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Nicole Slezak (Kosovo Women's Network): Nicole received her BA in communication studies and political science from the University of California, Los Angeles In 2007. During this time she studied abroad in the Czech Republic on a National Security Education Program scholarship. At the time of her fellowship, Nicole was studying for a Master's Degree in Security Studies with a focus on International Security at Georgetown University.
UNSC Resolution 1820
Yesterday, 19 June, the Security Council adopted Resolution 1820 regarding sexual violence in conflict. The resolution makes some important breakthroughs and goes further than prior resolutions (1325, 1612 and 1674) to protect women and girls in conflict situations.
Important parts of the resolution include the recognition that women and girls are particularly targeted during war, and sexual violence is used as a weapon to instil fear and humiliation. The resolution states that it has a "zero-tolerance policy" for sexual violence perpetrated by UN Peacekepers and states that it is the responsibility for parties to armed conflict to protect the security of civilians and to train troops on the "categorical prohibition" of sexual violence. The resolution also notes the necessity of including women in post-conflict negotiations and conflict resolution in order to create durable peace, security and reconciliation.
However, issues of implementation exist within the resolution. For example, the resolution states:
Demands that all parties to armed conflict immediately take appropriate measures to protect civilians, including women and girls, from all forms of sexual violence, which could include, inter alia, enforcing appropriate military disciplinary measures and upholding the principle of command responsibility, training troops on the categorical prohibition of all forms of sexual violence against civilians…(Resolution 1820, OP 3).
However, in Sudan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo–where woman are being raped on a daily basis and rule of law does not exist—-it is not likely this resolution will be enforced. Therefore, the question remains: how will parties to armed conflict be punished for violating the resolution?
Aside issues of punishment for non-compliance, the resolution offers a means toward justice for women who have experienced sexual violence in periods of armed conflict.
Notes that rape and other forms of sexual violence can constitute a war crime, a crime against humanity, or a constitutive act with respect to genocide, stresses the need for the exclusion of sexual violence crimes from amnesty provisions in the context of conflict resolution processes, and calls upon Member States to comply with their obligations for prosecuting persons responsible for such acts, to ensure that all victims of sexual violence, particularly women and girls, have equal protection under the law and equal access to justice, and stresses the importance of ending impunity for such acts as part of a comprehensive approach to seeking sustainable peace, justice, truth, and national reconciliation (Resolution 1820, OP 4).
This is a critcal element of Resolution 1820 and is pertinent to the post-conflict situation in Kosova. The issue of transitional justice and sexual violence committed against women has not been resolved. This resolution must be used to prevent war criminals who committed sexual violence from gaining amnesty. Furthermore, the ICTY must issue more than indictments against criminals who committed mass rape in order to restore justice and end impunity for sexual violence perpetrated against women during the war in 1999.
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Comparison of surface mass balance of ice sheets simulated by positive-degree-day method and energy balance approach.
Bauer, Eva and Ganopolski, Andrey (2017) Comparison of surface mass balance of ice sheets simulated by positive-degree-day method and energy balance approach. Climate of the Past, 13 (7). pp. 819-832. DOI 10.5194/cp-13-819-2017.
Glacial cycles of the late Quaternary are controlled by the asymmetrically varying mass balance of continental ice sheets in the Northern Hemisphere. Surface mass balance is governed by processes of ablation and accumulation. Here two ablation schemes, the positive-degree-day (PDD) method and the surface energy balance (SEB) approach, are compared in transient simulations of the last glacial cycle with the Earth system model of intermediate complexity CLIMBER-2. The standard version of the CLIMBER-2 model incorporates the SEB approach and simulates ice volume variations in reasonable agreement with paleoclimate reconstructions during the entire last glacial cycle. Using results from the standard CLIMBER-2 model version, we simulated ablation with the PDD method in offline mode by applying different combinations of three empirical parameters of the PDD scheme. We found that none of the parameter combinations allow us to simulate a surface mass balance of the American and European ice sheets that is similar to that obtained with the standard SEB method. The use of constant values for the empirical PDD parameters led either to too much ablation during the first phase of the last glacial cycle or too little ablation during the final phase. We then substituted the standard SEB scheme in CLIMBER-2 with the PDD scheme and performed a suite of fully interactive (online) simulations of the last glacial cycle with different combinations of PDD parameters. The results of these simulations confirmed the results of the offline simulations: no combination of PDD parameters realistically simulates the evolution of the ice sheets during the entire glacial cycle. The use of constant parameter values in the online simulations leads either to a buildup of too much ice volume at the end of glacial cycle or too little ice volume at the beginning. Even when the model correctly simulates global ice volume at the last glacial maximum (21 ka), it is unable to simulate complete deglaciation during the Holocene. According to our simulations, the SEB approach proves superior for simulations of glacial cycles.


Some women in Canada are saying that forcing women to wear a bra in the workplace when men don't have to is discriminatory and at least one attorney, Christina Schell, 25, agrees.
Schell told the CBC News she stopped wearing bras more than two years ago because they're uncomfortable.
"They're horrible," Schell, who worked as a server at the golf club's restaurant in May, said.
A few weeks later, the club issued a mandate that woman must wear either a tank top or bra under their uniform. Schell's job entailed serving customers on an outdoor patio in hot weather, and she didn't want to wear an undershirt, either.
Schell claims management told her the rule was for her protection because of what happens at golf clubs when alcohol is involved.
Schell refused to comply and was fired. Then she decided to file her complaint.
Employment lawyer Nadia Zaman told CBC News that employers require can gender-specific dress codes, if they've based on safety reasons, for example. She doesn't believe bras fall into that category.
"If they simply require that female employees wear a bra but then they don't have a similar requirement for males, and they can't really justify that…then there is a risk that their policy's going to be deemed to be discriminatory," Zaman said.
She points to the Ontario Human Rights Commission which ruled in 2016 to end "sexist dress codes" that apply only to female staff. That includes high heels and short skirts, the commission ruled.
"They're basically saying that sexual harassment and gender-based dress codes are off the menu and they're no longer being tolerated," said Zaman, who works at the Rudner Law firm in Toronto.
Gosek, the McDonald's employee, also believes she has the right to go braless in the workplace, despite managers' demands that she wear one.
She claims a female manager advised her to put one on, while looking at her chest.
"She told me they're distracting, Gosek said.
The fast-food restaurant has said Gosek is not violating any rules, just a basic appearance expectation that women will wear a bra.
Meanwhile, Schell is waiting to hear the outcome of her human rights complaint to learn if bras are a justifiable job requirement.


