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"Going ahead with the 13th Amendment and beyond will only fulfil the political aspirations of Tamils" says New Governor of the Northern Province Reginald Cooray.
Reginald Cooray always expressed his views in favour of political rights of the minorities as well as agreeing on adequate devolution of powers to the North and East.
Vijaya Kumaratunga in retrospect
By Manekshaw
The Leader of the Opposition and the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) Leader R.Sampanthan welcoming the appointment of Reginald Cooray as new Governor of the Northern Province mentioned that the government has made an appropriate choice by appointing a person with liberal views as the Governor of the Northern Province.
Beginning his political career in the Sri Lanka Mahajana Party (SLMP) founded by the late Vijaya Kumaratunga, Reginald Cooray always expressed his views in favour of political rights of the minorities as well as agreeing on adequate devolution of powers to the North and East.
During the early stages of the Tamil militancy, militants, the SLMP Leader Kumaratunga along with his wife former President Chandrika Kumaratunga travelled to Chennai in the early eighties and met some of the Tamil militant leaders such as leader of the Eelam People's Revolutionary Liberation Front (EPRLF) K.Pathmanabha, one of his political 'think tanks' Ketheeswaran Loganathan and People's Liberation Organization of Tamil Eelam (PLOTE) Leader Uma Maheswaran who were in exile in Tamil Nadu.
Chandrika Bandaranaike and her husband Vijaya Kumaratunga with PLOTE, TELO & EPRLF Tamil militant leaders in Chennai
Apart from the hardcore Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) almost all the Tamil militant outfits which had emerged in the early eighties possessed a sensible political thinking in reaching a durable solution to the North and East crisis.
Attracted by their liberal outlook Kumaratunga had even accepted that an adequate devolution of powers to the North and East will only pave the way for a meaningful solution to the ethnic crisis.
However, the Tamil militant leaders who had come in contact with the SLMP Leader did not live long to see their dreams becoming a reality with the introduction of the 13th Amendment to the Constitution.
The LTTE gunned down EPRLF leader K. Pathmanabha, PLOTE Leader Uma Maheswaran and Tamil Eelam Liberation Organization (TELO) Leader Sri Sabaratnam for their stances in reaching a political solution with the guidance of India.
Vijaya's first visit to Jaffna
When the late Hector Kobbekaduwa contested as Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) candidate in the 1982 presidential election, Kumaratunga joined his campaign trail and visited even Jaffna and addressed the election rallies in the peninsula.
In the mid-eighties when the LTTE established itself as a dominant outfit neutralizing other Tamil militant organizations in the North, Kumaratunga was even handpicked by the J.R.Jeyawardene Government to negotiate with the LTTE militants to release the bodies of the soldiers who were killed in clashes with the LTTE and to release the soldiers apprehended during the clashes as Prisoners of War (PoWs).
Kumaratunga in themid-eighties visited Jaffna on several occasions when Major General Ananda Weerasekera was the Jaffna Commander. The army at that time was based inside the Jaffna Fort and was almost under a siege.
Major General Ananda Weerasekera who ordained as a Bhikkhu after his retirement and one of his aides Captain Kotalawela were even permitted to come out of the Jaffna Fort due to the good rapport the LTTE's late Jaffna Commander Sathasivam Krishnakumar alias Kittu had with Kumaratunga.
The LTTE admired Kumaratunga for his liberal views and he would have even been the first politician from the South for the LTTE to accept as a credible person.
The gun toting LTTE cadres had even taken Kumaratunga around and made him speak to the press in Jaffna. Kumaratunga even addressed a brief meeting at the Nallur Kanthaswamy Kovil premises in the presence of LTTE's Jaffna commander Kittu and the outfit's political stalwart Thileepan who later fast-unto- death following the signing of the Indo-Lanka Accord in 1987.
'LTTE agent'
Kumaratunga was even described as an "LTTE agent" in the South for the understanding he had with the LTTE.
Kumaratunga believed unwaveringly that a maximum devolution of powers under a federal framework could only bring an acceptable solution to the ethnic question and he even supported the Indo-Lanka Accord which introduced the 13th Amendment to the Constitution.
28 years after Kumaratunga's death, one of his followers Reginald Cooray has been appointed as the third Governor of the Northern Province. Cooray also becomes the first politician to become the Northern Province Governor.
As far as Kumaratunga's Jaffna visits during the LTTE period were concerned, he once took a delegation of Bhikkhus to Jaffna and had a meeting with the LTTE's Jaffna Commander Kittu at the Old Park Mansion of the Government Agents who served in the city.
The Old Park Mansion of the Jaffna Government Agents was first built in the 19th century by the British Government Agent Percival Dyke. Several iconic Lankan Government Agents including Neville Jayaweera and N.Srikantha had resided in the mansion surrounded by 27 acres of beautifully laid out urban forest area by Dyke.
The last Sri Lankan Government Agent to live in the mansion was Lionel Fernando who was highly respected by the Northerners for his integrity with the people in the peninsula.
The historic mansion gradually became dilapidated with the escalation of the war. With the end of the war in 2009, the first Governor of the Northern Province Maj. Gen. G.A. Chandrasiri built a new residence for the Governor adjoining the historic old mansion within the Old Park premises where Kumaratunga held one of his meetings with the LTTE's Jaffna commanders in the early eighties.
The new Governor Cooray succeeding his predecessor H.M.G.S.Palihakkara, the second and the first civilian Governor of the Northern Province will be residing in his official residence situated in the vicinity of the historic old mansion.
Soon after taking his oaths as Governor of Northern Province before President Maithripala Sirisena last week, Reginald Cooray without any reservation has clearly stated that by going ahead with the 13th Amendment and beyond will only fulfil the political aspirations of Tamils.
Being a veteran politician groomed in the political thinking of his mentor Kumaratunga, Northern Governor Reginald Cooray could contribute immensely towards solving the ethnic problem when the government has embarked on the task of bringing out a new Constitution.
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Пашаели или Чаталджа () е полуостров в европейската част на Турция, разположен между Черно море на север, Мраморно море на юг и протока Босфор на изток. Явява се краен югоизточен издатък на Балканския полуостров. Северното и източното му крайбрежие са слабо разчленени, по южното дълбоко в сушата са разположени два големи лимана Бююкчекмедже и Кючукчекмедже, а на югоизток е дългият и тесен залив Златен рог. Повърхността му представлява хълмиста равнина, като в крайните му западни части навлизат най-южните разклонения на планината Странджа. Естествената растителност е основно средиземноморска. На източния му бряг е разположена европейската част на Истанбул, а по южното му крайбрежие – неговите многочислени предградия.

