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.class final Ljava/util/concurrent/Executors$PrivilegedCallableUsingCurrentClassLoader;
.super Ljava/lang/Object;
.source "Executors.java"

# interfaces
.implements Ljava/util/concurrent/Callable;

# annotations
.annotation system Ldalvik/annotation/EnclosingClass;
    value = Ljava/util/concurrent/Executors;
.end annotation

.annotation system Ldalvik/annotation/InnerClass;
    accessFlags = 0x18
    name = "PrivilegedCallableUsingCurrentClassLoader"
.end annotation

.annotation system Ldalvik/annotation/Signature;
    value = {
        "<T:",
        "Ljava/lang/Object;",
        ">",
        "Ljava/lang/Object;",
        "Ljava/util/concurrent/Callable",
        "<TT;>;"
    }
.end annotation

# instance fields
.field private final acc:Ljava/security/AccessControlContext;

.field private final ccl:Ljava/lang/ClassLoader;

.field private final task:Ljava/util/concurrent/Callable;
    .annotation system Ldalvik/annotation/Signature;
        value = {
            "Ljava/util/concurrent/Callable",
            "<TT;>;"
        }
    .end annotation
.end field

# direct methods
.method constructor <init>(Ljava/util/concurrent/Callable;)V
    .locals 1
    .annotation system Ldalvik/annotation/Signature;
        value = {
            "(",
            "Ljava/util/concurrent/Callable",
            "<TT;>;)V"
        }
    .end annotation

    .prologue
    .line 462
    .local p0, "this":Ljava/util/concurrent/Executors$PrivilegedCallableUsingCurrentClassLoader;, "Ljava/util/concurrent/Executors$PrivilegedCallableUsingCurrentClassLoader<TT;>;"
    .local p1, "task":Ljava/util/concurrent/Callable;, "Ljava/util/concurrent/Callable<TT;>;"
    invoke-direct {p0}, Ljava/lang/Object;-><init>()V

    .line 476
    iput-object p1, p0, Ljava/util/concurrent/Executors$PrivilegedCallableUsingCurrentClassLoader;->task:Ljava/util/concurrent/Callable;

    .line 477
    invoke-static {}, Ljava/security/AccessController;->getContext()Ljava/security/AccessControlContext;

    move-result-object v0

    iput-object v0, p0, Ljava/util/concurrent/Executors$PrivilegedCallableUsingCurrentClassLoader;->acc:Ljava/security/AccessControlContext;

    .line 478
    invoke-static {}, Ljava/lang/Thread;->currentThread()Ljava/lang/Thread;

    move-result-object v0

    invoke-virtual {v0}, Ljava/lang/Thread;->getContextClassLoader()Ljava/lang/ClassLoader;

    move-result-object v0

    iput-object v0, p0, Ljava/util/concurrent/Executors$PrivilegedCallableUsingCurrentClassLoader;->ccl:Ljava/lang/ClassLoader;

    .line 479
    return-void
.end method

.method static synthetic access$100(Ljava/util/concurrent/Executors$PrivilegedCallableUsingCurrentClassLoader;)Ljava/lang/ClassLoader;
    .locals 1
    .param p0, "x0"    # Ljava/util/concurrent/Executors$PrivilegedCallableUsingCurrentClassLoader;

    .prologue
    .line 457
    iget-object v0, p0, Ljava/util/concurrent/Executors$PrivilegedCallableUsingCurrentClassLoader;->ccl:Ljava/lang/ClassLoader;

    return-object v0
.end method

.method static synthetic access$200(Ljava/util/concurrent/Executors$PrivilegedCallableUsingCurrentClassLoader;)Ljava/util/concurrent/Callable;
    .locals 1
    .param p0, "x0"    # Ljava/util/concurrent/Executors$PrivilegedCallableUsingCurrentClassLoader;

    .prologue
    .line 457
    iget-object v0, p0, Ljava/util/concurrent/Executors$PrivilegedCallableUsingCurrentClassLoader;->task:Ljava/util/concurrent/Callable;

    return-object v0
.end method

# virtual methods
.method public call()Ljava/lang/Object;
    .locals 3
    .annotation system Ldalvik/annotation/Signature;
        value = {
            "()TT;"
        }
    .end annotation

    .annotation system Ldalvik/annotation/Throws;
        value = {
            Ljava/lang/Exception;
        }
    .end annotation

    .prologue
    .line 483
    .local p0, "this":Ljava/util/concurrent/Executors$PrivilegedCallableUsingCurrentClassLoader;, "Ljava/util/concurrent/Executors$PrivilegedCallableUsingCurrentClassLoader<TT;>;"
    :try_start_0
    new-instance v1, Ljava/util/concurrent/Executors$PrivilegedCallableUsingCurrentClassLoader$1;

    invoke-direct {v1, p0}, Ljava/util/concurrent/Executors$PrivilegedCallableUsingCurrentClassLoader$1;-><init>(Ljava/util/concurrent/Executors$PrivilegedCallableUsingCurrentClassLoader;)V

    iget-object v2, p0, Ljava/util/concurrent/Executors$PrivilegedCallableUsingCurrentClassLoader;->acc:Ljava/security/AccessControlContext;

    invoke-static {v1, v2}, Ljava/security/AccessController;->doPrivileged(Ljava/security/PrivilegedExceptionAction;Ljava/security/AccessControlContext;)Ljava/lang/Object;
    :try_end_0
    .catch Ljava/security/PrivilegedActionException; {:try_start_0 .. :try_end_0} :catch_0

    move-result-object v1

    return-object v1

    .line 500
    :catch_0
    move-exception v0

    .line 501
    .local v0, "e":Ljava/security/PrivilegedActionException;
    invoke-virtual {v0}, Ljava/security/PrivilegedActionException;->getException()Ljava/lang/Exception;

