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July 21, 2016 10:05 AM UTC
Bank Of England Paper Quantifies Benefits Of Central Bank Issued Digital Currency
A staff working paper written for the Bank of England postulates that central bank issued digital currency (CBDC) of 30% of GDP could permanently raise GDP by as much as 3% from lower real interest rates, taxes and monetary transaction costs, according to a recently…
Author: Lester Coleman
A staff working paper written for the Bank of England postulates that central bank issued digital currency (CBDC) of 30% of GDP could permanently raise GDP by as much as 3% from lower real interest rates, taxes and monetary transaction costs, according to a recently published paper. The CBDC would be issued against government bonds.
The paper, "The macroeconomics of central bank issued digital currencies" by John Barrdear and Michael Kumhof, examines the macroeconomic impact of a central bank issuing electronic, national-currency-denominated and interest-bearing access to its balance sheet by the issuance of CBDC. The bank used a financial model matching the United States in the pre-crisis period. Bank deposits are created in this model through asset purchases and loans.
Banks have become interested in digital currencies after observing private digital currencies offering access to an alternative unit of account ruled by a set money supply. Bitcoin is the first and largest such system.
Technology Makes It Feasible
A CBDC monetary regime has not existed, the paper noted. One reason is that the technology to make it feasible has not previously been available. Hence, there is little history to shed light on the costs and benefits of such a regime or to determine ways monetary policy can be conducted under such a regime.
The authors, therefore, used a theoretical model to study these issues.
The model postulates an initial CBDC stock equal to 30% of GDP issued against an equivalent amount of government debt. The plan chose 30% since it is similar to the magnitudes of quantitative easing conducted by central banks in the last 10 years.
The CBDC regime delivers several beneficial effects. It delivers a gain in steady-state GDP level of around 3% from lower real interest rates, transaction costs and distortionary tax rates.
A CBDC regime can add to the business cycle's stabilization by providing policymakers access to a policy instrument that manages the price or the quantity of CBDC. A second policy instrument could help respond to shocks to private money creation.
Risks Exist
A concern exists over the proper management of risks associated with transitioning to a new financial regime.
Monetary aspects of private digital currencies are not favored by policymakers, the paper noted, but the payment systems of such schemes have aroused their interest.
It would not be possible technically to deploy a distributed payment system that stays denominated in a traditional currency. This begs the question of whether it would be socially beneficial, which is the question the paper addresses.
A Role For Private Money
The model assumes an economy with a single, government-defined unit of account. The model includes private money in the form of bank deposits maintaining a 1-to-1 exchange rate with government money.
The majority of transaction balances under the model are held as deposits with commercial banks. Commercial banks continue to create the marginal unit of money in the economy.
The use of distributed ledgers is not required to operate a CBDC system, the paper noted, but it is necessary as a practical matter to ensure the resiliency of a system that is important to the economy's financial stability.
The central bank could set the interest rate paid on CBDC, and it could permit the private sector to determine its quantity by buying and selling CBDC in exchange for defined asset classes. It could also set the quantity of CBDC and permit the private sector to bid the CBDC interest rate up or down until the market clears.
Risks Versus Benefits
An important question in any major monetary reform such as the introduction of a CBDC regime is whether the benefits of the transition justify the risks.
Another concern is the possibility of a run from bank deposits to CBDC.
The model's calibration is such that minimum capital adequacy requirements, along with voluntary buffers that banks add to avoid the penalty for breaching them, will make deposits secure. It removes a major reason for a run on deposits, and for risk-driven increases in bank funding costs that could affect lending rates.
A CBDC regime would also retain deposit protection for bank deposits, making it unlikely there would be an incentive for a systemic run.
Improved Payment Resiliency
CBDC would also increase payment system resiliency compared to existing payment systems, the paper noted, since users will have an additional alternative in case one system fails, and because the supporting technology would deploy a distributed architecture.
One financial stability risk in attempting to deploy the CBDC regime is mismanaging the transition to an untested monetary and financial environment. For this reason, policymakers have to conduct due diligence before deciding on the transition to a CBDC regime. If due diligence found the transition risks to be manageable, a CBDC regime could be considered a serious option on account of the benefits.
Central banks and private financial institutions are both exploring the emergence of digital currencies and distributed ledgers since the technology may present an opportunity to improve the resiliency, efficiency and accessibility of systems that facilitate financial and monetary transactions. But there are problems with private versions of such currencies, the paper noted.
Private Cryptocurrency Issues
The problems with private cryptocurrencies are not associated with distributed ledgers in general, but with their high costs of transaction verification.
Alternative implementations, like "permissioned" systems, may circumvent these costs by moving away from strictly decentralized designs while retaining many of the benefits. One application of such a system would be the issuance of a CBDC, a national-currency-denominated and interest-bearing access to a central bank's balance sheet.
The CBDC offers some clear macroeconomic advantages, with few large costs, the paper concluded. The advantages include steady state output gains of almost 3% for an injection of CBDC equal to 30% of GDP, as well as gains in the effectiveness of systematic or discretionary countercyclical monetary policy.
The analysis indicated the only conditions needed to secure the gains are a sufficiently large stock of CBDC issued in a steady state, and an issuance mechanism to ensure the central bank only trades CBDC against government debt instruments.
Also read: Bank of England aims to boost fintech sector
Important theoretical questions to consider for the future include:
• What are the welfare properties of alternative CBDC policy rules, including interaction with traditional monetary policy rules, macroprudential policy rules, and fiscal policy rules?
• Should CBDC policy rules react to financial variables rather than to inflation?
• What are the pros and cons of introducing CBDC into the economy through spending (on goods/services and/or transfers), lending (directly or through the banking system), or the purchase of financial assets, including not only government bonds but also other financial assets?
• Which of these would best safeguard financial stability?
• How might CBDC issuance interact with the unwinding of quantitative easing?
• What could the impact be of CBDC on global liquidity and exchange rate dynamics?
• How might the CBDC introduction affect the likelihood of a bank run when bank deposits carry default risk, or the dynamics of a run should it occur?
Lester Coleman
Lester Coleman is a media relations consultant for the payments and automated retailing industries.
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I'm so excited to introduce the Nest's very first guest contributor to our blog! I always look forward to having Erin Purdy of Erin Purdy Photographer come to the Nest because any time she visits I know that I am going to get to swoon over the seriously gorgeous baby pictures she captures during our Nest Mini Sessions. Erin is an incredible photographer, a traveler, artist, wife, and mom. When she's taking pictures of our families, Erin uses her big "fancy" camera... but... she tells me that when she's capturing pictures of her own children, her phone is often her go-to piece of equipment. How does she capture beautiful images just using her phone? Today she's sharing her tricks of the trade with us.
Photography is the study of light, so it goes without saying that lighting is the most important consideration. The most beautiful time to photograph is early or late in the day when sunlight is gentle and soft. If you're photographing mid-day, try to find heavy shade, like on the north side of your house. Or try shooting indoors, paying attention to how the light falls across your subject or illuminates something interesting.
As a general rule, I leave the flash off on my phone. If absolutely necessary (like taking a picture of the kids snuggled up in bed), I'll use it, but it's also fun to try different forms of light, like turning on a lamp or a flashlight or using another device to create the light.
Composition simply refers to how the elements in a photograph come together to create a story or visual interest. Perfectly centering your subject in the photograph makes a strong statement. I also love the rule of thirds. Imagine your screen divided into three sections: top, center, bottom. Find the horizon and take photos with the horizon in the top third, centered, and bottom third. Now try taking the horizon all the way down to the bottom edge of the photo. Same goes for dividing the frame into the left third, centered, and right third. Find a subject and play with how you line them up along the rule of thirds. Compare the images and take note of which looks best to you.
You'll notice that the lighting will change as you switch your focal point. To take better control of this, tap on your screen and hold. You will see a square pop up - that will be your new focal point instead of the phone automatically deciding the focal point. This alone will change the lighting, but you can take it one step further - once you see the sun icon, slide your finger up or down to adjust the lighting.
Pay attention to other elements within your photo, like clutter, and remove any distracting items. If you need to get closer to your subject, use your feet rather than the zoom on your camera. If you can't get closer but still want a closer shot, it's better to edit and crop the the photo than to use zoom, which tends to add grain and camera shake.
The rule of thumb is to get it right in camera first, but in real life, especially with kids, that's not always possible. There are countless apps for editing, but I like to keep it simple and use SnapSeed. It's a free app, and my favorite part is how easy it is to remove distracting elements using the spot healing tool. It also allows me to adjust brightness, exposure, and contrast better than the basic camera roll editor.
Follow @momtog on instagram (instagram.com/momtog) for different weekly photographers who provide loads of tips on both phone photography and using DSLR cameras.
Chances are you're not printing your photos often enough. I highly recommend Mpix (www.mpix.com) and their app. Their color and quality of paper is the best in the consumer market, and the app makes it so easy to order prints on a regular basis, whether from your camera roll or Instagram. They also produce beautiful wall art and other photo gifts. Artifact Uprising (www.artifactuprising.com) is another great option for Instagram prints, and Chatbooks are wonderful little albums that you can set up to print automatically from Instagram once you hit a specific number of new photos. You can also print albums through Chapbooks by hashtag, so if you aren't already using hashtags, it's a good reason to start!
Lastly, be present. I often don't take many photos of my family because I want to enjoy the moment and make memories for my kids, not just document their lives. But when the light is right and the moment is perfect, you can be sure I'll have my phone in hand.
Follow me on instagram, @erinpurdyphotography, and tag me when you try these tips!
Have fun and happy snapping!


