Focus: My primary work investigates how people think about knowledge (their epistemic cognition), using writing practices as a lens onto that. Writing practices, here, are broadly construed to include activities such as: Information seeking; reading; annotation; writing itself (both the process and the output); and self and peer assessment.
Why: Literacy, including the ability to communicate effectively in written form, is key to full participation in society. It involves the abilities to seek and identify claims, understand source qualities, and integrate information from across multiple (sometimes competing) sources. How people think about these processes, their evaluative standards, beliefs about how knowledge is inter-related, and the nature of expertise and knowledge construction, are bound up with their behaviours. Analysis of the kinds of practices engaged in around writing is an important part of understanding how to support advanced literacy skills in students.
Examples: I am interested in developing research that addresses the kinds of: experimental paradigms, such as multiple document processing tasks, to investigate student writing; analytic techniques to explore semantic and meta-discourse properties of written outputs, and their relation to source documents; analysis of writing processes, including collaborative and temporal analyses (see some resources here); and assessment tools to explore the best methods for feedback and constructive peer and self-assessment or calibrated peer review.
Focus: I am also interested in collaborative knowledge practices, including co-writing, giving of formative feedback, and joint enterprise on the processes above.
Why: I see epistemic cognition and learning as fundamentally collaborative, socioculturally embedded activities. I'm interested in knowledge as discursively situated, as both constitutive of and constituted in discourse practices. In addition, effective collaboration can play a key role in improving learning outcomes. Understanding what 'effective collaboration' looks like, and how to use new and emerging tools for such analysis, contributes to our support for collaborative knowledge practices in students targeted at developing life-long learning skills.
Examples: I am interested in research around how we measure and assess collaboration in various contexts, what the appropriate units of analysis are, and how this information can be represented to learners effectively. Understanding the ways in which collaborative writing practices differ from, and extend (or perhaps limit) individual writing is also of interest.
Focus: In all of my work I'll be interested in considerations of underlying policy, practice, and 'learning infrastructure' issues. The wider context of our work is important, and central to CIC's mission.
Why: Taking a systems approach entails thinking about how people interact within particular contexts, thinking about how research can be applied in real world contexts, and looking at the broad set of needs in human-centered design – for example, not just developing an analytic technology, but thinking about how it fits into pedagogy, and how it support actionable feedback.
Examples: I am particularly interested in research that will develop effective participatory methods of developing learning analytic techniques in partnership with key stakeholders, methods for integrating learning analytics in learning design, and consideration of effective behavioural interventions arising from learning analytics. I'm also interested in work around human-data-interaction, and quantified self in education, and potential for a kind of playful approach to learner data (see: dear-learner).


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MeraKisan's unique business model augments disintermediation at various levels in the fruits and vegetables delivery value chain, directly benefitting the farmer and the end consumer.
MeraKisan Pvt. Ltd. shall operate in sourcing fruits, vegetables and other agricultural produce directly from farmers and sell to customers, facilitated by a digital technology platform namely www.shopping.merakisan.com.
Prashanth Patil from the founding family of MeraKisan is now the majority stakeholder of MeraKisan Pvt Ltd and will be the CEO of the company, responsible for running its operations.


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The New Commercial Court Law - Highlights of the new law
The new Commercial Court Law (the Law) issued by Royal Decree No. (M / 93) dated 15/08/1441 AH is considered a "quantum leap" in the development of the commercial judiciary in the Kingdom. It includes provisions that concern investors, traders and their counterparts in commercial transactions, as well as keeping pace with the Kingdom's 2030 vision, which aims to build a strong and diversified economy for the Kingdom.
The new law consists of 96 articles divided into eleven chapters and published in the Official Gazette, "Umm Al-Qura", on 14/08/1441 (corresponding to 07/04/2020). It will come into effect after a period of 60 days has elapsed from the date of its publication in the official gazette (18 June 2020). During this period, the Shari'a Pleadings Law will apply to pending cases before the Commercial Courts.
This Law is based on many principles, the most important of which are, but not limited to, the speed of adjudication in claims and encouraging the use of peaceful means to resolve disputes (mediation and conciliation). The Law permits the Court to use the private sector in serving notices, serving judgments, exchanging statements, documenting evidentiary procedures and administering specific circuits of the Court.
Other advantages include merging between graduates of Shari'a and secular law when forming judicial circuits, use of electronic platforms in line with the Saudi Ministry of Justice's approach to a fully digital transformation and encouraging the role of lawyers and protecting the KSA Bar from those with no professional licences.
In order to speed the process of adjudication, communication and coordination between the circuits has been facilitated through the formation of Commercial Courts from the First Instance and Appellate Court and the permissibility of forming circuits with one judge instead of three. The impact of this is that, in essence, the number of Courts available to hear cases will increase, improving court efficiency.
It is now possible to serve notices via the verified digital address indicated in the disputed contract, or the digital address registered in the Commercial Register or address verified by the postal office. The parties can also choose the address of a lawyer to receive notices. The Law also describes procedures for serving notices to verified digital addresses via a text message to a verified mobile phone number, or via authenticated email addresses.
The Law states that the jurisdiction of the Commercial Court is to consider disputes arising between traders connected with their original or ancillary business. Claims can be filed against a trader as a commercial contract dispute, if the claimed amount exceeds SAR 100,000. The High Judicial Council may, if necessary, increase the jurisdictional amount. In addition to the aforesaid cases, the following will fall also within the Commercial Court's jurisdiction:
Partners' disputes in the Mudaraba companies;
Claims and violations arising from the application of the provisions of the Company and Bankruptcy Laws;
Claims and violations arising from the application of intellectual property law;
Claims and violations arising from the application of other Commercial Laws;
Claims related to a possessor, trustee, liquidator or the appointed expert;
If the dispute is in the Court's jurisdiction, claims for compensation for damages arising from a case previously heard by the Court.
Other developments include:
Where an application is made by one party contesting the jurisdiction of the Commercial Court this must be adjudicated within 20 days of the application.
The claimant is required to submit all requests and documents with the statement of claim as an alternative to having each document submitted during hearings; in return the defendant submits all his documents at least one day before the first hearing.
Where urgent requests are concerned the matter can be heard expeditiously by one judge. The judge can also impose travel bans. Whilst the judgment can be enacted immediately, the Court is obligated to send the parties a copy of the ruling within a period not exceeding 20 days from the date of pronouncement.
Another advantage introduced by the Law is the prompt restoration of rights to their owners. Here, the creditor can apply to the Commercial Court requesting the issuance of a ruling to claim a debt, provided that the debt is a fixed amount in writing and due, and the debtor must be notified in writing of the request for payment at least 5 days before the Claimant applies to the Court.
Limitation period - The new Commercial Court Law provides that no claim shall be heard after the lapse of 5 years from the date at which the claimed rights/entitlements arise; unless the defendant admits the right or the claimant provides an acceptable excuse for the delay in filing the claim.
The Commercial Court law has adopted the concept of class actions.
The law introduced financial fines during hearings and proceedings to urge parties to abide by their duties. The legislator gave the right to the Commercial Court when one of the parties violates the procedures or when not attending hearings to issue a fine not exceeding SAR10,000 and the Court's decision on this will be final. It may also impose the same fine in the event that one of the parties fails to submit its memorandum or fails to submit any requested document within the specified dates.
The Law permits the parties to agree on the Court's subject jurisdiction, and also allows them to agree on specific rules to provide proofs of evidence, and the permissibility of agreeing to transfer the burden of proof. The law also permits the litigants, if they are merchants, the right to agree on pleading procedures and related matters.
Along with the variety of advantages mentioned in the Law, a number of important Commercial Law articles have been stipulated, including freedom of proof, where proof can be established in commercial matters by all means including digital proof such as digital editor and digital media and means of communication, e-mail, digital registers and others determined by the soon to be published Executive Regulations.
Whereas the Commercial Law stems from trade practices and since it is difficult to set articles to encompass all commercial transactions, the legislator has permitted reliance on the rules of commercial custom between parties, and made the burden of proving their presence on those which adhere to them. The Law permitted also the submission of written testimony as proof with no need to bring witnesses during hearings, as the Court assesses their integrity through hearing the details of the circumstances of the claim.
Finally, the Law addresses claims regarding urgent enforceability and in the event that the judgment or ruling is for an urgent claim, the Court may, upon the request of whom the ruling is in favour, decide to include in the judgment urgent enforceability in the event that any delay with the ruling might cause serious damage.
The new Law is clearly a step forward in bringing the Saudi Legal System up to date and introducing efficiencies. Whilst it is early days, the hope is that the Commercial Courts will introduce confidence into the system thus enhancing the confidence of foreign investors.
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Juan Ignacio Martínez, né le  à Alicante (Espagne), est un entraîneur espagnol de football.

À l'heure actuelle il est l'entraîneur du Réal Zaragoza

Biographie
Après une modeste carrière comme joueur (il joue au poste d'arrière latéral gauche dans des divisions régionales avec CD Benicarló et Alicante CF), il se reconvertit en entraîneur. Il commence par entraîner durant plusieurs saisons les juniors du FC Torrevieja. Il entraîne également des équipes féminines.

