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Standards and codes have been developed to ensure that all constructed objects such as buildings and furniture, conform to a minimum level of safety. The codes are designed to protect public health, safety, and general welfare as they relate to the construction and occupancy of buildings and structures. The building code requires all building work comply with the code.
Many of the specific standards and codes within Australia are controlled by the Australian Building Codes Board (ABCB), and the details and copies of the standards are available at the ABCB website.
BCA building classes
The BCA classifies buildings by their use. A building may be made up of a number of classes if it has a mixed use. The BCA identifies the following building classes:
Class 1a - a single dwelling or attached dwellings (eg a terrace, duplex, etc) where each dwelling is separated by a fire wall.
Class 1b - one or more buildings that constitute a boarding house, guest house, hostel of small scale (ie not exceeding 12 persons or 300m2 in floor area).
Class 2 - a building containing two or more dwelling units (eg flats, apartments).
Class 3 - a residential building for a number of persons such as a large scale boarding house, guest house, hostel, the residential part of a hotel, motel, school, etc.
Class 4 - a dwelling unit that is a part of a commercial use (eg a caretakers/managers flat).
Class 5 - an office building.
Class 6 - a shop or other building where goods or services are retailed directly to the public.
Class 7a - a car park building.
Class 7b - a storage building or building where goods are wholesaled (eg a warehouse).
Class 8 - a laboratory or a building where a process takes place (eg factory, workshop, etc).
Class 9a - a health care building (eg a hospital, clinic, etc).
Class 9b - an assembly building (eg community hall, sports hall, etc)
Class 9c - an aged care building.
Class 10a - a non-habitable building being a private garage, shed or the like.
Class 10b - a structure (eg a fence, wall, mast, swimming pool, etc).
Building classes and the format of the BCA
The BCA is split into two volumes. Volume One deals with buildings in Classes 2 to 9 and Volume Two, also known as the Housing Provisions, deals with buildings of Class 1 and 10.
Volume One is split into nine sections with the first section containing administrative provisions, the remainder containing technical provisions.
Volume One of the BCA is structured so that each technical section contains:
Objectives - a statement that is considered to reflect community expectations
Functional statements - statements of how a building achieves the objective
Performance requirements - the level of performance a building solution must meet (ie the minimum standard)
Building solutions - the way in which the performance requirements are met. The solution may be one that complies with the Deemed to Satisfy provisions or an alternate solution or a combination of both. The Deemed to Satisfy provisions are the 'black and white' solutions and if followed ensure compliance with the performance requirements. Alternate solutions allow for innovative design and use of materials and normally require certification by an expert in the particular field.
Section A: General Provisions - contains information such as definitions, how buildings are to be classified and the list of guidance documents such as Australian Standards that have been referenced by the BCA as Deemed to Satisfy solutions.
Section B: Structure - requirements for the structural stability of the building including the structural resistance that materials and forms of construction must achieve against effects such as dampness, termites, water penetration, etc.
Section C: Fire Resistance - requirements for the fire resistance of the building. This is to ensure that not only fire spread from one building to another is prevented but also a building maintains structural stability during a fire to allow for occupants to evacuate and the fire brigade to fight the fire. This is achieved by separation distances between buildings, fire protection to external walls (including any openings such as windows) and the splitting up of the internal spaces of the building into separated compartments. It is important to understand the following terminology in relation to this section:
Type of construction - not to be confused with building class, this determines the level of fire resistance particular elements of the building must achieve. There are three types of construction, namely A, B and C, which are determined by the building's class and rise in storeys. Type A includes buildings that have a higher risk such as high rise, high occupant buildings and is therefore the most fire resistant. Type C includes buildings that have a lower risk and is therefore the least fire resistant.
Fire source feature - this represents the potential location that fire may spread from or to. It is normally the external wall of another building on the same lot, a side or rear boundary or the far boundary of a road adjoining the lot. Boundaries are regarded as fire source features because the owner of one lot has no control over what is built on adjoining lots and there is potential for a building to be built up to the boundary on the adjoining lot.
Fire-Resistance Level (FRL) - measured in minutes, this is the resistance to the passage of fire an element of a building achieves. It consists of the criteria structural adequacy, integrity and insulation. For example, a 90/30/60 FRL represents an element that must achieve a fire resistance level of 90 minutes for structural adequacy, 30 minutes for integrity and 60 minutes for insulation.
Sole occupancy unit - this means a room or part of a building for occupation by one occupant to the exclusion of others.
Section D: Access & Egress - provisions relating to the number, size, type and separation of emergency exits, as well as the distance to an emergency exit. These provisions are determined by the building's class, size of the building and the number of persons the building accommodates. The section also includes provisions relating to the accessibility of a building for people with disabilities.
Section E: Services & Equipment - this section identifies the fire safety equipment that must be installed in a building. This equipment includes fire fighting equipment (eg fire hydrants, hose reels, portable fire extinguishers, etc), smoke hazard management (eg smoke detectors and alarms) and emergency lighting and signs. The section also provides the requirements for lift installations when one is installed in a building. As a general rule all buildings require portable fire extinguishers to be installed. The provision of any other equipment is dependant on the size of the building.
Section F: Health & Amenity - the requirements for damp & weatherproofing, sanitary facilities, room sizes, light and ventilation and sound insulation. The number of sanitary facilities is dependant on the number of people the building accommodates. Provisions relating to sanitary facilities for people with disabilities are also included in this section. The light and ventilation provision relates to both natural as well as artificial lighting and ventilation. Not all buildings are required to be provided with natural ventilation or lighting.
Section G: Ancillary Provisions - this section contains requirements that affect structures that are ancillary to the main use of the building including minor structures (swimming pools, vaults, cool rooms), heating appliances (fireplaces, flues and chimneys) and atrium construction. It also contains requirements for buildings constructed in alpine areas and bush fire prone areas.
Section H: Special Use Buildings - the requirements specific to certain buildings such as theatres and public halls.
Section I: Maintenance - the requirements for the maintenance of equipment in buildings.
Volume Two
Volume Two is split into three sections, the first section containing administrative provisions, the second the performance provisions and the third the acceptable construction provisions.
Section 1: General Provisions - this contains information such as definitions, how buildings are to be classified and the list of guidance documents such as Australian Standards that have been referenced by the BCA as Deemed to Satisfy solutions.
Section 2: Performance Provisions - this section is further split into five subsections entitled Structure, Damp & Weatherproofing, Fire Safety, Health & Amenity and Safe Movement and Access. Within each subsection the objectives, functional statements and performance requirements are stated.
Section 3: Acceptable Construction - this section, also known as the Acceptable Construction Manual, contains the Deemed to Satisfy building solutions for Class 1 and 10 buildings. The section is split into 11 subsections, namely Site Preparation, Footings & Slabs, Masonry, Framing, Roof & Wall Cladding, Glazing, Fire Safety, Health & Amenity, Safe Movement and Access, Additional Construction Requirements and Structural Design Manuals.
The following resources, available for download, have been created to assist designers and architects develop timber constructions so that they are consistent with the requirements of the codes stipulated by the BCA building classes:
Technical Design Guide 1 - Timber-framed Construction for Townhouse Buildings Class 1a - this design guide assists in complying with fire safety and sound insulation performance requirements in the BCA for Class 1a attached buildings.
Technical Design Guide 2 - Timber-framed Construction for Multi-residential Buildings Class 2, 3 & 9c - this design guide assists in complying with fire and sound performance requirements in the BCA for Class 2, 3 and 9c buildings.
Technical Design Guide 3 - Timber-framed Construction for Commercial Buildings Class 5, 6, 9a & 9b - this design guide assists in complying with fire performance requirements in the BCA for Class 5, 6, 9a and 9b buildings.
Technical Design Guide 4 - Building with timber in bushfire-prone areas - this design guide has been written to help architects, designers, builders and owners to understand the Construction of Building in bushfire prone areas Standard AS 3959 and in particular what construction requirement is required for traditional building methods using timber for each Bushfire Attack Level (BAL).
Technical Design Guide - 5 - Timber service life design - design guide for durability - this guide will give building and construction industry professionals the confidence in determining the service life timber in a wide range of applications, from sole plates to suspension bridges.
Visit our Technical Design Guides Page to see the full set of WoodSolutions guides
(You need to be logged in to WoodSolutions to download resources from this section)
Design_Guide_01_Timberframed_Construction_Class1A_4-1_MB.pdf 3.25 MB
Design_Guide_02_Timberframed_Construction_Class2_3_9c_7-1_MB.pdf 5.66 MB
Design_Guide_03_Timberframed_Construction_Class5_6_9ab.pdf 3.7 MB
Design_Guide_04_Building_Timber_Bushfire_Areas_3-9_MB.pdf 2.44 MB
Design_Guide_17_Alternate_Fire_Structures.pdf 3.27 MB
Design_Guide_05_Timber_Service_Life_Durability_6-7_MB.pdf 3.81 MB