    move-result-object v1

    throw v1
.end method


I (Ruth) use turmeric oil mainly to help reduce inflammation in my body because I battle with 4 autoimmune diseases, inflammation is always a concern. I try to include both turmeric and frankincense daily to help keep inflammation under control and to help heal my gut and to promote cellular rejuvenation.
Basically, the oil is a lot easier to digest and absorb because the curcuminoids and the tumerones are in equal balance. When you get a turmeric supplement you'll find that the curcuminoids are in lower ratio to the tumerones. However, if they were balanced one to the other, it's much easier to absorb. Here's an interesting article about that.
How Do I Take Turmeric Essential Oil?
One of the main things I've been taking turmeric essential oil is by making this yummy anti-inflammatory turmeric latte every day!
Here's the recipe. When you try making it I'd love to hear how you like it.
Serve it with a bit more cinnamon on top!
If you'd like to add coffee, just decrease your almond milk to 1/2 cup, add 1/2 cup of coffee to the mix and there you go!
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Wonderful, Gena! I hope you like it!
I have heard so many great things about turmeric and really need to give this a try!
Even though I don't necessarily have a need for turmeric, this latte looks so delicious that I still want to try it! And I had no idea about the difference between the oil and the powder – very insightful!
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Reagan Efird: Another 'A' for Stanly Early College
Published 12:45 pm Friday, October 5, 2018
For the third year in a row Stanly Early College received another "A" on the North Carolina School Report Card.
Reagan Efird is a student at Stanly Early College.
The Early College met academic growth and has a 97 percent graduation rate.
Stanly Early College was the only school in Stanly County to earn an A on the North Carolina School Report Card. Stanly Early College has received four A grades since the 2013-2014 school year.
"The academic success of our students is based on the hard work and dedication of our teachers and students," Stanly Early College Principal Kevin Adams said.
In addition to the A, Stanly Early College was recognized and awarded bronze on the 2018 Best High Schools ranking in the U.S.
U.S. News & World Report collects data from more than 20,500 public high schools across all 50 states and the District of Columbia, ranking roughly the top 6,000 schools. The list is based on state assessments and indicates the level of college readiness of schools from around the country.
Stanly Early College students have acquired these achievements while also completing an associate's degree through the Stanly Community College.
During the 2016-2017 school year, 93 percent of Early College students completed an associate's degree in addition to their high school diploma.
This past school year, 85 percent of Early College students also obtained their associate's degree and high school diploma.
The 2017-2018 graduating class of Stanly Early College earned over 2,500 hours of transferable college credits. Furthermore, last year's graduates obtained more than $700,000 in scholarships.
Reagan Efird, a student at Stanly Early College, writes about events at the school for The Stanly News & Press.
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The Court of Appeals, in an opinion by Judge Rosenblatt, explained the doctrine of law of the case in People v. Evans.[1] He stated:
"The law of the case doctrine is part of a larger family of kindred concepts, which includes res judicata (claim preclusion) and collateral estoppel (issue preclusion). These doctrines, broadly speaking, are designed to limit re-litigation of issues. Like claim preclusion and issue preclusion, preclusion under the law of the case contemplates that the parties had a "full and fair" opportunity to litigate the initial determination. Res judicata and collateral estoppel generally deal with preclusion after judgment: res judicata precludes a party from asserting a claim that was litigated in a prior action, while collateral estoppel precludes relitigating an issue decided in a prior action. Accordingly, the law of the case has been aptly characterized as "a kind of intra-action res judicata".
Res judicata and collateral estoppel are rules of limitation recognized in the CPLR. Indeed, in a civil proceeding, a party is entitled, by statute, to a dismissal based on issue preclusion or claim preclusion, both of which are also designated as affirmative defenses. Contrastingly, the law of the case doctrine is found in no New York statute. As such, the law of the case is necessarily "amorphous" in that it "directs a court's discretion", but does not restrict its authority.
Over the years, the phrase "law of the case" has appeared at various times in New York decisional law, but it has not always meant the same thing...[W]e now refer to it primarily in the manner raised on this appeal—as a concept regulating pre-judgment rulings made by courts of coordinate jurisdiction in a single litigation.
We agree with defendant insofar as he asserts that the law of the case doctrine is designed to eliminate the inefficiency and disorder that would follow if courts of coordinate jurisdiction were free to overrule one another in an ongoing case. This Court recognized as much in Matter of Dondi v. Jones, 40 N.Y.2d 8, 15, 386 N.Y.S.2d 4, 351 N.E.2d 650, when it cautioned that "a court should not ordinarily reconsider, disturb or overrule an order in the same action of another court of co-ordinate jurisdiction." [2]
The law of the case is a discretionary doctrine. It is a concept that is applied as a matter of judicial discretion or out of respect for the judgment of fellow judges at the same level of the judiciary rather than in accordance with fixed and nondiscretionary rules. The doctrine of law of the case permits a reasoned exercise of a certain degree of discretion in its application,[3] and it may be ignored in extraordinary circumstances.[4]
The doctrine of law of the case is not a rule of evidence. It is "is a rule of practice, an articulation of sound policy" that, when an issue is once finally determined on the merits, that should be the end of the matter as far as Judges and courts of co-ordinate jurisdiction are concerned. Thus, the decision of the judge who first determines an issue on the merits binds all courts of co-ordinate jurisdiction, regardless of whether a formal order was entered. [5] The doctrine applies exclusively to questions of law. It makes a legal determination on the merits in a given case binding not only on the parties but on all other judges of coordinate jurisdiction.[6]
The law of the case contemplates that the parties had a "full and fair" opportunity to litigate the initial determination. [7] Thus, the doctrine applies only to legal determinations that were necessarily litigated and resolved on the merits in a prior decision. [8] Under the doctrine, parties or their privies are "precluded from relitigating an issue decided in an ongoing action where there previously was a full and fair opportunity to address the issue.[9] An issue must be actually litigated for the law of the case doctrine to apply.[10] The doctrine of law of the case may be applied only where a court directly passes upon an issue which is necessarily involved in the final determination on the merits. The doctrine of the law of the case applies only to legal determinations that were necessarily resolved on the merits in the prior decision. [11] Thus, consideration of an issue is not precluded by the law of the case doctrine if the prior ruling did not finally determine the issue on the merits.[12]
The doctrine does not apply to a prior sua sponte determination by the trial court since the parties have not litigated the issue. [13]
The doctrine of the law of the case does not apply to statements by a court that are mere dicta or supposition by the court, [14] or to rulings which are based upon the discretion of the court, such as case management decisions.[15] The law of the case is inapplicable to a prior discretionary, conditional preclusion order. [16] A gratuitous legal issue not directly raised is not binding where all parties did not have full and fair opportunity to address it.[17]
In matrimonial actions, where there is the need for speedy resolution of temporary matters, findings made for a temporary purpose will not bind the judge who has to decide the merits of the case later on. Findings made for the purpose of awarding temporary relief, such as maintenance, child support, counsel fees, custody and exclusive occupancy of the marital residence do not bind the court when it later makes a final judgment.[18] This is so even if the temporary findings were the product of a hearing rather than just motion papers and affidavits.
Appellate courts are not bound by the law of the case doctrine.[19]
[1] 94 N.Y.2d 499, 502–05, 727 N.E.2d 1232, 1234–36 (2000)
[3] In re LaDelfa, 107 A.D.3d 1562, 968 N.Y.S.2d 759 (4th Dep't 2013)
[4] Frankson v. Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp., 67 A.D.3d 213, 886 N.Y.S.2d 714 (2d Dep't 2009); Welch Foods, Inc. v. Wilson, 262 A.D.2d 949, 692 N.Y.S.2d 873 (4th Dep't 1999)
[5] See Matter of Levinson, 11 A.D.3d 826, 784 N.Y.S.2d 165, lv. denied 4 N.Y.3d 704, 792 N.Y.S.2d 1, 825 N.E.2d 133; Spahn v. Griffith, 101 A.D.2d 1011, 476 N.Y.S.2d 676; Matter of Silverberg v. Dillon, 73 A.D.2d 838, 423 N.Y.S.2d 760.
[6] State of N.Y. Higher Educ. Servs. Corp. v. Starr, 158 A.D.2d 771, 772, 551 N.Y.S.2d 363, 364 (3d 1990); Siegel, NY Prac § 448, at 593; see, 1 Carmody–Wait 2d, NY Prac §§ 2:64, 2:66, at 76, 79.
[7] Chanice v Federal Exp. Corp., 118 AD3d 634, 989 NYS2d 468 (1st Dept 2014).
[8] Perini Corp. v. City of New York, 122 A.D.3d 528, 998 N.Y.S.2d 11 (1st Dep't 2014); Ramanathan v. Aharon, 109 A.D.3d 529, 970 N.Y.S.2d 574 (2d Dep't 2013); Erickson v Cross Ready Mix, Inc., 98 AD3d 717, 950 NYS2d 175 (2d Dept 2012) Town of Angelica v. Smith, 89 A.D.3d 1547, 933 N.Y.S.2d 480 (4th Dep't 2011); Pollack v. Pollack, 290 A.D.2d 548, 736 N.Y.S.2d 632 (2d Dept., 2002)( "The order referring for a hearing the issues of whether the former guardian ad litem for the defendant is entitled to recover an attorney's fee from the plaintiff, and the extent and value of the services rendered by the guardian ad litem, was not barred by the doctrine of the law of the case. The issues decisive in the motion were not litigated and decided in a prior order dated February 21, 1997, in this action.")
[9] Ball v. Brodsky, 126 A.D.3d 448, 2015 WL 920055 (1st Dep't 2015); Roddy v. Nederlander Producing Co. of Am., 73 A.D.3d 583, 585, 904 N.Y.S.2d 5, 7, rev'd, 15 N.Y.3d 944, 941 N.E.2d 1155 (2010)
[10] People ex rel. Spitzer v. Grasso, 54 A.D.3d 180, 861 N.Y.S.2d 627 (1st Dep't 2008)
[11] Thompson v. Cooper, 24 A.D.3d 203, 806 N.Y.S.2d 32 (1st Dep't 2005); Kopsidas v. Krokos, 18 A.D.3d 822, 796 N.Y.S.2d 635 (2d Dep't 2005)...
[12] Gray v. Sandoz Pharmaceuticals, Div. of Sandoz, Inc., 123 A.D.2d 829, 507 N.Y.S.2d 444 (2d Dep't 1986).
[13] Debcon Financial Services, Inc. v. 83-17 Broadway Corp., 126 A.D.3d 752, 5 N.Y.S.3d 478 (2d Dep't 2015)
[14] 220-52 Associates v. Edelman, 18 A.D.3d 313, 797 N.Y.S.2d 39 (1st Dep't 2005)
[15] Brothers v. Bunkoff General 296 A.D.2d 764, 745 N.Y.S.2d 284 (3d Dept.,2002)
[16] Bros. v. Bunkoff Gen. Contractors, 296 A.D.2d 764, 765, 745 N.Y.S.2d 284, 286 (3d Dept., 2002)
[17] Gay v Farella, 5 AD3d 540, 772 NYS2d 871 (2d Dept 2004); Gee Tai Chong Realty Corp. v GA Ins. Co. of New York, 283 AD2d 295, 727 NYS2d 388 (1st Dept 2001) (no full and fair opportunity to litigate issue of coverage).
[18] In re Jonathan M., 61 AD3d 1374, 877 NYS2d 575 (4th Dept 2009); Cellamare v Lakeman, 36 AD3d 905, 829 NYS2d 590 (2d Dept 2007); see In re Jonathan M., 61 AD3d 1374, 877 NYS2d 575 (4th Dept 2009).