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"DOWN WITH BOOKS"
BYE-BYE HISTORY, BYE-BYE CLASSICS,BYE-BYE THINKING/ BRAIN/ SOUL!
WELCOME DUMBDOWN BRAINWASHING
VIRTUAL COMPUTER LEARNING!
SHADES OF HITLER'S NAZI GERMANY
Purging books in Racine (Source)
"Down With Books," circa 2014:
"8000 books removed from Racine Public School Libraries," July 23, 2014 Wisconsin Daily Independent News Services. Excerpts below:
They are "weeding" in Racine these days. Initially, educators at Mitchell Middle School were going to remove roughly 2000 out of date books from the library.
Targeted for tossing were books on the Holocaust, Hiroshima, the Bible, the Koran, and Beowulf. In the end, over 8000 books were removed from library shelves.
What is weeding?
The Racine Unified School District is purging "tens of thousands of books" copyrighted prior to the year 2000, according to a statement by the REA. Racine Unified School District spokesperson, Stacy Tapp, said the District works with school staff members each summer to refresh the libraries.
"We provide a list of books to the library media specialist to consider pulling from the shelves because they are outdated, in very poor condition, don't align with curriculum or have not been checked out in many years," Tapp said. "There are additional factors that are considered as well. The school libraries have funds each year to replace old items."
This phrase at the title of this blogpost, "DOWN WITH BOOKS," comes from The Individualized Learning Letter (T.I.L.L.): Administrator's Guide to Improve Learning; Individualized Instruction Methods; Flexible Scheduling; Behavioral Objectives; Study Units; Self-Directed Learning; Accountability, Vol. I (February 22, 1971: T.I.L.L., Huntington, N.Y.). Under the subtitle "QUOTES YOU CAN USE" it said:
DOWN WITH BOOKS. "Textbooks not only encourage learning at the wrong level (imparting facts rather than telling how to gather facts, etc.), they also violate an important new concern in American education—individualized instruction.... Textbooks produce superficially knowledgeable students... who know virtually nothing in depth about anything.... A good start would be to... declare a moratorium on textbook use in all courses." Dwight D. Allen, Dean of Education, University of Massachusetts, writing on "The Decline of Textbooks, Change." See 3D entry which covers beginnings in 1971 of plans for individualized education and replacement of books by Skinnerian computer assisted instruction. [bold added]
or BANISHED?!
Below is a list of Who's Who that were involved in this 1971 "Down With Books" project:
Opting to become a greater force in promoting I.I. (Individualized Instruction), The Northeast Association for Individualization of Instruction (Wyandanch, N.Y.) has gone national—by substituting the word "national" for "northeast.".... The enlarged 2–1/2 day convention is geared to give registrants more time to watch I.I. in action in live classrooms. Several of the nation's I.I. leaders already lined up to run workshops include: Dr. Lloyd Bishop, NYU; Dr. Sid Rollins, Rhode Island College; Dr. Robert Scanlon, Research for Better Schools [Research for Better Schools and University of Pittsburgh Learning Research and Development Center (Robert Glaser) were instrumental in development of IPI in the early 1960s, ed.]; Dr. Edward Pino, Superintendent of Cherry Creek Schools (Englewood, CO); Dr. Robert Anderson, Harvard University; Dr. Leon Lessinger, Georgia State University; Dr. Robert Sinclair, University of Massachusetts; Jane Root, Stanford Research Associates; and Dr. Glen Ovard, Brigham Young University. Representatives of USOE, NEA, NY State Department of Education will be present. (The latter supports the conference with an annual grant.)....
"RECOMMENDED BOOKS" included this one:
Behavioral Objectives: A Guide for Individualized Learning. Four volume set covering more than 4000 objectives representing four years' work of more than 200 teachers. Arranged by subject area. Covers language arts, social studies, math and science. A comprehensive collection. Westinghouse Learning Corp., 100 Park Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10017.
This 1971 material comes from pages 100-101 of my book the deliberate dumbing down of america.
Stop the Banishing of Books!
Community Education & UN Agenda 21
SCHLAFLY'S "CHOICE" CAT FINALLY OUT OF THE BAG!
Chameleons for "Choice"
Have the Chickens Come Home to Roost?
"Community Education"
Green Light for Soviet Polytech System
U.S.-Soviet Merger requires Charter Schools
Bring Back Russell Means
1970 Utah Education Plan
Charter Corruption
Parents as Customers?
How Charter Schools Are Being Marketed
FIRST CLASS BULLY TACTICS
"WAIVERS for FAVORS"
A Vanishing Species of Superintendents
Politically Correct Dumbing Down
Five Magic Questions
The Empress's New Clothes
The Camel's Nose Under the Tent
Conservative Ostriches
MARC TUCKER: CAPTAIN OF ACADEMIC TITANIC
ORWELLIAN DOUBLESPEAK: 1982 & 2014
THE POTATO STATE'S NEW MEAT AND POTATO MENU
History of Dumb Down
"Birds of a Feather Flock Together"
DELIBERATE MATH DUMBDOWN
Revisionist History 101
Black Common Sense Reigns!
WHO IS LEADING THE BAND?
Charter Schools for "Dummies"
THERE IS NOTHING NEW UNDER THE SUN!
Common Core Persists
SOCIAL JUSTICE IN THE SCHOOLS
The GOODLAD Agenda

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package com.palmelf.eoffice.model.arch;

import java.util.Date;
import java.util.HashSet;
import java.util.Set;

import javax.persistence.CascadeType;
import javax.persistence.Column;
import javax.persistence.Entity;
import javax.persistence.FetchType;
import javax.persistence.GeneratedValue;
import javax.persistence.Id;
import javax.persistence.JoinColumn;
import javax.persistence.ManyToOne;
import javax.persistence.OneToMany;
import javax.persistence.Table;
import javax.persistence.Transient;

import org.apache.commons.lang.builder.EqualsBuilder;
import org.apache.commons.lang.builder.HashCodeBuilder;
import org.apache.commons.lang.builder.ToStringBuilder;

import com.google.gson.annotations.Expose;
import com.palmelf.core.model.BaseModel;
import com.palmelf.eoffice.model.system.AppUser;

@Entity
@Table(name = "borrow_record")
public class BorrowRecord extends BaseModel {

	/**
	 *
	 */
	private static final long serialVersionUID = -6517521725959944520L;

	@Expose
	private String borrowRemark;

	@Expose
	private Long checkId;

	@Expose
	private String checkName;

	@Expose
	private String checkContent;

	@Expose
	private Long recordId;

	@Expose
	private Date borrowDate;

	@Expose
	private String borrowType;

	@Expose
	private String borrowReason;

	@Expose
	private String checkUserName;

	@Expose
	private Date checkDate;

	@Expose
	private Date returnDate;