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The word 'backlinks' might sound new but it might not be that new if you are a regular internet user because you meet them almost daily when browsing and not just once or twice but severally.
So, what are backlinks? They are also referred to as inbound or incoming links. In a normal surfing session you might read an article explaining about something that is of interest to you but due to some limitations, the topic might not be adequately covered.
In most cases, the writer of such content might be generous enough to insert a hyperlink that sends you to another web page on the internet where you can find all the information on that topic adequately covered. Those links that direct you to other websites on the internet are the ones known as back links. They are helpful in many ways and if you are internet marketer or just a website owner, you need more of them to make your site frequently visited thus a good ranking on search engines.
A top rank on search engines results increases the chances of people visiting your site. The more people visit your site, the more they are likely to buy your products if you are an online merchant. That is why most people struggle to have their sites ranked on top. Below are the top ten methods of building backlinks to your site to enable you get better rankings on Google.
Chances are you have always found useful information on a couple of your queries on the article directories. There are a couple of them and submitting content to them is free. Good examples of articles are Ezine articles, Go articles, to just but name a few. Before submitting content to these directories, you first need to create an account which usually takes a few minutes.
You might decide to write on a topic of most interest to people or the one related to your area of specialty. Once you create quality content and post it, there is usually a short description of you after the article together with a link to your site. You must be very creative when posting content in article directories in order to attract people to frequently follow your articles. You need to submit as many articles as you can. If you cannot write them yourself, you can alternatively look for a freelance writer to work for you.
There are a couple of sites that allow you to sign up with them, write anything you feel like and insert links to your site. Though this is not a commonly used method, it is an SEO strategy that you can use to drive traffic to your site. A good way to doing this is by analyzing the most sought-after content first before you decide on what to write about. The sites are helpful because they are frequently visited by many people which makes them ideal to submit content to.
A good number of these sites have categories of content. For instance, they classify content under electronics, technology, health and fitness, education, science and technology, humanities, automobile and so forth. This makes it easier for you to choose the category under which you will be writing. Examples of such sites include Squidoo, HubPages and Gather.
There are many online forums that allow readers to ask and respond to queries. A good example is the Warrior Forum where most SEO specialists and other online readers engage generally. In such forums there are many questions that need answers. Perhaps you have even seen the Yahoo Answers which allows readers to ask and respond to some questions.
What's more interesting is that some of them allow other users to rate the answers posted by others. The best voted answer is usually displayed first. Suppose you respond to some questions and include a link in your signature and your answer gets voted as the best, you are likely to get heavy traffic to your site. That is why it is always important to include a signature with a link in all forums you post answers.
People are always interested in quality of content not the quantity. Another thing people look out for is the authenticity of the content so that they can wholly rely on it. Suppose you have a blog on your website and every time you update people on a happening you later get proven wrong, chances are people might not want to visit your site again because they believe you never verify facts before posting your content. That is detrimental to your site because the less people visit it, the lower you are ranked on Google.
What you need to do under this is to always write clear, concise and compelling content that attracts people to your site. When creating such content, be sure to verify all the facts first before posting. Once you fully establish yourself that way, many people might even subscribe to your mailing lists to get alerts whenever you post anything new. Such visits guarantee you a higher ranking on Google due to the many incoming links.
Guest blogging is one of the most effective methods of getting many backlinks to your site though it is less considered. There are many blogs on the internet that allow guests to post content. You need to identify the area you want to be blogging about first. For example, if you run a small natural supplements shop, you might consider identifying as many blogs as you can that frequently address matters to do with obesity, weight loss, diabetes and health in general.
Once you have a list of the sites, narrow down your considerations to those that allow guest blogging. Write very informative content on the various subjects discussed on such blogs and post as a guest. Remember to include a link to your site so that interested people might find an easy way of visiting your site. The many the visits your site gets, the better the ranking on the search engine results thus the higher the chances of success of your business. Do not stick to only one blog. Post content to as many blogs as you can so as to reach a wider audience. You can always hire someone to do the content for you, preferably a freelance writer.
We all love celebrities and as such, everyone wishes to be associated with them. That is why most people like following the lives of celebrities. Interviewing a celebrity in your area of interest has a lot of advantages because you will be sure of many incoming links to your site. For example if you were to interview a celebrity like Rihanna, whenever people search her on Google there are chances that they will land on your site. That gives your site the much needed traffic for a better Google ranking.
Another way through which you can benefit from interviewing a celebrity is by asking them to backlink you in their own sites. For example if you interviewed Rihanna, you might ask her to upload the link to the interview page on her Twitter or Facebook account. Doing celebrity regularly if you can afford to puts you ahead of your competitors. Always look for the most important people in a certain industry that an average man cannot have audience with and let them answer some readers' questions.
This is the most viable method of getting numerous links to your site though it is often under-utilized. Billions of people around the world are on various social networking sites. On average, every modern day adult has some social network presence. Suppose you run a site that sells natural health supplements online, you might consider posting facts on some of the products, the various illnesses that face people and how your products could help them. After posting such content, remember to insert a link to your site from where they can make purchases or learn more.
One way of ensuring you reach many people is by considering advertising on these sites. Facebook is a good example of a social networking site that offers you the opportunity to run paid ads. Having many friends on such sites also helps a lot. Have as many friends as you can if you want to be successful in your social media campaign. In fact, most businesspeople are now smiling their way to the bank after conducting successful online marketing using social media platforms. You too can get many backlinks to your site by the help of social networking sites.
However much you might be only interested in getting many backlinks to your site, not all the strategies will always suffice. Sometimes you need to be a bit creative when looking for ways of increasing the links to your site. Consider building a site for the people. It must not be a Wikipedia but it should be modeled much more like it. For example, most people are nowadays battling with cancer, obesity and other complications.
You could think of creating a site where they would interact with their fellows and exchange ideas, information and so forth. By so doing, there will be very many visitors to such a site. Suppose then you run a shop that sells natural health supplements, don't you think you are guaranteed of links from the site? Certainly yes.
Though it is an unfamiliar method of getting backlinks to your site, it works. There are many forums or sites where you can read content, rate it or comment. Although sometimes comments are not given weight when ranking pages, they might indirectly play an important role in helping you get top rankings.
For example, if you asked the webmaster of the blog to insert a link to your site in his blog, there are very dim chances that he might do so. But suppose you comment positively, do a little bit of research and provide a very helpful comment, they are most likely to provide a link to your site. This is because blog owners always want to direct their visitors to credible sites, not just any.
SEO is just geared towards getting top rankings, no more than that. As such, you need to constantly keep tabs on your closes rivals. If they get better rankings than you, you need to know the source of their backlinks so that you can also consider getting links from such sources.
For example if you notice your competitors are getting most of their links from some article directories, consider writing very unique content and submit it to such directories. What you need to make sure when doing this is that you write some content that is so inspirational, clear, concise and informative so as to make people prefer visiting your site to that of your competitor.
Although link building is one of the most challenging endeavors for most internet marketers, there are many ways of going about that. However, Google noticed there was a growing trend of black hat SEO practices which involved soliciting for links by paying for them, submitting sub standard content, submitting the same content to multiple directories and inserting links that lead to irrelevant content. That occasioned the introduction of the Google Panda and Penguin updates which affected millions of websites worldwide that did not adhere to the rules of the game.
As much as you need as many links as you can get to your site, always remember to play by the rules of the game. Patiently use legitimate means of getting links and you will one day have your site on top. Alternatively, you can consider looking for some online companies that offer SEO services to advise you better on how you can build links to your site legitimately.


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Historical Marker: The Civil War Comes to Washington
On October 2, 1864, a Confederate force led by General John S. Marmaduke raided Washington as part of a larger campaign to retake control of Missouri and rekindle the Confederate cause. The campaign was orchestrated by Major General Sterling Price, who moved to Missouri as a young adult and served as governor from 1853-1857. He commanded an army of 12,000 men and divided it into three divisions, one of which was led by Marmaduke (he would also become governor in 1884). On the night of the September 30, the Confederates camped at the town of Sullivan, which is located to the south. Warned of their impending approach, the local militia built some breastworks but it was clear that defending the town would be impossible against the much larger force. The town surrendered but the troops ransacked homes and businesses and plundered whatever they wanted. The next day, a remaining contingent set fire to the ralroad depot to prevent it from being used by the Union. In the end, Price's Missouri Expedition, as the campaign was called, failed—a result that contributed to the eventual defeat of the Confederates the next year.
This historical marker describes the raid on Washington and the effect it had on the town. Photo: The Historical Marker Database
John S. Marmaduke (1825-1887) led the division that raided Washington. He would later become governor of Missouri in 1887.
Sterling Price (1809-1867) devised the campaign to retake control of Missouri. He served as governor from 1853-1857 and before that was a member of the House of Representatives from 1845-1846.
"The Civil War Comes to Washington." The Historical Marker Database. Accessed June 18, 2019. https://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=125893.
"The History of Washington, Missouri: The Civil War - 'Price's Raid'". WashingtonMO.com. Accessed June 18, 2019. http://www.washingtonmo.com/HistoryofWashingtonMO/historychap4.htm.
O'Neil, Tim. "Events recall 150th anniversary of last major Civil War battles in Missouri." St. Louis Post-Dispatch. September 13, 2014. https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/metro/events-recall-th-anniversary-of-last-major-civil-war-battles/article_bedde314-c634-5f9f-b694-ddb95434bde1.html.
Biography of John S. Marmaduke
Click to learn more about the Missouri campaign
Washington , MO
Created by Ben M on June 18th 2019, 10:59:40 am.
Washington Missouri History Tour
This Missouri River town tour starts at the Louis Kohmueller home and includes several museums and landmarks that are central to the history of Washington. Be sure to check out the railroad museum just south of the walking tour and several other sites of interest in the region that are listed in Clio.