MAN UTD legend Ryan Giggs secured a job in management after years of speculation, having been appointed Wales manager on a four-year contract this week.
The 44-year-old has been linked with a number of jobs since stepping down as caretaker manager of the Red Devils in July 2016.
He was unsuccessfully interviewed for the vacant Swansea managerial position prior to Bob Bradley's appointment in October 2016, before ruling himself out of the running for similar roles at Middlesbrough, Sunderland and Swansea against earlier this year.
After news of his appointment broke, the Welshman was forced to defend himself from a backlash online, claiming the reaction had been "unfair".
"Some will support you, some won't," he said.
The only way to change their mind is to give it your all, which I intend to do.
But even Man Utd fans seem to need convincing that their iconic hero would make a good appointment.
One Red Devils fan posted a clip taken from ITV's 2014 documentary Life of Ryan: Caretaker Manager showing Giggs delivering a less-than-rousing pre-match team talk to United players on the final day of the season.
"The team today is going have to work hard because they [Southampton] work hard," he droned unenthusiastically.
"The team that we've got has got experience, pace, players who are comfortable on the ball.
"They do die at the end, so subs you might come on and win the game. So concentrate and watch the game.
"But it's the last game of the season, we want to end on a high, we want to give our fans something to shout about.
GARETH BARRY could surpass Ryan Giggs' Premier League appearance record tonight - but which eight current top flight players were born after his debut?
"City or Liverpool are gonna win the league. Erm, give our fans something to cheer about, it's been a frustrating season.
"It's a good game to play in and one that I'm looking forward to because of the exciting players that we've got on the pitch.
United were forced to come from behind to draw 1-1 with Southampton, capping off their worst ever Premier League season to finish in 7th place.
"I'm still laughing at the news, he's going to be terrible and he is hated by most of the fans as well," wrote one United supporter.


I have been trawling through the latest menswear catwalk collections this week for the day job and have been taken with the number of fabulously stylish older men outside the shows. Obviously they work in fashion so they are bound to be stylish, but I'm struck by the way they manage to combine looking classic and super fashionable without looking contrived.
One person in particular keeps popping up on social media and is famous for for his attention to detail and ability to put together a fabulous outfit. 55 year old Nick Wooster (full name Nickelson Wooster) is from Salina, Kansas and has had a illustrious career as a clothing buyer at Barneys, design director at Ralph Lauren, fashion director at Neiman Marcus, president of John Bartlett and trend development officer at JC Penney.
It was his 398K followers on Instagram that attracted Italian menswear company Lardini to ask him to be their brand ambassador and together they have developed a Wooster + Lardini collection, which recently launched in a pop up shop in Selfridges.
If only I could persuade Middleaged dad to dress like Nick!
Though he is, as Amanda says, deffo a Bright Old Thing.
Though he is, as Amanda says, deffo a Bright Old Thing.!


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Forums › ICT Policies and Regulation › Comcom - 'fibre barrier'
# 80862 5-Apr-2011 12:03
Interesting move from the comcom - may look at forcing Telecom/Telstra to openly peer:
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/technology/news/article.cfm?c_id=5&objectid=10717231
The final terms of reference are expected to be completed this month, with a discussion paper scheduled for June and the final report in December.
The Commerce Commission wants to look at potential barriers to end-user uptake of ultra-fast broadband, and is asking for input on the draft terms of reference of its investigation.
The antitrust regulator wants to look at any demand-side impediments to people accessing high-speed internet as the government's Crown Fibre Holdings gets closer to doling out $1.35 billion to the bidders of the State-subsidised broadband network.
The commission wants to look at the drivers of broadband uptake in other jurisdictions, any barriers to consumer buy-in such as peering (the voluntary interconnection of separate networks), internet protocol interconnection, data caps and content arrangements.
It's also proposing to look at whether network neutrality, where all data is treated equally regardless of source or destination, is an issue in New Zealand. Finally, it wants to analyse what steps might be needed to promote effective competition.
"Our aim is to promote competition in telecommunications markets for the long-term benefit of end-users of telecommunications services in New Zealand," Telecommunications Commissioner Ross Patterson said in a statement. "The study will result in a report which will identify any factors which may inhibit the uptake of ultra-fast broadband services."
The probe comes as Parliament's Finance and Expenditure Committee looks at legislation enabling Telecom Corp. to split itself into two separate companies, allowing it to participate in the government's broadband network.
Communications Minister Steven Joyce's supplementary order paper, which included the amendments dealing with the ultra-fast broadband initiative and sister rural broadband, was roundly criticised by most industry submissions who, among other things, were unhappy with the proposed regulatory holiday offered to the winning bidders.
The Telecommunications (TSO, Broadband and Other Matters) Bill and SOP were intended to ensure Telecom can't build a dominant position in the telecommunications environment that will emerge as fibre-optic cable and wireless services gradually replace today's copper-based telephone networks. Telecom has made it to the priority list to win a chunk of government funding, along with Vector and some of the Regional Fibre Group's members.
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# 455480 5-Apr-2011 12:31
Already posted earlier at http://www.geekzone.co.nz/forums.asp?forumid=95&topicid=80852
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Really hope they are forced to peer, but if it happens we might need bigger and faster peering exchanges once more businesses connect to fibre.
Qualified in business, certified in fibre, stuck in copper, have to keep going ^_^


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Shop Strategies
Shop Strategies: All-Female Body Shop Encourages Next Generation of Auto Body Techs
Stacey Phillips is a freelance writer for the automotive industry based in Southern California. She has 20 years of experience as an editor including writing in a number of businesses and fields.
She can be reached at sphillips.autobodynews@gmail.com.
Written by	Stacey Phillips
(L to R) Audrey Batson, Lindsay Tadros, Emily Noack, Hilary Noack, Alexandra Chiarore, Olivia DiGianfelice and Kimberly Diem Hanh Cao
When Hilary Noack was a teenager, she noticed a flier about a festival in Long Beach, CA, called Ink-N-Iron. At the time, it featured old custom cars, tattoos and music.
"I thought to myself, 'This embodies everything that I want my body shop to be someday,'" she recalled. "I'm going to name it Ink&Iron."
Fast-forward 12 years later, and Noack now operates Ink&Iron body shop in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, which focuses on restorations and minor collision repair work. One of the unique features of her business is that it is owned and operated by women. Plans are in place to expand to other locations in Canada and the United States with the first opening in Detroit, MI, in 2019.
Autobody News talked to Noack about her body shop and how she encourages co-op students and apprentices to learn the trade.
Q: Can you share how you started in the auto body industry?
A: I remember hanging around my dad when I was growing up while he was working on cars and tuning them up. I wanted to buy a car when I was 17 years old, and the only one I could afford was a 1970 Oldsmobile. It was pretty rusty, and I wanted to learn how to repair it. There was a body shop nearby where my parents lived, and I asked if I could work there as a co-op student during my last year of high school. They said yes, and I thought it sounded so cool.
From there, I transitioned straight into an apprenticeship program at Centennial College in their automotive division. I began working at 427 Auto Collision, one of the largest body shops in North America, after completing the third and final level of my schooling for the apprentice program.
Q: How did you decide to open your shop and employ only women?
A: I have known that I wanted to open my own shop since I started in the trade, but I knew it would need to be unique in order to stand out from the crowd. It was definitely a goal of mine. When I first started at 427 Auto Collision, I was the only female in the workplace. I was also the only female through all three levels of my schooling.
https://www.autobodynews.com/index.php/shop-strategies/item/16080-shop-strategies-all-female-body-shop-encourages-next-generation-of-auto-body-techs.html#sigProId4e3a026a87
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Professor Yiming Wang, University of Pittsburgh
Tuesday, January 24, 2023, 11:00am - 12:00pm
Cationic Late Transition Metal Complexes for Selective ?-C–H Functionalization
We describe the discovery and development of catalytic ?-C–H functionalization reactions of simple unsaturated hydrocarbons, including alkynes, alkenes, and allenes, using cationic cyclopentadienyliron(II) dicarbonyl complexes. These complexes enable the development of a new mode of catalytic C–H functionalization in which metal coordination to a ?-bond facilitates the deprotonation of a neighboring C–H bond. The implementation of this strategy resulted in mild, functional group tolerant, and regioselective transformations for the coupling of unsaturated hydrocarbons with aldehydes, iminiums, and other readily available or easily accessed carbon electrophiles. Investigations into the reaction mechanism and the discovery and optimization of new ligand systems are discussed. Extensions of this approach to other transition metal catalysts for stereoselective transformations are also described.
Hosted by Professor Mark Lipke
~Coffee/tea will be served prior to the lecture~
Location CCB Auditorium (Room 1303)


