text:
Q: Our own camera interface in Android I try to make app with my own Camera interface. I use android.hardware.Camera. First time I did step by step this tutorial, but some problem (in surfaceCreated ) NullPointerException so I have tried this but something is wrong.
public class AktivitaDisplej extends Activity implements SurfaceHolder.Callback {

    private Camera aKamera=null;

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

        SurfaceView surface=new SurfaceView(this);
        surface.getHolder().addCallback(this);
        surface.getHolder().setType(SurfaceHolder.SURFACE_TYPE_PUSH_BUFFERS);
        setContentView(surface);

    }

    @Override
    public void surfaceCreated(SurfaceHolder holder) {

        try {
            aKamera=Camera.open();
            aKamera.setPreviewDisplay(holder);
        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }

    }

    @Override
    public void surfaceChanged(SurfaceHolder holder, int format, int width,
            int height) {

        Camera.Parameters param=aKamera.getParameters();
        param.setPreviewSize(width, height);
        aKamera.setParameters(param);
        aKamera.startPreview();
    }

    @Override
    public void surfaceDestroyed(SurfaceHolder holder) {

        aKamera.stopPreview();
        aKamera.release();
        aKamera=null;
    }
}

ERRORS:
08-27 21:00:52.798: E/AndroidRuntime(5093): FATAL EXCEPTION: main
08-27 21:00:52.798: E/AndroidRuntime(5093): java.lang.RuntimeException: Fail to connect to camera service
08-27 21:00:52.798: E/AndroidRuntime(5093):     at android.hardware.Camera.native_setup(Native Method)
08-27 21:00:52.798: E/AndroidRuntime(5093):     at android.hardware.Camera.<init>(Camera.java:350)
08-27 21:00:52.798: E/AndroidRuntime(5093):     at android.hardware.Camera.open(Camera.java:327)
08-27 21:00:52.798: E/AndroidRuntime(5093):     at sal.camera.AktivitaDisplej.surfaceCreated(AktivitaDisplej.java:55)

Where is the problem?


"I didn't choose a career in construction; construction chose me." Simply put, there isn't a single time in Brandt's life where design and construction weren't present. Erector Sets and Legos stirred a passion that would take him to architecture school in Europe, and 10+ years of working professionally in Architecture and Construction. On the side, Brandt continues to renovate his parents' home — whether it needs it or not.
What do you do in Minnesota when it's 20 below?
You can usually find me outside cross country skiing, snowboarding, fishing or building a snow fort with my kids. I have three very creative and active girls who seem to share the same ideas and love for the outdoors.


Finally, the claim that partisan gerrymanders cause excessive partisanship in the legislature may be true but is wholly beside the point.
Considered with the lessons of the reapportionment era in mind, the arguments against the justiciability of partisan gerrymanders and the criticisms of the flaws inherent in each of the prospective standards available to identify an unconstitutional partisan gerrymander seem to lose much of their strength.
Not only has the Court acted outside of its constitutional authority, but it has repeatedly failed to delineate a workable standard for evaluating partisan gerrymanders.
These collusive agreements, or bipartisan gerrymanders, have been described as analogous to market-sharing agreements among corporate cartels that stifle competition, and they are the subject of much academic hand-wringing.
A third development behind the surge of interest in redistricting reform is the more aggressive actions by national party leaders to orchestrate partisan gerrymanders in the states.
Given the gains to be had from controlling the districting process, and given the number of doctrinal vehicles, a significant number of the partisan gerrymanders that courts find constitutionally offensive--whatever that term in fact means, and whether it even has any agreed-upon meaning--will lead to judicial intervention, and the lack of candor about what courts are doing may carry its own costs.
In a divided court--there were five separate opinions--the majority saw no constitutional violation, and the inherent partisan consequences of any judicially mandated reform suggest that future courts will also have difficulty rejecting political gerrymanders.
City Hall that gerrymanders them into positions of electoral irrelevance and takes its cues from downtown special interests at the expense of neighborhoods and communities.
Incremental change, such as gerrymanders, at the state, county and local level, often hardly noticed, gradually weakened efforts to enforce the Reconstruction Amendments.
While The Wall Street Journal and other national organs with reliable conservative credentials have heaped well-deserved scorn on ridiculous gerrymanders in North Carolina and othe states, they have largely ignored the culpability of Republicans.
Even when contrived by federal gerrymanders, the election of minority candidates has probably raised many minority voters' political consciousnesses and carries a symbolic importance essential to democratic politics.


European markets slipped into the red on Friday, weighed by negative headlines in the global auto sector and losses for oil majors. The Stoxx Europe 600 fell 0.2% to 348.27, the U.K.'s FTSE 100 down 0.3%, to 6,925.16. The Germany's Dax 30 and France's CAC 40 each lost around 0.6%.
U.S. stocks on Friday ended with slight losses, but capped a week that helped to propel the Dow and S&P 500 out of corrective phases as progress on trade talks with China and the U.S. overshadowed a partial government shutdown that had entered a 21st day. The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed down less than 0.1% lover, at 23,995, the Nasdaq Composite Index fell 0.2% to close at 6.971.
Britain is meant to leave the European Union (EU) on 29 March, 2019. However one of the world's most reputable think tanks believes that Brexit will not happen on that date and that a 'no-deal Brexit' is the least likely scenario right now.
The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) said that it predicts that UK prime minister Theresa May's government will lose Tuesday's 'meaningful vote' on the withdrawal agreement and political declaration negotiated in November and therefore be forced to ask for an extension on Article 50.
Article 50 was triggered on 29 March, 2017. It is the notification to the EU that Britain will be leaving the bloc. Once it was triggered, it started the clock on a two-year window for negotiation on a departure deal.
May will make a speech today (14 January) that will serve as a last-ditch attempt to persuade MPs to back her Brexit deal in tomorrow's key Commons vote. She is set to have a devastating defeat in parliament. Political insiders, say that around 100 Conservative MPs and the 10 Democratic Unionist Party MPs, are expected to join the opposition party Labour and others opposition parties in voting against the deal. May is set to say on Monday that trust in politics will suffer "catastrophic harm" if the referendum result is not respected.
The EIU believe that the EU will grant the UK and extension to Article 50, giving May her government time to push through a deal. A no-deal Brexit is the worst case scenario for all party. It would mean Britain crashing out of the bloc with no set plan on how to deal with rules and regulations around trade, tariffs, and immigration, for example.


We often see videos of children and adults going viral but how often do you see a lion leading traffic on a road?
New Delhi: The internet is a strange place and every now and then, something or the other goes viral. Nothing seems to escape the netizens' attention and almost anything, no matter how bizarre, makes it to the trending list. While some people become overnight celebs, others become an easy target for trolls. We often see videos of children and adults going viral but how often do you see a pride of lions blocking traffic on a road?
Yes, in yet another viral tweet, a pride of lions can be seen walking on a road with all their glory!
The road is inside the Kruger National Park, which is famous for its lion safaris.
Well, what would you do if you see a pride of lions taking a stroll on the street? Hard to imagine, isn't it?
We have all been stuck in traffic jams but situations like these are extremely rare.
People are going berserk over the video which has already been shared more than 10,000 times.


text:
INTERVIEW: Gavin DeGraw 'Makes A Move' Towards New Sound
Gavin DeGraw does not take the job of naming his albums lightly.
"It's funny because when you go through and you try to figure out what to name an album… I was going through going 'Maybe I'll go through and I'll pick a song title to name the album after yunno?'" said DeGraw of the initial thought process behind Make A Move. "You start seeing how one song title might be misinterpreted as an album title; how it could go all wrong."
The "Chariot" singer mentioned the song "Leading Man," and how he felt it was a cool song title but would've sounded "totally douche-y" as the name of the LP.
"I thought Make A Move was a good choice," DeGraw said of his eventual selection. "It was the type of thing that couldn't necessarily be misinterpreted too poorly."
The release marks the artist's fifth studio album and first since 2011's Sweeter, which spawned the hit "Not Over You." The lead single "Best I Ever Had" certainly sets the tone for a different sound of DeGraw's.
"This is definitely a step towards another direction," DeGraw admitted. "There are songs on this album that I think are reflective of Chariot, but at the same time there are other songs on this album that really do feel almost as if it's a completely different artist, which is something I'm really proud of."
But outside of the studio, the singer is still pretty easy-going and down for a good laugh. He revealed that Michael Franti was joking about his "soccer skills" on "The Ralphie Show" because DeGraw is the type of guy "who kind of likes to walk in to the group when people are kicking a ball around and grab it and just punt it as far as I can."
The move itself could have been left open to misinterpretation but both DeGraw and Franti seemed to enjoy chatting about it, and meeting each other for the first time while supporting Train on the road.
In audio, interview	gavin degraw, Michael Franti, train
INTERVIEW: Panic! At The...
LIFE AND STYLE WEEKLY:...

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaCommonCrawl


(Reuters) – Citigroup Inc reported a 2 % rise in quarterly earnings on Monday, as funding banking income surged and internet curiosity margin expanded.
READ Democrats' Twitter warfare: Ought to U.S. borrow loads, or a complete lot?
Web earnings rose to $4.71 billion, or $1.87 per share, for the primary quarter ended March 31 from $4.62 billion, or $1.68 per share, a 12 months earlier.
Income fell 2 % to $18.58 billion.
Analysts have been in search of a revenue of $1.80 per share on income of $18.63 billion, in response to IBES information from Refinitiv. It was not instantly clear if the revenue quantity was comparable.
READ Mega Hundreds of thousands numbers: Did you win Friday's $155 million lottery jackpot?


text:
'The Night Driver' to shed new light on the disappearance of Janine Vaughan
Almost 19 years since Janine Vaughan went missing in NSW, her family is still searching for answers. The 31-year-old was last seen during a night out clubbing with friends in December 2001 before she hopped into a car outside Bathurst's Metro Tavern. Authorities believe she was abducted and murdered, but the identity of the driver and the whereabouts of her body remain a mystery. The Australian's National Chief Correspondent Hedley Thomas is delving into the case in his second podcast 'The Night Driver' to shed new light on her disappearance. Speaking to Sky News on Friday, Mr Thomas said the case was "a really mystifying whodunnit". "There were originally more than 40 persons of interest, there was hardly any evidence left behind, no crime scene, no body and nothing in the way of forensic material," he said. "Our hope is that 19 years later, by going back through everything and talking to friends, family, people who were with her that night, someone's got to give up their secret, a pretty wicked secret that's been kept all this time. He said the podcast delved into a country town "filled with inuendo, gossip and people pointing the finger at prominent local identities". "It has all the makings of something that could be solved and put the family out of its misery," he said. The Night Driver podcast can be found on The Australian newspaper website or at thenightdriver.com.au. Image: News Corp Australia / Supplied