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Why a Top Biotech Firm, with Great Customer Service in its DNA, Chose RingCentral
We had a choice: Pay to add capacity or upgrade an aging phone system and manage it in-house or put everything in the cloud. It became clear as we continued to research options that by going with a RingCentral solution was the best decision.
Larry Primatello
Manager of Infrastructure Operations, New England Biolabs
A biotech industry leader with customer love in its DNA
For a company whose products have helped enable such significant contributions to medical research, biotechnology, and other scientific endeavors, New England Biolabs® (NEB®) is driven by a surprisingly low-tech company philosophy that can be distilled down to three core values: passion, humility and being genuine.
One common point of pride you'll hear when you speak to the staff of NEB, for example, is that when customers call the company, they will reach a live person and not just a maze of automated greetings and options. In fact, the company has built a unique call-center operation to connect customers who have technical questions about NEB products with the scientists who've helped develop or manufacture those products, or customer service representatives that can assist with orders and billing questions.
This commitment to outstanding service helps explain why NEB has become one of the world's most sought-after suppliers of cutting-edge technologies used in gene expression, synthetic biology, RNA analysis, and molecular diagnostics. Customers around the world—from geneticists to medical researchers, to scientists at pharmaceutical firms—know that when they need help with an NEB product, they can always reach a scientific expert at the company.
In 2018, NEB's growth led the company to start planning on the expansion of the company headquarters facility. With the prospect of equipping the office expansion with communications infrastructure, NEB's IT team had to reexamine their plans for the company's aging phone system.
Managing their phone system had become a real science project
Given how central customer service is to New England Biolabs' business model, managing the company's call center with an extremely old, on-premises phone system was becoming a challenge. Larry Primatello, Manager of Infrastructure Operations, explains that the upcoming office expansion project sped up a decision the company was going to have to make soon anyway.
"We were running our communications through a 2003 phone system that had already been upgraded a few times. Every so often we'd run low of capacity, as the company grew, and we'd have to buy more. But we were nearing the point when the provider would no longer even offer expansion for the current system without having to make a significant investment in a platform technology forklift upgrade."
Larry also notes that, for the few support agents who occasionally worked remotely, the IT team had set up a separate VPN infrastructure for those employees to access the company's voice network. "But that process was inconsistent and unreliable because of the complexities with the setup."
So, Larry and his team investigated cloud communications options—deciding it would be smarter to implement a solution that wouldn't require the need to have on-premises equipment and enable remote worker connectivity for anyone in the company. After the team vetted several of the key players in the industry, they found RingCentral to be the standout.
Our customer service sets us apart, with our scientists taking support calls. RingCentral is helping us make that service better than ever.
The cloud-based RingCentral worked flawlessly from day one
The most memorable thing about NEB's rollout of RingCentral was how uneventful the migration was. As Larry explains, his IT team started by deploying the solution at NEB's Australia offices and testing their ability to communicate with the staff at the company's Massachusetts headquarters.
"The Australia-to-HQ trial was literally as far across the world as I could run a real-world test of the RingCentral platform," he says. "It worked flawlessly. So that's when we really felt comfortable about moving forward with RingCentral and proceed with a plan to implement as our global telecommunications platform."
Delivering the support their customers deserve… even during COVID
NEB's customer-support managers, who schedule the rotating teams of scientists and customer service agents appreciate how easy it is with RingCentral to set up, adjust, and monitor those call queues.
And because RingCentral integrates with our CRM platform, NEB's scientists and customer service agents are able to create an even better experience for customers calling in. "The caller's info pops up on the screen when the call comes in," says Larry. "Our scientists can address the person by name, mention the product they've bought, and ask how they can help with it."
Thanks to the RingCentral integration with our CRM platform, our support experience is so much more personal now than we were able to make it before.
But RingCentral proved even more valuable when the COVID-19 lockdowns forced NEB's staff to vacate their offices and work from home. "That was the most amazing thing about RingCentral up at that point in time," recalls Larry. "The transition to remote work was virtually seamless."
He adds: "I hate to imagine what would've happened if we had to get everyone working from home if we still had the old on-premises phone system."
We consider ourselves so lucky that we rolled out RingCentral when we did. It helped us get through the lockdowns seamlessly.
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Indian Broadcast Equipment Market to Grow at 9 Percent by 2017, Finds Frost & Sullivan at its Digital Media India Summit
Friday, October 25, 2013 04:30 PM IST (11:00 AM GMT)
Editors: General: Economy, Entertainment, People; Business: Business services, Information technology, Media & entertainment, Telecommunications; Technology
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, Friday, October 25, 2013 — (Business Wire India) — Frost & Sullivan hosted the second edition of its 'Digital Media India Summit' in Mumbai this year. The summit included participants from broadcasters, pay TV operators and production houses and featured Frost & Sullivan's Digital Media India Awards for the Broadcast Equipment Market. The summit addressed key industry trends such as optimizing high definition (HD), deploying TV-everywhere, leveraging digital analytics, and monetizing digital Pay TV services.
On the occasion, Vidya Nath, Research Director, ICT Practice, Frost & Sullivan, presented findings from Frost & Sullivan's soon to be released report on the Indian Broadcast Equipment Industry Outlook. The market is likely to grow from nearly US $100 million in 2013 to US $168 million in 2017 at a CAGR of 9 percent, with a significant interest in HD cameras and video servers. She said, "India is highly fragmented by content type, region, and size of broadcasters. About 25 percent have a broadcast equipment budget of over US $160, 000 (INR 1 Crore), while nearly 40 percent plan to spend less than US $41, 000 (INR 25 lakh) this year. It is true that sometimes equipment purchase outlays are cyclical and typically, significant purchasing cycles are repeated every three to four years. Yet, Frost & Sullivan believes there will be little change in this trend in the short term."
The summit also hosted panel discussions on several topical trends such as 'HD: recovering ROI'; 'Online video monetization and management'; and 'Pay TV: Monetizing it effectively'.
The panel on HD discussed the viability of high definition for broadcasters and the costs involved in running Standard Definition (SD) and HD channels side-by-side. The panel was divided on whether or not HD will become a de facto standard in India, with the possibility of an explosion of HD channels over the next two years. Since less than 10 percent of households have HDTVs presently, a few of the panelists were of the opinion that HD content distribution still had to overcome several challenges in India in order to become a standard practice. The panelists in this session included M.S. Thomas, Deputy Director General, Doordarshan, George Kuruvilla, General Manager, BECIL, Ajay Meher, Sr. VP & Head – IT and Post Production, Sony Entertainment Television, and Sameer Kanse, Business Head, Tata Communications Media Services.
During another discussion on 'Online Video Monetization and Management', the panel discussed the complexities of online video content ecosystem, distribution, and the necessity to create compelling content for the alternative medium. Presently, many Indian broadcasters rely on online video platforms and content delivery networks to process and distribute their multimedia content. They continue to have total ownership of the content production through their own studios or production houses for almost all processes related to content acquisition, production, management, and distribution. However, slowly, COOs are evaluating long-term costs of technical upgrades to be competitive as well as to adapt to the changing customer type for TV-everywhere. Frost & Sullivan believes that this trend, while in its infancy today, will witness a rapid uptake from 2015 to 2020 in India. Frost & Sullivan's Mukul Krishna, Global Senior Director, Digital Media chaired this panel which had Jay Chauhan, CEO, Skyhub, Seeraj Katoch, COO, Tangerine, Surendra Kancherla, VP, Prime Focus Technologies, and Manoj Dawane, Vice President and Head of Engagement Practices at Ericsson India, as panelists.
Mukul Krishna also made two keynote presentations on 'Online Video Trends' and the 'Top 10 Predictions for the Digital Media Industry'. He emphasized the need for higher customer engagement, use of analytics, and investment in media asset management by media companies in India.
The final panel discussion on 'Pay TV: Monetizing it Effectively' compared the digital cable services in the US and India, and the panelists debated about the weakness in the Indian cable ecosystem that acts as an impediment in application of new business models due to digitization. Sujata Dev, Co-Chairperson, Media and Entertainment, ASSOCHAM, moderated this discussion that saw participation by Roop Sharma, Head, Cable Operators Federation of India, Asif Khan, CTO & CIO, Digicable, Raman Kalra, Head, Media & Entertainment, Executive Director & Partner IBM Global Business Services, India/South Asia, and Aslam Khader, Product Head, Elemental Technologies.
The summit also touched upon new age digital and social marketing with a tete-a-tete with Shailja Gupta, Chief Digital Strategist for Shah Rukh Khan and CEO, Pocket Box Office, and Jay Chauhan, CEO, Skyhub.
Frost & Sullivan also presented the Digital Media India Awards for Broadcast Equipment at this summit, for various solutions in this market. Six awards were presented that acknowledged companies who have pushed the boundaries of excellence, risen above the competition, and demonstrated outstanding performance in the Broadcast Equipment Market in India.
The Award contenders were evaluated based on a variety of parameters such as revenue, market share, product introduction, innovation, and diversity, vertical and horizontal diversity, business, and market strategy. The results were collated after conducting detailed research and assessment on market performance of companies, including in-depth primary interviews of various industry participants and secondary research conducted by Frost & Sullivan analysts for the 2013 India Broadcast Equipment Industry Outlook.
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Anti-Aging Research Science Aging Anti-Aging Genetic Research
Unveiling the mysteries of senescent cells and their effect on aging and human health
Posted on Dec 30, 2022, 12 a.m.
Multiple researchers at the Jackson Laboratory are taking part in an ambitious research program spanning several top research institutions to study senescent cells. Senescent cells stop dividing in response to stressors and seemingly have a role to play in human health and the aging process. Recent research with mice suggests that clearing senescent cells delays the onset of age-related dysfunction and disease as well as all-cause mortality.
Could therapies that remove senescent cells -- called senotherapeutics -- also improve the health of humans as we age? Answering this question and more has the potential to significantly advance human health, and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has launched an extensive research initiative for this very purpose.
The SenNet Consortium, a collaboration of institutions from throughout the United States, was initially launched in 2021 with centers established to gather and analyze human data. The researchers will collect and analyze 18 tissues from healthy humans across lifespan to discern the full scope of senescent cells and how they may contribute to the aging process. The work of the SenNet Consortium was recently presented in a paper published in Nature Aging.
Along with colleagues from Mayo Clinic, University of Texas Health Science center at San Antonio, and UConn Health, JAX Professor Paul Robson, Ph.D. is taking part in the mapping of four human tissue types (kidney, adipose, pancreas, and placenta) within the KAPP-Sen Tissue Mapping Center. The Robson Lab also leads the Biological Analysis Core, and the Data Analysis Core of KAPP-Sen TMC is led by JAX Associate Professor Duygu Ucar, Ph.D., and JAX Professor Jeff Chuang, Ph.D.
SenNet has also grown over the past year to add mouse-focused investigators, and JAX was designated as a Tissue Mapping Center (TMC) for SenNet in August 2022, supported by a four-year, $10.7 million grant from the National Institute on Aging. JAX-Sen is led by Professor and Maxine Groffsky Endowed Chair Nadia Rosenthal, Ph.D., FMedSci with co-principal investigators Robson, JAX Associate Professor Ron Korstanje, Ph.D., and UConn Health's Ming Xu, Ph.D. Associate Professor Sheng Li and Principal Computational Scientist Matt Mahoney lead the Data Analysis Core of the JAX-Sen TMC.
JAX is poised to make substantial contributions to SenNet by profiling senescent cells in kidney, placenta, pancreas, and heart, all tissues that are relevant to chronic diseases of aging. The team will draw upon its genetically diverse mouse resources, including Diversity Outbred mouse populations, to model a range of molecular senescence traits, as well as inbred mice specifically engineered to help visualize senescent cell subsets.
As three of the tissues (kidney, pancreas, and placenta) in the mouse JAX-Sen TMC are shared with the human KAPP-Sen TMC, these efforts align well with the JAX institutional initiative to continue to build the human-mouse interface. The goal of SenNet goes beyond building an atlas of senescent cells in the body and knowing more about senescent cell biology. The potential benefits of senotherapeutics for healthy human aging are exciting, as are other possible clinical advances, such as identifying individuals at higher risk for age-related disease.
This article was written by Mark Wanner at Jackson Laboratory
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Q: Why I cannot find the data in Mongodb collection using db.Collection.find? I have a database called shop. I have a typo in the field name catagories in one of the collections called products. Hence, I typed db.products.updateMany({},{$rename:{"catagories":"categories"}}). It returned
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For matchedCount: 0, I tried to type db.products.find() to see if I can reach my data in the products, and it returns nothing. I am so confused as I have already connected to the db shop. I have also tried so many ways online but still do not work. Can anyone please kindly help me out with what I can do to get to the data in products and change the name of the field from catagories to categories? This is my attempts in VSCode with the connection to MongoDB on the left panel.