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The Centre for Health and Development Murska Sobota was established by the Institute of Public Health Murska Sobota with the support of the Government of the Republic of Slovenia in 2005 to promote research, education, investments in health and development, and sustainable development in the Pomurje region and beyond.
In 2009 the Centre for Health and Development Murska Sobota became a WHO Collaborating Centre for the mandate of four years with the programme to implement capacity building in the field of intersectoral investment in health. The main goal has been to share and transfer the good practices and capacity building activities to the Member State Healthcare Network in Southeast Europe in the fields of social determinants, reduction of health inequalities and intersectoral investment in health.


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Q: Parsing string to get comma-separated integer character pairs I'm working on a project where I'm given a file that begins with a header in this format: a1,b3,t11, 2,,5,\3,*4,344,00,. It is always going be a sequence of a single ASCII character followed by an integer separated by a comma with the sequence always ending with 00,.
Basically what I have to do is go through this and put each character/integer pair into a data type I have that takes both of these as parameters and make a vector of these. For example, the header I gave above would be a vector with ('a',1), ('b',3),('t',11),(',',5)(' ',2),('\',3),('*',4),('3',44) as elements.
I'm just having trouble parsing it. So far I've:

*Extracted the header from my text file from the first character up until before the ',00,' where the header ends. I can get the header string in string format or as a vector of characters (whichever is easier to parse)

*Tried using sscanf to parse the next character and the next int then adding those into my vector before using substrings to remove the part of the string I've already analyzed (this was messy and did not get me the right result)

*Tried going through the string as a vector and checking each element to see if it is an integer, a character, or a comma and acting accordingly but this doesn't work for multiple-digit integers or when the character itself is an int
I know I can fairly easily split my string based on the commas but I'm not sure how to do this and still split the integers from the characters while retaining both and accounting for integers that I need to treat as characters.
Any advice or useful standard library or string functions would be greatly appreciated.

A: Since you have figured out that you can just ignore the last 3 characters, using sscanf will be sufficient.
You can use sscanf to read one character (or getch functions), use sscanf to read an integer and finally even ignore one character.
Comment if you are having problems understanding how to do so.

A: One possibility, of many, would be to store the data in a structure. This uses an array of structures but the structure could be allocated as needed with malloc and realloc.
Parsing the string can be accomplished using pointers and strtol which will parse the integer and give a pointer to the character following the integer. That pointer can be advanced to use in the next iteration to get the ASCII character and integer.
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

#define SIZE 100

struct pair {
    char ascii;
    int  integer;
};

int main( void) {
    char input[] = "a1,b3,!0,t11, 2,,5,\\3,*4,34400,";
    char *pt = input;//start with pt pointing to first character of input
    char *end = input;
    int each = 0;
    int loop = 0;
    int length = 0;
    struct pair pairs[SIZE] = { { '\0', 0}};

    //assuming input will always end in 00, ( or ,00,)
    //remove those three ( or 4 ??) characters
    length = strlen ( input);
    if ( length > 3) {
        input[length - 3] = '\0';
    }
    for ( each = 0; each < SIZE; each++) {
        //get the ASCII character and advance one character
        pairs[each].ascii = *pt;
        pt++;
        //get the integer
        pairs[each].integer = strtol ( pt, &end, 10);
        //end==pt indicates the expected integer is missing
        if ( end == pt) {
            printf ( "expected an integer\n");
            break;
        }
        //at the end of the string?
        if ( *end == '\0') {
            //if there are elements remaining, add one to each as one more was used
            if ( each < SIZE - 1) {
                each++;
            }
            break;
        }
        //the character following the integer should be a comma
        if ( *end != ',') {
            //if there are elements remaining, add one to each as one more was used
            if ( each < SIZE - 1) {
                each++;
            }
            printf ( "format problem\n");
            break;
        }
        //for the next iteration, advance pt by one character past end
        pt = end + 1;
    }
    //loop through and print the used structures
    for ( loop = 0; loop < each; loop++) {
        printf ( "ascii[%d] = %c   ", loop, pairs[loop].ascii);
        printf ( "integer[%d] = %d\n", loop, pairs[loop].integer);
    }

    return 0;
}

Another option is to use dynamic allocation.
This also uses sscanf to parse the input. The %n will capture the number of characters processed by the scan. The offset and add variables can then be used to iterate through the input. The last scan will only capture the ascii character and the integer and the return from sscanf will be 2.
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

struct pair {
    char ascii;
    int  integer;
};

int main( void) {
    char input[] = "a1,b3,!0,t11, 2,,5,\\3,*4,34400,";
    char comma = '\0';
    char ascii = '\0';
    int integer = 0;
    int result = 0;
    int loop = 0;
    int length = 0;
    int used = 0;
    int add = 0;
    int offset = 0;
    struct pair *pairs = NULL;//so realloc will work on first call
    struct pair *temp = NULL;

    //assuming input will always end in 00, ( or ,00,)
    //remove those three ( or 4 ??) characters
    length = strlen ( input);
    if ( length > 3) {
        input[length - 3] = '\0';
    }
    while ( ( result = sscanf ( &input[offset], "%c%d%c%n"
    , &ascii, &integer, &comma, &add)) >= 2) {//the last scan will only get two items
        if ( ( temp = realloc ( pairs, ( used + 1) * sizeof ( *pairs))) == NULL) {
            fprintf ( stderr, "problem allocating\n");
            break;
        }
        pairs = temp;

        pairs[used].ascii = ascii;
        pairs[used].integer = integer;
        //one more element was used
        used++;
        //the character following the integer should be a comma
        if ( result == 3 && comma != ',') {
            printf ( "format problem\n");
            break;
        }
        //for the next iteration, add to offset
        offset += add;
    }
    for ( loop = 0; loop < used; loop++) {
        printf ( "ascii[%d] = %c   ", loop, pairs[loop].ascii);
        printf ( "value[%d] = %d\n", loop, pairs[loop].integer);
    }

    free ( pairs);

    return 0;
}

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ESA's historic Rosetta mission concluded as planned, on 30 September 2016, with a controlled impact onto the comet it had been investigating for more than two years. The mission was launched on 2 March 2004, on a 10-year journey towards comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. En route, it passed by two asteroids, 2867 Steins (in 2008) and 21 Lutetia (in 2010), before entering deep-space hibernation mode in June 2011. On 20 January 2014, it 'woke up' and prepared for arrival at the comet in August that year. On 12 November, the mission deployed its Philae probe to the comet, the first time in history that such an extraordinary feat was achieved. During the next phase of the mission, Rosetta accompanied the comet through perihelion (13 August 2015) until the end of the mission.