The Owls prepared for the new changes in the rulebook this offseason.
With NCAA rule changes coming in the next two seasons designed to make the game more fast-paced, the lacrosse team is making adjustments to its gameplan.
Starting in the 2016 season, play will resume faster after minor or major fouls outside of the critical scoring area. After a foul, players can put the ball back into play by passing to a teammate or running with the ball without waiting for the referee.
The offending player would have to stand at least four meters behind or to the side of the ball handler on a restart depending on the referee's instructions. Players retain the option of waiting for the penalty to be administered, rather than using a quick restart. Attackers can use the self restart to catch defenders off-guard.
This season, three-second violations, which occur when a defender is inside the 8-meter arc and not guarding anyone for three seconds, are minor fouls. The offensive team gets the ball at the 12-meter arc, where a scoring opportunity can be generated.
Another change makes playing defense with the stick held horizontally a major foul, forcing players to defend with a vertical or angled stick. The change impacts both defenders and attackers.
In practice, the Owls are placing an emphasis on ball movement and scoring more assisted goals because of the faster play. Temple averaged 2.44 assists per game last season, seventh out of eight teams in the Big East Conference.
The Owls saw the emphasis on assists translate to their five exhibition games during the fall.
Despite the implementation of more than ten rule changes for the upcoming season, Rosen anticipates minimal effect on the Owls' play.


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% The html table is stored in the dataSource directory.
% dataSource is the location of the pmtkData local copy of the svn
% repository.
% PMTKneedsMatlab
%%

% This file is from pmtk3.googlecode.com

excludedDirs = tokenize(getConfigValue('PMTKmetaDirs'), ',');
if nargin == 0
    dataSource = getConfigValue('PMTKlocalDataPath');
end
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dataSets   = dirs(dataSource);
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NDIMS  = 7;
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end

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end

end

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metaFile = fullfile(source, 'meta', [dataSet, '-meta.m']);
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end

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end

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February 9, 2018 / 7:37 PM / 2 years ago
Amazon hires NBC executive Salke to run video studio
Jeffrey Dastin
(Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) on Friday said it has hired Jennifer Salke, president of NBC Entertainment, to run its television and movie studio, ending months of limbo as its entertainment division switches from a lineup heavy on art-house fare to broader-appealing hits.
FILE PHOTO: Jennifer Salke, president NBC Entertainment, speaks at the Hollywood Radio and Television Society Newsmaker Luncheon featuring the TV network entertainment presidents in Beverly Hills, California October 11, 2011. REUTERS/Fred Prouser
Amazon has been without a permanent studio chief since October, when Roy Price resigned after a sexual harassment allegation. Price has contested the claim.
Salke has overseen the development of comedies and dramas for NBC as president since 2011. She has been behind shows such as "This is Us," "The Blacklist," and "Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt," and previously was executive vice president of creative affairs at Twentieth Century Fox Television.
Salke has "built an impeccable reputation as a big leader who emphasizes creativity, collaboration, and teamwork," Jeff Blackburn, Amazon's senior vice president of business development and entertainment, said in a statement.
Amazon's video budget ballooned to an estimated $4.5 billion or more in 2017, and the company has said it plans to spend more this year. It is seeking content that can attract viewers to its Prime streaming and shopping service around the world.
Salke's biggest task may be managing Amazon's blockbuster bet on a television prequel to "The Lord of the Rings," a leap away from the niche content the studio was used to producing. People familiar with the matter say the studio offered $250 million for the fantasy series' rights alone last year. The bill will climb as Amazon invests in production and marketing for multiple seasons.
"The bet Amazon is making is, 'We need a programing exec who's going to create content that people watch,'" Wedbush Securities analyst Michael Pachter said.
The television executive will also oversee Amazon's film strategy. Reuters reported last month that the studio is shifting resources from independent films to more commercial projects.
An Amazon spokesman said Jason Ropell, the vice president running Amazon Studios' film division, will run the movie unit on a day-to-day basis but report to Salke, as will Albert Cheng, who had been interim studio chief.
Salke's start date has not yet been decided, the spokesman said.
Reporting by Jeffrey Dastin in San Francisco, Jessica Toonkel in New York and Lisa Richwine in Los Angeles; Editing by Andrew Hay and Paul Simao