Lors de la saison 2005-2006, Martínez est champion du groupe 4 de la Segunda división B (troisième division) avec le FC Cartagena. Mais lors des play-off de promotion, l'équipe ne parvient pas à monter en Liga Adelante (deuxième division). Il entraîne ensuite le CD Alcoyano.

En 2007, il prend les rênes de l'UD Salamanca, club qui milite en deuxième division. L'équipe termine à la septième place. En 2008, il est recruté par l'Albacete Balompié.

En 2009, il retourne au FC Cartagena, club qui vient d'être promu en deuxième division. Il obtient la cinquième place au classement, ce qui est la meilleure performance de l'histoire du club.

En , Martínez devient l'entraîneur du Levante UD en Liga BBVA (première division). Lors de sa première saison, le club se classe à la sixième place et se qualifie pour la Ligue Europa. Pour la première fois dans l'histoire du club, Levante participe ainsi à une compétition européenne.

En , il est recruté par le Real Valladolid. Il quitte le club en mai 2014 après la relégation du club en D2.

Le , il devient entraîneur de l'UD Almería, club de première division, où il remplace Francisco. Il est limogé en , après la  de championnat alors que le club occupe une place de relégable. Il est remplacé par Sergi Barjuan.

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Naissance en juin 1964
Naissance à Alicante
Footballeur espagnol
Joueur de l'Alicante CF
Entraîneur espagnol de football
Entraîneur de l'Alicante CF
Entraîneur de l'Albacete Balompié
Entraîneur du FC Cartagena
Entraîneur du Levante UD
Entraîneur du Real Valladolid
Entraîneur de l'UD Almería
Entraîneur du CD Alcoyano
Entraîneur du Al Arabi SC (Koweït)

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Last year, Charleston resident K. Cooper Ray, founder of Social Primer, teamed up with Brooks Brothers to create a line of reversible bow ties. Ray's website Social Primer is all about manners, conversation, style, and handling your liquor - all important skills for Southern gentlemen to possess. Ray hosted a launch party for his ties at the King Street Brooks Brothers last summer, with a shag band set up in the corner, a South of Broad crowd, and a steady stream of refreshing cocktails. The ties were a hit, sweeping men's style blogs across the country.


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Congress Dodges Free File Question, Passes IRS Reform Bill
Forbes32 day(s) ago
Sign on IRS headquarter building in downtown Washington DC If at first you dont succeed try try again And again After a number of iterations the Taxpayer First Act has finally passed the House and the Senate The key provisions in the Taxpayer First Act have been reform talking points for well over a year A proposal was introduced in the Ways and Means Oversight Subcommittee in March of 2018 but ultimately went nowhere Congress tried again in 2019 with the originally-named Taxpayer First Act of 2019 The bill was intended to modernize the Internal Revenue Service IRS and strengthen taxpayer protections A final version of the House bill HR 3151 Taxpayer First Act was reintroduced by the Chairman of the Ways and Means Oversight Subcommittee Rep John Lewis D-GA and Ranking Member Mike Kelly R-PA on June 6 2019 Chairman Lewis called the bill a ray of hope It is he said a significant win for the American people because it demonstrates that even in the most difficult times we can come together as a nation as a people and as a Congress to accomplish important things for the American people We developed this bill the way legislation should be created We listened to the voices of taxpayers advocates and experts We asked questions for many months The Oversight Subcommittee hosted hearings and roundtables Democratic and Republican members shared their concerns and ideas We negotiated We took our time and believe that we did it right The bill passed by voice vote on June 10 2019 and included many new provisions focused on improving service for taxpayers Included are calls for a new Internal Revenue Service IRS Independent Office of Appeals seizure modifications improved IRS customer service and provisions for cybersecurity and identity theft protection You can read more about the original provisions here Most of the provisions focused on improving IRS service and strengthening taxpayer rights survived to the final version There was however a notable exception codification of the Free File program In the original version of the bill the Free File program would have continued SEC 1102 IRS FREE FILE PROGRAM a In General The Secretary of the Treasury or the Secretarys delegate shall continue to operate the IRS Free File Program as established by the Internal Revenue Service and published in the Federal Register on November 4 2002 67 Fed Reg 67247 including any subsequent agreements and governing rules established pursuant thereto The IRS Free File Program shall continue to provide free commercial-type online individual income tax preparation and electronic filing services to the lowest 70 percent of taxpayers by adjusted gross income The number of taxpayers eligible to receive such services each year shall be calculated by the Internal Revenue Service annually based on prior year aggregate taxpayer adjusted gross income data In addition to the services described in paragraph 2 and in the same manner the IRS Free File Program shall continue to make available to all taxpayers without regard to income a basic online electronic fillable forms utility The IRS Free File Program shall continue to work cooperatively with the private sector to provide the free individual income tax preparation and the electronic filing services described in paragraphs 2 and 3 The IRS Free File Program shall work cooperatively with State government agencies to enhance and expand the use of the program to provide needed benefits to the taxpayer while reducing the cost of processing returns b Innovations The Secretary of the Treasury or the Secretarys delegate shall work with the private sector through the IRS Free File Program to identify and implement consistent with applicable law innovative new program features to improve and simplify the taxpayers experience with completing and filing individual income tax returns through voluntary compliance With Free File low-to-middle income taxpayers have access to free tax prep software According to the IRS up to 100 million taxpayers or 70 of filers are eligible to use the program You can read more about Free File here IRS Commissioner Chuck Rettig has called the program an important tool that allows taxpayers free access to electronic filing of their tax returns He further noted that Free File has been a great partnership with the private sector However that partnership is what raised eyebrows for some lawmakers While 70 of taxpayers could use the program the actual use is closer to 3 Some of the concerns were raised after a ProPublica article alleged that the bill would have barred the IRS from creating its own version of the program Sen Kelly disputed that characterization in a subsequent op-ed Additional questions about the role of the private sector in the program made it clear that the provision was going to be a deal-breaker The cleanest solution was to pull it there is no mention of Free File in the final version of HR 3151 you can read it here which sailed through the House After the bill passed Sen Charles Grassley R-IA noted that The House passage of the bipartisan bicameral Taxpayers First Act is the first step toward reforming the IRS and strengthening taxpayer protections It should pass in the Senate without delay An identical version passed the Senate a few days later The President is expected to sign the bill
Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/kellyphillipserb/2019/06/13/congress..


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Esta é uma lista de municípios do estado brasileiro do Rio de Janeiro por Índice de Desenvolvimento Humano (IDH), segundo dados do Programa da Nações Unidas para o Desenvolvimento (PNUD) datados do ano 2010. De acordo com os dados de 2010, o município com o maior Índice de Desenvolvimento Humano no estado do Rio de Janeiro era Niterói, com um índice de 0,837 (considerado muito alto), e o município com o menor índice foi Sumidouro, com um índice de 0,611 (considerado médio). De todos os municípios do estado, apenas 1 município registrou um IDH muito alto, enquanto 57 apresentaram um IDH alto, 34 IDH médio, e nenhum município IDH baixo ou muito baixo.

O cálculo do índice é composto a partir de dados de expectativa de vida ao nascer (IDH-L), educação (IDH-E), e PIB em Paridade do Poder de Compra per capita (IDH-R) recolhidos em nível nacional ou regional, e possui o objetivo de medir o padrão de vida. O índice foi desenvolvido em 1990 pelos economistas Amartya Sen e Mahbub ul Haq, e vem sendo usado desde 1993 pelo Programa das Nações Unidas para o Desenvolvimento (PNUD).

O Índice de Desenvolvimento Humano varia de 0 até 1, e nesta lista é dividido em cinco categorias: IDH muito alto (0,800 – 1,000), IDH alto (0,700 – 0,799), IDH médio (0,600  0,699), IDH baixo (0,500 – 0,599) e IDH muito baixo (0,000 – 0,499).

Lista completa dos municípios
  = aumento;
  = estável;
  = perda;
 Os valores similares do IDH na lista atual não conduzem a relações classificatórias, já que a classificação do IDH é realmente determinada usando valores do IDH ao sexto ponto decimal.
 Os números colocados entre parênteses representam a diferença entre as posições relativas aos dados de 2000.