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Now a sophomore at Rice studying sociology, the first-generation college student has a dream of opening a legal clinic for low-income clients. Carter says some students drop classes when they realize they can't afford the $200 textbook. Serving as an intern at OpenStax, he hopes to encourage transparency about course costs in the college catalog to promote broader adoption of the free, open materials and close gaps in education.
"I'm learning how OpenStax is so flexible, accommodating and is removing access barriers," says Carter.
OpenStax began just over two decades ago as a repository of open educational resources (OER) called Connexions where faculty around the world could publish, share, and remix educational materials. In 2012, it rebranded and started publishing its own line of free, peer-reviewed textbooks as a nonprofit educational initiative.
Since then, 9 million students have used OpenStax books saving them nearly one billion dollars. Its books have been adopted in 6,900 schools and used in more than 100 countries. This spring, an estimated 3.2 million students and 24,000 faculty are using use the books – with the volume increasing by 50 to 100 percent every year.
For its work as a leader in the open education space, driving awareness, embracing diverse voices and helping make college more affordable, SPARC has recognized OpenStax with its February 2020 Innovator Award.
"OpenStax is a true 'open' community success story," says SPARC Executive Director Heather Joseph. "It started by tackling a problem that was vexing teachers and learners alike, and has gone on to set the bar higher for how education publishers can deliver value for students. OpenStax represents a key piece of open infrastructure within the academic community."
Vision for a new solution
The idea for what would become OpenStax began in the fall of 1999 when Richard Baraniuk was teaching an engineering course at Rice University. He says he was frustrated that existing textbooks would explain a topic in only one particular way, yet there wasn't one particular way to explain a topic that would work for all students. Baraniuk felt that traditional proprietary print books weren't designed for the various ways that students learn — he wanted a new model that would better help students. He envisioned something dynamic that would convey concepts in different and interesting ways.
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"I thought why not tear the pages out and turn them into web pages?" recalls Baraniuk. "They would be free so everyone could get access, and also open source so a community could generate the material, add to it, and curate it over time."
Twenty years ago, Baraniuk's vision was ahead of its time.
"This was before Wikipedia, MIT OpenCourseWare, or Creative Commons, so it was really fun to have a blank slate to think about all of these things," he says. "We were lucky to get some bootstrap funding to be able to start realizing the dream."
The Great Recession saw textbook costs topping $300 per title, putting additional pressure on student finances and spurring support for more affordable options. At first, many were skeptical of OER, viewing it as difficult to use and requiring energy for faculty to put their content online.
While the organization expanded in the first decade, this skepticism forced it to rethink its approach. Books didn't just emerge; they had to be built. "We could not wait for the community to develop all the learning materials; we needed to prime the pump," says Baraniuk.
Shifting the strategy
In 2012, OpenStax launched and began to produce its own content. Daniel Williamson, managing director of OpenStax, says the idea was to make "turn-key" textbooks that were attractive to professors.
Support came from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, among others. OpenStax now employs 80, most of whom are on the Rice campus in Houston. As founder, Baraniuk now serves as director overseeing the organization and Williamson runs day-to-day operations.
"The growth is because of pent up demand for access and opportunity," says Williamson, who has been with OpenStax since 2008. "Students were clamoring for this. It was the right solution and the right time."
Anyone now can access the entire OpenStax library free online and professors get access to instructor materials like test banks and lecture slides. Students can choose how they want to view the book – online, download a PDF, or purchase a low-cost hard copy.
OpenStax textbook projects are developed and peer-reviewed by educators to make sure they are accurate and meet requirements of each course. With philanthropic backing, OpenStax is committed to always having its books be available online completely free. All textbook content is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License.
OpenStax focuses on creating textbooks for the highest enrollment degree programs and currently has 38 books in its library. It recently developed adaptive courseware technology that wraps around its textbooks to support personalized learning and interactive homework.
Tapping the power of student stories
As awareness of OpenStax among faculty increased, so did demand. But the organization also began to leverage the power of individual student stories. Rather than attracting authors, the focus shifted to serving students.
"Our mission is to help students," Williamson says. "There is a lot of passion when we look at our world and ways to break down barriers for students. Foundations and individuals in our organization are super committed to seeing this change that they wish they had in college."
OpenStax rolled out a "Textbook Heroes" campaign that identified visionary faculty who were searching for an answer to help students. They shared how their students were often forced to choose between buying books or groceries. "There was tremendous stress in the system," Baraniuk says. "The faculty could relate to their stories and it was very powerful."
To further support this, OpenStax established a national internship program to bring together students to advocate for OER last fall. The diverse group includes first-generation students, international students, non-traditional students and some who are parents. Often framing access as an issue of social justice and equity, they are blogging and designing projects on their campuses to promote OER.
"We were trying to offer our platform to these students and make it possible for their voices to be amplified," Williamson says. "They are showing us where we need to be looking as we seek to provide solutions."
Barbara Gooch of Sparta, Tennessee, was one of 10 OpenStax interns selected in the inaugural class. After raising four children (ages 19 to 26) Gooch has enrolled at Volunteer State Community College. Her husband and children are in college now – six first-generation college students — all fans of OpenStax because of its potential for savings and the flexibility OpenStax books provide. Gooch says she appreciates that OpenStax understands that some students prefer using print and offers a low-cost paper textbook option.
She followed the organization on Facebook and is learning more about OER through the weekly virtual meetings and interacting with her fellow interns. As she is blogging about her experience, she hopes to spread the word on her campus about how OER works and can benefit students.
"While I was aware of OpenStax, I wasn't aware of how colleges decide on textbooks and that process was interesting," Gooch says. "I've enjoyed the opportunity to write, give my opinions and get involved to help more students."
Gooch says she admires how OpenStax has expanded to bring down the cost of college for so many students and she appreciates the chance to be a small part of its efforts moving forward: "It has opened so many doors I did not expect."
Improving outcomes
College of the Canyons, with campuses in Canyon County and Valencia, California, became an OpenStax institutional partner in 2016. It was looking for ways to expand OER to reduce costs for its 32,000 racially diverse students, according to Brian Weston, educational administrator and Director of Distance & Accelerated Learning.
In 2018-19, it had nearly 600 OER sections with zero textbooks costs and 100 courses using OER in lieu of commercial textbooks. The college created zero textbook cost pathways that include OER, and OpenStax materials when applicable, for students going through College of the Canyons' Water Systems Technology, Early Childhood Education, Counseling, Communications, and Sociology programs.
"Faculty working with our OER student team have given positive feedback in their ability to curate information for students, knowing their students have access to the information, and that it is accessible in various formats," Weston says. "Our OER impact data shows an increase of student success and completion."
With improvements in success rates, especially among low-income students, the college estimates that OER has saved students approximately $4 million yearly in educational costs.
"OpenStax pioneered the golden standard of Open Educational Resources in education and the ability to collaborate and develop OER on a large scale," says Weston. "OpenStax provides the educational community an open, vetted, and accessible alternative to the traditional publisher model."
Fostering collaboration and building community infrastructure
In March, OpenStax will host its third annual Creator Fest in Houston. Faculty who are OER adopters in various disciplines gather to design ancillary materials and give their feedback in focus groups on how to improve the open textbooks.
"We believe the best way to grow the movement and the availability of supply is to bring faculty together to work to create the next generation of this content," says Williamson. "It's not like a conference where you sit and listen to people talk all day. It's more of a hackathon where people are actively creating content and sharing it openly."
As a research university, Rice provides OpenStax with critical infrastructure that makes it easy for people to take, adapt and own content to make education better all students, Williamson says.
Although growing, OER still represents a small portion of the overall textbook market. The challenge for OpenStax now is to expand its library to cover more courses. But Baraniuk maintains that with low costs of digital materials and clear benefits for faculty to customize and students to save money, the momentum is in their favor.
"The focus on learning materials should move from the bookstore to the library," Baraniuk says. "Libraries are the natural place to curate content developed not only at their school, but through collaboration with the entire academic community, across the country and the world. That is going to be the future."
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CORONA (CBS) — Animal control officers continued Saturday to look for a wolf-dog mix that was on the loose after it and another part-wolf hybrid attacked and ate a miniature horse at a ranch near Lake Mathews.
The animal was one of two involved in a gruesome attack on the pony Thursday in a rural area southeast of Corona.
The wolf-dogs were wearing collars, but no tags, and are believed to be escaped or dumped pets, Riverside County Animal Services spokesman John Welsh told the Riverside Press-Enterprise.
Two wolf-dog hybrids entered a corral on the Bar H Ranch near Lake Mathews on Thursday, where they found Bojangles, a six-year-old miniature horse, the newspaper reported.
The dogs set upon the small horse, which had recently been moved to the ranch from Oklahoma, the newspaper said, and ate it.