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Tolland Antiques Show: A Treasure Trove Of Americana - Antiques And The Arts Weekly
15 Feb 2013 / 0 Comment
Tolland Antiques Show: A Treasure Trove Of Americana
By: Andrea Valluzzo
TOLLAND, CONN. — While New York City may host Americana Week in late January, the Tolland Antiques Show, running simultaneously, on January 27, also proved itself a stellar showcase of Americana from country primitives and homey textiles evocative of Little House on the Prairie, to punched-tin chests and dry sinks in original paint.
Many antiques shows feature a bit of Americana, but this show packs a wallop. Staged in the Tolland Middle School in the cafeteria and gymnasium, the 47th annual show featured booth after booth of Americana treasures ripe for the picking.
"The show was real good for me," said John Gould, Yorktown Heights, N.Y. "I sold a number of different things: frames; a painted bucket bench; a really nice original, one-drawer stand in yellow paint; a dough box; and some smalls — I was busy all day."
Tolland is a unique show, he added, noting buyers come and they come to buy. "They look for good country things. It's extremely well run, Kathy (Bach) does a fantastic job, everyone does." "It's a really fun show to do."
Show director Kathy Bach noted the gate was higher than last year. While not its best year ever, the show, which benefits the Tolland Historical Society, had good numbers, and the society was pleased. "The kitchen also did fabulously well, probably a record," she said. "We got everybody out of the door happily, no one had problems, and all seemed to be happy with the porters and food."
The show was a week early this year, which Bach explained happens every once in a while. "We have to stay out of the way of Nashville and York. Nashville was a week early, so we moved back a week. I guess it didn't hurt us. We did lose a few dealers to the Armory (Stella's show in New York), but we had several new dealers, and they fit into the show seamlessly, and we enjoyed (them). It's always fun to have new people in the show."
Many of the dealers seemed to be pleased with their sales also. "The Tolland show went very well for me," said Paula Patterson, Westfield, Mass., who reported a large variety of sales from furniture and folk art to paintings, a mounted hooked rug in the "Tree of Life" design and several smalls.
"Furniture had not been selling of late; one of the pieces of furniture that I sold was a State of Maine one-drawer stand in soldier blue paint. I was very pleased with the crowd; people were interested and buying — a show at the level of the way things used to be in the antiques business."
Echoing her sentiments were Hanes and Ruskin Antiques, Old Lyme, Conn., which decreed this show as their second best Tolland show the dealers have had. "We only made a few sales, but they were significant. We attribute it partially to the fact that we had a larger booth, which was actually our original booth at the show many years ago, which we had lost when we dropped the show for several years. We are glad to be back."
Highlights seen at Hanes & Ruskin's booth included a matched set of six rod-back Windsor side chairs in old black paint, circa 1800–20, from New England, and a well-proportioned, 30-inch Chippendale desk in old Spanish brown, with a better-than-average interior replete with several hidden drawers.
Also having a "very good show" was Richmond House Antiques, Ashford, Conn. A week after the show closed, Karen Oberg emailed to say it was great seeing longtime customers, and meeting new ones. "We sold the pantry wall, several mortars and pestles, a wonderful early grater and many other smalls. Today, a customer called and purchased the sawbuck table he had seen in our booth at the show. Love the dealers, customers and the atmosphere."
Sharing a booth, Sue Wirth, Union, Conn., and her daughter Molly trading as Tinkertown Antiques, Douglas, Mass., also enjoyed success. "I think the paneled wall in the back drew people in, and we sold it. And I sold the best items I took: a cupboard from my house, a rifle sign, a unique candle dryer and more. The show looked great, and the serious buyers were there," Wirth said.
Michael Rouillard, Quiet Corner Antiques, Sterling, Conn., had a terrific show, noting the show was very well run and "crowds were good all day." He sold numerous smalls, including Long Island and Norwalk, Conn., redware plates and vessels; several effigy ladles; early American treen; snuff boxes; painted bowls; and more. "We had lots of interest in an early Connecticut chest in untouched condition from a Somers, Conn., home and an eagle weathervane in untouched condition from a private collection."
Although its sales were just okay, Caputo Grindle Antiques, Pittston, Maine, praised the society for doing its usual great job of taking care of its exhibitors. "Once again the Tolland Antique Show offered a variety of great antiques. It seemed that there was a full and steady crowd throughout the day. The age old question is to try to determine what it is that people want, and what they are willing to pay," the dealers said.
While not Americana, a standout at the show was a set of four lovely watercolors from 1801 of Wales, England, scenes that still had their original backings in the booth of Richard L. Greene, Providence, R.I. While his booth was filled with mostly two-dimensional artwork, a lovely American firkin, with its original top, early Twentieth Century, also caught the eye.
Jane F. Wargo, Wallingford, Conn., displayed an early Twentieth Century, double-sided sign for "Newcomb's Seminole Gold Ice Cream / Served Here / Always Unusual," an early Nineteenth Century hand-hewn trencher, a handcrafted early Twentieth Century pond boat and an Ottoman Bros. 5-gallon butter churn with dasher guide, Fort Edward, N.Y., circa 1872–92.
Among highlights in the booth of David and Donna Kmetz, Douglas, Mass., were a lovely landscape, "Summer Hills," by Charlotte Buell Coman, A.N.A. (1833–1924), which was set in its original period Newcomb-Macklin frame; and Woodstock Art Colony artist Ivan Summers' "Woodstock Farm."
Other fine items spotted here included a circa 1880 punched tin pie safe on tapered legs with a custom made stand in the booth of Linda Grier Antiques, Langhorne, Penn.; a Jess Slater (1910–2004) watercolor, "Morning Snow," measuring 28 by 21 inches, at Ester Gilbert Antiques, Southampton, Mass.; a folky hooked rug with a chicken surrounded by flora at Dragonflies Antiques, Wolfeboro, N.H.; and a pair of colorful gameboards at Derik Pulito, Kensington, Conn.
For more information, www.tollandhistorical.org or 860-870-9599.


ANHEL is a collaboration work of dance performer Nella Turkki and saxophonist Marc Vilanova.This duet explores the feeling of longing as an evidence of our existence and as a contact to somewhere else than where we are physically. This feeling is often covered in nowadays life, when social media keeps us connected to almost anywhere in the world. But is that connection enough? Why there is always a feeling of missing something - of being connected to something that we can't reach? Why do we hold these invisible strings of longing to somewhere, and where do they lead us?
ANHEL communicates without words, creating unique expression with live electronics and saxophone music, dance and object manipulation. After performed in various different places in Europe, ANHEL as a touring site-adaptable performance is suitable for various stages, always transforming itself to the new environment.
From 2014, ANHEL is part of The Strings Theatre Company.


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An introspective body of work that probes the dynamics of 'Space and Memory'. The work explores how Goa's changing social and physical milieu carries the memory of its identity as a port city. The state of Goa has seen constant transformation throughout its history, which is manifest in the narratives embedded in its visual topography. Using the metaphor of boats, the images evolve from a juxtaposition of the markers of disappearing identity with new emerging ones to capture a space in flux.
I develop images that echo the meta-narratives and themes embedded in a social reality. These images are infused with a personal voice, use abstractions and tease metaphorical extrapolations as way of story telling.
This series was conceived during ALTlab-2 photography residency, by Goa Centre for Alternative Photography and India Foundation for the Arts and was exhibited as cyanotype prints in a group show 'Notes of an Alchemist' at Gallery Gitanjali, Goa, India in April 2012.
First exhibited as part of a group show, 'Notes of an Alchemist', Goa, 2012. Also exhibited as part of a group show,'Tales & Fables from India & Japan: Animation, Film & Photography', New Delhi, Ahmedabad, Yokohama (Japan), 2015