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Seeking a Consultant Psychiatrist to join the Mental Health for Older Adults Service starting December 2018. You will be part of a dynamic multidisciplinary team of health professionals including 5 Consultants and 2 Registrars. As a Psychogeriatrician you will provide clinical leadership and oversee the care of clients both in the community and the inpatient service. You will also be involved in providing a liaison service for the geriatric inpatients.
Benefits include generous professional development, leave allowance and dedicated non clinical time, free car parking, opportunity for research and attendance at national/international conferences. Involvement in teaching, research, service development and quality projects are potential components of the Psychogeriatrician's role.


Not everyone can give blood because if there is a pre-existing medical condition it restricts the use of whole blood and the useful things whole blood can be broken into. The AABB has a Frequently Asked Questions list for those curious about who can and can't give blood. The good news is that over 60% of us can give blood, which raises the question as to why more don't.


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Erol Zavar (* 1964 in Zonguldak, Türkei) ist ein ehemaliger Chefredakteur der kurdischen Zeitschrift ODAK.

Am 27. Juni 2001 wurde er vom 2. Staatssicherheitsgericht in Ankara wegen Mitgliedschaft in der illegalen Widerstandsorganisation Direniş Hareketi und wegen Versuches, die verfassungsrechtliche Ordnung mit Gewalt umzustürzen, gemäß Art. 146 I a.F. des türkischen Strafgesetzbuches zum Tode verurteilt. Die Strafe wurde in eine lebenslange Freiheitsstrafe umgewandelt und Zavar im Typ-F-Gefängnis in Ankara inhaftiert.

Da Zavar an Blasenkrebs leidet, argumentiert seine Familie, dass die Strafe für einen lebensbedrohlich Erkrankten ausgesetzt werden müsse. Sie haben die Aktion die Strafe des Zavar aussetzen ins Leben gerufen, um Zavar aus dem Gefängnis zu holen und ihm die bestmögliche medizinische Behandlung geben zu lassen.

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Energage started their journey more than a decade ago, and since then, they've surveyed more than 16 million employees from over 47,000 organizations. Alongside over 45 media partners, Energage's Top Workplaces program celebrates their successes — and their technology solutions share the knowledge you need to build a better workplace. You've got what it takes to make it happen, and Energage's engagement platform can get you there.
Energage is on a mission to make the world a better place to work together. Using a combination of cutting-edge technology, more than a decade of Top Workplaces research, and expert guidance, they help talent leaders unlock human potential and inspire performance.


Luxury apartment full of light in Florence historical centre, just a few metres from Piazza Santa Croce. 8 sleeping accommodations, air conditioning, Internet connection, wonderful view on the hill of Fiesole, on Brunelleschi`s dome and on Giotto`s bell tower.
Situated on the attic floor of an 18th-century building provided with elevator, the apartment (8 sleeping accommodations) has large windows opening onto Florence Duomo and Giotto`s bell tower; in the distance the hill of Fiesole is to be seen, as well. The apartment is just a few metres from Piazza Santa Croce, close to all major monuments and to the most renowned shopping streets.
The apartment is provided with all comforts (air conditioning, Internet connection, washing machine and dishwasher) and has refined interiors. The rooms present wood or terracotta-tiled floors and have large windows offering a magnificent view on Florence.
Household and bed linen are at guests` disposal. Supplied on request: toddlers bed, maid service (additional charges apply) and parking service in a garage (additional charges apply).
The apartment (180 sqm ) composes of living/dining room full of light and overlooking the Duomo, Giotto`s bell tower and Fiesole, kitchen equipped with oven, microwave oven and American coffee maker, laundry room, 2 twin-bedded rooms with en-suite bathroom and 2 double bedrooms with en-suite bathroom. The apartment disposes of a balcony furnished with table and chairs.