	@Expose
	private Short returnStatus;

	@Expose
	private String borrowNum;

	@Expose
	private AppUser appUser;
	private Set<BorrowFileList> borrowFileLists = new HashSet<BorrowFileList>();

	public BorrowRecord() {
	}

	public BorrowRecord(Long in_recordId) {
		this.setRecordId(in_recordId);
	}

	// Property accessors
	@Id
	@GeneratedValue
	@Column(name = "recordId", unique = true, nullable = false)
	public Long getRecordId() {
		return this.recordId;
	}

	public void setRecordId(Long recordId) {
		this.recordId = recordId;
	}

	@ManyToOne(fetch = FetchType.LAZY)
	@JoinColumn(name = "checkUserId")
	public AppUser getAppUser() {
		return this.appUser;
	}

	public void setAppUser(AppUser appUser) {
		this.appUser = appUser;
	}

	@Column(name = "borrowRemark", length = 128)
	public String getBorrowRemark() {
		return this.borrowRemark;
	}

	public void setBorrowRemark(String borrowRemark) {
		this.borrowRemark = borrowRemark;
	}

	@Column(name = "checkId")
	public Long getCheckId() {
		return this.checkId;
	}

	public void setCheckId(Long checkId) {
		this.checkId = checkId;
	}

	@Column(name = "checkName", length = 64)
	public String getCheckName() {
		return this.checkName;
	}

	public void setCheckName(String checkName) {
		this.checkName = checkName;
	}

	@Column(name = "checkContent", length = 128)
	public String getCheckContent() {
		return this.checkContent;
	}

	public void setCheckContent(String checkContent) {
		this.checkContent = checkContent;
	}

	@Column(name = "borrowDate", length = 19)
	public Date getBorrowDate() {
		return this.borrowDate;
	}

	public void setBorrowDate(Date borrowDate) {
		this.borrowDate = borrowDate;
	}

	@Column(name = "borrowType", length = 64)
	public String getBorrowType() {
		return this.borrowType;
	}

	public void setBorrowType(String borrowType) {
		this.borrowType = borrowType;
	}

	@Column(name = "borrowReason", length = 64)
	public String getBorrowReason() {
		return this.borrowReason;
	}

	public void setBorrowReason(String borrowReason) {
		this.borrowReason = borrowReason;
	}

	@Column(name = "checkUserName", length = 64)
	public String getCheckUserName() {
		return this.checkUserName;
	}

	public void setCheckUserName(String checkUserName) {
		this.checkUserName = checkUserName;
	}

	@Column(name = "checkDate", length = 19)
	public Date getCheckDate() {
		return this.checkDate;
	}

	public void setCheckDate(Date checkDate) {
		this.checkDate = checkDate;
	}

	@Column(name = "returnDate", length = 19)
	public Date getReturnDate() {
		return this.returnDate;
	}

	public void setReturnDate(Date returnDate) {
		this.returnDate = returnDate;
	}

	@Column(name = "returnStatus")
	public Short getReturnStatus() {
		return this.returnStatus;
	}

	public void setReturnStatus(Short returnStatus) {
		this.returnStatus = returnStatus;
	}

	@Column(name = "borrowNum", length = 128)
	public String getBorrowNum() {
		return this.borrowNum;
	}

	public void setBorrowNum(String borrowNum) {
		this.borrowNum = borrowNum;
	}

	@OneToMany(cascade = CascadeType.ALL, fetch = FetchType.LAZY, mappedBy = "borrowRecord")
	public Set<BorrowFileList> getBorrowFileLists() {
		return this.borrowFileLists;
	}

	public void setBorrowFileLists(Set<BorrowFileList> borrowFileLists) {
		this.borrowFileLists = borrowFileLists;
	}

	@Transient
	public Long getCheckUserId() {
		return this.getAppUser() == null ? null : this.getAppUser().getUserId();
	}

	public void setCheckUserId(Long aValue) {
		if (aValue == null) {
			this.appUser = null;
		} else if (this.appUser == null) {
			this.appUser = new AppUser(aValue);
			this.appUser.setVersion(new Integer(0));
		} else {
			this.appUser.setUserId(aValue);
		}
	}

	@Override
	public boolean equals(Object object) {
		if (!(object instanceof BorrowRecord)) {
			return false;
		}
		BorrowRecord rhs = (BorrowRecord) object;
		return new EqualsBuilder().append(this.recordId, rhs.recordId)
				.append(this.borrowRemark, rhs.borrowRemark)
				.append(this.checkId, rhs.checkId)
				.append(this.checkName, rhs.checkName)
				.append(this.checkContent, rhs.checkContent)
				.append(this.borrowDate, rhs.borrowDate)
				.append(this.borrowType, rhs.borrowType)
				.append(this.borrowReason, rhs.borrowReason)
				.append(this.checkUserName, rhs.checkUserName)
				.append(this.checkDate, rhs.checkDate)
				.append(this.returnDate, rhs.returnDate)
				.append(this.returnStatus, rhs.returnStatus)
				.append(this.borrowNum, rhs.borrowNum).isEquals();
	}

	@Override
	public int hashCode() {
		return new HashCodeBuilder(-82280557, -700257973).append(this.recordId)
				.append(this.borrowRemark).append(this.checkId)
				.append(this.checkName).append(this.checkContent)
				.append(this.borrowDate).append(this.borrowType)
				.append(this.borrowReason).append(this.checkUserName)
				.append(this.checkDate).append(this.returnDate)
				.append(this.returnStatus).append(this.borrowNum).toHashCode();
	}

	@Override
	public String toString() {
		return new ToStringBuilder(this).append("recordId", this.recordId)
				.append("borrowRemark", this.borrowRemark)
				.append("checkId", this.checkId)
				.append("checkName", this.checkName)
				.append("checkContent", this.checkContent)
				.append("borrowDate", this.borrowDate)
				.append("borrowType", this.borrowType)
				.append("borrowReason", this.borrowReason)
				.append("checkUserName", this.checkUserName)
				.append("checkDate", this.checkDate)
				.append("returnDate", this.returnDate)
				.append("returnStatus", this.returnStatus)
				.append("borrowNum", this.borrowNum).toString();
	}
}

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Out of curiosity - how many of you would be interested in seeing real security / investigator job postings appear here with my breakdown and commentary?
As of today, nearly 25% of the E-mail I receive is job related... so I'm noticing a trend!
If you're interested in seeing what types of jobs are being posted out there and what the monkey's take is on the position, post a comment below.
[Chief: Hmmm. This doesn't really sound like a 'management' position. What exactly would you be managing? This sounds more like they need an experienced penetration and vulnerability tester.
Bachelor's degree and typically 14 to 19 years' related work experience or a Master's degree with 12 to 17 years' related work experience or a PhD degree with 9 to 14 years' related work experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience. Prefer B.S. in Computer Science or related technical discipline or equivalent work experience. Job is Puget Sound dependent. Work schedule is flexible.
Apply for this position directly at Boeing's website.
Monkey's take: If you like to try to run nessus on your can opener and dream about metasploit - definitely apply for this position. If you're looking for more of a management role that encompasses corporate policy and security direction and a staff full of chimps... you might want to keep looking.
Your comments are valuable! Leave one.
I like to see the job posting I'm new in the IT security field and this gonna be a great opportunity to see all the thing that need to know to get a better job and create solid background in this career.
Like alway chief you rock.
"Chief, I'm currently contracted to the Gov't and most of the job postings I run across are so obscure/foggy that any light you could possibly shed in this area would be greatly appreciated. It's tough to seperate the fluff from the actual meat of the thing. Thanks.
I was just recently interviewed for a position where they wanted 5-7 years experience in VB.net.
5 years is possible but 7 is sort of hard to do since it was released in 2002.
I find some job postings entertaining because they are looking for a General Urko but they are offering Cornelius wages.
I think it would be nice to list them even though I would never qualify for any of them due to the experience and degree requirements. I find them entertaining and informative.
"I think its a good idea to post the jobs. Although I'd never qualify for any of them yet, I think it would be useful for those who are looking. Another place might be by creating a group in LinkedIn and posting there.
Although ITtoolbox does have a mailing list of Security jobs, but I don't know how they're categorized. I just looked at one and it was posting for a .NET/C# developer.
The best jobs are found through networking (people networking that is).
"Definitely interested on your take on job postings. I am relatively new to IT in general and working toward a degree in computer security and forensics. Many of the job postings I read seem rather cryptic, except for those that want decades of experience.
I have held just two positions. The first as tech support, the second as a software systems engineer. Both have provided great learning opportunities. Neither have been particularly helpful in identifying a path to pursue for security work.
"I'm constantly looking for positions to increase my own experience, while attempting to maintain my... sanity.
I've seen an increase in the number of positions in the security field as well, across a wide number of sectors. Apparently, big companies are waking up to something we knew all along: IT is part of the business process now. Securing it is more important than ever.
Also, they forgot to add in things like: The ability to restrain one self from hurling large number of bananas at a server/router/switch/other hardware after it decides to stop working, gasping exhaustedly at the latest round of microsoft patches just when you got done testing last months round, or the ability to speak coherently after the ""fix"" that was propsed by a vendor just took down your network.... and you were looking forward to sleeping tonight.