Bar H ranch hands shot both wolf-dogs, killing one. The other escaped and was still at large.
The dogs were not believed to be feral by animal control officers, and wolves are not native to California. Both animals were wearing a collar, but neither had ownership tags attached.
The dogs might have escaped from their yard or been dumped in the area, the Press-Enterprise reported. There were no clues as to who owned the dogs.
Welsh said if the dogs were caught, the owner could face consequences for breaking leash laws and would be required to pay pound fees, the newspaper said.
Gray wolves, in fact, once populated California and much of North America. So they are native to California.
First, miniature horses are horses, not pony's. Second, wolf hybrid dogs should never sane. It is unfortunate that an animal as smart as a wolf is crossed by a genetic inferior dog. It only makes for a very stupid dog, not a tame wolf.
Lived with horses and Timber wolves all my life. Neither are vicious unless made so. Wolves don't kill for sport, however a wolf will attack a small animal if it is hungry. They have to eat too, and if these wolf-dogs had been abandoned they'd most likely be in search of food and water. A miniature horse is about the right size.
This is the most natural behavior, nothing vicious or messed up about it. Sorry someone's pet had to become dinner.
Hope they find the owners or owner of these hybrids and nail them improper containment or just plain dumping them.
SUPER!!!!!!! I am glad that the ranch owner has a lawyer!!!! These wolf owners need to be responsible for what their animals do. This poor mini had NO where to run except in his corral. Did you see all the blood on the corral??????? This mini suffered SO Much. He was probably chased until he colapsed. Then the wolves began to eat. This is a domesticated mini horse. DOMESTICATED horses are not use to being prey. They don't fight back. They just run. This whole incident was so avoidable. If they would have kept their hybrid wolves locked up!!! It is amazing that all 3 kennel doors were open. Did the owners go and look for the wolves?????
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'Rang De Basanti' fame Siddharth is back with 'Striker'
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Any actor in his place would've immediately shifted to Mumbai after the super-success of his debut film in Hindi, RANG DE BASANTI, but Siddharth decided to focus on his Telugu film career in Hyderabad. "My career had taken off in a big way in Telugu films then and I didn't want to let it go," Siddharth informs me.
Siddharth is back with his second Hindi film STRIKER, after a substantial gap. The film, directed by Chandan Arora [MAIN MADHURI DIXIT BANNA CHAHTI HOON, MAIN MERI PATNI AUR WOH], is set is the 80s in Malvani in Mumbai. Siddharth feels it's the right vehicle for his 'comeback' in Hindi films. "Actually, Chandan had approached me for an entirely different film - a love story, which we plan to make some day - but I wasn't too keen to work on it then. That's when Chandan came up with the story of a carrom player's life and I said, yes, this is it," the talented actor states.
Siddharth is supremely confident of STRIKER. "I don't believe in the concept of big or small films. It's the audience that decides on a Friday what film is big or small. All I can say now is that STRIKER has the potential to be a big film since it dares to tell a story that has never been told before," he states.
Siddharth, who has now focused his sights on Bollywood, has worked with some of the biggest names in the business [Mani Ratnam, Shankar, Prabhu Deva, Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra]. "I met a lot of makers after RANG DE BASANTI, who were keen that I work with them. I hope we do work this time. I am in no hurry," he flashes a confident smile.
By Taran Adarsh
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The internet is buzzing this morning after the release of a video of teenage girls beating up a 15 year old girl in a Brooklyn McDonald's. And while the fight happened, nobody tried to break it up and save the teen.
According to sources, the teen and her attackers who are believed to be in a vicious crew called, Young Savages from Crown Heights were going to straighten out their differences in the restaurant. In the video that was shot during the fight, the teen from Erasmus Hall High School threw the first punch which led to the fight. As the fight grows, many other teenage girls jump in and begin punching, kicking and slapping the girl. But the teen doesn't back down and fights her attackers even stripping one of her hoodie.
As the teen is being beaten, nobody tries to break up the fight. One onlooker is heard saying, "She is dead, It's a murder." Some people can be heard cheering on the vicious attack. After the fight, the teen was hospitalized Monday night for two black eyes and multiple bruises. The teen had to be rushed to SUNY Downstate Medical Center Wednesday night after collapsing in her home.
The police are having a hard time identifying the teens because nobody wants to come forward and reveal who they are. The victim and her mother do not want to cooperate with authorities. Wednesday night, activist Tony Herbert spoke for the teen to not be afraid and help the authorities to bring the names of those who attacked her.
"We are asking that young lady to not be afraid." said Herbert. Herbert also sent a message to the teens in the video,
"We have pictures. We have video of all these individuals. So save the taxpayers money and bring yourself forward."
– Ballah-moni Kollie (@Gottadream87)
–UPDATE: According to this New York Daily News report, the victim, 15-year old Ariana Taylor, took to her Facebook account yesterday to brag about her newfound fame. She was met with rousing support from some, but sympathy and disappointment from others, who attempted to make it clear to the Brooklyn teenager that the reason she's been in headlines nationwide is a regrettable one.
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kim March 13, 2015
this is just a sad situation and he's grown ass people there that would not stop that fight I wish I was there cuz I would have stopped it makes no sense to me
Carla March 13, 2015
I totally agree with you. Those grown ass people should have stood up, but that's okay, because what goes around comes around.
Drew March 13, 2015
The victim was a SNITCH she's wasn't getting jumped her friend left her their at the scene .the victim is a bad person and Aniah is just greeving on her close friend that died she lucky that they just jumped her
make no sense to me that young ladies out here fighting like this and if I would have been there I would have stopped it and called 911 .it's sad when it takes five girls to jump on one thats sad
scallywag March 13, 2015
What preempted such violence in the first place? What is it about the culture at large that glorifies such behavior and strangely tells even victims to keep their mouths shut? Or is this specific to a particular demographic and if so how did it escalate to such levels? Or is this just about a very mentally ill/sociopathic young woman who doesn't respect boundaries?
http://scallywagandvagabond.com/2015/03/aniah-ferguson-arrested-mcdonalds-brooklyn-brawl/
andrew Robinson March 13, 2015
If her Parents don't want to cooperate, they should be charged with child abuse!
Tonya thompson March 13, 2015
that's a shame that those animals had too jump that girl like that. I don't believe in violence. I hope that she humble hervsrkf too come forward.
nene March 13, 2015
Are we sure this wasn't a gang get n someone in?? If not even karma comes for everyone
releast March 13, 2015
You tryna be racist mayne??? Gimmie yo address let's sort dis out!!! Nigga!!!!!!
Kimberly March 13, 2015
It's sad that they stood around and did nothing and sadder that she is happy about the shares and so called fame
Crystal B March 13, 2015
Her 15 minutes will be up when the next story hits about another teen gets jumped.
Gidget Hrobowski March 13, 2015
I guess no one got the fact that the victim not only threw the first punch, but is bragging about the events on facebook, which makes her just as ignorant as the gang of girl thugs!!!
vegazvannah March 14, 2015
i agree @gidget hrobowski
Key March 14, 2015
Gidget Hrobowski She s isn't throw the 1st punch she defended herself when the other young lady did. And yes it's sad that she is on Facebook glorifying what happened to her as part of her new fame. This is also a child who mind set isn't like an adults. For her this is all the fame she'll ever get. Her parents isn't teaching her different or monitoring her facebook. She needs to be taught different to do different that also comes from the society we live in and parenting.
Melanie Draughon March 14, 2015
Well the article says that the teen and her attackers are believed to be in a gang. Maybe that was her initiation, which to me is ridiculous. Here I am feeling bad for her and she's on Facebook bragging, and won't give up names? What is wrong with today's society? She's just as sick as them. But if I were there I would have tried to break it up, or I would have called 911. Its sad when people would rather video, than help
Gregory Surface March 14, 2015
I watched this video on YOUTUBE and found myself in a simalar situation a couple of time. These seven girl that call themselves "Young Savages" are complete COWARDS. 7 against 1. Come on. Even though this was extremely brutal it was impressive to see this lone 15 year old getting the best of one of the COWARDS (actually the biggest one) while the other 6 COWARDS where sucker punching from the back and sides. But of course this girl eventually gets nailed with 4 to 5 solid sucker punches and gets knocked out. Then here comes the ONE COWARD that was getting her ass handed to her, walks over and starts kicking this 15 year old in the face and head after she gets knocked out. I garantee those two cowards that where stomping her head after she was down are going to get some pay back.
Mark March 14, 2015
Thank feminism and other poisons in society for causing bystanders to be afraid of restraining little out of control girls from going crazy and hurting people. I would not have intervened because if the cops came, and I'm the only male in the fight, and nobody speaks up (which they DIDN'T) then the cops are going to arrest me first without a doubt, and I'll be thrown in jail with scum that might kill or rape me. That's why I wouldn't help.
Bob White March 14, 2015
GMAFB, there are no parents watching. Get on a bus with these savages sometime.
Jacksurface March 15, 2015
When members of a Police State violate our Black & Brown Communities ; we then get the asses and the masses to the street and protest. When we violate and brutal each other then we turn a blind eye . Or better yet, turn into the same coward spectators who looked amused and stood by and did nothing.
uncleRuckus#1 March 16, 2015
This is EXACTLY why black people are LOOKED upon by other races as MONKEYS, and SAVAGES who can't act right in public and deserve to be locked up. Smh, its sad that instead of uplifting our people we hate and envy so its taken upon themselves to commit such brutality and have the AUDACITY to try to flee or cover the their faces! What a sick world we live in.
Exsignature Enterprises March 18, 2015
It's sad when one wants justice for a wrong done to them and can't get assistance from those you once knew on the block or around the corner when you were there for them through thick and thin. Yet, they aren't there for us when we need them to come forth. People have a habit of mining their business when it's crucial for them to stand up and be counted. Instead, they run to hide their faces from the truth as it is.