By hungry runner on September 30th, 2009 . Filed under: Clothing, Gifts .
Unlike some cupcake undergarments there are no actual cupcakes this time. Here cupcake is only used in the title. I thought I'd post it anyway since Elle Macpherson Intimates are always elegant and if you are wearing it under your clothes you will still know that what you have on has to do with what you love, cupcakes! The Elle Macpherson Cupcake Collection has two bra and two underwear styles to choose from. I found them on Zodee, which is offering a special, buy the bra and get the matching underwear free. I also know that Nordstroms carries Elle Macpherson Intimates, the website did not show the cupcake line but you could always check with your local store. And just to mention, since October is breast cancer awareness month, Nordstroms has a special where for every bra you buy in one of their stores they donate $2.oo to support Susan G. Komen for the cure. So you could buy the bra and get something free for you or buy a bra and do something good for others.
Thanks for saying so, i recently came across your blog and have been reading along.. What you wrote is great advice any way that you look at it.


Who doesn't love a good bundt cake? Indulge your sweet tooth with these decadent recipes.
There is no better use for canned pineapple rings than these mini Bundts. The rings fit perfectly around the classically shaped Bundt molds, which creates a beautiful presentation when the Bundts are popped out of the pan and garnished with a cherry. The cakes are very light, allowing the buttery topping and caramelized pineapple to be the stars of the show.


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Syrian Communist Party View Published in Cuban Newspaper
GRANMA INTERNATINOAL
Havana. October 5, 2012
"It is illusory to believe that Syria can be broken"
Interview with Ammar Bagdach, general secretary of the Syrian Communist Party Aida Calviac Mora
IN the midst of disinformation campaigns on the crisis in Syria largely based on nameless witnesses giving indeterminate figures, Ammar Bagdach, general secretary of the Syrian Communist Party, shared with Granma a reality at a far remove from many of the biased media versions.
What have been the Syrian CP's principal tasks since the crisis erupted?
In the first place, the struggle to preserve Syria's national independence, sovereignty and anti-imperialist patriotic line, and for the interests and demands of the most disfavored popular masses.
There is another very important task, above all given the situation imposed on us, the defense of national production. We always implement the great slogan held high by the historic leader of the Party, Khaled Bagdach: defense of the homeland and defense of the bread of the people.
Our Party is undertaking a very important mobilizing role with the people in order to expose the nature of the conspiracy mounted against us. The initial mass mobilizations which took place last year outside the embassies of the major powers, were organized by and had the key participation of our Party. Outside the diplomatic headquarters of France, the people made it clear that they have not forgotten the crimes committed against our country by French colonialism. We held up a placard with General de Gaulle's phrase, "It is illusory to believe that Syria can be broken."
What has been the impact on the country of the measures adopted by the government in the wake of the crisis?
Many measures have been adopted to guarantee the extension of democratic liberties, the most important being the one which repealed martial law. Moreover, the [political] parties law was proclaimed and very advanced press legislation. Our Party has fought for many years for the restoration of Syrian nationality to those Kurds deprived of it as the result of the exceptional census undertaken by the reactionary government in 1962. There are close to one million Kurds in Syria and the majority of them have their nationality, but it was restored to 136,000 Kurds who didn't have it. A new Constitution was declared and some analysts consider that the most significant aspect of it is the modification of Article 8, which established that the head of state had to belong to the Ba'ath Party.
The majority of the democratic measures adopted and reforms undertaken were included in the Syrian CP program, which strongly called for their adoption.
The Human Rights Council passed a resolution containing a censure motion against Damascus for the Houla tragedy and has extended by six months the mandate of the Investigative Commission in Syria. What is your assessment of this and the role of Russia, China and the UN in this conflict?
In relation to the Houla massacre, the information in the hands of the Communist Party in the region is that it was not perpetrated by government forces, but by insurgents, and they did it three days before the issue was discussed in the Security Council in order to put pressure on the organization.
The role of Russia and China has been positive in relation to the Syrian crisis; they are defending their geostrategic interests, taking into account the tremendous pressure the United States is exerting on them, and for that reason, the interests of these two countries converge with the interests of the Syrian people in defense of their homeland and national sovereignty.
In relation to the UN role, given the positions adopted by the Secretary General, it is clear that he is responding in a disciplined manner to the instructions of the United States. In terms of the activity of its special representatives Kofi Annan and now Lakdar Brahimi, as a political party we are against this initiative because its essence has been to strip the Syrian government of the instruments its has to assume the defense of the country's sovereignty.
Looking ahead, what does the Communist Party consider the outcome of the crisis in Syria should be?
In the first place, a firm, severe posture has to be maintained in the face of the subversive actions and sabotage of the insurgents. Those who perpetrate acts of terrorism have to be confronted with the same measures to which they resort, but from other points of view and approaches. Subversion, killings and terrorist operations have to be confronted by implementing the law.
The fundamental guarantee of Syria's firmness lies in meeting the needs of people, this means that many economic and social laws have to be reviewed. Any attempt to reach a solution of compromise between patriotic and non-patriotic forces signifies retracting from patriotic interests, a regression. We do not support that.
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Although it is Ammar Bagdach's first visit to Cuba, he does not feel like an outsider, as "all revolutionaries and communists in the world have always closely followed news about Cuba and, since I was very young, my formation was very much influenced by the Cuban Revolution.
"Naturally, knowing something and seeing it all with one's own eyes is different, my meetings with the country's leaders, especially those with the Central Committee have been very useful. I had the opportunity to visit Cienfuegos, Santa Clara and also to celebrate the 52nd anniversary of the CDR's [Committees for the Defense of the Revolution] with them. We have been to places linked to our culture in the country, like the Arab Casa in Old Havana. There are many beautiful countries, but what makes a country beautiful is its people, and these two characteristics come together in Cuba: a very beautiful country and people."


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Leeds Rhinos reunion as rugby league unites in special day for Rob Burrow
Rob Burrow with his children and former Leeds Rhins team-mates.
Published: 21:49 Updated: 21:52 Sunday 12 January 2020
IN the 130 years since a ball was first kicked on Headingley's famous turf, the stadium has hosted some iconic rugby moments.
Challenge Cup finals, Test matches and even rugby union internationals have been played at one of the world's most famous sporting venues so a pre-season warm-up match would not be expected to feature among Headingley's more memorable occasions.
However, a tragic illness and one-off reunion made Leeds Rhinos' 34-10 derby win over Bradford Bulls an emotional "I was there" moment.
In fact, 19,560 were present, the ground's biggest gate for four years, to pay tribute to two of the Leeds club's finest servants and also wallow in some nostalgia at the end of an unprecedented era.
The fixture was originally organised as a testimonial for Jamie Jones-Buchanan, who became one of only three players to play 20 years with Leeds before hanging up his boots at the end of last season. But last month the rugby league world was rocked by an announcement from another Leeds great, eight-time Grand Final winner Rob Burrow who revealed he has been diagnosed with the terminal illness motor neurone disease. The game, therefore, became also a fund-raiser for Burrow and his family.
For whatever reason, Leeds have never been among rugby league's most popular clubs and, in truth, they would probably struggle to squeeze into the top-30.
But the esteem in which Burrow is held cuts across club loyalties, as evidenced by the incredible response to an online appeal launched by the club.
As of yesterday evening, direct donations had reached £253,748.14, with gift aid contributions taking the tally above £300,000.
Naturally, there was been a outpouring of good will from Leeds, Burrow's adopted home city, but that has been echoed sport-wide.
Kallum Watkins's testimonial game against Castleford Tigers a year ago was played in front of just over 6,000, but the rush of support for Burrow meant the 'house full' notices were posted before the end of last week.
Bulls, despite their own recent financial issues, agreed to donate all their receipts to Burrow and their playing squad paid for tickets and Sky television covered the match live with their staff working for free. It is difficult to imagine a similar response for any other player than Burrow, whose lack of size, blistering pace, fearless running and eye for a gap endeared him to a generation of rugby fans and yielded eight Grand Final wins, three World Club Challenge and league leaders' successes and two Challenge Cups.
Burrow was a key member of Rhinos' golden generation which ended last year when Jones-Buchanan finally called it a day.
In tribute to Burrow and Jones-Buchanan, seven members of Leeds's finest-ever side – Kevin Sinfield, Danny McGuire, Jamie Peacock, Kylie Leuluai, Keith Senior, Brett Delaney and Ryan Bailey – strapped themselves up to make a cameo appearance in the final 10 minutes.
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Jones-Buchanan also played, but the loudest applause was reserved for Burrow who entered the field five minutes from time to a standing ovation.
The afternoon's most moving moment came after the final hooter when Burrow broke down during a thank you speech to the crowd.
From the Western Terrace, where the Bulls fans stood, came a chant of 'one Robbie Burrow'.
That was initially applauded by the Leeds faithful, who then joined in from the remaining three quarters of the stadium.
There was barely a dry eye in the house.
Bulls also brought on some of their club's former Odsal heroes, Robbie Hunter Paul, Stuart Fielden, Nathan McAvoy, Rob Parker, Matty Blythe, Wayne Godwin and Jamie Fielden.
Leuluai, a fearsome former prop and the most successful overseas player in Leeds's history, was Burrow's designated minder and tore into Bulls like the years since his last competitive game – Rhinos' treble-clinching Grand Final win over Wigan in 2015 – had never happened.
Rhinos coach Richard Agar joked afterwards that he is considering offering Leulaui a contract for the coming Super League season.
There was no scoring during the old boys' reunion, though Senior – in his first game for nine years – lifted the crowd with one thrilling touchline burst and McGuire suggested he could play on if he wanted to.
For the record, Rhys Martin scored a brace of tries and five conversions for Rhinos and Liam Sutcliffe, Brad Dwyer, Callum McLelland and Richie Myler also crossed.
Bulls' try scorers were Ross Oakes and Thomas Doyle, whose touchdown was improved by Jordan Lilley, but it was one of those occasions when the result mattered least.


