It matters not if an asteroid hits the Earth or the economic collapses or a pandemic flu engulf the world or ….. or ….. .
A major emergency can cause anything from mild inconvenience to total societal breakdown.
" A quick overview of the Top Ten things to consider in preparing for Surviving 2012.
Follow me on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/newamericanow09 and Facebbok at http://www.facebook.com/newamericanow for daily news from around the world.
Free Speech: This is a right that you have anyway. The Parasites That Be (TPTB) don't give a flying fig if their slaves (you) have it or not. They ignore you anyway.
Climate Change: Durban Climate Change Convention (a gathering of scientists and national 'representatives' will) KEEP TALKING ABOUT IT – endlessly. Climate change is true – it's a naturally-ocurring phenomenon. Rising sea levels and rising temperatures aren't happening just now. However, TPTB will tax you to 'tackle' it.
Rush Limbaugh: Right-wing (U.S.A.) radio broadcaster and agent-provocateur comes undone after calling students who use contraceptives "sluts" (tens of major corporates have cancelled their advertising).
Vlad Putin: Accusations of rigged elections and approval by other world 'leaders'.
Gorilla DNA: Cambridge researchers are comparing human and gorilla DNA to work out why humans are stupid and gorillas are happy.
Dead British Soldiers: Six soldiers sacrificed to the Arms Trade (and the oil & gas industry). Hey, it's a war. What did you expect?
I have a little repair shop in Leeds. I try to be 'green'. I try not to sell packaged goods. I recycle all packaging. I recycle all metals. I stock environmentally sound products. I salvage working components for refurbishment & sale (throwing away perfectly good, working parts is madness). I minimise my fuel use. Etc. Etc. Etc. I do this for the Common Good.
After every weekend, I'm re sweeping up the broken glass from the road & pavements. Cyclists and pram-pushers are inconvenienced and relieved of their £££s (puncture repairs). Parents have to take extra care when walking their children. I do this for the Common Good.
I take out the bins for collection from households (i.e. students) so that they don't forget and resort to putting out bags of rubbish for the rats and foxes to plunder. I do this for the Common Good.
I don't care if you believe in climate change or not. That is not important.
Minimising our use of the Earth's resources is important. I'm just doing 'my bit.
The following is Deborah Williams' (from Kent Freedom Movement) clever comment on the greenness of today's society.
Emphasis in red are mine.
" Checking out at the store, the young cashier suggested to the older woman that she should bring her own grocery bags because plastic bags weren't good for the environment. The woman apologized and explained, "We didn't have this green thing back in my earlier days." The clerk responded, "That's our problem today. Your generation did not care enough to save our environment for future generations." She was right — our generation didn't have the green thing in its day.
Back then, we returned milk bottles, soda bottles and beer bottles to the store. The store sent them back to the plant to be washed and sterilized and refilled, so it could use the same bottles over and over. So they really were recycled. But we didn't have the green thing back in our day. We walked up stairs, because we didn't have an escalator in every store and office building. We walked to the grocery store and didn't climb into a 300-horsepower machine every time we had to go two blocks. But she was right. We didn't have the green thing in our day. Back then, we washed the baby's diapers because we didn't have the throw-away kind. We dried clothes on a line, not in an energy gobbling machine burning up 220 volts — wind and solar power really did dry our clothes back in our early days. Kids got hand-me-down clothes from their brothers or sisters, not always brand-new clothing. But that young lady is right. We didn't have the green thing back in our day.
Back then, we had one TV, or radio, in the house — not a TV in every room. And the TV had a small screen the size of a handkerchief (remember them?), not a screen the size of the state of Montana . In the kitchen, we blended and stirred by hand because we didn't have electric machines to do everything for us. When we packaged a fragile item to send in the mail, we used wadded up old newspapers to cushion it, not Styrofoam or plastic bubble wrap. Back then, we didn't fire up an engine and burn gasoline just to cut the lawn. We used a push mower that ran on human power. We exercised by working so we didn't need to go to a health club to run on treadmills that operate on electricity. But she's right. We didn't have the green thing back then.
Back then, people took the streetcar or a bus, and kids rode their bikes to school or walked instead of turning their moms into a 24-hour taxi service. We had one electrical outlet in a room, not an entire bank of sockets to power a dozen appliances. And we didn't need a computerized gadget to receive a signal beamed from satellites 2,000 miles out in space in order to find the nearest pizza joint.
1) CREATE A SEPARATION OF BUSINESS AND STATE – Let the businessmen run business, within the laws and public decency, subject to public controls, and harsh penalties. A conflict of interest is not something to be ignored.
The state should also not be sanctioning certain BIG business to the exclusion of medium and smaller businesses. A perfect example are the Federal Reserve Banks, which are government-sanctioned, quasi-private banking cartels acting against the public interest on at least seven counts.
2) REINSTATE CORPORATE CHARTERS – Make them earn the right to coexist with us. These laws were removed by corrupt politicians. If no penalty is harsh enough for them to behave, then put their right to exist on the line.
3) REFORM CAMPAIGN FINANCES – Every politician jokes/talks about doing this. We must ensure that it does get done. Make campaigns adhere to a FINITE amount of tax-supported money, equal to all candidates. No private "donations". After all, politics is not about money … right?
If people or entities want to give (excessive) sums to political parties, at least set up a BLIND POOL that they can contribute to. Altruistic donations should be unconditional. Isn't THAT the idea of true "giving"?
4) REFORM POLITICIANS' PAY – "Rich" does not mean "intelligent". Make pay reflective of performance, like any other job — or actually connect politician's pay to their performance statistics. In any case, they should not be so disconnected from "real life" that they are completely mystified by it or are rewarded when they make anti-social blunders.
5) TAKE MONEY OUT OF THE LOBBY – Bribery is illegal, and it should be the same within the political arena. "Rich" also does not mean "important", regardless of what the architects of our system would have you believe.
When such bribery is extreme, we get actions like the government giving the broadcast spectrum to certain television interests/networks and in return these television interests/networks support the election and agenda of the bribing politicians. After all, the highest line-item in a politician's campaign budget is prime-time network broadcasting.
6) OPEN "TOWN HALL" CENTERS – A place for your elected officials to meet with the People before making decisions "on their behalf". These structures exist in all communities. They are schools, churches, and they stand empty a good portion of the week. Let's put them to better use.
And when politicians aren't meeting people in person, why can't they be posting and emailing real people on the Internet and in the Newsgroups? Let's see some shirts rolled up and actual WRITTEN DEBATE happening — not ivory tower thinking and authoritarian speeches/books/TV talk-shows all the time. Words are cheap — especially words floating through the air. Lastly, the voting booth should be open on the weekend, so as to maximize the time a voting option is exposed to the public. And what about instant registration. Certainly this is a possibility in an electronic age.
7) REDUCE DEFENSE SPENDING – We've been sold a line, by the same people who profit from this spending. If you'd stop making enemies, and attempt peace, demilitarization would be possible. Hold the people and banks that finance wars and the creation of military hardware accountable. Why should anyone, or any entity, get to hide behind the scenes and profit while young men and women are giving their lives?
8) TAKE AWAY GOVERNMENT'S BLANK CHECK – Put Government spending under public jurisdiction, the People, part of the budgetary process. Don't just hand them the keys and walk away. That's stupid.
Unless citizens are willing directly ante-up with the tax money to fight a particular war, the activity is not all that important. When banks lend money to a government for war, yet withhold such loans to other governments, hasn't the power to determine the outcome of conflicts been transferred from the CITIZENS to the BANKS?
9) GET OFF OIL – Most of the conflicts in the world are over this naturally-occurring sludge, including the ones in question. Alternatives exist, but are suppressed, because the people in power are also intimately connected to the oil industry, and under the control of its lobby. Oil creates the conditions which produce terrorism. The earth is beginning to reject us, because of the unchecked environmental destruction caused by oil. This is a threat to our security.
At the current rate of power consumption/demand, the world's population must focus its attention on generating energy from PLASMA FUSION as no other alternative energy source (with the exception of ZERO POINT ENERGY) will suffice. The burning of fossil fuels is causing a greenhouse effect and MUST cease immediately. If this gets much more serious, none of the other events on this list will matter.
10) MEDIA REFORM IS VITAL – Before any of the above can be tackled, media needs to be reformed, because the same forces controlling the above, also control the media.
Read a book called, IT'S THE MEDIA STUPID, or INVENTING REALITY: THE POLITICS OF THE MASS MEDIA.
11) ENCOURAGE EXPLORATION – In the same spirit colonists explored and settled the "New World" which later hosted the United States and gave fuller bloom to the principles of liberty and democracy, we need to explore and colonize the Solar System, starting with Mars, so that the human race is not doomed to the fate of stagnation on but one celestial body in an infinite universe. Read, CASE FOR MARS by Robert Zubrin available at http://www.marssociety.org.
12) SECURE THE WORLD FROM EXTINCTION-LEVEL CATASTROPHE – The very real threat of being impacted by a meteor (as evidenced yesterday with the discovery of 2002 T-Whatever), or long-period comet, MUST be addressed because if this one event happens, none of the other events on this list will matter in the slightest. Some night look at the Moon and realize that for every impact crater you see there, the Earth has already experienced about 2 to 3 times as many (due to its larger mass). If the comet that hit Jupiter had impacted with Earth, you, and every person you know, would be dead right now. There is evidence that the number of comets and/or asteroids that will be hitting the Earth may be increasing because of the Solar System's 18-million year bob in its path around the galactic nucleus. There are an estimated 2,500 earth-crossing asteroids. We have only located about 250 of them. One could hit us tomorrow.
Just tell Southampton Council "There is no LAW which says I can't pick blackberries on this Common Land. Now get a real job you parasites.".
"Blackberry picking has been banned by a council which says it poses a risk to the environment.
Regular picker Alan Gibson, 47, who organises 'foraging picnics', was told by Southampton Council that picking any of nature's fruits on Southampton Common is not permitted.
Mr Gibson, who writes a blog on wild fruit picking, had been planning a foraging picnic on the common as part of an autumn harvest festival event.
But staff at the council's Hawthorns Wildlife Centre told him that blackberry picking was banned because the common was a Site of Special Scientific Interest. home to a population of endangered great crested newts.
Hawthorns centre staff later admitted that was not the case, but Mr Gibson says a manager insisted the blackberry picking ban stood.
He's now launched a campaign to fight the 'ludicrous' ruling, insisting that families should be allowed to exercise the ancient 'freedom to forage'.
'Picking fruit is a healthy, child-friendly activity,' Mr Gibson said. 'The common is a place that families have always gone to, to gather blackberries and nuts.
Mr Gibson has now appealed to the city's Court Leet, which has sat since the 14th century, to hear 'presentments' from citizens on matters of local concern, to clarify the legislation.
The court has no power to punish but exists as a forum for citizens to air their grievances, which are then passed on to the council.
A council spokesman said there were no laws which ban blackberry picking on the common but said that 'large scale blackberry or nut collecting would be inappropriate' if it damaged plants and habitat protected by wildlife legislation'.
'Well done' to them – we (in the UK) now need to think about The City Of London.
They have used the military and police force to prevent freedom of the press. They have deliberately declined to recall faulty products endangering lives in pursuit of profit.