The latest gut episode has passed and I'm feeling mostly back to normal (for me.) It is such a relief to wake up with no pain or discomfort.
I celebrated by having scrambled eggs for breakfast. The only thing I had eaten in the last 24 hours was a mug of broth and a slice of gluten free toast. While my weight could benefit from several weeks of this lack of calories, it is hard to keep going when there's no fuel in the body and you're already exhausted from non-stop pain.
Fortunately, these episodes are fewer and far between than they once were, and are only brought on when I try some new med (OTC or Rx), overeat, or get inadvertently "glutened." Most of that I can control by being careful and making good choices.
Another contributing factor is stress, which I do not manage well, and I've had copious amounts of lately. However, life can be stressful, so it's kind of hard to avoid that all together. My job is the biggest (although not only) source of stress in my life, but I can't really walk away from my job to remove that source (at least for another 8 years, 1 month and 21 days, but who's counting?) I just have to learn to manage it better and not make myself sick (literally) worrying about it.
Or I need to get myself a body pillow-sized stress ball.
As I have gotten older I find I don't get as stressed. I think part of it as I tell everyone is that I've pretty much seen every scenario in I.T. I've battled with stupid ISP's, security vendors, etc. And then in home life battled with Cox to tell them they had an issue. To the point where they now send me new gear for free.
Order the body-sized stress ball. No one has ever invented the means to live totally stress-free! Naked hugs!
I'm happy for your pain-free day. Enjoy.
I wondered about how to manage stress when my two juvenile delinquent children lived with us. They were juveniles, our responsibility. We couldn't kick them out, so we did the best we could, I was heavily medicated, and we waited them out.
Sproing is back with us now. He needs to leave, but he's behaving much better than he did even a year ago, so it isn't as urgent a thing now.
I'm rambling. Here's to better stress management! Cheers!
pet the puppies and Jeffrey and BFF Jim – 3 stress relievers right there! also, have a cosmo!
I'm already making plans to start exercising again soon. It might be one of the few legal things I can do to de-stress after work on a daily basis.
Hubby has mild/severe episodes like you describe :-(. I sympathisize.
We've been using l-theanine for stress. It's a black tea extract which is tea's Calming chemical. Effective for me; a little less so for hubby.


Landlocked Laos is one of Southeast Asia's poorest states and remains heavily dependent on foreign aid. Most Lao people live in rural areas, with around 80% working in agriculture, mostly growing rice.
Well-managed plantations offer a chance to improve livelihoods and create socio-economic opportunities for locals. Plantation companies can also help to deal with one of the major challenges for people in rural areas: the risks associated with unexploded munitions (UXO) left from the USA's bombing of Laos during the Vietnam War, which has left significant areas uncultivated and lacking in infrastructure.
This October 17-21, WWF's New Generation Plantations (NGP) platform is holding its first ever study tour in Laos. The event, co-hosted by Stora Enso and WWF-Laos, brings together over 50 practitioners from various fields and many different parts of the world.
During this week, participants are seeking to understand the challenges facing local farmers in Laos, and how well-managed plantations can contribute to improving livelihoods and building resilience. They will also share their knowledge, insights and experiences – including examples of local people successfully participating in plantation development.
Savannakhet is the second city of Laos and from our hotel we can look across the mile-wide Mekong River to Thailand. This is the starting point for about 50 international participants on the New Generation Plantations study tour to Laos.
On Sunday evening as everyone arrived at the hotel, we all had the chance to celebrate the "Okpansa" festival to welcome the rice harvesting season in Laos. October is the end of the rainy season, and local people give thanks to the rain goddess for a good crop (although we are hoping that the rain goddess keeps the weather dry for the duration of the study tour). As part of the celebration we all launched our own kratong into the Mekong River – a kratong is a beautifully handmade raft of banana leaves and candles – and we watched as these tiny flickers of light disappeared downstream into the darkness. In five days' time we will be 250 kilometres further down the Mekong River in Pakse – I wonder if any of our tiny Kratongs will race us there?
New Generation Plantations brings people together from different backgrounds, with different interests, to share their knowledge, experience and views, to listen and to reflect and question their own attitudes and actions. This study tour is hosted by the local WWF team in Laos and by Stora Enso, a Scandinavian paper company who have a number of trial plantations here.
The aim isn't just to show and tell, but to ask questions and develop a wider understanding around land use, plantations and their development. In September, to help participants prepare for the trip, I wrote a think piece , which highlights some of the key issues we'll talk about. The think piece doesn't try to provide lots of answers, but rather it asks lots of questions – how, what, why, when, where and who. Asking questions and listening to the answers is the only way to develop that understanding of these fundamental sustainability challenges that face us all.
Hopefully by the time we have reached Pakse on Friday, we will all have asked a lot of questions and have had time to really listen and begin to understand some of the answers.
The first field day of the study tour starts off with a bang – literally.
Doug McInnes, Stora Enso's unexploded ordinance (UXO) expert, detonated an explosive charge to demonstrate his work clearing unexploded munitions from one of the company's plantation sites. That a forestry company needs to employ bomb disposal professionals tells us a lot about the recent history of Laos, and how that history impacts the present.
Driving around this part of Laos, it is easy to spot large bomb shell cases – about 1.5 metres tall – in the villages. Some of them are used instead of timber posts to hold up people's homes, others as plant pots, and some just to mark a gateway to an important building.
Per capita, Laos is the most bombed country in the world. During the Vietnam war, the United States saw Laos as a strategic target, as the Vietnamese were kept supplied along the famous Ho Chi Min Trail, and much of the trail was in Laos.
Forty years later the war is still having an impact. Just last month four people, including two brothers aged 10 and 11, were killed when a bomb went off in a neighbouring district.
Clearing these UXO is essential for Stora before they can start cultivating a site for planting. The main challenge is finding the cluster bombs, which are about the size of an orange with fins, and full of ball bearings. They may have lain undisturbed for years but still pose a threat to the plantation workers or to communities which try to cultivate the land.
Every hectare must be checked with a strict methodology which is repeated again and again. On average Stora have found one bomblet for every hectare cleared. The cost is considerable – from US$800 up to US$1,500 per hectare depending what has been found.
Stora not only clear the plantation sites but also the adjacent areas, which are used by the local community for agroforestry for food production. That will be the focus of tomorrow's visit.
Deciding how best to use which areas of land for food production or for growing trees or for biodiversity is always a challenge. Attempting to resolve these land-use conflicts is vital if we are to sustainably meet the needs of a growing population now and in the future.
Stora Enso has developed an interesting response to these concerns, by fully integrating farming and forestry in its plantation design. This is vitally important in a country where 80% of the population still rely on farming for a livelihood.
The conventional spacing for growing eucalyptus is around two metres by three metres, producing about 1,500 trees per hectare, which delivers the maximum return for fibre and timber production. But here in Laos, Stora has adopted a different model. The trees in each row are grown more closely together, spaced just one metre apart. But there's a nine metre gap between each row, enabling the land in between to be farmed.
On previous NGP study tours in Brazil we've seen other agroforestry models, where grass was grown between the trees for cattle grazing. Sharing knowledge to develop understanding is a key part of our study tours, and it was interesting to debate these alternative approaches to agroforestry.
Here in Laos, rice can be grown for the first two years when the trees are quite young, moving to crops like cassava for years 3-5 when the trees cast some shade, and finally grass or rattan until the trees are harvested at around eight years old.
This wide spacing means a loss of about 10-15% in production in terms of forestry, but optimizes the production of food. And that's critical to Stora Enso's "licence to operate" in Laos.
Stora also remarked that they had less pest and disease problems with the wider spacing, and that it reduced the risk of fire spreading through the plantation. It also meant that the community could benefit further from the work to clear the unexploded bombs which I mentioned yesterday.
In 2015, NGP visited Chile and spent time with forestry companies and the indigenous Mapuche communities, learning about the long-term conflicts over land use. One of the Mapuche leaders told us that the companies had to learn how to work from the local communities, not just with or for them.
The same need is apparent in Laos. I mentioned yesterday that 80% of people in Laos still work in farming. It's essential that any plantation operation doesn't threaten these livelihoods, or increase pressure on Laos's remaining natural forests by displacing agriculture production.
All land in Laos is owned by the government. Individuals can own "land-use permits", but in many of the poorest rural areas these traditional rights are poorly documented.
Stora's model in Laos is to lease land for 30-50 years. To do so requires visiting local communities to discuss if land is available, and then negotiating with local government about whether this land is suitable. The rental money is shared by both national and regional government and the local communities.
To ensure transparency and fairness, Stora is working with a local Lao development organisation called Village Focus International (VFI) which works to protect, empower and educate rural communities, including ethnic groups. Our study tour group includes Justine from VFI and several local and regional government representatives.
Rather than simply making a one-off cash payment, the rental money for the local communities is paid into a village development fund in several instalments. The community decides how to spend this money. In Kenglouang the first village we visited, it had been spent on installing electricity. We also learnt from conversations with village leaders that almost no-one had employment outside the village, so they felt it was important that Stora employed local people wherever possible to clear the sites and plant the trees.
We've seen similar projects in Brazil, where companies like Fibria have worked with community and development specialists to create "shared value" projects to resolve a number of land-use conflicts. The success of this approach was demonstrated by a massive reduction in timber theft, once local people were given a stake in the plantations.
Several times on this study tour, we've seen that the operational or technical challenges of growing trees are very much secondary to the social challenges of engaging and working with local people. Get that wrong and the project will fail. But get it right, and plantations and people can grow together.
We've filmed some of our conversations in Laos, which will be available soon on the NGP YouTube channel.
Often this week, we've seen that the social and cultural challenges of dealing with people, whether in local communities, civil society or government, are far more significant than the silvicultural challenges of growing trees.
We always have a group feedback session on the last day of an NGP study tour. The groups reported back a number of recurring issues, and I'll be writing a summary report on their excellent suggestions next week.
For any forestry plantation project to succeed it requires a range of skills and abilities – not just the technical and management skills on the forestry side, but increasingly the communication and social skills to engage a wide range of stakeholders. Plantation forestry inevitably means change – change in landscape and a cultural change for local communities. How people react to that change depends greatly on how it's been communicated and whether they have had the opportunity to participate in planning and designing it.
Plantation companies also need to take on new roles and responsibilities, from installing electricity in villages, to guaranteeing local employment and repairing roads – or even clearing unexploded bombs. In many countries these roles and responsibilities are clearly defined and often delivered by government. But when the roles and responsibilities aren't clear and when expectations on the company are great, it can create risks on all sides. Should companies step in to deliver much needed infrastructure and development projects, or should they take a longer term approach and partner with development agencies and local government?
We've spent this trip asking questions and working together to begin to construct answers. That's a process that's essential in Laos, as growth and development bring new challenges and new questions. And it applies to all the big global challenges, from sustainable development to climate change.