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Lenny Lianne
THE POETRY OF HISTORY
FAIRY TALES AND POETRY
review of A WILDERNESS OF RICHES
review of Frenzy of Color, Reverie of Line
Review of The ABCs of Memory
Sample poems from my books
Book Photo Gallery
Comprehensive bio
BOOKS BY LENNY LIANNE
THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO THE SEVEN DWARFS
San Francisco Bay Press, 2010
ISBN Number: 978-0-9828295-9-2
Let the seven dwarfs tell the story of Snow White. "Miners by trade, [they] determine to delve down below the hardened surface of the story" and discover why the mirror spoke, how the queen tried to be the fairest of the fair and what was Snow White's reaction to meeting the dwarfs. Follow Snow White's years at the cottage of the seven dwarfs as she grows from a willowy girl into a young woman with dreams of rescue and romance. You'll meet other characters back at the castle: her distant father, scheming queen, the hunter, a cook and the scapegoated scullery maid. Of course, there's the poisoned apple, rescuing prince and, finally, the red-hot iron shoes forced on the wicked stepmother at Snow White's wedding. Like all folktales, this is "a lone story full of foolish urgencies."
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\section*{Limitations}
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\section*{Ethics Statement}
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\subsection{Dataset \& Baseline Models}
We experiment on the ECHR task A and B datasets of LexGLUE \cite{chalkidis2022lexglue}, which consist of 11k case fact descriptions chronologically split into training (2001–2016, 9k cases), validation (2016–2017, 1k cases), and test sets (2017-2019, 1k cases). The label set for both tasks include 10 prominent ECHR articles. \noindent Implementation details are given in Appendix \ref{sec:appendix}.  We compare our models against the following baselines:

\noindent \textbf{Task A/B only:} We train single-task models only on task A and B labels, respectively. Their architecture is based on our model with contrastive loss, task dependency and article-specific representation components removed.

\noindent \textbf{Multi-task:} Using the same architecture, we also develop a model for both task A and B that is trained in classic multi-task fashion with separate classification heads without article-specific representations and task dependency components.

\subsection{Performance Evaluation}
Following \citealt{chalkidis2022lexglue}, we report micro-F1 ($\mu$-F1) and macro-F1 (m-F1) scores across the 10 ECtHR articles contained in the dataset. We also report hard-macro-F1 (hm-F1) for Task A following \citealt{santosh2022deconfounding}, which is the mean F1-score computed for each article where cases with that article having been violated are considered as positive instances, and cases with that article being alleged but not found to have been violated as negative instances. This forms the most critical measure for violation classification as it conditions on allegation.

\noindent We compare the performance of our method with the baselines in the first four rows of Table \ref{tab}. The multi-task method performs better than the individual tasks alone, validating the dependency between them. Our method performs better than the multi-task architecture, highlighting the effectiveness of our feature and label dependency components, as well as of the hierarchical contrastive loss. It scores higher by a small margin in Task B and Task A micro-F1 but achieves a larger benefit (>5\%) in task A macro-F1 and hard macro-F1 metrics. This suggests that our model is of particular utility for sparser classes.

\begin{table}
\centering
\caption{Results on Task A and B. `feat.', `lab,'. `Cont.' indicate feature, label and contrastive, respectively}
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   \textbf{Model} & \textbf{$\mu$-F1} &\textbf{m-F1} & \textbf{$\mu$-F1} &\textbf{m-F1} & \textbf{hm-F1}\\
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 Task B only &  76.20&  67.15  & - & - & - \\
 Task A only & - & - &  68.42 & 56.26 & 54.14\\
 Multi-task &  78.17 & 69.16 & 69.29 & 58.05 & 55.57 \\
 Our Method &  79.29  & 70.97 & 71.26 & 65.24 & 60.90 \\
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 w/o feat. \& lab. & 78.93 & 71.45 & 70.07 &   59.14 &   57.09 \\
 w/o feat. & 78.59 & 71.56 & 70.68 & 63.93 & 59.28 \\
 w/o label &  79.09 & 71.38 &  70.32 & 64.12 & 61.70 \\
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   only gold lab.  & 78.21 & 70.03  & 81.46 & 78.93 & 66.59 \\
 gold lab. + feat. & 77.68 & 70.40 & 83.19 &  78.79 & 67.42 \\
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 w/o outcome Cont. & 78.42 & 69.48 &  69.86 & 60.84  & 57.62 \\
 w/o article Cont. & 79.02 & 71.14 &  71.16 & 64.68  & 59.86 \\
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 Task A Cont. & - & - &  70.16 & 62.14  & 58.12 \\
 Task B Cont. &  78.16 & 69.42 &- & - & -\\
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\subsection{Analysis}
\subsubsection{Ablation on Task Dependency Learning}
We create three ablation conditions by removing one interaction mechanism in each of them:
(i) \emph{w/o feature \& label} (article-specific representation but with no concatenation with features or labels) (ii) \emph{w/o feature} (article-specific representation concatenated with task B label as classified by the model) and (iii) \emph{w/o label} (article-specific representation concatenated with task B features).

\noindent From the second section of Table \ref{tab}, we observe that even the performance of \emph{w/o feature and label} is better than \emph{multi-task} model indicated by a small but consistent margin, indicating that article-specific case representation is a competitive component. Both \emph{w/o feature}, \emph{w/o label} models perform better than \emph{w/o feature \& label} in Task A, demonstrating the benefit of passing on task B model information explicitly. Between them, \emph{w/o label} performs better in m-F1 and hm-F1 scores of Task A than \emph{w/o feature} showing that providing the fine-grained representation of features from the allegation identification model is more useful than the predicted allegation labels only.

Further, to evaluate the impact of allegation identification performance on downstream violation classification, we conduct a control experiment in which we provide the actual gold allegation set of articles as input to the violation component in place of the predicted ones. We create two variants: \emph{only gold labels} and \emph{gold labels + features} (gold labels along with task B features). From the third section of Table \ref{tab}, we observe that performance on Task A increases substantially in micro-F1 and macro-F1, which is intuitive as the model gets access to perfect allegation information. Interestingly, when adding task allegation feature information, we notice an additional small increase in hard macro-F1, indicating that adding feature information can have beneficial effect even in  the presence of gold task B labels. These results form an upper bound of the benefit of using task dependency information from allegation branch to violation branch in our architecture, and the size of the performance gap motivates future work on accurate allegation classification.

\subsubsection{Ablation Hierarchical Contrastive Loss}
We carry out an ablation experiment for each component of our hierarchical contrastive loss: (i) disable article-level contrastive learning to obtain distinctive article representations (`w/o article contrastive') and  (ii) disable outcome-based contrastive learning to separate cases based on outcome within each article cluster (`w/o outcome contrastive'). Intuitively, from the fourth section of Table \ref{tab}, we observe that removing the outcome contrastive loss has the larger effect on performance, as it directly relates to the predicted label. The smaller but consistent drop in performance when removing article-level contrastive learning supports our hypothesis that maximizing the distinctiveness among article representations encourages the model to learn how to extract article-specific salient information from case facts.

Finally, to study the impact of our contrastive loss component alone, we evaluate single-task models applying our hierarchical contrastive loss referred to as `Task A/B Contrastive'. From the last section of Table \ref{tab}, we  observe that they outperform their baseline counterparts in both tasks, but still stay behind our model.