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Poly professor brews beer with 45-million-year-old yeast
Poly professor brews with microorganisms he found in fossilized amber
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Raul Cano, at Gennaro's restaurant in San Luis Obispo, extracted 45-million-year-old yeast from amber and made beer from it.
By Nick Wilson | nwilson@thetribunenews.com
A Cal Poly professor's mission to turn a 45-million-year-old yeast into an ingredient for a beer has proven successful — and now he hopes to grow his operation locally.
Raul Cano, a Cal Poly biology professor, discovered the yeast in amber that came from Myanmar, which was previously known as Burma, while conducting research in the 1990s.
Cano gained international recognition at the time for his discovery that microorganisms could be brought back to life by extracting them from amber found in Myanmar, North America and Central America.
The microorganisms are able to lay dormant for long periods of time without air or food.
Through brewing experiments with collaborators, Cano has been able to take strains of yeast from the ancient amber and grow them. And he was interested in finding out how it could be used in food or drinks.
"Beer was the obvious product from an organism such as yeast," Cano said. "It was either that or bread. But beer seemed more adventurous."
Fossil Fuels Brewing Co., the beer company that he's formed with partners Chip Lambert, Joe Kelley and Scott Bonzell, now produces beer for sale primarily in Northern California bars and pubs.
Cano also has made the beer available for sale at Gennaro's Grill and Garden in San Luis Obispo — where he's a partner.
Fossil Fuels Brewing Co. has used Cano's initial extraction of yeast to grow a much larger batch that fills a warehouse in Northern California used in the beer-making process.
"Our main beer is a wheat beer, and we also have a pale ale, but we're really working on others, including an amber ale and an Oktoberfest," Cano said.
Of those beers popular in the mainstream market, Cano compares the taste most closely to that of Blue Moon.
Despite initial skepticism from some about the taste the beer would produce, Cano says the flavor turned out surprisingly good and unique.
Critics have described the taste as one with lots of spice, resembling cloves, along with tinges of ginger and pineapple.
One thing that makes the yeast different is its genetic makeup — which allows the beer to finish with a desirable clear color instead of a cloudy resolution because of how the prehistoric yeast strain ferments sugars, Cano said.
Cano wouldn't reveal information about annual sales, but he said the 2-year-old company currently produces about 20 barrels a month — a very small amount, but he has high hopes.
He says the biggest challenges to growing the company include continued development of quality styles of beers, forming a skilled management team and, most importantly, financing — including proper marketing and promotion.
The brewing is done at Kelley Brothers Brewing Co. in the Central Valley town of Manteca.
"I'd love to get some investors interested in expanding the company," Cano said. "I'm also interested in brewing it locally in San Luis Obispo."
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Re: How old is YOUR yeast?
I'm sure we can trace our yeast back quite a ways but it's mutated itself countless times over the milleniums.
From my standpoint, I like to get as much as I possibly can out of a tube or packet of yeast. I am making an Ofest this weekend utilizing a third generation WLP830 strain that is a yeast I have grown to love. I am planning to continue to harvest this liquid gold as long as it produces great beer. As far as the oldest strain... well that would have to be just under a year old. Starters are a wonderful thing when it comes to old yeast.
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Shouldn't they be brewing this stuff on an island off of Costa Rica? I mean, what might happen if those yeasties got loose?
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Quote from: hokerer on January 18, 2011, 07:34:00 pm
Jurassic Andromeda Yeast Strain! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!
More correctly - Paleogene Andromeda Yeast Strain AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!
(very cool story Denny, thanks for sharing!)
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I remember the yeast extraction story but had forgotten about it till now, thanks for the post Denny. I'd love to try the beer, curious if it's worth the bother. That said, here's a couple gripes about the story
1. has used Cano's initial extraction of yeast to grow a much larger batch that fills a warehouse in Northern California used in the beer-making process.
2. Cano compares the taste most closely to that of Blue Moon. At least he added "Of those beers popular in the mainstream market." I guess I hate it when people use Blue Moon as if it were a good example of Belgian Wit and not a mass produced pop version.
3. which allows the beer to finish with a desirable clear color instead of a cloudy resolution because of how the prehistoric yeast strain ferments sugars, Cano said hmm, flocculation, never heard of it
I know, only an ass picks apart a pr article, sorry.


1.	Cut the duck in half lengthwise, slicing through the carcass bones. Then cut each half into two pieces: the leg, and the breast with wing attached. Reserve the neck, gizzard, liver, and heart.
2.	Heat a large skillet or saucepan (with a lid), either nonstick of heavy aluminum, until hot. Place the duck pieces skin side down in one layer in the hot skillet. Sprinkle them with salt, dividing it equally among the duck pieces, and cook over high heat for 5 minutes. Lift the pieces to dislodge them from the skillet, and set them in the skillet again, skin side down.
3.	Add the duck neck and gizzard to the pan, cover, reduce the heat to low, and cook for 15 minutes. The duck will be cooking in a deep layer of fat, and its skin should be very brown at this point. Reduce the heat to very low, cover, and cook for 30 minutes more. Add the liver and heart, cover, and continue cooking for 5 additional minutes.
4.	Remove the duck pieces to a large tray, and keep them warm until serving time in a 170-degree oven. Pour the fat, which should total about 2 cups, from the skillet into a bowl, remove and reserve 1 tablespoon of it for the green salad, cool, and cover the remainder.
5.	Add the water to the solidified juices in the skillet and stir to melt. Reserve 1 tablespoon of the drippings to drizzle over the plated duck, and drizzle the rest over the duck pieces. 6.	Make the salad: Mix the red wine vinegar, salt, pepper, peanut or canola oil, and reserved duck fat in a bowl large enough to hold the greens. Add the greens and toss well.
7.	Divide the greens among four serving plates. Place a piece of duck along side each salad, drizzle the reserved pan juices over the salads, and serve immediately.
In this traditional Southern French preparation, Jacques Pepin cooks duck in much the same way as southern-fried chicken: deep-fried in a covered pot, so that the skin crisps in the duck's own fat and steam keeps the meat moist. Be sure to keep the rendered duck fat to use for saut�ing potatoes or flavoring soup; it may be refrigerated for up to two months.