Featuring an easy clean leather upper, the Eastland Kittery 1955 Boat Shoe features hidden center go..
The Seneca Camp Moc Chukka Boot from Eastland is a camp moc classic in a five-eye chukka for weekend..
Be the master of personal styling with the laid-back Fletcher 1955 oxford.Premium leather or suede u..
You have your wardrobe covered with this cool-weather staple from Eastland 1955 Edition®. Sleek lea..
The timeless appeal of the Seaquest boat shoe is sure to complement whatever casual ensemble you ha..
The Blanchard USA is a quintessential driver moc from Eastland® 1955 Edition.Premium leather upper w..
Get A Clearance Space Eastland 1955 Edition Pensacola Camel - Mens Loafers In Year.
The Pensacola penny loafer offers go-anywhere comfort and style. Full-grain leather uppers with moc..
Complement your do it all attitude with the perfect pair of shoes to keep up with your busy lifesty..
The Eastland 1955 Morris Oxford is a plain toe oxford selected from Eastland's design archives and c..
Both practical and stylish for all season long. Smooth leather upper. Side zipper closure for easy ..
This handcrafted, classic workman's boot from Eastland® gives off genuine American flair.Distressed,..
The Fletcher 1955 Moc Toe Oxford is handcrafted by skilled shoemakers using a traditional true mocca..
The timeless appeal of the Carnegie slip-on will perfectly complement your daily attire. Full-grain..


text:
American patriots »
American patriots: the story of Blacks in the military from the Revolution to Desert Storm
Buckley, Gail Lumet, 1937-
Random House Trade Paperbacks,
1st trade pbk. ed.
355 B924
[2002] 1st trade pbk. ed. Random House Trade Paperbacks, xxviii, 541 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm. English
A dramatic and moving tribute to the military's unsung heroes, American Patriots tells the story of the black servicemen and women who defended American ideals on the battlefield, even as they faced racism in the ranks and segregation on the home front. Through hundreds of original interviews with veterans of every war since World War I, historic accounts, and photographs, Gail Buckley brings these heroes and their struggles to life. We meet Henry O. Flipper, who withstood silent treatment from his classmates to become the first black graduate of West Point in 1877. And World War II infantry medic Bruce M. Wright, who crawled through a minefield to shield a fallen soldier during an attack. Finally, we meet a young soldier in Vietnam, Colin Powell, who rose through the ranks to become, during the Gulf War, the first black chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Fourteen years in the making, American Patriots is a landmark chronicle of the brave men and women whose courage and determination changed the course of American history.
From the Book - 1st trade pbk. ed.
Buffalo soldiers I
Buffalo soldiers II
The World war
The "New Negro" and the Spanish Civil War
Epilogue.
African American soldiers -- Biography
African American soldiers -- History
Armed Forces -- African Americans
History, Military
United States -- Armed Forces -- African Americans -- History
United States -- History, Military
United States -- Race relations
2d3fb8d7-288d-2928-a148-5f2629a5ab25
american patriots the story of blacks in the military from the revolution to desert storm
buckley gail lumet
Buckley, Gail Lumet
The story of the black servicemen and women who defended American ideals on the battlefield, even as they faced racism in the ranks and segregation on the home front.
ils:.b42434762 .i84700294 Pitkin County Library 355 B924 1 false false On Shelf pc
ils:.b42434762 Book Books 1st trade pbk. ed. English Random House Trade Paperbacks, [2002] xxviii, 541 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm.
American patriots : the story of Blacks in the military from the Revolution to Desert Storm
American patriots : the story of Blacks in the military from the Revolution to Desert Storm / Gail Buckley
the story of Blacks in the military from the Revolution to Desert Storm


This is probably the most popular post on Eduk8me. It shows how to highlight an entire row using conditional formatting.
A neat hack on adding a timer to a Google Slides slide.
Get started with using Google Photos to store and manage your classroom photos.


text:
Review Score Policy
PlayStation Vita Hands On Impressions
Sony was kind enough to let us have some time handling the new PlayStation Vita for a good 40 minutes. One of the games we got to play was Uncharted: Golden Abyss. I must say, if you haven't seen the device yet, you must do so now. The quality of the screen is to be seen to be believed.
As aforementioned, the first game that was shown to us was Uncharted: Golden Abyss. No matter how many times you look at videos from the game on Youtube or even high resolution screenshots online, they pale in comparison to actually viewing the game itself on an actual PSP Vita system. I know it's been said many times before but the PS Vita truly is like having a PS3 only in portable form. I would even go as far and say the titles I saw today on the PS Vita even trump some games seen on the PS3.
During the hands-on session, I brought along with me the original PSP that was first released back in 2004. In terms of the screen size the PS Vita's screen is 5 inches big compared the original's 4.3 inch screen. Even though it has a larger screen size, the PS Vita is actually much lighter than most other portable devices out on the market. It's obviously lighter than my fat old PSP console but it's also lighter than most cellphones. Considering the amount of power the system has, I was surprised that the PS Vita weighed like a feather.
Another great thing about the PS Vita is all the new features that the original PSP and even the PS3 don't have. One of the best features on the entire system is a second analogue stick. FPS games have never been playable on portable systems as the lack of a second stick made things too difficult. Thankfully, the PS Vita doesn't suffer from this flaw and playing the Vita exclusive Resistance: Burning Skies made life much easier for me.
The Vitahas two touch screens on the front and back of the system and two cameras as well. Not only could the cameras be used during gameplay but you can record videos and even take HD-quality photographs. This may not be anything new to the android phone market but it's sure better than the low resolution camera attachment for the original PSP. The PS Vita's cameras are built-in too so there's no need to pay extra for an attachment.
One thing I noticed the PS Vita does better than the original PSP is how seamless and intuitive the menu is. You can effortlessly quit one game and then load another game in a matter of seconds. Despite the graphics being the best I've ever seen on a handhold console, the loading times are super fast. I noticed the difference right away since I was playing Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep on UMD earlier and those load times are considerably slower.
Although it was a 40 minutes hands-on session with the PS Vita, Sony Computer Entertainment New Zealand boss, David Hine kindly explained to me other great tidbits about the PS Vita which makes it unique from other portable devices. The major plus for me is the fact he told me most first-party games for the PS Vita are all originally made titles. The likes of Uncharted, Resistance, Modnation Racers and LittleBigPlanet are all unique titles for the PS Vita and are not just straight ports from the PS3. If you don't plan on getting a PS Vita, you will be missing out on all-new original titles from many renowned PlayStation franchises.
Hine also explained to me the quality of the screen itself. Earlier this year, Sony showcased the PS Vita version of WipeOut and displayed it on a TV screen. The company then displayed WipeOut on the PS3 right next to it. As a result of this, many onlookers were confused as they couldn't tell the difference between the two. In other words, the PS Vita is able to generate PS3-like graphics even when it's displayed on a larger screen. In comparison, playing the PSP on a TV screen made the game look more pixilated and downright ugly…
If there was one thing I might criticize about the PS Vita, is the size of the face buttons. They are considerably smaller than those seen on the original PSP. Although the analogue sticks are much better to use thanks to the rubber-like material on them. The "start" and "select" buttons are so tiny that only your pinky would be able to touch them. I suspect Sony may have done this on purpose to encourage players to use the touchscreens instead…
From what I experienced playing on the PS Vita, it's a fancy looking machine and no other portable device can match it in terms of the quality of its screen. As I previously mentioned, screenshots and Youtube doesn't do any justice to the amazing visuals the PS Vita can produce. You must see the real thing in action in the palms of your own hands to truly witness the beauty of it. If you still have the original PSP, it may be a good idea to save up and upgrade for a PS Vita.
The PS Vita is released in both North America and Europe on February 22nd, 2012. It will be released a day later on February 23rd, 2012 in Australia and New Zealand.
PlayStation Vita Hands On Impressions, 8.1 out of 10 based on 18 ratings
Previous article Cave Story 3D Review
Next article No Game Archive And Flash Support For PlayStation Vita On Launch
Damian Antony Seeto
Game reviewer from New Zealand. Been writing since 2009 and have reviewed hundreds of different games over the years.
Aukey KM-G14 Tenkeyless Keyboard Review
Movo VSM-7 Review
Movo UM700 Review
EPOS GSX 300 Review
Aukey Basix Pro PB-WL03 Review
Nioh 2 1.23 Update Patch Released
Disgaea 6: Defiance of Destiny demo now live in Japan
Jan 20th 12:12 PM
The Medium latest trailer explains 'What does a Medium do?'
New FIFA 21 Update Patch Now Available For Consoles
Fallen Legion Revenants demo now live for PS4 and Switch
Xbox Game Pass adds The Yakuza Remastered Collection, The Medium, and more by the end of January
Kingdoms of Amalur: Re-Reckoning coming to Switch
Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown Gets Anniversary Update
Hitman 3 launch trailer released
Tennis World Tour 2 1.06 Patch Notes Arrive