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This is a model illustrating the indeterminacy of the concept of public goods.
While at first sight, the purpose of the model may appear to be to test congestion charge as a policy, the underlying idea is illustrate how the same model may be interpreted differently by selecting and weighing some data over other.
1. Would I like to drive to work?
2. Can I afford to?
This section could explain how to use the model, including a description of each of the items in the interface tab.
From a more practical policy-making point, the lesson is that people react to the result of policy, not to the problems solved by policy.
This section could give some ideas of things for the user to try to do (move sliders, switches, etc.) with the model.
Pollution and average passengers are currently hard coded (car pollution: 7, average passengers per car: 1.5; bus pollution: 50, average passengers per bus: 35).
This section could give the names of models in the NetLogo Models Library or elsewhere which are of related interest.
It is based on an example by Professor of Ideology Michael Freeden.
;; and the interpretation of policies.
travel-time-added                      ;; traffic congestion, how congested is traffic.
;; to go by car or bus.
wishes-to-drive?                       ;; would this person ideally drive today?
;; adding 1 to all turtle properties to avoid divide by zero errors. Look up how to set a range for random and correct this.
;; calculate median income for those who traveled by preferred and those who did not.
to decide ;; turtle procedure. Decide on whether to drive that day or not.
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A recent Court of Appeal ruling in Habberfield v Habberfield (2019) has upheld the High Court's decision to award £1.2 million to a daughter's claim for proprietary estoppel, following her detrimental reliance on her parents' assurances that she would one day inherit the family's dairy farm.
The dispute centred around a farm worth £2.5m which the claimant's parents had run in partnership. The claimant worked on the farm for 30 years on assurances from her father that she would take over the dairy unit when he retired and she would also inherit the whole farm when he and her mother (the defendant) both died.
In 2008 she declined an offer to run the farm in partnership with her parents, as she would have not been in control and her siblings' interference with the farm via their parents would have continued. Also, her husband was not offered an immediate partnership.
In 2013 she left the farm after a dispute with her sister. The father died in 2014 leaving the farm to his wife who closed the dairy unit. In 2016 the claimant sought to have the farm transferred to her. The High Court found that she had established an equity based on proprietary estoppel, having suffered a detriment in reliance on her father's assurances. The judge awarded her £1.2m to provide her sufficient funds to acquire a viable dairy unit and associated land.
In upholding this ruling, the Court of Appeal dismissed the mother's claims that an offer to her daughter was adequate or sufficient to act as a defence to her daughter's claim. In order to raise the money to settle the claim it required selling the farm including the house in which the mother still lives. As there was no evidence to show the mother would be left destitute, this did not mean that the financial award should be deferred until after the mother's death.
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PAST, PRESENT, FUTURE 2017:
Victory or Defeat? Societies between Warfare and Post-War Turmoil
Second biennial conference in the series Past, Present, Future
Juraj Dobrila University of Pula
Pula, Croatia, May 25-27, 2017
CALL FOR PAPERS (July 12, 2016)
SECOND CALL (December 1, 2016)
Deadline: January 1, 2017
Following the successful first conference in the series entitled Identity in Flux (May 2015) the Department of History is organizing the second in the series of conferences to tackle issues that challenge contemporary Europe by providing a historical context for their emergence and explaining the patterns of behavior that are common to different historical periods and are still relevant today.
War has always had a profound impact on society. From the beginning of recorded history, wars have forged, expanded and destroyed kingdoms and empires, helped give rise to religions and ideologies, given impulse to technological advancement and steered the course of history. Great battles and wars have attracted scholarly attention since the dawn of historiography and they frequently feature prominently in national narratives and origin myths of peoples all over the world. Political history tends to focus on the causes of wars as well as the peace treaties that put an end to warfare, whereas military history looks at the strategies, tactics and technologies employed during wars. Social history tries to determine how societies cope with the onset of military activities, loss of manpower, economic downturns or booms, destruction of infrastructure, pandemic outbreaks and so on. The European Union has been created in order to end wars on a continent that has a long history of violence.
The aim of this conference is to look at the aftermath of wars in history and the changes in society in the final phases of war and its aftermath. Can we speak of sudden transformations in the Greek world after the Peloponnesian war and the conquests of Alexander? How did Romans deal with their numerous veterans after the civil wars during the final decades of the Republic and what effect did it have on Roman society? How did Roman citizens react after the defeats of the empire at the hands of the barbarian conquerors? How did societies change in the wake of Carolingian conquests, the Crusades, the Mongol and Turkic invasions? The religious wars in Germany lasted for decades and the Ottoman Wars in the Balkans for centuries. How did this affect the population that may have grown completely unaccustomed to peace times? Napoleon shattered ancient empires and republics. How did their inhabitants deal with the sudden death of polities that lasted for centuries? The two world wars are the defining moments of the twentieth century with consequences that stretch to this day. How did winners and losers in the great conflicts deal with immense losses of the most productive part of the population or with the need to provide for the millions of wounded and disabled, the widows and orphans? What were the consequences on the mental health of soldiers and civilians? Can one even speak of clear winners and losers in wars? Were there attempts to heal the rifts between yesterday's mortal enemies? Who were the heroes and villains in post war narratives?
These are just a few of the myriad questions regarding the end and aftermaths of wars. In the Europe without borders and without wars, the answers from our past may help to better understand the present as well as to prepare us for the challenges in the future.
We invite historians and scholars of related disciplines to apply by submitting a proposal for papers (up to 1500 characters) with an accompanying brief biographical note to rkurelic[at]gmail.com (or past.present.future.pula[at]gmail.com) by January 1, 2017. Submissions from PhD students are also welcome. The papers should be approximately 15 minutes in length and sessions will include ample time for discussion. The working language of the conference is English.
The registration fee is 60 Euros (30 Euros for PhD students). Meals (lunches and dinners throughout the conference) will be provided by the Organizer.
1. Prof. Dr. Peter Heather (King's College, London)
2. Prof. Dr. Drago Roksandić (Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb)
3. Prof. Dr. Dubravka Stojanović (Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade)
Round table Defeats in Europe in the 19-20th Centuries with Prof. Dr. Catherine Horel, Prof. Dr. Dubravka Stojanović, Dr. Ivan Čolović and Prof. Dr. Drago Roksandić
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Past, Present, Future 2017: Victory or Defeat?
Sveučilište Jurja Dobrile u Puli / Juraj Dobrila University of Pula
Filozofski fakultet / Faculty of Humanities
Odsjek za povijest / Department of History
Dr. Robert Kurelić, Senior Assist., Head of the Organizing Committee
Dr. Davor Bulić, Post-doctoral Fellow
Dr. Danijela Doblanović, Senior Assist.
Dr. Igor Duda, Assoc. Prof., Head of the Department of History
Prof. Dr. Robert Matijašić
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There was a Question and Answer session with attorney Daniel Kahan of Morrison & Foerster LLP. In that session, he emphasized how the regulatory approach at the SEC is designed to let innovation flourish though it will only be possible if the company will not give complete clear guidelines for new kinds of businesses.
"The lack of bright-line rules allows regulators to be more flexible," she said.
She was also asked whether the entrepreneurs can or cannot run the business efficiently if the businesses conform to regulatory compliance. She replied the principles-based approach lets more opportunities to arise from new technology.
Szczepanik said that talks and negotiations with the SEC would yield better outcomes for companies. She also mentioned the case of Gladius, the regulatory action against the cybersecurity company defending against distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks.
SEC declared that no penalty or fine was imposed as the company self-reported and communicated with regulators during the investigation. She said stating the example of Gladius; the companies would work efficiently if their actions are backed by the regulator.
She also acknowledged the possibility of some companies going offshore in search of more lenient regulatory regimes. But as per her, the real growth opportunity lies in abiding the U.S. regulatory norms. "There are benefits to doing it the right way. And when they do that they will be the gold standard," she said.