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Sheet measures 10" x 16.5" and image is 7.5" x 12.5"
Burton Wasserman studied painting with Ad Reinhart and Burgoyne Diller at Brooklyn College, graduating in 1950. He formed strong friendships with both of these artists and developed a life-long passion for abstract art.
Whilst pursuing a career as an art professor, writer, and critic, Wasserman has continued actively to produce paintings, prints and sculpture. In his work of the 1960s the influence of the DeStijl movement, and consequently that of Reinhardt and Diller, is most strongly felt - simple geometric shapes, the use of only primary colors, and images reduced to a bare minimum. Through the years Wasserman's work has subtly evolved, always remaining abstract, at times moving into a more painterly approach, and at other times more geometrical but with a wider range of colors.


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The Buried Life stars to speak on campus
February 21, 2012 12:00 am by Gilda-Rae Grell
The cast of MTV's "The Buried Life" will visit the Marshall Student Center (MSC) tonight for a lecture that will encourage students to ask themselves: "What do you want to do before you die?"
Duncan Penn, Jonnie Penn, Ben Nemtin and David Lingman, the "boys" from "The Buried Life," will speak at 7 in the MSC Ballroom for the University Lecture Series (ULS) about achieving life goals.
The show follows the four friends, who are on a mission to complete a list of 100 things to do before they die, and encourages others to do the same. In one episode, the cast tries to play a basketball game with President Barack Obama and eventually, succeeds off-camera. Brent Grunig, a graduate adviser for the Center for Student Involvement, who works with the ULS board, said in an email to The Oracle that the show is on a year-long campus tour co-sponsored by Verizon Wireless to work on their bucket list and engage students that want to do the same.
"Not only do the guys try to check something off their list, they work with others to help them complete their wish," he said.
Though MTV cancelled the show in October, Grunig said new rumors have surfaced that it has been renewed for a third season. Nemtin told Us Weekly in November that the show was not cancelled but would return "new and improved."
"The Buried Life" lecture cost $18,500 in Activity & Service fees, which includes spending fees, travel and accommodation, said Spencer Southard, director of marketing for ULS.
To promote the lecture, ULS displayed boards in the MSC Atrium last week, on which
students could write their death-preceding life goals.
Students who haven't written on the boards will have an opportunity to do so between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. today, according to the ULS Facebook page. The boards will be on display on stage behind "The Buried Life" cast during the lecture, Southard said.
Southard said he thinks the lecture could be one of ULS's most interactive events this year.
"This should be one of the most engaging and energetic lectures of the year. and we are excited by the positive response thus far the USF community has given to us," he said. "We think that 'The Buried Life' will be a lecture students are interested in because they have a fun message that students can really get involved in the lecture."


