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A Brief History of Medieval Warfare
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Edward II, King of England
Robert Bruce, King of Scotland
Henry V, King of England
Henry VI, King of England
Edward IV, King of England
Richard III, King of England
Philip VI, King of France
David II, King of Scots
John Balliol, King of Scots
Edward Balliol
Philip IV, King of France
Thomas Randolph, 1st Earl of Moray
John II, King of France
Edward of Woodstock, Prince of Wales, Prince of Aquitaine, aka The Black Prince
Jean de Vienne
Sir John Chandos
Thomas de Beauchamp, 11th Earl of Warwick
Charles of Blois-Châtillon, Duke of Brittany
John of Montfort, Duke of Brittany
Philip of Navarre, Count of Longueville
Charles II, King of Navarre
Henry of Grosmont, 1st Duke of Lancaster
Walter Manny, 1st Baron Manny
William de Bohun, 1st Earl of Northampton
Jean III de Grailly, Captal de Buch
Sir Robert Knolles
Charles V, King of France
William Douglas, 1st Earl of Douglas
Sir William de Montagu, 2nd Earl of Salisbury, 4th Baron Montagu, King of Mann
Philip The Bold, Duke of Burgundy
Cardinal Hélie de Talleyrand-Périgord
Sir James Audley
Bertrand du Guesclin
John IV, Duke of Brittany
Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester
Charles VI, King of France
Thomas Percy, 1st Earl of Worcester
Edward of Westminster, Prince of Wales
Margaret of Anjou
Henry IV, King of England
Richard II, King of England
John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster
Louis of Orleans
John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy
Robert de Vere, Duke of Ireland, Marquess of Dublin, and 9th Earl of Oxford
Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York
Lionel of Antwerp, Duke of Clarence
Sir Henry Percy (Henry Hotspur)
Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland
James Douglas, 2nd Earl of Douglas
James I, King of Scots
Owain Glyndŵr
Michael de la Pole, 1st Earl of Suffolk
Bernard VII, Count of Armagnac
Hundred Years' War (1337|1453)
Battle of Bannockburn (1314)
Battle of Dupplin Moor (1332)
Battle of Halidon Hill (1333)
Battle of Poitiers (1356)
Battle of Crécy (1346)
Siege of Calais (1346–1347)
Battle of Sluys (1340)
Jacquerie (1358)
Battle of La Rochelle (1372)
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For over 150 years, from 1314 to 1485, England fought an almost continuous war with its neighbors. This period saw an unprecedented supremacy of the English army over those of its enemies. Reid proposes that the key to English success lay in its preparations and in its style of warfare, interweaving his analysis with a dramatic telling of the main events on land and at sea.
Interweaving analysis with a dramatic telling of the major events and the political issues of the day, Peter Reid presents a new perspective on a gripping period in British history.
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Sudan Military Council order Roads, Tracks and Bridges be opened immediately in the Capital
Sudan's Military Council has agreed with the Sudanese opposition to open immediately the main roads and bridges near the army's general headquarters where thousands of Sudanese protesters are staging a sit-in.
"The Military noted the importance of normalising the life of people, as we have discussed this matter with our partners of the Freedom and Change Alliance," Shams-Eddin Kabashi, the Military Council spokesman, said on Monday at a press conference in the capital Khartoum.
The Military decided to open the train tracks from Monday, and open the traffic on the armed forces' bridge and Blue Nile bridge as soon as possible, in addition to removing the barricades in front of the police hospital, Kabashi noted.
He further explained that the two sides have agreed on the need to confront some security disturbances and combat negative phenomena such as theft, robbery and others.
In the meantime, Kabashi declared that the Military Council and the opposition would soon reach an agreement on a joint sovereignty council to run the affairs of the country.
"We are optimistic to reach a deal soon regarding the sovereignty council and other structures," he said.
He noted that the Military Council proposed the sovereignty council to be of 10 members, seven military representatives and three civilians, while the opposition proposed a 15-member council, with eight civilians and seven military representatives.
The joint committee between the Military and the alliance is discussing procedures concerning the formation of the mechanisms of the transitional period, including the sovereignty council, appointment of prime minister and formation of a civilian government.
The Military Council, chaired by Abdel-Fattah Al-Burhan, is tasked with running the country's affairs after former President Omar al-Bashir was FORCEFULLY removed from office.
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What is the Initiative on Sustainability, Stability and Security (3S) in Africa?
It is an inter-governmental initiative that works to address the underlying causes of instability and prevent the emerging threats linked to the depletion and mismanagement of natural resources leading to chaos.
By tackling conditions such as land degradation and scarcity, rural unemployment, insecurity of tenure and competition for resources in a joined up way, the 3S Initiative is adopting an innovative approach. The bold, innovative and ambitious approach has been widely acknowledged and welcomed by the international community.
At the First African Action Summit (Marrakesh, 16 November 2016), the Heads of State and Government launched the initiative and committed to accelerate its implementation building on their own resources and mobilizing multilateral and bilateral donors. See Declaration
The Migration Dialogue for West Africa (MIDWA) held in Abidjan in August 2016, the Agadir Commitment towards a Mediterranean Regional Initiative on Forest and Landscape Restoration adopted in March 2017 as well as the "Ouagadougou Call for Action on land-based jobs in Africa" launched on the 15th June 2017 all highlight African leadership.