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Northwoods Mall is an enclosed shopping mall in Peoria, Illinois. The mall opened in 1973. It is situated at the corner of Scenic Drive and U.S. Route 150 (West War Memorial Drive). The anchor stores are JCPenney, Round 1 Entertainment, and The RoomPlace. There is 1 vacant anchor store that was once Sears.

History
Northwoods Mall opened in 1973 and was designed by architects Sidney H. Morris & Associates of Chicago, with Harold Carson Associates as the manager. The original anchor stores upon opening were Montgomery Ward, Carson Pirie Scott (shortened later to Carson's), and JCPenney. Original tenants included Helzberg Diamonds, B. Dalton, Claire's, GNC, a Fannie May candy shop, a bank, Brown's Sporting Goods, and several restaurants.

The mall was sold to Simon Property Group in 1983. Carson's closed that same year and was replaced two years later by Famous-Barr. Also in 1983, a botulism outbreak at the mall's Skewer Inn restaurant affected 28 customers.

Montgomery Ward closed its store in the mall in 1997, and Sears occupied its space a year later. A 2005 renovation added a food court. The Famous-Barr store was re-branded as Macy's in 2006. On January 7, 2016, it was announced that Macy's would close in March 2016 as part of a plan to close 40 stores nationwide. In 2017, Round 1 Entertainment moved into part of the vacant Macy's store on the 1st floor which opened on November 18, 2017. In 2018, it was announced that The RoomPlace would move into the rest of the half vacant Macy's store on the 2nd floor which opened on May 11, 2018. On May 25, 2018, a Peoria police substation opened at the mall which is located on the upper level close to Sears. On August 24, 2018, it was announced that Hibbett Sports will open on September 15, 2018. The new store will open on the upper level close to Sears. On September 25, 2018, it was announced that a new store Go! Calendars, Games and Toys opened a few days ago. The space was once occupied by Hallmark Cards. On November 1, 2018, it was announced that an indoor Knockerball facility would open. The facility will open on the upper level next to Sears and will be open to the public as well as hosting private events. On November 20, 2018, it was announced that Forever 21 would open in the mall in summer 2020 but it might not ever open because of its bankruptcy. On November 7, 2019, it was announced that Sears would close in February 2020 as part of a plan to close 96 stores nationwide. After Sears closed, JCPenney became the only remaining traditional anchor store left. Sears closed on February 16, 2020. In 2020, Spirit Halloween served as a temporary anchor store in the former Sears.

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Q: Can i use divide in loop for PHP? Can i use divide in loop for PHP ?
I write code like that but not work.
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A: That should be $k = $k / 2, or $k /= 2.
As pointed out in the comments, you could also use a bit shift operation $k >>= 1.

A: Try with:
for ($k=100;$k>2;$k = $k/2) {
    echo $k;
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as he paraded by us at sunset.
than with one of Kay Ryan's (the recent Pulitzer prize winner) poems.
This was a post I did back in April on our last visit.
But then, I'm on vacation!
But I love reading all your comments!
Definitely looks like a bird on a mission.
Eye-popping and he does look like an emperor!
I missed it the first time so I'm glad you reposted! He does remind me of Yul Brynner in the King and I!!
This is a wonderful poem, and a perfect photograph for it Reena!
Perfect! Cannot wait to meet you!!!
Oh wow, what a beautiful bird. Great poem as well.
I'll think of this next time I see those stamps in the sand.
A beautiful picture for a great poem.
Have a nice day Reena.
I love the Kay Ryan poem!! I have not heard of her and can't wait to look her up and read more, I love poetry!! It fits perfectly with the amazing picture!! The picture is awesome!!! I have never seen an oyster catcher, they are quite something. I guess that have that long sturdy beak for breaking open the oysters. And he has matching socks, lipstick, and eye makeup!! So color coordinated!
This is my first visit to your blog, luv your creations.
That is one colorful bird!!!
The poem does go well with this bird. He's a beauty!
He matched his socks to his nose .. a true Floridian!
The poem describes him perfectly!
I love this poem... I will have to run out and purchase a book of hers - I like her style. Thanks for introducing me to her. I love your ocean front photography, too.


