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Э́лия Пульхе́рия Авгу́ста (, ; 19 января 399—453) — регент Византийской империи с титулом августы при своём младшем брате императоре Феодосии II в 414—421 годах. Вновь стала править империей (450—453 годы) после его смерти, взяв в мужья и сделав императором полководца Маркиана. Канонизирована церковью в лике благоверных за её борьбу с ересями, память 10 сентября (по юлианскому календарю).

Происхождение и детство
Пульхерия родилась 19 января 399 года в семье византийского императора Аркадия и его жены Элии Евдоксии. За 4 года до её рождения Римская империя была поделена в 395 году между сыновьями Феодосия Великого, Аркадием и Гонорием. Аркадию досталась восточная часть Римской империи, которая получила в истории название Византия.

Мать Пульхерии происходила родом из франков, историк Филосторгий так характеризует эту женщину: «Эта супруга императора была совершенно чужда вялости своего мужа. Напротив, в ней было немало свойственной варварам отваги.» Уже в детстве Пульхерия проявила свой характер, взявшись за строгое воспитание младших сестёр Аркадии и Марины и брата Феодосия, унаследовавшего в возрасте 7 лет византийский трон в 408 году после смерти отца. Византийский двор превратился в подобие монастыря. О благочестивых нравах, установленных там Феодосием под влиянием сестры, с восторгом писал современник Сократ Схоластик: «В царском дворце он учредил порядок, подобный монастырскому: вставал рано утром и вместе со своими сестрами пел во славу Божию антифоны».

В 414 году, в 15-летнем возрасте, Пульхерия решительно отстранила от управления государством префекта Анфемия. 4 июля 414 года она была провозглашена августой, а сенат подтвердил её регентство над императором Феодосием. Одновременно Пульхерия дала обет безбрачия, посвящая свою девственность Богу. Вскоре были отчеканены монеты с её изображением. Разные источники свидетельствуют о том, что Пульхерия сама управляла империей, и управляла достойно.

Во главе Византийской империи
Созомен так описал заботу Пульхерии о государственных делах:

«Приняв на себя заботы правления, Пульхерия римским миром управляла прекрасно и весьма благопричинно, делала хорошие распоряжения, скоро решала и излагала, что должно, старалась правильно говорить и писать на языках латинском и греческом, и славу всего, что делалось, относила к брату».

В правление Пульхерии обострились религиозные распри на востоке. В египетской Александрии в 415 году во время таких волнений толпой  фанатиков-христиан, принадлежавших к секте парабаланов, была растерзана женщина-математик и философ Ипатия. В Персидской державе началась резня христиан, после того, как епископ христиан в г. Сузе Авда разрушил один зороастрийский храм. В 420 году Византия вступила в войну с персами, успешно завершив её в 422 подписанием договора, по которому христианам предоставлялась свобода вероисповедания в пределах государства Сассанидов.

7 июня 421 года император Феодосий вступил в брак с образованной и привлекательной дочерью философа из Афин Афинаидой, принявшей в крещении имя Евдокия. Именно Пульхерия нашла жену для своего царствующего брата, и с той поры её влияние на государственные дела начало ослабевать. Отойдя от государственных забот, Пульхерия посвятила все силы религиозной и благотворительной деятельности, одновременно сражаясь с Евдокией за влияние на императора.

Борьба с Несторием
10 апреля 428 года в Константинополе по рекомендации Пульхерии был рукоположен новый архиепископ Несторий, который сразу же заявил: «Царь! Дай мне землю, очищенную от ересей, и я за то дам тебе небо; помоги мне истребить еретиков, и я помогу тебе истребить персов». Несторий начал гонения на священнослужителей различных ересей: ариан, новациан, македониан, аполлинаристов, но, чтобы привлечь их паству в свои храмы, путём якобы опровержения, а на деле, синтеза их воззрений в ходе своей реформы обрядов, которые он сделал приемлемыми для самых разных еретиков, сам создал, по выражению Иоанна Кассиана, «одну большую ересь».

В частности, новый архиепископ развил дискуссию об имени, которым следовало называть Богородицу Марию. Он отказывался называть Деву Марию именами, которых нет в Евангелиях, и предложил термин «христородица». Теологическим спором воспользовались соперники Нестория — будущий патриарх Прокл (434—447 гг.), александрийский епископ Кирилл, римский папа Целестин, по инициативе которого Римский собор в августе 430 осудил учение Нестория. Пульхерия, посвятившая себя культу Богородицы Марии, немедленно присоединилась к врагам Нестория, несмотря на то, что Нестория поддерживали Феодосий и Евдокия.

О личной вражде патриарха Нестория и Пульхерии есть свидетельство в византийской Суде. Несторий, будто бы, несмотря на приглашение его в Константинополь Пульхерией, обвинил Пульхерию перед императором в проституции, за что та воспылала к нему ненавистью.

В июне 431 года состоялся Третий Вселенский (Эфесский) собор, на котором Несторий не только отказался от своей ереси, но даже согласился оставить должность архиепископа — вопреки воле императора — и удалиться в монастырь. Историки и современники видели за этим усилия лично Пульхерии; её влияние и авторитет в церковных кругах как Византии, так и западной части Римской империи, сильно возросли.

Опала и возвращение

В 440-х годах большое влияние при византийском дворе приобрел евнух Хрисафий. Феофан так сообщает о его намерениях: «Нечестивый Хрисафий, с завистью смотревший на согласие Церквей, всемерно старался возмутить их… Но пока Пульхерия всем управляла, он не мог ничего сделать, и потому обратился к неопытной Евдокии».

Интригу Хрисафий направил против Пульхерии. Он подбил Евдокию просить императора, чтобы Пульхерия была посвящена в диакониссы, что удалило бы её от мирских дел. Патриарх Флавиан предупредил Пульхерию, и та скрылась в пригороде Константинополя (Евдомоне).

Хронист VII века Иоанн из Никиу, настроенный против Пульхерии, рассказывает про опалу Пульхерии другую историю. По его словам, она подготовила указ о переходе дворца и другого имущества императрицы Евдокии в собственность Пульхерии. Когда Феодосий собирался подписать его, то заметил приписку, что его жена должна стать рабыней Пульхерии. Это так разгневало императора, что он отослал сестру и приказал патриарху посвятить её в диакониссы. Более поздний хронист Феофан, прославляющий деяния Пульхерии, превращает историю о рабстве императрицы в шутку: «Между прочим премудрая Пульхерия раз предложила ему [Феодосию] бумагу об отдаче ей в рабство супруги его, Евдокии, которую он не читавши, подписал, за что потом она укоряла его».

Однако вскоре и сама Евдокия оказалась в опале, заподозренная мужем в супружеской неверности (см. статью Евдокия). В 443 году Евдокия удалилась жить в Иерусалим, a Пульхерия вернулась по просьбе Феодосия во дворец. Хрисафий позднее был выдан по приказу Пульхерии своему кровнику и убит.