Desenvolvimento muito alto

Desenvolvimento humano alto

Desenvolvimento humano médio

Ver também
 Lista de municípios do Rio de Janeiro
 Lista de municípios do Rio de Janeiro por IFDM
 Lista de municípios do Rio de Janeiro por população
 Lista de municípios do Rio de Janeiro por área
 Lista de municípios do Rio de Janeiro por PIB
 Lista de municípios do Rio de Janeiro por IDH (2000)

Ligações externas
 Ranking decrescente do IDH-M dos municípios do Brasil

IDH
Municipios Rio Janeiro
Demografia do Rio de Janeiro


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Plug the gap: Audi beleives only vehicles less than four metres in length (like the A1) are suitable for purely battery-powered propulsion.
AUDI has revealed its move towards electrification will be dictated by the size of passenger vehicles.
While every model from the A1 up to A8 limousine will be made available with some form of electric propulsion under the 'e-tron' nomenclature from next year, the company says only the smallest ones – including the upcoming A2 – will most probably be offered with pure battery electric vehicle (BEV) power.
This means that while Audi's best seller – the A3 – will most likely adopt full BEV electrification, it will use hybrid electric-motor assist and plug-in hybrid EV (PHEV) technology in the shorter term – with the latter already confirmed for limited production next year.
Other PHEV models Audi has already confirmed will soon follow include the second-generation R8, A4 and Q7, but the A3 e-tron PHEV is expected to account for the lion's share of electrification sales.
Speaking with GoAuto at the Geneva motor show earlier this month, Audi AG electrification director Frank Van Meel, said factors such as real-world usage and range will limit the spread of BEVs of more than four metres in length until technology improves.
Future battery developments may greatly increase the range of BEVs as lighter and more advanced materials make their way into small cars, but by then other solutions such as the hydrogen fuel cell vehicle may also become more viable in terms of price and infrastructural availability.
From top: Audi AG electrification director Frank Van Meel, Audi A2 concept, New Audi A3.
"With the electrification of our vehicles – from the customer standpoint – is how do I want to use my vehicle?" Mr Meel said.
"If you look at the Audi 'A' and 'B' class vehicles (small segment upwards), they are more or less long-distance vehicles, for highway and long travels, so a purely electrical version of those vehicle platforms does not really make sense because then it destroys the idea of the vehicle itself.
"So it means that, for those sorts of vehicles, we are pursuing the issue of plug-in hybrids (PHEV), because with a PHEV we can combine purely electrical driving in the city with the long-distance efficiency of an internal combustion engine. So by that you can use an Audi A8, A6 or A4 for long-distance travel, and on the other side you can run them on purely electrical around town.
"The smaller the vehicle gets, the closer you come to 'Mega City Vehicle' (pure urban EV runabouts) usage, so we have the A1 e-tron as a principle of a concept car with a range extender just to make sure you don't get stuck. (We did this) to find out if that is the right way… and so the smaller a vehicle is, the stronger the pure electrification side.
"So for the (2011 Frankfurt show car) A2 concept we are currently discussing as a pure BEV, but we are also discussing other forms of electrification as well that we should be able to fit into that platform. "For a classic (small car) like the A3 it is more or less borderline, but that's still the discussion that has to come from the customer side because we cannot decide for the customer how they are going to use their cars.
Still, Mr Meel revealed that many of the 20 hand-picked trial users of the A1 e-tron concept in Germany demand a vehicle that can also travel long distances, limiting the practical application of a BEV even in the company's lightest and smallest production car currently available.
"One of our key findings (with the A1 e-tron trial) is that people in the city – even though we are talking about a Mega City Vehicle – still want to have total usage of the vehicle. They don't want to have anything compromised. They want to have full luggage capacity. They want to have the ability to carry more people when they go out at night or a sports event. Even if we are talking about an EV with short range, they want the full capabilities of a regular vehicle.
"Another finding… is that most people charge at home, and that charging spots are still difficult to find, or are locked, or occupied – so from the customers point of view (using an EV) is still not as easy and convenient (as it should be).
Mr Meel said Audi would release the A1 e-tron trial findings later on this year, but the decision on whether Ingolstadt will employ the rotary range-extender in its smallest car has still not been decided.
"(But) the range-extender principle is still a discussion that is ongoing because there are some customers that use the range-extender to go long distances, and that's not what it is there for," he added.
The A1 e-tron concept's front wheels are driven solely by an electric motor for up to 50km before a unique rotary internal combustion petrol engine connected to the battery pack (and not the wheels) fires up to recharge the 270-volt lithium-ion batteries for approximately another 200km of range.
With a plug-in outlet incorporated behind the grille badge, charging time is rated at about eight hours while the 75kW/240Nm output is on a par with today's 1.2TSI model.


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A: According to the LiveDocX blog, adding html formatted text during a merge was supposed to be a feature of version 1.3 (currently, the production version is 1.2), but they decided to go ahead and merge the 1.3 branch and 1.2 together, effectively updating 1.2
This should mean that html formatted merge content is possible however there is absolutely no mention of this in the API documentation - http://www.livedocx.com/pub/documentation/api.aspx - or the blog - http://blog.livedocx.com/
Perhaps, as a work around, you could write a script that would make your stored content available as a webpage and then use a service such as websnapr.com to capture an image of that content and then insert the image into the document using LiveDocX.
As an aside, I'm looking for alternatives to LiveDocX also and will post a question on Stackoverflow.

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Design is the process of meshing together all the factors and ideas understood during the previous phases and developing solutions to accommodate the client's needs in the building layout and form, within the site context. It is the outer manifestation of the architecture which best expresses that understanding and "vision".
Develop design schemes meshing programming and site requirements.
Bring to life Client's ideas.
Designed projects from retreat houses to large public buildings.
Worked with individuals to large public agencies to synthesize designs.
Designed wide variety of projects over 35 year career.


To celebrate our beginning of sales of Tiles here are some differences between ceramic and porcelain tiles.
Vinyl flooring is entirely waterproof, so it can be used virtually anywhere inside the home. It is especially suited to wet areas, where water often ends up on the floor, such as bathrooms, kitchens and laundries.


From our offshore days I have some low rpm permanent motors for wind and/or trolling generators. They range in price from $200 to $50.
The one in the center of the photo provided all of our charging needs for most of a circumnavigation producing 10 amps in trade winds as a wind generator and 8 to 10 amps with 8 knots of boat speed as a trolling generator.
We also have a 28′ diameter parachute sea anchor for which we will be asking $800.
Hi Don and Bridget, Do you still have any of the generators and if so how much do you want for each particular one.
Are you still at Birds Eye Cove?


By the beginning of September, I'll have my new kitchen and be SO EXCITED to be making normal food again. In the meantime I do have some recipes in the backlog to get up, and I've been experimenting with baking recipes without measuring cups. 🙂 Came out decent though!
I made these Peanut Butter No-Bake Bars, and they really do taste just like Reese's Cups like Michelle says!


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Lines of Flight
Discursive Time and Countercultural Desire in the Work of Thomas Pynchon
Post-Contemporary Interventions
Book Pages: 304 Illustrations: 4 illus. Published: November 2002
Author: Stefan Mattessich
Literature and Literary Studies > Literary Theory
For Thomas Pynchon, the characteristic features of late capitalism—the rise of the military-industrial complex, consumerism, bureaucratization and specialization in the workplace, standardization at all levels of social life, and the growing influence of the mass media—all point to a transformation in the way human beings experience time and duration. Focusing on Pynchon's novels as representative artifacts of the postwar period, Stefan Mattessich analyzes this temporal transformation in relation not only to Pynchon's work but also to its literary, cultural, and theoretical contexts.
Mattessich theorizes a new kind of time—subjective displacement—dramatized in the parody, satire, and farce deployed through Pynchon's oeuvre. In particular, he is interested in showing how this sense of time relates to the counterculture of the 1960s and 1970s. Examining this movement as an instance of flight or escape and exposing the beliefs behind it, Mattessich argues that the counterculture's rejection of the dominant culture ultimately became an act of self-cancellation, a rebellion in which the counterculture found itself defined by the very order it sought to escape. He points to parallels in Pynchon's attempts to dramatize and enact a similar experience of time in the doubling-back, crisscrossing, and erasure of his writing. Mattessich lays out a theory of cultural production centered on the ethical necessity of grasping one's own susceptibility to discursive forms of determination.
"Mattessich has written a study to match the difficulty of his subject matter, enacting some of the same processes of self-reflection and self-erasure he identifies in Pynchon's work." — Virginia Quarterly Review
"Those interested in, certainly, Pynchon, but also continental philosophy and contemporary American culture will profit from this book. . . ." — Jerry Varsava , International Fiction Review
"Lines of Flight is an impressive achievement, reminiscent of the work of Fredric Jameson in its engagement with social and political issues, its sensitivity to questions of the ideology of form, and the authority with which it parses complex problems of textuality and discourse and identifies their cultural significance. Pynchon has not had so sympathetic a reader." — Hayden White, Stanford University
"This is an original and provocative book that makes a significant contribution to studies of Thomas Pynchon, to the literature on Deleuze and Guattari, and—most importantly—to the critical project of reading contemporary literature closely, theoretically, and self-reflexively." — Michael Bérubé, Pennsylvania State University
Stefan Mattessich is Professor of English at Santa Monica College.
1. Imperium, Misogyny, and Postmodern Parody in V.
2. Ekphrasis, Escape, and Countercultural Desire in The Crying of Lot 49
3. Turning Around the Origin in Gravity's Rainbow: Parody, Preterition, Paranoia, and Other Polymera
4. A Close Reading of Part I, Episode 19, of Gravity's Rainbow
5. Docile Bodies and the Body without Organs: Gravity's Gravity's Rainbow
6. Totality and the Repetition of Difference: Rereading the 1960s in Vineland
7. A Vigilant Folly: Lines of Flight in Mason & Dixon
Conclusion: Toward a Theory of Counterculture