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A Powerful Stock-Price Predictor
Exhaustive research shows that profit and revenue don't actually predict stock price, but some other, little-used metrics do.
David McCann
A new study provides perhaps the strongest evidence to date that certain human-capital metrics can predict a company's performance in the stock markets.
The research was nothing if not robust. Through extensive use of regression analysis, it tested the relationships between a set of human-capital metrics and stock-price movements at 22,100 companies over a 16-year period, 1996 through 2011.
A key finding of the study – performed by Jeff Higgins, CEO of the Human Capital Management Institute, and Pepperdine University professor Donald Atwater – may surprise investors, stock analysts and finance executives themselves.
Generally speaking, a company's net income and to a lesser extent revenue are considered the gold standards for shaping expectations of its stock's future performance. But the research found net income per full-time-equivalent employee (FTE) and net revenue per FTE – both commonly used financial metrics – to be the poorest predictors among the studied human-capital metrics. In fact, both are statistically insignificant, as is pure net profit without association with any human-capital metrics.
Instead, two metrics used by some human-capital analysts, but few other people, are powerful predictors of stock price, the research found. One, called "Return on Human Capital Investment" (Return on HCI), compares "Total Cost of Workforce" (TCOW) to net operating profit. (TCOW includes: all direct and indirect cash or equity compensation for employees and contingent workers; paid employee benefits, perks and rewards; retirement-related costs for both current and former employees; and costs for worker training, recruiting, employee relations, and severance and legal settlements.)
The other highly predictive metric is "Human Capital ROI Ratio." It measures the ratio of return on revenue (net of non-workforce expenses) to TCOW. For example, say a company has $1 billion in revenue and $800 million in total expenses, $500 million of which are people costs. To arrive at HC ROI ratio, subtract the $300 million nonpeople costs from revenue, leaving $700 million, and divide that by the $500 million in people costs.
In essence, the two metrics are different ways of measuring the percentage return on $1 invested in the work force, assuming all other factors remain constant. In the above example for Human Capital ROI Ratio, the result is expressed as 1.40, or a 40-cents positive return on the invested dollar.
Less predictive than those two metrics, but still statistically significant, are TCOW as a percentage of operating expenses and as a percentage of revenue.
"Everyone thinks net profit drives stock price," says Higgins, a former CFO, "and in my old finance world I thought so too. But what really drives stock price is productivity. Some might say Return on HCI and Human Capital ROI Ratio are synthetic profit metrics, but we see them as productivity metrics – the return on people's productivity. And when those numbers improve, your stock price jumps."
The study results are expressed in statistical language that's generally inscrutable to those who aren't academics or statisticians, and for the most part are given industry by industry rather than in the aggregate. At CFO's request, the authors provided some numbers quantifying the predictive power of human-capital metrics in more accessible terms.
On average, given a 10 percent gain in the three most predictive human-capital metrics – Return on HCI, Human Capital ROI Ratio and TCOW as a percentage of operating expense – stock price jumped by 5.73 percent. By comparison, a 10 percent boost in net income was associated with a stock-price increase of just 0.8 percent.
Among specific industries, the report says the wholesale-trade and financial-services sectors led the way with a 9.6 percent leap in share price when the human-capital metrics rise 10 percent. Next were arts and entertainment at 8.8 percent and manufacturing, 7.5%. At the other end of the spectrum, the utilities sector actually showed a 0.7 percent retrenchment.
In the financial-services sector, the three human-capital metrics taken together were 7.92 times more predictive than net income, the authors told CFO. In the transportation and warehouse sector, the predictability of those three metrics were 2.53 times more significant either profit or revenue per FTE.
Good performance in profit or revenue per FTE can actually mask otherwise dismal results. For example, the investment banking subsector of the financial services and insurance sector saw median revenue per FTE climb by 21.8 percent over the study period. But median Human Capital ROI Ratio dropped by 29 percent while TCOW ballooned by 47.5 percent, negatively affecting investment banks' share prices.
Those results, says Higgins – who got his start in the human-capital-management field when he left his finance career to take a job running compensation at IndyMac Bank – portray fewer and fewer high-earning employees getting paid an ever-larger share of industry revenue. It calls into question whether investment-bank shareholders have been properly rewarded for their investments, he notes.
Clearly, there are many reasons behind the rise and fall of stock prices, including macroeconomic ones not under a company's control. In addition to net income for each company, variables controlled for by regression analyses included real gross domestic product, bank prime loan rate, actual vs. natural unemployment rate, producer price index, consumer price index, industrial production index and S&P 500 index. The study found that even after controlling for those variables, human-capital metrics had significant predictive capability.
But even better was a model employing those factors plus the three most predictive human-capital metrics mentioned above. The model explained from 35% to 64% of movements in stock price, depending on industry sector, according to the study report.
Net profit by itself, without a connection to any human-capital metrics, explained only 1 percent of stock-price movements, the authors wrote.
"If there is an actual statistical or causal link [showing that] human-capital investments do indeed positively impact financial outcomes, then it forms the foundation for ROI-based business cases for [such investments]," the study report states.
The greatest predictive power for the human-capital data was found in the "administrative support and waste management/remediation services" sector. After that came: arts and entertainment; finance and insurance; health care; manufacturing; mining; professional, scientific and technical services; real estate, rental and leasing; transportation and warehousing; utilities; and wholesale trade.
The idea that human-capital metrics are linked with performance in the equity markets is not new. Groundbreaking research showing a link between training expenditures and stock price was done in the 1990s, and later updated to include additional such links, by Laurie Bassi, a labor economist who is CEO of consulting firm McBassi & Co. Other leaders in the field have included Jac Fitz-enz and Nick Bontis (Fitz-enz actually invented the Human Capital ROI Ratio metric).
Bassi, a registered investment advisor, since 2001 has been operating a fund, populated with stocks of companies known to be leaders in the field of human-capital management, that has significantly outperformed the S&P 500 index.
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10 responses to "A Powerful Stock-Price Predictor"
Dr Ioannis Moditis says:
The results of the research confirm the correctness and validity of Karl Marx's economic theory and the ultimate justification of the entire system of economics as outlined in his "Capital".
Johnson Nderi says:
That's quite a leap, isn't it? Productivity drives stock prices but doesn't necessarily mean that productivity is what gives stock value. Value is what the market says it is… I'm still with von Mises on this one.
Nilsuwan Leelarasamee says:
I believe "Everyone thinks net profit drives stock price" is the basic key decision to invest (price does not go down) and it is the basic fundamental rational to indicate price increment with time. If the price keeps on going either up or down, it is then the human factor that drives the price beyond the basic facts.
joseph G. Leria says:
May i know how to predict as well!
raul abejuela says:
i think productivity and profitability are not separate. but how can we predict? we cannot because companies only tell they are in dire straits after the fact when it is already too late. so win some and lose some is the rule.
jhhjbhjgb says:
otwarta says:
I am a little confused. These "two" indicators appear to be not much different…
HC ROI =
= (revenue – other costs)/TCOW
= (revenue – total costs + TCOW)/TCOW
= (net profit + TCOW)/TCOW
= net profit / TCOW + 1
= Return on HCI + 1
Very interesting insights… I'd, however, like to see a wider research. This one may suffer from winner's bias i.e. if we included companies that collapsed, is the outcome consistent with the argument?
Mads Anker Buchter says:
So basically they are saying, that keeping the cost of your workforce low is good for a company and the price of its stocks. Not really earth shattering insight.
Georgio says:
Market averages have already assumed this factors and countless other factors than you are not aware of now and you will discover in the future. Therefore investors take it from there and the share price is then subject to greed/fear and supply/demand for price calculation.
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This is a nice street in the city, with the same benefits others in the neighborhood , including businesses and some housing options. There is nothing more calm than a Brooklyn street, as there is nothing more common than the things on this one. This is by no means the most exciting street in the city, but many people feel very happy calling this street home.