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The Potiskum Emirate (or Pataskum Emirate) is a traditional state in Nigeria, with headquarters in Potiskum, Yobe State. The emir holds the title "Mai".

The emirate was founded in 1809 by the Ngizim people. In 1913 the British colonial rulers merged it into the Fika Emirate. In 2000 it was again made an independent emirate. Both the Fika and Potiskum emirates have their headquarters in the city of Potiskum.

Original emirate
The Potiskum Emirate was organized by the Ngizim people, who had subjugated the Karakare people.
The state was formed in 1809 by a Chief of the Ngizim named Mai Bauya or Buyan.
In the 19th century people of the Misau emirate often raided the Kerikeri country.
The Misau Emir Amadu (1834–1848) captured the capital, Potiskum. Usuman (1848–1861) and Sale (1861–1885) also raided the Kerikeri.
In 1901 the Potiskum Emirate became part of the British Northern Nigeria Protectorate.

Within Fika Emirate
The neighboring Fika Emirate had been founded by the Bolewa, said to be Kanembu in origin.
They moved to the area and subjugated the local Ngamo people, Kare kare people and Ngizim people.
Fika town, the traditional capital, is about  south of Potiskum.
The Emir of Fika is one of the 1st Class Emirs of the Colonial and present day Northern Nigeria.
In 1909 the western part of Potiskum was merged into the Fika Emirate, and on 13 May 1913 the eastern portion was also merged into Fika for administrative convince by the colonial rulers then.
At the time of merger the Fika Emirate had a population of 25,400 including Bolewa, Ngizimawa, Ngamawa, and Karekare people, with an area of .
The Potiskum Emirate had a population of 11,500 with an area of .

The Fika Emirate thus had authority over the Bolewa, Ngizim and Ngamawa people of Fina and Gadaka .

During World War I (1914–1918) there was some unrest against the colonial rule.
In 1915 Potiskum town by the then ruler of Potiskum (Ngizim) .
The ruler was deposed  by the British. He managed to hold Potiskum for some time before government troops accompanied by dogarai from Fika defeated him in late May 1915.
In the 1920s the main east-west road was built through Potiskum, which became a commercial and political center.
The emir's court moved to Potiskum in 1924.
In the 1950s the Ngizim and Karekare Union political association represented the subject people of Bornu province, allied with the Northern Elements Progressive Union (NEPU).
The ruling Bolewa tribe was identified with the dominant Northern People's Congress (NPC).

The Potiskum emirate was recreated by Yobe State governor Bukar Ibrahim on 5 August 1993, when he split the state's four emirates into 13. This change was reversed by the military regime of Sani Abacha that took control later that year.

Modern emirate
In his second term after the return to democracy, on 6 January 2000, Yobe Governor Bukar Ibrahim re-implemented the new emirates, adding Gazargamo, Gujba, Nguru, Tikau, Pataskum, Yusufari, Gudi, Fune and Jajere.
There had been only four emirates when Yobe State was created.
Now there were thirteen.
The Emir of Fika, Muhammadu Abali, protested at the break-up of his emirate and took the government to court, but eventually accepted the change.

In May 2007 the Emir of Potiskum, Umaru Bubaram Ibn Wuriwa Bauya, thanked the people for contributing N32 million of the N51 million used to build his new palace.
The ultra-modern palace was commissioned by outgoing Governor Bukar Ibrahim.
The palace was the scene of a gathering in January 2009 of political leaders including Senate President David Mark, former Senate Presidents Anyim Pius Anyim and Adolphus Wabara and many more, paying tribute to the governor of the state, Senator Mamman Bello Ali who had just died.
In June 2010 the Emir of Potiskum gave the title of "Turakin Potiskum" to the state's former commissioner of finance, Alhaji Mohamed Hassan, in recognition of his contributions to the development of the state.
In March 2011 Emir Umaru Bubaram gave his support to the campaign of Ibrahim Geidam for a second term as Yobe governor on the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) platform.

In July 2010 Emir Umaru Bubaram supported a proposal by the Emir of Fika, Muhammadu Abali, to convert the old Potiskum Prison into a museum.
In August 2012 during Ramadan the Pataskum Emirate Council distributed bags of millet and guinea corn to needy people under the Islamic Zakat program.
The food had been donated by people of the emirate.

Attacks
In May 2012 more than thirty people were killed in an attack in the Potiskum Market.
At first linked to Islamist insurgent group Boko Haram, it was later thought that armed robbers were responsible.
Emir Umaru Bubaram visited the scene and condemned the attack.

Boko Haram
A mass shooting occurred at a church in Potiskum on 25 December 2012.

On 3 November 2014, a suicide bombing at a Shia march in Potiskum killed 15 people. On 10 November, a suicide bombing in a Potiskum secondary school caused the death of over 40 students. An angry mob refused to give soldiers or the State Police Commissioner access to the scene of the incident.
The emirs of Fika and Potiskum said they had called on elders in their respective domains to educate the mob on the need to allow security personnel to operate.

On 5 July 2015, five people and the attacker were killed in a suicide bombing in Potiskum.