How do we know when to switch from seeking the next gift to simply maintaining a relationship of kindness and stewardship? We all value the relationships we have with our donors. We know our interactions must be based on honesty, trust and respect. Still, as our donors age, they face changes in physical and mental abilities. Surely the experts on aging can tell us how to handle this, right? Wrong. Because taking the high road is so important to sustaining successful fundraising results, David Kremer spent more than a year working with senior living community residents, volunteers, experts on aging and other research sources to create something special: the first-in-the-nation set of standards of practice for ethical fundraising with seniors. The fundraising profession has strong national ethical guidelines, but no such standards exist which deal with issues that arise for us as we work with older adults and their families. Until now. As baby boomers age, this issue will gain more attention. And, you'll be ready for it! You'll leave this fun session ready to demonstrate to your donors and their families that you always take the ethical high road. You'll be able to either adopt the sample standards or revise them to create something of your own. You'll have the tools you need to make the best decisions as you interact with elderly donors and prospects.


Well that's over another week that has passed by of our 38 night stay at 'home', and although it's been very hectic it's also been extremely enjoyable and precious time with our family.
On Saturday (5th) we trotted off to meet our son Ben's in-laws to be - Mike and Jane. Ben and Louise have been together for 6 or 7 years now but this was the first time we'd managed to get around to saying 'hello' properly - and we did it in grand style with afternoon tea at Horsley Lodge Golf Club. Our feast consisted of dainty sandwiches, scones with jam and cream and a huge selection of cakes all presented on vintage china and washed down with a large selection of teas from around the world - it was lovely and relaxing and it provided a very convivial spot to make friends with our new relations.
Then on Sunday we spent the day preparing ourselves for the next few busy days to come - we put our feet up and worked hard at relaxing all day - I'm sure that's what the Sabbath is for!
Monday saw us spending time with our Grandson Thomas and little Granddaughter Evelyn - we spent several hours making play-dough models and chasing them around the campsite before nipping down to see Great-ma (John's Mum).
However, once we were there the main attraction for the kids was the park which is just across the road - the water play area was a great draw and Thomas ended up soaked through to the skin, but Grandma, Grandad and Evelyn managed to get away with only a few splashes 😂😂😂.
After that we had two weary children but that was soon sorted out by a quick 😴💤😴 for one of them as we drove back to Sheffield when we took Evelyn home!
On Tuesday just Thomas was entrusted into our care but unfortunately on that day rain stopped outdoor play and we had to make do with telly, ipad and indoor games- but mousetrap and Lego seemed to ensure that nobody got really bored!
On Wednesday it was Jack's turn to visit us, but as the day started wet and drizzly we once again had to rely on play-dough and indoor games to provide entertainment - but as the weather improved in the early afternoon we packed a picnic and set off for The National Trust's Ilam Park where there was a play trail, forests and trees to climb to keep Jack entertained.
And then came 💒Thursday 10th August 💒- the big day that we'd all been waiting for for the last 20 months -💒 Ben and Louise's Wedding Day💒 ! Our morning started early with a short trip down to Sarah and Paul's house to get ready - Sarah and I went and relaxed at Serene Retreat to have our hair and makeup done while the boys took their time getting ready at home!
Then at mid-day we were all scrubbed up and ready for the big 'off' to the venue which was the lovely Whirlowbrook Hall on the outskirts of Sheffield. The Hall is set in huge elegant gardens and stands elevated above extensive lawns which provided a magnificent back drop for the many hundreds of photos that were taken - a 'few' of which I'm sharing below! The day was absolutely perfect, and was made even better by almost unbroken sunshine, wonderful company, and of course, seeing our 'baby boy' saying 'I do'. We also had the opportunity to meet up with friends and relatives that we don't see very often, and of course, we were all thoroughly entertained, not only by the gorgeous wedding itself, but also by the antics of the young children who rushed about playing, hiding and dancing throughout the day.
Me being a bit silly!
But a little someone had to steel the limelight!
The little ones all behaved impeccably, but as the evening wore on some of the 'big boys and girls' became a little inebriated with all the free flowing 🍷🍷🍻🍺 so as with all good weddings, a little light heart naughtiness crept in!
We finally left the 'do' at about 11.30 and then sped back to Swanwick to wearily climb into our comfy beds in T4rdis2.
And after all that excitement we came back down to earth with a bit of a bump on Friday! We had to do mundane tasks like shopping and visiting the dentist before returning our hire car on Saturday morning.
However, Saturday was another lovely family day where we ended up inviting lots of them to the campsite for a barbecue style tea. In total there were 18 guests - and cooking for 20 people in T4rdis2's confined quarters was a bit of a challenge - but in the end everyone got fed and watered and we all had a lovely afternoon in the sunshine where we reenacted the cutting of the cake!
And that brings us around to today (Sunday) where we've awarded ourselves another day off! We've just got a week left now before our departure to France for our Grand tour over the Alps so I think we might spend some of our time doing a bit of planning and booking ferries etc, but we're quite determined we'll also be spending some of the day with our feet up relaxing in the sunshine, and also tucking into a steak dinner with a bottle of red to accompany it this evening!


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Der Farol da Ponta do Topo ist ein Leuchtturm auf der Ponta do Topo im Südosten der Azoreninsel São Jorge. Er steht im Gemeindegebiet von Topo im Kreis Calheta. Der Leuchtturm ist unter der internationalen Nummer D-2680 und der nationalen Nummer 772 registriert. Er bestrahlt einen Sektor von 133° bis 033° und hat eine Reichweite von 20 Seemeilen.

Geschichte und Architektur
Der Generalplan zur Befeuerung der portugiesischen Küsten von 1883, der auch die Azoren berücksichtigte, sah den Bau eines Leuchtturms mit einer Optik vierter Ordnung auf der Ponta do Topo vor. Seine Reichweite sollte 13,5 Seemeilen für Dauerlicht und 19 Seemeilen für Blitze betragen. Nach einer Anpassung des Plans im Jahr 1902 sollte eine Optik fünfter Ordnung zum Einsatz kommen. Es dauerte aber bis 1923, ehe das Grundstück erworben wurde. Ab 1925 wurde der Bau nach Plänen des Ingenieurs José Joaquim Peres ausgeführt. Am 15. Juli 1927 ging der Leuchtturm in Betrieb.

Der einstöckige weiße Ziegelbau, in dem sich auch die Wohnung des Leuchtturmwärters befindet, besitzt einen rechteckigen Grundriss. Die Metallkuppel des 16 m hohen, runden Turms mit Galerie ist rot lackiert. Als der Leuchtturm seinen Betrieb aufnahm, war er mit einem Gaslicht ausgestattet, mit einer Öllampe als Reserve. Für die Rotation der Optik wurde ein Uhrwerk verwendet. Die Anlage wurde 1957 elektrifiziert. Als Lichtquelle diente nun eine 3000-W-Glühlampe mit einer Reichweite von 44 Seemeilen. Das Erdbeben vom 1. Januar 1980 beschädigte den Leuchtturm schwer. Zwei der Nebengebäude stürzten ein. Die alte Fresnel-Linse musste entfernt werden und befindet sich heute im Museu de Marinha in Lissabon. Sie wurde durch eine Optik ersetzt, die sich zuvor im Leuchtturm von Esposende befunden hatte. 1987 wurde sie gegen eine PRB-46-Optik ausgetauscht. Zwei Jahre später wurde der Leuchtturm ans Stromnetz angeschlossen. 2001 wurde eine automatische rotierende Optik vom Typ TRB-400 installiert.