text:
Total Loss: A Column About Inventorying Other People's Tragedies
Column 12:
In Steve's Truck Again
by Stef Willen
Steve steered the wheel of his pickup with his knee while reaching into a diminishing 12-pack of Bud Light and popping opening another. Even though he seemed quite committed to drunk-driving me someplace, I trusted Steve. The person I didn't trust was myself. I flew into his life to mitigate disaster, but even when that job was done, I wasn't. I lingered. I made small talk and touched my hair a little too much. And, in this way, it was really me who asked that he take me someplace in his pickup, not him.
My day started with pure intentions. I looked under Steve's bed, touched his cowboy boots, documented the remains of his underwear, then his girlfriend's underwear. At some point, Steve stepped through what would've been his bedroom wall and asked if I wanted to accompany him to the pasture. For the next half hour I watched Steve whistle and whoop at his border collie. I saw sheep run through the green grass, then stop and go a different direction for no reason other than to impress me. I snuck peeks at Steve's Civil War mustache, how his ropey veins swelled in his neck—which was certainly my father's age—and I thought that Steve was everything that I wanted in a man, except that I don't want a man. Still, at the end of the day, I got into his pickup and accepted his cans of beer.
Steve said we were going some place I'd like. The ride smelled of beer and border collie breath, wet rock and sweet grass. It snaked along a river and almost veered into it once. The sun was setting behind the Cascade Mountains, turning the snarled oak trunks gold then purple. By the time Steve slammed his truck into park and tossed the empties in the back, I'd already married him. We built an eco-friendly ranch house made from recycled materials, and I painted deer and cow skulls on our walls. Steve raised sheep. I made gourmet sheep's milk spreads and sold them at the local farmer's market. I was about to publish my own literary magazine, Corrugated Tin House, when Steve opened my door and said to get out and come meet his girlfriend.
Dale's Pub 'N Grub was a post-fishing kind of place with dusty beer selections and errant rooster figurines. In the moments before my eyes adjusted to the utter darkness of entering a bar before the sun has officially gone down, I walked in as Steve's wife, or maybe as his hot young thing. I felt it from Steve, too—some kind of pride in sauntering into his watering hole with arm candy, which was fine by me. This was all temporary.
As my pupils enlarged, I saw half a dozen figures slumped in barstools—one of them a woman who straightened as she saw me, then spread her hands across the bar, wiping clean an invisible mess.
"Linda, Stef. Stef, Linda," Steve hollered above Willie Nelson crooning about crying in the rain, then ordered a round for all of us. I walked over to a woman with permed hair and a cotton scrunchie on her wrist. She looked anxious, like she needed another beer so she could peel its label. I extended my hand and said, "Hi, we spoke on the phone before."
I was referring to our week-old conversation in which I had informed her that the clothing she had at Steve's would not be covered under his insurance. Still, I had inventoried her underwear earlier: "Hanes cotton panties with lace border, fourteen of them, Victoria's Secret satin thongs, five." Perhaps I'd done so out of some kind of premonition about my questionable role in Steve's life tonight. But now, as Steve walked towards us with beers and the smug smile of having everything he wanted despite having lost it all, I felt tugged into a kind of sisterhood with Linda. I had seen her stains. I knew she was still menstrual. I stank of her boyfriend's truck, his dog, of the fire that brought down the home she'd just moved into and had yet to mark with angels or dried flower bunches—whatever she was about. She knew nothing about me.
I thought about assuaging her fear by leaning over and whispering that I'm a homo. I decided not to for obvious reasons, and also because most of us know that women tend to slip and slide on that Kinsey scale—depending on circumstances and proximity to an emotional connection—and I had slid. No beer breathy assurance of how much time I've clocked on the Isle of Lesbos could make up for the fact that I was into Steve. Deeper analysis, like parsing whether I wanted a cowboy or just wanted to be a cowboy, was also not important at the moment. All that mattered was that Linda's stare was now boring a hole into me.
"Those are great earrings!" I lied.
"Thanks," she lied.
Steve sat down where the bar curved so he could look at us both and said, "Here's to new beginnings!" He was the only one who raised his bottle.
Two beers later, things got looser. Linda and I exchanged truer statements, like how we both loved horses and hated the bartender's tramp stamp. Five beers later, things got positively watery. Linda started falling into Steve for wet kisses that never landed in the intended spot. Steve began ending every point he made by slapping my thigh and leaving his hand there a little too long. There might have been some nachos. At some point, Linda began dancing toward people who weren't even dancing. The song was Sammy Kershaw's, and I knew it so I got up, grabbed her hand and swung her around. Like all drunken dances, it seemed to be music video quality: memorable, poignant, slowed-down.
"She don't know she's beautiful…" I sang along with the lyrics, while thinking that Linda was sort of beautiful, in a 1985-kind-of-way.
Linda swung me around and sang the next part, "though time and time I've told her so…"
I twirled her, and she let herself be twirled and slid.
The bar spun behind us, but I pictured a whir of green meadows and fiddle bows, people clapping and stamping their feet. Was I doing this for Steve or for me or for Linda? I decided it was a three-way tie, that we were all happy. It seemed that no one's house had burned down, that this moment was ablaze only with kismet. When the song ended I led Linda to Steve and waltzed into the bathroom where I maybe threw up a little.
I tried sobering up by looking into the mirror and making faces at myself. It seemed very important that I walk out of the bathroom with the right face. I fluffed my damp hair until I felt professional enough to be someone Steve hired, and then I swung some of my bangs over my left eye so I felt sexy. Then I scrunched my face and shook my head hoping whichever way my hair fell would be the real me and walked out without looking.
Time passed, I'm not sure how much of it, and then I was in Steve's truck again. It seemed he was taking me someplace that involved going in concentric circles. The truck made one hard left turn after another, the rear tires thudding across the washboard. I began to feel sick but covered it up by sticking my head out the window and pretending I was feeling free.
When the thudding stopped, we were in a driveway of a big house. Next, we were on a wood deck under a gazebo, and I was shaking hands with half a dozen people twice my age while being introduced as "the nice young woman helping me with my claim." I began to worry we'd left Linda at the Pub 'N Grub. I pictured her crying alone on a stool, her permed hair stuck to her wet cheeks, her cotton scrunchie in a puddle of beer. Then she appeared, smiling and holding a pitcher of margaritas. This seemed impossible, a miracle. Linda had superpowers, or I was missing some information.
Linda introduced me to the man who seemed to own the place, and that man asked me questions about homeowner's insurance that I couldn't really answer but somehow did. Pretty soon, all conversation became white noise punctuated with fragments of sentences, some of which I responded to, even making people laugh. And this is my superpower. In the way that some people jerk awake from a coma and tell you who's president, I can emerge from alcohol-induced unconsciousness with keen observations, then slip back into to a wakeful slumber. I'm the only one who knows when Captain Sloshed has capsized. At least, that's what I tell myself.
At some point, it was declared that it was time for us to go home. "Home" now had a tri-fold meaning. It was where my car was parked, where Steve and Linda's temporary RV was rigged, and where, quite possibly, the "slide-out" button on the RV would be pushed and a bed would come into view, beckoning an awkward three-way between a middle-aged couple and a young woman (who was technically still on the job). As we made our tipsy way down the driveway, an unexpected gust of sobriety hit me, and I offered to ride with Linda. I figured I was assuring her that I was not a threat. For reasons I don't remember, and possibly because of muffled conversations to which I was not privy, I found myself in Steve's pickup again.
I laid my head against the side of the truck door and fell into a fuzzy blackness. Steve talked, but his points were unintelligible. I finally came to in the middle of a conversation Steve and I were having. Apparently, it was about rape.
"Don't you think rape is the worst crime a man can commit?" Steve asked.
This required my full attention. "Yes, totally," I said, although I'd read about people being skinned alive and thought that was far worse. Why was Steve talking about rape while driving me down a rural country road? Was he trying to say he was safe, or was this a sick, clichéd prelude to my new home in a pine-needlely grave?
"But really, think about the worst possible thing you could do to another human being," I said, hoping that by being the first to confront the cruel nature of humanity I could prevent it.
"Okay…" he said, taking his hand, which I noticed was perfectly veined and calloused, and rubbing it on the back of his neck.
"Are you thinking of the worst possible thing?" I asked while picturing the worst possible thing.
"Yes." Steve said after some silence.
"Well," I said, "It's been done. Every horrific thing you can think of doing to someone else has already been done."
Without warning, Steve slammed on the brakes, and my mind thought of door handles and directions to run. Steve looked into the rearview mirror.
"God damnit, Linda! She keeps pulling over. Why can't she follow us?"
I turned around and saw her parked car and dim headlights hundreds of yards back. I knew why Linda kept pulling over. She was putting the brakes on things the only way she could. Steve threw the gear into park, got out without shutting his door and jogged in the dark toward his girlfriend.
Steve was doing what he should do. I decided to do what I should do: sit there in the dark, wondering about what it was that I really wanted, and then tell Steve to take me back to my car so I could sleep it off.
Dan McCandly, World-Famous Action Explorer and Husband of Linda McCandly, Who Is Also a World-Famous Action Explorer, Goes to Marriage Counseling
Balls Out: A Column On Being Transgendered: Column 12:
My Summer Before Last
Family Practice: An Occasional Column by "Dr." Amy Fusselman: End-of-Year Teacher Giftology: The Complete Guide
by Amy Fusselman
No Fear of Flying: Kamikaze Missions in Death, Sex, and Comedy: Statistically Significant
by Michelle Mirsky
Open Letter to the Friend I Was Probably in Love with in High School Before I Realized I Was Gay
by Phoebe Solomon
The Chorus Boy Chronicles: Love, Implied
by Brian Spitulnik
"Novels this tightly rendered and sharp are hardly ever so human, hardly ever this warm. Bill Cotter's outdone himself." —Adam Levin, author of The Instructions


This article presents the method to convert between pressure and head for several common unit sets. Head relates the pressure of a fluid to the height of a column of that fluid which would produce an equivalent static pressure at its base. It is particularly useful for the specification of pumps as it provides a measure of pressure as it is independent of fluid density.


text:
Home > Fitness Workouts > Meet The First South African Woman To Cross The Finish Line At The World Masters Mountain Running Championships
Meet The First South African Woman To Cross The Finish Line At The World Masters Mountain Running Championships
Nicolette Griffioen — the first SA woman to cross the finish at the World Masters Mountain Running Championships (um… whoa!) — is a lover of nature, so it's no wonder her nickname is "Nature's child." And you're most likely to bump into her running on a mountain…
From World Masters Mountain Running Championships to…
Nicolette recently ran the Sky Run and made second place, as the first female to cross the finish line. Next up, she'll be taking on the Ultra-Trail Cape Town 100km race on 30 November. In 2014 she won the UTCT 100km, and continued her winning streak through 2015 with numerous victories, including the Ultra-Trail Mount Moodie (87km), achieving both the SA long-distance champion 2015 and SA ultra-trail champion 2015 titles respectively.
Nicolette speaks to Women's Health about the ins and outs of what it takes to be a trail running champion.
SALE ALERT: Salomon Wings Pro 2, was R2 699, now R1 999
R 1 999
Training fundamentals
A typical training day for Nicolette usually involves some form of morning movement. "It depends on the schedule of my day, but a short session of running or swimming is how I train to mentally prepare me for the day ahead," she says. Swimming is a great complement to Nicolette's running, because it's zero-impact. "Swimming strengthens my cardiovascular system and forces me to be aware and in control of my respiratory rate and depth," she says.
Nicolette's afternoon session is a training run, between 12 and 20km, with hill repeats or some speed work. "Generally, though, I prefer simple, long miles at an easy pace," she says.
READ MORE: 3 Rookie Errors That I Still Make As A Trail Runner
Pre and post meal prep…
Nicolette doesn't follow a specific eating plan, but she is mindful of feeding her body a high-quality diet. "I'm an advocate for eating only ethically sourced meat, but this can make it challenging to consume sufficient protein to satisfy the nutritional demands of long-distance running. I enjoy fish from family fishing trips and supplement with chicken when necessary, but avoid all commercial red meat and pork," she says.
Nicolette aims for a large part of her daily energy to come from natural, raw and whole foods such as nuts, fruit and vegetables. "My weak points (which I succumb to on a daily basis) are chocolate and cheese! Cheese is at least extra protein and dark chocolate isn't too bad either. I don't change my diet at all before an event," she shares.
READ MORE: The Best Trails For Beginner Trail Runners, According To A Pro
Make the most of your trail running experience with these tips…
Train on the trail. Don't wait until race day to experience the underfoot variability of trail running.
Invest in a good pair of trail running shoes. Yes, shoes are expensive, but an unsuitable pair can negatively and unnecessarily influence your perception of trail running.
Be mentally prepared. Trail running compared to road running is slower. Prepare to be slower and out running for longer than on any road run you've ever completed.
Consider swimming or cycling as a form of cross-training. Swimming and running strengthens the multiple muscle groups that trail running engages.
Take time to enjoy the peace, quiet and amazing natural environments. Nature is beautiful. You will feel even more fulfilled than after "just running".
READ MORE: "I Did My First Trail Run — Here's What Went Down On The Day
Behind the motivation
What keeps Nicolette motivated is that she is able to improve her craft. "I love trail running, [so] it's not that difficult to put in the effort. I do, of course, have days when I don't feel like training, but I'm able to find a small motivator to get me going," she says. Nicolette uses the simple things to inspire her to get out, such as planning a new route, and running spontaneously. "Everyone is different — work with your personal reward system to motivate yourself on tough days," she says.
Greatest trail moment
Nicolette's greatest trail running moment was winning and setting a new female record on the beautiful Sky Run 100km course in 2016. "It was my first time running the race, I had zero expectations, I ran with my heart and enjoyed every step, and in the end I was fortunate to have the perfect day."
Women's Health participates in various affiliate marketing programmes, which means we may get commissions on editorially chosen products purchased through our links to retailer sites.
Tags #fitness #Real Women #SA Women In Sport #Trail Running
"Getting To Grips With My Emotional Eating Habit Helped Me Lose 28 Kgs — And Now I'm A Personal Trainer"
"How I Told My Partner I Cheated On Him"
12 Arm Stretches Trainers Swear By To Increase Upper-Body Flexibility
This Is The Device You Need To Ace All Your 2020 Fitness Goals
This Workout Specifically Targets — And Tightens Up — Your Love Handles
The 10 Exercises You Need For Strong, Toned Arms