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Posted by: Doug Henwood | December 11, 2017
Is Bitcoin the future of money?
This originally appeared in The Nation, April 30, 2014, issue. With Bitcoin now having migrated from obscurity to headlines (though I said "all over the headlines" then, it's really broken into the bigtime now), I thought I'd repost it here, since it's behind a paywall. My BTC 0.05 would be worth $862.50 as I'm posting this, but I sold it, alas.
Is Bitcoin the future of money
Doug Henwood
What's being touted in some circles as the future of money looks hardly more peaceful than its past. Bitcoin, a formerly obscure cyber-currency, is now all over the headlines with reports of bankruptcies, thefts and FBI lockdowns. If our fate is to buy and sell in bitcoins, this instability is troubling. But despite the headlines, the triumph of Bitcoin and related cyber-currencies is a lot less likely than recent commentary would suggest. One cause of all this hype? The number of people who understand what Bitcoin is seems almost immeasurably small—and that probably includes some of its users.
Money, it should be conceded, is not a simple topic. Most people understand how gold, which is something of a primal money, is mined, refined and shaped into coins. It is rare, pure, easily divisible and has been cherished over the centuries. Paper money is more complex. From 1900 through 1971 (with the exception of during World War I), the US dollar was backed by gold, meaning its value was legally defined by a certain weight of the metal. That ended in 1971, when Richard Nixon shocked the world by breaking the link to gold and allowing the dollar's value to be determined by trading in the foreign exchange markets. The dollar is valuable not because it's as good as gold, but because you can buy goods and services produced in the United States with it—and, crucially, it's the only form the US government will accept for tax payments. Among the Federal Reserve's many functions is allowing the issuance of just the right quantity of dollars—enough to keep the wheels of commerce well greased without slipping into a hyperinflationary crisis.
But Bitcoin (capitalized as a concept, lowercased when referring to units of the currency, according to American Banker) is another animal entirely. It is the first and most famous of a large and growing family of so-called "cryptocurrencies." Others include Litecoin, Feathercoin, Songcoin ("designed for The Music Industry"), Auroracoin (Iceland only) and Dogecoin ("the fun cryptocurrency")—but Bitcoin is by far the largest. Its origin is traced to a 2008 paper written by the pseudonymous Satoshi Nakamoto. Newsweek recently claimed to have located the real one, but he promptly denied all, so the whole thing remains quite mysterious.
According to its semi-official definition, a crypto-currency is "a peer-to-peer, decentralized, digital currency whose implementation relies on the principles of cryptography to validate the transactions and generation of the currency itself." (While that is one dense slab of prose, to be fair to the cryptoids, it wouldn't be easy to define the dollar succinctly either.) What this means is that Bitcoin and the rest are electronic currencies created and transferred by networked computers with no one in charge. The role of cryptography is not merely to guarantee the security of the transaction, but also to generate new units of the currency, which are "mined" by having computers solve complicated mathematical problems. Once solved, new coins are created and their birth—with digital signatures guaranteeing authenticity and uniqueness—announced to the rest of the system. The creator earns the value of the new coins when they enter the system.
Trading is done via exchanges, which communicate with other exchanges, but there is no central authority. Some trading is done online, but you can also buy bitcoins for cash in person.
The mining requires enormous amounts of computing power, though specialized processors have been developed to reduce power consumption, which in turn produce many tons of carbon. Even the most ephemeral coin has material roots.
That's the technology of bitcoin; but is it money? The classic economist's definition holds that money is a store of value, a unit of account and a medium of exchange. You go to the store and find that a can of tomatoes is priced at $3—a unit of account, which the store will book as revenue once it's sold. You take $3 out of your pocket or via your debit card—you draw down the store of value (cash on hand or in the bank) and use it as a medium of exchange. The value of the US dollar is that everyone in the United States, and beyond, recognizes the currency as fulfilling these tests of money. The dollar is valorized by the goods and services that it can buy.
Bitcoin has serious problems in all three respects. From the beginning of 2013 through early February 2014, the price of a bitcoin has varied from $13.40 to $1,203.42—a ratio of 90 to 1. Its average one-day change (ignoring whether it was up or down) was 4.3 percent. In just one day last April, Bitcoin lost 48 percent of its value relative to the US dollar—and that came the day after it lost 33 percent. But by November 2013, Bitcoin had shaken off this case of nerves and risen 1,405 percent off that crash low. By contrast, the ratio of high to low in the Federal Reserve's broad index of the US dollar's international value was just 1.07 to 1. Its biggest one-day move was under 2 percent; its average one-day change was 0.3 percent. (The dollar's biggest daily change was less than half of Bitcoin's average daily change.) Yes, inflation has steadily eaten away at the dollar's value, but in relatively steady and predictable ways over the decades. It does not gyrate by almost 50 percent in a day. So much for a store of value.
Almost no one accepts payment in Bitcoin, nor do any businesses of note keep their books in Bitcoin; it fails both as a unit of account and a medium of exchange. And its short history—the first bitcoins were minted in 2009—has been turbulent. The US government seized funds from Mt. Gox, then the largest Bitcoin exchange, in May 2013, and just this past February, Mt. Gox collapsed from an undetermined mix of theft, fraud and mismanagement, leaving hundreds of millions of dollars in losses in its wake. There have been many other reports of thefts, frauds and hackings, which Bitcoin partisans dismiss as mere growing pains. But with no regulator, no deposit insurance and no central bank, this sort of thing is inevitable—it's just tough luck. Introduce regulators and insurance schemes, though, and Bitcoin will lose all its anarcho-charm.
Keynes once called gold "part of the apparatus of conservatism" for its appeal to rentiers who loved austerity because it preserved the value of their assets. Bitcoin serves a similarly totemic purpose for today's cyber-libertarians, who love not only the statelessness of it as money, but also its power to subject the institutional banking system to "disruption" (one of the favorite words of that set). And like gold, Bitcoin is deflationary. There's a limit on how many bitcoins can be produced, and it gets more difficult to produce them over time until that limit is reached. Of course, new cryptocurrencies could arise. But the existence of the limit reflects the deflationary sympathies of the libertarian mind—in a Bitcoin economy, creating money to ease an economic depression would be impossible. Which is not to say that only libertarians love Bitcoin.
To catch a glimpse of cyber-libertarianism in its natural habitat, I ventured to a December 19 holiday party organized by Cryptos.com, a business incubator for Bitcoin startups; BitcoinNYC, a meetup group; and Halfmoon Labs, which builds trading platforms. I was hoping to find some wildly anti-statist libertarians, and my hopes were further stoked by the first person I saw upon entering—a tall, skinny man with a red bow tie, the very picture of an Ayn Rand adept.
But it was not to be. Though the air wasn't free of libertarianism, most of the partiers I talked with were interested in running Bitcoin-related businesses or speculating in the currency. Many had day jobs in tech or finance. It was mostly male (but not overwhelmingly so) and mostly white. Only one person was wearing Google Glass. From national surveys of unproved rigor, your typical Bitcoin enthusiast is a 30-ish libertarian white male—though the same survey finds 39 percent of the fan base leftish in some sense. The group at the holiday party, probably because of its business-y skew, was somewhat more diverse.
Cryptos.com founder Nick Spanos worked two cellphones. When I introduced myself and turned on my iPhone voice recorder, Spanos was not cooperative: "I don't talk to reporters I don't know. Turn the thing off." After I did, he told me the place was filled with Bitcoin millionaires—ten of them under 21. When I asked what kinds of businesses they were in, he replied: "All kinds." That was the end of the interview—a cryptopromoter for a cryptocurrency.
Another partier, Marshall Swatt, the chief technology officer at Coinsetter, a Bitcoin trading platform for institutional investors, was more helpful. Swatt told me that, after building trading platforms for established Wall Street institutions, he was looking for something more entrepreneurial. When I asked him whether Bitcoin was money or a trading asset, he said it was an open question. (In late March, the IRS ruled that Bitcoin is an asset, not a form of money, and that mining and trading gains are subject to income tax.) Bitcoin would need to develop a large consumer market to be taken seriously as currency. Swatt thinks it will: Virgin Galactic, Richard Branson's scheme to take tycoons into space, accepts Bitcoin. But that's by nature a small market. To get taken seriously, Swatt would love to see Bitcoin adopted by Google, Amazon, Facebook and Apple. Asked to explain its appeal, Swatt replied that it's an "extremely well-crafted device," secure and mobile. Unlike many Bitcoin enthusiasts, Swatt doesn't talk trash about gold or fiat currencies—he sees it as a complement to state money. It's deflationary like gold, but like money (and unlike gold), it's easy to use. He predicts a trillion-dollar volume in Bitcoin someday, though with the supply so tightly limited, that would send the value of a single coin through the roof.
Bitcoin's limitations as a currency may be why most of the world's central banks have tolerated it. States are fond of their monopoly over money. Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen said in late Feburary, right after the Mt. Gox collapse, that the Fed lacked the authority to regulate Bitcoin because it's outside the banking system. The Danish central bank stated in a press release: "Bitcoins are not money in a proper sense as there is no issuer behind them. Instead, bitcoins display the characteristics of a commodity to which users attach value. Unlike precious metals such as gold and silver, bitcoins have no actual utility value, bearing closer resemblance to glass beads." The bank found the market too small to worry about; all the risks are on a small number of participants. And the market is very small: the value of all bitcoins outstanding is $5.9 billion—0.05 percent the size of the US money supply (by the Fed's M2 definition).
Two Goldman Sachs economists, Dominic Wilson and José Ursua, largely concurred with the Danish evaluation. "We would argue that Bitcoin and other digital currencies lie somewhere on the boundary between currency, commodity and financial asset. Our best definition would be that it is currently a speculative financial asset that can be used as a medium of exchange." But they also make an important point: the peer-to-peer technology behind Bitcoin could become a model for moving money around without third-party verifiers, like banks.
Bitcoin is not without friends on Wall Street. Gil Luria of Wedbush Securities is following it; he describes the recent volatility as "extended price discovery," which is a way of saying that no one knows what it is, what it will be or what it's worth. His firm is selling his Bitcoin research for payment in bitcoins.
The political cast of the Bitcoin universe is mostly libertarian, but it does have a left wing. These users celebrate Bitcoin's evasion of state surveillance and policing—which, in the post-Snowden era, is nothing to sneeze at.
Take sex workers, often subjected to outrageous degrees of scrutiny. A Marxist-feminist professional dominatrix who practices in Britain under the name Mistress Magpie is an enthusiastic Bitcoin proponent. She explains her enthusiasm as beginning with her deep techno-geekiness, and adds that Bitcoin is also practical for someone in her line of work—anonymity is important, whether operating in real life or online. Unlike libertarians, who see cryptocurrencies as a possible gateway to a new society, the socialist in Mistress Magpie sees them as a way to operate furtively under capitalism, in a way that might not be needed in a more open socialist society. Even for her, though, Bitcoin doesn't go far—the majority of her clients are not well versed in digital currencies. Furtive payment is also good, of course, for drugs and other illegal procurements—a sort of anarchic market operating beyond regulation. Though the FBI shut down Silk Road, the online mall of illicit goods, its offspring live on. A friend whose politics are well left of center—and not unusually anti-statist either—loves that he can pay for DMT (a short-acting hallucinogen) using bitcoins in an encrypted transaction.
Apart from anonymity, though, it remains difficult to see what problem Bitcoin solves for people with left-wing politics. The switch to paper money was a response to the crisis of the old gold-centered system, and Bitcoin has managed to replicate many of gold's bugs with few of its features. Leaving aside the entrepreneurs and speculators, who are simply looking to get rich quick, the political vision of Bitcoin is of a decentralized, stateless world with competing money systems.
Competitive currencies that would end the state's monopoly over money have long been a dream of the right. In a 1976 paper, Friedrich Hayek argued for allowing multiple currencies to circulate within individual countries; competition would lead to the use of the soundest—meaning most austerity-friendly—currency and put a check on the attempts by governments to inflate their way out of trouble. That would mean no fiscal or monetary stimulus in an economic crisis—just let things run their purgative course. In this view, the New Deal lengthened the Great Depression; had the bloodletting continued after Roosevelt's inauguration, things would have righted themselves sooner or later. And we should have done the same in 2008 and 2009. Cryptocurrencies would be an advance over the idea of competitive currencies—improvised money systems that could challenge the state monopoly itself.
There are big reasons to think, however, that neither Bitcoin nor any of the myriad cryptocurrencies emerging online will ever pose a serious threat to the state monopoly on money. In the nineteenth century, the United States did have competing currencies: all kinds of little banks issued banknotes that often turned out to be worthless because they were accepted only within a small radius and weren't actually backed by anything. Some Bitcoiners drag this out as a worthy precedent anyway. But Bitcoin could never establish itself as a currency in any serious way without regulation and some sort of insurance scheme, because investors and consumers would not trust substantial savings to it. But were Bitcoin to legitimate itself through regulation and become a serious money, it's impossible to imagine that states would tolerate it for long. It would be simple to outlaw cryptocurrencies, enforcing a ban at the point of conversion from state money to cryptomoney without attempting to crack the coin's infinitely complicated algorithm.
Bitcoiners share with other hard-money proponents a fear of inflation and financial collapse. But there is no inflation, and government money has proved far more stable than its alternatives, either gold or Bitcoin. No bank deposits were threatened during the financial crisis of 2008, because they were FDIC insured; you can't say that about Bitcoin in its short life. But libertarians—and there are a lot of them in tech and finance, the two parents of Bitcoin—are always worrying about inflation. They worry about it the same way that hedge fund titans see talk of eliminating their tax breaks as a rerun of Nazi Germany.
But maybe I'm just bitter. I bought 0.05 bitcoin on February 5 for $39.72. As of April 24, it was worth $24.79—down 38 percent. Some bulwark against the irresponsible state.
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News of TCHOW: Why, cl.exe, Why?
This is great for catching errors in my code, as I get three different sets of static checks and three sets of design decisions (for those memory bugs that "just happen to work" on one system or another). But it also means I get exposed to a fair amount of compiler (and system library) quirkiness.
Today, I'm going to talk about one of the odder bits of behavior I've seen out of cl.exe (Version 17.00.60315.1 for x86 from Visual Studio 2012 Update 2).
I ran across this a few months back, but have been lax in posting because I didn't have any sort of CSS styling set up for posting code in news.tchow.com ; a situation which I have partially rectified (no syntax highlighting or fancy line numbers; sorry).
Apologies about the spacing in this code. Blogger apparently converts tabs to single spaces. For reference, using spaces to indent code is wrong.
Notice that the lines marked (1), (2), and (3) all define Coord to be the same type -- a struct with a single int as a member -- but in slightly different ways.
So, what happened? Well, cl.exe has (presumably) synthesized a copy constructor for Pt::arr -- which, after some typedef expansion -- is an array of TrivialTemplate< 27 >. Now, having non-trivial constructors and destructors for data in a union is problematic, because the whole point of a union is that its members overlap in memory. However, it's also odd that a copy constructor would be synthesized -- after all, TrivialTemplate< 27 > is functionally identical to NoTemplate, and no constructor was synthesized there.
Indeed, neither g++ or clang++ have any problems compiling this code.
But here's where it gets really weird. If I compile with the line marked (3) active -- that is, if we talk about TrivialTemplate< 27 > using a typedef it contains for itself, one would expect the same error.
So, where does that leave me? Spending time writing workarounds -- in this case, my planar map code (which uses templated classes wrapping integers to make sure it isn't going to overflow) now has a fair number of uses of the somewhat odd-looking BitsInt< N >::self.
This is certainly a lot nicer than the llvm-gcc bug that incorrectly passed unions to functions (effectively reordering function parameters). That bug led to me abandoning Apple-supplied compilers on OSX until clang was mature enough.