The Ambassador of Israel to Australia, His Excellency Mark Sofer and his wife Sarah, visited Chabad ACT's HQ in Canberra this morning.
The Sofer's were greeted by Chabad ACT's Chairman, Rabbi Shmueli Feldman and Co-Director, Rebbetzin Chasia Feldman.
The Sofer's toured the centre in Northern Canberra, which includes Canberra's only Jewish Preschool and Child Care Centre – Gan Yisroel, a Synagogue, Kosher shop, community kitchen and administrative offices.
The preschool children in the different rooms enthusiastically welcomed the Ambassador with Hebrew phrases whilst waving Israeli flags that they had crafted for the occasion. The Sofer's engaged with the children in discussion, reviewing their work on the Hebrew Alpha Bet and watched how they do their weekly Challah preparation for the Sabbath. The children presented the Sofers with gifts connected with the Land of Israel's Biblical themes of milk and honey.
The Sofer's were treated to a hot lunch catered by Chabad ACT's "Canberra Kosher" – Canberra's only licensed Kosher catering service – together with the Rabbi and Rebbetzin, where they held a long and friendly talk, which included discussing ways to further enhance their community activities through increasing collaboration with the Embassy of Israel.
The Ambassador and his wife Sara expressed their amazement at seeing the work of Chabad ACT and were particularly impressed with the professionalism and vibrancy of the Preschool and community centre.
Rabbi Shmueli Feldman commented: "Australia is lucky to have such great representatives and advocates for Israel in the Sofers. It was an honour having them formally tour our centre. The children and staff were so excited to meet them. We look forward to continued friendship and collaboration and wish the Sofers much success in their important Australian Shlichut".


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Q: Calling C-functions from Python I am trying to call c-functions from Python using ctypes.
I have three c files, two with drivers(usb-1024LS.c and pmd.c) for a USB device and one with some functions(myTest_1024LS.c) to test the drivers. The driver c-files are using libusb. When I try running my script it seems like the compiler doesn't find the libusb. I get the error:
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/ctypes/__init__.py", line 365, in __init__
self._handle = _dlopen(self._name, mode)
OSError: /path-to-folder/usb1024LS_with_py/pmd.so: undefined symbol: usb_get_driver_np

usb_get_driver_np is a function in libusb.
My Python script:
import ctypes

pmd = ctypes.CDLL('/home/oysmith/NetBeansProjects/MCCDAQ/usb1024LS_with_py/pmd.so');
usb1024LS = ctypes.CDLL('/home/oysmith/NetBeansProjects/MCCDAQ/usb1024LS_with_py/usb-1024LS.so');
testFunc = ctypes.CDLL('/home/oysmith/NetBeansProjects/MCCDAQ/usb1024LS_with_py/myTest_1024LS.so');

# declare the function we use
testFunc.writeByte.argtypes = (ctypes.c_void_p,)
testFunc.writeByte.restype = ctypes.c_void_p

testFunc.findInterface.argtypes = (ctypes.c_void_p,)
testFunc.findInterface.restype = ctypes.c_void_p

pmd.PMD_GetInputReport.argtypes = (ctypes.c_char_p, ctypes.c_uint, ctypes.c_uint, ctypes.c_int, ctypes.c_int,)
pmd.PMD_GetInputReport.restype = ctypes.c_char_p, ctypes.c_uint, ctypes.c_uint, ctypes.c_int, ctypes.c_int

#call C function
testFunc.findInterface()

Where findInterface call a function from pmd.c and the function in pmd.c call a function in libusb.
I am new to calling c functions from Python, so I need all the help I can get!
Thanks!

A: I asked a similar question recently, but I don't know if your problem is related to mine(I am a beginner), I had a calling convention problem, and you have undefined symbol, which looks close, so I advise you to read what was my problem : Wrapping c++ functions with ctypes and its accepted answer, it's not very long to read.
You said it could be the compiler, but you're running the python script, right ? Do you mean the python interpreter, or the C compiler before running the script ? Have you tried building a C main program with your C libraries to test the communication with libusb without any python ?
I hope this helps.


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Foo Fighters cancel European tour after Dave Grohl breaks leg on stage
By Nicholas Adams-Dzierzba
June 17, 2015 — 11.46am
Foo Fighters lead singer Dave Grohl has pulled out of the band's remaining European dates following a fall at a Swedish concert, saying "it's just not physically possible" for him to go on.
Grohl tripped and fell off the stage at the concert in Gothenburg Friday while performing the band's hit Monkey Wrench. He was on the floor for several moments before heading backstage. In true rock'n'roll form, Grohl asked paramedics to pop the ankle back in and returned to the stage after the injury to finish the show.
The show must go on: Dave Grohl continues despite injuring his leg. Credit:Erik Abel
"Hey, ladies and gentlemen... I love you, but I think I just broke my leg," Grohl told the crowd. "I really broke my leg."
A photo posted by Foo Fighters (@foofighters) on Jun 12, 2015 at 4:13pm PDT
While Grohl was able to go on that night, doctors have advised him to postpone the rest of the tour.
The affected shows included June 14 at Pinkpop Festival and June 16 in Switzerland and future shows at Wembley Stadium in London and the Glastonbury Festival.
Grohl tripped and fell off stage, dislocating his ankle and snapping the fibula bone in his right leg.
The former Nirvana drummer underwent surgery on Monday. In a letter to fans, Grohl wrote, "My doctors have advised me to lay low for a while, the most important thing now is for me to recover from the surgery, to keep my leg elevated so as to keep swelling down and prevent any infection/complication that could do long-term damage.
"I'm not out of the woods yet, folks, which means, and it kills me to say it, the doctors have told us to cancel shows. I'm really so sorry, guys. You know I hate to do it, but I'm afraid it's just not physically possible for me at the moment."


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Q: Что не так с методами getCountTheSameFirstName и getCountTheSameLastName? Требования:

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*Программа не должна выводить текст на экран.

*Программа не должна считывать значения с клавиатуры.

*Метод createMap() должен создавать и возвращать словарь Map с типом элементов String, String состоящих из 10 записей по принципу «Фамилия» - «Имя».

*Метод getCountTheSameFirstName() должен возвращать число людей у которых совпадает имя.

*Метод getCountTheSameLastName() должен возвращать число людей у которых совпадает фамилия.

A: Как-то  так:
public static int getCountTheSameFirstName(
        Map<String, String> map,
        String name) {
    int count = 0;
    for (String item : map.values()) {
        if (item.equals(name)) {
            count++;
        }
    }
    return count;

}

public static int getCountTheSameLastName(
        Map<String, String> map,
        String lastName) {
    return map.containsKey(lastName) ? 1 : 0;
}