JUNO Award-winning composer Vivian Fung has a unique talent for combining idiosyncratic textures and styles into large-scale works, reflecting her multicultural background. NPR calls her "[o]ne of today's most eclectic composers." This is supported by many of her latest works, including Humanoid for solo cello and prerecorded electronics; Clarinet Quintet: Frenetic Memories, a reflection on her travels to visit minority groups in China's Yunnan province; Earworms, commissioned by Canada's National Arts Centre Orchestra, which musically depicts our diverted attention spans and multi-tasking lives; and The Ice Is Talking for solo percussion and electronics, commissioned by the Banff Centre, using three ice blocks to illustrate the beauty and fragility of our environment.
Highlights of Fung's 2018–2019 season include a new orchestral work commissioned by the Winnipeg New Music Festival; a new work for two solo violins and strings for the Manitoba Chamber Orchestra, to be premiered in Winnipeg and then taken on MCO's tour of the Maritime provinces; and a new string quartet for the American String Quartet, commissioned by the Red Bank Chamber Music Society.
Fung has a deep interest in exploring cultures through travel and research. She traveled to Southwest China in 2012 to study minority music and cultures, continuing research that previously inspired Yunnan Folk Songs (2011), commissioned by Fulcrum Point New Music in Chicago with support from the MAP Fund. As a composer whose trips often inspire her music, Fung also has explored diverse cultures in North Vietnam, Spain, and Indonesia. She toured Bali in 2004, 2008, and 2010, and competed in the Bali Arts Festival as an ensemble member and composer in Gamelan Dharma Swara. She is planning a trip to Cambodia in 2019 to do research for a new opera.
Fung has received numerous awards and grants, including the 2015 Jan V. Matejcek New Classical Music Award for achievement in new music from the Society of Composers, Authors, and Music Publishers of Canada (SOCAN), a Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, the New York Foundation for the Arts' Gregory Millard Fellowship, and grants from ASCAP, BMI, American Music Center, MAP Fund, American Symphony Orchestra League, American Composers Forum, and the Canada Council for the Arts. She is an associate composer of the Canadian Music Centre and currently serves as Vice Chair of the board of the American Composers Forum.
Many distinguished artists and ensembles around the world have embraced Fung's music as part of their core repertoire, including the Alabama Symphony, American Opera Projects, Chicago Sinfonietta, Milwaukee Symphony, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, San José Chamber Orchestra, Shanghai Quartet, Staatskapelle Karlsruhe, Suwon Chorale of South Korea, and Ying Quartet, to name a few. Fung's Glimpses for prepared piano has been championed by a diverse group of pianists, including Conor Hanick, Jenny Lin, Margaret Leng Tan, and Bryan Wagorn. Conductors with whom she has collaborated include Long Yu, Justin Brown, Mei-Ann Chen, Andrew Cyr, Rei Hotoda, Barbara Day Turner, Alexander Mickelthwate, Peter Oundjian, Edwin Outwater, Steven Schick, Gerard Schwarz, and Bramwell Tovey.
In 2012, Naxos Canadian Classics released a recording of Fung's Violin Concerto [No.1], Piano Concerto "Dreamscapes," and Glimpses. The Violin Concerto earned Fung the 2013 JUNO Award for "Classical Composition of the Year." Several of Fung's other works have also been released commercially on the Telarc, Çedille, Innova, and Signpost labels.
Born in Edmonton, Canada, Fung began her composition studies with composer Violet Archer and received her doctorate from The Juilliard School in New York, where her mentors included David Diamond and Robert Beaser. She currently lives in California with her husband Charles Boudreau, their son Julian, and their shiba inu Mulan, and is on the faculty of Santa Clara University. For more information, please visit www.vivianfung.net.


text:
Home Sun & Moon Planets Visible in the Night Sky in Tórshavn, Faroe Islands Tórshavn
Planets Visible in the Night Sky in Tórshavn, Faroe Islands
Weather Today/Tomorrow
Yesterday/Past Weather
Climate (Averages)
Sun & Moon Today
Sun & Moon Today Sunrise & Sunset Moonrise & Moonset Moon Phases Eclipses Night Sky
17 hours, 42 minutes
Sat, Jan 16 at 3:45 pm - Sun, Jan 17 at 9:27 am
Visible night of Jan 16 – Jan 17, 2021
Until Sat 5:19 pm
From Sun 8:50 am
Until Sun 2:48 am
Select object
* Event happens next day
Loading stars...
Follow selected object
Object's daily path
Compass directions
Elevated horizon
Beta The Interactive Night Sky Map simulates the sky above Tórshavn on a date of your choice. Use it to locate a planet, the Moon, or the Sun and track their movements across the sky. The map also shows the phases of the Moon, and all solar and lunar eclipses. Need some help?
The animation is not supported by your device/browser.
Please use another device/browser or check out the desktop version of the Interactive Night Sky Map.
Tonight's Sky in Tórshavn, Jan 16 – Jan 17, 2021 (7 planets visible)
Mercury rise and set in Tórshavn
Fairly close to the Sun. Visible around sunset only.
Mercury is just 16 degrees from the Sun in the sky, so it is difficult to see.
Sat, Jan 16 ↓5:19 pm
Altitude: °
Direction: °
Venus rise and set in Tórshavn
Try before sunrise.
Venus rises shortly before sunrise, so it is very close to the horizon. This makes it very difficult to observe. Venus is visible by day, but may be hard to find.
Sun, Jan 17 ↑8:50 am
Mars rise and set in Tórshavn
View after sunset.
Mars can be seen for more than 11 hours after sunset and during the late evening/early night.
Sun, Jan 17 ↓2:48 am
Jupiter rise and set in Tórshavn
Jupiter is just 10 degrees from the Sun in the sky, so it is difficult to see.
Saturn rise and set in Tórshavn
Very close to Sun, hard or impossible to see.
Saturn is just 7 degrees from the Sun in the sky, so it is difficult or impossible to see it.
Uranus rise and set in Tórshavn
View after sunset. Bring binoculars.
Uranus can be seen for more than 11 hours after sunset and during the late evening/early night. You may need binoculars.
Neptune rise and set in Tórshavn
View after sunset. Use binoculars.
Neptune can best be seen in the hours just after sunset. Visibility improves as the sunlight fades. Very faint, use binoculars.
Planets Visible in Tórshavn
Day: 12345678910111213141516171819202122232425262728293031 Month: JanuaryFebruaryMarchAprilMayJuneJulyAugustSeptemberOctoberNovemberDecember Year: 201120122013201420152016201720182019202020212022202320242025202620272028202920302031
Planetrise/Planetset, Sun, Jan 17, 2021
Sat 10:13 am Sat 5:19 pm Sat 1:45 pm Slightly difficult to see
Sun 8:50 am Sun 2:03 pm Sun 11:26 am Slightly difficult to see
Sat 10:51 am Sun 2:48 am Sat 6:49 pm Perfect visibility
Sat 9:55 am Sat 4:40 pm Sat 1:17 pm Slightly difficult to see
Sat 9:49 am Sat 4:21 pm Sat 1:05 pm Extremely difficult to see
Sat 11:09 am Sun 2:49 am Sat 6:59 pm Average visibility
Sat 10:39 am Sat 9:25 pm Sat 4:02 pm Very difficult to see
Planet Sizes and Order
How large are the planets and what is their order from the Sun?
Distance, Brightness, and Apparent Size of Planets
See how far the planets are from the Sun or Earth, how bright they look, and their apparent size in the sky.
Moon Phase Chart
Moon phases visualized in real time, the past, or the future.
Dates and tips on how and where to see "shooting stars" from meteor showers all over the world.


text:
Q: Dimension of central simple algebra over a global field "built using class field theory". If $F$ is a global field then a standard exact sequence relating the Brauer groups of $F$ and its completions is the following:
$$0\to Br(F)\to\oplus_v Br(F_v)\to\mathbf{Q}/\mathbf{Z}\to 0.$$
The last non-trivial map here is "sum", with each local $Br(F_v)$ canonically injecting into $\mathbf{Q}/\mathbf{Z}$ by local class field theory.
In particular I can build a class of $Br(F)$ by writing down a finite number of elements $c_v\in Br(F_v)\subseteq \mathbf{Q}/\mathbf{Z}$, one for each element of a finite set $S$ of places of $v$, rigging it so that the sum $\sum_vc_v$ is zero in $\mathbf{Q}/\mathbf{Z}$.
This element of the global Brauer group gives rise to an equivalence class of central simple algebras over $F$, and if my understanding is correct this equivalence class will contain precisely one division algebra $D$ (and all the other elements of the equiv class will be $M_n(D)$ for $n=1,2,3,\ldots$).
My naive question: is the dimension of $D$ equal to $m^2$, with $m$ the lcm of the denominators of the $c_v$? I just realised that I've always assumed that this was the case, and I'd also always assumed in the local case that the dimension of the division algebra $D_v$ associated to $c_v$ was the square of the denominator of $c_v$. But it's only now, in writing notes on this stuff, that I realise I have no reference for it. Is it true??