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Judge tells Annette Bosworth to release names legal defense donors
A judge ordered Bosworth to release the names of people who donated to her legal defense fund as part of a former employee's lawsuit.
Judge tells Annette Bosworth to release names legal defense donors A judge ordered Bosworth to release the names of people who donated to her legal defense fund as part of a former employee's lawsuit. Check out this story on argusleader.com: https://www.argusleader.com/story/news/2018/04/09/judge-tells-annette-bosworth-release-names-legal-defense-donors/498646002/
Danielle Ferguson, dbferguson@argusleader.com Published 3:28 p.m. CT April 9, 2018
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An employee of former U.S. Senate candidate Annette Bosworth who claims he wasn't paid for three months of work says he needs the names of those who donated to the candidate's legal defense fund.
The employee, Mitchell Olson, filed a lawsuit in September 2017 claiming he wasn't paid for services he performed for Bosworth, who ran for Senate in 2014 and lost in the Republican primary. Olson said he was previously paid through her legal defense fund.
Second Circuit judge Bradley Zell in a motion hearing Monday told Bosworth's attorney to provide the names of those who donated to the fund. Zell ruled that the information was relevant to find out if Olson had contact with any donors, some of whom may also need to testify in future court proceedings. The amount they donated won't be included.
More: Former consultant sues Annette Bosworth legal defense fund
The judge also granted Bosworth's attorney's attempt to get information from Olson, including medical records, for his case.
Olson's suit says he wasn't paid for work he performed in May, June or July of 2017. He was paid on average about $4,000 a month prior to that, according to court documents.
Olson's lawsuit claims the defense fund "is little more than an alter ego of Bosworth and (Chad) Haber." He began working as a consultant for the Dr. Annette Bosworth Legal Defense fund in June 2016, according to the lawsuit. He mostly worked from the home of Bosworth and her husband, Chad Haber, who was also named in the lawsuit.
The South Dakota Supreme Court dropped Annette Bosworth's perjury conviction, but upheld her felony convictions for election law violations. Dan Haugen & Christopher Dexter / Wochit
During the campaign, former consultants and former employees of Bosworth's medical practice said she was not paying all her bills.
The legal defense fund, from which Olson says he was paid, was established after state authorities accused Bosworth of perjury and submitting forged documents when she turned in candidate petitions with signatures that she claimed were witnessed.
The Sioux Falls physician was on a trip to the Philippines to provide medical care after a typhoon when the petitions were signed.
Bosworth's campaign lawyer approved and notarized the petitions, Bosworth said in a 16-page letter written to attempt to raise money from donors for the legal defense fund. She told donors she needed $121,697 to cover legal costs for the South Dakota Supreme Court proceedings.
The state Supreme Court last summer dropped the six perjury felony convictions but upheld the six counts of offering a false or forged instrument for filing, for which she was sentenced to probation and community service.
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Bachelor of Music: General Programme
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ACE Programmes
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African Languages & Literatures
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Industrial Sociology
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Dance Teacher's Diploma
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Heather Hess, German Expressionist Digital Archive Project, German Expressionism: Works from the Collection. 2011.
The range of approaches in this portfolio evidences the lack of a single Bauhaus style. All of the contributors were "masters," or artist-teachers, at the school. Vasily Kandinsky, László Moholy-Nagy, and Lothar Schreyer created abstract compositions. Paul Klee offered a whimsical erotic scene, while Gerhard Marcks provided a sentimental representation of a mother and child. Lyonel Feininger's and Georg Muche's works are formal experiments showing Cubist influences. What all these prints had in common was the artists' belief in the mission of the Bauhaus and its goal of reshaping modern life through art and design. The sales of the portfolio benefited the school, which was in dire need of funds during the period of runaway inflation in the early years of the Weimar Republic.
As head of the Bauhaus printing workshop, Feininger directed the monumental project. In addition to designing the portfolio cover and lettering, he oversaw the hand-printing of the entire edition, a process that consisted of rendering more than eight hundred compositions of varying levels of technical complexity onto a range of papers. This painstaking production reflects Feininger's emphasis on the artistic, rather than the reproductive, aspect of printmaking as well as the Bauhaus's craft orientation in its early years.
Masters' Portfolio of the Staatliches Bauhaus (Meistermappe des Staatlichen Bauhauses)
Joyous Ascent (Fröhlicher Aufstieg) from Masters' Portfolio of the Staatliches Bauhaus (Meistermappe des Staatlichen Bauhauses)
Lithograph from a portfolio of three lithographs, three woodcuts and two etchings
composition (irreg.): 9 3/16 x 7 3/8" (23.3 x 18.8 cm); sheet: 13 1/2 x 10 11/16" (34.3 x 27.1 cm)
Cream, smooth, wove "japan".
Staatliches Bauhaus, Weimar(Bauhausverlag G.m.b.H., Munich-Weimar)
Staatliches Bauhaus, Weimar
Larry Aldrich Fund
Roethel 177. Söhn 210-2.