On 14 January 2020, a convoy of the Emir of Potiskum Umaru Bubaram and other travellers were attacked by gunmen on Kaduna-Zaria road causing the death of 30 people including four of the emir's aides. The emir escaped unharmed by quickly leaving his vehicle on the scene of the attack and trekking in the bush for two hours.

Rulers
From 1809 to 1858 the rulers took the title Kachalla. They were:

1809–1817 Bauya I
1817–1820 Awany (Awani)
1820–1825 Kuduskunai
1825–1830 Dungari (Dangari)
1830–1832 Dawi (Dowi)
1832–33 Darama (Kunancibai)
1833–34 Mele
1834–35 Malam Bundi I (died 1835)
1835–1856 Mizgai
1856–1858 Jaji I

From 1858 the rulers took the title "Mai". They were:

1858–1866 Nego (Nejo)
1866–1893 Namiyanmda (Numainda)
1893–1902 Gabau (Gubbo)
1902–1909 Bundi II
1909 – 13 May 1913 Agudum

Rulers under the Fika emirate were:

1913–1919 Jaji II (1st time)
1919–1924 Vungm
1924–1927 Gankiyau
1927–1933 Bundi III
1933  (3 months) Jaji II (2nd time)
1933–1957 Bauya  II
1957–1984 Hassan
1984–1993 Shuaibu

Rulers of the Pataskum emirate from 1993 to 1995 were:
5 June 1993 (53 days) Muhammad Atiyaye (b. 1934 – d. 1993)
5 August 1993 – 11 June 1995 Umaru Bubaram Ibn Wuriwa Bauya (b. 1942)
After an interregnum from 1995 to 2000, the emirate was restored on 6 January 2000.
Rulers since then:
6 January 2000 – Umaru Bubaram Ibn Wuriwa Bauya (restored)

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SALT LAKE CITY, April 11 (UPI) -- Elections officials in Utah said Republican presidential contender Newt Gingrich may be left off the primary ballot because his campaign's check bounced.
Utah Elections Director Mark Thomas said a representative of the Gingrich campaign turned in the filing papers and a $500 check in March but the state recently heard from the issuing bank that the check had insufficient funds, The Salt Lake Tribune reported Wednesday.
Thomas said his office has attempted to contact Gingrich's campaign using the provided phone number, but has yet to receive a response.
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The Latest Clinton Emails: Five Must-Reads for a Peek into Hillary's Personal Life: Homeland, Hairstyles, Naomi Watts and More
Find out who Hillary Clinton nicknamed "Mittens"
By Tierney McAfee
Credit: Randy Holmes/ABC
From a quest for a "fishtail bun" tutorial to an inquiry about what channel Homeland is on, the latest court-ordered release of Hillary Clinton's private emails gives us the biggest glimpse yet into her personal life.
The roughly 7,800 pages of emails released on Monday are full of fun tidbits and celebrity name-drops for politi-philes and laymen alike to geek out over.
Here are the highlights:
1. Clinton's nicknames for Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich are nothing short of hilarious.
In a January 2012 note to confidant Sid Blumenthal, Clinton refers to Romney as "Mittens" and Gingrich as "Grinch."
"If Mittens can't beat Grinch in Florida, there will be pressure on state Republican parties to reopen or liberalize ballot access," she wrote in reference to the Florida GOP primary.
2. Clinton searched for videos on how to do a fishtail bun hairstyle.
Clinton has long laughed off criticism about her hair – but it turns out she really does care.
A January 2013 email to a staffer includes a link to instructions on how to make a fishtail bun. "Pls print," Clinton instructed the staff member.
3. Clinton watches Homeland – when she can find it.
In an October 2012 email to aide Philippe Reines titled "Stupid question," Clinton asks where she can watch Showtime's political thriller series Homeland.
Hillary Clinton Opens Up to PEOPLE About Becoming a Grandmother
"Hey, I need some help," Clinton writes. "Do you know what channel on the TV in DC is the program listing? And, specifically, what channel number is Showtime?" She quickly follows up with another email: "Because I want to watch Homeland."
Reines replies, "If you have Comcast, it's channel 339 or 340 (one is HD and one isn't) If you don't have Comcast, I can look it up." Clinton's reply: "You won't be surprised to hear I'm not sure."
4. Clinton couldn't resist name-dropping Naomi Watts to former U.S. Ambassador Joseph Wilson.
She clearly couldn't wait to share the juicy anecdote, writing right in the subject line of a December 2012 email: "I met Naomi Watts last weekend and we talked about you and Valerie and how amazing you both are!"
(Watts played Wilson's wife, Valerie Plame – a former CIA officer whose identity was infamously leaked in a 2003 Washington Post column – in the 2010 film "Fair Game.)
5. When Steven Spielberg calls, Clinton answers.
The Oscar-winning director wanted to speak with Clinton ahead of his meeting with Israeli President Shimon Peres, and she obliged.
"SS has lunch tomorrow with Shimon Peres and sent HRC an email to see if she has a minute to talk between now and then?" wrote Andy Spahn, the former head of corporate affairs and communications for DreamWorks SKG.
Capricia Marshall, State's chief of protocol, forwarded the message to Clinton and aide Huma Abedin: "Fyi – Steven Spielberg hoping to chat with you."
"Capricia – call set up for noon tomorrow," Abedin wrote back.
And one more for the road: Clinton once wrote to her daughter using Chelsea's top secret pseudonym – Diane Reynolds.