A: Isn't this the period-index problem in the Brauer group of a number field?  In which case the answer is yes, it's true -- see e.g. Fact 4(c) on page 4 of these notes by Pete Clark (as well as Example 1.1.2 and the definition following it, both on the same page):
http://alpha.math.uga.edu/~pete/periodindexnotes.pdf

A: I think you mean "lcm of the denom. of the $c_v$" rather than "gcd".
Colliot-Thélène, in

*

*Algèbres simples centrales sur les corps de fonctions de deux variables, Séminaire Bourbaki : volume 2004/2005, exposés 938-951, Astérisque, no. 307 (2006), Exposé no. 949, pp. 379-413. (EuDML),

attributes the result that "exponent = index" in the Brauer group of a global (and local) field to Brauer-Hasse-Noether and Albert and gives  references to:

*

*R. BRAUER, H. HASSE et E. NOETHER, Beweis eines Hauptsatzes in der Theorie der Algebren, J. reine angew. Math. (Crelle) 167 (1932) 399–404. (EuDML)

*M. DEURING, Algebren, Zweite, korrigierte Auflage. Ergebnisse der Mathematik und ihrer Grenzgebiete 41, Springer-Verlag, Berlin-New York 1968. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-85533-7
and

*

*P. ROQUETTE,  The Brauer-Hasse-Noether theorem in historical perspective. Schriften der Math.-Phys. Klasse der Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften 15 (2004) doi:10.1007/b138384 (author pdf)

The result seems to be proved in Reiner's book (Theorem (32.19):

*

*I. REINER, Maximal orders, Corrected reprint of the 1975 original. With a foreword by M. J. Taylor. London Mathematical Society Monographs. New Series 28, The Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2003. (publisher page)

A: The fact that the Schur index of an element of the Brauer group of
a number field equals its order in the Brauer group (and also
is a cyclic algebra) is Theorem 18.6 in Richard Pierce's
Associative Algebras (GTM88 Springer-Verlag 1982). The proof
uses the Grunwald-Wang theorem.

A: To paraphrase Igor Pak: OK, this I know.  It is remarkable how difficult it is to track down a reference which gives an actual proof for this fact (moreover applicable to all global fields).  The notes of Pete Clark don't give a proof or a reference for a proof, and its omission in Cassels-Frohlich is an uncorrected error. :)
But here is a reference: Theorem 3.6 in the notes on Honda-Tate theory on Kirsten Eisentraeger's webpage.  The assertion is even stronger:  one can find a cyclic splitting field of the expected minimal degree.  A moment's reflection leads one to realize what is actually going on:  in the non-archimedean local theory we know that one can always arrange the splitting field to be the unramified one of the expected minimal degree (already in Serre's Local Fields, and part of the story of the "local invariant"), so in particular it is cyclic in that case.  Taking into account the real case, and using the exactness at the left of the global-to-local sequence for Brauer groups, the global problem reduces to making a global cyclic extension inducing specified local ones at finitely many places and having a predicted degree which is lcm of local degrees (in the local theory the degree is actually all that really matters, not the unramifiedness).
Enter Grunwald-Wang... and since all that matters locally is the degree, if we don't care about global cyclicity but just global degree and some local degrees then weak approximation & Krasner's Lemma suffice to do the job (so for the question as asked, in which there's no cyclicity, the global problem is actually very elementary once the local case is settled!).  Note that in Cassels-Frohlich the global cyclic splitting field is addressed, but not its degree  (since Grunwald-Wang is not addressed in Cassels-Frohlich).
Historically the existence of a global cyclic splitting field, moreover of the expected degree, was regarded as one of the real triumphs of global class field theory, and the early attempts at class field theory by the German school were intimately tied up with this problem of the cyclic splitting field.  This is why it was such a shock to Artin when Wang discovered that Grunwald's proof of local-to-global for cyclic extensions was not true (but fortunately Wang's fix was sufficient); see Roquette's historical notes on CFT.
Finally, to put this in perspective, it should be noted (as remarked in Eisentraeger's notes) that there are examples of complex function fields in transcendence degree 3 admitting nontrivial 2-torsion Brauer classes not represented by a quaternion division algebra! (The appearance of trdeg 3 is reasonable, as the period-index problem for surfaces over an algebraically closed field was proved by deJong.)

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaStackExchange


text:
Q: Criação de Menu em programa em C Boa tarde, estou fazendo um trabalho da faculdade q tem 7 questões... Ele esta quase pronto, so falta ajeitar alguns deles... Eu gostaria de colocar todos os exercicios em um só programa, colocando um menu deles dividindo as tarefas...
Segue o codigo
#include <math.h>
#define PI 3.14159265

/* 1. Faça um programa utilizando o arduino que
leia um lado e calcule a área do quadrado */
void ex1() {
int a,area;
Serial.begin(9600); //Enviar e receber dados em 9600 bits/seg
Serial.println("programa para calcular a area de um quadrado");
Serial.print("Digite o valor da lado de um quadrado para saber sua area:");
while (Serial.available() == 0);
a = Serial.parseInt();
Serial.println(a);
area = a * a;
Serial.print("A area do quadrado é: ", area);
Serial.println("Fim do programa!!");
}
{ }

/* 2. Leia a base e a altura, calcule e imprima a área do triângulo*/
void ex2() {
int b, h, area;
Serial.begin(9600); //Enviar e receber dados em 9600 bits/seg
Serial.println("programa para calcular a area de um triangulo e imprimir a resposta");
Serial.print("Digite o valor da base: ");
while (Serial.available() == 0);
b = Serial.parseInt();
Serial.println(b);
Serial.print("Digite o valor da altura: ");
while (Serial.available() == 0);
h = Serial.parseInt();
Serial.println(h);
area=(b*h)/2;
Serial.print("A area do triangulo e: ");
Serial.print(area);
Serial.println(" Fim do programa!!");
}
{ }

/* 3. Avalie a expressão y = 4x+5 para x fornecido pelo usuário*/
void ex3() {
int x, calculo;
Serial.begin(9600); //Enviar e receber dados em 9600 bits/seg
Serial.println("Programa para avaliar a expressao y = 4x+5 e imprimir a resposta");
Serial.print("Digite o valor de x: ");
while (Serial.available() == 0);
x = Serial.parseInt();
Serial.println(x);
calculo= (4*x)+5;
Serial.print("O resultado da expressao e y= ");
Serial.print(calculo);
Serial.println(" Fim do programa!!");
}
void loop()
{ }

/* 4. Leia três números e imprima a soma */
void ex4() {
int x, y, z, soma;
Serial.begin(9600); //Enviar e receber dados em 9600 bits/seg
Serial.println("Programa para ler 3 numeros e imprimir a soma deles");
Serial.print("Digite o valor do primeiro numero: ");
while (Serial.available() == 0);
x = Serial.parseInt();
Serial.println(x);
Serial.print("Digite o valor do segundo numero: ");
while (Serial.available() == 0);
y = Serial.parseInt();
Serial.println(y);
Serial.print("Digite o valor do terceiro numero: ");
while (Serial.available() == 0);
z = Serial.parseInt();
Serial.println(z);
soma= x+y+z;
Serial.print("O resultado da soma dos 3 numeros e = ");
Serial.print(soma);
Serial.println(" Fim do programa!!");
}
{ }

/* 5. Leia três números e imprima a média */
void ex5() {
int x, y, z, media;
Serial.begin(9600); //Enviar e receber dados em 9600 bits/seg
Serial.println("Programa para ler 3 numeros calcular a media e imprimir a resposta");
Serial.print("Digite o valor do primeiro numero: ");
while (Serial.available() == 0);
x = Serial.parseInt();
Serial.println(x);
Serial.print("Digite o valor do segundo numero: ");
while (Serial.available() == 0);
y = Serial.parseInt();
Serial.println(y);
Serial.print("Digite o valor do terceiro numero: ");
while (Serial.available() == 0);
z = Serial.parseInt();
Serial.println(z);
media= (x+y+z)/3;
Serial.print("O resultado da media dos 3 numeros e = ");
Serial.print(media);
Serial.println(" Fim do programa!!");
}
{ }

/* 6. Ler um valor inteiro e imprimir:
a. o seu sucessor;
b. o seu quadrado; (Veja o comando sq em arduino.cc)
c. o seu cubo; (Veja o comando pow em arduino.cc)
d. a sua raiz quadrada; (Veja o comando sqrt em arduino.cc)
e. confira a raiz quadrada encontrada imprimindo o seu quadrado;
f. Imprima o resto deste número por 2 (operador %).*/
void ex6() {
int x, y;
Serial.begin(9600); //Enviar e receber dados em 9600 bits/seg
Serial.println("Programa para ler um numero inteiro e imprimir as respostas**");

Serial.print("Digite um valor: ");
  while (Serial.available() == 0);
  x = Serial.parseInt();
  Serial.println(x);
  y = x + 1;
  Serial.print("y) Seu sucessor: ");
  Serial.println(y);
  y = sq(x);
  Serial.print("y) Seu quadrado: ");
  Serial.println(y);
  y = pow(x, 3);
  Serial.print("c) Seu cubo: ");
  Serial.println(y);
  y = sqrt(x);
  Serial.print("d) Sua raiz quadrada: ");
  Serial.println(y);
  y = sq(sqrt(x));
  Serial.print("e) Conferindo a raiz quadrada: ");
  Serial.println(y);
  y = x%2;
  Serial.print("f) Resto da divisao por 2: ");
  Serial.println(y);
}
{ }

/* 7. Você pode trabalhar com seno, cosseno e tangente, utilizando as funções sin(x),cos(x), tan(x), onde x
esta em radianos. Escreva um programa que peça ao usuário um valor em graus e imprima o seno,
cosseno e tangente correspondente.*/
void ex7() {
float angulo, sen, coss, tg;
Serial.begin(9600); //Enviar e receber dados em 9600 bits/seg
Serial.println("Programa para ler um valor em graus e imprimir o sex, cosseno e tangente deste.");

Serial.print("Digite um valor em graus: ");
  while (Serial.available() == 0);
  angulo = Serial.parseInt();
  Serial.println(angulo);
  sen = sin(angulo*PI/180);
  coss = cos(angulo*PI/180);
  tg = tan(angulo*PI/180);
  printf("\nO seno de %f = %f\n", angulo, sen);
  printf("\nO cosseno de %f = %f\n", angulo, coss);
  printf("\nO tangente de %f = %f\n", angulo, tg);
}
{ }

A: Pode ultilizar um do while e switch para chamar cada programa que você criou
// Coloque o seu código aqui

// Menu
int main(){
    int continuar=1;
    do{
        printf("\n\tMenu\n\n");
        printf("1. Ex1\n");
        printf("2. Ex2\n");
        printf("3. Ex3\n");
        printf("0. Ex4\n");
        //Assim vai

        scanf("%d", &continuar);
        system("cls || clear");

        switch(continuar){
            case 1:
            ex1;
            break;

        case 2:
            ex2;
            break;

        case 3:
            ex3;
            break;
        //Assim vai

        case 0:
            sair();
            break;
        // default caso o usuário digite uma opção que não foi programada
        default:
            printf("Digite uma opcao valida\n");
        }
    } while(continuar);
}


Bring classroom learning to life for your students with an Interdisciplinary Trail around River Safari! Choose from pen-and-paper or digital options.
Join our volunteer family and make a difference today! Contact us or browse our volunteer programmes online to find out which is best suited for you.
At WRS parks, we offer a variety of programmes catered to different learning levels and objectives. Choose a learning journey that best suits your needs below!
Explore a section of the park with our Education staff, who will share interesting facts and anecdotes about our animals.
Bring classroom learning to life for your students with an Interdisciplinary Trail around River Safari. Choose from pen-and-paper or digital options.
Choose one of our indoor talks (age 7 and above) or preschool lessons for an exploration of various wildlife topics.
Learn about freshwater ecosystems through hands-on activities which encourage participation, experiential learning, teamwork and sharing among students.
Ever wondered how our aquarists care for the inhabitants of the largest tank in River Safari? Go behind-the-scenes to find out more and get up close with our animal friends!
Kooky Ranger Splash brings River Safari to your school through lively, dramatized programmes. Book an assembly or classroom talk now.
Hold your school retreats at River Safari and recharge among nature, or learn how to conduct fun and engaging Learning Journeys at our parks at our teacher workshops.