Thanksgiving dinner is something we look forward to all year. Juicy turkey, stuffing browned perfectly, and a constantly expanding waistband held by constantly shrinking sweatpants. But the holiday is not all about Thanksgiving dinner, Chicago! We have black Friday, cyber Wednesday, and those people just waiting for dinner to be over so they can start planning for Christmas. Let's add some ping-pong to your life! AceBounce is your one stop shop for the Thanksgiving blues. Did you have to work through the holiday? Are you dealing with difficult customers looking for the next hottest toy or gift? Slinging drinks for people who just won't leave the bar?
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An Unlikely Duo: Chinese Americans and Christian Faith
By erzh
Growing up, I had never been particularly religious. The same may be said of Chinese people in general, so it is fascinating to me that there are so many Chinese Americans that are Christian, since these two identities are seemingly incongruous. So much so that the perception in mainland China is that converting means one is forgoing their heritage (Zhen, 2018). While I don't completely agree, my assumptions about converting were quite similar. Despite this, I have many peers who see themselves as both Chinese and Christian. As such, I decided to investigate Chinese Christians and learn about how these two, juxtaposed cultures influence, or alter, one another to form a cohesive identity.
Immigration has always been one of the greater influences on US history. One of the modern immigrant influences shaping the US today is that of Asian immigrants. Ever since the Chinese Exclusion Act was repealed in 1943 (Office of the Historian, n.d.), immigration from China to the US resumed and has grown continuously. Like all immigrants, their arrival commenced a cultural interchange between their homeland and their new place of residence. One example of this interchange is the conversion of many Chinese immigrants, and even temporary residents, to Christianity (Wei, 2012, p. 163). However, rather than assimilating into other churches, Asians, including Chinese immigrants, often established churches of their own.
Observations and analysis:
The first observation was done on March 1st, at Journey Community Church, or JCC, an off-campus church that serves UNC and Duke students. I went to the sermon with a friend of mine who attended regularly. We arrived at church before the sermon began, so I was left to mingle on my own with the attendees. No one really seemed to question my presence at church, despite having never shown up previously (aside from my preliminary observation). The lack of scrutiny of my presence was because I didn't really stand out amongst the attendees. There were no Sunday clothes or other religious paraphernalia that marked identity, instead, showing up and looking Asian seemed to be enough.
The service began with a section called "OMW", or "On My Way", where a church member shares what God has been doing in their life. The speaker discussed how he felt that he was overly competitive in high school, especially regarding academics, to the extent that it affected his spiritual life. His story gives insight into his upbringing, both in the molds of a Christian and that of the stereotypical scholastic Asian. "OMW" was followed by the sermon itself, which was sort of like a lecture from the pastor. In some ways, it was literally a lecture, with many in attendance even taking notes, showing a tangible commitment to their faith. Besides the note taking, the sermon seemed pretty typical.
After the sermon, there was a free lunch, which I learned is commonplace in Chinese churches. This likely evolved from an early tactic used to attract poorer Chinese students as converts (Zhen, 2018); however, I think that its continued existence can be, in part, attributed to the focus on filial relationships in Chinese culture, with most of the church eating together, sort of like a family. Despite peculiarities here and there, there are few indications of Chinese and Christian identities mixing during the sermon.
My second observation was done on the 4th of March. This time, rather than attending a church service, I decided to reach out to one of the members of JCC and interview them. The person I interviewed was a church member named William. To start, I learned that he grew up in Chapel Hill, and was raised a Christian. Consequently, he had only ever attended one other church prior to joining JCC. When discussing his own identity, he identified as both Christian and Chinese. Will did however, make a point that, whether it was a result of his upbringing or surroundings, he doesn't feel completely Chinese. The example that he gave me was the difference he feels between himself and his relatives in China, such as differences in mannerisms or beliefs. Personally, I was struck by how similar his experiences with being Chinese were to my own, since my assumption was that being Christian would change how he had experienced Chinese culture.
When I asked him about the influence of his Chinese identity on his faith, he told me that there wasn't really any kind of differentiation in faith caused by being Chinese. He explained that Chinese churches were essentially Protestant churches, since they don't differ from the basic tenets of Christianity in any major way, like Mormonism does. Any differences that do exist are inconsequential, such as eating lunch together. Although his identity of Chinese heritage didn't affect his faith, it does affect how he practices it. He mentioned his choice of church was primarily influenced by the fact that it was majority Chinese. As such, his ethnic identity did affect the community that he worshipped with. I think that this realization can also be generalized to Chinese Christians as a whole, otherwise, there might not be any need to set up their own churches. According to Will, a side effect of his choice of church was that he ended up celebrating many Chinese holidays that he otherwise might not have, even if they were mostly a "get-together followed by a sermon". In this, somewhat more subtle way, these two identities do seem to affect one another.
Looking at the evidence, my initial assumption of the identities of Chinese Christians is incorrect. While these two identities do interact with one another, I don't think that they transform each other to any significant degree. Like William told me, the differences in belief in Chinese churches are completely trivial. And like-wise, Christianity has not developed a new kind of "Chinese-ness". Both William and I have had similar experiences of growing up Chinese in the US, and members of Chinese churches actively participate in Chinese cultural events. Rather than transforming each other, I think the identities simply stay separate. Instead, they reinforce one another, as they form a community which preserves aspects of both.
Office of the Historian. (n.d.). Chinese Immigration and the Chinese Exclusion Acts. Retrieved from https://history.state.gov/milestones/1866-1898/chinese-immigration
Wei, M., Ku, T., Chen, H., Wade, N., Liao, K.Y., & Guo, G. (2012). Chinese Christians in America: Attachment to God, Stress, and Well-Being. Counseling and Values, 57(2), 162-180. https://doi.org/10.1002/j.2161-007X.2012.00015.x
Zhen, G. (2018). The Chinese Church in America: Living in a Grand Mix of Cultures. China Partnership. Retrieved from https://www.chinapartnership.org/blog/2018/5/the-chinese-church-in-america-living-in-a-grand-mix-of-cultures
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Q: Loading pages with jQuery I have an image heavy website, and to improve the loading of it, I have implemented a loading screen. At the moment, it is a white overlay with this css:
#loader{
    width: 100%;
    height: 100%;
    position: fixed;
    z-index: 9999999999999999;
    top: 0;
    left: 0;
    right: 0;
    bottom: 0;
    background: url('loader.gif') 50% 50% no-repeat rgb(255,255,255);
}

This is the jQuery that I have at the moment:
$(window).load( function(){

    $("#loader").fadeOut("slow");

});

At the moment this loading screen loads at the same time as the rest of the website, and it looks messy.
How would I be able to only load the rest of the page once the loading page it loaded and displayed?

A: Using the solution in jQuery callback on image load (even when the image is cached) this:
$(window).load( function(){
    var totalImages = $('img').length, // count how many images are in the page
        loadedImages = 0; // keep track of how many have loaded

    // listen to the load event on every image only one time
    $("img").one("load", function() {
        loadedImages++;  // when an image loads, increment the counter
        if (loadedImages == totalImages){
            // the number of images loaded equals the number of total images in the page
            // we can consider the loading process finished here
            $("#loader").fadeOut("slow");
        }
    }).each(function() {
        // some images might have already loaded, eg. from cache
        // iterate over all of them and if the property 'complete' exists
        // manually fire the load event above
        if(this.complete) $(this).load();
    });
});

A: If your site has a lot of images, the best thing to do is load your images using ajax, after the rest of your page is loaded. Your page will load much faster using this approach.

A: Try the following-

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*Load the initial page. Keep the loading screen invisible at this stage.

*Load the loading screen using jQuery.

*Load images using ajax.

*On success, Hide fadeout loading screen.

*On success, display the images. Codes would be as follows:

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#loader{
 width: 100%;
 height: 100%;
 position: fixed;
 z-index: 9999999999999999;
 display: none; // make it invisible initially
 top: 0;
 left: 0;
 right: 0;
 bottom: 0;
 background: url('loader.gif') 50% 50% no-repeat rgb(255,255,255);
}

Jquery:
 $(function(){
     $("#loader").show();

     $.ajax(
      url: "url_to_process_ajax.php",
      type: "GET",
      data: "get=images",  // send image request to server
      success: function(data){
        // validate and process images
        // after completing image processing, fadeout loader and display the image area.
        $("#loader").fadeOut("slow", function(){
          $("#image_container").show("fast");
        });
      }
     );

});


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Q: WindowsKey+Tab not working in Remote Desktop Last week, when I remoted into a computer I could do Windows Key + Tab to toggle between apps and multiple desktops.
Over the weekend both computers installed updates.
Today when I do that nothing happens.
In the remote computer hitting the Windows Key by itself opens the start menu and Alt+Tab works as expected.
When I minimize the remote desktop window Windows+Tab works as expected on the local PC.
I have already played with the settings of Remote Desktop Connection - Local Resources - Keyboard - Apply Windows key combinations: (including reconnecting between changes)
Any Help would be apricated, not having that functionality is annoying.


With the Six Nations complete, attention is turning to this year's Rugby World Cup being held in Japan.
Wales have picked up serious momentum heading into the tournament by winning the Grand Slam in impressive style, finishing it off by walloping Ireland on Saturday in Cardiff.
The Welsh have seen their odds slashed to win the big one later this year, but New Zealand remain the runaway favourites to defend the trophy they won four years ago.
Japan will be the trip of a lifetime for those lucky enough to be in attendance – here's all you need to know about the World Cup, which gets underway in September.
When is the 2019 Rugby World Cup?
The tournament runs from 20 September to 2 November 2019, with the final taking place at the International Stadium in Yokohama.