Согласно церковной истории греко-православной традиции (с чем согласна и церковная история нехалкидонской древневосточной христианской традиции, все церкви которой также анафематствуют Евтихия), после победы над несторианством возникла новая ересь, учение архимандрита Евтихия об отрицании человеческого начала в Христе (монофизитство), осуждённое на поместном соборе в Константинополе под председательством Флавиана. Церковная история нехалкидонской традиции не считает докетическое учение Евтихия имеющим отношение к миафизитству. По жалобе Евтихия в 449 году собрался Второй Эфесский Собор, позднее заклеймённый Разбойничьим, который низложил патриарха Флавиана и оправдал Евтихия в той части, в которой он защищал учение Кирилла Александрийского. Римский папа Лев I слал многочисленные письма в адрес Феодосия и Пульхерии с просьбами воспрепятствовать действиям сторонников Евтихия и (хотя и не разделявшего докетизм последнего, но и не осудившего его) патриарха Александрийского Диоскора,, однако император разделял позицию Диоскора и не прислушался к мнению папы римского. Ситуация разрешилась только после гибели Феодосия в июле 450 года при его неудачном падении с лошади.

Византийская царица
Феофан так рассказывает о событиях после смерти Феодосия:
«Между тем блаженная Пульхерия, пока никто еще не знал о смерти императора, послала за Маркианом, мужем сколько умным столько же и скромным, притом уже довольно пожилых лет и способным к делам, и когда он явился к ней, сказала ему: "Так как император скончался, то я избираю тебя из всего сената, как достойнейшего прочих. Дай мне слово, что ты уважишь девство мое, которое обещала я Богу, и я провозглашу тебя царем"».
Сын фракийского пастуха Маркиан, женившись на 51-летней Пульхерии, стал византийским императором 25 августа 450 года. Чтобы подтвердить свою легитимность в Западной империи, он совместно с Пульхерией созвал в октябре 451 года Халкидонский собор, на котором были осуждены решения Разбойничьего Эфесского собора.

В Константинополе Пульхерия построила 3 храма: Влахернская церковь, монастырь Панагии Одигитрии и святилище Халкопратии, куда поместила христианские реликвии. Согласно Никифору Каллисту, Пульхерия в Халкопратейском храме положила пояс Пресвятой Богородицы, принесённый из Палестины в Константинополь еще при Аркадии; в храме Одигитрии поставила икону с портретом Богоматери; во Влахернский пожертвовала погребальные пелены Богоматери, присланные из Иерусалима архиепископом Ювеналием.

Пульхерия скончалась в 453 году, завещав всё своё имущество бедным. Признана святой в западной и восточной церквях, день памяти — 10 сентября в католической и православной (греческая царица Пульхерия) церквях, 7 августа в восточных календарях.

Образ в искусстве
Пульхерия показана в историческом фильме «Аттила — завоеватель» (США, 2001 г.), где эту роль исполнила .

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D.C. True call themselves "creators of software for the mind and the heart" – their creative efforts are directed at software that is entertaining, challenging, realistic – and educational. CyberJudas, their newest and most spectacular work, promises to teach a lot about politics, economics, and the potential for blackness in the human heart . . .
CyberJudas is, at its core, a massive political simulation: You, as the player, will portray the president of the United States in a not-too-distant future. The entire planet is simulated, and you are the most powerful person IN it . . . Over forty types of action can be taken, and each will affect the globe in a massive ripple effect driven and managed by a sophisticated AI. You must live with – and strive to understand – the consequences of your actions.
You'll have a lot of help in doing the latter, at least. Your link to the world is a massive computer network – a cyberspace simulation that sits somewhere between current global net-systems and the fanciful nets of science-fiction. The information that you'll be required to deal with is MASSIVE – but the following screens are only a few of the features at your disposal:
THE CIA WORLD FACTBOOK: A sizable text on the state of the world, right down to each of 160 individual nations. Each country will be acting on their own political agenda throughout the game, and what is happening where will be displayed in detail. In addition, the ORIGINAL CIA Factbook will also be available for review, so you can monitor how much the global climate changes under your influence. This feature is an expanded version of the one in CyberJudas' predecessor, Shadow President.
THE CITY/PROJECTED EFFECT SCREEN: The player can go into individual quadrants of the city which have been affected by his actions, and get stats and result displays at any level of detail. This will be a combination of the City Icon and Country View screens in Shadow President, and replace the "Action Results" displays, which used to be simple bar charts and numbers.
THE EVENT HORIZON VORTEX: A multi-purpose screen which will allow you to view any of the events in the simulation from a variety of angles. You'll be able to run up and down regional and national timelines, checking each event for details such as "who initiated this?" – vital clues for solving the problems of the game. This feature includes "The Tracer" – essentially an on-line private investigator which will help you unravel the events at need.
YOUR ADVISORS: D.C. True is breaking new ground with their version of this, a traditional feature in many "God Games." In CyberJudas, you have a close cabinet of advisors who will offer advice on what course of action to take . . . However, these aren't just faces offering statistics. Each is a fully developed character – with motivations both personal and political, driven by sophisticated personality simulations. And it is among your cabinet that the real novelty of the game arises. Beyond just being a political sim of unmatched detail, CyberJudas has a terrifying premise: One of your advisors is trying to undermine the power of the presidency and send the world into violent chaos.
To achieve his goals, the traitor will advise you along courses that will bring about his plan. He is close enough to you to know almost every move you make, and he can appear to you in cyberspace as OTHER advisors, further baffling your attempts to determine who among your trusted cabinet he is. To make matters more complicated, the OTHER advisors each have their own legitimate agendas that they are pushing – and you have to weed out the serpent before it's too late for the world.
To win the game, you've got to balance the world through cyberspace, stay elected, avoid assassination, impeachment and scandal – and find and bring to justice the CyberJudas.
The philosophy behind the game is the essence of D.C. True's efforts – to combine entertainment and education – with a hint of exploring human nature. Characters are being modeled down to their dress habits and leisure-time activities. The interface will include dozens of major advancements over the one used in Shadow President, and will be less abstract, more informative, and friendlier. Perhaps more importantly, information on WHY events happen will be provided, allowing you to trace good and bad results back through the tangle of interrelated events . . . By tracing correlations back to the agendas of your advisors, the traitor can be rooted out, and then brought to justice.
That's a lot to find in gameplay – but on top of that, CyberJudas will be taking full advantage of the CD format to bring STUNNING fully rendered graphics and animations to the game, The atmosphere is a tense and frightening one at times, and the resulting package should be – at the very least – a classic in the genre of political intrigue.
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Trump is not the first to say that education is the "civil rights issue of our time." George W. Bush said it when he worked to pass No Child Left Behind, and it was almost a refrain for President Obama and his longtime education secretary, Arne Duncan.
Obama and Duncan injected new energy into the Education Department's Office for Civil Rights, which investigates discrimination complaints in schools and colleges. Under Obama, OCR encouraged schools to reform discipline policies to disrupt the school-to-prison pipeline. It also led the administration's charge to overhaul how schools handle complaints of campus sexual assault, and it laid out how schools should accommodate transgender students.
Critics argued that Obama and Duncan overreached their federal authority, creating rules and regulations that had no basis in law. Civil rights advocates cheered the administration for its efforts to protect vulnerable youth.
Those same advocates now fear that the Trump administration will roll back civil rights protections for students in schools, including by potentially starving the Office for Civil Rights of money or authority.
Those fears were stoked last week when Education Secretary Betsy DeVos — in her first major policy move since taking office — joined with Attorney General Jeff Sessions to withdraw the Obama administration's guidance on transgender students. White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said that it was a "states' rights issue" that the federal government should not be involved in, a position cheered by many on the right who agreed.