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THE PASADENA PLAYHOUSE TO MOVE THE SECOND PRODUCTION OF THE 2016-2017 SEASON AND WILL CONTINUE WITH A CINDERELLA CHRISTMAS
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THE PASADENA PLAYHOUSE TO MOVE THE SECOND PRODUCTION OF
THE 2016-2017 SEASON AND WILL CONTINUE WITH A CINDERELLA CHRISTMAS
PASADENA, CA (September 21, 2016) – The Pasadena Playhouse announced today it will move the second production of its 2016-2017 Season to a later date in 2017 and will be cancelling M. BUTTERFLY. The decision was made after The Playhouse was unable to secure rights to present the play later in its season due to the Broadway revival in Spring 2017. Due to several production elements and without the rights for a later date, The Playhouse is cancelling the previously announced M. BUTTERFLY and has begun the planning to replace the production later in the 2016-2017 season.
The season will continue with the Panto at The Playhouse production of Lythgoe Family Panto's A CINDERELLA CHRISTMAS in December. Tickets for the holiday show are currently on sale.
In a joint statement from Artistic Director Sheldon Epps and Executive/Artistic Director Danny Feldman said: "The Pasadena Playhouse is committed to bringing the best theatrical experience to its stages for our audiences. While we are disappointed that we could not present M. BUTTERFLY, we are working to find another production to add to our 2016-2017 Season."
The scheduling change gives the added opportunity for Epps and Feldman to work closely together on all aspects of the 2016-2017 Season's programming, including creative vision and casting. Mr. Feldman will identify new works and world premieres to add to The Playhouse offerings in the coming seasons. Mr. Epps added, "We will also take the opportunity to introduce Mr. Feldman to The Playhouse family and the Pasadena community through a series of meetings and informal gatherings."
M. BUTTERFLY was scheduled as the second presentation (October 25 – November 20, 2016) of the subscription offering for The Playhouse's 2016-2017 Season. A replacement production will be added later in the season and announced in the coming weeks.
Built on a tradition of innovation and excellence, The Pasadena Playhouse is committed to be the premiere theatrical experience in Southern California showcasing the most exciting theatrical entertainment in the state and for launching new work onto the national stage. The Pasadena Playhouse, the State Theater of California, will celebrate its Centennial Anniversary in 2017.
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look up Nitz in the urban dictionary for me. That made no sense at all.
you have to give us a hint.
you should read the rules you are supposed to use a move.
there are thousands of rpgs. it could be anything!
It has to be a move.
yes nightcore sry for the if i was late i had to do stuff.
here we go.. Btw it's an amazing anime. After watching it, I still think about it. I wish it had more episodes though and a movie at least.
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Very often a nation's growth is measured just by its economic performance, leading its government to focus on and celebrate corporate successes. But this approach leaves the more fundamental aspects of society unaddressed, a major one being the collective health of the people. Despite the rapid growth of the private sector, the government has been unable to employ its services in providing quality healthcare across all segments of society. And we need to ask why!
Despite the rapid growth of the private sector, the government has been unable to employ its services in providing quality healthcare across all segments of society.
Universal healthcare in India remains a distant reality, as demand and supply in healthcare services still show a significant gap in urban and rural areas. The two primary needs of healthcare in the country—affordability and accessibility—remain unmet. For India's economically and geographically diverse population, universal health care is mandatory to offer protection from healthcare catastrophes and to improve accessibility.
Even though universal healthcare is primarily a responsibility of the government, its exacting nature makes it difficult for any one sector to undertake it effectively. Therefore, it is imperative for the government to foster an environment that enables the growth of Public-Private Partnerships (PPP), with the corporate sector and NGOs in order to ensure that healthcare services reach all sections of society.
Public-private partnership has proven to be one of the most feasible financial mechanisms to facilitate growth in the Indian healthcare system. India has tailored its fair share of successful PPPs in the healthcare sector. There are numerous examples. Rajiv Gandhi Super-Specialty Hospital, Karnataka, saw the Government of Karnataka and Apollo Hospital jointly venturing to provide super-specialty clinical care services and management of the hospital, along with free outpatient services for BPL patients. Another example is of rural healthcare delivery and management of PHCs in Arunachal Pradesh, in which the Government of Arunachal Pradesh contracted in Karuna Trust for management of 11 PHCs and provision of healthcare facilities to the local population.
Others examples of PPP include Merry Gold Health Network (MGHN) and SAMBHAV voucher scheme in UP, Community Health Insurance Scheme in Karnataka, Mobile Health Service in West Bengal and Arogya Raksha Scheme in Andhra Pradesh, among many other.
Although it's been successful many times, PPP remains widely untapped, as it still lacks immersion in the mainstream aspects of healthcare. Encouraging PPP for training, medical education, diagnostic equipment and preventive care delivery requirements will promote efficient use of corporate resources for public health.
To deal with the challenges of budget constraints, the government could adopt a balanced mix of PPP in health insurance coverage.
On the government's part, it is imperative to provide adequate financial room to give legitimacy to the efforts of the private sector in delivering health services at affordable rates. The upcoming general budget can be leveraged in this context by prioritising health and giving it due importance in terms of budget allocation. Analysis of global evidence on health spending reveals that unless a country spends at least 5–6% of its GDP on health, basic healthcare needs are hard to meet. Furthermore, to deal with the challenges of budget constraints, the government could adopt a balanced mix of PPP in health insurance coverage.
In addition to this, strong adherence to standard treatment guidelines needs to be ensured in both public and private hospitals to maintain an acceptable level of quality and accountability in provision of care—this will help strengthen policy and surveillance in the Indian healthcare system. PPP can further be employed in delivering primary healthcare across all tiers and assist in leveraging existing infrastructure and schemes. Collaborative public-private partnerships will bridge the gap in healthcare demand and supply, by extending PHCs to tier-2 and tier-3 cities. While the government can provide the infrastructure, private players can appoint staff, put equipment in place and maintain them.
Building capacity by allowing collaboration of public and private healthcare facilitates broader access to quality healthcare. With the 2017 Union budget around the corner, the government needs to take into account such mechanisms to coherently analyse the health funds and make the most of the budget confines.
Orchestrating practicable public-private partnerships will not only help in enhancing delivery for better accessibility but will also offer affordability to a wider population by providing innovative coverage options. The government must encourage an environment that allows PPP to grow for the overall development of the health sector in India. It is a win-win situation for all, most of all for the patients.