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Grace L. Hewell
Grace L. Hewell, 89, a retired social worker and federal education specialist, died March 7 of congestive heart failure at Providence Hospital in the District. She was a resident of the District and Chattanooga, Tenn.
Dr. Hewell was born in Chattanooga and graduated from Spelman College in 1940. After receiving a master's degree in social work from Atlanta University in 1943, she enlisted in the Women's Army Corps and became a second lieutenant while serving in Germany. From 1945 to 1950, she was a service club director with the U.S. armed forces in Europe.
She received a master's degree in 1952, a master's degree in public health in 1954 and a doctorate in education in 1958, all from Columbia University.
She worked as a social worker with the St. Louis Housing Authority in the early 1950s and then became a public health educator with the New York City Department of Health.
She moved to Washington in 1960 to work as a program coordination officer at the Department of Health, Education and Welfare (now Health and Human Services). She was assigned to the office of the assistant secretary for legislation.
During the first session of the 89th Congress in 1965, she was appointed education chief for the House Committee on Education and Labor, chaired by Rep. Adam Clayton Powell Jr. (D-N.Y.), who had been her pastor at Abyssinian Baptist Church in New York City.
The 89th Congress was labeled "the education Congress" because of the passage of 15 education bills. However, a conference committee reached an impasse on provisions of the Higher Education Act of 1965 that would expand continuing education programs and would provide greater opportunities for historically black colleges to compete for federal funds.
Dr. Hewell helped Powell break the impasse and in the process forced the federal government to begin closing the gap between white and black education in the United States.
Wil Haygood, Powell's biographer, described in a 1993 Boston Globe article how the New York congressman used his power and knowledge of the rules to make it more difficult for Southern House members to mass against the bill before it reached the House floor. Haygood, now with The Washington Post, quoted Dr. Hewell as saying: "It was the hardest job I ever had. Two or 3 o'clock in the morning I was on the floor of the House."
Powell and President Lyndon B. Johnson considered the comprehensive education bill a magnificent achievement. So did Dr. Hewell.
She was an adult education program officer in the Office of Education for the New York region from 1967 to 1978 and later a consultant on educational telecommunications for the Department of Education.
She was a commission member for UNESCO's Fourth International Conference on Adult Education from 1975 to 1980.
Dr. Hewell served on the executive board of Delta Sigma Theta sorority and was a life member of the National Council of Negro Women. When she retired from government service, she established a second residence in Chattanooga and helped then-Sen. Al Gore clean up a creek that had been described as "the most polluted and contaminated" in the South.
There are no immediate survivors.
Source: Joe Holley, Washington Post, Thursday, April 10, 2008; Page B07
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Dr. Hewell … I met later in her life. Her home was a museum. I pray that her legacy will be honored. Her life seemed very similar to the ficticious life of Forest Gump. She seemed to have a role or presence in almost every major historical event in our country. She also has a post office named after her in TV. God rest her soul.


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The Sioux City Bandits had only a short amount of time to attempt a comeback against Amarillo on Saturday after the Venom took a 70-69 lead with 13 seconds remaining.
The biggest difference from college football to indoor football, said Trevor Wietzema, is the speed of the game.
It was almost a complete turnaround from week one to week two for the Sioux City Bandits against the Omaha Beef on Saturday.
A week after struggling in the first week of the season against Salina, the Bandits bounced back and looked like an improved squad against their North division rival on Saturday at the Tyson Events Center.
Five players scored rushing touchdowns as Sioux City held off Omaha 43-32 in Champions Indoor Football action on Saturday.
Antonio Bray rushed for 109 yards and three touchdowns on 17 attempts for the Beef (1-1), who were unable to dig out of a 19-point halftime deficit.
The Sioux City Bandits traded scores with Salina to start the game on Saturday but the Liberty started to gain some breathing room in the second quarter.


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Q: File transfer (copy) queue for a Linux cluster I am running (on CentOS 6) a cluster connected to the head node over a slow network. Each spawned job needs to pull a ~1GB file from the head node to the compute node, and then process it locally. The head's filesystem is served via NFS.
Allowing each spawned job to (simultaneously) cp the file it needs obviously bogs down the NFS server.
What is the recommended way to queue up copy / file transfer processes on Linux?
NFS does not have to be in the picture. If there is e.g. an (s)ftp server that can accept multiple requests and serve them one (or N) at a time, this would be perfect. The "client" component should be able to wait for a long time without timing out. The cluster manager I am using is SLURM; but the issue is general.
EDIT
This is not a matter of syncing the dataset across all nodes. Each needs its own files.

A: Frankly, by the sound of it, you really should be using bittorrent to sync those files around.  That way there's no hotspot on any one machine.


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More Z Roadster: 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014
Overview Photos Price Specs Reviews Bulletins Recalls
2005 Nissan 350Z Roadster - All Z®, No Top
The dynamic driving experience that for 35 years has been associated with the Z® comes equipped with a little less these days its topless. First introduced as a 2004 model, the 350Z Roadster features a power-operated soft top with glass rear window, which transforms from top-up to top-down in about 20 seconds.
The Z® Roadster offers a fresh look at the modern convertible, the styling is an updated take on the classic roadster, but the heart is all Z, said Mark McNabb, vice president and general manager, Nissan Division. The Z® Roadster further expresses Nissans commitment to offering bold, exciting, performance vehicles.
New for 2005 is a 350Z Roadster Grand Touring Edition with 6-speed manual, which is scheduled to be available in late 2004. It comes equipped with Brembo brakes, Vehicle Dynamic Control (VDC) and 18-inch aluminumalloy wheels.
All 2005 350Z Roadster models receive a number of other enhancements, including standard Tire Pressure Monitor System (TPMS), drivers seat front and rear lifter (except for net seat design), reduced clutch pedal effort for manual transmission models and downshift rev matching for automatic transmission models, heated outside mirrors and a faster navigation system processor for improved route calculation times (for optional navigation system).
Also new for 2005 is an Ultra Yellow exterior color, which utilizes a new high-luminance and high-chroma pearl pigment and three layers of top coat (with separate color pigment and pearl pigment layers) to create an almost liquid surface appearance.
One-Touch Conversion
The Z® Roadsters fully automatic soft top features a heated glass rear window, which helps provide clearer visibility in adverse weather conditions. And, unlike other convertibles in its class, the top stows compactly under a lightweight powered tonneau cover, completely hiding the top when down.
Activating the top is a simple process. Push the brake pedal and hold the button (located to the left of the steering column) and the top opens or closes.
The top is released from or secured to the windshield header with a unique three-lock, single latch located directly above the middle windshield area. The three-lock, single latch system was created to give a more secure seal, while also making the closing process easier. The Z® Roadster is the only convertible in its class to offer this type of latch system.
Quiet Cruising
The FM (Front Mid-ship) platform, used on the 350Z Coupe, is adopted for use in the Z® Roadster. Structural reinforcements were incorporated to strengthen the Z® Roadster unibody, including a center floor V-shaped cross bar connecting the side sills and a front A-shaped cross bar reinforcing the front end. Additional reinforcement was added at the door openings and a triple-member was added to the seating area connecting the sides to the floor structure to provide enhanced rigidity.
Also during the design phase of the Z® Roadster, engineers devoted countless hours conducting wind tunnel tests. These tests allowed the engineers to adjust the Roadsters design to route air flow to help minimize interior noise and turbulence while maximizing downforce at highway speeds.
A key component to reducing interior noise is a tempered glass wind deflector located between the seats that directs wind out and over the cabin. Seatbelt fasteners were also added to help keep seatbelts from flapping in the wind. As a result, the Z® Roadster is among the leading competitors for low interior noise with the top down.
Contemporary Styling, Inside and Out
Unique to all convertibles is the high visibility of the interior. Knowing this, the designers of the Z® Roadster put a heavy emphasis on the interior design of the car.
The Z® Roadster incorporates a seamless flow between the exterior and interior of the vehicle, said McNabb. We fused the two together to create one harmoniously visual design.
Since the heart and soul of the Z® is performance, the design, inside and out, needs to reflect that. Like the Z® Coupe, the instrument panel features three gauge pods consisting of the drive computer, oil pressure gauge and voltmeter, as well as modern touches such as an optional navigation system with 7-inch display. The door vents and center console have a solid, chiseled-from-a-block-of-aluminum look.
The drivers seat of the Z® Roadster is tailored for performance. The base cushion is firm and long for additional support, while bolster cutouts under the thighs optimize pedal operation. The seatback is sculpted with large wings, designed to help secure drivers during acceleration. The upper side bolster is sculpted in the middle for easy shifting and steering, while the lower side bolster is designed wider and deeper to keep the driver squarely behind the wheel.
Also offered on the Z® Roadster are unique, Burnt Orange ventilated leather-trimmed net seats. The net-style seats are made with a woven seat cloth center insert and feature an opening in the seatback so that the driver can feel a wind flow during top-down driving. A built-in seat heater is also available for those sundown rides.
A lockable luggage box capable of storing a briefcase is standard. There is also sufficient luggage space in the trunk even though the top is stored in the trunk area when down. The trunk has up to 4.1 cubic feet of useable room for storage.
Performance Worthy of Z® Status
The Z® Roadster shares all of the hardtop Z®'s key performance features. Power is provided by the 3.5-liter VQ35DE V6 engine used in the Z® Coupe, producing 287 horsepower and 274 lb-ft of torque, a power range that comes as a result of the engines intake port design and Continuously Variable Valve Timing Control System (CVTCS) technology. This enables the engine to deliver not only outstanding start-off acceleration and high-speed passing performance, but also torque characteristics suitable for city driving.
Drivability has been further improved for use in the Z® Coupe and Roadster by adopting an electronically controlled throttle, and the use of a highly rigid cylinder block combines with other measures to produce engine sounds worthy of a sports car.
Suspension for the rear-wheel drive Z® Roadster is a 4-wheel independent design. Both 6-speed close-ratio manual and 5-speed automatic transmissions are available.
The 2005 350Z Roadster will be offered in three well-equipped models 350Z Roadster Enthusiast, 350Z Roadster Touring and 350Z Roadster Grand Touring. Standard 350Z Roadster Enthusiast features include power seats, power-operated soft top, electrically operated storage cover, rear wind deflector, 17-inch alloy wheels, xenon headlights, automatic climate control, a choice of 5-speed automatic or 6-speed manual transmission and more.
The 350Z Roadster Touring model features a Bose audio system with 6-disc CD changer and seven speakers, leather-appointed seats and standard side-impact air bags.
The 350Z Roadster Grand Touring model, which is available only with the 6-speed manual transmission, adds Brembo brakes, Vehicle Dynamic Control and 18-inch wheels and tires. It is scheduled to be available in late 2004.
Only a few options are offered for the well-equipped 350Z Roadster. Side-impact supplemental air bags are available on the Enthusiast model and standard on the Touring and Grand Touring models, 18-inch alloy wheels are available for Enthusiast and Touring models, and ventilated leather-trimmed net seats are available for the Touring and Grand Touring models. The DVD-based navigation system is available on the Touring model only.