Want to break some ice in Iceland? As I am always encouraging black women to explore the world outside the United States, I finally get to discuss Iceland, first in a series about Scandinavia. Before you envision a permanent frozen tundra, be aware that the temperature in Iceland is closer to that of the US Atlantic Seaboard. Anyone from Maine to Virginia should be used to the winter weather and elements experienced with cold. Iceland gets all four seasons. And there is a warm current from the Gulf Stream so you are actually able to withstand the temperatures. There is a lot of darkness in the winter, but midnight sun brings light in the summer for long days.
My husband is great for so many reasons. But tonight, it's because his hands are in my fro! It feels like the good 'ol days when I'd spend hours in front of the television as my sister would braid extensions into my hair. Oh, the nostalgia!
You may remember Mirriam Simasiku-Kim as she was featured in an earlier post about African women married to Korean men living in Korea. Well, Mirriam is a scholar from Zambia who so candidly and profoundly debunks myths we have believed about Africa forever.
I found Krystal and Justin's wedding on WedLuxe Magazine. I could not take my eyes off this classy couple and their Parisian and Versailles-themed wedding and reception.
We won't go so far as to say it will happen to everyone, but we WILL say that you're bound to find more than you bargain for – and we mean that in a good way – when you venture out past your own front door.
Brian Garner shares about his wife Keiraq: Keiraq and I have been together for 21 years and married for 19 of those. We first met at a Mexican restaurant in the Washington DC area in 1993. I was working as a cocktail waiter and she came in with a bunch of women with whom I was attending Howard University, but I did not know her.
What an adorable couple! I found Mark and Ebony Schoenfeldt while looking for a different Mark and Ebony. I was thrilled to find this beautiful couple on their photo shoot by Amanda Hedgepeth Photography.
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Quentin Skinner
Quentin Robert Duthie Skinner
(1940-11-26) 26 November 1940 (age 82)
Oldham, England
Patricia Law Skinner (div.)
Susan James
Wolfson History Prize (1979)
Balzan Prize (2006)
Bielefeld Science Award [de] (2008)
Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
Peter Laslett
J. G. A. Pocock
Keith Thomas
J. L. Austin
Philip Pettit
School or tradition
Cambridge School
Christ's College, Cambridge
David Armitage
Mark Goldie
Karen Kupperman
Eric M. Nelson
James Tully
Peter N. Miller
Richard Tuck
Main interests
The Foundations of Modern Political Thought (1978)
Reason and Rhetoric in the Philosophy of Thomas Hobbes (1996)
Notable ideas
Cambridge School (intellectual history)
David Runciman
Raymond Geuss
Quentin Robert Duthie Skinner FBA (born 26 November 1940) is a British intellectual historian. He is regarded as one of the founders of the Cambridge School of the history of political thought. He has won numerous prizes for his work, including the Wolfson History Prize in 1979 and the Balzan Prize in 2006. Between 1996 and 2008 he was Regius Professor of History at the University of Cambridge. He is currently the Barber Beaumont Professor of the Humanities and Co-director of The Centre for the Study of the History of Political Thought at Queen Mary University of London.[1]
Quentin Skinner was born on 26 November 1940, the second son of Alexander Skinner (died 1979) and Winifred Skinner, née Duthie (died 1982). He was educated at Bedford School from the age of seven. Like his elder brother, he won an entrance scholarship to Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, from where he graduated with a double-starred first in history in 1962.[2] Skinner was elected to a fellowship of his college on his examination results, but moved later in 1962 to a teaching fellowship at Christ's College, Cambridge, where he remained until moving to the University of London in 2008. He is now an Honorary Fellow of both Christ's College and Gonville and Caius College.[2]
Skinner was appointed to a lectureship in the Faculty of History at the University of Cambridge in 1965.[2] He spent a sabbatical year at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton in 1974–1975, where he was invited to stay, and where he remained until 1979, when he returned to Cambridge as Professor of Political Science.[2] He was appointed to the post of Regius Professor of History in 1996, and in 1999 as pro-vice-chancellor of the university.[2]
In 1979 he married Susan James, later Professor of Philosophy at Birkbeck College London.[3] They have a daughter and a son, and four grandchildren. He was previously married to Patricia Law Skinner, who was later married to the philosopher Bernard Williams.[4]
Skinner has held a number of visiting appointments. He has been Visiting Fellow at the Research School of Social Science at the Australian National University (1970, 1994, 2006); Visiting Professor at Washington University in St. Louis (1982); Directeur d'Etudes Associé at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes (1987); Professeur Associé at Université Paris X (1991); Visiting Professor at the University of Leuven (1992); Visiting Professor at Northwestern University (1995, 2011); Professeur invité at the Collège de France (1997); Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (2003–04); Visiting Scholar at the Center for European Studies at Harvard University (2008); Laurence Rockefeller Visiting Professor at Princeton University (2013–14); Spinoza Visiting Professor at the University of Amsterdam (2014); Visiting Professor in the Global Fellowship programme at Peking University, Beijing (2017); and Visiting Professor at the University of Chicago (2017).
Skinner has delivered a number of prestigious lecture series, including the Gauss Seminars at Princeton (1980), The Carlyle Lectures at Oxford (1980), The Messenger Lectures at Cornell (1983), The Tanner Lectures at Harvard (1984), the Ford Lectures at Oxford (2003), the Clarendon Lectures at Oxford (2011), the Clark Lectures at Cambridge (2012) and the Academia Sinica Lectures in Taiwan (2013).[5]
Skinner has been a Fellow of the British Academy since 1981,[5] and is also a foreign member of a number of national academies, including the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1986),[5] the Academia Europaea (1989),[6] the American Philosophical Society (1997),[7] the Royal Irish Academy (1999),[8] the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei (2007),[7] the Österreichische Academie der Wissenschaften (2009), and the Royal Danish Academy (2015).[5] He has been the recipient of Honorary Degrees from the University of Aberdeen, University of Athens, University of Chicago, University of Copenhagen, University of East Anglia, Harvard University, University of Helsinki, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, University of Kent, University of Oslo, University of Oxford, Adolfo Ibáñez University (Santiago), University of St Andrews and Uppsala University.[7] He was awarded the Wolfson History Prize in 1979, the Sir Isaiah Berlin Prize of the British Political Studies Association in 2006, the Benjamin Lippincott Award (2001), the David Easton Award (2007) of the American Political Science Association, the Bielefeld Science Award [de] (2008) and a Balzan Prize (2006).[7] From 2009 until 2020, he was a member of the Balzan Prize Committee.[9][10]
Skinner is regarded as one of the founders of the 'Cambridge School' of the history of political thought, best known for its attention to what J. G. A. Pocock has described as the 'languages' in which moral and political philosophy has been written.[11] Skinner's contribution has been to articulate a theory of interpretation in which leading texts in the history of political theory are treated essentially as interventions in on-going political debates, and in which the main focus is on what individual writers may be said to have been doing in what they wrote.[12]
This emphasis on political writing as a form of action derives from developments in ordinary language philosophy made by Ludwig Wittgenstein and J. L. Austin.[13][14] Wittgenstein's insight was (in Skinner's words) "that we should stop asking about the 'meanings' of words and focus instead on the various functions they are capable of performing in different language games".[15] Skinner takes Austin to have extended Wittgenstein's argument in isolating the concept of a speech act, described by Skinner as the notion that "whenever we use language for purposes of communication, we are always doing something as well as saying something".[16] According to Skinner, this means that any analysis that restricts itself to merely studying what a past thinker said on a given issue is incomplete. Historians must also recover what a thinker hoped to achieve in saying it.[17]
Skinner consequently proposes a form of linguistic contextualization that involves situating a text in relation to other texts and discourses. In this perspective, the text is a response to other thinkers, texts or cultural discourses. Skinner believes that ideas, arguments and texts should be placed in their original context. One consequence of this view is an emphasis on the necessity of studying less well-known political writers as a means of shedding light on the contemporary debates these classic texts contributed to. In this way, it becomes possible to decipher the original purpose of a text. To Skinner, then, texts are seen as weapons or tools that can, for example, be used to support, discredit, or legitimize specific social and political arrangements.[18] In its earlier versions this added up to a critique of the approach of an older generation, and particularly of Leo Strauss and his followers.[12]