Siehe auch
 Liste von Leuchttürmen in Portugal

Weblinks

 Farol da Ponta do Topo auf der Website des portugiesischen Schifffahrtsamts (Autoridade marítima nacional)

Einzelnachweise

Ponta do Topo
Calheta (Azoren)

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I am certain that very few people have favorite federal laws. After all, who wants to talk about federal legislation at a party (hint: I do). However, being a bit of a policy wonk and government guru, I enjoy reading and learning about federal laws. In fact, I actually have TWO federal laws that I consider to be my favorite. They both involve the stomach.


Think about it. Social media is a form of mass media, as is television and the radio. Even this newspaper is a form of mass media. As students, we use and consume a crazy amount of mass media daily.
It's a must for those of us who are trying to earn a degree, and it will most likely always be present in our lives.
"The traditional definition of mass communication was that you have one source disseminating a message to many receivers. People would think of sources being newspapers, magazines, radio and TV," said Chuck Lewis, a professor at MNSU in the Department of Mass Media.
But now with Internet, the answer of what is "mass media" becomes more involved because we now have to include social media, Lewis said.
Social media are "hybrid forms of communication," said Lewis. Even if we don't do things like watch the news or read this newspaper, we are still consuming mass media through our Twitter and Facebook accounts. Even things like Spotify and Apple Music are forms of mass communication.
Without mass media, we wouldn't know what's going on in the world because there would be no news. We wouldn't be able to listen to our favorite songs, watch our favorite TV shows, or connect with people using social media. As students, we wouldn't be able to gather research or finish homework assignments. Mass media has become a staple in our lives.
But with all of these great things, comes great responsibility.
This is to say, most people usually only listen to what they want to hear instead of looking for sources that are unbiased. We all want people to agree with us, so we seek them out. This is something to be mindful of when consuming mass media, especially social media.
Even though social media is great, it is greatly biased.
"It's not material vetted by professional gatekeepers such as editors in a news operation," Lewis said.
With good comes bad, even with mass media. Mass media is incredibly important to have for reasons such as academics or expressing creativity. But it can be harmful if you are not able to form your own opinion on things and are quick to believe sources that benefit your own views.


The chances are this is another fake, the government is considering such a new currency to fill the gaps. RBI Deputy Governor NS Vishwanathan had, however, said recently that the RBI has no idea to introduce new currencies. "The central banking institution wants to encourage cashless transactions, which are helpful to the people," he was quoted as saying in Tamil Nadu.


Garland Harris Jr. may be new to the REALTOR® family, but he is already primed to make his mark on the Houston area. By keeping his eyes open for opportunities, he has moved from watching developers as a service provider, to building an investment team and client base driven not only by profit, but also positive community impact. Our conversation with Garland should encourage anyone looking at real estate investing to become a sponge for knowledge and enact a plan for 2017.
When did you become a Realtor® and how did you start working with investors?
Garland: I joined the REALTOR® family in 2016, but started working with real estate investors in 2014. My first exposure came from working as a design architect for some local townhouse developers. After learning the development side, I gained interest in real estate investing, and became a REALTOR® to get access to data and build relationships with agents, affiliates and lenders.
How is working with investors different from working with a client who intends to occupy a property?
Garland: The main difference is what drives them to a buying decision. An investor is not focused on things like street appeal, but on how the numbers work and how the investment fits into their overall business goals. Understanding your investors financial wants and goals is critical.
I get asked a lot about the lingo, formulas, etc. in order to become knowledgeable about real estate investing. What are some resources that you use and would recommend?
Garland: I started off using BiggerPockets to help with general terms and concepts, but then branched out and read books like the ones from Gary Keller. For people new to investing I would recommend attending every seminar you can dealing with the area of investing you want to deal in, and building your network through groups like local REALTORS® associations. Facebook groups are also a surprisingly great resource, my favorite group being the Small Developers/Builders.
What property types are your clients looking to invest in today?
Garland: Many of my clients are focused on areas that would benefit from redevelopment and employment boosts, which can lead to higher cap rates based on the risk they are assuming. We typically focus on multifamily product in need of renovation, but have also been known to analyze retail opportunities based on the needs of the community.
What are your personal real estate investment goals for the future?
Garland: I've put together an investment team that plans to build a handful of multifamily complexes ranging from 2-10 units by the end of 2017 in addition to building and selling single family townhouses in the $200s as a means to build quick capital. From there we will venture into commercial real estate. We see multifamily as being a base for our future with commercial real estate providing the growth.
Walk me through your process when working with investors and using RPR.
Garland: For residential investments, I find a property on our MLS and then go into RPR to gather secondary data to support the reasons behind an investment. For residential investments, RPR has all the historical data, zoning maps, flood maps, historic property values—much of which is not available in the MLS or in any one source.
It's very similar for commercial investments. I'll find the property outside of RPR but go into the system to pull reports showing trade area data, best business reports based on competition for retail opportunities, and even look at POI's to see the competition surrounding a potential property. Once I have the data backing why to invest in a property I go into Valuate® to run the numbers.
What has your experience been like using Valuate?
Garland: I consider myself to be good with technology and quick to understand software, so for me it was pretty easy to jump in and see the possibilities. It has been great to transition from Excel spreadsheets to Valuate, where things are more automated and all of my investment analyses are stored in one place.
What one function does Valuate® offer that your clients have found most useful?
Garland: If I had to pick one function, it would be the ability to run different scenarios and compare an investment's performance. For example, we were analyzing a residential flip and estimated that the renovation costs would be between $50,000 – $70,000. With Valuate, we generated three scenarios at various renovation costs and were able to see what the risk would be if those costs came out on the high side. From this analysis, we ultimately determined there was too much risk at that asking price and moved on.
If you could advise REALTORS® on how to leverage RPR when working with investors, what would you tell them?
Garland: It all starts with knowing your client's investment goals and the local area factors that might affect them reaching those goals. Any REALTOR® working with an investor should be pulling RPR reports and identifying key factors such as flood zones, population projections, home value trends, etc. and developing a deep understanding of the area his or her client is investing in. Then going into Valuate and running the numbers is the best way to project how that property will perform be it a flip or a long term hold.
Garland: Not having the money is not a reason to avoid getting into the investing world when REALTORS® have the knowledge, resources and connections to bring to the table.
Thanks Garland…Too Your Continued Success.
RPR you never cease to Amaze.
Hey Adam, to start congratulations on your new career and I'm glad to hear you are interested in mentoring. One great way to find a mentor is by participating in the local REALTOR® association's networking events and see if you can establish a relationship with someone working with investors. Your office might also have someone who is experienced as well. In the mean time, there are a ton of books and other sources to learn the terms, valuation processes, etc. Garland mentions a few great ones to get started.
Thank you for sharing, this is a great interview piece – very informative and I appreciate the real estate tools you've shared.