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Day three of the federal cloister balloon of abeyant West Virginia Supreme Cloister Amends Allen Loughry was a abysmal dive into abstracts as prosecutors abundant what they advance was his ammunition acceptance and purchases with a state-issued agenda and back and breadth he was active a car.
Loughry is answerable with 22 counts afterwards a adjudicator agreed with prosecutors' appeal to bead three accuse adjoin him accompanying to a Cass Gilbert board that Loughry had at his home and statements he fabricated about the furniture.
The amends is now actuality approved on two counts of mail fraud, 17 counts of wire fraud, one calculation of attestant analytical and two counts of apocryphal statements.
On Thursday morning, Sue Racer Troy, the Supreme Court's arch banking officer, connected her affidavit from the antecedent day, action through the declared ammunition purchases of Loughry.
The gas purchases included purchases on the July Fourth, Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's holidays – times back the cloister is about not in session.
As allotment of the allegation adjoin Loughry, prosecutors adduce that acclimated a accompaniment agent and was advantageous for gasoline with his state-issued ammunition agenda for claimed use, not for business of the state.
Cities breadth the amends allegedly fueled up on those anniversary dates – Charleston, Sutton, Amma, Weston, Elkview, Parsons, Bridgeport, Morgantown, Berkleley Springs and Charlottesville, Va.
Loughry's ancestors is from the Parsons area, and his wife's ancestors is from the Berkeley Springs area.
The abstracts that are actuality advised in cloister are abstracts that Eyewitness News acquired several months ago and abundant in belief beforehand this year.
Meanwhile, Loughry's attorney, John Carr, was cross-examining Troy and brought up that the cards assigned to cartage could be swapped about and the breadth didn't accept to be accurate. In reality, Carr maintained there was no way to be assertive who was active the cars and who was putting in pin numbers into the gas pump back there is alone one pin for the court, not alone disciplinarian identification.
Carr during his aperture account said that reasonable agnosticism would be a actual big allotment of the case, and he is adopting that point again as he approved to bite holes in the affirmation and allegations offered by prosecutors.
Jurors additionally heard from Jess Gundy, the Deputy Director of the Supreme Court's Security Team. He talked about how Loughry asked for advice affective a couch and board from his home accumulator barn in Kanawha County. He told jurors about the efforts Loughry fabricated to adumbrate that action from neighbors and Eyewitness News camera.
Former Amends Brent Benjamin additionally took the angle to allocution about several things including the celebrated Cass Gilbert desk. He's accepted to abide affidavit Friday morning back the case resumes at 9:30 a.m.


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I'm going to pontificate.
"Write what you know," right?
Absolutely, if you want to write boring stuff.
I think "Write what you know" is one of the worst pieces of advice you can give an aspiring writer. Unfortunately, it's also one of the most common pieces of advice given to aspiring writers. Every decade brings its crop of young novelists whose books sound like they all grew up on the same block and took the same drugs. Their authors wrote what they knew, and guess what? In this highly interconnected world, they all knew the same things. And a few years later, nobody cares much about those things.
Okay, I think we should start with what we know. Learn how to structure a novel or a story with material that's familiar, easy to write about. Everyone who's not David Mitchell should write at least one, and probably two or three, drawer books – books that will be finished, read proudly once or twice, and then buried forever in the bottom of a drawer. My first drawer book was called The Wrong End of the Rainbow, and that was the best thing about it. But, boy, was it about things I knew.
And it taught me a lot about what a novel is.
By the time I'd written my second book, which was also all about things I knew, I realized that I was never going to get any better, and that I was going to get very bored with writing, unless I started writing about things I didn't know – things I had to imagine. Kinds of people who'd never intruded into my safe, middle-class world. Opinions, biases, outright bigotry I never could share in a million years, around which whole world views had been built. New places, where basic assumptions are different, where the conventional wisdom we honor here is almost unrecognizable.
I think that once we've gained a sense of how a novel or a story works by writing about what we know – stuff we're comfortable with emotionally or geographically or behaviorally – then we need to get up on tiptoe. Ransack the imagination for things we really have to stretch to reach. It's harder, and there's probably a bigger chance that we'll fail, but we'll be getting an aerobic workout and hoisting free weights at the same time. We're going to get stronger faster. We'll probably be able to handle more things, harder things, new kinds of situations and characters. New kinds of language, too, if we also stretch our prose.
Like many thriller writers, I started with the bad guys. Bad guys are the opera of thrillers; they have the most extravagant personalities, they do the most out-of-the-ordinary things. The goal I set for myself in my first few published books was to come up with bad guys (they were mostly guys) I had never read before, who had a sufficiently strong gravitational field to curve the world of the book around them.
Los Angeles got too comfortable, so I decided to write about another culture, complete with another language and a radically different perspective on life. The four Bangkok thrillers have made me work on tiptoe every inch of the way, just trying to keep the Thai characters true. (I have a couple of helpful Thai readers who point out the most egregious errors.) And the moral climate of Bangkok, which is unusually rich in gray areas, was also a rewarding stretch. I think seeing the world in black-and-white is a luxury of the well-fed, so it's energizing to explore the spaces in between "good" and "evil."
My point here isn't that I'm cool or that I'm a particularly good writer. It's just that I'm handling material now that I wouldn't have dreamed of touching eight or ten years ago, and it's because I made a conscious decision to write on tiptoe. Everyone has read series that went stale, that turned into dioramas of familiar characters and settings. The writers of those books weren't stretching themselves. They were writing what they knew. It's the quickest way I know to mummify your writing.
Tim -- Sunday
Jeffrey Siger February 6, 2011 at 11:41 AM
I couldn't agree with you more, on every level--though I would like some more room back for socks in my drawer.
I passed your (and Leighton's) regards on to Ed at M is For Mystery. We also picked out a spot for the simply inscribed plaque "Selected as a National Treasure by Tim Hallinan." He thanks you.
Dorte H February 6, 2011 at 3:49 PM
In one of my Danish manuscripts I made the ginormous mistake of making the protagonist a bit like me - small wonder no publisher wants her, she is soooo boring! Not that I mind my own, quiet reading & writing life, but read about it? Nope.
marilynn larew February 6, 2011 at 7:51 PM
My bottom of the drawer mystery is about Baltimore, where I lived at the time. Maybe not boring, but really Dull. And Derivative. And Dust-covered. I can't remember now why I set the next in Morocco, but I had a blast learning about Morocco and Moroccan culture. I even have a couple of first-rate Moroccan recipes. It's not dull or derivative, and I hope it won't end up dust-covered, but the current work is set in Dubai, and THAT place is seriously unreal.
You should mention the fun it is to go somewhere outside your comfort zone.
Timothy Hallinan February 6, 2011 at 8:25 PM
Hi, Jeffrey - but socks don't teach you how to write and bad manuscripts do. The most valuable lesson in learning how to write a decent book is to write a bad one.
Dorte -- see? You're halfway there. I doubt that your protagonist is as boring as you think she is, but there have been lots and lots of quiet, bookish thriller heroines and heroes. In fact, I think those are great qualifications for someone who's going to get dropped into an ocean full of great whites that's already been liberally chummed with fish parts and blood. Much more interesting to me than someone who's already got super powers.
Hi, Marilynn -- writing outside the comfort zone is fun (to me) in the same way roller coasters are. Moments of exhilaration in between screams of terror. And brave you, setting a book in Dubai. Talk about working on tiptoe.
Annie Taschereau February 7, 2011 at 7:29 PM
Last weekend, I found myself pondering what to write for my daily writing practice and, coming away empty-handed (or empty-headed), decided to indulge in a self-pitying rant about the woes of being an unknown, unpublished and uninspired writer. The first sentence of the second paragraph goes as follows: "One of the worst pieces of advice I have ever received with regards to writing is: write what you know." How uncanny for me to head over to this blog just a couple of days later and realize that my private thought was echoed in your latest entry! The things I know are, for the most part, the very same things I do every single day of my life, so why on earth would I want to relive them through my writings in a kind of self-imposed Groundhog Day? Thank you so much, Tim, for confirming something that I have suspected for a long time, yet never dared express outloud (or out of the safe confines of my own private ramblings)!