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Protests against order for demolition of Guru Ravidas Temple: SC warns of contempt
A three-judge Bench headed by Justice Arun Mishra says SC verdicts can't be politicised
As many parts of Punjab witnessed protests and bandh organised by Dalit groups against the Supreme Court's recent order to demolish Guru Ravidas Temple in Delhi, the court on Tuesday warned that it would initiate contempt proceedings against those involved.
"What do you think?...This is a Supreme Court order…You can't organise protests like this…You can't politicise our orders," a three-judge Bench headed by Justice Arun Mishra said after being told that some people were organising protests against the demolition order.
The top court had on April 2 ordered that the premises built on forest land had to be vacated and peaceful possession handed over to the DDA.
However, it was not done and on August 2, a false statement was allegedly made on behalf of office bearers of Guru Ravidas Jayanti Samaroh Samiti that the premises had been vacated.
After being told about it, the top court on August 9 directed the DDA to remove the structure by August 10 and asked the Commissioner of Delhi Police to provide protection for the purpose.
The Chief Secretary of Delhi was also directed to ensure compliance of its order.
It had also sought personal presence of office bearers of the Samiti and contempt notices be issued to them, if the order was not complied with.
On Tuesday, the court was told that the structure had been removed but some people were agitating against it in Punjab.
This angered the Bench, which said it would not tolerate such behaviour.
"Once the Supreme Court has passed the order, you can't indulge in politics over it…You can't politicise an order of the Supreme Court," said Justice Mishra.
The Bench requested Attorney General KK Venugopal to assist the court on this issue so as to settle the legal issue once for all.
The counsel for the Samiti tried to tell the Bench that the protests had been organised in Punjab and not in Delhi but the Bench wasn't impressed.
Three days after a Guru Ravidas Temple in Delhi was demolished, Dalit groups in Punjab organised protests against the Supreme Court's order resulting into the demolition.
There were reports from Jalandhar, Hoshiarpur, Kapurthala and Phagwara that bandh call evoked a good response with shops and commercial establishments remaining closed.
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No slaughter of goats and sheep inside flats, houses on Bakrid: Bombay HC
The Bombay high court on Tuesday banned the slaughter of sheep and goats in flats and homes during the forthcoming Eid festivities.
A division bench of Justice Satyaranjan Dharmadhikari and Justice Gautam Patel restrained the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) from giving such permissions for slaughter inside flats and houses.
The bench further allowed the corporation to give permission for slaughtering animals in housing societies, but has introduced a rider that approval should not be granted if the society is located within one kilometre walking distance from a community space for slaughtering, including a religious slaughtering space.
"In our view, the requirements of public safety, hygiene and sanitation makes it impossible to accept any policy that permits slaughtering inside individual flats. In a city that is as densely crowded and congested as Mumbai and where typical residential apartments are small, we do not believe it is possible to make effective arrangements for human, hygienic and safe methods of sacrificial slaughter within a residential flat. Many of these flats are homes for the very old or the very young (or both). We believe these concerns override all others," said the judges. "We restrain all slaughtering within residential flats or accommodations," added the judges.
The court has asked BMC to "strictly and stringently maintain all applicable safety, hygienic and public safety norms and requirements and to move expeditiously against all violations."
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Saudi Arabia sacks doctors with Pakistani MS/MD degrees, other Arab countries follow suit
Saudi Arabia and a few other Arab countries have rejected Pakistan's MS/MD postgraduate programme, making Pakistani doctors no longer eligible to work in the country, a Dawn report said on Wednesday.
According to the report, the move has left hundreds of highly qualified Pakistani doctors jobless. A lot of them, who are in Saudi Arabia, have been sacked or told to be ready for deportation.
After Saudi Arabia's decision, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Bahrain followed suit.
The Saudi health ministry reportedly claimed Pakistan's MS (Master of Surgery) and MD (Doctor of Medicine) programmes lacked structured training programme which is a mandatory requirement to hire medics for higher positions.
Termination letters were issued to several doctors by the Saudi Commission for Health Specialties (SCFHS) saying their applications for professional qualification have been rejected as the Pakistani degree is not acceptable according to its regulations, the report said.
The development has worried many senior doctors in Pakistan, one of whom told Dawn that local health authorities will take up the matter with Arab countries.
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We discuss modern monetary policy solutions most feared by the Plutocracy.
But it's only part of the plan for you, which I will describe at the end of this post.
Conservatives have long searched for an effective message against Social Security.
Remember that this is the party that wanted to enrich Wall Street and impoverish the retired, by forcing Social Security to invest in private securities.
Now, they seem to have found a new one to try as they set up a fight over the 80-year-old program in the coming Congress: The disabled are robbing the retired.
Social Security advocates describe it almost invariably as the "divide-and-conquer" strategy: Pit the program's two funds — the retirement and disability programs — against each other.
The disability fund won't be able to pay its full benefits starting in late 2016, and House Republicans passed a rule earlier this month stating that they won't allow a transfer of tax revenue from the retirement fund to cover the shortfall, as has been done multiple times on a bipartisan basis, most recently in 1994, unless Social Security's overall solvency is improved.
Remember also that the entire "Social Security solvency" concept is phony. The U.S. government uniquely is Monetarily Sovereign. It never can run short of its own sovereign currency, the dollar.
Thus, no federal agency can be insolvent unless Congress and the President wish it. If all federal tax collections fell to $0 today, the federal government could continue to pay all its bills, forever.
There is no "transfer of tax revenue," and never has been. Tax revenue ceases to exist once it is received by the Treasury. There is no SS insolvency, and never has been.The past reductions in SS benefits were unnecessary.
Republicans intend to use the need for reallocation as leverage to force a debate about the disability program — and perhaps, some conservatives hope and Democrats warn, Social Security as a whole.
It's like ocean sailors arguing about the best way to ration salt water.
"Social Security retirement funds have been raided far too many times for far too many years," Rep. Tom Reed (R-NY), who co-sponsored the House rule, said in a statement.
"My intention by doing this is to force us to look for a long term solution for SSDI rather than raiding Social Security to bail out a failing federal program.
How many cynical lies can one paragraph hold? Let us count them.
1. Social Security retirement funds are an accounting fiction; they do not exist before they are paid. If you receive benefits, the Treasury sends instructions (not dollars) to your bank, telling your bank to increase the balance in your checking account. At the moment your bank follows those instructions, dollars are created — not before. The dollars did not exist before your checking account was increased.
2. Non-existent funds cannot be "raided." Even if FICA were eliminated (which it should be), the Treasury could continue paying benefits ad hoc — even double or triple benefits — forever.
3. The "long-term solution for SSDI" does not require cutting benefits, as Reed wishes, but rather the recognition that the United States federal government has the unlimited ability to pay any dollar-denominated debt.
4. No federal program ever "raids" or is "bailed out" by another federal program.Congress and the President merely decide how much each program will spend. Period. The Treasury cannot run short of dollars. If the White House (a federal agency) runs short of money, it doesn't "raid" the Supreme Court (another federal agency) for dollars. Congress simply makes the allocation.
5. Retired taxpayers unnecessarily have "paid into the system" based on the Big Liethat in some mysterious way, the federal government, which created the dollar out of thin air, somehow can run out of dollars.
6. ". . . deserve no less." What retired taxpayers deserve is honesty and morality.Pitting old people against disabled people is the most rotten, lowest, filthiest gambit imaginable. One would hope even the Scrooge Party would be repulsed.
It's easy to demonize the DI program," Nancy Altman, co-director of Social Security Works, told TPM recently.
She referenced the conservative attempts in the '80s and '90s to push for changes to Social Security by playing the young and still working against the old and retired. But Republicans at the time quickly learned that the elderly are difficult to attack.
It's simple math: 48 million people receive retirement benefits versus 11 million receiving disability. People are less likely to balk if the disability fund is the hostage being taken.
–Playing the middle class against the poor by talking about "food stamp mamas," and claiming the poor are cheating the system.
–Playing the young against the old, by claiming the old are rich, lazy takers, being supported by the hard-working young.
–Playing the old against the disabled, by claiming the disabled are cheating the system and taking money from the old.
–Playing the workers against the immigrants, by claiming the immigrants are criminals who are cheating the system and "taking your jobs.
–Playing the whites against the blacks, by claiming the blacks are criminals, and a danger to the white community.
Who plays this game? The rich. Being a tiny minority (1%?), the rich need to make the poor and middle classes fight among themselves. That is the plan for you; that is how the 1% controls the 99%.
See the pattern? Someone always is accused of criminality and of taking your money, so you will have reason to hate them. Then you will forget it is the rich who really are cheating the system and taking money from you.
The rich, repeatedly try to demonize some smaller groups, so the majority will fight that group, and do the rich's dirty work.
It's rotten. It's disgusting. It's the lowest form of politics. It worked for Hitler. It worked for Stalin. It worked for Mao. It's the plan every despot has used to control a populace.
If you fall for it, your punishment will be of your own making, for one day, you will find yourself in the minority being demonized.
Meanwhile, make sure you or any of your loved ones don't have an accident and become disabled.


I measured the frequency response of the Monoprice Monolith THX Ultra 15" (product no. 24458) with an Audiomatica Clio FW 10 audio analyzer and MIC-01 measurement microphone, and in two different ways: the ground-plane technique, with the microphone on the ground 2m in front of the sub, and the result smoothed to 1/6 octave; and the close-miked technique, with the mike placed as close as possible (about 1/4") to the woofer and ports, and the port responses scaled and summed with the woofer response. I show the close-miked results here because those graphs are clearer; the ground-plane results were within a couple of Hz of them. For the power-compression measurement, I placed the mike on the ground 2m from the front of the sub.
The two sets of measurements presented here -- CEA-2010 and the traditional method -- are essentially the same. CEA-2010 mandates that no matter how the sub is measured, the results must be scaled to the equivalent of a measurement at 1m distance using peak values. But the traditional measurement technique used by some audio websites and manufacturers reports results at 2m RMS equivalent, which is -9dB lower than CEA-2010. An "L" next to the result indicates that the output was dictated by the subwoofer's internal circuitry (i.e., limiter), and not by exceeding the CEA-2010 distortion thresholds. Averages are calculated in pascals.
This chart shows the Monolith THX Ultra's frequency response with the crossover frequency set to maximum and the sub set to Extended (rather than THX) mode. I'll show the effects of the crossover and the THX mode in the next graph. You can see that the bass output gradually rises as more ports are opened, and that the response is pretty much flat up to 200Hz. With two and three ports open, the -3dB point (using the peak of the sub's response curve as that +3dB reference point) is 14Hz. Even in sealed mode, it hits 16Hz.
This chart shows the response of the crossover and the effect of the THX mode, measured with all of the sub's ports sealed. The crossover frequency was 80Hz, and, as the chart shows, the control is accurately calibrated (not usually the case), and the low-pass function is about -22dB/octave. The THX mode reduces bass output by about 4dB at 20Hz.
This chart shows how the Monolith THX Ultra's frequency response is affected by increases in volume. I measured this with all three ports open in THX mode, starting at 106dB at 2m, calibrated at 63Hz, then raised the level 3dB for each successive measurement. You can see that the Monolith's frequency response doesn't change as it reaches its output limits; with many subs -- especially those with limiters that are set with higher thresholds, which allow greater distortion -- the bass response begins to weaken as the sub reaches the limits of its capabilities. Unfortunately, I had to return the sub in a hurry due to an upcoming trip, and didn't have time to measure its output in the Extended (non-THX) mode, but based on the frequency-response measurements and what I heard, I expect the Extended-mode output measurements would average about 2dB higher than THX mode.
Please note that if you haven't seen subwoofer distortion numbers before and are used to looking at amplifier distortion specs, some of these may look high. But in loudspeakers, and especially subwoofers, much higher distortion levels are the norm, and typically are inaudible. The generally accepted threshold for the audibility of total harmonic distortion in subwoofers is 10%, and CEA-2010 thresholds permit a maximum THD of around 30%.
The Monolith THX Ultra's CEA-2010 output numbers are excellent -- among the best I've measured for a sub of this size and configuration.
This chart tracks the CEA-2010 results of the Monoprice Monolith THX Ultra (blue trace) compared with three other ported subs that are somewhat comparable: two 15" models (Hsu Research VTF-15H Mk.2 and Klipsch R-115SW), and one 13" model (SVS PC13-Ultra). The Monoprice doesn't have quite as much output at higher bass frequencies as some models, but has more deep-bass output than the three other models, and a more consistent maximum output throughout the two octaves covered in the chart.