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No plane carrying Muslim pilgrims crash landed in Minna – NAHCON
September 8, 2019 September 8, 2019 promptnewsonline 0 Comments Hajj 2019, NAHCON
The National Hajj Commission of Nigeria (NAHCON) said media report that a Max Air aircraft carrying over 500 pilgrims from Saudi Arabia to Nigeria crash landed at Minna International Airport on Saturday was false.
The Chairman of the commission, Alhaji Abdullahi Muhammad, said this in a telephone interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) from Makkah, Saudi Arabia on Sunday.
He said immediately the story filtered into the public domain, the commission conducted its findings into the purported development by getting in touch with the management of the airline concerned and interviewed some passengers that boarded the said plane.
"The result of our findings showed that there is no such thing as emergency landing or crash landing of any plane in Minna involving pilgrims being transported back to Nigeria by the commission.
" Some of the passengers we talked with on the issue even said they were hearing the purported news for the first time and that there was no such development as far as they were concerned," Muhammad said.
The management of MaxAir, which also denied the report, however, said there was heavy torrential rain with unstable wind when the plane was landing at the airport.
Capt. Ibrahim Dili, Director of Flight Operations of the airline, while reacting to the report, said that at the time of arrival, there was heavy torrential rain with unstable winds.
"The instrument landing system at the airport was epileptic with unreliable signals.
"Our pilots executed an approach, using their wealth of experience, knowledge of the terrain and environment to a safe landing and stop on the runway during which one of engines slightly brushed the runway."
The slight brush of the engine, Dili said, was due to the complex landing maneuvers , occasioned by the strong downdraft, stressing that the aircraft did not crash or skid off.
According to him, the aircraft taxied safely to the airport terminal and passengers disembarked without any problem.
He, however, said that all required reports of the "minor incident" had been filled.
Dili said officials of the Nigerian Civil Aviation (NCAA) and Accident Investigation Bureau (AIB) inspected the aircrafti and the runway and were satisfied with the outcome of their inspection.
NAN recalls that some dailies had earlier reported that a plane conveying about 600 pilgrims in the 2019 pilgrimage from Saudi Arabia crash landed at the Minna International Airport.
It said that the aircraft was said to have developed technical fault in one of its four engines and skidded off the runway while approaching the airport.
The report, however, said no pilgrim was injured or death recorded in the incident.
Meanwhile, a check on the command and control centre of NAHCON showed that the commission has so far conducted 80 flights with 38,807 pilgrims transported back to Nigeria as at Sept. 7.
The centre disclosed that MarAir, with registration no.2098 departed Jeddah to Kano via Katsina with 529 pilgrims.
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With more than 31 years of experience, Steve has devoted his career to environmental management consulting, with an emphasis on environmental assessment and remediation. He earned a bachelor's degree in geology from Illinois State University and did postgraduate study in hydrogeology at Wright State University.
A registered geologist in multiple states, Steve has led project teams on complex remediation programs worldwide, most notably in the petroleum and chemical industries. He has also assisted clients in the development and implementation of global compliance programs and environmental management systems.


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On Behalf of Peter Barrett: Dallas Criminal Defense Attorney | Feb 12, 2020 | DWI, Felony DWI
In Texas, driving while intoxicated (DWI) is covered under Section 49.04 of the Texas Penal Code. This section covers the offense of driving under the influence of alcohol, illegal drugs like LSD, cocaine, and methamphetamine, etc., and prescription drugs, whether they are legally prescribed or obtained illegally.
Like many criminal offenses, the penalties for DWI increase each time the defendant is charged with DWI again. For example, the penalties for a second DWI are stiffer than they are for the first, and the penalties for a third DWI are harsher than they are for a second DWI offense. For the purposes of this article, we're going to discuss the penalties for a third DWI in Texas and whether a third DWI is a misdemeanor or a felony.
Texas Law on a 3rd DWI
For starters, a first and second DWI in Texas are both misdemeanors providing there were no "aggravating factors" present, which basically make the DWI more serious. Examples of aggravating factors include a drunk or drugged driving incident that caused serious bodily injury or death to someone other than the impaired driver.
A third DWI in Texas is a felony offense. The penalties for a third DWI include:
$10,000 fine
Between 2 and 10 years in prison
Up to two-year driver's license suspension
Defendant has to pay between $1,000 and $2,000 annually for three years to keep their driver's license
Note: If the defendant has had two or more DWI convictions within a five year period, he or she will have to install an Ignition Interlock Device (IID), which prevents their vehicle from starting when they have been drinking alcohol.
How much alcohol is too much? The Texas Department of Transportation says: "Impairment begins with the first drink. Your gender, body weight, the number of drinks you've consumed and the amount of food you've eaten affect your body's ability to handle alcohol. Two or three beers in an hour can make some people legally intoxicated. Women, younger people and smaller people generally become impaired with less alcohol."
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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's engagement photos are like no other royal couple's
Britain's Prince...
Updated: Dec 22, 2017 5:23 AM
Britain's Prince Harry and American actress Meghan Markle dished up some fresh gossip-fodder for fans Thursday when they released their official engagement photos.
The pictures, by fashion photographer Alexi Lubomirski, present the couple in a modern and intimate light -- a sign of the times and a far cry from the engagement shots of many of their forebears in the British royal family.
Here's how royal couples preparing to say, "I do," have been captured through the lens.
Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip
The engagement of Princess Elizabeth to Prince Philip of Greece was announced on July 10, 1947. Philip, who was a first lieutenant in the British Navy at the time of the engagement, became known upon their marriage as His Royal Highness Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.
The bride became Queen Elizabeth II on February 6, 1952, after the death of her father, King George VI.
Together, Elizabeth and Philip had four children -- Prince Charles, Princess Anne, Andrew, Duke of York, and Edward, Earl of Wessex.
Princess Margaret and Antony Armstrong-Jones
The engagement of Elizabeth's sister, Princess Margaret, to Antony Armstrong-Jones was announced in February 1960, months before their wedding at Westminster Abbey on May 6.
Together, Margaret and Armstrong-Jones -- who took the title of Earl of Snowdon and Viscount Linley -- had two children: a son, Lord Linley, christened David Albert Charles, and a daughter, Lady Sarah Frances Elizabeth.
Margaret and Lord Snowdon divorced in May 1978.
Princess Anne and Captain Mark Phillips
On May 29, 1973, the Royal family announced the engagement of Princess Anne, the second child and only daughter of Elizabeth and Philip, to Captain Mark Phillips. They would have two children, Peter and Zara Phillips.
Princess Anne and Phillips divorced in 1992.
Lady Diana Spencer and Prince Charles
The engagement of Lady Diana Spencer and Prince Charles -- the oldest son of Queen Elizabeth and heir to the throne -- was announced in February 1981. After they married, Diana assumed the title of Her Royal Highness, Princess of Wales.
They would have two sons, Princes William and Harry, but their marriage would be rocked by controversy surrounding Charles' infidelity and his relationship with Camilla Parker-Bowles. Diana and Charles' divorce was finalized in August 1996.
Within months, Diana would die following a car wreck in Paris.
Sarah Ferguson and Prince Andrew
Elizabeth and Philip's third child, Andrew, was engaged to Sarah Ferguson -- known as "Fergie" -- in March 1986. In marriage, they became the Duke and Duchess of York.
The couple had two daughters, Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie, before they separated in 1992, then divorced in 1996.
Sophie Rhys-Jones and Prince Edward
The engagement of Edward -- Elizabeth and Philip's youngest child -- and Sophie Rhys-Jones was announced in January 1999. Upon wedding that June, the couple became the Earl and Countess of Wessex.
They have two children: Lady Louise Windsor and James Windsor, Viscount Severn.
Camilla Parker-Bowles and Prince Charles
After a long relationship, Prince Charles and Camilla Parker-Bowles announced their engagement in February 2005, after Charles received his mother's blessing.
When they married on April 9, Parker-Bowles became known as Her Royal Highness, the Duchess of Cornwall.
Autumn Patricia Kelly and Peter Phillips
In July 2007, the royal family announced the engagement of Autumn Kelly and Peter Phillips, the son of Anne and Phillips.
The couple has two daughters, Savannah and Isla.
Kate Middleton and Prince William
Charles announced the engagement of his son, William, and Kate Middleton on November 16, 2010, after they became engaged a month earlier during a trip to Kenya.
William, second in line to the throne, had been dating Middleton since 2003.
William and Middleton were married on April 29, 2011, in a highly anticipated royal wedding at Westminster Abbey, after which they were given the titles of Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.
They have two children: Prince George and Princess Charlotte of Cambridge.
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The Asia Minor and Pontos Hellenic Research Center (AMPHRC) is a 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization, whose primary mission is to research and preserve the tragic history of the Greek people who were expelled from their ancestral homelands in Asia Minor and Pontos.
The Center has collaborated with the Pan-Pontian Federation of the USA and Canada, Greek-American scholars from numerous universities, and historians from Greece. The leading Greek-American scholars have included the late Dr. H. J. Psomiades, Dr. K. Hatzidimitriou, Dr. T. Stavrou, and Dr. A. Kitroeff. The historians from Greece have included Dr. K. Fotiadis and Dr. V. Aktzidis.
In addition, the Center and its forerunner, The Pontian Greek Society of Chicago, have coordinated lectures and academic conferences in conjunction with the Zoryan Institute of Toronto, the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Educational Center, and the Armenian and Assyrian communities in Chicago.
In 2009, the "Academic Conference on the Asia Minor Catastrophe," focused on the Hellenic experience in Asia Minor, Pontus and Eastern Thrace during the early part of the 20th century.
And, in 2010, the "Megali Catastrophe" conference focused on the events that followed the catastrophe. Scholars presented original papers that were later published by the Research Center.
In 2012, the Library of the late Dr. Harry J. Psomiades was donated to our Research Center, encompassing approximately 1,000 volumes on Greek history, Asia Minor and Pontos.
In 2013, a major international conference, "The Ottoman Turkish Genocides of Anatolian Christians: A Common Case Study," was organized by the Research Center, the Armenian National Committee of Illinois and the Assyrian Center for Genocide Studies, and was held at the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Educational Center.
Currently, there is a work for the 13 original research papers from this international conference that will be published as a book this year.
The achievements of the Greeks in Asia Minor and Pontos in philosophy, history, literature, and science continue to enrich our lives. This legacy is with us each day, and the facts and reasons behind the destruction of Greek civilization must be saved.
Scholarly work on the Armenian genocide (that occurred in the same period and territory) is well known due to the intense efforts of Armenian scholars and the Zoryan Institute. The destruction of Hellenism in Asia Minor and Pontos is largely unknown to historians outside Greece and historical literature is largely absent concerning the fate of Ottoman Greeks.
It is believed that by 1923 the pre-World War I Greek population of approximately 2 million Greeks living in Asia Minor was systematically reduced by the policy of "Turkey for the Turks." The numbers are staggering, with 700,000 perishing and over 1.1 million being uprooted and deported during the forced exchange between Greece and Turkey.
In recent years, historians in Greece and Turkey have begun to study the events of that period. In Greece, several Greek-speaking historians are examining the persecutions of Greeks in the early 20th century under Ottoman rule. However, because their work is in Greek, historical analysis of these events has remained inaccessible to English-speaking scholars. Our proposed book project is intended to fill this gap, and advance the understanding of political violence, in general, and genocide and ethnic cleansing in particular.