What's one of the quickest and easiest ways to make oatmeal, yogurt, salads and many other dishes that tend to end up boring to eat after some time become more interesting? Sprinkle sesame seeds on them! The presence of sesame seeds helps enhance the flavor by adding a hint of nutty flavor to the treat right before you. What's more, it makes the texture of a snack or dish more interesting with the help of the delicate crunchiness sesame seeds posses.
Sprinkling some sesame seeds also helps enhance the nutritional content of just about anything you serve on the table. This doesn't really come as a shock because those tiny seeds contain good amounts of fiber, copper, calcium, magnesium, iron, zinc and vitamin B6. Sesame seeds also yield protein for muscle building, healthy skin and hormone production.
They may be small, but sesame seeds offer enormous benefits to both your overall health and beauty. Read on to know some of the perks to enjoy simply by incorporating more sesame seeds in your diet.
As mentioned earlier, sesame seeds contain fiber which is important for the proper functioning of the digestive tract. Fiber found abundantly in these tiny seeds helps promote the regular movement of the bowels, thus keeping at bay constipation. As a bonus, experts say that a diet rich in fiber may help lower your risk of suffering from colon cancer.
It's not just colon cancer that may be warded off by sesame seeds because of their fiber content, but many other forms of cancers too. That's because sesame seeds contain magnesium, a mineral revered for its cancer-fighting ability. Magnesium is also vital for energy production, protein synthesis, healthy nerves and mood stabilization.
Osteoporosis is the softening and weakening of the bones, making them prone to ending up fractured. An effective way to keep this debilitating medical condition away is by consuming foods that are rich not only in calcium, but zinc too. Guess what? Sesame seeds contain excellent amounts of both calcium and zinc!
The inclusion of sesame seeds in your diet is especially beneficial if you are an active individual who loves playing sports, exercising outdoors or hitting the gym. That's because sesame seeds are loaded with copper, a mineral associated with the reduction of joint pain and inflammation. For healthier and pain-free joints, start sprinkling some sesame seeds.
There are many reasons why sesame seeds are good for your cardiovascular system. First, their fiber and antioxidant content help lower cholesterol. Second, magnesium in them allows for blood pressure regulation. Third, there's a compound called sesamol in sesame seeds that can ward off inflammation which is bad for the heart and blood vessels.
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SEOUL — U.S. President Donald Trump announced during his State of the Union Address Tuesday that he would next meet North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Vietnam on February 27-28.
"As part of a bold new diplomacy, we continue our historic push for peace on the Korean Peninsula," Trump said.
In his speech, the President also acknowledged the road toward denuclearization remains long, "Much work remains to be done, but my relationship with Kim Jong Un is a good one," he said.
The formal announcement of the second U.S. – North Korea summit came as South Korea celebrated the Lunar New Year. While government offices were closed for the national holiday, South Korean presidential spokesperson Kim Eui-kyeom said Seoul hoped the two countries would make progress when they met later this month.
President Trump's announcement of the summit dates and location were not a surprise. U. S. Secretary of State Mile Pompeo had previously confirmed that President Trump would meet Kim in late February in Asia.
However, analysts told VOA that the length of the next summit and its location have special meaning.
As evidence to support his theory, Kazianis points to comments made last week by U.S. SpecialRepresentative for North Korea, Stephen Biegun.
"Therefore it is all the more urgent that we engage diplomatically with North Korea to see if we can change the trajectory of their policies, by changing the trajectory of our own. And that's what we're trying to do," said Biegun while speaking at Stanford University.
Kazianis said that "from a rational perspective," to move North Korea toward denuclearization, there "needs to be an action for action sort of situation," and Biegun's remarks seem to indicate a shift in policy.
To "say we have to end this war, right now 70 years of hostility. That is to fall right into Kim Jong Un's hands because that's North Korean verbiage," Lee said, adding that a de facto peace has been maintained through deterrence.
If the United States were to initiate a peace agreement with North Korea, Lee said that plays into Kim Jong Un's hands and gives him the advantage in talks.
Kazianis disagrees, noting both Kim and Trump have domestic audiences watching.
"You've got to figure out some way to package this (the summit) where both sides get a win," and for Kazianis, that means an end to the Korean War.
"Both sides saying that the war is over through a peace declaration makes a lot of sense, and we all know the war is over and both sides get that clear win that they can go back home," he said.
FILE – In this image made from video by North Korea's KRT, a military parade is held in Pyongyang, North Korea, Feb. 8, 2018. North Korea's intercontinental ballistic missiles highlighted the event.
U.S. President Donald Trump announced during his State of the Union Address Tuesday that he would next meet North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Vietnam on February 27-28.