Empirical focus
Skinner's historical work has mainly focused on political thinking in early-modern Europe. He has written a book on Niccolò Machiavelli, three books on Thomas Hobbes, and his Foundations of Modern Political Thought covers the whole period. He has specifically been concerned with the emergence of modern theories about the nature of the state, and with debates about the nature of political liberty.[7]
When Skinner was interviewed by Alan Macfarlane, as part of his series of online conversations with academics, Skinner admitted that he had been a member of the Cambridge Apostles, a secret debating society in Cambridge University. He also revealed that Amartya Sen was a member at the same time. Sen mentioned their membership of the Apostles in his memoir Home in the World.[19] He commented that they had both been "outed" in a book published about the Apostles some time before.[20]
On 6 October 1995, Skinner's Foundations of Modern Political Thought was included in the list published by The Times Literary Supplement of 'The 100 Most Influential Books since World War II'.[21]
On 14 May 2009, Times Higher Education, in an article about Skinner's move from Cambridge to the University of London, spoke of Skinner's republicanism, reporting that this led him to refuse a knighthood he was offered when he became Regius Professor of History at Cambridge.[22]
The Balzan-Skinner Lectureship, renamed the "Quentin Skinner Fellowship in Intellectual History since 1500", was established in 2009 at the University of Cambridge. The Quentin Skinner fellow holds a visiting fellowship at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities for one term of the academic year, which culminates in the Quentin Skinner Lecture and an associated symposium.[23]
Principal publications
Main article: List of works by Quentin Skinner
1. The Foundations of Modern Political Thought: Volume I: The Renaissance, Cambridge University Press, 1978. ISBN 978-0-521-29337-2 (Translated into Arabic, Chinese, French, Greek, Italian, Korean, Japanese, Persian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Turkish.)
2. The Foundations of Modern Political Thought: Volume II: The Age of Reformation, Cambridge University Press, 1978. ISBN 978-0-521-29435-5 (Translated into Arabic, Chinese, French, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Persian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish.)
3(a). Machiavelli, Oxford University Press, 1981.
3(b). Machiavelli: A Very Short Introduction [A revised version of 3(a)], Oxford University Press, 2000. ISBN 978-0-19-285407-0 (Translated into Albanian, Arabic, Chinese, Czech, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Kurdish, Malay, Polish, Persian, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish.)
3(c). Machiavelli: A Very Short Introduction [a new and updated edition of 3(b)], Oxford University Press, 2019. ISBN 978-0-19-883757-2
4. Reason and Rhetoric in the Philosophy of Hobbes, Cambridge University Press, 1996. ISBN 978-0-521-59645-9 (Translated into Chinese, Italian, Portuguese.)
5. Liberty before Liberalism, Cambridge University Press, 1998. ISBN 978-1-107-68953-4 (Translated into Chinese, French, Greek, Italian, Korean, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish.)
6. Visions of Politics: Volume I: Regarding Method, Cambridge University Press, 2002. ISBN 978-0-521-58926-0 (Translated into Chinese, French, Italian, Korean, Persian, Polish and Portuguese, Spanish.)
7. Visions of Politics: Volume II: Renaissance Virtues (with 12 colour plates), Cambridge University Press, 2002. ISBN 978-0-521-58926-0 (Translated into Italian.)
8. Visions of Politics: Volume III: Hobbes and Civil Science, Cambridge University Press, 2002. ISBN 978-0-521-89060-1
9. L'artiste en philosophie politique (with 8 colour plates), Editions de Seuil, Paris, 2003. ISBN 978-2-912107-15-2
10. Hobbes and Republican Liberty (with 19 illustrations), Cambridge University Press, 2008. ISBN 978-2-912107-15-2 (Translated into Chinese, French, German, Portuguese, Spanish.)
11. La verité et l'historien, ed. Christopher Hamel, Editions EHESS, Paris, 2011. ISBN 978-2-7132-2368-6
12. Die drei Körper des Staates, Wallstein, Göttingen, 2012. ISBN 978-3-8353-1157-2
13. Forensic Shakespeare, Oxford University Press, 2014. ISBN 978-0-19-955824-7
14. From Humanism to Hobbes: Studies in Rhetoric and Politics (with 45 illustrations), Cambridge University Press, 2018. ISBN 978-1-107-56936-2
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Palonen, Kari (2003). Quentin Skinner: history, politics, rhetoric. Cambridge, UK Malden, Massachusetts: Polity Blackwell. ISBN 9780745628578.
Palonen, Kari (2004). Die Entzauberung der Begriffe: das Umschreiben der politischen Begriffe bei Quentin Skinner und Reinhart Koselleck. Münster: Lit. ISBN 9783825872229.
Brett, Annabel; Tully, James, eds. (2006). Rethinking the foundations of modern political thought. Cambridge, UK New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521615037.
Bocardo Crespo, Enrique, ed. (2007). El Giro contextual: cinco ensayos de Quentin Skinner, y seis comentarios. Madrid, Spain: Tecnos. ISBN 9788430945504.
Muscolino, Salvatore (2012). Linguaggio, storia e politica: Ludwig Wittgenstein e Quentin Skinner. Palermo: Carlo Saladino editore. ISBN 9788895346175.
Erben, Marcus (2013). Begriffswandel als Sprachhandlung der Beitrag Quentin Skinners zur Methodologie und Funktionsbestimmung der pädagogischen Geschichtsschreibung. Frankfurt, Main, Germany: Lang-Ed. ISBN 9783631643556.
Grygieńć, Janusz, ed. (2016). Quentin Skinner: Metoda historyczna i wolność republikańska. Toruń: Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika. ISBN 978-83-231-3562-3.
Dawson, Hannah; de Dijn, Annelien, eds. (2021). Rethinking Liberty before Liberalism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781108948395.
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"The Paradoxes of Political Liberty", The Tanner Lectures on Human Values, Harvard University, 1984
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Sins of a Historian. An academic discussion on the problem of anachronism including a large exposition of Skinner's methodological views by Sami Syrjämäki.
"Quest for Freedom – A Conversation with Quentin Skinner", Ideas Roadshow, 2014
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Project built with Jersey + Guice and uses Akka to glue services in whole system. I use separate transaction across call to another service to avoid long-running transactions. I use Hibernate as ORM and Postgres as DB.
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Sep 13 2020 September 13, 2020 September 13, 2020 4Comments by Administrator
Two new factories to produce pharmaceuticals and tyres to be set up in Hambantota district – Minister
Irrigation, Internal Security, Home Affairs and Disaster Management Minister, Chamal Rajapaksa unveiled plans to start a new pharmaceuticals factory in the Hambantota district to produce medicines locally.
In addition, a new facility to produce tyres will also be established in the district. Rubber is being grown in the Katuwana, Middeniya and Sooriyawewa areas of the region. However, instead of giving a boost to the local industry, the previous government was comfortable with merely importing rubber from Malaysia, the Minister told a meeting at Tissamaharama recently.
He said the proposed diversion of the Gin ganga and Nilwala ganga is on the cards as it will help farmers in a big way to cultivate their fields during both the Maha and Yala seasons.
"We need to encourage farmers to use carbonic fertilizer as far as possible", Minister Rajapaksa stressed.
"It was during our tenure of government that we built an airport and a sea port in Hambantota. The previous regime failed to develop these two facilities to attract more business", he further said.
The Minister said that a commercial aircraft pilot has an income of Rs. 500,000 monthly while an executive chef of a five-star hotel such as Shangri-la earns a monthly salary of Rs.150,000. There are more such jobs the youth of Hambantota and adjoining districts can easily fit into after undergoing training.
Continuing, he noted that the government has already restricted the import of 16 non-essential consumer commodities which can be produced locally. This gives an opportunity to local farmers to earn a substantial income by cultivating these crops.
The education sector is also being reformed on par with modern trends. An educated generation should be raised to take over the country's future, he emphasized.
There is no fear psychosis in the country after President Gotabaya Rajapaksa was elected to office, the Minister added, while however cautioning that certain politicians defeated by the people are trying to fuel flames of racism.
(Source: The Island – By Raja Waidyasekara)
4 Responses to Two new factories to produce pharmaceuticals and tyres to be set up in Hambantota district – Minister
Gamini says:
Have not seen any factory being built in SL for more than 20 years.
Only factories are in the apparel industry.
Indra says:
I am usually a supporter of this government. But I cannot stop asking the question, why Hambantota? Hambantota already has a port and airport. It is up to the people as well as the government to work hard to develop the area. The solution is not piling up this and that since it is PM's seat.
Leila Matthew says:
Hey Indra,
The answer is simple.
Hambantota is the land of ruling dynasty.
Loci says:
Which of the factories being put up in Hambantota?
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Eiler Tage Schiöler, född 23 augusti 1883 i Varnhems församling, Skaraborgs län, död 15 oktober 1967 i Kalmar, var en svensk väg- och vattenbyggnadsingenjör. Han var bror till Severin Schiöler.