\subsection{Hierarchical Contrastive Loss}
Contrastive learning has recently gained attention as a technique to obtain effective representations. In essence, it involves pulling together an `anchor point' and its related samples  while pushing it away from  unrelated samples in the embedding space. Originally developed in self-supervised learning \cite{chen2020simple,henaff2020data}, it has since been adopted in supervised settings \cite{khosla2020supervised} where samples with the same/different labels are deemed related/unrelated with respect to an anchor.

In this work, we use a hierarchical contrastive loss \cite{liang2022zero} alongside the standard binary cross entropy loss on the task outcome probability. On the higher level, this is intended to form distinctive clusters of article-specific case representations. We hypothesize that this distinctiveness maximization constraint in turn helps the article-specific representation component to extract salient information with respect to each article more effectively. At the lower level, inside the latent space for each article, we further perform contrastive learning among cases based on their outcome for tasks A and B, respectively. This allows the positive outcome representations of cases under a specific article to stay closer and separate from the negative outcome cases, leading to formation of sub-clusters. We apply contrastive losses for Task A and Task B separately on the interaction-aware representations.  It is calculated as the mean loss computed based on every article based representation as an anchor point.
\iffalse
\begin{equation}
    L_{hierCont} = \frac{1}{N}\frac{1}{k}\sum_{j=1}^{N}\sum_{i=1}^{k}l(c_{bi_j}^\prime)
\end{equation}

where N denotes the number of case facts instances in a batch and k denotes the total total number of articles. $c_{bi_j}^\prime$ denotes the enhanced representation  of $j^{th}$ case specific to the $i^{th}$ article for Task B.
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The loss for the interaction-aware representation of the $j^\text{th}$ case specific to the $i^\text{th}$ article for Task B $c^\prime_{bi_{j}}$  as an anchor point is calculated as follows:
\begin{equation}
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     l(c_{bi_j}^\prime)  =  & \text{log}(\sum_{f \in Q(i,j)} \frac{ \text{exp}(c^\prime_{bi_j} \cdot f /\tau_a)}{\sum_{g \in P(i,j)} \text{exp}( c^\prime_{bi_j}\cdot g /\tau_a)}) \\ & \times \alpha \sum_{f \in R(i,j)} \frac{ \text{exp}(c^\prime_{bi_j} \cdot f /\tau_c)}{\sum_{g \in Q(i,j)} \text{exp}( c^\prime_{bi_j}\cdot g /\tau_c)})
    \end{aligned}}
    \label{contrast}
\end{equation}
where $P(i,j) = \{c^\prime_{bl_m}| l \neq i ~~\&~~  m \neq j \}$ (all representations except the anchor point),  $Q(i,j) = \{c^\prime_{bl_m}| l = i ~~\&~~ m \neq j) \}$ (all representations which share the same article as the anchor point),  $R(i,j) = \{c^\prime_{bl_m}| l = i ~~\&~~ y_{i_j} = y_{l_m} ~~\&~~ m \neq j\}$, $y_{i_j}$ the denotes binary outcome label of case $j$ with respect to article $i$ (all representations which share the same article and outcome of that article as the anchor point). $\tau_a$ and $\tau_c$  are scalar temperature parameters that control the penalties on negative samples. The first term in the above equation \ref{contrast} denotes the contrastive loss among article representations (i.e., for a given anchor point, positive pairs are obtained by article-aware representations of cases in the batch which share the same article with the anchor point; negative pairs are the remaining article representations). The second term contrasts the cases based on their task outcome within specific article representations.
Contrastive learning has shown to be more effective with larger batch sizes \cite{radford2021learning, chen2020simple}. To account for smaller batch size due to computational constraints incurred with our hierarchical setup, we use a memory bank \cite{wu2018unsupervised} which progressively reuses the representations from previous batches in computing the contrastive loss.