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Death Row Exoneree Anthony Ray Hinton Shares His Story
In an interview with Salon, Anthony Ray Hinton (pictured, l.), the 152nd death row exoneree, spoke about his wrongful conviction and spending 30 years on Alabama's death row for a crime he did not commit. "They had every intention of executing an innocent man," Hinton said. "If you're poor and black you don't stand a chance." Hinton spoke about the inadequate representation he received at his trial: "My ballistics expert was blind in one eye. He was paid $500. It came down to, 'Who do you believe? The expert with one eye, or the state?' The district attorney cross-examined my expert — he chewed him up and spit him out." Hinton described conditions on death row as "a second hell," adding, "[i]t's not a place I would wish on my worst enemy." Prosecutors in his case continued to push for death, even after national ballistics experts had exposed the invalidity of the forensic testimony they had presented against Hinton. "The DA that we have now seems like he doesn't give a damn about a man being innocent," Hinton said. "When you have a death row case, you have to make 100 percent sure you have the right person."
Hinton's appeal lawyer, Bryan Stevenson (pictured, r.), said "[r]ace, poverty, inadequate legal assistance, and prosecutorial indifference to innocence conspired to create a textbook example of injustice" in this case. Asked what he plans to do now that he is free, Hinton said he wants to tell his story. "I would like to tell people about what happened to me and share my experience with anyone willing to listen. Hopefully, I can save one person from going to death row."
(M. Otiko, "Falsely convicted death-row survivor opens up: 'They had every intention of executing an innocent man'," Salon, May 4, 2015.) See Innocence.


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Q: C++ program to find and replace a string in file This is a beginner question. I am trying to find a string in text file and replace it back to the same file. Following code works fine collecting contents of file into buffer and replace the string . But when i try to keep the data back to same file, it is filled with some junk character. Please let me know what I am doing wrong ?
#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>
using namespace std;

const char *fileName = "Test.dat";

int main () {

// This is where we'll put the stuff we read from file
char buffer[ 100 ];

ifstream finout(fileName, ios_base::in | ios_base::out | ios_base::binary);

if(!finout.is_open())
{
    cout << "Can not open file " << endl;
    return(1);
}

while (finout.getline(buffer, sizeof(buffer))
{
    string g( buffer );
    string search = "am";
    string replace = "was";
    long j;

    if ( (j = g.find(str2)) != string::npos)
    {
        g.replace(g.find(str2), str2.length(), "str");
        finout.write((char *) &g, sizeof(g)); //This won't work

    }

cout << g << "\n";
finout.close();
return 0;
}

My Test.dat file contain following information:
Hello, How are you?
I am fine.

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*When you are read/write as a text file, do not open it by ios_base::binary

*You put finout.close(); inside your reading loop, so it just work for one line.

*When you are reading/writing a file as a text, use text stream methods and operators.

A: You are trying to read the size of your string with the sizeof() operator.
This wont work, because it is a keyword, that gives you the non-dynamic size of the object or type.
You should use g.size() to access the string size!
But on the first place, you can handle the stream handle your bug:
finout << g;

will do the job.

A: First, you want to both read and write a file, so use fstream not ifstream.
Second, you have a text file, so don't use ios_base::binary
Third (char*) &g where g is std::string doesn't work, use g.c_str() instead. (simply write
finout << g;
Now you can start thinking of the implmentation...

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My apologies for the long silence. So far 2009 has turned out to be the Year of Change!
First, as a family, it was time to farewell a significant part of it. We have been celebrating the life of, and saying goodbye to one of our closest loved ones.
Then Black Saturday 2009 came. Australia suffered devastating bush-fires. We have felt the pain and been powerless to assist as tens of thousands of hectares were burnt, killing hundreds and making thousands homeless. Please, if you are able to but have not yet donated to recovery efforts, may I direct you to Red Cross Australia's site? Thank you.
Finally, as a family unit, we are facing a life-change as an indirect result of the global economic crisis. This has left us pondering next steps and new directions.
Enough writing material here for the next few months!


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Dark Avengers Vol 1
Mike Deodato Jr./Cover Artist
Brian Michael Bendis/Writer
Mike Deodato Jr./Penciler
Greg Horn/Penciler
Mike Deodato Jr./Inker
Greg Horn/Inker
Rain Beredo/Colourist
Greg Horn/Colourist
Tom Brevoort/Editor
Victoria Hand (Earth-616)/Quotes
Dark Avengers (Earth-616)/Appearances
Robert Reynolds (Earth-616)/Appearances
MacDonald Gargan (Earth-616)/Appearances
Karla Sofen (Earth-616)/Appearances
Akihiro (Earth-616)/Appearances
Ares (Earth-616)/Appearances
Bullseye (Lester) (Earth-616)/Appearances
Victoria Hand (Earth-616)/Appearances
H.A.M.M.E.R. (Earth-616)/Appearances
Owen Reece (Earth-616)/Appearances
Beyonder (Earth-616)/Minor Appearances
Amora (Earth-616)/Minor Appearances
Mephisto (Earth-616)/Minor Appearances
Zarathos (Earth-616)/Minor Appearances
Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistics Division (Earth-616)/Appearances
Nicholas Fury (Earth-616)/Appearances
Timothy Dugan (Earth-616)/Appearances
Sharon Carter (Earth-616)/Appearances
Valentina Allegra de Fontaine (Earth-616)/Appearances
Isabelle (Earth-616)/Appearances
Dinosaur (City)/Appearances
Venom (Klyntar) (Earth-616)/Appearances
S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier/Appearances
H.A.M.M.E.R. Helicarrier/Appearances
Dark Avengers Vol 1 11
Dark Avengers Vol 1 #11
January, 2010 November 18, 2009
Mike Deodato Jr.
Rain Beredo
Tom Brevoort
Dark Avengers #10
My name is Victoria Hand. On behalf of the United States of America...we surrender.
-- Victoria Hand
Dark Avengers
(as Spider-Man in illusion)
Sentry (Bob Reynolds)
Spider-Man (Mac Gargan)
Ms. Marvel (Karla Sofen)
Wolverine (Daken)
Hawkeye (Lester) (as water)
Victoria Hand (Main story and flashback)
H.A.M.M.E.R.
unnamed agents
Molecule Man (Owen Reece)
Beyonder (Illusion)
Enchantress (Amora) (Illusion)
Mephisto (Illusion)
Zarathos (Illusion)
S.H.I.E.L.D. (Only in flashback)
Dum-Dum Dugan (Only in flashback)
Sharon Carter (Only in flashback)
Valentina de Fontaine (Only in flashback)
Isabelle (Only in flashback)
unnamed agents (Only in flashback)
Washington, D.C. (Only in flashback)
SHIELD Outpost 9
Dinosaur, Colorado
Venom Symbiote
S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier (Only in flashback)
H.A.M.M.E.R. Helicarrier
S.H.I.E.L.D. outpost 9, Washington D.C., three years ago Victoria Hand is box wrestling with her life partner Isabelle, while debating over her views of how to counter global terrorism towards Nick Fury, whom she believes isn't doing a good job. Isabelle points out to Victoria that she's an accountant and Fury would not want to hear it from her. Isabelle knees her in the stomach, ending the match. Victoria asks Isabelle why she is an agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.; she answers that she's working towards a world of quality, free of terror. She implores Victoria not to sent the letter to Fury. However, she does so a week later, which Fury doesn't approve of. Victoria was transferred to Portland, Oregon; Isabelle, furious that she didn't listen to her, ends their relationship.
In the present, Victoria tries calling the Avengers for any response, then suddenly, the Avengers disappear.
Osborn is before Molecule Man, aka Owen Reese, flanked by Zarathos, Enchantress, Beyonder and Mephisto, in a strange dimension. However, the villain beside Reese aren't real, as they are the people he wants to be his friends. Reese tells Osborn that he just wants his home town left alone, to which the latter objects, for its is national soil. Reese implies that he could easily kill him, but he will not. If he did, then a person to replace Osborn, others, including Reed Richards will come as well. He sends Osborn into a vision, where he is dressed as Spider-Man, falling from the bridge where he killed Gwen Stacy. He then changes back to his Goblin costume, as Reese's voice speaks that everyone, including those rooting for him, are just waiting for him to fail and he will help quicken it. Osborn is then attacked by monstrous versions of Iron Man, Spider-Man and Ares.
Up in the Helicarrier, Victoria attempts to take control of the situation, trying to think as the agents ask what to do.
The Sentry is in a gymnasium where Reese decides to tear him apart by separating his unique molecular structure. Next is Venom, confused and terrified. The symbiote then separates from Gargan and then rebonds with him, before both turn into a puddle of goo. Reese then goes to Ms. Marvel, who is petrified, commenting that when he first saw the new team, he realized that they are not heroes, but criminals. He then depetrifies her, trying to strike up conversation, only for Ms. Marvel to attack him. He then turns her back into a statue. He then goes onto to Wolverine, whom he traps in vegetation; for Ares, he has him frozen stiff. Lastly, is Hawkeye, turned into water in a barrel. However, he still has consciousness and attempts to lash out at Reese. His companions suggest he at least kill the Avengers. Then suddenly, they see Victoria, who declare that H.A.M.M.E.R. surrenders.
Solicit Synopsis
The explosive smash hit series from Brian Bendis and Mike Deodato continues!! The Dark Avengers are pitted against a foe they cannot defeat: A man with the power over every molecule in the world! Norman can't talk his way out of this one as the world gets turned upside down and no joke...someone dies. For reelz!
The Iron Man armor from the 2008 film is seen in this issue.
This issue is reprinted in comics and books, see references for info.[1]
The cover is an homage to Spider-Man #1
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After a day of testing on March 18, he took a different tack, striking the Clinton's campaign staff at their personal — and generally less secure — Gmail addresses. At 10:30 the next morning he carried out one last experiment, targeting himself at his own Gmail address to make sure his messages weren't being blocked.
"Someone has your password," was one particularly dire-sounding message sent by the GRU to a DNC staffer on March 25, 2016. Some messages played on their targets' fears of being hacked. One offered Gmail users a malicious "Anti-Phishing Guard App" to protect themselves from cybercriminals. Another particularly twisted message warned a Russian journalist that "Government-backed attackers may be trying to steal your password" — before directing him to a booby-trapped link.
Both social media pages appeared dormant, but Lukashev and his colleagues may not be resting easy. Katenberg's Facebook profile vanished within minutes of the publication of this article. Across the internet, journalists were picking up traces of the once-anonymous hackers' digital trail, like the document posted to the website of a Moscow secondary school that identified Viktor Netyshko as the head of Unit 26165 — just as the U.S. indictment alleged.