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Evicted from its former base in Smiths Falls, Ont., the Canadian Centre for Experimental Radio Astronomy has found a new home from which to explore the heavens.
Canadian Centre for Experimental Radio Astronomy sets up new base before winter
Alistair Steele · CBC News · Posted: Nov 17, 2021 4:00 AM ET | Last Updated: November 17, 2021
Radio astronomer Marcus Leech, president of the Canadian Centre for Experimental Radio Astronomy, gazes skyward from the group's new 15-hectare home in Rideau Ferry, in eastern Ontario. 'We had to switch our focus to just surviving, finding a new place to be and then setting up that new place.' (Francis Ferland/CBC)
In a rocky field off a private road halfway between Perth and Smiths Falls, Ont., three amateur astronomers gaze skyward, looking for the next big thing.
They're not peering through telescopes — at least not the kind you're probably picturing.
Instead, they use cast-off satellite dishes to detect and translate the radio waves that all warm celestial bodies emit — objects that are often invisible to optical telescopes.
"Our eyes are good for optical wavelengths — we can see colours and that sort of thing — but the universe is actually much more complicated than that," explained Marcus Leech, current president of the Canadian Centre for Experimental Radio Astronomy (CCERA).
"Radio telescopes are just telescopes for radio waves. So it's just another way of looking at the universe."
We're doing big science on an extremely modest budget. - Doug Yuill, CCERA
Interstellar space is full of dust that can obscure our optical view of stars, planets, galaxies and other objects, Leech said.
"A lot of optical observations can't see these objects behind the dust. Radio astronomy sees them just fine."
CCERA members Gary Atkins, left, Leech, centre, and Doug Yuill inside the donated trailer that's the new nerve centre of their observatory. Last December, the astronomers found themselves homeless due to 'an unfortunate confluence of both corporate and municipal politics,' Leech says. (Francis Ferland/CBC)
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This is grassroots science at its least glamorous. There are no white lab coats or state-of-the-art observatories.
Instead, Leech, along with colleagues Gary Atkins and Doug Yuill, spent their spring and summer mixing and pouring concrete, salvaging discarded satellite dishes and retrofitting the donated trailer that now serves as their operation's nerve centre — all in a race against the onset of winter.
"We had to switch our focus to just surviving, finding a new place to be and then setting up that new place," Leech said.
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Marcus Leech, president of the Canadian Centre for Experimental Radio Astronomy, says the organization is getting settled after finding a new home in Rideau Ferry. The group of amateur astronomers uses cast-off satellite dishes to detect radio waves that come from celestial bodies. 2:31
CCERA is a non-profit association that "supports education and research in radio astronomy techniques and applications targeted at smaller institutions and interested individuals," its website says. It has an advisory board made up of some of the world's top astronomers, who provide advice on an ad-hoc basis, and publishes its findings on its website.
It formed after the Canadian Space Agency decided in 2013 to dismantle an 18-metre dish that the astronomers were using in Shirleys Bay, a conservation area on the Ottawa River. They moved their operation to the Gallipeau Centre in Smiths Falls, in eastern Ontario, but last December — owing to what Leech describes as "an unfortunate confluence of both corporate and municipal politics" — they found themselves homeless once again.
After finding a plot of flat, clear land, the group spent the spring and summer erecting four parabolic dishes that act as radio telescopes. A fifth, larger dish will likely be installed next year. (Francis Ferland/CBC)
So the astronomers found a 15-hectare plot of flat, clear land in the small community of Rideau Ferry, struck a long-term "access arrangement" with the owner and in March began moving in. Now, eight months later, they're nearly ready to roll.
Having an unobstructed view of the sky is as essential for radio astronomy as it is for optical astronomy, Leech said, because even trees emit microwave radiation that can interfere with their observations. Likewise, being "in the middle of nowhere" narrows the chance of man-made interference of all kinds.
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The astronomers have installed four parabolic satellite dishes near their trailer: one hydrogen spectrometer, painted like a big yellow happy face, and three more dishes homed in on fast radio bursts, or FRBs, a phenomenon Leech describes as the current "darling" of the astrophysics community.
A fifth, larger dish is piled in pieces nearby, waiting to be assembled and mounted, likely next year.
Anomalies on a graph can indicate the presence of a celestial object. 'We look for squiggly lines on graphs, basically, and we get excited about those,' Leech says. (Francis Ferland/CBC)
The radio signals they're trying to capture are "insanely weak," Leech said — in fact, the combined energy from all of the signals detected since the discovery of radio astronomy in the 1930s "would keep a candle going for maybe half an hour. That's it."
While there are complex networks of radio telescopes capable of translating those invisible signals into sky maps and other images, CCERA's current setup is not.
This image from the Virginia-based National Radio Astronomy Observatory shows spiral galaxy NGC 4254 in the Virgo Cluster. It combines radio data from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) showing molecular gas in red and orange, and optical imagery captured by the Hubble Space Telescope showing stars in white and blue. Few radio astronomy observatories are capable of producing this kind of image. (ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)/S. Dagnello (NRAO))
"We look for squiggly lines on graphs, basically, and we get excited about those," Leech said.
To the passionate radio astronomer, those anomalies are just as energizing as any pretty picture.
"The first time you see that squiggly line is actually really exciting, because you realize that ... this thing happened 750 million years ago, and today it's making a little squiggly line on your instrument — and that can be exciting for the right kind of person, I guess."
Leech developed a passion for radio astronomy in high school. Now semi-retired after a career in high-tech, he devotes much of his time to his original interest. (Francis Ferland/CBC)
Lofty goals on shoestring budget
Leech said he's been "obsessed" with radio astronomy since he was in high school — though he was lured into the high-tech world, spending nearly 20 years at Nortel. Now semi-retired, he's returning to his first passion.
This may be a shoestring operation, but CCERA's goals are as lofty as the objects they're trying to observe.
"I think being the first to discover the radio emissions of a new supernova before the optical guys see it, that would be a real feather in our cap," Leech said. "Our first confirmed FRB would be a major, major achievement for an amateur effort, and so that's our hope."
Happy now? The astronomers decided to give their hydrogen spectrometer a new look at their new home. (Francis Ferland/CBC)
But since their eviction from their former base in Smiths Falls, CCERA's main focus has been on earthly survival, not the stars.
Historically, the group has relied on donations, as well as a partnership with Carleton University's undergraduate astrophysics program. The COVID-19 pandemic cancelled in-person classes, however, shutting down that source of revenue.
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Leech estimates the group needs about $20,000 a year to operate. For now, they're scraping by however they can. Often, that means reaching into their own pockets.
"We're doing big science on an extremely modest budget," Yuill said.
But they know the payoff could be astronomical, scientifically speaking at least.
Alistair Steele
Writer and editor
After spending more than a decade covering Ottawa city hall for CBC, Alistair Steele is now a feature writer and digital copy editor at cbc.ca/ottawa.
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Harvesting in the rice fields. (MPM Neg. #:10835A)
In 1957, the Milwaukee Public Museum sponsored anthropologist Arthur Niehoff and his wife, Juanita, to conduct a sustained field research project focused on Indian communities in the British colony of Trinidad and Tobago. At the end of the Niehoffs' field season, the Milwaukee Public Museum acquired one of the United States' premier collections of Indo-Trinidadian material culture, comprising 100 objects from the Indian community of Penal in Trinidad's Oropuche Lagoon. With artifacts ranging from brass vessels of ritual importance, traditional and vernacular musical instruments, kitchen items, tools, clothing, and decorative objects, the collection endeavors to represent a cross-section of the daily lives of Indo-Trinidadians. The Niehoffs' experience also culminated in a book, East Indians in the West Indies, which stands as one of the first comprehensive ethnologies of Trinidadian Indian populations.
Trinidad and Tobago, a former British Imperial Colony, is situated in the full tropics a mere 15 miles from the northeast coast of Venezuela. The islands' historic importance as a center for the cultivation of sugar and cocoa resulted in the importation of vast numbers of foreign workers. With the early eradication of native populations to either genocide or foreign disease, African slaves, and later Chinese and Indian indentured laborers, were imported to appease European appetites for sugar and chocolate. While the cocoa and sugar cane industries would lose their global edge by the 1930s, the people imported to labor on vast plantation estates would eventually call Trinidad and Tobago their home, develop communities, and create a uniquely plural vernacular culture.
Trinidad has the highest population of the two islands and, as the nation's political, cultural, and economic center, has been the primary focus of recent ethnographic research.[1] The island presents an interesting case study on issues of imperialism and post-colonialism, globalization, race, ethnicity, diaspora, cultural syncretism, and religious identity. On an island about 65 miles long and 48 miles wide live people of Indigenous heritage, African ancestry (Creoles), and white European descent, as well as Chinese, Syrians, and Indians. Trinidad, to quote anthropologist Viranjini Munasinghe (2001) is variously known as a "callaloo" or a "tossed salad" - similar to the United State's representation of its multicultural population as either a "melting pot" or "mixed salad."
Map of the Caribbean Islands. Trinidad and Tobago are located off of the coast of Venezuela. (Courtesy of worldatlas.com)
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[1] Formerly two separate colonies, Trinidad and Tobago became a singular entity in 1888, administered from the Trinidadian capital of Port-of-Spain. In 1962, the two became an independent sovereign republic. Tobago, the smaller of the two islands and lacking the same oil and natural gas reserves found on the Trinidadian landmass, has a tourist industry based economy, and is renowned for its natural beauty.
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World's Columbian Exhibition Photographs by William Henry Jackson
Vol. XVIII No. 4 - FALL/WINTER 2007
This exciting exhibit is a display of photos published at the end of the exhibition in 1893 by William Henry Jackson. On October 20 at the Edgewater museum, curator Robert Remer presented background information about how the 1893 World's Fair was put together by business and civic leaders. What came across in his presentation is the Herculean effort it took to transform the swamp land that is now Jackson Park into the fairgrounds called the White City. This effort began with a plan generated by Daniel H Burnham, Director of Works for the Fair.
With the design in place the engineers had to create land where there was swamp and create waterways that connected many parts of the exhibition. When you see the photographs, it becomes clear how much water was a factor in the design. Because this fair was a World's Fair, countries from all around the globe were invited to build structures and present exhibits. Some like Sweden actually shipped their building in parts and had it constructed on site; when the Fair was over they were shipped home.
A map of the fairgrounds gives an overview of the Fair. Early in the planning process, the fair organizers knew that they needed a building that would be as significant as the Eiffel Tower in Paris, which was part of the previous World's Fair in 1888. In one book in this exhibit, you can see a proposed structure that would have filled that role but was never built. Instead the first Ferris Wheel became the signature icon of the Fair. It is in memory of that wheel that Chicago has a Ferris Wheel at Navy Pier.
The World's Columbian Exhibition was scheduled to open in October of 1892 but, because of a recession and problems with financing, it did not open until May 1st of 1893. Among the special events of the fair was Chicago Day on October 9, 1893, which brought in some 761,972 attendees. In all, some 27 million people attended this Fair.
In addition to the Fair grounds there was a separate section called the Midway Plaisance. Along the midway were all kinds of entertainment activities, including the Ferris Wheel and special performances by dancers like Sally Rand. What may seem ordinary today was considered exotic in 1893. In the exhibit is a case filled with items from the Midway.
Perhaps one of the most interesting facts that Mr. Remer shared with the audience was the information about the electricity at the Fair. A separate generator had to be built to power all the lights at the Fair. The electrical use was phenomenal – three times that of the use of electricity in the City at the time. Perhaps it was a harbinger of things to come. At the time of the Fair, electricity was not available all day long throughout the city. In many places, the lights came on for only a few hours at night. Imagine the sight of the White City lit up at night. There are a few photos that show this in the exhibit.
There is a great film about the World's Columbian Exhibition: "Expo - Magic of the White City," narrated by Gene Wilder. It was shown at the museum on October 20th. You may be able to buy it from a catalogue. The exhibit at the Edgewater Historical Society Museum will continue through January 26, 2008, so stop by some Saturday for a visit and learn more about the great White City.
In conjunction with the exhibit of the Jackson photos, Mr. Remer has provided a bibliography of references and resources about the Fair. The documentary on the Fair may be shown on a Saturday afternoon upon request.
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package com.twitter.concurrent