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Here are five lessons on the future of co-living
By Atif Shafique
A co-living building, The Collective Old Oak, in north west London. Image: Getty.
In a new report from the Royal Society of the Arts, we asked a range of thinkers and practitioners to explore the concept of co-living – a form of housing that combines private living space with shared communal facilities. Unlike flatshares and the like, co-living is explicitly designed to encourage communal interaction and build community. Although it accounts for a very small proportion of the overall housing stock, it is growing.
In this article, RSA researcher Atif Shafique summarises the findings of that report.
Sometimes described as the hipster's answer to the commune, co-living may actually represent more than just a trendy throwback to the utopian communities of the past. Its growing appeal is in fact linked to very modern challenges, that some claim it can meet better than more 'mainstream' (and less affordable) forms of housing. Issues ranging from rising loneliness and ageing to changing patterns of work, consumption and living are compelling us to think differently about the sorts of homes we need or desire.
Some of this is forced upon us because of the crisis of affordability in cities such as London. But it's also driven by a desire to get something different out of a housing system that tends to provide little in the way of affordability, quality and choice. Younger generations are bearing the brunt of this, especially as housing tenure shifts dramatically from owner occupation to private renting (60 per cent of Londoners are predicted to be renting by 2025) – a tenure which generally is less secure and of lower quality.
Squeezed out of fast-shrinking social housing and unable to get onto the housing ladder until they're middle-aged, millennials understandably feel they have few options available to them. Only 17 per cent consider social housing an option, while only 23 per cent have looked at shared ownership schemes. Meanwhile, demand for flatsharing is ballooning, especially in London. (As a side note, use this brilliant interactive heatmap by splittable.co to see how much of London is affordable for living on your own versus sharing. Spoiler: if you're on a modest income, not very much of it.)
Oh dear. Click to expand. Image: Splittable.
Can co-living provide a higher quality alternative? One that provides flexibility and security, but also builds social capital amid rising loneliness and growing turbulence in the economy and labour market? Can it become a key option in efforts to meet the housing challenge?
The collection of essays provide a range of perspectives on these questions. Below I provide five key take-always from the publication.
1. A lack of housing supply isn't the only issue we face
So much of the housing debate is narrowly focused on finding ways to build more homes. As important as this is, we also need to think hard about challenges relating to housing quality, security, choice, space standards and design. The types of homes we build matter.
In his essay, Rohan Silva, a former adviser to David Cameron, argues that our housing system is too slow to respond to the twin forces of globalisation and technological change that are transforming our lives. With more innovation in our approach to planning and the built environment, new models of housing (including co-living) could flourish and better meet our needs and ambitions.
2. Community isn't a commodity that can be manufactured
The unique selling point of co-living is that it can foster a lasting sense of community among diverse residents. But as co-living developers are discovering, this isn't easy – and especially not 'at scale' in a commercial setting, without a ready-made community' of driven and likeminded individuals.
Jess Steele's essay points to possible solutions using the Heart of Hastings (HoH) Community Land Trust project as an example. Using a combination of methods drawn from social enterprise, neighbourhood development and community-led housing, HoH shows how diverse communities can be brought together with initiatives that build their sense of ownership and capacity to make decisions, promote self-help and encourage community enterprise.
Traditionally, co-living has been criticised for creating gated communities. But HoH shows that communities of place, and not just communities of (homogeneous) residents, can be built with the right approach.
3. Communal living isn't alien to Britain
We tend to think of Britons as having an innate, unshakeable preference for privacy and private consumption. This is perhaps why co-living is sometimes written off as small-fry housing that won't ever have 'mainstream' appeal, even though similar models are prevalent in other parts of Europe)
Nicholas Boys Smith traces the history of communal living and its policy context, and finds that this description lacks nuance. People value communality deeply, but also like to be able to retreat into the private.
It is this balance between privacy and social interaction that co-living tries to get right. The growth of the sharing economy and the rise of co-working, impact hubs and other forms of collaboration suggests there is an appetite for greater sharing and social engagement – and some would say co-living is part of this trend. As society ages, the need to live together differently (and more communally) will only grow.
4. Design can help us to re-imagine housing
The housing crisis is usually presented as a political or policy problem, rooted in dysfunctional decision-making structures. However, Manisha Patel argues that it is just as much a design challenge. If we are to tackle climate change and improve the quality of social connections in society, we may need to transform how we live and how we design our homes and our neighbourhoods.
The Low Impact Living Affordable Community (LILAC) in Leeds illustrates this with its community of eco-friendly homes. Manisha examines how design principles can be at the heart of co-living, and co-housing schemes in particular. She identifies how architecture can promote "social contact," how new forms of design can enable intergenerational living among extended families (for example, the multi-generation house), and how processes such as modularisation can achieve energy efficiency at scale.
5. Homes have become speculative assets, but we can redefine our relationship to them
Speculation is rife in the housing system. It isn't just investors, banks and oligarchs that are involved: many of us engage in it. When people buy homes with the expectation that they will rise in value, that's speculation.
Government has supported it too, because house price growth contributes to consumer spending and broadening home ownership enables wealth accumulation, premised on the cash (and borrowed cash) to be paid by future buyers. Despite the sheer amount of money that government has invested to get people on the housing ladder, the dominant home ownership model is clearly cracking and the dangers of housing speculation (not least recession and economic instability) are becoming increasingly clear. The financial crisis of 2007-8 was triggered in US housing markets, and the home ownership rate in the UK has fallen for at least the last decade.
It doesn't have to be like this. Jonathan Schifferes and I argue that it is possible to support a shift away from seeing homes as speculative assets to seeing them as sources of collective and community wealth.
Notions of wealth and equity in our housing system are understood far too narrowly: they tend to mean individual ownership of a financial asset, the value of which is determined by the market. It is possible to broaden this understanding to encompass the benefits of having a stake (financial, social, personal) in the success of the community in which one lives and contributes to. Co-living and more co-operative approaches to housing can support this: experience across Europe suggests that such models can become major parts of a mixed economy of housing.
Co-living isn't a magic bullet solution for resolving the housing crisis; nor is it an approach without significant challenges itself. The essays pick up on the problems that co-living models often face, in particular their lack of diversity and occasional tendency to produce exclusive communities. In the for-profit private rental sector there is the added danger that they commodify community.
But as Matthew Taylor notes in his introduction to the essays, if it can overcome its challenges, at its root co-living offers new choices for those who see communality as part of how they want to live, work and thrive.
Atif Shafique is a senior researcher on inclusive growth at the Royal Society of Arts. He tweets at @atif_shafique. You can read the RSA's co-living report here
Older people need better homes – but then, so does everybody else
The National Trust is 125 – so here are 12 urban properties it's preserving
"Total athletes with six packs": The shire horses keeping London's parks going
By David Orr
Colne, Lancashire. Image: Getty.
Towards the end of last year, I started as an associate director at the Centre for Ageing Better, working particularly on our goal around safe and accessible homes. Before I arrived, Ageing Better had established some ambitious goals for this work: by 2030, we want the number of homes classed as decent to increase by a million, and by the same date to ensure that at least half of all new homes are built to be fully accessible.
We've all heard the statistics about the huge growth in the number of households headed by someone over 65, and the exponential growth in the number of households of people over 85. Frustratingly, this is often presented as a problem to be solved rather than a major success story of post war social and health policy. Older people, like everyone else, have ambitions for the future, opportunities to make a full contribution to their communities and to continue to work in fulfilling jobs.
It is also essential that older people, again like everyone else, should live in decent and accessible homes. In the last 50 years we have made real progress in improving the quality of our homes, but we still have a lot to do. Our new research shows that over 4 million homes across England fail to meet the government's basic standards of decency. And a higher proportion of older people live in these homes than the population more generally, with over a million people over the age of 55 living in conditions that pose a risk to their health or safety.
It shouldn't be too difficult to ensure all our homes meet a decent standard. A small number of homes require major and expensive remedial work, but the overwhelming majority need less than £3,000 to hit the mark. We know how to do it. We now need the political will to make it a priority. Apart from the benefits to the people living in the homes, investment of this kind is great for the economy, especially when so many of our skilled tradespeople are older. Imagine if they were part of training young people to learn these skills.
At a recent staff away day, we explored where we would ideally want to live in our later lives. This was not a stretch for me, although for some of our younger colleagues it is a long way into the future.
The point at which the conversation really took off for me was when we moved away from government definitions of decency and accessibility and began to explore the principles of what great homes for older people would be like. We agreed they needed light and space (by which we meant real space – our national obsession with number of bedrooms as opposed to space has led to us building the smallest new homes in Europe).
We agreed, too, that they needed to be as flexible as possible so that the space could be used differently as our needs change. We thought access to safe outdoor space was essential and that the homes should be digitally connected and in places that maximise the potential for social connection.
Of course, it took us just a few seconds to realise that this is true for virtually everyone. As a nation we have been dismal at moving away from three-bed boxes to thinking differently about what our homes should look like. In a world of technology and factory building, and as we build the new generation of homes we desperately need, we have a real chance to be bold.
Great, flexible homes with light and space, in the places where people want to live. Surely it's not too much to ask?
David Orr is associate director – homes at the Centre for Ageing Better.
"When we plan for walkability, we need to factor in behavior": the case for continuous pavements
Mayor Anne Hidalgo is making Paris more friendly to cyclists – and more hostile to cars
Podcast: Commonwealth voices in Kingston, Jamaica
No, Grant Shapps didn't promise to scrap the Northern Rail franchise
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The new Manchester Metrolink map is both prettier and easier to use
Here are some of the world's most stupid time zones
Why blimps and airships died out – and how they might make a comeback
How useful are the "connectors" on the Tube Map really?
Podcast: Seven Sisters Market, with LibDem mayoral candidate Siobhan Benita
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For the first time since 1993, The Santa Fe Opera presents two shorter operas paired as a double bill.
Divas vie for a plum role while a producer struggles to cope with their rivalry and with the stresses of work in the music business. That's the scenario of Mozart's brief, witty opera The Impresario, but it could also be a news story in tomorrow's issue of The Hollywood Reporter. In these ingeniously framed productions, the stars' rivalry centers on casting for Stravinsky's exquisite one-act opera Le Rossignol, which forms the second half of a perfectly balanced double-bill. With English dialogue by the British dramatist Ranjit Bolt and additional Mozart concert arias folded into the score, The Impresario takes us to 1920s Paris for the high-stress auditions. With the same cast, Le Rossignol enfolds us in Hans Christian Andersen's poetic fable in which an emperor learns the lesson of humility. Sopranos Erin Morley and Brenda Rae face off as the dueling divas. Making his Company debut is English stage director, Michael Gieleta. Evan Rogister who led King Roger (2012) and Oscar (2013), will conduct. This production of Le Rossignol honors the centennial of the opera's premiere in Paris in 1914.
The one-act opera, The Impresario shares the trials and tribulations an impresario encounters in leading a group of traveling players. Herr Puff suggests to the impresario that he should sign the actors at low wages, and he recommends bribing the critics and disregarding artistic merit. The banker takes care of the finances for the impresario in return to have his mistress play a role in the production. As the impresario begins to hold auditions, it's clear that Madame Tintement and Madame Popescu are divas trying to outdo each other for the same role. The two women continue their rivalry and the competition heats up. When the impresario cannot choose and threatens to cancel the production, the singers decide that only through peaceful collaboration can art thrive.
Set in Ancient China, the fisherman acts as a narrator for the story's events.
Just before dawn, a fisherman awaits the arrival of the singing nightingale. The cook arrives bringing court officials and says how the bird's beautiful song makes her cry. The Chamberlain, unable to hear, tells her he will appoint her as private cook to the Emperor if she can find the bird. The nightingale appears and the cook and Chamberlain invite it to sing for the Emperor. The nightingale accepts the invitation but reminds them that her sweetest song is in the forest.
Couriers prepare the palace for the nightingale's song with lanterns. They ask the cook about the bird and she responds that though the nightingale appears plain, tears of happiness will flow from listener's eyes. The Emperor's procession enters and he commands the bird to sing. The Emperor is moved by the beautiful singing and offers the bird a reward of a golden slipper. Three Japanese Envoys enter the palace and offer the Emperor a mechanical nightingale. The mechanical bird sings and the nightingale flies away. The Emperor banishes it from the empire. He names the mechanical bird "first singer" in the court.
As the Emperor is dying and Death is near his side, the ghosts of his past deeds visit him. He calls for his court musicians, but instead the nightingale appears – disregarding the banishment. Death hears the nightingale sing and asks it to continue. The nightingale agrees, but only if Death returns the crown, sword and standard to the Emperor. Death agrees and the Emperor offers the nightingale "first singer" – the nightingale declines, stating that the Emperor's tears are reward enough, and promises to sing each night from dusk until dawn.
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See Executive Order No. GA-32 here
Bandera County judge applies for bars to reopen
By Jessica Nohealapa'ahi Goode
Last week, Governor Greg Abbott announced that bars across the state would be allowed to open by today, as long as county judges file a request. County Judge Richard Evans yesterday said he applied with TABC (Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission), and is awaiting a response.
In his latest Executive Order No. GA-32, Abbott stipulated that bars may offer on-premises services up to 50 percent of total occupancy.
Patrons are required to gather in groups of six people or fewer, and must maintain social distancing.
"Where applicable, this 50 percent occupancy limit applies only indoors," the order states. "The limit does not apply to outdoor areas, events or establishments, although social distancing and other protocols must be followed."
Bars are still allowed to offer drive-thru, pickup or delivery options.
"TABC will respond hopefully today or tomorrow," Evans said. "You never know with a state agency."
To see which counties can open their bars, go to https://www.tabc.texas.gov/coronavirus/


13th Century painter, Simone Martini, is best known for religious paintings. We love the textural quality and lightness of this painting, that brings your eye in and compels you to linger. Looks beautiful when stitched with a combination of silk and metallic threads, which we would be happy to select for this 15" x 18" 14 , 16, or 18 mesh mono deluxe needlepoint canvas. Please indicate your mesh preference in the Notes section at Checkout. Set over the fireplace or on a wall on its own, it will surely make its presence known. Equally nice for a large cushion or pillow. Available in alternate sizes. Please contact us if you would like us to add the fibers of your choice.