An editor's resume that shows gaps in employment history is likely to be a cause of disinterest for the recruiters; however, putting forth your interests and goals clearly will certainly supersede the discrepancies. Recruiters generally look for your compatibility with respect to the duration of your stay within the organization. Gaps between employment in the past can become a good reason for the recruiters to judge you as an incompetent candidate. It is therefore essential that you organize your thoughts carefully and pick only those points that are the most significant and relevant to the employer's needs, to be included in your resume.
An effectively written career objective ensures the reader's involvement in your application. A resume bearing a lame objective is likely to be ignored. You need to place before the readers your career aspirations in such a manner that it succeeds in gaining their confidence. Remember that it must provide a clear outline of your intentions. It acts as an official title to your resume. So, make it as appealing as possible, but do take care that you don't make it superfluous.
Seeking the position of an Editor in your organization to deliver outstanding performance through optimal utilization of communication skills, aimed at improving the quality and productivity of the team, subsequently contributing to the advancement of the organization, including me as an active part of it.
Closely observe the layout of the editor resume sample shown above and grasp the essence of its contents. Customize the contents to give it a personal appeal while drafting your resume. Along with this resume, you are required to include an efficiently written cover letter which explains the reason for your employment gaps. Remember that the recruiter will judge you based on what you write in your application. Avoid including random facts and figures if you wish to avoid undesirable consequences. Your cover letter should not summarize your resume, rather it must act as an official introduction to your application. Browse through the website to find a free sample of a cover letter for your application.


The adidas Hair Band in a stylish shade is the ideal hair band for Yogis and fitness enthusiasts who need to keep their hair pulled back during all types of physical activity.
The hairband is non-slip, fitting comfortably and securely in place at all times, so you won't need to keep readjusting during your practice or training. Plus it effectively absorbs sweat and wicks moisture to keep you cool.


text:
Pilots Win Second-Straight Over DiamondDawgs
The Newark Pilots (17-12) defeated the Mohawk Valley DiamondDawgs (8-20) by a final score of 10-7 in front of a crowd of over 1,700 fans at Colburn Park on Assemblyman Bob Oaks Night.
The win gives the Pilots the sweep of their home-and-home series against the DiamondDawgs, which began on Wednesday with a 7-2 win in Mohawk Valley.
Newark had jumped out to a 7-0 lead after the fifth inning. In the home half of the second, Willie Gabay (Herkimer County C.C.) loaded the bases after walking Greg Schworm (Finger Lakes C.C.). The Pilots took a two-run lead following Matt Vera's (San Joaquin Delta) RBI walk in the next at bat.
Ray Delvalle's (Kentucky Wesleyan) single to center field in the fourth scored two more runs, cushioning the Pilots lead. An error by the DiamondDawgs in the fifth allowed Chase Brown (UT Dallas) to score, giving Newark a 7-0 lead.
Mohawk Valley trimmed four runs off of the Pilots' lead in the top of the sixth. After loading the bases themselves, the DiamondDawgs received a three-run double from Michael Gunn (Christian Brothers H.S.) and cut the deficit to 7-4.
In the seventh, Brown crushed a ball to the wall in straightaway centerfield, and rounded third as the ball was hurled to catcher Bryan Bleakley (NJIT). The two collided and the ball was knocked free from the catcher's glove allowing Brown to score a rare inside-the-park homerun. The two-run homer extended the Newark lead to 9-5.
Hassan Evans (Herkimer County C.C.) hit a RBI triple followed by a RBI double from D.J. Hoagboon (Albany) and the DiamondDawgs trailed 10-7 in the eighth. Mark Scott (San Joaquin Delta) then took the mound for the four-out save, his sixth save of the season.
Dominick Ruscitti (Kutztown) pitched seven innings while improving to 4-0. Randy Villa (San Joaquin Delta) finished the game 4-for-5 and Brown recorded two hits, two runs and two RBI for the Pilots.
Gabay surrendered seven runs in five innings pitched and struck out a game-high six batters in the loss. Hoagboon was 3-for-4 and Gunn drove in three runs to lead Mohawk Valley.
The Newark Pilots, who lead the Perfect Game Collegiate Baseball League West Division, host the Glens Falls Golden Eagles both Friday and Saturday at 7:05 p.m. At the same time, the Mohawk Valley DiamondDawgs return home for their two-game series against the Elmira Pioneers.


Jaiden observed: "oh the water's coming from the sky". I'm almost surprised she didn't ask what rain is .. after all, it's been about 2 1/2 months since we've seen any precipitation here at Fort Hood. Add to that our streak of 100 degree days, and it's been a pretty miserable summer.
I'm not sure people were quite to the point of dancing in the streets. But I do know of at least a couple of my workmates who live out in Copperas Cove, that were very happy campers this afternoon.
I've still got a couple of weeks until I move into my new house. But with fresh sod going down, come about September 1st, I hope that the scene above becomes a very familiar site on my horizon.


text:
Three Canberra suburbs joined the $1m house price club in the September quarter
The latest Domain House Price Report for the September quarter showed that the suburbs of Narrabundah, Ainslie and O'Connor all had their median prices creep above the $1 million mark.
Jessica TaulagatwitterEditorial Producer Nov 13, 2020
Three Canberra suburbs have joined the million-dollar club after their median house prices rose to seven figures in the 12 months to September, new data shows.
The latest Domain House Price Report for the September quarter showed that the suburbs of Narrabundah in the Inner South, and Ainslie and O'Connor, both in the Inner North, all had their median prices creep above the $1 million mark.
This brings the total number of suburbs in Canberra with a median house price of more than $1 million to seven including Campbell in the Inner North, and Griffith, Deakin and Yarralumla in the Inner South.
Narrabundah had a median house price of $1.03 million, up 12.3 per cent year-on-year. Ainslie recorded a median of $1,095,000, also up 12.3 per cent year-on-year, and O'Connor had a median house price of $1.1 million, up 17.7 per cent year-on-year.
Suburb Region Median YoY
Narrabundah Inner South $1,030,000 12.3%
Ainslie Inner North $1,095,000 12.3%
O'Connor Inner North $1,100,000 17.7%
Campbell Inner North $1,240,000 -2.2%
Deakin Inner South $1,297,500 -0.2%
Griffith Inner South $1,467,500 5.2%
Yarralumla Inner South $1,492,500 0.8%
Embed this table
"When I started my career in real estate 27 years ago, the Inner South was the most exclusive area in Canberra. People wanted something across the bridge but in the last 10-15 years, that gap between the Inner South and Inner North has narrowed," said Richard Luton, of Luton Properties Manuka.
"People don't so much choose the Inner North or Inner South, the suburbs in these regions are all considered inner-city suburbs, close to the city centre and all the surrounding facilities including the light rail."
Mr Luton said Narrabundah, in particular, was an attractive suburb for a range of buyer groups including families, downsizers and investors.
Related: Canberra house prices record strongest annual growth in three years: Domain House Price Report
"The growth in Narrabundah comes from people purchasing because the suburb next to it, Griffith, is a lot more expensive," he said.
"Narrabundah has always been considered as Griffith's affordable brother."
Canberra now has seven million-dollar suburbs. Photo: Megan Dingwall
According to the Domain House Price Report, Griffith is the most expensive suburb to buy a house in Canberra with a median house price of $1,467,500, up 5.2 per cent year-on-year.
James Carter, of Carter and Co, said pent-up buyer demand in Ainslie and O'Connor in the past two to three years has helped push that median house price up.
"Both these Inner North suburbs have achieved solid results and that can be a testament to its location and the urban renewal happening close by," Mr Carter said.
"We see a lot of demand in these suburbs as you can still get a lot of value for what you can purchase, in comparison to other established suburbs that are a bit out of reach and mostly already redeveloped."
Mr Carter noted many sellers were parting with houses they owned for decades and buyers were purchasing them, knocking them down and rebuilding a home before selling again.
"Buyers see the end-value potential in a significant knockdown, and rebuild," he said.
"I expect these areas to continue to be in demand because it's a few of Canberra's oldest suburbs, there's a certain charm to it and home owners and buyers looking to enter the area can see the value of living there."
Most Aussies believe now is a good time to buy property, but are they right?
How home owners can prepare for La Nina this summer
Where Australian tenants can get the best deal on their rent
What to consider when moving from a house to an apartment


Please enter the C.A.P.S. Eligibility Calculator located on the Generations Fund homepage. Review the parameters of the fund and answer the 3 simple questions to find out if you may be eligible for the C.A.P.S. program. The Eligibility Calculator will be available from October 22, 2014 until April 3, 2015 at noon. The Eligibility Calculator is completely anonymous and will indicate immediately whether you may be eligible for the C.A.P.S. program and the preliminary amount of your Tuition Cap / Freeze.
If the Eligibility Calculator says you may be eligible for the C.A.P.S. program, you will be prompted to complete the online Application Form. After submitting the Application Form, you will be notified immediately by email if you have been approved for the C.A.P.S. program with the amount of your Tuition Cap / Freeze. *This decision is based on the information you provided in your Application Form. Your eligibility will be confirmed in the spring of 2015 upon receipt and review of the necessary documents and confirmation of your child(ren)'s enrolment at a qualifying Jewish day school.
*NOTE: All applicants, returning and new, must complete the Application Form in order to be deemed eligible for the C.A.P.S. program.
In the spring of 2015, you will be notified by email to provide your financial documents via secure upload. We highly recommend that eligible families file their income taxes early to not delay their acceptance to the C.A.P.S. program.
Required documents: The 2014 Notice of Assessment from Revenu Quebec, for each parent. You may also be asked to provide other supporting documents that attest to your financial situation.
Enroll your child(ren) in a qualifying Jewish day school for the 2015-16 school year. Please visit our homepage for a list of qualifying Jewish day schools.
Once your 2014 gross household income and your child(ren)'s enrolment is confirmed by the Generations Fund, you will receive confirmation of acceptance into the C.A.P.S. program. You will receive an email outlining the Tuition Caps / Freezes and additional reductions if applicable, and the school(s) in which your child(ren) is/are enrolled will invoice you accordingly. *For eligible Kindergarten and Secondary I students, an additional $1,800 reduction will be calculated.
The Generations Fund C.A.P.S. program is committed to providing subsidies and freezing tuition for eligible families for the remaining duration of your child(ren)'s education at that school (from Kindergarten through grade 6 and from Secondary I through Secondary V), as long as your gross household income and number of children attending a qualifying Jewish day school remain the same each year. Each year, parents will be required to re-apply and to submit the required documents in order to maintain their eligibility into the C.A.P.S. program.