Here is an excellent comment to an article in the Chronicle of Higher Education. The commenter, mark_r_harris, is a teacher in South Korea who explains what happens when, as the Obama administration would like, every student in a country graduates from college.
On 60 Minutes a few weekends ago, it was mentioned that the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation would like 80% of American youth to attend and graduate from college. It is a nice thought in many ways. As a teacher and professor, intellectually I am all for it (if the university experience is a serious one, which these days, I don't know).
But students' expectations in attending college are not just intellectual; they are careerist (probably far more so). As it happens, I am now living and teaching in a country, South Korea, that meets the Gates' standards. Right now, about 75-80% of Korean high school students enter a university. The 20% of Korean youth who do not attend university are mainly poor rural youth. Given the Koreans' diligence, it is not surprising that the vast majority of university attendees also graduate, many with majors in scientific and engineering disciplines ("soft" degrees like marketing are not as popular here). This is a dedicated country.
But you know what? They can't find jobs. It was reported in the Korean media a few weeks ago that according to the latest government figures, only half of recent Korean university graduates have found full-time work. Even the country's best university, Seoul National, only has a 70% placement rate.
Now, Korea is experiencing an economic downturn, but not as bad as America's. This employment issue has more to do with levels of training and subsequent levels of expectation. When a Korean student emerges from 20 years of intense study with a university degree, he or she reasonably expects a "good" job — which is to say, a well-paying professional or managerial job with good forward prospects. But here's the problem. There does not exist, nor will there ever exist, a society in which 80% of the available jobs are professional, managerial, comfortable, and well-paid. No way. Korea has a number of other jobs, but some are low-paid service work, and many others — in factories, farming, fishing — are scorned as 3-D jobs (difficult, dirty, and dangerous). Educated Koreans don't want them. So the country is importing labor in droves — from China, Vietnam, Cambodia, the Philippines, even Uzbekistan. In the countryside, rural Korean men are having such a difficult time finding prospective wives to share their agricultural lifestyle that fully 40% of rural marriages are to poor women from those other Asian countries, who are brought in by match-makers and marriage brokers.
Since young Koreans almost invariably live at home until marriage, whether they are working or not, it is routine for the young unemployed to do so. Their parents, who have a lot invested in their children's successful outcomes, discourage them from taking low-level, part-time, or contract work, even just to get a start in life. As is usually the case, the only way they can see of improving their lot is not by lowering their expectations, but by improving their qualifications: by scoring well on English tests, getting additional certificates, and so on. But everyone else is doing this, too, so the competitive field remains the same. What will happen to these youths? The more years they don't work, the less chance there is that they ever will. They become tainted, and possibly a permanently disenfranchised minority.