The Freedman's Bank was established in 1865 to help foment wealth-building for nearly four million newly emancipated slaves. It closed in 1875.
In commemoration of the 150th anniversary of Freedman' Savings and Trust Co., U.S. Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew has renamed the Treasury Annex building in Washington, D.C., in honor of the bank that was incorporated by Congress in 1865 to help stimulate wealth-building for former slaves.
During its nearly 10-year existence, approximately 100,000 African-American individuals and institutions amassed $57 million in the bank's Washington, D.C. headquarters and its branches in 37 cities across 17 states.
Despite the closing of the Freedman's Bank in 1874, it remains a significant part of American history and this event will highlight the historical significance of the bank and its original mission – to promote economic integration and financial inclusion.
C-SPAN reports that the bank failed despite "significant financial contributions" from leaders like Frederick Douglass. Its failure left "tens of thousands of depositors" destitute and in financial ruin, notes the report.
As the years went on, a series of bad investments, exposure to financial mismanagement, and the expensive construction of a new headquarters in Washington, D.C. plummeted the bank into financial chaos.
In addition, the overall economy had begun to crumble leading to the first 'Great Depression,' called the Panic of 1873. Historians say the North was so preoccupied with the troubling economic condition of the nation–the failure of 18,000 U.S. businesses in just two years, due in part to the failure of railroad companies in their efforts to expand–that efforts to address racism in the South were largely abandoned, further distracting from the bank's mandate.
In March of 1874, bank trustees asked Frederick Douglass to lead the bank in their efforts to save the ailing institution. Those efforts fell short given the bank's troubled financial circumstances, and trustees voted to shut it down in June of that same year.
In spite of its spectacular collapse, Lew said it's important to recognize the institution.
Lew is correct, but the failure of the institution also makes a powerful case for reparations, which are long overdue.


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Alle successive olimpiadi giunse quindicesima alla competizione. Si sposò con Rudolf Hübner.

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Aaron D. Gitler
The Stanford Medicine Basic Science Professor
Current Research and Scholarly Interests We investigate the mechanisms of human neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer disease, Parkinson disease, and ALS. We don't limit ourselves to one model system or experimental approach. We start with yeast, perform genetic and chemical screens, and then move to other model systems (e.g. mammalian tissue culture, mouse, fly) and even work with human patient samples (tissue sections, patient-derived cells, including iPS cells) and next generation sequencing approaches.
Henry T. (Hank) Greely
Deane F. and Kate Edelman Johnson Professor of Law and, Professor, by courtesy, of Genetics
Current Research and Scholarly Interests Since 1992 my work has concentrated on ethical, legal, and social issues in the biosciences. I am particularly active on issues arising from neuroscience, human genetics, and stem cell research, with cross-cutting interests in human research protections, human biological enhancement, and the future of human reproduction.
William Greenleaf
Associate Professor of Genetics and, by courtesy, of Applied Physics
Current Research and Scholarly Interests Our lab focuses on developing methods to probe both the structure and function of molecules encoded by the genome, as well as the physical compaction and folding of the genome itself. Our efforts are split between building new tools to leverage the power of high-throughput sequencing technologies and cutting-edge optical microscopies, and bringing these technologies to bear against basic biological questions by linking DNA sequence, structure, and function.


The Greek government has introduced significant changes to its golden visa program.
The changes have been introduced to strengthen credibility and to make it tougher for applicants to misuse the program for money laundering activities.
Greece's golden visa offers a fast-track route to permanent residence to investors buying real estate worth €250,000 in the country.
Under the new changes, the definition of the minimum investment requirement to qualify for the golden visa program has been expanded.
The rule now states that the minimum value of the property at the time of its acquisition combined with the contractual rent of any hotel or tourist accommodation must not be less than €250,000.
Further, this amount must be paid in full at the time of acquisition of the property for it to be considered as an eligible transaction for the purpose of the golden visa program.
The minimum real estate investment amount can be adjusted only by a joint decision of the ministers of Migration Policy and Economy and Finance.
The entire consideration for purchase of real estate must be paid by a two-line bank check.
The check must be on the beneficiary's account that must be held with a bank operating in Greece.
Or, the investor can transfer the amount to the payee's account through a payment service provider operating in Greece.
This change has been introduced to ensure the transaction is routed through the Bank of Greece, which will establish a clear audit trail for authorities for future verification.
Further, requiring payments to be transferred through authorized Greek financial institutions or payment service providers is aimed at improving security, enhancing transparency, and reducing the possibility of the program being used to launder money.
The two-line bank check requirement is intended to prevent foreign individuals or entities financing the golden visa transaction from abroad. The new rule introduces a limitation on who can act as the payers or beneficiaries of the real estate purchase.
Even in the event of a third party making the payment on behalf of the golden visa applicant, the money will have to be transferred through the two-line check issued on the account of the third party.
This requirement introduces an additional level of protection into the transaction.
Greece was a late entrant into the group of EU countries offering permanent residence against real estate investment.
However, its program is popular among Chinese investors due to the low investment requirement combined with a resurgence in the country's tourism and real estate sector.
Changes aimed at making the program safer and more transparent are partly in response to a recent European Commission report that has termed such investment immigration programs security risks and has called for their immediate termination.


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Citizen says City Council Appointment Process Flawed
At least one of the candidates who had sought appointment to Cumberland's City Council is not happy with the manner in which the process was handled. Kelly Robertson was one of 15 applicants interviewed last week by the mayor and council as part of the effort to fill the seat vacated by David Caporale- and she addressed the city officials Tuesday, critical of the process. She said that the time frame for making the appointment changed from December to January; scheduled interview times were abruptly changed and there was a clear lack of transparency as the names of the 15 applicants were never made public by the city. In addition, she criticized council member Seth Bernard who she accused of being unattentive during her interview. She said it was obvious that the council was simply going through the motions…
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Allison Wong, a peer of mine is researching how user participation can be involved in the design process. We collaborated to gather feedback on the forms I created to see if the tools were explanatory in how you would interact with the objects. We also intended to discover if the functions of the devices were applicable to their lifestyles within the home.
We shared the models with people and asked how they would interact with them as controllers or sensors for other appliances, devices, and experiences.
The majority of people had very clear and intuitive understanding of how the controller would be used in context of their function. Many predicted that the controllers would be used in ways that were familiar to them. For example, mouse functions on the computer came up a lot to control functions like temperature, speed, or volume.
Allison created this tool to help us understand how people interact within the home. They configured furniture and rooms and gave them pieces that symbolized the connected controllers.
How would you use the object to effect your mood?
Most associated lighting quality, music, and relaxation.
How would you use this object to get ready for the day?
Bathing, cooking, and consuming data through news, Facebook, and email were the strongest feedback.
How could this object help you wake up?
Some participants would like the experience of waking up to be peaceful and gradual. Specifically an alarm clock connected to lighting.
How would you use this object to help with a collaborative activity?
Participants mostly thought that it was a tool to help you cook, play a game, or watch entertainment.