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Features August 2015 Issue
A Closer Look at the Rationale Behind the Ratios
Breaking Down 'Performance'
A look at what performance means and its allies and enemies.
Photos by Ralph Naranjo
Some offshore racing details for light-air sailing, like two headsails and a powerful main, can be applied to cruising boats, too.
When it comes to sailboats, "performance" is a relative term, especially when it comes to a crew's concept of how the boat will be used. Racing sailors, cruisers, and daysailors each have very different perspectives on performance. For example, those facing a light-air, around-the-buoys race measure performance in terms of how well their speed through the water holds up against the decrease in true-wind speed. Cruisers, on the other hand, especially those crossing oceans, often define it as a measure of versatility under sail, not just how a boat copes with near calms or gales, but how it performs in everything in between.
Ancillary factors such as directional stability, vessel motion, and heeling angle affect the outcome and get lumped into the catch-all label of performance. When scooting down the face of large waves under reduced canvas, steering characteristics and the ability of an autopilot or windvane steering system become part of the performance equation. In fact, "Iron Mike's" steering ability often becomes the limiting variable that tells the cruising crew when it's time to dial back on sail area and slow things down. So the bottom line is that "performance" carries different connotations, depending on the perspective of the crew and limitations of the sailboat and its equipment.
This special report on sailboat performance is the final installation in our boat design series, which launched with a look at sailboat structure in the February 2015 issue; the second report, which focused on sailboat stability, ran in the June 2015 issue.
Performance factors
In its most classic context, performance relates to the speed a sailboat can attain on various points of sail, under specific wind and sea conditions. Calculations like the sail area-to-displacement ratio, prismatic coefficient, beam to length ratio, and ballast ratio help define the physical features of a sailboat and therefore provide a baseline for comparing one sailboat with another.
Inshore sailors seeking to get around a windward/leeward or triangular racecourse are confronted with several key realities of naval architecture. On one hand, they are interested in how well a vessel can sail close-hauled, maintaining speed and minimizing leeway. Delivering such performance through a wide wind range and variety of sea states is another boat-design challenge. But going to weather is just half of the equation, and the hull shape favored by off-the-wind sailing is quite different than what makes a boat go to weather.
The upwind aspect of performance deserves a closer look, and for centuries, naval architects have been exploring ways to maximize both the ability of sailboats to sail close-hauled and their ability to resist heeling during the process.
Deep draft, a fine entry, and moderate beam have long been recognized as beneficial traits in weatherly vessels. And higher ballast ratios can be like money in the bank when it comes to preventing and recovering from a deep knockdown—perching crew on the windward rail can also minimize heel.
More esoteric solutions include torpedo-like ballast bulbs at the tip of the keel, canting keels, and water ballast. The complexity and vulnerability of the latter options relegate them to boats at the most extreme end of the performance spectrum. However, all of these increase righting moment, work to reduce heel, and allow more sail area to be carried.
Performance enemies
Windage, wave making, and skin drag are performance enemies. The latter is linked to excess submerged surface area and a frictional relationship with seawater that adds drag and slows down a boat. Lighter-displacement hulls with deep keels and modest sail area can also prove to be quite nimble and weatherly, especially with new rig technology that lowers weight aloft and provides inboard sheeting and mast bending, which enhance sail shaping. But these lightweights really scoot off the wind because there's less mass to accelerate, and their flatter sections and beam-carried-aft hulls are quite willing to plane.
Windward Performance
It's clear that a modern sailboat's ability to sail to windward is a combination of hull shape, underwater foil development, and rig and sail technology. Sloop rigs hold an advantage due to their high-
aspect ratio, which exposes minimal sail area to turbulent flow. But what complicates the performance picture—and is a big challenge to crew and boat designers/naval architects—is the very different set of design characteristics favored in off-the-wind sailing.
For example, a wide beam carried aft and a flat bottom tend to enhance sail-carrying ability and improve a sailboat's tendency to plane. Sometimes referred to as "sleds," downwind-specialized designs often have more difficulty when it comes time to sail upwind. The lift-developing underbody—which is a big plus on a reach—can force the bow down during a beat to windward, causing the vessel to head more off the wind and requiring added rudder deflection to maintain the desired angle of attack. These characteristics obviously have less negative influence in off-the-wind races; but when headed around the buoys, where upwind performance plays a crucial role, such designs lose their edge. This Achilles heel is even seen in older, beamy, around-the-world race boats, which favor off-the-wind sailing. Today's races have more port calls, requiring a solo sailor to beat toward finish lines in variable weather conditions.
Gauging a cruising boat's performance includes considering its ease of sail handling, its ability to be steered by autopilot or a wind vane, and its seakindly motion.
Modern, light-displacement race boats sport higher SA/D ratios, favor small jib/big main sailplans, and reach with asymmetric spinnakers.
For well over 100 years, yacht designers and naval architects have been dealing with racing handicap rules meant to level the playing field and allow different sized and shaped sailboats to fairly compete, even though they may finish an ocean race several days apart. Absent from auto racing, this concept is like mingling minivans and Ferraris at Le Mans—allowing a well-driven Honda Odyssey a chance to grab the silver.
Over the years, rating rules have come and gone. Some penalized length, sail area, beam, or ballast. A few have even tried to take crew competency and weather conditions into consideration. One of the biggest problems in developing fairness in a rating system is that once the parameters are known, designers are able to work their way around each obstacle, utilizing less-penalized characteristics to enhance performance. In some ways, it's like a tax lawyer exploiting the loopholes.
One of the most egregious examples of rating-rule exploitation was seen in the tragic WingNuts capsize that occurred in the 2011 Chicago-Mackinac Race. (See PS April 2012 issue.) The incident underscores the way dangerous design attributes can be masked by a rating rule that fails to effectively penalize excessive beam; in the WingNuts case, this meant a boat with insufficient stability was allowed to participate in what was essentially an offshore race. The overnight, 289-nautical-mile Chicago-Mac race is held on Lake Michigan, a body of water that's known for bad squalls and rough seas.
The hull of WingNuts, a Kiwi 35, flared out dramatically where it meets the deck. Its wide deck and extreme beam at the shear line did afford a hiking platform, but much of the boat's initial righting moment relied on crew weight perched on the windward rail. The same weight became a negative influence when heeling toward capsize in a strong breeze. The rating rule's stability index used for the event did not properly penalize the huge difference between the Kiwi 35's waterline beam and the deck-level beam, which led to a stability shortfall instigated by the excessively flared topsides. The rule levied a maximum penalty of 5 degrees against excess beam, regardless of how extreme the design distortion happened to be. This exaggerated deck-level beam distortion caused the vessel's actual Limit of Positive Stability (LPS) to drop below 80 degrees, while its rated stability index was calculated to be 106 degrees, allowing the boat to participate in the race. (For more on boat stability, see PS June 2015.)?In flat water and light-to-moderate winds, the Kiwi 35 design was effective and delivered a high level of performance. But as the wind increased and the seas built, the vessel began to heel excessively in the gust, submerging the leeward wing, which had little reserve buoyancy. Even with reduced sail, the distorted beam-to-length ratio negatively impacted the boat's seaworthiness.
When it comes to sailboat design, performance must be viewed in the context of overall seaworthiness, and considered in accordance with the range of conditions the vessel is likely to encounter. This is equally important for cruising boats and racing boats, and it's why most designers pay special heed to how and where a vessel will be sailed when defining its performance/seaworthiness attributes. (Check out PS February 2009 online, which looks at modern boat design, and whether quests for speed and interior comfort are trumping smart design.)
The popularity of the cruising/racing sailboat has waxed and waned over the years, and in some ways, it's like the automotive industry challenge of creating sportscar-handling in an SUV—easier to achieve in ad copy than on the track. Today, there is less point-to-point club racing, and around-the-buoys weekend events are being dominated by popular one-design classes and racing sailboats with anything but a live-aboard interior.
The bottom line is that there's less emphasis on performance in what's being labeled a "cruising sailboat." This is especially true when it comes to the on-the-wind performance that's missing in many mainstream production cruising sailboats. As a good friend once said, "Put up enough sail area, and you can get a floating dock to sail off-the-wind, but the real art in cruising boat design is to create good all-around sailing characteristics on all points of sail."
Skiff sailors plane early with light, flat, wide hulls, and innovative ways to deck-sock set a big asymmetrical spinnaker.
In windy regions, small, reefable, flat-cut jibs simplify tacking and help make windward progress in a stiff breeze.
A Solent sail set on an inner forestay is another approach to making windward progress in a building breeze.
Delving into details
In our recent report on boat stability (see PS June 2015), we gave a thumbs-down for the combo of high-volume hull shapes with wide beams, shoal draft, and low ballast/displacement ratios. When such sailboats are used as offshore cruisers, they afford too little secondary righting moment and deliver an LPS that's too low (less than 110 degrees). Such designs take another hit when it comes to upwind performance. Their full, round hull shapes actually hide the short, stubby keel as the vessel heels. This all but eliminates the lateral plane effect and the lift associated with the keel foil. Leeway increases, and progress to windward is significantly diminished.
Those cruising shoal waters—and willing to do some motor sailing to augment poor windward performance—may find the accommodation volume increase afforded by these beamy, shoal-draft designs a fair trade for on-the-wind sailing performance. But when it comes to offshore passagemaking and the ability to claw off a lee shore under sail, there's no substitute for at least moderate draft and a meaningful ballast/displacement ratio (30 percent coastal and greater than 35 percent for offshore).
Cruising boat performance under sail is hinged on several inter-related factors. A few are linked to the same design criteria found in racing sailboats and mentioned earlier, but others are contingent on issues that are unique to cruising. Take for example the widespread use of an autopilot or self-steering vane—a cruising constraint with significant performance implication. Despite the fact that autopilot IQ is improving as more complex algorithms are used in the hardware, this artificial intelligence is not linked to the winches and sail trim to cope with oscillations in wind speed and direction. Consequently, an autopilot or vane compensates for changes in pressure on the sail plan with rudder deflection rather than trim changes, and some very specific boat dynamics come into play.
For example, directional stability, the tendency of a hull to maintain a course and not yaw excessively, can be very important. As a vessel's speed and seaway motion increase, sailboats with less directional stability require excessive rudder response to stay on course. In a performance context, this becomes a limiting variable. Even with new autopilots, packed with better logic circuits, and able to learn the steering behavior of a vessel, there's a point where yaw outstrips steering control.
In the past, better directional stability has been linked to a longer run of keel and split rigs that allow sail area to be parceled out and balanced more efficiently. Today, larger, high-aspect ratio, semi-balanced rudders with stocks rotating on roller bearings, require less autopilot or steering vane torque, and therefore deliver more course correcting force more quickly. Even so, these contraptions are a non-seeing, non-sail trimming alternative to a helmsperson, and directional stability still remains a limiting variable when it comes to cruising-boat performance. The bottom line is that "squirrelly" is not a good description of steering attributes aboard a cruising boat.
Another big player in cruising-boat performance is sail area—or more specifically, the ability to dial in the right amount of sail area as quickly and easily as possible (which can be limited with a short-handed crew). Ironically, a racing sailboat's sail area is often constrained by handicap formulas, while cruising boats face no such restrictions. And yet there's a universal assumption that cruising boats should have short masts, and racers get the really tall ones. Reliable diesel auxiliaries have entrenched this stereotype, as many cruisers are quick to reach for the ignition key rather than light-air headsails.
A big rig doesn't mean you have to keep full sail set in 15-plus-knot conditions. Reefing early keeps the boat sailing flatter and steering easier, and very little speed is lost. But what lies in reserve, in the form of reefed sail area is the canvas to make 5 to 8 knots of true wind a viable sailing breeze. This is why many traditional sailboats from the no-iron-genoa era had tall rigs, lengthy bowsprits, and long booms, in order to supersize their sail area when the breeze went light.
Modern furling gear is like a photographer's favorite zoom lens. It delivers the ability to cope with varying conditions and makes sail changes easier than ever. Purists argue that roller-reefed sails must be cut flatter and lack some of the drive inherent in conventionally cut sails. While this is true, it's only part of the equation; you can make up for much of the shape shortfall by always adding or reducing sail area and maximizing drive, thanks to how easy it is to let out or take in sail.
Around-the-world singlehanders have taught cruisers a good lesson. They sail with very tall rigs, and more often than not, their mainsail is reefed rather than fully hoisted. This ensures that there's some extra sail area ready to coax them through light-air stretches. In addition, most pack an arsenal of roller-furled headsails to cope with various sailing angles and wind/sea conditions. Cruising sailors don't need copies of boats sailed by these iron men and women of the roaring forties, but we need to recognize that a big rig with furling/reefing versatility can significantly increase efficiency under sail in lighter winds.
Lastly, in our cruiser's performance perspective, we need to think of payload and the influence that extra water, fuel, provisions, anchors, and gear have on our boat's ability to slip through the water. The really diabolical effect all these cruising essentials have on performance plays out in elevated skin drag, wavemaking, and decreases in freeboard. Teamed up, these performance parasites can add days to an ocean crossing.
Multihull sailors are most vulnerable, because their boat's lean, long hulls submerge more per pound as payload soars. The resulting drag increase is significant, and as the bridgedeck grows closer to the loaded waterline, the number and severity of wave slams increase, further impacting performance and comfort aboard. The answer here is to heed the designer's calculation of maximum payload, and do a serious audit of your cruising essentials. Make sure that the payload statistic is based upon fuel and water tanks being at topped off capacity.
The Power Play
Many cruisers reconcile light-air performance with gallon-per-hour fuel statistics, and as long as the machinery and tankage are up to the task, it's a perfectly viable approach—especially if you don't mind the combustion rumble and the fumes linked to mechanical propulsion.
Little things like picking an efficient cruising speed can be a big deal, especially when it comes to efficiently motoring long distances. Optimizing performance involves matching the sweet spot defined by the hull dimensions and wave-making characteristics of a given hull shape with the prop and torque curve of the engine. The best compromise among fuel efficiency, speed, drag, and wavemaking is usually found around 75 percent of hull speed. A prop's diameter and pitch should be set to deliver the manufacturer-specified, full-throttle RPM with a cruising payload on board. Setting pitch to increase speed at lower RPM can cause overheating, incomplete combustion, and serious engine damage.
Inshore sailors may define performance under power as maximum speed rather that maximum miles per gallon. They have many more opportunities to fill the tank and may want to shorten the time it takes to get from point to point rather than stretch the fuel for the maximum number of miles. To answer the performance quest of fast-under-power sailors, prop pitch and diameter should be set to deliver more thrust at the higher end of the RPM range. Naturally, fuel consumption will increase dramatically and wave making also will increase as the boat attempts to outwit the constraints of a displacement hull shape.
The concept of performance is a bit of a moving target that's based on the vantage point of each sailor. Racers have a very defined set of goals while a cruiser's requirements are usually more multifaceted. But when it comes to designing a fast sailboat, the variables involved have been well researched, and designers and their computers have been effectively blending the attributes.
The arcane part of the science lies in the balancing act linked to optimizing a sailboat for a specific rating rule. Add to the equation the need for an appropriate level of seaworthiness, and it's clear that yacht design is all about juggling important variables, and performance is only one of several key attributes.
What is the solent-rigged boat pictured here? There are several photos of that boat in Ralph Naranjo's "The Art of Seamanship" too, and I'd love to know what kind of boat it is!
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Fisher Named Chair of the Fischell Department...
Fisher Named Chair of the Fischell Department of Bioengineering
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Professor John P. Fisher has been selected as the next chair of the A. James Clark School of Engineering's Fischell Department of Bioengineering (BioE), effective Jan. 4, 2016.
"Dr. Fisher's rapid ascension in academic rank parallels his many outstanding achievements in both teaching and research," said Darryll Pines, Farvardin Professor and Dean of the A. James Clark School of Engineering. "As a leader in the areas of biomaterials, tissue engineering, and bioprinting, Dr. Fisher has demonstrated firsthand bioengineering's capacity to improve quality of life for millions. I am confident he will advance the Fischell Department of Bioengineering's reputation as a top-tier program by further propelling the department's commitment to groundbreaking research, high-quality education, and engineering entrepreneurship."
With the University of Maryland's A. James Clark Hall slated to open in 2017, Fisher will assume the role of Chair as the department enters a new era of growth in both size and breadth of research. The 184,000-square-foot building will become the new home of the Fischell Department of Bioengineering and will house state-of-the-art technology to advance the department's capabilities in areas including digital fabrication, tissue engineering, bioinformatics, optics, vaccine research, and biomedical device development. Coinciding with this expansion, the department plans to add up to seven new faculty members by 2019.
Prior to his appointment as Chair, Fisher served as Associate Chair and Director of Graduate Studies for the department and, in 2013, he was named the Fischell Family Distinguished Professor. From 2009 to 2012, Fisher served as BioE Associate Chair and Director of Undergraduate Studies.
Fisher is a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, and a member of the Biomedical Engineering Society, Society for Biomaterials, and Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine International Society. He is currently Editor-in-Chief of the journal Tissue Engineering, Part B: Reviews, and Continental Chair Elect of the Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine International Society – Americas Chapter. This fall, he visited the National University of Ireland, Galway as a Fulbright Fellow.
As Principal Investigator for the Tissue Engineering and Biomaterials Laboratory, Fisher established a mission to develop engineered tissues, composed of biomaterials and transplanted cell populations, for the treatment of traumatic or pathological tissue defects. His laboratory has published more than 110 articles, book chapters, and proceedings, and has delivered more than 200 invited and contributed presentations, while utilizing over $7 million of financial support from the National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, Food and Drug Administration, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Department of Defense, and other institutions.
Over the years, the laboratory's research successes have earned publication in a number of leading journals including Biomaterials, Biomacromolecules, Nature Protocols, and Tissue Engineering. Members of Fisher's lab have presented studies to the Biomedical Engineering Society, Society for Biomaterials, Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine International Society, World Biomaterials Conference, and International Conference on Tissue Engineering.
Fisher first started with the University of Maryland as an assistant professor with the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering before moving to help establish the Fischell Department of Bioengineering in 2006.
Fisher holds a Ph.D. in Bioengineering from Rice University, as well as a B.S. and an M.S. in Chemical Engineering from Johns Hopkins University and the University of Cincinnati, respectively. Upon completing his Ph.D., Fisher served as a postdoctoral fellow with the University of California Davis Medical Center Department of Orthopaedic Surgery.
Fisher will serve as successor to current chair William E. Bentley, who will be the inaugural director of the new Robert E. Fischell Institute for Biomedical Devices.
Fischell Receives National Medal of Technology and Innovation