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Many buyers going in blind aren't aware that choosing the right thermostat means understanding what kind of heating and cooling system is available in their home to start.
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Vintage 1940s Magazine - True Story - September 1945 Issue - WWII Pop Culture Americana
First published in 1919, True Story was one of the first confessional style magazines to appear on the American publishing market. Offering readers sensational real-life stories surrounding women's issues related to relationships, home, work and family, it evolved over the 20th century as women's roles changed, ultimately ending up in the teen romance category where it is still published today.
Fascinating on several different fronts, this September 1945 issue of True Story magazine is a veritable time capsule of pop-culture. Published by MacFadden Publishing Company which was founded by Bernarr MacFadden who was a controversial 20th century healthy lifestyle zealot, the magazine was based on everyday real-life situations that occurred in women's lives. Labeled a confessional style publication, it had a pulp fiction tone to it, which varied from the more noble literary fiction stories published in other women's magazines of the day. This style of editorial found its market quickly and by the 1920's it became one of the country's most popular magazines.
WWII ended in September 1945. This September issue went to press before the war was over, so it is full of references, ads, imagery and editorial relating to the war effort. With a tone geared toward youthful women who were waiting on their guys to come back home from the front, it is full of stories focused on real-life relationships, daring adventures and the undeniable strength and emotional endurance of women during these trying years. There is also lots of discussion mixed in between all that heady romance and cheerful bravado on how to keep your hair shiny, your makeup flawless and your wartime ration recipes innovative. It's a fascinating glimpse into the mindsets of war-time women and how they were encouraged to keep a positive attitude and a brave smile while they waited on loved ones to return home.
- Completely intact September 1945 issue
- Contains both color and black and white pages throughout
All pages are intact and securely attached at spine. The last two pages bear a small ripped area (missing section). The front cover is bright and colorful with crisp clear graphics. There are two scuff marks on the front cover near the face - neither of which detract from the overall beauty of the cover. Please see photos.
Measures 8.5" inches (width) x 11.25" inches (length) x .25" inches (thick)
Fun to read but also to frame, this pretty magazine is both art and entertainment all in one. Framing it behind glass, away from direct sunlight, will ultimately be the best way to preserve this magazine beautiful appearance and to keep it from disintegrating over time.


Our hotel impresses with a unique position amidst the almost unspoiled nature at the back of the Val d'Ultimo Valley at the Passo di Stelvio National Park. The hotel is located at the end of road in the last village of Val d'Ultimo. If you want to enjoy a holiday in complete quietness far from noise and everyday hectic, this is the perfect place.
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Widow Files $10M Massachusetts Wrongful Death Lawsuit Against the New England Patriots
The woman whose husband suffered a fatal cardiac arrest in the stands during a New England Patriots game is suing the football team, the National Football League, and others for her husband's Massachusetts wrongful death. Kimberly Chartier claims that her husband, Jeff, went into cardiac distress after an altercation with a security guard at Gillette Stadium.
The plaintiff believes that the guard, Arthur Sherman, behaved inappropriately and had no reason to confront her Jeff, 40, and their son Tedy, 6. She is calling the interactions "antagonistic."
Chartier contends that the Guard's behavior and the events involving the interaction are because the other defendants were institutionally negligent and did not properly train or supervise Sherman. The Massachusetts wrongful death case, submitted in Hampden Superior Court, accuses the other defendants of not providing "safe…competent" security at the stadium, not properly coordinating and communicating about security and safety policies, and neglecting to create a safe environment for patrons. She is asking that her husband's next of kin receive damages for his death, including income, protection, services, assistance, care, society, guidance, companionship, advice, and counsel lost. He also leaves behind their daughter Amber.
Additionally named as wrongful death defendants are Sherman, NPS, which runs Gillette Stadium at Foxborugh where the game was taking place, and security provider TeamOps. The New England Patriots and two other entities own and manage Gillette Stadium.
Massachusetts Premises Liability
Property owners and the managers of venues and large events must make sure that they create a safe venue for patrons. This includes providing adequate security measures for crowd control, crime prevention, and other factors that can arise, as well as properly training and supervising those tasked with this security. When failure to fulfill these responsibilities causes/leads to injury or death, there could be grounds for a Boston premises liability case.
Other reasons someone might file a premises liability lawsuit: wet floors, uneven walkways, inadequate balcony railings, defective sidewalks, poor lighting, failure to warn about hazards or dangerous conditions, failure to remedy these conditions, violent crime injuries, and wrongful death caused by unsafe conditions or situations that could/should have been fixed or prevented.
The wrongful death complaint (PDF)
Kimberly Chartier of Chicopee sues New England Patriots, NFL, in wake of husband's fatal heart attack in 2010 at Foxborough, MassLive, August 20, 2013
Patriots sued for incident resulting in death of fan, NBC Sports, August 21, 2013
Massachusetts Man and Child Injured After Jet Ski Blows Apart on New Hampshire Lake, Boston Injury Lawyer Blog, August 19, 2013
GranuFlo Lawsuits Seek to Give Patients and Families Compensation Over Dangerous Drug Injuries, Massachusetts Drug Injury Lawyer Blog, August 13, 2013
Provincetown Woman Arrested and Charged with OUI after Head-on Collision on Sagamore Bridge, Boston Car Accident Lawyer Blog, August 5, 2013
Posted in: Premises Liability and Wrongful Death
Updated: August 21, 2013 12:24 pm


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Nelson Trujillo (born 2 February 1960) is a Venezuelan boxer. He competed in the men's lightweight event at the 1980 Summer Olympics.