This 2012 file photo shows MOL's office at Berjaya Times Square in Kuala Lumpur.
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian e-payment platforms operator MOL Global Inc's bumpy Nasdaq journey has come to an end after less than two years, with it allowing its American depositary shares (ADSs) to be delisted from the Nasdaq Global Select Market.
In a press statement on Wednesday, MOL said that it had received a non-compliance letter from Nasdaq on Oct 5, 2015, notifying that it no longer met the minimum bid price of US$1.00 per ADS required for continued listing on the exchange.
MOL, in which Tan Sri Vincent Tan and his entities/affiliates hold a majority stake, received another letter from Nasdaq dated April 7, 2016 after the first compliance period lapsed, giving it additional time to consider applying (before April 14, 2016) for a second period to regain compliance.
"The company, having considered all available options, decided that it will not submit such a plan and will instead allow the ADSs to be delisted from Nasdaq and seek to deregister its ADSs under the Exchange Act," it said.
As a result, trading of its ADSs will be suspended from next Monday (April 18).
"The decision to allow the ADSs to be delisted from Nasdaq and to seek deregistration under the Exchange Act was taken following the company's review and careful consideration of several factors," it said.
The Kuala Lumpur-headquartered company was listed on Nasdaq on Oct 9, 2014.


text:
Q: Vertical centering of text spanning multiple rows
Possible Duplicate:
How to vertically-center the text of the cells?

I am using multicolumn to create a table. The code that I have is here:
   \documentclass[10pt]{article}
    \usepackage{multicol}
    \begin{document}
     \begin{table}
       \centering
      \begin{tabular}{|c|c|c|}
       \hline
       \multicolumn{2}{|c|}{Data A} & Data B \\\cline{1-2}
       Set A1 & Set A2 &
       \\\hline
       a & b & c \\
       \hline
       \end{tabular}
       \caption{List of test cases.}
       \label{tab:Tests}
     \end{table}
\end{document}

This results in a table where the entry 'Data B' is aligned with the top hline of the table as in .
I would like to know how I can vertically center the entry ''Data B''. Any ideas would help a lot!

A: Use multirow.
   \documentclass[10pt]{article}
    \usepackage{multirow}
    \begin{document}
     \begin{table}
       \centering
      \begin{tabular}{|c|c|c|}
       \hline
       \multicolumn{2}{|c|}{Data A} & \multirow{2}{*}{Data B} \\\cline{1-2}
       Set A1 & Set A2 &
       \\\hline
       a & b & c \\
       \hline
       \end{tabular}
       \caption{List of test cases.}
       \label{tab:Tests}
     \end{table}
\end{document}


text:
'Jig' gear: a better way to catch ground fish
Maine fishermen could adopt tool that's worked well in Alaska
James Crimp
When Darius Kasprzak, skipper of the Marona and president of the Alaska Jig Association showed up in Rockland, he knew that his biggest problem in convincing Mainers the merits of jig-fishing was the lack of… well, fish.
"There ain't ground fish in Penobscot Bay, and good luck finding them anywhere else," several lobstermen assured him, more or less.
But Kasprzak, as well as representatives of several fishing organizations that partnered to bring him to Maine, are hopeful that while jig fishing won't be a cure for what has now been a decades long slump in New England ground fish, it may be one of a number of tools fishermen can combine to keep earning a living on the water.
To those with some knowledge of fishing, the term "jig" usually conjures up images of sport fishermen jerking rods up and down, often with some funky looking squid as bait. Kasprzak, who makes his living as a commercial jig fisherman, uses automated jig machines that imitate this motion hands-free, allowing him and a single crewmember to operate four of them at the same time on his 45-foot fishing vessel.
In the bountiful seas off the coast of Kodiak Island where he fishes, this technology is enough for him to make a living, and in a good year he is able to harvest more than 50 tons of cod and rockfish. While these numbers may be out of reach for New England fishermen, many are hopeful that jig fishing could provide them with some advantages.
One of these advantages is the ability to be selective with the catch, says Ben Martens, director of Maine Coast Fisherman's Association, an organization that represents the bulk of Maine's small boat ground fish fleet.
"Maine fishermen are trying to find new and innovative ways to selectively target healthy species like pollock and haddock," he said, "while avoiding catching stocks that are not as environmentally or economically viable such as Gulf of Maine cod."
Indeed, while some modifications can be made to the most prevalent gear types—trawling and gillnetting—it is tough to find a more selective harvest method than jig fishing, where variables such as bait, jig-speed, depth and hook-shape can all be controlled.
More modern jig machines go as far as having attached computers by which operators can fine-tune their settings. Kasprzak has found that this tight control allows jig fishermen to target species of high-value while avoiding species whose stocks are threatened.
Another advantage of jig fishing is the market value of the catch.
In video of his fishing operation, Kasprzak was able to show the way he pulls individual fish over the side of his boat where they are then chilled in water just above freezing until they can be processed. Additionally, his fish are removed from the water alive, and due to the relatively benign impact the hooks have on fish health, he is able to release those that are too small or of the wrong species back into the ocean unscathed.
For his high-quality product, environmental stewardship and involvement with Alaska-based community supported fishery, Catch of the Season, Kasprzak has been able to earn twice the per-pound price of his competitors.
In Maine, several organizations are looking into similar approaches to emphasize gear type and quality in the marketplace, including Port Clyde Fresh Catch's ongoing community supported fishery. Through these methods, fishermen hope they can turn some of the emphasis away from how many fish they catch, to how they are caught.
A final aspect of jig fishing that may prove crucial in determining its success is its adaptability. As the dip in the ground fish industry and subsequent upswing in lobster has shown, the only thing certain in Maine fisheries these days is uncertainty.
"In gear technology, it's all about having as many tools as possible," said Adam Baukas, gear specialist at the Gulf of Maine Research Institute. As a relatively cheap and low-maintenance option compared to other cutting edge techniques, Baukus believes jig fishing is an easy tool for fishermen to pick up that could be invaluable in adapting to changing conditions in management, markets and climate.
While it is unlikely that jig fishing will provide enough profit for New England fishermen to give up other gear types, Martens and others are hopeful it could be a valuable part of the puzzle of gear types, marketing and environmental-preservation that will allow fishermen to piece together a living, now and in the future.
In this puzzle, finding individuals like Kasprzak who can share and exchange their vast fishing knowledge will be of the utmost importance.
James Crimp is a marine economic development associate with the Island Institute, publisher of The Working Waterfront.
Darius Kasprzak demonstrates a jig rig.
Seafood shrinking as world's protein source
Showing is telling: the Chesapeake's island stories
Jack Sullivan
Light station restoration complete on Swan's Island


text:
Assam GK
Assam History
APSC Books
Indian Polity – Test Set 15 ( Indian Constitutional Development)
1. Who was the President of the Constituent Assembly?
(a) Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru
(b) Dr. Rajendra Prasad
(c) Dr. B.R. Ambedkar
(d) C. Rajagopalachari
Ans: (b)
2. The demand for the Constituent Assembly was put forward by the Indian National Congress in 1936 at its session held at :
(a) Kanpur
(b) Bombay
(c) Lucknow
(d) Lahore
Ans: (c)
3. The Constituent Assembly arrived at decisions on the various provisions of the Constitution:
(a) by a majority vote
(b) by a two-thirds majority
(c) by consensus
(d) unanimously
4. The most profound influence on the drafting of the Indian Constitution was exercised by the
(a) U.S. Constitution
(b) British Constitution
(c) Government of India Act, 1935
(d) French ideals of Liberty and Fraternity
5. Match the following:
Committees of Constituent : Assembly Chairmen
A. Drafting Committee 1. Vallabhbhai PateI
B. Committee on Fundamental and Minority Rights 2. Jawaharlal Nehru
C. Union Constitution Committee 3. Kanhiyalal Munshi
D. Working Committee 4. B.R. Ambedkar
(a) 1 2 3 4
(b) 4 2 1 3
(c) 4 1 3 2
(d) 4 1 2 3
Ans: (d)
6. Which one of the following statements is correct? [IAS 2004]
(a) The Constituent Assembly of India was elected by the Provincial Assemblies in the year 1946
(b) Jawaharlal Nehru; M.A. Jinnah and Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel were members of the Constituent Assembly of India
(c) The First Session of the Constituent Assembly of India was held in January, 1947
(d) The Constitution of India was adopted on 26th January, 1950
Ans: (a)
A. July 22, 1947 1. Adoption of National Song by the Constituent Assembly
B. January 24, 1950 2. Adoption of National Emblem by the Government
C. January 26, 1950 3. Adoption of National Calendar by the Government
D. March 22, 1957 4. Adoption of National Flag by the Constituent Assembly
8. Which of the following is/are correctly matched?
I. India's National Song-Vande Mataram
II. India s National Flower-Rose
III. India's National Animal-Tiger
IV. India's National Bird-Eagle
(a) I and IV
(b) I, II and III
(c) II, III and IV
(d) I and III
9. The design of the National Flag was adopted by the Constitutent Assembly of India in:
(a) July, 1948
(b) July, 1950
(c) July, 1947
(d) August, 1947
10. Which of the following are the principal features of Government of India Act, 1919?
1. Introduction of dyarchy in the executive government of the provinces.
2. Introduction of separate communal electorate for Muslims.
3. Devolution of legislative authority by the Centre to the Provinces.
4. Expansion and reconstitution of Central and Provincial Legislatures.
(a) 1, 2 and 3
(b) 1, 2 and 4
(c) 2, 3 and 4
English Grammar Section
Fill in the Blanks - MCQ (Grammar)
Part 2 (150-221 Q)
Part 1 (1-150 Q)
One Word Substitute MCQ
Analogies or Related Pair MCQ
Synonym MCQ
Antonym MCQ
Idioms And Phrases MCQ
Assam Gk MCQ
APSC-CCE Previous Question Paper
All Question Papers
Assam Gk (www.assamgk.com) was started with a noble cause for guiding the aspirants of Assam State of India. High quality notes are provided to help and make the aspirants highly knowledgeable in all subjects.
We are in modification of our old application and reviewing all the content to corrections. Please keep patience. We will be back soon with our new android app. Thank you for being with us.
Address:Moran, Dibrugarh, Assam
Website:www.assamgk.com
Copyright 2018 Assam Gk. Powered by JobsAssam