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Norfolk 13 year-old recovering after being shot while playing video games in his bedroom
By: Margaret Kavanagh
NORFOLK, Va. - A 13-year-old boy was shot while playing video games back in March.
Boy continues to recover after being shot in March
His mother, Natasha Marshall said his road to recovery has been tough physically for the teen and financially for the family.
"Each day he's been getting up and I've been praying," said Marshall, "It's just devastating though, learning to walk again."
The young teen was inside of his house playing video games back on March 31 when someone starting shooting outside on Goff Street.
New court records indicate the shooter was firing a rifle into the air, down the street and then at the ground at around 11 p.m.
Marshall was at work and got a call from her sister that her boy was shot.
"I was scared, a lot of stuff was going through my mind. It was hurtful, painful and still is," said Marshall.
No one has been arrested yet.
Another home and car on the block were also struck by gunfire.
Marshall said her son has 14 screws in his leg, a plate and has undergone seven surgeries. He now has to go to summer school to make up for the time he missed.
Ayenda Hodges
The once football star still can't walk but his mom is hoping that by his 14th birthday he'll be up on his feet again.
"He was in the house minding his own business and it shocked me," said Marshall, "These people are crazy out here just too much."
Now this mom and others want the violence to end.
Right now, police are looking for Ayenda Kashid Hodges as a possible suspect. Police said he is currently a fugitive at this time.
Police ask anyone with information on his whereabouts to contact the Norfolk Crime Line at 1-888-LOCK-U-UP.
Norfolk Police looking for suspect wanted for shooting that injured 13-year-old boy


AFTER eight years of study and stress, Dr Laughlan Hodgkiss is ready to start life as a medical professional at Toowoomba Hospital.
Dr Hodgkiss is one of 45 new recruits for hospitals within the Darling Downs Hospital and Health Service who went through their orientation this week.
While most will be based in Toowoomba, eight will head to hospitals in Stanthorpe, Warwick and Goondiwindi.
Dr Hodgkiss said he was thrilled to start working in the public health system in Toowoomba, a place he'd only visited once before.
"I'm very excited - it's been a long time in waiting, eight years of study," he said.
"I had a couple of small jobs in university but this is definitely my first big job.
"It's been very tough - lots of early mornings and late nights, non-stop studying."
Dr Hodgkiss said his first impressions of Toowoomba were positive, especially with the staff and facilities at the hospital on Pechey St.
"I love it here - I've never actually lived out here in Toowoomba, I came out here for a short period and really enjoyed the friendliness of everyone out here," he said.
"The hospital is beautiful and the staff are very supportive.
"I'm expecting to be very busy, lots of learning and thankfully there's a lot of support we can turn to."
After a week of orientation about the hospital and the health service, the young doctors will start their ward duties.
"We kind of start off helping out on the wards, with a lot of the smaller medical management that patients need day-to-day," Dr Hodgkiss said.
"If the nurses have issues they tend to come to us first, and then if the issue is a bit more serious, that's when we raise it to the higher doctors."
Darling Downs Health director of clinical training Dr Sheree Conroy welcomed the new recruits to the region and to the health service.
Iron supplements work: Toowoomba Hospital has success with screening iron levels in pregnant women.