References

1960 births
Living people
Venezuelan male boxers
Olympic boxers of Venezuela
Boxers at the 1980 Summer Olympics
Place of birth missing (living people)
Lightweight boxers

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Once the topic and committee have been identified in the 860B course, the student must file a Dissertation Committee form which is submitted to the Office of Student Success. This form helps us track your chair, committee members, and topic.
If there is a change in Dissertation Committee members, a Dissertation Committee Member Change Form must be submitted.
The development of the research proposal is an important first step in the dissertation process. The student is expected to work closely with their committee chair in developing the proposal. Students must successfully defend their proposal to their committee to be able to progress with their dissertation.
There are three possible outcomes for the proposal defense: Pass, Pass with Changes, Not Pass. If the proposal is not passed, the committee will provide the student with written feedback that must be addressed in a revised proposal that must be presented at another proposal defense to the committee. If the proposal is passed with changes, the student will receive all stipulations from the committee in writing and your chair will ensure that these are addressed in your continuing work. Chair and committee members will sign the Dissertation Proposal Defense Form to indicate the outcome of the defense. Any requested changes in the case of a pass with changes, or comments in the case of not passing will be attached to this form.
Once your dissertation proposal is passed you may apply for human subjects approval of your study to the Institutional Review Board (IRB). Please ensure that you have read information about IRB process. You can find information through the myRedlands portal in the Documents, Forms and Policies section. IRB approval is required before any recruitment of participants for your study or data collection can begin. To apply for IRB approval you must have taken and passed the CITI collaborative institutional training. Once your CITI training is complete you may fill out and submit your IRB application. (Please se the university website for the following resources IRB Manual, IRB FAQ's, and Application to Use Human Subjects in Research). Your application may need to go through revision with IRB before it is approved (this is very common but can effect your timeline). Your dissertation chair will be available to help you navigate this process. When your study is approved you may begin your research in accordance with IRB guidelines. If you need to make a change in your study (See Application to Revise an Approved Protocol) you must request permission to make any changes to your initial protocol. In addition, if you have an adverse event (See Adverse Incident Report Form) you must report it to your chair and IRB immediately. When your study is complete and your dissertation defense passed you should complete a final report for IRB (See Final Report).
Depending on your study, you may also need permission from schools, school districts, and other universities to proceed with your work. Essentially you will need to go through the approval process for those organizations to do your work too. IRB will need those approvals and the organizations will also need to know you are going through the IRB process.
These ethical procedures are very important but can take time.
The student should consult regularly with the dissertation chair, and as appropriate with the other committee members during the process of data collection, data analysis, and writing. Minor changes in the proposal which arise in the course of actually conducting the research must be approved by the chair. Major changes which substantially alter the nature of the research project must be approved by the entire committee, and may require resubmission to the IRB. As you write please make sure you adhere to the style guidelines for the format of your dissertation. Appendix A outlines how you should format your dissertation.
When the chair determines that the dissertation is ready for final review, the chair gives permission for the student to submit the entire document to the committee members. At this time, the chair will also help the student schedule their dissertation defense. Once a date is set, you should fill out the Dissertation Defense Notification form and submit to the administrative assistant responsible for scheduling rooms (currently Maria Williams, maria_williams@redlands.edu). This form indicates that you've been released for a defense by the chair, and that your committee has been given the draft with at least 14 days for review prior to the defense date. The form also asks details about you and the dissertation that will be used to notify the School of Education community about your defense for both transparency and as an invitation should you wish to have an open defense that the public can attend. As with the dissertation proposal, committee members may provide feedback prior to the scheduled dissertation defense if the chair and student find it suitable, but most will typically provide feedback at the defense itself. Committee members must be given at least 2 weeks to review the document before the scheduled date of the defense.
5) the student returns to learn the outcome of the defense including any feedback. If there are guests, the guests are also asked to leave when the student is asked to leave.
Like the proposal defense, the dissertation defense has different possible outcomes that are indicated on the Dissertation Defense Form. Students are responsible for bringing this form to the defense. Possible outcomes are: Pass, Pass with Minor Changes, Pass with Major Changes, Not Pass. If the final defense is not passed, the committee will provide the student with written feedback that must be addressed before another defense is scheduled. If the dissertation defense is passed with changes (minor or major) the student will also receive all stipulations from the committee in writing. The committee will decide at the defense if they need to see the document again, particularly in the case of major changes, or if they are happy with the dissertation chair supervising these changes.
After the dissertation defense and any edits are completed, the chair will decide when the document is ready for all the committee members to sign the Dissertation Signature Page (for the copy of your dissertation as per Appendix A) and the Ed.D. Degree Clearance Form. The Ed.D. Degree clearance form needs to be signed by your chair and the department chair and is submitted to the Registrar's Office. To get those signatures you must have final approval of your dissertation as indicated by your Dissertation Signature Page and completed all three items below in the document submission section.
The final stages of the process are document submission and degree clearance.
The University of Redlands Armacost Library does not have a technical reader. All students are to contract with an approved editor for this service, as well as any other editorial support that may be required to ensure that the dissertation is written well, follows the style guidelines of the APA Manual and this Handbook, and is error free. Students are responsible for making all technical corrections required by the editor and for paying appropriate fees for the services of the editor. Students must also submit an affidavit from the editor to your dissertation chair testifying to the fact that their work has satisfied the aforementioned requirements.
Submission to ProQuest. The final step is to submit the dissertation to ProQuest and register your work with the U.S. Copyright Office. This is a requirement of all doctoral graduates of the University of Redlands. All you need to do is upload the final, single document in PDF format to the website and pay the required fees.
To upload your dissertation, go to the Redlands page of the ProQuest ETD Administrator, which is at http://www.etdadmin.com/redlands. Once you are familiar with and have prepared your dissertation following the "Preparing Your Manuscript for Submission" author guide, click on the "Submit my dissertation/thesis" link and create a new account for yourself. When completing your submission, be sure to indicate that you are making the dissertation available for anyone to have access to it.
You will receive e-mail verification once you have completed this process. This verification must be provided to the Department of Leadership and Higher Education Chair, so that your degree clearance can be signed and your degree posted.
After completing these steps, your dissertation will be listed in Dissertations Abstracts International and, with your permission, made available in full-text for other scholars through ProQuest's Dissertations & Theses database. You will also be eligible to receive royalties when ProQuest subscribers purchase copies of your work.
Note: Students will not have their degree clearance signed until the Department of Leadership and Higher Education Chair has received confirmation of the posting of their dissertation to ProQuest. The signing and transmittal of the degree clearance form will result in the posting of the degree by the Registrar's Office.