Royal Enfield launched its new bike the Thunderbird Twinspark in 2008. But it was under some serious scrutiny by Bajaj Auto Ltd because of the name and the twin spark technology. Bajaj patents the twin spark technology and it had previously filed a suit against TVS motors for the same reason. But according to Royal Enfield they have not breached the patent copyrights as it holds good for 75 and 250 cc engine bikes whereas the Thunderbird is of a 350 cc version and they plan to incorporate the same technology in their future series of bikes too.
A first look, and you would be hardly able to tell the difference between the Twinspark and any other Thunderbird, till you see the engine. It's a contemporary looking powerplant with an incorporated crankcase and gearbox projected to lessen oil seepage. Every other bit is similar; the round headlamp, double instrument pods, front disc brake, seat and pillion backrest are all the same as the normal Thunderbird's. A notable visual difference is the shorter muffler that we received on our test bike.
The panels underneath the seat feature a minuscule 'Twinspark' sticker, which is the lone sign of this key technical step forward of the bike. Also on either side, just beneath the tank, are round reflectors; a helpful touch when you're emerging from a side road onto a highway.
The fuel tank is sheet-metal, and the overhang welded below it is a blemish, while the fuel tank cap looks dated. The Twinspark does well to offer slow- cam chain adjusters, as compared to the more predictable system provided on most Indian models.
Paint and fit-finish is still is not upto the mark.
The all-new engine has twin-spark plugs, an automatic decompression facility and unit-construction that the company claims has answered the crisis of oil discharge, a key problem with the old engine. Although a lot does stay alike, other important changes contain a high-flow trichoidal oil pump, hydraulic tappets, an automatic primary chain tensioner and the drive chain assembly shifted to the right side in order to reduce transmission loss.
The Twinspark benefits from TCI ignition for a fine spark. You get 2bhp more, for a figure of 19.8bhp, and 2.85kgm of torque, which is a insignificant 0.1kgm more than the older version.
Start it and you instantly notice a smoother feel near idle. The handlebars don't judder in your hands just yet. Select first gear and as you let the clutch out, it feels a bit improved. A six-plate clutch instead of four makes the difference. As you hasten through the gears, this smoothness unfortunately diminishes however, to be replaced with Royal Enfield characteristic vibrations, Which is where it goes from bad to worse, and it's apparent that thrashing the engine is not the way to ride this bike.
Fuel economy is not a subject of relevance among Royal Enfield bike lovers, who will buy the Thunderbird Twinspark more for its lifestyle value, than economy.
For the record, the Twinspark returns 35.7kpl in the city and 36.8kpl on the highway.
btw according to company the fuel efficiency ranges anywhere between 45-50 kmpl.
The riding arrangement of the Twinspark is classic cruiser fare, and its saddle is a sensibly pleasant place to be on long rides.
The new bike has an integrated gearbox that produces only 10% more power and torque compared to the previous Bullets. So, there is not much to rejoice. It generates a maximum power of 20 bhp and the maximum torque is 28Nm. For an instant halt the bike requires 150/280mm brakes.
The shifting of the rear brake has become easier. The suspension is not satisfactory; it is slightly stiffer but gets better with a pillion rider. Stability on straight lanes remains good but riding into curves isn't any great. The front tyre seems to skid while breaking that causes some kind of discomfort. The bike is recommended for city riding and for a rare long drive too.
The Thunderbird uses known, large, kicked-out forks and an extended single-downtube frame. Its gas-charged dampers at the rear are par for the course for motorcycles in India, but even on their softest setting tend to jump when pushing the bike to its edge. These work best when the bike is overloaded.
The Thunderbird Twinspark is somewhat a burden in city traffic, but a steady bike on the highway thanks to its 19-inch rims. The handlebars do provide ample weight for city riding, but there is no dodging this bike's rangy wheelbase and heft in the city.
The new Thunderbird Twinspark will not have a mad following like we see for Pulsars or Karizmas but is liked by people who already own a bullet and those who do not have one but have a liking for the brand. You might not see 100s and 1000s of these on roads, but one on road and it is a head turner.
The Royal Enfield Thunderbird Twinspark is available in three colours: Silver, Black and Red and is handsomely priced at Rs 103000.
At Rs.1,00,000+ the bike is not cheap, but it is a legend cloaked in modern wizardry. Enfield claims the Thunderbird TwinSpark is maintenance free though only time will tell, as it is too early to comment on this.
The dreary general quality, the heavy price tag and the out-of-date technology make sure you do not buy this bike by using your head. Yes, the new engine is better and more modern, but then these are changes that should have been made a long time ago.
But looking at the Thunderbird Twinspark as such is missing the point totally. It is a bike you buy with your heart.
It looks good but I think it would have been better with alloys and a better paint job with some pin stripes and all that stuff..But it is really classy and will make peoples head's turn for sure.I think they should have had n extra sixth gear..Anyway overall i think it will be a sure hit.
I am a recent bullet convert. But it was not because of Thunderbird. Recently, I had a chance to test ride Thunderbird TSpark. My initial observations have been too much vibration and a rough engine.
However, I felt it quite easy to ride comparing against the bulky look it projects. Maybe, the low seating also would've helped a short person like me.
My observation about Bullet in general is, it is a much hyped bike which fairs very poorly on quality scale.
Today I gave my bike for the first servicing. By all conservative means of calculating the fuel efficiency, I got an average of 45kmpl+. This includes city as well as highway. To be noted is that I have ridden the 'bird max at only 55-60kmph as stated in the manual for the first 500km. The petrol tank leakage as stated above wasn't a problem. Actually I had not tightened the fuel cap adequately and hence the leakage. As for vibrations, obviously you don't expect the bull to be as smooth as a honda or a yamaha. Drawbacks: none except it is very expensive.
I've been driving Thunderbird since last 5 years & have planned to buy new TBTS UCE with thorough check. I completely disagree with the above comments where so many problems were highlighted like oil leakage, vibrations etc infact this new Unit construction engine is so reliable and effecient that RE will be introducing it in his all bikes by 2011. I'm die hard fan of RE, they dont produce racing bikes but they produce great bikes. By the way even Yamaha RX 100 too had oil leakage problem if reved over normal limts so does that means it was a crap? Use your brains guys !!! RE is not for everyone, one needs a big heart to sit on it.


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Q: How to delete only one occurrence of a key? I am trying to write a hangman program where if a word is guessed, and all the letters are in the dictionary, then we update the dictionary by removing all the letters of the word that are in the dictionary. However, if my dictionary has two letters, (like 2 a's) and my word only has one a, then all a's are deleted. But I only want to remove one a from the dictionary.
I've tried using the pop and delete methods so far, but they have not worked, and deleted all instances of the letters.
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For a test case, myHand = Hand(7), creates a hand, which is a dictionary, of length 7. I then update the hand by passing: myHand.update('za'), where the word is 'za'. I created a dummy hand 'aazzmsp'. When I update the hand however, the resulting new hand is msp, instead of azmsp, and this is because the code deleted all instances of a and z, whereas it should of deleted just one a and one z.

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Great news for CKLN! | Hot Jambalaya!
I am happy to see this press release concerning the future of CKLN and In My Room….
TORONTO, ON. (February 11, 2011) – Campus-based community radio station CKLN88.1FM is heartened and encouraged by the decision of Her Honour Madam Justice Layden-Stevenson to grant the station a stay of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission's (the CRTC's) Decision 2011-56, released January 28th, 2011. This decision revoked CKLN's broadcast license and would have seen Toronto's oldest campus-based community radio station go off-air February 12th, 2011. The stay of the decision will allow the station to continue to broadcast until the Federal Court of Appeal considers CKLN's request for leave to appeal from the CRTC's decision, under Canada's Broadcasting Act,s.31 (2).
CKLN has honoured all commitments given to the CRTC at the Public Hearing before the CRTC. Also as committed to by CKLN, it will be hiring a new Station Manager by February 28, 2011 to oversee the the station's day-to-day operations. These initiatives follow on the heels of the adoption on December 15, 2011 of new by-laws compliant with Industry Canada's model by-laws for non-profit organizations.
Staff Representative and Frequency Feminisms programmer, Joeita Gupta, says "CKLN's history, role and mandate are crucial to this city's non-mainstream artists, journalists and to several different communities. " CKLN invites you to tune in, turn on and speak out against the idea that alternative media should be silenced as an example to other volunteer-driven community media outlets.
urging friends, family and colleagues to engage likewise.
CKLN can be heard at 88.1FM, www.ckln.fm or on Rogers Digital Cable 947.
Thanks for your support! This is encouraging news but there's still more to do. Stay tuned!


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