Schiöler, som var son till godsägare Sören Schiöler och Otilia Beselin, avlade studentexamen 1902 och utexaminerades från Chalmers tekniska läroanstalt 1907. Han var anställd hos Göteborgs stads hamnstyrelse 1907, hos Örebro stads byggnadskontor 1907–1912, blev tillförordnad stadsingenjör i Kalmar stad 1912 och var ordinarie innehavare av denna befattning 1913–1948. Han utgav Befästningslinjerna kring Kalmar gamla stad: En studie över de senare årens utgrävningsarbeten, sammanställda med äldre befästningskartor för Kalmar (1935).

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Fort Lauderdale, FL (March 22, 2020) – Strengthening its top leadership, Florida-based Air Pros Residential and Commercial Air Conditioning Services (Air Pros) today announced the appointment of Scott Harris as its vice president for Franchise Operations. In this role, Harris will lead franchise expansion into new markets and help implement brand-wide processes in existing franchise locations.
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Prior to joining Air Pros, Harris was Senior Vice President for EPPstone Capital where he led business development consulting and capitalization with funding for multiple multi-million-dollar projects. Harris was also a Regional Sales Manager in South Florida for Rewards Network, managing remote-based sales teams and creating new market opportunities. Previously, Harris held senior executive roles at Brooklyn Water Enterprises Ltd., Win Win Technologies Inc., System Technologies Inc., and more.
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Achemen are enemies from The Adventure of Link. This creature have the ability to shape shift from a Red Ache into a fire-breathing demonic form. Initially, Achemen resemble a Red Ache. However, once it lands on the ground, the monster will transform into a humanoid creature that is capable of breathing fire. After shooting fire at Link, the Acheman will transform back into bat form and return to the ceiling.
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Prague is Divided Over a Column Dedicated to the Virgin Mary
Marian Column on the Old Town Square, Prague destroyed by a mob in 1918 as symbolizing the Habsburg Monarchy.
The project to relocate a column dedicated to the Virgin Mary in the historic center of Prague (Czech Republic), destroyed at the time of the fall of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, is provoking lively debates and dividing the political class.
It was in the early 1650s that the Virgin's column was erected in the heart of Prague, in thanksgiving for a victory over the Swedes and Protestant troops during the Thirty Years' War.
It was knocked down in 1918, during the time of Czechoslovakian independence and the dismemberment of the Habsburg empire. An iconoclastic crowd knocked it over with the cry of "far from Vienna, far from Rome!" claiming to be freed as much from the Austro-Hungarian yoke as from the Catholic Faith.
Since then, the waters of the Moldau have continued to flow under the bridges of the city with a thousand steeples. A Catholic association, "for the revival of the Marian column," was founded after the fall of communism. It has united with the sculptor Petr Vana and fights to place his replica of the monument destroyed in 1918 in the heart of the city.
Whenever the project—supported by the Cardinal Archbishop of Prague, Bishop Dominik Duka—has obtained a building permit from the state, the city council has opposed it and voted against its reinstallation.
The controversy continues to grow, because the building permit expires in July: the association defending the column has already tried to get the mechanical shovel in to dig a few shovels-full, but in vain, because the police intervened, blocking access to the site.
The future 60 ton-column waits peacefully in the holds of a boat anchored on the shores of the Moldau. May the Kafkaesque drama being played out at the foot of Prague Castle be unraveled for the greater glory of Mary.
(Source : La Croix - FSSPX.Actualités - 08/07/2019)
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André Nelis  est un skipper belge né le  à Borgerhout et mort le  à Anvers.

Il est vice-champion olympique de voile en Finn aux Jeux olympiques d'été de 1956 à Melbourne et médaillé de bronze aux Jeux olympiques d'été de 1960 à Rome. il termine dixième aux Jeux olympiques d'été de 1964 à Tokyo.

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The Democratic congressional representatives mocked and jeered their Republican colleagues in Congress yesterday, after the final vote was tallied to repeal Obamacare via the American Health Care Act (AHCA). What did they do?
They sang some of the lyrics to the song, "Goodbye," and waved good-bye to their colleagues, insinuating that the Republicans sealed their political careers with their vote to repeal Obamacare.
And the DC political class wonders why people hate them.
I understand that Democrats not only didn't like the way this bill was passed — without any estimates on what it might cost or how many people might lose coverage as a result — but also believed the policies contained in it would leave the country and its people considerably worse off.
That is a worthy conversation to have. But, that's not what Democrats were doing. Instead, they were jeering and mocking their colleagues.


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It's the Year of the Pig and everyone is celebrating at Disney California Adventure at the Disneyland Resort. For the first time, guests will be able to see the Three Little Pigs (Fiddler, Fifer, and Practical) in Mulan's Lunar New Year Procession. And of course, there is little Mushu as well as a bunch of other Disney characters on hand to celebrate.
Disneyland always prepares special food items for their celebrations and this is no exception. Pick up a Sip and Savor pass so you'll be able to sample a wide variety of food from various countries. Personally, I can highly recommend the Stir-fried Vegetables & Pineapple with Soy Protein at the Lucky 8 Lantern. Just thinking about it I want to go back for more! And definitely try the Raspberry Lychee Chia Tea (non-alcoholic) at the Red Dragon Spice Traders. With the Sip and Savor pass, you can go to any of the food kiosks celebrating the Lunar New Year in DCA and sample whatever you want. Of course, if you don't want to purchase a pass ($36 for annual passholders and $39 for non annual passholders) you can still purchase the individual food and drinks. As Gary Maggetti, General Manager of DCA West, told a group of media, "It's the Year of the Pig-Out." And with all the food the chefs have created, that is definitely the case.
There are plenty of things to do during the Lunar New Year Festival. There is an area where guests can create their own paper lantern, there is a Lucky Wishing Wall where guests write their wishes for the upcoming year on little pieces of paper then attach them to the wall, there are musical performances (Dat Ngyuen and the performing group from China called Melody of China) and there is the colorful and musical Mulan's Lunar New Year Procession.
The procession has several of the Disney characters along with Mulan and Mushu, but there are also Asian dances and music. It's truly a delightful way to immerse guests in the Asian cultures and the spirit of the Lunar New Year.
And last but not least, guests will be inspired to purchase a special item to c ommemorate this event. Perhaps it will be the beautiful ears, a light-up lantern, some shirts or other items. The folks at Disney have come up with some great items to bring home to enjoy long after you leave the resort.
The Lunar New Year festival at the Disneyland Resort runs through February 17, 2019, so get down there soon to enjoy the sights, sounds, and of course the food and celebrate along with Mickey and Minnie.