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The Harder They Come by T.C. Boyle Review
Boyle's generation-spanning tale explores America's violent instincts
By Tyler Kane | March 31, 2015 | 9:53am
Any nightly news program will validate the timeliness of T. Coraghessan Boyle's latest read, The Harder They Come. The novel—his 15th since his 1982 debut, Water Music—explores the inherent American nature of violence through three short-fuse leads: Sten Stenson, a retired high school principal and former vet; Adam Stenson, Sten's 25-year-old son whose struggles with mental health cloud The Harder They Come's narration; and Sara Jennings, a middle-aged, establishment-hating farrier who finds herself romantically linked to the youngest Stenson. As the book's jacket confirms, the amped-up sum of this trio leads to the book's grim finale—a hard fall indeed, brimming with automatic weapon fire, sex and a vivid interpretation of Mountain Man John Colter's story. Like the best of his work, Boyle's no-frills narration makes for a fascinating journey up to the final page.
Boyle's journey into the Stensons' American psyche starts in Puerto Limon, Costa Rica, where Sten and his wife, Carolee, are vacationing on a cruise ship. They're not a far throw from Jonathan Franzen's Lambert family in The Corrections—both are middle class, nit-picky retirees playing tug-of-war with their final years—but what sets Boyle's Sten aside is his slow-burning fury, maintained and perfected by his decades of disciplinary roles. He was forged by years in the U.S. military—where he may or may not have shot a man in combat—then solidified as a community leader in a Northern California high school. But as pure-blood American as Sten is, we first meet him out of his element: on a cruise to Costa Rica, a lavish and unnecessary expense by Sten's count. Yet it's this reluctant vacationer who saves his tourist group during a nature walk, when they're approached by knife- and gun-wielding robbers. Sten's military instinct kicks into gear. Eighteen pages in, there's blood on his hands. Sten kills a man.
Not much later, down-on-her-luck Sara meets Adam. Boyle is quick to draw the comparison—references to Johnny Cash and Hank Williams songs aplenty—but Sara's life has turned to a particularly sad country song. After being pulled over, she refuses to comply with a police officer. She's physically reprimanded, and her dog bites the cop. Within a few hours, shitkicker boot-wearing Sara has lost her car, her money, her dog. Then she spies a slim, dirty—still, pretty good looking—man. Adam.
They bond immediately over a greater enemy—the U.S. government. The two cohabitate in a house inherited from Adam's dead grandmother, then back at Sara's, and it's an interesting relationship to draw. Adam thinks he's defined from his independence from his parents. He's shunned help from Sten and Carolee in favor of living an "independent life" in the woods, said in quotes because he still feeds off of those connected to the proper world—whether that's in the form of medical treatment, food or shelter when his own wilderness expeditions don't go as planned. But Boyle's tale culminates in the form of a state-wide manhunt for Adam when, following a schizophrenic episode, the manboy shoots and kills two men.
It's not violent actions that define The Harder They Come. Sure, they move the book forward and set up logical plot points. But the act of killing is a mere afterthought in Boyle's America, which obsesses over the minutia in the days, hours and seconds that lead up to nightly news-worthy acts. Maybe Sten's a killer in the novel's first act. But he's also a Cruise Ship Hero, an Aide to Costa Rica's police, a guy who's wonders what celebrity will play him—Travolta, maybe?—in his own Captain Phillips-style movie. Not to mention he's a sham and failure to his own son. It's only weeks later, when he's Googling himself in the news and his victim's proper name shows up, that he has an emotional response to the act of killing. And that's something The Harder They Come does well—explaining the root of Sten, and later Adam's, "Other" mentality. Filing humans away under labels—be it crooks, or later Aliens and Indians— appears to be Boyle's root of unspeakable acts.
And while Boyle's cast can come off as cut-and-dried symbols, they feel real by the book's completion. Sten's impatience with the world around him is offset by a deep-rooted boredom in his own retired life—one that he's not willing to mitigate if it means breaking into his own savings account. His own fractured relationship with his son, built on silence and conflict avoidance, is a sensitive subject—and also a funny one, because of how alike they are. Sara's anti-authoritarian, anti-government, anti—well, everything that isn't her dog, Kutya—is offset by a later-in-life loneliness that's only scratched by the aforementioned dog and Adam. Then Adam, whose militaristic rambles define the second half of the novel, is the toughest to understand. Adam—who shuns an activity most finger-pointers blame for teen violence: videogames—looks to survivalists in U.S. history for entertainment.
Boyle's penned a fast-paced, riveting read that mirrors many action movie scenarios—the lone hero taking on legions of less clever, less trained, less worthy adversaries. Maybe you'll find yourself caught up in the pace of it all—but most importantly, like in real life, there are no victory bells when The Harder They Come's final bullets are spent.
Tyler Kane is Paste's Assistant Books & Comics editor. He lives in Ypsilanti, Michigan, with his AP stylebook. Follow him on Twitter.
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"We did this together:" WISER Celebrates the Class of 2019
by Zack Fowler
It's hard to remember a time when it was safe to gather in groups, to exchange hugs and well wishes, face-to-face. But in early March of this year, before the COVID-19 pandemic spread across the globe, WISER's campus was alive with celebration.
In honor of the class of 2019 – a class as remarkable and resilient as the classes before them and behind them – we couldn't let their graduation go uncelebrated by our global community.
The preparations for the festivities back in March began weeks in advance, as younger WISER students choreographed dances and readied the campus to receive nearly 200 visitors. When Graduation Day arrived, the girls were up early, practicing their moves and making last-minute touches around WISER.
As the Class of 2019 gathered at their alma mater to prepare for their ceremony, dressed to the nines and full of happy anticipation, they made time to catch up with each other, take photos, and, most importantly, have a quick dance party!
The ceremony began with the sounds of the marching band from the local boys' secondary school as graduates, families, local supporters, students, and guests took their seats. Then began the speeches and music planned to honor the graduates, including a special dance by the Science and Engineering Club.
WISER supporters from Muhuru Bay filled nearly every seat, making the remarks of the community's first ever female Chief, Chief Guest Flora, ring more true than ever: "This institution here in Muhuru does not just think about its own welfare. It is thinking about community welfare and keeping the power of the girl in mind. And I salute this mindset!"
The principal of Winjo Secondary School followed: "Education is power and WISER is the place that empowers girls. When you're talking about the number of girls here who are changing industries all over the country, then you are talking about girls who change Muhuru and girls who will, indeed, change Kenya."
That much was clear from the lineup of alumni who spoke just before the graduates were announced. Young women who had sat in the same seats as the class of 2019, including WISER alum and WISER teacher, Everline, offered remarks to this incredible group of grads.
Finally, it was time for the graduates to be announced. After all the years of study and preparation–the hours in extra tutoring sessions, the meals in the dining hall, the nervous moments before exams, the joy of accomplishing a goal that sometimes seemed far away–there is still nothing quite like hearing your name be called by Teacher Kennedy, and shaking Madame Dorcas's hand.
Madame Dorcas's speech following the conferring of diplomas was poignant, and the WISER Class of 2019 waited to greet their families and friends as new graduates.
"Now I want to speak to the community – to thank you. Because we did this together, didn't we? All of us here, every house in Muhuru, has supported WISER and has been shaped by WISER, too. Thank you for being part of this journey."
Then came the moment that those Muhuru families had been waiting for since their students arrived at WISER as first-years in 2015. The crowd embraced the newest group of WISER alumni with hugs, kisses, and garlands galore!
As students and their families soaked in the joy of this moment, students reflected on what this moment means for their lives. "I am very proud of WISER," said Esther. "It has made me be the person I am today. So I am very happy."
We are, too: happy that students had the chance to celebrate their graduate prior to the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown, and happier, still, that this group of remarkable women, and the equally-remarkable community that raised them, will be leading our world into an uncertain future with poise, determination, and spirit.
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And you see right now as being a tipping point?
There are two tipping points. The first tipping point was when people no longer needed to go to recording studios and hire musicians and engineers to make a record and GarageBand came with every Mac. That was a tipping point. Now anyone can make a record. If you don't have a studio facility in your laptop or computer, you know somebody who does. It's happening in every genre in rap, DJ/dance music, electronic music as well. Now it's easier for people to make music, so there's a glut of music coming out.
The new tipping point is for distribution. Just the way they say memory storage and bandwidth are headed toward a zero cost. You can buy a terabyte drive for under $100 now. In 10 years, it might be a thousand terabyte drive for under $100, or maybe in five years. The same thing is happening with distribution. You can go to TuneCore and for $35 you can get your music distributed with no distribution fee. Or CD Baby for nine percent or Reverb Nation. For $35, you can get it up on eight or nine sites worldwide. So distribution is now available to everyone.
The only place where there is still a bottleneck is mass exposure and marketing, which still is the bastion of radio and television. That's why American Idol still dominates sales.
Or why people are trying to get their songs on Grey's Anatomy.
Exactly. But that's winning the lottery, too. My feeling is you gotta be in it to win it, like they say, but the odds of winning aren't that high. The odds of getting signed to a major label or getting your record on radio or getting a song on an iPod ad or Grey's Anatomy are really low, and I would say over 100,000 to one. The payoff isn't really that great. Grey's Anatomy doesn't pay anything. One song on Grey's Anatomy doesn't launch an entire career. It's part of something. It's a quantum event that helps contribute to it.
I believe that if you buy a lottery ticket, not only do you have a better chance of winning, you win more when you win. So what if you get a major label deal? Doesn't mean you're going to get that much money, net-net. You have two years off to make it, and if you make it, great. But in most cases, the guy who signed you will probably be fired before your record comes out.
So the focus is to get people into a long-term business model, rather than short term goals of getting on a label, etc.?
While you're waiting for that quantum event, you can still be doing things about improving your show, improving your songs. What Malcolm Gladwell talks about in the Outliers, if you really want to be great at something, it requires 10,000 hours of practice. That kind of a thing. How do you make your music stand out in the glut, how do you differentiate your product, whether it be the song, the record, the show, the look and the concept. What do you stand for, what's the artist mean? They don't ask those questions, they just make records.


It's almost that time, Construction Season. District 6 has over 50 projects in several counties throughout Central Ohio. There are major roadway improvements, safety, bridge and paving projects, new roadway signs, traffic signals and guardrail installation.
2011 begins the second year of the District 6 interactive construction map. The interactive map allows you view one project at time.
All you have to do is click "2011 Projects" on the left toolbar.
Move your mouse to the county then click on a project.
The highlighted bar details the project.
Use the "X" on the top right of the project to return to the county overview and the home button on the county map to return to the District 6 Overview.
We have a District 6 phone dedicated to construction.
Call 740-833-8268 during business hours and we will be able to help. If you call after hours and on weekends, your call will be returned the next business day.
District 6 is now hiring Highway Technicians and a Realty Specialist.
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I'm skipping Aikido this morning. I'm still groggy, and my guts seem to have gone haywire. Also, it's cold & foggy and we'd be practicing in the park, so meh.
See, it's cheap booze that does that to you. You should stick to The Good Stuff. You'll wake up fresh as a daisy.
It was the Good Stuff.