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Hanover church offers homeless women 'a day to be free'
Lane Lambert The Patriot Ledger @llambert_ledger
Jul 14, 2016 at 6:40 PM Jul 14, 2016 at 7:07 PM
For 40 years, St. Andrew's Episcopal Church has quietly hosted an annual beach, lunch and clothing browse for homeless and low-income women from Boston's Rosie's Place shelter. More than 50 women were there Thursday.
HANOVER – Nancy-Jo D. had just finished a hamburger, pasta and salad in the St. Andrew's Episcopal Church parish hall Thursday afternoon. Amid a room filled with dozens of women, she looked relaxed.
The homeless, former licensed practical nurse had just taken an outing to Humarock Beach in Scituate – one of 54 homeless and low-income women from Boston's Rosie's Place shelter and social-service agency.
In a few minutes she and the others would take their turn browsing racks of clothing and tables of shoes, handbags and pants, all donated by St. Andrew's parishoners – a touch of a boutique for women who've seen hard times.
"It's the highlight of the year for me," said Nancy-Jo, who – like several others – asked that her last name not be used.
St. Andrew's has been quietly hosting the annual event for Rosie's Place guests like Nancy-Jo for about 40 years – almost as long as the shelter has been around.
The Rev. Beth Wheatley Dyson isn't sure exactly when the outings began. Neither is Jodi Wood, a lifetime St. Andrew's member who's organized them for the past 30 years. But they know why the church does it.
"It's everything Jesus talked about," the Rev. Dyson said. "This is better than Christmas and Easter."
Wood nodded. "It's a celebration," she said.
A Rosie's Place spokeswoman said the church visit is the only such excursion the shelter's guests take. She said St. Andrew's is "among our most enduring connections."
Nancy-Jo and several other women in their 20s to 60s said the visits offer a safe, welcoming getaway from their weekly struggles to get their lives back on track.
"It's better than being on the street all day," said Jaquell B., who's 22 is preparing to take the HISET high-school equivalence test for a diploma. She was in foster care since she was 5 and has stayed at Rosie's Place since she was 18.
This was Jaquell's first visit to St. Andrew's. She especially enjoyed wading in the water at the beach. So did Marie M., a registered nurse who's been homeless off and on for four years, after fleeing her abusive husband. She gets counseling at Rosie's.
"I feel completely comfortable here," Marie said of the church.
Nancy-Jo agreed. She's been trying to resume a medical-service career since she broke her back two years ago, and lost her livelihood and home.
"The city is hot and violent," she said. "This is a day to be free."
For others, the outing wasn't an escape but "a good moment," as Haitian immigrant Saintana B. said. She's not homeless, but has to use a walker and goes to Rosie's for an English language class. She liked Humarock Beach, too.
ADenise, another Haiti native, has visited St. Andrew's seven times. "This church gives me everything," she said, with open palms.
The parish hall was muggy from a passing rain shower. As Jodi Wood and volunteers began kitchen clean-up, conversation stayed at a pitch at every table.
Nancy-Jo, Jaquell and all the others fell quiet when Rosie's Place staff members called out for their attention, to start the lines to the donation tables. They didn't seem in a hurry for the day to end.


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British White Paper of 1922 on Palestine (Churchill White Paper)
A British White Paper, or government policy document, prepared by Secretary of State for the Colonies Winston Churchill and published on 3 June 1922. While reiterating British support for the Balfour Declaration, it attributed tensions in Palestine to "exaggerated interpretations" of the Declaration, clarifying its intent to mean that while the "Jewish national home" is to be established in Palestine, that does not mean Palestine is to be wholly Jewish. It stressed that Jewish immigration should be limited by the country's economic capacity, and that Palestinian independence is impracticable at that time. It also specified the separation of Transjordan from Palestine, later enshrined in the
British White Paper of June 1922 on Palestine - English
British White Paper of June 1922 on Palestine - Hebrew
League of Nations Mandate for Palestine (1922) , Transjordan Memorandum (1922) , British White Paper of 1939 on Palestine (MacDonald White Paper)
White Papers | Immigration | Mandatory Palestine (1922-1948) | Britain | Churchill, Winston (1874-1965) | Transjordan


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John Prine has released a new video in which he trades verses on his 1971 classic "Paradise" with Kentucky-raised country singer Kelsey Waldon.
The song will be released as a 7" vinyl single, with the B-side featuring a cover of the Merle Travis song "Kentucky Means Paradise." The recording makes the first time Prine and Waldon, who has toured with Prine in recent years, recorded in a studio together.
"Paradise" has for years served as Prine's encore, typically performed alongside whoever opened the show. "Pure, classic country, downright bluegrass in both lyric and melody," read a 1971 Rolling Stone description of the song, "with a tale of how the coal company ruined the beautiful land in Western Kentucky."
Although he grew up in the Chicago area, Prine, like Waldon, has family roots in the Bluegrass State. "One time I went to school and they asked us all to find out where our roots were," Prine told Rolling Stone in 2017. "It's goin' around the class, and the kids were going, 'I'm Swedish-German' or 'I'm English-Irish.' They got to me and I said, 'Pure Kentuckian.' "
Waldon, who has released several records independently, will be releasing her new album White Noise/White Lines on Prine's Oh Boy label on October 4th.
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Q: Failing to insert into BigQuery using google-cloud node.js client I have a Node-RED installation running with the BigQuery node that all of a sudden stopped working. Have been able to narrow it down to a very small example which I can't get to work anymore:
The code looks like this:
// Imports the Google Cloud client library
const BigQuery = require('@google-cloud/bigquery');

// Your Google Cloud Platform project ID
const projectId = 'my-project';
const file = './google-cloud-auth.json'

// Creates a client
const bigquery = new BigQuery({
  projectId: projectId,
  keyFilename: file
});

const datainsert = {
    "water_total": 555,
    "power_vp": 3460651,
    "power_ftx": 4401819,
    "time": "2018-01-23T09:50:17.672Z",
    "power_total": 5737457,
    "power_garage_radiator_south": 182521,
    "power_garage_radiator_north": 76388
};
// The name for the new dataset
const dataset = bigquery.dataset('consumption');
const table = dataset.table('consumption_test');
table.insert(datainsert, function(err, response) {
    console.log(JSON.stringify(err));
    console.log(JSON.stringify(response));
});

When I run this on my Ubuntu machine (NodeJS v4.8.7) it outputs:
{}
undefined

and nothing gets written to BQ.
However, when I run the exact same code (in fact I have tried to copy the entire folder structure) on my Mac (NodeJS v6.9.4) it outputs:
null
{"kind":"bigquery#tableDataInsertAllResponse"}

and the record is stored successfully.
Obviously I thought it was related to the Node version so I tried running it in the very Docker container it used to run but with NodeJS v6.9.4 but it still doesn't run successfully on that machine. I'm running with the same authentication file so I don't think it's related to that.
Would anyone happen to know what it is within my environment that causing this to happen?

A: After several hours of head scratching I finally found the problem to be clock slightly out of sync on the machine (5 minutes). I realized this when I decided to run other commands to see if they worked. When trying to get a list of datasets I got the following (quite helpful) error back:

[Error: invalid_grant: Invalid JWT: Token must be a short-lived token
  (60 minutes) and in a reasonable timeframe. Check your iat and exp
  values and use a clock with skew to account for clock differences
  between systems.]

Problem solved.


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Symptoms of Oppression or Acts of Liberation? Psychosis, Mutilation and Death in Diasporic Womanist Literature
Erika M. Thompson
Thesis DT 3.5 2002 T4645
viii, 88 leaves; 29 cm.
The notion of choice in the context of oppressed women's realities is one that is well researched and about which much has been written within womanist theory and literary criticism. The most familiar example is infanticide, most notably illustrated in Toni Morrison's Beloved. This project seeks to explore different variables within the notion of choice. By exploring the author's depiction of psychosis, mutilation and death, this project seeks to ascertain whether these phenomenons manifest themselves as symptoms of oppression or acts of liberation.
For the purposes of this study, a comparative textual analysis is done of three womanist novels: Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangaremba, Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat, and Geographies of Home by Loida Maritza Perez. The theoretical framework used in the analysis of the aforementioned texts comes from a combination of elements adapted from the theories of Chikwenye Ogunyemi, Gina Wisker and Rose Brewer. The assumptions that, 1) mainstream feminist theory is reflective of the experiences of White, upper-middle class women, and 2) that unique to Black women's experiences are the intersectionality of race, class, and gender as oppressive forces which shape women's lives, serve as the foundation for the framework used to analyze these novels.
In spite of the outcome of each act of psychosis, mutilation and/or death for the individual woman, these acts prove to enable the liberation of other women, which is of equal benefit. Regardless of their literal impact, these acts can be read as the figurative negotiation of women's bodies, whereby mutilation and/or death become acts of retribution to the oppressor, rather than self-annihilation. Womanist theory, therefore, must provide a redefinition of agency to encompass the acts of resistance that are made in the face of oppression, as opposed to the definition of agency as the absence of liberation.