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Why Hannah Gadsby's Netflix special 'Nanette' is so remarkable
Analysis by Elahe Izadi
Staff writer and audio host
July 3, 2018 at 1:53 p.m. EDT
Hannah Gadsby in "Nanette." (Netflix)
"Nanette" won't be like any other stand-up comedy special you've seen.
In her first Netflix hour, released last month, Australian Hannah Gadsby delivers both sharp setups and punchlines and a searing indictment of comedy itself, arguing that the genre cannot grapple with trauma.
The first half of "Nanette" falls more within the boundaries of a traditional special, with jokes about penicillin, identity and growing up "a little bit lesbian" in conservative Tasmania. ("I don't even think lesbian is the right identity for me," she quips. "I identify as tired.") But midway through, Gadsby starts methodically dissecting how comedy works to explain why she needs to quit stand-up altogether.
"I built a career out of self-deprecation, and I don't want to do that anymore," she says. "Because you do understand what self -deprecation means from somebody who already exists in the margins? It's not humility. It's humiliation."
You'll laugh, but you also may cry several times while watching "Nanette." It's not a comedy special that offers escapist laughs but, instead, demands that the audience not shy away from considering harsh truths.
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Weeks after the show premiered on Netflix, fellow comedians are still buzzing about the hour and how it calls into question the common comedic devices performers have relied upon for so long.
"I've been a professional comic for 30 years. I've been studying comedy for even longer. I thought I had seen everything … until I watched Nanette," tweeted comedian Kathy Griffin. "I was blown away. I urge you to watch it ASAP – one hour and it'll change your life."
"This is one of the most incredible, powerful, wrenching pieces of comedy and art I have ever seen," tweeted comedian Aparna Nancherla.
"This one's gonna linger for a while and will influence a whole generation of comedians," comedian Jenny Yang tweeted. "If I don't change how I do comedy after seeing her special, why even?"
Recorded at the Sydney Opera House, "Nanette" won best comedy show at Edinburgh Fringe in 2017 before Gadsby brought it to New York City for several months.
In the show, Gadsby presents a treatise on the mythology of being an artist — that to be creative you must suffer — and zeros in on the women made to suffer for the sake of protecting men's' reputations. She also explains that comedy needs tension for punchlines to work, but she's tired of tension. As a child, her very existence created tension, so she learned to use humor to deflect.
Still, Gadsby plays with tension in the special, using silences and alternating between calm setups and explosions of fury for maximum emotional impact.
Other recent specials have showcased comics' masterful use of timing, silence and discomfort. In her sophomore 2018 Netflix special, "Hard Knock Wife," Ali Wong quietly and unhurriedly lays the groundwork for her jokes before she explodes into cascading punchlines. And Tig Notaro famously told jokes about her just-received cancer diagnosis to an unsuspecting audience in 2013's "Live," greeting their applause with, "Hello! I have cancer, how are ya?"
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But Gadsby does something else within "Nanette." She uses comedic elements like joke callbacks while also breaking comedy into its component parts for the audience.
"I feel like in a comedy show there's no room for the best part of the story, which is the ending," she says. "In order to finish on a laugh, you have to end with punchlines."
So Gadsby goes back and undoes her earlier punchlines. Early in the special, she gets laughs with jokes about a dimwitted, homophobic man at a bus stop and the time she "forgot" to come out to her grandmother. But later, she tells the rest of those real stories, including the devastating parts she had to leave out to get laughs.
She remains in control, bringing in silly asides even as she unleashes anger, like when she skewers comics who turned Monica Lewinsky into "an easy punchline" instead of mocking "the man who abused his power."
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"I don't want to unite you with laughter or anger," she says. "I just needed my story felt and understood."
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We don't stop at reporting! We stand by the student! We don't stop at reporting! We stand by the student!
We don't stop at reporting! We stand by the student!
Careers360 saw the newspaper report regarding the plight of a Nepalese student Prashanth Risal. http://www.southasia.com.au/?p=1751.
We felt that whatever be the legal issue, the student must not suffer. So, we decided in principle to pay the fees and ensure the release of certificates. Hence we spoke to Prof. Srinivas of AMC College anonymously, as a concerned individual from Delhi who directed us to the principal T N. Sreenivas. The principal responded through an email saying "all originals are collected by Mr Prashant Raisal on 2/5/2015 itself. In fact our management has decided to provide free education for three years to Mr.Prashant Risal in our college considering his plight".
We are attempting to get in touch with Mr. Prabhahar Risal, the father of Prashanth Risal and will keep you posted on further developments.
In case Risal needs any further assistance he could get in touch with us at careers360.


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The project was developed to be part of the GLAD project and began by a fact finding mission to Kenya in October 2015 by two teachers from HollofPile Skole. The fact finding mission was faciltated and organized by Kijani Institute which made the formal and first introductions of both partners to each other. The two teachers spent a week at the Primary school, brought letters and even brought two iPads to the school that were going to be used for future interactions between the two schools – integration of IT is of the main dogmas of Kijani Institute's model of cooperation and the use of IT in modern learning is important.
With the two schools working closely together it will be necessary to coordinate yealy Schedules of the participating teachers – not only in relation to the schools but also in relation to the students working together in this programme . As Soon as there is Funding to further develop the programme, the programme will continue coordinating yearly plans at both Muranga and HollofPile skole so that the programme will be able to run smoothly having in mind holidays and public Holidays in both countries.
After the initial trip a lot of exchange has been taking place online and offline through snail mail and in August 2016 Muranga primary will now have a high speed data connection that will enable and enhance commuication in both Denmark and Odense, the high speed fiber connection will connect different classrooms via Skype and also facilitate video exchange on different media e.g. drop box and this will enable the partnership to grow and last.
"Global Issues From a Student Perspective" is still running as planned. The student of class 8 and 5 are writing letters to each other. Class 5 in a general basis and Class 8 are working with Geography between the two countries. Letters from Kenya to Denmark are frequently exchanged to keep this partnership thriving and growing.
The programme is still working very closely together with the GLAD-project and Anita Dalager and Jeppe Forsberg will attend a big conference this winter to explain further about the programme and how it has developed over time and how it can be developed even further.
In October there will be an opportunity for teacher exchange, Lucy, the Muranga primary school principal and one teacher will visit HollofPile Skole in Denmark for a week as teacher exchange is part of the project.


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Re-Cycling Project: We only receive sorted "clean" re-cyclable waste material form registered "partners"
The Centre started a recycling project in April 2009, and 50% of our waste material now gets re-cycled by the Waste Management Company.
We register "recyclers" to ensure we receive only sorted and clean waste. We save money, protect and preserve nature and the planet.
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Above: Angry Birds AR: Isle of Pigs.
Rovio Entertainment and Resolution Games are teaming up to bring the Angry Birds franchise to mobile augment reality with Angry Birds AR: Isle of Pigs.
This new version of the hit bird-flinging series is similar to the recent virtual reality version of Angry Birds, also called Isle of Pigs. But this AR version works on Apple's mobile devices, specifically iPhone 6 and later, iPad Pro models, and iPad 5th and 6th generations.
Thanks to iOS's ARKit technology, Angry Birds AR can place its levels in the real world. Just like in the original Angry Birds, your objective is to slingshot birds into pig-controlled structure, aiming to knock down as much as you can and destroy all the pigs.
This AR version makes the experience more immersive than ever, as I discovered during a demo at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco this week. You can move your phone around the entire level, giving you any angle you desire while aiming your feathered projectiles.
Angry Birds AR will launch with 40 levels. It does not yet have a release date, although it is available for prepurchase.
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Aker Solutions to electrify Equinor's Troll B & C Platforms in North Sea
Norwegian energy service firm Aker Solutions has secured a letter of intent from Equinor for topside work on the Troll B and C platforms offshore Norway, to receive electricity from shore via cable.
Equinor operates Troll B and C platforms offshore Norway. Credit: Øyvind Hagen / Equinor.
Norwegian energy service firm Aker Solutions has secured a letter of intent from Equinor for topside work on the Troll B and C platforms offshore Norway,.
The Troll oil and gas field is located 65km west of Kollsnes, near Bergen, at a water depth of 300m.
Aker Solutions will be responsible for modifications at the two platforms, which include the installation of equipment for receiving electrical power from shore at Kollsnes via cable.
The firm will replace power generation from gas turbines at the platforms to reduce climate footprint.
The scope of work will include system engineering; procurement; construction and prefabrication; as well as installation at the offshore platforms.
Aker plans to undertake the engineering and construction work at its offices in Bergen, and its yard in Egersund, respectively.
Aker Solutions CEO Kjetel Digre said: "Reduction of climate footprint is high on the agenda for our customers in the oil and gas industry. Electrification of production platforms is one of the ways to reduce emissions from such operations.
"Aker Solutions has extensive experience from delivering such low-carbon solutions, and we aim to be a leading contractor in this market. We are excited to collaborate with Equinor on the Troll electrification."
Aker plans to commence the work immediately and complete it by the end of 2025.
The letter of intent from Equinor follows the completion of the front-end engineering (FEED) study by Aker Solutions following the previous signing of the contract.
The contract award will be is subject to regulatory approval and a final investment decision.
Recently, Equinor and its partners DNO Norge, Petoro, and Wellesley Petroleum made oil and gas discovery at production licence 923 near Norway's Troll field in the North Sea.
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