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Lily Glass (22) falls asleep during her science class to avoid doing her work. *photo illustration
As Manitou Springs High School's Class of 2023 finishes their last first semester of high school, Senioritis is rapidly spreading. The post-COVID-19 revival and reopening of schools to a semi-normal climate makes students feel burnt out, overwhelmed and mentally exhausted.
Senioritis, defined by Urban Dictionary, is "a crippling disease that strikes high school seniors. Symptoms include: laziness, an over-excessive wearing of track pants, old athletic shirts, sweatpants, athletic shorts, and sweatshirts. Also features a lack of studying, repeated absences, and a generally dismissive attitude. The only known cure is a phenomenon known as graduation."
While the looming thought of finals sweeps through the mindset of seniors, most of the Class of 2023 has never taken finals. Starting off high school, their first year was overtaken by COVID, which progressed through their junior year. Eventually, the world began to reopen as they entered their senior year, making it even more stressful than they were not accustomed to normal school workloads and final exams.
"Eventually, the world began to reopen as they entered their senior year, making it even more stressful as they were not accustomed to normal school workloads and final exams." "
Since the senior class has never had these finals, they have also never learned how to properly study for extensive testing. They have been given an excuse for the past several years and have not succumbed to the reality that there is no way to escape these daunting tests.
This stress has bloomed into a lack of determination and desire to fulfill their academic potential. Even teachers have noticed a change in the mindset of their students. While Senioritis is a common thing most high schoolers experience as they wrap up their final high school academic year, the MSHS Class of 2023 seems to be experiencing it the most.
There are many different mindsets that are going around the class of 2023. Students are trying new ways to manipulate their test scores or mindlessly "full sending" their finals.
Students have been implementing poor behaviors into their everyday routines. In the halls of MSHS, students can be seen disrespecting fellow students and teachers, skipping classes and sharing homework for the benefit of minimal effort being put into their bookwork.
While the light at the end of the tunnel for most seniors is graduating in May of 2023, most students have committed to higher education or other kinds of work-based career paths, emphasizing students' lack of determination to finish the school year strong. Students are ready for their next step in life but hesitate to realize they still have to finish this final chapter.
While high school is deemed one of the best and worst times in people's lives, students' interpersonal skills have seemed to decrease. In contrast, students have no longer put up a fake persona of being kind to other students and, in return, have become blatantly honest.
The primary feeling that students have, which is associated with Senioritis, is the feeling of being worn out. The Class of 2023 has been through a global pandemic, transitioning between online schooling, hybrid learning and cohort schedules; they have simply been through a challenging high school experience.
Many students see relief in Winter Break, and both students and teachers hope that the Class of 2023 comes back refreshed and ready to expedite the remainder of their high school education.
Seniors, we have one semester left. And, while we all understand these challenges, let's strive to finish out this last semester with dignity and a dose of fun.
Like Drake says, "Tables turn, bridges burn, you live and learn."
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Izabel Tennant • Jan 19, 2023 at 11:29 am
Emily this is some really good writing, and a good choice of topic. I think alot of people have noticed what you stated in your article and it is really sad to see this negitive change. I hope people begin to realize this as well and just enjoy the time they have here in high school because life only gets harder. I like how your writing both sympathizes and takes a scolding tone against the class of 2023 and others. It is true we have learned through crazy things but that also gives no excuse for senioritis. Your Article also inspires to finish strong and give it our all. I really enjoyed reading this. Good job! 😉
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A major competitive dimension that forms a company's strategic operational competitive position in their strategic planning is which of the following?
In setting up a kanban control system you need to determine the number of kanban card sets needed. If the expected demand during lead time is 25 per hour, the safety stock is 20 percent of the demand during lead time, the container size is 5, and the lead time to replenish an order is 5 hours, what the number of kanban card sets is needed?
Which of the following is a multifactor measure of productivity?
Which of the following is an alternative possible service encounter included in the service-system design matrix?
In development of an operations and supply chain strategy, which of the following may be an important product-specific criteria to consider?
Which of the following is one of Dr. Eli Goldratt's rules of production scheduling for optimized production technology?
You have just been assigned to oversee a series of projects. Functional areas will loan you personnel for each project, and separate project managers will be responsible for separate projects. These project managers will report to you. Which project management structure is being used?
Which of the following is a reason that firms must develop more new products than ever?
We would expect to see which of the following in an MRP system's inventory status file?
The centroid method for plant location uses which of the following data?
The Pareto principle is best applied to which of the following inventory systems?
A company can produce a small lot of products the first time at a cost of $2,000. If their 85 percent learning curve allows them to reduce their costs on each lot, what is the total cost of producing 5 lots?
You are a consultant called in to estimate the costs after the employees learn how to do a job more efficiently by repetition of new product. You find a company can produce a product the first time at a cost of $5,000. If their 90 percent learning curve allows them to reduce their costs on each unit, what is the total cost of producing 100 units of the new product?
A material requirements planning system is an example of which of the following scheduling systems?
Capacity planning that involves hiring, layoffs, some new tooling, minor equipment purchases, and subcontracting is considered as which one of the following planning horizons?
You want to determine the upper control line for a p-chart for quality control purposes. You take several samples of a size of 100 items in your production process. From the samples, you determine the fraction defective is 0.05 and the standard deviation is 0.01. If the desired confidence level is 99.7 percent, which of the following is the resulting UCL value for the line?
The objectives of work center scheduling include which of the following?
For which of the following should we use an R-chart to monitor process quality?
Which of the following is a major factor that distinguishes service design and development from manufacturing design and development?
Which of the following is a time-to-market performance measure used in judging product development performance?
In business forecasting, what is usually considered a medium-term time period?
There are many applications of poka-yokes in service organizations. Which of the following is one of the three-T's used to classify poka-yokes?
Assuming no safety stock, what is the reorder point (R) given an average daily demand of 78 units and a lead time of 3 days?
Which of the following is a measure of operations and supply management efficiency used by Wall Street?
A project starts out as which of the following?
According to the theory of constraints, which of the following is a financial measurement that can be used to measure the firm's ability to make money?
If a firm produced a standard item with relatively stable demand, the smoothing constant alpha (reaction rate to differences) used in an exponential smoothing forecasting model would tend to be in which of the following ranges?
What transportation mode has very high initial investment costs but gives a very low cost per mile for products that are highly specialized and require no packaging?