import org.specs.Specification

object ConcurrentBijectionSpec extends Specification {
  "maintain a bijective map" in {
    val b = new ConcurrentBijection[Int, Int]
    b ++= (1 -> 1) :: (2 -> 3) :: (100 -> 2) :: Nil

    b.get(1)        must beSome(1)
    b.getReverse(1) must beSome(1)

    b.get(2)        must beSome(3)
    b.getReverse(3) must beSome(2)

    b.get(100)      must beSome(2)
    b.getReverse(2) must beSome(100)
  }

  "maintain the bijective property" in {
    val b = new ConcurrentBijection[Int, Int]

    b += (1 -> 2)

    b.get(1)        must beSome(2)
    b.getReverse(2) must beSome(1)

    // Introduce a new forward mapping. This should delete the old
    // one.
    b += (1 -> 3)
    b.getReverse(2) must beNone
    b.get(1)        must beSome(3)
    b.getReverse(3) must beSome(1)

    // Now, introduce a new reverse mapping for 3, which should kill
    // the existing 1 -> 3 mapping.
    b += (100 -> 3)
    b.getReverse(3) must beSome(100)
    b.get(1)        must beNone  // the old forward mapping was killed.
    b.get(100)      must beSome(3)

  }

  "delete mappings" in {
    val b = new ConcurrentBijection[Int, Int]

    b += (1 -> 2)

    b.isEmpty must beFalse
    b -= 1
    b.isEmpty must beTrue
  }

  "iterate over mappings" in {
    val b = new ConcurrentBijection[Int, Int]

    for (i <- 0 until 100)
      b += (i -> i)

    b must haveTheSameElementsAs(for (i <- 0 until 100) yield (i, i))
  }
}


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Q: Floyd's algorithm for the shortest paths....challenging
If anyone has some insight on how to do this it would be very much appreciated.

A: One way, as others have said, is to just follow the book.
But what the book probably says is: you'll have at the end for your answer seven 7x7 matrices, each entry in a matrix $A_{i, j}$ will be the pair (shortest path from $i$ to $j$, max labelled vertex on that path), the max or shortest known so far.
The first matrix will be about the paths that allow a path through $v_1$, the second paths through any of $v_1, v_2$, ..., the seventh through any of them. At the $k$th matrix you update all entries involving vertices up to $v_k$ using the formula most likely given in the book:
$$a_{ij} = a_{ij} + a_{ik}\cdot a_{kk}^{*} \cdot a_{kj}$$
where '$+$', '$*$', and even multiplication ('$\cdot$') have their special meanings for shortest paths and other special meanings for max vertex label, and the LHS is the new value (value in matrix $n+1$) and the RHS uses old values (values from matrix $n$. In practice you can do all this in-place in just one $n^2$ matrix).
The 0th matrix, the base case, where the paths don't go through any other vertex, is just for the edges. For shortest path, it is either the values of the edge weight, or $\infty$ if no edge because any finite value is less then/shorter than $\infty$).
The next exercise in the book will be to use the same method to convert a finite automaton into a regular expression. (Really!)
Extra commentary

*

*'+' is usually taken to mean 'or', min (to get the shortest or least), or max (to get the largest vertex label

*'multiplication' (or '$\cdot$' is taken to mean 'plus' (to get the sum of weights along a path) or max again (yes, 'multiplication' is the same as 'addition' here)

*'*' is taken to mean 'for any number of cycles'. Since for both interpretations (shortest path, or max vertex label) a cycle isn't involved in any shortest path/max vertex, it can be ignored here.

The informative thing about this multiple interpretation, is that it is the first practical instance where abstract algebra (overloading of the interpretation of the +, $\cdot$, and *, but provable facts knowing only a few properties of those interpreted operations) in the CS curriculum.


WindEurope expects 350MW of floating wind capacity to be installed in Europe by 2021 across 10 projects, the industry body's offshore wind analyst Tom Remy said.
"The countries where we can expect projects are the UK, France, Portugal and Norway I guess," Remy said at a webinar.
Last year was a major breakthrough for floating wind, as Norwegian oil firm Statoil commissioned the 30MW Hywind Scotland array, the world's first floating wind park.
Also in 2017, France completed construction of its first ever offshore wind turbine into the water, the 2MW FloatGen test unit designed by Ideol, which is to be installed in the coming months off the west coast of the country.
Project developer Pilot Offshore Resource still plans to bring its 50MW Kincardine floating project off Aberdeen, also in Scotland, online this year or next, although with a different turbine than the 6.2MW Senvion machine that was originally planned.
The greatest contribution will come from four projects of around 25MW each that were allocated in a floating wind tender for pre-commercial projects in France last year.
WindEurope's figures, based on information gathered in its offshore wind database, don't include possible floating projects in regions outside Europe such as off Japan or Hawaii.


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Overview: Section 9K.4 of S.L. 2022-74 amends the statutory definition (G.S. 90-85.27(3a)) of an interchangeable biological product to clarify that interchangeability must meet the standards established in federal law (42 U.S.C. § 262(k)(4)). The section also reenacts and amends a previously expired subsection to require a pharmacist or designee to notify the prescriber of the name and manufacturer of a biological product dispensed to a patient. This notification must happen within five business days of dispensing and be communicated through an electronically accessible record system available to the prescriber of the biological product requiring a prescription.
This section becomes effective October 1, 2022, and applies to the dispensing of biological products requiring a prescription on or after that date.