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Maskarensothöna (Fulica newtonii) är en utdöd art i familjen rallar som förekom på La Réunion och på Mauritius. Den sista rapporten är från 1693.

Utseende
Maskarensothönan var med sina 45 cm i kroppslängd en relativt stor sothöna som troligen utvecklades från kamsothöna. Det är oklart om maskarensothönan saknade de röda svullna knoppar ovanför näbbskölden som finns hos kamsothönan eller om det bara inte har rapporterats. Dubois beskrev arten 1674 som "vattenhönor som är stora som höns. De är alltid svarta och har en stor vit tofs på huvudet."

Utbredning
Sedan länge är fågeln känd från subfossila lämningar funna i träskområdet Mare aux Songes på Mauritius, men antas ha förekommit även på grannön La Réunion utifrån reserapporter. Under senare tid har subfossila lämningar hittats även där. Fågeln beskriven i reserapporter från Mauritius antogs länge röra rörhönor som förekommer där även idag, men det verkar som att rörhönsen koloniserade ön först när maskarensothönan hade dött ut.

Utdöende
Dubois är den som nämner maskarensothönan senast. År 1667 hade François Martin redan klagat på att jägare hade utrotat populationen i lagunen Etang de Saint-Paul även om det rådde delade meningar huruvida fågeln var god att äta eller inte: "[1665] var floddalen vid Saint-Gilles full av gäss och vattenhöns och djupen fulla av fisk /../ vattenhönorna tillät en att komma tillräckligt nära för att fånga dem i handen; vi tog alla ombord. Vi såg [vid 1667] inga gäss och inga vattenhönor på Etang de St Paul som tidigare var täckt av dem."

På Mauritius klarade sig fågeln något bättre. Leguat var den sista som 1693 såg de endemiska "poules d'eau" och konstaterade att de redan var sällynta. Bortsett från jakt var habitatförstörelse en viktig orsak till maskarensothönans utdöende.

Namn
Fågelns vetenskapliga artnamn hedrar Edward Newton (1832-1897), brittisk kolonialadministratör på Mauritius och naturforskare.

Referenser
Artikeln bygger på delvis en översättning från engelskspråkiga wikipedias artikel Mascarene coot, läst 2016-10-20

Noter

Externa länkar

Rallar
Utdöda fågelarter
Endemiska fågelarter i Maskarenerna


My dearly beloved daughter, those of you who pray My Crusade Prayers diligently, know that I bring relief to the world from the snares of the devil.
The old serpent falls and stumbles losing much power when you strive to say My Crusade Prayers, daily. And while the times of great trials continue, your prayers will create many setbacks in the plans created by Masonic powers in the world, which are designed to create havoc in order to control the weak and vulnerable. Just one Crusade Prayer, said from the heart, is enough for Me to destroy the power of arrogant political leaders, who do not have a conscience.
Egoism is a curse and a liability to mankind's ability to live in harmony and peace. The obsession with personal ambition brings nothing but division, as man strives to dominate those he feels he needs to, in order to gain much.
Those of you who follow, blindly, the orders of those in positions of power, who direct you into committing acts, which you know are abhorrent in the Eyes of God, then you, too, will be found as guilty as those who tempt you to carry out such wickedness. The men and women, whose power over others has been created because of corrupt acts and other means, will have much work to do, if they wish to enjoy My Glorious Kingdom.
I will fell the egotists and proud amongst you. I will throw you onto the ground, until you become as humble as those you trample upon.
I will cut out the hearts of those hardened and stubborn souls who care nothing for anyone's needs, except their own. They will be taught that if they cannot love, then they shall not have it. Instead of love, they seek only idolization. These poor souls who have been elevated before you in the world, in every form, are victims of Satan. Instead of applauding their boastfulness and accepting their insatiable need for public adoration, you must pray for their souls as many have sold them.
Many souls in positions of influence over others, including those in politics, the world of music, the media, the entertainment business and those in high finance, are to be held in your hearts, as many have become slaves to themselves and their needs, which serve only their own lusts and desires. They infest the innocent, who emulate them and copy their lifestyles, which have separated them from God.
I, Jesus, condemn the world of false idols created by those who want nothing but power, wealth and the ability to influence others.
The spread of atheism has been caused by man's pride in his own ability. It has been caused by man's belief that mortal man, because of the Gift of human intelligence, has all the answers to the true meaning of your life on Earth.
Young souls have been lost to Me because they idolize false idols in the form of worldly goods, fashion, music and the world of entertainment. It isn't that they must not enjoy life – because this brings Me happiness – it is their lack of love for Me and their own bodies which grieve Me. They were born pure and perfect. Their bodies are a Gift from Heaven. They desecrate their bodies and have no shame in performing obscene acts in order to draw innocent souls towards them. Many of those with such power have sold their souls for their diabolically inspired gifts. The only reason they were given these gifts was to provide pleasure to the world, as a talent given to them by God. But, Satan tempted many and promised them, in return for their souls, a glorious and glittering life of wealth, adulation, fame and pleasure. When they received these gifts, they then used them to infest other souls. And so, it continues, until millions of other souls become slaves to Satan. Many souls who follow false idols become drawn to drug addiction. They have no shame, no modesty nor real love for each other, as each tries to vie for the greatest attention.
So much time is spent in the battle for self-glory, which is caused by an obsessive love of themselves, that God plays no role at all in their lives. Many of them reject God openly through the desecration of the Holy Crucifix – so little shame do they have. Know that they would suffer a terrible fate, were I not to intervene. These are just one group of lost souls, which I will garner and then provide them with the Gift of salvation, because of your prayers My beloved followers. I will take them through this special prayer, into My Refuge.


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#ifndef CUDA_OPENGL_ERROR_H
#define CUDA_OPENGL_ERROR_H

#include <GL/gl.h>
#include <GL/glu.h>

#if !defined(__GNUC__) && !defined(__PRETTY_FUNCTION__)
#define __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ "(unknown function)"
#endif

#if defined(__CUDACC__) || defined(NVCC) || defined(CUDA_SIMPLE_ERROR)

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

#define CUDA_OPENGL_CHECK(call) {	\
    call;				\
    GLenum err = glGetError();		\
    if(err != GL_NO_ERROR)		\
      abort();				\
}

#define CUDA_OPENGL_ERROR(msg) CUDA_ERROR(msg)

#else  // defined(__CUDACC__) || defined(NVCC)

#include <sstream>
#include <stdexcept>
#include <string>
#include <iostream>

#include <cuda_runtime.h>
#include <driver_types.h>

#define CUDA_OPENGL_CHECK(call) {					\
    call;								\
    GLenum err = glGetError();						\
    if(err != GL_NO_ERROR)						\
      throw ::Cuda::OpenGL::Error(__FILE__, __LINE__, __PRETTY_FUNCTION__, (int)err, 0); \
}

#define CUDA_OPENGL_ERROR(msg) { std::ostringstream s; s << msg; throw ::Cuda::Error(__FILE__, __LINE__, __PRETTY_FUNCTION__, 0, s.str().c_str()); }

namespace Cuda {
namespace OpenGL {

class Error: public std::exception
{
public:
  Error(const char *file, int line, const char *function, GLenum code, const char *comment) throw()
  {
    std::ostringstream s;
    s << "OpenGL error in " << file << ':' << line << std::endl << function << std::endl;

    if(code != 0)
      s << '#' << code << ": " << (const char *)gluErrorString(code) << std::endl;

    if(comment != 0)
      s << comment << std::endl;

    message = s.str();
	std::cout << s.str();
  }

  ~Error() throw()
  {
  }

  const char *what() const throw()
  {
    return message.c_str();
  }

private:
  std::string message;
};

}  // namespace OpenGL
}  // namespace Cuda

#endif  // defined(__CUDACC__) || defined(NVCC)

#endif

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