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Q: Setting select picker "val" to two options I currently have restrictions set in my model to only allow two options, out of 5, to be picked in a select picker if there is a check box checked.
Prior to allowing this second option we used "val" to restrict it to only one. Is there a way to do this with two options?
Here's what I'm thinking, with example 3 being the one I need two options for:
if (check_box.prop("checked")) {
      example1.selectpicker("val", "Option");
      example2.selectpicker("val", "Option");
      example3.selectpicker("val", "Option1")|| example3.selectpicker("val", "Option2");
      disable([example1, example2]);
    } else {
      enable([example1, example2]);
    }

But this locks it to only allowing "Option1" to be selected. What is the best approach to solving this and allowing it to pick both option1 and option2
****Here's an update on where I'm at
 if (check_box.prop("checked")) {
      example1.selectpicker("val", "Option");
      example2.selectpicker("val", "Option");
      example3.selectpicker('refresh');
      example3.find('[value="Option3"]').remove();
      example3.find('[value="Option4"]').remove();
      example3.find('[value="Option5"]').remove();
      disable([example1, example2]);
    } else {
      example3.find('[value="Option3"]').show();
      example3.find('[value="Option4"]').show();
      example3.find('[value="Option5"]').show();
      service.selectpicker('refresh');
      enable([example1, example2, example3]);
    }

The issue that I'm having now is getting the options to reappear after the check box has been unselected

A: This is how I got the desired behavior:
    if (checkbox.prop("checked")) {
      example1.selectpicker("val", "Option");
      example2.selectpicker("val", "Option");
      example3.find('[value="Option3"]').hide();
      example3.find('[value="Option4"]').hide();
      example3.find('[value="Option5"]').hide();
      example3.selectpicker('refresh');
      disable([example1, example2]);
    } else {
      example3.find('[value="Option3"]').show();
      example3.find('[value="Option4"]').show();
      example3.find('[value="Option5"]').show();
      example3.selectpicker('refresh');
      enable([example1, example2, example3]);
    }

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And most importantly we want to fold them into the life of the congregation in a way that will not make sense to the world. Although college students may only be in Portland for a short period of time, we encourage them to join the church, so we can better fold them into our midst. We encourage college students to come to our regular all-church events & activities like Sunday School at 9:15am. On Monday nights, young adults get together for a Bible Study at the Annex (1315 SE 20th Avenue) from 7:00-8:30pm.


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Taxes in turnaround – swift legislative action
9. May 2017 23. February 2020
Only one month after the surprising decision of the German Federal Tax Court ("Bundesfinanzhof" (BFH)) on the so-called "Decree on Turnaround" ("Sanierungserlass"), the German Bundesrat had already proposed a new statutory regulation and also the German higher fiscal authorities (OFD Frankfurt) has issued a directive on how to deal with applications for the waiver on the taxation of "turnaround profits". And now the German Federal Government (represented by the Federal Ministry of Finance, BMF) and the German Parliament seemingly want to set the pace:
On 27 April 2017 the BMF published a decree to at least reduce the legal uncertainties associated with the BFH 's surprising U-turn. On the same day the German Parliament passed the "Bill against harmful tax practices in connection with the granting of legal entitlements", in which a new § 3a EStG has been inserted, the so-called "Decree on Turnaround in legislative form".
This new provision of § 3a EStG will, though, come into force only after approval of the EU-Commission. It remains to be seen whether the Commission will have the same pace as the German legislature. However, in view of the Commission's own efforts to promote corporate turnaround in the common economic area (see more specifically here), anything but an approval (potentially with some conditions attached) would be a big surprise. In the meantime, however, the above-mentioned BMF-decree of 27 April 2017 will be important for so-called "old cases", that is, those cases which were already pending before the financial authorities before the BFH decision was published. According to the BMF-decree, these cases may enjoy a certain status and can still hope for a waiver on the taxation of "turnaround profits".
On the other hand, it will be a waiting period for new cases – i.e. applications filed after 9 February 2017. The legal uncertainty will not be particularly helpful for turnarounds – to put it mildly. From a macroeconomic perspective, one can only be glad that the BFH decision was rendered at times of a prosperous German economy and steadily declining insolvency figures. And one can only hope that the "Decree on Turnaround in legislative form" will be in force before the next economic crisis hits home.
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Went crazy looking for the vendor, they simply were NOT where the map shows and where several guildies told me. Found the bird right by the Apexis vendors outside the AH in Stormshield.
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Caroline Jariwala, a member of the British Association for Modern Mosiac (BAMM), has created "Sweet William Bear" – inspired by flowers quoted in Shakespeare's writings.
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County administrators deemed some of the added positions unavoidable. The state will require counties and cities to conduct more inspections of stormwater systems, more frequent stormwater sampling, and more maintenance of pipes, filters and ditches. The executive wrote five new positions into the 2015-16 budget to keep up with the increasing workload, with four starting in 2015.
Hearing a presentation in July on the stricter stormwater rules, council members said they had little choice but to make the hires in order to comply with a state mandate that comes with no funding.
"These unfunded mandates, that are so impactful to all jurisdictions, are hard to deal with," council member Pete Kremen said in July.
Council member Barbara Brenner at the time suggested suing the state over the new requirements, but other municipalities had beaten her to it. Twenty-five counties and cities, including Ferndale, unsuccessfully appealed the state's new stormwater rules in 2012.
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The proposed budget also accounts for a new Superior Court judge, approved by the state Legislature in 2013 to begin serving next year.
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The Sheriff's Office tries to have a new deputy on the street within 10 weeks of the money becoming available.
"We maintain an active Civil Service roster and anticipate that we will select deputies to begin service shortly after the first of the year," Elfo said.
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Q: Rest the memory of python from script I am running a script that needs a lot of memory...
I can use reset to clear all variables so I will have memory clear for a second run...
However my question is how can I enter this reset in a loop so after every run it will clear the memory by itself.
Thanks appreciated

A: If you have a script requiring lots of memory, I would recommend running that in a separate process (which gets cleaned automatically). You can do this either by:

*

*using some other script to launch the workers (e.g. bash)

*using python subprocess to launch the worker processes

A: if you are getting MemoryError exceptions, you might consider rewriting your script to write to a database or a file instead of holding all of your data in memory. Some good options for this are MySQL, Redis, and Mongo, among many, many others.
Of course, it may also be possible to avoid all of this database stuff entirely if you can find places in your code where memory is being used inefficiently or unnecessarily. If you post your code, I'm sure folks will be happy to take a peek!
As an example, if you have large list comprehensions holding lots of data that is being processed one item at a time, you can probably get pretty good memory savings by switching to a generator expression instead.

A: Python interpreter utilizes garbage collection to free memory of unused objects. Normally, this process doesn't require any manual correction. However, you can collect garbage earlier than it is scheduled using gc module. http://docs.python.org/library/gc.html
This will free some memory for your script.


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Q: Template Syntax error: Caught GEOSException while rendering: GeoJSON output only supported on GDAL 1.5+ I am having a problem rendering a polygon stored in PostGIS into json on a template. I am using {{ geom.json|safe }} in the template, and get back the error in the subject line.
When I open up the django shell to step through the process, it works. My gdal version is 1.9, and calling geom.json returns, you know, a geojson representation of the polygon.
I am at my wits end with this problem. It only comes up on pages that are trying to render a polygon, and everything else appears to be in line.
Any ideas are much appreciated.
EDIT
This may be something having to do with my setup overall. I wrote a view that would spit out the results of gdal.HAS_GDAL, and it returns False. In the shell, again, Gdal is there and >1.5.
Taking {{ hood.geom.json }} out of the template solves the problem, but that sort of defeats the purpose. I want to have the neighborhood on a map.
Thanks for the ideas so far.


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