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Drought, flooding rain and "a bit of a purple patch" as John Osborn takes NSW veteran golfers title
By Brian O'Hare
YOU get the distinct impression talking to John Osborn that when it comes to golf he has never been much of a big noter.
Sure, the 58 year old Mudgee Golf Club member was "absolutely rapt" recently to have won his first ever state golfing title, but blamed the victory on an errant "bit of a purple patch" rather than any great innate golfing prowess.
Osborn had just been presented with the Des Coady Memorial Shield for taking out the 2019 NSW Veteran Golfers Association Strokeplay Championship, a scheduled three day event that had endured its own weather and climate related dramas.
Severe drought conditions that had affected much of the country also hadn't been kind to the golf courses of Western Sydney, venue for the vets championship since 2014.
So much so that one of the three chosen venues for 2019, Dunheved Golf Club, had just a few weeks ahead of the event put its hand up to say the course condition just wasn't up to scratch for a state championship.
Fortunately for organisers, the Western Sydney Region Veteran Golfers Association, the very picturesque and feature rich Glenmore Heritage Golf Club was able to step in as a replacement at the last minute.
That saw the historic Richmond Golf Club hosting the first round of the over 55's championship on the Monday, Glenmore replacing Dunheved on Tuesday, and the Greg Norman designed top 100 rated Stonecutter's Ridge taking the final round on Wednesday.
Given the drought had taken its toll on all the courses to some extent, it was just a little ironic that the first groups out early Monday morning only got through half a dozen holes at Richmond before the heavens opened up.
Pretty soon greens and fairways were awash and tournament director Les Knox was forced into making a cancellation decision he later said was the hardest he had ever faced in his many years organising events.
Some 140 golfers – mostly from across the state, but also from as far afield as Darwin (and in one intrepid case from England) – were signed up for the championship, with many still on their way when the first round was officially abandoned.
The championship in recent years has been part of the NSW Senior Order of Merit series and as such has been attracting increasingly strong fields.
One of those was Osborn, arriving amidst a strong contingent from the Dubbo area, and sporting a one handicap.
"I'm not a one handicapper by any stretch of the imagination," Osborn claimed, explaining he was really more like a three handicapper who had just fluked a couple of good rounds and benefited from the new handicapping system.
Still, he came out on the Tuesday to shoot a 73 off the stick and lead the field by two strokes, with 2018 defending champion Ricky Allison (Camden Lakeside) and Richard Wood (Cumberland) both shooting 75.
Osborn fired a 75 in the final round to shade by a single stroke a fast finishing Geoff Cranfield (Long Reef) who shot 71 to finish overall second.
Osborn was delighted with what was an obvious high point in a golfing career stretching back to his childhood.
"As a kid I found a set of sticks under dad's bed that he never used and I started mucking about," Osborn recalled. "Then a couple of cousins and a few mates started playing. I was playing socially and then eventually joined [Oberon Golf Club as a 15 year old] and I've been pretty much been playing ever since."
"I was self-taught I didn't have any lessons. I had a pretty unconventional swing. I've had a few lessons in later years, but it was too late by then."
Osborn was a school teacher and a regular Saturday competition player at a number of clubs as he moved around.
"I won the club championship 11 times at Mudgee but the last one was about 20 years ago," he said. "The first one was in 1985 when I was 26. I won it 11 times in 14 years I think. And then it all dried up and I haven't one of the things since."
Two years ago he retired from teaching and began playing senior order of merit events, mostly in NSW.
"I've played more golf in the last two years than I have ever played," he said.
"I love it. It's a great format, fabulous guys, a lot of good people, I've been clocking up a lot of miles in the car."
Buoyed by the Western Sydney win, he's planning a lot more travel to interstate senior events.
"While you're fit and healthy do it while you can because there will come a time when you won't be able to do it."
The NSW Vets Championship will return to Western Sydney for the seventh straight year in 2020, and as far as Knox and his hard working committee are concerned, going into the future. However, there is a push for the 2021 event to move to Dubbo, hence all those visitors from the area.
*This story will also appear in the May edition of Inside Golf
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By Chuck Ross
There's no doubt that LED-based lighting has rapidly become the favored option for both consumers and commercial building owners. But many consumers and business owners (and perhaps even a few electrical contractors) remain confused about what to look for in LED replacement lamps. However, experts say it's worth taking some time to understand what makes these products different and how to choose the right option for every application.
Just eight years ago, a single LED A-line lamp—the kind of bulb screwed into every table lamp in your home—could cost as much as $50. Now, these lamps have become a big-box store commodity, with many as cheap as $3 or $4. This dramatic price drop has led to extraordinarily rapid adoption, with LEDs now accounting for 70.9% of consumer lamp market sales, according to second-quarter 2019 figures from the National Electrical Manufacturers Association.
However consumers' knowledge of what to look for with these lamps, as well as LED replacements for the reflector-style bulbs used in recessed downlights and track fixtures, can still be spotty. After decades of evaluating options based on wattages and terms like "warm white" and "cool white," buyers are having to learn new terms and metrics for comparison. This has led to some dissatisfaction when, for example, they bring home a product promising "natural daylight"-style illumination that turns out to be both cooler and harsher than expected.
LED-based replacements are also moving into commercial and exterior settings at an equally rapid pace. Whether as fluorescent-style tubes, retrofit lighting kits or "corn cob" replacements for exterior metal halide lamps, LED products now dominate these markets as well. But building owners and facility managers can be as confused as homeowners at the choices they have to make. For example, fluorescent tube replacements are available using three different technologies, depending on how existing ballasts are addressed. And, with prices for new fixtures and retrofit kits becoming much more affordable, many are finding their best option might be to replace legacy luminaires completely.
Making the switch at home
Perhaps there is no product as emblematic of electric lighting's long history than the classic A-line light bulb. Originally designed with a tungsten filament that was illuminated as electric current flowed through, this brainchild of Thomas Edison was the workhorse of the residential lighting industry for well over a century. Though inexpensive, it was also highly inefficient and notoriously short-lived. But at least consumers knew what to look for when shopping for replacements.
Moving to LEDs for both A-line and reflector lamps is forcing homeowners to learn new terminology and lighting concepts, according to Gabe Arnold, technical director with the Design Lights Consortium. This nonprofit group evaluates replacement-lamp products of all technologies against specific performance targets. Its Qualified Products List is used by electric utilities to determine eligibility for energy-efficiency upgrade rebates. He said understanding how to compare brightness is one of the most confusing tasks for consumers familiar to using wattage—how much energy the lamp draws—as a stand-in for this measurement.
"Ideally, you'd compare the lamp's lumens with what you had before—the challenge is, consumers don't understand that metric," he said. "Despite a lot of efforts to really educate consumers to the lumen term, a lot are still matching wattages."
While some LED manufacturers might provide information like "60-watt (W) equivalent" on the front of their packaging, experts suggest consumers turn that package over to find the required Lighting Facts label. For a 60W replacement, the lumen output should be listed right around 800 lumens. To illustrate just how much energy LED products save, that 800-lumen lamp will draw only 8–9W.
The Lighting Facts label also includes data on a lamp's color temperature, a characteristic that has proven contentious for some buyers just beginning to make the switch to LEDs. Makers of incandescent and compact fluorescent (CFL) lamps have long used descriptive phrases like "soft white" and "cool white" to describe the color of the light their products produce. But LED products are labeled, instead, with the output's actual correlated color temperature (CCT), in degrees Kelvin (K). A lack of understanding as to how color temperature relates to the actual quality of the light has led to dissatisfaction among some early adopters.
"Unfortunately, a lot of us see the word 'daylight' and think that's warm and buttery, but it's actually pretty cool—and then they associate all LEDs with that blue color," said Naomi Miller, senior lighting research scientist with the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. That lab has taken the lead in U.S. Department of Energy's efforts to advance LED lighting technology. If warm and buttery is what you want, she added, "you want to be going to 2,700 K, up to 3,000 K."
LED tube light (Shutterstock/ Preedee Anantuntikul)
Totally tubular replacements
In interior commercial settings, the fluorescent tube lamp is, by far, the predominant old-school lighting workhorse. Here, a one-for-one LED replacement requires a bit more thought—and, possibly, more professional assistance from an electrical contractor. Three types of LED replacement tube lamps, based on UL classifications, are currently on the market. They represent three different ways of dealing with the existing fixture's ballast:
Type A—Uses the fixture's existing ballast and offers simple, plug-and-play installation. These are less efficient because of energy used by the existing ballast. Dimmability and controllability is limited by the ballast.
Type B—Features an onboard LED driver that runs off line voltage and bypasses the ballast. The ballast needs to be removed in these installations. These are more efficient than Type A units, but most Type B products lack dimming capabilities.
Type C—Operates using a remote driver, which also requires installation, and modifications to the fixture's wiring are a bit more complicated. However, Type C drivers can be integrated into networked lighting control systems.
Each of these options poses a compromise, either in efficiency, installation expense or reliability. Type A lamps are the easiest to install, but long-term performance is dependent on an existing, and possibly aging, ballast. Plus, not all tubes are compatible with all ballasts. Type B products are more efficient but do require ballast removal and most aren't controllable. Type C lamps offer the highest performance but also the most labor.
These various trade-offs, combined with falling prices for new fixtures as well as retrofit kits that fit within older housings, has many arguing against replacement lamps. In fact, many utility rebate programs no longer cover replacement lamps for just these reasons.
"I don't know how it is in the rest of the country, but we're moving quickly away from them," said Nancy Roth, field energy specialist with Beaverton, Ore.-based Evergreen Consulting Group, which helps guide companies through lighting upgrades that qualify for utility energy efficiency rebates in the Northwest United States. "I know so many examples where those didn't do well for customers."
Roth also recommends owners and facility managers who opt for new fixtures consider having a lighting study completed before simply swapping out old fixtures for new models, while keeping the existing layout. LED light output is different from fluorescent, so it's possible that a different layout could result in fewer fixtures with no reduction in perceived lighting levels.
"I think everyone getting ready to write a sizable check should take a step back and do a study," she said. "Don't get just a little bit of information, get the full picture."
Taking it to the streets
In exterior applications, LEDs are now frequent replacements for metal halide lamps. Making this switch can mean significant energy savings—a 120W LED lamp can produce the same amount of light as a 400W metal halide product. Additionally, because LED lamps have a much longer lifespan, making this transition can have a big impact on maintenance expenses.
Similar to fluorescent fixtures, metal halide luminaires have ballasts, so specifiers have the same choice between replacement LEDs that run off the existing ballast and those that require the ballast be removed. Maintaining the same ballast poses similar reliability questions, depending on how long that ballast has already been in service. However, unlike fluorescents, replacing just the lamp, instead of the entire fixture, remains the more economical choice in post-top applications.
"I think this is different than an indoor commercial environment," Arnold said. "Finding a new post-top that's going to match is usually not going to pencil out."
The first LED corncob-style replacements for metal halide lamps had issues with overheating in enclosed fixtures, leading to failure. This situation has improved substantially over the years, according to Miller, as today's products require much less energy to achieve high light levels.
"That was a serious question six or eight years ago, but it's not now," she said. "The LEDs have gotten so much more efficient, so that means the heat dissipation is much less than it used to be."
In fact, Miller and Roth agree that replacement LEDs should only be used in enclosed fixtures with some type of diffuser and not as exposed, bare bulbs. Otherwise, they can end up creating "glare bombs," due to a design featuring multiple rows of LEDs wrapped around a central core.
"My opinion falls in line with what utilities are saying—the light source is not the same," Roth said. "It's not a single light source, it's multiple light sources. It's hard to diffuse something like that. Just make sure you're covered by a specification sheet that says it's rated for an enclosed fixture."
In parking lot and streetlighting applications, however, Arnold says full fixture replacements can make economic sense.
"Those are very inexpensive fixtures—you're probably best served by replacing the fixture head, entirely," he said, noting that new fixtures can lead to better performance, not just less expensive lighting. "A lot of them have optimized, engineered light systems, and they're really good at directing light exactly where you need it, whether that's a parking lot or roadway."
Chuck Ross
Chuck Ross has covered building and energy technologies and electric-utility business issues for a range of industry publications and websites for more than 25 years. Contact him at chuck@chuck-ross.com.
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The Netherlands: Prime Choice for Pan-European Center
For companies looking to locate a call center in Europe, The Netherlands lists the linguistic abilities of its population as one of its prime advantages.
According to figures provided by the Netherlands Foreign Investment Agency, 73 percent of the population speaks at least one foreign language, 44 percent speak two foreign languages and 12 percent speak three or more. An October, 1997, article in The Economist put multilingualism even higher, reporting that almost 80 percent of the population speak fluent English, 66 percent speak German and 25 percent speak French.
While exact wage comparisons were not available, basic labor costs for unspecialized agents are approximately 5 percent higher than other European countries such as Ireland and England, said Onno Ponfoort, New York regional director for the NFIA. However, salaries for managers and technical support personnel are comparable to other countries and bilingual skills are cheaper.
For companies looking for a location for a pan-European call center, the agency calculates that the multilingual background of the population would offset the price of higher wages. An average sampling of 100 agents in The Netherlands would potentially be able to field 129 foreign calls, whereas it would take 160 agents to field that many calls in any other country, according to the NFIA. One hundred percent of the call centers established in the Netherlands have a pan-European focus.
Sixty percent of call center agents have degrees from universities or higher level vocational schools, and the Dutch government has developed special training units to train agents and supervisors and provide information to job seekers.
Other than a ban on cold calling using only a computer voice, there are few restrictions on outbound business-to-business or business-to-consumer telemarketing calls. Cold calling by agents is permitted, except in cases where customers have indicated via subscription to the Telephone Preference Service list maintained by the Dutch direct marketing association or through a written request that they would not like to be contacted. The penalty for not honoring requests is a ban from membership in the Dutch direct marketing association. Also, transactions agreed to over the phone must be followed by a written confirmation and can be canceled within seven days.
In the way of incentives, call centers that only provide a service, and do not sell products, may be eligible for an "advanced tax ruling." This ruling allows companies to be taxed at the rate that they would pay a third-party outsourcer to handle their customer service. The ruling usually results in taxes that are cheaper and less complicated than a company's tax would be were the company assessed based on all the products and business it handles. In addition, because it is an advanced tax rate that is often applicable for a few years, the company can know and plan for its tax costs ahead of time. For call centers that have product development as part of their business, incentives on labor costs can sometimes be arranged.
For telecom services, the country boasts networks as advanced as anywhere in Europe. KPN NV (Royal Dutch Telecom) offers European communications services such as pan-European voice and data networks, international toll-free and universal international 800 numbers, equipment and software to complement a range of network services, and Internet and e-commerce solutions. KPN has competition from several other companies including GlobalOne and Telefort.
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I know that my taste in music is not for everyone, but those who know me (and who perhaps follow me on twitter - @SimonGCutmore) will know of my near obsessive love of progressive rock music.
One of the bands that I fell in love with a few years ago was TesseracT. Sitting on the more metal end of the genre, along with brand leaders Messhuggah, Periphery, Chimp Spanner and FellSilent, TesseracT carved a niche of more melodic 'djent' (as the sub genre became known.) The heaviness of the riffs, the technicality of the arrangements and the simply jaw-dropping musicianship were enough to draw me in. Their debut, 'One' was essential listening for many many months.
Then their versatile vocalist Daniel Tompkins left to sing for SkyHarbour, amongst others, and to cut a longer story short, eventually in came a new vocalist, Ashe O' Hara, a toning down of the heaviness and an album called 'Altered State.' This album won them plaudits and awards and notoriety as well as many new fans, particular of the wider prog family, but it left me cold. Gone was the vocal textures and the heaviness in favour of a much lighter sound and expansive, almost ambient, compositions.
I hear today that the band have amicably parted with Ashe due a disagreement in musical direction and Daniel Tompkins is back. Hip hip hooray says I!


