then attempts to protect, with the help of the Friends of Plant Conservation.
Mr. Knapp gave a fascinating presentation on extinct plants. These were not tales — at least not mostly — of long-lost plants. Instead, he focused on the continent-wide collaboration he is coordinating with his fellow botanists to attempt to figure out what plants in North America north of Mexico are extinct today. Surprisingly — at least it was surprising to me — botanists don't actually have a good handle on this important information, but they've realized that between climate change and rampant habitat destruction, species extinction rates are rapidly increasing. So botanists across North America are attempting to compile lists for their regions of expertise that represent the best information they have on which plant species are officially extinct. Most extinct plants are fairly obscure and possibly unimpressive — at least to the average citizen. An exception is Franklinia alatamaha; you can find my post on its story here.
Mr. Knapp used Florida to illustrate the urgency of the collaboration he is coordinating. This biologically diverse state contains a number of unique plant species that will likely be obliterated by sea level rise over the next 100 years. From that factor alone, the experts believe 29 plant species endemic to Florida will become extinct during the next 100 years. It behooves botanists to create reliable lists of which species are and are not still with us, so that we can better monitor the expected, likely dramatic, increase in extinction rates.
How does this relate to the work of the Friends of Plant Conservation? One of the strategies for battling rising extinction rates is the creation of preserves, conservation gardens, and seed banks where these species can be protected. It is true that in the first two cases, we are coming close to what Joni Mitchell described as "tree museums," where these plants will continue to exist, but in the case of conservation gardens, not in the locations where they evolved. The preserves created and maintained by the NC Plant Conservation Program are protecting naturally occurring populations of threatened plant species, which is more optimal, but in, for example, Florida's case, not always possible. Seed banks are another important tool, where seeds of a diverse array of species are stored; perhaps in the future, they can be used to re-introduce species to stabilized habitats. I found Mr. Knapp's lecture to be heartening, because I now know that botanists across the continent are working hard to quantify what we have and what we are losing — and disheartening, because we are losing so much so quickly.
Bigleaf Magnolias (Magnolia macrophylla) are protected in the Redlair Preserve managed by the NC Plant Conservation Program.
It was thus a bit of a relief to listen to the next speaker — Ms. Lesley Starke, NC Plant Conservation Plant Ecologist — who updated attendees on the status of threatened North Carolina plant species and the preserves that protect them. She told us that her group has targeted 486 plant species in North Carolina as significantly rare. Fortunately, some of these species occur in the same habitats, so by preserving habitat, multiple rare species are preserved.
Right now, 24 preserves scattered across the state are being protected and maintained by Ms. Starke's office, with help from the Friends of Plant Conservation. Two more preserves will be in operation very soon. The 24 current preserves comprise about 14,000 acres and protect 75 plant species. When the additional two preserves are operational, 83 plant species will be protected.
Ms. Starke's group works tirelessly, but the math behind their problem is not on their side. She did share one exciting story about how they are successfully protecting increasingly rare populations of native wild ginseng (Panax quinquefolius). As you may know, prices for the roots of this species are so high that poachers are a significant threat to populations of this plant on public lands, where harvesting is against the law. You can read more about this issue here.
A scientist working with Ms. Starke has developed a chemical dye that is used to label ginseng roots without harm to the plants. The dye is invisible to the naked eye, but readily identifiable under ultraviolet light, and it persists forever. Most important, the dye is being tweaked so that distinct populations of ginseng each have their own distinct and readily identifiable dye label. For several years now, teams of volunteers have been marking populations of wild ginseng growing on public lands and preserves with unique dye formulations. Before wild ginseng can be sold, it must be assessed by government officials. Now, with a simple UV scan, they can detect whether the roots being assessed were illegally harvested. This innovative system is so foolproof that 100% of criminal prosecutions brought against illegal harvesters who tried to sell dye-marked roots have been successful — a big win for the good guys!
These first two presentations were quite lengthy, and when Ms. Starke finished, the time allotted for the entire meeting had been expended. I had other obligations that afternoon and was forced to leave before the meeting concluded with another speaker from the NC Plant Conservation Program, an update on the status and future direction of the Friends of Plant Conservation by its current president, and an award presentation — all of which I was sorry to miss. I hope that at least the president's presentation will appear on the group's Web site, so that I can learn about its future plans.
I encourage all lovers of native plants, especially those in North Carolina, to consider joining the Friends of Plant Conservation. This group has an impressive knack for stretching its nonprofit dollars in ways that maximize benefits for threatened plants. Volunteer opportunities abound; the group is always looking for local folks to keep watch over their preserves, assistance on work days for tasks like invasive species removal, and as a perk, members are given opportunities to tour these special, protected places — usually when the rare species are in bloom.
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In a telephone conversation with his opposite number in Japan, Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, Mr. Johnson is understood to have also agreed to joint efforts with Japan in areas pertaining to fighting the pandemic as well as helping in the global battle against a worsening climate.
A virtual summit of the world's Group of Seven industrialized nations will be hosted by the UK tomorrow in London, and will include Canada, France, Germany, Italy and the United Sates in addition to Japan and the UK.
Reports from Japan also suggest the UK will host a real-time in-person meeting of the G-7 some time in June.
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Britain has already put in an formal bid to join the TPP and its 11 Pacific Rim member nations – of which Japan is currently the most influential in terms of economic might.
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