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Michigan clothing brand aims to save our Great Lakes
Lisa Diggs2020-04-22T09:19:01-04:00
We first introduced Jackson Riegler to our community when he was just a high school student developing a brand new, inspiring idea to help preserve the Great Lakes. He won our Up & Coming Entrepreneur Contest at the tender age of seventeen, back in 2017. Today, he's a student at the University of Michigan with a full-blown business to run.
Riegler's Muskegon-based company, Oshki, designs and sells apparel. Right from the beginning, a portion of the proceeds went to entities that were working to keep our lakes clean. Now, his approach to environmental impact is much more strategic and sustainable.
As an economics student with a minor in business and sustainability, Jackson Riegler has developed a much more prolific vision of what his company, and dedicated following can do. During his freshman year, he decided to entirely redesign Oshki's supply chain, after taking a course on "Business & the Environment" in just his second semester.
Fortunately U of M also offers a lot of resources for budding entrepreneurs, one of the most unique of which is optiMize. The student-led organization offers workshops, mentorship, and even funding to students that have ideas designed to help change the world. Last year it provided about $300,000 in funding to 65 students, including Riegler, who had an idea to repurpose plastic waste into clothing.
Last summer he organized three beach cleanups in Michigan to help restore those gorgeous natural environments, and to collect the raw materials for his apparel line. Attendees combed the shoreline picking up an average of 40 lbs. of wasted materials each cleanup. Working with the Padnos recycling center in Grand Rapids, the material was sorted between plastic and non-plastic and shipped to a manufacturing facility.
Unable to find a supplier in Michigan that could turn the plastic into useable apparel material, Riegler researched supply chain options and found a facility in North Carolina that could convert the collected plastic into yarn and manufacture clothing from it, blended with cotton from South Carolina. In fact, his entire supply chain is transparent and U.S.-based. The designs, tagging and order fulfillment happen back in Jackson's hometown of Muskegon. Oshki now even does custom-branded work for other organizations.
Approximately 16 plastic bottles worth of plastic waste is recycled into each shirt, making Oshki the world's first sustainable clothing brand to use 100% United States plastic waste. It seems like Jackson Riegler's creativity, resourcefulness and passion are also woven into each product.
"I am lucky to live in this generation where I can put myself out there the way I am and have as much response from around the country, said Riegler. "I took the internet for granted before. It makes me confident being able to spread that passion. There are a lot of people in the world who want to listen. I'm very encouraged by the connections I've built, and by finding like-minded individuals around the country."
His next big goal is to increase the number of Oshki beach cleanups to 50 or 60 a year. When we chatted there were already 36 scheduled, but given the social distancing restrictions of the COVID-19 pandemic, that number may be fluid.
In addition to knowing an Oshki purchase has rescued plastic from our waterways, it is still true that each time a customer buys a product, 5% of all proceeds are donated to non-profits working to preserve the Great Lakes through community action, governmental reform, and intensive research.
There is no shortage of ideas on how we can preserve our planet for future generations, but there does seem to be a scarcity of action. If you have a notion, Riegler offers up this piece of advice.
"I wish I would've known sooner how open to questions people are. I was intimidated at first that a certain question or opportunity would sound stupid to someone. If I were starting again, I would put myself out there more from the gitgo."
Author: Lisa Diggs
Lisa Diggs is a writer, speaker, entrepreneur, business consultant, avid traveler, and founder of The Catalyst Company, LLC, Michigan Positivity Project, and Buy Michigan Now.
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Live-streaming of Council meetings in the pipeline
The Kouga Council is set to take transparency to the next level by live-streaming its meetings over the internet.
Kouga Speaker Hattingh Bornman said the municipality's Information and Communications Technology (ICT) department was currently exploring how best to give residents virtual access to Council meetings.
"Council meetings are open to the public, but only a limited number of people can be accommodated due to space restrictions," he said.
"We are, therefore, looking at using technology to make Council meetings accessible to everyone."
He said transparency and active citizenry were important to the Council.
"The matters that are discussed at Council meetings affect the day-to-day lives of our communities. We want residents to have direct access to these discussions, so that they know exactly what was decided and why," he said.
"In addition to strengthening transparency, it will give communities deeper insight into the processes and legislation that govern municipalities."
He said potential platforms that would be used, included Youtube, Facebook and the municipal website.
"The meetings will not only be live-streamed as they are happening. The recordings will also be available online so that residents can watch it at their convenience."
He said Council meetings were advertised in the local media and on the municipal website and Facebook page.
"Please keep an eye on these platforms should you wish to book a seat at the next Council meeting. Bookings can be made through my office."


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The Faithful: The King, The Pope, The Princess
Director Annie Berman expected to attend
A stern disclaimer begins, "This film is not officially authorized by the estates of Elvis Presley, Pope John Paul II or Diana, Princess of Wales." Instead of hagiography, what follows instead in Annie Berman's essay film is a witty, frequently surreal reflection on three of the most photographed individuals of all time and the people who worship their images. Filmed over the course of 20 years, on numerous trips from Graceland to the Vatican to Kensington Palace and back, Berman's fascination with documenting each icon's adoring public soon morphs into an obsession of her own to study how materialism, performance and ritual come together in the making and resurrections of each of these modern icons. Berman's Jewish identity informs her outsider status in each setting, allowing her to approach scenes of ardent fandom and devotion to celebrity graven images as if they were forbidden fruit (or officially Vatican-licensed Pope John Paul II lollipops, in one priceless instance!). However, Berman never settles for the path of ridiculing the people in front of her camera; instead, The Faithful treats its subjects humanely, and succeeds as not only a fascinating ethnographic study, but also a moving reflection on desire, loneliness, grieving and memory.
Director Annie Berman is a 2022 JFI Filmmaker in Residence.
Sponsored by Marissa Wertheimer and Stuart Corvin
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LA County Sheriff-Elect McDonnell Aims to "Restore Public Trust" in Department
By Patrick Healy	• Published November 5, 2014 • Updated on November 5, 2014 at 8:36 pm
Newly-elected Sheriff Jim McDonnell has his work cut out for him.
"The main goal is to restore public trust in the LA County Sheriff's Department," said McDonnell Wednesday over coffee at a Long Beach restaurant not far from the police department he currently serves as chief.
McDonnell is the first to be elected Sheriff from outside the department in more than a century.
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He will be sworn in on the first of December to succeed Interim Sheriff John Scott, appointed last January after Lee Baca chose to step down after 15 years.
McDonnell said he's eager to move forward with the transition, and has already met twice with Scott.
It is an enormous department, with more than 17,000 sworn and civilian employees, responsible not only for patrolling more than 40 cities and county areas, but also for running the county jail system and providing bailiff and other law enforcement duties in Superior Court.
The department faces continued scrutiny over the handling of the jail system, and patrol practices in the Antelope Valley. Baca also faced criticism for allegedly affording special treatment to friends and supporters.
McDonnell served on the civilian commission that investigated the jails, and found "a persistent pattern of unreasonable force." The commission's final report contained dozens of recommendations.
"Reason I'm here is because of what I saw on the jail commission," McDonnell said.
Prior to being chosen chief in Long Beach, McDonnell served 29 years with the Los Angeles Police Department, finishing as top deputy to then-Chief William Bratton. McDonnell was in the running for LAPD chief in 2009 when Charlie Beck was selected. McDonnell has worked closely with the Sheriff's Department, but never directly for it.
"He's sort of an outsider-insider, because of serving on that jail violence commission. So my expectations are very high," said Don Knabe, member of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors from the Fourth District. McDonnell was Knabe's appointment to the commission.
Targeting sex trafficking has been a priority of Long Beach police under McDonnell, participating in a county task force that has emphasized rescuing under-age victims.
McDonnell has long been an advocate of community policing, both in Los Angeles and Long Beach, and believes it can be more fully implemented by the Sheriff's Department in certain areas.
"Parts of the county are operating extremely well, and other parts not so well," McDonnell said. Early on he plans to do an assessment, "to be able to get kind of a wellness check on the whole county relative to our treatment of people and the focus on community policing."
In Tuesday's general election, McDonnell defeated former Undersheriff Paul Tanaka.
The term of office for sheriff is four years. During the past century, LA's elected sheriffs have tended to remain in office for multiple terms. Prior to the interim appointment of Scott and the election of McDonnell, the previous four sheriffs -- Baca, Sherman Block, Peter Pitchess and Eugene Biscailuz -- had served a combined 82 years. The last time an incumbent sheriff failed in a re-election bid occurred in in 1998, when only days before the election, Block died.
Having yet to be sworn in, McDonell brushes off questions how long he would like to remain sheriff.
"I wouldn't want to speculate on what the future looks like other than I will work as hard as I can, do the best job, and we'll see what the future holds," said the sheriff-elect.