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Young Nova Scotia team makes waves in Prince Albert
With age comes experience, but despite their youth, Graeme Weagle's Nova Scotia-based squad is putting on an impressive performance at the 2019 New Holland Canadian Juniors.
Graeme Weagle delivers a rock during Draw 8 at the 2019 New Holland Canadian Juniors (Curling Canada/Melanie Johnson photo)
Weagle, along with Owen Purcell, Jeffrey Meagher and Brett Dorey won their afternoon game 12-3 over Sawer Kaeser from Northwest Territories to improve their record to 3-1. "We're right where we want to be with a good shot to make the Championship Pool," said Weagle. "We seem to be getting better every game, so I think it bodes well going forward." This is the second national championship experience for Weagle, Purcell and Meagher, as they were all part of the winning team at the 2018 Under-18 Curling Championship held in St. Andrews, N.B. "This event is pretty similar to the U-18 nationals," said Meagher. "Though the competition is a little bit more intense out here." Meagher does note that the experience in St. Andrews has paid off in a big way when it comes to playing against the top U-21 teams in Canada. "We know we can compete here. That's the biggest thing. We know that we can come out here and play well with the experience we gained at the U-18 and having the experience on the arena ice helps." Weagle agrees that there's a huge benefit to having playing at the nationals before, but notes that their team's success, regardless of their age, has the competition sitting up and paying attention.
Team Nova Scotia celebrating their 2018 U-18 Curling Championship win (Curling Canada/Mark Finley photo)
"I think winning the U-18 Championship put a target on our backs," said Weagle. "If we hadn't won last year, some of these big name teams wouldn't have known who we are. I'm sure we put a lot of them on notice by winning the championship last year." Not only are the four players competitive curlers, but multi-sport athletes. Meagher in particular is a competitive paddler at the national level, a sport that he finds beneficial to doing in the curling off-season. "Paddling definitely helps me with the sweeping in curling. I'm able to keep it up, especially through these long 10-end games," said Meagher. "That's one of my more important jobs on the team as a front-end player." On the live-streamed feature sheet, Ontario's Sam Steep defeated Nunavut's Javen Komaksiutiksak 16-3 to climb back to an even 2-2 record. The women's draw saw the battle of the undefeated teams with Mackenzie Zacharias from Manitoba take on Quebec's Laurie St-Georges. It was Zacharias with the edge and an 8-4 victory over St-Georges. Manitoba is now at four wins with Quebec dropping to 3-1. The defending champions from Nova Scotia cruised to a 9-4 victory over Northern Ontario. The Halifax-based team skipped by Kaitlyn Jones now sits at 3-1 while Northern Ontario's Kira Brunton drops to 2-2. Selena Sturmay from Alberta picked up a 7-4 win over Host team's Skylar Ackerman. Sturmay remains undefeated at 4-0 while Ackerman is still searching for a win after four games. All eyes were on sheet D at the end for the battle between Tyanna Bain from Northwest Territories and Saskatchewan representative Sara England that came down to the last shot. England was able to execute a hit and stick for the 3-2 win and to jump to a 3-1 record. Bain drops to 0-4. Justine Comeau from New Brunswick made a hit for the 6-5 win over Newfoundland and Labrador's Mackenzie Glynn to advance to 3-1. Glynn moves to 1-2 in the standings. Action continues at the 2019 New Holland Canadian Juniors with draws on Monday at 7 p.m. (all times Central). Fourteen men's and 14 women's teams are competing, with two seven-team pools in each gender. Following Tuesday night's games, the top four teams from each pool will move into the championship pools beginning Wednesday, while the other teams will play in seeding pool games to determine the final standings. Round-robin games at the 2019 New Holland Canadian Juniors are being streamed live exclusively on Curling Canada's Facebook page. TSN/RDS2, the official broadcaster of Curling Canada's Season of Champions, will provide live and exclusive coverage of the women's and men's semifinals on Saturday, Jan. 26, and finals on Sunday, Jan. 27. The same games also will be streamed live in the U.S. on ESPN3. CLICK HERE for streaming and broadcast information. The winning teams Sunday will represent Canada at the 2019 World Junior Championships, Feb. 16-23 in Liverpool, N.S. The full scoreboard can be viewed at www.curling.ca/scoreboard/. For event information, visit www.curling.ca/2019juniors.