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Stoltenberg: Georgia Will Join NATO, And Russia Can Do Nothing About It
By RFE/RL's Georgian Service
Georgian Prime Minister Mamuka Bakhtadze (left) and NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg at the Krtsanisi National Training Center outside Tbilisi on March 25
TBILISI -- During a visit to Georgia, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg has again said that the South Caucasus country will eventually join the Western military alliance, despite the Kremlin's fierce opposition.
Stoltenberg was in Tbilisi on March 25 to hold meetings with Georgian officials and attend joint NATO-Georgia military exercises.
Speaking alongside Prime Minister Mamuka Bakhtadze, he said that the 29 NATO member states had "clearly stated that Georgia will become a member of NATO."
"We will continue working together to prepare for Georgia's NATO membership," Stoltenberg said, adding that no country has the right to influence NATO's open-door policy.
"We are not accepting that Russia or any other power can decide what members can do," he said.
Bakhtadze said that "NATO membership is the choice of the Georgian people."
At a 2008 summit in Bucharest, NATO agreed that Georgia will eventually become a member, but no firm date has been set, although the membership perspective for the country has been reconfirmed at every summit ever since.
The country of some 3.7 million people fought a brief war with Russia in August 2008, and Moscow's continued military presence on the country's territory adds to tensions in the region.
After the war, Russia left thousands of troops in Georgia's breakaway regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia and recognized both as independent countries.
In Tbilisi, Stoltenberg held talks with Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili, during which he hailed Georgia's commitment to reforms.
The NATO chief also reiterated the allies' support for Georgia's territorial integrity and sovereignty.
Held at the Krtsanisi National Training Center near Tbilisi, the 12-day joint military exercises involve around 350 personnel from 24 NATO member states and partner countries.
The drills, dubbed NATO-Georgia Exercise 2019, will last until March 29.
With reporting by Interpressnews and AFP
RFE/RL's Georgian Service
RFE/RL's Georgian Service is widely regarded as the only objective and unbiased source of information in Georgia, where the government still retains a firm grip on media.


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Miles of walking (every day) on the cobblestones of Andalucía and the hard ceramic tile floors of our rented apartments here take a toll on feet and ankles. Both my husband and I feel it. We're both prone to ankle injury to start with: because of a lack of flexibility (him) and because of stability problems (me). My tree will always be wavery and I get a charge out of trying it on the vertiginous patterns of the floor tiles — makes me feel in touch with my yowie-zowie inner Frank Zappa.
My husband's conversion to the benefits of flexibility training is relatively recent and had nothing to do with my (rather) habitual nagging about how his life would be better, easier, more comfortable if he would simply put himself in my hands for 10 minutes a day. He developed painful arthitis symptoms in one ankle and his ortho doc suggested physical therapy, even told him he had seen dramatic results in his practice. And my husband aimed his awe-inspiring powers of concentration on his ankles: stretching and strengthening. Even taking me up on my long standing offer of a yoga strap.
In the past there was some good humored (or at least that's the way I chose to see it) husband complaining about packing some foam yoga blocks and my travel mat when we took off for one of our long two-times-a-year trips. Now we include a foam half rollar for him. Well, one assumes if we keep working on our range of motion and stability we'll be able to make these trips for many years to come. If only it were as easy to leap into fluency in Spanish. That is a much slower and more laborious road. The brain is a harder nut to crack. That's an equilibrium that eludes understanding.


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Dala-Floda or Floda is a locality situated in Gagnef Municipality, Dalarna County, Sweden with 680 inhabitants in 2010.

Dala-Floda is a small village, with a few shops and a reasonably sized park.

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Populated places in Dalarna County
Populated places in Gagnef Municipality


George "Ripper" Williams was a college football player. He was a prominent quarterback for the Auburn Tigers, leading the team to an undefeated 1932 season and captain of the 1933 team. Williams is a member of the Colbert County Sports Hall of Fame.


As on 31st January, 2017, sugar mills in the country have produced 128.55 lac tons of sugar, as compared to 142.80 produced last season on the corresponding date. About 334 sugar mills are still operating in the current sugar season, whereas 494 sugar mills were operating last year at the end of January.
· Sugar mills in U.P. have produced 45.59 lac tons of sugar till 31st January 2017, as against 35.94 lac tons produced last year same period, i.e. almost 10 lac tons more than last year. As per field reports on yield and drawal of cane for sugar production, sugar mills in U.P. are expected to produce another 39-40 lac tons of sugar. In 2006-07 SS, sugar mills in U.P. had produced about 38 lac tons of sugar till 31st January, 2007 and in the balance crushing period produced about 47 lac tons, taking the total production to over 85 lac tons. The cane acreage in 2016-17 SS in U.P. is also similar to that in 2006-07, but the area under high yielding and high sugar recovery varieties is more.
· In Maharashtra, sugar mills have so far produced 36.76 lac tons of sugar, compared with 54.17 lac tons produced by them last year same period. 58 sugar mills continue to crush sugarcane in the State, mostly in the southern part of Maharashtra in Kolhapur, Sangli and Satara Districts.
· In case of Karnataka, till 31st January, 2017, sugar mills have produced 20.25 lac tons, as compared to 26.92 lac tons produced by them last year same period. 13 sugar mills are still operating in the State.
· In case of Tamil Nadu, as compared to 37 sugar mills which operated in the State in 2015-16 SS as on 31st January 2016, 36 sugar mills are in operation during the current 2016-17 SS as on 31st Jan. 2017. These mills have produced 3.50 lac tons of sugar till 31st January'17 as compared to 2.66 lac tons produced in 2015-16 SS on the corresponding date.
· Gujarat has produced 5.75 lac tons of sugar till 31st January 2017 with 20 sugar mills in operation. Last year, 19 sugar mills were in operation on 31st January 2016 and they had produced 6.99 lac tons of sugar.
· In Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, sugar mills have produced 3.50 lac tons as on 31st January 2017, as compared to 4.10 lac tons produced on the corresponding date last season.
· In Bihar, Uttarakhand, Punjab, Haryana and Madhya Pradesh & Chhattisgarh, sugar production till 31st January 2017 is in the order of 3.00 lac tons, 1.73 lac tons, 3.00 lac tons, 2.60 lac tons and 2.60 lac tons, respectively.
· Along with reports of lower sugar production in the current season as compared to that expected earlier, reports are also coming in of lower sugar sales. Last year in January 2016, almost 25 lac tons of sugar was despatched by sugar mills, whereas the off-take has been significantly lower in January 2017. The trend noticed in October – December 2016 with sugar sales by mills was lower by 5.5 lac tons in 2016-17SS, is continuing in January 2017 also.
· With the Government of India deciding against providing subsidy for PDS sugar to the State Governments which last year was Rs. 4500 crore but this year proposed to be reduced to Rs. 200 crore, there might be a lower off-take of sugar sales for PDS and ration shops. Some States who maintain buffer for distribution through ration shops may not do so in future.