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DA KATZ ANNOUNCES COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS CHIEF COLLEEN BABB AWARDED PRESTIGIOUS THOMAS E. DEWEY MEDAL FOR OUTSTANDING WORK
Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced that Colleen Babb, Executive Assistant District Attorney of the Community Partnerships Division, is the Queens County recipient of the seventeenth annual Thomas E. Dewey Medal.
The Thomas E. Dewey Medal is awarded each year by the Association of the Bar of the City of New York to an outstanding assistant district attorney in each of the City's five District Attorney's offices and in the Office of the City's Special Narcotics Prosecutor. Chief Babb accepted the award during a ceremony on Tuesday evening, December 14, 2021, which was attended by many of her colleagues.
District Attorney Katz said, "Colleen Babb has brought tremendous experience and vision to our Community Partnerships division. Under her leadership, Community Partnerships has played a significant, visible role in each of the diverse neighborhoods in Queens, participating in more than 800 public events, engaging more than 400 local leaders who currently serve on our community advisory councils, awarding nearly $3.5 million dollars in grants to deserving partner programs this year to help our young people and sponsoring gun buyback events to take hundreds of dangerous firearms off our streets."
Chief Babb said, "As prosecutors, we have the burden to prove cases beyond a reasonable doubt and get convictions based on the evidence. However, we must understand that our Office's credibility in the community matters. Our communities are made up of our witnesses, our victims, our defendants, and prospective jurors. Looking back on my career, I realize that my years as a prosecutor were all part of the foundation to help usher in DA Katz' vision for the Office of the Queens District Attorney, one that is that focused on a community-based approach to prosecution. Because ultimately, it is not about how many people you can put away but how many people you can save. It is about how many young people you can reach, so that they do not see the inside of a courtroom. That is how you create public safety. I am honored to have received this award and congratulate all the honorees!"
With more than 25 years of criminal justice experience, Babb joined the Queens District Attorney's Office executive leadership team in January 2020, shortly after DA Katz took office. She has served as Queens Borough Chief of the New York City Law Department Office of Corporation Counsel and was previously Deputy Bureau Chief of the Early Case Assessment Bureau, Deputy Bureau Chief of Criminal Court Grand Jury, First Deputy Bureau Chief of Major Narcotics Investigations and Executive Assistant District Attorney of the School Advocacy Bureau with the Brooklyn District Attorney where she worked since 1994.
Also receiving this year's honors were Odalys C. Alonso of Bronx County, Susan Axelrod of New York County, Michele Molfetta of Richmond County, Kelli M. Muse of Kings County and Lisa Tompkins of Special Narcotics.
Among prosecutors in New York County, Thomas E. Dewey is remembered as having ushered in the era in which the District Attorney's office has been staffed by professional prosecutors chosen on merit rather than through political patronage. Dewey first came to the public's attention as a prosecutor in the 1930s, instituting successful criminal proceedings against gangsters, bootleggers and organized crime figures of the day. By 1937, Dewey was elected District Attorney of New York County, where he served one term before resigning to run for governor.
The Thomas E. Dewey Medal was first awarded on November 29, 2005.
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She is known for saving the Gautama Buddha from the evil Mara and his army by wringing water from her hair and washing them away, thus enabling the Buddha's enlightenment.
She is found all over Southeast Asia, in temples, gardens, in front of businesses, and in the logos of important political parties and military organisations.
This particular Wathondara, aka Phra Mae Thorani (Thailand), sits outside a massage parlor in Jomtien Beach, just a stone's throw from Pattaya.
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All repairs include inspecting upper and lower PC Board for defective components and/or traces. Testing all mechanical relay's OHM resistance. If any relay falls outside the parameters given by the manufacturer we will notify you and give you the option of having them replaced as well at a minimal cost. We replace components only with the latest revision from the Original Equipment Manufacturer that are substantially more reliable than the original versions. The entire TIPM will be cleaned and the external relays and fuses will be tested. TIPMs are then bench-tested, and QA tested in a live vehicle prior to shipment. The repair is warranted for 1 year from the date of repair.
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Q: Maven password protected repository and missing artifacts I am trying to use a password protected Artifactory repository for my Maven projects, but I am having no luck getting maven to retrieve the artifacts from the repository.  I have gone through the steps at http://maven.apache.org/guides/mini/guide-encryption.html to set up an encrypted password for the Artifactory server. I first ran the command:
mvn --encrypt-master-password <password>

to encrypt the master password, and I put the result in .m2/settings-security.xml like so:
<settingsSecurity>
    <master>{encrypted password here}</master>
</settingsSecurity>

I then ran the command:
mvn --encrypt-password <password>

to encrypt the password that is used to access my Artifactory repository.  With the returned encrypted password, I made a new <server> entry in .m2/settings.xml like so:
<servers>
    <server>
        <id>repository-id</id>
        <username>admin</username>
        <password>{pIpgu5+61kYHmlKWza1Vy4f8m0UmlEa6P0TYbKoC5ac=}</password>
    </server>
</servers>

So according to the tutorial, that is all there is to it, but whenever I try to reference the repository in my pom.xml, all the artifacts cannot be found even though they are correct in the pom.xml. Here is a snippet from my pom.xml (an example) that is not working like it should.
<repositories>
    <repository>
        <id>repository-id</id>
        <name>repository name</name>
        <url>my repository url</url>
    </repository>
</repositories>

<dependencies>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>group-id</groupId>
        <artifactId>artifact-id</artifactId>
        <version>1.0.0</version>
    </dependency>
</dependencies>

The (theoretical) dependency 'group-id' is never found even though it exists at the repository I specified. both the repository and dependency elements are correct. The <id> of the repository is the same as the <id> of the server I specified in settings.xml
This makes no sense to me, and I have not found any hints as to what I need to do to use a repository with an encrypted password in my pom.xml. Is this all I need to do? if so, why is it not finding the artifacts?
thanks for your help!

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Egg handling equipment
Written by Steffie Jansen Vencomatic Group
Valentijn Crum, Business Development Manager at Prinzen, part of the Vencomatic Group, tells us about the company history and the stunning advances made over time, starting from its foundation up to its today leading role in egg handling equipment.
First to invent the points down setting for eggs
Prinzen was founded in 1984 when Mr. Louis Prinzen decided to start his own business. Prinzen began with maintenance and service of egg handling equipment within the domestic market. Soon the company started developing its own machines to satisfy a niche market of specialists in hatching egg handling and for simple egg transfer. Prinzen was the first one to invent the points down setting for eggs, which represents a key factor for hatching egg pro cessing at breeder farms and in the hatchery. During the following 20 years, the company grew significantly and became a leader in the egg handling sector. In 1999, Cor van de Ven acquired the company; he was in the nest sector, but intended to start offering customers complete solutions. Valentijn states: "The company's philosophy focuses on being present in each country, working with local dealers; the reason is local people know the market, the culture, local regulations very well, and can be therefore more accurate in their feedback to us. Over time, Prinzen has build a global network of specialised dealers with a wide distribution network, selling all over the world. Just think that every day some 850 millions eggs are packed with Prinzen machines."
Prinzen's core business
"We produce both small machines and big machines to meet every customer's need. We know that putting a lot of technology inside the machine can be a risk, so we prefer designing our equipment with the big part of it to be mechanical. We do not produce egg grading and packing machines for central packing stations, as we are fully focused on farm packing." – Valentijn explains. The company is active in 3 basic segments: table eggs on farm, hatching eggs on farm and inside the hatchery. In the hatching eggs sector, the company has the majority worldwide market share with operations in Europe, Africa, Middle East, China, US, Brazil, Argentina, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. "We are the leader in the hatching eggs automation and we develop some 30 to 40 hatchery projects per year globally. Our best features are: labour saving, the points down setting, grading by weight and the complete line of process. We sell directly to large integrations through our dealers, and via our own sales team" – adds Valentijn.
Prinzen's success constantly growing
Every day millions of hatching eggs are carefully handled and set by Prinzen machines worldwide. With the Prinzen PSPC series automation of hatching eggs setting goes one step further, placing hatching eggs directly onto setter trays. These trays are automatically fed and brought into position. The Prinzen egg transfer system lifts and places eggs gently onto the setter trays. The machines have a capacity of up to 30.000 eggs per hour, depending on the type of setter tray. The machines are easy to operate and constructed in robust stainless steel allowing easy service and accessibility for cleaning. In addition, the egg intake and transfer operation can be combined...
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Steffie Jansen
Marketing, Vencomatic Group
Vencomatic Group is a leading company in the poultry sector. It is our ambition to bring poultry husbandry to a higher level. For this, we develop and market sustainable, animal-friendly products. We are proud to pioneer and create the best products together with our customers. Think ahead with poultry people.
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In Soviet Russia...they had video games. Not particularly special ones, mind you, but they had them. And those dusty old machines now have pride of place in a new museum in the Russian capital, Moscow.
The Museum of Soviet Arcade Machines (the Soviet ethic lives on in the place's name, then) is home to versions of 20 of the original 37 machines licensed for manufacture in the old USSR during the 70's and 80's.
The place is open to the public, and all the machines have been restored, so they're playable. Worth remembering if you're planning on taking a trip to Moscow! Or, you know. If you live there.